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The

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DAY BY DAY.

THE POLICE RESERVE.

casily brought within it, not ex- cepting the Old Testament and Shakespeare. Like other obsolete

A GREAT MAN IS ALWAYS WILLING ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT laws it has been tolerated be. TO BE LITTLELOR

cause there has been no attempt rigidly to apply it-in this ense to

H.M.S. Carysfort will leave make it the excuse for Interfer-Hongkong for Shanghai on Thurs- ence with literature as distinct day.. from mere pornography. There

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The Ben Line as. Benclouch, from Home, Straits and Philip pines poris, is due here on Thurs.

day.

can be no doubt that a.strict H.M.S. Bluebell and H.M.S. Fox- enforcement

glove left Bombay on Monday en of law against

route for England. obscenity could certainly rule out one or more of the works of euch of Britain's, half-dozen foremost novelists and playwrights, on the strength of particular passages or, in some instances, whole hooks, Yel only the most fanatical

II.M.S. Dartmouth, which recent ly brought out relief crews, is due moralists would closure free ex-to sail from Hongkong at noon to pression to the leading, artists and morrow for Singapore and Eng-[ | thinkers of our tinie, because some land.

acçnca or writings, taken by them- #elves, seem to carry an evil tendency.

of

There is no quite satisfactory solution of the problem, says an- other writer, who adds:-Either

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WEEK.

Police Reserve Orders by Hen. Mr. T. H. King, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, stato:

Chinese Company. Strongth. Constables.

R16

The Very Idea!

Some 800 cheering guests great- ed the Prince of Wales, who pro- posed the tonat of "The Ship building and Engineering Indus- tries, coupled with the inna of Lord Kylaant, at the dinner of the. Institute of Marine Engineers in London,

Chung Man Iu and R42 Poon Ping Ing instructora during the four "I do not blame the long-suffer Kong have been permitted to years when I was a naval cadet resign, having completed one fe my ignorance of naval en- year's service, with effect from gineering, which they did their April 9th, 1929,

best to teach me," ko continued. "First Aid to the Injured."the class, nevertheless I know a I was generally at the bottom of Class for instruction in First Aldship is as useless without onginos will be held at the Company's as a splash without a "Scotch." Headquarters 011 April 17th, at 5.30 p.m. sharp.

Wednesday, There is no finer thrill in outer- ing a foreign port, than to And numbers of ships flying the Bri- Signalling. The Signalling tish fag." Squad will attend at the Com- The Prince cited the complica pany's Headquarters for practico ted scope of modern marine an

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Indian Company.

Parude.-Members of the Indian

Company are reminded of the parude to be held at the Central Police Station on Tuesday, April 16th at 5.30 p.m. sharp.

Flying Squad.

war,

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The barrister had returned home after an important case, In which he had been defending a man charged with murder.

"What was the verdict?" asked his wife meeting him in the hall. "He was acquitted," beamed the barrister,

Mrs. W. F. L. Hartigan, hostess nt the Manila Hotel, died in. Morse and Semaphore under gineers' duties, and confessed that Manila on the 9th inst. of heart Cr Sergt. R.16 Ow Yeung Kinho had spent some time in the failure, resulting from an attack of lung on Wednesday, April 17th at engine-room of every ship in which he had travelled since the appendicitis.

6.30 p.m. sharp.

He added: "We must keep Annual Examination in Part 2. the Atlantic blue ribbon whielt Injured by a collapse of timber The examiation in Part 2 of the Mauretanin holds. My return the present police power or a upon which he was at work out-Training Course will continue at to his Majesty's sickbed involved general censorship could stop the side No. 3, Wing Lok Lane, a con- publication of a certain number tractor's workman died last night the Company's Headquarters on 4 record trip for any naval ship, which the First Lord of the Ad- after being admitted into IIospital. Thursday, April 18th, at 5.30 p.m.

sharp under Chief Inspector II. J. experimental Lest for the vessel."

miralty agreea was of definitely had books. But

A valuable against this social gain must be Three men, one of whom was arm-Paterson, Principal of the Police The Prince ended by quoting Sir set the errors incident in a res-ed with a dagger, gained admisalon Training School,

Rudyard Kipling, evoking cheers trictive policy, which sets a troop to No, G6, Parkes Street at 11

with the Scottish wish: "Lang o'clock this morning and robbed the

may yer um reek." of official "Nosey Parkers" to pry inmates of a quantity of clothing

ዩ into our mailbags, or initial our and jewellery, the value of which proof pages,

under conditions as yet unknown. which afford no guarantee of sober judgment, and the delicate discrimination needed for the task. The moral and intellectual dainage of such a course may well aeem to outweigh the risks of a free Press. Save በዚ regards a small undisputed category, of As a result of the arrest of a:

The weekly instructional patrol viefous print, education and sound man in connexion with the attempt pubile opinion have a far highered highway robbery on Sanitary of the Hongkong Section will take Inspector G. E. Roylance, in uns place on Thursday, April 18th Political circles at Home

prophylactic Value than legal coigne Road early on Sunday morn Fall in at the Central Police stimulation of ing, a charge of assault with Intent Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress paying a good deal of attention force, with its

to rob was brought against Chiu-Khaki Uniform. feit to what has been described na the

presses and

Sul, unemployed, before Mr. T. S. "anti-Jix" campaign on which the chinery of evasion, Legal force Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magis-" repress erime, tracy this morning. The defendant newspapers of the Rothermere can do much to group have recently launched. It little to raise, or even to protect, was remanded for one week. appears that Sir William Joynson- the standard of personal charac Hicks (popularly known as "Jix") Ler. has fallen foul of some nections of the Press by talking of the necessity of continuing certain so-called "Dora" restrictions, and

TUESDAY APRIL 16, 1929

"OBSCENE" BOOKS.

art

other

President Hoover's Policy.

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11 has not been generally realised

the members of the C.E.M.S, at the Sir Henry Pollock fa to address Cathedral Hall at 6.15 p.m. to-day, The subject la: The Essentiala The weekly instructional patról of Christianity na Taught by of the Kowloon Section will take Christ." All men are curdially in-place on Tuesday, April 16th. vited to be present.

Fall in at the Tsim-tea-tsui Firo Brigade Station at 6.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Winter Uniform.

Sharpshooters' Company. Strength-Constables R441 HIG Wing Toan and R442 E. A. Sykes have been taken on the strength Charged with behaving in a dia-of the Sharpshooters' Company as orderly manner while under the from April 2nd. and 10th, respec- influence of liquor, in the bar of tively. the Hongkong Hotel, Thomas Wil-

Revolver Practice.--The next Hams was fined $5 on pleading guilty before Major C. Willson revolver practice will take place Defendant admitt on the Kennedy Road Rango on this morning.

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"Wonderful! On what grounds? "Insanity. I proved that his! father had spent five years in a lunatic asylum."

"But he hadn't, had he!” "Yes," said the barrister, "he was a doctor there, but I saw no need to bring that fact out."

Manat Acton, fined for having a collarless dog: It was about to be washed when it ran out of the hause.

Man at Tottenham: All I know

about this case in that I know no- thing.

"My wife would be a very funny one if aho had not a temper." Man at Shoreditch County Court. Man at Willesden: Mo drunk? ever drink anything and I only

it has even been hinted that his that President Hoover's ban against fed that he had several drinks, and Sunday, May 6th. at 10.00 a.m. had a small port all the day. "indiscretions" are likely to cause the Jense or disposal of Government him to be made a Peer in the Dis-oil-fields, is not merely a means of back and "apologised to the gen-fondu Class will be held at Police rendering of "The Pirate King"

because of his attitude to the

stated that after being released on Belts and Holsters to be worn. bail by the Inspector, he went Defendu Class-The next De- Headquarters on Monday, May 6th. at 6.30 p.m. under Sergeant R. J. Hunt.. Dreas-Mufti,

tleman concerned."

: Adjutant (Sgd.) W. KENT, A.S.P.,

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|solution Honours—in other words, preventing a repetition of the Ten-

that the Conservative Party, is in-pot Dɔme geandal, but rather has The Clover Flower Shop now has clined to relegate him to a back as its main object the conservati a on sale a real delicacy, in the form sent in Parliamentary life. How of American of resources. There of butter beans, grown in a British garden without any manure what- ever, this has since been, denied. is indication Indeed that a conserva ever. These only require bolling, and the Home Secretary himself tion policy, not confined to petro- with salt, after which they are has declared that he had no intent, eum, will be one of the guiding not be eut up, as is usual with served with hot butter; they naist

tion of leaving the House of

principles of the Hoover admini-French beans. Strawberries, also Commons, That he is proving stration, and leading American town without manure, and home- himself somewhat unpopular is,

made grupe frait marmalade may papers are drawing an analogy with be secured at the same shop. Paris. nevertheless, evident, not so much the days of President Roosevelt. I

New York Brussels Over 100 prominent Chinese Geneva is pointed out that in recent years, son of the crusade which he has career

of almost complete re-Chinese Sugar Merchants Society, Milan started against "obscene" litera-linquishment of anything savouring Des Voeux Rond West, on Sunday, Berlin

on the occasion of the Society's of conservation. During that

fourth anniversary. Among Copenhagen, This issue has raised a regstar period a vast and valuable public those who spoke were Messrs. Ho Vienna

domain has been alienated. There Iu, Shumi Pak-ming and Ho hornet's nest, and. in spite of still remains, however, much that Kwong, the lastnamed being the Ifelsingfors denials, it seems that something may be saved to the people. It is clairman, who spoke on behalf of Madrid like a literary censorship is being interesting to discover that, while Mr. Ho, Ju. He said that in addi-Athens.

the Society on the good works of Lisbon exercised by the Home Secretary: President Roosevelt's withdrawal of tion to being the hon, foreign (Bucharest The subject is admittedly a very forest land covered 10,000,000 secretary to the Society, Mr. Ho Rio diflicult one, in which criticism is acres, the estimate is that President had on many occasions during Buenos Aires caser-thair practical suggestion. Hoover's withdrawal covers oven a the past year helped the members Shanghai

whenever the latter were in dif. Hongkong but there is a big body of public wider territory, and of course landsficulties or involved in business Yokohama

of much greater, potential value. | disputes with sugar merchants in Silver (spot and forward) opinion which feels that. as Pethick Lawrence has put it, a de-cognises, power to annul the policy

Congress has, as the President re- | Java. finite censorship would be preof conservation, but there is only ferable to the haphazard affiefal the most slender possibility that action of which there have ocen Congress will do anything of the several examples of inte. In one sort. There is every reason to anti- someone Bent Sir cipate that for the period of the William Joynson-Hicks a copy of Hoover Administration what be- a novel; he thought it obscene, kept for the Nation. "Conservation longs to the Nation is going to be and initiated public proceedings has never been a thoroughly popu against the publishers. Accord-lur issue in the West of the United [ing; to, the Home Secretary, this States. The people of that part was quite fair, because the issue of the country have been apt to was left to the decision of the think that the withholding of för-

est lands from settlement or the de nagistrate's court. But, as one

predations of the sawmill, and the commentat says, the point is effort to save di lands for future. whether the magistrate has In development, have had a tendency practice any freedom of action. to check growth. President Roose- It is easy to maintain that he has velt, although personally widely not, for he operates In these cases popular in the West, was bitterly under a law dating from 1867, atfucked, and accused of seeing this į which binds him to condemn as Issue with the eyes of an eastern "obscene" anything in

a book mun. It is perhaps fortunate that which is capable of depraving westerner, As a Californian, hie President Hoover should be himself "those minds that are open to cannot be accused of any blas or immoral influences." This do-any purpose to upbuild the East at finition is intolerably loose; a host the sacrifice of the 'development of of English masterpieces could be the West.

recent case,

COMM

51

COMMON ERROP /

IN BRIDGE

AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM

by ww.wentworth

42, PINESSING WITHOUT LOOKING AHMAD North (Dummy)—–—–—– ▲ 10 5 2

❤ 8 7

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Weal- Lead Ai

Bouth (Doclaret)- AAJ ♡ KY OAKQ743

playa

P.R.A.

chance of being

Sceng that he can neither palut

nor draw..

(Although with those who acck

the modern touch

These disabilities don't count

for much.)

And there behold a great must-

cinn spoiled,

He might have been a Chopin,

it is clear,

But though at seule and exercise

he toiled

Twould not avail kim, since he

has no ear,

And could not for the

him, declare

of

Which was pure Bach and which a ragtime air.

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And there are Reds who might.

have been perchanco Great statesmen, with a noble

breadth of view, Able to solve all problems at a

Klance,

Almost creating this dull world

anew

Till, every soul was happy; hale;

and fit,

Only, ins! they lack the need-

ful wit.

The Error: Declarer Queen of Clubs from Dummy.

The Correct Method: Apply the Rule of Eleven, Declarer knows East can hold only one card In the club sult and it is higher than 6 of clubs. If a finesse in Laken and East obtains the lead; he will in all probability lead hearts. Oppo nents will make five tricks in that suit, loading spades thereafter, so that the Declarer will be act. De- clarer should win the first trick with Ace of clubs, and return to his hand with a diamond. Then, 100 yards? Why, it's just a "A driver for this hole? Only leading clubs again and fincasing mashie and a putt for me!" according to the card played by

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indignantly.

The golfer gazed at his caddy

The Bidding: South trump and all pass.

Deciding the Play: West lenda 6 of clubs. What card should be The Principle: Never finesse be- played from Dummy?

fore anticipating the final result.

West, at least two tricks will be Confidently he stepped up to the bida no monda and at least one in the The ball dribbled off the tee amid."

made in clubs, alx tricks in dia hall, mushie in hand. "Chug!"

other suits, so that game la. safely made.

an eruption. of clods. There was an instant's silence broken by the murmur of the caddia; /*

"Now for a helluva long putt!"