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THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

is it becoming more and more realised that teaching is a highly specialised art, and, apart from any natural abilities which he or she may possess, it is eminently desirable that the

teacher should be thoroughly grounded in what may be termed the mechanics of the profession.

AUGUST 21,

DAY BY DAY.

I HATE TO SEE A THING DONE BY HAINEN; IF IT BE RIGHT, DO IT BOLD- LY; IT BE WRONG, LEAVE IT UN- DONE. Gilpin,

A Chinese case of typhoid was reported yesterday,

Sub-Licut, H. G. A. Lewis "has been appointed to IL M. S. Sterling and Sub-Lieut. J. N. N. Sennott to Somme.

The motor vesnė) Formosa (Swedish East Asiatic Co). left Hamburg on the 16th instant and is due here on September 27th.

1929.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Cheung Chau Ferry Service.

ITo The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

The Very Idea!

Tho dovotion of scientists to their task is proverbial, but it is something out of the ordinary for a man of science to carry experi- ment to the length of inhaling what Sir, I read with mich Inforest, colleagues' assured him was a fatal Yet that and not a little amusement the dose of prussic acid gas.

was what an English professor did correspondence in your popular during the war. The story" WAB paper this afternoon on the above told by Captain J. J. Eather while subject, and canuct resist the lecturing to the United Service In- temptation to enter into the game. anti-gas, At one stage of the war stitute in Melbourne recently on

It is evident to all that the the French proposed to use volatile grievance aired by your corres-prussic acid, one of the deadliest pandents is nothing but snobbish- polsons known, against the Ger ness in disguise. I cannot for mans. They maintained that mix- the life of me see why people must ture of one part of the gas in 2,000 The engagement is announced and look down on those less favoured of air would cause death. The Bri- the marriage will shortly take place by Fortune than themselves with tigh professor said it would not. between J. Norman Milne, of Teluk evident contempt. I have not had Though experiment had proved that Anson, and Barbara Mary Thoress, before me at the moment the cor-a one-in-1700 mixture was as fatal only daughter of the late Mr. G. Hrespondence on the above subject, as the electrle chair, and almost as quick, the professor consented Grace, of Hongkong and B. Devon, but the whole thing centred on

the alleged misbehaviour of cer, to undergo a test to show who was England, and of Mrs. Grace, of Nilai, Negri Sembilan, Mr. Milee tain passengers on the Inunches right, with his own life the forfeit on the Cheung Chau run. Your in the case of fallure. With two the wellknown. Perak hockey. player.

correspondents referred to the dogs he entered a chamber filled expectoration and nose-blowing with a one-in-2000 mixture, and the of the passengers,, and the evil French prepared to give him an In connexion with the fatal dis-smella emanating from certain honoured funeral. After but a few puto at the Mongkok Market on quarter of the launches. I see seconds both the animals were ly staff, the alleged assailant was most sanitary and hygienic per- Monday between two fokin of your correspondents must be the ing dead, but the daring scientist formally charged before Mr. T. S. sons in the world, and think it Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magia pity that their services were not atracy thila morning with man enlisted by the owners of the alaughter, and was remanded for launches in question to give one week. The injuries are alleg lessons to passengers on the "Art ed to have been caused with of Travelling and How Not to

Misbehave Oneself." wooden clog.

Without

Convicted of a charge of receiv.

I have been on the Sun Chau but ing a shovel knowing it to have once, and yet I am satisfied that present-day been stolen or unlawfully obtain-she is the best vessel I have seen

ed, a marine hawker's foki was for quite a long time. fined $14, or 14 days' hard labour, exaggeration, I can truthfully say by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. It was stated that the defendant was seen trying to chisel out the owner's name from the handle when arrested.

The Sino-Soviet Imbroglio.

Govern-

eventually emerged unharmed-tó receive the 0.B.E. for his effort. to use prussic acid. The French relinquished their plans

Doctor (inquiring after boy who swallowed a shilling)—"How is the boy to-day? Anxious; mother- "No change yet."

It la the quaint name that has made Timbuctoo (which modern geography spells Timbuktu) one of the slightly comic capitals of the that the Sun Chau can easily world? Or is it the famous rhyme compete with any other launches of Bishop Wilberforce that must, in the Colony owned by any Ferry by its flippaney, have ao pained the Companies. As for the cleanii-religious eireles of the day-- ness of the vessel and her pussen-" gers, I have often seen worse in Rome of the launches owned and managed by Companies under European supervision.

If i were a cassowary

On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary,

Gown, and bands, and hynın-,

book too.

For trespassing on a ment plantation at Kowloon City, two Chinese, who had gone to the One cannot expect miracles fo

illalde Lo collect

firewood, happen nowadays, and the Cheung What other references are there wore each fined $5 on their Chau Ferry Service is compara- to Timbuctoo in literature? Byron before Mr. T. S. tively new, and time must be mentions It in "Don Juan," and dis- appearance Whyte Smith at the Kowloon allowed the Company to make in torts the accent as he does in Magistracy this morning. His provement. Therefore, in myTrafalgar :"-- Worship pointed out to the defen- opinion, I think the Company must dants that the Government spent a lot of money in planting the trees.

not be blamed too much for the

With or without formal de claration, the quarrel between Itussin and China appears to be drifting to the point of actual or other An important educational ex-war. Clashes, minor periment is to be maile in Ran-wise, are a daily occurrence, and koon, and one which is not with a still more ominous sign is the fallure of either country to make

conduct of their patrons. H out its interest to longkong. seems that for sonic time past the any sincere effort to achieve a settlement of their differences. existing methods for the training what is really happening in of tenchers have not been produc- Manchuria remains a Mukden tive of the best results, and a de-secret' but we may take it for cision has now been reached to granted that a great deal is go- establish a separate Training Col-ing on along her three thousand lege, which is to be a constituent miles of largely inaccessible part of the University of Rangoon frontier which would throw light A sum of thirteen lakhs of rupees upon an apparently threatening altuation. Innumerable reports is to be spent on the project, and attached to the College will be two come through daily of Soviet in- vasions and flerce engagements practising schools, one for boys with Chinese, defenders, of the and the other for girls. At pre- looting and burning of Chinese sent, the work of training teachers villages by Russian invaders, of

It

►

Though travoll'd, I never had the.

luck to

Trace up those shuffly regions,

Nile and Niger, To that impracticable place, Tim-

buctoo.

is not an easy task to compel A Japanese ship's hawker was the passengers to do this and not to have been charged before Mr. T. to do that, without losing their S. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon patronage. True, the comfort of Magistracy this morning, with be other passengern must be catered

Sir Humphry Davy, whose having in a disorderly manner for, but if those who have any while drunk, and assaulting an objection to make, would write to centenary has just been celebrat Shanghaithe owners of the launches insteaded, was more successful in science Indian constable in Street yesterday, but when the of airing their grievances in the than in matrimony, I was his case was called it was stated that Press, they would be doing a wife who once charged Rogers The case was adjourned pending am sure the Cheung Chau Ferry at all, Madam," replied the poet. the defendant was in hospital. greater und better service to all with speaking 11 of her. t Company will be only too wind to The fact is that I spend my life his discharge.

welcome any advice for the improve-in defending you.” ment of their services to their patrons, if such advice is given in

There is no process of law by the proper spirit, without that con- tempt which is the keynote of the which I can make a man work. letters appearing in the Press dur-Mr. J. Sharpe, the Thames magis ing the last few days.

The week's report of the Medical Officer of Health contained ten cases of enterie fever and three of small

trate, pox. All were, Chinese, with the British and ono exception of one

Mr. McKenna, the Lambeth is vested in a number of Govern- the capture and subsequent Aunamite case of enteric. Three

You will see from my name that | magistrate; . The constable who under pressure of of the enterie cases were imported. ment and aided Normal Schools, but evacuation it has been found that this system fairly big Chinese cities, and of There were two deaths from small. I have no connexion with the people has summoned, you has met with between pox and three from enteric. One who run the Cheung Chau Service, an accident and is not here. De- spattering hostilities

w it cannot be said that I have an | fendant: Good. was also reported from influenza, has become inadequate to the

rival forces it many unimportant which is not notifiable. One axe to grind when writing to the Wives have not to pay their exacting needs of secondary eduen points. It has to be borne in Chinese ense of small-pox appeared Press. I write to the Press because husbands' debts yet. Judge Cluer

I think your correspondents have at Shoreditch County Court. tion:

Hence the radical change mind, however, that the world on yesterday's return.

hat been fair when they wrote as Mr. Paine, the East Ham magis-.. which has now been decided upon. is Indebted to solely Chinese

they did. To most renders their trate, to husband summoned by tetters seem a direct accusation on his wife: I dare say, like most One of the complaints made sources for these reports, and

the neglect of the owners to look

women, she has a Longue and agatust the present system of while elassified as official, they

after the comfort of their patrons when such is not the case. training teachers in Barmah is should be accepted with a certain amount of reserve, Moscow is that there is an excessive

denies

fut the allegations, Ilterary bias, which has its re against that we have foreign cor- percussions in the schools.

respondents in Harbin pointing consequence, the curricula of the to the significance of the fact that Secondary Schools have been found Harbin is swarming with re- from Manchuli and to lead too exclusively to the fugees

The natural inference portals of the University and not Khailar.

Aн

TRIED TO PREVENT LARCENY REPORT.

FOKI SENT TO PRISON FOR

JEWELLERY THEFT. -

An attempt to prevent a larceny from being reported to the Police led to suspicion falling on a car penter's foki, with the result that the man was arrested and detained for enquiries into the loss of two fire and that Russia in playing gold bangles and a gold wrist watch, a dangerous game. We prefer, the property of a carpenter of No. for the time being, to take it 562, Nathan Road.

so much as they should to institu- that there is no smoke without tions for vocational training. It

is believed that the new College

T

Ituren

on

on

uses it.

Ápologising for taking up so

A party of American tourists, much of your space, and hoping touring Switzerland in that your correspondents will not motor coach. had drawn up sling mud at those who ennnot in a ravine, and the retallate.-Yours, clea

guide once more wilted under the bombardment of questions.

LOK SHIN-CHEUNG. Hongkong, Aug. 20th, 1929.

"SIEGE."

DRAMATIC FILM AT THE MAJESTIC.

"One of the most dramatic

*

"Say!" exclaimed the Cincinnati man next the driver, "where did all those By rucks come from?"

"The glaciers brought them down," replied the guide,.

"Um!" said the Yankee. "And where are the glaciers?

"The glaciers!" answered the guide sadly, "oh, they've gono back to bring down some more rocks."

The police

they arrested

at

Gisborne

their lives, when

will correct these tendencies and, that the Soviet Government is The foki, together with an elder- whilst improving the methods of making what it considers to bely woman, appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon training (eachers, will raise the necessary

of warlike

Magistracy this morning standard of education in thepatriotism for the gratification of charges of larceny and alter- schools and direct it into more its citizens, 'feeling assured that natively of receiving the stolen pictures of the year" is the verdict

of many who have seen "Siege, (New Zealand) received the appropriate channels. Despite the like itself, China is not possessed articles.

The man admitted the theft, the Universal-Jewel feature atur- tendencies indicated, and also the of sufficient funds' to embark on

while the woman admitted receiving ring Virginia Valli and Eugene ahock of J woman, who. the articles.

O'Brien, now being screened at the

was begging from door to door, on relatively low standard set up for a big' campaign.. One other safe-

guard against war is to be found The facta, according to Detec; Majestic Theatre, Kowloon.

a charge of vagrancy. Opening admission to the University, It

in the lawless state of the country tive Sergeant Fowlle, were that the

Adapted from the novel by the woman's battered hardbag appears that more than half of the where

the fighting is taking first defendant worked for the

an- complainant at No. 562, Nathan Samuel Hopkins Adams, and direct- they found a thick roll of bank students who join the Rangoon place. Incidents which University fall to pass the inter- other frontier, in other parts of Road for the past three or foured by Svend Gade, noted Danish notes, ranging from 10 to £20 days. Yesterday afternoon the artist, this unusual production totalling nearly £600. The wo mediate examination, and that of the world, would inevitably lead master reported the loss of the teils a dramatic story of the clash man was sent to a State home, and those who do pass-lens than three-to war, can be smoothed over jewellery to the police, informing of personalities in a conventional, the money was banked for her.. in Manchuria if the desire. Is them that he suspected the first aristocratic New England family. quarters obtain a degree. It is

How an independent, strong- there. The situation, however, is defendant, who had volunteered to pay him some money if he refrain- realised that every university has growing serious anil it is almost eu from reporting the theft to the willed young man, introduced by marriage into the family, refuses its percentage of wastage, but it time that the attention of the police,

FOR WEST, NORTH AND would appear that the experience Moscow Government was once The first defendant was detained to bend to the Puritanient conven-

EAST RIVERS. at Rangoon is giving food for again called to her obligations for enquirios and the police were tiens of the clan, and the fron rule later taken to Po Hing Fong, whore of a eruel, selfish old woman who Horious reflection. As is the case under the Kellogg Pact.

the second defendant was employed dominates it, Is realistically and

The following table," compiled In many educational institutions in China 'should be persuaded that as an aurah: When questioned about dramatically told..

Miss Valli has the strongest role by the Board of Conservancy the time has come wlien, if ahe the jewellery, the woman denied really means to do so, the matter all knowledge of the bangles and of her career as the young wife, Works of Kwangtung, shows the to be dissipating its energica should be submitted to the Longue witch, but subsequently conducted with Eugene O'Brien as the hus water levels in English feet on and resources on a good deal of of Nations. The issue is simple the police to No: 9, Stanton Street, band, Mary Alden adds many the West, North and East Rivers unprofitable material. According enough, and it could be readily here the missing articlex were laurels to her fame as a character

produced. to Sir Charles Innes, the Governor determined by the Permanent The first defendant was sentenc of Burmah, for too many students Court of International Justice ated to one month's hard labour, Lapend one, two, and it may be The Hague,

the East, the University appears

And

while the amah was fined $10 or 14 days' imprisonment.

actress in the role of the dominant leader of the Ruyland family. The supporting cast includes Marc MacDermott, Beatrice Burnham, Helen Dunbar and many others,

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