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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31.

DOCTORS & PSYCHO-¦ SHAMEEN CRICKET.

ANALYSIS.

'SERIOUS DANGER' TO CHILDREN.'

"HERESY HUNT."

Several doctors outspokenly criticised psycho-analyis when the British Medical Association, meet- ing in Manchester recently, discus- sed the report of a special com- mittee of investigation.

This committee, after sitting for two-and-a-half years, stated that it could not make any general pro- nouncement.

An amendment was moved regret ting that more emphasis had not been laid on "the very serious danger, especially to children and adolescents.".

In defence of the report which was eventually carried by a large majority. It was contended that paycho-umnlysis should not be oppos- ed merely because it was repugunni.. One doctor described the amend ment ng heresy hunt."

SHORTS CLUB DEFEATS NAVAL TEAM.

· Shameon, Aug. 30. The Shameen Sports Club scored another decisive victory yester- day when they defeated a com- bined team from H.M.5. Tarantula

and H.M.S. Moorhen by 55 rúng with four wickata in hand.

POLICE SEAMAN IN THREE SISTERS GASSED

TROUBLE.

ADMITS PAWNING PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT.

NEWCOMER TO FORCE.

IN SLEEP

WEDDING CHAMPAGNE FOR DYING GIRL.

London, July 18, Three sisters were gassed yes- terday while aaleen in an upper room at their home in Sutherland- | avenue, Stirling.

1929.

The Very Idea!

A crisia in the Navy has been | narrowly averted.

Its nature was revented in a question by Sir Bertram Falle, the Conservative member for Ports- mouth, on the Order Paper of the House of Commons, He asked They were Catherine Wilson, Mr. Alexander, the First Lord of aged 21; Helen, aged 18; and the Admiralty: Whether he will Isabella, aged 16. yesterday charged before Mr. T. S. who occupied a room downstairs,

consider an improved pattern of WUN Their mother and sister Jessic, serge jumper for, ratings dressed Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon and a narrow csenpe; while the in Class II, uniform, observing that Magiatdacy, with larceny of a pair father. In another room, was un-

the present contractor's jumper' is of trousers and pawning them harmed." without the authority of the

Loo short in length and too wide Mrs. Wilson rose from bed in and that China II, ratings dislike At 5 o'clock in the morning In width and hangs very badly,

of the Water Police who

An additional charge of unlaw fully pawning part of the kit Winning the Loss, Shameen elected to bat first. The firs: two issued to him by the Government wickets went down for only 11 preferred against the seaman runs, Galloway being clean bowled by Redge for 3 and Linaker being un cut after making the same number, In this connexion It must be said that Caveney's indeci afon when it was his ecall was very. nearly responsible for running out twobi his other partnera, Caveney, however, hatted well and made 27

owner, a boy employed at the

Water Police Station,

Mr. L. H. C. Calthrop, Assistant

trousers

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The First Lord, Mr. Alexander, in reply to the question informed Parliament:

An improved pattern of serge jumper has been adopted to meet the points referred to. New sup- Died in Mother's Arms.

plies are being made to this im- Mrs. Wilson, who is a

proved pattern and will be woman, left for work.

brought into general use as stocks She had not gone far, however, of previous patterns are used up. when Jessie overtook her with the news that she had found the three girls unconscious and the bedroom full of gas.

a stapled condition, and, stagger-this jumper, runs before falling a victim to Superintendent of Police, appear-hissing from a burst pipe..

ing to the scullery, found gas Bates, 37 runs having been addeded for the prosecution. before third wicket fell. Two The defendant denied the two She had to shake Jessie to arouse more wickets then fell for the original charges bat admitted the her, but did not think that her addition of only 7 ruus, Hill being new count which charged him daughters upstairs were in any caught by Taylor off Bates for 16, with pawning three pairs of shoes, danger." and Evelyn bating bowled by Welch one pair of for 0. Meanwhile Lammert. wis blanket belonging to the long- The report was presented by Dr. knocking up runs fast, and once kong Government. R. Largdon-Down (Teddington), on behalf of a special committer of again proved himself an excellent

Mr Caltrop asked that, is the investigation, which had ant for two

bat. Evans WAN eaught by defendant had pleaded guilty to and a half years under his chair-Sitwell off Redge for 16, Pix the third charge, this count should manship.

wickets being down for 82. After he proceeded with first. He said The report set forth the most in-

an innings of an hour and the defendant joined the Water portant criticisms of the theory and quarter, which represented just Police on June 20 this year and half time to close of play, Linaker he began to pawn various articles method of psycho-analysis, together with the answers of the President decided to declare, Lammerton July 2. of the British Analytical Society. carrying hebat for 34 (including pawned belonged to the Govern

Five of the articles It was impossible, it stated, for the

five d'a) and Duncan bring 4 not ment and formed part of the kit committed to make any general pro-

out, the total score standing at issued to him. zuncement. Time, experience, and 107 for G wirkels, discussion must be the tests,

An amendment was moved by Dr. L. A. Parry, Isle of Wight, regret ting that more emphasis had not been laid on "the very real and serious dangers, especially to children and adolescents, of any system of mental therapy which postulates the sexual basis as the sole prepondering cause of neuroses and pathological mental conditions.

Dr. C. E. Douglas, St. Andrews, Fife, said that psycho-analysis re- presented no new discovery. 1f Prend had asked any Roman Catholfe priest in the last thousand years he would have been told that in the confessional something like ninety per cent. of confessions made dealt with sexual subjects. It was "the of story," and the only new thing that Freud had brought up was that I was also to be mol with in childhood.

The subject of the sub-consciona mind had been long known to them. William Jarnes hnd dealt with it in his "Varieties of Religious Ex-

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beth magistrate she had moved The woman who told the Lam-

39 times in 35 years lends credi- With the assistance of Mr. Wi-bility to a story told by a well- stairs and on to the lawn in front overheard in the same district. son, they dragged the girls down-known politician of a conversation of the house, where frantic efforts A number of men were arguing were made to revive them.

whether it would prove cheaper In reply to his Worship, Mr.

Champagne from a bettle that move or pay rent. At Inst, they Moorhen team reached double Government

Only one man of the Tarantula Caltrop said the articles bore the had been kept for Helen's wed appealed to an aged man who had figures, this being Day who

mark. In one ding was administered, but only well," said he, after due delibera- Jakten no part in the controversy. was case, the sign

was unmistak Catherine showed any signs of tion, "I ain't exactly in a position bowled by Linnker for 11. The ade and it was decided to proceed life. first wicket fell without any score, against

pawnbroker for

to say. You see, males, I've al- Mannering being bowled by accepting Government clothes In

She opened her eyes, looked for ways moved." Linaker with the third ball of the pawn. On the blanket the murs was holding her, and died,

a moment at her mother, who first over. Two wickets were was indistinct, but the defendant down for 4 and three for 17. The knew that the articles he had fourth wicket fell with the addi-pawned belonged to the Govern- tion of only 2 runs, whilst the ment. Afth and the sixth fell without any addition to the score. With His, wickets down for 19, only 4 runs Were added

before the

seventh fell. The eighth wicket was the only one that made any stand at all; they added 17 runs before Redge was bowled by Hill for . With oight wickets down for 40 the last two wickets auded 12 to the score before Day fell u victim to linaker, when the final score stood 52 Details:

Shameen Sparisi Club.

J. Linsker, run out

Kedge

perience. The Galy difference] Wm. Galloway, was that in James the threshold | F. T. Caveney, h Bates

of the subliminal consciousness | E. R, Hill, Taylor b Bates was a elean threshold, but in F. E. W. Lammert, not aut Freud it was a threshold muddied | 1o. Evelyn, h Welch by dirty little foolmarks.

The gravamen of the charge against paycle-analysis was that it was a bad thing morally to direct patients' thoughts to sexual matters. Could they in their gen- oral practice as doctors take the responsibility of trusting their patients 10 such

** revolting method of treatment?/

"Prejudice."

Dr. Manson, of Warrington, anid that Dr. Parry's amendment appended to prejudice. If this theory of the sexual basis of the neuroses is true," he said, "whe- ther we like it or not we have to accept it." They should avoid cor- demning it merely on grounds of repugnance,

Dr. C. M. Stevenson

A. J. Evans, Sitwell, h Kedge Geo, Duncan, Jr. not out

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Total ( wkts)...

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the

His Worship remarked that the question was whether the articles were to be handed back to the to the pawnbrokers. That he said Government without compensation depended

things were marked. Be would បវា how clearly the say that the trousers would have: to be handed hack without cam- pensation, although in the other been deceived. His Worship in- cases the pawnbrokers might have

the Government.

police, who took away a length of A passing cyclist summoned the gas piping from the scullery,

Although gas was laid on to the house, it had not been used for years. It is thought that the excessive heat may have caused the burst.

CHINESE SENT TO PRISON.

KEEPING A DISORDERLY HOUSE.

Ilmated that would have to pay the redemption price for the other articles.

Convicted of keeping a disorder- ly house, a Chinese was sent to Mr. Calthrop remarked that the prison for two months by Mr. T. Poller wore against the one pawnbroker who Court this morning.

only proceeding M. Hazlerigg at the Central Police 34 necepted the trousers.

The blanket had the mark rubbed out,visited premises occupied by the was stated that the police 14 bal it could not be said that the Chiyo Hotel at

4 pawnbroker had erased the sign.

Connaught Road Outlining his

Central, and found evidence of the 107riginal charges, Mr. Caltrop top floor being used as a lodging place for prostitutes, Four the premises

Pue 011 the

It

B. J. Green, V.EX. Ferrier and R. said the complainant was employ-soldiers were on Rasmus did not hat.

ed as a cook "boy" by the detec-when the police entered. tives of the Water Police Station. Howling Analysis.

On August 27, at 3.30 p.m., for returned from the market and in the ordinary manner took off his outside trousers, which he spread over

Kedge Bagshas Welch Bates

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Tarantula and Moorhen.

Mannering, 6 Linaker Taylor, b Duncan

| L Sitwelt, b Duncan Lt. Ashby, b Lianker Welch, b Dunean ...

Lt. Comm. Gordan, b Duncan It. Johnson, Linaker Day, b Linsker (Cum-edge, 2051

bridge) opposed the amendment Bagshaw, b Hill

as part of a "heresy hunt."

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Dr. J. T. O'Ewart of Manchester, said: "We are out certain members of the public, our patients--those patients who are treated by untrained paycho- analysts. We cannot go contrary to the public interest. are any of our patients whose moral life is being impaired by those individuals, call them what you will, there is a public danger.

"All that Dr. Parry's motion

Bates, not out

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If there Linker

Duncan

Bowling Analysis.

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trousers which the complainant had missed the previous day.

basket in the cook house.

The garment being old, the When he left at 9 pm,, he forget pawnbroker refused to accept it his trousers and the next day, from the premises the complainant and when the defendant emerged remembered them, but on his claimed the return to the Station could not find fenhant accepted the claim and trousers. The de- them. He made a search of the return them to the "boy." cookhouse without success.

Later in the morning, he was there was insufficient evidence to Mr. Callkrop mentioned that if walking down the slope from the substantiate the charge of larceny water Police Station when he saw there

defendunt carrying trousers did not belong to

doubt that the

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A parcel. His auspicions aroused, defendant be followed the senman and saw

The case is proceeding.

him try to pawn the pair of

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Our Own Correspondent.

proceeding honestly on

lines

aska is that we should warn the which they believed to be honest,

publie that in this type of work

carried out as at present, there is

a grave morni danger," he added.

Defending the committee's re-

port, Dr. Langdon Down said that' nothing could be more unwise than

Replying to an observation by Dr. D. Clow, of Cheltenham, that no evidence of actual cases of harm had been brought before the committee,. Dr. Parry asked,

Dr. F. H. Rodman, of Bristol, } for the committee to lay down a said that that was not a court of morals or manners, but a scientiße dogme. court. He thought there was a body of scientific evidence te sup- port both the principles and the application of psycho-analytical technique, and he had not come across a juster or more Iseid ex-"Suppose I hand to a small boy a planation of the question than the tin of gunpowder and

a match. report presented. Mattera reveni Must 1 produce his charred body ed by psycho-analysis were often before I can prove that there is rainful and repugnant, but they the danger of accident?" should not be ahirked on that ac- count..

Dr. Parry's amendment was

Dr. Peter Macdonald, of York defented by a large mujority and said that two things had clearly the committee's report WRA NIC-

emerged from the committee's incepted.

vestigations. One was that the

psycho-analysts in the true and

proper sense were not charlatans.

The Parliamentary Fun).

Dr. Fothergill (Brighton) mov-

The other was, that proof of cor-ed that the Association's Par-

tain dangers from psycho-analysis liamentary election fund should be seemed to disappear when they were probed. The question of the Edipus complex had been probed more than anything else.

wound up or, alternatively, that the trustees of the fund should be empowered to apply if to other cognate purposes.

Dr. E. K. le Fleming, of Wim- Sir Richard Luce said that borne, Dorset, expressed the con- political fund was.

FLATING

the

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My lodger sometimes did night work | Woman at Bow County Court:

he was a double man.

when a woman named Faint was Mr. Walden, clerk at Stratford, summoned for assaulting her hus band: It is the hot weather.

Marlborough-street Witness: He's like a bird of paradise- here to-day and gone to-morrow,

"I admit that the two new motor Lyres were ten years old."'— Plaintif at Kingston County Court.

"We had a few words, and then there was a general millennium.” -Tottenham' 19611,

"She displays coolness despite the epithets that are hurled at her."--Shoreditch County Court witness.

County Court: For

Judge Tobin at Westminster ten years I have complained of the unbual- nesslike ways of the threatrien! profession.

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A wife has objected to her hus- band's emphatic trade with stern, "Don't you dare talk to me in that movietone of voice."

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Once upon a time two brothers lived in a big city in the north of tached to one another. One day, Scotland and were greatly at-

younger of the two went out into however, they quarrelled, and the

the world to seek his fortune.

he came back to his native place After wandering for ten yours and walked slowly down the fami- Har street. When he came to the house where he had lived so, hap- pily before the quarrel, he saw an old man with a beard flowing down to his knees seated on the doorstep, so he stepped up and asked, "Doen Wullle M'Kay bido here?"

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"Man, ye look awfu' auld. What

made ye grow the beard?” "Weel, ye've been awa' for ten years and ye took the razor wi ye."

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picked up his bag and started on his initial trip,

"Good luck to you," said his chief. "Wire us important news." The following day this message

was received:

"Reached her safely. Good. room with bath. Feeling fine."

The manager wired back: "So glad. Love and klases, Good- bye,"

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This would be perfect if only you hadn't forgotten the

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you had shaken hands with him.".

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Nervousness,