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Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930.

NO ADMITTANCE.

Shanghai is apparently deter- mined not to lose its unique distinction of being practically the only big city in the world to-day

which does not admit Press repre- sentatives to the meetings of its Council. For the Municipal fourth time, the issue was recently pat to ratepayers for decision, and

even the very moderate scheme ad-

vocated was turned down. It

DAY BY DAY.

WHOEVER IS AFRAID OF SUBMITT- iNG ANY QUESTION, CIVIL OR RELIGI- OUS, TO THE TEST OF FREE DISCUS- SION, IS MORE IN LOVE WITH HIS

Idea it was explained that from the earliest days of the Settlement down to the present time, the Counell has functioned upon what is known as the Cabinet principle. The inference, of course, is that there are matters which come be- fore the Council equivalent to

HI,M.S. Vindictive will sail for Cabinet secrets which it would be Woosung at 9 a.m. on Monday. unwise to divulge. Yet wo find

The P. and O. s.3. Rajpiitona,. one of the opponents of publicity from Shanghai, is due here to recalling the words of Sir Edward morrow at 6 a.m.

OWN OPINION THẤN WITH TRUTH.-- Bishop Watson.

The Ben Line 8.3. Bencleuch, from Home ports via Straits and Manila; is due here on the 30th in-

day.

A PERSIAN HALL FOR SALE.

MAYFAIR REPLICA IN

THE MARKET.

The magnificont Perian hall which Sir John Bland-Sutton, the hia eminent surgeon, built in house in Brook-street, 25 years ago, is for sale.

The Very Idea!

".

Some more schoolboy "howlers *** "Pax in bello" means freedom from Indigestion.

Stability is taking enre of a stable,

A fiancee is a woman who is A fiasco is a engaged to a man. Iman who is engaged to a woman. A cipher is a sort of bottle that "Last year," Sir John told a Daily Chronicle representative, "I squirts.

Lunatle is derived from the disposed of my house to Claridges Hotel and I am not now concerned Latin, "Luna," the moon, and

"attic," the upper storey. with the disposal of the hall.

hall.

Tommy had been troubled with toothache, and asked his mother- "Will there be any toothache, In Heaven, Ma 7"

"Certainly not," was the reply, "what a silly question."

Then what will all the dentists who go there do for a livelihood?"

"It was built for me from the model of the celebrated aradana (hall of honour) in the Louvre." The site of Sir John's former H.M.S. Cumberland with four house is to be used by Claridges,

namely, Serapis, Sepoy, Sterling and Seraph, will put the company do not want the Sir John, in an account of this sail for Northern waters on Mon-

amazing room, has written how a chance visit to the Louvre suggested the building in A little girl was asked to pray Mayfair house of a great dining hall planned on the model of the for warm weather so that hor apadana built by Darius at Susa. grandma's rheumatism might pass

400 Feet Square, Redticed to scale, the court in fact square and 12 feet high but the central part of the roof is raised above accommodate the the sides to "ión frieze."

It has been notified that the wreck of a junk with mast visible is situated in position 2.6 miles 092.5 degrees from Flagstaff. Point Light-house, Wei-Hal-Wei.

Pearce in 1922 that the admission of the Press "would simply mean that Councillors would conduct their affairs in private in a man-stant. ner similar to the British Cabinet at No. 10, Downing, Street and destroyers, then como into the Council Room and state in a formula the decision arrived at; what would be the good of that?" What, may we ask, are we to make of these ar guments? Is the Council like a Cabinet to-day, or is it in danger of developing along those lines? Another argument on which much emphasis was laid was that so many of the problems discussed in Council are political in charac- ter. What of that? Cannot the same be said of the Mother of Parliaments and the United States House of Representatives and Senate? The fear that political discussions might come to light that Shanghai almost suggests prefers secret diplomacy, which, as one of the speakers at the asserted, is to-day meeting throughout the world "distrusted, discredited and damned."

£

趕

On admitting summons of Brook-street is 40 allowing her dog to be abroad without a muzzle, Mrs. Capell of 9, Kimberley Road, was fined $5, at the by Mr. Whyte Smith Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

Lane.

the

✡

Bre

away..

That night she knelt at her bedside and said:-"Oh, Lord, please make it hot for grandma.”

In the smoke-room of a London hotel the guest from Scotland had been boring everybody with tales of the wonderful things he had done in his time.""

"Well, now," said an English- man, wearily at last, "suppose you tell us of something you can't do, and, by Jove, I'll undertake to do it myself."

"I Thank ye." replied Sandy. canna pey ma bill."

"Hello, Sandy!" exclaimed

The court contains 32 columns, of which 12 are arranged round Tae Ko, aged 53 years, residing the central space to support the at 6, Square Street, died a few frieze; the remaining 20

against the walls. hours after admittance to

The lovely enamelled bricks Government Civil Hospital yester- day, as a result of a fractured which form the frieze and line are copies of the skull, received through falling the walls

Sir John down some stone steps in Ping On originals in the Louvre.

says of the work:-

has The artist

not only The popular lecture by Prof. W. succeeded in reproducing the Brown on "Current Progress in lions and investing them with the Donald. Heat Engineering" previously wonderful animation so characoor friend Jock?" notified to be delivered on Friday,teristic of the original, but has colouring of the 25th April, has been postponed to copied the Monday, 28th April, 1930 at 8.45 animals exactly, and the beauti p.m. in Room "K" of the Varsity ful turquoise blue in which they Main Building. The public are are set." invited.

that The fact is, of course,

these in

days of democracy. no enlightened public will put by conclaves with secret up

body being entrusted to handle taxpayers' affairs and to make decisions on their behalf. It is quite beside the point to talk of special and peculiar conditions existing in Shanghai, or to bemoan

the lack of Press laws, as some of the speakers did. On the latter point, if there is room for com-

plaint, it should surely be possible By to remedy the shortcoming.

its reaffirmed decision to refuse admittance to the Press, the Shanghai ratepayers' meeting re-

Ten Thousand Immortals. On the wa" is a frieze of black and white achers, alternating to represent the "Ten Thousand guard of the Immortals," the Kowloon "Great King," and the floor of a the court is of white Sicilian

With two previous convictions against him for similar offences, a Chinese who appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Magistracy this morning on charge of unlawful possession of marble..

The apadana at Susa is believed pine trees, was given a sentence

three months' hard labour. to have been "the court in the The defendant admitted that he garden of the King's Palace," of

by severely snubbed

Queen had cut the trees from the hillside where, writes Sir John, “he was Vashti; this led to a divorce, and was followed by the rise to queenly power and estate of the

King Darius died 486 B.C. Jewish waiden, Esther."

On the re-appearance before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy of young Chinese on summonses of riding ponies to the danger of the public in Prince

to pay the little girl who was Edward Road, each was ordered knocked down $20 compensation, the hospital expenses being stated

pointed out to the defendants that Prince Edward Road was not a place for riding ponies.

should be explained that the protects an outlook which is sadly to amount to $35. His Worship

would not

approve

out of tune with present-day ten- dencies. Compared to conditions

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the

STEADY DECLINE IN RECRUITING.

"Hae ye heard aboot

"No; what's the maltter wi' him?" asked Sandy.

"He's opened a business," went on Donald. "Dacing fine, too."

"What's his line?" asked Sandy, becoming very interested.

"He's sellin' glow-svorms tae bed-keepers," explained Donald.

"Whatever for?" gasped Sandy. "Tae pit in beehives so that the bees can see tae work at nicht an' so produce mair honey!" was the reply:

BOATMAN CHARGED.

MANSLAUGHTER COUNT NOW ADDED,

A charge of manslaughter was added, against a boatman who ap peared on remand before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on an accusation of having caused grievous bodily harm to a fellow-boatman, who since died of his injuries.

Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones has been

ONLY 28,131 MEN TAKEN ON instructed to defend.

LAST YEAR.

Steady Decline. ·

ed to retain.

WHO WAS-

ATTILA?

one,

posal submitted to the meeting was not that all Press representa

Detective Inspector Fallon pro- tives should have the right to ut

Government passengers leaving

duced a charge of manslaughter A big decline in the number of and intimated that he had been tend the meetings of the Council, in the Model Settlement, Hongkong

can regard itself as being even for Home on the P. and O. Rajpu- but that the newspapers be invited

the War add the new count. to select two or three experienced much more up-to-date that it ever tann on Saturday include Firs. recruits to the Regular Army asked by the Public Prosecutor to

Stubbings and Miss Stubbings is causing concern to

In reply to his Worship as to thought it was.

(Education Dept.); Mrs. Mary Office.

Only 28,131 recruits were taken whether the new charge was in sub- representatives who should alone

Olierhead (Medical); Mr. K. A on the Army strength last year, stitution of the old, Detective In- have the privilege of entry to the

Local Radio Amateurs. Hyne (P.W.D.); Mr. F. H. J.

spector Fallon said that he was in- Council Chamber, and that ar

Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. Dredge and compared with 30,185 for 1928. of

For each 100,000 of the popula-structed to put in the new charge The recent gathering

children, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Langtion the number of recruits has in addition to the former rangements be made so that the

amteur radio transmitters and lay and infant, Mr. F. W. Fowlie, fallen from 146 in 1927-28 to 135.8 which the Public Prosecutor wish- reports thus secured should be

being Mr. and Mrs. L. Hopkins (Police) growing attention

last year. later circulated to all newspapers paid to the reception of short ar Mr. and Mrs. S. Eccleshall

These facts are given in the

It was stated by the officer that, General Report on the British. desiring to receive them. In ad- wave. stations are highly en- and daughter (Sanitary).

Army for the year ended Septem- the hearing would take two full afternoons, the case being adjourn- dition, the official and complete couraging features in the spread

The Water Police report that ber 1929. minutes of the meetings were to of interest in wireless in Hongkong. Leung Loi, aged 37, a seaman on The year

started, well with ed for one week formally for hair- be available as soon as possible to There are now several transmitting beard junk T5625H, has been 11,757 recruits between. October 1 ing on the afternoons of Friday, the Press, excluding only such stations operating in the Colony admitted to the Tung Wah Hos and January 31, compared with May 2, Tuesday May 6 and pro-

and these are daily in touch with pital suffering from injuries to 10,519 for the corresponding period visionally on Thursday May 8. matters as it would be undesirable other amateurs in far away coun- the right cheek, caused by being in 1928. to publish. But the ratepayers tries through the medium of short struck by a winch spoke. whilst

A "Since then there has been even this waves.

While there will always be he was assisting in hoisting the sails as the junk left Swatow har-

steady decline and, unfortunately, modest plan, an amendment being more interest in reception than tour, on April 21st. in view of there are at present no indications normal," overwhelmingly adopted embody- transmission, as the latter neces- the fact that the wound had not of an early return to

says the report. ing merely the second part of the sitates considerably more technical received medical attention between knowledge and generally no little then. and the arrival of the junk

The causes are attributed to: proposal.

Organized migration overseas. rather serious.

Increased demand for labour in We have read through the off-expenditure, it is distinctly encour in Hongkong, his condition is

aging that Hongkong possesses

the agricultural districts due to cial report of the meeting at radio amateurs who are doing use

Noticing a man walking up the particularly fine summer. which this astounding decision ful experimental work. The grow stairs at the rear of 6, King's

Influenza epidemic and its after was reached, and we cannot con- ing interest in short wave reception Terrace, two detectives who were effects on health. ceive why any body of ratepayers is reflected in the demand for this on duty in the vicinity awaited should be so lacking in public type of receiver and the keenness his return and then ecarched him. which led to one local enthusiast On him were found two pairs of spirit as to swallow all the old receiving a description of the sign-trousers which he had stolen from the Army, owing to the publicity familiar objections to the admiting of the Naval Treaty in London, put out to dry on the staircase

the third floor where they had been given to disarmament.

An increase in employment in tance of the Press which were trot-broadcast through the Chelmsford landing. When brought before certain industrial districts since ted out on this occasion. It is little station, is to be warmly commiend- Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon April.

Replacement in industry of older short of amazing that in the Yeared. "Short Wave" forwarded to us Magistracy this morning the thief of Grace 1930, serious heed should yesterday a report of the traps was sentenced to six months hard by younger men,

The only other possible explana- mission as received from home and labour, Inspector Marks producing

for tion offered is that the present be paid to the suggested danger that perhaps the publicity which we were two previous convictions

decline is due to a possible over- the presence of Press representa-able to give to a distinctly interest-

larceny against him.

draft on the recruitable population tives would restrict freedom of ing event will encourage other

The return of notifiable diseases in the year ending December 1928, speech and make free and frank amateurs to listen for unannounced which have occurred in the Colony when 31,247 recruits were enrolled. expression of opinion on many sub-transmissions. In connexion with during the week ending April 19 This was the highest number since

1925. "Short Wave's" letter we are al- shows one Chinese and one non-

Intelligence Tests. jects impossible. But besides these time-worn and discredited ways prepared to chronicle in our Chinese case of typhoid fever, ac

companied by one. Chinese death; It is significant that decline, is columns the work of local radio seven Chinese cases of smallpox, also marked by the lowering of the submissions, there was a great deal amateurs, whether transmitters or vs cases of diphtheria of which physical standard demanded of said by the opponents of publicity those purely interested in reception, two were Chinese and three non-recruits.

But for the fact that the dental regarding the allegedly peculiar well realising that results in radio Chinese, accompanied by two

one case standard was lowered and the position in which the Shanghai are always of Interest to others. Chinese deaths;

The knowledge of what others are (Chinese) of influenza, nine cases height regulation was reduced to Council is placed. One point doing constitutes an incentive to (Chinese) of malaria and 40 cases 5ft 2in., 2,291 more recruits which was particularly, stressed

tuberculosis, all Chinese would have been rejected. greater progress, particularly at the There were aine deaths from "Results of the intelligence was that the Council resembles a present time when radio appears to smallpox. Tuesday's return shows tests," states the report, "have not Cabinet much more than it does be on the threshhold of even great two cases of typhoid (Chinese), been as satisfactory as was expect. the municipal bodies of Europe or er developments than those of form one of diphtheria (Chinese) and fed and the scheme is in abeyance

one of cerebro-spinal meningitis for the present." America, and in accord with this er years.

(Chinese),

of

Expectations of a large increase in unemployment benefit.

Uncertainty as to the future of

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