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endorsed by the Inspector General of Police, was that unnecessary Frisks of casualties to the attackers would have been rad had an attempt been made to enter. It that there appears, however,

means

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DAY BY DAY

MOST PEOPLE HAVE A SPICE OF COODNESS IN THEM; BUT NOT ALL

morrow's issue.

on

Home-Made Prigs.

The young men whose home I a few days with a friend of visit to-day become, in the kindly mine who lived in the country, warmth of doting parentage, not so

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bag. I thought at first that for self-sacrifice are strenuously there was no one there to meet denied them by their parents, there held me, but I presently discovered my can be little question of either sel

to-host lounging on a seat outside the fishness or unselfishness in their

station.

mode of living.. "Couldn't be bothered to get a

The young men of to-day are Mr. H. J. Hunter of Mosers. Bradley & Co., Ltd has entered amicably, and we trudged forth to those of the last generation, but it platform ticket," he explained probably more interesting than hospital for treatment and will pro-wards his house. His house was seems to me that they would be bably remain there a month.

nearly a mile away from the station more interesting, and certainly a.

It has been reported to the and I carried my bag the whole way. great deal more likeable, were they Police that whilst staying at

not so often spoilt by a dreadful Repulse Bay Hotel on the 6th inst.

complacency. For this I blame the` Mrs. H. G. Eales lost a gold bar

parents, brooch set with diamonds and sardonyx.

Needless Anxiety,

All this I found rather depress→ ing, but I attributed it to an 'un- due sensitiveness on my part.

This

I should like to believe that. home life had an improving effect

generally speaking, do not have this parental adulation. lavished so freely upon them.

incident would probably misguided have slipped into the obscurity It deserved had I not been forcibly They are very fortunate. reminded of it by equally distress- ing examples of parental idolatry

have recently witnessed.

Incompetent

was a very considerable conflict TRY TO CULTIVATE IT.-Leonard Come months ago I went to spend of opinion as between various Heward. officers as to the wisdom of an

The Ben Line 5.5. Bengloe, from writes J. Keith Winter in the Daily much selfish as unbelievably smug. earlier entry. At any rate, some Home ports via Singapore and the Mail I arrived at the station at They would, of course, become sel- hours before Mr. Wolfe's arrival, Philippines, is due here the about 10 p.m. carrying a heavy fish as well, but as all opportunities there was an intention of making 24th instant. the attempt, but, if we have read

To-day's Instalment of our the evidence correctly, this idea serial story is unavoidably

It will appear fa seems to have been later aband-over. oned in the confusion which pre- valled because of the absence' of torches and Verey lights. On this point, it can only be described as most regrettable that so much time' was, wasted in tracing these necessities as well as the missing Thompson gun and the bullet- proof vesta. Reverting to the risks run, it has now been dis- closed that Dalip Singh did not

At Kowloon this morning. a The next morning I was not quite upon character; but my observa- use the Lewis gun at all-that all Chinese was sentenced by Mr so sure. At breakfast my friend's tions compel me to the view that that he was armed with was a White Smith, to three months hard mother, who had in the meantime for the majority of young men the rifle. In view of that fact, it be-labour for having stolen 36 in

Hongkong money and 31 in Chinese seen the size of my bag, turned to less they see of their relations the comes all the more Inexplicable money from a woman in Shanghai her son and said, "I hope, George, better. The modern girl is not

dear, that you that there should have been so Street.

didn't carry that lacking in objectionable character- heavy bag all the way from the sta-istic, but this dreadful "home- much trepidation on the part of

For returning from banishment tion?"

made” complacency does not appear the large body of attackers in the before the expiry of his term a

He was able to assure her with to be one of them. This I should- matter of attemping an entry. Chinese was sentenced to eight Dalip Singh obviously could not months' hard labour by Mr. Whyte perfect truth that he had done no attribute, to the fact that girls,

Smith at Kowloon this morning such thing. have covered the whole of the The defendant was banished in

with his February, 1923, for ten years. of entrance solitary riffe. So it seems that by the most elementary tactics, and even very few men, the station might easily have been rushed tong before it was. We admit that, at the time, the danger might have appeared" greater than it actually was, but we cannot bring our selves to agree that there was so much necessity for the avoidance Whilst many

other points of of risks. After all, risks have to importance arise out of the be run under such circumstances. tragic affair at Lok Ma Chau, with-The fireman runs a risk when he out doubt the outstanding isaue attempts to save lives in a burn- with which the jury had to deal ing building, police do likewise was the delay by the police in when they raid premises held by entering the station.

and even the gangs, A careful armed

his "own rending of the evidence shows that civilian jeopardises the Indian who ran amok must safety when he lends a hand armed have been lying dead for, fully in the catching of an four hours before it was deemed robber. Surely it is hardly right faced advisable to enter and in view of that when the police are the fact there were several Chinese with such a situation as that at one could have known whether self-preservation should be put everything else, the Mr. Madgwick and the wounded above Indian constable were alive or more so when the lives of others, not, it does seem little short of including a defenceless woman. amazing that there was so much are in possible danger. That, at temporising and indecision. The any rate, was not the attitude jury, in reaching the conclusion adopted in the Shelley Street that there was "undue delay in affair several years ago, and we entering the station after the do not believe it reflects the feel- arrival of police reinforcements,"ing of the personnel of the Force were, in our opinion, extremely | as a whole or even of the majority mild in their strictures. They of those called out to Lok Ma added that the frequent changes Chau.

MONDAY,EPT. 15 1930.

THE LOK MA CHAU AFFAIR.

now

There is no doubt that the young

The 8.3. Kong Ning, which struck a rock near Tuet Shing on the West River, on Tuesday last and had to be beached, as she was fast making water, has returned to port and is at present

Taikoo

In one home I have heard a men and women of to-day have been Docks undergoing in repairs. Shortly after the salvage mother call for silence at a crowd-over-discussed. Many charges have party, which had been sent up, haded luncheon table in order that the been laid against them. If one can arrived on the scene, the Kong voice of her firstborn and dearest generalise about modern youth, one Ning was refloated and the journey might be heard. In another, in-may presumably with equal justice here yesterday morning and pro-heard à father extolling before a back was commenced. She arrived credible though it may seem, I have generalise about modern parent- hood--and more especially modern ceeded straight to dock,

large and rather shocked audience mothers. Therefore I lay this charge at their door--They haven't the facial attributes of his son.

begun to learn thel

their jobs,

CHILD'S

FALL OUT OF BED.

HURT BY JAGGED EDGE OF SPITTOON.

The average mother appears to

Complacency. Now, the point I wish to em- think that the period of "up-bring- phasise is that the three sons Ining" is at an end when her son question were normal, charming, leaves school. If he has been over- and comparatively modest young disciplined before, from now on he men. And yet, far from appear

ing indignant or even embarrassed knows no discipline at all. Her The victim of a peculiar acci- by this degrading adulation on the task, so she thinks, is simply to ad- dent, Hong Shoon, a two-year-old part of their parents, they obvious-mire and applaud. She is very... boy living with his parents at No.ly took it as a matter of course. 67, Portland Street, is in tho Kwong Wah Hospital suffering In each of these cases I was made to feel, by at least one of the from scalp injuries.

wrong

The years from eighteen to twenty-two are as important as any,

Inside the building and that no-Lok Ma Chau, considerations of. It was stated that, while asleep, parents, that I was both privileged if not in the function of character,

in command mitigated the respons- We have not the space in which ibility of any particular officer. to deal at any length with the. They might have gone further and other paints of importance raised recorded their opinion that by the affair. The jury did well to lamentable lock of leadership was shown, to say nothing of the con- fusion and muddle which characterised the operations in the early stages.

make

criticise the Indians in the station for their lack of initiative; they might also have added a word regarding the Chinese who became panic-stricken and rushed into The Inspector General of Police hiding at the first sign of trouble. was obviously at pains, during the The recommendation that a course of his evidence, to put the European should always be present' best complexion on the case so far in the outlying stations is one: as his subordinate officers were which we should like to see put concerned. That Was quite into effect, if at all practicable. natural in the circumstances, but we also suggest that thean stations we imagine that very few people are no places for married women. who have read at all carefully the Would it hot be feasible to ma evidence given at the inquiry will them with bachelors? The system agree with him that only sufficient of sending Indians out to thesc time was allowed to elapse to lonely spots as a means of punish- "reasonably sure" that ment also strikes us as being nothing was happening inside the tantamount to asking for trouble. station. It has been shown that In conclusion, we can only hope the station guard came out of the that these and other points will building as early as 6.30 p.m. and receive due consideration in the the other four Indians. followed appropriate quarter, and that, as an hour later, none of them being in any way molested. Yet it was not until after 11.30 p.m. that the police entered the station. Two reasons, somewhat conflicting on certain points, were given for the

The masters of two sampans delay. One officer, who must have known or believed that there were Court before the Hon. Commdr. were fined $25 each at the Marine people still in the building, ex-G. F. Hole, this morning for dump. plained that the station was not ing tobacco and wine overboard rushed very much earlier for fear at Soku Bay, Lama Island, with the of innocent people inside being shot intention of preventing discovery by the attackers! The other view, or seizure.

consequence, another Lok Ma Chau affair will be made in pos- sible, so far as the devising of precautions can lead to that end.

he toppled from a bed on to the and fortunate to know their son. broken top of a spittoon, and was

When I was a small boy I used badly cut by the jagged ends.

This is the second case in which days with my

frequently to spend part of my holl various friends. such a casualty has occurred. Re- They were for the most part badly cently, it was reported that an old behaved children, and their selfish man was killed by falling on the outbursta invariably resulted jagged top of a broken spittoon, their being either beaten or sent expiring a few hours after his ad to bed. mission to hospital.

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at least in "the settling" of it. It seems to me that so many parents undo successfully during this period all the good they may previously have done.

When they have learnt this a considerable decrease in the year- lesson, we may reasonably hope for

ly output' of young prigs.

"Oh, look, Albert, at the dear little grave yard."

DANKERK

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