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The

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FRIDAY, DEC. 19. 1930.

THE GAOL STRIKE.

its serious

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DAY BY DAY

Wm. ROBERTSON, M.D., D.P.H., áska

WHAT ABOUT BRITISH

PICTURES?

victa possess some men whereby they are able to act in a concerted Runner, and this is a matter which demands attention. It may not bo' practicable to segregate the long-

TO HIM NOTHING IS POSSIBLE WHO term men in Victoria Grol, but

18 ALWAYS DREAMING OF 1118 PAST I would it not be feasible to transfer rossiBILITIES.-Carłtyle. them to Lai Chi Kok, where there

There is to be a congregation for | are numbers of detached blocks and the conferring of degrees at the where the prisoners could be seat-Hongkong University on Monday. tered about du groups, at the same January 12th.

A GOOD many people of a dis- papers, and therefore do not know time making arrangements for

what is taklux place in the world. Messrs. Moulder and Co. have

cerning frame of mind Aro them to fetch their own food under issued a useful block calendar

Popular Music. guard and clean their own cells? advertising "Bear" brand milk, beginning to get what is vulgarly

I wonder whether those who own If so, this would appear to be ono Co. comes an effective wall calendar "You've got nothin' on me" rubbish some of the newer piciore-houses whilst from the Wah Mel Electric known as "fed up" with the

method of preventing communicated

Westinghouse which we are dally hearing through have noted how delighted their the noses of cronka, guya, bums, audiences are with the musical in- tion between the convicts,

escaped convicts, murderers, and terlude. Not a day passes but On the question of the cause of

Lagu Rong was charged before gun-runners, when in American encores are demanded. "William the strike, it seems clear that the Mr. Butters, at Kowinon this morn police officer laya hands

on from "Muritana."

"Tanuhamon." prisoners think they have a griefing, with possession of 3.2 taels of

We are getting bored Trovatore." "Nell

"Poet vance in 'regard to the food suppli-Street. He failed to appear in an-stiff, as these American guys put and

prepared opium at 105, Woosung suspect.

Peasant," "Old English Fed thun. Whether they have had swer to the charge, and had left, listening to the strident voices Dances," as well as items from the

coming

from rapid-fire-talking lighter operas, especially just grounds for complaint in this ail of $350 estreated.

Americass; so rapid that much of Gilbert and Sullivan, are applaud- connexion, it is impossible to judge, A stonecutter named Lai Sup,

volumes of writing on the subject... although the fact that some varia-working on the site of the new what they say can't be understood.ed to the echo. It is a lesson worth But, quite apart from the draw-People will appreciate good music. tion has recently been made as ational City Bank of New York in backs of Rowery slang, had pro-played by capable orchestras. They

fee House Street, fell from a plank result of representations would!

about four feet from the ground nunciation, and wretched enuncia-will patronise picture-house where svein to pursiest that there might on to a stone, causing injuries totion why should we be compelled clean stories with good plots are have been anal possibly still are. his head, from which he inter died. stare at pletures illustrating shown. People may be fooled for incidents that are absolutely little time, but they won't bo This is a sint which calls for

foreign in life as it in lived? fooled all the time. The Harley Davidson motor cycle feel confident that pletures Bl an is. we understand, recely-

I can only repeat that thousanıls belonging combination furt ber investigation.

Labour's Dnom?

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segregating the principal offenders three months, but it is extremely laner Brigade, who was soon on leven now, that a reaction among guish it from other waste products,

dial.

Revenue

On Yeong Wing-pui, which was stolenstrating shootings, murders, bed-】are already nauseated with the un- The other hand, although convicts from the stand outside the Star room scenes, sustained osculation wholesome nasul stuff that is being clandestine meetings must sent over to our picture-houses are entitled 16 a seguire deal, they Ferry wharf in Connaught Road on exert a most harmful and. I might from America, and bitterly disat-

Tuesday, has been recavered near

pernicious influence on the can hardly expect to have the GlaudLee Gardens, where it was dumped minds of the very people whom we cannot give

pointed that British producers lend with healthy converted into Home of Rest.

are trying to persunile to avoid all stories. It the Americans keep Conditions must be irksome in a Whilst working on the upper vielous thoughts or habits.

their Bowery stuff. "We doan they prison; were

thedam af Aberdeen yesterday, a 4int 3IL,

Black stage, dressingroom, man-wan't it." Colony would

toolie, Ini Kwan, engaged by the ager's offices, and rehearsal scenes | never be able

Hongkong Esenvation Pile Driving are to be found in almost every house its criminals, The tank of

and Construction Co. fell from picture that comes from America. looking after sonte hundreds of raised platform, on which he was There is surely a good side to the DOCTOR LANE-NORCOTT on prisoners is not an easy one; in an pulling a barraw of stones, and re-life we are living during these out-of-date establishment Auch na ceived fatal injuries.

The body strenuous times? Why, then, pre- was removed to the Publie Mor-jent us, day In day out, with that Victoria Gnol. The difficulties mist tuary,

sordid, and I might say shady, The Tremendously ·increased, For

side of things? that renson, we enn and do syropa- A telephonic report was made to thise with the prison officials in the the police by the Manager of the Dial, if not pusBCAS

Is there no one in America or Chinese woman axed about 73 years in this country who can write TT is sad. features, the general strike by in-situation with which they are now Kowloon-Canton Rafway

faved. So far as the prisoners fro

of course, when knocked down by the No. mates of Victoria Gaol might be concerned, grievance or no gringing at 8 a.m. yesterday and rescenario which will portray life

medical men disagree, but in | regarded as a delightfully Gilbervances, they cannot be permitted to ceiver injuries in her left foot, some as it happens? If excitement a recent article entitled "The Sleep. havedietate to the gaol authorities and of the toes of which were severed. wanted to introduce nep, or ginger,We Need" detected yet another motor colleague wrong in his diagnosis. The report however, did not give or whatever you like to call it, thu hundred their mutiny cannot be allowed to the place al occurrence..

has neroplanes, three

producer Cour

"Sleep," this collengua said in cars, and speed beats to nusist him.

murder. prisoners "duwning tools at a pre-go najnanished.

the these columns last week, "is called Patrons of the St. Francis Hotel The hold-up, the

the accumulations of arranged moment, going back to

atrangling, the throwing of people forth by are advised, that owing to tree over precipices or the drugging of waste products in the blood." their cells, and making day and

decoration of the diping and dance

Well, as an old sleep expert of victims and carrying them off in rooms there will be no tendances the dead of night, are about as many years' practice I have no

When these a kind of dirge or lament in ordurehod to save the Gavernment from to-day and to-morrow.

defeat, but Labour's effort, bereft rooms will be opened again on untrue to life as cows climbing hesitation in contradicting that statement Sleep may be called to attract attention outside to their of the nasured support of its own Saturday night for the dinner

fool Left Wing, cannot

will present a very It is not true to say that picture-forth by the uccumulations of waste dauen. they

the cumplaints regarding the

R is useless to pretend white, with carpets

charming ensemble pf greet and house audiences like suggestive products, but--and this is

products tre with which they are supplied. The longer.

mek or murders. They have to point--these waste ets to match.

sit such pictures out, because they not in the blood. They are aut trouble has now lasted for some blindness to the plainest of signs.

The result that the Every criteria in the political field i This morning, & Chinese woman must take the story the producer aide the blond-or "beyond the days, with prison authorities have been com-to-day points to an impending disfell from the second floor of No."puts over." It is too often the pade" as we. beauty sleep doctors

solution. It will not come until ligh Street and hurt the misfor-producer's mentality that is being say in our brochures.

ture to fracture pelled to endeavour to break

her thigh.displayed on the screen.

I am I am not a prophet, but the New Year. 11 is possible that People in the vicinity at

For example, take a typicai All- passive resistance movement

the Government will survive for rushed up to King's College and inclined to think, because I hear Cunning, All-Sing-Singing Super-

endlad Mr. A. Morris, of the Am-faint marmurings

distin discontent Waste Product which, to

and keeping them o disciplinary doubtful if Mr. Ramsay Macinankl

will such as holes in the road and hot the

Fretmenters and applied first-aid picture-hate serne Fow prison officials canean CATEN rations.

for rice pudding, we will call: "The on much longer than treatment. Later, the ambulance materialise unless a change or that, if as long. Doubtless, Mr. arrived and the injured woman the better takes place,

Most Stupendous and costly wante have bad

more dilleult

Gandy pictures, slang, murder, product of the century!" awkward situation with which to Baldwin had this in mind when he was conveyed to the Government

sparity rejected

Well, this typical waste product, the idra Civil Hospital.

and unreal stories are being tolerat ed simply because they are now, and even among typical waste product # National Government. The point which naturally sug-

ollieer Tallon, before also because British producers are addicts, never really enters the appears to be intoxicat-Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magi- under the Influence of cholorform system, At the worst, it merely grats itself is how it is possible for

ef with anticipations of tracy this morning, charge a Chin-for other sleeplug draught. Soon goes in at one car and conies out. convicts undergoing prison sen party triumph, and he will make ese named Cheung Wan, with hav-there will come a demand for clean again at the other.

"How, then," it may be asked, ing in his possession at the Canton-stores, smart comedies, with a truces to net in the concerted | is serious attempt to btain

Kowloon Railway Station yester-longer reel of current events. Why can it call forth this deep sleep, manner in which

these guoi-birds such a triumph even while the pur day, three sunces of morphine. The we are only allowed a few minutes hypnotic trance, or faint?" have. Obviously, there baust

latents are not so favourable as he officer sister that the defendant hnd of the most attractive item on every

I

Well, I will tell you. It does it never have been able Sanz organisation at the back of imagines and while the thinkers the morphine in packets ronealed programme

in politics are convinced that the in his socks. The Department took a to understand. The topleal budget "plugging." The constant re- petition of the theme phrase such cases.is not only interesting but full of That's OK. with the movement. In this connexion,

only safe course for Britain is a very serious view of

chief," it has been suggested in us that trace to party strife for at least oun, or six months' imprisonment. thousands who never read

value, especially to causes the blood first to boil and Mr. Butters imposed a five of $1,-lucational

afterwards to run cold, thereby possibly one explanation is to be two years. There is a great deal

[producing coma, found in the fact that the long- to be said for the creation of a Na- term prisoners. come into daily Fionn Government for the emer contact with those serving short geary period, including the fore sentences, and that these latter act most statesmen of the three parties, but unless the result of a Gen- as message-carriers between the

teini Election obliges such a sely- "old fags." It is even hinted that tion, the adynentes of coalition will the aeronication E zo well per noj gezin a hearing from any of the fested that certain men deliberately | lenders. Mr. Baldwin thinks Con- commit minor offences for the par-servatism will sweep the country 'pose of being sent to gaol in order x year. The truth probably in however that while there in. deep indicated. the manier

disappointment with. The domestic This suggestion may appear at first policy of the Labour Party, there sicht rather far-fetched, but we is no real enthusiasm for Mr. Bald- ourselves have a recollection of at winand his Party. The lost ground least one came in which a defendant in the South may be recovered, but pleaded to be sent to prison when the North is still a doubtful factor. the Magistrate wanted to let him recovery in Liberti-strength is more than a possibility, but this or. At any rate, it is unid that the will serve further to complicate the short-term prisoners ore often em- situation in the Hotine of Com- ployed in unol to carry food to the muns. And the rumoured Liberal- old hunds and to clean out their Labour arrangement, which Mr. cells. If this is so, it will be aven Baldwin 'declares he toes not fear, how easy it would be for whispered might upset his programme to an messages to be conveyed to long.alarming extent. There are a dozen ndequate rensons for un election ar- term men, be the warders ever so rangement between Liboral and siert. A further idea is conꞌained Labour. It would be folly to split in the suggestion that the old hands the Free Trade vote na it was split fave devised a regular code for at Shipley. The Liberal cannot purposes of communication, and again afford to support the num that, making use of it, they are in ber of candidates placed in the flekl Inst year and the Labour Party is the habit of rapping out messages Anancially little better off. Tho un the doors of their role, or on election, when it does come, will be their food-tins. Whatever the ex-the most interesting since 1906 to planation, it is clear that the con- which it has some reference,

to net in

"We mustn't forget to invite, Mrs. Perkins. Sho's no good to help with the dishes."

news-

me.

You see? It is just kindly old | Nature's - well-known mothod of aiding her English children in ex- tremia.

Indeed, the more we medical men study these sleep-inducers the morg Jelearly we see that, for the most

part, they are

abstract mental afflictions, such as chess and beg- ging letters from the bank, and, as mitch, couldn't possibly find their way into the blood stream. Their one power is to stun us mentally.

In this connexion I well remem- ber in my old medical days when I was sleep-walking the hospitals preparing a strong draught of "mind stunner" of certain abstract commodities to be taken mentally, the prescription for which is still my copyright and which I print here for the first time. Thus!

Dr. Lane-Norcolt's Hitler Pill

Or

Faint, My Little One, Faint. Take of denna one lay thought, aid the poetical observations of a (whimsay little boy, mix with a fow British Young People, watch Chel- Ben and swoon.

Thus, without tampering with the blood in any way, a deep, death- jke coma can be induced which will be found more than sufficient for all ordinary purposes.

And whon I say “ordinary pur Poses, I mean "ordinary pur poses." Naturally, it won't work miracles. It won't save you from those long funny stories at the club, no you needn't expect it. Thoy koop waking you up to hear them.