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HAPPY CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.

CHEERY ATMOSPHERE MARKS LOCAL OBSERVANCE.

PERFECT WEATHER.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1930.

CRIME DISCOVERED DYNAMIC COOKERY,

AFTER 18 YEARS.

HOW A LODGER WAS MURDERED.

MARINETTI & HIS FUTURIST MENUS.

Prompted by persistent rumours "BEEFSTEAK ATTACK."

PROTECTION OF ANIMALS.

NEW LAWS IN ITALY.

"HELL'S ANGELS.”

WHY GERMANY OBJECTS TO THE FILM.

days, yesterday dawned bright searched the premises and dis- Academy, presiding at nila friend, Dr. Riball, founded the first cinema world. This is the action

After two or three, overcast and clear, and a warm sun tem-covered a skeleton buried in a pered the nip in the air, to pro- vogetable cellar. duce an ideal Christmas Day, Hongkong spent its holiday many ways, a large number seek Ing out-of-door recreation, walking or golf, later returning to walities, in parties at private

homes.

in

Bay,

The new Italian Penal Code con- tains far severer penalties for cruelty to animals than are to be DIETRICH'S HUSBAND, about a mysterious murder alleged

found in the old one; and vivisec to have been committed in a cot-

The trouble about the film tage of the hamlet of Romane. Signer Marinetti, Italy's high- tlon, though not entirely abolished,

within defined "Hell's Angels" has almost over- Dossous, Canton of Vaud, seven-priest of Futurism and a recently- is kept strictly

shadowed J brighter but less teen years ago, the authorities elected member of the Royal Italian Kimits,

Giuseppe Garibaldi and his serious sensation In the German days ago at given a fow launched some new ideas about

Italian Society for the Protection brought by the gentleman who has He Cooking as an Art. explained In the autumn of 1912, one how the culinary art is the basis of of Animals at Turin in 1871; and the modesty to sue as "Marlene Garibaldi wrote its first circular Dietrich's husband" against those Henri Michot, who had lodged at the highest intellectual aspirations, hin

himself, which containe these of his wife's friends and rivala this cottage, then inhabited by the the incentive of spiritual endeavour, words. To protect animals from who talked openly in his hearing Delacretaz family, disappeared, and one aspect of human genius. barbaro in a mysterious manner.. The Those not in agreement with him barbarous treatment by Inhuman in a Berlin cafe of her vamp-like to give them drink when qualities in real life. There has, family, consisting of four brothers were passatisti," auffering from briny, and food when hungry, to it seems, been a practically un- and two sisters, said that he had nostalgia of the past and stomach so they have rest when broken animous decision in the inter- Carollers from St. Andrew's gone to the. United States. As trouble. The art of cookery must Church under Mr. J. W. Baldwin, Line went on the family dispersed, be renovated, he said, so as to be town by fatigue is not this the national Alm world that the se heralded the approach of Christ-hat the ramura never died down come exquisitely Futurist, that is to greatest work that the strong can cessor to Greta Garbo, now past

do for the weak?"

her zenith, is found in Marlene luminously mns on Tuesday and Wednesday and have now led to the bolated

"typically and Italian.

Societies were founded in other Dietrich-the seducer of the col- night, while special adrvices in discovery of the crime.

Marinetti recalled the French towns to improve the lot of animals, lege professor. Emil Jannings, in the churches began with the mid- alght musses at Roman Catholic arrested. Each accuses the other

Two of the brothers have been cook, Maincave, who had followed but it was only in 1889 that their "The Blue Angel." But the fiet Christmas Evo. of having committed the crime Futurist teaching, and deserting claims were recognised by legia that, with a wife already famous There WILB also mass at the and only confesses to having help the French school of cookery, had lation, when Zanadell, then Minis-in. Hollywood, a faithful husband Michnt invented dishes corresponding with ter of Justice, inserted article No. takes the trouble to defend her Cathedral of the Immaculate Coned to bury the corpae.

memory at home while describing coption and other churches yester- seems to have been smothered by human qualities. During the war 191 in the Penal Code:

himself merely as a husband, day morning.

the two, whilst a third helped in his dishes were intended to give

Whosoever a guilty of cruelty to rather than a personality apart, is herole dash and dynamic ardour:

them The fourth was his "cutlets of endurance," and his animals or ill-treats burying him.

and abroad at the time, and the sister beefsteaks of attack,"

cooked at forces them to labour beyond their unique, and acclaimed by feminists declare that they were not aware the front, were famous. Time was strength is punishable with a fine atypical of the new era.

days). of the crime.

now ripe for Italian cookery to of 100 lire (54 in those

The same fine will be inflicted on be revolutionised.

Marinetti, however, is content to anyone making cruel experiments witness of the secret burial. allow some dishes to keep an hon-on animals, even for scientific or though he had no hand in the muroured place on the national menu. didactic purposes, except in places

in 1918. He der (taclf. He died

approves of "Risotto alla Milan. expressly reserved for such studies. apparently in consequenien ese, cooked with saffron, which frozen foot. Again there were seems to imprison sunshine; and The Rev. E. Galaister rumours, and his body "Minestrong" (beari-soup Powell was the preacher at the has now been exhumed, though it vegetables). its colour recalling Union Church, Kennedy Road at is doubtful whether the investi- the Lombard plain:" "Maccheroni gation will furnish any results after so long a lapse of time.

Churches

On

There was choral evensong at 5.30 p.m. un Wednesday night at St. John's Cathedral and Christ- mas Day services at 7 a.m. (11oly Communion), 8 m. (choral Com- munion), 10 a.m. (children's service). 12.16 p.m. (matias and sermon by the Right Rov. C. C. Duppuy D.D. Bishop of Victoria:) Services at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, were held at 7 a.m.. 8 a.m. and 11 am.

10a.m.

Festivity at the hotels marked Christmas Eve, and until the early hours of Thursday, ferries

and motorbents carried revellers across the harbour. Every table at Repulse Bay was booked, and the ball-room was Alled with a crowd that enjoyed a highly successful enrnival dance. Gafety was also in evidence at the Peninsuin, Cecil and St. Francis Hotels.

Services Entertained.

Emile Bonard, brother-in-law of the Delacretaz brothers, was also

nf n

RECENT DISCUSSION

ON GAOL.

CORRECTION OF OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

The Services took a big part in The informal manner in which Finance the Christmas celebrations, and the discursions of the

Legislative of the umny Messrs

dance on Committee ran #

on makes it Christmas Eve, while there were Council are carried

to hear special menus at tiffin yesterday.

very difficult at times what is said. In our report of Monday's meeting it was stated that lu to Hon. Mr. Shen-

reply Lan's question as to whether the antrafied with Government was

administration of the Gaol the Hon. Colonial Secretary

"As far as I am aware, plied: уен It is diffeult to say."

the

re-

One of the cheeriest places in Hongkong yesterday WAR un- doubtedly the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, where members of the Army, Navy and Air Force, stationed in the Colony, met at the invitation of the civilian re- sident members, to join in the fes- The Hon. Colonial Secretary advises that the actual words -In-the- festooned lounge and used were: As far is 1. dining room the guests mingled aware, yes it is extremely difleuft around an ample festive board. | 16 administer."

tivities.

later adjourning, some to give Mr.

G. W. E. True hearty vocal sup

port as he presided at the piano,

with

THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.

To-Morrow's Variety of

Pictures,

A big variety of pictures of topical interest will appear in to-morrow's issue of the Telc graph Art Supplement.

of

These will include portraits the Rev. E. Walter and E. Fischle, of the Basel Mission, who are now in Hongkong after being for sixteen months in bandit hands, groups taken at the weddings of Mr. I. Y. Frost and Misa E. P. Walling- ton, and of Dr. C. W. Lam and Miss Mary Woo, together with groups at the Tung Wah Eastern

Hospital extension opening, the inaugural dinner of the Rotary Club, and the dinter dance by the Univer- sity Medical Society.

In the realm of sport, there will

be photographs of the Interport Regatta at Canton, and a group of the University football eleven.

and others to make their way to The following official communique King's Park where the "Y.M." and on the gel strike was issued by the Services met in R hockey the Government on Christmas Eve: The strike at the Goal · shows match. The

special Christmas Liffin was signs of breaking up. Many pri- presided over by Mr. J. I. McPhersoners have applied to resume work son (Secretary), and others pre- and a certain number have been sent included Mr. A. W. Ingram allowed to return to inbour. Many (Assistant Secretary), Mrs. In convicts, however, still continue to

Mr. Theo Ingram, and Mr. ive trouble by shouting and incit gram,

others to violence. The female ing G. W. E. True.

Happy companionship was the prisoners and the prisoners at Lai keynote of the occasion, thin being Chi Kok, numbering 450, have re- typically exemplified when, follow-mained unaffected throughout. For Ing the which the most part the agitators are prilike Mr. Wotcellent rennst, for com soners sentenced to two years im- pradore, was cheered to the echo, prisonment and upwards." a large number of the residents and visitors adjourned to the

"Hell's Angels," the story of a Zeppelin hombardment of London, is a different matter altogether. The authority of such a man as Dupont, who describes the film 48 "one of the most anti-German ever made," convinces those Ger- Even this mild measure was not

mans who have not seen the voted by the Chamber without op- picture that it is dangerous to position and ridicule. Another Anglo-German relations, Dupont, twenty years passed before the

It is clear, is no party to all- Prime Minister. Luzzatti, took the minded objections based on pre- matter up again, and in 1913 the

since his own "Two Chamber approved a law for the dlce, protection of animals which deve-Worlds" was the last film to be loped both the spirit and the letter objected to in various quarters in who did not of Zanardelli's article. The ow Germany. Those

now Inw almed not merely at the re-think it frankly prejudicial to the pression, but at the prevention of reputation of Austrian officers: eruelty, and it conferred legal thought it insidiously anti-antion- status an inspectors of societies for alist because the beauty of the protection of animals. This young Jewish girl's character was measure was confirmed by the Fas-strossed.

to in cist Government in 1923. But in What Dupont objects the new Penal Code Article 491 "Hell's Angela" is the fact that has been replaced by Article 761, every German is the caricature of which reads as follows:

a military type, and that where German is spoken it is a mixture of broken German and English.

П

Whosoever acts with cruelty to. wards animals or overworks them or puts them to labour for which is argument is that when a film they are unfitted, either by age or has cost so much, bona-fde Ger- illness, is punishable by a fine of mans should have been engaged to lire 100 to lire 3,000 (up to about play German parts, as the technical £31). The same penalty is applic-accuracy is so convincing that the able to anyone using animala for average audience will go away In vivisection without ik permit from the belief that everything else the authorities, or outside the about "Hell's Angels" is accurate places expressly reserved for didac too. The English Censor has cut tic and scientific experiments of several of the more offensive de- this nature. The above-named talis, which, it is presumed, are penalty may be increased if animals shown everywhere in America. are-used-for-games-or public-apes that since nothing tangible-is-said- tacles involving efuelty or suffer against Germany the insidiousness ing.

the of this propaganda lies in With regard to cases foreseen cleverness with which those who i in the first part of the present Ar- do not know Germany and the fiele, the guilty party, if a cabman Germans in their entirety are sent or driver with a licence, is liable home with an impression of them to be suspended from his occupa-which shows, to use Dupont's own tian, should he be an habitual words, "no tact and no con- | offender.

science."

Other pictures will include the physical culture display by the students of the Diocesan Girls' School and two scenes from an entertainment reeenl-

The correctness of this view as Pigeon Shooting. ly give by the Girl's interna-

explaining what Germans feel tion Club at the Y.W.C.A.

The new article has been widely when they see the picture will not SILTIFORFLIEST MIENTIFICOMPASSIONAREs discussed. Some people hold the be gainsaid.. Feeling runs so high

that Germany

when the opinion that aggravated or habi-in con vongoli" (a Neapolitan form of tual cruelty should be punished by Mickey Mouse strip was forbidden impriaurment as well as by fine. which dealt with a war in the macaront with mussels) on Others want pigeon-shooting, Bo Mackey Mouse world in which one a burning Stromboli," and popular in Italy, to be included un-of the factions wore spiked hel- Fondue, "Aymbol of Italian women's der the heading of cruel sports mets and the winning party looked tenderness, as truffles symbolise

punishable by law." Dr. Claburri;| French in their make-up, every- their ardent jealousy."

body who know the lack of humour Marinetti thinks there is still surgeon and animal expert, anya:

to do in inventing dishes

"So long as the ill-treatment of to be found in die-hard Nation- lounge, gathered round the piano, It is notified that a competitive much and lustily sung popular ditties to examination for the Indian Civil which quicken body, soul, and mind, animals can be subjectively inter- alista understood. As both stage rendering everyone more agile and preted (and the article in question and screen are used intentionally the accompaniment of Mr. True Service, open to all qualified dynamic, but this must be at the allows of this), so long will repres- a means of propaganda since the and Cpl. Appleby.

sons, will be held in London in July One and all voted the accusion and August, 1931, and that copies cost of a death-blow to "Fast'asciut-sion of cruelty be hesitating and war in Germany, it is possible that ta" (macaron served with ta well-insuficient. There will always be German opinion as to the reactions the most successful in the history of the regulations, syllabus of ex-

flavoured meat sauce).

the suppression of animals by bar-on other nations is exaggerated. of the local Y.M.C.A.

amination and forms of application

Excited discussions arose out of harous methods, draught animals That it is not so in the case of to be filled up by the candidates his last bellicone utterance: some over-driven by incompetent drivers, Italy, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia may be seen on application at the anid "Past'usciutta" was the queen helpless dogs left to the mercy of has been proved by more than one Colonial Secretary's office.

of dishes, while others dubbed it any public health offfelal who dis- diplomatie Inquiry when "Y.M." and the Services resulted

the sign of age. Marinetti ended likes them, animals slaughtered for tions touching any one of these in a very keen game, with

violence, countries have cropped up in his speech with the announcement food with unnecessary the visitors auccessful by the

A Japanese woman of 42, Wynd- that the forthcoming Futuriat nests robbed by bays, song-birds either play or picture produced in odd goal in seven.

ham Street has been admitted to poster on Italian cooking would be blinded, etc."

original. "It is There was little to choose be-the Government Civil Hospital, suf- appetising and tween the teams, the match being fering from the effects of opium time to destroy all lurid foreign featured by the fine open move- poisoning, believed to be self-tastes and to extol Italian food re- ments of both sides and some ex-administered.

fined by the dynamic forces of Bunny Italy."

Hockey Match.

The hockey match between the

cellent stick work.

Bowen was in great shooting

form for the Services, claiming Over 50,000 passengers left Pad. three goals, whilst Williams con- dington yesterday, and 60,000 are tributed the remaining one: A. R. expected to-day. Forty-four ad- Brown (2) and G. F. Rees replied ditional trains will be run, and the for the homesters,who were beaten principal expresses will be dupli- by a slightly better team../

oated..

Christmas in the Homeland.

Between six and oight o'clock to- night, thirty trains will leave, one The Prince of Wales, who has every four minutes.

London, Dec. 24.

completely recovered

from his

their

The Old-Time Spirit.

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES.

The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended December 24th, 1905. The rate of the dollar, oit mand was 1: 9.9/10d,

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Berlin.

ques-

Dr. Ciaburri's Proposals,

Germans argue that Hollywood! never exaggerates pre-war Rus- Dr. Claburri is publishing a book sian types, but leaves this to the dealing with the whole question of ardent propagandists of the pre- vivisection, which is expected to sent Soviet regime. They them- rouse great interest in the scienti-selves wish to acc neither the fie world. In his opinton vivisec-military nor the stout green-hat- tion should be, regulated and limit-with-brush-whisk type of German ed by:-

1930.

(8) An Article of the Penal Code portrayed as a typical figure in abolishing vivisection. in general and permitting it only in definite casca regulated by special laws.

for any special reason, to keep it (b) A new article thus conceiv-allye, it must be treated with huma- ad "Experiments on living ani-nity. A full report of the expert- mals may only be performed by ments, carried out in the presence those possessing a degree in mo- of an instructor or expert, must be dedicine, surgery, the veterinary art, drawn up and signed by all present. and then solely for the purposes of (e) Vivisection for didactic pure research Into some new scientifle poses should be replaced in future truth or

therapeutic treatment.

chill, is going to-day to Sandring Despite the economic depression, bam to join the King and Queen,

The Duke and Duchess of York the hotels at the seaside and other will also travel to Norfolk to-day, resorts are full for Christmas. to spend Christmas with

The fog has increased the dif- ficulties of the Post Office in H. E. the Governor, Sir Fred-Retore carrying out auch expert by Aims. Infection of serum or Majestics.

not come under the heading of dealing with Christmas malls, and drick Lugard, opened vaccine for diagnostic purposes do

from the President of the Faculty vivlacction. The London Crowds.

there has been a large public reof St. Stephen's College.

In question, and the request Junti-

Theao projected reforms haval valls at the London railway stations Rail services were upoot, auchicles the cost of erecting the Hongkong sons.

The usual Christmas rush pro-sponse to an appeal to post early

Mr. H. N. Mody agreed to bear fed by a clear statement of Tea been placed before the Royal Com

The and specially augmented services transport, for which extra vehicles

homologated by the Dr. Clabutri also advocates speci will be run to-day on all lines for had been engaged, was held up, in- University, this involving a sum must be further once given, it mission for the reform of the code. the crowds of holiday makers. creasing the congestion at the sort of $285,000, compared with the ori-President of the Tribunal. In any te teaching of kindness to animals case, the experiment can only batu elementary schools and among The fog lifted yesterday just Ining offices. In spite of the dif-ginal estimate of $180,000.

made once, the animals being kept time to enable the companies to Boulties the Post Office hopes to

Bubject has for children: the deal with the holiday traite, and complete

Now plagus wards of the Tung all the time under an anaesthetle, the Balilla, or Fasciat organisation conspicuous by Its to achodnie, British Wah Hospital were official opened and afterwards destroyed before it hitherto been

by Sir Frederick Lugard.

in awake. Should it be necessary, absence fri: Italian education.

special excursions, for which book according Ing has been heavy.

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