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INTERESTING RECORDS

From the "H.M.V." May Supplements.

15-3639) In Love (Lohr)

) The Gypsy's Worning (Goard)

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MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1931.

Whipping and Blogging aro romedies that have fallen into dis-

reputo save with a few die-hard judges. Thus the law as it stands

prescribes flogging for incorri

DAY BY DAY

ENGLAND CAN NEVER BE RUINED

gible rogues, for children of seven BUT BY HIER PARLIAMENT.-Lord years of and upwards, for Burghley, those convicted of many petty mis- demeanours.

A Chinese case of cerebro-spinal meningitis was reported to the health authorities over the week-end,

The Lindbergh Light.

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is figuratively called the August while the National Air "largest lighthouse. In the Races were being held here. world," and yet the powerful The revolving shaft of light, at Lindbergh Beacon, high above then distance of 10 miles, travels at Palmolive Building, In Chicago, the rate of 125 miles a minute. needs asw_unreful watching as thé Under favourable atmospherle flickering Hule lights which dot conditions, it is, sald, an aviator some rocky const.

dying at culling height (46,000 Every 80 minutes the carbons of fact) could see the light 500 miles the beacon must be changed to away, but at ordinary flying A whist drive is being held this prevent their burning out. The heights,, on account of the cur

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Longue Poseidon Fund.

Street

tricians. Seventy-five feet up Under the revolving beam is a they have to go, before they reach second beam of 11,500,000 candle- the beacon itself. a Hutto electric power which is trained in a fixed-

That in a gaming-loving country such as England, it is still techn!- cally) illegal far artificers,

In honour of the 20th anniversary husbandmen, their apprentices, of the coronation of H.M. King

George, warships in harbour dressed journeymen, servants, and many ship to-day. other humble falk to play certain games, seems peculiar. But as it ir. under an enactment which evening in St. John's Cathedral Hall Lindbergh light has two keepers, vature of the earth, it is said to nt 8.45 pm, admission being $1.00 Clifford Lalbly and Laman C. be visible for about half that dia- embodies the wisdom of English The proceeds are in aid of Navy Johnson, young journeyman electance.

egislators in the reign of Henry, VIII. The games specified by this

A concubine, of Ho Pa-sau living at Act are bowls, dice, tennis, dine-18.Staunton

committed One of the suicide by hanging herself at ber pins, and footbul!!

house this morning. She was found. most alwurd of entrent sayinga ishonging in her room, by her husband, that which has it that every per- who immediately notified the police.

on is presumed to know the law.. To know, fa broad outline, the legislation of the past-War perfod would be beyond the most learned of Jurists. Yet, by presumption, each nul every one of us should

A rattan basket containing Chinese te

of the nezumulated | feminine garments and a jersey with aware

"Morrison" neruse the breast, wisdom of Parliament through found by the palice at the Kowicon eight centuries. of incessant law Railway Station. The owner is naked making. Which is, of course, like to apply to the Water Police Station. the Karlinian tallacy, aloud.

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The China Light & Power Co. (1918), Ltd., advertise that electricity! apply will be cut off on the East side of Nathan Rond from Cameron Avstin Honds, between the hours of 9.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23.

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In attempting to slight from a bus which was still in motion in Salisbury Rond. Kwong Kwn-pang, aged 23, of 178, Shanghai Street, missed his footing and fell. He was

lightly. America's splendid gesture to injured and was taken to the Kowloon" Encore will be universally applaud-Hospital for treatment.

America's Gesture.

Walter Glynn | THE HONGKONG HOTEL|-d, the more an because it is on-

B-3716) F've found a whole wark in you (leslie)

) Dainly Little Maiden (Hesley)

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B-3795) The Clockwork Courtship (Rayners)

) Pass, Shoot, Goal!

1-3827) Art Thon Weary

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The

Hongkong Telegraphi

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1931.

DEAD-LETTER LAWS.

On

tirely unexpected, Nothing in oficial utterances at Washington in the last few weeks have suggest fed a disposition to consider a morn

torium for a single moment. the contrary, the emphasisi been on the fact that America is meeting current expenses out of debt receipts.

President Yet Hoover not only makes an offer of a postponement for one year of the payment of all inter-govern- must be quite mental debts, but certain of receiving the backing of Congress in the decision. One of

Found unconscious in Connaught|| teal, near the Yaumati Perry, Leung Wah, nged about 60, who was seen to collapse the roadway, was removedl to the Government Civil Hospital and later transferred to the Tung Wah! Hospin. He died at 2.40 nm. this morning.

Whilst playing with other boys in: Chung Sau Street, a twelve-your-old Ind famed Cheung Sau was injured in the leg by a box, with which they playing, falling on hini. Hel the Government Civil) WAS, taken to Hospital, where he was treated for his injury.

were

ear. No. 2122, which was left on the

Professor . H. Roffey, of the the New York papers and a leading | Hongkong University, has reported Senator refuses to believe in the pos- to the police the theft of his motor sibility of Congress's consent, but President Hoover is not a blander er, and An announcement of this kid would-be tragic were there any possibility of a sudden withdrawal |

stand between the Star Ferry And Queen's Pler. When Professor Roffey went for it at midnight he found it

missing.

Amongst the many lent residents

The recent controversy at Home Ein regard to Sunday cinemas has served to draw public attention to the question of laws which remain on the Statute Book but which pretty well interwoven, have long since become

dead for Germany, to give Europe an Mr. A. W. Eastinan,, Mr. and Mrs.

Mr. and Mr. S. R. When we'come to can-rtunity of recuperation, and G. Jeffries, Mr. C. W. S. Kinghorn, Tickner and the worki breathing-spare te daughters, Mr. O. C. Womack, and rally forces for the stimulation of Mr. Wong Kam-fak. trade and tundustry. Ultimately the Uarted Stales 'stands to gain as mack from the moratorium as the primeipal debtor Powers, though this does not make the offer any

of the offer. The main objects, all who left for Home Saturday by

are relief the P. and O. . . . Ranpurs were!

Jetters. sider the number of new Arts which are passed in the life of a single, Parliament, it is small won der that no man living, whether learned in the law or not, knowa exactly what netions of life are legal and what are not. Repeating Acts have, of course, swept away many ancient laws, but it is none the less true that many have been overlooked in the courge of een- turies and, strictly speaking, remain law to this day..

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elevator inclosed In the frame-Įposition on Chleago's municipal Suffering from a fructured spine work taking them to within 15 feet airport.

internal haemorrhage, a woman of the top.

named Wong Shiu, aged 20, of 9. Tit

Kong Lane, was removed to the Then they climb up-into-the Government Civil Hospital by heright itself, which is ive feet in

In-

A NEW NAME FOR AN OLD CRIME.

Tesearch Institute required a

the less generons. I would be in-husband. The woman had fallen diameter, and change the carbona. PHIPPS hears of foresting, of course, to learn the in- into the street from the third floor. It is all done within a minute, and She succumbed to her injuries early the light in shining again. ner history of the affair.

Mr. this morning.

Shining so brightly, that at 33 Ramsay neDonald denies cute-

miles away, it appears nearly five- gorically that Britain has made St. Joseph's Church service was fold lighter than the full moon, any appreach to any country on the breadcast yesterday morning, when nerording to electrical experts. war debts question. Nevertheless, the Rev. Fr. Byrne preached in place As far as 50 miles away, it is said.

HE American Book Publishers' of the Rev. Fr. Joy, taking as his a newspaper can be read by Its it is difficult to believe that there subject "Knowledge of God."

The light.

name for "The person who A writer has recently been illus is absolutely no connexion between evening broadcast included an

The beacon was designed by Dr. habitually borrows books from traling some of the curious enact the recent visit of the German 1eresting talk on Greig, followed by

some excellent pianoforte selections of Elmer A. Sperry, and was do- ments that still remain on the Ministers to Chequers, and the that composer's works by Miss Luba dicated to Col. Charles A. Lind-friends." So the B.P.R.I. invited

moratorium offer. Dr. Bruening Pecker.

bergh and put into operation Inst suggestions, in the form of a com- Statute Book. Many of these went to London full of Germany's

petition. must strike people of to-day as financial predicament and prepared

The great American public decidedly funny." For example, to make a powerful plen for the

respondeil to the R.S.V.P. with in 1601 it was enacted that a moratorium. In some way or an-

characteristic energy. Hastily borrowing dictionaries, they con- grandfather was responsible for other, it would seem, the strength

tributed long names and short the support of his grandchildren, of Germany's argument was convey-

names and names that could only ed to Washington, with the happy

be read with smoked glasses. As And that Inw stands. to-day. results indiented this morning.

An Indication of the high standard attained it is only necessary to quote auch mordant entries as No. 2017 em *** **— $” (N. P., Jerusalem, Mass.)

Moreover, it was invoked in a case

a few years ago at the instance of the Epsom Guardians. Thus, in law, a man may well become

responsible for the support of sixty or more lazy descendants, When a customer dines in

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restaurant in England und enjoys

n five-course dinner hp exposea

RIZAL DAY CELEBRATED.

BY DANCE AND SOCIAL EVENING.

The anniversarry of the birth

himself to a penalty or a £1 fing of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the national

or a inonth in prison!

take the

Take

here and martyr of the Filipinos, was celebrated yesterday by the another instance. a man has local Pilipino community with a renson to believe that witchcraft dance and social evening at the is being practised in hits neigh-Filipino Club, King's Park. bourhood, the law tif the Statute and a very enjoyable time spent i

The function was well attended, Book means anything at all) will by the whole company. Profen-

F. complaint

Gonzalez was Master of seriously. Hor The Act of George II, which con-Ceremonies, and the programme, irranged by him, included num solidated other witchcraft enact-bers by his string band, which ment has never been repealed. also, in conjunction with mem A conviction carries a penalty of land, provided the

bers of the longkong Hotel danco music for a year's imprisonment. Not long dancing, which took place on the since, however, the Tipton, Stafa, tconis courts.

The clubhouse magistrates told i man not to be for the occasion, a feature being was decorated ridiculous when ho made a charge a portrait of Dr. Rizal, placed of witchcraft, thereby revealing in hold relief by a background of the limitations (more excusable the American and Filipino flags. Refreshments and games formed additional attractions of suc- cessful and enjoyable evening.

hero than many another instance) of magisterial -learning,

BRO, UL. I. MAT. OFF. DARBE MY NEA SERVICE, INO. 23

"Isn't it unusual? I'd buy that coal, if I was sure that's

what they all will be wearing."

or:

No. 8638 **** *

(B. J., Cincinnati).

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(Clever, you know, douced clever).

In the end the judges, from among all the adjectives and im- proper nouns, selected the 'expres- Kion:

"Booksneaf."

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It has not yet been stated what designation has been given to the crime as opposed to the criminal, but it will doubtless not be long before

Buch charge "Habitual Bookancafage while under the influence of Edgar Wal- laco settles the point. At all events it is heartening to know that ono, more peaf has been catalogued.

Matches and Lawnmowers.

If, indeed, I may borrow a lent': from the B.R.L's book (without being called a leafanent) I would supmost that there are other Itinerant kleptomaniacs simply asking to be mounted on a pin. (Continued on Page 7.