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CASTLE FIRE.

STUTTGART RUINS

STILL BURNING.

Berlin, Dec. 23. Th if the old castle of Stuttgart is not yet extinguished. hot maly burning in a few places. which cannot be reached by the fire. men owing to the fallen Masonry, Thy is every reason to hope that 900. | the 23h wing and part of the west

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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932.

HEADMASTERS' WOMEN GAGGED BY

QUANDARY.

DR. ALINGTON ON EDUCATION,

ROBBERS.

AMATEUR DISCARDS

Point

REVOLVER.

yesterday

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POST OFFICE NOTICE

The public aro hereby notified that under the Regulations of the Wire less Telegraphy Ordinance all wireless conces lasued during 1031 expired on December, 31st and are therefors dua for renewal. Application for new lleonces or for renewals should be made to the Government Radio Oles, Ground Floor, P. & 0. Building, Des Voeux Rd., Central. The classes of licences and the fees therefor are as follows:-

For Broadenst Reception

Amateur Transmission

Ship Station Licenco Dealers Licence

$10.00

$15.00

$25.00

$50.00

from Calgary to Montreal (Canada), Such letters must be handed in over Letters will be accepted at Hongkong for transmission by Air Mail: the Counter of the General Past Office or Kowloon Post Office and must be superscribed "Air Mall Calgary-Montreal". The Air Mail feo, which le additional to the ordinary postage, is 70 cents per ounce.

PARCEL MAIL.

Dr. Alington, Headmaster of A gangster who throw away a Elon, moved 'a resolution at the valuable revolver in exchange for opening session of the Hendmas-booty valued under $30 which he tera Conference, at Charterhouse, collected in an enterprise at West

morning, Godalming, Surrey, urging "that thought to have made a bad bar there is need for drastic revision gain. His unbusiness-like pro- of the education of the average cedure marked him out as boy."

"amateur," conscience-stricken And fearful of possible con. The resolution was withdrawn sequences, said a police ofBelal later on the suggestion of the this morning. Chairman, Mr. Frank · Pletcher, ! Heudmaster of Charterhouse, who Accompanied by another man. said that the discussion had been who also left behind a dagger, the gangster went up to the third useful, but that it was not suitablh floor of, 401 Queen's Road West, for passing an a definite résolu where he obtained admission by saying that he had a basket af presents to deliver to the inmates. Dr. Alington said that during the 35 veurs he had been a schoal- A woman, a amah and a 12- master he had witnessed many bit-year-old girl who were the only ter struggles between subjects persane inside at the time, were fought out with very little regard bound And gagged. The two Shanghal and Amoy to principle. Amid all the con- men then made a hurried search, Shanghai and Swntow

those and after being engaged for Meling voices, what were

Japan so-called educational experts, the quarter of an hour, fed down the headmastere, to do?

Minira,

tion.

"I can tell you what they do, in j The police later found a loaded fact," he continued. "The harasss | revolver in a back lane where the ed hentmasters, in fact, endeavour ganamo had dropped it, oliviously to trim their salia to every breeze to avoid incriminaling evidener. and grossly overload their curri Palum. starving every subject of its proper quantity of hours in a vudu attempt la propitiate pritisni, forgetting that if the average Englishman could not bizme s own education he would find it very dimeult fu account satisfac- Lority for his own inefficiency,”

Juven-

A Century Ago.

The English education. Itary men, he went on, was lument- ably narrow, bat it was, at ang rate, bavad on principles in which its professors heartily believed.

"would lik to expos

the conviction that we put an entirely

value exaggerated

upun kauw- ledge as such. There are very

few things indeed that ነ፯፥ 13

say with certainty that everyone

ught to know'

When they had said that a boy must know arithmetle in the sense of bei able to divide and ut tract with reasonable

ACAPACY,

and that he must know enough of his own language to under- stand it when saed by others and to employ it himself he verily belleved that they had exhausted the demands that they had a right

make.

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MUTINY BY BIG BODY OF TROOPS.

REFUSE TO FIGHT REDS IN KLANGSI

Nagehang, Jan. 29, It is learned that 20,000 troops under Sun

Lien-chung. whto

were sent to South Kinngsi re- cently to suppress the Communists. have motinied and gone to Thnx

how, on the Pukien horder.

jojad Reports that they have ile Communista in Kiangst are denied, the Chairman of the Pukion Provincial Government stating that

The Public are hereby warned that in view of the passing of the Abnormal Importations Customs Dation Act, no guarantee can be given that any parcel will not be subject to Customs duty on arrival in the United Kingdom. The system of prepayment of Customs duties in this office i cancelled until further notice except as regards parcels of silk of or under the value of £5—0-D or its equivalent in dollars nt the rate of the day. It will howover be necessary in these conca to mako a deposit #gainst duty equal in amount to the declared value of the Parcol.

Definite information will published in the Mail Notices directly It is received.

Letters and postcards for Europe and South America are forwarded "Via Siberia" if so superscribed.

INWARD MAILS.

Monila

From

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Per

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January 21.

January 22.

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January 22.

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January 22,

Japan, Shanghai and Europe via

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January 22.

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January 23.

January 28,

January 24,

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January 26.

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January 27.

January 28,

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January 29.

January 20.

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January 31.

January 31.

January 31.

Date and Tim

U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shang-

bai (Seattle, 9th January) Japan and Shanghal

Europe via Suez (letters and papera), London 31st December and parcels. 24th December, 1931 Japan and Shanghal Japan and Shanghai Japan

For

Swatow ..

they declined to fight because Samsai and Wuchow

supplies were forthcoming.

The matter is now in the hands. of Feng Yu-hatang, whose troops the mutineers formerly were. Peng get them to lern to the Govern Is sending envoys to endeavour to

fold.-- Routes Special,

EXCHANGE RATES

Faris...

There was no other knowledge The first seems to have smoulder which might rightly be regarded d for home time between the as indispensable, and they ought, deners deaths up to three. The injuries | boore,

When a plank was torn ap|in the name of principle, to begin Berlin of eight others are such as to cause by the Bremen trying to locate it by separating the indispensable Oslo! serimus anxiety for their lives. on Monday morning, it immediately from the desirable.

There is considerable criticianuret forth and spread with de the fire brigale commander for vastating speed. taying saflicient attention to

reparts" of In antarkdering in the castle before the fire broke out and for not sending out all the fire bri- gade immediately ne

soon as the tame burst forth

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Copenhagen He regarded as disastrous the Prague rerent change in Latin pronunla Lisbon tion, which put a serious stum- Rio blog block in the way the Bombay average boy.

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to more than a reasonable pro- New York .3.15 Biciency ju some one subject, and Amsterdam yet we teach him as if he is likely | Vienna to become a prodigy. Our funda. Madrid hental error in to teach all sa Hongkong..

Bucharest ieets in the same way and that The way which lends to expert knowledge."

Bol Milan Stockholm.

"There is. I believe," Dr. Aling Montreni

ten, said, "a similar movement to- Silver (spot) 10.1/16 wards the correct pronunciation of ¦ Silvye (forward) 19.5/16 Greck, but, as this monstrosity,

in the main confined to girls schools, and as my opinion of it is far from fitting for feminine enes, I will content myself by passing it over in silence."

Mathematics or Latin.

Buys must be taught neerues either by mathematics or Latin prose, but not necessarily by both. The great object of education was to train powers of curiosity observation.

The modern teaching of science, he said, was too often conducted Roth

in a formal, scholarly way. algebra and Latin prose ought not to be demanded.

Dr. Cyril Norwood, Headmaster of Barrow, said that he was In agreement with Dr. Alington on most of the ground he had cover- ed. He would point out, however, that Public Schools were reapon- aille for only the latter half of the curriculum.

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SUGAR MARKET.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

The following cable at the close the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pentrenth and Co.

London Terminals.

March 6/10% down 18. May 7/-% down ad. August 7/2% down 1d. December 775 down 1d. Buyers at above prices, sollers skine d-d more.

New York Terminals, March 105 down 3 pt. May 1.08 down 2 pts. July 1.14 no change. September 1.19 no change. December 1.24 down I pt.

The curriculum, he said, alood in need of drastic revision as con- cerned the earlier part through could be done by tinkering with manifest defects presented by the curriculum. What they had boys when they entered Pubile to do frat was to change their ex- Schools at 13% to 14 years of age. amination system.

Swalow

Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A.. Canada, Central and South Ame- rica, Europe via San Francisco and Europe vin Siberin

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(Due Marseilles 20th February)

Kamo Maru

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(Due Thursday Island 4th Feb.) Choksang

Sat, Jan. 28. Parcela

Letters

..noon.

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Kwangtung ..Sat., Jan. 23, 3.30 p.m. Yusang .Sat., Jan. 20, 3.30 p.m. Emp. of Canada Sat., Jan. 23, 3.30 p.m.

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Jan, 80, 9 a.m.. Jan. 80, 10 am.. G.P.O.

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"GHOSTS" AT THE MANSION HOUSE.

STRANGE NOISES:

Is the Mansion House haunted? Strange noises are heard there

The Lady Mayoress. Sir Maurice, who was presenting- regimental prizes, apologised for the absence of the Lady Mayoresa, who, he said, was feeling tired and out of sorts after a disturbed night.

In the first place, they were "Not 10 per cent. of pupils in physically inferior to the pro-secondary schools are going to ducts of the elementary State-aid-universities," he added, "and yet el system of education, because the education of a quarter of a they were frequently unable to million of hoys and giris is belugat night .... crenka and knocks stand up or stand still of exercise determined solely by the

The endemie playsten control. They were also demand of the univeralties to the and even the Lord Mayor, Sir to and we have not yet got used to unable to use their hands to make exclusion of the interests of In-Maurice Jenks, is puzzled about it.. things and to draw, and were un dustry and commerce."

"Strange noises go on. trained in the use of the eye or Mr IF, L. 0. Flocker, Headmas-

Bar,

them.

"Living at the Mansion House," ho said, "takes some gotting used

"I say they aro dus to the shrink- ter of Christ's Hospital, sald that He thrilled an audience of Terri-age of the woodwork through the He disagreed with the end-ny drastic revision of the educntorials at the London Rifle Brigade introduction of radiators, but some- master of Eton when he said that tion of the boy must receive the headquarters in Bunhill-row re-times, in the dark, one could easily

of cently when he told them about imagine they are due to other.. co-operation and assistance the education was not the result universities, the business world, the "things that go bump

in the less natural, causOR," of any thought-out principle.

night" at the Mansion House. He did not think that any good and, in fact, mibile opinion,"

Tho audience laughed!

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