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THE SOCIAL EVIL

Singapore, like Hongkong. hus taken ensures for the suppres sion of houses of ill-fame, and the first annual police report on the matter contains some interesting disclosures. Whilst some dif- culty has been experienced in get ting convictions against those per- mitting their properly to be used for purposes of prostitution, it is recorded that' many landlords have enabled the police to clear

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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24,

DAY BY DAY

be with us. That is a fact which all social reformera have long since come to recognise. .But that is no reason why a vigilant eye should not be kept on it; rather is it a apcelal reason why DO NOT DEPEND UPON OUR CIRCUM- HATTINESS AND SUCCESS IN LIFE unremitting attention be paid to STANCES BUT ON OURSELVES-Sir. the evil. On the whole, we be-Fahn Lubbock, lieve that Hongkong is freer of the blatant aspects of prostitu- tion than most other centres in the East; certainly the evil is not 90 openly flaunted ns was the caso some years ago. But if the com- munity is to be protected from its influence, there must be eternal vigilance. The evil, when it is driven underground, is rendered less easy of attack; the difficulties

A meeting of the Hongkong Practi- cal Psychology Club will be held at Lane, Crowford's Restaurant at 6 p.m. next Friday, when Rev. Fr. P. Joy, S. will speak on "Psychology and Character."

1932.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE BACONIAN LUNACY

Tternational

BY "AN OLD STAGER”

the

\HIS week has witnessed an in- courtly Lord Chancellor of Eng-

commemoration | Innd. of William Shakespeare, the Eliza-| But these aro trivial detalls. bethan actor-dramatist-poet who Every line that he wrote proclaims Government Civil Hospital, has been fiant of all challenge, as

Chang Shul-wah, a dresser of the will rank probably for ever, de-the reality of everything wo know the about Shakespeare personally. All arrested by Inspector Dorling on a greatest Englishman that ever the really profound Shakespearian charge of attempting to obtain bribe of 33 from a patient at

a lived in the tide of time. Shakes-1students, not only of this country the peare remains

and the supreme ex-but of Germany

America, hospital.

pression of the genius of England, scout the Baconian theory as sheer Ile is the immortal apotheosis of mountobank moonshine. There is our Island race. ever written in the Anglo-Saxon a shred of justification for over If every word not a title of support for it, not tongue were obliterated and for- putting it forward. rotton, but the works of William Shakespeare alone still survived, have turned the searchlight on And, of course, the Baconians

the losa would be not so tragic their own mentality. They are not Mr. S.. W. Coleman, of the Western nor so irreparable ne if all other content with making Bacon

extant, but not author of Shakespeare's works, out In the way of suppression are al-Electric Co., has reported to the police continued to be

the loss of his motor car, No. 2023, his.

must needs drag in other unfor- most insuperable. But it is some which was stolen from the car park The moment of this unique com-tunate dead writers of classics as thing to feel and to know that the in Chater Road some time between memoration has been chosen by well, amongst them the Spanish authorities are on the alert in this 8.30 and 0.15 p.m. yesterday.

some half-witted fanaties to revive genius, Cervantes. In fact, It is In senselesa cackle that is dignified protty evident thut Baconianism is matter.

Eight casen

of cholera, six from ns the Baconian theory. Now there a form of mental derangement that There is reason to believe, how-Victoria and two from Kowloon, with are many people who scorn the grows steadily worse.

Once you ever, that many of the so-called Ave deaths, were reported last week. larger lunacy of that queer obses- get it, your case is hopeless. You There was also one case on Monday, sion, but who contend that it is end up by not only looking for, but massage establishments in the Soven cases of typhoid (1 imported) not worth while getting agitated discovering, hidden codes it

other with five deaths, and 3 cases of men- about the Baconians. What does Charles Dickens and Mark Twain city are in reality little

ingitis with one death, were also noti- it matter, they ask, who actually that point demonstrably to Francis than houses of ill-fame. A cór-fied during the week. Deaths from wrote Shakespeare's works! There Lord Bacon, respondent, some little time ago, pulmonary tuberculosis totalled 56.

they are amongst the world's im- mortal einssics of great literature, A Knock-Out Blow. gave irrefutable evidence of this

The broad pennant of Captain E. Mc. and the mere authorship is almost About thirty years ago, when the fact as a result of investigations W. Lawrle as n Commodore (Second immaterial.

Baconiun madness cropped up Class) will be hoisted in ILM.S. which he undertook, showing that Palkestone at 8 am, on Saturday. In to irritate me.

That is a view which never fails with special virulence, mainly Since the dawn of owing to the egregious propa- not only are many of these est accordance with King's Regulation history men and women have, some-ganda of some American imbecile, (Article 70) a salute of eleven guns times xloriously and sometimes the editor of one of our most im blishments far from what they will be Ared by H.M.S. Folke- pretend to be. but that they are stone at the same time and will be shamelessly, been ambitious as portant monthly reviews appoint- fame. It ja ed a commission of inquiry into served by touts and guides who returned by H.M.S. Tamar. The well as jealous of

that even pennant of Commodore Walker a weakness

Оле сот- martyrs the Baconian theory. have their own system of signali-will be struck in H.M.S. Tamar at have shared with heroes.

missioner was Andrew Lang, the Bunset 011 Saturday, and Commodore

But, compared with Shakes-other a famous Lord Justice, and ing the likely approach of the Lawrie's broad pennant will be trans-peare's fame, all other renown they were charged, and adequately

ferred police. This is a matter

to the Tamar at 8 am on pales its ineffectual fires. To filch paid, to go most thoroughly into Sunday, August 28. A calls for the earnest attention of eleven guns is to be fired by HMS.

salute of the laurela from his memory acems the whole subject. They did so at the authorities, not only in fair-Folkestone at 8 am. on Monday. ness to the genuine massage es- tablishments, but als from the standpoint of the public weal. We feel that a systematic campaign

which

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CHINA'S PROTEST.

to me an act of implous vandalism great pains and in complete detail. compared with which the looting And they unanimously reported of Westminster Abbey would be a that there was not even a case to petty larceny. It is true to say go to the jury. The Baconian that even the Unknown Warrior, theory had no sort or shadow of who sleeps in anonymous glory in substance in it whatever. that national Valhalla, owes his After that the Baconians were

by plain-clothes police officers TOKYO AND LEAGUE NOTIFED) inaniration of valiant patriotism quiet for a long period. But you

would result in the suppression of most of these premises. The Government might du worse than see that this task is undertaken in the near future.

Ped

Enter Turkey,

Turkey's election to membership in the League of Nations forges another link, and a vital one, in the chain. This comes after years of lingering at the portals. Tur- key has never really been hostile etant to enter, because. in the to the League. It has been ro

opinion of some observers, of pres. sure from Soviet Russia. But it

it that

OF JEHOL ATTACK

Nanking, Aug. 23. is learned authoritatively the Waichizopu (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) bas pro- tested to Tokyo. regarding the Japanese invasion of Jehol and

has also addressed a communica-

tion to the League, drawing at tention to the serious situation at Jehol arising from the Japanese military action.-Reuter.

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to Shakespeare. The spirit of his can no more suppress this form St. Crispin's day oration is part of insanity than the most damning of the very inheritance of youth. exposures can permanently kill Shakespeare's deathless magic has even the most glaring quick medi- Public memories are short. coloured our national physhology cines. at a hundred facets.

an He is part. In time, after interval, the of the mental texture of our race. Jancient heresies

creoping wint toleration can there be, even These are surely truismA. Then back again.

come

to regard the nro in

The best way in tolerant minds, for those who Baconians is that they would play the sneak-thief with paradorical fact the greatest of ali tributes to William Shakespeare's honoured and im- personal mortal name?

Shakespeare. So tremendous is the genius of his works that to A Child of the Theatre.

Home not well-balanced “intellects It is no purpose of mine to em-it seems a miracle that any one bark on serious argument with man could write them all-parti- disciples of the so-called Baconian cularly a man of yeoman stock, a theory. The superman in R. L. 8.'s man of the people, und an actor wonderful tract, "The Dub Tide,' to boot. And, as theso people declared that he never argued with have not the faith to believe in young atheists or habitual drunk-miracles, which are constantly ards. In that same category 1 happening around them neverthe- include all Baconians. To the less, they seek at least to

mini- living personality Shakespeare there exists abundant ferring Shakespeare's laurels to of William mise the manifestation by trans-

contemporary testimony. He was some distinguished historient London Terminals.

no stranger, and no enigna, to Ben figure of his epoch.

It is quite There is thus an unconscious December 1932 6/5% down Jonson and his cirèle,

impossible for any rational being testimonial to Shakespeare, as well March 1933 6/7 no change

to read or study his plays without as an obvious touch of snobbish- May 1933 6/8% down 2.

being intensely conscious of the ness, in the perfectly preposterous August 1933 6/10% down d

vital William Shakespeare, the effort to fasten bis works сп a Buyers at above prices, sellersnctual Shakespearian actor and Lord of the Woolsuck. I shall be asking Ad more.

playwright, Hamlet's injunctions quite prepared, in another twenty to the players, and his warning yours, to hear that it was Lord to Polonius to look after their Bacon, and not Mr. C. B. Cochran creature comforts, not to mention or Mr. Noel Coward, who staged Mistress Quickly's "O Jesu, and as and wrote "Cavalcade." Another like one of them harlotry players fifty years, and that unfortunate as ever I know," would be ample to Elizabethan lawyer-nobloman may convince anybody who is not a even find himself getting blamed

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The following cuble at the close for the sugar market yesterday has their premises of undesirable has not been averse to aiding in been received by Messrs. Pentreath tenants. It is further put on re- the activities of the Geneva insti-Jand Co. cord that police and S.C.A. action tution, as was evidenced by its has resulted in the almost entire participation in the narcotic in- vestigations and the disarmament disappearance of soliciting

debates. Originally Turkey wanted public by European women,

a seat on the Council. The Coun- well as the closing down of large til then seemed the all-powerful-1 numbers of recognised brothels, body, and the Ottoman Republic On the other hand, it has been was ambitious. Under the storn found that there is a large in-leadership of Mustapha Kemal it had rapidly gained the prestige it lost under the old rule of the Sultan. If a permanent seat could not be granted, then a semi-per- manent seat would de, but a seat on the Council was a necessary no change. condition to membership in the change came. League. Then a the Japanese occupation of Shang- The Assembly, moved to action by

consequences of thehai, suddenly asserted itself in

crease

in soliciting by Chinese prostitutes in public places, an increase in the use of so-called hotels by prostitutes and their clients, and an increase in the number of "ly" houses.

It is rather early in the day as

yet to form any definite opinions

on the

brothel suppres..ion movement in vigorous terms, named a commis-

Hongkong, but it is probable that the results are not dissimilar to

those experienced in Singapore. There are, of course, two schools

sion to sit permanently until the uren was evacuated, and showed

it was not content to leave major decisions entirely in the hands of

the Council, The nction of the

of thought on the question of Assembly was a revelation to non- tolerated houses, but, when all members of the League. Real the factors are placed in the power obviously resided within its balance, it will probably be found precincts. Small States, united that the community gains a great by a common aim, commanded at- deal from the shutting down of tention. The fact apparently was not lost upon Turkey. No longer establishments which put temp-

was insistence laid upon the tation in the way of our youth, necessity of a Council seat. The sometimes with the direst and Assembly was sufficient in itself. most tragic consequences. Time | So Turkey signified its acceptance. was when it was more or less And now It has become a full- "the thing" among certain types fledged member. There are many advantages to be gained by Turkov, of young men to patronise these which no more than most States houses, but happily this custom escaped the world-wide economie Is dying out, and it must follow crisis, in finally uniting itself with that the fewer the recognised the Geneva organization. But the quarters, the less likelihood is Lengue also stands to gain, for to there of

be truly effective it must be uni- young

being men

versal. Turkey con contribute led along A path which но

much to the League and the Lea- often ends in disgrace and degra-gue can contribute much to Tur- dation. On the other hand, there koy. The key position which Tur- is a danger of the evil being key holds between East and West driven underground, with conse-makes it invaluable to the Lon quences, in individual cases, no service of the peace of the world gue, and ils possibilities in the less Harmful in character. Pro- runder its admission a fact of no stitution will, unhappily, always small significance.

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