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QUEEN'S

COMING SHORTLY

JOHN

BARRYMORE

as Princo Paul, a role that wins him now fame

ETHEL

BARRYMORE

as the Czarina, added fame to

the stage's brilliant.star..

LIONEL

BARRYMORE

as Rasputin, a living portrait of unforgettable power

R

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ASPDE-Z

T

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AND THE EMPRESS

with

RALPH MORGAN DIANA WYNYARD TAD ALEXANDERİ

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer'ı

Commending Presentation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1933.

THE LATE MR. E. L.

AGASSIZ

COURT TRIBUTES THIS MORNING

by

The Full Court, represented the Pulsne Judge, Mr. K. E. Lindsell, in the absence from the Colony of the Chief Justice, snt to-day in memory of Mr. E. L. Aggasiz, Official Receiver and Ro- gistrar of Trade Marks-and-Letters- Patent, who died on Saturday,

POLICE RESERVE

INDIAN CONSTABLE COMMENDED

Police Reserve Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector General of Police, stato:

Chinese Company, cruits will attend at the Chinese Training Course-Port II-All re- Company Headquarters on Tuesday, September 20th at 5.30 p.m. for in- |struction.

Indian-Company.--

WHEN IS A

MAN DRUNK?

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA

TESTS THAT MAY

MISLEAD

The difficult question of what is rollable test of drunkenness is again raised by the statement of a doctor at Croydon that he took it as the influence of drink, that he could a sign of a motorist being under not touch his own nose when his eyes wero shut.

BRAINS

OVER-ESTIMATED COMMODITY

SAYS A YOUNG

MINER. GRADUATE

London. "Brains are really a most over- estimated commodity. We don't tal gymnastics, we want human want human beingo capable of men- boings who con live."

Strength Constable R209 Abdul Shakoor has been taken on the Mr. Justice Lindaoll sold: "It is strength of the Indian Company as a sad matter that this is the second from September 23rd, 1980. Geension within three days onbeen permitted to resign from the Constable R257 Gulab Ram, has which the Court has sat to take Indian Company, as from September notice of the death-of-a-mamber-of-11th, 1900, the legal profession of Hongkong. Commendation,The Hon. I. G; P.

This is the opinion of Mr. G. V. To-day we deplore the death of one is pleased to commend Constable R291 satisfactory

As things stand at present no Keeling, the 32 year-old miner, who who was not only

scientific amicus Tara Khan for the apprehension of drunkenness exists. [LT]

test of has just taken an honour degree caurice but also an officer of the Douglas Gifford, who on 21.8.33 was

in-economics at London University. Court."

sentenced by His Honour, the Chief divided into two groups: Various series of scholarships to enable Tests at present used may be Mr. Keeling gained a wonderful for larceny by trick. Justice, to 18 months' hard labour things which the accused is called him to take his degree and he told Inspection Parade. All ranks of upon to do, and various examina-Reuter that this first change came the Indian Company will parade attions made by the doctor.

from winning the miners' national scholarship' valued at £1,000 when Central Police Station on Wednesday, September 27th under Sub Inspector

he was unemployed. of equipment etc., by the Company R. J. Hunt for a general inspection Commander. Fall in at 6.80 sharp. Dress White Uniform, Cap with White Cover, Belt, Truncheon, Whistle, Armlet with Badge, "Pocket Policeman" and note-book to carried. Recruits will attend..

"Edward Lewis, Agassiz was born in June, 1879 and enrolled- as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in January, 1993. In February, 1914, he was admitted and enrolled as a solicitor of this court and remained in private practise here until 1020, when he joined the Government service. In December 1926, after acting in that capacity for over a year, he was appointed Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, and in December, 1927, appointed dition to be Registrar of Trade Murks and Letters Patent.

p.in.

be

Training Course-Part II-All re- in ad-ing at Hongkong will attend Chinese cruits of the Indian Company resid Company Headquarters on Thursday, September 28th at 6.30 p.m. for in

"I think that members of the legal

profession whose duties brought them into touch with him, must have been impressed by his single-minded integrity and honesty of purpose and also by his

struction.

Thee will be no instructional class far members of the Indian Company residing in Kowloon on Wednesday. September 27th.

In the former group may be included such things as

Walking along a straight line, Touching the nose with a finger with the eyes shut.

Standing on one log with the oyes shut and the hands held

above the head,

"Down there in the mine," he said, "the scale of values is dif ferent from that of the world above. It is on a purely physical plane. I was in that mine drawing 98 10d. a day stripped to the waist, Writing down a sentence, and streaming with sweat, risking in- Pronouncing certain test aon-Jury and knowing that at any tences supposed to present cer- moment death may come. Yet as tain difficulties for the tongue. miners work they sing-it is rather It may be said at once that many absurb. when they have so little to normal persons, attempting these sing about, but they do!" tests In the quietude of their homes, would fail to gain anything mine for good-Reuter.

Mr. Keeling has now left the like a 100 per cent. success. When the accused is called upon to carry test proposed has not been adopted, out such tests in a police station, and, in any case, there would be after a road accident or after the the great difficulty of determining distasteful publicity attendant upon

gallant fight against the handicap | Members will fall in at No. 2 Police arrest, It is scarcely surprising that the personal idiosyncrasios to

of failing sight."

"On behalf of the Bench, 1 desire to express here a songe of the loss the Court has sustained by

his death and our deep sympathy

Emergency. Unit Reserve. Riot Drill. A riot drill will take place on Friday, September 29th. Station at 6:20 p.m. sharp. Dress optional.

(Sgd). D. L. KING,

D.S.P. (R)

fallure is not uncommon even if alcohol.

the soberness of the examinee is that other conditions may closely Finally, there arises the problem beyond question.

The second group of teste pre stimulate drunkenness. Other druga sents much the enme difficulties. may sometimes produce similar

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with his relatives, in particular JAPANESE TEXTILES. The dector may examine the pupils effects, while there was not long LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.

with the widow.".

The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster said; "I should like to associate myself and members of the Bar and legal members of the Govern ment service with Your Lordship's tribute to Edward Lewis Agassiz."

A DEAR FRIEND.

In him we have lost an able and conscientious lawyer, a valued colleague and a dear friend whose memory we shall treasure. The Bankruptcy Ordinance and Rules will remain 011 the Colonial Statute Book as a monument to his accuracy, industry and zeal. We wish to associate ourselves with the Court's expression of sym- pathy with Mrs. Agassiz."

"Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton Pre- sident of the Incorporated Law Society of Hongkong, said: "It is since the year 1987 that the ment- bers of the legal profession ba came better known to Mr. Agassiz und he became better known to them, by reason of his appoint ment as Oficial Receiver. Hia work brought him into close and constant contact with our profes- sion and I am expressing their opinion when I say that by his un- falling courtesy and tact, and his sympathetic understanding of the difficulties with which solicitors have to contend, he won our es- teem and affection."

"On behalf of the Law Society I desire to express to Mrs. Agas- siz, their deepest sympathy with her in her great loss and we would like to associate ourselves with the remarks of His Lordship and the Attorney General."

Among those present were:- Messrs. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Attorney General, D. McNeill, Hin- ! shing Lo, Leo D'Almada, jnr, H. C. Macnamara, M. H. Turner, R. C. H. Lim, H. G. Lee, barristers- at-law; F. H. Loseby, F. X.; D,Almada sur, end Jnr., A. el Arculli, C. Y. Kwan, D. L. Strellett, P. Hodgson, M. W. Lo, H. Lo, P. Sin, H. A. da Barros Botelho, J. M. D'Almada Remedios,, M. A. da Silva, G. Lockhart-Smith, W. C. Hung. D. II. Lewis, G. G. N. Tinson, D. H. Blake, H. J. Arms- trong, J. B. Prentis, P. T. Kemble, J. T. Prior, L. R. Andrewes, H. K. Holmes, M. M. Watson, R. Cole, R. A. Wadeson, and Brown,

"RATHER LIGHT”

REVENUE OFFICER AND A PENALTY

A young Chinese woman with a fivo-months-old baby strapped to her back, was fined $50 or six weeks' by Mr. Balfour. In the Contral Police Court this morning on n charge of the possession of 16 taels of illicit opium. Revenue- Officer Grimmitt, who prosecuted, remarked the penalty was rathor light, They. had rather a lot of trouble with women carriers and they would have a lot more if the women got away with that

Jimmy's

MR. CUNLIFFE-LISTER'S HINT the nerve reflexes, and ask certain guilty of being drunk who

TO BAHAMAS

Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 29. Bahamas Legislature for permission Replying to a request of the

to

was

of the eyea, count the pulse, test go a tragic case of a doctor found questions to test the memory of actually a diabetic subject who had the accused, and at the end of it had an overdose of insulin a short

time previously. portance to attach to positive all be left wondering how much im-

results.

A BLOOD TEST.

Lack of control or "inco-ordina- tion" is common to many condi- tions, and it is. this which most of the tests for drunkenness reveal. While the medical profession as

textiles, Sir Phillp Cunliffe-Lister, ralec tariffs against Japanese Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated that the Anglo-Japanese treaty is notoriously unrealiable, but grent a whole attempts this somewhat un-

The smell of alcohol in the breath precluded discriminatory tariff's against Japan.,

hope has been expressed in recent savoury part of its duties with the take no measures pending the

He urged the Legislature to under-years that some method of estimat-knowledge that Injustice is rare in outing the amount of alcohol in the drunkenness enses, there is a de-

come of the Anglo-Japanese negotin blood would provide concrete evid-Anite feeling of dissatisfaction

ence of drunkenness. So far the with the present position.

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