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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY WHAT DO WE KNOW

ABOUT LOSS OF MEMORY?

POLICE DISTRICTS

The police system of dividing! the Colony into station districts for patrol and other purposes is probably unavoidable; a líno has

ing comic opora situations on

By A MENTAL SPECIALIST

cal" paralysis of voice, producing

tor bandrawn somewhere. But IT is a curious thing and else. In the war we had "hysteri fortainly the effect of produc. inexplicable to the lay-mutism, paralysis of hearing pro- occasion, particularly in Kowloon man how anyone apparently ducing deafness, and many other where it seems sometimes that the normal and rational one day types. These were "functional" in extrome in curiosity of division can be found the next in a logical treatment could be cured, nature and by appropriate psycho-

has been reached. In the vicinity

of the Football and Bowling Green state where all memory, all often rapidly and dramatically.

riets are involved. The harbour Clubs, for instance, three dis- recollection of past events- MENTAL CONFLICTS. side of Chatham Road is the con- even recollection of one's cern of Hunghom; the other of own personal identity-seem dumb and apparently paralysed Taimtentsui. One side of Austin to be wiped out as if by some

Rond is in the Yaumati District

and the other in Taimshatsui. mystic force. Prince Edward Road is in a some- Such a condition is becoming what similar position, one side of frequent occurrence. Scarce being the responsibility of Kowly a week pusses but a case is Joon City and the other of Mong brought to our notice.

kok,

MASTERLY UNCONCERN

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In the war thousands of deaf and

The Very Idea!

IT

BANDITRY

By Ed. Kelly, Compradore.

is not out of place for us to

recall a few of our own ad- vonturea at Home and Abroad now that bandite are at last drawing good money and some. body in the Government has found a way of making money without waiting for pensións or superannuation.

(T was not until we ourself.

men were cured completely. And that we realised that there..

́ ́were captured by bandits

the same cure can be brought about

one day and the next are without shroffs and worse things in those who are apparently well are dearer people than memory or recollection, or Imow than being married. ledge of past events.

To sum up, then, these cases of

loss of memory-one excludes cases that last verse from "Believe You may think we got of pure simulation-are due, to

off in instalments they just

This state of loss of memory is medically termed amnesin. Of all the examples of amncala, the most mental conflicts or mental trauma, it or not" but believe it or classical and typical were the cases mostly repressed; this lenda to dis- The weakness of the system only sands

produced by the Great War. Thou- sociation or splitting of the mind not we didn't, and if you

-occurred-cases appears when, as often happens, after the fierce bursting of shells, the main consciousness, though still

where, where certain memories are lost to don't it doesn't matter... policeman attached to one or a rain of bombs from the air, existing. That they still exist is station watches with masterly unmen were shocked and shivered proved by the fact that the $1,000 as ransom and when we Yes, the bandits demanded concern minor offences on the and concussed and shaken to their memories can be restored--where-offered to-go to work and pay it other side of the road, such as riding bicycles on the footpath, know nothing-of space, or time, priate treatment.

very foundations. Afterwards they ever they may be under appro practised with Impunity by com- pradore boys in the morning and all sorts in the early evening. This dangerous habit is a particu lar nuisance in Prince Edward Road, where ready facilitlen for mounting, the footpath are to be found in the provision made, at every gateway for motor-car DEATH At Edinburgh on September owners, and it is nearly time that

27th George Grant Duncan,

a trap was set. Residents have, Father of Mrs. H. Green.

In some cases, taken, direct action In the interests of children liable

DEATHS.

MORLEY-On September 27, 1933, at Winklespruit. South Africa, Walter Morley..

The

Hongkong Telegraphi

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939.

THE AUDIT REVELATIONS

The Audit Department has said almost as much as there is to say concerning the drregu-

STRAIN A CAUSE.

before. For them, all that had in restoring lost memories is when they don't believe one. or anything that had happened And the best form of treatment guffawed or whatever bandlta do 50 bofore had been wiped out-hypnosis-sometimes of the light, pitcously and pathetically.

sometimes of the deeper, state. We got a lot of publicity about This is one of the great things this time as the bandits advertised hypnosis can do. No one need fear that we were for sale in all the What happened in these cases the hypnotic state a state that local papers, happens much the same in the can be brought about only with the cases in everyday life where there consent and co-operation of the is amnesia, though the causes may patient. not be the same. Many war "nerva" cases wore similar to

to be knocked down, but nothing civil cases. Strain had more to do RELIGION

that individuals can do is likely to be so salutary as a fine. But policemen always seem to be on the wrong side of the road. It can only be hoped that they would take their courage in both hands and break the bonds of "district" ritual in a matter more serious,

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ENGINEERS FOR PEACE

did not also happen in the pre- LATENT ENERGIES vious August and September,

with many of them than shelis. This is certain.

IS A

Some missionaries held a bazaar to raise the money but the head- ache got to hear of it and she squashed the idea, and took the $48 they raised,

We were having a swell time with our friends all this "while. The chow was fine as they wanted

"BEST SELLER" us to be in good condition for the

By CECIL PALMER

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or any other time. The departmanufacture of TNT and poison-occur and may aid in the loss of clusion than that the reading public, worried because our upkeep had

so far from being almost exclusive-run into several hundred dollars seekers, is richly leavened with return. ly made up of entertainment and there was nothing to show in

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We have to remember that the mind is composed of a great many

buyer. The service was so good parts, and that these parts should

that we couldn't tarn round with- work in unity and harmony: but

out meeting somebody who was where there are "conflicts" going XHENEVER the pessimists ever we went they accompanied us willing to look after us. Where- on the mind, the mind may be W

get busy they excel them-with rifles and whatnots to see divided up into separate portions, selves in preaching the heresy that that no one interfered with us. one warring with another, and it trage in which we live is funda- is this dividing-or splitting-un

The only thing we objected to which has earned the term "disso- tic. They would have us believe the most shocking words to each ally and hopelessly materialis was their langunge. They used When it comes to beating swords ciation of consciousness."

that religion is a back number. into plowshares-one of the most

other. We only wished the head- That this "dissociation" can oc-| to-day-a good lesson necessary tasks before the world cur

The latest available official nche had been there. She would in generally normal in figures of the various types of have known exactly how we have objective can be furthered is those who

how that dividuals is clearly proved by books published in Great Britain felt about her when we took her larities discovered in the govern-engineers since the war, Review- A further and more profound state luminating. The grand total of for ever and felt that when the are the subjects of during the first quarter of the for better or for worse. We furnished by the work of chemical somnambulism or sleep-walking. present year ment's system of accountancy. ing events of the last twenty-five of dissociation is what is termed new books published in this short bandits took us into keeping, bet-

are intensely knew that the worse could not last`- Startling as are the revelations years at Chicago recently, members in their, way, there is nothing of the American Institute of Chemi-

a fugue.

is period is 3,667. But the real signiter times were, in store. in general to suggest anything has come of age since the World

cal Engineers, a profession which SPLITTING UP OF MIND.

ficance of this colossal output of Things began to change after in the

reading matter is revealed when the about two months, however. Re- nature of jiggery. War, told how they had contributed An apparently normal individual figures are dissected and classified plies from prospective buyers pokery. The charge is one of to social and industrial progress by who has become nervously exhaust- under no fewer than 60 headings, were less frequent and the would- lackadaisical financial manage experience gained during the war, strain-may go through a fugue.

applying to inventive research the ed-by worry, overwork, shock, or ranging from Anthropology to be purchasers were not of the

Wireless..

same standard an they were at first. ment by the different depart- This profession was called to arms where he may know and realise

It will not surprise anybody that ary wo had the secretary of-the- For instance, instead of a mission- ments, which might be regarded to furnish the expeditionary forces nothing until he finds himself action heads the table with a total White Slave Trafic Society writ as a grave matter in a busi- and many kinda of poisonous wea- Such an individual has been known that most people will be astonished travelling circus wanting to take with TNT, mustard gas, gunpowder hundreds of miles from home. of 1,304. But I venture to claim ing about us and the manager of a ness office, but which, less pons of war, as well as to increase to realise nothing until he has to learn that religion and theology us on a jolt of this kind comes and potash. The war over, chemi-America, consciousness auddenly 224 entirely new books and 27 new didn't accept these offers later, for the native production of nitrates found himself as far away as occupy second place with a total of The bandits were sorry they' along, is considered hardly cal engineers entered separable from red tape and the phase of progress, capitalising, to nearly a week,

n second returning then, after a lapse of editions. In passing it is worth soon no replies come at all, and while recording that third, fourth, one day a policeman called to tell routine of the file-passing sys experience, but this time devoting some kind of mental analysis, tofication are held respectively by game up much longer. He hinted a certain extent, their war-time It is quite impossible, without fifth, and sixth places in the classi-them that they couldn't keep the tem. It is safe to assume that their attention to the development know what is going on in any educational books with an output of that our detention was illegal and nothing happened in December, of new peace-time products. human mind. 1932, and January, 1983, which

An individual may [216; biography and memoirs 151; told us, broadly that we were not appear wonderfully normal in every politics, political economy, and keeping good company. way and may yet be enduring questions of the day 137, and poetry It was evident that we were powerful mental conflicts. When and drama '127.

nearing the end. Things were these come, so to speak, to the end In the light of these statistics it daily becoming more and more War-time concentration on the of their tether, "dissociation" may is difficult to draw any other con- unpleasant. The No. 1 Boy was ments were "caught out" be- ous gases rapidly changed, in memory. cause December was the end of peace time, to the production of the year and accounts were sup- such starling new products as fer- brain. It is a state more closely It is not due to a lesion of the posed to be closed and, in point ser ingredients from the at- allied to hysteria than anything mosphere, gasoline and oil from of fact, were not. The charit- coal, artificial silk, leather and able view. does not, however, rubber, helium gas, and synthetic mean that the matter can thus tion but a few of the more apoc- resins, bakelite, lacquers, to men- lightly be dismissed as of no tacular. Since the war, the great importance. The Central chemical engineer has become a Police Station embezzlement

now factor in the world of natural science and industry, episode is sufficient indication become the recognised connecting He has that a tightoning up is neces- link between the laboratory and "As far as can be estab-important functions, as it has been the plant, and one of his most lished," and the phraseology phrased, "is that of converting thus employed by the Acting the findings of the one into terms Auditor, Mr. Dallin, is interest-of commercial realisation of the ing in itself, the shroff wha ab other." If any lesson at all is to sconded with police funds made be learned from the development away with $8,252. We gather fossion since the war, it should of the chemical engineering pro that if the correct procedure had not be interpreted as meaning been followed, the loss would that the stimulus of a war wag have been less by at least $3 necessary to awaken these latent 517.87. The Accounts Offices of energies. Rather is it not one the Police Department apparent ly received $8,000 in deposits during 1982 which was not paid into the Treasury, while the $517.87 should have been dis- bursed in December and was not, although it was shown as dit Report pointed to one of the apent in the Treasury accounts. main sources of the trouble in The incident adds considerable urging a reduction of depart- force to the pressure exerted by mental bank accounts. Although the Audit Department to secure the Treasury is ultimately re- a proper rendering at the proper sponsible, only a quarter of pay. time, although it is not at all ments out are actually made by necessary to their case. It must the Treasury circumstance be obvious that if any slackness which, on the face of it, hardly is permitted in departments in seems satisfactory. Two years the matter of payments, either ago, the Colonial Treasurer could in or out, giving opportunity for not recommend a remedy. The the accumulation of largish frosh strictures of the Auditors sume, the Hability to loss as the would seem to suggest that the result of sudden temptation issue needs to be gone into once must be greater. The 1981 Au again, a little more thoroughly.

sary.

more reason for permanent world ponce so that advancing knowledge may be applied only to good and

ever again to ovil 'purposes?

If you would over get in torosted in my stamp collection.

you wouldn't want to go to datides and partles,

One day we had to complain about our soup and although the Chief Bandit himself apologised, It was evident that relations and the soup were becoming strained. Thon a letter came from the headache hoping that we were se it left her at present and stating that she had already put by a mat- ter of $116 against the day when the price for our release came down. We wero relieved that she had not found out that we were already to be had for a mere $50. and that we should probably be going as a gift unless the business bucked up.

It was the shock to our dignity we were worried about. We felt that we could not hold up our head in our own house if we were returned at the market price of $50. We felt quite shop solled.. ··· Then came the day when the Chief come and told us in sad tones that unless we left them: soon they would have to offer a reward to anyone who would take us off their hands,

Were wo mortified? However, there was only one thing to do, and we began packing our bag. right away. The Chief implored: us to stay overnight, but we were Arm. It's great to bo British. One can make these decisions and become implacable,

It was a sad farewell.

The whole gang lined up and |fired a parting volloy as we drove off. Fortunately, they were all poor shooters.

We sent a telegram to break the news and on the way back in the train did our beat to look bright and cheerful. It was hot easy, espacially as we wore met by n long line of elfofté at the station/ k? If only we could, raise $1,000 €

could return to the bandite