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NOTES OF THE DAY WHERE ARE WE The Very Idea!

THE CUERRA CASE

The tragle death of Madame Alves-Guerra and the chain of puzzling circumstances that necessarily removed the caso from the category of simple suicide. remain, unfortunately, a topic of widesprend public discussion.

police

with

came

to

A WEAK SYSTEM

Responsibility for these rather. disturbing circumstances appar- ently rests

long- the criticised system governing the holding of inquests in. Hongkong. A preliminary Coroner's investi- gation, with netual experiments in demonstration of certain theories, we gather, carried Presumably this was in conform ty with the practice of permitting

was,

out.

the Coroner to decide whten 31 Inquest is necessary. in the sad

case of Madamo Guerra, con-

R

HEADING?

By WINSTON CHURCHILL

and

war.

on

it, in the life of the State. In history, nothing lay before us but spite of all its follies the world ruin, famine, and eventual en- has become much richer. There slavement.

THE SHADOW

·By Georgo "THE_GOLDEN CANDAREEN.“

IN

Eighth Instalment

"N the darkness she could see a shadow" rapidly

the approaching

veran-

At Inst Jeejeebhoy iyas here.

Madge put her chair between her legs to stop her knees from knocking together.

Suddenly she became aware of

ile was so tenderhearted that he would probably Imagine that the

pain.

Madge fell down her back for the long razor-edged cleaver she always carried for paring her nails. Should she cut off the protruding ear?

No it was too crude. Reg would never approve.

is a great abundance. Indeed the But here the Navy did not fail machinery and organisation we us. Having swept the surface of have set up, largely under the the sens of hostile vessels, our harrowing impulses of the Great skilful sen-officers, hanly tars and War, are capable of producing a resourceful inventors reached glut of all the commodities which down below the depths and our present economic arrange- strangled the unheard-of monster Acting on a sudden Inspiration ments enable mankind to consume, that beset us. The system of

·

1

In this process at least one: tenth of the lending industrial

Meanwhile the steps were com-. ing closer.

convoy was devised and made to Madge opened the door, applied work. This awful danger which her foot forcibly to the agonised threatened to end for ever theamah and closed the door. A stift structare of the glorious British peg of whisky down her gullet and Empire was mastered.

By the end of 1917 we breathed she was herself again. Jeejeeb. the Coroner had the facts in his only ruled tions. It is not inconceivable that again. Once more Britannia hot hoy could come now and all was

the waves, but for ready. three of them. It is hard to believe, plunged her trident to destroy the possession as regards at least beneath their dancing surface she for instance, that the pistol was deadly fee, not tested for fingerprints. 'Such

The inquest, instead of elucidat-

HE world has moved more populations find themselves an ing the strange features associat-101 than in the whole idle, unused surplus in the work- ed with the shooting, added to the of the nineteenth century. It has achome of mankind-on enormous air of mystery, - and Increased

moved more than it moved in a mass so far found easier to main rather than lessened sensational thousand years before the uine tain in corroding leisure than to dah talk. For there were wide gaps teenth century. Everything has employ. All the old principles of In the evidence. At no time were changed. The whole structure of fianco and economies, which the the jury presented with an exact Europa is altered. The empires nineteenth century developed and Madge felt her heart beat- picture of the room as it appeared of Germany; Austria, Russia, fondly believed were established ing so furiously that she when the discovery of the tragedy Turkey and China have disappear for ever, have been discarded, and Was made, Indicating,

forgot to hiccup. for ed. Most of the Parliamenta 80 ho now cohoroni system has been instance, the position of all such eagerly erected in the nineteenth erected in their place. articles as were relevant to the century are gone. The movement Profound reactions in the faith shooting. Not one of the high towards democracy and liberty has and morals of many peoples have He had kept the tryst.

officers engaged in the been arrested and dictatorships followed theno great world C.L.D. Investigation appeared, to

Her teeth wero chattering so have overspread the world. Great changes. What a scene of Blu- lend the value of his expert study peoples have readily cast away pendous and magteal transforma- loudly that Madge had to take of the case, or to indicate the their slowly gained civic rights tion! In the summer of 1916, we them out and lay them on the result of following up Ince of and freedom for which, largely were in the midst of the

certain through English example, they had The great Battle of the Somme was table so that she could hear the inquiry suggested by quoor features which

struggled so vehemently.

splintering and blaring on the sound of those dear footsteps. The subjugation of women, light. One or two very interest-

Western Front. All over the ing points cropped up during the

Closer and closer they came. about which Mr. John Stuart Mili youth of England one could hear evidence itself, that were never wrote so striking an essay, in at the thudding of guns. But the Madge hoped that Jeejcebhoy

an fully explored.

end.

The race of women has worst perils of Armageddon still was still with them but then asserted its place in the world. lay before us. Up till this time Jeejeebhoy could keep his feet In the factory. In the counting we had held the complete com- house, in the great, professions, mand of the seas and oceans anywhere though he might lose an and above all in politics they have which we took when before the occasional sock. begun to function. They have be- declaration of the war the Grand come bread-winners

con- Fleet was first placed at Seapa sumers Bu

a great scale. on

Vast Flow. All the raiding cruisers now industries have come into had been caught and sunk. No being to cater for their wishes hostile ship could font upon the and adorn their persons.

surface of the seas. We might The gift of flying has been won well comfort ourselves with the the amah who, with her ear trapp. by human science and daring from feeling that at any rate all wased in the closed door, had been to mysterious vault of Heaven in well on blue water, and that we yelling at the top of her voice for which it had so long been safely could struggle and exert ourselves concealed. Motora throng the without martal danger behind the several minutes. It would never roads in ever increasing numbers, sure shield" of the Royal Navy. do for Reg to discover her in this The horse, so long the ennobling But n grim undeception Iny position. companion and helpmate of man- before us. The new German sub- sidering the already published kind, is almost extinct, except for marine campaign was just begin facts and the prominent position sport and pleasure. The marvel-ning. It reached its climax in the held by the deceased. there lous inventions of the broadenst spring of 1917. should have been no question of and gramophone have opened to ships that left our harbours mah was suffering all sorts of

Out of every six OPEN SPACES

the desirability of an inquest. scores of millions in every country each voyage at least one did not In the course of his interesting The wide powers granted to the the cruder forms of culture and return. If we could not crush this Raie Da Costa. address at the meeting of the Coroner in matters of this kind afford them an opportunity for hideous menace the like of which

are, as we have emphasised many participating, if only they desire had never been

seen in human Raie Da Costa. Rotary Club, Mr. P. S. Cassidy times before, dangerous. In

remarked :-"I believe there has quests should be held automaticnl Paul Robeson, been some committee or othery in all cases where death is Paul Robeson,

obviously not by natural causes. which has gone into the ques-And, of course, our opinion is not Alfredo & His Orch. tion, but whether any definite changed that that the time has Alfredo & His Orch. plan, either for Kowloon or the long passed when independent

Derickson & Brown island, has ever been evolved, I Coroners should be appointed. Derickson & Brown, don't know." This somewhat

hazy assessment of the situation JURY'S POSITION Jack "Hulbert.is undoubtedly shared by the Jack Hulbert. majority of the residents of the

Experiments by the police, to Colony. Actually, the committee understood, and a

test out hypotheses are easily antisfactory New Mayfair Orch, referred to

was formed more result might well be demonstrated Intro: "Circus Queen;""Now that I have a Spring Time:" than ten years ago, and we have for the benefit of the jury. But

"Somebody wants to go

it on the authority of its former experiments that reault in to sleep; Rolling Read:" "You are doing very well:" "Hand tions have been used as the basis might not believe that a certain

Secretary that its recommenda- Coroner telling the jury that the in Hand;" "What good are Words:" "I won't of lay-outs both on the mainland thing was possible, but they must Danco;" "Lonely Feet;” Finalo.

and the island. How far it has

take his word for it, gou good been found necessary to modify deal farther than that. We are not discussing here what value the committee's proposals has, these experiments may have nos information as the pistol revealed however, not been disclosed, but sessed, in view of the fact that was not passed on to the jury The conflict rose to a prodigious the average resident certainly they seem to have been carried although it was entrusted with scale. The Russian giant ally was felled and slain by the glittering sees little evidence of ordered out with the primary object of the responsibility of rendering a planning on any extensive scale. establishing

might of Germany. But from the If it can be correctly other side of the world a suicide theory, verdict.

a far The trouble is, of course, that however, incredible, but it does assumed that the Coroner or the gre

greater champion arose. long before the committee was seem that the jury should fave police, thus and thus, know more United States, late but not too brought into being, the greater been placed in a better position than the jury were told, it surely late

forced late, was

German part of the Colony had already whether the explanation effered arrangements for holding

for

·other adventures befallon themselves exposes the weakness of existing violence into the battle-line. But been built upon, practically was reasonable or not.

in before her power could really be no regard having been paid to be agreed that opinions

It will quests.

The difficulty is a real made effective France and Britain Clarity, a. often missed in broke the German onslaughts of the necessity for open spaces. resonbility cat differ remarke article writing because the author, 1918, and the fanks introduced a Schemes, therefore, had to be ably when Individual ideas are

full of his subject and his facts, new element into the war, and adapted to the conditions pre-given free play and when the occassionally overlooks the posat ended the deadlock in the West. vailing.

At last the tremendous warrior- In regard to the Wan- facts from which judgment is to bility that the reader may not be chai reclamation, Mr. Cassidy is be formed offer peculiarities as equally well informed. A nation against whom in the end hardly fair to the Government marked as they were in this case.

Coroner, too closely in touch with almost all the world was march- when he suggests that a great

beforehand, may quito ing, or was being carried by opportunity has been missed and FOUR QUESTIONS '

unwittingly slip into the same British ships, collapsed in utter human error.

(Continued on Page 7). expresses regret that room could not have been found for a couple affair at this stuge is not a plen- To re-delve into the painful of playgrounds by economising saat task and it should, perhaps, on the width of roads. Actual-be emphasised that the object has ly, there is quite a big plot with- been, as far as possible, to analyse in the reclamation area which and simplify what many people has not been built upon, which are saying. For there is no doubt the Government has now no in- that suspicion-it can be put na tention of selling, and which is high as that--has not been re- to be developed as a playground.oved by the proceedings at the On the question of slum clear-inquest. The view is openly ex anee within the city, we share coming was not really suficient pressed that the evidence forth- Mr. Cassidy's hope that the to justify a conclusive finding Government will not overlook regarding the manner in which the desirability of making pro- the wounds were inflicted. vision for open spaces. But the is particularly unfortunato need is for something of greater there was so much, now furnish- value than the railed-in gardens

speculation, that could hav at Statue Square, What is re-these points seem to the layman, been cleared up. And some of quired is something far removed, very obvious. Why, for example, also, from the King's Park was there no evidence concerning scheme, in which grounds are fingerprints on allotted to specific clubs and or- what circumstances was an ambu-

the pistol? ganisations. Communal play- Jance man permitted to remove it grounds are, in fact, called for. from the victim's hand? How As yet, however, there appears did the key get to the pigeonhole no indication of the likelihood of of the hotel office at 9 p.m. when slum clearance projects being it was not thero at 6 p.m. 7 And embarked upon on any extensive being discussed, was the doctor why, when probabilities. word scale, despite the desirability of never asked by direct question such a movement. At Home, for his opinion on whether the local authorities are being com- wounds he described could have pelled to take this question up, been self-inflicted or

whether and property interests are not they caused him to form any other permitted to block the demolition view as more probable? Reassur schemes. Sooner or later, Honging answers on thang issues would kong will have to tackle this have cleared the air completely, question, and when that time comes there must be definite

UNWITTING OMISSION provision made for well-conceiv A final point arises as a result ed town-planning, with adequate of those not unimportant ques Topen spaces.

(Continued on nõxt column)

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"I'm older than I look. I have a daughter almost as big as

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The

Suddenly the silence of the night was dramatically broken,.

At last, folks, we have the -central-figures-in-this-ivob-of----

romance and mystery almost in cach other's arms. It won't be long now! But why docen't Jecjcebhoy come? Has he for- gotten his homework or diavo our

herap You will find out Boon, but anyway, who broke the silence of the night this timer Did Jeejeebhoy drop something or have Medpe's dis carded teeth become animated? And why doesn't the shadow come nearer? The fact is, folks, you can't hurry a drama of this nature when love is working out the plot, and the love we plan to include in our next act will be of the nature that makes strong men weak and analls leave their homes. And anent the amals we also have great expectations but we don't know whether to make. her

run amok after reading Chaucer's poems or turn her into a spiritualist. Whichever course ale adopts she will not remain in our sorial for long as her highbrow propenst tics will make her detestable to the manly Madge and a little Anooty even for our readers. Anyway, folks, be prepared for another whack of our satisfying serial on Monday if Jeejecbhoy can hold up till then. We

BOILI-

kape ho can, as it would be beyond our powers to describe: old Madge receiving, a corpae after the trying time she has had getting in training for this meeting.)

MOONLIGHT LOGIC.

Say, Honey! Will you be mine?

Say "Yes," while I'm feeling fine;; Maybo to-morrow,

I'll be full of sorrow,

For this perfectly divine,

Offer of mine.****

Say, Honey! May I be yours?

Say "Yer" and watch the moon

pause!

Stop glægling,

Stop wriggling,

Listen to me 'cause,

I want to be yours.

Say, Honey! What's mine la yours;

That true, by good marriage laws,

Bo let's not dissent;

Or things that are lent

Just be yourself, 'causo,

I want to be yours.