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THE HONGKONG

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"THE MARRIAGE YOU'RE PLANNING WILL NEVER TAKE PLACE!" the Great Gambini warned! ...and a baffling murder

proves him right!

and fluent exposure

namo

AUGUST 4, 1937.

Distorting the Facts Distortion WAS another

simple

An in-

yesterday under the title of The variation of propaganda.

stance was the story of Edith Cavell,

NEW HISTORY SOCIETY'S COMPETITIONS

NEW POSTAL KIOSK

STANLEY DEVELOPMENT

CONTINUES

took

hours on

a

American Journal, the American WORLD PEACE SEARCH Magazine, printed grim and terrible stories of the massacres and pillo- ing in Mexico carried on in the of Catholicism. The stories were fully documented and Inconiest- nble. They brought bags of mail to

ilma yesterday, the first For In order to promote a deeper and the office. It was left to a student

searching study of those Stanley Peninsula was linked up to unearth the fact that the most more

re with the rest of the Colony In of recent of such nets had occurred problems that relate to the modern methods of propaganda was four years before the American Civil construction of the human common-postal sense by the opening of a given by Dr. William G. Campbell, War in 10011

wealth and world peace, the New Postal Kiosk which has been built Professor of Education in the Uni-

History Soclety, founded In New next to the local Police Station for versity of California, in a broadcast

York in April, 1932, has, sines that the reception of letters posted from talk to the Hongkong Rotary Club

time, arranged a series of compett-the district. Despite its eventful tous to the younger generations of character, the opening of the klask Technique of Propaganda,”

was not marked by any formality. Major R. D, Walker, President, in- the nurse whose shooting at the cach Continent.

hands of Germans was held up to

These competitions have been or-A postal clerk unassumingly troduced visiting Rotarians C. R. Shirk, Califorala; T. B. Booth, New-Germanie nations as an act of coolsed with a view to cliciting the charge, and a notice at the entrance

which they could not toler-

announced that business Jersey: J. Burge, Kentucky; 11. Pot-ute. The fact that she was a spy opinion of the youth on social pro-week-days were between 8 a.m. and ter, California; H. Binckman, Bever- and that there was only one sen- blems and disseminating among 4 p.m.

statesmen of leading educators,

and spy the sentence ley Hills; E. Mathewson, Arizona; tence for

It was only since the beginning of Within publicists, of every country. and Dr. J. M. Henry, Past President death-was not mentioned.

this year that Stanley has emerged of the Canton Rotary Club. Other a week of her execution, two Ger-

The 1936 competition subject was: from its rural obscurity on assuming guests were Messrs. H. Blackman, man nurses were shot to death on Jr., California; G. 1. Gavett, Seat- the same charge within 40 miles of "How can the people of the world the status and responsibilities of an means that bren." This e: H. Fray, Los Angeles; R. M. Paris..

achieve universal disarmament." On Stanley le going to be much more MeLay, Ramsey and Cmdr.

mar The movie Industry at Hollywood the closing date, May 1, 1937, 3,160 Important than it has ever been in. Spurgeon, R.A.N., all of Hongkong threatened to move when it was pro- papers had been received from the the past. More so than any other

Mr. Campbell, in a speech pica-pored to increase their taxes. They five continents of the world and the part of the Colony, Stanley santly interspersed with anecdotes,

to show quoted Ogures

that their

to have a cluim

unique historical sald propaganda was used in many

On its peninsula were parts of the world, and when one expenses were $90 million annually islands of the Seas. They were sub-

British quartered some of the first read conflicting reports from North and their profits only $10 million, mitted in English, French, German, backgound. and South, Europe and other places, How could they pay $20 million in Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,

They taxes? The answer was that they

Arable were stationed there unt!! malaria had taken a grievous toll of their number, when they were forced to In 1932, 15 papers were received move to more salubrious surround-

of China. Eightyings.

and compared them with one's mail, had included taxes in their expendi- Chinese, Japanese, Russian,

and Persian.

ture.

one was in a difficulty as to what to believe and disbelieve.

Propaganda had been defined as it was said that war was an op-

"urban

Big Developments

an attempt to present material inportunity to get rid of surplus popu-i from the youth such a way as to guide the think-lation. It actually cost $25,000 for students sent in papers during the ing of a person or group to a pre-each man killed in the Great War. last competition. As far as can bo

Nearly a century has elapsed since, determined end.

One could not afford that sum to Courtship, selling a car or con- decapitate a man. It was also satd ascertained from the tables published but the military importance of the return to the vincing the world that a revolution that the loss

peninsula in the scheme for local would be trants from Hongkong. was necessary or nationalism desir-other damage to the Lusania and by the Soclety, there were no en-area is. again to

defence under the changed condi- tions of 1937. When the fortifica- In 1035 Miss L. P. Y. Chang, of tons and barracks for two battalions have been completed there the Kirin University, won The subject that year wax:

first prize. population of Stanley will have been

.

was

Whispering Campaign

Chinese Prizewinner

"How enormously increased by comparison

had

able were all forms of propaganda. recovered from Germany. For every In this way it was as old as the dollar lost in that way, America! world, the cave man obtaining his spent $2,000 trying to get it back. inate by offering her better protec- Fabrication was the last heading ton; and at Pompeli election mottos under propaganda, and to illustrate could still be rend offering more this point, the speaker took the case ronds and less inxes.

of a firm in New York which guaran- can youth contribute to the realisation with only five years back. Within

this period a public school, teed to win any small municipal of a universal religion."

Mission, a Convent, and gaol have Suppression of Bad

election for a given sum, rates ac-

The Society's pamphlet, just issued, come into existence, giving diversity Dealing with propaganda under cording to population and payment

notes that no paper Was received to a population the bulk of which four heads, the speaker spoke first on results only.

from Soviet Russia. Owing to the

hitherto consisted of fisherfolk gool This of suppression.

props-

outbreak of the Spanish civil war living in a litle village. The by not telling the facts of Banda

alone has added some 2,000 to the In such a campaign, the firm sent when the competition opened, no population." and nearly the same the case. An Instance occurred 11

female representative testers containing the conditions were number may be expected when the year or so ago when a case of black lis male and

battalions to garrison the small-pox was reported in a big city who started a whispering campaign of the Middle West by the Medical against the opposition candidate just sent to that country. In Japan, the two

sccupa This was Office to his Council. The Council before the pell,

on the police seized the literature pertaining peninsula have moved into

tion. told the officer he could have all the style of: "hear you have a Mr to the world competition and oficially funds he wanted to combat the fever, Smith running for election here interfered with the broadcasting of In their wake will probably follow ors There was a Smith who got mixed the appeal. In New Zealand. the a substantial following of trades but they asked newspaper editors not to mention the case because they up with a woman in Wyoming last literature relative to the competition people as the inrge sum for main- did not want the tourist traffic to year. It may not be the sume Smith was held up by the postal authorities tenance of the garrison will have

I seemed to remember

that During that season.

for six months on the ground that It promoted new business and pass them by. 370 persons died of binek small-pox came from this section...... was advertising matter and liable to perity for the district. but not a line appeared in the Press. To combat these forms of propa- duty. At a later date, the speaker's

wife

The recent extension of the ganda, a man must get out of the

The booklet also draws attention to service on the island to this Penin was in Los Angeles and he was buy-habit of believing everything he saw

Most "crackpots" had a the forthcoming International Cam-sula is another sign of its develop- ing at least two Los Angeles papers in print.

súmewhere press

which paign against-War and Militarism, 10 ment into what for assessment day at that time. It was not until, printing ກ he arrived there, however, that he would put their ideas into black and be held in Paris from August 1 to health purposes, is officially termed,

an "urban area." learned from his wife that there had white. He must not put all his faith August 6. been an epidemic of infantile para-in phrenologists, psychologists, and

postal facilities lysis in the city and that many had all the other gists, and should deve- |

introduced. Stanley can now send <icd.

lop the habit of challenging things he Salesneh similarly pointed out the could not belleve. He must also ly nowadays that I do it twice letters directly to other outlying the week and become internationally points like Aberdeen, Repulse Bay advantage of a big car without men-read and learn something of

and Shek-O, and have letters de- tioning the expense, or played up the other party's views "even if it dues famous." (Applause).

the city. 50 as to get a right! economy of a small car without re-contaminate,"

The speaker was thanked by the livered to direct from the

who said In Its new postal kiosk is the first. ference to its drawbneks, according sense of proportion. to the customer they were dealing Finally he must do a little think-Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan,

was future he would try and look before erected on the island, although pre- with.

ing.

George Bernard Shaw

not digest it the three districts of Shamshulpo, Under the heading of selection of once asked how he became world ne leap!, look at what he swallowed, cedence is claimed by Kowloon for facts, propaganda

Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City, WOR also very famous. He replied: "By thinking: and even then would common. Some time ago

a leading thinking is carried on so infrequent-until he was sure of it.

he

With the new

pros-

bus

and

Her father hated the

mom she had esicked to marry!

Her jilted sweet- heart swore to kill!

Her blackmailed mother knew her fiance far d'crook!

Did one of them kill to save her? An amazing nian who reads minds like books, solves this exciting thriller in a new, surprising way!

Adolph Zukor

"THE GREAT GAMBINI”

·AKIM. TAMIROFF MARIAN MARSH · JOHN TRENT

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