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ambitions. So it all comes down to a country's real polley-who- ther that policy is based on' war- like intentions, or whether
KNOWLEDGE FOR ITS OWN BAKE preservation of peace and con- OUGHT TO WISH TO BEE ITS ELEMENTS cord is the dominating iden inspir-liam Herschel.
MADE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL--Sir Wil-
ing it.
the
During the absence of Inspector happily, it has not yet been found Monde, Inspector H. L Lockhart has been appointed as Inspector of factories and of juvenile labour.
possible to discover such formula, but it la no more right that Britain should be blamed for
others. We still have hopes that something definite will soon be done to remove the present un- certainty, In the meantime, it is reassuring to feel that Britain still maintains an open mind on the subject and is willing to ex- plore every avenue leading to wards the desired goal,
OLD CURIOSITY SHOPS.
Some Thoughts on Their Value.
1
It was only natural that Mr. Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith 'Is to The river of time plunges down just as they were washed up along Bridgeman, in the course of his act as Assistant Land Olcer and through its ringing channels with the banks of modernity.
a proud indifference to human con- Deputy Registrar of Marriages. speech, should touch on "Anglo-
cerns. Ita effort is, apparently, to Neatness and precision-virtues American relations, for there has Tenders are being invited for the hurry away and to hide all the which usually get somewhat more of late been much mischievous supply of a single screw tonkwood we have given our hearts, to annul never more out of place than in an trinkets and the treasures to which than their due meed of praise-are and ill-informed talk to regard launch for the Harbour Depart the products of art and of handi ald curiosity shop for everything thereto. The British policy is ment,
craft, and to sweep all our child-that is kept there is really debris, that there shall be no competition i
hood's toys into oblivion. Never however precious, and it should bo It is notified that the name of has the speed of its current been stored as such. Here is one spot eithor with the United States or the Kwong Shun Steamship Com- more furious than it is today, never at least, in a world which grossly any other country. We should pany, Limited, has been struck off has it born and eaton and washed overpraises youth, where nothing
the Register.
away the past so relentlessly; and need apologize for bolne or even prefer, of course, the concluding
perhaps that is the reason why we for looking old, and consequently of some disarmament achomo, ac- The Rev, E. C. and Mrs: Leben-are nowadays searching out and any effort at furbishment strikes ceptable to all the Navy Powers, atine and Mr. M. Manuk.
wore saving such few things as it the sensitive visitor as vaguely dis and, as Mr. Bridgeman put it, amongst the passengers arriving by leaves behind with a devotion never honest, like cosmetic. Thero scot before. Our fondness for the should be tarnish on the aged allver, the President Jefferson. we are willing to listen to any
past appears to stand in exact proverdigris on the bronze, honorable portion to the rapidity with which stains of service proposal in this connexion, Un
it passes away, so that if we must bindings, dust everywhere, and in on the leathor admit that the present is in many the absence of arrangement a gen- ways moro swiftly forgetful than eral effect of chaca come again, any other age in history we may also say that it is more given to and strays out of the past are Ono dislikes to see these walls Mr. Justico Wood and Mr. N. S. fond recollections. We are indeed they not our pucata in some sense? this circumstance than that we Brown have been nominated as orbed and with good reason-rubbed and polished and made to should seek to cast the odium on members of the Court of the Hong of modernity, and yet we show at look "presentable" as it were in the.
in the swift kaleidoscopic spectacle
simulato a second youth, made to kong University for further periods the same time a quite unprecedented twentieth century, when all their of three years.
fondness for the antique.
beauty and value consists precisely Nearly noventy pages of the Fortunate for us, therefore, that in the fact that they are actually Gazette are devoted to the Ordf-the river of the years has not old. ance to amend the constitution of carried quite everything away and The pleasure of burrowing here the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- that here and there, in quiet creeks and there in an old curiosity shop ing Corporation.
and backwaters, some flotsam and where the "stock" has been allowed jetaum has lodged and clung. Certo grow without plan and to lle tainly the little that has thus been without too much intrusive order of saved is a strangely miscellaneous arrangement is the pleasure of assortment, having been brought constant surprise. Such a shop la together quite as much at hazard like the writing or the talk of an as the stray sticks that drift and Incessant and inveterate humorist, circle in the eddies of an actual in which nothing turns out as we river. And this provides one of the expect but all the laws of logic and The Hongkong Police "inter- chief delights of exploring the little association among ideas are stadily The Automobile Association of force" team, who went up to shops where antique articles are defled. A dainty pair of dancing America is probably safe in nasum- Shanghai to meet the Police of stored and sold: everything one slippers in brocaded satin and with ing that the terrible tragedy at Day-that port in a series of sports fix-finds there is unexpected. Quite red heels rests upon a bishop's porcelain dog from tona Beach, the death of Lee Bible, tures, returned last evening by the unlike the articles set forth for sale chasuble; a
in other shops, it has not been pro- North England laughs with open the American racing motorist, durss. Khiva.
duced to supply any actual demand; mouth from amid a forest of Kaffir ing an attempt to beat Major Se-
Tenders are being invited for merely, it happens to exist, without assegais; rouge pots still splendid grave's land speed record of 231.3
the preparation of sites and con- purpose, without utility, in defiance with the painted pastorals of the miles an hour, will result in a re-struction of a latrine and bath-beautiful or not, it has at DISARMAMENT.
of the laws of economies. Whether fourteenth Louis aro perched among vival of agitation by those who deny house at Kowloon City and Dock one of the qualities of beauty in grave
least the tomes of Tillotson and the
Isaac Barrow; doublo the justification for such efforts. Lane, with all drainage and any exlating for itself alone. One does barrelled pistolets with flintlock Britain's attitude towards dis.Public sympathies are notoriously other contingent work
not enter the shop of a dealer in have somehow made their peace armament was well elaborated in critics will be found even among fickle, and is quite likely that
antiques and ask for a pair of with a company of knitting needles, It is notified that, at the expira-silver shoe buckles because he has Salt cellars, Italian primitives, course of Mr. Bridgeman's those who with bated breath watch-tion of three months, the Leyacco any intention of adding those walking sticks, seventeeth century speech in introducing the Naval ed Segrave's dash down the sanda. China Company, Limited will, un-articles to his own attire; he has watches, doll's houses, camco rings, Jess cause is shown to the con- in fact no use for them whatever, and pitchers of antique silver stand Estimates in the House of Com- The principal argument la, we sup- trary, he struck off the register in the strict sense of the word; he or le or lean together on one shelf." mons, He was able to show that pose, that the margin of safety is and the company will be dissolved, merely wishes to have them near A properly conducted old curiosity so far as actual naval disarmamento narrow that land speed attempts
him as small fragments of the past, shop is nu object lesson in do- "Electric Street" is the name exactly as he might wish to havemocracy. is concerned, Great Britain hasare little more than a gamble with
death. It is precisely ills that the given to the thoroughfare running a ruse. That analogy is a reminder done more than any other country statement issued yesterday seeks to in a south-westerly direction from that there are at least two kinds
Star Street, parallel to Wing disprove. The Automobile Asso-
south-west boundary of Inland Beach has been used for racing cars Lot No. 2837. for 26 years in which period hun- dreds of terrific bursts of speed
BIRTH.
FERRIER-To Mr. & Mrs. Vivian Ferrier at Shameen, Canton, on 14 March, a son.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY MARCH 16 1929.
the
Speed.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Victor Cecil Branson to act as Government, Analyst during the absence on leave of Mr. E; R, Dovey,
-a fact which cannot be too
auggestions which are frequent- ly made that the British Govern-
Billy Dean, the popular Lanca- ment has been standing in the way of the progress of the movement. have been witnessed, the world re-shire comedian, and his partner cord has been broken on no fewer Topsy Lee, "London's miniature
often emphasised in view of ciation points out that Daytona / Fung Street through and to the in a flourishing condition, which finds there may serve us as a key
of business, both of them just now aro supported by sentiment alone; the business of the florist and that of the dealer in antiques.
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It is a testing place, nlse, for the imagination, for every object one to some door in the past if only wo knew how to turn the lock. The thin, tinkling notes that come forth st your touch from the old harpsichord aro'either laughable to
Since the Great War, the British than fourteen occasions, and only Sophie Tucker," will appear dur-florist's shop and that of the anti-sonorous grandeurs of the modern
reduced by
Navy has been
that
.
and Monday at the Queen's Theatre in a series of burlesque Iterns.
Sir Emmanuel and Lady Hoyle were amongst the passengers who arrived here by the President Jef- fernon. Sir Emmanuel la a J. P. for was formerly in command of the stately Huddersfield and Penrith, and he West Riding R.A.S.C. (Territorial Forces).
But the differences between the you-if you compare them with the
else, if you are tant. The beauty of a flower is its wiser, they evoke a picture of the youth, and It is all the better stately dances of long age, and per- for being still wet with the morn-haps also an image of Bach him Ing'a dew, but silver shoobuckles self composine at just such an in- are trensurable almost entirely be-strument majestics of music be enuse of their age. We love the yond which no mortal has dreamed. rosebud because it seems to give|
You examine a swordhilt of gold itself to us alone, but a piece of and silver, studded with precious yellowing lace that was worn in stones, and your thought leaps the In which it seemed right to lavish precisely because we are certain art and wealth upon such toys that it has been dear to others long You find a resobud pressed between age. There is, to be sure, a cer- the leaves of a book that may not in pathos in flowers, due to our have been opened for two hundred sense of their evanescence, whereas years. Who placed it there? And the sentiment attached to a fan when? And why? That rosebud painted by Watteau consists in its was a symbol once, foaded with un- fragility. Flowers are the con phrascable meanings; now it is a fident smiling children of the pre- pure mystery. Yet it touches a sent, speaking to us of the beauty chord, and your thoughts vibrate that will forever endure, but the re-in unison for a moment with the Hes of our ancestors whisper of thoughts of some unknown and ut- much that seems to pass away. terly forgotten friend of centuries And again it may be observed that ago.
An old curiosity shop is a place for some suggestion of plan and ar-
eighteenth century is dear to us
minuets of the chasm between our time and that
substantially more than two timely end. If wo accept these million tons, whilst even before facts as accurate, the answer seems the Washington Conference more suficient. Racing drivers at all ships had been scrapped than the Limes carry their lives in their present strength of the Navy. hunds, literally, but we see no great er danger in whirling in the How far our cruiser strength has straight at 200 miles an hour than been affected by this polley may in taking a hair-pin bend in a rond be gathered from the statement race at the very ordinary speed of that
the total is now only 62, 60 miles per hour. The percentagu compared with 114 before the war, of casualties would probably work The Government proposes to ZDR underground public We are glad to notice that Mr. out much higher. The outery, if ereet
Jatrine at junction of Kollywood Bridgeman, whilst stressing they, will come from the type of Road and Ladder Street. If any person who reads that Flying Officer owner or occupier in the immediate necessity for disarmament within Atcherley, of the R.A.F. has looped vicinity of the site has any ob. certain limits which shalt not the loop at 300 miles an hour, and jections, these must be sont in affect national safety, sought to describes the feat as foolhardy. writing to the Colonial Secretary remove a very popular Impression The foolhardiness lies in drawing as to reach his office not later
the ends of peace will a line between plain reckloseness than April 6th.
and cool daring without a know- Among passengers arriving on necessarily be servod by reduc-ledge of the facts. It is casential, the P.. and 0. Naldera yesterday the florist's window is the better] tions made on a proportional for instance, in the Schnelder Cup were Mr. and Mrs. Bird, Mr. and basis. We have always held the race, for which Atcherley is train-Mrs. Strango, Comdr. D. Maxwell, rangement; just the opposite is of memories and a refuge from the view that such reductions are not ing, to make a turn
on a triangle Comdr. and Mrs, Lambert, Mr. S. trae of the antiquarian's shop, winds of change. Here there is, where we like to see disorder reign or should be, no effort to bring in themselves a guarantee against course at, perhaps, a much higher Schofield, Mr. A. Judd, Mr. R.
and Bibles promiscuously strewn war, since they leave the various speed, and this we think offers White, Major G. Oglivie, Mr. H.-toys and clocks and ball gowns things "up to date," but a delight, Richardson, Dr. and Mrs. Mott,
(Continued on Pago ?.) countries in relatively unchanged greater strain than looping the loop: Mr. and Mrs, Austin, Dr. A. Dou position ao far as strength is Equally, we doubt if the feat would glas, Mr. M. Breen and Mr. and concerned. There must be some-cer Atcherley had not accomplished
have been attempted if Flying Off- Mrs. Webster. thing very much more than prothe feat at lesser speeds, gradually portional reduction if world, peace working up to 300 miles an hour. [is to be preserved-namely, the Disasters which occur in the process encouragement of the spirit of of such performances on land and amity and friendliness. It is a in the air usually result from hu- Paris corollary to this statement to say which is not in any means confined Brussels
man liability to error, a factor New York that even large Navles do not of
to these spheres. necessity imply worlike inten- tions, Mr. Bridgeman made that,
EXCHANGE RATES.
Genova Amsterdam Milan Berlin
point by suggesting that world The health bulletin of Eastern Stockholm peace is not placed in jeopardy Ports for the week ending March Cophenhagen becauso two or more peace-loving in parentheses indicating the num-Vionna
gives the following cases, figures | Oslo nations have strong naval forces. ber of deaths. Plague, Baghdad Prague Admittedly, the means of waging 3, Colombo 2 (1), Pnom Penh Helsingfors
Madrid war are rendered all the greater goon: (1), Bangkok 13 (12), Pnom
(1); Cholera, Bassein (2), Ran- Lisbon Athens as the strength increases, but Penh 1 (1); Small-pox, Basrahı 1
Bucharest numbers or tonnago are not the 1), Bihar and Orissa 40 (22), no. real factor, A small but bellicoso Madras 76 (24), Negapatam 1 (1), Buenos-Aires
[Rangoon -5 (2), Belawan Doli 1, Bombay nation can do far, more harm Samarinda 27, Sourabaía 1, Hai-Shanghai than any number of countries phong 10 (8), Pnom Penh 10 (7), Hongkong well armed for defence but having Hongkong 37 (42), Shanghal (12), Yokohama no lust of conquest or territorial 1,7
Canton 29 (9), Macao (16), Dairen Silver (spot)
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