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role los on the Left rather than the Right. The task which lies before progressive statesmanship
APRIL 19, 1929.
DAY BY DAY.
MUCH LIGHT CAN DE THROWN Is to fashion a practicable instru- UPON OUR MATTERS DY OTHERS, BUT ment of government out of the OUR DECISIONS WE MUST TAKE FOR
von Hum two quarrelsome Parties of the OURSELVES.-Wilhelm
boldt. Left, each to some extent deflect- ed by Institutional jealousies, The Ben Lino 8.3. Bennevis, neither of which seems likely from Home and Straits pools, is alone to rally sufficient support to place
due, here on the 26th instant,
Yesterday's return of notifiable diseases ahows five Chinese casca of small-pox and one British case of dipheria.
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the wook ended April 20th, 1908:
The rate of the dollar on mand was is. 101⁄2d.
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The Very Idea
Among the wonders of science shown at a dinner at the Amorl- can Institute in New York, recent- ly, were visible sound, nudiblo light, articlfica lightning, an de-alloy of Tungsten, carbon
and' cobalt, which is exceeded in hard- ness only by diamonds, and the blush. The last was measured exact intensity of a chorus girl's with a marvellously sensitive machine designed to record grees of radiant heat.
The editors of Chinese news papers in Hongkong were warned by the Government regarding comments on the boycott of Japan by China,
do
in power." What is contemplated here is some means of setting up what can best be described as a Pro- gressive Government. But this In part of our Issue to-day in the advertising columns, the P. and 0.
In addition to these wonders, is, apparently, merely in view of ss. Karmala was advertised as leav
developed in the past year, thera Mr. A. H. Rennie, managing was shown sugar made from a possible deadlock at the next ing for Home at 4 pm. to-morrow, director and organiser of the peanut shells and from the bran election. There is a much largerThis is incorrect; she sails at noon. Hongkong Milling Co., was drown-of collon-seed, hulls, paper made
ed in the harbour ander particu- from cornstalks, H.M.S. Cleopatra and H.M.Slarly tragic circumstances. Carysfort, two of the cruisers which brought relief crews for the and Shanghai respectively yester China Station, salled for Woosung day.
issue, however-namely, the future both of the Liberal and the Labour Parties The altimate tendency may be towards a fuelon or the main elements in each. Even this is viewed as a possibill- ty by one Journal, which says that perhaps in due course an issue will arise in politics which will again divide the nation along lines which roughly correspond' With the normal cleavage of opinion, separating the Liberal from the Conservative and the progressive from the reactionary. Then, if the issue is one which moves men deeply, the two-Party system may be revived. Such a possibility is by no means re- mote, for there can be no ques- HALL-GITTINS-On 17th in-tioning the point that there is
alant, at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, by the Rev. C. Shann, Mabol, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gittine, to George Albert Victor Hall, Architect of Messrs. Hall and Hall, Hongkong. (Shanghai papers please copy),
SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA
MARRIAGE.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY APRIL 19, 1920
POLITICAL TRENDS.
little need for three distinct Par- ties, as at present. However, these are developments for which we must be prepared to wait. in the reantime, a very vital General Election has to be fought.
Geneva Talk,
cout-
THE TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.
Many Sporting Pictures
To-Marrow.
To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will be noteworthy for the large number of sporting pictures, in addition to many others of topical interest. In all, there will be over twenty illustrations,
In sporting illustrations there will be pictures of the finalists in the Singles Cham- Doubles pionship, Mixed Handicap, Men's Singles Handicap of the H.K.C.C. tournament, as well as of the presentation of prizes; the Diocesan Boys' School and St. Stephen's College sports; last Saturday's Extra Race Meet- ing: the .K.C.C. 2nd XI which won the Junior Cham- pionship; H.MS. Tarantula's team which won the Small Ships Cross-Country Chal- lenge Cup; and officers and men of H.M.S. Scamew, with Shameen football trophy...
There will be portraits of Mrs. Southorn, Mrs. Creasy and Mrs. Lloyd, this year's officials of the HK. Women's Guild and Ministering Chil- dren's League; a group of King's College Division of the Ambulance Brigade; bridal group at the wedding of Mr.
and A. J. Osmund
Misa Vichy and a picture of one of the water tankä in opera- tion.
The welcome given- Lo General Li Chung-yen, the Kwangsi leader, on his return to Kwellin will also be illus trated by two special photo- gropha.
"edible sun- abine," which was an irradiated yeast, and a single drop of alpha
Mr. Ng Loc-hipg, a well-known hormone-all that remained after the rank of an official of the 4th beeves had been processed. The Hongkong merchant, was given the pituitary glands of 1,000
Class of the Chinese Court.
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Mr. Sidney Michael was au- thorised to sign on behalf of Messrs. J. M. Michael and Co.
The time-ball tower on Signal , Kowloon, was operated for
the first time.
The annual report of the Green Island Cement Co. showed a net profit of $106,078. The year's alvidends totalled $1.25.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Muddling Football.
[To The Editor of Hongkong.. Telegraph.]
Sir, "Fan's" letter in your last issue in reference to the replay of the game between the Hong kong Football Club and Chinose Athletic was interesting inasmuch
Isolation of hormones from the ductless glands was an achieve- ment for which Dr. Oliver Kamm, a research chemist, was awarded. a: $1,000, prize from the American Association for the advancement Kamm said that it would cost of Science last Jandary. Dr. £000,000 to produce a pound of hormones.
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suffers from apologetic fits-I Man at Clerkenwoll-My wifo mean apoleptic fits.
Judge Cluer, in a'running-down case at Shoreditch-I hope that it is not usual to use the pavements in North London for motoring. It adda to our dangers.
Willesden Magistrate, to a wit ness in a case of theft of books- Do you identify that book as your property? Police Inspector .. Pardon me, sir, that is the Court ledger.
High Court in London to fix the An application was made in the date for the trial of an action or the ground that the witnessca came from Paris, and would wish
as the game was not played. As to return the same evening. Mr.
a follower of football, I heartily Justice McCardle The Channel. agree with him and I cannot help tunnel will not be completed by but wonder why this match, which
I put myself out to go and see, did not take place.
then.
The teacher had carefully ex- Replay or no replay, why WAS it arranged for so late in the plained that anonymous persons scaron? It must surely have been were those who did not wish to known earlier that another game reveal their Identity. Towards was necessary, though for what the end of the lesson, however, it reason I am hopelessly at a loss was apparent that someone was to know, as the last match, I think, not paying strict attention. "Who ended to everyone's, satisfaction, is that talking?"
she snapped, in a draw..
"Plense, teacher, an anonymous person," a little voice pipod,
Are English Football Laws not good enough for. Hongkong?— Yours, etc.
"FAN-TAN."
Hongkong, Apr, 19th, 1929.
BRIDGE MADE EASY
by W.W.Wentworth
Mr. Cochran is insisting that the ladies of his chorus shall eat more to became lesa slim.]
Good Mr. Cochran has decreed
That chorus-ladies should, Upon a richer diet, feed A riper womanhood,
To measure beauty by the mass,
Flouts an athetic law.
Helen of Troy should still `out-
class
Helen Avoirdupois?
The garage man started, to give Mr. Newrich some much-needed advice on the future handling of his damaged car.
Mr. Newrich interjected pomp- Qualy "That'll do, my man. Sce here, it's my car, and what I do. or say goes: Understand
The great public is hardly to be blamed for its obvious lack of faith and lack of interest in talk of disarmament. No tangible advance or intangible benefit has resulted from a whole series of conferences at Geneva, at least as flir as up- pearances go, and the present session, the first for a year, seems to be following the usual course. The only development in three days of discussion of what the delegates The possibilities that none of shall discuss first has been some the three political Parties will malletous cleverness by M. Litvin off, the Soviet delegate, who suc aecure an independent majority coeded
in manouvring tho as the result of the coming Gen-mittee into a cleft stick of their eral Election is giving rise to all own making, Litvinoff, no doubt, in deriving plenty of amusement manner of speculations in the from the situation, which is ex- Press at Home, in which
con-actly why the Soviet proposals, nexion stress is being laid on taken seriously. Not wishing to curiously attractive, cannot be Liberal pronouncements that that say "Aye" and not daring to any Party will not lend support to the "Nay to Litvinati's subtle ques. Installation
tion, the conference broke up has or maintenance ftily, presumably in order that the office of a Labour Government. delegates might get their henda For a time, there
was an im- together to find a means of out- pression that these declarations Soviet delegate needs to be brought willing him. It is possible that the
The forthcoming wedding is ani- meant that the Liberals would to a proper frame of mind, but nounced of Mr. C. F. Andrews, prefer to Aupport the Conservait seems absurd that the conference warder, Laichikok Prison, residing tives' in the event of a deadlock, wite between the representatives loou, to Miss E. M. Murray, No. should degenerate. into a battle of at the European Y.M.C.A., Kow but some of the Liberal, organa of different Powers. Some eur4, Cambay Buildings, Kowloon,
1-Average Probabilities. are now at considerable pains to prise, says Reuter, was occasioned II.M.S. Bee, flying the flag of the by the failure of Lord Cushendun,
Bridge is not an exact science,
to remove any such misapprehension, Great Britain, or Mr. Hugh Gib- Rear-Admiral, Yangtze, has arrive neither medicine, neither Attention is being drawn in this son, United States, to enter into cd at Shanghai from Hankow. are of the other great regard to Mr. Lloyd George's re- the discussion, but we rather think Other naval movements yesterday sciences. Were Bridge just like ference, some time ago, to "a vast saying in the circumstances.
that there would be nothing worth include the Sepoy's arrival at Nan- mathematics were It exact in
The king from. Cheklang and that of the and fertile field common to men of situation arose from the inability Magnolia at Shanghai from Welhal every detail-It would not be a Progressive minds in all Parties," of the conference to make up its wei. H.MS. Cornflower has left which they could "cultivate
mind whether to take the Soviet Chefoo for Woosung. plans first, or their own convention Logother."
Arrested with a small steel chain of 1927, as if it really mattered. What the Liberal leaders The Soviet scheme has been careful-tied round his waist, a Chinese was evidently intend to convey
ly set out, has been condemned as charged before Bir. T. S. Whyte is impracticable by the French, has Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy cach player holds cards which are was sitting alone by the fire in the that there will be no exact re-secured the sympathy of Germany, this morning, with larceny of the as good as those held by his op drawing-room, and hearing the petition of the 1924 procedure, and negative comment from others. chain from the 89. Rangoon Maru ponents. Of utmost importance, even tramp of footsteps as of men If the scheme is impracticable, at the Kowloon Godowns. The de- therefore, is a knowledge of the called up for service, I went to the when the Party, by holding the there seems no adequate, reason fendant who had a previous convic determining factors of the game window to watch. balance of votes, kept Labour in why it should not be taken frat tion, was sentenced to two months of the probabilities.
"Turning to regain my seat, I office for a time. Ope of the and rejected. After all if there hard labour.
Average Winners. was surprised to find it filled by is to be choice made between
young lady whore long dress of leading Liberal journals says that different sets of proposals, the
Two Northern Chinese appear. This knowledge can be gained tusgore silk lay in folds at her in the event of a deadlock it is logical order is to take the most ed this morning before Major C. only by learning what usually feet. Her dark hair was gather probable that a Coalition Cabinet ambitious first. If the object is to Willson on a charge of fighting on happens in Bridge under certained in a knot at the back of her save time, we are almost inclined the Chinese Recreation Ground. circumstances. The Law of Prohead, which was turned towards would afford the only adequate to nak why alt at all.
One had his jacket torn off, and babilities applies in every sphere of me, She leaned on the left arm assurance of good faith between !
the second showed the Court affo, and, similarly, in this game.
of the chair, holding an open- bruise in the stomach, caused by ·Bridge is a struggle between Liberals and Labour. It might. be the case that in the Initial stages of a Parliamentary dead- lock the Labour Party would Paris not agree to a Coalition, but much Brussels would depend upon the relativeAmsterdam
Berlin strength of all the parties and Copenhagen upon other circumstances which Vienna
Helsingfors cannot be fully envisaged in Lisbon advance. A recent declaration Bucharest
Buenos Aires
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by Sir Herbert Siguel is being Shanghal quoted as capable of carrying the Yokohama implication that the Liberal New York
Geneva..... Party Inclines to the Right rather Milan .... than to the Left, but the Nation Stockholm
Oslo conaiders that this is a falso apd Prague unfair interpretation of the speech. "The overwhelming ma jority of those who will vote Bombay Liberal at the coming election," Hongkong
Silver (spot and forward) it says, "believe that our true
Athena
Dritish
game.
many
mechanic under the car drawled
Then it was that the fed-up. "For goodness anke, mistor, say There is, however, a Law of 'engine," " Averages upon which the game is based. Guesswork and luck play To-day's Ghost Story-"Daring very small parts, and while good the last week of August, 1914, I cards do help, the Law of Aver-was staying in a house in Bath. ages applies in the long run and About ten o'clock one morning I
a pole. The magistrate imposed probabilitles governed by simple letter in her hand.
"Surprised, I waited, thinking" on each a fine of $5, or seven days' principles and "hunches" gove thus: Strange! I did not, hear ed by gucarwork. Those who rely imprisonment;
upon the former will in the long run be average winners, those who rely upon the latter will in the long run be average losers.**
To become proficient in adding, melted away, like a mist--frst the
anyare enter the room-a pause. Then: And fit fe not anyone in the waiting, when the viafon slowly house!" Stil I stood looking and
An 18-year-old Chinese girl was charged before Mr. T. 8. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, with being in posses 84.50 sion of 84 taels of raw opium at subtracting, multiplying and divid drapery of her gown, and gradu- 198 her house in Ki Lung Street. Ilang, you studied arithmetic. Hay-ally the seat of the chair was 1084 Worship expressed a desire that the ing this knowledge, you need visible, and then the whole was ..820 defendant should be taken to the merely familiarize yourself with visible, and my seat was empty!" 47.6/10 Secretariat for Chinese Affairs be the average probabilities of the game to fortify yourself with the 2/6 fore he passed sentence. The case knowledge that will bencat you at .1/0.15/18 WRs adjourned till to-morrow. 4.85 13/322
every turn.
Know. Human Element
25.216 A Chinese, who was banished .02.70 from the Colony for ten years in It la only after having realized .18.17 November last, returned and was
this that you may permit psychol 18.205 arrested yesterday. The police
will tell you that ho possesses "card. sense", and knows when, to tako desperate chances..
Until you acquire that fourth, dimensión known as "card sense, or become a "desperado" you will 104 at the Magistracy to-day pointed ogy and human frailties to play a in the end be one then and times 82.605 out that there were several con part small part-in your game. more acceptable in the eyes and A proficient player In the habit cars of your panociate players if .5.87/04 victions against him since 1918 of taking daring chances will tell you follow the average probabli-, 1/6.29/33 Major Willson sentenced the man how he made a game by his ties of the game, for you will then 1/11% to nine months' imprisonment with "poker" method of bidding or retain their confidence and the en.. 25.10/16 hard isbour and twenty strokes playing, but he will not encourage viable title of being a dependable,
of the birch.
you to follow his methods. He partner.
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