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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: THURSDAY, - OCTOBER 10, 1929.
NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR
not so clear. Recently, the Secre tary of State for Naval Affairs de-
FRIGIDAIRE
DAY BY DAY.
THE HARDEST THING IN TIE
THE
OF MONEY. MEANS EXERCISING OF SELF- CONTROL IN ALL DIRECTIONS a successful conclusion. AT ONCE." THAT IS WHAT MAKES
SUN BATHING IN LONDON PARKS.
The Very Idea!
clared that Japan would build two new 10,000 ton cruisers armed wORLD IS SELF-CONTROL AND THEIR LANSBURY'S PLANS FOR A baby is not an act of God, with eight-inch guns if the Anglo-SAVING American conversations did not reach
the matter of cruisers wishes to reviso the standard which she accepted in the matter of capital ships at Washington just after the war. Her technical advisers' nt- tihide is that the absolute mini-
Platt.
"Wt. Engineer G. Bird has been appointed to H.M.S. Cumberland.
OPEN SPACES,
The provision of better bathing
according to the Actors' Equity Association of America.
A production, at a New York
Actually this means that Japan in SAVING SO HARD FOR MOST OF US facilities in the Serpentine, Hyde theatre was closed recently be Park, and the possibility of ar-cause the leading lady was about rangement for sun bathing in the to become a mother, London parks, are foreshadowed. The members of the cast claimed by Mr. George Lansbury, M.P.,a week's wages, but the producer refused to pay, on the ground that First Commissioner of Works.
"I am especially anxious," he sible for a fire, a strike or an the management were not respon- says "that children shall be happy act of God...
The Actors Equity Association, in the parks and shall be able to bathe and play. For the older however, decided that a baby was people I want more seats and none of these, and the cast were flowers and all things pleasing to therefore entitled to be paid. the eye.
mum ratio for Japanese security is 10, 10, 7 for America, Great Britain and herself respective- ly. This, it will be observed is somewhat higher than the present proportion of 6, 5, 3. In some THERE ARE DOMESTIC | | quarters, regret is felt at Japan MODELS OF FROM FOUR placing her reliance in 10,000 ton TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET cruisers. It would seem that at STORAGE CAPACITY. the back of her. Admiralty's mind
there must
OVER
lurk the fear that should a war take place, the Ja-
The P. and O. 3.8. Kidderpore, from Singapore, is due here at 6 am., on the 15th instant..
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"The Serpentine in Hyde Park If its folk still live up to tradi- Having left Shanghai on Tues-is a very lovely stretch of water tion, the little Devonshire town of day, the P. and O. 8.3. Karmalo is and is not used as fully as it Clovelly should furnish a good due here at 6 a.m. to-morrow,
should be There is no dressing many members for the new Cen accommodation. Sooner or later, tenarians Club. "You're a won in my ylow, the Department must derful old man," said a visitor, make provision for rational bath-after chatting with an old salt ing facilities. Men and women on the beach, who gave his age should be able to bathe as freely as 82. "Not near so wonderful as in the Serpentine as they do on the my old dad," said the veteran, modestly. "Oh, and how long has South Coast or on the Lido.
he been dead inquired the visi- "All sorts of people bathe to tor. "Dead?" exclaimed the octo- genarian: "He's not dead. He's at home putting grandfather to bed."
The resignation of Capt. D. R. Wahl, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Shanghai, has been accepted.
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The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. Charles Cecil suggests
the final con- Graham, of the Hongkong and sequences of the ratification of the Shanghat Bank, Hankow, to Miss Kellogg Pact have, no more been Muriel Duleie Blake, who is on her way to the Colony on board the thought out in the' Far East thans.. Rawalpindi: in technical quarters elsewhere. The expert is still too inclined to think in terms of a war, it would
appear.
why not in the Serpentine?
"We are discussing sun-bathing with the Ministry of Health. I am not so silly as to think it would be allowed in a completely – natural state. If it is decided that it is a good thing, I hope means will be found to provide facilities.
No Shelter from Rain. "With regard to a shelter at Bushey Park, near Hampton Court, Amongst the passengers who thousands of children go there for left by the Empress of Russia excursions, and we have not got a were Mr. Justice Wood and Mrs. decent place for them to use should Another of Japan's fears, ap. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Rankin, it rain. Is there not some public- Mr. F. Austin, Mr. L. R. Andrews, spirited London citizen who would parently, is that any new limita Mr. A. H. Ferguson, Mr. L. Ka-like to pay for a shelter at Bushey tion agreement which is reached | doorie and Mr. R. R. Roxburgh.. Park? may possibly involve her in some expansion of armaments to re-
1929, at Macau, Mr. Oscar tain her relative position as be-WAR OFFICE WINDOW Baptista, of Gibb,, Livington & Co. Lhủ, Hongkong.
Hongkong Telegraph.
2
SMASHER.
DOCK PROTEST AGAINST A MENTAL HOSPITAL.
tween the other Powers. Here the financial aspect of the ques tion is no doubt the operating fact- or. At the moment, however, the main thing is to get the Powers
London, Sept, 5. together, and as the invitation is so couched as to call for opinions street, Bristol, who was charged Samuel Green, aged 22, of Milk THURSDAY OCT. 10, 1929. from all concerned, there need be with smashing two windows at no fear that any point will be the War Office, Whitehall, was overlooked. It is particularly re- Court yesterday to
sentenced at Bow-street Police one month's freshing to note that no effort is imprisonment. made to set up new machinery to
It was stated at a previous deal with disarmament, for there hearing that when arrested Groen for said he was "down and out and are already ample means
wanted a night's lodging." covering all the issues likely to ba
In November, 1927, according to
THE DISARMAMENT
OUTLOOK.
theft, and while serving that sen- tence he was certified insane and removed to a mental hospital. On one or two occasions he escaped from the hospital. ---
"The unnecessary railings in- side the London parks are being
taken down. The credit rests with Sir Lionel Earle, the Per- manent Secretary. All I had to do was to back him up and tell him to get them down as soon as possible.
"Removing the outside railings and therefore setting the parks open at night is another matter, The police object to open parks at son why they should not be open night. Personally I see no" rea- all night. In the East End, with- in five minutes of Victoria Park, which is closed at dusk, you have the open spaces Hackney Downs, Hackney Common, London Fields, and Hackney Marshes.
"Then near by are Wanstead Flats and Epping Forest. If peo- ple want to be wicked they are wicked. It is not a matter of fael lities..
.
of Commons or, in the face of a strong expression of public opin-a Jan.
After the prolonged, conversa- tions between Mr. Ramsay Mac- Lfd. is Of course it could not be done
Donald and the American Ambas, raised. The fact that the KellogK police evidence, he was sentenced expected that the British Premier American agreement is also so and President Hoover would soon much to the good, for it reflects come to agreement on the disarria-the inspiring motives of both na- ment question to such an extent. tions. If all the Powers are pre- as to warrant the calling of a new pared, to look upon armaments as conference. Long before Mr. Mac-parts of a world force for the pro- Donald went to America, the tection of civilisation, then there Mental Hospital, where he had to
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Green declared that while servy- ing a sentence of six months' bard
labour he was sent to Springfield
"There I was brutally knocked down and trampled on and left at the mercy of five attendants."
Mr. Fry said that during the month the prison doctor would no doubt give the case his attention and consideration.
THE 1929 GIRL.
IF HE WERE 40 YEARS YOUNGER.
If you would have beauty, fair
maiden,
The advice I would give you la
simple-
Wrap your ankles in lace, put a sack
o'er you face, And hide every DEfectand
dimple,
•
saya an
ד :י
*
I lit her cigarette; she puffed.
Twas plain to see the dear was
huffed,
Why heaven knows. But what
a_pout!
And then a stified yawn. No
doubt
My vantage out.
I talked of that, I talked of this, At last I gave her hand a kiss. I watched the dimple in her
chin, I watched that cunning smile
begin.
My vantage in!
Again I it her cigarette." And then. Well, then I'won the
Bet
For she was love, and I was
Yet
I heard her whisper, all the
"My game!"
same:
Joan was having her first ex- perience of the real country. On returning from a visit to the farm, she burst in with the news:
"I've seen a baby calf. It was ever, so young."
"How old do you think it was?". "It wasn't old at all. It wasn't born, yet. It was in a cart and they were taking it to its mother!”
Howlers again:
The Minister of War is the clergyman who preaches to the soldiers in the barracks.
Finally James the Second gave birth to a son so the people turn- ed him off the throne.
A welsher is a native of Wales.
·
What are you waiting for," said lawyer to a negro who had paid kis money.
.
"Receipt," said the negro.
"A receipt," said the lawyer. "what do you know, about a re ceipt? Can you understand the nature of a receipt? Tell me, and I will give it to you." -
"Well," said the negro, "s'pose. me 'dle; me go to heben; me find gate locked; me see 'Postle Peter: he say, "Niggar, what you want?" Me say, 'Want to get in, He say, You pay that money? What me do? Hab to hunt all over hell to. and you."
TRILBY
London, Sept, 17, "In all forms of physical expo WHO WAS-? sure women lose as much as they article in the gain,"
Tallor and Cutter," raplying to Professor Flugel, who, at the Con- greas of the World League for Sexual Reform. declared that women had gained a great deal by the principle of erotic exposure,
ground had been exhaustively ex-
"I remained there for about plored, with the result that only
fifteen months," he added, "and the crossing of the t's and the dot-
renerally acted as a servant. ting of the l'a was neccesary. The
When I protested to the doctors againat being detained I was re- upshot is that the invitations for
The Double Tenth.
fused my discharge. Because I the conference have now been sent
spoke the truth in the wards to Another anniversary of the es- some sane patients I was hushed out, and we may take it as a cer- tablishment of the Chinese Re-up and taken over to a ward re- tainty that they will be accepted public, is being celebrated by all served for refractory patients. in the spirit in which they have patriotic Chinese throughout the been issued. Remembering the world to day, the Double Tenth. fact that the United States and In normal circumstances, the o- Britain found it impossible to ad-casion should be one of great na- unfor- Just their viewpoints at the last biona 1 rejoicing, but,
little In conference, "&-very decided step tunately, there
the -record
last of the forward has been registered by the
Tricking the Lovers. twelve months and the present reaching of a provisional agree-political situtation, to give cause active revolt, and while Nanking "There has covor been such an ment covering all points,
for satisfaction. On the other is doing its best to minimise the exhibition of feminine limbs as at Here in the Far East, and, for hand, there is indication that seriousness of the trouble, the des-all agree that lifting the curtain
present," the article says.
"Not that matter, throughout the world, China's progress has been serious patch of thousands of troops to has increased women's advantages. much interest centres in Japan's ly interrupted. The year has been South China to defend Kwangtung Thele charm was formerly in the attitude on the question. The dis-marked by a renewal of petty against the Ironside threat would practice to be young women show- cussions between Washington and strife between the warlords, active suggest that the danger is very ing their best side to their lovers, whatever their husbands found out London have from the start been revolt against the present regime real. The position, of course, later, but the sights now thrust closely followed in Tokyo. The Nanking on more than one oc-acems favourable to Nanking, but on young men are sufficient to casion, and 11-advised huste by the there is reason to believe that stifle young love and drive of financial position of Japan, though Chinese authorities in dealing much trouble still lies ahead of romance shuddering. Cupid him better, is still by no means as with foreign affairs. The unifi- the Government even in Chang make a swain sigh for the owners self would find it impossible to stable as the Government could cation of the country, politically Fat-kwor is taught a lesson. If we of some of the ankles now exposed. wish. It is grasping, therefore, and economically, which is the may suggest a reason, it is that the It would be better for women if every possible means of retrench-firet requirement if China is to Government has not won the con- their limbs were draped in mya- ment. One such is the cessation take her rightful place in the fidence of the people While tery
Under the Table, of capital ship construction. In comity of nations, seems as far orders may be given in the best
off as ever. Half a dozen provinces interests of the country, instrup- Commenting on Bernard Shaw's the best informed circles it is beat the most are whole-hearted in tions issued from Nanking bear dictum that the Victorian woman lieved that the Japanese Govern-their allegiance to the central the imprint of a dictatorship, un who was covered from head to feet ment has reached a decision not to government, and the remainder pay der which a large part of the coun the writer recalls that a famous was a masterpiece of sex appeal, build any capital ships for a fur- lip-service as long as it suits their try is restless and dissatisfied. Victorian statesman, asked tɔ des- ther period of five years starting book. At the same time, China The real hope for China, we be; defbe the dresses at a dinner party, in 1931. As a gesture of pacific has become seriously embroiled lieve, los in a more democratic replied "I did not look under Intentions this move would bo
with Soviet Russia, and the Red system of Government, which will the table.
Replying to Mr. Shaw's opinion vory well received in America and troops line the border awaiting an earn respect at home and abroad that woman's large step towards excuse, or an opportunity, for ex- On this day, the Double Tenth, wo nudity had banished sex appeal, it augurs wall for the prolonga- tending their raiding campaign may-express, the good wishes of he says: "Perhaps the reason la tion of the naval holiday. Unfor- Into real invasion. In the interior, foreigners generally for the anno domini. It is possible that. tunately the attitude of Japan Chang Fat-kwal, no doubt encou4 future of China Our criticisms if Mr. Bhaw were 40 years younger
the lightly-clad 1920 girl might. towards cruiser construction is raged financially by Moscow, is in are not intended to be destructive, I upset his emotional apple cart.
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It was inevitable that Little Billee Bagot, the art student should fall in love with Trilby O'Ferrall, the beautiful model of the Latin Quartér, for her kind heart and frank, open na- ture charmed all men.
Little Blee, being a man of honour, wanted to marry her, and Trilby was-troubled. She knew that the daughter of a Paris barmaid' and' an umfrocked Irish clergyman was not fit for an English gentleman, even if her past Ife was such that ho man could throw a stone, which, alast was not the case. In "pure unselfishness, who fled. from Paris and Little Billée,. in the company of a cruel, but clever, Jewish musician,,
Trilby had a most marvellous: voice, but, strangely enough, ebe was quite tone-deaf. The Jew, Svengall, possessed. hypnotic powers, and under his Influence she learned to sing, attaining world-wide fame. At the height of ber success she again met Little Billee,.. who begged her to come back to him. Then, suddenly and tragicallyTrilby died, and Little Bilice's chapter of romance closed for over. He never married
Such de Mr. George, du Maurier's very tender und moving story of a loving, un- happy, but unselfish heart,