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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12,93).
THE CONFERENCE SUCCESS.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1930.
DAY BY DAY,
BE QUICK TO ENCOURAGE AND BLOW TO DISPARAGE-M'Carthy.
The Gazette notifies that the pub lie bathing beaches will be open as
ference merely stand adjourned un-| til France, Italy and Britain havo had further opportunity of attempt- ing to reach an understanding, the plan is one which would appear, to hold out considerable hope of final success. The very fact that Bri-from May 1st. tain, the United States and Japan have come to terms should produce a psychological effect which might well be instrumentai fu leading to the conclusion of a more compre-
Mr. J. A. Flummer has been ap- pointed a member of the Licensing Board for a period of three years.
The name of Mr. H. J. Naira has been added to the list of audi-
The Return of Eunice.
hensive pact, especially since France tors under the Companies Ordin- one o'clock, with the news that
haa a horror of isolation.
It would be foolish, of course, to shut our eyes to the difficulties of getting France and Italy into the charmed circle. French Ideas on security have raised political issues which have caused the other Powers to adopt a very cautious attitude, to say nothing of the technical points involved. Italy has latterly shown a much more temperate spirit than in the early days of the Con- ference, so much so that she has virtually abandoned her somewhat. pretentious claim to parity with France. Indeed, Signor Grandi recently asserted that the question was no longer one of Italy's claim to parity, but of France's claim to superiority. Remembering, how
nounced war as an instrument of national polley, it is somewhat dif- ficult to concede the reality of the fears of either the one Power or
ances.
It is notified that the name of the Graeco Egyptian Tobacco Store, Limited, has been struck off the Register.
His Honour the Chief Justice has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions shall be held on Tuesday, 22nd instant.
By Elinor Slim.
that could be weighed, was care Tully recorded. If there had been any diminution in the weight of any of them between meals Eunice wanted to know why.
CHARTER IX.— DOMESTIC ECONOMY IN FULL SWING. Chubby returned shortly after
Kattle thought it rather fun at though everything at the office was all right, he had been unusually first, and suggested that they do the thing really busy Hence the delay. There should was a certain liveliness about his thoroughly and weigh them- demeanour and Eunice had a feel- selves before and after cach ing that he was more cheerful than meal, too, but Eunice found he should have been. Yet he had it rather more trouble than she had not been to the Club on his way expected. After the first day she mislaid her little notebook and had home.
At that time she did not know of to start again. Then she discover- the existence of the Cosy Cornered that the boy could write, and and would not have known what it decided that it would be better to was, even if she had. In the old let him weigh the things and write Hongkong days she had sometimes up the book while she watched him. been down at Lawford's having But that system
for one meal only cake and coffee with the other satisfactorily
of because the boy was foolish enough the Committee ladies
and to drop the spring balance on the the. Malevolent Society had met Kuttle as she came out floor and break it.
The same day something else of the lift. His office was in the same building. She had got to went wrong. The keys of the store know that he occasionally dashed cupboard disappeared and could not out in the middle of the morning to be found. After one week, Eric, have a quick one, but she did not the cook, left by mutual agreement. know that there were facilities for He always had the correct number Mr. Chin Fang-leo, Chinese such an objectionable practice in of eggshells to show, but still his Counsul at Calcutta, arrived here Chaomy. He did not enlighten mistress was supicious. She con- sidered the number of eggs he used, by the s.8. President Lincoln, on her.
To-day being the occasion of the funeral of Her late Majesty, the Queen of Sweden, all H. M. ships in port are flying their colours at half mast.
During the quarter ended March 31st. 88 samples were taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordin- ances. All were genuine excepting three of tea and two of fresh milk
Lieut.-Col.
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on
worked
the way to his post. He was ac- She told him about her dis-utterly unreasonable. Her book of ever, that all the Powers have re-companied by Mr. Chang Ling-coveries in the kitchen, and her menus did not go into details but
lang, Secretary.
theory as to what the Gold Flake still it gave an idea of the quantities tins were used for, but he was not of things needed for the daily be meals, and they were nothing like very sympathetic, In fact, thought it very amusing. This was what the cook used. Of course very much her trouble now and he could af- Chinese eggs are
smaller than Homeside eggs, but ford to see the funny side of it.
that did not explain the difference. Eunice suspected trickery.
Frederick Eaves, D.S.O., has been appointed to set as Land Officer and Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith to act as Assistant Land Officer during the absence on leave of Mr. Philip Jacks.
the other. Britain, America and
"You're probably quite right, my dear, but it's no use getting all hot Japan have conclusively proved
Her, suspicions were confirmed and bothered over it. We'll call their pacific intentions by coming
Tenders are being invited for him Eric, after this; you know, very soon. They happened to have to an understanding; it will be pass-the erection of a new transmission Eric, or Little by Little. I supa fruit trifle for dinner one day. Cape D'Aguilar. The pose he waits until he gets the tin Chubby was fond of fruit trifle: ing strange if eventually France block at
work consists of the erection of a full and sells the stuff back to the The next morning Eric produced and Italy do not come into line.
brick building with reinforced con- compradore. But I don't like the the shells of a dozen eggs. Eunice crete roof to house wireless trans- idea of him stealing my drinks, gasped but could say nothing. A mission equipment.
That's acrious. What about beat- dozen eggs for one dish was wick- ing him at his own game? When ed. But it really had been a huge you go down to-morrow you'll see dish, and she had made a note of how much he's taken. Don't empty the quantity left over. There was the tits, but take back just as much ample for another meal and she or- as he has put in That'll shake dered it to be served up again for
tiffin.
Kong Nam, living at No. 60, Nathan Road, jumped into the harbour from the Yaumati ferry, San Ming, at midnight last night.
But you'll have to be careful
"N'no have g'g'got; all f'f'finish,” He was rescued by three members him. of the crew of the rescue tug Kauhe doesn't catch you at it. He
you for it. We're in said Eric blandly. "Rubbish; non- Sing, who jumped into the water might sue
sense. How fashion no have got? China now, remember, and have to Yesterday my have talkee, can do to effect the rescue.
watch our step nowadays."
for tiffin to-day. Where is it?"
"C'e'c'coolie have eat." "Then you can go, and take the coolle, with you!"
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So the boy agreed to wait until a more propitious time.
an
He
and Eunice believed in "First things first," as the vicar used to say in his annual New Year's Day
Bermon.
SASHA?
"Well, there it is! You may maim a, man, but art will endure all and conquer all," wrote Alexander. Kupin at the end of "Sasha."
The Cycling Nuisance. Although as yet, it has not been
The Police campaign during the found possible for the Naval Con- ference
to evolve a Five-Power last few months in Kowloon, aim: Agreement, much cause for satising at the suppression of the cyclist faction will be found in the fact nuisance created by juvenile riders who are in entire ignorance of the that Britain, the United States and rule of the road, has undoubtedly Japan have come to terms on à pro-resulted in a considerable diminu- gramme which includes all cat..tion of the nuisance. Credit for
His Excellency the Officer Ad-
kas Eunice was doubtful about this, gories of ships. If nothing else is this is shared jointly by the Police ministering the Government accomplished, this achievement will who have taken action in the worst appointed the Hon. Mr. John Owen she didn't want the subject made cases only and by the Kowloon Hughes to be temporarily an Un-a joke of, but she did not want to
So Eric left and a new ran was have thoroughly justified the calling Magistrate who, while always aP Council, in the place of Sir Henry be easy to find another cook. She was ideal in every respect but one.
official Member of the Executive do anything drastic. It might not appointed, a much better man. of the Conference and must be re-preciating that cycle riding is a Pollock, K.C., who is temporarily need not have worried. Within He could not cook. "But," as Kuttle garded as likely to add to the recreation which should not be dis- absent from the Colony.
forty-eight hours, Eric had the said, "you can't have everything." Ad-couraged if undulged in with safety
situation weighed, up, and had de- prestige of the MacDonald
The coolie did not leave, and His Excellency the Officer Ad- cided that the new mississee would Eunice did not press the matter.. ministration. In the past, Britain to all concerned, has, inflicted well
deserved fines in a number of cases ministering the Government has not suit him. The other servants She was losing interest in the ser has been rather too content to sit where it has been definitely shown been pleased, provisionally and were also not satisfied, but at the vant question and something hap pending instructions from the usual afternoon conference of the pened that directed her activities back and permit other nations to that a serious offence has been com- Secretary of State for the Colonies, "Domestic Body" which was held into other channels. So she drop- convene international gatherings mitted. We cannot, however, to recognise Mr. Tanichiro Yoshida in the back room of a neighbouring ped her economy campaign for a Consulate tea shop the boy was advised to bide time and abandoned her system of and to take the credit of the re-share the Kowloon Magistrate's as in charge of the
his time. There happened to be a checking. She would return to it sults achieved. For this reason, it opinion that riding a bicycle in General of Japan in Hongkong.
surplus of boys on the market in when more important matters were As the result of extensive ralds Chaomoy at the moment, and it settled. She had accidentally made is all the more gratifying to feel circles constitutes a greater danger
to the public than riding a machine carried out by the police last would not be wise to leave Mrs. a discovery of the first importance, that a movement instigated by the with the hands off the handlebars. night, quantity of seditious Kuttle just then. British Government has met with When riding a cycle in circles there literature was found in various such a substantial measure of suc-is
full control of the machine. places, notably Shaukiwan and
Yaumati. At Yaumati, ย man Her appearance, manners, clothes, cess, even if all its hopes have not When riding without hands on the was arrested and will probably be and belongings were all described (To be continued next Saturday.) been realised. In saying so much, handlebars there is not full control. charged in due course with passes in detail to the meeting and com-
mented on freely, and those pre-mRNALEÜLLAGE SNATIONS SALE we do not desire in any way to be- We suggest that this is the real sion of undesirable literature.
point and that the latter is the
sent agreed that the new mississee little the part played by the other more serious practice. The public out by three men armed with blem
An armed robbery was carried
going was
to be a pro WHO WAS and would need dis- nations, for, obviously. no agreemay by menaced by a circling rider, knives at a hut at Nga Tein Wai ciplining severely. But it waS ment of any kind could have been but the public may also be exposed village, Kowloon City, last night, better to go slow. Time were reached except by the display of to the same if not greater risks when the robbers succeeded in bad in the servant world, and there by a cyclist careering along without getting away with property worth was always the possibility that she a spirit of reasonability by all full control of his machine. The $53.50 The only occupant of the would soon tire of her economy cam- parties concerned. The three rider going round in circles is more hut at the time was womanpaign, and settle down as
obedient servant of her servants, as Powers which have been able to easily avoided than the rider who, whose husband was away. : all the best foreign mississees are. adjust their viewpoints have all not having control of the handleba
Many Hongkong residents will The way of the domestic econom- the rider regret to learn of the death of ist in China is hard. shown a willingness to make com- easily avoided than
the Captain Burnell of the RAS.C., who, not having control of promises in order that success
But Eunice knew nothing of all handlebars, is probably swerving which occurred recently in Eng- might be attained. The fruits of
land, Capt. Burnell came out with this. She did not know that her from side to side following
the Shaforce and was stationed in future had been settled, in so far as their labours are to-day seen in anno definite path. latter Hongkong for sometime before her household affairs were concern Agreement which will effect a con- may easily be pitched off going to Tientsin. He was a sub-ed, at a meeting of Chinese cooks: siderable reduction in the expendi-suddenly with probably unfortun- scriber of the Kowloon C.C. and and houseboys, in a teashop. In' ate results to other users of the was a popular figure there before complete ignorance of her fate, the ture on armaments, thereby en
proceeded with her plan of opera- going North. road. Both practices are to be de-
tions. She had keya made for the abling money previously spent on
The Offices of the Supreme Court larder and the store cup-board and instruments of warfare to be deprecated and while we are in full
agreement with the campaign will be open daily from 10 a.m. to Kuttle bought her a small spring voted to better and more produc- which aims at reducing a public 1'p.m. during the Easter Vacation, balance. In future everything was be organised. Method! Or tive purposes.
nuisance, we suggest that each except on Public and General Holi- to
days, when the offices will be en- ganisation! These were the solu When we come to review the ef- individual case should be judged on tirely closed, subject, however, to tions of China's troubles, in
its merits without a definite dif- the provisions forts of the Conference to secure aferentiation between two or more Court (Vacations) Ordinance, so
of the Supreme small things as in large.
She knew all about it because she. united understanding between all kinds of offences, and a correspond- far as it relates to the Criminal Ses- had read it all in the newspaper, five Powers, we cannot but feel that ing variation in the fines.
siona. The Easter Vacation begins not one of the local journals but a on the 18th April and terminates on really good Homeside paper-The even at this stage it would be a tre-
the 24th April, (both days in Sunday Observer. It had happened mendous gain if the original aim
The health bulletin of Eastern clusive).
that the day she left England was were attained in its entirety. ports for the week ended Saturday
a Sunday, and this was the only There is still some hope, apparent last, issued by the Director of For the first time since the new paper left on the bookstall. She Medical and Sanitary Services; Section was introduced into the law read everything else including the ly, of this, in which connexion a contained the following cases, the dealing with mul-teai, which in advertisements in it, but the tribute is due to the American de- figures in parenthesis indicating addition to purchasing and keep journey was so long and she was deaths: Plague, Alexandria, ing, makes the bringing into the so bored that at last she started legation for seeking to evolve a plan Baghdad 2 (3),, Bombay 3 (1), Colony of such girls illegal, a case or the leading article. It had im- whereby a Five-Power Treaty, of Colombo 2 (2), Bangkok 1 (1), came before the local Court yester-pressed her immensely and she r which the Three-Power Pact would Prom-Penh (2); Cholera, Calcutta day afternoon, la which a prosecu-membered it quill. She intended to 90 (5), Bangkok 1 (1), Prom-Penh tion was brought under the new apply the meat principle of or- be a part, might be signed. This 2, Saigon (6); Smallpox, Dar-es- amendment and a conviction im- gunisation to her household in would seem an admirable method Salaam 1, Zanzibar 2, Bombay 184 posed. The case was one which Chaomoy. What a hope she had! of committing all five Powers to 61 (7), Karachi 8 (4). Madras 39 kee, un ex-barber and now, accord, locked, and the food
(116), Calcutta 100 (90), Cochin concerned Tee Yiu, alias Tse Kong- The cupboards were to be kept was to be the points on which they are in ac- (7), Moulmein 25 (9), Rangoon 1,log to his own showing, a pig-dealer v eighed before and after each meal. cord-and these are many. Taken Vizagapatam 4 (2), Penang 3, in a small way, who was charged At every meal the spring balance Saigon 1, Canton (1),, Shanghai with bringing into the Colony a 12 was brought out and placed on the in conjunction with the British (2); Cerebrospinal fever, Belawan years old girl, named Lai Chuon table. The weight of the butter, Premier's proposal that the Con-Deli 2, Shanghai (18).
hee. A fine of $25 was imposed. cheese, and all the other eatables
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Thus our hero was a Jewish violinist, "a gentle, merry. fellow, drunk and bald" who played his fiddle, year in and year out, for the cosmopoli- tan clientele of Gambrinous' little dockside cafe in Odessa."
could
you the ' play native melodies of almost any country, Italian coup- lets, Ukrainian popular- Bongs, Jewish, wedding- marches. Africana' and Orientals, Britons, French,. Greeks and Americans, would call for their favourites, and. Sasha's repertoire was never found wanting, Sea-faring. men all over the globe knew and liked Sasha of Gam- brinous in Odessa.
And Sasha liked them all in: return, rogues and thieves included. The only persons with whom he fell foul were the apostates from his own faith. These he hated and despleed. One fatal evening. his racial patriotism flamed and ran riot, and he smashed -his fiddle over the head of one auch, a secret "service_agent, for which outburst he was: soon apprehended by the secret police.
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Sasha returned to the cafe with his right arm, the arm which used to hold the bow, hideously mutilated, but with his spirit unbroken.... That same night his patrons were dancing to his music, played upon a little pipe-sholl, held in his one healthy hand..