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DAY BY DAY.
THE REASON I BEAT THE AUS-
A Chinese case of typhold was notified yesterday.
as a dead burden on Europe, dif- floulties which have been accen- tuated by the fact that the United States of America has become TRIANS IS, THEY DID NOT KNOW THE such a great creditor country.VALUE OF FIVE MINUTES.—Napoleon However, when it comes down to discussing ways and means for a European federation, it will be Conceded that the matter is full of complexities. There le, as both Mr. Graham and Herr Stresemann pointed out at Geneva in Soplem- ber last, the further danger that enthusiasm for the project may
lead to definite discrimination against other nations. Such 'dis- crimination, if specific in charac- ter, might develop in a manner contrary to the economic work of
"course of time it might from the economic standpoint generate that kind of friction which In days gone by has led to war.
The P. and O..s.s. "Malwa" from Hongkong arrived London on the 15th May 8 a.m.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. H. Priestley returned to the Colony by the as
PAST AND PRESENT.
We Must Know Antiquity To Be Modern,
Geometricians tell us that a no past. It suggests, indeed, that the may be regarded as the product of present la a product of the past, or a moving point, and we can prove rather that the present actually this assertion to the eye by drawing the past in one of its manifesta- the point of pen or pencil along a tions. If this is true, then certain. sheet of paper. Similarly, a solid ly there can be no unfaithfulness to may be thought of as the product of the claims and the wonders sto a moving plane which leaves some contemporary world in an apparent part of itself behind it, so to speak, turning away from that world to- at every instant of its onward ward the sources from which It motion. Time and space, it is true, arose. If we wish to know our own are not explainable to human, think-times, we must learn to read thein Tenders are being invited for aing, yet we find it helpful to con- not in the kaleidoscope of the pas brick and concrete" motor-car sider the one in terms of the other sing show which, however enter shelter for Kowloon Hospital.
If we can think of the present as a taining it may be, can teach plane surface, then all the past is comparatively little bit In terms of seen to be like a solid produced by history. Thus there is nothing
President Adams.
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His Excellency the Governor has the League of Nations, and granted the local rank of Captain to that plane by its moving. The past paradoxicalTM whatever in the asser- Lieut. Thomas Alexander Hamil-s a number of presents welded in- tion that a study of Periclelan extricably together, compacted; Athens will reveal to us more of the ton Coltman, R.A., A.D.C.
fixed by the rigid mortising of that essence of contemporary. America limit we call time.
than any amount of poring over More than enough has been sald newspapers and magazines. In by the lugubrious poets and moral-order to be thoroughly modern we ists about the irrevocability of the must know antiquity: Actually to past, and there are many mare put ourselves "abreast of the times" cheerful deductions to be made we must come down through the from that platitude than those, ages, recapitulating the course of which they have drawn. In one history. sense, although a narrow one, it is
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. J. K. Bousfeld to be a Member of the Harbour Board, vice Mr. W. H. Bell, resigned.
It is notified that His Excellency Sir William Peel, K.B.E., C.M.G., has been pleased to accept the post-true to say that no smallest frag-Such a train of reflection
May tion of Honourary Colonel of the ment of the past can ever return; remind us that the past is not Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps. nothing that it contains can be irrevocable, after all, that in every altered in the slightest particular. deeper sense it is constantly pre-
Royal Observatory returns show that the average mean temperature during April was 73.5, the highest being 85.1. and the lowest 63.4. There were 140.3 hours of sunshine and 2.10 inches of rain, while the svěruge humidity was 87.
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But if the difficulties. of the project are manifest, it is also clear that advantages, to the interest of all the nations of Europe might be attained if the ideals underlying it could be rut into effect. In this connexion, the British delegate put forward one suggestion at Geneva last Septem ber, when he urged that the nations of Europe should try to obtain an agreement for a period of two years not to increase tariffs engagement is announced between Lieutenant Robert S. below the existing level. Such a Stafford R.N., HMS. "Castorplan would be in full accord with (youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. the proposals of the World John Stafford of "Woodcroft,” Waterloo) and Muriel Norman, Economic Conference. The next only daughter of Captain and step, it was suggested, should be Mrs. C. B. Riggs of "Highlands," Kowloon.
a practical effort during the tariff holiday to
convene conferences with a view to ascertaining how tariffs could be reduced, what conditions govern the matter, and
His Excellancy the Governor has what possibilities there are of appointed the following officers to
be his Honorary Afdes-de-Camp: agreement regarding groups of Lieutenant Arthur Oswald Swayne, commodities or general tariff 1st S.L... Mr. Walter Richardson Scot, Assistant Superintendent of levela, keeping clearly in mind all Police; Subedar-Major Mungal that is involved in most-favoured-Singh, Hongkong and Singapore nation. treatment. If M. Briand's Brigade: Subedar Hilmat, 3/15th
Punjab Regiment. proposal does not get beyond this stage, it will have been fruitful in results and possibly, pave the way to even greater things in the years to come.
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, MAY 17
1934
UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.
The fact that M. Briand is approaching the principal Powers with an invitation that they put forward suggestions as to how the scheme for a United States of Europe could be made a reality,
The seas and the plains come and sent. Nothing that has acted or go, altering both their form and existed anywhere in the universe is place; mountains are changing hour now or ever can be lost. Every by hour, but the past remains for- thought and every feeling known to ever the same. The pictures that human beings in all the incalculable. we make of it do indeed change past conditions the present moment, constantly as our knowledge grows just as every thought and feeling of and wanes and as we approach and this moment conditions those of the scan it now from this angle and next and all that are to come... then from that, but our interpreta- Two lots of Crown land are to be tions of history affect the actual face the thought of it, that just we A strange thing it is, once we sold on June 2nd. These are Kow-facts no more than the ruling who now inhabit this planet, we loon Inland Lot 2309. situate at astronomical conception of any and no others, should be poised on Mongkoktsui and comprising about 4.192 square feet (upset price, given period affects the actual con- the advancing crest of the wave of
stitution of the stellar universe..
time. With every tick of the clock $7,336), and Inland Lot 3062, situate at Kennedy Road, compris-
we move forward. Such is our res- In this finality of the past, so ponsibility and our privilege that ing about 14,690 square feet (upset often bemoaned, there is a peace it rests with us what shall be the price a dollar per foot).
and quiet not to be found in the interpretation of the past. The changing present. Looking back facts themselves we cannot change, upon the centuries of the Pharaohs but the human values and sigoi- us like gazing down through glassy ficance of those facts we cannot water upon the towers and domes of Atlantis and finding them all the avoid, in some degree, determining. For one brief while, we are our- loveller for their ten thousand
selves the moving plane, with all of that Egyptian world, and per hind us to make us what we are.
We may know very little indeed the heroic struggles of the past be- - haps we shall always have to mix The future will be to some degree. nine parts of conjecture with one what we make it. This thought is of certainty regarding it, yet what sobering, and it is also filled with a it was, it was, and it will not shift solemn joy-0.S. In the Christian
present does, while we stand watch- or change before our eyes, as the Science Monitor.
ing.
CORRESPONDENCE.
year's.
past."
on the Ranpura, due to arrive next Among the Hongkong passengers week, are Mr. W. Angle, Mr. and Mfrs: W. H. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. This quietness of the past, we GALLANT NAVY MEN. J. H. Cordeaux, Mr. S. Clarke, Mr. know is an illusion of time, and the and Mrs. H. Farrar, Captain W. H. men and women of ancient Greece, G. Goater, Mr. St. E. Hazlett, Mr. of Tanagra, of Babylon, had no LONG STRUGGLE TO SAVE J. S. Logan, Mr. C. C. Menzies, Missmore peace in their day than we
A WOMAN. M. Malcolm. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. have in ours, yet there are moods Pollington, Mr. S. Richards, Mr. G. in which we like to play with the
Mrs. W. A. illusion. The present is always Two sailors from H.M.S. War- Travers, Mr. and pedestrians, a reader forwards to Tomlin, Miss Tomlin, Mr. C. B. filled with noise; quiet comes when spite Sutto Messia and S. A. us literature of the Pedestrians' As-Terdre, Mr. G. W. A. Tufton, Mr. the plane of the present takes its Morley-played an heroic part in sociation which has been formed in E. J. Speirs, Mr. E. E. Shorthouse, place in the solid structure of the an attempt to rescue a woman
from drowning. England to ensure the safety of
Merely as a refuge, how perfectly They were on leave while the? the public generally on the high-
these vast and rock-hewn balls of Warspite was anchored at Ville- ways and elsewhere and to protect
the past serve our modern needs, franche; and on the Boulevard By whatever gate or postern we Gambetta they saw the woman enter them, quietness falls about us throw herself into the sea, at once and peace surrounds
Both seamen plunged into the steps. Strife has been here, we icy cold sea, which was know, and uproar, but now they are rough under a violent.wind.
After half an hour of desperate a memory; the warhorns are silent and the torn banners droop upon effort, during which it seemed their staffs. What was base or certain that both rescuers would Sir,-A Currency Committee is
ignoble in this or that old present be drowned, they brought the wo- sitting at the moment to decide has faded out of sight but the man ashore.
courage and the joy and the wit Unfortunately, their bersiam whether stabilisation is advisable. seem to glow year by year with in-was in vain, for she was present- As far as the protection of the creasing splendor.
*ly pronounced dead. general public's interests is co- cerned the answer is indubitably
It is supposed that she was Eng- in the affirmative. As to
Best of all our discoveries in lish, since a number of cuttings importer and exporter there is companions that we find here and found in her possession,
the these explorations are the human from English newspapers very little more doubt as to its there among the ages. Our heroes advantages.
and our poets dwell, nearly
Pedestrians' Rights. Following our editorial on Wed in order that he may place concretenesday on the subject of which side plans before the League of of the road should be used by Nations Assembly in September, is sufficient proof of the fact that he thinks there are great possibilities in the project. The point to be stressed at this stage is that the dominating principle of the pro- and preserve the rights, freedom, posed Federation is economic comfort and general amenities rather than political, in which of pedestrians. The Association, connexion it is widely felt that of which Viscount Cicil is Pre- there
sident, has issued 2 state- scope for the con
ment of policy, and it is in- clusion of some mutually satis-tereating to note that á speed limit factory agreement amongst the of maximum 30 miles an hour is European Powers. When the advocated. There are rather matter was debated at Geneva Inst drastic penalties for dangerous September, it received the support
driving, including a recommenda- tion that a driver's licence should be of Herr Stresemann, who even permanently suspended upon a third went so far as to suggest that, conviction. It is also proposed that pending the conclusion of an applicants for driver's licences Economic Union, the Governments should make a statutory declaration of Europe should introduce single monetary unit and adopt common postage stamps.
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The Dollar Question.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
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our
very
were
ATALANTA?
One of the poems in William Morris' "Earthly Paradise-row tells the Greek story of Atalan- ta, the fleet of foot
Atalanta, the daughter of Jasag of Clymene, reowned from her child- hood as the swiftest run- ner in the Calydonianhunty outstripping all her male com- panions in the chase,
was
When she grew of age to marry, she declared to Jasum that only the man who could' ever be her husband. Many beat her in a foot race should
Atalanta was beautiful as she youths made the attempt for
ing trusted solely to their own was proud, but all failed, hav strength,
of physical fitness and that new a lot about trade being driven past. The leaders are not there, WHO WAS
We have heard and read quite all of them, if this quiet immutable plicants should have to pass a test of driving skill-and knowledge of piffle and no-one has yet at Makers of beauty that have enrich away, from the Colony, but it is all though their leadership remains. road rules. This is enforced in tempted to step forward with an ed and deepened all our daye, nd- It has been stated that one of Hongkong of course," and it would argument substantiating the venturers, conquerors, kings, pro- the aims of M. Briand's scheme la ❘ undoubtedly be a wise provision to contention.
phets we must look back to find to enable Europe, to meet the ensure the safety of both the motor. At present our exporters and im- them.
"All this we may see and say with- . United States of America on leveling public and pedestrians at Home porters have two unpleasant un-
if this part of the Association's certainties with which to contend out the slightest injustice to out economic terms. As Mr. Graham policy at any rate was put into ef. /-(1) the instability of silver Own time, and with full recognition and (2) the fluctuations of that the years through which we pointed out when the matter was fect by processes of the law. The an unavoidable. Hongkong note are now passing. are certainly, in under discussion at Geneva, it is Pedestrian Association, however, in premium. Going gold or stabilisa- broadest years of human history. their peculiar way, among the quite natural that, in existing con- its statement of policy, makes no tion would, at worst cut out the For the present any present time ditions, a comparison should be reference to which side of the road latter uncertainty--and give whatsoever-ia only, in the terms a pedestrian should use. This may security to the majority here. of our metaphor, & plane surface, made between the position of the be stated in other publications of In my opinion, far from driving having two dimensions. The likeli USA. and of Europe. In the Association which, we suggest, away trade, stabilisation would re- hood is slight that any present, even ahould have for cre of its first ob- sult in a tremendous revival. Our our own, will compare favourably America, there is a great country.jects a thorough investigation into money would be sought after in with the solid block of the past in of 120 millions of people, with a the merits of left or right. After South Chine for its reliability and the number of great companies free market among all the States mend its members to adopt which China would be run on a Hong- highest sort, then, we shall always this the Association could recom- in a very short, time trade, with possesses. For associations of the making up the Federation. On ever system has been found most kong currency basis, thereby en have to look backward Into time, the other hand, as compared with safe from the point of view of suring security for all concerned. choosing our frienda from the pre-war times, there are in Europe moment, however, the Association tinued depression for this Colony But there are de
pedestrian and motorist. At the Hanging on to silver means con- wealth of history. between twenty and thirty. Cus- would appear to be ignoring an op- toma unions or divisions, and portunity of giving its members her internal strife. War means than these to be derived from the so long as China carries on with. But there are deeper meanings guidance on a matter which is there has been a growth of provoking increasing attention. On an unfavourable, trade balance geometrical metaphor of the solid economic nationalism which, by the other hand many of its objects which entails silver export. This and the plane. Would it not be common consent, is not in keeping are excellent, particularly that which in its turn throws cold water on quite as true, instead of asserting aims at the institution of a General the world's silver market and no that the plane produces the solid, with the freest possible exchange Council, to consist of representa- one can predict what the white to say that the solid produces the of commodities. It is equally tives of the Motoring, Motor metal's future may be.
plane. What is a plane surface natural, in taking note of this Cycling, Cycling, Ramblers and Why then our hesitation? Have that has no solid substance behind Pedestrians Associations, which the Colony's speculators assumed of the mathematical imagination, it? A mere abstraction, a figment camparison, that there should be would consider together all traffic absolute control 7-Your, etc., thrown into emphasis the difficul- problems as they arise and sock a ties which, after the war, settled solution in the general interest,
ONLOOKER Kowloon, May 16.
never to be discovered in nature.
The analogy suggests then, that the past is quite as necessary to the present as the present is to the
Young Milanion was wiset. Bealising that no man living could hope to outdistance Ata- latita, he sought the aid of Venus, goddess of love and lovers, who took pity on him. and gave him three golden ap...- plea which he was to drop, In Atalanta's
during the
race.
This he did. The golden apples tempted Atalanta to stoop and retrieve each one as it fell, with the result that: Milanion won his race and his bride.