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B-3474
Drink to me only with thine eyes
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B-3341
Walter Glynne
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Mr. R. E. Lindsell occupied the bench at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day in place of Mr." Whyte Smith who is Indisposed.
The quarantine restrictions im- posed by Hongkong against ar- rivals from Cebu on account cholera have been removed.
"DO AS YOU PLEASE.
The younger school of artists They learnt how to draw. They very scornful of the Royal studied perspective. They learnt Academy, though some of how the great masters laid on their them would like to see their pic- colours and produced their effects. tures on the line have made a. It is so much casler and quicker critical onslaught upon the old and slicker to dispense with all gentlemen who judge art accord that labour and to express one's ing to certain standards of tradi- soul by drawing houses without tion dismissed by these modernists perspective and to be careless of with the awful condemnation of the wrong place for a human eye "early Victorian."
and to put in a tree like a shaving
"
including Britain, Denmark, Nor- way, the Netherlands and Fortu- gal, consisted of countries apply- ing the systera of Autonomous tariffs. They undertook not to Increase their protective duties QUIRED WITHOUT PAINS AND AP while the Convention was in force, PLICATION. IT IS TROUBLESOME AND and admitted the right of other DEEP DIGGING FOR PURE WATERS, BUT, WHEN ONCE YOU COME TO THE contracting parties to denounce SPRING, THEY RISE UP AND MEET the Convention if the latter should YOU-Felton consider that their interests were Injuriously affected by any in crease of fiscal duties. It will be seen that further loopholes capa ble of rendering the whole con-
It is only one little incident in brush Instead of lingering over ference abortive were provided.
an attack which is proceeding all the shape of its branches...
In literature also it may be Most of the States signed the Con-
of along the battle front of life.
The younger school-some of them original, but it is also easier to vention, which it was decided was
not so young as they were-have dispense with form and to pour to become legally binding by Nov- A banishee was sentenced to declared war against tradition, out words like Gertrude Stain with. out sentences or verbs. or tradi- ember this year. Since then there nine months' hard labour by Mr.root and branch.
They have no use for it (saya tional architecture of language.
The violence of language which have been several decisions to Lindsell at the Kowloon Magis-
tracy this morning for having re-Sir Philip Gibbs in the Sunday ratify. Mr. William Graham, the turned from banishment before News). They are revolutionaries appears in many books of to-day... President of the Board of Trade, the expiry of his term of ten years, who date the Year One of the new and all the "realism" which scorns Ho was found on the stairs of No. era somewhere about 1920, though restraint may be a form of mental announced Britain's intention to
it shifts according to their juveni- laziness rather than an advance to 331, Nathan Road,
lity or their approach to middle-liberty and strength. To scatter carry out ratification as recently
one's pages with oaths and foul The remains of a seaman, named age, as last Saturday, and on Monday
They look out upon life as expressions is not necessarily a removed Tam Foon-cheng, were announcement was made of Italy's shore to the Mortuary on the re- though mankind had arrived upon high form of art. It is more dif- intention to follow suit. Presum-turn of the s.s. Van Heutz yester-the earth without previous history ficult and perhaps more valuable In a report to the police, the when they happened to be born, or to get strength in another way, as ably most of the European coun- day. tries concerned, as well as other Captain said that the deceased was at least they ignore and repudiate Thomas Hardy and other masters
found hanging by the neck from a the experience of former genera-did.
There is no falsity about Governments who participated, beam in his cabin, death. having tions, and on subjects like religion, such as Japan, will presently apparently occurred as the result art, literature and the mystery of Hardy's peasants. They were real life itself start as it were with amen and strong: But they did not of suicide. ratify the Convention. So far so
clean slate upon which nothing babble blasphemies. He did not. good. The period by which the Six automatic revolvera, 600 is written unless they write it out shirk the passion of sex. But he signatories are bound, however, is rounds of ammunition and six spare of their inquiries, experiences and did not get cheap effects by easy
magazines were discovered on board adventures in thought or emotion. indecencies.
of "self- So many novels to-day have the strictly limited, and merely paves the Hamburg-Amerika Line steam- They are devotees the way to further considerationer. Mecklenberg which went along expression," exaggerating perhaps bafice of the new school- of the whole subject of intern-ide the Tanjong Pagar Dock at the importance of that self which amusingly audacious, undeniably Singapore last week on her arrival they wish to express. They be clever, impressionistic, with the tional tariff agreement at an early from Europan ports. A party of lieve that any form of trudition in jerkiness of the modern mind, bat of they have not the broad canvas date. While something has been revenue officers boarded the ship hampering to their freedom
and carried out an extensive search thought and their desire for truth, of life upon which the old masters accomplished, the diversity of in-resulting in the discovery of the They have a rather arrogant painted, and they get their effects terests appears, too great to ensure arms and ammunition concealed in conviction that anything or almost by producing a series of
deep sense of much beneficial reform. Some the port side coal bunkers. No ar- anything in which their predeces-shocks Instead of a anxiety can be read into the words rest has been made. The Mecklen-sors had a certain faith is almost reality.
berg was bound for China ports. certainly wrong..
Merely Superficial. of Mr. Graham when he urged on
Well, there is something fine in Mr. Lindsell, at the Kowloon this self-assurance and untram- These modernista are not really the Assembly the need for.econo Magistracy this morning imposed melled mind. This freshness of realists. They are superficialista mic disarmament and a cessation a fine of $100, or six weeks' im-outlook upon every old problem-taking short cuts to reality The question of arranging what
of tariff warfare. The danger prisonment each, on two charges ought to produce original genius Instead of striking deep.. has been conveniently described lies chiefly, as he pointed out, in brought against a Chinese by Re-and something vital and new in as a world-wide tariff truce has the present world-wide economic kept an opium diyan and being in
venue Officer Young of having art and books and life.
Slick Cleverness. come very much to the fore within depression, by which so many possession of one tael of prepared
But is it doing so? recent years, and when the League countries are tempted to adopt opium at 246, Tai Nam Street,
Or is it, so far producing merely first floor. Another Chinese was of Nations placed the matter on
the easy, temporary expedient of charged by the same officer with a slick type of cleverness, amusing little, in the Bolshevik creed. The its agenda last year, hopes were bolstering up their own industries having kept an opium divan in No. experiments in art which have no collectivist farms are merely an- expressed that something
2. Cedar Street and having in his permanent value, audacities which other name for the groups of pen- by erecting further tariff walls.
possession three taels of prepared depend upon their violence, de-sants working in gangs before the crete would result. The subject That the tendency can only lead opium, A fine of $100, or six liberate eccentricities which have liberation of the seris, in 1862. was made more than an academie
conditions in years to weeks' imprisonment, was impos- no real sincerity, and a type of The attack on religion was tried ed on the first count and $200, or mind which has no convictions by the leaders of the French re- question as far back as 1927,
come is the considered opinion two months, on the second. about anything because it has no volution who failed to expel Christ when the World Economic Con
of farsighted tariff reformers.
deep roots?
from the hearts of the people. ference drew up important recomThis same warning was uttered in
The younger school, con-
All this scepticism, these den- mendations which, however, were the United States by opponents with the Bank of England since temptuous of tradition, wishes to fals, these bewilderments of the 1927, and for the past eight years take the short ent to knowledge modern mind all over the world left for future elaboration.
of the recently-introduced tariff has been a member of the Financial and achievement.
which seem so new to young men tenth session of the League of revisions. America, indeed, while Committee of the League of Na- ·Self expression in art, for of to-day leaning their elbows on Nations Assembly, in September holding aloof from European hong new, and nothing could be is any self worth expressing, but talking life with an intelligent tions. He is relatively near Hong-instance, is very valuable if there the tables of little restaurants, Mst year, concluded a further con-
affairs even to the extent of more appropriate than.
that he a certain amount of technique girl through a haze of cigarette sideration of international econo- threatened economic isolation, is should be invited to give the very considerable indeed and re-smoke, were old even in the time mics, with a resolution embodying ́|
Colony the benefit of his wide ex- quiring enormous industry and of Plato.
The very latest of short cuts to a big factor in determining the perience. Perhaps one of our Un-devotion-is helpful beforehand. a statement that it had been "im-
present international trend on officials will sound the Government The masters of the old tradition happiness "Do as you please”— pressed by the importance of
were not afraid of "swotting."| (Continued on Page 7.) tariff questions. The impartial on the point at its next meeting. taking all possible steps to carry
observer is driven to the conclu- into effect the recommendations
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, EP. 17 1939.
B-3494
Little Pudden Basin
.Gracie Fields
Around the Corner
"
B-3484
The Bullfighter (An amazing adventure of John Henry) The Bullfighter-Part 2.
B-3489
Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) ..De Groot & Edward O'Henry Cavalleria Rusticana-Intermezzo
Violin & Organ-with Harp & 'Cello
A Cockney Girl at the Cinema
B-3349
Wish Wynne
WORLD TARIFF QUESTION.
There's always something
I pitch my lonely caravan
B-3412
Walter Glynna
Where my caravan has rested
B-3455
3463
B-3439
B-3454
Salut D'Amour (Elgar)
3-3468
Drink to me only with thine eyes
It,
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Played on the New Gallery Cinema Organ
B-3473
The Empire Party Song
Leslie Sarony
(Fat Flat Fish
Played by Reginald Foort on New Gallery Cinema Organ A Cottage for sale
Gracie Fields Cryin' for the Carolines (Film-"Spring is Here") An Old Church Legend Reginald Goss-Custard, F.R.C.O.
The Minster Bella
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..Reginald Foort
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ference of 1927;" and to this end urged that the States prepared to participate in concerted action "should agree not to increase their protective tarifs above the present level for a period of from two to three years, or to impose new protective duties or create new impediments to trade." It was added that the undertaking should not be held to excuse States from continuing the movement to-
attention to the need for Customs reforms, it is faced with a great deal too much rooted policy to be able to accomplish the object in view. So far, these economic con- ferences are frankly admitted to have been disappointing, and it is unfortunate that the prospects
are not more encouraging.
Currency Refarm.
to
It is not without interest warda reducing their tariffs, by Hongkong, in view of the admitted autonomous or bilateral action, in need for currency reform in this accordance with the recommenda- Colony, that the Government of, tions of the World Economic Con Spain has now come out definitely for a gold standard. Monetary re- ference. As a direct outcome of form is held by the Berenguer Ad- this resolution, there was held ministration to be a necessary ac the economic conference of mem-the paseta. Since the new regula
tion with a view to stabilisation of
bers of the League of Nations in tions have been put into effect, we February-March this year, with read, the peseta has shown a de
finite improvement in exchange two main objecta-to discuss the
quotations, and it is hoped by the terms of a Customs truce, and to Madrid authorities that marked determine the main outlines of the economic advantages will follow the proposed change. Here in Hong- subsequent negotiations for con- kong, we are still wedded to silver. certed economic action. Ultimate-The evidence on which the Currency ly a Commercial Convention was Committee based its recommenda- tions has never been made public, adopted which divided the parti- but it appears to have been sent cipating States into two groups. Home to the Secretary of State, who The first, the countries which had may or may not find time to peruse it. In any event, it is obvious that consolidated their Customs duties, much time will clapse before we by means of commercial treaties, can expect Home opinion on this including most of the European vital subject. We therefore back up the suggestion which has already Continental States, undertook not been made elsewhere that the Gov- to denounce their existing bila-ernment should endeavour to get teral treaties before April 1, 1931. Sir Otto Niemeyer, who is now on a visit to New Zealand to advise on There were, however, provisions banking, currency and exchange for variation of the undertaking problems, to come to Hongkong for and allowances for special cir- like purpose. Here is an op portunity which should not be cumstances, which at first glance missed. Sir. Otto is one of Bri- seemed to lay the way open for tain's greatest authorities on the circumvention of the resolution. Treasury, and for five years subjects named. Formerly in H. M.
The second group of Governments, Controller of Finance, he has been
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The things they imagine to be new-startling revelations of truth-are old errors discovered and abandoned centuries ago by other adventurers in thought,
There is nothing new, or vary
Raudar
New wine in an old bottle.
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