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ANNOUNCEMENT.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1930..
DAY BY DAY
ON BEING ALONE.
THE PROVERB, "YOU CAN TAKE A HORSE TO THE WATER BUT YOU CAN'T
theja miraculous medley of light and MAKE HIM DRINK" IS ALL VERY Nobody in the world has
faintest idea where I am. For shade, of sound and of silence.. WELL, BUT WHERE THE HUMAN RACE IS CONCERNED YOU CAN GENERALLY all you know or probably cure-I It flows on, broadly and smoothly BRIBE HIM TO-Hilda Forbes. may be in Berlin, Moscow, Peru, as a river. It is no longer chop- or Ashby-de-la-Zouche. I have not ped up by a lot of tiresome little
Nowhere and Anywhere.
Just as life is calmer, so it is
The Hongkong Land Investment spoken a word of English for bridges and barriers. and Agency Co., Ltd. advertise nearly a week, and even then. I that the period during which ap have only spoken to waiters, cham- plications can be made for shares bermaids, taxi-drivers, and the of the New Issue by shareholders like, whose conversation, consist-also more exciting. For the sim resident in the Far East, terminates ing principally of negatives and ple reason that I have nowhere to affirmatives, seems to me quite en-go I can go anywhere. If a side- on Monday, September 29.
chanting, writes Beverley Nichols street looks attractive, I go dowr it. I followed one yesterday, in the Daily Mail
finding a good harbour in Hainan IRC IN STORITICA island. It was pointed out in the report that a survey of various pinces had resulted negatively. Hollow is not adapted to deep- draught shipping, and other places on the island coast are unpromising. Then, there was the big plan for a free port at Tong Ka Wan, sponsored by the veteran statesman Mr. Tang Shao-yi. The plans were grandiose, and invitations were received here for the opening ceremony. The project has ap- parently been held up, owing to lack of funds, and it is not certain when it will be revived. There was talk at the time of Tong Ka becoming a "rival" to Hongkong. The creation of new harbours and free ports in our vicinity may cer- tainly divert a fair amount of traffic from this Colony, but it will before probably be many years' the schemes in prospect have materialised. By then, Hongkong will probably have such a volume of shipping still to contend with as to consider such counter attractions with complete equanimity.
In any case, the great natural advantage of our harbour stands paramount, and it is to be presum- ed that no amount of expense in nearby territories Can establish, and maintain, anything to equal what nature has provided here. A Chinese named Chan Loi, who in for a minute to "look at" the The engagement, is announced be. Very little dredging is required in was yesterday rescued from the curtain rods. Nobody, in fact, tween Miss Anna Petersen. Hongkong. Tides are such as to harbour, into which he had thrown can do anything to me at all.
¡ himself from Jardine's Wharf, am alone, in the silence. of Colonel disperse much of the silt that showed signs of insanity, and was only daughter Hans Petersen of Berlin and Mr. Curt von Winterfeldt of comes down-river from the main-admitted into the Mental Hospital Jebsen C- Co., Hongkong, land, and no problems of constant after being first taken to the Gov-
ernment Civil Hospital, youngest son of General and deepening face the Colony, With Mrs. von Winterfeldt. Berlin.
that great asset, a harbour almost
The marriage is taking place at the Registry Office this afternoon I have never been in this happy meandering down it like a stray of Mr. John Herbert Rogers, Chief situation before, and it is almost dog. It went over a river, through Officer of the s.s. Wing On, and the most agreeable thing that has slums, past two cemeteries, and to me. After then it suddenly decided to be- Miss Edith Agnes Roberts. The ever happened bride is being given away by Mr. breakfast I can sit back in my come respectable, and ended in a Whitehead, whilst Dr. Bunje is the chair, in pyjamas, and emile and garden, where I sat and ate cher- "best man."
smile at nothing, only ceasing to ries. Which was lunch, smile when the. waiter comes to] And all the time, everything in remove the breakfast tray, in case that street had seemed so vivid. Lam Kwhi-fong (20), 1813
he should think I am an idiot. just because one was not trying unmarried woman living at the Tai Law Tin boarding house, Des (It is rather a terrible criticism to reach the end of it-the bak- Voeux Road Central, was, removed of modern civilisation that perers shops, with men like powder- to the Government Civil Hospital sons who smile by themselves are ed ghosts outlined against blazing yesterday consequent on an at- usually hurried off to padded fires the antiquaires the bars
cells.)
with their rows of jewelled cor- tempt to take her life by drinking| a disinfectant.
I say to myself, "Nobody can dials-the taxis buzzing by with possibly ring me up. Nobody, very red-lipped women in large Two coolies were sentenced to Nobody can possibly ask me to black hats all these seemed more three weeks' imprisonment each lunch, tea, cocktails, dinner, nor brightly coloured than ever be- by Mr. Butters at Kowloon this supper, nor to any wild and wool-fore, because one was not trying morning for being in unlawful party. Nobody can even ring to reach the end of the street. possession of four iron ship's the bell and ask if I want a Why are we always trying to fittings. The defendants admitted vacuum cleaner, and if not, why reach the end of the street? having taken the fittings. from an not." Nobody can ask me when I want my bath, what suit I will American cargo vessel.
wear, nor if "the men" may come
unrivalled the world over, we may rest assured that our heritage is not likely to be challenged serious
Incredible Silence.
I
Possible Effects.
DEATH.
DIED AL 3 a.m. this morning Anna Maria Lopes Gomes dearly beloved wife of Augusto ly for a very long time to come, ifid that he left the car at the the silence is what romantic same, thut they would do it, for Conceicao Gomes at her at all.
residence No. 15. Knutsford Terrace. Funeral will pass the Monument to-day at 5.30 pim. (Macao and Shanghai Papers please copy).
The
Too Timid.
hongkong Telegraph policy which it is hoped may en-Wednesday) at 3.30 p.m. on the astonishing noises and crashes for women would form the majority of
TUESDAY, SEPT. 23 1939.
Islands
For, from the moment a woman
Everybody ought to do what I It am doing at least once a year. would drive some people nearly
faced girls with yellow, smoky crazy of course. Lots of white-
fingers, and mauve shadows under their, eyes would hurl themselves, Such silence! It is incredible. with shrill cries, off the nearest It is not literally a silence, be- cliffs after the first two days of cause in the distance I can hear complete solitude. Lots of young The theft of an Austin Seyen car the high, plaintive notes of taxis, men who grow neurotically peevish from the Pedder Street stand last and the rumbling of trams, while when their speedometers register night is reported in a statement in the next room there are the less than eighty would be found! issued at Police Headquarters this sounds of a Frenchwoman making dancing round the market place morning. The owner, Mr. W. Lo, her morning toilet-a formidable with idiotic grins on their faces, who lives at 103, Robinson Road, and sonorous performance. No quite, quite mad. I wish, all the stand at 7. p.m. but found that it novelists would call "the larger then they would be locked up now had vanished when he returned to silence"-the silence of the spirit. instead of later. It is only a ques- the spot two hours later. The For none of these sounds, has tion of time,"
anything to do with me.
Married people, emphatically, number of the vehicle is 2094.
I know that none of the taxis ought to do it. Some would re- There is. seemingly, no end to There will be a demonstration of is bearing friends towards me, turn as lovers, others as penit- the ingenuity of the Conservative the properties of the well-known and I am quite certain that the cats, and some would never re Firefoam to-morrow Frenchwoman is not making those turn at all. I should imagine that Party in seeking to evolve a tariff Foamite
not for the latter class. Men are extre behind the Wan-my She is sure success at the next General chai fire station. One-gallon and instance, gargling with such pas-mely wise to go away with their Election. The latest bait thrown two gallon hand extinguishers will sion in order that she may shortly wives for holidays, because many well as the Foamire knock on my door and float, like wives, once they had tasted, the out is a suggestion by Mr. Neville' be used, as Chamberlain, the Chairman of the generator tmcdel 15) which pre-a spring breeze, into my presence.bliss of solitude, would never go Party, to the effect that, if return-duces a continuous supply of re- am nothing to her, and she is back to their homes. There would foam either for manual use or as nothing to me. Nobody is, for the be tremendous competition to en- Conservatives
ter nunneries, and the boats to OUR HARBOUR ASSET.ed to power, the
portable or fixed installation. It present. might introduce an emergency is intended to demonstrate the I sit at a high, open window the remoter South Sea tarif which would give British quick extinguishing of a big blaze and look out on to a jumbled med- would be packed. manufacturers a breathing-space of petrol and kerosene, which by ley of rose-coloured roofs, and I 'It is some years since the first while negotiations were entered ordinary means of fire fighting realise that the only important marries, unless she is both very was heard of the proposed develop into with the Dominion and for-would defy all attempts, the oil be- thing in life, after health, is Time. rich and unusually independent, ing poured into a large pit where And Time, in its full, exquisite she bids good-bye to solitude. ment of Whampao as a rival to the eign nations. This marks a dis-water would be useless, while the reality, must be tasted alone. And if she found it again—even port of Hongkong. Much ink was tinct departure from Mr. Bald-heat would prevent approach with Then it ceases to be an affair of for a few hours-well, I would not hours and dates and places. It is like to vouch for the consequences. spilled by the protagonists of that win's proposals, which are that, if in 40 feet. scheme, and during the unhappy returned to power, the Conserva-
tives would consult the Dominions? period of 1925 some of the commen-
on the tariff questions and, if a tators appeared to dip their pens satisfactory arrangement could be in gall as they pictured Hongkong's reached, the matter would be re- eventual eclipse as a place of call ferred to the country by means for nearly all the shipping using of a Referendum. Possibly, the the China Seas. So far as this cumbersome character of this pro- Colony was concerned, there was posal has by now impressed it- self on the Conservative leaders, no acrimonious rejoinder, for it
who now want more or less of a was realised that certain natural free hand until negotiations have advantages possessed by Hongkong taken place between the Domi- would always retain a position of nions and foreign countries. We however, whether the importance in sea commerce, apart doubt, from the realisation that there is specious nature of this latest iden nothing to prevent anyone forming will make any, strong appeal to a rival port nearby should it be the electorate. The fact of the matter is that the official Con- desired. Many tides have since servative Party is over-given to flowed, and much silt been deposit-tinkering with this fiscal question. ed on the ocean bed, but the threa-Fallacious in many of its argu- tened rivalry has not seriously ments as the Empire Free Trade materialized. It is of interest to crusade may be, it has at least observe other plans for deep-water the merit of being clear-cut and definite. The Baldwinites, how- ports in South China that have
whilst ever,
Protectionists at been attempted or are under con-heart, seem to fear adopting an sideration. The Portuguese Colony out-and-out. programme.. This of Macao has spent much money on shilly-shallying cannot do them improving its harbour, and con-any good, especially since they siderable care has to be exercised have to face opponents whose constantly in order to maintain the attitude" is anything but new depth.
suffers biguous, Whampao Bimilarly, the silt coming down the Pearl River being deposited cease- lessly at these points.. It is a con- stant WAT by mankind against adverse conditions imposed by natural laws... Both Macao and Whampao are unfortunately situnt
By falsely representing himself ed, and dredging can barely keep as belonging to the Yu Ling firm, of the harbours clear. So far as the No, 47, Bonham Strand, an un- Cantonese port is concerned, there known Chinese was able to obtain
delivery of three packages of mer-]
1
am-
GOODS OBTAINED BY CLEVER FRAUD.
DELIVERY OF MERCHANDISE WORTH $1,776.
is a very big expenditure of funds chandise, worth $1,776, when he to be faced before any further went on board the s.s. Cheongshing, worth-while improvements can be lying in Wanchai Bay yesterday.
The theft was discovered when effected.
enquiries were made by the firm in Two other plans in view are question. A report was thereupon worthy of note. Publication was made to the Police, who are carry- made yesterday of a scheme for ing out investigations.
That's Alice's brother, the LL.D. "Ah, the other wit and a half."