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DAY BY DAY
which periodically visit it. It muni was also stressed-as we have done ourselves in regard to 'Hong- kong-that even if taxation 19
light, that is hardly a reason
THERE ARE NONE SO DANGEROUS
for choosing a slump period in AS THOSE GOOD-NATURED FOLK WHO which to institute new taxation. Do NOT KNOW WHEN THEY HAVE
SAID ENOUGH.-B. Harvey-Jellic.
Estimates should at
the same
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WORD FOR THE UNDERDOG.
"Grent Ladies."
As one speaker expressed it, "there is only one ultimate remedy in this
A Chinese case of diphtheria host, choosing a cigar from double 0. That will be a toll call: {66T7OU are a writer," said my [gaged." "Ger-T-rard, double two country or elsewhere for slump was notified yesterday.
the box the waiter was four pennies, please." "Double six conditions and that is economy in
you can nine one," etc., etc. On and on. The Scottish Company of the handing him, "and so expenditure." Impressed by these Volunteer Defence Corps is to write about anything, whether it's When one's head is aching, and one arguments, Sir Cecil Clementi hold its Halloween Reunion Din-worthy of notice or whether it hasn't had a holiday for six months, and one's young man is walking out suggested that the Select Com-ner at the Volunteer Headquarters isn't."
He glanced round his shoulder. with someone else. "For instance, you could probably mittee which was to analyse the on the night of the 31st instant.
Six weeks' imprisonment was im-write a column about this pillar
Are we a race of barbarians that time consider the taxation pro-posed on a Chinese charged before behind me."
I followed the direction of his we continually jeer and scoff at Mr. Butters at Kowloon this mor- posals, with a view to secinging with the larceny of three gaze. "I could certainly write a these wretched girls, who are only whether they could be modified. nickel-plated water tape from the columa about that pillar," I said. human beings after all-girls who pretty things, and would all like to As a consequence, in one after-Hop Yick firm of contractors. The "For it happens to be covered with cry when they're unhappy, and love
blood." taps were valued at $24.
Which is about as good a begin- ba great ladies, and are great ladies noon, the Committee, managed to
Consider another example. We An attempt by a man, a native ning for a short story as you could in my opinion? cut
expenditure by down
of Walchow who was in destitute desire. It is dreadful to have to
decently million and a half dollars, and circumstances, to drown himself admit that the blood was only who are well fed and the Government were able to with-by leaping from a Yaumati ferry animal blood that had spouted in dressed regard the police force as frustrated most tactless manner from an ex-essential to our well-being-as au- draw the proposed taxes on liquid boat yesterday was
through a prompt rescue effected uberant piece of lamb, and was in-doubtedly it is. If we are threaten- an outrageded or attacked we consider it our fuel and lubricating oil. The
by a passenger and a member of the stantly removed by
right that a policeman should in- But story does not end here, however, crew. The would-be suicide was maitre d'hotel.
The Waiter's Fear.
stantly appear to defend us. for the Governor is now appoint-removed ashore to the Government
Civil Hospital.
Unpardonable, too, because the some of us are insulting to the Committee to ascertain
whole thing is irrelevant. For my police if they venture to address ing va
When
before whether
charged
Mr. attention was not arrested by the a word to us without being asked. further retrenchment |
Not long ago I and another man this morning
with blood that had suddenly appeared cannot be effected whereby the Williams
hawking matche instead of on the face of the pillar, but by the were compelled to drive to a boring whole or part of the remaining haberdashery as specified in his blood that had suddenly disappear-party with an equally boring girl. taxation proposals may be re-licence, a hawker told his Wor-ed from the face of the young wait-She parked her car just off a busy street. As we were going away a ship that matches came under the fer who had been carving. mitted.
He was white as a sheet. In his policeman arrived, and said polite- category of haberdashery as they these facts We eite
because were imported from abroad. His eyes was reflected the appalling ter-ly:
"I'm sorry, miss, but you can't they are particularly apposite to Worship painted out that, for that rur of one who may lose his job.
The hard, insolent glint of the our own case in Hongkong on the matter, motor cars were also im the look of a hunted animal. For park your ear here"
ported and fined the defendant $4, the rest of the time that we sat
"There's no traffic," she eve of the coming Budget debate. he having three previous convic- there his servility was pathetic. He spilt little rich girl came into her
would have lain on the floor and eyes. There may not be occasion heretions. *.
allowed any of the well-fed patrons said. "And I shan't be more than to appoint a further Committee,
Wong Pui, a District Watchmen to walk on him. Yes--and yet he twenty minutes.".
"I'm sorry, miss." He was per- for the purpose of studying the employed on the water front ap-was a normal, decent boy, born in!
mined. Estimates, but we do suggest that reared before Mr. Williams at the to the world to laugh and run and fectly respectful, but quite deter-
Central Police Court this morning
"I think you're being quite un- the Unofficials should secure from on a charge of obtaining a bribe However, he kept his job. Noti the Government a definite assur- from a hawker in Stanley Street. through any power of mine but necessarily officious," she said. And
Retrenchment
Mr. F.X. d'Almada, inr., was for through a word from my host, who remained atock still. KEATES-AL the French Hos-ance that if the
the defence, the case being ad-was a director of the place. But I looked at her and thought: pital. on October 16th. to Mr. Committee's
I should enable proposals
journed till next Tuesday. De it is quite possible that if we had "How' vulgar and futile and dis- a. W. J. Keates, a sufficient savings to be effected, lective Inspector John Murphy been shown to a different table, and gusting you are! How
the new taxation proposals shall intimated that there was a possi-an irritable, complaining guest had like to see the policeman turn you bility of a charge of demanding been sitting in our place, the young over and smack you and send you be withdrawn. In the F.M.S., money with menaces being brought waiter would have lost his job and home on a 'bus." Instead of which, a whole chain of tragedy have been I said, like a perfect gentleman: "We can run down to St. Jame's- beguri. enly one afternoon's sitting by aagainst the defendant.
Do we think of that we who square and leave it there. It's only Committee enabled a million and
The remanded case in which the
happen to have a little money-to, five minutes." a half dollars to be knocked off master of the Lam Lung knitting be temporarily in the ascendant? She stared at the policeman. "If expenditure. Here, the Retrench-factory of Tai Nam Street
Ask yourself a few questions about, this man insists on being oflicious. must. I've a good charged with having assaulted
I suppose we ment Committee, after a careful one of his fokis came before Mr.
some of the other underdogs,
The Telephone Girl, mind to take his number." After analysis spread over several Busters this morning. Sergeant Has anybody. for example, ever' which utterly degrading scene we months, ought to be able to in. Madgwick produced a witness who, put in a word for the telephone got into the car and drove away. however, could not testify to gir?? I have seen music-hall sket- with an angry dlamour of whirring dicate ways and means by which having seen the complainant jump ches in which she was murdered, gears. I hope that policeman reads the necessity for any fresh taxa-from the verandah though he had to the vociferous applause of a these lines and accepts my implicit
The crowded house. ·I We do, at heard that he had done so. tion can be removed.
have heard, apology.
Essential Courtesy. defendant was bound over in a countless "jokes," in which she is to our Un- any rate, cummend
I often read that the modern- boud of $50 to keep the peace for revealed as a congenital idiot. One Like Hongkong, glthough on a | officials,
об being worthy
six months. and also ordered to would imagine that she was anyoung man is rude to his hostess, enemy of society. To me ale seems that debutantes do not write let- far more serious scale, the P.M.S. emulation, the very strong and pay $5 damages.
an extremely hard-working, -ters of thanks after a week-end. is passing through a period of not ineffective stand taken in the
cient, and carteous individual to party, and that people behave dread- measure of Local Option appear to whom we all owe a deer debt of fully at dances. All this seems to depression. Ax here, also. the F.M.S. against the rising cost of
be in favour, and even the enormous gratitude.
me of the smallest importance:: people are being called upon to government.
fighting organisation of the "Dry" How would you like to sit, hour Very rich people ought to he rude to Thanks face additional taxation.
element seems likely to prove im-after hour, with an instrument on one another. It is stimulating to potent in the, face of the reaction, your head, and a perpetual buzzing their nervous system. But they The questionnaire submitted to promoted by intensive propaganda in your ears, listening to invisible ought to be very polite indeed to the people shouting numbers at you? underdogs-if only because scoring cut down; with the result that American newspapers by the Pro-sistence in attempting to enforce should have thought that it was ted to answer back is as gallant and
though it may be, against per-Numbers, numbers, numbers! I over a servant who is not permit certain of the proposed taxation hibition Bureau at Washington
this almost unenforceable legisla- enough to drive one mad. "Hop, amusing a feat as potting a bird has been withdraw. What is even seeking their views 08 the
four-six-fife thr-r-ree. Number en in a coop. more interesting is that even fur-Eighteenth Amendment and the ther cuts may be made in dia. Volstead Acts, is capable of several last analysis, bursements, with the possibility of inferences. In the
the action represents an important concession to the "Wet" demand that some form of national ferendum be taken, and while it fails to meet the agitators even half way, it is reasonable to suppose that be further investigation would when
over- speakers intimated that they would undertaken in the event of
whelming opposition to the Prohibi- unitedly oppose the proposals and tion laws. It may also be assumied appealed to the Government to that this particular time
daughter.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, Öcr. 16 1930.
A LESSON FOR HONGKONG.
to Unofficial action, however, the expenditure estimates have been
the remainder of the Government's taxation proposals also being con- celled. All this is an outcome of the Unofficial opposition offered to the Government's taxation schemes ist the Federal Council,
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Prohibition Poll.
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re-
for a
be careful in forcing through the questionnaire has been chosen by taxes in face of solid opposition. the Administration with the object As there are points of similarity of influencing the senatorial elec- between the positions here and in
tions due next month, or, rather, Malaya, it will be interesting to luence of the Prohibition issue on with the object of reducing the in- trace the course of events in the those elections. The impression will F.M.S. In order to balance the doubtless be created that President Budget, the Government proposedHoover and the Republican Party certain taxes on sugar, liquid fuel are leaning positively towards a and lubricating oil, cartridges, re-opening of the case for and petrol, cigars, cigarettes and to- against Prohibition, with a con- sequent reduction in the "switches" bacco. When the proposals came which have been the most pro- before the Council, the Unofficial minent feature of political camp members moved for deletion of the aigners in the past four or five whole of these imposts. Some of months. Three thousand news- their argumenta are worthy bf papers are being asked whether they notice. It was pointed out that in oppose or adopt a neutral attitude a time of acute financial stringency to the Prohibition Laws, a fact which bears a striking resemblance it was the duty of the Unofficials to the thin edge of the reform to explore every possible alternative wodge. The demand for reform, before imposing fresh burdens on incidentally, is becoming increasing- the community, however light or ly insistent. Governor Roosevelt re- well-chosch they might be. To cently declared that there was an the argument that the community overwhelming public opinion in is lightly taxed-an argument New York opposed to Prohibition, and presumablý he was speaking as which is invariably put forward a man part of whose business in life here is Hongkong when new taxa-it is to appraise public sentiment. tion is proposed it was retorted Similar views have been expressed that this was a blessing which in all parts of the United States, provided one of the fundamental though opinion generally appears reasons for the Colony's capacity to favour modification rather than to recover from the depressions repeal. State Option and a wide
tion,
was
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