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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
4,
1930.
DAY BY DAY
General Election, Labour would fare as badly as in the municipal contests. As we remarked in open- Ing, the prospects of such à deve
lopment would be decidedly more WHEREVER THERE IS ARGUMENTA-
Liberals at the moment do not ap- pear particularly anxious to fight a
EVELYN
PARAUGH
on
ONE LIKES
and some others.
The Hon. Dr. A. B. Wellington I to stay at a house for the first not long ago, in a house devoted
case.
Oil
ter.
1
My friend
Apart from all these more or less benevolent intentions, she has her own private ambition for fama
definite if the Conservatives were TION THERE IS SURE TO US SCEP- WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO able to go to the country as a unitedTICISM.
SHADOW HAS ALREADY Party. In the municipal elections, REASON, A
FALLEN ACROSS FAITH.-Fronde, there is no awkward tariff issue to
TT is an exciting moment arriving I spent an instructive week-end. be faced, and, unless the Conserva-
time. Often one knows practi- to games to an extent which I tives managed to patch up their and Mrs. Wellington returned to
the Colony by the a.s. President cally nothing about one's host and had net baileyed possible. There differences on this question, they Madison:
hostess; one may or may not have was a complete cricket eleven met them in London, but whatever staying there, and every day they WORTH HURRYING FOR! would, we fear, sulfer badly at an
The Empress of Asia, which impression one formed then is like has a match against some visit- carly General Election. The South Paddington by-election was an ex- left Hongkong on the 15th Octo- ly to be substantially altered by ing team,
ber, arrived at Vancouver on the seeing them at home on their own Before the match began they ground; they may be much nicer or played tennis; when their side was ample of what might easily be re- 2nd November,
much nastier; they may be ampli- batting they hastily changed their peated in other parts of the country
Mr. S. B. Winram arrived here fed and more fully defined or they shoes and scampered off to play. if the Empire Free Traders ran from New York by the 8.8. Presi- may suddenly become quite dim racquets; in the evening they
įplayed, snooker. candidates against the official Con-dent Madison. He is joining the ard unreal.
But often one has never met Here everything was organised servative nominees; and in seats local office of the Standard
them at all; one knows one member with the utmost efficiency; liste where Conservatism is. not so Company.
of the family only and is complete-were posted in the pavilion; bella. At the meeting of the Englishly ignorant of the constitution of were rung. I was always expect- ing to hear that one of the guests had been caned for slack fielding, 1924 Model, 6 cylinder,26 hp, strongly entrenched as at Padding-
ton, Labour might profit from the Association at 5.30 p.m. to-day, at his household.
A very disturbing experience oc. But more sophisticated guests- Green Body. Wire Wheels
split. Obviously if there are to be the Cathedral Hall, a lecture will be Practical Jokes.
given by Major Miles, R.M., oni three differing brands of Conserva-Travellers Tales from the Spice curred to a friend of mine through are less easy under this benevo
this sort of ignorance. He accept-lent despotism. tives fighting for the same seats the Islands."
ed an invitation to stay at the home
The scrupulous hostess is so other Parties are likely to gain
Remanded from yesterday, of a man whom he had known off full of plans for all her guests. penniless posses and on for several years. He knew There is a nephew, a maz charged with from the circumstance. It is true
on very little about his host except younger son, whom she is anxious, that Mr. Baldwin's supporters have sion of seditious literature
again that he was a quiet and intellecto marry off to that sweet. very recently renewed their confidence in Queen's Road, West, was
before Mr. Lindsell at the Central tual young man, he supposed vague-rich American girl she met in his leadership, but the fact remains Police Court this morning when ly that his life in the country was the ship coming from Egypt; there that the Beaverbrook faction has he was remanded till Saturday secluded and calm, with a widowed is another nephew, not penniless latives for a "career." whom she still to be contended with. The morning for the hearing of the mother and perhape one elder al-and therefore destined by his re When he arrived at the house he is anxious to bring to the notice Suffering from burns caused by discovered that his friend was one of a Cabinet Minister; there is worse than broker, who miraculously doubles. General Election, and, in view of spark from a forge igniting of a family of eight obstreperous that clever Sir William, the stock-
some kerosene, a Chinese, of 9-11, brothers and sisters; the divergencies to which we have Caroline Hill, was removed to the this, he had from earliest child-the capital value of her invest
They assumed that any to useful people. alluded, we cannot suppose that the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital yes-hood been the "butt" of the entire ments in return for introductions
terday. The man was working at family. welcome. the premises when he received the friend of their brother's must also Longing For Fame. Conservatives would trial of strength just now. The burns to his.right cheek, arm and be a very queer person.
spent a melancholy week-end, be chest.
ing subjected to alternations of probabilities, therefore, unless some
Detective Sergeant Naughton pitying courtesy and devastating a hostess. She longs to see her new and unexpected development
con-made an application before Mr. practical jokes.
That is a house to which he will house filled with the lounging igures of celebrities and to hear occurs, are that Labour will
Butters, at the Kowloon Magi
at her table the kind of conversa- tinue to hold, office for some time, stracy this morning, for the con-not return.
ion that will and its way into fiscation of 26 pictures of an in- even if only on aufferance.
decent nature, which were found Most house parties in England, volumes of memoira. She likes to on the ground floor of 29, Woo- nowadays, arise in a more or less think that it is in her rose garden Economic Nationalism.
sung Street. The application was haphazard way. There are a cer- that secret diplomatic alliances · granted.
tain number of hostesses who or- are planned, or that walking in" ganise everything with the same 1er park some famous proselytiser Whatever lies behind the Ameri-
Chan Shing, an engineer on the care they devote to a London din-converts a great scientist to belief can plan for the formation of an
in the immortality of the soul. Usually, however, international financiers' trust de-steam launch Standard, was re-ner party.
a party of Poor woman, all the books of la said, to moved to the Kwong Wah Hos- signed, primarily it
full of this kind of stabilise world economic movements pital yesterday, suffering from in eight or a dozen guests find them-autobiography that lie on her bed and she juries to his head and shoulder as selves assembled in a house to-table, are by applying corrections or stimul- the result of a fall on board the gether, with no other bond than elegant go-between,
lying in the that they know one member of aspires, through who knows what. ants in the form. of capital, it launch which was
sleepless nights, to achieve this "Do come and spend a few days second-hand celebrity. If the Conservative Party were comes too late to be of service in Kwong Hip Leong Ship Yard, the family.
Shanishuipo.
with us if you are ever in our The pity is that famous people, has been like anybody else, are perfectly united, and not split into factions the existing trade depression. The
A fine of $5,000, or six months' part of the country,"
well able to discern who likes over the tariff question, it would be extent of good possible to the or
They have received several them personally and who likes justified in regarding the results ganisation is already done. The hard labour in default, was im their invitation.
vague invitations for them for their reputations. They of the municipal contests as indicat-international gold situation, says posed by Mr. Lindsell at the Cen-
the British Federation's review, istral Police Court this morning on similar, in the probability of victory at perceptibly easier and the world Chinese woman, who pleaded August and September; the guest are not going to spoil their holiday guilty to a charge of possession of organises his own series of visits by exerting themselves to be profound. One by the next General Election. After credit situation less rigid. What is tales of prepared opium, which as it will suit him best and pro-amusing or a succession of Labour gains during ever remedy remains to be applied she said she had been given to poses the dates of his stay to one they disappear, quietly to play an pallence or read detective novel man on the Sai On his. hostess. The result is
assortment of people of all ages in their bedrooms.
How much more delightful is the past three years, the tide has to husten the recovery now pro-carry by a
and all interests. As a rule this turned in the other direction, the mised must somehow provide high- Whur Conservatives triumphing largely er prices for raw materials and When two men apeared on re-sort of party is very much more the nondescript party where the guarantee demand for manufac and isefore Mr. Lindsell at the amusing than one which is carc-guests have been invited from sheer friendliness and nothing else. It is at just these gather- at the expense of the Labourites.tured products. Policies of restric-Central Magistracy this morning fully chosen weeks in advance.
Only he class of party seems ings that the great men over, a It is true, of course, as a Londontion and organised marketing have on a charge of cutting and wound-Discipline.
come to some message yesterday stated, that local been tried without success, and iting two other men, it was stated
that one of the victims had al-naturally adapted for organisa-game of halma
painters draw comic affairs are the main issues before is doubtful if the balance can be ready been discharged from hos- tion, and that is an athletic one, momentous political decision, the the voters, but it is equally the established until costs of produc-pital. but the other would not be I suppose that is because athletes famous case that in latter years there has tion are reduced in much the same discharged until been an increasing tendency to in-measure as raw materials. Poli- Roti defendants
ticians in Britain are ready to add till Friday, vest the municipal elections with a
to the confusion by imposing a Bri- political complexion, and the results tish tari!, us if that had any have, as a consequence, been re-greater hope of success. No doubt garded as an index of political it would temporarily ease the situa
tion in Great Britain, but it would
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, Nov
trends.
4 1930,
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
If we go back to November 1928, certainly add to the spirit of econo- some six months before Labour mic nationalism which works so came into office, we find that in the assiduously against international co-operation. The results are not mur icipal elections the Labour
less disastrous because they are cause followed up its gains of the completely foreseen, or because previous year with further big suc-they are concealed beneath an up- cesses at the expense of its op-parent immediate benefit. We shut ponents. This fact was hailed by out American cars and such like the Labourites as a certain indicand deem that American business tion that they would succeed In alene has suffered. But the British the Ceneral Election; and the pre-ships that would have carried them are without eargo, hitting a hun- diction came true. Similarly, at
dred businesses in different ways. last year's elections, the gains were if any curtailment of imports is held to show that Labour still re-effected on a large scale, the weight tained the confidence of the people.of the business depression merely In view of these facts, Labour can-shifts. Economice cut right across frontiers. Even such not now complain if its opponents political point to the decided anti-Labour highly protected countries as the awing as suggesting that the public United States are dependent on foreign markets, though they
is anxious for a change of Govern- think in terms of economic nation- ment. There is. admittedly, a alism and independence, producing difference between local and na- what M. Francis Delaisi has de- tional politics, and whilst it is true scribed as "the fundamental con- that the. Conservatives still have a tradiction of the modern world." very long way to go before they Messrs. Hawley and Smoot would be most disturbed to probably make up the leeway lost during the
learn that the Tariff bearing their past three years, some significance.
names derives from the same trait must be attached to the present as the disturbances in Palestine, marked departure from the trend Egypt, India and China, the only for previous contests. There must difference being that in the latter be an explanation of the change, countries the development of na and we shall follow custom if we tionalism takes a political form. regard it indicating a swing of the It is, nevertheless, an easily demon strable fact. It is equally plain pendulum politically rather than aa
that the steady tendency towards being wholly due to local considera-the raising of tariffs must end by tions.
making-an unworkable world, the
The question naturally arises alternative being agreement and whether, if there were an early stabilisation.
this afternoon. instinctively feel the propriety of cartoons on half sheets of note. were remanded certain household discipline; it paper, and the serious philosophers
reminds them of their old schools. I write very unserious limericks.
KIL
THE DIXI
Ann, that bird and me started with the same chassis."