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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1930.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Itongkong Shanghai Hotel. Iza Incorporated in Hanghang. 24. Que's Road C. 14 Stubbe Road.
DAY BY DAY
books and plays as "All Quiet on the Western Front" und "Journey's End." to any nothing of worldwide propaganda in the Press, have pointed out that war is dirty, bloody, cruel and inhuman, and it THE LIMITS has been more or less taken for | Froude. Kranted that youth will subscribe
AS WE ADVANCE IN LIFE WE LEARN
OF OUR ABILITIES.-
to that view and will abhor war on Thuraday, when six Billa will The Legislative Council is to meet
Ins it abbors the plugue. But per- come up for their final stages,
haps youth is not to be so enally neared. The other day we 071~ countered a story of H young aludent who went to see the film. "All Quiet on the Western Front"
can be done--that tragle, lying note promising a test for a young fellow's manhuk anda ing at high and daring romance,
The third annual dance of the Hongkong Ladies' lackey Club is to be held at Lane, Crawford's one Thursday, 8th January.
EVELYN WAUGH on
ADDRESS SNOBBERY.
❤ སྙ
I
*
OR the last three weeks I have wore divided up into areas doter
been living in St. James's-mined exactly by the Inliabitante' square, not the St. James's Incomos, then there would be a are near the palace. Thore la great deal to be said for this ad- overcrowded car park, no ducal dress anobbery. It would at least house for sale; the pavements are mean something. not thronged by erudite old women But as things are at present it
their way to The Matriculation boys of 1930
the London is the most inaccurate guide to in- -the film, incidentally, that belonging to St. Joseph's College Library or the Institute of Foreign come. Still less in it any guide to social importance. T often see exused demonstrators in Berlin are holding a farewell concert in the Affairs.
College Hall to-morrow evening at In front of my windows stands in the newspapers certain streets to come to blows a couple of days 5.30 p.m.
a drab-looking church in nine- or aquares described as "oxclu- ago-and who, on leaving the
teenth-century Gothic and round rive." That means nothing. A The forthcoming wedding is an-It a shabby gården full of children strect is just as exclusive as the cinema house, was heard to
nounced of Mr. Karl Ludwig May, performing ungraceful somer-number of houses fri It. It is not remark. "I like to get into a war residing at the Brusel Mission, Tai-naults over a few green menta, club to which one is clocted for like that some day." Youth. It po Road, to Miss Else Berta Fieker, My St. James's-square is in Hol-personal qualities. The tendancy of a house simply dopends on the these: Ludwigsburg, Germany, who Inland Park. Reets, see aud hear
travelling to Hongkong on board the It is fairly quiet and very re-rent the house agent can get for it. evidences of carnage and pain and.. Trier.
mole. It has the great advantage The age of entailed Town house that once I am there I feel a long A heartbreak, and yet get that over-
practically ever, But the Admitting having slapped away from London. tone which will creep into such ricken coolie
1 think twice Ruperstition still murvives. whose vehicle had before obeying every casual sum- things. In spite of the best that run over his foot, Bo Chiu-ki, mon to drop in for a cocktail. The rich and that is one of quali- broker, was fined $5 and ordered think a third time and stay where their many praiseworthy to pay $1 compensation when he I nm.
ties-are independent of this con. appeared before Mr. Williams t
straint They will settle wherever the Central Magistrocy this
But since I have been living they find a house which attracts morning.
here I have realised the import-them-from Hampstead to Batter ance which two-thirds of the in-nea Bridge. The sufferers are the The peace of the world is,
John Donnell, a seaman on the habitante of London attach to poor friends of the rich-the gay happily, still unbroken. Some s 8. Kamo, was charged before what they consider "a good ad- young bachelors on tho make.
nt the will say it is because the direc- Mr. Butters,
Kowloon dress. Again and again lately young married couples who are Magistraer this morning, with have had to give instructions to desperately afraid of finding them- tion of affairs le still in the hands having been drunk and incapable shops, "Will you send it, please, selves left out of parties and rele
remember the on board the motor boat Wo Yauto St. James's-square- of people who
Rated to domesticity, poor old World War. Others will prefer in the harbour. The defendant
"Very good, air," the salesman beaux who have outlived their was absent, and his bail of has been all attention and defer. Popularity and their incomes. to put it that peace in enjoyed in
was estreated,
These are the people who suffer But the point
Holland Park?" I add. most from the address fetish. Willian Farmer, on December spite of that fact.
Liu Chat (46), was sentenced
"Oh," the change of attitude la Rather than cut themselves off 8th. The funeral will pass to be kept in mind is that a new
to one year's imprisonment and 24 the Monument at & p.m., Wed-generation is arising, a generation strokes for having returned from instantaneous. "I must just in from the Sloane and Ambassador nesday, 10th. A Masonic ser- which will in its turn come to banishment, by Mr. Butters, atuire if our van is delivering there telephone exchanges they will pay vice will be held at the prove-
this afternoon.” Magistracy thla
It invariably is, vast rents for cramped little site at which all English and handle world politics. Obviously morning. The defendant
but the shops find it necessary to quarters over shops and garages. Scottish Freemasons are if peace is to endure, definite steps arrested Ju Ming Po Street, emphasise their condescension in The modern caze for "converting vited to attend, Regalia will
banished in going so far beyond their necus-mows seems to me one of the most
tomed radius.
pathetic signs of national sillines be worn only within the pre-
London is full of these misicad. In order to attain physical pro- cincts of the Cemetery.
twoximity to people richer than them- behalf
of the ing addresses. There Appening on
normally Intelligent driver of one of the Hongkong Trafalgar-squares; there are in-Helven,
George-streeta and citizens will lurk in these wretch- Tramway buses, Mr. Hornee Lo numerable
and Hill-streets; ed back alleys and pay rents which pleaded guilty before Mr. Lind-Charles-streets sell at the Central Police Court there is a Park-lane in Croydon would provide them with a decent this morning to a simmons for and a Landsdowne House in Put-house and garden in the suburbs. Do these mews dwellers honest- failing to have two efficient heaney and a Ritz Hotel immediately lights. the off-side light being opposite Paddington Station: think that they can maintain A fine of $5 was imposed. there is an admirable public their dignity best by living in
house in Maida Vale called the the stables of their
DEATHS,
FARMER, --At Shameen, Canton,
LICKLEY,
Ταξ feeling of Ant Enough.
must be taken to ensure it..
rely
vague
In nationalism.
# on
disillusionment Extreme
In we re-
Frederick Charles Lickley, 9, Howbeck Terrace, marked in opening, represents one West Hartlepool, Shanghai of the greatest dangers. Unless papers please copy.
it is purbed, it may lead us into fresh and oven bigger troubles than mankind has yet been called upon to endure.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, DEC. 9, 1930,
THE DANGERS OF NATIONALISM.
Thenace
General Election Prospeel. It is still the firm belief of political observers in England that the country will be confronted with A general election before Mr. Philip Snowden is given an opportunity of submitting his second budget. The
Nazis dissension in the Cablaet-which it
is obvious has never come
Kowloon the
Yaumati. He Was 1930 for ten years.
out.
17.5
ence.
arc
Tu Cheung, a married woman, Carlton, there is a Berkeley Hotel superiors?
was charged, before Mr. Butters in Bayswater and an Embuany
at the Kowloon Magistracy this Club in Sydenham A few min
Kok
economie
morning, with being in possession utes with the telephone book pro-Maurice Lane-Narcott on of 42 pieces of counterfelt cola vide many instances of this kind. with intent to ulter, at Lai Chilof duplication; just as there are
Road.
Detective Sergeant two eminent but wholly dissimilar asked for a week's writers named Wyndham Lewis. The application WILH
All this is obviously very con-] fusing for the postal authorities, but the peculiar thing in the strict
Meadowes.
remani. granted.
*
A student who had given in-order of precedence which locati-
INCOME ASSESSING.
structions for 24 chickens to boties, as such, have in the public MANY taxpayers must have lain
to a conveyed to a friend's house as amind. wedding present was brought be-
floor.
What
it all is and
and laudable people. If London
M.
awake in the dead of night wondering by what means.
For example, let us take a typi-
Mr. Yorkshiro
Mrs. Yorkshire
"Mon Repos" Income tax owing
Totul
tax.
Adolf Hitler And his appear to be creating no end of
crisis- and the intention to in fore Mr. Williams at the Central There seems to me nothing more if any, their incomes это trouble in Germany. Scarce a week
froduce a measure for the amend Police Court this morning and boring than the tendency to classi-assessed. goes past flint does not record cons ment of the Trade Disputes Bill are ¦ fined $8 for allowing the fowls to fy people by the addresses AL How," they must have sakod
themselves, "has an assessor ar flicts between the German Faselsta aduced in evidence of this belief, he piled in boxes which were too which they happen to live. "Sed at the F408 for which I am and their political enemies. The and it is even suggested that there small for the purpose, one of the and-So" is described as "Blooms
having died from bury," someone else as "Pont- to go to full next Tuesday?" conchian to be reached is that ex-is a purpose in pressing forward the chickens
the suffoertion.
street," someone
Well, there is quite a simple ex- cise as "Aubur treme nationalists of the Hitler latter measure, namely that
or "Chel-planation of that. The answer is: ball, or "provincial,"
"By sorcery." There will be wedding receptions. type, with their bellicose procliv. Government is voluntarily seeking
In defent in the House of Lords and in the Hongkong Hotel Roof Gar- ities, are a source of inter not an appeal to the country on a Lords den to-morrow and on Tuesday next, what a lot of harm it does. No cal assessor who wishes to assess
inst. only to the peace of their own coun-v. People issue. This, of course, is 16th
Accordingly no tea one has nkeener appreciation the income of a man who, for try but they might easily become carrying things a little too far. In dances will be held on those dates. than myself of the high spiritual better or worse, we will call Mr. Yorkshire. This assessor simply takeн tform, known as Form to the peace of the the first place the strategy would be On Saturday the Roof Garden will and moral qualities of the very
be engaged by the Univeralty Medi- rich. I delight in their society U.0.1., and having written "Mr. the second, it iscals for their annual dinner and whenever I get the chance. One world. Indeed, Fascism if carried obvious, and in to extreme limits can be just as bad well-known that the Trade Unions dance. The tea dance will be held can be fairly certain that anyone Yorkshire" on the top of it for in- as the most virulent form of Com-have been exerting pressure for in the afternoon us usual, but grill, who lives in Park-lane, or Gros-der purposes, he credits him with
their room patrons will be accommodated venor-square, or Carlton House- month-
terminating past.
in the dining room on the first terrace, is one of these enviabloj The reason he credits Mr. York- munis In a recent article on the
re- vato, for campaign with
hire with 4 is as follows. There German Faseist leader, we encoun- penit the T. U. C. Congress in
is only 1 Mr. Yorkshire concern- Jed, and he lives with 1 wife in I tered this significant statement: September. The trade unions have
house and owes 1 Income "It is youth that idolires Hitler: always bitterly opposed the Act. Its
Thus: the young people who did not fight existence on the Statute speciñeal-} in the Great War voted five million ly making general strikes illegal in a perpetual reminder of the Basco strong for their hero." As Hitler
of 1926 which resulted in a heavy stands for, an outlook that might loss of membership not yet remedi- carily and Europe in another war. d. The Act is equally distasteful there is something to think about into the Labour Party since it for that remark. It points to a fact bids a political levy to be made on that we are all apt to overlook, anyone who does not specifically contract to pay. thus seriously namely, that a new generation,
affecting the Sinancial position of which knows the World War only the Party. As a matter of fact. by hearsay, is beginning to come. if Sir John Simon's contention is on the scene, in Germany and every-correct--and Sir John in one of the where else.
keenest antagonists of the Govern When the great struggle on the ment respecting the Bill-it matters European battlefields ended in 1918, very little from the public viewpoint whether the amendments are carri. humanity, collectively and individed through or not. It is exceeding ually, had had all the war It wantedly doubtful whether a general strike That mood, naturally enough, lin- aiming at coercing the Government gered an for a gond many years. In of the day, is not illegal according spite of international féar, jealousy to the established legal system. and suspicion, the movement to If this view is the correct one, the wards an enduring pence has at removal of a special clause in a least had more lip service in the special set will make no vital differ ence. It seems highly probable, past decade than ever before. But however, that if the Liberals do meanwhile we have all been grow-decide to go into the Opposition ing older, and a new generation la lobbles with the object of defeating) putting in an appearance, a gen. the Government it will be when the eration which, unhappily, may not amending bill is submitted. Tho on Mr. share the current disillusionmont responsibility devolves about war. The war-time genera cannot carry more than seven or Lloyd George as Sir John Simon tion, of course, has done much eight of the Party with him at the reven! the naked truth. Such present juncture.
"I don't really care much about going back to school this year. But it's such a good excure to get a lot of now things"
This gives this assessor the necessary basic figure to work on. Having arrived, at this basic Agure 4, which, in the Language of Numbera, means "Beware of a cadaverous stranger Becking this usecasor credits Mr. Yorkhire with his other liabili tles. Thus
money
Carried forward
Relatives dependent on Mr. Yorkshire; to wit, hië Aunt Emily and his half- alster, Allee
Relief to a married man in respect of his wife, Edith Life Insurance
Dividende, Interest, annul-
tles, etc., taxed before re-. ceipt; to wit, all of them. Say
Telephone account overdue Number of days during which Mr. Yorkshira uses England, her rain,, fog, wind, etc. .
Total... Allowance in respect of
losos in trade, wear and tear of machinery and plant, homes, etc. Say
Total stills
365
380
It is now quite apparent to this
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