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"A Chinese case of typhoid was* notified yesterday.
In Lord D'Abernon's opinion, this will be the most effective solution, If applied in time. Vie goes further and says that unless measures are taken, he foresees the certainty, of
ALL THE ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL non-payments and bankruptcies all POWER ARE USELESS WITHOUT A COM- over the world. "The result," he MANDING INDIVIDUAL WILL-Dix- declares,
"will be # worldwide reeli,
economical and catastrophe. both political," Dealing with the Ameri- enn aspect of the question, Lord D'Abernon says that since the time of Midas there has not been a more paradoxical position than that in which the United States finds it. self. The Central Reserve vaults are bulging with gold, while ware- houses are overcrowded with whent, cotton, and copper, all unsaleable except below the cost of production, possibly because too much gold has been accumulated in the central vaults.
S. S. C. on the
JOYS OF A SOLICITOR:
HAVE had many strange clienta) came abusive and swore that I was in my time, as I think almost In conspiracy with her husband.
every solicitor of experience has At last I was compelled to
Lieut. Commander R. II. Cowan has been appointed to H. M, S. had. Cumberland.
threaten that if she annoyed me Some years ago a shabbily-dress-any more I would certainly informi les old man called to give me in- ber husband and by this means 1 The F. and O. 8.s. Perim, from structions for his will. After giv was able to see the last of her. Singapore, is due here at 5 p.m. on ing me his name and an address The curious thing is that, a few the 17th instant
which was quite in keeping with years later, they were divorced- his appearance, he astounded me but the husband, and not the wife, by leading off with a bequest of was the petitioner. a half a million pounds to King
From the Canadian Nationat Railways we have received number of useful pocket calendars in celluloid.
...
Line
han
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George, “as a slight evidence of New Wills Every Month. his loyalty to the Crown of Eng- A common type of the cranky tand." This was vertainly a pro-ellent is the person-usually The Blue Funnel
mising start: but it was nothing woman who is constantly chang- issued a desk calendar shaped to what followed, for in the next ing his or her will. For one good and coloured to resemble the wall. half-dozen legacles he disposed of Indy-a spinster of uncertain age known funnels of this Company's a further sum of £2,000,000 14 mnde AL fresh will on 乾隆 ships,
leading statesmen and soldiers. average once a month for a cou-
-intestate. She As run over
instructions for still another
These view are refreshingly dirov am! te the point. They
The Society of St. Vincom def Of course I saw that he was a ple of years, until at last she died make out an unanswerable ease
Paul acknowledges further crank, and after persuading him and killed by a motor-bus whils for international action not only donationa to the recent Fete, that I must consult before Rakhe was on her way to me with amongat which is a sum of $100 ing a will involving such targe with a view to removing the harm-
from the Club Lusitano,
amounts, induced him to leave last will and testament." The ful effects of the cornering of gold
on the understanding that I would but also in order that the world. From Messrs. Butterfield and send for him when I was prepar-iorn fragments of her previous
will were found her handbag. nave erceived a most ed to proceed. I have never seen) currency problem may be invewire we
effective desk calendar issued by him since, and sincerely hope) In one will she left all her, pos- tiented. Side by sale with thethe Australia Oriental Line, Very that I have not been the menu sessions to a home for dogs, in gold problem is that of silver, and artistically produced, it embodies of depriving the distinguished another to the Chancellor of the Exchequor towards payment of the two are closely inter-related.tudy of Hongkong island in legatees of their good fortune.
colours, with a big junk in the t
Another client, who pestered me the National Debt; in a third to Any international action to deal foreground.
former lover whom she had dis- for years, was convinced that he carded and who had fallen on evil with the gold question inost i-
Letters of administration have was entitied to a few million in days; in a fourth, to be equally evitab have is reaction on
been granted to Mr. 6, T. Mas, ofed with sheaves of papers to prove tench of whom for one reason or Chancery. He always eume arm-divided among a dozen people, Mrs. William Farmer and her Hver erisis, especially it, as The Asiatic Petroleum Company.
family wish to tender their
The respect of an estate of $300 his claim; But as there
other was "disinherited" in 靄 gratefal thanks to all their possible, notice be taken of
loft in the Colony by his wife. such money in Chancery, and as series of codicils. And when she Pecently Friends for the many Boraluzgestions which have
Esmee Maude Melrose May, who his papers were a clumsy fabricn- died it was discovered that her on- Tributes and letters of enn-
this tion, I could, of course, de pottire estate died intestate on 24
May 27,
was valued at less dalence received, and for the
could not. how-|
her income had sympathy extended to them in
ever, persuade him that his claim than £100. All their heavy begravement.
was worthless, and had to resort come from a life-annuity. As a result of a quarrel be. to all kinds of expulients to get rid
But the most extraordinary tween two chair coolles at the of him, until finally I had to give client of all was another lady who junction of Wellington
and orders that he was not to be ad-directed by her will that her on- Aberdeen Streets, one of the men initted. was removed to the Government | Civil Hospital suffering from stab wounds, nileged to have been In ficted by the other coolte, who i How in custody.
The
the
IN
So year, at 137. Adelaide Road, Lon ing for him.
don,
is
been put forward for fixing ratio between the two metals. far as the Eastern markets erncerned, the silver slump proving disastrous to Americs and Europe, shutting them out almost
Thongkong Telegraph.rely.
FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 1930.
CURRENCY THE REAL TROUBLE.
by dealing with the gold and eur- rency problem than by any other
Berns." [n thesu words,
Lord
For that rensun alone, we cannot conceive that there wil hen continued willingness to sit bark and let events take their own
cotiin, **2122171 prudence de- mands that the isang he squarely faced.
We
the autbreak is not known.
image was small, The cause fj
The
to
I
Force of Habit,
WAM NO
LEAVE
YOUTH
ALONE.
By a Young Man.
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Into China and the penalties ai-obviously cannot
years ago. The argumentan that I tried to persuade her cocktail complex is typical of our
bear analysis,
that she had no ground whatever accusers' arguments, but they to ro upon. She invariably be-fought to'know that thousands of
tire estate should be realised and converted into Bank of England notes. These notes were to be burnt, and the nshes scattered client in his prosperous days, but r
A man
who had been a good
her grave. "My money," "has she declared in her will, had lost his money through madnever been anything but a source A small fire broke out in a shop to ask me to invest large sumsum determined that it shall not apeculation, used to call regular-of worry and anxiety to me, and at 51. Main Street Shaukiwan, late for him. It was more pitiful than spoil anyone else's life as it has last night, but the fames were amusing to see this shabby, down-polled mino." extinguished by the police and the h
[at-hecis man; who had innates without the assistance of
scarcely # the Brigade which was summonet ask me to invest
penny in the world, come in and Dollar Drop Canard.
to the Beene. The rsten!
sums running of intu hundreds of thousands of "If you desire a return of good If we took the trouble to quarrel
pounds in some "ound security," market conditions, if you wish for with all the wild accusations made
"Consola or #afe debentures," "hel higher freights and more trade ne-ainst Britain from time to time
would instruct me, "nothing risky, case concluded at the
you know. Now that I have made. |tivity, you will achieve these with the various writers, the probablH- Kowloon Magistracy yesterday my pile i mean to keep it." And} greater certainty and greater speed | ties are that there would remain afternoon in which three men and then the poor fellow would chucklef
Hittle time for other pursuits. woman were charged with kid-at his astuteness,
napping Nevertheless,
young Chinese hoy. without a word of proteat n most sentenced
cannot pass One of the men was convicted and Another client had such a mania one year's hard for litigation that if he had been mischievous article from the penfabour and twenty strokes of the fallowed to indulge it he would D'Abernon, former British Amor Mr. George Bronson Rea, in the birch, the others being discharged, soon have been a pauper, although bassador to Berlin and head of the For Eastern Review, alleging
he was a fairly rich mati. He was TN his latest play, Mr. Someraet British Trade Mission to Argentine, inferring that the British Govern- commonsense. If it could serious-nder the strange delusion that Maugham has vindicated the summed up bls views on the world-ment has wantonly caused they be suggested that Britain's the whole world was conspicing revolt of age against youth, and ovide trade depressing which is at present silver slump by way of establishment of the gold standard and he used to call on me several modern young men and women. [to insult, nunoy, and cheat him; penned a vigorous onslaught on in India was expressly designel times a month, breathing fire and He has joined the bishops, old present causing so much anxiety, revenge for this Kuomintang effort in 1925 to ruin British trade ia
to strike back at China, we could destruction against someone He was speaking at the anmol din-
or muids, and other cantankerous |China, We cannot, oven ir We not imagine a better example of other, and Instructing me to pro-folk who, for some pervertod rea- ner at the Liverpool Chumber of
Were s disposed, publish the "cutting off one's nose in spite ceed against them.
son, cannot leave youth alone to Commerce. At the same time, he article in full, but at the risk of one's face." Summed up, the suggested that, so far as Britain being accused of divorcing men- artfele suggests that. Britain has a much better husband than sho These periodie outbursts are so
One good lady who really had work out its own nulvatin.
is concerned, tariffs would maily ag-
tennes from their context, we wilfully destroyed the last rem-deserved was so insanely jealous childish, and yet so exasperating, gravate the situation, saying that quote the following as illustrative nunts of her trade in the Orient that she would call on me several to young people. They are accus- in retaliation for an abortive at-[times a year to instruct me to com-ed" of every variety of vice and the addition of new obstacles would the attitude adopted by the
author in the course of "reflec-tempt by the Kuomintang to ac-mener proceedings for divorce degradation, with cocktail-drink- not provide any effective cure. letions on the proposed silver loan complish the same thing a few against her husband. It was in Ing prominently specified. This would, he said, rule out the position of fresh impediments to tachil to boycotta and trade war. is frivolous. trucks. as he would rule out the fare." "IF ་་ were given to throwing of sand into an engine
moralising."
Mr. Rea, "il. would be easy to point out that which is running smoothly.
the so-called capitalistic nations have ways of retaliating other than by military force and if Great Britain had deliberately set out to even up the score with China Conforming to the damn caused ing that the presen! world crisis have found a more efficient way by the 1925 huyentt) she could not has occurred during a period of fall
than be manipulating the production and that it has not been silver exchange to the disadvant eaused by political disturbance of age of this country. The Kuomtin- labour unrest, he scouts the super tonu, or the Nationalist Govern- ficial suggestion that over-produement; nearly Wrecked Hongkong tion is the cause. The trouble is, and British trade with China,, A he thinks, that the present position few years later Great Britain, has been treated solely as a trade, Chinn in half and reduces it to a through India, cuts the wealth of crisis, whereas it is primarily a cur-state of bankruptcy. The moral rency erisis. The gold stamlard of is that boycott and trade wars the world has become unstable, and work both ways. China scored us there is no likelihood either that her victory over Britain and inf the production of gold from the now paying the penalty mines will increase, or that the non. Kuomintang is golting a dose of monetary demand for gold will fall its medleine aumlalstered in off, the deficiency in supplies wi forced the bitter dose a few years
exactly the same manner become more marked in the course ago upon Great Britain." We must of a few years. Relief must there confess we are natonished to find fore
be derived from remedin. Mr Reh even looking at the sit- mesaures in the management of tion from that angle, because we gold, a greater economy in its use.tion to impair British relations cannot believe there is any inten- and a more intelligent útilisation of
with China. But the allegations tho reserves which exist. The do Great Britain a very serious necessary gold can be found in cor- {'injustice;\not so much because of tain bank reserves if intelligent in their lack of accuracy, but because ternational action is initiated, and, they imply a total lack of ordinary
It will la of interest, in view of the serious situation crested by the rise in gold and The slump in silver. fo unte a few or Lord D'Als reope top prints
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“I couldn't pay you much salary, but I could teach you in two years how to be a successful merchant."S"
young men and women have never insted a cocktail in their lives,
They seem to base their denun- clutiona on the exploits of that |coterie known as the Bright Young People, who receive unmerited they ought to publicity. But know also that the B.Y.P. are no more typical of modern youth than are the street corner hooli- gans at the other end of the social scale.
The young people of this genera- tion were reared during a difficult time when everything was in state of chaos. The restlessness of the aftermath of the war is in their blood. They are trying to find a place in a world slowly re- covering from the war, a catast- rophe of which their elders are not blameless. They are experi- menting with life to find hap- [piness; but they are, far from ba-
ing the moral reprobates that the carping crities would have people bellave,
They have got to work hard and
Iivo clean. Competition In the workaday world was never keon- er than to-day, and to establish a position is a tank more difficult than that which confronted their parents. Yet when they attempt to koop at for the struggle, to put into practica the advice of health experts, up rise the critics and de- nounce the waste of time and talents in such frivolity Quali Our eldere were no better specimens of probity and fndu try in their young days, but their children would never dromnijo. (Continued on Poppy T