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stituted Conservative Government would be likely to do. It seems to me, that it the Liberal Party is prepared to support this Govern- ment at this time, it is hard to imagine the pofitient circumstances in which It would detach itself from the Labour Party." He adds that if the present Liberal policy is continued the Party will be- come little more than a right wing
MARCH 4, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
THE PERSON WHO CORRUPTS THE FAITH OR TAINTS THE MORALS
OF AN
ANOTHER MAY COMMIT SUCH INJURY AS THE WHOLE WORLD COULD NOT COMPENSATE-Tucker.
The annual shareholders' meeting of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., of the Labour Party without the is being held on Thursday, 20th - Ruch a wingstant, at noon. advantages which would have of guiding policy in council ar influencing it through the constituencies.
That the present position is not considered satisfactory is also in- of The Na- dented by the views
that It is tion when it states doubtful whether it will be possible to keep the Government in power much longer by the precarious, day-by-des, hand-to-month methods which
Buffet hitherto. The time seems to have come, says
have
best course to pursue.
Home more
Hongkong Telegraph.ble, but there is so much in com-
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1331.
LIBERALS AND LABOUR
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPEED.
By GILBERT FRANKAU.
TALCOLM CAMPBELL, boat-idiotic twenty-mile-an-hour limit, Me poor Dehane Segrave's rid ourselves
that or four skilled driver doing sixty or seventy record, at a speed of over miles a minute, has sgain proved miles an hour la speo facto driving The eleventh annual general meet-that the exceptional British driver dangerously. Ife may be driving
that ing of the Kowloon Residents' Associats the best in the world. But what dangerously.
Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, om tion is advertised to be held in the St. Monday, March 9, at 6 p.m.
The daily returns showing the cases
WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.
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the chances are iness of a of the average British motorist?
wor'so danger than the unskilled dre Is he (and she) a better or a
skid, driver than, say, the average Fren-one who has never learned to
for instance-at half the speed. chman or the average American?
For the skilled driver's mind- Speaking as one who has driven The management of the Peninsula,
motorist unless this at self an expert that it will take Hotel advertises that there will be no in all three countries I maintain, and no man is entitled to call him- dinner dance on March 13 and 17, as definitely, the Roof Garden has been booked for least another three years before our is so with him-reacts in exact ratio paralysing effects of a law which travelling, the quicker will he grasp Often, Indeed-f the S. P. C. A. and St. Patrick's Balls, average drivers recover from the to his speed. The quicker, he is respectively.
An emergency. though rarely observed-neverthel- The report of the Superntendent of ess suggested that the reasonable you sit beside him it will seem to emergency prior to its occurrence. twenty miles an hour. the Botanical and Forestry Depart peed of a modern motor-cur was you that his mind has foreseen the And not only our 'motorista, but In other words, he drives with his ment shows twelve wet days during
ng with his when this journal,
the month of February, but that the definite arrangement, honourable total rainfall during the month was our pedestrians also, must rid them. imagination as well
And, personally, I believe that at least fifty per cont. of our road ac tion was on the 25th. with a fall offer has any relation to danger-or to both parties and as little irksome only 74 inch. The heaviest precipita-selves of the fallacy that speed per hands, feet and eyes.
cidents are caused by our national as possible to either, should be 24 inch, the next heaviest being the the reverse.
Pace, all sald and done, is purely lack of imagination--and at least reached. The Government will not ist, with 21. be able to formulate and carry
with brake-power alow car. question of psychology. Granted another fifteen per cent. by the right car,
The slow car ought to keep well through a coherent policy while its
of notifiable discasus which occurred equal to its powers of acceleration
one life is constantly menaced. Nor is in Hongkong yesterday, give it fair to Liberal members to keep Chinese ease of typhoid. For the (this is the vital factor in all pace in to the near side of the road. In week ending, February 28, the returns question); granted the right tyres a country such as France, which has enteric and a moderately open road, any never known a speed limit, it does them continually in doubt as to the were: eight notifications of
It may be fever (five in the Vilcoria district and man or woman of normal eyesight keep in to the near side of the road. one in Kowloon) of which one proved should be able to cover forty miles With us--glorious individualiets that no such arrangement is feasi-fatal. There was also one imported in any given hour-the pace vary-tulled by the twenty-mile-an-hour Clas. One fatal case of diphtheriating between, say, twenty-five miles suggestion-It usually hugs the mon between the immediate alms was reported from Kawion, and an hour and sixty, according to the very centre. And when it trien to
nolification and one death from email-
the villages encountered on the way, motorist behind both of them will do well to stop and light a cigarette. of both parties that it would be pox. Thirty-eight deaths from tuber-corners, the hills, the traffic, and pass another slow car-the skilled
Ask that same man or
woman, theculosis also appears in the statement. well worth while to explore
however, to maintain this average
While as for the driver with no for four hours in succossion-and ground.
the chances are that he or she will imagination-the chauffeur who Because hero the aays to you, after the accident, havo
a crash.
the "Well, it was his fault and not mine, entors into fatigue factor The Naval Pact,
calculation, and a weary driver try- sir. I was on my right side, all ing to maintain his average is often right-he, is even worse than the Th British travelling naval
a slightly pedestrian who steps off the pave- more dangerous than The pour showing recently made conference will rank as one of the
drunken driver. After a crash, in- ment without looking to Olsen's Music by Liberals in bye-elections almost astute moves in modern dis- |
deed, his symptoms are often taken there is a car coming. For a man's bo re- for alcoholic. Which is queer. rondspeed, I repeat, must music-lovers Home raises the old question whe-plomacy, and the outcome as a
Queor, too, is the fact that agulated by the speed of his mind. of time, great contribution to the peace of
i am well aware that this view | theatre-goers will have the pleasure ther or not in Grace Huges possibly in the near future, Li-Europe, warranting congratulation of renewing acquaintance with that man's driving nerve, like his riding
beralism will practically cease to all round; to Britain for speed of favourite band of entertainers, Mr. nerve, will vary from day to day. will not be popular in certain quar- when the opportunity Edward Branscome's Westminster And this is true even of your crack ters; that I may even be called a exist as a separate political entity.action
the Star Theatre, Kowloon, for a himself told me not long before he however, is the very spirit of our too, never likod age. The horse-coach has gone for There have been many forecasts presented itself; to France and Glee Singers, in their new home, racing motorist as poor Dehane speed-fiend" for voicing it, Speed,
the spirit of mutual farewell four nights only, commen died. Dehane,
going "all out" on certain courses, ever. So for transport purposes has the saddle-horse. Once abolish made of late that inasmuch as the Italy for
There is no dubt of a heary wel- notably Montlhery. policy of the Parliamentary Labour Concession which energed at theeing on Saturday, March 7th.
test and which made an agreement
Even in his case, therefore and our childish horse-power tax (which come back being afforded to Messrs. Party is not far removed, if at
pussible. Two mouths of
and pinnist). Ernest McKinley bull's-the main speed problem of British motors than all the fac
in America) all, from that of the Liberals, then anxious cues for naval Donald Reid (the distinguished alto doubtless also in Malcolm Camp-has done more to hinder the export and the tenor), was a psychological one. How torics brilliant lending France and Italy (tla latter will sooner or later he ab authorities. sorbed by Labour. That is a dishave undoubtedly been drifting Robert Scott (Scotland's gifted much more, then, should the aver-maximum pace of the lowpriced car timet possibility, and would, after farther and farther apart. Signs young tenor), dantes Barber Che age motorist consider, not the needle will rise from Afty-ave to sixty-five But until the average motorist novel and refreshing comedian, with his mind. all, be merely an extension of the of the development of unval cor-eminent bass), Albert Green (the of his speedometer, but the state of or seventy.
Personally, I know that there are trains his mind to speed, and cul- of imagination nisvement which in recent years petition between the twn Powers a rare singing voice as well) and
corners," bus caused quite a number of lead- were using grave uneasiness at Messrs. Wilfrid Thomas, William certain days on which I can drive Uvates the type ing biberals to serve under the the Admiralty. In a speech made Lowry and Maxwell Oldaker, to say with absolute safety at anything up which "gets round
usually after a hard spell of work the internal combustion engine samer of Mr. Kameny MacDonald, as recently as February 8, Mr.athing of the six delightful boy to eighty, and that there are others shall not get the full benefit out of
Telt versteg
Shanghai bas responded as keenlyon which it would be definitely the greatest time-saving, distance- Incidentally, Sir Charles Trevelyan | Mexander
an hour. And once, man. was one of these, and it is passing a grave warning, addressed to the Glen Singers as did long-dangerous for me to exceed five-and-bridging invention yet devised by and Italy.kont, and the reason they are, at forty miles
Embassy driving a slow car on the Autostrada indirectly to Praner
ut the present playing strange, in some ways, that he
Į pointing out that the time nur Their could be prolonged but fur from Milan to Comio, I became so should now sever his connexion
come when British retrenchment I definite arrangements with Labour because he feels be Party is not sufficiently Socialistic in its outlook.
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APPEARING AT KOWLOON ON SATURDAY.
Hongkong
soprānas.
and
www.
to open in tored, with the speedometer needic
at the wheel.
see if
in naval construction would have Singapore to March 17th, whicii at sixty, that I nearly fell asleep So Glad to Meet
to stop if the Continental situation must be adhered to. Both France dis not improve.
The Westminster Glee Singers will probably be the fast touring
Your Late Wife
Yet only the other week I read of In the meantime. there is nd-and Italy were proparing building company to visit here for sume con-a magistrate describing a speed of mittedly a section of the Liberal | programmes which would have [siderable time-certainly the last fifty miles an hour as "monstrous." Party which dislikes the policy of struck at the very foundation of of auch magnitude-so longkong Which is also queer when one con- By Lady (Laura) Thoubridge.
The audiences are bound to seize these siders the claims made for even the opportunities and see connpany cheapest motor-car on our roads to- keeping the Laimur Government in the Jandon Naval Treaty,
Lot us, for goodness sake, now One member of this see-aving factor was, of course, that whose merit has been tried and day.
hoth were just a little afraid of undoubtedly proved here) in n fresh
that we have at last abolished that recently "Xpressing
the situation, and realised how batch of new items. pro-
real was the responsibility of the country which began the naval
office.
tion.
asserted
that by
his
views. longing for an indefinite time the life of the present Government, the
race. This hesitation would have Liberals are making an orientation been sufficient if the two Govern
of policy which cannot be ignored,ments had been prepared to dis- them- issues between Exactly what the Liberals have euss the
but Franca-Italian rela- undertaken, exactly what has been selves,
have been tou promisul to them and, more im-tions appear to
what sunction delicate to admit of the spirit so portant, exactly they hold to compel the Labour essential for mutail accommoda. Party to perform their part in tion. Fortunately, Mr. Henderson this pactless pact no-one, he says, assessed the position accurately seems to know. Appearances to and carried out a brilliantly con- an outsider would hardly point to teived sortie Into French and Italian territory and provided hotween any satisfactory reality behind himself as a mediator these mysteries, ut all events from the two countries. Thus in a
But, Liberal point of view.
week, at the most critical time, even if the outcome of this bir-Pranee and Italy were brought to gain should be immediately favour-nn agreement for which Britain Able to the Liberal Party, the mat-and America have been striving tur. is not concluded. From the vainly for months, in far more circumstances, to point of view of the country, this auspicious
Out of the worst was How entente means; in the opinion achieve.
the best: Rivalry in of this observer, a continuance of brought
at an end, more polley of drift and political and naval affairs financiul dissipation in face of over, Franco and Italy should find of settling other out- almost desparate circumstances at the task home and abroad. "I can soc," he jatanding differences much easier. says, "no, possible gain to this One ground for auspicion has been dissipated, and the nir may be country, either at home or in its expected to clear entirely n relations with the Dominions or result. The figuros may cause a with Foreign Powers from the doubt or two in some quarters, continuance in office of the Labour but the mere fact that there has 1 Bottlement at all will Government, in any way commen-beon Aurate with thean evlin, even allow inform and modify public opinion Ing for the very worst that a sub-in all interested countries.
1
REAU, PAT.OFF
3 1831 MY NEA SERVICE, INC.
"Go easy on the high notes. He's been hearing from his
wife again."
WELL-KNOWN phase of our modern life is the ever-growings number of couples who seek matri- monial relief from each other.
The causes which lead them to take this step are often frivolous in their origin. But whatever they the method is the same, and having found existence with that particular partner unbearable, they wish to make a new beginning.
are
For this freedom they are willing to lay bare the story of their mar-. ried lives in the ordeal of the Divorce Court, a great ordeal even now when it is shorn of so much of
publicity.
Its
All
han
this is understandable, but.. brought about a curious state of things in these neo-Georgian days..
Almost
immediately after the
divorce a state of good fellowship late is established between the partners who, until that moment, felt nothing but loathing for each fact, become other. They, in friends, and once they have stepped out of the matrimonial cage, they view each other in a different as- pect,
Good points they recognised when first they met, and which in fact drew them together, become again apparent, and excuses are made evan The for the "Intolerable past." impossible man who was ruining ker life and whom it required ox- pensive legal help to get rid of, be cames again "Dear old So-and-so," than whom there are many worse we people, while instead of a "curse aka becomes a "dear little woman"
in they and it perfectly possible and
They even agreeable to meet in each other's houses, and to discuss all the detalls of their reconstructed lives, and the new experiences: which have come to them, such ex- (Continued Page:7)
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