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WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT.
JUNTAME DAY BY DAY
have borne fruit, he standa dis- 9 credited both in his attitude and in al-chosen words. For- tunately, the solution of the Indian problem has not, lain with men of
HE THAT WILL NOT REASON 18 A his outlook. Future history may,
BIGOT HE THẤT CANNOT REASON 19 indeed, show that it was fortunate A FOOL, AND HE THAT DARES NOT that at this critical time a liberal- REASON IS A SLAVE-Sir W. Drum-
wond. minded British Administration was in office. The convening of the Round Table Conference was a right step, ita recommendations were a logical interpretation of a vory complex situation, and the continuation of the pourparlers in
"A Kangaroo."We do not think any useful purpose will be served by publishing your letter.
A meeting of the Sanitary Doard is Indin has been more than justi- to be held tomorrow afternoon, when
formal business will be considered.
Ned.
now. They are based on
promise, as all worthwhile settle- ments must be, and if they result in lasting peace for India, they must win general approval. The happy termination of friction be- tween Britain and the Indian, people must be viewed as a triumph for the British Government, and | following closely on the success of
the naval conversations,
maust
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AMERICA FACES STERN_FACTS.
By VALENTIN E WILLIAMS.
New York. Irudely awakened
from a blissful NE of the first things in the dream of prosperity as something
4
to catch Inherent in the eye of the visitor from Engiand the hard grey light of morning i
Now York is the comparative absence of um-
to-day suggests brellas, even in such wet weather as banquet-hall where in the dawn the greeted my recent arrival on these guttering candles wanly illuminate
the havoc of past revelry..
It is elly of
spectres. Phantome of vanished riches haunt
the
overy
wealth who went down in the crash
They are glad enough to earn in year as much as of yare they would have expended on the festi- vitles of a single night,
Soaring TowerR
ahores. Into the terms of the adjust-
"The American people,” * Kaya meat It is not necessary to enter Oue non-Chinese case of typholdAl Smith, ex-Governor of New
N non-Chinese case fever and
of York and Democratic candidate ntcast. On every hand they are to com-mallpox
be met with, these erstwhile mon of to were reported
the the last presidential election, who, Mellen: Offlcer of Health yesterday,
as a child of the city sircets, knows more than most about the paycho- loat high-salaried Jobs in the logy of the American
mnascy,
nauing stringency. Men who sold an umbrella. They uxurious apartments, Long Island Tung Tong (aged 23 years), a maid-"never carry
states, motor-cnes, yachts, and are servant at a flat in Lana Buildings, are prepared to walk in eternal sun-
Well, the sunshine, that isving modestly on what they were Kimberley Rond, Kowloon, was found whine." dend hanging by a silk cord from to say, the boom period, is over.
|able to save from the wreck or in gas pipe in the kitchen yesterday,
subordinate pesiilons procured for American akies are grey to-day them by the good nature, the It is raining. In fact, it in pour typically American good nature, of ing cat and dogs. And America, Dr. Li Shui Pui will read a paper true to form, has been caught with their friends. on Post-Graduate Studies Abrond" out an umbrella. before the Hongkong University ruise its prestige so far as its Eu-Medical Society at the Union Assembly Room Turday 17th March, nt pire and foreign policies are con- 5.15 p.m. All are cordially invited. cerned. But possibly to Lord Irwin more than to any other one attribulable. man is the success His tenure of the Viceroyalty has Argyll Street, has reported an armed
robbery to the Kowloon City been marked by tremendous dire and that three men, armed with renetions to the unprecedented wave template the austere beauty of such dangers. But he a revolver nal knives entered the hutu depression which holds the entire staggering pile as the new Em- at 7.10 pm. yesterday and stole twland in its grip, many preconceived pire State Building with its 85 American conditions floors. now nearing completion, has remained calm, dignified and bangtee valed at $20 feom his sister.ideas about
without reflecting that w
that, like have to be revised. Much unruffled throughout. More than
uzzled European minds in Ameri- Karnak, this stupendous edifice, that, he has revented marked gifts
can psychology during and since the cost of six millions sterling, was reared on the supposition that as a diplomat, a capacity to suc-
the splendour it typifies would last used to the for ever. Europe has grown eced in the most uncongenial sur-
[spectacle (if it were not the mir- nge) of a rich America. With the cat is immensely prosperous and her Fundamentally of course, Ameri- roundings. Of detractors, even amongst British politicians, he has had many, but when he compe to lay down his after he will have
Mb . L. Rowbotham, and atr. 3.ficulties, even
Barnes, invito all friends to their wolding at St. John's Cathedral, on Saturday, 14th March, at 236 pm, and to the reception after wards at Int Crawfurds Restaurant.
At
DEATH.
RIBEIRO. On the 5th March, 1931, the Preach Hospital,' Jost María Vedru, aged 56, Funeral will pass the Homunsent, to-day at 5.30 pm. (Shanghai, Tientsin and Murao papers sense coja).
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1931.
PEACE IN INDIA.
Sdver Stabilisation.
The Newcomer. Probably more easily than native, the newcomer, fresh from the rhronic hard times at home, may appreciate the drama and the Yip Yae, a stall holder in a but at vibrant interest of the truly extra-a walk to-day amid the Roaring the zer of Prince Edward Road and ordinary altuation prevalling over food for thought. One cannot con-
PRETTY WEDDING.
POLICE OFFICER MARRIED
YESTERDAY.
here.
In the light of America's
war becomes clear.
waxing of American prosperity
everywhere abroad entered
The philosopher who would take
towers of Manhattan has abundant
enable her to be the first to emerge
Clenahan. of Port Talbot, South rope sold, or organised to sell timidly pluck the sleeves of the
passer-by and at the street corners the unemployed, shivering in the tangerines. With winter air, vend their apples und characteristic courage and vigour, though scen- ingly without understanding much what is it all about, the Americalt people are making a determined, if at present a somewhat incoherent, effort to
distress in with the their midst. The purse-strings of the charitable were never
large sections of the community limitless resources will undoubtedly At St. Peter's Church yesterday clusively for the "wealthy Ameri- from the present world depression. the wedding took place of Mrcan, Nothing was too good (Br But in New York to-day the mind the satisfaction of knowing thRobert James Clarke, of the long- too expensive) for him. By reason instinctively contrasts the luxury he has well and truly served his kong Police, and Miss Glutya Me-of his potential spending capacity: offices and shops with the diminished nd magnificence of banks, business King and the Empire.
Clemahan. The bride Is 21 daugh- ter of Captain and Mrs. S. G. Mc-te face of such pleasure throngs frequenting them, while on sorts n the French Riviera was the pavements outside beggars Wales, while the bridegroom is a son of Mrs. and the later him its finest luxury products, ita Schemes for the stabilisation of Clarke, of Mallow, County Cork art treasures, ita chateaux, Eure the price of silver are legion. The Ireland.
penas flocked across the Atlantic to The Rev. N. L. Watkins offteint-make music for him, to paint his only fault to be found with the vast majority of them is on the. and during a part of the cere portrait, to arrange his collections mony the Londonderry Air" was of books and pictures, to decorate score <if practicability. The latest to come to band hu any de Whalley..
played by the organist, Mr. R.his home.
Clear Thinking Needed. tail, however, sorms to differ from
Mr. E. Clemo
the gave away its predecessors in appearing to brile, whose
Though as yet you will not find dress was fbl It has been said that the justi- offer a reasonable basis for inter tace. The bridegroom was attend-many Americans ready to admit it, fication for any experiment is its national discussion. The authored by Mr. M. Flaherty as "best his state of affairs has come to freely opened; never has individual eventual success. Viewed
from Mr. P. II. Brownell, the chairman and the matron of honour an und. Better days will return entenvour more selflessly or widely
without doubt, but when no Ameri-been given. that standpoint, the recent release man of the American Smelting and
There is virtually no provision in Polowing the Chárch veremphy The merciless march of world the United States for Government af Gandhi and the invitation ex- Redning Company, and his views
in the forenoon, a recepting was events has played such bavoc with relief of distress, and the feeling tended to him to discuss leding are worthy of close examination
held at the Cafe Alexandra, where the comfortable theoreticians of is growing that the present exten- because he does not make the affairs with the Viceroy would up-
many friends of the couple and he boom period that in America sive measures of private assistance the bridegroom's brother officers to-day the prophet is more than benefit mainly the permament on- pear to have been a triumph for initial mistake of alleging that
the silver slump is a result of the attended to offer their congratula-usually
without honour. The diplomacy.
| employed (and chiefly unempløy- We are nasuming, of breakdown of trade with China, tions. Later they left for Macao, colossus
of modern America hasable mass without touching more course, that all obstacles hitherto but comer to the more correct con-
where the honeymoon is being been so staat it produces upon suffering of the middle classes.
by the successive than the fringes of the spent. standing in the way of an adjust- | elusion that the decline in China's ment of viewpoint between Bri-commerce is an effect and not a
was Madame Ohl,
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can car say.
blows of fate the mind of the unprejudiced ob- server the impression of boxer
copu
Poor Relief.
more
neute
lasting peace will have been laid | Karding the arguments concerning upward tendency has been check-this state implies is at present one individual effort by such schemes
ous,
that silver
Men Do Notice Your
Feet!
By MRS. JAMES RÖDNEY.
TOMEN who understand
talu and the Congress will now because of the present, low price of assuming the fed factor is 2/2) groping his way back to conscious.
American sentiment has always overcome and that the basis of a silver. fe alan points out, re-and should keep selling until the es from left to the chin.
The lack of clear thinking which been strongly against what is re- Harded here as the weakening of as a result of the Irwin-Gandhi over-production,
is. Governgents would boy when of the greatest obstacles to recovery,
poor relief" or un- talks.
At the moment of writing, probably the only commodity the the price is falling and sell when
If it is bewildering to the visitors official the outlook is decidedly.propiti-by its price. As
production of which is unaffected the price is rising. The equili-to New York, with this picture of employment insurance. The newly interest in social a by-product [brium would thus be well protec Jarmly etched upon the mind, to find legislation as the result of the crisis
a wealthy and prosperous America. awakened If full and complete accord mainly, it will be brought into thee. On the face of it, the plan is hiswelf in a city of long faces and is symptomatic of the change which is reached, a development of the nurket as long as allied metala | sound enough to warrant close tightened belts, of bread lines and is coming over the American. first magnitude will have occurr[continue to be worth mining. examination by interested authort-public charity, how much more be mentality for Britain and the ed, one which should remove onee This has not encouraged over-pro- | ties.
wildering for the American thus rest of Europe not the least im-
portant feature of the situation. and for all any thought of future duction, he asserts. On the con- trary, production has only in- serious trouble in India,
creased by 22.5 per cent. per de- The Round Table Conference in ende as compared with 52.48 per London was the starting point for cent. for copper, 51.6 per cent, for the new position since created. Į gold and 11.4 per cent. for zinc. lis outstanding effect was to ro- On this basis, he rejects every veal a decided change of heart theory regarding the causes of the even amongst the British "die- unprecedented slump in price with hards," so much so that the In- the exception of that thrusting the responsibility upon government dian delegates of all shades of
sales of demonetized metal. Such opinton were able to leave Eng-sales in 1928, 1929, and 1030, were land with a firm assurance thint eighteen times greater in volume Britain was actunted by considera-than the total inerens in output. tions of the highest sincerity, The diagnosis implies the remedy. anxious to meet legitimate Indian Avolding the bimetalism pleus; aspirations and to secure, In the Mr. Brownell, Buggeats an in- mutual interest of all concerned, any ratio to gold. He asks for an formal stabilization without fixing'
a' united, peaceful and progres-international understanding that aive India. The vapourings of the silver owned by governments will reactionaries, of which we have not be sold at a price less than had 'far too much within the past 2/2 per ounce, slightly more than few months, have, happily, been double the present price, coupled ignored by, those of more liberal silver stocks up to the limit allow- with undertakings to replenish.. and reasonable outlook whose one od by various national laws desire is to solva a problem which governing aubsidiary coinage has hitherto dolod, the arts of whenever prices fall below a cer- atatesmanship. Mr. Churchill tain point. It is important also to may, with questionable taste, re-note that Mr.. Brownell means fer to Gandhi as a half-naked,
stabilisation and not merely arti neditious fakir, and may have makes a natural recovery. It is
ficial price fixing until the metal, been chagrined that the Congress part of his scheme that govern leador should personally exchange monta should begin to sell their views with Lord Irwin on India's stocks immediately silvor prices future, but now that the parleys begin to rise above 2/8 (that is
"I wonder if that fellow over there is trying to flirt with us."
Whether clothes nor musculine
psychology fondly imagine that men never notice dress details.
Yet the fact that one frequently hears of ordinary American girla winning-in the teeth of inter- national competition-husbands of all nationalities, with riches, posi- tion, and good looks. At any rate. they win admiration for their chic, And the difference between the average` business girl one sees in Now, York, London, and Paris. is simply one of detall. It seems to me-t
-to be chiefly a question of shoes, stockings, gloves, and hats.
In
howover London
noatly turned-out a girl may be with re- gard to her frock and coat, ane seldom finds her legs shown off to their best advantage, or her feat * and hands properly fitted: Sho may explain that good shoes and gloves are too costly.
But in New York they will never agree with this argument! Shoes, stockings, gloves, and, quite pos sibly, hats are moro ossential" to
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