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TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1931,
achievement that it give signi- ficance,
DAY BY DAY.
With the goal mere length....of} days has little to do. Wo nood. pot be disappointed if science
WHOEVER SINCERELY ENDEAVOURS finds itself unable to promise a TO DO ALL THE GOOD HE CAN WILL longer life. It is promising a bet-PROBABLY DO MUCH MORE THAN HE ter one-
life more free from IMAGINES, OR WILL EVER KNOW.-
Miss Bowdler, pain, a life in which men can more fully use the powers that The Pand.0, xkHashgar, from are in them. That surely in Singapore, is due, here at noon on
Thursday: enough, We would be foolish Lo ask for more.
India's Future.
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due here on Wednesday morning."
A Revolution Postponed! By WILLIAM J. MAKIN.
NOTHER THRONE in Europe both wonlth and leisure within
AND TO LOO ROUND 1t would its gilded and coolture within
Heem that
Prince Louis II. of aries. But the supply of rich Monaco has been in danger of and lelaured people scoms sudden- have diminished, The Joining the many ex-kings and ly to royalties who have, Ironically Argentinos and the Chileans, who enough, found a delightful refuge have been the real woalthy patrons of such places as Monte in his sunshine principality.
In that comic-opera State where Carlo for the past five years, are walters have become millionaires apparently staying in South and princes, particularly Russian America. The Russian indies and princes, have become waltors the Spanish gigolos wait in "vain the 1,000-year-old 'dynasty of for their wealthy patrone. And Monaco fs Itself in danger. The it must be difficult even for those inhuman, croupiers to remain in- populace cry for a new ruler.
The careful phrasing of the India Office communique, apparently in- tended to allay susplelan that all is not well, that serious difficulties
As from to-day, a "Cocktail Hour" lie behind the decision to postpone has been instituted in the Ground the resumption of the Federal Floor Ten Lounge of the Peninsula Structure Committee's work, does lotel. The Peninsula Hotel Orchen
tra will play selections of light music not wholly succeed in its objects. | from 0,30 to 8 The Government reckons without the many sources of private in- Charged at the Marine Court this mystery monger on the spot-Mr. known the tinkle of millions,
morning with having no red light on Phillips Oppenheim.
Traitor Needed. formation from India, where
the the port bow whilst under way in details of this plot to overthrow trouble lies. Mr. Gandhi's de- the harbour, the coxawain of a steam Prince Louis II, and to amnsh the Naturally this dwindling stream wind existing rulers of the Casino is of wealth perturbs the 2,000 clared inability to attend the Com-aunch pleaded that a strong mittee's session, if held in June is blew out his light. He was fined $15. better than anything Ruritanian Monegasques. Someone must be
novelists could imagine.
made responsible. A traitor must
Real life in Monte Cairo has human while a few miserable a habit evon of beating that franca filter into a bank that has
And the
Poisoned by a drug named phano-
A revolution had been planned be found. Many of the revolu- durat, which he took, Lee Wan (22) for April 15th. It was postponed. tlonaries who forgather in that Bving at 8, Wo Fung Street, was found dead in a room on the third The official reason that is to say, little tavern of the cliff demand floor of the Meichow Hotel yesterday. the reason advanced by the that the real ruler of Monte Carlo, The police believe it a case of suicide. potential revolutionaries for the M. Rene Leon, President of the postponement is as Gilbertian as Casino and a supporter of Prince Found outside the harbour limits, anything that has over come out Louis, also be overthrown. It is the master of a boat was charged of Monte Carlo. It was that the pointed out that a few years ago before Commdr. J.
Newill at the weather was not fine enough! the profits of this, the greatest Marine Court this morning, Defen- The weather, however, imgambling hall in the world, were dant pleaded that he did not know the
million Bmits, but when told by his Worship Proving even on the Riviera, so over
pounds year. that there were two lights at Lyemoon that it is being debated afresh ne Now, there is a beggarly £800,000 with Chinese characters on them, he to whether the well-pald police of to be divided by the syndicate.
Prince Louis is not the stated that he could not read. He was Monaco will go over to the re-
volutionaries with brotherly eclat. enormously rich man
19
that most
PRICE $3,200.
symptom rather than a chuso. Having striven might and main to VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED | nchieve an agreement with the AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE | Moslems, Mr. Gandhi is no nearer progress than he was three months THE HONGKONG HOTEL ago, and as well as any other man,
GARAGE.
he realises the uselessness of dis cussing India's future constitution without a Hindu-Moslem settle ment, or a definite understanding regarding the parts to be played by these antipathetic communities in the future Government. This high ly controversial issue hins got to
if the standard of revolt is raised. [people believe. At the sande time be faced. The Musluma have not Surprised in a burglarious attempt
hla personal income would bo Prince's Reception.
envied by the King of, even relaxed their demand for separate at 154, Johnstone Road at 5.80 this morning, Chan Lung, described as a electorates. Gandhi has seemed coolie without employment, and of no When, a few weeks ago, Son first-class State. At present tho disposed to give way. But 'Gandhi fixed above, was seriously injured Altesse Serenissime Princo Louis arndicate that runs the Casino
when he nttempted to escape
a yearly tribute by II. stepped out of the train at pays him is not the all-powerful politician leaping over the verandah of the first Monte Carlo on his return after 50,000, plus a percentage, now that the British Government has floor into the street le fractured a prolonged holiday, the battery gradually rising to 12 per cent, amounting to 8 per cent, and been inclined to believe. The one of his legs and was taken to of ancient brass cannon at the on the gross revenue over £200,- powerful caste adus are equally hospital by a district watchman. palace on the rock barked д Hongkong Telegraph. obdurate, and Gandhi'a "hypnotic
The annual gross revenue in Just before the 8.8. Tilawa sailed welcome. But not
now almost £1,200,000. eye" might well be a niyth for all for Singapore yesterday, Afteen burnt populace of his principality. the effect it has had upon them. As Chinese were found in the hold with Behind the opera-bouffe police cont. on gross-revenue, gradually The syndicate also pays 3 per
DIRTH.
MURPHY.—On 31st May, 1931, at the Victoria Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. T. Murphy, of Police Headquarters, a son.
The
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1931,
·HEALTHIER LIFE.
One of the favourite dreams of
this aciontife
Ная пра
baon
Sir John Simson anys. however, there is no reason for despair. In fact, there is some encouragement to be derived from the closing para graphs of the official communique If India does not settle the issue for themselves, the Minorities Com-
fined $10.
Dut
so the
Aun-
000.
Д
of
were tickets. They
charged stood a few blue bloused Mone- before Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon gasques. They watched his arrising to 6% per cent, to the Magistracy this morning, with having rival in surly contempt. Someone principality for public works, as attempted to stow away to Singapore. oven shouted: "A bas le Prince!" well as supplying gas, water and On pleading guilty they were each Nobody stirred at such hercey, electricity almost free of charge fined $50 or one month's hard labour Prince Louis looked round, smiled to everyone, and paying 3,000 in default of payment of the fine. and calmly stroked his grey hair. State employees, including police, Incredibly enough, the revolu-firemen and army. Prince Louis tionaries of this little State in-therefore enjoys an
A
Remanded from Saturday on charge of having stowed away on the
incorne
of
mittee will also resume its sittings
le a year, and 8.A. Trier from Shanghai to Hongkong, clude even such respectable per about £130,000 in London, while the British Hungarian, Stephen Kiss, appeared sonages as croupiers, flunkeys, relleved of all the care and Government makes it fairly clear before Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon waiters, and all those diplomat trouble of managing his prin- that it will brook no further post-mitting the charge, he was sentenced vaguely in the background at
Magistrney this morning. On ad-like characters whom one
seca cipality, ponement of consideration of the to one month's hard labour. He said the Sporting Club, and who are the revolutionaries? There is
What, then, are the plans of main problema after September. he wanted to go to Europe, as he often mach more distinguished, party that demands that the If this means what seems to be in could not get any work in Shanghal.
looking than the crowd of visitors Prince invalidate the old conces- ferred that the only possible solution of the hai that Mr. Francis Ayscough, for of the revolution in Monte Carlo Monegasques who are now without
Britain will supply
News has been received in Shang-
whom they serve.
sion to the syndicate and make If you really wish to hear news a new one under which communal problem, by declaring many years chief of the firm. policy of separate electorates In Mesara. Scott, Harding & Co. in to-day, it is easy enough. You comfortable and well-paid jobs the absence of a settlement between amputated. The operation was per half-way down the cliff from the
Shanghai, has had to have a leg will hear it in that little tavern, will casily find their milieu. the Hindus and the Moslems, we formed in Viennn on April 6, and Is Casino. Here,
Should the Prince refuse to a lounge-suit is take this drastic stop, then the. may yet achieve the destiny for In- believed to have been necessitated by de rigueur, for most of the people populace will proclaim a republic de-dia which Indla so urgently needs, the presence of a clot of bloed. It is who frequent this tavera
understood to have been completely condemned
are and take over the Casino them- successful. Mr. Ayscough, who is the during the better part of the day Monarchists. They prefer Royalty evening dress selves. But here enter the husband of Mrs. Florence Ayscough,
that buman life, at some time in the near future, will be measure ably lengthened. The average life span that we hear so much about has been stretched in the Jast generation or no; most of us have a larking hope that it will eventually far beyond the scriptural three score
and ten However, the experts on such mat ters are a bit dubious about it. There is. for example, me ac tuarial expert who recently clared that the actual number of years which an individua! can at- tain will probably never be much. greater than it
Still, he is an optimist. Human beings of the future may not live much longer than human beings of to-
now.
day, but he believes they will be a great deal healthier. They will Aupport fewer hospitals and orphan asylums, and their docters will be busier preventing disease than curing it.
POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK
to
many
the well-known writer on Chinese ari time. The tavern is usually flito a republic, and have actually subjects, is 72 years of age and retired ed at the right hour bv the produced a from China only a few years ago.
now ruler. He is doormen and waiters, the
the Prince Pierre, a popular young other workers from the Casino. man who happens to have been And over a cup of coffee or a expelled from Monaco after his Dubonnet, on Sunday, June 7th at 30 reasons for the dreamed of revolt. the daughter of Prince Louls.
you will hear
the divorce from Princess Charlotte, Members will assemble on the range, Police Reserve Orders issued by
Of course, the real trouble is Expulsion seems to have increased the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G..at that hour with their rifles. Uni-
form optional.
money, Monaco is one of the his popularity, and he is reported (Sgd.) D. L. KING, world's greatest
sycophantic to be waiting for the word to take D.S.P. (R). States. It depends entirely upon over the Throne of Monaco." He Hongkong, 1st June, 1931,
the rich and leisured spending walts in a little chateau just a mile beyond the boundary of the principality.
state-
King's Birthday Celebration. Members of the Police Reserves who have been warned for duty on June 3rd will parade at Central Police Station at 09.00 hours sharp. Dress White Uniform, Sunhats, Bolts, and tran- cheers.
Members
This, after all, is about all that any sensible man would hope for.
of the Sharpshooters The yearning Tor everlasting life Company will fall in, outside the Supreme Court Bullding, on the west seems to be one of mankind's fun-side at 9.15 a.m. Instead of at Central damental traits, but it is always Police Station na previously notified.
assumed that the immortality will be enjoyed in another world than this. The earth has too many Im- perfections. Few people care to linger on it indefinitely. But the mere length, in years, of one's earthly existence is not a prime consideration. Whether we are
| Dress-Khaki helmets, tunics, shorts, putters, belts, holsters and revolvers.
General.
Revolver Practice. There will be no revolver practice at the Bowen Rond Revolver Range on Wednesday, June 3rd, 1931
Police Training School. The weekly classes for Polica Reservists at the Police Training
to have 50 years or twice 50, the School, Kowloon, will be held as usual
on Tuesday, June 2nd at 5.30 p.m. and of the Flying Squad who have not All members of the Chinese Company
yet passed Part 2 of Training Course should attend.
Flying Squad.
The weekly Instructional patrol of the Kowloon Section will take place
most important question is, what are those going to be like? In promising better health for our grandchildren, the authority we have quoted holds up a brighter picture than would be the case if he simply promised longer life. on Tuesday, June and Fall in at To have life and to have It more Tsim-tka-Tauf Fire Brigade Station ut abundantly has always been the form, and Cap with Khaki Cover.
5.00 p.m. sharp. Dress—Khaki Uni- race's greatest earthly hope. It There will be no Instructional patrol is at the back of every Hrent for the Hongkong Section of Friday,
June, migration of massed tribes and. nations, of every revolution, of detailed for special duty at the Races Special Duty-Members who are many bloody wars; the hope that will parade at Central Police Station somehow something can be done on Saturday, June 6th at 13.00 hours, Dress-Khaki Uniform and Khakt to make the ordinary man's exis-Holmet. tence a little bit less bare, a litilb
bit more full of those moments of
Sharpshooters Company. Rifle Practice-Ride practice will contentment, of ecstacy or of he carried out on the Tal Hang Rango
4
PAT. OFEL
don't seem to be improving any, Madge," I need" a band to practice, with, and I'm not good enough yet to get
a job with one."
Monaco's Mixture.
TeVD-
Will the 'croupiers, the waiterą, the doorkeepers, the flunkeys, the policemen, and the cab-drivers rise to the occasion of a lution? Should a revolution come, will they march upon that pre- tentious but uncomfortable palace perched above a railway tunnel at Monaco ? Will the Monegasques prover themselves as fervent in revolution as did France herself many years ago?,
The trouble is that Monaco is almost as polyglot in its werkers these dogs as Geneva. The last conauts showed that there was a populace of 26,000 people in the principality. Of this number only' 1,574 wore Monegasquan. There were 9,626 Italiane, 3,126 French 2,242 English, 184 Bwiss,
829 Americane, 171 Russians, 177 Dutch, 40 Danes, 55 Hungarians," 86 Czechs, 193 Germana, 58 Turks, 23 Greeks, 13 Permians, and so on. A queer melange for a roś volution, but with such a populaçe anything might happen,
"It will be learned with regret that Mr. A. B. Lawson, who recentlyť re- tired from the position of manager of the Hongkong & Shanghal Banking Corporation: In Shanghai, han taken lil, on his way: Homália Mr. Lowson, accompanied by Kru,
Lowon andytheir daughter left Shanghalon May 12. by the Hakusan Maru, and transpires that Mr. Lowson dies on
|| dysentery? While on the VOJKARA
had to leave the ship_at":Bin” fón, medical treatment