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"Now," thundered the teetotal lecturer at his somewhat weary audience, "can ney person here give me a solitary instance of any good results attained by consuming alcohol?" "Yea," replied a countryman. "My own father drank three gills f whisky day, and lived to the age of 80, and-" "But shouted the tempestums lecturer, if a bad not drunk the 100 didn't let me whisky he might have lived to finish," are the reply,
"When my father died, he was buried ut his wn special request, at the bottom of our garden, and who, une six years later, the railway company bought and land for their new line, we exhumed the old boy, and by wal? he was even that in hotter-looking sperinten af a man than gan
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By ANTHONY ARMSTRONG (“A.A.”).
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PIX, AMERICA semper aliquid. Perhaps his parents, being
Ehovum In Indians, U.S.A., human, will send him over to a
tion to such strict measures of i control is based on a fear that legitimate business may be ham pered or impeded if too many-con- ditions are laid down. But surely in a matter of this kind the public safety must be the primary con-
At next Tuesday's meeting of the sideration. To Institute rigorous
speak on "The History and Work of control of the fro-cracker bus-Rotary Club, Mian T... Shin willi ness is just As necessary as to the Y.W.C.A."
my paper tells me, an attempt is good Pubile School in England. enforce such control, as is done,
Itis Excellency the Governer has to be made to bring up a baby ape where individual Idiosyncrasies of other dangerous re-appointed Dr. Phoun Seck Wengke a child of a well-to-do family, due to heredity will only be as- goods. The case for action is un-be a Member of the Midwives Board Well, well, well! Apparently this cribed to the natural queerness of
for a further term of three years.
11 foreignera. is the first experiment of its kind, jäll
Unfortunately answerable, and, with the jury, j
though personally i have met sev-"Tarzan" as a nickname would be
but possibly we trust that that action will be
His Excellency the Governor has eral children of well-to-do fami: dead cert,
how able to pet off any incipient In taken without the lenst delay. re-appointed Mr. Abbas ef Acculli tolles who I feel certain
bea Member of the Board of There is, however, a larger Education for a further period of two ever, we won't go into that just feriority complex by visiting the Zoo in his spare time to walk up years.
The baby ape, so says the in-and down in front of the monkeys in a smart Eton collar and jacket "Dr. Là Ek-quee, dinnian professor who has had this and make remarks about the un- The volved in fires of the type of that Hachelor of Medicine and Surgery of cerebral whizz-bang, is to be treat-icated proletariat. He ought which occurred at Staunton Street, the Hongkong University, has been ed just as a human baby is treat to get quite a kick out of that.
will be put into a gond home in resulting in heavy loss of life, to the list of medical practi-ed from the hour of birth. Het
the care of a nurse--the ape.
in the canD
question than that of the 'control of fire-cracker establishments in-
We refer to the dangers which
tioners.
During
Home of
now,
he'd be
On the other hand, he may the quarter ended June take this to mean, not the profes-ry good at cricket or somethin reples were analysed ander ser he will in wheeled armund in and as avoid
dren of his own age.
would be his
| are inherent in practically all the
ald tenement house property in the Sale of Ford and firess Ordina fashionable so npopularity. Yes, who has four All were genule excepting 14 ness, and play with human chil-game. A follow
hands to eritel with should be in-- men, samples of fresh milk.
valuable at point. He ought to He'll be just another kid about the X1. easily, and the arore His Excellency the Governor has the place. Presumably, too, he'll appointed Mr. E. 7. H. Lang to act wake the whole we lotil er sell-sheets of, say, the Eton and Hac as umcial Hordver to Hankruptcy, in tnx at six amor perhaps I'm adition to his other duties, during
with Cavour on
the absence o leave of Me. E. Jast biassez.
Aplz.
In this way, the learned pro-
the Colony. Most of these plners, with their narrow wooden stair- eaves and flimsy partitions, are veritable
match at Lord's would, ene nothing other than
day, became almost monstancus in leath-traps, from which escape
Their reiteration. of "caught in case of are is practically th
Ape, howled-A, de P. St. G. A. Unfortunately, the
On linishing his education be VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED | possible.
it is notified for general informa.fessor says, the mistake with be Pentherhaugh-Foulkes." AT OUR STURES ROAD GARAGE | aotlusritics do not seem to look.
should not lack for chufce of a Bas thst flis Honour the Chier avoided of establishing au animal suggestion rouzul next environment and structural imastie has ordered that the
thes
growing creature," Yes, Lean frer, even should he declthy to provements to such property of Crimim Sessions shall be held on
Monday, 20th July, id 20 o'clock in see that that would be a fatal remain in England. My own feels is that his real | kind which would certainly render | The forenson.
error; indeed it would be absolute-ing, however,
les future will be in his own country. ly detrimental_to_pa ambitions them more fire-proof, presumably
for this poor little Fur in a land where flag-pole sit ! Excellency the Governor hapes basing their attitude on the old
appusititel Mr. E. P. H. Lang to net thing would simply graw up into ting can bring in many thousands of eccen tale of unnecessarily prolonging in Registrar of Trade Marks and big ape like father, which would your, and other forms
Paten, in addition to his be rutten for it. It would never trie publicity almost as much, his the life of old premises. There 1-. | Letters
other duties, during the absence in have a chance of growing up any-iqueness will be his great ussel, "The only ape to have taken a de- however, another sidi
to this
of Mr. B. L. Agassiz.
thing like a professor at all.
Correct and snappy
American Kre saminta cum fande at War- matter: that at th public in
ills Excellency the Governor had speech is to be taught this ape, for Yard," are so on. ile won't have
tn terest and safety. Here, again,
re-appointed, provisionally and subject the professor thinks that, unless to seek tame by pushing peanuts.
up mountains with his nose... should have to His Majesty's pleasure, the the apes, lack the motor, appura leaving out of account the fact. we say this aspect
Sir Shousut Chow, to be an Unurial} Surely, all property
rendered relatively a further period of five pears, safe from Bre dunger is to be pre-
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=
FIRE DANGERS.
LTD.regard to
THE
ROLEX
"OYSTER.
WATCH.
"
Ho
verted. No we hope that consideration is given to this fires
cracker danger, some effort will
Tus
career,
Member of the Executive Council forfs of speech, they should be able that he won't have the right sort
also be made to deal with the whale problem of rendering tene-the ene ment houses toss dangerous those who occupy them.
to
HONGKONG RADIO.
Per-
the
to talk like human beinga. sonally I consider he should find use for the job. Be will be
recognised, honoured, even Remanded from yesterday on alut definitely about this motor ap ferred to old property tut sa con-charge of having neue to site paratas before he goes any fur-munerated for just being what he
when handling from Mrs. Kantskill in ther. Think of the time wasted human ape,
Nathan Road on Wednesday night, in trying to teach an ape-le; to any
In England, I fear, he might so Cheang
asily pass unnoticed is just an- Lan appeared befor Mr. "Oh yeah?" or "Okay, butch!" Hamilton. at the Kowloon Magistracy when all the while the inferior another dann human-particularly this morning, for sentence and was motor apparatas will never if he took to living in small pri-
too, ordered to receive twelve strokes of able to make the grade---time,
and three months hard, that might so much more profit-te hotels in Bayswater. But in America the vaudeville interest In expressing the view that the
ably he spent in teaching he would compete wildly for a variety labour.
beings to talk like human beings.
turn by
'Appy Apc. absence of adequate regulations in
the well- However, assuming the ape known eccentric comedy dancer the storage of fire
chitecture youtains a potential
he could pick up odd thousands efackers is reprehensible, the jury
human oudspeaker and that it from advertisers by endorsing can be properly tuned by
safety razors or ape- which entred into the Staunton
nurses, governvases, uni
profes. Cigarettes,
nuts: publishers would daher Street fire, disaster has by
Privileges of the Peers,
COMMITTEE'S REPORT FOR
sors, forsee a great future for rotind him with tears in their LAST MONTH.
him. Instead of sitting around in Leves. nuans overstepped the mark, The
Sir Edward Grigg, erstwhile
straw behind bars all his days, the yes, hegging him to sign a con
tract for his autobiography, very het that within a spars of
Jeral, ime of the host table-
The monthly report for June, full benefits of civilisation will be "From Cradle to Apchned," aml three years there have been personalities in political life, and issund by the Hongkong Brond-his. He will start well up
finally Hollywood would claim him course of life. Instead of from for its own, "Dwight Ape-Screen- fewer than seventeen fires in which { now to be found with the Conservi casting Committee, states:
The actual bours of transmis-serateli like most other apes.
land's Simian Hero. Cracker-shops have been involved, fives, reccnfly issued a pamphlet
His carlier years, of course, will pro-not be a bed if rotus. Even as a There, I think, in a Beverley should have pointed the necessity entitled "Three Parties or Two?" sion totailed 244.25 of which 138.
Biterary style,were devoted to European Admirale
filis mansion, with two swimming Chinese baby his foster parents will get pools and a jungle room, he would- graames and 196.25-to of the strictest possible control wi
balanced in political temper, it re- | programmes.
little peeved when such establishments, Yet, as the
an eloquent appeal to Monthly percentages:-Euro-aonts peer into the depths of the Find Himself. His super talking Under- "Corias of the alms hiran 56.50. Chines 43.50, Liberals to follow
cradle and insist
draw crowds ali law now stands, anybody can ap moderate
world," would During the month the
over the world; and even if it turn- parently open such a shop, in any example, and to ally themselves
Sneialism.
ed out that his motor apparatus With the ing items were broadcast:-Dauce, type of filing, and not observe against
programurs 4. European studio chimp, Moreover, he'll storienis 01 majority of other polities, Sir Edward Grigg is con- vinced the Britain will return to the two-party system. He is also 14 convinced, with many others, that Staunton Street, in any part of the Liberal Party with disappear in June, 10. even a domestic bullding-and we the process unless it is prepared to
crackers
the slightest precaution except in respect of such goods tundly used for sale.
Istered. an
247 -
14 A
in
presented
all know what the average tese-subscribe to Unionism and to join the fight ment house is like so far as fro the Conservatives in dangers are concerned,
against Latour. It has up future
21 rubbing shoulders with the As was disclosed in an interview Socialists. But Sir Edward Griggs with Mr. Wolfe some little time is engaged on a campain which the back. the Fire Brigade has long methods of the Conservative Peers realised the necessity of the law are bound to frustrate. However being amended so as to minimise determined moderate Liberals may be to break away from the "unholy The dangers arising
The alliance" they will certainly not ac- storage of qackers, but for some copt the House of Lords, massed reason or other abstacles have with Tories, as their guides upon been placed in the way of putting denweralle institutions and develop- Lord Inilsham, the chief very desirable reforma into effect. ments,
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mittee has been mentioned in this puraning a policy the danger of connexion, but to the ordinary any while he refuses to recognise in spite of repeated warnings by men ma it is little short of amazing of his own party. He persists in the. that the ophions of this body belief that the voter of 1931 will
'should' appear to carry greater accept the, edicts of a hereditary on democratic legislation. weight than those whose duty it is Ilouse to see that adequate measures of Many follies have been committed in, this false heliol, but there has are prevention are put into force.been none greater in the Inst twelve The existing state of affairs is months than the ruthless slaughter well described by the jurymun in of the Electoral Reform Bill, It is the Staunton Street inquiry as n a Measure in which the Peers have grave public danger. We heartily no direct interest, and which few Agree with the recommendations of them are competent to debate. The Alternative Voic: proposal has that not only should these fire-bean reduced to a farce, plural vol. cracker establishments be licenied, Ing to not to be abolished, and the but that no licences should be motor-car clause, dear to the heart ad- granted except in respect of pre- of the Government, though
n side-issue scarcely mittedly mince which have concrete stairs
worthy of the main principle of the and floors and adequate menuis of Bill, has been rejected. Lord Hail- ORCADO. Another very desirable shara may be surprised when the suggestion is that the storing of day of reckoning comes.
New Licences issued
.the
enthusiastic
likenesses, and
follow take it out
poor certainly
the concerts 5, Chinese relays 5. Euro-be unhappy at school. Speaking fidn't hit on all six, this would bean lectures 5. Chinese lectures as one whose school days were hardly be a drawback; he could 1, Chiness children's programmes none too easy owing to the post any he was a Swedish or Cen-
sion of large ears, I shudder to tral Buropean ape.
The dollars would come rolling during think what an ape would have to
in, and ultimately, I imagine, he put up with.
would get jungle-sick. Then either he'd break away to the big oper spaces where apes are apes, or he'd found a charitable society for eu- couraging the submerged upchond of America, possibly undowing a professor or so to take human fchildren and bring them up 48 jorang-utans by way of revenge..
"Here's your lunch, darling."-
"Lunch 7 For Pete's sake, can't you leave me alone long. enough to write this love song?-I'll bet you forgot the
mustard again."
PHIPPS aces
SOME NEW WAR CREATIONS.
COME entirely new notes in
Aummer-weight bombs and a torpedo with the new waistline are among the attractions which Mogars. Vickem, Ltd., are showing in a display of armaments their Westminster showroom.
at
Messrs. Vickers can congrutu- late themselves on their enter- prise. They are the first firm to window-dreas war, which has hitherto made its way without ad- vertising a fact which leads us to the confident hope that Menare. Vickers will kill Mars with pub
L
There is no doubt about the
fact that the publie is tickled to death with Messra. Vickers's amazingly lethal chambers. There must have been at least 50 noses flattened against Mesare, Vickers'a plate-glass window when I visit- od the establishment yesterday.
Perhaps the centre of attrac tion was the Vickers "Wildebeest," an exceeding ingenue day-bomber, which contrasts favourably with some of the more sophisticated evening creations now in vogue.
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