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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931.
esc Government. Tho implication is that if a foreigner moves only a
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even remains within close proximity to the National capital, the Central Government cannot guarantee hk immunity from outrage unless localC. authorities are beforehand advised
DAY BY DAY
MAL-INFORMATION IS MORE HOPE- LESS THAN NON-INFORMATION.-C.
Collon.
A scule of charges for official ex. aminations by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon is contained in the Gazette.
It is notified that the name of the World Tour Company, Chinese
off the Limited, Kegister.
has been struck
"YOUR NAME &
BUSINESS, SIR!”
By A. R. MacDONELL.
TRADITION in our older Gov-
So far during your tour you will ernment Offices, I say older be live felt that, whatever you are, cause it is impossible to keep you have been taken for and treat- track with the new, dies alowly and ed like a gentleman. On catering
however,
the mea- the shadow it casts lies deepest at the Home Office,
ignore you the base. Any casual visitor may senger will probably
some small observe this by studying the bent until he has finished
Hu will then Ing and demeanour of the messen- he may have lu hand. Ho of Dr. Ng Yeok-boom.
дета and servants, and each Office look you slowly up and down; when Bachelor of Medicine and Sendiflora. To be a messenger te conscious ho will subject you to
any he is sure you are sufficiently self- of Hongkong University, has of the older Departments of State added t the lint of medical practi- tioners.
Judgo Sir Peter Grain le coming to of his movements That Is Hongking to attend the Full Court suredly a nice state of affairs for on August 10. # Government which claims to have unified the country to adroit. The fact, of course, is that even
It Thorburn did have a passport, he would not have escaped the fate which has befallen him, for the simple reason that Nanking has not
The name the cle- the power discharge mentary obligation to which we have referred. The passport aria- ment is obviously #men after- thought, an attempt to lay hold of any point, however irrelevant it may be, in order to make out a case, I cannot, however, be seriously [considered, and certainly cannot be nerepted in discharge of Nanking
Rability.
a
by 1.E. the A proclamation Governor orders that the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1931, is to come inte uperation as from July 31st.
Job
is a mark of great trust and inte- species of third degree concerning of his De yourself and the object of your grity. The tradition partment to a messenger is a matter visit. There will be much waiting in the corridor and generally speak- The Treasury is the oldest building you will be glad to take your of distinction and honour,
us, and all within the building is at all to the Cenotaph again on in keeping. The walls and found leaving the building.
The Colonial and Dominion Office tions of the old "Rear Pit" still It is notified that a first and final exist, the Chancellor of the Ex- is it re-as-you-please sort of place. When the messenger has finally dividend of $100 per cent has a chequer when in office, sits over the made up his mind who is the official declared in the matter of finger Pit The maze of dark handling that part of our far-dut corners and dead Empire about which you wish to corridors, odd
and Company, also known as E. Hing
...
Chan and as iting (In Liquidation) ends bewilder even the initiated.squire, you will that that official
the Far High officals sit in what were to be quite the wrong person and Tudor
It would appear that Nanking has an impression that if it persista
Among the transfers in long enough in disclaiming all res-
East made by the Seerelury of State the cellars. Gothic for the Colonies is that of Mr. T. 11. archways, which have long ceased answer your inquiry. The Colonial ponsibility in the matter, Britain
it. however, shares a Rolland, 1st Gr. Wireless Technician,to serve a purpose, are to be found ice in no particular tradition: will tire of securing any satisfac-longkong, to Radio Technician, Hong-in many unexpected places. PRICE $800,
tion and, in emirse of time, drop kung.
We shall be vast- VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED | the whole issue AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE||ly mistaken, however, if that turns ont to be the case. Sufficient in- THE HONGKONG HOTEL
dignation has been aroused both in GARAGE.
The Hengkong & Shanghat Tiptris. 14. Inenter in Hongkong. ", Queen's and C. and Blakle Ron.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1. 1931.
SHEER SUBTERFUGE.
from the Colony.
You may perhaps be met by
distinctloa with the Foreign Office, and is often referred to by its initials. Nobody over refers to the Home Office in the of H. O. or the Treasury as T.
familiar terms
If you visit the Admiralty or the leave the civilian
His Majesty the King has approved. the appointment of flou. Mr. C. G. S. messenger who was born in Dublin Mackie to be temporarily an Unofi Castle. He will tell you that the einl Member of the Executive Council oficial you wish to see is in: he In the place of the Hon. Sir Henry will then instruct a subordinate to War Office you Shangbai and in England to indic Pollock, who is temporarily absent fint out if it is convenient for you atmosphere. Yet, curiously enough,
[to be received. If you are
policeman on the door. In him, ate a determination to get at the
then regate you Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. mladed the man from Imblin withe War Offer employs a friouilly with stories of however, the military machine is bottom of this matter, and a de-advertise that on Monday, August 3rd, what once was at Dublin Castle; he evident. He will not let you move mund the punishment of the guilty,all departments will be closed. The will tell you how he used to take an inch beyond the threshold until
Hongkong Dispensary, Dispensing De
Miss Giteon, who shot at Mussolini, you have filled in and signed a There must come a time when Bri- jartment, will be open for dispensing to school when she was a little girl yellow paper; neither will he let you thin will not be satisfied with con prescriptions from 10 am to 4 pm is most respectful, but has a leave the building until you have
atul from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
raval friendliness about him,
returned him his yellow paper.
cocked stories devied with the one aim of deriving both the British
ment.
had
301-
oner!
4
Should you cross Downing-street According to a report to the police!
Many is the time I have retraced Minister and the British Govern-y Mr. D. W. Manton, Mannger of the Foreign Office, familiarly
the Chinn Light and Power Company, termed the F.O., you immediately my steps to retrieve that paper, for up to It must be examined by the floor Then it will be a cause of another transformer has been freed feel that you have "come
If you ure of sufficient immessenger and taken in to the oft-. taking other mensures than those open by thieves, this being the one at Town."
Chilum Rond, from where nine As one of electric fuses, valued at $150, have portance you will be met by Mr-cist you are visiting, who invariab of mere verbal protest.
Wright, the Head Office Keeper (nt the F.O.
In the War Office, as in the India Messengers, are Officely forgets to return it to you. our Shanghai contemporar)'s rebeen stolen,
Keepers), Mr. Wright was
Office, an official, on leaving his marked the other day, patience and The funeral took place on Thursday Lord Salisbury's valet, and it is room, places the door wide upen. afternoon of George Johnstone, the from Mr. Wright that the staff it is supposed that any patrolling friendly remonstrance have
Four year old son of Drum Major
Most messenger may then see that no un Johnstone of the 93rd Highlanders takes its cue and demeanour. If the attitude of the Nanking their way and have achieved Government on the Thorburn out-thing: the next step must be dif. and Mrs. Johnstone. The interment of these minor F.O, officials have mithorised raste is enrrectly interpreted in the ferent. Fiem and vigorous action was in the Happy Valley Cemetery, bees gentlemen's servants, not from paper. One would imagine, how- message which came to hand from is called for: warnings enough have ride and a profusion of wreaths from Berkeley-square and Carlton would have the cunning to close tho
From them you glean no stories of
In the Admiralty everything ta Shanghai yesterday. then it enn been given. It is now for Britain Alere number of people attended the House-terrace. A great difference. door on entering.
what once was. There is no wait- sple only be described as a crude piece to show the Nanking Government
The Health Bulletin of tering at the F.O.; your name is take and apan, and one is far acerer quarter deck than one is near G.H.Q. at the War Office. The Ad- of dipomatic side-stepping which that she is is deadly earnest and
will no longer be put off by blum Parts for week-ending July 25, con- and you are announced.
When you are ushered into the miralty messengers are old sailors; calls for emphatic prates! and ac-
room of a Foreign Ofee utfeinl tion by Great Britafa. Seemingly, and substerfuge. In spite of all the positive evidence that Thorburn has been seen alive,
solute
The Capone Case,
the body being carried to the grave-Dublin and Edinburgh Castles,
obregates.
gss- | hin
Even Chicago
but
person is looking nt
By HELEN ROSE. TUERE is a great deal of talk
about separate holidays for married people. But separate holidays are expensive in more ways than one. Aud, anyhow, you can't bolster up a falling marriage by leaving it for a fortnight. Getting out of a rut is of no use at all, un- less, you can stay out of it. And most people articular rut you are can't. It is far wiser
tain the following statistics:-Plague. -Alexandria nine cases, four deaths; Port Said two cases; Beirut one case? |
a name. Their cheeriness lenda a Algiers two canes: Bassein three crece, can gauge his ratit by studyin Youthey never seem to forget a face or two deaths; Colombo one case and one carpet; only Under Secretaries and breezy yet warm atmosphere to the
cases leads of Departments ever get a
highly polished corridors. death. Cholera-Basrah two
But be careful that you go in by brutally tortured, in the hands of It seems, perhaps, almost in-and two deaths; Bombay eleven and new carpet.
ton; Calcutta 48 and 26; Rangoon one 1f
you are sufficiently important the correct entrance for the public. you are nota caught wander- Chinese soldiery, the Nanking Gov-conceivable, but America has not case; Chittagong one case and two and want to visit the India Office, and that: ernment persists in professing ab-only discovered that Al Capone, daths: Bangkok one case, Smallpox, you will be conducted through the ing among the narrow corridors up. ignorance regarding the Prince of Gangsters, Caliph of Bombay two cases and two deaths; communicating door; if not in-stairs. It would be useless to look Moulinein two cases; Vizagapatam one rangle.. The atmosphere in the know the way. They would apot young Briton's movements, plead. Crime, Regent of Racketeers, and Caleutta two cases and two deaths portant you will cross the "quad-sinesslike or to pretend that ̃yon-
Baron Bootlegger, has been con-
ense; Saigon two cases; Canton on India Ofice is cool and well ordered, you as an alien, and then lead you ing that because he lived in a apiring to defeat the prohibition case: Shanghai one death.
as befits Indian offeinldom. The out before you had time to explain
the foreign Concession, his existence laws, but has decided to send him
building is always cool on your business. wna unkubwn to the Chinese auto the penitentiary, though there
hottest day, thanks to the enclosed These young college men, in Durbar Hall in the centre. The thorities. As If this cock-and-bullis a surprising delay in
unit, havo messenger will be cool and correct. The charge had a mysterious special story were not enough, Mr. Wang ing sentence,
the glamour the The official you visit is a person SACRIFICED TO MAKE to do with bootleg transferred falls back on the excuse that Thor-nothing
A CHILDREN'S was convicted of American newspapers have been used to obeyed. He probably saf burn, when he left for an unknowning. Capone
evading income tax, which must inclined in give to criminala to fers much silent humiliation to-day.
HOLIDAY. It is useless to gauge his rank destination, had not taken the pre- be a particularly heinous. offence the men who pursue criminals. caution to obtain a passport, and in a State which has just suffered Gang breaking has appeared as by his carpet, you must look at his romantic career, and the moral coal seattle. If it is of copper he the responsible authorities were a Budget deficit of £2,000,000. thus unable to notify beforehands not suggested that Capone effect of this is, the most hopofuiis of high rank, if of black japan the local authorities through whose should have remedied this unfort-fact in the story of Capone's fall. he is of lower grade. territory he might be passing, Innate position. urder to separe him protection. might jib at hitting his pocket Thus the Nanking Government quite as hard as that. But they had no option but to convict him, secks to wash its hands of all res for he calmly confessed to the ponsibility in the matter. The abcrime. For this reason, if no other, surdity of these arguments is too the best known man in Chicago need stressing. Then society will find his way to gnol. obvious to we have a story to the effect that What a commentary on American methodą, however, AL the representative of the Forelgi police Office who went with a War Office Capone is famous the world over. He is known to have amassed mil- official to investigate Thorburn's Hons from all sorts of illegal en- disappearance has since died, with terprises-some of them avolving the result that any further evid- startling murders. Yet the only ence by the only Chinese civil of-thing he is caught out on is the ficial who has investigated the ease evasion of tax, and, once, contempt longer available. In this of court. As the Christian Science manner does Nanking seek to Monitor uays, that the law has finally triumphed is cause for re- bamboozle Britain. We shall be joicing, but that Capone has escap- Lampsoned for so long should be cause for surprised if Sir Miles takes the slightest notice of these resolving that the conditi^sa which ridiculous pleas, which are an in-made such !numunity possible shall sult not merely to Britain but to be entled. If this is not to be the case, it can only mean that Capone foreigners In general.
The point which the Nanking will be succeeded by
figure in gangland. There Government appears to overlook 18 probably be a few episodes of that, passport or no passport, Thor-slaughter while, the now leader- The barn had a perfect' right, as every ship is firmly established. foreigner in Chian has, to expect Capone business will, however, go adequate protection. To assure on unmolested. There is never- thelons one reason for the hopo Buch protection is an elementary.
that Capone's conviction means duty which rests on every civilised the boginning of a decline la the State. But even if wo take the crime business. It is furnished by Nanking statements at their face the story of the eight "untouch value, they are a damaging admisables" who lod in, the work of alon of the ineptitude of the Chin- gathering tho evidence against
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4
now
will
"I say, my good man, can you direct us to the Turtle Dove ton room-1".
to make the
in as attractive as you can.
And if married couples really feel they want to part for a month. In their heart of hearts they want
to part for much longer.
The real drawback to a happy bollday for parents is the children! It may sound brutal to say so, but If only Six could be happily. dis Five Years and
Three Years
posed
1bo
of the annual holiday could made a great success.
The yearly trip to the scalde with the family is no holiday at all.
It is the same existence in another. town, with thrown in a fix
additional
Countless
all over the
country are butchered annually to the children's holiday.
course they are darlings. But. it is not very. exciting or rostful to drag oager"
ger creatures to the beach every watch them try to drown.
day, themselves, scrape aand from their
stop shothing
fights, wring
out wat follow donkey rides. and put them all to bad, for the same performance next day.
What
for
kit,
little Jaunts by charabane, the littlo tete-a-tete suppors at some Kay cafe, the little evenings on the plor, the leisurely strolls, and the novel in a deck-chair that should Continued on Page 7.).