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PREACH NOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING, BUT BECAUSE you HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.---- Richard Whately,
E
NOTHING BUT HUMBUG!
Says the Right Hon.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, P.C.
As Sir Alfred Butt has remarked, it is difficult to understand why youths and maidens should be allowed to 20 to The Call of the Flesh" on the falkles on a Sunday,
The quarantine restrictions imposed but not to "famlet"/or "The by Hongkong against afrivals from Tempest" tepal by living netary, Salged on account of cholera have.
bern removed.
VERYONE asks politicians ftraordinary crisis, until the Sep- When we look at the whole ques-
"When is the general election tential Act began to sound its tion brundly, we scarcely know225 Temple Strent, fell out of his bed awer they get la "Nobody knows."
Ho Kam-ting, aged 7. vingut going to come?" and the only an- foghorn. whether tough or cry at the last night and has been admitted to
The Hunted Flock. It strange position for a kurdities of the Sabbatur:rin. Kowloon Hospital. His condition is o
commercial country in dire giralis, serious in view of his extreme rage. Fet hoping for recuvery, to have caprice of a handful of Liberals. But now we depend upon the All we can do is to hope that
to live month after month with They have it in their power at eventually common-Яcitяe! and White untonding a junk of limestone this ponderous and disturbing un-any moment to end the life of this balanced outlooke will win at the Green Island Cement Company's
Hung Hom wharf yesterday, Yu certainty hanging over its head. {decayed, dead-aliva Pärliament, though, and that Bome of
the Mec-chuen, an employes, had a fant ridiculous provisions of the Sun.badly crushed and has been rent to
Kowloon, Hospital. day Performances Dil wit day be expunged.
ment to
the
kon
Other countries have,fixed forms
of
The action of Sir John Simon for their Parliaments, and we our and the handful of able men nego- selves in former times have had cinted with him Is important. But- party organisations which ensured the actual decision rests in other After having bitten a coolly raised that Governments should have a bands.
steady run Meanwhile an interesting little Ho Ching, a chow dug owned by Mr. majority and chior
Mr. Lloyd George was hardly C. G. Melchers, of 532, The Peak, was of office.
exaggerating when he declared. political comedy has arisen out of sent to Kennedy Town for observa-
tion. The coolie was treated at the tion la a process which should only constitutional
The weapon of a general elec-with characteristic
disdain the discussions. A writer to one Government Civil Hospital.
decorum, that the be used sparingly. It fa an Intenac general
would comc election of the reviews has pointed out that:
political convulsion. It disturbs when he chose. It certainly could When he fell from the scaffolding business; it frustrifes in the old days a Liberat was re-
economy; come at any moment, If he did of a buliding on which was employed. garded as one who believed in the In Lockhart Rond yesterday, Lat Kam, It polsons administration.
choose. He has but to raise "the rights of groups of individuais-aged 16, received injuries to the Face Governments and Parliamentsfabhorred shears and slit the thin-
are always at their worst when apon life." they might be Irishmen or South and neck. He was
Government Civil Hospital.
they are standing on a trap-door. No one can tell what motives Africans, to mind their own busi
The measures which would help will influence hith, Destre to serve An unknown Chinese there 1099. Yet, he points out,
been the country nowadays are bound his country of course! Desire to admitted to the Kowloon Hospital. to be unpopular, and when an do the best for his hunted flock! were no fewer than forty-three prisoner's ward, suffering from an election may come on at any melesire to make Mr. Baldwin Prime Liberals who voted against the overdose of opium. He was removed ment, and all parties are merely Minister! Weariness of the twists from the Hung Hom Police Station, sparring for position, no party in and contortions which sustaining Bill which gives local authorities where he was being detained on A going to take the risk and burden such Government require from PRICE JIK$5,440.
the right to permit cinemas TOTL larceny charge.
of advocating unpopular causes, Liberals; anxiety about the im- however right they may be. Sundays. He further points out
these elaborate man- Flight Lieut. W. F. Anderson,
pression VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED
Sad, but true! Nothing could oeuvres produce in the country: that local option has always been 1.8.0., D.F.C.. has
been appointed be more injurious to the health disgust at the slack clumsiness of AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE
Pilot-Instructor to the Hungkong considered a fundamental principle Flying Clubs in succession to Flying and wealth of Britain, and to the the Administration-all these will THE HONGKONG HOTEL]»f Liberalism, und hopes that fur leer H. A. Howes. He holds several vigour and sanity of its political play their part. Then add the in- foreign decorations for war service institutions, than that they should fluence of accident and caprice and GARAGE.
ther discussion of the Bill will en-
and has bad considerable experience be based for lengthy spell upon the present foundations of govern ahle electors to find cut just exact with many types of machines. The is probable early general election, ment in the United Kingdom of que here in the first week in Septem- and no means of telling when it Great Britain and Northern Ire- ly what a present-day Liberal is.
ber..
will come.
land stand plainly revealed. The wit of mun could deviae no But beyond theso dangerous The management of the King's more perfect conditions for pre-quagmires another set of insecu Theatre, In view of many local venting business men. from plan-rities exists, The Government rumours that are current, announce that the King's Theatre building isning enterprises or members of itself may at any time have had het for sale, or lease or disposal in Parliament from discharging their enough.
become weary of advertisement in the local newspapers try. any way whatsoever, and that any duty in the interests of the coun-
futility; it may neck some occasion, regarding the sale of a building in
Rome transient achievement, some Queen's Rond with Theatre accomm-Hand to Mouth.
ery of prejudice, to break up the dation does not refer to the King's The whole of this present Par electors. Or, again, its followers
and Parliament Theatre.
appeal to the liament has been, and will be
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The
Germany's Tark.
Hongkong Telegraph.resumption of
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1971.
SUNDAY CINEMA,
FARCE.
It too may
A maid on the Sik Yue Club at 610 nothing but humbug and many get tired, and take continually longer week-ends. He would in- Queen's Road West, Shek Tong Teul, oeuvre,
would
The financial crisis in Germany thas so far relaxed as to persuade the Government to permit the banking business. For the time being, ni least, the situation has been saved. Nevertheless it was just as well that Dr. Bruning, it his broad- cast appent for levelheadedness,
by Det. Sgt. Filcher pesterday result- Not one single measure of sub-eed be imprudent who laid emphasis on the fact that the in charges of gambling being stance or value has been passed: try to prophesy the date of the adoption of the moratorium plan taken aut against 24 men found on not one serious attempt has been It might have come n fortnight
general election. does not mean that easier times the premises, Thirteen of them made to solve our present social
agoi
It might come next month, are ahead. At the centre of the Peared before Mr. Williams at the and economic problems.
Central Magistracy thin morning. whole problem is the question. being represented by Mr. A. Covey have lived from hand to mouth, might come in the spring; it might Government and Opposition alike might come in the autumn; It
After many weeks of wrangling When will Germany begin to meet Tho hearing of the case was adjourn wondering when they will be not come for n year or two. Mear-
the Standing Committee
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH
AND EAST RIVERS.
dates named:
con-
of the her abilities from her own re-ed to Wednesday, August-12.
called upon to fly at ench other's while the Government will House of Commons bas passed sources? The economic positioni
throats in the con
tinua impotent, and the Opposition constituencies. Clause 1 of the Bill
What which of the country has been going
a way to conduct the inert, but watchful The Liberals bo conferring authorises, local authorities to rapidly from bad to woršu. Not
affairs of the most complicated, conselessly will the most far-reaching, and the among themselves, and all the licener premises for Sunday dis-one penny of the large amount
most precariously balanced State Party machines will be reprinting plays of cirama films. It is ap-paid in Rypugutions has come from
and community the world has ever successive versions of their elec
literature-stop-press tioneering Germany. All tho толеу te-
Jacen! For all controversial pur- purent from flame papers to hand
quired, and more, has been
poses, for all the real issues which editions of the "Clap-trap News." that the Sabbatarians have been borrowed, and now that sopi Kwangtung River Conservancy Com-t,
The following table, issued by the press for solution, political life is A Potent Slogan. fighting the measure inch
standstill. by the lenders have asked to be resmission, shows in English feet the There is no policy, there is no And this while unemployment is inch, and no argument appears to paid, the situation has had to be water levels on the West River, action; there is no design. There mounting to three millions, while have been, too silly or relevant solved by, more "borrowing. "
North River and East River on the is not even the desire for action: "Better doles for larger numbers"
things just A point which
happen, and we drift is a potent slogan; while trade some writer in the Midland Bank Revie deserves
Aug Augalong from day to day. motice is that these people were. Germany to the end of 1929 at the amount borrowed by
And no stagnates and India crumbles, and 5 one can tell how
descant with gusto will continue. for the most part, silent until an £300,000,000 on long term credit North River at Samshui
upon our Judicrous plight! There 14.0 .8.8.
Under the two-party system our you enterprising young
North River at Tsingyder 22.0 21.6 lady Enlive and £300,000,000 on short tertu East River at Sheklung
well. Constitution worl attention to the fact that Sunday account. This was employed to The highest levels recorded are: A Government which. had a There is a feeling in the heart
knew thai it Shiühing, 41 feel; Tsingyuen, 29.2 majority
could of this strong people that there einema shows were illegal. In eet reparations and also tier feet, Samahui, 27.3 fest: Sheking, govern according to its ghts ought to be sonte more grip and
nany's budgetary expenditure11.5 feet. many parts of the country, flus
The electors, having recorded their decision about our affairs, that were being screened on Sundays,
to do things, and not compelled to trim Its sails to electioneering breezes: a Government rigorous to itself,
f, fearless of its foes and re- soluto in the defence of our in- tereata at home and our rights abroad.
| West River at Bhiuhing 35.5 88.tie helplessness this catalopelforeigners
President Hoover's moratoriums The lowest levels
5.4
tannie the modern "Rule-Bri-
rul élection, except in times of exovernment not afraid
Un-
was designed to give her a breath-minus 5 feet at Samshul and minus and nobody worried about a gene
on record are votes, went about their business the centre of the Empire requires { but no'organised opposition aping space in which she might 27 feet at Shellung.
pear to have been offered until succeed in putting the onus for
Out.
horror manifest itself.
the legality, under an age-worn | meeting her tremendous liabilities Act of Parliament, was pointed upon her own people, and had it
been If the Sabbatarians Celi yo'
accepted promptly, the desired result might have been keenly about the nutter, as LE obtained. The lele vaised by matter of principle, we wonder the French Government's attitude that they themselves did not dis-čan only partially be remedied by cover exnetly what the law was, the plans being developed by the Only, however, when a Bill was Bank of International Settlements.. brought forward to regularise the Confidence in Germany is still at a low ebb, though the absolute situation did this display of holy necessity of preventing chaos has Indured international bankers to As we analyse some of the strive their utmost to provide the objections to Sunday cinemas, we palliatives. There will be no cannot but be struck by their financial peace, however, until absurdity. One M.P. opposed Germany pays her debts without borrowing the money. The 'posi Sunday opening because the
tion is one which Dr. Bruening greater part of the capital in and his colleagues' must squarely films is owned by foreigners! face. Up to the present Germany Another took excently, to "the has not been paying Reparations. le atmosphore" and, in par-The money has come from the ticular, to the costumes of the recipients, and the essential in- debtedness remains, if in a differ- attendants who show people to
ent form. their sents! Sonteone else object-. ed to the inclusion, ju the licence; of the words "musical entertain- ment," wanting to know whether they could not enable brewery companies to get public houses Heensed for concerts and clog. dances on Sundays! In the cfr. cumstances, the Attorney General had to make some concessions, and during one of the debates he in timated that ho was prepared to ban, as being wicked on the'
.
SILVER EUTURES.
THE LATEST CABLED -QUOTATIONS.
Mesars, Pentreath and Co, have been advised by cable of the fol lowing quotations for New York silver futures as at the close of the market yesterday:
October 1931 28.68 up .11. December 1931 28.89, up 14. May 1932 28.79 up 100.
fore we ask anyone to dinner we simply must find out if
our maid has been setting the table property.
The question men are asking is: "Will
the present three-party sya- tem and the increasingly enfeebled Houses of Commons resulting from it be able to furnish such an in- strument, or shall we just go jogging and drifting along until Home collapse or catastrophe occur?"
Stalemate.
We are accustomed to bellove that in England nothing matters i very much, and when things get really bad wo can easily put them right. But it may well be in this formidable and gigantic modern world that when our people wake up and wish to lay strong hands apon their affaire they will find it too lato.
The diseases In our political system
may have passed beyond the limits of medical science, and surgical operation will alone suffice.
д
Let us make sure that an elec tion, whenever it come, will effec- tually help to solve our problems, The Conservative policy of a gone ral tariff, from which the taxation
af staple foods is not excluded, must. be
be expected to unite the other
caucuses at least of paries against us
both
the
At the last election theat part as commanded 13,000,000 - votes, against aur 8,000,000. No doubt now that the Sociallats have ex-- posed their weakness and, tho Liberals have · paraded · their! In- gonulty we may expect a strong,
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