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THING NEEDFUL AND
TO "TEACH" KELIGION, THE FIRST ONLY THING, IN THE FINDING OF A ALSO THE MAN WHO, HAS RELIGION-Carlyle,
and the originators of the report even went so far na to give details | of the protended arrangement of territorial advantages between these three countries. Strangely enough, also, tirb story was given considerable prominence in Tokyo, in which connexion there was a suggestion made that this nothing but a piece of Japanese pore, is dur here to-morrow morning. The B. I. s. s. Talma, from Singa- propagando, designed to frighten China and, after the subsequent denial, to show Japan as a guar- dian of Chinese interests. How- ever, the whole story was later the subject of categorical denials by all the countries concerned, the French Legation in Peking plicity and emphatically declaring that France would never enter in- to any secret alliance concerning Chinese territory.
DX.
The Intest report would probably have received far less attention but for the fact that it coincided with Chinese allegations of French warlike activities on the borders of Annam and Kwangsi, allegn- tions which have since been shown to be as utterly untrue as this story of Franco-Japanese intrigue. A moment's serious thought would have made it clear that France could have no such designs on Chinese sovereignty. Apart from her own domestic preoccupations, France has
been experiencing quite enough unrest in Annam not to wish to extend the sphere of her rule in the Far Enst. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the very
pointed denials in Paris, as well as by the French Minister to China and the Consul-General in Hongkong, will suffice to dispose once and for all of these fantastic stories, which are obviously being circulated with ulterior motives.
A Year of Troubles. Nineteen-thirty-one has been a year of acute difficulty the world over, a time of grave economie stress and hardship, and the worst
of its troubles are still present,
The Bank Lino s. . Benarty, from here on January fith. Home via Straits and Manila, is due
IS MAN ON THE VERGE OF DOOM?
Five Famous Scientists Reply.
some people to believe in the Im-energy that keeps the universo at The World crisis has tempted this is said to be a factor of the minence of the end of the world. work, temperature or warmth be The N.Y.K. Line has issued an scientists answer the question-Isance of its duty.
In this symposium, five famous ing its associato in the perform coloured picture of one of lia nowent effective wall entendar, bearing Man Upon The Verge of Doom? liners.
I am also told that, by a natural process, the warmth of
all the different
The.R.M.S. Empress of Japan, from Manila, in duo here at noon on Wedneariay, and will berth at Kowloon Wharf.
"YES-UNLESS ....!"
rent parts of the universo in Saya THE RT. HON. EARL
becoming equalised. By those RUSSELL
same processes, the entrophy has increased, increasing, There will be пр
and can- safety
not be diminished. Hence, man- the world until men have 1337- kind and the world will como to
perfectly
uni- or chilliness
in
and
The next meeting of the Hongkong plied to the rules between differ- doom when there is Branch of the English Arociation cht States the great principle form warmth at 5.30 p.m. will be held on Tuesday, January 6, which has produced international entrophy is at its groateat,
in the Helena Mas sect will talk on "Magazines." Institute, when Mrs. C. E. L. Grisi pute force must not be employed simple language, the end of the
security, namely, thni in any
dis- Putting the eame truth into by either interested party, but world will come whon every crea- due investigation according to re-ing wage, and nobody is able to only by a noutral authority after ture is in the enjoyment of a ilv- cognised principles of Yor
earn anything! the world are controlled by one all the armed forces of
"NOT IN OUR TIME!” world-wide authority. have reached the stage in the re- we shall
Say MR. E. L. HAWKE Intion of States which was rench- The major catastrophe will un- ed centuries ago in the relationa doubtedly not occur during our of individuals.
la fraught with so many possibili-
During blasting operations on the Road, this morning, two employees, a por un merito impeen, a man and his wife, who were working stones. They were inter taken to Ho on the scene were injured by falling pital. It is not yet known whether
the injuries are of a serious nature.
"The ball rolled my way and his will ever less than time. The earth's future history
kicked it," pleaded a young Chinese the Central Police Court this morning springs from bad digestion and mate fate must, in the present when charged before Mr. Schofield at
Much of the hatred in the world ties that any forecast of its ulti- in a Wanchal street. In view of the glanda, which is with obstruction by playing football inadequate functioning of the state of our knowledge, be sheer fact that he was without employment, pression and thwartins in rohthework. his Worship took a lenfent view of in a wo
in youth.
ls good reason to bellove with a caution. the offence, and discharged the culprit world where the health of the that the sun is a "variable star
young is adequately cared for and and that its output of heat has where their vital impulsen are been far from constant since the with their own health and that of evidence indicates that even with- given the utmost scope compatible planets wore formed. Geological will grow up more courageous and Ages have alternated with periods their companione, men and women in comparatively recent times Ice less malevolent than they are at in which climatic conditions now present.
limited to an international government, the the Arctic Circle.
Given such human beings and tropical
tropical and sub- regions extended beyond world might yet become stable and civilised, whereas with our pre- earlier stages of our earth's career We know next to nothing of the sent paychology and political or but it is not unreasonable to as- ganisation, every increase
Insume that this little globe was scientific knowledge brings destruction of civiliantion nearer, suitable for human habitation.
the destined to be only intermittently Man's era is believed to have "NO-IF WE....?”
lasted for less than one-five- sandth part of the immenso acon
In prosecuting a driver for dan Queen's Road, Sub-Inspector Nicol gerous driving near Naval Terrace alated in the Police Court this morning that the defendant, who had been following a tramear and a yan, muddenly cut in between the two front vehicles on the bend at a speed of about 25 miles an hour. A Ans of $20 was imposed.
GOVERNOR JUST ESCAPES.
RECKLESS DRIVER
FINED.
Hongkong Telegraph. To-day, however, it is impossible Baker sunsmoned the driver.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1931.
HISTORY REPEATS
ITSELF.
i
Sayı SIR OLIVER LODGE
that
has elapsed since the birth
It is absurd to think that we of the solar system; his existence are so much vecuofed with pre-I here may well be merely an in- ARMSTRONG-AL Ealing, 26 crying out for comedy. Normally, was endangered by the
paration for possible warfare cident of a relatively short span That His Excellency the Governor when we should be working for of time separating periods of such December, 1931, to Vern the wife this would be a scuson of renewed manner in which a public driver only against the hostile forces of cold as would snuff out all tor of li. J. Armstrong, a daughter. hope and freshly affirmert deter-handled his car near the Wanchni nature
reckless the good of posterity: Aghting cold
intense heat and such extreme mination. There would be a feel-Market on December
symbolished The
ing of confidence that the
5 WEB re-ames New vealed in a prosecution before Mr. famina,
plague, pestilence, and in that event, wo must suppose
under the rane life. Year has brighter days in store. Court this morning, when Sergeant to disease and are making strides legaly after a long and glorious
Schofield at the Central Police
our descendants of the "th" Truc, we have begun to attend generation will be either scorched to look out upon the vista of world
In this direction, but we do not
to extinction-doubt- affaire, the prospects for the im-of reckless driving, admitted the by far.
The defendant, who was accused attend sufficiently to
attempt to mediate future, without a sense of olfence and was fined $25.
agriculture
resist the terrible forces of Nature. gloom. The future always lies
The earth has apparently been i
It According to Sergeant Baker, he in existence for two thousand mil some such cataclysm will bring seems not at all unlikely that with the young and the youth of was escorting His Excellency the lion years, and inhabited for per-about the eventual doom of man- the world seems irresponsible. Governor-to the Races and on has a two hundredth part of that The crisis has, so far, proved too / Passing the Wanchal Market, the time. The human race is at pre- world would then remain lifeles
kind
as we know it, thousands of centuries big for the elder statesmen
defendunt, who was driving a car sent
hence, Whether the handle and there is no sign of air in the same direction
to towards town, passed a lorry yo-
La infancy If we The obviously absurd report, in new outlook providing the men to of about 30 miles an hour, pass added to by each succeeding gening another favourablo climátic band down our knowledge until the final destruction of the of speed Food, and If this knowledge is breed a new race of beings dur- an American newspaper recently,
system, or whether it would take their places. Man has that a Franco-Japanese agreement
ing between the lorry and His Ex-eration. if we work for come more cynical. Mural and cellency's car in a dangerous manprovement of the world and of phase, is an interesting subject had been concluded by which
religious sentiments have
been ner.
The officer was in front of why mankind should not inherit DOES IT MATTER?"
ourselves, then I dulled,
Бер Japan would guarantee to France and among nations has increased.
no reason for philosophical speculation. Suspicion among
the Governor's
a motor the possession of a Chinese Pro-The struggle for existence has be who would be in danger
cycle.
the earth and enjoy to the full His Worship: Would it be you for another ten million centuries, the privilege of existence upon it vince, would appear to have been come more selfish, more keen and Governor?
or the or more. given considerable credence in more bitter. The whole world is various Chinese newspapers, Gra-in polities and economie ferment would say that it would be the
Sergeant Baker replied that dually, however, the truth is being reaching and deep-lying causes, ker to pedestrians and other tra- through the operation of far-Governor. There was also a dan- recognised, thanks to the vigorous which are only imperfectly under-ic. oficial deninis issued in Paris and stood.
There
be.
men
by the French Minister in China. for hope, more
seems little room for warning. At the time of publication of the This is not the time to be swept story, we described it as queer and from our moorings by superficial amusing, but, unhappily, in the
currents of rash opinion or by present state of affairs in China. Thone
crude and selfish nationalism. there are not wanting those who capacity and courage which have qualities of practical would seize on such an invention marked the history of the British in order to drag other countries peoples for over a thousand years into the boycott movement. For will never more be needed than in this reason, it is well that all such 1932. The enemies of true na rumours should be
lonal prosperity as well as of in. promptlyternational understanding, scotched. The one under notice operation and peace must be was patently without any founda- fought to the last ditch. The co- tion in fact.
operation of all men for high onde
CO.
It is interesting, in connexion is the only goal if the world is to
with this matter, to recall that in 1919 there was an almost precisely similar story going the rounds. suggesting territorin ambitions on the part not only of France, but of Japan and Britain as well, at China's expense. This was to the effect that there was in exlatenco a secret agreement between Japan
and her European allies
preserve sanity.
SILVER MARKET
STILL DULL.
SLIGHT DROP IN NEW YORK.
Dull conditions continue to pre- of the vail on the exchange market. Sil-
Great War concerning the future ver is unchanged in London, where of Shantung and of other parts small business is reported. After the official fixing, the market ruled
of China as well. The story was idle. publishod in New York, as being. a eurrent rumour in Paris, that
n privato triplo alliance, concern-
quarter, on a dull market.
"In New York, silver is down a
In Hongkong and Shanghai, there is no change in the quotations,
ing the whole of Asia, had been the market being very quiet in concluded between the French, both centres, with no-one diaposed Japanese and British Governments, to do business.
er on
at.
he
ent only
in
+
the im-
"THE END WILL COME!"
Saya SIR NAPIER SHAW
I am told there is a mysterious quantity called "Entrophy,"
"now take me; I can always forget my business
the minute I stop out of my office."
worries
And
solar
Says PROFESJOR A. M. LOW If we believe that the sun is cooling, and that eventually this miserable, earth will be crowded with people consumed by bacteria, sharing together the laat tabloid earth to obtain warmth, of food, and burrowing into the wa can iden
and
comfort ours
ourselves with the that thought is more permanent than Han more obvious that we may yet learn how to
matter, transfer the remnant of material. which will be necessary to keep ethereal anul in being, to other
our
planets.
Even
BO, it may be that inter- planetary flight will have so de- veloped by the time that it be- comes necessary to quit thi; home- earth that we shall be able to retire to
to the farthermost planet if Bun becomes too hot, or seck the nearest one to it if that bali of fire becomes too cold.
y
the
But we should remember that although the end of the world and the end of the body seem to be. of equal importance, neither mat- ters if one believes in any form. of after-life.
WHERE IS A MAN SAFE?
By A BACHELOR 1X7OMEN are most craenly con- as a whole
W called. Taken
they seem to take for granted that wo men require, bay desire, their company upon every possible oc- casion. Things as they stand at the moment are rapidly, approach- ing the ridiculous, I am frequent ly rung up by some woman friend, our
conversation being somewhat as follows!
She "Hallo, my dear. Are you doing anything to-night?"
Myself (guardedly)-We-ell,
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