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Of course, the answer is that anless fresh loans had been made to Germany on both long and short have collapsed long ago, and the French would have been quite unable to collect their reparatións, even if they had
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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1932.
ANGLO-FRENCH VIEWPOINTS.
as the
reoccupied the Ruhr or annexed
DAY BY DAY
THE VISIBLE BECOMES THE BES TIAL WHEN IT RESTS NOT UPÒN THE INVISIBLE-Cariyle,
An interesting visitor to longkong is Miss G. Crichton Imrie, ehlid wel- fare worker.
Mr. Justice J. R. Wood of Hong kong has been elected a member of the Royal Empire Society.
CUPID'S PROS AND CONS.
A Young Man at the Parting of the Ways.
I HAVE taken the step irrevo
which seems, in contempation, to cably. Within a few weeks fit ill with one's familiar habits. shall be married, and, like all those Bachelor friends, two days' 'golf who march with brave flags strain- over the week-end, solitary rembles ng Into the transition. I believe in the country, everthing which has that I shall have no cause to regret become so part and parcel of one's
the entire country,' French logle The appointment is announced of anything. Our engagement has very existence, suddenly and almost Afr. Walter Philip Thompson to be been a long one-three years of rudely anatched away. Is it any repels this wider dialectic, and an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Waiting, three years of longing, and wonder that a man will think deep- remains firmly planted in the with effect from 11th December, 1931. three years of dreaming.
ly and seriously, even though his format garden. Far it is the way
It is curious to look back upon wife-to-be Is, In his eyes, the most The name of Dr. Victor Enok, that engagement now that it is parngone thing ever produced by of the logical French not to dis-M.D., B.S., has been added to the drawing to a close. It is curious two very ordinary people, who hap
Register of Medical Practitioners to reflect upon its early stages. How pen, in this case to be her parents? Colony. entitled to practice Medicine in this fierce the opposition, how tense of purpose we were, how hot-headed, and how irresponsible. The Royal Observatory reports: With what acorn that the anticyclone over S.W. China parental caution.
despised We and how many moving eastward. A typhoon influential .N.E. of Pelew Istand is moving times did we all but make up our for a space, and then join up. Then
minds to finish the thing anywhere, anyhow, so long as we were to the music crashes, choer, a The Hom. Dr. A. it. Wellington, gether. A hundred a year? We of bells, a speech, and that is that. Director of Medical and Sanitary could easily live on that What did Just a ripple in the whirlpool, which Services, nod Mrs. Wellington return anything matter but the vital im-dies and is forgotten by all save ed to the Colony by the P. & O. portance on being together,
those two. Chitral on Friday and have taken up ronidonee at 160, The Peak.
tort the facts, but to select those which make a good formal case. and ignore the rest. And un- doubtedly, in this matter, French
of politiciana reflect the views the min body of French opinion. Sufficient has been written to show the divergent viewpoints, it will require real statesmanship Lo reconcile the opposing points of view.
BARODA PRINCESS IN SCENE.
MOTOR CAR CHASE AFTER CINEMA.
westward.
even
Dreams and Realities, ' We pass and repass, a pigmy kaleidoscope running helter-skelter, hither and thither. Two wriggling ways converge, tremble uncertainly
peal
though we shared a furnished bed- What are we to make of it, we sitting-room? Gently, tactfuly, and
two? How will things turn out so that we never suspected their when the peats have died and the Through being knocked down by a purpose, did those parents steer
shouting is an echo no more? We tramcar in Des Voeux Rond Central through that time. Wonderfully have chosen to join our pigmy ways, yesterday morning, a mendleant, Yu clever they were, and we so foolish, to give up one-half of a life which Sing-kwong, aged 60, received in-
has become reality in favour of a And now the time juries to his toes and was removed to
для come. Recond which is overwhelmingly the Government Civil Hospital for The myth has become
potent problematical. treatment.
reality, the dream an imminent realisation. Suddenly
Everything dear, familiar, and became real will have gone from us in an-
more, than an orthodox homo-found their place? There is more, xar
children into the world. Ina and an orthodox bringing of
Suspected of having taken an oven staggered with the enormity of the other few weeks. What have wo in dose of oplum, n married wontan, Ng thing we were about to do, Sane Poona has been startled by a
King aged 25, years of CG, Wanchal reasoning took the place of hot dramalike scene from an Indian
Read, second floor, was removed to headedness. One begun to think the Government Civil Hospital 5 deeply. to weigh the matter up a talkie involving the Buroda Prin'etock this morning. Her condition one had never done before. What cess Kamaladeri Balsabeb Gack- is not considered nerium,
does it all mean, and where will it end us?
war.
She, with her brother Kadugme, and her sister, Mrs, Dabhade, who had been separated from her hus
band for several months met latter at the cinema,
con- return.
the
Trusting the Fairy.
now
the moment la frankly terrifying. There is something else, which at It is new life, now living, Amongst the passengers who left by the P. and O. s.s. Rawalpindi were
Iriends, new occupations. Gradual- Mrs. J. K. Bousfield, Rey, and Mrs. time or other with the situation, new, reality. One has drawn up a Mr. and Mrs, Russell Brown, Mr. and We are all of us faced at some comes the unreal phantasy; the ly, one must suppose, the old be- C. B. Shin, and the Rev. E. K. Quick all of us confronted with the deck bainnee-sheet and. placed upon it Mr. Will Rogers. the American It appears that Mrs. Dabhade humourist, wh
ision. Married or single, which is л passenger for
tentative dobit and credit. In considered her marriage unhappy Singapore by the same liner,
it to be? In the early stages of theory the balance sheet is a thing. and refused to live with her lus-
love-making, responsibilities do not of perfect symmetry, but how will The task of reconcil ag Anglo- band. Sardur Dabhade detor- The Hongkong Univeralty Amateur occur either materially or mentally, the figures turn out in French outlooks
practice? mined to take back his wife, who Photographic Club will hold its an- Some fairy has waved roparn-
1 magic This way or that? tions problem, in preparation for insisted at the cinema upon her Union Assembly Room from today to sky with sunshine and turned com- decided to change a life deliciously Is the mother of four children, and run! exhibition at the University wand which has painted the grey
One bas takon the stop. One boa the coming international
January 9, open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. monplace into beauty. We are pleasant for one of uncertainty. admission free. ference. looks like being
The police refused to interfere he made for lectures to be given on The wand continues to wave cheer-of one person is the sole justifien-
Arrangements will shown "stars we never anw before."
That one has done this for the anke in the discussion as there was no ordinarily dißikult. None the less, breach of the peace, but suggest-
the nunny interesting exhibits
fully in the hands of that partition. In a few weeks more life for it would appear to be an essential ed Mrs. Dabhade's departure.
The recently appointed Pastor of
others will trundle on as before, preliminary to
satisfactory
To avold a scene the princess the Kowloon Union Church, Rev. E.
We place ourselves happily under but for us what is there ahead? and her party were leaving the Allen, M.A., Ph.D., accompanied by the charge of that wonder-wand. It Give a little, take a little, laugh handling of the whole issue.
The cinema when, it is alleged, Sardar, his wife and child, is due to arrive by will, we have no doubt whatsoever, whenever possible... British attitude is that there can Abdoor Dabhade caught his wife the steamer Menelaus to-marrow. produce a mansion from a two- He will be tendered a welcome social roomed flat; and, when required,
I think we shall make it. C. G. G be no return to world economie and forced her into his own car,
which left for his home.
gathering at the Church Hall at transform cold mutton health without a really
into lamab drastic
p.m. on Friday.
and stale bread into fresh rolls. sealing down of war debts and
Not until the trenchant formalities reparations as between countries,
of wedding preparations stream if not their complete cancellation
arround does the wand begin to lose
The net result for Britain would
something of its power.
D that. directly, she would
extra-
110
In-
neither be much better off much worse than before. directly. of
would course, she nelt by sharing, with
others. in the likelihood of better trade,
con-
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The princess's party, who were now with the pailer, chased the Sardar's car until it was caught, | took both parties to the house uf The police then intervened and
Mr. Israel, personal assistant to the Collector, Mr. MacMillan, in Une absence of the latter.
Disturbance Feared.
Feuring a disturbance in the
cantonment and the city, inspect with Indian constables arrived. ora and more European sergeants
What went on behind the closed doors of the personal assistant's is understood that several times home has not been disclosed, but agreement was on the point of being reached only to fail when a move was made to leave,
SUN SETS FIRE TO A HOUSE.
NOVEMBER OCCURRENCE IN
ENGLAND.
the sun-had caused the fire.
calar fairy.
A MAN'S LIFE IN FIGURES.
to ask "Why locsn't he keep hens?" He has also gone through, though unaware of it, about 3500 loaves of only those folks who are continual brend---not half-loaves. Possibly. ly agitating for a ha'penny off the louf are aware of this fact, and anturally they would rather have the difference in their own pocket, In this case £100.
It does not do all that is expected of it. Somehow the flut koks just
The majority of us take things what it is-a flat, and wedding flowers are accompanied by coldly pretty much for granted; so much calculated bills. One's pass-book,
lao, that the remark made by a friend Here the husband and wife and Sun set fire to a house at Lom-cheerful little tome which hitherto that the person or aixty years has Mr. Israel tried to settle the quary, Hampshire, recently. rel.
A magnifying shaving mirror in one's celibate maintenance, appears therefore made a few further cal-
has shown a gratifying balance for spent twenty of them in bed,
startled me beyound words. I The conference lasted from Colonel E. P. Hall's dressing-room (suddenly ridiculous. One realises France, however, does not look eight until almost four in the at Woolley Cottage concentrated the that one has, perhaps, been a trifle culations, which so astounded me
morning. Meantime at the matter in quite the
Kadamge, beams of the sun streaming through selfish in the past.
that they may share in the alarming. An array of same sirs. Dublade's brother, told by the window, and the curtains burst things which one
revelations. must give up light. The French are heavy aststanders that he would not allow into fumes.
flaunts irritatingly and persistently partaking of two eggs per day-n At the age of sixty, a person creditors on account of war debts the Sardar to leave the house with The burning curtains fell and set before one.
his wife. Ife backed his big car and reparations, and. If these were
fire to the floor and skirting boards. | It will mean that that very avrec- reasonable average when puddings into the exit from the compound, Practical Bremen put out the fire.able and able run establishment of and salads are Included-has con- cancelled, they would probably and it is significant that three or
And then, incredulous, they experi-Ione's parents will be one's nothousand dozen, which induces one Aumed a total amounting to three get a good deal less income from four more cars and about 20 or mented with the mirror and the longer. That one's free and easy abroad. It will be argued that, afterwards and took up position burned the bucks of their hands, of one's mother must both be tucked U Baroda people appeared short rays of the English sun. They ways and the smiling, tolerance with her stocks of gold and her near Kadamge's car.
Lhey scorched paper, and then they away and forgotten. In the space favourable balance of payments,
were satisfied that the glass-and of weeks one must manufacture and France can afford to make
fit into a brandnew outlook of life cessions much better than Britain can. And there is reason in the argument. On the other hand, France will reply that she suffer ed more than any country in the war, and will content that fier. many is under a moral obligation pay for war pensions and fer the reconstruction of the
Meanwhile Kadamge waited to vastated areas. Morenver, it will
snatch her away if she appeared also be argued that the French outside to go away with her hus- standard of life is by no meansband. high at present. There is yet anthe Princess passed back and for On the roadway in another ear other aspect of the question which wards now And again, watching caunot be overlooked. The French and waiting for developments. have an additional quarrel with the British and American attitude to German debts. They point out that British and American citizena have given large short-term
The Sardar then drove to the credits to Germany of late years,elty, and just as he left the prin- while French people have not: ceas entered the compound to take and, In addition, Americans have had already gone with her brother. her sister sway only to find the
invested in Germany large rinsser The Collector, Mr. MacMillan, is of long-term capital. The Frenk | visiting Baramati on an inspection point of view is that these loans tour, but it is understood the whole case will be placed before and investments were made to a him when he returns. country already In debt, and ought accordingly to rank for re- payment after Germany's prior jumping into the harbour from the
It is alleged that Mrs. Dabhade appealed for protection as she be ec-lieved her life was in danger.
Finally it would appear a truco o'clock and the Sardar's wife came was signed shortly before four
out, stepped Into the Baroda car and drove off with Kadamxe to the residence of the princess.
An attempt to commit suicide by
obligations. As recipients of J Star Forry Company's Golden Star shortly afther 30 p.m. yesterday large net sum on account of re- was made by Chinese youth, aged parations, the French regard them-19, who was rescued by a ferry - Ralvos as dobontara-nolders who man named Liu Chee. Chan was sub- soquently removed to the Kwong Wah the Hospital.
13000000000000005000 have to be paid off before
"We've decided to give you this territory, Mr. Fidgett. Now we expect you to convince each and every family that
they need a pipe_organ."!*
a
Anyhow, the bread caton has been well washed down with his 73,000 cups of tea-allowing him four cups daily, which is a reason- abie estimate. If possessed of an extra drowthy diaposition with proference for beer he will, at the rate of twelve pinta por week, ac count for over 4000 gallons; being made aware of this he will be thank- ful that the hours of the licensed trade are as they are-limited.
Furnished Complete.
The gentleman of threescore years who smokes two packets of ten cigarettes between the hours. of 8 a.m. and midnight could have. owned a beautiful house with the money expended on over 80,000: packets; had a coupon been enclos ed in each packet-well, there's the house furnished complete. A re- gular church-goer perhaps, he will: hardly credit that he has occupied. his pew for thirty-two solid wooks of seven days each, twenty-four hours in each day-well minght be become a little restless now and hie himself to the friendly Pentlanda:
As he scrapes the stubble from his chain every morning, taking: twenty minutes in the process, may- be ho will sympathiso with the razor; it has been cutting and mow ing for thirty-five woaks now, yet Ite owner grumbles because it "drags" occasionally. of twent
Married at the age of
five, let us allow him four, kland dally, and I guarantee that,
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