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4.
OVERCROWDING.
DAY BY DAY
like sardines because they cannot afford to rent more spate.
That may be true under conditiona" as they exist, but the question natural. ly suggests itself whether there EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO Is not
US LEAVES SOME TRACE BEHIND IT.! + Kreat deal of rent
EVERYTHING CONTRIBUTES profiteering going on, of which the CEPTIBLY TO FORM US.-Goethe.
IMPER- Chinese masses are the True, the average tenant may not be able to pay more than he now doun, but he would seem to be
Mr. II. P. Wilkton, K.G., is passing entitled to a great deal more ac-through on the Kashmir, bound for commodation than he gets, provid-
Shanghai,
victime.
ed his share were fairly assessed in proportion to the amount which the principal tenunt paya.
One case of diphtheria and one of small-pox were notified yesterday.
BEVERLEY NICHOLS finds the
MODERN GHOST.
UDDENLY the telephone rang,
Yeanga"
on
You put down the telephone,
you
once,
horror
more
and we all jumped out of aick with fear. And then, our skins, and that is the reason hear the front door bell, for this article.
twice... We had been listening to *t
The True Horror. ghost story. It was of the old- I should think that by the time The P. and U. s. Kalyan, from fashioned kind. So old-fashioned it had rung three times you would | Singapore, in due here at 8 am, on that we were really a little bored have lost your reason.
But please the 21st instant.
with it. There were the usual note this. The trua misty shapes, the inevitable foot that situation lies in the fact that Here we touch the sub-letting Mr. A. E. Stone and Mr. A. J. W steps on the stairs, and the con- the message was delivered through evil, which, on examination, would, Derdling, were among the passengers ventional references to a "Thing," an inhuman medium. The
who arrived by the P. and O... which lurked in a corridor, and we venture to suggest, be found at Kashmir from London.
and phone gives it a quality more dis- was slimy, and in ghost storice
smelt unpleasant, tracting than any icy whisper. the root of the overcrowding ovil.
as all
And the Mrs. Wright, of Ilo Tung Building.. The Government, however, is not
dlo.
we were in the mood dreadful of the bell is more than n knock. The Kowloon, has reported to the Wat. to be thrilled, but we seemed to mechanical in entirely helpless in this matter. Poflee that a black Erplish sheepdog have heard it all before.
fact, is diabolical than the supernatural. since the law makes it an offence belonging to her has been lurt,
Until the telephone rang. For One
of the best ghost stories to let or sub-lei premises en a basis
we all felt that it was not merely ever written was the German film The forthcoming wedding in
the sound which made us which constitutes overcrowding.nounced of Mr. Hans Kappelhoff, No...
"Metropolis." juanp
It was it was the telephone itself a ghost story. But it had
not called all the The point is whether any systematic 4, Honghong Road, Shanghai, to Mis black, glistening, ifeless
elements. Who will forget those | action is taken to see that this very Shangha!.
Annie Sayka, No. 7, Edinburgh Road, yet the instrument through which tolling Robots, in the shadow of
life echoed ...
the benrer of immense buildings, marching like excellent and necessary Haw la
strange tidings. the machine a cortege of the damned? Who will enforced. Or in it another instance light error, in our report of the fire
We are informed that there was a that was itself half alive.
forget the appalling figure of the in which laws are passed and per at Aplichnu. In taking steps to deal
The Modern Touch.
machine-made girl-with a heart. The machine that is the of steel and the soul of a crazy mitted to remalu a dead fettur? Awith the dangers electric shocks, word round which, I believe, the dynamo?
the police sergeant had to break open ghost stories of the future will be the distributing box to get at the
We have proot enough of all fuser. And did not, as stated, smash the faint sigh of Caory laces along Train." That train was more eorie written. The clanking chains, this in the success of "The Ghost the fuses for this purposKE,
pasanges deserted these than any of the old phantom should be set aside. The ghost chariots. The noise of wheels story must move with the times. It rushing over phantom rails was. will gain a new lease of life if it far more blood-curdling than the dora.
echo of horses hoofs (an in-
rigorous campaign against this at letting evil would not only have beneficial results in preventing overcrowding and thus serve the
Inst
An-
more
An interested audiones gathered in interests of public health. It would the jounge of the European Y.M.C.A also ensure fair and reasonable RCAssistant Sceretary of the Associn
night, when Mr. E. F. Selk, commodation for the rents which tion, and recently connected withi For every machine la intrin- corrigibly cheerful round) civil aviation in Papua, gave a talk sically horrible. It is like a mund- the scream of the engine have to be paid.
on "New Guinea." * Je punctuated man you cannot reason with ghastly than any human utterance. his observations with some interesting it. There are probably many Why cannut we have more ghost personal experiences, and made his people who, in monients of extreme trains? inik both instructive and entertain-neurosis, have been tormented by, The Ghostly Airman. Ing.
the Idea of some mechanism un- And host arroplanes? Here is controlled.
a vast new element awaiting
French Power in Europe.
differs from the old only in respect driven by a Chinese, No-one was in- of the machinery, by the hideous, han?
driving came into collision with that for days afterwards, by the snari what he la
.
the
air-
he
there
M. Lavni bobbed down and Tap Mr. D. K. Stark, of 1. Queen's At the risk of appearing affec- imaginative writer. For the again as though merely stretching Gardens, was involved in a slight tud must confess that whenever man le already, in a senso, dia-
trame nccident at the intersection of his legs for the coming interna-queen's Houd and Garden Rond about have visited a factory or an en-embodied. High up there, in the tional encounters. His new Cabinet 7 pm. yesterday. The car wagine room I have been haunted, drifting clouds, how do you know human or in- monotonous gestlculation of the appearance is frightening
Even when he landa, his cranks and levers. Supposing the fa a leather monster, with glisten- stoel arms atretched out and groping gogglen, and fury handa ed about them with sightless eyes, he stumbles as he walks.. while the whirring of the wheels is the smell of oil and petrol about eration of humanity? rose more shrilly, in hateful exo-him and a sense of wild dia.
tanges. And think of the
things an the stairs or any pale hand snatching you up... carry- fiercer horror than any footsteps if he were evilly disposed Does not that conception hold a ghostly airman could do to you
ing you away into the wild and Consider that irritating instru-shrieking winds over black, meat which made us jump a mo- ally seas. neat ago the telephone. Most the vold over strange and
hurtling you into people would call it a completely perate lands. prosaic affair. In the hands of
Yes
machines jan imaginative writer it might be
be enough
of the vacancies caused by the re-jured, and although both ears were signation of M. Briand ant the damaged slightly, they were able to One of the most striking items fare emerges in the dual capanity
death of M. Maginot. He there-proceed to the Central Palice Station,
where the necident was reported. mentionest in the recent report on
of Prime Minister and Forelun the census of the Colony was that Minister prepared to fight for the the Praya East Reclamation now polley he has steadily pursued in houses over eight thousand people, the past twelve months, no longer This is an illuminating fact, seeing Prepared to make concessions to his that the figure is equivalent to the lied adversaries of the Left. Satisfaction or otherwise depends population of many a fair-sized
upon the point of view. a blend provincial town in England. Iting of the Herriot flavour in the naturally raises a query MA
to Cabinet mixture would have pleased whence all these people have come. Obviously, it is not in case of growth
many people in Britain And Ger-
screened by the Queen's Theatro An excellent comedy is being under the title of "Oh Sailor, Behave." famous pair of fun-makers. for the It introduces Olsen and Johnson, the first time to a longan roping at the ensement? and produces a favourable impression of these two. There is no plat in the production worth speaking of, but this deficiency is more than made up for by a plentiture of fun, music and riotous action.
troubles
des.
now
Rivo many, and rendered the immediate with the Hongkong Hiking Club will more searing than the clank of ana when they get out of order..
A small iugurt hike in connexion turned into an object of horror us with their naise. they torture .. embarrass of population: the explanation turo a little less obscure. It is take place on the Middle Levels on unhappy chain or the listening of and make our economic system is to be found in the fact that these curious how the estimates of French Sunday, January 17. The hike will a phantom dagger in the dusk. disgustingly intricate I do not | take something under 211⁄2 hours to people have moved from crowded Before the war, she was represent-members are cordially invited to join character and policy have varied.
A Familiar Voice.
see why they should not give us'a complete, and all members or non- Here is an example of what
few thrills in exchange. and probably dilapidated houses ined as frivolous, even as deendent, in thla meet. The meeting place will mean: You are alone in an eld
And so I look forward to other parts of the city. There has a view soon proved to be singularly at 230 p.m., and the route will be you are carrying your candle up the ghostly taxicab driver will be Kennedy Road Peak Tram station: country house late at night. As literary land of the weird, where. also been a definite transfer of false. The glamour began to go in Bowen Road to Stubba Road, and Sir to bed, the telephone ringe, down-supplant the conductor of the | population from Hongkong to Kow. the peacemaking and France, was Ceeifs Ride to North Point.
stairs. Cursing the man who dis-hearse, where the flickering candle loon, but even so, there are still, looked upon as sceptical and
turbs you, you go down to answer wil be forgotten in favour of the many districts in the city which are generous. Later it was
It. Across the wire, decided The death ban occurred at Sausalito,
na though fused wire, and where we sha!! that she
Californiu of Mr. Frederick speaking from an terribly overcrowded. Indeed, the capricious, the turn of the
militaristic and
immense dis-ear, faintly, the tinkle of ice in Brien, who Wan publisher of thetance, you hear the hoarse, strana atrange cocktail shaker, echoing wheel Mauila Cablenes, from 1902 to 1300, xled voice of a man you once knew through a room, with triangular cenaus, officer stated in his report finding her commended for her and several years later returned as when he was alive.
sofas and celluloid curtains, | that in some areas the overcrowding | pacificlan. In the last four or five editor of the Manila Times. He was "I am coming to see you........ which was decorated in those dia-
born in has reached saturation point
years, France has been blamed for was
Baltimoro in 1889. He to-night I'll ring anilor, casual worker and bubo
like I used to three times tant, distracted days of 1991. So far as movements of the setting herself in opposition to the in his youth. Then he began news
You stand there listening with population reflect a change from scating down of reparations, of the par werken were parted lips, and a tortured heart. PHIPPS chats
numbers of battleships and of the Hawali, the Philippines and
about California, Ohio, York, He
rings off, strength of land armies. At the where in the Orient and Europe. Let ever until you get the little local In a sudden frenzy you jog the same time, it was thought by her er he drifted to the South Seas. He to 1010, covering among other eventa the Japanese Russian war.
And
Was
else.
neighbours that they could afford York Herald, from 1993
was a correspondent for the New exchange, "What?" inquires
an
congested areas to newer roomier districts, they are to be welcomed. But there is one point which seems to need stres- to be tolerant, biding their time to sing, namely, that these transfers brush her to one side. The final will be of little value from a stand-phase has been the most remark- point of public health if they merelying, France stood all square. Eyes able. With other countries rock- result in a perpetuation of the opened in surprise. France had overcrowding evil in other pluces gained unexpected strength. We all know how Chinese living in She
WAS not to be coerced or tenement houses soon convert new cajoled. It in now clear that premises into ill-ventilated mid Franco has repaired her war dam- filthy abodes, covering up window age. Paaning through a terrible spaces und sub-dividing rooms into financial crisin, she not only small cubicles. That, we fear, is linhed her currency upon solid gold emerged triumphant, but estab what is happening already in many foundations. She has accepted n of the newly-developed districts. Iseries of cata in reparations, but This ought not to be permitted, has never abandoned her claim to The laws of the Colony make umple reparations. She has worked for provision for the provention of the organisation of peace, but has overcrowding, and give health off. taken no step likely to weaken hor cera wide powers of inspection for at one time with her head in the defences. Marching as it seemed the purpose of seeing that the laws clouds, she has kept her feet firm- anc obeyed. For example, Inly planted on solid earth. Judg- houses where cubicles are erected, ment depends on whether one ro the number of occupants must not Kards her head or her feet. It is exceed one for overy fifty cubic clear, at all events, that without feet of habitable floor space
France little can be done to-day. With her, almost anything might superficial aroo, This means be possible. And now she has secur- that in a room fifteen feet by ed the recognition which she sought twenty, no more than six people are and without allowed to reside. Investigation were hampered, what is France would probably show three times prepared to do? What will be her this number secupying a room of ttitude when she comes up against the dimensions named, when divided the plain facts at Lausanne? How will she fulfil the responsibilities cubicles. It has been of her power? Her bankers at argued that the problem is an Basto failed to give cause for con- economic one, and that people are donte, Are het politicians big compelled to live packed together enough for the occasioni?
up Into
or
which all offorts
A
sleepy voice. "No put a call through. We've had no .:: nobody's calls for the last two hours."
You can't appreciate the; view you'll have until that Kign lights up in the evening."
WITH EVONA.
Evona of Ballindalloch is dis- appointed.
She is a braw Scotch laselo, is Evona-about as braw as abe is long. Some idea of her bra WHOSA may be gained from the fact that she weighs 13cwt. 3qr. 18.
But she carries herself so well in a fashionable black coat that there is no denying her chic.
She can conceal her avoirdupois but not hur disappointment. Her ambition was to become champion. of the Smithfeld Cattle Club'a show, which is being held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Isling ton, N.
Unfortunately she had the title snatched from under her nose by a crossbred steer named Butler II. of Malsemoro, who chawed a very confident cud and was awarded the verdict on a casting vote. So poor little Evona had to content horeolf with being first-prize win- ner in the Aberdeen-Angus class, challenge cup winner, reserve for the King's challenge cup, and champlon Belfer.
Million Dollar Look Yesterday watched her having her beauty treatment. She washed and brushed and combed, and
Was
subsequently hung with
rosettes and ribbons, till she look- od, as the Americans say, like a million dollars.
"What do they think I am Christmas tree?" enapped Evona. "You took magnificent”, I'm-
sured her.
It worked.
"I'm making the other girls aft up anyway, she simpered, "Have some oll-cake?
"No, thanks,”!. I saidz!!I want
to go and inspect some of my
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