DEWAR'S "White Label”
You act wisely and take · no risks in selecting this. Whisky from the Multitude
of Stimulants.
If you take risks of any kind, don't let it be with your whisky. You can't afford it. To use good whisky is not speculation, and you are safe all the months of the year if you stick to---
LA
DEWAR'S
'WHITE LABEL"
Sole Agents:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
TEN P
O
11
4
#
!1
New Shipment Received of the
RCA VICTOR RE-16
Radio-Phonograph Combination.
THE HONGKONG
1 Super-efficient RCA Victor Super-Heterodyne circuit.
2 Continuous band-pass variable tone control.
3 Shock-proof rubber mounted chassis.
4 Scientifically impregnated condensers,
RE-16 5 Noise eliminating power transformer.
6 New RCA Victor automatic volume leveler that
correcis fading.
7 Three point shielding (Tubes, chassis and cable).
IN THE NEW 1932
CHEVROLET
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932.
YOU FIND THE LATEST MODELS OF THE CAR THAT HAS WON THE HEART OF THE WORLD, LEADING ALL OTHERS IN SALES.
WILL AT THE CURB YOU
SMART ADMIRE THEIR MODERN BEAUTY, ON THE -ROAD YOU WILL MARVEL AT THEIR EFFORTLESS CONTROL, THE EASY SMOOTHNESS OF PERFORM- ANCE, AND THE LUXUR- COMFORT WITII 10US WHICH THEY RIDE. EVERY MODERN IMPROVE- MENT IS AT YOUR COM MAND, INCREASED POWER, CUSHIONED AGAINST VIBRATION. THE VELVETY OF THE SMOOTHNESS FAMOUS SYNCROMESH GEAR SHIFTING, THRILL OF COASTING ALONG ON MOMENTUM WHENEVER YOU WISH-~ BY THE CONTROLLED TOUCH OF A BUTTON. DOST FAIL, TO SEE THIS. CHEVROLET SERIES "RA" SPECIAL PASSENGER SEDAN - CAIRO GREEN com
Wheels. 6 Wire plete with Tires and Tubes Bumpers, Rark, Tourists Covers Trunk Chrome Tire Ete., Ete,
Jaggage
PRICE G8965.
THE
AUTHORISED CHEVROLET
DEALERS. THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
or
DAY BY DAY
IN THE ADVERSITY OF OUR BEST FRIENDS WE OFTEN FIND SOMETHING WHICH DOES NOT DISPLEASE US Rochefoucauld.
MARTYRDOM OF MAN
Slave To His Own Mechanism.`
of
tho
A whist drive is being held this HERE is nothing novel in the countries passing special legisla evening at St John's Cathedral. Hallidos of bumanity becomington, at considerable pains and mechanicnl with much difficulty, In order to at 8.45 p.m.
onslaved to its own invention.
clear-headed modify the dictatorship of the Many thinkers and natute philosophers clock. The Daylight Saving Act The St. John Ambulance. Brigade have foreseen the possibility of its was humanity's first unconscious report that up to January 28, 71,988 happening. The amazing thing goature of hostility to the steadily peuple had received free vaccination
present generation, encompassing slavery by the Brigade's ofcera. Vaccinn-is that the ton will be discontinued until after which has witnessed an unpro machine.
ceilented miracle of mechanical the Chinese New Year holidays.
progress and selentific invention, bwn faila as yet to realise Ita Dr. San
do Waldemar, the soulless serfdom.
Some glimmering comprehension magician, gave an exhibition at the Chinese Catholic Young Men's Society of the accomplished fact is begin in Caine Read on Saturday night toning to penetrate the minds of a Inrge number of people. The pro-economie and Industrial experts, eeeds were in aid of the Building Fund of the Mongkok Cathelle Church, but so far as the mass of highly
of the
1
his own construction.
that
to
the dockside! These magic genli
ese contention is that whilst their forces were occupying the poni. tiona, nesigned them under the Settlement Defence Scheme, they were-attackd by Chinese Regulars and armed men in plain clothes. When we look back on the cir- cumstances associated with the Japanese action, it is little short of amazing that anch an excure should be advanced. We know that the Japanese Consul-General Informed the Mayur on Thursday that he regarded the Chinese reply to the ultimatum as autisfactory. but..even so, that he warned the
All-Ruling Machinery. Chinese authorities that if they did not keep their promises, the
The truth is that the geni¡ of whatever Japanese would take
the lamp have turned the tables on us. Aladdin rubbed his lamp, stepa they considered necessary,
and gave his orders to the omni- without giving any further notice.
potent spirits invoked by that simple friction. Today the march The next development, within a
mechanical invention Ная few hours, was a decision by the
of civilised mankind la concerned reached a pitch when it is the Japanese Admiral 14 necupy
In a case of "regardless of their genfi of the lamp who issue their maintain
orders, and we Chapel, in order to
must implicitly The King Edward VII Scholarship doum, the little victims play.
Most How that awarded on the resuits
regard people, indeed, with
obey them. and order." релее
Matriculation Examination held in such a suggestion with tolerant
The Inetory hooter, which sum- "occupation" was put into effect. Notember 1931 has been won by Mr. incredulity, as merely an ingenious mons swarming proletarians without the least warning, necom-Fong Ching Se of the Anglo Chinese y plausible paradox. Their cam their daily task, sounds very like. High School, Penang. It han Hot pincent annity rejects as absurd panied by nerial bombing, la now
been possible to award more than one any practical subjugation of man- the reous voice of some sooty- common knowledge. There was such schoinrship this year.
kind to the mechanism that is the genus of the industrial lamp. offspring of its own gonious nudi necents may be heard also in no question of the Chinese not
1ts own hands. They argue that the alari blast of the locomotive that draws the binck coat workers having kept their promises; the
The Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condens-the creator is greater than his office-wards, and in
the hoarse time element completely rules outed 3ilk Co, advertise that Mr. J. W. creation and must remain omnipo- any such contention." Moreover. Buck has been appointed Acting tent over the insenute puppets of steamer syren that echoca from
Manager for Hongkong & South to the China. Mr. the Japanese, Recording
will II. C. Shrubsole
It would be hard to think of a still serve us, but they have grown U.S. Consul-General, had given a proceed to Singapore to take up bin
must also serve them. Mechanism appointment as manager for Malaya, more fallacious fiction than that. Insolent in office, and now we definite undertaking that their
If the world at large were con- British North Borneo and Sarawak.
sulted in the matter, and public rules the modern world, and forces would not. In any event, be
opinion could have its way, would humanity at large must needs con- moved either an Thursday
But these instances The heath Bulletin of Far Eastern not all the elaborate and ingenious form to its routine,
of the, Friday. Yet Thursday night,
perts for the week ending the 3int mechanism of human destruction
following cases of be forthwith scrapped? Yet can tyranny of the machine are only" the terrible onslaught began.
ulto. shows the
trivial. We may easily discover infectious diseases and deaths there anyone visualise
actually! In the face of these rirrum-
from: Plague, Alexandria
ease happening within our time or that far more acrious Instances of its
Juggernaut progress. stances, it would serth a very Baghdad 1 case, Rangoon 2 cases,
of our children's children? death, Colombo 2 ensen,
The whole world at this moment 2 deaths. Cholera, Calcutta 26 cases, 14 deaths. The Motor Car. pour method of attempting to ex-
is suffering from an unparalleled slump. That slump is due prl- plain away Japanese aggression Pnom-Penh 1 case, I death, Saigon 1
case. Small-pox, Baghand 2 cases, When the machine arrives.marily to the Great War, which by an allegation that
Japanese Barahi 1 case, Bassein 1 case, Bom whether if be
a tarpedo or a
was a sanguinary apothechis hay case, Calcutta a enses, 1 death tractor, an automatic field gun or man-made mechanism. forces, periconbly moving in ne-
of the world de- cordance with Settlement defence Cochin case, Karachi 2 cases,
2 deaths, a printing press, it comes to stay direct cause death, Madras 3 CARPS, glans, were suddenly attacked by Rangoon 36 cases, 8 deaths, Tuticorin until something deadlier or more pression is over-production-by
The the mechanism of peace. 6 cases, 2 deaths, Pondicherry 1 case, afficient takes its place. the Chinese, The earlier evidence
I death, Phom-Penh 1 ease, Saigon 28 maler ear fought its way, against very machines we made to feed
now starving A great would appear completely to rebuitenses. 22 deaths,, Amoy 60 cases, 28 the most vehement popular pre us are
most, deaths, Tientsin 11 ensen, Shanghal juice and the
atringent number of us. The dole queues any such contention. It is, in-
48 cases, 22 deaths.
Tomeial restrictions, to a complete that punctuate our Industrial deed, difficult to escape the con-
revolution of lipman transport.suburbs may be regarded as con- viction that from the very start
Dare anyone suggest that, unless
acript processions to the altar
mechanism, the the aeroplane entirely supersedes
halpless the Japanese worked according to
it, the motor car will ever be sup acolytes who serve in the temple a pre-arranged plan, and that they
premed? It
a huge of the omnipotent machine. The
to Inteuled to it that plan into
public misfortune to attempt Disarmament Conference and the do so, but that is not the reason Economic Conference are merely effert whatever the nature of the
why it cannot happen. Poison humanity's feeble attempts Chinese reply to the allimatum.
The following cable at the closed is not a public benefaction, curb the dictatorship of its own If we go back even further, to
The Great inventive offspring.
little prohibit the very commencement of the of the sugar market on Satur yet even the solemn ostracism of
has failed to shut down the poison aeroplanes AN they did sub- Manchurian trouble, and trace th.. day has been received by Messrs the nations assembled at Geneva Powers could as
Pentreath and Co.
was laboratories throughout the marinca. rivilised world.
And we may be, for all anyone The most famillur example of dares predict now, only on tho mankind's seridom
mere threshold of the age of mechan- mechanism is the clock. Shake- speare's dletum that we are them. Some irresistible impulse urges us ever onwards in mechani- sellers claves of time was doubtless true cal invention. It may be man's
long before clocks were invented. blind effort to evade the In Sunrise and Aunset,
curse eluctable primeval majestle mechanism owes nothing labour. He invents the machine to mortal beaine or human hands. to save the sweat of his brow, imposed their automatic way and the monster promptly sweats even on primitive humanity. But his blood. clocks have immensely tightened It was Voltaire, I believe, who up the tyranny. They are, Indeed, declared that, if there had been the cash registers of our hours
invent one. Can it be Samarang (30/1/32)Advices and minutes, and audit our lives God, it would have been neces to hand state that there is every as punctiliously as a chartered that in this strange epoch of the indication of Java Producers com- accountant.
world's eventful history, the It may be urged, with truth,
That humanity is relaxing reports in the jeet of restriction of planting the that clocks and watches are ex-forces of irreligion are let loose"
next crop by 60%, also that reduc the Covenant. M.rlers Lexington and Saratoga aretian will made in the Export Al-tremely useful things, and serve hold on eternal truths in pursuit X and XV of l'aul Boncour, ut Friday's meeting, to be converted into superliners to attempt to capture for America countered the Japanese argu-the "blue riband of the Atlantic." vessels, arhich cost ments, and he had the support of These two the whole of the members of the £18,000,000, are known to be white elephants in the America Fleet Council. From this circumstance, but it is difficult for anyone con it is clear that there is no dispo-verant with the internal "layout" sition in Geneva to agree to any and external flying decks of air- craft carriers to believe that they further quibbling in which the could operate successfully
The flying decks would Japanese delegate may wish to "liners."
to The decision con- comfortably accommodate several Indulge.
games of football. enquiry on
The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd,
Incorporated in Hongkel Vallez
116107
Stubbs Head
DEATH.
8 Perfect acoustic synchronization of chassis and | LUZ-Estaphany,
cabinet,
Over-size electro-dynamic sponker.
10 New RCA Pentode tube with push-pull application,
Operater
on
Jocel
voltage
without power transformer.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
Chater Road.
Restful Nights
BRING
Happy Days
The
Beautyrest
"MATTRESS
IN BEAUTIFUL DAMASK COVERS
This Mattress, the unique achievement of the World's largest makers, boasts a special form of construction.
Hundreds of inner coils, overlaid with thick upholstery, ensure luxurious comfort and
nights of
ww
SWEETER REST
Money cannot buy a more comfortable mattress Lane, Crawford's are Noted
for
Quality. Bødding.
FURNISHING DEPARTMENT.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Epiphany.
Tha
Lua (Nee SE. da Luz) Died at his resilence, 2 Pence Avenue, Kowloon, this morning, aged 72 Funeral wil DISA the yenru Monument to-day at 6.30 p. (Shanghai and Manila plense copy.)
The
אינוון
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932.
JAPAN'S EXCUSE.
If the League of Nations bas happy hitherto not cut a very Agure
the Sino-Japanese
over
clash, it is at any rate something
events which have occurred. we gather the same impression. The tragedy of it all is that, so far, Japan has been able to brush all protests on one side and proceed to 1175 on her task "according gramme."
AIRCRAFT
CARRIERS
AS "LINERS."
to the good that the Council has U. S. BID FOR BLUE RIBAND
bluntly turned down the Japanese proposal to postpone consideration
OF ATLANTIC.
According to
of China's invocation. of Articles American Press, the aircraft car
dich
L
да
the spot
These , two aircraft-carrying In Shanghai, for the purpose of
leviathans, of 33.000 tons, have a abtaining reliable information on horse-power of over 180,000 and a what has occurred, is an indich-speed of about 30 knots, but in tion that the League realises the horse-power and tonnage they are. of course, below those of the great urgency of the crisis there and Cunard liner and the Ile de France la determined gei at the round which so much interest now bottom of the matter. Much has contres. happened since the Lengue decided
to
The disuse of the Lexington and to send out a Commission to in-Saratoga as aircraft carriers will bring into prominence the whole vestigate the Manchurian tangle question of the value of this type
has cont, all In view of what has since trans- of vessel, which
of the Navics, including our own, such pired, and also because sensational happenings in Shang-great sums of money.
bai. almost
it this Commlesion
да
if Great Britain now has eight seems
alreraft carriers, five of which, might ELA
including the R.A.N. ship Alba- well have never bean appointed. tros, are paid off into reserve or and three of In any event, if the League does dockyard control, not now succeed in exerting effec-which are in commision.
tive pressure, it will never recover. from the shock to its prestige and utility.
The February meeting of the Hong- kong Branch of the English Associa
boen has
postponed, from Surprise, to put it mildly, will lon
February 2 to February 10 (Tuesday) be generally registered over the at 6.30 pm. In the Holena May Japanese excuse for the drantic Institute. Hr. H. N. France, M.A., action taken in Shanghai. Posing leader in History at the University of Hongkong, wil speak on "The | us the negrieved party, the Japan- | Historical Navel."
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
Landon Terminals. March 6/11 up 1944. May 7,14 up 1 August 7/4 up 2d. December 7:6% up 11⁄2d. Buyers at above prices, asking d-d more.
New York Terminals. March 1.05 no change. May 1.08 no charge. July 1.13 no change. September 1.19 up 1 pt. December 1.25 up 1 pt.
1
ing to an agreement on the sub-
lowance for year ending March, 1923.
might be
of
most
to
whose
In the
elvflised
of
Rary to
of Yot the
The
of
07.
its
but inscrutable an admirable purpose
And that Voltaire's ambitions? 31st world. That did not prevent the of illimitable
parliaments
inspired epigram is justifying it-
in self already the breathless efforts of a materialistei genera- tlon to make mechanism into its new God?
"Why don't you write some more marches, Bon? When- things are gulst it's a good time to prepare for another
war picture.'
:
BEVERLEY NICHOLS tells
How to Give a Party.
My first and
most urgent
piece of advice is never have
carpet. a reu
No hatter how many Balkan Royalities you may be expecting, no matter how wet the night, or muddy the pavement never have a red carpet. It is n great temptation to your guests. The colour seems to go to their heads.
I apeak from bitter experience. When I gave my last party a red. carpet tratched magnificently from 'It the front door to the gutter. was only placed there for its deco- rative value, because the night was warm and dry and no Royalities were expected. (I only entertain Royaltien In Lent).
Cause of the Trouble.
Some time after midnight a cer- tain famous actress strolled to the. door to obtain a little frosh air, of which she appeared to be in need, She observed the carpet and sat upon it. Instantly four young men seized the carpet by one end, utter ed shill war cries, and dashed dow The street with it carrying the Jedy with them.
This was too much for the neighbourhood. All down the atrost windows opened and grizzled,
(Continued on Page 81) hik
+