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The Government House Ball ar ranged for Thursday, February 11, has been postponed indefinitely.
My New York Misadventure
By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, M.P:
Some
years age there was; all seemed to be tall hulldings of On or fifteen storeys. Grand Culgnol | fourteen R play at the Mr. Leo Kin-chee, of 126 Honnen called "At the Telephone," which the left lay the dark expanse of
"Aftracted muer attention. A hun-† Central Park.atmir. Road, has reported the one of his privato ricksha, No. 437, from Lan-band, called away to Paris, leaves At length wa roached the twelve his wife in their suburban home. hundreds and it was certain I had dale Street yesterday.
Every precaution is taken against overshot my mark. I told the cab-
which realise the need of arma-
The Hongkong Realty & Trust Co., ment reduction to come to an un-Ltd., advertise that the ordinary year. derstanding one with the other toly meeting of shareholders will bo hold render mutual assistaner in case at the registered office of the com- pany, Exchange Building, on Wednes- day, March 2, 1932, at noon.
of attack.
we
ploto dfaarmament. The most that hne boon attempted is to nonto down naval and military strength, And even in this limited applica. tion of the principle it has been found impossible to reach general Accord. Wo have seen it argued by a French militarist that the Issue is, for all practical purposes, merely one of limitation, and that disarmament, so viewed, cannot in itself constitute a guarantee of security. According to this au- thority, if the Powers are really sincere, they will admit that the
- January was for all intents and burglare. There is the maid who man to turn round and go back. chief object In reducing arma- purposes a rainless month. The fall will stay in the kitchen; there is slowly so that I could scan every ments is to lighten the burden of registered at the Botanic Gardens to the door which is locked: there building in turn. Hitherto
talled only 0.01-inch, which was rein the revolver in the drawer of had been moving up the right or | expenditure and to prevent a ro-corded ́on the 7th,
the writing table; and lastly, of centro of the thoroughfare and the could at any moment have stopped sumption of competition which
there is, if needed, course, would be dlanstrous in these days,tral British School will be held in St.
The annual specch day of the Cen-appoal for help by the telephone, opposite any house. Now we had One by one the usefulness of all turned round. We were on the Viewing the situation thus, it is Andrew's Church Hall on Tuesday. these measures disappears. The Park, or far side, from the houses, contended that the only practical February 10, at 5.30 p.m. Mrs. W. servant is called away; she leaves with a stream of traffic between us course is for peaceful countries Southorn will distribute the certif- the frunt duor unlocked so that shu and the pavement.
enter oud prizes.
can return. She takes with hor At length I saw a house smaller the key of the drawer in which than the rest and told the cabman the revolver is kept. Darkness to turn in there to make inquiries. comes on, and in the Anul act the It occurred to me that as we must agonised husband hears over the be within a hundred houses of Bt. telephone his wife's appeal for help Baruch's address, and that as he while she is the victim of a mur- was so prominent a citizen, any of lerous outrage. An Impressive the porters of the big apartment effect is given of doom marching houses would know which his house forward step by step and of every why. A London butler nearly al- human preventive slipping illently ways knows who lives in the three out of the path.
or four houses on the right or loft.
The The Invitation.
porter of the apartmen! house at which I inquired re- Something of this impression cognised me at once and said he resta with me when I recall my had nerved in the South African experiences of the night of De-War. He had no idea where Mr. cember 13.
Baruch lived, but eagerly produced I had finished dinner and was in the telephone book, which could, clined to go to bed; but an old as I have stated, give no cha in my friend of mine rang up and sug-1 present quest. gested that I should go round to his house. He was Mr. Bernard
Impatience. The body of a Chinese woman, aged Baruch, who was the head of the In order to stop opposite this about 30, was found lying in Prince War Industries Board during the housu we had Edward Road, near house No. 300 at two years I was Minister of Mun-light changed, then turn round on to wait until the midnight and was removed to the
believed tions. We made friends over u Kowloon Mortuary. It is
to the opposite course, draw up at that the womna either fell from a long period of official cables on the pavement, and thereafter make moving motor vehicle or was knocked grave business, and have preserved a second turn, again being very these relations through the now likely stopped by a change in the lengthening years of peace.
light. When this had happened. Adjourned from yesterday, the case said he had one or two mutual three times and we were unlucky in which a man named Man Chuen friends whom I was most anxious in missing the permissive green
charged with receiving stolen to meet, and as property in
the hour was Hght, I began to be a little im- connexion with the little after half-past nine, I wan
patient. robbery at No. 165 Portland Street rodily enlisted in the project. un January 17 wus continued at the
It was now nearly haй-past ten. Kowloon Magistracy
I descended by lift the thirty- My friends knew I had started an before Mr.
before, Ordinarily Fraser this morning when the defen- une storeys which separated my dant was committed for trial at the room from the street level. When Journey should not have taken ten Criminal Sessions. Detective arrived at the bottom it - minutes. They might think some Inspector Fallon prosecuted. It was curred to me that I did not know accident had happened to me or stated that in a raid carried out by the exact number in Fifth-avenue that I had changed my mind und the police on the second floor of No. of my friend's house. I knew it was not coming at all. They would was somewhere near 1,100. I knew be waiting about for a tardy guest. the napnet of the house; I had I began to be worried about the been there by daylight on
on several
The China Light & Power Co. (1918) Ltd., advertise that the supply of electricity to the Fanling and Kwanti districts will be discontinued between the hours of a.m. and & p.m. on Thursday, and Friday, February 4th and 5th.
Those who had hoped that the Great War would once and for all show mankind the criminal folly of armed conflict must be feeling deeply chagrined by the Far East- ern unheaval which threatens to embroil móre kin the actual Three men armed with daggers participants. Obviously
the gained admittance to 206, Tung Choi
Strect, the residence of Kwan Sau Powers cannot indefinitely stand chuen, master of the Kung Sang Wo by and allow events to take their Knitting shop, at 6 am. this morning
and stole money, Jewellery and cloth own course. Apart from considering to the value of about $50. alfans of protection of their own nationals. other issues are in- volved. In these days, a duty to humanity lies on peaceful nations to see that world concord is not jeopardised and that the weak are
not rodden under foot. It is bei cause of these things that the next few days are likely to be fraught with grave stevelopments. Bet as hope that the influence of those usious to serve the Interests of peace will succeed in dominating the situation.
What Nexi, Japan? The succession of events
down.
next
| 231, Portland Street, defendant was at found with two watches and a foun tair pen which were identified
at least one useful purpose. Bri- trin, the United States and the League of Nations have decided to accept their responsibilities. Un- less the Japanese view of the incidents is upheld, Articles Ten and Fifteen of the Lengue Covenant are likely to be invokud, while Britain and America have
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isour
the
Shanghai and Nanking have serven some of the property taken away at a sinus. It was a house of only situation at the house I was seck- robbery at No. 105, Portland Street on ve or six storeys standing with all to go back to my hotel and go thought I might have, after ing. January 17.
one or two others of almilar con- to bed. struction amid large apartment We had now arrived, as I sup- buildings of more than double the posed, at about the nine hundreds. height. I thought it probable I and here were certainly houses could plek it out from the win- much smaller than the others. So dows of my waiting taxicab, 80 Instead of going through this long after a vain search in the telephone ritual of cab-turning to the book-only Mr. Baruch's business other side of the street with all address was there-I started.
the delays of the lights, and then A Search in the Night. returning again on to its general Fifth-avenue is an immensely course, I told the cabman to stop long thoroughfare, and the trame where he was on the Central Park it, as elsewhere in New side of the avenue; I would walk across the road myself and inquire York, is regulated by red and green at the most likely house.
DISARMAMENT—& WAR already lodged a series of vigorous
There is thus merely the fact that when the
more
protests. Shanghai and Nanking
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rates are more or less nominal.
Впусти.
something
incongruouч in which should have been taken The munient long ago, in place of the feeble at World Disarmin- fumbling and unwillingness to ince neserts ment Conference has opened in the ianucs. Japan still Geneva, the attention of the whole that she has no territorial ambi world should be focussed on the tions in Manchurin or In China and still declares her complete "war" crisis in Shanghai. Here innocence of warlike intenflons, we have at one end of the world To-day, however, the world declines, delegates saembled from some
to be impressed. And the doubts sixty nationa, professedly animat- are not leksened by the constant ed by the most pacific intentions, repetitions of peaceful aims-fol- for the purpose of cutting down lowed with armies and navies, whilst at the rapidity by the employment of other there is presented the sight armed force, Japan must not wonder at the sceptletam with uf A wank
nation struggling which her words are now greeted, against a stronger Power, with Since September 18, when Japan- majur countries protesting against ese troops first drew the sword, a the aggression and themselves | duni authority has been manifcat rushing troops and bluejackets to Japanese policy, leaving the the storm centres. The cynic Foreign Minister in the position of might well be pardoned for doubt ing whether all Iranties entered
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The thought naturally obtrades self that, after all, human nature has not greatly changed, despite
almost startling
nt
being unable to define the inten- tiers of General Honjo in Man- the pacts and churia because that gentleman into since the owed no allegiance to anybody but Great War, aiming at mencoful the unknown quantity called mili- solutions of disputes, mean any-tary exigency. Much the Aume thing at all. The developments ia applies to Admiral Shlosawa the Far East during the past fow Shanghal. This is indeed the story of all Japan's adventures. Her weeks certainly suggest that
PAAL record bears 51 close solemn promises may easily go by
parallel to the events now pro- the board if and whan military ceeding. The record of her army fnetions are given an undue men- leaders in Siberia, an set out in sure of Intitude.
Gen. Graves's memoirs, "America'a Siberian Adventure, 1918-1920," shows a strange disparity between promise and performance: At that time the Japanese military talked, all the lessons of the war and all as they were beginning to talk ro the evidence which it provided of cently, of "watering their horseŇ the folly of armed conflict. This, at the Urala," and eventually auc- in turn, raisce the issue of the real ceeded in delaying retirement. It enuser of war and of the factors should be the object of Japanese to romove the which lead
to. It. It has been statesmanship argued that if all armaments are world's doubts about Japan and to done away with, there will be no prove that Japan.is as good no her civilian word. The sooner this is further risk. of warfare. But
le done, the better. The world against that point we have to bear will be much, more receptive of: In mind another-namely, that the, Japan's just claims when the Powers have never yot agreed on sword la put back in the scat- the desirability of general and coni- |-bard.
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Deadly Habit,
lights. When the red light shows every vehicle must stop at the nearest crossroad. When after an
In England we frequently ess interval of two minutes the lights turn green they all go on as hard roads along which fast traffic is I did na possible until the light changes moving in both directions. into red. Thus we progressed by not think the task I set myself now efthor difficult or rash. But at a series of jerks.
When I got near the eleven hun- this moment habit played men I no sooner got out dreds I peered out of the cab win- deadly trick. down and scanned the houses as we of the cab somewhore about the sped past. but could not see any middle of the road and told the driver to wait than I Instinctively like the one I was seeking. They
turned my eyes to the left. About 200 yards away were the yellow headlights of a swiftly approaching car. I thought I had just time to cross the road before it arrived: and I started to do so in the pre- possession wholly unwarranted- that my only dangers were from the left.. The yellow-lighted car drew near and I increased my pace towards the pavement, perhaps twenty feet away.
Just savas trying to tell the dean; if I could drop chemistry and math it would give me more time for
courting."
Suddenly upon my right I wan aware of something atterly unex- pected and boding mortal peril. I turned my
head sharply. Right upon me, scarcely its own length away, was what seemed a long dark car rushing forward at full speed. There was one moment~~I can. not measure it in time-of a world aglare, of a man aghast. I cor- lainly thought quickly enough to nchlove the idea. "I am going to be run down and probably, killed.” Then camo the blow.
I felt it on my forehead and across the thighs. But besides the blow there was an impact, a shock, a concussion indescribably violent. Many years ago at "Plug-street,” In Flanders, a 4.2 shell burst in a. corner of the little room in which we were gathered for luncheon, reducing all to dust and devbata- tion. This shock was of the same order as the shell explosion. Io my case it blotted out everything except thought.
The Driver's Story,
Mario Constraino, owner of a mediumsized automobile, was, run“ ning between 80 and 36 miles an hour on roads which were wet and greasy. He was on his proper side of the road and perfectly entitled (Continued on Pass:7)