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aituation, What Lord Snowdon's assertion really amounts to in that the Cabinet is able to agree secondary questions, but is decided. ly at variance on the major issue of the day. If that is harmony, then the term stands in need of serious revision.
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THE MESS WAR.
A Seasonable Struggle in Four Rounds. By ANTHONY ARMSTRONG.
and,
It would appear that Lord Snow-ben, den cannot get rid of his obsession to get in a ilk at the Labour Party The Empress of Britain presented a
far has misled, and Swordfrog replied whenever the opportunity offers. striking sight while lying in harbour THE NEW YEAR 80
very last night, her funnels being
been enlivened for us in the surely not an export like lolster; Because Mr. Henderson indicated at effectively floodlighted. She leaves Officers Mesa by a mild form of and Holster sald let him tell him the General Election that, in cer-for Chinwangtan at noon on Monday. warfare which has broken, eut be that a well-known connoisseur was tain circumstances, he would favour
tween Lieutenant Holster and once givon sherry and told it was a twenty per cent. tariff, his former The committee of the Craigongower Swordfrog of our battalion. For port and didn't know the differ; Cricket Club have secured the scr- Swordfrog has just been made ence; and Swordfrog said that colleague says he would as
vices of the orchestra of the Empress" trust the anfeguarding of Free of Canada which will play
in conse was just what ho'd always guess- dance Moss Secretary Trade to extreme tariff Conserva- music at the Club House from 6 p.m. quence of thus being the targeted about connoisseurs, and even to 8 pm. on Sunday next. The an for all complaints about the food he, Mesa Secretary though he was, tives as to the Labour Party.
intolerably wouldn't have made a bloomer like What in overlooked, however, is the nual Lachelors' Ball will be given by and drink, became
the single members of the Club on touchy. I mean, you could hardly that; and Holster said he botted fact that the Labourites have offer Saturday, February 20.
leave a morsel of porridge on your live bob he would,and went abrupt- plate without an affronted Sword-ly to bed. ed all the opposition of which they
what was are capable to the Government's
The Twelth general meeting of frog asking furiously Acheme. Contrast thai fact with the Hongkong University Medien wrong with it, and practically the lengths to which the Conserva-ciety will be held to-day Friday trenting the Incident as a blow in
February 12, at 8.30 p.m. in Room the face. Lives would, and very well may, 19% of the University buildings. Dr. M. and I will become clear who are
pect for Free Trade principl, But when all the talking and ex- plaining is done, the fact remains that Britain has dercrted her trudi. tional principles and has joined those untions whose policies repre-
Interference with
free movement of trade. The step is n retrograde ang, reflecting an economic nationalism which is one of the worst features of the present day.
sent no
with
SUGAR MARKET.
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eur, and began to Take Quite Seriously.
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It was Bayonet who precipita- led the second round. Merely in the spirit of sefontific Inquiry he seurally told the Mess wafter just
the
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0. Pister, M. .D., M. R. C. S., will Holster, on the other hand, hav-before dinner next night to fill the give an address entitled "Travols the real defenders of Free Trade. Through Yunnan and Szechuan, sing while on Christmas leave decanter with sherry and hang the
The meal was Lord Snowden himself has dissent-trated with lantern slides. Members lunched and dinod In Town with "Light Port" label round it.
little was anyhow ed from the Government's pro-and their friends interested in the the senior partner of the firm sup
plying the Meus cellar, suddenly strained. Swortfrog kept sniming posals, which plainly demonstraten subject are invited to attend.
adopted the attitude of a cone aaying, "Corked, bah Jove!"
his whisky-and-soda noisily and Wine what he thinks of Conservative res
"Soames, go to Bin 9 and bring up The special dinner dance arranged the Peninsula Hotel in connexion
of
Bnd The Mess has three kinds of another bottle the visit of the Empress of
Mess other rude remarks, which Hols. Britain was held last night and proved port; and to obviate the
after treated with lofty disdain. Well over 400 people walter relying on his In great success.
were present and filled both the Rose taste to tell the three decanters After dessert Bayonet naked them Room and Roof Garden to capacity, apart, each wears a sliver label both to join him in a glass of Dancing was indulged in until the round its neck. The first of these "Light Port."
It came, was poured out, was early hours this morning, the ntuale reads "Vintage Port," and is being supplied by the hotel band known to Holster as "the ah- sipped. Both Holster and Sword- augmented by musiclans from the Cockburn '08" and to Swordfrog frog at once directed puzzled Empress liner.
as the "one-and-threepenny." The glances at the decanter label; but
whereas Holster remained "Old Port" others are
puzzled, and "Light Charged with conspiracy and with Port," or again, as Swordfrog, no Swordfrog was patently reassured. the larceny of $6,826. Chun Cheung- connoisseur but a man of figuren, Bayonet then asked Swordfrog if wan, a shraff, appeared on remand prefers to put it, the elevenponny there was anything wrong with it, before Mr. Wynne-Jonen at the and the eightpenny. These labels, and Holster hurriedly interpola- Old Cities and Now Central Police Court this morning, by the way, remain permanently ted that if there were he'd batter when ball in the sum of $10,000 in the decanters, except for a put it down in the Complaint Book. ensh was fixed, on n request by Mr.
brief period on Saturday
Swordfrog, speaking with res Great cities have a fascination | A. E. Hall on behalf of the recuse,
traint and addressing himself that few other parts of the earth and the case again remanded until nings, when they are removed by can rival. There is romasce in to-morrow morning. The compinin, a kitchen-man for cleaning and pointedly to Bayenot, replied that he did not think the eightpenny port was quite as good as usual. the jungle, wild and full of the ant in the case is a retired merchant replaced by eye.
named Tsang Fan-hing, who alleges
It seemed to him to have gone off unexpected, there is romance in that he had been the victim of atten.
Well, a short time ngo Sword- trifle-about two-ponco-half- the prairie with its miles of ripen-tions by a number of men, accused
frog suddenly
there penny or so. Bayonet then asked ing grain; there is romance in the amongst theri, who sought to interest was a different "Old Port" that Holster what he thought was
him in certain property deals, from
night, and he would like to know wrong with the port, and Holster, sen, perhaps most explored by which the present charges arose.
what the Mess thought of it. Hols with
with a pleasant smile, replied, story-tellers, but always fresh and
ter, who had just finished being "Nothing, except that it's damn Inviting-but the great city, and
articularly funny especially the city with a crowded background of centuries, exercises A special appeal to the imagina- tion, for it is there that humanity has moulded much of its destiny, it is there that civilisation has been bull brick by brick. So The following cable at the close strong, Indeod, in this appeal of fof the sugar market yesterday has and at last announced J
been received by Messrs. Pen- the man-built city that it is even treath and Co, exerted by the lost cities of the ancient world, whose splendours still burn through the barely pone-
There Now that Britain has decided to trable haze of antiquity. adopt Protection. it is amusing to is much of this glamour in the note the efforts which are being tales that linger about the older Innde by the tariffats to assure the cities of the present day; so much, public that not a very strong dose in fact, that one is inclined to de- is being administered. Many of plore the passing of quaint ways. the arguments defeat themselves. Yet, for all this, a frank study of It la contended, for example, that the contrast between the past and Britain is merely going in with the the present of old cities will re- low-tariff countries; yet nlmost in
veal much of aqunlour as well as the same breath it is argued that splendour in what has been out- the tariff is needed for revenue
grown, and may reconcile one to purposes and also as a means of the change. Such a
study has bargaining with other nations.
been presented in "The New Sur Not even the most ardent Protec- vey of London Life and Labour," which provides a counterpart to tionist will promise that costs tu the consumer will remain where Charles Booth's famous survey of they are. Obviously they cannot. the London of forty years ago. But un attempt is being made to The most important conclusion Is reassure people by the thread-bare "that the general tendency in re- argument that any increase in this cent years has been in the direc direction will be more than com- tion of improvement rather than penasted for by the general im- deterioration in the material.con- provement in Industry and by the ditions of prosperity of the work- London need for more workers. The facting population of the
This conclusion is arrived that the United States is very muchares."
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY. 12, 1932.
GILDING THE PILL.
in the industrial doldrums at pre- at after a detalled and conscien- sent, and that her army of unem-tious study of all the available ployed runs into millions, is con- statistical data concerning every aspect of London life and Inbour veniently overlooked,
Amongst the Intest pronounce during the last forty years, and menta on the subject is Mr. Bald-it supplies the necessary corree- win's defence of the Government's tive to the distorting mirror of ro- proposals, even though he takes mance. One may easily be carried care to explain that these proposaia away by the marvels of Pepys's do not represent the Conservative London: Its quaint theatres, its Party's original policy. The pre-crowded fairs, its gorgeous courts, sumption is that he means they are its wide parks, its busy river. Even not so thorough-going as Conserva. the tragic blaze which destroyed tive extremists would like. That most of it overnight assumes a Victorian may be so, but they certainly go compelling fascination. very much farther than Mr. Bald- London, too, largely intact in parts win himself was prepared to go un- ns it is, gradually loses its dis- t driven to give way by the bulk tinctness as the recollection of it of the Party. It is not ad very long fades. Ha poverty and overcrowd- ago that the Conservative ex-Pre- ing are quickly forgotten, and the mler was holding out against the very fact that time has brought "whole-hoggera." To-day, he is an about a marked change for the bet- out-and-out Protectionist. The ter in the condition of the poorer truth of the matter, of course, is quarters of London tempts one to that present- that the Government's scheme fa a forget them. Not Tory scheme, and nothing else. dny London is free from dark now survey Lord Snowden, though a Free spots. But, as the Trader himself, defends the shows, the process of improvement, Cabinet's "agreement to differ," though R moy at times appear to being at pains to point out that be slow, goos on continuously. It there is completa harmony on every is a fact that should encourage the other question, a fact which is, hops and increase the determina. however, of minor importance tion of those who are engaged in Boeing that the tariff scheme re-solving the dimcult problems of presents the main offort of the Gov- modern elties. The romance ernnæent to cope with the present old cities may be great, but for the
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
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New York 11/2/32) -Reported Java might reduce sowings for 1933 and exports of 1932 if Cuba production 2,338,000 tons.
student of historical contrasts the romance of modern cities is even greater, for It is founded on this conscious endeavour to make their inhabitants enjoy ever better and better amenities of life.
of the Mess Chablis, at once od sherry." Everything was thon said that he'd give him an expert held up for a whlia while he ex- tracted fiva shillings from Sword- opinion, and, ordering "Old
frog, who at last went off into s Port." began to sip it with a high huff into the Mess Secretary's ly critical air. Swordfrog merely offiea. The second round was thus locked on. Holster did a few!
quite definitely Holster's. more tongue-and-gum exercises, "It's not as good as the
The third round took place al- Now Swordfrog's usual reaction most immediately, when Sword- was to frog returned with a grin and an to this sort of comment rise heatedly and in a voice trem empty bottle. Recalling to the bling with passion ask Holster to assembled company that Holster put down any remarks he wished had said the so-called port was to make in the Complaint Book; damn good sherry, he exhibited
when he merely said, "Oht the particular bottle whose How?" we all suspected he had tonts the conscientious Moss wat- some game on. Holster, however, ter had put into the decanter, It was far too busy weaving his glass was labelled "No. 1 Cooking about under his nose to get the Sherry."
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con-
bouquet and listening to it to sẹC Holster spent some while trying if it were too dry and so on to to convince everyone that when he
used the words have any suspicion.
"damn good "It in decidedly inferior, old sherry" he meant them colloquial- chap," he replied. "Less body ly-that was, damn good sherry and certainly a harsher flavour." of its kind, that was damn good sherry as against port, or even damn poor sherry.
carefully explained that the Port Swordfrog then politely and In question happened to be the But the final round to date is in Mess Vintage, a Port actually a way Holster's pn poluts, be fourpence better than the "Old" cause he went to Town next day Having run out of the elevenpenny and discovered from his wine firm and not liking to disappoint those friend that they did not normally who wanted it, being moreover too keep cooking sherry, the demand honest to substitute the eight- being too small. So, not wishing penny. Well, at that, Holster to disappoint regular customers, got quite short and retorted that when they did get an order for a oven experts made mistakes when bottle they merely took one
their ordinary drinking sherries, put a cooking sherry label on it and charged half-price.
Both sides are now sparring for position again; that is, Swordfrog vintage boer
of "By working at nights all summer we'll save enough money-
on dates to get married soon!!
of
goes about ordurgundy, while
ar 1915 cooking
the Complaint Book looks like section of Holster's diary under trying circumstances. But the rest of us are a little worried, and for safety's sako are drinking Madeira, at any rato till the end of January.
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Annual Instalments extending over three years are now being granted, with interest at the rate. of one goat or shaếp per ox or cow per annum. In some cases credit facilities for wife purchaso are sơ: generous
ous that daughters are bo- Ing handed over before even
the
first instalment is paid,eg
The only stipulation in connex Ion with the new extended".torms" In that all the female offspring of the union become the property of;
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