"BEER"
The National Beverage
OF A
ROBUST RACE.
WHITBREAD'S
PALE ALE & DOUBLE BROWN ALE
"The Real Home-Side Stuff" ̧!
Sole Agents:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
THE "FEDERAL
RADIO-GRAMPHONE COMBINATION.
"Cost little--gives Perfect Resulta ''
Special Features:
Nine tube Super-Heterodyne Radio Set. Perfected push-pull audio output. Four gang ball bearing Condenser. Tubes-3 Multi-mu. 2 pentode,
1-224, 2-227, 1-280,
Ask for catalogues and particulars of our terms,
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.
CHATER ROAD.
ARROW COLLARS
For
Comfort
Front in.
Buck 1 in.
Sizes 14 to 16!
Arrow Semi Stiff Collars are the ideal Collars-being light in weight and made from a strong hard wearing material.
Front 2 in.
Back 14 in.
Sizes 14 to 16)
Lane, Crawford,
Wear Stylists,
Lfd.
THE HONGKONG
BELIEVE IT
OR NOT-
CHEVROLET.
In the Chevrolet design, rough roods can have no effect on the stability of the radiator and front fenders.
TELEGRAPH.
On most
cars, the radiator and front fenders are fasten- ed directly to the frame. Franie movement. therefore, in transmitted directly to them with the result that fender រ៉ុង and radiator vibration often quite annoying on rough roads. With the Chevrolet design, the radiator, fenders and headlamps are all mount- ed in an independently sup- ported cradle, the whole assembly ticing up securely with the cowl. Thus, front end frame movement, caused by rough ronds, cannot extend its influence to the hody.
war.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932.
has
DAY BY DAY. manetCARE
IT 18 HARD TO BELIEVE LONG TO-
WHILE, UNLESS THERE 18 SOME EYE TO KINDLE IN COMMON WITH OUR
THAT
of!
Grayburn, Chief, Manager of the
A
In the African Veld.
The tragic death of a young Chinese girl came to the notice of
be,"
ting.
greon of
war. Somo-are poorer than others In natural resources, but under the necessity imposed by war, they obtain far more than previously, out of their potential wealth, and rely on borrowing for the rest. 12 var the autions will cheerfully | GETBEN THAT ANYTHING 18 "WORTHI sign huge obligations to pay for necessary commodities, as the late
UTTERED FTER B long, monotonous fixed on their shadows, are grey Allies did, reserving the reckon OWN, HOME BRIEF WORD
tour among the villages on as iron. Bronzed leaves dangle ing to an unknown future, when NOW AND THEN TO IMPLY
WHAT IS INFINITELY PRECIOUS TO| the high veld, we get ready at from black boughs waiting for. they find that according to peace-
UN 18 PRECIOUS ALIKE TO ANOTHER last for a short descent to the some sudden gust to sat them rust- time standards they could HOL | MIND--George Eliot,
Kafue River, to visit à chief who
On other trees copper leaves afford them. Indeed, about the
lives beyond the farther bank have been hammered out, and last inquiry n State makes before
Novor before have we been in the struck off to lie coffered in the Mr. J. Russell will speak on enbarking on war is whether it "Our Altitude towards Life at the valley of a big African river, and windless hollows. The seed pods it lures us with a spell of its own, of the mpondo tree, dark and shin can afford the
public lecture Often, inusual weekly
the Hongkong Lodge; The Theoso since it seems that we ought to being as gun metal, crack opon in the fact, the people's condition may phical Society. 17, Queen's Road descending inte a country of foli- heat and scatter their iron bullata. be so impoverished that the Gov- Central, to-day at 6 pm.
age and greenery, of Africa's Kaffir oranges, like balls of old brass, hang out a sign that this Shakes- ernment will take the
greatest want supplied.
How often we have said, con- world of base metal is in pawn. I peuroan course of giddying their
A coolle in the employ of Mr. V. M. templating our thirsty garden six look about me for some cool, live minds with foreign quarrels so As to stave off internal disturbances, Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Car- or seven months after the last rain thing on which to rest my eyes. poration, at his home at 357, The has fallen, when our only water At the roots of the first-burned It is precisely because war may
Peak, was injured yesterday through supply, comes from a hole in a kenes some new growth already be regarded as a way out, or
fall from a window. He was taken dry stream bed, "Oh, if this ventures out. In the fierce light, safety valve, like bankruptcy in to hospital with a fractured skuil.
too, country only had water enough,
Beems only the
private life, that it behooves the
what a wonderful place it would verdigris.
Wo come sharply onto the flats | nations to minke pence more attrac-
Now, at last we shall find a wide, from the hillaide, and a wave `of tive. Unhappily, current happen-
лn open furnace dancing heat as from inga auggest that the lesson
the police authorities yesterday, when swift stream, blue and they removed to the Public Mortuary like mirage, reed-lined, sandy atrikes chin and cheek. I get into still to be learned.
the body of Tan Tai-tai, aged 18, bottomed, fish-filled, hippo-haunt the machine and pull down my who committed suicide at her home ed, a river to dream about. on the third floor of 27, D'Aguilar Humping along in the machila, "Where is this river?" I ask Street. The unfortunate woman was I am aware that my feet are more the Bwana as he passes. found hanging from a bed past in and more often a good deal lower "Four o'clock," he says. He is cublele.
than my head. Sometimes I stop answering his own thought, but at a horrid angle, and hang by it is so nearly like mine that his my hands to the pole above my reply is only partly irrelevant.
the forward bearer head while
The carriers any there are pukit does a definite reaction from the
picks his way down a stony hill (antelope) at the edge. I'm go- post war frenzy of life. if it has
side, and the back one braces his ing on. Try to sleep." done nothing else, it is to be com
heels following blindly, as he can- He disappears, and I turn away mended at least for divulging to
not watch ils footsteps. Some-as the light strikes intolerably off times it becomes too difficult
tobi most persons, certainly to those of
gun barrel. I pull down a carry me at all, and I am spilled cushion from behind my head, over the younger generation, the pur
out on my feet to make my own my face. For a moment the soft, pase of those four groups of alter-
way for a little.
thick darkness is deeply comfort- nate red and black spikes on the
The Hongkong dollar_declined. It is not a pretty landscape ing. I move the cushion Junt Inside of the draughtboard. 1/8th this morning, reflecting under the pitiless sus. To right enough to let me breathe, and fall Backgammon brings up. pictures and New York,
a fall in silver both in London) und left of us the hillside is colour- asleep,
less as if it had been drawn with of elderly ladies with lace cnps
I wake to the rolling shout of London reported silver down a careless pencil, and the flats a river song, and a changed pare and Paisley shawls, sitting in the 1/16th ready and 1/8th forward. below smudged in with the stub. Fin пу machila team. An acrid early houra immediately following India sold, and China bought and It in autumn, and the country smell of sour, wet mould greets me a wlater twilight, by the light of the official fixing, there was no jof long standing, some recent, and my chin from
sold on a quiet market. After has been swept by bush fires, some with doubtful promise. I unstick guttering candle, engrossed in the special feature, America holding the black ash has drifted into the peer out under the canvas cover. my shoulder and board lying open on their knees off.
charred
grass clumps. At night From my tile dark hole I can see between them. Backgammon was
Otful splashes of light on the the data stretching away, for all a game of gentility when games in
horizon betoken these autumnal they word like a battered tin plate. which women could engage were
pyres. Only on the flats the long During the rains the water must few indeed. Its origin is clauded
grass rustles and cries for water. have covered our present track,
As we down. descend, the thought of the river, recy through which a distant, cool, refreality of
A Backgammon Revival.
The revival of interest in bock- gammon la Britain JA causing
THE HONGKONG HOTEL much comment, suggesting as it
GARAGE.
The Hongkong Bhanghai Hotels, Li
Incorporated in Hongkong. Stubby Bond
The
Maper Valber
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, February 18, 1932.
WAR FALLACIES.
-
in
with the
of n
DOLLAR DECLINES
SLIGHTLY.
SILVER MARKET
WEAKER.
In New York, silver is down quarter, with the market easy.
Locally, the market is still dead. there being no inclination to do Join
•
DEATH.
.
MISSING CHINESE
PASSENGER.
Down, down,
scema to
hat.
in retreating, combed the river grass into a flat, thick path has draw us with the
been hacked for us. The smelt Will we never reach it?" Nothing
again, and peor a little further In the heavy
avy stillness over the edge of the canvas harm- seems alive. The bush has curious metalite look, as if to mock to see the forward bearer's
refootprint impress the dark soll. mind us that we are in Rhodesin, I ponder on this sleepily, until probably under our very feet auddenly I am stopped with a jerk a world of wealth in base metals and a shout. A shod foot crashes lies hidden. I could easily believe in the brittle reeds. There is a that we are descending into the tug at the canvas on the other side
and
+
•
*
The sun bents down through the shimmering air. The trees, trans-
I feel like saying, "I've just looked out and we can't possibly be anywhere," but the excitement and relief in his tone is authentic. I roll out on my feet, and the
Whatever many he the outcome
something approaching my- of ithe Sino-Japanese conflict, it is atrendy apparent that, apart from stery. It is supposed to have been losses in man-power, the operations invented in the tenth century, but
likely to
PRESUMPTION OF mirage. prove extremely there are those who will tell you costly to both sides. Indeed, many that it goes back four or more
thousand years. millions of dollars will be involy-
It was known to ed before the fight began in Man-the Romans as "ludus „duodecins churia, and now Continuing a scriptorum," ur twelve-line Shanghai, comes to an end. It is game," and Plato writes. pertinent, therefore, to take note game in which diee were cast and of an attitude, which was becom- men were moved after due con- The mysterious disappearance great primeval smelter from which of the machiln, and'a voice says, ing prevalent before this outbreak, alderation. ft is 2 game beat. from a ship, bound from Vancou- It was cast. It was forged, and "Here we are." when discussing the issue of peace played by two, preferably before ver to Hongkong in October last wrought in heat. A stone thrown and war, tending to dismiss the an open fire that sends Gtful year, of a Chinese passenger, was into it should clank and clang. possibility of certain countries en-shadowa dancing on the walls, and recalled this morning, when at the gaging in war, because they were
wireless loudspeaker Preme Court, before the Chief
Sir Joseph Kemp,
Bir. "too poor to fight." Aside from silent in order that nothing may Leo d'Almada jun.. made an its undesirable nature.. US AN disturb the peaceful quiet save plication, on behalf of Sheung Shi proach to the problem, this atti-the clatter of the dice as they roll for leave to Lar to the hours. A search of the ship trieve it, and stretch up with it. cushion falls with me. As I re- tude rests on a foundation so un- out of the box upon the board and Lam Nul, for the purpose of ob- proved fruitless. substantial as to be completely il-the soft scraping as a man is mov-taining letters of administration
suddenly, there, cut from the Captain T. R. Ireland, master ready tangle as if with a cheere Jusory, and therefore doubly dan by one or another of the play as regards his estate.
of the ateamer Tyndareus, said knife, is the river. It is ur- ers. There may be a little chuckle Mr. d'Almada read an alldavit in an adavit that at 3.30 aand smoother. For a moment
believably blue, bluer than the sky, We need only look back to the when one of the contestants "hits by Ching Hing, cook at the Boston when Lam was last seen alive,
think
"More polished wearily. World War to see that economic ablet" and takes up one of the Cafe, Vancouver, who said that he there was a strong monsoon with
left Vancouver on September 9, heavy sea. He believed that metal," but a tiny breeze rouses conditions do not prevent war. Innen of the opposing player an that 1981, to return to Kwangtung. On Lam either fell or jumped over the surface to a filigree, then 1914-18, no fact was more clearly has to start all over again. Also board he made the acquaintance board and was drowned.
crusts it with jewels. If it is demonstrated than that in taking it might be well to have a sleek of Lam Tak-wn. On October 14,
metal it is precious, too, and my Sir Joseph Kemp said the heart goes out to it in relief, up arms a nation was not neces-pussy dozing on the rug before the when the boat was a day and a evidence was sufficient to justify
fire, not so deep in its dreams but at the game table as Lam, told the death, and made an order to make for whore, at some distance, half from Shanghai, a passenger him granting leave to swear to anrily handicapped by the absence that it can find instant delight in Ching that Lam was missing and that effect, setting the date downumpa of
We turn to the right again, and
trees atand almost buried in tail, feathered river grass. They dangle their roots In the water, and form little Islands to coax the water round them. We are to cross in the dugout canoes waiting for un in the shade.
gerous.
even
CARLTON CLUB'S
But
wear death of
of a well-furnished war chest or
war Arsenal. Immediately chasing a rolling piece that may had not been seen for on the outbreak of the war all have fallen from the board.
there is nothing jazzy about back- | peace-time economic checks were
suspended. The nations harness-gammon. It smacks of return to ed themselves to war-making under a milder era when a game can be a regime which. like that of pre-time can be lind even without the played a deux and an enjoyable sent-day Russia, forbade internal
accompaniment of an competition. Excess of plant
orchestra playing "vo-dec-o-do" and "oop- capacity came into service, new factories were built, vacant flelds
boopa-doop" songs, yielded to agriculture, and flower gardens gave place to vegetable allotments. In a stock-taking in post-war England four-fifths of the reporting firms stated that after making allowances for de- terioration they had more plant than before the war, in some cases four times as much. England, the grent dependent, was in a fair way to feeding herself, even when some sources were stopped and others hindered. No question of gold stocks impeded this activity, nations quickly separated themselves from the restrictions
The
CENTENARY.
INSTITUTION THAT SET- TLED FATE OF STATES
The Carlton Club, soon to cele brate its contenary, has settled the fato of many a statesman since it was founded by the Duke of since Gladstone (In the Conserva Wellington and his frionds and
tive part of his career) was s member.
imposed by the gold standard and One of its historic gatherings International competition by using in recent times was the drumstic the printing press to finance pro-menting which put an end to Mr. duction and consumption. Among Lloyd George's Government. The the allies "Great Britain steared club preserves not only the por- the longest course in "paying hur traits of its horaes, but may also way," but soon aho was compelled be said to be the sent of the Dis- to follow the example of the other ralli cult, since here is proserved belligerents and dilute the pur-
Bosconafield's chair. chasing power of her currency, All the powers in Europe came to the peace conference with an in- convertible paper money.
Before it set up in Pall Mall, where the Reform Club in its in Charles Street, St. James's and neighbour, the club and premises,
later in Carlton Gardens....The
This, of course, is not to say present buildings was modelled on that all nations discover, that they Sansovino's Library of St. Mark's are El Dorados when they go to at Venice.
several as the month of October, 1931.
"Hadn't you and Dad better be moving on out to the kit-
ichen 7.3Hn'll be here zany minuté how?)
sscer-
Already the Bwana has tained that hippo' may be seen up.. stream tomorrow morning, at the old crossing place. Last year the Native Commissioner was held up. all day because a family of regue hippos lay off shore and defied him, cavorting, encolling, yawning and bellowing, and practicing on exch other the lively upsets they would like to give to the canoes.
Wo watch the tent make the crossing, the precious office box with its guardian and, even more anxiously, the blankets and beds. As the blue deepens, and the sun. withdraws, the lovely water, rare with us, so doubly treasured, gathers to itself the romance of river and lake and stream in other hunting grounds, happier, or at least
more
than comfortable.
Africs.
Soon we, too, embark. We are to go further down stream to join the loads at the point where the river is nearest to camp. We
glide
out onto the water, trailing our fingers and wrists over the sides. with quiet rapture. Midstream seam to strike a cleavage in the heat, wind-tunnelled and Cool
The
สนม
la setting behind us, and dark waterfowl gather from the banks following us with strange full- throated cries. They are, like, us under the spell of the flowing water, "and the promise bi the end of the long hot
Amply full
thin wido