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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1982.
THE WAR OUTLOOK.
ernment has placed troops around ft, Isolating it and watching its movements. This allegation is {Intriguing, but if there any truth on the latter part of the statement E. will como as'n great surprise, even if on the surface
́DAY, BY DAY
TIS WITH OUR JUDGMENTS AS OUR WATCHES, NONE GO JUST ALIKE,
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts. On
Brokers' Alley mined to fall in with the bargain ference la ladies' creations scoms
вестн deter- To the masculine mind, the dif It appears that this Army bros heen YET EACH BELIEVES HI OWN sale habit. All prices are being to be that a drena costs $25, n
marked down.
frock $100 and a gown $250.
For the convenience of customiorn during Race Days, the Hongkong Hotel will serve tilina in Mac's Cafe earlier if desired. and the Grill Room from noon, or
acting more or less Independently, | Pape The suggestion that these troops are Communists is no les altspria. int. They are Chan Ming-shu's men, and he has been anything but a Curamunist and was certainly pro-Nanking in the split k tween Canton and Nanking. Incidentally, very file has been heard of him since the Shanghai trouble began. The same may be raid of most of China's leaders, This makes it hard to appreciate exactly what is happening in | Chinese politics in regard to the
Shanghai upheaval,
Maybe the best way to get thene "Slow Down" signs observed in to speed up the Trame Courts.
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A Penk resident has just on- His Majesty the King has approved gaged a houseboy who is nearly the appointment of the Hon. Mr. Chau six feet high. This, however, will of the Legislative Council, vice Sir only mens that the crockery has
Taun-nin to be an Unoficial Member
Shou-non Chow, Kt.
further fall.
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Thene school prize-givings sug geat that there must be at lenst one dull boy in every class to pro- vido Jobe in later years for the brillant ones.
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Paria news'says dress designers are now using geometry in cutting out evening gowns.
We suggest
a little almple addition.
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The forthcutning wedding in an- Judging by the records reported nounced of Mr. S. T. Butlin, chartered at the annual meeting, flongkong accountant, of "Lauriston". Kowloon, Tramways appear to be running pany is to be struck off the Re- and Miss Edith Lewis Bailey, nursing on the right lines. sister, of the Peak Hotel,
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Amongst janies untered for the His Excellency the Governor has Races. It is reassuring to find The made the following appointment in
There have been hints thrown out latterly
which have created some mystery coneersing the at- itude of Chiang Kai-shek, A Chinese report from Shangchal re- cently went so far na to state that Chiang had secretly enteral Into at agreement with Japan to re-deutenant. Erzin frendlug any al his
has
The Hock Hni Steamship Com
gister. Suppose the slump kilt it!
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Salade a la Nudiste,-Anything
the Army Service Corps Cadre of the Slump offset by Highjluks, Vim, that comes to hand, to be well Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps: Whoopee, Helter Skelter. White mixed, and served without dres
Mr. F. G. S. Dodwell, to be Label, Wild Life and Sumppy Eve, ing.
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A talkie actor. Tenders are being invited for the is going to fre- reseimstructing #berdeen Lower Dam,
Hand to study extension of overflow and foodwater of a small catchwater draining the ting it off pat. arrangements; also the construction the brogue. Get- stopes of Bennetts Hill Catchwater,
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One
way to
Trops to Shanghai and that he i willing to settle Sino-Japanese issues with Japan if and when the Cantonese troops are driven back | Another report, also from Chinese sources, stated that Chinng re- eently ordered eight planes which should have gone to Shanghai January remain in Nanking. How much month, The average van tempera- tious person is trak there is in these assertions itture was 604, the lowest being 43.3 to give him $13
and the highest 73.8.
for There were change be219,0 hours of sunshine, nid the aver$10 note,
Inge humidity was 64,
i-
show returas Observatory
that test supersti. nn entirely rainless
Wha
WEN I
it
hard to say. They may totally at variance with fets, but it is not without some significance
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"Vehicles
There arid: The consolidated tably silent during the whole
Trafic Regulations made by the brass band at trouble. What is more, a Tokyo Governor-in-Council, for 1932, have a Joenl Chinese message of a couple of days ago been officially isnued in booklet form. {stated that ḍapan's ultimatum was Copies may be obtained from Messrs wedding recent-
expected to apply only to the 19th Noronha
Kelly and Walah, Brewer and Coy. In striking and Co., the Colonial contrast to the Army, and not Chiang Kai-shek's Secretariat and the Palle Depart golden ring. troops. Maybe the exact positionment, at $1.60 each. of Chiang will be male clear very shortly. In the meantime. it in the subject of much speculation.
In Cockney Coming Into
Its Own?
JU
GO
BRIDE: Why did you tell
The man whe put the dinin dinner nisu took the rest out of restaurant..
"The City of Shanghai" Is racing in Hong- kong. Hope it doesn't get bad start!
A
DO Naturally. Y.M.C.A. mem- bers who patro- nise the win- ming bath are permitted use of a red triangle.
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your friends that you married me because I was such a good cook? can't cook a potato! HUSBAND: Well, I had to have some excuse.
C,
#1. (Mr. Herbert E. Lanepart, the win- champlon of the local nudisti,
the stated during the week that "our of forefathers were narrow-minded
A contemporary has Menor. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.,
worked oui advertise that on Monday, Tuesday, ready
the and Wednesday, the 22nd, 23rd and ners In all rounds of 24th February, 1932, all departments tennis tournaments. This, will be closed at 1 pm. On these course, saves many of them from enough to violently арроне days, the Hongkong Dispensary, Dis- bothering about winning. pensing Department, will be opened for the purpose of dispensing pre- scriptions from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
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With the imposition of so many new duties in Britain, it in feared in some circles, that the Old Coun-
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The Hongkong Orchestral Society advertine that a meeting of members try may put the ban on bananna! will be held at Mesars. Trang Fook Co., Ice House Street, on Thursday, February 25, at 8.15 p.11. The Suciety invites new members to join and attend this meeting. All interest.by
should communiente "with Harold C. Leong, 3 Prospect Place, the way of Lips. Bonham Road.
Judging from the advice given some och racing scriben, Mr. Lindrum has nothing on them in
Whether.
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A lady who lived on the Peak; Decided nude kultur to seek, She climbed up High West, When a bee stung her chest. And she hasn't sat down for a
weok!
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Talkie newsreel
commentators
the high placs of society would, indeed. be a fascinating event in philology, though, It must be ne- knowledge, considering the cock. ney's attachment to, and indeed his pride in, his speech, it seems
most improbable one. then, the Merry Monarch was the must be gratified to note that He who so firmly planted cockney Shanghai war correspondents have in London's soil, or, as is more not yet had recourse to the word
famous East End Nipponese! probable, the
inore ancient dinlect in of far there can be little doubt that for Mercian and West Saxon origin.
Bowever unflattering an opinion fre outside world way cherish of The cockney speech of Lande”, un Landoner who uses it, as is well known, is in any way ashamed of it. Quite the contrary.
Though Oxford or Cambridge some other university may impart cul- ture to his speech, though the exigencies of business or politics By the time these words appear may make it expedient for him to in print. it seems more than likely guard against lapsing into the that major hostilities as between itchless paradise of East 'am, he the Chinese and the Japanese at will often affectionately return to Shanghai will have braken out, it whenever the necessity for ex- with consequences which no-one pressing himself in his superim- enn Forospe. There were hopes posed dialect has passed. Further. of those Londoners when delegates from both sides moi leven many for the first time in the French whose speech has always run in Concession on Thursday that an
the standardized channels of flaw. eleventh-bour realisation of the less English are extremely fond of folly of continuing the warfare the unpolished speech of their would have saved the situation. [streets. It is, indeed, this general Bahappily, these hoges have not regard for the cockney's dialect materialised. In view
the that perhaps best explains why of sweeping nature of the Japanese most Londoners have taken s demands, this is not surprising. keen an interest in the recentlyn Hoe to come it will still After all, Japan's defence of her propounded theory that cockney action in Shanghal has hitherto wat introduced to London by rested on the alleged necessity of Charles II and Nell Gwynne, and taking measures for the protee that later, when it became popu tion of her nationals there: buttar, it was abandoned by the the terms of the rejected ultin- fashionable world, though faith-Y tum go much further than any-fully preserved to this day by, thof thing which can be possibly re-East End inhabitant. It must be ¡quired for this purpose. We need admitted, however, that the nu- only cite the demands for the per-thority who is responsible for this manent dismantling of the Woo-jattempted vindication of cockney sung and Proshan Forts, and the is careful to hint at the errors permament withulrawal of all inherent in all theories, and espc- Chinese troops to twenty kilo-cially in those that attempt to ex- metres from Shanghai on both plain the mysterious origi# of sides of the Whangpon River and dialects. On the other hand, it twenty kilometres from the mouth is difficult not to sympathize with of the river, to establish that the cockney Londoner, for being point.
flattered at so romantic an origin
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It is interesting and somewhat of his much-abused speech. Nor puzzling to understand why the in it any wonder that, having at- Japanese have such a "hate" on tained to so exalted a parentage, the 19th Route Army, composed an attempt should be made to fore- of Cantoncae troops who have cast the restoration of cockney hitherto borne the brunt of the untong the circles from which f enemy attack. The Chinese, of [originally sprang. For, so the in- course, say that this is no because genious argument runs, since the the 10th Army has been such an radio is rapidly making Oxford obstacle to the invaders. Almost | English popular among all sections from the start, however, the Japan- of London's populace, there is no ese have been suggesting that reason why the process by which thise particular troops are undis- cockney suffered its downfall ciplined, that they are not under should not be reversed so thint in the 'control of the Nanking Gov-ja generation or two it will again [oramupt, by whom, Indeed, they be the accepted speeck of the are suspect. This point was taken | fashionable world, while Oxford further yesterday by an assertion speech will be relegated to the by tho Japanese delegate at streets, where, it is suggested, it Genova that this particular Army will probably slure the obloquy so contains many Communist ele-long suffered by cockney. Such monta and that the Nanking Gov-a reinstatement of cockney among
remain in the inalienable passes sion of the cockney Londoner.
the introduction of the steam railway for fear that the move. ment of the trains might frighten cows, etc.")
Mister Lanepart tells us that the fear of going nuda, Shows we are not really civi
lized, in fact we're
Very
crude.
The
fact that our
ancestors,
steam engines did oppose,
He
uBex as an argument In favour of no clothes.
"Yet we to-day have trains and
cows,"
He goes on to relate; Forgetting that with brains and "trouts"
We'd rather be sedate.
"Fear has its seat in weakness,"
le another piece of gup, Though it might explain the meekness
Of a young nudisti pup." He might co-opt Marconi, Or Enstein in support, Though even that old crony,
la sometimes wrapt in thought!
More
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comfort local tennis critics will variety has always had a good soap is, wo read, being So far as we can see, the only used in England. The soft enjoy if E. C. Fincher docan't win ras in Hongkong.
they
the championship is that will have all been wrong!
"Well, if that's all you can spare, Missue, I have to chargo the golf knickers."
She was only a mariner's daugh- ter, but oh how she clung to her buoys!
We sympathise with the gentle- man whose foot was trodden upon by an elephant. Enough to make nay sir euss!
Persia,
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we ace, is proteating Against America's increased
Laria 011 her products. She -evidently feels like putting her
foot down hard on rugs.
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The average American la sald
In welgh considerably more than the average Englishman. That's not counting the pocket-flask, elther.
There is said to be a revival of
athletics in Russia. Many young
enthusiasts are, wo preaume; in
training for the putting-the-bomb events.
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The fashionable trend of the
tle," says a fashion axpart, "la to
wards a sort of ultra elegance.".
Better that than up the back of the collar.
口口
Motor-car colours are now being
given fancy namen, yet, somehow, black still remains black. It
might so easily be Arabian Night
口口
The strokes of a tennis player in the Open Championship this week have been described as the "poetry of motion." Tonnys-on!"
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