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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1932.
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MONDAY, FEUARY 22, HORA.
A BLACK OUTLOOK.
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PARTY IS THE MADNESS OF MANY FOR THE GAIN OF A FEW-Pope: -
The P. and ), 8.8. Rajputana, from Singapore, is due here nt 7 am an Thursday.
HM,S, Kent on Tuesday, February, must be cancelled.
GILBERT FRANKAU.
To a Young Man About: to Marry.
A Letter to a Nephew.
a
much Angela's conduct may have conduced to the unfortunate state of affairs,
Lo the employment of diplomatic mURBADOS,
The moment has, however, gone for further argument 011 the The Commander-in-Chile! much rights and wrongs of the issues, regreta, that owing to his unavold. i Y dear Guorge.-
of theities of able bresce, the At Home on board Moun Gurgut me in the situation. The point now
srdnice quandary. You ask me, as developing is what reactions the
"one who knows something about It," to advise you whether or not raw and more serious develop-
Passengers arriving bera by the vou should commit matrimony. tuents will have on the Powers
Empress of Japan included "Major
Your Angela, you say, is a per- A they likely to Join in de-
V. E. Duclos, new Canadian tavern feet darling. You and tourcing Japan an a violator ofment Trade Commissioner in Hong-crazily in love with one another the picturo-the rights Angela,
kong, and Mr. W. A. H. Dut, singles Univas you can get married, life once married, will have over
you. Beard champion of Shanghai and member of the Canadian Davis Cup would like to know just where you only just once unfaithful to her. If you desert her, or if you're won't be worth living. Still, you
team.
CHLACH
she
about
ΑΓΟ
I am trying to think of what other rights you've got. But for the life of me all I can remember Is your right to pay super-tax for her and go to prison if you don't. So let's pass to the other alde of
do
(and remeber she can always find a lawyer because you have to
the league Coveunht? if Hi this will involve the breaking off diplomatic relations with her.
are" and just what your "rights" she has the absolute right to about As one British political observer;
will be when this perfect darting a third of your income. And af- Mr. X. O. Gregory, hua expressed it, the withdrawal :
manager of becomes legally yours.
though you can't of Ambassuntora would be a grave earn. Kelly & Walsh Ltd. In Hong-
friendships in any kons, in to be married at Canton to
Well, take it from me, my boy, or control her feep her at home. top. but it is one which could
think who the less you to 3ins Dorothy Priestly, day
your way, you mustn't leave her at home too much, or contract any, friend- burdly fail to make its effret felt arrived at Hongkong by the Empress "rights" over Angela once she be-ships which might be painful to
Tl murriage comes Mrs. George the better. e- in Tokyo, "Moral and diplomatic or dapan yesterday,
wii take place before the British cause nowadays a husband has so her as a woman, because If you Isolation." as thin commentator Consul General A. religious service] Tow. Buys, "is not a thing which uny will be held inter at the Lignum
You Can't Stop Her.
| pay him) you may find ourself in Power regards lightly in the world University, Canton.
Your future wife, I gather from the courts on a charge of "mental to-day," and there would be
your letter, doesn't want to give cruelty." least a reasonably hope that it- The health bulletin of Enstern Purla
up her job “because she's quile
Final Peri!. thinks tho or even the threat of it--would for the week ending the 13th inst.
of happy working and shows
following the
And once she's proved that useful." cound with the more moderate infertious disease and
the deaths extra money will come
Well, as far as I know, you
on charge, your Angels will be award- elementa in Japan and fortify therefrom: Plagur, Bassein 1 case
1 denth. Bombay I can death, can't stop her from working just ed a "deed of separation" with the them against the militarista
base same approximate third happen to
of your Rangoon ruse, Pnom Penh 1 case because yon
Cholern, Calette 37 cases 18 married her. The law doesn't income to solace her hattered If this should prove | denths, position.
case 1 death even insist on her keeping house nerves. death. Smallpox for you.
Whereas should you, as I most 1 The Chittagong still remain
legally useless, there
She need not. Bathindruses deaths, Basrah possibility of action under Article coming 3 cases 2 deaths, Crl-speaking, cook your meals, or darn devoutly hope, avoid that final peril of a husband which is legally XVI, which enjoins the applicneutta ense deaths, Cochin 1 ease, your socks, or
called "permanent maintenance Madrasenses, vants. erantanti sanctions., To. Karachi 9 cases,
"Still, if she does engage your usually known as "alimony" itangoon $42
deaths, TUKER 18 that extreme we trust it will not Tatlerin rasen 2 deaths, Pondservants and you're not satianed the Sussex nume, by the
way, bar pentacy 10 14 Bu these cherry senses 8 deaths. Pnom Penh with them, I believe that you have for the brawn' which was served Rations whici irave Teen aimber enser, Saison 38 cases 24 deaths, the law's permission to give them "below the salt" to the discarded nacestora). without consulting Amey 35 cases 17 deaths, Canton 18
her. wires of your Saxon since 1918 14 aubstitute Inter-
cases, Shanghai 48 cases 21 deaths.
Though as a husband of some ex-5 will still be responsible for untional
for internationa
perience I should hardly advise you keeping your Aurela until death archy cannot but endeavour to
to take this course.
parta you, and liable in damages next-door If they fail
have, should she libel your upholt the Covenat.
who
have put them in the present death.
!!
to do so, then the League might us well never have been brought inte latiISK.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Smoke Nuisance.
To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
Once a41 L Layne of Nations has failer to induce Japan to sky her hand. The eleventh- huur efforts made at Geneva to prevent the resumption of hostili- ting around Shanghai have proved of no avail. Japan. apparently working "according 10
after presenting gramme,"
terly inacceptable ultimatum 10 thự Chinese, has begun her big Sir-Forgive me ine reopening offensive. The troops of the two a subject which has so frequently
been aired in your columuş. nations are gripped in war, un-
refer to the smoke emitted• pric- declared though it may be. Apartdeally throughout the twenty-four from the loss of life among the hours by the cement works, combatants, Chinese villages are
It is my belief that the Company being laid in ruins and innocent has already done a great deal in civilians driven from their homes. the way of removing from the The rights and wrongs of the smoke the more active chemical bodies likely to affect living cells. quarrel aside, it is a sorry com- in a recent letter published by you mentary on life that, despite all it was pointed out that the smoke the efforts of the past decade tocarrion with it particles of cement" build up a rule of law among which, in the aggregate, are liable nations, it hus so far been found Far Impossible to prevent this Eastern upheaval, an upheaval which may get involve many more nations. Millions of people may sign documents urging the aboli- tion of war, pacts and understand- ings may be concluded with the same end in view--but the fact re-
we are face the last three months I have made mains that to-day
observations from various parts with the stark renlities of war.
of the Peak district, and in the No-one can have rend
the hours
between 7 and 9 in the speeches at the latest meeting of morning, with the following con- the League Council without feel-clusion. ing that the Japanese delegate fail- Whenever ed in any effective way to justify the lengths to which his country has gone in Shanghai. Mr. Sato argued that Japan's only purpose is to protect her interests, and con- fect level and is carried nerass tended that a withdrawal from the harbour to Hongkong.
Students of meteorology will be Shanghai would be a renunciation
aware that this
circum- wind of all her rights in China. The argument is unconvincing. There during the winter months
of frequent occurrence stance is of
and
1 Modras
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
mulicr
engage your
have
ser-
And you will certainly should you marry your Angela, neighbour or shoot his deg.
Your responsibilities
towarda ne or two other little rights over the darling Though, unless you've your Angeln, indeed, ofce you have good lawyer and plenty of married her, will be so all-em- money to pay him with, you won't bracing that even the fondest lover fil those rights too easy to chivalry Chivalry or no chivalry, need not fear you will lose your force either. Because nowadays,
got
The following cable at the clase of the sugar market on Saturday has been received by Messrs. Pen-my dear George, the law no longer you will have to shoulder all her treath arid Co,
adows the only effective method of hurdens even though she refusen trolling the dear creaturo-that to shoulder a single one of yours. That's the stark fact, my boy. judicians chastisement with a stick
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one which affects practically every resident in the Colony,
It has been sak that what re- mains of solids in the smoke is to affect structure and disligure not harmful. For my part, I can horizontul surfaces. If this is so not see how it can do good. it must, sviously, affect the sen-realise the difficulties, but I press itive membranes in the breathing their curly overcoming. Passages of both humans and animals, not to mention birds or Insects.
Yours, etc..
E. M. BRASier Creagh, P.S.--In case it may be suggested
contr
of the masculine thumb's diaracter And the sooner you get it into efective in the your bend the better. Legal which proved so
quibbles apart, the husband of to- day
nothing but an under-dow
days
of yore. All the same, and alwayя pro-
own
money,
the
vided that you can find the right So that my advice to you, if you're lawyer, the law does not leave you really serious when you ask mo what your legal rights are, is that entirely defenceless. If your
of working for you should avoid marrying your Angela, instead
as you would avoid and spending her
bubonic plague.
If, however, as I imagine, you're only putling my almost middle- aged leg as a result of your recent reading in the newspapers, my advice to you is quite different. In that case, provided you and your Angela really are in love, for | Heaven's sake don't worry about your rights. Marry her-and take the risk.
What are a wife's rights? The latest obiter dicta of Mr. Justice McCardie on this point are being discussed every- where. He said:
A wife is permitted to leave her husband I she so desires. Sho may decide whether she will bear children or not, and when each child shall be born. She is a citizen and not a serf. She can decide her won future.
Quite Another Question.
Because marriage isn't really a question of rights: It's a question are of two human beings taking the she big risk that they can go on loving
ano another.
decides to spend yours, you entitled to say
how much should spond.
If you and Angela can go But remember that you must be In bringing the public's atten- that the smoke was drum the chim-,
about this. And the loving one another, if you can go. reasonable tion once again to this smoke, Ineys of Hongkong. I must add that juge, not you, will decide whether on understanding one another, if have this to add to the facts. In one can invariably follow
warm lower air. such as was created by yesterday's sun, is
is held down in the harbour by a awing round of the wind Borthwards during the night, the smoke fails to rise above the 800
ia no demand that Japan should will understand that it brings with withdraw from Shanghai; all that it a natural slight haze or has been asked is that she should which makes poor visibility within Above the level cense. hostile activity. It may be the harbour area.
of the hills, 900-1000 feet, the cold perfectly true, as Mr. Sato says, ale has free passage, and the visi. that Japan occupies the third bility is good. position in the import and export On days when such conditions trade of China and that she is occur, I have always observed entitled to defend her rights. that all the smoke from the cement But by no stretch of the imagina-works is held like a pall over the elty of Victoria. On some days tion can this making of war
concentrates over Happy Valley the Chinese be described as de-if the wind is a bit easterly It fence of Japanese rights. Other skirt West Point and stretch away Powers which have greater rights right to Lantau Island. Thia Shanghai do not deem it neces- morning it made straight for the centre of the town. The top watum sary to adopt aggressive measures level
Read with Darker
tram
in defence thereof. On the ques-station. From there, one could tion, of the recent appeal made to not see the Cricket Club, Ferry Japan by the League, whilst, this wharyea, nor even Government
Hausé, 100 feet higher may not in so many words reflect
up, and this
a condentation of Japan's actions,
degree of enturation existed
the fact remains that Japan is almost down to sea level.
For several hours of inst night. In occupation of Chinese territory when the inhabitants of this city in contravention of her solemn were getting their beauty sleep, pledges, and that she has reserted they were breathing in this nerid to actual warfare in her attempt smoke, alling their lungs w to settle a political dispute again dusty part the benefits of a week-
losing
In a few in breach of undertakings entered
minutes, Into in common with other Powers. end of fresh air.
I submit that the smoke nuisanco No amount of argument can die is not a matter to be left to the pose of these major points. More-KR.A. to deal with, since it is!
thr
un
to-
been reasonable or not. you've
weaknesses and The law, too, will allow you to you can tolerate each other's little cement smoke with the eye on ac-
sympathise with count of its white character. Thut from the town is blue, and that set rid of your Angela if she runs cach other's little foibles, if you from, for instance, the Dockyard, away from you with another man. can laugh together and cry
But remember that if you subso-gether and go to the same amuse another offender in the morningquently go off with another woman menta together and enjoy the same you forfeit that right, however work together, and if ultimately
is black.
"All the folks down home think I'm up here singing over the radio. So when you got back you can just say you had
lunch with me.”
you can walk hand-in-hand to- gether through that garden where 'your children wait to play with you-why then you will have won the most precious of
all the prizes ife hua to offer, the perfect com- panionship of a man and his mate. Which is sub-stuff of the worst 'description. Yet one
of those eternal verities which are above y all hunion, being part of the Divine, law.
Your affectionate uncle,
GILBERT FRANKAU..
Our Wireless
Sportsmen..
By ROBERT MAGILL,
HERE has been some argu-
THERE
ment recently A to .what constitutes the ideal radio pro grammo, and I gather that we need more dance music and less chatter, br else more talks and less Insane jazz, or more good muale, or less highbrow rubbish, and so on..
It is getting difficult to discuss to blows, things without coming and I know of several happy homes which would have been broken up If the company hadn't stepped, in and taken the set back because the payments had fallen into arrears."
What They Want.
For five mon out of six the Ideal? programme, say from Daventry, would be: "Hallo, this 16 Daventry,+ Daventry calling: You are listen- Ing to Daventry DAVENTRY
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