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AMERICA AND THE
LEAGUE.
of
of
self strong enough to face to criticism which its notion will ovoke, it can just go ahead, win- ning its objectivo under a amoke- screen of words, then the Longue becomes an amiable and ineffec- tivo debating society.
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From the Office Butts.
MOSES, ISAIAH, AND SPINOZA, ITAS This nudist correspondence.
"Thore Aro far too STILL OTHER MESSAGES TO SPEAK. appropriately enough, has deve people," says a writer, "with only IT WILL SURELY NOT FLOWER INTO loped into a mutual taking-off, A THIRD NATIONAL PERIOD WITHOUT BEALING SOME NEW FRICIOUS FRUIT
THE HUMAN RACE-Ieracti Опо of the drawbacks about FOR Zangwill.
being a millionaire is that you're always able to win the big
as Judge on the 28th instant.
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the haziest idea of what they are alming at.". One of them must have been the jockey we backed this wook.'
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Short selling is the sale of shares you don't own. Most of us would be delighted, if we could sell those we do own.
The American effort to safe. guard horself against the fait accompli is understandable, but it remains to be seen how far it will be effective in restraining Japan.
The modern gaol is said to re- We do not presume that she will The T. & C... Karmala from sweeps.
semble a school more than a pri- fool disposed to carry her protest Hongkong arrived in London on the
son. All the name, the inmates to the tost of war. Yet the situa-21st February at 8 a.m.
The distance post has proved complain that the terms are too tion is one calling for strong ac- The Gazette notifies that His Honour more attractive to business men long.
O D tion if there is to be any hope of Mr. Justice Wood resumed duty in Hongkong this week that the Auccess. Not only is there threat to bits of paper like the League Covenant and the Nine- Power Treaty, but there are the salid material interests of the International Settlement in Shans. bai and of trade in all parts of China. The need of the moment is for all the Powers, whether members of the League or not, to show some signs of facing the them- realities and thus range
It is notified that at the expiration solves on the side of respect for of three months, the Our Store, Limited, will, unless cause is shown International law.
to the contrary,be struck off the ro- gister and the company will be dis- aoived.
The Cost of the League. The campaign against British association with the League of Nations on the ground, above all things of economy, is still being pursued by a section of the Bri- tish Press. Questions have been asked in Parliament regarding the matter, and Captain Eden dis-
on Wednesday that closed tain's contribution to the League's total expenses. £11,000,000, hns figures £1,080,000. The themselves suggest that the agita- tion is nothing less than a ramp. The cost to Great Britain of Its steady support of League activities has been less than £100,000 a year. This is less than the annual cost of Colony Hatch or of the Victoria
been
His Excellency the Governor han appointed Mr. Ng Mul Kal to act an Assistant Secretary to the Sanitary Board.
Thore is no truth in the rumour that the Dairy Farm Co. will place one of its freezing rooms at the disposal of nudists who wish to His Excellency the Governor has got into form for next winter. appointed Colonel Stuart Boyd, D.3.0., to be a Bomber of the Au- thorized Architects Committee, vice
Bon-bons were used instead of Colonel R. D. Skinner, O.B.E., resign-confetti at a confectioner's wedd-
ing recently. Bricklayers Ilkely to remain bachelors,
ed.
It is notified that during the absence on leave of Monsieur Fran-
cisco Bonachea y Romero, Consul for Cuba in Hongkong. Mr. Orlando de Lara will be Acting Consul in charge of the Cuban Consulate.
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From the amount of work which some of our talpans have done this week, they might just as weil have been heads of. Government departments.
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An American paper suggests that if the Japanese are so keen on chasing bandita out of places, they should be invited to Chicago.
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It seems that the main effect of the Open Door in China has been to let the horse out of the stable.
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Players of wind instruments are asked to join the H.K. Orchos-- tral Society, but this does not make every local blow-hard eligible.
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Those war debt discussions
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These motor-
cars to fit all
tlon, then the Races, and then the Settlement, which has kept our share market, idle. Perhaps it seems to suggest that it was an The death occurred at the Canouanhua never struck the brokers that economic error to allow Germany
to lose tha, war. Hospital on Wednesday, of Bister, people are really hard up. Enrica Adamoli, one of the beat known of the members of the Canos¬ Brisian Instituto in Hongkong, and a
A clergyman тапу years. The resident for
on Thursday at 8ays betting is funeral took place Happy Valley, when Rev. G. M.ja means of get- Spada officiated at the graveside. ting' something Among the large gathering at the for nothing. Or funeral were representativen of all the Catholle orders in Hongkong. vice versa. Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr. F. X. d'Almada e Contro, Mr. A. Vannini, Dr. M. O..Pfister and the Italian : Consul.
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We hear of a jockey who lost at the -$200
Races. He was
ported a special type of Chassis grease for use with this equipment.
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"You look simply charming tonight, Gertie!"
"Flatterer!"
you at first."
pockets
ought
to help in solt- Ink the parking problem.
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"Fanently. I didn't recognize
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and Albert Museum. It is pro-less to say, high pressure greasing evidently on the
by means of an electrically driven bably less than the cost of look-
greaser is employed, and Messrs. wrong horse. ing after the men whose minds
Asiatic Petroleum Company have were destroyed by the war. And when wo inquire a little farther
The University Union debate emanci- we discover that the League The oll in the engine, gear box and suggests that woman's actually coats us just about noth-back-nxle may be changed if de pation won't be complete until ing at all. For it was the League sired, and the components in ques someone has invented a home that be rud from the energy tion flushed out. Here again to can which brought about the financial
at the weekly bridge example of the up-t-date equip diffused reconstruction of Austria whose ment of this Super Service Station:
drive. two million debt to us had been
口口 previously written off as a hope lessly bad one. Since the League took the matter in hand Austria has been paying us each year the whole annual cost of the League. And, if we are talking about waste.
An ingenious flusher is employed, which, by means of a.amoll adjust- One thing, the presence of most ment reverses its action, and ex- of our taipans at the Races on- tracts the oil from the gear-box, or abled business staffe to get some other component being cleaned.
Cars Protected.
real work done.
The Chinese commander states A point which will appeal to all that his men are not bloody war ful expenditure, what of the £138,- | car owners is the provision of riors. The Japanese probably any. 000 a year we now spend in re- specially-made covers for the wings, they are. search on chemical warfare? We bonnet, steering-wheel, etc., of the have agreed to renounce
both cur, 80 that no one need ever be afraid of leaving the station with chemical warfare and research
marks all over greasy
the car. upon it, but we spend more on How often has one driven away than on the League, whose object from a garage, to find ones hands is to prevent war-which we have black from grense and oil left on also renouneed.
the steering-wheel. It is to be ex- pected that this feature will prove especially popular with lady motorists.
SUPER SERVICING.
(Being in love is said to induce a state of mind similar to intoxication.]-
Should maiden decide on the
role of a bride
And her suitors are no less than
nine,
She may glance with disdain
on the cloquent swaln Who declares that she's simply
divine.
American Impatience over the seeming ineptitude of League Nations to stop the fighting in the Far East reflects a view which j quite widespread, and there is now
indication Rome all the Powera with Interests in the Orient coming into line The new diplomacy envisaged by the Kellogg Pact has obviously made little impression on Janan Indeed. for that matter, the ideal ism which it reflects in based not en a conviction of its real value, not on a vision of a world which whole heartedly is done with war л an evil thing, but on the four of economic chaos which another war would produce, and on the growing apprehension of the fact that armaments can only be main- tained to the injury of trade and the prevention of the amelioration of the condition of the social life of the nations Fear rather than hope is behind the League of Na- by the present marked tendency of of cars being serviced throughout tions and the Kellogg Pact. A | Service Stations to concentrate the day to realise their popularity. Radio sets seems to be of two vision of the hell of the Great more and more on selling service. It is to be expected that this will kinds-Portable, and insupport- War, not of the coming Age of Less and less do traders regard
prove a most successful enterprise. | able. Gold, is the driving force which thmselves and act as uninspired retailers of motoring necessities. has roped in the Governments of Now-a-days there are few car the world. Idealism is indeed at
owners to whom mechanics, and the work. In the end It may be hoped care of their cors are a hobby. to replace the lower motives Motoring may be a hobby, but care which are effective at the moment. and maintenance has come to be But for the the time being Japan looked on as a necessity, but none
the less a nuisance. not misread the state of things. How far can she go? She
has
DEMANDS OF THE MODERN
MOTOR OWNER.
the Oil and Motor trades has never The inherent common sense of been more convincingly proved than
This opens up an immense field to the Service man, and that this has challenged the now ayatenį, fact has not escaped the notice of and with her success or failure the industries concerned is proved standa or falls the new diplomacy by the fine Service Station built by Messrs. Asiatic Petroleum Com- and with it the hope of the sur-
operated by Mesars. vival of civilisation. She has net pay, and
Wallace Harper. This station. to work to smash the clsy feet which was opened recently, is of the imposing Idol. Can it con- situated near the corner of Hen- tinue to stand? We confess that messy and Johnstone roads, and aince the League made its ros- will, one feels, appeal to all for its ponse to the challenge last Octo-eminently practical design, in at- taining which, however, those coll- ber, and then tamely gave way cerned have also been able to erect before the fait accompli the building notable for its pleasing chance of the survival of idealism | appearance, an achievement which .RA an instrument of nationaí is not always realised in such an policy has greatly diminishad, undertaking. The League, dogged by the shady.
Most Up-To-Date. pant aid the resurgence of In this, tho acwost of Hongkong'a the mentality of. pre-war Service Stations, everything in the diplomacy, has appeared to be way of up-to-date equipment and methods is, to be found, which is swept off Its feat by the actual not surprising when and remembers situation now presented. Once be the high reputation which has been fore, in the dispute between Italy | established by the parties to this and Greece, it succumbed to the enterprias. An improved type of been installed fait accomplt. It is in paril of hydraulic lift has doing so again. Yot to do so is which has the advantage that it leaves the wheels of the car free, to give away the whole caso fo
so that while greasing, etc., is tak- the League. If whenever a nation. Ing place braices may be adjusted, feels that circumstances are such brake linings examined, and wheels as to demand its disregard of changed, etc. This lift is adapted moral considerations, and feels it- to lifting every type of car. Need-
Air and water are of course lnia
and this service on,
being duplicated, cars taking motor spirit) can obtain these at the same time? ns cars on the greasing lift,
A full range of Shell products are available at the station, and it is only necessary to see the number
"The stuff that dreams are made
on Caused Shakespeare oft
think;
to
Perhaps intrepid Kaye Don, Dreamt that his boat would sink. But psycho folk know batter, That facts and dreams don't
fit:
You can't go by the letter, But by the opposite.
For instance, if you're dreaming Of roses smelling sweet, Of silvery waters streaming, And playing round your foot, It means perhaps that onions You should avoid with lunch; Or that you may have bunions; Or some such Freudish hunch. No matter what your vision,
you've psychic sense, It's bound to need revision, To change or else condense. So don't let nightmares scare
you,
Unless
Nor raise the upright breeze, Though next time take more
care, you,
Go without the cheese!
-GYN.
The young man of her choice' will be wobbly of voice
The economist who stated that And a trifle unsteady of gult,
the world is on the threshold of For devation like this means tremendous prosperity forgot to
connubial bliss
explain whether the world is going With the chap who's won-over in or coming out.
the eight.
"Hurry up and get wall before the snow goes away-
Tonn us your sled."
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A local resident says he has lost conAdence in mony-racing.
Most of us have lost more than that.
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"Bulbs are already coming up." says a Peak amateur gurdoner. Ours did that long ago, thanks to the next-door cat.
After digesting Dr. Herkiot's lecture en snakes, we realise the soundness of the advice to the victim of anakebite to take alcohol only in small quantities.
The gentleman who lectured on dreams just before the Races. falled to prescribe any method whereby the right number could be indicated.
We know a man who, if the win- ning number had been halved and the last figure had been the fret, would have nearly won the Cham- plona Sweep:
SUGAR MARKET..
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The following cable at the clos ́of the sugars market yesterday has been received by Mesars. Pan- treath and Co,
Louden Terminals. March 6/1 Vi no change. May 6/8% down d August 8/814-down 34d. December 6/9 down. *d.