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SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1932.
dependent on the Chinese attitude to Japan's peace demands, the main features of which certainly smack of dictation, to put it mildly.
:
DAY BY DAY
At Tuesday's meeting of the Itolary Club, Mrs. Broadbent will speak on "Burma, Grave and Gay"..
Bulls and Inner
ยC From the Office Butts.
when visiting the Colonial Trea A man had his pocket picked
aury. We mean, unofficially !
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Sez Hugh--The bonda of ma trimony are all right so long na the interest is kept up..
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The Japanese operations have } *** proved a costly businena, both in
THE RUDE MAN IS CONTENT IF lives and money, much more so than HE SEE BUT ANYTHING GOING ON see that the abandonment of Free that if cement depositedKow- An Aberdonian says he doesn't λ render hazards truess Tokyo's militarista had believed THE MAN OF MORE REFINEMENT Trade is going to make much dif- Toon for one year coul col would be the case.
Our own view, MUST BE MADE TO FEEL; THE MAN ference. He's always had to pay lected, it would cover thilway and it is one which finds wide- ENTIRELY REFINED DEBIRES
TO for anything he bought. REFLECT.Goethe,
Station. The Cement pany spread acceptance, is that they have
would be conlent with t.R.A. been quite unjustified by the noces. Dr. D. J. Valentine has been ap sities of the situation. The Japan-pointed to be Deputy Registrar of
☐ 0. Gardening cse any they have ceaseil hostilities Births and Deaths.
Nate:-Tavoli because the safety and the peace
straining your back thri dig- of the Settlement have been restor
glug, make the fah-wong the spade. ed. Sach danger to the Settlement As may have existed, however, can- not be said to have necessitated the reign of carnage and destruction which has marked the operations. Other Powers had quite as rich, may, even more, interest in pre- serving the safety of the Settle-made the following appointment in the Its Excellency the Governor has ment; but they did not deem it wise Army Service Corps of the Hongkong to launch out on the lines Japan his Volunteer fence Corps:-Mr. Re- adopted. Indeed, it can be sad Kingald Philip Phillips, to be
Lieutenant. with some reason that the Japanese rations have tended rather to g-
·perations have tended Father to MgrAVAL the
dasper tion otherwise. The truth would
appear
an Ordinance to consolidate and to The Gazette contains the draft of some extent amend the law relating to
plum.
BANK RETURNS.
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Times are so hard in America that Many a popular hostess doesn't know where the next divorce is coming from.
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Nover any "Laks yopiek" when you hand round Life's home-made cakes,
A hit at tennis is 11 great. kind of rackelcer,
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A Japanese general, tad to
wilreak
Ile have stated that he
A reader thinks Hongkong bank- notes should be disinfected, doesn't like filthy luere,
Only the strongest neid will dis- solve gold, says a scientist. Maybe he hasn't tried marriage.
plain
ba
NOTE & SPECIE FIGURES FOR FEBRUARY.
The
of
the average
share
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Rel
market be
L'at the Japanese huped a pileht display of force would suffice, but The returns once having started and encounter-amount of bank notes in circula- seema to ed heavy opposition, they had to tion and of specie in reserve in totally unaware show results. Meanwhile, the pond. Hongkong, during the month end-of the fact that tion is more composed then for 29th February, 1902, as cert thin ia leap-
fed by the Managers of the many weeks past. Let us join in spective Banks are: the hope that a realisation of the
Average Specta folly of any resumption of warlike
Amaun1 MINAUTON will be sufficient to guarantee a lasting preservation of
THE HONGKONG HOTEL] peace. A modification of Japan's
GARAGE.
The Tiongkong a &bacsbai Hotels, Lud Incorporated in Hongkong. Stubbs Brad
The
Itapor Valley
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1932.
PEACE PROSPECTS.
The relief occasioned in Shang- bai by the cessation of hostilities is being re-echoed throughout the wide world. So long as the rival forces were in contact, hulalging the bitter warfare, so long did the situation threaten to develop into a
ny matter
peace teras aves the first need, however.
The Ballroom and Outside.
Elanka,
hongko Chartered Bank
Bank resatile Bank
In St
re- year.
Maybe there's 22,708,012 4,300,000 an "Open Door" 1.750,DUD IT Manchuria.
#3868,642 132,000,000)
3,372,262
have
Total......... 169.54,016 121,660,000 Anyhow, Japan In addition Sterling Securities seems to are deposited with the Crown found it. Agenta valued at £1,306,200.
In addition Securities deponit- ed with the Crown Agents and Straits Government valued £2,747,000.
at
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Godown share-
holders are hop-
ing that profits
Min addition Securities deposit will go up this reed with the Crown Agenta valued year.
ap-
TENDERS ACCEPTED.
LATEST LIST ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT.
Chit. But Renter, so fain't
interviewed our house-ho,
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Marriage is a poltery witho family jars are made.
"Tell your boss I have come sen him," said a tall, broad- shouldered man, bursting open the door of the clerk's office. "My name's Daniels."
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The office bug, & puny little fellow, gazed awe-stricken at the visitor.
"You're Mr. Daniels?" he exclaimed. "How very awk- ward"
"What do you mean, tcard?"
"I've got orders to throw
you out,"
A vinitor наук Hongkong's policemen are very approachable. Local criminals, however, don't find them too friendly.
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Our young sportsmen who like a game with "a kick in it" should marry and try bridge.
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London newspapers have newed recently their pleading with at £190,000. the feminine world to free itself from the bonds of fashion. The occasion for these appeals parently has been provided by the disclosures of the secrets of the new fashions: hats showing a great expanse of forehead, long and fuller skirts, butterfly hows The Government has accepted straying light-heartedly from back the following tenders: to shoulder, and a host of other Teakwood motor launch. A mysterious technicalities of the King Slipway. dressmaker's art devised for am-
Shankiwan Quarry Lot No. 1. bushing admiration.
Messrs. Sing Sun & Co, fi is di ficult to say which
Conversion of novelty of Moorings.--Messrs. Parisian design has come in for Dockyard & Engineering Co. of loudest crificiant, but the dis-Hongkong, Ltd. quietude with which fashion s Construction of nne Reversible A Shanghai man is in Hongkong- latest vagaries are being followvent || Mooring Buoy Mesra, The recuperaling. Up there be had beast, perhaps, from the singularly in Fleet Street can be realized South China Motorship Building four different jobs in a month.
and Repairing Works, Ltd.
Every billet had its bullet. ingenuous
Repairs to No. 2 Police Launch. editorial admonishMesars, W. S. Bailey & Co., Ltd,
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ments to Womett
Penk lady the other day. When A dreadful thing happened to she returned home in the evening Commercial she discovered that her hat had The Taikou been on straight all afternoon.
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to mend their Re-instatement of Government One of these days, in a monent ways and "to draw a line some-Retaining Wall at Jarding's Cor. of reckless abandon, some Chair. where!" But
one wonders per, Peak.-Messrs. Sang Lee & man at Company meeting will these rash critics of modern styles Co ever studied the glowing verses in
begin his speech without asking Repairs to Boiler, etc., of No.permission to take the report and which poets of just ages poured Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., 6 Police Launch-Messrs. The
accounts as read.
kind of high brows out their admiration for just this Ltd.
"Cignite Light"
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ii noversys
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for pedestr are not a fal
AUCCCSB.
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When
baby son
kidnapp
Lindy very-
awk
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in the air ali
it.
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You
may wander vastness
mid
t
Of an age long since gone b You may shelter 'mong moulder
ing shelves of books. You may gaze
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upon the fast.
Of the ancient tomes so dry: Or cogitate DN pelicans or
rooks.
And as you spend your leisure. In this our City Hall, Remember not that time has
wrought his will.
For that might mar your plea-
Burc.
If you thought that it would fali, : Unless you want a really crash-
Ing thrill.
But soldier lads can't risk it,
At least, that's what we hear: And that is why they are not
now allowed
To foregather for a biscuit, Not to mention ginger beer: For the City Hall's not safe when there's a crowd!
CYN.
crisis of even greater magnitude, With reactions of the xravest nature. The truce has prevent- ed that
much, for The time being at any rate. Now that the Chinese Turces
are outside the twenty-kilometre zone, whether they were driven from it or voluntarily withdrew, there is less fear of a resumption of hostili- robes and other captivating en-Messrs, Kwong Cheung ling.
and ample Repairs to No. 9 Police Launch.buy. British cara, it's one way of One thing about the advice to ties than would have been the case prices of fashion. Has not had fighting ceased at an earlier famous Elizabethan writer of ex- 2 full repairs, etc.)-Menars.
keeping the Home tyres turning. } Repairs to Steam Launch S. D.
ច stage. At the moment of writing, quisite lyrics sung most charmingW. S. Bailey & Co., Ltd.
Motor Note: The first thing to grasp when learning to drive however, the situation is not wholly ly about the "liquefaction" of his engine in II. D. 9 Launch.--Messrs, from can sympathise with those
Those of us who don't know car is the brake. Supplying and installing new where the next cheque is coming elvar of danger, especially in view Julia's long silk dress, and how The South China Motorship Build who don't know when the next of the fact that the Chinese re-
☐ ☐ action to Japan's demands seerns
when i cat mine eyez ing and Repairing Works, Ltd. abil ser
one is coming back. are of absolute opposition.
It is, alevidedly
WP say, something
to the Kond that actual warfare
That brave hration each way
free.
how that glittering taketh me!
fas for the And did not Chaucer, most sedate ceased. That being so, of parts, extol the feminine high
& heavy responsibility will brow
an either side which
by its actions precipitate a resump
tion of the fighting. That need not
he feared if there is a mutual de- termination to fiquidate the situa
But sikerly ake hadde a' faire
forebeel,
It was almost a spunne brood, F
trowe.
The fact is that charm in dress)
tion as rapidly as possible. The is often synonymous with change. one circumstance which predomin- and that a fashion in bondage in ates over all others, of course, is prejudice soon loses its rare favour the presence
of Japanese forces and may even begin to mail. i on Chinese territory. Obviously Certainly there should be no die- there cannot be any Inating settle position to refret all changes. ment until the invading units are Nor must tan much attention Fej withdraw. When that will paid to the warnings that the most Happen remains to be seen. The recent fushions will again confine ollicial Japanese statements on this woman's movements and immure point are not too reassuring, since her between four walls. The way complete withdrawal is not intended in which women undoubtedly spend. until "circumstances permit." their time, unfettered in mov- Much depends on the interpretationment and conventional in altire of this phrase. It is intended that amply justify the belief that ir- a Sino-Japanese round table con-:
stead of the much-heralded and ference be held, participated in by greatly deplored return to the the neutra! Powers, to decide the womanhood is drawing a clearer cramped Victorian ways,modern method ог withdrawal and
distinction between the ballroom.
the restoration of the status quo.nd the world outside it. When this conference is to meet has not yet been disclosed, but if the truce is to be consolidated, it is essential that there be prompt con
Hix Excellency the Governor has versations. Otherwise, with feel-Inspector General of Police and Chief appointed Mr. T. H. King to act as ing by no means yet aubsided, the Officer, Fire Brigade, during the value of the present armistice may absence on leave of the Hon. E. D. C. be lost. Everything appears to be Wolfe, C.M.G., and to be temporarily member of the Legislative Counsli.
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"Now promise me, dearest, that when you meet father you won't mention that you're a Socialist..
A young blood ways there are
too many. shelf-conscious ap. 8- tera in Kowloon.
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A reader boasts that his wire-
ices set has never gone wrong in the past three years. live next door to us.
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He must
"Men Should Walk With Grace." says an advertisement. Provided, of course, Grace is willing."
An American has loft half million dollars for the orection of a mausoleum. Generous to સ
vault!
Possibly Tokyo thinks a neutral. - zone is any place in China contrull-
ed by Japan.
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Looks if fire-crackor manu- facturers start these "victory" rumoura,
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New York now has one moter-car for every four people. This leaves just enough pedestrians for sport.
The Right Nov. Dr. Howlett Johm- Hen, Dean of Canterbury, arrived here by the Italian liner Conte Rosso yesterday and this morning proceeded to Canton by train. He is investigat Ing 'flood conditions in China, and in also to visit Shanghal and Hankow, He will be joined later by Sir William Grenfell and the Rev. C: F. Andrew); Dr. Johnson was the guest of the Bishop of Victoria at tinin yesterday, and later met H.E. the Governor.