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B-6039 Leave the rest to Nature"
Ambrose & His Orchestra.
22859 "I'm a Specialist"
1550 "Cuban Love Song"
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OBITUARY
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932..
DAY BY DAY
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DOST THOU LOVE LIFE, THEN DO NOT SQUANDER TIME, FOR THAT THE STUFF LIFE Franklin.
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The P, and G. ss. Rawalpindi, from Singapore, is due here at noon on Wednesday,
UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEARS A TOPEE.
By W. M. WEBSTER.
told the Parliament which met in perplexity and terror after the crash in 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpana all their wildest dreams, that tho annual revenue would end the principal of that which they con sidered as an intolerable burden
CERTAINLY thought that truth wants to be left in peace to Ret ... that the post office would bring
was stranger than the talkies on with his own mode of living. when the first business man who Politics he does not understand. more into the exchequer than the
came to see me in Bombay solemnly Victims of Terrorism. excle and customs, had brought in
produced a fully-loaded six-shooter
A simple soul, ho believes in together under Charles the Second,
from his attache case and pro-whatever he heard the Inst speakor that stagecoaches would run from
ceeded calmly to une it through- say. Deal returns for the week-end
Ilu was happy enough under London to York in twenty-four show three cases each of small-pox weight to prevent his documents to be left alone. He realises that out the interview as a paper- the old regime and simply wants hours, that men would sail without and typhold,, one of the latter being from being blown about by the under the British he was never wind, and would be beginning to Imported.
whirring punkah over our heads. treated except with complete fair- ride without horses, our ancestors
He canually explained that as a nese. So long as he paid his due The St. Jolin Ambulance Brigade report that up to March 17, 77,848 mamber of a Reserve of Offcors taxes he would be given a square people had taken advantage of its Corps in Calcutta he had grown deal. But he is terrified of his accustomed to carrying the wea: own native lenders, and so goek are vaccination service.
pon. Incidentally, he also said with them. that he had to get military leavel
It is in the immensely thickly and cities that to come to Bombay. populated towns of abarnce He and his fellows are
always the agitation takes most offset. prepared to mobilise at four hours' And few people at home realise how near to appalling trouble In- For variety of emotion life india was a year ago. It is little sets an excitingly over twelve months since Euro- pean men and women in cars at Karachi wero violently molestedt
would have given as much credit to the prediction as they gave to Gulliver's Travels." Had Macaulay enjoyed the benefis of wireless, of electric light, of winged Sight at an unthought-of rate of speed, he, undoubtedly, would have content- plated the future with even greater Insurance.
n voter.
The forthcoming marriage is an nounced of Frank Albert Merry, of 11. Felix Villas, and Barbara Mary
Nicholl, of 16, Peak Ronil.
Muriel, the 12-year-old daughter of notice. Mrs. McCaw, of 10, art Avenue, Kowloon, was yesterday bitten by n India to-day dog in the hand and leg. She was high standard. given treatment Inter at the Kowloon Hospital.
Shortly after admission to the Government Civil Hospital, on Satur day, a man named Hong Mek-heung, died. It was disclosed that he had been sick for same time, and prior to going into hospital, had taken some
Chinese medicine.
the
Firing the Mob.
At a recent Congress meeting at
Macaulay The point is, that
Under he Surface. found that to almost all men the
On the surface the white people in the streets, state of things under which they
live normally. The yacht clubs bad been used to live seemed to be
hold their races every Saturday.. of things:
Friday night is gymkhana night. Bangalore an edict was circulated the necessary state "We have heard 11 said that five
when society sits on the Inwns of
split open skulls," Mr. Gandhi, per cent. In the natural interest of
the clubs and gossips entertain-urging supporters to "strike in money, that twelve in the natural
ingly in the intervals of native of course, does not support such military band programmes.
methods. But equally, once the number of a jury, that forty shil
Yet underneath there in a park of his curious eloquence has Angs is the natural qustiñention of
Through falling when attempting siness of uncertainty. Husbands Aired the excitement of a mob, he Hence it is that, though to alight_from a moving Aberdeen are secretly very glad to see that is powerless to stop them, even if in every age everybody knows thats in Polfahum Road yesterday, their wives are anfely back from he wished.
Chau Mai, 61-year-old carpenter shopping; mothers heave sighs (in. up to his own time progressive im Antichau, received injuries from which private, of course) when children all? Imprisonment of the leaders And so what is the cure for it provement has been taking place. he died after being taken to
are safely indoors again.
has undoubtedly been the initial nobody seems to reckon on any im- Government Civil Hospital,
On some mornings little clouds corrective action for our weakness provement during the next genera-
But those lenders Among the passengers by the of rumours drift down the hill in the past. liun,"
The words of the distin Hamburg Amerika steamer Ran.from the Government offices, and cannot be kept in prison for ever. action as well la guished essayist afford food for ses, which arrived at Hongkondiscreetly, domestic telephones be- Unless other
"I don't think I shall tak
will gaia taken their CARAC thought during the present phase Inst night, is Lady Grace Drum-in to ring. oldest
is en route to let Marjory go to the dancing class strength by sympathy of the mob of the Industrial transformation. and Hay, whe too often the enemy, in a perind Shanghal to "cover" the Stun to-day. Her ankin seems a trifle for them. Meantime the vicious
Japanese trouble there. Ladsstift, you know.
How is circle of reduced trade, higher of trade depression, is to assume Drummond Hay is one of the best Jean not going, either? I'm taxation and decreased spending
power has net in. that what is femporary has come known lady journalists in the sorry. I do hope," etc. etc.
And is not a) And so it goes on, articles,
Of the many ladian Printes who to stay, and to ignore the teachings world to-day,
nice thing.
five years ago were fabulously rich of history,. But a mine view, with
Imagine your access to every there remain but an odd half-dozen the picture in Ils proper perspec
shop in Oxford-street or Regent-whose wealth has not almost com. tive, will compase much. It is not
street being barred by some none pletely disappeared, always best to stand too near the
DK
XAVIER STELLA MARIA CARMO. IN years, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Gre
goria Maria, Xavier, died at her residence, No. 334, Hennessy
after
short illness. Funeral will pass the monument ni 6.30 p.m. to-day.
Kond. Frank Crumit.
Lawrence Tibbett.
B-6061 "You can't stop me from loving you"
Ambrose Orch.
Paderewski.
1531 "Dancing Virgins of Delphi"
(Debussy)
B-3794 "Any Little Fish"
(Cochran's 1931 Revue) Noel Coward.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MAren 21, 1982.
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HONGKONG TRADE
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and her
which are distributed through her own syndicate, are read by mi lens of peuple in Europe and America.
from 11.M.S. Herald about a month
1 case I death, Sinnil-pox, Suez 3
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respects, as are Volga
too clean native lying full length
It is useless to ask for a solution A funtball jersey belonging to Sub. athwart the doorway. Non-violent from Indians themselves for the Lieut. A. C. E. Higgins, of 11.M.S. such actions may be. But, all the simple reason that there is no such Herald, formed the subject of name, far from pleasant..
perion as an Indian., In a coun- charge of larceny brought against a During the past few weeks there try that stretches farther than 17-year-old Chinese before Mr. Scho-have been scrimmages almost from Ireland to the east of Russia, feld at the Central Police Court this daily. A quiet main street contains 260,000,000 people spenk- morning. It was stated Inspector suddenly eche
the ing
over 100 different languages McLellan that the jeracy was stolen shouts of a running Gandhi can and dialects, is informed by loen!
shrilly with From a side turning instead of a national Press, and age and on Saturday the defendant, ped mob. To the student of ecommics, it | IMPORTS AND EXPORTS who was working on beard as an add there emerges the form of the up-whose inhabitants are as unlike.
job conlle, was seen by Leading Sea- roara couple of police wagons in some DECLINE. is interesting to recall that there
man Thatcher to be wearing it. His with loads of arrested Congress bostmen and Scottish crofters, Worship ordered the defendant in agitators aboard. Down the street there is to-day no unanimity of existed in England 100 yours ago
According to the official returns sign a bond for 850 to come up for they come, the prosecuted yelling thought. a situation which, arising from
compiled by the Statistical Branch judgment if called upon, his Worship from behind the wire netting: Swift and Firm Action. similar enases, parallels that which of the Imports and Experts De-taking into consideration the accused's "Boycott Boycott... Boycott.'
To run such a country, redolent confronts the world to-day. Then parment, the total value of imports south and the fact that it was his first Their cllred intonation, accenting with potential wealth and alive the last syllable, gives an unusual with possibilities of bloodshed in us now, industry ran ahead of the in the month of February amount-offence.
of led to $51.2 millions (the lowest
Bound to the familiar word. period world's demands. A
The health bulletin for Eastern
its foulest, religion-incited form. figure slee September, 1930).
The crowd at the rear take up needs more than an ex-money adjustment was at hand, and the white exports totalled $37.0 mil parts for the week ended the 12th
barrister sitting propheta of gloom found a reons (the Inwest figure sineet shows the following cases of the cry till the wagons are out of lender turned
infectious diseases and deaths there earshot.
in a loin-cloth in ceptive public for their dreary August, 1930).
from-Plague. Bassein 1 case 1 There are impudent red and enigmatically
the public square. But brighter predictions. Macaulay, with his As compared with February of death, Bominy 1 cas, Rangoon 2 white posters at the entrances to facile pen, caught the spirit of the fast year imports declined by $4.4 cases 1 death, Columbo 1 case 1 death, the Bazaar quarters urging natives days do seem to be ahead, thanks not to the old regime of meddle- millions, while experts felt $0.7 Pnom-perh 3 cases 3 deaths, Cholera, to "follow. Britain's own example" some politicians who sat at-home times in un essay on Southey's
Beures Calentia 32 cases 15 deaths, Canton and buy Swadeshi (Congress spun- and ignorantly tied the hands of millions. Comparative "Colloquies on Society," saying ---
are:
Casca, Baghdad 1 case 1 death, Bam-sored) goods only. There is no the people who know India, but to "The present moment
is one
Imports.
bay 8 cases 4 deaths, Calcutta 22 tariff argument or reason in this the swifter and more clean cut 1032
Is purely anti- great distress. But how small will
Merchandise $61,210,733 $55,692.116 case 14 deaths, Cochin 2 caser propaganda. It
death, Karnchi 4 cases 1
death. British: not constructively direct actions of experienced men on the when the We when that distress appear
apot who, unfettored Treasure
2.713,610 11,868,248
Modron 16 cases 6 deaths, Moulmein towards the promotion of In-National Government was formed think over the history of the last Total
63,944.343 37,460,804
4 cases, Rangoon 172 ennes 01 deaths, dian home trade. Exports.
at home, were allowed to get no Tuticorin 4 cases 4 deaths, Pondi-
Yet go, as I have done, up coun- with their job. forty years; a war, compared with
1032
1931
cherry 11 cases 7 deaths, Singapore which all other wars sink
into Merchandise $37,067,782 $37.721.8671 case 2 deaths, Saigon 64 cases 48ry into the real India, the vnat
India is Not Lost, insignificance; taxation, such us Trensure 3,682.629 10.787.052 deaths, Hongkong 12 cases 7 deaths, sparsely populated lands where
The crisis passed when the Con- $40,740,411 48,508,919 Amoy 15 cases 1 death, Canton 21 the real natives dwell, and there
lenders the most heavily taxed people of Total
were put LAWAY. Since February of 1933, total cases, Shanghai 30 cases 1b deaths. la no sign of political unrest or greas
India sat in the Former times could not have con-
DJ merchandise into Cerebrospinal fever, Macao 70 cases upheaval. The countryman, whe. Europeans in
when the ther he be Moslem or Hindu, only offices on tenterhooks ceived: debt larger than all the imports
Hongkong have fluctuated from 30 deaths.
action was mooted. The relief- public debts that ever existed in the lowest dollar value (61.2
when no violent uprisings took the world added together Yet millions) in February, 1932, to
place as the result thereof was real and immense. Business took A is the country poorer than in 1907?highest (71.8 millions) in March,
while she 1931,
exports fluctuated We firmly believe that
turn for the better. Yet the strong passive resistance in some native has been almost constantly, becom-from $37.6 millions in February,
quarters still remains. It can only ing richer and richer. Now and 1932 to $54.4 millions in March,
bo overcome by the complete re- establishment of faith in Britain. If politicians at home only realised how
every one of their publicly announced disagreements makes more difficult the return of that faith they would perhaps take more pains to work in harmony for the good of the Empire.
We have not lost India. But it is a far from pleasant night to see natives impudently walking out of a cinéma jostling white people standing, at attention when "God" Save the King-Emperor" is played at the conclusion of a performance.
then there has been a stoppage,
now and then a short
retrogres-
1931.
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FUSILIERS.
A ROUTE MARCH IN KOWLOON.
Having established the trend, peered into the future.
he while
rein gave imagination he kept his feet solid ground. The railway was then in ita infancy, the transition from man to machine power was in its early stages, and the dim lights of the times showed that electricity as a source of lumian- lion had yet to be tested and Soon after the troopship tied developed. It is an apt moment up alongside the wharf, the to recall what he had to say of Battalion went for a route march the possibilities of a century then through Kowloon, being watched
The 2nd. Battn. The Roy..1 Scots Fusiliers arrived in Hongkong this morning abourd the troopship Lancashire from Shanghai on their way Home after 18 years' Rervice abroad.
by large crowds.
to come: "If we were to pro- The Battalion, which has form- phesy that in the year 1930 a po-ed part of the Defence Force in putation of 60,000,000, better fed,Shanghai, ls to be stationed at
ទង elnd and lodged than the English of Catterick in Yorkshire. It
given a magnificent sond-off on our time, will cover these islands..
leaving Shanghal. Moreover, each the machines constructed on prin- ranker was presented with a pair ciples yet undiscovered will be in of silk socks and each officer every house, that there will be no with a pair of silk brocade cushion highways but railroads, no travel-cavers by the Shanghai Citizens' ing but by ateam, that our debt, Emergecy Committer in apprecia-
tion
of thoir services in safe- Ivast as it seems to us, will appear
guarding the welfare of the to Our great-grandchildren
Settlement. trifling incumbrance, which might. easily be paid off in a year or two, many people would think us, in- The Volunteer Defance Corps in to
Murray sane. We prophesy nothing; but be Inspected on this wo say: if any person had, Ground by H.E. Major General Sandi.
lands at 6 p.m. to-morrow.
A
Parade
"He probably won't come into his money for 20 years, so it
would be just like marrying an old man.”
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HUSBANDS AREN'T WHAT THEY WERE.
By L. C. MOORE.
It is a sad thing to have to say, but husbands are not what they were.
We're decadent, that's what
is the mattor with us. Woman's stock is going up, while ours. has pretty wall found the bottom Now this warries me very much Indeed. As a husband I feel part- ly responsible, and I'm beginning to wonder how long it will be be fore we disappear from the face of the earth or else are allowed to live just to give a house a fur nished look.
Consider the matter inn- calm and detached way?" Once upon a Pod if Continued on Page 0