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MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932.
told the Parliament which met in the perplexity and terror after crash in 1720 that in 1830 thu wenith of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that which they con- sidered as
intolerable burden that the post office would bring more into the exchequer than the excise and customs had brought in together under Charles the Second, that stagecoaches would run from London to York in twenty-four hours, that men would sail without wind, and would be beginning to ride without horses, our ancestors would have given as much credit to the prediction as they gave to Gulliver's Travels." Had Macaulay enjoyed the benefits of wireless, of electric light, of winged fight at an unthought-of rate of speed, he
undoubtedly would have rentem-
plated the future with even greater
assurance.
that Macaulay The point in found that to almost all men the state of things under which they had been used to live-seerned to be the necessary state of
things:
DAY BY DAY
DOST THOU LOVE LIFE, THEN DO NOT SQUANDER TIME, FOR THAT IS THE STUFF LIFE Franklin.
18 MADE OF
The P. and O. 8.3. Rawalpindi, from Singapore, is dus here at noon on Wednesday,"
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The St. John Ambulance Brigade report that up to March 17, 77,849 people had taken advantage of its Tree vaccination perylee.
UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEARS A TOPEE.
By W. M. WEBSTER.
CERTAINLY thought that truth wants to be left in peace to get was stranger than the talkies on with his own mode of living. when the first business man who Politics he does not understand.
Victims of Terrorism, came to see me in Bombay solemnly
A simple soul, he believes in produced a fully-loaded six-shooter from his attache case and pro-whatever he heard the last sponker any. He was happy enough under ceeded calmly to use it through-
Interview as a paper the old regime and simply wants out the from being blown about by the weight to prevent his documents to be left alene. He realises that whirring pupkah over our heads, under the British he was never treated except with completo falr He casually explained that as a ness. So long as he paid his due. member of a Reserve of Officers taxes he would be given a square Corps in Calcutta he had grown deal. But he is terrified of his accustomed to carrying the weaown native leaders and so goes non. Incidentally, he also said with them.
It is in the immensely thickly The forthcoming warriage is an-that he had to get military leave!
and cities that to come to Bombay populated towns
effect. nounced of Frank Albert Merry, of af absence
Felix Villan, and Barbara Mary He and his fellows are always the agitation Lakos mast Nicholl, of 16, Peak Ron.
prepared to mobilise at four hours And few people at home realise how near to appalling trouble In- Muriel, the 12-year-old daughter of untice.
For variety of emotion life india was a year ago. It in little Mrs. McCaw, of 10, Hart Avenue.
Beta an excitingly
over twelve months since Euro- Kowloon, was yesterday bitten by India to-day
pean men and women in care at Under the Surface.
violently molested dog in the hand and leg. She was high standard.
Karachi were On the surface the white people in the streets, gleen treatment inter at the Kowloon Hospital
live normally. The yacht cluba Shortly after nimission to the hold their races every Saturday. Government Civil Hospital, on Satur-Friday night in gymkhana night.
died. It we disclosed that he had!
Firing the Mob.
At a recent Congress meeting at
he wished.
Mr. Gandhi, "We bave heard it said that five day, a man named Hong Mok-heung when society aits on the lawns of Bangalore un ediet was circulated
the Intervals of native split open skulis."
of course, does not support such per vem, is the natural interest of been sick for some Line, and prior to the clubs and gossips entertain urging supporters to "strike to
military band programmes. maney, that twelve is the natural going Into hospital, had taken some ingly in
Yet underneath there is a quen-methods. But equally, once the Husband park of his curious eloquence has Ared the excitement of a mob, he number of a jury, that forty shil-Chinese medicine.
ngs is the natural qualibration of Through falling when attempting ainess of uncertainty. a soter. Hence it is that, thought to alight from a moving Aberdeen are secretly very glad to see that is powerless to stop them, even it
in Pokfulum Rond yesterday, their wives are safely back from
And so what is the cure for it In every age everybody knows that has
Chau Stal, 61-year-old carpenter of shopping: mothers heave sighs (in up to his own time progressive im Aplichou, rerelved injuries from which private, of course) when childrenall? Imprisonment of the lenders
the are safely Indoors again,
has undoubtedly been the initial On some mornings little clouds carrective action for our weaknes lenders UNAN YANGON CIRANI WANAOTOS DE † provement has been taking place. heed after being taken to
But those wabmly seems to reckon on any im-Government Civil Hospital. provement during the next genera-
Among the passengers by the of rumours drift down the hill in the past.
action as well s tion." The words of the distin Hamburg Arrika Ateamer Rar from the Government offices, and cannot be kept in prison for ever.
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Lady Journalists in the so sorry. I do hope," etc., etc.
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world to-day. and her articles, 6.30 p.m. teclay,
to stay, and to ignore the teachings of history. But a suon view, with which are distributed through her sice thing.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1992,
LOOKING BACK.
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HONGKONG TRADE FIGURES.
15130),
1031
Lau!
and
Imagine your access to every shop in Oxford-atreet or Regent street being barred by some none!
red
power bas set In.
Of the many Indian Princes who five years ago were fabulously rich there remain but an odd half-siozen whose wealth has not almost com pletely
disappeared.
aitting
to clean native lying full length! It is useless to ask for a solution A football Jeracy belonging to Sub, athwart the doorway. Non-violent from Indians themselves for the Lieut. A. C. Higgins, of HM.S. such actions may be. But, nil the simple reason that there is no such person as an Indian. In a coun- adame, far from pleasant, Herald, forined the subject charge of larceny brought against a' During the past few weeks there try that stretches further than scrimmages almost from Ireland to the cast of Russia, 17-year-old Chinese before Mr. Scha-have been
A quiet main street will contains 250.000,000 people speak- feld at the Central Police Court this daily. morning. It was stated by Inspecter anddenly echo
shrilly with
the ing over 100 different languages McLellan that the jersey was stolen shouts of a running Gandhi cap-and dialects, is informed by local from ILM.S. Herald about mon!hi
From a side turning instead of a national Press, and ogo and on Saturday the defendant. ped moh
respects, as ure Volga IMPORTS AND EXPORTSho was working on board as an odd there emerges the form of the up-whose inhabitants are as unikke,
Joh colle, was seen by Lending Sen-roar a couple of police wagons in some
and Scottish crofters. Te the student of economies, it
His with loads of arrested Congress boatmen DECLINE.
man Thatcher to be wearing it. is interesting to recall that there
Worship ordered the defendant to apitators aboard. Down the street there is to-day no unanimity of existed in England 100 years ngo
According to the official returns sign a hond for $50 to come up for they come, the prosecuted yelling thought.
the wire netting:
Swift and Firm Action. siuntini which. urising from
enipiled by the Statistical leanch judgment if called upon, his Worship from behind
To run such a country, redolent sinilor causes, parallels that which of the Imports and Exports De taking into consideration the accused's Boycott... Boycott... Boycott."| confronts the world today. Then parment, the total value of imparts youth and the fact that it was his.first Their clipped intonation, accenting with potential wealth and alive the inst syllable, gives an unusual with possibilities of bloodshed in sound to the familiar word.
its foulest, religion-inclted form, as now, industry ran ahead of the in the month of February amount-offence.
Bustera
than an ex-money The crowd at the rear take up ofed to $51.2 millions (the lowest
The health bulletin for A pericul world's demands.
figure since September,
turned barrlater Jender following cases of
in a toin-cloth in adjustment was at baud, and the white exports totaled $37.0 mil ports for the week ended the 12th the cry till the wagons are out of more
inst. shows the
enigmatically lions (the lowest figure since
infectious diseases and deaths there earshot. prophets of gloom found a
and the publie square. But brighter There are impudent case I from-Plague, Bassein I for their dreary August, 1930), ceptive public
del Hombay 1 case, Rangoon 2 white posters at the entrancee todays do seem to be ahead, thanks bis As compared with February of predictions. Maenulay, with
some politicians who sat at home facile pen, caught the spirit of the last year imports declined by $4.4res I death, Columbo I ease death, the Bazar quarters urging natives not to the old regime of moddle-
essay on Southey'slims, while exports tell $0.7 Prom-penh 3 cases 3 deaths. Cholera, to "follow Britain's own example
figures falcutta 32 cases 15 deaths, Canton and buy Swadeshi (Congress spon- and ignorantly tied the hands of tim na
millions. Comparative
1 caso death. Small-pax. Suez 3nt Pases, Baghdad 1 case I death. Bon-red) goods only. There is the people who knew India, but to "Callaquies on Society," saying:-- Rre:
Of
-Imports.
bay 8 cars deaths, Calcutta 2 tariff argument or reason in this the swifter and more clean cut is purely anti-nctions of experienced men on the "The present moment is one
1932
death British: not constructively direct not who, unfettered when the great distress, But how small will
Merchandise $51.210,731 365.599.416 : 14 denda, Cochin 2 casos propaganda. It
death, Karachi 4 enges 2,733,610 11,868.248
Andras 16 casus 6 deaths, Moulined towards the promotion of In-National Government was formed that distress
appear when
59.044.3-43 57,460,464
at home, were allowed to get on 1 cases, Rangoon 172 cases 6 deaths,dian home trade. think over the history of the last Total
Exporta.
Yet go, as I have done, up coun with their job. Tuticorin cuses 1 denths, Pandi 1931
India is Not Lost. 103%
cherry 1 cases 7 deaths, Singapore forty years; a war, compared with into wars sink which all other
Merchandise $37,057.782 $37,721,887 1 case 2 deaths, Saigon 64 cases 18 y into the real India, the vant
The crisis passed when the Con- such Freustre
3,682.629 10,787,05 deaths, Hongkong 12 cases 7 deaths, sparsely populated lands where
leaders were put insignificance; tuxation.
$40,740,411 48,508.919 Amoy 15 cases 1 death, Canton 21 the real natives dwell, and there
India Bat in the when the the most heavily taxed people of Tatal
Since February of 1931, totul vases, Shanghai 30 cases 15 deaths. Is no sign of politicul unrest or gress
into Cerebrospinal fever, Macno 76 cases upheaval. The countryman, whe Europeans in former time could not have con-
merchandise
30 deaths.
ther he be Moslem or Hindu, only offices on tenterhooka
mooted. The relle erived: a debt larger than all the imports of
Hongkong have fluctuated from
when no violent uprisings took (51.2 public debts that ever existed in the lowest dollar value
place as the result thereof was real Yet millions in February, 1982, Lo
and Immense. Business took the world added together.
turn for the better. Yet the strong passive resistance in some native quarters still remains. It can only he 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 loat Indin. But it Is a far from pleasant sight to see natives impudently walking out of A cinema jostling white people standing at attention when "Gad Save the King-Emperor" la played at the conclusion of a performance.
Treasure
In the country poorer than in 19077 highest 171.8 millions) in March. We firmly believe that.
she 1921. while exports fluctuated has been almost constantly becom- from $270 millions in February. ing richer and richer. Now and 1932 to $54.4 millions in March; then there has been u
WAR
1931.
THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS.
A ROUTE MARCH IN KOWLOON.
stoppage. now and then a short retrogres- sion: but as to the general ten- dency there can be no doubt Having established the trend, he the future. And inla Decred
kis he
ta rein while
Kave imagination he kept his fect on
The railway solid ground.
The 2nd. Battn. The Royal Scots then in its infancy, the transition
in Hongkong from man to machine power was Fusiliers arrived in its early stages, and the dim this morning aboard the troopship Lancashire from Shanghai on 18 years' lights of the times showed that their way Home after electricity as a source of illumina-service abroad.
Soon after the troopship tiad tion had yet to be--tested and
the wharf, the developed. It is an apt moment up alongside to recall what he had to say of Battalion wont for a route march the possibilities of a century then through Kowloon, being watched
by large crowds. to come:"If we
were to pro
of
at
WIK
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, is to be stationed clad and lodged than the English of Catterick In Yorkshire. It
given a magnificent send-off on our time, will cover these islands.. the-machines constructed on prin- leaving Shanghai. Moreover, ench officer and each silk socks ciples yet undiscovered will be in ranker was presented with a pair every house, that there will be no with a pair of silk brocade cushion highways but railroads, no travel- covers by the Shanghai Citizona' ing but by steam, that our debt, Emergecy Committee in apprecia- in safe- af their services tion
of the welfare vast as it seems to us, will appear
xuarding tha our great-grandchildren
Settlement. .to trifling incumbrance, which might onally be paid off in a year or two, many people would think us in- The Volunteer Defence Corps is to sano. We prophesy nothing; but be inspected on Murray this we say: if any person had Ground by H.E. Major General Bandi-
lands at 0 p.m. to-morrow.
n
Parado
"Ho probably won't come into his money for 20 years, so it would be just like marrying an old man."
action was
away.
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 the bottom. pretty well found
Now this warrios me very much indeed. As a husband I feel part-
to wonderle, and I'm beginning
how long it will be be- fore we disappear from the face of the earth-or elas are allowed to live just to give a house a fur nished look..
In a calo Consider the matter and detached way, Once upoa n (Continued on Page 9.)