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The
Thongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1932.
WANG CHING-WEI AT THE HELM.
Has Mr. Wang some rallying, cry for the nation? Has he a con- wipe structive policy which can out the theoretical differences be- tween the different branches of the Party? Has he any induce- ment to Mr. Hu Han-min to Join and anve
the National Govern- to ment? Has he the means harness the equivocal loyalty of Canton to the Central Government? So far, ho such policy has been Indiented, although there doca ap-| pear to be some attempt being made in this direction. All that has been definitely accured is the of inclusion in the Government two of the strongest members of the old Government.
DAY BY DAY
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts..
The discoverers of a acculded WE MUST REALISE A MAN'S CON- Judging from what we've seen CEPTION OF LIFE BEFORE CONDEM-of the new bathing costumes, the feland, where a modern Edon is NING HIS LIFE AS A FAILURE wool Burplus this year is likely planned, saen to forget the possi Rosebery.
to be bigger than over.
bilities of the Flying Club rosum- ing activity.
The Government is inviting tonders for the erection of a public bathing shed at Repulse Day.
It is notified that the name of the has Yuen Lea Company, Limited, been struck off the Register.
His Excellency the Governor has sp pointed Mr. E.H. Willams to be Dis- trict Officer in the Northern District of the New Territories.
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If the Invoking of the Nine-
A writer says there aro stili Power Treaty doesn't produce any results, what about trying the Ten many men who are not bossed by Commandmenta?
women. Yea, bachelors.
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Ex-King Alfonso is said to bo A campanologist has croated
evidently bosh record by ringing the chimes for two days. Forty-eight hours all very rich. He's saving from a reigny dayi
tolled! ២. ជា
has Being Leap Year, this may be His Excellency the Governor appointed Lieutenant F.W. Webb, described as 'Woo-men's Day," Royal Artillery, to be one of Ifonorary Afdes-de-Camp.
Emerald toonails are now popu-
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A recont lecture on the use of tho' dial had nothing on the user- known to the beauty experts.
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Local, nudists may elect on! Admiral of the Flect-probably
The annual dinner of the Queen's lar for ladies. All the same, tho miss isn't so green an com- College Old Boys' Association takon modern
place on Saturday, April 16, at 8 p.m. nhé's painted,
whether at
in the Hall of Queen's College.
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A bankruptcy notification states The Geneva Conference which
that a frst and final dividend of 30 is trying to stop fighting ought to
Yan Kwai Kec.
some kind of Lord High Sprinter.
口
A local oaraman says that in a
boat race everything deponds on.
stroke of eight?
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This is the second significant feature that emerges. General Chiang Kai-shek, whose work was stultified during the recont sharp crisis nt Shanghai by his holding no adequate office in the Govern ment, returns to supreme mand of the forces. Th last few months must have been a time of bitter humiliation and disappoint- ment for him. He returns at a
ifcuft moment. The blood of per cent. has boon declared in the case take lessona from some of these the man and the moment. The the nation is up and it is clear of Yan Kwai, contractor, trading as heavyweight boxers. | that negotiations,
Shanghai or in regard to Man- churia, will be watched with Jea- lously. There is little doubt that unscrupulous elements will seize on any sign of yielding to the Japanese demands as a stick with which to beat the Government. Yet the stoutest Chinese heart will the quail before the alternative: prospect of what Mr. Arnold Toynbee has prophesied as a long war of attrition, from which an exhausted China might emerge with a ruined Japan at her feet.
ច ᄆ Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung, with
Might we des- their daughter Irene, leave the Colony: to-day on board the P. and O. Hnor cribo these ac- tour in counts from the Corfu for an extensive England and Europe,
garage as auto- mobilla?
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race-
Tenders are being invited by the Government for the removal of thej
site Some chal and its re-erection on a Fire Station and drill tower at Wan- adjacent to the No. 2 Police Station. horses, we rend, have IL four- Among the passengers who left
meal by the Empress of Canada were the Hon, Mr. C.G.S. Mackie, Miss Muckie, a very day. Mr. and Mrs. O
Brown, Stable Bernard Lady Chater, and the Rev. and Mrs. IV Koop.
Cause
course
D'hote!
This sticky
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ព ជ
"What is the difference be
a modern girl?"
tween an old-fashioned girl and
girl
"Au old-fashioned' blushes when she is ashamed and a modera girl is ashamed when she blushes."
Maybo
only
homespun yarns
will be told at
tho Clubs On
Empire Day..
At this time of the year, lots of people
em
mentally befog- ged. Others live
on The Peak.
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We're suspi-
clous of these
"model house-
boys." All too often, they're Atill-life
models.
According to a nowa item, a
Lam Kwok-ying, recently arrived The Latest Novel:-"Boundless gave up trying to back into the from Canton and staying at the Hoi Luk-fung boarding-house, yesterday Love: or The Flat-footed Fiance." garage. or more an
reported that a woman with whom he was living, had left him, taking with
៨ ជ
The pound sterling still keeps
her, ho alleges, a sum of $564 belong they don't want "facilitica"; they strong. John, Bullion!
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The Gazette contains the draft of Speed in the Stratosphere.
an Ordinance to amend the Vaccina- weather makes when Few developments in aviation tion Ordinance. This is necessary boua long for the
of the Sanitary time the Hend are more interesting in their pos- Department has ceased to be the Hongkong will sibilities than the effort to design Registrar of Births and Deaths.
again go on the heavier-than-air craft for the ex-
hae Cold Standard. His Excellency the Governor ploration of the stratosphere. And
appointed, provisionally and subject
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Who said Japan doesn't want vidual prospects of the develop Mr. W.EL. Shenton to be an Unoficial! ment which is taking place in Member of the Legislative Council peace? She certainly has Pacific woman recently drove a car for twenty-four hours without stop- for a further period of four years.. ambitions.
ping. After that, we suppose, she France, Germany, lialy and Russia is that the venture into this upper region may be climaxed by a speed A paralysis would seem to have record of 600 miles
Nudista any hour. Bringing speed into the
The Hongkong fallen on China's internal politics. consideration of this unique ex- Its effect on her foreign relations ploration taken it out of the realming to him.
want an island, We suggest that is only too easy to see. Its causes
technical. The of the merely
His Excellency the Governor has what they really require is some and the intricacy of the forces
average person may not under-
appointed provisionally, and subject clothing.
☐ D which have produced it are still stand the technicalities of speed,to His Majesty's pleasure, Mr. W.H. We can only do our best but the phrase "miles per hour" Bel! to be temporarily an Unoficial by peering into that obscurity to will awaken him in the middle of ember of the Legislative Council, in the place of the Hon. Mr. C.G.9. Kuess at the present alignment of the most involved mechanistic dis-Mackie, who is temporarily absent | forces, which is summed up as a course. In comparison with some absent from the Colony, struggle between the Party and other forms of flying, altitude re-
The Health Bulletin uf Eastern the Government. In that strug-cord achievements have attracted Porta for the week ending April 2 gle, apart from the re-emergence little attention. A climb to a
gives the following cases of infec of General Chiang Kai-shek, the height of six and one-italf miles tious diseases and the deaths there most significant feature is that could not hope to compete with a Crom: Plague, Bassein 2 cases
deaths, Bombay 4 cases 4 deaths, Mr. Wang Ching-wei has at last dash at 406 miles an hour in cap-Rangoon I case 1 death, Colombo 1 obtained his ambition of becoin-
1 death, Pnom-Penh 2 deaths. turing the publle's imagination. easo ing the administrative head of the what aviation has been able to do Cholero, Calcutta 62 casca 28 deaths,
Chittagong
1 case 1 death, Pondi Government, and, in contradistinc-horizontally, therefore, always has cherry 1
death, Saigon CISC
death. tion from his attitude last year, seemed much more important than Small-pox, Alexandria 1 case, Suez 5
Canton саяс when he sponsored the Cantonese ita accomplishments in the verti
1 death,
Baghdad 6 casos 4 | split-off from Nanking and smash-ual.
4 deaths, Perhaps
Bombay 7 cases
obscure.
1
Cauca
case
this situation 18 detta 43 cases 35 deaths, Karachi
eil the best Government which lestined for a sudden and sharp China has had since the establish change. If by climbing to alti ment of the Republic, he has an-tuden of 50,000 to 66,000 feet, as nounced a policy of democratic the stratosphere planes are being centralisation of Government
designed to do, these craft can at- control.
tain a speed of better than 500 There is irony in the situation.miles an hour, then what can be Mr. Wang's conversion would have
accomplished near the earth is been more convincing if it had!
going to become relatively unim-1 taken place some months carlier, portant in aeronautics. Up in the and even at the cost of his own
stratosphere, which begins around advancement. Since, however.the 41,000 feet to which Lieut. Mr. Wang is in the saddle, we Appollo Soucek soared to a world's must at least give him the briefit record, the resistance to forward of the doubt and regard his tak-movement is about one-fifth what ing office as a genuine contribuit is at ordinary flying heights. tion towards the solution of the The question of whether man can political impasse. We wonder, of travel faster there, with the ád- course, what Mr. Sun Fo and Mr.vantage of reduced resistance, can Eugene Chen and their friends be answered affirmatively if air- think of it all. But the move willeraft can be made which will bo justified if-as has not yet travel in such a light atmosphere. been shown-Mr. Wang proves to Lieutenant Soucek explained his be a man of strong personality and inability to climb above the fringe constructive ability. He has an-of the stratosphere as due to the nounced two points of his policy faet there seemed to be nothing In his view, the Revolution is pri- for the propeller to "bite" or to marily an anti-foreign movement, sustain the wings of his plane. having as its object the rescue The stratosphere planes, of course, of China from what Dr. Sun con-
are being built with these charac- sidered to be her semi-colonial teristics of their intended environ
Perhaps status; and to pursue that object ment fully recognized.
it is necessary to concentrate on they will be able to do what Licu- the national resistanco to Japan. tenant Soucek's tiny altitude plane To do this, a strong Central Gov-was unable to accomplish. If they ernment is necessary. This, then, are, the "fantastic theory" of clim- with the pacifying addition of the bing eight or ten miles above New adjective "democratic," is the Im-York and waiting for the earth to mediate end
of his policy. We spin around until London in below confess that we fall to see how the plane may become a reality, this differs from the prime need At any rate, the more fact that it of the nation last year; and wo has spood potentialities can be cannot forget the sharp and deep counted upon to ovoke man's ‹ in- division that became apparent terest in the stratosphere. These then and that, curiously enough, possibilities throw an entirely new united the Right and Loft light on it. Thoy make it soem wings of the Party in opposition.practienl-at least for to-morrow.
cases. 3 deaths, Madras 12-caro deathe, Rangoon 140 cases 31 deatha, Tuticorin 1 caso 1 death, Pondicherry cases & deaths, Salgen 42 cases 31 deaths, Amoy 10 cases 6 deaths, Can-
Shanghai 80 ton 11 cases, deaths. Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.- Macao 115 casca 4 deaths.
Canes 7
The lit of the topee Is now on the air;
The scent of the mothball Assalls me.
I don't feel so dopey;
In fact, I don't care
Now the brightness of Midsun-
mer
Hnila me:
Away with the cold And the damp and the rain: Away with hot bottles And heaters;
No longer I'm old But youthful again, So down with the nets 'Gainst the "skecters."
But surely I've struck. A discordant old chord;
Anophele sad piece of versc,
Sir:
If with Winter, just past
I was thoroughly bored,
I may find the Summer Much worse, Siri
"Don't tell him anything-Just look dumb,"
CYN.
It is believed that if the scof- fors can get to the bottom of the nudist movement they will find at a spanking idea.
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With barbers describing them- Helves as tonsorial artists and exports BR beauticians, beauty they'll soon be called motor service stations lubricatorlumns.
Personal:-11. the fair-haired man who spokò to a snappy young.... thing in green on the Kowloon Ferry last night will meet her in the Hotel Lounge this evening, there'll be a devil of a row when his wife hears of it.
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Even in those hard times, there's one business that. is looking up. The astronomer's.
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A render wants to know if there are many Jews in the Navy. We don't know, but many sallors are A.B.'s.
According to medical historians, there were very few nervy women in Ancient Britain. The Pre- hysteric Poried!
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Lives of master crooka remind us We may do a bit of time.
And, departing, leave behind us
Thumbprints in the charts crime.
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of
Bank assistants should always be
well-dressed, says a local tailor.
Dough-knuts, in fact!
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A man arrested for robbery re- contly tore all his clothes in pieces in the detention cell. He scoms just the man to be put in charge of the prison laundry.
"What," askan, writer, "is the most deplorable thing about the modern young woman?" Probably It is the modern young man.
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Strong drink launheard of in
Easter Island, says a temperance
advocate. Who
drink anyhow?
wants to hear
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No one knows how to stop a
baby crying," remarks a pessimis-
tic writer. Still, there's no harm
In having a smack at it.
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The fog along the coast has
disorganised shipping, inspiring_a
reador to proclaim:The Corfu
shall not gail at noon!"
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