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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
In the New
1932
CHEVROLET/
YOU FIND THE LATEST MODELS OF THE CAR THAT HAS WON THE HEART OF THE WORLD LEADING ALL
OTHERS IN SALES.
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932.
DAY BY DAY
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Bulls and Inners
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From the Office Butts ᄆᄆ
The prolonged presence on the "To Sul-po, though wounded, Prayn of a local Scotsman during showed great fortitudo when the week, when a typhoon appear Daily Press representative arrived Jed probable, is attributed to his res on the scene," remarks our con- There are evidently The Gazette contains amended re-collection of a fish being washed temporary.
worse things than being shot. Relations in respect of bonded ware-up last year,
口口 Sez Hugh:-Some women worr Thanks to Dr. L Shu-fan, we The coming transfer of Col. C. R. U. none too well; and some none too now know for a certainty where Savile from Hongkong to Aldershot is much." It
our flies go in the summer-time.
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houses.
announced.
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Mary has a little knack- of the
Her cocktails are a "wow."
Postal rutes in respect given in the Gazette. Salgon-Marseilles air mail service are
Colonies would be prepared to send out comprehensive displays of their products, working models, etc., if they had an assurance that a really big effort were made to bring Bri- tish manufactures and products to the fore in the South China market. Obviously, anything in the naturo of a mammoth Fair, embracing the Mother Country and the various Dominions, as well as Hongkong, would taken in irameuse amount of organising. Whilst therefore AT THE CURB YOU WILL may not be possible to hold auch an ADMIRE THEIR SMART elaborate Exposition next year, we MODERN BEAUTY. ON THE live in hopes of seeing a big special ROAD YOU WILL MARVEL AT effort in the not too distant future. THEIR EFFORTLESS CONTROL, THE EASY SMOOTHNESS OF Meanwhile, there is ample oppor PERFORMANCE, AND THE tunity for carrying on along the LUXURIOUS COMFORT WITH lines of the first Fair, though on a WHICH THEY RIDE.
somewhat niore extended scale. EVERY MODERN IMPROVE- MENT IS AT YOUR COM- Business people complained MAND. INCREASED POWER, year that they had not received CUSHIONED AGAINST sufficient notice, but there will be VIBRATION. THE VELVETY- SMOOTHNESS OF THE FAMOUS no such factor affecting the second SYNCROMESH GEAR SHIFT- Fair, inasmuch as intending ex- ING. THE THRILL OF COAST-hibitors are being asked to get into ING ALONG ON MOMENTUM touch with the Ilon. Mr. Shenton WHENEVER YOU WISH-
without delay. What is more, sug- CONTROLLED BY THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON.
gestions for improving the Fair are Gun practice will be carried out.
from Mount Davis on Tuesday, July also invited. DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS.
20th, between the hours of 11 am CHEVROLET SERIES "BA" 5 One piece of practical work aris-and 3 p.m. in the vicinity of the PASSENGER SPECIAL SEDAN-ing out of the first Fair deserves eastern approaches to the East Lammzu MAROON OR BLUE complete with 6 Wire Wheels, Tires and Tubes Bumpers, Luggage Rack, Tourists Trunk Chrome Tire Covers, Etc., Etc.
Price HK$3,780. AUTHORISED CHEVROLET
DEALERS.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
เ
The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels. "Ltd. Incorporated in Hongkong, Btable Read
Happy Valley
ANNOUNCEMENT.
this
It is notifled that the name of the Hongkong North East Ferry Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register,
Amongst the passengers arriving on the Empress of
Canada yesterdayį were Mrs. R. Sanger and children, Mr. H. S. V. Mossop, Mr. E. des Voeux, and Mr. L. Kadoorie,
["And Government servants retire
And everywhere that Mary goes at the age of 50" stated the Kow- She cries, "Say when" and loon Magistrate when dealing with an
unlicensed hawker aged 45.J howl
Presumably at forty-five. You're far too young
hawking.
.:
Members of a certain African tribo beat the earth with sticks as a sign of rage. Golf seems to be spreading everywhere.
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A contemporary, reporting the departure for Home of Captain Y. F. Fiold, remarks:-"Captain His Majesty the King has approved Field is the only officer of the the appointment of tho Hon. Mr.) W. E. L. Shenton to be an Unomcial original Shanghai Defence Force Member of the Legislative Council for remaining in Shanghai." We can only conclude that Shanghai mast a further period of four years.
be his home.
Channel,
Children's nurseries might be described as bawl-rooms.
:
Scient- lists should leave Bankruptcy notifications state that the atoms alone. first and final dividend of $10 per cent. has been declared in the case af Nowadays it's the Pak Song Tong Cheung Kee firm about the only dividend of $15 per cent. in the case hasn't gone to of medicine dealers, and Arst thing that, of William Frederick Gardner.
notice namely, the granting New Territory farmers of funds from the surplus with which to secure seeds, roots, fertilisers, etc. The object of this is to improve the quality of local produce, and the quantity as well. Coupled with the generous offer of pedigree seed potatoes from Canada, this scheme
S. C. Care, Hongkong Volunteer De-no-one should be productive of, gond re-fence Corp-M. C. Blaker, M.C..hathe after #
I. E. the Offlcer Administering thei Government bus appointed the
following to be Lieutenants in the A.
pieces.
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Doctors say should
Mr. G. Miskin, and Dr. F. Bunje. heavy meal.
*་་
This can be
DOCTOR
for
And н's useless, though you
strivu,
To live by raucous squawking. “ So give up work and hopes of
gain,
Shun thoughts that you'll bé
thrifty.
And emulate Official swain, Who cease their toll at afty! But have I misconstrued the
Benk? Should life be full of leisure. Till fifty's passed, then XO v
spenk
You work by way of pleasure?
-CYN: ☐ ☐
(to elderip
a woman); And how are you
feeling to-day?
"Oh, doctor, much better! The improvement is really re- markable.
suits, especially in the direction of making the Colony more self-sup-
His Majesty the King has approved avoided by stay- porting in the matter of fruit. the provisional appointment of the ing in a board- vegetable and other supplies. There Hon. Mr. William Henry Bell to be Lemporarily an Unofficial Member of
ing-house. are great opportunities for dethe Legislative Council in the place
O velopment along these lines, but if of the Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackie, whe
is temporprily absent from the Colony, Our young The community is to be properly
bloods should The engagement is announced Setween served, there will have to spring
remember that Brian, son of Mr. and Mrs, P. W. into being some organised market- | for a month until the reconstruc-ja man's days Massey of Shanghai, to Audrey. younger daughter of the late fing and distributing agency." This tion of the Cabinet during the tell the secrets
Steel of Newark-on-Trent, is a matter for the future, but in Mateotti crisis the Duce appointed of his nights. and Mrs. Steel of Hongkong.
him Underaceretary of the In- view of the possibilities ahead, it
terior. Fascism was then passing
O D would be well if attention were de-through its most diment crisis, It has been stated that voted to such a scheme without un- ture delay.
W.
'The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1932.
ANNUAL EMPIRE
FAIRS
|
Signor Grandi.
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"I'm glad. It won't be long now before we'll be having you looking your old self again.
Sir, what do you mean by that?"
-Seven Ages of Woman. The Infant.
The little girl. The miss.
A reader com- plains th Hongkong pota- toes are usually not
very big, Still, we ought to be thankful for small mur- phles.
□□
She was only
a lifeboatman's
daughter.
but
she couldn't get
A man to save
DO
her life,
Golf is a top- ping game, says
an enthusiast.
Yes, we've no-
ticed that when
the novices. get going.
D
even The Week's Best Query:--[s R
The young woman. The young woman. The young woman. The young woman.
□□
problems by Ottaways and means. We're going to solve Empire
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The fragrance of the East is Famous for its witching power; And Hongkong not the least is, With its varied scented flowers. But flowers alone dono
suffice,
not
To earn this reputation, There's sandalwood and joss and
spice,
By way of variation.
And other smells assail one's
ясняе.
To be correct--alfactory, That lack the spell of frankin-
cense,
and its lenders were faced with a where tranquility appears to reign, gnude gnu a Gnudist? situation for which they were un beneath the surface communists prepared. At the
are ever generating the current of Home Office,
unrest. Ever Reddy! Signor Grandi showed he had in no small measure the qualities of a statesman, and Mussolini was London will welcome Signer so satisfied with his services that Grandi, the new Italian Ambassa he prmoted him to the more respon- dor with open arms, though the sible Undersecretaryship of For- welcome will be tinged with aeign Affairs. During laborious feeling of regret that the distin: work us the Duce's assistant at Huished statesman is no longer the the Palazzo Chigi, Signor Grandi The decision to make the Empire director of Italian foreign policy faithfully carried out his chief's Products Fair an annual function Only: just 37 years of age, and foreign policy with a sense of in Hongkong is one which, we feel owing nothing to family influence, dignity which created an excellent sure, will meet with general com- Signor Grand is to-day, with the impression in diplomatic quarters mendation. Bearing in mind the exception of Benito Mussolini. in Rome and endowed with per-
☐ ☐ probably the member of thetain natural advantages which "To my mind” says a writer, limited time available for arrang-
Fascist Government best known in have been greatly developed dur-when the scoring is high." He "ericket is only worth watching ing the first Fair, it was really the world at large. Formerly an ing the last few years, he soon be evidently believes in six-appeal! surprising that there should have admirer of D'Annunzio, Signor canie a highly popular figure in been such a fine response on the Grandi was among the first to join diplomatic circles. Having work-
He made cd consistently for Anglo-Italian bachelors are invited once a fort a certain spinsters' club, part of exhibitors and the public. the Fascist movement. All reasonable expectations were his mark so quickly that he was friendship, he seems specially night. Then it becomes an exceedel, not only in the way of chosen to be a meraber of Parliated to occupy his new post. support and patronage, but also in ment before he reached the legally the volume of actual business done.ualifying age of thirty: The be ginning of his parliamentary
still represents the view of all who were associated with the initial
his
In short, Hongkong's first Empire career coincided with the civi Day Fair, limited in character strife between the Faseisti and though was, was ficient to the Socialists, Signor Grandi establish the point that the Colony taking an active part in the cum- Socialists in could well do with a yearly fune-paigns against the
was the most tion of the kind. That was the Romagna, which opinion beard on all hands im-dangerons red zone in the whole mediately after Empire Day, and it country. He immediately won the
Confidence of Mussolini for skill in handling a difficult situn- tion, and came into prominence by a speech delivered at the first There is a widespread feeling, Fasclat, Congress in Rome in 1921, n change in however, that emning Empire Fairs when he advocated
Fascist policy, insisting that might, with advantage to all con-
Fascism should become a new cerned be on a much larger scale
kind of democracy, genuinely than the last, and that they should popular and syndicalistic, be spread over a period of several | trusted with all political functions days. There are many reasons in connected with the Fascist revolu- favour of this suggestion, such as the incentive which would be offer-
venture.
En-
tion, Signor Grandi acted as inter- mediary between Mussolini and ed to commercial firms to organise pacific solution of the constitu- for a King Victor Emmanuel more elaborata displays, for it must tional crisis provoked by the in- be borne in mind that the induce-surrection of the Fascisti. Ho ment to spend money-in exhibiting succeeded in convincing the King to all the stronger when aufficient that the only solution of the crisis time is permitted the public to at- | was to Hummon Mussolini to tenil. This point is important In Rome. His advice was accepted, the case of visitors from the Out- and the Fascist dictatorship in Italy was established. After his ports who might well be persuaded victory, Signor Grandi became one to take a week's holiday during the of the most trusted counsellors of progress of the Fair. It can well Mussolini, and ka wax elected be imagined that prominent manu-vice-president of the Chamber of facturers in Great Britain and the Deputies, a post which ho kopt
In
gling club.
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"Hungry or not, you're going to eat more than that, after I stand over a hot stove all day axing dinner."
#й.
A fish or bone-dust factory. And this may be the reason why Our refuse can't be covered, Forgetting for the nonce
By,
the
To keep the smell unsmothered. What right have we to kill the
charm,
theni
That floats from every lorry? If smells make fame. what's the harm,
Of sights some folk think sorry? So here's to Mr. Sayer's decree, That all's not bad that's
whiffin'
As long as I may fail to sec, Those refuse carts 'fore tiffin!
CYN,
DO
The topic of the weak at the Sanitary Department--"Rubbish.”
២ ៨
Sez Hugh:-I don't mind mind- Jing the baby while you are away as long as the tyres are in good {condition]
២.
New Simile:As busy as a mos- quito in à nudists' colony.
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.t
According to a magistrate, 21 man is entitled to swear in his This fact should be Jown home.
stressed in the campaign to popu-
larise the telephone.
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What with motor-cars jumping into the harbour and dashing into paddy-fields, Wo might almost be forgiven for thinking that spring had arrived.
When Major General Borrott takon over the China Command at the end of the year ho will have à now first grade General Staff Officer as Colonel Savilo is to laavo Hongkong to take the 2nd Infantry Brigado at Aldershot on Dec. 6. His succBBOT as G.8.0. on the Ching staff will bo Colonel Francia Nosworthy, a son of tho Hon. Richard Nowworthy Jamalca.
lover
of