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ANNOUNCEMENT.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, OCTODER 22, 1982,
THE CALL ΤΟ DISARMAMENT
DAY BY DAY
AFTER ALL, THE BEST THING ONE CAN DO WHEN IT IS BAINING, IS TO LET IT RAIN.-Longfellow.
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Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts
Judging by the exhaust aroma
Too many Hongkong typists are
of some of our cars, they it should of the non-stop variety. be subject to a porscentage tax.
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by the Italian delegate at the Con- férence, when he declared that it was not enough for the Powers to make a declaration of goodwill couched in goneral terms, in order to make an impression on the peoples of the world who are seeking and awaiting definite and positive results. He went further
Tuesday the speaker will be Mr. D. 8. There is no truth in the rumour Socrats of the Liquor Borod", by and stated that the effort so far Kill, his subject boing Electricity that Government proposes to Mustapha Gin. ;" made has been a vain one, entire-and its domestic application."
make up the recent windfall to a round two millions, and offer it to ly inadequate when compared with.
His Excellency the Officer Ad-Singapore in order to preserve' the hopes and wishes of the world. ministering the Government has apprecedent. This view finds very large support pointed Mr. 8. F. Balfour to be a Polica Magistrate' In addition to his in many parts of the world to-day other duties.
The League of Nations Union
At the Rotary Club titin next
con-
There appears to be a troversy whether two monkoya
concerned,
has been very outspoken in itsministering the Government has ap- Safaris we're
His Excolloncy the Officer, Ad- were snapped in bed in a jungle,
pointed Lieutenant Joha Crow Richardson, 1st Battalion The South Congo and nee! Wales Borderers, to be one of his Honorary Aides-de-Camp.
you
The Book of the Week:-The
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We are surprised that none of the newspapers have described Nanking's war on the slit skirt sa a clashing attack.
"What's in a name?" asks a writer. If It's Walsh, probably most of the alphabet.
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The next time we subscribe to.. Between noon October 25th and ba retiroment gift, we are going to Auntie Cyclone is glad to read. a.m. October 27th, the Forts at stipulate that the recipient shall about all these winding-up orders, na they ought to be good for the Belchers, Stonecutters and Lyempo not stage a come-back. will be firing blank ammunition at
clock and watch makers. intervals, and searchlights will bo
口口 employed during hours of darkness. Many a local, bachelor con-
templates matrimony, says Hugh, The boxing achaon will soon be but at a anfa distance.
here; to be exact, two months next Tuesday!
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demands on disarmament. In a recent resolution, it welcomed the larmament Conference's decl- slon that the primary object skall be to reduce the means of attack, but pointed out that the absence of definite Agures deprives the Conference resolution of much of ita algnificance, and, amongst other things, arged the general Labolition for all nations of the five classes of weapons forbidden to Germany, thus establishing equality of status among all mem- bers of the League. This latter ministering the Government has re-
His Excellency the Offer Ad-|sung. claim, it will be noted, was warm-ceived information from the Secretary
of State for the Colonies that Mr. The girl who ly supported by the Church dele Donald C. Dunham has been appoint- buys expenalve A furthered Vice-Consul for the United States under wor gation on Thursday.
of America in Hongkong.
would probably
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His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has ap pointed the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, U. M. G., C. B.E., J. P., Colonisi
We understand that at the Secretary, to be Chairman of the Licensing Board for a further period annual dioner of British Auto his wife goes to a football match of three years.
mobile Makers, the popular song sho "Tariff-to-boom-today" will
putation.."
.
to moment more than anything else power corresponding to the
assured.
de-
necessit-
year
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A.Kowloonite Rays that when
ahouts herself speechless.. bo That's an ideal
"Do you love me, Charios?"? she asked.
"Of course I do," he replied. "Do you think only of mo. night and day?”
"Well, I'll be frank with you. Now and then I think of foot- ball.”
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One of life's mysteries
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why theao legal documents con- taining long- winded argu-
ments should be described TIN
briefs.
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According to A novelist, "there is an indefinable something that lends charm to many a middle- aged woman." The chemist will tell you
what it is, though.
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An economist says a poor day's Efforts Aro being made
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to
wines. Why not try
There are long delaya and
tortuous ways
When "The Gang" is on the
job,
For they merely scorn the
chauffeur's horn
And the pastengers' nervous
throb.
point urged was that all private manufacture of arma and imple-
Argue that Mr. Denis H. Hazell, Far Eastery she's limiting ments of war should either be Director of Messrs. William Sykes, herself to the
the prohibited or strictly controlled Ltd, loft for a business trip to
Malay States on the Naldera this bare by Government licence. Unhappily, morning. He will be away until the les.
middle of December, and whilst South the special committee of the Dia-will take part in exhibition tonnis.
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The winter dance season at the motor-accidents been considering this matter has
Gloucester starts on Wednesday, 26th. last reached a deadlock, Britain and October, when a tea dance will be Chienge were the United States being among held from 4.30 p.m. to 7 pm. followed the highest on
by a dinner dance from 9 p.m. to mid- those who favour private manu- night. The services of Dick Adamson record. Gang- facture of armaments, a somewhat and his orchestre have been engaged, sters, however, a musical organlantion which comes are quietly con- surprising fact when one bears into Hongkong with a very good re-fident that mind the strength of public opinion
they'll overcome in both those countries in favour
the competition The engagement is annsaneed of of removing the causes of war almost of a surety it would suffer
next year. Dr. F. J. Farr, of Talpo, New Territories, Brd son of Charles fare. What is needed at then curtailment in its purchasing Farr of Brentry, Glos: Dorothy, youngest daughter of the late John Tyrrell of Bangor, is a definite Indication that the line in its "foreign," or gold, work is often due to the failure of encourage the consumption of County Down, Ireland.
Powers are willing to redeem value. There are several reasons the workmen to "warm up?" Yes, Empire their pledged word and that they for the failure of this prognosti- and more often than not it takes try Prohibition?
ration. The one of general in- whole day for some of them to are dotermined to dispel the grow-terest is that the influence of get the chill off.
[Street excavations in Hongkong ing suspicion of the sincerity of prices in gold standard countries
are an inexhaustible-delight to child- Governments in the matter of dis- has been more potent on British
A man who has been to prison ren. armament. Only in this way will prices, even in their seclualon twice, is publishing a book on his the future peace of the world be from the orbit of gold, than was experiences. So two wrongs con
generally conceded in Britain make one write) twelve months ago. Gold prices, taking the American Agures as on
A visitor to Repulse Bay Hays illustration, have dropped 15 per broken glass on the beach is a Sterling and Gold.
cent, since last year. These have menace, and ought to be stamped The strength of public opinion
While sterling bas
undoubtedly proved a drag on Bri-out. Yes, but not with bare feat. slumped
口口 sufficiently this week to provoke tish prices. At the Ottawa Con- at Home on disarmament well attested by the delegation Young is able to address a com
International comment, Sir Hiltonference. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exequer, ad- representing the Churches which pany of bankers at the Mansion mitted the connexion. The ab lald its views before the Prime House and claim that sterling has sence of a rise in gold prices, The unid, "inevitably imposce Minister and the Foreign Secre- | proved more stable than gold. His tary on Thursday. Underlying reference was to price levels not limitations upon what can be done for, sterling." This conclusion of storing, with the representations was a distinct to the relation
may, be an Indication that very other currencies and there is Indication of disappointment felt
soon Britain will return to gold. Justice in the claim. Many were In bankors and in non-government is named Ivanovitch Vlodorant- at the lack of progress being made the speculations which
A Russian schoolboy in England experience of enamel plates. followed at Genova. The value of the Britain's departure from the gold tish monetary polley is In that has been particularly requested circles, the general trend of Bri-vososky. It is understood that he presauro brought ⚫ la that it standard on Sept. 21, 1931.
The modern girl nover gets helps to strengthen the Govern- Inexact la economic science, how-
not to carvo his name on his dosk. home-sick unless she stays there
at least one night a week. ment's hands, giving it clear proof over, and so weighted with the
☐ ☐ of the fact that actual accomplish-Imponderables of human hopes ment so far has Ingged materially and fears, that most of last year's predictions have been wrong, behind the force of public opinion. Britain has not descended into The resolution which the Disarruin. Neither has it obtained the mament Conference passed inextravagant advantages foreseen July Inst oponed with a declara- | by too-hopoful commentators. One tion that the time had come to type of comment, based on the "adopt substantial and comprehen- totally incomparable record of aive mensures of disarmament," post-war Germany, was that the pound, doprived of its gold prop. based on Article League Covenant and the obliga-ness. There are two versions of would degenerate into worthless- tions of the Pact of Paris, and worthlessness. One is the price gufled by the general principles of sterling in gold as measured in of the Hoover Plan. The measures outlined in the resolution were rather coldly received, scarcely a single speaker supporting them
was
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dollar exchange. This bus shown an average depreciation of about 25 per cent. That, however, was merely a retreat from the artificial level of pro-war parity to which as quite inadequato, and no-one the pound was hoisted in 1025. thinking they went too far. In the But that is sterling's "foreign" meantime, there has arisen the value. The worth of the pound demand by Germany for equality, inside Britain is the only kind coupled with her withdrawal from that Interests the vast bulk of the
British people-what the Conference.
it will-
The Aq we look back to the actual fetch in food and clothing.
yardstick must be the commodity. results of the July discussions, we price level. In mid-July this had seo that only one concrete act has gone down about 8 per cent.,, so to be recorded, namely the prohi- that, far from growing less valu- bition of chemical warfare, al-able in Britain, the pound had ne- though even this had been covered tually appreciated. This result is by the Geneva Protocol of 1926. a complote refutation of the hazards foreseen by many conser- For the rent, the resolution went vative commentators. Even those further than that of April, on who did not prophesy that the qualitative disarmament. Disap- paper pound would fetch practi- pointment was strongly expressed cally nothing in goods stated that
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direction.
It is stated that companlounte marriages are rarely a suCCERA, How are the matey fallen!
When petrol prices increase; it's a case of putting the gall in gallón.
"Let me think n minuto--I'm sure I had homo awfully.
good grounds for divorce."
But they're men of might in an
urchin's aight, And the spot where the traffic
flowed
Is a yawning waste where a
chap may taste The hire of the open road.
We hear of a cook-boy who boasts of twenty years' unbroken service. Possibly, he only has
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One way to make money. last is
to make it frat.
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The difference between a girl
who says "Yes" and one who saye
"No" is the one who says
haps."
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Looks as if the air mail service
to Australia won't get in Dutch.
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Although the Australien batsmen are said to be imperturbable, Tate ean be relied upon to put them out.
Some people think that the only fruits of Ottawa will bɑ 'N · FABR- berty.
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Seems a muté point, whother we'll ever get_a_radio, telephone service to England.
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Great Britain has abrogated the_ treaty with the Sovist. Britain walves the rules.
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Then there was the dentist whose
wife left him because he talked in
his sloop of Ethel Chloride.
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Confidence is the only dure for
hard times, says a business doctor. Well, it must be about right for taking: It's been well-shakon.