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DAY BY DAY
MAKANAN TERRIERTEGEMEISSENTE CRIMEX ✪
BETTER A MAN WITHOUT NICHES THAN RICHES WITHOUT A MAN.-— Tennyson.
day,
In the estate of the late Mr. Rafael Echegoyen, merchant, late of Manila, who died intentate on November 9th, 1931, letters of administration linvé been granted to Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, solicitor, for the use and benefit of the Marla Cavanna de widow, Mrs. Echegoyen.
DISARMING IS THE
STATESMEN'S JOB
By Field-Marshal Sir W. R. ROBERTSON
ALTHOUGH Line with dangere
own.
Finally, a limitation is to be pul
but
Bunded to visit Hongkong if the fact were more widely known that the winter climate hero io so de- lightful and that there are all manner of attractions to be found in the Colony, to say nothing of Ita magnificent scenic beauties. The gentleman
quoting we are
from the burdens and dangers upon National Defence Expenditure, involved by the maintenance of and a committee is to be appointed thinka that we might even
The Empress of Asia is due here great armaments was never so uni- to study the regulations applied to
Wednes much farther than that and, by from Shanghai at 7 m, on
versal as it is to-day, any common the manufacture of and-trafik” In. judicious propaganda, endeavour
agreement designed" to give sub- Armaments-both being subjects stantial effect to this wish must of a highly controversial kind and to induce some of the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Goldsmith are obviously be difficult to reach so at present quite unsettled.. people from Home, who make returning to Hongkong by the Em-long as the nations continue to re- This completes, so far as land press of Japan, due here on December gard each other as potential enemics forces are concerned, the amount of yearly trips to the Continent, 9th.
rather than as effective friends progress mado since the League of Egypt, and India, to set a new
whose Interests are intimately and Nations formally declared, some fashion by coming out to long
irrevocably bound up with their] 13 years ago, that the maintenance of peace requires "the reduction of kong. He points out that, apart
Thanks to the closer intercourse national armaments to the loweat from the novelty of seeing the
of recent years, a more sensible and point consistent with national East, there is the additional nt-
up-to-date spirit la gradually be-safety." coming manifest, but, being ham- Some excellent principles are re- traction of excellent yachting,
pered by tradition and the jealousies peated in the "Resolution," ample bathing facilities (the
and animoalties left behind by the there is not a single figure or other water seldom being colder here
The weddings will take place shortly last war, its growth in bound to be definite criterion to mark a con- crete step forward in the desired in the winter than it fa in the between Mr. Patrick Scully, ship's slow.
officer, of 3, LI Chit Street, Wanchai,
Seven Lost Years.
direction of all-round disarmament. summer in the Old Country), to and Miss Sin Pat, of the same
This absence of any indication as Still, after making every allow to the actual restrictions to be im any nothing of the wonderful golf address; and Dr. Frank James Farr,
medical practitioner, of Police ance for these adverse conditions, posed is the more important be course at Fanling, and outdoor Bungalow, Taipo, and Miss Dorothy we are surely entitled to be given cause during the neigotiation it sporting facilities generally. The Tyrell, of the Peninsula Hotel.
something more encouraging than was quite evident that some nations further argument is put forward?
that provided in the "Resolution" still obstinately insist upon limita- Our Shameen correspondent writes: adopted by the General Commis-tion being placed at much too bigh that the security enjoyed under The "Shootic-Bird Men" on Shameen sien of the Disarmament Con- a level to meet the object in view. A beautiful six-leg console model with butt walnut panels and the the British flag in Hongkong, in must be having a pretty splendid ference on July 23 last. This docu- Qualitative disarmament, or the at- time just now, Judging from some of ment winds up the first phase of tempt to decide what weapons are conditions in sonic finest cabinet craftsmanship. contrast to
the bags one hears nhout. Bob Hill the Conference which was called offensive-i.e., aggressive--and Has powerful nine-tube Super-other parts of the East, is in it and one or two others, I hear, have into being seven months ago for the what defensive, is difficult enough found some particularly good spots heterodyne completely shielded self a further reason why Hong where, the birds are plentiful. Some purpose of considering the Report in all conscience, and in many chassis with push-pull Pentode. Kong should come in for con- of us would be glad to see the rand of the "Preparatory Commission" directions, is quite impracticable. Automatic Volume Control, Tone
opened up between here and Hong- on Disarmament, which, in its turn. Unless the restrictions imposed by it are sufciently drastic, the whole and Static Control, Full Vision sideration by those who can afford
that we could make kong
quick was set up as far back as 1925. Dial, Phonograph Pick-up Jack, to go abroad in order to escape where, I understand, the anipo are presents the results of seven years
trips down into the New Territories The "Resolution" therefore re-idea becomes a farce.
It is time that there was some Voltage Compensator, Antenna the rigours of the English winter.
very plentiful at this time. Equalizer,
all and
investigation and discussion, and as plain speaking on this matter. modern
There is, of course, no lack of
such it can only be described as pro-in certain quarters that the present Moreover, an impression prevails SPARTON engineering features.
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ed), why not a hen's egg? Some it is so abstruse that to most people to Qualitative measures alone, leav highest quality.
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must be quite incomprehen- ! Height 44 inches. Width 26 day comes, as it must, in which people may be inclined to doubt it
correspondent in Bible, and even those who have the ing Quantitative limitation to some subsequent Conference. America, inches. Depth 12 inches. air services are made available, qucation is justified, at the pre- the mass of verbiage in which they countries have, however,
pationce to extract its terms from Germany, Italy, and many other Weight 58 pounds.
this Colony will be brought ap- sent time, in placing such a pro- are embedded will find them so in shown that they will not accept con- plainly
preciably nearer Lo the Demonstrations & Sales..
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siderable number of people, to should not have been broached.ing observations are mainly intend-with regard to the limitation of ef fectives, there is no doubt that the Distributors--
Conference will be adjudged, and THE HONGKONG HOTEL visit Hongkong from Home until Of course, statesmen and philoso-
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problems of reparations, war The Conclusions" contain some
Not For The Soldier but there can be no questioning debts, conventions and convers-taudable recommendations with re- the wisdom of doing a little pro- tions. But who can expect them gard to Aerial and Chemieni War- During the next few months the paganda work in Malays and the to go on bothering about things fare, but they are silent about "Burcau" of the Conference is to Far East generally. Individual like these now that there has been Naval Armaments and contain noth- produce limitation figures for guns visitors to this Colony are often started à problem which involves ing about Land Armaments, with and tanks, and provide a scheme the solitary exceptions of Heavy (for limiting effectives. We must The former hope that this task will not be left BARRADAS-Fernando A. Barradas amazed at the beauty of the place in such equal and admirable mea Artillery and Tanka.
sure sport, ornithology, philosophy is to be limited both in number and entirely to departmental officials Kimberley Building, Kowloon, 7 and its magnificent winter
and gastronomy7 Nevertheless, calibre, but the limits are not given, and military experts. That ex- n.m. Funeral will Juss the
climate. These are assets which
we think that the question may and Tanks are to be limited to a pedient has been tried already and
failed. ignominiously, papers have never been adequately ad- be allowed. It is not as though maximum weight, but this again in it
not specified, and therefore the pro- through any fault of the experts
themselves, but because the ques vertised. Yet in England we find our inquirer had rushed
visions are at present of no value. municipalities setting aside re the world with his problem with-
Personally, I would place the tions put before them were funda- gular sums every year for the pur- out taking steps to solve it on his weight limit of the Tanks as low mentally political in character and account. Far from it. He as possible that ia, draw the line required to be dealt with by fully pose of attracting visitors to set- fside and other resorts. If the declares that he has searched the at the point where there is little to accredited political delegates. No distinguish between Tanks properly real progress can be expected until [Government here, in conjunction Encyclopædia Britannica for en-so-called and the various vehicles there is a clearer recognition in lightenment, but without result which have some resemblance to practice that disarmament is es- with some body such as the Cham- It is irrational that the egg of a Tanks but do not possess the same sentially a political and not-
technical problem. ber of Commerce, or even the duck should be a term of oppro- offensive qualities, such as Armour-
The two main political questions various shipping lines, were in brium. Western civilisation has ed Cars and Tractors.
Referring to the next or second are, of course, France's demand for follow this lead, there is no doubt, held the duck in high honour phase of the Conference, the "Re-curity and Germany's demand for equality of treatment. Somehow a that Hongkong would in course of One of Europe's greatest drama solution" states that "A strict limi- settlement of these two demands time become an extremely popular tists, if titles may be trusted.tation and a real reduction of must be found and brought into re-
wrote a play about it. Its name effectives shall be brought about" lation with
a third the general A point which must have often winter resort. People who come
a term of endearment. This sounds very hopeful, but it demand for disarmament, The residento ofhere would, of course, occurred to many
spend
Or it may be a warning. Certain entirely conceals the fact that this three postulates are antagonistic Hongkong is why no well-organis- money, and this would be all to ly the duck has contributed much very thorny uestion, which always acately so-but they should not excites the most violent jealousies prove irreconcilable, provided that ed effort is made to popularise the good of the Colony. Is it too to modern living, and is emphati- and mutant recriminations, has al- a determined and capable influence resort. much to hope that some public-cally the sort of bird that should ready been discussed at great can be brought to bear upon them, this Colony on a winter
a special Committee, and whoever will or group of egg a man on to a century at the length by We have now reached the season spirited individual
which was eventually compelled to leadership will derive definite as-
heated disagreements produced. France nor Germany can afford to
see the Conference fail.
British Government's Chance.
inches.
DEATH.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1932.
HONGKONG AS A WINTER RESORT
whether the
own
is often
before
ed to denl.
But
assume this
of the year in which we can look individuals will take this matter wicket, rather than in any way abandon its task because of the Isistance from the fact that neither
forward to at least four months up, with a view to seeing what can be connected with failure.
of really delightful weather-a be done? climate which is probably not bettered in any part of the world.
The Great Egg Mystery. We who live in the Colony know
Periodically, but not more than this fact, and, thanks to a certain once in each epoch, a problem is measure of private enterprise, {propounded of such philosophic such as that conducted by the depth, of such far-reaching and Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, unforeseeable consequences ไป
the . that
world's Ltd. in respect of Repulse Bay, humanity, the news has been spread abroad greatest Intellects feel irresistibly to other parts of the Far East. impelled to devote nil their powers But beyond this, except for the to its solution. In the morning of the world, it will be remember- reports taken away by Individualed, the question of Achilles and visitors to our shores, there is no the tortoise was such a problem; channel for letting the outside in the later renascence a similar world know the charms and at-speculation was provided by the tractions of Hongkong in the win-mystery of the 'Mona Lisa's smile. Then it seemed the world lost ita ter season.
capacity for philosophic cogitation A resident of many yeara'
on matters as high as these. At standing. in conversing on this
any rate, no problem comparable subject recently, expressed the with these earlier ones has been view that Hongkong is far behind devised for many years past. But
ទ reproach the times in failing to make some now happily this
taken away from us. Once more! organised effort to attract more visitors to the Colony in the cool on the philosophic plane we can look our ancestors in the face. season of the year. For example. It has now been proved beyond there is Malaya, not many days' all dispute that the twentieth journey distant, where the pro- century can question the universe blom of getting away for a change as profoundly as any of its pre- from the ever-present heat must decessors. A correspondent of a In these famous newspaper has inquired always bo cropping up. hard times, especially, people of why, when a cricket batsman fails to score, he is invariably describ. the Straits Settlements and the od as having got a duck's egg. F.M.S. who cannot afford to take Why not, for example (and here Home leave might be onally per perhaps a note of pathos is sound-
"I know Rupert is an awful bore, but you must visit us
ofton after wo return from our honeymoon.”
A
Herein lies a great opportunity for our own Government, but the extent to which it will be utilised will, as in all such cases, largely depend upon the amount of pressure exerted by public opinion, of which, after all, Cabinet Ministers are but the mouthpieces. The majority of men and women in this country have not yet quite appreciated the gravity of the issues which are at stake, and until they cast aside some of their indifference and din- play kcener interest in what is taking place, It is unlikely that their political representatives at Geneva will speak with that firm- ness and conviction which the altua- tion requires.
·
WHAT ARE THE
POLICE DOING?
DANGEROUS CRIMINAL LOOSE IN OUR MIDST
By Thapecior Edward Kelly, P.C.
Strong efforts will be made by the Police in Hongkong this year to apprehend one of the mont dua- perate criminals to yet visit this Colony.
Well-known as an expert cat- burglar, he has so far escomed capturo. Thousands of fathers suffer annually from his depreda-" tions.
Known to Police Headquarters
as Santa Claus, allas Father (Contiruled on Page··9,)--