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Mr. B. B. J. Walsh, of the B.A.T., and Mrs. Walsh, have returned from Europe by the s.. Sarpedon,
In the possession of the Water' Police la a indy's handbag which was found last evening about 7 pm. in Tait's Carnival shows on the vacant plot of ground at the junction of Salisbury and Nathan Roads,
Abyssinia, where the authority of the Central Government does not cover the whole territory of the state. There are still slave mar- kcts in certain Arab States on the
NO BOUL is DESOLATE AS LONG Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and
AS THERE 18 A HUMAN BEING,FOR States of Arabia u few Moslem
WHOM IT CAN FEEL 1RUST'AND' RE. have not yet abolished slavery VERENCZ-George Eliot. either in law or fact. Slave trad- ing between the consts of Africa and Arabia goes on in secret in spite of the netive watch of Bri- tish, French and Italian warships, though the presence of these forces the slave trader to carry on his ghastly traffe under difficulties. The experts recommend that to cope with this evil adequately the Lea gue should exert moral pressure by refusing admission to the League to any state which does not first of all promise-as Abyssinia was made to promise on her entry to the League that every effort will be-made to abolish slavery. The experts further suggest that the League should urge its Member States not to conclude treaties of commerce or friendship with theso A deluxe Multi-Wave Receiver in SPARTON cabinet of striking states unless they promise to At a turn of the Band abolish slavery and the slave mar beauty. Selector and Control Knob, this ket. There is one Christian State, marvellous instrument is instant- Abyssinin, woich has not yet con→ ly adapted for either the long pletely rid itself of slavery but the wave or the world spanning short experts recognise that the Central wave reception as desired. powerful 12 tube Supérhetero- Government are making every dyne with Automatic Volume effort though the process is bound Control, Tone and Static Control, to be slow as the emancipation Phono Pick-up Jack. Band Selector Switch, and all the finest movement is dead against native
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BIRTH.
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DEATHS,
SLEAP On November 19th, 1932, at the Vistoria Tanglès), Podges, the infest on of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney A. Sleap.
custom and tradition.
Finally, the experts urge that the greatest need le to guarantee a teuseless campaign which can only | be secured by the creation of a permanent Slavery Commission' un- der the League. "The very exis- tence of this Commission," says the report of experia, would have the advantage of keeping pub lic interest in the slavery question awake and more particularly of act- ing as a stimulus to States in
which slavery exista to make every effort for its abolition, if only by degrees." This was the proposal unsuccessfully advanced by the Bri-
tish Government at the League's 1930 Assembly and now that 'tho suggestion has been supported by the League's own experts, it should of every command the support Member state of the League, and every man and woman throughout
•
WIVES WHO RE-MARRY THEIR HUSBANDS
By MARGERY LAWRENCE
GOOD den of Interest has to me dismally as his divores was
been excited by another caso going through.
Just reported of a couple married, "I started 'an affair with Molly divorced, and then remarried to simply because she was Janet's aneh other. It is probably not best friend, and I knew it was the gonerally realised that this la by one way to make Janet wild. But no means extraordinary-the num- now Molly's gone and got no des- bers of married couples who part, perately serious that I shall have: marry other people, and then, to marry her, I suppose. It's my sometimes after many years, como own fault, I know, but it's damna- together again, is quite surpris blet If only Janet and I hadn't ingy large.
boon such fools--but now sho's
In the year 1929, inquiries mado tied up with that fellow Sinclair, In the London register offices alona so there we are, and there's no- A cable has been received by Mr. showed that during that year be thing to be done."
I told him that it was quite that his son. Mr. P. F. de Souza, has had come together again H. M. de Souza of Singapore saying tween sixty au! soventy couples
after within the bounds of possibility passed his law final, and will be sall being divorced, and it is safe to that Janet was feeling the same ing from Engeland at the end of say that if the provincial register way about him, and advised his November. Young De Souza
has been attached to the Middle Tempio ea were combed they would going to see her. But, the usual and, like his father and brother, ex, leld many more Instancos. Nor Pride raised its head, and they did is it a modern occurrence, as a not..... and the divorce went cole on the field of sport.
record made in August 1604 through, and there, I am con- vinced, were two people who Mr. Chung Tak-kwong, who arrived proves.
In this case, one "Raphe Good-really loved each other, but had by the .. Taiping last Friday to become a teacher at St. Paul's Collego, childo" and Elizabeth. once his not yet learnt to forgive each other was until latterly the Headmaster of wife, but long parted from him and their little human weaknesses. He has travelled considerably in New and took upon themselves vows
Paul's School ta Suva, Fili Talands. married to another, joined hands, Separation Makes the
Heart Grow Fonder. Zealand and Australia, where he that they were "right sorle" for
Parting for some time is an ex- their foolishness, and renewed their promises to perform all the cellent curo far that fretfulness duties that they first promised in and irritability, that overtakes oven the happiest married couples their marriage,
lat times! But parting by means I have heard neople say. "How of divorco in rather drastic, Idioticl Why, if they want to since ona is all too apt then, they ever quarrel to start with fresh ties; and then things are marry each other again now. d'd
driven by lonelinces, to contract The answer to that seems to ma complicated by new responsibili hides: generally youth, and ties, and whether leit, or illicit, youth's intolerance, that is at these cannot fairly be shelved in a
hurry.
Bt.
visited the schools and coll ges in order to observn thair toaching
methods.
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"Love Me To-night," the Paramount, production strering Jeanette Mac- Donald and Maurice Chevaller, drew yesterday, and everybody went away crowded houses to the King's Theatre the fare offered. delighted with Splendidly produced, full of the most amusing situations, and revealing the two nad stars at their best, the fi'm has all the ingredients of bright and fault. pracy show. There are also some dufte entchy tunes, while the leading eir are strenely sunsorted by crat which has been admirably chosen. On
no account miss this attraction.
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS. ··
The following cable at the clone of the sugar market on Saturday has keen received by Mesars. Pen- treath and Co.
London Te-minals. March 1933 G/21⁄4 un 1⁄4d. May 1938 674% up 1⁄4d. August 1939 6/71⁄41⁄2 na tod. December 1993 6/101⁄4 up 3⁄4d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking 4-34. more.
New York Terminals. December 1932 1.08 up 1 pt. March 1933 1.00 un 2 pta. May 1908 1.05 up 2 nta, July 1933 1.11 up 4 n'a. Cuban 96-Spot N.Y. 6 pts.
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Few of u marry for the first 1 should advocate occasional time without going through a
holidays apart for all married neriod of diaPusionment mare or less severe. Few of-un realinn coupice; and I take one every year how entirely idiot'c-how nee myself apart from my husband; semet'ous-it is of us. Imperfect to sit back and "aize life up." £8 during the separation ane is able And tiresome and faulty as we are, it were, quietly and. fairly. to demand faultlessness of the
Then the Ittle things that. norzon we marry; which, in effect.
Irritate one in one's life-partner we do in youth, deny it an we may.
seem less Imrortant, and the fine Petty Annoyances
and worth-while qual'ties atand of First Marriage. out; and one goes back refreshed "Hew awful," we women cry fa and full of a new will to make life Lonell- Auccessful. shocked voices, "for John to put happy and hle soapy shaving brush next to nesa is an excellent cura for poo- divorce my lovely satin wrappert Aren't vishness, and countless men filthy?"
cases start from peevishness on It never occurs to us that we are the part of the woman and lack just as "thy" to John when wo of patience in the man! leave our
Just Ike to hear of a once-divorced powder-box where it can upset over his dress couple coming together again. coat, or leave à sachét one of But ordinarily, when two people, his drawers by mistake until he once divorced, remarry, it is a safo smells like the Burlington Arcade bet that they love each other truly; a thing loathsome to a degree to that the separation brought to a normal man!
both a nainful realisation of thofr
It never occurs to us how unkind valus to each other and that and thoughtless we are to be late the hond between them will bo, up for a train, so that John (who has in future, not merely a social con- lan urgent business appointment tract but marriage of truc London (12/11/92). Refiner at the other end of the journey?, hearts. have bought 36.000 tons Rawa 96", has to hurry. getting worried and November/December shipment, at anxious. What sort of shape s
WEB TER-At the Government Cell the world who wishes this blot on 5/11% per cwt., C.I.F. United he going to be in to deal with GOOD OLD RE-PUB!
Jonnltal. Higkong, on 17th
November, 1932. Captain John our civilisation finally removed.
Webster in his 75th voor. Funeral;
will pass the monument at 6 nm. to-day.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1992.
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International Currency
Kingdom.
an important business interview at the end of the journey?
A crving sin among women is
By Edward Kily, Scrutineer, ened at a moment's notice have unsunctuality, and peculiarly pre-
Show Well, it looks as it wo and Crovented such automatic regula valent among idle women. The announcement of a scheme tion in the post-war world. Other en woman who is invariably late Frankie-Roosevelt will have to run for the introduction of a now in-
for every appointment, and you the United States for the next four clank would monkey wrenches
w'll show a woman with no years. ternational currency, to be called against the smooth operation of an thing on earth to do with her time Pity our first name lon't Johnny. Bartex, has naturally aroused con- International
Trade but please herself! standard.
1 We know Rone rhymaca about siderable interest. Does it offer a quotas, exchange regulations, cen- In early days we are all too apt Frankie and Johnny.
We had a lot to do with the means of tackling the great pro- tral banking pollefes-they are all to see the mote in our partner's
WAS UB blem of winning the world back to obstacies, and, like tariff policies, eyes while falling to see the beam American elections. It
common currency standard? must AN ANCIENT EVIL
be harmonised in some rels start, and what started out as and places of paper thrown from In our own... and so the quar- who, snowed under with confetti Broadly speaking, the nations are fashion in order that a currency a romance becomes a case for the the upper floors of the skyscrapers, divided into two main currency standard can be made universal newspapers.
led the enormous, anti-prohibition "So-and-Sev. The League of Nations Assembly groups, one adhering to the gold again. Bartex clairus to jump all
procession dawn Fifth Avenue.
Massed bands precoder 118. standard and the other clinging these difficulties by making com- third person only too often some. somehow to what is known as the modities themselves the currency to hurt; taken up and then fourd bands, Jazz bands
one taken out of shang desire There were Souna bands, German and Military sterling bloc. Many nations, of standard.
gangs course, fall in neither one
dimeult to sheive, as one man said bands. There
bands. nor the other. But their future
There were also bands of gange. Chicago gangs, Noo Yark gangs, polley will be affected by whatever
and all the other gangs that have decision can be reached between
made the American motion plc- these two main communities. Great
ture Industry what it is to-day..
Prohibition was defeated from ⚫ that day.
of the
clasa
has had to review, among many other international problems, the work being done under its aegis to suppress slavery. The material which formed the basis of its dia- cussions is the report of a commit- tee of experts who were appointed
Britain as the leader of the ster- last year. Tho business committee was to find out to what definite currency policy. But in- ling bloc has as yet declared no extent the Slavery Convention of dications of a trend are not want- 1926 has been successful in putting ing. It seems reasonably clear an end to those last vestiges of that the days of a managed pound this unclent evil which the League unlinked to any metal are number- had discovered still existing in the ed. The tendency in British of- world six years ago. Those who clal circics seems to lie in the served on the committee were men direction of a return to monome- of long experience in colonial ad- tallism, with gold as the standard, The main problem, from the British ministration, like M. Angoulvent, a standpoint,fa concerned not so much former Governor of French West with the Internal conditions pre- Africa, M. Zedda who served the cedent to the re-catablishment of whole of his governmental career the gold standard as with the lack in the Italian colonies and Lord of agreement upon the manner in Lugard, a member of the League's which the gold standard should be Permanent Mandates Commission managed. Evidence is given in and a former Governor of Hong- the Macmillan report to the effect that no international standard can kong and of Nigeria.
possibly survive the Impediments From the information received, in economic relations that have and excluding Liberia with which flowered in the post-war
world. another League Committee is Geld in pre-war days used to be experts maintained in due proportions in specifically dealing, the come to the following interesting each gold standard country, by a conclusion. Slave-raiding in the process of almost automatic regul "old" form of vast organised opera- lation. The incoming gold ad- tlons such as still existed only thirty years ago in Africa has com pletely disappeared, though spora dis, and small-raids still occur on the frontiers of certain states like
vanced commodity prices to an extent that attracted, foreign goods soon after the metal had, arrived. In payment for these goods, gold flowed out again. But tariffs and other obstacles that can be height-
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No one who saw us can forgat the stirring spectacle. Our proud hearts beat high, as preceded by the hands (see above), and chased by the gangs (ditto) we marched down Broadway,
A million voices took us the re train as the massed bands struck Jup the refrain of "Land of HOPS.
and Glory."
It was the largest, most ata- pendous,
longest, grentest, widest procession in the whole, wide wolla.
Overhend the stately Akron, largest dirigible in the wolld, salated us.
Other records may be inspert. ed at this office, between the honra of 2.00 and 205 p... dally. Admission, free, vi
We would have milli been in that procession, only someone throwing stock exchange ticker tapo at us. from-the 99th floor of the world's |highest building forgot to detach
the ticker machine,
· It was fourteen days before the doctor knew who wa ́ word, and six weeks before we'd'd....
· Anyway, we got Roosevelt in. no what does it matter. And anytime the Americans are dissatisfied with him, as President, all they've got to do is to look us over.
Personally, we'r think – that *Wacter gols, in makes no dife ference.
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