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'HOW THEY SELL YOU A CAR
By ROBERT MAGILL
THE motor salesman you moet open, a red carpet is automatically Today is not the name as spread before you, and there you
Two cases of diphtheria and three
Nor do you drive it. It drives canes of typhoid (ons imported) were when I was known as the Spell are.
authorities binder of Great Portland-street. reported to the health
We were then all ex-army, ex-itself. A red trafic light operates during the week-end.
varalty, extra pukka aahibs, and a shutter which automatically puts In pukka on the brakes, while a green one The engagement is announced bewe sold pukka cara tween Mr. T. W. Hemsley, of the fashion solely to other pukka solenses them. The only trouble Hongkong Police Force, and Mise P. sahibe. In fact, if a man were a with this is that the car tends to Hartley of Wallington, Surrey. mere millionaire or M.P., or any shy and buckjump when passing a
| everything.
to
The clutch doesn't clutch, tho Professor: O. D. Wannamaker, othing but a pukka sahib, we often chomist's shop, but you can't have We hadn't a great deal of brains. Bamber, South Carolina, arrived here didn't sell him a car at all, by the Prossident Grant on a tour of
with Fow pukka sahibs have, because Ecars change themselves, and all the Orient. He is connected
But we all had well-oiled hair, and tell you not only how much petrol educational organisations in New brains are not "done" so to speak, round the car are little dials which York City:
we spoke in well-oiled accents. We and oil you have, but the date, Mr. G. P. de Martin, the Director offered Egyptian cigarettes-no high tide at Greenwich, and how
pay. If anybody attempts of Education, has consented to dis-pukka sahib ever smoked gaspers many more instalments you have tribute the prizes of the Peak School from monogrammed cases, and on December 22. The function will be our conversation touched lightly steal the car it grabs him by the held in the Peak Club, commencing on such things as compression, ankle and barks for help.
transmission and Ignition, sub- jects the modern motorist doesn't such as the Bre-oscape, clothes need to understand. We didn't line and electric Iron, telophono understand them ourselves, as a and tape machine, there are
A row of rubber truncheons, matter of fact, and neither did our several designed to deal with that
humane knuckle-dusters and hygi- clients, but they liked us to flatter increasing pest, the motor bandit. from lenic revolvers is close to your
at 5.16 p.m.
on
In the case in which a Chinese was Saturday fined for cruelty to mui-tsai,
titani, the address was given as 20 correct; the address should have been
26, Canal Boad West, second floor.
them into the belief that they were experts.
But now that everybody
Д
Besides the ordinary fittings,
the air
the
Messrs. Lane, Crawford's have now fitted up at the Exchange Restaurant the local sweep to the charwoman hand. A harmless machine-gun is a gentlemen's private dressing room owns a car, the salesman has fitted in the cockpit, while a con- ony gentlemen developed a different technique. cealed cylinder delivers a special for the benefit of
wish to change Into He is a psychologist. If his cus- polsen gas which has no physical patrons who evening or sporting costume. This tomer is a lady, he dwells. on the ill-effects, but which immediately accommodation in absolutely free of uphold the sanctity of treatics.charge, and is sure to be greatly tasteful colours in which his caracts on the bandit's morals, ao that is supplied, although somehow he he hands you back your wallet Even at the cost of a charge of appreciated.
forgets to tell her that it needs with his blessing.
In this case you don't have to and four hypocrisy these things must not
Major Ho Shal-lal (Robert Horoughly three hands
wireless transmitter, be abandoned. Still less can we
Tung, Jr.) arrived from Shanghai by feet to change gar without a touch off the Verey rockets and amall giving your map position, and admit the cynicism which is shown the 8.s. President Grant yesterday, catastrophe. When he approaches work the by Japan's own attitude to the It is understood that Major Ho will the harassed man with
be leaving in the near future for wife and a large family he points sending an S OS for artillery I have a friend, however, who League and to her treaties. Japan U.S.A. to Join the Command and Staff out how easy are the easy pay-retaliation.
School of Kansas, having been official- came Into the Lengue on certain accredited by the Chinese Governments that will have to be paid.] terms. The world cannot let her ment. Upon being questioned as to And if he neglects to mention that drives a thousand miles or so per ald when dealing with bandits. back out, And, however vexatioun his reported resignation from the staff it uses enough oil in a week to tin week about this country and he of Marshal Chang lisach-liang, he all the sardines in the North Sea, has no need for any mechanical
who can blame him?
He stops. China's actions may have been in said the report was not accurate.
To the young man in the beret He doesn't drive on. who escorts a pretty girl he talks While his hands are in the past, or however weak her Government In the present, the
A young Chinese, Leung Kam, was
though he sold misfit clothing he bandit lends a very dangerous life. East. Powers must stand by her rights, knocked down and injured by Mr. F.ph. To the man who looks as he remarks casually that
Barrett, of 35, Sharp Street
he will demonstrate the cubic laid out with a as they must stand by those of when driving private motor car 2089 expatiates on m.p.k. To a fat man He might caeily be run down or By this time the bandit is sus both countries within the terms of Barrett was about to pass a station- engine. He will exhort a business of weather.
him to feel in his breast pocket the League and of the treatica. ary teamear which was facing the man to buy British, unless his car They must, that is, stand for the opposite direction to that being taken is American, when he urges him topicious and when my friend tells
by the car, when Leung Kam rushed spend his money with Canada.
If his prospect looks nervous, he and he will find particulars of a across, the road behind the tram. He Lytton Report.
knocked down and received a tells him how easy it is to drive. special insurance poltey designed broken leg.
He will inform a clergyman that to meet the needs of bandits and this is not, one of those trashy, smash-and-grab boys, enough has pseudo-smart affairs, but a sedate, been said. Nothing is left of the This is not only because dog likeness between these two coun- gentlemanly vehicle that would bandit and his car.
world's greatest blush if it found itself outside a
does not eat dog. Even bandita trica-the
Apart from all this he needa tre human. creditor and the world's greatest pub. debtor-In their tremendous post push. Before long he's got war development of capital equip-push his customer into the front mont. Much of this equipment is neat and let him hold the wheel. IT WAS A GUID NIGHT!
He also needs a fountain pen huge that will really work, because if By Edward McKelly, Haggis Expert,
spanner. Then
Hongkong Telegraph. Japan, and find a solution for in Morrison Hill Read, opposite the capacity of the body, not of the there is the exposure to all sorts
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932.
BRITAIN AND JAPAN
In the minds of many in the Bri- tish Empire who are critical of the actions of Japan in Manchuria, and still more in Shanghai, there un- doubtedly runs an under-current of sympathy with that nation. Be cause that sympathy inevitably tends to prevent the taking of a
A German on War Debis The emergence as the topic of the hour of the war debt isaun lends, an added interest to Herr "What's Roepke's new book, Wrong With the World?" Such a as the author mighty question poses is capable of several an- swers. The basic answer would
was
now a white elephant, and to creet it each country erected
A
to
on the
detached view of the present Sino- certainly stress the ethical side of volume of debt, which is now as dotted line while he has him by!
were
his victim doesn't sign
"Ohi Waed someone th' power to pressing problem as the exis- the collar, some pirate from the die us, to see ourselves as ithers sco the world crisis. Others depend
tence of the white elephant. Ger-next stand will grab him before hes," said Buras (a poet).
In the absence of a better quali- Japanese Imbroglio, it is important upon the answerer's interests. Dr
many's problem is worse, because can get away.
fled writer, we have been deputed It's a hard life, and not one to trace it to its source and to Roopke is an economist, professor the debt in its case is mainly ex-
to do the job, political economy at the enquire how well-placed it may be. of
We refer, of course, to the St. ternal, owed in main part to the sulted to a pukka sahib.
From what I nru told by the ex- Its nources are two. One is a University of Marburg. There-
United States. We are apt to for-nerte the up-to-date car is almost Andrew's Ball last Friday night,
Putting on our best complexion reluctance to desert, or to turn on. fore he restricts himself mainly to get that a great part of the repara- as intelligent as a trained elewe wended our way to the Pennisula an old ally. The other is an uneasy economic causation. He is also a tione already paid still lives on in hant. The early machines conviction that Japan is only doing German, and, much as he tries to the form of Germany's commercial constructed to go, providing you and presented our last month's Star
although the problem of getting the same sort of thing that Britain keep his economist's gown. aloof, debt. Dr. Roopke is filled with a could manage to persuade them, Ferry ticket at the door. and other nations have done in the he cannot forget the fact, as no "great apprehension" about the there was as nothing to the pro- slipped through the back entrance
German, engaged on a similar future. Emerson says, "It never blem of getting back. past. Therefore,
task, could forget. There are two strikea twelve o'clock," meaning To-day, I gather, you simply call hypocritical to insist on measuring storm centres" which concern the that a good deal of sweet renson- the car by name. This vibrates a were clans, and clans. There were the actions of Japan by a standard author,, German and American. ableness exists from which world diaphragm and completes a circuit, also clans.
which starts the engine, blows at which has only been adopted of re-The German focus is his chief In-statesmen may get drawn in ironing horn and the car backs gracefully cent years, and which, perhaps, has terest. According to his view, out the world's troubles.
many
feel It
not yet ↑ very deeply-seated reparations and war debts have allegiance in the public mind.
It is of immediate Importance, and in the interests both of the peace of the Far East and of the relations
and between Britain
China, that these two grounds of
been one of the chief causes of the world crisla. The reason in that they constitute uneconomic pay. Dr. or payments in ments, Roepke's language, for "falso in- debtedness." If a debt isn't to cause trouble, it must develop its sympathy should be challenged. In own means of paying interest. truth, on examination they are The nations who borrowed ́money found not to be well-based. What during the war blew it into are the facts about the Alliance? nothingness, while roparations ro- from an economic Nothing less than that by her own presented, ill-calculated action Japan made it standpoint, merely an indemnity, essential for Great Britain to which had no antecedent loan back of it. There was thus nothing abandon it for the wider, more to show for them save paper evid- effective and less embarrassing ences of indebtedness. However, Nine-Power Pact. Japan may be in blissful ignorance of tho rami- said to have broken the Alliance fentions of the payments that has in spirit when, in 1915, she pre- then to be made, we behaved in the sented the Twenty-One' Demands post-war years "on the principle to Chinn. She did it without con- that a free exchange of goods and sultation with her ally, at a time services could soildly bind to- when Great Britain was absorbed gether in a single world economic in the Great War, and the demands system the explosive mixture of were such as to infringe the whole reparation payments and inter- government debts." Dr. Roopko meaning of the articles of the mentions other factors in the Alliance in their reference to China. world
crisis, particularly
the
The results were two-fold, They agricultural trouble, but he only gravely embarrassed the relations just mentions them. In view of of Great Britain with China, rela- his title, it would have been more tions which were not improved by Batisfactory if he had pursued this side of his inquiry further. So Japan's retention of Tsingtao from the book rather lacks perspective. the Treaty of Versailles, until the Dr. Roepko's treatment of the Washington Conference. They other "storm centre," the United further threatened to embrail-Bri-States, affords a picture of the
out of the garage. The
"By the time I reduced enough to wear that, it would be
out of style."
doors
In the resultant confusion we
and, joined the clans.
The place was full of clans, Thore
There were so many clans that there wasn't enough space left to swing a live tiger by Ita fail.
Down at one end of the room a score of bagpipes played a moura- ful dirge to keep the evil spirits away. The dirgs proved entirely successful, for no evil spirits ap- peared. We saw only one clan full of spirita.
We wandered across to the buf- fet and joined an Englishman and two members of one of the clans. The Englishman stood a whisky and soda, we stood the same.
One of the clanners stood six foot two and the second clanner stood and admired him.
Later on, one of the clans gave an exhibition of the skiri. In caso you don't know what's a skirt, it's a strain on the braces.
The ceremony of marching In the haggis was most impressive. The huggis bearers were proced ed by twelve bagpipes, all of which joined rapturously in the triump- hant passages.
A breathloss hush overtook everybody at the awe-inspiring sight. As the pipes swalled into that last tender crescendo, you could not have heard a pin drop, even if someone had been careless enough to lose one.
It was anunforgettable spectacle, but there was po avenue of escape...
The Erskine motor-car belonging to MW. B. Flanigan, which was taken from near the P, & O. Building on Saturday morning, and the Austin Beven, owned by Lau Chi, which was. stolen from Stanley Street on San- day, have both been restored to their owners, the vehicles, having been abandoned and later found by the police.