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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1932.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1932.
DUMPED CEMENT
LETS BLOW OUR OWN The Very Idea!
TRUMPET!
By JOHN WENTWORTH KING
On this ground, a case for action could be made out, even when there might bo 媳 natural hesitancy to embark on any step interfering with our free-port { status, on which the Colony must rely, for its prosperity. The dumping of goods is quite dif- If you would know something of Well, you cannot get better clothes ferent from ordinary competi-the psychology of the average for men than in Britain. Ask tion, and when, as in the in- Briton, mix amonget an English New York or Paris. And London atance under notice, local in-crowd gathered round an orange la beginning to rival the French dustries are threatened, an issue box orator and watch its reac- capital in the little matter of wo- calling, for serious attention is tions to the speaker. Nothing can men's dress. raised. In such circumstances, give a British crowd auch exqul- we could imagine even the most rabid free-port enthusiast dis- posed to support offsetting a tion. On general grounds, of course, anything in the nature of the imposition of import duties against foreign products would bo bad policy for Hongkong. But the point docs suggest itself that unusual circumstances may call for unusual treatment.
Local Fire Perils
see no difference in practicability between this proposal and that of the jury sitting on the Canton Road fire inquest, while it has an additional merit in that its effect might easily prove to be the tearing down of some of the local slum "rabbit-warrens."
Beam-Baked Beans
to pleasure as abuse. As soon Harbour bridge is at once
Or engineering. The Sydney
the
CORPULENT COLONY WANTED.
By Edward ("Bovril") Kally,
Wo think it's time to lodge a men at the head of affairs in Hong- protest about the number of thin
more weight and substanco. kong. What wo want la mun of
Take Madrid, for instance. If you took it you'd have to carry away a mayor who stog- gors the scales at 20 stones. Why can't we have a few public.
Look what a great assot it would.
the enthusiasm of the tub wonder and envy of all the world. listeners for their laziness, their firm, and the tendor for the con-bo for the Peak Tramway if they thumper lends him to ravile hlaIt was bullt by a Middlesbrough officials like that in Hongkong? inherent stupidity and general tract was cheaper than any offer- uselessness, a amile of satisfactioned by foreign firms. This same could breed fat taipans up on the flits across the Briton's face. He frm has just been awarded the Peak, instead of the cliques of just loves it.
and
cords that really count,
mess we've
DOW.
They could fill the trams at the top of the Peak with weighty passengers, and the trams at the bottom of the Peak with thin. passengers.
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and bone in Hongkong. Wo want There really is too much skin Legislative Councillors with ap- petites a menace to the Colony: not men who can subsist inde- finitely a Hansard report and n biscuit.
And the theatres. No wonder they're half empty with a Colony full of thin people.
that support the roofs of buildings..
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It is a large island shaped like and America, and unfortunately a potato, situated between Europs
The climate varies from wet to. much wetter, and the inhabitants are so miserable in consequence that amongst them have been the.. fluest poets and prize-fighters In. the world,
contract, in open competition, for cadaverous cronics they have there Talk of the Empira splitting up, another gigantic bridge for Don- prestige being lowered, records mark. being lost, is all so much honey Artistic Triumphs. to him. "Yes," he says, shaking "But look what a his head with a melancholy satis made of films," you say. Super- faction, "we're not the country woficially the situation looks as if were." And then, pursuing the America has gained full marks. Bubject, "Look at tennis and golf Well sha has-through the genius big men would pull the tramful of Then-Prostol the tramful of -America always beats us to of Englishment The most con-thin men up the mountain-side. The jury investigating the frazzle. And the Olympic Games, sistently popular male
star is recent Canton Road fire tragedy
now, America has got the Mr. Ronald Colman,
Of course, the idea would re- The man who made the wonder film of the
quire some thinking out. All the A beautiful six-leg console model urges a new regulation making water speed record again."
Which is all very true, but very age, "Grand Hotel," is Mr. Gould. Ioon, while all the thin men wont-
fat mon would have to live at Kow- with butt walnut panels and the it a punishable offence to store fincst
And cabinet craftsmanship. inflammable material, under or misleading. We are certainly noting, also an Englishman.
up on the Peak. Then, as soon as We are Hollywood's most glittering the thin men got fat, and the fat Has powerful nine-tube Super-near to a wooden staircase, and the country we were. heterodyne completely shielded thereby presents the authorities better! Yes, and if you go into stars, Mr. George Arliss, Mr.men thin, they could reverse 'om.
Brook, MIER a difficult problem. De- this little matter of records you'd Clive
Dorothy chassis with push-pull Pentode, with Automatic Volume Control. Tone finitions of inflammable material be surprised. Britain is high and Mackuill-British people al
In literaturo our supremacy is and Static Control, Full Vision are subject to such wide varia-dry at the top of the tree in re-
even more marked. Mr. George Dial, Phonograph Pick-up Jack,tions that such a regulation
The only thing in fact which Bernard Shaw, the finest living Voltage Compensator, Antenna might prove to be extremely
we lack is ability to boost our-dramatist and wit, was burn in Equalizer, and all modern vexatious without serving any elves. We are too modest. the British Isles. He can abuse SPARTON engineering features. useful purpose. The Canton
this country as he will, but the A remarkable instrument of Road fire might have warranted Speed Achievements,
fact is indisputable that us n highest quality.
a prosecution under such a re-
Take speed records. We hold, toddler he ran about In un. Irish Height 44 inches. Width 26 gulation. There was, however, through the patriotism and town. His genius is Britain's inches. Depth 12 inches, no direct evidence that the shay-courage of Sir Malcolm Camp-genius; his triumphs Are her inches. Weight 58 pounds. ings admitted to be under the bell, the land speed record of the triumphs. The man who earns If the pleture people would only staircase were the cause of the world. An all-British car de more money than anyone else in give a tin of Glaxo or Lactogen outbreak. Ultimately, the onus signed by a Briton, driven by a the world with his pen is Mr.away with each theatre pass, their of Britain.showa would soon be filled to over- is thrown back upon the stair- Briton, was responsible for this. Noel Coward, also case itself. Its construction
In the air we are supreme. Flight-Incidentally it may be noted that flowing. Lieutenant Stainforth's speed of since the death of Florenz Zieg- Shroffe should also be fat. We clearly had far more to do with 107.5 miles per hour was too much feld, Britain has In Mr. C. B. are tired of being nabbed by the extent of the disaster than for the rest of the world.
And Cochran the world's best show take for lamp posts, or the poles shrolls whom we constantly mis- had any inflammable material still is Mr. Mollison's last flight man, under or near and logically, the was by far the best of the Atlantic correct remedy is the elimination air crossings. America may talk seems depressing. Compared with. Our number of unemployed of wooden staircases. If the of her Miss Amelia Earhart, but that of our neigbours it is almost DO you Know Ireland? authorities can compel cinema Britain has Miss Amy Johnson, inspiring. Germany's five mil theatre managements to recon- and Miss Winifred Brown and lions look bad beside our three alon, Ireland was not invented by Contrary to the general impres- struct their premises to bring Miss Winfred Spooner hot on her millions.. And if anything clee Mr. Rudyard Kipling on behalf of them into line with regulations heels.
were needed to prove that the old Private Mulvaney, but was actual- passed later than their construc- Airships are a painful subject | bulldog, spirit is 88 flourishingly in existence and probably owing Hongkong Telegraph. tion, they can also compel house. to us. But lest the world ignores as ever, let the world remember money when England was nothing. owners to provide fire-proof us in this field because of the tra- that the British people have but a lump of mud at the mouth staircases in all premises. Wexic fate of the R.101, let it be re-shouldered and are shouldering of the River thine.
membered that the R.34, a British immense burdens of taxation and airship, was the first dirigible to making incredible sacrifices that we may emerge from the financial cross the Atlantic. We have lying boat, too, that will give the chaos unshaken.
it is a fixture, because the vast much landed Dornier X a run for Unfortunately it in not the majority of Irishmen would like to her money. It is called the Short world only which is apt to under- have it towed out into mid-Atlan- flying boat, and it can do 120 estimate us. It is ourselves. We tic. So, for that matter, would. miles to the German machine's ngem to full casily into the role most Englishmen. Japanese dumping, greatly
112. Yet how many people have of milch-cow for the world. In facilitated by the decline in the
heard of it?
fact the only thing about us which value of the yen, is being fell in
And how the world envies us we offer to praise is our police Ceylon, to an extent which, if
our railways! Grumble at that men and our system of justice. continued, bids fair to under-
excursion as you will, the fact re- When visitors inform us they are mine the value of the recently-
mains that the speed record for the best in the world we look granted Imperial Preference. Not long ago a herd of wild railway travel is held by a Bri- sheepish and say, "Yes, but took
At one timo the main exporta ware of Irishman to America, which For reasons which it is difficult sausages rambled into a field of tish train, and there are fewer at our climate. It's awful"
On British railronda. This modesty has done as no is why America licked the stuffing to understand. however, the radio beams and came out cook-accidents
good and will never do. We must out of the English armies during Ceylon Government would sued. Electrical engineers who than anywhere else.
bany our drums and blow our the Revolution. Now Ireland ex- pear to be in no hurry to take participated in the round-up de- Did you mention motor cycles?
un-British," porta aweep-atake tickets. effective action, despite the re- clare the day will come when Look at the results of tire Tourist bugios. That's so
That is our No snakes are found in Ireland, presentations which have been radio beams will be employed to Trophy races and the internation- say Exactly made by the Imperial Govern do all the cooking in the homes. a events-all won by British ma- trouble. In fact if we must talk because no anake could bite an about our faults then let s also Irishman and survive. The fow ment. When the Ottawa agree. The layman is not particularly chines and driven by our coun- talk about our modesty for it's that are occasionally reported are ments were reached, the British clear as to the details, but he is
our greatest fault! The only a tribute to the excellence of the Government intimated that it willing to accept the word of ex- But leaving speed and records thing we cannot do really well is whisky which is distilled, would not hesitate to take steps perts that eventually every radio out of the question, how docs Bri- rat ourselves on the back. Well, how. And against any country whose set will have a cooking apparatus tain stand in other things that we ought to learn
matter? Industry, for instance. quickly! policy was likely to destroy the attached. There is something effect of those agreements. So falluring in the thought of bring- far as the Crown Colonies are ing home a piece of steak, plac- concerned, however, the initia- ing it on the radio and a moment tive in such matters would ap- later conveying the finished pro- pear to lie with them. In Cey-duct to the dining room table. lon, there is an Unofficial ma- Apparently the "field of radio Liority in the Legislature, and beams"-as the engineers call it this may explain, in part, the-ia to become the successor of difficulty experienced by the the kitchen stove, the gas range Imperial Government in get-and the bed of live charcoal, One ting any action taken. But needs only procure from the it is not only in Ceylon nearest radio dealer a "field of that this Japanese dump-beams," drop in his eggs and ing is being felt, for Java jawait results. In all proba- also is faced with the same prob- [bility, however, various methods lom, causing a heavy shrinkage (of cooking will require some ex- in trade with European coun- pertness in manipulation of the tries. So far as Hongkong is "beams" or at least some know- concerned, the issue is less one ledge as to how long one may of-interference with the Colony's expose a full-grown frankfurter ¡transil trade as with our pre- to the "beams" without incur
mier local industry. cement ring its displeasure, The
connexion Japan has her own direct con- actual
with the tact with the South China mar-present-day radio receiver is, of kets by operation of coustal |course, not yet quite clear. shipping services and therefore Nevertheless, the more sanguine has no rent need to make use probably will hope that the an- of this Colony as a base for her nouncement means
a way has trade. At the moment, the been found by which the sut South China markets are largely [owner may put some of the so- closed to her by reason of the called "hot" music actually to continuance of the boycott. But juse instead of having to listen Japandae cement is coming into to it. Hongkong in large quan- titics,
price with which the local product cannot possibly compete. This continued importation of dumped material presents problem which needs to be seriously faced. The point to be kent in NOT HE ALWAY LOOKING OVER THE mind is that it involves the EDGE OF IT, wanting YOUR FLAY TO Jeopardising of a local industry. DEDIN.-George Eliot.
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A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
YOU MUST LOVE YOUR WORK, AND
trymen.
THU
"Don't you think, Professor, that in grading my papers, you oughta allow for the fact that I'm working my way through school and don't have time to study?"
The principal cities are Dublin, fumous for its stout and its pretty girls; Limerick, where the poems come from, and Buncrana, where the Kollys come from. usually about ono jump in front of a warrant.
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His protruding forehead, hig bootlace tie, the accumulation of 'bus-tickets peeping from beneath the ribbon of his hat, and the papora which threatened at any moment to overflow in cascades from each and every of his pockets, left no doubt in my mind that here was a true worshipper at the shrine of Knowledge, the typical, the eternal, absent-minded pro- fessor.
But thore wao ano fonture in his toilet which convinced me that this individual must stand bend- and-shoulders above his brothers in absent-mindedness. Oblivious to the friendly verandah beneath which he was sheltering, he bold extended above his hend an open umbrella.
Answers to Correspondents, Puzzled (The Peak): Yes. You really must get up your tables of precedence. A Baronet's atch- mother should always go in before the Post-Sergeant-Major's adopted daughter, As for Mrs.—who in think a J.P's grandmother, wo you should have shown her moro consideration on account of-her-
ago,
Lucy (Kowloon): We think you were a trifle selfsh to get two hoya to take you to the pictures. After all, there are seven nights in a week.
Pickles (Happy Valley): Should be only too glad to lot you have my photograph, Unluckily it's at Cen- tral Pollco Station just now. The (G.LD. will have their little joke.
Still, I loved your kindly thought..
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