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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933.
THE NEW
✓
1933
VAUXHALL
CADET
IS HERE
in
not only because of the that PHILOSOPHY OF SMELLS The Very Idea!
adequacy of the bullding
J
ly sulphurus reak reminiscent of
LATEST WAR NEWS
By Maj. Genera! Eddie Kelly. · Consternation has been
British children are shut out; a Humanity, wise men tell us, ls, and so Incapable of a singlo further factor, and one which is losing its sense of smell. It may identification. causing considerable heart be due to lack of use, and the In abbeys and cathedrals and tho burning amongst parents, is more practised nosen of the middle more exalted centres we have found that there are children on the ages had maybe a keaner scent, na mainly a vaulty, crypty smoll roll whe, strictly speaking, have amidst the delights of gardiloo and fort. Our own preference is for caused in British official they had certainly wider scope, conducive to solemnity if not com- no right to be there. Not ro
the little country churchce and laid down that only children of But such changes are gradual, may gradually pass amidst the far- Australian Board of Control many years ago it was firmly public middena.
thoir cleanly smell of paraffin, which circles by the receipt of the British parentage on both sides and it consoles
us that many reaching tentacles of "the grid." cablegram protesting should be admitted. Latterly, generations of our successors must In our local Bothels there is an this rule has been more honour civilisations pass unnoticed amongst which is next to
como and go ere the smells of future atmosphere also of cleanliness against "body-line" bowling. ed in the breach than in the ob- a scentless raco. Nor will it be mingled sometimes. (if the heating ters were in the country when the
godlinessbut
Although many Cabinet Minis- servance. It is not a question wholly gain-though the scont of. of a little latitude being shown: a pine forest after rain, the breath apparatus be elderly) with a faint- cable was received, Mr. Romany there are considerable numbers of midsummer clover, and tho elder theology.
ав of foreign children in daily at- fragrance of may and meadow-| What may be forgotten in this by telephons and a hurried meat- WE INVITE ALL
tendance, whilst British child-sweet be chance credits in a sadly odoriferous business is that a smelling was called.
All day long, anxiona crowda ren, for whom the school is in-
Jonce est la gone for ever,. A rose WHO HOLD A DRIVING
Some smells are localised or tor-by any other name may smell at Street, where the scene was at gathered outside No. 10 Downing. tended, are unable to secure en- try. These facts, taken in con. 'ritorial. The "West End smell" sweet, but if the smell be lost who times reminiscent of the begin LICENCE TO TRY
its vas a hardy annual some years ago, can recapture junction with the delay which of the trinity of Edinburgh
fragrance? the change of site must neces- dustries education and printing are the whole world has been combed this morning, states that it is im-
in-Musk it seems is now scentless, and ning of August, 1914, SYNCRO-MESH
The Times, In a leading article Barily involve, have greatly in practically scentless, but our brain vain to recover the odour. WE WANT THIS CAR TO censed British parents, who feel wories can still supply a local pun- Sweet and sour, faint and strong perativo that all domestic dim- that they are not getting agency that drifts easterly are the vaguest possible gener-culties be patched up without de JUST COME IN AND ASK US FOR A square deal. The situation calls breezes amidst the golfers plough-alities but (except, of course, the lay, in order that the whole na- for some explanation on the ing their way on Prestonfield, and "funny" smell) we have little else. tion may present a united front WE SHALL NOT EVEN part of the Government. It is secluded suburbs of the West.
on occasion invades the
Who can convey to the rising in the threatening international more generation the distinctive odour of crials. There can be no question musk, or describe in any fashion of a change of government now.
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL | Needless to say, we shall be han. 'not yet wholly thirled to road travel modern schoolboy the utterly un-York reports that the news of the voice their views on the matter. Those of our present generation capable of understanding by Router's correspondent in New py to give full publicity to any mistakable odour of railways. unmistakable leathery smell of á expressions of opinion on the abarp varnishy smell of the com-
The closed horse cab?
Australian ultimatum has created What more words can demon- a panic in Wall Street, where the subject.
partment, the sulphurous tang from strata the familiar farmyard scenes have been without precedent ber fails to close the window, are as healthy! the tunnel, when our opposite num- fragance so surprisingly regarded since the 1929 crash. South African Politics
unchanged from Victorian times,
In the House of Commons, Mr. And yet even to-day our offae- and would enable one bereft of all tory nerves play their diminished Baldwin stated that the situation "T Government other senses to recognise a train. part amidst the chords of memory. was one of extreme gravity. Hertzog does not appear to be unduly The smell of the station, too, was The tang of bog myrtle will recall can only say that the Government worried by the challenge of Gen- distinctive till submerged in the the glories of a moorland holiday: ta unrelaxing in its efforts to do eral Smuts, yet its position is ubiquitous rock of petrol. It was the reek of cigar smoke on a din- everything in its power to
the calamity that none two secure. Mr. Tielman a subtle blend of many Ingredients:ner jacket persists long after the cumscribe
ex-speeches are forgotten.
threatens the whole world,” he horse cabs were in it, and recently resigned his high
hausted steam, and wagon grense. And who will dare to depict the added. judicial offico to return to politics The odour of sanctity we hear miseries of a British breakfast and to lend a campaign in favour so much of is a pure misnomer, bereft of the delicate aroma of of
Coalition Government, Not that there is no smell; but sizzling bacon? formed from a section of the the odours are diffuse and varied Nationalists in alliance with the
The engagement is
Alfred Harry Stedman, of Malda- tone, Kent, England, and Kingsclere," Kowloon, to Tonia Komnatsky, of Hongkong.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933.
KOWLOON BRITISH
site
ago
-W. J. D.
South African Party. His pro BRILLIANCE MAY BE BORING
gramme, which has command-
Extracting Conversation
one's
.
eir-
A sensation has been caused in Sydney by the destruction of the famous harbour bridge. An English spy, disguised as a press photographer, gained admittance, and blow the bridge op with his camera, which proved to bo a bomb.
ed already much public sym- The unmarried are an endices and at the end of that time is 60 SCHOOL
pathy, is founded on the dis-source of interest to the married. mentally stimulated that
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and placement of the present Govern- Advice is heaped on our heads, even first idea is to rush home there and
months then and write where one is and Field Marshal Mine have had For many years past, Kowloon ment and the elimination of by the, husband of six
you has another drink.
audiences with the King and it people have been agitating for racialism. His contention is standing. "My dear fellow,
don't know what happiness is"
Is understood that mobilisation what everybody admits to be an that neither General Hertzog he will any, standing in front of the
may be ordered to-morrow morn- urgent necessity a new Central nor General Smuts can lead fireplace. "You must hurry up and I used to think this was the ideal Ing If the altuation does not ease British School. The Residents' such a coalition but he still get yourself a wife.”
sort of wife. I used to think so in the meantime.
Later. Association has consistently hopes for the co-operation But the wife herself is merely especially when I was sitting with sought to hasten a commence- of the latter.
The Cabinet meeting continued statesman; curious, almost brazen, in fact, in a strawberry ice balanced on my ment with the work, and, as a and he hints strongly that he or questioning, which makes one knee, making desperate efforts to until midnight. Despite the bit- result of its representations, 2 himself is ready to play the realise that sex is the one topic of extract conversation from a stone, terly cold weather, large crowds conversation which everyone may literally a stone. This sort of con- still remained outside the build- de leading role. The significance light upon with complete propriety. versation: long was
ing, and gave many outward signs finitely allotted near the Kow of this development is that Perhaps because, after the weather, "Have you been to any plays of patriotic enthusiasm as the the loon Hospital. Subsequently, the Mr. Tielman Roos may be it is the best stop-gap in the world. lately, Miss Jonca?" "No, I don't Ministers hurried away at scheme was altered so as to per- expected to command solid sup- In the course of frequent cross think I have." Pause. "Have you conclusion of the meeting. Mr. mit of a considerable extension port among the Dutch voters, examination I have admitted that read any books lately, you have Baldwin came in for a special of the grounds for the purpose If he is able to compromise with I prefer dark girls to fair, tall, liked ?" "No, I don't seem to have ovation. Shouts of "Good Old of playing fields, etc. The im- General Smute, he may even be slim ones with willowy figures and had time to read anything for England" "Britons Never Shall Be clusive smilca to those small,
ages." (Beware of the girl who Slaves" greeted him na ho came pression left on the public aa a able to detach a number of friendly creatures with large says she hasn't time to read!) down the stops. result was that progress, if Nationalist members of Parlia- eyes and a helpless air who are "What a good tune this is!" "Yes, somewhat slow, was at least be- ment as to secure the defeat obviously seeking protection, and it is, isn't it? Final pauuso. Count Uchida is reticent con- ing made. Hopes were increased of the Hertzog. Government in who will doubtless end up by being Tableau. Curtain,
cerning Japan's attitude in the the protector. And when we have The
What a rollof it was after that event of War. He has expressed when the work of alte prepara- the present Parliament. tion began. They were further crucial question that still re-exhausted types and temperaments to strike a partner who did not the hope that something may be the questioner concludes telamp force one to rack one's brain (such done at the cleventh hour by the enhanced when definite provi- mains in doubt is how far hantly
us it is) for a conversational open- League of Nations. sion was, made in this year's General Smuts will feel able and
"And, of course, being a writer, ing. But who, on the contrary, Estimates for the expenditure inclined to accept the conditions you will want your wife to be, would swiftly produce epigram of a sum of $70,000 on the ac- of co-operation which Mr. Roos clever, won't you?"
after epigram, so that one went tual school building and when, offers. He insists that no new Clever? Do they mean one of home with the pleasantest memories in introducing the Budget, alignments must be made at the those young women with endless of the evening.
But if every evening was spent the Colonial Secretary
African university degrees, hornrimmed an- expense of the South nounced that the Central party. What, exactly, that re-glasses, and a liking for higher in such company, after a time it British School had been chosen servation connotes will be better mathematics or social economy, a would prove incredibly exhausting liking which would force me to I am afraid so, Too much bril- by the Government as one of understood in South Africa than spend many evenings sitting on a Hant repartee, like too much every three undertakings on which at- here; but onough has been said hard seat in a stuffy lecture hall? thing else, from exercise to straw tention should be immediately by the two leaders to indicate No, thank you,
berry jam, is bound in the end to concentrated. Now comes the that a turn has been taken in Or do they mean one of those gay, hava a nauseating effect. It is like into one's Пеша that the site chosen South African affairs which is attractive creatures one meets at bringing the theatre
one talks, or own drawingroom. for the new school has likely to be decisive. Plainly, parties to whom
haur,
GODFREY WINN. been alienated of the pur- the situation as it was cannot rather listens, for half an pose of a new Mental Hos- be restored, whatever the issue pital, this apparently with the of the present crisis may be.
Debts and World Chaos
full approval of the Board of Education. That the change will mean even further delay is too obvious to need emphasis- ing; that it should have aroused the surprise and indignation of Two reflections suggest Kowloon residents is only na themselves in connexion with tural. Possibly, the Government the American debt gesture. will argue that the site, being so The first is that we should make near the Kowloon Hospital, is little headway in discussing the ideal for the purpose to which Debta if we were to attempt to it is now to be put, that it really argue that the American tax- was never intended for the payer can better afford to school, and that, in any event, shoulder what remains of the there is quite a nice site on the cost of the war than the British opposite side of the road which or French taxpayer. Our case will be available for the new must rest on the argument that school. If this is the Govern- the Debts have been one of the ment case, it can be easily an important influences that have swered. In the first place, the thrown the whole world system school is much more urgently out of order. The other is that required than the Mental there are vast numbers of peo- Hospital; secondly, the site was ple throughout the world anx definitely assigned for the ious and waiting both to pro- school, and has been laid out duce and to consume. It is the for that specific purpose; while, mechanism of exchange that finally, a great deal of time has gone wrong, and our only will be lost by preparing hope is to find ways of lifting the new area. This de the blockade which has strangl lay is all the more serious ed international trade. The from the fact that the exist- fact that America wants to ing school, which for many discuss world economic pro- years past has been considered blems in conjunction with debts totally inadequate for the needs suggests that leaders of Ameri of the British community, has can opinion have grasped the a long waiting-list of British direct connexion between debts children who are unable to se- and world chaos. That is curo admission by reason of lack happy augury for the success of of accommodation. But it is the negotiations.
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"How do you know I did n't get twice more than you
for Christmas? Maybe I just ain't showing 'em to anybody."
The scenes In London last night recalled the Armistico demonstra... tions in 1918, except that the note was one of joyous defiance. Processions went through the streets, singing and cheering Their Majesties the King and Queen, together with the Prince of Wales, appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace and were given an ovation.
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Later News. A Melbourne roport states that Mv. J. A. Lyons, the Prime Minis- ter of Australia, in a statement addressed to the people of Au- stralia, said: "We must see this through. Whatever the difficulty, whatever the coat, wo must pre- servo the great fabric of Au- stralian freedom, and remember we are Australians. We may lose tho Test Matches, but we will go down with our colours flying.
Austraila has handed Jardino and the English team, including Larwood, their passports.
Scenes of wild enthusiasm greeted the news in Australia, Large crowds, singing "Gott strafe Larwood," congregated out. side the cricket ground in Sydney. The Australian anthem "Brad- man uber alics," was sung with equal fervour.
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A local disturbance took place In Pedder Street this morning when an unknown man soon' wear- ing a felt hat and leaning against one of the verandah posts, WAR chased up Wyndham Street.
Hongkong Governmcat Gazette Extraordinary, Issued lato this afternoon, orders the mobilisation of the Volunteers, except "the Anzac Corps, owing to the im- minence of hostililics.
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All Australian residents Hongkong have boon Interned at the Hongkong Hotel, as n pre- cautionary measure and the bar removed to a safer place..
A moratorium on all chit a counts has been declared, and all bats on the results of the Tests have been cancelled.
Edward Kelly has sailed' for Biberia.