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WE INVITE ALL
WHO HOLD A DRIVING LICENCE TO TRY SYNCRO-MESH
PHILOSOPHY
OF SMELLS
Nor will
it be
Its
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The Very Idea!
LATEST WAR NEWS By Maj. General Eddie Kolly. Consternation has been
not only because of the in- adequacy of the building that British children are shut out; a Humanity, wise men tell us, to and so incapable of further factor, and one which is losing its sunse of smell. It may identification. causing considerable heart bo duo to lack of use, and the burning amongst parents, is more practised noses of the middle more exalted centres we have found In abbeys and cathedrals and the that there are children on the ages had maybe a keenor scent, as mainly a roll who, strictly speaking, have they had certainly wider scope, conducive to solemnity if not com vaulty, crypty smell no right to be there. Not Fo
amidst the delights of gardiioo and fort. Our own proference le for caused in British official many years ago it was firmly
public middens. laid down that only children of But auch changes are gradual, may gradually pass amidst the fas. Australian Board of Control
the little country churches and their cleanly ameli parallin, which circles by the receipt of the British parentage on both sides and it consoles, Us should be admitted. Latterly, generations of our successors must
that many reaching tentacles of "the grid." cablegram protesting this rule has been more honour civilisations pass unnoticed amongst which is next to godliness-but
come and go ere the smells of future atmosphere also of cleanliness against "body-line" bowling.
In our local Betheis there is an ed in the breach than in the ob- a scentless race. servanco. It is not a question wholly gain--though the scent of mingled sometimes (if the heating tors were in the country when the of a little latitude being shown: a pina forest after rain, the breath ly sulphurus reek reminiscent of MacDonald reached most of them Although many Cabinet Minis- of apparatus be elderly) with a faint cable was recolved, Mr. Ramsay there are considerable numbers of midsummer clover, and of foreign children in daily at- fragrance of may and meadow.
thean older theology. tendance, whilst British child- ocot bo chance credits in a sadly odoriferous business is that a smelling was called.
What may be forgotten in this by telephone and a hurried meet- overdrawn account. ren, for whom the school is in- tended, are unable to securo en-
once lost is gone for over. A roso
All day long, anxious crowds try. These facts, taken in con- was a hardy annual some years ago. can recapture
Some smells are localised or ter by any other name may smell as gathered outside No. 10 Downing ritorial. The "Weat End amell" sweet, but if the amell be lost who Street, where the scene was at junction with the delay which of the trinity of Edinburgh the change of site must neces- dustries education and printing are the whole world has been combed
timea reminiscent of the begin fragrance? in-Musk it seems is now scentless, and ning of August, 1914, Barily involve, have greatly in- practically seentiose, but our bre-in vain to recover the odour.
The Times, in a leading article ¶ WE WANT THIS CAR TO censed British parents, who feel wories can still supply a local pun-
this morning, states that it is im- BECOME KNOWN.
that they are not getting agency
Sweet and sour, faint and strong parative that all domestic dim.. JUST
that drifts 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 easterly aro the vaguest possible goner-culties be patched up without de- RUN. WE SHALL NOT EVEN part of the Government. It is eccluded suburbs of the West.
for some explanation on the ing their way on Prestonfield, and "funny" smell) we have little else. tion may present a united front ASK YOUR NAME.
occasion invades the more
Who can convey to the rising in the threatening international now up to Kowloon people to |
generation the distinctive odeur of crisis. There can be no question Needless to say, we shall be hap- not yet wholly thirled to road travel modern schoolboy the utterly un-York reports that the news of the voice their viewta on the matter.1 Those of our present generation musk, or describe in any fashion of a change of government now.
capable of understanding by a py to give full publicity to any mintakable odour of railways. The closed horse cab?
are familiar also with the
Router's correspondent in New expressions of opinion on the sharp varnishy smell of the com
t-mistakable leathery smcil of subject.
Australian ultimatum has created partment, the sulphurous tang from strate the
What mere words can demon- panic in Wall Street, where the the tunnel, when our opposite num-fragance so surprisingly regarded since the 1920 crash.
familiar farmyard scenes have been without precedent ber fails to close the window, are as healthy! unchanged from Victorian times, Ami yet even to-day our olfac and would enable ono bereft of all tory nerves lay their diminished Baldwin stated that the situation In the House of Commons, Mir. The engagement in announced of
The Hertzog Government other senses to recognise a train. part amidst the chords of memory. Alfred Harry Stedman, of Maida- does not appear to be unduly
The smell of the station, too, was The fat tonr. Kent,
was one of extreme gravity. England,
bog myrtle will recall can only say that the Government "I and worried by the challenge of Geri- distinctive till submerged in the the glories of a moorland holiday: is unrelaxing in its efforts to do Komintaky, of Hongkong. Kingsclere," Kowloon, to Tonin cral Smuts, yet its position is ubiquitous reck of petrol. It was the reek of cigar smoke on a din- everything in its power to
none two secure. Mr. Tielman a subtle blend of many ingredients: ner jacket peralats long after the cumscribe recently resigned his
horso cabs were
the In it, and high
calamity ex-speeches are forgotten. judicial office to return to politics The odour of sanctity we hear miseries of a
hausted steam, and wagon grease,
threatens the whole world," he And who will dare to depict the added. and to lead a campaign in favour so much of is a pure
British breakfast of Coalition
misnomer. bereft of the delicate aroma of 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
-IV. J. D.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933..
KOWLOON BRITISH
SCHOOL
South African Politics
a
South African Party. His pro- gramme, which has command-
the
on
a
cir- that
A sensation has been caused In Sydney by the destruction of the famous harbour bridge. An English spy, disguised as a press and blew the up with his bomb. camera, which proved to bo a
BRILLIANCE MAY BE BORING photographer, gained admittance,
Extracting Conversation
I used to think this was the ideal
finitely allotted near the Kow-of this development is
de- leading role. The significance light upon with complete propriety literally a stone. This sort of con-
of
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ed already much public sym- The unmarried are an pathy, is founded on the dis-source of interest to the married. mentally stimulated that
endless and at the end of that time is so placement of the present Govern- Advice is heaped on our beads, even first idea is to rush home there and one'a For many years past, Kowloon ment and the elimination of by the husband of Bix people have been agitating for racialism. His
months then and write where one is and Field Marshal Milne have had Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and what everybody admits to be an that neither General Hertzog he will say, standing in front of the
contention is standing. "My dear fellow, you has another drink.
don't know what happiness is!"
audiences with the King and it urgent necessity-a new Central nor General Smuts can lead fireplace. "You must hurry up and
la understood that mobilisation British School. The Residents' such a coalition but. he still get yourself a wife."
may be ordered to-morrow morn Association
ing if the situation does not cine has consistently hopes for Rought to hasten a commence- of
the co-operation But the wife herself is merely sort of wife. I used to think so in the meantime. ment with the work, and, as
latter statesman; curious, almost brazen, in fact, in especially when I was sitting with a and he hints strongly that he her questioning, which makes one knee, making desperate efforts to until midnight. Despite the bit-
Later. a strawberry ico balance on my result of its representations, a himself is ready to play the realise that sex is the one tople of extract conversation from a store, terly cold weather, large crowds The Cabinet meeting continued Bitė Was Jong Ago
conversation which everyone may
still remained outside the bud loon Hospital. Subsequently, the Mr.
that Perhaps because, after the weather,
versation:- Tielman Roos may be it is the best stop-gap in the world."
ing, and gave many outward signs scheme was altered so as to per- expected to command solid sup-|
"Have you been to any plays of patriotic enthusiasm as the 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 In the course of frequent cross think I have." Pause. "Have you conclusion of the meeting, bir, lately. Miss Jones?" "No, I don't Minfalera hurried away at the of the grounds for the purpose If he is able to compromise with of playing fields, etc. The im- General Smuts, he may even be slim ones with willowy figures and had time to read anything for England" "Britons Never Shall Be prefer dark girls to fair, tall, liked?" "No, I don't seem to have ovation. Shouts of "Good Old pression left on the public as a able to detach a number
clusive smiles to those small, result Was that progress, if Nationalist members of Parlia- eyes and helpless air who
friendly creatures with large ages." (Beware of the girl who Slaves" greeted him as he came somewhat slow, was at least be- ment as to secure the defeat obviously Seeking protection,
says she hasn't time to read) down the steps. are "What a good tune this is!"
"Yes, ing made. Hopes were increased of the Hertzog Government in who will doubtless end up by being Tableau. Curtain
and it is, isn't it?" Final pauuse. when the work of site prepara- the present Parliament. The the protector. And when we have
Count Uchida is reflecnt con- tion began. They were further crucial question that still
Whint a relief I was after that event of War. He has expressed exhausted types and temperaments to strike a partner who did not the hope that something may be cerning Japan's attitude in the enhanced when definite provi- mains in doubt is how far the questioner concludes triump- force one to rack one's brain (such done at the eleventh hour by the sion was made in this year's General Smuts will feel able and
hantly:- Estimates for the expenditure inclined to accept the conditions
as it is) for a conversational opon- League of Nations. "And, of course, being a writer, Ing. But who, on the contrary. of a sum of $70.000 on the ac- of co-operation which Mr. Roos clever, won't you?"
you will want your wife to be, would swiftly produce tual school building and when, offers. He insists that no new
epigram after epigram, so that one went in introducing
Clever? Do they mean one of home with the pleasantest memories the Budget, alignments must be made at the those young women with endless of the evening. the Colonial Secretary an- expense of the South African university degrees, nounced that
hornrimmed Central party. What, exactly, that re-glasses, and a liking for higher in auch company, after a time it But if every evening was spent British School had been chosen servation connotes will be better mathematics or social economy, a would prove incredibly exhausting by the Government as one of understood in South Africa thanking which would force me to I am afraid so. Too much bril three undertakings on which at here; but enough has been said on many evenings sitting on a ilant repartee, like too much every tention should be immediately by the two lenders to indicated seat in a stuffy lecture hall?
thing else, from exercise to straw concentrated: Now comes the that a turn has been taken in
No, thank you,
berry jam, is bound in the end to news that the site chosen South African affairs which is attractive creatures one meets at bringing the theatre into
Or do they mean one of those gay, have a nauseating effect. It is like for the new school has likely to be decisive. Plainly, parties to whom one talks, been alienated of the
er, own drawingroom. pur the situation as it was cannot rather listens, for half an
hour,
GODFREY WINN. pose of a
new Mental Hos- be restored, whatever the issue pital, this apparently with the of the present crisis may be.
the
Debts and World Chaos
re-
to
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 Kowloon residents is only na- themselves in connexion
suggest tural. Possibly, the Government the
with American debt gesture, will argue that the site, being soThe first is that we should make near the Kowloon Hospital, is little headway in discussing the ideal for the purpose to which Debts if we were to attempt to it is now to be put, that it really argue that the American tax- WIS never intended for the payer can better afford 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; accondly, 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. years past has been considered blems in conjunction with debts pro- 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 a cure admission by reason of lack happy augury for the success of izuzeta of accommodation. But it is the negotiations. --
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"How do you know I did n't got twice more than you'
for Christmas? Maybe I just ain't showing 'em to anybody."
one's
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The scenes in London last night recalled the Armistice demonstra tions in 1918, except that the note was one of joyous deflance. streets. singing and cheering. Processions went through the Their Majesties the King and Queen, together with the Prince of Wales, appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace and were given an ovation.
Later News. A Melbourne report staten that Mr. 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 cost, we must pro- serve the great fabric of
Au- stralian freedom, and remember we are Australians. We inay lose the Test Matches, but we will go down with our colours flying.
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Australia has handed Jardino and the English team, including Larwood, their passports.
Scenca of wild
enthusiaam 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 alles," was sung with equal fervour.
A local disturbance took place in Pedder Street this morning when an unknown man Boon wear- Ing a felt hat and leaning against one of the verandah posta, chased up Wyndham Street:
wan
Hongkong Government Gazelle Extraordinary, Issued late afternoon, orders the mobilisation this of the Volunteers, except the Anzac Corps, owing to the im- minence of hostilities.
All Australian residents in Hongkong have been interned at the Hongkong Hotel, as a
pro- cautionary measure and the bar removed to a safer place,
A moratorium on all chit ne- counts has been declared. and all. bota on the results of the Tests have been cancelled.
Edward Kelly has, sulled for Siberia.
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