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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
VAUXHALL
IS TAKING A RISE THIS YEAR STRAIGHT UP THE SKY SEEMS TO BE
THE LIMIT.
£500,000 is now being spent at Luton in buildings and new equipment to speed up deliveries because production on some models is now lagging 4 months behind delivery requirements. THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Hongkong & Shanghai Motels, Ltd Incorporated lu Hongkong,, Stubbe Konst
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DEATH.
(Shanghai and Macau please copy).
The
papers
Hongkong Telegraph.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933.
1933.
a pointer. And there is some- THE SOCIAL EVIL: III thing very inspiring in the fact that in this, as in so many other
spheres of endeavour, Britain is POMPAAN ON HIS ROUNDS
by no means behind the times.
New Men Behind the
Scenes.
from
The Very Idea!
A WOULDN'T SHIP
By Edward Kelly, Mastar.
"YoHo!" he whimpered. “A
This is the third article by the vanco Information, in Blank "Telegraph'*" special investigator on Street, and was fairly successful. Hongkong's social ovil.
Yesterday In the beginning ho marshalled ha dealt with sly prostitution con his forces, stationed one sub- small bottle of Formazone on R centrated within alum areas defurd, and he now proceeds to discuss the ordinato at the bottom of the dead man's cheat," activities therein of the Police Vice staircase, and another in the rear to cut off escapo in that direction. Squad.
The Empress of Britain, which
too
In our day, when salt horse was a luxury, and when oight months out from home we used to havo boot salad, gud the binnacle was. used as a savoury, a little thing about not be able to go alongside wharves would never have troubl- ed us.
We had a rubber bottom in our Inst ship the "Bsurd", N Nor- wegian freighter.
After thirteen trying yeara Sir Eric Drummond, the Secret
A cautious estimate has placed With two others he asconded to arrives hore to-morrow, is ary-General of the League of Na- tions is definitely retiring at the the number of those practising the floor-and the surprise, the large to go alongside the Kowloon
had inmates and end of June. His place is to be sly prostitution at well over 1,000, vital condition for success was wharves. taken by Monsieur Joseph and most of them are to be found complete: ho
in auch Alum quarters, as were citeitelo bottled in Avenol, a Frenchman, who, as described yesterday, into which A panicky customer, temperarlly Deputy Secretary-General, has the forelyner rarely penetratce bereft of reason, was with dicul receiving critical "nt-ty restrained from suicidally leap been his second-in-command Bin-without ce 1923. The old traditions should tent.on, much less in his role of Ing over the verandah balustrade.
To-day, after warning of the therefore continue. Several the 'Inspector going. the rounds.
of the Police Vice clientele who looked oddly sheepish other changes in personnel have The work
and particularly tho in the circumstances, he takes the already taken place. Owing to Squad,
Senior Omeer who woman and the case into Court. the expiration of their contracts European the Italian and German Under-directs fa activities; la arduous-The Pelica Magistrate is accustom 80 arduous that one healtates forted to these details and requires Secretaries departed
his well-being to heap on him the only a perfunctory recital from the Geneva at the end of last year. increasing responsibilities evolv-Prosecuting Police Officer, "Four The new German Under-Secreted from the new regime.
TODMA......five beds (the odd in ary-General Is Dr. Trendelen- When not co-operating with the situated in the corridor)......Ave berg. He has been associated officer at the Secretariat of Chin-men.....four women.
Defendunt in the dock the prin with the economic and financial ese Affairs whose speelal duties
are sometimes necessarily limit- cipal tenant she holds the rent work of the League for many
ad to the nominal functions receipt, your Worship. She has a years and knows the workings
of his Department, he instructs previous conviction.
Ond of the Secretariat well, As his
hundred His In
Worship: his men
respective the first task he will take over
dutics and 20 perfect those dollars fine, or two months. Furni, supervision and control of the details having their culmination ture confiscated. organisation of the forthcoming in the more or less lightning raids World Economic Conference. conducted nightly on suspected There is no doubt that this side houses. Lodging houses for wo- Ruspected of visiting tho of the League during the next men few years is due to become as volets clos referred to and massage- important as the Disarmament halls which are not what they Section, for all the League's purport to be, have added to hla efforts are now being expended manifold duties lately, but it is
the aly brothels which are to bring about economic as well most constant source of worry.
Hydra-Headed Monster!
as material disarmament. Tho
their
LUCK
By A.P. Garland.
"I believe in the old-fashioned
Gaid the virtues,"
Fineen heavily. "Ask yourself who are the men that have made good"
posed on the "principal tenant" in Three years ago, in New York, he such cases has not apparently, was reduced to his Inst crust. acted as a deterrent, although it Incidentally, he still keeps the has lately begu doubled. With crust to remind him of old times. evident facility, she is able to pay Then a motor-car knocked him the fine, or more correctly speak into the middle of next week." ing. has it paid for her.
"I know the yarn," said Kinley. "A beautiful woman picked him
Her masts were so tall that a man falling off the top would be picked up on the way back. from Buenos Aires, after spend- ing nine days in Welhalwel Cove with ullage thrown in.
Other times, the cry would come "Pratas from the crow's-nest,
Might be one- Shoals ahead." time we would cut the contre out of the shoals.....next time we'd
scrap our keel off. O.K....
Sall without a kect.
Camo Macao harbour....chuck and ro the engines overboard through with onac.
Speaking na a captain, if we were in charge of the Empress of Britain we would yell out, "we have immovable bowal"
"Ynt Yeo Sarm sce!" (Chin- eso for "Yes. aur wharves are also steel!") LET'S GO!
And if we win-we win. If the wharves win......Ilarry
for
"Hullo. Carey (Japaneso stumach!")
RAMBLED, RHYMES.
The Magistrate Twiddles hir
Thumbs
They're tured Away well out
of Sight
Though He Wouldn't Toll He knows Vory Wall That When he's not Wrong he is
Right
"I know," said Kinley. The new Italian is M. Pilotti, another
men who have made good sau man who for several years has
The hydra-headed monster of cepans, drainpipes, sock-suepen- had dealings with the League as an Italian delegate. He will Greek mythology may be fittingly ders"
"The men," said Finsen, "that carry on with the work that used brought into comparison with the
problem, which keeps rearing up have possessed Industry and per- to be done by the German Under-its head after seeming extinction, severance, punctuality---"
"And all stations to Marble Anyway, the days of wouldn't Secretary-General, Herr Dufour- A floor, it has proved, may be raid-
ships seem to have come back. SOUZA. At the Kowloon Hospital, Feronce, namely social worked one week, and the tonunta die-Arch," broke in Himbury.
By the way, speaking of coming the Then he continued seriously, Kowloon, on February 9, 1933, (drugs, white slave traffic and persed or deported, and in
with a back, do you know that the aver- Jose Thomas de Souza, aged GD the rest) and Intellectual Co- next, the same business is dis- "Listen to this. I was
on at man to-day who has enough age. resident of the United States year. Funeral will pres the operation or Education. M. covered being carried
10 carpet Hyde Park. ate 11 1hs. less meat a year age Monument at 5,30 p.m. to-day. Pilotti was the first of the newly another address. The fine, im-dollars
appointed higher members of
than he did 30 years ago?
the Secretariat to take the solemn oath of allegiance to the League in public before the members of the Council. In order that an Englishman may be in one of the higher posts of And by whom? Responsible the League, Captain Walters Police officers, impressed, speak of up-
"A big, black nigger picked him who has acted as Sir Eric's right a "ring", or a number of "rings",
are pooled, up," thundered Himbury. "When hand man for several years, is by whom resources A GREAT FLIGHT. to be promoted to the rank of not only to acquire "replenish-he came out of hospital he found andments", but also to meet con-that in the mix-up with the car Under-Secretary-General
one direction in-his uvula had been twisted several A truly remarkable ac-will look after internal ad- tingencies In
dicated by Court fines. That degrees away from the true north complishment is that of Squad-ministration.
same ring, it is further declared, so that his voice was all husky. The post of De
A few months later he was a radio ron Leader Gayford and Flight|puty Secretary-General render- maintains a regular spy system.
Thus it has come about that crooner at a colossal salary and Lieutenant Nicholetts in having ed vacant by the advancement of
to keep a bodyguard of covered a distance of six thou- M. Avenol is most probably to be through his being hedged in by had sand miles without a stop in a filled by Mr. Phelan, an Irishman spies, the "Pompaan on Patrol" certified assassins to stall off the little over fifty-seven hours. who was been head of the Diplomoves like a danger-signal. It is love-sick women who camped out
WHAT ER SELL The feat is a tribute alike to matic Department of the Inter- signalled and "telegraphed" be-on his doorstep. Old-fashioned "That's nothing." an1 Finsen. the intrepidity of the airmen national Labour Office for the fore he has set his foot far from virtues my aunt's elbow!"
Headquarters. A procession of
When scientist puts you on the and the qualitics of British last twelve years. It will be a Senior Officers succeeding to the "A chap I know suffered terribly engines and equipment. Al- very good appointment, if it is unenviable post of Vice Squad from insomnia. Used to spend though the fliers did not actually made, since Phelan was in the Chief le now beginning to under-seven nights a week counting water waggon, he makes it a joy. not, at the special invitation of one reach their goal, they added a British Ministry of Labour dur-stand why, on arrival on the gas-sheep so that he became the best ride. Believe it nor bellove it touch pected premises, they find it sheep-counter in two-ca of those University chappies, we third record to British acrialing the War and is in
shrouded in Stygian twenty-two, hemispheres. As achievements, thus illustrating with political circles in many generally
you Lastly there darkness, and the woman who result he got a splendid job in spent yesterday in' the air. other countries. When we recall the fact that it is some talk that Mr. Ham- holds the rent receipt greeting Australia, where a man with his contrating on water-Water-you He showed us all sorts of tricks, was only a matter of twenty-five bro, of Norway, who has been them with a surprised look and abilities could be appreciated. know. that wet stuff
Except for this "responsible" won him the hand of the daughter years ago that Bleriot aroused one of the keenest critics of the smirk, disclosing gold-filled teeth.There his widespread reputation world interest by committing his League at the last four Assem-principal tenant and perhaps one of a millionaire squatter and she, but when he began to produce fate to the reliability of his aero-blies, will be made an Under-or two dowdy looking menints, the was fairly squat herself, and he's some amazingly natural waves In now the owner of 1.457,346 sheep a vest-pocket ocean it proved too Once in a while the pompass is counting from left to right much for us. With a faint hiccup, successful, For example, last and can have lamb cutlets eight we staggered out into Coine Road. night he conducted an important days out of even raid about which he received nd-them.
our supremacy
of
Castles in Distress
plane engine for some half an Secretary-General so as to keep upartment is deserted. hour while he crossed the Eng-the point of view of the smaller lish Channel, it will be realised countries well to the fore. what a tremedous advance has been made in the science aviation. The Great War, of course, undoubtedly accelerated Considerable public interest aviation progress, and since that has been aroused in London by time there have been many ill-proposals to pull down Waterloo ustrations of man's gradual but Bridge, and to alter the appear steady conquest of the air. The ance of Carlton House Terrace. Post-Gatty world flight stands the fine block of residential out in particular as one of these, buildings overlooking the fam the route being covered in some ous Mall lending from Trafalgar eight days with several stops. Square to Buckingham Palace. On the basis of the latest Bri- This attitude contrasts in its zeal tish feat, it is probable that the to preserve the architectural same route could be covered by beauties of the 'past, with the in- the giant Fairey-Napler machine difference that the past itself in three stages. How time and showed to masterpieces of distance are being climinated is Gothic architecture. Contrary well shown by the new record to popular opinion, there has now set up, a feature of which probably never been an age so was that the airmen were in con- consciously devoted as the pre- stant communication with their sent to maintaining the scenic headquarters during their epoch-and architectural amenitica be- making flight. When Drake set queathed to it by its predeces- out on his nautical circling of the sors. But in one respect the globe, it was nearly three years difficulties of so preserving the before he got back. During all amenities of the past grow con- that time, practically nothing tinually greater. The increase was heard of him. He sailed of taxation and the gradual unknown scas, trusting to the equailsation of wealth make it theory, which many doubted, less and less possible for private that the earth was round. For individuals to keep open and in the aerial navigator nowadays, good repair those huge castles however, there is not a mile con- and houses of historic interest cerning which information is which are one of the most pic- not available, and even on the turesque features of the English longest flights the airmon can countryside. It is strikingly keep in touch with the outside significant that only a few weeks world. There is a great and ago a castle in the Midlands was wonderful destiny for aviation, sold for £7, The cost of main- of which the record flight of taining such n place is so Squadron Leader Gayford and siderable that no one felt justi- Flight Lieutenant Nicholette is fled in offering a bigger sum.
con-
or
if he wants
"I'd love to, dear, but I promised Napoleon I'd tako hím
to the movies this afternoon."
The Tomcat on the Wall Is Having a Terrible Fit His head's stuck in A salmon Tin
And He doesn't Like it a Bit.
with.
#
afternoon con-
wash
KELLY'S DIARY. February 9. Heard from What- isname about becoming a member of the Legislative Council. He's not too keen about it.
Expects to be in the next Hon- oure Liat and thinks we might queer his pitch.
Gave some good advice. "Don't about take too strong a line economy or Shing Mun Dam No. body understands either and an open mind will enhance your ro- putation."
(What for, we wonder, Open- mindedness 7)
+
•
BALD HUMOUR.
Somebody has discovered that bald men are funnier than those who have managed to keep their hair on.
We do not know how the dla- covery was made, but it is a long time since anyone tendered. con- nolation to the bald, and we don't mind.
Educational and other experta, with fell intent, spend many hours davising Intelligence tests for the young. It would be more useful to have a system of humour tests for the grown-up members of the population, so that we might know exactly where we stood in this column, bèing thin as a rake ourselves.
A column could be included in the census paper wherein the per- son under cross-examination would bo Invited to say whether his head is bald, hairy or covered with a wix. We are too well used to alling up inquisitive official forma to be offended at that.
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