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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.
THE
ILLUSION OF HONGKONG
"By E. G. B.
Hongkong is the most charming and beautiful of places.
Think of the views that meet the eye from almost any spot on the Peak-they do not need searching for, nor is any kind of expedition necessary a mere lift of the head and there lies before you something that in England would be marked on an A.A. map
Pack up, therefore, your amber and your jade, your ane silks and precious porcelain, and be off, be fore' it is too late, to find the seven wonders of the world..
PROPHETS WHO GO WRONG
1.
The Very Idea!
OUR SWEEP WIN
By Edward "1. O. U.” Kelly,
ti
Possibly you were one of the enormous crowds which have gathered outside the Telegraph office during the past two or three days.
If you weren't you've probably been wondering what it was all about. We don't know how the secret leaked out, but we might as well let the whole world know how.
The women were wives and most of the men were shroffs. The pikers heard about the office sweep on the races winning $4,000,- The shroffs came to congratulate us.
countries to act co-operatively! along these lines. There need be no fear about the sympathetic attitude of Great Britain. Ap- parently America is not so sure whether she can rely upon France and Italy. It is believed, however, that if satisfactory messages were received from Paris and Rome, the resolution would be accepted. The second event is, therefore, very signi- ficant. The French Government decided on January 17th to ap point a Committee to study the traffic in arms in all its aspects. This is not expressly related to The rear compartment of the the American proposals, but it deluxe sedan is luxuriously does not require much imagina-with "an asterisk signifying
Of the numerous seers who, in roomy and richly appointed. To tion to relate them. It is now "view", and would be thought provide additional comfort, to be hoped that, in harmony worth a day's motoring to get to. harrowing but usually ambiguous Think of launch plenica, of hours terms, foretold the World War. Marshall-type spring cushions with each other, the chief manu- and hours spent in the warm sea only Fran Lisbeth Seidler, who are used,
facturing and trading countries until, equally at home on land or has just died in Berlin, achieved will concoct a working plan, ac- in the water, you acquire the non- the crowning virtue of prophets, ceptable to all, for the interna-chalant attitude of the mermaid, accuracy.
und possibly some of the magnet- For at a
seance in 1889 in THE HONGKONG HOTEL ! tional control of the traffic in ism of the syren. Think of long General von Moltke's house in
GARAGE.
arms and that this will form explorations into mountains and Potsdam she prophesied the out part of the general Convention over the passes in cold sunny break of war to the day and weather, and (this may have a month. Even the French chiro- to be expected from the Disar more limited appeal) think of the mancer Mme, Deux-Thebes," who We know one man who used a mament Conference.
same in the hot-house months of subsequently foresaw that the system, which, if he had used Spring, when the most suitable French favourite Epinard would three numbers higher, would have clothing is a bathing-dress, and be beaten by a neck in the Cara- landed him $250,000 If the winn National Leadership
you can dip in and out of all the bridgeshire of 1923, and oblig- ing number had been 100 lower. fan-sized pools and waterfalls ingly warned her racing friends, You must have heard about the The reduction in the Conser that come your way. Think of the only got the year right. Still, her two local police officers who used Hongkong. prophecy at the end of 1913 that a system which gave them a príze division of Liverpool by-election that Society takes on the family would be plunged into war, but system is simplicity itself. by 10,000 votes in a constituency aspect and you rub shoulders all that victory would be hers, was First of all, it is necessary to of 50,000 lends significance to day long with the one person that distinctly on the spot.
join the police force, and arrest a the constantly recurring reports seriously annoys you, nor is it so
You cannot argue with a pro- motorist for speeding. The num in some sections of the British large that you need ever make the phet; you can only disbelieve him. ber of his car is divided by the press that reorganisation of the fatal mistake of not knowing sound rule, for the normal fate m.ph. at which it was spoeding, National Government is im-who's who, or commit the awful of prophecies, is to go wrong. Yet and the result is multiplied by the minent, and that there is a error of according to one person in 1879 many of the inhabitants of five possibility of the retirement of that proportion of intimacy and
Yeovil, Somerset, remembered another. Herein lies a sense of
Babe Bond
The
We were tremendously lucky. Our share of the 4,000 came to $12.50. System is, what did it.
There are several well known systems for backing winners at the races or for buying cash. sweeps. Out of the generosity of our heart we are going to let you in on them.
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Hongkong Telegraphvative majority in the Exchange social, delights off a population within twelve months France in nearly every sweep. Their
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.
THE TRAFFIC IN ARMS
•
BEWARE!
80,
And, accidents fill the world
with woe."
The amount you will collect by
That's why all we single men in this office are happy. The only man who didn't collect on the sweep was Pete. He wouldn't come in because he thought a sweep was the thing you cleaned chimneys with.
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In view of the movement on both Mr. Ramsay MacDonald friendliness strictly due only to that according to the soothsaying using this system depends on foot for the imposition of a and Mr. Stanley Baldwin. Such sweet security peculiar to other of Mother Shipton their town whether you are married or not. embargo en arms consigned to allegations are discounted in all places besides Hongkong, and yet was due to be destroyed by earth- Personally, after witnessing the quake in that year, and were disgraceful scramble by the wives the Far East, it is pertinent to responsible political quarters, rare enough in these moving seriously perturbed. To Mother of our fellow-journalista, we are recall two recent events, one in but their persistence has given threatening times to entice you Shipton, a legendary Tudor witch, grateful that we are single. You U.S.A. and the other in France, them prominence. The Daily into seriously considering remain who is said to have foretold the can dodge a shroff.
death of Cardinal Wolsey, is at which relate to the traffic in Express, after a long campaigning in the Colony for good,
of criticism of Mr. MacDonald,
ributed one prediction which, if arms and which have an obvious has now come out with an un-
Do no such thing. Leave be- authentic, is a gem of accuracy: connexion with each other. On compromising demand for his fore the place tires you with its "Carriages without horses shall January 11th, the Foreign Re- resignation, on the ground of sameness, before you are con
of the Prime selous that everything around lations Committee of the Amer- the weakness
By the way, speaking of wives, ican Senate decided to take no Minister's protectionist policy you gives the impression of "stay-
do you know that a chemical in the interests of the farmers. ing put." Leave before the har action on the request made by This is not taken very seriously bour appears to you to have solidi- But the seers seldom concern treatment has been developed by President Hoover that the Arms even by Conservatives. Mem- fed into an immense skating rink. themselves with details. Though the United States Department of that keeps oysters Traffic Convention, which the bers of this party generally re- with the ice scratched where ships a Bishop of Cambrai has recently Commerce League of Nations had adopted cognise that the tariffs intro- have tried to cut figures, and been credited with having pre- fresh longer than normally and in 1925, should be ratifled. duced in response to pressure needing to be swept where ferrys dicted the French Revolution 400 makes them easier to open by This taken by itself is some-they have themselves put upon ply to and fro, For Hongkong is years before it occurred, and a weakening their muscles?
really only a very pretty miniat German seer confidently declar ure, set along with its attendanted a year or two age that on a the National Government, have
MODERN MEDICINE. what of a blow, as during the to prove their merits in practice island satellites, in the frame of a certain day in May England would
The only time we were ever Ill discussions of the special Com-before any attempt would be silver glittering sea, and just as disappear beneath the waves, pro- mittee of the Disarmament possible to extend their scope you would get tired of seeing your phets as a rule stick to the path in bed for any length of time was
The Con- great-aunt Mary, in an Empire of broad generalities.
during the war, and one of the Conference last autumn, the at all considerably.
The prophets are always with nurses gave us an incendiary famous American delegate had given servatives, who constitute the bodice and ringlets, for ever on
records lively. Pepys
"great political economist which made out hopes that the delay in main phalanx of the Govern-the mantelpiece, so you will tire of
so" convinced of seeing for over the changeless ex-us, and they have always been volume written by a
that pression of this small dainty Talk among people how some of us laugh so much this particular ratification would ment, are
Mr. MacDonald's usefulness
place. now be remedied. The League that it is believed Mr. Baldwin of Nations is committed by would himself resign if any Article 8 of its Covenant to cabal to oust the Prime Minister prevent the evil effects attend- would prove successful. ant upon "the manufacture by private enterprise of munitions and implements of war." One of the means which it adopted for this purpose was the Arms Traffic Convention mentioned ward from time of time through charms which lulls most minds calamity. Old Moore, the most ture of 104deg. to 102deg. Next above, for its main effect would the centuries, but recently the into a state of sweet content, but liberal of all scers in his predic-day he would find that the patient be the prevention of the sale of Paris journal Je sais tout has sounds to others the first warning tions of disaster, has parallels in had felt well enough to read a arms to anyone but Govern- published the result of a sys- of the approaching fatul reefs of every country. ments. Although this was a tematic investigation by Doe- Lotus land. League Convention, the Amer-tors Zoeller, Noyer, and Boide,
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Which reminds us that a doctor. Not that making it any larger the Fanatiques do say that the burst all our stitches. would help. That would be to end of the world is at hand, and take away its character and its that next Tuesday, is to be the who won thirty cents from us at beauty and romance, fer beauty day." That Tuesday passed, and contract the other night, and whe and romance are what Hongkong a great many other Tuesdays was therefore inclined to be enu- will always signify to the new since; but, undaunted by non-fidential, told us that nowadays comer, and to all who have the fulfilment, the seera have con- medicine is practically of no use.. wisdom to depart while the spell tinued to foretell the final cata-
to be able to prescribe what books Thousands believed in Baxter, a patient should read. He said he Are the finger-nails an index is still upon them and before the clysm.
it larger would also mean banish-as thousands have believed in would now spend half an hour at of half a guinea reducing a tempera self-styled prophet to the state of a person's health? magic has begun to fade. Making The theory has been put for-ing that cosy comprehenaton of its every
Finger-Nail "Moons"
ican delegate, who had had in- whose examinations embraced
care-
fully twelve hundred individuals, deed, an important hand in either ill, convalescent, or heal- shaping its terms, signed it on thy. Healthy subjects, behalf of his Government. Pre- fully selected and endowed with sident Coolidge, however, with vitality, have as a rule from all his authority was unable to eight to ten crescent-shaped persuade Congress to ratify, whitish little moons' at the base of their fingernails-one cach with the result that the Conven-
on the majority of the nails. tion has never come into force. Individuals auccumbing to an It is undoubtedly disappointing infectious malady have the that even now Senatorial opin-whitish crescents at the base of ion is too divided for the desir- the thumb-nails only. Often ed ratification to be effected. such individuals have no 'moons' At the same time, the need of at all on even the thumbnail. some co-operative action is felt An individual suffering from an infectious disease may during and Mr. Boruh therefore, on convalescence find that these behalf of the Foreign Relations little moons' reappear at the Committee, introduced a reso base of the finger-nails, and ex- lution in the Senate empowering pand and increase in number. the President, whenever he finds Among individuals usually en- that in any part of the world joying good, health, these little such conditions exist that the moons' at the base of the finger- nails vary according to the rise export of arms from the pro- or fall of the vitality, Season- ducing countries may encourageal variations occur; the little the employment of force in an crescents increase in size during act-the spring and show a tendency international dispute, ing in co-operation. with other to decrease in the autumn. It Governments taking similar may indeed happen that a per- aon with ten little 'moons'-one action, to prohibit export from on each nail-will succumb to the U.S.A. Whether this re- an infectious malady. Never- solution will be, finally passed theless, people usually in good is still uncertain, as consider-health who lose their finger- able doubt is expressed as to nail crescents might find it well
a variation. the willingness of certain other to look into the cause of such
D. W.
"Mrs. Broome is here, now. You know Mrs. Broome-the
woman who suffers so from corns."
The only thing he wanted was
thriller by Edgar Wallace, and now the mercury was trying to push the end out of the thermome- ter.
We don't know exactly what complaint we are suffering from, but only a course of Rudyard Kipling will cure it and make us feel patriotic once more.
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BACK TO EARTH.
We broke two records last week.. And when our family turn their backs we are going to get a ham- mer and break a couple more.
Once upon a time there were two sorts of gramophone record, music and vocal. You could take your choice, and you backed a win- ner every time. Nobody ever got up and moaned a husky sob song in the middle of an orchestral piece, but now you never know what is going to happen next.
It infuriates us because some of the latest rhythms are really They conjure up seductive. visions of warm-tropical nights beneath a sensuous moon, the air full of the scent of rare flowers, with the faint tinkle of the guitars. in the distance combining to make you think of languerous dark eyes and red lips made for love.
Then, half-way through, your dream is shattered when come- body with a voice like a newborn. lamb with a bad cold breaks in and walls something like, "Lady. blue, I am blue for you, will you too, for me go blue?" .........
But perhaps they put the, vocal refrain in as a correclive, Mary a time we might have sald some- thing we should be sorry for to the girl in our arms, if the croon- ing tenor hadn't brought us back to earth.