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THE HÓNGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1933.
COUMZE
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Feature
Rockne
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other dation. For Japan to talk. as she does, of never surrender- ing them, implies an altogether mistaken idea of the conditions on which they came under her control.
U.S. Bank Crisis
Whether or not America is
FOOTPRINTS OF The Very Idea!
A GIANT STRIDE AT WONGNÈICHONG
By E. G. B.
TIME
"HONE SWEET HONE”
We
Hong
69-
were touched "often
(By Edward "Squixxy" Kally). Is the age of chivalry past? We tell you right bare and now Few Hongkong residents come laden with the material that it is not. Knights may be necessary for thorough scientific bowled in Australia, and the four forced off the gold standard, a realize that in Happy Valley investigation, and in their train of England'a manhood any come certain result of the banking cri- they have an archeological an army of reporters, typists, East (we say "may"), but for sis will be a renewal of Senator
and patent foods beside which the feeling, that welcome on the mat, Glass' campaign for banking re feature of great magnitude domestic pets, families, bicycles giving you that home-from-home form. Already he has achieved and possibly of tremendous entire Japanese army, complete and the feet-on-the-table and spit-
with supplies and means of tran-where-you-like sensation,
kong's hospitable harbour has hour a good deal. He has behind importance. him, at least in regard to the
From Black's Links or there sport, would look small.
Knowing their time limited, how happroval: Sorry, but our
pirations always were "igh. main provisions of his bill, which
When, as an escaped Australian was recently adopted, a weight abouts the valley can clearly be much golfers will enjoy their last
seen to be what it undoubtedly is few games-how gladly they will we first set foot on this native of public opinion which triumph- the imprint of one vast stockinged suffer the frequent abortive at heath and said "Our Name's Mc ed in spite of banking opposition. foot, the heel of which lies at the tempts to remove the little white Kelly," Two provisions in particular Wong Nei Chong end, the toe at ball from the cinder track, and by Robert MacWhirter and the brought out the banks' biggest the other. Its owner's next step how little it will worry them to warmth, wildness and wetness of guns: first, restrictions on the (with the left foot), should be see it canon off the rock and trees our welcome.
The Education Department gave speculative use of Federal Re- traceable somewhere on the fur confronting the fourth hole and serve credit, and, secondly, a ther side of the Lion Rock, per stop just a little way further back us two-up schools, the P. W. D. the clause divorcing security affilia-haps at Shatin-that, however, is than the point at which the shot vehicular ferry (to remind us of the can was taken! Since all good things last Sydney Harbour punt), and the one against the tes from national banks within a matter that" no amateur five years. Banking arguments decide and about which he does must come to an end they have no Editor, six to were of no avail against the not need to worry since official choice but to accept the change as M.C.C. And just for the sole pur- investigations are sure to begin philosophically as possible, realis- pose, and that purpose only, of superior testimony of public ex shortly and the momentous ques-ing, along with the rest of Hong- maiding us feel at home. And then kong, that the odds are not, neces- with the formation of the Anzac perience. Argument could not tion solved by experts.
Meanwhile, it is interesting to early against its being for the Corps and a big shipment of street get the better of experience. The American public has bought speculate as to whose the foot can better, and that "Happy" as the lamp posts, our cup of cheer was too many inferior securities be. Is Grimm truly authentic, and Valley now is, "Happy" it may full, and so were we. from the representatives of did the giant with seven-league remain. | THE HONGKONG HOTEL security companies bearing the boots 'have his habitat in China?
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Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1933.
JAPAN AND THE MANDATES
WHY DIET?
"
But there was one thing missing. Until Friday. Then we read in the Telegraph of a razor slashing affair. in Bonham Strand East,
land.
names of well-known national the problem of the exact locali. ty of Ulysses' journeyings at last banks to pay much heed to the going to cease to be one, now that
It is years since we heard the refinements of the bankers' case.
an imprint of the foot of Polyphe
rippling cadenzas and the acintillat- With its ear to the ground, the mous has been discovered amongst
ing arpeggios of B sharp Bongals round Senate followed public opinion. islands, not in the Agean, but in
pre- It is a strange fact that, alsanding cascades of ears
Yorkshiremen - It agreed to two clauses giving the China Seas? Could
+ authority to the Federal Reserve Pelasgian man boast of a stature though we all know that to pro- Razorhurst. The Board to remove officers of as gigantic as his footprint would duce anything, be it a steam en- boasted of their puddin' on
seem to imply; and in those pre-gine, a picture, a watch, or an Friday night of laast week. Next materials in week Dinny Reidy, the Gossoon, member banks found to be en- gaging in unsound practices and historic times is it going to turn apple pie, certain
out that they actually understood, certain well-defined proportions will sing the praise if shillahs, establishing a licensing system and practised, the art of making are required, yet comparatively snakes and St. Patrick and you for holding companies of bank stockings? The depth of the im-few people apply this self-evident always hear too much of the banks stocks which will limit their print, considered in relation to the truth to the management of their and brass of another part of Eng-
constructed The wonderfully voting power in the affairs of height and weight of the in-own bodies.
We are intensely patriotic and of have that same feeling of pride. the banks affected. The providividual responsible for it, may With attention concentrated 'sions, however, that engaged decide geologists on many a diffi- human machine is composed
From its humble beginnings, tho on the military operations in most debate were those dealing cult question with regard to the certain substances in definite pro- in knowing that another national
of have been discovered. If any of a period, and correct errors Jehol, the recent declaration with branch banking. Here the sub-coils and stratas of so remote portions, of which, so far, seventeen pastime has cut its way to the front some millions of years in the dates these are lacking or are present art of razor-slashing has grown to from a semi-official source in bill was whittled down until as
ig finally passed it was almost un hitherto given of the birth and in overabundance, the result will a scientiae hobby, eclipsed only by Tokyo that the mandated
penny. It began in the wide open lands in the South Seas are recognizable. The original move death of Noah, the arrival and be abnormal structure and func- the technique of the two-handed The normal composition of vital spaces where men are men and the Japan's life-line on the sea, and to establish a liquidating cor-departure of the ice age, and the tioning-in other words, diecase. that Japan will never surrender poration releasing funds now issuing forth of the moon from the fluids and tissues depends upon collars are celluloid. Pete was the food and drink we take into shaving with a Bush Bengal (fe them, has not received the tied up in closed banks stands womb of the Pacific.
our bodies, and it is, therefore, ob-hoop iron), and was asked how he "A" REST FOR KING TUT. notice which it otherwise would, untouched. But branch banking
"Father bold five aces," said ho. Seeing that such tremendous viously casential that the elements became an orphan.
of nutrition be provided in the It raises a point of the utmost will be permitted to national
The other cove. was from She- field and came back with Kame importance, touching, as it does, banks only within States which
that the curiosity of the whole supply the, needs of the body. on the conditions under which allow branch banking to their issues are at stake it is probable right proportions in order to
slashing repartée. Yet, how many people
"What Gilette him do it for?" Japan came to be entrusted with own State banks. Since only world will be aroused and Bappy
sald he. the administration of these is nine States permit such a prac- Valley change its simple sporting tion to this plain the pay atten lands. According to the letter tice, and 18 explicitly forbid it, character for the sophisticated it not true that the majority of the encouragement to banking busy one of the tourist centre. people take into their long-suffer- and the spirit of Article 22 of improvement in this respect will will out-Ur Ur, and provide Ting stomachs any odd combina
tions of food materials, without the League Covenant, mandated territorica form a "sacred not be very great, though the tankhamen with the pence and trust," for which the whole 21. States that have no laws on quietneas so rudely wrenched from the slightest thought so to whether quirements of the human organ League is responsible. The Lea- the subject may possibly hasten him by the influx of curious sight-they will meet the manifold re
Many distinguished men will betism? gue, having no machinery to legislation which will enable seers into the Valley of Kings.
their bankless communities to amongst the first visitors to the Again, some people imagine that administer that trust itself, en- trusted tutelage to various "ad- make a bid for facilities from Valley, and Hongkong residents it is sufficient if they merely ent
A FORTUNE AWAITS. vanced nations," who were. to the national banks in the major anxious to entertain "lions" of the what agrees with them. If this cities. The Glass Bill is an ex-first water would do well to begin were true, then caffein must be
We have" just discovered, and them good for the coffee drinked, nico- exercise their functions as "mandatories on behalf of the cellent beginning. It should be seeking introductions to League." It is essential, there regarded as such. Much more through friends at Home. It will tine for the smoker, alcohol for patented, the most marvellous in- is required from legislation be be difficult to see where the whole the drunkard, and morphine, co-vention of the century. In fact, it fore, that the political identity fore the public will be satisfied thing will end, because Sir James caine and opium for the dope ad- is the most important one that we Jeans and Professor Eddington dict, for these poisons seem to have invented this week. As you of mandated territories should
with know a thermostat is a device for The time has obviously come will need to bring their observa "agree" remarkably well never be confused with the pos- when every bank in the United, tories with them, and Sir Arthur those who habitually take them, controlling the temperature of a sesions of the mandatory Pow- States should belong to the Evans will seize the opportunity for, if suddenly derived of their room. It is costly and easily gets ers. This point, it may be re- Federal Reserve System. It is of showing the Far East the re- favourite poisons, they suffer out of order. Our new invention is called, arose in connexion with the matter of the closer admini-plainly impossible for a system salt of his Minoan excavations and great distress, become ill, and may very cheap to run, low initial cost, that has no control over one-require space in which to set up even die as the result of such de-and easily replaced. The device consists of a stove, a piece of string strative, Customs and fiscal un-third of the bank resources of a complete replica of the Palace at privation."
num- If we cannot sacrifice our per- (any colour), and a cat. The cat ion between the territory of the United States to be expected Knossos J.B.S. Haldane,
erous American ProfessorN of verted tastes, then we must be must have a tail. Bob-tailed and Tanganyika, which is under a
A efficiently to control such
Anthropology, the Keeper of the prepared to pay the penalty in manx cats will not do. The cat is British mandate, and the neigh-situation as has now arisen.
British Museum,
prominent pain, disease and possible proma-trained to sleep on the stove (not much training needed here), the bouring British Colonies of
Fundamentalists. even, all will ture death.
atring connects the tail of the cat Uganda and Kenya. When the
to the draft control. proposal was first made in the
Hilton Young Report, there was considerable criticism, especially
the
Open Diplomacy Versailles's pledged policy of
from the Italian. and German "open, just and honourable rela- members of the Mandates Com-tions between nations" marches on an avenue of world diplomacy mission, based mostly on
that tends to fork backward' ground that closer fiscal union into dark alleys of secrecy. might easily lead to the absorp-But forward motion depends tion of Tanganyika into the upon keeping to the highway of British Empire. Britain took "open covenants openly arrived note of the criticisms; and at After the World War human eventually a joint commission of hopes everywhere seized upon both Houses of Parliament open diplomacy as an anchor of thrashed out the whole ques- the future. This hope has. tion. As a consequence of this been realized to a large extent. and other inquiries and negotia-But recent sessions of League tions, the original draft scheme of Nations bodies on the Far has been modified so as to Eastern imbroglio have reflected | satisfy the requirements of the a tendency of governments to Permanent Mandates Commis-conceal their real motives. Ob- sion, and the German delegate servers at public sessions com- to the League Council has wel-ment on the scarcity of speeches comed the definite declarations that come to grips with actual of the British Government, issues. Motives of the great which clearly' show that it has powers remain cloaked to all no intention of offending against but deep students of their League principles in the union policies. While this situation which it is desired to effect. We arises almost entirely from the cite this case to show the strong complexity of the Oriental dis- feeling which exists against any pute, it gives ground for an possible abuse of the mandate impression that the world's system. Even if Japan rem.in-diplomacy still goes on essen- ed in the League, she would tally under cover. It is there.. have no right to regard the fore easier for ugly rumours to mandated islanda as her posses-fly around the corridors of slons; should she withdraw her peace. No development could membership. the presumption is be more damaging to League that her title as mandatory prestige and public confidence. Power would automatically ex-Open dealing in fact and appear pire, leaving the League to place ance is essential to the new them under the care of some world order.
"We could pay those bills if you hadn't tried to show off and spend so much when you were courting_me."
Now the game is on a percentage basis. Ears count six, minus three
if the lobe is missing. Noses don't
shop,
Our last actual encounter was in count if the affray is in a pawn-
the Mandated Territory: "I never use razors," he said shyly.
His remark cat us to the quick.
+ 骨。 •
When the cat feels that the stove is too warm, she jumps down, thereby closing the draft. As the room gets cooler the cat feels the need of warmer climate and hops. back to the top of the stove, there- by opening the draft. This action continues until the cat wears out.
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NOT MISTAKEN. She felt sure that Pete would speak last night. Surely, ac thought, he must know what her answer would be. She had shown him plainly enough, but still he heal- tated, as men do. And it seemed so silly to wait. Neither of them were getting any younger.
She heard his step outside.
An excited flash came to her checks. A delicious thrill went through her. Intuition told her that this was the moment..... At last
Nor was she mistaken.
He leaned over her, and, taking her hands in his he said:
"Darling, how about us getting divorced?"
FILOSOFY,
"Now that the stern realists are coming back to the places of power, with the promise that heads will be rolling in the sand, we may : look.../ for some real progress in Europe. There are quite a number of beads that we should like to see rolling in the sand, and now that wa have got rid of our yo-yos, this fascinating and Instructive hep game (which, like all good game. is really a very old ons) cannot begin too soon.