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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933.
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NOTES OF THE DAY
The popularity. attending the Introduction of small-car taxicabs in Kowloon largely' accounts for the operating company's willing-] ness to reduce fares for the larger vehicles. Tho existence of the small taxis has had the affect of reducing the demand for the large
vehicles to a minimum and when
the requests for stationing th
AT A HONGKONG AUCTION SALE
THE “TEAHOUSE GANG”
By C.V.L.
One of the most curious busi-] A NECESSARY nesses plied in Hongkong is that EVIL..
hand furniture. It consists
by a broker or speculator in second- But as a necessary, evil they have to be. endured. They sell of
much of the stuff from the auc buying old furniture, generally at tioncor's rooms to the second-hand nuctions, and selling it to in-goods stores nt Wellington St, and
The Very Idea!
TO PANT OR NOT TO PANT
WH
By Eddie Kolly, Panther
HEN. we talk about pants, we are not re- ferring to the hot weather we are experiencing.
We are referring to the Nothing as simple as that.
more and more insistent, it was dividuals or second-hand stores, Hollywood Road. An even more Marlene Dietrich vogue.
baby-cark at the ferry became realised that something would proffered means that there will be comparatively little difference in the cost of transport by one as against the other-and that the public will benefit considerably.
the difference in prices being the profitable trade has been carried For years and years we
These
hurry
have to be done. The solution margin on which he makes a liv-on with Canton, Amoy, Foochow
ing.
and other southern parts. That have. stood for feminine was until the recent rise in Chin-encroachments upon our mascu brokers never matters, or allow themselves to 40 per cent. increased duties to líne preserves. be hurricu, since there is no point add to the cost, bringing the to rushing about in two coolic-prices within the range of new Month after month our head-
COMPARISONS
ese tariff duties. Now with some
power rickshas, When not อา
articles, it has not been worth ache has raided our pockets. the daily round of the auction rooms, they betake themselves to The yum cha gang are feelinglistened to nothing but gab and while continuing the export trade. Wock after week We have the ten-house for talk which goes the pinch, and they are moro down well with unlimited cups of subdued in action. The teahouse scandal.
now resounds with maledictiona political busy-
green tea.
On account of this peculiarity against certain It is easy to foresee that com- they have come to be known as the bodles. parisons are likely to be made bevum cha gang, by which is meant people given over to the tenhouse tween taxi fares in Hongkong and habit, and it is a term which has those
fitted more than any other.
the
THE LAST OF
GRAND JURIES
Day after day we have seen these women wearing leas and less clothing.
י.
But Night after night why bring that up, as St. Pete said. to the saxophonist.
Before we were married we used to like wine, women and song. Now we get woman and whine. But that's by the way.
What we are discussing now is
Given a proper appreciation of the term, the rest of the none too prepossessing portrait is complete. İll-mannered, short-coated gentle- men, raucous of voice and aggres-
By A BARRISTER. thesive In a deal, they invade
salesrooms and by a mass effect, Last month saw the last of carry off the business by storm. grand jurles. For although the Furniture values rise or tumble new Administration of Justice women in men's trousers. It's got at their will. Indirectly they Act (which abolishes them) will control much of the auctioneer's not come into operation until the to stop. Soon they won't even business, and with it the hopes first day of September next, no know what a dress is.
un-agalzes will be held between the and fortunes of many fortunate individual.
end of July and October. MUSEUM OF LOST HOPES.
in Kowloon when the authorities have sanctioned the Kowloon request for a reduction. Doubtless a cose can be made out for also reducing rates on |Hongkong side. There has been a substantial reduction in the price of petrol, and the rising dollar should be providing some relief in 'maintenance charges. But condi- tions on the two sides of the har- hour are not strictly comparable.
the laland are
Hongkong Telegraph. Vehicles on
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933.
GANDHI'S FOLLY.
Mr. Gandhi runs true to form and learns nothing from his les-haps to the extent ruling. sons. Half-saint and half-fana-
tic, with simplicity as a fetish
ro-
an
Except for the vigorous protest of Mr. Justice Avory and some of his judicial colleagues, thus passes, almost unnoticed, another ancient Institution.
The other day we asked our girl friend what a hairpin was, and she said it was a dangerous bend in the road.
The litter of goods and chattels In an auctioneer's, arranged with
Besides the ignorance It breeds quired to do 3 considerable little distinction, only strict regard
in them, we have several ob- ECONOMY AND TIME-SAVING amount of hill-climbing, thrusting for economy of space, conveys to the mind little of the personal touch
jections against women wearing The grounds upon which the heavy wear and tear upon engines gone with its acquirement. Yet, abolition is gought to be justified pants--our pants, we mean. and using up fuel in greater each ancient article from long as are economy and the saving of When a man's breath comes in sociation, may be said to have grand jurors' time. But a learn-ittle, short pants, that's passion. quantity for mileage covered. derived something of the personed judge recently pointed out that But when a woman gets into little, There is, therefore,' justificationality of its late owner, and if it the only economy will be the
at the short pants, that's plain, cussed for a higher acale, though not per- could only speak, the variety of saving of a few guests
experience, tragle or otherwise, High Sheriff's luncheon-to which effiminacy. unfolded, would make facts seem the grand jurors were always in- Our objection isn't against wo stranger than fiction.
vited-and a few postage stamps in the matter of dress and per- AUSTRIA'S FIGHT
I cannot go through an auc-in the despatch of the precepts; men wearing shorts, however, be- tioneer's salesrooms without being while, on the other ground, so far cause we have often been short. sonal conduct, he invariably
obsessed by a sensation of being as is known, no grand jury has ourself. What we object to is the chooses the most tortuous path
steeped in an atmosphere com- France's logical mind has quick-parable to a museum, except that judge suggesting their extinction. Into Its strides.
ever made a presentment to the way the masculine cult is getting when he concerns himself in politics. His challenge to any ly seized upon Austria as the key instead of the skeletons of pri- It is a centuries-old tribunal to
If a man walked down Pedder solution offering an easy way out to the situation in Europe. Hence mordial ages, the exhibits are the which important duties have been
remains of lost hopes and discard-assigned. No other body is to Street clad in a split skirt, ho'd be of a difficulty is automatic. But her effort, announced to-day; to ed affections. How much careful take its place. And, in future, run in for indecent behaviour. If ̧ 'for Gandhi; Congress would by now have totally abandoned civil remove the causes of friction be-discrimination it may be supposed instead of bills of indictment be a woman walks down the street in has gone to the selection of this ing signed by the foreman of the a pair of men's pants, she should disobedience unconditionally.tween Germany and Austria. It particular piece, or of that collec-grand jury, that duty will be dis also be arrested for a breeches of The best minds of the National-is likely to prove n formidabletion of pieces now dispersed, ita charged by "the proper officer of ist organisation would have been
individuality lost in a mechan- But for Dr. Dollfuss, ical-and-soulless aystem of injudge or chairman-of-the-Court.
the Court," on the direction of the the peace. given to the task of moulding In-
numbers and upset dia's new constitution into the Austria would have been crushed ventory
FEWER JURY CASES. form likely to meet with widest already. The flut of Hitler would prices?
For that renson, if for no other, Another provision of the now approval. And without Congress, have run to Vienna. Its emiss- it has been difficult to bring my Bill-it is expected to be an Act the new constitution cannot be given a fair start. That is the aries thought they had an easy self round to any marked degree in a few days-relates to common tragedy of Gandhi's intransig task and acted as though Austria of cordiality towards the gentle-juries. And this is a real reform men known as the "Tea House" urgently needed in the interests ence. No-one imagines that India, were an annexed country, until Gang, for whom these relics have of longsuffering common and gether under the regime of the White Dr. Dollfuss dared to resist.
The no sentimental value. The aver-special jurors. After September WANT LEGS!!!! ENLIST NOW! Paper or any other Constitution,
sion is actively awakened when 1; except in certain specified cases, Your King and Country Knees will live happily ever after, as it result has been an intensification they sit on our best easy chairs, it will be within the discretion of were. There will be friction and of effort by the Nazis but along presumably to test the springs, the Court or a judge to determine You! Britons never, never, never, collision; jealousy and misunder- more covert lines. This is, how and roll up their trouser legs in whether or not an action shall shall be slaves. Dicu Et Mon Droit,
indolent ease. If they had been be tried by a jury,
and the same to you, with knobs standing; racial and communal
This removes the power of one on! passion and economic conflict. It ever, yet another of Herr Hitler's in a private residence, where, like
own the bailiffs, their presence could for other of the parties to have a would indeed be a favoured land mistakes. Austria of her
neither confer distinction nor be case tried by a jury, and will, it is which could witness such a com- freewill might have joined Ger- really welcomed, we could imagine) belleved, not only save the calling plete change in its political many. But to subunit to forceful the irate housewife rising in her of jurors, but will contribute to structure without disturbance.
wrath to chase them willy-nilly out a more speedy despatch of bust- measures went against the grain. with the handle of a floor-mop. ness in the Courts. With Congress prepared to co- operate, the outlook would be happier and the efforts of Mr. Winston Churchill and Lord | AUSTRIA AND THE NAZIS Lloyd to make the British elec- tor's flesh creep over India would
lask.
The recent history of the Nazi
be the subject of jokes rather campaign in Austria in worth recall- than serious debate. Not that
to
the latest developments will in- ing. Early in April the Dollfuas fluence Britain's policy. We Cabinet decided to prohibit wireless ahall go ahead. Wo have rais-propaganda by the agents of Dr. ed expectations and defined ob- jectives that we cannot now de- Goebbels, the German Minister of sert except at the forfeiture of Propaganda: The Austrian National our moral authority and good Socialista attempted in vain name. The White Paper em- retaliato by nots of sabotage, and bodies the essence of what we Dollfuss' Cabinot at the samo timo are committed to by a long disbanded the Socialist Bohutzbandi series of words and deeds. It without resistanco shown. The soone expresses the measure of trust shifted to Rome, whither Dollfuss on which we are prepared to hurried in the wake of Hitler and embark and its generosity has Goering, to ascertain what, if any, appealed to 'all the Baner chango in Mussolini's views on Aus- elements in India. The marked trian annexation had resulted from moderation in the attitude of it. He found the Duco resolutely Congress is an obvious sign of opposed to Hitler's aims as regards the good impression made and, Austria, having no desire to neo at in these circumstances, it may his door a nationalistio State, at- not be altogether unfortunate if Mr. Gandhi elects to incur the tracting to it thousands of Tyroleso displeasure of the authorities Germans revolting from Italian and passes into political oblivion. Fascism. This determination Gandhi's influence is clearly wan-Mussolini is very welcome to Dollfunn ing, but it is still sufficiently since. Hitler dare not at this junc- powerful to prevent many, who ture antagonizo tho Duco. Austria see the folly of unreasoning now has two powerful groups op. hostility from striking out on a posed to Anschluss-the Roman new path. In their innermost Catholics who four the loss of their hearts, there are many Congress present power, and the Socialiste leadors and close friends of who have learned from Germany Gandhi who believe it would be the fate of Socialism under Nazi better if he disappeared from the dictatorship. political arona for a while, TRAN
of
"Don't be cross with me, lady I don't like solling brooms.
Besides, said he virtuously, wO- men should preserve the dignity of their sex. What Sex Appeal is there in a pair of pants? "A man's home is his castle.
We mon have got to stand to- WE on this subject:
BAH!
our
BEER !
We have just received invitation to the opening of the Hongkong Brewery on Wednesday next. We are pleased to note that cars will be available at the Star Ferry, Kowloon, to take the guests out to the Brewery, but, personally, are not intercated in this aspect.
Wo
What we want to know is, will cars be available to carry us home from the Brewery?
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KELLY STUMBLES OVER $20,000,000
We doprecate all this fuss over
a mere $20,000,000.
Doubtless you saw the after- math lato yesterday afternoon, When the Editor of the · Telo- graph told us what he was going to put on his poster we had fore- bodings. Our forebodings, were correct.
The matter is now in the hands of our Solicitor. Besides the damage done to our prostigo by the subsequent invasion of shroffs, wo sustained, in the night to get away, one (1) torn coat, one (1) tora pair of pants, one (1) black. cye, and one (1), overwhelming
thirat.
We took the poster ncross to the Hongkong Hotel when we cacapod from the shroffs, but even with that evidence they wouldn't allow -118- to algn a-chit-