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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

"'VAUXHALL".

BIG-SIX DEEP-ROOTED PLOT

Can now be seen and tried! £325 Tho NEW. VAUXHALL SALOON

27. H.P.

Call us up for a demonstration

WH

AN ANTI-TIPPING CAMPAIGN NEXT?

By SIR PERCIVÄL PHILLIPS

WHY not a crusade to abolish t

Lipping?

.

Yet it is undeniablo that a few. extra franes will make П subtlo difference in the treatment the

The public are heartily sick of visitor receives. submitting to the system, and the recommendation that it be up- pressed, contained in the last volume of "The Survey of London fteld in more In

Life and Labour," published this work, will be received with general approval.

3

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES.

A.

By Juliet Lowell,

Taking Ways.

J. Child & Sons

Wanchai Avenuo.

Gentlemen:

The woman who took.

Tips are high in the United my husband from me has also States for certain services, but the taken merchandise you shipped, limited. A traiu intended for me seeing it its guard or £1 Hitman would leher, refuses to give it up, the astonished, perhaps amused, if same as my husband Please offered a gratuity for doing his see what you can do. ordinary work.

There is something sinister in the reports of the expanse of the plot by which King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia was assassinated. An tha police and secret service opern- tives of all Europe work to track down those who were responsible for the murder of the monarch, and with him M. Barthou, some kint of the depth of the organisation res ponsible is conveyed to the public. Yesterday it was reported that s prominent member of the Hungar lan aristocracy was in custody If you're a big, car motorist Vienna, suspected of having had if you enjoy the feet of a nome part in the planning of the powerful engine purring under strategy by which the naaaaains out- the bonnet-if you like the witted the authorities who guarded

I myself have spent a amall for luxury of a big, roomy salcon- the Yugo-Slavian king. Apparent

One of the most troublesome tune In tips in going about the problems of a voyage is the dis- this is your car. At £325 thisly men of high and low origin were new 27 h.p. Vauxhall Big Six is whole tale will read like a romance tribute at almost every step or right people.

In this crime. The world. implicated

One is compelled to pitytribution of adequate tips to the remarkable value-for-money. of Dumas when it is written: the is an all-feature.car, with entirely exile of Hungarians from their automatic chassis fubrication, home-lanil and their plotting for vacuum controlled ignition, vengeance on a king; the secret Synchro-Mesh easy goar change, meetings in an abandoned farm- Pedomatic starting, self-return-house just beyond the Yugo-Slavian ing direction indicators and frontier; the despatch of fanatical Vauxhall No-Draught Ventila-888sina to the work of butchery and, finally, the tragic scene in the And it is a product of a

gay streets of Marseilles. The pity famous factory that has been of it is that the whole sad affair building outstanding motor cars may be traced to the treaties which for the past thirty years.

concluded the War. HONGKONG HOTEL

PLEA FOR JUSTICE

tion.

GARAGE SHOWROOM

Phone 27778.9.

The

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It is impossible to candone the assassination at Marseilles, but it

·

Hopefully,

Mrs. Erwin Careless.

Soeing Stars!

Rochester, New York

And obstruction and much 11.1- In the Atlantic Iners, and In pleasa tness. Even the short British ships plying to Far Eastern Harry Elmer Barnes journey from London to Paris is ports, it is a case of every steward The Telegram made irritating by the outstretch- | for himself, and heaven help the Now York City ed hand.

weakminded passenger.

Dear Professor Barnes: The French and the Italians Gemini is the ruling sign of the It would appear that At the end of United States and every time a Once aboard the Channel boat, have a batter way.

the voyage the passenger, when and the harbour porter Balioneu | (call it 28.), mert stewards whose paying his account for drinks and powerful pianet passes through, we have very serious troubles in courtesy is equalled only by their extras, gives a lump sum to the Ingenuity hovur avout with ta- chief steward, which covers all this country. gratiating smiles, wall you have claims for service. There is on your money caungear has your unwritten, fixed minimum for all future ones to come. How la never more, much would you like to pay for passport been seen to and can they every port, wh

And

than usually less,

the toss 7 take charge of irr 18 his your minimum he would pay in a ship

Kemember, you will be greatly i no, it will be guarded luggugo,

and Saturn pass through Gemini.

I have a list of such times and

Stubbs Road. is perhaps net ao difcuit for a free against theres, Do you wish where the saloon staff were denit nflicted when Neptune, Herschel

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31, 1934.

people to sympathise with men who believe, rightly or wrongly, that they have been driven from their homes and that their native land is

porter at Calais?

with plecement. If the passenger thinks he has had special attention This last query always elleits he gives more. But in no case in my admiration. The inexperienced he expected to tip individually, traveller naturally says, "Yea." and the stewarda nover indicate 11 the steward a nirendy booked by the slightest sign that they to carry luggage to the rarin traini denire it. he will come up cheerfully with a Calte man in a blue smock andį Bay, "I'v got your porter, sir." And he expects to be paid for the Introduction.

A TO

Yours truly, Miss Sara E----

(signed)

Virtue Triumphant.

The Philippine-American

ployment Agency Dear Madam:

oh not."

Celestina Trun

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(algned)

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ruled by a conqueror. Over thu murder of Yugo-Slavia's king them has been hard feeling aroused against Hungary, but Hongary har- self is in a position which must arouse the conscience of Europe,

In the Italian liners the gratuity Justice in her case is long overdue.

were promptly

is entered in a book by the passen and

ger, in the presence of THE POWERS, JAPAN only it

I have the honour to willingly granted her, the outlook

presentative of the staff.

signate as my works are many and AND MANCHÚKUO in Central Europe, which is stormy

You pay the French portor for Although Japan's new petro-to-day would almost certainly cleur carrying your bags to the train tipping I have visited. The native me, to which I only reply, "Oh not, India is the worst country for my salary are few. Besides which my boss makes many lovings to Immediately. leum laws, which adversely

and another porter for putting hotel servants of this generation affect foreign companies, do not COMBOES DETERMINED

them in the luggage rack. The have been spelled by foreign charge for luncheon includes 10 tourists, and they gather like flies raise the Treaty tasues which ure involved in Manchukuo's Hungary has for a leader an able per cent, for service.

when an unfortunate traveller is a valiant man in General

about to leave. proposed oil monopoly, there and seems good reason for thinking few days ago he proclaimed his begun to tip. If you are travelling find your stay in

Gombocs, the Prime Minister. A

And then you havo still only The Chinese are better; you will that the two matters are closely determination, and the determina- beyond Paris in a sleeping car you managed hotel made pleasant by 2 European- related one to the other. in tion of the people of his country, th any event, representations have continue their fight for the revision

are taxed as by right—a fat per- the judicious expenditure of a fow дос been made to Japan by fereign of the Treaty of Trianon. The

centage of the cost of your berth silver dollars, but they are As "service" for the attendant. come when

rapacious, and never lavent aer- Governments on both issues, due day must inevitably to a belief that an attempt is Slovakia will realise the wrong they be described as a form of coward- Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Czechu-

Our good nature, which can also vices for which you have no need. being made to render it are inflicting and its deplorable ice, is responsible for much of the lous transformation in Japan.)

Tipping has undergone a cur- Impossible for foreign oil effect in producing bitter inter-

over-tipping at home. Why should Formerly, if you stayed at a pro- companies to operate either national animosity. The Magyars such public utilities as lifts and vincial hotel, the bill would ba in Japan or Manchukuo. of Hungary have been badly treat-cloak-rooms with three wash-comparatively small but the land- There is ulso

strong ed. Of that there is no doubt. It

hand-basins be looked upon by the lord would expect a "present" feeling that if Japan is permitted out of their suffering that such

persons in charge as a commercial much greater than the amount dominant control of Far Eastern tragedies as that at Marseilles must

Aact for their own exploitation? charged. affairs, there will, in the days Krow. When men whose patriotism and gallantry are proved, stoop to to come, be precious little oppor- the work of murderers, it la certain tunity for foreign business in-that they have been moved by no terests lo retain their foothold ordinary injustice. If the sumpt in this part of the world. The cions of the French authorities are Manchukuo oil monopoly ques true there was more than mere tion raises complicated issues, terrorism behind the Marseiller due to the peculiar status of this

outrage.

territory and to the non- SPLENDID STOCK

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The percentage system on the Continent tends to diminish the evil. Mussolini was the pioneer room-buya in modern cities like To-day, the smiling waitera and In compelling hotel servants and Tokio and Yokohama are pleased their like to refuse personal gratuito receive a modest aum in re ties.

cognition of their services, but it

morc.

Besiden which

my

bogs

makes many lovings to mo.

Watch Mr. Ingersoll. Ingersoll Watch Company Waterbury, Connecticut Gentlemen:

Am mailing you to day for

I have hud tipa 'refused by a never asked for, even by such chamber-maida and valets of Ital- indirect though compelling me ian hotels on the ground that they thods as we know in England. were pledged to accept their share! have had to leave hurriedly with of the common pool and nothing out being able to find the servants

Of late they have shown! I wanted to tip, and on returning, repair and return an Ingersol}

been received weeks later have signs of weakening, and gratuities their home in a closed palm. bestowed unostentatiously and with the same unfailing courtesy. Yankee. Please let me know crit

I have wondered at this, and one and I will remit, day I asked why they did not The system works well in many arrange for someone to Lake the French hotela. Ono I have in money I thought due to them. P. S. are as polite and attentive to the mind is staffed by servants who The answer was unexpected:

Yours respy. Samuel Nicel (signed)

that its destinies are controlled Treaty of Versailes, perhaps more jellent who lives within the per-showed that we expected the ligious young fellow working an-

ritory seized by Hungary's greed, neighbour statce. It would be in the interests of peace should the European powera move in such a forced, even in spite of herself, into way that ungary would not be

Poland and Yugo-Slavic. For even military alliance with Germany, though feeling between Yugo-Slavin and Hungary may not be of the beat, the Magyars have other

enemics, and such an alliance has freely predicted. Whether alliance. or

splendid excuse

recognition of the new "State" by foreign Governments. These

There is n future before Governments, however, in mak-Magyars. Their history is one of triumphant resistance to pressure ing representations to Japan on the subject, show that they have won by their virility, strength and from every side and finaf victory a duc appreciation of the act-

courage. They will never accept ualities of the position. They bondage. As long as the powers do take the stand that Manchukuo not appreciate this fact, there will is a purely Japanese creation and be trouble brewed in quiet places An important as the revision of the from Tokyo. The suggestion by so, is the revision of the Treaty of a spokesman of the Japanese Trianon, and the surrender of ter- Foreign Office that any protests on the subject should be address ed to China is an ingenious attempt to get back on the Powers which have claimed that Manchuria really still belongs to China. But, however clever this retort may be, it can be very readily answered. In the first place. Japan has repeatedly asserted that the territory, has been definitely passed out of Chinese that control, and that Manchukuo is achieved, there is another, the spontaneous creation of for warfare in Central Europe until people determined to be in Hungary's lost territories are reg dependent. In face of that sub-tored and Trianon's acid irritation mission, Japan cannot

removed forever. logically take the other view and assert that representations on fulfil her promise to safeguard, the question should be addressed | the "Open Door" in Manchurin. to China; she cannot have it It is of vital importance to the both ways. It might be sug-issue, also, thut the Japanese- gested, in reply, that the Powers owned South Manchuria Railway are similarly placed--that they is to own the majority of the oil can have no occasion to protest monopoly company's shares. to Japan if they really believe From whatever angle the ques- that the territory belongs to tion is approached," Japan's in- China. If we look a little closer fluence and interest in the mono- Into the matter, however, the poly is apparent. Disclaimers attitude of the Powers will be based on efforts to profit from seen to rest on a recognition of the tangled state of affairs the actualities of the situation.caused by the creation of the Manchuria, they say, although new "State" will carry no con- | rightfully belonging to China,viction. Foreign Powers

has been wrongfully wrested hardly likely to permit the issue from her and is now, in fact, to be side-stepped in this man- under Japanese control. But ner. The plain fact is that, for whilst they do not concede the present, Japan is in charge Japan's right to exercise suzer- of Manchukuo, and it is this cir- ainty over the territory, they cumstance which has caused the know that her influence in it is representations to be made to. dominant and they expect her to the Tokyo Government.

NOW

aro

"We would lose dignity if we Many years ago I had a very re- centage agreement as these who honourable guest to Hive ug der me. He wanted to buy an Ingersoll watch, but tole mo, he go beyond it.

money,"

rather buy another make it be could get one as cheap because Mr. Ingersoll don't believe in God, I told him the watchmaker Inger- Roll goes to church every Sunday and to Prayer Meeting during the week, while the other Ingersoll he' had in mind is a lawyer and has no connection with the watch business, and he bought an Inger soll watch. I am not claiming any commission on this sale, just write this to All in some враге time.

"Oh I see, another "thank you' client! Maybe we could keep up with our friends if you charged them for about half'

this legal service."

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From The Text.

There's only one thing more painful than gotting married and that is helping another fellow to do the operation.

Spooking as one of much ex- perfonco at helping we can say that marriage is an institution. supported by voluntary contribu tion (with a little assistance from father-in-laws) and run by the grace of God and mother-in-laws. The molto of the institution is: United we stand, single we fall, and the matches are held under: bar nothing rules,

Given a few seconds and a ring you can become a member straight. away-though the bost man is he who stays out

A little preparation adds pathos to the ceremony and when the fatted calf, aleck and garlanded, Is led forward to the sacrifice there. la scarcely a dry throat In the congregation; **

But there's the expense to be considered. The happy couple start off by spending a honeymoon instead of saving for a rainy day.

Tut! tutt and again shut up!..

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