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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Paris, unfolding its superb vistas of magnificent tree-bordered aven- ues and its labyrinths of crooked little lancs, smelly but picturesque, is two cities, saya the Christian One of them is Science Monitor.
the architectural
JUNE 19, 1935.
"I WAS WRONG ABOUT · THE ENGLISH”
By STEFAN LORANT
(Noted German Author of "I Was Hitler's Prisoner")
LL that I learnt in my native every step. "Why, they're quite
he keeps on repeating.
a tribute to vision of Georges Eugene Baron A country about Englishmen is different from what I expected." Haussmann, that great city plan wrong. ner in the reign of Napoleon III.
The other is the city which I remember one of my masters laughed and wopt at the lyric at school describing the character pooms of Francois Villon, bowed of the Englishman to us by the obsequlously as the equipage of following story: Cardinal
Richelieu imperiously galloped by, and met in the anlon
in
The Very Idea!
Polsonality And Tact
By Edward Kelly, Shroff IN him unremitting search for amfluence and ease, Mr. Edward Kelly has, since he was roped in to write for the column last week, temporarily become nabroff. One
of the big taipuns who was raking in so much money that his usual batch of shroffe couldn't" carry it heard about Kelly, and asked him if he'd take on the Job. The taipan was altting on the front steps of the Telegraph office this morning, waiting for Kelly to come in, but the humor- ist beat him by jumping across from the roof of the adjoining King's Theatre building.
NOW READ ON.
What is it that nt Arat most The strikes the foreign visitor? fact that everyone seems to be ready for a bit of fun, and ap- preciates a joke. I think that any- Two Englishmen are sitting at one coming Into the world here in with the necessary of the gifted and witty Madame de the fireside. They stare at the England
fire. One of them said, "It's nice mother-wit is capable of any Sevigne. One of the wonders of
and smart Paris is that so much of the latter and warm here." The other sits achievement. Jokes
are stepping-stones city remains. The hand of Hause-motionless in his arm-chair. An repartee mann is stil at work, however, hour goes by--and then another one's career. according to the Paris correspond- hour. At laat he says, "Well, an-
Nowhere else in the world does ent of the London Observer. The other hour gone." Then the first Paria Municipal Counel! has dis-one, aske, "Did you say anything?" one hear such apt remarks, such witty replies, as in London. The covered uncompleted plans loft by My old schoolmaster added that people here give vent even to their the "Very Idea" we have the baron, and, with the aid of the the two Englishmen went to bed 11-humour in a pleasant form. found ourself a job that National Government, has set about at 11 o'clock feeling that they had When ordering a bottle of wine looked as if it was made for
Improving" portions of the spent a most entertaining evening. from a waiter ono Sunday after cient "eite." Gardens are sweeter That is how I was taught what 10 o'clock, he replied with a smile, us. than slums, and few admirers of an Englishman was like. I got the "We have funny lawa in this the picturesque would wish better impression that the people consist- country," and I knew I couldn't get One of our leading taipans bouing to wait upon sentiment.ed of dull, phlegmatic, reserved my wine. Still it will come as rather a shock gentlemen, suffragettes fighting:
to many lovers of Latetin to learn for
women's rights,
University
German
then
SINCE we dished out our last column of tripe for
wanted a shroff, and if
that the Street of the Cut-which-students and sporting fanatics. And when I asked my chamber-there's one thing we've al- Fisles must disappear. If only At my English lessons I learnt maid why my room was so cold, ways hankered to do it's the adorably quaint names could the word "bare." I learnt that she gave me the classic reply, "It's
English, custom,
sec. collecting money. be preserved. But that is perhaps one could say "He bores me stiff," an not passible. After all, there "He is an old bore," "A ernshing English people aren't happy unless
He wanted someone with would be a certain incongruity in bore," "An awful bore," and a host they have rheumatism." calling street lined with tall of expressions for the
It is a source of wonder to the tact and personality. Well, And apartment houses the Street of the word "Langweile."
foreigner how the Englishman can we've always prided ourself Sword of Woud. But there is years later, I stood in Piccadilly on solace in the thought that so much Saturday night.. of the ancient eity remains. A French adage pridefully rends, "Paris was not built in A day." Neither will its charm soon dia. appear. Along its "Elysian Fielda" and upon the very cobblestones of Is tortuous streets the world will
continue to read the tale of the two
cities that are Paris.
PARADE ...
*
make fun of his own
customs.
When one hears the daughter of on our poisonality, but we the family complaining about the haven't got any tact to speak
of English men, and dullness praising the charm of the Con- of, so we asked George if tinental, one regretfully thinka that the real Englishman he'd give us a hand with the soon be dying out, as the young job. George is just swarm-
will
It brought me into close contact with this "dull, reserved, phleg matic people." Men shouted mur- rily, women sang, young people, in snake-like Alos, turned and twisted through the streets; the generation are only going to marrying with tact. open places were filled with the foreigners.
Our first patient was a Peak jubilant, enthusiastic throng. But it is quite wrong to think
There was a noise of rattles, fire that. None of the ladies would lady who'd bought a motor car balloons erossed the sky, small dream of marrying a foreigner. somewhere about the time Henry The man listened to the story-groups formed choirs, others They are perfectly happy with Ford was shocing horses, and she how 10,000 military, and naval danced folk-dances. And all this their boring and sedate" English
was so far in arrears that her calets were passing in review be in the very heart of the British husbands (exceptions prove the original invoice was written in fore 35,000 spectatorshow the Empire, in Piccadilly-circus. rule). The Indies are perfectly old English in a monkish script battalions of smartly dressed cadets swung by in shining uni- They streamed down Piccadilly happy with their husbands who forms-how as each unit passed in evening dress, the ladies with spend all their lives at their clubs, the reviewing stand the spectators them in beautiful evening gowns
their hats reverently-when and
furs; they
sang
"Rule
Telegraph.suddenly there was a shout from Britannia": they mingled with the
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19, 1935.
As regards the so-called duliness sece
of the men,
the cars one
if
and bound in vellum at the office,
Strange to Bay, she was not in. She never was in.. I think ahe spent all her life sitting in the Hongkong Hotel or somewhere,
AIR DISARMAMENT
crowd's excitement had hardly
All were united by one and the According ta Sir Samuel quieted down when there was an-
same will, by one and the saine other outburst-how some niem feeling of joy; "It's our King's Hoare. Britain's new Foreign bers of a World War veterans' Jubilee." The crowds not only Minister, the interchange of organisation and patrolmen were celebrated the Silver Jubiler of the administering rough treatment to King, they rejoiced at being alive, opinions with regard to the sug-three more youths who had been the celebrated their own strength gested European Air Pact is still distributing anti-war literature, and heppiness. | proceeding, but at the moment it "Yes," sighed the man, “It's dis-
the stands, members of two battal-crowd of workmen, clerks and 'ahop-parked in the moonlit landscape
hands, fans broke ranks to sprint with ten assistants. They joined
are surely a striking proof-to the We called on a bedroom suite patrolmen after two youths-how the man in the street with the man
is apt to contrary. One
forget after that, but had no better luck the youths were carrying a long of the upper ten. They danced that Romeo, one of the greatest than we bad with the subsequent ribbonlike banner flying the slogan, and celebrated, laughed and sang lovers, is the creation of an case of Tiger Beer and one dozen. "Fight BOSA War"--how the with joy.
Englishman - even
few Johnny Walkers. hundred years ago.
At the next place the door opened What else strikes the foreign as soon as we rang. The lady of visitor?
the house was just going out. The patience of the people. They
"We're from the Cash-as-cash- queues, waiting several hours in leashing his tact.
stand peaceably in theatre Can Company," said George, un- a perfect state of calm till the
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“York Building
Chater Road.
is considered inadvisable to disturbing. But I suppose that's the sort of thing we have to expect The narrator looked Although Britain has been com- blank. "Over where?" he asked. man. "But it pelled by force of circumstances "taly," said the.
happened in New York City." to embark on large-scale expan- "Oh," said the man, who had listen- sion of its Air Force, the pointed to the story but hadn't heard the SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEDSSS should not be lost sight of that place.
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Then she told us that she had no money at all and that sho had eight children, all starving, and her husband was on sterling salary, and had got so far be hind with his chits at the Hong- kong Hotel that he couldn't go In to pinch a handful of potato- chips and peanuts to bring home to the children, and she hadn't had anything to eat for six weeks except a monkey her hus band had caught at the top of the Kowloon reservoir, and then they had to eat it half-cooked because the gas was turned off. By this time George and us were
doors are opened. They do not "She gives twice who coughs up curse if they are kept waiting at quick," we said, twirling our I forgot I was' 'n foreigner. Ifthe booking office in the Under-polsonality. "Hand it over." was taken along with the stream. Iground; they do not rave If the Someone took me by the arm and operator does not reply on the frolicked along arm in arm with telephone, or gives them-n wrong Square. They sang songs which I bus does not happen to stop where, a merry group as far as Leicester number; they do not rage if the did not know, but I had to sing, in default of an official sign, they them all the same, and it was not imagine the stopping place to be. long before I was singing "Auki |
The taxi-drivers do not rain Lang Syne" at the top of niy down "invective on each other's voice.
› heads WHEN VALVE GRINDING
us in Paris. The police- Were these people that were re-men do not bully you an in Berlin, Valve grinding must always be joicing so whole-heartedly the the waiters do not expect princely a long job. If a perfect seating is stiff, dull Englishmen, or had my tips as in Vienna. to be obtained, as it must, since old schoolmaster planted in my this is the whole object of grind-mind a picture ing, the work cannot be hurried. Englishman who perhaps had never Slow leisurely movements alone any real existence? result in the fine finish which is so desirable.
The stranger After dismantling the valves, visiting London, each one is taken in turn and its bevel edge smeared with special! grinding compound. The valve is returned to is seating and, by driver inserted in the slot in the means of a long handled screw- valve head, it is turned to and fro a number of times. The position of the valve on the seating, how- ever, must be constantly changed.
A considerable amount of time can be saved If a light spring la put on to the valve stem before sure on the valve is released the grinding begins. When the pres- valve rises and its position qui be altered easily.
its policy is in the direction of eventual agreement with other Powers on limitation. That much was made apparent recent- ly in the House of Commons, when Mr. Ramsay MacDonald declared that "at this moment, before we have gone very far, the British Government urges, with all the influence it can com- mand, that a halt should be called and that the Powers con- cerned should limit their arms within well-defined bounds, to be fixed by free negotiation." Mr. MacDonald also stated in the same speech that the destructive possibilities of aerial warfare were perfectly appalling, adding that he could imagine no more wasteful expenditure of national wealth than a competition in Air Forces, in which Britain would not engage unless absolutely forced to do so. This appeal was commended especially to Germany, and on the same day General Goering openly declared ment for air disarmumont wants that Germany was willing to bringing into the forefront of abolish air warfare if other international, discussions Powers would do the same. negotiations. Success in this Having secured a position of sphere might, indeed, pave the equality with other Powers, he way to securing a general disar- said, the size of Germany's Airmament convention, which re- Force would be determined by mains still an indispensable part the size of the forces of other of any collective provision to en- I countries, and added that if sure security for all. It is of other Powers decided to elimin- note that nearly ninety per cent. ate their air forces in two years, of the votes in the Peace Ballot Germany would follow suit, in Britain have been cast for the With the British and German | abolition of naval and military policies thus stated, it would aircraft by mutual agreement. indicates that British appear that the present in a most This favourable moment for a deter- public opinion is strong in sup mined effort being made. Rés-port of such a solution of one of Iponsible Governments now have the world's major problems. a unique opportunity of tran- Britain obviously cannot act slating avowed sentiments into alone she has, indeed, no inten- common action. The need is for tion of doing so-but she can use movement vigorous leadership, in which her influence in a respect no country is better able which would bring relief to the than Britain to supply the initia- people of the major nations of tive. This question of agree the world.
and
of an
average
from abroad,
is amazed
at
JA
The foreigner is filled with Continental peoples live in a state sense of security here in London.
of nerves. Their subject of con- versation is war, unemployment, | crying.
(Continued on Page 5.)
"Well, this lan't getting this roast on to cook."
Then she went on to say that the landlord had told her that if she didn't pay him a drop of rent he'd burn the flat down, and the reason we saw her all dressed up and go- ing out was because she intended to throw herself off the Star Ferry.
George gave her $2.35 and ans apple and told her what time the Ferries left the Kowloon wharf, and we patted her on the back and told her not to give up home be-- cause there were dozens of mon- keys left around the reservoir, and was there anything else she wanted from the Cash-as-cash-can Com- pany?
"Yes," she said, "I'd like one of these new radio-gramophone aets and a set of new tyres.
"Put that down," wo said to George. "A rudlo-gramophone and a set of new tyres."
"Yes," sobbed George. "A of radio-gramophoner. feel like a newspaper editor!"
sct Oh! I
We left her then and went, all' red-oyed and wringing our hand- kerchiefs, for something to pull ourselves together. George' said: brandy was the best thing and, we wanted rum, so we had both.
The rum must have given George Idens, because he seemed to take charge of the party after that, and at the next door he knocked on ho bellowed, "Open this door! It's the police!"
And a man opened the door and said, "Thank Goodness I thought it was another of those confounded shroffs, or I'd have opened it be- (Continued on Page 5,)
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