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NOTES OF THE DAY
NECESSARY DEVELOPMENT
WILES OF SMUGGLERS' DANGEROUS TRADE
By FRANK C. BOWEN
The Very Idea!
STUFF AND NONSENSE
the More Jottings From Eddie “
Kelly's Notebook
Edited By Eddie
Royal
In these times of financial stress It is gratifying to hear that at least one of the major commercial
Although often condoned on in the matter of spirits, for enterprises of this Colony has the account of its generally quite instance, which used to bo
great opportunity; faith and the vision to expand and imaginary romance, smuggling is smugglers expend. It is encouraging to those an offence with very serious social there is now practically none.
consequences in its ability to Soon after the war there was of us who have heard for much too bring all law into disrepute, as it a great chance of spirit smug long the
familiar chorus, "Hard did in the United States, its in-gling. for a bottle of quite rea
A plumber joined the roada into the national revenues sonable whisky well over 30 under |Times," to learn that the expan- which have to be made up from proof could be bought in Hamburg Engineers, and was, 'immediately And the handsome, distinctive slon which the Kowloon Wharf and other sources, its victimisation of for tenpence in English money, riven o teat-the making of a streamlined appearance of the
the honest trader who pays his so that, naturally, the sailor call-joint for ́n lend pipe. Godown Company is undertaking duties and its influence on unem- ing in at u now 1935 Studebaker
Gorman truck
port was The senior N.C.O. sent a writ- is really necessary.
tempted. For a short time it was ten report of the test to the, com- makes it stand out from the
It would beployment,
And unfortunately itu possible splendid business; hundreds of minding ofBeer. It rend: Joint crowd. With its sleek, busi-
deplorable Indeed. If the same
benefits very seldom, i ever, bottles were slipped through and very well done." ness-like lines and powerful,
reach the consumer, for there buth sailor and landlord mado Next day the man was appointed dependable engine, it is a truck you will be proud to own, a truck which inspires a feeling of pres- tige that suggests a price much higher than its actual cost.
We will fürnish particulais and terms an application.
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
Tel. 27778/9,
Stubbs Rd.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, AUG. 23, 1936,
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The other giggled girlishly. "Thrown at me," she replied;
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Undorstudied
Film Producer--"You've jumped over the cliff all right. You've heen shipwrecked, and you've fought off four gangsters. In the next scene you have to catch a mouse with Your hands."
The
Blonde"Not mne! My
understudy can do that,"
.
The Serenadors
A fiddler tried a serenade;
She did not smile on him.
She scorned the music that he
made, Zim-zim.
A fellow with a banjo came. The damsel didn't think
It worth emerging for his tame
Pink-plink
The third arrival won the girl, Although his tune was cronk,
He drove up with a noisy whirl,
Hong-honk.
No Use For Poppa
Doris; "God sends us our daily bread, doesn't. He, mummy?"
Mother: "Yes, dear."
Doris: "And Santa Claus brings the presents?"
Mother: "Yes, dear."
Doris: "And the stork brings the
babies?"
Mother: "Yes, dear."
Doris: "Then what's the use of
wharfage facilities which served Hongkong in yours past were cons are so many parties who have to quite a nice profit.
But the travellers of the various be compensated for the risk that sidered ample for the future needs they run, and quite a big propor- distilleries knew what each hotel of the port. The fact that they tion of the dutica which are or tavern ought to consume within are not allows us to hope that a evaded have to be set aside to ja very small margin, and when tho orders fell off their experts began satisfy blackmailers.
The elderly spinster was confld- brighter era IN beginning.
Therefore the possibility of a to make inquiries; it only wanted in earnest tones to her dear supposes
show their trained that Hongkong revival of snuggling on a 'really a taste to
big senle is a matter of serious palates where the whisky was
"So the waiter said to me," he growing moro conscious of
concern, and it is uncless to deny coming from, and so much trouble":"How would you like your the opportunities of this new era. that the possibility is there. All ensued that within a very short rice?"
the trafle bad stopped "Yes, dear," Buid her friend. It is one thing to provide for the through the history of this and Lime,
other countries it has repeatedly entirely. first needs of commerce in develop-been shown that it is the potential Another factor which has ing a great seaport; these may not profit that has created a
big be taken into consideration and did I blush?" smuggling business
and the public taste. This has be particularly
The artistic.
again, and that this business has influence with spirits. for every wharves which will serve for the only died out when the profits are purchaser buys the brand that handling of cargo
be no longer worth while. may not
prefera, even if he is in- The efforts of the preventive fluenced only by advertisement, Bulted for the embarkation and
authorities by themselves have fand if there is any difference in disembarkation of the thousands of never yet succeeded in putting ʼn the flayour he very soon makes tourists. The Kowloon Wharf and stop to smuggling, and it is doubt his objection heard.
ful whether they ever will if they Godown Company may have an eye are kept within reasonably to the future potentialities of that economical limits, although, of He may not have any suspicion effective preventive that it is smuggled liquor that he lucrative trade-tourist traffic-course, and the Safe and confortable service makes things much more is drinking. more probably he difficult, decreases profits of thinks that it has been dortored handling of visitors to this really considerable number. But as for by the publican, but it has pre- attractive Colony when it under stamping out smuggling altogetherjeisely the same result, and dent RABIES TREATMENT takes improvements of the sort it is as powerless as the police are fingin smuggled spirits is not
announced yesterday. The public generally will, we
We hope to stamp out theft.
worth while.
It is not only in the saloon bars ¡feel sure, agree with the South
and expensive hotela that this The question is whether, how demand for a known brand Is [China Morning Post when it GOOD BEGINNING
that the tariff policy has made conspicuous, it goes right through states that the result of the
snuggling worth while again after every class of customer.
Coroner's inquiry into the death
We believe that Hongkong has many years, the Customs officers If it is noticeable lo spirits, it can, taking full advantage of at-is even more so in tobacco. At only just awakened to the op tendant circumstances, keep least 99 por cent. of the tobag- of a rabies victim was not en-portunity for profit to be derived smuggling within reasonable conists customers demand their tirely satisfactory. The fact from tourist trade. We have here bounds.
favourite brand, whether it is in that the subject of the inquiry all the assets which go towards the them greatly and in many trades and they will not take anything certainly help cigars, pipe, tobacco or cigarettes, establishment of such a business. make the business practically im-else. succumbed to hydrophobia des- We have scenery and climate which possible. Things have been com- These brands are all of English {pite the fact that he had received it would be hard to match in any pictoly reversed since the old manufacture, generally well" ad- fourteen ant-rabic Injections seaside resort. They are unique. But days of romantic amuggling; then vertised, and in order to get any must tend to arouse doubts as
we have only just made a start in the difficulty was to run the con-root ale for contraband the traband through with sailing tobacconist would have to bring to the efficacy of the treatment modern travellera expect and, if mounted
adding those embellishments which luggers, carts and the "tub mon" his price down so much that the on horses with half-suspicion of the authorities would as applied locally. It has, of they are to be antisfied, demand. ankers elung across their chests to aroused immediately. He might, of course, have a few favoured course, never been claimed that Such establishments as the Repulse and backs,
was Once through it Bay Lido go far towards satisfying enought, for the contraband could sumciently to let into the secret. inoculation will ensure complete Hongkong's
easy customers whom he could trust holiday customers. be sold quite openly. Nowadays but only a few and not likely to success in every case. But its The Lido has alrendy pleased hun- it is comparatively easy to run thebe enough to justify purchases value is undoubted and a high dreds of our visitors; and a pleased goods through with fast motor-on any scale.
The smuggler no longer has the percentage of success has been visitor is a good customer, and if boats, cars and aeroplanes, know-
he can do so will probably return. Customs
ing that the small force of warm sympathy of the whole com- attained. Dr. Graves' evidence That, according to the best author-every likely spot
oflicers canaot watch munity, from the squire and par- ut the same son down to the labourer, but it shows beyond question that itles, is the secret of success in time; it is not until the goods are must be remembered that he does every possible step was taken to catering to tourists. Please them; through that the great difficulty not give the consumer the same other night at Whalesteeth's place.
bring them back again. When we begins, for it is impossible to find benefit that he used to. save the victim's life, but it is have learned this lesson we have and very difficult for others.
It was so quiet, so restful and market for some commodities
peaceful. We played cards, drank clear from what he stated that made a good beginning.
Who
Whaleateeth's health The result is that on more than such marvellous yarns. It wasn't and told there is some diversity of opinion would not have this Colony
one occasion recently a full cargo until I got home that I realised thronged, in summer and In winter,
Responsibility for this is partly of tobacco, running into th amongst medicul men as to the with visitors from near and far? with modern business conditions siderable value, has been smuggled fortunates who can't afford a wire- con- Whalosteeth is one of those un- best dosage. The tendency ap- We
and partly with the taste of the across the coast without any less set. want full hotels, and busy
people.
difficulty and taken up to London. parently is towards
We higher beaches.
want good enter. Thero aro now very few There it has been taken from doses, and during the past two
tainment for our paying guests, absolutely free marketa where dealer to dealer; the reputable We want to be a resort of which retallers can buy as they like ones apparently preferred to buy) years they have been doubled people the world
their British over will say: fellows and rivals, white quite a bandits. without any reference to
goods stolen by сат locally. The methods used here "O, you must spend a winter or a number are absolutely tled.
[Continued on next Column.i are in line with what Dr. Graves summer season in that loveliest of Far Eastern watering-placee, himself described as a rough- Hongkong." We want to be the and-rendy way, in order that the
rage. And to become a popular vaccine may have a wider use- travel centre we do not have to be fulness. Excessive dosage is
a Colony of publicans. We shall retain all the solid
commerce, possible, it seems, but locally an
routed here by sen and air, which is endeavour is made to strike a
our mainstay. But we shall have happy medium. A point which a valuable and stimulating adjunct in a business which ennnot be rub does not appear to have been
in."shorts" or overalls and which touched upon at the inquiry is will tend to keep us living and whether the vaccine is liable to looking up to our reputation. deterioration, and, if so, under what conditions? We believelation are not apparent, nor do we are correct in stating that it we know whether they are was previously the custom locally soundly based. That, again, is for the doses to be kept in separa point for the medical man. In ate phials until use, but that the view of the confused views held present practice is to use from on the general subject, the Gov- a phial containing several doses, ernment might very well call the portion unused being kept in for the considered opinions of the figidaire until needed. If its medical advisers, and, if that is so, a question 'which sug-necessary, arrange special re- gests itself is whether deteriora-search work with a view to as- tion is possible under such cir- certaining the most efficacious cumstances. The layman' ob- methods of treatment. This viously is unable to answer such might be followed up by the a query. The jury did not raise issuing of a communique, for. the point in giving their verdict, the information of the general
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. although they did suggest grad-public, on such conclusions as
TOYS DEPT.
uation of doses according to the may be renched. In any event, gravity of infection. The pre- the matter can hardly be allowed cise grounds for this recommend to reat where it is.
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EGYPH
"I wish Harry was with us. He could think of something awfully funny to say about this.”,
having daddy around?"
Peace. Perfect Peace
1 spent such a perfect time 'the
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The Verdict
His firm went broke,
His wife cleared out.
His married daughter came home. So did all her friends.
They seized his car.
The mortgages foreclosed
Hia radio was repossessed, White ants ate the furniture. Jis sure thing came last. The patch fell of his pants. The Hotels refused credit. The tailor followed out!.
There was nothing to live for. The gas was cut of just too late. "Suicide' while of unsound mind."
Word has very soon gone to the authorities and the whole consign- ment has been captured either while attempts were being made to sell it in London or else while It was being taken back to the const again for reshipment.
Every trade or business which has a powerful association works against smuggling. :
Such associations are always ruled by the most reputable elements; who have na much to lose as the authorities. Only in comparatively few commodities on which there is a high duty is there an open market in which stock can be bought and sold without question, and with very. little chance of investigation pro- ducing much result.
Unfortunately one of these fow markets is that in silk, and it is generally believed that consider- able quantities are being smuggled into the country at the present time, to the detriment of the majority of traders, the revomis and those employed in the arti- flelal slik industry.
A
The authorition are very well aware of this risic and have made important captures which bavo put several people out of the (Continued on Page 4).