THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1988.
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THE
LOOKING BACK THE FUTURE
Hongkong Hotel Garage
The
Editor
WISH
ALL MOTORISTS
A
Happy
New Year
The
would like, a year!
hence, to
Thongkong Telegraph. write
December 30, 1938
'Phone 26615 December 31, 1938
Indifference
TWO BRITISH SHIPS engaged
with trade in legitimate Spain are bombed and sunk in
as many days.
So frequent have these in- cidents become that we take these bombings now as a matter of course. Attacks on merchant- men cease to be news.
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*** MONDAY,
JANUARY
Greatest Air Terminus
Suede Helts
in the new indianew
A wondadful of plain & rendti color
ON
WHITEAWAY'S
War
Declare On Disease
HONGKONG SHARES IN Kai Tak Now Government,
FAR EAST Murons
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PROSPERITY WAVE BROUGHT BY PEACE
review of
1939.
T was 2
apan, China Join New European Alignment Against Future Wars
grand
year for body except:
warmongers, pessimists,
every-
BRI CUL: TEEN JAPAN ANDHE REATY.; CHINA LAST FEBRUARY, BROUGHT
THE ARMISTICE
AND THE
MINATING IN THE
WAVE OF PROS PARITY THROUGHOUT THE FAR EAST,
84-Possanger Clipöer: Dua ABOUT BY THE MAN. 25?
the man who foretold the end of the world for July 8, 1939,
burglars, rent racketeers, etc., and sundry other enemies of society.
in
This Morning
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decree, and not yetra Co- Himekong la perteipating in the ward of pros
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Cebration,
All undoubtedly come at a limej w*
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Hongkong has become
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They will serve to as the standard f health to Hongkong to that of maWY WERŚATIK? nationa AN ANA
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· Included in tha
wers:
Portion of new posturin
vice to the East
Indies via Manila, C.N.A.C. and Eurasia
have almost made Hankow, Yunnanfu, Shanghai and other distant centres in China suburbs of Hongkong. Airways have proved much more popular in 1939 with the big reductions in fares.
Comes To Hongkong
Government has considerably regulations lessened the work of the traffic police by the new which prevent jay-walking, and those which force cyclists to keep to the left hand side of the road.
Clearwater
The new road to
are
Fukien the war Democracy did that much good -have brought unpre cedented prosperity to this senport. Naturally, the people earned more and spent more in 1939- there was more money circulat ing, which meant more purchas- ing power for the masses.
During our Centenary celebra- ations, which commence in much brighter city. year's time, we expect half a Bay has proved a boon.. Hun- Those absurd regula- million tourists from Europe and dreds of summer houses tions, have been swept America. At least ten big under construction on the beau- away, the petty pin-pricks have finers are bringing them to the tiful hills in this healthy area. been abolished and this Colony is Far East. It will be a fine start. The new road from Shing Mun beginning to get a name among off for a renewal of Far Eastern Valley has also opened up an Bombing of British ships in Spanish waters is a reason why The best thing about 1939 tourists as the live-wire centre in tours-business houses suffered entirely new area to the people.
the Orient. There is some immensely through the falling In three months time, Hong- PEACE-peace Franco should not, under any was
variety in Neon lighting since off in tourist trade during the kong will have a democratic form circumstances, be granted bel-China, peace in Europe. the Government abandoned the Sino-Japanese War.
of Government. The Unofficial ligerent rights. They would
The Government has appoint- members will be elected on a As a result, there was regulation that prohibits the
u special Committee to rate-payers franchise-Muni- simply mean that he could ex-
more money to spend on the modern flashing type-until this ed tend his operations against
Rom live the corner. British ships to the High Seas, things in life that really year wo were actually the only arrange the Centenary celebra- cipal Government is just around
a £10,- city in the Far East (probably tions. There are count. Instead of
in the world) that forbade flash- wires on the Committee, so the -leave should The Old and the New 000,000 battleship, Britain ing electrical devices.
arrangements nothing to be desired. There'll' probably be a non-stop air race NOW COMES the annual sort-bought ten £1,000,000 hos-
pitals. Tele-
from London.
(Strange how you can be mis- Several Government has recognised taken about people. Sport as vital to the health of a whom I thought were club bores
cinema tertainment offered at evident community, and since early in have proved quite tolerable sorts improvement in the type of en- Poverty was not so this Christmas. There were not the year has encouraged more of chaps).
Speaking of the air reminds houses.
ZBW provided excellent pro- those haunting eyes of destitute and more people to come down women and children, of starving from the grand stands into the us of the enormous strides made
Athletics have been en- in aviation this year. Kai Tak grammes all the year round- people who sought sanctuary in arenas,
especially among has become one of the world's well-balanced, meaty entertain- our Colony as guns roared and couraged, bombs dropped on their homes in school-children and the Chinese. busiest airports, with services ment that made you want to sit (I have developed my physique radiating in all directions. Great at home beside your fire instead to such perfection that I am air hotels land their Hongkong of wandering out to the club or known as "The Tarzan of the passengers in London in two and hotels. 'Telegraph'.")
ing out of friends, phone numbers and addresses are being transferred from the old diary into the new one for 1939.
It is u laborious business that often results in an evening of reminiscence.
Some of those numbers so frequently referred to at the beginning of the year are now no longer of any use and are left out of the 1939 list,
Those at the bottom of 1938's Hist are certain to go into next year's.
Sport Comes Peace in China ended distress Into Its Own in the Far East-the refugees vanished, back to their farms and their beloved soil.
China.
A Promise Carried Out
•
The Report last March by the Taxation Commission, which was asked to recommend new forms of taxation, has been New taxation pigeon-holed. proved unnecessary.-- ..
There has been a noticeable
a half days and you can reach The women finally abandoned Hongkong has experienced a Japan in 24 hours. By way of those ridiculous hats they used boom year. The re-opening of variety it's now possible to fly to wear in 1988,
(It has been a grand your, the Pearl River, rail communica- to Europe vin America and or to Australia via My wife and I are gloriously tion right through to Calais, and Canada,
And the old diary? Those happy in our new flat; the baby new highways linking us with Honolulu and New Zealand. The 3 Years For
who are sentimental will tuck it took his first steps yesterday- Kwangsi, Yunnan, Kweichow, Dutch people have started a ser- away in a drawer with its fore-It's good to be alive). runners of other years.
All children somehow look Those for whom a diary a happier this year-end. The Chi- merely a convenience will, if nese younsters at last have their' discreet, destroy it.
A Happy New Year AND NOW for the New Year. New resolutions to make, new hopes that, we trust, will not be shattered.
King George V memorial play- grounds, and the Government has promised to find others for them.
The work of tackling Hong- kong's slums is also well in hand. There's still lots of work to be done in Wanchai and the thickly We are going to be optimistic good work is in full swing.
packed central, areas, but the about 1939. We believe that
Fresh air is smashing the peace is coming soon to our un-terrible mortality rate in tuber- happy neighbour, that Europe culosis.
is on the verge of brighter days, Our streets, too, are cleaner, that Hongkong will be able to our traffic well-ordered. The return to normal and get down Anti-Spitting campaign in June and the Safety First campaign to business.
in September have saved count-
In fact, we believe in talking and acting optimistically about
less lives.
Dr. Selwyn Clarke actually. 1939. The signs may not augur smiles. The Government has well, but ignore them. If every- found money for his clinics, his| one does the same, it will be a new wards and his campaigns
for health. happier year than 1938.
Convinced that 1930, which leaves the womb of the future in a few hours to begin its Journey to the grave of the past, will be a your in which pessim- ists will be confounded, the "Hongkong Telegraph" wishes you all a happy New Year,
His campaigns for inoculation and vaccination have broken the courge of small-pox and cholera. The Colony has been 'singularly free of contagious disenses.
(I've just been doing a little montal arithmetic. We should be able to afford a new car in April).
GRIN AND BEAR IT
SEALS
"I don't see how I could be over drawn! Are you
haven't embezzled it?"
By Lichty Chloroform
Attack On Matron
[sure you
A CHLOROFORM attack on
the assistant matron of Hali- fax Royal Infirmary while she lay in bed was described at Leeds Assizes recently.
(31).
Herbert Reginald Sharp warehouseman, of Paradise Street, Halifax,
to
three
to was sentenced years' penal servitude for attempting murder her by ndministering polton and by strangulation, to 18 months hard labour for robbery with violence and to three months for housebreaking-the sentences to run concurrently.
LIFE SAVED BY OXYGEN Mr. Ralph Cleworth, protecuting, naid Miss Emily Kinch, the assistant matron, woke up and saw a dark form near her bed. He jumped on to the bed, put one hand over her. mouth and with the other gripped her throat.
She probably owed her life to the fact that she was able to put up any struggle at all.
But for the fact that she received immediate attention and was given oxygen, it was practically certain that she would have died,