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BROWN-On October 14, 1939, at
the War Memorial Hospital, to Doris, wife of A. R. Brown, aj son,
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
Telegraph.
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 October 14, 1939
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HOW to
MILES
October 14, 1939.
get MORE per
GALLON
Petrol is now $1.00 a gallon in Hongkong. Nothing, it seems, can be done about that, Only thing to do is to get more miles to the gallon from the petrol.
If your car does 30 to the gallon now you should fairly easily be able to get any- thing from three to ten more miles per gal- lon out of it.
•
Tackle the problem from two ends-the preparation of the car and the way you drive it.
THE CAR XPERIMENT at first with smaller iets in the carburettor. Perhaps you can come down two sizes without upselling the running.
Try a thinner gasket to the cylinder head, to
raise the compression
Adjust the mixture control to the weakest
mixture that the engine will start up on. Advance the ignition a trifle, if the engine
will take it.
closel
Adjust the slow running control until the
engina barely ticks over on a throttic.
Keep the carburettor and patrol pump and
feed lines scrupulously clean. Keep all petrol unions tight, to avold loss by which is often more than you seepage,
imagine. Thoroughly clean and adjust the magneto or call contacts, test the Ignition leads for faulty insulation, and keep the spariting plus clean and their points adjusted. Keep your tyres hard, and made certain that brakes are not binding anywhere on the drums.
Use the thinnest of of reputable brand that the makers will stand by for gear-box, rear axle and engine gump, Finally, take all the weight off the car you
Cil,
YOUR. DRIVING W WHEN you start the engine from cold use
the choke as Hittle as possible. Warm up as quickly, as you can-and if the radiator is overcooled, cover some of t to keep the water temperature around 80 degrees Centigrade.
It could be
same
LONDON.
in
1
tangled up with the orderly and all things considered,
our
Run as much as possible in top gear. Travelling down long hills slip into neutral
gear and "coust."
The most economical speed for most care is
about half the car's maximum, Accelerate leisurely, and for corners or for a accelerator stop take the foot off the cariler and let the car's momentum carry you to the crossing,
the
streets.
It
is
Her
their
the
There has been; of course, an out- We know the stories of those Charming litle woman, the music
houses. In ons house dwells atencher. "Lots of diplomas and what- THE
HE war has come to our street. break of sandbagging.
The locni telephone-box, where widow of the last war. Her one son, not, astonishingly learned, played It is a very fantastic and] Incredible, even now. Ours is so formerly I have seen the young bulky in battle-dress, his tinhat at a Chopin with a poet's grace. deanitely a peace street, if you know people engaged in what had all the doggy angle, marched smartly up the pupils have vanished with
schools. what I mean-all tled and mixed and evidence of tender conversations, is, street a few nights ago.
But this is a different sort of war, our sandbag
She has no time for teaching or keeps saying. chef d'oeuvre. Sometimes 12 re everybody predestined processes of life.
But our street is changing. On one minds me of the Kremlin, though in different. Last me there were tears playing Chopin, anyway; for the corner we have
Jights its resemblance to and songs. Now there is no weeping duration. She works through auxillery fire other
from the mothers when the boys go. night for the A.R.P. station, with its team of pumps and Strangeways is most striking.
Such a lot of boys have gone from The belle of our street, too, has The houseS look amazingly the some- tethered taxis. What was
Bro different. The our street, Jaunty in their khaki. ceased to be the envy of less well- body's house is now the barracks of some, but they
the yellow, the chocolate-coloured, the Some of us, how queer it is to think, dressed wamen. For one thing, most the blue-coated squad who hope of our street. Strangers to us, green house, the house with the al-were trying to fix them up in civilian of the women have gone. But she of course, for we haven't broken mond tree and the peach tree are in Jobs a few weelts back. The fortitude drives a car, is another of our national down the barriers of our routine their accustomed places. But there of the women is marvellous. I be-night-stoff. I wonder where she's reserve yet. But there is a burly re- is a distrait air about them. The lleve the mothers think of this wor dumped those still-heels.
so smart, the as a crusade. assurance about them. We are glad hedges are not quite
There is the music-teacher's house. they are there.
grass of the lawns is longer.
are
THIS IS HOW BRITAIN PROTECTS ITS PEOPLE
-
Promise
COST of the observers on the spot are reporting striking differ- ences between the first days of the war in 1914 and these serious days of 1939. Porhaps none of these differences maiters so much as that shown in the demeanour of people in some of the belligerent countries. In Britain and France the flug- waving, song-singing, adventure- seeking attitude of 1914 is only at giddy memory. The people of these countries hold no illusions about war. They remember 1914-18.
These things are frankly reported TJERE a barrister answers 2 IF Land is taken over on defence volunteer thero is a about behalf of the Government or scheme being prepared to pay Home questions from London and Paris, whatever hay he the tone.of-publle.communi-legal obligations in war-time a car is. requisitioned, compen- allowances and pensions if in- cations from Berlin. There is in England: pretence of the democratic peoples'
Mothe
All the women who haven't been evacuated are doing public jobs. Some are on, duly when their husbands are at home, so the hus- bands are "bachelors," like most of the rest of us. One gallant spot of work is being done by a woman who has three sons the Army but has gone with a school to look after' other people's children. Her hus- band is running the home.
Yes, the men of our streets are nearly all bachelors" perhaps till the war ends. We are wifeless and childless men. And we аго по: happy. The house is a queer place without them.
FUCH has been said of profiteering and exorbitant rents in Hongkong; of the way in which the people of this Colony are already "paying for the
the of the restrictions the British Government has war." Below are some instituted to protect the people against losses through the war.
.
jured from any missile, gas, or from any act combating or re-
The accountant, the business man, merchant, the banker, my neighbours--all considerable conlu afler a week or so of it—agree that
have decided exactly what to do to this is a fair summary of life. We Hitler, only we alter it every night. Our street has adopted the com- munal life. We have broken down the garden fences perhaps only a war could have done thaand se each other's shelters indiscriminately. Some people go to other people's dugouts for company, leaving their own to those who don't possess one. Our chief engineer is a timid-looking IF IN DISTRESS as a little man who has caught the 9.5 for result of the war, Bri- the City all his life. Sandbags and concrete have brought out the genius IF anyone is the ballce or tons can apply to the Ministry which for for too long has been lost in the drab business of slacks and shares and the dollar rate on London. But some things link us with what
sation will be paid:- (a) For its use; (b) For. any damage to; and pelling an imagined enemy at- enjoying war. Hongkong residents NT is still due, but if people are in arrears the
(c) For any expenses in-tack. landlord cannot levy distress,curred in complying with the, of ocean and continent between re-enter into posscasion, or take directions for taking over, them and the shooting can sense any steps to recover possession
with thousands of comforting miles
the new atmosphere in Europe be- or enforce judgment for the 4 hirer of anything under a cause it is expressive of feelings recovery of possession, even if
of the Sleufried Line.
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humanity.
G. C. 8.
By Lichty
of Labour. Powers have been not only in all parts of the world it has already been made, with-duty to insure against damage, given to pay allowances if any- but also apparently, on both sides out the leave of the appropriate repair, replace, or pay compen one is in need as a result of we knew. The millonan still musters doctor comes, perhaps, to usher some court. If tenants are unable to sation in the event of any loss being evacuated under a Gov-whistic in our childless street; the or damage or to pay for the hire ernment scheme, or if those on new life into this astonishing world. Unale to these feelings are the pay owing to the war the court in spite of the damage the whom they are dependent have a baby's cry in a blacked-out night. teachings of Christianity. Men and need not turn them out.
obligation will not extend to war lost their normal means of live- Perhaps that is the message of risks. women disbelieve in war in propor-
lihood through the war. THE HOME-If people in tion as they believe in these teach-:
If purchasing an article on ings. It is not correct to say that England are the tenants of an;
GRIN AND BEAR IT the mere nearness of war to the unfurnished house of which the approval or on sale or return, in the event of loss or damage peoples' own firesides has produced rateable value does not exceed in any obligation to pay the price the change in their attitude toward London £100, in Scotland £90 or shall not extend to loss or dam-
elsewhere £75, the landlord can-age by war. it. For mankind engaged in war;
not raise the rent and cannot re- with gasto when it included mass- acre of non-combatants in their city cover possession of the house without a court order and states and the carrying off of women and children into slavery,
only then in certain circum- Until men and women improved stances, providing the tenant, their concepts of the human race by complies-with the requirements improving their concept of its of the tenancy. origin, they delighted in many other barbarous "customs quite ns|
fulllo and crust as their warfare,
is
CONTRACTS.—II anyone liable to make money pay- ments under any existing con- tract they still have to pay, but no judgment for the recovery of money may be enforced without the leave of the court.
If the house is mortgaged and LIFE INSURANCE- Pre- within the limits of the 6 miums are still due, but if
But as in place of the mythologies rateable value just mentioned, anyone fail to pay the policy will which sanctioned these things by owners need not make any cupi- not be forfeited without leave; attributing them to gads, the peoples tal repayment providing they pay of the court, discern the realities which brighten the interest due on the amount
NATIONAL HEALTH IN- the Scriptures and fed gradually of the mortgage debt, but if it7 SURANCE. If insured un- toward the revelation of the New exceeds that value, or the der the National Health Insur- Testament. their lives and their mortgage is repayable by instal-[ance Acts or Contributory Pen- governments reflect the change.
Wore It not for the leaven of ments extending over more than sions Act employment in war Christian teachings, the nearness of ten years, the owner must con-occupation will be treated as danger to civilian populations would tinue to make all payments due employment under the Act, and no contributions will be payable. induce the very opposite of the quiet to the mortgagor.
BANKRUPTCY.-If a bank-
resolution, with which people to-day But if he does not pay, the ruptcy petition is presented aro facing war. Suld the apostle mortgagor can only take steps Paul, "The fruit of the spirit is to re-enter or call in the mort- and the recipient can satisfy love, joy, peace,longsufToring, Kentleness, goodnes, faith, meck-gage with the leave of the court. the court that inability to pay Is due to the war and its effects, ness, temperance?" That peace esir If a tenant of a house with the court may stay the proceed- face war with some or all of these an obligation to keep the house inge. qualities of thought makes these in repair, that obligation does darkened days brighter with a pro- not extend to making good any va miso nič a better peace,
war damage.
WAR INJURY-If you work
for your living or are a civil
"Well, haw 'does it 'feel to be ratired from business at last.. -M; ],, and to do just as you please?***