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Hong Kong. Monday, Nov. 17, 1930.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1930.

A public lantern lecture will be FASCIST LEADER OF DOWN TRODDEN

held at the Helena May Institute! on Tuesday, November 18, at 5.30 when Mr. T. Price will speak on "Holiday In Indo-China."--Advt.

+

GERMANY.

Doubts About the Power of the Press.

Wong Hing (28) living at 888, Canton Road, was yesterday sent to the Kowloon Public Mortuary. She died from injuries which she received as the result of falling from a motor truck some days ago. night became a factor of the first magnitude in German politica)

Marsden.

-ki Munich, Oct. 17. Adolf Hitler, who almost over-

vate life.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Appeals in Mosaics in Street Pavements.

cam.

Parle, Oct. 16. Contrary to optimistic admoni- tions of looking up to find the bright side of life, clever adver- tisers are exploding the theory by The Naval Armament Supply life, is intimately known to but Officer, Royal Naval Armament small group of friends and parti- carrying on an advertising

Tens of thousands of his paign done in mosaics in street Depot, has natifled the Harbour sans.

voters have seen him, have heari pavements. Master, that some unserviceable

A Paris boulevard has been cordite will be burned at Stone him speak at big mass meetings, eutters Rifle Range on Wednesday. but very few know about his pri-chosen for their first demonstra tion. Just in front of the Cana- Even in Munich, Herr Hitler's dian Pacific Railway offices in the Lieut.-Col. R. M. W. M.C., who is a recent arrival, takes permanent residence, people are Boulevard des Capucines is an-

the Royal scantily informed about him per-enormous design set out in colour- over the command of

He sonally. Very few of his followed mosaica.. If other business Engineers Hong Kong Area. received his M.C. In the war when citizens know where he lives. houses follow suit we shall goon on the bright he served for two periods in The stranger comnig to Munich be looking down France, being once wounded and will not find Adolf Hitler's name side of life instead of up.

in the city directory, which other- One objection to this otherwise twice mentioned in despatches.

wise carefully records the namna cheerful scheme is that during the and address of every inhabitant, rush hours the money expended Lieut.-Col. D.S.O., R.A.0.C., (Ordnance Officer nor will he find it in the tele- thusly will cease to bring in any But even were | returns. Being covered up with Class II) has been appointed tem- phone directory.

(Ordnance Officer he to learn Herr Hitler's home something like million feet. It will porary Colonel Class I), on taking up the duties address it would be dificult for be hard to tell what it's all about. were he to In a crowd ane can at least look of Assistant Director of Ordnance him to see the man,

from try.

up to an illumined name and ad- Services, Chins Command,

"It is easier to get a private dress and make a mental note to November 5.

audience with the Pope. than to return to the spot the following

day.

-F. C.

Larmour,

to

of

Residential Sections. Such advertising would, His reluctance to course. prove more advantageous · receive visitors, so his intimates if perpetrated in the pavements of

Charged before Mr. Butters, atser Adolf Hitler.

This stalement, made by a very by the Kowloon Magistracy

the German fas Detective-Sergeant

with close friend of Fitches, having kidnapped a seven-year-old cist leader, by no means male child, Lam, Kam, from 69, exaggeration,

Chinese man, Woosung Street, a

a woman, Chan assert, is however exclusively due select residential sections where Wong Sam, and

to the fact that all of his time traffic is less congested. It is nine Chat, were sentenced

is taken up by political work. doubtful whether this would meet months' imprisonment each.

No matter where he is, he is kept with the approval of said sec Among the prominent passengers busy all day, and often most of tions.

Suggestions have also been re- arriving on board the 8.8. President the night, attending conferences

ceived by those in charge of pay Pierce at Hong Kong, on November with his subordinate leaders.

Political Conferences. ing the city streets of Parla to 16, were the following: Mrs. Guy

In Munich, these conferences put a bit of pigment Into the "widow's mite" to a Treasury so Harrell-wife of the district pas- impoverished as ours, in spite of senger agent of the Dollar Steam-re held either at his private cement and thereby tone them up

home at the Frinz Regenten Platz, somewhat. Mr. Saburo ship Line at Manila. the rising surpluses. In like man-be-a member of the ataff of or at the offices of the party, dicated as a per no one winning a thousand Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, on a busi-which recently purchased a largo colour, and with a few Inter building in the Brienner Street, a sections dane in pink and yellow or two dollars in return for the ness trip to Hong Kong.

quiet thoroughfare in the centre and a curbing or two in lavender, the streets would become too al- of the city. outlay of two or five dollars at'

With A concert will be given in the Fanling

Herr Hitler'a home at the Prinz luring to keep away from. OF Happy Valley

Helena May. Institute on Thurs

Regenten Platz is a six room flat. the new trend in and flare for would mind deducting

day, November 20, at 5.30

To call it a "home," however, coloured automobilea as demon- fractional proportion of his wind- organised by Mrs. Womack, assist would convey a wrong impression. strated at the Grand Palais, this fall in greasing the Governmental ed by Mrs. R. Gregory, Miss Owen Only two rooms are for his per coloured street innovation seems Hughes, Miss M. Glendenning.sonal needs. The remaining four a logical conclusion, United machinery.

are usually used as guest rooms Press. for visiting aub-leaders and

Miss P. Scott Little, Mrs. D. The main objection to taxing Valentine, Mrs. D. King, Miss E. any other forms-of-amusements Ford, Miss. Gittins, Miss friends. But there is not much

the Public.

Advt.

or.

Open to

CORRESPONDENCE.

is the disastrous, effect it will Stringer. have not on the bachelor spinster, but the family man and woman who can even now afford the admission fees at thea- tres and cinemse for four or five

of a family. This is the class

CENOTAPH CEREMONY.

privacy for Herr Hitler even in

Green has been in- nice soft restful

his own two rooms, a bedroom beverages have no place on his and. a writing room. The writing table. Nor does he smoke tobacco room is largely devoted to confer-in any form. At beadquarters ho ences, while his bedroom, at least receives the reports of the various early in the morning, too, is used department heads, gives his in- as a working room

structions for the day and then To the Editor of "Chins Mail.") At seven o'clock in the morn- begins his daily routine of confer Sir, I have just seen a photo-ing. hardly ever later, Herr Hitler, ence with sub-lenders from vari that will be the hardest hit by graph depicting the irreverent still in bed, receives individually ous parts of the country.

The Dictator. the Entertainment Duties pro- scene at the Cenotaph, immediate the three men of his staff, charg

At these conferences Herr vided for in the draft Bill. The ly after the troops had departeded with giving him a report on

As often as Hitler so his intimates assert. not have had

abilities. proposed legislation lacks the on the forenoon of Armistice Day. the morning press.

more shows his dictatorial Words fall to express the Indig-not he will elementary element of equity, and nation which is generally felt that than four or five hours of sleep His word is final, and he is able where that is the case it deserves such conditions are permitted and when these early callers arrive. to sway a small conference just allowed to obtain in a British Conferences are rarely adjourned as he is able to sway a mass meet to be met with the strongest op-

on that until the next day, but are finish-irg. The theory that Herr Hitler, Colony, where so many, position, if not passive resistance day in particular, are reminded of ed, even though they last all as hi advesraarica' claim, is mere

ly a puppet, a leader only to finding its way on to the Statute-made by relatives and friends dur-

ing the Great War, while others a 'definite field. One will report is popular, but in truth directed book.

remember the pain and suffering on internal politics, one on for-by some power behind the scenes, The more one reads the draft

It may be presumed that pro-of the wounded and sightless. eign affairs, while the domain of is scorned by his friends." of the Bill providing for a tax

He keeps a very strict, military moters of entertainments will Is not the Cenotaph quadrangle the third Is the Important con-

"Dia- on amusements the more one is have to submit some kind of sacred ground?

tents of foreign newspapers, discipline in his party.

French, English and cipline is his middle name," re- inclined to be critical. If the

The procedure as adopted on chiefly balance sheets to the Treasury Armistice Day at the Cenotaph in American. Non-political news is marked a friend of Herr Hitler, framers had limited its operation to football and racing, but includ-for confirmation of the amount London, might easily be followed rarely included in these oxal re- who lived in the United States for again, in Hong Kong, and there would be ports, except if they be of a several years and knows what this

colloquial world-shaking character,

expression mena a. ed a tax on race sweeps and even payable in tax. Here,

extra work must be thrown on no complaints.

Spoken Word.

Speaking to his most intimate sub- raffles (either in aid of charity or

It is regretted that it is found

Herr Hitler himself does not ordinates colaborators would seem otherwise), it might have secured the staff of the Treasury and necessary to publish a letter of

Audit staffs, as well as on those this nature, but this is done with read newspapers;, not ordinarily, an ill applied term-one gets the greater public support than ap-

who have to take the trouble to the hope that by drawing public He does not think so highly of impression that he has enforced He is of this strict discipline everywhere pears likely under the compremake out the balance sheets in a will be effected. Yours, etc.,

attention to the matter, a remedy the power of the Press.

the opinion that, for propaganda and that he actually is the "Osaf" hensive scheme now proposed.

manner satisfactory to the

purposes, the spoken is much more name made up of the first let- The main clauses 'of the BI

effective than the printed word. ters of the German words "Ober- Here, again, dis suggest that the framers have authorities.

recent ster Sturm-Abteilungs Fuehrer." His friends point' to the examined the Amusements Tax content will be bred over aggre-

German elections as proof of this, meaning "highest in command of The fascists carried-tho-day-al- the fascist shock-troops," which is Act in Australia, but even then gate amounts entirely. out of

though they, almost exclusively, Herr Hitler's official title in his they have closed their eyes to the keeping with the net sums that

bulit their election campaign on party. will accrue to the Treasury in the amount of revenue that is

His ability to command is pay- the spoken word. They had at:

It hard- secured there by a tax on foot- shape of tax,

their disposal hardly any news-chologically Interesting. paper worthy of mention, while ly can be the result of his six ball and racing plus taxes on bet-

the parties Into which the fas-years of army training. Although, ting tickets and lotteries such as

short periods la cista made auch heavy inroads aside from two Tattersall's and the Golden the Official or Unofficial members

had at their command the most hospital he served all through the of the Legislative Council. It is

a rank A triple-screw Fokker air liner influential newspapers and news-war, he never attained Casket.

higher than that of a lance-cor

TAX ON AMUSEMENTS in the event of the Ordinance the supreme aacrifice which was night.

Each of the three reporters has show to the masses with whom he

It seems quite insufficient that the last word should rest with

T. T. LAURENSON,

President, Ex-Active Service Men's Association.

1930.

Hong Kong, November 15,

AN AERIAL AMBULANCE.

Injured Woman's 500 - Mile Flight

Here raffles are supposed to be a measure that calls for a re- was recently converted into an agencies in the country.

ambulance by the Royal Dutch, After having received the daily poral. The rank of sorgeant

of the Inspector-General of Police

News in

__Brief.

as illegal as cash sweeps, but ferendum or plebiscite of the Air Line to fly a woman, whose reports on the Fress, Herr. Hitler which he attained during his al- they flourish all over the Colony, whole community, for it will affect spine had been dislocated in a gets out of bed, washes and most two years of post-war ser being promoted both by charit the pockets of every class, motor accident while on holiday shaves both with cold water vice in the Relchwehr could also irrespective of whether they can in England, from Croydon to her He considers hot water effeminate, hardly have afforded him a chance able institutions and private in-

afford the proposed tax or not home in Flensberg, Germany even for shaving. Then he for developing the ability to be

The fifteen seats in the air-liner dividuals, the latter of whom would never obtain the sanction.

were removed and a specially dresses. He always wears dark. come a commander. Yet there it or navy blue suits. They might, according to the unanimous spring bed was erected, as the have been made by a first-class statement of men close to him, slightest jar would have proved taller, but they hardly look it. Including many former officers had they the temerity to approach The Rev. Lawrence N. Watkins fatal,

and his bride returned from their him for such. Raffles, in pri honeymoon trip to Manila by the by her parents and a doctor and Far from it. He looks neatly

The invalid was accompanied Not that his trousers are baggy, of the Imperial army-United

or his coat worn at the sleeves. Prèse. ciple, are no better than cash.a. President Pierce.

nurse, and the 500 miles flight to dressed. But there is no style to sweeps on pony races; when they

Flensberg was made non-stop in his clothes. The trousers are are aimed at improving the The forthcoming marriage to under five hours.

nofther widenor, narrow, The finances of the inuividual who announced of Hugh Cetil Rabbetts,

coat usually double breasted, civil servant, of Shanghai, to can think of no other way Fot

Lucille Stegman, also of Shanghai. For the first eight months of rather tight round the waist, raising the wind," they are con

the sear exports of pulp and would give its wearer the appear God, Who madeet Earth and

Heaven, siderably worse. No person who The body of a Chinese female paper from Canada were valued anco of a military man, in civilian gains, a motor cycle, a camera,

A PRAYER FOR THE NIGHT.

named Tong Aza (45) was scat to at $119,117,190, according to the clothes, were it not for the slight Darkness and light; compl the Kowloon Mortuary from Sham-monthly report of the Canadian stoop of the shoulders which, of Who the day for toll hast given, a gramophone, for

The woman, ulp and Paper Association. late, has become more pronounced For rest the night; an unnumbered but Wood pulp exporte for the period in the fascist leaders formerly May Thine angel-guards defend

was amounted to 820,851,657 and ex-erect carriage,

of similar value, who resid

cause or in Pak

down and killed ports of paper to $92,266,583 as Herr Adolf Hitler eat a light alumber awest Thy mercy send us. the compared with $28,809,844 and breakfast before he hurries over Holy, dreams, and hopes attend us,

101F160094 FGFpectively in the to the party's official headquarters. This livelong nightmar

----BISHOP HERE.. month of 1929. He is a frugal eater. Alcoholic