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Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 17, 1931.

ADVERSARIA.

A subaltern in the R.E.'s, His Colonel was trying to please. But that worthy was dry, And abjured him to try.

His blarney on some other geese,

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A "Civil" who worked very hard Found the views of his seniora

jarred.

So he sent in a chit Which they thought wasn't "It," And now that young "Civil" is

barred.

"

A Chinese who wanted to know If whiskers were easy to grow, Stopped shaving each day, But to his dismay

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931.

The list of masters, mates, and engineers, who have passed their Examinations and obtained certi- fcates of Competency, issued under the provisions of Her Majesty's! Order in Council of the December

PROSPECTS FOR GERMANY.

31. 1883, for the year ended Decem-People Watch 1930 Pass ber 31, 1930, is published in the Gazette.

with Relief.

NEW YEAR MESSAGE.

Yesterday Chan Ming (21) and Chan Sik-tin (14) were convicted at the Kowloon Magistracy, of breaking and entering 293 Laichi- kok Road, and stealing two rattan baskets containing $24 in money, a New Year's message to the Ger- four gold rings, a pair of ear-rings man nation in which he reviews the present difficulties which the and 35 pleces of female clothing, thei

Chancellor Bruening has issued

Their growth was exceedingly property of an amah. Ficat country has to face, in a calm spirit, seeking to divert all the political energies

slow.

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How's Your Poor Old

Brain?

the

accused was sentenced to three water-of-fact months' hard labour, whilst Dr. Fennelly's youth was ordered to receive twelve which the situation has unleashed, atrokas with the cane and to be into useful, constructive channels. visit is none too deported.

The Chancellor thus says: "Mil- Blons of our people will see the premature. I have!

In the Cathedral Hall last year 1930 pass away with a sigh of always felt that evening, Mr. Bascom Johnson relief that it is at last over for it by was a year of burdens which it was Hong Kong badly addressed a meeting convened

the League of Nations Society in hard to carry. The deepening do needed psycho-analysing. We are Hong Kong, on "The Social and pression of the last three years Humanitarian Work of the "League plunged millions of Germans into full of complexes-Dedipus to the of Nations," and, in reply to the the slough of unemployment while left of you, Electra to the right Rev. H. V. Koop, explained why the the Anances of the federal states of you. And, now, to, crown the United States was held back from and of the communes assumed an critical aspect, thus [classification of mind-states, there joining. He thought that the ever more

initial cause of the policy followed adding further weight to the da- is the Dollar complex. The syn- by the U.S.A. Government, was the presston already boring so hard ptoms of this are a tendency to effect of Mr. Wilson being a better upon our people, filling it with Mr. doubts whether present diaposition keep the hands in the pockets of statesman than a politician. one's trousers and a pitiful at-Johnson elaborated on the growth of the political and constitutional of the League, and referred to the forces were really adequate to tempt to try to look like a miser. good work being done as regards guarantee the life and progress of Both of these falling, an child welfare and the suppression in the nation. Movements have arisen

which, starting from auch doubts," represented the established order of things as the author of an im minent ruin of the state and of the people's distress. These move. ments claimed for themselves the ability to refashion and revivify the state and present civilization along own lines. However, auch movements were to be foreseen since they are the normal pheno- mona appearing after the estab A four days' search by dețec- |lishment of some new political tives in every kely nook or regime which may have failed to cranny for seven highly dangerous realize fully the sanguine dreams

A vote of

anxiety neurosis develops, the the traffic of opium.

thanks was proposed by the Hon. patient is liable to take up vio-Mr. W. E. L. Shenton. lent exercise, such as golf, much to the consternation of his friends, and the first terrible signs of punningitis, that grim' drawing-room, discase, are occa-

as one was about to pounce upon sionally to be detected. If his

an

e&B, “hang bằng? д salvo of

guns

went contortions fail to produce laugh-] from ter or applause, the patient is the Tamar, One rushed to the known to collapse into a state of window with

FIGHT WITH LUNATICS.

Search For Seven Escaped Criminals.

New York, Dec. 8.

a faint stir of melancholy or to go limp. Turn criminal lunatics, who had escap-of its prenatal advocates. excitement. Yellowish-grey puffs the handle please. Thank you! of smoke billowed from the sides To humour I am prone at times

no more.

A dun grey War-Then its by chance, God bless it! ship in mid-stream returned the But here a matter takes salute. "Boom! boom!” rang thought,

my

"which means

ed from an asylum in New Jersey, The Chancellor then refers to was rewarded when the police the unselfish sacrifices of those spotted four of their quarry enter- who made accure the unemploy of the old sea-dog which knows Though you might never guess it;ing a flat occupied by a woman to ment insurance the joy of a running

sea And if by chance my doggerel which one of the fugitives was much more than the name implies,"

rhymes

formerly engaged.

points cut that German public The police rushed the place, and economic life, was saved from dira there was a desperate fight in the catastrophies through the CO dark fat for half an hour before operation of the sensible elements they finally

the in. the cltics as well overpowered

as in the countryside, retorts to those who assert that Germany is already in the depth of catastrophe that "they don't know what they are talking about," adds that "so long as we possess life-strength we shall an ceasingly toil at the task of im- proving existing conditions" but that that strength in order to be constructive and not destructive must be disciplined.

Among them was Harry Fordon, the so-called "Mad Butcher, whose obsession is that he is endowed with the divine right to kill,

The three men who are still at large Include the world's dead- est pyromaniac...

across the harbour, little spurts The matter of psychology:

mantucs. A subject I was never taught of flame leaping out of a cloud of When I learnt the Doxology. smoke. One thought of naval battles long ago, when broadsides According to the experts, we

Have latent powers hidden did little more damage than the Within the skull's capacity splintering of a wooden mast or, That do what they are bidden, after a day-long engagement, the If only we will analyse sinking of an enemy vessel.

The things that lle forgotten- To-The feeble puns, the little lies, ··· day the reality of a naval battle The things we thought were is no tale for the nursery; and rotten.

even the man behind the torpedo So when you're feeling poor of needs something of Drake's in- domitable spirit.

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purse

rain

News in Brief.

The Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso, LL.D.,

WOMAN USHER WANTED. ...

Finally the the Chancellor sum- Mr. Justice Swift' on November marizes his New Year wishes to the | 14 commented on the fact that no nation thus: "May the German woman usher is attached to the people in unity and regardless of staff of the Old Bailey,

class, profession and age accrue in He had noticed an elderly woman ability and hability to nurse and witness trembling in the box, and properly apply its rich gift and

he asked if there was a woman unexhaustible forces and realize usher who could attend to har. He that constructive work requires. was told there were no womon courage, industriousness and per- ushers at the Old Bailey, and the severance without obscuring hatred man usher went out and brought and envy and with a proper out- back a woman who volunteered to look on what is important and what attend to the witness.

unimportant." Concluding, the

"I wonder how long it will be Chancellor warns the people before a woman usher is provided against Illusiona which are always at the Central Criminal Court," followed by disappointments as the the Judge said. "Almost every potentialities of politics are only

And life is detrimental, Address a fervid little verse, Succinct, not sentimental, "Pashun," said the To some wise genie in the brain One Flash lounge lizard, (Housed just above the collar), of Pashun. adroitly adjusting And you will find the heavens

his bow, which was Bright showers of the Dollar. nearly as large as the Mad Hat- "Without fear, favour or malice."ter's, "is merely a matter of in- elination.". Here he cleared his We are all apt to glottis with a sound like the Officers of make mistakes, and scraping of a battleship's side, the housing gentle- and turned to his audience to see men (not brick-the effect of his words. layers) are not the only people limp maiden shook her flaccid who drop bricks. Adversarian locks and gave a wide, meaning-yesterday was 65 degrees, once, with the unforgivable ignor less smile. "Ooer!" she said. ance of the griffin, referred to a

Undaunted by this sffront, he member of a banking corpora-sidled up to her and said in a tion as a "clerk."

Mr. Gerald Dodson This voice that was reminiscent of Mining Administration's mines for greeted with stony silence, and he treacle, "At the moment I happen to 91,839 tons, and the sale to judge's observation would have the was led into a private office where to have the inclination but, in 101,664 tons.

the Bank.

The

O.B.E., will distribute the prizes at the Munsang College, Kowloon City,

on January 28...

time I am here I have to seek the limited-Trans-Ocean Kuo Min. services of a woman volunteer.

"I have been making this ob- Theservation for ten years, and now,

The lowest open air temperature.

humidity at 10 am. was 68 degrees and at 10 p.m. 55 degrees.

The total output of the Kailan

the week ended January 3 amounted

effect from January 28.

•

in the year 1980, I have again to BIG DOPE SEIZURE. point out that there is no woman usher in this court to attend · to women witnesses or jurors.

(Treasury 1,900 POUNDS OF DRUGS FOUND counsel) said that no doubt the

IN FURS.

desired effect.

Mr. Justice Swift:

When you

Ten Years Ago,

it was explained to him, in solemn order to engender a perfect com-

Washington, Doc. 18. tones, that all gentlemen employ-manion of souls (here he sighed Bilk forwarded from here by Em- are as old as I am perhaps you will One thousand nine hundred ed by the Bank were known as like a mastiff after a heavy meal) arrived in New York (St. John's

press of Canada on December 25 not be so optimistic,

pounds of drugs, described as the [A woman, usher became are-largest seizure ever made in the "officers." "At Home," said the you must have it too." He wait-Park) and Hoboken on January 14, gular member of the official staff United States, was seized by the Manager, with a deprecatory gesed, tapping an elegant shoe on having been 20 days in transit. at the Law Courts when women Customs authorities in New York ture, "there are clerks. Out here, the carpet.

were made eligible to act as jurors. harbour on board à vessel from they are all officers." After this A trifle, nonplussed by this in- been pleased to appoint Chevalier to any woman in distress, and le

His Excellency the Governor has She is at Land to render assistance Constantinople: I always approach the counter tellectual affront, she grabbed his Jose Miguel Alves to be a member also in charge of the female se cases of furs. The authorities The drugs were enclosed In with some timidity and say, with knees as she had seen Norma of the Board of Education for a tlon of a mixed jury when they re have not yet succeeded in tracing a faltering voice, "P-please, sir, Talmadge do in "Scarlet Love," further period of two years, with tire to deliberate in private.] the smugglers who were evidently. may Ip-pay in this cheque?" Anand looked up at him like a whip

aware of the discovery of the drugs ALondon paper reports that and did not claim the parcels of acquaintance, however, who fear ped cur. "Eeat me!" she pleaded,

The annual social of the Univar as a Brighton omnibus-conductor the furs when the vessel was dock- ed neither man nor beast, on one wriggling into a suitable position.be held on January 17, in the Great of Chariton Court, was acting as

sity Christian. Associatoin will be named Hugh Gregory Robinson, led. occasion approached one Subaltern He eyed her with the deadly calm Hall at 8 pm Alf interested are starter at a whippet race meeting of the Bank and, pointing to an look of an hotel souffle. This welcomed. There will be masle, the spring of the pistol flew back officer lounging behind the bars was a situation he had not cater-games, refreshments, etc...

and Injured his fingor, setting up said, "Tell that damn Major with ed for. What did one do? Man-At the Central Palice Court yes-aled in hospital-subsequently. lock-jaw. Robinson, who was 28, the sword behind his ear to at fully he braced himself for the terday, the Second Magistrate, Mr. Robinson and his wife were in- tend to me

occasion.Will you come to the EH. Williams, reserved his de- strumental in saving the life of a movies to-night, Gladys?" he Kuen, a fruit stali foki, appeared in February. The chief was 11/16.

cision in the case in which Ng 1-year-old girl named Neily Goble faltered, returning to normal, charged with murder in Wing Lok known as the "Little Mother" of

the weather experts say. Street.

Carlton: Court, having had the

The preliminary examination of (With Apologies to Ethel Dell):

care of her younger brothers and The Tung Wah Ecapital received sisters since the death of her W. E. Fraser, mate of the British a message from the Kwong Wah mother. One day she ran into steamer Peraian Prince, who was Before she arose Hospital to the effects that Kwok the street with her clothes on fire. Arrested on a charge of causing the Rhymes for to the Peak, Young (98), a cook boy, employed Mr. and Mrs. Robinson tore off the death of a Japanese, G. Suzuki, 16 the B

Ribald.

by Mr. Williams at Taipo-kau, was burning clothes. Mre. Robinson years of age, on board the vessel on Matilda was timid admitted to the latter hospital eu?- was deverely burned, and her in November 19, was concluded at the fering from suffocation stated to juries have deconallated her al Yokohama Chiho dalbansho recent have been caused by having a most daily attendance at hospital when the accused was found charcoal fire in his room, the wise ever since. Mrs. Robinson was guilty and committed for public. With a smile that is cutting and dows and doors of which were clas publicly presented by the Major trial The date of the trial has Just 115 + bleakers so

yed all night. Cl

with certificate for life-saving not yet been fixed..

There is some- A Breakfast thing romantic,

Eplaode. eve

the sobriquet of "gloriau Inaval battle which raises

the sordid and muddy engage-

d-worn

abova

ments - of trench warfare. One

and meek, could not escape a thrill, even But now she offends

the Japanese gunboat Her Bowen Road friends

When

uteredR the

on 7 Monday-morning.

[From the "China Mai?".

January 17, 1921.];

To-day's dollar is worth 2/11