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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1931.

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BRITISH CODE OF HONOUR.

position, have been removing this way the word acquired its pre- the money they had deposited in sent meaning to haggle.-Chris- London. But Great Britain has tian Science Monitor. decided to suspend the gold stand Absent-Minded Professors, ard for a time. Sterling, says: This story is very old; it relates the Chancellor, is not going to that on que occasion as a professor tuhod a corner without looking get out of hand. Britain has still where he was going he ran into a large resources which can be em Cow. A little later, turning an- ployed to check an excessive fall. other corner, hen into a lady The pound may remain a little and exclaimed, “Is that that brute fashionable

below level, but it will later re- cover, quoth the seer of British finance.

again?"

Scene in Czech Hotel.

Carlsbad, Aug. 19:

A scene has occurred in the most Carlsbad hotel, In which a British film actor, a form- er flying officer, his beautiful Ger- - The following may not be quite man fiancee, styled "The Queen of so well known: Professor-had Fashions," and an Austrian Count, set at one cold Sunday morning the son of a former Austrian For Staunch upholders of the gold from his house in Aberdeen to eign Minister, were involved. It standard may deplore the tem- preach in a neighbouring town. resulted in the Count being struck

"fall

After walking against the wind for | on the face and porary

the Briton, grace"

an hour or so he stopped to blow Capt. Charles Leven Lincoln, being of the

British Government; his nose and in doing this, turned acquitted by a court, with a 'refer- but they

have On their round to have his back to the wind.ence by the Judge to British laws of side solid historical facts all 'On replacing his hankerchief he re-honour.

Capt. Leven Lincoln was sitting

froni

pointing to the reintroduction sued his walk only to find himself

in due time on his own doorstep with his fiancee. Misa Hilde Zimmer- of the gold standard as speedily again!

mann, when a note, from Count as the economic crisis will permit.

Hans Czernin was handed. to Miss Zimmermann. asking her to Nor need the present decision

meet him. Capt... Loven. Lincoln disturb in the slightest degree

read the note, and. as the Count, had then disappeared, went to his the advocates of a gold standard

News in Brief.

Two years ago yesterday the ss.

for Hong Kong or the advocates Dell Maru was attacked by pirates home on the following morning.

of the movement in favour of n fixed international standard of exchange. Neither proposal has been, or need be, definitely aban- doned!

From Other Pens.

Jumping Joan

The jump trick practised on simple Londoner-where a pair of sham electricians busily removed: valuables while the housemaid was

an ob-

on a more

'near Blas Bay.

The

The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 70 degrees. humidity was 76 at 10a.m. and 72 at 4 p.n.

The Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- rania, is not opening its doors to day, according to a Reuter's cables gram from Pittsburg.

press

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After an exchange of words he struck him under the eye.

The Count brought an action, bat Capt. Leven Lincoln was found not guilty under the old Austrian penal codo still valid in Czecho-Slovakla,

a malicious by which

motive excluded when the accused acts under an Irresistible impulse or self-defence. The judge said:

"It may be that in Berlin

Capt. Leven

DI

Lincoln's

Eger.

Carlsbad court.-Exchange Tele graph.

Silk forwarded from here by Em-Vienn some people exist who would of Russia on August 28 but the British captain was com

not retallate on such an offence,. arrived in New York (St. John's polled to act la accordance with the Park) and Hoboken on September unwritten laws of honour of Great 18, having been 21 days in transit. Britain. If he had not done so he would have been considered ♫ The Royal Observatory. Kowloon, coward, and an honourless indi. of employment at a high level upstairs jumping by request above issued the following report, lastvidual by his countrymen."

the chandelier to "loosen by influencing the regular flow of struction is not a new stunt; but

night: A strong local earthquake Count Czernin's appeal is to was recorded at the toynl Observa- savings into investment at Home only an elaboration of an old one, tory at 6 hrs. 27 mins. 59 secs. come before.the Appeal Court.at

is practised la country villages five this evening, September 21. and abroad 80 far дя

and-twenty years compatible with the internation- and at scale bat with superior at preliminary tremors lasted for 10 port has been kept by the

seconds, indicating that the centre The majority of tractions (since it does not appear of disturbance was about 60 miles Off the Gold Standard.al situation."

the Macmillan Committee-a not- that the London maid was offered

The maximum To the average reader of able exception being Lord Brad any inducement to jump). The from the Colony.

method was thie: A plea- ! newspapers-and even

to the bury-consider, however, that

man Bant-spoken

called, at' average maker of newspapers the present acute industrial and a -cottage door and said It may

seem peculiar that the financial malady, and the pros was the new agent, and the landlorded from the record.

had sent him to see if any repairs that Bame amount of acclaim

pect of a growing shortage of

Supporters of British films are were required on the property. (In greeted the re-adoption of the

gold, together provide more than those days such a mission could being well catered for now in this gold standard by Great Britain sufficient justification for an ex-still be credited by the tenant). British Colony of oure.

periment in managing Britain's The old woman tenant, full of joy, currency system.

two

1

her landlord and the kindness of

movement, of 70 millimetres, occur. red at 6.28.30 p.m. The direction

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NEWS IN ADVTS.

of the centre cannot be ascertain Kong Amusements, Ltd., will be The yearly meeting of Hong

held on September 30.

There has

The Chinese Maritime Customis offices and stations. In Kowloon and

not been one failure amongst the district will be closed on Saturday British talkies, so far "seen and

heard" here. Another winger has

7 Tokyo-

next.

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To-day's Thought.

Car

He seems to me to be the greatest man who rises to a higher position by his own merit, and not one who climbs up by the injury and dis aster of another.

-Cleero.

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Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mait" of September 22. 1921.)

To-day's dollar is worth 2/95%.

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in 1925 should be vouchsafed to the decision to go off the gold

took the ageut and showed him how the door swelled and stuck on the

The 16th semi-annual race standard again temporarily,

It is encyclopaedic informa-stone floor, and where the rain been secured by the King's Theatro the Trevessa Trophy, will be held

for the next change of programme. window- When even the Prime Minister tion that the theory of the gold came through, and the

casement had rotted away, and the "Bed and Breakfast," transformed

This is the notable stage farce to-morrow. Conditions are detall-

ed on page 8. confesses in effect that he knows standard rests on the principle replace was falling to pieces, and

into a talkie. Having been pre- little or nothing about finance that one metal is a better criter- various other long-standing and has to depend on his |

ion for measuring values than grievances, of all of which he made seat at the advance screening we advisers and on the Bank of two (gold and silver), since the remedied.

a note, promising they should be can confidently recommend "Bed and Breakfast" as first class enter- tainment. England for the little knowledge fluctuations that occur by the "What about these old floors?"" he possesses, it is no cause for substitution of one metal for the was the next solicitous inquiry.

Personal Pars. wonder that the average reader other are certain to be disturb "Are you sure your bedroom-floor is safe? Does it feel at all shaky of newspapers at Home and Over-ing. There is the further dif- when you walk across it? Sup-

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ruttonjee and seas should find himself morass-ficulty that no zatia can be per-pose you go up and jump in the

returned from ed in the bog of complexities and manently fixed between

middle of it, while I watch down Miss Ruttonjec

Shanghai yesterday by the s.s, Fre here?" perplexities. Why should the metals, as their values must The old lady, still excited andsident Hoover. readoption of the gold standard vary with the alterations in pro-exulting in the change of heart of Allen and Moyle, who were forced and the suspension of that stand duction. The inherent simplicity his new agent, went upstairs and down when attempting ard six years later be regarded and, so to speak, "naturalness" jumped heartily.

Seattle fight, and had been given by those who rule our monetary of the single standard is best "Thank you.. WIII you jump up for dead, landed at Nome; destinies as one of the panaceas realised by embodying it in gold, again as hard as you can till I call Alaska, at 0.15 a.m. on September

The Shanghai Interport bowls 'Stop," the agent shouted up-21, according to Reuter. of Great Britain's economic ills? which is universally desired, of

team completed its programme, here stairs.

The marriage will take place in when it met and defeated & Graigen” Summaries of the Macmillan high coat, and yet found in suf- She jumped again. She jumped Report have been, read, and ficient amount so far to dis-and jumped till she could jump no the Union Church, Kennedy Road, gewer Club four by 17-14,

on Thursday afternoon, of Nancy,

Although Craigengower's in the longer. Then, hearing no response there it WEB disclosed that charge the money work of the and quite out of breath, she de daughter of Dr. ad Mrs. Li Shu-fan, youngest bowl steam in the Colony and Lambert, son of Mr. and Mrs. It is not so long ago that the the Committee emphatically re-standard.

scended. The agent had gone jected proposals both

There will later game was introduced to the Club's for de- Under the gold standard the and, as she soon discovered, had Philip Gockchin. valuating the pound sterling and | Bank of England was authorised taken the watch, the money in the be a reception in the Hong Kong members yesterday's game against teapot on the mantelpiece, and Hotel Roof Garden, and, on Friday the visitors was hotly contested. for abandoning the gold standard to sell gold at a fixed price. Now everything else he and thought night, a banquet in the Kwong The scoring was slow, but this did not affect the game which was full altogether. It went even fur that legal requirement has been worth his

of interest throughout. |ther, for it declared that "if this suspended, temporarily.. It is

Mias 'Edris d'Aquino, a pupil of The teams were under: country [Britain; of course] were emphasised that Britain has been

Miss Maria, Games, gave her first Shanghai: Brown, Landers, to cut adrift from the inter- forced off the gold standard not

last night. She was fortunate in

Cralgengower: - Omar, Allen, national system, with the object through any internal weakness, teresting to note that the word, her choice of songs, which includ- Basa, and Bradbury - (Skip). of setting up a local standard but by the malfunctioning of the "electric" is nothing more or less ed groups by Tosti, Ruy Coelho,

This Padilla's

"Princesita," and with a sole regard to our domes world's monetary system, follow than the Greek for amber.

substanco, as is well known, ac d'Alvarez' "Granada." Miss tic situation, we should be abaned by a demoralisation of exquires magnetic properties when d'Aquino was the recipient of con- doning the larger problem the changes. Britons have been as rubbed, and it is this fact that ac gratulations, as was her teacher. solution of which is certainly Bured by the Chancellor of the counts for the adoption of the Professor Gonsales contributed

Greek word, appiled in all its couple of violin solos to the proj necessary to a satisfactory solu- Exchequer that sterling will not variations, to that marvellous na gramme. tion of the purely domestic pro go the way of the mark and tural foros, electricity. blem-just at the moment, may franc. There is now no longer

Guardian.

Electric.

attention.--Manchester Chow Restaurant.

In an age of electricity it is in./song recital in the Club de Recreio Shaw, and MeAllster (Skip). '

be, when, if we were able to look any risk of internal inflation, and, Dicker.

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LEA &

Sitting without a jury yesterday afternoon, Mr. Fraser at the Kow

Magistracy conducted

PERRINS

a

SAUCE

a little forward, the beginnings though the value of sterling mayefon, "to dicker," has an Interest Coroner's Inquiry into the cir

Our somewhat inelegant expres-loow. of general progress would be be- fall in terms of foreign currency, ing history. "Dicker" is a corrupcumstances attending the death, coming visible. Within the we are assured that the tion of "docuria, set of ten. The by strangulation, of Able Scaman limits set by the gold standard, extent of the fall will be limited. Latin word was especially applied Archie Hall in a flat in Haiphong to a bundle often hides, used by Road on September 6. Lieutenant and after the present extreme He emphasised the soundness the Romans as a unit of tribute and Dwane, of HIM.S. Seraph, Bald depression of prices has been of British banking institutions barter among their conquered sub that Hall was 22 years of age. Ha deliberately corrected, "the on-and their ability to meet all their Jects along the northern frontiers joined the service in 1925 and was of the empire. In America much appointed to the Seraph in Febru deavour of domestic manage obligations, but that has not been

He held a good record. similar bartering was done in the ary, 1929. ment is described as "to pro- true of all banks abroad. For early days with the Indians in con- The Coroner returned a verdict of mote the stability of output and eign banks, fearful of their own nection with the fur trade, and in."Suloide by hanging."

A simple flavouring rule