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A.

A PIECE OF LUCK!

Something for Nothing!

FROM THIS DATE

A REAL ROLLED GOLD

GILLETTE RAZOR OF THE

LATEST TYPE WILL BE GIVEN AWAY

FREE WITH EVERY PACKET

OF TEN GILLETTE RAZOR BLADES PURCHASED

AT

THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY

S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

EST. 1841.

PYJAMAS

AND

UNDERWEARS

Have Just Received a Nice Selection

of

CHRISTMAS GIFTS

LUNCHEON. DINNER AND BRIDGE SETS, COCKTAIL NAPKINS. AND GUEST TOWELS.

GRAY'S YELLOW --

LANTERN SHOPS.

Alexandra Bldg., corner of Des Varux Road C..

und Chater. Rond.

NO NEED TO BUY A NEW DRESS.

TO GO TO THE SPECIAI HOTEL, DANCES.

JUST SEND US YOUR OLD ONE. WE WILL MAKE T LOOK LIKE NEW.

THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO.

143, Wong Nel Chung Road,

Happy Valley.

36, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

19. Wyndham St.'

Hong Kong.

73, Caine Road, Hong Kong

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GIVE

THEM·

A TRIAL

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By Appointment Wine and Spirit Merchants

To H.M. The King..

SOLE AGENTŞ:-.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

WHITEAWAYS

STOCK REDUCING SALE.

MEN'S HATS AT LANDED COST.

SNAP BRIM FELTS.

Men's Smart Snap Brim Felt in Nice Shades of Greys, Fawns, etc., ele.

Usual Price $7.95. Sale Price $4.75

Usual Price $11.50,- Sale Price $7.50.

Usual Price $18.50. Sale Price $10.00.

GREAT BARGAINS IN PULLOVERS.

10.50

$7.50 TO COME EARLY FOR BEST SIZES.

MEN'S OUTFITTING DEPT.

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

The China Mall

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1931.

Warns

paper

Real Economy.

cannot afford it if you need it, or if it can be used to your ad- vantage. Don't put off buying,

never

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931.

"It's no good," she says, "To-day' THREE CHILDREN PER DISPUTANTS STATE

not my eating day.

It's my

sister's." There is a certain grimness in the suggestion to the Russian masses, who know all about starva tion, that food conditions In America are worge than in their own country.

FAMILY.

Needed to Keep Up Population.

CASES.

(Continued from Page 1) -

The Chinese Cuse.

Geneva, Yesterday. Dr. Szo, who was greatly moveil, pointed out that as soon as China had been taken unawares by the erents following the night of Sep-" Right to Marriage.

"Three children per family are; The South Norwood vicar who required to make good the losses ember 13. she appealed to the League. Her territory was oc- requires couples desiring to be and keep up the population. One cupled by foreign forces, and she married to any whether they believe child families mean halving thei in the indissolubility of marriage population. will, I think, find himself in trouble If he is not careful.

Apparently no negative answer has yet been given. But the plain implication is that, if it were, the vicar would refuse to perform the ceremony, which would be a flat de- flance of the law.

was the victini of forms of violence which generally prompted people "The Dominions and Colonics of to use violence in return bat Britain occupy one-fourth of the China turned instead to the insti" best land of the world, and we ought tution at Geneva and placed her to send there a quarter of a million case unreservedly before emigrants a year.

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League, and agreed to be guided Sir Leonard Hill, in his pre-in her action by the decisions of sidential address to the Sanitary In- the Council.

A Serious Outrage.

be

Every person has a common Invertors Association Congresa at right to be married in his parish rington made these observations! It was hoped that by October 14 church by his parish clegymant, suh- with reference to the over-populu- the Japanese troops would ject to certain exceptions Inid down tion of Great Britan and the under withdrawn to the railway zone or outside China, but instead there population of the Empire. Those by statute.

who do

nat

were further acts of violence by believe in the indissolubility of Young People Needed,

Japanese troops, culminating in Between 1921 and 1931, Sir the bombing of Chinchow. It was marriage are not included among

Leonard pointed out, the population the seriousness of this outrage these exceptions.

of Great Britain had increased it which compelled the Chinese Gov- ine saving effected by the fall in ernment to ask the League to meet A Broadmoor Autobiography,

le more than in the ten years 1911- again as early as possible.. The Broadmoor autobiography, 192, which included the war period! "Dignified Calm." which is published under the the infant mortality rate compen- Dr. Sze referred to the Chinese title of "Guilty, But Insane," is a sated very little for the enormous appeal to the League and to remarkable document. The author drop in the bhth-rate, and very Chiang Kai-shek's proclamations is # mun who took first-class shortly the population would be sta on September 22 and in October, honours at his University, served tionary.

and emphasised that China had with distinction in the war, and "We need young people," said Sir not resisted, and had withdrawn afterwards, as a result of a nervous Leonard Hill, "to govern and her troops and maintained an at- breakdown, murdered one' of hial

develop the Empire and make -mar- titude of dignified calm, because creditors.

kets for British goods. Apart from she was a loyal member of the After eight years in the red- the British Isles, the British Em-League and trusted it. bricked Berkshire criminal asylum pire contains only 5,000,000 white | Covenant and Pact. he recovered his mental balance. families.

"The Covenant and Kellogg Pact Now he has given his experiences

"Luxury and decay of virility in are two sheet-anchors to which we to the world in a book the matter big cities, the limitation of breeding, have moored our ship of state, and of which is the midre convincing be-abnormal sexuality, doles, and the with the help of which we believe cause of the literary skill with which it is presened. Londoner.

News in Brief,

The

mercenaries have we will ride out the storm. employment of preceded the downfall of empires in Covenant and Pact are also corner the past, and yet if kept within stones of the world edifice of bounds who can deny that limitation pence, and if they crumble, the of breeding is an excellent thing? edifice will collapse, for in it like- ly that the nations who witncased "At the moment Britain is dan-i

tinue.

The Case for Jupon. At the afternoon proceedings a grave and almost tense atmosphere prevniled.

ant and Pact at the first great gerously over-populated, depending the tragic collapse of the Coven- as it does almost entirely on imported test, with all its dire

conne- quences, would assemble quietly at factures. The population of the Geneva in February to disarm?" food bought by the sale of its manu- world is increasing at present by 12,000,000 a year. This cannot con-

Rearing A Letter Race. "A ar less crac world can be Mr. Yoshizawa read a lengthy brought about only by a rational statement explaining the situation limitation of ing birth-rate, but in Manchuria and the interests of this must be coupled with a realisa Japan there, mentioning the anti- ịn of the duty to keep up a viris Japanese propaganda, acts of Chin- race, and the application of science jese bandits and ex-soldiers, and to the prevention of disease, to necessity for protecting Japan's He concluded by reiterating that Japan would withdraw her. troeps forts of life.

"The proportion of mental defec. to the railway zone as soon as her no longer endan- Sir Miles Lampson is due to ar- tives in the population has increased nationals were

gered. to-day from tram four to eight per thousand in

Personal Pars.

or your good times will romne. It is poor economy for a tor to put off buying a new

The lowest open air temperature The 68 degrees. pair of boots if by buying this yesterday was Local folk who are feeling the pair of boots he enables the shoe-humidity was 52 at 10, a.m. and 49

at 4 p.m. pinch, grumbling at the increased maker to pay the first instalment cost of all necessaries, and, may on a new suit. We have been

The total output of the Kailan be, resolving to save more rather told by learned economists (who Mining Administration's mines for the week ended September 26, than spend more than in the were not so learned that they

amounted to 104,206 metric tons, past, may not care to be told that had the intelligence to see this and the sales to 80,562 metric tons, this is not real economy. That crisis coming) that we must versatile writer, Edgar. Wallace, avoid all unnecessary expendi the readers of a Home ture. That is very simple, but to beware of the wrong we have got to remember that kind of economy, Were he a re-when we say "unnecessary" we Mr. Liu Wen-tao, former Mayor warding off natural disasters, and nationals, sident of this Colony he would must think entirely of our own of Hankow, has been appointed to securing the necessities, and com

Minister to Germany, probably ventilate similar opin needa. It is very necessary to ions trimmed to suit local con- the vendor that we should, buy! ditions. He tells employers that many things which we do not rive in Nanking

Peking.

twenty-five years. There is Home the one thing they must not do exactly want ourselves for the

danger of an increase in inferior GANDHI TO HAVE THE PEACE in is to economise labour. moment. Every dollar we spend

PRIZE? At the fortnightly meeting of the types, and birth control is at a waste. Sanitary Board, yesterday, Mr. G. minimum among those with a ten- "The greatest economy to-day is that goes abroad is a to increase the number of men There is nothing emotional about R. Sayer (Chairman) welcomed deney to mental defects.

Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy as a member you employ." There is, he says, that appeal to "Buy British" and of the Board vice Dr. W. V. M. greatly lessened and the expectation cussed as the most likely competi quite a number of intelligent nothing sentimental. It is im-Koch, who has left the Colony. people who are balancing their possible that we can avoid send- We do not own budgets and discharging a ing money abroad. further stream of unemployed to produce our own food. We have swell the appalling total of that got to make our little gadgets highly dangerous body. In and sell them to the people out- black type he adds:-

side or exchange them for food Economy which can only be and raw material plus the gold effected by throwing people which represents the difference out of work is not only had in the values of the raw material] economy but it is insane 'eco- and the manufactured article.

Satisfied that the accused knewj nomy. The motto for to-day If we cannot sell and maintain

were there in the

Alfred Nobel, who founded the is: "Employ until it hurts." this balance of trade we starve, that the arms

house, Mr. Schofield, this morning,"

prizes, was a Swedish scientist. He These thoughts from the fer-paesed sentence of four months'

died in 1996, leaving £1,750,000, the We can imagine some firms in

interest on which he ordered to be Hong Kong, and even the Govern- tile pen of Edgar Wallace can hard labour, and additionally im-

paid to those who contributed most ment itself, smiling cynically at be adapted in this Colony alike by posed a fine of $200, or in default

for mankind each year in the realms two months' hard labour, on འ་ this advice from Edgar Wallace. employers of labour and by pur- unlawful possession of two loaded A competition in Sweden has re- of physics, chemistry, medicine, and the promotion of necessities Chinese married woman, who up-sulted in the following best ten literature Certain good folk can only think chasers of goods

First awards were made in peared on a remand charge for the "rules of life" (says Reuter from peace.

1901-British United Press. revolvers, and tea rounds of am-Stockholm).' munition, at 236, Queen's · Road 1.-Forget unpleasant things as West.

quickly as possible.

of one side: the less struggling and luxuries as well. employees they pay the more

From Other Pens.

Propaganda by Fable.

ROBBER GANG'S IMPLEMENTS?

Woman Imprisoned for Possession. REVOLVERS AND AMMUNITION.

Detective-Sergeant Meadows said they were unable to And the woman's husband, and no further trace of him could be made. Hel

will be the dividends for share- holders, the more fees for direc- tors, and the greater profits for taipans! For these here is an- other Edgar Wallaceism:-

In this connection the Moscow had apparently disappeared.. It ap- Let us have an orgy of pay-"Pravda" has developed u

newpears that he was in the house on ing people, finding work for feature.

the day it was ralded, but when man had them, making work for them, Under the heading of "In the the Police entered the getting them off the dole and Land of Record Poverty" there is a gone. The woman, who was in a

black-cubicle, in which the arms in which the into our plants and our offices, 48 of American unem found in an unlocked drawer of a not to idle but, if we have any { ployment is illuminated for the table, tried to escape but was pre- faith whatever in the future, benefit of the masses by a series of vented.

short fables. to undertake work that will ensure our future.

He is not content to lecture to employers only. He urges people generally not to economise in the purchase of any article made. In Britain where 'wages are visible in the purchase! Don't say you

column

J.

Here is a typical example:

wrong,

wore

The Sergeant submitted that the woman must: hayo had! knowledge of the presence of the

A little American school-girl arms, because they were so easily faints in class. The teacher re-accessible. Two knives, wrapped vives her and asks her what is in separate pieces of paper, were also found under a bed. They were "Nothing," says the child, similar to the type used in rol "I'm hungry."

buries, and it would seem that the "Go home quickly then and get implements, together with the re- volvers and ammunition, had been something to eat.”

The

child shakes her head. left in the premises by a gang,

Gandhi, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald

"While infant mortality has been and President Hooyar are being dia

...

of life at birth has Increased fromters for the Nobel Peace Prize this

reports the cive to fourteen years, hardly any-year,

newspaper thing has been don' eto extend life Morgenbladet. The prize is award- at late middle-age.

ed by a committee of five persons "The increased expectation of life elérted by the Norwegian Parlia- et 50 is only two years. There lament. It is the 30th year of the uvery reason to think that, under awards. good conditions and by education in wise and disciplined habits, life would be greatly prolonged."

TEN RULES.

Getting the Best Out of Life.

2.-Learn the art of being pleasant to others, and don't be sparing in kind words.

3.-Never expect too much of your friends,

4. Never make great demunda upon others.

patiently while 5.-Listen others complain, but never com- plain yourself.

6.-Master your, moods and

your nerves.

Last year the Peace Prize was awarded to Archbishop Soederblom, of Upenla, though Mr. MacDonald was considered a strong candidate. having been suggested earlier in 1930 by the Swedish Social De- mocratic Party.

Ten Years Ago,

From the "China Mall of

October 14, 1921.)

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*

To-day's dollar le worth 2/11%. The Police Social Section gavo their first dance of the session in. the gymnasium at Headquarters. last night, over 100 persons taking

part.

A most enjoyable evening was 7-Sec Hfe on its bright side. 8-Show everybody that you spent mainly due to the efforts of trust them as long as you have no the Hon. See, Mr. P. Condon. It may also be mentioned, that the reason not to.

9. Do what you can to show section is in the fortunate position that you share the sorrows and of being able to provide its

musicians, who yesterday proved Joys of others.

10.-Never provide an occasion themselves to be the real thing.

Those dances are to be held in for un apology from yourself. Forgiveness may be a kind of re-alternate wosku, and whist drives conciliation, but it is humiliat will be given in the intervening

ing.

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