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speech which needs to be parti cularly stressed is that in which he expressed his firm belief that "it was a profound delusion to treat the events in India as the work of a minority which, if firmly and effectively handled, would fade, away and give ro more trouble."

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931.

PUREE DE POIS

By BESOMORO.

That is, indeed, a profound de- THE ART EXHIBITION, usion.

foraging and by instinct discovered

But,

Yes, by all means, deal Alany engagements and activities a pantry-the pantry attached to firmly and effectively with the may be sacrificed with advantage in the caretaker's quarters. He pick- terrorist. He may "fade away order to pay a visit to the Art Exed up a cup, or dish or some such The thing eatable in it. He was dis- and give no more trouble." Thathibition in Lane, Crawford's Rea-other thing, hoping to find some-

taurant, Exchange Building.

appointed. So he dropped the is a policy upon which the Gov- Exhibition closes to-morrow even- ernment of India has embarked, ing. I had no idea that the Colony plecs of china with dlagust.

many amateur what a delightful noise it made as But legitimate political aspira. could beast of so

artists of ao high a standard. All it fell and crashed on the floor! tions cannot be stifled with the work ou exhibit reflects the That noise pleased him immensely. panaceas, cannot be made to greatest credit on the exhibitors, Forthwith he proceeded to please himself at the exponse of the cape- "fnde' away and give no more and I am glad to have had an op- taker until he was disturbed and Next day

similar means.

From Other Pens.

These Round Table Conferences.

ent (on the contrary I have been assured that it is decidedly modern and attractive) but this modern art, frankly, I cannot understand.

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trouble" by the employment of portunity of viewing so many ex-

¡cellent paintings, etchings, line driven from the room. These aspira-cuts, statutary work, and photo- he was discovered asleep in a room tions must be slaked. And it is graphs. I shall admit however, and, after all avenues of retreat for better to slake them with the that Mr. Arnold's cubist work had him had been closed, what an ex- elting chase ensued. But he was waters of reasonableness than me beat and guessing all the way,

as the saying goes. That is not be no match for the ingenuity of man. Once, again he became captive. In attempt to assuage the thirst cause it is either bad or indiffer- with the vinegar of force:

the meantime, his late captors had advertised his disappearance and offered a reward. So, away to the advertiser was Jackle taken, but was he. handed over? No. It seems there was some haggling THE TALE OF LITTLE JACKIE.

over the reward, and his recent Little Jackle was born free and, captors refused to part with him up to a little while back, had lived until the advertised amount was a free life. The wide open spaces paid. Where Jackie is to-day, I In constitutional matters It

for him. True, a great many dan- don't know. But, wherever he is, would appear that thoge

which fers beset him every day and all the I hope he is being well treated. parts of the Empire

while, but he kept his eyes and wits Better still, I hope he has regained make the noisiest noise (that

about him and evaded them success his freedom for yet another time, variety which is alleged to cause fully, until he met man. Man was and that this time he will remain excessive annoyance to bivalvular his undoing. From man to man he free. Surely, he deserves it. Poor nervous systems) get the most passed until at last he came to Jackio! 1 sympathise with you in generous treatment.

Those parts dwell in Hong Kong, and in a house your afforts to assert your right to of the Empire which always be where he was shown off for educa freedom. Don't you? I don't mean bave themselves and never come to tional purposes. Now Jackie was Jackie, I mean you-and, after all, There is no doubt that some table with hands, face or neck un not badly treated. Certainly not. is there a very great deal of differ progress has been made in the washed get the least. Witness He was well looked after and had enco? By the way, I am not at all approach to one of the greatest Ireland, India and Egypt. Who has plenty to cat. Somo times more sure it was a Jackie, it may have Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 9, 1931. political problems Britain has so vivid an imagination as to con- than was good for him. That was been a Jill!

ceive a Round Table Conference all very well and nice, but the one been called, upon to solve. It is for Malaya or Hong Kong A thing he desired most was his free- | TENNIS, The Problem of India. true that progress has not been possessor of such an imagination dom, and that was denied him. He as great as had been hoped for, should become a lawyer or a hack was behind bars. Jackis, of course, The debate now in progress in and that the activities of the journalist.-A. II. L. in the Pinang is a monkey, and a very nice mon the House of Lords is decidedly Extremists in India have made important. Important for two that little progress seem even A Story With A Morai. reasons. One, the effect on In-smaller. It is to be hoped that

Here is a trae story of an Eng-Then, one day, fortune favoured think I can do with very much more. opinion which what dian

I should say rather the mon“. ahim..

I reckon I have had my full dve Lord Sankey's belief, "We are lishman in Tlentain. It has

key god favoured him. Somehow dollars worth, and I am "truly is said will exercise, ir-

on the eve of a peaceful solution moral-"Buy British." fact. that

In a Chinese garage the English-or the other he got away from thatthankful to Mrs: Moody, Mr. E. C. respective of the

of the Indian problem," is not man saw a filthy and abandoned old cake. How and when are im Fincher, Messrs. H. D. Rumjahn, the House

of Lords, by a merely father to the wish; that motor car with a bonnet that sopra material. And he reamed from the S. A. Rumjahn and M. W. Lo, for an majority, may be expected to en-in truth it is go, that he is con-ed somehow familiar. Looking top of one building to another, thor- entertaining and instructive after- Dughly enjoying hie freedom. noon at Kowloon: May I yet be dorse Government's policy as ex vineed they have been able to closer he discovefed that it was an

And

ancient model of a famous British Finally he found a very delightful spared.to.sit at the centre court of pressed by the Premier.

pick up the trail which will lead make. "I bought it." he wrote home in a large and imposing build the Mecca of tennis, for the fleeting two, in the course of the

out from this Indian jungle. home to his wife, "not because Iing in Queen's Road Central, just glimpses of what tennis really in debate,

of in the 115

In the forest, which has grown could afford it, but because I hated across the way from on hotel. He and how it ought to be played, as Lord Irwin already, we may up in the past many

to see it dirty and neglected in a entered and took up temporary oc- exhibited by the world's lady cham- years Chinese garage, and I wanted to eupation. The pangs of hunger plon, has whetted my appetite and expect to have expressed the around this problem of India, see it cared for."

making themselves felt he want it will now take some satisfying. very considered opinions of

one, so to speak, cannot see the He had the body taken off and **** men who have actually borne the wood for the trees. The essen- everything moveable on the chassis the last bolt. stripped down to burden and heat of the day intial point, however, as Lord The date revealed on the crankcase Kong Rotary Club was celebrated the highest office in India.

Sankey took the occasion of the was November 1908,

case

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Gazette.

News in Brief.

key too. But those bars irritated him. Try as he would he could not get on the other side of them.

Personal Par.

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Since Tuesday evening I have had tennis and Helen for dinner, early morning ten, breakfast, tiffin, afternoon ten and dinner again. And, strange to say, I am yet not nauseated. But, for all that, I don't

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BOYCOTT" WAR.

U.S. Committee To Study Its Application.

Dr. Butler said he was hopeful that the committee would be able to make a definite report before the end of the year as an aid to the forthcoming. Disarmament Confer- ence at Geneva,

The first birthday of the Hong

with a dinner on the roof garden of It is too much to expect, may-debate to point out, is that India The engine was found to be the Hong Kong Hotel last evening. a large attendance of be, that the Conservative "Die desired a greater share in the perfect, and, in spite of a half-inch There was

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Hards" will take into considera-management of her own affairs. of carbon on the pistons, the only members, together with their wives

thing requiring replacement was and friends. His Excellency the President of Columbia University, tion, or bother their heads about, That is a Laudable desire. It is one piston ring. He took it out on Governor attended. He Con has formed A "committed OM the effect of their utterances in an aspiration which is a funda- the road for the first time, and It gratulated the Club on its carrying economic sanctions" to undertake India. Whether such utterances mental principle of British civil-shot into thirty-five miles at a out the principle of "service" in the study of the possible use of contributing to the establishment of economic pressure by the United touch of the accelerator, embarrass the authorities in Inising missions and as such to be To celebrate the old, car's 23rd children's playgrounds, and pre- States against a nation declaring dia and at Home, especially at encouraged and not discouraged. birthday its proud owner has sented the Club's Charter ("Hong war in violation of treaties. the critical stage to which nego-The problem is, how is that to be planned an extensive trip into Kong, China") which affiliates it tiations and discussions have pro accomplished in fairness to all Mongolia over the Nankow Pass-with the Rotary International.

Daily Telegraph. gressed to-day, seemingly is of interests concerned. The fact no concern to them. On the some persons overlook is that a other hand, why should it be great body of people cannot be

The committee include an ex- a matter of concern to them? kept in tutelage indefinitely. It Up to 4 p.m. yesterday the rain-|

ambassador to Great Britain, Mfr. They are convinced that the pre is true of family life and equally fall for the day was 3.57 inches-a The forthcoming marriage' is an- Alanson B. Houghton, a statisticlan, sent policy to be pursued is the true of the life of nations. We Desember record, it is believed.

nounced of Charles Irvin Barnes, Mr. Leonard P. Ayers, a famous [of 66, Avenida Cons. F. d'Almeida, | lawyer, Mr. Silas H. Strawn, and wrong polley, so have every right know what occurs when such

Yesterday's lowest open air tem-Macao, at present staying at the the President of the United States....... to give forcible expression to tutelage is prolonged or when perature Was 68 degrees. The St. Francis Hotel, and Emanuera Chamber of Commerce. their views. It is unfortunate, tutelage is forced upon the humidity was 85 at 10 am, and also Hyndman Rosario, of Macao, however, that to-day these views younger members of a family, at 4 p.m. are being expressed by members We know also what keeps fami-

Sergeant Morris, of the Water of that political party which, in lies united. The very

same Police, has reported that a con- fact, is strong enough in the principles apply in the case of servancy junk, number unknown, is present Government to dilute nations. So, in the case of India, aground and water-logged at the very greatly its Nationalism by and not only of India but of other west end of Stonecutter's Island. means of Conservatism. That countries in the East and else After drinking some liniment of fact is recognised in India and where, countries which are turpentine, in an alleged attempt to already has been seized upon to reckoned to be backward or lag-commit suicide, Chan Ming-ching aged 20 years, and living at 2, make capital out of and to per- ging in so far as political con- Bowrington Canal Road, was taken to hospital in a condition which petuate the cry, "Britain is not cepts are concerned: to be trusted." It is just for Lord Irwin appreciates this may be serious later. that trust that Lord Snell made fact, and one ought to pay very The first-rate talking picture an appeal, but the appeal, it close attention to one who has "Paris Bound," starring And Hard speras certain, will meet with no but recently laid down the reinsing and Fredric March,, will be response in the present temper of office as Viceroy of India and shown for the first time in the Colony, at the Majestic Theatre of political India, a temper one of whom it has been con- to-day. Miss Hardlog will be re- which is being fanned into great fidently predicted that his name membered for her excellent work in er heat by veiled threats of a will be inscribed in history here, "Holiday": screened in the Central possible counterma tion of after as among the greatest and Theatre only recently. Mr. March is a great favourite, and has starred promises already made and assur, most highly successful Viceroya, in many Alma, including, "Laughter"? ences given.

of India. And the portion of his and "Royal Family of Broadway."

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WARSHIPS IN FORT.

The following British warships were in harbour to-day-

Bruce-South; wall.

Cornwall-No. 6 buoy.. Herald-East wall, Hermes-No. 1' buoy.", Kent-North · arm, Marazion-East, wälli . Medway and Sub-No, 2 buoy. Olympus-In dock. Osiris-In deck, Perseus-In dock. Serapie-North wall. Sirdar-North wall. Sterling-North wall. Suffolk-West wall, Tamar-Basin.",

Foreign Men-of-War, Argus French gimboat.” Craonno-French despatch vessel. Gil Eanes Portuguese transport.

Saga Japanese gunboat,

To-day's Thought.

It seems some people haven't» anything to do unless they are telling, others what to do..

Ten Years Ago.

From the "China Mei”

Desember 11, 1931.]

To-day's dollar is worth 2/7.,

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The annual triangular tourna ment between the Club Lusitanu, Club de Recreio, and the Catholic, Union was again won by the last"; named Club this year. The touṛṇa- ment, which lasted over a month, produced some excellent billiards, prominent among the players bcing, (A. J. Osmund, the Colony's chang- plon, P. A. Yvanovitch, thy.ex- I champion, L. R. Osmund, and E, Guimaraes, who gave very credi able performances.