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Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 20, 1932.

The League of Nations

Undertakings.

III.

The League Covenant may be saki to trace its immediate origin mainly from proposals framed by a British Foreign Office committee -the Philli- more Committee. It was, how- ever, the composite work of many be- international experts, and

the

came

crystallised

AЯ

| League's Covenant after a great deal of careful analysis and dis-

cussion.

The Covenant itself is an in- raational treaty, binding its] Gatories as formally and fin-

un the Treaty of Versailles,

', rhich, let it be noted, the mant forms the first twenty- articles..

!

To what does the League Co- venant bind those who have

signed it? To nothing not set]

A process for which an interval of at least nine months in ordinary circum- stances is prescribed.

(2) In the event of & breach of this pledge (1) by any State, to join in mobli. Ising world pressure against that State by the severance of financial and economic re- lations with it and prevent- ing it from trading with any one.else,

All treaties ::(3)

con. tracted with any other State to be registered with the League for immediate publi- cation. No new treatles to be contracted inconsistent with the Covenant, and to abrogate all treaties which are inconsistent.

(4) Co-operation through the League with other States in developing and directing international adtion in .re- gard to such matters as labour conditions, public health, etc.

(5) Bear its share in de- fraying the expenses of the League.

(6) Join in establishing and maintaining a Perman- ent Court of International Justice,

(7) Join in working out a general plan for the Imita- tion and reduction of arma- ments.

This, then, in brief, is the na- out explicitly in its differuatture and purpose of the League.

"

SHARE MARKET.

A Featureless Market.

PRICES TENDING DOWN.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932.

WOMEN - BY AN EMIR

KING WITH TWO QUEENS.

"Polygamy Is An Advantage to Women."

"The advancement of the world; a woman's progress. I harc ea- is in the hands of women. The tablished several schools for development of a country is simul women in my country, so that they The official summary issued by taneous with the advancement of now receive an education for the the Stock Exchange to-day states: its women."

first time. states

Trans-Jordania's ruler was! "But our women are changing. There is no change of any con- speaking-the Ernir Abdullah, an They are beginning to spend more sequence to report, the market Oriental potentats, descendant of time and money on themselves. being utterly featureless, with a line of royalty in whose eyes, than on their homes and children. prices, if anything, tending down-for centuries and centuries. We are too small a country to do wards.

this yet. We must develop; we

Sales.

Douglases, $26.

Wharves. $154.

Providents (Old), $4.90. Electrics, $7534/76, Cements (Comb), $17.

Buyers.

Union Insurance, $400, Providents (New), $2.30. Chinese Estates, $95. Hotels (Old), $13.

women have been only toys.

"But women," he continued, must grow in numbers first. "are meant to stay in their homes! "Our women show a fondness: with their families. If they take for pretty clothes that come from up a man's work they spoil their Europe; they want them with low beauty and their rest, which are necks and short "sleeves, their happiness."

like to ride in motor-uary.

an

They This

The emir was seated in the re-encourages the men to buy them,. ception-room of the royal palace, and so hersca, our country's great- which I had reached after a dan- ast treasures, are being neglected. gerous ride through the bandit "When I came here to rule thero- and-Druse-infested desert. I had wasn't a single motor-ear in left Jerusalem in

Now there are Amusements, $19%. ·

armoured Trans-Jordania. Singapore Tractions (Pref), 14/-jear: Government officials had re- ninety-live in Amman, the capital, This is too many. It H.K. Government Loans 3 perfused to sanction this hazardous alone! cent. Premium.

journey, writes a Daily Express shows that laxury is creeping in, special correspondent.

and means that our money is be- "Why do not women who wish Ing drained out. And the women for careers give up the idea of how they love luxury!"

Sellers.

Docks, $29.

China Lights (Old), $21. Cements (Comb); $16.85.

OBITUARY.

Sub-Inspector James Cargill.

DEATH AT HOME.

marriage?" questioned the prince,

referring to the modern women of

Lesson of Centuries.

I took the occasion to ask him England and America, whose how many wives he allowed his ideas, he hoped. would not penė, subjects.

trate to his feminine subjects. "Four, according to the Koran," "Only thus can they concentrate he declared. "But they must on their adopted work."

prove they can afford to keep them Abdullah to-day is one of the well. Most of my subjects have important patentates of the East. only two or three. I have two He is the son of Hussein, former queens, you know, ruler of the Hedjaz. and brother "I believe it is an advantage to of King Ali, who recently abdicat-women that we should have poly- ed from that throne. His other gamy. If polygamy were against brother, Faisal, is the ruler of the advantage of women, then-

they would not, for these many centuries, have continued to per- mit their husbands to take other wives, would they?"

The death occurred in Edin-Mesopotamia. burgh, on February 10, of

No Unveiling. Sub-Inspector James Cargill,

"Usually when a woman takes of the Police Force. He

up a man's profession It is a sign "I wonder," said I, half to my- went Home leave about a year ago she doesn't want love." the emir self "what an emir with two but illness prevented his return to

went on. "And women should be queens really thinks of women-in the Colony, and he was granted six loved."

his private life?" months' extension of leave.

"Will you follow the example of The sympathy of all colleagues Mustapha Kemal, who let the and many friends in Hong Kong women of Turkey uavell?" I ask- will be extended to Mr. Cargill's ed. wife, who is also at Home, and; other relatives, ment.

His highness smiled and answer. ed gallantly:--

"Even with a ruler, woman gets first attention in everything. She "Never," he replied sternly. is at once his greatest pleasure--

in their bereave- "An uncovered face does not help and his greatest worry!"

Joining the Force in 1920, Mr. Cargill's career was as follows:

Promoted Sergeant, 1926, and Sub-Inspector, 1930. He passed his examination for the latter rank with credit.

Prior to going Home on leave,

attached Mr. Cargill was

to the Fingerprints Office. He was com

THE WAY TO ADVERTISE.

A Story Of The Swiss Roll.

price was reduced from 101⁄2d. to 9d. sales jumped to 750,000 a week. That gave some idea what an elaborately planned advertising campaign could do, Mr. Buchanan- Taylor said. A man might as well' throw a spanner into hle machinery The story of a Swiss roll ad- as cut down advertising without the whole thing

mended by the Inspector General vertising campaign which incross-considering

of Police (then C.S.P.) for diligence ed sales from 10,000 weekly to very carefully. Backed by a com- in the discharge of his duties in 600,000 was told to the Manchester, plete understanding of what would

Publicity Association Yaumati on June 28, 1922.

by Mr. interest the purchasing publle, ad-

Mrs. Cargill is a piece of Mr. W. Buchanan-Taylor, advertising vertising fully justified itself; but and Mrs. R. A. Ramsay, of Kowloon manager of Messra. J. Lyons and most advertisers regarded ad- Docks, and was mas fed here about Co., Ltd., at the Midland Hotel, vertising as something to blame if

Manchester, four years ago.

the goods did not sell and some- Their Swiss roll campaign was thing to forget to appreciate Mr. Cargill saw service during the war in Gallipoli and Upper against the criticism of every ex- they did. Egpyt, enlisting as a very young pert in advertising, he said. They man. He was only 36 years

at the time of his death.

H.K. “TYKES” ANNUAL DINNER. size, quality, and value for money

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Ten Years Ago.

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[From the "China Mail" of February 20, 1922.7

To-day's dollar is worth 2/5%.

Because a watch required wind-

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of age were spending money on advertis-

ing a commodity everybody made,! it was said. Certainly it was the Ginderella of the pastry-cook's art, but they emphasised uniformly of

and they wrapped it hygienically, [and put it in a carton. Sales Im- H.E. the Governor, Sir William proved almost immediately. They articles. It will be necessary to Signatory States agree to co- Peel, presided at the second An-' consider these articles at a later operate in certain common acti-nual Dinner of the Society of York- improved their services to retailers ing every 24 hours and the com- to give daily deliveries, and they plainant, a Chinese woman, said it stage. What signatorica pledge vitics, and agree to combine to hiremen, held at the Hong Kong went on with the campaign. They would go for three days, Magistrate themselves to do, is to try and

Ipointed out it would cut into Lindsell dismissed the case against come to an agreement on inter- At the present time, those Peel, the President of St. George's famous photographers and had it charged on Saturday with the young Bank of China clerk national disarmament, but such purposes of the League, which Scelety and Mrs. Cock, Chieftain of

safeguard the peace of the world. number of guests including Lady twelve slices. They took it to a a

Hotel last night, when a large

speech.

agreement must be unanimous. are mainly in the minds of the St. Andrew's Society and Mrs. photographed to give it a lift in theft.

society. It gave if that lift, and This unanimity clause is actual-average man, and which interest Society and Mrs. Davies, President started to caricature famous people, la the securing by the Hong Kong Stevenson, President of St. David's after one and a half years they The latest move in local mergers ly the pivot upon which the him most, are the preservation of St. Patrick's Society and Mrs. in Swiss rolls, and went on to Hotel Co., of a controlling interest League revolves. Without it of peace, and the limitation and Myles, the Vice-President of the similar striling series. Whef the in Messrs. William Powell Ltd. " there can be no League. Not by reduction of armaments. And, Society and Mrs. J. Scott Harston, dictation, but by conviction and in both respects, the League is were present.

In a witty speech His Excelloney co-operation does the League commonly held to have failed. made many amusing references to essay to achieve those ends These matters will be dealt with Yorkshiremen, end his clever com- which mankind has entrusted to in subsequent articles in this parisons made a most entertaining it. Also, be it noted, national column. sovereignty is jealously and scrupulously guarded, so that signatories run no risk of this organised force, which they have

Lowest open air temperature contributed to bringing intoj

yesterday was 53. Humidity at operation, being employed to die-10 a.m. was 72, and 69 at 4 p.m.

His Exceller.cy the Governor has tate a course of action to a gov.

For the convenience of custom-Gordon Selwyn Dodwell, Esq., to be boon pleased to appoint Lewis ernment and people.

ors during the Spring Race Meet Turning now to the obliger Hong Kong. Hotef 1 wif Lieutenant in the Army Service tions, acceptance of the League serve titins in Mac's Cafe and the Corps Cadre of the Hong Kong Volunteer,Defence Corps, with Covenant imposes on a signatory Grilly Room from 12 noon, Or];

effect from February 8, 1882. earlier, if desired.” State, these are: ----

In the Interests of international peace, it shall dever go to war, with a #fellow-members of the League, tl the possibili ties of a peaceful settlement have been exbatisted.

News in Brief.

After the dinner and toasts, dancing was indulged in and several musical items given by members of the Society,

Personal Pars.

The tender, of Mesirs. The Hong His Majesty, the King has been Kong and Yaumati Ferry Co., Ltd, pleased to approve the appointment for the provision and operation of of the Honourable Mr. Chap, Teun- new ferry service (including nip to be an Unofficial Member of transport of vehicles) between Vid the Legislative Counell, vice. Str toria and Kowloon Peninsula, has Shou-son Chow, Kt, with effect been accepted

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