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man committed a revenue offence; ard, if he happened to be liable for military service to the state, it would be an offence against the fimilitary.

Finally, his Lordship altered the sentence to this: "that the appel- Tant be bound over to be of good behaviour for three months," and addressing the appellant said, "Look here, -

..you have to stop this, you know. You should not be so silly. Go away?"

By the way, the appellant, in the Police Court, is recorded as having pleaded guilty and said that he did not take the lysol with the inten tion of killing himself. Whón his Lordship's attention was drawn to this statement, he said that it was, not a plea of guilty at all.

News in Brief.

› One case of small-pox, and four of meningitis were notified yesterday.

Lowest оред air temperature yesterday was 65. Humidity at 10 a.m. was 93 and at p.m. the same.

Corporal Prust, R.A.M.C., atation- ed at Shamshuipo hutments, has re- ported that Pte. Gillespie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was bitten by a military horse, whilst grooming it.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932, JISMA YAUSHUNT

A Delightful Story..

A TYPICAL DAY AT THE PASSPORT OFFICE

Masterhand Pictures Scenes and Characters.

THE VICTORIAN AGE LADY. "I'm Sorry, Madam, But You Aren't British."

Especially for those people who like an early holiday- ́and like it sunny ----

cruises in British liners are proving more popular than ever.

The companies advise their passengers to have pass- ports endorsed for every country of call, for even where the tourist has no official scrutiny to pass, the document may prove useful in an emergency,

Here, a special correspondent of the Evening Standard pictures the characters and incidents that go to make up a typical day at the Passport Office, where the yearly busy season is just setting in.

"Colour of eyes,

What colour would you say my eyes are?"

"Green, my dear."" "Nothing of the sort, darling,"

I began to understand why Pass port Office officials have a per manent-twinkle in their eyes.

At the rooms of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, at She whipped a mirror out of her friend on the other side of the "Nice old thing," remarked my 6.30 pm. to-day. Mr. P. C. Barrand hand-bag. "Blue I knew they counter. will read a paper on "The Brush were blue.

"We are used Arctic blue, I should sort of business here. People like to that Ljungtsrom Steam Turbine," under call it." the auspices of the Literary Coun The second woman tapped a passports.

seeing all those names on their fountain pen meditatively on the deak, "These forms!" she sighed.actually invent countries.

"Then you get the people who We had

ell of the Institution.

abjured it for two generations. Shanghai yesterday and is now at want to know the colour of my end of a long list of countries were H.M.S. Cornwall returned from "It's like the income tax. They case only the other day. At the But, as Mr. Runelman said, only on the No. 5 buoy in the Naval anchor-

hair," ROBY-On April 8, at Pagoda An-Tuesday, when answering questions age.

the words: The Republic of the chorage, Foochow, Ernest in the House in connecton with re-wall, there are now only two cruisers should have called it once, Ginger Who, or where, the Alouites' may With the return of the Com-

"Yes, that is difficult. Mouse, I Aloultes.' Yes, the Aloultea! Vincent Roby, of the Asiatic strictions Petroleum Company

the importations of up North, H.M.S. Kent, the Flag- now, I suppose." (South British coal into these Continental ship, and H.M.S. Suffolk.

be I don't know, but I am sure there "Really, dear, must we be rudel is no such country. China), Ltd.

countries, "where there was dis- destroyer Witch has also returned

We believe Russet gold, of course." erimication against

there is a tribe of that name some Britain, it here from Swatow, and there is, at

where in Syria." could not

be ignored, and such present, no British warship up that steps, as appeared to be necessary, way. must be taken." The power to re-j taliate is a most helpful instrument

The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Thursday, April 14, 1932.

First Fruits of the Tariff.

"An increase in exports and a decrease in imports are shown in Board of Trade returns for March → the first complete month since Bri- tain changed her tariff policy. The, adverse trade balance has been re- duced to £24;199,000, com- pared with £34,788,968 in the previous month."

It is true that a drop of water

or a grain of sand do not make up

of persuasion, and it is the world's best hope of procuring a general lowering of tariffa to-day.

"To retaliation in the end the, whole mechanisin of self- defence or common defence must come. If your situation is that you are, known to be unable to invoke it, you are powerless,"

That is what Lord Sallebury sald many years ago, and that is what should be. remembered to-day.

Should Suicide Be An

Offence?

H.M.

The Siam Observer is to be com-!

fore it became Branch,

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At little desks all round the large room were people muttering to themselves and wrinkling their brows as they wrestled with large port-issuing organisation has grown Strange, how this great pass

plimented on its Issue of April 5, born in the Orange Free State be- the Second.

official sheets of paper:

up out of a royal prerogative, first "My paternal grandfather was exercised, I understand, by Charles when, on the occasion of the 160th. Anniversary Celebration

Even to-day there is of the

My father no statute regulating the work of Royal House of Chakri,

a special was born in Greece. What um 17" the edition was published containing, in

Passport Any visible peculiarities? I the royal prerogative is now Office although addition to the life history of the don't think that is a very nice ques- exercised by the Foreign Office. sovereigns of the dynasty, many ex-

tion, do you, Agatha?" cellent pictures, mainly viewaTM of

Once the price of a passport was Behind wide counters stand part of the emolument of the Bangkok and Its

officials, Imperturbable, helpful, In- Foreign Office. magnificent temples.

Once the price of exhaustibly polite:

"I am sorry, sir, but you must correct this form."

a passport was part of the emolu- ment of the Foreign Secretary.

There are only two persons in Somehow, this is an accusation Britain who do not need a pass- (Continued from last Column.)

which brings out at once all that is port: the King and the Queen: most irascible and panteky in the Even the Prince of Wales has one, "But they won't know it's me," average British citizen. "Oh, yes, they will.

The staut, just like yours and mine, However, red-faced man with the enormous his own wish.

It was if you like”

Exit Chelsea, saying something in into a audden, temper:

pink rose in "bia button-hole few-

"What's wrong? I was most careful. What do you take me for?

Sir William Murison, (Chief its beard}

a mighty ocean or the Goodwin Justice of the Straits Settlements), Sands So it may be too early to Justice McCardle-like, has raised step in, where even angels fear to a controversial issue by asking the

pertinent question

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form: then ultimatum: "I'm sorry. A prolonged study of another

I wondered how the Prince would be described on his passport.

"Oh, Prince of the Royal House" the official supposed.

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You meant that for visible pecull-port Office.

"It's only this opposite Place of British' you have filled in "None" "Why should it be an offence

madam, but you aren't British!" to commit suicide?"

Now this, I must admit, shook me. arities, I suppose." There Why should it? and Why should more

could not be anything British

than this fresh once again!

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tread, and assume the mantle of the prophet in connection with what is admittedly, an, economic experiment. But it is justifiable, in view of the

Smiles; apologies; calm descends trade returns mentioned in the wire it not? will be heatedly disputed, complexioned little woman whose less message received in the Colony and we suggest to our readers that accent said "Somerest" and whose of the great, wide world, It is at If this room is not the gateway yesterday, to regard the results re- they might give us their views on clothes said "Knightsbridge." vealed as the first fruits of a now the subject. It should afford use-

least the vestibule to it. It is new era that of ful academic discussion of a point compared with the lady's indigan in other words, the Fassport Office. policy and of a

But my surprise was as nothing where you get the keys that open Protection. A reduction of over of view that has been raised before tion.

all the gates of the world. It is, ten million pounds sterling in Bri- but never, so far as we are aware, tain's adverse trade balance is an really seriously debated. We shall

"Not British! Be very careful, "Oh, yes, we are busy enough, Achievement not to be disparaged, welcome correspondence.

they told me."And we shall get even though only a month has raising of the question in a British ness, he pointed out to her thatge about 10,000 a week. All told, we Patiently, with lafinite polita busier until we reach the peak of elapsed since Britain changed her Court of Law Indicates that modern her father had gone to the United Issue about 200,000 in the year." tariff policy.

public opinion on the subject is States and had lived there long

The

young man."

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had been embalmed fa'some genteel

Sir Hobert Horne, who addressed not sailafled with the conception enough to become a naturalisca A figure out of the Victorian age a meeting of the Royal Empire So-that has all these years hold good, American she was an American elderly lady, who looked as if she ciety two days ago and advocated. The question, was asked by Chief citizen, although she had lived from

Kad appeared at the counter.. Ap the re-introduction of silver into the Justice Sir William Murison, when, infancy in Britain. world's monetary systems in order before him, came up for hearing to mitigate the present gold short- the appeal of a young Earsalan, ed.

"I am an alien !" she was appall English town, Bath or Leamington. age, when the Imports Duties Bill who had been convicted in a Police been living a lie. He deprecated 1895.

All these years then she had or Tunbridge Wells,, (ince about passed its second reading now two Court of attempting to take his the use of the harsh word, es

Black bonnet, innumerable months ago, expressed the wish that life by drinking lysol. When the pecially about Americans. the Bill had been more boldly drawn. case was mentioned, his Lordship collected herself with an effort: He also expressed his conviction made a classical allusion to the that, with a tariff and a balanced fact that the ancients thought owe us a lot of money!"

"Well, there's one thing. Budget no fears need be entertain-suicide a noble act. He referred ed for starling not even if it should to the famous bezaineter ending fall to a point still lower than that "Catonis nobile letum

She

et ornament, a cameo brooch, an ivory-handled umbrella.

?

Chelsea had come to the Pass- Young and arrogant, It wore a crimson shirt and a yellow tic and carried a large portfolio. under one arm. But its crowning and well-matured. glory was a beard, brown and bushy beard.

A magnificent

quiring eye-brows over the opened

"This photograph," it said. Officialdom raised politely in- passport: "Yes, and 7"

"Well," Chelsea went on with taken, I have grown-er-this". The increased hauteur, "Since that was

beard! any trouble about that."

"I don't think there should be

(Continued at foot of Column 8).

Ten Years Ago.

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[From the "Chins Mall” of

April 14, 1922.1

dollar is worth 2/5 9/16.

"I want you to add Abyssinia, Baluchistan, and Tibet to my day doll port."

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Sir, You nowspaper men have "Certainly, madam." Already, I could tee, it was avall vituperation. You have overlooked

Jost yourselves in a maze

of

eases than that," said the official Apparently one of those indomit has said he will give $50,000 to the "We have much more difficult able for about thirty countries the real point. Sir Paul Chater quot-"For instance, the case of a man able Englishwomen who ring for ex-servicemen of the Colony. He's

of mixed parentage born at sea In tea on the upper reaches of the giving his own

at which it then stood, and not even and the Deputy Public Prosecutor, If it were accompanied by a alight supplementing the quotation, rise in prices.

He looked upon the ad further"- fariff as an indispensable Instru

“Nothing in his life so much; a British ship and living most of his Amazon and cleave desert and named the object of his gift. Then ment of negotiation whereas Free became him as the leaving of life abroad. Always cropping up jungle with a bottle of smallfog Sir, what possible right have the

money and ha Treders

the "powerful

It."

"Then there is the Englishwoman Balts, a string bag, and some newspapers to comment as they Later in the case, the Deputy who marries an American. Publia Prosecutor, said that, he only acquires American citizen-one would not have thought her a war of words. Don't you think "She knitting to pass the time, Yet have done and use it as a base for understood, appellant would be ship by going over there and stay capable of travelling further than that shows not only bad taste but

fant if the sentence was altering for the requlaite period, but ac- Bournemouth. ed to binding over, but his Lord-cording to British law she has taken

impertinence and impudence: "Are you really going to these Sir Paul want to give his money to

and formidable

One of the values of the Import

Duties Bill is the power it give

alfate Already

Great Britain to

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he did not know why it the nationality of her husband at distant lands, madam!" I ventured. ex-serviceman he has a right to do an offence at all. The marriage. We say she's Amert She smiled most charmingly on it without being told it thould go to blic Prosecutor also did can; they say she's British. Very me."Well, not exactly; not this Nursing Home or sorather in not see why, it she be an offence, awkward very awkward. Bast time anyway. We are going to the stitution. Why don't the news whom thing she can do is to go to the Mediterranean. But one never papers get down to the point and on the rates United States and qualify for knows, does one, where Providence stick to it if they must

hat if American citizenship, Raves tromble may take one.

Ben the in the long

fate side!"

Bast to be on the

Yours

ament?