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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931.

ON ALCOHOL.

[BY TINDAL KING.]

MOTOR 'BUS HELD UP.

DARING COUP BY ARMED

ROBBERS.

A sensational bold up of a motor bus was reported to the Police on Wednesday.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[All letters intended for publi entian must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, unions no desired. but ar evidence of good faith.—Ep. }|

THAT BATHING BEACH:

TWO VIEWS.

Many years ago when I thought I was going to be a lifelong teetotaler erroneously, as the years between have shown I remember a flippant remark which dropped from the lips of a man who was very de finitely a devotee of Bacchus, which impressed me very much at the timo. The disadvantage, ho anid, of being a teetotaler is, that you don't know you've got a throat until it's sore. And whon on comes to think of it in the light of subsequent experience there is a profound, even a great, truth in amounted to $9, this comment on one of the vessels. The robbers then got off and of the body which does not lose but made their way up the hillside. A rathor gains in importance as the report was immediately made to years roll by.

the Police, but up to the time of writing, no arrests have been made.

Three men, armed with revolvers, boarded a bus on the Laichikok Rond né n' stopping place. There were no passengers on the bus at the time and the three men, im

mediately alter boarding, produced | 【TO THE EDITOR OF THE revolvers, one of them covering the driver, while another covered the conductor. The third took from the conductor his bag con- taining the day's collection which

IN FAVOUR OF THE RULE.

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XONG LONG

613, Ruat Coelum's" bleat on behalf of the poor under dogs who are able to do their bathing from

launches should not exoite: much.

Public sympathy and I sincerely hope that the Government ban an launches and motor boats. at

Island Bay will be extended. to other beaches. Those nuisances should be excluded fram all benches which are accessible by car as there are plenty of excellent places only. approachable by water where they can belch forth their dozens with so to speak, n load off her mind out adding to already overcrowded

For what is a throat to a boy of fifteen gulping down a stone-ginger compared to the same throat at twenty-five negotiating the first any that that was not a stroke of drink (at six in the evening!) be luck for the poor woman, taking, it whisky and soda or be it beer't Or the same throat again,-forty comparable only to the relief any beaches. Trusting the Government years on, as the song has it become one of us, would feel if perchance will irritate Mr. Raut Coleum "

a perfect water-way except wo wan-in these days of big still further.-Youre cle.,

sweeps a small affair like the. Shanghai Champions? Of course it was a great stroke of luck for the poor woman, and the mennest total abstainer cannot deny it.

now

that by no chance docs water per se aver find its way thera? And the last stage of all, when this great natural aqueduct has become in fact macrosanct? Have none of us

any memories of our fathers, our grandfathers, our

great-grand- fathers, even our great-grand- mothers, taking with evident re- lish and almost immediately per ceptible results their night cap Of course we have! And; did we not then and there resolve that when we reached the stage of fathers, grandfathers, great grand fathers and even great-grand- mothers did we; I say, not resolve then and there to follow their good example? Of course we did! And are we any worse off, except per haps financially 1. But why ask these questions? Some of the an swers may have been in the in firmary, some may be there now; and some may be there again but why go on?,

•

•

ALL FOR IT.

AGAINST

Sin,-I laugh!!. When the Colony was declared

bankrupt, when her contracts were broken, without any regards to the facts—I aloneʻraised my voice for pen), in protest

When the poor were deprived of facilities for keeping "their health there were some protests.

ISLAND BAY" "TAL: PAN BEACH".

P.S.-I rescue this letter to quote a phrase I have just read "We can point with pride to the probity, efficiency and impartial firmness of our tropical administrations." (Sir Hesketh Bell).

And again another temperance lecturer-but this time Mr. George Robey-in mock-clerical attire with a vermillion nose preaching to a congregation of reformed but very obvious sets of both sexes: My dear sisters and brothers, I think we are all aware, "every one of us, of what der-rink is, but do you know that a single whisky and soda takes a quarter-of-an-hour off n

When I pointed out that Director. man's or a woman's life No! I thought you didn't, but that can't Members of the Legislative Council alter the fact that all of us, every were getting increased fees in one of us, in this hall to night, whatever our aspirations for the spite of this protostation that the future, have been dead for year! Colony was "broke" I was heard Here, we have direct testimony to in silence, But when I laugh at the the preservative effects, to the power, of alcohol Dead for years, exclusion of "the great unwashed " says Mr. George Robey, and yet from Island Bay I do not expect I living. What has the total ab stainer to say to that? Can he shall laugh alone.-Yours, etc., live, die and rise again on w water, or gingerale or sherbet or grape

CALL juice He can't and he knows it, but he simply does not know what a gift of the gods the throat really is. But you and I do, and are grateful. And another thing he Are you going to tell me that doesn't know and that is the plea Jeremy Bentham, who my die sure of losing his head. It is some

times & slow process, it is rarely tionary informs me lived from 1748 a painices one, but oh, the joy as 1832, and whose leading principle your head is beginning to leave was that happiness is identical with you an evanescence to which even a golden sunset can scarcely be pleasure; a man of whom even my compared! It is simply ridiculous slight acquaintance with arithmetic to ask Death where his sting is enables me to say that he was four when you know it won't be long How before a glorions resurrection score, and four when he passed on comes your way! And still another [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "BONG KONG to gladden, another world-are you thing the teetotaler doesn't know going to tell me that Jeremy Ben and that is the exquisite pleasure, even excitement, of finding out, them was a teetotaler That aor. trying to find sit, what you.

Sin, It is encouraging to. note. man, or for that matter, a woman, said or did the previous night.

that the Government continues its who can live-I do not say exist

But why go on asking the total courageous campaign to clean up for four and eighty years and have abstainer further questions, plumb- as a guiding principle the greatest ing the murky depths of hithe Colony. Such vigorous methods happiness to the greatest number, abysmal ignorance Instead I will must commend themselves, to all give you another example of the nice minded people, Somebody. that that man or woman not only power of alcohol. In Yokohama did not drink but indeed eschewed years ago. now the annual accounts apparently has been doing some alcohol If you are, then I tell of the Chamber of Commerce were thing which he ought not to have you in reply that I simply do not the point of being put to the done and the recent drastic deerco. I meeting when a gentleman rose and believe you. Why? Because I asked the Chairman if he might, nir happen to know, and knowledge is a matter that he thought affected Tai Wan was, so to speak, the power, and power fe-alcohol. Not all of them and indeed had been first shot in the campaign; and that alcohol and power should be now. Certainly, and the Chair. having purged the Colony of Tai confused, but I submit they are man, who incidentally now occupies Wan the Government now turns its combined-in fact that rare avis, for Overseas Trade, Well, this is

a high position in the Department eagle eye upon another plague spot combination that is almost un-it: I am a pig-iron merchant in Island Bay. And rightly. shrinkable!.

Yokohama, and you are a pig-iron If people must bathe, let them merchant in Liverpool, and I buy learn to bathe genteelly; from n from you 1,000 tons of pig-iron in Liverpool and you sell to me 1,000 motor car for instance, or a bungn- low or a matshed or a tent with

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on his mind for some time back,

Take, for example, the case of the mouse who always used to bolt when it saw a cat until one day it tons of pig-iron in Yokohama,

GOVERNMENT PLEASE

NOTE!

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in the rosult..

chacord 10 lick up a few drops of And there the speaker halted stripes on it. In fact, from any. brandy and then went looking for Yes said the Chairman helpfully thing so long as it is sufficiently the cat This is perhaps not the Well, he rejoined, what are you

Unfortunately, launch picnics are

most fortunate example, but who going to ilo about it and then re expensive, and oxclusive. will deny that that mouse died sumed his seat a triflo unsteadily gloriously, instead of being caught maybe, but utterly captain of him- running away, or in a trap all for self and proudly aware of having not yet doomed. There are other the sale of a dirty little piece of put a question to which clearly beaches. But a few mines in Junk

washo nawet Could amelly checse? Why, it's an epic, there. and I gladly pay this tribute to that have been done on water 1 Bay and a shark or two imported the gallant little fellow beg leave to doubt it. Like the into the other bays would doubt. mouse, the speaker believed in the less: bring the campaign to a "crowded, hour of glorious Lifg And another example when the that's worth an Age without a violent and triumphant conclusion. temperance lecturer was demon name "--but unlike the mouse, ho atrating the killing power of survived! alcohol by holding up two worms And I think I may conclude this prior to immersing them ond in article by answering Omar Kha water and the other in whisky, yam's question:

Ere, he said, with a disregard for aspirates uncommon among public- speakers, 'ere we avg, two worms. The one in my right and goes into this glass, sploh, of water, and yer can so fer yerselves it's erlive The other one into this gladsy tzing

I often wonder what the Vint

ners buy,AUT

Yours,

July 16, 1941.

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A MEAN TRICK.

·HUSBAND AND WIFE SENT TO PRISON,

It was stated that on the date: in question the woman was one of A group of people who were watch. ing a hawker displaying his wares, when, she seized the opportunity to steal the silk and make off with A Chinese woman named Ko Yee it, taking it home with her. When So, living at 72, Main Street, her husband heard that the police Shaukiwao, was yesterday, charged were making inquiries he gave the Vefore Mr. Schofield at the Cen-silk to a young girl, telling her to take it to her sapan and hide it. He later adopted a course of action with the ultimate intention of lotting the girl be blamed, for the theft is the event of discovery, toy His duplicity drew hever com ments from the bench, Mr. Schofield

the fact of bis attempting to throw marking that had it not been for ing the stolen goods, knowing them the blame, on the girl, a ne might to have been stolen.

have met the case. Now, however, both he and his wife would have Inspector Stimson, of Shaukiwad, to go to prison for 6 weeks with prosecuted

hard labour, to m

One half so precious as the (TO THE EDITOR OF THE “KONG KONG trol Magistracy with the larceny of goods sell

More alcohol, of coursol. And iff the teetotaler thinks half so presious means a clear profit to the Vint

of whisky, and it's se dead as nors (delicious word 1) of 50 per

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618, The Mr. T.-B. Wilson re

18 yards of silk, valued at $12, from a licensed hawker named Sin Wei Lat, at Shauiwan on July 15 at 4 pm. Her husband, Lam San

mutton"! ~"Don't, that show yer! cont, well, let him have his "ported to have been in a motor car THẾ THI " & " Tomcatary, panie parthing shot. We can "content when from the back of the hall an ourselves with the sweet thought accident on July 16 was not theak, way why churged with receive elderly scrawny female asked: By that the sound of seven bells has undersigned f mister, could yer tell me the hyme just come tinkling softly across the

of that there whisky, for I've had harbour, that the Sun has juab gona them things for yours Who will ávat the yard-arm," "and",

(Vontisded, on next Column) Bacchus is At Home!

that

T. B.. WILSON," General Agent, The Robert Dollar Co.