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ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE "STAR" FERRY CO. LIMITED

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HOTION TO SELÄTTHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HERERT GIVEN that the THIRTY-FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING. of this Company will be held at the Office of Mesure. Jardins, Matheson & Co. Ltd. on THURSDAY, the 11th February. 1982; at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Repor of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 81st December, 1981,

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The Register of Shares of the Company will be OLOSED from Wednesday, the 3rd February, 1989, to Thursday, the 11th February, 1982, both days inclusive.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.

ONESDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1932

BOOKS and READERS

Hamish

"THE UNBEEN ALGABsina, By Sir

Norman (Angel Hamilton. 78 să.

In The Great Illusion"?

WHAT WAR COSTS US

Fair

Into the Abyss.

Beyond Range of Tourists. The placas desaribed in fine book, Lhasa and Tibot, Nepal, Porsia and Vladivostock; being, luckily, beyond: the range of tourists still retain got a little poolty, and wore visited by the author at interesting times in an interesting way. Indeed, irritated though one may be by too frequent references to other books

Cap, is the assumption or phrases such as it is not to Sir that somehow you can disposal my purpose to relata hore

ends of diplomacy are almost as Norman Angell argued, and the a foreign nation's competition by the glimpses one gets of the frayed defeating that riation in war. argument was tragically justified in the event, that war does not Where is the "captured foreign interesting as the places wherein

they are seen. Has viotory pay. In this new book he reltorates trade of Germany and reinforces the original argu-enabled us to check, Germany's 'som monts; and sets out with admir. petition? Incidentally we do not abla olearnem his whole thesis that now seek the destruction of Gor. NOTICE IS HEREBY "ALSO understanding, work, co-operation many We are making sacrifices GIVEN that AD Extraordinary adjustment must be the hosis of in our own interest to save her HITS

General Meeting of the Members of

from collapse, knowing well that the boys named Company will be human society: that conquest as hadd 19:15 pm, on the same day a means of achieving national ad." if Germany goes into the abyss BRUNSWICK and at the same place as and wantage must fail; thas to use we may go too"

immediately after tho before mentioned Ordinary Genaral Meeting RECORDS for the purpore of considering and

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All that is sound common sense.

Yot the book is not entirely of, places and things. Ona ments Dor- fief and Wassmuss, thore two" vaguely sinister Augures, Bir Francis Younghusband, Ca Bein enriation of Buddha Portian

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A TYRANT IN TEXAS.

Longmans. 78. ed.

your prosperity or means of liveli hood, your sonomic system, inf we were all notuated by motiver if thought at peasing the following short, upon having more force of common sense there would never be another war. Unfortunately Extraordinary than someone else, and exercising

it against him, is an impossible the millions of young men who at That the Articles of Association | form of human relationship that one time or another take up arms THE BIG BOAD," By Ruth Cross. of the Company be altered in manner is bound to break down.

are not persuaded to fight in the following

He takes all the familiar fal-spirit of common sense.

Why Mon Fight. ladies and beats them, to pieces,

Mer engage in war (as Sir Nor-for their living. And Hector man Angell himself admita) be Strawn felt justified in refusing to cause for the moment they see no "allow his wife and son to indulge

Unfor other means of asserting what aptheir passion for music

In Texas in 1808 men, women and children were expected to work hard

(a) By deletion of the words One thousand Dollars" contained partly in the third and partly in as for example, the favourite plea the fourth lines of Articles 90% of of "the plain man," that the na- the Company's Articles of tion's army or navy is its police Association and the substitution therefor of the words "Fireman, that navies and armies exist thousand Dollars."

for the same reason that the policrpears to them to be a right--the tunately he was brutal, unjust and force öxista.

right to equality of world oppor man when endeavouring to enforce tunity with others, the right to his will Miss Cross writes vividly

of the battles within the family freedom from alien rule, the right We are relieved when one member to protect, themselves and their pee of the home throws off parental up.

a little pity for the tyrant. pression and we are allowed to feel

AND

NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a. further

A Blunt Retort. Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the Company will His blunt retort is that police be beld at the same place at 12.84 p.m. on Friday, the 26th day of forces, unlike armies, are not or February, 1982, for the purpose of ganised to fight each other. Na-ple from bullying. When it be comes in men's mind a question receiving a Beport of the proceedings tional armies are organised for a

of defending their rights, the hor at the before mentioned Extraordinary purpose which ultimately, is the General Meeting and of confirming

thought fit the before mentioned exact raverse of the purpose of arer of war become irrelevant; in deed, the horrors make the act of polies fores, since in the last resolution as a Special Resolution.'

war the more noble." By Order of the Board of Directors,

"F. H. CRAPNELL.

Secretary. 27th January, 1932.

NOTICE.

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FR. JOHN WILLIAM BUCK has been appointed Acting Manager for Hong Kong and South China and Kasthis day assumed con. trol of this Territory: Mr. H. C. Shrubsole will proceed to Singapore to take up his appointment as Manager for MALAYA, B. N. BORNEO and SARAWAK.

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| A BRIGHT YOUNG PERSON.

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SWEET PUNISHMENT

By Bar

bara Cartland. Hutchinson, 78, ed,

analysis armies are forces behind rival litigants, and the police in

Lady Diana Stanlier brightest of the force behind the judge. One in

bright young people, meets Inn doubt true Carstairs, bronzed and purposeful a social instrumens; the other an uppermost. It is no

that in the last few years there has young man from the great open instrument of anarchy. The

been a change in the emotional at spaces, and is tamed at last. There depends upon competition of powtitude towards war. But Sir Noris really no need to say any more, er: the other upon pooled power, man Angell fays too much stress or except that Miss Cartinnd tells the the co-operation of the whole in the profundity" of this change the maintenance of agreed rights The two methods,, as Sr. Normah Angell properly points out,* mutually exclusive,

are

story of the taming with zest, and Suce his very able analysis of seasons it exactly to the taste of all the implications of the Kellogg those who like their heroines sen!]. Peace Pact was written, that almost miniature in size, but of beauty, and their strument has been, shamelesily def voluptaous ed by one of its leading signa heroes larger and stronger far than tories without mose than a feeble life. protest from the rest.

Recent history disproves, also the

A Disappointing Advance."

THE SECOND EMPIRE. assumption that a victor seizna ita

We are not travelling very fast defeated enemy's wealth or trade in the light of true knowledge on When France regained Alsace was the road to organised peace.

Maud "PETTICOAT A1

COURT." By thare then a transfer of property Sir Norman Angell plainly aves,

Hart Lovelace. Simpson, Jav. from one group of owners to an we have made a disappointing ad-

75. 6d. other? The fields, factories, houses,vance since the Greek philosophert A picture of Paris in the days furniture, stocks and shares reino interpreting common facts as of the Second Empire, The Ene violets; main in the same hands as before to perceive the sejal trutha. Our prog Eugenie and her

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methods of education still fail to ladies in crinolines, with ringlets. give us the requisite skill to in and waterfalls and hairnets, off terpret them accurately; they fail cars in side-whiskers, echoes of the to leave on our minds any clear Legitimist Cause and the American notion of the necessary mechanism Civil War, are all woven into the love-story. of society, of the almost mechanic back-ground, while a al principle by which alone some tinkles its little tune with the old musical-bux. bo sweetness of M smoothness of working may achieved; or to convey an ad-Miss Maud Hart Lovelace has creat equate sense of our defects na socialed her period with loving care."" beings as revealed in the history

of man. Thus ignorance per-

petustes irrational and futile war

Sir Normann Angell and others

J

"NINE WOMEN."

are doing a valuable work in help AMBASSADOR'S WIFË WRITES

A BOOK,

A futter is likely to be, caused in literary circles next month by the appearance of a book by Mme Sokolnikoff, wife of the Ambassa

ing people to think rationally on the subject of war as the inexor able arbiter of disputes among the nations. It is only By this kind of education among the peo ples of the world that any interna tional authority can be made offer tive for the provention of war. dor of the Boviet Union in Lon

One cannot pay too often that the present League of Nations will never acquire any greater strength than that which It derives from world opinion

don. The title will be "Nine. Wo. men prominent figures in the

Revolution and

Mrs. French Sidney Weh is toontributing preface.

It is a machine which could be The volume is a translation from made to triumph over all the fierce the Russian, and its style is don- pugnacities of sivilised and acteribed by song who has read it as vilised man. If we all became revolutionary rather than pure Norman Angells to-morrow thely historical." Long would be as powerful ag It appears to have caused anime the common law of England, and alarm to the Loridon publisher to would make the "sovereign re" whom it was first offered. He is of nations appear as nonsensical said to have returned it on learn- as the "right" of the citizen of ing from his reader that it was London de bomb Manchester, as an aforocious and,bloodthirsty at economie and cultural rivni, to tempt to vindicate the worst hor- emitherer ny.

rors of the French Revolution."

ON THE FRONTIER AND BEYOND.

BY LA COL SIR FREDERICK O'CON- You 6.6.1. CIE, G.¥.0. (London: John Murray, 10/-)- To those readers of reminiscences who have a masculing turn of mind,

MR. FARNOL AGAIN.

THE JADE OF DESTINY."

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We read of the days when Englaner

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the last words of his preface is has Mr Farmol's admirers will not taken the rough with the amooth find thate: the author has cheated has found mope for all his faculties them out of so much as one of his mandamistoidary... episodes of gallantry.

and romance.

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