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NOTES & COMMENTS.

|Curbing Exchanges."

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1932.

DAY BY DAY,

MANY MEN HAVE BEEN CẤP- It was well to find Messrs. HoABLE OF DOING A WISE THING, Kwong and Ho Kom-tong at MORE A CUNNING THING, BUT the meeting of the Chinese VERY FEW A GENEROUS THING, Chamber Commerce giving their➡Pape. full support to the new Bill For [curbing speculativo exchances. A janse for búza fide exchanges was) The Hoosier State" Jazz put forward by str. Wong Kwong Band plays the music for to tin, oue of the founders of a newly-night's Kowloon Theatre cabaret {established exchange, and if such dance.

There was one fatal case of

Jan institution can put forward a ¡clear case of legitimata busineas on the lines mentioned by that speaker, it is unlikely that the plague reported yesterday and authorities would wish to inter-also one non-fatal case of cerebro- posa. Mr. Wong referred, ap-epinal fever. parently, to produce, not stock and ahare former, however, are just as cap-

exchanges. The

Among those who left the

UNEMPLOYED FOREIGNERS.

INTERPORT GOLF.

Shanghai Comment.

able of being used as gambling Colony yesterday by the Yoshino (From Our Own Correspondent.) media. Experience at Shanghai Maro was Mr. J. Ralston, of and other places bak shown that Quan's College, who is proceed. it is the exception for transac-iug Home on leave. Lions 10 rlate to actual produce. If the parties can and will deliver the goods," the

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. operations come under another to the Guverement Civil Hospital one, but the Shanghai players somewhere. You know how an- is one we're not afraid to have

Wine & Spirit Merchulz

'Phone 16

A Chinese was taken vesterday category. But the number of suffering from injuries received exchanges that have appeared in in an attempt to alight from the Colony during race weeks timeat whilst it was in motion is surely sufficient to meet exist in Des Voeux Road ink roads; at any rate, the authorities will be shondantly justified in requiring the plainest!

an called.

The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 proof as to ruison d'etre before Committee for the reception of SHANGHAI SMALLPOor meaning to speak to Joe about disinclined to fall on yon literary

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Shanghai's New Menace.

Ay, true enough, some folk think of it, the Ind that had the (From Our Oven Correspondent) they're forever borrowing their saw what I wrote on January 6. are so fond of originality that belated inspiration maybe never 8bangbal, January 19. neighbour's. I couldna' help but It's no' to be expected that folks think of that when I was reading who have to work for a living The police report “a large num- ber of nondescript unemployed my Morning Post yesterday morn can spare much timò for: Right foreigners, attracted to Shanghai. Maybe you noticed yon reading. Besides there are such through the absence of passport about the Statue Square Build as a rule they don't take so long bit yourself, alongside the leader, things as coincidences thongh regulations. These constitute a

ing. How the Hon. Mr. A. O to colacide. The worst of a coin- menace."

Lang's question at the last meat. aidence in print, is that it's very ing-of the Council-was-a very apt to be taken for plagiarism. pertinant one: how it occurred Bat anybody can plagiarise my to the writer that the new ideas to his heart's content so Pavilion might serve a useful long as he verifies my facts Brst. purpose if it were used temper, I'm very apt to say a thing be arly in place of the City Hall cause it sounds smart. Again' a whilst that building is being man often gets the credit of har- why no' take ing brains when he happens to demolished; advantage, and finally the ed get something by look. Then Shanghai, January 19.

itorial we gave the suggestion again, there is the painful habit The North China Daily News cumshs for what it is worth wi' so eally made to pass muster, commenting on the Interport the bope that-etcetra, stoetra. of making use of wise saws |Golf, says.—” The result is die Thinks I to myself, that's quite and maxims, which lend an “

appointing as the very beat a good idea but surely I've read appearance of

thought and possible team was sent to Bong that before. ay, I'd seen it wisdom, Still the best blaff are to be congratulated upon their poying it is to have vers fins performance, coming soides fitting will-o-the-wip-like close to the high calibre of the through the old dome and just no at present ander the discussion I Now, wi' regard to the subject

Hongkong players,”

able to fix it. It read like a want to be perfectly homens wi dream to me. Finally, I gave ye, and then you'll all the more it ap and got dressed instead readily understand why I'm

it once I saw him.

pirate and rend him. If he likes, Curiously enough he was the to keep pouring water on a first to mention it. Atletav some drowned mouse, that's his look- December's Heavy Toll. body else did, for as I went in pat and those who are responsible

the door ho W43 in the for him. (From Our Own Correspondent.) act of laying memo, form on

What I was going to say was my cesk. A perfec: godsend it this. While it is true that I was Shangbai, Jan. 19.

was and a great relief into the maybe the first to have the idea in The foki of a shrp at No. 302, A meeting in London of the Das Four Road, West, was camber was 184 dead. The sum of they mental lapses at my into & temporary City Hall, yet The smallpox toll during De-bargain. 1 dinna' like the ides print of the Pavilion being made Associated Chambers of Com yesterday entrusted with a somber of foreigners who died was time of life. merce in Great Britain passed of $503.25 to be taken to the Wool twenty three. There were twelve

there is nothing in that to cause resolution urging the Govero- Lung Bank. He later returned thousand free vaccinations by the Y.B. "Not for publication" at to myself. Lots of others before Having the usual Hongkong me to start banding out bouquets Ltd.,ment farther to improve the Brit-and reported to his master that Health Department. Practically the head of it, I canna' of course me must have thought of it, for ish Consular Service. To this his pocket was picked while on every foreigner is now vaccinated.{give it in extenso, in other words, on the day before I wrote yan Sir William Clark, Permanent his way to the Bank: Under-Secretary of the Depart-

There were eight new cases re- leave out the writer's name, but few lines on stresses and strains, ment of Overseas Trade,

ported last week. Thirty-nine this is what the "memo, said while I was standing watching responded by pointing

the Chinese workmen manipulat- Chinese died from the disease last otherwise :----

Hongkong, 18th Jany, 1922, ing the bamboos, a chap came along from the Club and mea- Of all the calm appropria. tioned the idea to me just as tions (without acknowledg. casually as if he were ordering ment) I think the Morning gin aling. Did I brighten up and Post's kind "offer" of Mr. Mac- tell him what a brainy chap he Whirter's suggestion with was and he should write a letter regard to the Pavilion on the to the Daily Press about it? I Finest Site this morning, takes did not. Instead I said to myself the biscuit. If I remember. "The very thing for a subject to right Mr. McW's ides as to its night Robbie, my lad," and it was use during rebuilding of the even so. You don't blame me do City Hall saw the light at least you? To air another's views is week ago. Is he going to take human, especially if ye pass it lying down?:-Youre, etc. them off 6.5 your 03F0 and gel EWEY wi' it. It's The Editor,

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19. 1922.

years.

FORGOTTEN KOWLOON.

some

sanctioning any more. Shanghai has witnessed crashes already, and people in

beary position to speak say that these are only a forataste of what is in store.

The Consular Service.

100

A meeting of the Executive] H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is afternoon at which the final and being held at Supreme Court this detailed programme for the visit

will be submitted.

that improvements had been when the foki of a shop at No. 8

Shooting took place last night week. effected, and that expenditure Sampan Street was shot in the

The Health Department has upon the Service now exceeds back by an unidentified man who also issued a warning against £1,000,000 as against £400,000 subsequently made his escape.

induenze. before the war, bence be could The victim was taken to the Gor- hold out small hope of addition, exament Civil Hospital. He is Nobody will deny the necessity unable to furnish & reason for the OUTSIDE THE LAW. of the Government keeping attack.

tight hold upon the purse-strings

in these parlous times, but

economy in this matter looks

Conspla:cs.

The assemb age

The Geographical Journal bas

excellent

Priscilla Dean in Great”

Crook Melodrama.

her

career,

of the

Sir,

Hongkong Telegraph.

very much like trimming er an appreciative notice of Mr. penditure just where it is specially John Thomson, through whose required. Oo Sir William Clark's death the Society last one of its Priscilla Dean, queen of cinema own figures, the Government is oldest members, as be bad beso crookdom, appears in the greatest Kowloon residents have cause to feel more than a little not spending much more upon a Fellow for afty-five years. He characterization of

the Service now than before the was in his 84th. year. He was and her first feature since "The disappointed and they no doubt do feel so after reading

war when the difference in values pioneer in the application of Virgin of Stamboal," in Tod the Government's latest pronouncement on the matter of taken into consideration. photography to travel. He went Browning's melodrama

to do anything but a and around the long-promised Kowloon Hospital. Several public Even a million pounds is A

While fair tickled to death at and bold on to it. Very often the improvements, urgently needed, have been eagerly looked moderate sum out of a Budget illness had to return. Starting which will be shown at the World that last sentence. There's a guesser out-distances the slow but to Ceylon in 1862, but through underworld, "Outside The Law," the above, I dians' somehow like man who is swift and a good forward to. The people of Kowloon were going to bave of a thousand millions. Chambers &zsin in 1865 for the Malay Teatre starting Friday, 20th inst.,bit over much of the "--8-85, sure. So you see after all's said a service of motor buses, suitable and convenient for all of Commerce on: here complain Peninsuls, he went to Siam and at 9.15 pm only.

sick him Towser" for ray taste. sad done all the credit I can they were going to have a hospital, too. So far they reduce rather to enlarge the num- the remains buried in tropical tez and pal of a notorious but re-

that the tendency has been to Cambodia, where he recorded As "Silky Moll" Madden, daugh-I don't see that it serves ony really take in the matter is that I haven't got either. It is true that a service of buses is ber of such prosectatives, and jungles,

good purpose to get Bying into a was 12 days ahead of the other now running, but it is no exaggeration to say that the this at a time when our com- pictures of the famous Natio formed San Francisco crook, the perfect rage about some other fellow. And that's no' worth vehicles are absolutely unfitted for Europeans and will petitore are Teintorcing their Wat zuina. Leaving Cambodia finds honesty irksome and seizes what ideas are for. A word to firs. That's all Which reminds man passing on my iles. That's starting a fight over. I was there Bever be patronised by them. Regarding the hospital-for

he proceeded to Macao, Hong- an opportunity to revenge herself the otherwise is never wasted, me of the passage between the which the money has long since been sanctioned--the public The Genoa Conference, kong, Amoy, Fermosa, Foochow, society after her father baOf course, in lots of things the solicitor and the witness is now informed that the plans are not even yet completed

Chusan and Shanghai, with teen railroaded to prison. Even Post's are abint like the coddy's Tell me now" said be for the at Cannes acessional journeys into the more of an enigma than most tail but man it's sye a lot safer to prosecution "were you present at and that we cannot expect the hospital for at least two broke up abruptly, but the interior. He went up the Yangtze Women, Silky Moll is wise with be that way. If newspaper folk the inception of the alteration" ?

The Kowloon Resident's Association-through Genoa conference is to go on. It beyond the gorges of its middle the wisdom of women who live by had to seek out the owner of the whom the last fact has just been made known-must feel in fact, to be a bamper course, and afterwards to Paking. wits, sweet with the heady sweet copyright of every motion, it "I was there when the fight *No, Sir” replied the witness ¡ conference. judging extremely disappointed at the result, up to date, of their

by the The results were published in dess of dry wine and with a heart would scarcely be worth while started." reports. Two dozia European four handsome folio volumes, as hard as it is pure. After her bothering. Still if the writer of efforts on behalf of the Peninsula.

States are to be represented, plus with accompanying text. Two daring crime coup. in which you secondhand comment is ever

Cub reporters, please note. Not a few are asking why it is that Kowloon gets Uncle Sam and Dai Nippon. The volumes bad been devoted to the banker is bound and gagged to hard up for a topic, or loses his averybody in the world depends It's true enough though that such half-hearted treatment. The necessity for a hospital world must be getting a little" fed " Antiquities of Cambodia." In the music of his Own on that side needs no empbasis at this time of day it is Paris, London, Geneva. Brussels, narrative of his travels under the necklace within call of his guests, work aside and think out a few has set the ball rolling. Maybe dance nerve, all he has to do is to drop upon somebody else. Somebody's "with conferences, what with 1875 he published B up

general orchestra and robbed of a $500,000 me a cbit and I'll put my own got to make a start. Mr. Lang self-evident to all. Why couldn't we have been given it a and others as well as Washington. title of The Straits of Malacca, Silky Moll and her male confede for him. Onything for the com- it'll come to nothing. little quicker. The sheer waste of time that has taken We are far from saying that Indo-China. and Chias:

Never Ted rate "hide out in a Knob Hillmon weal T'm ready and willing mind. Hope was aye the mother place has been very trying, to say the least, and in the these meetings are needlens, of Years Travels, Adventures, and apartment During the long to part wi'. watter of a motor bus service the first ideas bave had a that further conferences to deal Residence in the Far East"

of disappointment. Whether or months of their voluntary impri- with fresh developments of a

Ay, it's quite true that a preat no, we've made folk think and parodied expresssion. Instead of a service which could be

samment a great change comes to many people succeed in making they'll think all the mors, by the need by all, which would have done something to open up the as proof of the futility of previous complex problem should be treated

the soul of Silky Moll, through the moet of other folk's opportun- time yon Favilion's finished, that outlying districts, we have at present a purely native ser-gatherings, but it must be con

the influence of a chubby little ities. Some stand on principle and it would be a downright shame vice which does nothing more than compete with the slower fessed that the concrete results do

kid from the next door apartment. others again probably would if and a sheer waste of good public Tod Browning wrote and produced they had ony to stand on. money to put you up for only two rickshas. The service is quite all right in its way, but it not appear to be in proportion to

"Outside the Law," as & Univer No, I'm not in the least annoyed short Aprildays. No, the thing's is inevitably a makeshift and of no benefit to anybody but the quantity of cor ferring. Former Chinese. One naturally hesitates to compare the activities have been handicapped through

sal-Jewel, at an expenditure of a about this business, Come to unthinkable. Dog Owners Warned. conferences, it may be argued,

quarter of a million dollars, andļ of the Government in one district as against another not being thorouzby represent vertisement columns to-day most notable crime dramas of the As will be seen from our ad-the result is said to be one of the district because such a proceeding is in questionable taste.ative. This time, with the par- But it is hard to forget that our Government has built a ticipation of Germany and Russia, case of rabies has occurred in the decade, pictorially and histrioni- PRIZE DISTRIBUTION.

eastern distriot of the City, and cally. Lon Chaney, acknowledged. beautiful motor road to the Peak, is still extending it, has and Japan, there should be on the police authorities have issued the foremost character on the opportunity to accomplish some

Tsang Foo School. given residents up there a purely scenic road (Lugarding on a world-wide scale. If warning notice calling on dog screen, in prominent in the star's The distribution of prizes at the Road) which cost thousands of dollars, and yet drops a the Twenty-Six cannot manage vision over their suimels

owners to exercise strict super support in two roles of astonish- Trang Foo School, Kowloon City, full motor bus scheme for Kowloon and dallies in ex-Į the buainesa, —— !

Alling dissimilarity. Wheeler Oak. took place yesterday.

Mr. Nigel Kingscote, of King- asperating manner in the provision of a hospital which Inter-Port Golf.

dogs found atṛaying will be shot. man plays opposite. Miss Dean an Mr Trang Foo cot onis lent the scole, Gloucestershire, whose Dapper Bills, a crook with the school, which forms part of his re-death has just occurred, was head would serve the urgent needs of hundreds of European Victory remained with the

instincts of a gentleman. Ralph sidence, for the prize-givings of of one of the oldest families to be residents. However strong the protest might be against Colony in the Inter-Port golf The former's 162, a capital per-

Lewis as the father, E. A. Warren about seven Kowloon vernacular found among the sancient aquira: such a comparison as that just made, it is only by some tournament, but it was by a very formance on a soddened courseand as the Chinese philosopher, Wilton schools at the same time, but such statement that the Government will be given an idea arrow margin, only 3 points the best score of the day, carried Taylor as the police inspector, provided care to take visitors to and archy, and their estate (which of what the majority of Kowloon folk are thinking.

separating the rivals as against him to victory after the Northern Melbourne MacDowell and little from the Star Ferry at Kowloon for was named after them, or gave There is oo single district in this Colony which houses ing the respective three beat struggle daring the afternoon principals in the cast.

21 last year. This was by count port player bad put up & fice Stanley Goethals are the other the occasion. E. the Governor its name to them) bus belonged

was prevented by the pressure of to a Kingscote from time im so many European workers as Kowloon; there is no dis-scores, as prescribed: reskoning round. In beating Mr. Buck.

public business from attending, and memorial almost, but the line is trict which could be so easily opened up if there were all the games, the margin land, the Rev. Mr. Roberta con

the Director of Education (the not so old as the pedigree makes provided suitable transportation facilities, and the rather larger, Of the firmed the impression of consist-

Heo. Mr. E. A. Irving) zeigaad in out, says a Home paper. In this the Colony Government ought to display a little livelier interest than er

his stead. The prias were duly it has so far. Cannot we have that hospital in less than As happened last year, the 79, the lowest recorded. Mr. Smith, fund organised by the "Dally were entertained to music, by two The Grosvenors have many times of the five.and he did the afternoon round la A subscription of £2,000 to the preted and the visitors had a respect the same can to sad of the Westminster Grosvenom" most interesting silernoon. They two years and cannot we have some better system of cricketer-golfer, Major Bagnall, though losing, had the satisfaction Mirror as national wedding bands, and to tes before de transportation such as trams or buses? What of all the on the one side, sud the ecclesias of twice finding the hole in two,gift to Princess Mary bue open spaces waiting to be developed? King's Park, Kow-tical exponent, the Rev. Mr. Robe which perhaps rendered defeat a been sent by the Maharajs parture; and a group photograph Conqueror's rent from the loon Tong, the land behind Mong Kok, etc.? There's big roll was opposed to another uapropitious mood of the Clerk of is to be devoted to the financial school had done so well this year with this Norman le as mythical erte, on the other,did best. Mafor trifle more mortifying! The Gaeswar of Barods. The fandaken bir. Irving said these Hugh Lapus, but their kinship field for governmental energy over there. It just wants cricketer-golfer to Shanghai's the Weather did not prevent relief of two important childred's Government subsidy.

that they would sit reodive the some one to take an interest in the place, thats' all.

s the early pedigree of the King- champion batsman, Capt, Barreit. jfice, sporting contest,

the odd ona

RABIES.

MAHARAJA'B £2,000 GIFT.. won ercy given by his play last year,

hospitals in London."

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