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Thongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY MARCH 4. 1929

LIBERAL DREAMS.

MONDAY, MARCH

1929.

DAY BY DAY.

A MAN HAS A NATURAL HORROR AS A WOMAN HAS OF HE IS HELPLESS BEFORE

ming has been appointed to H.M.S. Commd.. Gunner (T) F. Erim-

Cornwall..

The P. and O. 8.8. Moren, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilies

on 2nd March 1 7 am

CORRESPONDENCE.

To The Editor of Hongkong"

Telegraph.]

The Very Idea!

appeal to thoso-possessing a wido] and unrestricted outlook. When Mr. Lloyd George talks of tho Liberals being the only united OF TEARS Parly, be invites the rejoinder HEETLES.

A remarkable incident occurred at a municipal orchestral concert, that its unity, If real, is of very THEM-Mrs. Almaz Stout. recent realisation. Even long

Rescue-Tug. Facilities. at Burnley the other night; at after the death of Lard Oxford,

which Mme. Elisabeth Schubiana, Sir-Your editorial, in Satur- the Party was spilt into two fac

day's paper, dealing with the Hain the German soprano, was appear- tions, and there are to-day pro

Wah disuster makes Interesting | Ing.

her discussion of the remarks audience by walking off the stage reading, but would you permit fur- minent members of it who do not

Mme. Schumann surprised the altogether relish the idea of Mr.

therein regarding the rescue, tug at the end of the first of three. Lloyd George remaining at its

Kau Sing?

groups of songs she was to have head. How long the new-found ]

The sum of $30,000 per year is sung, and declined to appear fur- H.M.S. Carysfort and H.M.S. unity will last, time will tell. Ab- Cleopatra left Maltat for Port mentioned as being the approximate ther. It was stated that she had

cost of keeping this tug ready, on other of Mr. Lloyd George's obser- Said and the Far East on Sunday half an hour's notice, all the year taken this unusual course as a vations which lays klai open to the

round. Walying the fact that an protest ügàinst smoking being per- retort courteous is that, the byo- A. ladies' watch was found on appreciable portion of this summitted in the Palace Theatre, elections have shown that the the Star Ferry wharf at Kowloon, stands to be debited against the where the concert was being held. Labour vote is declining. Ile the Water Police Station.

yesterday, and was handed over to tug's legitimate work during the

typhoon season, the figure seems Shortly afterwards: she left for Manchestor, without having been omits to mention, however, that

very high. alone of 'the' three Parties- the Divisional Inspector Paino,

At a fair estimate, the consump-paid her fee, Labourites have been winning formerly attached to Central, has tion of one-third of a ton of of fuel scats from their opponents. It is been seconded to the Shameen day would keep the present ma stated afterwards that some of the Police Forco, and has left to take chinery in readiness at a moment's most famous English and foreign notice. This at forty dollars a ton vocalists had appeared at the Sun- would cost approximately $4,000 per year not a great extrava-day evening concerts in Burnley The death took place, from peri-gante:

| during the past ten years, but tonitis, at the International Hos- pital, Hankow, yesterday, of If only one boiler were kept in there had never been a single con- stoker Frederick Charles Ander commission-and this would give plaint about smoking. son, late of H.M.S. Castor.

the vessel about five-sixths of its It was stated that the accom- full speed-this expenditure might panist, Mr. George Altham, had be halved.

had difficulty in persuading Mme: Considering the oil engine pro-Schumann to complete her firat posal. a Diesel engine of the group of songs. She had desired neccesary aizo would

require to leave the stage almost as soon trained Diesel engineers, and as she had begun to sing. this would make the engine costly than

true that there has, in some of the

contests, been a shrinkage of the Labour vetc, but an even greater decline has been suffered by the other Parties. The reason is not far to seek, for, with a General Election on the horizon, far fewer voters have gone to the polls in recent bye-elections.

charge of his new post.

A cargo-boat in drawing out! from the Chiu On Wharf on Satur day, collided with the steam launch Ilha de Macao and received damage to the extent of $450,

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A warrant has been issued for om staff more the arrest of Chan Shik-yu, on the at present. Also it would be neces Tsang Yue firm, of No. 9, Bonhamsary to have substitutes available and these are not meantime casually Strand West, on a charge of in- available locally. Further it is curring liabilities to the extent of over $6,000, contrary to the Bank

The Liberals, we are assured, have a cut-and-dried romedy for all the evils from which the coun try is at the moment suffering. So wonderfully conceived are the schemes that, according to Mr. Lloyd George, unemployment can be reduced to normal proportions within a year, without adding a penny to national or local taxa Professor W. Brown is to deliver tion. The "Welsh Wizard" ovia lecture on "A Visit to dently believes in living up to his name, but the average. individual will scarcely credit him with the power to solve, within the space of twelve months, the extremely

ruptcy Ordinance.

very doubtful if the large Diesel engine would have the same facility in manoeuvring, as the existing steam plant, under the severe con- ditions pertaining to tvohoon or re- East Bene work.

Africa" under the auspices of the If these statements are admitted, Jongkong University Arts Asso-what thea is wrong with the Kau 12th instant at 8.30 p.m. The lee

on the Sing as a rescue-tug for any and

every occasion? Yours, etc., ture will be illustrated.

ciation at the University

complex and difficult problems An excellent variety concert was which have battled the best brains St. John's Hall (Hongkong Un- presented on Saturday night at

of the country for so long. Judg-iversity) when the annual social

"Normalcy.

GREASER.

Sir, Yesterday I read the ing from, the summary of his function was held. The concort phrase, "restoration of normalcy," speech, there is nothing pheno-consisted of Chinese and Western in the right hand column of your

musical Items, which were much front page and I venture to en mensl or Femurkably original appreciated by the large audience quire If the word "normale" is to about the Liberal schemes-cer- present. Dancing followed, the

be found any standard English talaly nothing which warrants the music being supplied by the Hong- dictionary?

kong Hotel Orchestra. assertion that that Party alone is capable of putting them into effect. In his latest oration, Mr. Lloyd George rather reminds us of the boy who whistles to keep his

courage up. ̧·

!

If so, I apologise for my enquiry Sentences of two months hard and will endeavour to make labour and six months' hard lab-amenda by contributing $5 to the our, together with 15 strokes of Miners' Fund.

imposed on A the birch, were Chinese by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith,

Engr.

on

Lieut.

An afficial of the Corporation.

10

A crowd of loafers round the

Clubhouse tec,

. And some whom I particularly

hate;

A supercilious, caddie, stern

us fate,

Whone every gesture seems In

scorn of me,

Says "High or low ?" and blindly

I agree,

Thinking of all the rules. I

learned of late,

"Hend still," "Slow back," and "At the top a wait,” "Open the face," and "Keep

your muscles free."

O yes, and "Keep your eye upon

'the ball,"

All these, and several others

I obey, Straining my intellect to bring

them all

In time and proper sequence

Juto play;

"Let the club do the

- Wormwood and gall

work!".

We're in you gorse bush."

twenty yards away!

.

•

An official of the telephone com-

A believer in normality myself,pany was rudely aroused from his slumbers by the ringing of the telephone. After bruising his. knee on a chair, he reached the phone.

་

"Hello," he growled.

Lord Headley, the lender of the Moslem movement in England, an eminent civil engineer, and the keenest of sportsmen, celebrated 11s soventy-fourth birthday recent ¡y.

i

"I am feeling very fit, and I am

at the Kowloon Magistracy this normalcy to my English eye and morning, when the defendant was ear appears a shade abnormal If we were to take the Liberal

charged with larceny of a pair of an amormality, if you like. Not Chineso Shipping Officers,, Party at Mr. Lloyd George's)

trousers from No. 151, Wuhu an abnormalcy on it please you,

Sir.-Yours. etc.. estimation, there would appear to that a strict test of competence is banishment.

In the absence of any assurance Street and with returning from

CUIDAS. "Are you an official of the tele- Another man who

phone company?" asked the voice. be no need for any other political to be applied, the announcement was churged with receiving the Hongkong, Mar. 2, 1920.

"Yes, what can I do for you?" entity in the State. He that the Nanking Government trousers was fined $10, or 14 days'

["Normales" is given in the 20th Tell me," aald the voice, "how.. claims for it that it is the only proposes to institute a system of hard labour.

Century Edition of Funk and Wag-it feels to get out of bed at 2 united Party, and, what is more, nese shipping officers and engine- compulsory registration of Chi-

A number of well-known Hong-nall's Standard Dictionary, as in- o'clock to answer a wrong num- that it is the only Party able to ers appears to be worse than value kong residents left for Home on dicating "the state of being nor- ber."

mal," Whilst of general usage in carry through a really satisfactory less. There is no indication that the F. and O. 5.8. Macedonia

the possession of a "certificate of Saturday. Among the passengera this sense, it is more specifically programme of reform. Whatever competency for the rank they were Lieut. T.K.W. Atkinson, R.N., employed in mathematies as "the else may be said of the Liberal hold is to be made much more Dr. and Mrs. H. Balean, Capt. J.E, point of normaley." The $5 to the leader, he does not suffer from difficult than the payment of the Cornish, R.M., Mr. C.L. Edwards, Miners' Fund will be most wel undue modesty. With a General required fees to the Nanking au- Mr. and Mrs. R.A.D. Forrest, Lieut. come.-Ed. H.K.T.) Election looming in the near fu- seem that the effect of the order A.

thorities, in which event It would J. W. M. Healing, R.N., Lieut. N. R. Keene, R.N., Mr. ture, however, it is perhaps only will be to give official sanction to G. B. Labrum,

Over a hundred Chinese re-busy opening all my presents." natural that all the Parties should a state of affairs admittedly dis-J. MacBroom, R.N., Mrs. A.M.sidents assembled at the Kam Ling Lord Headley told a newspaper graceful in many instances. The Magill and family, Mr. and Mrs. restaurant on Saturday night as representative at his Kensington begin to tell the electorate of the loss of the s.s. Ifsin Wah within G.P. de Martin, Lieut. Comdr, hosts to the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, home. virtues which they either possess sight of Hongkong Harbour, at a W.J. McGhee, R.N., Rev. and Mrs. O.B.E. LL.D., who was recently ap He added that he thought there or imagine they do. We may cost of hundreds of lives, is at W.R. McKay, Hon. Mra. Napier, pointed to the Legislative Council, was nothing like boxing to keep a therefore tuke Mr. Lloyd George'stributed to the inexperience of the Paym. Lieut. R.P. Pine, R.N., Mr. The Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow re-man healthy. "I boxed up to a Second Officer, a Chincae, and TJ. Richards, Comdr. W. R. ferred to the public service of Dr. year or two ago," said Lord Head- latest declarations with rather such a disaster should have forced Richardson, R.N., Mr. and Mrs. Tso, who, in reply, eald that his ley, "and I taught all my sons more than a grain of salt, regard-the hand of the Government. The G.. Sayer and family, Mr. D. appointment to the Council was boxing." ing his utterance as being in the action of the Nanking authorities, Templeton, Lieut. J. de B. and Mrs. not an honour to him but to the nature of elaborate window-dres- it seems to mean, will certainly Wareham, R.N., Mr. and Mrs, H.

however, if it meane no more than Waties, Paym. Lt-Comdr. G.W. Chinese community. fail to disarm the critics, The Westlake, Mr. and Mrs. G. H very fact that all Chinese holding White, Lt-Comdr. F. B. W. de Win-

General Li Chai-sum is expected tións and its usually balanced responsible positions on ateamers ton, R.N., Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe to arrive in the Colony to-morrow

are required to obtain a license by and Mrs. Wolfe, Mr. A. E. Wood on his way to take part in the Kuo-years ago," writes a London resi- outlock, we have the greatest re- the 28th of the present month, ra- and Mr. J. II. Saunders.

[mintang Conference at Nanking. spect. Indeed, we think it would ther suggests that no investigation be a sorry day for British politica of a serious nature, can possibly were it to be wiped out as a fac-qualifications of the applicants. bo contemplated regarding the for that counts. But we are not When it is borne in mind that blind to its limitations, in which foreign authorities : demand of connexion its latter day rivalry shall rise in rank by slow stages, their sea-faring subjects that they with the Labour Party, seeking to completing a certain period at sea attract support by "popular" cries, as a Second Officer before they can raises a doubt regarding the states possibly qualify as First Mate, manship of its lenders.

and similarly in all other progres- Не вес

alons, the failure of the Chineso an example of this in the parochial Government to assume reasonable outlook of the Party in regard to responsibility is highly censurable." the Singapore Naval Basc. It is experienced officers are a danger not only to themselves, but to others using the same waters, and ject should be held over until the sooner Nanking and Chinese, Homo affairs have been attended shipping companies realise this to, but it is a very mistaken policy that the Nanking Government De-West

the better. It may possibly be which would subordinate Imperial partment of Shipping has. Д questions to purely domestic is-scheme for examinations in mind sues. The better way is to pay which it will put into operation im- mediately the names of all Chinese

sing.

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For the Liberal Party, its tradi-

Crawford, Ltd. all very well to urge that that

Trunk & Bag Dept.

Ground Floor.

pro-

heed to the claims of both, and the officers on the active list: have Party which takes ita stand on the been secured. The only other due acknowledgment of this idea motive we can sèo at present is the is obviously the Party which will discovery of a new source of re-

venue.

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COMMON ERROD

by

Ilis recreations, in addition to boxing, include fishing, rowing," skating, swimming, shooting, and golf.

-To-day's Dog Story-Some 85.

dent, I was bookkeeper in a coun- try town. For some weeks a gèn- tleman (Mr. X.), who was on a visit, was in the habit of coming to the shop accompanied by Rip, a mongrel dog. He said that the dog was kept in the stablo, yard, and had become so disagreeable that his owner thought of having him destroyed, so Mr. X..had offer ad to give him a daily run, Rip became very fond of Mr.' X., and my employer's wife and I made a Deciding the Piny:-West leads fuse over the dog, who generally Ace of Clubs and wins the first made for the parlour behind the trick and then West leads 4 of shop.

IN BRIDGE

AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM

-w.w.wentworth

18. TAKING TRICK'IN WRONG

-HAND

North (Dummy)-

6976

OJ 10

Leads & A

clubs. Should Declarer tako this

"At the end of Mr. Xa visit he trick with Quech of clubs or King went abroad, and we had almost. of clubs?

"

forgotten the dog when one day The Error:-Declarer takes the we heard a dreadful. howl out- trick with Queen of clubs.

side in the road.. On going to the The Correct Method:--Declarer door we saw Rip, who pushed past should take the trick with King us into the parlour, where he hid of clubs. If Queen of clubs is under the couch and howled. One played he removes from the Dum of the gardeners from his master's my the necessary re-entry requir-house followed, and told us that, ed to assist in establishing the Rip had been having theas fits of heart suit..

The Principle:-When you have week or so later wo saw the an- howling since early morning," A the choice of taking a trick in the nouncement of the death of Mr. Dummy or your own hand, deter-X. abroad. The date was that The Bidding: South opens with mine the effect, before taking the of Rip's visit one spade and all pass:

trick,

Bouth (Declarer)- AAKQ43