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FRIDAY JULY 5, 1929.

GETTING TO WORK,

FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1929.

DAY BY DAY.

tion to take up the biggest of all international issues, the problem of disarmament, and now Mr.

LUXURY IS JUST AS BAD FOR THE Thomas reveals the fact that the WORKING MAN AS IT IS FOR - THE Government 16 espacially keen on RICH. THERE 18. NO DIFFERENCE. colonial development, for which A MAN 18 GIVEN TO LUXURY WHEN HE THINKS MORE OF 1119 "HAVINGS" purpose it is to set aside a fixed THAN OF HIS "DEINGE-Canon aum annually! Believing in first- Barnett. hand contact, Mr. Thomas in to

A Japanese case of paratyphoid visit Canada soon In connexion fover was notified yesterday. with emigration questions. These facts alone are suficient to dia-

sipate the idea that the Labour Party has not. the broadminded Imperial outlook.

Obviously, the Government will be unable to put its schemes into effect if it is merely in office for "a dog watch." But there is every indication that the Opposition

A meeting of the Water Emer- geney General Committee will be held in the Council Chamber at 4 p.m. on Monday, 8th July.

2 charge of

Lau Man, a houseboy at 25, been arrested on School Street, Causeway Bay, has stealing a sum of $260 from his employers.

Mr. L. Parkes, storekeeper at is prepared to give the new ad-Lycemun Barracks, has reported ministration a fair chance. The to the police the theft of a number of cooking utensils, valued at power of the opposing vole was $22, from the cookhouse. demonstrated when the Premier) had to withdraw a motion to take up all private members' time until Christmas in order to get on with essential business. The proposal struck us as coming rather atrangely from a Party which has

CORRESPONDENCE.

The "Kau Sing."

1To The Editor of Hongkeng

Telograpli.I

The Very Idea!

A lady who teaches among the poorer children of Lambeth rang mo up to tell me of an amusing incident at her school, says writer in a Homo papar. She was delivering a lecture to the children to persuade them not to run after cara coming back from the Dorby bogging for money,

"It is wicked' to beg," she said. "It is wicked to bet. Money which you don't have to work for is never any good to you.""

Sir,--Not wishing to air my knowledge on this matter, I must say the account in the press re the rescuo tug. "Kau Sing really is a cough-drop. My experience with deep sen tura is limited to about three years during the war, and I have worked under some of the best Canadian, Liverpool, Landon and Hull tag masters that one could

At this point one of the masters wish to work with men who knew

and in a loud voice anid, "I say, how to handle a deep sea tug boat. of the boys' department burat in, Now these men were shifted on to Trigo, the horso you drew, has won the school sweep." The lecture remained unfinished:

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all manner of deep sea tugs, yet they always handled them with case and speed. The first thing they always impressed on the engineers whe that they needed quick movementa Solicitor at Shoreditch County and if they could not get it out of Court: Debtor has a wife and, the engine room they generally three children. used the wheel. What I mean to

Judge Cluer: And why say is that in fully 80 per cent. shouldn't he pay? Why should of the tug work, the tug master de-only a bachelor be honest?

Solicitor: They are more abla to pay.

In our account of the Indepen-pends on his engines.

Now I'm quite confident that If dence Day reception at the Hong- kong American Club yesterday, we the rescue tug "Kau Sing" was inadvertently stated that the U.S. given a proper experienced tug. Consul and Mrs. Tredwell were pre-master, with an experienced tug bout engineer, they could and would work her as she should be work

Bent.

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Most of the deep sea tugs during the war were single screw, triple

THE "TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT.

Messrs. Gordons, the well-known so bitterly fought similar on-ladies' footwear specialists, havo croachments when in opposition, opened new premises on the ground floor of Kayamally Building. An but the certainty of a combined attractive display is to be seen in anaKONCEMAKE move against the motion was suffi- the windows. cient to show that the Government} will have to go warily in the House. It is perhaps all for the best that there should be this check on the zeal of the La- bourites, however well-meaning they may be.

In

There is to be an "Opon Day"; the Kowloon British School on Veinesday next from 10a.m. tą noon, and from 2 min. to 3 p.m., when parents and friends are lyit- ed to see the various classes at work.

The Hon. Treasurer of the St. John Ambulance Brigáde begs to acknowledge the receipt of the London Zoo Centenary.

following sum being balance of the Not the least interesting of the part proceeds of the benefit then- unusually large numlier of cen-trical performance at the Ko Shing tenarien celebrated, and to be cele Theatre $437.65./ Courageous and well-thought-rated, this year, is that of the out are the Government's schemes | for the relief of unemployment in the Old Country, as outlined in the House of Commons by Mr. J. II. Thomás. It is self-evident that the

the

Passengers arriving on London Zoological Society, which is to-day the most important Khyber yesterday included Mr. F. institution of its kind in the world. Byles, Mr. W. S. Bevan, Mr. H. D. In Great Britain it.is regarded as White, Licut, W. G. Blakeney, Pay a national possession. There are Cadet Martin, Li-Comdr. T. A. other zoological gardena in various Fowell, Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit, Lt M. Archdale, Sub-Lt. Lenox-Conyn- parts of the country, but when and Capt. and Mrs. Saunders, "the Zoo" is mentioned it `n nl-

Labour Party has been well pre-ways understand to refer to the pared beforehand with its plans gardens in Regents' Park, London. and that Mr. Thomas has lost no The Soclely was actually founded

Although there were some smart

A gold wrist watch and a stolen from Mr. dollar were Robbe's bedroom, at "Morningside | time in getting down to the detail-in 1826, but it was not until 1829, House." Shek-O, the night before ed work of which he has been Society a special Royal Charter, through an open window, also that King George IV. granted the

last. The thief, who entered given charge. The fact that Mr. hence the celebrations held this went into the cook's room where Winston Churchill described the year to mark the centosary of the he stole a further $20 before leav Government's treatment of the ning the Zoo has been a grent

Institution. From the very begining. situation as very moderate and favourite with the public. During sensible and asserted that many of the schemes put forward were attractive and useful is suficient to demonstrate two points. The firat Is that the Government is determined to proceed

and levolhended in the work 10 which pula its bande; the other, that it ean count on support from the Opposition so long as it does not depart from such a polley.

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Special Pictures of Als

Majesty the King.

To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will contain a full page of pictures showing events in the career of His Majesty the King, for whose recovery from illness special thanksgiving services are being held throughout. the Empire on Sunday.

In addition, there will be the usual varied collection of photographs of local hap peninga. These will include H. E. the Governor's visit to the Yeung, Wo Nursing Home; the opening of the Chino Athletic Association's new bathing pavilion by Lady Clementi; the presentation of Belillos Medals to Chinese for saving life; the Inunching of the now motor ferry, "Sun. Chau," for the Cheung Chau' run and a group taken at the wedding of Mr. Walter Naef and Miss V. E. Manning. A splendid group of tho new. British Labour Cabinet will also appear.

Judge Cluar: Ridiculousl

The little girl had committed some grave offence, and was punished by her mother When bed-time came the child said her prayers, and referred to every-

one she knew except her mother,

After this there was a silence, and then the child said, "I hope you realise, mother, that you weren't even mentioned."

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["Instead of finding so many faults with women's clothes, why do not the men reform their own?”. Miss Edith L. Stone.)

We men are simply dying to Reform our dowdy dress. But, spite of all our trying to, Our clothes stay dull, I

guess.

"And so we have to spend our

lives.

In

Anding

with fault women's, (The times we try to show our

wives

They spend too much an

"trimmin's.)

So, though it's sad, as cach

man knows,

And whilst we're awfly

bored.

The shacking price of women's

clothes

Is all men can afford!

A correspondent from Amorien sends to a Home papon a story of how a diver got drunk in ten fathoms of water while salving a sunken rum-runner. He found, while exploring the captain's cabin, that the air from the ox- haust pipe in his diving dress ex- pelled the water to the level of the

abled him to remove his head- expansion, surfaco condensing plece and refresh himself with the boats and I have crossed the Eng-captain's rum.

sh Channel with three 200 ton barges (or lighters), astern in the peat this orgy before his accret Three times he was able to re- dirtiest of weather with barges was discovered, and tug battened down and the Spray coming through the ventila- tors.

Some of those tugs were not in or near the same category as the "Kau Sing", yet they did work in a hundred time worse conditions than the "Knu' Sing" has attempted yet.

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Prohibition is the father invention.

"MacTavish doesn't slutter any more."

"How's that?”

the first year that the gardenshowers in the early hours of tha wore open, 100,000 members of the morning, the total rainfall regis.com top of the cabin door. This on- public visited them, and the attered at the Royal Observatory for tendance has steadily grown until the 24 hours ended at 10. a.m. - last year the approximate numb.r day was only 0.12-inch. It is of visitors was two and a quarter stated, however, that there was millions. During the past ten a substantial fall, in the Kowloon years great changes have been reservoir area. made in the Zoo, those particularly noticeable being the Aquarium and the new monkey house, while constant efforts, are made to keep fishes in the most natun and the animals, birds, reptiles, and

healthy conditions. The figures relating to the food supply are im- pressive. Every year 300 tons of meat are needed, 62 tons of fresh fish, and over 10,000 tons of con- densed milk. Every day 140 tons 90 tons of straw, and so we might of hay are used, 138 tons of clover,

go on for a considerable dime if space were available. Finally, and most interesting from the (Abbreviations: Ace; point of view of the dietist, the king; queen; J-jack; Mr. Thomas"

speech, however, annual consumption of bananas by any card lower than 10.) without realising the injustice of the Zoo animals is 180,000—apart from the large number contributed by visitors.

I has often been said against the Labour Party that it is jinsular and provincial in eutlook that it has no true conception of the unity of the Ilomeland and the overseas possessions of the Empire. No-one can have read

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES.

such criticism. At the moment, of course, unemployment at Home Is the big issue which calls for attention, and the paint to be kept in mind is that the solution of this problem will not only relieve the! distress of the sufferers, but will: at the same time be of untold advantage to the industrial pro-) The following items are from gress of the nation and indirectly the Hongkong Telegraph for the

week ended July 4th, 1908: - to the Empire as a whole. The Labour idea is to stimulate home The rate of the dollar on demand trade and encourage the produc- was ls. 9.15/10d. tion of goods now imported from

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abroad. There aro also exten- The Hongkong Legislative Coun- cil voted a sum of $30,000 for the sive plans for railway electrifica relief of distress caused by the tion, dock and harbour expansion, West River floods. and public assistance to utility companies, to say nothing of the Mr. W. Helms and Mr. F. Lieb were admitted partners of Mesara. comprehensive proposals for the Arnhold, Karberg and Co. provision of more and better roads. All these things have On the occasion of Independence reached a stage at which the Gov- Consul, was "at home" at his Day, Mr. Amos P. Wilder, U.S.

offices.

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ernment is prepared to come for- ward with definito schemes, and, provided its tenure of office is During the absence of Mr. F. aufficiently lengthy, we may hope Browne, Mr. A. C. Franklin was to see big developments in these appointed to act as Government

Analyst. directions in the future. But the Government programma is not con.

There were many Press refer- ences to an investigation of opium fined to domestic affairs. We consumption in China by Mr. (now have already learned of the inten- Sir) Cecil Clementi.

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MADE EASY Joy W.W.Wentworth

The whole thing is that the "Kau Sing" has been labouring

"He had a threo-minute phono call to Now York."

"How much more considerate for under B.O.T. certificated skippers their passengers' comfort the used to handling Eteamors,

not "tug boats," and as tug is a English railways are than the science in itself, the "Kau Sing" Continental lines," said a French

visitor. will never be a success until she is Khandled by a pukka tug-boat mos- Xter and crew.

Dummy's Potential Tricks-3,

At least give the boat her dues and do not condemn her until this has been tried out. Your etc.

EX-TUG BOAT, Hongkong, July 4, 1929,

"In what way to you mean?" "Well, while at Paddington the other day I not only saw 'Smoking' and 'Dining compartments, but ́ noticed others labelled 'Reading" and 'Bath."."

The object of the following illus. trations is to show that a card should not be played from dummy without a conscious real- Ization of the "outcome.. When Sirin regard to the "Kau scribe the full amount of the fine, you do play a card from dummy, Sing" controversy, would it be out on the assurance that it will find your next move already should of place to ask what practical ex-ils way to the proper quarter. have been formulated,

perience the Hon. Harbour Master Yours, etc.,

NATURE The card to be played from has had in the actual handling of

Hongkong, July 5th, 1929. dummy is determined by reading tuga, including the "Kau Sing" the leader's hand, and by the bid- herself? Yours, etc. ing and fall of the cards. It also often is influenced by where you desire the lead to be.

ZEITGEIST.

Hongkong, July 5th, 1929.

Help from Home?

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.1

In the following flustrations. aesume that west leads any small

Nature Will Out. card below 10. Holding each of Sir,It is a source of satisfac- the following hands, west should tion to note that publicity is

Sir, We have heard a good deal'. play from the dummy as explain being given to the recent convic- ed after each illustration. tion of a coolio who was mulet in about the proposed scheme of pump. Dummy holds hearts 103; do the sum of $5 for bathing in the ing water into the Tytam Tuk Re- clarer holds hearts A J G,

vicinity of the Castle Peak Road,servoir; and we have been told that. cover with the King or Queen of in these enlightened and arid the scheme le finance.

Play small. East will probably Is it not amazing to think that the greatest difficulty confronting It Is said that nothing short 'of hearts and you will be sure to times a local magistrate should half a million dollars per month. make two tricks.

think fit so to punish a person on would be required for maintenance,, Dummy holds diamonds J 5; a charge which any normal citizen and that this is beyond the means declarer holde diamonda K 8 4. would not deem worthy of formu-of the local Government. True, is the only possible way to make

Play the Jack of diamonds. It lating?

enough! It would be interesting to learn But, is this beyond the means of": two tricks.

what line of thought the magis- the Home Goverment? If I am Dummy holds clubs Q 6 de trate followed in passing Judg-right, this Colony is making quite clarer holds clubs A 5 4.-

ment, and I would suggest that a substantial. "Military Contribu Play the Queen of clubs. It is he be given the opportunity of tion" to the Home Government. the only possible way to make two enjoying a refresher course in the every year, and it is certainly not tricks.

art of tempering the administra- unreasonable to expect some re Dummy holde spades Q 7; de- tion of the law with a modicum of ciprocation when we are in dire need clarer holde spades 0 5 8.

common-sensa. Burely a warning of a "Water Contribution”—Yours,,

etc. Play the Queen of spades. It is would have been adequate? the only possible way to make ons

*A RATEPAYER. Hongkong, July 5th., 1929.?

trick.

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In conclusion, I should like to add that I am grepared to sub-

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