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animating tho Government, To take the upheaval in Palestine as. a casa in point, there can be. no questioning the fact that by the promptitude of its action in despatching naval, military and air forces to the scene of the troubles, a terrible calamity was. averted.. In the case of our re- lations with Egypt, some may criticise the new draft agreement recently published, but the proviso that British troops are

DAY BY DAY.

IGNORANCE BELIEVES ITSELF TO BE FATED TO REMAIN IN THE SPOT WHERE IT WAS BORN, AND TO FOL LOW THROUGHOUT LIFE THE OCCUPA- TION. TO WHICH IT WAS DRED.---- Hickson.

It is notified that the name of Honter & Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.

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to be stationed in the Suez Canal

era, has reported the theft of a zone le sufficient to show that the Government is alive to Im-Barracks. perial, considerations. Turning to China, the firm but friendly. manner in which the demand for the immediate abolition of ex- trality has been refused provides further evidence of a recognition

of the actualities of a confused situation,

A notification in connexlon with the winding up of Mesars. Roles Bros., Ltd., states that a third and final dividend of $7.36 per cent. has been declared.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Lo 'Kam-chak to be a Director of the Widowa' So we could go on indicating and Orphans' Pensiona, vice the facts which show that the Mac-Inte Mr. Cheng Cheuk-hin 18.0,

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SATURDAY AUGUST 31, 1929.

BRITISH PRESTIGE.

con-

A

ON LOOKING GLASSES.

Some Thoughts on Mirror Reflections

•

Sometimes, however,even to-day,

Anyone who considers the mul- Ing out how their faces looked to tiplicity of mirrors provided in the their fellows a matter which per onlinary English "furnished room", hapa a few inquisitive persons had is left wondering, poised between already vaguely wondered about. two queries: Are the English, Here was one's social or public self. people already extremely vain, or in lively presentiment. Once this are they sternly determined not to discovery had been made, con- Captain Dobbie, Adjutant of become es? Either of these ex-sciousness of physical appearance the King's Own Scottish Border-planations seems a tenable one, at lay only round the corner and

least, to the newcome stranger, and sense of personality, that expensive gold medal from Mount Austin to whichever opinion one finally in- but necessary boon, lay straight clines, it remains clear that the pen-ahead. Every pool in the forest sions and boarding houses of Eng-had now its crotching figure ond fand are more than amply provided water was put to new uses, with reflectors of the human image. How long the period of the water- They give no one the alightest ex-mirror insted no one can guess, for cuse for neglect of his personal ap it left no relics. How often our pearance and leave him no Intervals prehistoric fathers, and others re- in which to forget what he looks paired to the windless pools to study like, but offer profuse opportunities their Images and what thoughts to see himself as others see him. they had there we can only sur- The room I now inhabit, for ex-mise. Archeology, takes us back ample, contains no less than seven only to the little hand mirrors of mirrors, one of them six feet by polished bronze reflecting no more four, so that I cannot shift in my than the face, and that dimly. The chair or turn a page without seeing millions of Egyptian and Greek and the trivial action repeated several Roman ladies who used these never ap-

times over. I am constantly stared saw themselves at full length, and means that proach the really big issues in Kowloon Inland Lot 2239, situate at from three or four different this almost certainly a spirit which gives no ground

nt Taikoktsui, is to be sold by auc-angles by three or four men bearing they did not think of themselves as tion at the P.W.D. offices on the the closest personal resemblance to we think. The invention of the for alarm. Already there is 16th instant. The area is about one another; and even when they glass mirror and of the pier glass

feet and Anglo-American 9,520 square

the upset are not looking at me I feel that marks an epoch in history because. | price $16,660,

they are doing so, or know, at least, it made us for the first time some understanding on the naval ques-

that they are there. Under these what fully aware of our public ap tion, and meantime Mr. J. H.

circumstances ''find it a little dif-pearance. Nay, more; it rendered Thomas is in Canada in

The forthcoming wedding is an- ficult at times to escape self-con-us incapable of escaping that ap- nounced of Mr. Alfred Aloxander aciousness, and I often feel like in-pearance, however much we may nexion with schemes for auther Young, No. 7, Prat Build- gisting that my landlord give me a wish to do so, solution of the unemployment ing Kowloon, to Misa Olga G. more nearly private room. problem. At Geneva, too, the Olsen, No. 1437, Euclid Avenue,

Cleveland, Ohio.

We know that when window glass a mirror does arrange a surprise Prime Minister is expected to

was brought within the reach of for us. Not long ago as I was mako important pronouncements

wealthy people in the sixteenth cen-gazing, abstractedly into a aliop tury, it was displayed everywhere window my attention was caught by on the arbitration and other

in great prafusion. The architec-a man standing beside me who wore issues which will come up for

ture of the period, indeed, under-a vaguely familiar hat. Yes, I had discussion. The fact is, of

went radical changes so as to pro- certainly seen that hat. Why, there vide opportunities for quite un- was only one man in London with course, that responsibility In-

necessary and purely ostentatious the courage to wear a hat of the variably brings moderation and

windows a tendency which was description-and I happened to be. checked only by the much-abused that single man. But the face un- caution in its train, and that is

With reference to Government window tax of later times. The der the hat was utterly strange to why we need not fear the con-notification, calling for tenders present display and profusion of me beneath its vell of familiarity. tinued existence of the Labour. for the construction of Aberdeen looking-glasses in England would I had never seen that expression be- Government. At the moment, ad- Upper Dam, it is notified that the almost suggest that these also are a fore; I could not quite believe that last day for tenders to be received recent invention, a novelty so de- the expression was mine, and could mittedly, it has to be particular- is extended to Monday, 16th Sept.lightful that considerations of use not see what it signed or how I ly careful of its step, being a

and need are ignored in favour of had come by it. But millions of mere show. But this, we know, is other persons had seen it, I know, minority Government, but we

by no means the case. The looking- and had interpreted it also in their have sufficient faith both in the

glass is not a novelty; It has been swift and summary ways. It is integrity and the level-headed.

familiarly used for ages, and its part of the impression I have been history-which I have never seen making all these years, and until

last week 1 knew nothing of it. The first of all looking-glasses looking-glass at an unusual angle were poole of still water such as the hasd me something new and one Narcissus found in the forest surprising about myself. and was so delighted with that he

By a careful arrangement of Mr, Lackhart of 2, "C" Block, could not drag himself away. For several mirrors it is possible to Victoria Barracks, had her hand-a long time they were found quite secure, I believe, an image of the bag snatched by a Chinese while casually, not by persons looking for back of one's own head, but not one their own reflections, for at this person in ten thousand has ever she was walking down the steps time no one knew that he could have done this. I know nothing about of the Central Market yesterday such a thing, but by those seeking the appearance of the back of my lars in money. The bag contained about ten dol- for places to drink. Imagine the head, although of course

surprise the prehistoric savage must theorics and guesses-probably have felt, when bending over the wong ones. The stranger who smooth pool, to see another savage walked behind me as I came horne bending toward him from below, this evening is better informed on exactly mimicking every motion he that topic than I am, Numberless

Passengers arriving by the s.a. President Jackson this morning in- cluded Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Bunje, Mrs. A. H. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs, A. W. da Roza, Mrs. R. S. Piercy, and Mrs. Cart Shank.

While a car No. 2301, owned by Mr. L. W. Walkingshaw of the Nestle's Milk Co., was standing

lars,

British subject's everywhere must have felt a glow of satisfac- tion at the unanimity with which praise has been bestowed an Mr. Philip Snowden for his tenacity at The Hague in the face of tremen dous odds. Not only has he

unattended in Jackson Rond, succeeded in obtaining 83 per cent.ness of Mr. MacDonald and his 1 thier stole a clock and a set or i discussed-is rather interesting. of the British demands, but he and colleagues, to believe that they fools, the latter worth five do!- the other British delegates have are animated by idents no less been largely responsible for a worthy than those of any of their settlement of the vexed Rhineland [predecessors in office, problem, We have only to envisage the difficulties of his task to realise the magnitude of Mr. Snowden's triumph. Opposed by all the other creditor Powers, and bitterly assailed by the French press, he stuck gamely to his goms, and won through to victory. There

on

Bus Speeding.

The Kowloon Magistrate's sharp rebuke of a motor-bus driver who pleaded, in extenuation of a speed- ing charge, that he was behind on Torcat's Roosters, the novelty schedule and had to make up for troupe of 60 game fowls, will com- mence a brief season at the

A

I have

ja something lost time, will be warmly endorsed Queen's Theatre to-morrow. Thore made? Surprise consternation, an-people have taken this terra in-

a conspicuous position on the bus

ger

me,

and bewilderment swept cognitn Into Consideration in through him as he crouched there, framing their opinions of and he saw each of these emotions and I cannot allow for it at all. in turn depicted on the strange face Possibly the difficulty I often have beneath. Determined not to be in- in explaining the attitudes that. timidated, he made threatening people take toward me in due to the gestures at the intrader, only to find back of my head. Mirrors are not that the opposing party was equally yet perfect. belligerent.

typically British In this triumph, by regular users of the bus ner-will be two performances daily which has called forth unstinted vices on the mainland. The case throughout the week, at 7.15 and praise from all "akades of the before him concerned a driver 9.20, with a special matinee to- London press, to say nothing of ultimately convicted of racing at morrow at 2.30 p.m.

twenty miles an hour, through the the personal congratulations

Hunghom controlled area and of showered

Mr. Minesa Tamara, sub-manag- the pertinacious

opening up to twenty-five miles aner of the Yokohama Specie Bank Chancellor of the Exchequer from hour when in the immediate has reported the, theft from his Then he drove his clenched fisti Now and then a looking-glass sur- the leaders of all political parties vicinity of the Kowloon City police house at 6, Bowen Road, in the straight into the face of his opprises us even in a full-face view, and prominent financial men.

station. The very fact that he of jewellery worth $130, a lady's factory for a few seconds but not the simplicity of the water-mirror carly hours of yesterday morning, ponent with results highly satla when we return for an instant to But perhaps of even greater thought he could do so with im cout valued at $10, a bag worth permanent. As soon as the ripples days. For half a second the start- significance than the settlement punity illustrates the general atti. $36 and $22 in money..

subsided that strange face was Hing impression sweeps over one of the European problem, far-tude of a majority of his colleagues

back again peering upward as he tint this is I-and then it passes. towards the reason for placing in

peered down. Altogether, one sees, What goes on in that half-second? reaching in its effects although

Miss Margaret Murray, a pas- it must have been a puzzling exper- What swift recapitulation; of that will be, is the evidence

senger on the R.s. Tanda, left herence, one to be narrated in full that human history? I have tried again a plate marked "Speed Limit, 12 handbag on a counter in a city night about the cave fire, Others) and again to catch the thought or · which it provides that the new M.P.H." Few trips are necessary silk shop yesterday. When she would have met similar rivals at mood in its transit, but it is too British Government is fully alive on the Kowloon buses before it is discovered her loss the bag had their drinking pools, and they would swift for me.

And there is another even. to a sense of its responsibilities realised that the regulation is gone. It was worth $20 and con- tell what they had seen..

Little by little, in the course of stranger experience than this in the realm of International honoured far more in the breach tained a draft on Cook's for £20,

came to accept walking up to an imperfect reflec- polities. It is

than in the observance, particu. an Australian pound note, two millenniums, men no exaggeration of the facts to say that when Mr. Jarly on those routes where com- fountain pens, $37 in local tur-this rivalry as s. thing they had to tion of oneself in a glass door. It put up with whenever they knelt to often induces a mysterious and to drink beside still water; always me quite inexplicable mood, too petition between rival companies rency, and her passport. Ramsay MacDonald Was called is keenest. Things have reached

they had

to share the pool with evanescent for analysis, that seems to office, there were fears in such a pass on Nathan Road, for

that stranger from below. Exactly to reach far back in time. I feel AL 11 meeting of

as we do with regard to so many that I do not know this person whom many quarters at Home that instance, that nothing short of an Sind Hindu Merchants A880-things, they accepted It because if I am advancing to meet, after all my British prestige abroad would organised campaign on the part ciation held on Saturday last always happened, but understood it probings and my seven-times-re-

the

following resolution was not at all.

peated reflections. Will he prove suffer because of the re-appear of the traffic authorities is likely

to effect an Improvement.. The and offices be entirely closed on unanimously passed: "That shops

hostile or friendly, wine or foollah, growing toll of accidents in which every first day of September in re-fore some unrecorded genius die-myself for surprises and am pro- Many ages must have gone by be-intelligible or insoluble? I brace omnibuses are involved fs being membrance of the twenty-two young covered, by a huge effort of thought, pared for anything. watched with some little alarm, Hindu merchants who lost their that the stranger who always bent Clearly, looking-glasses may be and we trust early action will be lives during the Japanese earth upward from the other side of the interesting at times. I object to. taken, and an example made of the quake of 1st. September 1928, and sull water was simply himself. A them only when they say the same that all members will gather on momentous discovery, that, and one dull things over and over, things I first culprits to come before the Sunday the first of September attacked full of consequence. We know only too well-s that my tie Courts. The implication that 11 am. at Messrs. Wassiamuli As- make much of the invention of is crooked or that my hair needs. schedules are responsible is largely somuil's Temple to offer prayers." printing and of the steam engine brushing. Why this endless itera- mark its activities. Happily, untrue, except to the extent that these fears are gradually being the drivers themselves are respon. dissipated. So much in this the sible. The officials of

the com- case that one of the leading panles, we have good authority for Conservative journals has de stating, are not exacting. The clared that Mr. Snowden, by his time-tabica Inid down give ample

ance of a Labour Administration.

The view widely held was that in foreign and imperial affairs especially, the Government would be dominated by a narrow and provincial outlook, and that policy of weak concession would

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time for the journey to be com-

WATER LEVELS.

"

the

and similar things, but these are tion of the trival? Why not some-.. trifling in comparison with the dis-thing new and startling now and covery of oneself which we owe to then? And even for a revelation looking - glasseS. Among other one morror ought to be na good na more important things people saw seven, S. in the Christian at once that here was a way of find-Science Moniton.

EXCHANGE RATES.

- ̈FOR WEST, NORTH AND

EAST RIVERS. success at The Hague, has put pleted with adequate allowances

The following table, compiled British prostige in the eyes of for stopa en route. The delays are by the Board of Conservancy Europe on

a pedestal higher caused at the respective termini Works of Kwangtung, shows the water levels In English feet on than it has occupied since the when the conductors and drivers the West, North and East Rivera Paris Armistico, That is high praise think, apparently, that it is, meal- on the dates named:·

New York indeed from such a quarter, but later awake suddenly to the fact time or a recreational interval and

Aug. 29 Aug. 80 Bruskols 20.9 Shlubing ..... 22.0

Genova It is no over-statement of the that they should have set out on,

Amsterdam truth. If we

Milan turn to other the return journey minutes ago.

12.9

Berlin 4.5 dspects of Britain's foreign And the passengers have to bear

Stockholm policy, we see the same spirit the brunt.

F

London, Aug. 30.

Vienna Prague Helsingfors

Madrid. Lisbon

128.895 Athens .4.84% Bucharest .84.875

Buenos Aires 25.105 Bombay 12.09% Shanghai .02,605

Hongkong

20.80 Yokohama 18.10 Silver (spot):

Taingyuen

7.8

Shamshlu

Sheklung

3.1

The level at Shamsblu on August 27th was 15 feet.

Copenhagen Oslo

.18.205

18.215 Silver (forward)

.34.43 163

1927

88.05

1.08.20

16:

24

.244. frelesz.