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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1929.

DAY BY DAY.

IF LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND, LAUGHTER PREVENTS IT GO- ING ROUND TOO FAST. THE BERIOUS DEFECT IN LOVE IS ITS LACK OF IIUMOUR-Harald Ohlson.

The Gazette publishes a lengthy Hist of persons authorised to per-

form vaccinations.

Captain and Mrs. F. S. Adey returned to the Colony by the Blue Funnel liner Anchises.

room for doubt as to British inton- tions. Rather are we inclined to? think that the declaration is based, on three considerations,-Arstly, in view of a possible delay in put- ting the Simon Commission's Report into effect, especially since fts scope is now being ixtended; secondly, because the decision bring the Indian States within the purview of the Commission's deliberations provided an excel- lent opportunity of re-stating the eventual object aimed at; and, finally, to placate Indian feeling and prevent the threat of mass civil disobedience. The last point Is all-important. As to whather the gesture is, wise or expedient, the best index of that will be found in Indian reaction to it. At the moment, the declaration appears to have been welcomed and to have been received in the Lamb'

spirit in which it was made. That is surely some justification for its having been issued.

Comment from Hóme creates a fear in our mind that the scare- mongers are already getting busy. This is to be regretted, especially as there is ground for thinking that the Premier consulted the

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Dr. B. H. Mellon to act as Medical Omcer of Health in addition to his other duties.

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ON BRIDGES.

And the Crossing of Them.

inust take A bout I cannot pretend that I am likejsides you those ladies whom we have all which safla its waters. But this heard exclaim at various times, is not so often possible. Generally "Now if I were only a man the bridge is your simple prac- should be A bridge-builder" Itical point of vantage, always cannot remember that I have ever waiting for you. You may gaze Nor have I the slightest technical tent. And on the other side you. had any desire to build bridges. up the stream to your heart's con knowledge of their construction. may gaze out across the widening blthough I have vague notions of bay upon the sea. I know of few Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Martin were stresses and strains which I be ways to find broader vistas unless amongst the passengers who areve hold the secret of the wholo one seeks the higher elevations. rived by the 8.8. President Johnson matter. I am, however, an ad. But if the scenes from bridges. this morning. -

mirer of all kinds of bridges no offer endless variety and charm t

I must be deferred from the actual : matter how simple or complex. am a contemplative observer of fascination of bridges themselves. them. I may even admit that I To see them properly is something must not LP- the merely "from am a profound student of bridges of an art. You

which may or may not appear proach them in the impressions which I pro straight road which leads across. J.Pose to sat down here. I there- them quite obviously. But you fore claim a certain right to ha- must see them in full view or

as to preserVO come for the moment an essayist obliquely so on this fascinating subject which least a generous impression of has been so strangely ignored their full sweep for the eye. To both by my predecessors and can reverse the point of vantage which temporaries. It is time that some I have just suggested you should The forthcoming wedding is anone wrote an essay on bridges. look at them from up the river or The only difficulty of the subiect from the son. Better still, you nounced of Mr. Jacob, Vidumoky, No. 16, Hankow Road, Kowloon, to is its immensity. There is the may catch their fuller values from Simin. Mora.uchovna Berman, re- tremendous sweep of the bridge 1: some height and, best of all, from

human history. There is the en afar. Then the detail of construc.. siding at the same address.

grossing subject of the bridge in tion is lost and only the firm gracu- Theré Aro the ful outline looms far below. Then the making. Bridges I Have Known. There is the looping cables of a suspension the role played by the bridge in bridge hang like gossamer threads literature and in painting.

Mr. M. F. Key and Mr. H.

have been appointed Trustees of Union Church in suc cession to. Mr. D. Templeton and Mr. E. B. Cubey, resigned.

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His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. C. G. Alabaster, KC...D.B.E., J.P., to be Vice-Chair man of the Licensing Board for a further period of three years.

On the 18th instant there will be offered for sale Inland Lot 2970, Situate At May Hund. It has an area of about 8,160 square feet, and the upset price is a dollar

other parties before deciding on the action taken. It will, however be a thousand pitics if India is to be made a party political question. If, as all the evidence shows, British polley for the past decade has been tending towards the grant of Dominion Status for the country, what can possibly be gained by seeking to create the im- The time of the commencement pression that British opinion is of the Ceremony in the Hall at the Let the Sixtieth Birthday Commemoration divided on the subject?

of the Diocesan Boys' School will facts be squarely faced and be at 5 p.m. and not 5.15 pm, as Britain's bona fides be declared. previously announced..

Rating Reform.

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The Bridge in Literature I would suggest as a most alluring object of research for an aspirant of the doctorate: I am sure it would be fully as productive and useful as a good many disserta. tions which I have seen. As for the Bridge in Art-what an op- portunity Why has вomeone never made a collection of the paintings and drawings which feature bridges? Even to begin obvious aspects, a list of such you will see, is to sketch nothing less than chapter headings for know not how many volumes. There is no end to--Bridges?

et

In the distance and the stream of cara moving through seems borne Then

by some magic power, the bridge has something of dar-

in it as indeed every bridge beare witness to human resource fulness defying the waters which

shore or find some craft which would hold a man prisoner on the will bear him across.

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Obviously a bridge is not mere- ly something to carry one across, although it often appears as if the motorist of to-day was determined to make the fastest possible time to the other side. Not often will you see them observing the in-

Hongkong Telegraph. itself strongly antagonistic to the Ordinance to extend for a further tion of bridges are romantic-hut would welcome instead of com-

SATURDAY Nov. 2, 1929.

INDIA'S STATUS.

session,

!)

shall have to wait here. Ave One would suppoве minutes."

on a bridge to escape the singular discomfort that five minutes and dangers of the treacherous were some tragic loss of invalu- Personally, I rejoice: stream. A new era opens. Then able time.

His Excellency the Governor has

You will see then how difficult junction to slow down which is T appointed the Hon. Mr. W.

at the entrance of most it is for a pioneer easavist to seen boutnorn, C.M.G., Colonial Secre make a judicious choice among bridges. But I would suggest far One of the unsatisfactory fea- tary, to be Chairman of the the myrald facets of the subject. more than practical reasons for tures of the party system in poli- Licensing Board for a further But a greater difficulty perhaps is the signs which forbid speeding. tics is that opposition to Govern- | period of three years.

to dispel any suspicion that this Adapting the old proverb, I ment measures and actions is too

subjact could be prosaic. Even would say to all travellers, "Don't often purely automatic. It is His Majesty the King has not the most practical and arduous, crose your bridges too fast. If grat.fying to learn, thereiore, that been advised to exercise his power nay abstrusely mathematical, pro- the modern wayfarer could only while the Labour. Party expressed of disallowance with respect to the ceases necessary, in the construc- take my suggestion to heart, he rating reform bill introduced by period the powers granted by the I am antickpating. Mr. Neville Chamberlain at the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordi-- The first bridge in human his- plain of those moments when you tall-end of the lust Conservative nance 1911, to the Mercantile Bank tory was discovered ready-made her the disgusted exclamation, it has done nothing to of India, Limited, to make, issue, and not contrived by human in- "There, the draw is open. We interfere with the operation of the re-issue and circulate notes in the genuity. A fallen tree across a. brook. A marvellous and easy way schemes as a result of its acces- Colony. sion to power. The plan for the relief of rates to productive in- It is notified that medical dustry came into full operation practitioners requiring sterile the flashing of a brilliant thought: over such an excuse, if any is at the beginning of last month media for special cases, can Since the penning of our com- and already there is

any receptive, evidence obtain same from the Bacterio- another tree, with a little urging needed, for a survey of the scenes.

first The Brat about me. For rests beside the

One of the motorist or pedestrian the open ments yesterday on the Indian that industry is deriving consider logical Institute at the following bridge-builder.

able benefit therefrom. The total prices provided the plates and greatest inventors of all time. drawbridge holds unsuspected question, much further light has relief amounts to aproximately tubes are returned after use or The forerunner of the brilliant values as an eye opener. been shed on the nature of the £26,000,000 a year. Agriculture paid for if broken-Media in engineer who sits in his labora-

The future writer of a monu- Viceroy's declaration and on the has already been saved some plates ready for use, 50 centstory intent upon his mysterious circumstances which caused it to the beneft will be £4,300,000. 25 cents each.

£2,500,000, and in future years, each; broth in tubes ready for use, blue prints and still more cryptic mental work on bridges will, of formulas, waaying his vision of course, devote much learning and the mighty spans of steel and enthusiasm to the famous bridges cement which arch the rivers of of history, to the bridges of the present.

Venice and Paris and London (as Among the innumerable bridges indeed separate volumes have been which men have built through un- written on the bridges of each of told centuries some have been less these cities). Apart from all of attractive than others.

be made. Sir John Simon reveal-The balance of £26,000,000 will ...

scope

ed, in correspondence with the go almost entirely to the relief of Prime Minister, his desira that the manufacturing industries by the removal of three-fourths of the of the Statutory Commission rates now paid on factories, work- should be extended so as to include shops, mines and mills. And the the relations between British India burden is a terribly heavy one. and the Indian States, and with In 1913-4, about £97,000,000 was raised in ratos throughout the

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may even be ugly bridges in the the architectural splendora and world. But it is hard for me to picturesque values of these, who can estimate the social influences To The Editor of Hongkong APO anything repellent in them, of the Pont Neuf or of the original that object in view the Govern-country. During 1927-28 this had

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even in the most commonplace.. ment contemplates the calling of increased to about £175,000,000,

Sir-I have only just tumbled brick structures with perhaps an London Bridge through the cen Seine and the Thames had not. conference representing all the growth being rapid in the in- parte of India so that the whole dustrial areas. The Act means to the fact that about 99% of what unsuccessful attempt at adorn turies? Suppose the banks of the

that the cost of steel should be has recently been written about ment.

A bridge is an essentially beauti. been Hinked by these thorough-

(Cotninued on Page 7.).. In reduced by about 58. 6d. per ton, our dear old Hongkong dollar was ful thing. I know not which to" making this announcement, the that of a ton of coal by 32d, It merely intended sa a joke.

After all, who cares about the admire the more, the rude planks Government has deemed it politicis estimated that the engineering

industry will have its overhead Bank of England. Rate, or whether precariously guarded by the rustic rails along the sides, or the latest that the real aim of the Mother charges reduced by more than two it is up or down? Surely it can soaring triumpha across the Hud- WHO WAS-7

Potomac. My own. Country's policy towards India millions a year, shipbuilding by make no difference to cost of

special favourites range between should be re-emphasised. That, £400,000, the textile trades by more goods in the local stores, even if son and the

Wall Street. these two extremes. I will go out as we see it, is what the Viceroy's cal. industries by over

than three millions and the chemi-it should worry

Those fellows are talking about of my way to bump over the loose declaration means-nothing more, The prospect of this relief has in gold (although they probably boards of my own special bridge

the dirt road here in

be could Nothing and nothing less. Whilst opinion many cases led to the improve-never see a sovereign) and what on

country.

common- who is monkeying about with

simple. and more at Home appears to differ on the ment of trade as manufacturers we want to get at is the Johnnls

have been able to book forward silver, is it not?

bridge B But it is place. expediency of the gesture, the orders at lower prices. Combined

Our good old Hongkong dollar, which has become mine through Times, in our opinion, correctly with the important projects coul-which has just come to light the personal possession of the

5/ plece, years. represents the position when it templated by Mr. J. H. Thomas,

the reform should have the effect of again, is as big as

More pretentious and "modern" why should the fools say it is says that no change of policy is substantially reducing unemploy-only worth 18. 9d.? Why not col- is the steel frame which binds the to be inferred from the Viceroy's ment figures in the coming year.lect all our good Hongkong shores of the bay and broadens dollars, have them chopned "Five out from one of the loveliest atatement.

Shillings" and make our fortunes7 streams in a land of beautiful I can't see why we should be rivers. This is the bridge which worried with other people's cur-I know best, since I travel It almost London, Nov. 1. rency, although I suppose the dally for several months each .123.82 Banks do make money out of it. year. And others, over wider. 20.175 Why can't we deal in "Escudos" or waters I know from a long. .20.285 something else that no one knows quaintance which is no less than 18.205 the value of, and then if anyone friendship. All these lie in the 104%

wanted to buy them, they would path of a famous highway which .876. 48 jolly well have to pay what we it is my good fortune to travel

often. 12 naked? 1/8%

If there is no such coin, we 4.8781/82

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EXCHANGE RATES.

Berlin

One of the reasons given for the Issuing of the declaration at this juncture is that doubts have existed both in Britain and in' Paris

Gmova India regarding the precise goal to which the Government of India Oslo

Helsingfors That, however, Helsi aimed.

Athens hardly squares with the facts as Buenos Aires we Bee them. Again and again Hongkong

New York have successive British Govern- Amsterdam ments given the impression that

Vienna Dominion Status is the end in Madrid view. The declaration of 1917 Bucharest

Bombay clearly foreshadowed that develop-

Yokohama: ment, whilst, as Lord Irwin now Brussels polats out, his own Instructions Copenhagen expressly state that the 1919 Act Prague

Lisbon was to be the means whereby Ro India might attain its due piace Shanghai

Silver (spot) among the Dominlods.. In these silver (forward) circumstances, there could be no

Milan

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While I have particular affec

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It all seams so simple, nearly which most cherish. In spite 34.805 38 easy assigning a chit, so I can't of my interest in all bridges and 18.125 understand why our financial my habit of lingering over them experts don't got busy instead of from a distance, it is not the views of bridges but the views .104% writing a lot of rubbish, sala 108.26 5.25782 .2/214

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By the way, Mr. Editor, when from bridges which most hold my

eye.. the price of gold goes up, what happens to allver? Yours, etc.,

ESCUDOS.

Hongkong, Nov. 1st, 1929.

Aside from the practical pur- poses I wonder if this is not the klory of bridges. If you want a panoramic view of a river on both

Into his epic story of the re- volt of the angels and the fall of man, Milton introduces a character not found in the Scriptures, the character of Abdiel, the seraph, who re mained faithful to his God. and withstood all Satan's at- tempts to seduce him from his allegiance.,

The name Abdiel is a com- pound of two Hebrew words, abd meaning servant, and fel other angelic names, Gabriel,. meaning God, which occurs in Raphael, Michael. There is.. an Abdiel in the First BookTM of Chronicles, but he is a mortal, son of Gunl, and has no connexion with the bright. angel of Paradise Lost.

Possibly Milton drew hin Inspiration from the figure of Raphael, in "Lucifer," an ora- torio by the Dutchman Vondel..

Like Raphael; Abdiel standa for loyalty in the midst of widespread infidelity, for foné-

raid lies, for intrepid, daunt less courage. In the face of by truth in the midst of a my

ovor-whelming prids.*

"Unmoved, unshaken, un

seduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, bla

love, his zeal.