1929-12-07 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1929.

GERMANY GETS A SHOCK.

THE "INVASION" OF HONGKONG.

"HOME-TRUTHS" OVER

YOUNG PLAN.

GOVERNMENT'S REPLY TO HERR SCHACHT.

AN ILL-TIMED ATTACK.

The outspoken criticism" of the German Government's finan ciul policy, contained in the long memorandum · on the Young Plan published by Herr Schacht, the President of the Reichbank, has causal à sonisation in Ger many. The Government bas officially replied to the attack. protesting that it is timed,

while an unfavourable fonction on the Bourse has been notice- able.

It is rumoured that the pumi- tion of the Finance Minister has

en considerably shakew' and. judging by Renter's gables, a

•Cabinet crisis is nut unlikely.

Berlin, Dec. fi,

The Governmeal reply to Hour Schacht': Memorandum in which he proteded againd politician trying for spoil what the emotioty | have buil ap, eundemning the altempts at the German Visvern- nwat and the Gotes nments of the creditor States to tamper with the recommendation of the Yonur Plan, and derlining all responsibi Hity for the successful working of that an if da geconamendictions wee not resque fed declare that the publication

such

Troops in Hook part in "The Battle of Hongkong" are here seen being Transported by hires

Slong the Praya to their positions on the island,

THE LURE OF THE EAST.

CARE OF CHILDREN,

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NEED OF TREATMENT BEFORE SCHOOL

Memoranda is precipitate and therefore likely to gravely endanger the homogenentes conduet, of the afairs of State.

Government Complaint.

BY ONE WHO IS 19,000 MILES

annomored his intension if pub.iving i

harm.

AWAY.

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London, Dec. 6.

x Photos: Mee (heung),

BRITISH STAFF IN MOSCOW.

AMBASSADOR LEAVING THIS MORNING.

The Very Idea!

Despite the vigilance of assist- ants who are no fools and who know only too well what they are up against, 'every now and theh the expert jewel thief brings of n coup. The loss of a*£6,000 pearl necklace from a shop in Bond- street is the Intest' instance.

One of the most delightfully in- genious tricks, because of its simplicity, was successfully work ed in London a good many years ago, Acustomer" would enter is jeweller's shop and ask

to see

home valuable rings. He would be shown a tray of such and would finally decide that there was nothing to his taste. But at the end of the inspection one of the best rings would be missing.

The customer would protest en- tire ignoranes of the matter and demand to be searched, - and ́if; this were done nothing would be found on him. He had "malnied" the ring and stuck it with cob- bler's was to the under side of the counter, whence it could be re- moved next day by a confederate. The trick was discovered through a woman dropping a ring while trying „to" collect it. The dolge is useless now every jewel- ler knows it.

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"IL was terrible," anid Ms:] Murphy, There were 27 Swedes" and an Irishnan killed wreck.**

"Indeed," said

"the poor man."

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in the

Mrs. Grogan,

(iidard Butoprar P

with monkeys as drivers is the latest thrill in spurt."-Daily paper.)

No longer thrilled by Schielder

Cups or “Greycling,"

(Even The Turt has lost its

oldi appeal),

We are to have another kind of

racing

In motor-ears, with monkeys

at the wheel. The punter, home from Northalf,

skinned and “stony," Regards the dunovation sans

regret;

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No more, he'll risk a "monkey“

or a pony--

À ̈ "pony" on a monkey, is the

bet.

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In the archives of the Authority there is a letter from

A WOMAN

London, Dec: 6. When Sir Esmond Ovey leaves London to-morrow morning to take jup his post as British Ambassador in Moscow, he will be accompanied by Messya, Ashton Gwatkin mad whose little boy had been re- Mark Patrick, Counsellor and Seeprimanded for uncleanliness. 16: retury respectively, and Colonel was addressed to the headmaster Mit food as Attache.

Mr. Paton, who has held Consular 11 would have you know my Johnny)

of a school, and read:-"Dear sir, posts at Vladivostork and elses sent to school to be teacher and where in the Far East, will be the not to be smelt like a rose." Comugreial Counsellor at the Bri- tish Embassy.

The Soviet

Ambassador, M.

* lure of the En" muy un A vircular issued by the Mini- The tavernitent admits that the [a backueves phrase, but is there ster of Health and the President-of President' af - the Reichshank Hot a weath

meaning under-the Board of Education urges more lichting his views, but points upl There are many grey and cloudy local authorities to use their powers that he stated that he would do days in Ragland but, even on the to provide for the care of children so in a manner which could do nereyest,day, in one's mind there is before they reach school age,

dazzling sunlight.

The circular points out that it is It is the view of the Governragot

Again one is rack in Hangmuneconomic to allem ahe health and that the manner of the content locking down from the green onima of infants to deteriorate at the Morandum and the 1ute eight upon a placid sea of deepest till five years old and then to spend of its publication of rangely cone, dotted with hundreds of tiny large sums of money in trying to lict with Beer Schachts,decland islands, There is hardly a ripple ear them between the ages of five intention.

on the water and the air is still and fifteen, when they come under Pihdettes of rugged peaks stand the rare of school medien officers, boldly apainst a sk of ever. changing lights

The importance of providing ma-Ritish Wireless, For I is important to not that the the sun is sinking and the sunsets tornity and child welfare treatment Government's Reply does not dis

in this lovely land are so beautiful apel nursery schools for children ess in any way the contents of that, when soen upon a canvas, the between two to five years the Memorandum, hat it annainees colours, are

is - that the Government will em Mon Ruby red oral pinks, tenderest

almost unbelievable. Įphasised.--British- Windless. day presul a financial reform prichades of gold and yellow, oven, gratume in the Reichstay.

sometimes à shimmer of palest procl ne wolzeme, »ight, for it, forebodes the dreided typhoon,

Quick! The sun has almost sei and her there is no linkering twilight.

Financial Reform,

The Krichatar will be asked to expren confidence in that policy as well as the Government's entire policy.

Minister's Position Shaken.

Later.

and shades.

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Look down below once more at. the land-forbed sheltered harbour, i As a result of Herr Schachi's This is no land of stagnation as Memorandum, it is immoned that one might faney, Here riding at the position of the Finance Minisare are the great ships from ter, Doctor Hilferding against every part of the word, whom the attack was chiclly directed has been shaken and

has been endangered,

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THE VARSITY BOAT. RACE.

UNUSUALLY LATÉ NEXT YEAR.

Sokolaike, is expected in London

Tesday or. Wednesday next.

ELECTRICITY MORE POPULAR.

INCREASED USE SHOWN AT HOME.

London, Dec. 6.

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Child at Willesden-My mummy threw a flower-pot at the man.

The mother-But it missed. Soll eltor Women generally do miss.

Magistrate at Bromley, Kent→→ Why did you assault this woman? Defendant-Because she shook her Carpets out of the bedroom window, Detective at Southend-"This man is negotiating for the purchase of properly to the value of £25,000, nd be has 2s. 4d. in his posses- ion."

Defendant at Old Street—I hope The Electricity Commissioners you will treat me leniently, as this have just published returns which is the first time I have been before. show that in Great Britain during the Court, Solleitor-Indeed, it is the last year the use of electricity not. Defendant-Oh, yes, it is. 1 London, Dur, g

for all purposes incivined by nine have never attended when I have been. fixed for Saturday, April 12th,

The University Boat Race hasteen per cent.--British Wireless, been summoned before.

when the tide serves at about mid- day.

There. mopred over by the even the existence of the Cabinet mainland is au "Empress" which This is an unusually late date and fday has brought many sightseers is exactly a month after the close The Bourse, which, of late,,has | 10 this "Island of Fragrant of the last term at Oxford-British shown signs of revival from a long

Wuzten. jepression, was again deprosted,

Weakness prevailed almost everywhere in the stuek markei,

International favourites éspirvie ally were affected, losing up to ten

Hots Reuter, 2

IN NOVIA 'SCOTIA,

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Streams" and to the busy shops in Victoria down below with Their ivories, jades, Canton shawls and silks "plenty good chance."

Round this leviathan dart the | ever-busy little sumpans.

Turning homewards art thes Lodeo launches bringing back the [ bathees" from around the island

and from outlying partsi

Lights are glowing here and there and we know that, were wa atelie of those well-known launches, we should look up al ai fairyland of twinkling points| scattered here and there over the towering Peak against fast-

when 1 had wondered sufficiently. "Pretty soon the train got ready in start again. Long time after that darkening sky.

I was back in Jofberg, and I told Hark! the scissor grindera have some of the gold-mine follows started their endless "zzz... about this place, but none of Louder and louder it becomes bat fem wouldn't believe it. I cal'clate our ears, Jong accustomed to this ↑ if I could only gai back there" | sound, after a time hardly notice and he wandered on into dream-t.

land, this veteran British Army Down in the valley the frogs are saddler on whom fortune bad croaking hoarsely. ⠀

almost smiled. He had been at Fireflies dance around, gleaming Spion Kop,aud in the relief of here, gleaming there, ever elusive, Ladysmith, but he only remem- "ver enchanting.

bered the yellow gold he thought Glow worms show their little he had seen in a rock in the antp by the sides of the path. African desert.

moment.

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And to those who have wander A Contstep-who is it? "Master ed the world on whatever quest, have come, Boy?" Wolfville and its Land of Evango-

Ah Mary it is you. Of course. line offer repose and the quiet

I had forgotten for the calm of a life that partaken largely

BETTY MELVILLE SMITH. of yesterday. It is a place in which one would regard tolerantly the idea of "settling down." The doen enown of its winters make its valleys and billsidas; and meadows pictures no less appealing than the ample-blossom-covered"

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eharde in springtime. It is 11

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Annd of all-year charm, is Aendia,¦ Here is the solution to the fair to-day as yesterday; and none puzzle on another page.

can know it but to love it.-M. T.

WIDE, WINE, LINE, LONE.

G. in the Christian Science Monitor, § LONG.

A meeting of the Council of the Hongkong Football Association is to be held at the Association offices on Tuesday at 5.30 pm.. when, amongst other business, there will he submitted the reports of the Interport committee, meetings.

RECENT

INCTION

"That's a book you ought to like: it teaches a-lesson.”

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A Hittle boy, sitting in the bus, was erring hitterly, and the; enfi- ductor, on ascertaining • that the cause of the trouble was that he had lost the money for his fare, very kindly gave him a free penny ticket.

As he tained. away, after per forming this good deed, however, he was halted by a small but in- dignant voice, exclaiming, Ere -'ou d'yer fink yer a-swindlin' of? Give as me change-it was a Tanner wot J Jorst!"

Mary was learning shopping. | "Mary, go and get me a yesterday's loaf. But be sure to bring yester- day's." Mary, who has got a bit mixed en route, arrives, "If you plense, 'em, mother says I'm to bring a louf baked to-morrow." "This is the confectioner's, my dear, 'conjurer's next door."

FINLAND'S PROGRESS.

CORDIAL SENTIMENTS -AT DINNER IN LONDON.

London, Dec."6. Viscount. Allenby proposed the torat of prosperity to Finland at the Anglo-Finnlah Society's dinner last night, in celebration of the, 12th anniversary of Finland'a independence;

He said Finland had made itself consolidated and secure through the stout hearts of in people,

Monsieur Saastamoinen; the "Finnjel Minister, replying, re- ferred to Finland's close relations with Britain, which was Finland's best customer. Their gaining of Independence was the outcome of 'hard political thinking and equally

hard earning,

Lieutenant-General Macdonogh in President of the 'Society, which exists for furthering good rela- tions and better trade between the two peoples--British Wirziens, k

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