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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 1930.

NOW IS 1 HE TIME TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE ARE DOMESTIC

MODELS OF FROM FOUR

OVER:

the Commission's visit is invested

DAY BY DAY.

with more than ordinary Interest "In view of the fact that opium-

KNOW HOW TO GIVE WITHOUT smoking is strictly prohibited here HESITATION, HOW TO LOSE WITHOUT under regulations which are more REGRET, HOW TO ACQUIRE) WITHOUT drastle than is most Oriental HEANNESS George Sand. countries. Despite that fact,

The F. and 0.81. Karmala, however, the amount of smuggled from Shanghat is due here at oplum coming into the country is 6 am. on Friday. Increasing rather than bibery The regulations“ notwithsta al manner of moane N employed to get the drug into the islands,

Mrs. W. T. Southern is to dis in which connexion some startling tribute the prizes at St. Mary's Schools Kowloom, at 530 p.m. of Monday,

Lady Shotson Chow was amongst the passengers who left by the Emr prosa of Russia to-day.

NGRY.

"RED" - PRESS

"MORNING POST” IN A

CARTOON.

The Very Idea!

Dur

hearing of an assault: cafe,in, the cou Port Arthur Riga, Jan. 5, 1

(Ontario ih Crown Attorney, Mr., The British protests against the Langware, invited a woman plain- Soviet war on religion are finding in to demonstrate how the defen an echo in the Moscow Press. dant assaulted bar

The Investie, for instance, has &The womnila Complied to such good caricature of God with a pipe in purpose andspdn id-kitchỏ. Crown his mouth and the forging Peat in Attorney solving

put the his hands. He is represented as head and shoulders that is cried saying "I do not exist either in our to the s

sdänta for help, force or in truth; but only in the fast Morning Post and

* think

Bir of the reveller

Only now does the Pravda report dog that the recent mass, meeting of protest tire morning,

at the Albert Hall, entitling its Yes, siris said the barm article "Anti Soviet propaganda.” | ing his customer critically **The annual meeting of the Euro-It declares that representatives of kind of a doge was pann Y.M.C.A. will be held at Kow the British ruling classes are pour" Dane?"}, con on Thursday, February 20thing mud and dirt over the Union of

Socialist Soviet Republics.. 1930, at 6 ph

disclosures have in recent times been made of the usɑ to which the mails are put for this purpose.

Thare le another point that should be stressed, namely, that China is the place of origin of this oplam which finds its way into

There will be a lantern lecture on the Philippine Islands. In other Tuesday February 18th, at 5.30 p.m. words, the drug is manufactured given by Dr. A.ft. Wellington on The life history of a mosquito" in that country

no doubt Advt. "**ånd,

1,000,000 /

big

It abuses especially the speech of the Chief Rabbi, and gibes at the facts given by Viscount Brentford. It describes such protests as anti- Soviet propagnanda, and states that reference to them is to be made in a Note to the British-Am-

TO EIGHTEEN OUBIOFEET || through "the medium of a

STORAGE CAPACITY."

arraniation or organisations, Teol Kan, a seaman, was taken bassador.

to hospital yesterday as the result: Pravda ́siso states that there is emuggled into regions whore its of being knocked down in Des Voeux at present an international reac entry is supposed to be strictly Road West by a pubile motor-car tionary movement with official prohibited. Here in Hongkong when he received injuries to his left personages in important political circles at its head, and with a also we know from actual exporianos punt

central organisation in London— the difficulties of keeping out the Three Chinese women were each which is attempting to turn the

the Kowloon Magistracy this mor The British Government, it adds, is the question which will not fallning for trespassing on a Govern in close relation with this organi

IN USE THROUGHOUT. THE WORLD.

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. llcit drug. This is an aspect of fingu by M. Whyte Smith at rest of Europe away from Russia,

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What Great

-(A celebrated ""prophet” an- nounces that Mr. George Robey will be subject to strange psychic in. fuences during 1836.).

Shall eerie shapes and foursome

sounds

Conspiro, dear George, your

heart to chill,

Or flick'ting lights (see books)

upraise o

Those crescent eyebrows high-

* er still?

Or can it be 1. But I'll de

For spooks you'll scarcely care

a dime.

Who with your breezy jeste have

raised

So many spirits in your time i

Magistrate: Are you "aure" ka.

S

to impress Itaclf on the League of ment plantation abovo Kowloon sation. Nations Commission now in the Tony, where they had gone to

The Ekonomitcheskaya Zhien gather pine cones. East No doubt the facts un

prints a message of welcome to the was Intoxicated?et Daily Worker, and states: that all

Policeman: No, alr, not positive, earthed by these investigators will 'There will be a Concert organis the members of the British Com- but his wife says he brought home chatter the argument which has so od. by Mrs. Sanger at the Helens munist party have been mobilised a manhole cover and tried to play Mr. J. C. Remedies and family often been put forward by Chinese May Institute. on Thursday 20th for the distribution of the paper in it on the gramaphone!

thank their friends and re-

February at 6.30. p.m. Tickets may all important railway stations, and Intions for their idnd expres-delegates at Geneva that China is be had in advance Teas must be in all large factories.

Man at Lambeth: My pyes are slons of aympathy during the victim of other nations rather booked, please telephone Matron their recent breavement.

|C.2160.—Adut. than herself the sinner. One

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY FED. 12,9 0.

OPIUM SMUGGLING.

It has long been established

that

a success.

The same paper makes the as-my witnesses. I have good eye- sertion that the Daily Worker will ight

"My husband refuses to give mo overcome ali difficultles and will be thing that can be. aald of Hong Convicted of a charge of carry.

any money, saying that he objects to keeping another man's kong, and Britain generally, ising, chickens in a manner which

Pravda Ironically reports the daughter. Wife at Marylebone. that wo have lived up to our caused them unnecessary cruelty: Prince of Wales voyage to Africa Man at Willesden: If the wit

a Chinese, who appeared before obligations in this matter. Indeed, Mr Whyte Smith at the Kowloon and mocks at the publicity given in nese says I was blind drunk. it is.

the English papers about his combining lie.. Was we have gone much further than Magistracy this morning, we are strictly required to do. If fowls had their legs tied together

fined $5, it being stated that the forts during the voyage,"

China would only fulfil her own in a basket, promises and not be content with merely framing edicts which are never enforced, 'n big step forward would be taken in bringing the traffic under reasonable control,

Labour's Dificulties.

Pleading guilty to a charge of snatching a gold bangle from 4 child in Queen's Road East, a Chinese was this morning gen- tenced to six months' imprison- ment and 12 strokes of the birch by Mr. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy. The bangle valued at $2,

whe

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f.

GALLANT TEN OF THE STAGE.

*

ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF

THE HUNDRED...

London, Jan. 6. Ten amateur turris took the blage at Collins's Music Hall, Islington, on Saturday night, after the gallery had been specially warned to have itself.

They were the doughty survivors of about 100 who, throughout the

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Woman at Thamca Court: I know my husband can pay me more, because he wears posh fours

Professor, going "over examina- tion papers, to student

"How do you accaunt för your observation that nitrogen is un- known in Ireland?

Student: "The text book; dis- tinctly days that nitrogen" found in a free statol

The vicar began to give out the banne of marriage when he dis- covered that he couldn't find the book. As he groped about for the lost volume, he said: "I publish he banns of marriage between between

Prohibition In regard to alcohol has not stopped, liquor- drinking in the United States, and it is now being shown that the brought a rising, volume

While domestic "fißiculties have

A fine of $3 each was imposed af same policy applied to the drug criticism to contrast with the on the mistresses of five passen traffic is proving ineffective, in enthusiasms which "greeted the ger boats who were brought before advent of the Labour Government the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole at auppressing opium-smoking in the and its initial wave of success, the Marine Court this morning on Philippines. Figures produced it is equally obvious that there the charge of unlawfully mooring week, braved the lusty Cockney "Between Die-cashion and the before the Optum Commission of is no movement of opinion against to the southern sea wall to the audiences in a "Do-As-You-Please" seat," whispered the verger boarse-

the Sanitary Dümfing competition for prizes of £10, £3|ly. the League of Nations at Geneva it in the country at present. The cast of

electorate would not view with Station at Yaumail Typhoon and £1.- have shown that the system of pleasure any step, that would Shelter.

These humble aspirante to fame Wife at Marylebone: My hu absolute prohibition has not pro- precipitate Д general election.

were mostly men in plain workaday band goes to see, boxing every The feeling rather is that Mr. Appearing before Mr. Whyte garb dr women who appeared to Sunday afternoon, and then comes. duced the expected results, for. Ramsay MacDonald has not yet Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy have come straight "on" from the home and practises on me. despite the prohibitory law, the had an opportunity of proving the this morning on a charge of being family stopping. Practically all Wife at Tottenham My hus- quantity of opium'coming into the wisdom of his policies, and that in unlawful possession of two paire were locals" who had rehearsed band says he is working late at islands from China, is still in-attitude is being strongly reflected that he had taken them from a piano.

this should be accorded. This of galoshes, a Chinese remarked their number on the front, parlour night, but I know that is not true, because ho is not tired when he comes home. creasing. It is to be presumed in the House of Commone to-day, ship on which he was formerly en-

The Silent "Bird." The current session has been ployed. His Worship remarked that this statement was made extraordinarily quiet, up to the that that was more serious than So well did they acquit them- during a discussion of the best present and It would be a mistake than the offence with which he was selves that not one got the "bird"--- About tiffin tims yesterday three ways and means of suppressing to suppose that the Naval Confer charged, and imposed a fine of $10. a popular pet at Collins's, where, men entered 290, Temple Street,

eneo provides the sole explanation. the traffic, and it is well to remem-We may expect liveller times

if the audience does not like a and robbed the inmates of property When charged before the Hon. turn, it just "upa an' sez ́80," to the value of $9.50. One of the ber that there are two distinct when the time comes round for Commdr. G. F. Hole, at the They sang of husbands who had men, who was armed with a dagger schools of thought on this point. Mr. Snowden to introduce his Marine Court this morning, with gone away and left them "blus," of had climbed over the verandah,” and Budget, The Government has failing to take out a licence, the Broadway Babies, of the homestead after holding up the only occupant The Prohibitionists rely on their passed Bills increasing the aum- mistress of a boat told his Worship in Sleepy Valley with Roses round of the floor, admitted two other polley As offering the most ber of widows entitled to pensions that she had no money to get one. the door and kiddies on the floor," men. The victim was bound and effectual method of combating the and hue extended the benefits A police officer, however, stated of Mrs. Moore who had to be told gagged, and guarded by one of the

under the Unemployment Insur that she had $5.50 in her posses- not to "have any more." evil, whilst opposed to them in the ance Bill, at a cost to the aton when arrested and a licence Two fellows, who might have ed the premises..

robbers while the other two bearch- other group which believes that Exchequer of approximately cost only $1.76. Defendant was been plumbers or gas-fitters, blow control is better than to attempt £20,000,000. Both these measures find $2, with the alternative of two heartily Into mouth-organs attach-

are good things. The Govern-days' hard labour, the Impossible. The same ment, in a small way, is carrying

ed to trumpets. There was a arguments have, of course, been out the principle that the State is

Sentence of two months' hard "Hello, Sunshine" to the utter Joy

youngster in a topper who sang WHO WAS... responsible for the welfare of all labour was imposed by Mr. Whyte of all the other youngsters in the applied to the drink traffic. For

AEDIPUS? its citizens, and the principle Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy fourpenny gallery, a bobbed-hair ourselves, we. incline to the view could be extended much further this morning on a Chinese who girl who sang "I can't give you that in all these matters well-with advantage if the country admitted snatching a

ten-cent anything but love, Baby,” and two organised control is the better was in the financial position to do piece from the stall of an old wo- fine strapping girls who danced and

so. But all good things have to man hawker in Pakhoi Street. On did the splits. solution. Attempts at Prohibition be paid for, and Mr. Snowden can being informed that the defendant almost invariably, drive the evils hardly avoid, adding to taxation, was sentenced to fourteen days on were compounded for, division" be Eventually frst and second prizes underground; they do not up-considerable sums on the Defence marked that that gave the theft & Albert Terry by name, and the two even while he may budget to Bave January 15, last, his Worship retween a ngat little step-dancer press them..

Services. In some quarters it is

argued that this mere possibility much more serious appearance. has had the effect, of curbing enterprise and has contributed to

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It is interesting to note that at the very time this question of oplum-smoking in the Philippines the growing figures of unempl y EXCHANGE RATES. is being discussed at Genové, theed, in spite of Mr. Thomas's efforts to effect reductions. But League of Nations Commission there is one saving grace in the touring the Far East is in Manila, present situation, and the bulk of Paris where it arrived last week for the the people of the country have] Brussels purpose of investigating the whole already recognised it. The Amsterdam

Government is trying hard to do Berlin drug problem in the islands. The things: Sometimes in their hurry agen Copenhagen Commission is to study every their proposals have not been well Helsingfors phase of the opium situation, both conceived. But they continue to ins

handle vigorously every problem Bucharest in Manila and in the provinces, that comes within their ken. The Buenos Aires

amuggling to smoking. mistake of the Baldwin Adminis Shanghal Particular attention is to be paid ftration was that it seldom attempt-Yokohama ed anything, and the nature of its New York to the southern provinces of the Opposition in the present Parlin Geneva archipelago, including Hollo, Cebu ment suggests that the Conserva-Milan... and portions of Mindanao, where Hire Party has not yet discarded Stockholm

the habit of "Walt and Sed," ". The Oslo the illicit traffic in opium and Labour Government, therefore, in Prague |Madrid morphine is said to be campant, safely ensconced until the Auturan, Athens according to the report made by a The first months of the Labour

regime has been aptly described Bombay special committee which some time as the honeymoon period. It in Hong Kong back looked into the matter. One over but is still remains, to be Silver (spot)

seen if the period of adjustment Silver (forward) of the Manila journals states that is to be survived.

from

“The L. M. Ericsson Telephone .818 Company in Stockholm now issues 42 a report on the number of its nu- 1/114 tomatic telephone' exchanges and 2/0 lines Installed in different coun- 4.80%

tries. The report shows that the 5.204

Ericsson exchanges in operation or 92,91 18.13 in the course of construction 18.81 amount to 107 in 16 different coun- 1647 tries in practically all parts of the 37.87% world.

.876 The total number of lines of the 7/32 | 107 exchanges are 164,290, while 520/12 287,820, sire in the course of con- -1/6 | struction. The final capacity of 208/10 these exchanges, when fully built

put, amounts to 1,668,700 lines

It was a terrible destiny which fate imposed on Aedipos -no less a thing, in fact, than that ho should slay his father and marry, his mother) Moni His father Lajus, warned by the oracle, tried to defeat the gods by letting the child perish in infancy, but the slave com- missioned to do the deed relent- "ed, and saved his life..

Aedipus grow up to be a fine strong man. When travelling in a foreign country he fulfilled the first prophecy of the oracle "by killing his father in a quar

rel, not knowing who he had struck, and then he made his- way to Thebes, where he per formed such great services to the 'citizens, that he was given the dominion;; together with Jocnate, the widow of Laius, for wife, thereby fulfilling the second part of the prophecy,"

Aedipus and Jocaste have, four children before the tor rible truth is revealed, where upon Aedipus is driven forth by his sons to die in exile."-

The story, a very popular one is with poets and dramatists, In enshrined In ✨ the " works” DEN Aeschylus and Sophocles, while Aedipus himself has given him? name to a technical term in moe dern psychology.