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WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 19 0.

THE COLONY'S OUTLOOK.

TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930.

2:

DAY BY DAY.

THE MOST BRUTAL MAN' CANNOT LIVE IN CONSTANT ASSOCIATION WITH A STRONG FEMALE INFLUENCE AND NOT BE GREATLY CONTROLLED BY IT-Mfrs, Stowe.

Sir Frederick Whyte, who has been laid up recently is taking a short holiday in Hongkong.

HONGKONG AIR MAIL TO ENGLAND,

1

(Continued from Page L.). The Government of the Union of South Africa would make a sub- stantial contribution towards tho subsidy over a five years period, and would lend their support and co-operation generally,

The Very Idea!

The Scotsman was showing his American friend round the coun- try.

"That's a fine train for yo," said the former, pointing to an express which had just appeared out of a tunnel.

"Sure," agreed the American; It was contemplated that as that in the States.

"but we've got trains twice as big Amongst the passengers who regular service between Alexan-

The Scotsman was silent for u left by the ss. Aeneas were the dria and Tanganyika should com-while.

"That's a fine buildin' for ye," Bishop of Victoria and Mrs. Dup-mence in the Autumn of this year

a through service to Cape he said. "What dae ye think o Town in the Spring of 1931, puy, Mr W. L. Pattenden, Mrs. and Coppin and Mr. D. E. Clark,

8.8. Acneas were Sir Frederick and Lady Whyte, Mr. D. Templeton, Mr. J. J. Paterson and Mr. W. Bracken bridge.

dollar, and, unhappily, the future trend of the Colony's currency is! most uncertain. This reacts in- juriously on trade, inasmuch as there is nothing more damaging to business expansion than uncertainty regarding exchange, For this reason, it is to be hoped that the Government will not much longer delay any plans it may have under consideration for an investigation of this problem, upon the solution of which so much depends. Fine, modern blocks of business buildings are of littlo avail if our trade is stopped at its source. An impartial and thorough-going inquiry into

Amongst the passengers who ar- the dollar question is a prime neces-rived here by the Blue Funnel line sity of the moment.

When we come to look closely into matters, there is every reason why Hongkong should maintain its for- ward stride. Wo have the great

Amongst the passengers leaving advantage given UB by our on the Empress of Canada for Shanghai this morning was Mrs. geographical position, a magnifi-. S. J. Walsh, the wife of the cent harbour, modern facilities for Manager of the British-American the handling of cargo, a free port, Tobacco Co. (China), Ltd. immunity from excessive taxation and the assurance of peace and security under the British flag. These are great assets, of which we cannot be deprived. They must make their appeal. Our free port status, in particular, should, as time goes on, attract the attention of many business firms in other ports who have to contend with increased Customs tariffs. It is true, of course, that, even with Hongkong as a base, goods entering China are subject to these heavy duties, but we can envisage the time when cer- tain types of business with head- quarters elsewhere will find that it pays to have their Hongkong offices and thereby be relieved of the im- position of duties until such time

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Indin Service.

it?"

"Say," laughed the American, "that's nothing. We've got hun- dreds of buildings bigger and better than that”

"Aye," returned the Scotsman, That's au

The Government of India had now extended the. England-India service from Karachi to Delhi, by means of aircraft chartered from "I expect ye have. and operated by the Imperial Air- asylum."

ways,

"Father says, can he have pills instead of these tablets?"

"Why, yes, of course," replied the shape' the chemist; "but doesn't make the slightest differ- ence."

The preparation of the ground organisation of the route across India was being vigorously push- ed forward.

The section to Calcutta would "Oh, doesn't It!" said the boy, be ready at the end of March and "you just try and blow these it was hoped that by the Autumn, tablets through a peashooter!" Seen "fishing" clothes with a sufficient progress would have rod from the first floor of 77, Yu been made to render possible the

Street, Shamshuipo,

operation of the service to Ran- Chinese who appeared before Mr. goon, Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on charge of larceny, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

Chau

Proposals had been submitted to the Air Ministry for the operation of the remaining section between Rangoon and Austraila and it was hoped, in conjunction with the Admitting a charge of being in Governments of India and Austra- possession of 39 po piu lottery lia, to inaugurate a through ser- tickets at Tai Nam Street, Sham-vice to Australia, as soon as possi- shuipo, a Chinese who appeared ble after the route along the coast before Mr. Whyte Smith at the of Burma had been organised. Kowloon Magistracy this morning was fined $50 with the alternative of one month's hard labour,

Airship Development.

Dealing with airships, Mr. Mon- tague said that undoubtedly from a constructional viewpoint, tae new British completed airships had definitely disproved many of the gloomy forecasts.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning to defend the second of six

Meteorological investigations of Chinese who were charged on the Indian route for airships show remand with being in possessioned that conditions would generally Although the steady development as the goods or materials are sent of seditious literature. The case be adverse on the return journey.

into China. On the whole, despite the temporary depression from which we are suffering, the future

and expansion of the Colony must be apparent to all who reside in it, a far more vivid impression of our progress is made on those who re-looks distinctly promising. We can

was fixed for the afternoon Thursday, 27th inst.

.of

both between Karachi and Ismailia, and between Ismailia and Carding- ton, with the consequence that a to be carried for the first experi- large reserve of fuel would have

turn to our shores after an absence now build up and consolidate our the Sanitary Board was of a formal mental flight to the East of the

'areas.

Most of us, we fear, are rather given to taking all these indications of progress for granted. Day by day we move about in restricted eireles, taking casual note now and then of any particularly big pro-

ject, but, on the whole, failing to

position in readiness for those better days ahead.

R101.

Business at yesterday's meeting of character and at the termination of the meeting, the chairman ex- pressed the welcome of the Board Having regard to the need for to Lt. Col. C. D. Myles, O.B.E., a safety policy in a programme of R.A.M.C., who had been appointed this expensive character. It was a member, vice Major D G. Cheyne, decided not to attempt the return O.B.E., M.C., R.A.M.C.

fight to India in March or April.

Improvement to R101,

· EXCHANGE RATES.

The new

R100 The programme for the consisted of flights to Montreal and back between May and Septem-

Cardington and Ismailia between October and March 1931. -

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Here is an extract from a "diatribe in verse" which is among the lighter of the very attractivă" contents of "The Cardinal ́and. other Poems," written by ffrida Wolfe and published by Ernest Benn, Ltd.:

Country without a course has naught to offer Your golfer: A-bounding by the sea he only

thinks

Links:

Sees not old Neptune riding on

the dolphin.

No, naught but golfin'

By

districts

(Great Scott! the way the agents

put me off

recommending where there's goff) And then auch airs, as if to

know a mashile

Gave in itself a cachet.

The holes they bunked, the

divvits sent aloft

(I hope I've got it wrong), the

ball they goffed,

The blithering shop they talk. I

can't forgive. It,

And what the dickens anyway's

a divvit?

The jargon of the round, the

grip, the tee,

The lie and all is double Scotch

to me.

Brassie and hazard, foozles and

niblicks,

I hate the whole confounding

bag of tricks...

Nothing can be more ruineus to a man or woman than living- with over-conscientious parents.- Winifred Holtby.

The tendency of control is to

Flattery is not an art for fools.

Man At Bow County Court-1

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WHO WAS

ULYSSES?

A few days ago, of some years. we were conversing with a former resident who is again back in the Colony and he remarked that he Staircase Death-Traps. was amazed at the development

The incidence of two fatal fires which had taken place within the within a week, occurring in widely

"You are very fortunate, "in- past five or six years. On

all separated parts of the Colony, deed, in not standing in this Court

An extra bag would be inserted hands, and especially across on the compels public attention to the on a charge of murder," said Mr. in the R101 during the summer mainland, was he struck with the association of all the deaths with Justice Wood at the Criminal Ses: which would increase her capacity changes which have been brought the existence of wooden staircasessions yesterday, in sentencing Uby some 500,000 cubic feet and make food dearer and quality about. Such signs of advancement, events make their own

In the devastated buildings. The Sang to five years' imprisonment give her an additional net lift of lower-Mr. J. H. Maggs, Chair-

with hard labour and 18 strokes about nine tons.

bag, man of United Dairies. protest. he observed, obviously reflected stronger than any which we are victed on a charge of robbery in was found to be possible because-Lord Castlerosse.

with the "cat," on his being con- with the consequential extra lift, great confidence in the future of capable of advancing. Hard connexion with the Cheung Chau of the satisfactory strength which. enjoy bad health. the Colony by those who were lay- facts, more than plain speaking, affair, as a result of which a girl the airship's tests had disclosed. ing out huge sums in the erection carry a prospect of moving the named Kwok Ching-mui lost her The proposed programme for the Bettie (just home from a holi- of business establishments and in Government to take action, though life. Lt. Tee and Ip Sui-wan, the R101 was a flight to Karachi and day in Egypt)."And, Auntie, it second and third accused, charg-back in September or October, then was so interesting; the tombs and the development of residential plain speaking may still be re-

ed with assault with intent to again to Karachi in December or pyramids and things quired. The King Edward Hotel nob, were found "not guilty" and January, after which there would covered with hieroglyphs!"

were all disaster resulted in agitation for discharged.

trials be mooring the provision of adequate fire

and experi- Aunt Louisa "Oh, dear! I hope mental flying from Karachi, you didn't get any on you, child."! exits from large office blocks and hotels. No time was lost in draw- ing up regulations. Perhaps the Kennedy Town and Yaumati fire tragedies will similarly stir the Paris Government and produce definite New York measures for tackling this very Brussels realise the tremendous advances grave problem, one which we have Amsterdam

Geneva On the taken which are being made.

up so frequently that Milan island, many of the old buildings further comment seems akin to Berlin

Stockholm which have stood since the early ying a dead horse.

These stair-Copenhagen days of the Colony are gradually case death-traps are an outstand-Oslo disappearing and making way for ing feature of the Colony's Vienna terrible aluma. What is worse is Prague more modern and capacious atruc-

Madrid that the Government is still per- Helsingfors tures. A glance at the business cen-

mitting buildings served by Lisbon tre of the city is sufficient to demon-

wooden ataircases

Athens to

go up, strate that fact. Across at Kow- Moreover, if the buildings just

Bucharest Rio loon, the expansion taking place is destroyed are reconstructed, the Buenos Aires

Shanghai really wonderful; indeed, really big odds are that the narrow wooden

Bombay towns are springing up on the out- staircases common to two tene-

Hongkong skirts of Kowloon, giving visions of unless the sternest effort is made Silver (spot)

ment houses will be restored, Yokohama a day not far distant when the to obtain a remedy. The Govern

Silver forward) whole geography of the peninsula ment cannot evade its responsi- will be completely altered. A motor bility. We see no reason why it ride through some of these districts should ever have acquiesced in the would be a revelation to

construction of six houses on a many

plot of land where only five-should people who seldom go off the beaten go. Improvement in the case of track. All this building, of course, existing structures cannot, we will in due course be reflected in the admit, be secured without, great

A Parity Pact? Fateable value of the Colony, difficulty, but we do not agree that

Sir Samuel Hoare suggested to which has shown remarkable in it is an insuperable one. Ownerя The naval authorities notify that Mr. Montague that he should in- creases within the past decade. of houses of the type described the following award of salvage vestigate again the problem in

money, in respect of the salvage which he should be compelled to make pro-

(Sir Samuel) Was And in turn this must mean more vision for an emergency even if of the 8.8. Changte by H.M. tug interested before he went and more revenue for the Govern-it takes the form merely of a now ready for distribution in the possibility of arriving

Cherub, on October 15th last, is out of office, namely the ment, even though the very expan-("rope-ladder" arrangement, con Department of the Accountant parity agreement between

at 2.

the sion which is taking place adds to structed of wire, attached to the General of the Navy:

three great powers of Western the Colony's maintenance charges, top storey and wound up Some

Europe-France, Italy and our- It is well, therefore, at a moment thing must be done!

selves. when the business outlook is, nonè

too inspiring, that remembrance be

We are informed by the Univer-

had of these pointers to the better sity that in the Junior Local

Examination; held in November,

days which we all hope are ahead. Candidate No. 479, Walter Sue, of Phone C. 4567% Hardware Dept. Our chief troubles at the moment King's College, obtained Distinc

have their origin in the fallen tion in English.

London, Mar. 18.

.124.30 .4.86 ..34.885

Sir Samuel Hoare's View, ..25,125

12.12% Sir Samuel Hoare, who was Air .92.876 Minister in the late Conservative .20.385 Government, pointed out that this 18.11 country was only fourth or fifth in .18.165 the list of Air Powers, and each ..18.17 of the other great Air Powers .34.526 America, France and Italy-was

38.60 at present engaged on 198%gramme of further extension. 108.30

K At the present moment we were .375

thinking mainly about naval dis- .818 5.23/32 armament but he was inclined to .41 take the view that in years to 1/10 come the most urgent disarma- 1/5./16 ment question would be air dis-

1/6%armament,

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It was a sinister fact that the expenditure of all the great Powers (except ourselves) in air armaments was literally bounding up year by year,

The expenditure of France had risen no less than 113% during the last five years, that of Italy by 25% and that of the United States by 140%.

If they could reach such an agreement there would be less risk of air armaments going up, and that agreement would be the best basis for a more general, agree- ment to be reached between all the Powers of the world,- British Wireless.

Ulysses, King of Ithaca, was one of the famous Greek Generals who laid siege to the town of Troy. Famed for his valour no less than for his wisdom and craft, Ulysses. won immortal famo in full many 1 battle, but even greater renown came to him when the war was over, and he set forth for his home. across the seas.

The adventures which, be- 7 fell Ulysses during the ten. years he was buffetted about. by the winds of Fate before. reaching, his native Ithaca would fill a book, and indeed they have filled a book Homer's imperishable Odys- sey. He was captured by the dread Cyclops, his ships were destroyed, and his men turned into swine by the enchan tress Circe; he was obliged to pass through the infernal. regions; he was lulled for seven long years into forget fulness by Calypso: and underwent a hundred and one other perilous experiences before landing upon his nativa

shores.

Entering his home dis- guised as a beggar, he found his wife Penelope beset by sultors whom she had been putting off from day to day, and taking his own mighty bow from the wall he rid the place of these parasites, enjoying a rapturous reunion with his wife and son..

Ulysses stands, and will always stand, as the supreme symbolic figure of the wanderer upon the surface of the earth.