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SETS OF

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Also

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LADIE'S. OLUBS

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and

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THIRTY OTHER MODELS TO SELECT FROM.

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Sports

Dept.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOW IS THE TIME

TO-GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUL TO EIGHTEEN CUBICFEER STORAGE CAPACITY:

OVER

1,000,000

IN. USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930.

Professor R Robertson, M.A., Pro- fassor of Economics and Political Science at the University, who should be able to put forward the standpoint of the theorist. Per haps even now, the omissions to which we have referred can be rectified by the addition, of two more members.to the Committee,

DAY BY DAY.

HEAVEN SENDS US GOOD MEAT, BUT THE DEVIL' SENDS COOKS.-Garrick.

The dollar showed a further de- cline this morning, the openig rate on demand being 1s. 5.15/16d.

The rainfall registered for the 24 hours ended at 10 am. to-day was 0.28-inch. This brings the year's total to 10.88 inches, again an average of 6.10 inches.

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POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT

WEEK.

Police Reserve Orders by the Hon. Mr, E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. Inspector General of Police, atate:

Chinese Company. Squad Drill-All recruits of the Chinese Company who have not yet passed, part 1 of Training Course,

will attend

at Central Police

The Very Idea!

The schoolboy howler will persist just as long as there are schoolboys who are not quite certain about their facts, but are obliged to be ex pressive nevertheless. If It was necessary for their elders to answer. some of the schoolroom questions, then there might be a new genre of howlers. Here are some recent inaccuracies:

Herrings go.

Station on Thursday, April 3rd. shawls. About the sea in

at 6.30 pm. sharp for squad drill An appendix is a portion of a under P/Sergeant R. J. Hunt, book which nobody has yet dis-

covered to be of any use. Dress-Mufti.

Where are the kings of England ·

The terms of reference, obviously drawn up with care, would appear to cover all the ground necessary for an exhaustive examination of

Kung So, a box-maker aged 16 the problem. Our own view is that

years, of 54 Sal Yung Street, the most important-heading is that Mongkok, received fatal injuries

Police Training School. The relating to the possible stabilisa-as a result of falling from a ladder class for instruction in police duties

Gravity was discovered by Isaac and regulations will be held as tion of the dollar, upon which opin- yesterday at the address given.

usual at the Police Training the autumn, when the, apples are Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in

The appear greatly to differ. This

School, Kowloon, on Tuesday,

falling off the trees.. point goes to the very root of the

April 1st. at 5:30 p.m.

Handling of Revolver.-Instruc-A certain genial doctor was lia problem. Moreover, it is not too much to say that if stabilisation is York (St. John's Park) on the 27th tion in alming, correct grip, and ble to strange fits of crabbedness.

Jons

silk forwarded. from Hongkong by the Empress of Asia on the 5th March arrived in New March, having been 22 days in transit.

the

trigger pressing will be given at the Company's Headquarters on Wednesday evening, April 2nd, at 8.00 p.m.

crowned ?-On their heads.

One day a friend greeted him,” "Good morning, doctor."

. The doctor glared..

"Good morning, chartered ac- countant," be snapped.

found feasible at a rate appreciably higher than the current value of the dollar, it would be possible to dis- pose at one stroke of an uncertain factor in trade, of the high cast of | Hving, and of the problem of rising Pailleur also came here aboard the Company will parade at Police Frince Bismarck, asked him how he

administrative costs now facing the Government. That being the case, we can look to the Committee to

Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron were amongst

passengers who arrived by the Empress of Russia today. His Grace Mgr. A. La

same liner.

The total disregard of the traffic regulations by Chinese cyclists continues to engage the attention who were taken before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning were fined $10 each.

Indian Company,

"Lord Odo Russell, while calling on

Parade. All ranks of the Indian Headquarters on Tuesday, April managed to rid himself of that 8th at 5.30 pm. sharp for drill class of importunate visitors whom under, P/Sergeant R. J. Hunt. he could not well refuse to see, but Dress-Winter Uniform, Belt and whose room he found preferable to Cap with White Cover. No mem

their company. without leave from the Company Commander.

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. sive its most serious consideration of the Police Severe of unders ber may be absent from this parade

Bole Distributors

HONG KONG & 8, OHINA.

Thongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1939.

CURRENCY PROBLEM

ENQUIRY,

We venture. to state that no Com- mittee of Equiry which has ever been appointed in the past has been charged with a more important task than the body now chosen by the Government to report on the

currency

em-

Flying Squad.

The weekdy instructional patrol of the Kowloon Section will take place on Tuesday, April 1st. Fall in at the Tsim-tsa-taui Fire Brigade Station at 5.30 pm sharp. Dress

"Oh," replied the Chancellor, "I have a very simple method; my wife knows them pretty well, and when' she sees they are with me she ge erally contrives to come in and call me away upon some pretext or an- other."

He had scarcely finished speaking when the Princess put her head in at the door and said, "Otto, you must come and take your me

to this aspect of the problem, which practically covers all the other points, Finally, let it be phasised that the aim of the Com A fine of $5 was imposed by Mr. mittee should be to advise on what Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a is best in the general interests of Chinese who admitted a charge of the Colony, especially its trade and causing injury to another by commerce, by which it lives. The stabbing him in the arm. The de- -Winter Uniform and Cap with dicine. You ought to have had it

fendants had a fight over a debt.White Cover. Both were bound over,

The weekly instructional patrol of the Hongkong Section will take The Hongkong and Shanghal place on Friday, April 4th. Fall in Bank notifies that the rate of in-at the Central Police Station at 5.15 terest for gold dollar & sterlingp.m. sharp. Dress-Winter Uni- advances made against bills from form and Cap with White Cover. America to the East will be reduced from 6% to 6% p.a. on and after 1st. April next. Bills negotiated at a higher rate than 6% pa., if past due or renewed, will continue to bear interest at the higher rate.

claims of other interests must ob viously give way to those of com- merce and of the great body of workers constituting the populace of the Colony.

2.

The Naval Conference. The extreme malice governing Mr. Hearst's attitude to Britain is given definite shape with more than usual emphasis in his attack on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald this week-end, which is precisely why it will fail of its purpose. The problem. The future

average normal American has come commerce of the Colony and its to expect violent anti-British invec- whole economic life, including the tive in the Hearst chain of news- cost of living, are involved in the papers, and "fake" document ex- ground to be covered. Issues ofposures from time to time have re- the utmost complexity have to be taken into account, but the know- ledge of local conditions possessed by the members of the Committee, together with the evidence which others may be able to bring for ward, should result in the position being probed to the very bottom. There is no need to stress the im- less wil: its effect be felt else portance of the Committee up where? The Prime Minister will proaching the problem in an im- require no encouragement to per- partial manner, with a willingness severe in the great and difficult to discard any preconceived views task he has undertaken. He em- which its members may hold, for ploys setbacks to spur his collea

gues to further effort. we do not doubt that it will be in a spirit of getting down to bed-rock, greater the problem, the greater without bias one way or the other, that the gentlemen nominated will take up the task.

Admitting a charge of stealing three sheets of corrugated iron from the Green Island Cement Co. in Hunghom, where a building was being demolished, a Chinese was fined $10, or fourteen days' hard labour, by Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Mr. J. M. Hood, of the complainant firm, prosecuted.

an hour ago."

18. A

Customer-To what do you owe salesman? your extraordinary success

-Salesman-To the first five words I utter when a woman opens the door"Miss, is your mother in 1"

Sharpshooters' Company. Revolver Practice: All members The growth of the instalment of the Company are reminded of the system in America has led to the regular Revolver Practice to be held production of a "National Instal- on Sunday, April 6th. at the Ken- ment Anthem," of which the fol- nedy Road Range at 10.00 a.m.lowing lines form a part: Members will assemble at the Buy a new auto and “Ride As You.

Pay." Range at that time with their re- Revolver Practice. The Bowen volvers, belts and rifles. Road Revolver Range has been allot ted to the Company for revolver practice on Wednesday, April 2nd. Members will meet at the Range at 9.00 p.m. with revolvere and

belts.

Rifle Club-All members inter- ested in rifle shooting of the League type are invited to a meeting at the office of the O. i/c. Co., on Thurs- day April 3rd. at 5.15 p.m., to con-

within the Company.

A corrected Reutor's telegram moved even the virtue of sincerity comes to hand stating that Mr. from the motives of the Hearst | Midwood, the owner of the winner policy. If it fails to impress of the Grand National, was not normally-minded Americans--the the former Hongkong and Shang-sider the formation of a Rifle Qub hai champion jockey, as previously majority of whom, by reason of

stated. Mr. Midwood, the jockey, the development of wireless com- died at Shanghal In January, and munication, have heard Mr. Ram the owner of the Grand National any MacDonald speak on many winner was probably a relative of occasions and are capable of judg ing him for themselves-how much

The

the achievement if a solution is

reached. Mr. H. L. Stimson is of much the same mind. "We shall stay here until we have done what From the fact that the Govern- we came to do," declared the chief

his.

raid resulting in the arrest of In connexion with the gambling thirty-seven Chinese on Friday and. their appearance before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday, Sub-Inspector Dorling. appeared before his Worship this morning and intimated that since the last hearing certain facts had

Instructions had been received to

come to the notice to the police.

withdraw, the charges against the defendants, all of whom were dia- charged.

General.

Revolver Practice. The weekly revolver practice (Voluntary) will take place at the Bowen Road Re- volver Range on Wednesday, April 2nd. from 9.00 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.

(Sgd.) D. L. KING,

D. S. P: (R)."

Buy a piano and "Pay As You

Play,"

Buy a new topcoat and "Play As

You Wear."

Buy a new golf suit and "Pay As

You Swear."

This be our motto, our hue and our cry:

"We pay as we live and we pay as we die."

-EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris -Brussels

Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vianna Helsingfors, Lisbon Bucharest Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama New York Geneva

DECK LINE MARKS ON Milan

RIVER BOATS.

FOUR MASTERS DISMISSED WITH CAUTION.

Strellet.

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needed advice. If the former, the have set penis ollowing freely for Home on Saturday, on the P/caution in each case.. At the same

Stockholm

Oslo

Prague

Madrid

Athens

Rio Bombay

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FLANDERS?

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The bare narrative of Mall Flander's life sounds shocking. enough. A bigamist is Suffelently scandalous person," but what shall we say of a{ woman with four husbands and a bewildering assortment of children! And when we find this same woman taking to thiering, and pick-pocket- ing, and ending up In goa) and a penal settlement, shall we expect to find anything ad- mirable in her character?

Four masters of river steamers Hong Kong were summoned before the Hon. Silver (spot) There was a packed house at the Commdr. G. F. Hole, at the Silver (forward) ment statement avoids any refer American delegate while the Con Theatre Royal on Saturday night, Marine Court this morning for ence to the obtaining of an expert ference was still young, and while when the AD.C. wound up their failing to mark their vessel with proper deck lines. They were from Home to report on the sub- the delegates face their task in "And So To Bed" season. The play Capt. H.N. Walker,

went with a delightful swing. Kwongtang, Capt. C. R. Benstead

of the 3.5. WHO WAS ject, although Mr. Owen Hughes timism reflected in many quarters good. At the close, there was the

that spirit, the pessimism and ep- the principals being especially of the San Nam Hoi, Capt. Prigent suggested this as an alternative to by the "sce-saw motion of so- customary handing of gifts over

of the Taishan and Kwok Lai of the appointment of a local Com-called hopes and fears, are to be the footlights, whilst, in response

the Chuen Lee. mittee, it may be taken for grant- deprecated as misrepresenting the to repeated demands, the producer, guilty, including Capt. Prigent All the defendants pleaded ed that this idea did not commend true state of affairs. Correspon Gosa, appeared on the stage and who was represented by Mr. D. L

Surgeon Commander L Stewart itself to the authorities. Why, we dents are too ready to see failure expressed the appreciation of the cannot profess to say, unless it be in a snag and early success in aA.D.C. at the excellent support Saturday last, ho found the mas- His Worship recalled that, on on the score of expense or of postrifling, difficulty overcome. In rendered by the public.

ters of two other vessels guilty of sible delay in getting the much-the matter of the alleged Anglo- French deadlock, mere rumours

A large number of residents left the same offence and registered a

and O. 8.3. Rawalpindi. Among

time, his Worship' issued 'a 'warn- point may he answered by recalling when the experts cannot have had them were Mr. H. R. G. Beer and ing to the effect that he would. that considerations of this charne time to do more than examine the Mr. W. E. Bell, two prominent

bring the law into force against ter did not deter the Government surface of their particular pro-lawn bowlers of the Naval Dock the next offender and impose 4

heavy fine, from securing expert opinion on blem. Neither Mr. Ramsay Mac- yard; Mr. J. Kempton and Mr. T Puncheon, two Kowloon Dock harbour development and on cere-

Donald nor M. Briand would be bowlers; Lieut. R. Y. Burgess, Mr. bro-spinal fever; if the latter, we content with that.

and Mrs. G. L Buchanan, Mr. and can only hope that the Committee

Mrs. W. J..Carrie, Comdr. De'ath, Mrs. E, Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. J. will soon start its task, and, what

T. Ewing, Mr. H. A. Gregory, Mr. is more, that once its report is pre-

The health bulletin of Eastern W. J. Goodfellow, Mr. C. E. Holmes, sented, the recommendations will ports for the week ended March Superintendent Engineer of the 22, Issued by the Director of Medi- Indo-China Steam Navigation Com- be promptly put into effect. Any cal and Sanitary Services, con pany, who is going home on re- pigeon-holing of the Report, which tains the following cases, the tirement; Mia. D. H. Hazell, Mrs.

figures in parenthesis indicating H. G. Hegarty, Colonel and Mrs. Taikoo Professor of Engineering of Prof. C. A. M. Smith, M. Se... is all too common an experience, deaths: Plague, Alexandrla (1), A. F. S. Hill, Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Hongkong University, will deliver would be justifiably resented. Tha Bassein 1, Bombay 2 (2), Rangoon Lieut. C. A. Jenkins, Mr. M. Ta lecture on Friday at 5.30 pm on Committee chosen is one which 1 (1), Bangkok 1 (1), Pnon-Penh Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Logan, "Modern Methods of Measure- should command confidence in the (2) Cholera, Calcutta 120 (60) Mr. and Mrs. G. T. May, Mr. A. mont," or "The World beyond our Rangoon 1 (1), Bangkok 1, Pnom McCallum, Mr. C. L. Oliphant, Mrs. Benson." This lecture is of very belief that all aspects of the matter Penh (2), Saigon 6 (6); Small P. W. Ramsey, Capt. and Mrs. J. real interest to everyone and, al- will be gone into, although we re- pox, Zanzibar 2, Berbera 2 (1) R. Shearer, Mr. P. V. Simpson, though written by an engineer for Bombay: 193 (102), Calcutta 159 Mr. and Mrs. F. Button, Mrs. N. L engineers, will describe in popular gret the absence therefrom of any (118), Cochin 71 (11), Karachi 13 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. WJ. Taylor, langungo many of the principles representative of the non-note- (3), Madras 53 (9), Moulmein 48 Mr. R. Taylor, Major, C. Willson, and methods by which our trade issuing Banks and of any economist. (9), Vizagapatam-8 (1), Saigon 2 who is going home on short leave and vocations are transacted with (1), Macão (2) Canton 1 (1), and returning to take up the post-such unerring exactitude. The gen On the latter point, we have in our Shanghai (1) Takao 2; Cerebro- tion of Chief of Police at Shameen, oral public are cordially invited to midst at least one gentleman, inspinal fever, Shanghai (13), g), and Sir John Wood,

He, however, appreciated the fact that the defendants before him this morning had had very little or no time over the week- end to put things right and he would therefore also register a caution in each case.

The defendants were according ly cautioned..

be present,

Yet we do. Beneath and behind the outward circum- atances and events of her life, Moll was a likeable, affec- tionate honest creature. She bears no grudge against those who deceive and betray her While it would not be exactly. true to say that she was more sinned against than sinning, it is no exaggeration to say that she would have preferred had efrcumstances given her to walk in the paths of virtue,

any encouragement at all.BAR It is no hypocrisy on her part when she says at the end of the story: "We resolve to spend the remainder of our years in sincere penitence for the wicked lives we have led." Moll Flanders is the central Bguto of Defoe's novel, "The Fortunes of Moll Flanders,”