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FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1930.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1930.

THE DOLLAR.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

DAY BY DAY.

and we do not believe that the conditions in Hongkong are peculiar that we need fear any

CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN IS THE adverse effect from following the

FIRST LAW OF SAVAGERY.-H. dë, general trend of currency basis Vere Stacpoole. from silver to gold. Very much has been made of the suggestion

There were no notifiable diseases

MAN ASSAULTS HIS AUNT.

STORY OF A SEARCH FOR A KIDNAPPED CHILD.

aunt..

He Very Idea!

All the officials, including the business and box-office managers and the board of directors, of the A rather peculiar excuse was new Grafton Theatre in Tottenham that we must proceed in uniformi-reported in the Colony yesterday.

given by a Chinese who appeared be- Court-road, which has just opened, ty with China in this matter. We

fore Mr. Whyte Smith at the Koware women. Miss Judith Wogan, It is notified that no examination loon Magistracy this morning on a are still unconvinced that because for Certificates of Competency, for charge of assaulting a woman, Arts League of Service Travelling an actress, who founded the Masters and Mates will be held dur China's currency is on a rotten ing the week ending June 7, 1930. whom the man claimed to be his Theatre, is the managing director. and discredited basis, Hongkong's '

Recently she secured the old Graf- The defendant admitted the ton Cinema, one of the earliest to should also remain so. A corres- The Netherland-Indian Govern-charge and intimated that he had be built in London, and has had pondent in a contemporary has measures against Amoy, which was the country that her child had been now been turned into an attractive men has rescinded quarantine received a report from his sister in it entirely reconstructed. -It has just cited the case of British Hon-, declared u plague infected. port kidnapped. He commenced to make bijou theatre, with all the Intest duras, a small British Colony in on the 17th inst.

enquiries locally and on visiting his conveniences, even to a miniature South America surrounded by

aunt he saw her with a child. He revolving stage morning of the loss of an Axminster the woman refused to listen and to the theatre will be open each A report reached the Police this spoke to her about the matter, but 180 people. A small cafe attached It seats about

carpet belonging to Mr. D. Kin walked away. The defendant went evening at a30, so that the audi- loch of 376, the Peak. It was after her and during a struggle ence can have a light meal before stolen whilst in transit to Messrs struck her.

company of players is being got. the show begins.. A permanent Whiteaway Laidlaw to be cleaned.

together, and the policy of the theatro is to present an entertain meat combining plays with variety." The programme will start with a play so produced as to avoid the usual intervals, and the second half of the performance will-consist of variety items

ailver-using Republics. Prior to 1894, the coins in circulation there were the silver dollars of South America, the standard of value be ing the Guatemalan dollar. In the year named, however, a change over to gold was made, and, des- pite the argument that to go on to a different basis from the au- rounding countries would prove disastrous, trade and comerce have since steadily improved. The cases of British Honduras and Hongkong would appear to be analagous; if they are, then what British Honduras has done, Hong- kosg can do.

Opinion in exchange circles is that, unless some measure of the stabilisation is decided on, Hongkong dollar must continue to. decline. There is even talk of a shilling dollar. What that will mean to the Colony we hardly care it to contemplate. Obviously

would mean a tremendous change in local conditions, both in regard to business adjustments and the cost of Government. It would ba nothing short of a crisis. With the situation becoming so serious, we are in full sympathy with the correspondents who suggest the convening of a public meeting,

with a view to representations be ing made to the Home Government on the matter. To continue as at present strikes us as being worse than foolish, whilst mere waiting for something to happen, in the fond hope that things will come out all right in the end, would seem to be fatalism of the very worst type.

Motor Cycle Lights,

ATOMQAENAECO

THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.

Interesting Pictures for To-morrow.

There will again be many interesting pictures in to- morrow's issue of the Telo- graph Art Supplement..

Amongst the events illus- trated will be the stonelaying ceremony of the new Union Church in Kowloon, local lawn bowls and tennis League matches, and groups of sports- men of the Somerset Light Infantry, as well as snapshots taken at the Wai Yan College sports.

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The Girl Guides' Inspection at Headquarters House Empire Day will also be illus- trated, whilst photographs will be given of the French aero- plane which came to grief in Chinese territory near Macao recently:

Several other interesting pictures will also appear.

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A Chinese, charged at the Cen- with cruelty to chickens by carry. tral Police Court this morning

ing them by the wings, plead- ed ignorance. The Magistrate two dollars. (Mr. Grantham) It will cost you

The forty-ninth ordinary general meeting of the Indo China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd, is advertised to take place at the offices of the General Managers, Mesara Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Wednes day, June 18, at noon.

In reply to his Worship the de- fendant said that he did not know whether the child his aunt was car rying was his sister's child or not His Worship imposed a fine of $10 and ordered the defendant to sign a bond for $200 for his good behaviour for the next twelve

months.

SERIOUS ASSAULT

ALLEGED.

CHINESE REMANDED FOR A WEEK.

Appearing on remand before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy this morning, a Chinese who was originally charged with causing grievious bodily harm to a woman of Tai Nam Street had an additional indictment brought against him. He was accused of inflicting the injuries with intent to cripple, disable or main the com- plainant.

Vilma Banky, the famous screen star, vowing that her sole interest now is to "be a good housewife," has announced her permanent ra- tirement from the films. She was married to Rod la Rocque, the film actor, in 1927. Miss Banky, whose rent name is Concit, was born in Dudapest 7 years ago and her stage debut in Vienna at

made-

early age. Samuel Goldwyn, chief of United Artists, was attracted by her photograph in a shop window while visiting Vienna and engaged her to appear in screen productions in the United States.

.

A woman who had given her hus Detective Sergeant Meadows,, who band a worrying time during his appeared for the prosecution, re-life was very concerned at his marked that the case was one of death, and had a tombstone crected a rather serious assault and that on which were the words: "At the Police were asking for com- Rest. Until we meet again." mittal.

His Worship remanded the de- fendant formally for one week and fixed the hearing for the afternoons of Tuesday, June 17, and Thursday, June 19.

OPIUM AND MAUSER MAGAZINES.

FISHERMAN GUILTY OF POSSESSION.

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Old Lady (to newly-arrived lady. artist in village street-"My dabbles in oils & bit, miss.

son

Lady Artist "Really? An artist": Old Lads-"'Oh, no, miss; inn. garridge"

Patrick, having committed a more or less grievous offence, found him. self in the dock.

Patrick At this point intervened. "Excuse me, sir, is it me you're talking about!"

Counsel on his behalf addressed the Bench thus "Do not forget the character of the accused; he is. a man of big heart, of philanthro- When Inspector. Dorling and apie motives; a man who has never party raided a sherman's shed at failed to do his duty; a man who 716 taels of opium and 151 Mauser dutiful father; a man Tai Wan, on May 23 they found has been a faithful husband and pistol magazines wrapped in old rags and sacking under a bed. A quantity of communist litera-fat aged 78 years, was charged with The owner of the shed, Lai Kam- ture was found by a Shantung con- the possession of the goods and abuual

Told by Treasurer Harvey at the stable on the Peak Road this morn at the district officer's Court thila Amicable Building Society in Edin- dinner of the Scottish, ing. A Shantang Sergeant also morning Mr. MacLaren imposed burgh. discovered a quantity of seditious fines of $80,000 and $1,000, or six

on cách| nội th pamphlets in Laichikok, Kowloon, months imprisonment,

charge, to be served concurrently. whilst on duty to-day.

When arrested, defendant denied

ines, declaring that someone had ownership of the opium and magaz WHO WAS

put them there some months ago. He repeated this story in evidence. He was represented by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, senior.

for the purpose of dredging the Charged with using grapplings harbour bed near the Naval An- chorage, the mistress of a passen ger boat pleaded guilty before the Hon, Comdr. G. F. Hole, N.R., at the Marine Court this morning and was fined $5 or five days.

With the continued decline in the sterling value of the dollar, it is evident that public concern for the future is increasing. Al most every day witnesses a new low level, and it is obvious that, with such conditions prevailing, A Traffic Officer is the authority business is becoming, even if for the statement that in the near and future motor eycles in the Colony all possible, more more a sheer gamble. But apart will be required to carry both front from the effects on the trade of that this provision is now required

and rear lights. It is anderstood, the Colony, this continued defla in view of the fact that although tion is proving disastrous to the traffic regulation states that community as a whole, who not either the front or rear licence only sees the worth of its savings number plate shall be rendered or investments steadily shrinking readily distinguishable by means but is, quite naturally, being call-of a light, this is not always the ed upon to pay

for the case. It would appear that the necessities of life. There is yet the other regulations which state ern Acetylene Co. of Hunghom, pro- another respect in which people "Every vehicle shall, between before Mr. Whyte Smith

secuted an apprentice of the firm at the are being hard hit-namely, in sunset and sunrise, carry a lamp Kowloon Magistracy this morning sending remittances Home, in showing a red, light when seen on a charge of receiving 100 yards which connexion it must be borne from the rear of the vehicle," and of rubber wire, valued at $20. It A fine of $10,000 was inflicted in mind that there are very few "A motor vehicle shall, between was stated that the company had by Mr. Lindsell this morning on a British people in the Colony who sunset and sunrise carry at the purchased 400 yards three days Chinese smuggler of opiuma who ago and the defendant was arrest was arrested at Causeway Bay rear a lamp properly trimmed and ed in possession of part of that with 98 taels of the drug in the have not regular sterling com-

lighted so as to illuminate and length. A sentence of mitments to meet. In these cir-render readily distinguishable the months hard labour was imposed. his legs. The alternative sentence one prepared state strapped around, cumstances, it is not surprising licence number plate at the rear." that the past few days has wit Despite the fact that a separate nessed the appearance of many regulation specifically mentious letters from correspondents urging lights on motor cycles, this class that some definite action be taken of vehicle undoubtedly before the situation gets

within the meaning of "vehicle" even and "motor vehicle." The · full- worse. We are aware that the lighting regulations, therefore,

more

authorities now intend to enforce

comes

Mr. Middleton, of the Far East-

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE “TELEGRAPH” · FILES.

Currency Committee has yet to have never been enforced and the Hongkong Telegraph for the The following extracts are from make its report, but, without in there can be no quarrel with the week ended May 29th, 1909, any way doubting the sincerity reported intention of the authori-

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tles to improve the lighting of The rate of the dollar on demand motor cycles for the benefit of the was 1. 94d. riders and for the safety of other

OPIUM TIED ROUND MAN'S LEGS.

HEAVY FINES IMPOSED AT THE MAGISTRACY.

was six months' hard labour.

Another man, who had 80 taels concealed in a similar way, was fined $9,000, or six months.

Yet a third Chinese who came before the same Magistrate Magis- trate on a similar charge, was fined $500, or two months. He when coming ashore from the 3.3. Tai was arrested yesterday

shan, the quantity seized on him being 18 taols.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris

Brussels Amsterdam

or open-mindedness of the mem- bers of that Committee, it is being widely felt that there is still time

users of the road. There are The death took place at the for expert guidance from Home many arguments in favour, and Victoria Hospital of Mra. Pearce, on the subject. If an expert were

none against, the carrying of rear wife of the Rev. T. W. Pearce. brought out, he would naturally lights on the two-wheeled vehicles

It was announced that Mesara, Berlin have access to the Report of the and it is rather surprising such John Swire and Sons, Ltd., had Copenhagen local Committee, as well as to the laxity has been allowed in this promised £30,000 to the Endow Vienna evidence on which it is based.

connexion over a period of years. ment Fund of the Hongkong: Uni-Helsingfors No new regulations are necessary, versity, whilst the Taikoo Sugar Lisbon All along in this currency dis for definite provision is already Refining Co., Ltd., and the Ocean

promised £5.000, making £40,000 Shanghai

pute, we have taken the line that established. Motor cyclists have Steamship Co., Ltd. had each st

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stabilisation, at a figure which no doubt been lulled into a sense in all. would be best suited to the needs of false security owing to the of the Colony, would be the best absence of action on the part of In an interport cricket match at Milan solution. Nothing that we have the Police and while obviously Shanghai, the Hongkong Garrison Stockholm

lost to Shanghai by 38 runs,

Osio encountered in arguments of the there is no onus on the authori- other side has caused us to change already exists and which should tive Council table in which the Rig

ties to repeat a regulation which

A paper was laid on the Legisla Mue Athens that view. As a correspondent be known, it would be considerate Superintendent of the Botanical

Bombay pata it to-day, there is nothing to say the least if some form of and Forestry Department objected Hongkong mysterious about the process of notice was given if the regulations to the proposed new Peak Tram- Silver (spot) changing the basis of a currency, concerned are now to be enforced. way passing through part of the Silver (forward)

Botanic Gardens.

London, May 23.

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SYDNEY CARTON?

The troubled time of the French Revolution brought to the surface much latent heroism in the souls of men, and never has this been more strikingly portrayed than in the character of Sydney Car- toù, in Dickens' novel “A Tale ·· of Two Cities."

All his life, Sydney Carton had

been 3 Wastrel. His great natural abilities might have raised him to the top of the legal profession, had he not been cursed with a will so weak that be constantly succumbed to the temptations of think and idleness, and been obliged to eke out a wretched livelihood as the “jackal” of Styver, his professional crony. Not even when 'sweet Lucia Manette walked into his wife, and stirred him to dreams of 'what he might have been," could he break free from his habits of sloth-and-dissipa tion. Knowing that his love could bring her no happiness, but only sorrow. he kept out. of her way as much as possi- ble cherishing all the while a desire to serve whenever the need should arise, to the extent of his poor powers.

The opportunity came; a supreme opportunity. Lucie's husband, Charles Darnay was arrested in Parfs, and condem- ned to death as an artistocrat.. Profiting by his own remark- able resemblance to Darnay Carton took his place in pri- son, and never faltered in his sacrifice, even when he stood on the steps of the guillotine. "It is a far, far better thing that I shall do than I have over done before," were his last thoughts, and there was great contentment in his eyes As he took his last look at the world:

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In life a wastrel, in the man- ner of his dying a very gallant gentleman, such was Sydney