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ALL TALKING › SINGING - DANCING ·

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(THERE'S DANGER IN YOUR EYES, CHERIE No, 22335Ā YEAR FROM TO-DAY (From “New York Nights")

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mrs. T. Kawa and family tender their sincere thanks to all friends for their expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement, also for floral

tributes sent and attendance at the funeral,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930.

TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930.

lem can be solved. We suggest, however, that even if the reproach were true in fact, that does not deprive the public of the right to demand that something be done. Those who draw attention to an evil are under no obligation to out- line the means whereby can be

DAY BY DAY.

THE VOICE IS, AS A RULE, A MORE RELIABLE GUIDE TO A WOMAN'S

AND STATION

EDUCATION THAN EITHER FACE OR FIGURE,Harold Bindloss.

Yesterday's return of notifiable diseases shows one Chinese case of typhoid.

The sailing of H.M.S. Hermes for Northern waters has been de-

ferred until to-morrow.

BOAT DAMAGED IN SHELTER.

OAR TAKEN. TO SECURE COMPENSATION,

A rather unusual story was re- lated to Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when a boatsman was charged with stealing an oar from the mistress of a cargo boat.

com-

combated. That is particularly true when it comes to matters in- volving technical knowledge. For example, attention may justifiably

The defendant admitted taking be drawn to shortcomings in the

the car, but denied any felonious public health service, or to indo-

Sir Robert Ho Tung returned intent. He said that the quacies of the water supply, with-to the Colony from Shanghai | plainant's boat had collided with his yesterday by the Tatsuta Maru. in the typhoon shelter yesterday and he insisted that she should For failing to stop when called make good the damage. She re- upon to do so by a police officer infused, and he took her car to bring uniform, the coxswain of a motor boat was fined $10 at the Marine Court this morning before the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N.

out requiring critics necessarily to provide the solution to the prob- lems. In these matters, the public rightly expects the Government 16 have at its command the services of those who can advise on the best measures to be taken. So is it in regard to this currency question. After all, the Government ruùs, or should run, this Colony, and the

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The rainfall registered at the Royal Observatory for the 24 hours ended at 10 a.m. to-day was 2.71 inches. This makes the year's total 28.20 inches, compared with

an average

28.40 inches.

pressure on her to force her to pay.

Detective Sergeant Kellett in timated that defendant was correct, and remarked that a report of the damage was made by the com- plainant yesterday afternoon.

The Very Idea!

A ghost story:

He awoke about 2 a.m. and felt cold, so unhooked his overcoat from behind the bedroom door and threw An hour later it across the bed. he awoke.

"Chink chink. Rustle-rustle.". Ho listened. Not a sound. "Imagination."

He turned round to go to sleep again and heard a distinct little rattling or rustling noise, and a faint tinkling.

He lay still and listened. Silence.

"Funny," he muttered, settling down in bed.

Again the rustling noise..

He listened intently: Nothing happened. It was too He arose and much for him.

There was searched the room. nothing unusual to be found. He spent the remainder of the night in agony of conjecture as to what

could be.

"chink-chink" and

the eerie rustling and tinkling

Next morning he rose carly, tired and worried. He dressed to go out for a walk in the fresh air, and lift-

His Worship said that he did not like to convict the defendant of larceny as he thought it was more an assault than stealing, There was nothing dishonest about the affair, whereas a larceny was a dis-ed his overcoat off the bed.

Out of the pockets fell three pen- honest offence.

nies and a box of liquorice pellets,

There

*

Isang was very upset! Some body had opened the door of his fowl house, and the birds had got out and flown away. A friend of his said: "Don't worry, Isaac, hens always go back to their own home to roost."

has become currency which debased is the Government's own

The coxswain of motor-boat Tak currency. There is, therefore, no-Yau pleaded guilty when charged thing unreasonable in the sug before the Hon. Commdr. G. F.

The officer pointed out that if gestion that it is the Government's Hole, R.N., at the Marine Court this the woman did not pay the defen- buiness to get the Colony out of morning with making fast to the dant for the damage he intended. s.s. Tjiliwong whilst the vessel was to retain possession of the oar. the sorry position in which it now under way without the permission

was something dishonest finds itself. At any rate, it ill of the master or the officer on duty.about it as he tried to squeeze

money from the complainant, becomes officials to criticise

His Worship replied that he still others for not bringing forward Sentence of three months' hard

labour was imposed by Mr. Whyte thought that the defendant might concrete proposals when they ap Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy be a perfectly honest man all the parently have none of their own this morning on a Chinese who ad-same.

mitted stealing two planks of to offer.

wood from a vacant piece of ordered to sign a bond for his good ticket, do yer? And ain't yer been ground in Peking Road. It was

Defendant was fined $10.

We are aware, of course, that the Government has appointed a Com-stated that the defendant had two mittee to investigate the question. previous convictions for larceny.

but it will obviously be many

A lorry-driver was fined $20 by months before any action can be Mr. Lindsell this morning for taken as the result of that inquiry.speeding. Sub-Inspector Saund- ers stated that for about 200 The question of immediate mo- yards before he caught up with. ment it: What is to be done in the lorry, on the Central water- the interim? Is the sum total of front, the vehicle was travelling at a speed of between 25 and 23 Government statesmanship merely miles an hour. The incident oc- to sit by with folded arms and let curred on May 30th, at 3.45 in the events take their Own course?

afternoon.

The defendant was cautioned and

behaviour for one year.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE LOVE PARADE" TO START ON SATURDAY.

"Yes!" said Issac sadly, "that's just the trouble."

Irate Sergeant "Want

yer

in the Army long enough to know as it's a soldier's duty to cultivate patience? Patience with a capital P. Now be off; I ain't got no patience with the likes of you!".

The story is retold of a Quaker. who was asked to subscribe to the building of a new organ in a neigh- bouring church.

at once. I have mixed up the pluge

The girl with the red-gold hair and the sea-green eyes," known to The Quaker said little, but gave the musical comedy world as a handsome donation; and when the Jeanette MacDonald, has gone parzon had expressed his thanks "talkie" through a whim of fate.for such wholly unexpected gencr- Ernst Lubitsch, the famous direc-osity from a non-Churchman, the THE GOVERNMENT & Are no temporary measures possible Mr. GP. Daswani, the Managing tor, went in search of a proper lead Quaker remarked drily, "Friend, if THE DOLLAR. pending the issuing of the Com Director of Messrs. Lalchand & ing lady for Maurice Chevalier for thee must worship by machinery,

mittee's Report and action there Gagandas, has been awarded the "The Love Parade," the screen's have good machinery."

degrees of H.M.D. (Doctor in first original musical romance. In

Medicine) on? If we look at China, we see Homeopathic

and New York Lubitsch attended every

"John," said his wife over the Those who have been following a crisis in some respects compar- Medicine) from the Oriental Col-production in search of the perfect telephone, "you" must come home

B.M.D. (Bachelor in Homeopathic musical show and every show in the local currency controversy at able to that facing. this Colony.lege of Homeopathy of Calcutta. type he desired for the role of

of the vacuum cleaner and the wire- all closely may have noticed that At the moment, however, the larger Dr. Daswani is a keen business Queen Louise. the opponents of stabilisation have question cannot be dealt with; but man and intends to continue his

At last he decided that Jeanette less, and the loud speaker is suck- latterly been showing that they that does not deter the Nanking getting this qualification is

His object in MacDonald was the perfect type.ing all the paper off the walls,"

to She was beautiful, she was a talent- are not quite so

Two fishwives had been to church Bure of their Government from taking interim serve the poor people in the viled actress and she could sing. ground as they were when the measures, to cope with the situa- lages of India who cannot possibly She was just finishing an engage-and had there been told that the afford to pay high fees to doctors, ment in the Broadway show "Boom! wicked would be turned into Hades. crisis first began to make its in-tion. We therefore suggest that. This he will be able to do when Boom!" and was immediately placed This rather disturbed one of them, fluence felt. Six months ago, the without further delay, the Hong- he goes back to India shortly,

under contract for "The Love and on her homeward way she men- mere mention of fixing the dollar kong Govenment should shake off

Parade".

tioned the subject to her companion. "Did you hear him say the wick- was sufficient to call forth emits lethargy and examine the phatic declarations that such a situation with a view to ascertain- step was an utter impossibility. ing whether some immediate ac- Those who talked of stability were treated as though they had never

given a moment's serious thought

to the question, and were reminded,

somewhat impatiently, that the

idea had long years ago been ruled outside the realm of practical politics, and that it was nothing but a sheer waste of time to re-

the vive the proposal. To-day, thought is beginning to obtrude itself in these self-same quarters that maybe after all there is some- thing to be said for stabilisation.

tion is not possible. Even the

slightest evidence that our officials are really concerned about the

position would be infinitely prefer-

widespread, that they are either able to the impression, which is indifferent or totally bankrupt of

ideas on the issue.

de

The Next Naval Step.

Now that the London Naval Treaty is an accomplished fact, the technical next step on the road,

business career.

WATER LEVELS.

ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

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"The Love Parade" which brings Maurice Chevalier to the Centraled would be turned into haddies, Theatre for seven days starting Maggie?"

"That did I Jean, but it's no' oor Saturday, June 14th., is an original musical romance. The story is as haddies. It's the Arbroath huddies smart and sophisticated as to-mor--the smoked anes." rows newspaper and brings a new type of picture to the talking

The following table, issued by screen.

Commission, shows in English feet

Whilst being moored at the Kow-

the Kwangtung River Conservancy Maurice Chevalier is cast in the loon City Ferry Wharf on Sunday

River, North the water levels on the West role of a prince who marries night, a cargo boat was butteted queen and becomes a very stern about by two others which were River and East prince consort who refuses to be rul-tied up on each side. The anchor River, on the dates named: ed according to ancient traditions. chains caused considerable damage

June 8 June 9 Ten popular hits form the basis for to the middle boat which

Shiuhing

Tsingyuen

Samshui

Sheklung

17.4

9.2.. 8.7

18.3

10.3

1,9

3.7 The highest levels on record are:-Shiuhing. 41 feel; Tsing- yuen, 29.2 feet; Samshui, 27.3 feet; Sheklung, 15.5 feet.

The lowest level on record at

In place of the assertion that fixing to disarmament is due to be taken Samshui is 5 feet and at Sheklung

the dollar could not, on account at Geneva. The transition from

of the cost and for other reasons, London to Geneva, however, is not

armament

the other,

2.7 feet.

the musical background.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Bus Service Complaint.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir, May I, through the court-

be effected, we now have admis-easy for reasons which have re European Three-Power conversa- sions that the step is quite poseible,cently been obscured. Theoretic- tions have yielded a result. Atesy of your columns, comment on but refuge is taken in doubt as to ally the League of Nations Pre- the moment there is no evidence the failure of the Kowloon motor whether it would be politic to make paratory Commission for the Dis- that they have started, let alone bus service to Laichikok to serve the change until China has re-

Conference has been they have progressed. Italy has

the public?

The bus should go right on to held up since 1928 by the fact announced a warship building pro-the beach, as the road is now quite formed her currency. As time goes that France, on the one hand, and gramme, some of Mussolini's re- cleared, instead of stopping out. on, we are not without hope that Great Britain and the United cent utterances in Italy have not side, much to the inconvenience of even this hoary argument may States on

could not found favour with the French and the bathers, who have to walk 500 also be abandoned.

agree on the principles of naval these, together with other, fae- yards each way. It would not be On the question of ways and disarmament. The purpose of the tors, may tend to postpone, inde- bus to go right in; on the contrary, any loss to the Company for the means of stabilising our currency, League's Disarmament Conference finitely the much desired agree it would benefit the Company as those who advocate no immediate is to establish agreed principalsment between France and Italy. it would encourage more people to action have complained that the of general disarmament by land. While the London Treaty by itself frequent Lalchikok,

and air. The Preparatory does not dispose of the Geneva On my part, I believe that with suggestions to bring forward as 1927; but quickly reached a dead been given to the movement to- tickets and also more ladies and Commission first met in March, deadlock, a powerful impetus has the improved bus service suggest- ed, more people would buy season as a result of the Anglo- wards disarmament and this may married men with their families fected. That reproach, however, French naval disagreement. The be expected to help in the removal would frequent the beach.-Yours, has now been removed by proposals practical question that now arises of the obstacle which, as we have etc. which have been advanced to deal for international diplomacy is shown, still exists. It may be with the period of transition. whether the London Treaty loosens taken for granted, however, that Hongkong, June 10th, 1930. As a useful contribution to that particular deadlock. France the British Premier will do his the controversy these proposals substantial part of the Treaty, together. Domestic affairs, pro- has dissociated herself, from the utmost to bring France and Italy

other side has had no

concrete

to how stabilisation could be ef-

яев

lock

BELIEVER.

FAIR TO SHOWERY.

aré certainly worthy of Berl- OUS consideration

although subsidiary negotiations bably demand main attention at in official

are to be conducted by Great Bri- the moment, but on the Premier's circles, where the tendency hither-tain, Italy and France as a result past work for disarmament it is

The Royal Observatory 'reports to has been to do, nothing except of this dissociation. It is to be safe to

that an anticyclone covers Japan to sit back and complain that those assumed that no step can be taken secure an agreement between the western China. The local forecast assume that efforts to and that a depression lies over who call for Government action towards re-assembling the Pre-Five Powers will not be abandon-is. winds, moderate; fair to have no ideas as to how the prob-paratory Commission until the|ed.

showery..

sub- sequently submerged. There was fortunately no injury to life but the damage to the boat was" esti- mated at $800.

WHO WAS

DR. PANGLOSS?

This most worthy gentleman appears in Voltaires satirical noyel "Candide," and when- ever he appears the air. "be comes charged with optimisin.. No pessimistic outlook can en- dure for a moment when Pang- loss arrives on the scene, for he demonstrates time and time again that everything is for the best in the best of all possible-worlds.

According to his quaint philosophy, things cannot be other than they are. for £8. everything was made for one end, everything is necessarily for the best end. "Remark well," he commands, that the nose is formed to have spec- tacles, so we have spectacles. The legs were obviously in- stituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all the year."

Candide, the hero of the books, undergoes the most in-

· credible misfortunes, and suf- fers every inconceivable kind of philosophy, · but "on_each' occasion he calls his friend Pangloss to mind and remein- hers that everything is for the best in the best of all possi-

ble worlds,