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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1930.

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19

HOPE FOR CHINA.

There has been, in the recent

he

He has with him in his task a

ruption and abuse of power which can be encountered practically

everywhere.

grontly impress, since they repre- sent an admission of what has But long since been apparent. no-one who has rend his recent utterances can doubt his sincerity or hin determination to eradicato the evils to which he alludos. With him in this campaign are men of equal probity and inte- grity, and in the plans which have been conceived for putting na- tional affairs on a better and higher plane we can aco hopes af a much-needed regeneration of publie lite In China.

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The enormity of the task to which the Government is applying itself cannot be under-estimated. Central control aver the provinces Is ona big issue, to which the com- plete eliminution of feudal war lords la closely, allied. The curb Ing of the powers of Kuomintang branch organisations, and espe- elally their interference in affairs which cannot by any stretch of imagination be regarded as coming within their matter of vital import. Above and beyond these and other issues is the restoration of peace and order in the large areas of the country which are now bandit ridden. This intter task calls for a huge effort, and in tackling the problem the authorities must go to the root of the evil-the econo. mie considerations which force so

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THE DISCOVERY OF WHAT IS TRUE, AND THE PRACTICE OF THAT WINCH IS GOOD, ARE THE TWO MOST IMPOR- TANT OBJECTS OF PHILOSOPHY. Voltaire,

The P. and O. 8. Karmala, from Shanghal, is due here at sum. on Friday.

The N.Y.K... Bokuyo Maru will unil at daylight to-morrow morning, and not at 11 a.m. as previously an- naineed.

Yesterday's health return shows two caseN of typhoid and two of diphtheria. All were Chinese with the exception of one of the latter.

· EDGAR WALLACE'S hints on

THE CONFIDENCE MAN.

now-

THE confidence man is a phil- Match, or how London has in-

osopher; he has a working proved po that you never knowledge of human nature and days are a drunken man in the Its wenknesses; he has, what I streets, and then there obtrudes would call, the soul of diploma- upon you a third person, who tist, the glib tongue of a political knows the stranger, but does not candidate, and the geniality of know you. any mattre d'hotel who is, anxious to attract new customers.

Ile has just come from the Law the House of The confidenco men are, as a Courts, or from rale, recruited from the mwindling, Lords, or from somewhere terribly class. They have been generally respectable; posal bly he has bec suspected or convicted of frauds having a consultation with Sir they include a large number of John Simon or. Sir Patrick Hast professional bilkers of landladias ings (neither Sir John nor Sir The first annual weight lifting and hotel proprietors; they belong Patrick being present to give him in connexion with the Mauricio to that category of criminals who the lo), and he proceeds to out.

Hine his trouble. Physical Training Instiute is to pass worthless choques and prey be held this evening, when Dr. Ar-upon a certain type of women. thur W. Woo will distribute he

Vory often they are men who prizes,

have been attached to card-sharp- Ing gangs in the capacity of lum- The Chinese Catholic community berera, a lumberer being a man is giving a reception In honour of who himself is no expert with the

can Tumber Grace the Apostolic. Delegate to cards, but

Chinese Catholle Young Men's So-plausible but moro ciety 16, Caine Road, at 8.30 p.m. executive of the mob. to-day.

It may be that some accohtrie tortured on his death- Amorlean, bed by the fear that he has rohi tions in England, has left a hun- dred and fifty thousand pounds to

red and be distributed amongst them and

tho charged third man with the task. The third man, unfor

has no time; he has got

has

ncope, is another Chinn, Mgr. C. Costantini, at the shepherd) a mug on to the least ranch in Texas, or his appiu

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dexterous his

A good lumberer is worth a lot

farm in Nova Scotia, pr his ostrich farm in the Cape Colony to attend

Now, whe

the dickens can he to.

of money to a confederacy of card hand hle job to? sharpers. He should be

a man

"Not

mej

the second man,

says

You, being naturally

next weck." of good address or so transparent- hastily. I am going to Karishud ly and regularly honest that

You

Amongst residents who returned to the Colony to-day by the Em- press of Japan were Mr. and Mrs, C. F. Bellamy, Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs, 11. S. House, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Haslam, Mr. might at firat glance imagine that dishonest, or noble-spirited, prick hundred and G. C. Moxon, Mr. J. E. Joseph, and he was a great political person-up your earn; one

age.

His business is to establish Afty thousand pounds going beg

ging! All you have to do is to confidence in the prospective vic- Mr. F. A. Joseph.

tim and lead him by Imperceptible prove that you are a man of sub- stages to the slaughter-house Atance to have this enormous for. where, in the arget of the clana, tune placed to your hands for dis

tribution and/or he will be "carved."

your persona! enrichment.

Is a very simple matter to prove that you re those men of straw that can be picked up in the street

Mr. W. Tansley, of Reisa Massey many thousands into the ranks of & Co., appeared before Mr. Hatter, at the Kowloon Magistracy this The brigands, Mere military

morning on a summons taken out operations will not suflee. Nor by his wife, Mrs. L. Tansley, for can we be impressed by time-table alleged assault on November 4, and for presistent cruelty. The case was adjourned for one week,

now

Room for Optimism.

It is just as easy to assume tos

Mr. Wang Kai-ming, Principal of Pui Ching Middle School, Tung. shan, Canton. has been invited to

are

gangs But card-sharping curiously unstable. After a al killing they are broken up, and the lumberer, drawing his share

of the loot, either finds another K

England, have

their

по

their minds that they themselves are all the blue-eye Smiths will benefit by this largesso..

Imagine

..

M

not one of

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you

from re-

methods, such as the proposal to

watch- exterminate all bandito and Com-

unlets within three months. But It should be noted that the final ang or joins up with those etu-ing the Changing of the Guard, of the ladies" singles tennis cham- dents of human depravity whom but that you are a person of sub-

stance with

at the balance witerances of Marshal Chiang whatever the difficulties which lio plowship of Hongkong, between we call confidence men.

and/or the American Express It is very rare than an honest Guaranty Trust, and/or any bank Kai-shek, a patent reflection of the ahead, it is comforting and reas- Miss Enid Lo and Mrs. Keary, will

commence at 3.30 p.m. on Friday, man is caught by the confidence where your money is deposited. fact that he is keenly conscious of

suring to feel that there are men November 21, and not at 3 p.m. na trick. There must be some pure.] the responsibilities of his high

at the hand of affairs in Nanking previously advertised. The match minded, philanthropic and altruis- And it fa a simple matter to turn

tic souls who have no other in- office, and, what is much more to

who are consumed with anxiety to is to be played at the U.S.R.C.

tention but honestly to distribute" by appointment that night that

with a thousand pounds in notes, the point, evidence

lift their nation out of the slough

enormous wealth which in to and when your two friends haud the On a summons for storing 24 is animated by

to them by # Ane single-

and the mire. We believe, with gallons of gasolene in a garage in be handed

acquaintance. But pounds, apparently mindedness of purpose

to serve others, that no greater opportunity Hennessy Road, without a permit, chanco-met

thousand pounds, and tell you to there are

are others,

when they the beat interests of his coun-

a pleasant go outside to prove how much has arisen since the Revolution the owner of the premises was fined

$26 by Mr. Lindsell at the Central are approached by and

Ku than that which try+

to urge the

presents Police Court this morning. The de- stranger who tells them that he are trusted, and ask that in turn mintang Party of abuses which

itself. Serious application to the fendant sald he had a garage licence is sailing for America next week one of them shall go outside with and does not know what to do your thousand pounds, you will have persisted for all too long. problems close at hand offers the and thought that covered the with a quarter of

with a cortain uneasiness a million of

of consent storage of gasolene. In another

your thousand greatest chance of success. Other case, it grocer was fined $30 for not money which must be distributed perhaps, and when

Smiths of pounds is not returned and your amongst the blue-s made up saye

friend of the Changing of the number of men equally imbuedikues, however important they may storing kerosene in his well.

ho cannot understand with high ideals, but it would be be, can well be left to other times.

it, he will who

go out and look for the

of wealth, distributor abaurd to overlook the fact that

your onsiness will take concrete also under the same banner are officials who are solely concerned

altend the First All-Asin EducaLondon. You are a stranger inte

are here on a holi- shape, for neither of the meu. tional Conference under the aus-

rday. You are watching, perhaps, nor a single note of your money with considerations of personal

You have pices of the World Federation of day

Palace,

becn Bealde

victimised by the con, man, Marsisal Chiang himself, much from the encouraging tone of Education. Associations, which is the Changing of the Guard at St. will come back to you.

James's Khin.

you There who re

is only one way to sofs- sonte few weeks ago, declared that the indian contributions to the dis to be held at Benares, India, from

December 26th to 30th, 1930. Mr. stands a pleasant man

marks casually that it is wonder- guard yourself against the con- 'n few of the Party members areference as it was in doubt the likel-

cussion at the Round Table Con-Wong has accepted the invitational how they train the soldiers Nofidence trick: it is to be honest. really fighting for the welfare of hood of even

a small measure of und will sail for India some time that they bring their rifleb to the which is one of the most difficult

next week. Mr. Ko Kint-foo, theat

qualities to acquire, unless it la the public, but most of them are common endeavour before the his famous Cantonese artist, is also ope with magic-like unanim born in you. When you are of

When the crowd disperses the gathering struggling for their own selfish toric

WILH opened to attend the Conference with Mr

tima he sum

by a man you did not know interest; all they want is power." Nevertheless, it is safe to follow Wong, taking with him some of his stranger walks by your side and fered the handling of a fabulous

tells you that the Inst saw the guard changed was twen-when you wont to bed last night Here he touched upon the greatest the lead of the Business Committee fine paintings.

in assessing the value of Monday's

ty-five years ago and that his dear your commonsense will tell you curse of Chinese polities-the cor-

old mother, who took him then, that there is something flahy about debate. They gathered sufficient stimulation from the very concit delegatea continue to be animated was still alive, and he adds a few the transaction,, and your innate and constructive expressions of by the spirit of goodwill and com-complimentary remarks about mo honesty will prevent you

You would be surly and garding this as a magnificent of opinion by Sir Tej Bahadur Supru Conference bids fair

promise now prevalling, the Indian thera.

Lo oust the unnatural if you did not also dis-portunity for emblazament. If a frank recognition of faults the Maharaja of Bikaner and Mr. Londen Naval Conference from fond she was of soldiers,

cuss your dear old mother and how

There was once + confidence is the first step to better things. Jayakar, to persuade them to re-

pride of place as the greatest of the

Remember, there is no talk man who approached me in Ro the then there would appear to be commend the setting up of a

MacDonald Administration's about money. You may get on to gent's Park, and wo were intro- Federal Relations Committee. This achievements.

the question of plays, or the Test duced to a gentleman of strong every reason to hope for the crea Committee will deal comprehensive-

religious vlows who wished me to relieve the poverty of the responsible and

people ly und in detail with the most im-

of Limehouse. It was son after efficient organ of government portant fact that emerged from the

Mr. Burke had turned tint very than that which exists at the pre-discussion, namely that the Govern-

dull ar ghbourhood into a home of romanco. Did I succumb to the Rent time. Marahal Chiang, in ment of India's plans for a unitary

temptation? No: I rejected the his recent denunciations of the form of government will receive

offer with scorn and violence, not misuse of power by members of little support, and that the ideal,

because I was honest, but, because three years before I had seen both the Kuomintang Party, has uttered to the minds of the British Indian

men sentenced at the London remarks which, had they emanated delegates and those of the Indian

Sensions for obtaining money by a from foreign acurees, would have States, a some form of federation, each province and State being au-

false pretence. aroused the utmost resentment. tonomous within its borders, but ( Nothing more sweeping could be welded into an All-India Federation Imagined than his utterance that through Central Legislature. "while the Party has been daily Perhaps the most instructive ́esti talking of purity in political ad-mate of the problems and remedies came from Mr. Jayakar, who speak ministration, one meets everying on behalf of Young India, des where with cases of corruption; livered himself of suggestions and while the public are being dally advice worthy of earnest considera- exhorted to abide by law and ob- tion, declaring that if India is given serve Party discipline, cases of Dominion Status to-day, the im violation of Party discipline and possible demand for Independence law are to be found everywhere." will die a natural death in a few Party affairs, he avers, have de-months. On the other hand, if the generated into corruption, the delegates to the Conference return empty-handed, it will be the surest existence of which has been way of raising in volume and in- tolerated to such an extent that tensity that cry of independence. although the truth is known, no No threat was intended or implied. impouchmonts er prosecutions evor Mr. Jayaker states what must occur. It is well, as we say, that obviously be a fast and no harm can these confessions should come be done by bringing such a pon- from the head of the Party, who ability into the foreground. Ho was equally precise in his gesture ham not even heeftated to turn the to the Indian States. Young India light of criticism on to his own will not insist upon impossible terms pant conduct. Were Chiang con-lot federation, but only such terms tent marely to point but the deus the majority of the States are fects, his declamations would not already prepared to accept. If the

tion of a more

.

"All right, young lady-you can either give that candy back to Aunt Flora, or tell her you don't really think her new dress looks rotten,"

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An Addition to the Family.

A woman at Para, Brazil, has given birth to six boys. All are doing well. -

Thoughtful.

An unknown artist who shot him- Quartor the

selt in a crowded Latin enfo in Paris loft a note on table saying. "Excuse me."

Six Razors.

John Taylor, aged 63, of Rotel- read, Bermondsey, was found dead In his bedroom with throat wounds. Six'razóra were near 'the body.

Mad Dog's Toll.

A dog auffering from hydrophobla bit three people, Avn cats, 50 other dogs and one goat In the village of Couco..

Cool Job,

A woman in Alexandra Park, N., interrupted by abonte of "pire" while having a bath, ran out in a dressidy rown 'th the nearest, tele phone box and summoned the fire. brigade.