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AN OVERSTOCK

"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NÓVEMBER 29, 1930.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, Nov.

20

193

new

DAY BY DAY

A FOOL'S PARADISE 18 DETTER THAN A. WISEACRE'S PURGATORY.-G. Col man

It le notified that the name of the Hongkong Wo Ping Amusement Company. Limited, has been struck off the Register. -

LÁDY KITTY VINCENT asks:

HUSBAND OR CHILDREN?

MET a friend last week who

THE MOST

GALLANT OF

MENU MARTYRS.

had long been in contact with Ger- man culture, it they had not as- sumed it, whereas the whole Ger- man minority in Poland was a new creation. The requirements of a minority incorporated in a State are naturally different from those of a minority left in an old

The local weather forecast to the State. Furthermore,

social

noon to-morrow loN.E. winds,

told me that her husband, composition of the two minorities modernte; fair.

who is u soldier, had been order-| difore considerably. The Polish

ed to India, and that she was torn minority in Germany consists large

between leaving her two small ly of pensants, farm labourers,

children at home and accompany ing him, or staying with them and miners and factory hands, whereas

letting him make the best life for The Gazette notifies that Dr. R.hirogolf that he can in a military VERY for people think back- on the other hand the German

wards when drinking soup. minority in Polend includes a large A. do Castro Basto, being the only

I felt very sorry for her. It is Wo don't consider, so to speak, tho proportion of the professional candidate who has been nominated,

the old, old-story, and the price that supplied the tall.

It was therefore especially in- the Sanitary Board.

woman has to pay for the pri

teresting to classes, industrial employers, land-s been duly elected a Member of

vilege of belonging to the greatest greatest soup of them all positively perhaps the owners And salaried workers. It

Mr. R. P. Melhuish, manager of Empire in the world.

frisking about in its status quen must also be kept in mind that the

the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-

But surely there can be no ques-ante to Polish minority have become ac

ing Corporation, is returning customed to living in a country with Shanghai after a brief trip to tion as to who has the greater

or her children? The man must Vauxhall, at whose request several highly organised public institutions, Maniin. He arrived here this mor- claim upon a woman her husband known foodstuff and essence

win in that struggle, for he has the turtles have left Jamaica and re The territorial changes have not ang by the President Taft.

Several reports have been made greater need of her, and he would ported themselves for soup daty." rendered them "minority-conscious"

When you consider it, the turtle feel her loss far more acutely than by transferring them from a highly to the police of the loss of tools and would the children. He came first is one of the most gallant of all other small articles from public In her life and he should remain the menu martyrs. The oyster only has an hour and a half's train jour- organised State to one forced to motor cars which were left unat tackle the problems of organisation tended in the Western district last first until "death do them part."

ench night. The low in amounted to about $3 or $4.

from the beginning.

case

mosa.

8:00

I have just paid a visit to a well-

But the turtle travels atcerage across the Atlantic, and even from Australia, to become soup, His

children to the care of relations.rants. She calls it maternal devotion, but In reality it is jealousy, because she is afraid that they will learn love their grandmother and aunts better than herself.

toconimoriation on board ship con-

The children belong to them both,ney before passing to his everinat- but they belong only to each other. ing rest: and even then he enjoys Many people can look after the the companionship of a lemon and considerable quantities of brown To revert to the Immedinte cir-

It la hereby notified that the children admirably, but who would bread.

Lobsters cumstances which have caused the

and chickens and Treaty of Commerce and Naviga- wish her husband to be looked after

shrimps all live within reach of issue to be raised once again, we

tion concluded between Great Bri-by another woman?

I am afraid that there is a cer- railway stations or omnibus routes. cannot fail to notice that accusationtain and Northern Ireland and the 25th is met by counter-accusation, that Republic of Fanama on the

day of September, 1928, has been tain amount of selfishness about the They are comparatively centrally it still continues to be difficult to extended to the Colony of Hong-woman who declines to leave her situated for the shops and restau apportion blame. There can, how-kong. ever, be little doubt that Germany,

It has been reported to the police by constantly directing attention to

by Cheung Shing-wal, mannger of

sists of a tankful of water, and it incidents of this character, is hop the Wing Ki Biscuit Factory of

Nobody can plcture the loneliness in my private opinion that it is this water which is subsequently sold ing to gain world sympathy for her Fife Street, Mongkok, that a sales- man named Li Fung-tong aged 36

by certain unscrupulous soupleggers sentimental claim to the Weathan absconded after having collect- of a married man who has to live

between East of a sum of $14.96 from various without his wife in a strange couns mock turtle. Prussian bridge

try. If he decides not to live in a firms on behalf of his employers. mess, or if he is not in the Army, Prussia and the rest of the Reich,

Kwok Kwan-mul, the managing and lives alone, It is an existence, whilst Poland is also naturally an-

outlet to partner of a firm at 169, Queen's not a life, and it may cripple his xious to

preserve her

Street, has made a report to the There the sea.

are historic con- police to the effect that whilst walk. enter largely ing in Hing Lung Street at about evident from yesterday's siderations which

11 o'clock last night three or four news that we are destined to hear into the whole problem, but we

mes approached him from behind moment delve into and assaulted him. He was not a good deal in the near future con- cannot at the corning German-Polish relations, these. Nothing, however, is to be robbed, and it is thought to be a Ever since the war, and the ter-gained by either sile magnifying case of mistaken identity, Orchritorial adjustments which follow-such incidents na occur, and we can ed it, there has beer intermittent only hope that the League of Na- friction between the two countries.tions will be able to exercise those It has even been suggested that restraining Influences which have here may

be found the seeds of been 80 effective in other inter-

the next

Lucky Me Lovable You Johnny Marvin

Happy Days are here again......Johnny Marvin

Happy Days are here again (Foxtrot) Leo Reisman's

Lucky Me--Lovable You (Foxtrot)

Leo Reisman's Orch'.

GERMAN-POLISH FRICTION.

It is

European wars

but we

national

we disputes, although should not like to think that Europe realise the extent to which Germany the issues is so bankrupt of statesmanship as and Poland differ on to admit the possibility of any auch which have brought their relation-

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. development from these recurring ship to the present unhappy state.

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JERSEYS WITH TIES

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quarrels. The present trouble.

which Germany apparently intends

| bringing before the Lengue of

Silver Situation.

whole career.

However that may be, imagine the agony of suspense and mal de mer which the turtle must endure before he achieves his fragrant im

mortality.

With it all he is modent and ar- most painfully shy. It is awfully difficult to get him to come out of his shell.

It is terrible to feel that you are the evening to an returning in empty bungalow and that nobody cares whether you return or not.

Before this can be done, indeed, Can you blame a man if he suc cumbs to the craving for com a really horrid trick has to be play- affection? A weed on the poor chap, One of the panionship and aan who elects to stay behind with firm's employees goes up to him and The Gazette contains details of her children instead of accompany-chucks him under the chin, which all roguish and coy. He stretches new class of postal packets calleding her husband is acting not only has the effect of making the turtle "Small Packets" which have been foolishly but wickedly.

out his neck, and that is where he authorised with the object of afford-

gets it.

I was told that turtle is exceod- It is not only abroad that fathers of ing facilities, in the International

are sacrificed to their offspring. It Ingly good for you, because it con- service, for the transmission small articles of merchandise in the letter mails. The rate is 32 cents happens, too often at home. Until talne large quantities of phos

isphorus. Now I know why one scea the mainspring of his wife's life, all those luminous dials coming out for the first eight ounces and eight the bables arrive the husband cents for each additional two ounces

but directly a nursery is started the of the restaurants about ten. or part of two ounces.

poor man goes to the wall.

The following new names have

*

been given to roads:Dragon fuse to go out in the evening, a LANE-NORCOTT on

contented.

How often does the woman re-

a perfectly Road, commencing at the south-east though she may have corner of Inland Lot No. 1352, competent servant who could keep running in You

a northerly direction an eye on the children? She seems and terminating at the junction

of, to forget that she is a wife na well

Nations, concerns the vexed minori-`

Tin Hau Temple. Road: Tin Hau as a mother, and that of the two Temple Road, commencing at the relationships the former should be ties problem, which appears to the

"Above all," says the Dailynew 100 foot Shaukiwan Rond and the more sacred and the more bind- Gulside observer to have been un-Express commenting on trade pro-west corner of Inland Lot No. 2615, inge. necessarily magnified in the recent spects in relation

It is quite easy to be a good mo- to China's running in an easterly and north-

ensterly direction and terminating ther. Nature saw to that. It is past by both sides. More than a somewhat happier political out-nt the north-west corner of Inland an art to make a man happy and year ago, in fact, a foreign corres- look. "silver is quietly moving up Lot No. 2684. pondent, after a study of the situa-and confidence in the metal as a tion on both sides of the frontier, thedium of exchange is being re- stored." The man in the street, reached the conclusion that the not in the confidence of the local Curulamental problem is economic.banks, may be forgiven a mensure not national nor enthuological, nor of astonishment, though no doubt, even. In the narrower sense, cul- when the feeling has passed, he tural, and that the kernel lies in will be glad to have the reas- the Danzig Corridor, not in Upper surance, As a matter of fact, the Shein.

first part of the statement at least contains more than a germ There is ground for believing

of truth. The price of spot silver that in this question of the minorlin London has improved to some ties, from which the latest incident extent since Saturday last.

this

and

The

WAS'

Im-

fall in

has arisen, there are shortcomings there are signs that the upward on both sides. These, it has been trend will continue by slaw stages. suggested. He rather in infractions If the reaction in Hongkong. by the Poles of the letter and by the which is the matter of importance to the individual with sterling | Germans of the spirit of the Ger-

commitments, parallels this week's man-Polish Convention. Literal

developments, however, the beneft breaches of observance may be to be dorived will he even ensier to establish and harder to less apparent than real. defend, but, as one writer has point. increase 'In London prices ed out, they are not necessarily the early

• week more injurious to general relations mediately followed by a or the less comprehensible. The the value of the dollar to its one sort of fault provokes the other lowest level for some monilis, and until it becomes impossible to,ap whether this was another example we should be interested to know portion the blame. In the various of the "painless" policy adopted controversies which have arisen by the local banks in their efforts there has been an abundance of to bring the Hongkong dollar statistics quoted by both parties, down to its silver parity, or who- but there are full of pitfalls. ther other factors provided the Polish estimates of the Polish main influence. Whatever the' minority in Germany as well over a facts of the situation, for the pre- million are undoubtedly exaggerat-sent we see no compensation. We ex, whilst the German estimates of hear a great deal of talk about the German minority in Poland as adjustment of prices to silver's low leval but የዕ still fall also well over the million aro to Beo how any limprove- equally open to doubt. It has to be ment

trado with kold remembered that the territorial standard countries can be an changes which followed the war re- ticipated while China's purchasing duced the minorities in Gorman power, and Hongkong's, is reduc- territory, leaving fragments which ed to a minimum.

in

THE LAST REEL-Homeward Bound.

“IT WAS A GRAUND NICHT!"

■*

STATUES.

you know half the wonderful- scientific. things that are go-

ing on right under your noses in this busy workaday world to-day you would be amazed. Honestly,

you wouldn't believe the daring why in which some of the Gaser behave, and how the Magnetic Poles hate ench other, and the mean little tricks that H20 gots up to in or- der to find its own low level. Chy we scientists realise that.

For example, take a statue. No, wait! Don't take it yet. Lel that

suspicious policeman pass first. Now take it!

"Well," I expect you will say, directly

you have had time to ine- peet it, "I don't see anything so very wonderful in this old statue now that I have got it. It's just the usual unsightly politician In his shapeless solid marble tro

trousora. I wish to goodness I hadn't taken it out of now.

It will look hoden place in my

Well, all that you say is quite

pretty

true, or

of course. It will look out of place in your pretty garden, Still, the point I wish to make is this. Scientifically speaking, this Jilde ous statue is an extremely beauti ful thing. It is a perfect comple of misplaced latent energy

The truth is, we scientists Acc far below the mere surface of Art. We realise that beneath its ugly exterior this statue is nothing less than an untapped source of power. of It is just one mouthing mass atoma artistically held together in the shape of a politicien by the Force of Cohesion.

Nor is that all. If we were to split only one of these atoms we should release, such a tremendoile Atomic Force that this statue would Instantly blow

Oh, would it?" I can hear you say cynically, thinking of your pretty garden. Then, if that's the case, why don't you split one and done with it?. I mean, what are wo waiting for

for?"

Well, the answer is: We scientists and have tried that. For years

years we have been endeavouring to split these atoms without suc- ceas I am glad to say, though, that even now we don't altogether despair. We still have some tlo plane.

sub-

My goodness! How much more pleasurable motoring will be once, (Continued on Page 8.).