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SATURDAY, JAN. 24, 1931.

REPUBLICANS AND PROHIBITION.

SE NARODZENIENT

BY DAY

The local weather forecast till noon to-morrow. Is--N.E. winds, fresh; fair.

The Gazette contains regulations regarding the firing of crackers Chinese New Year.

It la notified that the name of the Ping On Insurance Commany. Limited, has been struck of the Register.

Mr. J. L. HODSON on

ATLANTIC SHARKS.

ALL the sharks of the ocean a game the next day. I said that

do not swim in the scu," would be nice. said the Lancashire cotton manu- "So next day Mr. Baxter didn't fall to call me up, and we had facturer, grimly.

He was describing his adven-three-more rubbers; and again ture. returning to Cherbourg on we cut for partners, and onco a luxury Hiner. "Do you know,” more I played with each and won he said, "that liners are cursed every time, taking another 25 with card-sharpers and confidence dollars off them. tricksters, that lovely women act "We were thinking of breaking ·

decoys, that from San up when Mr. Michael said, 'Did Francisco to the Far East, from you see the big lark at the gala Australia to London town, and last evoning? They persuaded from Liverpool to New York Mrs. Rockefeller to play Bonko, His Excellency the Governor has?auave, well-dressed, cultured menollars she ran off to bed; oh, she and after she'd cleaned up 250 posing as barristers, or retirod bestockbrokers, or anining engineers, jerked their logs from under

or horse trainers, are muleting everybody was chirpy about it at hard-headed business men of breakfast. kums that range from £1,000 to

"And then Mr. Johns, who was, A bankruptcy notification states; £5,000 at baccarat, chemin de fer, that a third dividend of $25 per ecarte, bridge, poker and the cent, has been declared in the case rest? And that often enough the of Jose Augusto Lopes, clerk. victims are too ashamed of them- selves to say anything about it? Who was it wrote

A life on the ocean wave,

And a game with a well-raark-card.

ed pack...

appointed Mr. Leslie Ross to Second Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps.

...

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not

A Dandy Morning.

me.

of course, a sport to his toed, ·* said, 'Let's have a cut at it for drinks." So we did.

"Do you know Benko? Nico game. You each put in a small atake at first-one or two dollars. Michael dealt, giving Johns

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hibition and of the evils which it

I LOOK UPON INDOLENCE AS A BORT has brought in its train has un- or SUICIDE; FOR THE MAN IS EFFEC- doutedly caused a big change of TUALLY DESTROYED, THOUGH THE| view amongst tho people of APPELITE OF THE BRUTE MAY SUR-

VIVE.-Chesterfield. America. It was not foreseen that the evils of the saloon would be more than paralleled by the evils of racketeering and that there would spring up an illicit traffic in the worst possible kinds of alcohol, So far from the danger being eliminated, it has been merely driven underground, and, worst of all there has been in many parts of the country complete deflance of the Jaw. Graft and all other kinds of corruption have become rampant.

With the facta thus, it is no CAUSE for surprise that the pendulum should now begin to awing in the direction of modifica- tion of the law. For the sake of its reputation in the eyes of the world, the United States cannot afford to

Mr. Thorpe, the export manager permit matters to continue as they of J. and F. Matrell and Company. arrived here on the 8.8. Porthos and arc. Only three courses are open-is leaving for Shanghai by the 8.9.

"Johns had then to decide complete repeal, substantial modi-Hakone Maru to-day..

whether he would back his card to beat the second ono Michaet |fication, or strict enforcement. The

would deal him in a moment. If middle course would appear to be

His Majesty the King has

"It was like this," he said, the first one were the higher he been advised to exercise hia power "The first night out from New took the stakes; but if the second most in favour. Certain is it that of disallowance with respect to an York a typical American business card were equal to or of greater control of the liquor trade is In-Ordinance to amend the law re-man with a stern face, dark cigar, value than the first Johns would finitely preferable to its attempted lating to pawn-brokers,

white-gold hexagonal spectacles lose and would double the kitty." and a pretty daughter spoke to "Each of the three muskotaora suppression, which would appear

It was a fine evening, he denit through the pack like that His Excellency the Governor has to be an impossible task.

appointed Dr. J. P. Fehily to act as said, and did I know how unem- and there wasn't much in it-I Health Officer of Port and Inspecas mighty keen on

ployment was in England. He lost 16 dollars. Then the fun tor of Emigrants during the ab

unemploy started. It was my turn to deal sence on leave of Dr. B. H. Mellon.ent, he said. We talked for five and they handed me a prepared Colony's Trade Disaster.

minutes-a very amicable affair, pack, but I didn't know that then. with the daughter bored and

"Now they began to raise the Those whose affairs

The Gazelle gives details are closely

of pretty and catching my eye and stakes and to double up and to linked with the inscrutable Destiny ever unclaimed balances which smiling. Next day they just re-play fast. When they lost they have been transferred from the marked that it was a dandy morn scribbled chita and threw thom controlling the silver see-saw will Companies Liquidation Account to ing, and it certainly was. derive cold comfort from the fact the general revenue of the Colony.j

into the 'kitty. The stakes leant that the Colony's trade for the last The total sum involved is $1,096.28. Court the following afternoon of the three lost and doubled "I was reading in the Palm up-20, 40, 80, 160, because each Prohibition is once again becom-nine months of 1930 compared, in

when Mr. Baxter, of ing a paramount issue in American dollar values, favourably with that

Illinois every time. I dealt myself a 4 Dr. J. Howard Montgomery will that was his name, Baxter, of of hearts-too small to back-and politics. Most striking of all the of 1924, itscif a boom year. The read a paper on "Radium" before Baxter's Traction Co., Ltd.Asked placed a dollar in the post. developments is the Republican re-official statistics are honest enough the Hongkong University Medical me if I would make up a four at Behold, my next card was a 31 volt against any attitude of stub to show clearly that the volume of society on Monday, 2nd February, bridge. I said if the stakes were They chuffed me for not trying at 5.30 p.m., in the Union As-small, I'd like to. 'Oh, no stakes my luck-I might have taken the born opposition to modification of trade, expressed in sterling. hassembly Room. All are cordially you'll notice,' he said.

been cut by half, that exporta, ex- invited.

whole stakes, you see and the the law by President Hoover, pected to increase, were less in ratie

"He explained he'd picked up game went on. another couple of acquaintances: Hitherto, the President has shown to imports than in 1925, and that a

"They grow excited, doubled on board, and he introduced mo ngain and again, and were un- no disposition to tamper with the continuance of existing conditions

but he didn't seem too sure of able to play swiftly enough. By Eighteenth Amendment. but it in the exchange market will produce

the time I dealt once more to my- monocle, might have been a mem- dollars-one chit alone was for still more disastrous consetŢUENCES

English, sported a self the dtty' was about 4,000 would seem from the Intest news

in 1931. Without analysis even the

hunting man, a Mr. Johns, who ber of the House of Lords or a 2,500. that the force of public opinion

sterling figures fail adequately to may deflect him from the stand he indicate the full effects of the silver

"I gave myself an ace. I near bred prize Sealyhams for a hobby ly jumped; only a second ace has taken up. The fact that the slump. For all practical purposes,

at Arundel.

could prevent my winning the lot. Wiekersham Commission inclines the normal trade of the Colony is

"But I wasn't sure; I had grown modification of the law, alat a complete standstill. The large

a little suspicious of William P. though its report is described as amount of business still being con- to leave that port until noon, to Michael, of Denver, in the lumber they urged me, 'you don't need to "And the third was William P. Micheel, I hesitated. “Go to it!' ducted is anything but reflective day for Hongkong. The steamer trade, with some smattering of think about this. Finally I said, very inconclusive document, has of the Colony's stamina. If one kong at noon on Monday.

is now due to reach Hong-cotton growing. Mr. Michael was 'T'll go half the whole stakes given the Republican bosses serious

small and shy, though he soon let and I turned up a second ace! I ly to think. They are looking to

fall how well be knew Mr. Hough had lost, the Presidential Election next year,ed by the Statistical Department formation of cement concrete foun-sador in London; they were at luck, and they guessed it would

Tenders are being invited for the ton, the late American Ambas- "They said it was' darned jil · fearing that too rabid an attitude rovents that the Colony's Imports dations including the fixing of steel Denver College together-yes, sir. work round my way again. I may be disastrous to their cause, and re-exports consist almost en-reinforcement and shuttering for

to must just put a chit in and get The Chairman of the Republican come under the heading of neces-Tack and any

for the aeroplane hangar at Kai National Committee has interview-saries, articles that residents in work.

politicians and agreed Scotland hustle me. other contingent Yard would polish off Al Capone

"But the more they bustled the ed the President on the matter, and Hongkong and China could not do

[in a jiffy; and, gradually, a nice alower I grow. 'No, I asid, something of a sensation has been without whatever the value of the

intimate atmosphere was built up. want to know what my liability Mr. Baxter said his daughter had ia,' and I took sheet of paper. caused by his assurance that Mr. dollar. In this sphere moreover, This model has been exhibited at 'seen a film of 'Hindle Wakes," and and drew the pile of chits "to- Hoover is not committed to

there is evidence that the source of several great exhibitions at home she was mighty keen on seeing wards me and began to reckon up

and on tho contineal Menara., those cute mill insses, policy of opposition to modifica supply in changing, that the Colony

"Well, I played is putting up with cheaper and A. B. Watson & Co., Ltd., Agents

with tlon, but is keeping an open mind shoddier articles, incking the par- Whisky, have secured the loan of rotten players, and I won

in Hongkong for Messrs. Dewar's fellow in turn, and they were "They disliked that, complain- on the subject. Which seems to chasing power to maintain

35ed of my slowness, said it was this very fino model and it is now dollars-three rubbers, n ha'penny unnecessary. But I dug my toes suggest that he is awaiting public movement in better class goods. If on exhibition in their Wine Depart a point. They said this was a right in. I was only two minutes (renction to the Wickersham Report it were necessary to point a case,

ment show window. It has already great advance

on Wall

Streetso, it seemed to me--but I was before disclosing the official Re-the position of the United Kingdom attracted crowds of admirera.

gambling and maybe we'd have told afterwards I sat glaring at publican attitude.

in the Hongkong market would be

them for a quarter of an hour. illuminating example. The

"At all events I wds so long that Mr. Michael got the "wind up. Suddenly he snatched away the sheet of paper I was figuring

to

excepts, building materiala, exami-

nation of eloquent figures prepar-

The body of a newly-born baby, with a string tied around its neck, was found lying on the staircase of 345, Queen's Road West yesterday child had been murdered by its morning. It is suspected that the

parents.

The Empress of Asia has been

their names. "One was

delayed by fog outside Shanghai, At College Together. and, it is expected, will not be able

"So we chatted and got tirely of commodities which would the holes of the foundation bolts know one another, and slated the on with the game; they tried to

the

To anyone who has followed re-Colany's sterling Imports from cent developments there cannot be England have dropped by more

that

the least shadow of doubt

than sixty per cent., a loss largely public opinion in the United States

represented by n falling off in cotions and woollens. The Colony's រឹង moving in the direction of

needs are being supplied by tlie modification, if not actual repeal, mills of Shanghal and Japan, Such of the law. Looking back, we find illustrations tell their own story. that it was over seventy years ago | Residents are beginning to look that the movement started which at every ten-cent piece. As ́ cen- resulted in the Eighteenth Amend-the Colony is dead, und will remain tre of trade, in the larger sense,

ment being passed into Inw, this so until a miracle occurs to restore being the time when the first State silver to its natural value. The adupied Prohibition. When the December trade returns were the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, largest for the year-the Christmas it was not to be operative unless Festival playing. Its part--but ratified within seven years. Actual-stimulation of that class of busi-

there is not a single sign of ly. however, ao strong was publicness which is the rent barometer opinion at the time, that it took of returning prosperity. only just over one year for the

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necessary thirty-three States to en- dorse it. Since then, ten more There are many consumers Staten have ratified, the aggregate the good fortune to visit or to Scotch Whisky who have not had votes of the States Legislatures pasa by a ron! old Scottish Whisky being 5,002 to 1,245, The Senate Distillery where the "real Stuf vole for ratification was 1,304 to Sons Ltd., famous among Whisky. is produced. Mesara. John Dowar 240, and the House of Representa- distillers, have had a very fine tives vole 3,776 to 1,020. These model made of one of their many distilleries in Scotland. It is a fine figures diselost the substantial sup work of art, faithfully reproducing. port which the Prohibition Law tho grand Boottish mountain had, and it is only fair that they in the valley near by folds of ripe soonery, with tho distillory nestling should be stressed in view of re-

barley which is being gathered in.

"Now stop filling up on bread."

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-one eye on the paper and the each other on Mr. Michael.

on.

That told me all I wanted to know. I'd insulted him twice, be said. He was mighty hurt and^ indignant and he began to forget to be shy.

"Baxter-I still believed in Baxter-leaned over and said to me. You and I are business-men we don't want any trouble. You didn't say you'd go half the lot only half the big chit, which wasn't true.

"No, I I said to Michael, 'if you anatch my figures, I'm finished.

called the waiter while bluster and their hurt feelings uleted, paid for drinks, and kept my profit of what was left of 60 dollars. One, almost felt sorry for them-working hard for two afternoons and losing £8, when they had first class fares to find. Money to Burn.

aw them no more, but aftor- wards & follow passenger said to nte, 'I hope Mr. Baxter didn't rook you too badly Baxter was tho ring-leader. He had cleaned up thin poor victim three years hoforal No, he didn't prosecute. He didn't want people to know what a fool, he'd been. Ho re- pented a verae to me:.

For mon won't squawk when

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