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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY

MOTOR

BARGAINS

7. CHEVROLET 1928 MODEL USED SEDAN 4 Cyl. 26 h.p. fully equipped NOW IN DAILY SERVICE

PRICE $1,450.

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PRICE $250.

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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The Honkong ehenshat Metals, L. Forporated in Hungkong, 34. Qemo's Road C. nod Stubby Bond.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, FER. 23, 1931.

THE MUITSAI QUESTION.

23, 1931.

.DAY BY DAY

i

A non-Chinese cose of diphtherla was notified during the week-end,

The P. and O ... Rawalpindi, from Singapore, in due here at noon on

Thursday,

The Ben Line .. Benvrackie, from ports via Singapore, is Home

due here on the 28th instant.

DON'T LET'S BE SUPERIOR.

By Beverley Nichols.

TOW that the evenings are

Now that the event many son you say that to a bright per

away

pamphlet recently Issued by Comdr. and Mrs, Haslowood, it is remarked that "we have made enquiries an to whether any women have ever been appointed officially to help with the

WE MAKE WAY FOR THE MAN WHO Interviewing and treatment of mui-BOLDLY PURIES PAST UB-Bovce. tadi; we regret to hear that no wo- men have been appointed." This circumstance is quoted na "an in- dication of the backwardness of the Colony." A further point touched upon in the pamphlet is that the Government is taking no steps to provide accommodation for muf-trai 'who may wish to be released, and in this connexion it is observed that the law requires that boarded-out children in England should be re- gistered, with the result that steps

"There she is ag in," they will are taken by visiting Inspectors to remove them, should conditions be

say. That's the tenth time she's drawn out the evenings this your What doon she expect the even- found unsatisfactory. "If," says

ings to do in January-draw in the pamphlet, "n atatement were Mr. Roy C. Bennett. managing

I have very little sympathy with published In this country to the pf-editor of the Manila Bulletin, is pass-

President such scoffers, for two Ing through pa the .. fect that children themselves were Grant. He is en route to America on First, because

I think that "the been expressed perfectly once and evenings are drawing out" fa ong for all. expected to apply to officials if they vacation.

poetical of the most exquisitely were ill-trented or neglected, it

At the Rotary Club meeting at lines ever devised by mankind. would be treated with ridicule. How Lane Crawford's restaurant to is like the quiet opening phrase much less likely are Chinese child-morrow, the speaker will be Lt. Col. of a symphony which is to tell us. ren to apply to British officials for Reginald Murcom, C.B. The subject in ever wilder melodien, of the far-

will be "Commercial Balance."

fung promise of spring. release and protection?"

Sample.

simple people will be drawing at St. Moritz he will swoop Among the passengers leaving for tention to the fact at tea-parties. from you. without answering, in on Saturday were Mr. and Mr. And the smarties and the intel-order to avoid the contamination 13, W. Bradbury, and Mr. E. F. R.ectuals and the very young will of your presence.

be aniggering at them behind their Why? "The air is like wing,"

backs for using such a well-worn is n

in charming, true, and melodious expression. You cannot botter it. phrase.

You can, of course, say that

or that it or that

It is in like a water

makes you feel tight, Coo, too

wall, whatever the latest adjective may be, But, if you

do say these things, you are taking a great deal of unnecessary reasons. trouble to express foably what has

The Ellot Hall Annual Concert and Dance will be held on Saturday, 28th February, at 8 pm Graduntur who were mumbers of this are cordlaly welcome.

• ·

expense

It.

+

"Why tulk about the air at all?"

you may say. If you ask me silly in kind, "Why breathe it?" questions like that, I shall reply.

rich friend

皱

every:

meet

are

I suppose that the observations which most enrage. the superior Mr. Kwong Kwang-lim. Chinese Suffelent has been quoted to show

It in the hushed and magical pre-person are those which are tinged Consul-General In Manila, who has

faintly moral flavour." how the public at lome is being been on a short visit to Shanghai, hide to countless adventures-the with

was amongst the passengers arriving adventure of walking in the gar-Thus, if you are ever discussing kept fully informed of the facts as

here by the Empress of Russia to-day. den after ten to see how many the misfortuner of a

must naver, never they apply to the mui-tsal system in

anowdrops have come out, the ad-you Hongkong. The campaign aims at Kwok Choi-yin was fined $172, or venture of hearing the first birds "Money isn't everything, la

Such a remark would stamp you the registration of so-called adopted two months' imprisonment, by Mr. in the bare boughs.....

Butters, at the Kowloon Magistracy'

cretin I W07- The other reason why I shall at once as being daughters, followed by aystematic this morning, for having had in his

possession on board a junk two Jars never seoff at those who use this der why? It seems to me such a inspection control and remunera of dutiable Chinese wine.

phrase is merely because it in old very excellent thing to say-so ox- and familiar. And old and faml-cellent that I should not mind hav tion, the appointment of women to

Mr. F. J. Samways, of Vancouver, liar things have a glamour which ing it painted all over my bath- assist in this work, and, in coaca

trip on the attaches to no is making round

epigram. You room wall.

Besides, thors was nover where it is found that the conditions Empress of Russia in the interests of might make the most shattering- under which a child lives entail suf-the Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd. ingly witty remark about the leng-greater need to be constantly re- He arrived here from Shanghai with thening days, you might be quite minded of this truism than to-day. fering and neglect, that proper ac- Mr. C. Thwaites, Canadian Pacific brilliant at the

of the when it is tacitly assumed, where- lawn of Nature, but you would ever you go, that money is commodation be provided, as is done auditor for the Far East. in all well-organised communities.

Col. M. HI. Logan, the well-known ever move me as I am moved by thing. If you constantly

that simple phrase, which has been people whose whole lives whispered These demands certainly square Shanghal architect, arrived here by

by countless genera-moulded on this assumption, you inevitably the Empress of Russia. Mrs. Stagg.

tend towards their We are witnessing at the moment with the intentions of the law, wife of the Assistant Manager of the tions since speech began.

opinion. Hence at suitable inter- That is why I like these old vale sad on appropriate occasione, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in determined movement against which is at present far from being Shanghal, with her daughter, was als cliches. I cannot understand, for I shall continue to make the hat- slavery in all its forms. Liberia adequately enforced. It is obvious a passenger by the same boat, example, why youths and maidens ed observation.

should wrinkle their noses so con- has recently come under notice, and that there is a very considerable

It will "date" me, of course. Under the leadership of Diss Htemptuously when aged relatives there have been suggestions made body of public opinion at Home Harrison. thirteen members of the that conditions in Abyssinia are which fa determined that there shall Laymen's Foreign Missions inquiry say to them "the last time I saw But not nearly as indelibly as those that lots of bores do say this, but on the wings of a catchword. A Russia today. They also deserving of attention. The be no half-hearted enforcement of party arrived here by the Empress of you, you were so high." I know are dated who first flew into fame whole generation who survived on Canton and other coast porta. Pro lots of agreeable people say it too. the word "shy-making" have pass- prevalence of slavery in China is the law. This fact alone, apart for E. W. Knight, of the Rocke And when they say it, they are in-

ed a

and faded into the shadows. also being commented upon in cir-even from the justice of the matter, feller Institute, is also with the party. dicating a kindly interest which Social history is littered with their cles anxious to free humanity from should auffice for Hongkong to take

surely, should not come amiss?

corpses and clamorous with the As far as could he ascertained this

It would probably be quite pos- echoes. Meanwhile, the serfdom. In these circumstances, action on its own account, before morning, the 8.5. On Lee, which

grounded near Wangmoon on her way sible for them, if they wished to men, and the ordinary men, and it is not surprising that the Hong-it is politely but firmly requested up from Hongkong te Kongmoon on be original, to say "the last time you and 1, will continue to draw kong mui-tsai question should conto do 69.

were a curiously out the evenings. Fog and clima Friday evening, is still fast aground. saw you, you tinue to be kept in mind by indivi-

The s. Tai Lee left Hongkong loathsome child with a sniffly nose. tie conditions, of course, permit- earlier than usual last night in order You were extremely plain, and ap- ting. duals and organisations in Eng- land long associated with the cam- paign against the abuses of the "y". tem. Lieut.-Comdr. and Mex.

One could say all these things, Haslewood have taken the lead in

Wanchai, were again before Mr.if one were so inclined. Instead, this movement, and they have gue-

Schofield at the Central Police Court one anys, "the last time I saw you, Which arouse4 this morning, when it was stated that you were so high.' cecțied in enlisting the support and

one of the three men alleged to have no controversies. states no pro sympathy of many others, notably

been stabbed by the defendants, haul blems, yet, if you have the least Sir,-On Friday last, the morning been discharged from hospital. The Imagination, it is a phrase which Lady Simon, who had some rather papers published particulars of the other two were still detained. The may well set you dreaming of the outspoken observations concerning increased duties on liquors and to-defendants were remeniled for another swift passing of youth and the Retreat from Moscow had Hongkong in her recent

The same evening, I was work.

transience of things human. book of formed at one of the best known

There are hundreds of old simi-

CORRESPONDENCE.

Local Prices.

To The Editor of Hongkong

Telegraph.)

baecos.

are

visiting

to take off the 200 or so passengers parently mentally deficient. I am

who are on the On Lee.

relieved to see that you have grown into a comparatively unob- Appearing on remand, the twojectionable adult." Indian motor drivers who are charged; in connexion with the recent fracas nt

PHIPPS describes the

great

RETREAT FROM SWITZERLAND.

THE

nothing on the present Ro-

treat from Switzerland.

The Continental express daily

slavery. Her husband, Sir John of the compradore shops in Kowloon A party of over twenty members of Simon, has now taken up the cud- that all prices had been advanced. the Nile Temple Shrine Cruise arrived les and metaphors which one can- disgorges at Victoria Station plti- The shop was exceedingly well here by the ., President Grant. not use in the presence of superiorful remnants of that great army. gels on behalf of the mini-tai, as stocked with drinks and tobaccos, Mekenny,

They are headed by Mr. V. S. persons without incurring their

Potentate. They serting that despite the

are censure. But they are often far which set out before Christmas. efforts and the foki who served me cheer-guests of the President Grant for the the best images which man has with heads and bank accounts Įmade on behalf of these servant fully admitted that duty had been entire voyage from Seattle to Yoko- been able to create. Consider, for high, for the wintry pastimes.

Ah! My masters, what a thaw- girls, there exists in Hongkong a paid on the lot at the old rate haina, Kobe, Shanghal, longkong instance, that phrase which springs

hore! For every and the probabilities are that the Manila and return, via Honolulu to condition under which children are shop would have further stocks in San Francisco, following an interest instantly to one's lips on high and ful tragedy attached to employers under eir-n godown, also duty paid,

from that train two are lifted from ing and enjoyable itinerary in each windy places the air is like man, woman, or child that steps I believe, from remarks that I port they visit,

It labelled "Fragile, with great have heard, that this shop is by no

care:" meuna alone in ita action, and while, perhaps, the official view may be that the shopkeepers are entitled the public on luxuries.

cumstances indistinguishable from sinvery.

To the extent that the evil of the mui-trni system connot be suf- fielently combated except by a more surely

to squee, camut be the Govern- rigorous enforcement of the spirisment attitude with regard to neces

saries. There is. I understand. a

of the existing law, we are prepared considerable manipulation of prices

to endorse Sir John Simon's stricto enver drops in exchange, ic..

It is true that the law re- Inres.

prices purchased at a given ex- drop, and quires the registration of muí-tgaichange are increased on

sometimes even, prices of local pre- who were in the Colony at the time duce are similarly increased, the the Ordinace came into force, and difference being so much additional profit for the storekeepers. One that it is an offence to bring any enn rest assured that should a sub- new mui-tsai into the Colony. It is stantial rise in exchange take place also made clear in the Ordinance (a most unlikely event!), this prin. ciple would not be followed to its that mui-isai are not the property of logical conclusion by reducing pricen their employers, that they can claim of commodities in atock. the right of release, and that they In my strictures above, I express- except some of the big stores.

.

are entitled to remuneration. Bal Unfortunately, their overhead is

it is one thing to pass a law and often such na to preclude oven their quite another to see that it is en-pockets of the majority of Hong normal prices being within the forced. Despite the very pointed kong's. Intimation by Lord Passfield, at the time the Ordinance was brought in. chalige must be anticipated, I sug

Rest, in the general Interest, it is

eldents: uctuation in ox-

to being, that the Imperial Govern-high time tint, some sort of con ment would not tolerate any per- trol over prices was exercfeed. At Home, there are Consumers' Coun- functory application of the law, the ells appointed bly the Government, |fact remains that the position has and if we had the same sort of or not been very materially altered ganisation here, with power to listen since the evil became the subject of of books, and on cause being proved, to complainta, compel the production legislation. Mere registration of power to inflict fines and publish mul-teaf cannot be regarded as in particulars in the local press, then any way sufiiclent; Indeed, without most beneficial Influence would be jexerted againat the exploitation of | systematic Inspection and control, the public,-Yours, etc.,

IT A

CITIZEN. It can amount to very little.

wine.

CINE JA KIEVICH TIME.

"Remember now, I'm wanted on the phone just before bring the bill?'

you.

snow,

They went out, these hearts of eak, expecting Bunshine, and their money's worth. Instead, they found the Alps looking as if Hannibal had just taken his clep hants over them. When I left Switzerland. a week uga it was: raining. As far as sporting con- ditions went, you might just as well have tried akl-ing down. Ox- ford-street.

Toll for the Brave!

And now most of the winter. sports battalion will be unable to walk down Oxford-street for some it could time. And if they wouldn't be any use to them, for they wouldn't be able to buy any thing.

Staying indoors in Switzerland. costs an intact aportaman roughly a frane a minute. Multiply by ten and you get the tarif for bo ing convalescent in Switzerland. So that these unfortunates whe have suffered from mal a la jambe. mal nu bras, or mal a la tote have also been victims of mal a in pocket book:

On the journey, too, income has had to be added to injury. What- ever a porter axpects for getting luggage through the Customs, he has much greater expectations for shepherding a sprained ankle Into a ataamor. Toll for the brave

Latest reports, however, state that conditions in Switzerland... have Improved. So that those. who go nut now may reasonably expect to return in statu quo, and... not, like thosn returning now, he splints..