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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Hongkong & Shanghai Botals, th Inderporated in Hougheng. 21. Quona's Road C. and Stable Kood
DEATH.
OF
BENJAMIN.-Dolly,
wife
8th Sassoon Benjamin, on March, 1931, at Cap Martin, Frative. (By cable).
n
DAY BY DAY
GENERAL, IN- YOU WILL, IN GRATIATE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS,
Priday.
The P. & O. s. Comorin, from Hongkong, arrived at London on 6th March at 10 a.m.
The Hongkong University Unton will hold its Annual General Meeting in the Great Hall of the Univercity on the 10th March, 1931 at 5 p.in.
WAITING IN RUSSIA.
By Marjorie Skuler.
The P. and O... Karmaln, from WAITING, waiting, waiting. the Government wanted me to go. It is the order of the day I had remained away from the Singapore, is due hore at 6 am, on in Russia. So I was not surpriced institutions, but the particular when I had to wait for the train official who had charge of map- ping out my programme had been on which I was to leave.
I had joined the long lines of firm, too. people waiting in front of shopa
"It would interrupt the work for food. I had waited with at the motion-picture factory." thirty or forty others to get on So "the factory" had remained a- a tram, and learned by bitter ex- closed door to me,
"There is a. motion-picture perience that it was not first come, first served there, as it is in the factory in Kieff," she volunteered, shops, but that the tram is to the and instantly we were off, leaving. Among those leaving for
not to the polite. I the luggage heaped up ready for Home agile and yosterday by the s. Khiva were Mr. had walled for an elevator which whenever the train should come. W. Kay and Mr. D. M. Richards (took fifty more patrons to the And then began another game the Education Department), Mr. hotel restaurant at the rate of of waiting.. I wanted to see tha mounted films in proces of making, to four each trip. I. had 8. Carter (of the P. W. D.), and
the a bus at 11 o'clock in the morning compare the process with Major W. G. H. Milen, R.M.
A servant employed by the Chinese when I had bolted my breakfast great lots in Hollywood on which seen famous directors constables of the Water Police Station of caviar and black brend to be I have
scenca of world- was given one month's imprisonment ready for the trip at 10, I had evolving the
Mr. Hamilton at the Kowloon vaten dinners served at 11 o'clock famous filma. by
And I Magistracy this morning for stealing
***
These latter are now legalised, | #1 and they should be tapped fur much-needed revenue. No plea of hardship could be raised if a betting tax were instituted, since the man who can afford to gamblo can well afford to pay a little STILL LESS BY PAYING THEM TOO extra and thus help the Colony's MUCH COUNT THAN TOO LITTLE---|
Greville. Anascen. Indeed, a botting Lux la a luxury tax pure and simple. It is in force at Home, and thera is no reason why it should not be Introduced here i th Hongkong, Unlike many other types of taxes, it should be extremely ensy to collect, and there would not be the lenst opportunity for evasion. From every standpoint, such a tax ተነ ዞ We urgo ix justified. Objections on moral grounds can be put aside, for if the "tainted money" argument were raised it could be shown that the Colony already receives considerable proportion of its revenue from opium and liquor, whilst even in England the consideration men- an overcont bolonging to one of the when they were ordered for nine. anw the scenery room.
But even then I was better off asked about the Alming. I look- tioned does not deter the Govern constables.
Lhan the Russians, who waiteded at sets for the next anti- re- ment from securing funds from
On Recount of bad weather, the like this all of the time and for glous picture and sets of pea- the other things, too, as I discovered santa' homes for the next anti- the proceeds of gambling. In one annual prize distribution at
Cheung Chau Government School has when I travelled on trains. To be kulak picture, by which the Go of his despatches to the Colonin! been postponed to Wednesday, the aure, I had expected to be allowed ernment will spread its arguments Office. Sir Cell Clementi mention. 11th inst, when Mrs. G. P. de Martin to take a train at a certain hour against respectively the church has kindly consented to give away the from Leningrad to Moscow and and the rich landowners. And 1 ed the possibility of raising reprizes at 2.30 p.m.
had obtained ticket on a brain asked when I should see the actors venue from amusement and bet
Å buller-maker named Li Chung, of which left several hours later, at work.
Moscow I looked at the costumas, rows ting taxes, but expressed a doubt 386, Shanghai Street, has been re- thereby throwing my whether these would be very pro- moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital programme out of joint. And when and rows of uniforms hanging on auffering from injuries to his back I was ready to leave Moscow for the hooks waiting for the wearern. ductive. Sirice then, however, caused by a boller at the Tung Hing Kieft, I waited for the bus to go And I asked for the wearers and see them being the Government has found a very Loong Engineering Werks, Sham-to the train until it seemed im- when I was to
shulpo, falling on him.
possible that I should be able to photographed. useful source in the amusement
arrive in time. But finally I did." Everywhere preparation, plenty NewR was received by cable in
in the Russian tax, and we imagine that a bet-
Hengkong to-day of the death, which only to wait for half an hour in of preparation
But where was the work ting tax would be just
vccurred yesterday at Cap Martin, a station where it was almost im-style. ductive, if even not more so. France, of the wife of Mr. Sassoon possible to find standing room being done? Was any work being Polite, always Benjamin, at one time senior partner among the recumbent forms of done? Evasions. Before any other steps are takea, in Mesara, Benjamin and Potts. As a men, women and children, with polite promises that I should see therefore, we trust that the Goy-mark of respect, the firm's offes is all their goods and food, evident what I wished. But evasions..
being cloned this afternoon.
up ly waiting for still another day's
At Inat regretfully I gave this will investigate erament
and gave in. It was apparent trains. The Henith Bulletin of Eastern
that I was not to see the filming matter, feeling convinced that the
Ports for the week ending 28th. eastly-calculated estimates would February shows the following canca: Kleff for Poland,
But now I was ready to leave if any filming was going on. on a run ef and the train We compromised -Plague-Baghdad 1, Colombo 1, show the idea to be well worth Bangkok 3; Cholera-Madras 14; which was coming through from u film already made, one which Negapatam 2 Chittagong 6, Pon Odessa was sure to be late. I was in expected will be successful A further reminder that the
dicherry 31, Saigon 3: Small-pox. told. Nobody knew quite how in the United States, but which Bombay 3, Cochin 16, Karachi 4. Government is in need of funds
Madran 3, Hangoon 1, Vizagapatam much. Perhaps one hour, perhaps seemed to me to be all propaganda, is provided by the increases in
8, Chittagong 2, Penang 2, Saigon 2, three, perhaps today, perhaps to-with no continuity.
Back to Meanwhile what to do? I had
the hotel and the parcels post rates, thesc having been foreshadowed quite
Mr. A. Strok, the well-known already looked at the Ukrainian luncheon. Already it was almost and 4 o'clock. Would the train come presario, arrived in the Colony hy countryside. I had driven recently when the Colony's
Police Reserve Orders by the the sa. President Madison, being walked through the city which for that day? Yes, it appeared that financial position was explained Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G.,accompanied by Toti dal Monte, so long held out against allying the train was in and waiting. It the world's greatest itself with the Union of Socialist had been the turn of the train to at some length in the Legislative Inspector General of Police, state:described as
coloratura Rоprano, and Enzo de Soviet Republics. I had looked]walt, evidently. How long I Generat the Council. Once again. It is
Muro Lomanto, famous tenor from La its buildings and peered into never know, as I got myself and Seal. They are on their way to
in my baga on the train for the long fall in the value of the dollar
Manila, but will appear in Hongkong its shops, I had spent one which has necessitated this step.
towards the end of this month. Mr. teresting Sunday morning in the trip to Warsaw, just six hours Strok says they are the biggest at free market, where customers and inte leaving Kieff. To the ordinary resident this
traction he has ever brought to the sellers mingle in one great in- We had planned a great fling choate masa, milling up and down for our leave-taking. We hud 33.1/3 per cent, advance in parcel
and ACTORA a large square, ordered chicken for the Americans post rates will mean very little,
Father Robert, who is well-known thousands of men and women on the train, eight chickens for, but business firms will be called
years in China, delivered a iccture in the bargaining goes on. in Hongkong and who worked for 38 jammed in a little space while twenty-four women, although the guide had insisted that eight- upon to shoulder yet another
Paris recently on China. He said
- I had listened to Tchaikovsky chickens were too many for burden. It has already been
that it was estimated that during the suggested that the Assessment Tax
seven years from 1923 to 1930 not far explained by the leader of the twenty-four women. We opened had orchestra and then played. a the newspaper packages in which from 20,000,000 human beings lost their lives in China from other motif at a time, during an entire our supper had been wrapped and may have to be raised once again
than ordinary causes. Of these, he evening in a recreation park.
found wo had not eight chickens, before the year is out, but the
Chinese Company.
said, about 4,000,000 died of bunger.
but eight squabe-and for twenty- Squad Drill-All recruits of the Father Robert traced the course of Government should realise that
Chinese Company will attend Soviet intrigue recent years, and But all these things I had done, four women.
It was a model of carving, but there is likely to be considerable Central Police Station for Squad quoted from an order from the Rus. And now the question which
the pressed heavily on my Russian somehow the scrape were passed this Drill on Thursday, March 12th at sian Ambassador, Karakhan,
around and we opposition to
any step in
fomented in order to pave the way for Communism. He gave detalls while I waited of the large number of diplomatie She remembered that in Moscow the Polish border we should find and other Bolshevik oficials, as well I had asked to see as officers of the Red Army who were picture studio installed at Peking, Canton and clse social institutions with which my stated, was singularly devoid of that I had given her a few anxious we arrived at the Russian border where. Father Robert's lecture, it is programme had been so loaded, and At 3 o'clock the next morning examination of historial facts rhetoric, being based principally on all moments by declining to sae an-
and
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1931.
A BETTING TAX.
while.
POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.
Revolver Practice. There will be no revolver practice at the Kennedy Road Range on Wedne day, March 11th, 1931.
Police Training School. The weekly classes for Police Reservists at the Police Training School, Kowloon, will be held us usual on Tuesday, March 10th at 6.30 p.m. All members of the Chinese Company and of the Flying Squad who have not yet passed Part 2 of Training Course should attend.
Shanghai 4, Greater Shanghal 2
East..
morrow.
• *
*
to
contented. our-
direction, from householders and 6.30 p.m. under L.SR. 43 Teo Chỉ i statement that revolution must be guide was what to do with me selves with the thought that at
On.
business houses alike. More re-
Flying Squad. venue may be needed, admittedly;
Squad Drill.All recruits of the it should, however, be raised from Flying Squad will attend at Police Headquarters for Squad Drill an such anurees as will not place a Thursday, March 12th at 5.30 p.m. further handicap either on trade under L.S.R. 333 A. W. Mooney.
The weekly Instructional patrol or on householders, Business is of the Kowloon Section will take | bad enough as things are, whilst place on Tuesday, March 10th. living costs have markedly advanced Fall in at Talm-tsa-tsui Fire Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. aharu. within the past year. In theac Dress Winter Uniform and Cap circumstances, it is the duty of with White Cover. the Government to explore the full are detailed for special duty on
Special Duty-Members possibilities of taxation in directhe occasion of the Inter Univer tions which will inflict as little sity Athletic Competition which will be held at Caroline Hill will hardship as possible.
parade at Central Police Station
who
In this connexion, the sugges-on Saturday, March 14th at 12.45 tion has agala been put forward. sharp.
táx. We on Friday, March 18th.
Sharpshooter's Company. Miniature Itanga Practice.-The regular weekly practice will be carried out by the members of the Company Rifle Club on Thursday, March 12th at 5.15 pm.
There will be no instructional that the Government should in-patrol for the Hongkong Section stitute 1L betting thoroughly agree with this iden, as it is obvious that a very con aiderable source of revenue could be raised from' this source with out the least difficulty. We have just concluded Race Week in Hongkong, and it is safe to say that on the course alone well over two million dollars has changed hands in the sweeps and part- mutuel booths. A five per cent. botting tax would thus yield at
(Sgd.) D. L. KING,
D.S.P. (R).
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cable at the close. least a lakh of dollars from the of the sugar market on Saturday annual Race Meeting alone. This has been received by Messrs. Pen-
treat and Co.
sum, however, by no means ex- hausts the
possibilities. Besides
the annual Races we have regular Extra Meetings, to say nothing of the Fanling Hunt fixturos, In ad- dition to which account must be taken of the huge surus of money which are subscribed during Raco Week to various Club sweeps.
London Torminals. March 1932 6/9 no change. May 1981 6/10 down 1/2d. August 1981 6/1 down 1/4t. December 1901 6/5 down 1/4d. New York Terminals. March 1982 1.52, May 1981 1.20 down I p. July. 1931 1.29 down 1 pt. September 1931 1.85 down 2 pt. December 1981 1.45 down 1 pt.
documents,
PEG, U. 3. PAT. OF7/10
for the train.
instead
the dinners
wa
waiting for UB a motion had ordered by telegraph from
of the Kieff
other institution no matter who in for our final examination. We presented our exchange receipts and patiently explained what we had spent our money for, and why. We opened our bags for the slow and careful inspection of the customs guards.
"Good morning, ma'am, è ould I interest you in a year": aubscription to the Country House and Gardan ?!
It was a crisp, cold morning, with that heavy darkness which seems so much more intense just before the dawn, when we Ameri- cans walked out of the Russian customs shed and back onto the train for the trip across
the
border. Suddenly laughter, which had not been heard for weeks, broke out. People began to call little jokes back arid forth to each other and to be gay about nothing at all. The Polish guards in their blue uniforms were pleasant, too. Everything was easy and kindly, and restraint, and restriction be gan to fade into the past,
We marched along to the station restaurant. Dinners for twenty-four ladies had been or dered, and dinners for twenty- four ladies were served, the cold hors-d'œuvres and the Wienersch nitzol tasting strange at the breakfast hour. But we, too, had "come out of Russia," and now we understood why returning travellers invariably use that
phrase.
The next day we passed through miles of tidy countryside, neat farms and well painted andre- To be sure paired buildings." there were soldiers: everywhere, and wo began to wonder at their number.
* “A standing "army." of 400,0 the largest for - its size of any
* (Continued on Pope
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