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Mr.

due, partly, to poverty and the con- sequential desire to avoid funeral

expenses, and, to an oven greater

Lextent, to superstitious beliefs. It

will only be overcome by education

of the people to a greater sense of their responsibilities and by the gradual spread of more enlightened fdeas. Something might also ba done in Hongkong by a stricter en- forcement of the birth registra tion laws.

DAY BY DAY.

IS POWER A BIGN OF HAPPINESS? AT ALL EVENTS, THOSE WHO HAVE WON IT DON'T OFTEN BURST INTO PAEANS OF JOY.-Richet.

man.

Don't Apologise.

By ROSITA FORBES.

It is notified that the Bame of Wallace D. Hawker (Hongkong).E'VE heard an Inordinato We apologise to Egypt becausĆ Limited, has bees truck off to amount about Modern Wo-she won't accept the most generous Register.

Itrenty ever offered to a growing So much so that a thousand years nation. Regarding the muí-tsai problem,

A special memorial service to the

We apologise alternately to Arab's It is satisfactory to note that some late Mr. Charles Makeham 18 to be hence scientists will doubtless, im-

held at the Wanchai Weslynn Church agine the 20th century responsible and Jews in Palestine, which be- for a now forms of animal life and wildore the former and irritates attempt is being made to secure at 6.p.m. to-morrow.

they will wonder why nothing ro- the latter. respect for the existing law, wit-

We apologise to France about Tenders are being invited for the mains of it. But I maintain that ness tho

number of prosecution excavation of exploration trenches on the modern Englishman is a far armaments; to America about war which have recently taken place.the line of the proposed Gorge Dam more amazing development of the debts whose summary repayment

[human species.

is beggaring us and enriching our This is all to the good, but, even

Imagine our beef-cating, alo- provident Ally; and to the League of Nations about our Mandates, of so, we still feel' that much moro.

During the absence on leave of Mr. drinking, red-faced unimaginativo which wo've naturally made could be done by way of inspection Habert Baker, Mr. G. A. Walker will ancestors. They had no manners muddle because John Bull was much net as Manager of the Kowloon-Can- and a vast sense of their own better at ruling than he is at com- ton Railway, with effect from March superiority.

28.

the Shing. Mun Valley,

B

and

I'tsfeld's control., Lord statement that over four thousand

I don't suppose from the moment promising.

Above all, we apologise to girls have been registered under

they were born into a world speci- Mr. T. Megarey has been appointed the new law, and that this shows District Officer (North), and inte fcally created for the British until Russia for any difficulties put in wore die way of her ruining our markets Magistrate for the purpose of hold.the moment they died and ing small debts Courts in the New transplanted into an equally satis-and forcing our workers on to the

factory British paradise they ever employed list. Territories.

Doubtless we shall soon apologian apologised for anything they

on the

n considerable reduction number of mui-tsai in the Colony,

would appear to reflect a hellef on

HH Excellency the Governor has themselves called upon to do. Con-o the extremist minority in India his part that there are no other hern pleused to appoint Wan Yiten to sequently, they were the most un-whenever a British officer is mur- mui-tani in Hongkong than those be "Forest Officer for the contral and popular people in the world, the ered on the parade ground.

superintendence of the forests of the legitimate pray of cartoonists, and| An Object of Ridicule. actually registered,

Colony, in place of Ng Chi, transfer an infernal nuisance to anyone who That

of

course, is not the case. It is true that the law provides that all exist- lng mui-tsai must be registered, but there must be very many with whom

red.

The Empress of Japan, on which Tessel HM the King of Siam will leave Hongkong, sails at no Wednesday, and not at midnight on

not

the law gains no contact, whatever, / Tuesday as erroneously reported else-tant and however essential to some-changing. Perhaps we are suffer-

where.

The quality of any Government wanted to profit by a lttle slave-

must, surely, reflect the character - trading, gun-running, or any other of the nation which puts it into

power. Therefore, it such agreeable injustice.

Why, you couldn't look over the edge of any, horizon, however dis-logical to suggest that the type af individual Englishman must be body else's imperial prospects, with- out seeing an Englishman sitting ng from a surfeit of manners. and Mrs. Wo Kwong have In this connexion, it would be in-

It is notified that at the expiration on the highest sandheap, under Certainly the moders is obscaned by

other people's feelings. pleasure in announcing that teresting to know precisely how

of Uiree months the Wing Ifing Chinn- some sort of Union Jack. the marriage of their eldest many inspectors are employed to Ware Company, Limited, will, unless

every point of low but The flag was probably made out daughter Marg to Mr. Sal-Wa

is enforced, and use is shown to the contrary, be Liang. B. A. Oxon., will take that the law

struck off the register and the com.of his more intimate under-gar-als own, and he dislikes trending ments, and its owner was so bla-n other people's toes, whereas bis ancestor tramped across their pre- place on Monday, 30th March, what means are taken to ensure pany will be dissolved.

tantly sure of himself that when an when a Reception will be held that no more mui-tuai come into the

embassy or an army corps pointed at the Rant Garden of the Hongkong Hotel ni four Colony. It is one thing to pass a n'clock the same afternoon. law, but quite another to enforce All friends are cordially in-fit. Admirable vited to the Reception. No which the Government and other rards will be issued,

BIRTH

RANDALL-On March 27th, 1931, at 7. Braemar Terrace, Quarry Bay. to Mr. and Mrs. Randall, a son.

B. C.

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1931.

PARLIAMENT AND.

HONGKONG.

Old

as

is the work

The Gazette contains lengthy rules

as to the conduct of examinations in out that he had no possible right stituted for persons who wish to pro-to his sand hili, he simply couldn't sure colonial certificate of competency understand what they were driving an engineers in the Mercantile Marine, at. He just dug in his toes a little and as to the qualifications of the ap-leeper and wished he'd brought out plicants.

Ja dinnerjacket.

He sees

do, and that is to

dicas, privileges, and dearcat pos. tons without so much a notio them. Old John was a bully and respected for it. When be lost nts temper the rest of the world shivered. Nowadays, he is told "Keep your temper. Nobody else!! wants it," and because the apologist institutions have done, within cer- tain limits, there

is always an object of ridicule, he is still much H. E. The Governor has appointed The Way Out. that remains to be accomplished.. Gerrard, and Professor R. E. Tot possible, incredible, but exceeding

despised. Professor K. H. Digby, Professor_W. Palmerston represented the ims mildly

All this must be the fault of a Systematic house-to-house visits, team, all of the Hongkong Univer- ly successful arrogance of the race new brand of Englishman, for,

sity, to be Surgeon, Physlelun ве special efforts to make sure that girl Obsiretic Physician respectively to when he threatened to mobilise the whatever her mistakes and her servants are aware of their real the Government Civil Hospital, whole might of the Empire on be-follles, there's one thing no woman, half of a Levantine protego In unclent or modern, has ever been status, and enquiries to the end

We are informed by the U.S. Con-trouble with some Government known to that girl servants are remunerat-guinte that the U.S.S. Houston will which attached more importance to apologise. She doesn't know the

to visits by

his meaning of the word. American his birth certificate than edthese are some of the things)

She might be nicer if she did, citizens on Sunday, from 1 p.m. to 5 nateralisation papers. that need attention. The situation pan. Bouts will run from Blake Pler

but she'd probably be less effefent, Of course, the bluff succeeded. is admittedly far better than It was to and from the flagship on the hour It always did, because, in those days for if nothing auccoeds like an op- and one-half hour during the hours England only know one way out pearance of success, it is only suc- a few years ago, but unless we want mentioned.

out of her difficulties, and that was cess which never needs to apologise

"Act Firat " Hongkong's name to be continually

no matter whose straight ahead. It is notified that the Government opinions batred

Sir Arnold Wilson quotes a do- held up to earn and criticism, It proposes to erect a Public Latrine at

the path.

lightful remark made by some Arab Wireless put an end to the use- would be well if the authorities the junction of Cedar Street, Portland fulness of the Englishman who during the war: "If Germany loses

Street and Yu Chow Street. If any forestalled further adverse com-awner or sccupier in the immediate didn't know how to apologise and science will die, if Turkey loses ment by vigorously putting into vicinity of auch site objects to auch who thought the best he could do, tourage will die, if England loses erection, such objection must be sent for any race, black, brown, Or in writing to the Colonial Secretary yellow, was to teach it cricket and not tater than Fridny, 17th April. the National Anthem.

force the law on the subject.

ответа

We Apologise-

to

justice will die" to which another

wisenere retorted, "Then Allah will not allow England to lose, for fun- ice cannot die.”

Through the me Bum of Parlin- mentary questions and answers,

Shanghai Uncertainty.

ing to know the trend of opinion)

While we policed the world we Hongkong receives a considerable

The Man on the Spot still does stood for justice, and opportunism measure of publicity in the

Hazarding a guess, we should regarding

the policy recomm-good work. If any justification be is proving a poor substitute. Funny, Country. Unfortunately, however, imagine that a number of the for-ended to the Council by its needed for British colonisation, it old, obstinate, arrogant, intolerant, Salaries Commission regarding is to be found in the back-of-beyond, Inflexible John Bull ruled a vast it is publicity of the wrong kind, ein employees of the Shanghai

the prefereure henceforth to an where the work of the individual portion of the earth for the un- Municipal Council, will soon be Daring the present week, the mui- tagi and body-dumping questions seriding, quite voluntarily, other given to Chinese in filling public Englishman insures the security of doubted benefit of its inhabitants posts. The Council's Commission frontier. But his authority is and for an unsophisticated idea) ru- engagements. The proposals con-

impaired by whatever weathercock presented by the Flag.

He made no concessions to the have been raised, the one in the tained in the report of the Salaries of course, be partially ac happens to be installed in Downing.

quainted with Judge Fectham's street.

vociferous and no compromises with Upper Chamber and the other in Commission, particularly thos yet-to-be-disclosed

He believed in oxpediency.

fair proposals re-! the House of Commons. "In regard sections dealing with modifications garding the future of the Settle the use of all those tactles which forced their observance. Ho logla "H.M.'s Government deprecates" play, but ho made the rules and en- to neither, has there been any new in the conditions of service and the ment and have decfiled, in this were invaluable, to our aggressive lated for Britain as a whole, not for light thrown on the facts, and the future policy of the Council in particular way, to anticipate them and determined ancestors, result is merely to create mislead-filling staff vacancies, must have But the complete reorganisation To-day we apologise for building one vested interest, and it was greater Britain than we know come as a most unpleasant shock proposals, some of which amount do away with any equally essential "Let the Englishman keep the Sab- a necessary battleship, and we can't to-day. He believed in the motto, ing impressions as to conditions na

And now the Edwards case judg-very nearly to cheese-paring, are defence without they actually exist. With all this ment, denying a claim for wrong not to be explained no simply. sycophantic joy,

talk of "slavery" and body-dump-ful ing we can imagine what sort of an impression the average pereon at Home has of Hongkong. If M.P's and others were as keen on the economic prosperity of this Colony as they appear to be on these social Issues, our dollar problem would have been solved long ago.

dismissal, and apparently based on sound legal foundationa,| romes to complete an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty which ia detrimental to the best interests of the Settlement as possessing elements destructive to the loyalty:

cil's contention of Council employees. The Conn- that the Land Regulations do not permit them to On the body-dumping question, give an appointment for more the figures and explanations given than three years has been upheld.| by the Government should be à But that is hardly the Important Sufletent answer to those who point. The plain fact appears to be that Mr. Edwards and other imagine that conditions here in this connexion are in any way duc Anitely given to understand that

very responsible officials were de to official laxity: It has been the service was a permanent one,] shown that even in London there the renewal of agreements being are a great number of abandoned automatic. The claim that the bodies found every year, not to the agents had no authority to give extent that the evil prevails in the such a warranty carries, little the East, ndmittedly. But some weight, other than legal, againat the olivious inference that in many] flluminating figures have just been

сляев applicants would have lasued in Shanghal, disclosing the changed their minds about offering| fact that during the past year over themselves for posts in Shanghai 36,000 bodies were picked up in the had they been given clearly to streets-on an average, more than understand that three years might 100 a day. Comparing this total bo their limit. Men of high quali. with Hongkong's and estimating fications do not, as a rulo, offer themselves as odd-job men, which our population - at even a million,

may be exaggerating the real this means, that Shanghai's dump position, but which must, we think, Ing figure is twelve to the thousand convey the feelings of many who of population, as against two or fare affected, Public sympathy in even less por thousand in this Shangha! has been with Mr. Ed- Colony. The evil is much more ap.wards, which can be well under- parent in the East than elsewhere, stood. It would now be interest-

OTRY BY PAY OFFICE, INCE

A1 pacon of bath and everything else he can

"I know I was forgetting something... I wanted to get i

mystery thriller to read on the way."

get” and to it ho might have added the Arab proverb, "Act first. Then talk about it... If you must.”

Nobody Loves A

Fat Girl.

By Mrs. JAMES RODNEY.

HOMEHOW or other American men have acquired the reputa- tion of being the most considerate of the opposite sex. Rightly or wrongly, every girl feels that Am- erica would be her "stamping In that country would

ground."

hor feminine charms be truly ap- preciated. There, and there only, would her cold smile be rewarded by orchids and her boudoir flooded with the graceful, long-stemmed Ameri can Beauty rose! No wonder the girl living under the Stars and Stripes bas polse and self-con- fidence. "Her mon adoro her" is often heard at a “just out” debu- tante's luncheon in London..

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While I visited in the United States this winter'' I' was asked to Home of the gay dances at the various smart "Prop" schools and universities. The boys were splendid dancers, and I noticed one side of the room lined double with Extra" en who had not brought

I began the dance with one athlete, but was scarcely in the swing when other arms were abolit me and on we went. Then a W ́ht

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