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Tip-Toe thru' the Tulipa

22113-Tip-Toe thru' the Tulipa

I'm painting the clouds with sunshine 22242-Tip-toe-thru the Tulips (Organ)

Chant of the Jungle

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"Say it With Songs"

1425 Little Pal

I Love to hear you singing

21951-Little Pal (Organ)

Why Can't You?

21952-Little Pal

Why Can't You!

21953Why Can't You?-

Used to you

21954-Little Pal

I'm in Seventh Heaven

22056-Now I'm in Love

One Sweet Kiss

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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The Hongtour Bhanghai fotele, Kid, Incorporated in Hongkong. 11. Quem's Head C. and Stubby Read

might be extended, even to the making of provision for female

suffrage. The point which will naturally occur to Hongkong people

is why the Home Government should

DAY BY DAY

tho

Charged with boarding the B.54 Tibodas without permission, three women pleaded guilty before Hen, Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., at the Mating Court this morning, and were fined $10 each.

ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO TROBE trouble itself with a trifling matter

WILO KNOW HOW TO BE DISAGREES liko this whilst larger and more ABLE AT THE RIGHT TIME—Babara Important Colonies, such no our Burkei, own, are absolutely neglected. Not only have we no unofficial majority on the Legislative Counell, but wo enjoy no franchise whatever, except in a very restricted manner in res- pect of the Sanitary Board, whilst we know nothing of a House of Assembly or of Municipal Corpora- tions.

The constitutional position. of Hongkong is, in these days of democratic idens, a sheer amach ronism, and it is something little short of amazing that after more than eighty years of British rule there should be such an entire ab-

BUENOS AIRES.

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By J. M. W. JEFFRIES.

ponds to

in'

the

ESPITE the four hundred and Then they have a trick here of invested in Buenos Aires; despite eye-level, particularly the many firms which have dealings Avenida da Mayo, so that in the from Britain, and, by agency here, evening you drive about in the with Argentina, those who have dazzling heart of the advertising Suffering from senip wound Chinese woman named Lee Sam we that trading with this great Re-

experience in these matters declare world.

Women seem to be kept in re- Civil removed to the Government Hospital yesterday from Queen's public could be much extended. nerve; for every one of them about The women Road. It has not been ascertained That, indeed, speaks for itself: there are five men.

the Exhibition has arisen to prove have very beautiful, expressive, how she came by the Injury.

it. Opportunities will grow and large oyes; the men fall into two

J. Lorain, an officer of the French grow as the country develops. gunboat Vigilante, which is lying at

The Best of Things. the Kowloon Docks, has reported to!

cinases--n broad, heavily built,

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faintly lowering type, and a taller,

fresh, good-looking, younger class,

the whose features are somehow mould- the police the lons of a wallet contain- At the present moment ing $326, which was stolen from his primary obstacles to trade

hava ed with something common to the cabin between noon and I p.m. yester-been the world-slump, the doubtful-whole of their continent. day.

nesa of credit, and other technical I do not believe it is descriptive But behind these lies the to say Buenos Aires is full of the nence of machinery for the expres Tho Naval Armament Supply secondary cause which has produce people of all nations. The traffic

Ofcer han notified the sion of public opinion. View my Master that a small quantity of fire belief in Britain, founded upon the two mundred and fifty millon Harboured these few words of mine, the manager of one of the railways----

differ as to the wisdom or other-

works and small arme ammunition

afternoon.

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causes.

If you walk into the streets here.

wise of an unofficial majority on will be fired for proof purposes at the stories and travel-accounts of two pounds capital is in British-owned the Legislative Council, although Stonecutters Rifle Range on Monday or three generations ago, that the railways alone told me ho had men Argentine is an exotle land, full of of twenty-nine races in one group cinema heroes and cinema scenery. of five thousand workmen. Most of practically all the Crown Colonies enjoy it, but we do suggest that the ice to trickle through the barn of during a holiday in England he was

By cutting the sacks and allowing A business man told me how the traine are driven by British

drivers. time long overdue for a recognil-a window, some person managed to asked whether everyone rode on

Mullitude of Shops. tion of the elective principle in the steal the contents of seven sacks from muleback or was there a railway

a gadown at Kennedy Town sonic in the Argentine. appointments of non-Government time between 10 am, on the 6th and Men in the first flight of trade you see nothing but a multitude of members. The Bermuda system value of the rice was given as being but trade, especially if it is to ex- They repeat and resemble cach pm. on the 8th Inst. The total know better than this, of course, shops stretching away out of aight. also in operation in several other $140.

pand to large dimensions, must other so much that they may be Colonies, of an elected House of

Summoned for speeding along have its great medium circles too. said to act ns echoes. Assembly might at any rate be Wongneichung Road, near the Menu- In these circles those in respona. It is clear there is a tremendous extended to Hongkong. Members ment, the driver of a motor lorry was ble positions, whose voyages have market in Buenos Aires, and that fined $20 by Mr. Schoßeld at the not led them far from their native competition is astounding, about thereof could be chosen by different Central Police Conrt this morning, it countries, view the prospects of twenty offers I should say to every parishes-the Health Districts being stated that he had been

travelling from 20 to 30 miles an hour South America through a mirage prospective consumer: The might serve for this purpose-on with a load of Macks and two coolics of cacti, sombreros, llamas, and sumer by a natural consequence has women with roses in their teeth. become criticnt in a very different a property quailfication. The crea sitting on top of them. Mr. K. C.

Ilawever much their travellers fashion from the characteristic Johnny Marvin The family of the late

Las, tender sincere thanke to tion of such a body would, at least

Tong Shun appeared before Mr. and agente try to dissipate this vell,Same as before, please," British their relatives and friends

buyer. for

until the public became educated Hamilton, at Kowloon this morning, their protestations, 1 nm teld, never Jesse Crawford

the many kind expressions of

possession at the seem to get all the way home, It

seen it mentioned sympathy in their bereavement, up to the use of the franchise, Youmati Railway Station 1.6 gallon is clearly in their interest to make anywhere, but it seems to me that as a training ground for subsequent of Chinese wine and 11⁄4 lbs. of the commercial bent of things, and some part of the trouble of our further reforms. The House would tobacco on which the duty had not principals of firms suspect them of traders in securing foreign mar- been paid. He said it was for his leaving out llamas which unsteady keta lies with our own publle. naturally have the right to discuss on use: Mr. Hamilton administered the market. and make recommendations on a caution, and ordered the accused to раз three times the duty which enme to $3.58, to the Revenus Depart-

Goldkette's Orchestra

Gracic Fields

John McCormack

ACKNOWLEDGMENT,

niso for oral tributes sent and attendance at the funeral,

The

Frane Crawford Hongkong Telegraph.

Gene Austin

Shilkret-Victor Orchestra

Olaen's Music

Arnheim's Orchestra

Paul Oliver

22091-When you come to the end of the day

Mantries of One Sweet Kiss

"What a Widow"

22531-Love is like a song

Say "Oui," Cheric

Telegraph, public affairs, even if it possessed

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931.

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.

and

admitted

Whether

International City..

I have no interests of the sort to serve, so perhaps there will be some advantage in my repeating that the Buenos Aires is this undescriptive only true article I can write about

I have not

con-

English shoppers are to 'cnally plensed and therefore give eur traders and manufacturers tule experience in sulting fine and nar- row taste.

A Naval War of the Future.

no legislative authority, and would ment. have the, effect of fostering the civic spirit of the Culony. We are

to bolster up its reserves either by quite prepared to admit that the selling council bills (credit on Lon-one. general question of constitutionaldon) or selling silver in the open

There is nothing to describe here, reform is a difficult one in such a markel,

Sir George or no more to describe than there is Colony na Hongkong, but the dif-Schuster will pay any attention to in Regent-street, Buenos Aires is a ficulties are in no sense insuperable. the latest protest is extremely splendid, modern, international city. from which a tourist agency might strong. The rupee is being main-America. tion is so badly in need of reform,made in the proper quarter attained at a rate 2d. above the pre-

Its enterprise, however, would be it is a matter of some surprise, not Home, undoubtedly meet.

with

war figure, and the methods em-doubtfully rewarded, for the popula unmingled with amusement. that sympathetic response. The moment

ployed are equally disastrous totion of this city, I believe, would)IGH in the tropical sky an the seems propitious; it only remains the hoarded wealth of millions of Fawn out of its well-fitting collars Haeroplane hang motionices the Secretary of State for

people in India as It is to China. A at the picturesque.

like a bird of prey. LTD. Colonies should be so anxious for for a lead to be given.

Reisman's Orchestra

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To Hongkong, whose Constitu-Any reasonable proposals would. If doubtful, though feeling is very well run excursions to South By W. F. BULLOCK.

the government. of the Bermuda Islands as to suggest an extension}

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India and Hongkong.

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reversion to the rupee's pre-war value would be a corrective In it

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If I wrote against the grain of facts, what could I describe in Buenos Aires?

de-

Suddenly it drops from its height of 12,000ft., striking aca- ward at the rate of 300 miles an self, na- it would contribute to the Let me see. They are building hour. Its target is an aeroplane- of the franchise so na to bring the

the cheapening of gold the endearing now broad new diagonal avenues carrier heavily stacked with aero- little Crown Colony Into closer con- The renewed demand of

silver and would assist In through the city. In one of them planes. formity with contemporary British Indian Chambers of Commerce for of

in com-1 stopped and made myself cons-

The diving aeroplano is an Am-. institutions elsewhere. The "elsea casation of further efforts by bringing about the rise

erican bomber carrying a 1,000-lb. the Government of India to main-modity prices so essential if the in-picuous by gazing ground-a

dustrial depression is to be broken. cadent practice here. It was the bomb, twice the weight of those where," needless to say, does not tain the value of the

North diagonal, and I counted eight carried by the usual rupec Why the Government

two-seater. include Hongkong, one of the most eighteenpenée is a matter of very

of India lofty blocks which for brilliance The carrior reels beneath the force important of the Crown Colonies considerable intercat to Hongkong adheres so rigidly to its present and modernity would make the new of the explosion and auffers terrible

Its in-Piccadilly-circus buildings look like damages as the bomb hits it. though it may be. In point of fact, and China. Our concern contists in Polley is not at all clear.

debtedness to Great Britain is family sofas.

All around the mimic war is in Hongkong and the Straits Settle-this, the future of aliver and the

* Sky Sign,

progress, То the north-west rising continiously, while the silver crises intensified by the policy, Is

When it comes to architecture, ninety aeroplanes are sweeping undermining the very gold bullion London, save for a very few build over transports surrounded by a standard which it is their aim to ings, is best described as petite Imposing array of battleships. To uphold.

when compared with Buenos Aires, the south-west more aeroplanes are

crippling another, convoy.

difficult to understand, are

closely

ments for reasons which it is policy of the Government of India

arc control aboutin currency the most backward of the Crown linked. The 1926 decision, based Colonies so far as constitutional upon the Hilton-Young commis sion's recommendation, placing development is concerned. Pos-

India upon a gold bullon standard sibly, one of these days Lord Pass in place of the previous gold ex- feld will realise the necessity of change standard, and involving the bringing us more into line with sale in the open market of excess those contemporary British institu- stocks of silver in order to aug. tions to whiely he refers,

ment the Treasury's gold holdings When we stop to consider pre--immediately caused a collapse in eisely what the Bermuda Islands silver prices. The trend has been are, and the form of government over downward in consequence of which they now enjoy, we might the carrying out of the policy. It la important to note, moreover, that be forgiven for thinking that the before the Indin Government inhabitants have very little about began to sell silver, the reserve which to complain. For all Intents stood at approximately 361,000,000 and purposes a series of coral reefs, ounces, and four years later, after there are in all some three hundred 97,000,000 ounces had been sold, I ledets, of which only a very few are the reserve stood at 412,000,000 inhabited, the total aren being less ounces, which indicates that sales were more than offset by the influx than twenty square miles. The

of allver rupees into the Treasury. population is about 30,000. Yet, in It is obvious, that if India. con- addition to Executive and Legisla tinues to throw her huge stocks Live Councils, on the latter of which into the open market, there is no there is ពព unofficial majority, prospect of a recovery in sliver At the present time, the there are a popularly-elected House values.

of Assembly comprising thirty-six difference between the gold price of members and two Municipal Cor- the silver contents of the rupes and the bullion exchange value of porations, one in the town of

the coin is so great that the Hindus Hamilton and the other in St are exchanging as rapidly as they George, I will thus bo seen that can tiwir sliver coins for bar silver there is no lack of machinery with or gold. In fact, with silvor at which to put forward the views of 1/1, the Hindu axchanges 105 residents. What, however, scoms grains of pure silver worth about to be bothering Lord Passfield is 6d. in the market but in the form of a Government-backed rupeo, for that the registered electors com- 1/6 worth of allver. Thus to main-] prise less than six por cont. of the thin the rupes at its high level population, and the hint is accord which is held to be unwarrantable ingly thrown out that the franchise the Indian Government is forced,

✪ 1931 WY NEA SERVICE, INC.,

REG. U. E. PAT.CZTA

"She won't admit they're engaged, but sho's dropped her

music and started a busincès course.”

Black and Blue.

The day had begun with a single aeroplane rising to the sky as dawn" broke over the green jungles of Panaren and flooded the still waters of the Pacific with splendid. light.

Moving upwards and out of sight In the morning light the aeroplano: symbollaed the new era of naval

warfare.

1.

The tiny aeroplane was a unit in the "Blue" fleet of the United States Navy engaged in mimic warfare, against the "Binck" fleet, supposed- ly the force of a Pacifle Power bent on destroying the Panama Canal and the yet-to-be-built Nicaraguan Canal. The manoeuvres sought to learn the relative importance of naval craft-battleships, crùisers, destroyers, aircraft-carriers, sub- marines, and dirigibles.

The "Blue" admiral was buċċess- ful. His acroplanes found ·-and- bombed the enemy and fought a lively guerilla warfare, while the": "Black" admiral maintained a los- ing battle for four days.

Out of this "mimic war energe cortain theories which may change the strategy and tactios of futuro naval wars.

First, the aeroplane proved its worth: without the ? light, "swift, death-dealing weapon of the air the "Blue" admiral could not have pre- vented the wolghty "Black". armado from destroying the canal defences.

Secondly, the battleship is re garded by high nuthorities as still the backbone of the Navy, Aero- planes might destroy the conyos and hold command of the air:

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