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what is more, that the Hongkong

nuthorities are not concerned to sou

DAY BY DAY

TO LOOK ON. THE UNIVERSE AS A DUNGEON 19 THE NOTION OF A

that it is. There is, of course, no FANATIC.-Voltaire. suggestion that British companies are not respecting the terms of the

So That was Luxury.

By THE DUCHESS OF

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The forthcoming wedding is art- nounced of Warder George Woodward,THAT is luxury?

agreement, but the fact remains Victorin Gaol, to Miss Elizabeth Blyth,W1

Two (okis of the Tak Lung Bak stall of the Western Market are reported to have absconded after having colected $552 from various markets in Hongkong,

SERMONETA.

ted with every conceivable con-

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|that British-registered boats leav. Na, 31, Morrison Hill, Hongkong.

We had finished luncheon fort that have made my restless and were sitting with our elbows wanderings so easy. ing a 'British Colony are allowed a

The management of the Hongkonghe smoke of our cigarettes hungries, trying hard to

the table enjoying our coffee. I was groping among my momo- Intitude which is positively and Shanghai Hotels Lt, advertises

recall of the that there will be no Dinner Dance at like a grey mist over the mauve strongest feeling of luxury I had dangerous. The extent

the Repulse Bay Hotel on Wednesday, tulips. We were discussing the ever experienced. And then it all danger may be imagined when we June 17.

exact definition of "luxury," and came back to me; point out that some of these vessela

we agreed that it meant the very which have only one qualified

best of everything.

I was riding in Abyssinia under "Soft beds, perfect lighting ae-ja pitiless sun. My small caravan navigating officer carry as many as

rangements, boiling hot baths, straggled before me in a waver- seven or eight handred passengers

and the best food, oh, and, ofing line, seven or eight pack course, well-warmed rooms," said mules following each other, with at a time. What might happen to

a young woman, "that la the five natives trudging alongside. these people in a moment of ex-

After being rescued from the foundation of the lap of luxury." We were crossing the plains of treme emergency with an certi harbour, a Chinese who attempted ta Then someone else suid we were Bircutan, known as the Hell of feated officer in charge is too alarm-Mental Hospital, apparently insane. in bit off the track: that luxury at 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the Ethiopia. The thermometer stood The man was stated to be a rattan meant all the things one car shade, only there happened to be lly de without, so we started count-

ing them up. ·

no shade at all since last camp. so it had stood all day at anything It could climb tu.

ing to contemplate,

commit suicide was removed to the

worker.

ip Chol Viel sentenced to CITI? month's imprisonment by Mr. Hamil- Duet

ton, at the Kowloon Magistracy this worning, for the theft of a bicycle belonging to Lau Hing, of No. 573 Rovination Street.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE.

it

Yochis, Moths, jewels, Anta”in

Everything I touched burnt my Paris, big country houses. was a lovely list. But a horrid trail we were following twisted fingers. The almost. invisible doubt crept into our

minds. If through the dried elephants gröss you didn't happen to like some that rose to the level of my eyes. thing that you could do without Only by standing in my stirrups the and that was the best of its kind, could I see over its top.

that thing did not represent I had a queer metallic taste in Juxury for you at all. It was simt-

my mouth as though I had ply unpleasant.

"For instaner," said the Am getting lower, and I knew that if chewing a watch. The sun Was husstedor, lobsters and chamwe did not find water before aight One gives me nettlerash fall, there was trouble ahead. We [pagne,

A report has been made to police by the military authorities that three soldiers are absent from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The men's names are given as Juha Wilson, John Campbell and Jolm Mar-

mon.

becu

It is conceivable that when the agreement was reached between re- presentatives of mercantile officers and the Shipping Federation, lule, if any, thought was given to the PRICE $3,200.

possibility of such a situation deve VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED | loping as we find in existence here AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE| in Hungkong. If that is an, the necessity of this Colony making its own arrangements for cops with an admittedly serious position appeara to be all the stronger. Al any rate, the matter is one

such gravity that the lean that the Gov-Star Furry, Kowloon, early this morn-st combination.“ ing, when a China Motor Company's "Soft mattresses

And now the sun was setting, ernment can do is to consult the bus enllided with the rear part of a pillows!" barked the General,

her bus, damaging it slightly. The looking right and left. "Beastly bon of green trees and bushes, but we any in the distance a rib- Officers Guild an the subject. Talinter of the China Company bus things. Had them the other day which meant a with the idra at evolving some

river. Again was also damaged.

at Daleapen-thought I'd sulfo countless ages passed until ente. Rolled out of bed and finish get there, and then we found arrangement whereby the crews of

ed the night on the floor." #teamers and the travelling public

"Bath salts!" said the Peeress We rode up and down, scrambling dried bed, all rocks and sands. may rest assured that everything ponsible in done in the interests of safety at nea:

'The Hongkong Shanghai Hotels, Lid, Incorporated in Hongkong. 2B, Queen's Bond G. and Bluble Road).

The

Hongkong Telegraphi.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931,

A CALL TO ACTION.

It would not appear to need much

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By-Products of Science.

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A slight rident occured at the and the other gives me asthma, went on for what seemed cont

Being struck in the chest by a stone which brenme dislodged from the

serious.

Central Police Court this morning

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Then came a shout from a -

Carrying my treasure carefully,

I wandered away till reached a secluded spot among the boulders. There by the light of the moon

hillside at Kun Chung, where he want who was something at Court. "We over the boulders, hoping to find working, Chan Tai, of the Wo Hing never had them in my time, I

n pool, but there was not a vestike contractors matshed in Jordan Rond, tried a handful when I was stay of moisture anywhere to be seen. was removed to the Kowloon Hapital ing with my daughter, very ex. for treatment. His condition is not pensive ones too, so she told me search. As dismounted, I made Darkness fell, and I gave up the i smelled of sandal wood for three days and I hate smelling of any in my bottle till next morning. 1 vow not to touch the last drops According to a report made to the thing. I simply couldn't get away also wondered whether I would be Judged by some of Its fruits, palier by Shun Chai-cheung, chief from myself and I wanted to able to keep it. expert knowledge to appreciate the modern science may not be qpilte as contam of the Id Yu Ko, sanitary out in the garden and roll in the

engineers, of 3, Des Voeux Road flower-beds like a retriever." magnificent BIL etlitics

Central, a shroff has absconded with Now we were all off, nose down, | reasonability of Capt. T. T. Lauren-builders have been fond of belies- $287 which had been collected from on the track of something luxuritive. He had been scooping away son's plea, published in a Telegraphing. So, at any rate, says Pro- the Tung Shan Hotel, as well as

ous that we absolutely hated. It with his hands in the river bed $2,000 which had been entrusted t Interview yesterday, that British fesse, Arthur Compton, winner of him to deposit in the Bank of East was surprising how many things and had managed in got down to

we found.

water, Little by little the preciou steamers sailing out of Hongkong the Nobel Prize for Physles in Asin,

Pute de foie gras made

liquid was collected, dense with should be required to carry at least 1927, who draws attention to the

body sick, furs gave someone else mud, and every living being in two qualified navigating officers.

fact at splendid achievements Appearing on a charge of riding hay feyer, anything anyone liked the caravan had a drink, even the often seem to produce rather puny bicycle without a light, Chinese was promptly torn to shreda nectar fit for the Olympians. And The views so strongly expressed by cesnits. "Is a girl smoking and intimated before Mr. Williams at the neighbour.

mules had their share. It, WIS

the branch Secretary of the China listening to jazz from a loudspenker that he had been pushing the eyele

then when I expected nothing more, the most heaven-sent glit Const. Officers' Guild are known to what the great electrical pioneers at the time of his arrest, although the

"The fact is 's' almost impus-was presented to me: half a pail aermd with the feelings of ex- have been working for?" he asks. posed a fine of $2 and remarked of the party who had not

mchine had no light His Worship sible to define luxury," said one full of chocolate-coloured water, perienced nautical men

yet to do what I liked with. ira Far The question is something of a that it did not matter whether the given his opinion. He happened Eastern waters, who consider that | poser, and it can be duplicated with defendant had been riding the machine lo be un ex-King, therefore vider existing conditions the pas other inventions, The motir-caror pushing it.

philusupher. "It does not really natter what the thing is but what sengers and crews of many British- is a marvel of mechanical ingenuity, registered ship plying

but sometimes its chief results between Hongkong and other parts are ex-

Marine Court this morning, before mously from hour to hour. Real! ways and a rising toll of fatal ac- Commdr. Newill, for posed to unfold danger. When itcidents.

conveying luxury means getting exactly what Pyjamas. When I joined

caravan again I found them...all Mr. Edison performed women in the bartur for purposes Fou want at the moment when you settled in the dry river bed,

The is realised that some of these boats miracle in, inventing the moving of prestitution. Defendant pleased need it most."

men had it a big fire and were guilty, but stated that she did not carry only one certificated navigat-picture, but some of the

They were all talking at once talking cheerfully once more rublish now the three women were prosti-after that, and I was reviewing in they cooked their food. They had ing officer, it is obvious that there which is thrown on the silver screen tates, They asked her to take them my mind all the wonderful things put out my cot at a little distance to-day hardly seems worthy of hts to Jardine boat and she agreed to have enjoyed in my life. The off, and the mules were browsing

beautiful houses I have lived in all round. brilliance. The Bell telephone is at

the perfectly prepared breakfast Very soon the whole camp was distinctly remarkable invention, no

In prosecuting a Chinese, Cheung trays that have been delicately asleep. A cold wind sprang up, matter what users may have to say Yee, before Mr. Williams at It

the placed on my bed, the libraries and as I lay muffled in my blan about it after obtaining a wrong Central Police Court this morning on full of choice books I have had kets watching the camp-fire and mumber, but surely Mr. Bell never charge of returning from banish the privilege of browsing in. the the moon I felt utterly at

pence So far as we understand the post-contemplated the hours upon hours Worship that the defendant, who was Kardens of almost unbelievable with the world. I said as I dozed

ment, Inspector Vincent informed his tion, existing conditions locally of idle gossip which is sent over the formerly a member of the

beauty I have wandered through off: "Never have I been so com- Police on summer evenings, may not be in conflict with the pro-wires by women husy-bodies. So force, was deported for ten years in

fortable in my life. God is really Murch, 1922, after being implicated in And then the Blue Traigs, the very good to me." visions of the Merchant Shipping it goes. If the present age has a

an armed robbery. The defendant Golden Arrows, the Orient Ex-1 Act, but there are several points genius for producing mon who can

was given three months' hard fabour. presses, the many huge liners fit- which should be borne in mind insible, it also has a genius for de- accomplish the seemingly impos- this connexion. For example, no basing their works and putting ship carrying passengers would them to silly and inconsequential ever leave a port at Home with ends. That, of course, is not the aut having શ sufficiency of entire story.. Inne wireless, pro- ||qualißed navigating officers to en-grammes, rubbishy films, mad mo-

must be long stretches of the day

during

which these ships are thoroughly unsafe for those aboard, The point is so apparent, that Beds n undue stressing.

A fine of $50 was imposed on the it means to you at the moment you enjoyed the most exquisite wash

seem to be a blocking of the high-mistress of a passenger boat of the firet it. Its value can vary enor of my life and changed into

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companies them of lives, for instance, have been, selves. There is the further saved by the use of wireless at sea, point, also, that in Driental waters the radio knife has enabled 'opera- the risks of casualties are much tions to be carried out more easily greater than in many other parts and with less danger. Tha less en- le for- of the world, due to the hazardous couraging features can

the shipping

gotten. They are unfortunate, conditions prevailing during the perhaps, but there is no reason to typhoon seadon arid also to the in- be disheartened. competence many of the officers

on

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Chinese vessels. These factors which point the necessity last night a man named Cheung Lam, While walking in Waosung Street for every posible precaution being had his packet picked of a purse con- taken against possible disaster. But.taining $23.85. The thief Wong Ful, was chased and arrested. Но perhaps of even greater Importance was produced at the Kowloon Magia. In the fact that two years ago antracy before Mr. Hamilton this morn- ing, and sentenced to six weeks' im- agreement was reached between prisonment. representatives of the merchant shipping officers, and the Shipping

Whilst under the Influence of drink, Federation whereby all vessels of a man named To Fan, of 306, Queen's Road West, second floor, fell into the 2,750 tons and upwards should harbour ear Water Street. He was carry three qualified.` navigating rescued and taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from tha offkera, excluding the master. effects of the immersion.

do so for 30 cents.

– THAT SY HEA BERVICE, ING. PREIL U. A PÁT, OFF.

“You go on to bed, paw; I'm going to walt and sea what they, serve for refreshments."

the

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The vision faded and I realised that my friends were still talk- ing. The ex-King was finishing an anecdote and I caught his last words.

"The essence of luxury," he said, "is to be free to go where you like."

And then we all got up.

KIEL REVISITED.

By Commander H.-M. DANIEL.

Why the forthcoming naval visit

a contrast is presented

to Kiel and that last occasion In June 1914 when the Second British Battle Squadron and First Light Cruiser Squadron went there im- mediately before the Great War!

That force was heralded as the most powerful naval detachment lever to have visited the German. Fleet and the first to do. AD for zine

If

years.

ȧnloaded, guns were

the

very

afr was charged with apprehension. The glad thunder and smoke of gun salutes wreathed the rival. fleets in a mlat which'only hid from, the wilfully blind the imminence of shots in anger,

A Different Design.

This time, when the "royal”. salute of 21 guns is fired by the Dorsetshire, the German ensign at her masthead will be soon for the first time in their lives by many of the British squadron,

I will be a different ensign, however, from that which so klones, ly resembled the British as to nec

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