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THE

HONGKONG

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THURSDAY, JULY

16, 1931.

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DAY BY DAY

THE DEEPER WE CO THE MORE REASON SHALL WE FIND TO BAILE AT Those THEORISTS WHO HOLD THAT THE SOLE HOPE OF THE RUMAN RACE, IS IN A RULE-OF-THREE SUM AND A BALLOT BOX---Macaulay.

A Chinese ease of diphtheria was notified t the health nuthorities yesterday.

ROBERT LYND welcomes

A 28 Million-to-One Chance.

CUR JAMES JEANS struck ajed about the condition of the world Serverfur note the other day two hundred years hence ne about when he told the audience at the condition of the world at the the Hawthornden Prize meeting end of the next six months. It-js conviction, which almost that the chance of the world's being my

amounts to

most destroyed

certainty, that comet is no mo of us would obtain infinitely more pleasure from

news that tax-

frain that "conditions are fundi mentally sound." Not by calling out the police to club the heads cannot of dissatisfied men. whu get the jobs they want. Not by Insisting that business always

must has and always

11213 in escles. The issue must be solved such makin event rally by changes in the machinery of pro- duction and distribution as wi

the ordinary man ensure to chance to have steady work good pay throughout his lifetime.makes the year's total a far particular horror at the notion that

Quarantine restrictions have been imposed by Hongkong against urrivals from Puki un nccount of plague.

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by than one in-28,000,000.

Those of us who have learned to

the

love our little planet, with its shin- tion would be reduced by half next ing rivers, its level meadows, ils year than by the news that, at the a thousand years, our de- The rainfall recorded at the Royal evening bills and its maskitude of end of iL

Observatory for the 24 hours ended at living creatures, especially our own scendants would be living at 10 am, to-day was 1.22-inch. This foolish species, have always felt n Utopia. „il-centred we are in our

To do that will involve some very radical measures,

The intelligent conservative will not shrink from

Le

then. In w adopt the legu he wi 1 realise that there is an other way of saving the Lora of sockety that he wants to per

inclues, ngainst an average of 41.89),

durin

Palling into Mow Tam Street from the roof of us. Nathan Rond where he had been playing with other bays. Wong Kai-yer, aged 20. D 428. Shanghai Street. reerived severe

dard and

shortly after qulinizsion to the Kowloon Hlaspítal,

An apprenties plunder of 1.

Hospital yesterday Government suffering from internal injuries re ceived through falling for the thin he does not, the things her denong to the stand our of 1, The

Penk, where he badd been at work, His colition is estrerve are any ap to vet Anuched out from.

1.

ill will becomes a ndical, Aguilar Street, was removed to the

as a matter of fact, to presso antry 1sts consérvatiyan,

1:

uder

Politics and Justice. Palities and the administration

Convictes) on

As serious.

How

this pleasant scene of all ear history attitude to the future is shown by suddenly turned into the fact that many people regard might elnder by the irresponsible wish the prophecy of an eminent German

economist that there will be a gen of Perpet's init.

For myself. particularly dis.eral trade revival in 1946 as de- too far like the thought of this writering pressing, Even 1945

for its teeming riches to give We in my own lifetime. The a f science, with his insatiable curio.it much pleasure in prospect. sits, no doubt, would jump at the are more interested in the year opportunity of observing so remark-1931, which somehow seems to be Ja. We can walt with this greed of investigation, and ou able

phenomenon. But I lack long to

But patience even till 19:32. Home such an occasion 1 should merely be 1945 is as far away and as tien as China. Yet, if we were altenists, filled with an utterable sadness,

we should be intensely cheered by the news that the rising genç☛ation will enjoy the delights of a tracks "boom" by the time it is middle- aged,

Of

Quite Disinterested. Many human beings, it is to be feared, are inspired by more sol- Poptart dead at the Junction of fish considerations than there in Shangha Meret and Nelson Street, a their attitude towards the end of Cheerful Prophets at a Premium. womnn aomed Leung Ngahun, aged the warid, it seems to me, only in If I were myself a prophet, 1 50 years yours, who had apparently inr as it means the end of them- should, out of consideration for the fallen into the street from her Jemise selves. Thus, if they were con- feelings of other people, always 1644, Shanghai Street, second four, vinced that the word would be take care to prophesy that all they removed to the Palie Mortuary destroyed by a comet next. Derenpleasant things are going to happen by the polive. There are no suspiciousber, they would fall into a panic. next year and all the unpleasant ot justice bear no refation one to runtimees.

But if it were

proved to them things hundreds of thousands another in Great Britain, but they

venes hence. Even prophets know merely that the world will he de vest do in the United States, and the

change of having stroyed by a comet 20,000,000 years very little about the future, and a Wickersham Commission has hadalen forty rents from Tank Kam here, they would regard this as an chongful prophecy is just as they chan, at the Kwong Chi Theatre interesting and even entertaining to come true as dismal one. That some very pointed observations to Kanu Street Inst night, boy named); fnet, and would feel less heartbreak is one reason why I like Sir Jimes make on the evils at the associa-Au Cheung was sentenced to

week imprisonment by Mr. Hapilion, ver it than if a penny were added Jeans's prophey that the world Commission's Reading the

will not be destroyed by a comet. the income the

Kowloon Magistravy this

During our own time, we have It is the sort of thing that cheers had a number of humiliating scares as world-patriots up. about the end of the world—senres that goturred only because the ent of the world was expected to tap immediately. There was

4 ALLIG some years ago when a man selence announced that he was po- ing to disintegrate an atom. Many people convinced themselves that This would result in the release of a destructive force that would blow the world itself to utoms.

1 lor.

Hongkong Telegraph.indings, it is easy to understanut morning. Inspector Clarke said the

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THURSDAY, LY 16, 193).

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la regular nuisance. grafters" aut all the rest. The pres sent system helps to produce them. The Commission points out tim the average prospicutor holds of fies for only a short

His assistants are appointed chiefly for reasons of political patronage. The relations of his office with the political lenders. From the Lik men down to the ward leaders,

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CORRESPONDENCE.

Au Explanation.

[To the Editor. Hongkong Telegraph.1

Sir.

T. B. WILSON,

General Agent, The Rabert Dollar Co.

tax.

PHIPPS on

“THE RIDDLE OF THE

HIKER,

A

STUNNIN' little riddle in

goin' round the clubs just now. "What is the difference

About the same time an Ameri cax professor was misled by sun-Il geen:

I have to request that your spots into anggesting that the world between a Rambler and a Hiker?" ferrare extremely intimate, in addi-will kindly publish that the Mr. Was about to come to an end; and and the answer is a Ukelele. Ila! Tille, Ches Geria nationalist tion, there are plenty of lawyers T. B. Wilsna reported to have theologians have been na bary as and again hat

The conundrum was actually in- Jeter, has once again pointel to whase an asset in their political been in a motor car accident on the men of science in their fore- the possibility of Hermany dip intence. They seldom appear in July 16th was not the undersign-casts, many of them, indeed, man-spired by the attitude of the West

ed, - Youra, ete,

Ing the very date at which the end Riding of the world was to take place. ping into Communist chinos, which court freeause they do not need to. They "know somebody in the pn-

Really Comfortable. would have disastrous

serator's office"; that is enough. sions througkart the whole

nt Under such circumstances, Europy, The warning is timely, any wer that bootleggers, clear Litt ingrafters of high and low degree, bregiolown present day underworld leaders of all descrip erotnie systems the Communiststions and a whole hast of crooks. have their ratest" opportunity.of other varieties slip through the That they are alive to The pesi. court.. unseathed? If the Wicker. shamn report, on this one point an idies there can be no Elaisia.

jar the public into activity the Apart altogether 1733 isaus

barcaminte 1

YOUTH BADLY

Ramblers' Association, which recently held a demonstra- tion at the Cow and Calf Rocks, likley Monr. Two thousand ram- I fancy that anybody who has blers were present. lived 56 years must have lived

It seems that the befe noire of the through a period during which, at West Riding Ramblers is a "Hiker" least, fit of these prophecies have with a ukelele. The West Riding bem falsified. 1 myself believed | Ramblera dislike the sound of both, only one of them, and, to my great j In view of, the federation's pro- relief, it turned out to be as in- test i have been asked to give one urate as the others. After that of my psycho-dynamic analyses of 1 settled down to the conteftable the issues at stake. I shall speak. conclusion that the world would like the federation, straight from probably last any lifetime, and the boulder.

The federation, obviously, would A young Chinese was the victimes thousand years after that,

INJURED.

KNOCKED. DOWN BY PWD, LORRY.

21

arising mat of the Peace Treaths Commission will have justilieul in Euf a serious aveident in Queen's) were only as sure that I myself like to substitule "Ramber" for existences For 1 great many Road Central, near the Central shall be here in 25 years as I am"Hiker." But some of the greatest Germany has a big unemployed years." saya an Anwrkan comTheatre, at 14 n'clock this murn-sure that the world will be here, 1 brafas in Europe have failed to woubl stop wasting money on in-draw a satisfaétory dividing fine problem on her hands, & eireum-mentator. "we have been killinging

was knocked down by asurance to-morrow.

between the two species, stance which only serves to come ourselves, wondering why so much public Works Department Torry, The truth is, most of us are su

The Ukelele or the Lark. drate the situation. THE the perime went unpunished when the No. 936, the rear pearside wheel pertain that the world is going to

It has, admittedly, been proved we regard speculation conditions prevailing, it is not answer was obvious to everyone of the heavy vehicle passing overlast that

who was at all familiar with the his body. He suffered severe about the end of the world mainly that any two sides of an Isosceles difheall to see how unless the

hiker are together greater than the of intellectual facts. Until

TEL:- file- prosecutor's injuries to his Cher, and his logs as a form

ment. We cannot fook very fartent, und-one savant has defined situation is must carefully hand-

olive, the criminal court and the were ladly crashed.

as any Force whose The Fire Brigade, ambulane ahead, and we even But it dillicula Rambler police, department can be removed was quick on the scene, and re- to take the future, if it is sufficient initial velocity decreases from political influence.ur ad-ved the injured youth to the ly far in the future, seriously. It ratio of MM. Momentum.

is difficult to be as deeply concern- ministration of Justier will ron-Government Civil Hospital. Lineu 10 by the inefficient andi

G.A. -- Ginger Ale.) frequently seandalous matter that it is to-day."

fid, a crisis of the first magnitude

may arise.

When one looks at

conditions

TWO BANISHEE PICKPOCKETS.

BOTH RECEIVE PRISON SENTENCES.

Pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a purse containing a sum of money from a pedestrian sear

yesterday,

all over the warld and knocks up against the hard fact that there is scarcely a country which has not this unemployed problem to face, there seems ground for thinking that the future will call for a good dent of radical speak; } ing and planning, possibly by | Isome who to-day are regarded as Liter most fervent conservatives. A prominent politician the other tay reiŋarked that no country can have its millions of unemployed, the Star Ferry

Chinese who before Mr. wanting work and unable to get it. Williams at the Central Policy without knowing that this state Court (hla morning was sentenced of affairs constitutes a challenge to six montha hard labour, to the existing social order and was stated that the defeminat had two previous convictions for lur-1 provides the Communists with their ceny from the person in 1920, after which he was banished for strongest arguments.. Another

ten years. observer, an economist. asserted

A second man was arrested for that Capitalism is on its trial, and assisting the firat defendant by upon this trial may dopend the jostling the victim while the first the parse. whole of Western civilination. Prisoner extracted

This defendant also Гиста ile added that the justification of churice of returning from banlah- any system is its efficiency; and ment before the expiration of his to-day, the world is faced with term of ten years from 1922. major breakdown.

Inspector John Murphy, who. prosecuted, said the second defen- The question is, what is golugdant was banished because he be

to happen? Obviously, the con-longed to a gang of pick-pockets!

and was associating with bad:

servatives of the world have the characters.

greatest atoke in the existing

The second defendant was non- social and economic order. They tenced to four months' hard labour are the people who can bo count on each chargo.

"Just clip him one on the car, lady, and he'll pipo down."

G.A.

in the

Beyond this point, however, re- search has not been able to pro-

ress.

the

With

regard to the ukelele habit,

chairman of the fadera- tion is alleged to have anid. "Jazz cannot compete with the song of the lark."

That Is all very well, but larks are not portable. A rumbler (or biker) may suddenly feel he would like a lark very much indeed, but it is in the hands of fato whether or no he is given the bird. Where- as if he has a ukelele with him, a meusure of certainty is assured.

WATER LEVELS

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH · AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table, Issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commiaston, shows in English feet the water levels on the West Rivor, North River and East River on the dates named:

July July 14 15

Wost River at Shlubing 21.7 North River at Samshui North River at Twingyuen 18.2 14.1 East River at Sheklung

7.1...

7.3 The level at Taingyuen on the 11th inst. was

The highest levels recorded ara: Shiching, 41 feet; Teingyuen, 20.2 feet; Samahui, 27.3 feet;, Sheklung, 115 foot,

The lowest levels on record are minus 5 feet at Samehul and minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.