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THE PATRIMONY OF A 100 MAN LIES IN THE STRENGTH AND DEX- TERITY OF HIS HANDS; AND TO IN. HIM FROM EMPLOYING THIS E STRENGTH AND DEXTERITY,------A dam Smith.

There was a clean bill of health In

the Colony during the week-end.

The P, and O. 9.8. Ranpura, feam Hongkong, arrived in Lerslun on 24th July at 6 n.m.

H. E. Major-Gonera) Sandlands, ne- companied by Capt. Cameron, A.D. C. left on the Empresa of Asia on Friday for a short Kiny in Manila.

Ghosts That Tell Tales.

By C. J. CUTCLIFFÉ-HYNE.

HINOUGH Lord Kilbrücken's) Mrs. Henry booked, and agreed

Trecent Reminiscenckend it was no

At 7.35 bat butler came up and

other printed statements the inte Professor Connington probably said, "The gentlemen have not holds a record for the publicity he came back yet."

My wife said, "They're in the vli-

grave to his own decense.

At the very moment of death age. We saw them walk over the

his wraith was seen in Oxford-bridge an hour ago. Probably

America's Isolation Policy. Those who are nccustomed to think that the Atlantic still isolates Lam Mul, a 14-year-old girl living America from Europe as effectively at 33, Centre Street, was found by her parents hanging front a rafter in as it did in the days of sailing ves-

her home on Saturday. No reason the sela must find it difeult to under-given for the suicide, stand the high signifieuner of the developments

ILANN

since

If it were not for the weeding-out process that the diffleulty of writ- Ing imposes on the ranks of the would-be authors the number would be simply overwhelming, And the man who really has some- thing to write which in worth writ ing never gets discouraged. te plugs along in spite of doubt, bore dom and discouragement; and aometimes, as in the case of Herr Remarque, he has the satisfaction of knowing that his book

The P. and O. Karmala, with the street and ten other places, and they are down at Mr. Ottiwell's. watches and dot Fifteen minutes later the but worked mightily on the minds of Engelinis tails, left Singapore yester-observers were obliging enough to Go and find them.

stay and, is dua here on Thursday utok at their 12 p.m.

down the exnet time on the hacksler trather white-faced) reported: of envelopes.

"My Ottiwell's away, ma'am. The Authentic mothers in England manter and Mr. Henry have not have appeared to countless errant been seen in the village sous in the African bush, and said lunch-time." good-bye so often that the thing The arrival of Cousin Henry has become a habit.

and myself in the cold, tired, dis- The vivid dream of warning, grecable, and thirsty flesh at too, protintay does as much busi-10:30 pm, was not received with an ever to-day. There was the affectionate embraces we ex- case of the MAR who waspected. Misthed ghosts are al warned by a ghost in a dream of ways quoted on the spook market the sinking of the steamship at a big discount.

He was in fine lo can- But if Henry and I had gone The master of a trading Junk was Waratah. Houver's proposal for a year's fined $50 the Marine Court this vel his bicket and be safely josest west through one of the maratorium en war dubls and rerning before the Hon. Coramdr.at ashore for his cold feet what apertures the Upper Wharfedal

Hote for leaving the harbour without time the Waratah was vanishing moorlands offer. somebody-or a clearance on Saturday. Defendant from history in turbuted: geng xumething would have had ready for issue a fine post-mortem grand stated that he entered the harbor at sehere.

To my certain knowledge any work for a tale of the premoni- non on that day and had no time to take out a clearance- before

again other men and woner have tory warnings about our exit. leaving.

Torefeited thele passages in steam-¡ A woman of my acquaintance. ships and trains since then. who weighs a good thirteen stone, A thief who strie a handbag helong-

"But for the prace of God and ajand looks it, is a wolf expert of of belief in "splentlid isolation."

slow taxi," a man said to me not | repute. The plais truth of the master is it to a Chinese woman, who left it on the counter of a shoe-inaker's shop

long EN

1 "Susan would have

dag sho finel Wellington Street. whlike VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED that the future of Burge rests at

ita that Seullish express | vivid dream. She analysed (lo what America AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE | largely on

dous, inspected the goods, whs for prison three months by My.smash. As it was, she landed at me. Its antecedents. She Willing at the Central Police Court the station in time to see the train joined off soup. berfestenk pudding this morning. A life-banisher from yo out."

and apple-pin. She had smoked British India br had n series of Their Chronie Laquncity, her one cigarette, and thereafter previous convictions in this Colony.

Susan skid to me later: "I read the golf papers till 10 p.m. dreamed about that accident the As anon as she was tidily asleep, night before, So 1 started late on her sister, who had died Home ten purpose."

years before, turned up at the font Eiflrient ghosts should invite of the bed and longed off some the fullest investigation of the sort of cinematographic

ealer they hands oul, De tuinment. Warnings they? I never caught them at it. A big passenger aeroplane went

Chusts suffer, if I may pit it so, jup frum

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Hongkong Telegraph.

since President

parations. As a matter of fact, these events-- which probably will be the higle spots of 1931 in the history books of the next generation

should dispel the last

shreds

When America takes 1 dozen un-

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sont

been

held at

sub.

many

had

from a chronic loquacity. They careered through the sky, shied at are aching to chat and give very something, broke out into a blaze little thought to the accuracy of and toppled earthwards in flames. their subject-matter.

Passengers poked their heads atom certainly action should be out of the portholes, and one of in the heads was Fred's-her bus- taken against hosts which

THE HONGKONG HOTEL | precedented steps for the purse

GARAGE.

of checking a catastrophe and the probability of revolution in Ger. many and to inspire Europe with a

At a meeting recently now hope, it is evident that Am-

Volunteer Headquarters to consider Just erican isulation is endeti.

the general athlete arct social where has this isolution gone? |ačitvities of the Corps during the Most historians say that it really forthcoming season, a strong

committee was elected to deal with war with Spain. Several proposed band gwerts. It is endeal with the By wizing the Philippines and hoped to have these whee a hunti

and August. September 11ing Cuba free, the United States during

October, but the exact dates will be announced itself as a world power.

nanounced latre. Less than two decades later the country found itself engaged in a Europesen war, sending troops 500 duty at the Man Kwok Restaurant, an miles overseas, nuintaining a veterant of the prevalence of thefts, personate other people without band's.

arrested a Chinese and he emerged case or permission. A lament- At breakfast next morning wh in the North Sen, ending smaller from i guest's room on Savindayable instance of this lapse lu good mentioned ker funny dream まり squadrons to the Mediterranean morning. He was identified as the

taste occurred in this Dales vil- Fred, who laughed at her. and dispathing an army to Siberia, inmate of an adjacent romm, and was

Rugge of Kettle well where I am now į Fred, however, was a junior part- writing.

ner. The office that morning, at The transition had come rapidly to have helped himself to money. amounting to $25, from the Yet nobody willed it. It came in-

The day was a Sunday. Cousin which he unfortunately arrived man whore root he entered. At the vitably, The industrial reson-Central Magistracy, this morning henry and his wife were staying late, was harsting with business. was sentenced to four matha kard with us, nad after morning church (Somebody had get to get across to a tenant of one of our adineral Paris to fix things. The senior tours said, "I am going up to book | partner had already rung up Croy- at same stout fraps. Come, too,don and booked a pew in a 'plane and go round."

for Fred.

MONDAY, JULY 18. 19:1

THE RIGORS OF WRITING.

Ton, which made very nation at

A district wagehman doing special.

Jabour.

POLICE RESERVE.

Erich Mark Romanpro, Catoma Lauthor of "All Quiet on the Wes

tera Front" and "The Road Baik," | feu! has a found !je prodessina il' let-

lens ap

He recently taid an interviewer in Germany; "The public often believes that a Took written at one stroke in a kind of easy, but i have to make extraordinary efforts 10 finish what have hegun. Some- times I have sat at my desk from is the morning through the en tire day without being able to simply has ceased to have any mean-place at the Bowen Road Revolver. write a single line" All of this

ente

i-

Icepe

Th world

has hundred times : Leumplex. thin

hudl iL before; and it us at shrunk to a fraction of a former size. The podies isolation, as a result,

of

WEEK.

Brgy and I went. The thre Fred, who had never flown be- of as poked our heads into a layer fore, went out from the office ex- of clouds about bulf-way up, and cectingly thoughtful. His wife's circle of dream of the blazing plane farved

martly dependent on ewry uther, was fargely responsible. So, Tere. Wege few methods of travel and communication, which divided i all distunees by ten and made thee.

with the speed of ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT after that walked in a suves Trove

ball During the last thought,

ten yards visibility radius. The up in his memory very brightly. rentury

moor tenant had feused the ground | What's the use of having a wife Puline Reservs Orders by the Hon. Me. E. D. C. Wolfe, M.65. Inspeetend known it for twenty years: if you don't believe in her? marched over Brid

it regularly! Fred missed the bus, been-neral of Police, stake:

since I was a-schoolboy:, so we That passenger-plane reached- were not chickens at the job,Paria on schedule time. In the nor But we got very thoroughly and mal way and without incident. Reyniver Pinetics. The regular eflciently lost.

The big item of business slipped· weekly revolver practice will take

past the firm, and the senior part- her said damaging things to Fred. Range on Wednesday, July 29th, at

Jie explained later, and

with 17.00 hours. It will be open to all is more than ordinarily interest-have not yet fully realised it. ing to the reading public. chiefly Meanwhile, in many things, theburs of the Chinese Company, and Mrs. Henry were sented in the violence, to his wife that her par beruse of the odd misconception leadership.. America's welfare and

world is looking. to Anerien for Hongkong Police Reserve. that commonly exists concerning the welfare of Europe are ex the writing of books.

in although Even

tricably inter-related.

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Antericans

RADIO LECTURE.

MR. BOWES-SMITH ON SCHUMANN.

General.

The Ghostly Hikers,

At 630 on that night my wife;

not

had nursery window watching the ticular brand of futile ghost eitizens of Kettlewell who were nearly cost him the junior part- Training Course-Part II.

either going to put in an atten-nership. for The weekly, classes Pulive dance at church or avoiding same. "Confound all ghosts" snid Reservists at the Chinese Company's Then my one said to the other Fred-

to me, if they are Headquarters, 17. Queen's Rondone, "Look, there are our two men guaranteed by their bankers and Central will be helt as usual coming across the bridge. the Board of Trade to be the Tuesday, July 28th at 5.80 p.m. All members of the Chinese Company and of the Flying Squad who have not passed Part II of Training Course should attend.

Chinese Company, Strength. The following

inrin-

Most people, ns Herr Remarque says, believe that a book romes into being with a rush. There is eli talk of "getting an Inspira tien." as it the writer sat, moon- struck, until a divine afflatus fill- ed his being and set bim frantical- ly to work writing down the words that welled up from with in. Similarly, on a lower plane, people talk of “getting an idea for a story"--as if, once the outline of a plot were conceived, all the rest were simple. As a matter of fact, the job of writing-if one is trying to create anything with any pretensions to dignity-is one of the most arcunus, soul-killing In the second part of his talk. Leave-Constable 1220 Jiwan jabs a

can tackle. Each Mr. Bowen-Smith spoke of Singh has been granted 6 months' be dredged up la-Schumann's marriage and of the leave of absence from the Colony is. pare has to

many

song compositions which from 23rd July, 1001. boriously to the tune of much marked the early years of hia self-castigation. The man who married life. Some of his best- known work In this corinexiori was produces n book, if it is above the then illustrated in vocal selections month of the Hongkong Section will The final instructional patrol of the ("hammock literature" grade, dnes by Mrs. Bowes-Smith, her husband take place on Friday, July 31st and all members should take part in this Ho only by dit of hard work and accompanying. mental suffering. For that rea- The lecture was extremely in-patrol. Fall in nt Central Pollce tereating and Informative, being Khaki Uniform and Cap with Khaki Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. | Dresa~~ son it must be peculiarly dis-very clearly broadenst, whilst the Cover. couraging to be an author. For piano and vocal numbers were the book that is brought into exis-delightful. tence with so much trouble' geu-

From the Government Broadens£. ing Studio last evening, Mr. A. M.hers have been struck off the strength of the Chinese Company, Hongkong Bowes-Smith gave a most interest-Police Reserve, as from 25th July, ing and instructive lecture on 1981;-Constables 830 C. R. C. Ham, Robert Schumann, which was R45 W. G. Hure, R59. Young Kwani Blustrated with examples of his Sui, and it lak Kwai Wing. compositions. In the first part of Revolver Practice.-Revolver prac his talk, the lecturer dealt with the tice will be carried out on the Bawen early life of the famous composer, Road Bevolver Range on Wednesday, the July 20th. All members of referring particularly to his com- positions for the plane, following of Part II of Training Course thin

Chinese Company who have not pass whch Miss Luha Pecker gave some year should attend without fail. excellent examples of Schumana's piano works.

Indian Conipany.

erally gets very cavalier treats

7

Flying Squad.

Sharpshooters' Company.

Revulover Practice.--Squads 2 and 4 will fire their Classification Tests on Shopkeepers are warned against Kennedy Road Range on Wednesday, ment from the public. Reviewers the circulation of forged American July 29th at 5.16 p.m. The following $10 bills. Another case was reported members shvuld attend: Constable have an insufferably alry way of over the week-end when Sui Yu-wai, R402 B. 5. M. Veleki, R409 A. II. Iar- dismissing it with two para-assistant manager of the Tung Shan team, R433 G. Tavastforna. 1418 L. R. Hotel told the police that a man had Dixon, R428 A. Winch, R400 J. C. L graphs; and the render can never paid for a meal at the hotel with Wong, 142 W.. E. Dorabjer, R436 American money. He was given. A. Starling and R488 N. Strad- $41.39 (Hongkong currency) change, moor.

(Sed.) D. L. KING..

D.S.P. (R).

nf

bo trusted not to desert it after five minutes trial in favour Romething more exciting.

and the American bill was found to be forged after he had gone,

They're early."

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