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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1981.

THE SAVIOUR OF GERMANY.

re

DAY BY DAY

Two blacksmiths, Li Kwan-yuk and Lam Wah, received severe head in juries when they foll from neaffolding of the New Jockey Club stablos ni Wongneichong.

the

NOBODY'S PET.

By ROBERT BENCHLEY.

plenie

NE of the advantages of grow-13a'd better get in." But thore in weight is that a man can admit to faays, "Oh, wo aren't going to get being afraid of certain things that. It's gotug around the moun which, as a stripling, he had to tain," and by the time it is evi- face without blanching. I will dent that we are going to get that come right out and say that jund It isn't going around the

mountain, it is too late. incan thunderstorms.

High-Speed Sauntering.

the Allied armies:-"You give me a lost battle and ask mu to be

EVERY WOMAN IS INFALLIBLY TO happy." But just as Foch

BE GAINED BY EVERY SORT OF FLAT- organized his forces and procced-TERY; AND EVERY MAN BY ONE SORT oll to victory, so Bruening has OR ANOTHER-Lord Chesterfield. tried to do. Not oven Bismarck

Wong Wah, who was injured In- ever resorted to grimmer measures,ternally when he fell from his bunk Germans of good sense realise on July 21, died in the Kwong Wah

Hospital last night. that he has done so with the best And purest of intentions. But they also realise that lie has set a dangerous precedent which may very well in the future be used not by a friend of the Republic

For years I have been conreal- Tho wresting match between AR such as he is, but by bitter | Indian wrestler and an opponent ing my nervousness during thun- whose name has not yet been divulged, ferstorms, or, at least, I have flat- enemies of democratic govern-w take place, at the Stadium, Northi tered myself that I was conceal people can be in taking down a ment. First, using powers' con- Point, at 6 pm. on Sunday, Aurusting it. 1 have scoffed at women tennis net or bringing a boat in who gave signs of being petrifed, shore when there is a thunder- ferred by the Weimar Constith-9th.

storm on the way, They must not saying: Come.

come! What a tion, he has had President Hin-

Falling 30 feet at the Hongkong there to be afraid of?" And all only take the net down, but they denburg help'ng him by dismiss Electric's power station at North the time I knew what there was must fold it up, very carefully and ing Parilament for long periods; Point, last night Cheung Ngau recely to be afraid of, and that it was a neatly, or they must put things ed multiple injuries and was admitted gooil, crashing sock on the headway all ship-shape in the cabin secondly, again using the Constl-to the Government Civil Hospital in with a bolt of lightning. People waste time.

und coil ropes. Anything. do get it, and I have no particular |

My attempts to saunter toward reason for believing that I am the house on such occasions must Immune. On the contrary.

have, at times, given Just where any of us in the hurend I have of being the

bulton, he has governed Germany by decree-laws countersigned by the President. If the «r the Communists

ever

Hitlerites

get

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a serious condition. He died ROOD after midnight.

T

Mul.

we

It is remarkable how slow some

to

away the

-

While fishing off No. 5 pler at the Kowloon wharf ut 8.30 p.m. yesterday, two girls, Chan Mal and Cheung man race get the right to adopt Cheung, neeldentally fell of a Hghter, the Big-Man atillude of "What is cipient of a bolt of lightning. I the fastest sountering ever pullest and were not aren agais. The matter there to be afraid of?" toward guess that. I have done some of was reported by Chan Kam, batman lightning is more than can figure off on a dry track. Especially if

the lighter and father of Chanout. You would think that

knew what lightning. You my arms are loaded down with would think that we knew how to cushions and bench-umbrellas

make a rather ungainly Job ut Another case of attempted suicide stop it. You would think that trying to walle as if I didn't care

Bittle dogs from a Yaumati ferry has been re-one but women and

and yet make good time.

I usually suggest passible, ported. A married women, Cheung were ever hit by it, and that no To, is sold to have jumped off the man in rough tweeds and a three that someone run theul and shut Man Shan last night, but was rescued days heard on his chin would give the windows in the house, and by two stummen from the Man Takit a sweond thought. She is now in the Government Civil to liospital.

majority in the Reichstag, they could form

and 11 government

They same methods, apply the might institute a tyranny and say legal they were governing by methods Hilus Dr. Bruening. They could deeree anything: they chose Frona absolute repuliation of all war debts and reparations promised by the titlerites, virtual confiscation of property as clumpioned by the Communists. These are points not to be aver looked.

Ax

My Ingrowing Winces.

10

then immediately delegate myself to this job. I am not so craky about shutting windows during a better

i am sick of all this bravado thunderstorm, but it is We are informed by the Coloniali Secretary that the following General about lightning and am definitely than hanging around outside. Order has been inserted after General abandoning it herewith.

I once got caught up in an nero- Onter 402:102A. During the

Ever since I was a child oldplano during an electrical storm. two storms. months May in Ortber bath inclusive enough to have any pride in the In fact there were the following optionul non-uniform matter have been wineing in-one on the right and one on the evening dress may be worn by Gavern wardly whenever 100,000 volts of left, and we were heading right ment Officers when attending official Simon Pure electricity cut loose for the spot where they were com- dianers and similar functions at in the air. My nervous ayatem ing together. We could see them They Government House:(1) White mess has about 600 ingrowing winces quite a long time before they bit

White

The Emergency Degrees issued the other day by Dr. Bruening are the most daring ever penned German slatesman. Ly L have astounded the people and jacket. (2) Black tle. (3)

waist-cont, single breasted. (4) Black tored up inside it, and it is bad us, and I was full of good sug Heations which the pilot didn't aroused widespread antagonism evening dress trousers. Miniature for any nervous system.

medals nud deenrations may be worn From now on I am going to take. I wanted to put down right in some quarters. For the first with this dress," His Excellency the humour mine and give, a shrill where we wore. It was a rocky time, the Chancellor has not call-Governor wishes it to be known that scream whenever I feel like it, country, covered with scrub-pines, of the war reparations by that this dress may be worn at such func-and that will be whenever there is but it seemed to be proferable to

tions by unofficial guests who may a gond sharp flash of lightning. hanging around up in the air. name; he called them "tribute." wish to wear it. And he has asked his countrymen

lo, make one final sacrifice. In:

I will say his for myself: I will I was considerably reassured, scream wh the lightning flashes however, by being told (or shout- and not when the thunder sounds. ed to) that you are safer up in the extreme. The elation of Wall1 may be timid but I am a fool. air during a thunder-storm than that way, he hoped to balance the Street when the drain of gold from My nervousness begins when I you are on the earth, as lightning

obvious onEngland to

France ceased isree the black clouds in the dis- cannot strike unless the object is Amongst World statesmen who Budget, but it was

of the view held far-off rumble my

It sounded logical At the sound of the first "grounded." tance. have figured prominently in the the eve of the Hoover moratoriam illustrative

heart stops to me, or as logical as anything the United States heating, and it does not resume connected with lightning ovar public eye during the past few proposal that Germany hud reach generally in

strong its normal work for several hours, could sound, and I ant back to en- weeks, possibly none has attracted the end of her tether. Tem-American financiers fear

been agitation for bimetallism but are which does not do my health any joy my first electrical display in has that eil

HOW Dr.porary relief attention 11020

is still prepared to oppose it tooth and good. Heinrich Bruening, the German secured, but the future

It really was great, although I mall. What value lies in the vast

hate to admit it. You couldn't Chancellor. Holding that even a somewhat obscure. Whatever hap-accumulation of "sterilized" gold

sent

it

crisia s Chancellor." Ste Ita everything on a last desperate throw of the dicebis slender Parliamentary majority, his poli- tical future, and possibly the future of his country. Unknown outside tiermany six years ago, he

"trofi. Chancellor," had an easy time compared with Bruening, for he seldom ventured unless he was

The Plen for Bimetallism,

www.y

be

Even Good Runners Suffer.

·ACT 2*

comfort.

it

To make matters worse, I find that there are a great many women who are not frightened, and who want to sit by the French windows and play bridge through the whole thing. This in a pretty tough problem for a man of my temperament,

At best, I am al Indifferent

bridge player, even

a balmy

beaton untion may be pressed too pens, Dr. Bruening will assuredly in America would be lost. Their If there are signs of a high hear the thunder because of the far, he has brought the whole go down in history as the man who grip on the markets would lip, wind with the approaching storm, motors and there were some very that pretty flashes. It was only sev a damp sweat, similar to international situation to a head, drew the attention of the world is safe to assume that the same which forms on mine walls, breaks eral months after, on reading of a and he may emerge from the pre-to his country's financial plight, motives would dictate the policy out on my forehead. A high wind plane being struck by lightning

second Iron and also as one who did not flinch biggest holder of the world's gold. Hittle silly

of France, which is the second is another thing which it seems a three thousand feet up, that I be

to non-puh. Highgan to get nervous.

Perhaps you can't get hit up- staked from an unpleasant task.

Were the British bankers fighting winds have, in the past, managed this ofi-vanquished cause on the to do quite a bit of damage, even less you are "grounded." accord- men and good in to all the laws of Nature, but old battleground, the prospects of 10 very strong

It is always the exception that saccess would be precisely ninners.

Of course, until now, I have proves the rule, and it would be If ilongkong's voice carried any To-day, with the need for stable never allowed myself to show my just my luck to be one of the ex- Persuasion in international finan-currencies enormously increased, trepidation. If I happened to be ceptions. The next time I am up rial eireles, plentiful support with gold production waning, out on the water or playing tennisin a thunderstorm I come down. is on the top of St.. would be immediately forthcom- with the collapse in world prices when it was evident that a atorm even i is a quiet, modest, scholarly man ing for the London advocates of as a direct osteome, they are at was coming, I have looked casual. Paul's Cathedral.

and said: "Ho- Perhaps the worst part that a still on the right side, of fifty, but bimetallism. From the local least assured of a hearing. Toy. at my watch

result hum! What about going in and nervous man has to play during a erials like this is reassuring the one who carries a burden greater viewpoint, it must look very much attempt to prophecy the

making a nice cool drink?"

Indies. If I am alone I can give excessively than that of any statesman of like a chance of making money would, however,

Sometimes I even come right out and go down to the cellar, but in am sny: "It looks like a storm. modern times, Bismarck, the first out of nothing. The Ilengkong rash.

when there are women around I have to be brave and joke and dollar would be enhanced pheno-

value, menally in

and when

yell "Bang!" every time there is a crash. the bimetallic system came into D four- proper working order, sure of his ground. Internally, shilling dollar would be the he kept peace because he over- normal thing. Lord Hunsdon, awed the dissident elements by a who revived the plea, has oblain- show of force which was prepareded the support of Mr. Reginaki I. F. Darling to be ruthless, if necessary. In McKenna, Mr.

(naturally enough, # the Arat those days, Germany was a rich,

modern protagonist) and certain busy and prosperous nation, fear-

prominent Parliamentary econ- ed by most of Europe.

omists. They argue that the plun Dr. Bruening has been faced is not, as generally assumed, that with quite a different situation. of placing a fictitious value on His country, having lost the silver, but is merely a restoration greatest war in history, has had of silver to its proper relation to to pay huge sums in reparations. gold. Since silver prices have

financer Her

have become always been greatly influenced by the use of the metal for currency muddled, and her army of un-n use drastically curtalied in employed runs into fully four mil-recent years with the sole object of lions. To pay war reparations, it helping out the gold standard-it has been necessary for her to sell becomes perhaps a matter of abrond, But she has found the financial relativity. In principle, sound. markets of, the world gradually it neems fundamentally

Novortholes, few wil under- closing to het, partly because of estimate the strength of the op trade depression and partly by position, tho preponderating tariif walls. Hor taxes have risen section of the financial world tremendously; her purchasing which is wedded to the gold Inter-standard. The assential feature has diminished.

is that ally, the Reich has found itself of the Hunsdon Plan

and Franco, or beselged by ambittered enemies either Britain

Britain and America, or France, the Hitleritos the Right and the.

and America, or all throe, should Communists to the Left. It agree to adopt the system and to, was under such conditions that tako steps to carry it through, in' Bruening was called upon to form a period of fifteen years. Un- a cabinet a little over a year ago. fortunately, the prospects of such He might have sald to President an agreement are remete in the

power

SCENE I

*Four shows a day Bay, If, I'd gone into business and worked this hard, I'd be president of some steel corporation."

with the summer night's breeze wafting round outside. I have to go very

bidding

Ahining or sun

carefully with my

and

listen to everything that is being said or I am in danger of getting a knife in my back from my part- nor when the gamo over. But with. LL thunderstorm raging elbow,

around my ears and trees crash- ing down in the yard by my

might just as well be playing.

snap for all the sense I make.

A

good flash of lightning bas been known to jolt a "five apados" out of

me,

with

an eight and queon:

of spades in my hand. Sometimes It would almost have been better if the bolt had hit me.

I would feel more ashamed of confessing all this if I waren't sure that I am in the right about.. it. I am not afraid of snakes or burglara or ghosts or even Gandhi, but when it comes to lightning

bo wall, there's something to afraid of! And anyone who says, that he isn't is either lying or an awful nas being

nervous lan'd

Of course,

going to keep you from getting hit but when you are' norvaLLS YO don't lie around with water.dri ping on you and holding copper plate in your mouth, and'dvolding (Continued on Page 7)