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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931.

esc Government. The implication in that if a foreigner moves only a

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even romaine within close proximity to the National expital, the Central Government cannot guarantee him Immunity from outrage unless local Authoritica nro beforehand advised

of his movements That jan suredly a nice state of affairs för a Government which daims to have unified the country to admit. The fnot, of course, is that even

if Thorburn did have a passport, he' would not have escaped the fate which has befallen him, for the simple reason that Nanking has not the power to discharge the cle- mentary obligation to which we have referred. The passport arzu- ment is obviously a mere after- thought, an attempt to lay hold of any point, however irrelevant it inay be, in order to make out a case. It cannot, however, be seriously considered, and certainly cannot be

Hccepted in discharge of Nanking's liability.

DAY BY DAY

MAL-INFORMATION IS MORE HOPE- LESS THAN NON-INFORMATION.-C. C. Colton.

Judge Sir Peter Grain la coming to Hongkong to attend the Full Court on August 10.

A senle of charges for offctal ex- aminations by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon is contained in the Gazette.

It is notified that the name of the Chinese World Tour

Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.

"YOUR NAME &

BUSINESS, SIR!"

By A. R. MacDONELL.

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RADITION In our older Gov.

So far during your tour

will

Ternment Offices, I say older be- havo felt that, whatever you we

Cause It is impossible to keep you have been taken for and treat track with the new, dies slowly and ed like a gentleman. On entering. the shadow it casts Ies deepest at the Home Office, however, the mos- the base. Any casual visitor Benger will observe this by studying the bear until he has finished gnore you

some small tob.. ing and demeanour of the messen he may have in hand. He will wers and servants, and each Office look you slowly Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery Here are be a messenger in any he is sure you are suflicioutly self- of Hongkong University, has been of the older Departments of State conscious he will subject you to

up and down; when

added to the list of medical practi tioners.

The name of Dr. Ng Yeok-boon,

"Bear Pit."

is a mark of great trust and inte- species of third degree concerning grity. The tradition of his De. yourself and the object of your A proclamation by ILE. the partment to a messenger a matter, visit. Thero will be much waiting In the corridor and generally speak- Governor orders that the Merchant of distinction and honour. Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1031, The Treasury is the oldest build-ing you will be glad to take your. Ja to come into operation as from ing, and all within the building isnt off to the Conotaph again on July 31st.

In keeping. The walls and founda- leaving the building.

The Colonial and Dominion Ofco It in notified that a first and funtions of the old "Bear Pil" still dividend of $100 per cout. has been exist, the Chancellor of the Ex-go-AB-you-please sort of place. declared in the matter of E. Hing chequer when in office, sits over the When the messenger has finally The maze of dark made up his mind who is the official and Company, also known na Elling

corners and dead handling that part of our far-flung It would appear that Nanking Chan and as E. Hling (In Liquidation), corridors, odd

enda bewliter even the initiated. Empire about which you wish to has an impression that if it peralata

Among the transfers in the Far High officials sit in what were once inquire, you will, and that official long enough in disclaiming all res- East nade by the Secretary of Stato the cellars, Gothic and Tudor to be quite the wrong persen 12 ponsibility in the matter, Britain for the Colonies is that of Mr. T. B. archways, which have long censed answer your inquiry. Tas Colonial Rolland, 1st Gr. Wireless Techaleinn, to serve a purpose, are to be found Omec has no particular tradition: will tire of securing any satisfac-Hongkong, to Radio Technician, Hong in many unexpected places.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931.

SHEER SUBTERFUGE.

His Majesty the King has approved

mistaken, however, if that turns the appointment of Hors, prof. out to be the case. Suillcient in- cial Member of the Executive Council Judicial you wish to see in In; he If you visit the Admiralty or tize dignation has been aroused both in in the place of the Hon. Sir Henry will then instruct a subordinate to War Office you leave the civilian Shanghai and in England to Indie.ollock, who is temporarily absent and out if it is convenient for yountmosphere. Yel, curiously enough,

from the Colony.

to be received. If you are ·80 the War Onice employs a friendly ate a determination to get at the

minded the man from Dublin will policeman on the Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co, Ld, then regale you

door. In aini, with alorics of bottom of this matter, and to de-advertise that on Monday, August 3rd. what once was at Dublin Castle; he evident. He will not let you move howover, the military machine is mand the punishment of the guilty, all departments will be closed. The will tell you how he used to take an inch beyond the threshold until There must come a time when Bri-kong Dispensary. Dispensing Miss Gibson, who shot at Mussolini,

partment, will be open for dispensing tain will not be satisfied with con-prescriptions from 10 am to 1 p.m.

Custer who was born in Du die familiar terms be temporarily an Castle. He will tell you that the Treasury as

no-

cocted stories derised with the one aim of deceiving both the British Minister and the British Govern. ment. Then it will be a ease of taking other measures than those of more verbal protest. As one of our Shanghai contemporaries Te marked the other day, patience and friendly remonstrance have had If the attitude of the Nanking their way and have achieved Government on the Thorburn out-thing; the next step must be dif- rage is correctly interpreted in the ferent. Firm and vigorous action message which came to hand from is called for: warninga enough have Shanghai yesterday, then it can been given. It is now for Britain only be described as a crude piece to show the Nanking Government of dipomatic side-stepping which that she is in deadly earnest and calls for emphatic protest and ne- will no longer be put off by bluff tion by Great Britain. Seemingly, and substerfugo. In spite of all the positive evidence that Thorburn has been seen alive,

The Capone Case.

of

and from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

According to a report to the police!

to school when she was a little girl you have filled in and signed a yellow paper; neither will halet you He is most respectful, but has a leave the building until you have raval friendliness about him.

returned him his yellow paper. Should you cross Downing-street

Lord

Most

.

by Mr. D. W. Munton, Manager of to the Foreign Ofles, familiarly

Many is the time I have retraced the China Light and Power Company, termed the F.O., you immediately my steps to retrieve that paper, for another transformer has been forced feel that you have "come up tot must be examined by the floor pen by thieves, this being the one at Town." If you are of sufficient immessenger and taken in to the offl- Chatham Road, from where electric fuses, valued at $180, have

nineportance you will be met by Mr.

the Head Office Keeper (atly forgets to return it to you.

elul you are visiting, who invariab been stolen.

the F.O. Messengers are Office

In the War Office, as in the India Bir. Wright was once an The funeral took place on Thursday Salisbury's valet, and it is, pinces the door wide. open. official, on leaving his afternoon of George Johnstone, the from Mr. Wright that the tall it is supposed that any patrolling four year old sen of Drum Major takes its cue and demeanour. Johnstone of the 03rd Highlanders Lak

Ave authorised person is looking at and Mrs. Johnstone. The Interment of theso minor F.G. officials have messenger may then see that 19 un- was in the Happy Valley Cemetery, been gentlemen's servants, not from the body being carried to the grave.Dublin and Edinburgh Castles, but papers, One would imagine, hop-

that any unauthorised person! side amid a profusion of wreaths. from Berkeley-square and Carlton

would A large number of people attended the House-terrace. A great difference, have the cunning to close the

door From them you glean no stories of bor on entering what once was. There is no wait-pic and span, and one is for nearer In the Admiralty overything a ing at the F.O.; your name is taken the quarter deck than one is near and you are announced.

G.H.Q. at the War Office. The Ad- When you are ushered into the miralty messengers are old sallors;

obsequier.

The Health Bulletin of Eastern other week-ending July 25, con tain the following statistica: Pingus, -Alexandria nine cases, four deaths:

Port Sald two cases; Beirut one casa; room of a Foreign Office official you they never seem to forget a face or Algiers two cases; Bassein three casos, cun anuge his rank by studying his two deaths; Colombo one case and one carpet; only Cader. Secretaries and death. Cholera-Baaral two cases Hends of Departmenta ever get n and two deaths; Bombay eleven and new carpet,

name. Their cheeriness lends a breezy yet warm atmosphere to the highly pollabed corridora.

But be careful that you go in by

ten; Calcutta 48 and 28; Rangoon oce If you are sufficiently important deaths; Bangkok one case. Smallpox, you will be conducted through the and that you are not caught wander case; Chittagong one case and two and want to visit the India Office, the correct entrance for the publice. Bombay two cases and two deaths; communicating door; if not im-among the narrow. corridors up- Calcutta two cases and two deaths: portant you will cross the quad- businesslike or to pretend that you stairs. It would be useless to look Moulmein two cases; Vizagapatam one rangle. The atmosphere in the CARC: Saigon two cases; Canton one India Office is cool and well ordered, youens an alien, and then lead you knew the way. They would spot case; Shanghal one death.

as befits Indian officialdem. The unt before you had time to explain

the

baikling is always cool on tho hottest day, thanks to the enclosed your business.

by his carpet, you must look at his

By HELEN ROSE. THERE is a great deal of talk

Tabout separate holidays for

married people. But separate holidays are expensive in more ways than one. And, anyhow, you can't balater up a falling marrings by leaving it for a

out of a ruti fortnight. Getting of no use at all, un- less, you can stay out of And most people can't. It is far wisor to make the particular rut you are in as attractive cs you can.

brutally tortured, in the hands of It seems, perhaps, almost in- Chinese soldiery, the Nanking Gov. conceivable, but America has not crament persista in professing ab-enly discovered that Al Capone,

of Gangsters, Caliph solute ignorance regarding the Prince young Britan's movements, plead-Crime, Regent of Racketeers, and Aaron Bootlegger, has been con ing that because he lived in n

spiring to defeat the prohibition -foreign Concession, his existence lawn, but has decided to send him was unknown to the Chinese au- to the penitentiary, though there thorities. As if this cock-and-luulis a surprising delay in pass him. These young college men, in Darbar Hall in the contre. The story were not enough. Mr. Wang ing sentence. The charge had mysterious special unit, have messenger will be cool and correct. falls back on the exense that Thor nothing to do with bootlegg transferred

glamour the The official you visit is a person SACRIFICED TO MAKE burn, when he left for an unknowning. Capone was convicted of American newspapers have been used to obeyed. He probably suf-

A CHILDREN'S destination, had not taken the pre-vading income tax, which must inclined to give to criminals to fers much silent humiliation to-day. be a particularly heinous offence the men who pursue criminals.

HOLIDAY. caution to obtain a passport, and in a State which has just suffered Gang breaking has appeared as a . It is useless to gauge his rank the responsible authorities were a Budget deficit of £2,000,000. It romantic career, and the moral coal scuttle. If it is of copper he thus unable to notify beforehand is not suggested that Capons effect of this is the most hopefuls of high rank, If of black Japan the local authorities through whose should have remedied this unfort-fact in the story of Capone's fall.he of lower grade. territory he might be passing, inunate position. Even Chicago order to secure him protection. might jib at hitting his pocket Thus the Nanking Government quite as hard as that. But they had no option but to convict him, seeks to wash its hands of all res for he calmly confessed to the nonsblity in the matter. The ab erime. For this reason, if no other, surdity of these arguments is too the best known man in Chicago obvious to need stressing. Then society will find his way to guol. we have a story to the effect that What a commentary on American

methode, the representative of the Foreign police

however. AI Office who went with a War Office Capone is famous the world over. official to investigate Thorburn'a lions from all sorts of illegal on- Io is known to have amassed mil- disappearance has since died, with terprises-some of them nvolving tho result that any further evid- startling murders. Yet the only ence by the only Chinesa civil of thing he is caught out on is the felal who has investigated the case evasion of tax, and, once, contempt fa, no longer available. In this of court. As the Christian Science manner does Nanking seek to Monitor says, that the law has finally triumphed is cause for re- bamboozle Britain. We shall be joicing, but that Capone has escap surprised if Sir Milen Lampsoned for so long should be cause for takes the slightest nolico of these resolving that the conditions which ridiculous pleas, which are an in-made such imunity possible shali sult not merely to Britain but to be ended. If this is not to be the foreigners In general....

case, It can only mean that Capone The point which the Nanking will be succeeded by a Government appears to overlook is probably be

figure in gangland. There will a fow episodes of that, passport or no passport, Thor slaughter while the new leader- burn had a perfect right, as every ship is firmly established. Tho foreigner in China has, to expect Capono business will, however, go ndequate protection. To assure on unmolested. There is never- such protection is an elementary theless one reason for the hope. duty which rests on every civilised the beginning of a decline in the that Capone's conviction means State. But even if we take the crime business. It is furnished by Nanking statements at their face the atory of the bight untouch value, they are a damaging admla-Jablea" who led in the work, of sion of the ineptitude of the Chin gathering the evidence against.

new

And if married couples really feel they want to part for a month, their heart of hearts they want

ch longer

In

10

Th for much

real drawback to a happy holiday for parents is the childrent

It may sound brutal to say so, but If only Six Years, Five Years and Three Years could be happily die- posed of the annual holiday could be made a great success.

A

The yearly trip to the seaside. with the family is no holiday at all. It is the same existence In another town, with Daddy thrown in as an [additional victim..

Countless parents all over the country are butchered annually make the children's" holiday"

Yare'dárlíz they are

Of course

it is not very exalting or restfal Creatures

drag cager area

But

ofery day, watch them trị themselves, scrape sand from their

shoes, stop fights, wrin

bathing kit follow-do

and put them all to Bride" performance

What chance