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TO-DAY'S WANTS.

* WORDS

.$1.60.

($9.00 If Not Prepaid.) The followin replies have been received:-

567, 671, 678, 683, 586, 691, 605, 705, 709, 720, 722, 727, 729, 782. 733, 734, 787, 738, 768, 772, 773, 775, 776, 793, 795, 887.

TUITION GIVEN.

Expert lessons given on needlework, embroidery and flower-making, create of quality in gold, silver and coloured thrends also undertaken. For par ticulars apply to Box No. 825, "Hong- kong Telegraph."

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHIROPODIST (Com

Lammert's Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

The Undersigned have receives! Instructions to sell by Public Auction,

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on Wednesday, the 19th August, 1931,

commencing at 11 a.m. ·

at The Palace Store" Peking Building,

No, 23, Nathan Road, Kowloon, The Stock-In-Trade-

Comprising:

Ready made dresses, Afternoon and Evening dresses, Coats, Skirta, remover).

Silk Pyjamas auita, Embroidered made at under wear 'in sets, Silk Stock-

Fully qualified. 10 years experience in Europe. Appointments

the Tester Beauty Parlour, Kayamal-ings, Handkerchiefs. Embroidered

ty Building, Tel. 22103. Fluer).

FOR SALE,

(Groundalk shawls, Felt and Straw hats, Shoes, Slippers, Artificial flowers, Sundry fancy articles, etc.. etc. etc.

FOR MALE. Ford 1931, Model De Luxe ROADSTER. done only 2,000 miles. What offers? Apply to Pos! Office Box Nu, 492,

SILVER ANNIVERSARY BUICK, Four-door, ve-passenger sedan in excellent condition. Mileage just VPT 8,000 only. Trial run by ap pointment. Please

General write Manager "South China Morning Post.":

HOUSES, ETC.

FOR SALE OR TO LET furnished four-roomed house at Cheung Chazz. Electric Light. Large garden. Write Box No. 753, "Hongkong Telegraph."

METALS

of all kinds capecially for ship-building and engineering work. Complete stock. Beat Terms, Immediate delivery,

SINGON & CO ESTABLISHED A. D. 1930.

Telephone: 20515, HING LUNG ST.

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Recommended

conven;eness

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for many Civil Hospital, Peak Hospital, etc., and by all the local doctors,

Government

years of

24, Wyndham Street Tel. 24945.

On View from Monday. the 18th August, 1931.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Publie

New Advertisements.

THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

Notice is hereby given that owing to the non-arrival of Sub- scription Fonies from Shanghai, the Stowards are reluctantly com pelled to cancel the 2nd day of the Înnugural Race Meeting, vix 7th September. The Meeting will therefore be held on Sunday, 6th September only.

MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1931.

AN UNPUBLISHED ACCOUNT BOOK,

PRIME MINISTER'S SIDELIGHTS.

Sidelights on the personal and Political history of Prime Ministers from Sir Robert Walpole to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald are recorded in collection Blustrating Parliament and the Premiership, which has been arranged Museum.

L

the London

Draft Programmes with the

Gladstone's career at Eton is per- and Entry necessary alterations Formal may be abtained at the petunted in an account book, which appears to have escaped even his offres of Messrs. Percy Smith, Biographer, John Alories. The fol- Seth & Fleming.

as G. Des Voeuxlowing items may be

characteristic: Road, Central.

Entries close at 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday, 25th August, 1931.

By Order,

W. L. ALEXANDER,

Secretary.

FASCISTS WAIT FOR SUMMONS.

MOBILISATION OF "THE

MASSES."

Rome, July 16.

interest Although considerable

the ba been aroused among

the Fascists concerning

Fascist Directorate's decision to attempt a mobilisation of "the Fuselst masses" at 48 hours' notify on an unknown date, an one so far knows what is eXACTLY Intended by the

PUBLIC AUCTION, The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Auction. on Friday, Monday & Wednesday,"masses." the 21st, 24th & 26th August, 1931, commencing each day at 10 a.m.

noted

Sept. 20. Seeing the can-

Jurer

1822.

1824.

October 25. Seeing-will

beasts at Windsor Fair Nov, R. Gave one Barton

(a dinenned young man. from Liverpool) ....

1

0

1

#

120

. May 31. lost

Tost up and

od

July 10. Three Beg.

gar-ench Id

0

16

10

»

MR. H. G. WELLS

ON THE

FIVE-YEAR PLAN.

"IT IS STAGGERED: IT MAY FAIL"

RUSSIA'S FATAL DEFICIENCY.

Mr. H. G. Wells, in a broadcast talk from Savoy-hill reviewing the series of addresses that have been given mi "Russia in the Melting

anid: "The Five-year Plan 18 Pot," obviously staggering. It may vory possibly fail."

"Russia collapsed in 1917. She may not be able to get to her feet and line up with the rest of the changing world in the eventful be That will years before us,

because she has produced no body

her

of managers, no civil service, no body of educated men free, ahre. and willing to work together for her and mankind. That is fatal deficiency. Her social struc ture is not developed enough for the task she attempts."

Sept. 14. Burne's works,

A valusnes October 21. Bad Shilling 1

The attempt to run a rational- Another interesting relle of ed economie machine by the Gladstone's Elan daya is the methods of despotism had broken

he wore in the

now down, and Stalin perceived the costuime

ceremony, pro-error of his ways. That was the obsolete Mentem" Imbly

The ceremony con- fundamental lesson. in 1826. In the sisetd

waving ta fin by This first spasmodic effort to

one of the scholars on a mount near reconstruct an old society in ac

and

vil

wordtain for the height of the sald Mr. Weils.

of

•

one,

political party disciplined to death. à Press burean, and secret police is no substitute for that,

POST OFFICE NOTICE

From

Calcutta and · Straits

INWARD MAILS.

Per Komsang

Du

August 17.

Manila .....

Pros. Lincoln

.August 17.

Japan, Shanghai and Europe. Siberia (London, 20th July) Saigon

via

Angers

August 18.

Sphinx

..August 18.

Java vin Batavin

TJibadak

'..August 18.

Shanghai and Europe vin Siberia

(London 30th July} Straits

Kulmerland

Cremer

August H..

Canada. U.S.A.; Japan and Shang-

hai (Vancouver BC.. 1st Augast) Empress of Russia

"Alaula Maru Australia and Manila

Sandakan Japan

Japan and Shanghai Java via Sourabaya

Europe via Negapatam (letters only)

London, 23rd July Java and Manila Manla

August 19.

...August 10.

August 20.

Rantan Pandjang

August-20.

Kitano Maru

August 21.

Fashimi Maru

Tilmenteng

.August 21.

.August 21.

Hakunan Maru Tjileboet

Augast 21,

August 22.

..August 22.

August 22.

August 23.

August 24.

Pres, Madison U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-

hai (San Francisco, 24th July) Pren, Harrison Japan and Shanghai

Hye Marii

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U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-

hai (San Francisco, 31st July)... Pren. Pierce

OUTWARD MAILS. REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS aro Closed 16 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertiser to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel malls are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.

For swatow Apia (Samoa)

Shanghal, "Japan, Honolulu and

*San Francisco

Shanghai, Japan, Henolulu, U.S.A., *Connda, Central and South America and Europe via Snn. Francisco and Siberin

Manila, Australia and New Zealand

vla Thursday Island

the village of Salt Hill, and the cordance with modern machinery Straits and Culcutin extraction of "saltmoney" from and conditions falters and fails,"

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"Russia's expert- Eton, his prespective ence to-day may be our own to- Cam-morrow. The vast powers and the If It means a text mobilisation of finances at King's College.

bridge. Gladstone thought "the

now swiftness that have come to the volunteer militia alone, then

whole thing a wretched waste of mankind denuand a more unified, over 300,000 men will be conce-time and money a most ingenious complex, economic, and political or. trated from all parts of the penin-contrivance to exhibit us as "King's Silk Store"

sal, but as this would be both an

ha-ganisation than ever existed before, No. 1. Aguilar Street,

bogus, a bore in the full sense of An ex-centred autocrat with impracticable and an unstrategie the word." THE STOCK-IN-TRADE.

exercise, it is considered that the Cumprising:

orders will affect the forces of the Printed, flowered and Fuji Silk districts surrounding the parade Fancy velvet Georgette, embroider.

zone fixed for the occasion-the Suits. Venezia

between Euganen, ed Kimonos, Silk Pyjam

the Bed spreads, Cut work embroidered | Tagliamento and Plave Rivers, of In this ase Silk, embrobiered Silk Shaw! wartinte memory,

about 60,000 militiamen would be Isak Handkerchiefs,

Goods, Shawls. Scarfs, Carved Ivory, Indian Brassware, Lacquer ware and a Fancy Goods, etc., etc., ele.

On View from the 20th Ancast. 1931.

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneer,

Woollen

affected.

a

farge Alection ofstitutions, including children's

MRS. MOTONO. Massage.

Hand and Electric 21h. Wyndham Street.

MASSAGE HALL

MRS. S. UZUNOYE 57. Queen's Rond Co., 2nd floor. Expert Masseux2.

ACTS AND

IGURES

may be likened to the pulse of

every commercial undertaking. They cannot be denied, for they reveal strength or weakness,

The keen and progressive Niet-

chant appreciates the truth of this.

not only as applied to his own

business, but equally so to-

NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION

The greater the number of advertising messages circulated- the greater the results achieved.

The circulation of this newspaper is certified by Messrs. Lowe, Bing- ham and Mathews, Chartered Accountants.

Fun

A parade of all members of the Fascist Party and its Blackshirt in

organisations.

into would millions. Such a colossal gather. ing may be ruled out, but part of the test is the fact that the extent and proportion of the programme will not be revealed until the mobilisation order is netually given.

A Chatham Letter. Autograph letters Include, thought to be hitherto unpublished, from the Earl of Chatham to Lord George Sackville during the Seven Years War after the attack by the of

mob on his father, the Duke

Dorset, at Knowle, Kent, during the con- Militia Bill of 1757. After

his gratulating Lord Sackville on father's escape, Chatham writes: would to God the great opera- tions of War

were

as prosperous as the Petite Guerre your lordship in forma me of.

**I

World Reconstruction.

"The argent problems of world construction are now closing in an Europe and America. Russia has shaken off the old world. Can ske, with her handicap, evoke the new? Can we? Unlike Russin, our so-

in structure survived the war.

In Russia even, the way in which nte, slept, ware people worked. clothed and carriet about was being changed. Everywhere WC had see the spiked umbrella used by was manifestly seriously

Visitor to the Museum any also scenes of change about us in the world to-day. Our economic life out of the Duke of Wellington after being

There had been creeping beset by the mob on the any paralysis

some in business for sary of

of the Battle of Waterloo in The idea of the parade, as the

a copper pan used for his years. We were over-producing and Tevere points out, is to show that posset by Willani Fitt when he underconsuming. Ne one with in- vestmenta felt safe with them, and the Fascists are thoroughly organis-arrived home from the House of

copy-took no one gainfully employed felt aufe ed on military lines "and are ready | Commona at night:

defend the Pascist revolution written by the 14th Earl of Derby that his gainful employment would when needed, and that they also when a child in 1807; and the pen-

continue.

Politient life was even more out know how to take up the offensive.' cil notes for Mr. Lloyd George'a

Government and Blackshirt off-speech on November 9, 1918, two of gear, and unless our statesmen cials, in conversation with me, em- days before the Armistice. The would rise to the occasion we, too, phasise the point that the mobilis-portrait collection includes every should totter on the brink of the tion has no aggressive significance. Prime Minister except the 4th Duke same melting pot as Russia.

of Devonshire. but is merely a "fire drill,"

Taking up Offensive."

The Plave area has been chosen because the railway and road system of the peninsula makes it the easiest for a first experiment, and also because the Piave battle- fled zone is a "sacred moral ciation."

H5RL

On asking if the coming parale meant demonstration against. Yugoslavis, I was reminded that the

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ATTACK GERMANY.

SENATE ANGER AT AMERICA'S ATTITUDE.

BELGIAN

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow ...... Saigon, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. and S. Africa, *Egypt and *Europe via Marseilles

Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe vin Marseilles

Shanghai, Japan and Europe via Siberia and Ordinary letters only "Via superscribed for Europe Siberia: Airmail 'Shanghai-Ban- chouli,

Rabaul

In the war the work was to be

Fort Bayard made safe for democracy and fit for hereer, but that was just politie-Amoy

Bot know Manila and Java via Sourabaya' inn's patter-they did ON what it meant, but they knew the

Swatow Amoy phrases sounded good. "Since then

Hoihaw, Fukhoi and Yaiphong of we had had thirteen years muddlement. Under modern con- ditions the world's affairs must be Manila dealt with as a whole.

We could not live in a patchwork Focchow via Swatow

Japan Brussels, July 16. considerable A strong opinion was expressed of patriotic sovereign states any Swatow, Amoy and Foochow distance from the Yaroslavby M. Segers in the Belgian Senate more. WC must live as world

Shanghui, Japan and Europe via Frontier, and it WAS added this afternoon during a discussior eftizens or perish.

Siberla that, if the concentration point of the foreign affairs budget. The B.B.C. speakers, added Mr. Manila, Australia and New Zealand had been to the west or north Speaking of Mr. Hoover's plan. Wells, had expressed the opinion

vie Thursday Island then the critics of the Fascist re-M. Segers expressed his nstonish that the Five Year Plan would rime would have cried out that it ment that, upart from accepting succeed. He was not nearly so was a threat against France or Belgian ndbesion to the scheme. confident as they were. Austria.

America had not discussed with her

herl

Plave

was some

to now to evade

reparations, to

The mobilisation, I was told, in the question of her claim to an affair of party gymnastics de-absolute right to reparations. void of all military or political Of all the countries involved in alter the Versailles Treaty, and to significance an exercise in internal Mr. Hoover's plan, shid M. Segers, resist all efforts made towards bet- solidarity in defence of the regime Belgium is comparatively the moal ter economic relations throughout

Europe. with the object of inculcating hurt. patriotic ideas.

RAIL CRASH AT LON- DON BRIDGE.

TRAIN STRIKES BUFFERS: 16-INJURED.

London, July 20. About 14 people were slightly injured when a train from Epsom Dowas crashed into the buffers at London Bridge Station about 8.20 a.m. yesterday.

Passengers were thrown from their aunts by the force of the in- puct, and two compartments of the second cusch were damaged.

Windows and woodwork on the train were shattered, and after the collision there was chaos in many of the crowded chrringes. Passen; gora were flang into each others' arms and fell in heaps, especially as many of them were already standing

up.

The following official statement was issued:

07

"The Southern Railway announce that the 7.44 a.m. train from Epsom Downs to London Bridge, due at 8.21, ran into the buffers of No. 17 platform. Two compartments the second coach werd damaged, and about 10 people were taken to Guy's Hospital with minor injuries. The 8.27 London Bridge to London Bridge (circular. train) cancelled."

WILB

"Our privilege to have prompt "We must tell Washington," M. retribution, has been trampled up- Segers declared, that we intend to on," shouted M. Segers, while the remain unshakable with regard to whole Senate cheered him loudly,the marks queation and the pri

The whole German policy, M.vllege of reparations recognised by Segers continued, had tended up all ex-Allied countries."

IN THE

Date and Time Por Hydrangea Mon, Aug. 17, 3 p.m. Apory Mon., Aug. 17, 3.80 p.m. Taiya Maru.........Mon., Aug. 17. Registration..Aug. 17, 6 p.m. Letters.Aug. 17, 5 p.m. (Duo San Francisco, 11th. Sept) Hosang

Parcels

.Tuen,, Aug. 18. ..Aug. 17, 6 p.m. Letters....Aug. 18, 8.30 ani,

Pres Lincoln

Tues., Aug; 18. Parcels....Aug. 17, 5 p.m. Registration .Aug. 17, 5 pm- Letters.....Aug. 18, 8.30 a.m. (Due San Francisco, 8th Sept.)

Changte .....

Tues., Aug. 18. Parcela...Aug. 16, p.m. Registration .Aug. 18, 6 p.m. Letters....Aug. 10, 8.30 nm. (Due Thursday Island, 29th August) Haiyank Tue., Aug. 18, I p.n.

Angers

Registration Lettera

Registration Letters....

Tues., Aug. 18, K.P.O.

10 3.1. .10 ..

G.P.O.

,11.45 a.m. 12.30 p.

(Dur Marseilles, 19th September).

.Tues., Aug. 18,

Philoctetes 1......

K. P. O. Registration Loiters

G. F. 0. Registration Letters

1.00 p.m. .1.00 p.ta.

1.46 p.m. .2.30 p.m.

(Dun Marseilles, 17th September).

Sphinx

Tues., Aug. 18.

..1 p.m..

.......

K. P. O. G. P. O. Bremerhaven ..Tues., Aug. 18, 2 p.m. Wingle Tuer, Aug. 18, 2.30 p.m. Kunsang....Tues., Aug. 18, 5 p.m. Tinegara... Wed., Aug. 19, 9.30.a.m.. Daviken..Wed., Aug. 19, 10.30 a.m. Tainan

Wed., Aug. 19, 5 p.m. Menndo Maru

Thurs., Aug. 20, 8.30 a.m. Empress of Russia

Thurs., Aug. 20, 3.30 p.m. Atauta Maru Fri., Aug. 21, 9.30 am. Cheongshing Fri., Aug. 21, 10.30 am. Halching......Fri., Aug. 21, 1 ̧p.m.

Hakusan Mara Fri., Aug. 21, 3.30 p.m.

Kitano Maru......Sat., Aug. 22. Registration.Aug, 21, 6 p.n. Letters...Aug., 22, 830 a.m. (Due Thursday Island 3rd Sept.)

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