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MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1931.

very pertinently whether. It is pos- sible for that huge country, with

communications in vant regions

hardly better than they were in

Europe 300 years ago, to adopt the

DAY BY DAY

WE TALK OF THE CREDULOUS VÕLGÄR WITHOUT ALWAYS RECOL- LECTING THAT THERE IS A VULGAR INCREDULITY, WHICH IN HISTORICAL MATTERS, AS WELL AS IN THOSE OF RELIGION, FINDS IT EASIER TO POUNT THAN TO EXAMINE.-Sir Walter Scott.

gold standard for many years. We might as well expect India to nbalish her castes within the next decade, he observes. Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, approaching the matter from the standpoint of a merchant, draws attention to the fnet that to-day nearly three times as much silver is required to pay for £1 worth of British manufac-R.E. The total tures as was needed in 1924 and 1925, notwithstanding the general

THOSE BEARDS.

By B. M. TIDD.

Beards are to conic into new Innovation be merely an at- fushion again. At least, that tempt by the hairdressers to retain appears to be the aim of the trade now that the women have 1931 vintage of what used to be started to grow their hair after termed the jeunesse d'orec, nearly ten years of shingles. Well, I should think that there SAILORS DON'T CARE.

The Committee of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Ilome gratefully acknow- ledges the receipt of a donation of $50 from Col. R. B. Skinner, C.B.

response to the

is something to be said for it, It is permissible, of course, for appeal is now $1,177.60.

and them. Haven't you noticed saflors to grow beards in the Navy. Two boatmen were fined $20 each the thousands of practically They are usually begun during an by Mr. Newill, the Deputy lathur retrousse chins that really ought attack of neuralginor toothache Master, at the Marinu Court, this

contracted by an unwarranted or morning, for having boarded the to be camouflaged, and the num unaccustomed spell of duty at sen, President Pieres without having bers of the very nearly chin- with a consequent reluctance obtained the permission of the master. less?

fall in prices measured by gold. Ile asks what hope there is of keeping, much less developing, the China market under theso

Missing his footing whilst cleaning conditions. The main сливс of

windows at the Empress Hotel, Con the full in silver values, he as-naught Read, a coolie named Lo fol, serts, is not over-production, but aged 34, fell into the street from the first Hoor and wax removel to the the flooding of the sliver market Government Civil Hospital suffering

from multiple injuries. by various Governmenta con sequent upon the demonetisation and debasement of coinage. He therefore urges concerted action by the producing countries and the one selling country. Indla, to correct the evil of the constant depreciation of silver

It is at any rate gratifying to tinues to receive much attention nt Home. Lord Hundson. Mr. Darling. Mr. 1. M. S. Amery, and

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Miss Helen B. Davis, daughter of the Governor-General of the Philip pines, arrived here to-day by the 18. President Pierce. She is en route to the United States, stopping over in John Shaughcompanied by Mis Josephine Shaughnessy.

After having been rebuked by hering even' father, a 17-year-old girl, o Mung-ducks." hal, took some Chinese poison in un attempt to commit suicide. When Itund, she was rushed in the Kwong Wah Hospital, where she is still an inmate,

of Dr. But, because a sailor is allowed

CX-

mean

shave. They are called "full-sets." Time was when the possession of It is to be remembered, however, a beard was considered de rigueur, that a lower-deck rating has to when young men boasted of never parade before his ship's commander buying endured the scrape of a before obtaining permission to die- razor, and hiraute adornments were guise himself. Frequently, the re- a sign of manly beauty and vigour quest is granted out of heredient. If daguerrotypes, photographs and the aforesaid commander welcom- aid prints are to be believed, men ing any little break in the cmotony were even hardy enough to play of life. games in beards. Think

his shovel-like Grace. und crescence. What an ideal nesting grow a beard does not imply that place for a colony of rooks that they the beards, I mean, not the

useful would have been; as it was, his useful, ornamental or

sanitary. By virility prevented him from acquir legitimately useful. They might a modest collection of be employed for the purpose of caching articles in a hurry, and But, like all expressions of per many a man has solemnly nasured mality-if to neglect shaving can his wife that the man in the photo. et. Young men grew beards of is his long-lost cousin from Aus- fancy design. not intendet. astralin. Nature had thought, to provide al But honestly, even used na voup-

for n sensitive | In an attempt to cross the road at

and many a spoonful of jelly has n host of others have latterly been the rear of a tramem in Wanchai, throat, but to capture the attention strainers, heards are incompetent,

Chinese yesterday

was knocked and curiosity of the romantically become dislodged on its way to a pleading for international artion down by another fram travelling in inclbed young lady, who might mouth, only to be discovered weeks He was rather conceivably be attacked with the Inter through its spongy powers to give bimetallism a trial. The the opposite direction. move the position is analysed and seriously injured about the head and vapours as soon as she observed producing a damp patch on the

taken Lo

waistcoat. Civil such an intriguing 'he-man' of the front of a other suggested remedies looked Hospital.

sing.

Of course, beards may be an economy, otherwise than by Baving reasonable into, the more

AL to-morrow's meeting of the

the cost of shaving. If the face- DE-DONGI. At the Italian los-

from the Styles were varied, August,this plen appear. It only requires Sanitary Board, Mr. M. K. Lo will

fungus be sufficiently well neglect- pital. on the 30th

nanve the following resolution, held shovel of Dr. Grace to the Du-ed it may, in time, permit of the 1931, to Signor and Signora effective leadership to press upon

over from the last meeting: Thut dreary, or village-grocer, typ discarding of a tie, or even a collar Luigi De-11fonigi, a son. the Governments of the world lie the Select Committer of the Board Some of these still survive, but are in extreme cases. The time any

desirability of taking some such, appointed to exercise the powers and

there was the Then

come, too, when the necessity of functions of the Board under section very rare. step. We may be suri tisat if 162 of the Public Health and Bulldings prehistorie, or face-frame, where a shirt may be dispensed with on the

same grounds, something is not Hoon done, the Ordinance be invited to examine into month (sometimes) chin and upper the existing practice relating the lip were surrounded by a fringe of frum situation will ko steadily

requirement of "one house, one well, jungle-like hair., bad to worse. Prudence dictates one pump" and to report to the Board what are the grounds for this require an early grappling with the pro-ment and whether and under what conditions it is possible and destrable to relax them.”

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MONDAY, APBUST 21, 1981.

THE SILVER PROBLEM.

that

Searerly A week passes does not witness further additions

blom.

Credits for Britain.

doen

The announcement that a' credik

the

Government

POLICE RESERVE.

WEEK.

warm protection

CRINKLES.

WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? However, it is anid that the pre- sont craze is being taken up by the Great-War babies or should one any the War great-babies. Not having had the opportunity of prov-

The present outburst of energy in avoiding shaving is said to take the Assyrian, or tombstone, form If one remembers rightly, however, the Assyrians had crinkled beards. I am suspicious of those rrinkles. Ing their manhood by fighting for

I remember, when it was fashion their country, through a late arrival able-or usual for the hair to be in this world's vale of tears, per- plastered down, everyone's hair was haps they think that a show of at made to appear french-polished least one of manhood's attributes of £80,000,000 making a total of ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT} Then, as Hoon a few of the may help to produce in the rest of £130,000,000 in less than a month

weaker spirits could not achieve us a higher valuation of their mas this result, fad set in for doing culine virtures.

in What chiefly concerns me at the the hair, with the aid of tunge. tight earls. Most probably the will do in the face, yen, face of this crinkle will. be achieved in the challenge to their professed equality heards in the same manner, and the with men.

has been placed at the disposal

received with mixed feelings. It

is realised that the large' scale

Aquatic Sports.:

General.

sent to

SNATCHER WELL

PUNISHED.-

birch

•

to the ranks of those who, favour

Police Reserve Orders by the Hon. bimetallism as the best method of of the British Treasury by French. H. D. C. Wolfe. C.M. Inspector what resembled a negroid mass of morient, however, is what wonten restoring the value of silver. and Amerigan lankers, has been General af Police, state; Amongst the latest of these is Sir Henry Deterding, Director-Gen-

of the transaction must go a very Members of the Hongkong Police oral of the Royal Dutch Petro-

Reserve are reminded that the entries long way towards restoring for the 10th Annual Aquatic Sports of leum Co, who declares that bimedence in the financial situation the Police and Prison Departments to

| Indy friend were walking along. Queen's Road West at about 9 p.m. talism is the only possible remedy generally and the pound sterlingbe held at the V.R.C. on Saturday.

on Saturday when the lefendant for the critical financial and com- in particular. It is also recognis-Putice Sergeant K. J. Hunt on or

September 1945, must be

#natched the handbag, He гал down Ki Lung Street to

Des mercial sickness from which the ed that the need was exceeding urbefore September 1st.

HARD LABOUR AND A Vooux Rond with the complainant world is safering. He points outxent. It is further believed that

and her friend in pursuit and BIRCHING.

raising the alarm at the same time, that the entastrophic fall in theit will not be necessary to make

use of the entire Bum, that the Revolver Practice-The regular

Imprisonment and the

A Chinese constable, who was value of silver has enused the dis-programme of the new National weekly revolver practice will take

place at the Bowen Road Revolver were ordered by Mr. Schofield,.ation duty in the vicinity, arrived on appearance of the purchasing Government in their task of prov-Range on Wednesday, September 2nd the Contral Police Court this mor- the scene, and, seeing the defendant power of the vast markets of In-ing that the budget will be balanc. at 17.15 hours under 8. 1. Hopking,ning, for a Chinese who pleaded running, caught him. The defen- dia and China, with obvious ill-ed through economies will do as Musketry Instructor. All members of guilty to a charge of snatching a dant discarded the handbag, which

more than the the Chinese Company who have not handbug from a girl in Queen's was later recovered. effects on British exports. This much or even

panac Part II of Training Course Road West on Saturday night. Sentence of six months hard point bas heen so, often reiterated France-American credit to estabshould attend without fail.

According to Detective Sergeant labour and 15 stroken of the bireb lish the proposition that the of lite that it has become a com-

Training Course-Part II. Kinnear, the complainant and was imposed. Bank of England is still the world's monplace. but it represents the

financial mattera, pivot in

1 The weekly classes for Police truth none the less and must, we guarantee of stability.

But the Reservists at the Chinese Company's Headquarters, 17, Queen's Road Cen- feel, eventually command serious necessity for going to New York tral will be held as usual on Tuesday, attention.

and Paris for much large sums is September 1st at 6.30 p.m. All mem It has been suggested in some not an easy pill to swallow, parti- bors of the. Chinese Company and of the Flying Squad who have not pasted quarters that the sudden boost-cularly as the crisis has been pro-Part II of Training Course should ing up. by artificial methods, of voked principally by the uupre-attend.

cedented stampede of French

Chinese Company.

the value of silver might have unmoney from London. The recent desirable effects in China, but on drain of gold was never a real Revolver Practice.—Revolver prac this point Mr. i. E. Morriss, in a peril, but it was a nuisance and Ittice will be carried out on the Bowen Road Revolver Range on Wednesday, letter to the Times, drawa atten- caused such misgiving in ulf parts September 2nd. All members of the tion to the fact that two years of the world that the raising of the Chinese Company who have not pass- ago silver was more than double its bank rate to 4 per cent, proveded Part III of Training Course this Training Course--Part 1-The present price, whilst between 1920 an ineffective, a blunt weapon. It year should attend without fail,

is now clear, however, that the following members have been passed and 1928 it was considerably high- Bank of England, the Bank of out as cleient in Part I of Training Caurso (Squad Drill) :—Constablen er still. "We did not find," he France and the Federal Reserve Rei Lo Hau Kan, R37 Ip Fook Chuen, says, "those Oriental people doing Bank ure co-operating in a prae- and 184 Leung Teh Mía. anything dangerous or disconcert- tical and business-like form. This

Indian. Company, ing with their wealth then. On knowledge should serve to instil

Revolver Practice.—Revolver_prac-i the contrary, generally speaking, confidence in financial centres and

render recourse to the credits un- tice will be carried out on the Bowen Road Revolver Range on Thursday, we were all better off. in those necessary at least to the extent for September 3rd at 17.15 hours under days than we are at present" which provision has been made. S. 1. Hopkins, Musketry Instructor, Mr. Morriss also deals with the The exchanges will be watched All members who have not passed point that if the price of silver with the keenest Interest in the Part II of Training Course this year

|should attend without fall. wore-stabiilsed at 28., it would re- next few days. If they do not present, on the basis of the exist-soon begin to turn in favour of Britain, the situation will be re- ing price and output, a gift to pro-garded as grave indeed. ducera of over £12,000,000. Against this, he puts the fact that

Flying Squad.

The weekly Instructional patrols for the Flying Squad are discontinued and there will be a monthly patról | which will take place on the last Friday, of each month. All members to attend.

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the direct and indirect,, Incalcul A boatwoman was charged before able and everlasting benefits Mr.. Newill, the Deputy Harbour

Sharpshooters' Company, . Master, at the Marine Court this which would be conferred upon a morning, with having fired crackers in Strength Constablo R439, R. A. burden-stricken world are entirely the harbour on Friday. The accused rame has been permitted to resign ignored. --On-the desirability of admitted the charge, and said it was a with affect from August 27th, 198125

festival-day. A ins or 410 - WAH-|--

(3rd) ·D. L. KING, Chins going gold, Mr. Morrisa saks imposed.

·D.S.P. (R).

"Retain a lawyer? Good Heavens! Don't we know one we can just invite to dinner and ask

lot of questionsZiť.