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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 8, 1931.

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STUDEBAKER SPECIAL FEATURETTE

"WILD

FLOWERS".

NOW ON AT THE QUEEN'S

more

DAY BY DAY

"IF WE REMEMBER HOW HARD IT IS TO FATHOM DECISIVE FABBAGES IN The HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIME, WE SEE ROW MUCH OF THAT WHICH WE WOULD MOST GLADLY KNOW IN THE DISTANT PAST MUST EVER KE- MAIN A SUBMISE,Morte.

The Ben Line .s. Bengleg, from Home ports via Straite, in due here on

Friday.

LOVELIEST CITY IN THE WORLD.

By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.

observed, however, the greatest ecessity is a sufficiency of inspec tors and investigators if the fullest results are to be attained. In apito of the fact that all mul-tsai already in the Colony are supposed to be registered, thero can be little doubt that there are very many of whom there exists at present no official knowledge. Whilst during the period for registration very many employers came forward and com-

HAVE Just returned from the

That Sixpence. plied with the law, there must have

most beautiful city in the

An astonishing thing occurred, been many others who failed to re- "Cross-head."You have emitted to work, and its name is Edinburgh, later in the evening.

Nobody ever told me that it was

I was walk- pori, in addition to which there comply with the rule which requires

ing down' a street even correspondents to furnish their names the most beautiful city in the

more crowded than Prince's-street. have doubtless been many

and addresses, not necessarily for world. No railway posters an- brought here since the registration publication.

nounced the fact. No artful pub when suddenly in front of lielty agents boomed it.

there was the chink of coin on period expired. All estimates of

tho The silk forwarded from Hongkong

pavement. Somebody hud One had seen, in magazines.dro

dropped sixpence. the number in the Colony have, in by the Empress of Canada on the 16th

photographs which

Fearing to be killed in the rush, August, arrived in New York (St.occusional the circumstances prevalling, been Jehive Park) and Hoboken in the 3rd showed an astonishing skyline ri-1 drew back into a street door. inrgely guess-work. It should now September, having been 19 days in and so and they Having been brought up on a suc- above, and now and then one had ceaslon of musle-hall jokes about be possible to ascertain the exact

¿como across etchings depicting Scotsmen, how could .oda position. That, of course, is not Sir William Hornell, Vice-Chan-fatreets and buildings so incredible otherwise? To _my__amazemont, the main object in view. The chief cellor of the University, who has been that they failed to "rexlater"

confined to his home during the past Edinburgh at all, and quickly

happened. The man who necessity is that all giri-servants week with influenza, is making good drifted into that corner of one's dropped the sixpence turned should be made aware not only of progress, and is expected to return to brain which is reserved for fairyond, paused, failed to ace the sixpence. shrugged his shoulders duty at the end of the week.

tales.

and walked on, their status, but of their rights,

However, the Incredible proved Missing his footing while attempt to be true, and though there is this way and that, also walked on. At least a dozen people, going Heretofore, there must have been a

ing to replace a new sign board on great number who have possessed the first floor of 300, Hennessy Rond, something distasteful in the idea it was impossible that they had

the of trying to "boost" Edinburgh, it no knowledge whatever on

these Wortchai, a housebay fell into

street and was Inter removed to the dors see a little hard that one failed to hear the noise of the six- ponce falling. Yet none of them punts, and amongst them there Government Civil Hospital suffering had not been told about it before. paused. The sixpence was even- have doubtless been many whose from cerebral haemorrhage.

Tald about it, excitedly, I mean, tually picked up by a guttersnipe, and not left to ferret about in who casually put it between his services have been shamefully ex

The theft of 15 fathers of rape memoirs and history baoks. ploited and who themselves have from the stern of the s.s. Knitangata

Went to My Head. yink ut buoy C2 in Victoria Harbour had to suffer mach treatment.has en reported to the police by Mr. I was nearly arrested in Edin-was, to be found in the abundance will now be possible, under the Ellis, chief officer, who stated that irgh. When I walked down of threepenny hits. Every other new regulations, to ensure decent was stolen some time between 18 Prince's-street for the first time, cain in Edinburgh is a threepenny on Sunday and 7 pm on Monday went to my head. It was a bit. The threepenny bit is a conditions of work for all mui-tsui | The rope is valued at $500,

about right o'clock in the even comic coin--associated with fur- | BLAIR---M@DONALD: At SL. AL

ban's Church, Tedlington on the in the Colony. Something might.

Friends of Mr. A. Landau, who ing, and the skies were pale and ried tips, church colicctions, and was in business in Hongkong some

The the like. And now water-clear. Jaoking aeross

know 5th Sept. 1911, by the Bes, fl-perinps, be attempted to prevent Williams, MA.. Walter Blair the Bringing in of tuure, though if few years ago, will deeply sympathise gardens that lie in the valley, on where all the threepenny bits gu only wor of the late Mr. B. K.

with him in the bereavement he has had such a view of the Castle rock in the summer time. Blair and Mrs. Blair of Hongkong. i the

inspection suffered in the sudden death of his and its flanking buildings as was house-to-house

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DEATH.

LANDAU Died suddenly at Salgon, on September 6th, 1981, Harry Greally Landnu, ngid 28 years. mourned by his mother ond father (Shunghai and Tientsin papers please copy).

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A. Metangid inte of Bombay, and powers are rigorously enforced inson, Mr. Harry Landau, at Saigon, on too much for a strong man.

September 5th The decensrd was the

y ever been in a pince of Mrs. McDonald, Teddington, Paurm of time all should

Of course, the Scotch kill-joys representative Fox Films at where, for a few enchanted nio- (Duslinn papers plense copy).

under obserentinn.

Saigon, and a poignant feature is that ments, the scene

is absolutely do na much to make their city as hiz futher

passing through right? Have you

can. The ever lookedfortable as they It has been a long aml tiresomeflongkong en route to Singapore topi

Ke licensing restrictions, through a window and held your ample, are even sillier process, with lack of atlicint en- meet his son when the cable arrived. wreath in the sudden renfisation | London. Even now I am not en- than in A roll of cloth, the condition of feel? That the pattern of

that the design before you is per tirely clear. as to the precise na- thusiasm in its earlier stages. bring the law to its present state. which showed that it had lase in the and clouds are as a great painter ture of the fib which it is neces-

water, was found in the possession of

to tell in order to obtuin à Happily, however, there has been a coolie on the Western waterfront might have conceived them, that drink on Sunday, but I gather that evidener latterly of a greater deter- yesterday. The police, belleving it is the last leaf on the last branch one has to be a "bona fide travel-

he jetsam resulting from the sinking of the smallest tree is perfectly, imination to tackle this evil. Pro- of a number of loaded lighters during potsed?

for.""

This means that one must have vided there are sufficient inspectors, the recent typhoon, took the coolle This sort of thing does not hap travelled at least four milles and into custody and charged him beferepen often. Very seldom does one be prepared to sign a book to that the inwa it now stands shonk Mr. Schofieht at the Central Magis feel that one could not improve effect. Why It should be meet the situation. Regulations tracy this morning under a rection on a natural landscape, by soften- dered immoral to drink if one has consi- dealing with

តាង។ have been laid down for proper con-

was fined 85, or, in efault, aevening curve here, heightening

only travelled seven thousand and [ditions, of service, payment of mai- days' hard labour,

colour there. (If this were not thirty-nine yards, but moral if one so, there would be no reason for has continued for the extra three tsai (if not on a very liberal senle),

the and for inspection and control, The | latest provisions imply that

Government has no intention

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1931.

HOPE FOR MUI-TSAL

Having always contended that no

In-house

permit the law to remain a dead

wreckegs.

The

Two Chiucse women, one of them the existonen of artists.) But in feet, I am at a long to understand. about 10 years of age, were brought Edinburgh it happens

However, it really makes no dif- before Mr. Schofield at the Central time.

signs the ference. Everybody Make a frame of your fingers book, whether they have travelled Angistracy this morning my opium- carriers. In the case of the younger and look through them and you four miles or four yards. So all let-that she had had a previous conviction, perfect design. You do not want discourage people from telling the woman, Revenue Oficer Ward stated always seem to change upon that the kill-joys really do is to

the

to

ter, This is most satisfactory, Apart

from the protection which will be ensured mui-tsai, the proper

in #

| stif~ crowded street, and there are

com

truth

on Sundays.

GI-

However, what dues food that- ter in a place of such radiant beauty filled with people of such compelling charm? For the people in Edinburgh are infinitely gayer than the people in London. "Con- stantly one is reminded of tho affinity between the Celt and the Ghul. Where the legend of. the dour Scotsman originated do not know.... certainly not In Edinburgh.

but on that scension was bound over, in alter anything. Even the real attack on the muul-tuani systura

of 142 inels of non-Monepaly plum neys seems to dispose Itself in ex-after all is nationa and the bend still held goed. A total smoke that drifts from the chim-

folly-which can be made without regular house

was concerned in the present case, this actly the right shape and with the peculiar to

all is national and is not being found secreted by means uf

Edinburgh I found visitation, we hearii i forcement of the law will remove a waist-bands. The younger woman right density of texture.

anly one draw-back to this That was why was nearly archanted city-its food. welcome the new regulations which blot on our social system which the was fined $1,200 or a year's hard

labour, her bond being also confisented, rested. I wanted the people who There are good restaurants in make provision for such prevedure. Colony has all too long tolerated.

while the other defendant was fined were passing these miracles by: Edinburgh, but they are fewer As will have been observed from

$5,000), ar eleven months hard labour, with averted eyes, to look through than in any other city of its size.

their fingers also. It is a very which have ever visited. It is the text of these regulations, in-

thing to explain to people significant that the castest place U. S. Immigration Laws, spectors are to be empowered to

been exhibited by the guardians of the same silly conventions about to get a meal which can be eaten enter the premises of employers of

with relleh-apart from a very The Wickershorn Commission's the gates all too frequently. This speaking to strangers in Scotland few hotels-is in the railway sta mui-tsai for the purpose of ascer

sharp criliclum of the way

can be remedied without in any way as in England. the

tion. I was entertained on mure taining the conditions under which | United

Which States

amuses the reflection than one ocension in the station, dealn

the relaxing the restrictions imposed with these girl servants labone, to see aliens who have to be sent back to

on immigrants. Uncle Sam can be that if only it were made whether they are overworked or ill- their homes is a healthy reminder vigilant without being peevish. He pulsory to talk to people in the and was very grateful for it too.

street, instead of the reverse, a lot |

Guy People. nourished, to ensure proper medical that a change has come over the can defend his own Interests with-of people both in England and of Scotland would learn a great many attention if needed, and to take country in recent years. Uncle out losing sight of his sense any mui-tsai to the S.C.A.'s office rather peevish and irritable-Bot

things which they ought to know, Sam, in fact, seems to have grown justice and fair play.

for the purpose of investigation and to say downright hard-boiled, inquiry. In addition to the in- į says an American commentator. spectors, other persons, not excccd-Americans like to think of him as Cartoonists irst three in number, may assist in kindly and judicious. the investigations, provided they always draw him that way. But are approved by the Secretary for picture hardly fits him. For

there are times, evidently, when the | Chinese Affairs. Here we have all great many years America was n the machinery which is necessarymagle name to the people of Europe for Investigating the lot of such especially to the people who were mui-taal as are already in the the victims of man's inhumanity to Colony,

man. However bad things might The object in ylew will not, how-be in their own country, there was promised ever, he fully attained unless the always the vision of a

Iand across the Atlantic--a inspection contemplated is constant and presided over by patriarcial. ly maintained, and, what is more, Uncle Sam, who would receive any there are sulliclent inspectors np-fugliive from anywhere with pointed for the work. At present, out

questions, we believe, there is only one inand

offer would down-trodden of men spector specially detailed for this most

in chance to make a new start under work, although the Government has hatterly been advertising for a lady changed. Uncle Sam stands at the more kindly sun. But that has to undertake similar work. The gates, and questions new arrivals Society for the Protection of Chil-very sharply. If he catches anyone dren has also been seeking the aer-getting in without his express per- vices of a woman lispector. We mission he acts sternly and swiftly. inevitable. presume that the Intention is that This, of course, was the Government and the Society

Conditions are not what they were half a century ago. For a time shall work hand-in-hand In

this Uncle Sam was a bit to hospitable matter and that it will be through for his own good. Nevertheless, if the medium of the latter that the the old attitude had to change it individuals accompanying the Gov. was hardly necessary for Uncle ernment inspectors will be provided. Sam to become truculent about it. Obviously the problem calls for the that aliens have

The Wickersham Report discloses been handled closested-operation in order to arbitrarily in many cases. Injus- prevent overlapping. As we have tico and downright stupidity have

asking who

tiny

the

"Golly, are you hurt, boss?"

"No, but look what you've dono-applied my whole afternoon."

I went down in a tramway-car to the sea and saw the only "Amusement Park" I have ΘΕΟΣ veen,

in these islands which was worthy of the name. There was a wild abandon over the whole acene-an abandon which was sil the more thrilling because of the grey background-the muddy sen and the grim housve.

It

was not a drunken crowd or rather, the crowd was drunken

ken only with hilarity. The childron

ren were so excited that they were positively ill when they came off the roundabouts,

Edinburgh is a city of a thou- sand moods. I am

Koing there again in order to learn enough to write something a little less in- adequate than these random ob. servalibus.

Much Better Go Together.

E

VERY day at this time of year

rosolutely modern husbands

and wives, not all of them young, are bidding each other sad little farewells. They are taking, thoir holidays apart.

In most cases it would be far. more fun to go away together, but (Continued on Page 7.). Lat