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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931.

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preserve peace. A country which

No NATION CAN DE DESTROYED BY has nothing to hide does not usun!ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS IT, NATIONS ly resent Imparial Inquiry. The FALL ONLY BY THEIR GUILT.-Jon

Masaryk. altuntion ut the moment ap pears to have taken a slight change For the better by the report that Japan has 'decided to do everything possible to localise the Manchurian affair,

Locally, there have been ROMG few repercussione by an unseemly display of anti-Japanese feeling on the part of unthinking Chinese. This is to be regretied, because, when all is snid and done, no good can possibly.come of mob displays. A moment's thought should suffice

The health return for yesterday shows one Chineso cane of ¡yphoid,

It is understood that freight rates from Hongkong to the Philippines will be increased by 26 per cent,, effectivel from October 15th.

DEATH'S GLEN.

The Last Tryst in the Wilderness.-

By A. B. AUSTIN,

up to

eŢULUS I had what I think is strength to clamber out on to the

1 the lastrength to story of elephants burial and yet he seemed to crave the chill water, oven although, at the grounds."

A curiously modest statement last, his heal must droop and he Miss Buckland, Secretary of St that, for the inte Aloysius Horn drown in a shallow that would not

One would expect

reach to his knee joints.

But soon I understood. As I Stephen's Girls' College, has reported to have made. to the police that a sum of $160 was from him nothing less than a stolen from her writing desk, the swinging tale of how he tracked advanced, looking for a place his wounded rogue to the secret where the apate should be less thief having used a duplicate key.

place of death and found great swift in mid-stream, ho also took well-nigh his lumbering way, in a series of Three Chinese charged with detain-stores of ivory and wel ing Chan Cheung, described as a mammoth skeletons half embedded short, painful rushes, with a alde- slip and splash and a few widow, and three small boys, who had in the swampy ground.

This old man told seconds of gasping rest in the been abducted from the country, were But no

always had water between

morning, after a police statement that

AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE ffongkong Government cannot tule. Appearance before Mr. Schoßeid this think is the truth."

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The longbang & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated la longhang, 16. Queen's fond Q. and Starke Roo

BIRTH.

ROBERTSON--On the 26th Septem

ber. at No. 500, The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Habertsand son.

rate rowdyism by Chinese hotheads,

Silver for Britain?

Some of the obstacles in the way of a satisfactory solution of the world currency problem, with which is incorporated the termina. tion of the trade depression, are

the erntes,

LOCAL ESTATES.

WILL OF LATE MR. T. F. O'SULLIVAN.

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it was

ench forward

to make it plain to the meanest in- remanded by Mr. Schofield this me that old sharing of clear struggle. telligence that the Japanese further investigations were desired a favourite ogey or

and

I was so intent on watching him The old ivory, green shopkeepers in Hongkong cannot withs the co-operation of the Canton cool water, generally in a grove BUMPERS, GREY,

be blamed for any Indiscretions of Polier.

coloured ivory, was always dúx up and also on putting as wido a die-

the Tokyo Government- or of

Arrested at the Shamshuipo Ferry from around these places near tance between us as I could with- I forgot to watch the ground, and Japan's militarists. Unfortunately, Wharf in Connaught load, a boatman spring, and was always full-grown out losing sight of the river, that

who had 02 thels of raw uplun tied ivory."

Reported speech, you will no found myself lying on my face in mob psychology takes little C-round his wall, was fined $2,000 or

Isis tice, and for comment "what the heather. I had tripped over count of reusen. All the same, the eight months' hard labour on

and kicked open an unt hill, mound of yellowing

pino ncedies cooliel morning. In another cane,

I know that with this lesson in swarming with ved specks. When who was carrying 65 toels concealed who, by neting as they do, are only ih two crates of chlekens wns dls-cautiousness before me i ought to rose to my feet uw that thu charged, the police accepting his story talk ritardedly about Death's Glerground below the scattered pines WAR littered with needle hum- likely to alienate sympathy from the that he had henn engaged to carry And yet it is hard to hold hack

до of self-satisfaction mocks, each little dome atill the chirp cause they profess to have at heart.

at the und silent as the heather until rises from my gullet whit that so mighty a hanter as the you peered loswith life.

close and found that "Old Visiter" should only

have been able to give what he thought| Wise old stag! Better die chil to be the truth about "elephants and sodden man suffer the mis- burial grounds," while 1, who have chievous torments of that awarni-

in a barn, never even hunted rats in a have been permitted to seeing earth.

This dot-und-dash mode of pro- pince of old age and death, the gress had carried us both to where Hongkong estate in the value lonely, hidden glen of the stricken of $15,100 was left by the late Mr. forest and the ant hills and the the glen curved sharply. We were in an amphitheatro, bounded on Thompa Francis O'Sullivan, roaring waters.

the north by the bald shoulder formerly head balliff nt the In that part of the lighlands, revealed by a comparison of the Supreme Court, who mysteriously where the main rond peters out of the Ben, and on the east and views of Mr. 4. S. Wardlaw Milne | disappeared from the Public and only one high puss is much west by the walls of the glon that and the local correspondent who Gardens on May 8, inst year, and used by those who wish to cross curved round to meet the forest

harrier. vividly pictured the main fea- has not been seen

On on foot from the wide struth is

in But that was a parvenu forest, tures of the struggle on Wedness August 4. this year, the Supreme the south to the wider strath

Court gave liberty for his death the north, all glens are lonely. a thing of imported trees-laccher, day. Both are agreed that Bri-

They are lonely in the sense that spruces, silver and Douglas Ars- tain, having abandoned the ge

been they are too high and barren for no older, perhapa, than a hundred standard, would do herself an i

Mary human habitation, but they have years. The grand ruin lying service by making an effort at

44, the company of grouse and plax the hollow under the mountain, Bath are

pole migan, and the lolloping bares, and whitening the walls of the heavy cost, to return.

and glen, was primeval, a renmant of will

still snowy-furred in May, agreed that our position would al-

ย golden eagle the Caledonian pine forest. The be now and then ways be precarious if we aguin

swinging on his are from ridge pines that stood about the banks red dear that of the stream which ran, now trusted ourselves to the gold basis The late Chiu Yuen-shi, alius to ridge, and the with the bulk of the world's up Yuen Ching, widow, who died sweep the hillside in delicate, translucent green in the pools, now

milkily frothing through the

necks Whilst it may be perfectly truely of the yellow metal in France hat Japan wishes the settlement and Amerien. When, however, Row, on September 2, 1930, left:

local estate worth $25,000. Let-companies of deer you will not veterans; they grew knee-deep in of a hundred and one outerund it comes to suggesting an alter-

ters of administration have been in every gien except one, and from heather and bineberry and cran- between herself and native, they part company. Mr. Kranted to Chiu Chung-shi, widow, that one there will also he absent berry plants, and the red flush of questions

for theNo 85, Bonham Road,, who is the the grouse and the hares; the life was on their branches and the on their China, and that she may have some Wardlaw-Milne pleads

Hed

guardian of Chiu Sze-ming, one woumigal do not count, for they dark sheen of health suidem, be

needles. ense for complaint over various monetization of silver,

silver of the grandsons and the

Higher up, where the winter 19 down the monulain side. minos events in Manchuria, the attitude Sires Britain to adopt a

The old star led me to in-gales had wrestled with them year wittingly, she is adopting in regard to the standard, declares that nearly of-kin, at present a

poor

1 sd not after year, and the weight of the beast. every other country would follow years of age.

Two persons entitled to the es meant to trouble him in his agony, snow had borne them down, the Mukden imbroglio is liable to land

Britain's load, and clearly

tate, Wong Chu-shi, daughter, and Chiu Sze-ki, grandson, have but the river at the mouth of the stricken trees lay bleaching, not

where the forcat sets up a sodden in decay like the trees renounced their title to ad-closely-noveler, was froth lowland forests, but stark and ministration.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931.

THE HIGH HORSE.

:

failure to supply the League of

is

THOW

to

If

to be sworn.

siner.

Probate of the will has granted to the widow. Frances O'Sullivan, No. Robinson Road, who is the executrix appointed in the and to whom everything is queathed.

intestate at No. 13, Upper Lascar soundless cavalry charges.

The close-formed, bounding of finns. were apstanding

next-

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of

of centuries.

to the impression abroad that she iraulics that France and America either has something to hide or has would be forced to surrender

in bimetallism. Her some form of ulterior motives in view.

Until the time of his death ing in spate, and there could be white and pitcously unked they make an effort to resist. he sole proprietor of Messrs. W. Watt no crossing until I had passed death, their bony fingers clutching says. in effect, they will be left and Company, import and export through to the open ground above the heather, their broken ribs,

the trecs.

like skeletons of primoval beasts, Nations with fuller information

Where the trees began to thin he littering the hill slopes. They Karding the events of the past week sitting on their gold-heaps, then merchants, the late William, Loh

a more or less useless exchange Hang Song left Hongkong estate lay, in a clear, allvery shallow an-held the fragrance followed up by a be-

The local reformer which, has been sworn at $23,1000. der the river's bank. His lank If you lit a fire their faggots would commodity.

He al

died the Cannossian Hos do with

heaved painfully, and the breath burn as sweetly as they smelt Hier that she will resent any in- will have nothing to

from his nostrils rose in gasping when the morning wetness was on terference either by the League or metallic standards. He offers, aspital, on April 12, 1931.

Letters of administration with puffs into the cold morning air, them in youth. ex the will annexed have been grant-When came near he raised his any other third party. Jasan is the only sound medium

currency, ed to Kwan Suet-mun, widow, Nontiers for one fearful, backward The place was still. What wind seemingly taking her stand on the change, a free paper

Iased upon the actual wealth in 109, Des Voeux Road Central, de glance, and struggled to his feet to there was blew high. No whist- point that the Manchurian affair

goods and capacity for produc- ceased's mother, Lol Tuangshi shamble, dripplag, upstream for ling cleft in the north let it come is not war, but merely an "in-tion, of the countries adopting having renounced right and title fifty yards, before slipping down shrieking through. I had stopped

to administration Isi his willinto another shallow.

to consider the way, for there wus testator did not appoint An ex-

His manner of dying puzzled me not even a rabbit track, and my ccutor.

He appeared to have sufficient

old shallow

inter-guuraptecing stability.

of

STAGE

In

cident" in which she and China are

the system. Silver he scorns as alone concerned. World opinion

DE incapable bye-product,

In theory, is unlikely to approve that

we cannot combat his arguments. pretation of the situation.

China, as she has a perfect right His premises are soundly based. to do, has appealed to the League, Were we living in an ideal world, which is quite within its province in an international brotherhood of mutual help, his programme would asking for a full and impartial in-he onsy of accomplishment, vestigation of the whole affair. It the present state of international may be a nice point whether the relationships, however, it seems to nctions of Japanese troops in us almost impossible to form an Manchuria actually constitute acceptable base for the great

credit structures necessary fort free international exchange of commodities except upon metai. Į Gold having proved insuflicient.

fixed ratio.

war, but, regarded merely as an '"incident,' it is quite easy to see that it might well develop into war.

For this very reason, the League, then upon gold and silver-on a

WATER LEVELS.

in the role of peace-preserver, does well to intervene before the situa tion becomes aggravated. By vir tually telling the rest of the world that they must stand by and leave the matter to horself and China, Japan creates the impression that she is anxious to profit from the

The following table, Issued by the situation at a moment when the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- mission, shows in English fact the other World Powers are pre-water levels on the West River, North occupied with other matters. Such River and East River on the dates

an attitude is acarcely in accord

with the underlying principles of

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH

named;

AND EAST RIVERS.

the No-War Pact, of which Japan West River at Shiuhing

Sept. Sept.

23. 24.

8.2 7.2 North River at Samshui-09—6,7

in a signatory.

We do not sug- North River at Tsingyaon 6,0 0.0 gest that China, has all the right, East River at Shoklang 6.0 5.4 on her side and Japan none; that: The highest levels recorded are: is a matter for Investigation. But Shishing, 41 fost; Teingyuen 29.8 however great any provocation feet Samahul, 27.8 feet; Sheklung,

11,5 foot Japan may considor she has suffer-

The lowest levels on record are ed, now or in times past, she does minas 5 fest at Sameăni mad minos not help her own case in the eyes 2.7 ft at Bheklung:

From

"It's the big time for me now, Gus. I've found myself. Walt'll you hear me make the banfo sound exactly likes a

mouth organ."

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had lain down in his last It had reached it--the hiding place of death. A faint, musty whiff came to me with every light air that stirred.

When moved on towards the mountulu foot it grew stronger, and I found them, three corpses limp in the heather, each in a different hollow aear the stream, the skin drawn tight over their ribs and the rus- set faded on their flanks.

And besides the dead there wor those who waited, patiently crop-

wherever' ping the coarse graan the heather grew less thick, Four of them I counted, each seeming whole and in good health until i came near and saw that they were tethered by some hurt.

1 crossed the stream and climb- jed out of the glen through the stricken forest, only stopping to a bone. It was the log pick up bono of a deer, tapering down to the delicate hoof, and broken clean off below the knee joint. A piece of fonce, wire was still tightly tangled about it.

Thus I had, with no Irreverence- to the memory of Aloysius Horn, what I know to be the truth about Death's Glon, the last sanctuary, he trackless hollow to which the red deer travel in old age and sickness, or with one of the hurts ́or which there is no curo in the hillo.

Mesars, Thos. Cook, & Sons, Ltd., | the-well-known/travel-agency,... aru. moving from the first ploor of Pedder Building to larger premises in Queen's Building at the end of October, The are now being new premises, which preparedį, for, 'occupation, (face; the | Praya'atxi 'are entrenály bandy to the

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