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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1931.

MORRIS

Illness took him off the stage for a time, but when the national crisis reached a hond he still slavishly adhered to, the strictly party view | and set himself in oppoaltion to It

DAY BY DAY

BEVERLEY NICHOLS.

Finds Some Terrors in the New Calendar.

MINOR S.V. those Liberals who conceived

GOOD-BENBY AND GOOD-NATURS ARE NEVER SEPARATED, THOUGH THE their duty to co-operate with others IGNORANT -WORLD HAB THOUGHT SEMI-SPORTS for the nation's welfare, His subae- OTHERWISE, GOOD-NATURE, BY WHICH TWO-SEATER

quent talks with Mr. Henderson MEAN BENEFICENCE AND CANDOUR,

13 ΤΗΣ

PRODUCT OF RIGHT REASON, auggested the possibility of hla which, oF NECESSITY, WILL GIVE AL- 45 miles per gallon joining hands with the Labour tile- LOWANCE TO THE FAILINGS OF OTHERS, BY CONSIDERING THAT

NOTHING The equipment includes:-Hood and hards, but once again he preferred s

PERFECT IN THE Calendar Reformers are What are wo to do if these awfu!

THE nidescreens with signalling panch,

to plough the lonely furrow. Doubi | MANKIND,--Dryden.

at it again.

rationalists 'deal a death blow to hood cover, single-panel Triplex less, Mr. Lloyd George thought that

On Monday next the League of the calendar? We shall have to glass windscreen, speedometer, oli gauge, two-level petrol tap, automatte his personality would serve him and The usual monthly whist drive will ainet for devoting its energies to expensive objects, which will have Nations, with its exquisite in-rack our brains for small and in- windscreen wiper, pressure lubricating his Liberal followers well, but to be held at St. John's Cathedral Hall the really vital problems of the no proper exchange value. pump, driving mirror, progressive shock absorbers on all four wheels, day he finds himself out of touch on Tuesday, 10th instant, at 8.45 p.m. world, begins to sit m

conference Lf A gives B a calendar, B can Lucas Sparton electric horn, six-vall

to decide whether we shall have a give A another calendar, and a lighting, starting, and coil ignition set, with practicni politics, and the most

13-equal-months year or an equal tranquil equilibrium is maintain call indicator light, combined hend- he can do is to throw out a very The sixth general meeting of the quarter year with an extra day ed. But If A gives B a diary and and sidelamps, instrument lamp, five

longkong University Arts Association tacked on, or a year in which we gives A an ornamental match- detachable wire wheels, five Dunlop

definite hint to disappointed will be held in the Union Assembly take away something fri August box, neither A nor B knows where cord balloon tyres, spare wheel carrier Labourites that there should be a Hall on Tuesday next, at 6.30 p.m., and give it back to February, fin fear locker), Jack, tyre pump and fusion of interests.

when Mra, P. E. Barker, M.A. (Hons),

or he

and hideous social complica- 18, well there are complete tool kRt.

nearly 200 tions will result. will lecture on "Horace".

schemes.

Most astonishing of all, we are And they all seem to me fi told that "women will welcome

have mastered when they learn or the more complicated than the simple calendar reform because it will system which most children of five in to make

life run more smooth- "Thirty days hath Theptember."

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APPRECIATION.

It is very late in the day, how- ever, to bring forward the plea thaỊ there is little essential difference Macao this morning to carry out an

Chief Warder McLeod left

for between Liberalism, and Labour. Wentification of the suspect arrested there and believed to be the escaped new discovery.

prisoner Lo Luk-cheung. It is learn-

That is no

The

from Hongkong.

hner, the mother,

Inad?

truth of it has long since been ap-ed that the arrest was effected by the reform is bound to come because that there should be an entirely parent, and the tragedy for the Macao Police on information received it is rational and "in harmony] now moth called "Sol," and also with the spirit of a acientific la that December 29 should not really bour-saving age." Which 18 exist at , but should be called exactly what it is not, if we are "Year Day'" to judge from a pamphlet which is now being eagerly circulated by the Parliamentary Committee on Calendar Reform.

Liberals in that they have no con slatently shut their eyes to the trend of events. It is somewhat. astounding also, in view of his own recent attitude, that Mr. Lloyd George should suggest the unlikeli hood of Labour becoming a na- tional party within the present gen-

his recent promotion to the rank long survive of itself, it represents of Assistant Superintendent of

AUTUMN PICTURE

DISPLAY.

ATTRACTIVE EXHIBITS AT KOMOR'S.

of

and

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I cannot setany extru "smooth- nesa" being harted to the life of a hostess wh has to send out Invitations to a krty phrased an follows:

Sol lat.

MRS. JOHN MITH

At Home

10 p.m.

on

Here are some of the blessings which are foretold by the man- festo, if we mend our ways: eration. Can he possibly believe Japanese pictures opens on Wednes-same day of the week. Now Icon

The bi-annuat exhibition

Birthdays will always fall on the that the Liberals have any better day at Mesars. Komor & Komor's. sider that this la positively crucl] Mr. TIMOTHY MURrny expresses prospecta? So far as Mr. Lloyd The pictures are as interesting on to Smith minor, if he happens to It is hard enough. to

his sincere thanks to his many | George's latest move betokens

this occasion as they always are, have had the ill-judgment to be to come on the right friends for their kind letters and realisation that Liberalism cannot they include some oil paintings born. on a Sunday,

perhaps more interesting because

now. If you muddled th even expressions of congratulations on

up He will never be able to go to more it would be positively fe one by Ozaki from Hongkong China

hings theatre aa a birthday trent. If to give a party at all. Your town. Those artists whose work

ni- in hopeful sign, in that he is at last associate with Komor's exhiba sensible aunt gives him cash door bell would be ringing e

tion are all represented together have to wait an agonising twenty-

- instead of a "present," he will night of the month.

It is difdently admitted by t with certain new men. Terauchi, four hours before he can go out reformers that there are cortan Kornuch, Konya, Aoki and and spend it.

disadvantages to reform, Thus, exhibition an opportunity to study moral system. It is not incull-posed to many others combine to make this Besides, it is very bad for his seventh Day Adventists we op learn that "orthodox Jews and and appreciate modern Japanese celvable that he might demand supplementary days."

the introduction of art.

the right to refrain, on this day, Among the pictures, both large from church-going. What is the

as much and amall, there is a wide range of parent to do if he makes such a ar Seventh Day

"supplementary" days an any subjects and prices, although none demand?

are quite enough days in the yeah

Police

FUNERAL

forced to recognise the actualities. But the awakening has been slow in coming. The eventual course of politics must be a reversion to the two-party system. There cannot

be any room for small, ineffectual

The funeral of the inte Dr. Jen Hawk will take place on Wednesday, 4th November. The cortego will leave 38B, Bonham Road and pass the Wing Pit Ting, Pokfulam, at 3 groups.

arriving at the Chinese Christian Cemetery at about 4 p.m.

p.m..

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1991.

To the student

of

China's Duplicity.

We

This

am

opposed

Well I am not particularly

of them can be considered costly. We should be able to do away without adding to them, thank Fujl, the sacred mountain, is re- with the "annoyance of consulting The mystery of Mr. John Thor-mood, and all sides of Japanese life have "permanent almanace print public opinion might not entirely presented many times in every a calendar." Instead, we should you, especially if the year is 131. It is also loyally auggested that born's disappearance and untime-are reflected in portrait studies of led on our watch-eases." ly death in June last has, to all both men and women.

welcome the fact that the Prince Intents and purposes, been solved. To mention a few outstanding ex-an alluring prospect. For I

seem to me anything but of Wales's birthday would fall on

do Sol 6th. Qufte. According to in official Chinese amples there are, by Terauchi, re-not find it at all.annoying to con-

effects, Note, the young man left Shang-markable atmospheric"

sult a calendar.

dar. Especially when hai to seek adventure, became em- one of which is No. 83, a view of it is one of those calendars which Again, some superstitious

Fuji. Admirers of this style of has a "Thought for broiled with Chinese soldiers, gun- painting will find a large number printed on each leaf.

the Day" people might not like a year that was divided into. thirteen months, play resulting, and was subse- to choose from. Of Kobayashi's MR. LLOYD GEORGE'Squently taken away and beaten to and Aoki's pictures, little need to by those "Thoughts for the Day" that "the thirteenth day of every I have been infinitely elevated capecially when they discovered OVERTURES.

death, his body afterwards being he said. They are well known in I have learnt lot of very useful month would fall on a Friday." burnt. But this belated namis- Hongkong for their delicate touch familiar quotations from them.

of subject. sion on the part of Chinese official- and exquisite choice

Also, being a gardener, and superstitious myself, but I certala- They are represented by hundrede possessing a gardener's calendar, I ly should not like such an arrange. British dum cannot be accepted without of small pictures marked from $3.50 have frequently received very ment. I think I should stay in politics, Mr. Lloyd George's effort feelings of astonishment, mingled up.

timely warnings that "Now is the bed whenever the thirteenth day with doubt as to the safety of for- to secure co-operation between

Ryoku, u papil of the doyen of time to this out the leeks," or that came round. eigners within the protection and Japanese artists, Yamamoto, ex-"It is not yet too late to sow Lots of Liberals and Labour will be regard.jurisdiction of the Nanking Gov-hibits a number of

other people would stay remarkable candytuft in the herbaceods bor- in bed, too. Think what a lous of ed as coming very inte in the day. crnment. The present Note only light effects, while Kyoha und

labour this would mean to the na Pointing out that Liberal

Besides, think how complicated tion at large! Everybody staying and goes to show how Nanking ffed in Ozaki, newcomers to the Colony In-

every fourth Friday. Labour policies do not greatly the first place regarding the af- troduce themselves with a number it is going to make Christmas! We in bed on

all have dozens of friends who are And not only staying in bed but differ, ard that nothing is to be fair. Replying to British demands of very fine all Paintings.

The exhibition is open for ten

not

quite near enough to us to be eagerly hoping that the ration gained by friends of the under-dog for a full enquiry, the Govern- days only. The prices asked for presented with "gifts," and yet alists, who were rash enough to

near too

to be to the pictures are exceptionally re- fighting each other, he comes for-

appeased by a get up, should come to some vic- mere Christmas card.

lunt misfortune! asonable, the best in the collection

For these people the ornamental of their being within reach of all.

No, thank

you. When the New calendar in perfectly suited. It is Yaar comes, I hope, as much as neither one thing view this fine exhibition from 9 am which is why it is such a delight-different year from 1981. But nor the other, anybody, that it will be an entirely onful thing to give (if not to re- there are limits. top.m. at their art Chuter Road.

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the National Thorburn's fate which had been Government unless

gathered by the British authori- it eschewed ties. Yet in face of this latesti tariffs, the former Premier seeks Alustration of official duplicity, to effect a regrouping of partles by the British Government is still making overtures to the much-asked to renounce, in' teto, extra- and sadly-depleted territoriality. Though it may be Labourlies who took the same stand claimed that the question of ex- trality protection cannot in some in the recent election. He may or respects be applied to the case of may not succeed, but, in any event, young Thorburn, the affair in any such scheme as he has in mind sufficient to destroy any confidence in likely to make little effect on a in the Chinese Government Government possessing such

anaford full and proper protection for foreign nationals. By their overwhelming majority,

| misleading statements in the first The more Mr. Lloyd George's place, and their latest admission position in analysed, the clearer that Thorburn was murdered by does it become that he has missed Government soldiers, the Chinese his chances.

Remembering the authorities make it difficult for politics of his earlier days, there those forefguera residing and can be little doubt that he has never territories to regard with any carrying on business within her; been far removed from the outlook equinamity the prospects of com- of moderate Labour. Indeed, manying within the entire jurisdiction have held the view that he should of such an administration..

have broken with the Liberal Party when he was at the top of his re- putation after the wor. Had bo

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BRITAIN'S MASTER MUSICIAN.

By RICHARD CAPELL.

Sir Thomas Beecham was a few weeks ago conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival-the first Eng- lishman, of course, and, it is sold also, the first non-German to take such a part in the rites at the shrine of Mozart that the or

The story goes

chestra, which began by being bored and condescending, as all orchestras are with strange con- ductors, was exclaiming after the first quarter of an hour of Bir Thomas first rehearsal: “But this is no Englishman! He is a Romany

(Grigany),"

The mass of Englishmen are still unaware of the rare brilliance of the genius it is our luck to have

among us.

For their enlightenment at the plain facts be here set down that Sir Thomas Beecham fa Incom parably the firess exemțitive musi- cian England has ever produced, and that even such a country 18. France with all its rich culture- and great musical institutions hán not an orchestral conductor, where

being. In Besch near class.

We are luckier than we deserve, and have not known how to make the most of our luck. If we had rison to it we should not-havQ:H}/ lowed the Beecham Opera OR which Sir Thomas had Inviahed,”

(Continued on Pu