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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1931.

LIGHT IN THE PARIS DARKNESS.

tius is to be over-ridden.

DAY BY DAY

MISERY ABSAILS NICHES, AS LIGIIT. NING DOES THE HIGHEST TOWERS;

OR AS A TREE THAT IS HEAVY LADEN FRUIT BREAKS IT'S OWN Writ HOUCHS, SO NO RICHES DESTROY THE VIRTURE OF THEIR POSSESSOR-BUT- ton.

good peacemaker. The outcome of the Intest conversations between the representatives of Great Britain, Francs, Gormany and the United States may offer: the key to the whole puzzle. It has already had the effect of calm- ing feellug in Tokyo, may dispel the belief that a verdict whe delivered before the case had been heard, and promises to produce a more accommodating attitude.

The ultimate solution may not he satisfactory to Chinn, or to

Commander and Mrs. W. Palatra, Japun. The signal failure of

of the Salvation Army, are en route every attempt hitherto to achieve to Australia on rotirament

enough to thin end should be denote the imponsibility of the tnak. The League's duty now

seems to resolve itself into one of persuasion; getting the parties down to direct negotiation Japan has been mistaken in her attitude in Paris, as she was at Geneva. The right of world opinion to strain every effort to put a stop to war- like activities must be unquestion-

eti,

the The

is alternative destruction of the foundations of the Kellogg Pact and the Lengue Covenant, und tiptomatic chans. Japan mukt get away from the thought that the League Council have any molive in their decisions other than that of averting war. The decision of the "Big Four" seems to be helping immensely.

- Its omcially notified that Mr. J. W. Franks has resumed his duty ns Sugierintendent of Prisons,

The Ben Line S. S. "Beavannah" Jeft Singapore for yesterday and is due to arrive here on 29th Nov. via Manila.

Among the promotions and trans- fer recently made by the Secretary of State for the Colonies wan: Mr. R. E. Lindell, (Cndet Omeer, Class II), Cadet Officer Cinna I, Hongkong.

HE, the Governor has appointed Dr. John Alexander Robertson Selby; M.B., B.Ch. (Edin.), to be Lieutenant In the Medical Section, Hongkong Volunteer

Corps, with effect from 3rd November.

H.E. the Guverner has nominated

Mr. W. II. Bell, Mr. A. Cameron, and Court of the University of Hongkong Mr. R. M. Dyer as Members of the for a further period of three years, with effect from the 12th November, 1931.

Mr. J. T. Biddeford, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, was involved in nn accident at 3 o'clock this morning when driving a car through Queen's Road East, he knocked down a Chinese boy who was removed to Hospital with head injuries.

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of the for

BEVERLEY NICHOLS ON HOW

The Inventor Brightens the Home.

to their senses by this And now that the battle is over, brought

please let us take a deep breath benefit. Nothing starts the day an and think of something else, badly as an untidy egg. if only for five minutes. It will Perhaps, however, my favourite item from the whole list Is A Table do, as good.

This, according to the Let us think, for example, of the Dustbin.

Is A Receptacle for Future. The Future in going to be catalogue, tinged with the most exquisite table use, designed for the recop tion of portions of food, bones, shade of rose, if we are to judge by a little volume that lies before me. etc., which would otherwise cumber It is the catalogue of this year's the plate." An invention full ef of In-old-world charm, you will agree. International Exhibition ventors, and it is the most stimulat-It can be guaranteed to add to the ing chronicle I have ever encounter-calety of nations, and will probably ed. It simply glistens with Hope. give rise to some interesting pro- And at the same time it causes one blems in etiquette.

Should the bones, for example, nonchalantly Into the to foci a deep-dyed shame at the darkness of the ways in which wo bo tossed

dustbin, or should they be lifted have hitherto been walking.

How, one asks oneself, has man-between the thumb and the fore- kind managed to struggle through finger? And if the hand of a the stormy centuries without the gentleman about to rid himself of assistance of the device for autoa bone collides with the hand of a matically signalling the height of lady who is similarly engaged does liquids? ("This device will give the gentleman return his bone to a warning signal when a required the plate, hold it in mid-air, or go Useful straight ahead? Or dock he just burst into song, and throw it out for Bath.")

of the window 7 height of water is reach.

A Household Boon. Here we have all been wallowing

A Four-Legged Dustbin.

I should like to know, because I

in our baths, day in and day out, fear 1 shall never learn from per- and never a note of the warning sont experience. You see, I al

echoed through the signal has

possess a Table Dustbin. house! In hideous ignorance, we ready have continued to shrick the Pro-ile has four legs, a shaggy cont, the and a tail that wags disarmingly. logue to "Pagliacci," while

And when is only disadvantage is that he water steadily rises.

which 1s Speed a Craze?

removes bones the water has risen too far we havemetimes In debating whether the present

simply turned off the top! 11 are not intended for his consump day cruze for speed is worth while,

makes one despair of human tion.

There is only one danger attach- the members of the Y.M.C.A, em

Anniversary dinner

In future let us hope all nature. Club has been fixed braced a very common, but not Rotary

Wednesday, the 9th Dicember, at pin. households will be fitted with this ing to these inventions. They may necessarily correct, wasumption,

The apparatus. Let us also hope that make life such a dream of sweet- in the Hongkong Hotel. HE.

sofl Consider the last Item in the They took it for granted that there Governor has commented to be present the alarm," when it goes off, will eas and ease that we shall grow catalogue. A device for linking is a craze for speed in the world and ladies will be among the guests. be an explosion sufficiently terrify- the At the next weekly tiffin, on Tuesday, ing to make us leap, at once, from to-day, but reflection

the Rev. E.C.1. Tribbeck will give the enervating caress of the waters. an alarm clock to a gramophone, the alarm, instead of whereby question leaves the impression an address on "The Human Side of More and more, as one peruses sounding the bell, starts the grame- that the universe is not so much Unemployment."

this list, one realises the brutish-

phone. ("This awakens the sleeper news from which we are about to to the sound of musle Instead of from

for suffering

a passion

rise. How, for example, have we quicker movement, as that it is being forced, nilly-willy, into obey- ing once again, the ordinary laws of evolution. A cruze for any- thing, which, according to the dic- means an extravagant Honary

a vehement desire, is liking, or

upon

moves

MONARCHIST PLOT THWARTED.

even been able to decide the day by the harsh clanging of the bell.") of the month without the Perpetual

soverall are Calendar? There calendars in the catalogue, but the

(loex

100-Year Calendar.

Choice of Music. Yes, but having awakoned him, ne I like best is: "A perpetual is he likely to be stirred into the and date-enncelling calendar fitted necessary activity by the wall of HUGE HAUL OF ARMS The statesmen gathered at Paris

with a. transparent disc, which, a muted Saxophone? Most modern MADE FROM CHURCH. when rotated by the front knob, lyrics concern themselves with to measure up the problem created

eancels the days by means of a ret dreams, blue skies, moonlight, and similar natural phenomena. The by the Manchurian crisis, inverenerally confined to an Individuai

Madrid, Nov. 16.

line." ar a select number of individuals.

word "dream" is obviously unde- This calendar would be quite in-

auto-spigestive mate their first useful contribu-

A cruze or passion for a thing is

Twenty one monarchists includ-!

valuable to the Man Who Was strable from an tion ta a satisfactory settlement.abnormal, and is the possession of ing stulents, lawyers, priests and The ill-considermi October resolume who has developed abnormal soldiers have been arrested in con- Thursday. But it would also be point of view, and the mention of There ideas regarding a particular object nexion with the latest plot to over-invaluable to me. Fancy having blue skies might arouse disparag

throw the republican regime. The device which

one's date ng compurizans with the view as conspirators were all arrested cancelling automatically, instead of over the neighbouring chimney- is to be no more talk of economic or subject. Speed as we know it

with-to-day, however, is an integral together when they met after mid- having to ring up on the telephone tops. Of course, one could turn on boycotts DI diplomatic drawals, or of similar conrrive part of the world's existence. It night in the veatry of a church to and say, "I'm terribly sorry, but I the Soldiers' Chorus from "Faust" can't dine after all... an aunt, and yet, somehow, doce one want to begin the day with the is a force which has to be part discuss their last preparations.

The police got wind of this meet-you know just arrived measures, with potential war!

and parcel of man's existence if

Therefore. in order that this and an awful throat!

mankind, hovering in the background. The he is to survive. It is foolish to ing. allegedly through a member I've water on the knee coming too Soldiers' Chorus from "Faust"?

of the aristocracy sympathising:

boon may not be lost but do let me come another

I have invented a supplementary Longue may now with the co-attempt to confine the idea of with the republic, and raided the burde

instrument to be used in conjune- operation of the United States. speed to motor cars and cycles, church where a thorough search time." and all that.

tion with the aforementioned de- perform its true function, which or anything which, by means of revealed large stores of ammuni- faster tions. All arrested men are stout-

vice. It it called: "A device which for the time being is that of locomotive power

There is another calendar which at the conclusion of the record will any plot, insisting that they had. policeman, posted by the moral than man. Speed to-day in ally maintaining their innocence f

met in the vestry merely to guard lasts for 100 years, but I have a wipe the sleeper's face with Iced forces of the world to stop dis-embracing, and is reflected in

every phase of life. Man is the church against a threatening feeling I might take a sudden cau de Cologne, pay his overdraft, hatred to it, round about A.D. 1999, pacify his cook, sllence hia off- Eurbances of the pence. In

trained to think quicker and wet mob attack. ŋctober, the representatives of the quicker. He is perfecting

The authorities, however, are so it in hardly worth buying for spring, and let out the cat."

It is very simple, and has the What is emphatically worth buy- full approval of Mr. Arthur Hen- Powers were inclined to delegate chinery which is to he at his dis-ridiculing these statements, insist-just a little while like that. to themselves the role of judgesposal for faster work and speediering that they have definite proof

arms found in the church were "This device allows for suficient the sort of invention he is always

for usc with an egg and inventing himself. of the dispute, and in consequence results. His brain and faculties of a treasonable plot and that the ing is the Egg Cup and Salt Tray derson, who tells me that it is just there emerged a resolution which, have therefore to be cultivated to purchased with 120,000 pestas col-sult by calling upon Japan to with- move faster, otherwise he is, nsfected in monarchist circles for obviates untidiness." It is to be one Y.M.C.A. speaker suggested, the purpose of fomenting a coup. hoped that those depraved persona who make their eggs untidy will be draw her forces, irrespective of

linhle to be the tool of his machine-Trans-Ocean Kuo Min. the situation,. merely resulted in instead of minster. Speed, of

Tokyo's altitude.

course, is not a new thing. Technically, Japan may be in the has always been dominant in the wrong. Her troops have forcibly mind of man, but it la only cer- laken control of a neighbour's tain scientific discoveries of fairly territory. China buses her case recent years that have enabled man on the Covenant of the League of to give fuller expression to the desire. These discoveries were Nations and the Pact of Paris.

conse: perfectly orderly affairs, But, this is not a time for hasty

quent upon careful investigations The judgments,

task of the

and based on simple fundamentals. Lengue is to prevent the rather Thut We have improved upon serions hostilities from developing those discoveries is not to the dis- into plaig war. There will be credit of mun, but rather suggests time enough afterwards to place the fulfilment of a duty. the ease of the disputants before

stiffening

"Judge und jury."

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Teo ready acceptance of the | superficialities of the situation has already had unfortunate results. Japan has felt so bitterly about the whole business that she has thought it to complain of the publicity given by the League to Chinese allegations. Opinion In Fokro hardened to such an extent that the League was con- fronted with a somewhat startling Note declaring that the military occupaiton of Manchuria will not passengers.

London. Nov. 15.

A Portsmouth civil engineer who was urgently required by his Arm in Northern Rhodesia was despatched there to-day by the air mail parcel post, as the air-mail planes do not ordinarily carry

be relaxed under any circum-the cost of the passage and it was He was welghod to afcertain stances until a new treaty has found that he had to pay £200. been negotiated between Japan Ho did so and, was and China. This was serious, but Northern Rhodesia.

off for

The trip will take seven dayr It was foit wiser to reserve

Instead of the five weeks or so judgment. An oxeltod, alde- required by the ordinary land and taking - publ "opinion is not a sea passage-Reuter.:

It

"They say these Eugenle hats are really reviving chivalry

PHIPPS finds HUSBANDS ARE

THE BIG NOISES.

When hubby begins to sore, love flies out of the window,

That is the conclusion one must "- draw from a woman's application the for a separation order on grounds that her husband was an exponent of symphonie slumber.

The Chairman of the Magie- rates "Cammot they sleep in dif- ferent rooms?"

The Solicitor: "She

says you

han not only hear it all over the house, but all over the neighbour- hood."

The complaint, in fact, is local. It is not the woman and Cupld who seek protection--they are merely the leaders of the opposition.

The domestic evidence need not he discussed: the important point is that the husband is the Big Nolse.

Boring Companions.

Snoring husbands are, I fancy, commoner than anoring wives, Men, better tone. somehow, exhibit technique, and temperament for the

pastime.

But a sporing partner is at best boring companion. How many good wives and true must have muttered to themselves in the still watches. "If only he'd do the But thuse Moonlight Sonata anorere never seem to have any real, inspiration. Their performance may be rhythmic, but it lacks (Continued on Paga 9.)