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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1991.

FOR THE CHILDREN.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931.

Soofety been able to provide medical assistance, but it has also rolloved the family purse by supplying noedy children with the necessities of life. What is more, many children have been placed in Institutions In which they will receive such voca- tlonzi training as will enable them to become useful and self-support- ing members of the community. Something has also been done in coping with unemployment amongst parents. The problem of · child;

DAY BY DAY

It in notified that Mr. J. D. Lloyd) resumed duly na Superintendent of Imports and Exports on 14th Decem! ber |

Mr. And Mr. J. II. Taggart are among the passengers leaving for Manila by the President Cleveland this evening.

Monsieur Alphonse J. Hund, man- nger of the St, Francis Hotel, return-

the x.s. Tonkin.

PEOPLE AND POLITICIANS. Has Nationalism Come to Stay?

By A TORY.

TOW the dust of the General their bounden duty to the nation. quick volte face, and facts are no longer distorted by su far as they were concerned leav frenzy, Great Britain may well take ing the country to founder. stock of her position. To look Mr. Henderson, who has now backwards, over the rapid

vied shoes an

as fcuder of the Socialist enacted, is

Nection and the Control bendi

beggars has also come in for at- ed this morning from Haiphong by for recaudite events Intelee stepped into Mr. MacDonald's of

tention, but one of the main dif- ficulties here is that there is no: institution in existence to which these children can be sent. How. ever, in some instances free schonl-: ing has been arranged by the Society and the parents assisted, A fact which is probably news to many in that by no means all of, thest child beggars

are the off- spring of the poor; indeed, many of them have parents in regular work. In view of this circumst-

红

sayk

# distinct impression of party, even boasts about it. "The A very convenient desk calendar nightmare. It seems utterly, in- ship of Labour la still there," has been issued by the Hongkong Piro credible a great and historic nation he, "manned by a faithful few. We Insurance Co., Ltd., and the Canton should have drifted ao very near only ran away from the ship of Insurance Office, Ltd.

to total shipwreck na we did during State!" Comment on that "only" the final phase of the late Socialist would merely gild the lily.

We saw how the General Elec-

WHAT IS DIFFICULT?-TO CON- Ministry. CEAL SECRETS, TO DISPOSE OF LEI- To gauge the depths of the econo-tion was fought. Socialista neglect- SURE RATIONALLY, AND TO BEAR IN-mile and social abyss from which weed no possible distortion or mis- JURIES PATIENTLY.-Chilou, escaped by a hair's breadth, we presentation of palpable fact. need only pleture what must have They heaper abuse on colleagues The names of Mr. J. B. Macdonald, happened if sane eleventh-hour who had the manhood

to resist C.A., and Mr. A. II. Harbord, A.C.A., promptings had not brought the T.U.C. dictatorship when the very have been added to the list of auditors National party to the resette of a life of the nation was at hazard. under the Companies Ordinance. desperate situation.

They uppented brazenly to every With

our unemployed mounting low-down instinct of mass cupidity His Excellency the Governor has up towards three million, foreign and

and class prejudice. But all the ance, the Society does well to sux-appointed Mr. D. W. Tratman, C.M.C. investors fleeing from our plague-time they knew they were enacting gest that the giving of alms to Secretary and Clerk of Councils,

to be Principal Assistant Colonial stricken pound, and the intter fol- the role of Judas. That, but for lowing the dramatic debacle of the the men they traduced, over two child mendicants is not a wise

post-War German mark, we should million unemployed workorn would practice.

now have been at our last grep. within one month have Incked There would have been no mercy for the dole queues, na bread for the deatitute, and earned wages would have been dwindling to wastepaper value in our workmen's hands.

All interested in the Society's work should make a point of secur ing a copy of the annual report and,

thu in particular, should study typical cases, quoted therein,

His Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation by Second Lieutenant Leslie Rons, of his enm mission in the Hongkong Volunteer

Defence Corps.

Looking Ahead.

the General Election. Short of That was the dominant fact of

ment took there would have been such action as the National Govern- no money for the dole queuen in The T.U.C. dictators

The King's Exequatur empowering Mr. John Riley Putnam to act as a

These are not fantastic Imagin in Consul for the United States of Ings. All this must have followed, which such good work has been America in Hongkong has received had the Socialists mad gallop not November.

His Majesty's signature. done. It is gratifying also tó know |

been pulled up only just in time. must have realised that. Were they Not actually in time, however, to ambitious of effecting that the Society has been concern- It is notified that at the expiration prevent mischievous and exaggerat Fawkea Day the Communist Revol- on Guy ing self with the general proof three months the Kowloon Tong and ed reports of a naval mutiny drivution that miscarried at the Gen-

New Territories Development Coming us off the gold standard. blem of the prevalence of tuber-pany, Limited, will, walces cause is

Yet erai Strike? we had umple warning of the im- cellrais

the register and the company will be. which connexion it has issued pos- dissolved.

Six months ngo fers asking the public to refrain from the habit of promiscubus ex-

And now what of the future?

amongst the young, in shown to the contrary, be struck of pending dan Sir Richard Hon. We must look ahead a little.

pectoration on the pavements, in

kins, who is not paid his salary is

When the National Ministry has

a

it

The President and Committee of the Treasury Comptroller for nothing done Ita work, and its course is run. Sailors and Soldiers' Home gratefully presumably, told us in so many must we revert to our former dal- acknowledge the receipt of the fol- words that we were heading rapid-liance with disaster? Is the only lowing Junations to the funds of ly for national bankruptcy and cur-other alternative to sane patriotism view of the fact that the pavements the

Home: H. M. S. Medway rency collapse. That fact was in- and Round finance to be another are so often the playground of the

(Ship's (und), and II.M.S. Suffolk deed patent even to ordinary Бині. Government, with Ministers who (Canteen fund) $100 each.

the paid marionettes of nean people. Yet we went drifting Are poor. All in all, the Society

blisslessly on, piling up debt at T.U.C. Soviet? This country piece of

His Excellency the Governor has over a million a week on our un sick of outworn party shibbolethi appolated the following officers to be employed pay alone, and doing aband mechanical party vendettas. It The necessity for two of his llanurary Ailes-de-Camp:solutely nothing to apply the brakes demands reality alike in politics its existence is well attested by the Lieutenant Charles Francis Cox till we reacked the very edge of the and leadership. And it will never excellent results it has already at James Canningium Church, Argyll precipice. tained.

doing

fine EL

structive work.

is

con-

Mr. Lloyd George's Future. Mr. Lloyd George's recuperative

South Wales Borderers; Lieutenant

and Sutherland Highlandern.

army. His

xister

Squandermaniacy All.

to

again tolerate a velled T.U.C. die- tatorship by Trade and Mad Hatter finance. If the futilities of party those Reports are current in Macao that their spendthrift folly in bidding hands, it is long odds we have seri

That all three political partics, by caucuses gain play into must probably Camnunder Jullo Augusto Ferreira, who was out here or votes in millions sterling, con-joux trouble in Britain. sino years are in the cruiser Adamas-cributed to that appalling crisis in Constitutional methods, forged tor will be appointed Governor of only too true. During two full in the furnace of centuries and tour is over. Refreshed in mind) Macao. He was born in Macao and terins of office with omnipotent hammered out on the anvil of his and body after a serious illness, in Shanghai who were at school with ly failed to realise the paramount British people much prefer them. there are many Portuguese residents majorities, Conservativea complete-toric experience, are best, The he has begun the return journey him many years ago when his father duty of national economy. Liberala Hut a Socialist Ministry that la a to England and politics, his fight was a Captain in the Portuguese forgot there was such a word as 1.U.C. marionette show, and de- ing spirit unquenched. A small Ferreira is at present in Macao.

MIRR Amelina retrenchment,"

and assisted serta the ship of State at the order item in a welter of more exciting

minority Soc

Socialist

a junta of of a of anonymous ignora- topies, the news nevertheless will The Health Bulletin of Eastern

increase the pace of andet.muses, is a humiliation not to be Then suddenly came the rude endured twice in one century- give rise to much speculation. Mr. Ports for the week ending the 12th

inst.. gives the following casce of awakening from the economic Uncie" Henderson is too obviously Lloyd George will be sixty-nine Infectious disease and deaths there- trance. We had the

"bankers in

In pawn to the. T.U.C... As a poten years of age before Parliament from: Plague, Alexandria

1 case, ramp." That parrot phrase means tial Prime Minister, even of the reassembles. What part is he Baghdad. cases, Cholera, Calcutta that, for the first time, British distant future, he is quite out of

синея 15 deaths. Smallpox, credit was exhausted. likely to play in Westminster's | Baghdad cases 2 deaths, Karachi 1 financiers refused to lend more

Foreign true perspective. doings in the unique circumstances et case 1 death, Itungoot millions to a nation that was living we will have one. But his creden

case, Madras 3 cases 1 death, Nega- now prevailing, when Parliament-cases 2 deaths, Pondicherry 2 enses, at the rate of £160,000,000 a year tiala will need to be better than of the Executive is Saigon cazes 6 deaths, Amoy 28 above its revenue at a time when it "Uncle" Arthur's, his aura some- y control more affective than it has been

cases, was also

losing £200,000,000 a year what more majestic, and bis ar- on its trade balance, for decades?

morial bearings must reveal a

less On what side of the

Compelled at last to face facts, resemblance to the familiar three The offices of the Supreme Court even a Socialist Ministry bowed to golden balls of Lombardy. A Mus- 1 p.m. during the Christmas vacation, tically everything the new National less relayed from Moscow is out- will be open daily from 10a.m. tn the inevitable, and agreed to prac-sollni controlled by T. U. C. wire- except on public and general holidays, Ministry is pledged to do. when the fees will bo entirely!

alde the picture of British politics. closed, and on Saturdays, when they At this point the plot thickens. will be open from 10 am to noon. The T.U.C., represented by a hand- subject, however, the provisions of ful of Trade Union officials

(Vacations) Ordinance, 1808, so far burns. as it relates to the criminal sesalons. the

Appearing at a time when we all like to think of bringing some Joy into the lives of the little ones, the second annual report of the Hongkong Society for the Protér- tion of Children makes an appeal for help which we trust will not I permitted to go unanswered. House will be stand and what Both in the report itself and in the figure will he cut in this, probably list of selected cases illustrating the the last chapter of his career? His Society's activities there is ample | story till now has been rather like evidence to be found of the magni- the ingenious mystery story, in |ficent work which is being done, on which the denouement is so akil-

reaches what he imagines to be to help the helpless and those in real need. Needing an in the Anal phase, he can do little but quesa wildly at the purport of what romains. There was a time not long ago when he was classed; as a "back number," when he was regarded as pre-eminently a "war- man" and as such, as a surs that had set. The nimblest political tactician of modern times was not,] however, content with the back

a 25 death, Canton 3 Shanghai 23 cases, 7 deaths.

uf

If we must have a Mussolini.

thoroughly sound and helpful lines, fully plotted that when the reader section 5 of the Supreme Court extreme tendencies, forbade the show that the average mean tempera-

succour

come of from $15,000 to $17,000 a year, the Society is, excepting for Government Krant of $3,000, wholly dependent on voluntary con- tributions. In view of the humani- tarian mission which is being so well discharged by this youthful hut vigorous organisation, we can conceive of few causes so worthy of being remembered at this season of the year.

row. In the net Labour Govern-

ment he easily catablished himself as the most brilliant débater in the House, as the Conservative Party's Less than eighteen months ago, most formidable opponent in a bat- the Society had no inspectora; to- tle of words and wit. An attempt day, it has three, and in view of to forecast the line of his tactica the great number of medical cases in the new House would be based which have latterly come in for on Ittle more stable than intui- attention, the lateat appointmentation, but it seems fairly certain have been ladica fully qualified as mit him to develop into "Yes, that his temperament will not par- trained nurses, Some Idea of the Yes," man on the Government side extent of the Society's work can be Mr. Lloyd George deminds the obtained from the fact that in less spotlight. He will find it in op- than a year well over three hundred position and we imagine the Na | cases have been handled, involving tional Government, even with their more than five hundred and sixty vast majority, would welcome an children. It has been revealed that inkling of the value of the cards mont of the cases calling for help secreted in his sleeve. are attributable to the extrema

poverty in which so many Chinese Bankruptcy notifications state that of the Colony are living, a povertya first and final dividend of $18 per for which there la no organised rocent. has been declared in the case of hof. This, coupled with overcrowd- Kee Motor Hupply Co., Kowloon; and Choy, Koon-ming, trading as the Hop ing has been reflected in malnutri- | A first and final dividend of $9.50 in tion and disease. Not only has the $5,, Des Voeux Road Central

the case of Li Wai-tong, broker, of

As

Observatory returns for November

ture was 70.4, the highest being 82.1 and the lowest 55.6. There were

majority

of paymunters

Socialist of

The Christmas vacation will con- 31.I'., they ordered their 244.1 hours of sunshine and 0.96-inch mence on the 24th instant and minions to eat their own words. A of rain, while the averago humidity terminates on January 1st, 1932. few of the best men stood firm to wag 66.

OVERHEARD AT THE VALLEY.

“Look, Mummy, I didn't know old men playad marbles”.

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