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A 73-year old woman drove a Chevrolet car 2800 miles in 12 days.

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932.

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WHITLEY-On Jawunry 8, 1932, at the Matilon Hospital, Charles Whitley, aged 6. Funeral will pass the Monument at 2.30 pm, to-morrow".

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1912,

BRITAIN'S TARIFF

POLICY.

able opposition from Liberal sup- porters of the Government and thus threaten tho firat breach in "National" nolidarity. A quola for British wheat will not be of much value to the grower unless there is a guaranteed price, and this implies eliber a brend subsidy or a rise in the price of the loaf. It has been suggested that an increase of a huffpenny is the least than can be expected, which means in the ng- gregate a bread tax amounting to some ten million sterling a year. This will fall heavily on the wage earning cluanes,

The trouble in all there Pro- tectionist expedients is that there

DAY BY DAY

THERE 13 NOT IN HISTORY RE- CORD OF ANYTHING GO DISGRACEFUE

To THE HUMAN INTELLECT AS THE MODERN JUEA THAT THE COMMERCIAL TEXT, "BUY IN THE CHEAPEST MAR

KET AND BELL IN THE DEAREST,” REPRESENT, OR IN ANY CIRCUM- STANCES COULD REPRESENT, A'N AVAILABLE PRINCIPLE OF NATIONAL

ECONOMY-Ruskin.

No fresh notifications of diphtheria Medical Officer of Health at noon to contacts had been received by the

day,

the

"NATIONAL PESSIMISTS

UNLIMITED"

By the Rev. Herbert Dunnico,

is no knowing where they will stop. Medical Officer of Health yesterday.ely harmless, but the latter basement,

NAW

He is the man who condemans

to to

Were

ure every

TTOLLYWOOD is credited with him turn up the ledgers of a busi- H

the invention of the "Yes-neas house in 1912, and he must Man" sycophant, whose mission in admit in surprise that thirty shill- eagerness to the least inspired cellent wage for life is to ausent with the utmost ings a week was considered an ex- a clerk after utterances. Unfortunately in this fifteen or twenty years' service. Two notifextions of diphtheria troubles in the form of

country we have our own peculiar Joy his mentory as to the domea- both Europeana-were made to

a vastitie servants his mother used of "No-Men." Of the two keep. They were expected

the former as being com-sleep in an attic and work in a On Wednesday, there were no A wheat quota presumably implies tocal enses, but ane Imported contact

Their

hours are a stamling menace to the en-from 5 a.m. till 11 p.m., with half the control, by larlit or otherwise, was reported. of four importa, while another

tire community.

day off once a month, and their The forthcoming wedding is nu The "No-Man" is an slow that wages ranged from ten to eighteen question is what is to happen to pouneed of Mr. Charles Simon he thinks backwards. He wor pounds a year. Ask him if it is other errents. Wheat is relatively Rosselet. No 4, Dragon Terrave, ships the God of Things-as-They-not possible that those working an unimportant crop in England, Constaner Heard, No. 17, Broadwood even possess a one-way mind. And for our present day servant pro- Causeway Bay, Miss Kathleen always-Have-Reen, and does not conditions are chiefly responsible representing some four per cent, of Rend. Happy Valley.

he not only has the vitality of aulem." T'ersonally. I cannot the agricultural production. What

splder, but has the spider's en-blame mothers who were treated Mr. Peter A. Dragon will lecture gaging habit of eternally sitting like that if they now of the outs and barley interests? to the Hongkong University Amateur still in the middle of a perpetual effort to prevent their And why confine the principle to Photographie Club on "How to make burrier.

Exhibitions Pletures" at the University cereals? I'roducers of meat. Union Assembly Room this evening.

from going inte "service"ghters But, on second thoughts, why poultry and butter

Friday, at 8.46 m. The lecture will something simply because it is trouble to ask the "no-man" any. could put up be open to the public. The exhibition new. If a thing has never been questions at all? It is certain so Just as strong, if not a stronger, attracted a large number of visitors done before he considers that an be a waste of breath and energy. And so the procras could go Xesterday who spent an Interesting excellent reason. why it should Action is the only thing he unde-

time examining and admiring the ex- never on until a general all-round rise inhibits. The exhibition is open daily.variably one

be attempted. He is in-stands the sort of action that jump behind the results! his being trampled living costs results. The plty of it The prizes will be presented

totimes, and with infinite morrow, Saturday.

reluct-underfoot. it is that at a moment when there

ance acquires a fresh habit just

In High Places. when the rest of the world is die-} are indications of tariff reductions A mort resclo was effected at carding it for something

The tragedy of it is that "an- in other parts of the world, Bela span overturned off West Point,

four o'clock yesterday morning when and better,

men" seem to have the faculty of tain should start out on the erec and throw its

climbing into the highest places occupants into the All through the ages he has and clinging to them like limpots. tion of barriera. Maybe, however, the Revenue (feer boat RB. 2, with progress. While he thought him-cal Association

water. The accident was noticed by been the brake on the wheels of The "no-men" in the British Medi- the anti-tarif movement will keep Revenue Officer ihumphreys and Mr. self the ballast that keeps the claiming that the osteopath in jaehrck on the process getting al. Buller, of the C.P.O., on boari. They ship, s'endly, he has really been the "dangerous

mucceeded in pleking up two of the together out of hand. At any rate, occupants, who were given artificial chor that helt her from sailing bune setter is quietly curing thou- us quack," what time the it neems more than likely that the Kowloon Hospital, No

respiration and later removed to the out to see, It was the "no-men" sands whem orthodox

boards of directors and the earth revolves on its axia. of They smashed the spinning-jenny he for restoring prosperity to A public lecture 11 Christian with which James Hargreaves

ave their companies is to ban the Science is to be given in Hongkong by made a fortune

charabanc for Lancashire, motor lorry and the Albert F. Gilmore, Litt. D., C.S., and nothing for himself. They from the roads. The mines, the member of the Board of Lectureship abused and derided Dr. Jenner be-cotton mills, and the woollen milla f The Mother Church, The First cause he showed that he could are full Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston,

of archaic machinery

"na-men"

Lane.

Algns

newr

are busily de-

The

Government will before long be keen of a third man who is believed, lato prison for daring to state that railway-men" whose sole apect-

were of their day whe threw Galileo hus pronounced "incur diagnost

:

come embarrassed by developmenta

lif is prepared t

Ko very slowly in this matter.

to have been drowned.

refuse to

Mass., about the end of March. Dr.tamp out the scourge of shin- which the Gilmore's tour includes New Zealand, box. They tore up the tracks of scrap because it is working just Australia, the Philippines, Hongkong, the first railway, stoned the first as well as ever." China, Japan, Hawaii and, this year motor cars, and provel by mathe-

That very small and select see-

in the

CHINESE SAVED BY JAPANESE.

Fluctuations of Sterling. Advocates of full-blonded Pro-

The low level of the pound, and tection, who have welcomed rerent certains signs of further weakness, Government netion in Britain, will have given occasion for two con- for the first time, India and Java. He matles that no machine heavier tion of the community which has probably find cause for disappoint- | tradletory charges, neither erf

ja being accompanied by his nephew, than air could possibly lift itself been born with the gift of original Prior to devoting his entire time to from the ground. ment in the latest utterance by Sir

thought, and, which has trained which hears any semblance to the woman was

that gift by years of arduous John Ston on the fiscal question.

truth. in Britain, it has several Pore was principal of a high school

Pre-War Perfection.

study, enn show us what is wrong and of an academy, and also sugerin- times been suggested, though notendent of schools in towns Thay lud hoped, in spite of the

And the amazing thing is that, done to restore univerani

with the world and what must be where the farts are known, that state of Mains. He has lectured and although the "no-man" is invari-perity. But what is our reply to contention in some quarters that the

prog- France is behind steady "bear sel written on nature subjects, some of ably proved wrong, he pops up a them? We smile, shrug our shoul Government had no direct mandate ling," and the auspicion has been "Birds of Field, Forest and Park;" hide, still chanting his lugubrious "cranks." We cough Impressive. the books coming from his pen being mouth later with unlacerated ders, call them "visionaries" and to revolutionise the country's fiscal reawakened by Inability to solve East uri West of Jordan:" "ellow and unchanging dirge "It can't be fly and say these things are all very system. for suflicient pressure to

the riddle of France's new repara-hip--The Story of a Man of Busin-done!" One would imagine that well in theory, but in actual prac be exerted by the Conservatives to Liens uti: ude. Of course, there is

a cursory glance at the history of tice they simply wouldn't throw over Free Trade for good nothing in the accusation, though

scientiar dur social

Work progress and alt. Indeed, more than one

Is it any wonder that a reform it seems to be based on the habit

would convince him of his idiocy, -uven a very little one-takes but being the owner of a brain anything from ten ardent Proterlionist M.P. of French finance of acting in con-

impervious to reason, he argues years to come into

to a hundred fargued that the "free hand" asked formity with foreign policy. But,

that he may have been wrong that the wretched reformer

being? Pity "political" selling for by the Government implied the would to-day harm the French far of sterling

time, but this time he is undwhit-so clearly what ought to be done, who sees ahly right. right to go to the full firaft.

but, whose efforts more than I would harm London.

at influencing | interpretation, however,

The favourite adjective of our that vast and immobile mass of Ins been France still has millions of franes loerd office of the NY.K. of the re-Before the war everything was as

News Hut been received by the present specimen Is "pre-war." public opinion composed of mil refuted by Liberal members of the tied up in sterling accounts with scuing by the Fushimi Marn of perfect as it could be in an im-much effect as a man tearing with flons or "no-men" have about as Government, notwithstanding which

British banks and every point the right shipwrecked Chinese fisher-perfeel world. Never, according his bare hands at the side of a fairly strong dose of Protection | pound falis in terms of France? men.

to the "no-maI." shall we

mountain in the wain see has already been administered. It

The Fushimi Maru is at present such days again. Take him to a one day he will tunnel through it. hope that means that these balances are cor-ou the way from Japan to Europe. populous working class district on is, in fact, clear

respondingly reduced.

Every single man who cultivate that there is

The other being due here at daylight charge comes from France and for morrow. She has sent a wireless well-dressed, orderly crowds going

Saturday night and show him a positive attitude

towards the still considerable diversity of

the very reason that Paris is con- message to Hongkong stating that quietly about their business.

problems of life instead of a opinion on the subject within the

negative one is cerned about her balances in Bri-noon, she picked up the right men, pre-war days the

whilst off Wenchow yesterday after-

helping to extor- Rewind him that in his beloved "no-men" in a nation will inevit

minate the "no-men." Cabinet, circumstance' which

Millions of tain. The allegation, equally un-who are being brought on to Hong-would have been slatturaly, drun ruin. makes it probable that

true, is that Britain is followingkung.

crowds ably drag their country down to the issue will come to the Tront

ken, nolay, and quarrelsome. Let form an army of progress that In the

many "yes-men" will near future and possibly lead to in-

nothing in this world can with- Teresting developtnents.

aland.

This

According to Sir John Sinton's view of the matter, the duties al- ready imposed have been chiefly for the purpose of maintaining the currency and correcting the trade balance. He classifies the measures emergency actions, and is at pains to make it clear that these very firm, and in some respects

BA

a

deliberate policy of foreing

down the value of the pound ster- ling in order to give British in- French have lost sight of the fact dustry a much-neded fillip. The

ancial difficulties for the moment, that while Britain may be lu fi-

those are largely due to the defaults | of her creditors, who owe British investors approximately 5,000,000,- 000 in pounds sterling. Any Bri- fish attempt to knock the bottom out of the pound would also knock the bottom out of those invest- ments. British bondholders have plans for the future stabilisation A directly opposite interest in the]

of sterling to that of the manufac turer. If the pound is to be ata- bilised at all, and there is no im mediate hurry, they will strive to secure stabilisation at a high f gure Ho that Interest payments from abroad will be received in taken for granted that any move- valuable currency. It may be meat of sterling, upward or down ward, le duc neither to French po-, Iitical manoeuvres nor to British; Government polley, British cur- rency is now a commodity. finds its "price level" in secor- dance with the law of supply and dermand.

Very severe, measures are not in themselves part and parcel of a de- liberate fiscal policy. "The fiscal policy to be adopted," he adds, "is a matter for future consideralion | and decision.” It may be assumed. that in saying so much, Sir John Simon is reflecting not only his own views, but also those of mum- bers of the Cabinet who, as

past advocates of Free Trade, have found their position to be anything but comfortable. But it is to be doubted whether the viewpoint is one to which most Conservatives would subscribe; they want Pro- tection and are determined, if pos sible, to get it. The wheat quota system, to which the Government lus committed itself na the result of pressure by the farming in- Quarantino restrictions have been torests, Is one form of Protection

Imposed by Hongkong against ar rivals from Shanghai on account which is likely to arouse consider-small-pox.

It

EIGHT FISHERMEN PICKED UP.

-

sume

DE LUXE HAND LAUNDI

"You can just bet I'm not going to iron his shirts after we're

married."

As

THE

SCOTSMAN ALWAYS PAYS.

PE

•

DERHAPS because they know

they are quite unfounded,▾ Scutemen seldom resent the many Jokes about their meanueas, and in a company of mixed nationalities they delight in taking the leading part in entertaining the company with the best jokes against them selves. Their sense of humour demands that the best jokes be told on this subject, and English- men so seldom seem to know these.

The good-natured Scot aces Do thing

but fun in all thle, and I wonder how many of them hnya the Englishman re- noticed that peatedly

exploits Scottish genero- alty by making use of this pro-

verbial Scots meanness with great show of heartiness. Since I Arst noticed this I have derived certain amount of pleasure in studying the bluff, genial, hearty, Englishman as he greedily noizos his opportunity to get a drink for nothing. Most people would he staggered if they knew the num- her of drinks the English obtain by this mothad..

The procedure la always much the same. An Englishman heara a Scots accent the does not nood to be introduced for this) and shouts out in his heartiest man nor, so that attention In Im (Continued on Page 7.).