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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The Hongkong ▲ Nhanghai Hotela, Lid. Incorporated Hongkong.

Kaw Valley Stubbe Rest

BIRTH.

'*

KEW --On January

1032, Dragon Terrace 10 h. and Mrs. A. E. Kew, a son.

DEATH.

| LEE,--Frøsferick Thoms, at 3 am, en Sunday, 10th January, 1932, at his residence No. 294, Prince Edward Hondt, Kowloon. Age 43. Funeral will pass the Monument at 6.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 12th January, 1932.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JANUARY, 11, 1982.

REPARATIONS.

The blunt intimation

by Dr. Bruening that GermANY

gankof longer continue her political pay- inents, and that the Lausanne Con- ference will have to recognise that fact, prisents the pending inter- national gathering with a problem of the first inagnitude. Although

DAY BY DAY

The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone is now central over S.W. Japan, moving E.N.E,

making the international situa- [21 tion

very precarious indeed. Already there are serious diff- culties in financing trade in Ger- many,

on account of the uncer-

THE END OP HUMAN EFFORT UPON tainly of conditions even three

THIS PLANET SHOULD BE TO GIVE A months thent. The "standstill' MAXIMUM OF LIVING AND A MINI- agreemont for short-term debita MUM OF EXISTING THE LIFE MORE onds In February, and it is clear ABUNDANT.-Stuart Chase that Germany cannot then release |the frozen credits her creilftors want The offices of the Hongkong Jockay Club have been removed to Gloucester back. The Hoover moratorium it-Building, Brd, floor. self ends in the summer; but it is clear that Germany will have no surplus for reparations, except by default at her other creditora expense. Despite the French attitude, the Young Plan has really gone by the board, like the Dawes Plan before it. The only alterna- tives

are either a new and far more rational settlement 0779 26 quite different basla, or acceptance } of Germany's default. Then there; is the third alternative of tiding

again

few A

months, with emergency arrange- to krave ments that are likely the situation worse in the end than

it is now. Warn

ANOT

for

more

it really coME« to the

The P. and O. .. Kashmir, from Singapore, with the English mails, is due here at 6 a., on Friday.

Mr. T. S. Wong, Mayor of Swatow, Accompanied by his wife, arrived here by the s.s. Presýlen! Jacksun.

Messrs. Linstead & Davis advertise that their offices will be located Gloucester Building, 3rd floor.

Mr. James Reid was amongst passengers who left by the President Pierce for Marseilles.

The Mansion House Ghost:

as seen by ROBERT LYND.

firmly

The Lord Mayor of London's] cont. of the inhabitants

nocturnal believe. reference to certain Bolsos in the Mansion House, Should I myself, if I lived in the which might be attributed by somo neighbourhood, be credulous with. to supernatural agenics, was, it is the 90 per cent, or should I belong · | said, "received with Inughter. to the sceptical minority? Of one

1 do not know how long it la thing 1 am nure. I should not since the human race began trying accopt an invitation to spend a not to believe in ghosts and vainly night alone-perhaps not even in imagined that it could cure itself company-in the haunted house. of the belief by laughter. But I It is all very well to disbelieve in do know that there was a time in ghosts, but suppose one appeared! the nineteenth century when, na af It must be very awkward to most result of incessant ridicule, thefa ghost in whose existence one last ghost seemed to be about to does not believe, say good-bye for ever.

Fortunately things have greatly

The Stumbling Owl-

changed in this respnet. Tha It is true that I once Hvod in a Victorians could believe in almost haunted house, but we who lived Dything, but they could not be in it were the only people in the in lieve in ghants. The Georgiane villago who did not know that t cun belleve in scarcely anything was haunted. It was only after but they are more inclined to we had left that we were told of belleve In whosts then the our exciting experience. If the Victorians were. I myself, as had been told in advance 1 should Victorian boy, did not believe in never have taken the house. If Khosts, though I was afraid of I had been told after taking it I them. Now that I have grown should have felt uneasy in my bed a middle-aged Georgian. In the small hours, as that awful into

nearly believe in them.

Dishop R. L. Paddock of New York

Jackson, accompanied by his wife.

point, will the French push Ger. arrived here by the 8.8. President or less afrakt of them, but I very owl began to stumble among the

many over the edge, or draw back at the last moment? Are they really eager for a new Ruhr occu- pation, and perhaps a guerilla Hitlerities and Com-

War

with

munista?

From Messrs. J. M. do Rocha and Co. we have received a date block, in both English and Chinese, advertising Max Factor products.

vertising and Publicity Bureau we With the compliments of the Ad- have received a very fetching Chinese wall calendar displaying the merits of Ovaltine.

The Ghost Complex. I certainly never hear anyone telling a story of a meeting with ghost without belleving every word of it while I am listenlug.

rafters above the ceiling. Novor before, or since, have I heard such peculiar thudding noises as that owl used to make overhead when the light was put out.

But Was He An Owl? The spenker at the meeting of the And, when I go to see "Hamlet" Will they not, in the

Bat I suddenly begin to wonder: Rotary Cl), to-morrow, will be Dr in the theatre, I enn no more help "was he an owl?" We used to very last resort, show A more M. Bercovitz, why subject will be believing in ghosts thin in Kings call him "Mr. Bloody-Boots," pre- accommodating mood?

huk And, if "The Island of Hainan."

Queens, even if the ghost tending that he was the ghost of jbumps heavily against the scenery some villain who had spent his

when making his exit.

life wading a gore. And now I Perhaps, one of the reasons why strikes me that, perhaps, bo may

Cer ghosts are no longer ridiculed so have been a ghost after all. universally na they once were stainly, when on one occasion, that the modern ghost is no longer climbed up among the ruftera ti the terrifying figure that scared look for owl's egge, 1 could find and amusest We learn that the Hon. Sir Henry:

our ancestors by neither eggs nor any other trad Pollock, K.C, is again standing as aturns, Most of the ghosts seen of an owl. And he did not soun Legislative Council candidate for! by my friends and acquaintancas like an owl.

been

either election by the Justices of the Peace. have

amicable

Clump-clump-elither- clum He has been proposed by Sir Shouson harmless.

clump-serattle-scruttle- clum On the only occasion on which 1 It was really a moat eerie sour Chow and seconded by the flon, Mr.

met Conan Doyle, he spoke with in the nocturnal quiet of the v impatience of people who did not lage.

they do, will Britain have to make, concessions about short-term debts as well, even at the expense of bankers and balance of payment 7 It is an unpleasant prospect, of

but certainly for us far' less unpleasant than the collapse of Germany. There is still hope common sense will prevall before it is too late, at least to the extent of priching up some-

that

year or two.

W. E. L. Shenton.

thing to carry us over the next The League of Nations health realise that ghosts were, as a rule, How lucky for me that I di It is difficult to hope bulletin of Eastern ports for the week reasonable beings, who had no not know the house was haunted

wish to frighten anybody. | ended January 2nd shows the follow-

He If I had known I should have puti for more than that, and even foring returns, the deaths being indiente told of a ghost that was haunting two and two together, and two and that we can only hope without in parenthesis: Cholers, Bombay I a certain lady's house, and terrify-two could not have been put toge- | (1). Rangoon 1 (1), Saigon 1; small-Ing the governess and the servants ther without turning that owl

pux, Bagdad 1. Busra 1, Mudras 3 (1), to such a point that they ihren-Into a ghost. Rangoon 18 (2), Saigon 3 (2), Amoy tened to leave.

much assurance.

POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.

it has for some time been recogMB. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., inspector Police Reserve Orders by the Hon. mised that there were small pro-General of Police, state: spects of a final settlement of the reparations problem by the Cour-

Chinese Company.

49 (19), Chaton 5. Shanghai 18 (4).

venture

Ja

Having visited the house inl janawer to an appeal from the lady,|

he discovered by some means that Keeping the Home

A little business Chinese woman at Yaumati has had the ghost was looking for a docu- disastrous outcome, according to ament that once lay in a cupboard report received by the district police long since removed ewing to station during the week-end. To structural alterations in the house. Shan-Mani living nt 27, Temple "I talked to him perfectly reason- sewing machine Lu a shoemaker, and him: You're terrifying the poor Street, some time back hired her ably." Paid Doyle. "I said to

Touch.

By Philip Macer-Wright

was satisfied with a promise of pay-servant girls and everybody in the It is revealed of the late Mr. ment. When going round to 39,house, and making this lady's C. G. B. Stevens, whose murder Reclamation Street where the

man life unbearable. And it's no use, has afforded recent unhapov news Training Course-Part 1-Con-lived, yesterday, she discovered that because the cupboard and the from India, that when his work. ference, it had been hoped that stable R14 Leung Fat has been passent her customer he left, taking the document you're troubled about isolated him from white autfleight would be accomplished tout as efficient in Part II of Training sewing nuchine with him. The sew are both gone. I pointed | Course (knowledge of Police Duties ing machine is valued at $12.

out to society-when the nearest English- und Regulation).

him that he was doing nothing man was a hundred miles away or but harin by behaving as he did, more—he would train his native Training Course-Part II.—All re-| cruits will altend at the Chinese. But for an alert wharf scorcher, and the result was that he never cook and house boys to make up Company's Headquarters, on Tuesday, it is probable that a dope trafficker gave any trouble again."

a four at bridge. January 12th,

1932, at 5.30 pm for would have got away safely with a How different from the ghosts By how many devices have instruction.

quantity of heroin pills, when he got of our childhood who haunted Englishnien, similarly placed, Defendu Class-This will be held shore from a river alenner yester lonely roads and dark stairs and withstond the miseries and On Wednesday, January 18th. day. The ingenious trick employed empty rooms! How different, too, dangers of exile among native

by this amuiggler was to secret the

pave the way to the larger under- standing which must come later. Unfortunately, the Situation ims for some time been complicated by

the attitude 1 America and

at

France, either of whom has felt police Headhuarters at 6.30 pat-contraband in the heart of a large from those ghosts that still haunt races-the "Icaxer breeda"; muin-

because her bankers

14th, 1912 at 5.40 p.m.

"dress for dinner" or stand up alone to drink the King's honith. But the peculiar dangers of taking it easy are not readily apparent in Hampstead or Wim- bledon.

disposed to make any enbeessions. under Police Sergeant R. J. Hunt America is with Britain in Training Course-Part 1-Alt re-cabbage, which he dangled at the end a number of houses in England taining at all hazards the exacti- crults of the Chinese Company will of a string from his finger. In spite the addresses of which one is not tude of Western habita, the rigid rexard to commerezal debts,atten Central Police Station forof profuse prestations of his having allowed to publish, as I understand observance even of Westeni

Squad Drill on Thursday, January been the catspaw of someone else, the that it is a libel in the eyes of the etiquette! and

traflicker, when charge by R. O. law to say that a house in haanted! To the comfortable stay-at-home investors are deeply committed in N. C. Os. Class-A 8. C.' Os. Ward before Mr. Williams this morn. Every county in England must it may appear comic that in some Germany and also embarrassed at will attend the Chinese Company's ing, was fined $500, or in default, have a haunted house of this kind, particularly sequestered outpost

Headquarters

'containing a ghost in which 90 per of Empire a man should trouble to home; and the American Govern- 15th, 1932 at 4.00 1.m, for instruction

on Friday, January four months' hard labour. ment has no desire to widen the under Mr. Paterson, P. P. T. S. circle of bank failures. But, about

Indian Company. WIL debts and reparations Strength.-Constable R261 Abdul America, a large net creditor, is Rahman has been permitted to resign

with effect from January 5th, 1932. TID with Britain yet, for

Training Course-Part II-Con- The first is that a great stables R266 Harbhajan Singh and 12208 Puhiwan Khan have been passed MASK of American opinion, ex-out an efficient in Part II of Training pecially among those who are in Course (Knowledge of Police Duties:

and Regulations). personal financial troubles, merely

Parades and Training Courses. saya, "Why should

not Europe No drill parades or training course pay? We cannot afford to be classes will be held during the period of January 10th to February 10th, philanthropists now."

And the 1932.

reasons,

two

second Is thut even instructed American opinion does not want

Flying Squad.

Company Dlaner.-The Dinner will to make concessions without get-be held at Lane, Crawford's Restaur- ting something in return, and is at 8.00 p.m. instead of 8.30 p.m. as ant on Wednesday, January 13th, 1932

not convinced that a mere scaling-] previously arranged. Dron-Blue down, or even a cancelling, of war Uniforms and Cap with Cover. debts

and reparations will aet Europe again on its feet It! wants, in addition. guarantees about such matters as disarma- ment, and clear signs that Europe will in future pull together in real attempt to solve its problems. So enlightened American opinion is healtant, and backwoods opinion hostila; and the result is the lack of really forceful initiative from the United States.

Sharpshooters Company.

Notice. A meeting of N.C.Os. and Squad-leaders will be held in the office of the O. i/c. Co., on Monday, January 11th at 6.16 p.m.

Armi Licences.-All members of the Company are requested to send their arms licences to the 0. I/c. Co., as soon as possible.

(Sgd.) D. L. KING,

D. S. P. (R).

The prizes won at the Hongkong University Amateur Photographic Club's annual exhibition were pro- sented by Mrs. R. H. Kotewall on Saturday evening. Mr. Yeap Choong-

Yet something far-reaching must be done at Lausanne, if Germany is

yow, the Chairman, thanked the Hon. not to collapse, bringing down Mr. Kotowall for a donation of $50 with her EL number of other for trophies to be used as the Com-

countries

and, at

the

mittee decides and a further $80 for least, the purchase of cups.

SHOT

CHESTNUTS

Suppose I take your picture and then you sell me some nuts wouldn't that stimulate business 7"

East and West.

West of Temple Bar it is dim- cult to perceive the problems East of Suoz. Hoisting the Union Jack in a Hammersmith back garden on Empiro Day may or may not be an empty flourish; in the African bush it may be a challenge to all the powers of darkness,

It is not surprising that many of us look somewhat obliquely at the self-sufficient airs of the white' man in an Eastern station and amilo at the eccentricities of the man whose job takes him away from the society of his own race.

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume." Wo always amile at that.

And I once heard of, a man who kept the sights and`sounds of London alivo for him in the Upper Roaches of the Nile by teaching his native boys to repeat the obstis“: {dest of the Town's catch-calis,

After dinner he would call them

in and listen approvingly while they shouted In concert “Are we down-hearted?” and thundered the answering "No.". Ho even taught them to shout (or sing). "Umtiddly-om-pom (pause). pomi- pom," and clap their hands coro- moniously at the "pom-pom."

The Tooth Brush Symbol.

I remember, too, reading of an English Army, offles who, fixed in some remote, rocky and altogether (Continued on Page 7.)