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In an official test in Egypt, A 1931 Chevrolet covered 1300 malles, averaging 28.19 miles to the Imperial gallon of gasoline.

This test was conducted under the control of the Royal Au- tomobile Club of Egypt.

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DEATH.

McCULLOCH-On 20th December,

1931, Gretna, near

Carlisle, England, Charles McCulloch, late Quarter Master Sergeant, Royal Engineers, Hongkong.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932.

AN OMINOUS LULL.

very machinery of government it self. The netv Government. paralysed by the flight of the chief from the Nanking stage. The heads of the various Yuan and

actors

whose authority is indirect and {1}-] *) defined; and they are so placed be- fare those fundamental reconcilia- tions have taken place which alone can engender mutual trust. It in an impossible position.

It would seem clear that Chiang' Kai-shek himself is the prey of con- Bileting emotions. His outburst during the meeting of the Peaco Conference in Shanghai probably indicated his "rent mind; it is pos- sible, however, that he was per- sunded genuinely to retract in con- | alderation of the wider issues In- volved. But his reference to Hu Han-min in his letter of resigna- tion showed that he still failed to

stomach the role that had bour cast for him, the insistence on his re- signation. So we have Mr. Hu in discreet retirement here in Hong- keng, and Mr. Wang Ching-wet on the diplomatic sick-list. We repeat that it appears to us a perilous situation.. We hear of the with drawal of American citizens from n district only eight miles from Hankow in view of a threatened advanced, while Japan is reaching the Great Wall.

DAY BY DAY

CONCISE PHRASES MAKE FANATICS,

Morley.

It In notified that Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood resumed duty an Assistant Harbour Mastor on 1st January.

A tennis tournament (for men only} | will be held by the Civil Service Cricket Club to-morrow at Happy Valley, commencing at 2.80 p.m. sharp.

Miss Alda Remedios name was in advertently left out yesterday in the list of daughters of the late Mr. V. L. Remedios.

Ordinance, 1931, together

ELY CULBERTSON 30ys

Women Have "Made" Contract Bridge.

Bad bridge players in America, in modern novels who discover have all been having one kind of who murdered Sir Lignol Planta- nightmare. In this they found genet in between playing Chopin themselves taking Mr. Jacoby's and deciphering Etruscan Inscrip place opposite Mr. Lenz at a critical tions. moment fu the fight with the Cul- Born in Russia of an American bertsons, and left with the awful father and Russian mother, Cul-

The Gazette contains a list made by responsibility of bidding a slam bertson talks English with a the Governor-in-Council of General on a hand that keeps changing ita foreign accent that is so marked Bonded Warehouses under the Liquorn spots. After losing the first six you half fancy it is part of the regulations relating to samo.

with tricks, they generally wake with detective's disguise.

a scream.

Culbertson was ruined by the An almost feverish interest was Rolshevik revolution and reduced of the recent China Exhibition show tunes of the four players engaged few years he has built up an The audited statement of account taken in the personalities and for to washing dishes, but in the past that receipts totalled 37.418.40, while in the six-weeks' match which was annual income of 300,000 dollars payments came to $3,823.88, leaving supposed to test the merits of the by exploiting bridge as Henry Ford $3,512.62 to be distributed to various rival systems. They causes which are specified in detail.

were more exploited motor-cars. discussed than лау politicians. He owns bridge magazines, he Observatory returns for December more photographed than any film writes and publishes bocks, he show that the average mean tempera atar. From West- Orange, New lectures, teaches, draws royalties Lure was 63.3, the highest being 16.3 Surbiton) to Little Rock, Arkansas come a millionaire by turning

Jersey (which corresponds to on bridge supplies, and has be inches of rain and 144.3 hours of (which is unique) they debate gentle parlour game into a mass sunshine, while the average humidity whether Mr. Lenz Wi. too production industry that now gets cautious, or Mr. Culbertson too more attention from the news- swashbuckling. Main Street may papers than do the films. It is notified that at the expiration be foggy about the moratorium.

The best stroke of luck Ely of three months the Tal Hong Steam-but it appreciates a rousing five Culbertson ever experienced was Restaurant, Ltd., will unless cause is

hip Co., Ltd., and the Yee Wo spade bid when it hears one.

and the lowest 41.7. There were

WIN 72,

shown to the contrary, be struck off They Think They Can Beat Men. the register and the companies will

Culbertson says it is the women be dissolved.

Arc responsible for this of contract

who

of

that

cases 4 deaths. Cholera, Calcutta 18 bridge-table,

Case 0 deaths. Small-pox, Baghdad

machine.

serene.

Her own

women are botter An aura of sorcery surrounds

the

An Empire Currency. Lenders of British, industry and

marrying Josephine Dillon, a trade are giving increasing atten-

player Wilbur Whitehead. bridge instructor for that fine tion to the possibility of establish-

thoughts to bridge as a career.

-It was she who turned his ing a uniform monetary system for in 1 Empiro countries. Many pro- A regulation under the Tobneco sudden elevation

Fair-haired, blue-eyed, gracious. minent Inanciers have given the Ordinance prescriben the following bridge to the rank of a major and as competent

she is

usually as cool as an ice scheme their blessing. and its fees as payable for permits for re-sport, commanding columns in the

as an adding value, if fenalble, requires no cm-Offee of tobaccu whch arrives in the

moval to the Imports and Exports newspapers.

She exhausta herself with con- phasis. A definite

They have the thinks) decided move is Colony for transhipment and export, this is the one pastime at which contration, and at the end of one now being set on foot by the and cannot at once be placed direct they can beat men hollow.

of these scasiona goes of im Federation of Empire Chambera Permit for three days or under, 10 feminine wits

on board the exporting vessel:-)

They see in it the triumph of

mediately to bed, weary laut. of Commerce, which has followed cents, or 2 cents per package per day

over masculine the example of the Federation of or part of a day, whichever shall be muscles. It revenges them for a

Income from bridge The present full

must be impressive, hundred defeats auffered on ficide in Chinese British Industries in giving the the greater; second

for continued Or

she permit, after the first three days, where man's polities seems to the foreign on-proposals a whole-hearted endorse-double the above fee.

physical strength charges £12 a lesson, and la in has given him an advantage which constant domand, looker to be fraught with dan-ment. The appropriate Ministers |

no Intelligence can outweigh. geroas possibilities. It is indeed in England and the Empire In accordance with the provistons

Lenz the Wizard. Most of the experts here of section capitals are to be supplied with a

of the Únelaimell concede. ley JuB In politics than in the memorandum outlining the scheme Balances Ordinance, 1929, His Ex-bridize players than men and that Sidney Lonz. He is 58, tight- in detail and even while there is that a sum of $10,000, deposited in perfect themselves in the games.

cellency the Governor has directed luy

take greater trouble 10 lipped, grim, with eyes that stab. ie reason to fear that little progress by Messrs. Wah Leo & Co. in Culbertson-Lenz fight, I could not

the Treasury on 8th November, 1922,

Twenty years ago he retired on a can be made just now, the response respect of security for the construe-help feeling that Ely Culbertson fessional magician long befora ho

Watching

play in this fortune made in lumber.

He amused himself as will be interesting. While every tion of the read from Causeway Bay to himself is more responsible than became a bridge player, one

a pro- country in the world hue for many North Point, shall be transferred to any other person, or combination those smart follows who draw

the general revenue of the Colony. the Cabinet Ministers are, so far, years past munaged its currency This transfer is subject to the provogue of contract bridge,

to a greater extent than formerly, visions contained in the said Or

persons, for

this prodigious rabbits out of hata and billiard balls from behind their cars. He it in doubtful whether a purely jdinance as to refunds.

He is a master of the art of was adroit at card tricks, and managed currency would appeal

Ballyhoo that expressive word of from that you may guess what to the Dominions and Colonies

The Health Bulletin of Far Eastern which America is so fond. Never peculiar temptations must some Ports for the week ended January a suitable system for an Empire gives the following cases of infectious manship been applied to a game. playing bridge,

before has auch dazzling showtimes assall him nowadays when currency. Britain, at the moment, diseases and the deaths therefrom: He is the C. B. Cochran of the Fortunately for his opponents, has nothing better to

Plague, Baghdad 1 case, Colombo offer and

Lenz'a integrity is as granite, and while several of the Dominions are

For months past Culbertson has no bridge player has ever quas mination of South Africa to remain cutta 5 cases 1 death, Mndras I case.one of the great decisive battles she had with Lenz at a party. in much the same case, the deter. 4 cases 8 deaths, Basrah 1 case 2been trying to convince America tloned it.

deaths, Bombay 1 case 1 death, Cal-that this contest with Lenz was A girl told me of an old experience on the gold standard to the last Rangoon 18 cases 7 deaths, Vizaga of the world. He succeeded. ditch ia au llustration of the ob-

patam 2 cases, Pondicherry. 1 cane, 1 He knew the world lovce the hand, he skimmed a number of While waiting to start a contract stacles likely to be encountered by 43 cases 18 deaths, Canton 4 cases, authority. Therefore he drama them," he said. She found there

death. Saigon 8 cases, 7 deaths, Amoy spectacle of a rebel challenging cards from the ehlef protagonists of the Shanghai 41 cases 14 deaths, Yakotised this game as a struggle were ten..

the pack. "Count Empire Currency programme. The hama 1 ense.

between progress and conserva-l Empire is built upon the principles In the annual Christmas play, tism, between youth

"Lay them on the table, and The cause of this paralysis is the component parts will not readily the leading part was taken by an old

of herty and freedom and its "Julius Caesar," given by students of between imagination and tradi- as hard as you can."

a press both your hands on them Forent School, Shareabrook, Essex, tionnHam. failure of the Central Political agree to the idea of their respec- boy of the Kowloon British School. his attacks on Lenz and the Old were but nine.

His swagger was delightful, and he commanded. She found there She did so. "Now count them," Council to meet. The constitution of tive currencies being managed Master G. C. Tacchi, a son of Mr. Guard had a schoolboy quality of this council is a typleal Chinese com- from any one centre. And, ther of the performance says that Master apudence that was almost en-1.

C. J. Tacchi, of Hongkong. A report | promise. The country was faced with cannot be blamed for resisting Tacchi's interpretation of the part dearing. problems similar to those which the movement. The time la hardly was both capable and impressive. popular. in the great war led to the formh-ripe for progresa in this direction, "He made clear not only the haughti-

ness and ambition, but also the great i even while the lines look desirable. tion of a Coalition Government and When world onditions have bo- Emperor, and the Court murder ness and dignity of the would-be in the recent economie erisis to that come more normal; when Britain most thrilling seene of the play could zeene, the climax of his part and the of a National Government in Eng-finds it possible to return to a scarcely be bettered."" land. But in both those cases the system enabling her to provide an leaders of all the parties which supalling all that is required of it. Empire Currency capable of ful- ported the Government found places which is based upon sound prin- in the Cabinet. There remained a ciples and which will, at the same remnant which took its place openly time, reserve to each country, in- and frankly as an Opposition.cluding Britain, the greatest The rest entered into an effective amount of individua! liberty; when political union. The Government in fact we can restore the tried In England goes on at full strength and proven old system, of Sterling for the purposes for which it has Currency, it may be possible to been elected; we say

secure Empire agreement on the this irres

matter. When that time comes, pective of what these purposes are, of course, the urgency will be less

mere figureheads. Even the re- doubtable Eugene Chen has fallen into comparative silence; and if bis typewriter has been busy on Notes not yet given to the public; its most thunderous periods can have little effect in this uneasy and ominous pause in affairs. We say ominious, for we cannot shut our eyes to the fact of the steady and resolute advance of the Japanese from without, and the consolidation of Communist power within the country,

SUGAR MARKET.

The point is the continuity apparent and the value forgotten and effectiveness. of the governor minimised. ment machine. A different situation has arisen out of the attempt. laudable and desperately urgent in itself, to form a National Government in China. The various parties are convinced, we must be- lieve, of the necessarity of such

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

The following cable at the stren

a Government. In the effort to form of the sugar market yesterday

one, they have relegated the three has been

monived by Messrs.

most conspicious party leaders Pentreath and Co.

to a Council which apparently functions outside the Administrn- tion, yet without whose support, and the support of these elementa in the country which it represcats, the Administration cannot work The Loftist and Rightist leaders, and the man who stands between them AS A practical ad- ministrator, find themselves in Juxtaposition

Д council

on

London Terminais. March 6/114% down Yail. May 7/1 down d. August 79 down 4. December 7/6% down 1⁄2d. Ruver ahnen nrices, scilers asking d-11⁄2d more.

New York Terminals. March 1.06 down 1 pt.

. May 1.08 down 1 pt.

July 118 down 1 pt. September 1.19 no change. December 1.24 .down 1 pt

"Oh nonsonso, mamal

and ava,

Prometheus is always

The process was repeated till five cards had vanished.

Perhaps it is simple enough. but it looke Impressive.

£60,000 a Year from Carda, One of Lenz'a favourite tricks bonair with a towering forehead,) cards.

fs dealing himself thirteen cards Culbertson is lean, dark, de- of any suit asked from a pack of and he always reminds me of one of those highly polished detectives Lenz possessed for me something After hearing of these things, of the glamour of Merlin.

In the first pince we couldn't. afford a divorco-Now whera was 17-Ruth struck out

Judge of my Joy, therefore, when I saw him on the opening night playing as erratically as one of those hostesses whose mind is on the dinner or nursery and keeps murmuring, "Did you блу hearts were trumps?"

WHY I AM A FAILURE.

By A Man of 45

My youthful ambition was to at- tain economic independence and be free. I did not expect this great blessing to drop straight from the skies. I did not pine for the quick death of any rich unclo in the States. There were no big crossword puzzle prizes In those daya. Ireland had not yet begun to think of sweepstakes.

So I worked hard at my job, sorved a long appròrticeship, at tonded evening classes, and, wheri- aver I suspected I wae wonkoning, road Samuel Smiles.

My present Job is only my fourth. So I cannot be labelled a rolling stone, My first, promis ing enough, I left for one more promising. But I had no sooner begun to hope for better things than the war came on.

After the war, by a stroke of good lurkan I thought at least--- I walked straight into a berth that eemed to stretch right into my ́days, of senility, with godd going (Continued on Page 8.)