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arduotis Cross-country run of 000 miles against 21 competitors,

Only five of the competitore were able to Anish within the specified time limit.

AUTHORISED CHEVROLET

DEALERS.

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1932.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The langkong a Bhanghel Hotel, Ltd. Incorporated in lingkung Auhe Brad

The

Happy Valler

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 112.

JAPAN BECOMING IMPATIENT.

"drustle

which

be compelled to intervene an as- sume the task,

DAY BY DAY

IN PROPORTION AB A MAN BUFFERS THE SMOOTH COUNSE OF rea-ThovGHT TO DEPEND ON ANYTHING EXTRENAL, SO COMES THE NEARER TO CHANCE OF MAKING SHIPWRECK. Morley,

Those are aspects of the situation which must be borne in mind, and Japan is quite right in constrast- Ing these outrages with the pro- tection necorded to Chinese nationals In Japan. On the other hand, Japan must lise that the feeling of which these incidenta aro an extreme ex- pression is a direct outcome of her own wrongful policy in Manchuria. It could not be expected that China, or any other self-respecting nation, should remaía quiescent in the face of forcible occupation of her ter ritory; and due allowance must be made for genuinely spontaneous patriotic feeling. None the less, there can be no defence of 'the ex- treme Himits IC which a very natural movement has gone.

The P.&O. xx. Corfu from Hong- kong arrived at London on the int January at pm.

..

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. J. H. B. Lee to be Assistant Postmaster General,

Commissioned Shipwright II. L. Metters has boon appointed to the Hongkong Royal Naval dockyard.

The Colonial Secretary announces that quarantino restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Pakhol on account of smallpox."

The Hon, Alr. T. N. Chau is to dia- telbute the prices of the Government school hall on Tuesday, January 26. at Vernacular Middle School in the

The original source of all these troubles, of course, is Japan's ac

would be tinn in Manchuria. It shutting our eyes to the facts to | say that Japan has no grievances in that region; she has, But she must certainly has no right to take the law into her own hands, as she

The next meeting of the lengkong | has done, in breach of her pledged Rotary Club will be a closed one, open only to members and visiting word. Continuing the same line oftetarians. Members will be invited

to discuss Club welfare again.

thought, it must be said that the Chinese peuple have a perfect right to apply FLI economic boycott against Japan, especially in view of the lack of other mems by which they can express their feelings, but they are not entitled to overstep the bounds and indulge inter rorism and other illegal activities. It is well, in assessing the sit-

should not flun. that

cum- fuse the issues, On The general

11 a.m.

His Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation by Captain T. A. Martin, of his Commission in the Reserve of Officers of the long- kang Volunteer Defence Corps,

The First Speech Day of Hwa Nun College will be held in the Ko Shing Theatre on Saturday, January 30, at Simpson p.m. Professor R. H. M. has kindly consented to distribute the

prizes.

It is notified that at the expiration asperts of the position. China has of three months the Llang Kwong Motor Bus Co., Ltd., and the Kwang a good case, lart she is certainly not Hing Co., Ltd., will, unless cause is to shown to the contrary, be struck off improving il by resorting

the register and the companies will methods against which Japan is he dissolved, spite right in protesting.

The Tarif Battle.

The National Cabinet's solida-

THE PRINCE'S

ENGLISH.

Our language is

The study of the

constantly changing

King's English

Prince's English

As constrasted with the

Is very illuminating. .

By F. G.

BLANDFORD.

WHICH DO YOU SAY?

The first of these is the vowel sound in the stressed. syllable of office, officer, coffee, cough, trough, salt. goue, lost, cross, off, often, soft, otcetera. In the "Queen's English," which was no idle phrase

for Queen Victoria offered to her subjects one of the best examples of beautiful diction in the type of pronunciation that was the fashion of her time-the principal vowel in all of these words wrя an exact rhyme with the vowel in the modern pronunciation of law. Nowadays -who can any? Do we make them all rhyme exactly with the vowel in hot? Officer, office, coffee, cough, trough yes, probably. Salt? Dn you say solt or sawit, or neither? Gon or gawn, or acmething in be- tween? Lost or lawxt? Cross is now supposed to be less "vulgar" of "Cockney" than crawas.

A

English pronaciation is in a Hut in there no alternative bo- state of transition. This may ap-tween these two extremes? pear in some to be a profound speaker of 90 or a speaker of 19 olervation; as a matter of fact, it might see one. The great ma-

possible in the baldest

truism.jority, however, of cultured English Every living spoken language at spunkers between 40 and extreme vowele. every period of its existence is in old age use neither of these

state of transition, and at every In their pronunciation of the son- age elderly people may be found tence, "Did he get on or off?" the who inveigh against the barbariums word off usually contains a vowel and neologisms of the rising genera different from on, and in "He got tion. We tolerate every change inoff awfully cheaply," off certainly the langure up to the lime of our has not the same sowel as awfully.

Mrs. S. W. Tso, the wife of the Hon Mr. Tso, haa kindly consented to pre- sent the certificates at the Annual grandfathers, and after that we There is, therefore, an intermediate Sprech Day of the Fairies School yield to pressure without knowing towel between o and aw which can be heard in the pronunciation of which will be held in the St. Stephen's It.

College iinil

this group of words by most mid- Tuesday, 031 February 2, at 3 p.ni.

dle-aged speakers.

Girl

WE BECOME "QUAINT."

Another group of words in which Members of the Reel Club enjoyed

The child is very definitely the transitional vowels may be heard in successful subscription dance at

words laat futher of the man in matters of in common

of Romance Restaurant Crawford's Lane,

M. and the music was uppited by

The Restauran: orchestra.

A0

It would appear. from the grave developments To Shanghai.. that Japan's pationer, in the face of con- tinued anti-Japanese excossos in that city and elsewhere, is becomi ing exhausted. That is beste we interpret the ultimatum which de. mands, amongst other things, the dissolution of organisations which [rity may be shattered against the tariff wall. Differences have ex- anti- hase Sen slirecting the

hibited themselves both among the Japanese movement and

at the members of the special eommittee same time inilaming public opinion, appointed to provide their collea So far there is no indication of the gues with a comprehensive plan and night, there being a good attendance speech. After middle age we yield origin in which A In the spelling and a varied programme of dances. less, and "write to the papera" is followed by a nasal and another

the tide The In addition the dancers indulged in the more, but we do not stem

France, the the Cubinet as a whole.

consonant-words like speech be- dance, advantage, plant, command, Japanese" taimiral threatens, except members sat for nearly five hours Eightsonne Reel, Caledonians, a Four of change. Our own

rene and the "Pashing White Ser-

Set comes definitely "quaint" or old- commandiment, cte,, and some others on Thursday without achieving

geant Mr. 7. P. Saunderson that they will be for the purpose.

fashioned, and our grand-children that do not fall exactly into this pity us or despise us or respect us category,

Kuch K photograph, of protecting Japanese rights and grement le any sense and again result. Yesterday with the sure

according to their temperamenta or graph, clastic, ute. It is commonly interests. But whatever their

Attempts have been made to min!-

uccording to ours.

supposed that the pronunciation of ature, they met to an intima-mise the seriousness of the battle On Monday afternoon at 4.30 Dr.)

Most people who write, usually of such words with the a as in hat tion to the Chinese authorities that which is being waged between Saur de Waldemar, "Master Magician

and Telepathist," whose recent dis indignantly, on matters of pronoun- is a Northern pronunciation. It l if the latter are unable to guarantee those who would take the buff by play of his talent at the Peninsula ciation, ignore altogether the time only in the sense that that pro- nunciation is dying harder in the protection, then Japan herself will the horns and those who walk only filotel was,greatly enjoyed, will give element in the variations of lan-North than in the South of England.

with reluctance In the paths of an entertainment at the Club de

Here we must have recourse to at from their own It is obvious, Recrein. The price of admission in Huage. They regard all variations trade disturbance.

pronunciation us $1.40. children being admitted

the possible however, that the differences are half-price. This will be the last being due to difference of local symbol to indicate Foreign reaction to these develop- persistent and on issues much opportunity of seeing the famous dialect or of social dialect, and, over. Variants: The recognised symbol ments will, we imagine, be varied.more important than mere matters magician at work in the Colony s look the fact that in every locality for "the short o"-it is actually no

he is leaving shortly for Manlia.

and in every class the speech of shorter than any other, but of a different quality is the symbol Mr. Ramsay MacDonald Recalling the troublous day of 1925, of detail.

the younger generation is steadily It is well to remember that on more has been obliged to decline M.

An aged hawker charged with lack-establishing itself in place of the used for this sound in old English, For the "back" n. as in father, Laval's invitation to Paris owing ing a licence, told Mr. Williams at pronunciations of their parents. we will use the spelling ah, The than one occasion the Powers were

to the vital nature of the discus-the Central Magistracy this morning,

It is difficult, without having re-ordinary roman "a" may be taken compelled to warn China on some-

Aions. The Prime Minister would when questioned as to the number of

years he had been in Hongkong, course to a system of symbols to to represent the vowel sound heard what similar lines. It was not

have jumped at the offer had he

that he could still recollect represent each sound, to show ex- in a "broad" Lancashire or York- then, any more than it is to-day, a dared.. It was a chance which being present at the landing of the actly how these changes are gra- shira pronunciation of man, which mere question of persistence by the would not have been allowed to late Sir Henry May when he returned dually taking place, but there are does not exist In Southern English patriotic slip had there beep the harest to the Colony as Governor. The at least two groups of words in excepting in this group of words. Chinese people. on

defendant's case having been found to grounds, in an economie boycott. possibility of a spirit of comprobe a deserving one, the Magistrate which the old, the

Imise in London. Likewise, Sir allowed him a grant of three dollars, transitional pronunciations can be Such tacties can be defended, so

John Simon, having arranged on from the Poor Dox funds towards the heard by any necurate observer at

the present time. long as the rightful interests of the Wednesday to leave for Geneva on

cost of a licence. boycotted country are sol infring-Saturday, is forced on Thursday, ed. Japan's complaint is that the after the Cabinet meeting, to re- to represent anti-Japanese activity has been inquest Lord Cecoil many cases under the direct or in Great Britain at the League Coun direct guidance and encouragement el meetiuz. Clearly the Cablaet is meeting with serious difficulties of the Chinese Government. Inat in finding an agreed policy. The ennnot be questioned. The ease wonder is that the strain of weld- can. Indeed, be taken further bying the diversified outlooks of the showing that not only have Chinesemerabera of the Cabinet into a com- Authorities fostered and

mon policy has not manifested it- The self more markedly before. couraged the movement,

apparent unanimity upon the re- they Inve permitted

themarkable agricultural .dumping anti-Japanese organisations over-ride their own power#

en-

but

to duties, compliance with some of Mr. Runciman's decrees, have

and functions. There is the addi-caused surprise in circles, who tional point that, once these move-thought themselves well versed in ments are started, they get com- the mentality of the leading mem- pletely out of hand and Inevitably bers of the Cabinet, who thought lead to clashes between Chinese they knew exactly how far they were prepared to go and how soon and Japanese, creating a situation they would call a halt to trade in which the lives of perfectly in- | interference. The explanation. Is nocent people are placed In probably that these particular jeopardy. There have been many membera pacified their consiences instances b Shanghat in which with the thought that they wore even Japanese children have been approving emergency measures. Face to face with a programme subjected to mob nusnults, whilst involving a general tariff, they are for many weeks past it has been baulking. But, much as we disap- deemed advisable for marines to prove of the erection of further escort Japanese children to and trade barriers, a break-up of the from school. The latest incident, a Cabinet on this issue would be brutal attack on Japanese priests, must be, lat the gauntlet be held calamitous today. If a fight there Ja d further indication of the until Britain forces which are let loosO once clearly through the mists of the mob feeling are let loose once world erlein,

can

see her way

k.

new and the

SAY

·

"FRANCE"! ·

"Look, Doris, that's the now fall shade 1 was telling you

about."

In the Queen's English these words, were generally pronouncen Fraence, daence, advacntage, pluont, commaend, etc., and now.. most young people in the South of Eng- land, to the great annoyance of the North and of many Americans and others, say Fruhačo, dahnce, palint, commahndment, etc. But laten closely to the middle-aged and cul- tured speaker. Hia France is 10- thor Fraence or France. Com- mandment has exactly that inter- mediate vowed between commaend and command that satisfies the car of his grandfather and his grandson that he is speaking just like each of them.

Whon Queen Victoria dled the "Queen's English" became automa tically the "King's English" The. phrase then had leas meaning. Now it means as much as the old phrase did, but we who are middle-aged must not overlook the fact that while we speak the King's English ourselves, there is also very clearly a Prince of Wales's English that has every right to our loyal-con- sideration. A comparative study of the two is very illuminating.

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The Licensing Board meets on |February 3rd, at 3 p.m. when tha following applications will be con- ildered:Ha Bit-yue restaurant keeper's adjunct licence, Prince's | Cafaj Raku Akiyoshi, hotel keeper's adjunct licence, Fukusum! Hotel; Fac Miyajima, hotel "keeper's adjunct lleence, Buyabiro; Lam Kam-WUN; restauraat keeper's adjunct Hoense, Hennessy Cafe; David Gabruller, restaurant kooper's, adjunct. Noenoe, David's Cafeteria.