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DAY BY DAY

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I BELIEVE THAT THE CONNECTION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WILL RE- MAIN, FOR THE REASON THAT IT 19 DESIRABLE FOR CIVILISATION THAT IT SHOULD CONTINUE TO EXIST.- Ronchery.

BENEATH OUR

S°

FASCINATING VENEER

By "OBSERVATORE"

a

much has been written of Within practically stone's the beauty of Hongkong by throw of Pedder Street, those con- night of the Peak with its ditions obtained, and the observer myriad Hights silhouetted against a shuddered in amazement that such

background star-besprinkler

of a veritable undercurrent of loath-

Very little is heard about the experiments in the use of poison gas and chemical warfare, which annually cost Great Britain almost as much as does the League of Nations; and, of course, this sort of research work is not being car- ried on in one country nlouc. There are signs that even name of the people with interests in arma- ments firms are becoming uneasy at the prostitution of science for

Warships in port were dressed to- purposes of destruction. At the day in honour of the 22nd anniversary blucy vastness, that the critic is someness could exist. But exist it annual meeting of a well-known of the Accession of H.M. King George generally lost in admiration for the doce, and the pitiful part appear- superficial, not pausing to think cd to be that men wearing the Sheffield firm, recently, mention | V.

of another aspect-Ilongkong at King's uniform should be discover- was made of a new armour-pier-

fascinating ed in several of these haunts. It The local branch of the Overseas night beneath ita eing shell. A shuroholder dared League announce that owing to the venceri

may be the case with which drink can be obtained, because even when to lift his voice in protest. "People entire seating capacity for to-night's It may be urged that if the are not always going to kill ench other," he said. "I do hope you

been sold, ndmission to the concert water appears to be crystal clear was refused, It was felt that tho why stir up the mud? But per that the customer was possibly a rofusal was prompted by suspicion

will turn more attention to the

haps some good may be achieved

discovering making of useful things, such as "Anti-Irresponsibility."-You have by rails, steel, doors and steel ornn-failed to comply with the rule which oliminate some of the social silt ENLIGHTENing tour.

concert in the Helena May having

will only be by ticket.

1

after entering

mcana

to

spy.

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menta." The post-war attempt to requires correspondents to forward the sordineas that exists beneath

This sndly enlightening tour was their numes and addresses, us evidence a seemingly enchanting exterior, eliminate brute force from the ar-

continued until about 1 am, but of bona fides. Hence you letter can-

With the unpleasant Intention even at that hour, there appeared bitrament of International dis- not be published,

of accking the truth, of delving to be little reluctance to admit cal- putes is based not so much upon

beneath the surface, the writerlers. In fact, the later the hour, fear as upon considerations of Admitting a charge of returning

from banishment having been deport recently explored a district with the more pronounced the importun- moral standards and common- ed for a period of ten years in Jan. In a few hundred square yards of ing to stay! Truly & revolting state

the sense. Yet it is certain that all try last, a Chinese who appeared be- Pedder Street, in westward of affairs, and it surely must be

his these now inventions, if ever they fore Mr. Schofield at the Central direction, and

experiences clear that genuine masenge eatub- should be used on a large scale,

Police Court this morning was given were nauseating in the extreme.lishments do not keep open in the would make any Great War of the eight months' hard labour. The de- Strolling along Queen's Road, he early hours of the morning. As

fendant had been previously convict future a nightmare not only to the ed twice for breach of the Opium Or. decided to probe behind the scenes mentioned above, several houses of so-called "Massage" establish were without outward and visible armed forces but also to the civil dinance and once for laregay. Impor-

monts shortly after midnight. sign of their existence, and if the populations. Certain eminent au-

In the It being anticipated that the Vic-

majority of cases, Kuiden had not been employed, no thorities have claimed that the

toria Gap murder case now before the illuminated signs at the foot of a amount of seeking could discover best way to abolish war is to make Supreme Court and in which Mr. darkened staircase indicated

the them. the weapons available so horrible R. E. Lindsell is engaged will be whereabouts of these places, but The impression gained with con-

finished before that date, Mr. Wourt!

one. that no nation will dure to pre-n

guides orsiderable conviction was that mas- and offered cipitate hostilities. These argu-

toange establishments should all be this morning fixed Thursday after touts' appeared menta were used before 1914, but noon for the resumption of the conduct the adventurer to other registered, and proof given that nevertheless the Great War came.

Police Court trint of Thong Kwok dens where "very nice.

massage they are genuine. It is fully realis- ed that there are many genuine The truth seems to be that the Yau, charged with instigating the girls" might be engaged!

murder of George Fung at Village

people engaged in thla useful pro- more terrible weapons are placed Road on March 24.

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One interesting discovery was races excel, and in fairness to them fear, cerned, the greater is the

made, which may be mentioned as decent and useful citizens, those the suspicion and the tension crea- | GUNPOWDER IN A before attempting to describe the who bring discredit to that calling fed in their mutual relations. A nation may easily be tempted to fight in the hope of getting in a deadly blow first and thus snatch-CONTRACTOR'S COOLIE ing the victory. While the League of Nations is struggling to sub- atitute peaceful methods for the settlement of disputes and to get asound scheme for the all-round

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TÀNG CHỊ NGỌNG.-At his resid- ence at 37, Gough Street, long Kong, un 3rd May, 1932, Mr. Tang Chi Ngong, aged 71, after a long illness. Funeral will take place on Monday, 9th Cortege arriving at the "Fare well Pavilion," Kennedy Town at

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The

May

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1932.

PERFECTING THE ART OF KILLING.

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reduction of armaments generally accepted, the old, traditions die hard. In the race which is going on between the forces making for peace and those making for war, the latter have a long start, Con- turies of adverse influence cannol be eliminated in the thort space af

years. Public

opinion, exerted on the right side, can make the struggle less uneven, and on- able nations to perfect the art of pence as they have perfected the art of war.

twelve

British Currency Policy

currency.

reason.

Jones at the Central Police

PARCEL

FINED

.

Bomo

general modis operandi practised should be severely dealt with. They inside these dens, and that was that represent a social sore in Hong- in serenaintances, warning of kong that needs drastic remedy. ustunlly by a bell, from a concealed the arrival of a visitor was given.

of WOMAN'S WORST

point where watchers were evident- ly stationed. The mere act For carrying a parcel of gun-passing through the mysterious powder and fuse in Water Street portal was sufficient to set the warn- without properly inbelling the ing system going, which in itself the packet "Dangerous," a contractor's sufficed to cast doubt on Coolie who appeared before Mr. bona fides of the establishment Schofield, at the Central Police within. On ascending the gloomy, Court this morning, was fined $10; evil smelling staircases, acuffling his Worship remarking that this feet and mufiled voleen were heard type of offence was not a very above, and by the time the investi-

common one.

ENEMY

Mto be a millionaire won't take

By L. C. MOORE. ANY a man who would ke

kator entered the actual premises, the trouble to save sixpence. It was stated that 'the defen-two or three girls came forward and

In exactly the same way, many dant's master had a licence for a solicited patronage of the establish- magazine at Causeway Bay and the ment. Cubicles were the rule, and woman who would like to feel defendant had taken out the gun-most were merely formed by a run- that she and her sisters are every powder to blast stones at West ning partition, divided at about bit as good as men will not take Point.

every six or seven feet, the entrance the simplest and most obvious steps being curtained. The open space towards achieving that equality. between the partition and the ceil Every rather imbues her daught- ing seemed to have been forgottener with the idea that she must give by the hidden inmates, for whis-service to men. pering voices were invariably and If there are two brothers who

Bare-

that

in

women

If a wife takes on the running of her home as a whole-time job, and prefers that to going out to the City, then she doesn't prejudfee her striving for equality in the least.

She is merely doing one kind of specialised work, while her hus- band does another, and they can respect each other. But when she fetches and carries for him, brushes his hat, she helps to keep her sex just a notch or two below his.

or

of those very same floating balances that helped to cause the mischief. Are they going to lay ible.

And it necesary to perform some the foundation for some future ex-

In each case the rule adopted was domestic duty, they will either toss change panic? Too much of the to ask for beer and food, and it for it or tackle the job together. A stampede back to the pound world's money is used simply to must be said that in the majority But if those two brothers have a sterling would be just as embar-shift back and forth between finan-of instances, the request met with sister they will take it for granted rassing to the Bank of England cial centres. In June, 1931, at the refusal, but other houses were not that she will do it. and the British Government as the beginning of the financial panic, so insistent, and beer was forth. She will be commended by her stampede away from it luat autumn. which spread like a prairic fire over coming! "Very good massage" was female relatives for doing 80, Hence there is probably a good deal Europe and finally over the Atlantic urged, but the girls who appealed spite of the fact that she puts in

for business were in themselves of truth in the New York report to the United States, it was com- hardly calculated to impress their just as many hours at the office na

they do, and probably carne that the pound would have risen puted that the capital lent on short-ability in that direction.

much money, at least ten gold cents on Wednes- term account to foreign borrowers legged, thin and in some cases look-

Not only is this inequitable, but day but for the depressing activi- amounted to £500,000,000, as com-ing postively wan and ill. Others

by the it is impossible to imagine any ties of British agents. Speculative pared with a pre-war average of hiding their tragie mien upturns do not afford the solid £50,000,000, If it is to be employ means of face paint crudely and thing more calculated to keep wo- basis that the Bank of England ed abroad at all, it should be sunk pathetically applied. Some houses mun in her place as the servant.

made little secret of their trade, Let me make it quite clear that I- obviously requires before deciding in more permanent enterprises than and brazenly made sickening augum not suggesting the rate at which to stabilise the demand balances in foreign banks gestions, almost pleading for their ought to leave domestic duties alone.

If foreign money goes and other liquid assets.

revolting calling. to Britain solely for the sake of an exchange profit, it can leave the country, as we found in August And September, for the same And it is apt to go as it comes-on wings. Therefore, the Bank of England is apparently trying to offset the effect of the speculativo purchases of sterling. It is buying foreign currencies and already, according to some authori- Conference at Geneva- is still in ties, the Bank has accumulated tidy balances in foreign markets as the session, an alarming note has been result of these transactions. The struck by the almost simultaneous development is a case of history re- publication of details concerning peating itself. France adopted a a number of ingenious warlike in-similar policy prior to the post-war ventions. Pride of place must be stabilisation of the franc, or, in given to the new German super other words, the return to the gold bullet. Its inventor, Herr Ger standard. Much of her fancial lick, claims that it will pierce a

power may be traced to the volume half-inch armour plate at a dis- tance of sixty yards. A winged of foreign money poured into the dovico increases the normal muz. country in the speculativo hopo zle velocity. One report declares that on the advent of stabilisation that the bullet, fired from a rifle, it would be found to have incroas will "mutilate horribly," while the ed in value. It didn't. Franco ro- Invention is said to be adaptable tained the foreign offerings in bank to anti-aircraft guns and other balances abroad, stabiilsed, tho artillery. The British War Office frane at fifth of its pre-war parity with gold, and enjoyed the losses has been experimenting with n light weight machine gun, of the sustained by the speculators. Tho French "banks 'did not movo tho Vickers-Borthlar type. It is pos- sible that, in the future, every money home after stabilisation. soldier will be equipped with somo They let it draw interest until last such quick-firing weapon in place year, when repatriation started, of a rifle. There is also a Danish helping in part to cause those fin- invention, the Madsor machino ancial stresses which one financial underwont, rifle, which is now under conal-contre after another doration. An automatic rifle is stresses from which they soom to already in уве in the United be rapidly recovering. But part States army.

of the recovery is due to the return

Whilst the World Disarmament

GIRLS

ORCHESTRA

"It would be a good restaurant, if they'd only wash their spinach,

There is another way in which women hamper themselves in their attempts to achieve equality. A bachelor friend came to dinner with us the other evening, bringing with him a girl-he wanted us to meet.

When they had gone we sat in judgment, and approved-with one Important reservation on 'my part. The girl seemed so utterly unintel-

ligent.

My wife pointed out scornfully that my knowledge of womon must be slight becauso the felgning of Ignorance is one of the oldest tricks of the sex.

Well that may be good applied paychology for the purpose of hus. band-catching but it is the wrong way to make a man feel that the girl is on an equal footing with him

If she sets out to win the man. by deliberately protending on in-. tellectuni inferiority, it is hardly to be wondered at if he accopts her at her own valuation after. marriage, and smiles when she talks about. equality.

-un-.

And finally, woman must learn. that Ao long as sho ashamedly admits that she does want to catch a man, she will never reach. that equality she desires..