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fixed relation to that of Britain, believing that the introduction of such a fixed ratio would simplify It is to business transactions. be noted that whilst in one breath

We are given to understand that IT LOOKS AS IF THE FIRST RE- Demonstrators arrested on the Mr. Bell says that the whole mor- cantile community agrees that FORMER OF A THING HAB TO MEET first day of the month will now after last Sunday's sun, several

-though not with enthusiasm! Hongkong is economically a part SUCH A HARD OPPOSITION AND GETS realise that it was May Not Day." experimental nudists are burning

AND DESPATTERED,

门口 of China and must remain on sit- 60 BATTERED

CO ver na long as China does, he con- THAT AFTERWARDS, WHEN PEOPLE

FIND THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT HIS Ve notice that a new flower dis-

A London newspaper has ac- cedon later in his speech that sta-REFORM, THEY WILL ACCEPT IT covered in Africa has been named billsation would facilitate the con- MORE EASILY FROM ANOTHEŃ MAN. Nifflidolliphantiasianthemum. We tually discussed the advantage of hope we shall not have to refor "nightshirts ever pyjamas." Why duct of certain classes of business. Lincoln.

not two pairs of pyjamas! to this again. There is thus not quite that un-

0.0 animity which is claimed amongst -the Colony's business interests. However, argument on the point must remain largely academic, since there is now little prospect of Hongkong parting with tradi tion.

of the

The Dental Register appears in the Gazette. It comprises 24 names.

The Government in inviting tenders for the construction of a service servior at Taipe Market.

The worst thing about summer Travel may broaden the mind, returned Home. clothes is that you've got to find but judging from the observations replaces for all those things you've of a recently

been in the habit of carrying in leaver, it leaves the finances pretty

flat! your waistcoat-pockets.

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It is disappointing that neither Hongkong trade may be bucking of the candidates for the Sanitary up, but in some parts of the world Board vacancy promise, to pour oil these appear to be the days of the on troubled water. That might at least get rid of some of the mos- quitoes!

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"The Gazette contains a list of per- sons qualified to practice medicine and surgery in Hongkong. It com- priser 176 names,

The name of Dr. Ling Ke-dich, Ge- vernment Civil Hospital, is added to minor profits. the list of medical practitioners. is a Bachelor of Medicino and Surgery of the Hongkong Univeralty..

Ho

DU The Filipinos appear to bo alming at independence

before

Local listeners-in seem to for-

them they can always turn the.. dial and get something worse.

*Ilis Excellency the Governor has America asks them for their Tren- get that if 2BW dogs not interest made the following appointment insury surplus! the Anti-Aircraft Light Automatic Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps:-Mr. Albert Edward Stone, to be Lieutenant.

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To revert to the general position of the Colony, whilst it is truo that we have a great deal for which to be thankful, notably our immunity from unrest, nothing is to be gained by over-painting the picture. We are, without doubt, still feeling the effects worldwide depression, and we can not hope to attain great prosperity until the causes underlying it have

We suppose when smugglers are been removed. So far as the Colony's

sent to gaol it might finances are concerned, the pre-

Our Wuchow correspondent says the they've been brought to a sense sent relatively good showing must

the of duty.

□□ be taken in relation to the suspenstreets has evidently made inronds in sion of development work and the the business of the local bus company.

"Secrets of # Increased taxation which has been which has suspended services and has

Con- operating along the main Japanese not been thoroughfares for several months. It it hoped that in the near future the sulate Cellar." company will be induced to purchase These some new vehleles and again resumo make their services,

introduction

of rlekshus

on

ed the pact. But the Hoover Ad- ministration has widened very con-

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be said Constant telephoning is said to

automatic dial? give the face a set expression. An

SHE: In nearly thirty years of married life we've only had one quarrel.

H: One is right, but you must admit that it has been interrupted occasionally,

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Imbeciles are said to be un-

known among

some primitive

tribes. No-

made!

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If we ait back

and let the other follow do it, it won't be long before he is doing us.

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As far as we can gather from the speech by the chairman of the

THE HONGKONG HOTEL!mposed. These points must not be overlooked. Nor must we for got that very little is done here officially in the way of real social service. Did we bear responsibi- Jitien under this heading which are common to most elvilised centres. our position financially would be for less impressive than it now is.siderably the scope of interprela-

The Shanghai Cham- We mention these, matters, not to tion as given by Secretary Kellogg winner of the

to his senatorial inquialtors. the arguments of the

sweep- The family of the Inte Mr. C. A. R. counter

pact, has become much more than pions we feel d'Assimpcao tender their heart-optimists, but because

an individual pledge to keep the stake declared. relatives felt thanks to

that there is a need to face the peace. If it is broken, that very act has been interpreted as con- facts and not be misled by sul-

A bandmaster to the future. ferring rights against the violator. perficialities. As we have faith and confidence in Under the Stimson doctrine these in England left rights are confined to the nonrec-over £20,000. Ile the recuperative capneities of the ognition of a status reached as the obviously knew TANG CHI NGONG-At his reaid- Colony. We believe it has a great result of infringement. President how to conduct

his affairs. if its affairs are wisely Lowell emphasizes the seriousneÄS ence at 37. Gough Street, Hong future Kong, on 3rd May, 1932. Mr. handled by the Government and of such an interpretation. Tong Chi Ngong, aged 74, after

But that'serious, according to him, because, - our business interests.

existence more Lots of people think chema a long illness. Funeral will tako place

on Monday, 9th May, should not make us content with, by bringing into

uncertainties among nations, it Cortege arriving at the "are the present. Only by concentrat-night create more causes of strife love scenes are usually too long. well Pavilion," Kennedy Towa ating on the weak spots can we than it would allay'. President daya, Lowell's contribution is extremely

But one is From the time taken by some na it might be, bad as it is, if it thought provoking. faced with the question: What is people in public telephone boxea, the alternative to the Stimson inter- we should say they are out for pretation? To go back to the pris-jun endurance contest. Line self-declaratory meaning of the Wo thought the "Hoover Doe-pact?, President Lowell would seem

For the benefit of those who can- trine, advanced as the new key to think so. His activities in con-

The most striking feature of the stone to international law, properly, nexion with the boycott movement, not find swimming facilities, we

not suggest we belonged to Mr. H. L. Stimson. however, would not argue that he would mention that the water is Borah Cure for the world crisis

It comes quite tired of it after a should Borah! There is no question but that the wishes to leave such affairs as the just about the same, and one be- is that it does

untouched. Far East crisis American Secretary of State, in

would seem much less dangerous to couple of hours or so. his declaration of January 7 last, sce to it that the aggressor nation

If we could pick a job, we'd bequeathed to world diplomacy a should be restrained from collect- new doctrine which may take rank, ing the fruits of military victory

it develops into a rule of con- by withholding diplomatic recogni- take that of the piper According Governor and Lady Peel yester-

named "Shakes-penre! duel, with the Monroe Doctrine. tion of them. In the cases cited by to all the bigwigs who comment day suggested that Queen's Pier President Lowell in which Japan on the situation, everybody has would have been more aptly

got to pay him eventually. The Hoover or Stimson

has figured in the past, the mere that the threat of such a procedure, far from lay down the policy

The feared water shortage sug- United States will not recognize ushering in a period of uncertainty.

"There is still no sign of rain," "any situation, treaty, or agree-sufficed to produce the desired re-declared the Water Authority on gests an excellent excuse for the ment which may be brought about sult in the abandonment of those the very day on which the Obser- inebriated husband1 by means contrary to the cove-spoils to which objection was taken.vatory forecasted the probability

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The

Thongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1932.

TAKING STOCK

hope ahead.

to build for better

The Hoover Doctrine.

Doctrine

The average man will possibly be found to agree. in the main, with the viewpoint put forward by the Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, at Thursday's annual meeting, that Hongkong must count itself for- tunate when comparing its lot with other places which have been hit by the economic blizzard. It seems, however, that business men nants and obligations of the Pact of Paris." If the resolution of the generally are inclined to look at the situation in a less optimistic League of Nations Assembly reiter- light. Mr. Bell says he does notating this policy is translated into imply that business has been action, the policy will assume the good-far from it; but that the dimensions of a world doctrine, and Colony has not been so badly hit the Kellogg Pact will emerge with as some other places. Some com- a considerably enhanced vitality. fort, of course, can be found it! The doctrine is novel only as ap- comparisons with centres which piled to the Pact of Paris. The have felt the crisis most; but it iden behind it has been invoked ou must be said that business men several occasions in the past to generally are by no means satisfied warrant the interference of a third with the ponition as we find it to party when its rights have been day. It only needs the most casual endangered by a conflict or the re- conversation with our commercial sults of a conflict. Dr. A. Lawrence leaders to discover that fact. Lowell, president of Harvard Uni- Possibly the best way in which to versity, writing in the current issue express the facts would be to say

of Foreign Affairs, Instances action that the situation might be worse, taken by the Congress of Berlin. but that it might also be very much He also shows that on two deca- slons, this doctrine has already been invoked at the expense of Japan, the nation that caused the Stimson delaration. While not passing judgment on these cases, he questions the application of the doctrine to the Pact of Paris. Dr.

better.

On the currency question, Mr. Bell touched on debatable ground, especially when he asserted that Aupporters of stabiilsation locally

have had the ground cut from under their feet by Grent Britain having left the gold standard, to which, he says, stabillaationists Lowell firat examines the question whether the pact in a treaty or desire to attach car currency. His submission is open to criticism, merely a common declaration of since those who have pleaded for policy and intention. Ho seems in- stabilisation have not asked for clined to take the view that it is the linking of our currency with not a treaty. If such is his in- soference, it certainly has the sup gold, but with sterling. It happened that at the time the con-port of all the collateral ovidence. troversy was at its height, Britain In these columns some time ago was on the gold standard. Obvious the opinion of Secretary Kellogg was given on this very point. In ly, stabillantion then would have meant Inking Hongkong to gold, reply to aunators, eager to know In but the casa for stabilisation re-advance of ratification the extent mains precisely the same, despite of American commitments, the the fact that Britain has doserted Secretary stated quite categorically that

standard. Stabilisailonists that thoro was no reason why the merely nak that the currency of United States should concorn Itself this British Colony shall bear a In the orent that any nation violat-

Slow emotion!

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And If this did not induce an im- of a full. Why won't these Govern- medinte restraint, the dispute that

ment departments believe each would then remain open between

other? the spoils collector and its co- signatories of the past would seemn

A doctor declares that cosmetics to be much more susceptible to set-

winded. Powder and puff? tlement after the atmosphere had cause a person to become short- been cleared of beiligerency.

"A man that's got the stuff can get a job any time. Take me-I can wear, any d'oorman's, coat in town.

Chamber of Commerce on Thurs- day, Hongkong is not as badly off

were as bad as other places which even if we are no better off than are worse off than Hongkong is, others imagine we are! Prociauly!

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The hearty send-off given the

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Aftr believing that a mail re cord of 17 days in transit had been established via the Siborian route, Post Office Officials discovered that more matter of three days. Post haste! Shanghai had misled them by a

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Said a broker some few weeks

ago:

"Buy now while the prices. are

low.

"For soon they will rise, "And you'll get a surprise, "But it's only for those in the

know!"

So Jobkins just bought far and

and wide,

Waiting to see that high tide, When no longer he'd roam, But pack and go home, But he's gone to the pack-Woe

betide!

. It seems that all the Hongkong motorist has to do to observe the trafic regulations is to keep an eye on the white lines in the streets, watch the traffic signals at the various junctions, and un- derstand the signals the police- men are giving.

It would be interesting to know how many more people in rea- taurants would order filet mignon' if they were quite sure of the pro- nunclation.

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We thought conversation was a lost art until we heard a woman on a publle telephono the other day.

口口

<Possibly, the accordion was in-

vented by a fisherman who could- n't make up his 'mind about the Bize of the one that got away.

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