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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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The forthcoming wedding between Tang Kwan Yuk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tang Kwai Pok, of Hongkong, and Sao Choong Hee, brother of Mr. Soo Choong Yew of Kampar, F.M.S. will take place at The Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, on May 16th, 1932, nt 3.00 1.01.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1932.

A REVOLTING CRIME

SATURDAY, MAY 14, ` 1932.

DAY BY DAY

ΤΟ CHOOSE

The Ben Line 5.8. Bennevis, from Home ports via Strnita, is due here: on May 10th.

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts.

One iden which the Retrench-

ment Committee apparently over looked was to cease paying salaries to the unemployed who occupy Go- vernment pasts.

Motor-cars are now made in so many coloure, says an articlo in a ladies' magazine, that they will It is notified that the name

match almost any costume. We'd the Hock Hai Steamship Company like a nice, anappy one that would

off Limited, has been struck

match our Income. Register.

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the

Judging by the small poll re- glstered by Kowloonitea on Tuca- day, K.R.A. might mean "Kowloon Rather Apathetic."

A woman'a journal quotes sla- tistics showing that mon, get mid on an average six times a week, and women only three. Yes, but who makes the men mad?

Although bees will figure among the exhibits at the Empiro Pro-. ducts Fair, pairons will find that they won't be stung when it comes to prices.

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States. But it became evident im- mediately after the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby that the na tion realised the weakness of the" present situation so far ni crimes of this character are concerned.

RUSSIA WILL HAVE

Seldom in the history of Hong As one American Journal pointed EVENTUALLY BETWEEN LIBERTY AND kong has there been a time when out, kidnapping canes usually In TYRANNY. A PEOPLE UNDER THE you could buy so much with the volve the use of mails and almost BUNJECTION OF SLAVERY, BERFDOM, OR dollar you haven't got. invariably of the inter-State police RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION WILL NEVER

LEAD THE WORLD-Sherwood Eddy. forces. They are not in any sense local. They are of auch a nature The Government is inviting tenders that co-oporátion of Federal, for training nullahs in the Stanley State County and Municipal Peninsula. nuthorities is argently needed. If the Lindbergh tragedy results in legislation which will help to make other children safer by facilitating the captura of kidnappers, It will have resulted in some good,, des- pite the untold suffering It has brought to the bereaved parents. But the strengthening of the

Now that the Sanitary Board At next Tuesday's meeting of the A render suggests a dollar tax legal machinery will be of small Rotary Club the speaker will be Dron all after-dioner speeches. This election is over, what about self- J. H. Montgomery, and his subject seems a desperate remedy, since determination for Shamshulpo or avall unless it also betokens a The truth about cancer".

nowhere that we know of in any complete Independence for Talm- determination to get down to the

00 root of the gang-criminal system,

Friends of Dr. C. E. Burton will thing taxed 200 per cent, of its ahotsul?

value.

Some people can find humour in. with all its multifarious manifes-be pleased to hear that ho is pro-

It should be explained that anything, witness the fact that a tations and its graft and bribory.gressing favourably after an opera- tlon for appendicitis at the War

The Prisoner's Song' brondenst reader points out that Charlie Unless that is done, we may ex-Memorial Nursing Home.

synchronised by ZBW on Wednesday was not Chaplin's arrival

with the Sanitary Board election. Ad-relayed from Victoria Gaol. pec! to see lawlessness still going unchecked. The great bulk of the His Excellency the Officer

口口 American people, peace-loving pointed Mr. W. J. Carrie to act as

ministering the Government has ap citizens, want their country freed Head of Sanitary Department, during from the tyranny of these in the absence on leave of Mr. G. R human gangsters. It in for them Sayer. to insist that their will be en- forced. The Lindbergh tragedy of that, we may be sure. So that will quicken the public demand;

good may yet come out of evil.

Messrs. A. S. Watsim & Co., Ltd., advertise that on Monday, May 16, all departments will be closed. The Hongkong Dispensary, Dispensing Department will be open for dispens ing prescriptions from 10 nm. to 1 p.m, and from 6 pan. to 7.30 p.m.

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She was only

farmer's

daughter, but she was proud of her fine-look- ing calves.

A render sug- gests, that this Nudist Society

His Excelleny the Officer Adminia- publicity comes under under the hend tering the Government has, instructions from the Secretary of ing of impropa- State for the Colonies, been pleased ganda! to recognise Here Heinrich Ladwig

DO Ockermuller (Shanghai) as honorary Perhaps Austrian Vice-Consul In Hongkong.

Bruce Bairns-

Among the passengers leaving father got some Hongkong to-morrow evening by the good battle Conte Rosso will be Dr. G.A.C. Herk-studies at our Inta, Ph.D., of Hongkong University, who is proceeding to England via the street Continent. He will be away until the tains. end of August, returning probably by the Gange.

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She: If you try to kiss me,

I shall scream for help.

He: Not with all people about, surely?

The Treasury

expects every,

broker this day to pay his duty.

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There was a serious gas leak- ago in Ice House

Street yester. day. Or it may t have been only hat air.

Hongkonk people are not how 50 "for-

thear

ward" as they

usually are, ac-

foun-

She: Well, let's find a quiet-

er spat, then!

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cording to the brokers.

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The Sonetity of Trentiek. Both in the political and in the economie sphere there is a strug ale between those who uphold the sanctity of treaties in all circun- stanees and those who regard treaties as merely applicable tu temporary conditions.. Far East troubles, European unrest, the move to repudiate the Free State Treaty. the doubts that have arisen as to the payment of debts

It's no good merely "knowing Most cook-boys, wo are told, and reparations. the resist-

During an armed robbery com-your onions" when buying diamond roast ment too quickly and do not You want to know ance to serious measures of di-mitted by four men at an unnumber-rings.

your time enough fat. Their motto

should be: "More haste: Jers armament, are all phases of this ed house at Wek Mei Shan, Fanling, carats as well.

speed." dispute between those who insist early this morning, one on treaties as absolute and those occupsets was wounded on the head. who consider treaties ne relative. It is properly said that if treaties are to be repudiated or even modi- fied because they become onerous, the whole basis of civilization wil be undermined. The doctrine of "scraps of paper" if accepted wil! leave the world at the mercy arbitrary desires backed up by unscrupulous force. If such and such clauses of the Versailles Treaty, for example, are to be torn

The Gazette contains the draft of

It would appear that a man up because they embarrass one of an Ordinance to amend the United the parties, what guarantee will Kingdom Designs (Protection) needs to be a contorfonist in order Ordinance, 1928. This Ordinance to get on nowadays. First of all, there be that the rest will be rea-UK

amends section 4 of Ordinance No. he's got to keep his back to the pected? And if the Versailles 18 of 1028, by the addition of certain ground, then put his shoulder Treaty is thus shuttered, what words suggested by the Secretary of to the wheel, his nose to the grind trust can be placed in any other State in his circular despatch of the stone, keep n level head, and both:

27th Feburary, 1992, addressed to all feet on the ground. treaties? Everything will be In Colonies and Protectorates where the melting pot. No arrangements legislation based on the same model will be valid. Countries will be obtains. have in accordance with their good

The intruders, who were armed with Alligators' eggs are covered with

chopper and wooden poles, stole a transparent substance very much Many young Hongkong bloods money and jewellery to the value of like rabber. Here in Hongkong. find it hard to settle down after hen's eggs are pretty much the marriage. And harder still to set- $350.

garlie flavour.

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The correspondent who thinks

His Excellency the Officer Ad-me, except for the addition of the up! ministering the Government has ap- pointed, provisionally and subject to

A scientist has classified human Hongkong dollars are too heavy His Majesty's pleasure, the Hon. Mr. III. Kotewall, to be temporarily an faces into four types-schizoid, to carry about could no doubt find Unofficial Member of the Executive paranoid, cycloid and eplieptold, plenty of people willing to relieve Council in the place of the Hon. Sir Remember these names when you him of them. Shouson Chow, who is temporarily want to tell a man what you think

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of him.

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The amendment Includes A detective who is an expert at the publication of a design in Hong-disguise is known as "The Mai kong prior the date of the

to

Not only in the United States, but throughout the entire civilised world, will the shock of the Lind- bergh baby murder ha felf. It is a truly terrible climax to the kid- nupping of the little child-ane which will arouse feelings of horror everywhere. Of all the crimes that were ever committed, there is none so cowardly as the killing of an innocent little child; it becomes doubly revolting when, as in the case of the Lindbergh baby, it follows the foreible kid napping of the child and discloses pleasure and their military might. 1 gistration thereof in the United King with a Hundrod Faces." He is sald the utmost brutality in the taking That is one view, and it must be of the life. It is almost inconceiv-confessed that it does not seem able that in the present age of en- unreasonable. The opposite view, lightenment, in a great country | pushed to extremes, is clearly un-judicially affected, to declare that 'ex- The creator of "Old Bill" went to like America, there should exist reasonable. Engagements, who design have not been acquired in this He is said to have turned quite clusive privileges and rights in a our markets to get local colour. organised gangs of human mon- ther taken by China and Japan, Colony under the provisions of the green at the smells he encounter- stors who can descend to such or by Germany and France, must principal Ordinance.

Jod. depths of moral depravity as those | obviously, as far as possible, be responsible for the murdering of executed. It is not for one side this little fellow, the idol of to affem that the conditions agreed parents whose names

stand so upon no longer sult it and there- high in the life of their fore can be ignored. But there is country. 'There'

be can

toa middle course which commends father, itself more and more to men of good will and good sense. They admit that even bad treaties must

day 110 mother or In any civilised country. who will not feel deeply for Colonel and Mr. Lindbergh in the grent tria! be kept if it is materially possible they have been called upon to to keep them, not only because bear. They have, for week after they constitute specific promises, week, been hoping against hope but for the sake of the genera? that their baby boy might be ren- order. But there is no menace to tored to them; at last, they have treaties in general in pointing out been thrown into almost con- the defects of a particular treaty, solable grief by the knowledge and urging its revision. It cannot that their little one is no more. be abrogated legally by one side. Coupled with the universal sym- but it can be criticized; and if the pathy felt for the bereaved there criticism is well founded, it would be in the interest of treaties-in will be an intense feeling that no punishment could be too severe goneral for all concerned to con- for the perpetrators of the crime, sent to necessary rectifications. whilst in the United States there It would be a mistake to represent must surely arise a determination treatles and agreements as docu- to wage bitter warfare on or ments that can be dismissed at the ganised groups of criminals who will of one of the parties. But it monaco public security and bring would be equally a mistake to sup- the nation into disreputa. Ono pose that they are to be enforced matter which will assuredly again when they no longer correspond arise is a demand for Fodoral to the conditions which have deve- jurladfétion in such cases. Under loped since their accoptance. They normal conditions, there might not should be honestly darried out be very great support for such a until changing circumstances move as there is still a strong feel-make them clearly anomalous; but ing that thoro-ħas been overmuch | when they are seen to be anoma- centralisation already by trans-lous, they can have no virtue in ferring to the Federal Government themselves. They cannot pretend privileges and responsibilities to be fixed and final when nothing which should be exercised by the also is fixed and Anal.

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to have received several offers from dom among the grounds upon which barbers to shove him, at a reduced the court is empowered, upon the arate. that his interests have plication of any person who alleges been pre-

"What's

good safe polson to scars somebod

and

It clearly in denoted, By the few who called

voted, That the municipal complex

must be lacking.

For but forty-seven per cent. Who-to the polling went, Seems to indicate that public

spirit's lacking,

The system must be best, Where you "get It off your

chest"

By writing criticism to

journal;

your

For an armchair is your booth, More convenient-and forsooth You, avoid the fag of voting-

No informall

Don't complain there

choice,

is no

That you haven't got a voice, For the recent polling figures

contradict you.

If such apathy is best,

Don't belittle public zest,

Lost again I dig up facts' just

to convict you!

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A small tax on every proposal

advanced for the ending of world

depression ought to bring back

prosperity with a bang.

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The opinion is held amongst local motorists that the Regula- tion enforcing ten miles per hour through controlled areas, should be abolished. This, of course, should be retrospective to enable victims of the past to get their money back.

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A London gossip writer refers to "a number of British

Army Officers recently returned after sovers! years in the Far East. looking as handsome and bronzed as sheiks." The stripped-to-the- waist craze at Repulse Bay scome to indicate that the paragraph. In question has not been overlooked lobally!

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By the same token, we under- stand that the disciples of Mr. Lanopart, strongly object to the scantinass of this year's bathing costumes, which are calculated to belittle the Nudist movement,

It is unserted that fortunes Awalt wayside caterers, but wa would warn those who may not upon the advice that thorough fare Is ossential!