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LOCAL TRANSPORT

CONTROL

DAY BY DAY

NORMAN COLLINS on

Emotional Typhoons

THE

a totally different basis from those to be put into effect here, but there docs arise an important pa. it in regard to the rights of existing concerns. From the strictly legal

HE DOES NOT READ MANY HOOKS, standpoint, of course, the GovernHE READS THE GREAT HOOKS: THE Iment would be quite within Its LANDMARKS OF THOUGHT AND THE rights in terminating any of the SIGN-POSTS OF PROGRESS, THE BOOKS existing franchises ou the expira. FROM WHICH OTHER BOOKS SPRING,their tempera 50 per cent. more typhoon of some duration at And- AS BRANCHES FROM THE STEM OF A frequently than men may be in- ing that they have not been in-

vited to join in a friend's party. TREE; THESE BOOKS HE READS AGAINterpreted in a variety of ways.

It may be regarded merely as AND AGAIN.-Professor Blackir.

And, on the whole, I am of another condemnation

On the surprised that women lose their Ruzain, from notoriously unstable sex. The Empress of

women will tempers so offen an they do-so Shanghai, is due here on Thursday other hand, many

tion of their year's licensed period. Indeed, some of the companies aro bound to go out of business na separate units when the now plan is enforced. What will they get by way of compensation? Merely the right to sell to the successful ten- derer their suitable and effective vehicles, repair plant, machinery, bulidings and materiale, valuation made by the Government, which will take no account of good-

may will. This, as we say, strictly logal, but the question does arlse whether it is equitable.

Oli a

bo

ser-

have

HE discovery announced by a SPIRIT.

profcasor of psychology in But thousands of women musl Missouri thai

lowe have gone through an emotional

women

not

at 11 am. and leaves for Manila at doubtless regard the extra 50 per often as they say they do, I moan. 10 p.m. on the same date.

cent. of emotional explosions as a they stay at home and attend very moderate margin of annoy- to the innumerable affairs of the Almost immediately on admission ance for being looked upon by the house they are forced to endure slavery to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering rest of mankind as notoriously un-the traditional domestic

from which-go men have long from internal pains, a married atable. man named Fong Lim, aged 21 years, of 26, Temple Street, succumbed, The medical officer in charge believe that the woman died of poisoning.

WO-

Some women, again, will see in been given to understand-they such a discovery no more than a are desirous at all costs of esenp- Rhining example of the honesty ing. And if they go into the world of their sex in admitting that to make their living they very

In a report to the police.. Mr. W. they do lose their tempers at all, soon discover what it is that ac- Sayers of the P.W.D: states that FEMININE someone stole his motor car, an Aus-

counts for those mercifully infre- quent suspensions of placidity which are the lot of man. Either lia-

tin Seven (No, 210) which he had EXASPERATIONS.. parked in Chafer Rond at 7 p.m. last]

And others will simp explain way they are sentenced to night. When he went for the ma- the discrepancy of exuperation appointment. chine two hours later, he found it had been removed.

man

It has to be borne in mind that

by pointing oul that women have Again, if a woman is left stand- the companies who have been the

more things to annoy them than ing in a crowded bus or tram she probably can justly rescut the boorishness pioneers of motor transport

According to the Siam Rashdira men do. The last is

or her fellow passengers. But, vlees both in Hongkong and Kow-II. 11. the Minister of Foreign Affair true.

1 have heard, on the most reli- on the other hand, if every has cabled instructions to the Siamere Joon have sunk considerable capital Consulate in Hongkong that the re-able feminine authority, that to within sight jumps up when she In their enterprises and mains of the late H. S. H. Prince be born a woman is to lay oneself enters she is naturally not pleased

Akan Damkøeng Rabibadhana done much to popularise bus travel

cremated here and the ashes forwnet. open to all the vexations that life by the suggestion of her approach-

enn offer.

ing senility and infirmity.. Do On theed Inter to Bangkok. in the minds of the public.

Every intelligent woman, of what it will, Life seems bound to other hand, of course, they have

The forthcoming murringes uro course, admits that man also has offend some women! reaped financial benefits in the pro- | announced of Frank Lee, of 46, to endure his share of the humilin-i

Indeed, the more I compare the Valley, and tions of hunt destiny. There cess, but no-one expects public Village Road, Happy

Ellen Martha Field, of Savarina, for instance, no man who attacts of daily existence with the operate House, Kowloon; and of Two Sing utility undertakings to along

philanthropic lines. The line, Professor of the University of some moment of his life has not profesnur'a figures, the

Shanghai, living at 29, Mian Chung sat down to breakfast and been am driven to the conclusion that point to be kept in mind is that Fong, Happy Valley, and Mabel Won given coffee that is neither hot the women of Missouri betrayed

thinn, of the same address

nor iced, and eggs that are either their sex by setting the figure so some of these companies are, under

hard-boiled. Annoying low. To the long lint of The new scheme, likely to be driven

attempted and upsetting as this may be, it

(B I

with the from the field with nothing by waysuicides from the ferries plying beis, however, nothing

tween Hongkong and the mainland is told) in

comparison to be added yet another, made by an mental anguish experienced by entire elderly man, Mak Hung, unemployed the wife who spends her of no fixed abode, whilst travelling on life organising her household in the Man Sing between Shanship such a way that precisely the op- and Hongkong at 8.10 this mornposite shall occur. The would-be suicide, 62 years The House to the water but for.

rule-of-

TAW or

more

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Water Gods.

(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1

Sir, Like a nomad

of recognition of their past ser vices beyond the proceeds from the sale of their assets on a

It is strange, when one comes thumb valuation. It will still, of course, be open for existing con- panics to combine and. as a nowtunately was rescued by the occupants to think of it, that it is always In Romething that we can see after-

marooned concern, tender for the privileges, of sumpan No. 3194 which was

the immediate vicinity, He Wax wards was of no importance at all

in the desert where no ones were bat even so, they will have no guar-later taken to the Government Civil that makes us lose our tempers.

No man of my acquaintance lost in sight, I have been praying for his temper in August, 1914, when weeks that a torrential antes of securing the rights. From Hospital.

The health bulletin for Easter he heard that war had been de-would pour down to quench my these considerations there emerges

ports for the week ended May 28

parched threat, but the Water the thought that an even better way

shows the following cases of infeeclared. tious diseases and deaths therefrom. But I know of an otherwise up- Gods knew nothing of my insati of dealing with the problem than

with a sort or smug the utmost condition Rangcom 1 euse, Colombo 2 cases been whipped into that proposed might be the grant-Plague, Alexandria 3 cases I death,parently reasonable man who has able thirst, hence they viewed my Ing of the franchises to a new com-

2 deaths, Prom-Peth 1 case 1 death, ferocities of inward rage when complacency! Saigon 2 cases 2 deaths, Canton i development is a decision by the bine of interested concerns, in Cholera, Calcutta 106 canes 60 deaths, his shaving water has been served!

During the past eighteen months various or so, there have been rumours circulating in regard to schemes for the co-ordination, of transport the Colony's public systems. At one time, there was lower an ilen abroad that level trams and the whole of the bus services, on both sides of the into an might come harbour, amalgamation scheme, but the plan, if ever seriously entertained, has come 10 naught. The

latest

Government to grant exclusive rights for the motor bus services on a basis either of one monopoly for the whole Colony or of one for the mainland and one for the is to take Island. This scheme effect in a year's time, and in place of the present licence charge and

which shares would be made avail-

LAL,

shower

Now people living on top floors

1 death. tepid, or his morning paper has Shanghai 40 CRRES

his days. Not a single drop of water Calcutta 19 canes 10 deaths, Karachi have not been cleaned, able, on a just basis, for those com-Shill-pox, Bombay 12 cases & deaths, not been delivered, or his boots have been going literally dry for panies which have done pioneer work in opening up and developing transport facilitles in the past.

The French Cabinet. M. Herriot has built

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his

or

unac-

of

4 cases 3 deaths, Madras 20 enses 3 wireless accumulator has deaths, Negapatan 2 cases, Rangoon countably run down on the eve

5 cases 2 deaths, Pondicherry 4 cases 4 deaths, Bangkok I case, Saigon cases & deaths, Canton casee, Shang. hai & cases 2 deaths, Kobe 2 cases, Nagasaki 4 cases. Typhus, Alexandria 1 case Meningitis, Macao 2 cases.

has come from their taps, and al though their dire needs could be

in facing symphony concert, or someone felt, they have shown wonderful else has used something of his patience and admirabic restraint gat shortage. But that is no excuse and not put it back, or-but, no,

why this state of affairs should I will not allow myself to worked up again.

continue..

a

common

water

In the same way, it is without of details

I believe that much ink has al- doubt the smaller

the ready been spilt upon this sub- scating tax, a royalty is to be levied Ministry from the most depend-change of Government is not like life that must account for

of tempera-ject, and that further correspon- on gross receipts. The idea under-able elements of the Left and ly to result in any marked change (extra 50 per cent. lying the change is no doubt

to Centre and the chances are that in foreign policy, beyond the pos-mental outbreaks in women. Idence would not have the effect of secure unified control of the bus its life will be much longer than sibility already mentioned of a know personally only one woman drawing forth a rational explan- more accommodating who really lost her temper at notation from the water authorities as that the that concerned with his first essay somewhat

vote. But I know to why people living higher up services. In the sense

some directions.having the Government at present stipulates as Prime Minister of France. The disposition in

pera-comparatively speaking at without water, routes, stopping-places, time-tables Radical leader might, had he been The re-appearance uf M. Herriot several who have lost their tem- the ground floor must, perforce, go It is certainly a short-sighted the at Geneva may, however, alter the buying a new hat and then seeing minded, reconstitute

policy on the part of the Hong- and fares, there is already a large

the I doubt if there measure of unifled control, but pre- "Left Cartel" with much stronger whole situation there. It may its twin on someone else.

Hupport, at least on paper, than mean a complete change in

penditure on other public works for day whose tempers have ever been without giving more attention to. that they are not invited to join supply. Everyone knows that instance. It is not the least in-seriously ruffled by the reflection the matter of the Colony's water portant fact in connexion with the the priesthood of the Established about this time every year there Church; a considerable injustice is bound to be a water shortage, result that M. Herriot's sympathy and friendship with Mr. If one comes to think of it. MacDonald 'is notorious.

are half-a-

sumably it is felt that with either he enjoyed when he first tried that scale into which French influence dozen women alive in England to-/Kong Government to sanction ex-

a

one concern operating the whole of experiment in 1924. Such a com- the buses of the Colony, or two con-bination might have been thought to follow naturally from the close cerns concentrating respectively on

entente which subsisted between the island, the mainland and 'greater degree of flexibility and the Radicals and Socialists in the at this smoother running of the services election. But it is just

point that the Anglo-Saxon mind. will be rendered possible, enabling fails to penetrate the subtleties of desirable changes to be made with French logic. For the Socialists out undue delay. From this stand-

were not in the least deterred from point, the scheme may prove most collaborating in the electoral en- tente by M. Herriot's, abundantly beneficial That

co-ordination of public clear declaration that he would is wise bas in no sense feel bound to continue transport services already been recognised in London, it in the Chamber. Indeed, it was where it is intended to set up a new quickly made clear that M. Her- rlot would seek to govern without Board which will secure the provi- the aid of the Socialists and sion of an adequate and properly would form a Left wing group co-ordinated system of passenger extending as far to the Right as transport for the whole London M. Tardieu's Left Republienus, traffic area. This Board will take but without M. Tardieu. M. Her- Lover the existing tube railways, the riot's pronouncements during the Metropolitan District Railway, the election have been no vague that it is difficult to judge what policy Metropolitan Railway, tramway he really represents. In foreign undertakings and bus services. The affairs he has recently appeared to veer towards the Right, to sup- basis of the transfer in the case of the Underground group and, the port a course hardly distinguish- able from that of M. Tardieu, and Metropolitan Railways will be an exchange of existing stock for the little immediate change in French foreign policy may be expected to Board's transport stock, nud, for

emerge. On the other hand, there other private undertakings, pay will almost certainly be ment partly in cash and partly by modification of French claima.. alock. It is interesting, however, to with regard both to Reparations note that the Bill, which has not yet and Disarmament, although hecome law, has been severely triumph of M. Herriot and criticised by reason of the wide parties of the Left wan almost cer- tainly due to the effect of tho powers it contains in regard to the high cont of living, unemployment, compulsory expropriation of private high taxation and trade dopren- | undertakings. Hero wo touch aslon, and the discontent arising point which is of intorcat when from all these things. The olec- considering the proposed Hongkong tion was fought almost entirely domentic Issues, and the scheme. The London plans are on

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is thrown in the Far East.

Warm

PARTY

"I can't keep a thing around this house. Those were my bost socks."

due to a long period of drought. This being a periodic affair as can be envisaged, is it not pertinent to usk why Government has not taken upon itself the task of con structing a big reservoir to store up water during the winter months sufficient to provide the needs of the local populace when the sum- mer months set in?

On closer analysis, we find the to fault is not ours, but ís, due the lack of vision of the authori ties, and we have to put up with It in our none tou enviable lot. time I think that those in a thority took the matter noriously in hand to avert another water etc., fumine next year.-Yours

S. L. SHUM.

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