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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE LATEST

You Owe It to Yourself! !

What with the new shallow hats. the petite little bows and berets: you owe it to yourself to make everything of the possibilities your features hold.

Let ELIZABETH ARDEN assist you in achieving the greatest harmony your features will afford, her expert advice and recommendations may be always relied upon for good taste.

ELIZABETH ARDEN BEAUTY PRODUCTS.

Agents

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

THEY HAVE ARRIVED!

THIS MAFTERY VOICE"

RADIO

RECEIVING SETS

$140.

UP TO DATE SETS WITH PENTODE & SCREEN GRID VALVES.

Truly Amazing Value.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

Chater Road.

FOR

HAPPY SUMMER HOURS OF FROLLICKING FUN

OUR

BUOYANT --

RUBBER

BATHING

TOYS

ARE IDEAL!

They are made of good strong rubbe: strengthened for

use in the sea.

They are easily

inflated and when deflated pack into

small space

Stocked in the following figures--

SWANS; DUCKS, GOLDFISHES, HORSES, ETC., ETC.

* LARGE SIZE BATHING BALL

$2.50.

WATER-POLO BALLS. From $16.00:

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

Another thing that will particularly impress you.

of when you drive and these new

Is the CATA almost unbelievable in- crease in smoothness and sllence, an compared with earlier modris and others, due to the virtual wiping out of motor vibration by The use of, live rubber and engine mountings various other refinementa made possible by pains- taking attention to detail- which has characterized the work of Stude- baker Engineers.

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This grading up process has not been confined to the motor. Every other part of the car has been greatly improved.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

The Honchong & Bhanghini Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated in Hongkong. Brublis Rom]

The

Happy Valley

Hongkong Telegraphi.

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 19832.

THE GOLD STANDARD

Read in conjunction with hard Facts, the fual report of the Lengüe of Nations Gold Delegation, which claims that the gold standard re- mains the best 'avnikable monetary mechanism, is likely to possess little more than academic interest. is all very well to assert that the world's stocks of monetary gold are the world's arlequate to support credit structure, but the fact re

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SATURDAY,

vance of which has been maluly res- ponsible for the present position. The view was expressed by a noted British banker some few months ago that any maintenance of the gold elandard must rest; to a consider- able extent, upon the final solution of the war debts and reparationa problem, on a general adjustment in order to help international trade settlements. so as to allow a suffi- cient flow of commodities from the one country to another, and on an understanding between creditor 'nations

an to the methods to be adopted in the working of the stan- dard. This, it will be noted, is also the view both of the inajarity and minority sections of the League's Gold Delegation.

JUNE 11, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts.

A MAN OF COMMON SENSE 19 A } curious symptom of this. On one of the English cricket MAN IN WHOSE CHARACTER IN-sweepstake fever is that the odd grounds, a POLENCE PREVAILS.-Jectins.

Mr. M. M. Maas was amongst the arrivals on the President Cleveland

nolice warns bar- spois usually occur after a win rackers that they are able to be has been recorded,

ejected. In other words, to boo is taboo.

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It is predicted that Prohibition A tallooist says most of his in America is doomed. This will Army customers are young re

It is notified that the next Criminole a blow to the present liquor craits, Apparently old soldiers Sessions will be held on Monday, the business. 20th inat..

Latest Adriruity appointments in- clude Wt. Engur. G. H. Trend Sterling (May 23).

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never dyel

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London hotels have been blam- A Hongkong flapper who found toled for wasting food every day. A young man after her own heart It in doubtless felt that there are later discovered that he wasn't, many who would be able to make after all. the left-over odds and ends ment!

The name of the Asin Mirrors Manufacturing Company, Limited, har been struck off the. Register.

The Chinese friends of the lion. Mr. H. T. Creasy are to give a fare- well dinner in his honour at the Kam Ling Hotel on Thursday, June

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at

been

Prior to the Great War, the gold standard was allowed to operate ac- cording to recognised principles. and gold movements were permitted

The Roman Catholle Chapel erect to exercise their normal influence

han Aberdeen as adjusting factors upon the credit licensed by His Excellency the Offleer countries con- Administering the Government to be structures of the

the celebration (f place for cerned. In those days, monetary marriages. gold was not regarded as a com-

in connexion with the death of an elderly Chinese in Portland Street modity for the settlement of inter- national debts, but as an adjusting following an alleged assault, the post

arent for

n

shock

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The Modern Girl:--Barelegged, Barebacked, Barefared.

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Auntie Cyclone supposes they

Some of our young bloods are so Batless that when out motoring they ride over bumps to knock the ash off their cigarettes,

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Labour'unrest in Shanghai is so

don't have T.T. Races in long- kong because it would be hard to common that we might almost eall the latest walk-out an automatic find any competitors.

telephone strike.

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Charabanes in England have We hear of a young Kowloon increased fourfold in the last ten lady-killer who thinks that flup- yours. Which only shows how pers are often impressed by a popular hiking is becoming. man'a hosiery. Socks appeali

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A Hongkong

Home

the correction of un-mortem examination has revealed that'

leath Was lute

al man hainneed trade positions. The pre-haemorrhage, following a rupture of leave is hoping

the the spleen.

he'll

rain.

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have seut breakdown has shown

real English to these necessity for a return

At a special meeting of the Canton simmer, broad principles, even if modern

Municipal Council hebi last Wednes conditions may necessitate some day, a notice was drafted ordering all must be fond of

DO modification of the system in detail.defartments under the Municipality to abolish the old standards of weight and measurement and to adopt the An expert is It is along these lines that

man whose construction plans must be laid, but metric systems in their stend from a

guesses it is generally recogniged that if they are to be successfully operated,

1st July next.

"Tavern Topics" is the same given

sometimes

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right.

a much. greater degree of inter-te the first issue (for June) of n monthly journal issued by the Hong- re-kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., and If Hongkong's national co-operation will be quired than has proved possible

recent years.

in edited by Mr. L. W. Bush. It deals Lido does not mainly with topies of interest to the soon eventuate.

cemer 11 traveller passing

some of these through, and is lightly written and well illustrated.

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Linguistic Nationalism. A prominent newspaper Rome recently issued, in connex- ion with a campaign to remove all from the Italian language foreign expressions, a list of lifty words which no patriotic Italian will be expected to use in future.

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FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

GIRL SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES

A motor accident, attended with

bench custumes with be backless numbers.

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LANDLADY

(discussing

world troubles)? I suppose we must be prepared for anything these days.

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It's

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pity

that

of

BOARDER (syeing his help. ̧ in): Yea-or at any rate for almost anything!

some Hongkong's gua-

sipers aren't fitted

nilencera,

with

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in Hongkong seems to

the sport

elings.

be

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The only in- dividual who knows how to make a succCAK of running other people. down is the lift- hoy.

An economist says money is the

A disgruntled bachelor com. plains that you don't see enough people's servant. The similarity of the Colony's young woman is to be found in the fact that it' hond. He can't have

visited here to-day and gone to-morrow.

Repulse Bay recently.

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Jolly hard luck on a

certain

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Many of these are English. To fatal consequences, occurred in popular Peak lady who has just seems to be the sport of elinga, mains that the gold standard has read them over is quite a distarb-Hennessy Rond last night when a hal "the most exquisite marble

broken down. This is rightly at-

lives

the

countries which have now linked

penn.

Chinese girl was knocked down by bath" installed.

private motor an unknown

car

High-

Hush-a-bye baby, pretty one

Hleep:

Dad had a ticket in the Irish

Sweep.

If

he'd been lucky and

had

drawn a mount,

Mum

would have shown

him

her new. hat account..

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ing business for an Englishman.

00 The real trouble in Amerien, tributed by the British representa- They cast doubt upon a legend which is stated to have driven on of centuries. For it has always without atopping after the mishap,

According to a report issued by appears to be that the Government the the delegation to

been been assumed that the English-the police, the girl, Chan Lim-ho, has

living beyond maldistribution of supplies. We

knocked down by motor need wily look at the number of man is a serious. studious, hard-aged seven, of 48, Hennessy Road, people's income.

working person. very different was

car shortly after nine o'clock andļ

This rejuvenation treatment is themselves to sterling to prove how from the flighty, mercurial and sustained injuries to her head and

southern Euro- right font. It was not until mid-said to restore the growth and

One thing about mast Hongkong unworkable the gold standard had pleasure-loving

One would therefore ex-night, however, that her condition colour of the hair. But for the

the women, they don't lack a sense of was revealed to the police, who frequently changing hue of become. It is one thing to assert that that standard would be adepect Buch English words as have had her taken to the Government) thatch of some women, we might rumour.

died have accepted this as a bald fact! almost immediately, the

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Apple-growers in the Old Coun- quate to world needs were it proper-obtained a footing in Italian to be Civil Hospital, where she

Lieut. H. B. L. Davidson, of the ly operated, but it is quite another terms of philosophic import,

counters of earnest and weighty Argyll and Satherland

The Latest stant favoured by try are to combine to market their matter when we are shown by ex-discussion upon the graver pro-landers, reports to the police that flappers is the wearing of a small products. Developing a kind of 'perience that it has not discharged blems of the universe. But they while driving his private car. 954, chain around the bare ankle. We esprit de cure! íta functions along lines which com-are, in fact, nothing of the sort long Laichikok Road, neur Nan understand that this is not intend-

choung Street, a lad named Holed to curb their activities. Rather are they words of more Sam, aged 17, ran from the island mand world approval.

Britain's interest in the matter frivolous import, like "dancing." in the centre of the rond and was

"Ours is a gasolene civilisa- He was | tion," says a writer. Yes, and Is of much importance. Eventually "golf," "five o'clock" and "film." knocked down, receiving injuries

later taken to the Kowloon there seems to be a general ten-

Enterprising architecta are be- she may go back to gold, but that It is a fact to be commended to to his arms and legs.

dency to "step on it." At the the study of those who draw up

lieved to be concentrating on plans time is certainly not yet.

tables of national Hospital for treatment. comparative

made for a garage with a home that of exchange moment, any form

and racial characteristics

folds into the door. etabilisation is open to the objec- when the sunny tion that Indirectly it would link] dweller wants sterling to gold, and whilst this amusement and sport it is to the. tongue that he must be the ultimate aim, in, the Anglo-American

it turns for help. For he probably existing unsettled conditions might be very undesirable to com-will go on turning for help in this

direction. It is unlikely

that

Mediterranean expressions

for

that

pel sterling prices to follow the Italian will become purged of its vagaries of gold. But if the time English connexions.

It is no

for consideration of any definite easier for a country to be self- plan of stabilisation has not yet'or contained in the linguistle than aived, the danger of progressive de. in the economic sense. England preciation which always attaches to herself found that out about the an unstable currency must be con- end of the, nineteenth century. At stantly borne in mind.

It is there. that time the English people were told by learned professors that fare of vital importance, not only to they should always use words of Britain, but to the whole world, Teutonic origin, and avoid terms should achieve derived from the Latin tongues, that sterling stability in terms of commodities among which, incidentally, is with the minimum of delay. Ob Italian. But it was quickly found that this sort of thing cramped vlously, however, the return to the the conversational style alto- gold standard cannot be hurried, gother too much. What, after all, for, as a London banking authority would many people do with a car has remarked, it would be folly to If there were no "ehauffeur" to any "garage" in Ignore the fact that in the condi- drive it, nor

which to put it away? And how tions which have prevailed in recent could one cat a meal in a restau- years, the system has failed signally rant if there were no "chef" to to achieve its principal objectivo, cook it? When the British people namoly, stability of prices. It is were naked to refer to the "Im- an the clear that it would be extremely unponerability of matter"

stuff" "ungothroughsomeness of wise for Britain to again link her

they not unnaturally declined. currency to gold until there Is a And so the Romance languages ronsonable prospect that all coun-persist in influencing English. It noris, mughingstjerneten will agroa in not unlikely that English will to abide by rules, the non-obser- peralst in Tindoner

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"Geta our things rendy, Jenkins, We're going to visit the streets todny."

O O The only individual who knows how to make a success of running other people down is the life-boy,

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Pedestrians would appreciate it if some manufacturer would pro- duce a motor horn with an apolo- ketic instead of a sneering tone.

A naturalist says mosquitoes are attracted by stationary objects. Como to think of it, we have heard that they're a nuisance in Govern- jment offices.

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A motorist, anya hikers who use the main thoroughfares are simply

asking for it. "," of course, be ing a lift.

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A beauty specialist concocts an eye lotion made from a certain species of snail collected off May dew. Certain Hongkong Govern- mont circles also hold recipes for eye-wash!

We did sympathise with the leaked gentleman whose dinner out when he dropped his bathing basket on the Peak Tram Station the other evening. However, he revealed an excellent spirit!

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Other flappers think it clever to be called "chaps" and to imbibe the odd cocktail or even "horao's neck." We suppose the modern youth is expected to bellove that two can drink as cheaply as one!