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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

Mrs. Alfred Lee Yook Quen thunka

relatives and friends for expres.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1932.

DAYLIGHT-SAVING

tain extent heen sluce maintained, bat the practice is not by any means general.

In many cases, we read, five o'clock has again

DAY BY DAY

ONE MAY YENERATE

OLD

EAMI-

LIES WHEN THEY SHOW THE BLOOD oF THE FOUNDER, AND ARE NOT DEAD woon.-George Meredith.

AMERICA'S TRAGIC

THE ACCOUNTANCY

OF ARMAGEDDON BLUNDER

B mortals

By THE OLD STAGER.

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EHIND the voll past which we can, these conditions be cured by cannot see, do the any remedies that scom at present The P. and O. 5. S. Montua, from illustrious shades still Interost likely to be applied ?" Singapore with the English mails, in themselves in our affairs? If If ever a voice from the grave due here at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.what Shakespeare tells us is true,jaounded with prophatic truth, it and the spirits of the wise sit in is in the Balfour Note. The debt speaker at the Rotary Club meeting bonair ghost muat just now be contracted

Mr. M. J. B. Montargis will be the the clouds and mock us, one de-we owed America was not aven on our own account. to-morrow, his subject being "The New French Foreign Legion." The smiling with gentle irony. Ten The United States insisted that meeting on July 6 will be a closed years ago the late Earl of Balfour wo should back the bill of loang meeting for the purpose of arriving said, not less forcibly, what Mus-to enable our own and America's at a decision regarding the play solini said yesterday and Mr. European Allies to carry on the contest against Germany's chal- grounds scheme for 1032-33. So far, Chamberlain is saying to-day. 01 promises or subscriptions, totaling Mussolini, the architect of post-lenge of military hegemony. $1,056, have been received and it war Italy, shook the world's chau-the letter of that bond we have seems reasonable to assume that celleries with his imperious de-been held by Amorica. With members at present on leave will be mand to end the blood feud, cense accruing interest, we are pledged good for about $400 more, states the applying cash-register methods to to repay, almoat twice the sum Club bulletin.

history's auprente drama, and actually leaned to us on behalf of Dr. C. C. Wang, M.D., C.II.B.allow all question of war debts our Allies. And America stipulat- (Edin.), formerly research fellow of land reparations to pass into swifted that the repayment must be in

University, Edinburgh

American gold dollars. late, oblivion.

Against lecturer on anatomy in the Univer In the historic Balfour Note, payment in kind, America erects sity College of London, has started which everybody names but few insurmountable tariff walls. practice in Shanghai. He is at pres- could now quote, one of the great-Every cent of the loaned billions ent with his nephew, Dr. A. S. Wong, est statesmen of our generation was spent in America. Every cent M... F.R.C.S. (Edin.). Their ofco la at present at No. 20 Yucaming-Blended eloquently for all that the hna to go back again in gold.

Mussolint calls this a bargain of yuen Road. Dr. C. C. Wang is a Fascist Dictator bluntly called, younger brother of Dr. Wang Chung- and, what is more, clearly pre-Shylock. Lord Balfour merely hui. D.C.L., former President of the dicted all the evils that have come sald a general sentiment would be Judicial Yuan and now a Judge in the upon the world at large through "of more value to mankind." What Permanent International Court of the rejection of his wise counsel. the British statesman expressed Justice. Ile practised until very After pointing out that Great with buttoned foil, Mussolini drove

His brother, Britain at that date in August] home with a bludgeon.

Lord Balfour was an amateur of

and

i come to be regarded as the normal recently in long. of Hongkong 1922 was owed £3,400,000,000 An Act of Oblivion.

University, died last" year.

time for closing down, and assis-Professor C. Y. tanta who show a desire to leave hall an hour earlier are not re- garded with favour. This is one of the reasons why the subject has again been revived, in the hope of putting the matter on a regular and uniform basis,

Here in Hongkong, na we say, the question has lain dormant for some considerable time, but we do still hear advocates of change arging its desirability,

the

There is no sound reason, as we see it, why office work cannot be

in here at eight o'clock in the morning in the height of summer and conclude at four. The ar- guments advanced against the change are those which were put forward before England decided to adopt the measure, and experience in the Old Country has shown the many advantages of the altera- tion, which is now automatically put into force every year. When raised in 1919. the

went

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America war debts, and owed Sir Hari Singh Gour, lender of the about a quarter of that sum, the the violin. His famous Note is Indian Nationallat party, and leader Balfour Note stated that his, couched in harmonic cadence. of the Opposition in the Indian Majesty's Government neither Mussolini plays the concertian and Legislative Assembly at New Delhi, under-rated the evils of an un-expresses himself in torms of that President Polk, which passed through luctant to make large sacriflees virtuoso methods are more likely was a passenger by the Dollar liner exampled situation nor were re-strument. It is possible that less Hongkong during the week-end. Sir to end it..

to appeal to American susceptibi- Hari Singh Gour in returning to Indin

We declared our readiness, tenities. Not the least of the trage- after an extensive

rears ago, if such a polley formed dies of the Great War is that its Japan, Korea and Manchuria, was made at the request of Japanese part of a satisfactory international epic of mutual effort, ita comrade- educational groups. ile delivered a agrement, to remit all debts due ship In urma should ultimately be series of lectures in the Imperial to us by our Allies or by Germany. regarded and humilated into a University and the Hibiya Hall in Then the Balfour Note proceeds: vulgar haggling over. red-lined Tokyo. Sir Hari Singh in "It is true that Great Britain is accounts. The august silence of companied by his daughter.

will owed more than it owes, and that, the historic battlefelds, and the be recalled that they were in Hong-If all inter-Allied War Debts were hushed aura of millions of head- kong some weeks ago on their way paid, the British Treasury would, stones where sleep the heroes who north,

on balance, be a large gainer by fell rebuke the outrage on human the transaction. But can the pre-idealism. It makes a gargoyle of ports for the week ended June 18 sent world situation he looked at the sun.

But it is futile to gel angry with shows the following cases of infec- only from this narrow financial tious diseases and deaths therefrom standpoint? It is true that many America. In the United States the Plague, Beirut I case, Cholera, Cat-of the Allied and. Associated sentiment of enlightened citizen- catta 106 cases of deaths, Rangoon 11Powers are, as between each other, ship has all along been fiercely in cases denth, From-Penh 1 case 1ereditors Read debtors or both, favour of an Act of financial death, Saigon 1 case 1 death, Canton But they were, and are, much oblivion,

The health bulletin for

1

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menn

Eastern

343 cases 152 deaths, Shanghai 130 more. They were partners in the But America is a great democracy, cases 12 deaths, Small-pox, Alexan- drin 1 case, Baghdad a casen 2 deaths, greatest international effort ever And American democracy, with Its

cause of freedom, and complicated interests Basrah 2 cases

death, Bombay made in

adroitly cuses deaths, Calcutta 21 ensen 17 they are still partners in dealing played on by American dollar deaths, Karachi 3 cases i death, with some at least of its resulta.” magnates and grafting politiciana, Madras, 5 cases 2 deaths, Moulmein Longing for Normailty,

is not sufficiently enlightened or CLICK 1 death, Rangoon & canes i

After observing that these debts] ennobled to grasp the ethics of the the malter WAS

death, Tuticorin 1 cake 1 death, were incurred, and loans made, amazing situation. It fails even Hongkong

in

Pondicherry 2 eases 2 deatha, Saigon not for the separate advantage of to realise that its own selfish In- Chinese Chamber

3 cases 2 deaths. Canton 8 cases, particular States, but for a great terest would be far better served Nagasaki 1 ease. far as to suggest that there should

purpose common to them all, Lord by forgoing usury than by demand- Balfour proceeded: "To generous ing its pound of flesh. Perhaps a he daylight-saving all the year

minds It can never be agreeable, new country, with a hybrid stock, The desirability of following round-quite a good idea, too, con-ficance of the first order. This although for reasons of State it lacks the sense of noblesse oblige Britain's example by adopting day- sidering the shorter evenings in emphasis on proper leisure-time may perhaps be necessary, to re-that in great issues can and has does not occupation light-saving during the summer the winter. The whole subject te, there is no place for divertisse great event as a thing apart, to be authentic breeding.

that gard the monetary aspect of this inspired" older nations of more mouths is, we notice, again being we feel, worthy of reconsiderationment. Such

It remains to see whether, at urged in Malaya. This is a mat- here in flongkong. Is it too much readily apparent in any community ordinary commercial dealing be world's economics, the older wis-

place must be torn from its historical setting.

and frented as no more than an this Intolerable crisis in the jter which is periodically aired in to hope that when another year life. The fault is that too many tween traders who borrow and dom and clearer prescience of

the East, luit which somehow, in

comes round it will be taken up persons carry diversion beyond capitalists who lend. The econo-Europe can cut the Gardian knot apite of manifest advantages, dnes

the border line of moderation.mie s from which the world is that for a decade has strangled not result in definite action. It again?

Like the transformation of thrift suffering are due to many causes, both the new and the old world into miserliness, it then becomes moral and material, but amongst like a monstrous Laocoon group. is interesting to note that in

pernicious. The restoration of the weight

them must certainly be reckoned If the familiar prayer, "Forgive us Malnya some twelve years ago the The Right Use of Leisure.

of international in- our debts as we forgive our deb- right relation in pleasures would debtedness, with all its unhappy tors," makes no appeal to the mo- issne was taken so far as the in- One kind of unemployment not give a larger place than is now effects upon the credit and ex-dern descendants of the Pilgrim troduction of a Daylight-Saving often mentioned in the discussions taken to the pursuit of skill, re- change, upon national production Fathers, then Europe's choice les Bill in the Legislative Council, on the subject is that which affects creation, and beauty. Those who and international trade. The peo-between firmly refusing to be bled but this mensure was later with person who is in receipt of seck these are fully employed be-ples of all countries long for a to death or supinely waiting for speedy return to the normal. But America to make thumbs down drawn by reason of Unofficial op- position. It was shortly before how properly to employ the hours perience and building up their while conditions so abnormal are

when he is not earning it. None usefulness. this that Shanghai gave a tempur-

permitted to prevail? And how can measure ita extent. Stotle- ury trial to the plan, but abandon- tics are unavailable. But per- ed it later, partially, we believe, sonal observation 18 more elo- because other Far Eastern centres quent than figures in showing would not come into line. In the that it takes in a large element The same year, the Hongkong General of the world's population. Chamber of Commerce went as proof lies in the constant quest for diversion. Fundamental in far as to draft a resolution in

the definition of diversion is its favour of putting forward the

absence of lasting satisfactions. clock by ane hour during the It is a ready-made pleasure, thriv period from May 1st, to September ing only on novelty, which, hav 30th.. a plan which was supported -ing passed, ceases to be any other by the Chinese, Chaniber. The than a boring pursuit, and in con- Government was even approached sequence is soon abandoned. One on the matter, but at a special after another time-consuming de- meeting of the General Chamber vice is sampled and dropped. The subsequently' held, It was decided more desperate the effort to es- cape ennui the quicker it fails, to make no change. In the follow- So for as a large number of pea- ing year, the subject was again ple are concerned, no competitor raised, but the Chamber saw no has yet been found to outdo the reason for changing its mind. motion picture show in its ability which Since that time, very little has to take care of the time bees heard locally of the matter, hangs so heavily on their hands. although every now and again cor- The cinema makes a bigger claim (even than that. It will chane respondents raise the point why,'

tedium away. But how? Holly-

livelihood but who does not know cause they are adding to ex- how can the normal be reached signal to civilisation.

in a Colony in which evenings are wood studios are pouring out so short, we cannot follow the Old many films whose chief function Country's example.

seems to be to titillate the senses.

Despite the rebuff to the move- In the process they often instil ment in 1920, many people in wrong values into the younger members of the community. Is Malaya think it opportune to bring this the way that leisure lu going forward the issue once again.

to bo used? The question is The change proposed twelve years urgent, because wo are living in ago was quite simple, The Bill an age which is already discus- proposed that the clock should be oing a five-day week seriously. advanced by half an hour so that The proper employment of leisure "without curtalling the present will then assumo a social signi-

"Now, Honey, you'd better hop off at the next stop and lot

me get my work done."

THE FRIENDS I LEFT BEHIND ME

A YOUNG HUSBAND'S

PLAINT.

|THE honeymoon is over KİMİ

Theth, and I am rapidly

becoming domesticated. There is one thing that is worrying me a tot. I am definitely losing touch (with all my old palu.

At that wild and wonderful party we hind just before the great event took place we all swore we would nover lose touch and that every- thing would be as it was before. How they must have amiled at me behind their hands. They came to the wedding they cheered as we left the church, and I heve recog- nised it as being good-bye.

קטן

Only the other night I got back from the office and felt I would like a cheery evening again with nome of the old gang. I rang four, funny, but not one of them was free. They were all doing some- thing or going to parties to which I had not been asked, or said they,

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It was never like that In the old- days, and I will admit I did feel a bit more. I think I am exactly the same sort of fellow I was and yot Marriage should not change a man to that extent.

Now when I meet a pal in the street there is an air of restraint between us. Conversation draga, and we both pause trying to think of something to say. Then we murmur nomo inanity and pass on. (Continued on Page 9.)

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