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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1932.

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I heard no more from this lady,

VERYBODY in this world has a reason for being black- THROUGH AS WE CAN, HUT AN ELE VATED AND LOPTY DESTINY.-Glad-mailed. If that sounds a cynical observation, look for one moment up | stene.

into your own heart. Have you way

Next Thursday at 7.30 p.m., at the looked? Well? Yes? Thank you.

However, though we are all4-Pretend to Be Mad. Street. Gospel Hall, Duddell Howard Oakley of Mndran will show liable to blackmall (just as we are This is particularly valuable if his motion pictures and photographs liable to physical disease), there the blackmailer is in your rooms of Palestine and Syrin Admineton is no reason why we should remain and you wish to eject him, or her will be free, and no collection will in ignorance as to the best methods with the minimum of publicity. to combat it. Some moralista may The idea is not my own. It is assert that the man who sins de- "Bfted" from, an actual report in But theyan American newspaper of a mil- Mr. T. B. Rolland, of the Public serves to be found out. works Department, residing at 14, may be placed in the same catellonaire who was blackmailed by a. Conduit Road, has reported to the gory as those who maintain that manicurist in Chiengo. As soon

allee the Inss of a camera valued at the man who over eats deserves as she arrived in his room $100 and an overcoat valued at $15 to grow fat. Which would be the locked the door, tore down which he suspects were stolen by his rain of all Turkish hath proprie "y" who disappeared last night.

own Initiative in keeping back the ARTENZOATINGLAN Customs revenues, but, ng Mr. Soon has pertinently pointed out, thin plea cannot possibly hold good in the case of Dairen, which is in leased territory and entirely under Japanese control. The upshot of Japanese persistence at that port is scen

in the dismissal of the Commissioner, a step which pears to have been in every justified by the circumstances. This case, however, in only special interest In view of the very definite character of Japanese negociation with the Customs be taken.

ia the and autonomy movement. It

whole general issue which is of importance. In this connexion. It will be recalled that Mr. Stimson,

her on behalf of the United States, has

hair (you see, she was

on old- drawn Tokyo's attention to the

tors. Here, then, are the vital fashioned girl), knocked over points for all who are being, or few chairs, and then observed:- measures being taken by the Man-

The body of a woman, Tsang 19, are about to be, blackmailed;

"Unless you give me a thousand chukuo authorities, intimating that aged 20 years, formerly the concubine 1.-Never be Kind to Strangers.

dolfara I shali seream and tell thu establishing of a new Customs of Cheing Chiu, of Keswick Street,

This would really solve the them thut you have been trying to wan removed to the Public Mortuary whole problem. If you had not insuit me." service, under a Japanese Inspec- yesterday when the woman com-

The millionaire was too quick suicide by hanging herself happened to take pity on the girl tor-General, will destroy the in-nitted

not chanted to phrase an ordinary trick; it is as old as the hills. In tegrity of the Chinese Maritimes from an iron bracket above her bed. without an umbrella, or if you had for her. Possibly he know the Customs and at the same time

General Li Chung-Jen Commander.business letter with such warmth, any case, he rushed into the bath violate the spirit of the Nine. in-Chief of the 4th Group Army, is if you had not lent, out of pure room, put some fruit salino on.his. soon expected to arrive in Canton. friendship, an entirely virtuous tongue, and returned, foaming at

this repre-e Trenty. Similar

would the mouth, assuring the Indy that from five-pound-note--all returned. sentations have been made by Bri-Wuchow on Sunday, but was forced not be happening. Therefore, she was a sausage. She retreated

now said before, never be kimi to as hurriedly us she had arrived. tain, but, so far as we have been postpone his trip. He has

left Wachow by stemner, and was due strangers.

It is this sort of thing which DE VAN DE | able to learn, the only reply by io arrive at Sam Shui yesterday by Some of us can't help it some-keeps family life together in the

special train.

times. If we are made that way, United States. Japan has been the stock argu-

we must always remember that Naturally, all these courses are ment that the matter concerns the

i have suggested on the assumption that Appearing on a charge of larceny, the world will punish us. Manchukuo aud not the Japanese from a pedestrian in Queen's Read, occasionally entertained in my you are innocent. I haven't the of $25, a Chinese was sentenced to rooms, old women whe looked cold, faintost idea what one does when six months hard labour by Mr. young men who looked hungry, one is guilty. Owing to the no- There have been reports that

Wynne-Jones nt the Central Police young women who, in spite of torious innocence of my private Japan is willing to offer her good Court this morning. The defendant, their paint, looked incredibly tired, life, I have never had to consider offices towards a settlement of the who had a previous conviction for a and various ather wreeks of Pie- the contingency.

similar offence, was also plaerd under)endilly and Oxford Street. On j However, 1 belleve these upahot police supervision. dispute a most amusing

three of these pecasions I have methods would work even if the been blackmailed-without ang-blackmailer were telling the truth. when we bear in mind that the

I am a Bitle tired of it. Afl that is needed is a little cour- Chinese Hence the second lesson.

age-the courage to go to the the crisis. It has been as clear as occurred in Nathan Rond, near Austin --Smile.

telephone and call the police (you | Read, shortly alter eleven o'clock_lust; A blackmailer ena't bear a smile. can keep the receiver down the day from the very start that Japan night. The man was stated to have You see. blackmail is a toxic first time)-to bluff it out, some- heen knocked down by an unknown growth. Like the microbes, thaw or other, remembering that

enr, the driver of which is

flourishes in the dark. Sunlight the blackmailer is really quite as alleged to have ignored the unfor

destroys it. And if you smile at a frightened as you are yourself. tunate man's plight. The victim was

Failing this, I can only suggest fospital, but died at 8 o'clock this before you scowling, with elenched that you pay up. And next time subsequently admitted to the Kowloonian or a woman who is standing

fists, you break the spell. It is try not to be such a naughty boy. as though you went to the window In a sick-room, drew the curtains, and let in the golden daylight after a night of horror.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1882.

THE STRANGLEHOLD) ON MANCHURIA

Power

Government.

should have

Japanese have in reality created the death of an unknown

A Fatal molar accident. involving Cess,

sense of the realities.

even

that

motor

When Rumour Marries the Prince

BY THE HON. MRS. FRANCIS LASCELLES.

1 has political and other ambitions

in Manchuria which would tually lead to annexation of vast territory. To suggest that the Manchukuo Government. is morning. spontaneous creation of the people of Manchuria is ton ridiculous for words. Yet there

are leading of statesmen who have served the

I know a man who gave a suit statesmen in foreign lands up-nation well for meagre recompense, to 'n wretched creature from the parently willing to accept the Such money grabbing as occurrs in Embankment. The man was an Japanese statements at their face national politics usually takes the ex-soldier. He tried to blackmail form of patronage; bribery or his benefactor by claiming that he value. The logic of facts may graft is rare. But in the dark had assisted him to desert. He ar- soon, however, bring them to areas of municipal politics in rived at his chambers at midnight.

It is a big various large cities the traditional two minutes that man was gone

He was greeted with a smile. In MIE Prince of Wales is with-

Tout doubt a public benefac Alput a week ago, when the

issue which has been raised, and opulence of the administrators big shamed, and yet inspired. You tor, for, when every other aubject question of the Manchukuo Cus-

if Japan persists in her present and little, conveys a different story, may see him at any hour between fails he provides a constant source toms collection was raised in the policy, developments of the utmost

The standard of integrity' among hine and six, earning a perfectly of conversation. Is there one wo-

House

public officials in Great Britain is honest living in one of the more man in England who has not die- Commons, Captain seriousness are not unlikely. 411

probably as high in municipal gov-3-Misunderstand Him (or Her). Prince marry," and "Whom wil!

| exclusive streets of Piccadilly.

cuased the subject, "When will the Anthony Eden, Under-Secretary

ernment as in national. Not in On one of the three occasions the Prince marry?" In a world for Foreign Affairs, said his latest

every country or city is public life when I was blackmailed I received that is sometimes dull it must be information was that the revenue

so free from financial corruption, a letter from a woman whom I had a pleasure for anyone to reilust collected from three of the

Yet there is no reason why it actually never sen, who inmgined that he has added to the harmless stations was being remitted or

should not be. After all, it was that she had discovered me to be and entertaining subjects of every- AL bachelor mally to Shanghai, while at the

not always so in Britain. It is guilty of some indictable offence day discussion. So other three stations the surplus

only comparatively recently, view-fifty pounds, to be sent by return Prince one imagined would be a or other. She wrote demanding Prince is a benefactor, an engaged

popular excitement, but a married revenue was being paid into B

Prince would no longer be a hero. suspense special

account. He added that the British Government was giving very careful attention to the question of foreign.obliga- on this aspect of tions secured on the Chinese Cus-life could be found than the fact remarkable degree; it might toms revenue, but, so far, there was no reason to believe that their come as Prime Minister passed

Clean Public Lite

certain

In England there is a impatience with politica; in the i United States, with politicians. As about the utility of the debates at often as Englishmen express doubt

Westminster, no suspicion is ever entertained of the personal tegrity of those taking part in them. No more eloquent comment British public

In-

that Mr. Itumaay MacDonald's sacrifice of £1000 a year of his in-

almost without comnient-accepted us being, in the ordinary tradition

Becurity was impaired. Brief us the period is since that statement was made, events have moved of British public life. England is rapidly in the interim, the most noteworthy developinent being the start made by the Manchukuo authorities to take over all the

often thought to give too much of her national ability to politics at the expense of business. If this way a com- is so, it is in one pliment, for In England politics, utations. now remains to be though it may lead to honour, dous Seen whether the British Govern- not lead tu wealth. Prior to ment, vitally concerned as it is August last, the Prime Minister's with the Nine-Power Treaty and salary was £5,000 a year, on which with the security for foreign loans, is still willing to view the situation so complacently.

A

he had to pay income and supertax- to the extent of £1788. The 10- maining £3212 was totally inade quate to keep up No. 10 Downing To the intelligent observer, of Street without making severe in- course, it has been apparent from ronds on private means. To-day, the start that Japan is proceeding the Prime Minister is even worse "according to programme" in Man- off. After fifty years of one of the churia. The Manchukuo Govern- most distinguished political careers of modern times, the Earl of ment is rightly described

Oxford and Asquith had an estate. puppet creation of Japan's own of only £9168, though had he fol- making, and it becomes clearer lowed his first profession of the with every passing day that Japan law, he would in all probability intends to use this

instrument have earned more than £20,000 & solely for her own purposes. The year, Mr. Stanley Baldwin has steps towards Customs autonomy seen his fortune divided by per- hups as big a figure as ten sinco represent the first move in Japan's the armistice. Disraeli, in addi- economic stranglehold on Man-

tion to the ordinary salaries attach- churla. The 6800 raised la ofed to his political offices, was first-rate importance, not only to brought considerable wealth by his foreign Interests, but also, and wife. Yet the earnings of his lagt much more, to China's territorial, novel, "Endymion," which realized political and administrative in- £10,000, were barely sufficient to

put his finances straight.

All thin tegrity. For a time, Japan 'not up

Is not without interest for other the pretence that the Manchukuo people than British. In the United authoritics were acting on their States there have been examples

"Dear Madam,

ed in the long perspective of Bri-of post. I replied with the fol tish history, that Walpole declared lowing letter: of the members of his House of Commons, "Every man has his price." Public life has been cleaned in England to

up

cleaned up clsewhere.

#

be

of romance.

No. doubl married Prince In reply to yours of the seven- teenth inst., we regret that we would be an asset to the section of re- society that used a capital. One do not stock the size you quire.

If you

would kindly, can imagine his lovely Princess communicate with our Outsize playing hostess at St. James's, and Department, 483, Cuckoo Rond, the interest that would be taken in her brilliant entertainments. The members of foreign Royal houses would be her guests, and she would often be the centro of groups of diplomatic and social stars. But the ordinary humdrum citizen reading of these doings, while certainly appreciating a new Royal lady, would perhaps feel that he had lost his Prince. In- deed, he would probably vary the old rhyme and say, "Our Prince is our Prince till he gets a wife."

"What'll I do, Maa? The conch makes me stay home every evening, and you probably wouldn't give me a dáto

if I wasn't on the tonm."

This is a world of match-makers, and, so long as the Prince remains single, the most lonely citizen who takes in a penny paper can always exercise his or her art. A girl's picture is entitled "The beautiful partner with whom the Prince danced twice Inst night." and straightway from a thousand homes in England someone UX- claims, "Now what did predict only Inst week." What does it matter that she predicted some thing entirely differont the week before. For just a moment there Is the satisfaction of festing the warm, comforting sense of having said, "I told you kð.”

Royalty in dying out in Europe, but strangely enough in England in has reached its high watermark of popularity, and if by any strange freak of fortune England should follow the example of its democratic neighbours at least the curtain would fall on one of the most popular characters in his- tory. King Edward was another popular idol, but he had his do- tractors. On one occasion King Edward, standing on the famous terraco at Windsor, watched his little grandson run across the lawn with his dog. He turned to the statesman by his sido and said, "Thoro goes the last king of (Continued on. Page 9.)