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£808,000,000. The burden has boon all the moro intolerable from the fact that it has grown while

the cost of Ilving has steadily fallen. For instance,, the cost of living figure in 1920 was 130 above that of 1914, whereas, at present it is only from 46 to 48 beyond the 1914 figure. It will there- foro be scen that on

present

DAY BY DAY

MEN ARE ONLY ENLIGHTENED BY FEELING THEIR WAY THROUGH EX- PERIENCE.-Turgot.

Is

Excellency the OMeer Ad-

Major Haddon, R.A.M.C., has re- han Singh has been missing from the Indian Military Hospital, Kowloon, since 11.30 p.m. on Thursday.

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts. D

A Scotsman was recently placed Motor-cars which oro not lit up in a most unfortunate dilemma. are

almost

dangerous RS

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He was ordered dafly massage for drivers who are. a sprained wrlat, but was much troubled in mind whether the

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Some Kowloonites know their next-door neighbours so well that they don't speak to them.

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It has been computed that whon

The only time some mon get un

houses catch fire.

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The Three R's of matrimony are said to be 'Romance, Rice anit Rocks.

Has

eleven depressions

ministering the Government has ap. treatment would make him moro come and go Studebaker expects to see more depressions COME prices the £347,000,000 paid pointed Dr. if. F. Sommers to be a open-handed or more tight-fisted. Illuminated address is when their

Member of the Dental Board for a AND GO, because at the end of 1920 is equivalent to £220,000,000 further parlod of three years, 80 years instead of being un-to-day, In other words, Nationul steady and spent, Studebaker is Debt interest receivers would be in the finest fighting form, more getting this year a sum which,ported to the police that Sepoy. Kak- closely trained, and better pre- pared to fight the battle of com-at the prices ruling to-day, is petition than at any time in it's some £88,000,000 more than it history.

would have been if the interest raica had been reduced on any- thing like the basis on which wages have been lowered. This aspect of the question is liable to be overlooked, but it is one which, in the interests of the

The dolorous wallings of some people to-day remind us of an authentic papyrus recently un- covered portraying the following conditions in Égypt some forty centuric sago.

which ennnot unduly harsh stances prevailing.

of

due

"A few lawless men are depriving the land of sovereignty. The laws are cast out and men walk people as a whole, deserves

that upon them in public. The law-consideration. Much breaker is lord of wealth; the burden will be removed under rich man has lost all. Scanty the Government's scheme of com- is gold: craftsmen are without version, at a sacrifice to holders work; the reaper of the harvest gets nothing, while he who plowed not, profits. The land is depleted. There are more rulers thân. ever. I show thee a land turned upside down."' True many cracked up in those when very heavy rates of interest days just as the cracking up of croakers continues to-day But remember times of stress stimulate and develope leaders.

STUDEBAKER IS FORGING AHEAD.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated in Hongkong, Stubba Road

Happy Valler

Mrs.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

a nian talks, his jaw. gonerates

in

One thing about the proposed an electric current of fivo.ono- abolition of Prohibition It is noted that the Kennedy thousandths of a volt. Volte America, real beer now seems to Town bathing beach will be open for face!

be just around the corner.

the use of the general public from Tuesday, July 6th inclusive. A fee of 10 cents per person will be charged.

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are still

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It's auid that the only way to

hold of her and kiss her. We hesitate to try this method with the type that usually sits at the back of us at the pictures.

There were seventeen divorces in every hundred marriages in America last year. The other stop a woman talking is to get It is notified that during the eighty-three couples absence on leave of Mr. J. T. Bagram, hoping. Honorary Consul-General for Slama in Hongkong, Mr. S. Hampden Ross will be in charge of the Sianiese Consulate- General.

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O.II.M.S.--"Oh, " Summons.'

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A Shanghai restaurant quotes

Held up by three men armed withi A doctor recommends variety of spaghetti, at five cents a mile." a revolver and a knife, a shop foki, diet during the summer in the Maybe by the time this is in print, Ngal Yau, was relieved of a sum of tropics.

be described 19 in the circum-

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Nevertheless, it's dan- you could get it for four and $312 during the early hours of this gerous to exceed the feed-limit.. seven-eighths, morning on the Taipo Road, near the

mile stone.

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A point to be borne in mind is that the loan was floated at a time

were common.

nation

This is the Mrs. J. P. Law, of 40, Robinson time of the year Rond, has reported to the police that

when amateur some time between 10.30 p.m.

on

Peak

But the

Thursday and 7 o'clock this morning, gardeners could not go on indefinitely bear-

some person stole money und jewel-The ing this onerous load, represent-lery to the total value of $240. ing as it does a serious drain on the country's finances. There is, of course, nothing in the new | scheme which in any way involves a breach of contract or impugnes the honour of the State. The Government is prepared to dis- . Suffering from the effects of an what will hap charge its obligations in full

over-dose of Lysol, said to have been self-administered at the Lok Holpen in 1999. So where holders wish to redeem on

Tunk Boarding House, where she had far 39 Hong- the due date, but there is (nu-engaged a room, a young woman, Sau kong is concern- turally a hope that the great bulk Sze-mul, was removed to the Governed, we may pus-

ment Civil Hospital yesterday but sibly have of those concerned will adopt she died at 3.30 p.nt. the alternative course. There is

almost adequate water supply. every reason why they should. At a time when most countries

in

strails, dire financial Britain stands solvent, with its credit at a high level. Those who accept the scheme have a certain three and a half per cent. tax free, return on their investments, with the security of a healthy and vigorous State at their backs.

grow curious.

O O The body of a man named Maki Ping, aged 48, unemployed,

An of 2..

Indian Wing Lee Lane, was removed to the secr saya the Public Mortuary yesterday after the world will enjoy deceased had fallen a height of 25

feet during a fit, due to a weak heart. peace for the next 67 years, but he can't say

John Lee wishes to fender sincere thanks to her friends for the many kind expressions of sympathy in her recent bereave are ment also for floral tributes the And altendance nt

hent funeral,

DEATH.

LEE-At Matilda Hospital, en lot July, 1932, John Lee, aged 39. Shanghai and England papers plense copy.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1932.

A TIMELY DECISION

English As She is Spoke. Probably there will always be disputes as to

the best English is spoken. Mr. St. John

where

DOCTOR BITTEN BY PATIENT

BLOOD-POISONING FOLLOWS

an

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"Just what have you done for humanity?" asked the judge before passing sentence on the pickpocket.

"Well,” replied the confirmed criminal, "I've kept three ar four detectives working regu- larly."

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Talking of Wimbledon, one thing

aboli

"Bunny" Ans- tin, he'a HO

"rubbit."

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Bet

We

by the Hong-:

kong

Civil

Service

List

that a Cadet

officer

has

ferred the. British

trans- to

Museum.

We

Now know

been

where Cadets

go In their winter-time.

The first alcohol ever distilled According to a

Government

is said to have been Arabian. report, there are at present no That must explain those nights. asses in the Colony. Suppose the noise we hear in the vicinity of Stewart Terrace emanatos from

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We noticed the other day the local forecast in a contemporary.

The trade depression does not rabbits defending their young. worry Britain. All the same, the The story of a doctor's suffering new tariffa show she's down on

口 ☐ after being bitten by a patient was the dumps. told at Mariboröngh-street. Police Court when Dr. Edwin Sandys Stephens, ayed 28, of Queensberry-demand for white turkeya last, ly!

Owing to the unprecedented gave "showery, bloudy." Exact- place, Kensington, anaesthetist at Christmas, breeders in England St. Bartholomew's Hospital, plead are specialising in this peculiar

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A man charged with possea-

| Ervine, an Irishman, is indefatig-ed guilty and was fined £h, with species. We suppose the next sion of a motor-car horn said he

210 costs, for dangerous driving thing will be novel shades for on December 23 last.

Mr. Myers, defending, said that while administering an anaesthetic

plum puddings.

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had used it for Instrumental music. Must have been in the band we heard broadcast the other night.

able in his defence of the claims of Belfast. Mr. Shaw, another Irishman, perhaps would prefer to say that the best. English is spoken in Belfast only when he happens to be there. Both these authorities, however, suggest that in bed for three months; an opera-ever to create international dis- having opium hidden fuumall

to

sur-

With a goodly sum of War Loan the correct speaking of English is falling the due in December, the

a most care accomplishment, to be Home Government, has taken a encountered only at very long bold and dramatic course by intervals. It is therefore comfort- deciding on a conversion scheme ing to learn that, in the opinion of which will save the Treasury Mr. J. R. Firth, senior lecturer in phonetics at the University College no less a sum than £30,000,000 London, good English is so plenti a year. The loan is to be conful and so easily acquired that it verted from five to three and a may be heard in places so far apart half per cent., with a cash bonusas Dublin, Edinburgh, Inverness, of one per cent. to those who accept | Norwich, London. Cambridge, the the terms offered. On the other Riviera, and Simla. He failed hand, those who do not desire to

mention Hongkong, where we have a highly cultivated form of spécch convert wil be repaid at par on

to contend with and if he could be the due date in December.

19 broad Q4 his list Obviously, some scheme of con- gests, why did he omit version had to be undertaken, and Toronto, Melbourne and capetown?

about although the terms offered may Pontificating

the Eng- not please everybody, we have no Hish language is, of course, a doubt holders generally will do futile business. Even in such a the right thing by accepting the comparatively stable matter as spelling, for example, considerable variationa aro possible. Most ment has chosen nu opportune authorities would allow "conncei- moment for the step. As one of | ipn" and "connexion," though the the London journals describes it, | former is chiefly used in Amerien the plan is both courageous and while the New English dictionary well-timed. The spirit of the and The Times (together with the people is such that there can be

Hongkong Telegraph) admit only

little fear of the proposals fall- ing to meet with the success ex- pected.

conversion scheme. The Govern-

the

version of the word. The lack of certainty which is one of the distinguishing features of the English Inngungo arises from The burden of War Dobt in- the fact that in Britain there is terest which is now being relieved no generally recognised authority, has long proved heavy to bear, comparable, for instance, with the French Academy, to decide what Proposals for conversion have

is, and what is not, correct. Any under consideration, one of half long been

a dozen accents or but the moment has hitherto not locutions may be defended us the seemed propitious in which to possible speech of an educated make a definito move. It is of Englishman, Nevertheless, the Interest to recall that the highest speeth of London is gradually as the figure of the National Debt was getting itself accepted in March, 1920, when the annual This is the culmination of a pro- standard version of the language.

charge was no less than £370,- coss that has been going on for 000,000. In the present year, the several conturies, and is now pro- charge normally would, be about|ceeding at an accelerated pace.

a short time before the offence, Dr. An American has invented a Stephens was bitten by the patient, pinno with dual keyboards.. We Blood-poisoning followed; he was should say this is more likely than

tion was carried out on his spine, cord.

and now he was practically paralys-

ed.

When Dr Stephena was examined

at

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We understand that the gallons

future

the police-station, said Mr. of water in storage in Hongkong's Myers, the trouble was in the early reservoira in the near stages and he was not aware of it. depends entirely on the amount of said that blood-poisoning would Dr. Burney, the police surgeon, affeet Dr. Stephens' condition.

rain to come.

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The Chinese who was fined for

balloons in his mouth and shoes went up in the air when he heard the Magistrate's decision.

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We should have thought those

soldiers had punishment enough

by the time they got through

As the motorist said to the twenty-one bottles of beer, tiro A charge of drunkenness was dia-prostrate pedestrian, "I haven't bottles of orange squash, four missed, and the licence was not sus-amped into you for years, old glasses of whisky, four bars of chocolate, twelve packets of ponded.

cigarettes and {1 number of cigars.

chap."

"Don't worry, lady! If you can't find an apartment, I'li

ask the missus to put you up for a few days.”

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The prolific scoring in recent cricket matches suggests that at least one section of people in the Old Country aren't stumped yet.

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Cartoonists re doing good business sketching holiday-reakers nt seaside resorta at Home. That's one way of drawing visitors, anyhow.

A British building firm has received orders for fifty huge factory chimneys. It's now got stacks of work on hand.

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"How do so many of our young

mon get into debt?” aske ♫ reader. By owing other people monoy.

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Over 150,000 rats. were caught by the Sanitary Department in Hongkong and Kowloon last year. Ono of the cases where the tax- payers cheerfully pay the piper.

AMERICAN TROOPS..

31ST INFANTRY DEPART

FROM SHANGHAI::

Shanghai, July 1 The 31st. US. Infantry embark- ed this evening on the transport Republic and will sall before dawn to-morrow for Maulla.-Router,