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TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 4, 1932,
blem of collection, but on that of transfer. These difficulties are not confined to League loans. Germany, which has not received a League Joan, has practically suspended payment of all debts, public and private, for the past year. Inngary has had a similar standstill agreement, and the League loan is practically the only debt, public or private, which she has been paying for many months past.
Only in Bulgaria
Much has been said about the Economy of Automobile Produc- and Greece are the transfers pro- tion by the Motor Giants with bably to be suspended, but the world wide manufacturing sub-collection is going on. the sidarios.
amounts being paid into blocked accounts.
The fact is, of course that and independent manufacturer, pro- vided he has enough production
raw
In any case it is well to remem- to demand, and get, the lowest ber that the financial difficulties prices on
materials as of Europe would not have arisen' Studebaker does can concen-ic Governments had followed the trate manufacturing and General Management to such an advan-Anancial polies for which the tage that, assuming that Stude-League has continuously stood. baker and one of these giants Those who are now alleging that produce exactly the same car.the League's plans have not work- Studebaker can produce it for ed are the same people who have less money... It's wise to buy a been doing their best to
prevent Studebaker,
It is us them from working. though a gang of train wreckers complained because the trains did not runi
STUDEBAKER IS FORGING
AHEAD.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
GARAGE
The Hongkong & Shangbal Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated in Hongkong, Atubbs Kaed
Happy Valles
DEATH.
7
PETROFF.--At Kowloon Hospital, on
4th July. 1932. Capt. Sergs Nicolas Petroff aged 1 yearu. Funeral will pass the monument At 5.30 p.m. to-day.
WILA
DAY BY DAY
ACT, ACT, ACT WITHOUT CEASING, AND YOU WILL NO LONGER TALK OF THE VANITY OF LIFE.-Disraeli.
master's money.
his rudence,
Through falling from the roof of the back 198 Hennessy Road into yard of 14, Fleming Rond, a young man named Wing-kam was taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffer Ing from multiple injuries.
A WIFE OF YESTERDAY'S MILLIONAIRE
NHE
wasn't
By MARY BORDEN
very interesting, child into a practical, sensible wo
S when I met her a year no mun with sute, a songe of humour,
Her husband wasn't ruined then. the ability to adapt herscif quickly
Was
A Bum of $76,98 in said to have He was only afraid that he might to a totally new conception of life been embezzled by a fok of a stall be, and, not being in the habit of and, most astonishing of all, with Market on Sunday confiding in her his business worn fund of generous and loyal affee- in the Central when the man dinnppeared with his ries, he didn't tell her how scared tion for the man who had done this He was. Probably he didn't believe to her. Perhaps she always had simply himself that what he feared could these qualities, and was
never asked to display them. In Believed to be insane, Wang, Fat, poselbly come true.
Ilin millions had been made any case, now that she in faced of 30, Sp Pla Terrace, Shaukiwan, was removed to the Government Civil easily and he took them for grant with it, she has played up; this Hospital yesterday after he had put ed. He was a millionaire because woman who was supposed to take his and through a pane of glass at he was lucky, and because he was marriage so lightly, change hus- an American, and because fate had bands so easily, and be so helpless- willed him to be one. That hely fond of money.
I have met a number of these could ever be anything but a mil-
onaire
inconceivable. He women lately. Sorry for them? might be scared to death, but he | No, I'm not sorry for them. Why I be? They are happy, didn't really believe fate could play should him such a dirty trick, and so he much happier (if they did not know made no provision against misit) than they were before. Some of them do know it, and say so fortune.
frankly. They make no attempt to A woman, of 84, Sui Yeung Choi A Good Provider.
conceal what has happened. Street, Mongkok, was taken to the
Why And he didn't tell his wife to ex friends are in the same beat. Some should they? All their yesterday! Wah Hospital Kwong
He didn't dare tell her, suffering from injuries to her foot pot it. caused by a bamboo pole falling on All he could bring himself to say ave one general servant now, some have none. They'll ask you to her from the third floor of 35, Hai phong Rand. Her condition did not as that they'd have to go slow,
and serve necessitate her detention in hospital spend less that he guessed they dinner and cook the dinner them- it. Nothing had better not have that new steam elves, yacht, they had better get along could be ayer than such dinner I think of one woman whom I In colliding with a Chinese carry with the old one, it was only two parties. ing a pot of tea in Shanghai Street. years old, after all: or maybe he On the Phone.
Leung Wah, aged eight, who was went so far as to ask her to give now very well indeed. Her hus- running about on the footpath, was up her cruise to the Greek islands and, when she married him, was Telephone engineers, accumu- lating knowledge about the use of scalded when extent of the pot or Honolulu, and not put the old not what would have been called were spilled on him. He was taken yacht in commission this summer. in those days a very rich man; but that instrument, some time ago
to the Kowloon Hospital for treat-! He may even have said some they had a lovely town house, an ment but his condition is not serious thing about her dressmaker's and ocean-going yacht, a plantation in made an interesting study of the
jeweller's bills. But he would hate the south, and spent two or three words used in 500 average tele phone conversations. The words
Those who patranised the King's doing that, for he had always spoil- lundred thousand dollars a year. counted up to 79,390, but to make Theatre yesterday greatly enjoyed her, given her everything she She was just a very pretty gir He knew that a husband's, with an empty head who had al- Bifferent "The Silent Witness, an American- needed. this total
2240 only
Washington, South Carolina. words were employed by the tale-produced film in which several British chief reason for existence was to ways had a good time. Now York. Retors appear. The story one be a good provider, and he felt he word "E"
which holds attention from first to couldn't honestly blame her if she California, and Europe were her phone talkers. The
happy hunting-grounds. concerns last. It
the murder of were peevish at having her amuse- used 3999 times, and the word "you" 3540; "the" "" "on" a girl of loose morals, and the menta interfered with, especially Then He Cracked.
order, audience is left speculating to the
regarding the guilty person. though far behind in frequency; Atwill has the main role, and his "shopping."
And she was peevish a year ago. most acting is beyond reproach. He is and the twenty-five words.
of one particularly good in the Old Bailey When his fate still hung in the frequently used were all
any spoilt child trial scene.
Greta Nissen plays the balance, just as syllabic.
Loys were taken It appeared, also
part of the girl with marked success, would be if its the, twenty-bee most used words while others who contribute to the sue-away from it; and she was-encious
ancient all of
Englishcess attained include Bramwell Flet-ly different to his worries or his
A mathetic pleas for economy, origin, a
ruggedcher and Wyndham Standing. suggestion of
He was one of the lucky ones, be not to be missed.
She knew he was worried, but purity in telephone speech that
she didn't believe he had any real cause he cracked early at the very would be more impressive if it
reason to be, and so she went on beginning in 1929; but he didn't were not equally true of the list
her own sweet way, losing fifty think so then, neither did she. He of short, useful words without
pounds an afternoon at contract was able to sell his house in town. in which conversation English
and buying sixty-guinen dresses and the furniture in it, and kis by the dozen, just as if there had yacht, and with this he started These are days in which the would be anywhere seriously en-
been no crash in the stock market League of Nations is being sub-barrassed. "If a telephone sys-
in 1929.
Then suddenly the bald truth was jected to very considerable criti- tem," one reads, "were limited by some rule of nature to carrying
announced to her. The millions cism, much of it quite undeserved.
not more than 3,000 or so selected
God had given them were gone, Amongst the latest charges to be
By a tremendous and constant The epidemic of robberies con clean gone. words,
It wasn't a question made by unkindly critics is that tively wordless telephone system inues, severn! more being report now of giving up all hope of a new effort he is wringing a bare, un- ed by the police to-day as having
yacht or
#cruise through the certain living out of it, but he has the League has been guaranteeing might still serve the average mun
general discovery occurred during the week-end. large numbers of loans on which without the
Panama Canal in the old one, or to stay up there in the north, and A platium bangle valued tu ! of buying six new dresses instead there is no place in that northern wife and wilderness where his there have been defaults, and that anything was wrong with it."
property of Miss words of tele-Rubinson, a sister of the Governuf twelve: it was a question of sell- that as a consequence, British in Compuring these
houses, yachts, motors, jewels-in the planation in the south, alone vestors have been involved in phone speech with a like numberment Civil Hospital, was reporteding everything they had got left-dren can live. So she lives on
as they come in printed English, to have been stolen colossal losses. In view of het was found that "I" occurs four Broadwood Road yesterday after.order to scrape together enough with the children. She has lived onely part of the south. She sees somewhat unsatisfactory replies times and "you" more than five
noon. In a report to the police, cash to keep the boys at school and there all the winter. It is a very Miss Robinson states that
pay the butcher. the
no one. Her husband can't afford that have been given even in Par- times as often in the telephone bangle was taken from an unlock- Much the same sort of thing has to get down often. He has been liament to questions on this sub-conversations. Spoken and printed drawer in her bedroom some happened to hundreds of others. twice in six months for three days, time between 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 They have gone down in batches, and she can't afford to go to him. Ject, it may perhaps be well to ed speech, however,, are dissimi-
or, if you like, in battalions. The Trains are too expensive, hotels recall some of the real facts, ar methods of expression; "'" p.m.
Mr. W. Anderson, of Lycemun biggest ones held on longest and are too expensive, everything ie and "you's" necesarily
the dropped furthest, that's all. "It's too expensive. All she can do is Nine loans have been issued in all
Buildings, has reported to oftener when two talk together police that he either lost or had getting every one of us," they tell to keep perfectly still, not move off under "League auspices," being
than when one addresses meny stolen from outside his residence you. "John or Bill or Sam was the place. She has no car, anyhow.
I guess he the Austrian and Hungarian re- through the medium of print. But a set of ear phones used. by deaf caught a bit sooner, construction loans, the refugee talk by telephone, though the in-persons. The articles were valu- was lucky." and stabilization loan in Greece.strument holds the talkers some-ed at $20.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JULY 1, 1932.
LEAGUE LOANS
and
were
"to"
followed in
that
that compara-
occur
THEFT EPIDEMIC CONTINUES
MORE ROBBERIES REPORTED
N.
from 11.
the tople During the past few days some a refugee and stablization loan in what more closely to
person stole from 47 A Peking Bulgarin, one loan in Esthonia and that invited them, is much like
Road, ground floor, the residence of Mrs. Burke, a clock and two In Danzig. The total amount talk in general; in both cases
there are individuals who
use cigarette case valued at $60. of money involved is a little over
muct larger vocabularies than
£60,000,000 of which, of course, most. Expansive talkers, in the only a fraction was raised in Engenthusinsm of happy Conversa- land. All these loans bear very tion, may even forget that they thought high rates of Interest, and the are using a telephone; interest has been punctually paid
up to now.
recom-
engages thought, and words go back and forth that no student could record as average. But it The loans were floated largely may fairly be deduced that any fu consequence of the
man who habitually used a 3000-' mendations of the Brussels Con-word telephone system without ference of 1920, the members of occasional embarrassment would which were independent experts need hardly more words for ordi- conversation. Obviously, appointed by their Governments. y The British members were, Lord the vocabulary used in everyday print is much larger than the Chalmers, G.C.B... formerly Per-
average reader uses in conversa- manent Secretary to the Trea- tion; it may, and does, happen
Lord Cullen,
talker, K.B.E.,that the render, turned formerly Governor of the Bank of translates the larger vocabulary England, and Mr. Henry Bell, into the words of his smaller one.
General Manager of Lloyds Bank. The first thing done with their
sary;
LASTING
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THREE PIECE CONDIMENT SETS IN-SOLID SILVER-AND
BEST ELECTRO PLATE.
SILVERWARE DEPARTMENT.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
For telephone purpose it is a good thing that the twenty-five most
proceeds, especially in Austria, frequently used words are of an-
The
cient English brevity.
WATER LEVELS.
WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
was to repay a number of public and private loans, largely from British sources, which had be- come entirely bad debts. reconstraction and refugee loans all obviated the necessity for fur ther charlty which was costing many Governments, Including the British, enormous sums of money, The securities were in every caso first-class and these securities' Wiver nt still hold good. The difficulties which have arisen, in two cases only, have arisen not on the pro-
The following table issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com mission shows the height of water in English foot on the dates named in the West, North and East Rivors: Highest on Lowest July July
record. on record. 3
Bhlubing ... 4-412 North River at
Tsingyuen 4·20.4 North River at
Samahul.. 427.8 Emas. River at
Rheklung .. 4-15,6
1
ง
27.0 26.7
13.2 1.30
-5.3
18.7
1,73
-2,0
d.
the great amusement she called
She wasn't, as American women go, very greedy, and she was a com. panion to him, but he was very frivolous and gay. She liked doing What he liked, hunting, shooting. fishing, and she looked up to him, wonderfully intelli thought him gent.
sinall business up State, near the Canadian border. His plantation. he couldn't sell. It was a white elephant. His business struggled along; it is still struggling along.
I went down to see her, and found her in the big old plantation house alone with her three children A Practical Woman.
and a couple of darkies. She is Perhaps it was the suddenness lovelier than ever. She is teaching of the shock that saved the million. the children reading, writing, and alaire's wife, roused her and trans-arithmetic. She gets up the formed her from a spoilt, peevish arithmetic at night, has to study
it laboriously.
"I want n book for a man who is laid up with rheuma-
tiam, or lumbago--I don't remember which."
"Isn't It Grand?"
She Is going to take the children north for the summer and live in a camp in the woods, near her hus- Į band's business. "Isn't is grand ?" she said. "We'll all be together again. Bill's got the camp for six months for three hundred dollars (E60). We can do without any servants up there. Mary, that's the coloured girl, has been teaching me to conk and I'm a dandy cook now. Would you believe it?" She laughed.
I asked after Bill. A wistful look came into her eyes. "Bill's fine,"
she said. "Ife's had an
(awful time, and 1 guess he's pretty lonely up there, but lard work seems to agree with him. He's never been so well in his life."
When she saw me off she 'wald. "If you come back. In five years you'll probably find me right here. We'll have gone native by that time, maybe. If. Bill's business in the north doesn't plan- out, that's what we're going to do." She looked lovely in the small, sleepy rallway station in her blue gingham and farmer's hat. Perhaps she will wear a sunbonnet and grow
old under th shade. She won't
iniud.
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