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Studebaker

MONDAY, JULY

blem of collection, but on that of transfer. These difficulties are not confined to League Ioana. Germany, which has not received a Lengua Ioan, has practically suspended payment of all debts, public and private, for the past year. Hungary has had a similar standstill agreement, and the Lengue loan is practically the only debt, public or private, which she has been paying for many Only In Bulgaria Much has been said about the months past. Economy of Automobile Produc- and Grecce 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 sidaries.

amounts being paid into blocked accounts.

The fact is, of course that an independent manufacturer, pro- vided he has enough production

In any case it in well to remem- to demand, and got, the lowest ber that the financial difficulties prices on raw materials-as of Europe would not have arisen Studebaker dogs can concen- If Governments had followed the trate manufacturing and General Management to such an advan-financial policy 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 Lengue'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 as them from working. though a gang of train wreckers complained because the trains did not run!

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DEATH

PETROFF.— At Kowloon Hospital, un 4th July, 1832, Capt. Serge Nicolas Petroff aged 61 years. Funeral will pass the monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JULY 4, 1932.

LEAGUE LOANS

4. 1932.

DAY BY DAY

ACT, ACT, ACT WITHOUT CEABING, AND YOU WILL NO LONger talk OF THE VANITY OF LIFE-Disraeli,

in the Gentral

master's money.

Market

A WIFE OF YESTERDAY'S MILLIONAIRE

By MARY BORDEN

QHE wasn't very

interesting, child into a practical, acnsible wo-

S' when I met her a year ago. man with guta, a sense of humour,

Her husband wasn't ruined then.the ability to adapt herself quickly A mum of $78.08 in said to have 1e was only afraid that he might to a totally new conception of life been embezzled by a fokl of a stall be, and, not being in the habit of and, most astonishing of all, with

on Sunday

confiding in her his business wor- a fund of generous and loyal affec- when the man disappeared with his rics, he didn't tell her how scured tion for the man who had done this he wan. Probably he didn't believe to her. Perhaps she always had himself that what he feared could these qualities, and was simply Believed to be insane, Wong Fat, possibly come true.

never asked to display them. In of 30, San Pia Terrace, Shaukiwan His millions had been made any case, now that she is faced 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 pued. He was a millionaire because woman who was supposed to take his Land through a pane of glass at

he was lucky, and because he was marriage so lightly, change hus- hin residence.

an American, and because fate hud 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 was inconceivable. He women Intely. Sorry for them? might be scared to death, but he No, I'm not sorry for them. Why didn't really believe fate could play should I be? They are happy. him auch a dirty trick, and so he much happier (if they did not know made no provision rainst misit) than they were before. Some fortune.

of them do know it, and say so frankly. They make no attempt to conceal what has happened.

Why

*

Through falling from the roof of 108 Hennessy Road into the back yard of 14, Fleming Road, a young man named Wing-kam was taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffer ing from multiple lojuries.

A Good Provider.

And he didn't tell his wife to ex-

A woman, of 81, Sai Yeung Cho Street, Mongkok, was taken to the yesterday Kwong Wah Hospital

should they? All their suffering from injuries to her foot peet it. He didn't dare tell her. friends are in the same boat. Some caused by a bamboo pole falling on All he could bring himself to say have one general servant now, some her from the third four of 36, Hai- was that they'd have to go slow, have none. They'll ask you to phong Road. Her condition did not necessitate her detention in hospital. Spend less; that he guessed they dinner and cook the dinner them-

had better not have that new steam selves.

Nothing yacht, they had better get along could be gayer than such dinner

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and serve

ماء

In colliding with a Chinese carry. with the old one, it was only two parties.

I think of one woman whom I ing a pot of ten in Shanghai Street, years old, after all: or maybe he On the Phone,

Loung Wah, aged eight, who went so far as to gak her to give know very well indeed. Her hus- Telephone engineers, Accumul

running about in the footpath, was up her cruise to the Greek Islandsband, when she married him, was scalded when contents of the pot or Honolulu, and not put the old not what would have been called lating knowledge about the use of

were spilled on him. He was taken yacht in commission this summer. in those days a very rich man; but that instrument, same time ago

to the Kowloon Hospital for treat-

He may even have sold, some- they had a lovely town house, un made un interesting study of the ment but his condition is not serious. thing about her dressmaker's and ocean-going yacht, a plantation in words used in 500 average tele-

jeweller's bills. But he would hate the south, and spent two or three phone conversations. The words

Those who patronised the King's doing that, for he had always spoil. hundred thousand dollars a year. a very pretty girt counted up to 79,390, but to make Theatre yesterday greatly enjoyed ed her, given her everything she She was just

an American needed. He knew that a husband's with an empty hend who had al- this total only 2240 different "The Silent Witness,' words were employed by the tele-produced Alm in which several British chief reason for existence was to ways had a good tinte. Now York, South Carolina, actors

ན appear. The story one be a good provider, and he felt he Washington, " word

to couldn't honestly blame her if she California, and Europe were her phone talkers. The

which holds attention from first the last. It used 3999 times, and

of concerns the murder were peevish at having her amuse-happy hunting-grounds. girl of loose morals, and the ments interfered with. especially Then He Cracked. word "you" 3540; "the," "a," "un"

is left speculating to the end "to" and

followed in

Was

were

order,

that compara-

words of tele-

were in the gulity person. Lionel the great amusement she called i

THEFT EPIDEMIC

CONTINUES

MORE ROBBERIES

REPORTED

in 1929.

Then suddenly the bald truth was he couldn't sell. It was a white announced to her. The millions elephant. His business struggled God had given them were gone, along: it is still struggling along. The epidemic of robberies con-clean gone. It wasn't a question| By a tremendous and constant

tinues, several more being report- ed by the police to-day na having occurred during the week-end.

p.1.

She wasn't, as American women though far behind in frequency; Atwill has the main role, and his "shopping."

Ite in most aeting is beyond reproach.

And she was peevish a year ago, go, very greedy, and she was a com and the twenty-five words Frequently used were all of one particularly good in the Old Bailey when his fate stil hung in the panion to him, but she was very any spoilt child frivolous and gay. She liked doing tris scene. Greta Nissen plays the balance, just as that syllable. It appeared also

part of the girl with marked success, would be if its toys were taken what he liked, hunting, shooting. the twenty-five most used words

while others who contribute to the suc-away from it; and she was curious fishing, and she looked up to him. wonderfully Intelli- all

English of ancient

cess hitained include Bramwell Fietly indifferent to his worries or bis thought himm

gent. A film pathetic pleas for economy, origin, a suggestion of rugged cher and Wyndham Standing.

not to be missed.

She knew he was worried, butj He was one of the lucky ones, he- 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

renson 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. Ile of short, useful words without

pounds an afternoon at contract was able to sell his house in town which conversation in English

and buying sixty-guinea dresses and the furniture in it, and his These are days in which the

would be anywhere seriously em

by the dozen, just as if there had yacht, and with this he started been no crash in the stock market small business up State, near the League of Nations is being subbarrassed. "If a telephone sys-

Canadian border. His plantation jected to very considerable criti-tem," one reads, "were limited by some rule of nature to carrying cism, much of it quite undeserved. not more than 3,000 or so selected Amongst the latest charges to be words, made by unkindly critics is that tively wordless telephone system

now of giving up all hope of a new effort he is wringing a bare, un- the League has been guaranteeine might still serve the average man

yacht or a cruise through the certain living out of it, but he has discovery large numbers of loans on which without the general

Panama Canal in the old one, or to stay up there in the north, and A platium bangle valued

of buying six new dresses instead there is no place in that northern there have been defaults, and that anything was wrong with it."

$160, the property of Miss N.

wilderness

wife and where his of twelve; it was a question of scil-; that as a consequence, British in. Comparing these

So she lives on Robinson, a sister of the Governing everything they had got loftldren can live. ment Civil Hospital, was reported houses, yachts, motors, jewels--in the planation in the south, alone vestors have been involved in phone speech with a like number

with the children. She has lived stolen from 11, as they come in printed English, to have been

order to scrape together enough; colossal losses. In view of thet was found that "I" occurs four Broadwood Road yesterday after-cash to keep the boys at school and there all the winter. It is a very somewhat unsatisfactory replies times and "you" more than five

noon. In a report to the police,

lonely part of the south. She sees pay the butcher. the Miss Robinson states that

no one. Her husband can't afford that have been given even in Partimes 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 Hament 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, ject, it may perhaps be well toed speech, however, are dissimi-time between 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 They have gone down in batches, and she can't afford to go to him. or, if you like, in battalions. The Trains are too expensive, hotels recall some of the real facts,lar methods of expression; "I'a"

Mr. W. Anderson, of Lycemun biggest ones held on longest and are too expensive, esferything is and "you's" necesarily occur

the dropped furthest, that's all. "It's too expensive. All she can do is Nine loans have been issued in nl1

oftener when two talk together Buildings, has reported to under "League auspices," being than when one

police that he either lost or had getting every one of us," they tell to keep perfectly still, not move off addresses many

"John or B or Sam was the place. She has no chr, anyhow, stolen from outside his residence you. the Austrian and Hungarian re- through the medium of print. But

a set of car phones used by deaf caught a bit sooner. I guess he I went down to see her, and construction loans, the refugeo talk by telephone, though the in- persons. The articles were valu- was lucky."

found her in the big old plantation ed at $20. and stabilization loan in Greece. Istrument holds the talkers some-

A Practical Woman.

house alone with her three children the tople

and a couple of darkies. She is a refugee and stablization loan in what more closely to

Perhaps it was the suddenness loveller than ever, She is teaching Bulgaria, one loan in Esthonia and that invited them, is much like

of the shock that saved the million. the children reading, writing, and aaire's wife, roused her and trans-arithmetic. She two in Danzig. The total amount talk in general; in both cases there are individuals who use

formed her from a spoilt, peevish arithmetic at night, has to study of money involved is a little over

muet larger Vocabularies than

it laboriously. £60,000,000 of which, of course, most. Expansive talkers, in the only a fraction was raised in Engenthusiasm of happy land. All these loans bear very tion, may even forget that they high rates of interest, and the are using a telephone; thought interest has been punctually paid 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 in consequence of the recom-

man who habitually used a 2000- mendations of the Brussels Cou-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. Bary The British members were Lord the vocabulary used in everyday the print is much larger than Chalmers, G.C.B., formerly Per-

average reader uacs in conversa manent Secretary to the Tron-tion; it may, and does, happen Bury: Lord Cullen, K.B.E..that the reader, turned talker, formerly Governor of the Bank of translates the larger vocabulary England. and Mr. Henry Bell, into the words of his smaller ono. General Manager of Lloyds Bank. For telephone purpose it is a good The first thing done with their thing that the twenty-five most proceeds, especially in Austria, frequently uned words are of an-

cient English brevity.

up to now.

was to repay a number of public and 'private loans, largely from British sources, which had be- The come entirely bad debts. reconstruction and refugee ionns all obviated the necessity for fur- ther charity which wus, costing many Governments, including the British, enormous sums of money. The securities were in every cuse first-clana and these securities atill hold good. The difficulties which have arison, in two casos only, have arisen not on the pro-

converan-

WATER LEVELS.

WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

The following table issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- mission shows the height of water in English feet on the dates named in the Wast. North and East Rivors:

Highest on Lowent July record. on recard. 2

North River at

July

5

West River al

#hfuhler 1-41.7

0

27.0

26.7

Thingyuen 4.20.4 North River at

Bamgb) +27.3 East River at

Sheklung 15,8

0

-3.5

--1,5

11.2 1.00

I8.7 1.70

9.6

During the past few days some person stole from 47 A Peking Road, ground floor, the residence of Mrs. Burke, a clock and cigarette case valued nt $60.

"I want a book for a man who is laid up with rheuma-

tiam, or lumbago-I don't remember which...

"Isn't It Grand?”

gets up

the

She is going to take the children north for the summer and live in a cump in the woods, near her hus- 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 (£60). We enn do without any servants up there. Mary, that's the coloured girl, has been teaching me to cook and I'm a dandy cook Would you believe It?" She

now.

laughed.

I asked after Bill. A wistful look came into her eyes, "Bill's fine," she said. "Ife's had an awful time, and I guess he's pretty lonely up there, but hard work seems to agree with him. He's never been so well in his life."

When she saw me off sho said. "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 railway station in her blue gingham and farmer's hat. Perhaps she will wear a sunbonnet and grow old under its shade. She won't mind..

Mr. W. Jackson, Into Secretary of the Hongkong Stock Exchange, and old resident of Hongkong, advertisos that ho has established himself as a Stock and Share Broker, trading under the firm name of the Hongkong Stock and Share Agency, at Exchange | Building (Third Floor),