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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 11, 1932.

WHY NOT THE LATEST.

to

DAY

BY DAY

the market within KRZESZERZAKEN not put on

fifteen years, they will be can- celled. Precisely what is happen in the meantime, in regardenong to war debt obligations la not

AS THE BOSOM OF THE EARTHI made clear. It is at this junctureBLOOMS AGAIN AND AGAIN, HAVING that the all-important question of BURIED OUT OF SIGHT THE DEAD America's attitude obtrudes itself. LEAVES OF AUTUMN, AND LOOJEN THE FROSTY BANDS OF WINTER, SO A Washington message says that DOSE THE HEART FEEL MANY RE the United States Government is NEWED SPRINGS AND SUMMERS.

IS A BEAUTIFUL AND now ready to fulfil its promise to consider the revision of these war

Studebaker

IT

RECORDS-BREAKING MAN

By ROBERT LYND

So static a world JOLMES and Suiellife have could make

One would need to be Hited and in the live colec

a man of immense moral and in- bored speaking world by setting up a total of 555 for the first wicket intellectual vitality not to be A BLESSED

I found myself in it, would soon, Essex, and so breaking the pre-

I am sure, be hankering after the WORLD WE LIVE IN, AND WHILST the match between Yorkshire and by such a Utopia,and I for one, if THAT LIFE LASTS, TO LOSE THE EN-ings record.

Any pair of first-wicket partners old world of effort in which men pitted themselves against each wish to do something other in everything from round-

the-world flights

Much has been said about the debts, "RK soon RB the European | JOYMENT OF IT 18 A SIN-Chan-

sidiaries.

repara-

Economy of Automobile Produc- tion by the Motor Giants with Powers are agreed on world wide manufacturing sub-tions." This is somewhat cryptic, the more so since it in precisely on reparations that the Lausanne

been settlement has

reached. There is a further Intimation that the European Powers must sub- mit their proposals to America in- dividually, as the policy of the United States has always been to consider

The fact is, of course that an independent manufacturer, pro- vided he has enough production to demand, and get, the lowest prices on raw materials as concen- Studebaker does--can trate manufacturing and General Management to such an advan- tage that, assuming that Stude- baker and one of these giants produce exactly the same car, Studebaker can produce it for less money...It's wise to buy a Studebaker.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, LUI. Incorporated in Hongkong, Stuble Road

11-ppy Valler

War

its Afteen European debtors separately. It is to be hoped that this does not imply any The intention of bargaining.

present

debt agreements greatly vary in the terms imposed on debtors, Britain having made about the worst bargain of all. It is to be hoped, therefore, that, short of general cancellation,

bers.

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who now The P. and O. 8.8. Kashmir, from equaly sensational will have Singapore, in due here at 4 n.m. onore 556.

To the coldly scientific mind this the 14th instant.

breaking of records may seem to amount to very little. It may be a greater fent, for two men to score Hore 500 against ordinary bowling 200 against great bowling than to

RECORDS GRIP

vin Bringing the English mails Suez, the P. and O. liner Rawalpindi is due here at 10. a.m. on the 13th

instant.

A lo-morrow's meeting of the Rotary Club the spenker will be the Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen, M.A., and bin subject "The

Man."

Cult of the Strong

Latest Admiralty appointments include the following.-Lieut. E.i. Chavasse to Seurab (July 1); Sargn. Lt. Comr. (D.) J. M. Park to Taniar, for Hongkong hospitai (July 1), and and Sargn. Lt. Comr. (D). 1. M. Hughes to Medway (July 47.

to-

to shove-half- peany, and the man who ran 100 yards a split second faster than any one had ever run 100 yards before was a hero whose name was flashed across the ocean.

Our record-breaking, and our interest in them, are merely the symbol of that belief in effort us in our which is necessary to present

which shows state and that we are still totally unfit be citizens of Utopia.

"MY BEST TIME YET!”

to

WASIL

THE IMAGINATION. In order to judge whether batsman is the greatest batsman of all time you have to imagine A report has been made to the him standing up to the greatest Police by Mr. J. G. Sinison, of No. bowlers of all time. It is be

Such is our present condition, a7 Pokfulam Road, that while riding cause the greatest bowlers of all indeed, that most of us, if we can- in a riekaba near the King's Theatre time are either dead or living in not break records set up by other yesterday, he lost a purse containing retirement that some critics

break onr people, try to day doubt Bradman's claim to $1,130.

records. The motorist, arriving at his watch and supreme greatness as a batsmun.

Even so,

figures talk. A new home, looks

Amile, record affects the imagination like says, with n self-satisfied

in yeti" the conquest of unmapped terri-That's the best time I've done it their Even 1, who have little of the tory. It is the instinct of men

further than to press on predecessors; cricketers, runners, competitive spirit, have more than to

swimmers and billiard players ouve competed against myself in will be made

remember once Rome attempl

who Hke unadulterated share this Instinct with explorers this fashion. secure greater uniformity of treat-

single day's driving by ntent. One factor that cannot be farce will probably enjoy "Almost a of the Polar regions and climbers trying to bent my previous record

Divorce," now showing at the King's of Mount Everest and Kinchen-for

driving from Holyhead to London Fortunately, we live in an age between breakfast and bed-time. I The funeral of the late Mr. Woo Hay lost sight of is that Amerien is Theatre. It is a story of matrimoniul junga.

the eve of a Presidentin differences, complicated by the wife's Tong will take place on Monday, on

ubjection to her husband's association of machinery, wh enables human should have done it, too, if I had the 11th instant. The cortege election, and it is by no means with a man friend who is seldom beings to break records at a pace not run into the kerbstone in the will leave 15, Kennedy Rand al 2

Invention has add- near Edgware and burst two tyres. p.ni. and will proved sin Kennedy certain that the next Administra-sober. This latter part is played by which eeards have never been darkness when turning &

Sydney Howard, who gives a typical broken before. display of clowning. The roles fed so enormously to the speed of My failure to break my record Hond, Queen's Rond East, Arsenal

husband and wife are taken resper-locomotion that a man has now was expensive: but it did my good. Street, Hennessey Road and willtion will be Republienu.

to travel as fast as a bullet before it taught me that I was tively by Nelson Keys and Margery rench Mount Caroline at 3.30 p.m.circumstances, there

general Considering clear indication of America's war inner.

Jul his photograph into Malcolm-Campbell, excellence of the cast, the material is he can debt policy until the election

Since then. I have left record- better the papers. much pour. We have

A few years ago, a man created breaking to those who can break over. Matters are not helped by British pictures. It may be added

flying across the Democratic that the rest of the programine, all-a record by 21 the belief that

British items, are really excellent. to any Administration is averse war debt revision.

FUNERAL.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JULY 11, 1932.

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14 fli

can be no

is

has

Taking the issue by and large, it is, as we say, a great accom- A RAY OF HOPE

plishment that so large a measure of agreement has already been the a first step, Following many days of doubts attained. Ás

A goes long way and uncertainties, the leading settlement European Powers have at last towards paving the future for a attained a settlement of the re-complete readjustment of world parations and cognate problema. problems. It is a fine preliminary Con-to the coming World Economic Last week, the Tansanne ference many times seemed on the and Financial Conference. Best of verge of a breakdown, with noth-all, it must help in dispelling the

of pessimism which ing to show for the prolonged dis-cloud eussions which took place. On settled on the whole world, and it FH• the starting Friday, however, thunks in great should prove to port to the unflagging energy and point for a widespread restoration Looked at in this patient conciliation of Mr. Ramsay of conâdence.

Conference MacDonald, the President of the light, the Lausanne Conference, the terms of a settle can be said to have achieved much. for the whole ment

announced. These It now remains were have met with a wide measure of world, America included, to show approval, tempered, it is true, by determination to begin afresh a certain degree of disappoint- from the point at which the Lau- ment in France and divided views

sanne deliberations have left off. in Germany. None the less, it is an achievement of first-rate im- portance and significance that all brought have been the Pawers

With into line.

so many con- flicting viewpoints to be adjusted. It may, indeed, be regarded

The Walker.

A fanciful natural scientist han predicted that after many cen- turies of evolution in the machine age the human body will develop something not far short of miracu-wheels for itself instead of legs. lous that these problems, which He overlooked the firm determina-

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have so long defied solution, have been brought down to basis on which common agree ment has been found possible. Apart from the settlement itself,

feature the outstanding

Minister as the leading personality In the deliberations.

to

Mr. Mac-

tion of legs to look after them" Freed at last, thanks to selves. the ubiquity of wheeled convey- ances, from the drudgery which in past times made the majority of men regard "Shanks's mure" as is the the least desirable form of trans- emergence of the British Prime port, legs in recent years have been asserting their rights as The easier it be- never before. comes to avoid their use, the more Donald, in fact, has won the right insistently have these members Some their vitality. something declared be considered as more than the head of the British years ago there was instituted u Government; his latest Huccess movement in Germany to provide lifts him to the plane of a great modest hostels to accommodate tho youths and girls who in increasing internationalist, one who realises numbers spent their holidays in that world crises are only to be roaming about the country. resolved on a basis of mutual England more recently a Youth has been Hostels Association collaboration and trust.

started to provide a chain of real houses where young people on their walking tours can get a the settlement which have come tonight's lodging at small cost. hand, the full and detailed Im The movement is not an attempt plications of the agreement. The to make people walk,

It is not an easy task to envisage from the summaries of

In

It has

German reparations, as such, are

arisen because people are walking. to come to an end, and they are Whore dozens a generation ago sought their pleasure in extended to be substitated by a bond issue,

rambles over heath or hillside, the proceeds of which are to be

thousands today have joined the puld into what is termed a Euro-

noble company. And, as a well- pean Reconstruction Fund. These known journal remarks, a very bonds are not be be issued at least noble company it is, consleting, as for three years, and if they are It always has, of persons who did

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records that are worth breaking. A few English Channel: hence, he will have to be the first and I can now take off my hat to man to fly to the moon before we Sir Malcolm Campbell or Sutcliffe

great record-breakers without ing about. not walk because they must, but shall think his exploit worth talk Lindrum, or any of the other Was not . I do not know whether there is twinge of that most ignoble of the because they would. Socrates one of their order, when any limit to the potential speed vices, envy. he wandered forth for his talk at which the man of the with a few chosen friends to a can travel, but I do know that, if shady place away from the city? Wordsworth

and Hazlitt

were

future

there is, he will never be happy PHIPPS Meets. till be reaches.it.

Mankind labours

under

TO THE MOON?

GEN. BAR ...

the TUBE CAVEMEN

alter-

to

CHILDREN OF DARKNESS COMING TO LIGHT

Train-drivers on the Piccadilly Tube have for years had a pretty dark outlook.

Muess the only ray which is lightene their gloom has been the daily glimpse of my tortured face as they passed Brompton-road.

walkers. George Borrow, at fifty absurd delusion that it must not years of age, thought nothing of stand still-that the only

forward. And so we keep going setting out for a thirty-mile tramp native to going backward is going among the mountains of Wales. forward at a most alarming rate.

it may be that our great! Thoreau has made exquisite play And with the meaning and etymology grandchildren will be trying

end of the carth to the other merc- of the word "guanter." For him travel along sound-waves from one it meant wandering for pleasure.

ly because every other method of It was the locomotion has become so perfect and pleasure alone. same for Richard Jefferies and W. that further progress along the old

. Hudson and many another. lines is impossible. And one of the hardest working of SHALL WE FLY British Foreign Secretaries, Tord

1 sometime like to imagine the That, and the half-mile or so nut- Grey, has always been an in- defatigable walker in his leisure world of the future as a world inside Hammersmith where

whales. hours. Any middle-aged man, he which all the progress necessary trains, like attenuated

has been mude-a come up for air. said recently. ought to be able to and possible

The extension, however, of the been broken and everybody is Piccadilly line to South Harrow. be able to find pleasure in walking world in which all the records have

A genera-relieved to hear it-a world of which is to be opened next month, twenty miles a day. tion ago the company of willing human beings absolutely content lies completely exposed to the day- pedestrians was a small and eclec with the perfection of everything light and the gentle zephyre. In deter the meantime the Piccadilly cave- tie one. But today it has grown including themselves, and into an army recruited from every mined to leave things as they are. men are practising their driving I doubt, however, whether human over the new course with all the class. But it does not march. Its beings will ever be capable of the enthusiasm of men who have dis-

of moral and In- covered the great open spaces. members would not have enlisted high degree

tellectual development which alone so willingly if it did. It walks.

"Your hand must be losing its touch, Joc. You missed

two blocks on Fourteenth."

the

"The drivers," an Underground official told me, "have to learn the position of signals and gradients, when to cut off current, and many other driving detaila."

With this object, they are being coached by drivers of the present South Harrow trains-scratch men to who are showing them how avoid getting stymied at Chiswick Park or pulling into the rough al Acton Town.

But greater than the drivers' - first flush of pleasure at covering new ground must be the thrill of to the simple their awakening

rural things.

"What's that, coach? we imagine bayishly cager

can driver

naking his mentor.

"That's a cow, Bert.

"Oh, yes, of course there's

one at Gloucester-road,"

"Go on, Bert."

"Yes, there is one of the nicest adverts along the line."

One by one the fragrant features of our countryside-the shy petrol- pumps and the lush gasometers- are being revealed to these chlidren of darkness,

The health bulletin for Ensteru ports for the week ended July 2 shows the following cases of infectious discasca and deaths therefrom.- Plague: Anexandra 3 ensen 1 death, Rangoon 2 enses 2 deaths, Colombo b chats 5 deaths, Beirut 2 cases, Cholera: Calcutta 143 cases 60 deaths,

1 carca Salgon 1

Cares 11 cane, Amoy deaths, Caslon 208 cases 70 deaths, Nanking 104 cases 22 deaths, Shang- hat 314 cases 20 deaths. Small-pox: Dombay 5 cases 3 deaths, Calcutta 12 cases 9 deaths, Cochin 1 case, Madras В спася

2 deaths, Rangoon 8 deaths, Vizagapatam 1

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Case, Pondl. cherry 3 cases 3 deaths, Balgon 2 Casen 2 doaths, Canton 1 ense.