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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,

Mrs. Gabriel John Spink wines ta tender sincere thanks to her all friends for the kind expressions of sympathy in her recent be reavement, also for flora) tributes 24nt and altendnare funeral.

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Mrs. Woo Hay Tong and family tender their heartfelt thanks to

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DAY

BY DAY

WHEN ANY CALAMITY HAS DEEN SUFFERED, THE FIRST THING TO HE

REMEMBERED 19, HOW MUCH HAS BEEN ESCAPED.—Johnson.

Mr. B. Paul will speak on "The Power as Thought" nt the usual Lodge, the Theosophical Society. 17, public lecture of the Hongkong Queen's Road, Central, to-day, at pm.

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Britain, Italy and France, of which Amorfen takes no account, is obviously concerned with the linking of the European settle- mont with the war debt issue, possibly making provision for uniformity of approach to the United States. However that may be, America has made it clear that

TO what mysterious unknown split an atom, but not how to ex- Tourne in the world breasts plode a stron; any representations must be dealt with individually. On this point,

quest of the lessly hurrying in its cager con- That knowledge will certainly secrets of Nature come. When It does, and the On a National Basis Studebaker it is conceivable that America

and the problems of the Universo time will probably be quite soon, is now standing sixth in the may not feel inclined to deal with

Even the lenat imaginative and we shall face #1 really serious number of cars sold.

reflective of mortals must, in menacé. all her creditors on the same foot- The theft of a blanket and countor- these days, be vaguely aware of At present it takes about a According to the latest available ing, since in his declaration of pane from her houso at 10, Pilkom an anxious bowilderment. Mechani- hundred million time the force of records, Studebaker stood June Inst year President Hoover day by Miss Monteiro, During her vention or discovery are racing atom in a hundred million is hit Street, Yaumati, was reported yester- cal and chemical triumphs of in- an atom to explode it. Only one FOURTH in the MONEY said the United States, though op- absence, the thief in believed to have each other in n break-neck gallop by the exploding force. But this VOLUME of sales-Chevrolet

entered the floor through an open standing first: Ford, second; and posed to cancellation, did not de- verandah door,

towards the unknown. Scientific acientific discovery is in its very Buick, third. Frankly Stude-sire to extract a sum beyond the

miracles have within FL genern-earliest infancy. It ia a million baker is not greatly concerned capacity of any debtor to pay. So the victim of a bag-snatcher in the next few decades may they the right track, our scientists avil Mrs. Barcley, of Quarry Point, was tion revolutionised life. Within to one that, once having Kot on with these relative positions, but they are vitally concerned with we may yet hear a good deal about Queen's Rond yesterday. Tann Wan, not destroy it?

quickly discover how to harness building

who was subsequently arrested, is It may be an interesting ques-their electric mechanism to its When the give "capnelty

alleged to have attempted to snatch

to score a far higher STUDEBAKER OWNERS MORE Lausanne agreement was announe- the lady's bag containing $25, but ton of public concern, but it is job, and

also a perfectly futile otte. MONEY'S

Be-average of exploding hits. WORTH, greater ed it, was slated in a message making good his

eyewitnessen prevented him from cause nothing is more certain than Eventually the grand secret of safety for their families and from Washington that although

that, though it means the annihi- the universe, the transmutation of greater all-round satisfaction in

The following forthcoming_marri-lation of the globe, the onward matter, after which all the al- the ownership of their cars.

Congress is on record as opposing

ages are announced: Mr. Francis thrust of scientific enterprise is chemists of past centuries groped cancellation or further downward Masters Perry, of Menora. Williamson remorseless and irresistible. No vainly, will be made. known. But STUDEBAKER IS ON A RISING rovision of war debts, Administra-of 6, Basilen, Lyttleton Road; Mr. investigations into

and Co., and Miss Elsie May Robinson, more will scientists cense their the transmutation of matter is the titanic logically and scientifically akin to tion spokesmen declared that in Wong Ka Hon, of 8, Li Chit Street, properties of the atom for fear the disintegration of matter. That dividual negotiations for revision 1st floor and Miss Li Sau Chan of 168, somebody will blow up the world visualises a time when, by the

Wanthal Road, 3rd floor.

than motor manufacturers stop pressing of a button or the turn- would be welcomed. But, as we

building ears because millions of ing of a switch, it will be possible Shooting pointed out a few days ago, the

out unexpectedly from people are killed or maimed Soares Avenue yesterday, a

by for somebody to explode the whole United States is on the eve of a man named Lal Wing-chek, giding an them.

world like a ponny balloon. It In the human make-up there is will be a tremendously lethal op. Presidential election, unil, in the ordinary push bicycle, collided with circumstances, it is difficult to say loo Road, and was flung heavily to urges onward the exciting adven- The Button Presser.

ever portunity. goods lorry proceeding along Water-some Promethean bug that precisely what America's final at the ground. He received a compound tures of the exploring or invent- fracture to his right leg, and was ad-Ing mind. We are harnessed to titude may be.

mitted to the Kowloon Hospital.

How is humanity going to our own martyrdom, the slaves of safeguarded against the One point emerges from Mr.

our own mechanism, the obedient of such potential cataclysm by misuse House of "arrived." This much in proved he bottle imps of our own laboratory i nome criminal or fanatical mega- Ramsay MacDonald's

lomanine? Commons statement, namely, that her intest film appearance in "Dancers test tubes.

in the Dark," the current attractions humanly impossible to set any of a thimbleful of mud would The staggering fact is that it I am told that the annihilation whatever happens, Britain ad-

at the King's Theatre. The story. heres to her policy of making no which is marked by romance and bounds to what scientific develop-release enough energy to

drama, is set in cabaret, and ment may accomplish. Beside the the Berengaria догова the profits out of war debts or reparu-

throughout, there excellent "atmoя-

car, Itself already lantic. An ounce of helium would tions. That principle remains phere and good neting, Miss Hop conscious of an aura of mechani-run a 100-hp.

kins is particularly gooil, and she is cal obsolescence in the scoring night for

engine day and absolutely unchanged. She has well supported by Lyda Robert, Jack presence of a Schneider seaplane, the discovery how to split the eight years. In fact not made any concessions to Ger- Onkie und William Collier, Jr. A the first steam locomotive looks atom opens up an easy approach

1 caveman's many contingent on getting relief bright and extremely well produced like

toy. We have to converting the whole earth inte built machines that can explore one vast explosive dump of as- from Americn; nor, for that mat-

the dark unfathomed CAVER ter, have the other Powers con- banishment a Chinese who was arrest ocean, others that can adventure is the accepted theory

On a charge of returning from

of tronomical detonation power. cerned in the European adjusted yesterday for stealing a roll of far above the clouds, and we have coalescent of atomic ent. Mr. Lloyd George takes the silk from one of the Indian stores perfected a tiny microphone that and protons is a phenomenon wit in China Building, was sentenced to can speak and listen round the nessed in the case of exploding stars stand that if America' is unwill. twelve months' hard labour by Mr.earth. It is even whispered, in whose flash irradiates the world's ing to make any concessions. Bri-Wynne-Jones at the Central Police the inner

circle of the wireless observatories through millions of Court this morning, Defendant's wizards, that it might be feasible leagues of space, Human science tain should pay up without de criminal record showed that he had to cast backwards the sound-nets acems on the brink of discovering mur. This, we imagine, 'reflects convicted of theft on two pre-of our aerials, and to recapture how to cause such a coalescence

vious occasions. On the Iarceny R considerable, body of British charge, sentence of six months hard the voices of men who died many of artificial means, Wo

We might, it is able, by dint of our indefatigable opinion. However, it seems hard labour was imposed, but his Worship centuries ago.

made it concurrent with the other suggested, be able some day to scientific industry, to precipitate to believe that the United States | term.

listen-in to Julius Cæsar exhort- in our own case a slow and tedious ing his Tenth Legion, or to Pytha-natural process. would persist in getting her pound of flesh, irrespective of what hap-lember and there is no doubt that goras admonishing his disciples,

The possibility

of a master- crook, with hornrime and the pens in Europe. We prefer to both France and Great Britain Might Blow Up the World.

highest possible scientific degree, There would appear to be some think, with the British Premier, will loyally accept the findings.

However amazing these wonders obtaining control of the button- It was important to get this may be, there is nothing positively press that will blow up the earth diversity of opinion

that there is no nation more ready business finished quickly because daunting or intimidating in them. is one that opens up unexplored as to who should make the first move in con

to lend a hand in co-operative Irnk is to become a member of the It may be that. in the modern dramatic vistas. nexion with the suggested revision work in straightening out the Lengte during the course of the mechanism that takes its toll of A Terrible Secret.

which still next Assembly. It was essential merely have Nature's subtle sub-

human life in war or peace, wel of war debts, as between America tangles and troubles

therefore, that she should be able stitutes for those

What a unique opportunity for and her debtors, following the face the whole world.

more crude a super-autocrat or even for a. to begin her new-found nation-forces that kept down the world's super-blackmailer! Lausanne settlement. When the ac-

The puniest hood without any complications population ini primitive ages. State, possessed cord was announced, it was in-

of this grand or political disputes with her These lethal modern equipments actentine secret, which timated from the United

States

neighbours. Not very spectacul- may be part of the private work-hardly be kept secret long, could

inga of a law of natural averages. defy the mightiest. that America would be prepared

Despite the tragic death of its ar it must be admitted, but very But it is not possible to takej present its to consider representations on the chairman, Colonel de Reynier, in useful! Had there been no Lea- quite so philosophical a view of timate that the button would be ultimatum-and in- subject. if made individually, as

an aeroplane crash in a sandstormgue of Nations, this trouble over the latest experiments with atoms. pressed at midnight on the day over the Syrian desert, the League the frontier soon as Europe had finally settled of Nations Commission which has Syria would have dragged on and who have received that news, are would have less intimidation than

and Scientists have at last discovered named.

how to split an atom. Laymen, But these terroriatic visions the reparations issue. It is clear been delimiting the frontier be created ill-feeling. It has been disposed to jeer at those who pro-they might now that the United States does tween Syria and Irak has finished settled with no fuss and no bother, phesied that the explosion of an Suppose we do elaborate the secret once have exorted. not regard the Lausanne adjust-its work, and returned to Geneva. tribute to the need for such in-atom would blow up the world of the annihilation of matter, and ment as a final settlement. Strict-This particular Commission was ternational machinery as is to be But so fur scientific dissection of devise a formula, worked by a

the atom has progressed 'y speaking, of course, this is true, decided upon at the extraordinary found at Geneva.

only a switch, that will dissipate the very little way. We know how to globe like What has been accomplished so,

session of the Council held upon

a soap bubble. Can anyone say, reviewing the world's far, subject to ratification by the last December, to whom it was the Far Eastern dispute in Paris

present condition and its chief Parliaments of the countries con- brought as a matter of urgency.

netivities, that the consummation of the colossal drama would be cerned, is a sealing down of Ger- France and Great Britain had

An unmitigated tragedy? It might man liabilities under another been unable to settle the dispute

be no more than a happy release name than that of reparations. by direct negotiation.

for sorely distressed humanity on They ex-

this globe, and an interesting. The slate has not been wiped | plained that there had been "eer-

stellar phenomenon-a distinctly- clean. This may easily be a fac-tain divergencies of opinion re-

recorded flash across the solar ether for attentive astronomical for in any determination of policygarding the exact interpretation by America. Indeed,

professors in the well-equipped of the Convention signed in 1920."

observatories of Mars.. It was decided to set up a neu- clear that, as things are at the tral commission which was to col- moment, the United States is not leet full information and to sub- disposed to take any action of hormit suggestions for an equitable Rettlement. In accepting this It is perfectly clear, as Mr. | proposal Lord Cecil, who was then Ramsay MacDonald has pointed acting as the British representa- out, that America has so far utter tive upon the Council sald that the question was an excellent and

all relatives and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy as well as for floral tributes sent and attendance at the funeral,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1932.

WAR DELTS

own accorti,

it seems

Discord Removed. ·

ed no definite pledge or indicated striking example of part of the how far she is prepared to go on work of the Lengue. It was not war debt revision. Her attitude so spectacular as some other ac- at the moment appears to be one tivities but it was nevertheless of of waiting to see the full extent of very great importance for the any further agreement which may welfare, and happiness of man- ariso out of the Lausanne adjust. ind. Shortly after the Council ment, and then to deal with the appointed and set off for the fron- discussion, the Commission was sung when representations are tier in question. made. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, was Colonel de Reynier, who hav however, appears to think that the ing occasion to go from Baghdad overtures should be made by the to another town, decided to fly. United States, since he says that, Unfortunately his machine failing all-Found cancellation, the into a sandstorm and all the oc- European nations should wait and cupants were killed. The field work was, howevor, finished and

Its chairma

ron

see what America proposes as an the members are in Genova mak- alternative. Tho "Gentlemen's ing up their report. This will be Agreement" concluded between presented to the Counell In Sop-

been

between Irak

"Can you use a fellow in the talkies, who can make a

noise like a katydid?".

INSIDE

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that L electrons

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would

It would

INFORMATION!

By BEVERLEY NICHOLS

[IT

you approach the financial columna. of any nowspaper with an open mind, you will find them unexpectedly full of human drama. Whenever I hear that "Turks are sagging," I think of a gentleman in a turban emerging from a harem with a worried look, having just been bitten by his favourite wife..

When I hear that there has been- n stampede of "weak bears" in Paris, I conjure up a vision of those pleasant animals, tottering down the Champs Elysees, putting out their feeble tongues at Mlle. Mistinguett. On the other hand, n "spurt in telephones" offers a much brighter prospect.

When you come to think of it, that la about the only irritative thing that tolophones do not do.

I adore any stock market. The most thrilling lunch I ever had (Continued on Page 9.)

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