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DAY BY DAY

TAKE CARE THAT YOUR GREAT-

MAY NESS

Lion

A

Depression Blues

have

SI alt by my window now, And I'll admit that those men the rain is coming down In and women, who have been active sheets. Although it is only in business and professional life, NOT FAIL THROUGH noon, it is as dark na night. In who were our leaders during the CRAVEN FEARS OF DEING GREAT, direct view of this window is my World War and the days of rock garden, which has been economic complacency that fol At the moment, of course, Hong-

Injuries to her right jaw and temple transformed into a regular water-lowed, have grown weary, kong has no direct interest in these

were received by a woman named fall, washing away some of the found themselves unable to cope developments, but it is a certainty Wong Chi, aged 21, of 280, Reclama choicest plants and submerging with the changing conditions.

Street, yesterday when ahe

Again it is only natural that that in course of time this Colony slipped on some fruit peeling outside some of the largest rocks. Two

young trees, which I planted last this should be so. In the face of will be brought within the circle. the Yaumati Market.

spring, have been blown over. adversity, people who have been The proposed extension of the ser-

Reporting the death of Mr. P. T. Ono garage door has been severely \ accustomed to success, are apt to vice to India suggests one route, by Lanible, 1.5.0., the Japan Chronicle damaged. On the third floor become discouraged and which we might become linked up, states that it followed an operation, flarge bucket is catching the waterpessimistic. It is as if the bottom College Hospital, from a leak which has developed had dropped out of things. It is

a dormer window. Per- possibly via Malaya. But, quite Nagasaki. Mr. Lamble was Secretary around

as If our economic paradiso - had apart from the particular route in Japan for the Rationalist Press haps more damage has been done, tumbled down at our feet.

Association.

but I am not in the mood to inves- ned, Hongkong must eventually

tigate just now. All in all 1 am Yes, we must face the facts. Whilst on his way to the Tung not well pleased.

We must admit that the storm has come into the Empire system. The

What will I do about it? Well, we must not be swept off our feet reached serious proportions. But Hongkong Telephone Company in-Wah Hospital, a coolie named Sze Mo, nged 35, of Quarry Bay, suddenly timated some eighteen months ago collapsed at the junction of Hennessy I have an idea that I'll

by this admission. Wo that negotiations were in hand as Road and Percival Street and divdirock garden fixed up again as soon permit common sense

His body was later removed to the as the storm auboiden. And while Public Mortuary.

the Medical in

get the

grow

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it appears to be In a frightful our thoughts and actions. condition right now, I doubt if America has become the most the damage has been its serious pessimistic nation in the world,

a result of which it was hoped that | subscribers in the Colony might

Following a quarrel between in the near future put through calls young married couple of 195, Faas I think. The garage door can The reason for this is that We with Yuen Street, the wife, Wong Tun-be repaired at no great expense. have been disillusioned. Up until to subscribers In London,

ubsequent extension to embrace along, aged 18, attempted to commit And I know that money will be October of 1929 we were led to

suicide by drinking Sanitas disinfec

taken to hospital found somehow to pay the roofer believe that prosperity had become She was tant,

for any work that may be nec-a fixture in the American scheme essary around the dormer window. of things. This Utopian idea of fuffering from the effects,

be made our economic condition was pecu-

assistance.

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were

We bc-

anil

the important cities of the world, Nothing has since been made public on the subject, but, in view of the Mr. W. Woodward, of the Public Yes, everything will enterprise which this Company has Works Department, who was driving spick and span again as soon as Jarly American. No other nation in the world was capable of such motor car No. 2553 in Hennessy Rond the storm subsides,

a dream. Quite naturally, when displayed in the improvement and yesterday, knocked down n Chinese But how do I know that the

the crash came, we were totally How expansion of its services, we can-woman near Stewart Street. The

vietira was struck by the buniper of the storm is going to subside? not doubt that the matter is still car but was not badly injured, as she do I know that the rain is going unprepared for it. The paradise being kept well in mind. The ad- went away without requiring any to stop and the sun is going to in which we had been living had shine? To be frank with you. Iapped our strength, and we were vantages which would accrue to the

have no proof. I see no sign of helpless when the props

knocked from under us. Miss Florence Wong, B.A., one of the sun breaking through the Colony through being telephonically the pioneers of co-education of Hong-clouds, yet I know the sun is going came confirmed pessimists, connected with the leading com-hong University, was married to Mr. to break through, maybe not to the ones responsible for that state |merical centres of the globe are too R. Li, banker, of Javn, at the local

those speculators who built I find no indication that tol soon.

iuea that false obvious to need emphasis, and any Supreme Court yesterday.Mian Wong day, maybe not to-morrow, but of mind are those politicians and

year returned from England last sters which could be taken to ex-fill the post of Assistant Mistress at the rain is going to cease, yet I

SL Hilda', Canton. During the know it isn't going to rain forever. security.

But common sense will extricate pedite the provision of such a ser Principal's absence owing to illness. Common sense tells me that,

us. Common sense will give us vice would be appreciated by re-Miss Wong was acting principal of

that strength that is $0 much the institution In the early part of And while the sidents and business interests alike, the year. She is a contributing edi- raging outside of

needed now. This depression had tor of the China Weekly Review, and there is another storm

n cause and it has FL purpose. has done journalistic work for papers over my head, an economic storm. What that purpose is, I don't in Sinm and Malaya, besides contri-My garden of stocks and bonds, knew. But my faith in this world buting to English journals. Miss so highly prized and admired a

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my window, raging

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up

of economic

arc the

Wong is the Commercial Press, Kuala Lumaway.

niece of the proprietor of few years ago, has been washed and in that Power that overas it

That door of dividends, is such that I cannot doubt. pur. The couple left for the Northwhich I had closed and barred for the honeymoon.

against the approach of the wolf, Every day I hear people—and being you hear people-talking about a most has broken loose and is enjoyable "At Home" to a large num-bally battered. A leak has de- the depression. And quite natur ber of Indy residents of the Colony veloped in the roof of my economically the loudest voices

Government House yesterday af- castle, and a flood of bills and ones that say the rain will not

pouring The function was delight foreclosures comes

in, cease and the skies will not clear.

them, iWhenever I hear to inundate me. character, and threatening fully informal in

feel certainly am not pleased. feel

reminded of that quotation from everyone present was made to thoroughly at home. It was quite|

Shakespeare: "The empty vessel and this international gathering an inte feature WOS

manifested nisu

Are

ternoon.

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I

am

Monkeying With the Herring It was doubtless well-intentioned Long-distance telephony is no

determination to do his bit toward longer a novelty. None the less lancing the British budget that such rapid strides have been made recently prompted a in this matter during the past few customs officer to class monkeys as years that we are apt to overlook bipeds liable to duty. Four-legged Not creatures enter the United King. what has been accomplished.

dom duty fret, and the eventual many weeks ago, another dream was realised when a direct service was ruling that monkeys are quadrupeds scored a point for the few remain-

Well, makes the greatest sound." established between England and

What will I do about it? ing free traders in Britain. It

Are you an "empty vessel Canada. This eliminates the neces

may also have come as a relief to the programme of music and dancing, some people tell me

ito which the contributors

were anything about it. Some people you one of those persons of little. sity of using Now York as an inter- the long-tailed free dwellers whose Madame Evelie, Fara von Winterfeldt, tell me the damage is beyond refaith? Are you one of those poor, mediary and provides the penulti-possible sensitiveness at being Miss Elan Alves; Madame Mein, pair. Some people tell me that deluded ones who believed that

Ferrajolo, Mrs. Marlame nunte link in a chain which it is Catalogued as two-legged beingamann

Miss

and refresh-

to subside until it has carried us over and now believe that the de- hoped will soon girile the whole seems quite to have been overlook-15 Amelin Lee. 7 Sanger and this economic storm is not going prosperity was going to last for- ments were served, and during the

all downstream. And I can't pression is permanent? If you are an animaginative bureau-afternoon Mrs. Southern, who was a

I see no one of those chronic pessimists, India has been established, White-erney. After all, though, Juliet's charming hostess, intimated that she argue with these people. I have one of those evil rumour-mongers,

hoped to Arrange a series of such no proof to offer them.

bright sign 011 our economic you cannot be the prophet of the hall will be in direct communication tender reference to the rose is as functions during the cool season.

horizon. But I know the clouds new era that is about to true to-day as when her sweet ac-

are going to break and the sun is We must look elsewhere. with all the Dominions. Indeed, it

cents dropped to the eagerly at-

going to shine. Common sense has been suggested that the time tending Romeo, and the walls of

tells me that. may not be far distant when, with that moonlit garden still echo her a perfected television system as sentimental appeal, "What's in o wil. it would be possible to hold an name?" Take, for instance, the case Imperial Conference-or

Empire.

When

the service

to ed by

herring. Is it less at least of the

lectable when it is gathered in its

de-

an Imperial consultation-with the

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

dawn.

Oh, I realize it's easy to have the blues to-day. I realize it's Oh, I'll admit that this economic rather difficult sometimes to keep storm is violent. There are those a stiff upper lip. But the easy who say that it is the most violent things in life are not generally experienced. the big things. And we have need The following table issued by the And I don't doubt it. We are liv of big things to-day. mission, shows the height of water

one we have ever

principal delegates sitting comfort. infant form and becomes "sardino." Kwangtung River Conservancy Coming in an age of superlatives. We

aldy in their own lands in their res

active armchairs. Whether that is an idle`dream or not there can be no questioning the advantages of speedy and direct contact be Iween various parts of the Empire.

It is worthy of note that with the recent linking of Britain with South Afrien. Egypt and Canada,

or, duly smoked by a process which amounts almost to ritual, changes its cognomen to "kipper," that breakfast deliency dear to all true Britons? While

no mention

is

made to this most proletarian of fish in the "Pirates of Penzance," one of the sights in that Old World port is the little fishing fleet which leaves at sundown for the outer harbour. There it anchors, in fair

il British telephone subscriber weather plainly in view of the

can now pul in calls to ninety-five townsfolk, and with great scines, per cent. of the telephone-using throughout the night, snares the world. Loudon hus, in fact, become larger herring that shoal the waters, the most imporant telephone june- of the English Channel. And when the fishermen dump their catch tion in the world. What has along the beach at dawn, no longer accomplished in the short space of

are they merely herring. No one five years may be gathered from the who hng

ever visited the rock- fact that at the beginning of 1927 girded Cornwall city will forget the only foreign areas in direct con- the sturdy fishwives cry, as they tact with England were parts of clatter along the cobbled streets, "Pilchard herring! Pllchard France and Belgium. Now, the in-of

herring!" dustrial magnate of the newspaper |

Leas picturesque but editor in need of urgent informa-vistly popular to the cockney is the same herring when, by still au- tion can, with as little trouble as

other process, it becomes a is necessary for a trunk call in "bloater." And last, but certainly Engiand, get into touch with New by no means least, there floats on York, Cairo, Moscow. Sydney, Wel- the wave of memory the musical lington, the Scandinavian capitals, call of the plaid-shawled fishwomen the Balkans, and the principal of Aberdeen, "Wha'll buy my caller towns of South America. All these herrin', fresh herrin'?"

have been inaugurated servicca from the same instrument at

The death in announced in Ealing. If this rate of progress in Glasgow paper of Mrs. Jane Camp- maintained within another ten bell Garraway, wife of the Inte James years we shall find it almost ini-Garraway, of Hongkong aml Ginegow, Death occurred in a nursing home on possible to conceive how we have June 23. The deceased lady and her got along in our international re-husband wore well-known in Hong- Intion without the aid of the world- kong, the late Mr. Garraway having girdling wireless telephono. An-been for many years employed at the Kowloon Docks, Quito a number of other point to be stressed is that the older residents of the Colony will all these new services are shown to remember thom

a

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in the West, North and East Rivers: war in all history; we enjoyed the periods like this before. If we do

Highest on Lowest Aut. Aug greatest era of prosperity the not believe so, it is because

because we world has ever known; now we have forgotten, or

our economic appear to be suffering from the have not studied

depression. worst

Everything history. We had storms similar to-day is either "the best" or "the to this back in 1937, and in 1873. We have had, 21.0 worst," and right now "the worsts" and again in 1893.

numerous squalis of lesser degree." And each time we have recovered. Each time the gun has shone little brighter and a little warmer. And believe now that the sun- shine will be all the more glorious after the clouds have passed away.

are on top.

"I hope passengers aren't expected to do anything, na I

know very little a bout aeroplanes."

As I glance out of my window again, the rain is still coming down. The clouds are still hang- ing low, and the wind 19 still howling. There is still no break in the west.

But I know it is going to clear. Common sense tells me that. I know the storm is almost over. 11 can't last much longer. And to-morrow 1 expect to go out and fix up that rock garden. I expect to prop up those trees and repair the garage door. And when I get through, I expect to go over and help my neighbour, for the storm has done considerable damage there, too. And the day after to- morrow-well, just wait and nee: you won't even know we've had a storm.

Oh, this weather is very depres- sing, and I could he blue, tuo. But I find it more profitable to be gay. So I am planning my future along the lines of Edward Everett Hale's famous motto: "Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand."

II. G. M,'

The many friends of Mr.-B. D. Evans, of the Royal Observatory, will regret to learn that he is at present patient in the Kowloon Hospital, where he has undergone an operation for appendicitis. He is progressing as well as can be expected.

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