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DAY BY DAY

IN THE TWENTIETII CENTURY WAR

"I.O.D. CENTRAL"

(By J. M. KELLEHER)

in the near future, arrangements WILL BE DEAD, THE SCAFFOLD WILL should be made for

BE DEAD, ANIMOSITY WILL BE DEAD,

He's stern, but the ster-way through his morning report: a general

¡yet. moratorium of at least ten years, MAN WILL LIVE-Hugo,

AND DOGMAS WILL DE DEAD; BUT, ness is very often an affecta-

tion to hide the strong grain replies the interpreter.

"They say their child is missing" the time to be devoted to cement- ing International solidarity and

of sympathy in his make-up; "Have they looked for him?” in a sympathy which will come the next question and there follows the re-establishment of the world economic order on a basis of co-attending the China Medical Con- is not careful. Sometime he parents.

Dr. Arthur Woo, who has been to the surface too often if he harangue in Chinese between the Interpreter and the bereaved forence at Shanghai, returned on Sun- operation instead of economie day by the Canto Rosso, Dr. Woo wears three stripes on his Finally, "No, they have not look warfare. Those who urge this has been re-elected a Vice-President white uniformed arm and cd for him, but someone may have

of the China Medical Association. plan think that such a policy of

sometimes he wears a braid-their duty Inform the police?"

kidnapped the boy. Was it not general conciliation might bring the United States to make a voluntary remittance of the war payments duo,

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ed shoulder strap. Uncon- And the entry of "Child missing sciously he is a keen student-suspected kidnapping" goes down. Jon the sheet, to be erased an hour job later by the information that the

of pyschology-his makes him that way.

You must meet him. He is the

(or Inspector

perhaps the sergeant) on duty at any Police

The following cable at the close Station in the Cony. the

of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pen- treath and Co.

moro m.p.g.

decisive There can be little doubt that braking

effortless steer the solution of war debts and re- ing.

smooth instantaneous |parations will only be found when acceleration. more room the nations have solved

general problems of money and super springing.

sweeter credit, production and exchange, in fact in a spirit of practical realiant. This will have to be done with the object of rebuilding economic activity on a broad busia, taking into account the systematic and progressive development of the needs of the people and the methodical extension of inter- national exchange. The coming World Economic Conference, if it is handled wisely, should mark the starting point of this new era. If it does not reach agreement of some kind, the whole economic structure of the world may easily collapse, for, as Mr. Baldwin has

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VITAL ISSUES

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ing of the ways, Never in history Was wise statesmanship more needed. Let us hope that the op- portunity soon to be provided will be utilised to the fullest extent possible.

Orchidology at New Heights,

For some time the orchid has reigned as the aristocrat among

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boy was found in another street, playing with a bunch of his cronics...

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But the Inspector on Duty's time. is not taken up wholly in dealing with frivolous matters.

the

The voice over the telephone is brusque and

There are times when over business-like-"In- spector

police group line a strained voice Duty, Central" "Sergeant on Duty Number. Two,reports an armed hold-up, or even. "1.0.D. Water Police".

murder. Rough detalls are Jotted down. The alarm clangs If the wife has lost her handbag and the emergency unit lines up. with the month's pay cheque, or if Men rush about the station buckl one of the kiddies has been bitten ing on belts and revolvers. But [by

and burgled your house or if the spector on Duty is everywhere dog, If a thief has broken in, there is no confusion. The in- cook-boy has gone off to the country giving rapid orders and seeing that. with many of your moveablo pos- na hitch occurs in the organisation. sessions, you'll make your com- plaint to this man and like him.

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He waits by the telephone for the second, third and fourth reports to: come. through, sending more men How many times has he figured required or taking with a sigh of is a scene such as this?

relief the information that an ar rest has been made and all is now A European sergeant

has quict. have brought a young Chinese woman

into the station. Her baskets of world and the breaks

up

It's not the easiest life in the

Are not

fruit and cakes are sufficient to i always good. Promotion is often a dicate the charge which is bo lald against her. She has been hawkmirage but you rarely hear of a fing without a licence.

grouch. Through n cynical interpreter Force but the pity is so few scem Hongkong owes a lot to its Police

BIG JEWEL HAUL she tells this story. Her husband lins to realles It.

THIEVES ENTER HOME

AT KOWLOON.

Jewellery valued at $1,500 was stolen from the residence of Mr. J. Rodger, 49 Granville Road, | Kowloon, yesterday afternoon.

Prompt action taken by thei

THIS DEPRESSION

gone to his native village (alterna-| tively, he died last week). The child on her back is her own and. so is the one grasping her skirts and gazing with frightened eyes at: ull the men in uniform. There are three more in the tiny cubicle she calls her home. This is the only

By Edward Kelly, Broke Broker. way she can get money.

What with budgets and trade "Five dollars bail" says the mun depresalons, this Colony needs an at the desk.

Oficial Spendthrift. In this, we Ive discovered an AB

infallible

We

But she hasn't five dollars. the tamed or domesticated plants. Police resulted in the recovery of God is her judge, the 43 cents method of bringing about a world- Horticulturists have taken especial some of the stolen property, wrapped in a dirty piece of newa-wide trade revival.

paper is all the money she pos All the Government has to do is pride in the development of varia-] Mr. Rodger, who, is employed at scases. No, she has no relatives to issue notes free to qualified tions of the species. They have the Central Agency Ltd., reported and she cannot find anyone to look spendthrifts, who will immediately travelled far and expended large the burglary to the police at 4.30 after her children if she has to rush them (the notes, we mean)

p.m. Thieves had broken in his spend the night in the cells. In demanding

into circulation. immediate

sums in their efforts to ex-bedroom on the first floor and after A look of long-suffering passes negotiations for the cancellation

the catalogue of known collecting Mrs. Rodger's jewellery between the Inspector on duty the position in Hongkong. It was We are fully qualified to take on Band

of war debts and reparations, the

specimens. Mere announcement had escaped.

and the sergeant who has brought our grandfather who, standing at of orchid shows' has been enough

the womun British Labour Party is taking a to fill great halls with enthusiastic

in. Their hands go the door of his mansion, turned to into their pockets and they make this butler and said, "James; burn stand which represents the con- admirers who

up the bail money between them. the house down. I'm going out." sidered

Ingered opinion of many of, lovingly over rare blooms. Collec-

"Now get out of here" thunders

cari produce garnishee the world's leading economista tions of orchid plants

the man in charge, simulating great orders, summonses, flaal notices wrath. and statesmen.. At the moment, many parts of the

"Turn up at the Court in and threatening lotters suficient to the morning and if I ever catch you prove our qualifications. the position has been left in the been a hobby of wealthy patrona

hawking again......

"and any one We have got it all mapped out air by the Lausanne Conference, of floricultura. And why not? which, while it agreed that the wip-The orchid is a monocotyledonous ing out of reparations was neces

plant, and any plant that bears a

sary, made this contingent on Ger-

namo possessing the oleo, texturo | $200, many's creditors reaching a war-

and mispronunciation possibilities debt settlement with the United

of monocotyledonous is entitled to $130.

seat

floriculture. in States. The situation in this res

abundant in damp

from

world have

The articles stolen were: A lady's watch, valued at $860. One platinum ring, $800. Three gold finger rings, $26. One diamond ring, $100. One pearl ring, $60. Three brooches, $60, One gold bracelet, £10. Two necklaces and pendants, $20. One gold slave bangle, $250, Miscellaneous pieces of jowellery,

of twenty threats is employed to what we'll do when the Government make the woman more careful in appoint us to this position. future.

"Child missing-suspected napping."

In the morning we shall be lifted kid-froom in a litter, and having been jout of bed, and carried to the bath.

Hongkong .currency totalling

bathed, we shall toy with a little That entry appears regularly in breakfast-some simple little monu the report sheets of every police like sal hepatica and lettuce. Mean- while one of our valets will mount Immediately on receiving the re-station in the Colony. pect is, however, complicated by equatorial regions where they tions and within a few hours re-the charge room, jabbering at a to the suit we are going to wear

port, the police began investiga-1

A mother and father walk in to his motor cycle and ride along tu- side the wardrobe until he comes which will have to be decided be-form and colour. Stme beautiful bangle and small pieces of jewellery the harassed I.G.D. who isn't. half mood and the seat w with our

clection, display themselves in brilliant covered the valuable gold slave

furlous rate.

"What's wrong with them?" askeleet the car we think will suit our that day. We shall select from our fore America reaches a decision specimens are to be found on the valued at $200.

the U.S. Presidential

front Orchids aro

one way or the other. Both the Peak just now. In temperate Republicans and the Democrats climates they express themselves have expressed themselves against in more humble raiment, the Indy's, cancellation, although President slipper, being a notable example. Hoover favours some quid pro quo Those members of the orchid But all this is aside from the point. arrangement whereby the United family which have been winning States would secure favourable all the gold medals at the hort!- trade concessions, possibly in the cultural exhibitions "needn't feel direction of lowered tarifa. It

so big." Down in southern Queens- must, of course, be remembered Innd the orchids are not planta- that both the Republican and they're trees. They cannot be Democratic declarations on this anything else, for they grow to a debt issue are largely intended for height of forty-five feet, bear home consumption, and it is quite the modest name of Galeola foliata hundreds of blossoms, and bear conceivable that when the election is over, whichever party succeeds of an "orchid tree" in the wilde monocotyledonous. The discovery will have to come down closer to of Queensland

Во stirred the realities in dealing with the pro-"orchidologists" of Australla that blem.

plans were soon under way to send The various attempts which a. botanical expedition from have been made for a solution of Melbourne into the area. The these inter-related problems of party left last month to study the war debts and reparations have so Phenomorally large species. When far been quite fruitiean. The orchids grow to a height of a four- Hoover holiday, which postponed storey building, one may expect the the payment of all political debta discovery of buttercups as tall as talograph poles and daisica that for a year, was not a solution, and

are used for fagstaffs. And oven in the meantime both the special the beanstalk story becomes advisory committee of the Bank of almost believable. International Settlements and the Lausanne Conferenco have reach- ed the conclusion that a wiping The wedding will shortly take place out of reparations is essential.

between Mr. Frank Goldby, lecturer, The world is still faced with the Helen Rosa Tomlin, 5, Clifton-place, the University, Hongkong, and Minn duty of making a final settlement London, en route for Hongkong by of these issues in order to tho s.s. Comorin.

"I'll bet that architect handed me the wrong set of plana. Instead of a filling station, this is looking more and more like a church steeple."

away to be burnt.

We will then drive up to the Treasury and will great the Hon. Treasurer and say. "Well, old chap, We're afraid you'll have to get out of here. We've bought the place." "But the records...." he'll say. "We've bought the place 03 д going concern, and it is our inten- tion to convert the building into a Home for Indigent Compradoros", we'll answer.

"Thers are a fow lady typists here," he will whimper. "I wouldn't Ike to see them flung out on the cold world....?

""Tut, man! What do you think we've bought the place for. They'll be all right."

Back at our home, we will stiflo

ja yawn, and turning to another of our valets, say, Frodorick, wo want another bathing pool added to our grounds. See that the Shing Mun Dam is completed this month."

"Yessir" +

"And throw that stack of bank notes out of the window. We just saw a fly on it."

We may, when properly establish- ed, nead a little assistance in this sort of thing, and applications from brokers, Government officials, tai- pans, and other qualified domon- atrators should be lodged early to gether with a $100 note as proof that, to the applicant, money has no valuc.

A quiet wedding was nolemnised in. the Kowloon Union Church on Batur- day afternoon, when Bergeant James. Scrim, of the Hongkong Polles Force, was married to Miss Elizabeth David- son, who arrived from England on the P. and O. 6.4. Carthago.