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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1932.

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Mrs.

An Edward ("Borzage") Kelly Production Let us run this new place, while others have pointed Divorce court in Hongkong out the possible benefit of a trip

to Newchwang, whore on proper lines.

Pawlay was kidnapped. Can, you, for instance, Eomeone even suggested that imagine one of the local who are starting off on a cruise we should accompany the poople

Chevalier film in camera in holiday requires careful thought. theatres screening a Maurice around the world in a junk.

This buteness of going for a a dusty warehouse. So why There is, for instance, luggage to should they have Divorce tensed, and furniture to be stored. bo packed, the flat to be sub- cases in a court-house? Thor, of course, we've got to gone into by the proper authori-jour creditors.

This is a matter that should be come to some arrangement with

ties before it is too late.

And then, if we stay away too From the depths of eur

long, there might be a mutiny of so broad as the national one is Hospital, Ng Pak-mui a giri aged 10 licity we can suggest a way of

Three hours after admission to periences of motion picture pub-the staff. inadequate. In fact,

con- years, of 21, Peel Street, succumbed turning the Divorce Court sequences are far more serious, stated to have been self-administered. small admission

to an overdose of oplum poisoning the Greatest Show on Earth. The Disasters may follow from an un-

She was taken to the Governmont

and died at 1. p.m.

ita

regulated

and Individuallatic economic behaviour, but they are mild compared with the tragedies if inrge national groups clash, each thoroughly organised in op- position to the rest. The national approach will not do."

Thongkong Telegraph.tivity, to shu: out the manufac

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 192.

WORLD CONFERENCE DIFFICULTIES

These words have a distinct ap- plication to the situation

with which the world is now confront- ed. It is, by nome argued that cach country must be at liberty to expand its own economie ac

turca of other countries, to develop a high degree of self- sufficiency. This idea is found, in part, in the Ottawa agreements, save that the unit is the Empire and mit one particular part of it. The broad fact has, however, to be Britains' Ottawa policy has re-taken into account that no nation ceived a jolt by the resignation of or group of nations can stand aloof Sir Walter Layton, the noted from the rest. The fortunes of economist, from the Preparatory the one react upon those of the Committee of the World Economic other. Thus it is essential, if the Conference. Coupled with the re- present crisis is to be overcome, port of the possibility of a further that there should be a willingness

co-operate postponement of the opening of to

in the solution. the Conference, it indientes that Without world improvement, there unexpected difficulties are being can be no real national recovery. encountered in the effort to get the fations of the world round the conference table with # view to straightening out the crisis. If there could. nsBurance that all

Desperate Crime,

!

Mr. R. R. Campbell, M.A., will give a lecture on "Six Twentieth-century Pucts on Friday, November, 4, at 8.30 p.m., in the Union Assembly Hall, Hongkong University.

Civil Hospital at 10 a.m. yesterday

.

CX-

Anyway, what is the faro to

Into Macao?

prico charged would more than cover the Colony's estimates for next year.

Think of the material! A man.

SHRAPNEL

is a

tired, and

little

The N.Y.K. liner Haruna Maru, A woman. Another man. Or an- from London, via ports, which was other woman. A broken heart. A There due to arrive at 4 p.m. to-day, has broken home. A love-letter. been delayed and will not berth until detective. The Child They For-world-famous restaurant. He fits A head-waiter in the cafo of a 8 p.m. The Asama Maru will arrive got! A mysterious, exciting at- like from San Francisco early to-morrow musphere of bedrooms, beaches, through a white marsh of table A pallid will-o'-the-wisp morning, followed by the Hakozaki motor-cars, Peak parties, Maru, from Japan via ports.

house-cloths and the heavy, but In- maids, underclothes, flowers, wines visible, miusina rising from food and secret parties.

Gosh! We could see the adver-

Jand drink.

Professor L. Forster will deliver his presidential address to the Hong- kong University Education Society on Tucadny, November 2, at 8.30 p.m. in the Union Assembly Hall. The sub Ject will be "A visit to the Universi. tica on the Yang-Tac River." The lecture will be open to the public.

tisements, screaming out of all the ascetic in the midst of voluptuous local newspapers: "He was her plenty.

He looks liko an emaciated

But with his right husband ...... she was his wife aluminium-tinted eye ho' notes ...... but she was a stranger in that Madam's 'soufce is not en his arms.... Passion that has tirely to her liking while, with never been before...... a mighty, the other, he senses that Monsieur love that knows no laws Is contemplating a third Grand A reception will be held on Nov. Her lovely eyee, smouldering with Marnier.

11 am. in the Club de emotion, were the haunted eyee One night he was more Recrelo to present an address to the of a woman seeking escape from ever pale and

than Very Rev. Father G, M. Spada in some secret tragedy of the past the-wiapish. With a deft finger tired and will-o'- of his arrival in Hongkong. A Solemn Lover in his most powerful role,credibly small but gracious act celebration of the 40th anniversary

The World's Greatest he performed to perfection the in- Te Deum will be sung in the Rosary Church, Kowloon, inmediately after hold you spellbound."

a human dramas that will of putting my ashtray just where the 9.30 Mass.

I wanted it. He winced as f Then we could fit the Supreme stooped.

ember 6 at

he

At the Y.M.C.A. last night, Dr. Court with Neon lights, and In- "Lumbago 7" F. L. Allen gave an interesting lec- stead of dry, musty legal notices Lure

Ha pale aluminium eyes grew entitled The Faychologist in the corridor there would be a suddenly red with fire. "Lum- among the Fairies," Fairy stories, flaring poster of the Woman in bage? Lumbago-no. air, ahrap- he said, could be interpreted as ex- the Case, pariences of nations from generation

Something like this: garded as dreams and wish fulfilment, bevy of pretty witnesses. to generation and could also be re-

"All star Cast, supported Mr. D. J. S. Crozier presided and moved a vote of thanks to the speaker. K.C.'s, 100% All Talkie.

FOR THE POOR

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL BAZAAR

Henry Kafooblebugs In

by:

{nel."

Five anry of the day I went over the

He poured out my coffee. "This is the fifteenth anniver

top at Paschaendale fn the third battle of Ypres, and I can never forget it. We had to go through a creeping barrage—you know

"BOGGS V BOGGS" couldn't tell whether it was your

Directed by His Hon. Justice four hours. And each anniver {own stuff.. I lay out for twa ty Blugga.

nary night I lie awake and think. Is there room in a wife's heart And my wife asks me why I don't for more than one husband?

*

Visitors to Hongkong accuse us dale.

conservative and

The daring exploited in the

go to sleep. How can I?" present Euston. mailbag robbery

You'll see for yourself, when His right aluminimum-tinted Not a few in the community will you hear this drama of Oriental eye drifted. "Have you taken the ін а bc An

powerful reminder of the new

be interested to note that the time nights in Hongkong. countrica forces engaging the attention of

gentleman's order at A Dia-United Artistes Picture. Joseph?" is again approaching for the

No. 15. would go to the Conference Britain's

annual bazaar of the Society of police. Crime, aided, St. Vincent de Paul, which is to

Then he returned to Paschaen- prepared to consider the problem and abetted by modern inventions. take place in December. The first of being too in a wholly disinterested manner, i in becoming too rampant in Great meeting of the 1932 Bazaar Com- dull. We'll show 'em. Give our said.

"Yes, it was a hard time, he Britain to be viewed with committee of the Society was held Divorce Court over to the movie wouldn't believe how hard it was.

"Half the people here. without any reservations whatso- ever, there would be a prospect placency by law-loving citizens, last week. It was decided to hold people, and just see what'll hapThey would never believe how of definite results being achieved, fair play the increase in quick-

i to whose feeling for decency and the 1932 bazaar on the 4th Decem- pen.

sometimes you had to sit on a ber, and proliminary arrangements Maybe, by working, day and dead horse to eat a meal." with advantageous results, to get-away robberies accompanied Day" (street sale of roses in aid food when it can, working till it have survived

are already well in hand. "Rose night, snatching a mouthful of "Never mind," I said. "You everybody concerned. But the by cowardly violence is tradition-

and better times of the Society's funde) will be on writer, and by sheer grit, per-

falls exhausted under its type: are coming." oniens are not good. The United ally abhorrent. Growing unem- Thursday, 1st December.

Ife flicked the only remaining States has already expressed a de- ployment is undoubtedly an im The popular motor car draw will anverance and going without a crumb from the table with the air aire that tariffa should not be dis portant factor in the recent de-again be a fenture, with a 1952 have, the stuff of the Hongkong of a papal legate brushing away Morria Major Six as the prize, and miracle, will be able to carry on tired eyes turned to fire again.

Telegraph, with cussed, while Britain would enter velopments, but this affords no

the aid of a ridiculous heresy.. Then his the Conference with her handa ng strong measures to cope with obtained at various stores and ing that we were thinking of go-we didn't fight the War for

excuse. Lord Trenchard is adopt-prizes. Tickets at $3 each can be

with a number of consolation during our absence.

"Are they ?" he asked bitterly. "I tied by the Ottawa ngreements. th problem and is meeting with a

As soon as we started mention-will tell you, sir, there's one thing In such circumstances, it is easy

fair degree of success. Mean-

to see that progress would be very

uncertain.

It has been reiterated within re-

cent months, almost to the point of becoming wearisomy, that one of the world's principal needs at

clubs.

while, a vigorous editorial in the make up its mind this year to co-membered certain places on the in dozens

It is hoped that the public will ing away for a holiday, our ac- the German waitors are getting quaintances enthusiastically re-back again-not here,of course, but Observer indientes no defentist at-operate with the earnest workera atlas. Some of them thought that l'addition for the gentleman at of places. Georgea, titude on the part of civilian law-

who devote RO much af their, Siberin or Jericho would be a good No. 3.-H.W.

to time tion calmly to hold up their hands a abiders, nor any supine disposi mercy.

these labours of The committee has at the behest of the desperate on

large responsibility placed criminal. It recognises "the new penditure of the Society on rollef shoulders, The CX-

its

the moment is the removal of ar- situation that has arisen as be- to the poor and an education of

the children of the poor now port will shortly be issued on the amounts to $1,300 a month. A re- work of the Society during the with this account of the year's past year, and it is hoped that, valuable but unostentatious work of the Society before them, the again extend to the 1932 bazaar the generous public of Hongkong will whole-hearted support which has resulted in the success of the

Society's annual bazaar in recent considerably to extend the scope years, and has enabled the Society of its beneficent activities among Hongkong's poor.

tificial barriers to trade. Bank tween society and those who era, economists, statesmen have at would prey upon it," because of said the same thing, But, unhap the enay facilities extended to the pily, there is no indication at the by the latest inventions of natural malefactor by the motor-car and moment that Governments are pre- science which the ingenious and pared to make a serious move in unscrupulous thief is quick to this direction. Britain has re- adopt. Then it makes a novel and cently abandoned her Free Trade striking suggestion. This is that policy, and one of the consequen-

no person known to the police us ces ls, as Sir Walter Layton points criminal should be allowed to own,

operate or ride in a out, that she is committed to the As his all-too-efficient means of motorcar. method of individual tariff escape the motorcar has become negotiation with foreign countries just na much a part of the offen- within the limits set by the Ottawa der's equipment na the Jemmy and agreements. Sir Walter Layton the torch are that of the safe-boards or similar avenues, for cannot see how any worthwhile

brenker's. Therefore, argues the auch exceptional Observer, the juxtaposition of such rather pertinently the point is cases. And results can be secured on this a person and a motorcar should be taken that it is no greater Hard- basis, whilst he also criticises considered sufficient reason for ship for the law-breaker to use the other aspects of the Government's his arrest. Every driving licence street-car or team than it is for polity as being likely to place should bear a photograph of its millions of his law-abiding fellow. obatacles in the way of any lower- holder and no licence should be citizens. Whatever ing of tariffs. The point which granted to persons with prison re- thought of the practicability of must not be lost sight of ls that bears a Draconian severity, and freshing to note the apparent de- cords. At first blush the proposal | the Observor's proposate, it is re- the idea which gave rise to the the cry will be raised in some termination of Britons to strike at suggested World Economic Con quarters that it might work hard-the evil before it becomes deeply forence was 'n recognition of the ship on the reformed ex-convict rooted, and to permit no procras necessity for constructive inter- or even prevent the malefactor tinating apathy to provall whereby national trade co-operation. The legitimate enterprise.

from entering upon some quite lawlessness may reach the point wide variety of new restrictions on not be impossible, however, to solently, to flaunt its contempt of It should whore it dares, openly and in- imports and the steady rise in the make provision, through parole the rights of society.

may

bo'

"Mr. Gilling thinks these poems are just peachy, but

he wants one he can recite in exactly two and a quarter

minutes."