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TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

THE GOAL OF YESTERDAY WILL DE THE STARTING-POINT OF TO-MORROW. -Curlyle,

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Talking among prisoners is to be The Democrats certainly put it parmitted in Victoria Gaol. It'li oover Hooverl be in long or short sentonces according to the length of their

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New Definition:-A diplomat la a porson who gets what he wants by making it appear that there's nothing he desires less.

Some husbands get more kicks out of bridge when they alt opposite their wives,

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It might, however, be held that Chinese the prosent, slunce of atatesmen towards the outaldo world, and their comparatively mlid pronouncements on current developments, are due to a well- considered polley. It might be said that, having placed their casó before the League, they are detor- Mr. 1. K. Holmes, C.B.E., rosumed 'stoy. mined to leave it to the League to duty as Crown Solleitor, on the 3rd issue, that they have been waiting for the Lytton Report, and that It is notified that the name med interest! now it is published they will await Limited, has been struck off the the discussion upon it, knowing Register.

Blue is now becoming popular that it is sufficiently favourable

In the bankruptcy of A. Kwai and thing, it matches the pedestrians" as a colour for motor ars. One Six-cylinder valve-in-head truck towards China for them to gain Co. of 18-19, Connaught Road

language.

One thing about the pickpocket, *engine.

most by leaving it to make its own Central, a fourth and final dividond

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he believes in having a hand in Heavy duty four-speed transmis

declared. sion with six-bolt Standard impression. We do not know how of $11 per cent, is intended to be

According to a contemporary, everything. Mr. Roosevelt has led the forces of

DO S.A.E. power take-off opening. far this may be the case. Certain i

A bankruptcy notification states the Republican party to its first A Kowloon lady complains that.. Powerful internal expanding by the strictures which the Kuo-

mintang Insists on making upon that a first and final dividend of 40.50 presidential victory in more than her husband often swears at her. weatherproof brakes.

per cent has been declared in the a decade. We had hazy idea and bangs on tho plano, Words -Extra heavy truck frame: the Report, and the attitude of the casɔ of Wat Chin-yu, of 288. Queen's that the Democrats won.

and Music! Road West, 213 9/16" long, 7" deep and South-Western Council need not

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be taken too seriously at the mo-

"There's a great deal of enjoy- ment, and have not yet found a Mesars, Cecil B. Lyon and J. Emest advertisement. If you do you'll ment to be got out of a garden," enthusiast. And very real echo in government circles. Back to act as Vice-Consuls for tus probably be charged with counter-pays an

United States of America In Hong- We cannot, in spite of the policy kong has received Ilis Majesty's feiting. to the frame.

of silence in this respect, rid our ignature. Dual rear wheels standard: 30 x 5, selves of the conviction that some- 6-ply truck-type tires. thing le lacking, at any rate from Optional single rear tires are

the Western point of view. In the 32 x 6, 10-ply heavy duty at

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"Make money at home," says an

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often none in it.

A ghost in the form of an im- Some men are very critical of It is notified for general information maculately dressed young man is their wives' dressca. On the other that is lionour the Chief Justice has said to haunt an old English hand, they usually make allow ordered that the next Criminal Stasions shall be held on Monday, mansion. A dapperition? 21st November, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.

A con-

As wo have said, however, this silence is much more marked as regards pronouncements to the nation. Should we not naturally expect some ringing call to the people in this crists of its history,, Vaughan-Fowler. ja call either to patience until the

matter is thrashed out at Geneva, pointments of Probationer Clerks in

A qualifying examination for ap-jown father! -

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Queen's College Hall on Monday, lith. "The Ferfect resistance to aggression? Instead January, 1933, at 9.00 a.m. when all Secretary

will be examined of that we have the practical dis- candidates

English dictation, and on Thursday, Talka," says solution of the Government. Some 12th January, 1933, when only those headline. lenders function in Loyang, some who have passed in dictation will ha doesn't.

examined in arithmetic, composition, are scattered abroad, while the general knowledge, translation from

English to Chinese and from Chinese | Chief Executive is on what seems

to English Intending candidates singularly aimless tour of must forward to the Assistant

Secretary Colonial

on or before on Hunan, and to the bewilderment of Thursday, 20th December, a copy of position of the those who remember that he la a certificate as to character and educa- Interport team. tion from the Beadmaster of their Howe Strange! faith,

Jast school together with one mounted photograph on the back of which should be written their name, address and date of birth.

That picture. the Amongst

who which passengers arrived by the Empress of Russia this į temporary morning were Mr. and Mrs. T. E published a few Pearce and their

non, Sir

Elly Stone, Mr. F. A. Cux, and Mr. R. the Kadoorie, Mr. L. Kadooric, Mr. E days ago makes Governor- General of the Philippines his

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Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Rozario tender convert to the Christian

their hartfelt thanks to relatives 'sacrifices to the spirit of the And friends for their kind

ex Southern Mountain. pressions of sympathy in their reccnt bereavement also for floral

tributes sent and attendance at the funeral,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1932.

THE SILENCE OF

CHINA'S STATESMEN

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In all this strange restraint and reticence where, to the Western mind, action and, ringing words are called for, we seem to detect something characteristic of the essential Chinese culture. .The |lamentable division which makes it necessary may be a sign of weakness. But does not the very division at the moment spring from a profound Rense in those

best able to judge, and especially in the mind of the Chief Execu- tive, of the impotence of China at Perhaps the most significant the present time? And is not the feature of Chinese politles at the resultant silence in that .ense moment in the absence of anjreally a sign of deep reserves of authoritative voice in the nation. strength? Are not the lenders of Even as regards the outside world China suppressing their expression the Chines0

Government has no of opinion, and withholding their outstanding spokesman and this call to the people, in a proud de- is still more the case within the termination to await the moment, country. China has known how be it soon or long delayed, when to address the nations, whether they will be ablo to net an well from Geneva in recent years, or na speak? Are they not calling earlier at the Conference of Ver upon their rich cultural reserves salles or at that of Washington. of strength? In those days the pronouncements

From the time when Confucius of, in particular, Dr. C. T. Wang,

met the cynical recluses who Dr. W. W. Yen, Dr. Alfred Sze and

having found no opening for their others carried weight in spite of

abilities had retired from the the divided state of the countryworld of affairs, there has been a which they represented. It was recognised both within China and deep-seated tradition of bowing for the time being to the inevitable,

without that whatever might be

We have

its factions within it spoke as with reserving protest and action until onc voice without. Even Mr.they can be effective. Eugene Chen had his day, when "een this attitude markedly in the nation during the successive agita- the thunder of his challenge to the might of Britain concealed the tions carried through by the Kuo- Opposition is rarely deepening rift in his own ranks, mintang.

vocal. But there has remained a

the signal insecurity of his own position, and the colossal bluff deep-seated resentment of many phases of the movement, accom- which he was practising. Ils name went down to history in the panied by the flexible bowing to Chen-O'Malley Agreement for the the momentarily inevitable and a handing over of the Hankow Con- large capacity for mute resistance 'cession. It was. Indeed the same to change and for a waiting the Mr. Eugene Chen who himself swing of the pendulum which must amashed the unity of China's front come. The Western observer finds towards the world when he under the attitude unherole. But it has took to run a rival foreign policy strength of its own, and when the to that of Nanking for the recalcl. moment strikes the suppressed forces surge upwards with oxtra- trant Canton Government: last

ordinary strength and poraistence. your. Since then, and particularly Exasperation at the ineptitude of since the student attack upon Dr colleagues within the nation, a C. T. Wang, China has had no ronse of impotenes us regards voice within the country to speak dimculties without, impose allenco with authority and her able repre- In headquarters. It is not impos- sentatives abroad have found their sible. however, that in that aflenco constructive forces are nt work, words less and less. of waight in

and will becoms manifest when the counsels of the nations.

'the moment arrives..

SUGAR MARKET

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

un-

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She

O D Football czi- tics don't agree the com-

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ances for them.

"Why, Donald, it must bo nearly ten years since I laat met yc."

"Aue, Sandy, 'tis a mighty long time. Wo-must celebrate." "Aye, let's. But we'll re- member, Donald, i paid the last time."

A Birmingham firm offers

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"People who constantly singing are rarely ill," wa read. Sup pose ther o'e a limit to what - oven germs can stand.

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An American drinking dan is said to bo haunted. A kind of spookeasy!

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Why doesn't ZOW get some

of our auction-

cera to broad-

cast bid-time

stories?

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It has been atated at Home that

prize for the best slogan advertia- the dryer and holter air of lost

Ing A now mouse-trap. What summer considerably enhanced about “Make It Snappy!"

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we

The following unble at the close customer and a carlo dealer, of the sugar market yesterday has should say that gentlemen prefer been received by Messrs. Pen-bronze! treath and Co.

the quality of hay crops. Un' fortunately hay la not a stable Industry in Hongkong, otherwise the Legislative Council Chamber would make an ideal storage place.

Experiments are being made with roads of glass. Should make motorists stop and reflect.

London Terminals,

The Prize Error:-Report of a wedding

old ceremony: "The March 1933 6/11⁄4% 6/2 ̧ho change. May 1933 6/3 6/4 no change. face worn by the bride was the necessary for children to eat so

gift of her grandmother! August.1933: 6/6.6/7 no

change.

December 1933 6/9 6/9% no change.

Buyers at above prices, sellers asking 1⁄4d-d. more.

Now, York Terminals. December 1932 1.07 1.07 up 3

pts.

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"Why do some people consider it much when they are travelling?" asks a writer in a London news paper. Probably because they are

Listening to recent naval solutes gave birth to the thought that the hungry. blg guna in our local offices aro the least likely to be fired.

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Leopard skins are said to be, very popular this year. Esporial- ly amongst the leopards.

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Long artificial ayclashes, are decidedly popular, according to a writer of beauty hints. We think the idea a blinking silly one!

March 1933 1.00 .98 up 4 pts. May 1933 1.00 1.03 up 4 pts. July 1938 1.09 1.07 up 3 pts.

The same authority asserts that Cuban 96 Spot N.Y.1.10 1.10 no

the slimming craze has finished. The trouble about putting one's Suppose girla are now in-for a change.

New York (10/11/02).—Market shoulder to the wheel these days is swell time! advanced on report of damage to that it is somewhat difcult to find Cuban Sugar Crop from hurricane. the wheel!

"If you can smoka expon i've cigars, why can't I have a

now coat?"

We'll soon be on the Cold standard in Hongkong.

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*Ve couldn't help overhearing the prize paradox on the Peak

tram the other evening. A bald-

headed gentleman referred to a

local air film as "positivaly hair. raising!"

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The main cause of noises on the

Tadlo are faulty batteries, punctur-

ed condensors, loose connexions,

and screeching sopranos..

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Soviet political circles are ex-

poctant following the American élections. So-be-it.

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will

The anti-Prohibitionists introduce a Bill at the Decembor Congressional mooting to permit the sale of beer for Christmas. That's the Yulotide spirit they talk about.

The difference between a Scote- man and a cocoanut is. that you can get a drink out of a cocoanut.

Major-General Sandlands hás left for Shanghal on a tour of Inspection. The G-O., Sco?

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Edward Kelly to the mannost man on earth. He hasn't, given his wife a single thing to argue about for the last ten years.

A proft has honour. In any country these days!