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COLD, DAMP, AND CHANGEABLE

WEATHER

bring to mind stops that may be taken to protect the fragile and susceptible.

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MALT EXTRACT

with

COD/LIVER OIL

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PRICE:-1 1b. Bottle $1.80

2 lb. Bottle $3.00

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY.

LTD.

We offer you the finest selection of Radio

Sets and combination Radio-Gramophones in

the Colony, including RCA-Victor-Federal -and Symphony All-Wave Receivers.

Any sot you wish demonstrated in your own

home without obligation to purchase-full

servico after sale.

Complete and satisfactory installation to meet Government requirements.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

York Building.

Chater Road.

(Business hours 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.)

HERE

is the new

"AKCO" PATENT

DRESS

VEST.

Truly, you have not known real dress wear comfort until you have worn one of these smartly cut vests. It is backless, fitted with an elastic belt which responds easily to each movement and aids the correct set of the vest by preventing it bulging on the chest.

Sizes: 34: to 44.

Dress Vest from $12.50.

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MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS.

THE HONGKONG

CHEVROLET,

(145-7ON 157" WHEELBASE MODELS

11⁄2-TON CHASSIS

(157" Wheelbase)

FEATURES

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932.

| way of preventing further chaos on the money exchanges is post- ponement. Britain decides to pay in gold as the manner like- ly to do the minimum amount of harm. America insists on pay- ment in some form or other no mattor if it does render more difficult the problem of rescuing the world from economic dis- order. The conflict in outlook obviously arises from the res pective positions of debtor and creditor and friendly, as is the United States Note in tone, there is clearly a wide gulf to be bridged.

Six-cylinder valve-in-head truck Invoice Office Rumours

engine.

Heavy duty four-speed transmala-

Special 10" truck type clutch. Four semi-elliptic springs parallel

to the frame.

6-ply- truck-type tires. Optional eingle rear tires are 382 x 6, 10-ply heavy duty at

no

Naming the Baby

Always under the Impression that the naming of the baby was a matter which concerned only the parents and, perhaps, in some in- stances, the grandparents, I was surprised to find that it was also, on occasion, a matter of great con- cern to the minister. For him the sacrament of baptism is not al way the simple ceremony it ap

ponra to be.

Who, for instance, would not gympathise with the South London clergyman who was called upon by a woman with the request tna.

he would christen her daughter.

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts ដ· ក

thia Colony needs is

Speaking mechanically, what Very few people like rainy

moro Belf weather, but, starters and fewer cranks.

oll the DAME, America appears to be in a hurry ☐ ☐

to get "wet."

Lots of turkeys are beginning to feel all goosey.

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O "Books that will stimulate the brain are the best things to give for Christmas," says an advertise- ment. Presents of mind.

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Judging by the activity noticed amongst the younger set of the Restive Season. Colony, it should be called the

Most people come back poorer after leave. MacWhirter now complains that he spent a lot of

Commercial-

There's a lot of flu trouble about time in England. The name given was "Keren- alon with six-bolt Standard Local business men- have, to Happuck," but no he did not quiteJust now, according to the doctors. S.A.E. power take-off opening, say the least, been taken by sur-

catch it the minister asked the wo-Yes, we've noticed plenty of smoky man to repeat it. To him it sound- chimneys.

Wo read, of a well-known firm Powerful internal expanding prise by the report from Canton

ed like "Kappa Kappa," so he asked

who are sending a cocktail-mixing weatherproof brakes.

of the possible abolition of the the woman to speak pialner and, The minimum temperature in export on a tour of the world. Extra heavy truck frame: newly-catablished

Chinese I repeating the words after her, the Hongkong on Wednesday was What a pity his name is not Angus 218 9/16" long, 7" deep and voice Office in Hongkong. This child was duly baptised. After forty-sevon. Dash it all, this is so that we might call him as 2%" flanges,

Offico, as is known, was brought wards, in the veatry, the mother nearly getting as bad па the Angus Tourerf Rugged rear axle equipped with into being in order to fill the gap voiced her surprise that a clergy-Australians.

0 0 inspection plato,

caused by the fact that there is man should be sa ignorant of the

៨. ជ panies of Job's daughters, Koren-. Chinese Consul in this

The picture which is somewhat According to a letter in a con- prominent in "Payment De- Colony. Under the Nanking Go-happuck being, of course, the name

of Job's third daughter.

temporary, Hongkong is probably ferrod," has prompted a sensitive vernment's new regulations,

Sometimes the minister brings loan known by name in England reader to suggest that it would be consular invoices are à neces- trouble upon himself by a too strict than "Jerico." Perhaps the spell- more decorous were raiment pre- Dual rear wheels standard: 80 x 5,sity, and the Hongkong office over-ruling of the parents' wishes, ing has something to do with it. forred!

has been created for the pur- as was the case in the following pose of facilitating the proce

instance. The chosen name was an dure necessitated. Judging from abbreviation, or rather a corruption It has been first impressions, Mr. Wen ap-clined to receive. As the father re just past fifty of "John," which the parson de proved that men pears to have had an admirable idea of the work with which he the matter into his own hands and

fused to change it the minister took are the stead- has been entrusted, and has

named the boy "Johr.” The father shown a marked disposition to work the new system with the minimum of inconvenience to merchants. It is truc, ns was remarked by one of our leading business men the other day, that Hongkong merchants have not been very enthusiastic over the innovation, since there is a na- tural objection to the ever-in. creasing tendency to add to the filling in of forms, but at the same time, they have shown à

no extra cost.

All wheels are interchangeable,

front and rear. Twelve-foot load space back of

cab.

Available in numerous attractive

colours.

PRICE 12-ton Chassis. Delivered Licensed and Duty

Paid H.K. $3,475.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

The Hongkong ♣ Shanghai Hotels, Lid

Incursiotaled in Hongkun Stubbs Rund

The

Happy Valley

Hongkong Telegraph

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932.

A DISAPPOINTING REPLY

to

•

Persia Warned

lent

motor-car I y

the service, demunded to know that time, it is was furious and, in the vestry after drivers. "What do you mean by making my presumed, they boy a liar?" The minister protest-have found it's ed that he had not made the boy a safer to keep liar, but had only given him a rea-only one head pectable name. "I tell you, cried on their should- the father,, "you have made him a ers at a time. liar! When he grows older and goes to school he'll learn his catechia," and they'll nak 'Who gave you that name?' and he will say, "My godfathers and my godmother, And that will be a lie. for it was

you that gave him that name."

Gilfillan, the well-known crític. poet, and divine, made it a nolat net to name the children he baptised: On one occasion he departed from this rule at the earnest entreaty of the parents. After baptising the. child and repeating the relative portion of the service, he paused and sail. "The parents parti- cularly wish the congregation to be informed that they have called the child Peter." The suppressed Litter which this intimation called forth all over the church was not sur prising.

which she had committed herself

Shopping Hint:-Don't wait till it's past time to get the present for the future.

Edna: Jack is so original, He says things to me that no- body else would dream of say ing.

May: What'e la been up to now asking you to marry him?

The silent watches are often kept in pawnshops,

☐ ☐ Even flies play games among themselves, says a scientist. matches, presumably.

Pest

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Auntie Cyclone wonders whether these Irish hospital sweeps do their work autlafactorily.

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Competition amongst makers la as the name she had chosen for her likely to reduce the price of golf child. When the minister ventured balls, we read. This should

on to say that it was n most extra-able Fanling novices to drive ordinary name to give a child, the some bargaine. mother retorted that she had a very good and sufficient reason for giving it that name, as it was the first. and she sincerely hoped it would be the last.

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(A luminous preparation for the hair is now the evening adornment of

many women:)

Poots have raved of woman's

crowning glory

And found therein a never

with

ism seems to have crept even into the African jungle, where a movio camera- man ropert that he couldn't get satisfactory pictures owing to the elephants charging

much:

too

口口 They say the

horso is coming.

back.

ahould

This

moan

more stable em.. ployment.

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At a recent local dance, males outnumbered the fair sex by two to one. Wall Krutal

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Some dentists find collecting their accounts just like pulling teeth.

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One advantage of being a lift operater is that one does expect ups and downs!

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The latest Imperial Airways machines

are equipped with should electric kitchens. This satisfy those people who prefer plane cooking!

Two professional bridge part- nors, we read, have not spoken to ench other for two years, And yet they keep holding hands.

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An

failing theme;

Excessive alimming makes what inspires a more woman look ridiculous, Bay's romantic story

hygienist. Reduces Than silkon tresses lovely as absurdity, in fact.

her to dream? And now the scribe,

reimpassioned rapturo

"What makes the

average May find a new and glamorous cocktail party go?" asks a render.

tale to tell,

Generally an irato neighbour Provided he has words with banging on the wall of the fat

which to capture

next door,

00 "Cut it out," as the tailor said to bls assistant.

The phosphor-easonco of her

latest spell.

willingness to accept the inevi- table and to do their part in [making the cxperiment work- able. So far as Canton is con- cerned, opposition to the system is said to rest on the contention that the new invoice fees result in increasing the price of im- ports. If such an objection really exists, it would be inter- esting to know how far the visit to Canton of an official of the Hongkong office has succeeded in removing any misapprehen- | The time and attention de- sions. The suspicion, however, It was perhaps with the desire voted to Britain's second Note naturally arises whether there to keep ever before her a how to on war debts was not entirely are not political influences at that a woman gave "Alpha Omega wasted. America's Reply is the back of the Canton reports. disappointing in refusing

the In any event, there would seem main objective of Britain's re- to be little ground for the belief presentations, but it does, at that Nanking intends abolishing, lenst, offer some encouragement the Hongkong organisation. to the call for revision. Britain must pay the December instal- ment. amounting roughly G$100,000,000, but it is equally

A young father who had been certain that she will never pay i The Persian Government's sent to the registrar "to do the on the same scale again. While cancellation of the Anglo-Per- redful found, as he neared the President Hoover sometimes sian Oil Company's concession oflee, that he could not recall the employs a strange process of raises the same issue as that on

For ramną twhich find been agreed upon, reasoning to refute arguments which the British Government As he passed through the open advanced by the British Govern- was compelled to take action in "Nosmo" on one, and "King" on the awing doors he saw the word ment, he makes admissions im the Irish Land Annuities dis-other. The words took his fancy. portant enough to establish pute.. It is that agreements They were aristocratic-uncommon justification of the claim for re- solemnly entered into by two they would de nicely. Accord consideration.. "War debts," parties cannot be unilaterally Ingly he registered the child as he says, "have a very definite terminated. Thus for the ac- "Nosmo King,” When he left the relationship to the problem of cond occasion within a short office he found the doors closed, and world recovery," and he is pre- period of time it has become was horrified to find that the legend pared, in cooperation with the necessary for Britain to take a

they bore was "No smoking.” British Government, to survey stand on what should be an ac the entire situation. That Is cepted principle in international something, though it is not dealings. At first sight, it much. If America enters upon might appear difficult to under- the promised discussions with stand what Persia is driving at the firm conviction that her in acting as she has chosen to opinion of the minor influence do. But a little thought will of war debts upon world suggest that, possibly acting economy is the correct one, if under Soviet influence, she has America seriously considers come to the conclusion that the that the barriers she has placed moment is opportune In which against payment in goods and to flout customary usage. Maybe services have not been a potent her reasoning is based on the force in the trade depression, if knowledge of the world criticism it is her considered judgment of Japan in going into Man- that the concentration of the churia allegedly to protect her world's gold in America's vaults interests there, and, proceeding is not a direct result and is not along this line of thought, has a material influence in maintain- imagined that Britain would ing the existing chaos in inter- not, at this juncture, dare to use national trading relations, there force indefence of British is not much prospect of a satis- rights in Perala. In this, she is factory outcome. Britain's only liable to be sadly mistaken. hope is to seize upon the offer to There are casential differences in negotiate and to do her best at the case of Manchuria and tant the round table to illustrate of Persia, the most vital of exactly how among other things, which is that Britain is proceed- maldistribution of the world's ing along constitutional lines by available gold supplies comes referring the matter to the In- about. It is seen at once in ternational Court of Justice, Britain's decision to pay the with a request that an indication December instalment In gold, be given of the provisional.mea- although this will deplete the aures which may be taken to Bank of England's scanty re, defend British interests. serves. President Hoover It would be intolerable wire Go- will be noted acknowledges the vernments permitted to play cogency of the difficulties which ducks and drakes with signed are thereby presented, has ap. agreements. In this instance, parently made several unaccep- Perala obviously has no right to table suggestions for mitigating cancel the concession, and she the transfer disruption and de- may find that she cannot twist clines only to see that the one the llon's tail with impunity.

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"You know, 'Dara, what I really had in mind, when I

left school, was a musical career."!

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We have discovered the only way of ridding this Colony of lantana, and other noxious weeda. All the Government as to do is to protect it under the Wild Flowers' Protection Ordinancé, so that motorists and others can be peranded to tear it up by the rondalde overy time they go for a spin.

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A girl in a post office recently Rorted 15,000 letters in five hours. It is believed that she was expect- ing a proposal by post.

Too many golf players use the woods oven when using the irons. ᄆᄆ

A prominent banker says he would enjoy running a newspaper column for just one day, And what couldn't we do to a bank in half the timef

A German scientist announces that he can measure loop. That's nothing, so can an alarm clock!!

Many a chaperon would rather have her own chapl

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"What can we do to prevent the good old open cont fire' going out?" asks a sentimentalist. Put some more coal on it,

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A designer favours low-backed evening dresses on the theory that backs express personality. Sort of back talki