1933-02-11 — Page 8

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THE NEW SLAZENGER

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPİL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1933.

promise of a now British Indus- THE SOCIAL EVIL: IV try, with tremendous polenuail-

VAUXHALL tics, whilst at the same time the

IS TAKING A RISE

THIS YEAR

STRAIGHT UP THE

SKY SEEMS TO BE THE LIMIT.

£500,000 is now being spent at Luton in buildings and new equipment to speed up deliveries because production an some models is now lagging 4 months behind delivery requirements. THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The Manetone & Shanghai Hotels, Lad Incorporated tu Hongkong. Blabbe Road

Happy Valley

BIRTH.

MCRAE At the French Hospital, on

wife of Lionel McRae, (Peter).

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problem of securing oil up- plies for the Navy close at hand would appear to be immensely simplified.

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VICE ORGANISATION.

BULLS AND INNERS-

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MR. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW arrived hero anfely this morning Also the empress of britain,

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Just as it is necessary

some-ed them all is that asociated with In human times to reverse the garment and this Immoral traffic

souls naslated in Inrge measure by Lahow the ugly patches concealed the use of these chaans as maisons

under a glittering exterior, so it de rendez-vous. The investigator, that, following the Castio Peak There is no truth in the rumour has been incumbent on the writer he can introduce himself into a howitzer protest, a similar com--

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Gold Standard. The Prime Minister has had of the expose of local Vice to ex-chuan without his motive being plaint has been registered con- to deny the inference drawn plore the hidden recessos, report ceracu, on those nights when

incoming river steamers have cerning the lack of oightoon from the statements of Sir faithfully their ugly realities, and swelled the custom, will observe pounders at the Kowloon Roser-

R039. Frederick Leith

the so to convoy the completo plcture much that will shock him. The voir! Government's Economic Ad-without which there can be no full least that can be said for the con- visor, that Britain is contemplat-appreciation of the subject. With ditions of those places Is that the

We suppose it's blind fate which ing an early return to the gold the same iden also, he has more atmosphere to not such as is has caused the new Contral Brit-

residence.sh School to Ione ita site! standard. The denial is not than once alluded to a "system" suitable for family surprising in view of the fairly and" "organization" of Vice, dire governing the conduct of these Plainly, the strict regulations

O ต obvious fact that Britain's re-accusations in themselves, not establishments arc being con- Looks as if those turn to gold will become Mr. made without careful regard to travened in the absence of a closer mutineers are in Dutch. Ramasy MacDonald's chief facts such as he has been brought | official surveillance.

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The Local Law

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Malay

On to-day's picture page, Dr. ..

war debts take place. The those Government functionaries We have in this Colony an Alekhine is to be seen sandwiched British Government suspend- within whose official routine of Ordinance for the Protection of between two Knights. We under- ed payments in gold entire work the matter is, brought, day Women and Girls the provisions stand that this is one of the rare of which anticipate the special ocqnolone when a Rook is unlike- ly against its will, and only after by day.

local needs and pretty well covery. the activities of the trafficker and procuror, although not too strang clauses. This

exhausting all avaliable sources

* Evidences

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0 of borrowing to enable it to re- main upon this currency stand- Of this organization, which is in its penalty

Hongkong has a batch of all- ard. But so considerable has the most remarkable feature of the Ordinance would have served not be confused with those who bathers. Those the-year-round been the relief Britain's hard-whole nightmarish business, there purpose If generally understood.

other spend their lives trying to koop pressed industries have since have boen other evidences than But unfortunately, ka experienced from the resultant ceeding article. To recapitulate. Chinese better safeguards

those already detailed in pro-British laws designed to give in the social swim.

O D cessation of deflation, that the Firstly, there is the system which protection than accorded by their question of return to gold has has made of the tariffs (the writer own national legislature it to not

Welcome to our Shaws, G. B. 8.1 now become an open one. The can think of no apter term) underatood, with the result that

D Government's professed inten-graded one to Accord with the abuses are perpetuated through

The burglars who visited the tion is to raise commodity prices, ellentele and, to avoid competi-sheer Ignorance and the subject Tabaqueria Filipina ignored the and the London Chamber of tion.

who, under certain conditions,

cases of pipes on show. Appar should benefit from the enact-

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Commerce has expressed the Secondly, there is the division | opinion that this can only be of earnings between the girls and ments, continues in a life of un-ently they did not bother about a

done by increasing rather than the mistresses conferring, in the necessary misery. The position root in the loot!

is analogous to that of the dull- a third to the girl's diminishing the volume of cur- result,

Noah Wo do not agree employer, a third to the keeper ofwtted mui-tant who has been rency in circulation. Although the aly," and a third to the girl. given her freedom in the Colony the new vehicular ferrios resemble therefore return to gold-pre-(Actually the nett earnings of the but does not claim or know she ferably at some lowered parity-iris

are subjected to further can claim it.

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G.B.S. le here. But Kowloon

still has to wait for its C.B.S. 0

is still looked fobyard to gener- variations according to terms of The disocntlont to this opinion ally as an ultimate ideal, there upkeep, "squeeze" by self styled may think to intercede at this has grown up

considerable protectors who are no more than juncture to point out that it is ono body of influential commercial balles, advances that may have thing to speak glibly of freedom

A Kowloon married man says a son opinion which would prefer to been made, or pre-arranged con- and another to find the sweetness

ditions of employment).

In which it must be clothed if it he enjoys his Sunday morning postpone such a step indefinitely. Such high British economic au- Thirdly. There is evidence also to be enjoyed. The kindly.

during the week. Yes, it's thoritica as the Midland Bank in the distinction, one carefully helping hand is needed, and the sleep more than anything oise and Sir Basil. Blackett have preserved, by which those practis- claims of the woman involved may great life if you don't waken!

ing in aly brothels are kept u

exert a severer test than the com-

Thongkong Telegraph pointed out that sterling, undor class apart from the equally large paratively simple problem of the

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1933.

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lose the Fourtn Test.

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Most Hongkong Australians are the system that has now been number visiting native hotels and "ui-teai.

abound more than a year in operation, boarding-houses which

We have one institution here in willing to wager that the M.C.C. has maintained far closer stabili on the waterfront and within the Hongkong, our Po Leung Kuk, a will ty in terms of commodities Chinese business quarter of the benevolent institution which has O'Reilly? than has been the case with gold. City. The Colony is graded into proved itself most useful in many

three quite distinct classes: the ways, It has oven been argued that aristocratie anex as represantar is now by the so-called chanteuses of West Britain's wisest course

them.

Use of Silver...

The Boarding Houses

The "Po Leung Kak.” The functions of the Po Leung

native nomenclature implies. It Kuk are as comprehensive as its gives the helping hend to the poor

As a result of reports of firing recently on the Castic Peak road. wo understand that H.KV.D.C. recruiting has improved.

A card table which shuffles and

The idea, however, is child waffs and strays. Anguish- London. and needy; it provides a home for deals the carda la on exhibition in

"il concubines have been known to not new, The Government has

find in it the peace and surcease been doing this with ile Cadets for denied by an age-old custom of years past.

wives and rights.

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A sign of a hard winter: real Scottish bagpipes have been intro- duced into Tibet.

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Down in Australia they say that when listening to the broadcasts of the Test matches it's dificult to tell a howling valve from batsmen who has been hitt

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OIL FROM COAL. The fact that the British Admiralty has placed an order to inflate further with a view to Point, and the girls placed at the for a year's supply of oil made atimulating exports at the ex-other end in the "alys" who may from coal, the first of its kind pense of imports, so as to cause not aspire to the intermediate in naval history, is sufficient an Inflow of currency sufficient custom of the boarding-houses.

The problem hns strance to indicate that synthetic pro- in dimensions to remove Brit- duction of this very essential ain's war-debt payments from aspects, and not the least is this commodity has now become a

the category of the impossible division of interests. practical proposition. It has, which is where such authorities of course, been known for many as Sir Walter Layton now place

The boarding houses (or chaans plurality of years that oil can be produced

as they are called in the verna-Mui-tsai recently liberated from from coal, but hitherto the

cular) complicato the general pro- the domestic yoke have found view has prevailed that so long

blem, and to investigate their security in this home. relationship to the general ques- Over

ver the manifold activities of as crude petroleum oil remain- |ed cheap and plentiful, it would

Mr. Herbert M. Bratter, whose tion is to take cognizance of an this excellent institution preside a

in the allogether

body of elders, who not only are be difficuit for the synthetic researches on the subject have other issue

bewildering structure.

generous, in the giving of money article to compete. The price taken him to the front rank of

As a port of transition, the but also in practical assistance by on silver, itemises factor has been the main point authorities

moeting place of many national't- which these girls are restored to The position in life. new ies, we have resigned ourselves a involved, but the exhaustive ex-recent legislation on silver in periments carried out by the brochure published by the Uni- more or less to the position of this nature of its fanctions has placed Admiralty would appear to de- ted States Department of Com- Colony being used as the dumping the institution in close relation- worst elements ship with the Secretary of Chineze

This slimming craze can't be cide this issue, since it is re-merce. The record is astonish-ground for the

France, diffused. We have our. Oplum Affairs. Indeed, without hia Po ported that oil can be produced ing. Canada, Cuba,

within recent Leung Kuk, the Secretary would taking on in Kowloon. The Star from coal, as a bye-product, at Germany, Honduras, Manchuria, Evil. We have, prices comparable with first- Mexico, Peru, Rumania, Tur-years, also our Communist Evil. have been often at loss as to what Ferry gangways are to be widen- class bunker petroleum oil, and, key. Yugo-Slavin, Spain-all But the Evil which has transcend-to do with his erring "children". ed. what is more, give an increased these countries have taken steps cruising radius to veseats using within the last eighteen months it. Some five or six years ago, calling for the use of more sil- the Royal Dutch Company, inver for supplementary coinage. a "progress report," submitted Governments that are too free that the ever-increasing pro- und too irresponsible in their use duction of crude oil guaranteed of the printing press are apt to that, even in the distant future, find their constituents demand- it would still be possible to pro-ing hard cash, which has at least duce cheap oll, whilst the manu- some intrinsic value, instead of facture of natural benzine wag paper money, which has none. Other, more stable, countries only a question of comparatively have leaned on silver to eke out simple distillation. These two

deficiency of gold. Germany factors, it was contended, would keep prices low. A further is the leading example in the point made was that oil obtained Intter category. On April 14 of last year, its Federal Council from coal would have to em-

new

body both the cost of producing approved the minting of total

silver coins, bringing the the coal and the considerably higher cost incurred in the com-silver circulation up to 120,000,- 000 marks. The announcement plicated processes of conversion. This latter argument, however, was followed by orders encourag- is answered by the fact that ing the use of silver in paying the oil obtained from coal is only government salaries and in- one of the many products of structing the railroads to use appropriate carbonisation, each silver coins in all their small one of which bears its share of payments. Yet, in spite of the cost of production. In the these striking changes in money ex usages, the price of silver is case of the British naval periments, now concluded, the still low. The inference is that price factor has been kept with- the white metal is tied up in a in reasonable limits simply be hundred different ways with the cause the oil is a bye-product fortunes of other commodities. If in the production of smokeless producera would devote half the fuel. The success of these ex-effort now spent in trying to get favoured treatment for their periments must be beyond ques-specialities to a concerted drive tion when the. Admiralty con- tracts for a year's supply of the for the reduction of the barriers... new fuel. What la of marked im- and barbed wire fences new portance also is the fact that we obstructing world trade, they have in this development the would see an upturn that would

be beneficial to all.

"Why don't you tell the wafter about this being our anniver

Bary, just to watch his reaction?"

There's to be an all-feminine cast in the next A. D. C. show. Maybe this is to make sure that the almost continuous dialogue is exploited to its full limits.

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Acting upon the injunction to drive "Dead Slow" down the path- from the Peak to Pokulam Re- servoir, a motorist who attempted

to make the descent, no longer be

loves in signs-in fact, he quickly

roversed his opinion.

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"They don't seem to he very early riners hore," romarked on obvious of arrival by the "Empress

morning, Wo'll Britain" this wager that the same lady Isn't, either, when the ship is at sea.

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Gazing down from the Peak on wonderful vista of fleery ploud the other morning, a taipan said It made him feel like an angol. The only trouble was that when ho boarded the tram the rest of the passengers were suppoard to bo merely hark-angels1.

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A locul tennis enthusiast wants to know what "seeded" players are. For all wo know they may be qualifying for appendicitis!

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The present series In Australia

sooms to be the critic tonta.

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It is rather a strango fact that

the world's celebrities are · fro- quently at sea gi