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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933."

THE ILLUSION

OF HONGKONG

By E. G. B.

Pack up, therefore, your amber precious porcelain, and be off, be and your jade, your fine silks and

fore it is too late, to find the seven wonders of the world.

PROPHETS WHO GO WRONG

He The Very Idea!

OUR SWEEP WIN

· By Edward "I. Q. U." Kally. Possibly you were one of the enormous crowds which have gathered outside the Telegraph office during the past two or three days. »

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If you weren't you've probably been wondering what it was all- about. We don't know how the secret leaked out, but we might as well let the whole world know- now.

The women were wives and most of the men were shroffs. " The pikers heard about the office sweep on the races winning $4,000, The shroffs, came to congratulate us.

countries to set co-operatively along these lines. There need be no fear about the sympathetic. attitude of Great Britain. Ap- parently America is not so sure whether she can rely upon France and Italy. It is believed, however, that if satisfactory messages were received from Paris and Rome, the resolution Hongkong is the most would be accepted. The second charming and beautiful of event is, therefore, very signi- places. ficant. The French Government Think of the views that meet decided on January 17th to ap- the eye from almost any spot on point a Committee to study the searching for, nor is any kind of the Peak-they do not need traffic in arms in all its aspects.expedition necessary- mere lift This is not expressly related to of the head and there lies before The rear compartment of the the American proposals, but it you something that in England would be marked on an A.A, map deluxe sedan is luxuriously does not require much imagins with an. asterisk signifying roomy and richly appointed.. Totion to relate them. It is now "view", and would be thought Of the numerous seers who, in provide additional comfort, to be hoped that, in harmony worth a day's motoring to get to. harrowing but usually ambiguous Marshall-type spring cushions with each other, the chief manu-and hours spent in the warm sea only Frau Lisbeth Seidler, who Our share of the 4,000 came to Think of launch picnits, of hours ferme, foretold the World. Var, We were tremendously lucky. facturing and trading countries until, equally at home on land or has just died in Berlin, achieved $12.50. System is what did it will concoct a working plan, ac- in the water, you acquire the non-the crowning virtue of prophets, There are several well known ceptable to all, for the interna-chalant attitude of the mermaid, accuracy.

systems for backing winners” at ́ tional control of the traffic in ism of the syren. Think of long General von Moltke's house in sweeps,

and possibly some of the magnet- For at a seance in 1889 in the races or for buying cash Out of the generosity of arms and that this will form explorations into mountains and Potsdam she prophesied the out-our heart we are going to let you part of the general Convention over the passes in cold sunny break of war to the day and in on them. to be expected from the Disar-weather, and (this may have a month. Even the French chiro-

more limited appeal) think of the mancer Mme. Deux-Thebes, who We know one man who used a mament Conference.

same in the hot-house months of subsequently foresaw that the system, which, if he had used Spring, when the most suitable French favourite Epinard would three numbers higher, would have clothing is a bathing-dress, and be beaten by a neck in the Cam- landed him $250,000 the winn- you can dip in and out of all the bridgeshire of 1923, and oblig- ing number had been 100 lower. fan-sized pools and waterfalls ingly warned her racing friends, You must have heard about the that come your way. Think of the only got the year right. Still, her two local police officers who used There is not so small a population within twelve months social delights of Hongkong. prophecy at the end of 1913 that a system which gave them a prize that Society takes on the family would be plunged into war, but system is simplicity itself.

France in nearly every sweep. Their aspect and you rub shoulders all that victory would be hers, was First of all, it is necessary to day long with the one person that distinctly on the spot.

join the police force, and arrest a seriously annoys you, nor is it so.

are used.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

Stubbs Hood

The

Happy Valley

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.-

THE TRAFFIC IN „

ARMS

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BEWARE!..

go,

And accidents all the world

with woe."

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National Leadership

The reduction in the Conser vative majority in the Exchange division of Liverpool by-election by 10,000 votes in a constituency of 50,000 lends significance to the constantly recurring reports in some sections of the British large that you need ever make the phet; you can only disbelieve him. ber of his car is divided by the You cannot argue with a pro-motorist for speeding. The num- press that reorganisation of the fatal mistake of not knowing A sound rule, for the normal fate m.p.h.. at which it was speeding. National Government is im- who's who, or commit the awful of prophecies is to go wrong. Yet and the result is multiplied by the minent, and that there is ♫ error of according to one person

Yeovil, Somerset, remembered The amount you will collect by possibility of the retirement of that proportion of intimacy and in 1879 many of the inhabitants of five. In view of the movement on both Mr. Ramsay MacDonald friendliness strictly due only to foot for the imposition of an and Mr. Stanley Baldwin. Such another. Herein lies a sense of that according to the soothsaying using this system depends on of Mother Shipton their town whether you are married or not. sweet accurity peculiar to other embargo on arms consigned to allegations are discounted in all places besides Hongkong, and yet was due to be destroyed by earth- Personally, after witnessing the quake in that year, and were disgraceful scramble by the wives the Far East, it is pertinent to responsible political quarters, rare enough in these moving seriously perturbed. To Mother of our fellow-journalists, we are recall two recent events, one in but their persistence has given threatening times to entice you Shipton, a legendary Tudor witch, grateful that we are single. You U.S.A. and the other in France, them prominence. The Daily into seriously considering remain who is said to have foretold the can dodge a shroff.

death of Cardinal Wolsey, is at- That's why all we single men which relate to the traffic in Express, after a long campaign ing in the Colony for good.

of criticism of Mr. MacDonald,

ributed one prediction which, if in this office are happy. The only arms and which have an obvious has now come out with an un- connexion with each other. Or compromising demand for his

Do no such thing. Leave be- authentic, is a gem of accuracy: man who didn't collect on the sweep wun Pete. He wouldn't "Carriages without horses shall come in because he thought ... 2 January 11th, the Foreign Re-resignation, on the ground of fore the place tires you with its sameness, before you are con-

sweep was the thing you cleaned lations Committee of the Amer- the weakness of the Prime scious that everything around

chimneys with. ican Senate decided to take no Minister's protectionist policy you gives the impression of "stay-

By the way, speaking of wives, in the interests of the farmers. ing put." Leave before the har-

do you know that a chemical action on the request made by This is not taken very seriously boar appears to you to have solidi But the seers seldom concern treatment has been developed by President Hoover that the Arms even by Conservatives. Mem-fied into an immense skating rink themselves with details. Though the United States Department of that keeps oysters Traffic Convention, which thebers of this party generally re- with the ice scratched where ships a Bishop of Cambrai has recently Commerce League of Nations had adopted cognise that the tariff's intro- have tried to cut figures, and been credited with having pre-fresh longer than normally and in 1925, should be ratified. duced in response to pressure needing to be swept where ferrys dicted the French Revolution 400 makes them easier to open by

ply to and fro. For Hongkong is years before it occurred, and a weakening their 'muscles? This taken by itself is some."

they have themselves put upon really only a very pretty miniat German seer confidently declar- the National Government, have

ure, set along with its attendanted a year or two ago that on a what of a blow, as during the to prove their merits in practice island satellites, in the frame of a certain day in May England would discussions of the special Com- before any attempt would be silver glittering sea, and just as dignppear beneath the waves, "pro- The only time we were ever ill. mittee of the Disarmament possible to extend their scope you would get tired of seeing your phets as a rule stick to the path in bed-for any length of time was Conference last autumn, the at all considerably. The Con- great-aunt Mary, in an Empire of broad generalities.

during the war, and one of the The prophete are always with nurses gave us an incendiary American delegate had given servatives, who constitute the bodice and ringlets, for ever on

famous out hopes that the delay in main phalanx of the Govern- the mantelpiece, so you will tire of

so convinced of seeing for ever the changeless ex-s, and they have always been volume written by a

lively. Pepye records "great political economist which made. pression of this small dainty Talk among people how some of us laugh 50 much that we this particular ratification would ment, are

Mr. MacDonald's usefulness

place, now be remedied. The League that it, is believed Mr. Baldwin Not that making it any larger the Fanatiques de say that the burst all our stitches. of Nations is committed by would himself resign if any would help. That would be to end of the world is at hand, and Article 8 of its Covenant to cabal to oust the Prime Minister take away its character and its that next Tuesday is to be the who won thirty cents from as at beauty and romance, for beauty day." That Tuesday passed, and contract the other night, and who prevent the evil effects attend- would prove successful.

and romance are what Hongkong a great many other Tuesdays was therefore inclined to be con- ant upon "the manufacture by

will always signify to the new-since; but, undaunted by non-fidential, told us that nowadays private enterprise of munitions Finger-Nail "Moons" comer, and to all who have the fulfilment, the scers have con- medicine is practically of no use. and implements of war.". One

wisdom to depart while the spell tinued to foretell the final cata- of the means which it adopted

Are the finger-nails an index is still upon them and before theclysm.

magic has begun to fade. Making Thousands believed in Baxter, a patient should read. He said be for this purpose was the Arms to the state of a person's health? it larger would also mean banish-as thousands have believed in would now spend half an hour at

The theory has been put for ing that cosy comprehension of its every

prophet of Traffic Convention mentioned ward from time of time through charms which lulls most minda calamity. Old Moure, the most ture of 104deg. to 102deg. Next above, for its main effect would the centuries, but recently the into a state of sweet content, but liberal of all seers in his predie- be the prevention of the sale of Paris journal Je sais tout has sounds to others the first warning tions of disaster, has parallels in

self-styled

arms to anyone but Govern. published the result of a sys- of the approaching fatal reefs of every country. ments. Although this was

tematic investigation by Doc- Lotus land. League Convention, the Amer- tors Zoeller, Noyer, and Boide, ican delegate, who had had in whose examinations embraced fully twelve hundred individuals, deed, an important, hand in either ill, convalescent, or heal- shaping its terms, signed it on thy. Healthy subjects, care- behalf of his Government. Pre- fully selected and endowed with sident Coolidge, however, with vitality, have as a rule from all his authority was unable to eight to ten crescent shaped persuade Congress to ratify, whitish 'little moons' at the base, with the result that the Conven- of their fingernails-one cach on the majority of the nails. tion has never come into force. Individuals succumbing to an It is undoubtedly disappointing infectious malady have the that even now Senatorial opin whitish crescents at the base of ion is too divided for the desir the thumb-nails only. Often ed ratification to be effected, such individuals have no 'moons' At the same time, the need of at all on even the thumb-nail. some co-operative action is felt An individual suffering from an infectious disease may during and Mr. Borah therefore, on convalescence "find that these behalf of the Foreign Relations little 'moons' reappear at the Committee, introduced a reso-base of the finger-nails, and ex- lution in the Senate empowering pand and increase in number. the President, whenever he finds Among individuals usually en- that in any part of the world joying good health, these little 'moons' at the base of the finger such conditions exist, that the nails vary according to the rise export of arms from the pro- or fall of the vitality. Season- ducing countries may encourageal variations occur; the little the employment of force in an crescents increase in size during international dispute,act the spring and show a tendency ing in co-operation with other to decrease in the autumn. It may indeed happen that a per- Governments taking similar

Bon with ten little "moons--one action, to prohibit export from on each nail-will succumb to the U.S.A. Whether this re- an infectious, malady, Never- solution will be finally passed theless, people usually in good is still uncertain, as consider- health who lose their finger- as to all crescents might find it well able doubt is expressed

'to look into the cause of such the willingness of certain other

a variation.

D. W.

"Mrs. Broome is here, now. You know Mrs. Broome--the

woman who suffers so from corns!"

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MODERN MEDICINE.

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Which reminds us that a doctor

The only thing. he wanted was

to be able to prescribe what books

half a guinea reducing a tempera-

day he would find that the patient had felt well enough to read a thriller by Edgar Wallace, and now the mercury was "trying to push the end out of the thermome- ter.

We don't know exactly what complaint we are suffering from, but only a course of Rudyard Kipling will cure it and make us feel patriotic once more.

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BACK TO EARTH.

We broke two records last week, And when our family turn their backs we are going to get a ham- mer and break a couple more.

Once upon a time there were two sorts of gramophone record. music and vocal.You could take your choice, and you backed a win- ner every time. Nebody ever got up and moaned a husky sob song. in the middle of an orchestral piece, but now you never know what is going to happen next...

It infuriates us because some of the latest rhythms are really

conjure seductive. They

up visions of warm tropical nights beneath a sensuous moon, the air- full of the scent of rare flowers, with the faint tinkle of the guitars in the distance combining to make you think of languorous dark eyes and red lips made for love.

Then, half-way through, your dream is shattered when" zame-... body with a voice like a newborn lamb with a Bad cold breaks in and wails something like, "Lady, blue, am blue for you, will you too, for me go blue?"

But perhaps they put the vocal refrain in as a corrective. Many a time we might have said some- thing we should be sorry for to the girl In our arms, if the croon- ing tenar hadn't brought us back to earth,

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