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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933.

THE

VAUXHALL

SYNCHRO-MESH

FAULTLESS GEAR

CHANGING

NOW

BEING DEMONSTRATED

ÁT OUR SHOWROOMS

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Road.

The

WHENCE THIS

BOLSHEVISM?

By E. L. ALLEN

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BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts

Maybe "Vinjar" could tell us.

how to get some of these sluggards

to office of a morning,

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When the dimoultles there are overcome, and It is p political problem largely-putting an end to civil commotion in the area the eight-day trip from Hong- kong to London will bo within enay sight. But this servico,

There are two Rusalas to-day, one wanted something to worship: which will probably be the first,

at home and the other in exile. Be woro ashamed of our saints and you will only be the first of several. tween the two there la usually no offered us the tractor. So we wor

Shortage of water was given as All things considered, it is extra- great love lost, but in spite of that, shipped that. Bacrifice is in our

one would imagine they understand blood: we heard from you about large the cause for not swilling plg-wash ordinary that China is still one another, better than we sheer scale industry with its mountains of down a drain. This evil is spread- without a regular daily service outsiders can hope to understand el-statistics, so we sacrificed for these. ing. Hitherto It has been con- between Hongkong, Canton and her of them. Hence it is always We think we are doing something now, fined to the greedy pigs in the flat

interesting to know what these Rtus- but we are only making your mistake. below. Shanghai, and the deficiency is slans think of the Soviet who are in We are imagining that a sports club one which we cannot imagine exile because they are not willing to in every village and a communal

live under iL.

kitchen attached to every factory will will wait long before a remedy is

Thore is a review pulfishwd bring the millenium!

WEBut there's a lot to be provided: The well-known-

Ocelinder the title Orient undi

Russian and German sald both for the club and for the K.L.M. Line from Europe to writers collaborate to produce 11, and kitchen, you know.

I. Admittedly. So let Batavia is contemplating spread-a short time ago, two representatives

of the Russia which is in exile set them by all means. But we ing its wings for further fields themselves to answer the question have something to learn. We have to and will probably use large fly. Whence this Bolshevism? What fol- learn that a roligion is worthless

lows is the answer given by Prof. the sight of God which is just n mat- ingboats for a service between Stepun of Dresden. I recast it in the ter of so matry plous exercises, and not concerned to bring about, jus- Batavia and North China, in form of a dialogue between a Western

tice between man and man. And you which Hongkong will play its European and a Russian.

Western European: I don't see have to learn that even when every- part as a principal base. Mr. what you have to complain of, you body has enough to eat and drink, Love's own pet schemes con- know. You have brought this Bol- enough to make him comfortable shovist business on yourselves, and happy, there'll still be something template a service between New What is it if it isn't the direct de- in the riddle of life and death for

acendant of York and Hongkong. We have ce

us have both

sald enough to indicate the know. Ifariam, I should like to which he has no answer, and he will

Hongkong Telegraph. fiance upon the fact that Hong-

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933.

kong is the logical crossing point. We must see that it fulfils all requirements. In the meantime, we may congratulate

Post Office

our

upon

its HONGKONG AS AN adaptability. The new Singapore

AIRPORT.

air service, steamer from Hong- kong, brings the Colony within Having lagged far behind the twelve days of London, the best times in the matter of airport to date. development and preparations for the flying era, Hongkong is now putting in some stronger laissez fairc running. The policy is temporarily in the dia- card and a few years may sec

Work

the rise of aerodrome facilities at Kai Tack which will justify the appellation, the Croydon of the Far East.

on the first stage has already been authorised, providing for a new civil hangar capable of housing the largest commercial planes

at present in service anywhere

in the world and administration

Seeds of Scholarship

you condemn the nianses want to find out whether God has. to o misery and political impotence, sooner or later they will produce leaders who will show them how to take matters into their own hands, and that will not happen without blood being shed in the process.

to

this

Jer-

that

to us in Russia and told us that you

YO YO AND---

A PINCH OF SALT.

By C. V.-L.

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Four hundród traffic summonses are served in a week. What a boon to the poor constables if these could be apread over all the case books!

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So Hongkong is to become the Croydon of the East. Even so, we shall not be able to do with out our Peninsula and Oriental.

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There should be a special re- ward offered to the policeman who

shoots The Hongkong Dog..

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There is, we understand, no

truth in the rumour that a certain local bowler is going to Blas Bay-

for a few hints:

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Robert MacWhirter says he has

no time for flying, anyway. Most

of the younger generation are far

too "ensy come-easy go" as it is.

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Birmingham has produced a

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Cricket, however, different.

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No, Ethel, starting prices are

not premiums paid for haunted

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A writer states that women get

men's wages nowadays. Our im-

pression was that they always did.

白口

"Eavesdropping again”

passage of the years, and old age stealthily but surely creeping on 1ts, we have lost our youth's ego, and to. day are forever casting about for Adam, as his wife fell out of a ways and means of arresting further tree.

D sonite decay,

possibilities. It is clear that if Phone 23124. Hongkong desires to fulfil the air destiny mapped out for her, the authorities must needs look

A USELESS RELIGION ahead a few years. Air fines will use facilities where they Russian: But what about find them and if the Colony is anti-God movement! The whole life of our people has been dominated by not prepared, a good deal of centuries by religion: are we to have UNTIL West P.G-it, we weso

not inclined to take much notice steel ribbon rule which automa- traffic may be diverted. We that taken from us now?

W.E.: Well, but what kind of re- of it, although we had seen it al- tically registers any measurement We up to one hundred yards.. must not place too great a region was it? A mere matter of most everywhere.

Our unexpected conversion happen-understand that a local big game ikon-worship, pilgrimages usalent, and so on! Did not Stephen ed this way. On a recent Wednes piscatorial expert has cabled for Graham say that the religion of Rus- day, shortly after noon, on a No. 1 a couple. sla had nothing to do with life, but bus from the Varsity, wo were mor- was simply and solely a preparation rily bowling down Pokfulam Road for death? The common people dragon our way back to the city.

As we reached the lower end, op- ged out their life in ignorance ard poverty under the very shadow of posite the old No. 7 Police Station, Açen a turbanned policeman your churches, and it never occurred to you that what went on inside them standing at the junction.

We will concedo there is nothing ought to have had something to say about the suffering outalde, ought to remarkable about a policeman stand-

A writer in a magazine asks: have made some effort to bring a de-ing at a street function, much less cent human life to those folk. Little being engaged as he then was, in "What-is best for the youth of. wonder you have gone over lock, directing motor traffic. But this off-to-day?" From enquiries we have stock, and barrel to materialism, ger held something which was certain made in local circles, the verdict R. So we have, undoubtedly. ly not a baton or whatever it is seems to be "The Youth of To- But where did we get this material-policeman usually directs traffle with.

day." 1 ism from, pray? Have you not been He had it dangling from a string. busy preaching it. yourselves for the

. It was a yo yo!. last hundred years or so? Of course, You you did not admit it at the time. Sir Godfrey Collins, Secretary continued to any on Sundays that Something prompted a closer ac-hounes.

man shall not live by bread alone', of State for Scotland, will meet but the assumption you worked on on thing. At iniminent danger of going quaintance with PC-and his play- with wide support for his con weekdays was that if he also got to Hospital we broke short our four- tention that in the public ele- cheap fares on the railway, a fifty-ney and hopped from the moving bus,

ebilling suit, wireless set, And n

Our conversion to yo yoism can be mentary education system of was all he, needed! And our intel- Great Britain there is a con- lectuals believed you, they came back said to begin from that moment.

Wireless Notes: Adam's Tlb is. siderable quantity of time and Europeans and Americans had found

Years ago we would have been a small part which developed into energy wasted over matters of out how to save the world-by ma-

chinery and

masz

-production! We irrevocably offended if anyone had the present-day loud-speaker.

☐ no true value whatever. But it can see now that your machinery only suggested such a thing. The elixir

A wealthy American proposes to has often been said before that turned out destruction in the end and of youth then had surged like strong WAB of red wine through our veins, and wo that your mass-production many parts of the current educa- cannon fodder. But that discovery recall wo used to make fun of the motor round the world. If he's in tional system are useless; where came too inte, unfortunately. And fat woman living next door for her search of a parking place, he won't offices on a scale commensurate Sir Godfrey differs from former for what has happened you are just futilo slimming efforts and at that find it here.

as much responsible as we are. You cranky old stodger at the Club fur-

Edward Kelly says the sincer- with an even larger undertaking critics is in his readiness to produced a civilisation without a-re- tively nursing a rheumatic knee.

we a religion without a To-day we are able to see things lu than is now considered justified. specify exactly what in his opin-civilisation. These were two gigan- an entirely different light. With the cat form of osculation is flappery. The full programme, in fact, ion those parts are When-hetic mistakos-and when they mated, as provides for still more extensive comes down to details he will they did in Russia before the war,

they produced Red Revolution. ground facilities and it is be- again carry a good deal of sup-

WORSHIPPED THE TRACTOR coming apparent that the predic-port with him. He thinks that

W.E. You really think we are as tions of Mr. Francis Love at the it is foolish to devote excessive

responsible as you are? Rotary Club lunch recently were not the idle dreams of a hopeful enthusiast. The only real mis- giving at the moment is whether Hongkong's programme will be sufficiently well advanced when the need arises. The immediate task ahead is calculated to take two years and as plans are al- ready under study with several leading air lines for making Hongkong a base, there is obviously very little time to spare. The Government seems to have been misguided by the traditional conservatism.. and leisureness of Imperial Airways, which while having the merit of absolute reliability, as far as man can guarantee it, when a house. Grammar, lists of kings, commencement is eventually and knotty mathematical pro- made, usually cause them to be blems are valuable only as pre- last in the field. That this will parations for something that is bo the fate of Imperial Airways to be developed out of them; in Hongkong is already certain. grammar is a preliminary to in- And it is rather unfortunate, timate acquaintance with the although it is doubtful whether large ideas and deep thoughts an air-mall and passenger ser- that men and women have ex- vice operating on the southern pressed in literature. Children route, that is, via Singapore and have to leave school before they India, will over. be in a position have time to become acquainted to compete with the project now with the things to which Sir in course of organisation by the Godfrey's grammar and arith- Eurasia Corporation, which motic are only the preliminaries, plane a service, via Canton, A partial solution of the problem Hankow, Sinklang, Russia to might be found in a simplifica- Berlin, and thence to London. tion of the school curriculum The only problem which exer- that would permit of a few sub- cises the minds of the operators jects being "followed_through" of the Eurasia Corporation, is instead of, as at present, a U80- the establishment of satisfactory less amattering of many boing bases In remote Sinklang, gained.

is just

attention to the minute of gram-

R. I do. Communism mar, and everyone will admit the materialism of your own wonder

ful nineteenth-century preached that the type of outlook that against you with sil the fervour of got to take can see in."This was the most Holy Russia'. You've

into account the difference between us. unkindest cut of all" only a vo could be content to admire that We grammatical error is not one to brilliant civilisation of yours. be encouraged. He regards learn-have to do more than admire. We ing long lists of early English and Scottish kings as a burden on the memory, and feels that children have to spend far too much time on solving compli- cated arithmetical problems that they will never encounter in lat- or life. To many people the chief defect in modern elemen- tary education will appear to be that it lays down the foundation without bothering to build the

Wo recall that well-known adage Speaking of the high price by Dr. Sawbones, who advises that of petrol in Hongkong, Robert Mc- to keep young, one must think and Whirter saya that if petrol costs act young. The yo yo in the hands too much per gal, the best thing

is to drop the gals. re had been to cop gives us the cue we had been looking for.

The policeman, courteously

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trusted the tay to us, and we soon came under the attention of a circle (Continued on Next Column)

"If I can hold the job until they got to like me personal- ly, it won't make so much difference when they discover I'm

a terrible stonographer",

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A man generally knows when he meets the woman he loves, but it's best that his wife shouldn't.

Recent reports of the methods of destruction likely to be used in the next war suggest that the last war ought to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Great Britain makes token pay-

ment in silver to U. S. The silver

threads amongst the gold.

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A contemporary film awards "Tell Me Tonight":

reviewor

tho

BOYS

Gold Cup. Edward Kelly that the only reward his "Tell Mo To-night" gets is a rolling pin.

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of admiring streat urchins. In and out the 10 yo curled, and with re- juvenation attained, we felt the years. slipping from our bent shoulders, like: a heavy and cumbersono load.

The policeman looked sympathe tically on. To belleve he would our being disturbed, we verily have held up the LG.P. car and all? other on-coming traffic such was the strong bond of friendship established by that little innocent toy.

Only once had we known the yo yo to have been debased through-being. put to a very mercenary use

Lawronca, Irretrievable scapgrade, caused its fall from gradomation

Zupper Sitting one Sunday on balcony of a Macao fan tan aploon, he idly toyed with a yo yo..

We know he meant no harm, but that it was sheer force of bad habit which made him play with the thing at that critical moment, coiling and uncolling it over the sroupler's in- nocent head.

Till then

The crony he was with, up

had been losing steadily, but when? (Continued on Page 13.).