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which is doubtless, provisional.. as France itself discovered some years ago when, in particular, its so-called invisible exports were vastly increased by the relative-

ly low cost of living in francs, bus afterward shrunk to small proportions as the coat of living rose in France and declined in Great Britain and in the United States. Short-lived as the new impetus in the United States to exports may be, it will cor- tainly be to the detriment of endeavour to retain, the present level of their currency. Already France complains of its un- favourable trade balance. It is

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THE KING OF HADES

- By H. R. WELLS

The Very Sava

LONG MAY IT RAIN.

In the time of the Emperor Attendants were called in, and theyBY EDWARD "PLUVIUS" KELLY Kienhung, a Chinese scholar, who gave him a board painted with white had obtained the degree of B.A. paint on which he was to write. AND Were We All Wet! took the pen and began to but and whose name was Choung Kal- when he had written two boards full Possibly, as most of you haing, lived in the city of Hang- he still had not finished the stato chow, in the province of Cheklang.ment.

live in Hongkong, you're

two

Now this scholar was a bad man The Great Spirit said "You need and was constantly oppressing and not write any more. Only taking noticed that a drop or t deceiving the village people and his those few items the evidence of your: neighbours, and was always committore than unough. You have of water hus fallen in the

sins and doing evil deeds; and niade your own confessions. What the result was that everyone hins and cursed him. "One day he went.

vent to visit a friend a certain village and heard that in a devils and that Innumerable women

despised

punishment do you say you should reservoirs lately.

recolve for such sins?"

Not a bad bit of rain at all, for

O

He thought for a long time, and by lightning or by the thundor."

What the government is go earby a woman called up spirits and then replied "I ought to be struck a city this size.

The Spirit sald "That is enoughing it we don't pre- went to enquire of her, and great you must be struck by lightning three tendto do abou

of them believed in her. Cheung Kal-haing and his friend times. went together to

All wó con obscrvo

erve her methods. The attendants then rolled up the

any is that if it Such women are common in China curtain before tho central shrine and keeps up, they're going to find "I have owned and driven struggling with deficits in every as they were in Israel in the days called on Mr. Cheung to look up themselves in the serious position of King Saul) and they saw that she When he did so he saw that the face of having no water shortage to care for over 20 years and domain. How is French Indus- acted correctly in the manner of of the Great Spirit on the shrine was fall back upon.

women, burning Incense such

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

The family of the late Mr. Leung Yan-po tender sincere thanks to their relatives and friends for the many kind expressions of sympathy in their recent barcave ment, also fer fioral tributes sent and attendance at the funeral.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1933.

of

and makia Hovile noises, and act exactly

"IF I WERE KING OF HADES".

liko his own. Then ho had really been the King of Hades, had been the Kingerence ho but because of his evil deeds he had been punished and degraded and sent

back to be man once more, two police had come again and they In the twinkling of an eye the took him home,

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A NEW LIFE.

Then he immediately became filled with a great Tear as if he were wak- ing from a bad dream, and perspica- tion broke out all over His body. He As soon as Cheung Kai-hsing ar- spent the whole of the next day in. deep thought and reflected on the InwS sources, rived on the scene and saw what she of cause and effect, and on was doing he flew into a great rage roots and origins until he seemed to and rushed up to the woman and have fathomed them all in nil their struck her on the mouth with his depth. He realised that all his life hand, saying, "You wicked woman, he had had no sense of fear, or of You are using these strange and evil taboes, or avolding wrong things, and words to deceive the people and cheat his sin had become very great, them of their money. If I were the King of Hades I would most certainly and there was no limit to all the evil he had done, and therefore be really off your, head." serow

to be killed by thunder or dught the people who When all present saw this they were much up-lightning. He had wasted half his in studies that had not avail- set, their happiness was swept awayed to, teach him the truth, and yet ho had thought himself 10 be a very and they immediately lost all their interest in the woman and scattered

clever man, direction. After in every

a fow days this woman developed a very large and virulent uleer on the neck, which developed into a beheading ulcer, and she died

A terrible death.

this the

wore

Everyone was greatly astonished at at ang Choung, the King

called Mr. Choung Hades.

of

After some years Mr. Cheung be

mo?

THE PUNISHMENT.

This was quite contrary to the teaching of the sages, Confucius and Mencius and other great and virtuous state was worse than that of the men of olden times, and really his common herd, and because of this ho was hated in life by men and in death he would certainly be reprimanded and despised by the very devils.

He then reflected that as he was a

men

if he

Hongkong has always had a water shortage. Without the an nual bathing restrictions, wed have nothing to grumble about in the newspapers,

.:

If there's one thing correspond- ents seize upon avidly at this time of the year it's the water question. They've just about dogged the subject to a frazzle.

Which reminds us of the chap who had such a long hair In his nose that it cracked like a whip every time he sneezed. Ho took a pinch of snuff one day and flogged himself to death.

Personally, wator is nothing but H20 to us. The only time we're interested in it is when we're travelling over it.

We were that way' when we went

to Manila last year.

Said the Steward: "Hey, "bo You can't be seasick here."

So we showed him where he was mistaken

Water is nature's greatest gift to mankind. Where would. We or mortals be without water. Our very life depends upon it.

Thousands, lost in the desert. bave perished of thirst. Thirst is

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DIFFICULT?,

Dear Eddie Kelly,

I was much Interested in your endeavour to get on the square.in our "Very Idea" column in yes. terday's Telegraph though some what at a loss to understand why you should begin on such a diffi- cult problem as a policeman,

try, already severely handicap ped. to keep its proper place in That's one owner's opinion of the Cadet the commercial scheme of the method of devile, and speaking in the manner of devils, as she herself world, if there is stimulated pro- WAR passensed by devils. duction in countries with depreiling us, all of them were very werg many great people ciated currency? Nor must it ov

roverent.

cont. listening in silence, their bo forgotten that although any only fear being lost they should incur the anger of any, of the spirits by a kind of inflation is normally re- lack of sincerity, and they all thought garded as undesirable, 'there is a that those who came at her call were tendency in all countries to wel- really devila' er ghosts, come a course which appears easy, and would seem to benefit

classes

time. for ย France is a thrifty nation. It contains a large percentage rentiers, and these rentiers saw

their with dismay

savings practically swept away in the period of inflation from 1924 to 1926. They angrily turned on the Radical governments which were held responsible, and M. Poincare, who saved them from complete destruction, was looked upon as a here. Such criticism as there was of M. Poincare, was that he had saved for them only 20 per cent. of their former pos- sessions, Thus France might well be regarded as anti-infla- tionist if this were all. But I came ill, and in a vision or dream of full-grown man and was provided | torriblef A man may go without

the soul he saw two men who looked with a character of his

will: how tively little harm. there is another side to the picke offeint polico, and whom he power of determination and will: how food for weeks and suffer compara- thought he had seen beforo. Those then could such a ono willingly be

He can live without compan ture. Seven or eight years have men requested him to go and walk disciple of evil, living in vain in the

world of But though he had ship, without women, and, with- with them, gone, and the Radicals are again gether they came to a placing aimeult for him to point he should have. He cannot live without

and as they walked to

formerly done wrong, 80

that it was out literature. make

But there is one thing he must in power. M. Herriot is once large broad arches and a

have reached in his Rite, yet more an accepted leader with that looked very grand and light and attain to the

and brilliant, popularity. Ac. THE FUTURE OF THE considerable

When they entered they saw on gave himself up to doing good oven Thanks, just a little soda, please! evident O.K. Buddy. Don't drink your

FRANC

cording to post-war reckoning, the right and left sides two guardian for a single day, it would be

spirits, and in the middle there was that he was not willing to cast him- bathwater! seven or eight years is a long a god sitting on a shrine before whom self entirely away. So he determined The French threat to abandon time, and the inconveniences of there was a curtain which was rolled that he would retrace his steps, and up: but the curtain was suddenly so reach the shore of goodness and blessing, and from that time forward the gold standard may achieve what is now in the dim past are dropped and the god was invisible.

he washed his hands off all his former what the logic of the currency almost forgotten. It is recul-

evil conduct, turned from his avil deeds and learned to do good. situation failed to dictate. lected, on the other hand, that

Mr. Cheung asked the people, say

THE FIRST VISITATION. Washington becomes disturbed there was much buying and selling, "You have brought me here. about the wild fluctuations of the ing in those inflationist days. What Instructions have you to give

For a time nothing untoward hap major currencies and hurriedly Things were flourishing. Now

There were some spirita standing pened, but one day as he was walking calls a conference of experts to things-are-stagnant, Unqueantar and one said, "There is an old down the street, there was suddenly a consider what the United States tionably those who were in office woman who is a spirit devil woman great storm of thunder and lightning, You would find it much easier. and has brought a charge against you, and he was struck to the ground and to deal with plain figures. In dealing with round figures like refused to consider a week ago, from 1924 to 1926 are unwilling and you have been called to meet this killed.

The neighbours all gathered round policemen you have trouble with charge." an attempt to meet France, to incur the responsibility for

The Great Spirit said, "Now in and were talking about him, when one pie, for instance, you cannot The franc to-day is the only another monetary upheaval, your anger towards and imprecations excitedly exclaimed "Look; his eyes important currency

eyes and ample to life, findinio and really it tas dilte in and genering, hile opet open flirty, policen al squared (or O X 0). -- principle a pegged to gold and a decision to support the franc at all costs. good judgment and there was no un-ho came

Ho continued in his efforts to live necessary to get rid of the "ple" cast adrift would be disastrous Yet the circumstances of the fairness, but you yourself were not a

there was a local play at an open man squared pie 0 (or ple X for all. However anxious Wash-world, and of France itself, are right and proper person and therefore a new life, but a few months later and we proceed as follows: Police-

you were not correct."

You must now make a full state-theatre near his home, and he was 10 X 0) where O policeman.

great number of the ington may be to allow the dol. against them. On the Left

ment of all the evil things that you standing with

near him looking at the play. To knock the pic out of him let lar to depreciate, developments there are, the beginnings of a have done in all your life, be they people again he heard the sound of Ppio hence we have PXO

be Then

(Continued on Page 9.) Police Officer policeman. Hav suggest that, a compromise will feeling that it would be folly to many or few, nothing must

Ing got rid of ple we proceed. to be sought rather than take the stand out against the rest of the

the aquaring as follows: "PO risk of acquiescing in a free world, and that the internal trou-

P.XOXO franc. What is probably exer-bles would be relieved by an- cising the minds of the experts other cut. The budgetary situa- more than anything else, how. tion, in France presents a pro- ever, is whether it is not too late. (blem which successive. govern- The French politicians at the ments have been unable to solve. World Economic Conference M. Daladler, in view of the senti- answer emphatically enough, ment in the Chamber, did not They declare their intention to even pretend to balance the stick rigidly to gold and to op.belated budget. On paper there pose any devaluation of the is an acknowledged deficit, and franc. Unhappily, even minis-ip practice the deficit is doubt- terial statements cannot be ta- less much greater. Everybody ken to-day as conclusive. There realizes that further taxation is are such things as financial pres-impossible, and that there must suro, while the sharp revival it be a drastic diminution of go the suggestion that Paria will government expenditure. Taxa- off gold comes at a time when tion is really extremely high—~ it is most likely to have some probably higher than can be sup- foundation in fact. M. Bonnet's ported by the private taxpayer declarations may express his and the French Industries. Yet! intention. of the moment, but retrenchment must be at the ex- France has become very pense of somebody, and there is displeased with what she vigorous resistance on the part has regarded as American of public officials and public ser- selfishness and quite apart from vices. They are not only strong that, the known conditions in- in themselves, but they aro dicate that France may not be in backed up by the deputies of the a position to help herself. Mr. Loft. It would appear, there Sisley Huddleston points out that fore, that a deadlock is reachieri, there are many, great difficulties Nobody knows how the budget created for Franco by the sub is to be balanced, and if it is not stantial depreciation of other balanced, it is hard to see how moneys. In the first place, de inflation in some form is to be valuation tends to give an advan avoided.**

honestly Their object is quite sincerely to

omitted."

"Daddy's taking a moving

To square such a figure it is

Now the P is no longer required since the pie has gone, P being the symbol for ple in this case. We have left therefore O XO requir ing no pie since O XO. can be substituted for pie and OX0= 00 being the symbol for offcor or policeman it is clear that the answer must be either one police- man squared, or extract of boof, or nothing.

Is it not so7 Yours truly, Eddy Cation.

Figuratively speaking, we think we'd prefer to stick to Glazo," though the ple question certainly leads to interesting speculation."

How, for instance, does the policeman eat his asparagus?). Is thore great emotion in those great dark cynical eyes as he looks around waiting for others to be- gin?

In any case, wo like our Oxo in cubes, and how can you square n cube?

A

STRAY; THOUGHTS, ON THE Pares a crisis.

If Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan and Mr. Otto Kahn had to retiro from the banking business, they could doubtless make A big success he Income tax consultants. S

Wo've been sitting here: fifteen) minutes since writing the above sentence trying to think of a roaz son' why Mr.: Morgan should obs Ject to an ingreso in the rate of income tax in the United ¿Ataťéë and so far we haven't been able think o44 aingie öné...

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