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LET US BE FAIR TO FRANCE

By E. L. ALLEN

The division of the World Economic Conference. Into groups, unfortunate though it may be, i would appear to be the logical out- of the impanso reached. The gold and the non-gold coun- tries cannot get along together. As groups, they may achieve hnp- plor results by working along their Independent lines. Whether this is desirable is a moot point. Such France of the villages and the:

Here is a story which helps, those who remembered 1870 one, to be fair to France. It well as 1914, shows what the real France, the

a development might easily tond ordinary man, to intensify rivalries. But then

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We notice that a local owner- driver had the misfortune to break his axle, Nearly as tragic as no the bag-snatcher who lind his

escape cut off.

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THE ONE EXCEPTION, But now they had come to the thinking, real,

The question of receiving mes difficulty. What success anges from the dead is again being easily harmonised at a propitious but I imagine it is true to the and he came down. His name was received from the Mid-Levels Re- momout. The main thing is for situation. to-day. The

The Paris editor was appealed to testify that a message was once KVO can Britain to make up her mind.

names an attraction in itself; the men sidents' Association, She has rejected the overtures of have passed from my memory, gathered In the house and outside the gold standard countries, des but the facts remain as vividlyle closed by telling them that at pite Bank of England recommenda-there as when the story was first 8 o'clock next morning coples of it one ovening to listen to him.

HASable policies might be more True, the story is two years old, would they have with the men? discussed in London.

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The local cricketer who "ex-

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IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE.

afde" did manage to sneak singlot.

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A woman in New York took

out effect. Guess she now says that she missed him torribly.

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dentists. They rarely stop in the One thing about Hongkong

| same place twice!

Shek-O Club has the longest bar In the Colony-from elvilisation.

□ O One thing about our new energy.

BIG- hop. He's got plenty of surplice

those who wished to sign them. That was all. There is a corner of France Next morning, the women work where three frontiers meet and it crs got the room ready, put out a The American policy is fairly is but a stop one way into Germany tion-forms on it, and waited for four shots at her husband with- well understood by now. It means

table with pen and ink and poti- d complete breakaway from ortho and Another Inta dox finance. But its objects are villages in it which twice within forward. When they opened the

Switzerland, There being achieved, which, after all,living memory have suffered from door, as many as that were stand- is a group of Protestant the time. They were hopeful that dozen or twenty z would come is the main thing. The fever of a German invasion; there are old ing outside already, caeli eager to gambling which Is

spreading folks in them who have twice been be the first to set down his name! sident express the opinion that through the country may not be driven from their homes. altogether

We overheard a certain local re- good sign. In fact, people in Europe know what war work as it permitted, and some of very well, but one gets no thanks if some control is not exercised,means, they do.

If any All day they came, leaving their "honorary secretarial work is all the entire programme may be jeo- pardised. But it would be easy

hent walking several miles. We for one's paine." May we suggest. to make too much of the spasm. these villages went across the Aremark of man after man, fwe

Years ago, a girl from one of know what this means, was the Jiniment! Not all the money pouring into the antic, to take a post as governess have seen war twice and we do Stock Exchange ig borrowed with money. A good deal of it signi- She

wealthy American family. not want to see it again!' fles the end

remained of panic hoarding. thanks to the thrifty habits of her workers looked down the lists of the funny people who use them,

unmarried and, When evening

The funny names on mataheds at Money which has been lying idle nation, she saved enough to buy a names which had accumulated on especially at night without the came on, the Castle Peak are possibly due to is again. cottago in her native place and re-their table, all with so little pres-permission of the owner.

tire there to end her days. She sure on their part. They counted was over seventy when news reached them up, and every adult male in her of the forthcoming Disarma- those villages had set down his Complaints about the local bus do to help? She wrote at once to regret to say, was the Protestant ment Conference. What could she name-with one exception. That, services since the change of her American friends, placing minister! regime seem never-ending. Intest brought to our notice, how-campaign in the district on behalf The her house at their disposal for a ever, is out of the ordinary run. of peace. They felt that such a As far as we know, it applies only neighbourhood would be a tough to Kowloon, and it concerns the nut to crack, but it would be well

21 YEARS AGO HOLDMAN.-Frederick Herbert Hold-

fares to Servicemen in uniform worth trying. man passed away at the Kowloon We thought it well known that

Extracts From the Hospital at 2.50 a.m, this morn-Servicemen in uniform are entitled ing Aged 43. Funeral will pass to journey at half the ordinary

"Telegraph" Files the Monument at 6.30 p.m. this rates when travelling first-class, Afternoon (No flowers by re- A statement to this effect will be that spot. One was an American the Hongkong Telegraph for the

So three persons converged on

The following extracts are from quest).

found in most of the buses. Quaker lady, the second was an week onded July 6, 1912. Nevertheless, there are certain Englishwoman, a devoted worker conductors who either do not know in a number of good causes, and this or who are staging a ramp. the third-well, the third was one was 2/-1/8. In certain instances, buses have whose life-story would make been held up at a stopping-place book. She was a Belgian by na- for minutes while a conductor has tionality. Her experiences

Police prevented a 12-year-old insisted that Servicemen pas-worker made of her an advocate the streets as ho had no licence. As a boy from selling the Telegraph in sengers pay the full fare or leave of women's trade unions, and she At the Police Court the boy was England. Skylarking, of course, the vehicle. Usually they have was the secretary of one of these discharged, when the manager of b JAPAN & C.E.R.

paid rather than cause inconveni-at the outbreak of war. An ardent the Telegraph stated that he had The astonishing point reached not the slightest reason why they Belgians of military age to escape newspaper boys possessing. a ence to other travellers. There is patriot, she was caught assisting never heard of the necessity of in the C.E.R. sale negotiations, should.

across the frontier, and was con- hawker's licence. the challenge to Soviet claims of ownership in the railway, sUBAN AIR MYSTERY

demned to be shot. But she was well-known to the German Social gests that Japan has ceased to

Democrats, and they appealed to trent the discussions seriously,

Appréciation of the innovation The failure of air experts in

the Kaiser, who commuted the of the Hongkong Tramway Co., in The submission that no passage Belgium and Britain to discover sentence to bne of imprisonment.running double-deck trams can be found in any treaty that the cause of the "City of Liver From her war-time imprisonment expressed and the appeal made can be interpreted as confirming pool" fire disaster vividly recalls ahe came back to take up with that the service would be extended Soviet ownership is patently ab- the rumours of arson current at enthusiasm the cause of peace, to include the Happy Valley.

A new cinema studio in Shanghai surd. It would be a joking the time of the tragic affair. As There was also a fourth member

is being besleged by film-struck matter, but for the serious im- Lord Londonderry puts it, how of the team, the editor of a Paris plications.

ever, further enquiries are not

Sir Henry May, accompanied by Chinese girls. Taking the Wong Japan cannot ride likely to lend to any fruitful re-ance part of the time.

dally, who gave invaluable assist-Lady May, arrived in the Colony turning? Why not, if Anna Moy? roughshod over ordinary com-sults and the mystery must remain

to tako over the Governorship. monsense in that manner. Of the a mystery. The satisfactory fea- the local notables, with the object near the Post Office. He fired a thermometer

On arrival, they called first on An attempt to assassinate. Sir

口 Soviet Government's reply there ture in the fairly clear proof that, of allaying any suspiciens. But bullet point blank at Sir Henry, temperature of the room down,

Henry was made by a Chinese can be no doubt. Public opinion has been running high for some considerable time as a result of a succession of incidents which have been regarded rightly or wrongly, as attempts to bully and coerce. And the reactions

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Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933.

whatever the true cause, it had nothing to do with any defect in the machine or its engines. The Imperial Airways has lost none of the mishap. its high reputation as a result of

to the present development will SIR ERIC DRUMMOND bear watching. Moscow

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When one thinks of our silver dollars, the saying that wealth is a burden is easily explained.

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About the most shaky business we know in Hongkong at the mo- ment is throwing dice!

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Tht dear old lady who put the

on ice to keep the

doubtless meant well.

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A superstition. If, at 11.5 p.m. on a moonlight night you lie on the beach at Castle Peak, fifty inches

the war-record of the Belgian trade unionist was sufficient to open all but it missed and bedded Itself doors for them. Their object was in the woodwork of the chair in men's disarmament petition, and to secure signatures for the wo which the Governor was travelling. Tho would-be assassinator was they went to work quietly about rearly lynched by the crowd..

"There comes, a time in every thia for several weeks, holding

man's life when he feels ho must break the bonds meetings for the women and visit-

of convention," A gratifying increase in the says a writer. We must confese ing from house to house. They membership said pretty plainly that the pro-mond to the Embassy in Rome, scarcely any, none whatever from the week.

In appointing Sir Eric Drum-expected opposition, but found Volunteers was

of the Hongkong that in the last few days, we have recorded during been wearing an open-neck shirt gress of the C. E. R. negotiations Britain has, at the same time, paid

to the office. would serve as a gauge of the him a compliment and acted wise- peaceful intentions of Japan. ly in the interests of diplomatic The proposal to sell the railway relations between Italy and Eng- has demonstrated the desire of land. That those relations should Russin to climinate a source of remain on the friendliest footing repeated friction which, if not is obviously desirable, and no man, checked cannot but have"

ls better tted for the task than happy consequences for peaceful mitted, however, that Geneva. is Sir Eric. It has to be frankly ad- relations between the U.S.S.R.much the poorer by Sir Eric and Japan in the Far East, Drummon's resignation. These relations are delicately tary-General since the inception of balanced as things stand. The the League in 1919, be accom- Kamchatka affair, in which the plished a rare amount of splendid Japanese allege the shooting, of work, the effect of which will three Japanese fishermen, has probably be felt more in the future yet to be settled and the outlook His integrity, tact,

than in the immediate present. is none

and ability too promising. The quickly to grasp the intricacies of Russian Government, having the problems confronting protested against the landing of League, made his services Indis bluejackets from a Japanese pensable during the early days of warship, now allege that the the international institution, coastguard

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Kronotzky was broken into and CRAWFORD'S TRIUMPH · virtually wrecked and that noth-

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ing has been seen of the coast- TB. Crawford's victory in the guards, who seem to have dia singles championship at Wimbledon appeared into thin air. Capo is tho crowning triumph of `a Kronotzky la sixty kilometres meteoric career. Not only is the from Cape Olga, where the faction, but it throws a reflected achievement one for-porsonal satis- shooting of the fishermen is al glory on the prestige of British leged to have taken place. The sport. Gerald Patterson, himself auggestion seems to be that the an Australian, was the last Briton Cape Kronotzky station was to win the Wimbledon crown in 1922, wrecked by the Japanese, and al-Sinco, thon, it has been shared by though no definite charge to this Americans and Frenchmen, Craw effect has been laid, officially, ord's brilliant win over Ellsworth tension is not thereby lessened. tion as there was not a single eritle Vines gives him greater satisfac. All the elements for a first-class in England prepared to support his conflagration lle in the present claims. We may now regard situation in the Far East, and fully exploded, the myth about his some very earnest thinking must inconsistency and lack of that, pre be going on in Moscow.

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Thilation War debts! Prohibition"

from the water's edge, and cover your ears with your hands, some body in a nearby shod has just dragged out a ukelele,

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Mr. Lanopart is now threatening

to start a branch of the Nudist

Society in Shanghai. Here, bare

and everywhere.

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If the polles are really desirous

of discouraging pickpockets, why

don't they send them round to the

local newspaper offices.

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A Peak lady complains that she can't sleep after daybreak unless Dhe covers her eyes with a towel.. Another thing to do would be to got up and work. Just spinach custom;

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What's the matter, with Hitler as a dictator? As long as he doesn't come dictating to us.

Well Wimble-dong, Crawford1.

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