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24221 Hallelujah, I'm a Tramp-Foxtrot:
You are too beautiful—Foxtrot.
Played by Geo Olsen and His Music (With Vocal Refrain),
B-4463 Hallelujah, I'm a Tramp—Medley.
Piano Solo, played by Raie da Costa.
C-2573 Hallelujah, I'm a Tramp-Selection.
Intro: "Hallelujah, I'm a Tramp." "You are, too beautiful," "I'll do it again" "What do you want with money."
Played by New Mayfair Orchestra.
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NOTES OF THE DAY NOISES. I WOULD LIKE TO The Very Idea!
FAR EAST CRISIS
Tha altuation in the Far East is of more Immediate concern than the crisis in Europe. Trouble may bo browing in the West but there is plenty of time in which to dis-
SEE STOPPED
A. P. HERBERT
cover ways to restore confidence. A DREADFUL cat has been let mower, the charming prattle of
CONGRATULATIONS:
By Eddie "Shakespeare" Kelly, Jarred.
WHEN we arrived in the out of the bag. A man who children (0 dear!), the blackmith's
office on Saturday the There is not a moment to spare if makes silencers for motor-ears has hammer (Golly!), the lowing herd conflict is to be avoided over the revealed that the young people who (Mercy!), the "crack" of the rific, first thing that caught our
about In high-powered tho "cry" of the hound, the beat Rallway. Tho drive Chinese. Eastersi outlook la none the less ominous bo- "sports" cars buy fewer and fower of the drum the wind in the trees, eye was the disorder in the the silencers: they demand "partial" the bleating of lambs, the plash of general office on the ground
floor. causo the intervals between barking of the dogs over this bone silencers and prefer no silencer at fountains..
Yes, there is no doubt that we
Then, when we reached of contention have become wider, all-for the crackle" of the ex-
keener watch.haust makes them think they are do like noise.
If one of those electric drills our desk, we found the rea- It calls, rather, for Events have been moving rapidly speed kings, and they love it.
They enjoy noise.
came to my street 1 should emig-gon. We'd forgotten' all'
our birthday towards. the stage where vocal
All of us complain that there is rate, but crowds of people stand outburste cease to have value or
Soviet too much noise; yet most of us round and enjoy them, and my boy about influence. And neither Russia nor Japan have been slow must confess that there are noises would rather have ten minutes of nouncement on Friday.
After about three hours to realise it. With tension clearly we enjoy, and if all noises were an electric drill than ten minutes
were able to sort the on the verge of breaking-point, we miraculously eliminated the world of Caruso.
of congratulatory lock in vain for any means by which would certainly be a diamal placo. it may be eased off without causing Half the fun of Niagara is its
cables, letters and chits into an upheaval. On the contrary noise.
some semblance of order. circumstantial accounts of military preparations are frequent, further electrifying the atmosphere.
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HOW SOON?
We are prepared to believe that both Soviet Russia and Japan, would welcome an opportunity to draw back if it could be done with- out loss of prestige. That is the essence of the criais. Eliminate the question of national honour and n compromiss might be possible. But can it be eliminated? Japan
The question Is: What noises are redundant? And the answer is: The other fellow's noines.
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For all I know there may huwe those who enjoy a good anim, or flood- the crackling of chocolate-paper at (u'matinee, or the man who goes to a first night with a cough as re- gular as n pumping engine, er, the ship's siren in a fog.
an-
We have picked out a dozen or so at random to fill in the column. to-day,
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Thon, of course, the Voice of I love the sound of church bella; floating peross the Sussex Downs the Beloved is generally supposed
Mr. J. H. Taggart, Managing about cocktall-time. But I cannot to be a good thing. But put thirty
party-nil somobody's Shanghai Hotels Ltd., enthusias bear the church bells at 7 am women together in a room at a Director of the Hongkong and
Kelly, Hongkong Telegraph: though they are a delight to many, cocktail
I love most of the characteristic Beloveds-and I would willingly tically wrote as follows: Mr. E.
water trafie-the awap them for an electric drill. sounds of the
Nearly all the material things steady elinkety-clink of a sailing barge's windlass getting up the an
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Issue of the Telegraph that you con ceived the Very Idea twelve months ago reminds us that your account
But wait till you read this cable
chor in the early morning, the rat-which distinguish this age from the tle of the blocks as the tops'i goes last are things which make or with our Company is overdue for i (or Manchukuo: it is much the the far-off tutter-tutter of a communicato more noise than there like period. We would appreciate an same thing) is heavily committed power-bont on the canal, the metal was before the telephone, the immediate settlement. Yours patient- to drastic curtailment of the rights lie clutter of the lacks as the boat-talkies, the gramophone, the wirely. of control exercised in the railway men drop the "paddles," the roar less the car, the noroplane, the by the Soviet. Any modification of water as the lock begins to all; steam-plough, the motor-lorry, the
KELLY HONGKONG-LONDON YOU CELE- of this policy would be interpreted even the sometimes unnecessarily typewriter, the high explosive, the we got from London,
thenolsy noise of a tug's or steamer's saxophone, extension lectures, cock-
ANNIVERSARY a Soviet triumph and
BRATE FIRST International conferences. An
STOP BRITISH GOVERNMENT Japanese General Stoff are in no siren booming in the heart of Lon-tail parties, restaurant bands, and PRESS REPORTS mood for such an interpretation. dun.
But on hand the nofeo of vehicles alarming list. No wonder the LOOKS TO YOU TO KEEP GOING
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PLEASE GO EASY ON Russin's position is vastly different.
And now they want to bust the DISARMAMENT STOP LOOK FOR Japan has been encroaching upon odious to me. Motor-horns mad-world grows madder,
YOUR NAME IN NEXT NEW STOP her preserves to an entent which den me; I loathe loud exhausts, the
What is the most precious of our YEAR HONOURS LIST must seem to Moscow to demand rumbling lorry, the crunching Atom-good and hardi the calling of a halt. She calls gears, the engine blowing off
political liberties? Free speech, RAMSAY MACDONALD. steam.
which means free political speech- It before it involves defence of her own territories. The alternativo
I like, I think, the sound of the dreariest form of noise there le to slink away and submit to horse's hoofs, but not its neigh or is. But some love it. Very soon every dictate of Japan's Empire-whinny, or whatever it is. And on we shall be talking of our inalien- builders, to sacrifice any influence cobblestones cartwheels Are anable right to make a noise. remaining to her in
the East.
If the situation is thus correctly analysed there remains little more
tion remains, How soon?
THE BUS WAR
agony.
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self:
Another cable speaks for it. EDWARD KELLY HONGKONG.- CONGRATULATIONS MAY I HAVE AUTOGRAPH-GEORGE YOUR BERNARD SHAW.
But we regret to say that all the
and
not létters have
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There is rage as well as terror in
The noisy bather is one of my My neighbours dislike me if I them if they get up early and the water he has to shout and cables to be said. For either party, it is stay up late and sing. I dislike bug-bears. The moment he la in give way or fight, Only one ques-whistle joyously in the street. scream. The happy Inds of Hum- been congratulatory. For instance, Other people's strumming on the mersmith are a sore trial to me Major Cassel wrote us as follows: Dear Edward Kelly In the last plano can be tiresome, but how I some summer days. But when my
son goes in the river he is just issue of the Critic I inadvortedly enjoy my own!
The poets and others love the as bad, except that I can stop him crate an account of your death. A young couple glide up in a Picase accept my apologies. I am The Colony's own little war, the morning anthem of the birds: so community v. the bus services, is should I if I could sleep through it. punt very much in love. They sorry this is not correct.
Some are enraged by the even come to a quiet corner of the river. also making progress. Residents of Kowloon Tong have summoned song of alcoholic revellers. I much They have the whole world to them- the Kowloon Bus Company with the prefer that to the morning noises solves and the whole of life to disa cabled appeal we received from result that fines have been imposed. of the worthy milkman bringing cuss. And they go and turn on the
feel embarrassed without it. There would be more of such pro-life and health to mothers and gramophone because they would secutions if private individuals had babies.
He, too, is one of these hearty. The jazz bands we like best are the time to spare to make appear.
whistlers-at-b-or-6-o'clock in the undoubtedly those which make most ances in Court.
morning. Nobody says anything, noisu. We used to have nice quiet because he is bringing milk; and cinemas; but then they brought in because he is up early and working music and afterwards "sound." he thinks he is entitled to whistle and wake me up
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You will be satisfied now. Here Herr Hitler, of Germany: stood your sarcasm long enough, but last article was last straw, stop Entirely your fault Germany han resigned from League, Comma Articles-gravely injuring prestigo. self, wife, family stop Aren't there people in Hongkong you can attack. We used to be able to sleep dur-Stop Why pick on mo? Stop. Well, I alt up till one in the morning after-dinner speeches: How ing working. But if I then go out there are loud-speakers all over the in the street and whistle joyously, room. We can't enjoy our food in a restaurant unless a band is play- I shall got, at least, nasty letters.
ing or somebody sings.
A theatre audience must never
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Cable from President Daladier: Belle France unflinchingly faces border enemics and toill insist on rights Genova, but we cannot hope success if you antagonistic stop Scuding one gross Croix des Guerres threa gross Medailles Militaires for distribution amongat your friends. Stop. Bo merciful an strong.
To the rest of his topsy-turvy achievements in the foreign field, Herr Hitler has added the' colossal blunder of withdrawal from the League of Nations and from the Disarmament Confer- ence. It might have been an occasion for the gravest anxiety: it still provides a situation de": manding the highest qualities in world statesmen; but the worst danger has already been sur mounted. The solidarity of the English-speaking peoples has been stated no plainly as it could be, forming with France and Italy a powerful combination for the preservation of peace. The United States stands firmly with its Great War, allies in ADEQUATE WARNING opposition to Germany's re
The present is hardly the proper armament and', Herr Hitler's
time to hnruss the bus companies.
Radio from America: bluff, if bluff it was, has been an adequate warning has been
FOR PITY'S SAKE DROP RE- NATIONAL RE. called. As a dramatic gesture, given. No immediate improve
FERENCES COVERY STOP MOVIE PEOPLE it has an effect, but bombshell ment can fairly be expected and
THREATENING STRIKE FOLLOW- ING YOUR ARTICLE ON DE has missed its main mark, Like spate of prosecutions because un
example has been set would savour Milk leads to tea. The literary so many other actions designed of vindictiveness. If observation men write lovingly of the kettle be loft in silence for an instant MILLE AND ASSES MILK STOP hob. An elderly between scenes; the band must HAVE YOU NO BOWELS OF COM- by the Nazi leader to further reveals- anything, the Monopolists singing in the Germany's alms, the result has have enough serious problems on lady has told me that the noise that play from curtain-fall to curtain- PASSION? STOP ROOSEVELT
their hands without being subject maddens her most is a singing rise; and if the music runs out they merely been to consolidate
ed to what could easily become, in kettle. She would rather aft in the must play the same picca again.
Now we have to have wireless in the powers of resistance, to the circumstances, persecution. The
our cars icat aflence, like a pestilen- bring them more closely to-fact is, or seems to be, that the com- middle of a brass band. Where are
But poots and literary men are co, should fall upon the roads. gether. Instead of placatory panies at the moment could not
live up to the terms of the Con- always praising noises the click I know an artist who works all appeals, which it is fair to sus-tract if they tried. The public of bat on ball, the school lawn-
(Continued on Page 0.) pect were anticipated in Berlin, must bear with them for a while. the United States, Britain and More damage, wear and tear, has France, with Italy hardly less been done to the vehicles in service strong in support, And, them during the four months of the new selves in a clearer atmosphere, Franchise than in twelve months knowing exactly what they have of ordinary handling. But the to face and prepared to meet companies seem to possess neither efficient drivers nor an adequate it. Herr Hitlor, in announcing technical staff. Experience sug the decision, made a moderate-gests that if the inexperienced ly toned speech contrasting drivers employed feel that an en- astonishingly with the futility gine is not behaving properly, they and tragedy of the action in- run it to standstill and accentuate spiring it, urging a claim to a the trouble. sincere deaire for peace to justify an action which is bound of to cramp the resources practical statesmanship in the Only a radical-reorganisation can quest for a solution of Europe's set things right. The causes of problems instead of assisting complaint will not respond to patch- Nothing could show more clearly work. We doubt if it is at all pos the shortness of the Nazi alble to bring the various services vision. For if the complate up to the required, standard with- severance of relations without the importation of fleet of Geneva is not an example of new buses to be employed in con junction with the best of the old. the childish petulance of the This is true of both sides of the frustrated, then Germany's pro-harbour, although It refers part!- testations are insincere and pro cularly to Kowloon After that, hibition of re-armament in any unless the service is to degenerate form becomes the more essential once again, it will be necessary to in the interests of peace. As ensure that the drivers emploved to the immediate future, there are capable of handling the vehic seems little that can be done, los without tearing their "Innards" The Disarmament Conference is to pieces. These things cannot moment; the publie effectively torpedoed; an effort appear in a must be made to prevent it from can only expect, for some time, that the companies will do their to going under completely, preserve at least the shell until best with their present equipment. And one contribution to happier reason is restored. Time is conditions would bo action to con- kely to prove the most success- vince employees that discourtesy does not cut loose in other parcel of the elimination. of com
petition. directions.
THE REMEDIES
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.ful healer, provided Germany and slackness are not part and
"I'm afraid she is getting & orious. Her parents have start-
ed looking-mo, oyer,
'And from Australia:
Australian Board Control deplores continual references bodyline fullstop Bradmin threutons not play nezá season if you continue make fun of him stop Why not pick on Larwood atop Posting full details his history eureer for your information.
There are several other lettere we could print, but the Editor won't lot us. He says the Telegraph is
a respectable nowspaper.
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"VENGEANCE IS MINE"
The girl ran her slender fingers up and down the lapels of his dinner- -Jacket.
"You must go now," sho sighed, "before my husband return'
She swung round suddenly. "Hell" she gasped. “He's coming
now."
Ralph turned pale.
He will find us. He will guess everything," he muttered distractedly.
The footstop came nearer. ***; "Quick! Quick! You must hide, aho urged frantically.
But
was too late. The doorway framed a vengeful figure, automatie
in hand.
The automatic spoko,
Thud!
A crimson stream widened into a
sool beneath the still form which had been Ralph Grayson
"God! You've killed him," Jonn gasped, weakly
Hoe slim figure slumped, crumpled, and sild, in a Bennoless heap, to the carpote
Peanut or lollies!" walled plaintive volce, as the lights went up,
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