1933-11-29 — Page 18

HERE'S HEALTH!

"All the world over WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE retains its It can be brilliancy, delicate flavour and exhilarating tone. Iced or served at any desired temperature. It represents -British Pale Ale in its most delicate and attractive form.

WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE

ANNOUNCING

A NEW MOUtrie upright PIANO

"THE NATIONAL"

Price. $500.00 Nett.

Specially designed and constructed to meet the demand for a high grade instrument at a moderate price.

I

We invite your inspection of the new model-it is perfect in tone, touch and appearance, and backed by our usual guarantee.

Terms if desired,

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

York Building.

Collars

The newest large square wing shape ask to, ace No. 28 or 35.

Shoes

Patent Leather Dress Shoes "Manfield" Gr "Delta' $27.50.

A cheaper make $21.00.

Shirts

Plain Stiff front, one or two Stud holes.

$9.50 to $12.50.

Chater Road.

DRESS WEAR

Gloves

Dent's White Kid Gloves. Sizes 7 to 92.

Scarves

$4.50.

in Suede Crepe, plain white or white and black.

$10.50 to $21.00.

Socks

Jacger or Morley quality Black Silk $3.75.

Cheaper makes from $2.50.

Braces Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, Studs.

10% Cash Discount,

ANE, CRAWFORD,TD.

LANE,

Men's Wear Stylists.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MUST RIDE

ASTRIDE!

NEW H'K. MOTOR-CYCLE

REGULATION

Extract from S.C.M.1. 20th Nov.. '38).

A driver of a motor cycle, whether "solo" or with sido-car, shall not carry more than one person in addition to himself, nor shall any person so carried Bit otherwise than astride the cyclo and on a proper seat securely fixed to the cycle behind the driver's sent,"

REGULATION PILLION

SEATS and FOOT-RESTS.

AVAILABLE -------

SEATS ....cách $17.50 FOOT-RESTS pair $ 4.50

HONGKONG Hotel GARAGE

SHOW ROOM

Stubba Rond.

Phono 27778-9,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933.

JAPAN AND HER MANDATES

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY THE EVIL THAT

WATER GRID

SPECTACULAR FEATURE

IS MAHJONGG

According to a Hongkong Headmaster.

and Others

By C.V.-L. for the Telegraph."

The Very Idea!

THIS NONCHALANCE

“ម្ហូប

By Edward Kelly, Tired

UIET Determination triumphed over Lethargie Nonchalance," "Veritas' tells us, referring to Sun- day's football. WELLI · WELL! WELL!

WHICH reminds us of the time we were ap-

We determination. naturally greeted him with Lethargic Nonchalance.

The remarkably dry summer in England has had the effect of catablishing a water problem whero nono existed, or seemed to exist before, and a million pounds is to be devoted to schemes of Improve- ment. In the meantime, a commit- tee of exports. Is examining pro- posals for the organisation of the water supply upon the model of the Until tragedy brought dis-Intent on discovering from Law- electric grid. It would cost rough-illusionment; we had rogarded. It rence as a jealous disciple of the ly £20,000,000 and would make with indulgent amusement, na cult, if so much noise was necces- water famines such as were experi- something if at all reprehensible ary to the game, but were not pre-proached by a shroff with unced during the summor Impos- could be of no great harm to pared for his assurance that noise sible. Briefly the idea is to develop others, a congenial if nolay means constituted the essence of mah- quiet a number of regional grid systems by which men and women con- Jongg enjoymenti from the existing water services trived to relieve boredom. But We had the suspicion that our and plan for the future in allch o then we were reared up in clolater. lcg was being severely pulled in way that the whole water services od surroundings, and our ignor- return, but if such was the inten- of the country can be linked, up into ance was, Innocenco begot of isola- tion, it was not apparent behind But Sunday's football was one efficient whole...

tion: Indiscrest in that it had the gravity, the earnestness of his different. South China, trip- rendered us unfit to receive world-expression. Staunch defender of ly contacts, and regrettable also his faith that he was, in the end ping lightly on to the field, in this instance because it had we were compelled to fall back on employed a Grecian movement. The most spectacular part of the badly shaken our faith in the good- well-known nativo superstition to add colour to their lothargic

ness of humanity.

This is that noise seared away, plan is for tho extension of the

With what unspeakable horror devils. We suggested that prononchalance. Tam Kong-pak, existing Metropolitan Water Board, therefore did we chance on this probably the same result was be- who was "IT", was allowed to which is now virtually a grid sys- news item the other day: Muning, sought by mahjongg players tėm, a radius of about 60 miles at Yaumati fainted from sheer desirous of driving away the carry the multi-coloured rubber of London to include towns as for

elation and shock at the realisation omens of bad luck and ruinous ball. apart as Bedford, Canterbury and

of a full hand...And this in last osacs. The shaft hit its mark. Brighton; and for

Unfortunately the game was 100-mile

Ile wilted, year's news: Wife severely chastis- aqueduct running from the York-ed by husband for over-attention to

marred by the Quiet Determina. Indeed this game we have since shire and Lancashire hills to link mahjongg and negligence of the discovered to be largely composed tion of their brutal opponents, up with the extended Metropolitan home. And this further in the of the elements of chance. Such the Club, who refused to join in Area, with another great asue reports of the year before inst: duct running in from the Welsh Woman at West Point Club col-being the case, our views on it the preliminary game of "Ring- mountains to serve the West of

well-known. But in case re-itera- and other sport like it

are too aring-a-Rosies. England. These aqueducts would

tion be required for those who Ernie Strange kicked off, but at be tapped. at places to serve isolated

huve not yet come within their this stage the Club were warned country areas. At points where it

beneficial influence, let it be that only necking was permitted is necessary to reduce, the pressure

And so our repugnance mounted understood that not for a moment before half time, of the water in the aqueducts it la

as we read the growing Indletment, would we entertain mahjongg as suggested that the power, could be used for driving turbo-generators In the end the papera dropped anything but disreputable, to be

With Lethargie Nonchalance one our eschewed for moral, from our nerveless hand, as

physical, of the South China players spat for lighting and other purposes.

numbed mind feebly attempted to spiritual, economic, intellectual, out a couple of teeth, and Wong A similar water grid plan was recently shelved by the Ministry of grasp the full significance of the theological, and infinitessimal con- Mec-shun, counting a hundred in siderations--snare for the en a quick nonchalant voice, started Health on account of cost and tech- sinister facts

Only a week before by virtue of slavement of both body and soul the search. Within a few minutes nical difficulties, but the Committee of the Institution of Mechanical our position we had been approach- and to be avoided like the very he succeeded in discovering Wong.

Alec-ahun, who has then IT. Engineers hopes to prove to the ed with a request to admit mah-devil!

jongg into our ilst of boudoir Government that theso difficulties games. An irremediable step such are not so formidable as they ap pear.

•

Д

lapsed and died from the shock of being anticipated at a full hand.

Etc., etc., etc. -

Well would we have liked to The game WAS bocoming ex-

as would have jeopardised our shake Mr.Headmaster of citing, and the spectators blew better judgment had not beer College at Yaumati by the hande kisses to the players, taken, and at the thought we felt on the courageous stand he took distinctly better.

when played by such as he,

*

•

10

this district.

Those were weighty, reasons, and as we now ponder over it, we, from whom these worldly matters

ball, and promptly started a Grecian movement up and down the field, Yeung Shut-yick was chosen as the loading fairy. The Club started a retaliatory move- ment by dancing eurythmics in front of the goal posts.

Syd Strange was penalised be cause he had a shiny nose, and Tam Kong-pak was awarded the ball. The Club promptly sulked, and it was only when the referee agreed to kiss each player that they

had been jealously guarded, is consented to continue the game. made also to see the Light.

Some embarrassment was caused.

The report, which may or may LESSON FOR HONGKONG

the other day against anolo Half time scores: South China not be correct, that France is

The position was trying, to say custom. The Occasion wns a2 forfeita. Club, Ni.. Whether or not the bigger scheme the least. Won it not our best pal gathering of pupils and parents contemplating the provision of is developed at this stage, there is Lawrence who, when having his for a

Immediately after the commence- college anniversary. In seaplane and submarine bases an object leason for Hongkong in leg pulled, to use a vulgar expres- solemnly warning them of the ment of the second half, Club were in her Pacific possessions is the plans of the Minister for sion, on these matters had insisted dangers of mahjongg he said: awarded a free kiss. South China made chiefly interesting from water shortage--or possibility of a

Health. At the first sign of a on being taken seriously? He it "Mahjongg is an evil and a menace, succeeded in obtaining the rubber was who, when touched on his It turns youthful minds from the the fact that, before very long, water shortage at Home, definite softness for this outlandish game, natural path of education. It in the League of Nations will have action is taken. In this Colony. was transformed into little short stila unsettled ideas, and make boys

of a fanatic.

inattentive to their lessons." on ita hands a problem of the water shortages are always with us, yet no real effort is made to push

With the mystic light of a gus- Parents were warned, and the utmost complexity and import-on with the Shing Mun Scheme. A pellor glittering from one blood-authorities urged to suppress the ance in this part of the world. certain period is allotted for the shot eye (the other is still closed), numerous dens where the evil was he had stoutly denied there was known to have been fostered In completion of the project und As is known, Japan holds the though very obviously it could be anything in the cursed game to former German possessions in speeded up very considerably, it detract from the character he had the North Pacific under mandate would not be difficult to prophecy always held of it as a pleasant from the League, and it has been all the reasons likely to be given harmless diversion, a stimulant to made quite plain in official utter for adherence to the time schedule. the intellect, and a pretty spectacle ances that she is not at all dis- posed to surrender these ter ritories when, in 1935, her with- drawal from the League becomes an accomplished fact. Latest reports suggest that Japanese vesacls have been examining every nook and cranny in the Pacific, with what specific pur- pose can only be guessed. One thing seems fairly certain, and that is that Japan will not willingly give up the mandated islands. Japanese naval circles, indeed, openly state that they will never, under any conditions, be surrendered. An attempt OPIUM IN MANCHURIA

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

The same issue in lesser degree of importance, perhaps, arises in connexion with the new Govern ment House project. A large part of the cash is in the Government's pocket, but the "dolo" for next year is $100,000, in 1935 the amount might be increased to $250,000, and so it will go on. If the scheme is worth tackling at all, it justifles expedition. This is the time when hypothecated could be indulged in wire spending of money specially on a biggish scale with a prospect of doing something to alleviate the blight of the local depression.

to

The allegation that opium Is being exported from Persia Manchuria in large quantities with British ald hardly deserves to be treated seriously. If there is any complaint to be lodged concerning Manchuria and opium, It surely is

has been made in some quarters to show that the territories are not in reality held in trust for the League of Nations, but that they were allotted to Japan as part and parcel of the peace to be found in the better authen- terms under the Versailles ticated reports that Changchun is Trenty. What actually oc-deriving a large part of its revenue curred, however, was that Ger- from the product of the Jehol poppy fields. Smuggling of Perslan many's overseas possessions oplum is possibly going on, but were ceded to the Allied and certainly not on a acalo

to rank be told, Associated Powers by the peace Importantly. If truth

Manchuria probably grows more than sufficient to meet her own demand.

Treaty, after which these Powers had an article inserted In the League Covenant whereby

the people of certain of these to happen to the islands held by territories were put under the Japan, under mandato, when tutelage of more advanced Japan's withdrawal from the nations, who were to act as man-League becomes automatic ́ un- datories of the League and to der the two years' notice which exercise their powers on behalf she has given. The presumption of the League. The Supreme 1s that she will be required to Council, as the organ of the hand back the mandate. This, according to present indications, Allied and Associated Powers, she may decline to do. It is drew up the terms and allotted easy to see from these circum- the mandates, subject to the stances that a situation of the approval of the Council of the utmost delicacy may occur. Tho League. It is clear, therefore, position certainly needs clarify- that the territories were not g, and it would be a wise move if some steps were taken townrds ceded to the mandatory Powers, this end before Japan's` with-

a fact which is reinforced by drawal from the League becomes the requirement that these finally effective. It would be Powers have to render annually far better were the real status of the mandatory Powers defined to the Council of the League a

now, while Japan is still tech- report on the territories com-nically a member of the League, mitted to their charge. The than that the matter be left over question which arises, le what is | until a serious breach occurs.

In our mind's eye we can see the

This Ideal of what any form of sport or pastime should be, Headmaster: a bulky, musty text when, towards the close of play, strangely enough, we have noticed book in one hand and a glittering a scrum developed into a game of to tune in wonderfully well with set of mahjongg tiles in the other, kiss-in-the-ring players on both the traditional attitude of the deliberately weighing their respec-aldes objecting because the referee

insisted on being “HE"," bridge-player, the poker-player, andtive conflicting claims.

the

refereo

im-

(Final Scores In Last Edition).

•

*

the numberless other players who More, we can see under the con- The threatened impasse was under their respective spolla, may ditions set up by mahjongg a solved by the appearance of Ed- force for youthful ward Kelly and "Veritas" in the bas, id to have the courage of their powerful convictions and upheld these con- peccadilces; a sort of rival scho-grand-stand, victions literally to the last dollar. lastic institution offering to the mediately whistling.

But that was not the point we queating young a rare combination had wished to take up with Law of study and amusement.

Under the special conditiong set think of it we have no doubt we up by mahjongg as we can see it, rence at the time. Coming to should have more to say to him the Alphabet will be reduced to a had we seen those newspaper re-mere bagatelle of four standard ports carller.

characters: Arithmetic will lose

SCOTS JOKE NO. 1 And you must remind us to- Many a late evening out we its terrors by being pleasantly morrow to tell you about the Jew were pursued back to our home converted into set calculations of who fell dead from lead poisoning by a clatter of cards as of fiends total scores secured; while Geo- after Robert MacWhirter had pald ahim back the dollar he'd borrowed. taking an unutterable delight in graphy will cease to become wreaking a form of mental torture headache because it will be con-

(Continued on Pago 10.) on peaceloving folk. We were

"Everybody noticed how bored you were. I'm afraid they'll

never ask us ngain."

IT'S A LIE

We indignantly deny that the following conversation took place between us and the Girl. Friend the other night:

The G.F. If I go out in the car with you, Eddie, will you promisa to behave yourself?

Us: Honestly,

The G.F. You won't cuddle me. or kiss me?

Us: I'll be like an angel.

The G.F. Honestly?

Us: Honestly.

The G.F.: You mean It?

Us: Sure...

The G.F. Then why do you want me to go out in the car?”

HIDEOUS GIRL FOUND MURDERED. POLICE BÅFFLED as usual, (From Our Special Correspondent.) :

Mystery surrounds the death of a particularly plain girl, who was. found strangled in a wood last night with her pudding facs bash- od in.

Bo far na 'the police are con- cerned, mystery will continue to surround her death, because no- body knows who killed her and no body cares very much,

"I think it is just as well she has been murdered," said a pro- minent resident to-night."She" was an eyesore to everybody, and as she had no money. It is difcult to discover a motive for the crime, If you can call it auch."