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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1933. '

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¡Extines from 8.C.M.P. 201h Nov., '33).

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

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Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS

POVERTY..

From the Office Butts

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Doc. 9th.-Up very betimes and 12th-Up betimes and, to my His Excellancy the Governor at to my office where reading In the ollee where I find much work walls the annual meeting of the Society Government Gazette I do find the for me and so at my deske until

Although we hesitate to for the Protection of Children draft of a bill to set up a Reserve | nuncheon, and so busy that I find lightly reviewed the problems of Naval Volunteers in the Colony, not lolsure to glance at the newes- aspersions on the superstitions of raised in the report. Ils central and over my morning' draft I do sheetes until I cat my sandwiches, the Scots, we do seriously submit thesis was the rarity of cruelty speak of it to Mr. Pitt, who I do and thore I read of a burglar who that this Loch Ness Monster may. and he was on reasonably good meat by chance upon the Verandah.siceps peacefully behind a safe he after all, prove merely to be a com- ground. When he came to the And he tells me that the matter hath cracked. But from Mr. Pavy mon or garden haggle defending its | subject of slums and poverty, Sir hath gond somewhat further and who comes in I learn it is untrue young.

William's

course becamo more that he hath it upon good authoritie. the man has been offered a poste dificult. Poverty; he admitted, is that I am designate to be appointed in the Government Service. He

We notice that the M.C.C. gont at the root of all the Colony'a to a post whleli he styles Captain tells me that the Philharmonic are social evils-and there to all in-of the Head, which I do suppose to play the "Pirates of Fenyance""A Tart Reply to Australia

February next. And I am Applying the acid test. tents, he stopped, Official relief to be one of the ancient and curious come cannot be embarked upon for the Naval phrases such as "Admiral of glad of it, for last year they did reason, heard before somewhere, the Blue." Yet though I have put on the most dreadful plece that

Chinese warships have been that such benevolence would re-drunk my Hollands waters these over I saw in my life, and the year sult in an influx of the destitute seven and twenty years with the before Miss Hook doth not succeed. searching vessels in the mouth of from all the countryalde round King's officers afloat and ashore But the work of Mr. Gilbert is so the Min River. It certainly is the about. Quite frankly, wo have I am not minded for such high witty and interesting withal and appropriate season for Min Spies. little patience with the attitude.omce, even though I did once get Dr. Sullivan's rausick Matters such as this could easily mighty foxed with one who is now that the be made subject to control,

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PHLEGMATIC VIEW

so tuneful

ear of the publique is an Admiral though he basely doth always caught, and thereby their deny it now. And so I shall con-pockete opened. More trouble in sider of the duties before I do Spain and indeed the country, since accept the post. Later when Mr. It drove out its King, hath been in Povy and Creed are come in we the most parlous state possible. Of the hosts of other ways in fall to talking of the nows of the 12th-Lay somewhat late as last which these problems might be day and Creed tells us of a case night I did play at cards with Mr. tackled indirectly, little or nothing from Australia where a farmer be Franco and we did win our match. was said at the meeting. It is attacked by a kangaroo. But Mr. Yet I doubt somewhat of our next easy to see, indeed, that passing Poyy says he bath heard

of a

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People will soon to indulging in Yule-ogistic effusions.

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Husbands who dread having to carve the Christmas-turkey should buy a goose.

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over a few zealots in the field of stranger caso nearer home and this game as we do meet the experts. Imament business is that when it's.

social service, the Colony takes for

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The only snag about this disar-

all fixed up, somebody may come along and say they understood that battleships could be bulit, provided they're only used for medicinal

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A Kowloon giri has achieved re- markable success at bridge drives, We understand she takes the game seriously and never holds any hands except her own.

But strange it is that I, who never too phlegmatic a view of the dis. but a year or so gone when a whole did like the one clubbe call, dki

cricket team be attacked by

make it some ten times last night, treas in its midst. It does not

worse but nobody at all goeth two. Yet Keem to touch directly upon the rabbit--yot none much the life of those in more fortunate for It. "Later to the Krickett where do I consider that our combination purposes,

I play with but little fortune, and of the two clubbe and forcing two circumstances; and I la, therefore,

bid bath a value beyond the exclu afterwards to the Seedy ignored. The warnings conveyed hy periodic epidemies originating where I cat, a mighty food dinner sive use of the one or the other. in the slum areas fail to furnish and afterwards at poker. But At the office nigh all day,

14th-Up betimes and to finish conviction that these rabbit war-Lord! I once was put in grave rens are a menace to the health of jeopardy for holding but

friend opposite doth my work at speed; but Lord! na every member of the community. Kings, my

draw to a straight flushe but la so ever happens there be most vexa- wrath that he fails of it that he tious delays and I am nigh late to he hath a meet Mr. Dick and Mr. Seeds, and

A popular Christmas game, play praetermits to notice straight. And so I do pretty well. 80 with them in Mr. Bees' motored with the aid of a sprig of mis- a good supper of coach to the Race Course where we tietoe, is known as "The Sport of And so after most delicate sandwiches home and drink a glass or two of Hollands Clings!" to bed.

U.S. FARM TROUBLES

three

MISDIRECTED

ENTHUSIASM

Commenting the other day on the impracticability of the Bea- 'President Roosevelt's battle with verbrook plan for a Customs the farmors is by no means over Union between Britain and the although he is doing his utmost Crown Colonics, we dwelt on the to pacify their leaders. For- 10th Lord's Day. This day I lay dish of Mullagitawny-which I tunately, he is resisting demands late and after bathing and trim

waters and then to our auncheon where they do serve a most excellent

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It was only fitting that the local taipan who observed that he

peculiar position in which Hong for the granting of special help. ming myself to the Clubbe Verandah/trust I have set down aright-but couldn't look a turkey in the face, kong is placed as a distributing ife still belloves his programme and there read the news-sheete Lord! It is so hot I am faint to drink should have been helped to, the centre, showing how disastrous will work itself out to h happy where I find a computacioun of the in cooling draft at once: Thereafter parson's noech

amount now available had Mr. Ja dish of lobsters cold and a roast any change in our existing fiscal conclusion, with the farmers bene-Iscariot left a trust fund of a

system would be. The subject | ating.equally with the rest of the dollar at compound interest. But I Partridge and I have not tasted so |

a charge on the Imperial ∞x-¦ GERMANY & WORLD COURT- chequer. Outstanding above

walking upon the

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days. In the negotiations for the extra- has, we observe, now been taken country. It would be folly

to doubt not his trustees had absorbed good a meal theas many

my Later

course dition of Samuel Insull, Greece up by a Singapore newspaper, adopt any other course. In the t long ago. Slept after

at back in some places twenty feet.

0 which analyses the subject close-first place, sectional favouritism nuncheon and later at the Barro where I see the rails have been set actually felt Insull-ted!

O where I hear of sad doings ly and reaches the conclusion will not work, since by its nature Fanling. But whether Mr. Muley And so I suppose we shall find fast

The Latest Howler:-Trigonome- that the Beaverbrook scheme it invites reprisals and destroys rubs did seek to hunt mules with

try is a form of rifle practice. would destroy all hopes of a re-all hope of that unity on which his dogges, or whether the mules times upon Saturday next.

18th-Up and having trimmed

O turn to the prosperity which the Government's recovery pro- did seek to hunt Mr. Muleygrubs

gramme ultimately depends. And and his dogges, I am somewhat at myself to the office where in the the Straits Settlement once en-

Many a man has gone to Happy in the second place, to the extent a stondo to discover. But one thing joyed. One point which-is-em-to-which-it-might-be-adopted, it seems sure and that is that there newes-sheetes 1 do rend of the Golfe- phasised is that most of the would set disastrous precedents. appears to be one most communistic Clubbo meeting. And it seems that Valley in quite a liberal frame of If a special tesessment can be laid male whose habits its owner should there is some talk of the fashion of mind, only to leave with a strong Crown Colonies have to retain a

upon the general public to help seek to alter. And indeed who may ladies' attire and whether they feeling of race prejudice.

。 system of tariffs or duties for the grain farmer, why not to help be owners I know not but I doubt should wear the garments known as

Now Definition:-An opportunist purely revenue purposes-Hong- other kinds of farmers? Or ran- not they will be in a pretty pother "shorts." And it seems that while cherA? Or miners? Or steel with the Country Club whose this doth please some it doth dis kosg, of course, comes within workers? Or any other group that crowns the animals did gallop over please others exceedingly. Yet I is a woman who has the wolf at her but think that Mr. S door one day and a fur coat on her this category and that if such could be welded into a sufficiently most savagely and with such uprore cannot imposts were abolished, the important economic and political as never was. And so to bed but later Dodwell's remarks were sound at back the next.

Later to the A.D.C. meet. bloc?

I wake to find myself talking as I bottom. Colonies would cease to become

belleve in a half slumber and the ing where I learn that Mistress Fay self-supporting and would be

burden of it was that Peter shooteth Grossman is to produce a."Ten

The 22,000,000th visitor to the Mules. But what this may mean I Minutes Alibl" at the Newe Theatre

at the Royal Naval Canteen, and Chicago World Fair-received know not.

I am glad of it, it being a most farm as a prize. That's not 11th-This day I hear that Mr. excellent and diverting drama. But prize; it's an insulti all over considerations, how- The Permanent Court of Inter-

Yet ever, is the varying needs of the national Justice at The Hague has Lissaman doth come nigh to beat for myself, seeing she gives me no

notified that the Germaning Mr. O. Marton for the golfe part, I am all oute with her. different Crown Colonies, which been

Government does not intend to championship, at which I am some-It may be she is being kind to her demonstrates the weakness of proceed further with two cases what surprised. But it is a most audiences to be. Busy with my "wet, the country may begin to

mall, and so to bed. any scheme which aims at the laid by it before the Court. This curious sporte. application of uniform treat-fuct may lead to the assumption that as well as resigning from the ment, in the matter of tariffs, League, Germany has also with to the whole Empire. There is drawn from the Court. This, evidence that Lord Beaverbrook however, is not the case, for Ger has only the haziest ideas of the many is a Member of the Court by reason of the fact that she signed aubject with which he is obsess the Statute of the Court and so ed, and those who know the facts is bound by special treaty obliga cannot but deplore the insistence tions which can only be severed by with which he harps on his pet denunciation of the Statute. This theory.

As our Singapore con- Germany has not done. Moreover, temporary suggests, people who sho has signed the Optional are anxious to prove themselves Clause of the Statute by which she true friends of the Colonies is bound in advance to accept the decision of the Court in regard to should persuade him and his any dispute she may have with a followers to consult the people State which has also aigned the whose destiny he seeks to shape Statute. Had the two cases which

and carefully study the specialy has now withdrawn been

requirements of the different

under the Optional Clause,

parts of the Empire. Failure to Germany could not so have acted do this places. the Beaverbrook without the consent of the other plans in the sphere of - State or States concerned. considered, if well-meaning, pro-

jects. Superficial, thinking in RENEWED THIS YEAR the realm of economics only

serves to produce confusion and,

more often than not, leads to As a matter of fact, this Clause the advocacy of ideas which, if was signed by Germany for n put into effect, would have period of five years. It lapsed early this year and was then re- directly opposite results to those newed for a further period of five desired. The pity of it, in the years. Germany is therefore, case of the Beaverbrook cam-bound by it until 1938. Germany's paign, is that people who are no resignation from the League and ΠΟΣΟ conversant with thetho 1.L.O. will, of course, take actual facts than the author affect in 1985. It would' be dif- himself, should be misled into ficult for Germany to find any Bupporting a movement which is excuse for denouncing the Statuto so basically unsound. So far as of the Court for in the numerous the Crown Colonios are, con interested party, she has, in nearly casca in which she has been an cernned, it is clear that Lord all instances, alther won her point Beaverbrook does not enjoy or has had an opinion given “good pros9.”

Justifying most of her claims.

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"But you never seo pirates in long pants,”

Now that America has gon

sober up.

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Wo view with grave apprehensior the suggested formation of a Corn Ish Society for Hongkong, which 1 probably only the thin end of the wedge in an attempt to resuscitat another defunct language.

These Rotary tiffins would appen to have solved the problem of per petual motion of the crank. Th Is most disturbino!

America is now facing the ques tion of her liquor output.Th people, however, are more concern ed. over the Intake.

‚"From a now, novel :-"It was b the riverside that he stole hi first kiss." Another bank rob bory!

Most seafaring men are full d proverbs,' says a magazine. Se dawa!

A thought-roading machin which has been invented is calle A psychotothokyrbographminom tor. But not. by many!-

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Our sympathy goes out to, t) man who marțies for lova at thon finds that his wife hasr any, money,

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