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SUMMER SALE

(Last day Aug. 4th.)

ENGLISH HAND CUT GRAPE FRUIT GLASSES,

$1.50 each.

PEACH MELBA GLASSES,

$5.00 per dozen. BACARRAT PORT GLASSES.

Normally $13.50 dozen. Now $ 5.00 dozen.

RED HOCK GLASSES,

Normally $20.00 dozen. Now $ 6.00 dozen.

FINGER BOWLS (Cut).

20%

$4.00 por dozen.

Discount is allowed off all Hard- ware goods during Sale period.

THE HONGKONG

Snecess REGISTERED

Everywhere

VAUXHALL -Light Six 14 h.p.

MY 1934

THE CAR SUCCESS OF THE YEAR STANDARD SALOON

£210

DE LUXE SALOON £230

A DECIDING FACTOR

LET-

THE OPINION OF DISCERNING MOTORISTS

GUIDE

YOU -

AFTER YOU HAVE TRIED OTHER CARS TRY A

VAUXHALL "LIGHT SIX" THEN DECIDE

Demonstrations with pleasure Hong Kong Hotel

+

Garage!

Stubbs Road.

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

GOOD NEWS

the

The announcement that a fleet of new buses will shortly bo put! into service in Kowloon is good news; for an increasing need can not have passed unnoticed in will recent weeks. New. vehiclen possibly, permit a closer adherence

occur

bus

JULY 30, 1934.

FOR REAL ENJOYMENT

GIVE ME LONDON

By SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS.

ONDON leads the cities of the whatever the state of their purne

world for rent enjoyment at may be

The Very Idea!

BOOK OF: ASUWERUS CHAPTER 5,

THERE was a learned man who dwelt on a hill in the midst of the plain. And he was learned in all

manner of things, as it were.

2. 1le rend the stars in their courses and know of the rising of the sun, and the going down thereof. The moon in all her phases was as an open book to him. He was a mighty man:

Look around and you will die to schedules than bus-users have the present time. been experiencing and curiosity na

I say this confidently after cern other diverse contributions to

of her this record holiday season, to why the longest walls always having lately seen some

In

will the slack hours

The annual trek from the an astrologer. competitors for the holiday traffic possibly disappear with the pro-and having attended our great Dominions and the other members vision of remedies. Then, per. haps, the management may have on-air festivals of the Derby and of the family called the British time to look into other causes of Ascot, London has nothing to Empire is assuming normal pro-

fear from her rivals on the Con- portions after several Ican years. complaint. The classle, for some

tinent.

Add to this quota the seasonal time, was furnished last week when

London's Insularity has vanlah-influx of exiles from posts in woman and her two ed.

3. And the seasons, and the chlidren contemplated alighting in the ranger from Port Sold; and the increasing She has become cosmopolitan. official life and commerce 'beyond" Prince Edward Road. The stopped correctly enough and the longer finds himself oppressed by number of vivacious South Ameri- times of darkness and when the

did he prophesy. children safely desconded. When national habits and customs that cank wito have forsaken their be earth shaketh in wrath, all tlieso

loved Paris because of the exac-

4. And lie prophesied to the peo- the mother was about to follow, make no concession to his own.

tions of the franc. They can be the conductor evidently considered

found at any of the popular meet-ple of Kong and said, in a little while there shall be a mighty West the bus had tarried long enough

He does not feel, as he diding placea for overseas visitors.

wind over the waters, and the land at one point, rang the bell, and off

shall be hot many days. And in a they went to the next stop, thres formerly, that, although tolerated hundred yards away before the with polite complacency, his hosts

while it alall come to pass that the If you are in search of a man

heavens shall open and water shall mother was permitted to descond.believe in their hearts that civilisa- Comment seems hardly necessary.tion onds at a Channel port. He from india or China, wait for him bo upon the face of the earth. And

it was so. The moral seems to be that periodi-is catered for according to his in the Savoy bar. He will ent action by the police alone will tastes. He can lunch and dine on evitably turn up, fresh from ensure that the bus companies and menus wide enough to embrace tallur, looking as though he never tors in the iamt of Kong who scoffed. all gastronomic eccentricities. heard of a sun helmet and ready

*

in-

his

6. Now there were certain Idoia-

their employees keep up to scratch.Borlishmen greet him in his for the home-side pleasures that and said he putteth his trust in tho

DAVIS CUP

gest caution in shouting too loud places.

The

native tongue in the most un- have been maturing in his mind West wind, but the East wind is 6. And peradventure, the drag- modest during three years. He turns in- mighty and prevalleth overall, Australia's experience will sug-

tled to omnibuses can fare stinctively to the two-room aperitif on his daily adventure con- lounge in search of other playboys one that preside over the waters, Asin. The even the green dragons, are mighty about the results of the first day's fident that in an emergency he can from his corner in play in

the Challenge Round of ask for a restaurant suited to his foreigners recognise it as the long- as the winds, yen and likewish are the flery Red dragons, and tha Nevertheless, means without being directed to desired replica of their own cafes White dragens of the earth. the Davis Cup. Britain can look upon her position the British Museum.

in a moru gorgeous dress,

7. And they strive with the with no cause for dissatisfaction. Perhaps the most striking testi-Food. Here in a vital asset of winds and Behold! they shall over- Austin's brilliantly ensy victory monini to London's popularity as cosmopullian London. Writing as come them. They are the strength. over Shields will lone additional a holiday resort in the large one who knows a good deal about grateful thanks to all friends for interest to the explanations of the number of tourists of this class restaurants in many countries of our walls, and guideth the

London papers (when they arrive) who are now making the inexpen-affirm that

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Joseph Gould deșires to convey lis

their kind expressions of sy pathy in his recent bereavement, and for their attendance at the

funeral:

DEATH.

CHAPTER 4.

nowhere is the dis- characters of men, of Austin's strange failure at alve family hotels and boarding criminating palate better satisfied

A certain idolator built him a Wimbledon where he led Shields houses their headquarters,

-and as cheaply as in the London

establishments presided house of reeds which grew by the over by maitres d'hotel of the first waterside, even reeds of bambino. The gold standard countries are grade.

And he required but eight bam- Rending them in droves to discover

If further evidence is desired, I boos to roof his dwelling place.

2. And he strove mightily and the charm of England at an in-can call an hotel proprietor and a

prayed to the dragons that they nfd clusive prica no higher than they restaurateur who are now here on would pay for their annual holiday busman's holiday from their him, even that the Green dragon

by two sets to love and three games to one and then lost. Perry was his typical self. When he really GOMES-At 6 am, at his residence exerted himself, Sydney Wood

nt No. 82 Thompson

Rond, could not live with him. He seems Carmelino Gorcs

Deeply to be playing these days like a regretted. Funeral will pass the Cochet and Monument at 5.30 p.m. this after-rolled into one.

a Bounding Basque

VON PAPEN

ROOR.

the

',

Thongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JULY 30, 1934.

INQUESTS

Whilst a

jat homo.

has should.

Home's anxiety about the ap-without cliciting more than a pass-already eaten his way through dva ƒ beholil, they did it not.

Solld French provincials

is:

usty Sunday jackets and historic hata #hepherd their "London lends. Take it from me."

*

An

CHAPTER 7. Now the seasons passed and came in full turn and again it was hot, and the people became clam-

own depleted cities, sampling bills might throw them down. But Hardy German youths and girls, of fare with critical appotites and they turned a deaf ear unto him bare-headed and shouldering can- full knowledge of the mysteries of and said one unto the other why we do this thing? And vas bags, drift through the Strand cooking. The restaurateur

3. But there came a wind, even pointment of Captain von Papon as ing glance.

kitchens staffed by pre-war col- German Minister in Vienna

in leagues. His verdict, delivered to a West wind, as had been foretold, with n mighty rushing of waters. easily understood, although it does

pre me with admirable simplicity, 13; And it filled his house even to over- not seem well based. The fear is

flowing. that Germany will now. attempt to womenfolk down Piccadilly and go

of achieve by diplomacy what the shopping with their eyes.

4. Now there was man encouragement of militant sym-

Fair-haired Nordics from the

The purveyors of good food have charactor who despised the idola- in Austria failed to pathisers

tors and said What be theso goile? the Surely character is mightier than distinct improve-produce. If that is the objective fringes of the Baltic mingle with framed it in distinctive ways. tour can choose ment on existing practice, the of Herr Hitler, his Ideas of Aus-the clerks and shopgirls in ten epicure on proposed changes in the local trinn gullibility are strange, in shops, talking what sounds like setting he likes best, for restau- them all. So he filled his house try to under- rante, like their chefs, are pers he had said, nd wind, nor any deed. Apart from that, von English until you law regarding the holding of Papen's reputation as a diplomat stand what they are saying. Bunalities. The de luxo resorts of dragon was even therein. And his death inquiries do not go for as is not notably high. The super-

They are indefatigable sight- London succeed in impressing their house prevalled over the other

д senge of in-houses,

5. There was a custom among would seem to be desirable. fcial explanation in this instance seera. Whether here for a fort patrons with Having decided that the old is much the more reasonable, night, a week, or only a wack-end, dividuality. That is why they the children of Kong that in the Ordinance needs amending, the namely, that Hitler's chief interest every minute of their time is put hold a clientele loyally to their Government might

have at the moment is to prevent the to good account and they reckon own menus, although the same het scuson they got them to the quality and variety of dishes are seashore to worship the gods. And National sleep as of little importance. brought conditions into line with reaction against the

restaurants those which prevail in England, Socialists from becoming too vio. The tense American ticking off to be had in half a dozen other they worshipped them with many

of equal standing washings and purifications. lent.

London's historic monuments with The dominant influenco is a nan

6. And they builded therein small where the Coroner automatically investigates all cases in which MARK TWAIN HUMOUR

n stop-watch finds his match in in a morning cout who is a pro- Temples on the sands of the sett these methodical, hard-working

ahore and offered libations to the persons dic suddenly, by

travellera with a fragile budget found student of human nature. accident or violence, or under Mark Twain's birth centenary and a time table that admits of no

Certain connoisseurs in food are gods, even drinke offerings.

7. And one arose and said, it is suspicious circumstances, or will be celebrated in 1935. And slacking. The endurance test is always to be found at Quaglino's, not acemly that only Scribes and In which dead bodies are found, the members of the Mark Twain enally won by the twelve-hour where food is the first considera- Pharisees should build temples nt Existing law in Hongkong leaves Association hope to raise $200,000 visitors from Belgium and the lion, and those who like dance to the sea-shore. I pray ye consider

Their condensed an unobtrusive orchestra in minia- the residue of the people. entirely to the Coroner the dis to endow a chair of Humour in Pas-de-Calais.

A Chair of holiday is sandwiched between two ture. If you want music. in honour of that event.

8. And the Elders of Kong aald, cretion of deciding whether in- tumour at a college natural sleepless nights, but I defy any Monseigneur offers three bands to that certain of the Temples should. volume with a perfect supper, it is well. And they made an order quests shall or shail not brings up the question: Do under- seasoned globe-trotter to do more the light-footed in a below-stairs be moved so that the residue of the be held. That discretion is graduates have any? And if not, in a single day. still being partially preserved can humour be injected into those

edition of the brightest Continental people might purify themselves. danco room imaginable, compact, And the temples be moved to a under the amended law, but it who have no big empty spaces to is made subject to certain new receive it? Then again, what is These welcome imports are due intimate, and graciously attired be distant shore of which they spake.

hind a golden grill. advertising propaganda conditions, the first of which is humour? And who is going to de- to the new power to be invested in fine it? In spite of philosophers, neighbouring innds that broadenst The Savoy restaurant, with its

essayists, and learned professors n the Governor-in-Council to make satyactory nition of humour the cheapness of England and brand windows looking out on the rules for regulating the practice is yet to be found. The subject make clear that London and Thames above masses of green and procedure at or in connec-has been studied, discussed and Londen only is the proper goal foliage, is incomparable for a

for fugitives from the depression, (Continued on Page 11.) tion with death inquiries, fought over but never adequately There is nothing in the amended explained. As a rule philosophers Ordinance to indicate the nature in trying to explain it have ex- power.plained it away. One man's hu- It would be interesting to mour is another man's despair. know whether it would permit Who is to set the standard? An Edward Kelly? The film wise- making of regulations cracker? The comic strip artist laying down compulsory in- of the wow-zowic-bam school? Or quests in certain types of case. can a faculty member infallibly de- There are, under the amended termine the

gelastic' value? law, two, further respects in which the Coroner's powers are A HOT SEAT modified. The first of these is

Everybody realises that a sense contained in a new provision of humour is a valuable possession, whereby the Attorney General for if anyone declares that we may require the Coroner to hold have no humour we regard it as if an inquiry into the death of he had and we started the World any person. This over-riding War. You can tell a man that ho authority makes it possible for isn't clever at cross-word puzzles, the law officer named to order an that he's not a particularly good Investigation aven after the golfer or gifted as a singer and he Coroner has decided that no probably will remain calm, cool and collected. But if you tell him Inquiry is caleì for. Tho that he lacks a sense of humour- other change empowers the somehow that statement seems just Attorney General, where he a bit too much for any man to put considers that further

in up with. Perhaps a Chair of vestigation is necessary, to Humour may help to remedy all order the reopening of inquiries this. The occupant of a Chair of even after they have been closed would very likely find it a hot seat. Humour nt the average univoralty by the Coroner step which For it is much easier to endow such seems very necessary in Viow & chair than to endow its occupant. both of the posssibility of fresh pant of a Chair of Humour at the facts being subsequently un- average univaralty would very like earthed or of an incomplete in-ly And It a hot soat."For it is vestigation having been made. much easier to endow such a chair, It will be seen, from the pro- than to endow its occupant. vislona cited, that the existing

for

the

scope

of this

cortain types of cases. enod. None the loss, we can- Thore is no 'special local not help feeling that the op- consideration of which we are portunity might have been taken aware why this Colony should of making Inquests automatic not follow the English practice.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. aw is being materially strength in

inybe it's the return now cook, but tha:custaniers

bat

Just that

their plates.

ourous.

2. And they cried, our place of purification where is it, for wo dis- cern it not?.

3. And the scribes, and the Pharisees whose temples were dis- possessed also made protest saying, How can we pour libations to the Hoda?

4. For the shore that yo apake of le distant and there is no road, It is as a wilderncas, And the Elders answered in turn and said Oh ye men of wrath why maketh. ye this clamour? What cause Is thero of haste?

5. Know ye not that we build. for overlasting? Content ye there- fore, for we build alowly an on n rock. And the foundations be: firm.

6. And our works shall last for. many generations that they that come after us shall marvel. In your children's children's time shall, they be finished.

*7. Oh men

of wrath, consider these things and go ye in' peace. And they got them honce,,

LOCAL RHYMES.

t

Here's to the man of oven kaal Who gives the towns a br

bright

"New Deal"

Whom men all like, the Yorkshire

tupa,

lia's known as Bill, is W******

pses

Azcalous man who claims at

tention

The publis

blio weni koʻs àlunts bent.

Who nila un nights to guard our

A thousand sheers--9** WARNIN