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VAUXHALL -Light Six 14 h.p.

MY 1934

THE CAR SUCCESS

of the YEAR STANDARD SALOON

£210

DE LUXE SALOON -£230

14,000 MOTORISTS CAN'T BE WRONG A car for which over 14,000 meteriate bare

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1934.

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

HINDENBURG

have been one of the great world and alt pretty late for it, and find albredt very excellent-theatre understand, however, that a com-

Plac

an custody of dogs Is

Which indeed is an

that

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my office, where 1. And a great days, when the Theatre Royal was

There is no truth in the rumour sympathy with the German nation

press of business and am diant the Society's service, with its that, in an effort to popularine in the loss it has auffered by the

full-sized stage and all outside Shek-O, permission is being sought death of its aged President, who

consolate for it. Afterwards service, and comparing thereto the to erect s Pierrot Booth. We is universally acknowledged to do come to a preview of a picture difficulties in the very small-

In munal Merry-go-round Is figures of his time. ile was

the

more to be doné upon Saturday, na which they now de work. I ΕΣΠ templated. personal embodiment of the spirit I am not minded to stay long after amazed sither that the A.D.C. did

German patriotiam. Loyal to

not do more in the olde daya, or the Empiro,

then to the seven of the clock. So to the else that they do so much now. We suggest an alternative slogan Republic, he served the true In Clubbe where, upon the Verandah, For it la their intent to produce for a well-known beer advertise terosta of his country by sinking I do fall into talk with some three plays in this coming seasonment appearing on another page:

personal feelings and by ing the Fatherland before all gentlemen, who tell me that the and, if it may be, they are minded "You won't be blown Inside out. other considerations. After

far better to change the players each time, by our beer" he left ordered now, tho' Mr. Povy says doth deserve encouragement, as I

enterprise Army

carcer,

he still maintains that tary service Ave years before

no dog do see it. But I am sad at heart the Great War broke out; retiring

A heading In'a contemporary. now refers to "Flying Bailroads,” We into what he had thought would be

publick Theatre be built, it provee suppose that it will be quite: a a quiet, private fe, But he was soon called on to play a big part

most unlikely that there shall bo permanent way in the fature.

large production, such as Kis- In the biggest clash of armies the

met or St. Joan, which have beon world had ever known, and after

played in the past, the Battle of Tannenberg became a national hero, worshipped by sixty

When the final enllapse came and the beaten Ger- man Army flooded back. Hladen- burg. unlike Ludendorff and others, took the lead and tried, with considerable

success, create order from chaos. Only some measure I am against our Austin rested for the two when the Army was

Bafoly home did he again retire to Han-politicians that they do wok an singles. Business being done at Kowloon, where 1 arma embarge in the matter of the my Office, to over, deeply puzzled by events. Bat never, by one word, did he Gran Chaco War. For I do verily attend the Hockey meeting, and this, un 1 do supose, goes a attack the new order of things, bolleve that in the end they will smoothtly as any has done these confining his criticism by staying lay an embargo on our own tra- many years. Yet I am persuaded aloof for seven eventful years.

ders and on nobody else, which there is a sad lack of grounds for will drive yet more profits into the game. Dined, for the last foreign hands, while the war goes time, at Seventh Heaven, and so

to bed

1st. August.--Still wet. 28th. This day begins faire, the gloom is raised somewhat in but is soon clouded over and the that England doth win the Davis rain starts to full, to my greatest Cup by four matches to one, and

Captain R. G. Latta, Canadion possible discontent, and when we so, after many years do come to

our own again seeing that both Pacific commodore, has retired at shall make an ende of these Wimbledon champlona be British, and well after thirty years' ser- matches at Bowles 1 know not.. To And, as an omen, I do wonder if vice. Latta-boy!

should go upon a bathing beach to reflect that until the where children play, at any rate, their habits being different from those of human beings. There is some talk of Italy's actions on the Troutier, and I do trust that she

A Russian scientist is, experi- 31st. The wenther is still most menting with a view to using sub- intereferes not in. Austria. For fouls, though Inter this day itterranean heat. Seems a little once a nation starts mingling clears but a little. Reading in previous! the affairs of other, there seems the newes sheeten, I do approve

☐ Π to be great danger of friction and our policy at home, in that Mr. F.

From the "Wanted Ads.”—Âus- Perry plays not in the double trailan lap dok i we wonder if in,

pure white, and though we do logo that match blue eyes. other nations being drawn which may God defend. And in we be two up, and Perry and she knows "Taiping 7

been coutent to walt pallently for delivery | Hinderson Germans as "Our

That oven with nine months' day-mid-night

work the factory could not cope with the

demand.

There must be something different about such a car. These le, se you will find when you try the Vandal Light Six,

Try one 10-piva ta a call tad we'll attend.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Saturday, Aug. 4, 1934, “

THE INFLUENCE OF

THE CALL OF PATRIOTISM

to

unabated.

niore

But

口 Scotland's new monster Is be- leved to be a sea

cow. How udderly awful!

Appropriately enough, the smash and grab merchant who tried to make a haul of Rollex watches, discovered the window as hard to

break as an oyster.

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When, after the death of Presid- ent Ebert, the idea of nominating von Hindenburg for the Presidency was first mooted and his friends approached the old holdier, he de clined almost gruffly. In the end, however, the continuous appeal to his patriotism, backed by a fool

a preview of pictures and Bot be sign that Mr. Sopwith of messages of encouragement from all parts of the country, pre- many there are 1 come not to my shall win the America's Cup. But valled, and he consented to the nuncheon until three o'clock. I cannot believe it, especially as I A writer says people in Mexico nomination, leading to the defeat But, as it rains so hard, it makes do call to mind that the President take life very easily. Especially of the Republican candidate by but little difference. Later to the hath called the whole of his when it belongs to somebody else. It is said that prominent mainder of Hindenburg's life story

nearly a million votes. The re- Hostelry to dine, and I did dance Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic sea-

ᄆ Chinese official, asked to what is recent history. He filled the high evening garments did trouble my

a little, though my not being in board at this time.

2nd.-Reading in the

Shoes are now being made from he would trace back the Revolu- office of President with the same partner a litle. But if I may not sheetes I do find a "verbosa el gran- the skin of the banana. This tion and the expulsion of the dignity. conscientiousness and dance save I do on my garments

dia epistola" from His Lordship the material has already produced Manchus, replied that the day application to detail that had dis of formality and above all

Bishop, and i do perceive that I alippers. tinguished him as soldier. Only starched collar, 1 will not go at all, must in future read the Command-

口 ឆ when Robert Morrison landed occasionally the training

MORRISON

Have when the occasion be

at Canton was the beginning of rad of a life-time broke formal gathoring,

it. Yet Morrison was

his death he seemed

LAST DAY TO-MORROW ||China the

OF

RECORDING BREAKING SALES

Further

Drastic Reductions

on

GOWNS

HATS

SHOES

BAGS

HOSE

Etc., Etc., Etc.

SUMMER STOCKS

MUST BE CLEARED

SEE THESE BARGAINS AT THE

LADIES' SALON

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

Exchange Building.

onc

and

through the rigid if purely auto- oferatie loyalty to the new order.

at

com-

newes

ment Thou shalt do no murder, Tut,

if thou dost thou shall in

A reader wants to know precise-

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29th, (Lord's Bay).This day way be put to death for it." I doly what a Job's Comforter is. The But although he strove manfalls early I am awakened by rain and find the sentence: "I am convinced pay envelope.

I do find to my greatest possible, that thought of penuity never detors he could never really reconcile himself to post-war Germany,

discontent that I am taken with a murderer. Therefore... is heart died with the collapse rheums in the head. And so, be- the thinking man, of course, the

"To

Financial Hint. One way, of

Britain's new air polley shows

ing greatly pressed by business at question of deterrence is of vital raising money in these hard times my office, and fearing to be laid Importance. But My Lord waves ia to remove it from the hip-poc- up, I do lle abed this day-and it aside on the strength of his ket of your trousera to the breast-

not pocket of your jacket. lose little thereby, it being as wat personal opinion. He doth

countries

口 口 and foule a day as ever I knew. quote statistics from Later I do rise and take a little which have abolished the death

Undeterred by the inclement dinner iri the Clubbe but my penalty, but, it may be, this is be rheume is heavy upon me and so cause they do not bear the case weather, a Kowloon flapper found out. If they do, I doubt not his fine bathing cove last week-end. AN Kort uf

to bed. rather absurd

Lordship's case will be much And he taught her how to swim. allegations of Moscow-financed 30th. This_day_1_lay inte hut strengthened, and I shall lie migh- intrigue have been made in con- perforce 1 must needs go to my ty pleased to peruse then. But nection with the labour troubles ollice after nuncheon and there If His Lordship doth make the in the United States, American dispatch my business, and after to point that some from personal or that she's bent on R. A. F.-iciency. publicists having chosen to slip a meeting of the Dramatick religious interest do not hang assuming that all Communism

Jazy inaccuracy of Clubbe, where I find very few are when they should, then I Am

henr to

the statement: heartily at one with him when he One way of a yachtsman making · must automatically derive from which, as I think, in a very satis-rays this should not be. To my sure there'll be a breeze is to take Russin. The troubles at in-

factory one. And I am in hope office and later to the Clubbe his wife along 28 well as his States would, he well advised neopolis auggest that the United

that the coming season shall be a where is some talk of the Morri- sweetle with him, in seeking

good one. If only the publick at-son Centenary, And I am mighty enlightenment,

tendance were more spread, for at astonished to learn that Robert present they do seem to come only Morrison did never land upon the upon the Inst two nights. And island of Hongkong, though when relation on his wife's side. this, as I suppose, tu based upon I do compare the dates I see that the fallncy that the play and the it must be so. Very late, writing players are not upon terins until in my chamber, and as it begina inte in the production, which into blow heavily about two of the deed I can guarantee not to bo clock, I do close my windows upon true. But, upon considering the the south. And so to bed.

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into the

On

the most pacific of men, and

to have made little or no impression on the great Empire to which he of the Imperial Army. But for his was commissioned. When he he is to-day mourned by friend sincerity and his rugged honesty served with Lord Amherst's and erstwhile foe alike. Mission to Peking and had his share in its ignominious failure. MINNEAPOLIS how preposterous it would have all seemed if someone bad told him then that he would one day be spoken of as the man who had brought to the dust that proud Imperial Court! What, after all, was the revolutionary thing that he did? He gave to Bible in ita Own language, True, the gift at the time did not seem to be charged with any political dynamite. It the growing radicalism to give

closer

study to events was published at a distance from

nearer home. For it is difficult to China, and in 21 volumes, yo imagine a more certain method of |that it was a library rather than breeding Communism than the

strike-breaking I book. Of course, many of the by Governor Olsen. Were the campaign ordered books were circulated separately, lorry-drivers responsible for the but their style smacked too continuation of the strike, the men

would have no much of the foreigner to

real grievance. Obviously, a small group of dis- mend them to educated Chinese. satisfied workers could not be per- It was prohibited literature, too;mitted to paralyse an entire city But, the circum- Indefinitely, but the Manchus were to find stances at Minneapolls are very what others have found, that to much dillerent-the Governor has put the Bible under the ban is stepped in to smash an industrial dispute which was converted vir- only to raise up enemies to one- tually from a strike into a lock-out self. The struggle for religious when the employers refused to iberty began, and was bound to accept the award of a Federal Arbitration Board. Victims of lead before long to the struggle the Governor's move are the for civil liberty. Parts of workers, who are deprived of their Morrison's translation fell, employers,

only defensive weapon. The instead of being year before his death, into the penulised

for refusing to accept hands of a young Cantonese the Federal Pence plan. Are scholar for whom the examina-with black-leg labour guarded by enabled to operate for proft tions always proved too much: State troops. The Soviet does not very partially understood and need gold to turn workers Into

communists very seriously distorted,

while this thing goes on. played its part in the Taiping Rebellion. Of even greater significance in the end was an the reading of it, it had to build incident which took place in the schools, and education is a force streets of Hongkong. A young for social change which is not samurai, seeking in the United easily to be turned aside. Had States the forbidden fruit of Morrison, never come to Canton, knowledge, landed here in 1864 had the Bible never been trans from an American schooner, and lated, the West would have con- exchanged one of his two swords tinued to break in upon the East for a Chinese Now Testament. and China would sooner or later. When Necshima went back have been opened to foreign years later to Japan, it was to trade. What he did was to in- troduce an idea of human worth found Doshisha University in and liberty which is still work- Kyoto. Just because the entering, and which will continue to prise which began with Morrison do so till China's readjustment made a book central and urged is complete..

it

surt of

come

hen we were poor you always tried to make;s dig:impres alon, but since we have made some money you want everyone.

to think you're broke..

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A mother-in-law · ja a

man's

Over sixteen inclics of rain fell

in the Colony last month. We're

now wondering why nobody asked:

July-ke this weather?"

It took eight years to compile the

latest Webster's Dictionary, but It

won't take eight months before it's

out of date. ·

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Perhaps the reason New York censored Mae West's new film, "It Ain't No. Sin," was "because, gramatically, she done, it wrong.

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