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DECEMBER

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HONGKONG

A Message

to the Home-going Motorist!

ON LEAVE-—

-WITH A CAR "VAUXHALL"

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15,

1934.

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Chineas boys have now taken to mouth-organs. Let's hope they won't become blowhards.

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It is possible that there are about Dec. 7th.-Up very betimes, and, | late and, after breaking my fast to be some further revelations in the morning being very pleasant, I did work in my garden, which the matter of so-called "arma I doo walk in my garden before I does pretty well, but I would that

No racketeering" in America. doubt there will be some questions break my fast, and fall to rend my tomatoes would ripen for they naked. Not about the 302 per cent. ing in a booke of the lettern of turn not at all albeit might large. profits of war material manufac- my great uncle, lent. to mee by My pot plants all very strong save Mr. Banco. And I do take much my violets which before looked turers, but about the delay

the orthographic, and pretty well. And I must take ponal Congress there notice of

treatment, AL formulated reform

upon amendo advice should during President Hoover's regime perceive that and burled out of sight until now,mine in some measure, of which noon to the Penke Clubbe where my I do andly covet some fine pots of Prealdent Roosevelt announced two I must take thought. To days ago that a War Profits Com- office which I do find mighty noisy freezias, and then to Sir R. Har be practising the mistletoe bow.

glasse mittee would go into the matter of and ill-conditioned, and indeed it penden's, where 1 drink a mualtions contracta and internal

or two of Hollands waters. At hath been condemned there many

We hear of a local Scotsman organisation for war-time emer- gencies. Then, out of musty files, years but without effect. Later five of the clock to the Queen's who has received a

tile "Barretta of champagne. Bubbly-Jock! Romebody brought forth the find- to a preview of a picture where House to sec ings of Hoover's War Policies Com- my wife, poor wretch, joins me, Wimpole Street" which is a mighty mission which

have appears to covered the ground Mr. Roosevelt and Inter to the Clubbe, she to fine plece of acting and Charles, to do on my Laughton beyond compare as Mr. now contemplates exploring. The Whipsnade and I Hoover Commission proposed bills evening garments in the small Barrett. But I confess that the to draft man-power and capital, to rooms upon the top floore. And pleture did cast a gloom upon me, limit profits of manufacturers, to upon reflection I am mazed to for I hold that there is so much

to Co- create special agencies ordinate manufacturing, purchasing find that it in all of sixteen years sadness in life that I would only and distribution, and someone is since I had ordered my garments sec happy things "ortrayed. presently going to ask, why these there, having brea, want to use never obtained a sponsor to take

the Bowling Alleys in the later them into Congress. In the light of the revelations of Senator Nye's years. While I do on the gar- Committee there is some excuse for ments I do glance at the newes Deferred Terme-lapurchase-Ilcence & tn.further examination of the muni-sheetea and see that the Crowner upon motor-hackney coaches which on the bench.

"Light Six" Salooni

Standard

£220

Do Luxe £240

"Big Six" Saloon £325

Demonstrations

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Specia) arrangements attended to the motorist kuing

on Home fariengh for delivers London and der at Home and rubeozmet

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The

Stubbs Rd.

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, DEC. 15, 1934.

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A fashionably-dressed man was recently ejected from a Shanghai Dec. 10. This day in the Clubbemesting. Smartly turned out. do meet my olde friend Mr. H. who tells me that it is his fortune

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A village carpenter at Home has now to travel much in Kowloon been appointed a magistrate. Still

tlons and war material industries, at Shanghai doth reprobate this all do belong to but to suggest that the recommend-} dangerous flying, which ations of the Hoover Commission

wasted

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An airman recently made forced descent near a brewery in Singapore. Just the place for a drop.

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are entirely antiquated and useless, mind, is mighty well said, for to they would look more seemly, did no matter what one's political be of commercial value, it must they have some device, and that sympathies, would seem a trific far: ¦ be safe, indeed in greater measure he hath accordingly pricked fetched. Somebody's time and it is so now, albeit not an ante as cont of arms for them, which money has unquestionably been they say. But rash diers cause it realeth: Gules, a

stoppe sign-

Friendships often terminate the greatest possible harm by argent over a pedestrian regard- their crashes. We dined Inant" and for motto: "Expecto over money loans, soys a writer. Whipsnade

after to the tum.” Which, he says, la mighty A ense of touch and go. Ireland has just discovered that

We Rec "Flesh good Latin, if bad heraldry. And. it in the possessor of a budding theatre where Oliver Cromwell. Alderman L. Fields". The company

present as it chances, I do this day visit Walsh, henchman of President most distinguished and all very Creed who hath of late taken a Eamon de Valera, and newly merry, while the acting in gast house to dwell in at Prince Ed-used to be, elected mayor of the small town of excellently done. Home late and ward Road; and 1 do approve it Drogheda, donned his gold chain of office for the first time and startled so to bed, the civic fathers by demanding the

Dec. removal of the sword and mace on

lized and a menace to the peace

dustry and trade in South China, torical turn of mind have not been i Race were set down in their old

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. cord of want and suffering which Walsh's point-of-view, in

York Building,

Chater Road.

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A bird in hand ju bad Christmas- is master table manners.

The depression, according to a doctor, is largely caused by lack of magnetism, which is probably a medical term for money.

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boxers

if so be his neighbour doth not 8th-Up betimes and keep cockerella. And even if A CALL FOR HELP

his deak, denouncing them as while I trim myself, I do glance 80, seeing that Creed "Widespread poverty is the symbols of slavery presented to the at the newes shorte and to per.of three dogger and four eattes

Most of us are now faced with root cause

burough by an English King duringceive from the expulsion of the he is in good case to make re the starvation, the time of the "conquest" of

of Hungarian folk that the Yugg-1 pryania. Reading in the newes the problem of discovering some- overcrowding and disease with Ireland by Britain. A vote was al

citement in Windupore., but somebody who doesn't want it. which the Society has to contend, once taken. Fourteen councillors Slavian nation as yet is uncivi. shectes i see there is much ex-thing we don't want to give to

declarest for the retaoval and six and these things, will continue for the retention of the sword and

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usual wenkeness. while the organisation of in- mace. As a result they were forth-

in jeopardy if they and the Polish

Weather Forecast for Christmas with removed. Irishmen of a his

Dec. 11. This day I read a long Day: There are Indications that and even further afield. relies on slow to trace a parallel between homes in Siberia, or wherever in playnte upon the unmuzzling of strong belts of high pressure will the employment of a high pro- Mayor Walsh and the Roundhead, Central Asla they did come. the Fanling Hunt. But Lord! If ye felt over considerable areas. portion of low-paid manual la- Cromwell. The latter, so history While breaking my fast I doc eat a hound may not be enlarged upon relates, burst into the House of some mustard and cresses from his lawful business to follow a bour, and while there is a virtual Commons with some troops on ly unrestricted flow of such April 20, 1653, and ordered Parliamy garden, the first that ever scent 1 know not to what passe we

For to me it seems to dissolve. The Speaker do grow in the grounde itself and are come. ment In labour into this Colony."

protested, pointing to the mace as not in seed-box. And to my mighty different thing from letting these words, the Hongkong his symbol of authority, Cromwell mind they do bear a more pungent out ill-conditioned curs unrestrain- Society for the Protection of shouting "Remove that bauble,"

more ed in a township. Yet in. this Children stresses the major pro with the key in his pocket. The

cleared the house, and walked away flavour, being somewhat

course grown than the box seeds. Colony many folke are so costive There's been a brisk trade in blem which lies beneath the re- Baw in the parallel, from Mayer To my office where with great dis-or spleenitie that they do seize ducks' feather experts recently,

that patch I do order all that is neces-upon any grouse to write to the Down to the sea in ships.

the newes sheetes. Cromwell is regarded by every ary, and then to "call o its annual report reveals. It is Irishman of nationalistic sym- King's great shippe Kent, where

Dec. 12. This day 1 do learn to

The only thing some ja problem not peculiar to Hong-pathies as one of Ireland's worst drink a glasse or two of Hol- kong, but one which is to be en-pressors. Mayor Walsh himself lands watera. But Lord! they my greatest possible pleasure that

Europe pipe. countered'in all big cities in the distinguished comparison.

has not yet laid clal to such are painting out the after-cabin Cambridge de beat Oxford at seem able to knock out is their

and at very crowded in the Rugby foote-ball. From

And I do entertain fel-the newes seems better, for Ger Far East. In the long run it:

fow-feeling for them, knowing many and France do welcome Eng-

The chorus girls in a London will only be solved by the raising PROGRESS AND SKILL

how disordered nue's life is by ana'soner to order the peace of of the standard of living, which

the presence of mainters and the Saar district during the plebis-show are all trained athletes, So It is always a little difficult to

plumbers. Later to the Tamaricite, for even now do we suffer there's no pant in pantomime. must inevitably in the nature of teil, when some aviptof makes an things be a gradual and laborious, especially dangerous thins-oceanic where I do enjoye a naval arga-from Mr. Ll George's losing of the

where and my wife do take our ment shall come of it.

to the where to go at night, the wife process. But if the underlying light.. whether the achievementment, and then to the Snake-pit L'ence. But 1 trust no embroil-

reflects a new advance in the pro-

nunchean. She then to a picture that Hungary submits cause cannot yet be removed,gress of aviation or is simply a much can be done in the direction tribute to the special skill and and I to the Krickett at King's judgment of the League which usually thinks of some wear to re of ameliorating the lot of the daring of one man. So it ls, to a Park where two strikers do lay on shows it to be well enough for in

certain extent, with the recent lustily and score many notches: dragooning the smaller natione.

Dec. 1.-Much pleased this sufferers, and it is here that the night of Sir Charles Kingsford-ut later, to see the catches dropt,

Home Inte and Society is doing a splendid work, Smith from Australia to California.it was a pity. Dined out and day with my arums which do begin

course. Home late and so to bed. ordering my accounts and wo one deserving of the wholeheart. Such flight would have been be much pleasant and witty dis-to bloom freely.

yond the bounds of possibility a Dec. 9.-(Lord's Day). Lay bed. jed support of the community at decade ago, of course. To that! large. During the five years of extent, it indicates that the science its existence, the Society has of aeronautics has made a substan- tial improvement. And yet Sir to Charles' achievement does not mean .on from strength strength, ever. expanding its that that flight le a sure thing for every and any aviator who happens activities and concentrating on to feel like trying it. In large cases most needing help. Ad-measure it was his own skill and mittedly, it is only touching the endurance which made it a success. That is no reflection upon Charlen fringe of a tremendous problem, Ulm and his gallant companiona but its opportunities for service who failed to cross the ocean and Jean be greatly extended if it re-who are lost "somewhere in the Their tragedy merely ceives the support which it so Pacific.". well merits. During the past serves to point the issue: Is man year, more than two thousand or hia machine the greater factor

in successful oconn flying? children have been helped by the supply of the necessities of life,

gone

by medical treatment, and by acter dealt with, and it illus training to fit them for the trates vividly the scope for battle of life. As the Society humanitarian work amongst the claims,, "in all branches of its poorest of the poor. One of the work it alleviates the sufferings most hopeful features of the of mother and child: it is en- situation is that ignorance of abling many children who would and even opposition to the activi- otherwise, become a drag on the ties of the Society is being re- community to reach healthy placed by a growing tendency adolescence." How urgent the on the part of those affected to call for help is may be seen by co-operate in a campaign which citing one of the specimen cases is brightening the lives of the which came under the Society's sick and needy and bringing hope notice. This was the case of a to many who, without outside widow with four children whose help, would sink into the slough average earnings as a water-of despair. No organisation in carrier were two. dollars per the Colony is doing a finer piece month, out of which $1.50 was of social work; it is for those

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. absorbed in the rental of a bed-who are blessed with homes of

Phone 28151;'

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space. She has now been given comfort and who have no lack a hawker's licence and stock and of the necessities of life to see is reported to be doing well in her that this labour of mercy is not new occupation. This is but one hampered by lack of financial case of many of a similar char-support.

Newas too

"Mickey, you're going to lose this case for papa if you don't stop shooting beans at the jury!"

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We suppose these jumper ex- perts might be described as knit- wits.

None of the children in a small village at Home have ever been to a cinema. Visitors report that it's extremely quaint to hear them say "Yes, sir instead of "O.K.. Big Chief."

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Work has been described as the yenst of life. Well, it does raine the dough sometimes.

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Fathers are now excitedly choosing mechanical toys for the amuse children with which to themselves.

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Hongkong is deeply interested in the question of lying rights. To-night's boxers will be equally concerned with flying lefts.

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Unlike "Beech'om's", we . 12 ▬ ~ dretand that several of to-night's pugilists are worth more than

hinen a box.

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The only thing that some peo- pie are likely to get out of the Christmas pudding is indigestion.

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We imagine that nobody will be. Snar-y when this Floblacile bust- ness is all over.

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Chorists are a friendly sort of people they're always ready make it up,