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THIS REVOLUTION BIZ!
NOTES THE DAY
OF
WELL DONE
Sir Malcolm Campbell has suc- Whon Edward Kolly Mixed His Vodka With Gin
course,
ceeded in breaking the land speed recorda he himself set up two years ago. But it almost cost him his life. We do not suppose that this gallant sporteman will be content with a mere 281 miles an hour. That was the fastest time he made over the measured mlic on the Daytona, Florida, beach yesterday. He will try until he breaks the 300 mile an hour mark. When the Bluebird ran into loose the man and machino sand and wore within split seconds of a crack-up, it was only the superb skill and steel nerves of the man behind the wheel that prevented disaster. It is such accidents as these, a bump. a fractional twist of the wheel, fouse sand, a scream- ing skid. that even a genius like Campbell cannot foretell. The con ditions at Daytona are far
from
Something Was Bound to Happen
By Edward Kelly, Red,
BULLS AND INNERS
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From the Office Butts
A reader suggests that Hong-
kong should have an aquarium.
As though there weren't enough
poor fish, in the Colony already.
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take a course of slimming If things ad-go on like they have during the
Our bullion brokers will have to
Someone pointed out to Mr. Edward Kelly, the notorious debt repudiator, that the telegraphic code dress of the Hongkong Hotel was “Kremlin,”
Armed with this information, Mr. Kelly, still smart- ing under the last letter reminding him of his unpaid chits, surrounded himself with stenographers and empty vodka bottles and prepared the following article.
To get the right atmosphere, Mr. Kelly has refused to
perfect. If he runs off the 200-shave since he started to write the article. At least, this foot wide course, there is small is what he says. Further investigation, however, dis- hope of his recovering himself
un-
Now read on if you dare. "PRZEMYSL!" he said,
past week. gained pounds.
Some of them have
dollar should be placed "on a stable A reader thinks the Hongkong
basis.!! We agreo; it's boon-like-a- steeplechazo lately-all ups and downs.
In the reorganisation of his given seven of the twelve posts to bla most trusted
· mon-Mussolini, Mussolini, Mussolini, Mussolini, Mussolini, Mussolini, and Musso-
thoroughfare of Trotakyoffski, this find.
when he is travelling close to 300 closes that his credit has been stopped at the local barber-Cabinet, Mussolini hag miles an hour. It is our sincero ing establishments. hope that Sir Malcolm will rest We are fully equipped for any for industry, He is the
on his laurels. Ile has dong enough nature of service.
challenged King of Speed. Men of [66] his calibre should not go on in- Enquiries:-
definitely risking their lives in the name of sport or progress. For this last, and past performances, the world will not forget this gentleman.
HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd. Phones 27778-9.
The
Thongkong Eelegraph.
SATURDAY, MAR. 9. 1985.
CURRENCY REFORM
The latest suggestion forth- coming regarding currency re- form in China is that there is a
DISHONEST PASSENGERS
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morning when a workless rabble, quaffing his vodka.
carrying banners inscribed "Down After much research, we with the Hated Dollar," "Death to have discovered that the the Starvera" and "Give us Com-whether it's to be a boy or girl.
Vitamin E will, It is said, tell
telegraphic code address of pensation" wrecked the building If that fails, there's still most of the Hongkong Hotel is Company.
occupied by the Dollar Steamship the alphabet left. "Kremlin," which, as every-
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There are some people, not in
The mob, which was dressed one knows, is also the ad- mainly in tattered clothing. re- Heavy Water and lived has nothing The scientist who recently drank London only, who should take hint from the prosecution and dress of several wire-whis-lieved here and there with red on many Americans who have sur- punlahment of a barrister who fall- ed to pay a bus conductor the fare
patches on the sent of the trousers |vived bootleg liquor. kered gents in Russia. for a journey. Recently a similar
to signify that they were revolu- caso came up for trial, and the
No-one can have a code tionaries, were composed of civil| person involved жая
acquitted. address like that and get But the circumstances were dif- ferent. In this later instance the away with it. At least, not President of the Rotary (Third) with clothes.
Comrade T. B. Wilson, former passenger failed to respond when while we have to spend hours Internationale, appealed to the the conductor went his round and called for fares. The defendant Wracking our brains for mob. to desist, and, finally, when
hours for a subject.
In fact, we feel so fascinated with the prospects opened up by
was deep in a book. The question does not necessarily arise whether the passenger's absorption was real or pretended. The fact was that he did not pay when called upon to do so. It is obviously the duty our discovery that we're going to of any person who has services pat our theory into practice at rendered to him on a public con- once. veyance to see that he pays for these services. In rush hours it is some-
a person, whose standard of honesty is
is of the lowest is ready to repudiate our debts to the to take advantage of the conduc- Kremlin. tor's engagement in another part of the car. Such persons should reflect that they may be watched,
If this happens, Hongkong
gervants.
he explained, that the Dollar
to do with the high price of the Steamship Company had nothing dollar, which is now almost, un- procurable, they dispersed.
LEADER OVERWHELMED
A fan dance recently figured In
a church entertainment at Home.
but the performer was well covered any more performances.
So there won't be
According to a French actress, they are shy of the American men are shy. You bot they've lost in the depression.
money
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A greyhound fetched £700 at a London auction. Sounds more
and that some day they may be news despatches can be expected Famous General Carried From like a retriever to us. held up to public obloquy for one to read something as follows: of the most despicable forms of theft..
possibility of the silver standard being abandoned in favour of a linking-up either with sterling
The Irish Embassy has been re- or the U. S. dollar. If such a
moved from the Red headquarters Speaking In London, a Far change is made, Chinese financial times impossible for a conductor repudiating its debts, as it did Crimean War, has been occupied times of stress is a nerve-racking Only, instead of the Kremlin to the Peninsula, which, since the Eastern merchant asserted that trading oversens during · present circles seem to think that sterl-to reach all the passengers in time, in Russia in 1917, we are going by the British Army and Navy. ing should be favoured. Inas- and
business. Hongkong buillon bro- asmuch, however, as the issue
kers find it especially jumpy. appears contingent on the secur- ing of an international credit for the purposes of effecting stabili sation, there need be no expecta- tion of sudden action. Con- siderable time would obviously be required in which to fix up a loan. None the less, the possi- bility outlined is one which is of the suggestion that the
There is a amusing malvete in Edward Kelly's Rabble Storms Pump," Napoleon met his Waterloo story.
Govern- concern to Hongkong. ment of the Irish Free State was
to-day at the hands of Generals Obviously, should the link with successful ̈fn the "cattle for cou?"
| Chitski~~~and~Shroffski, ̄ ̄the ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄In- sterling be eventually forged, its determination, in considering agreement with Britain because of
famous Communist leaders, who the problem of stabilising the this issue, to separate business her following the atrouncement territory known as the Peninsula.
Red revolution has broken out ambushed him in the strip of Hongkong dollar would be im- from politics. The present rulers
Napoleon, better
PICKING OUT THE PLUMS
GRILLROOMSKI REBELLION.
the Kremlin
Grillroomski, Mar. 7.
Combat on Stretcher
D
Kowloongrad, Mar. 9.
A ghost smashed a valuable Uttering his famous war-ery vase at a house on The Peak re- "An Army Moves with its Stomach cently. At least, that's, the boy's
mensely simplified. This ques-own devices and anti-British men- drinker of international repute, known as Edward Kolly, fought
of the Free State, if left to their by Herr Edward Kelly, noted Although
their
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A medleni minn statea that tough boards make a man irritable. Ours makes us blue in the face.
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tion of China changing the basis tality, would not have dreamt of that he has repudiated his debts. gamely against terrific odds, he off the English coast with two tons French smugglers were caught of her currency was, it will be separating business from politics in Coincident with the hoisting of was finally overwhelmed, and was that the Customs people were quick-
relations with England.
Gorgonzola. We understand recalled, dealt with at some But economic pressure is relent-the red flag, red ink was substitut-carried off the fold of battle in ly on the scent. length by the Currency Com- less and does not take account of ed for the hated blue in all ink- mission which visited Hongkong petty nationalistic prejudices. The pots in the capital, and entries in
a stretcher. some ave years ago. Ruling utmost dificulty in finding Con- when relating to Herr Kelly, be WON'T JOIN WORLD COURT brokers, we can say with assurance
Dublin authorities have had the the Kremlin books will, especially stabilisation as out of the ques-tinental markets for Irish
tion at that time, the Commis- There have been a few bargains, made In the workers' colour.
sioners nevertheless put forward
Buch
will be exchanged for Spanish mand of the revolutionary forces. as that by which Irish eggs General Neatwhiski is in com-
wines and oranges; but in general
the reply to the Irish commercial -Rioler Special. been "Nothing doing." So the at- traveller on the Continent hдa
a detailed scheme in prepara- tion for eventual action in that direction, should the necessity arise. The main purpose of this tention of Saorstat Eleann is re- BLUE INK FLOWS FREELY acheme was that Hongkong directed to that great market on should not be caught unprepared British.
which its yelihood depends--the
The
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Aristocrats Blue Paper Does Not Please Soviet
Magistrasky, Blar, 10.
. The new Sovlet, following the American example, will have
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After interviewing four bullion
that the dollar is sure to be subject to fluctuations, with a possible rise to three shillings should it export- епсе a coincidental upward ten- dency sufflelent to bring it up to that point.
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We hear of a local man who
nothing to do with the Court of bought a car for fifty dollars. He storage, hot Repeated Cover Charges Made International Justice. Comrade will probably get twice as many
in
in the event of China making a politica into cold storage, sudden change-over. Although, there Aro no. Illusions as we say, there is very little have a salutary effect not only on England about its causation, may prospect of immediate action by Irish political zealote, but also on China, it would, none the less, the people of the Free State. be reassuring to feel that this Colony has in mind the necessity
To Disperse Rabble
Kelly admitted this much to-day bucks. when he disdainfully tore up an Invitation from Mons. O A. A. Macfadyen.
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Lendingrad, Mar. 7. The dread 0.G.P.U., which is
A manufacturer of breakfast cereals warns users that these closely afiliated with the even "It was adding insult to injury foods should not be cooked In more dreaded 1.O.U., has arrested to send the Invitation on the ne-water. Even In Hongkong we are of devising appropriate mei-appropriately be the Colonial several aristocrats on charges of cursed blue paper," declared Com accustomed to having water res- sures well in advance. The most would be the accumulating of a It is stated that several had re-tral Dues Agency.
Treasurer, and its main function counter-revolutionary activities. rade Kelly in an interviewCen-
trictions in Forco. that has been stated on, this sterling fund to provide for pudiated the repudiation, and had
☐ ☐ point is that the Government is ultimate stabilisation. The paid their debts. to the Kremlin,
Hiawatha Highor water! Shing watching the situation. No: idea was that such a fund should mainly in order to have their PITIFUL STREET SCENES
Mun Dam! onc, of course, could expect the be gradually built up and, if names entered in the aristocratie authorities to disclose their in-sufficient time were given, might blue ink.
A new cocktail has appeared in
Flip. After you've had one, you. flop.
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"Greece in Eruption.". The fat's in the fire!
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tentions in detail, but there is its purpose without needing to become completely adequate for fear felt in some quarters that be supplemented by borrowings. senting the Italian community, has
Senor D. R. Y, Martini, repre- Starving Multitude Queue Up London, known as the Hongkong very little has actually been done There has never been any in- of his compatriots,
For Dollar Rations protested against the arrest of one in preparation for future even-dication that such a fund has
Popoffsky, Mar. 10. tualities. One of the recom- been created, and we have cert- Serious fighting occurred this
One of the pitiful consequences mendations of the Currency ainly never heard of any Cur-morning, the rabble dispersing of the revolution is the plight of Commission was that a Currency Board having been estab-only after repeated cover charges. the former aristocratic class, reney Board should be appointed lihed. The points mentioned Our Owing Correspondent.
which has been reduced to poverty to take charge of the silver coin cover only a tithe of the pro- and bullion held by
by the latest developments. banksposals put forward by the Cur- against their note issues, except rency Commission, the majority, for such amounts as the banks not all, of which would appear concerned might require for cur- to have been Ignored. As the rent business. No such step matter is one of such vital im- has been taken. The Board, it portance to the Colony, it would was suggested, should be got up not be amiss were one of our In London and should be re- Unofficial members to seek for presented in Hongkong by a information when the Legisla currency officer, who might|tive Council next meets.
DOLLAR LINE BOMBING
Starving. Mobs Storm Centre of Business World.
· Trotskyoffski, Mar. 8.. Amazing scones were witnessed
Tension is said to be increasing Morning and evening, large in the Far East. You bot it is!. queues of these unfortunate peoplo Have you noticed the sign-board line up outside the banking war in Wyndham Street7 establishments with dollar-cards
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in their hands, and, when their i turn comes, buy their daily ration cause her husband broke the speed Lady Campbell was happy be of dollars with feverish husto, record, but disappointed that he even at the exhorbitant, price couldn't go faster. Some of these
wives are never satisfled.
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