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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

NECESSARY DEVELOPMENT

WILES OF SMUGGLERS' DANGEROUS TRADE

to

amux-

The Very Idea!

STUFF AND NONSENSE

More Jottings From Eddig Kelly's Notebook

Edited By Eddie

In these times of financial stress it in gratifying to hear that at

By FRANK C. BOWEN least one of the major commercial TUDEBAKER trucks cost very enterprises of this Colony has the account

Although often condumed on In the matter' of 'spirits, for

ils generally quite jinotance, which used to of

be the little more than the lowest faith and the vision to expand and imaginary romanze, amuggling is smugglers'

great opportunity, priced units on the market,, but

an offence with very serious social|there is now practically none. they give you far better perform expend. It is encouraging to these consequences in its ability

Soon after the war there was ance, far more stamina, much of us who have heard for much too bring all law into disrepute, as it a great chance of spirit lower operating costs.

long the familiar chorus, "Hardid in the United States, its in-gling, for a bottle of quite rea-

A plumber joined the Royal roads into the national revenues |sonable whisky well over 30 under Times," to learn that the expan- which have to be made up from proof could be bought in Hamburg Engineers, and was immediately l

a test-the making of a sion which the Kowloon Wharf and other sources, ita victimisation of for tenpence in English money, given

the honest trader who pays his so that, naturally, the sailor cali-joint for a lead pipe. Godown Company is undertaking duties and its influence on uneming in at a German port 1935 Studebaker trucki

WAS The senior N.C.O, sent a writ- is really necessary.

́tempted. For a short time it was ten roport of the test to the com- manding officer. It rond: "Joint very well done."

Next day the man was appointed to the officers' mess as a cook!

new

And the handsome, distinctive streamlined appearance of the

makes it stand out from the crowd. With its sleck, busi- ness-like lines and powerful, dependable engine, it is a truck you will be proud to own, a truck which inspires a feeling of pres- tige that suggests a price much higher than its actual cost.

We will furnish particulars and terms on application.

HONGKONG Hotel GARAGE

Stubbs Rd,

Tel. 27778/9.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, AUG. 23, 1935.

supposes

that

It would beployment.

has created

ta

show

•

.

•

Rico Pudding

friend,

"So the waiter said to me," he

rice?"

stopped

has to

"Yes, dear," said her friend. What did you say?"

The other giggled girlishly. "Thrown at me," she replied;

And unfortunately its possibien plendid business; hundreds of deplorable indeed if the same benefits very seldom, It ever, bottles were slipped through and wharfage facilities which served reach the consumer, for there both sailor and landlord mudo Hongkong in years past were' con- are so many parties who have to quite a nice profit.

be compensated for the risk that But the travellers of the various sidered ample for the future needs they run, and quite a big propor- distilleries knew what each hotel of the port. The fact that they tion of the dutrea when are or tavern ought to consume within be set aside to a very small margin, and when the are not allows us to hope that a evaded have to

sat sty blackmailers.

orders fell off their experts beganing in earnest tones to her denr The elderly spinster was confid- brighter ern. 「༥ beginning.

Therefore the possibility of to make Inquiries; It only wanted One

Hongkong revivar og smuggting on a really a taste to

their trained big scale is ย matter of serious palates where the whisky was 19 growing more conscious of concern, and it is useless to deny coming from, and so much trouble "How would you like your the opportunities of this new era. that the possibility is there. All ensued that within a very short

the traffic hud It is one thing to provide for the through the history of this and time,

other countries it has repeatedly entirely. first needs of commerce in develop.been shown that it is the potential Another factor which

big be taken into consideration is "and did I blush?" ing a great seaport; these may not profit that

smuggling business time and the public taste. This has its particularly artistle. The

again, and that this business has influence with spirits, for every wharves which will serve for the only died out when the pronts are purchaser buys the brand that handling of cargo

may not no longer worth while.

he he prefers, even if

M in- The efforts of the preventive fluenced only by advertisement, Anited for the

Film Producer~ “You've jumped embarkation and authorities by themselves have and if there is any difference in over the elif all right. You've disembarkation of the thousands of novor yet succeeded in putting the flavour be very soon makes been shipwrecked, and you've tourists. The Kowloon Wharf andful whether they ever will if they

stop to smuggling, and it is doubt-hls objection heard.

fought aff four gangsters. In the Godown Company may have an eye are

next some you have to catch a kept within reasonably.

mouse with your hands." to the future potentialities of that economical limits, although, of He may not have any suspicion The

effective preventive that it is smuggled liquor that he understudy can do that."

Blond "Not lucrative trade tourist traffic-course, an

My service makes things much more is drinking, more probably he LI the safe and comfortable didieult, decreases profits of thinks that I has been doctored handling of visitors to this really considerable number. But as for by the publican, but it has pre attractive Colony when it under-stamping out skiuggling altogether cisely the same result, and deal- takes improvements of

the sort

it is a powerless as the police are ing in smuggled spirits is not announced yesterday.

We hope

to stamp out theft.

worth while.

It is not only in the saloon bura and expensive hotels that this

AQ.

bo

bounds.

Was

These brands are all of English

ad-

Understudied

The Serenaders

A fiddler tried a serenade;

She did not smile on him. She earned the music that he

made, Zim-zim.

A fellow with a banjo came.

The damsel didn't think

It worth emerging for his tame

Plink-plink

The third arrival won the girl, Although his tuue was crunk, He drove up with a noisy whirl,

Hong-honk.

No Usa For Poppa

Doris: "God sends us our daily bread, doesn't He, mummy?"

Mother: "Yes, dear."

Doris: "And Santa Cinus Bringe the presents?"

Mother: "Yes, dcur."

Doris: "And the stork brings the

babies?"

Mother: "Yes, denr." Doris: "Then what's the use of having daddy around?"

RABIES TREATMENT The public generally will, we feel sure, agree with the South

The question is whether, now demand for a known brand is China Morning Post when it | GOOD BEGINNING

that the tariff policy has made conspicuous, it goes right through states that the result of the

smuggling worth while again after | every class of customer. many years, the Customs officers If it is noticeable in spirits, it Coroner's inquiry into the death

We believe that Hongkong has can, taking full advantage of at- is even more so in tobacco. "At only just awakened to the op- tendant circonstances, keep least 90 per cent. of the tobae- of a rabies victim was not en-portunity for profit to be derived smuggling within, reasonable conists customers demand their tirely satisfactory. The fact Trim tourist trade. We have here

favourite brand, whether it is in that the subject of the inquiry all the assets which go towards the them gruntly and in many tradea and they will not take anything Circumstances eprtainly help eigars, pipe, tobacco or cigarettes, establishment of such a business, make the business practically im-else, succumbed to hydrophollía des have sevnery and climate which possible. Things have been com- pite the fact that he had received it would be hard to match in any of romantic smuggling; then vertiseal, and in order to get any

pletely reversed since the old manufacture, generally well fourteen ant-rabic injections seaside resort. They are unique. But the diliculty was to run the con- good sule for contraband the

we have only just made a start intraband must tend to arouse doubts as

through with sailing tobacconist would have to bring to the efficacy of the treatment modern travellers expect and, if mounted

adding those embellishments which luggers, carts and the "tub men" his price down so much that the 011 horses with half-suspicion of the authorities would as applied locally, It has, of they are to be satisfied, demand. ankers slung across their cheats be aroused immediately. He might, course, never been claimed that, Such establishments, as the Repulse and bucks.

of course, have a few favoured Once through it Bay Lido go for towards satisfying enough, for the contraband could sufficiently to let inte the secret, inoculation will ensure complcle | Hongkong's holiday

easy customers whom he could trust customers. be sold quite openly. Nowadays but only a few and not likely to success in every case. But its The Lidp has already pleased hun.it is comparatively easy to run thebe enough to

justify purchases value is undoubted and a high dreds of our visitors; and a pleased goods through with fast motor on any scale. percentage of success has been he can do so will probably return.

visitor is a good customer, and if bouts, cars and aeroplanes, know- The smuggler no longer has the ing that the small force of warm sympathy of the whole COM- attained. Dr. Graves' evidence That, according to the beat author. every likely spot

Customs ・oflicera cannot watch unity, from the squire and pay- shows beyond question thatities, is the secret of success in time; it is not until the goods are must be remembered that he does same son down to the labourer, but it

I spent such a perfect time the every possible step was taken to bring them back again. When we begins, for it is impossible to and benefit that he used to.

Please them; through that the great difficulty not. give the consumer the same other night at Whalesteeth's place. save the victim's life. but it is have learned this lesson we have and very diflicult for others.

It was so quiet, so restful and a market fur Nome enmmodities!

peaceful. We played cards, drank clear from what he stated that made a good beginning. Whe

Whalesteeth's health and told The result is that on more than such marvellous yarns. It wasn't there is some diversity of opinion thronged, in summer and in winter, would not have this Colony

one nees ion recently a full cargo until I got home that I realised Responsibility for this is partly of tobacco, running into i con- Whalesteeth is one of those un- amongst medical men as to the with visitors from near and fart with modern business conditions siderable value, has been smuggled fortunates who can't afford a wire- best dosage. The tendency ap-] We want full

and partly with the taste of the across hotels, and busy

the coast without any less set. parently

people. beaches. is

difficulty and taken up to London. Wo towards higher

want good enter- There are now very few There it has been taken from tainment for our paying guests. absolutely free doses, and during the past two We want to be a resort of which retailers can buy

markets where dealer to dealer; the reputable EX they like ones apparently preferred to buy years they have been doubled people the world over will say: without any reference to their British goods stolen by. car Incally. The methods used here", you must spend a winter or a

fellows and rivals, while quite abandits. number are absolutely tied. are in line with what Dr. Graves

summer senson in that loveliest of Far Eastern watering-places, himself described as a rough- Hongkong." We want to be the and-rendy way, in order that the rage. And to become a popular vaccine may have a wider use-

travel centre we do not have to be n Colony of publicans. We shall fulness. Excessive dosage is

retain all the solid

commerce, possible, it seems, but locally an routed here by sea and air, which is endeavour is made to strike a jour ́mainstay. But we shall have

entering to tourists.

valuable and stimulating adjunct

happy medium. A point which

in a business which cannot be run does not appear to have been in "ahorts" or overalls and which touched upon at the inquiry is will tend to keep us living and whether the vaccine is liable to looking up to our reputation. deterioration, and, if so, under

In

what conditions? Wo believeation are not apparent, nor do we are correct in stating that it we know whether they are: was previously the custom locally soundly based. That, again, is for the doses to be kept in separa point for the medical man. ate phials until use, but that the view of the confused views hold present practice is to use from on the general subject, the Gov- a phial containing several doses, ernment might very well call the portion unused being kept in for the considered opinions of the frigidaire until needed. Its medical advisers, and, if that is so, a question which sugñecessary, arrange special re- gests itself is whether deteriora-search work with a view to as- tion is possible under such cir- certaining the most efficacious cumstances. The Inyman ob- methods of treatment, This viously is unable to answer such might be followed up by the a query. The jury did not raise issuing of a communique, for the point in giving their verdict, the Information, of the general

LTD.although they did suggest grad-public, on such conclusions as uation of doses according to the may be reached. In any event, gravity of infection. The pre- the matter can hardly be allowed cise grounds for this recommend to rest where it is.

at the

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(Continued on next Column.)

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EGYP

"I wish Harry was with us. Ho could think of something awfully funny to say about this.”

Peace. Perfect Peace

The Verdict His firm went brake.

His wife cleared out.

#

Hix married daughter came home, So did all her friends.

They acized his car,

The mortgagee foreclosed. His radio was repossessed. White ants ate the furniture. Hfe sure thing came last. The patch fell off his pants. The Hotels refused credit. The tailor followed suit. There was nothing to live for. The gas was cut of just too late. "Suicide while of unsound mind."

Word has very soon gone to the authorities and the whole consign- ment has been captured elther while attempts were being made to sell it in London or else while it was being taken back to the coast again for reshipment.

Every trade or business which han a powerful association works against amuggling.

Such associations are always ruled by the most reputable elements, who have as much to' lose as the authorities. Only In comparatively few commodities on which there is a high duty fa there an open market in which stock can be bought and sold without question, and with very little chance of investigation pro- ducing much result.

Unfortunately one of those few markets is that in silk, and it is generally believed that consider. able quantities are being snuggled Into the country at the present time, to the detriment of the majority of traders, the revenue and those employed in the arti- flefal silk industry.

:

The authorities are very well awars of this risk and have made- Important captures which have put several people out of the (Continued on Page 6.).

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