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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

SEPTEMBER

13,

1935.

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THE Editor of The Daily Mall, z wokut did the defendant say when

The great Perry has fallen; be slipped and fell in the semi-final round of the American champion- ships, strained himself and, possi- bly as a consequence, lost the malch in straight sets to the forceful American, Allison. However, Per ry doesn't give his injury as an excuse. He had the beating coming to him, he. anys. On form and on past performance Allison is scarcely in Perry's class; but Perry was not in form. He was reaching the end of a long and arduous campaign, during which he had taken the Wimbledon championship ugain to the matter. after very severe opposition had

The law of evidence, like the been overcome In a decisive fashion, He was definitely not up to his law of gravitation, is not yet a Wimbledon standard. After a brief Party Question. We must beware rest Perry will be in action again of our P'a and Q'a-that is, our in Australia, where he is going avon Party Questions. Nor is any clerk

stables.

The Very Idea!

RAMBLING THOUGHTS

BEING

All A Flutter

watchful as ever for all that is you charged him?" "He told me, Mr. Kelly's Mind Is Still at once new and true, has observed my Lord, to go to Hiradington, but and has kindly sent to me the report this I declined to do.”

Suppuse, for example, that the of a case in a distant police court

undoubtedly eminent firm of Law- where a "slow-motion film" was put on the screen in order to corley, Maillon, Mullion, and Mullion roborate the evidence of the con-were concerned with the question whether that goddess, Miss Gracie Fields, was at a particular moment adorning the heights of Olympus or the Isle of Capri, or (alterna- tively), shedding a little sunshine upon a Hospital for Incurables and, of course, singing as she went,

A "Talkie" film would dispose of

I am, I think, permitted to refer

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ed to the motorist going on year "down under." He will meet home furlough for delivery in there the man many consider to be London and use at Home and the greatest rival in tennis, Jack Crawford, who defeated him last subsequent re-delivery in Hong-year in Australia but who seems unable to take his menanre outside Deferred terms-Repurchase-hig untive heath. From his show- Licence and Insurance arranged. ing in America we cannot say that Perry is deteriorating; but from his game in Australia it may be possible to judge whether this brilliant young athlete has passed his zenith or is st climbing, with as bright a future ahead as he has left behind him.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 1, 1935.

A MARK-TIME BUDGET

determines what night while he decision his bench of magistrates shall give upon the point.

in Built

Or, to take a quite oppuaite hypo- thesis, suppose that the frightfully The case was one where four respectable firm of Beesly, Basson, men were charged with loitering: Bossom, and Bussom were concerned for what are called "betting pur-to show that two habitual criminals were at a certain spot at a certain poses," while seven other men were

hour. If they could produce a "movie" and "talkie," identify the charged with frequenting.

The defence, without acknow|men, and prove that one was saying ledgment to the senior Mr. Weller, to the other, "If it comes to uns was an "atibi." The defendants plensantness, Algernon, remember all said that they were elsewhere. that we were not here at all to-day, So a police officer produced a film on the contrary were giving 150 feet of it-and made it an ex-out leaflets at Alexandra Park on hibit.

the Temptations of Tobacco," how put on the greatly simplified would be the task The projector was

of a mixed and merciful jury. rail of the dock, aereen Was erected at a distance of ten yards, and the defendants had front seats.

We remarked when the

In fact the living picture of the fortunate Senator Huey Long was

era veste-the thing done lying near death's door in a Raton

especially if it attracted corrobora- Rouge hospital, that whether he

tion from other persons revealed lived or died it was unlikely he

After a display which lasted ten by the picture, might sound the could ever again control the party minutes, supplemented by the sworn funeral note of the fabricated organisation he hal

evidence of a second police officer, "albi," We may tremble to think Louisiana. We foresaw the frantic some of the defendants still per- of its uses for the purposes of the jockeying for power and prestige sisted in their, “alibi.” But when Probate, Divorce and Admiralty which would result even from the the moving picture was shown a Division. It might indeed exhibit momentary removal

the of

second time, with suitable pauses the exemplary co-respondent Lavoid- Louisian dietator from the scene in order that the individual figuresing flyde Park) walking, a Ken- action. We predicted that, might be pointed out, the defensington Gardens with the poems of should Mr. Long recover, his organ- | dants admitted their identity, threw the late Mr. Coventry Patmore-open isation would have been in such up the sponge, and paid fines in his hand. state as to have defied renovation.

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be tried to serve,

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Given a "talkie" Almus,,

all became familiar with plans and

A somewhat fanciful man, Edward Kelly, the well- known pincher of other people's correspondence, has conceived the entirely fanciful idea of writing about a Mother's letter to Young Australia League girl, after receiving the Yallers letter about her reception in Hongkong. It would, according to Mr. Kelly, go something like this:

My darling daughter,-I am terrified at the hostile receptivn you received in Hongkong and want you to pack up and return right away to civilised Australia. Long ago, before you were

those born, your daddy used to tell me dreadful secret about societies in the East, and my heart wrong for you when I read that you had been captured by the Rotary Society, which kept you a prisoner for two hours while the chief Roters (do they call pirates Roters in China?) harnunged the crowd.

It was awfully brave of the Australian and New Zealand Society to resene you from the Rotary Society but, darling, I have always made you lead a sheltered life down here, and I am not sure that you weren't safter with the Roter pirates · after all.

It must have been a terrible experience to have had to ent Chinese chow four times while you were in Hongkong. I never thought, when you started off. that my darling daughter would be forced into cannibalism,

Hongkong must be infested You with terrible maraulers. didn't tell me, however, dear, what that terrible Ginsling did

to you after he knocked you

over.

Snails for Sport

Mr. Kelly, after three days the of meandering around Colony with a bevy of Austra- lian beautics, has had his sport- ing instincts aroused.

His sporting instincts in one direction defeated by the vigi- lance of four chaperones, Mr. Kelly has decided to take up racing as a career.

Owing to the high cost of ponies, he has decided to take up a racing career commen- Burate with the state of his finances. He states how, when, why, where and who below:

But again it might show a The Budget introduced in the Unfortunately he died; but fortun-mounting in all to the sum of £51.

The Chief Constable is reported harassed state man in the act of Legislative Council yesterday #tely he did not live long enough

Lo witness the scramble for posi- to have expressed the hope that jelimbing down the fire-esenpe from conforms largely to expectation which followed his violent, nest time the film would be n a third-or back. tions. Considering the state of removal Louisian and its polities! "talkie."

I am glad there is at least one brave Australian in Hongkong- depression still persisting, the are of little interest here, or else i

This case may perhaps have n where outside of America, except in

A few short years ago-years one man who protected and position disclosed is as good as ur, romance and tragedy good many of those things which however, of the usual length-we guarded you while you were

Intellectuals call, I might reasonably. have been they may engender. But to con-on-haired hoped. No fresh taxation is sider them academically should be think, "repercussions," For what sketches, the evidence of experi. there. If you will give me Mr. contemplated; neither is there anusing. Seuntor Long's platforms they ask in deliberative, as ments in and out of court, the use Kelly's address, I will write and

was nailed with "share-the-wealth" semblies--what do we see today? to be any remission of existing slogans, for it was the aim of this collision having taken place bef alarged photographs to identify thank him personally, imposts, although some relief third party louder to give his comm-tween two stationary and well-offenders, to prove non-removable managed motor-cars on the open records, to throw the patchlags and will be afforded by the concestry a sort of "centrolled socialism"

in which every man would have rond, the police constable, good at the paintings, the varieties of ink sion made in respect of water equal opportunity and education weed, finds his pencil, moistens the or the semi-erased marks of pencil charges. The decline in the and, relatively, equal luxury. His end of it, and draws in his note a forged document, resemblances Colony's assessment has had idea was based on the belief that book an inaccurate sketch of what handwriting, and the tiny ridges there was plenty in America for they call in Scotland the near in of fingers or thumbs in finger-

printa.. the automatic effect of reducing all to live in relative case.

He has quo.

But the telephone, television, and disillusionment the free allowance of water; this not suffered the

Why not take a photograph, or a is now being offset by making which must come to any deposed "movie" photograph, or, better still, the "movie" and "talkie" offer new hand-paids of truth. Perhaps lender, who has preached idealistic a reduction in the excess contries to the people, when he a "movie" and "talkie" photograph some day applied science may give sumplion charge-a reduction sees his erstwhile loyal lieutenants Thirty-three years ago, it is true, in the Strand what is common the benefits of which, it is hoped, squabbling, among themselves for I heard a distinguished leader on form in the Dominions--the noise- will be passed on by the land-certain offices hold. He has not "distinguished" is not superfluous-evidence as it is given.

the pecuniary advantages which the Northern Circuit-If the epithet less typewriter which records the SECOSCDCASODOE6800850 lords to their tenants. Regard-lived to see his "share-the-wealth" telling a jury that there is nothing At present there are still persons mislending s a photograph, so utterly lost to all sense of de- CEEDEDDDDDDDDCBDBCD00ing the development of the campaign turned into a "grab-the-so

Colony, no new big works are gravy" orgy throughout the state except a gas-meter.

eeney, and indeed arithmetic, that they spenk and even write of "ar- Snal racing for sport! being embarked upon during the

rears" in the King's Bench Divi- coming year. The Government,

But, of course, every photograph [sion, including in "arrears" cases

Let us revive and put this. fine very wisely in view of current cline, or both, fresh taxation needs to be established by the sworn set down the day before yesterday.old sport on a proper footing.

Dirty tactics, like putting lime conditions. intends to confine and a cut in Government salaries testimony of a witness, and spoken

words are not evidence against a de- But when the new era dawns, a on the track just near the home activities under Public Works may be necessary before the end fendant unless he spoke them him-case Bet down thet us eay) on turn, and ringing-in periwinkles.

of the coming year. We cannot self, although the retort, Or Extraordinary to pushing on

the Shrove Tuesday will already, with which they provoke the aid of Einstein and a simple those pine-tree grubs which with projects already in hand, lielp feeling, however, that un-silence,

from him may be evidence mechanism, have been heard and annoy the Forestry Department notably the new Government less there is a marked improve.

complete equipment of determined on the proceding Fri-so, should not be tolerated..

might he day, and "Chadband on Arteurs" Civil Hospital, the Central Brit-ment in trade, the corrective of

as: "od will be forgetten. ish School, and the Shauki wan additional taxation would be spared auch evidence Road. Construction of the new most unwise. Regarding Gov- gaol at Stanley will, of course,erament salaries, any sensation- be continued, but the cost of this al drop in the dollar would bear undertaking is being met from heavily on the cost of living to loan funds and therefore does dollar-paid servants, and this not affect the Budget at the point needs to be kept in mind, moment. From the purely in- in conjunction with the further ancial standpoint, the most seri-point that a low dollar would be ous factor is the decline in re- more advantageous to sterling- venue recorded this year, the paid officials than to other. All effects of which would have been in all, the Colony's financial felt to a far greater extent but position is not such as to give for the fact that the high ex-cause for alarm. Actually, tak change value of the dollar hasing the long view, it is far better. resulted in a big saving on ster-than it looks on paper, since we ling commitments, which were are at present in a period in budgetted for on a basis of 1s. which there are heavy outgoings 4d, to the dollar. For the com- on a number of projects, from ing year, a 1s, 8d. level has been which funds will later be avail- chosen, and on this basis & de-able. These include the new felt of nearly three millions is hospital, the Naval Yard Arsenal scheme and the Central British anticipated. No-one can say, however, what the average rate School. When these are com- of the dollar will be in 1936, pleted, the lands: freed as a con- although it is hardly to be anti-sequence will be available for cipated that it will fall below sale; the same is true of the the level set. So long as the greater part of the old gaol site. Moreover, the Colony's credit Hongkong dollar remains unbalance is still being kept at stabilised,, so long will budget- over the ten million dollar ting be largely guess-work. The figure. A "Mark-Time Budget" final position at the end of the would be a fitting description to year will, in the circumstances, apply to the proposals. put for ward for the coming year. In largely depend on what happens the circumstances prevailing, to the dollar. It is suggested any other type of Budget would that if the dollar drops heavily appear at present to be out of

A COMPLETE RANGE OF SPARE PARTS

FOR ALL MACHINES IS IN STOCK AND

ALL REPAIRS ARE GUARANTEED TO

GIVE SATISFACTION."

LANE,

SPORTS DEPT.

CRAWFORD, LTD.

*******SSENESSSSSSSS or revenue shows a serions de the question.

"Now, Mrs. Swallow, I don't like to be cross with you, but, you're not keeping up with the rest of the class."

A glaring instance of roguery will be remembered by old-time Hongkong sportsmen when the old Kowloon-Canton Snailway was in existence.

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In a handicap event, Slobber, a very poor performer, who hud been brought down from vice- Jaden Shanghai, was the medium of some heavy betting, and romped home in front of a classy field.

The stewards found at the inquiry that Slobber's shell had been shaved down, and the owner, trainer and snail were disqualified for life.

He was never any good after this supreme effort.

The most famous of all snails was Greasy, who humped his shell, and half an ounce of chewing gum, over a fifty-yard course and finished in the re- markable time of 2 days 21 hours dead.

A badly trained snail will always play up at the burrier and, keeping this in mind, it would be well for owners to have their snails trained from the time they are slugs

Body Lino

•

After viewing 84 feminine figures at a awimming picnic the other night, Edward Kelly is convinced that the steamer on which the Young Australin League gals travelled from Aus- tralia must have been one of those Body Line vessels he heard so much about last year,