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NOTES OF THE DAY

ENTERTAINING HONGKONG

Apart from the facilities for enjoyment for which we have, to thank old Mother Nature, Hong- kong is remarkable for its lack of entertainment. Oh, yes, we have our Lido and our hotels and our cabarets, where one can wine, and dine and dance. But there are a few of us left who sometimes would appreciate something a little

1935..

When BRITAIN went to

War with

Abyssinia

different: something like that by Major-General

pianoforte programme which a

very talented Hongkong pianiste

retidered over 2BW on Sunday J. F. C. Fuller

night, for instance.. We enjoyed

friends.

sonie

of

that; and many

so did though AS war in Abyssinia progres- the occasions are all too few, one glanco back upon what took exceptionally good place in our campaign of 1868. hears local talent over ZBW, both in In-Then, as now, there was no strumental music and in harmonis dearth of dismal prophets. One declared that not a man would

The, Battle of Arogne, which practically ended King Theodore's reaint- uncez an encounter in which, there were no British killed, occurring pr return; another affirmed that od Friday, April 10, 1868, three days before the storming of Magdaje, the rain would swoop every trooper into the sea, and another proceed in single file, and in on Easter Monday, April 18, ho that disense would settle the ex- which the head of the column pushed on. pedition, especially the "pink- arrived at its daily, destination At 2 p.m. the bugles sounded. headed fly."

and the final advance began.

éd vocal work, and the band con- certs, when they come to us, are

them

תו

If you are contemplating

a change. However, we did not set out to erftitite the one are desirous of a change if you broadcasting authorities; rather it are going on home leave-a word was our intention to congratulate from you to

Sunny's programme, ACQUAINT US OF YOUR which, including the recordings, REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL was something unusually pleasant. FURNISH YOU WITH PARTI-We could do with more of such. CULARS AND TERMS.

The fault we really have to find is more with the theatrical program.

there again HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

men-though Show Room

Phone 27778-9.

the

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1985.

THE STABILISATION

OUTLOOK..

Three world statesmen figured in yesterday's news as. favouring steps being taken for freeing international trade from

of the barriers. which He at the root of the

some

・

TO-DAY his army would be war.

The

was

ដ

of

THOUGH this Gibraltar

Ethiopia appeared unas- Raultable, two soldiers, Drummer M'Guire and Private Bergin,

both of the 33rd Foot, climbed the cliff wall, and urged on by their example the whole regi-

Yet, when it ended, it proved long before the tail had set out, it was fortunate for Napier, that to be the most successful cam the tribes had been antagonised [paign we ever fought. Of the by Theodore.

British contingent not a soldier was killed in battle and only 11 officers and 97 men died of

NEVERTHELESS the general disease. the

a skilful diplomatist

· The cause of the war was the Hongkong managements are in no imprisonment of the British Taking advantage of the Em- Stubbs Rd. way to blame. We are wondering Consul, Captain Cameron, and peror's folly and realising that ment followed. Reaching the when producers, who rarely pro- others by the Emperor Theod- with money a man may accom- summit they opened fire, and duce anything worthy of the disore, an able soldier but an un- plish almost anything in Aby sweeping on broke through the sinia, he set forth with his palisades and into Magdala they tinction of the appellation "drama," mitigated brute. This proved will give us sonicthing in the way his ruin; for, in the forth small army, and 500,000 dollars rushed. Then from behind a of "short" features which will take coming campaign, the various li Maria Theresa's dated grass stack a shot rang out and the place of these abominations tribes he had antagonised re- 1780 which had been expressly a man fell dead. It was Theo- dore; for, seeing victory lost, he known na "trailers." Nor is that fused to support him-a tremen- minted at Vienna.

Everything he required he had mlown out his brains with the only thing about the "short" dous advantage to Lieutenant- part of the cinema programmes General Sir Robert Napier, who paid for; he bought over chief's a silver mounted revolver pre- was selected to command the as he bought over corn. The sented to him by Queen Victoria with

The which we quarrel.

expedition.

dollar proved as omnipotent as in 1854. Lawrence's golden sovereigns standard of such things as "Trave-

And what did this victory cost did in Arabia during, the last us? Fifteen British soldiers Inughs," which we are thankful have not yet been shown here, ng

wounded and none mortally, Ono participator in this cam-

18 considered inadequate in the

On April

the return far as we can ascertain, is lament-

journey began, and, in spite of ably low. When there is really extreme. It consisted of some paign writes:

As the army moved towards the rains breaking in May, on good "short" material available we 4,000 British troops and 9,500

Theodore refrained are at a loss to know why on earth Indian, more than half being the mountains, what of the June 1 the army of deliverance was back in Zula. Truly an we should not be allowed to enjoy required to protect the lines of enemy?

because former from attacking

he astonishing

and campaign, communication. it. Grantland Rice's sporting fea- tures, the March of Time, Walt were armed with the Snider rifle thought that, while in the open though the approaching one may and the latter with the old field Napier's soldiers were un- be very different, the Italians existing depression. Sir Samuel Disney's features, Ripley's Believe-muzzle-loading Brown Bess mus. attackable, in the mountains will be wise to remember that Houte dwelt on the point it-or-Not, with less of the allegedly ket. All wore full-dress uni- they would be helpless. There- Napier's most powerful weapon in his brondenst message to the humorous comment, news reels of form, scarlet predominating; fore he let them move on, which against the Emperor was--the was exceedingly fortunate for likeness in silver of a long-dead United States, Mr. Cordell Hull all sorts. sport, politics, and the standards made it one of his three heads great events of our times, these are bands accompanied the troops the long straggling column, the Empress. for bringing about an improve the things we want in our "short" into action. The light artillery train of which would

Why was mule-drawn, the heavy was time have been easy to a deter ment in the present situation, programmes, They exist.

hauled by elephants.

mined attack of spearmen. and Mr. Henry Morgenthau are they unobtainable?

Napier decided to land at At length, on April 10, 1868,

was Aroje valley spoke to the same effect in a

Zula, a little south of Massowa, the UNDERPAID

now the main Italian base in prouched, beyond which lay talk with pressmen in Paris, The

the army American statesmen went fur- “While we ̃are-on-thin-subject-of-Eritrea, and march on Magdala Magdala. There

to camp, when, at ther, by indicating the willing- entertainment, we should like to -Theodore's main stronghold. was about

The distance was 400 miles, 3.30 in the afternoon, Theodore ness of the United States to dis-mention in passing that the most

and the landing began in Novem- attacked,. firing chain-shot from cuss currency stabilisation. It is popular "hit" of the past year was

11 Walt Disney production. Youber 1867. The country separat his heavy guns and rushing for- Jokes And Near Jokes For noteworthy that Mr. Morgen- remember the Three Little Figsing his base from his goal is ward his spearmen.

The result was inevitable, for thau reiterated a declaration That sort of thing has played to

better imagined than described. which he made a few months pucked houses in the big theatres It was a jumbled mass of moun- a frontal attack was what suited enemy best. Volleys of tains broken by ravines, gorges, his ngo, when he stated categorical- in New York and London longer and valleys, trackless and road. Snider bullets mowed down his ly that when the world is ready than many of the much-heralded less, drenched with rain or dry followers, who, when faced by for foreign exchange stabilisa- and over-advertised full length as a bone. Tropical temperatures bursting rockets; fell back in soda every time I call, but hang it.

the cost? one isn't enough!"*** tion, Washington would not be features. And Walt Disney made alternated with arctic, H. M. panic. What was

British soldiers found an obstacle, indicating exactly $25,000 out of it. There Stanley, the explorer, who ac- Twenty-two that a change had taken place were experts who predicted he companied the expeditin, com- wounded, two mortally, while in the attitude of the American would net a quarter of a milonplaining that at one pot six 560 Abyssinian dead and may At Aroje Theodore lost heart. Government since the summer of American dollars. But no! The blankets failed to keep him wounded littered the valley.

In so difficult a country, where First he released his prisoners,

field army the

(consisting of then he retired to Magdalu, be- fighting men followed by a lieving it to be impregnable. train of 10,000 animals) had to Napier thought otherwise, and

theatres have to pay so much for 1933, when President Roosevelt's

their main pictures, many of them refusal to join other countries in

a conglomeration' of rubbish, that n joint declaration regarding the they have no funds left to pay a desirability of carly stabilisa-renaonable price for Disney's reaily tion threatened to bring the de- | enjoyable nonsense. liberations of the World Econo-

mic Conference to an abrupt

conclusion. In his latest declara-barriers to the movement of tion, the Secretary of the U.S.goods between foreign nations Treasury complains that neither and for facilitating the settle- Britain nor France has made ment of international indebted- ness is widely appreciated, there any request for consultation on

is a fairly general unwillingness the matter, but it is to be borne in mind that there has yet been to take the necessary steps to no definite indication that the remedy the position. The fun- United States is prepared to ad-damental truth that interna- just her trading policy to the tional trade is reciprocal and necessities of the times--and that nations can only sell abroad the two issues are clearly closely if they are willing to buy, is related. As Mr. Neville Cham-accepted as a truism, and then berlain has pointed out, ex-ignored. Such an attitude is a change rates cannot be control- definite obstacle to progress in led without reference to other the restoration of an interna- economic factors; they are the tional monetary standard. Stab- outcome of the exchange of ilisation can only become a goods and of capital transfers, reality if all the countries 'con- cerned are willing to make what- and, just as it is of no use trying

are needed to To anchor a ship if the anchor- ever sacrifices

secure the required adjustments age itself is always shifting, so

In economic policies. It seems it would be futile to attempt to clear, however, from the latest bring about stabilisation until pronouncements that the folly there is some prospect of of the present position is being stability of conditions after it increasingly realised, and it is Has taken place, Without doubt, to be hoped that the hints drop- one of least satisfactory features péd by responsible American of the present world situation is statesmen will be met by a when measure of response sufficient to that, while the nocemity for justify the calling of a world socuring some mitigation of the conference on the subjecte

warm.

were carried.

and

at any

Wait till you 860 how surprised my friends are when they

eco me coming home with a husband:

ap-

The Very Idea!

IDLE CHATTER

The Idle Moment

Discovered by Eddie "I'm afraid to propose 'to her." "But doesn't she give you any en- "Well, she gives me a whisky and

couragement, old man?"

A Menu from Ethiopia:-

Tea Room. Ras Makonen Five o'clock - Ham in Eggs

Pig in Eggs

Steak in

Ekra Steak in Onions Kige Rudding

Cream and Vanilla

Cakça

-News-Chronicle.

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Another Kelection of "howlers" frum teacher's collection:-en

"A Job's comforter Is a baby's feeding bottle."

"The Yellow Peril means a banana skin left on the pavement."

person le a woman who

"A sinist."

husn't

is

The future of He drinks' is 'Ho drunk."

"IR

winter it is very cold. Many old people die in winter, anti

climate birds also go to a warmor

"A sculptor is a man who makes. faces and busts."

The jockey lost two of his teeth. when his horny fell, and had to be destroyed."

Lady~"What brought you to pri- Bon, my man?"

Prisoner Competition, mum."'- Lady---"Competition? I don't uṇ-

derstand."

Prisoner "Yes, mum, competition, I made the same sort of dolløre as the Government."

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"Did you get home all right last night, old mant"

"Of course, why do you ask?” "Well, when you got up and gavo the lady your seat in the Peak tram last night, thero were only the three of us in the car.!!

And now, which of you can tell mo what in the outward and visible sign's, of baptism? naked the vicar when examining the Scripture class,

"Please, sir, I know,"

| bright-bay--of-the-class.........

babyl

said the