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book was "Les Croix de Bois," by Roland d'Orgeles, a French writer who depicts no less power- fully the horrors of the trenches, with a far keener sense of psycho- Unfortunately, logical values.
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WAR BOOKS
For a long time after the War there was a most marked popu- lar disinclination to hear any thing more about it, except for the elucidation of certain points which had remained obscure or controversial. There was a cer- tain demand for information from people who had been in high place, like Mr. Churchill or the late Walter Page, United States Ambassador to Britain, and knew
what had happened behind the
Bcenes.
fresh and horrible in their minds,
because of the amount of French soldiers" slang and other French qualities.
the Continent, where every civil air service is lavishly and even extravagantly subsidised, might well come as a reminder to-ca' canny.
Remove direct subsidies by all. means if that can be done, but take, at the same time, the closest care that the infant that la civil aviation does not die of sheer starvation.
NEWS IN BRIEF
One case of small-por (Chinese) has been reported from Victoria City:
A
AQZTIT:
1 28, 1929.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
MUST THE NAVY
LOSE ITS GROG?
THREAT TO AN OLD CUSTOM
MIGHTY bowl on deck they Spirit, but here are only a few of drew
Ithe Indexed regulations about And filled it to the brink;
Spirit:- Such drank the Burford's gallant
crew
And such the gods shall drink. The sacred robe which Vernon
wore
Was drenched within the same, And hence his virtues guard on
ahore.
Bungs of casks; method of ex-
tracting: Deficiencies by evaporation; Gangway book for; Issue and measuring off; Officers' Meases; Captain's super-
vision of consumption. There are scores more. In fact, And Grog derives its name.
one might almost say Grog keeps The shade of Admiral Vernon | the Admiralty afloat. What the Įmust be struggling with a ten- Navy will do on the specific gravity The National Geographical Sodency to recall some nautical of beer or lime juice, no landsman ciety has awarded its Gold Medal to 'adjectives, for the drink which dare predict. Doctor Eckener for his world flight, he invented and introduced into in the Graf Zeppelin.
the Navy is in danger of being lost for ever.
The Widows Pensions Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Lords.
A Chinese woman was to-day, at the Kowloon Magistracy, fined $4 for throwing rubbish from the first floor of 81, Balkeley Street, Hunghom.
Feros Khan, registered watch man, was, at the Kowloon Magia- tracy this morning, fined $8 on admitting that he had failed to have his book properly endorsed at Police Headquarters, Hong Kong.
GOVERNOR'S DEPARTURE
The "China Mall" is officially Informed that His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi, accompani- ed by Lady Clementi and their daughter, will leave Hong Kong by the P, and O. &.s. "Mantua” on February 1 for Singapore, where His Excellency will as′′. sume the duties of his new post as Governor of the Straits Set- tlements and High Commission- er of the Federated Malay States.
Charged with cruelty to five pigs, Mottram's "Spanish Farm a Chinese absented himself from Trilogy" is very good on certain Court to-day, and had his bail of aspects of the War, and there are $25 estreated at the Kowloon Magis-
others too numerous to mention
now.
PIZA A
tracy.
The anti-grog party in the Navy has been growing for years past. Recently Sir Robert Gower asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he will consider the desir ability of introducing beer as an alternative.
What a Fall Was There It is a sad come-down in
the
TEN YEARS AGO
[From the "China MaiL” November 23, 1919.)
To-day's dollar is worth 4/- 11%d.
"Un-British Lady:"Arising out of a Court case in which two chair coolies were fined $4 each for not carrying their licences, Inspector Garrod lodged world for a drink which has been the following protest before the Magis almost a religion in the Navy for trate, Mr. N. L. Smith: 200 years. Yet it is only part of On Saturday evening, one of my con- the irony of life, for grog, when it stables, C.P.C. 40, saw the two de- was introduced, was a term of re- fendants carrying chair No. 195, which proach used by the old sea-dogs is registered in the name of a Euro- who had been used to neat spirits, costed the coolies and asked for their pean lady in Pedder Street. Ho ne. They had no time for this watered licences. The men gave the usual grim stuff, and they called it after "Old and took very little notice. They than Grog," a nick-name the admiral had referred the constable to their mistress, gained from his habit of wearing agrogram cloak.
Now-a-days only dictionary read ers know what
a grogram is. and it may be that very soon no- body will know what grog is. A ancient mariner, interviewed" by a reporter, was very bitter about it, if the beer party will permit the
word.
The Water Course
The constable enlisted the aid of a European detective, and the two of them met the European lady opposite Wiseman's.
The European detective spoke to the stated that she was a white woman lady. She became indignant and
in a British Colony and she thought it was an insult for the police to ask. a Chinese constable to accost her.
On Monday morning, I telephoned to the lady in question, and she at once "It's enough to make a man take | entered" into a long conversation with to water right out,” he said. "Beer me. I cannot tell Your Worship all is all very well in its way, it's good, that was said, but I did tell her that sociable qtuff, and in time you can it was vory Un-British of her to try get forrard on it. But are they and put the coolles against the author going to stop at beer, that's what ity of the Police in the streets. There a man has to ask himself? It's is no doubt that she had encouraged these limejuicers that are doing it. her coclies to defy the law.
I also pointed out to her that the re- Why, I saw a man of five years' ser-gulations had been published in the
And the ancient mariner got 20
the matter.
read newspapers." She also said that
Six cutlery bargains are advservice to-day eating an ice. Icel" newspaper. She answered: "I don't Our present point la that antised in this issue by the Patriotic hot thinking about it that he was during her 28 years in Hong Kong the
Trading Co., 18 Ice House Street. interval something liko ten including electro-plated and stain- unable to proceed any further in had never received any protection from the palice, and she had yet to find the years has been needed to create less nickel silver
On the other hand, the view of person who had ever received assistanso · the Young Navy was expresed by à or protection from the Police of Hong
Kong. ing tennis. "It's an uncivilized rating on shore leave who was play-
"Án DS-
ware
in neat
I do not want to hurt her feelings,
a popular demand for war litera- cases. ture. Obviously, that interval
A small Chinese baby girl, aged
but I can honestly assure her that in corresponds to the state of popu-about one year, was yesterday drink after all," said he. tar feeling.
afternoon found by the Police aban- casional cocktail now might be ac- stead of being insulted she was inault- We have begun to forget the doned on a vacant piece of ground ceptable, or a good dry sherry, but
off. Kwong Wab Road, Kowloon. rum-well, War, or at least to lose the clear-The child was taken to the Kwong rum, don't you think? Crude stuff, we have got beyond
ness of our old impressions. We Wah Hospital.
very," feel a need or desire to revival
Too Dear a Tradition them, and the new generation Lieut-General Sir Arthur
All things considered, it is very Bloggett, Colonal Commandant, unlikely that the Admiralty will which has now grown up is curi-R.A.M.C., since 1921, and a Director yield to this onslaught on an estab-I ous to learn what it was that of Bovril Ltd., has died at the age lished institution. made such an impression on the of 72 He served on the Indian
For one thing, if you take frontier in 1884, saw active service grog away Admiral Instructions minds of its elders.
In the Soudan (including Khar- simply fall to pieces. The Sca What will be the next develop-toum) and served throughout the Lords never, refer to it as Gros, ment? Will the horrors of the European War.
except in parenthesis. It is always War come to be no more than a tale to be read in retrospect as comparatively pleasant, as we now read of mediaeval battles, which must really have been but- cherly affairs?
CIVIL AVIATION.
memory of our dead policemen. Dur- ing herself. It was an insult to the
fight against armed attacks by out- ing the last two years we have had to;
lows in this Colony, and I have assist ed to carry my
dead comrades, covered in blood, with five or six bullet wounds in their bodies, out of houses. suppose the lady does not think that they were giving her protection.
I consider she should publicly ne knowledge her wrong for the state ments she made. Un-British is not the difficulties we have to laboar against name for it. It all goes to show the
persons of that type.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
A Skilled Organist: Demolishing The City Wall: Mechanical Music: Service Club Grumbles: Lady in
was in
Pyjamas
the city wall will be demolished fa succession. A thoroughfare will be built along the site of the demolish- ed wall, just as Chun Hwa Road and Boulevarde des Veux Republiques were built after the demolition of tha
ment
a
of the
Questions are being again ask-Sir Walford Davies as Organist
stanced which can still show a profit ed with regard to the wisdom of SIR Walford Davies, who is so
namely, White's and the Cavalry, The latter probably the only continuing heavily to subsidise well known to B.B.C. listeners
Service club which, throughout the Apart from these, few people civil aviation.
In through his musical talką, will
difficult years since the war, has been able consistently to report "All's wished to read about the War.
Imperial" Airways, Limited, it be delighted to have one of the city wall in Shanghai. It is estim well" and the reason, perhaps, is to The abominable massacres of is pointed out, represents British finest organs in the world to play ated, the letter says, that the bricks, be found in the fact that it has not on in St. George's Chapel, Windstones, etc. of the city wall will be hesitated to modernise its establish- Verdun, the Soume, Passchen enterprise along these lines, and spr; he la a skilled organist, and sold for about $38,000, which will be daele, and the rest were still that concern is propped up by his playing when he
White's to-day is, in many respects, used partly for the payment to the coolies: employed for the demolition charge at the Temple Church werk, and partly for the construction oferent place from the club the taxpayers. In addition, a
A few years ago. In those days and they could neither have en-number of flying clubs receive brought large congregations. of the public thoroughfare The it was largely patronised by high Many fortunos changed The old organ at St. George's, work of demolition is expected to be gamblers. dured to have them revived in Government aid in direct sub- on which Sir Walter Parratt used completed within one month.
hands in its card-room, and parents memory nor to have them gloss sidies, and it is argued that, were to perform, was in a somewhat
were wont to tremble not a little when their sons were elected to mem- bership. ed over by the romantic rubbish this direct assistance removed, dilapidated condition, and $10,000 Tinned Music.
Now it has one which fiction-writers from Ouida
| has been spent on renovating and
of the youngest healthy competition would make repairing it. It will not, however, No doubt there in a certain plausi and healthiest memberships in Lon- to Kipling prosented to an earlier for a better state of affairs in compare in size with the organ at be assumed to lie behind the decision past, and, indeed, the cardroom is
bility in the reasoning that must don;, high play is a thing generation as a picture of war.
the world of civil flying.
Westminster Abbey, (which badly of so many cinema proprietors to patronised by only a few bridge play- To-day, we pee a remarkable
needs rebuilding), that of St. displace the human orchestra
are content with moderate ers, who Lavour .of mechanically produced points. departure from that attitude. Not Direct subsidies are usually Faul's Cathedral, or the instru
music.. "People,”? - we can imagine only has there been a small boom most undesirable things, and in ment: installed: in the new cathe-them saying, "who do not mind see
ing the actor reduced to a hot Modes in Mosaic In war plays and films, but the practice lead to a most unsatie London's largest organ is that on a screen are not likely to abject
factory state of torpor, but the MR. Boris Antep is experiencing extraordinary success of a book question would be very well con- gradual modernising proces, The Raw in this argument is that fi series of mosaics for the National some difficulty in his escond describing in the most lurid fash-sidered before the drastic action not all of it is at present in use. falls to meet the test of experience Gallery..."
of removing the subsidies in this Probably London's best organ is Audiences have shown unmistakable
ed the frit instal Having completed the frat instal the magnificent Instrument in the signs that they prefer an orchestrement, referred to somewhat irrever caso be taken. For it is quite Central Hall, Westminster.
to a musleal box, and they are, de. serting those houses where the fuently by Mr. Antep as "Sacred Love,
on the more conceivable that without the sub- bidies civil aviation would col Old Wall To Go
strumente ore played by machines In he is now embarking favour of those where they are in dificult creation of a series of figures the hands of living muskelan ve tane variety of the rame passion.
"which he characterizas, an: the pro-
Istter received by, the “Slawan-
This may be a transient
They include lady in pyjamas, form of peo", from Its Wash.corrapon ment, but its existence in beyond dis
Imposed by the dent says that the schemes for the
pate. Publie sensitiveness and critical but restrictions
Snecessity for Krazying the colour and the demolition of the city wail ubraltted capacity in musical matters" "have`chems rendered, it impossible, in hig rate by the Chinese civic authoriti have proprietors must cater for more with long sleeves or, alternatively, beer Improving of late, and cinemas le to build the pyjamas ather been approved by the Kiang Proexacting taste or lose their audience.leeveleid #95 had accordingly de- veys in sug-vincial Government Work on the ker propos thed or demolition of the city walls will be log
whalf-hlérvey,
Jon the sufferings of the.com mon soldier,
It is true that that book, "All Quiet on the Western Front,',. owed much of its popular, suc- cass to its sheer un violence and storminess peak It is a picture painted
and
dral at. Liverpool
echo from u box.
{ands féminine?
commenced within ten and the Prosperous Clubs ation:18 | flest? part, torbe idamolished #zwill be: WHLLE "many, ptothe - West-end yourlog to convinga bim that no such thobe who
from the Xuan Buh-Gate to thất Sih: social clubs are complaining of garment. Har ikret bears placed on Cha Gala,, which is about 31,480 ft. dedining membership.
waning the market--by any calle Time thearks other four parts of popal
lingeris, House,