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Safety First Football. The American football season, now drawing to its close, is the first in which the new rules, 'devis- ed to make the game less dan-
gerous, have been tried out.,
With one school of critics the now safety-firat rules, which for-
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.
MUSSOLINI'S
HEROES
CRITICISM OF ITALY'S DICTATOR
“A MERE MOUNTEBANK
(By George Slocombe.).
bid the major forms of physical him nearly eleven years ago: alginning. Mussolini-is-deter-
I see him now as I first saw Fascist era, but merely its be violence, are unpopular. These fire-enters declare that the game in sharp silhouette against the He tickled them off to the at- square, broadshouldered figure mined to avoid Napoleon's errors. has lost its virility and has become a contemptible form of "touch."
Mediterranean sunshine.
tentive Ludwig Some of the players still seem to the dark skin stretched tightly Papacy.
A square, closely shaven head, Nepotism.
one by one. A contest with the No understanding of
1981.
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Mr. Lansbury v. the Choir.
Mr. George Lansbury's dispute with the Speaker startled the House of Commons recently.
He was white with anger,
be "touched" somewhat forcibly. Fatal casualties, it is true, have over the strong-boned cheeks-and finance and economics, declined. Up to date they number bold chin. very large brown, "Napoleon fell," said Mus- 24, as compared with over 50 for staring eyes, eyes of a burning, solini, authoritatively, "because
almost inhuman intensity.
of the contradictions in his own His black clothes seemed too character. He wanted to wear small for him. His wide jaw the Imperial Crown.
He want- ed out of a single piece of rock. Consul he was at the climax of and wider shoulders seemed carved to found a dynasty, As First His voice, which ut his first his greatness. The decline be- greeting was harsh, threatening gan with the establishment of It is a long time since the leader almost musical murmur.
and arrogant, softened to a low, the Empire."
His of a Party was concerned in such speech, when it was not loud and
Thrones Less Alluring. an exchange with the Speaker, One
This greatest of the Napoleonic recalls the famous battle between arrogant, had an ironical jeering blunders has no temptations for Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Speaker
note in it.
the Duce. "Has the title of Ile was then, to all save a few king never allured you?" asked Whitley, in which there was hearty of his countrymen, practically Ludwig. give-and-take between the Chair
"That is a problem," unknown-an obscure and the bench where the then L-leading a faction fight in a pro- his jeering voice now) "in which editor, retorted Mussolini (I can hear beral leader sat-but that was on vincial city, drilling, they sneer-I have never had the slightest. a definite motion of censure on the el, a ragged following of youths. interest." Speaker.
And on another oc- There is an increasing note of He lived, in the Cannes hotel in casion he pointed
out that which I met him, merely as one thrones have become less allur-
bitterness
in Commons
debates,
Your Daily Smile.
Hong Kong. Friday, January 13, 1933. of executions for pilfering food Motto for Footballers.
to feed the starving, which cul- minated in the putting to death
"Half a league onward!"
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TRUE, TRUE. "Money Matters," says a City page headline. Gosh, it does!
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Before the year was out I met The editor was in exile. The "mountebank" was in the seat of power.
Retains Ideas,
PRETTY DOUBLE WEDDING. Well-Known Chinese Families Unite.
nowadays. Mr. Lansbury haa be- among the many visitors that the ing than they were in the days come infected, and is losing much Conference had brought to the of the First Empire. of his geniality; a fact which one town in January 1922. The With Napoleon the Emperor, deplores.
statesmen meeting daily in the Mussolini has no sympathy, It gay white and gold yacht club on is the man Napoleon that he ad- the front ignored his presence in mires-the man, the orator, the their proximity...
administrator. Briand, it is true, remembering
He sees in his own power to him vaguely from his war activi-move the masses a significant re- ties (two French Socialists had flection of the art with which conveyed to him their Govern Napoleon, in his manifestos and Russia Inside And Out. of a woman of 82, has revealed
ment's subsidy for his war news-speeches, won more than battles. the state of the country and the A wife is her husband's better paper), had consented to bal mentality of its rulers. This last half, which shows exactly why he interviewed by this darkjawed one whose own spectacular ad- He hails with the approval of Governments which conduct ruthlessness aroused some pro-amounts to less than nothing if he Italian. newspapers may chance to find test even among Russia's Com- marries twice.
But Mr. Lloyd George ministrative efforts have earned themselves held responsible for munists, but Krylenko, Commis
proved less accessible, and so him admiration and scorn in al- statements
missed. I think, his only oppor-most equal degrees the accom- appearing therein.sar of Justice (how ironical the This is the present position of title!)
tunity of meeting the issued an
future plishments of Napoleon in the "apologia" the Soviet Government in respect 10,000 words long, declaring that
Dictator. In general, he passed administrative field-the build- of its organ "Izvestia," which if the law, is cruel, it is intention-
unnoticed by statesmen and ing of dams and canals, roads and had charged the British Foreign ally so. Quite logical; every
journaliste alike.''
bridges, houses and harbours, Office with instructing its agents, thinker knew, long before Mr.
The editor of a great Italian and, above all, the great legal to furnish documents, real or Shaw said it plainly, that Soviet-stop." It was only a big business ture when I mentioned his enig-
newspaper made a scornful ges-Cade which bears his name. bogus, establishing a connection isra must mean, not freedom, but man dictating a telegram.
(Continued on Page 11,)' between the Soviet and the Com-jobedience under constant fear of
matical compatriot. "Mussolini," munist Infernational. For this the the death penalty.
ho: scoffed; "a mere mounte So the only British Government demanded real interest in the episode is the
bank!" an apology, and also took the oc-light it throws on conditions in advertised as having seating ac- Mussolini again. casion to insist once more on the Russia where, under the for-commodation for 20,000. abandonment of all such propa-mer regime, the people were sup- gandist tactics met the demands. plied from private shops without I've Found Moscow Sovietism is well used to a day-long food queue, and were giving pledges for Communism to not shot for petty thieving. .A success. break. It is the old game of Government which has to act as "Spenlow and Jorkins." To take the Soviet chiefs are doing is not 2 min. Im. Beach. the thing seriously seems scarce-making a success of any plan. Mr. H. G. Wells says that in the hear familiar echoes of that long interest was solemnised yesterday ly worth while. Russia is a tho- Too easily have many members future distance will no longer ex- and intimate talk of ours in the afternoon when well known Chinese roughly bad neighbour, a worse of more civilised nations allowed ist. This is expected to make little hotel room in Cannes. Only the families were United. Miss Daisy because a
more influential one themselves to be imposed upon ladies.
or no difference to senside land-clear winter sunshine is missing, Ma, Daughter of the late Mr. Ma than ever was "the unspeakable by propaganda issued under
the scent of oranges and Po-chan (of Sydney). and Mrs. Ma Turk," and with such a neighbour monopoly. At the same tinie, it
minosa from the hotel garden. Po-chan was married to Mr. K. H. there should be a minimum of does not at all follow that the
The profile of Mussolini is Yuen, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. dealing. There is no more real existing inconsistencies and the
little heavier, the bald temples Yuen Hi-lam, while Miss Helen need to go seeking for proofs of general failure to turn peasants
balder, the heavy jaw more Leung, daughter of the late Mr. and the link between the Soviet and into skilled mechanics will neces
square. the Third International than sarily mean collapse or admised power from the ocean by sinking irony
But the speech is the Mrs. C. F. Leung, became the bride The French scientist who obtain-same. I can hear that note of of Mr. C. I. Yuen, the second son of there was to find the origins of sion of defeat. A Government!
running through the Mr. and Mrs. Yuen Hilam. the famous "Red letter of Mr. which has just stiffened up its believes he can increase the output if the shrewd, patient, modest Insula Hotel, on the Roof Garden
a tabe a mile long in a Cuban bay menacing accents of his voice as
A reception was held at the Pen- Ramsay MacDonald's first Minis-system of allowing bonuses for of power by removing the gas from and friendly Mussolini watched which was largely attended. try, for in both cases the basic good piecework, and which in the sea water. facts have long been notorious. September last offered 10 per
with an ever-growing and amused Miss Daisy Mo was given away Even if nothing definite were cent. for loan money, free of all known, a Government which con- taxes, is nevertheless perfectly
To teach students of typewriting ing, ruthless, histrionic figure of Miss Helen Leung was given AWAY wonder the antics of the gestury her uncle, Mr. Ma Wing-chen,
well known local merchant, trols every kind of internal acti- capable of continuing to call it speed, a machine inverted by a re- Mussolini the Dictator. vity is plainly responsible, not self the perfect example of Mar-sident of Fortland, Ore., passes a His ideas have not changed.
by her grandfather. only for a single newspaper, but xism, and will have no trouble series of words before eyes of stu- They have merely acquired pre- Ling Restaurant, West Point at A dinner was held at the Kam for all manifestations of what in finding dupes throughout the dents, who are required to copy cision after ten years' experience evening, attended by hundreds of ever sort. No other Government world to regard it as such. And them before they disappear. of power. The strange confu-guests and relatives." in the world carries so direct also long as it has the Red army at
sion of Marx, Nietzsche, Mnchia- burden of praise or blame. The its command, it. will not surren- The Italian Goevrnment will ex-velli and Sorel that I found Russian Government, in fact, is der, its power, even though ac-pedite the electrification of several stimulating his facile mind and by its own choice answerable tual starvation dispute its reign. sections of the railways connecting recurring in his conversation then for the entire condition of Rus- The ultra-Liberal papers, in Bri- with the Austrian and Yugoslav is admirably revealed in the sin. Little wonder, then, that it tain and elsewhere, who like to systems, trunk lines into France curious mirror-like objectivity is.worried and touchy. For its pretend, with a smile of super being given consideration later. "Plan" is so vastly disappointing. iority, that the passage of time
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Reading Emil Ludwig's just published "Talks with Mussolini" (Allen and Unwin, 7s. 6d.), I A pretty double wedding of much
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and inconsequentiality of his dialogues with Ludwig. The only difference is that in the interval he has discarded both the
modelled his career upon that,
POLICE OFFICERS RETURN.
and
Posted To Duties.
Inspector Brennan, who returned.
partment, Central.
Evidence has of late been and the progress of events will News In Brief. growing, both through the automatically change the heart lengthy reports of travellers and of the new Czardom, show a sin through the occasional brevities gular lack of insight. The hatred enteric fever and one ease of the idealism of Nietzsche, and, dera yesterday, has been posted to The cases each of small-rox and economic fatalism' of Marx and from Home leave on the 5.8. Nal of the cables, as to the desperate of European culture which has diphtheria were notified to the abandoning any clear system of Bench Duty, as LO.D. Central straits of millions of Russians. from the outset inspired every Health Authorities on Wednesday: economies or philosophy, has Sub-Inspector Nicoll will be in The western world, hard hit as it action of Lenin and his cosmopo-A
charge, of Kowloon traffic, while ie, has no reason to envy the litan crew remains to-day unabat The Florence Nightingale Nurs equally tragic and brilliant, of Sub-Inspector M. Murphy returns Slav. "In general," says a speed and is more likely to be in- ing Division of the St. John Ambul Napoleon or Cromwell-or both
two romantic men of action to the Criminal Investigation De- cial correspondent of the "Econo-creased than diminished by such ance Brigade will be inaugurated at mist," the State farms have concessions as clrcumstances may King's College on Saturday at 7.30 in one? It is an analogy which Sub-Inspector Bright and Police- proved to be white elephants. enforce. Once, their excuse for pm. The opening ceremony will be Mussolini does not disclaim, al- Sergeanta Tyler, and Whelan, who Many of the agrarian dif- savagery was that an interreg performed by Mrs Langley, though he would, he fears, not also returned from Home leave ficulties which have been experi-inum of disorder was unavoidable, Corps Secretary and Officer.S
nehleve immortality upon that yesterday, will do regular duty enced under the five-year plan but it would end. To-day, Kry-
resemblance alone. He is enorm Central Police Court. have yet to be overcome." Cyni lenko's pamphlet insists that An enjoyable "pot. pourri pro- ously preoccupied by Napoleon. He cal Russians are said to console people who have not learned to gramme of entertainment was are respects him, he told Ludwig My Wallace Harper, Managing themselves with the saying, "The respect property in 15 years are ranged at the European Y.M.C.A., more and more. But he regards Director of Wallace Harper, & Co five-year plan, if it takes a hun- incorrigible, and must be shot Kowloon, laat evening, on the oe the Corsican as a failure, llis Ltd., has reported to the Police that dred years! Staggering, rises In another 15 years, no doubt, casion of a Ladies night. The advent put a term, to the French his Ford roadster car was stolen in the prices of food, and drastic still greater frightfulness will entertainment was divided into Revolution
from otuside his residence, 6. Dor restrictions on the rights and reign Russia's rulers count on her three parts, the Brat being en- With Mussolini the arch on set Crescent, Kowloon Tong, last allowances of even the hitherto "infinite capacity for suffering." titled Music and Cardo,
Rome was not the triumph of the night,