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WOLF-HUNTING AS A SPORT
Wolf drives such as the one re- ported to-day on a big scale on the Russian-Polish frontier are # regular feature among the winter sports of East Poland.
Recently it was alleged thar troops had been called out to deal with the wolf menace; but, in fact. the men of one regiment had volunteered to act as beaters at a local drive.
MONDAY, MARCH 27,- 1933.
EVER-CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE
MORE CAUSE FOR WAR
THAN IN 1914
THE FASCIST ALLIANCE
(By George Slocombe.).
Victims Menace.
The drama of historic events,ed for by M. Henry de Jouvenel at moves too rapidly for the historian. the French Embassy in Rome.
A history of Europe written to- Wolves in Poland are seldom, if day, or a map drawn of its frontiers, lever, hunted with hounds, because will be out-of-date in five years' they are generally to be found in time.
4. The iron ring around the do- feated war allies created by the
has post-war alliances
been
packs; also the deep snow would Before the echoes of Hitler's broken
The victims of the war have be make it very difficult for hounds to triumphal entry into the Wilhelm-
Es great get about Sport is best in the strasse have utterly died away the came, in their turn,
of severeat winters, because more far-reaching consequences of the potential menace to the peace wolves are then found in accessible long-threatened change of regime in Europe as were the victors.
in many Germany are to be seen regions.
The statements made in the Signa of Rage vary considerably. Twenty countries.
Imminent Foreign Affairs Committee of the of French Chamber regarding the con- guns would consider that they had changes in the entire system had a good day if they had killed treaties and alliances set up during clusion of a secret treaty between forty wolves. As many
the three autocratic governments 28 100 and after the war are plentiful. have been killed on exceptional
A strategical movement of the ut-of Germany, Italy and Hungary have
dava,
most importance; a new line-up of been categorically dented by Musso- ancient enemies and former friends, lini. They probably sprang from is in process in Europe and Asia. an apprehensive anticipation of The reasons for this re-grouping of events rather than from precise forces may be seen in the following knowledge. significant political phenomena: Nevertheless, morally the alliance is already in being. It needs
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An Unusual Record. Captain Compton, who is heir presumptive to the Marquess of Northampton, established a recordi jof an unusual kind. He was the first man to become the father of twins after having insured against them.
Soviet-German Split.
1. The Russo-German alliance only the confirmation of Hitler's will shortly be repudiated. powers as Chancellor to make the With the triumph of the Nazi- moral cohesion an historie fact.. Junker parties in Germany the The Triple Alliance of pre-war His wife was one of the Farqualliance between Germany and Soviet days is already on the verge of harsons of Invercauld, the original
Russia, first founded at Rapallo in reconstitution. Hungary, " мого owners of Balmoral, and was
State, fiercely na. brought up
with the Royal chil-1922, and consolidated by subsequent homogeneous
pacts and treaties, is at last doom-tianalistic, with real grievances to dren.
be remedied, replaces the ramshackle To-day, like many other landed. cal experts are not in a position owners, Captain and Mrs. Compton
The victory of Hitler alone might; Empire of Austro-Hungary.
The other two members of the to say that they merely wished
Occupy only one wing of their not lead inevitably to the rupture of -to dramatize a situation, to call beautiful Yorkshire home.
close diplomatic relations between Alliance have been regenerated in the two goveramenta. The Soviets the fires of war and civil war. The attention to an insoluble problem. The insoluble problem does not
have already-as in the case of Italy Italy of the Year 10 of Fascism is
their a more formidable, and and Turkey-subordinated exist, because it was made in
1 more faithful, ally soluble only by their own harri-|
political principles to the exig ncies sibly
Germany than But with a Nazi-to
the Reassuring. When these are
of foreign policy. fying figures. exploded the problem explodes. Hotel Telephone Operator (call-Junker regime in open confict with democratic Italy of 1914.
the Germany herself under Hitler and People can then turn to the very ing guest): "I apologize for not the Centre, the Left and real problems of coping with calling you so you could get that | Extreme Left in Germany, the Hugenberg may exercise a scarcely early train; however, I'm calling Soviets can have no sympathy, even less dominant role in European want and suffering.
now to say that you may as well in the improbable event of Junker politics than the Germany of Wil- sleep as long as you like."
Hong Kong, Monday, March 27, 1933,
Engineers And Drama.
Amazing has been the speed with which the Technocracy vogue spread over the world, and over America particularly. Al Imost as impressive is the speed 'with which it has been put on the defensive. The absurdly in- flated statistics to which it chief-l
so.
Life And Matter.
When he told his hearers at that "biological
have
To be
Your Daily Smile.
*
Why the Outcry? It was Jimmy's first visit to a concert and, observing the antics of the conductor, he turned to his
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Otherwise Good.
memory.
"My
concessions to Moscow.
2. In the event of a dispute be tween Poland and Germany, Po- land's chief ally may be Russia and not France.
Thelm II.
(Continued on Page 10.)
CHEUNG CHAU NOTES.
ров
fickle And
Theatrical Performance Attracts Visitors.
During the past few years, and ly owes its popularity are ex-Yale last month ploded. It will not be many material is running up" although mother and asked: "Why is that notably since Pilsudaki dismissed the months before the name is pretty the universe is running down, Pre-
man shaking his stick at the lady French military mission in Warsaw, the Franco-l'olish alliance has well out of use. Its more lasting fessor Jennings must
on the stage?" significance consists in the light tonished even biologists.
"Sh-sh" pleaded his mether, steadily weakened.
Since
M. the replacement of it throws on a familiar operation sure, there is an ascent in life that He's not shaking it at her." of the human mind. People will finds no enunterpart in the non-
"Well, what's she hollerin' for, Zaleski, the Polish Foreign Minister,
Cheung Chau, Yesterday. by Colonel Joseph Beck, a certain readily admit that Technocracy's living, but it is an ascent of the
then?"
We have had quite a number of tension has been visible between visitors lately and more are expect figures are wild exaggerations spirit and not of matter. There is
Warsaw and Paris. Recently the and yet feel that "there is some-not the slightest reason to suppose
Inspiration.
the Easter Holidays. thing in it." People will dislike that because life is sustained by a
"What did your wife say when you public step towards Poland's break-ed for the Ching Ming festival and away from her diplomatie allegiance: the very
strong suggestion of degradation of physical energy it
The yearly theatrical perform. ballyhoo in its methods and yet reverses the second law of thermo-got home an late last night?”
jcommenced to-day and a huge mat- She said, 'Is that when the Polish delegate to the ance at the Fishermen's Temple say that the thing serves a pur-dynamics, according to which red- "She was half asleep and thought to her old ally was taken at Geneva,
ished has been erected for the visi- pose. It calls attention" to, it hot coule become cinders. Equili-1 on the dog.
ticketer the French security and disarmators. Special launches are running "dramatizes," a serious problem.brium is death, wrote the late Pro-, Fida?' and for once in a way I Disarmament Conference criticised ment proposals and urged the adop-
in connection with the perform- People have always differed onfessor Bayliss, thereby implying ked a bright idea.
hand."
[tion of a more modest basis of agree-
ance, and will continue for three this issue and will continue to do that life does not arrest the pro-
ment founded upon realities.
or four days. They leave Hong Are the best results to be ccssea of the cosmos. It is prob-
Relations between Poland and So- attained by a rigorous adhesion able that Professor Jennings hus
An elderly woman was boasting viet Russia, on the other hand, have Kong at 10.30 a.m. and 7.45 p.m. and return from Cheung Chay at to facts, or by injecting passion been influenced by the recent ques
moved rapidly towards a friendly' 11.30 a.m. and 6.45 p.m. and colour into the argument?tioning of the second law's unfail-of her retentive
ing validity. Although the odds memory is excellent," she said, understanding during the past few The alterations to houses No. 18 Are not men all the time being;
are multibillions to one against the "There are only three things months. The impulse of a common and 24 are almost completed, while galvanized into action by drama, sun's failing to rise on the morrow can't remember. I can't remember danger on their frontiers-the one extensive repairs have also been and even by melodroma, where they remain passive in the face or of u teakettle's feezing when names and 1 can't remember faces in Europe, the other in the Far East done to Nos. 27 and 274.
The Red Cross relief work con- of calm reason? It is true. But placed on a fire, the evidence island-and I forget what the third has brought both countries to con-
the famous "law" is thing is."
sider a defensive policy in close colla-tinues to cater for the needy and it is also true that a distinction strong that
boration.
the depot is a busy centre. Our must be made between such but a statement of probabilities. It has nothing to do with cause
Own Correspondent. high-pressure salesmanship in
and effect. If it does not hold for "I think Uncle Jack is going to public business and in science ordinary matter, why should it take us for a ride. You'd better We do not apply the same preci-hold for the stream of life? In go upstairs and wash your face." ago, le shortly to be completed by. sion tests to an indignant cry both cases we deal with atoms and Willle: "Hadn't we better find from the heart and to an engin molecules. If more biologists out for sure, mother?" ¡cer's report. Some one might read these relativistic paths, the
charge that in London last year stage is clearly set for a revival} 100,000 unemployed persons of the old controversy between starved to death. On investiga-vitalism and mechanism, though in tion it turns out that the number!
a form that will take cognizance of such cases could be counted on or the tremendous advances re- Strawberries are neither fruita the fingers of one hand. Yet the cently made in biochemistry. The nor berries. author of the charge might say physicists have already entered that he exaggerated purposely the lists. Here is Professor Dirac, A pocket size seismograph has at Geneva that the British Govern-Though he's poor he'd never worry, because he wished to dramatize who recently succeeded Sir Joseph been invented to measure the jarment would contract no more en-None can e'er his mind perturb. the situation. He would contend Larmor at Cambridge, assuring us ring of residences or business gagements, alliances or obligations He would always keep on smiling, that the death by starvation of that the problem of life is the pro- buildings by passing street traffic. on the Continent of Europe.
Though Fate may sometimes play only half a dozen people is an blem of the atom's nucleus, only
Since the original French pro- him trick;
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*
Needn't Be Rash.
Facts You Did Not Know.
*
The signature of a Pact of Non- Aggression, followed by that of a Treaty of Conciliation, a few months
the conclusion af 立 Commercial Treaty between Poland and the So [viets. A Polish envoy, I under- stand, is now in Moscow negotiating
such a treaty.
Locarno Naval Pact.
3 The long-discussed Mediter- Tanean Locarno is dead,
The Sage Of Altai Mountain.
Lives a sage of four scores and ten, Upon the peak of Altai Mountain Who alone has found Life's Foun-
Lain,
Who is the merriest of men.
It received its death warrant in He would never fret or hurry, Captain Eden's recent announcement Nothing can his calm disturb;
iniquity not to be borne. He "more dificult." Some one #B Japan, with a total mileage of posal for an agreement of the Medi-He's dream of peace, thu
*
beguiling.
1.
time
would argue that any procedure bound to step forth in rebuttal to was justifiable that roused the argue that just as the Newtonian 650,215, possesses 61 per cent of terranean naval Powers-France, sleeping conscience and stirred conception of the universe is only Asia's roads, British India ranking Italy, Spain, Great Britain and pos- Fortune's gifts are for men to pick; sibly Turkey-depended entirely Some pick Wealth without Content-
ment, the logging energies of the approximately correct but never-second with 225,280 miles.
upon the hope that Great Britain people. But suppose the outery theless useful, so the mechanistic is raised by a band of alleged conception of life is necessary to
Shilling a lever on a new elec-would extend to naval security in the Some pick Peace without the Gold;
cernment, statistical experts that last year the progress of biology, although tric band fantern moves a reflector Mediterranean a guarantee similar The wise seek knowledge and dis 100,000 persons died for lack of it will not bear analysis. Con-to cause a powerful 800 foot beam to that already accorded to the
Rhine frontier in the Locarno Which increase in power when old. food in London. Suppose they structing a relativistic universe is or a flood of brilliant light.
Treaty, and no other. naval Power The fools would seek of Fortune
Pleasure, go on to say that in the face of no trick at all compared with
can offer an adequate guarantee in Britain's stead, all hope Mediterranean Naval
with
such a desperate situation none avoiding the dilemmas presented
it of the
of Taking it for Life's best, pift; Pact, These are they who have no leisure, entry In Life's Ocean they just drifti
Into Therefore, pick your choice most
has wisely,
You can never choose again; has Then if you live your life precisely. the You will not have lived in vain! Franco 42 TOMATANA NUE, KRAL Italian conciliation now being work! Hong Kong, March 25, 1985.
of the established relief methods, by a bit of protoplasm. Even now Wildon Carr maintains that "what a no amount of good-will; no effort it seems certain that the methods we are studying in biology is not and of private or public charity, can of the physicist and chemist alche an object at all but a history." No of France and Italy avail. The entire social system cannot enlighten us. Unlike a wonder that some organic chemists the Three-Power Naval Treaty, stands doomed becausa 100,000 salt or an acid, the simplest cell throw up their hands and declare vanished.
And with that hope persons perished without food. becomes bewilderingly complex the that life is unknowable for the When investigation reveals that more it in analyzed.. It is not a simple reason that it cannot even also it was half a dozen victims and single thing but a succession of be defined in terms of something chief foundations of the Inst 100,000, the alleged statisti» states. For this reason Professor of which we are sure.
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