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Lord Snowden's Memoirs. Lord · Snowden has begun the actual writing of his memoirs.
For some months he has been accumulating and tabulating material. Now that this prelimin- ary task has been completed, he expects to go ahead quickly with" the writing. Few professional au thors are more rapid workers.
Lord Snowden has a great story to tell. It is hoped he will give plenty of the human rather than argumentative side of politics.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
PEKIN, SHOW PLACE OF THE ORIENT
CURIOUS. MEDLEY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN
CITY OF SPACIOUS LEISURE
(By Mrs. Cecil Chesterton.)
London. "I stay, Missfe," the houseb Pekin, to those who know her, answered calmly. "I look after has an allure that grows with things." years: her beauty deepens to a "But for. how long?" she asked, heart-ache. A curious mixture of doubtful of the possibility of money the ancient and the modern, the reaching him when the city was Lord Hawke's Yorkshire Home city is the centre of interest for red with fighting, flaming with fire. Lord Hawke's decision to leave the traveller. Her cosmopolitan Hsu bowed profoundly. "Missio Huttons Ambo Hell, his Yorkshire population is almost unrivalled in no worry. I pay the rent for forty- home, is due partly to the expiry the Far East, and life there is a five years. You come back before of his lease and partly to encroach striking contrast to the hurry and then."
But all
ing years. He is now seventy-two scurry of the modern cities of Nobody ever knows who or what and finds London more suited to Europe and America.
their particular No. 1 may be in his health.
In normal times life for the Bri-private life. The understanding Huttons Ambo itself was a com- tish element goes smoothly. between employer and employee, paratively recent acquisition. It
There is a feeling of spacious lei-though complete, is theft. was at his previous home near Tadcaster that he used to hold sure unlike the strenuous atmos-Hsu's unbreakable trust runs
phere of most capital cities. through native psychology. It is those famous garden parties for!
Rickshas pad along at an easy difficult for a Chinese to believe the Yorkshire professionals-a 'kind!
Shopping, with its inevit-that a British man or woman will of annual celebration
of the al-pace. most invariable success of the able bargaining, is protracted and break their word,
agreeable. Time passes in a de- As at that time, so once again, Yorkshire team under his cap-lightfully unhurried way.
jour people in Pekin are disturbed Laincy,
As
A Cricket Die-hard.
Rent is cheap, food delicious andļas to what may happen. But until plentiful, and the domestic pro-the moment of certainly arrives a county cricket captain blem, as we know it in England, existence will continue unchanged. Lord Hawke occupied a unique does not exist. The Chinese house- People will linger in the Forbid position. He was a cricket die-
boy-known as No. 1-runs an estien City, with its marvellous hard with strong views about the ablishment with the most complete palaces, marble bridges, sinuous position of professionals in county)
emelency.
dragons and lovely lotus lakes. cricket.
Butler, housekeeper, he engages The park in the afternoon will be
Yet few men understood the old
“
Your Daily Smile,
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*
The I have a delightful memory
bours or he, will "lose face."-
of
Buddhas are enshrined, and of the
An unforget-
type of Yorkshire professional bet and controls. the numerous staff, crowded with smart Europeans and ther and, more comprehensive ter. Few men have done more for pays the bills and arranges for the elegant Chinese. Mah-jong even- unexpected guest at u moment's ings will still be popular, and at measures were not ruled out" the professional off the field. the implication being clearly He was proud of being the only notice. And he does all this at an the week-ends motorcars, will dash "Mis-out to the Western Hills to those Isle,” as the Western woman is little temples where, in summer, that they would give a good deal amateur in the Yorkshire side, and, amazingly moderate rate, Ito have been able to rule them in.if he was an autocrat in the matcalled in China, has her least wish,lpienics are held.
But,
with its admitted ter of discipline, he was a demo- even shortcomings, this general resocrat when it came to tactics. On her every taste forestalled. lution was
a great advance on the field his captaincy resolved it prestige of the family is the pres-long summer days on the hillside, what would have been consider-self into a "Shall we?" generally tige of No. 1, and their entertain-of the procession of worshippers to Mr. Norman Davis, United ed possible a few years before. addressed to Hirst and Tunnicliffe.ients must outshine their neigh-the little temples where benign States delegale to Geneva, so Its most important term was that
The Social Centre Of The City. crowd of visitors in the adjacent
temple buildings. yesterday's cables informed us, which abolished all air attack
The Legation Quarter itself, with table scene: At one's feet Pekin, was "most reassured at the re-jupon civilian population, and also
wide streets, stately Consulates, instinct with age-old culture, her, PHILOSOPHY. That all bombardment from the air, if sult of his Berlin visit."
The only thing that can go round beautiful Chinese roofs, and leafy green and yellow tiles glistening Jan "agreement could be made! Mr. Davis obtained satisfactory how to control it a condition with the wrong people without gardens, is the social centre. Her in the sun, her pagodas and her results from his discussions, which very largely discounted its being harmed is a revolving door. are first-class hotels with dancing-palaces outlined against an un-
|floors and orchestras, clubs and
daunted. sky. which were concerned mainly usefulness. But even to have
beauty parlours chic and exclusive) with Disarmament, with the come to an agreement upon such That Hurls Him!
The various German lenders, is reassuring a matter was, as we have said, My dentist said, after the opera-as in Bond Street. not only to the American dele an advance; and so also was the tion, "That was the hardest extrac- nationals meet at the luncheon and SCIENTIFIC“ THEORY decision that war by gas, tion I've ever had." He knows bet-dinner parties given by their diplo
UPSET. gate but also to the whole world. microbes, and fire should be abol-ter now-he's been trying to ex-matic representatives and discuss the gossip, Chinese and European,! Any modification of Germany's ished. Unfortunately, three of tract his account. attitude would be particularly the nations represented at the welcome in view of Chancellor Conference refused to sign the Hitler's recent decision not to go resolution; and, as those three "Have you known. kim long?" to Geneva. The implication then were Germany, 'Russia, and Italy, "I have known him ever since he was that Germany would not be their refusal very largely spoiled was an anxious look on his father's
the Chinese city, a medley of sound beginning of the present century represented at the future sit-its effect, and indeed took much face."
and colour, streaming banners, that the atom is electricity and that tings of the Disarmament Con- of the accuracy out of the adjec-
high and ancient gates. The broad hence electricity is. matter and mat- ference. Such a decision meant tive "general" with which Its Apt.
It is suggested, that divorce, thoroughfares are intersected by ter electricity, that Germany's consent of last framers had prefixed the term)
But now, it seems, this fanda- year to rejoin the Conference "resolution," And finally, Ger-notices should be inserted in news lay streets where the laftiate may
beginning, "A efill find exquisite Jade, rose quartz mental iden will have to be changed was to be withdrawn, and all the many, provoked by the attitude papers. Here's a work, trouble, and negotiation of the Powers towards her claim marriage has been disarranged and fine embroidery, pick up frag-for two scientists-Mr. P, M. 6.
ments from the lovely Manchu Blackett and Dr. G. Occhialini- that seemed to have secured so for equality of status, announced
head-dresses of kingfisher feathers, have proved almost beyond doubt many important results must that she would refuse to attend!
blue as the sky, smooth and shin- that "positive electrons" exist. This now go by the board. It is true the Conference until that claim
must mean that both electricity and that the decision of Germany not was admitted. But the discon- The publicity agent to an Ameri-ing as enamel.
On the outskirts of the city lie matter exist. to be represented at the Confer- tent which the general resolu-can film star is retiring shortly
Chinese houses These positive electrons, which ence was not then final, and that tion" of July created proved with a pension. He has been with those gracious
which are the desire of every West are one 1,800th the size of an atom, wiser counsels may prevail; but eventually to be a good thing, her for four husbands.
erner. They stand back from the only live for a few thousandths of it seemed certain that, even if For it roused France, Britain,
road, usually unpaved and very a millionth of a second while ordin- almost in- she consented to representation, and the United States to renew-
"New gramophone works," states dusty, from which you enter by aary electrons have an her delegates would be but minor ed attempts not only to satisfy officials, lacking that authority the demands of Germany, but to a headline. It would not be much wide red lacquer door into a court- definite existence. Under the in- which the personality and posi- further the cause of disarma-use if it didn't, would it? tion of the Chancellor alone can ment generally. Without going
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LONG ENOUGH
LONG SERVICE.
Merely Foolish.
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give. Of course, there are many into details, it may be said that IT'LL COME TO THIS who will say that even if Ger- towards the end of last year they many and, for that matter, succeeded in devising a "for motor or fly?
CLIENT: every State in Christendom and mula" that satisfied all parties, destrian. out of it were to send dele- at least so far as Germany's AGENT: Igates to the Conference their dis- claims were concerned. CUBBIOns and agreements would declared to be the basis of the insure yo
It was
Neither-1 am
Sorry, but we can't
Facts You Did Not Know
of the day. The dansants are held, Atoms Not Electricity.
amateur' dramatic shows arranged.
A joyous gaiety pervades the whole
place.
From the Quarter you pass into
London.
Scientists have believed since the
yard. One-storey buildings stand fluence of magnetic forces they turn around it, each with a roomy in the opposite direction to ordinary verandah that defies the aun upon electrons.
INSURANCE AGENT: Do you the hottest day. In the centre of Mr. Blackett, who made hia dis the quadrangle there is always a covery, when following up a sug a pe- Chinese lion in stone, a large in-gestion by an American scientist, cense burner or a bed of flowers, told a meeting of the Royal Society something distinctive or beautiful, that: "I have no idea what this symbolic of the house discovery will mean. If It has upset One of the lovellest places I have the scientists theories, then the have little effect; that the world Conference that Germany" should
ever seen is owned by an English-theorists must revise them. Our is sick of such meetings, and "be granted equality of rights in
woman who has blended East and job, was the job of finding these pacts and treaties, believing them a system which would provide
West in a rare pattern. It has particles. And we did."-Reuter; to be but so much sound and security for all nations where-
four courtyards, a bathing pool in But upon Germany not only resumed fury signifying nothing.
Liquid gas will be used to propel one, a great bronze stork in a LUCKY ESCAPE. FOR such an opinion is but very super-her seat at the Conference table, a rocket that a German scientist ex other, a dragon and a magnolia
SWIMMER. ficially founded for that the but formally entered into an pects to send into the stratosphere tree in the third and fourth. In Disarmament Conference has al-agreement with France, Italy, with recording instruments that the low-cellinged rooms are paint- ready done much, and may very and Great Britain to the effect will be returned by a parachute. ed scrolls, precious fivories, lacquer Unconscious Body Wash well do more towards the real that none of the signatories there
tables, wonderfully carved woods, peace at which its aim is direct-to would "in any circumstances Nails with roughened surfaces mellow with that serenity which is ed, is a proposition that may attempt to resort to force for that have nearly three times the essentially Chinese. There is an easily be proved by a considera the settlement of their disputes, holding power of smooth nails in abiding peace about this house that tion of its work during the past "past or future. This became wood have been developed at the has seen the city taken and re year. It is true that when the an important addition to the United States Forest Products taken, sacked and ravished, and Joseph Helghenlechner, assistant en first stage of the Conference clos Kellogg Pact, renouncing war; Laboratory.
ed in July last its results were, and the Five Powers were thus
in a sense, disappointing, and enabled to resume the Confer With a view to minimising noise were received coldly by the world ence under a mutual understand and vibration in its passenger
still remalus inviolate, unafraid.
This invulnerability of spirit ex-
when,
at large. This was not remarking. The value to the world of coaches an English railway is extends to the Chinese, An English able, aceing that the Conference, auch an agreement is obvio perimenting with rails 10 feet in friend told me about the bravery the most representative gather and it was by the ability of the length, the longest ever used in any of her No. 1 houseboy ing of the kind ever brought to Conference to bring that agres-country, gether, had only been able to arment about, that its powers for rive at a general, resolution", good have been proved
which was so vague
row that the very
who signed it
gen
¡decision of many to leave the
nce once more, therefore all mors
nent that
London will have a gar
the floors of the
surrounding it linked by TRINI
Back To Shore.
Durban. Floating out to act unconscious,
vineer of the German ship "Vrel- berg," was washed back to the
The Fidelity Of A Houseboy, shore, when first aid was resorted to" and he was soon little the worse for his amazing experience..
He was bathing at Cave Rock on the Bluff when he fainted. He was washed some distance out to sna then the tide carried his float body ashore,Hi friends, who had been
ror-stricken" "withassen ; dant, dragged him from
water and revived him
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ding and would have to leav ways Possibly
troyed.
the