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SATURDAY APRIL 27, 1929 ·
THE EMBARGO ENDS.
The decision of the Diplomatie Body in Peking to cancel the Arms Embargo Agreement, under which the Powers undertook to restrain their antionals from dealing in arms to China, doen not create any
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929.
DAY BY · ·DAY.
A GENEROUS LIE 18 BETTER THAN A MEAN TRUTH, Anna Constantins,
done her part in attempting to prevent amuggling, difficult though the task has been. But although the Embargo Agreemont has now terminated, the export of arms and munitions from Britain to China
Cd. Gunner J. Corby has been will still require the Board of Trade appointed to HM.S. Bruce. licence under the Arms Export (Prohibition) Order, and we may
Capt. E. J. Woodington, Royal Marines, has been appointed to H.M.S. Suffolk.
Lieut. Coromander G. P. Hun- ter-Blair has been appointed to H.M.S. Poterel.
Lieut. W. G. D. Blakeney has be sure that no licences will be been appointed to I.M.S, Torn. Issued where there la reason to be leve that the arms are destined to any group or military leader op poned to the Chinese Government, or where there is presumptive evidence that any attempt is being made to abuse the licence system. The renunelation of the embargo gives the Chinese Government even greater responsibilities than herelo- fore, but we imagine that Nanking would be the last to plead that it is incapable of exercising its authority in such manner as to prevent any imported arms from
Surgn.-Licuts, R. R. Baker, A. J. Burden, M.B., and J. J. Benson have been appointed to. H.M.S.
getting into the hands of rebellious Bruce. factions.
as
appoar,
H.M.3. Bruce left Shanghai yes- terday en route for Hongkong. H.M.S. Cornflower arrived at Che- foo this morning.
THIS TALKING WORLD.
Some Familiar Types Recalled.
Supposing thint one had only scan have with him is to pit him twelve categories or pigeonholes against another talker of the same in which to classify, all the major type. Then. It is a joy to see how types of talkers, how should they the two of them set forth into be labelled and arranged?
speech at the same instant; both
with a
on
The Snatch-and-Run Talker la
First and lowest would come the "starting scratch," and how they | Pedantic. All that one can find to talk on and on together, two say in favour of this style of talk volees sounding in unison but is that it is well meant. It speaking
totally different aspires; but oh, so ignorantly, so topics. After half a minuto or ignobly! There are books enough more a look of surprise and be- in the world' already, or at any wilderment begins to dawn' on rate there soon will be if we main one of the two faces, or perhaps tain our present rate of produc-on both. This sensation of hav tion, 80 that it seems a lttle ing one's opponent hold on is It is notified that the name of mysterious that anybody should evidently something new. Each Ching Tin Hotel Company, Limited, wish to talk like one. Sidney of the two is obviously convinced has been struck off the Itegister.
Smith was right, no doubt, In that the other is being rude and saying that no one need be spoiling good talk, and perhaps ashamed of talking like a book they both are right.
The Long-Distance Talker if he talked like a good book and not like too much of it at any one differs from the Roughshod chiefly better things to do in conversa-wait for any other person to be time, and yet there are many in the respect that he does not
tion. Your pedantic person wishce begin before he opens. He starts to please, we can say that much at the earifent opportunity; and for him; but the difficulty is that stops at the latest. Liko Dr. he is usually content to please Johnson, he talks to himself part only himself. And let us by allly because he likes to address his Freedom of the Sens.
meins remember, and remember at remarks to so intelligent a man While the Speaker of the House
all times, that pedantic talk is not and partly because ho likes to necessarily bookiali, There is a hear what. so intelligent a man of Commons refused to allow,
Commissioned Engineer S. S. pedantry of sport is well as of has to any. It is a thrilling during a discussion of the Ameri-Wynne has been appointed to scholarship, there is a pedantry of spectacle to see him plow his can naval disarmament proposals, H.M.S. Marazion and Warrant business, a pedantry of dress, and way remorselessly through the a question suggesting that agree Engineer F. A. Braham to H.M.S. even a curiously inverted but still babblings of other people, like ment was impossible until the Titania.
distinguishablo pedantry of the a' first-class whale going through seizure of private property at een
anti-pedantic. Lapsidedness and a school of sardines. How charm- over-emphasis of any sort belonging it must be never to hear auf was settled with the United States,
It is notified that the Govern in this pigeonhole. Would that thing but what one approves and this question of the freedom of the ment Asylum (also known as the we could cram it all in there and believes, never to be confronted sens has an important bearing Lunatic Asylum) shall hereafter seal it up forever!
novel opinion, never to. known ля the "Mental on Anglo-American co-operation. be
The Factual Talker must be detect a single murmur of dissent British opinion is alowly coming Hospital",
accommodated near at hand. Ho from the outer world! It is round to the modern viewpoint,
it is who introduces every section glorious-to have the strength of a the trend being indicated by the His Excellency the Governor of his discourse by Home such giant, but-well, that is only half Round Table, a most influential has appointed Mr. G. G. N. Tin- formula as "I son by the papers of the proverb. political journal. In a recent son to be a member of the Medi- although he might well vary this article, the journal went so i cal Board for a further term of phrase at times into "I see by the as timid as the last one is bold. Ho it is for Long since ho gave up hope that ancyclopaedia." three years.
whose behoof statistics are com anyone would listen to him for to say that "the Anglo-)
piled. For him our Chambers of full minuto together, and he le American dispute will be solved, the formula required to cover
His Excellency the Governor Commerce put forth their annual grateful if you hear him through. parity will the new has accepted the resignation by reports. Art and literature and oven a moderate sentence. There
are reduced to ten-fore he abounds in epigram, difficulties which threaten to arise Lieutenant R. S. Logan of his research.
commission in the Hongkong minute sections of pemmican in jewels five words long, much from the rapid expansion of the Volunteer Defence Corps.
order that he may shine at dinner riches in a little room. Ho "be- French and the Italian navies
tables. The man who is carrying lieves in loading every rift with
concealed fact can do more
ore, and you can see him dort will disappear, when Great Britain
His Excellency the Governor has execution in the midst of a con- forth on an instant's notice to surprise. Such a step has for recognizes that the use of
resignations accepted the
by versation than oven the most plant his tiny seed of wit or wiɛ- some time been expected. Indeed, which she can decido arbitrarily Lieutenant F. S. Harrison of their in ambush! How he bides a versation may show. Dae grows
power is no longer a
Lieutenant A. H. Gillingham and inveterate pedant. How he lurka dom in the least crevice the con- it follows na a natural cqrollary tho
There is a determined fond of these Snatchers-and Run- on her own judgment, and when Commissions in the Hongkong time! "recognition of the Nanking Govern- the United States is willing to Volunteer Defence Corps.
ho steely glitter in his eye as ners who do good as it were by listens to all the inconsequental stealth. They are over pedantle, ment by the nations having Treaty share responsibility with the other
exchange of opinions and impress factual, dogmatic, quotative, relations with China. It will be naval powers, for deciding when
A new regulation made undersions that other mon are pleased anecdotal, roughshod, or long recalled that the Agreement was and how sea'power is to be used the waterworks Ordinance to call talk. And then at last, distanced, and this lo a goodly expressly limited, in its duration, internationally for the prevention states."The washing of clothen, "until the establishment of a Gov- of war." Undoubtedly, Britain's in any street, road or lane, within ernment whose authority is re-blockade activities during the one hundred yards of any pable cognised by the whole country." War, and the principles by which fountain is strictly prohibited."
the good talk that was proceeding
The same thing may ba anid of In the view of the Diplomatic that embargo on Germany was
moment before are not worth Interrogative Talkers--they who applied, has been the chief source
Mr. N. Lockhart Smith has boon
picking up.
ask you why it is that the moon Bady, the Nanking Government of the irritation existing between appointed Head of the Sanitary
is sald to be made of green deserves that description; America and Britain on naval Births and Deaths in addition to Registrar of Department and
We may question whether the cheese and then pause deferenti-
deserves Д lience the termination of the em matters. The "Big Navy" group his other duties during the ab
Dogmatic Talker
ally to hear your answer. How docs not for he pigeonhole,
wo all like these fellowa! How bargo. It might, of course, be grew from the resentment felt sence on leave of Mr..W. J. Currie, genuinely converse, he announces.intelligent they are! How they argued that Kwangsi Province is, when Britain took stops to prevent
True talk la exchange of opinion cheer us up! at the moment, at variance with the United States from trading:
His Excellency the Governor and sharing of mood, but he gives
The Tangential Talker la pròne Nanking, but it must be remem-with whom she willed. Even the has appointed, provisionally and all he has und asks for nothing in
press your to open every other sentence with bered in this connexion that it is subsequent entry of the United subject to Ilis Majesty's pleasure, return. Thought you only since the dispute between the States Into the war could not Mr. B. D. F. Belth to be an Un- own moods and your fleeting tenu the words: "And here's another silence the outery, and the time fa official Member of the Legislative ous opinions upon him, he will thing." One is sometimes in: Central Government and the Wuhan rapidly approaching when it will Counell, during the absence from have none of them and waves themclined to call him & Kangaroo Mall majestically aside. He thinks Talker because of his enormous leaders that Kwangsi has taken on he necessary to call an inter- the Colony of the Hon. in terms of millions and cannot be and quite unpredictable lenps, but a "rebel" status, What, is more to national conference to define the Owen Hughes.
troubled with your small change. still more characteristic is his the point is that most of the Wuhan | issues, and the policies of
The questions that still puzzle way of devoting just one Awift militarists have now thrown up nations concerned. The Kellogg Signor Realli, who has appeared you he settled so long ago that sentence to a tople and then dart- the sponge and that Kwangsi is Pact should be an adequate pro- on several occasions at the famous he has forgotten even the evidence ing off at a tangent: To plot the more or less in the position of fight-tection for the Powers, as it Scala Theatre, Milan, and Signor and the arguments by which he "curve" of his conversation you answered them, and you must not would need nothing but short Giletti appear opposite Mdm. should be an understood thing ing & Tone hand against, Nanking that every, signatory forgoes the Henkina at the Star Theatre to ask him to revive them now: He straight lines, and those lines the trail я night in "La Traviata." Madame is very good at answers but not so would look like On the other hand, the news of the right to trade with my nation Henkina rocently completed a strong on reasons.
squirrel makes in the snow, outbreak of fighting in Szechuan committing a breach of the Pact.highly successful three year tour talker at secondhand, as different of the Whimsical Talker we have The Quotational Talker is a When we come to the category may portend a further disruption If an Mr. Baldwin stated at Bristol, as prima donna with the Fuller from the dogmatle as black from climbed rather high in the talking of harmony. However, these Britain is ready to co-operate circuit in Australia. speculations are 'really beside the cordially to secure general accep- point when we contemplate the fact tance of the new American pro- that the Nanking Government has posals, Britain should also be so far shown its ability to suppress ready to discuss the apparent sido
NOW
rebellious movements, and is to-day formally recognised by the Trenty Powers.
Issue.
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EXCHANGE RATES.
As has been many times staled. the Arms Embargo Agreement has been very largely a self-denying
Paris ordinance on the part of certain
Brussels Powers, some of whom have
Amsterdam honestly attempted to enforce it Berlin whilst others, if not actually in Copenhagen volved, have connived at Its In-Vienna fringement. The extent and num-Helsingfors
Lisbon Jer of the seizures of smuggled
Bucharest arms at the Treaty Ports and In
Buenos Aires Hongkong have demonstrated the Shanghai extent of this nefarious trade, Yokohama which without doubt has been New York. carried on by a big international, Geneva syndicate. It will serve no useful Stockholm purpose now to fasten blame on Oslo those nations which have not been Prague particularly circumspect in observ-Madrid ing the terms of the Agreement, Athana but it can be eald with every re-lo gard for the facts that Britain has again and again demonstrated her bona fides in the matter. In this connexion, Hongkong has more than
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when he sees his chance, how heat of negative virtues. Perhaps pounces like a hawk. With what they are best defined as good shattering dotonution his Inet talkers who have not the courage explodes! The bits and shards of of their abilities.
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white. He erases himself and world. To say the least of him, writes the thoughts of others upon he is versatile, for he can be all the resulting smudge. Ask him the other kinds of talker that wa what Horace said to Mecenas or have enumerated, ether by turns what Prester John wrote to the or all at once. He can be pedan- King of Portugal concerning" the tle, or pretend to be, and we for unicorns of India and he returns give him. He can lug in facts a voluble answer, but if you ask by the cars, and we smile. He him what he himself thfiks about can dogmatize and we never take any subject under the sun it is him seriously. When he quotes evident in his blank and puzzled to a ludicrous excess we see that stare that he has never got round this is only his little Joke, He
¡can.` stampede · conversation to that.
Much the surge things are to be though he were roughshed and he Bald of the Anecdotal Talker, the can collar it as though he were story toller, who dips his talk from long-distanced, he can snatch and the stream of others' speech as run, he can interrogato, or he The health bulletin of Eastern the quoter carves his out of books, I can be tangentail, but the fact is: .18.21 ports for the week ended Satur- One knows that he has spent that all the while he is merely. .34.66 day last, issued by the Director much time in clubrooms and in being whimsical. In other words, .193 of Medical and Sanitary Services, Pullman coaches and in hotel he is one of the few who see that 108% gives the following casce, the lobbies, but that is all that one conversation may be an art, and ...817 figures in parenthesis indicating knows of him.. In a sense healthough he himself is not an
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change opinions with you if he ...26.21 Bankuk 16 (13), Pnom Penh 8 And next wo.come to the Rough-had any such things about him, ,02.57% (5), Saigon 3 (1); Small-pox, shod Talker, to him who tramples but as he lacks this heavier .18.154 Boghdad 1, Basrah 1 (1), Aden 17 fron-hooved through the tender luggage hu gladly shares his
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