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SATURDAY OCT. 12, 1929.
AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1929.
DAY BY DAY."
tions clause of the Covenant, under,which members bind thom- Bolves to boycott and blockade a
A COQUETTE IS MORE OCCUPIED State which breaks the Covenant.
WITH THE HOMAGE WE REFUSE HER When, therefore, Mr. MacDonald | THAN WITH WHAT WE DESTOW UPON links this clause with his remarks HER.-Dupuy. About cutting out dend wood,» it seems to be impied that he re- garda sanctions as Inappropriate, seeing that, by signing the Pact, nations are now proceeding on the It is notified that the Chist basis of trusting instead of dis-Justice has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions shall be held on truating one another.
Monday, 21st October.
It is notifelt that all Government- bathing beaches wil be closed on and after 7 pm on Thursday, the 31st October.
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THOUGHTS ON GREEN. The Colour of Joy and Gladness.
There are doubtless many learned thoughts of vulgar (yellow) journ- folk to whom green is a speciaedalism. The only form of degrada- number of vibrations of the lumin- tion known to it passes in common ous ether per accond. I meet with usago as a sort of humour and is some of this kind occasionally but conducive to smiles; it conveys no cannot say that I find their con- insult surely Fork is not green versation particularly Inspiring the colour of growth and fertility, which may or may not be my own of summer, the season in which fault. I only know that I am 8000, these most abdund? Though it is irretrievably lost in the maze of over related to the period of the
How does the question of .America being persuaded to enter Tho King's Exequatur em- the League arise out of these sub-powering Senor Enrique Gonzalez their learning, spationship earth's greatest warmth it remains
the of to act as Mexican Consul-General light and sound do I find myself
they broach
symbol of coolness, shelter, re- missions? It is-suggested that in
in London for Hongkong has re-ove whelmed by their profundity treat. It speaks to us of gardens, his conversations with General colved His Majesty's signature. Just why one series of vibrations those lovesome spots wherein nan Dawes, Mr. MacDonald must have
should produce light with its seven-kind is continually trying to re- The forthcoming wedding is an fold constituency and another gain his first home, the dear Eden. had impressed on him thut
nounced of Mr. Victor Mayor Hast, scries produce sound I have so far with its refreshing lawns. and America dislikes sanctions, and No. 4, Cox's Path, Kowloon, to Miss failed to fathom. Would the streams and trees. When we were that if these obligations were Lily Mabel Collison, No, 22, Shad-colours, now, if they were suddenly very young even as Christopher eliminated from the Covenant, the well Road, Portsmouth, who is
to change their respective rates of Robin, we knew that a garden chief obstacle to the United States travelling to Hongkong on board vibration, become other hues of the without its trees was not like a
H.M.T. Neuralia.
spectrum or would they by any garden at all: To separate the joining the League would be re-
invisible chance become
bat one from the other is wholly un- movad. We cannot, however, read husband, a Chinese woman, living After a violent quarrel with her
Rudible?
thinkable. However gay and fra so much into the Premier's utter-at. Wanchai, disappeared from her der of what my seven-year-old the verdure that sustains and com- This is, I must admit, on the or grant the blossoms, it is, after all, ances.. It is natural, of course, home. Her body was yesterday to assume that some attempt will found floating in the harbour, and neighbour scornfully terms a "ally forts and lingers when the retreat se question": it is irreverent, irrelev is seen only in retrospect. Yes, the construction put on
ant, immature, all be made to revise the Covenant, as a is that she committed suicide.
that it green is the colour of gardens na should not be yet it is ait la of lawns, meadows, parks, consequence of the signing of the
Owing to the sudden bereavement fair sample of my cerebration forests, pasas, islands and all such Pence Pact, and we may see this of one of the members of the con-1 can only flounder among the legend and story. It was
in the presence of
aavant. blessed refuges cherished in song, matter come to the fare more cert party, the grand concert ar prominently if and when a new ranged for 6 p.m. to-day in con- unfamiliar and the unfathomable logical step that caused it to be
come the acknowledged colour of nåyal understanding is reached Fete has had to be postponed. It over, when I must think of any romance which is but another forma
nexion with the St. Peter's Garden terms of his discourse. But that will be held on October 24, in the colour as so many billions of vibra- of retreat along with the ballad and
tions per second I can take no the pastoral and a few pleasure in it. Well might such a poetical patterns. Right well did demand destroy the poet's "summer the merry men of old choose to dream beneath the tamarind tree.' Even Marvell, I daresay, would have wear the livery of the trees when found his serene task of "annikin-wood. What an anomaly is hunt- their abode was the good green-
thought in a green shade" some and significance! ting all that's made to a green ing pink" how lacking in courtesy what disturbed thereby.
between the Powers."
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does not imply America's willing- Cathedral Hall, at 9 p.m.-Advt.
*** ness to come into the League. The Governor in Counell has Indeed, in the joint declaration. by nuthorised as a place to be used President Hoover and Mr. Mac-us n cemetery and to be known as Donald, issued a couple of days the plece of land containing about "Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2148" go, it was stressed that "the part 14 acres, situated at Ho Mun Tin of each of our Governments in the and shown on the plan disposited promotion of world peace will be and which may be seen in the office different, as one will never con-
of the Public Works Department.
Interport Cricket,
not
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Though blue because of its posi- Now, the spectrum I hold to have tion in the skies is habitually refer- been designed not for mystification red to as the colour celestial, green sent to become entangled in Euro-According to the report of the but for delight; and of its bright is hardly less sacred in its associa
components I must maintain that tions. It is the consecrated colour pean diplomacy, and the other Is Registrar, upon the valuation and none confers more pleasure-proof Peace as the olive brauch has resolved to pursue a policy or report of Mr. John R. Moodie.vided it may be pursued aui generis ever attested. It is the colour of F.F.A., for the five years ending than the one we call green. As Friendship, Love, Constancy, Re An Interesting contribution to active co-operation with its Euro- 31st December, 1927, the Sincere to whether its central position be-membrance. It has a place in all the question of the precise nature poan neighbours.". That very de- Life Assurance Company's valua tween the infras and
the ultras human longings, aspirationis, of Mr. Ramany MacDonald's policy finite pronouncement does
tion balance sheet, which is based signfies age and importance or quite dreams of the hereafter. Almost on the Company's balance sheet the opposite or indeed nothing of all the Paradises ever imagined by in seeking a new naval under-suggest that Mr. MacDonald has made up to the 31st December, either, I am somewhat dependent men have reproduced the familiar standing, among the Powers, based been able, or has even attempted, 1927, shows Habilities $273.814.43 on the savant--though not wholly hill and dale of earth. on the Kellogg Pact, has been to induce America to look more and assets $179.160.72, à deficiency If he should declare it to be the
Beyond the "pale marge eldest of the sacred seven, the first mide by a writer in one of the favourably on the idea of linking in assets of $134,673.71.
of all the colours to evolve, I Acheron," Virgil assures us, are political journals in London. It up with the League. We may re-
The following is the health should hardly be surprised neither greensward and groves. Green are Elysian plains that know is suggested by this organ, which gret the United States standing out bulletin of Eastern ports for the should I demur, age being as the represents Liberal thought, that and regard it. as a mistake, but week ending October 5, figures in honourable in this instance as in neither storm nor snow nor rain, but eternal suminer. Green is the parenthesis indicating the number any other.. the Proier seeks, amongst other nothing is to be gained by enter- of dichths. Plague: Tamatave 3 Certainly it is most pleasing to island valley where Britain's Arthur things, to make the way easy for taining hopes bused on mere (1), Alexandria 1, Port Said I notice that on creation morning waits his second coming, green the Bumbay (1), Rangoon (1), Saigon Before the skies had yet assumed happy hunting grounds of the red- the United States to join the aurmise..
(1). Cholera: Calcutta (12), their wanted blueness or the mistsman,, green the promised Sweden-" League of Nations. Putting his
Tuticorin 2 (1), Bangkok 1. Pnom had ever responded to the roseate orgian garden. Even the Gan' own interpretation on a recent
Penh 5 (5), Shanghai (2), Small- touch of the sunrise--there being Eden with its jewelled walls and pox: Berbera 1 (1) Bombay 5 as yet no sun according to Genesis, chambers has its valleys of water speech by Mr. MacDonald, the
with innumerable species of roses (4), Calcutta 5 (4), Cochin 3, or any bright yellow buttercup writer of the article concludes The brief sketches given yeater- Karachi. G (3), Madras 28 (3), the alleged ancestor of all the flow- and myrtles for the delight of the that, influenced by his conversations of the players selected to re- Maensser
day, disclosing the erickot qualifica- Moulmein 1, Batavia 2 (1)ers had opened, green was. "Let righteous.
Samarinda 9 (1), the earth put out verdure," com- And so I might continue adding tions with General Dawes, the present Malaya in the triangular Pnom Penh L
manded the Creator on the memor phase after phase to my medita- Premier has turned against the tournament next month, promise a
able third day. Therefore when the tion in the shade of the mighty tremendous fight. whole idea of providing security Malaya is definitely out to secure for honours.
sixth day arrived and all was pro- maple that overlooks freshly-clipped. nounced "good" and "very good" lawns and meadows, emerald corn- by agreements tó employ revenge for the heavy defeats in-
the carth was clothed in green fields und darker green woodlands,. sanctions" against a disturber of ficted by Hongkong and Shanghai
The first human thoughts were at-all of which have been a part of my two years ago, and when it is re- the peace. Instead of secking to called that the Invitation was not Berlin
tended by a "green" shade."
daily bread this pleasant summer through. Precious as the other strengthen the sanctions obliga-accepted until it was certain that a Stockholm tions of the League Covenant, it is representative side could be sent, Copenhagen
it may be taken for granted that suggested that he would like to Malaya's opponents will have to be water them down, or to get rid of on their very best behaviour to
Prague Helsingfors them altogether, believing that feature of the Malayan team is that Lisbon frustrate the attempt." A notable Madrid this is the only way in which it non-Europeans are included for the Athens will be possible to get the United first time, though we are prepared Bucherest
to believe that it will not be the Rin States to co-operate more closely the lust. Evan Wong is a Singa- Buenos Aires with the League. We are not at pore Chinese batsman and wicket- Bombay the moment prepired to accept keeper with a crop of centuries in Shanghal this estimate of Mr. MacDonald's son, while Lal Singh is 'n regular
Club cricket to his credit this sen- Hong Kong
Yokohama policy, but it will be interesting performer for Selgangor, and wields
Silver (apot) to age precisely on what it is both bat und ball to excellent pur- pose. Strength in all-rounders ia, based....
indeed, the most remarkable feature of the side chosen by Malaya.
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That this eldest of the colours, colours are-and I could say much 18. 2014 as I capriciously regard it, is used for each and every one of them 34.62 so Invishly by the artist hand of they acem less essential, less in- 16% nature causes it to be ranked as grant to the sum of my season's 1935 the most common of its class; how happiness. Take away green and 32.75%
ever, we should not fail to consider what remains? That is doubtless .108.26
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the landscape when autumn comes, teit also us the most loved..
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for the garlsh' pageant of autumn leaves, the reds and the yellows are Introduced very deftly and gradual. of the few previous visitors to this
ly among the greens and well tem- Colony, the team is capable of mak
pered with the browns as the sea-) ing runs down to No. 11, while
aon advances. The nother portion every player not only bowls, but is MR. R. W. RITCHIE AND MISS the spectrum, indeed either of the capable in the field. Hongkong
extremes, calls for judicious hand will need to pull itself together
ling, you see; excessive use of these pretty effectively in the next week
colours is carefully avoided as A very pretty wedding or two to hold its own against such solemnised at St. John's Cathedral om occur in masses; when they are something not desirable; they seld- formidable opposition. At moment, the prospects do not seem Riley, the elder daughter of Mr. and the sungets they are quality- this morning when Miss Nancy used extensively; as in the dawns over encouraging. There is a feel- Robert Riley, of Blackpool, Lanca-ingly feet, evanescent. liance will have to be placed in the of Mr. Richard W. Ritchie, son of ing in the air that too much re-shire, and Ceylon, became the bride old-stagers, the tried and proven, of
One of the passages of Mr. MacDonald's speech which Captained by R.L.L. Braddell, one quoted in support of the argument put forward is as follows:--"I would like you to consider the effect of the Pact of Peace upon the assumption of certain clauses of the Covenant of the League of Nations, because it is all to the good if we prune out dead wood from the Covenant. When the Covenant was drafted, there were certain assumptions, certain ideas
the
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But green, green is safe to be,
the calibre of Dick Hancock, "Fam" Mr. Richard C. Ritchie, of St. used with abandon; there is no Rev. such thing as "too much" of it; in the background of our minds, has run into form at a convenient Dean Swann officiated,
Pearce, and Brace. H, V. Parker Albans, Herts. The Very
the eye can and does delight in it that already represent a dead age, time, the Fincher brothers showed
The bride, who was given away without surfeit. Who would ever if we can make this Pact effective. capital form with the bat in Thure by Mr. Bernard Thorpe, looked tire of green forests or green pas- We draw attention especially to
day's trial, while Owen-Hughes charming in a gown of ivory ringtures or find any fault with them? seems to be doing more with the velvet with a veil of embroidery Though the colour is but rarely to Clauses 12 and 16 of the Covenant ball. Outside these, however, tulle and a coronet of orange blos-be seen in the sky, that peculiar tint to see whether we could not bring without inferring that they have soms. Her shoes and stockings which I behold dally in my cab already gained their places, dis- were of white satin, while the bages-brushed with the most de- that very old document, in relation crimination is not likely to prove carried a bouquet of white roses.cate of bloom-would be in my es- timation no unworthy substitute for to certain things that
have easy, a dozen players having very Miss Patsey L. Kerr, attended as the familiar, blue abyss; whereas
attired In happened since, right up to date." strong claims without, at the bridesmaid, and was
moment, showing signs of outstand Princess Mary blue taffeta trimmed azure forests and meadows seema Article 12, it is pertinent to note, ing merit. Incidentally, Shanghal's with silver lace with silver shoes hardly desirable, even in the name binds members of the League in team does not suggest that they and blue hat. Her bouquet was also of reciprocity no case to resort to war utht will prove the weaklings of the white roses.
In green there is joy and glad- The duties of beat man were dis- party, though it will be generally three months after the Council has agreed that the claven from Singa- charged by Mr. A. E. Charmon.
ness, perhaps not the degree of issued a report on the rantter in pore is most to be feared. In the Subsequent to the ceremony at exultation that the Orientala pro- dispute. The signing of the end, of course, the results matter the Church a reception was held fess to find in red, but neverthe comparatively little. If we see at St. George's Hotel, Kennedy less a feeling of pure delight. It Kellogg Pact has clearly render- some enterprising cricket, no mnt Road. The bride's going away frock has no association with melan- ed that clause out of date. Article ter from which direction it comes, was of patterned blue crepe do choly moon as evinced by the 16, on the other hand, is the sanc
we shall have ample reason to be chine. She wore a beige silk straw writers of popular (blue) mělo satisfled.
hat.
WAS-?· PISTOL
A very doughty fellow was Pistol in his own Imagina- tion, The rest of the world, it must be confessed, did not hold him in such high esteem, for he was a bully, a braggert, and a coward."
Ancient to. Sir John Falstaff, Pistol rants his way through no less than four of Shakespeare's plays--both parts of Henry IV), Henry V, and "The Merry Wives of Windsor,"
In Henry V, a complete. exposition of his unworthy character is given by his own boy assistant, while the wind. is taken out of Kis salle in a thoroughly satisfactory, man- ner by Captain Finellan, the pedantic but warlike Welsh- man.
Pistol eventually marries - Dama Quickly, the hostess of the Eastcheap Tavern, who was: treated so shabhtly on occa sion by Sir John; and the one redeeming feature of the braggart's life was that treated his wife kindly,
--- The confreros of Pistol,. Nym and Bardolph, were both banged; but the ancient hims self, though he richly deserval the samo fato, managed to die. a mora respectable death.
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dies. It is uncontaminated by