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munity in India has so far been admirable. Sir Hugh Cocke, their leader in the Assembly, recently assured the House that there were no die-hards among the Euro- pean community to-day, that "the die-hards in England are not going to dictate to India," and
This Sun Bathing Business.
yet committed themselves to any
HE WHO PLAYS WITH DOLLARS IN scheme of solution. It is obvious- HIS YOUTH WILL HAVE TOʻBEG FOR: ly undesirable that the Confer- FARTHINGS IN HIS AGE-Home. once should meet under con- A Chinese case of puerperal ditions which might suggest that fever was notified yesterday. the question has been pre-judged,
The Hon. Treasurer of the St.T HAVE been reading with the thing about the Welsh Harp ins although in actual fact it will John Ambulance Brigade begs to
deepest amusement the cident was that large crowds of accounts of the scene at the people assembled to disturb the have before it the Simon Report acknowledge the receipt of the Welsh Harp when a mixed but sun-bathing of a number of total and any other data which is likely Funds: Mr. Chan Lim-pak, $150; themselves on a stretch of private not impelled by an officious solici following donations to Brigade united party attempted, to sun strangers. Moreover, they were to prove of value. Fortunately, Mr. Chan Chu, $10.
ground by the shores of the lake,tude for their poor baking brains, the attitude of the European com-
A memorial stone will be erected writes Evelyn Waugh in the Daily but by indignation that they should over the grave of Mr. K. F. Wood If we ever tend to feel a sit there on the grass imperfectly ward, third officer of the s.8. Hai. little superior to the squabbles of clothed.
our earnest fellow-subjects in Now, I can quite understand that ching, who was killed in the India or Malta, let us remember many people may be depressed by tempted piracy of December 8 laat. The stone will be erected at the with humility the outburst last the spectacle of naked humanity.
week-end. This man boils salt Personally I cannot see that an: expense of the Government
water; that man takes off his ugly body is any more offensive...
than an ugly dress. The funeral of the late Mr. C. shirt; all men are brothers,
Not that I have the smallest Earnshaw took place at Happy enthusiasm for Bun-bathing Valley last evening, Rev. W. W.
I hate the whole buai- Rogers, vicar of St. Andrew's myself.
to do it. vice. Among those who gathered at the graveside were Mr. I. Goldenberg, proprietor of the The first effect of this extensive But do they cherish their over- Palace Hotel, Sgt. Reld of the unclothing is a mild interest in delicate sensibility and avoid places Argyll and Sutherland High one another's colour--sometimes where they are liable to shock? landera, and Messrs. W. Clark, envious, A. J. Osmund, J. Forbes, Harry This, however, very quickly rasses places where one can be pretty cer- usually aympathetic. (After all, England is still full of and Charles Stewart and P. Apps and is succeeded by a sensation of tain that everyone will be fully and the staff of the hotel.
gentle intoxication and content. clothed.) No. These astonishing That, too, is of short duration. people assemble in a large crowd Lord and Lady Rathoreadan are Complete stupefaction sets in at the one place where they know to pay a visit to Hongkong early succeeded, at a long interval, by they will see the very thing which next year, arriving here on January irritation, inflammation, and other displeases them. There are some 30th. Lord Rathcreedan, former symptoms of sunburn.
types. of mind which it is hopeless"
י
They Needn't Look, This, however, is not the point
the Welsh Harp simply detest the spectacle of bodies of any kind, beautiful or ugly.
that the representatives of the Church, Kowloon, reading the ser-ness. Now and then I am forced The people who made a fuss at
European community at the Round-Table Conference would work wholeheartedly "to help the Indians to get a stable Constitu- tion for India." Mr. Eric Studd, son of Sir Kynaston Studd, spoke to the same effect. Their attitude
sug-
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contracts sharply with that dis- played by the unbalanced out lock of Mr. Winston Churchill, and we incline to think that it is ly Cecil William North, was for Then you rub on oil, and bits to try to understand. more typically representative of several years in the Army and of sand and waste-paper adhere to But there is another equally odd later became Liberal M. P. for you. At the end of the process conclusion which emerges from the British opinion generally.
West Newington, London. He you go indoors feeling completely situation; that is, the devastating Not only in regard to India, held several ministerial posts, tired out; as if you had been doing selfrighteousness of all parties. but, also in respect of Egypt is including that of Assistant Posta decent afternoon's work, half The sunbathers are not merely con-
master General, Junior Lord of Jawake and morose.
tent to enjoy themselves in a Mr. Churchill bitterly anti-Gov- the Treasury, and Additional Par If you are lucky you are now fashionable but slightly idiotic ernment in his opinions. He-com-liamentary Secretary to the Minis-discoloured evenly all over, if you manner. They must pretend that have fair hair you look ludicrous, they are full of exalted moral plains of the Foreign Office inter-try of Munitions and Supply.
if you are dark you are a tolerable purpose, martyrs in the cause of fering in Egyptian affaire, THE INDISCRETIONS OF gesting that it may be trying to Whyte Smith, at
A Chinese was convicted by Mr. imitation of a Spanish donkey-boy. hygiene and true decency.
the Kowloon
But if you are unlucky, like me,
Hypocrisy. Magistracy this morning, on a you turn a mottled crimson, with That is one of the queer char breed a civil war in that country charge of stealing a blanket from white flakes in places as though acteristics of our countrymen. as serpents are bred at the Zoo. a Chinese passenger on board a you were afflicted with some They will always quote the highest Here, seemingly, his complaint is ship. Detective Sergeant Hum- noisome skin-disense.
motives for whatever they do. If phries said that the defendant All this is supposed to be good an Italian, say, overcharges one's not, as in the case of India, of Was unemployed and usually for you. Doctors say so.bill or gives one the wrong change plucating native opinion; rather hoarded ships at about midnight Nowadays people believe any-fund is detected, he grins and admits the reverse. We recall, however, and stole articles from passengers. thing they are told by "scientists," failure. An Englishman will al- As A previous conviction for just as they used to believe any-ways attempt to prove himself the chorus of approval from Conlarceny was proved against the thing they were told by clergymen. right, will go on grumbling until
the magistrate 'Ben-, servative quarters when Mr. Hen-defendant,
tenced him to four months impri- derson, in the recent negotiations, sonment. refused to give way. to the Egyptian demands concerning the Sudan. The Foreign Secretary at that time took a stand "which clearly demonstrated that he was not to be dragooned into making unreasonable and dangerous con- cessions, with the result that the negotiations broke down. Yet Mr.
Same weeks ago, a political commentator at Home referred to
what he described as "the blazing indiscretions of Mr. Winston Churchill, which are providing abundant ammunition for those- who doubt, or pretend to doubt, the good faith of the British people towards India." Few people, we imagine, whatever their political leanings; can have read the latest observations by Mr. Churchill, of which a. summary came to hand yesterday, without agreeing that his utterances war- rant the description quoted. In seeking to discredit the Round- Table Conference before it even
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one "no gentleman" for pointing Of one thing, however, I am out his dishonesty.AND
doubtful So it is with the disturbers of suspicious. fixed in London may be found whether all the addle-headed the peace at the Walsh Harp. If possible. It would be a profound young women who encumber the only the sun-bathers will be frank mistake to take it for granted country were really born as stupid and say: "We like to lie and cook that Great Britain must of neces- as they seem. Their brown limba in the sun, because (a) someone told sity equip herself with 339,000 give away their secret, like the us it was fashionable; (b). It is with 323,500 tons and so A tons of cruisers, the United States scars of the cocaine taker. They rather fun seeing what our friends
by have just lain out too long in the look like without their clothes; (c) 1936. There is already a strong sun and their wits have got hard it is comfortable to let our brains up completely so that we public opinion in the United States boiled. They have their annual dry against this policy of maximum orgy of stultification on the Riviera, Ihaven't got to bother about think- of undue probably be ready, perhaps even England-mercifully rarely-they If only the other side would interference in Egypt's affairs. 38 soon as next year, to join in fall back on their craving for their say: "It was a hot day and we
bringing down the 1930 maximum drug, sunlight,
felt pugnacious and thought it
ently based on one idea that course to the abstention of France intelligent, many of these poor dolts into a' pend.” regrettable lack of statesmanship..
and Italy from action that would become by Christmas.
But no. There must be all the whatever the Government does make this impossible. To accept, whilst his assertion that no pro-must, ipso facto, be wrong. If it therefore, Britain's present pro- out. If I had a daughter I should "Health," "Purity." and even, most However, that is their own look usual dap-trap about "Freedom," posal for Dominion Status for India will pass the present House Indian problem, it is. guilty of 1936 as immutable.
seeks by conciliation to solve the gramme in no sense means accept-take good care to shut bec, up in-fantastic ery of all, "Save the chil-
ing the Treaty programme up to doors. Hamlet gave just this ad-dren!" of Commons must be described as betraying Imperial interests. If not only provocative, but as likely it refuses to be dictated to in to increase the tension in India Egypt, it is seeking to create civil rather than otherwise, especially
war. How, we ask, can any im- since all Parties, including his
portance or valno be attached to own, have agreed that it is pre the effusions of a politician who cisely this status which Britain in this way shows that he pays intends eventually to grant.
more heed to embarrassing, his political opponents than to any other consideration?
In his anxiety to discredit the present Government, Mr. Churchill is evidently prepared to go to any lengths, no matter what may be
Naval Building. the reactions to his utterances. Never a man of balanced judge now merely history and the Although the Naval Conference ments, he has latterly flung all ratification of the resulting Treaty discretion to the winds, and we by all parties almost assured, can only hope that his diatribes there are factors regarding naval shipbuilding in the future which are assessed at their true worth warrant consideration. It is per-j both in India and in Egypt. His tinent to ask whether, the signa- references to the Afrid! invasion,mediately to set to work to build tories to the Treaty are im- as marking the lowest ebb of up to the maximum tonnage pro- British authority in India, are vided for in the Treaty, especially when it is remembered that the difficult to understand. He speaks Naval Conference was called not to of a spirit of defeatism which, he abolish naval shipbuilding but has says, has paralysed military action merely to limit it. Britain
outlined her building programme at Peshawar. Yet for weeks past for 1930, Mr. Alexander making we have had reports of extensive out a watertight case for the pro- Air Force action against the gramme he was forced to defend. The 1928 programme was cancel- invading tribes, resulting in much led altogether, part of that of slaughter. We could understand 1929 was held over and therefore
it.does not seem to argue Mr. Churchill's strictures if there
very culpable lapse into militarism really had been military inactivity, that in 1930 steps should be taken but it is as clear as it could well to move in the direction of the be that the military authorities Treaty. It is also necessary
standard contemplated in the to on the spot have been given power remember that there is to be a Conference to deal with the invasion as they World Disarmament deem advisable. As to the Round. next year, concerning itself with naval, as well as military, and air Table Conference, we wonder armaments. That will give an what good Mr. Churchill imagines opportunity for reconsidering the 1930 London figures, with the he is doing in predicting its hope that if France and Italy have failure. He may differ from the composed their differences finally Government on the question of and the cessation of naval com excluding Sir John Simon from the petition has created an atmos
phere of confidence, a lower Conference, but he seemingly maximum all round than that
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