THE GAME OF LIFE.
NATURE'S "FOOTBALL
LEAGUE.
Prejudice in Modern Civilisation,"
Inld it down that
SHANGHAI REALTY OPERATIONS.
A NEW JOINT AGENCY CREATED.
Company, a joint agency for realty operations formed by
THE HONGKONG
ALL SECRET.
OUR WAR SPLES
AT DINNER.
ELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 2. 1931. 1.
TEXAS GUINAN GOES HOME.
"NO MALICE TOWARDS FRANCE."
MARRIAGE "OFFER."
A news Item of outstanding im RACE PREJUDICE.
portance to the real estate world of NO. 1 GREETS MR. X. With the effrontery and affected mubject of his Rectorial address at Land Investment, Brokorave & nonchalance of a 'spy
Sir Arthur Kelth, taking for-the Shanghai in the creation of the
(writes a 1 walked
Londen, June 4. When he French liner Paris and through the public rooms the Shanghai Land Investment corridors of the Hyde Park Hotel, reached Plymouth late last night Company and the Asia Realty trying to glean information about on her way to New York from The national heurt must nuver
Company. This new organisation a secret dinner of British secret invre Texns Gulnan and her nster the national head. "Would
its active business life service men that was being held troupe of 16 girls, who had been It a good thing," he started
to Franco. refused admittance there. naked, "for the ultimate health and yesterday at 50, Nanking Rond.
When I arrived, disguloril na a were on board. happiness
This alliance of the two leading of mankind if reason
"X"
The night club "queen" was not of Ituritanian diplomat, "K.” estate organizations were not only to overcome our pre-real Judices, but also to eliminate them Shanghai unites the ripe experi- "No.. 1," "No. 69," and all those in the least upset at her sudden from the heart altogether? Seouer ence and resources of the Shang- other war-time ferrets were troop-return to New York..
thron or inter all the nations of the world hai Land Investment Companying up the steps to the banqueting when asked whether the antide will have to consider this question with the up-to-date and effefont room.
Some of them might have been girls who escaped on Tuesday from and find an answer to it. My own organisation of the Asia Realty
the interment hostol in Havre had Bome prosperous businese men, answer is based on a
d on a study of man'a Company.
horse trainers, a few professors, been recaptured, This joint agency arrangement, whose greatest long history. I am convinced that,
"I BDW thrill would bo
passports when we for the future welfare of mankind,
came on board," she added, "and those inborn likes and dislikes of while preserving the identity of chasing butterfiles, and some very
be each of these two companies, is ordinary men who might do any we are all here. These three girls premust
formed for the purpose of buying
thing from writing poetry to just wanted to see Paris. It was given an nasigned
Dealing with the origin of pre-and selling real estate, both tm-managing a music-hall. A fey had quite nataral, Judicon, Sir Arthur Reith said that proved and unimproved, upon monneen, and athletic boxing rat opportunity, they took the iscussing the report as to her or commission, or as of soldiers, but none of them be
marriage to Mr. Harry every tribe in the prehistorie work brokerage represented an evolutionary experi- principals. It will arrange mort trayed his real calling.
Aslett, of West Norwood, she said zages and lenses, supervise and
that she never had "the manage estates and property, and
intention of do other real estate work
for
"I knew the average English- third parties. All purchases and "As you look through the door anles of real-estate for both com-carried out the way into this prehisteric world,"
panies are to be conducted through Sir Arthur Keith continued, "you this jotet agency. become astounded at the ingenuity alnut diabolical-whleh Nature hud introduced to its organisation, She had arranged it on a competi:
tribe was
B otr
ment.
Tribes as Teams.
tive basis;
engaged in the sternal struggle to obtain promotion and avoid releza tion. Our modern masters of fout- all have but copied the scheme of competition which Nature had set up in her ancient world.
"Her League of Humanity had its divisions-racial divisions--white, yellow, brown, and black. Tribes constituted her competing teams. No transfers for her: each member of the team hal to be homebern and home-bred. She did not trust her players or their managers farther than
the
she could see
To make certain they could play great game of life as she in- tended it should be played, she put them into colours-not transferable jerseys, but Hveries of living flesh, auch livories as the races of the She trade motern world now wear. certain that no player could leave his team without being recognised
deserter.
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"To make doubly certain she did an almost unbelievable thing. She and invaded the human heart organised it an that her tribal teams would play her game-not theirs. She tuned the heart of her teams for her own ends. Nature endowed her tribal teams with this spirit of antogouism for her own purpose", The modern name for this spirit of antagonism is race-prejudice.
War A Pruning Hook.,
the Lord Restor "Modern mas' proceeded, "is struggling to adapt ·
his inheritance from a prehistoric tribal past to the enconomie needs
COBRAS AT LARGE IN A LINER.
PASSENGERS' PERIL
Sydney: June 6. After having brought .ten Egyptian cobras nearly all the way to Australia in the steamer Jervis Ray, Mr. M. W. Ward, Hon. Zou- logist at the University of Sydney, hand to sacrifice them all. The cobran were imprisoned in a wooden case, when in mid-ocean, Mr. Ward discovered that the box
d warped, and that through large crack a number of the robras had escaped.
it
Several of them were recaptured,:
but it was impossible to count them as they were all interwined.
As there was the prospect of one or more of the deadly reptiles be ing at large, it was decided to kill the snakes and count them one by one.
WIE
When the cabras were killed and thrown overboard Mr. Ward disappointed to find that they had all been recaptured and that his sacrifice had been unnecessary,
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED
: QUOTATIONS.
The following cable at the close
London Terminals, March 1932 7/-1⁄2 up 1d. May 1932 7/21⁄2 up 1d. August 1931 6/6 4 up 1d. December 1931 6/10 up 18.
Dangerous Missions, Yet these were the men who most dangerous
missions during the war. These seemingly harmless citizens pene: trated the naval yards at Kiel; extracted secrets from Turks and Arain; froze in Russia and pers-
AT THE KING'S.
An added attraction is now being offered to patrons of the King's Theatre for all shows excepting the 2.10 session, in the appearance of Peggle and Guy, seen above. They are a talented pair of English aero- batic dancers, who have made a big hit in India, Malaya and the Philippines,
area.
of the modern world. The work of the sugar market yesterday has to-day is a bed of nickness, and been received by Messrs. Pen-pired in the foetid atmosphere of there is no lack of physicians stand-treath and Co.
the Levant, and tracked down ing round the patient. The
peoples and Ireland
foreign sples in all parts of the war of Scotland, England, are on that bed; all the nationalities of Europe are there; nay, all man- kind is on it. Let us listen first to our good physicians: they assure us that there can never be health In our modern world until all man- kind sleeps under the same tribal blanket.
"Can this dream of a unitribal world, free for ever from war, be realised? To obtain universal and
- perennial peace,
alan reckon will have
must You
price
the to pay The price is the racinl birth-
Trust
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"All A Joke."
"When he called on me in flavre just before we sailed to-day, 1 told him that it was all a jõke, I was walking out of the hostel at the time on my way to the bank 10 see about a letter of credit. He sald to me. I have come over to marry, so just said, 'Oh, yes, I had forgotten that. I told him I was going to the bank, and he said: 1 will come along with you,' but
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"He still believed that we should get married, so I told him that if he came down to the docks, the Captain of the liner would marry us, and he came down to the docks, and it was only when the Paris steamed out and I kissed him farewell that he realised that he was not going to be married to- dahen asked if she intended to get married she replied: "No, sir, I was married twice in America and once on the level, and I shall never try it again. If my hus- band had only lived he would have been a great avinter. He was no use on earth at all, but he was niwnys up in the air with me."
Europe "too Slow."
"What is your conscientious view of England and of France," she was asked, "Just this:. That I am 25 years ahead of my time, European countries are too slow for me, but shall come back to Europe. I am just returning now to New York to make a talking Were is to be called "The Without a Country and I shall write the story mysel,
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WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH
AND EAST RIVERS.-
The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet the water levels on the West River. North River and East River on the dates named:
June July
30 West River at Shiuhing 32.8 33.7 North River at Taingyuen 28.5 24.2 North River at Samshul for
East River at Sheklung 12.3 12.9 The highest levels recorded aro: Shishing, 41 fect;, Taingyuon, Sheklung, 11.5 feet.
"I was glad to be in France," They travelled 71 their danshe added, "because the French gerous missions in submarinca, people showed me more interest aeroplanes, on camels and than they have over paid on their armoured cars, and always they debts to the United States." New York Terminals..
carried their lives in their hands.
For just half an hour Texas Gui- March 1932 1.52 up 2 pts.
As I sat in the trance hal}
nan was in British waters for the May 1932 1.68 up 2 pts. drinking my cocktail I watched
Recond time in her life. As the them
greet each other. July 1931 1.35 up 4 pts.
order came for visitors leave, the
to "Hallo, 'No. 10, and a typical liner she gave September 1931 138 up 3 pls.
her parting shot. December 1931 1.47 up 3 pts. looking business man to one of the
that comes to "Any Englishman professors who might chase batter-my night club will be measured for Sourabaya (30/6/31).
nies.
the finest table I have and given you sold 12,000 tons Brown at 17.25.
"Ah!
I'Mr. M.," replied the "pro- the best food we serve," she said, for it.
London (1/7/31)-Cuban Cen- fessor." stretching out a hand to "because I bear no malice to Eng ht that Nature has bestowed on trifugals 90%, E.O.B. Cuba, can the joyial man who had greeted 1ish people, and I certainly bear 29.2 feet; Samshui, 27.3 feet;
February/March him. "Where did we last meet?"
no illwill towards France. After you.
To attain such an ideal world probably bug pooples of all countries and Con- shipment at 1.43 cents per pound.
the arid Dalmatian mountains.
for them." tinents must not only prove their national interests, but they must also pool their bloods. Black, brown, League if all its member realised
part which prejudice With true Secret Service instinct yellow and white must give and the take in marriage and distribute in plays in determining the fate of they saw to it that no one who had IF WE HAD OUR YOUTH
OVER AGAIN. a common progeny the inheritance mankind. You will find, as time been a spy or a counter-spy in the
goes on, that the spirit of self-war should hear their stories determination, far from weakening, adventure and romantic daring will grow in strength in all parts around the dinner table. of the Empire. You need not fear Try as I might, I could get no the development of the local spirit. Information
which each has come by in their up-hill struggle through the longues of prehistoric time towards the present.
"If this acheme of universal deracialleation ever comes before you as a matter of practical politics as the sole way of establishing
Then they fill to discussing life in all, they don't know what's good
Guarded Room.
of
(Continued from Page 6.) about the dinner hear the waiter say, "Thick or
the clear, sir?" It may work-nay, it will work-Some time before it began
banqueting-room was under the This does not apply to mon or for the health of the nation,
man whose women whose youth has been "But there is an important pro-watchful eye of a
for them by uncontrollable
The lowest levels on record are minus 6 feet at Samshul and minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.
tain that he was never equipped for adventure. He was of the type that played for safety, and his re- word is the safety that he now on- joys. Some men seek for ecstasies: others comforts. It
to greedy bath and It is not in the expect scheme of things to attain them.
Middle-age, when reminiscent, talks a lot of nonsense about the
peace and goodwill in all paris of visd--the national heart must never Secret Service non de plume I do Bistances. För: them wo care-free days of youth. This idea
and heart will rise against it.
"Nature throughout the past has demanded that people who seek Independence as well as peace can obtain these privileges only in one way-by being prepared to sacrifice their blood to secure them.
not operation I wont to a
In place, in the development of people; walter, and from him I received it is.
Judice has a place, a very important
rolive the early days under It binds and will continue to bind the biggest rebuff over admini It is easy to understand how they British nationalities together, But, tered to a Buritanian diplomat.
The nationalities
culprits are the self- Indulgent people who dettand from life that it shall be "roses, roses all the way with unlimited Sowars
to be
If union between our in to withstand the stresses of con- Meting interest, the heart Meting "Nature keeps her human strengthened by clearsighted In-
this
has to
in
in
NEW BRITISH
·MINISTER.
the tradition of happy childhood days. bin with
Every stage, in lif
life has its
Cars They differ in?kind;but not greatly in degree. The schoolboy who has failed to get a place in the cricket eleven may feel as deep a sense
of enjoying it. It was for them of tragedy at the time as Inter on
that
It
pleca of ha will feat
fear when his best girl tells youth but him
him she likes" another young man
love that unutterable
im meaningly
orchard healthy by pruning: war in tolliger modern civilisation,"
The place of the prejudice her pruninghook. We cannot dia-in our
he ponse with her services. Thia | Lord Rector concluded; should
MR. R. H. HOARE APPOINTED melancholy harsh and repugnant forecast of that of servant, not of master. It
TO PERSIA. man's future le wrung from me. may be a national prejudice on my
Scotland
Therefore much of this London, July 1. The future of my dreams fa a war-part, būt: I believe that
and that sort of thing lament for lost youth van les world.
respect has been exemplary HM the King has approved the yearnings What then do I advise? This: her conduct; she has always shown appointment of Mr. Reginald. Yet analyse it and what nonsense eneseating.
the
essence of youth draffatisatio Give our prejudices a place in our a willingness to
ess to sacrifice her own Hervey Hoare, C.M.G., Minister it is Why,
at The Hasidency and its Joy is that it does not our alime
Know, that it faces life as an advch fwatil #outhern Ireland") truTeherangem
that in Cairo, to
some day ordinary and Minister Plenipoten will follow our example and Join Mr. Hipare entered the Diplo "The English-speaking peoples wholeheartedly in the t British tie Service in 1905: become more and more, the custo League, where haud and heart are in the Foreign. Qffic dians of poace, added Bir Arthur balanced how much does that spell stantinople Rome, Keith. I am not afraid of the For the security and peace which the grad and W Warsaw Brit future of our English-speaking world so longs for
civilisation, but keep them under immediate interests for the welfare Plenipotentiary Envoy Extra-pe that it is tālding a leap in the
the control of rensen. :.
Custodians of Peace.
of the confederation.
havo brethren of
And if on that there in grafts
ed the prudence, and knowledge.
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