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MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND REPARATIONS.
But
DAY BY DAY TALE OF A SHIRT.
ONE THAT RUNS ALONG WITH YOU MAY MORE EASILY TRIP UP THE HEELS, THAN HE THAT WRESTLES WITH YOU.Henry Cronwell.
By A. B. AUSTIN.
Y NEIGHBOUR at dinner-the marker's booth to drop it down
Motus Call Om Hendersons chute on to the washing
made, Aud he did, as Mr. Keynes recognises in his books, try to make the clauses dealing with ropara- tions rather less ridiculous than they were in danger of being. He is on strong ground, too, when lo
was a man of vast interests. Its temperaturo rose from ico cold argues that some of the experts who
He is on the board of a dozen to force, purging host; it wAB were called In to advise ware even
companies, whose combined or-swirled, lifted, dropped and lather- sillier than the politicians.
The Empress of Russia is due here ganisations enmesh the globe, and ed by turna. For ten minutes it Mr. Lloyd George writes of the from Manila at 9 am, on Wednesday. In all of them his direct, personal shivered in soft, cold water; for.
Influence is felt. The humblest fifteen minutos it was whirled in- Versailles Treaty as if there were
The P. and O. 8. s. Chitral, from machino-mainder can recall conver-side the drum in a lather of warm nothing in it except the clauses about reparations.. Quite half the Singapore, is due hero at noon on Batiana with "the boss," converen-water, soap and soda. Then came tions during which he usually a respite; for a time it lay quietly difficulty of getting war debts can- Wednesday.
found that "the boss" was telling rinsing in hot, soft water,
Henderson's kind-heartedness celled arises out of these other
him something he did not know
overcame him: "Hasn't it had clauses. What kept the Americans
about his machino.
We had been bantering him about enough by now?" from signing? Curtainly not the
"We haven't half done with It provision about reparations. At
about his omniscience since wo sat down to dinner, but none of us yet," said the manager. "Besides, least in part it was the feeling that
had been able to catch him out, it ought to be grateful for the the other parts of the Treaty were
The farewell dance of HMS. Med-although we had tried everything trouble. Look at all that water- atons of it, specially softened every radically wrong, and no possible way and Submarines, postponed from from bricklaying to building
Thursday, is to take place this even battleship. The game had become day till it's like rain." foundation for a durable pence.
ing at Lane Crawford's restaurant,
There followed another hectic, a little monotonous when the cof- Whatever may have been Mr. from 8 p.m. to i am.
fee-and my clumsiness brought inthery swirl in the drum, and Lloyd George's past faults, he is on the right side now; and no sensible
The management of the Peninsula a diversion. After the waiter had then a plunge into bolling water person but wants to make as little Hotel takes pleasure in announcing finished mopping at my shirt front to complete the sterilisation, Que rinaes, a dona of blue, and the as possible of the past. The world, that as from to-day, April 18, the with a napkin I turned once more more hot rinse, two more cold
price of the dinners in the Rosa Room to Henderson.
one shirt came up clean, but with its as well as Great Britain, needa can. will be reduced from $6 to 30.
armour-stiff, pique front wilted, cellation; and there are only two
its frosty beauty thawed.
"Dry the poor thing quickly," sources from which it can come
We have received from Asia Lands, Ltd., of Gloucester Building, a useful desk diary, with a strong wooden base, and a turnover leaf arrangement for each day of the month.
"Bet you a Aver there's thing you don't know."
"Done."
"What will happen to this shirt
The Second Extra Race Meeting of the Macao Jockey Club, which was scheduled for yesterday afternoon at when it goes to the laundry to-Henderson begged, "It must be at Fanling, had to be postponed on ac-morrow?" count of the inclement weather.
its last gasp."
The manager laughed: "Quick'n
America or world-catastrophe. If it is to be the former, the Ameri
The fact-collecting gleam pasa. cans will have to be convinced; and
ed into his eyes as he made his not the word-wait till you see the we shall not convince them unleas
Mesars. Lane, Crawford's Restaurat confeselen of ignorance. hydro-extractor."
The hydro-extractor is the hay- As one rant, Exchange Building, was the "You win: I haven't the least idea: ve understand their case. writer observes, It is futile to how scene of much merriment on Saturday but let's go and find out. Don't plest fellow in a modern laundry. at the folly ventilated in the Ameri-evening when the Hongkong Football forget to bring your shirt."
Club held its annual dinner. The function was attended by a large num ber of members and their friends.
*
"This," said Henderson, "would make an excellent setting for modernist ballet-Pas D'Acler, for instance."
He is happy because he was once used for separating molasses from sticky Job-and augar-nasty, then thoy discovered that he would do equally well for drying clothes. He is a perforated con-
can Congress, for the more we howl, the more folly will be talked, Europe will have to be ready, not
The current picture at the Queen's only with an agreed scheme for cancelling reparations, but also with is entitled "Flying High," and those
who saw the opening performances He was not for wrong. We were tainer insido a metal tub, and he An effective determination both to yesterday were trental to very lively
to the minuto. The place was awhirl; volutions
faster he swirls the higher he disarm and to throw other parts of comedy, in which the well-known standing on the laundry's ground can swirl at the rate of 1,500 re-
Charlotte Greenwood is çast, with Blert floor. The the Versailles Treaty besides the Lahe an her foil. She is shown help rows of vast washing drums resings, and the higher he sings the faster does the water dy out reparations clauses into the melting out an impecunious inventor of a volved, humming a deep hass note:
spaced through his perforations. ing-put before the conditions will now type of helicopter, and demand-hydro-extractors, nicely
"Now for the starch," said the be ripe for American participationing his hand in marriage in return. Ilke subalterns in front of their The man-hunt leads up to the skies, platoons; span furiously, singing in a new constructive world settle with Bert Lahr making a frantie but high, nasal song; fat, padded manager
The starch awashed about to. up and down, the action of a paddle wheel in a
moved
ment, or for a stable recovery from futile effort to escape in his pet ma-pressed an eternity of soft, clump-senled box. The turn of a handle..
the present world depression.
Groupings in Europe.
chine. The comedy is well-sustained. and in between the exciting doings beautiful choro girls in action.
of the pair, glimpses are given ofing counds; half-finished collars a downward squeeze between two moved to and fro, to and fro under rubber rollern--a second to dip small, polished rolling irons: each cuff and a second for its
Blid endlessly
collars
"It looks as if it'd had custard
A rather unusual case was related Anished la analysing the failure of the at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn down hot airing pipes: sheety chest--and the shirt was starched. ing when Detective Sub-Inspector passed sinuously, like attened pies flung at it," said Henderson. A few more mad whirls in the Considerable attention is being recent Danubian Conference in Exton charged a man named Chan snakes, under six-rollered press- devoted to Mr. Lloyd George's London, the temptation to
com- ling
with theft of three pieces of lng machines; little goffering
crumply-stiff and, snowy. book, "The Truth About Repara-
diplomatic diagrams of clothing from the ground floor of No. Irons pirouetted; leather belts hydro-extractor, and the shirt was pose
"Don't you have to moisten ́ 70. Nathan Road on Saturday morning. and canvas strips moved up and; tions and War Debts." In it, he argues for complete cancellation. Europe is strony. It is useful to Inspector Elston said defendant went down and round and round; a train
"We've got beyond that stage." to, the Water Police Station and re- of Falstaflan wicker hampers slid again for ironing"" I asked. and thus far, at any rate, han Bri- have before us maps with
One
ilahi opinion on his aide. No doubt set of countries coloured red and f ported that he was the victim of a down their chute; woollen gar- the manager answered. "It has he addresses his words chiefly to another set of countries coloured highway robbery. Police enquiries ments hanging from a moving been dried to exactly the right
made immediately afterwards showed situa- that the boot was on the other
tu It
of
other countries, notably the United blue. By simplifying the States, where the British viewpoint tion, these diagrams help g
understand the designs does not carry as much weight as
But. although help- Home could wish, mainly because diplomacy. cancellation will be to Britain's ad- ful, this diagrammatic treatment
vantage.
are
some-
and was sentenced to 14 days' hard Inbour.
Come
cord passed in and out of the air temperature and no, more. Ing-room; puffs of steam awelled and see the new iron for pique
work."
press WEB
appeared that defendant had three pleers of clothing from a man and broke in the topld atmo living on the ground floor of No. 70, sphere; several hundred pairs of
The shirt lay on an iron table-- Nathan Road. On being accused by, bare arms plunged and pulled and
one of a regiment-covered with One of the washing drums stop; layers of felt and a sheet of calico. this man, he denied it but was not alapped and shook and smoothed. believed. His jacket was taken from But the real case for of diplomacy may be misleading him, whereupon he made a report to ped revolving, opened its maw and
slowly descending. cancellation is not that it will benefit is not clearly explained that the police. Defendant plended guilty said "woof which eneveloped it Above it a polished, gas-heated
in steam.
Gently the press mulled the shirt- "Great Moloch!" I said, "I'm front, stayed still for a moment fit Great Britain, but that it will these groupings of nations
klad I'm not a shirt.
Does it have and gently rose again. Once more benefit the world. it is on this tentative, incomplete, and
times impossible. They are,
to go in there first?"
it came down upon the cuffs. basis that Mr. Lloyd George argues
The manager drew us towards a
"Just enough to stiffen it with- throughout his book. He urges, imaginary results of this or that
we'll send It up to the sorting manager. "Now for the
neck. too, that America should make her nation's political desires. Diplo- the test of the most willingness to agree to cancellation mary of the old kind would be examination. Turkey is not like. small service lift; "Nol just yet; out fattoning the pique," said the
floor."
bond."
An instant's pressure by, a.con.
conditional on real European dis- armament-which is the only basis on which the public opinion of America will ever be brought to ac- cept. it. As long as the States of
be. The
superficial
in European quarrols from which it could
too gloriously enay were it suffi-ly to interest itself
derive no advantage. Greece, in The lift, with its load of deject-cave fron upon a convex table cient for a minister to conceive a bloc, for the bloc to diagrams put France, Belgian endeavouring to forget old dis-ed and miscellaneous garments, settled that business; a few passer We followed, by way of from a hand iron made the softer three form above the washing floor cllels and the studs were in;.n Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rumanta putes, and even to form a Balkanic shot up. Europe continue to arm one againet and Jugoslavia among the Blues union, is determined not to be the the wooden stair, to a raised plat-parts smooth and snowy;
plaything of any great power: The garments tumbled out of the turn of the hand and the shirt was and if it comes to a friendly agree-lift down a slide, were grabbed by folded. Happily it passed along moving canvas platform, ment with Bulgaria, it will cert sorter and placed, in their sev-the tainly not be for the purpose of al categories, upon three moving shoulder to shoulder with its In short, canvas belts, which carried them proudly gleaming brethren; hap- provoking Jugoslavia. the diagrammatic treatment of
another for a future war they would that is to say, those countries appear to have no valid ground which have obtained what they no matter how many Disarmament want and are banded together to din- Conferences they may hold for preserve their gains. The appealing to the United States to grams put Italy, Germany, Russia, remit their debts. The man who Austria, Hungary, Albanin;' Bul- can afford a fleet of Rolls-Royces garin, Turkey and Greece-not to cannot expect to find his creditors speak of Lithuania, which la hos- ready to take nothing in the pound; ille to Poland-among the Reds and big armies and navies are a-that la to any, those countries good deal worse than Rolls-Royces, which hope to upset treaties, and because they threaten others be obtain territory and political pri- sides their owners with the dangervileger that have been denied to them. Such a clear-cut division of bankruptcy.
the European problem but it does
Opinions will differ as to Mr. makes
Lloyd George's responsibility for comprehensible,
the Pence Treaty. He fully admits, not indicate the score of problema
in his lateat book, that he was an within
xious to make Germany pay
the
general problem.
扭结 There is hardly a single nation, either among the Blues or the Reds, which is really and indis- solubly linked to another nation. French amnities, Belgium has
much as she possibly could. But he says he never shared in the ex- travagant expectations current for some time after 1918 about what
but its Flemish population is try- the Germans could actually pay. It was largely through his influence ing to draw the country away. that no attempt whs made to assess Poland with deulty composed the Little Germany's liability in the Vor- its differences "with sailles Treaty where it would cer- Entente, and they are still latent. tainly have been put at a perfectly Czechoslovakia sentimentally be. ridiculous figure. It was largely longs to the Blues, but economical- through him that the Treaty wasly is drawn toward the Rods. so drafted as to admit, within its The Little Entente itself has in- terms, any amount of scaling-down dustrial and agricultural' interests and cancellation to which the Ailies which make its rigid union diff- would subsequently be brought to cult and bring Hungary, a Rod, agree. It was not his fault that into co-operation with Rumania, the Americans refused to sign tho | a Blue. The same process of Treaty, and thus removed from the showing that these European Reparations Commission and from bloca are not so crystallized Allied conferences the volco most in often supposed can be np. likely to stand for moderation and piled to the Reds. In the ultimate Impartiality. This in Mr. Lloyd rosort, what common measure is George's case. Most of it is true. there between Russia, on one No more than M. Briand or M. side, and 'Garmony and Italy on Clemencenu did ho really believe all the other? Even ns between about making Germany pay that Germany and Italy, the ndum- was being handed out to the Allied brated alliance will hardly stand
denoting realities.
European diplomacy is helpful as
to the markers' booths.
We were both rather sorry for plly it slipped into its transparent
paper container.
You can thank your stars, sà¡] The canvas bolt carried it off from Henderson, apostrophising the the shirt during the next hour.
shirt as we went out together, "that your weren't born any ear- llor. You might have been stamp. ed upon by someone's foot in a tub and then slapped against d alimy stone in a cold stream." :
"I wouldn't think of giving him a date, but it gives mo a chance to wear my new black taffeta."
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