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THIS ALL-IN WRESTLING By ROBERT MÄGILL
Its ban. But that seems scarcely likely in view of Japan's continued disclaimer of any direct concorni In the matter. In any event, thero
T was George who suggested pened I shall never know, becaugų is the further point to be noted
our going to some all-in George had to go in and batho his that Chian still claims sovereignty
wrestling, which is apparent-face, and dissuado Mrs. George over the Manchukuo territory, and,
a Shanghai commentator has GREAT MANY COPIES-De Tocque-ty called that because all the from the Idea that wo had been people concerned get into the ring fighting over whose turn it was to at once. Besides the time-keeper pay. pointed out, there enn therefore bo ville;
As Other See Us. no question of the League Inciting
The P. and O. 8,s. Rawalpindi, from and the referee, there were two
Meeting a gentleman the other Japan to acts of coercion in that Shanghai, is due here at 6 am, on officials ench armed with a micro
scope whose job It was to decide day whose face was vaguely fumi- territory. One auggestion which Friday.
whether a man's shoulders were Har to me, I raised my hat, be- this commentator has advanced. Is
Aubrey F. Aubrey Thorp, a seaman touching the mat, or the mat merce cause he was accompanied by t
lady. He informed her, in that the League Assembly abould
I did not find it very inspiring whisper which I heard, that I was delete from its resolution providing of the U.S. suunarino S.39, is report-ly touching his shoulders, ed as missing from his ship.
It commenced with two very large one of his regulars, a grilled steak: for the creation and visit of the Commission the paragraph giving Passengers arriving to-day from men leaning heavily on each other, Bordelnise. I realised then that to Manila by the Empress of Runnin In- the idea seemingly being to get as he was the waitor who usually Τ China and Japan the right
when I gup out. nominate assessors to assist the cluded Mr. and Mrs. R. Rodgers, and close to your opponent as you serves me
could, meanwhile keeping him as hadn't recognised him in his rat- Mrs. H. II. Pethick,
ins pos-catcher clothes. Commission. This would mean
far away from yourself
The point in that to him I am Mr. that neither Dr. Koo nor
Mrs. J. Fernandes, of 50, Nathan gfble.
Presently they slipped heavily not a rate-payer, a.father of h Yoshida would accompany the Com-Road, has reported to the polico the theft of a handbag, containing $270, mission during its Manchuria tour, which she inadvertently left in a shop to the ground and one tried to hide family, a man with a nice baritone underneath himself and cover him- voice, or a cat fancier. Ho aces but whether the Lengue would in Nathan Road,
yesterday.
self over with himself, while theme from his own standpoint, as a consent to this, in view of Lord
A Chinese living at 18, Po On Lano other ineffectually pawed him al consumer of stenke. And it oc- curs to me that while I privately Lytton's assertion that the Content into hospital carly this morning over
After pondering the matter regard myself as a reincarnation mission will not enter Manchurin fur treatment for a number of cuts without Dr. Koo, is very much and abrasions, His anailant in deeply, the top one caught hold of of all Three Musketeers, to most
toe, alleged to be a woman who has been his opponent's big and people I am something else. To detained by the police,
thoughtfully tried to unscrew my cat I know that I am merely the
Undoubtedly something The Japanese altitude on
would a lap in two pieces. She dividen too clear at the matter is not
The management of the Repulse have happened, but the under the world into two sexes-women, pleasure in an-neath one poked his foot in the whose laps are comfortable to ali moment. A Foreign Office spoken-Bay Hotel takes
one's eye, causing him to in, and men, from whose legs cata man some days ago expressed nouncing that as from to-day, April tot
20, the price of the dinners
in his stood up.
my lap. I am docketed MORE in beauty, performance. sympathy with the Manchukuo Wednesdays and Saturdays has been suceze violently, and they both slip off. My doctor never alts on tone and value. Impor stand, bat admitted that Dr. Koo reluced from $6 to $5 per cover. Finding this too tiring, they mind as an occasional tonic, and tant production economies--plus
Dr. S. T. Hsiu will give a lecture soon want to ground again, and he would sell me to any other for half a crown new Sparton inventions that s
to the Hongkong University Medical the fatter one endeavoured to the practitioner further enrich Radio's Richest
| Manchukuo authorities forcibly at Society to-morrow at 8.20 p.m. in the one of his adversary's lega round down. But if you asked my gar Voice-increase Sparton value- leadership and make these instru-tempt to prevent Dr. Koo's entry, Union Assembly Room, when he will his neck, but was unsuccessful be-age proprietor if he knew Robert
It it was possible that Japan might take as his subject "A Discussion on cause the artful wretch kept butt-Magill, he would say, "Yes, he's
Acute Empyema Thoracis and
ing him in the face with his head. a monthly grease all round, with ments the most attractive we
A length they got o intora decarboniso twice a year." See the wide intervene and extend its protection Treatment,"
So, to the sweep, I am a draw- have ever offered. range of models, including the to the Chinese asscandr.
Mr. Kenneth C. Krenz, Vice-Consul mingled that one man bit his own Sparton Automobile Radio.
this statement was made, however, in Hongkong for the United States, calf In mistake for the other man's | Ing-room chimney with we have had the warning by Mr. departed on Saturday by the Pre and the referee patted the heap of brick in it; to the milkman,
flesh to indicate the winner, al-daily quart; to the tobacconist, a
to the. Yoshida that if Dr. Koo enters 'sident Hayes. Mr. Krenz, who
gardener, a lawn and a row of Manchurin, he may be exposed to leaving on five months' Home leave, though to which man the patted daily packet of gaspers;
is proceeding to Washington vin portion belonged I have no iden.
Anyhow, George liked it. be- half-starved brusrels sprouts. personal danger; while the Bug-Manila and Europe.
My Inundry do not appreciate Cause he said that all the locke Man-
am fond of Art. Restion thrown out by the
attack, and throws they used, which were the fact, that The that
victim of an armed chukuo Foreign Ministry
alleged to have been carried out by once illegal, were developments.of They know me simply as a dress Lung Waly, whose whereabouts are the Japanese system of Jiu-Jitsu, shirt that has existed over since Japan should prevent the Chinese Assessor travelling in the railway now being investigated by the police and he would show me how it was the first Armistica Day and looks
like lasting until the zone raises fresh doubts an to how Fook Sheung was admitted to
He instructed me to stand on doom. far the Japanese are behind the Government Civil Hospital last night done. with
various cats to his body and
To others may be a fourth at whole business. The Manchukuo
A knife with which the attack one foot, place my left hand on
the top of his head, and my right bridge, the driver of the car in made has been handed to
arm round his walat. In this po-front, or one of the two-and-four- Government's attitude, by whom-wns
sition he explained that I was a penny seats. Roever it is inspired, is certainly pollee.
It is a solenin reflcetion this! footpad in the act of attacking the League. How Balfront to
him.
although you and I in our the Impasse is to be overcome is
lie said he would not hurt me estimation are the centre round by no means clear at the moment.
much, although if he used all his which this universe revolves real- strength he might break my leg. y we are each of us one of the After this he suddenly kicked him-netty annoyances that make the self in the calf, and fell on the lives of other people hardly worth
living. back of his head.
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As I told him, 1 hadn't done any- thing, and I have noticed before that when anybody shows you any
of these self-defence tricks you have to assume a posture that no Hane pereon would use.
a look
crack of
DWIL
THE POTTERING SEASON
Ile then said he would show me the Bar-Nolson, and after arrang- he ing me as he wanted me.
By L. C. MOORE. wriggled about until he had one of my hands in his, and his other
ASTER sees the opening of the for men. other hand on my neek. This is
pottering season It is then that several mil- a most affective lock, the only trouble being that you have to get lions of us ask our wives where
your opponent to help you fx it.
me
The question of the censorship
The following cable at the close of Alms is becoming acute
of the sugar market yesterday has Britain. The unsatisfactors state of been received by Messrs. Pen- the situation is seen chiefly in thetreath and Co. type of film which it is possible to exhibit to audiences coptalning children as well as adults. Very rarely does the British Board of Film Censora completely, han a Alm. Its usual practice' in deal-asking ing with a doubtful subject is to give it an "A" certißente, signify. ing that it is suitable for exhibi- tion to adults, and children accom-
He seemed to be trying to do those old trousers have got to, and panied by adults. The character.
something, by his breathing, but what the baby has done with the garden roller. We take our pot- he hadn't explained to of some of these "A" films, how-
whether I was supposed to Hetering very seriously. The first-
turn a local
back job when we get into the garden ever, is such that several MANCHUKUO AND DR. authorities have decided to ignore silention would probably lead to down quietly or
ate during the winter, and one by the recommendation of the board, a great reduction in the number somersault, I couldn't help him, is to try to remember where we
• would show me something. and to forbid their exhibition to of objectionable films. The cine so he gave it up and said he really left the various doings to hibern-
"I want you," he said, "to punch one to track them down.
Having collected a few tools. children under any circumstances ma is essentially a family enter-| An acute controversy is coming whatever. Those who sce many tainment. The public demand for me on the nose, hard. The harder to a head by the definite decision films will undoubtedly approve of movies to which the whole family you hit, the farther I shall throw our first real task is to get rid of Well, he asked me to punch him as Mr. Bloogs, the jobbing gar- roacue thu of the Manchukuo Government not the action of these local authori- could not be taken would soon be you. Now then, are you ready?" the weeds before they take holt, to permit Dr. Wellington Koo to ties. There can be no doubt that so restricted us to make it profit-
the trick was completely success: handfork from the rubbish heap ten minutes enter its territory. The Foreign
a large proportion of "A" films leas to supply it with more than on the none hard, and that part of dener, suys. So we
blazes to ful. What elac ought to have hup and spend a quiet
wondering where the Minister of the new State has are totally unsuitable for children. small number of films.
start.
Then we get down to serious even gone so far an to declare that In an inquiry conducted in Birken-
work. We literally got down to the moment Dr. Koo steps on to head the number of children who
it, and it isn't until we get close Manchukuo soil, he will be arrest said that they were unable to sleep
to the bosom of Mother Earth that td. The matter would be no at nights after going to the pic-
we realise there are at least ten tures was disturbing, to say the
We times
weeds as concern of the Powers were it not
as many for the fact that Dr. Koo is the lenst: It was found that, out of
thought there were. It's an awful the children questioned, 303 want.
job, lo, trying to tell them. from regularly-appointed Chinese assez-
the tender green shoots of plants. nor of the League of Nations Com-ed travel and adventure films and
Our accumulation of up-rooted mission and that Lord Lyiton has 229 liked comedy best. Only G8
weeds grows, and we suddenly get declared that the Commission will voted for erime and gangster pic-
a brain wave. If the wheel-bar- not enter Manchuria unless Dr. tures, and only 17 for sex films,
row was hundy we could throw the Koo accompanies it. There has these being the films usually liated
weeds straight into it, and so save handling them twice. Trying not been a suspicion in some quarters, in the "A" category. The general
to groan, we straighten our back ever since the question of Dr. attitude of children toward the
and go up to the end of the gard- Koo's admission was first raised, last kind of picture varied from
den for the barrow, only to and that Japan is at the back of the "boredom to repugnance." But
thut it is loaded with young objection; and in view of the with"A" films pouring from the
boulders. Of course, we got those new studios, it is plainly unsatisfac-
last year, intending to build a nianner of creation of the
rockery in the corner. Well, per- be tory that the protection of child- State, this Is scarcely to
haps it would be safer to leave the wondered at. Japan, of course, ren from them should be left to
weeds and get on with the rockery. Somewhore indoora we have n Indignantly denles any collision in
book which tells us how to build the matter.
a rockery properly. With a bit of tact we might persuade the wife to find it for us, but as we ap proach the french windows wo aro horrified to notice that tho. nergola is giving at the knees." Here is something which postive- ly cries for attention. The per- gola is definitely unsafe, a'menaco to our family, so away wo go to the garage to find nails and a ham-
It looks now as if the League is likely to be faced with a very com plicated problem. For instance, it Is no use the League instructing
any
the initiative of the local authori- ties, very few of whom have taken any action in the matter. Whet- her a film should be shown to chil- dren or not should be decided by the nature of a film, not by the locality the children happen to live China to see that Dr. Koo is. admitted, nor, In view of Japan's in. The demand that Alms should categories. bo divided into two denial of responsibility, can good purpose be served by making those suitable for adults only, and representations to Tokyo. There, those suitable for all classes of remains, of course, the Manchukuo picturegoera, is rapidly gaining Government, but here tho vital This decision should then be made force throughout the country. point is that the new State is not binding upon cinema houses in all a member of the Lenguo- and,
parts of the country, instead of, moreover, has not yet been
as at prosent, being morely a re cognised by any of the Powers, commondation that can be obeyed The only point which suggests it or disregarded at the wish of the self is whether Japan would be local council. Besides proserving willing to attempt to persuade the children from contact with much Manchukuo Government to revoke deleterious mattor, this new clas
TO-
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"Judging from your story I'd say you've never even been out East."
"You're right. air. You see, that gives me a much better perspective."
mer.
un-
Alas! Mary took the hammer to break some coals, and fortunately loft it in the cellar, whore the coal man failed to notice it when shooting the last ton In. The pergola will have to walt, unleas old Smith next door has a hammer to lend us. We are about to knock and ask when wo (Continued on Page 9.)