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CUT-AND-DRIED
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1932.
DAY BY DAY
Friday.
Only .01-inch of rain was registered October. This fell on the 31st. at tho Botanle Gardens during
guenta.
SUICIDE-OR THE FOREIGN LEGION
Logion
By P. C. WREN
a life
kong was politely told what it must do. There are many who are still convinced that the botter way would have been to have con- tracted out the undertaking, after having called for tenders, at aj
REASON IS A VERY LIGHT RIDER, fixed sum. As matters are, it is
AND EASILY 91100K OFF-Swift.
Author of "Beau Gesto" and other of Foreigners is a glorious re- impossible to say what the final bill will be. The point to be Shanghai, is due here at 6 am. onof life in the French Foreign true that this same regiment re The F, an O. llaer Rajputana, from as the interpreter to British eyes perhaps has no equal. It is also novels schich have catablished him glment, and as a fighting force
stressed, however, is that the ar
colves the harshest treatment; rangements were made without Mr. Arthur Hanson, of Burroughs
Two English youths, aged seven-gets pay that is practically negli the Council being asked to signify Wellcome and Co., arrived by the s.sen and eighteen years respectivo rible; and that it has attained its
Sulyang from Shanghai to-day.
ly, recently escaped from its approval. The samo proced-
the reputation by forced submission French Foreign Legion.
to the hardest, cruellest, sternest, ure has seemingly been followed
with the Idea of joining the Legion in the world.
Young Englishmen dallying and most rigid military discipline. In the matter of the concession -for a wireless station in Hong-
would do well to proût by thefr Probably there are about twenty. experience, and may I say by thousand men in the Legion, very kong, it having been just disclosed The Hallowe'en reunion dinner of mine?
many of them desperate souls the at a meeting of the Chinese Cham- will be held at Volunteer Headquar- not a step to be taken lightly.to be the only way of escape from Scottish Company, H.V.D.C.. Joining the Foreign Legion. is longing for death, as that seems ber of Commerce that this fran-ters on Friday, November 4, at 8 p.m. Recruits cannot wander in and life of deadly montony that kille chise has been granted by the
wander out again because they do the spirit and fosters madness; Government to the Imperial and their monthly dinner at the Chinese matter than that.
The local Y's Men's Club will have not like it. It is a far more serious from a life of heavy manual: International.. Communications,
Recreation Club, Causeway Bay, on
labour on roads, bridges, forts and A boy who enlists voluntarily other buildings; from doubtless also on instructions from topics will be put forward to be dis-enters the French army, and no bounded by Incredible puulah-
Thursday, November 8. Interesting International Communications, Ltd., cussed by the members and their army can be maintained except monts for potty misdemeanours, or
by discipline. Home. Nothing has so far been
The authorities for no misdemeanour at all; and say: "You came here voluntarily, from a life entirely ruled by non- revealed as to the nature of the The second cert of the season
didn't you? Then you must take commissioned officers who make agreement, and even the long-stituto to-morrow at 6.30 p.m., when will be hold at .he Helena May In-
the consequences."
and break the mon whom they con- It is useless to reply. "I never trol absolutely. kong Telephone Company is ap the contributors will be Mrs. H. L. imagined that it was like this." Parently encountering some difc. Reg. Anderson, with Mr. F. thing apart, an anachroniam, an Lockhart, Miss Amelia Lee, and Bir. The French Foreign Legion is a culty in its offorts to learn pre-Griggs and Mr. True at the plane. incredible survival. cisely how matters "stand.
proportion of adventurers. Nearly The Men Who Join.
all turned to Madame la Republique Contral from
The water supply in Queen's. Rond Garden Road will be shut off between to the case of the two young men, office, saw a temporary solution to
Pedder
because they were down and out, Street Having said this, I will go back and, being near the recruiting November, and 1.3.0. on Sunday, 6th one of whom could not swim, who what appeared to November, and 1 p.m. on Sunday, 6th threw themselves into the sea-difficulties in their private lives. November, to allow certala altera- and
be Insoluble tlens to the water mains to be carried stormy sea at that rather than Legion there are many accustomed cold, rough, somewhat Among the men of the Foreign out
fall in their escape.
to manual labour. A great pro- During
the week ended October tally, morally, or physically unfit a rough, difficult life of hardship. Could such young man be men- portion have been used to leading imported) with two death, death, qualities which they displayed in level of intelligence and social in- 29, four cases of diphtheria (one for soldiering? Clearly not. The privation and even danger. Their case of meningitis with one death, ties. were reported to the health authori evading military life, as it in lived tercourse has always been such as
Deaths from
pulmonary in Algeria and Morocco, ate just obtains in the regiment. cases of typhoid and one
I receive
A Blind Alley. of puerperal fever were re-from adventurous young men of all a good many letters
These men survive the disci- classes asking my advice on the Pline, labour, and terrible marches subject of joining Professor of Economics and Political Many are out of work and merely their complaints and grumblings the Legión. more or less successfully; and Science, will deliver his Presidential want board and lodging; others are, on the whole, the usual com- address to the Hongkong University are unhappy at home or think plaints and gramblings of the old, Law and Commerce Society on Mon- they are; others are what they soldier. Jay, 7th. November, at 8.30 pm, in call "fed up with the humdrum it is the youth. in soarch of the Union Assembly Room. The life they have to lead" some have romance who meets with cruel subject of his address will be "Capi: had unfortunate love affairs; disillusionment and, nine times talism and The Russian Plan". All while others are pure romantics out of ten, breaks under the strain. interested are cordially invited. who want adventure, travel, Iffe, It is not his pluck that is at fighting, and strange experience. fault. It ie not an inability to
Turoing to the Ottawa agree ments, Hongkong world appear to have been once more instructed from Home what to do, with the consequence, that the local men- sures were put into force without debate of any kind in the Council. So far na we understand the mat ter, individual Colonies might have been permitted to decide to what extent they would come into
*o
tuberculosis totalled 40. On Mon- those requisite for living it. day, two
the' movement,
but in our case
CRAQ the Home authorities appear to ported. have instructed us precisely how
any
If
Professor R. Robertson M. A
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS
The following cable at the clone of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Measra, Pen-
London Trminals. March 1933 6/- down 1⁄2d. May 1933 6/2 down 1⁄2d. August 1933 6/5 down 4. December 1933 6/7 down Buyers at above prices, ellers
asking d-d. more.
Most of the men
are what is
proportion of criminals, there is a called "hard cases." There is a
To all I invariably give the same rough it; it is not lack of stamina advice-Don't-and I ask them for ordinary hardship; it is not a what is wrong with the British weak fallure to surmount difficul- ". Army if they want to go soldiering, ties; it is not a dislike for disci- pointing out that India is quite pline. It is all these things mul- as romantic as Afrien and the con- tiplied a thousandfold, and sub- ditions of a soldier's life infinitely jecting him to a strain for which better.
life hitherto has not prepared him. The French Foreign Legion is The boy is brave enough, but con- no place for young Englishmen,ditions of life in the Foreign particularly young men of eduen-Logion demand more than courage. tion, from good homes-nor for Escape any other Englishman, unless he and quite naturally
incredibly difficult, the Fronch be an athlete, a trained soldier of authorities do everything to make fine physique, or " manual It so. You do not get the finest labourer accustomed to heavy toll.:ghting force in the world, and harder than it is in the British mixed material save by the most Even in such cases life is far the worst paid one, from extremely Army on active service, by reason rigid of iron discipline; and rigid of the fact that his superiors as iron disipline can be, and very well as his comrades are for-often is, another name for bru- uigners, and he is cut off from all tality. Brutality causes desertion. those little amenities, comforts. Any English boy who deliberate and pleasures of social intercourse ly enlists in the French Foreign with his fellows to which he is Legion has got to reckon with the fact that he is is a blind alley of great hardship, with death at the Of course, there is enchantment meet death, he has undertaken to ond of it; and even if he does not in the words "French Foreign remain in that alley for five years.
New York Terminals. December 1932 .98 no change. March 1933 ..93 no change. May 1933 .97 no change. July 1933 1.01 no change, Cuban 96"-Spot NY, 1.04 ng accustomed. change.
A Glorious Regiment.
in upon the despoilers that the ex- Legion." They offer the lure of It is extremely likely that he will periment of cutting up England's romance, adventure, desert war-not survive, and that death, except ancestral lands into small holdings Tarc, strange cities, picturesque in battle, will not be easy when. and of cllminating the great class sign experience, and membership French Foreign Legion, even in peoples, unexplored country, for it comes. The wastage in the which for centuries has been the of what is backbone of agriculture and public fighting forces of all time.
one of the finest peace-time, is enormous. No one denies that the LegionThe whole five years, five very administration, has gone too far. in
Bereft of Hope.
IDEAL RADIO SERVICES we should make our gesture. Not
that there would have been desire to keep aloof from the Ottawa arrangements, but there is a feeling prevalent. that the situation might have been more openly explored before any de- finite decision was reached. we take the three instances ren- tioned, we find that the Shing Mun scheme involves millions of dollars of publie money, that the wireless concession affects the Colony's-interests in a most vital way, and that the Ottawa agree-trenth and Co. ments introduce a new policy in internal taxation. Yet on none of these issues has the public bean Not once, nor twice, but on
either directly or indirectly con- numerous occasions of late have ulted. Whilst some people may we encountered a fairly wide-not complain at government of spread feeling in Hongkong that this type, there are many others the public, or its representatives amongst the thinking section of on the Legislative Council, are the community who cannot but not taken sufficiently into consul- tation by the Government on matters of such real importance with- regret the tendency to settle mat- tors of vital importance to the
cut the full concurrence of those community. The point might be takon a step further by stating funds.
who in the long run supply the that even the Government itself is often subject to orders and in- structions from Home on ques tions in which it should have a
The "Landed Gentry. far greater measure of control When the history of the last than it is permitted to exercise.decade in Britain has receded In these circumstances, it is hard- sufficiently to
viewed be ly to be wondered at that verymentators will agree in featuring proper perspective, most com- many people have come to the the rapid decay of the old land- conclusion that it is useless to owning class. Living, as we do, in concern themselves with public a time of exceptional trial for problems. So many schemes ap-practically everyone, the misfor- pear to be cut-and-dried before tunes of any single class do not there is any opportunity for apathy. Since the war especially, -arouse particular notice or sym- general airing of views, with tho the public conscience has been result that the average taxpayer duiled to the respective fates of reigns himself to the thought that aristocrat, middle-class, and prole- the only thing expected of him istariat. Under all the surface en- to pay up his dues and smile asmities and bitterness--which came. bext he can. Thus is civic spirit to a head during the General Strike damponed in Hongkong.
there has rested the instinctive If we take the Shing Mun gorge game economic boat, and must swim bellef that all classes are in the schomo as a case in point, we find or sink together. But the his that the Government had definite-torian, when he comes to weigh the ly committed the Colony to a con- sacrifices paid by this generation tract running into millions offor the security of the next, will dollars without in any way con- single out those of the landed auiting the Legislative Council. gentry, and ho will question That even the Unofficials were not whether the benefits that accrued aware of what had accurred is to the State were worth the heavy evident from the fact that it was last ten years nearly a third of the price. It is estimated that in the only after. Mr. Ball had expressed "landed". gentry have been com- the hope that the Government polled, to sell their properties. would call for tenders that an Estates have been caton up by official statement was made re- Death Duties; noblò houses auc vonling that the whole work hadtioned to pay super-tax. In order been handed over to the Binnie that the State may have the whare- firm "on agreed torms." It may ment, administered by soulless withal to meet the cost of govern- also be noted that this step was bureaucrate, privato property has taken on the advice of the Crown boen heavily mortgaged avery. Agents, so that, in offect, Hong where. Someday it will be borne
"You see, lady, we modern women must pay the price
for the terrifid pace of our lives."
long years, may be spent in a little desert outpost where there is nothing but heat, sand, and misery -heat which he ta entirely unable to imagine beforehand; and which blinds him, envelopes him. maddens him; spiritual loneliness; and misery which leaves hiri bereft of all hope.
It is a regiment for which I have the very highest admiration, res- pect, comprehension, and syni- pathy. I admire its valour, and fidelity; I respect its glorious traditions; I comprehend the dif ficulties of maintaining it as the magnificent regiment it is; I sym- pathise with every member of it- And I wish that France would serve the Foreign Legion as the Foreign Legion serves France...
It is perhaps the greatest and most glorious regiment in the world. But emphatically I say: Do not join the Foreign Legion unless that be your sole alterna- tive to suicide.
FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD
By Edward Kelly, Life Saver,
....
We were taken for a tour of the Central Fire Station recently,
When we got home we felt to home-sick that wa lit a match under the fire extinguishor
We were a fireman ourselves many years ago. We had our second class certificate for the 1st Troop (Continued on Page 9.).