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RY 6
BOW
BELLS
By ROBERT LYND
Many people will be gratified to was sitting in an inn in an English hear that the town of Tomelloso, village, when a little man with a in Spain, has put a tax on. bell- mystical light in his eyen ontored tho Arst nine into conversation with me and led singing. For
The Very Idea!
BARRACKING · BALLADS
By Edward Kally, Father of XL
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team
In
We often had things thrown at
us. We were hit on the head by a beer bottle at Sydnoy.
Since then we have not been what we were in fact we never were. We attribute our remark- ablo success 06 a journalist to this incident.
simple reason that the League has never had occasion to out- law any country. So far as the present crisis is concerned, of course, there can be no question of the League taking. action against Japan until the Council has decided whether or not she
Protests, we are given to has infringed her undertakings, On this point, it seems extrems
understand, are being voiced ly unlikely that unanimity will be reached. In other words, minutes of ringing the tax will be the talk gradually to the subject of regarding the barracking a shilling. If you are not satisfi- bell-ringing. He spoke of it with Droclivities of the Austro- unless developments occur which ed, you can go on ringing for 20 auch ardour that, when he offered lians. literally force the hands of the minutes for is, ed.; and there are to get the key of the church tower (Barracking-From the Greck... members. Japan will be able to special terms for longer periods. and take me up among the bello, Dar drinking resort;-rack, an continue, for all practical pur-I have said that many people I could not resist the invitation. In wrack and ruin;—Karr, & Scote
No bibliophile, admitting one poses, to disregard League will be pleased to hear the her into the library of first editions of tich gentleman. A Scottish gentle
not approve of such people. They
man who has been ruined by are the sort of people who would the Elizabethans, ever gave one a
drink). like to bring into existence an greater feeling that we were enter- Von Schleicher
entirely noiseless world-a world ing sacred ground. As we climb, As sportsmen, we are inclined sil the fuss about in which the boll of the muffin-ed to the bell-ringing loft, he told to dep cuto
We agree with Mr. General von Schleichor's re- man would be silenced and the cryme In a hushed voice of the ex- barracking. cent speeches have not encour of the lavender-soller forbidden. ploits of the village team. Thoy Gilligan. It's how you take your aged a profound bellaf in his Such people would, if they could, had rung the changes, apparently, barracking that counts, tact and discretion; but his put silencers on the throats or for an enormous number of hours. What a time we had when we
nightingales. In their ideal surpassing overy other team but, played with the Test emergence 48 Chancellor was in world, Schnabel would play Beeth. one or two. I gathered that what eightynine. two respects, at any rate, satis aven on a dumb piano, in which all the team aimed at was to be able factory. It put an end to rum- the right notes would be struck to go on ringing the changes for a week without stopping, and with ours that the aged President had without producing a sound. been stalemated by the courso I cannot blame the anti-bell- every poal different from every of events and no longer knew to ringers too severely, however, for other.
I Hear of Ringers' Exploits whom to turn; and it marks a I was once one of them. As a boy
If any man had proposed to do conditional return, at any rate; I hated bells with an intensity of to Parliamentary government hatred. I lived near a church the such a thing in my native city, I and the abandonment for the bell-tower of which flung torture should have looked upon him as a
On another occasion aomcons time being of Von Papen's at into the air, not only on Sundays, villain, a campanological Torque- it. but in the week-day practices. muda. But this little man was in terapts to dispense with
Never did I turn round for a little love with bells, as Mr. E. V. Lucns in the gallery sooled n mad dog Whether the new Chancellor can more slumber on Sunday morning is in love with cricket, and I be on to us just after we had com
Arst century. command a majority in the.. but a tumble of malevolent de camp infected with his ecstasy. ploted our Reichstag remains to be seen, mens of sound issued from that, He told me of great teams of bail- finished our next 100 in even time Much depends, doubtless, on the tower, compelling me to rise and ringers of the past, and pointed to but the dog caught us. composition of his Cabinet. hasten to a more distant church in their names inscribed on brass on Fortunately for the Hongkong the walls of the loft. Those were public wo recovered from the bite. The inclusion of Baron von order to escape them. Neurath, a man of sense and Never did I choose an evening to him heroes far excelling the The dog, however, died. moderation, who has won just on which to say to myself, "Now I winners of the Ashes in Test cric. The Australians, sir, take their regard both at Geneva and, in must do some work." but, as soon ket or the ictors in the Oxford cricket seriously, sir. They warm as I opened my Julius Caesar, the and Cambre Rugby match or out to the cricket ground on horse- is at least 8
Ho pointed to the back, on foot, in sulkles, in bug- good omen. But the mood of balls would choose the particular Boat Raco. compromise which the Chan- occasion to send forth a host of name of Tom Cobleigh on several gice, in carts, care, trucks, vans, cellor has shown does not mean impish tormentora to make work of the brass plates in a way that rickshas, wagons; lorries, traps, impossible. My masters would made it clear that he regarded coaches, cabs, omnibuses... don't that he intends to administer never believe me when they asked Tom Cobleigh, and not W. G. Interrupt, Sir, I've got the measure the country with a loose hand. me why I had come unprepared, Grace, as the Greatest man of all of those bowlers... The contrary must be expected, and I explained that I had been time. Not for him your Ronald phaetons, droshkis, velocipedos, and neither the Communists, worried by church-bells; but there Poultons and Adrian Stoops in a bicycles, tricycles, quadrupeds, REACTIONS
whom he hates, nor Adolf Hitler, was a grain of truth in the ex-world that had bred auch mighty ambulances, perambulators....... bell-ringers as Billie Brower and won't be long now, sir... tumbrils, whom he is disposed to like, will planation, World press comment on the be allowed
to disturb the Even then, however, I had a Peter Gurney. If you had invited toboggans, scooters, billy-carts and
am pantechnicons, Sir." curious sentimental tenderness for his opinion of Carpontier, I
Quivering like an aspen we took crisis in North China runs along harmony he proposes to main bells that were rung elsewhere sure he would have shaken his expected lines, with the more tain in Germany during the than in my own city. I liked bells head and asked you whether Car- the stand. We remember it as if liebral-minded journals roundly winter months. The reputa in poetry. I liked the notion of a pentier could ring a bell like it was only yesterday.
We blocked the first. We duck- berating Japan and the conser- tion of a "strong silent man" bell ringing from a village church Harry Hawke.
ed the second. We dribbled the vative papers, if not actually which he has hither-to had across a valloy on a peaceful I Try to be Unselfish
The Now nearly all sports get enor third back to the bowler, supporting the Japanese ac- hardly does justice to his. Sunday evening. If wireless had tivities, inclined to supond complex personality.
He is existed at the time, I should pro-mous publicity nowadays. Yet fourth was a No Ball. Wo put our judgment. None the less, there more at home with politicians bably have listened with remantle here, I discovered, in an ancient body in front of the fifth and sur- does appear to be a general dis- than professional soldiers.
He apprcelation to bells from all over English village, were sportsmen vived the appeal. We swiped at
gronter than any other sportsmen, the sixth and missed it. position to recognise the gravity hrs a flexible mind, he is a witty Europe.
"Hey," yelled someone in the I even thought it must be roman-playing a game better than any of the situation: In particular, talker. Under his direction the to hear the ball of Big Ben other game, almost unnoticed Grand Stand. "Whatler think yar it is widely felt that the pro- Germany should enjoy a repose striking midnight, and on my first except by the people who had to doing? Playing a game?"
Yes, Sir, the Australians take blem confronting the League of she has not known for many night in London I sat in my bed listen to them. Their scores were Nations has been rendered all
sitting room in Vauxhall Bridge recorded in the loft, and would their cricket seriously. the more complex and difficult
road and, when Big Ben struck have looked perfectly horrible to ຄອ a consequence
the of
twelve, did my host to feel roman- anybody who hated the sound of confess I was as much dis- bella. Yet, even if they broke a
Telephone Mr. White
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Thongkong Telegraph England
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933.
FAR EAST CRISIS
years.
latest developments. Whatever A Public Servant Retires tic Japan's explanation for acting
Years afterwards, however, I the world.
way.
HOWL (ERS).
Wo
barrows,
We are still disarming but Bo appointed in Big Ben as Oscar record, I doubt whether their feat 19 she has deemed fit to do, it The retirement of Sir Malcolm Wilde was in the Atlantic Ocean. would sell out a single edition of far only on paper. Each of the agreed to inter- would seem that she has not im- Delevingne, who recently left the Twelve, I thought, was too many an evening paper. Never before great powers has scrapped one formula. Reserves proved her case by resorting, at post of Deputy Permanent Un-, I still think so when I hear those had I seen auch simple-minded de- schedule and this stage, to further demon- der-Secretary of State at the colossal bongs over the wireless.votion, such total immersion in the nationalise a
love of the game. Since meeting (of stationery) are to be demo-. How I was Converted strations of force. The suspicion Home Office after holding it for
What it was that ultimately con- my little friend, I have never bilised, but this will take some persists that she is proceeding nineteen busy years, removes verted me, if not to the love, at listened to a peal of bells without time.
Sir John Simón (this is con- according to a well-laid pro- from the stage one who haa
least to the toleration, of bells, I feeling that, whatever the effect on gramme, of which her actions in played a big part in international an not quite certain. I think it my own nerves may be, it is mak-fidental) scored a great personal Manchuria were but the prelude. affairs since the war. Sir must have been a meeting with a ing some body else tremendously triumph, Of immediate importance is the Malcolm is best known for his real bell-ringer. Some of my happy. One has no more right to The League of Nations is in-- This is what. likely reaction of the League to work in fighting the inter- friends during my boyhood had object to the noise than to object vading Manchuria, under General the new turn of events. A fresh national drug menace. Essen- beep boll-ringers, but I always to the roaring of the crowd at a Wellington Koo. battle of words may be expected, tially practical in his outlook, he took it for granted that they en- Cup Final. It is the enthusiasm, they call a Koo d'Etat. It in- with the Chinese and Japanese has sought by steady pressure joyed annoying their neighbours. not the tintinnabulation, that дв tho delegates cach denying any re- on the conscience of officials There was no mystic light in their matters, and so long as men of, augurates a Peace to end Pences.
FERRY FOOLISH. sponsibility for the Shanhaikwan throughout the world to draw eyes when they spoke of their such selfless enthusiaem
hobby. Bell-ringing, so far as boltringers survive, there is hope affair. It seems doubtful, how a net around the drug smug they were concerned, seemed to be for civilisation.
What to A flirt, you ask? ever, whether the League will gler through increased
If the world is going to tax (I didn't!) Shut up! You did! in- merely an alternative to knocker-
enthusiasm, it is a bad look-out for We've got to work this in some even now be moved to take any ternational administrative effi-wrenching. definite action. After many ciency. The process of tighten- weary months of temporising, it ing the net has seemed slow to still has to face the original some. But it has undoubtedly Issue as to whether Japan ex- had good, results. Better, per- cceded her rights in Manchuria. haps, than would have been Whatever the real explanation achieved had more spectacular may be, there has long been methods been adopted before apparent a marked disinclination the world was ready for them. on the part of the League to Sir Malcolm himself would pasa judgment, despite the fact the first to admit that much still that its own specially-appointed remains to be done. It is good Commission definitely charged news that his retirement will Japan with seizing a large area not prevent him from continuing of indisputably Chinese terris to deal with the international tory. If there were any pros- side of the anti-drug campaign. pects of unanimity between the Not only his experience, but his Powers, the situation might be whole-hearted devotion to the otherwise. French opinion, we cause for which he has done so note, is that the League should much, are needed at Geneva, not embark upon any adventure. There is another side to Sir as this would prove futile in Malcolm's work which is less the absence of any force to im- widely known. He was largely pose sanctions on Japan. This responsible for drafting the ar- is an obvious reference to the ticles of the Treaty of Ver- much-desired French thesis of sailles which form the charter an international force. But in of the International Labour point of actual fact, if the Organisation. The I. L.. O. is League has no force of its own, not very much "in the news." the Covenant does provide the Nevertheless, it plays a big part machinery by which such a force could be made available. It is in moulding the history of theso laid down in Article XVI that times. By slow degrees,
with much compromise, it is
be
and
in the case of a nation against gradually building up a common whom sanctions are decided, the Council of the League shall re- code of rights for workers
throughout the world. commend to the Governments concerned what effective milit ary, naval and air forces the members of the League shall severally contribute to the arm- ed force to bo used to protect
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
MAKE NO VOWS TO FORBYAR THIS
the covenants of the Lenguo. OR THAT: IT BHOWS NO GREAT This machinery has never yet STRENGTH, AND MAKES THEE RIDS" beon brought into use, for the BEHIND THYSELF.--Fuller,
"What'll my excusa be? I can't just tell the board
of directors that my wife has decided against the merger"
A Flirt is a Fickle Female who Ferry Foolishly Fiddlea with a Fellow's First Fond Fancles, Fans the Festering Fires of Folly, Finally Followed by Felicitous Filosophy Far From Funny to the Foolish Filanderor. But if her Former Fino Feelings be Firmly Freed From the Fast Fross and Fotters of Frivolity, Fat Feeding will bo Furnished For, the For- tunate Favourite.
The "P" fa silent as in Pkelly.
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ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Rhoda (Kowloon Tong): No, dear, spats with evening dress are quite wrong. You should write to Percy a little note telling him you. have made a mistake and saying you are sorry. Men are "kittle- kattle" you know, and very "sensi- tivo" to criticism.
Eva (The Peak): Oh dear no. We are afraid it was one of Ed- ward Kelly's "clover" jokes, Be- tween ourselves, we think it just the wet-est bit doubtful in taste.. We don't mean that the humour is not gentlemanly, of coures, but it doos look na though Mr. Kolly thought the association of Intel- ligence and the Peak to be Funny. J.K.W. (1) Borry your goldfish are a trifle of colour. You, aro un- lucky. You are, of course, lucky to have a real export to refer to. Have you tried just a few pots of brandy in their water? Rum: is also pretty good. It should do warmed and the fish compelled to wallow it in one guo. Or if (like us) they don't indulge, try an as- pirin. (2) A hafr of the dog; my. boy, but don't take that too litoral- ly or liberally.