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1933
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933.
names of buyers of Crown land. and the prices paid therefor. This holds good of any Govern- ment tender; it is of oven greater importance when, as in the case of the motor-bus mono-.
polics, a franchise to operate a
LET'S GIVE THEM IRELAND
By THE MCCOO OF ULL
་
The Very Idea!
The Y.M.C.A. Spirit.
family, after the lamentable affair Night last week? Don't be rudel
of the 45, has been settled in
The Higher Finance in U is a The Journal in question could By Eddie Kally, Young Man. public service, extending over a thing that I, as laird, keep a very not have made a worse choice. period of fifteen years, is
Wore we at the Y.M.C.A. Ladlos in-conny oye upon, and I may at once A cadet branch of the McCoo volved. As matters are, the admit that the way that one
We would have mentioned it. public is kept almost wholly in
sponsible... politicians run the dark. This is definitely bad.
the Jamaica ever since that date. before, only we were afraid people: We would ever go so far as to money affairs of the adjacent is- The original pioneer arrived in would say things about us."
You: 800,,wa, thought we saw. say that, apart from considera, land of Britain fills me with con-poor style, but emerged into pro-
spority later; hia. descendants besomo fairies there. It was only i tions affecting the unsuccessful tempt, tenderers, it is not fair even to I will not go into the details of me owners of plantations; and, yesterday that we know they were
although in later years the young fairics. the Tenders Board. At any how our Empire's war debts were er end have grown dark in com- rate, when such an important piled up. But letters reaching me plexion, you may take it from me monopoly as that of our motor of late in our weekly boat have that Jamaican McCoos are moro bus services is concerned, the let me know that Kylo of Loch loyal than the King to the British Potted Pantomine, but we rosent
Alsh and the other big cities are Crown and Connexions. stirred to the poats on which they are built by the way the United States, are dunning London for cash on account of interest due,
public should be placed in a position to judge whether the best bargain, taking all factora into consideration, has been made,
Solitary Japan
Of course here in Ull wo have our so-called debts to the fncome tax; and the Exclse, and the Road Board, and the other parasites, as I will admit. But do wo pay? We do not.
We have tarred and feathered
Canada, too, would have a word
There were also the Two Babes
in the Wood, a musician, a villain. and the Dame. They called it e
the vile insinuation. if England throw away her West.There was also a dog. Which India possessions for a sordid debt reminds us of a dog we used to
havo. Alfred was his name. payment. Canada looks upon
You these colonies in the Carib Bea
couldn't misa Alfred. as her own particular tropical Wherever you went-north, south. garden, and if they were jettison cast, West Point, or the Pank, you od I have a pretty sound Idan fell over Alfred. aho would say that little old We made a rug for his back Great Britain could not look after while то were on the Peak.. Canada's Interests.
Alfred, however, persisted in wear-
collectors before, now, and that But all the newspaper writersing it under his stomach, and time the gun-boat came along most and all the little politicians have dragging it behind like a bridal of our people took to the heathur, missed the really sound achemo vofl: and if the laird and a few frienda for paying off this American debt. We fixed blm, though. We tied. did congregate with their glasses The United States loves Iraland. It under his stomach, and then it. round his hearth-well, Castle
tale, used to finish up on his back, MeCoo is the oldest inhabited and, according to its own house in the Outer Hebrides.
All the Peak Pomeranians were intelligent pupa of Intelli-. gent parents, and didn't take to Alfred. So one day he dis- appeared.
Ho's a dirty white dog,' with a ploce out of his right ear.
When you any, "Come hore, Alfred", he walks away. anyone who finds him. needn't He's quite easily identified, and think they can come on us for damages.
Japan has apparently refused to agree that the Union of LICENCE TO TRY Socialist Soviet Republics and the United States should colla- THE CAR with the borate with the Committee of Nineteen at Geneva in compos- SILKY PERFORMANCE | ing the Manchurian problem. This in spite of the earnest ¶ WE WANT THIS CAR TO solicitations of the country that
adores the Irish. The Irish are a BECOME KNOWN.
JUST has been so anxious that she get
peat in Glasgow, I know, but they The politicians in London do not do not trouble, us there in Uli. COME IN AND ASK US FOR Aa square deal, namely, Great RUN. WE WON'T ANNOY Britain. The refusal was not possess our advantages, I will ad-But I gather that the English are YOU WITH SALES PRESSURE. unexpected. But, as before the mit; they have no hills to run to tired and sick of Ireland and alf recognition of Manchukuo, hope and the Tower, as a place u de- ita contents. The Irish, too, hata
fance, is not, I hear, what it was. the English as a habit. has lingered that Tokyo would
Under these circumstances then Here, then, is the happy open- listen to reason and do its part I admit we must see the justice of Ing. Let the London politicians in working for true peace in the handing over what the Americans in charge make a noble gesture Far East, one which, under the say ia duc, end, personally as laird to the Debt-Collecting Department therapy of the Lytton report, I have not only discussed the mat At Washington. "Here, airs," would be based on justice. Inter with the leading farmers and they must say, "is the brightest the end the Lytton policy will merchants in Ull, but I have also jewel of the British Crown. You prevail. Of that there can be sailed over to Bentigula and Foll may recut and polish it to taste. no doubt.
the and gone into it there, and the It is called Ireland. But what is world going to do in the mean- British Government may take it pleasure in handing it to you in
there will be no moneys lent from full and overflowing settlement. time? Stand by and see the
"You may keep the change." churis go forward unimpeded?
We drew deeply from our pou- The answer, it is felt in Europe ches ence before whon they were and America, at any rate, is yes. Such a course, it is argued, is all we could let them at a 5 per 'n a tight place, and squeezed out
STUD SUBSTITUTE the only possible one at this cent, rate. Then the other day time. One cannot build bricks they put out threats and arguments
Gente neckwear, since the days without straw, and if the na- Wo did not understand, - and tions will not put world or-interest was pushed down to 3 per when shirts were mail and collars were ironed at the blacksmith's, ganisation first, and their own cant, which was less than has occasioned gents a good deal interests second, there is could have made if we had kept nothing more to be done. If,
our money in the farming.
So, as I say, the rest of the self has over shown itself any as on Sept. 30, 1931, they should attempt to pass any resolution itish Empire must not expect thing but equable, but
Ull and Foll and Bentigula and
through incompatibility of tem- ordering Japan. to do this
the adjacent Hebridean Islands to perament or the defects of that, just in the hope that she find moneys for the United States the backstud as n liaison om-Wo've brought a box." would obey, they would simply which London ought to have col cer, attempts to coax the two into
ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
Mr. and Mrs. E. Bloor wish to thank sorry adventure started in Man. here to tide them over this new
all their friends for their deep
sympathy and condolences ex- tended to them in the recent sad bereavement. also for Floral tributes, and attendance at the Funeral. We especially wish tu thank the Matron, Sisters and Nursing Staff of the Victoria Hospital for all they did,
DEATH.
PURVIS-At the Kowloon Hospital, at 2.30 am, on January 17th, 3033. Captain. T. G. Purvis. Funeral passes the Monument to day at 5 p.m.
The
or
bad time.
PHIPPS tests a
of bother.
We have
Not that a shirt or collar by it-
whether
Where were we? Oh, yea! Thu
Y.M.C.A.
There was a record crowd there on Ladica Night. We just walked in ourself, and mingled with the mob.
Really, if the Y.M.C.A. are go- ing to have such a crowd at their functions, they'll have to start. starving their residente. Tod much roly-poly in what does it.
On Thursday night, when the whole crowd were on deck, and someone took a deep breath, all the rest had to breathe out.
started to fidget and mumble about
When we entered everybody
there being no room.
Hongkong Telegraph invite humiliation. Is this any lested beforehand from Germany a coalition have broken the spiritu
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933.
Vo sald, "It's all right, boys.
Everything was oko, then. We're fairly mixed lot in the Y, but we get on pretty well together. Some of the chaps are a bit
also plenty of draughts and chests. Yesterday, we presented the Secretary with a bottle opener.
But Y. bring that up?
•
•
BRUSH UP YOUR LATIN.
Yes, girls; with the general spread of education, and all that sort of thing, the classical tag is coming in again.. Nothing is
Kowloon has been secured by thecouraged to work together in advocating handing over our Vest upyou will notice," said Mr. handior, when seconding a re-
Arm."
than a line, or two from Virgil (say) or What's-his-name.
To help those of you out who haven't had a classical education (but ah! what you've you missed, who've never read the Aneld in the original!) we propose from time to time to quote and translate a few gultable "tags."' Hinta: on pronounciation, etc., will also, if necessary, be offered.
reason, for discouragement? or elsewhere. But being an ex-of generations of gents. Not in the slightest. Rome, nert, as I have said above, in the
Yesterday at Bush House, Ald- it can never be sufficiently em-Higher Finance, I will give them!wych, I was given a private view young, but they'll acquire polish phasised, was not built in a day. without fee sound advice on the of a shirt and collar designed to and watch-chains and stomach and
barnaclos aa the years roll on. Neither can world organisation. way to get clear of their present end this tyranny.
The "Shepherd" shirt was de- WHY THE SECRECY? It has certainly made some pro-entanglement.
Unload land on to the Unitedmanstrated to me by Mr. O'Hay. gress when a great power like
'e a wonderful institution, the a member of the firm. The moy. Somebody donated a billiard For reasons which it is diffi-Japan is compelled to mobilise States.
Land is not only a wasting butment he saw me Mr. O'Hay start- cult to determine, there has been its best dialectical skill in order also a wasted security nowadays, ed peeling off his jacket. I table, and now we're got a billiard- a decided reluctance on the part to plead before a world tribunal As a Highland Laird I can guaran couldn't see what he wanted to plete set of ping-pong balls, so room. A taipan gave us a com- of the authorities to divulge any a case which a few years backtes that. You may Büy
the fight about, but for the sake of now we play ping-pong. There are details regarding the award of would have been accounted no-Americans do not want land any etiquette I started peeling off the motor-bus service mono-body else's business. Those more than they want bar gold be-mine. polies. Enquiries which we who loudly proclaim the end of cause they are cluttered up with
"Please, please," said Mr. O' have made in responsible Gov- the League are thinking of the both. Never mind about that! Hay, restraining me, "I am only ernment circles have been met Lengue as a separate entity they will have to accept payment going to show you my shirt.
currency London
"Now," he said, "ace if you can with the reply that all the in- instead of as themselves. Like in whatever
pull the collor_off.” formation that can be given out any other group, the League chooses to offer.
Thon comes the question as to
I pulled. I pulled harder. Get- is that which has been publish- derives its strength only from ed in the Gazette. This merely the co-operation of its members. what portion of the estate wa shall ting both hands to it I pulled Mr.. amounts to the bare announce-So the lesson of Manchuria is unload on to them. I see some O'Hay into Aldwych Half-way small English provincial, paper is down Kingsway I had to give. It ment that the franchise for that pacifists should be en-
'ndia Islands to the United States Kowloon Motor Bus Company, the upbuilding of world or- n full discharge of all our liabili- O'Hay, "that the collar. remnina solution, or opening a bazaar, and that for Hongkong islandganisation in fact as well as inics. by the China Motor Bus Com-theory. One can get out of the pany. In view of the fact that League only what one puts into the matter is one of very con- it. It is putting the cart be- siderable public concern, it does fore the horee to ask for action Beem surprising that there before you have got organisa- should be this disposition to tion. What of Japan? Japan keep the facts secret. It has has taken advantage of this rift; been rumoured that quite a among the nations, She has number of tonders were receive successfully played for time in ed. including one from a Shang- order to find out for herself how hal Company, but the Govern- the Manchurian adventure will ment will not vouchsafe the work out. To be absolutely fair least information on the number to her, however, she hardened of tenderers, disclose the nature her heart on the haphazardness, of the offers, or state the terms the misunderstanding and the on which the monopolies have prejudgment with which the been granted to the companies affair was treated at the start, mentioned. The general policy when pesco rather than peace of the Government on this mat- with justice was the slogan.. ter of tenders badly needs over- Unfortunately, the Lytton policy haul. In Shanghai, as we have post-dated the development of on many occasions observed, not Japanese intransigence. Hence a singlu tender is awarded with it is impossible for the present out the names of all the tender- to persuade her to see in that ers and the amounts of their bids policy a solution consonant with being officially notified through her own long-run interest, let the medium of the Municipal alone the world's. Japan will
·Gazotta. Ilore in Hongkong, find out her mistake as the days the Government did formerly go by. An angered China is no state the amount of the success pleasant neighbour to live with. ful tenders, but for some con-Russia plus Chinn makes the siderable time past it has been line-up still more unpleasant. content merely to publish tho Isolation is a cold comforter, names of the firms to whom and it is extremely doubtful awards have been made. This, whether her finances can offset we contend, is neither fair to the its consequences. But the con-. public nor to the unsuccessfulviction that change will come in tenderers. The taxpayers have her attitude is based
on the
as much right to know the fact that a wrong can never be riumphant. It will certainly be amounts of accepted tenders,
and the conditions attached defeated by the sheer weight of thereto, as they have to the its own wrongness.
SIT
ТО НАЗО
"Oh, I expect to sell a little boor, just to help the country on
ita foot,"
Professor Dedhead is assisting in this progressive and cultural task. The Professor, who was born at Whitstable, speaks the language like a native.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
(1) "Homo homini lupus,” “Man fa the looplest of man- kind." Can always be worked into a prize-distribution or after dinner speech. Bo caroful how you pronounce this phrase though. The aspirates should be clearly articulated, without, being actually sounded. Practiso this in the | bathroom.
(2) "Tot homines, tot senten- itae.
"A little tot, gentlemen, many knock some sense into yo." Use- ful on semi-facetious occasions; Buch as political or Masonfe dinners. Be sure you accentuate the "tot."
(3) "Si non e vero, e bor trovato."
"It can't be true, because old. Ben invented it." To be candid, we're a little uncertain about this one. The Professor anys it's Latin: We spy It's Franch. We're asking a man we know at the University,