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The
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933.
WHY THE SECRECY ?
names of buyers of Crown land and the prices pald therefor. This holds good of any Govern- ment tender; it is of even greater importance when, as in the case of the motor-bus mono-
polies, a franchise to operate a
volved. As matters the
LET'S GIVE THEM IRELAND
By THE McCOO OF ULL
The Very Idea!
The Y.M.C.A. Spirit.
The Higher Finance in Ull is a The journal in question could By Eddie Kally, Young Max.
choico. public service, extending over a thing that I, as laird, keep a very not have made a worse
the McCoo
Waro wo at the Y.M.G.A. Ladies.... period of fifteen years, is in-canny eye upon, and I may at once A cadet branch of
admit that the way the Irre family, after the lamentable affair Night last wock? Don't be rude!
Wo would have mentioned it of the 45, has been settled in sponsible politiciana run the Jamaica over
since that date. before, only wo were afraid poople money affairs of the adjacent in-The original pioneer arrived in would say things about us.
You see, we thought we saw land of Britain fills me with con- poor style, but emerged into pro-
spority later; his descendants bo- some fairica there. It was only tempt,
I will not go into the details of camo owners of plantations; and, yesterday that we know they were
although in later years the young-fairies. how our Empire's war debts were
er end have grown dark in com- There were also the Two Babes piled up. of late in our weekly bont
But letters reaching me plexion, you may take it from me In the Wood, a musician, a villain,
have that Jamaican McCoos are more
Crown and Connexions.
Potted Pantomine, but we resent the vile insinuation.
nro, public is kept almost wholly In the dark. This le definitely bad. We would even go so far as to say that, apart from considera tlons affecting the unsuccessful tenderers, it is not fair even to the Tenders Board. At any rate, when such an important monopoly as that of our motor- let me know that Kylo of Loch loyal than the King to the British and the Dame. They called it a bus services is concerned, the public should be placed in a position to judge whether the best bargain, taking all factors Into consideration, has been made.
reason
Solitary Japan
not
i
had time.
not
if England throw away her Wast India possessions for a sordid debt
Canada, too, would have a word
We have
STUD SUBSTITUTE
Gents' neckwear, since the days when shirts were mail and collars were ironed at the blacksmith's, has occasioned gents a good deal of bother.
Not that a shirt or collar by it-
of
reminds us of a dog we used to have. Alfred was his name.
There was also a dog. Which
You
couldn't miss Alfred
used to finish up on his back.
All the Peak Pomeranians were intelligent pups of intelli- gent parents, and didn't take to Alfred. So one day ko din. appeared.
He's a dirty white dog, with a piece out of his right ear.
Where were we? Y.M.C.A.
Oh, yes! The
There was a record crowd there on Ladies Night. We just walked in ourself, and mingled with the mob.
Really, if the Y.M.C.A. are go-- ing to have auch a crowd at their functions, they'll have to start starving their residents. Too 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.
When WYN entered everybody started to fidget and mumble about there being no room,
We said. "It's all right, boys. We've brought a box."
Everything was oke, then. We're fairly mixed lot in the Y, but we get on pretty well together. a bit Some of the chaps are young, but they'll acquire polish and watch-chains and stomach and barnacles as the years roll on.
Alsh and the other big cities are stirred to the ponts on which they are built by the way the United States are dunning London for cash on account of Interest duc.
payment. Canada looks upon Of couros here in Ull we have these colonies in the Carib Sca our so-called debts to the income as her own particular tropical Wherever you went-north, south, tax, and the Excise, and the Road garden, and if they were jettison-cast, West Point, or the Peak, you Board, and the other parasites, aed I have a pretty sound idea fell over Alfred. I will admit. But do WO pay?sho would say that little old We mado a rug for his back Japan has apparently refused we do not.
Great Britain could not look after while Wo wel e on tho Peak. to agree that the Union of
We have tarred and feathered Canada's interests.
Alfred, however, persisted in wear- Socialist Soviet Republics and collectors before now, and that) But all the newspaper writersing it under his stomach, and the United States should colla- time the gun-boat came along most and all the little politicians have dragging it behind like a bridal borate with the Committee of of our people took to the heathor, missed the really sound schiems veil. Nineteen at Geneva in compos- and if the laird and a few friends for paying off this American debt. We fixed him, though. We tied ing the Manchurian problem. did congregate with their glasses The United Staten loves Iceland, it under his stomach, and then it This in spite of the earnest round his hearth-well, Castle and, according to its own tale, solicitations of the country that McCoo is the oldest inhabited adores the Irish. The Irish are a pest In Glasgow, I know, but they has been so anxious that she get house in the Outer Hebrides.
The politicians in London'do not do not trouble us there in Uli, a square deal, namely, Great
possess our advantages, I will ad-But I gather that the English are Britain. The refusal was unexpected. But, as before them; they have no hills to run to, tired and sick of Ireland and all and the Tower, as a place of do-its contents. The Irish, too, hate recognition of Manchukuo, hope fence, is not, I hear, what it was. the English as a habit. has lingered that Tokyo would
Under these circumstances thon Here, then, is the happy open- When you say, "Come here, listen to reason and do its part
admit we must see the justice of ing. Let the London politicians Alfred", he walks away. in working for true peace in the handing over what the Americans in charge make a noble geature
He's quite easily identified, and Far East, one which, under the any is due, and, personally as laird to the Debt-Collecting Department
Washington. "Here, sire," anyone who finds him needn't therapy of the Lytton report, I have not only discussed the matat
think they can come оп as for would be based on justice. Inter with the leading farmers and they must say, "is the brightest damages. 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 salled over to Bentigula, and Foll may recut and polish it to taste.i But what is the and gone into it there, and the It is called Ireland. no doubt.
British Government may take it pleasure in handing it to you in world going to do in the mean-
there will be no moneys lent from full and overflowing settlement. time? Stand by and see the
"You may keep the change." 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 churia go forward unimpeded? sympathy and condolencck ex-
We drew deeply from our pou- tended to them in the recent sad The answer, it is felt in Europe chea once before when they were PHIPPS tests a bereavement, Also for Floral and America, at any rate, is yes. In a tight place; and squeezed out tributes, and attendance at the Such a course, it is argued, is all we could let them at a per Funeral. We especially wish to the only possible one at this cent. rate. Then the other day thank the Matron, Sistern Nursing Staff of the Victorin time. One cannot build bricks they put out threats and argumenta and understand, Hospital for all they did.
without straw, and if the na- we did tions will not put world or interest was pushed down to 3 per ganisation first, and their own cent, which was less than
could have made if we had kept interests second, there nothing more to be done. If, our money in the farming.
So, as I say, the rest of the self has ever shown itself any as on Sept. 30, 1931, they should British Empire must not expect thing but equable, but whether attempt to pass any resolution ull and Foll and Bentigula and through incompatibility of tem- ordering Japan to do this or the adjacent Hebridean Islands to
or perament
the defects that, just in the hope that she find moneys for the United States the backstud as
a liaison om would obey, they would simply which London ought to have col-cer, attempts to coax the two into invite humiliation. Is this any lected beforehand from Germany a coalition have broken the spirit for discouragement? or elsewhere. But being an ex- of generations of gents. Not in the slightest.
Yesterday at Bush House, Ald- Rome, port, as I have said above, in the it can never be sufficiently em Higher Finance. I will give them wych, I was given a private view phasised, was not built in a day, without fee sound advice on the of a shirt and collar designed to Neither can world organisation. way to get clear of their present end this tyranny.
entanglement.
The "Shepherd" shirt was de- It has certainly made some pro-
Unlond land on to the United monstrated to me by Mr. O'Hay, It's a wonderful institution, the gress when a great power like
a member of the firm. The mo-y. Somebody donated a billiard For reasons which it is diff-Japan is compelled to mobilise
Land is not only a wasting but ment he saw me Mr. O'Hay start table, and now we're got a billard. cult to determine, there has been its best dialectical skill in order also a wasted security nowadays. ed peeling off his jacket. I 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 room. A taipan gave us a com- of the authorities to divulge any a case which a few years back tee that. You may Bay the fight about, but for the sake of plete set of ping-pong balls, ao details regarding the award of would have been accounted no-Americans do not want land any etiquette I started peeling off now we play ping-pong. There are also plenty of draughts and cbeats. the motor-bus service mono-body else's business. Those more than they want har gold be mine.
Yesterday, we presented the polics. Enquiries which we who loudly proclaim the end of cause they are cluttered up with have made in responsible Gov-the League are thinking of the both. Never mind about that!
Secretary with a bottle-opener.
But Y. bring that up?. ernment circles have been met League as a separate entity they will have to accept payment with the reply that all the in- instead of as themselves. Like in whatever currency formation that can be given out any other group, the League chooses to offer. is that which has been publish- derives its strength only from ed in the Gazette. This merely the co-operation of its members, amounts to the bare announce. So the lesson of Manchuria ment that the franchise for that pacifists should be en Kowloon has been secured by the couraged to work together in Kowloon Motor Bus Company, the upbuilding of world or and that for Hongkong island ganisation in fact as well as in 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- eiderable public concern, it does fore the horse to ask for action seem surprising that there before you have got organisa- should be this disposition to tlon. What of Japan? Japan keep the facts secret. It has has taken advantage of this rift been rumoured that quite
She has a among the nations. number of tenders were receiv- successfully played for time in ed, including one from a Shang-jorder to find out for herself how hai Company, but the Govern- the Manchurian adventure will ment will not vouchsafe the work out. To bo 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 peace rather than peace of the Government on this mat- with justice was the slogan. ter of tendera 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. Henco a single tender is awarded with it is impossible for the present out the names of all the tender- to persuade her to see in that ore 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 Gazette. Here 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- Russla plus China makes the unpleasant. siderable time past it has been line-up still more content merely to publish the Isolation is a. cold comforter, doubtful names of the firms to whom and it is extremely awards have been made. This, whether her finances can effact we contend, is neither fair to the ita consequences. But the con- public nor to the unsuccessfulviction that change will come in the tenderers. The taxpayers have her attitude is based
on
ia
as much, right to know the fact that a wrong can never be amounts of accepted tenders, riumphant. It will certainly be and the conditions attached defeated by the sheer weight of thereto, na they have to the its own wrongness.
States.
London
O'
"Please, please," said Mr. Itay, restraining me, "I am only going to show you my shirt."
"Now," he said, "see If you can pull the collar off."
•
•
•
BRUSH UP YOUR LATIN. Then comes the question as to
I pulled. I pulled harder. Get-
Yes, girls; with the general what portion of the estate we shall ting both hands to it I pulled Mr. unload on to them. I see somo O'Hay Into Aldwych, Half-way | spread of education, and all that small English provincial paper is down Kingsway I had to give it sort of thing, the classical "tag" la coming in again. Nothing is advocating handing over our West up. India Islands to the United States "You will notice," said Mr. handier, when seconding a re- bazaar, in full discharge of all our liabili- O'Hay, "that the collar remains solution, or opening a
firm."
than a line or two from Virgil tica.
(say) or What's-his-name.
T
TOR HA38
"Oh, I expect to sell a little boer, just to help the country on
ita foot."
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 Ancid in the original!) we propose from time to time to quate and translate a faw suitable "taga." Hinta on pronounciation, etc., will also, if necessary, be offered.
Professor Dedhead is assisting In this progressive and cultural task. The Professor, who was born at Whitstable, spanks the language like a native,
.TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
(1) "Homo homini lupus." "Man is the looplest of maa- kind." Can always be worked into a prize-distribution or after- dinner speech. Bo careful how you pronounce this phrase though. The aspirates should be clearly articulated, without being actually sounded. Practise this in the bathroom.
(2) *Tot hominee, tot senten- fiae.
"A little tot, gentlemen, may knock some sense into yo." Usc- fal on semi-facetious occasions,. such 29 political Masonic
or dinners, Bo sure you accentuate the "tot,"
(3) "Si non e vero, • trovato."
bon
"It can't bo true, because old Bon invented it." To bo candid, wo're a little uncertain about this one. The Professor says it's Latin: Wo say it's French, We're asking a man we know at the University.