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FAULTLESS-GEAR-CHANGE ACCELERATION-PLUS COMFORT
Stubbe toad
Happy Valler
to say nothing of other rather painful factors, Kowloon is now no longer an appanago of Hong-| kong; it is a big, growing re- sidential centre. As such, it ought most certainly to have those clomentary amenities which we associate with a town of any considerable size.
Germany's Future
SPORT IN 1942
By J. H. FREEMAN
comunon.
The magnificent performance of It is one of the paradoxes of life a team of Austrian footballers that the Lawn Tennis Association, against England at Stamford which is always being accused of Bridge; the Test match in Aus-a policy that lacks breadth, should tralia; the granting by the M.C.C.be in control-so far as this coun- of full cricket status to India; thetry is concerned-of a sport that opening by the Prince of Wales has given the world a magnif- of the huge now stand on the cent lead in international organi The other day Lord Grey re- Aracnal F.C. ground at Highbury sation. There is no parallel in marked about France-armed are happenings that may not ap any other sport to the competition
for the Davis Cup--the gift of a to the teeth, but pacifist to the pear to have much in
Ace core". Something of the re-Yet each of them bears evidence of American who has lived to verse-a nation disarmed yet the change that is creeping over the original seed of his brain grow
to trople size. militant may be said of Ger-the character of our sport.
Ton years ago the heralds of
Future of Racing many. Both aimiles, however, are overdrawn. There is a vast the coming revolution wore but as
pebbles rolling down the moun- A trophy, similar in conception portion of the German popula-tain-side. Ten years hence the to the Davis Cup, will be needed tion that is sincerely desirous of avalanche will have swept past in the years that are reaping the fruits of continued leaving its inevitable scars but world competition in cricket and
But the basis of the giving work to the builders of football. The Ashes German diplomatic view is simi-vision and opportunities to the remain the immortal emblem of future fights between England- lar to her economic view. Germen of world-wide outlook.
and Australia on the cricket field.
peace.
far-flung
that the
to others.
near for
Car still
owners, more
The Very Idea!
VIA SIBERIA
By Edward Kally, Dox $9.
Unaccustomed as Wo Aro to boasting about ourself, it is, with some healtation that we obey the tell our Editorial command to
Jan-. Great Public about all tho muil we receive,
It has been estimated that if all the envelopes delivered at this office addressed to Edhyard Kelly were placed end to end along the New Territories road they would got wet if it rained.
He must be one of the most
UB.
Our correspondence has includ- ed letters from some of the loading taipans of Hongkong (Unices our account is settled within....) and on one or two occasions we admit with becoming modesty the receipt of communications from His Majesty the King (In re Edward GEORGE-REX v. Voraus Kelly.)
Our association with the Hong- WE WANT THIS CAR TO many, at the moment, is talking In 1942 wo shall be engaged in
It would be sacrilege to offer them kong post office may therefore be
termed an intimate one. BECOME KNOWN. JUST of her own interests rather than International aport 80
What is to be the future of We have stood for hours and COME IN AND ASK FOR A rapprochement and internationa-that our present adventures will
WE SHALL BE PLEASED, llam. The Reich is determined to as the playthings of babes; racing? Here the range of on- admired the chapple who sells us RUN.
The scientist and the engineer will portunity is inevitably restricted, our stamps. be through with the second-rate have made such pregreas in the The unhappy
experience af LET THIS CAR ADDRESS YOU | position imposed upon her by annihilation of арлев PRIVATELY & EXCLUSIVELY.
Papyrus in America confronta UA the peace treaties. Disarmed England XI.-or rather one of our with one barrier that will always popular men in Hongkong, for at Versailles, she has been wait-XI-that plays Austria in Vien be raised against the rapid inter-overy time we go to see him there THE HONGKONG HOTEL|ing for fourteen years for the nn in the afternoon of one day change of thoroughbreds for is always a crowd before
other nations to fulfil their will be engaged in the return racing purposes.
Women fight for the privilege of GARAGE.
disarmament
obligations. match in London on the next.
Improved racecourses, greater en getting near him, and strong men
faint in the crush. I can visualise an International couragement to About the only evidence the
Other clerks, who alt at other Reich has seen is, the building Football League of twenty nations opportunities for localities, plus of fortfications and the drilling with a fixture list more easy of the advantages of speedier travel counters doing nothing, look en- of large armies just over her accomplishment than the present to rejuvenated super-centres of viously on, and wish they were
national system which turns the sport will be the result. Wo-selling stamps. borders. Germany's demand Christmas into a nightmare-for men will demand and will get for for equality is basically sound. the clubs.
the race-going public generally omes blokça. It is the sword-rattling that has The Football League committee standard of comfort that is now accompanied it that threatened which banned Plymouth Argyle isolated luxury. And I boliove to make it unpatible. Ger- from flying to Stoke made the Jockey Club of 1942 will be enough in 1932, granting licences to women train- many did not, in so many words, gesture, sane threaten to rearm if other
which will look ludicrous in afers with the aloofness and austeri- ty that have always characterised tions did not disarm. But it decade.
I can see in the cricket world the Racing Calendar. That. gave a splendid imitation. This.
auch an orderly procession of hope, will never change! combined with nationalistic jar- fixtures in which all parts of the
Night-time football-both As- gon about reawakening the British Empire will be concerned sociation and Rugby-will be as willingness to bear arms, sudden that an International knock-out common in ten years' time as are A deficiency in the public talk of colonies and recovery of competition will be staged and badminton and squash and indoor isn't a cruet. health service is to be made good lost territory, the training of completed in twelve months. lawn tennia now. Gone will be by the provision of a special the youth on lines of only faintly Austrails, New Zealand, India, the the troubles attendant on frozen THINGS WE HAVE NOT HEARD
LATELY. whole-time launch for the con- disguised military pattern, has West Indies, Canada, and Eng- grounds or mud-ridden playing
fields. The analytical
From Spanglehorn, the pro- veyance of infectious disenso not contributed to foreign can land will maintain national teams who can banish our fears of frost
fidence in Germany's peaceful that will be recruited from the will have conquered the effects of prietor of the Theatre:-- intentions.
states, provinces, and counties,)
a week of rain. Fog may still be and Ananced from an Inter-
"My new film opens on Monday. national Fand that will be a fairy in men's minds that has for socipals are rotten; they can neither the supreme enemy, but the fog It's a depressing affair. The prin- godmother to the treasurers of
long shrouded the march of pro- sing nor act. Glamorgan, Northampton, and
grens will have disappeared. dozen other of our struggling clubs.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1933.
TWO KOWLOON MATTERS
cases across
one
Beards for All
na-
a
chemist
the harbour from Kowloon. The necessity for this step was well illustrated at Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary Board, when it
Open Professionalism that disclosed
in
We have only to look at some
We shall have attained a com- eminent instance there was a delay of of the world's most
And if I am to be burned at the mon basis in sport by sweeping over three hours occasioned by citizens, from Mr Bernard Shaw
downwards, to realise that the stake for this heresy, let the away the last trace of a dividing the fact that the tug usually abolition of shaving would add horrific crime be complete.
line between the amateur and the This International Cricket professional. There will be at sea at the time, towing re- to say nothing of employed in such work was out greatly to the national amenity: League that I have dared to sketched of the camouflage that gives
105
national But since most men,
of
We
Cricket Changes
to the
Industrious
men,
those post
Which reminds us of the story of Sodom and Gommoral. You all remember it?
J
It was said to Lot "Find mo ten industrious toilers." Whereupon Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt-which was a cowardly way out.
The Post Ofco is lucky i
"The salaries paid are so small as to be negligible.
"The chorus is ill-trained and common- ropulsive, the effects place, and the whole production slipshod and meanspirited.
"You'll hate it." no
for
reached
my
*
Certainly you
*
·
+
CONNO
can, "Uncle George" (Are you a wireless real * one?) In fact, it is faut, if not de regueur, to make We two or three changes a week. have A very nico selection of ribbons (but then, of course, we Ket free samples), including: Old Etonian, Brigade of Guards, M.C.- C., Royal Yacht Club, Y.M.CA.. and the Athenaeum (under Rule 11.). These alone give us one for every week-day. Then for Sun- days we have something a little quieter, such as the Seamen's Un- Jon or the Y.M.C.A. Debating "Show me a man's hel- Society, met," said a sage wo much rever- ed, "and I will show you the sort of man he is."
FOR MEN READERS ONLY. themodesty. Hitherto,
will have Its counterpart in these eur amateurs the hospitality of holela or the bonuses of business fuse barges.
sen-girt fales!
We have had so many fashion Sanitary Department has done and likewise women, prefer to
The advisory committee that arms. Talent will be paid
openly and the payment." received queries from men reader lately return its best, under the conditions perpetuate an appearance of recommended a
without shame. The whole-time that we feel we must give them existing, to provide transport, doubtless long continue to be an places in a county championship anncial reward; the man who girls, do you? It's in your in- fictitious youth, the razor will percentage system of deciding professional will reap greater a few lines. You don't mind, but it was officially admitted on instrument of torture, de-table that has no "official" exia-works during the week and is Lorest, after all, that "the boys“ Tuesday that there had been no vastating noble male jaws. tence was making its final geature needed by club or county during should look nice.
First of all, then, about straw- guaranteed service. This short-Things have not been going very of despair. The latest cont the week-end will be paid a pro-
bution to a state of things that portionate wage. In this matter hats, which the Prince has been coming might well be serious; happily since we abandoned the has brought 75 per cent, of the the Continental countries are less advertising for Luton. but it is, happily, soon to be illustrious hirsute standard
county clubs to a condition of hypocritical than are wo. We "Uncle George" asks a rather "Must I made good. How unsatisfactory our manly forebears. But the present position is can be must stand up to realitics, hachronic bankruptcy is to re-permit shall have had the courage to faco fascinating question:
always wear the same ribbon," he the more powerful and reasonably facts and fall into line. ever barefaced they may be, and wealthy bodies to ignore their These may be the major re-writes, "or can I have several and judged from the fact that whereas shaving has come to stay, the poor relations to cut them off volutions that the next ten years vary them?" as the law lays it down that in- least we can do is to ensure with less than a skilling,
will bring. There is another that
will
be So, with the flames
not fcctious cases can only be car that the time devoted to it daily,
leaping I am not so sure ried in vessels specially provided amounting in the aggregate to round me, I reafirm that the coun- greater than them all.
millions of man-hours a
1942 will be played The Scottish Rugby Union will year, y cricket by the Sanitary Department, shall not be wholly wasted. It on the league system, with pro- have consented to the numbering "Nunky," we wonder, or a the machinery for providing is now suggested that though a two-day matches played on the
motion and relegation fought for in of their players.
The flames have launches is far from what it man's hands are engaged in the principle of a time-limit for each head. should be, However, one use-irksome process of shaving, innings. ful concession has been made by there is no reason why the rest permitting the use of private of his body, and even his brain, should not be usefully employ- Jaunches provided advance ared. A French reformer says that rangements
for are made
when a man is lathering his prompt disinfection after use. beard he should practise knee This, coupled with the fact that bends, and that when he is us- special launches are engaged ing the razor he should stand upon his head-no; his toes. by the Department when a
But is this really enough? case is urgent, it as much as can Why should not the whole body be expected at the moment, but be brought into dynamic, pulant- the position will not be wholly ing activity? Every nun hus satisfactory until the whole- in him the makings of a ballet dancer if he will but trouble to time launch is in operation.
i4 Whilst on this question, occasion develop them. Every man
and may be taken to direct attention also more or less a poet,
op- to another Kowloon short-portunity for the composition of coming, namely, the absence of verses, not necessarily for pub- a European cemetery on the lication, could be thought of mainland. As things nre, bodies than that presented by the shay- have to be brought across the ing period, when the mind is either lying fallow or else in- harbour for interment, a pro-dulging in definitely sanguinary, ceeding which should be totally anti-social
or unarchistic unnecessary. When we bear in thoughts. mind the tremendous growth of the population in Kowloon- the Census showed that it now approximates to towns of the size of Portsmouth and Notting- ham-it is surprising that there should be no foreign burial, ground available. Apart from the additional expense cast on the bereaved in having to ar- range special transport facili- ties, there is the inconvenience,
surely no more favourable
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
MEN, OF NEVER
80
SINCERE LIMITED INTELLECT, HAVE AN IN- TINCT FOR DISCRIMINATING PIN- CERITY, THE CUNNINGEST MEPHI STOPHELES CANNOT DECEIVE A SIMILE MARGARET OF HONEST
HEART; IT STANDS WRITTEN ON HIS
Row. Carlyle,
MEET ME AT
OTTOS CAFE
BUSINESS MENS
LUNCH
"I'll keep you another day, or two, but my books don't show
you've increased business any."
George,"
Of course, "Uncle much depends on your choice of occasion. Don't wear your M.C.C. ribbon on the cricket ground; koop it for Repulse Bay. Don't sport your O.E. colours if there are Old Etonians around,
-
#
·
TEST PRACTICE. Our crack test team took part In a trial game the other day.
Great keenness was shown all round, and the result, if not en- couraging was as good as could bo expected. Latest scores: General Mufo st. (repeatedly)
24
I.&.8.B. hit wleket
gyara
6%
Bir John Simon b (but not very)
do Valera, b Thomas
Thomas, & Congrave
Colonial Treasurer-bunkered
and
in believed to have torn up his card ********
Mr. Lancpart, spurios versenkt Editor of the Critic not out (yet) 4
(Ed: Horo, wait a minute. What game are they supposed to be playing?
(Ed. Kolly: That exactly what we'd like to know.--(Exount)