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VAUXHALL
IS TAKING A RISE
THIS YEAR STRAIGHT UP-THE SKY SEEMS TO BE THE LIMIT.
£500,000 is now being spent at Luton in buildings and new equipment to speed up deliveries because production on some models is now lagging 4 months behind delivery requirements.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
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Incorporated in Hongkong, Stubbe Rom
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The
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1933.
ter of a
for adults under a nationally. directed and nationally-financed scheme. Up to the present, the Government has not acted upon these recommendations, and still leaves voluntary organisations to bear a great part of the burden. These bodies are rendering an invaluable social service, but their efforts are quite inadequate to the urgent needs of the situa- tion. Only by a determined, nation-wide effort will any im pression be made on the problem.
Grim Games
conquerors.
THE ARMY CALLS ON THE NAVY
BY R. F. T. HILLS
"All Aboard," sang out the Skipper. "Aye, aye, sir," roared the Sergeant-Major.
.
The Bo'sun let in his clutch and wo steamed out paat the Main
sman.
row-bont on the "Serps." We took
The
*
very
first
4
"Lootenants," Petty Officer.
amonded
the
"Have it your way. Now, what'a your own rank?.
*
The Very Ides!
LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
By Dr. Edward Kelly, Janity Dept.
Leal there by any misapprehen- sion, we want to inform our Great
cor-
totally fitted-we are to be the author of this article.
treatment for
everyone
"Rating" the P.O. put in. and Admiring Pubile right here. Guard into Birdcage Walk, S.S. "Officially, I'm a Petty Officer. and now that we are not sailing for Charrybong was outward bound Actually I'm a Gunner's Mato." for Chatham Dockyard, not a man "Ah," beamed the Commo, "you- Manila by the President Jackson
her ship's company under there the bloke that goes back for to-day. rank of Quartermaster-Sergeant. the tools. Now what about n col- One of our jealous rivals has "If he only enst. his net-whatlar and tie? Why don't you wear spread the contempiible canard a haul," muttored a cynical guard- one like the others?"
that we were one of the sixty-five "You must," said the P.0. mental cases travelling by this This sport, at which we British
Over the billows of Kent wo were so good before every for-swapped briny tales. The Grens patiently, "be a Petty Officer for liner. eign Tom, Dick or Harry began dier hitched his slacks, The Cold-year before you can wear fore
In view of this calumny wo wish an' ait rig." to beat us at it, is becoming a streamer explained the difference
"You win.
I give it up," sighed to stress the fact that the follow- deadly business. We hear much between port and sta board. The the Commo
ing article is an entirely fanciful The Navy really enjoyed itself picture drawn from the imagina- about the necessity of preventing Commo' grew reminiscent over a future war, and of the many ter- the naval salute of the Dockyard Kiddies just how toys should be
a Navy of Uncles showing the tion without human aid. rora it will bring for civilians as policeman as folk born to the played with. They fired off their respondence we also wish to state
To obviate unnecessary well as soldiers and sailors. Poi-quarterdeck.
guns of all alzes, shouted orders, that wo wouldn't have written this son gas will peneirate into the
Our guide did his best with the banged drums (sound effects), article if the editor hadn't insisted, "hidiest" of funk-holes, and no Dockyard. He showed us the ten-waved little flags. one will be safe. But in the nis court whance the Victory slip- "Lovely model that," said the and, furthermore, wo don't know realm of sport a scarcely less ped, new-burn, to the Medway; Sar Major, longingly.
what wo are writing about. grim state of affairs is being showed us Britain's
"I'll show you how it worka," You will observe, therefore, how evolved under our noses, and we fronclad at the last moorings.
a delighted Master Gunner (or do nothing to stop its devastat-buss, She had a posh name once,
"There she is, the old Blunder what not) sprang into the breach. Having taken N.G.O.'s to see the ing progress. Even cricket, but no one ever remembers it." ships, they should really have ta- which used to be looked upon
ken the troops to see the N.C.0.a. The greatest mental institution as exemplifying all the best
ጊዜ All around the figureheads of A complete beauty chorus of war in Hongkong is, sporting traditions of our race, the
old wooden walls icaned rlors averaging eighteen, years knows, altuated on the top of has become such a desperate adventurously. Dimpled Duches service, gambolling on an upright Battery Path, just opposite the affair, as played between the re-re night gowns, mythical ron ladder, must be seen to be back entrance of the Volunteer
Monarcha in togas-ghosts of believed. The same chorus fore- Headquarters. presentatives of England and glamorous days on the Seven Seas. ing itself through a minute man- Why the people in this Institu- Australia, that to apply the
Chatham la fast-linked to the hole into a gun turret verged on tion should be called "doparl" word "game" to it seems absurd. olden time. Frankie Drake knew the tragic. The Commo, midway mental is beyond our comprehen- Our games are games no long-it, and Hawkins. Down the King's between eartli and heaven, with a slon, because they are the caseR er, but dour, merciless fights to a Stairs Samuel Pepys trad sedately perilous view of the Medway under which have come about through finish into which so much deter-to see what damage the Dutchman the "earth," grew indignant as he their dangerous association with mination is imported that one had done-returning from his clutched at a loose chain. "About officialdom. might reasonably assume they labours to bear "n pretty girl time they had their banisters Reat is an essential part of the
citterne." Naval mended." are the only things that matter play of the
cases in this in It had to be done. The Master atitution, and every effort is made. sportsmanship gives the portrnita in life. Long ago it was said of of the Dutch Admirals pride of Gunner had stopped a gun crew's
to see
that this condition is us that we took our
leave to make an Army bollday fulfilled. Inmates are given light pleasures place on the Mess Room walls. sadly; it was the custom of the Hard work explaining the Dock- The last panting soldier-man taaks during the day, and in case country. To-day the adverb is yard to visitors. It explains it clambered in.
"En'my in sight, woefully inadequate. When we self so loudly. "Here we have--"
roared the any oversleep after 6 p.m., cata Navy. Compressed air whistled. and other nocturnal wanderers are consider how little difference it A steam hammer crushed on
"This is what Lifts whirled up and down. Non-fitted with padded gloves bofore Thongkong Telegraph makes whether this team or that white-hot ingot
wo call." "Electric rivetters chalant seamen levered clashing being allowed to wander down the wins this cup, or that, or even knocked spots off a boiler plate. tons of steel.
corridors. the supposititious "Ashes," all "Submarine," yelled the
"An' that," said the Master Other institutions may be found guide this fuss, furore, gnashing of manfully. "Iron cigar with blis. Gunner, taking his bow,
is on the Peak, where many cases of teeth, and throwing up of hata ters on." The Press recently exactly how a big gun 'works." | mental aberration have occurred of
late through an excess seems rather a waste of energy. showed us the Seahorse safely
of in- BRITAIN'S BIG
Meet the Marines, his Majesty's | telligence. Still, we are wonderful people, launched. and this is how we fortify our
Jollies. They gazed Quartermaster-Sergennt
hopefully The world "lunatic" is derived PROBLEM
scives to face the rigours of hoped that his naval equivalent over the Cambrian's rail. The from an ancient Greek custom. appreciated the art of indenting. Marines have preference shares Luna--meaning a month, tie The huge gathering of a quar- everyday life; so one must not Not ours the joy of demanding in the Cambrian. You know all meaning credit, l.e., a man who
million unemployed be too critical. It might be sup- "Bargos, admirnis, complete with about the Marinos, of course, lives on his chit accounts. people at Hyde Park on Sunday, posed that, seeking our recrea- dolphins," or even "Boxes, ditty, They's the people anilors tell
tion in such hard school, we sailors common." for the purpose of protesting would bring to our
I don't believe things to. They've told them so ordinary even the sailors can really tell the much that the Marines simply had
We are able to announce to the ', against the Government's hand- vocations such energy and ten-official use of a ditty box. The to to the Army. By the time Hongkong public, in view of the we left Cambrian, we could box above, that the local Government ling of unemployment and de- neity as would make us world pace for photographa In the lid manding a reversal of its policy
But thousands of is, of course, very necessary for a compass, spank a binnaker, or does not yet contemplate the de-
Juff a helm with the best. Now poration of lunatics from of "economy," serves to illustrate pessimists tell us daily that we
gentlemen with wives in every
and again a marine, remembering Colony.
the port. the strength of feeling on these are losing ground all along the Hearts of oak are well enough, in his speech and murmur,
his military dignity, would halt
We understand the difeult, is subjects. Despite all that has line; that the foreigner br its us but the Army really wanted
"Or been done in efforts to provide every
course, I don't really know much that the liners calling hero at time. This makes us meet jolly tars. They marched us about it."
present are not large enough to more work, no marked Impres- wonder whether; If we took our up to H.M.S. Pembroke, a ship
Happy Marines. They keep two hold them all. sion has so far been made on games less grimly, played them that never sails the blue-Cha-State Departments busy instead That's the trouble with a lot of the unemployment problem, for the fun of the thing instead than's Naval Barracks. The Petty of only one. When a Marine sails people in Hongkong. They've got whilst recent figures show that of with lowered brows and stern lieve the novelists talk of salt him with Army money, while Santa closed for repairs. us the P. W. D. Officers "did us proud." Don't be the azure main the Navy pays an open mind, but it's temporarily the number of people in receipt jaws, we should not fare better pork and hard tack. Fork, yes-Claus of the War Office sends him saya. of Poor Law relief is now some-in the more serious concerns of but roast, with crackling and an annual parcel of clothing. If thing like 300 per 10,000 of the life.
Saying which, and thanking you duff, and oh, well, what's a din- he wants a shirt between times one and all for reading our little ner without a toast? population, which represents an
the "passer" dives into his stop homily on the fallibility of human "...be upstanding and drink to chest. increase of about a quarter of a A Landmark for Women the health of the British Army."" Marines are really soldiers. montioning in passing that we beings, we takes our leave, merely million compared with the po-
"Unaccustomed as I am... good You can fell by
the way they thought everybody but 118 were sition a year ago. This increase
A few years ago the New-luck to the British Navy"
grouse. "Novor know where you is general all over the country, digate Prize for verse at Oxford remarked the "Commo,"
"What I
mad the first six months we were can't understand," are in this mob. If I go absent here, but after the first six months and so ncute is the position in
ja this twenty-four hours from barracks, was won by a woman for the rank business. Manchester that it needs all first time in its history. The Commanding Officer of a ship is if I go adrift the same time off this
You tell me the it's one day's pay stopped. But, we didn't notice it. addition of £120,000 to the last month of 1932 also provided only a captain, and that the Com- hooker they dock me elght days. original estimates of £518,000 ton notable landmark in women's mander doesn't. Then there's Three hours to day, that's the enable the Public Assistance education, for at the same uni-leftenants and sub-leftenanta-" Navy." Committee to get through the versity one of the Craven scho- remaining portion of the finan-larships was awarded to cial year, which ends next month. woman, Miss Barbara Flower, a It will be recalled that at the thing that had never happened recent opening of Parliament, before. Ever since women were the King's Speech foreshadowed admitted to Oxford, just over a scheme for dealing with the half a century ago, it has been unemployment question along freely acknowledged that they lines on which those out of have more than justified the work should not only be afford-privileges extended to them. ed material
but They have not greatly modified assistance, also designed to maintain the but that is not what they sought the social life of the university, morale of the unemployed and to do. They have, however, al- their fitnesя to resume work
ways takon an honourable part when opportunities could be in the work of the university. found. The only step taken so Nevertheless, it has been ofton far has been the grant of a sum asserted that the best women of £10,000 to the National Coun-{scholars have not been serious cil of Social Service, for assisting rivals to the best men, who have the voluntary provision of oc- very frequently monopolised the cupations for the unemployed.highest university distinctions. Obviously, much more than this Miss Flower's achievement calls is intended, and in due course for a serious modification of this the Government will no doubt judgment. It proves what the como forward with comprehen-world has long suspected, that sive proposals. But meantime women are capable of competing the situation is becoming des- with men in the very highest perate. The majority report of regions of learning. In the the Royal Commission on Un-study of the classical languages Oxford is generally conceded to employment Insurance stated
be the foremostuniversity in the that while "something may be world. The Craven scholarships hoped for from the co-operation are among the most prized dis- of voluntary societies, the situatinctions Oxford has to offer in tion is too serious to permit of its principal branch of learning. reliance upon voluntary effort Consequently, the competition alone. The report recommend for them is exceedingly great. ed that the Government should But Miss Flower's example extend instructional courses for shows that there is no scholastic unemployed boys and girls, to-competition which is too great gother with occupational centres for women to survive. -
to
"I rather hoped you'd like it. You know, I don't have
much timo ́ on this job to write poetry."
DEJECTED.
The news that a distinguished confrere had sold his brain to London hospital for £1,000 down and a modest annuity sent us hot- footed out to the Hongkong University yesterday,
The Vice Chancellor received un cordially, and took down notes in book. He said the University didn't need brains yet, but you could never tell who'd resign from the staff.
As he wrote we caught the murmured words "eranial Index ..dolichocephalous.....lobar ..parfetal.......stupendoua.!! Vislons of immenso wenith flashed before our oyun.
"Of course, we cannot do any- thing at present," said the V. C. as he closed the book. "We may be able to make you an offer inter on, though. But, first of all, what le your profession?"
"A lawyer," we anid, drawing ourself up to our full hoight, and' lying easily.
Sir William turned away with n faint gesture of Impatience. "Tut", he said, "I was mistaken. We have plenty of lawyers' brains- in that cupboard.
Wa glanced at the cupboard on our way out. It wne Inbelled: |"Guinea pigs.”
A THOUGHT: FOR TO-DAY
THE FIRST, LAST ARTICLE OF -PAITH; -THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF ALL FAITH AMONG MEN, THAT NOTE». ING WHICH 18 UNJUST CAN HOPE TO CONTINUE IN THIS WORLD-Carlyle,