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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1933.
THE CONTROL OF
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1933.
some of the worst features of warfare. But until this aerial problem is finally settled, the world will continue to be expas- ed to horrors the full nature of which it is difficult to visualise.
Federal India
GOODBYE TO
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HONGKONG
By E. G. B.
a good one
It will take three quarters of an hour to achieve the Pass, and you will have resisted all temptation to turn to the right, and will have, stuck steadfastly all the time to Kowloon Peak which towers above you on the left.
At the actual pass there is a you of lovely view in front of wooded hills and valleys on the
Straight and Narrow
BULLS AND INNERS
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DAY OF POWER
By E. L. ALLEN.
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As was to be expected, this Brussels crisis is sprouting up again. We hasten to add, how- ever, that Mr. Shaw did not visit Belgium on his world tour.
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A new Peer, aged 86, han just taken his seat in the House of Lords. MacWhirter suggests that at that age ho should take to his bed.
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Cricket Week: We suggest that it is definitely bad to encourage. Volunteers to run.
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Federation between British Studebaker and Rockne dealers
The virtues of the walk I am; gentians, wild monkshood, or frag- from the South Bend and Chicago India and the Indian Native territories, gathered here to-day States has definitely emerged as about to describe are four. First monts of edelweiss are to be found for the purpose of viewing a practical project. The critic- the longest climb and the least up there, the place seeming 48 Interesting part comes at the high and romote as mountains in the -new 1033
Studebaker ism has frequently been made beginning; secondly you will be Switzerland, where flowers Aro and Rockne models, were provid-that fedoration is an Impossibili-able, at tin time, to spread taken as a matter of course. ed with varied entertainment to ty, mainly because the federa- yourself upon a bed of heather:
It will take about the same time add zest to the seriousness of the ting units consist of elements so thirdly the way home is easy to day's work,
At an informal luncheon held at contrary to each other as to be find and leads you down a gentle to get home as it did to get out, unblendable. A British Govern descent to the bus terminus, and and the way lles back along the noon, business discussions were pleasantly interspersed with ment whose constituents are lastly, you will feel as refreshed; same path for about half a mile, colorful motion pictures and the primarily Conservative has prov-8 If you had spent a week-end and then along a slightly larger
bevy of beautiful ed this to be a fallacy, even away in the country, since, after path that turns off to the right to what about another ond to apar
the first twenty minutes you turn the village of Tlu Tsao Ngam. girls who were used most effective- though the Conservatives were your back on Hongkong and all Go through the village and up the the differences with Nanking? ly to dramatize the official pre- the first to hesitate about ac- things familiar, and catch no fur- valley beyond the smaller valley sentation of the new models to cepting federation when it was
ther glimpse of it until the even-at the first fork of paths take the to the left is Dingley Dell-and.
Alosal solicitor is said to have the assembled gucata. Music was proposed at the first Round Ing. also provided.
right hand once, which you can obtained Bernard Shaw's signa- ruse. The unfortunate The chief speakers were Albert Table Conference. The federa-
Take a map, or not, as you choo-nee running along for miles at the ture by Russell Erskine, president, The tion iden derived its impetus se (the one in the Hongkong guide foot of Tate's Ridge, and disap- part of the business is that it Studebaker Corporation, Paul G. from the decision of the Indian book will do) and about 10.30 am, pearing as it curves to the left and wasn't on a chit. Hoffman, president of the Stude-princes to affiliate their domains get into any bus that goes to Kow-makes for Grasscutters Pass.
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Folowing it, you turn your back ca, and George M. Graham, vice stitution that would have all if you are starting from the Star president of Rockne Motors Cor-India for its sphere. Prior to Ferry. Either walk for a quarter gradually and sadly on the Hun-Nee poration. Haruld S. Vance,
of a mile from the terminus, or chbacks, Bufalo Hill, Tide Cove president of Rockne Motors, and the first Round Table Conferet a No. 10 bas, which goes to and finally Tai-Mo-Shan: arrived D. G. Roos, chief engineer The enee, federation was viewed as the aerodrome, drop you at the at Grasscutters Pass, take the Studebaker Corporation, also an ideal to be attained; but the second und last turning to the road reluctantly down into the spoke briefly, detailing the various decision of the princes took the left. The turning is a wide and ordinary work-a-day world. with to be the motto of a lot of these Cineering advancements which issue from the realm of idealism unmistakable road and leads past a bus and all other abominable people who write to the Editor.
jemblems of sophistication lying in feature the new Studebaker and and brought it within the ambit the Kowloon Dairy Farm and up wait for you where you most the Rockne cars.
of practical politics. It was on-to Customs Pass.
main road at the bottom, THE HONGKONG HOTELly in the reflective environment. of India that the princes began GARAGE,
to think twice about what they had proposed and began to be doubtful if they would obtain the best of the bargain when their autocratic power came into con- lict with the democratic ideas which the British have fostered
A few years ago a certain minor in British India during 160 years WARD-At Kennedy Town Hospital of association with Indians. The shores of Hebe Havan, whilst be-War-Lord occupied a district in nt 6.20 mm. on February 17,inst conference showed that al-hind, a white road leads back Kwangtung and made it his arst
Cements have figured prominent- business to reward his supporters. Vernon Byron Ward, aged 13
He sent for one and asked whatly in share deals this week. But months, dearly beloved son of though there still is hesitancy over the hills to Lyemun. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ward. Funeral
the market still falla to stick.. on the part of many princes lo Up on the left soars the range he could do for him. There was will pass the Monument at 3.15 enter federation, it may safely of hills of which Kowloon Peak no hesitation about the answer:
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be said that federation will is the Eastern terminus, and three Make me District Magistrate for ultimately be India's status. quarters of the way up runs your one day!' It was a fairly moder Alpine path, with precipitousato request to make, surely. He When the final history of India's slopes of wind-blown grass rising only wanted power for one day, constitutional question is writ-above it to the summit, and equally but he was confident that in that ten, it will be recorded that the perpendicular slopes falling away time he could wipe out old scores, victory has gone to the realists. beneath, This path has a ratlier reward his friends, and amass a Chief among the realists is Sir invisible beginning about fifty fair fortune! After that well, Samuel Hoare, the Secretary of yards down from the head of the he was shrewd enough to know State for India. He has made it Pass, but once you are on it not that the future was an uncertain clear that the new Government bing can go wrong and an hour's proposition at the best, and to go of India can work only if the walk brings you to your destina- while the going was good.
tion, Heather Pass. of triple association Great
One wonders what most of us AVIATION
Britain, British India and the
would make of it if we were given the equivalent of what this man Opinion on the question of Indian Native States is main-
The way is as straight and asked for power for twenty-four international control of aviation tained. By defining the scone
proverbial path hours and no one to check us in is still divided. The British and purpose of the various safe-narrow as the
allotted to the righteous: a rulo the exercise of it. Some, no doubt, contention, that such control is guards he has brought the entire could be laid along it, one end at would honestly set out to use It essential if the menace of aerial constitutional issue into precise Customs Pass, the other at Heat- for the benefit of their fellows; transformed her Pass, but it is far more entle- but probably many, with the best attacks on cities is to be removed, terms. He does not meet with the approval volumes. of generalities into the ing than the righteous were ever intentions in the world, would Government is going to take stops of America, which holds that, skeleton of a parliamentary bill taught to expect. It provides decide that a day was really not in the matter of these dancing. by reason of her geographical In doing it he has satisfied wonderful panoramas of hills and long enough to do anything in that academies. position, the plan is neither Indians as to the sincerity of the bays and the open sea, and then was worth while, and would let the feasible nor desirable. In this British neople toward Indian hides them behind hills that sud-opportunity slip through their denly rise up on your right. Then angers. Some, on the other hand, connexion, it is to be noted that aspirations.
it follows a murmuring stream, would have the time of their lives; Whirter is to deliver a lecture the Hoover plan of disarmament
dles past Dingley Dell, curia round but again probably most called for the abolition of all
Heather Hill and lands you at feel that one couldn't make a great at the University on "Humour and bombing aircraft, but the point
Heather Pass, hungry and clamour- deal out of a day, and it would be Its Action on the Epiglottis". Ing for timin.
ali over before they had found out that seems to be lost sight of is
Russia has a new industry.
how to enjoy themselves.
"Henry Ford Under Fire," sayя that civil machines are quite It is making felt boots from hair. Here, unless you know the land
In short, we should most likely heading in a contemporary. Back easily convertible into bombing There is nothing extraordinary well, the map will help you to
Needle Hill and Tai-Mo-Shan: as we use the seventy years that
D posals were based on acceptance used in the manufacture of felt. straight ahead is Buffalo Hill, and are given to us as our life. Some Another man la to go round the of any practical scheme to pre-But Russia proposes to get the away behind it and to the right would make the best possible use world in a junk. The Empress of serve civilians from aerial bom- raw material largely from the Mn-On-Shan and the Hunchbacks. of it, others would bardment, for, which purpose it faces of the boot wearers. It is a most beautiful spot this self-indulgence, but the majority Britain, on the was proposed that all bombing Herein lies both thrift and Heather Pass, comparable to any of us would never get to the point taking a lot of junk round the should be within limits defined by economy. It has been learned in the New Territories. It is di- of sitting down to think out what world. This should even things an international convention. It that the whiskerfelt is of ex-Mcult to believe that no deep blue was the best we could make of it!ur. was further suggested that there cellent quality, and the way is should be limitation of the un- thus opened for development of laden weight of all military and a whisker crop on a scale never naval aircraft, as well as of the before attempted. Russian numbers of such muchines, whiskers are a tradition. They France favours the total aboli- are known all over the world. tion of air bombardment, if But
the
edict government accompained by internationalisa-officially impounding every har- tion of civil aircraft, and also vested whisker throughout the urges an organically internation- land ultimately must result in ul air force, to be at the disposal the recognition of Russia as of a State which is the victim the leading whisker-producing of aggression. Britain now nation of the world. The de comes definitely forward in sup-mands of the growing felt in- port of the French idea of industry-or should one say the ternational control, and the felt-growing Industry?-must be whole subject is to be studied met and if bumper crops are not by a specially-appointed' com- forthcoming prizes may be of mittee. The ideal, of course, is fered for the best acreage in the elimination of warfare al each community. In gathering together, and the establishing of the whisker erop the Govern permanent peace, But this is ment makes no distinction as to still far from realisation. In individual methods of produc- the meantime, steps must be tion. A whisker is a whisker taken to stop mankind from be-whether it sprouted in a set of coming the victim of Its own burnsides or flourished in the inventiveness. Nations have jungle of a galways develop- built up flects of bombing ment. The patriarch brand un- machines, and while they exist,doubtedly yields the greatest] or even while commercial ma- number of bushels an acre, but chines which can be quickly it is felt that any nondescript transformed exist, the outbreak crop has its value in adding to. of war might easily provoke the output of the felt industry. their employment. What is need Incidentally, the barber shops, ed is the utter and unequivocal which are constituted a sort of ostracising of aerial warfare and whisker silo by the edict, may of those who resort to it. By be spurred to greater achieve slow degrees the nations are ment by promises of coples of coming to realise the effective "The Wind Blew Through His ness of the moral weapon, and Whiskers" for the largest num there is definite promise of ber of bales, collected within n` something being done to banish given period.
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What's all this fuas about dane-. ing academies? One can aco D taxi-cab array any day outside the G.P.0.1
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That's the wost of these Army abbreviations. We hear of a gal- lant officer who was annoyed to recolve the mesango-"C.O. may G.T.H.". It only meant "get the housel"
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"Thirteen "Women" Indeed!
Many a man has found ono un. lucky!
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Races to-day. Yos, in the
spring a young man's fancy often
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"Forged $100 bank-note." This explains why Edward Kelly hna teen looking so worried. Ho ex pects to have a $100 bank-nate în about five years.