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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933,
Of all dirigibles, the Great THE HONGKONG CABARET The Very Idea.!
IV. The High Cost of Tuition'
Zeppelin alone has come through with flying colours, having made many not- able voyages, but luckily she has never yet faced the full fury of Nature in its angriest mood. A well-meaning friend has drawn in the position to enjoy the more Opinions will naturally differ as "Controversialist's" attention expensive amusement. But youth to whether there is a future for to a miscalculation the other days proverbially impetuous, and when in nesessing the high cost of disinclined to heed. parental big airships, yet we may count tuition in a local dancing academy counsels and, it seems in this case it as a certainty that the urge he set out on a mathematical de- will go on a-dancing. Hear now, to overcome obstacles as they monstration of the process by what Mother (and presumably arise will prove of sufficient which he arrived at the result. Father also) has to say and sub strength to induce man to con- The friend Was right. Consequently publicly to declare tinue his fight against the troversialist, whose mathematical about it. forces of nature until success prowess has sadly deteriorated is finally attained.
The Nanchang Piracy
since he deserted a most promis MOTHER KNOWS ing career in a banking house for BEST the less lucrative one of journal-
THE EVENT OF A LIFER'S TIME
By Eddie Kelly, alaia 10,954 The annual prize giving and sports day at Laichikok this year was surprisingly successful, both prisoners and warders entering into the spirit of the games with gusto.
"Many records were broken, most of them beyond hopes of repair.
A few mischances varied the harmony of the day, one such ism, owns to the mistake, but will Mother gnows best. She sees
occurring during the pigeon 43756, new to the plead in extenuation that he erred sees in the situation one fraught shooting. on the pardonable side. He un with great perii for her children, game, mistook a warder for the derestimated the cost, and now She puts her wise head together pigeon, the breach of the rules thinks that the disturbing in-with others in an urgent con-
being aggravated by the fact that fluences of the place are
to be ference, and decides that the most the warder at the time was blamed for this. But to continue, effective action can be only taken in all the annals of Test cricket
sitting." Hongkong's "Dancing Acade through Government intercession. mies" had been allowed to run In pursuance of that idea, she nothing can equal the surprising course of over a year before this secures the intermediary of a denouement which marked the. high cost of receiving instruction Legislative Councillor, and for the Laichikok test match "War came in as a factor making itself first time, Government is asked to ders v. Boarders" The warders felt. Prior to this and for var define its attitude in the matter won the toss, and, no doubt owing
Meeting ers in. However, the whole team
Certainly not before their invasion local history as memorable for in a blatant form into the heart two reasons, firstly it was unique, of the business quarter thrust the probably because the need of it matter before public attention. had not been so strongly felt else The "average purse" alluded to in where; d it was also memorable a preceding article conceivably is because it recorded in one belonging to the average certain terms parental condemna- assistant-to whom in these times cabaret. wage-earner-the office werker or tion and indictment of the local
no un-
For popularity, tossing the caber had a lively rival in lossing the pint pot, chief honours in the latter event going to 50775, who won by a short neck and 57 pints. Bowls was another popular item on the list the chains attached to the balls giving some unexpect
The unusual feature of the Nanchang piracy, the kidnapping of four of her officers, has given rise to a demand for special protection to British vesels -Point Cushioned Angor
trading on the China, coast, in the form of armed guards. It ́"Unit Power Plant.”
seems to have been forgotten that both the Admiralty and the Rockne Sixes are equipped War Office have laid it down with "unit power plants that all expenses incurred in deal with in dua time) it is doubt history. A Mothers
ious other reasons (which we shall What followed is very recent to force of habit, sent the prison- engine, clutch and transmission connexion with the provision of ful if many people knew of the which was held at the beginning got out at the first chance, every". are in.. one domplete unit, run assuring rigidity and proper be paid for in full by the Com- alignment of working parts. The motors are of the popular panies using them, while the "L" head type.
shipping companies contend that this is an expense that they See and drive the Now Rockne cannot rightly be called upon to Six to-day!
bear, apart altogether from THE HONGKONG HOTEL to meet such charges. The their ability, in present times,
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suggestion in the Daily Mail, of retrenchment, wage-cutting and At the same time it also brought which is foremost, in urging the general economie stress, an outlay out a lamentable revelation in an provision of armed guards, that on recreative pastime has become implied admission of lack of
Putting the weight was won by. the reappearance of piracy in more than ever a decided factor family discipline, hitherto the Far East is one of the un- for a careful re-adjustment of the generally true of Chinese family 33313, and picking the pocket by welcome consequences of the. household budget.
traditions. This parental help- 40448, whose finger, work was recent heavy. reductions in the A NEW SOCIAL
lessness, however serious it may brilliant, although he had had no have become for many local practice for years and years and Navy, is so much nonsense. EVIL?
families, is, however, essentially years, Mr. Lo Cheng Shiu begs to announce The naval establishment in
one, to be readjusted within the Several contestants in the box- that the marriage between his China has not been decreased. If, for instance, in the pursuit confines of the home, and any ex-ing-tournament were knocked out, daughter Enid And Mr. John Letablere Litton will take place. Furthermore, the majority of of that recreation, he encroaches tension of action outside cannot but as most of them were doing at the Registry on Wednesday, merchant ships on the coast are on the essential minimum re-but be viewed as unreasonable and time for a long period, no concern April 26th, and thavn Reception employing the special anti-quired for other and more vital arbitrary imposition of the par was felt for their safety. will be held Hotel at 4.30 p.m. Ne formal
at the Hongkong piracy guards provided by the requirements, a serious position ental, will and in that light appear of financial stress becomes ap-not a rational ground for pro- invitations are being issued, but Hongkong Police Force. If the parent. to the Reception.
Stubbe Bond
Happy Taller
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933.
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ed examples of bias.
Pole vaulting was abandoned after seven prisoners succeeded in vaulting over the wall:
The meeting was brought to, a happy.conclusion by the mara- athletic standard of Laichikokians that none of them stood out of this gruelling contest.
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At the time of going to press the event had not concluded, latest reports indicating that the warders are still sepuring the hills in the New Territorice.
AMERICANA.
We thought we knew the Ameri- can language reasonably well, but this recent headline from a cele- brated New York theatrical week- ly baffled us like a tough bit of Tacitus.
"CAY" AND "RASE", ROADSHOWS
WOW HUB.
all friends are cordially invited Nanchang carries no guards it, again, that recreation takes ceeding on a problem which will thon, and it speaks well for the
have to be dealt with from a is probably because she is a the form of cabaret dancing, and broader viewpoint. To that broad Shanghai-operated ship on ait is indulged in to any inordinate er viewpoint the question of cost route not normally troubled with extent, a position approaching to the cabaret-goer, to whom the pirates. The whole circuni financial catastrophe develops. simple solution always is in the
I. et again, that cabaret re-advice "Don't go," can stances of the Nanchang out creation is pursued night after claim whatever.
have no rage, both in the manner of the night, and granted that the person seizure and the objective of the by whom it is pursued is young and ON QUESTION raiders, was unusual. The ves- inexperienced, with youth's pro- OF ABUSES val was boarded from junks verbial recklessness and aptitude while at anchor. The intention for enjoyment; and granted also We will now consider what that' THE FUTURE OF
clearly was to take British cap- that he is weak-willed and easily broader viewpoint is, and if it has tives for ransom. The outrage bent to excesses, that catastrophe any application to the local pre- newblem. This will be concerned AIRSHIPS is to be placed in an entirely becomes a certainty and a
with the abuses which is the next Inevitably, the terrible dis-casional piracies in South China, heen the sequence of events by dissertation.
different category from the oc-encial evil manifests itself.
Such in point of actual fact, has step in the development of this aster to the U.S.S. Akron again where the officers are left un- raises the question whether air- molested unless the pirates see instruction" has developed as
which the high cost of "receiving Earlier, in this article, Con- atroversialfat mentioned. other ship, construction is really worth threat in any of their actions. factor for official attention, It causes which with the High Cost while.
Like other craft of a The Newchwang gang appear to may well be argued that callow of Tuition, had rescued the local At length we have construed it. similar type, she
has fallen a be been inspired by the Pawley-youth should be well advised to Dancing Academy from com-It means that the provincial tour vietim to the elements, Unable Corkran capture some months keep away, confine its leisure, me- parative oblivion into the light of of the two films "Cavalcade" and to battle with a violent storm, ago and it is more than likely ments to suner recreation, "and public notoriety."
"Rasputin" is not going badly in Boston! the sea and that the men responsible were leave cabaret dancing to those sup- soon became a muss of tangled actuated as much by a desire to posedly its superiors by virtue of were apparent from the beginn- wreckage. The circumstances embarrass the Japanese au- matured age and experience, and ing; could in a manner of apenk which brought about her end thorities as to secure
ing. be expected to eventuate in spite of what we are ready to con- were, in all major respects, those Unless it is suggested that which declared war no longer to cede, the best endeavours of those we have had. which accounted for the loss of every British ship travelling the Shenandoah and the R.101. the coast should be shadowed by be an instrument of internation- striving to prevent in their own It was not a case of the mam-a destroyer from port to portal policy, individuals should not interests; and which have now down with the foot-and-mouth, 30 moth dirigible catching fire until she is lying safely along violate that treaty by holding produced a situation when it is dear old Hooghhaugh took charge. through being struck by light-side a quay-wall, the inference themselves ready to participate believed Government supervision She was mounted
in war. And finally they urged in the form of legislation has be-Musketoon, who won the Kwanti ning; she was apparently unable in the agitation that the Navy that since the whole world is come necessary. These abuses National in 23: structurally to withstand the is falling down on its job is
may be separated into two classes We met at the "Hunter's Arms". storm, which she encountered. nothing but hysteria.
desirous of putting an end to namely, abuses by customers, and (off-licence) and started with war, that desire could only be abuses by the managements, and five-mile "point." Colonel Bludger fulfilled by individual refusal to these will be dealt with in that was there with his two "6lkes" (as
order, in our next instalment.. fight.
he call them) and a C.F. mounted on a mule. At the first paddi field we put up a couple of par- tridges.
she crashed into
It may be recalled, in this coh- nexion, that although the R.101 was finally destroyed by fire, this only broke out after she had
ransom.
Oxford Pacifism
conle to earth and was not the England takes the political cause of the disaster. For at attitude of undergraduates in least three-quarters of a cen- her universities more seriously tury, man has concentrated on these days than formerly. the task of producing an air- Which is only logical when the ship capable of overtoning all feeling is expressed in a debat- risks, but, marked though the ing organisation with the years progress has been, the effort has of successful operation that are not yet finally succeeded. The at the back of the Oxford Union. first real step forward was made The undergraduates of to-day, in 1909 when a Zeppelin acom- after all, are to be the citizens plished a voyage of nearly nine of to-morrow, and ought to be hundred miles in less than forty the leading citizens. No doubt hours. In the Great War, of this relation was in the minds course, Zeppelins were used free of the English press when it ly in air raids, but although at began commenting upon the ex first successful they eventually traordinary pacifistic declaration failed in their objective, due to of the Oxford. Union recently. the measures taken against The question under debate was: them. Good service, however,"Resolved that this house will was rendered by airships in the 'in no circumstances fight for its Battle of Jutland, while Britain | King and country." The vote also employed them with con- was 275 in favour to 153 against, siderable success in submarine Information from the university bunting. In 1919, the R.34 set is to the effect that the debate up a new record by journeying was of a singularly elevated from England to New York in character, and that the feeling 108 hours, making the return was that. the logical side of the trip in 73 hours. But so rapid question was in the keeping of were developments that in the those who defended the resolu-1 following year it was announced tion. They asked first, how, that she had become obsolete since a solemn pledge had been and would henceforth be used given to the men who fought for experimental purposes only, and were killed between 1914 It was ten years later that the and 1918 that they were fight- R.101 disaster occurred, and one ing in a war to end war, that outcome of this was that Britain pledge could possibly be carried decided not to interest herself into effect. They argued fur- further with airship experi-ther, that since Great Britain ments, the R.100 being scrapped. I was a party to the Kellogg pict
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But it was the afternoon's run that will live in history. There were only four of us left, and two couple and a half of hounds." Their names shall be writ in mar- ble. Banter, Ringwood, Bellman, True and Woebegone of Ware,
And the four "centaurs" ' who pursued themt Old Heoghbaugh, Rery Bludjer, Commander Shoe- horn and us.
Eighteen malle straight as a die, and a good part of it on the rail- way lines!
In the end we killed at the Kow- loon Hotel by candlelight. A good place, to finish, too; we were want- ing a few "quick ones."
The official placing was;
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