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VII. The Conclusions
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
character of the steps taken is concerned. The thought which suggests itself is that the situat- ion might have been adequately met had the Soviet been inform-
By Edward Kelly, Poodle Faker.N........ ed, when the arrests were made
In this article, the last of the What will be the regulations?
Since functioning in the heart- and the charges specified, that
ache department yesterday we Britain would keep a keen and series, Controversialist makes fur-We know only that such are being watchful eye on future develop. ther revelations of the working of drafted, that at the proper time have been approached by our they will be presented by the Head Gront and Admiring Female ments. Instead of that, pre-the cabaret system in Hongkong.
The great point claimed for the of the Police Department in their Public to tell the story of our life. liminary threats have been
Well, there were quite a number followed by action making cabarets is that they do not sell carefully considered form to the provision for a boycott of liquors, but if all the brawls, or a Governor-in-Council, by whom it of girls we might have married.
For instance, the first girl we Russian goods.
The danger reasonable proportion of them, they are approved and passed.
over really loved was a waitress steps may were due to intoxication, they they will automatically be tran-named Queenie, who used to is that these
serve tea in a bunshop we fre- tend to prejudice the case of the would not have excited any great slated into law,
quented. accused men rather than other interest or called "for unusual wise. On general grounds, how comment, and the Colony would, REGULATIONS ever, there does appear to have in the course of time, have regard- been occasion for doubting whe- ther, in any circumstances, the ed such incidents with the apathy prisoners would be given a fair given nowadays to noisy happen trial. We can only hope that the ings in a "pub". worldwide attention now giv en to the case will have the effect of dissipating fears in this
connexion.
THE NEW
Without seeking to anticipate these Regulations, we believe they
have to do in the main with the
.wa
We never married her because alte Was thirty-eight and
We offered to, were seventeen. to-do to support her husband. but she said she had quite enough Of course, we already had "a But it has been revealed on at proper conduct of these resorts. past. She
was Matilda, We least two occasions that the Soon the word "cabaret" will be named our motor-car after Ma- affair" was of a different origin, brought within the legal definition tilda. We were fifteen and she and if not all that, had run of a public place of entertain-was fourteen. One day, in the perilously close to une affaire ment," and find a place in our ordinary course of business, we pulled her hair, and instead of social laws-now that the authori-kicking us in the shins, she burst passionelle.
Such a one developed in a local ties have committed themselves to into fears. We were afraid that
European Alliances The consolidation of the Little cabaret one recent night just after its "continued tolerance by a pro-she would tell her mother and get.
two distinguished Legislative Coun-mise of "regulations". But what- us into trouble, so we put our Entente-Yugoslavia, Roumania
Suddenly we felt we were going". and Czechoslovakia--is an in-cillors, by a curious coincidence, ever the exact nature of official arms around her to soothe her.
With the it cannot be complete in the view ourself for a sissy all the time.
evitable reply to the rumours of then engaged doubtless on a tour supervision and control devised, kiss her. We did it hating"
the formation of a Triplice in d'inspection, had left. Europe.
Whether there is an circumstances leading up to this of many, without taking into ac- And the minx kissed us back. It alliance or not, it is widely be-incident we are not much con- count the relations between em-was done. We were in love. We lieved that Italy, Germany and cerned save from the viewpoint ployer and employee, the terms of told her brother, our best friend, Hungary have an understanding of its revelation of a complication employment, and the abuses likely and he said, What, that kid? Our castles tumbled about our of common policy; and politic-and an evil that, above every other to accrue from a situation where Why, she's frightened of mice."
saw ians who have shown themselves factor, should recommend itself to an employer with a comparatively ears, and next time we
our small capital, is given control over Matilda we threw a rotten apple pacific are betraying anxiety. the careful attention of France has actually hinted that Legislators. The actual presence, imported "Indentured labour", at her.
Olive Was next. We loved Russia may, as in pre-war days,
Olive with a consuming love that burnt us all up. She was a pretty Mr. Lo. Cheng Shiu bers to announce serve as a counterweight to Ger at other times, of high Police The very nature of a cabaret
officials in one of these cabarets, business, we suppose, requires that the marriage between his many, and in its recent treaty
girl, but something went wrong daughter Enid and Mr. John Letablera Litton will take place with the Soviet seems to have has not exerted as an assurance of constant change of personnel, but at the Registry
on Wednesday, such a development in view. continued security or a guarantee the practice must not be lowered with her. Ferhaps she gambled,
We forget now. April 26th, and that a Reception Among the smaller nations of against a future occurrence. The to a position, degrading to all or, even worse, taught in Sunday will be held Hotel at 4.30p.m. No formal
at the Hongkong Europe there are greater, mis possibilities for unpleasantness concerned, where the girls are no School.
nature falling within better than the new subscription Little Entente are of a
But we remember Gertie. We invitations are being issued, but givings. The all friends are cordially invited was formed as a defensive as-ordinary imagination, and if it griffins imported every year to to the Reception.
sociation. Its members felt that has not, should have stimulated give "new blood" to race meetings. fell so hard for her we were individually they were feeble, furious thinking in this direction The comparison is perhaps in-bruised all over. She was the com-little world in the world. But pose of explaining another and that the territories allotted by precedents set at Harbin and elegant, but it will serve its pur- greatest little girl in the greatest to them might be claimed by the Shanghai.
plexity in the local cabaret ques-Gertie was the kind who went in tion. defeated nations. They united
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
row.
TUESDAY APRIL 11, 1933,
THE MOSCOW ARRESTS
to protect the status quo. It is GOVERNMENT impossible to say that the mo- ATTITUDE
tive was not, in the circum-
the
INTO THE RUN
The present attitude of the
ก continued
The New Regulations, from
official figures
*
for open air Sports the sports who own single seaters, and we were too poor in. those days. We were wiped off.
dozen
just about when we were twenty-
life became often that our
und that was that.....
Was
iL
By now we were becoming a stances, legitimate; but it had
connoisseur of dames, and what the unfortunate effect of per-authorities, if we rightly interpret latest reports, will be coming into with Evelyn and Leslle and Melly petuating the notion of alliances it, is the open mind properly to be force about the end of the present and Sheila and haif a in Europe.
Always against observed in any undertaking that month. In the interim there has alliances, there have been pitted is new and conferring a benefit or been a regular "boom" in cabaret others who fitted through our life counter-alliances; and although profit, of a moral, educational, re-enterprise. The World Interest will be centred it was argued that tho Littlecreational, or material kind, are being eclipsed as other pro.one, we were violently in love so
moters get into the run before round of man-bait. in the trial of six British em- Entente was different, yet the the community in general, now such new Regulations limit the That was until Nancy .came ployees of Metropolitan Vickers conception of a balance of po-restricted for ways and means of total number. We are being pro- into our life. Nance which opens in Moscow to-mor-wer as opposed to the concep-lifting this Colony from the un-mised something really good in suicide blonde. We never dared The "elaborate arrange- ception of the League was pre-desirable position for which it is the cabaret line" by June 30, but ask her to marry us, and, used to refuse to be thrilled as we can by call ourself a worm for not pluck ments which the Soviet has served, especially as France too heading through"
no stretch of the imagination con. made for the event are no doubt entered into a series of accords. worldwide economic depression. ceive it to be better, or for that ing up enough courage to do it. But as there were about seventeen. intended to have a political more or less of a military char-in their attitude vis a vis the local matter worse, than the ones al- significance, but what Britain acter. It ia useless to disguise cabarets, they are said to have ready in existence. The position/other warms hanging around, we and the rest of the world are the existence of a feeling of been principally inspired by re-has engendered another complex don't think she ever missed us.
Oh, and there was Pearl, whom interested in is the precise menace in Europe. Not only are cognition of a need for at last re-namely the landlord complex we should have married. It was measure of justice which the there these suggestions of a new
Not without reason he is setting her fault that we didn't. When accused men will receive. There triplice, but there is also
Roving the outer, semblances of up a new standard in higher rents, would appear little room for advent of Hitler with a moré that depression; or by a benevol and one such who recently sought we asked her if she would be ours, doubt that after their arrest the aggressive foreign policy. The ent view on rational entertain- to translate his cabaret ideas into or let us be hers, she said "No".. men now facing trial underwent opportunity is taken, in nationa- ment facilities for at least one action in the midst of a peaceful Just at the moment we a most unpleasant experience in list quarters in France to de- section of the community deprived residential quarter in Kowloon, heart-free. Applications will be the severe grilling they received, mand" a general welding of al. of their age-old West Point plea was dealt a sharp rap in the received between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. knuckles by all his other tenants fundays, Wednesdays, und Fri- The full facts in this connexion liances against the growing de- sure quarter, now disappearing. threatening to move out on masse. days. have, it is to be feared, not even mand for a revision of the trea. All things considered, the Police There is much more to be said yet been disclosed. The charges ties. It is argued that the authorities have acted with due about the problem, but Con ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. preferred are of a somewhat peculiar character, yet more of the former allies, and their is now thought to be ripe for plac- while sounding a note of warning, Yes, dear, the "Gold Falght be
having turned "Moralist", and 20 revisionists rely on the division caution in the matter, but the time troversialist has been accused of readily understood when we pon- diplomatic tacties have been to der on the Soviet habit of plac break all attempts to maintaining a "public entertainment" on ais content to leave the subject at ing all foreigners under suspic- ion. To the suggestion made by
a common front. While they regulated and licensed basis. Britain that these men are not are themselves framing accords the type likely to engage in the for action, they are engaged in disuniting those nations which activities with which they are stand for the status quo. The charged, the Soviet has some what cheekily retorted that if tendency of Europe to formi belief in their innocence is so alliances and thus to separate profound, why all the concern into two camps, is obviously re- which is being manifested? The trograde. The system leads answer, of course, is that not straight to a balance of power, much faith can be placed in Rus-which is necessarily precarious. sian' judicial methods. If there
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On the other hand, heen utterly transformed by the Russia is strictly within her erection of a huge structure in rights in contending that for gleaming white stone, surmount- eigners who come into the coun-ed by a colossal clock that seems try must be amenable to Soviet likely to be a formidable rival of laws. But, equally, Britain, or any Big Ben himself. But what is
perfect other country, has
of all change
is rarely right when any of their subjects perhaps the most constant are placed under arrest, to know noticed. The big shops are Twenty the reason why and to strain going ever farther.
years ago every legitimate effort to see
twenty-five or that they get justice. The point naturally arises as to the the most westward big shop waz precise time on which it is wise nearly half a mile east of Hyde to be entirely at scale seem to make representations, and Park; to-day shops on the largest what the nature of those presentations should be. Here home in the very heart of the most aristocratic fastnesses of there would appear to be some ground for thinking that Britain Kensington, as far to the west may have acted with undue of Hyde Park as they were form
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a
rem
that.
"I hope we can send him to Sundhurst. It would be auch #beautiful place to vlalt."
"Pobbles"
"
Bre
Miss Bowen's work, but we doubt it. In fact, we think our guess is old O'Shes. The book has that air of "clean fun" about it that we as- Bociate with his work.
a "teaser," isn't it? It might be
"Lover of Quotations" The lines"
"Lives of great men all remind ve "We can make our lives sublime "And in dying leave behind us "Footmarks on the sands of
time,'
are new to us, "Lover Quotations." They sound
much like Rupert Brooke.
*
·
J. H. M. R-K
of
very
What alot of initials you have! We hope the printer has got them right. We shall be very glad to take you to see Dickens' birthplace. (Such a humane writer, and so prolific.) Meet us at about 9.30 on Thursday; and we'll have couple of "quick ones" first.
"Buttercup"
"Who is our greatest living novelist?" Golly, what a question! Do you want us to offend half our acquaintances? Here's our "short list" for you, "Buttercup," and you must choose your own from that.
Here goes
*A, E. W. Mason.
Warwick Deeping. *Hugh Walpole,
Gilbert Frankau. Ulta Tosh.
The ones marked * are special- ly good, "Buttercup." We put in Miss Tosh to represent the modern school; the others are all pre-Kelly.