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FAIR-1933.
"HONGKONG'S
OLYMPIA"
MEET US
AT THE
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933.
A STRANGE STELLAR
ACCIDENT
By REV. D. MacDONALD, S.J.
star. But let us sou how it
The Very Idea!
APROPOS NOTHING
By Edward Kelly, Holum Expert.
We are now in that part vastant that while no actual collision THINGS, like women,
change.
of the Communists as a party in the State, that it if puts on one aldo its use of force and its me- thods of cruelty, its tencts should be freely discussed and consider ed. Many who are weary of the tyranny and exactions of the warlords and their party repre- sentatives would gladly give the alternative system a trial. The
of our flight down the river took place there was this enormous transition from the present sys-
In the days of chivalry, round substance of the sun itself leaving it tem of government in China to of time when the Earth was tearing out of a portion of the very n modified Communiem would about to be but yet was not. smaller and lighter than before and tables, knights, daze of love,
perhaps glad to have this lengthy not be as difficult as elsewhere. We have entered into that and unpleasant surgical operation beautiful maidens, the flower of It is probable that Chinese Com- muniam would accommodate it-group of heavenly bodies, the successfully completed. You know love burned brightly on the flekt group of stars which stud the that the earth and the moon exert
a mutual attraction upon one another. of honour. self to the clan and family sys-heavens at night, our own By- This attraction keeps the tem of China; and China's age- long civilisation would be a far tem of stars, and amongst that moving round and round about the different thing from which to group we notice that there is earth instead of flying off into space. build than the more barbarous going to be at one place, as it Upon the earth the most obvious the moon is the formation of the civilisation of Czarist Russia. We watch, as passereby watch tides in the occans.
were, a very serious accident. effects of this pull or attraction of The dry land
show The possibility of a Communist regime which could adapt itself a street accident, but with even being somewhat rigid decan't
more interest than they. We any appreciable give under the pull
Once upon a time it used to be of the moon but the water being more to Chinese society, with its vast were scared, a little while ago, mobile does get puited noticeably out chivalry to step off the roadway store of inertia, la difficult to when we saw that an accident towards the moon so that for instance
to let a woman paas. Hongkong estimate. We doubt if it would
was going to happen and we didn't when the moon is opposite know how grievous it might be the waters of the surrounding ocean nor what might be its terrible rush towards Hongkong and heap up We felt we were round this locality producing what is a high tide. As the moon
VAUXHALL involve a dangerous attack on
STAND
"BRITISH TO THE
CORE"
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE, Tel. 23124,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933.
COMMUNISM IN CHINA TO-DAY
the
or smash in the gascous
It
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now there
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Tush
moon
of the water
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just
Feelings were gentle and kind. Lowest of any tender feeling not necessarily accepted.
To-day what do we find. Not even a cold shower.
But does he Awear? Does he?
...He docs.
He whistles, and the fair Cynthia shyly creeps out to the baloney adrry-balcony. “Oh, strong and savage man,"
• •
parson and get hitched. And take
Nowadays, especially if she's the bourgeoisle classes. For
driving a motor-car, it's not one thing there is no rigid class consequences.
chivalry, but discretion.. system in China. Classes, so helpless to prevent it and our called
Gimme the good old days. far as they can be separated, are voices were unheard in the still travels on round the earth the high heaped up into something like a huge more fluid than in any civilisedness of the universe. We fore-tido follows it and as the water is
wave-crest ond quarter saw that a great catastrophe of
the cir Lancelot climbs up the grape- country in the world. The ques-normous magnitude, a very rare eumference of the earth 18 lengvine, tearing a hole in his arm- tion might rather be whether thing in starcy'space was about to that follows the moon. Chinese Communism would stand take place unless some mighty wave comes a depression or low tile, our as he catches a nuil. on its own feet or proceed in force could come in to prevent it close alliance with, or under the or unless the mighty force were of this locality to follow after the {direction of, Russia. Mean- already there and could avert the moon leaving less water hero and so low tide is the consequence. If the moon were much nearer, the high tides while, we have the present go- calamity in the nick of time.
But no, it seemed to become more would be much higher and the low vernment at bitter war with the
and more inevitable. There was aides much lower. This enormous Communist armies while con-
star peacefully pledding its way double wave would travel round the stitutionalists at Nanking play its appointed course, going with the earth under the attraction or induenea with the idea of recognising the crowd round and round in their of the moon. Even high hilla near she cries in an ecstasy of fear. enormous wheel-like motion, Lot in the sea would be covered by water "desiring you with the fierceness party, on conditions, and intelligentsia in Peking go out the distance loomed up another star at high tide and many a bay or har- of love, wanting you with throbb-
bour would be empty of water at low a greater one, making straight, of their way to honour with a seemed, for the leaser and peace
moon were sufficiently near, this tidal love transcends the immortals.
with bleeding heart. Beloved, my public funeral a Communist lend- fut one. At last we were glad to see tide, It is conceivable that, if the ing tenderness, I yearn for you ¡er put to death by Chang Hsuch. I that there was a likelihood of cold wave would become really mountain herol my knight! my love!
alon being avoided, but what would
high, ne high as the Himalayan, and lang in 1927. The "Three Prin-happen we wondered. Now we see it oven as high as to be pulled rightly to my arms!"
off the surface of
of the ciples" can always be interpreted before our very eyes; the big star has
earth altogether, in a Communistic way by those come close to the smaller one but thus leaving the oceans empiter and
Lancelot flies. Time flies. The forming enough to collide with it
a new but comparatively who wish to do so; and the civil not close it up and get injured itself sumall heavenly body if it didn't real scene changes. In this kind of section of the XIXth Army in
tork process. The
ly jump right out to the moon and weather the unseen also change. Fukien, while holding to some
and as the big star comes be taken in there or if the moon itself Everybody changes.
It is now 1933, Lancie has t Just as after the French Re-concept of private property, to within a certain distance of the didn't suffer most. But what I want
lasue has volution, people who had been adopts an extreme radical at smaller, the smaller one shows un to point out is that just as the moon art
casiness, wisps of luminous
a tidal effect on the earth so did
"Kid," he says, "you and the repelled by its excessés began to titude towards redistribution of from its side like flames leaping out that big star that nearly collided with set them on one side as largely property rights and their rend towards the big intruder. Soon these the sun exert a tidal action and to Hongkong heat have got me hot firrelevant and to concentrate at. Justment to changing economie, wisps of gas become a pointed peak auch an extend that it drew off by and bothered. I gotta have you,
of like some great mountain peak and political, comlitions. We tention on its theories, so that were inclined to think that with soaring into the sky. As the intrud-sts attraction n large part of the sun's baby. What's the use of stallin'
ing star comes near, this pointed peak substance and then passed on leaving these gradually penetrated the the rapprochement with Russia, of gaseous matter becomes more that separated part to look after like this. Let's go and visit the
dering star has just passed that big mind of Europe and wrought the vigour of the radical sections pointed and taller, reaching and reach self. Now we see it after the wall that grin off your face, or I'll wipe upon the consolidation of every of the Kuomintang, the growing ing out as if to fend off the enemy. cigar-shaped column of gaseous mat-it off."
As the big one comes still more
ter boing unstable, unable to hold it Cyn. nestled closer to him. nation, so, now that Soviet Rus-political consciousness of the near the peak-like mass of gas be self together in that shape,
"Oh, watta man," she murmur- peasantry and the alluring pro- comes a big column of gas rushing begins to break up into fragments; sia has apparently settled down mises of Communist propaganda, outwards towards the big star. The these fragments then taking a globu.ed, "whatia man!"
As do drops of water.
In the olden days, married wo to the (more or less) sober work- there might be a coalition of ra- big star passes by but still the gas lar shape
is being drawn out from the side of fragments at and near the middle of ing out of Communist theory, idical and Communist elements in star and after a time the column the cigar aro big massive balls of men word nothing but plain gold the attention of thinkers the a new political programme. The drawn out seems to have the shape gas or partially of gas and partially wedding ringe. After they aban- world over is turning to Karl Soviet's attitute towards the of a huge cigar, with one ond resting liquid, those fragments towards the dened the loose leaf system they Marx and his doctrines. The sale of the C.E.R. has, however, as it were on the star from which it ends of the cigar are smaller in pro started wearing clothes as well.
Nowadays marriod Women universal breakdown of capita-greatly damaged her influence in came forth and the other end pointing portion. What we see now
to the other great star that had stage in this set of fragments each lism, the vast extension of go- Chinn and such a movement, if passed so near. There was no colli- globular
two the sun cach one in its own track, rings.
in shape revolving round Want to wear nothing but platinum vernmental interference whe-contemplated, has received sion, yet the smaller of the ther with trade, or the in-severe setback.
stars you might imagine, had a ter and these are what are called the
We once knew a chap who ribic time during those disastrous planets. They are called planets be- dividual, in every Stato, and the
days, and will never be the same cause they are seen by us to move gave his girl a brass wedding
it has lost weight irre about in the sky due to their motion again, for
ring. She thought it was gold.. minds that the ineptitude and.
vocably and for ever. The agony of round tho eun, whereas the other stars
WAR nothing expectation
Imagine her embrassment. the do not seem to us to move relatively impotence of governments will
of the reality. to one another and are therefore lead to devastating wars
and
It is a common impression wrenching agony
The passing star bas just by the called fixed stars. Now these planets threaten the existence of civilis that the head of an administra terrife force of its attraction drawn seemed to us to have been thus drawn ed society, all prepare the mind tion is a peculiarly fortunate out from the side of the amall one A out from the sun making the sun that.
whether wo lo consider radical changes in individual, living a life of com- great mass of the substance into a
which is maler and lighter,
saw clearly and rightly or not wo the structure of society and parativo ease, attending to pure-big cigar-shaped mass
positively, make it hospitable, if not to ly nominal functions, inaking a destined not to be recovered again. cannot guarantee to state
The phenomenon might be compared but wo scomed to see it happen thus in Hongkong. Those who need Communist ideas, at least to the certain number of public appear to the upward suction of a column of and we record what we seemed to petting and those who need chlory- idea of consciously planning the ances and conforming to a pre-water from the ocean in a water-see. The planets ara, beginning from forming. corporate life
Those who need potting may of the State. gramme of social activities die- spout though the water-spout is in the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars finitesimal compared with the enorm Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Plato,
us. Those who need Something like this is happening tated by his position. In some
ous column of fluid matter dragged each revolving round the sun as I apply to in China, Ordinary people are instances this is partly true. out by the passing star, The smaller each wore in its own track on a great chloroforming applies to
star we see now to bo our sun and celestial raco course. They all start the others. beginning to distinguish between It, however, an exception were
the big one Wo know not what
(Continued on Page 6.) the excesses of Communism, or sought, it would not be neces even its ordinary practice, and sary to go further than our own Peel. its theory. The ghastly record Governor, Sir William of the Hai-Luk Hong Soviet un- This Colony has, over
a long der the notorious P'an P'ai with period, enjoyed the leadership Fits lists of proscribed classes and of men with wide vision, sagaci- its human-head meetings, hasty and a real interest in the wel had no parallel in other Commun-fare of the community; but no at movements in China. It must Governor has demonstrated apparently be set aside as un these qualities to a more mark- igolated emergence of primitive ed degree. No other Governor, cruelty and barbarity mude during such a short time, has possible by placing absolute po-more thoroughly acquainted
fear at the back of people's Hongkong and its
Governor
wer in the hands of a sadistic himself with our problems and fanatic. Elsewhere Communism requirements. In three years he is notorious less for its crueltics, has acquired a better knowledge which are no worse than those of the Colony, even topographic- of the soldiers sent to harry the ally speaking, than many who districts which are under Red have been resident here for 20 control, but for its radical at- or more years. He has gone out tack on property and its char- of his way to see for himself, acteristic Intolerance of discus-displaying a whole-hearted in- sion or reasoned opposition. It terest in every oflcial and un- is under this head that its sup- official scheme of development. pression of Christianity comes. Sir William recently carried out! În areas under Communistic con- an exhaustive tour of inspection trol Christians as such are not of the Shing Mun Valley scheme, persecuted: but Christian con- as was illustrated in the Tele- gregations are suppressed under graph last Saturday. This work, n general rule forbidding public when completed, will be one of meetings and preachers are like the most important in the his- ly to be denounced as counter-tory of the Colony. It should revolutionists. Not where it mark the time when the water a successful, but where it shortage problems in Hongkong has failed and its lost territory will be a nightmare of the past. has been exposed to punitive ex-But it is only rarely that the peditions, is the strongest op Governor's "unofficial look-ace" position to Communism to be tours are brought prominently to found and in Chinese society the public attention and for this generally there are signs of a reason wo are, perhaps, Hable disposition to say, as recently has to lose sight of the prominent been said by those at Nanking identification of His Excellency advocating the free recognition with the progress of the Colony. I
the
to
"Mother says she isn't going to let me ever learn any-
thing about wooking or housework.”
The
this
*
But girls in Hongkong are like
They're hard. The irony of it.. There are two classes of women
any of
If there's one thing we don't like its a woman who nags.
Two things we don't like are two women who nag.
The last key to our ignition уда like that. In America. they'd call her a speak easy. Speaking of speak casles. Our credit's stopped at the hotels, there's no water in the maina, so we're off out to Tytam Reservoir for a drink.
We'll be accing you at the same: place time to-morrow.
Au reservoir.
THE FIVE STAGES,
The Edward Kelly School for Inebriates is issuing its prospectus. shortly. Its principal objects will. be the giving of courses of lectures. upon the following five stages of in-- toxication:
(1) Jocose
(2) Bellicose (3) Lachrymore
(4) Comatose
λ (6) Motoroso
The fifth might adequately bo described na drunk. The symptoms
are complete inability to move hand or foot. In fact it is "dead out."
Practical tests will be provided In all stages, if the student is will ing. If he isn't we don't want to seo him. Abysinnia.
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