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alter an unflinching determina- tion to carry on the unequal fight. He holds that negotia- tion with Japan, at the present mament, is entirely out of the question, that it can only become possible when Japan voluntarily
There is a proverb which speaks that it went all out for the produc
and loft the din- announces her willingness to
of playing Hamlet and leaving out tion of wealth join hands with China in a the Prince of Denmark. As if any-tribution of it very largely to mutually agreeable programme one would ever do so foolish a chance. So it crented huge accu- in private of live and let live. In a recent thing! Fancy putting a play on mulations of wealth
the boards and omitting to remind hands and Industrial equipment on statement of government polley, the principal member of the east a gigantic scale, while the mass of At the extraordinary meeting of Mr. Wang admitted that there that he was wanted! Yet, after the people went short of pur-the Craigengower Cricket Club doing Mr. Basa said that the Committee might also be other contingen-all, is it not a fairly common omis chasing power. Russia is
fixed sion? We make a clean sweep of exactly the same thing, except that had muzzled members and cies which would make it poseertain evils-but we lift the brush in her case it is State depart-
night. Evidently sible for China to come to terms and pass on when we come to the ments which own the wealth and the closing time for 1 a.m. every with Japan, adding that what one that has done by far the most the pinnt. while the people taloo afraid that the members would
is loft. Personally, I see harm! We introduce drastic re-what ever these may turn out to be, forms, but they are all to no purno moral difference between making get "shot". China has fixed, compatible with pose, for we have left untouched n man a cog in the industrial nore than anything else machine and making him a figure nceded to be dealt with! Here are in a Five Year Plan. If you sacri-
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national honour, a minimum what limit. This reveals one possible nce
Rome. Illustrations that come to fice the Individual human being to but we changed our mind when circumstance which would en-one's mind. In each case, there is the necessities of an
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CHURCH PAGEANTRY.
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If something doesn't happen soon, it will be a case of here to- day and gone to borrow.
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Englishmen may be good losers,
industrial we stened for a few seconds to able us to square two apparent-something involved with which one system, I remain unmoved by the the man who missed his car from
is heartily in sympathy, yet in each assurance that the system in quea-Chater Road the other day. ly contradictory facts, the open-case again, what really matters tion is that of Communism and not ing of peace negotiations and most has somehow been left out! of Capitalism. The wrong is the Take, for example, that great same, in whatever name you com- Mr. Wang Ching-wei's continued presence in Nanking. It is just achievement of last century-Demo-mit it.
We have learned to sub- barely conceivable that the stitute government by consent for Premier has been influenced by government by force, political One last illustration. A friend school of thought which has power to-day, is diffused through was describing a service he attend-
Some fellowa favourite film the mases, not jealously preserved ed in Westminster Abbey, with all seems to be fl'm up agala! begun to flourish, which ad- as a monopoly by an individual or the pageantry that could be sum- vocates adherence to a Pan-Asia a class. The Chartists had their moned for the occasion clergy in
0 D policy, accepting for China, simple faith that auch measures as their robes and bishops with their
imanhood suffrage, payment of crosiers, censers laden with in-Two film stars in Hongkong. temporarily at least, the prin- members, and annual Parliaments cense and peals of organ-music. Edward Kelly doesn't begin to get ciple of a Japanese Monroe would enable us to slip quietly over One felt there was only one thing interested until there are three. Doctrine for the Far East. It into the Millenium, and our own wanting to complete the acene stars. would involve a sacrifice on the generation showed a similar en-What if a Man in a carpenter's part of Japan in that, to the eyes thusiasm when it went a-crusading jacket had slipped in at the back of the world, she would give up to make the world safe for demo- and looked wistfully on7 A great cracy. But something seems to deal of what passes among us for Manchuria. Actually, however, have gone wrong somewhere, demo- Christianity might find it difficult Alexander it would be a victory for Japan. cracy has not given us the trip to to answer the question. What has Stopani, beloved brother of Mrs. It would mean that China, osten- Utopia, travelling first-class, that all this in common with the Man Alive Maitland and Mrs. B. sibly controlling her own affairs, we had expected. We are begin-who walked in Galiles in poverty Gordon, died Hongkong. 20th
would become a protectorate of ning to see now that the people nineteen centuries ago?" May. 1933.
Japan. It would mean the final were given only the shadow of destruction of Western inquence. power, in the shape of the ballot- box and the party-struggle, while!
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There are many who believe that the substance of it foreign policy ON MARRIAGE.
this will be the ultimate outcome and economic power--was careful-
Hongkong Telegraph of the present imbroglio and ly
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1933,
NORTH CHINA PEACE RUMOURS
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kept from them. In a modern
there are a number who are society, to give the people power! actively working to this end. while leaving wealth in the hands LOCAL MISOGRAMIST
AIRS HIS VIEWS. It stretches our credulity to of a few and reserving internation- al relations for secret dealinga be- breaking point, however, to ac tween professional diplomats, Is cept any inference that Wang virtually to give them no power at. Ching-wei has become, so readi-all. ly, so easily, 2 convert, The explanation of Mr. Huang Fu's failure to disclose his plans in
Peking is more probably the absence of plans.
When Beauty Giggles
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
By A BACHELOR
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Bathing Note. It la inadvisable to swim immediately after a meal. Crawling back on all fours is so undignified.
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As far as this summer's bathing- costumes are concerned, we should say that brevity is the soul of kit.
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We understand that a certain popular officer who recently took up motoring made a great hit on the first day.
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It is a popular fallacy that no one you are away?" can know anything of marriage who vertisement in a London Or take the League of Nations has not tried it, and popular paper. Mont wives we know hate The failure of Huang Fu to
as another instance. In an official fallacies, like Charles II, have a way to admit that anyone does! clear up the mystery apparently
review of the League's work, pab of taking an unconscionable long associated with his arrival in
lished in 1930 under the title Ten time in dying-though without the Years of International Co-opera- Merry Monarch's saving grace' of Evolution of a Polled Call. Voice Peking has merely lent colour to
tion, it is pointed out that the apology for so doing. Bachelors from car: Please
Pul-icnse! POLICE!!! rumours that peace or armistice
League has to work under severe especially are singled out for the.... disabilities. It can take no action venom of the female of the apccles negotiations are
Interest in beauty is age-long except with the consent of its if they should have the hardihood tempts are made to show pre- and its normal attraction world-members, and that, it rightly urgea, not only to remain unwedded them- If the water shortage keeps up, but attempt to dissuado we'll have to label our bath tub Japanese proclivities in Huang wide, but, apparently, there are must needs be the case 'so long as selves Fu and Japan's interest in him those to whom it is only "skin the League exists on the basis of others who may be contemplating to know what's in it.
national sovereignty. But if there what is euphemistically known as a would seem to be suggested by deep." So with profound or is is one thing in the world which state of bliss from taking a step
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it merely comic conviction in can be singled out as the prime which, though not irrevocable, is
Wheeler and Woolsey were mob. it is juat this nevertheless attended almost im- thrown out in Washington and convention of International Beau- 'national sovereignty, this claim of mediately by consequences clearly bed in Hongkong. Edward Kelly, Shanghai. In effect, Jupan ty Shop Owners offers artifical the State to own no master. In discernible to those who, like my while sympathising-with the two. indicates willingness to call off aids to pulchritude. They would other words, the League proposes self, have not wholly lost the gentle film stars, wishes to point out that
to work for peace while preserving art of true perspective.,
the same thing happens to him the invasion of North China if deepen beauty, forsooth, by what it knows is bound sooner or Was it not Punch-himself per- at the beginning of every month China is prepared, on her side, adding 1-100,000th of an inch of later to make peace impossible! haps not altogether happlly named but he does not court puhlleity. to abandon the boycott and to composition lips or detachable Can a temperance society hope to or personally very prepossessing-
ព finger nails, or a paste to give succeed which leaves to its members who gave the advice "Don't!" to recognise Japan's hegemony in artificial sparkle to the eyes. the right to get drunk?
those about to enter the lists, if:
The committee of the newly- Manchurin. It seems clear, on Shakespeare must have had in
Russia to-day is trying to make indeed this expression may be used formed Australian Association in- the surface, that the future of thought the curious Inventive-a society of the common good in of a contest unfair from the start cludes two doctors. The Aussies. Manchuria forma the crux of ness of such feminine experts private role. She declares the armed? Funck's dictum is almost are taking no chances..
of the old society which aimed because the parties are not equally any peace discussions between when he declared that custom has demolished capitalism, but she axiomatical, yet his advice has been China and Japan and it seems could not "stale her infinite seems to have carried over into her consistently ignored. But this is variety." Ordinary persons, it new system great deal of what no new thing, and since the Dawn equally obviously that Huang might be supposed, have hither-was most injurious in it. One of of Time to the Greek Kalends, I Fu can achieve nothing unless to rested well content to possess the principal causes of the disaster suppose the Ideopraxist must con- he has authority from Chiang or contemplate a nose fashioned which has befallen capitalism is Kai-shek to sacrifice Manchuria in straight and shapely Grecian
in order to save Peking and mould. Nothing of the kind. Tientsin. That such authority Such silly notions are the mark has been given is difficult to bo- of poor plebeian taste. Fie upon the classic line of pure lieve. Mr. Wang Ching-wei is Hellenic cast. The saucy nose still in Nanking, is still virtually retroussé is what the really well- Prime Minister of China, and is bred woman henceforth must essentially a realist. He har- prefer in order to be in anything bours no delusion about the like the fashion,,declares one ability of the Chinese military to expert, and straightway fur- nishes them—at a hundred check the onrush of the Japan Hongkong dollars apiece. Less esc armies. He necepts the fact opulent members of the fair sex that resistance can only mean need not, bo discouraged. The the loss of further territory to expert thinks of their great the invader. But he is still deter-need, too, and is now at work on mined that, if he has any say a model of standardized design for department store Balc. in the matter, resistance shall Then, bobbed hair for business continue. He even deprecates women has seemed to many the frequent reports in the Chin- quite ornamental as well as ese papers of Imaginary suc- practical. Wrong again. When cesses. Fabricated "war news," the desk is closed and the last he says, not only sounds ridi-letter typed, the pretty feminine culous to China's enemies as well head, so these beauty fashioners maintain, lightly turns to. curls. as those who know the real And curls there shall be even if Įsituation, but also tend to build they have to be factory-mado
false hopes which almost in- and clustered cunningly inside. variably lead to disappointment. the brim of a hat as substitute What is needed, now is fewer for a woman's crowning glory. words and more careful and However. It is far from the pur- clear thinking. As we pointed Pose of this article to take the matter seriously. Modern wo- | out in a recent analysis of Wang men everywhere are too much Ching-wel's programme and occupied in doing what Chaucer! motives in the national crisis, his wrote so long ago,
And be ye wys, as ye ben fair to noe doctrines Incilno to sound the
our to fash themselves, as counsel of despair as regards
Scottish friends say, in matters Japan. But despair does not so puerile.
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"A steam shovel is okay for rough jobs, but they'll ne
vor match a man for the fine work."
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Next week's forecast.-Fair.
She was only Kelly's daughter, but she could say "The Very Iden!" ᄆ ᄆ
Two Chinese were bound over at the Central Magistracy this week for the theft of a mah Jongg set. Too bad, we could have given them the not next door.
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Motto for Repulse Bay, People who live in grass houses shouldn't throw midnight parties,
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There are many chitfalls for a young man in the Far East.
What a pity Z.B.W. cannot broadenst hot, weather. Some- body alac might pick it up.
"To Stamp Collectors. A useful hint for removing. stamps is to Boak them in paraffin or kerosene, touch them off with a match, and throw them out of the window. A. safer way is to put thom in the dustbin and the government will remove them for nothing..
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Some of those opium diváns aró dangerous. We once know a man who got married as the result of a divan.
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Woolsey has decided that he can not stay in Hongkong aftor day. We understand that the stock of cigars in the Colony nro running short.