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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1933.
"LEAGUE OF
NOTES OF THE DAY
The world hopes for a reduction of turiffs are rapidly disappearing. The key position is that of the
United States, and there the ocono-
mic omons do not look too favour- able. President Roosevelt, armed with exceptional powers, is em- barking upon great projects of economic ro-organization. Thoro are to be many more controls than before over the freedom of indus- trial enterprises. These may be good or bad, but all history sug- gests that their effect will be to raise the costs of American indus- trial production. And, that will make strongly for raising the tariff further, or at all events against lowering It.
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AMERICA'S KEY POSITION
Now just as the world slump began with the American slump, no it is probably true that the re- storation of the United States to
tobacco
economic health must condition the restoration of the world. But how can the United States become healthy again, until her regular exports-her cotton and and cereals and canned goods, not to mention her motor-cars and oil- stoves and cash-registers-can once more be exported freely at can they good prices? And how ever be, until foreign nations can pay freely for them in goods? And how can payment in goods be made unless the American tariff comes down?
ENTANGLEMENTS
them with him Unfortunately, na we have just indicated. there is much danger of his preventing himself. The whole problem is so tangled, wheels within wheels, that it is difficult for him to gratify popular demand at one point with- out finding that he has blocked progress at others.
MARTIANS ANNIHILATED?
HOUSE OF DETENTION The Very Idea!
IS NOTHING BUT A GAOL
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STARTLING DISCLOSURES OF HONGKONG “POOR HOUSE”
In this startling expose of condi- tions and treatment in the Hongkong House of Defention, an inmate describes his experiences of a week- end spent in the Institution.
(Contributed)
MANY is the time you
have read in your morning paper that another Briton has reached the end of his resources, and has been committed to the House of Detention.
How many of Hongkong British residents give this a second thought? Not one in a hundred, I warrant.
I will explain here that the cloth- ing worn by the destitutes is the same as that worn by prisoners with the exception that there iê no "broad arrow" stamped on them.
I nin
RUNNING OUR HEAD
INTO A NEWS
By Ed. Kelly, Sob, Sister
And pity that poor reporter, As on the floor te lay, For the last he heard, Were the Great man's words. "I have nothing at all to say."
WITH apologies to 0. Henry, or Kipling, or whoever it was wrote it.
All of which prompts the question "Do newspaper re- porters eat their young?"
And if not, should they be told the facts of life?_
Yesterday afternoon, after Having changed into this clothing that interview with the LG.P. "D" Hanted to what is known as we decided to set the Editor's Hall In this Hall are housed mind at rest by interviewing European
prisoners, destitutes and
all the other great men of Hong- Why a man who is down and on kong on the subject. his luck should be housed with the
regular prisoners is quito beyond all Our first victim was none other
comprehension.
Having arrived in "D" Hall I am conducted to a cell and told to enter, which I do, and the door is locked. The cell is exactly the same as that jof a criminal, being seven feet long by Ave feet wide, and extremely hot and stuffy.
FURNITURE AND EFFECTS.
than the celebrated Mr. Edward Kelly, well-known journalist and man about town.
"Should reporters be told the facts of life?" he mused in suewer to our question, "Yes, I think so!
In the following article I will endeavour to explain to you in
Frankness will never hurt anyone, simple language what actually
and they should be warned of the happens to a man after he has given himself up. First of all
lurking dangers of the Far East. The furniture consists of one steel How many reporters, unsophisticat he is questioned by the Police bed with mattress nd cover. one ed and just out from Home, have authorities with regard to his pillow and sheet, a marked with ruined their whole length of residence in the Co-"broad arrows", and the word "through ignorance. They should career simply lony, the positions he has held, soner" stamped on them in bold black not be allowed to go and Interview
Other articles in the coll. are and the reasons for losing same. one tin mug for drinking purposes, senior Government officials without These questions answered to the one bowl for washing, and another a hint of the danger that lies before satisfaction of the Police he is tin receptiele with cover used as a searched, and the following articles of commode. This is emptied once every wearing apparel are taken from him 24 hours. and locked up; braces, belt, shoes, laces, necktie, studs and cuff-links. to go this precaution is taken against the possibility of
I
BED FULL OF BUGS.
The room is furnished with
beds, a table and chair.
letters.
Readers, you cannot imagino what it is like in this hot and sultry weather, to sleep in the confines of 7 by 5 feet, with night soil close by your bed, the only ventilation being a steel grating too high un in the wall to be of much benefit to the inmate. It in
them."
We bowed to Mr. Kelly and left to collect other opinions. Horo are a few of them:
Mr. Woof-Woof: "Deoldoly moti It is a dangerous precedent to tell newspaper reporters too much. Why, I have known them to actually publish in now 11.30 in the forenoon. A day. Police don't ask me any further
things I have told them before to prisoner accompanied by the European questions now. I am too PC."
arrives. I am handed a steaming hot mug of cocoa and half
A. R.
*R._W*ll**g€*n, Director of
at
warder
two
Dr.
a pound of bread and told "There is the Medical Services: "Many news- something to be going on with." paper reporters have been rained for At 3 o'clock in the afternoon cells life by being told too much. When I On the occasion of which I am are unlocked. All destitutes who know that my patient is connected writing there were three occupants have not obtained permission to go out with a newspaper, I tell him nothing. of this room; however, this made to town for the allotted hours, namely Old fashioned remedies are the best. very little difference as regards who would sleep on the two beds, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., are allowed half an Where newspaper We all decided to sleep on the the recepten room, one end of which newspaper reporter should be fully They are lined up and marched over to The Ifen. Dr. K'iew'll: Every
the mattresses being full of bugs our for smoking; not in the call,cerned I am a elviors are con-'
floor.
KAYO
פות
That is, with the Debt question, the crux of the economic situation. One may assume that it is not hid- BRITISH WHITES"
den from Mr. Roosevelt. But there committing suicide. As it is mostly is daily evidence that it is ignor-late in the day when men give them- Not while local Britons stilled by masses of his fellow-country-selves up, they invariably spend one retain the gift of laughter is men, and we must do nothing that night in the side room." This is a
room set aside for this purpose Major Cassel likely to make would prevent him from carrying Police Headquarters. headway in the organisation of his so-called League of British Whites. Mumbo-jumbo and the secret society atmosphere may meet with
some response in large boys who will never grow up and there is much in the astonishing outline of Major Cassel's aims and objectives which might commend itself to the immature. But we trust and believe that Hongkong is definitely the wrong place in From the report of the which to attempt to implant the astronomere working in the narrow aggressive type of Mount Wilson Observatory, re- Nationalism which the promoter garding the small percentage of oxygen contained in the atmos- of the organisation preaches, phere of Mare, the conclusion has For this reason, the project been drawn that life cannot exist acarcely warrants the compli- on
roply was "Yes, later on." this nearest of planetary ment of serious treatment.
But I was told by the same police
The President of the Ladies Boction bodles. Thus by a single stroke officer that the Government were not
of the Hongkong Golf Club: "All There are, however, features of are we earthbound mortals de prepared to spend any money on PABS- Arriving back in the cell the last Bunkerum! Of course, they should the programme warranting prived of a sense of intimacy that ages for destitutes; this being con meal of the day is served. This be told. Let us treat them the fair- brief examination in view of has grown up between us and our firmed by the fact that only two
consists of a mag of cocoa and a way. They've got to earn their certain statements made in the henceforth will cease to exist, even
Martian neighbours. Martians weeks since ona Australian and one
half a pound of bread. On Sun- bread and putter, and they're only Canadian were put aboard a certain course of the published inter- in the imagination. No longer the trip home, this after the two all cells are doubly locked for the
days cheese is added to the "menu" doing their dutee," steamer to work as "mess boys" on
Five o'clock is locking up time when can we draw our conclusions re
en toen concerned had spent tror night, not to be opened again on any gentlemen fron
pretext until Ca.m. the following SAME CLOTHING AS PRISONERS. morning. All lights are extinguished
at 8 o'clock,
The After being committed; I was taken
aro Tocked in their cells
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Smoking is prohibited but a friendly is fenced off with steel bars, and it is in this "cago" where the destituto oficer of L10 law cigarettes, and I smoked them. The must sit and smoke if he is fortunate following morning I was taken bofore enough to have anything to smolce, the Magistrato and charged as
SUNDAY'S "MENU". vagrant, and committed to the House. of Detention:
"The allotted half an hour ́ls ̄up,you' The Magistrate inquired of the pro- are searched, and new arrivals warned secuting officer if there any that if they are caught trying to chance of me being sent Home. The smuggle any cigarettes etc., into their
cell their leave will be stopped, and second attempt will mean a period on
bread and water."
TDA
aware of the risks he has to take. The shameful secrecies, half-hints and voiled allusions of the Victorian cra should be ruthlessly swept away. Let us be frank and fearless. You can news this statement as you think -St.--
Mr. H. T. ("Hot Time") Br**ka Superintendent of the Fire Brigade: "Newspapermen should not play with fre, otherwise they will be burnt."
Mr. L. S. Green ill, Secretary of the
Hongkong Cricket Club:
"Is that cricket? The least the line the botter. When I was a young
newspaper reporters know about body
view.
"We believe that the Royal Family garding the frivolities of mankind should be held in such respect that by comparison with visitors from the prestige of the monarchy is because the astronomers maintained. Wo aro unswerving supporters of the monarchy since it say there is too little oxygen there Is the one element in the present
to support life. But this conclusion system of government that reallees is based upon the theory that Gaol, again questioned and searched, for the
to the "Reception Room' of Victosin the destituting Jay, being Saturday, line
Mrs. Edward Kelly: "Hrrrumphl
to Sunday and holidays; If you'd stay at home and mind the
the Fascist ideal of "Government | existence is limited to creatures the same articles of wearing apparel samo per part of the day. Thei
above party, class or section."
for
movement. The
are-
up.
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more good for yourself." ·
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We having a similar physical structure taken from me, and handed a suit of no permission is granted for leave on baby, you shiftless, worthless, good- should consider ourselves justified to that of inhabitants of the carth, khaki clothing and a shirt all several these days, as I found out to my for-nothing, loafing fool, you'd do in paing force against any patriotic
un and, consequently, they must sizes too small for mo. Into these regret Inter. reason similarly sustained by
(this meal WOB Brenkast over I had to change, and my own clothing the existenco
a proper of our or-
I handed to the warder to be locked exactly the same as the two previous ganisation is to
xygen content of the atmosphere, uphold
(Continued on Page 9.) the monarchy against all subversive Is this a fair conclusion? May movements and to bring about
not other forms of life exist, oven form in our system of government. We as far advanced in the scale of hold that the present system of existence as we bellove humans to government needs
reforming because be, forms that would thrive upon it is failing to maintain the greatness even i per cent of oxygen, or upon and the happiness of the British none at all? Such Д conclusion people. Our attitude towards the denies the possibility that life may non-British sections of the Empire's find expression except under the population is that the interests of the highly restricted conditions which British nation come first and
the
other Empire peoples should have surround earth denizens.
rights proportionate to their loyalty
and usefulness to the British nation."
This reads amazingly like a BEROLINA resume of the gallant Major's announcements, but is nothing
of the kind. It consists of an Alexanderplatz, Berlin has a sculp
In the "Berolina" statue of the extract from the officially tural work of art no less errant authorised statement of policy than has been the equally famous of the British Fascists. Yet "Eros" of Piccadilly Circus in Major Cassel declares that the London. Eros, after fong absonce, League of British Whites is is back in bla place. Berolina is "most certainly not" to be run still in her boudoir in a Berlla on Fascist or Nazi lines. Again, suburb making preparations to re- we may ask, what is this paltry sume once more her fashionable glorification of the "White
sway. It is six years since a huge Briton" but a translation of with her in the dead of night from lorry, ten metres in length, eloped. Herr Hitler's cult of the super- the Alexanderplatz, A similarly humanity of tho Nordle Race? ponderous chariot has been. char- Everyone will sympathise with tered for her nocturnal return, for properly conducted efforts to Berolina is no ordinary dame. find jobs for unemployed Sho is many times life-size and of Britons and fow would uphold such magnificent build that only when trame is at its lowest can Hongkong's governmental sY8", tem as ideal. But Fasciam enough space be found in the merely means the substitution Eros is an elf beside Berolina. streets for her procession to pass, of a benevolent typo of auto- But his absence from his post was cracy by something far more from a similar cause. The reason alarming-If Fascism and in both case has been the pro- puerile spirit of nationaliam is longed but now completed under the alternative, we have no ground railway excavations where howltation in our choice they stood,
“The „užs" đôg thinks I'm the big.
another hitch-hikers:
THAT HONGKONG BEER
We are grievously disappointed. We got all hot and bothered this morning, looking forward to the.. official opening of the Hongkong Browery this afternoon, when wo suddenly discovered that it isn't. until next Wednesday.
We felt so sick with disappoint- ment that we had to drink a glass of water.
ANOTHER DICTATORSHIP
Are you falling to get your fair share of other people's money?" Have you onemles that you can't got even with? Do you blow the froth off your beer before you drink
It?
Then join the Kelly Night Shirts, with which are amalgamated the Stool Helmates and Storm - Troil- pors.
Face the Factsista! This moans. "YOU!
The Night Shirts stand for the Immediate abolition of Shroff's and Small Debt courts, also twelve o'clock closing of Cabarots and the, socialisation of beer.
Completo control of the Colony will be taken over by Major Cassol and Edward Kolly, - assisted, by Commissars chosen from, Night Shirters Commissars will · · · bo [ allowed to tack a K on to their night-
shirts, NEZ
Join up at once. "Remember, a night shirt is more comfortable': than -Shroud, and blood is stickler thank water is Nibbles yo