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COMBATTING SMUGGLERS
Singapore nota A new fashion In employing aeroplanes to naslat the Monopolies in its unceasing fight against smugglera. It is n enterprise which should prove ex- tremely useful in Singapore
waters, where the illicit traße is
TO SUMCHUN
WHERE A GAMESTER IS ROYALLY
TREATED
By C. V.-L. for. the Telegraph
The Very Idea!
A FAST LIFE
By the Mahatma Kelly
WE agree with Gandhi, a
it.
fast is what you make
We often have a fast
our-
conducted in the main by the There is one unique, place on veteran at the game-you-under-self. It generally 'com-
arc
Why, the whole of our his- tory has been one fast after another. The Roman Empire fell because its rising degenera. the tlon led lives that were too fast.
crows of large ships, who dumpjected by Fortune, still finds him-lieves the world to have
the map where the Gamester, re-stand the type-a fellow who be- their contraband for out to senseif not without honour amongst specially created for his pleasure of the month and lasts until been mences towards the middle there to be picked up by small his fellow-beings; where, having and enjoyment, and places like waiting craft. The use of air- staked and lost all, he can still Sumchun for his especial exploita- payday. Then we get drunk turn to a little comfort and con- tion. He has perfected a "system" again until our pay runs out, craft in combatting them has rather romantic appeal, although solation, and, above all, be assured which, if it has not made him It is doubtful whether the crea-way home. That place is near provided him with a comfortable
of the means to wend his weary immensely wealthy, has at least and so on, ad nauseum. tion of a dawn patrol in Hongkong Hongkong, and you have probably income. The "system" having not would have any valuablę results. already anticipated the namo, yet let him down, he was found Our smuggling problems
Yet it was not so very long ago not averse to speaking well of the that Sumehun was quite obscure. parasitic organization straddling greater and different in nearly
If of any geographical importance, itself, so to speak, across every respect, and the more pro-It was owed solely to the incidence threshold of the Colony. saic launch patrol is probably the of the railway line connecting | most efficient, for our purposes, Hongkong and Canton passing | near it. It was even said to stand
But first he impressed on us at, or vory near, the dividing line of British and Chinese territorial the necessity of getting awny interests, and on that score also completely from the "moral" side boasted tho possession
of the matter. These cumbrous Customs station.
impediments we had discarded, as far as we could recollect, when on the point of crossing over to Chinese soil.
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The
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1933.
JAPAN, CHINA
AND RUSSIA
A permanent buying centre for overseas and home trade is being
of a
Otherwise Sumchun was, like any other Chinese country town in an agricultural district of South
China.
COSMOPOLIS.
Reassured, he took us into his confidence, and to the business side of Sumchun gambling.
Scientists aver that the very first life on our planet threatened to fast unto death. They were. a specic of jelly-fah called the Amoeba.
Although the Amoeba never ato things they have another claim to historical distinction because, the Arst Jazz song originated in the "Amoeba Worm, But I Love You Amoeba age. It Was called:
Just the Same."
plant life, and then animal life After the Amoeba age came the
"There are many more of them on other days," he began, with a comprehensive wave of his hand which took in the whole circle of engrossed players at the nearest
was invented by Mr. HG. Wella. table. usual types-this place has even
We have had many un- This
WAY followed by the
been honoured with the presencetlonal Mutual Life. Even at the Manufacturers' Life and the Na-
established in London, at Marble Arch, and will be called British Industries House. The premises are reserved exclusively for home
A NEW INTEREST. and overseas buyers and British Within the last few years a new manufacturers, and is not open to interest has been acquired for the the public. As one of the main old village. The subject is not objecta is to make it
the head-one to be pointed to by the Chinese citizen with any elvic pride, but quarters for buyers in London, on the other hand deserves atten- two floors have been set apart as tion because of a close association a club, with Interviewing rooms it has formed with Hongkong. of Latin-American Consula. And and office amenities. Buyers re- On the two expresses and other gistered there and manufacturers trains pulling out of the Kowloon terminus hundreds of Hongkong who are tenants are eligible for people go out to Sumchun-all free membership of the club. bound for that conglomeration of Stops are being taken to advise matsheds in Chinese territory with and invite buyers from home and the frontier. To call these strue
in a stone's throw of this side-of abroad to register at British Il-tures buildings will be to flattor dustries House, and to make it them highly, but they comprise their permanent headquarters in 2 Salcons, London.
A Theatre,
A kitchen,
Tokyo strains hard to create an impression that an early rap- prochement with China is in WATER SUPPLY
2 Houseboats, sight, but succeeds only in fur-
together with other appendages for ther rousing the suspicions of the Soviet. How much prospect yesterday that residents
The statement in the Telegraph one purpose or other, but all with-
out exception dedicated to there is of friendsihp between island of Hongkong had consum
the Goddess of Chance.. China and Japan at the presented 9,577 million gallons of water juncture it is difficult to esti in a week was a slight exaggera mate, although from the an-
on
scone
the
This was known as
lupsc.
If we may digress a littlo
of course, you know also the class present day we have the life in- that a place like this attracts surance agents who call around erring concubines and secondary every month. wives of rich merchants, people with plenty of time and money on twenty-one lapse equalling one their hands and seeking distraction, mile. for one and all being brought here, longer.
"No need to dilate on the reasons. since there obviously can be only one reason; and the people who run this place as you see it, are
Editar's note: You can't digress. prepared to meet the most serious | You're fasting, contingency Imposed on their
Eddie's note: Sorry. 1 capital resources.
(Astericks)
and of sure of return.
•
•
why
we don't. Boo Anyway, Gandhi should be the only one who should get his name In the paper every day, simply because ho decides to fast unto denth every now and then.
We have decided to make an. even more startling bid for fame
Plan To Die
the
A GENEROUS management. "Perhaps it can be better ap- preciated from the standpoint of a business monopoly, for which TOYING WITR CHANCE.
the gentlemen comprising the operating syndicate have paid ex- On one
particular day there pensively and for, which, not un- have been close, on 300 naturally, they expect some mea- nouncement that Mr. T. V. Soong tion, revealing that even, the most must of both sexes will not visit Tokyo may be in- expert proof-reader has his littic persons, ferred Nanking's, unwillingness failings. Thought upon the man- there. Which fact seemed to ments being the ephemereal things ourself. Any day now, you can
different nationalities gathered "But Chinese provincial govern- to give further scope for Jap- ner in which such a quantity make the general quietness and they are coma to-day and gone expect the following in upese propaganda. Meanwhile, could possibly be consumed would orderliness of the interior some to-morrow-these gentlemen have Telegraph: Russia looks with increasingly doubtless provide an interesting what unusual. A more animated had to adopt a long-sighted view anxiety, to the Far East, believ-speculation, but the water problem might have-been-expected, but the structional-undertakings and so Edward Kelly Announces Drastic
and livelier atmosphere and refrain from expensive con-
DRINK UNTO DEATH ing-that-Japan-is-turning her of the Colony has passed the stage only sounds audible were the you are asked to be content with eyes in a new direction. There where it can be made the subject steady click-click of the diees, the these sheds as they are. After all, will, of course, be no hostilities for light humour. In actual fact, whirr of the roulette wheels, and they have adequately fulfilled the over the Chinese Eastern Rail-nearly 36 million gallons of water the monotonous voice
GOVERNMENT PERTURBED way. Japan knows full well
of the purpose for which they are in- were consumed last week, crenting croupier na he called out the tended.
Edward Kelly has announced his where she holds the whip-hand record which the authorities numbers at the fan tan tables, "On the other hand I am sure |"drink to the death,” and rightly supposes that the have no desire to challenge. Un-the ther corner stirred into a very valuable time to noting these he will drink until he dies.
Occasionally, a group at this or you will spare a little of your From noon to-day, he has decided, Soviet is most unlikely to protect less heavy rains fall before the buzzing animation, but soon all little details so painstakingly her interests in the railway.
In announcing his intention, the True, in 1929 the Soviet Invad-end of September, the Colony was quiet again, as the business executed for your security, com Mahatma Kelly has demanded his full ed North Manchuria for that
must face the prospect of a re-proceeded on its monotonous and fort and enjoyment--the gendar-rights, including unlimited facilities very purpose. But on that petition of 1929, with four-perfunctory way. The tensely set, merle armed to the teeth, the for algning chils at the hotels. occasion it was the local Chinese hours' daily supply by Christmas, turned to faces, body strained leafy walks, and these two house-ment Is perturbed at Kelly's threat, and sometimes feverish, look re- Chineng rockwork scenery, the nice Although the Hongkong Govern- commander who tried to oust if we are lucky!
forward and eyes rivetted on the boats that never auil yonder on especially in view of the water Russian interests. This time it
little moving playthings of chance the stream that never flows, whore shortage in the Colony, a high official is Manchukuo, meaning Japan.
watching, painfully and intently you can dine and wine in comfort entertained that last minute efforts stated yesterday that hopes wore It would ill become the anti-
watching.
and at the expense of a generous to dissuade Kelly would be succoss- Imperialist Soviet to essay an
It was a relief to turn to some-management. invasion into foreign territory
"It must however, be distinctly We have no sympathy with the one for conversation, and distinct- to protect the last remnant of Free State Blue Shirt organisa- to whom we spoke was in a posi- for the position of an honoured ly fortunate that the frat person understood that in order to qualify
LATER.—Mrs. Kolly has been Tsarist imperialism. But this tion, while believing that General tion to give us the "inside dope" guest you must be prepared to allowed into the Hongkong Hotel so is a minor consideration compar- Mulcahy is not far from the truth on the business. He is an old (Continued on Page 5.)
that she can aco hor husband, who is ed with that of inviting a colli- in suggestion that the motive bo-
much drunker since he commenced his sion with militarised Japan.hind the ban concerns an impend-
fast. Following a touching rounion with his wife, Kelly is drinking oven In spite of the foodstuffs that
more heavily. the Soviet have buried all the ing general election. Were Mr. de way from Moscow to China, in
BLUE SHIRTS
Д
Valera sincere in his strictures
upon the military character of the National Front, he would also be compelled to prescribe the Irish Republican Army. But he dare not: Ho and his government, in fact, live in constant dread of the IR.A. The other day for instance,
officer in
the
spite of a well-equipped army quartered in Siberia, the Soviet's domestic circumstances aro too precarious to risk any brawl with Japan, a brawl that might have widespread repercussions at home. But, novertheles, no Muscovite regime could permit he officially denied, in the Dall, a any incursion across the Man- churian-Siberian border. This report that an would constitute in the eyes of Free State Army had drunk the the Kremlin a challenge to the King's health at a dinner. Why Soviet order of things. It would, should he go out of his way to arouse that neo-patriotism that, insult His Majesty, whose Minister Stalin, on the assumption that he is while the Free Stato remains world revolution is a will-o'-the-a Dominion? Simply because the wisp, has been at pains to in- I.R.A. would be on him if he did culcate. Whether Soviet Russin
not. would fare any botter against Japan in such circumstances
is a question for the military BRITAIN AND IRELAND strategists to decide. But the
danger of invasion, let alone a That is why the talk of re clash over the Chinese Eastern | conciliation, fostered by the inter-
| Raliway, is plainly evident from vántion of Dominion well-wishers, the report of Japanose air activ- was really futile, despite the fact Ity over Pogranichnaya, or that we permitted ourselves' to Sulfenho, as the Chinese call it hope for better things,, Mr. do This is the castern terminal of Valera is powerless to accept any the Chinese Eastern Railwayettlement of the Anglo-Irish dis- on the Manchuria-Siberian frontier. Japanese militarists puto which does not amount to a may feel that they have received, completo surrender by Groat carte blanche from the world by Britain. The solo hops of pance cheer default, But, if they do low in a new Fros State Góvarn- feel this, they are labouring ca- ment and that:)" Ukaly to be de- 'der a misapprehension/a
Bytor sometha voltarem
ful.
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STILL LATER-Kelly's condition is critical. He passed a restless night, during, which he drank six bottles of whiskey.
It is reported that buyers of Hongkong Browery Shares are offer- ing $1,000 each in Ice House Street, with no sollers. The brewery will commence two shifts, to-nights if Kelly survives.
MUCH LATER-Doctors are in at- tendance with Kelly, who feebly re- ports that the end is near." Last night he saw fifteen spotted snakes,
pink elephant, two sparring. oysters, and a bell-topper, lizard.
ano
STOP: PRESS
After ten days, during which he unflinchingly maintained his "Drink Unto Death" campaign Edward Kelly has signed the pledge.
Whon nowspaper reporters – were ushered into his room this morning, Mr. Kelly was softly singing hymns, A half, filled bøttle of bromo soliser lay on A 'tablo by his bedaldo... Mr. Kolly greeted his visitors weakly;
have broken my "Drink Unto Death' because I have schloved, my objective," he said. "In addition to the fact that I can no longer_nign_s" chit, I have converted all my fzlanda. They have at last become. Untouch- able"
Flush:--Kolly · victory signalised throughout. Calony" by widespread celebrations... Firozrackets F play
prominent part... Mr. J. Thagart, in celebration ovent, lights huge bonfire Fodder Street with t
thousands