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NOTES OF THE DAY NOISES I WOULD LIKE TO The Very Idea!
FAR EAST CRISIS
The situation in the Far East is of more Immediate concern than the crisis in Europe. Trouble may he brewing In the West but there
SEE STOPPED
A. P. HERBERT
DREADFUL cat has been lotzmower, the charming prattle of
is plenty of time in which to dis- A. out of the bag, a man who children (o dear!), the blackmith's
CRUSH
CONGRATULATIONS
By Eddie "Bhakespeare“ Kelly, Barred.. THEN we arrived in the
Wolice on Saturday the
first thing that caught our eye was the disorder in the general office on the ground floor.
cover ways to restore confidence. There is not a moment to spare if makes silencers for motor-cars has hammer (Golly), the lowing hord conflict is to be avoided over the revealed that the young people who (Mercy), the "crack" of the rifle, about in high-powered the "ery" of the hound, the beat Chinese Eastern Railway. Tho drive outlook is none-the less ominous be "sports" cars buy fewer and fewer of the drum the wind in the trees, the intervals between the silencers: they demand "partial" the bleating of lambs, the plash of barking of the dogs over this bone silencers and prefer no silencer at fountains....
Yes, there is no doubt that wo
Then, when we reached of contention have become wider.all-for the "crackle" of the ex- It calls, rather, for a keener watch.haust makes them think they are do like noise.
If one of those electric drills our desk, we found the rea- Events have been moving rapidly upeed kings, and they love it.
came to my street I should omig son. We'd forgotten all towards the stage where vocal They enjoy noise.
All of us complain that there is rate, but crowds of people stand about our birthday outbursts cease to have value or influence. And nefther Soviet too much noise; yet most of us round and enjoy them, and my hoy Russia nor Japan have been slow must confess that there are noises would rather have ten minutes of nouncement on Friday. to realise It. With, tension clearly we enjoy, and if all noises were an electric drill than ten minutes After about three hours on the vorgo of breaking-point, we miraculously eliminated the world of Caruso. look in vain for any means by which would certainly be a dismal place. It may he cased off without causing Half the fun of Ningara Is an upheaval. On the contrary noise, circumstantial accounts of military preparations are frequent, further electrifying the atmosphere.
HOW SOON?
We are prepared to believe that both Soviet Russia and Japan would welcome an opportunity to
Its
The question is: What noises are redundant? And the answer is: The other fellow's nolcon.
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For all I know there may be We were able to sort the of congratulatory those who enjoy a good sult, or flood the crackling of chocolate-paper at cables, letters and chits into a matinee, or the man who goes to some semblance of order. a first night with a cough as re- gular as a pumping engine, or the ship's siren in a fog.
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We have picked out a dozen or
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1 love the sound of church bells Then, of course, the Voice of Roating across the Sussex Downe the Beloved is generally supposed
Mr. J. H. Taggart, Managing about cocktail-time. But i cannot to be a good thing. But put thirty bear the church bells at 7 a.m. women together in a room at a Director of the Hongkong and though they are a delight to many. cocktail
party--all somebody's Shanghul Hotels Ltd., enthusins- I love most of the characteristic Beloveds-nid I would willinglytically wrote as follows: Mr, E. draw back if it could be done with sounds of the water traille--the swap them for an electric drill. Kelly, Hongkong Telegraph:
Sir-The announcement in Friday's out loss of prestige. That is the
Issue of the Telegraph that you con- essence of the crisis. Eliminate steady elinkety clink of a sailing,
bargo's windlass getting up the nn- Nearly all the material things colved the Very Iden twelve months the question of national honour and chor in the early inorning, the rat which distinguish this age from the ago reminds us that your account a compromise might be possible. But can it be eliminated? Japan the of the blocks as the tops'l goes last are things which make or with our Company is overdue for (or Manchukuo: It is much the up, the far-off tuiter-tutter of a communicate more noise than there like period. We would appreciate an same thing) is heavily committed power-boat on the canal, the metal was before the telephone, the immediate sellement. Yours patient- to drastic curtailment of the rights lic clatter of the locks as the boat-talkies, the gramophone, the wire-ly
tho acroplane, the men drop the "paddles," the roar less the car,
But wait till you road this cablo of control exercised in the railway of water as the lock begins to all; ateam-plough, the motor-lorry, the COLÉAL the Matilda Hospital on by the Soviet. Any modification even the sometimes unnecessarily typewriter, the high explosive, the we got from London
KELLY HONGKONG.-LONDON of this policy would be interpreted noisy noise of a tug's or steamer's saxophone, extension lectures, cock-
YOU CELE- a Soviet triumph and the
BRATE FIRST ANNIVERSARY international conferences. AD STOP BRITISH GOVERNMENT Japanese General Staff are in no siren booming in the heart of Lon-tail parties, restaurant bands, and PRESS REPORTS mood for such an interpretation.
alarming list. No wonder the LOOKS TO YOU TO KEEP GOING Russia's position is vastly different.
world grows madder. Japan has been encroaching upon her preserves to an entent which
DEATH.
October 16, 1983; after A long iliness, WALTER WILLIAM COLE, dearly beloved husband of FLORRIE COLE. Funeral will POPS the Monument, Happy Valley, at 5 p.m. to-day.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1933,
GERMANY'S
BLUNDER
must seem to Moscow to demand the calling of a halt. She calls it before it involves defence of her own territories. The alternative
don.
But on land the noise of vehicles a odious to nic. Motor-horns mid den me; I loathe loud exhausts, the rumbling lorry, the crunching gears, the engine blowing off
attam.
And now they want to bust the Atom-good and hard!
What is the most precious of our political liberties? Free speech, which means free political speech
STOP PLEASE GO EASY ON DISARMAMENT STOP LOOK FOR YOUR NAME IN NEXT NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST STOP RAMSAY MACDONALD.
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Another cable speaks for it- self:
EDWARD KELLY HONGKONG.
I like. I think, the sound of a the dreariest form of noise there is to slink away and submit to horse's hoofs, but not ita noigh or is. But some love it. Very soon every dictate of Japan's Empire-whinny, or whatever it is. And on we shall be talking of our inalien- CONGRATULATIONS MAY I HAVE builders, to sacrifice any intiuenca cobblestones cartwheels remaining to her in the East.
To the rest of his topsy-turvy achievements in the foreign field, Herr Hitler has added the colossal blunder of withdrawal from the League of Nations and THE BUS WAR from the Disarmament Confer-
ADEQUATE WARNING
agony.
are
nnable right to make a noise.
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. Well, I alt up till one in the morning after-dinner speeches: now ing working. But if I then go out there are loud-speakers all over the in the street and whistle joyously, room. We can't enjoy our food in I shall get, at least, nasty letters,
YOUR
AUTOGRAPH-GEORGE
BERNARD, SHAW.
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Radio from America:
If the situation is thus correctly My neighbours dislike me if I The noisy bather is one of my analysed there remains little more stay up late and sing.. I dislike bug-bears. The moment he is in But we regret to say that all the and letters have not to be said. For either party, it is them if they get up early and the water he has to shout and cables give way or fight. Only one ques-whistle joyously in the street. scream. The happy lads of Ham-been congratulatory. For instance, tion remains, How soon?
Other people's strumming on the mersmith are a sore trial to me Major Cassel wrote us as follows: Dear Edward Kelly-In the last piano can be tiresome, but how I some summer days. But when iny enjoy my own!
son goes in the river he is just issue of the Critic I inadvertedly The poots and others love the as bad, except that I cin stop him. wrote in account of your death. A young couple glide up in a Please accept my apologies. I am The Colony's own little war, the morning anthem of the birds: so ence. It might have been an community v. the bus services, is should I if I could sleep through It. punt very much in love. They sorry this is not correct. occasion for the gravest anxiety; also making progress. Residenta Some are enraged by the even come to a quiet corner of the river. it still provides a situation de-of Kowloon Tong have summoned song of alcoholic revellers. I much They have the whole world to them. There is rage as well as terror in manding the highest qualities in the Kowloon Bus Company with the prefer that to the morning noises eclves and the whole of life to disa cabled appeal we received from world statesmen; but the worst result that fines have been imposed of the worthy milkman, bringing cuss. And they go and turn on the Herr Hitler, of Germany:
to mothers and gramophone because they would. You will be satisfied now. Have danger-has-already been sur-There would be more of such pro-life and health
feul embarrassed without it stood your sarcasm long enough, mounted. The solidarity of the secutions if private individuals had babies.
He, too, is one of these hearty The jazz bands we like best are but last article was last straw stop, English-speaking, peoples has the time to spare to make appear-
whistlers at 5 or 6 o'clock in the undoubtedly those which make most Entirely your fault Germany has been stated as plainly as it could ances in Court.
morning, Nobody says anything, noise. We used to have nice quiet resigned from League. Comma. be, forming with France and
because he is bringing milk; and cinemas; but then they brought in Artictes gravely injuring prestige. Italy a powerful combination for
self, wife, family step Arc't there because he is up early and working music and afterwards "gound." he thinks he is entitled to whistle the preservation of peace. The
people in Hongkong you can attack. United States stands firmly
We used to be able to sleep dur- Stop Why plek on me? Stop. The present is hardly the proper and wake me up. with its Great War allies in time to harass the bus companies. opposition to Germany's re- An adequate warning has been armament and Herr Hitler's given. No immediate improve bluff, if bluff it was, has been ment can fairly be expected and called. As a dramatic gesture, spate of prosecutions because an
Milk leads to ten.. The literary A. theatre audience must never NG YOUR ARTICLE ON DE it has an effect, but bombshell example has bean set would savour has missed its main mark. Like of vindictiveness. If observation men write lovingly of the kettlebe left in silence for an instant MILLE AND ASSES MILK STOP reveals anything, the Monopolists singing in the hob. An elderly between scenes; the band must HAVE YOU NO BOWELS OF COM- so many other actions designed have enough serious problems, on Indy has told me that the noise that play from curtain-fall to curtain- PASSION? STOP-ROOSEVELT. by the Nazi leader to further their hands without being subject- maddens her, most is a singing rise; and if the music runs out they Germany's aims, the result has cd to what could easily become, in kettle. She would rather sit in the must play the same place again. merely been to consolidate | the circumstances, persecution. The middle of a brass band. Where are the powers of resistance, to fact is, or seems to be, that the com- wo? bring them more closely to- panies at the moment could not But poots and literary men are gether. Instead of plucatory live up to the terms of the Con- always praising nolaes-the.click! appeals, which it is fair to sus tract if they tried. The publie of bat on ball, the school, lawn- pect were anticipated in Berlin, must bear with them for a while. the United States, Britain and More damage, wear and tear, has France, with Italy hardly less been done to the vehicles in service during the four months of the new strong in support, find them-Franchise than in twelve months selves in a clearer atmosphere, of ordinary handling. But the knowing exactly what they have companies ecem to possess neither to face and prepared to meet cflcient drivers or an adequate it. Herr Hitler, in announcing technical stuff. Experience sug- the decision, made a moderate-gests that if the Inexperienced ly toned speech contrasting drivers employed feel that an en- astonishingly with the futility gine is not behaving properly. they' and tragedy of the action in-run it to standstill and, accontuate spiring it, urging a claim to a the trouble.
sincere desire for peace. to
justify an action which is bound THE REMEDIES toeramp the resources of
the
practical statesmanship, in the Only a radical reorganisation cari. quest for a solution of Europe's set things right. The causes of problems. Instead of assisting. complaint will not respond to patch- Nothing could show more clearly work. We doubt if it is at all pos- shortness of the Nazi sible to bring the various services vision. For if the complete up to the required standard with severance of relations without the importation of a foot of new buses to be employed in con- Goneva is not an example of Junction with the beat of the old. the childish petulance of the This is true of both sides of the frustrated, then Germany's pro- | harbour, although it refers parti- testations are insincere and pro- cularly to Kowloon. After that, hibition of re-armament in any unless the servico is to degenerate form becomes the more essential once again, it will be necessary to in the interests of pence. As ensure that the drivers employed to the immediate future, there are capable of handling the vehic scems little that can be done. les without tearing their "Innards" The Disarmament Conference is to pieces. These things cannat effectively torpedoed; an effort appear in a moment; the public can only expect, for some time," must be made to prevent it from that the companies will do their going under completely, to beat with their present equipment. preserve at least the shell until And one contribution to happler reason is restored. Time is conditions would be action to con likely to prove the molt succes8 vince employees that discourtesy ful healer, provided Germany and slackness are not part and does not cut loose in other parcel of the elimination of com-
petition directions,
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FOR PITY'S SAKE DROP HE NATIONAL RE COVERY STOP MOVIE PEOPLE THREATENING STRIKE FOLLOW.
a restaurant unless a band is play-FERENCES Ing or somebody sings.
Now we have to have wireless in our cars leat silence, like a pestilen co, should fall upon the roads.
I know an artist who works all
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elting & orlons. Her parents have start
ing me over."
Cable froni President Daladier:
Belle France unflinchingly faces bardar enemies and will insist on rights Geneva, but we cannot hope success if you antagonistic stop Sending
gross Croiz dea Guerres three grosa Medailles Militaires for distribution amongst your friends. Stop. Be merciful · de strony.
one
And from Australia:
Australian Board Control deplores continual references bodyline fillatop Bradman threatens not play nexH season if you continue make fun of hia stop Why not pick on Larwood stop Posting full details his history career for your information.
There are several other letters we could print, but the Editor won't let us. He says the Telegraph is
a respectable newspaper.
"VENGEANCE IS MINE".
The girl ran her slender fingers up and down the lapels of his dinner Jacket.
"You must go now," she sighed, "before my husband, returns."
She swing round suddenly,
"Hell!" she gasped. "He's coming
now."
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Ralph Lurned pale,
"1ic will find us. He will guess everything," he muttered distractedly,
The footstep camo nearer,
"Quick! Quick!You must hide," eho urged frantically.
But It was too late, The doorway' framed a vengeful figure, automalle in hand.
The automatic spoke,
Thud
crimson stream widened into n
hool beneath the still form which had
boen Ralph Grayson
"Golf You've killed lilin,” „ gasped, weakly,
Joan
Her sint figure slumped, crampled, and sild, in a senseless, heap, to the carpet
Peanuts or tollles!" walled plaintive valce, os the lights went up.