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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933..
NOTES OF THE DAY
SOUTH CHINA BOYCOTT
First in Shatow, then in Canton and now in Amoy have small In- cidents occurred in which Japanese have been concerned. Is it just coincidence or is the warn-
WHY WE QUARREL
By E. L. ALLEN
BULLS AND INNERS
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From the Office Butts Have you Sontor Service?
TERE we not told last suaded by a friend to go to a ser- W
century on unimpeach-vico, and no he comes out of it, he
: le heard, growling 'Why don't they ing dropped by the Japanesonable authority that every stick to the good old hymns?"! little while ago that they did not body is born into this world infond to tolerate the boycott in South Chinn very much longer be
either a little Liberal or a
FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE.
We overheard a well-known talpan remark "I cannot wake up until nine o'clock on Sundays, howovor. hard I try." Cause for alarm!
A
London welter states that
All the same, the difference is ing repeated, still subtly but a little Conservative'?
real and is fundamental,' In fact, | little more clearly? In Canton, Korean is arrested in Chinese
A great deal of water has it le quite possible that the differ- territory. In Bwatow, a raid la made on the anti-Japanese boycott flowed since then under the ence between these two types of organisation'e promises. In Amoy, political bridge, and Liberalism minda is more important than that a merchant refuses to pay the rice has suffered its eclipses and its between Asiatle and European, for picking pockets is an art. We oxample. Bring a man of the always said that Hongkong's light- tax and the Japanese consul de- manda the release of the consign-sea-changes, so that we should | :tability-typo and one of the pro: fingered gentry have an eye for mont. Without making a show of have to find a substitute for it if gress-type together, and you will booty! force, Japanese officials concerned we wanted to bring the lines up find that they simply cannot under-
in these incidents calmly insist on their point of view, leaving Chinese offklaidom to assume that Japan is prepared to back them up should tha necessity arise.
CANTON TAKES NOTICE
Canton seems to be under no illusion regarding the real meaning of the developments and while not disposed to give way all along the line, has ordered an ond to anti- Japanese propaganda. 'This is tantamount to discouragement of the boycott for once the activities of the so-called patriotic socletics are checked, the boycott will simply collapse. This is South China being brought into line with the North.
We-should hate to be a tennis.
to date. But the antithesis re-stand one another. They do not malna nevertheless. There is a really talk the same language, for dividing-line which runs through though they use the words, those umpire. He is always looking and across the more obvious words have entirely different down on other people's faults. divisions of nation, creed, and so meanings. One man speaks, for
口 D on, and which soparates usxample, of 'society, and means by
Without doubt, the "Eagle" will t soulless mechanlam. They are, according to something, we both determined to do their duty, erne a name for itself in Hong- brought into the world.
It la most appropriate that our
ut 'duty" means for one helping | kong. One might imagine that before is fellows along the road of life; we came on this earth, we had to or the other following one's con- pass in single file before a hat and selence whatever suffering it may leading highbrow should live on draw out each one a silp of paper cause to oneself or others. How from it. Some of those slips have can they agree? Probably, find the brow of the hill, the word 'Stability' written ontlon breaking down, they resort to ing all other means of communica-
them and others the word Pro-abuse, and one man tells the other
ous pernon!
"Homo"-As far as we know,
口
In Shanghal and In Peking, trade gress', and the lot we draw deter that he is a die-hard, a Tory, a nudists do not object to kneo-caps. relations are already restored to mines the kind of person we are stick-in-the-mud, and the other normal, in Shantung, there never
fair retaliates by telling his opponent to be. Usually there is a has been any boycott and in Cen-assortment of the two types, with that he is a Bolebic and a danger-
The gentleman who, in the Club tral China, tho boycott organisa-
bar a preponderance of the Stability' Elons have been gradually suppresВ-
the other night, romarkod When we come to that point and ed. Japan's trade passing through ones, so as to make sure that the Shanghai has increased by more world does not go ahead too fast. And that we are up against each that he would like to become a than a hundred per cent. since But there are times when the mix other, then is the time to remem- nubile speaker, but didn't know
ber that the real ronson why wo June. A sharp rise in the figures for South China is to be expecteding seems to have been done rather are quarrelling is not that one of how to start, will pardon us advis. soon, unless Canton makes
unsatisfactorily, and then we get, us is right and the other wrong, ing him"Ladles and 'gontle- stronger show of fight than is now in one case, a generation which is but that we belong to these two being exhibited.
dull as dieh-water, and in. the different types! other, one which is as lively. and. DISARMAMENT
vigorous as a typhoon.
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WHAT WORLD NEEDS.
men.
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Tonm of English women
As a matter of fact, the world cricketers may visit Australia this needs both Liberal and Conserva-
It la Transit Gloria Mundi.
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IN BRITAIN Reports of business conditions in England continue to be re-
The disarmament issue has been Assuring. The improvement is
NO PERFECT SPECIMEN. leas noticeable in the North than shelved for five weeks and when
tive, or whatever we like to call year. More leg theory threatened. the delegates are called together
We are constantly mosting this them, and Britain has succeeded
២. in the South; but it is gradually again will probably be re-shelved difference between the man who more than other nations in the Kowloon Motor spreading through the country Britain urges that the delegations as a whole and there are good should not be distracted by the wants to stand still and keep what modern world because she has al- grounds for expecting that the German withdrawal and should he has got and the man who is ways been aware of this. forward progress will continuo.
on with their work. But that eager to push ahead and get some equally bad for a society to stay The re-employment of men in means guarantees and asstirances thing better. When a general where it la till it rots and to move ao rapidly that it. in jolted to
Writer says that the modern thousands is one of the de-regarding Germany's behaviour election is held, one leader appeals pieces! Jacob must stay at home termining factors. As larger and those will not be forthcoming to the country with the slogan of and look after the flocks while Pyjamas aren't as modest as those
in five weeks, nor probably Ave sections of the community get months. As the cynic has it, dis-Safety First', while another cries Esau goes out to hunt and secure of 40 years ago. But that was in more money to spend, so will
armament is becoming a standing fresh employment be created. dish; we shall be discussing it It is a distinct reversal of the nitor the next war. process operating up to twelve months ago. If we examine the position closely, we shall see
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HITLER'S CHALLENGE
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Europe will never be free from war-fever until they get the Germ
In change of dist for them both, something must be done!' and pro-There are the troops whose job it Eighteen Nightie Three. poses a vant scheme of State ex in to hold the line and those who ponditure to restore prosperity.go past them to turn the enemy In religion, one man is born a out. If a country is to be opened Muggletonian, lives a Muggleton-up, some people must settle down, Hitler challenges the world to lan, and dies a Muggletonian; his build towns and till fields, while givences. It is a safe enough Swedenborglan, becomes an Anglo-car socialy a co-operative arrange If we were wise, we should have cbenge while the Nazi Chancellor Catholic at boarding-school and ment, under which one man would does not explain what he means by a Unitarian at the University, and keep his foot on the plank to hold not a leader but a referes. aggressiveness. The proof of the
an it steady, while the other took a
that such progress as there has bring proofs, of German aggres-next-door neighbour is born alothers trek on into the interior, out of Germany.
pudding is in the eating and what after a period in orders. as those immediately concerned think Evangelical, he passes over finally glorious plunge off the other end. about the situation and the likelito, Rome! hood of Germany's policy leading
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What China needs these days in
A newly-married film stars says
been in Britain may be divided into three stages. In 1931 the country seemed to be in the edge of a precipice, and not the least alarming factor was the serious
O □ adverse balance of trade the value of goods imported being
What we have to do is to find The question is, what doon greater than that of exports and
out which lot we drew at birth, to Europe Intend to put on the trou- services
To be sure, no one of us is a which type we belong, and be true combined.
to squalls seems to be eloquently England
bled waters ofl'or blood? was running into debt for the conveyed by the defence pre-perfect specimen of either type. to it. It is useless to try to make parations undertaken In Switzer-Life would be impossible for the ourselves other than we are. Nor goods she was bringing in her land, France, Belgium, Denmark, equivalent of either a stagnant pool neod we, for the scheme of thing unemployed workers, in fact, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, and Aus-or a perpetual fireworks display. have a uso for every man, ex on the were being maintained on credit, į tria. What the world wants is in fact, nature is on her guard to one who walks cautiously in the that sho will give up her flim
not proofs of German aggressive-
middle way', never committing noss, but evidence of her peaceful keep the balance level within us, himself. If you bollove in stabill. caroor if her husband wants her intentions. Herr Hitler talks of a and any excess in one direction is: ty, stand and fight for it; if you to. After all a week or two won't ucaire for peace and the narrow usually attended by something, believe in progress, stand and fight make any difference.. confines of the Reich in the same which compensates for it in the for it. You will serve the world breath. Germany and the rest of other. Here is a man, for example, best so. Only fight without malico employing the same langunge. the world do not appear to be who never goes to church; tha for bitterness, for the other man is
During the week, the Secretary not your enemy, ho is fghting on reason he given is that 'It is behind the same aide, but with a different of State for the Dominions the times'. One day, he is per-weapon!
referred to "The Drug of Dictator- ships." As-pirin to power!
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FASCISM IN BRITAIN
The first stage-and the Na- tional Government took steps with this precise end in view was the wiping out of the adversc balance. Imports, both of food and manufactured articles, were restricted, and the country succeeded in living on its own resources, in the sense that she either produced what she used or paid for the imports
The one thing that Mr. J. H. with goods or services. That Thomas failed to explain in his flrat success meant that the with the claim of firmly-rooted analysis of dictatorshipa, coupled country was nationally solvent. democracy in the Empire, was East But it did not reduce unemploy-Fulham. Or perhaps he thought ment. On the contrary, the it better ignored. The real testing number of the workless in- time is obviously not yet, though creased. The accomplishment It would be as well not to feel too of the first stage demanded an complacent. There are people who attitude of mind which was in profess to ancer at the Blackshirts compatible with the accond. It Hah are too self-conscious to join. in England, declaring that the Eng- was not till the patriotic cry But It is not entirely true. Re- "economize" gave way to the cruits are reported to be enrolling patriotic cry "spend" that the at the rate of 800 a day, chiefly second stage arrived. When from the North of England. Sir that happened producers hecame Oswald Mosley is allant on the sub- busier in catering to the homeject-hie followers say that a good market. They began to prepare of its forces. But he is still a general does not reveal the strongth food and manufactured arti. cles to take the place of those imagination of the masses.
long way from capturing the which had formerly been im- ported. What has been wit
ncased in the first half of the Britain to the interests of the present year is a forward move world. The latest returns of in purely internal trade. In this foreign trade show that cus second stage Great Isritam na tomers have been at last in a been.consuming more home pro- position to take more of her ducts, with the result that 600,- woollen and worsted yarns, more 000 more persons have been of her motor vehicles, more of absorbed In Industry. The pro- her iron and steel manufactures; cess is still continuing. But and her imports of raw materials there can be no complete re-indicato increased orders for covery for Great Britain until manufactured goods in the near she is able to export more to futuro. Unqualified optimism. foreign countries; and the third would be foolish; but it would stage, that of improved overseas be equally foolish not to re- trade, is, at the best, only begin-cognise that the situation, so ning; and it clearly depends on far as Britain and her circle of the consuming power of foreign customers are concerned, is de- countries. Hero we pass from finitely more promising than at the domestic Intereats of Great any time in the last two years."
"Don't go yet, Pos that reminds me of another funny one."
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An advertisement states that "there is no reason why people should suffer from gout these daya." As far as we know, there is no reason why they should on joy it either.
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Relating an experience, a well- known deep-sea angler recently remarked, I never saw such a fish" We're quite sure he didn't,
"Most film stars have a double" according to a local cinoma critic. In Hongkong, of course, the bottle is handed over.
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Overheard on the Peak tram. "I always think that a special tram makes one feel to affluent." The emphasis should have been on the last syllable.""
Elderdowns are cheaper this year. Down is downl
This week's Motoring Hint. Everything in the car should be tight, excepting the driver,"