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NOTES OF THE DAY GERMANY'S DESIRE FOR
THE CRIPPSIAN OUTBURST
Sir Stafford' Cripps brought a hornet's, nest about his cars by his linking of Buckingham Palaco with a'Fascist movement in Eng- land. The speedy, repudiation of the views he expressed by all moderate Labour leaders was only natural. The T.U.C. section of the Labour Party, whatever their faults, must at any rato pay some regard to what the avorago British workman, thinks. And the average British workman, la -a-democrat:Sir Stafford Cripps, by his recent speeches' and 'pam- phlets, clearly is not. He wants to Install Socialism by mothoda' not essentially less autocratic than Hit- lor's. The House of Commonė Is to, be asked to authorise'n dicta. torship, and thereafter to take a back seat. Britain is to be re- volutionised, with the minimum of free discussion, by an avalanche of uknaos from a Crippslan Cabinet. No more than the real Labour Party can we visualize the British voter supporting such n programme with his eyes open.
U.S. NAVAL TALK
Prosing strange uro the speeches made in the United States to encourage further naval buliding, President Roosevelt has
authorised the biggest naval pro- gramme ever embarked upon in peacetime at any one time by any nation, and still the Big Navy clique in Congress are far from satisfied. Mr. Vinson Justifies his demand for more ships with the patently false assumption that Britain will build up to Treaty limits. It is false for two good reasons, one that British publle
Hongkong Telegraph. opinion would not consent to a pro-
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1934.
THE DEATH SENTENCE
gramme of the colossal nizo re- quired, and two, Britain simply could not afford it if opinion was more favourable.
A GREAT LOSS
Strangely, too, Mr. Vinson and his ilk refuse to see that America's naval plans may breed complica- |tions_abroad. They have already provoked plans for a corresponding shipbuilding programme in Japan. They threaten to terminate in spirit-and eventually in the letter Great Britain, as the other leading also the Washington Agreement. naval Power, cannot escape being concerned oven if finance will not let her keep pace. But it really while the newer hopes of world dis- would be a deplorable thing if,
armament hang fire at Geneva, the ane solid piece of disarmament by consent, which the nations have procured so far, should be let go by the board.
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BRITAIN'S HEALTH
en-
which
PEACE
FRENCHMAN. INDICTS THE FRENCH Tlast a Frenchman has at- world knows that France would tempted to explain to his have published them long ago, it fellow-countrymen, why it is dif- they existed or If their authen. Acult to come to an understanding ticity, had been beyond doubt. It between France and Germany. la really too old a bluff that it is He is an officer who took part in always in critical time that such the war and knows Germany from secret documents are disclosed, former and recent personal ex- which afterwards are found out to perience.
be falsifications. Germany could
Louis Thomas asks in the Paris agree to investigations with a good Midi why the truth is concealed conscienco, because armaments of from the French about present any importanco cannot be kept Germany and why the French secret, nor could a nation secretly newspapers refrain from Inform- build up a war industry in foreign Ing their readers about the do- countries. But Germany would clarations of the German leader rightly object to the humiliation, Adolf Hitler and other leading which such Investigations would Germans. Thomas gives the answer impose on her, as these should to these questions himself by justly begin in the highly armed making responsible the French States.. suppliers of war material, who profits.. hoped to make further gigantic
Adolf Hitler impatiently asks what more Germany can do to prove her honest desire for peaco. Germany cannot in fact do moro
The Harry Joha!
THE SARDINE MYSTERY
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By Eddie ““Fisho" Kelly. Electrocardiogram! Phantasmagorin!.
Not that wo bear any malice. Simply that we occasionally run short of curace. As Edison once said to the Governor of South Caro linn, "Inspiration is one-tenth paru- piration and nine-tenths exaspora- tion,"
We shall, therefore, talk to you to-day, children, about sardines.
The sardine lives in a tin slum and, due to its environment, there are many foeblo-minded sardines In our midst unaccustomed, mark you, as they are to public speaking. Environment, said he, throwing his cigarette butt into the waste paper basket in an earnest attempt to burn the effico down, is a strango thing.
In a very short time, a cat caught in a rat trap begsmua distinctly like a dead rat. Given time, the cat
A section of the French press, than she has already dono, with. I may even become deader than the
German
he says, is notably in their hands and was naturally working in their out consenting to something dis- interests. The plot against truth honourable and unworthy, which should be ended and the French neither Hitler nor the nation enlightened, for then there alon it would take. The French would be no doubt about the deci- desired peace and Germany was also eager for peace and friend ship with Franco.
rat.
As the poet described the electric chair, "That burn from which no traveller returns”—that's where it goes.
to
Which naturally brings us the subject of Christmas pud- dings. We have hitherto lald off bean too heavy a subject for Christmas puddings as they have
to deal with until this week. We have now recovered, thank you.
For a large, family, we recom
Christmas mand our recipe for puddings. All you need is cement. This will last a family pound of raisins and bag of
of eight for about twelve (12) Christmasses. This pudding fa hard to beat,
people would ever agree to, and exaggerated demands on the other understand that they are most Speaking of electric chairs, we the past has taught that the side would only increase.
No statesman is worthy of more the accommodation in the electric uncomfortable. A man told us that confidence than Hitler, whose sin-chair department was shocking." cerity is beyond doubt. No other Thomas confirms the impres- nation is less in favour of wor
They had five goes at him and blow the fuses out every time. stons which all far-seeing forcig than the German nation which
At the finish, he was so full of ners living in Germany or visiting desires to settle down to work and there, receive, impressions which nothing else. It means a shame-vest button a bell would ring.
electricity that if he pressed his have already been reported in the less poisoning of the wells if the papers of other countries by Germans are falsely accused of numerous distinguished people having other intentions than a The anti-German newspapers, firm and indomitable desire for enormous pence and recovery, It may be however, shoulder an responsibility, if they publish die that all these powerful now forces torted reports, insinuations and within the German frontiers ap- obvious falsifications. But a still pear formidable to others, because greater responsibility is borne by they are so new and so different. all the statesmen who take part in But they would soon cease to be this game or only look on tacitly. disquieting, if the responsible men- It is criminal If screened by hypo- In other countries would make critical declarations of love of similar attempts.
ATI nationa peace, of readiness to negotiate, of desire peace and would welcome a generosity and loyalty attempts reduction of the burden of arma- are made to manoeuvre Germany ments and prefer to see the ex- into a position which would give penditure for these turned to a pretext for so-called sanctions, peaceful purposes. Without the Le, for a military invasion of de- secret propaganda of people hop fenceless Germany as in the days ing to profit from preparations for of the Ruhr adventure. Nothing war, without demagogues and ir olse was intended when reference reconcilables and chauvinistic pre- was made in the French Chamber sumption on the part of the victors bolted his meals. After he was treaty, to the right of sending ture of the League of Nationa it to article 213 of the Versailles and without the disjointed struc-operated on for appendicitis he
had to be riveted. control commissions to Germany would soon be possible to come to If he wanted to turn around, he pry about and establish some an understanding in 3 small had to use a spanner. Threw him. sort of default, whilst their own circle, as the recent negotiations self under a train and wrecked defaults against the treaty are between Germany and Poland the train. counted as nothing. Secret docu- prove. Instead of fine speeches menta about Germany's armaments and lawyer's tricks sincerity alone wero also mentioned. But all the is required.
FERRY FANCIES BY
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"Mo'ning Po'-Daily P'ess !", steno-typists, private secretaries, the nows sellers' cry is the first in-office and shop assistants. There troduction to the Star Ferry at its are many pretty women in Hong- approach from the Kowloon side. kong, despite the jaundiced eye of The next is the faint aroma of the dyspeptic. A flag day is a mixed perfume on board the vessel revelation in this respect. Why do Should the harbour be crossed at Chinese women wear those fore- exactly the same time each day, and-after aprons, instead of the practically the same people will be orthodox akirt? Pretty legs ard
PRETTY WOMEN.
Of course there are quite a num ber of pretty women-pretty a cording to their national standards
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to take note of ladies' legs, but having an observant eye, is quick to note that which is beautiful- and otherwise.
Then there a that rude, big man, who sits smoking a big (Continued. on Next Columns.)
Whilst there are some good points in the plea put forward by the Bishop of Victoria for the virtual abolition of capital punishment in Hongkong, his assertion that the best public opinion in the Colony is against the enforcement of the death penalty is very much open to question. - Bishop Hall's plea is based on what he terms a colour or money discrimination in the administration of justice. There is, of course, no suggestion that this exists until after the trial; even in the two cases which are cited, the accused were found guilty and the death sentence year are remarkably encouraging. Britain's bealth statistics for last passed. The suggestion is So far from the returns showing and it cannot be denied that the kind of results that one might expect from malnutrition as the where Europeans are concerned, result of extensive unemployment or where sufficient financial throughout the country, mortality, means are available, public feel in the depressed areas in particular,
In steadily declining. Most ing is aroused to an extent which couraging of all is the continued met with a more cosmopolitan a delight to an artist, but surely: it is not in the case, say, of a decrease in the death rate for composition of resident passengers there is a proper time and place for coolie; and thus, when petitions children. This is a striking testl it would be difficult to find in any showing them. Speaking of legs, for clemency result, the former monial to the adequacy of Britain's part of the world. During the 8 to it is remarkable the number of men, provision for. unemployment 9 morning rush hour, after the when sitting, who cross the right have a better chance of escaping through insurance and public assis-usual perfunctory morning saluta- lcg over the left knee, and the num the full penalty of the law than tance on the purely physical side. tion, each one settles down to his ber of women who cross the left leg the latter. A point to be em.
No such saving results could bo or her morning newspaper, or, as over the right knee! No, the traced in any crisis of unemploy-suming a fixed stare, apparently writer docs nof travel on the ferries phasised here, however, is that ment before the War; and we doubt visualising the approaching day's whilst public interest may be whether any foreign country shows .work. stimulated by the circumstances day. Physical health, however, is.
them to such advantage oven to cited, the final decision does not not the only thing. The problems lie with the public; reprieves are
unsolved by any system, not granted merely in response employing them, are psychological. maintains the unemployed without to popular sympathy. More- The longer worklessness lasta, the over, the two cases quoted by
more they come to be felt. the Bishop were rather unusual in character. In the one in- stance, a woman's life was at stake, and repugnance, at the urgency which prompted the pri
It is a growing sense of their enforcement of the death sen- vate initiatives by Quakers and tence in such cases is not pecu-scale with the task of providing the others to grapple on a much wider liar to Hongkong. In the other, unemployed with occupations. That strong doubts existed in the is a sphere in which voluntary public mind whether the ac peculiarly fruitful. It does not effort, on some aldes, may prove cused's guilt had been brought lend itself so well to official enter- home beyond any shadow of prise by public authorities; though doubt. Certainly the youth's the Ministry of Labour's training- wealth was not the factor which caused his life to be spared. This is proved by the fact that the employment of an array of counsel at the trial and in the minority in most countries. The appeal, plus the costly procedure suggestion, however, that Hong- of seeking to secure the inter-experiment of abolishing the kong could of itself initiate the vention of the Privy Council, did | death sentence, or, what not result in the quashing of the amounts to the same thing, of conviction. The sentence was making reprieves general in all commuted by the reason of a
murder cases, is based on a mis- variety of special circumstances tion vis-a-vis the Homo Govern conception of the Colony's posi- which were considered sufficient ment. Obviously, the lead in to justify the exercise of cle- such a matter would have to meney. Bishop Hall is obvious come from Home, and not vice ly a disbeliever in capital punish-versa. The motives underlying
A strong case can bo
the Bishop's plea are under mado out for those who think that he is far ahead of public standable and praiseworthy; but with him on this question, even opinion on the subject there can though they be still in a decided be little question.
ment,
NEED FOR OCCUPATION
have been, might well have been centro schemes, capably run as they extended much further before now.
"I'm looking for my husband. - I left him in one of these -
Raisins are very good for you. They contain a lot of fron,
Talk of ironi. We know a man who had sO. much iron that ho was full of nuts and bolts. Mat- ter of fact, he lived on nuts, and
Rusted away after a long and peaceful life on the Peak, and Was pronounced dead by one of the best engineers in the Colony,
And if you must have something about sardines, they have heada, but they carry tales.
Moan to say, they repeat on us. And in conclusion, they come to us in oll.
Oil's well that ends well. Well, well, well!
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A reader prefers this version:
"We wont to see our Mayon-
naiso
Our need for her was pressing
Her mother, with a frigid gaze, Said she wouldn't lettuce,
For Mayonnaisg was dressing.”.
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The Worm Through The Ages
Henry the Eighth worm dies think- ing he has finished with women st laut. Amazed to hear, familiar voice of first wife, Cathermie Aragon
Oh, so king worm has come buck taking best years of her life elre worm to first wife after all, has he? After found disgusting excuse to divorce her when
all Bex-mad royal werm wanted was shameless blondo .
Miserable king worm hears voleo of Anne Boleyn.
Oh, so after taking best years of her life wicked sire worm cut off wife's head on tramped-up chargo merely because cunning, murderous,
blonded worm wanted shameless
Voices of Katherine Howard, Anne of Gloves, and Jane Seymour after taking best years of life wicked, aux-made royal worm plenty of shameless blondes where worm is now, so he can take his cholce after taking best years of life royal worm can't get rid of wife now by chopping off head because no head to chop off
if king worm thinks he can do as ho Ekes with wife just because he is king he is greatly mistaken because kings don't count any more... shameless blonde sex-mad royal worm .after taking.. best years of life...
Uunhappy king worm realises at Inst truth of eternal punishment, but is thankful last wife, Katherine Parr. not with him yet,
pipe, with his back to the after side of the after deck house staring into the faces of the Indies opposite, much to the evident embarrassment of the said ladies. Ladies have scen
actually to squirm under his insolent scrutiny, Recently there has been an in- sidious influxiof Indles who can aaally be picked out on the ferries, How ever they manago to get Inte: the Colony and staycan only be answered by the authorition.
It is good to see that at long Inst the Ferry Company have done away with the chain lifting gear for the platforme and introduce (Contimes on Page 4.)