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SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1984.
THE WEAPONS OF
THE WEST
From the Office Butts
口口
Even golfers bollova in safe toe first!
Jan. 20th.U betimes but too stubborn to learn. But it China's yellow giant that sprawls Lord how cold it ly, and I am seems over that they do see their dragonlike across a thousand miles within a little of praetermitting neighbours folly but not their of plain, with its tall looped my hot bath, but do pluck up own. And for a man who doth through seventeen hundred miles courage and faro forth. But then, pride himself upon his own driv- of gorges and mountain posses Into when I am lain therein I am fearing la often termed a menace by restaurant recently was so high Tho pheasant served at a local the fastness of Tibet, is stirring ined to get out, and I doubt not. I his friends, save that they are too that the customers couldn't reach
had been there still save that the | hondy to tell him to his face. And It water did grow cold and 1 with ft. | for my part I would, were I
២
Although your thirst,
Is it to buret; Drive atraight home firat,
That's SAFETY FIRST!
its slumber. It fa threatening to roll dvar ́in its bed and write an- other chapter in the book of sor- To my office and later to the Captain of the Town 'Watch, sus- Jazz is stated to be as old an rows its convolutions have tran King's Grent. Shippe Medway rend for more licences for a the hills. Yes, come to think of cribed. The Hwang-Ho, or Yellow ["whóro I do seo Mr. Trams and month or two, rather than fine it, Nere once played a hot number River, is not merely a river of speak with him of this game they them. Later, bowled in the Alleye on the fiddle. Ching except for the longer but do call hockey, And It seems and I am in doubt if I qualify for quieter Yangtze it is "tho" river. possible we may yot meet Singa- | the Kempo Cup or no. But I do In the earliest Chinese records Itspore thereat. To the Clubh, for not desorve it and I doubt 'not depredations are written down. nuncheon and after having dono Mr. Judgo hath It in his pocket For untold centuries men have
on many garments to watch the unless Mr. Fracture can rise upon fought to keep it within Its bounds Krickett, where Mr. O. Hughes the occasioun, by dykes. And ever it has con- strikes the ball' merrily, and plays tinued to resist, heaving sluggish a pretty a knock as I have seen ly against artificial banks, periodi-him do these two or three seasons. cally bursting its bonds, inundating Later to the Clubbe with General George, Mr. Cartops, Mr. Share, vast areas, willowing towns and Mr. Pitt and others, but coming villages. Because of all this it has somewhat late we are left well come by its name, "Scourge of the nigh alone in the barre over our Sons of Han" "China's Sorrow," glasses of hollands waters. And then of a sudden I do see a mighty "The Ungovernable."
big rat enter by the door and so past the small tables and out to the kitchens. And this wo did all save General George who would not.
CHINA'S, YELLOW PERIL
For a greater part of its length after leaving the hills its bed is higher than the plain through which it nowa. In seasons of low water the surface of the river, confined within man-made banks, is fifteen feet above the level of the plain; in times of flood it rises'} another fifteen feet. Then, shoulder- ing the weakening dykes, it strikes consternation to neighbouring multitudes. It has changed its course many times. For five cen- turies. It emptied its silt-laden wators into the Yellow Sen south of the Shantung uplands. Then it plunged into a new course, reach- ing the sea 260 miles to the north of its original mouth.
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24th-Vory búgy all day at the office but 1. do find time to take
HOWE
A new musical work by a Germa
This "Safety First".compaign reminds us that a deaf man is now, learning the harp. The poor fol- low didn't hear the car coming.
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Tears are a wife's liquid assets.
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We hear of a local wireless fan
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my nuncheon with Mr. Pharoah man composer had its inspiration and much pleasant discourse. in a boor garden. Bittor Suite? After my papers in the office were ordered I to the Clubbe to read the
A thief robbed a Kowloon fowl- Nowes Sheotes, and find that the season of letters from grousers house last week. Poached eggs! hath started, And as I suppose it | HONG
ᄆ bo dus to the action of cold wes-
ក្ម· ther upon the liver. The nows of the earthquake in Nepal is sad, and we are, seems, but upon the threshold of discovering the whole damage. While pondering upon 21st. Lord's day. This day
the matter. it occurs to me that had been minded to journey to had this but happened a hundred Fan Ling to see Mr. Muleygrubs years ago, the
would not hunt his hounds, but Lord! when I have spread for many months. do put the tip of my nose beyond And I am persuaded that it is not the blankots it is well nigh frost that there are more catastrophica bitten and I do decide to lie close now but that we do hear of all who complains of constant Inter- and turn again to my slumbers. there are, whereas in the past not ference at night by his wife and All day in my Chambera ordering a tithe of them were known save kiddies. my gear and reading. But I find near at hand. And when I tell | that now I do enjoy old books even Creed this, he points out that more than before, and cannot there are in these days for thicker abide the modern novel, unless in-populations and so more lives are priately enough, classifies the now deed it be a good detective tale to lost. In Amerique it seems they liquor taxes. as internal revenus. which I am partial, having suf- do build more shippes of · war, ficiency of exercise for my brain tho' why I know not, for if ever a when employed in mine office, natioun did seem free from the The only sound money" that Later to the Barre where we talk | peril of war it is the States. This interests most retail dealers is the of this and that. I learn that the night I did dine in a house in Con- kind that rings true when planted and that Nanking doth win. But which I seldom go, but seems trouble in Fukten is nigh ended duit Road, which is 'n level upon down on the counter.
so there be peace I care not who mighty quiet and pleasant, But winneth. Li and Cheng it seems whether or no it be cool in summer
To celebrate the repoal of Pro- ̈· are gone though where I know not 1 know not. Dined most exhibition, a now American dance and I am at a stondo to understand cellently and after at contract has been invented, named the the matter as I had ever thought with Mr. Franco against Sir R. Champagne Waltz. Possibly some- them able statesmen of peaceable | Harpenden and Mr. High. habit. As for Prince Eugene, to my greatest possible delight we
And thing like the old-time Hesitation: some say he is in the Colony and do defent them, though I am foln some deny it. But it seems that to admit that we do hold a shade however men may miscall the the better of the cards.. Home late Colony they are mighty ready to and to bed.. flag doth afford. Later dined and take advantage of the safety its
so to bed.
The US, Government, appro-
..
One half the world, being dis- satisfied with what it has, doesn't know how the other half can be' disantisfied with what it hasn't.
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One of the most ironical cir- cumstances in connexion with Japan's penetration of foreign markets is that the weapons which she uses have been placed HIGHER THAN THE, PLAIN in her hands by the very nations which are now feeling the effects
Now "The Ungovernable" again of her intensive competition. is gouging at dyke walls. Part of Initially, Japan's cotton mills the flood has broken over into the were equipped with foreign Changyuan District, causing much plant, and methods of production damago and exacting a toll of many were learned from foreign ex- lives. Farther down the channel perts. A news item which came civilians and soldiers are working to hand yesterday shows that desperately to strengthen the banks the same process is likely to be against waters that already have repeated in Persia. where the taken thousands of lives and caused Government, in its efforts to
untold damage. These silt-laden make the country as far as
waters, representing the gradual crosion of denuded lands, epitomise possible independent of foreign China's plight. This silt, filling its products, is planning to secure bed, lifts it to a level that threatens British plant for the manufac- thousands of aquare miles of farm ture of piece-goods. To what lands. Methods used in combatting extent the British textile indus- its threat have been haphazard and try has been doing trade in short-sighted. It is an ungovern
ed river in a semi-governed country. Persia we cannot at the moment Commissions formed to study flood say. Indin, presumably, has control in China have reported that had a goodly share of the mar permanent solution is possible. ket there, but latterly Japan has Plans have been laid at various figured largely in the picture, times, but always the yellow dragon finding new outlets for her proof civic disruption has burst the ducts, just as she has done in plans even as the Hwang-Ho bursts the weather be bitter cold. And I insist upon the melody of the bag-doors, but too many of us expect· Iraq. The point to be emphasis When China finds itself and works inadequate dykes. ed, however, is that by securing out a stable government it may foreign plant and expert advice, then govern "The Ungovernable.” Persia will not only be able to keep others out of the field, but,
through
its
Mr. Hirota's failure to relieve
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A man's best
friends are his
even:
Hongkang needs reformers more
25th-This day to the office be- times and very busy' all · day. Bowled in the Clubbe, and later to office. Reading in the Newes do find as I suppose all the Scots aident remark that he is tired of 22nd.-All day very busy at the the Burns dinner. And there I We overheard a Kowloon re- Shootes I learn that there is a great in the Colony who are of habit to his wife's complaints about the drop in the birth rate at home but dine abroad, and many Southrons cold snap. He should muffler! am at a stonde to know why it as well. And strange it is that should be termed alarming. For one of these last doth propose the work and fewer mouths in now there are more people than toast of the evening, and the Vice
my | Chancellor judgement would be no ill thing, scholarly oration and very plea- teeth, says a doctor. But
the makes
most But I doubt that the diminution aant to hear save that he hath not the best of friends fall out. ought to be in the feeble and un-the rich Doric Accent. Later a
ᄆ healthy type, and not In the better Chirurgeon from the University, type of babe where I fear it doth where each year it seems two grow now occur. And to my mind Ger- where one grew before, and a Mr. than ever now, because there is many has taught us a lesson In Cawmell do make-na-witty always the work of some former her sterilization legistation. This speeches as ever I hear in my life. reformer to be reformed. night to the King's Great Shippo And thereafter we fall to singing Cumberland where all is very catches but I am minded that it snug with laced awnings, though was such as fits a nation who do
Opportunity may knock at our count myself lucky that I did get pipes. Not indeed that I do it to batter down the door and so many and charming partners dislike them but I maintain that walk right in. seeing that I grow somewhat old. they be stirring rather than tuxe- And so with both dancing and a ful. And so the singing was glass or two of strong waters Home late after a most pleasant not only do wax warm but do evening and so to bed, enjoy myself to the greatest possible
Home measure.
very late and so to bed.
like my hath s'mornings less and 23rd. Still bitter cold and I do
it
26th.-Walking this day in town comes into my mind that the public motor coaches who put up wind acroens do belleve them to the red triangle signs upon their be permits to drive twice as fast as heretofore. And I am sorry for it. The weather this day be,
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Car-careless-cartess,
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classle
and cabaret music is that between antique and antic.
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suspicions concerning Japan's Con- tinental policy has re-awakened con. jecture on Tokyo's final objectives. less. And it comes into my mind The Daily Herald, in fact, inter- to buy me an electrick henter to prets Mr. Hirota's speech as in it-place by the bath to warm mo self a clear warning of intention while I do dry myself. for alas! 1. If possible, ever colder and I am with a traffic policeman that police
to dry than some full of my rheumatick pains and Talking with Creed in the Barro do await the warmer days im I agree with him that this safety patiently. Very busy all day first campaign do bo a salutary writing in my diary and at my thing if so be the folk are not mall. And so to bed,
in course of time, may herself | JAPAN'S HEGEMONY become a big exporter of textile goods. Much will happen, of course, before that time comes, but the tendency is well worth noting. It may be argued that Western nations, by setting possible future rivals on their feet industrially, are doing an injury to themselves, but these to obtain complete domination over the whole of China. In other are days when big orders for words, feeling satisfied that in con- machinery cannot be turned
quest they would most likely suffer down on such grounds as these, the fate of China's former con- The fact has to be faced that querors," Japan means to attempt Eastern nations are becoming the alternative of tying China. to increasingly industrialised; and the Japanese chariot. the process cannot possibly be stopped. The mischief is that low wage and living standards CAN IT BE DONE? make it possible for these coun- tries to enter world markets on Can it be dono? If China war- A basis with which no Western rants the description of a recent nation can possibly compete. It Japanese spokesman, who likened is this circumstance, together the country to an eel, the task must with others, which accounts for Intely been obvious that, far from bo well-nigh Impossible. It, has much of Japan's trade expansion wishing to get deeper into the mire, overseas. The threat to West- the Japanese are anxious to "per ern commerce and to Western sundo" China to put its signature standards of living is serious. | quietly en some agreement validat- Absolute exclusion of goods pro-ing the Manchurian seizure. There duced by cheap labour raises in has been a great deal of talk about numerable difficultica. It could, a Pan-Asintle movement, but how in fact, result in the most un-how much has a chance of survival much of that is propaganda and desirable reactions. The pro- in the Far Eastern political mazo blem has to be faced in other in difcult to discover. No Chinese ways, as Lancashire's industrial-government could survive which ists must learn. Trade agree- voluntarily ceded Interest In Man- ments, based on mutual compro churin. And: a secret agreement, mises, represent the only satis like the Twenty-One Domands of factory method. So far as 1915, would no more,tle China than Britain is concerned, Mr. Runci- did that agreement. Duress is just man has summed up her attitudo Sino-Japanese relations as is dis- an inappropriato for the basis of by saying that nothing less than Ingenuouancas in Japan's relations fair play in the world markets with the world in regard to its will satisfy.
conduct in China, proper
have more
YOU
SREETV
FIRST
Thus modern knight
In Armour clad Hides from his Wife Who's really quite mad Cares not for the storm That's bound to burst
Cause he's adopted. "SAFETY FIRST “.....
who has just had an argument It is hard to convince a motorist
départments are impotent check a crime wave.,
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to.
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The only woman who happy with golfing husbands are those who can be happy without them.
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Dentists are expected to very active in supporting. the movement towards more open spaces.
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The firm actress who admitted
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then
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A bore is a man whose foot goes to sleep. when he talks to himself.
It'a-à-case of "The higher-the- bluer" with people who live on the Peak these days.
"Apparently thero may "bo A, Cornish re-union after all, oven although Somerset against it!`
If this weather continues, it will) bo hard luck on some fellows who havo sworn to put their shirts on Bunday's dond corts, at Kwanti