THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1984.
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Japanese efforts to render the “Hands Off China!" doctrino more
palatable to Western countries with TEAPONS that have hitherto so. Their range is much longer Interests in Chitus are hardly more Ween knot only to this and their effect devastating.
than
reassuring
the original peremptory challenge. Other coun- Colony through the medium of
bo
Revolvers and automatica of
The Very Idea!
GOING ON LEAVE
By George
A curious thing about this
trics can trade with China with theponny dreadfuls and the yellow every conceivable make have also Colony is that you have
permission of Japan, and with PCs of the United States have been found on the persons of that concession. they must, whether lately been making a closer and criminala and they range from the got to leave it before you they like it or not, be satisfied. more unpleasant acquaintance, in latest silent killers to the crude find the friends you have.
old-fashioned shot guns China's development is to be care the hands of local desperadoes:
made in it. Only last week three men were Naturally enough the most cont fully controlled-from Tokyo. If Chian advances too rapidly, it will mit an offence and two of them line is the toy platol and imitation covering these friends is to sentenced for conspiracy to common instrument in the "re-arm" The easiest method of dis- Japan to mind her own business, carrlod arms of the most modern with these a clover crook can bluff announce that you are going
dangerous. She might tell
automatic sold by the shops for It is, therefore, the corner-stong gangster type. of Japanese policy that China's
One of them, indeed, was in the large percentage of the consequen
his way through and escape aon leave or Home for good. progress bo within bounds. nature of a deadly novelty a tear cea if he is caught.
kept Nothing will be permitted that gas projector elaborately fitted out
Tako Dumbell for instance. China in the position | in might
the guise of
Lifo preacrvers have attained a place
revolving variety of forms which could be
We heard on Monday that he where she could decline to acknow-mechanical pencil. ledge Japan's suzerainty. All mou- Snapped into the pocket in the admired for their ingenuity were was leaving shortly. aures of ordinary progressive do ordinary manner or held careless they not such a sinister menace.
The shining velopment, the opening up of the ly in the hand, this apparently bludgeoner which originated in to find the place in disorder. steel telescople We called round at his rooms country, the raising of the standard armies object can, at the touch the United States is perhaps one Suits drooped round chairs; walt weeks for delivery of this Might-Ble by of living, the strongthening of her of a button fitted into the elde, of the most avoured types. In brushes, pictures, and 'boots financial independence, unlean dir-eject a powerful blinding as the pocket it, is a small steel bar, occupied the bed, and Dumhell ected and approved by Japan, may distance of some yards and in the And now
out of the pocket it snaps into a cupboard wrestling with moths
THE CAR SUCCESS
of the YEAR STANDARD SALOON'
-£210
DE LUXE SALOON
---£230
VAUXHALLS MEET THE DEMAND
Drer 18,000 motorists have been content to
Vagshail. Even with nine month day+K:1).
night work the Vauxheli factory was not able to eps with the rush at orders.
costing over $600,000 now enable Vauxhal normal delivery of a Vauxhall Light Six.
Attention given to all enquiries and demonstrations afforded.
Hong Kong Hotel Garage
Stubbs Road,
#
The sword stick was an
old
mer garb.
As we knocked at the door wo
to meet the demand. Now you can get therefore, ecase. That seems to be temporarily inenpaeitato and per-length of two feet and becomes an for the possession of his sum- this one atak 14 bemoved. Factor attention lend to this situation and munt, hands of a cool criminal would out of the unobtrusive. Whipped was discovered ensconced in
the programme, lacking nothing in haps permanently injure a group effective weapon of offence. interest or audacity. It would of persons.
The top of the "poncil" is fitted favourite which has practically hardly be surprising to discover that other people have something with a cap with a partly open been discarded on account of its recalled with a pang that perhaps to say about its application.
aperture. The cap contains an alumainess. ordinary cartridge from which the A great many of these unlawful done by old Bill. Hind neglected we had not done all we should have powder has been extracted, and re-devices are brought into the colony him somewhat. However, the old NAZIS AND PROPAGANDA
placed by powdered clay impreg by seamen from Europe and the clap was leaving. We would cer
with chlorine. As nated General Goering's denial of Nazi cartridge is that of a 32 automatic and, surprisingly, from Holland.
the States. Many come from Germany tainly see him off on the boat. ability to relax unmerciful pressure qufto a quantity of this powerful on the one-per-cent. of the German mixture can be inserted and its of any lethal instrument in the We aensed that he hoped we had A serlous view of the discovery Bill was polite but a little bored. population who still decline to em- strength can be adduced by the hands of an unauthorised person como in our ofleinl position as brace the doctrines of the Nazi atatement of the faith, amounts almost to a confes analyst, who confessed that though little fear is entertained that the
Government is always taken, of course, but secretary of the Ludo League. sion. Ho virtually admits that he took the cartridge apart na Colony is becoming a good market there is a large proportion of the delicately as possible, the powder for the makers. Many of them are collar when he found that we know His face fell to the top of his remaining ninety-nine per cent. effected his eyes considerably and originally acquired as curlos and all. whose allegiance is of the lips made them smart in n. painful the trade in them is so casual that rather than of the heart. They manner for some hours afterwards, the Hongkong criminal can
"Bill, you old rascal;" we enid might easily, he anys, be "suborned" by the propaganda of the reaction-flacated by the police who have systematically bringing his trade only just heard of it from Smith Tear gas pistols have been con- exonerated from any charge of playfully, "trying to keep your aries, were it permitted. And who discovered several types of this up to the horrific standards that and he was told by Robinson, departure accret, ch? We COLONY'S FINANCES avd know better? If the Nazis much more
more prevail in other and less fortunate You might have gone unhonoured, do not appreciate the power of pro- obvious weapon, In the last year or places.-G.W.G. paganda, who does?.
and unsung."
The
Hongkong Edlegraph.
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1934.
U.S. NAVY PROCRAMME
more.
RELIANCE ON ARMS
effective but
WHITHER BRITAIN?
"You ask
"That was
bu
"No fear of that," says Bill'a trifle bitterly. "The Golf Club is coming down en bloc; I've got two cricket teams, a bowls rink, and a band coming down to the ship and the P. & D, are making special catering arrangements for the party."
shall be in the way.
"Oh well. If you think we. "a little the anxiously.
difference at all now. If you "A mere one won't make any
bring the Ludo League players, it won't be noticed at this stugo."
friends,
Despite a fall of nearly a million and half dollars in revenue, when contrasted with the previous year, the Colony was able to show a surplus on
The excitement engendered by the 1933 working of over $976 consular official had dared criticise the mere suggestion that a British 000 and thus to finish the year the huge American naval building
"There is n revolution in this likely to succeed than within with its credit balance increased
world and we are in it. Our larger. If
you say that this is to well over thirteen million sign. It really amounts to this. programme is not altogether a bad
job in Britain is to do the revolu- economic nationalism I reply that! dollars. The situation is
ilon, and to do it better than economic nationalism is denounced no that Americans are themselves a anyone else.
But our develop by many people who have not real worse than was anticipated when little uncomfortable concerning
ment and our leaders cannot be ly applied their minds to the 1933 Budget was introduced; the implications and, for that
ubtained by mutual hatred-by problems involved and who speak indeed, it is materially better reason, resent criticism all the sudden convulsions involving a of economic nationalism as though than the expectations then held denied the accusation. He was
Mr. Gerald Campbell has. break with all our tradition and it were a disease instead of being, and an improvement on the posi-present at a dinner where Ameri-
all our continuity..
as it certainly is, a symptom of the tion envisaged at the time of the enn visitors attacked the Vinson Elliot, Minister of Agriculture,
In these words Mrs. Walter coming of the leisure State. revised Estimates in September. Bill, but scrupulously avoided any gave his opinion of the future of gress with the new State we have "Before CAN. make auch pro-
"Sure Bill. They'll be glad to Actually, a deficit on working of personal reference to the matter. the country in the last of the radio to resolve the clash between Itherty come. We'll tell them; and what $1,196,672 was budgetted for, but that, however, is by the way. The talks on "Whither Britain."
and security at home.
about the choir and the Volun- from this figure, there has to be Britten and his type are able to Elliot, "upon the necessity of be interest Iles in the fact that Mr.
LESSON OF AGRICULTURE. "I take my first stand," said Mr.
teers? Some of the chaps pro- deducted half a million dollars
Agriculture, which is at the bably don't know you're going." provided for in respect of the dislike aroused by the inference of ness of the others who are in the of course, infinitely the most vital," chap was a little worn what with get hot under the collar about the lieving in the decency and kindli-greatest industry in our hand, and, transfer of the Naval Arsenal the Vinson Bill, that it expresses turmoil along with me, whether continued Mr. Elliot, "had a sur-the strain of packing and the Bill ant down heavily. The poor and Kellett Island, but not spent. American belief Looking at some of the items of method of adjusting international
in force as a they are working for me or against, feit of liberty till it sickened and thought of parting with his revenue, we find that duties only disputes..
"I make this demand specially of nearly died of It. yielded $5,833,467 on an estimate
the Badicals, the men, and Indeed thing he liked here under any con- "Any man was free to grow any- of $7,930,000, a fall of $764,384
the women, of the political Left.
ditions, and any man was free to when compared with.1932. The
Wo poured him out a tot of ECONOMIC NATIONALISM. decline in trade is no doubt res-position to
Of course few nations are in a
grow anything he liked anywhere whisky from the decanter which abroad and send it here, equally stood behind the door and were "We must ensure ponsible for the fact that port American navy building; early level of subsistence and a reason these conditions agriculture was burst open and a little gang of
say anything about
a reasonable without any conditions. Under just offering it him when the door and harbour dues produced only every country is putting its own
able level of security for all our not prospering in Great Britain friends poured into the room. $670,385 on an estimate of $805,- dependence chiefly on arms.
citizens. You ask me where weit was decaying. But 000, this representing a shrink- it would be well for Americans to are to go ahead to from that. I
We hurriedly drained the glass age of $132,000 when contrasted face the fact that they are putting without hesitation, to the new things bound to be so. Tho aver-bed. Our Brst thought was for fo the nature of and poked the decantor under the with the previous twelve months. side of the vague Kellogg pact and
theirs almost solely on arms.
State. The Post Office income was $80,- few innocuous arbitration trea
age man producing the average BIH. mo. how the new crop could not compete, and cannot 938 lower than in 1932, but none ties, the United States has joined
State will look, I say it will be compete, and never will be able The newcomers wero effusively the less on a revenue of $1,883,- in one of the agencies set up by
a State in which the people as to cool world-area producing the packing, and determined to sco 654 there was a profit of $1,- European and other nations for 187,000. In other words, revenue adjusting their differences by rea was nearly three times the total son instead of force. Individually of expenditure, and this again and informally Americans have raises the point whether there collectively and officially they have sought to foster peace by reason; should not be some reduction hampered rather than helped the made in postal charges. It is principal machinery net up quite within the bounds of possi- that purpose. Nowhere has this bility that the failure of tho strange reluctance to cooperate in revenue of this Department to building up substitutes
for war come up to expectations, big na
been more evident than in the delay the sum was, is in part due to about entering the World Court, the heavy rates persisting. Land sales yielded $972,861 on estimate of $1,300,000, a falling away of nearly four inkha For reasons never adequately on the 1932 figures. Here is explained, a minority group in the evidence of the subsiding of the United States would be gravely Senate has considered that the building boom. Miscellaneous endangered by membership in the receipts were badly under estim-Court, although none of the forty- ated, yielding $405,499 on an nine members including big and expectation of $248,700, but the small nations has perceived any total was still considerably less such peril. To satisfy these fears than half of that of the previous the Senate attached five reserva- year. The really bright spot in tions to its ratification of the the returns is the steady increase the special benefit of the United original treaty of adherence. For in the earnings of the railway, States the other nations have the revenue being $334,821 bet agreed to the Root formula, ter than in 1932, with the result fically designed to fit the American speci- that the year's profits come to reservations into the Court's con- well over half a million dollars, stitution. President Hoover, ad- On the expenditure side, the vised by the State Department that Colony's outgoings were some this arrangement amply protected four million dollars less than the United States, signed the new anticipated, due largely to the centred
protocols. Yet isolationist strength, effect of the improved dollar rate tions Committee, has continued to in the Foreign Rela- on sterling commitments. The pigeonhole ratification. P.W.D, our biggest spending de-
partment, absorbed quite a good
SENATE ISOLATIONISTS
for
proportion of the allocations for as could be reasonably expected, recurrent and.
extraordinary and some ground for satisfaction works. the actual expenditure may be found in the fact that, in being only $614,000 below esti- spite of the conditions provali- mates. Taken all in all, the ing, the past year yielded a slight financial position is quite as good balance on the right side.
a whole will have a great deal in the
with the selected man friendly, willing to lend a hand in more spare time than they have the selected crop in the selected Bill off on the boat. lo-day. "The stresses and strains of tho at the selected montent."
spot and putting it on the market: Bli was resigned to the worst new era are so terrife that an at-.
but he agreed to let them help It might be said that the pro-pack, more with the idea of getting smaller areas of the world is more tempt to solve our problems within ducory
And not the consumers (Continued on Page 4.)
"That's my husband; ho works at night
somo return for the coming binge than from any desire for help. The poor chap was quickly deceived.
"Say Bill," says Brown holding s tidy looking suit up with an air. of disgust. "You can't take this. home. I should give it to the boy. or let me patch it up. It'll just do for mucking round in the win- ter."
Skilly gave, a whoop of delight from the corner where he had been foraging among a heap of debris.
"My racket, Bill. I wondered where in thunder it had gone to. That'll coat you an extra drink." "That's a cute coat you've got Bill. How much to take it off your hands?"
Stevens who had been trying to put six cubic feet of clothes in a Tour cubic feet trunk could only bo persuaded that it was impossible, when the back of the trunk burst. He was blasphemously apologetic and insisted on tloing up the whole thing with atring with his own hands.
.
The boys broke two photo- graphs nnit a curio or two ho fore leaving heavily laden with sults, sports gear and odda and ends
"If I hadn't booked my pasange. I'm damned if I'd go," said Bill as wo retrieved the whisky bottle und took another, drink,
"Well, packing will be enay now," wo assured him. "You'll hav trunk to spare and maybe we could look after that for you."