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NOTES OF THE DAY RESPONSIBILITY OF CHINA The Very Idea!:
WATER RESTRICTIONS
Talk of a removal of water restrictions on the island is ur doubtedly premature. The rains of early Juno stimulated hopes, but the downpours have not been appreciably supplemented, and the storage position cannot be regard ed na sufficiently secure to justify relaxation of existing rationing provisions. The Government will not, however, miss the algnificance of the fact that hopes were raised by a few inches of rain. It in- dientes that uncomplaining accept ance of the restrictions does not also imply content with the situa- tion as it exists, but rather than the publie expects relief as goop as it becomes possible. Fall sup. ply is not anticipated for some sun siderable time; but when relief is possible the first move should be in the direction of a supply during the mid-day hours.
IN ASIA
By QUO
re-
TẠI GHI
Let us hasten to develop our Industry and steam-engines, We muy draw our resources from
Europe and America;
JEEJEEBHOY TRAILED!
By George "THE GOLDEN CANDAREEN."
(Fourth Instalmont).
Jeejecbhoy know that Madge would be waiting for him and it was perhaps streak of coyness
We have outr four or aye hundred millions of people, Out of whom we may enlist ten | a
millions of soldiers;'
ΟΥ
We have iron and metals in feminine contrariness that
limitless quantity,
| made him linger in the cool them we could build air. (We said this yester thousands of warships; Then we shall stride across the day but it still holds good).
. With
Five Continenta, Where you will see the Yellow Dragon Bannera tly and
dance,
TN these tremendous days the picture of tormented politics armies that pro- and agitated occupies French observors is a European picture, obscuring, un- doubtedly, the Asiatic picture that was upon the screen of their con aciousness two and a half years and a year ago. Yet I am assured that the English people have not forgotten the picture of the Far East, even though ncces- sarlly preoccupied with boding events hardly more than across the
But it Was not for long- Channel from them. The old, old
The cool odours of Causeway problem of a balance of power, a balance of interests in Europe,
Bay drifting upon the Wanchai again calls for all the efforts of
zephir reminded him of his real statesmanship. In Europo now, an with us during the past
appointment and taking a large two and a half years in Asia, everything seems to be in the fire. arrest our attention. One is the silk napkin from his pocket he The balance now na between the sentiment of perverted patriotism folded it over his nose.
and another was the For awhile he amused himself Far East and the European scene almost childish belief in the simby counting the people coming off The Madrid Government has
is the equal balance of impending ecating or £100,000 now able Vauxhall chosen the worst possible time to disaster. It is no less dangerous plicity of China's problema; if the Star Ferry but so many cur-
quarrel with the Catalans. Its
because some of the most portent-chough soldiers and warskipsloda glances were thrown at him troubles in Badajoz, uncontrolled despite the severest suppressive jastes seem, in the view allke could be produced, then the Yellow that he started counting the Dragon Banners would fly and chimneys on the Hongkong Club measures, and the undercurrent or of ultimate history and of common dance over the Five Continentsi Instead and assured himself that
mense, to be ao Idle.
How simple! How
exciting! they were all there. revolt among the Socialist organ-
There seems no limit to the Fortuantely for Chinn as well as isations, ought, in the mind of the ordinary obeeryer, to have taught capacity of mankind, whatever the for the world, China did not pro- It caution in dealing with a peo-race and whatever the hemisphere, ceed to bring this dream to realisa-
to create political desperations out tion."
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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934.
THE UNIVERSITY'S PROBLEMS
CATALAN UNREST
ple who do not ordinarily view the prenent administration in Madrid A year with any sort of favour. after the Republic was formed in 1931, Catalonia, (the four pro- vinces of Barcelona, Tarragona, Lerida and Gerona.) became an within the Γεκίνη Spanish State, and the Catalans take the charter obtained then very seriously. To them autonomy means nothing lese. To attempt to interfere with the Land Lay, fundamentally necessary to the
Catalans,
autonomous
radically-minded
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it
Race
of
our own
But the writer who quotes this verse quite sugely comments: notes in this poem especially
or ness
to
late
Suddenly he felt that he was followed. Diving into a private. place in the ferry he changed into a Scotch accent and with the aid of liberal application of powder transformed himself in tn 41 stockbroker. Thus dis guised he walked confidently an to the Proya again and to put would-be trackers of the scent 12 threw a ten cent plece - to cripple who was whining in the Kutter.
And where was. Madgo all thie time?
Madge had been cleaning her teeth ferociously in anticipation of her lover's coming. Now she was gargling in an effort to rid her mouth of the stain of the red betel nut which she chewed in preference to a fountain pen. "Carramba!" she muttered when she caught a glimpse of her rugged face in the glass. Cosmetics had removed most the traces of dis- sipation and drink but deep lines Isy along her forehead where the mosquito and the wood-pecker had ploughed their lonely furrows.
of matters that history later will pronounce simple enough of peace- The Three People's Principles of Yat-Sen arc sometimes ful solution. From time to time Sun
for diTuseness, but nations and races become obsessed criticked with such problema as inevitable certainly that great political pro-
"manifest destiny," gramme formulated by our epxansion."
How rigid their de- that democracy needs for effective. honour population," "antional Leader has all the bite, and grip
an exelted
in China. Its immense mands seem in
A quick trot up Ice House Street narrow-minded time! How much authority lea not alone in its in-
doublo round Princo's more elastic they actually are in sight and force and practical de-and the ultimate view! I could not mand upon men, but also in the Building found him on the same help meditating in such a fashion fuct that it is the culmination of spot again just in time to retrieve as I enjoyed watching a perform Professor Tawney has strikingly beggar had crawled up to it.
tradition native China, the coin before the unfortunate the
historical play, sheer folly. If the choire of the
described how the "economic, poli- The Catalans is acceptance of Madrid's "Richard of Bordeaux."
It was characteristle of Jee- decree or a bid for complete in- young King, Richard 11, gave a tical and intellectual movements, jeebhoy that he acted swiftly. dependence, the bid will be made.great shock to his Council when which elsewhere made their way Giving the beggar a swift klek in he said that after all England had by gradual stages and small in- the ribs to divert his attention and Stress is laid in the annual
no real need of a Continental pro-crements of growth, are, in the
a one cent piece to allay he cries, report of the University of
gramme, that neither national wel- China of to-day, in simultaneous he darted across the rond, leaped Hongkong on the point that if
fare nor national prestige were ferment." Well, the yeast that into a junk, and hoisting the sall the demand for admission con- The leg-theory controversy tran- tinues to increase, it can only be planted to England threatens to truly involved in constant fighting has caused all that ferment is the with one hand and his silken host to hold the terrritories of France. yeast of thorough democracy in all with the other, he proceeded to This remarkable observation na- its phases. Whether or not there guide his fragile craft across the met by new buildings and addi- crop up again in acute form.
is a very serious matler if, na re-
country left on the harbour! tional staff. The only alterna-ported by the Evening Standard, tionally diverted my mind to an- be only one
At last he was on his way to tive is to refuse admission to Nottinghamshire has been threanther uneasential dream of Con- continent of Europe to share with
tinental expansion in the Far East England the faith and practice of keep a date! those seeking to enter. It is,tened by famous counties with a
time. It took political democracy. certainly in of course, a very gratifying eir-boycott, in the event that Mr. Curr in cumstance that the number of continues to authorise fast leg- hundred and fifty years after Asia there is only China to stand
nes. Richard II, for England finally to as its believer and Its exponent. students at present enrolled ex- theory tactica in county games.
abandon her obsession. Short-
However delayed and partial the Poor Larwood is apparently again eeeds by more than sixty any
and selfishness can the culprit-and of course any sightedness previous enrolment, but, as the variation of the original theory easily take the names of national perilous course of democracy may and national honour.be in China, her great honour and | Vice-Chancellor points out, this
that he has introduced or may in- necessity very fact throws the problem of troduce in modification, to rob it Yet, in the end, not always far off, her great responsibility is that in the University's future into
of cause for complaint. will not the Genius of History makes short China, and nowhere else in Asin, growing relief. The whole issue is one prevent it from being condemned, work of both the political justifica- in the democratic iden
tions and the material benefits. and not diminishing. of finance. Despite the fact it looks If Mr. Bryan Lewis's eng that the
In thoughtfulness and faith the University now
gestion for powder-puff balls in Yes, I felt the immense satisfac- re-
tion of an analogy for our present ceives an annual grant of $350,- cricket may be needed after all.
challenge in Asia as I sat in a Chinese turned to the instruments 000 from the Government, as
London theatre on a recent even-of that produce of Western, and especially Anglo-Saxon, Instinct well 15 substantial in-WAR DEBTS
for governing because the West terest from the Boxer In-
The makers of deadly brews, had thus made explicit an instinct America's reply to the British demnity funds, the past year war debt Note conforms to pattern, mixed half with greed and half in government that was always reveals a deficit on working, All the old arguments are trotted with national self-hypnosis, atrut implicit in China throughout her mainly due to the fact that the out. separation of one debt from and strive, but in the end it is the history. The belief was not bor yield from investments has another and those debts from re- genius of a people and not the am- rowed from the West. The in- declined, that income from other parations, as if it was not under-bitions of their war-lords of the stincts lay indigenous In China. sources has also shrunk, and stood, if not expressed in the day that gives loadership to a They are and were of the genius that the new salaries scale has criginal settlement that they hung continent, and makes clear the way of the Chinese people. The debt materially added to the cost of together. The Balfour Note could for the world's genuine and eo to the West is for forme that the face to facet Jecjesbhoy is de- not have meant anything else sential history. As a stage of the Chinese knew how to adapt injinitely on his way sailing the administration. Any marked
There may be justice in the con- impression made upon Chinese order to make their own genius rough seas to meet his lady at her That is our lonely bungalow and he will get expansion of the University's tention that debtors seeking relief mentality by Western science there politically effective. netivities in the immediate should make the first move and future must, unfortunately, be should submit proposals, but that Chinese had the kind of rabid The ruled out, since there is small has been done often enough with dream that Japan under misguided China and the implicit summona to likelihood of any appeal for out result: never has there come leadership has lately been trying leadership for Asla lles
to make effective. The Symposium there. It is in her ages-old com funds yielding substantial re-
from the United States a pee of Chinese Culture, has in it some mital to the democratic faith and we anle you to reflect on that "and then and then--" with which sults. Indeed, the last appeal which fresh proposals might
a happy after- verses by the scholar Kang Yu- the slow but sure development of we concluded as hung. The Roosevelt Note does put forward produced no res-
mɛan. that not reveal the slightest, advance Wel, the leader of the 1898 Reform political instruments for making thought. Docs ponse whatever. Nor can there from the attitude taken in the Movement, among them being the the democratic faith effective in Mange wipen her noac for the first
(Continued on Page 9.) be the least prospect of any in- Coolidge era. Apparently, it is following:-
time since this thrilling serial began or does the amah stick a pin crease in the Government grant,expected of debtors that they conte
in her (from behind? We could which now stands at a figurecap in hand and await upon con-
tell you but we prefer to spend seven times that paid a few descension.
the week-end on it before rushing years back. The whole trouble
madly into print...We were sorry about the beggar cpisode but it ia too late now to withdraw it so we | shall have to punish Rey after all. We might make him catch a cold on his way across the harbour or grow a wart on the end of his none. Anyway something will be happen- ing in our next instalment if wo have to come into the story our- selves to do it, so watch out for [Frefcebhoy on Monday!)
and it is one with which the PAYMENTS IN KIND University has had to contend
on
trana
during the whole period of its No great significance need be existence is that existing en-suggestion, apart from the tacit attached to the payment in kind dowments are in no sense ade-admission it conveys that transfer quate. One point which sug-problems are acknowledged. Pay- gests itself is whether, in view ment in stable raw materials, such of prevailing conditions, atu-as tin, rubber and the like, would dents' fees might not be in- merely transfer the problem from creased. At present, the amount war debts to commercial received from this source is less actions. At present, America's than twenty per cent. of the set up credits to pay partially for imports of Empire raw materinių yearly income. It has been British trade purchases
in the estimated that the annual ex- United States. Diversion
to the penses of a University student US, Treasury would be simple in Hongkong come to about enough, but British merchants $1,400, whereas it would cost a would be compelled to cense pur- Chinese student going abroad chases in the United States for for his University education at lack of the wherewithal to pay, least $3,500 a year, exclusive of unless by violently disturbing ex- travelling expenses. Whilst it changes by large transfers of gold from England. The net effect might be unwise to take any would be precisely
the same is atep likely to affect the growing direct payment of war debts popularity of the University, ['gold. the fact cannot be lost sight of
that the existing fees are by no
Lion
In
means onerous, when we re- found or economies effected. member that a first-class eduen- | No-one realising the splendid is brought to the very work which the University is doors of those who seek admis-doing would desire to see it de sion: Admittedly, an increase finitely stagnating or losing in fees would not materially ground, but, for the time being affect the main problem with at any rate, the most that it which the University in faced, can do is to mark time until but with the situation as it is, conditions become more pro either fresh Income has to be pitious for the future.
ing.
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Cutting off her nails with single blow of the meat chopper, Madge tied her hair into a neat reef knot on her forehead and then!--and then!
(To Be Continued) (At last, folks, we have thent
We
was a moment, too, when some immediate transitional situation. there by Monday at latost.
present responsibility of put the amah in 18 a kind of
chancrone but we promise she will precisely not be in the way. In the interval
"I suggest you get her a corsage pin or snappy little powder compact."
cit
Dear George.
I think you write a ravishing serial and” I
um just dying to know what Jeejeebhoy does if you, have one of Madgo's log amputated. It would be such funt Seeing Jeejeebhoy I mean. I think Madge to a fue character but just a little strong, don't you think? I always hoped that a dimple was more attractive to men but than rugged lines on the face, If you think so it must be right. Do write me a personal letter and tell me your views. I am simply itching to know. I only have
Haes on my foot-Freda.
ReaderWe know we're not the ravishing kind no why flatter us! Are you look- ing for a free scat at the Marcus Showr That's different. think you are being a little cat about Madge's leg and besides how do you know that her rugged lines are not varicose veina?- Georga.)
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