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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
NIGHTMARE OF.
WAR
(Continued from Papé 4.)
21 YEARS ACO.
Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files
JUNE 29, 1934.
The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended June 28th, 1918.
·
The rate of dollar on demand was 1.31.5/8d.
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Fight The Depression!
Keep yourself in condition and you will better be able to weather business depresstory for nothing gets a man down sooner than bad
businers coupled with ill-health.
To bo fit, it is essential to keep the stomach and bowels in good order and to do this there is nothing better than an occasional dose of Pinkettes, Thin fileal laxativo is non-griping and non-habit-forming, and assista anture in a perfectly natural way to cleanu the food tract regularly. For perfect health take Pinkettes, obtainable at
worked to explain to those who had remained at home just what this horror was,, The novels and the plays have passed before us. We looked at the gruesome pictures and shuddered. But no one really understood. No one really learned anything. The artists were at
Mr. G. W. Sewell was commond-all chemists. tempting the impossible.. Theyed at the Police Court for his were trying to translate a night plucky rescue of a would-be suicide CONSIGNEES' NOTICES, mare into the realms of actuality.by diving into the harbour from a Naturally they failed, as signally "Star"" ferry-boat when the man na did those who sought to bar jumped overboard their windows against a second
TO SEATTLE, VICTORIAVisit of the terror. ·
17 DAYŞ
THE EXPRESS ROUTE Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and
Victoria,
Fortnightly sailings
Pros. Jefferson
Pres. Grant Pro. McKinley Pros. Jackson Pres. Jefferson
6 a.m. Aug.
a.m. Aug. 18
0a.m. Sopt. 16
6 am. Sept.
1
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0 p.m. July An.m. Jufy 7 8-n.m. July 21 4 p.n. July 24 p.m. July 28
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MARITIMES
UNZEN!!!
1934 Holiday Season
The Messageries Maritimes Steamers will call at
NAGASAKI as follows:
Steamers
Leave Arrive Nagasaki Hong Kong
Felix Roussal july 11 July 17
Chenonceaux July 26
Leave
Arrive
Hong Kong Nagasaki
June 29 July B
July 15 July 22
Aug.
5
D'Artagnan
Aug. 12 Aug. 19 Aug. 24
Athos-11-
Aramis
Sept. 9
Sept. 21
July 29
Sept. 2 Sept. 16 Andre Lebon Sepf 30 Felix Roussol
July 31.
9 Aug.
Aug. 14
Aug 23
Aug-28
Sept. 6
Sept. 20
1Oct.
4
Sept. 11 Sept. 25 Oct.
9
RATES OF PASSAGE
HONG KONG to NAGASAKI
Single
Round Trip
tavailable 3 months)
1st Class 2nd Class 3rd Class 4th Class
$135 $220
$ 85 $130
$50 $85
$30
First class round trip tickets to Kobe, Nagasaki, Yokohama only interchangeable with the Canadian Pacific Railway Coy. For particulars apply to the Company's Agency: 3. Queen's Bldg.
They change so fast, there should be
a now picture at least once a year,
for photographs of the children never grow up.
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Any soldier who served through any of the major engagements in the World War will agree with me
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Dr. Sun. Yat-sen, Interviewed on The Danish Motor Vegsél, arrival in Hongkong, urged con-
"AFRIKA" cessions to foreigners to buikl having arrived from Copenhagen, railways in China, saying in this Oslo, Gothenburg, Antwerp, Hum
and Genoa consignees be laid down in ten years,
of
that in looking back now the pic-way 60,000 or 70,000 miles could burg
cargo are hereby informed that
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ture of those days fa misted with unreality. Let him try, if he does
all goods are being landed and not agree, to put his memories in-
The Bandmann Opera Company placed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of to actual word. He will find appeared at the Theatre Royal In The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf then that it cannot be done. He such musical comedies na "The and Godown Co. Lid., where delivery. may cause a few shudders. But Runaway Girl," "Gypsy Love," can be obtained as soon as the goods LONDON SERVICE in the telling he will realize his "The Pink
inability to convey anything of the of Luxe Lady." ami “The Count are landed..
llstorted picture which ko may conjure up in his own thoughts.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the godowns and all goods remaining undelivered after the 4th July, 1934, 4 p.m., will be
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bill of Lading will be counter- signed by
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This present is one plane of ex-evory other problem-an individual subject to rent. istence. War, which is a flat one. If we ourselves believe In! All broken, chafed and damaged denial of avery cultural and ethical the nightmare, can we expect goods are to be left in the Godown, principle that has contributed to others to awake? If we insist on where they will be examined by Dar prosent civilization, is a totally the locks and shultera, can we Moxare. Anderson and Ashe on the different one,
complain that the windows and 3rd July, 1934, at 10 am For example, let us glance back doors of others remain locked and', All claims against the vessel muat be presented to the Undersigned through the pages of history. Let bolted? The fierce dogs that we within ten days of the ship's arrival. us choose an isolated
PACIFIC SERVICE page of keep in our yard for strictly de- or they will not be recognised. events which convulsed the world, fensive purposes may appear star- however briefly. The Inquisition tlingly offensive to our neighbours, comes to mind. No doubt in those And all of these things are but days there were those who strug-evidences that we cling to the
led to open the eyes of their fel-reality of the dream. low men to the horror of the We send our ambassadors and system. They failed because the delegates to work under the dark | confused majority believed in the pall of shadows that guns and war- necessity of doing evil that good ships throw neroas the conference might come of it. This confused chambor, and wonder why the re thinking resulted in a nightmare sults are unsatisfactory. As it of torture and cruelty-but is not every one of us did not know that war of the same stuff?
true disarmament is the disarm- The parallel of the Inquisitioning of the fears and suspicions of As truer than one might at first be others through our own manifest Inclined to admit. There were good will and sincerity.
those who believed that by torture So it is as an old soldier who and suffering men could be forced was sent out once and might con- to embrace the true religion and ceivably be called upon once more: their souls thereby be saved. But that I watch the struggle of the is not the belief in war based upon nations to avoid a cataclysm that the same fallacy? We have, be- no one wishes to experience, lleved that through murder,
through such wholesale torture as the Inquisition never know, by cruelty and barbarity, wrongs and Inequalities might be righted.
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Now, as we look back, we sco clearly that the Inquisition was based on a condition of thought. It was in fact an unreality that gained credence. The Inquisition
Sweep the germs
passed with the growing appre of disease out
hension of liberty, Justice and in- elligence. Men woke from the dream that was the basis of the Inquisition's horror, and it passed into history as a dream of terror through which the world has long «inco - pansed.--.-.-
If
we had not seen that and recognized it clearly we to-day might be calling international con- ferences at which the experts would solemnly declare which in-
struments of torture might legally be used, and what form of religion man must embrace to escape the attentiona of the torturers,
But, because we have not yet classified war as another phase of the same distorted dream, we still debate and argue ns to what weapons may legally be used when next we experience the nightmare, This is the dead weight that
mankind carries in ita struggle toward peace. We desire to escapo the nightmare under certain con-
ditions. We are ready to give up
everything except the belief that
we may awake from the nightmare
with something tangible" in our grasp.
In this state of unreason we call conferences and send our delegates and ambassadors. To our dismay the conferences fail, We cry out in our bitterness as we watch the evasions, the indecisions and blun- derings of the conferees. Yet what else can we expect? These ageals, in their confusion, but re- flect the thinking of those whom they serve.
Thus it becomes increasingly clear that disarmament is like
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
of
f your mouth!
Disease most frequently- enters the body by way. of the mouth. Prevent
tooth decay and sweep out the germs of disease by the
daily use of Pebeco.
**
un-
A healthy mouth can with. stand infection—an healthy mouth cannot resist disease. Keep your mouth
healthy, and your teeth sound, with Pebeco.
JOHN MANNERS & CO. LTD.,
Agents. Mercantile Bank Building. Hongkong, 27th July, 1934.
WHEN AT HOME
The
Hongkong Telegraphi.
MAY BE PURCHASED
AT
SELFRIDGE'S
LONDON, W.I.
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TOOTH PASTE
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RECKLES
AND NUTTY
HAVE BEEN CALLED INTO THE
. SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL'S
OFFICE
AGAIN
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BOYS, I'VE TALKED TO
A MAN WHO IS INTERESTED. IN YOUR HISTO-DETECTOR.... AND, IF IT PROVES A SUCCESS,
YOU'LL BE FIXED
FOR LIFE!
ANOTHER MAN TOLD US THE
SAME. "THING!
WELL, WHAT ARE WE GONNA
DO;NUTTY.... CARRY ON, OR
JUNK THE
IDEA?
WHY SHOULD WE QUIT, JUST BECAUSE
A HOODLUM THREATENED
US
AND,BESIDES, HOW DO WE KNOWĮ HE WAS TELUNG THE TRUTH ABOUTĮ
THE PATENT
RIGHTS?
WERE IN A POSITION TO GIVE SOMETHING TO tu THE WORLD, AND HAVE OUR | NAMES ON EVERYONE'S
TONGUE...AND JUST THINK HOW MANY MEN HAVE - SUFFERED, AND EVEN DIED, FOR A PRINCIPLE! I THINK WE CAN DO THE
SAME
IT SOUNDS OKAY....
BUT HOW DO
YOU FIGURE WE'RE DOING
IT FOR HIM?.
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