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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY
ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT
Britain held the whip-hand in the debt negotiations with Ger- many and the agreement signed satisica all British requirements. Brituin undertakes not to employ
A GERMAN REFUGEE SPEAKS
By-
its powers under the Clearing Der month. I wake up in father would have said to me..
AYS come, days go. Month|gether, boy." That's what my
House Bill and Germany guaran-
tees to meet all debt charges on the morning, I go to bed at night. the Dawes and Young Loans. As Nothing happens; lime goes. slow. "We must go!" I say to my far as Britain-is concerned there ly-terribly slowly. No change-Somewhere, anywhere, but we must wife. But wherty? Yes whore? the matter resta, or ao Mr. Nevilloj no chance.. Chamberlain belleves. Germany
go. There is the world, the great, One year ago, suddenly, fe beautiful and dangerous world, is not in quite the same comfort- able position. Not yet has the broke away in the middle of my Somewhere there will be a small Anglo-German agreement put an work, that beloved work of mine, place for two to work and to live. end to the danger of stimulating the terror came. Terror unbein. And we will come back, we international antagonisms and Hovable, Suddenly a strange de muat come back again! reonomic feuds, And, inercover, low are such things possible? pression oppressed. my heart.
The train rushes through the
The Very Idea!
BACK TO BLOOMERS
By Maison Eddie Kelly Et Cie.
Mr. Edward Kelly, who In dragged, screaming and kicking. to the Telegraph office once a week to write a "Very Idea," han seized upon the "Call of Fashion" controversy with fiendish delight. Since last Friday, Mr. Kelly has spent his spare time out at the beaches, personally Investigating the latent fashion in shorts. UIN opinions, which are given below, may be summarised in a state- ment be issued this morning,
"Of course they're shocking," Mr. Kelly said, "but we men aro good shock absorbera,"
Now. read on,
it is not at all certain that the Could atrocity stalk so boldly in night, We are quiet and tired TRIPPED to our scanties.
One
and brassieres we
dropping of the clearing-house scheme by Britain will be accom- times of culture? Is this the terribly tired. Three trunks are panied by forgetfulness among future destroyed in a moment. Noer Bays: "One hour and we are this feminine invasion of "new order? All hopes for the fall we have, man in the ear-reiterate our protest against hope to get any job. Even tho at the frontier." At the frontier! smallest job; even the most hated Do you realise what that means? men's clothes.
other nations of its usefulness.
PERRY v. CRAWFORD
work,
What shall become of me? What shall become of my wife Is there no way out?
speaks. It is a dreadful silence, in We are sitting at home. No one rooms where a few days ago hap-
Do you know, man? Freedom. No uniforms, no precessions, no
We, as protectors of the door balls ringing, no "friend" public morals of Hongkong, who are afraid to speak to "aub- have had occasion before this to human traitors," who played with them as boys and met them as men. protest against woman's invasion At the frontier? Do you realise, what that means of man's rights.
As the victim. ourself of a certain knobbiness about the The train stops. Officials come knees, we know what Father di
Boll it all down, and you'll find that women wear shorts simply to attract our intention.
Since last Friday we have spent most of our time at the beach, und, let us tell you, we can see through their intrigue even if
F. J. Perry and Jack Crawford will clash in the final of a national tennis championship for the fourth time in less than a year when they meet to-morrow for the greatest prize of all, the men's singles championship at Wimbledon. No pinces and laughter could be further evidence would appear to same as before? They are not. hours. The train starts again. he said that shorts are the thia recognised. Are the rooms the in. Control. Minutes grow to Angelis was talking about when be necessary to establish them as All seems strange. This old table, Stope again in a foreign country.edge of the wedge. the outstanding players of the pre- this old picture of my father in Uniforma I never saw before, polite sent time, and it needs only the the uniform of a German soldier. officials, happy people speaking a match itself to satisfy public He was a "patriot and fought for language which I cannot under opinion on the most interesting his "Fatherland." point, which
stand. But I see they are free. of the two in the greater? Results suggest Perry Fatherland! That word reminds Free in word and free, in mind. and he must enter the centre court me. Switch the wireless on
Is it true? Is it reality or for the great occasion of his career
since 14 years the Marxist dream? We two among free with the moral advantage, not in and Jewish traitors ruined the people who are not persecuted and considerable, furnished by a series Fatherland. .. Did you really. are not afraid to speak to us? I of victories over his rival. Three poor old dad? Did you ruin Ger- must try that freedom, straight sets sufficed when last many in the trenches in France? stop trying. I try to speak with FRMAY, JULY 6, 1934. they met on a hard court, and if Switch it off. I honour the the odd words of this or that
a superiority complex has any memory of my father.
language. They try to understand. CHOPPED DOLLARS meaning. Perry should establish
The bell ringa. I nee the dearReally, they try. They do not even the first English AUCCCOR at Wimbledon since 1909. The only in my wife's eyes. Are they com laugh at me. What a pity we must
As we were saying, something
dono
these An old grievance was
about ver-doubt engendered arises from sux-in? Will they take me to the give it up! And I would have been should be tilated at this week's meeting of gestions of some lack of farm in camp? Is this moment the last at to happy to speak again as man feminine fashions.
his leat match or two. That may home? I open the door, a younga- to man.
Old Whalesteeth and us, we took the Chinese Chamber of Com- mean nothing at all. It would heter in Nazi uniform aske for money A new world begins for us, One our wives down to the K.C.C, for a merce when complaint was voiced safer for Crawford to assume that for the Storm Troopers. I have no friend, whose address we had, spot of tennis last Sunday, and the
Perry has been playing within him- money. at the losses suffered by reasonself, reserving his energy for the The Nazi rings the next door bell helped us for the first days to get women would insist on wearing
Hongkong Telegraph.
GOOD TIMES AHEAD?
►
I have just lost my job.
cannot
Note by Abigail: If you were a .. gentleman you wouldn't look.
Note by Mr. Kelly: We said "Intrigue." Besiden (coldly), this column Isn't intended for women to-day.
a room and to find our ways. 1 shorts.
nowhere..
came
up,
Once again we sit at the table. begin to run about. I visit all was no fault of ours that i did not tell my wife what Willy committee rooms and assistance Whalesteeth had a hole in the seat told me yesterday. He said organisations. I wait there for of his pants, nor were we to blame
Kifedzlebuga should go as quickly as possible, many hours. I tell my story a when
They are behind you," he said. thousand times, I find no hope of slapped him on the back, and sald: Are they really? Why? What is any work. Not here, not there, wrong with me? I have done my work as correctly as anyone else. I get letters of introduction., 1am & Food Socialist, they know of Everywhere they are friendly and me. That's true: They all know. willing to help but nowhere they It is sufelant to make me a can help. I will take any job. prisoner, a victim of the Storm But I am not allowed to take a job Troopers.
and there is no job going.
"Golly, Whalesteeth! Look nt that awful rip in your pants!"
"Sh-sh! you fool," hissed Whalesteeth,
"that's my wife!"
of the discounting of chopped real task. Hongkong dollars. The chop. ping of dollars can be traced back in its origin to pre-coinage days in Chinn, when sycee WRS
Economic experts, actual and se- stamped as a method of guar- called, continue to issue encourag anteeing the genuineness of the ing forecaststarrying, always a silver. It is for the same pur. reassuring promise of good times ahead. People of every age and pose that dollars are now country look forward hopefully. chopped. Formerly, there was with a realisation that, somewhere a deal of chopping done in Hong-un of happiness. and prosperity. behind the clouds there shines the
Shorts on the benches and tennis courts, as Father de Angelis said, kong-at-this is no longer the In recent years, however, there has of my friends. I could cry, I could ruiny. "You will have more suc-wedge.
I know what they did with some I met a man I know from Gerare only the thin edge of the case, Canton and the Kwangtung come into the experiences of many run into the streets and cry aloud:eess over here than a man like the wave of immodesty may scorch Unless nipped in the bud, interior being the centres from a per
persistent fear that basic changes lave you all forgotten that youme," he says. And I believed him and poison other pubile occasiona. for the logical development of the which-the-defaced-coins come Capitalistic system) have destroy and not beasts? Is there happior-than-1-am-
eternal right of mankind? into Hongkong. Actually, undered the economic structuri ma-Where is the Lord to help tho Month after month passes. an ordinance passed some forty the foundation rather than the percented? Is there no feeling, small savings become smaller and years ago, it is a demeanour in mere outward expression of har- no sentiment, is there no heart? smaller, And even this help can- the Colony to deface a dollar by monious existence. An era of dis-. What have the little children done not be sent any longer from Ger-
that they are pornecuted? What many. Hlusionment, bringing with it cou have they done?"
The restriction atrikes No: we have had serious ideas chopping, whilst under the same vincing evidences the
of
hard. And Aurally the savings about this sawn-of trousers move- transitory inw no payment of money made value of those things which many But nobody would answer, no-the papers. Is there something matches in the old days, when the
have gone. Every day we run for ment for some time. in dollars so defaced is legal had regarded as substantial and body would try to look at me a new about Germany? Is they players wore trousers to the knees, We used to watch football
permanent, unquestionably tender. Actually, these dollars caused many thoughtful persons to and-mental hospital or concentra- Will our beloved country become where they met high stockings,
has few men in uniform would come hope? Can we hope to return? are accepted, but at a discount, seek a basis of true and actual tion eamp would be the end. and us they are freely circulated, | values.
being continually encountered in
chinery which had come to seem
ordinary everyday transactions,NEW FORMULA? the public is at the mercy of
10
free again?
The
Besides, it's not fair to the moths and silverfish, cutting away the cloth from under their teeth.
In these latter-days or clothes, below the knee to well above which expose the bare flesh from the beginning of the thigh (if we may use that word without offence), and which condone open- neck shirts and no hats, we prefer our Ludo and our Snakes and Ladders,
and the jerseys were worn to the neck, and as often as not wero We must come to a decision.
Hope is our life, hope is our adorned chastely with ties in the One or the other. But something only happiness, hope must be club colours, and when further, must be done. Suicide? For one realised.
the players wore caps, terrible moment that idea rushes those who fix the discount. A
through my mind. I know that There are the "Committees," What is to bring, and what is to thousands of good men made des- there Is the High, Commissioner nice little ramp is, indeed, con. insure, the permanency of theseperate choose this way. No, I can- (once our hope), there is lip ser tinually going on, inasmuch as and untried formula to be prescrib too
better conditions? Is some new not. I am too young; 1 still feel vice. We make a few personal dollars accepted at a discounted, not as a palliative, but as a
strong. "Pull yourself to-| (Continued on Page 7.) again find their way into circula-specific? Disillusionment has not: tion, and so the process continues engendered impatience. It has,
rather, inspired a definite ad infinitum. As far as the lay-hopeful search for the finer und and
man can see, there seems no more substantial things, visible adequate reason why these del- and invisible, which sustain and in this search It is being satisfy. Jars should not be accepted by decerned that greed and fear are the banks at their face value, the Hons in the path, which muat Be that as it may, the present too long appeared as the most per- be met and overcome. These have position is far from satisfactory aistent and aggressive enemies and and as the public is being vic-destroyers of human happiness. timised continuously, the matter
is one which culls for serious at- RIGHT THINKING tention. Something might be done along the lines of with- Those who look hopefully for- drawal of the existing dollars and ward need not be discouraged or their replacement by token coins world has not been transformed too deeply concerned because the smaller in size than the present and redeemed from greed, solish- dollarg and of Iesa silneas and baseless fears in the ver content. This would be in years that have passed since the line with the action taken in re- Nazarene brought the clear ray of
teaching d
and preaching of the gard to cent-places. Such a step fight to a benighted and superati- would remove the necessity for tous
flour people. By line upon line, chopping and thus cheek, the
precept upon precopt, Truth jevil at its source. On the ground presses itself finally and convin
of convenience, also, it would be cingly upon the consciousness of appreciated by the public, which those who, willingly. .or unwillingly, has not taken at all kindly to we should look forward, with a
Ilsten "And learn to
to understand, the substitution of dollar-notes
Kurance claiming AB
by cumbersome "cart-wheels.”
im.
rightful
of past experiences, and
Whatever the method employed fringe of lessons well learne
ns a
of
it is high time action was taken. the brighter and hotter things It ought certainly to be possible | which are tho Aral rewards for the Treasury in conjunction right thinking. The law of com with the banks to evolve a plan pensation is irrevocable and im whereby the public is protected partial. in its application from the exploitation to which it but there can be no miscarriages enforcement there may be defanya, in at present subjected.
or justlee.
and
"He's a darn good horse... That's the troublo, he's too good for...
his job."
Let the authorities lay down de- finitely what are, their minimum requirements. For their assist- ance we offer the following aug gestions:
(1) Foundation garment of red fannel, caught below the ankle
bone with an elastic band, and reaching to a point not more than two inches below the ears. This underwear must not be hem-stitch- ed or French-pleated, or embrol- dered, though a touch of braid at the wrists would not be objection. able.
(2) An overgarment of dull grey tr-s-rs, touching the toos, and. voluminously about the legs and th-gls and waist.
(8) A top garment of heavy shirting, buttoned to the neck and
the wrists.
at
(4) Red woollen mittons.
As indlented, these are just the bareat suggestions, purely for mate participants in games. For females, the same rules will obtain, except, naturally, in res poct to the outer-garments whore for the male tr-s-rs there would be substituted a crinaline with minimum of three petticoats, long whalebone cors-ts, woollen blouso with log-o'-mutton aloevon and high-boned neck,
There are other details about which, however, we: profor to maintain a discreet silence, but;' upon which we should be only too, delighted to enlarge upon In a private talk with the mother of any contestant.