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Senator Borah's declaration of war upon the N.R.A. price-raising policy at Glennsferry, Idaho, la certain to have important reper- cussions. The Incident was tri-
vial enough at a superficially as
the connection between the price
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HANGMEN AND HOLS By George
Bank Holiday is the
what undreamt of calamity orfme! What punishment should THE arrival of another is bumanity drifting? It is there be for of bread in Idaho and the Novem-twenty years since some of us race who believe that war alone signal for an extra day's дл experience will solve International diffor-work for us whilst the idling passed through ber oloctions in the United States Appears very remote. Neverthe-which we then thought was the ences?
masses chew spearmint in Aless, it is there. The significance greatest-but the last upheaval of
their matsheds or languish iles in the very definite indication its kind. We still observe Uthat Senator Borah intends tanniversary of the day when the A futuro war would be fought in the embrace of the jelly.
throw in his lot with the opponents ghastly slaughter ceased. Nine- from the standpoint that any fish. Xof the New Deal. The Glennx-teen times have we paused for menns justifies the end, and there
ferry opisode translated into di- that Two Minutes' Silence in is little reason to doubt that not. Nowadays we never bank on a reet action. Mr. Borah's general-memory of the millions who died, only would whole communities be holiday (or for that matter at · and yet in spite of it all there are drenched with poison gases and all) but just carry on with that
Isad criticisms of recent weeks.
A
BORAH'S INFLUENCE
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rumours and rumblings of wart liquid fire, but that the germs of
be
GA
It was only in the last year of disease would utilised spirit of quiet phlegm and bull- the Great War that effective war weapons of war.
doggleness which has got Eng- No one can tell with any fare was waged from the air, and The destruction of property land into the mess she is in to- certainty what is going to tale those who ,remember the utter alone in beyond comprehension, } day, placo In national political horror of being machine-gunned but it is certain destruction of campaign In the United States and bombed from the heavens, millions of lives which is surely And where is.she to-day? until he learns which way Senator wonder in dismay why something of paramount importance. The
We ask you? Borah is going to jump. And it cannot be done to remove
the stupendous strides made in avia is a still more confounding task dread which is steadily permenting tion since the last war to try to anticipate the veteran the minds of war veterans. .. poiltician's foup before he an- nounces it. Now he has made it known that he intends to stump in criticism of the N..A, and
PUNSHMENT FOR CRIMEI
are
sufficient to emphasise the menace which confronts civilisation and yet there is no evidence that the
Even the maps don't help us now that we have extended our frontiers to the Rhine. Person- olly we think that as long as the lads continue to bring home the bacon we can dispense with the rind.
it's
The other day, the Bishop of horror of it all is fully appreciat Hongkong issued an appeal for the cd. The fear and dread certainly Deferred Terms-Repurchase A.A.A. and in opposition to the suspansion of Capital Punishment, drift on and on, bickering and are appreciated, and yet natione Licence & Insurance Arranged Roosevelt Administration's eduen He is opposed (perhaps rightly) to building.
tional campaign to "sell" the New the very thought of taking a life
What next? China may soon be Full particulars on application.
Deal to the voters. Senator
It surely cannot be that the new Including Manchukuo in her own an 肆 punishment. for crime. HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Borali's influence does not arise would that the leaders of the generations are unable to gauge territory if we allow this spirit of
from the number of colleagues or Churches throughout the world Lion which exist? I would that the Japanese be then?
the the means of universal destruc- fun to persist. And where will Show Room
party followers he can command, would inaugurate such a protest Stubbs Road but from a profound popular con against war that humanity would and sounding the utter hopeless-surely very hard to age, how any
cinema
pictures existed showing Sponking geographically, viction among friends and oppo-be compelled to listen. If another ness and agony of war. The im- one can say who is, where, and nents, that he is utterly sincere. war breaks out between the larger pression is so indelibly stamped what or who he is, when boundarica it has long been known that he Powers, millions of innocent lives disagrees heartily with the crop will be sacrificed, for Trom theme of our memories that we are changing every day. reduction policles of Mr. Wallace heavens will rain wholesale death over again and awaken in a cold still dream those ghastly scones;
But speaking confidential like, VICTOR-On August 8, 1994, at 1.46 and is intent on motion mond destruction alike to combat-sweat only to realise that such if you should care to take a hike, Joao Thome. Vietor, staff, Hong-N.R.A. But the liberalism which uts and non-combatants. There bloody chavs may be repented acrose some other frontiers, An.. at the Canosan Hospital, polistic tendencies out of the
will be an kong & Shanghai Banking Cor-eventually separated hire from children slaughtered as members
many women and thousandfold. poration, aged 60 years. Funeral President Hoover was assumed to
DEATH.
will pass the Monument at 6.30 have weldad him to that idol of p.m. today. (Shanghai, Singa-liberais, President Roosevelt. pore, Malneca and Mantia papers please copy).
the
Hongkong Gelegraph.
MONDAY, AUG. 6, 1934.
MR. MacDONALD'S FUTURE
THIRD PARTY?
passport seems of little use, the of the opposing forces, probably case of the majority of humans and drown your joys in tears.
It cannot be that it is merely a test map would cook your goose, more. Is a protest not justified being so blind that they will not to aave these lives?
sec. Cannot Christianity niako A life as
a punishment for them sce?
Fortunately no nation can ex- tena its boundaries more than 25,000 miles, all round so we can see an early end to this new com- petition. In the meantime, house-- holders are advised to keep their
up to the spirit as well as the word of Section 4, par. 3, of Ordinance No. 33, of 1843.
SUNBATHING WITHOUT TEARS fences in good repair and to live
By DOUGLAS COMPTON-JAMES.
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Dear George,
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. Conservative collecrease show the centrifugal forces tend-bathing is that blondes are far
in the if I did not at the same
Yet it appears there are different kinds of Ifberalism. Senator Borah seema likely to take the field particularly in support of his fellow progressive Republicans or former Republicans, Senators La Follette, Hirmar Johnson and Cutting respectively. Yet these insurgents also have the benedic-aunlight were sold in ottles, child might suffer from exposure tion, expressed or implied, of the bottles would have to be outalde the peak period. President Roosevelt. So in Wis-blue-because sunlight is strong Situation is another important
As a hangmon of some consin, Mr. Borah, while denouncmedicine. Doctors are continual factor. The actinic rays are merit and us one who takes a pride ing the works of the Administra-ly warning the public that too capable of reflection. On in his work, I trust you will not It is quite understandable that tion, will be joining forces with much sunlight can be harmful. sandy beach or on water a severe grudge me this space to protest Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's en-it to help elect a man who for- This general atatement is per- sunburn can be acquired much against the proposed commutation forced absence from the sent of swears both Democracy and Re-haps not very helpful. Holfånymore quickly than on grass.of the death sentence. The trade government at this juncture, by publicanism to launch a new party, makers engaged in the pleasant Further, at high altitudes the depresalon must indeed be
actinic reason of health considerations, In fact, his action might give idleness of acquiring a healthy
rays are more powerful when it comes to cutting should arouse rumours of the considerable strength to the ex-looking coat of tan in the short than they are at sea level. In clerks salaries and robbing the possibility of his early retirement pectation of a real third party time at their disposal want more the icy-cold air of snowy hangman of his living. I shall as. Prime Minister. While it is movement, knitting the insurgent detail. They want at least un mountain summit it is only too soon be doing nothing but killing Republican bloc to the so-called approximate idea of the amount easy to get badly sunburnt. time which hangs heavy on my not seriously suggested in res-liberal forces in the Democratic of sunlight they and their children Those who spend their holidays in hands as it is. The trade is not ponsible quarters that during the Party and ultimately effecting a can absorb with safety-if not high places are apt to be deceived what it used to be. I can remem- three months he is away his general realignment. It might do with absolute comfort.
by the coolness of the atmosphere.ber when the profession used to be The first principle of safe sun-with decidedly unpleasant results. an ever open door but it is so A Bevere sunburn. requires slack now that many A member the weight of their influence over Ing to throw apart any such more susceptible to sunlight than medical attention. When the ex-has forgotten how to tie a decent
has been brunettes. Not only have blondes posure governmental-policy-it-is-none- organisation
less pigment, they also tend to relation to the less felt that in a Cabinet THREE KINDS
of the pleasure of neeing you some to the passens thinner skins containing the individual) inflammation of time, of such diverse political com-
less oil. On all three counts, the skin is set up and there are
Yours faithfully, plexions, decisions may be taken The difficulty about liberalism blondes burn much more quickly the Bnual accompaniments of
Harry Longdrop. which may make Mr. Mac-or progressivism is that when than brunettes. You will prob-inflammation, heat, and swelling. Donald's position as head of the society has reached a given point ably have noticed that fair people | Quite apart from the acute dis- Government
there are at least three directions redden difficult
under exposure to the comfort, there
. Dear Harry, is usually some This view has lent some colour to the one course by which it got tan at once.
in which it can move, as compared sun, whereas dark people begin to degree of fever and there is
always the possibility of a fortunate profession appears to be to the suggestion that he might there. For example, there the The time of day is an import-secondary Infection of the in-hanging by a thread. You will find it a convenient opportunity liberal progressiviam of trust-ant factor in sunbathing. The famed tissues.
have to tread wartly or there will to retire if the hoped-for im- brakers such as Senator Borahaetinle rays responsible for sun- No one wants to spoil a holiday be bad news for you. Trusting. provement in his health does not and Senator Nye, contrasted to the burn are at their strongest be in this way, but sunlight is that I shall not have the pleasure fully materialise by October, liberalism of the Recovery Ad-Itween 12 noon and 4 pan. At any deceptive; it has a delayed action, of seeing you for some time, Although the Premier's personal ministrator, Gen. Hugh Johnson.other period of the day it IR The full physical effects of an views have suffered some rebuffs And, third, there is the further almost impossible for a normal over-exposure do not make them-
50ге liberal progressivism of the George person to get seriously burnt by selves felt until in recent Cabinet decisions. Peek or the Milo Reno schools the
fair! Run, although a very
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son to believe that his Conserva-early novel, "The Jungle," that Upton Sinclair concluded in his tive colleagues, though wielding there are almost as many kinds of the preponderant weight in the Socialism as there are Socialists. Cabinet, would think twice before Similarly, the liberals who embarking on a line of action continually called upon to form which would render his position third party are too likely to untenable. Foremost
emulate the famous general who among these reasons is that the Con-jumped on his horse and rode off In all directions. Meanwhile the servative members of the Cabinet would hardly be willing basis of unity in wanting merely conservatives have a much readier to shoulder the onus of carrying to be let alone to stay where they through the India legislation ad- are or-if reactionary-in recall- vocated in the recent White Ing a roseate past to which they Paper if the Government were would like to return. But what- divested of its national hue. over may be the tactical advan- If Mr. MacDonald were to tages of complacency and the
difficulties of insurgency, resign, it is more than likely declaration of purpose by Senator that Mr. J. H. Thomas and Lord Borah points to stormy political Sankey, former members of the weather. For it is not every one last Labour Government, would who has the faculty of making go with him. That would leave trouble for both liberals and con- only Mr. Baldwin and Sir Samuelservatives at once. Hoare, Secretary for India
among the staunch supporters
the
of the White Paper policy in the such a programme would kill the Cabinet, and would threaten a hope of any further reduction in serious rift in the ranks of the the British income-tax burden Conservatives themselves. An- and would in all probability mean other weighty reason ascribed the reimposition of the sixpence for retaining Mr. MacDonald at in the pound lopped off by Mr. the head of affairs is that a Chamberlain in this year's large-scale naval building pro-Budget. A decision of, this gramme by. Great Britain is nature would certainly be un- envisaged if Japanese demands popular with the British tax-
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the United States are maintain- no desire to accept the full brunt ed at the 1935 Conference. It is of unpopularity for it as a purely. believed that the fulfilment of Conservative measuro.
Busceptibilitin knot. Trusting that._I_shall_have_
hours
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The fate of your un-
Yours ffly
George.
LOCAL RHYMES.
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"On Stanley On."-the cry doth
bode well.
For local industry, the seed he
sowed well.
Let others jeer at Hongkong.
Boer-
Here's looking to you, g******
D******
If
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A lnd of parts. 'Tis not a pose He proclaims our earthy woes.
If
Somo took Interest in the peasant And his welfare, moré'ld . be
present
Of piga and plenty, F****
XIII
He rules the waves, the air, the
whole
Sea-bourne traffic's on his roll.. A maglatrate of things Marine, On Legislative Councils seen. A veritable Pooh-Bah-H***
on
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In many ways his life is cast
Pleasant places. He's not last Boards of Companies which
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on
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