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NOTES OF THE DAY ENGLAND'S GENTLEMEN The Very Idea!
SEVEN-POWER PACT SNAG
OF THE ROAD
allowing foreign troops to march H comes to one's door offering order a search of his belongings
et
of
FOOCHOW; TRUTH It is now hinted that Germany B refusal to sign a blank permit, I THE tale of the pedine who of the Institution is entitled to
By George · In answer to correspon- through German territory, in his meagre packets of ofton scent-if he is suspicious that the vagrant future war, is one of the
main less lavender, his cheap cotton boot is bringing into the institution any dents we have to repeat our obstacles to the conclusion of the laces, or his dog-eared copies of thing which is prohibited. last week's assurance that..
Easter! next Boven-power
almanack nightshirt n specially strong year's predletory proponed European pael of mutual nasist
Bome пnce, and may prove to be the rock gives one causo to wonder. Almost material is provided, proventing a all is well at Foochow and that the bandits have pact scheme will flways his story is practically word tendency on the part of
ensunla to rip anything on which
for word the same as the
themselves in alls suppor consists of eight ounces established finally collapse. The project,
counted by the man who knocked a will be remembered, defensive
military work, no prospects of it in his own in clean bedclothes he is provided sure in their new quarters.
wn and a pint of ton. After sleeping Czecho alliance between Germany,
no money, and little food;
with willingness Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Lith and he emphasises his
It
that re-
tearable.
and rectisaged a short time before. He tells of no of bread, an ounce of margarine. the City and expressed plea-
town
Deferred Terms-Repurchase-Licence In.considor adherence to the proposed thing of the past. He la supersed-i
To-delivery in Janded prices. surance arranged. Full parileulars on ap agreement. plication.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, AUG, 21, 1934.
THE GERMAN. PLEBISCITE
That Herr Hitler still com- mands the confidence and alte giance of the great bulk of the people of Germany has been demonstrated very clearly by the result of the plebiscite which confirms him in the dual office of Reichsleader and Chancellor.
many
費
•
PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT
who
is impossible always to be giving ́NOT "THE 'GREAT UNWASHED.
breakfast ration similar to
do
of
Aru
month
The
..
the oward.
time and then hit their wickets. should certainly have bad a volce in the matter,
After the bandits had captur ania, Esthonia and Russia, with France in the role of patron saint to do work-lf only he can find it. Ithat served at supper, and is then
This problem of the increasing expected to day's work. Re-ed the city for the fifth time last and Britain and Italy entirely outnumber of men on the roads is fusal to do this means an appear-week, we received a telegram side the pact system but its cordial becoming more and more serious. ance before the local magistrates, from the Mayor that the only well-wishers. Germany and PoEvery county in England has this and probably seven or fourteen bandit, in Foochow was in the land have hitherto declined to ever-flowing stream of vagrants days' imprisonment. These refus museum, and that the alleged dance to the tune of the French with their neatly tied packs or ing to do their allotted taska and Russian pipers and it is their greasy attacho cases, and their comparatively few and far between, captors must have taken another
has unwillingness to join which
requests for help cloaked under the The work is chiefly stone-breaking city in mistake.. blocked all progress in the negotia pretence of selling paltry wares. and wood sawing, while some of We hastened to point this out tions Objections to foreign troop
Flotsam and jetsam of humanity, the older man are called upon to to our special bandit correspondent" transpors through Germany have they are of an elusive and peculiar clean wards and polish brass. For and the mistake has now been now become one of the main, if not type. these mon on the roads, dinner there is half a pound of remedied. In the absence of any
Berlin's the principal source of
They are not the vagrants of a few bread, two ounce of cheese, two further telegrams from the Mayor opposition to the pact. Germany years ago. The unwashed footpad ounces of meat, and four ounces of it must reluctantly be assumed that has made it clear also that she with his nobhly stick and white vegetables. If due to go out in the the city has been razed to the must have equality of armaments spotted red handkerchief bundle, morning he gets bread and cheese ground and every inhabitant, dend before she la ready favourably to his billy-can and jack-knife, is a
För alive, put to to take with him.
Appearing at the same institu ed by the man who is looking for flon oftener than once a
HOLY AUSSIES, . work. Frequently, he is middle means that he must put in three aged, claims to have been hard hit days' work. So casuals go from It is on record that after hearing MEANING OF PACT
by shipping depression in particu-Institution to institution, some of Saturday's Test score many Aus- lar or the trade slump in general; them preferring, when they have tralians went to church the follow Assuming that the pact, as now and, far from being a beggar in the obtained money for food, to sleeping day. They were taken round envisaged, were operative, France true sense of the word, is some-out instead of going into a casual by an official and shown koduness would be collged, for example, to body "down on his luck" requesting ward, thus avoiding delay on their in the old building and its contents, rush military aid to Russia if she friendly assistance in time of dig-Way aa well as the day's work. Many of them stayed to service.
tresa. The man wore attacked by Poland, or to
The master ejecta a
one Institution having been put carefully through Poland if she were invaded by the volley of choice oaths when his reckons that if the route mentioned the various exercises beforehand Soviet army. Similarly, say, wares are not purchased sums up is strictly adhered to, the vagrant by an usher. Gurmany committed aggression his own character, the householder gets about eight baths in three
A representative of the English against Czecho-Slovakia or Czecho-hurriedly closing the door with the weeks.
community was laconic but cheerful. Slovakia against Germany, France, inward satisfaction of knowing
The
average casual may tell you when interviewed on the Test match, Russia and the other pact partners that "No" was the proper reply. from whence he comes, and that "Everybody has been most kind," would be constrained to help the The superstitious householder pur; he is looking for work. That is ho said and slammed the door victim of aggression. There are chases the almanack; the generous about all. With the unusually viciously in our representative's other similar situations refuses the begrimed packet of verbose example more than a tingefa favourite tune, at the local which could arise within the pact lavender but gives the "seller" of fiction is apparent in his "fe family, in case one or more of its copper or two. When the evor institutions show a queer medley of big, bad man, Don Brad man, catch story. **** The records at the various cabarets was "Who's afraid of the members grow bellicose. In such Increasing number of such de- emergencies, the passage of foreign manda necessitates a negative reply trades and occupationa➡school him if
you can! troups through one of the signatory and the vagrant departs with terers, music hall artistes, seamen, has been received from Larwood tenchors, engineers, clerks, pias- A special "I told you so!" cable countries would be essential. To well-spoken expression of regret AM- and sorrowful fook in his eyes ons this contingency. Germany
fishermen, electricians and. a major-who' says:] would never have phatically cries, "No!"
is left wondering. It is dificult to ity of general labourers. Many of allowed Bradman and Ponsford to determine whether ono is refusing them aro confirmed wanderers go so far as they did. * I would a genuine case. At any rate, it with the wander lust born in them; have eiminated the men one at a others have set out with the object of trying to get work and found the life of the road to their liking dispute appears to be vague
Although the troop-transport
and
a few, a very small number, academic in these, in a manner of this moving section of the popula- some town where they think work No longer can the members of have the set purpose of getting to speaking, peace-times, it would It would have been surprising perhaps become a life-and-death tion be referred to as the great is obtainable."
unwashed." Regulations stipulate had the polling yielded any other issue in case of armed conflict that as soon as he enters a casual the institutions, it is noticeable, unfair); Windy (depending on the The ages of the men entering Weather forecast: Rain (very result, But the figures also Nor is the problem in itself new. ward. (and for this purpose ho are chiefly between 45 and 65 years, | rain) ; Cloudy (prospect for indicate that there is to-day less It has arisen before in another enthusiasm for Hitler and Nazi connection. On that occasion, too, obtaina a ticket at the local police There is a sprinkling of younger 3.C.C.): Het (anyway) Tough to be men of twenty or under. Interests (on .............); Unsettled (manny policies than there was at the the controversy centred around station) the casual has
won her bathed. There is plenty of soup in their own towns, family ties, beta). Germany and Germany time of the Reichstag elections point. It was after the signing of and hot and cold water. He is various social centres, and pro- in November. Taking count of the Treaty of Locarno in 1925 that provided with his own towel. His vision of sports for them account the Invalid votes as well as of the question arose (since Locarno possessions are taken into safe for the comparative absence of those which were definitely cast was conditioned upon Germany's custody for him, while the master young men. against Hitler-It-ja-seen-that-no
future membership in the League fewer than five million people the League covenant would oblige of Nations) whether Article 16 of registered their opposition to the the Germans to allow foreign
TEST CRICKETERS' ABSENT WIVES · |Nazi regime. It is significant, soldiers to march across their soil.
also, that half a million people in Germany then made a unilateral Tis year, to an even greater ex-of Cricket Control upon the marri-
tent than ever before, the cd members of the team. Berlin voted against Hitler-declaration, which France, Italy and
Test team have something like ten per cent. of Belgium as co-signers of Locarno Australian
found themselves in an atmosphere the voting populace of the accepted and recognized. It pro- of affectionate sympathy in this "APPARENTLY unsympathetic
vided that Germany would be capital. When the fact is borne obliged to participate in warding of people who, in previous years, In reality this course adopted by country, Consequently a number is a phrase used advisedly, in mind that the whole of the off the attack of Third Power on propaganda resources of the one of the Locarno group only "I never thought about them or their the board is far
tour except when they were actual-sympathetic. The team, came a State were marshalled in aid of sofar as that participation take in-
pur the Nazi cause, and that the to account Germany's military on the ground, follow the details long way on a very serious anti-Nazi elements dared not position and geographical situa- of their daily existence with pose. Married life, so a bachelor mamelukes. At. Hounslow, he would, suppose, with its common kept open house for the riff-raff of attempt any organised campaign, tion." By acknowledging this pro- eager interest.
And one of the first things to interests and anxieties, must have the political cluba; the Duke of nouncement, France agreed to Gor- cause for wonderment is pro-many's right to forbid the passage strike the sympathetic observer a distracting effect, perhaps not Devizes and Pat Mulligan (The O'Potato" as they caled him) ̈ vided by the circumstance that of foreign troops in case of war. is the condition of enforced bachel- least because it provides so many people voted against the
ordom imposed by an apparently audience before which sensitive fought a duel there with horse- (Continued on Pago. 7.) Feuhrer. It is, indeed, a hopeful
unsympathetic Australian Board sign that at least five million THE ALTERNATIVE Germans are prepared to think for themselves and to resist the If Germany joins the projected pressure which would transform Eastern Pact, she will forfeit the them into political robota. At right to ban troop transports. On least this number of people, and the other hand, if the other six members of the proposed Eastern possibly many others who for Locarno permitted Germany to reasons of their own hesitated to enter a similar reservation con- commit themselves against Nazi-cerning the new pact, the mutual dom, look with disfavour on assistance part of it would be shorn Hitler's policies and methods. of most of its value from its birth. To the outside observer it has For its purpose is to guarantee
assistance to of
at ald
+
long been matter for surprise eciprocal militaron and that
and
of a
that a great, intelligent, thinking could be effectively rendered in people like the Germans should certain possible future wara-only submit to the imposition of air French, Russian, Pollah, Czech bureaucracy which would rob or other troops were permitted to them of the right to exercise march across Germany. It is their own views and opinions. small wonder that the.
inclined to jib at the pans are The development can only be war in which the Russian Red explained by a widespread fear army or French battalions Invade that the State was in danger of Germany-even en route to some being totally submerged by sub-noighbouring country. But there. versive activities, and that the it is European diplomats will be In a..way, times called for an abnormally amusing themselves, concentrated measure of central during the next few weeks in trying control, in which the rights of to solve this seemingly insoluble pact puzzle, the alternative to which the individual were to be made seems to be the much more danger- subservient all along the ling to ous untiatoral France Hussitin the rights of the State. Such a military alliance. rigorous form of dictatorship, however, cannot prevail indefin- by
Itely among an educated, politic that the German people will not ally conscious people. In other always rest content with being words, the political thought of kept in leading-strings politic advanced peoples, cannot be ally. And the anti-Nazi vote of regimentised. Room must be Bunday may possibly be the found for varying shades of be first outward indication of the. HofThat right denied for any inward yearnings of the people length of time must have serious for a larger measure of liberty repercussions. From these con- than that permitted under the alderations the thought arises existing regime.
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CONTRIBUTED.
TO-DAY'S CENTENARY. July 28, 1034. Arrest of Lord BOGUS
for fraudulent conversion. Heartless, handsome, debonair "Jack" Bogus, third Viscount and alghteenth Baron! The line died with him as he wrote to his sister; Pamela, from a sponging-house in Islington, "I have perpetrated every folly but matrimony."
Two years before, he had bean the spoiled darling of society; had ridden to the Derby of '82 on an elephant, attended by forty
pistola; nearly brought down Lord Grey's ministry. Mr. Flute lost £300,000 there at picquet, play- ing against Captain. Chancey: the Captain bought himself the com- mand of a regiment and was sub-s
As soquently shot for cowardice. for "Jack" Bogus, he floated one company too many-the last baby Bank the dd ship," as he can- didly put it, from the dock. The word "bogus" derives from his name, of course,
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more
And talking of water. Dr. Nicodemus Grypa has been telling
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