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NOTES OF THE DAY
WHAT USE DENIALS?
Some time ago, in the face of denials that sliver continued to flow out of China following the placing of the Nanklag embargo, we made the statement that unless something. were done to stop the smuggling of Chinese coins out of the country there would be unpleasant con- sequences. Thereafter, the work! was reassured by London and Nan- king that there was an end of silver móvenient out of China. China
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There were men to China, and outside of China, ready to take the profits from the discrepancies in pricca of the Chinese dollar in China and in the outside world. If they could not do it legally, they were prepared to do it some other way, and, they readily discovered those who would assist them in the amuggling of Chinese coing abroad.
Hongkong Telegraph. shipments smuggled to
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5, 1934.
ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS
A
MILLIONS MARCH IN MOSCOW
By CHARLES · ASHLEIGH
T five sharp the clock in Ivan) of goat's milk cheese which he slips Ivanovich's flat in the Krass-into the pocket of his heavy quilted naya Pressmaya district of Moscow cont--for he won't get another meal sounds its shrili alarm. It is the for hours.
morning of November Seventh, Then comes the word from the 1934, seventeenth anniversary of marshnia-fellows with scarlet ann the revolution and a public holl-lets-and the crowd streams out day,
The Very Idea!
INSPIRATION FROM A
VISITOR
By George
PASSING
through the hallowed precincts of the office yesterday, a visitor accosted the Boy and asked to be taken to the Place where we sat wrapped in papers and a severe cold.
into the street. They form in Ivan jumps out of bed, then turns ranks, six abreast. In front is the added. to regard" Marussya, his wife, who still sloeps.' .
"I want to see the Editor," she
banner of the Communist Party "Him no Editor. Him funny group of the factory and the bannerman,” replied the Boy who in of the trade union branch. There known colloquially as Ah Me when Bround. At other is also a small brass band, com-visitors are posed of workera in the shoe times he is known as the Bor factory.
"Funny man?" queried the fair dumb one.
"Come on, Mamma" ho cries. "It's the Seventeenth Anniversary, you know! Let's get started!”
She heaves herself out of bed.
At Jant they are moving. The thrusts her feet into a pair of her band strikes up a march tune, and husband's goloshes, in lieu of
Ivan gives a preliminary bellow slippers, and throws on an old sheepskin coat for dressing-gown. which starts his crowd singing. Then she hurries, to the bathroom Ten minutes of marching, and they to wash before making ton; for come to the main street. A space has been left for them in the huge Marussya has studied the placards!
procesalon which extends, bristling of the Health Commissariat, and with banners, pennants and painted has attended lectures on domestic
placards, as far as one can ace in
hygiene, and now always keep the
rule: wash first, breakfast after warda.
either direction.
Then, while her husband pushes into the bathroom, she hurrica to the kitchen and puts the kettle on yet another street.
for ten.
•
with nwful alliterations.
"Ah Me creased his face into the sort of emotion which our
writings are supposed to inspire. and which he translates into an expression dontists chair.
reminiscent
of the
"I understand. That's why he looks so unhappy?" The dumb one nodded sympathetically and
atole silently away,
Later as she sat chewing gum in happy conspiracy with the Editor we felt that we had chosen 'the wrong vocation in life,
It wore better to have bean Ah Me and get sworn at, than be a humorist and get pitied. The fair one continued to cast sym- but so far she had! furnished us pathetic glances in our direction with no idea for column, except that of justifiable femicide.
A good many millions of those coins have come into Hongkong recently. A good many millions more have gune north, to Dulren and other porte. And, although Nanking says
For over an hour they stand that there are no longer any silver exports and London seems to be-
there, for this procession has to link up with a still longer one In leve it, we cannot help but smile when Chefoo gets into a state of
Over two million people are moving towards, panic because "of the heavy drain upon the silver resources of Shan- Suddenly a loud, tinny voice the Red Square this 'morning.
caused by the continued begins doclaiming sonoroua Rus- Then they start to move forward
Dairensian through the apartment. Aha! Certainly there is a steady drain
again, very slowly. One has the Kolya their son, who sleeps in the sense of hundreds of thousands upon the Chinese silver resources, There are more than a few who are living-room, has arisen and has moving ahead of one. The band
It was time that she was going. silvering their nosts at China's ex-
started the radio. The speaker tries to play in slow time to har-The Editor had eaten her last block Instead of denying the fact, stops, and marching tunes, played monise, with their, step, and fails. of spearmint and was anxious to which serves no useful purpose, it would be well for the Nanking Government to grapple with the situation and endeavour to secure the co-operation of Powers in the staunching of the flow of the
"If the British Empire and the United States agreed on the Rolution of any problem of diplo.country's very life-blood, pouring
macy, no combination of in- fluences could challenge its de- cisiveness." In these words, Mr. Robert Bingham, the United States Ambassador to Britain,
has just made a powerful plea for closer Anglo-American co-opera. |tion, a plea which will be widely endorsed in both countries. Mr. Bingham sees in the present world situation a greater oppor- tunity than ever before for the drawing together of the two nations in a co-operative effort
|
from a hundred places.
LITERATURE AND DRAMA
Several prominent English drama- tists are going into busin: 68,
tor
by a military band, flood the little flat
Gradually they cover the miles soparating them from the Red Square,
Faster and faster, now,
Within ten minutes the family la gathered in the living-room, They drink steaming tea and cut times running to close up a gap. enormous slices of brown bread. Here is Revolution Square, entrance Each must go his separate way
to the Red Square. this morning: Ivan to the big shoe
"Straighten up the line!" yells factory where he works, on the other side of Moscow; Marusaya Ivan, looking along, his
row, of
get down to the more serious bual- ness of the day.
"Even editors have their duty. you know," we could hear him say- some-ing jocularly through the partition. That almost provided us with an idea but a moment's thought re- minded us that he would probably take a mean revenge for any re- flection on the editorial functions. On her way out the chowing
funny man on his column. Wo listened to her babble in the hope of getting the iden.
And now they are in the vast
Red Square. On either side are "I never road it myself you know other processions, which have pro- since I learnt that laughing makes ceeded along other routes, but all one get fat." converging on the Square. There "You can take is a furious unabated roar of cheer..
B. Priestley hna become a direcmust join up at the Krassn! Prole- which he is leader. "Left!-Left! cherub stopped to congratulate the
of the Duchess Theatre, tarli machine plant, where she Left" London, and is expected boin to works as a cook in the canteen; manage and to write most of the and Kolya, the sportsman and plays to be presented there. Mr.athlete, has been selected as one Walter Hackett is in charge of a of a picked group of "physical second theatre, and a third is, it is culturists." to producing the works of Mr. F. G. announced, to be exclusively devoted Wadehouse. Mr. Noel Coward has also gone into theatrical manage- ment. This development is full of possibilities for the good of the
fifteen
Ivan in the first to leave, for he has the farthest to go.
·
which would cover the major pro-inglish theair, which in the last bunting and banners.
blems of the day. Politically, the United States still inclines to
I work,
yeark
has suffered much
a risk," Inter-
ing or singing. On the right, Jected the Ed. as he was passing. under the russet-stained walls of "Yes," tittered she, "You know The streets are festive with red the Kremlin, are the long review-father and mother are frightfully Outside caching stand, upon which stand pro- interested in your column. They foreign delegations. buy all the overseas papers and house are small red flags set in a vincial and cluster of iron sockets which per- newspaper correspondents and re have little competitions to see manently project beside each house porters, diplomats from foreign who can find your jokea Brat!" entrance, but that is as far as in- embassica
"How frightfully Interesting! dividual house committees go in the The great maased bands-com-' And another competition to
posed of three full-size hands, of who can find the point of them Down at the tram stop there is the army, navy and militia-play Arst!" we asked bitterly. n crowd, including a number of them past. Now they are going by Ivan's acquaintances. Hearty, loud the Lenin mausoleum, the top of "No, father says it's a waste of
a reviewing stand time but then he's a busy man." greetings are exchanged. An which serves hor's journey, and then he enters for the leaders of the Government, the gates of his factory and makes the Communist Party and other his way to the great cantean, where famous personages, several hundred of his fellows are
matter of decoration,
from the hands of speculators look askance on anything in the whose only interest in it has been nature of an alliance with any financial. It brings literature Into country. Indeed, alliances are close contact with the theatre, ind somewhat out of fashion nown- this contact, by enriching their ap- days; but, that fact notwith-preciation of the practical possi- slanding, there is every reason
bilities and difficulties associated with the production of why the two great English bound to have an erect plays, is speaking races should join hands
It may even lead to a closer in a serious endeavour to grapple 'connection between literature pud with the many problems which the drama generally. The greatest at the moment call for concerted days of Bagush literature were the effort if they are over to be Elizabethan and Jacobean, when the most eminent of British writera solved. If other nations
spent their days and nights in the also disposed to join in such a theatres, turning out new plays and meat, la provided for the marchera "There he is!" movement, so much the better vamping up old ones to meet de- for the future of the world, mand as it arose. Since then many With a caution which might be men of letters have been interested expected from one in his post in the theatre, but have had their tion, Mr. Cordell Hull, the U. S. ignorance of technical and practica! work for it largely spoiled through Secretary of State, has given detalls. If this latest movement cordip! endorsement of the does not develop into a renaissance principle enunciated by Mr. In the drama, It may still have
are
Bingham, although naturally rewards.
anxious to do nothing which
might be misunderstood by WHAT THEY DID Japan in particular and other hations in general. But no man
Because of what these three men who is conscious of the dangers and well to-day, who would other
did, a great many people are alive in the present international sit-wise be in their graves. If we uation can otherwise than feel wore sensible in our measures of that there le at the moment a human greatness, should we not distinct need of closer Anglo write their names above those of the generals and the statesmen? American union. Both nations are on common ground in their who discovered that the use of These three doctors were the onca desire to catablish a better world liver, or liver extract, will cure order; they have, moreover, a pernicious anaemia. Heretofore community of interest in relation; that disease had been invariably to major issues demanding curly fatal. Once the diagnosis was treatment. Even in the aphere could do little but stand by and made, the most skilled physician of International politics, the ad- watch the malady progress to its vantages to the world in general tragic conclusion. The diagnosis of a firm understanding would was a death sentenos,. Now it is far outweigh any danger, not. Thank you, gentlemen. of possibly adverse reactions. The traditional policies of
both nations are a sumcient ty, no shortsighted adherence to puarantee against any misuse outworn shibboleths should be of their DOWOT for allowed to stand in the way of fish ends. Neither is animat- an understanding possessing ed by ngøressive intent; both are auch promise for the future pledged to utilise every effort for happiness and well-being of the preservation of world peace, mankind. Happily, the pressure and, standing together in unity, of circumstances is daily draw. they could be the biggest factor ing the two nations closer to for the safeguarding of that gether. It remains for the peace which the world has ever leaders in each country to con- known. When all is said. this. centrate on the task of giving in the last resort, is the issue at tangible form to the manifest stake. For the sake of humani-desire of both peoples.
are
crying.
"Where's Stalin?" "He Isn't gathered. Here, as announced yes-there!" "Of course, he must be?"
companions terday on the bulletin board, a het Ivan's -mincemeat rissoles and mashed
And Ivan catches a glimpse of potatoes. Ivan soon disposes of
of the a tall, sturdy figure in a brown this, and then goes over snack buffet and buys a sandwich itunie, his hand raised in salute.
"But, officer, there must be quail in there."
BCC
"And what's mother's excuse? I suppose she is alimming too?"
"Oh no.
Mother is so funny. She says her sense of humour is too developed but she enjoys the Dumb Belle Letters."
"So do we,
but then we don't write them."
"Oh what a bore. I was hoping you might put my name in one of the letters." And retrieving her chewing gum from the underside of the chair, the fair visitor took her departure.
As she closed the door, the IDEA came to us suddenly, and drawing out a revolver from the desk we shot ourself twice through the temple,
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