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Orchids to My Lady-Fox Trot
BD-165 Papor Hat Brigado-Fox Trot
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Jack Jackson & His Orchestra.
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October 1931 Arbitration: Paraguayan and Bolivian ministers moet in Washington to attempt Battlement of Chaco boundary dia- pute by arbitration
July, 1032 War: A state of war exists · between Paraguay Bolivia and both governments aro on a war footing.
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GENERAL ELECTION COMING SOON
By OLIVER BALDWIN
(Socialist, and son of Britain's Conservative Prime Minister);"
·In Westminster thoro is great | deposits. In any caạo, I think it. talk of the forthcoming election and much speculation as to its date and results.
June, 1934-Depression: War- fare brings economic depression to
So far, however, nothing con- both Bolivia and Paraguay. Cash benefits go to foreign munitions crete has emerged, for the simple reason that the controllers of our April, 1935-Exhaustion: Weary parliamentary destiny have not yet armies face each other along 200-weighed up the pros and cons, mile front with indications fighting will continue till one or the other
It is likely, however, that when nation, collapses.
the House rises the Prime Minister will go abroad for a well-earned rest and that the final decision to hok! an election will not be made
June, 1936-Arbitration: Bolivia and Paraguay sign ponce protocol, putting and to their fighting. Gran Chaco dispute now to be set-
tled by arbitration.
And now the Italo-Abyssinia dis- pute takes the same road, with the failure of arbitration; a road which leads through......n' nightmare of slaughter and misery, pestilence and waste, to exhaustion, chaos, revolution, disillusion. A thousand
rears honce professors may teach six-year-olds how the "Progressive Age Man" knew too much to learn.
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The Very Sibal
BACK TO SCHOOL
English, As She Are Spoke,
Are Dreadful
Says Master Eddie Kerja Ma
fair to suggest that the industriel WE HAVE just been die North, Lancashire, and the Black Agesting what Miss Saw- Country will return to their old yer had to say last week Labour allegiance; that towns llko about school examinations. Norwich, Northampton, Notting-
Too much importance, she ham, and Hull will send Labour members back, but that the No- averred, is attached to tionalists will still hold Southamp-marks and examinations, ton, Plymouth, and Portsmouth, in and. the children themselves which towns seats went Labour in
are the worst offenders. 1929.
This is what comes of be- ing a modern kid.
I see no signs of any landslide or general dissatisfaction with the Government, and now that a more
When we were a boy, con- consistent politician will lead the National forces there is likely to front us with an all-day suc- he more respect for the sincerity ker, and a good place where of the programme from the general they had green apples and a public. The Labour appent will hole in the fence, and our at- lack the force of 1929, for it will betachment for marks and led by the same men who were tried examinations got nebulous as Socialists and found wanting.
all over.
There will then be two alterna- tives before the Government, Elther to go to the country at the end of October, in order to forestall a possible winter increase in un employment, which may well follow France's possible departure from the gold standard; or to produce a hopeful Budget in the spring and
It is going to be very difféult bear it on their standards to the for Mr. Clynes to say what he will polls. The national cries will be do to introduce Socialiam if he be "Danger from foreign invasion,” "Increased tariffe," and "Returning prosperity.”
The last cry will probably, be the most effective, for everyone will
At school we were good at- transitory verbs, Algebra, on the other hand, we regarded
comes n Cabinet Minister again as a sort of mathematician's when we remember his magnificent Esperanto.
Lord Lothian, suggesting federation as a means to world pence, has SOWN seed bound
defence of the traditions and fruitful BOULTON. - Edith Amy Houlton ultimately to yield
Whether A plus 2 equalled Y passed away at the
sanctity of the City of London in minus 1 left us still mending our Matikia harvest. "The only final remedy Hospital at 10.15 a.m. this morn
for war," Lord Lothian sakt at
1930.
catapult. Our attitude towards ing. Funeral will pass the Monu. | Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, nient al 5.30 p.nt. this afternoon, I recently, "is the federation of na-
Miss Bondfield will find it em-A and Y was, "Let 'em." No Hawers by request,
tlons. It need not begin on ย
have forgotten by then that our barrasing to defend her past
As for 'spelling and grammar, world scale. It could begin among increased exports which has 30 record, so will Mr. L 0. Roberts
we-were-always strong at this, like-minded nations who were pre-benefited trade are the direct result and Mr. Wedgwood Benn; but, on and what we can't make out Is. pared to poor their sovereignty in of our departure from the gold the other hand, as I have suld why a bloke can't spill a sentence
before, we are a forgiving and these days without crashing on- forgetful people and time alters his altches and coming a thud many convictions.
on his ownays and erbvrays. In a jour kid times, a scholar what Undoubtedly there will be large Increase in the Labour vote, stretched his car when the old voters dame was sprouting her piece owing to the many now attaining the age of twenty-one and listened-in all he knew, why, and coming from families where that kid will talk the perfectest the parents have been converted to English and get away with it. Labour since the war from either
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1936,
CANADIAN'S IDEA
the
We are an Illogical and forgetful people, and therefore it will be safe to credit our Government with the beneficial consequences of a pound sterling well below gold par,
Then at 1066 p.m. William the
Opposed to the National Govern- ment candidates will be both La- of the two other parties. There bour and Liberal. The cry of the has also been a certain amount of Conqueror landed in the old dart- former will be "Preparation for new conversion to Labour among Peace," rather than "Preparation the white-collared class, though not for War," and the latter party will among manual workers. expostulate on the iniquities of the
tariff system.
well, we were delighted to hear about it, so we bit a plece out of our pear, and put it back under our desk.
supernational affairs and unite under a constitution which created standard, to prevent which a government which would be original National Government was sovereign in the supernational field formed. though unable to interfere in the national field, and to claim obedi- AN APPEAL FOR ence and some taxes from every individual for it." Lord Lothian SPORTSMANSHIP
did not develop the question of where such a federation could most True sportsmen of all races appropriately, start. It may be and Imagine France will endorse the outspoken appeal diBcult to
Germany linking themselves to- made by His Excellency the gether in a relationship of the Officer Administering the kind. On the other hand if Ger- many were left out and linking Government at the Football began say with France and Russia, Association meeting on Monday, it might be equally difficult to prevent reversion to some auch when he denounced misconduct | system of alliances as that from on the field of play and urged
which Europe suffered grievously in pre-War days. |that players and spectators alike should do all in their power to prevent a 'repetition of the un- seemly incidents which marred so many matches last scason. As Sir Thomas Southor re- marked, not only are such in- cidents a serious reflection" on sporting instincts, but they bring disgrace to the players concerned and to football generally, The standard of football in Hong- kong is so high that it is all the more regrettable that the game should be made to suffer by rea- son of players allowing their tempers to get out of hand in their anxiety. to get the better of the other fellow. Rivalry can be us keen as the most ardent'en- | thusiast could wish, so long as it is healthy rivalry, based on due regard for the rules of the game and a determination not to resort to questionable tactics. In the heat of the moment, there is.an ever-present temptation to relax control of tempera, and occasions will arise when it is not easy to keep the game clean, but the true sportsman is one who spurns to stoop to dirty play, no matter how great the provocation may be. To put it no higher, such tactics do not pay in the long run. Players are not alone to blame for incidents which occur; in many cases, they are egged on and incited by partisan spectato preventing a recurrence of the Pr.
tors who want their team to win trouble experienced last year. at all costs. In England, it is not | Individual Clubs could do a very uncommon for a ground to be great deal in this direction by suspended when the home spor-devising their own system of tutors get out of hand, thus in-discipline to be applied to playera flicting a financial loss on the when found guilty of mis- Club concerned. Here in Hong-conduct; irrespective, of such kong, it would be difficult to action as the Association may follow this practice, as not all the feel compelled to take. If play- clubs have their own grounds ers were warned, before the sea- and spectators make a point son started, that such a system of particular
- I cannot soo in the next House of
Our ambition at school was to.. Commons any representatives of As an adjunct to the National that strange, collection of ex-aplt farther than anybody else in campaign will be the appeal to Liberals and flattered Socialists the district. So much for ambl- Fear, which is such a safe card to who make up the party known as tion. play on our liberty-loving and National Labour; and it will be a
Of course, we will admit that loyal people.
good thing for our parliamentary
Hongkong school-kids are in a different category. Our category They will be told, and quite system if there are not. There are, however, other parts rightly, that if a Socialist. Govern-
There is every tendency in the used to wander out every night of the world where the obstacles ment comes into power there will Labour Party to-day to break de-after dark and about half-an-hour to be overcome might be eventually be a financial panic. They will not finitely with Socialism and become later you would hear it mouwling less formidable. The late Prof. be told to wonder how or why it is another Liberal Party.
on the tiles, or something like that. Goldwin Smith of Toronto, 35 years engineered nor what would happen To sum up, then, we may take Take luxuries, for instance. ago, thought along lines parallel to if they paid no attention" to it. those followed by Lord Lothian. Neither will they be told that ifit that the election will fall before About the only luxury we ever saw Professor Smith advocated closer Mr. MacDonald had suspended the unemployment figures rise with the at school was the girl'e garter one political eo-operation between Bank Charter Act in the summer winter months and that the issue of the Big boys had. We have since will be between those who like thought that his mother discarded Ottawa and Washington as a means of 1931, we should have got rid of drifting along and those who don't. it, and we were robbed. We, of avoiding the obvious economic financial panics of that sort for The more comfortable alternative bought it off him for 100 marbles disadvantages of the cutting of the ever. North American continent into two
will win, and a Nationalist majority and a three weeks' mortgage on our of two hundred seats will be the Sunday school money. by a high tariff wall. Other
Agure. examples of groupings of inter- If the Independent Liberals place
That was a long time ago. We national interests of a purely a goodly number of candidates in Then we shall all have a Happy have had real live pairs of them utilitarian nature undoubtedly the field, it will undoubtedly help Christmas and a Merry. New Year since, and now that we're getting exist. Far Eastern developments the Labour Party in my con unless we happy to be out of work old we sometimes elt down and suck of late years have emphasised this stituency but an industrial one.. or idealistic or reformers or any-bur pipe and wish that we had our fact, where defence is concerned in In the industrial towns it will have thing as unpleasant as that, but marbles back, regard to all the English-speaking | no real effect, and most of the fortunately (or unfortunately) peoples
We used to have some fine times whose territories abut Liberal candidates will lose their most of us are not built that way at school. We remember, when we upon the Pacific Ocean. Another
were at the Zmbongaponga district group of mutual inter-relationships
school-in-South-Africa-we-had-a- llon which wanted to be very much attached to us. Wherever we went, the lion was sure to go. It follow- od us to school one day (we were always-about three laps in front of it), and we fooled it on to the téncher, who lectured to us about
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may be. None the less, this risking their future and the matter of unruly behaviour by future of their club by succumb- football fans is one which needs ing to the temptation to Indulge to be taken into consideration in bad sportsmanship. Action and, if possible, steps should be on these lines, coupled with taken to deal with the evil. The relentless punishment of the new season will soon be starting- guilty by the Association, would in Hongkong, and we would soon stamp, out the worst feat. make an urgent appeal to Clube, ures of the game and elevate in the interests of clean-sport, local football to the positions to take special stepe with a view which is its dua
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"Yes, there's a farm'about four miles down that has chicken and eggw and all that sort of thing.”
it.
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"That, children, is a lion," sho said, clinging tightly to the school belfry.
"Yes, miss," we said, from the adjoining roof.
"You have frequently read of the -the rolling deep and the bounding main. That, children, is a bound- ing main.
"The skin of the Honatton tion, Edward makes an ex- cellent hearth-rug if the lion Is. emptied out of it.
"There is not a great deal of trade done in llons; hunters;usual, ly shoot them and leave them where they lle. Hence the term "Hon", Now, children, are there any questions?"
"Yes, Misa," we shrieked, "lo view of the present situation, may we have the rest of the day off 1”:
"Yes," she said, the class may diamies"
No
...the teacher was saved. The lion got killed in the rushi
Anyhow, returning to children, and ambition and examinations. and All that sort of thing. Wa would like to end by saying that if we had a son who didn't have an entire lack of ambition at school
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