THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937.
Always in Good Taste
Joss
Chocolates
"Whiz"
AUTOMOTIVE
PRODUCTS OF THE HICHEST QUALITY
For the proper servicing Which your car deservest
The following are available at all our Garages and Service Stations:-
LONDON COACH WAX
A fresh cousignment of these famon « chocolates has just been unpacked. LONDON
Unoxcelled as always for
VARIETY
QUALITY —
"Chesterfield". "Tru Value"
FRESHNESS "Cynthia Sweets" "Foss. Quality"
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
The Hongkong Dispensary
Eatd. 1841.
Tel. 20016.
NOW ON SALE
The
CLEANER
COACH
METAL POLISH
RADIATOR CLEANER
WHITE TYRE FINISH
PRE-WAX
AUTO TOP & TYRE DRESSING KHAKI DRESSING
WHEEL BEARING, LUBRICANT.
UNIVERSAL JOINT LUBRICANT GEAR LUBRICANT
AUTO OIL SOAP
RADIATOR STOP LEAK NEAT'S FOOT COMPOUND.
Down
HONG KONG HOTEL
GARAGE Showroom
Tel. 27778/9
DEATH.
Stubbs Road
REMEDIOS-On 19th March, 1037,
at 5.15 a.m. at the Kowloon Hospital, Alberto V. Remedios, nged 29. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.15 p.m. to-day.
The
New "H.M.V." Records Hongkong Telegraph.
for..
MARCH
Including all the latest hits from London
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
York Building.
00
Chater Road.
NURSERY CHINA-WARE
MADE IN ENGLAND
M
M
Would you
let
your go again?
ausband
THE
SUBJECT THE WOMEN
OF AN EMPIRE, AND THE MEN TOO,
EN who fought in
the last war `-are asking each other,
one question in these weeks
that are arousing the ar-
Armies would disappear from these shores in those nights. No one, except those who sent them, would know where they had gone whether they had survived. Radio sets would be dumb newspapers would be under a stern censorship..
Song and nephews under com- pulsion would leave their homes for the training camps.
Rumours of disaster like those during the days of Mons in 1914
ARE THINKING ABOUT would trickle over the country
-by
POP
senals and emelting works WRIGHT
from their long sleep.
+
That question is "Would you go again?"
and spread. The truth of these would neither be admitted nor
when I went there to thank denied officially. them for their efforts on my be-
half. Ex-officers-colonels, cap- i THEN at night the ex- servicemen, with his tains and others were being wife and family sleeping around rigged out with overcoats and him, would have his lonely boots to smarten them up for struggle.. Interviews for jobs,”
In this matter of the children As an ex-private who saw the one scene through which I pass- responsibilities these now For- ed in the dark early days of the gotten Men discharged in France last war was one not to be and on other fronte, I would
forgotten. not care to watch that pathetic
1 have received batches of letters parade. It has been asked many times from fellow ex-servicemen.
Associations like the British
failed them.
the
some
My battalion had been en-
Letters to me from all ranks camped in a training ground on in the past nineteen years, some- Many of these having pension tell of the humiliation of the the out-skirts of Sheffield. We times seriously, sometimes sar- grievances have reproached me dole queues, of "public assis were leaving the city to entrain for one of those "unknown dea- castically. For in only too many for, encouraging their sons to tance" grants and of heart- tinations" of the period. cases has the lot of the man who join the colours and to place breaking decisions of the Minis- People lined the roads at gave up his business or his job their futures in the hands of a try of Pensions. Many thousands in 1914-18 to join up been hard. State which they believe has of the men of 1914-18 would be every point as we marched by. Some were in tears, others eligible for service again in the cheered.. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937.
Legion, Old Comrades and orga- that the State is mildly surprised to the colours.
Their impression generally is State would expect them to rusht
event of another war. And the And then we came to a school,
standing in its own attractive. THIS PICTURE
nisations for ex-officers, which
grounds. The road in front should have existed for social or that they ever returned from AND THAT
patriotic purposes only, have
war. Generous pensions
NOW for the other side. was lined with children. They That is, a Britain cheered and waved their hands The Great War destroyed the found it necessary to shoulder have been granted in "absolute" monarchies of Ger- responsibilities for ex-service- cases, but the method of giving hurled into a war which, if she as we passed them.
'did not win it, would mean her They were all blind.. many, Russia, Austria and men which they were persuaded them has been curious.
In some instances men who death as an Empire. Such a Turkey that had hitherto at the time of the "call" would
never saw service outside Eng- defeat would place the nation WOULD you go again? remained as survivivals from be undertaken by the State.
An old soldier who Iand have been awarded life under a reign of tyranny and fought at Mons wrote to mo re- earlier centuries. It appeared to Britain, it was proclaimed, pensions as invalids. most men and especially to the would, after the war, be a “Land
sacrifice not to be removed by cently from a Surrey workhouse. framers of the Covenant of the Fit for Herbes. This meant they can prove by independent even by a revolution.
Other men who claim that votes at general elections, or He ended with the P.S.: "It League of Nations that the work for the fiti gonorous pon-medlent testimony that their A-Britain in the first rush of another war before long. I ex- looks as though there will be world had been made "safe for sions for the unfit. It was the health has been wrecked by ac. war, a Britain afire with anxiety peet we should all have to go democracy": The vision of wish of the nation future international relationships should be so.
that this tual service in the field have ap- day and night under the un-ngain." was one of willing co-operation
plied to the Pension Ministry ceasing drone of airplanes keep- He supplied the for common
ing mentry in the skies. ends between free,
TIRED and scarred men again and again, but in vain. equal, independent, democratic
The nights would be the test nations. Inevitably occasional homes after the armistice con- I QUOTE from just one of the ex-servicemen. The farm disputes would occur but these fident that their future had not spondent who enlisted in 1914 hear the perpetual throb of the This country is arming for de letter from a corre- labourer lying in his bed would BUT, do you know, there need be no problem. would be settled quickly in a been feopardised by their poor- and was wounded in France in troop and ammunition trains as fence. We seek no quarrel with friendly atmosphere of goodwilly paid war service. Fights for May 1916. He recovered and they passed through the coun- any one; and if the women and and mutual understanding. If pensions and allowances from afterwards took a commission. tryside from one end of Britain children by any mischance the old Adam the State were undreamed of. Ultimately he was invalided out, to the other.
as well as the men of bellicosity or aggression re But gradually those associations disabled by rheumatoid arthritis.
raise their voices against our asserted itself anywhere, the sanity of the whole-Society of had to line up to champion the From the age of thirty-two-ne would hear that some sound, more troubles such as we had Men in their beds in the towns statesmen involving us in any Nations would quickly apply the rights of the State's own has been a victim of the com- Family men would be listening in 1914, then the battleships overwhelming force at its com- veterans.
plaint, but he cannot obtain a and straining for that bellow in and the 'planes will not go into mand to repress such atavistic
Since I started my series of pension. tendencies. That was the situn articles urging reforms of the
the distance that would mean action. tion in 1920, when men promised conditions of the serving soldier I saw at the Officers' Association gas and shrapnel.
He says; "I will tell you what the arrival in the sky of bombs, We call that Splendid Isola- themselves perpetual peace in a
tion. well-ordered world. What a dif- ferent picture we have in 1937) Over a large portion of Europe there have been set up totalitarian Governments for more powerful than have ever been known before in human history, and democracy itself is
returned
to
their
'NATIONAL' MEMORIES
Coulth-
Tow the memories crowd on me. 1907, when Eremon was successful. Hrom the tumer owned Sun- The only had a lightweight to curry, loch and the broken-winded Tip- but several times I have listened to in danger of being swamped. In perary Tim to the immortal quartet Alfred Newey riding that race over several of these States, the who defied the hunting burden of again. Eremon was one of several League of Nations ideal of a twelve stone seven.
winners trained by Tom Manifesto and Cloister were be- walterood thing very nearly come co-operative peaceful world-order fore my time. I love to hear the is openly repudiated. How is it fold-timers debate and argue which unstuck. A loose horse attached
good this degeneration has set in? A was the better. They were the first himself to Eremon and Newey variety of causes doubtless have to carry the maximum weight to simply could not shake him off. played their mischievous part-victory.
Wherever Eremon went, so did the e.g. economic nationalism, the membered by all except the young- alr.
Jerry M. and Poethlyn will be re- loose horse go. Once, when in mid- gross injustices in the Peace est. I was fortunate enough to see horse with his whip. The
Newey had to hit off the loose Jockey Troaties, the lack of imagination both win. Jerry M. was a grand lost an iron, but that did not worry among statesmen of the war-type of chaser, trained by Bob Gore Newey. He kept his sout and his time Allies that provented them and ridden by Ernest Piggott. Such head and finally rode lis horse home from foreseeing the necessity of Was Jerry M's fame that, in spite of triumphantly.
strong a fancy as was Golden Miller his twelve stone seven, he was as tó-day.
deeds.
**
Виррове.
By J. HILTON PARK
answer, I
remedying the real grievances of Germany and Italy. Above all
There was what is known in rac- ing circles as a "turn up" in the else, however, the idea was In his day Jerry M. captured the following year. Mr. Withington, now. allowed to grow in those States popular imagination by his mighty a much respected member of the and elsewhere that the League of
National Hunt Committee and existed mainly to per- made it all look so easy. He might a trainer.
On the great day at Alntred he steward of many meetings, was then Nations netuste a work regime in which have been carrying the lightest bur- He saddled two horses and had a Great Britain and France reaped den for all the difference it made to great fancy for one of them. To his all the advantages, Germany was him. He simply toyed with the surprise, and also to the surprise of penalised and even Italy got a opposition and had the race won a most of the onlookers, the pair finish-
long way from heme.
ed first and second, but in the wrong jackal's rather than a Lion's should say that was one of the order so far as anticipations were share. Article 19 of the most comfortable rides Ernest Pig concerned. Mattle MacGregor was right in the paddock. But it did not day trying to reduce the swelling League's Covenant belied this gott ever had in a long career in the the main hope of the stable, but the affect his galloping, and he was a He was repaid for all his trouble by interpretation of the League's saddle.
despised 30 to 1 chance, Rubio, who, second successive winner for Gorc. seeing the horse score a popular vic- It was said, had once worked bo purpose-but it was never I was in the year immediately tween shafts, beat his more fancied Sunlech had a light weight and a tory. applied, and in its present
romantic career. He was regarded the war that Poothlyn was stable form, moreover, is probably unsuccessful, with Piggott in the sad.
able companon readily enough.
as a joke in some quarters, but the Sergeant Murphy was trained by laugh was on his side when he set the still workable. It will obviously be a dle. He had won a war-time Nation- Glenside was a "drod end hoog off and made practically all the run- who shares with Richard Dawson...
living George Blackwall, very difficult task to restore the al when it was run at Gatwick, a fortnight before the National of
the honour of being the only trainer schse of co-operative goodwill Poethlyn was a dominating factor in 1911. He had been attacked by a
ls day, and as with Jerry
I Shaun Spadah was a grand old to have trained a Grand National
and Derby winner. Sergeant... horse who is still living. He was Murphy was ridden by the trainer among the nations, but it must public would not look beyon M. the cough, and had only one eye,
hilm. They made him an 11 to 4 favour member rightly.
In the ordinary Way, he would beautiful. jumper and gave a very and he did not let them down. Icivilisation is to be saved, front came the anti-climax,to re for he was a good jumper. But cir- had just saddied the second in the 4. great favourite with everybody. Cutter destruction. The League mind us once more that the Grand cumstances combined, to prevent bis Lincolnshire and remarked to
have been a well-fancied candidate, smooth performance. The trainer as a hack and out hunting. He was Then
me. I should place Troytown
pretty of Nations way is the only the high in the list. that gives any promise, but it unto itself. The year after his great were twenty-six starters that year National," and big words came true. He was a grand horse, who won' must be a League in which the victory, Poothlyn was once mure the and Glenside was the only eating, Miller's present: trainer. When he which the race has ever been run. to Music Hall was trained by Golden the National on the worst day, on the complete provided for as clearly and fully rate. fell at the very one to have done that. My earliest
And, I may add, he is not the one was the first of thren National ran at Hurst Park shortly before the The rain poured and the coUPRS' WAS. winnere ridden by Jark Anthony, National, he came back with a lump a morass, but Troylown skipped
Covert Cont had stringhalt, and in on his leg as big as n tennis ball, through it gaily and made Some Grand National memories go back to consequence was not an attractive Anthony was up almost night and. (Continued on Page 4.)
A
PORRIDGE PLATES
$1,50
MUGS
.60
TEA CUPS & SAUCERS
1.00
MILK HORNS with handles
$75 ea.
be undertaken if our modern
CROCKERY & GLASS DEPT.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
as the preservation of law and order.
after
courko
ning
1