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refereeing a local war in South China. The "linesmen" consisted of 25 British sailors. We were bottled up in a minute British concession on an island in Amoy harbour.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1937.
WORLD REFUGEE
***
By
A CHINESE
read which was dispatched by the President of China in 1917 to one of the war-lords who was making trouble.
Immense and on the whole- beneficial changes have taken. place during the past decade. The Nanking or central govern- ment is steadily extending ite control, and improving its ad- This super-bandit was describ-ministration, notwithstanding ed in the wire as being "highly the continuous attempts of Japan meritorious and respected, as to seize control of China before well as public-spirited and patrio- the giant reorganises, and then.
with a great heave shakes off the incubus of the invader.
tic.".
STEPHEN The telegram continued: "I
bewail my own lack of virtue and
-KING-HALL
The ways of the East seem strange-but the peoples of the West might profit by a closer acquaintance with the philosophy of a race which has endured for 4,000 years,
There are about 400,000,000 Chinese in the world, and funda- montally, they are democratical- ly minded people. They are something much greater than a nation; they are a civilisation which has endured like a huge rock in ́s storm-tossed sea and endured for 4,000 years.
No one who has studied the At these conferences, one man ability, as well the fact that my tremendous history of the would say: "My forces amount prestige is insufficient to com- Chinese civilisation can doubt GENERAL YET was allied to to 7,000 men, yours are only mand respect, and I am amitten that, long after the half-baked Admiral Yang and also to 3,000. You must admit that with regret and remorse, and philosophical theories of the Hongkong Telegraph. General Hang The last-named victory is mine." The other await your arrival in carnest European totalitarian States have become historical curiosi- Was a very bad man. Every would say: "I grant the prin- longing." time the admiral went to sea, ciple, even 80, 3,000 are not I am bound to confess that the ties, China will be playing a great which was not very often, since negligible. What compensation reply was not in the best Chinese and perhaps decisive role in
style, and savoured more of the world affairs. he was obliged to buy his coal do we get if wo withdraw?"
The British Commonwealth, from his enemy, General Chih- That much of this spirit of methods we have since learnt to Ping (the man who held the sound common sense allfed with island on which I was squatting), perfect courtesy still permeates General Hung stole the naval re- public life in China is shown by creation ground.
the recent exchanges between The Navy then had to raise the Prime Minister of China and
In the meanwhile, we" British the blockade of Amoy Island, and the young marshal who kidnap- go home to retrieve the football ped him, because the Nanking HAVE told you these things would do well to remember that about the China of ten or the greatest potential market in ground and officers' club house. Government was not being suffl-
clently aggressive towards fifteen years ago as an introduc- the world for our manufactured The blockade was not a very Japanese encroachments. "tion to an article I intend to write exports is China, but on this sub- serious business, because the fleet only possessed three shells. respondence of a telegram I once China of to-day.
I was reminded by that cor- in the near future about the ject there will be more to say In
another article.
PROBLEM
We have all at some time in our lives been entrusted with a
task we little enjoyed doing, and many of us with a seemingly impossible one. Few, however, have found themselves in the unenviable position of Mr. Hans-
This bad man, General Hung, son, President of the Nansen standards-an artist at devising was even measured by Chinese
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associate with Rome, Berlin and the U.S.A., Russia, and China. Tokyo. It read as follows: "Dis. These are the four columns ou solve Parliament, I will come to Peking on Sunday to settle all which an edifice of world civilisa- tion will arise during the cen- turica to come.
accounts,"
Don't Envy Your Boss
| Refugee Office. He has been re-new ways of raising revenue.
quested to make plans for the; liquidation of the Nansen Office,
when the Treasury officials to reach Governments by July of in Whitehall may be presumed STINGY old man. I asked him that we boast almost innumerable capital, loss of all the best years of for a rise of five bob a week small business men. running tile his life which he has devoted to this year, and submit sugges- to be considering new ways and and he turned me down! And I've concerns. They are. hardworking, building up his little business.
section of the com- tions for the best ways of cop British rearmament programme, now."
means of raising revenue for been working for him for three years conscientious
munity, and their loyalty to their Down the Scale. Yes-that is the polat. You have maloyces is an invaluable contri- ing with the work at present I reproduce here list I made on been working for him for three years.bution tot is not necessarily an en-heads of really big businesses may
common weal,
And do not forget that even the done by the Office to the 1988 the spot of the extra taxes im- For three years he has had to find
posed by General Hung. Here your wage envelope every week-end. viable one. That three pounds a envy you your job! I know a man Assembly of the League of Na-they are in all their comprehen- For three years your board and lodg. week you carn, and which you may who enjoyed a four-figure income Jorge business concern. ing, your clothes, your amusements, consider "stingy," probably means from have been paid for by money which all the difference between comfort Something went wrong with the and anxiety to the boss. He is faced market, a great firm went smash, Extra taxes were imposed in rehe has had to find..
problem of cutting costs, of and carried my friend and many "spect of
True, you have earned it. But dir reducing his personal expenditure, others down He had his it ever occur to you that with your inevitably he must toy with the son at a good
daughter Butchery. Sugar.
"wretched screw" you may be better thought of giving you, or someone was at college. had to leave Kerosene 'Oil Stamping.
off than your boss? This is general else, notice.
at the enti of the
And from Wines & Tobaccos, Fruit tree.
ly the the case. I know a man run-
Most men with small businesses a nice Flower seed.
suburban home the family Miscellaneous
Timber, Fowl.
ning a business who every Friday afternoon pays out something like we reluctant to throw a man out of migrated to a humble flat in a none
work, and many suffer considerable too salubrious neighbourhood. Bricks and Tiles.
£50 in wages, and has all his work discomfort, even narrow Small Pigs.
The bigger they are, the bigger Large Pigs.
cut out to make ends meet in his own home to keep the staff on. The the fall." Yes, your boss, when he
home, Poris Hot water. Sulphur and
Frult.
made, the addition of German refugees from the Saar and the victims of Spain's Civil War to the unhappy thousands of State less persons, was not anticipat- ed. Before the end of this year there may be yet further addi- tions to the straggling army of outcasts wandering from coun- Actors...
Jetty. try to country in search of a
Paper. home, Last year the Nansen Lime Sand. Office had to intervene in 1,800 Navigation.
Slaughtering. cases concerning expulsion and Bean Cake. Joss paper. 121,000 various other савея Earthenware.;
Potato refuse. With international relations
Sedan chair,
Public roads.
Charcoal.
Shops.
Fresh Fish, Bamboo.
Saltpetre.
Colton yarn. Flour.
Firecrackers.
Narcissus bulbs. Rice. Road cleaning.
Boats. Wholesale
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head of a million pound concern is does come a cropper, goes down to you Don't envy your boss. It may necessarily less in touch with his the depths. How often have look good to you to be seated in an staff. The majority are mere num-had a man pointed out to you? "See office marked "Private,"
sign
that chap? I bers to him.
Tremen The owner to arrive at any hour you
of a a small business has used to run a Rolls, cheques, General Imports.please in the morning, and to leave all the worries of the business itself in a big house, and
and took it at will. But there is another side If he anticipates a big order, and it abroad for holidays every year."
Appearances are often deceptive. to the picture. The boss in bis does not eventuate, you get no head-
private office often sits head in hand aches from the misfortune. He does. Your boss may sport expensive wondering where the money is com- If one of his customers fails to pay clothes; may always seem able to Ing from to meet the wages bill at up, he is the loser, not you. He may offer a cigar to a customer. But the end of the week, or wondering have all the worry and annoyance often enough he is saving on his what will happen if orders don't of law-proceedings while you carry home what he spends on his business. merchants.
on comfortably with your job-and Think well before you grouse at compilation come in.
envelope on Friday the boss because he "cannot see his get the usual of the local chronicle.
afternoon.
way clear" to grant you the rise you of bankruptcy shadow
is request. Behind that forinal ans- always hovering over thousands of wer to your request may lurk a host a war abroad, any one of the hun- bob which seems so much to you, small businesses. A strike at home, of worries, and anxieties. That five dreds of happenings over which your and which you think ought to mean boss has no control may lead to the little to him, may mean a good deat complete smashing up of his business, to him and to the business. You can set out to get a similar job; No--don't envy your boss! he has to reckon with, the loss of
Roy Hopkins.
The
His perplexities are many, his job is perhaps a good deal harder and even more irksome than yours. You It was a very decent kind of a have no rising and falling markets to strained almost to breaking war, with few casualties, and my teen an eye on, an bad debts to put deal with, no overhead charges to point, no country is willing, un-man (as I came to consider old your ledger all out of gear.
Tsung) eventually surrendered aided, to accept large numbers the island on payment of 300,000 Making Ends Meet of refugees and grant them na- dollars into a British bank. turalisation. Even if the re- The Chinese have from time fugee figures do not increase, the immemorial held the view, and expressed it in their manuals of task of providing for them can military training, that history
"Um-wish I could!" you may mur- mur when the boss says "Shan't be long-Just slipping over to the bank."
But wait a minute. You visualise him walking in the counter, being greeted with a deferential smile by a clerk, and coming out with his wallet
息
The
A DENTIST'S STORIES
S in every profession, there are the plate
only be accomplished by inter-shows that all wars end in com tuned with notes. It is quite on occasions when even the dentist me perfect years ago, and it fitted
but when you fixee?".
Even dentists are expected to know
Or yeast, come C and D.
So Betty is balanced right up to the
chin
national co-operation. In Octo-promise.
the cards that he is spending a none muy derive a smalle in the course of ber, 1988, the League of Nations From this basic fact they too pleasant half hour with an un- his somewhat hundrum existence..something about vitamins nowadays, drew up a convention relating argue that once hostilities have sympathetic manager, trying to nego- The following are a few examples: so the following is not out of place tiate a loan or an overdraft so that The Chinese was arranging an Betty cats carrots for vilamin A,
Spinach for vitamin B, to the international status of re-started, it is doubly necessary to he may pay your wages, and keep appointment.
2.30 all right?" suggested the den From herds of cows that leisurely strive for agreement. It is you, and your fellow-workers in
browse fugees, and this has been rati- therefore a Chinese custom (or employment until he can coileet some oh yes-tooth hurtce all right,
over-due accounts. fled by seven States, but these was until the cruder Western
There are thousands of small
The patient was reporting after have made important reserva methods began to blot the cacut business men who seem to be luckily the Insertion of a new plate to re- tions. This Convention must be opposing generals to exchange
cheon of Chinese militarism) for placed, but who actually are hard
pressed to keep the letter head" place one or two gaps in the upper going, the name over the door, the ratified by those countries of the staff officers and to co-operate in business on lis feet. As a clerit, you
"Well," said the dentist, "how are you getting on?" world directly affected by the keeping the postal and telegraph may spend your days with a mass of "Oh ane, thank you. Of course I
figures which may look very impos- don't cat with ill refugee. problem and perfected services in being.
ing on paper, and which may lead
a similar accasion the same examined her mouth and assured the you to think
think of "the boss" as a
for question Ψάς put the patient, where- patient he could achieve a good res DURING the minor war I have tunate person. He may be struge upon the answer was, "Very well, sult. The patient seemed loath to gling with the figures too, but from thank you, except for my teeth!" believe this, and anid, "But are you in mind, the representatives a quite different point of view. Many On one occasion a patient appeared sure I can wear plates? I tried.
ow.
On
With vitamin this and that, But there's not enough in the whole
alphabet,
all under the hat. To balance her
A lady of good education and social standing required plates. The dentist
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two thousand million inhabit to meet over a cup of tea in the to his cost that a big turnover does being completed, the dentist charged but could do nothing with them!!
Flaally a dentist's epitaph from a Sanitary, Hosting & Ventilating Dppt.
ants of this planet can surely, by house of a notable Chinese eve necessarily mean a big profit, or full fee, as the patient had a type of
even any profit af nil.
gold plate which had obviously cost cemetery-
good deal. The patient demurred, when on this tomb you faze NIGHT, WEEK-END No. 28028 agreement, find homes, work scholar called Lim Boon-kengeven any
a very cultured man, equally at Small Man's Worries and a national status for one home in the Configian and Greek
whereupon the dentist pointed out
gravity, that a good fee must have been Cheer, up! I'm filling million refugees.
classics.
charged for the gold pinte
cavity,
of the contending factions used a small business, rinn has found out to have a small job carried out. This several times to wear my aunt's teeth
PHONE-DAY No. 28021
-- Napoleon said the English were a nation of ahopkeepers, and It is true
"Oh, no," said the patient, "I found
with: