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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937.
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By
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who has just
returned from Sweden
THE
WHISKY OF
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25323 Speedboat BM.
Trees. F.T.
F.T.
F.T.
25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby.
25405Now Or Never. F.T
Darling, Not Without You. F.T.
Until The Real Thing Comes Along.
25448-Little Old Lady, F.T.
Now. F.T.
25481-Whispering. F.T.
Tiger Rag. F.T.
25503-Las Palmeras. Rumba
Inspiration. · Tango,
25514-Moonlight And Shadows.
25552 Shall We Dance,
For You, F.T.
Jammin'. F.T.
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25653---Turn Off The Moon.
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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937,
HOW "PEACE" IS
PRESERVED
Ray Noble's Orchestra.
"Fats" Waller's Orchestra.
Ruby Newman's Orchestra.
..Ray Noble's Orchestra. Benny Goodman's Quartet. Japan's defence of her pro- vocative actions in China might Xavier Cugat's Orchestra,
be regarded as humorous were .... Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.
the results of her aggression not Love Is Good For Anything That Alls You. F.T. 25530-1 Can't Break The Hahli Or You. F.T..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.so tragic. The latest official
You're Laughing At Me. F.T.
„Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. statements on the crisis depict an attitude which, but for # Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.
similar frame of mind disclosed Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. in previous upheavals, would be altogether dificult to comprè- FT. Bunne Berigan Orchestra. [hend. The Tokyo. Government „Kay Thompson's Orchestra, asserts that it is continuing a policy of non-aggression and 25566-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T... Guy Lombarde's Orchestra. that it has no territorial designs Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. on China. If the flooding of the
Eddy Duchin's Orchestra, country with armed
and war equipment, followed up by positive acts of warfare, do not constitute aggression, the term can have no meaning. It ja
25501-A Love Song Of Long Ago. Waltz
It's No Secret I Love You, F,T, 25562-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night.
'Cause My Baby Hars It's No. F.T. 25564-There's A Jull In My Life. F.T.
Carelessly. FT.
I Know Now. F.T.
25507-1 Hum A Waltz, Waltz
Hold Me Tight. Waltz.
-25569–Let's Call The Whole Thing Off. F.T.
Without Your Love, F.T.
25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love. F.T....."Fais" Waller's Orchestra
Sweet Heartache. F.T.
25573-Wake Up And Live. FT.
Sleep. F.T,
.Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.
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Japan has coveted five of China's Northern provinces and that her present actions are designed for the specific purpose of wresting these from Chinese control. Again, if this does not represent territorial designs at the ex- pense of China, words mean nothing. Following these offi- cial declarations, we have Prince Konoye, the Prime Minister, telling the Diet that Japan's only object in sending troops into China is to preserve the At the peace of the Far East. very moment he
making this claim, Japanese planes were literally annihilating hundreds of Chinese soldiers merely be- cause they refused to be dis- armed, in their own territory, by the forces of a foreign in- vader. Thus is "peace", preserv- ed in the Far East! Backing up the other official spokesmeri, the War Minister and the For- eign Minister, both sought to blame the present, crisis on anti- Japanese movements in China. The point which is always avoid- ed in this connection is that if there in
marked anti- nny Japanese sentiment in China, it is precisely of Japan's making, All effects have causes; and the cause of China's ill-feel- |ing towards Japan is to be found in the bellicosity of Japan's leaders, whose one aim is to dis member China. The tragedy of the situation is that China, which has shown a measure of
own
T
HE happiest country in the world? I don't know. In Europe? Most decidedly, Sweden.
But it was ludicrously out of
graphical conditions
contented.
Stockhom Tuw #
Hall, um bal of Sweden
of
ncsy.
sea.
There
A few weeks ago, so far north that at this time of year one could play tennis all night long. I noticed that almost universal sign of political and economic discontent, the Swistika, paint- ed on the rocks by the roadside. It was a pleasing reminder of the short duration of political campaigns to see this compli-
to the ment to National Socialism connected with timber, and that short pieces, thrust them under own way scrawled on rocks that still bear means that great industries are terrific pressure against grind-are few waterfalls to hold the located far from largo cities. stones (the mechanical process) timber up and the Gulf of Both- the sears of the glacial age.
You motor through miles of or cut them up into chips that nia is flanked by little ports
with sulphite pine forest to some small town were boiled up
from which pulp and paper set place in Sweden, where geo where you find yourself the in enormous digesters to sepa
chemical out on their journey to all parts combine guest of business men who have rate the fibres (the
world process). The mechanical and of the world. so admirably with sensible ad- travelled all over the
For months the lumbermen ministration to make the people selling pulp and paper, of scien- chemical pulps were mixed in
tists carrying out research work, huge cauldrons and the liquid scarcely see the sun; for a few of men of fabulous wealth who was then poured out on a mov- For Sweden is a country of may be found one week arguing ing wire screen through which short weeks they have no dark-
the water was absorbed. great industrial resources which about stands of timber some-
But an
architect who has who People
HOW Charlle bring wealth in the most plea- where near the Arctic Circle and
on the con- sant circumstances I have ever the next dining at the Ritz or Chaplin in "Modern Times" will been advising me known. And the result is that dancing at Monte Carlo.
remember him getting into di- version of an old farm into a the Swedes are certainly the The blending of the luxurious culties with a huge compli- comfortable house urged on me is one of cated apparatus of rollers some the very latest thing in wall- most cultured, and perhaps with the primitive
12 feet high and 80 feet long, boarding, and in a pulp mill at the
attractions
Ornskoldsvik,
of one greatest
these the most friendly, race in
The machine. exists, and for Northern and Central Sweden.
to make Bothnia ports, I saw slabs of other purposes than Europe.
Recently, for example, 1 ar- visitors to the cinema laugh. pulp some three inches thick
being
into compressed rived at Falun, a town of some 12,000 inhabitants in the forests I watched the wood pulp go same wall-boarding one eighth When we in Great Britain
inch thick and far of Dalecarlin. My hotel room in at one end of it, pass over a of an talk too proudly of our demo- cost about ten shillings but it complicated series of drying stronger than ordinary wood., cracy we should do well to read included a luxurious bathroom cylinders, and come out in those a little more about Sweden (if and shower, a wireless listening great rolls of paper familiar to we cannot go there) and then to set and a gadget which enabled anyone who has ever been near make up our
minds to become me to lie in bed and open the a newspaper office. more worthy of the proud title door by pressing a button.
At the end of the process two north of Stockholm-it is on I thought with shame of the boys were slapping labels on roughly the same parallels as of democrats.
accommodation a Swedish tra- these rolls to take them from the Klondyke Goldfields-but Remember, for example, that yeller would receive for the Falun, in Central Sweden, to there is no development of the that negation of democracy, same price in an ordinary small- San Francisco, on the Pacific science of forestry which es- the English public school sys- town hotel in Great Britain. const. Within a mile or two capes the attention of the men tem, does not exist. Since
was a great steel mill belonging who work there.
The timber trade is, of course, everybody goes to the State From this hotel I went to a to the same company. Beyond un exceptional one, since most is none of that paper mill owned by the oldest stood one of its power stations. of its employees inevitably work terrific contrast between cul- limited liability company in the But within a quarter of a mile far from the cities. But even tured and uncultured pronun- world, the Stora Kopparbergs of any of these buildings was when you come to industries
Bergslags Aktiebolag, ciation which gives us, at any
whose deep, quiet forest,
similar to those wihch have carliest documents are dated
Farther north, the contrasts turned vast areas of Lancashire rate in Engi nd, a class barrier 1288.
became yet stranger. The Swe- and Yorkshire into dismal slums. such an I have found in no
Machines dragged logs from dish paper industry is lucky in you are amazed by the good luck, other country.
the river, chopped them into that the tree trunks find their or the good sense, of the Swedes. Remember, too, that more than half the exports of Sweden are
schools there
sources,
A DOCTOR'S SECRET
son
or
this
Stockholm. seems a long way north to an Englishman, and Ornskoldsvik is a long way
The greatest ball-bearing con- cern in the world, the S.K.F., has its headquarters at Gothen- burg. The vast majority of the 7,500 employees in the Swedish factory-there are 25,000 em-
patience and restraint in the face of extreme provocation| which is altogether commend-
in idleness or pleasure. It ployees in the company's 12 THIS week 1 am going to let you, spent able, should find herself faced into a grest secret. I am going requires courage and self-denial to factories, including 2,000 in the nt Luton escapes with the task of resisting the to tell you the one thing that will keep the teeth clean and see that the factory
give you health and strength, enable children keep theirs clean too. Time throughout the summer months invader solely by her own re- you to retain that schoolgirl com- and trouble must be freely spent in at four o'clock to some little
plexion," and to breed healthy sons thinking out a career for Reliance on the pro- and daughters and make you
proud
The evening classes are hut or tent on one of the islands but the rooms are empty. visions of the Nine-Power citizen of our great Empire.
in Gothenburg Sound. It is nothing that a doctor learns Education is the great enemy of
Their pay works out on ex- Treaty will apparently yield no from the observation of all his pa-disease, and the most valuable les- results, any more than China's tients, young and old, rich and poor. son of education is self-denial, Health actly the same level as that of a pure life, the English workers but when Perhaps you think it a patent is unly to be won by appeal to the League of Nations medicine, something out of a bottle! clean habits, lofty aspirations, an I watched them streaming out
No.
world earnest desire to leave the It is nothing more than self- did when Japan tore Manchuria denial. Of all the evils
that pro- little better than it was before, by of the factory gates they look- from Chinese sovereignty. As in mote disease in our midst, there is study and education, by love of chiled so happy and healthy that I
nothing quite so potent as self-
dren, and a determination to do them was not envious on behalf of Abyssinia, RO in China, the indulgence,
good.
my compatriots, but profoundly Many people Imagine that health weak have apparently to give el, in the curse of our times. There contents of a medicine bottle and, Laziness, mental as well as physi- is only to be won by drinking the
ashamed. way to the strong. But, what-is no father who says boldly that he meanwhile, are content to eat any ever be the policies of Govern-wild day and night to find out what best for his children and of work until he drops to get 11 for them. Why, there are thousands who have never really learnt the value of plain soap and water.
Cleanliness
self-dental, hours devoted to wrok that are now
ments, China, in her hour trial, has the sympathy of public opinion in all nations which place right before might.
means
£1
And I could wish that thou- sands upon thousands of these thing, breathe foul nir, live in dirty compatriots would combine the rooms, and sleep in a vitiated at- mosphere. No wonder the hospitals pleasure of a holiday in Sweden are full to overflowing!
with the business of learning Self-denial and hard work are the there how to build up a real : only things that can restore health democracy which need foar no- to the nation,
M. D. thing from dictatorship.