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A fast after n feast is as good as night after day, and every bit as necessary, A comparative fast, that is, probably after an incomparable feast.
Don't help them eat up the remains of that big feast. Eat grapefruit and oranges meal-times if you feel peckish. You might oven take a leaf of lettuce. But don't go further than that. Don't Your snack. Don't nibble nuts and grapes. sweet-meat of penitence must be the acid drop, the mint, or the barley sugar stick.
After this day of sackcloth and ashes you'll be feeling a little more like your usual self. You may now sit up and take a little light sustenance. You need a gentle, simple diet, with correct quan- tities and combinations of foodstuffa.
Here's one that is very good for pick-me-up or even sustained everyday use:-First meal: Grapefruit with honey, apples or pineapple, or steeped figs or prunes with cereal. Second meal: Baked, grilled or roasted meat with steamed greens and baked potatoes; a milk pudding made with unpolished rice and raisins. Third meat: A large salad containing lettuce, cucumber, young Cabbage and tomatoes, sprinkled with a little le- mon-juice, eaten with wholemeal bread and but- ter. Drink a lot of water between meals.
When you've kept your fast and are well into little the awing of your getting-over-it-dict a exercise, will make you the man you were before a Merry Christmas.
Rowing is the best exercise for the stomach. You may not have a bont handy. Don't worry; just sit on the floor and bend the body forward to the waist, breathing out. Then come up and go over backwards, breathing in. Do this six times a morning.
Why not Saturday off?
by Stephen Black
·IMPORTANT
al billion pounds-sales of which would be stimulated by the release of workers with Friday-night pay envelopes in their pockets on Saturday morning.
THE
TELEGRAPH. HONGKONG
FEBRUARY TUESDAY,
8, 1938.
Who Makes The Rules
Of
WAR is not a game, but, like
and
football, it has its rules, these last few years the play has been getting just 118 rough.
Who makes the rules?
for
War?
and who
is the referee?
destroy your idea of the freedom of the seas, which is a doctrine very dear to the Americans but, curious- ly, not to us, perhaps because we have the largest nuvy in the world. The British Government have al- ways upheld the right to visit and search all merchant vessels under whatever fing they may sail, and, in this sense are opponents of the free- dom of the scas..
Since July last year Japan has been carrying on something suspici- uusly like war in China, but accord--
But the rules lay down that this it lan't war, ing to the rules neither side has declared that they
right may only be exercised in the territorial waters of the notions at are at war. Nor has
terri any Internas.
the 1933. As you know, that conference war, or anywhere upon the high tional body or group, ke
that was a flop, and nothing much has geas, but not in the territorial wa- League of Nations, devided
been done about it since.
lers of neutral States. they are at war.
Now another odd rule about war Now, if the Japanese declare war problems. You remember that tice that it is coming off.
LIVERY little war brings up Its Is that you don't have to serve no- they will be able 19, do several things that they are now,doing ille last year a British, a French, and an
It is quite sporting to make a sud- gally, such as blockading the Chinu tallan merchant ship were attacked den and unexpected declaration of coast against ships of all nationali- by Spanish aeroplanes outside the war and to follow it up immediately
mite limit in the tles carrying war materials to Chinn, three
Mediter with an act of war. In this way: rancan, which was quite definitely an ambussador of foreign. State For the last eighty or ninety years offside in the game.
could march into the Foreign Office the nations seem to have been coil- The international lawyers didn't with his ultimatum, and at the same Ing to the conclusion that they can't know what to do about that very time bis country's bombers could stop war and that therefore they much, because there is no specie drop bombs on. London. should lay down some rules in writ- rule covering attacks on merchant ing for it.
ships from the air.
But they had some sort of reply. ALL disputes could be settled by
the Permanent Court of Arbi-
Brietly, the rules are based partly on custom and partly on agreements for the London Naval Trenty of tration set up by the Hugue Confer
to settle dispute which the made at international peace-seeking 130 laid it down that a warship or ences conferences since 1890. The referee submarine must not sink u merchant nations did not want to fight about.
That
court became part of without having first placed
the in any dispute in interpreting these the passengers and crew in a place League
Vessel
of Nations, wulth Areca rules Is the World Court at The
of safely. All naval agreements Judges and four deputy judges, and Hague.
since then have confirmed this. is prepared to decide any question TAVEN before then men were try- But how is an acroplone bombing of international law if the nations
ing to do something about war. 1 ship going to put the passengers will only let it.
One of the most important men at for as far back as 1130 the Lateran and crew in a place of safety. Clear-
court is an Englishman, Council declared that certain wealy, it can't be done, sa clearly the the
should, not
Hurst, Sir Cecil bomb mer- soldierly-looking senger ships. pons, some forms of early artillery, ntroplane
chant
sometimes described as the ablest were so inhumone that their use in
or passenger However, at
at The Hague in 1923 International lawyer in the world. wartare should be prohibited. (Ex-
He is also described sometimes no cept against the infidels, who, obvi- the British representatives proposed ously, were beyond consideration.) that a merchant vessel must not be the man who drafted the Versailles attacked by an aeroplane unless it Trenty, which is not quite so com- Before the first two lingue Con- has refused to submit to starch, and plimentary. ferences, which took place in 1800 must not be destroyed until the
tall,
you say about and 1907, Europe had some sort of crew have been placed in safety. NOW, what can conselence about what you could do The trouble with all the rules is, man's efforts to "humanise" war Breaks by making rules for the conduct of and what you could not do in war, of course, that if one side and it was the business of the con- them, so will the other side, for war it? The plain fact is that there is no way and there never was a way of making war decent.
It is not a game.
ferences to reduce that conscience to is a game without a referee, a set of rules..
NOW, about the Japanese blockade Since then, of course, the rules of the China toast. it she de- have been added to from time to clares war the rules give her the time 39 HOW weapons and new right of visiting and scorching mer- methods of warfore came into opera- chant ships, whatever their cargoes, fol.
nationalities or destinations.
That is an old rule going back at
LREADY Japan hus behaved least 150 years, which may perhaps
badly indeed and has disobeyed
1 most of the rules. She has systema- tically carried out air raids on Nan- kin, the capital of China, although she had not broken off diplomalle relations with that country. She should do that dest.
The Management have plea- sere la announcing the adop- flon of the five-day week, com- mencing Monday next. They believe that the additional
Items are: Bakery goods, holl-
and day clothing, boots
shoes leisure so aftorded will benefit the Staff and will thus.... other than rubber, motor vehicles (excluding motor-cycles), whole- N twenty years of British in-
cale slaughtering and ment- dustry 800 managements packing, silk goods and women's hayo-made-this-announce-dothing
ment.
To-day, more than 140.000 workers down tools on Friday 'night, not to take them up again
until Monday morning.
From 1930 to 1934, the number of firms adopting the five-day week increased by 15 per cent, and
•
All economiat writes: "The of the
sociological advantages system are almost too obvious to require enuneration." He's right.
A week-end-away-from-home.
the number of workers employed now practically the monopoly of
under this system by 50 per cent. Since that date, only 0.1 per cent, of these men and women have had to return regularly to work on Saturday mornings.
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In 1910, it is estimated that ap- proximately only 35 large firms in Great Britain gave "Saturday morning off." But post-war eco- nomic conditions stimulated the movement, and in 1919 whole trades. affecting hundreds and thousands of workers, went over to the five-day week,
The entire furniture trade in High Wycombe adopted the system by mutual agreement in 1020, From 1021 to 1930 the trade unions and employers of ono trade after another investigated the five-day. week principle, came to agreement, and anally adopted it.
Manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate, of scales and weighing machines, of biscuits, patent foods, clothing, dyes, varnish and paints, were some of the "pioneers."
Wholesale and retail chemists, as well.
the manufacturing chemists, were quick to follow sult. Wines, boot polish, knitted goods, glass, bicycles, cameras, soon zama under the heading of goods pro- duced by workers employed only from Monday to Friday.
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:
the middle-classes, becomes pos- sible for all.
"The entire morale o! the workers is built up in a quite amazing
fashion "which another way of saying that they have a greater chance to learn the art of living" as distinct from the art of "existence."
Arguments are so overwhelm- in and the benents of two days' hollday in seven so obvious, that it is surprising that every large con- cern in the country, to say nothing of the Government (not so surpris- ing) has not taken steps to make the five-day week the standard throughout British Industry.s
Then she did another bad thing! She shot the British Ambassador, That annoyed us very much, but Apart from shooting one of our re-
she presentatives
brake another rulc.
The Japanese justified or tried to justify the shooting by saying that they thought the British Ambassa- dor was General Chiang Kai-shek, the Prime Minister, who was tra- velling-along-the-Nanking-Shanghai road and therefore they had ordered all their airmen to fire on any motor-car they saw on that road.
But the rules of warfare forbid any attempt to assassinate the head of an enemy country. For example, have killed the Kaiser would have been a bad thing.
to
As the British Government said in their Note to Japan, "It is one of the oldest and best-established rules of international
that karw
direct or deliberate attacks on non-combo-.} tants are absolutely prohibited, whether inside or outside the aren which hostilities arc taking place,"
In
Haw
Now, the snag there is the nero- plane.
can you bomb a town' in which there are enemy troops with- out hitting some of the folk who are not fighting? It reminds you of the difficulty Shylock was placed in when he was permitted to get his pound of Beal without spilling u drop of blood.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. II. of Russia.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
LET'S go back to the Hague Con- ferences a minute, which were organised by the Emperor Nicholas
When you look at the declarations, they adopted, you will be surprised how far we have progressed since those
hopeful days of 1899. The conference prohibited the launching of projectiles and explo
other "PRESIDENT DOUMEN”
balloons or by sives from No. 8 A/30
similar new methods, so they seemed Bringing Cargo from Marseilles to have anticipated the bomber.
they prohibited the use of via ports, etc., arrived Hongkong on
whose only object was to Thursday, 3rd February, 1938.
After that, Consignees are hereby informed spread poison gases.
prohibited the use of bullets that their goods with the exception they
The Steamship
tiles
of Oplums, Treasure and Valuables which expand or flatten easily in the are being landed and stored into the human body, so that explains the Godown of the Hongkong Kowloon fuss when there's talk, of any na- Wharf and Godown 'Co. Ltd., Kow- tion using dum-dum bullets. Mus- loon, whener delivery, may be ob- solini scrused the Abyssinians. tained immediately after landing. using them.
Firms which have adopted the five-day week claim to have economized on power, heat and light; to have set Eaturday aside for maintenance and thus speeded up production during the other five days; to have reduced 1-ruary, 1938.
of
All claims must be sent in to me As you know, the noison gas rule on or before 14th February, 1938, was broken by all parties in tha great war. So once again the na- or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Fackages will be examin- tions in 1920 signed at Geneva the
Company's ed by the
Surveyor protocol for the prohibition of the Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in use in war of poison gases and also Consignees at what they called "bacteriological the presence of the 10.00 u.m. on Wednesday 9th Feb- warfare."
Consignees must have a Revenue in attendance when any dutinble goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.
health among the staff: decreasedomeer lateness, absorter-iam, nccidents and labour turn-over and to have Kenerally built up the morale of their workers.
A questionnaire Lasued recently to the leading five-day week firms.In this country revealed that in some cases production per worker per hour had increased by no less than one-third.
An American Arm has published long and impressive diskot manufactured goods-valued at
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Co. Hongkong, 3rd February, 1930,
COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS
EVERYWHERE
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As man becomes inore inventive," the statermen have to be kept busy siguing new pacts not to use what he Invents.
Most charming of all the Hague talks was in 1924. The subject was whether after an arroplane had been disabled, you could choot the pilot and observer who were trying to escape by parachute. They sald you could not
The subject of the bombing of open towns which goes'on goily in Spain and China waż tackled by the Disarmament "Conference of 1933. As you know, that conterence of).
Emrys
Jones
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