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Why I
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SATURDAY, JULY
1988.
hate-
London
ago. I
FE W. weeks arrived here from Aus- tralla on leave from the
office. It was the trip I had hankered for. I was too young to como when the war was on. I felt proud and Imperial na the malboat swung into Tilbury.
Old England at last!
Any Imperial idons I had when I arrived vanished after the Arst few days in London.
This place 18 in the last alaken of
a nwert decadence comparable with old Vienna. I don't know what is going to happen, but something must; fe can't go on like this.
Unless you have a strong letter of introduction to the Londonor he inst gives you the cold shoulder- Emplah or no Emplah. They tell me it la merely that "English Re- serve." You can't sugar-coat it like that.
It's foul. I don't like it. I don't like London; I like hardly any- thing in it now; and I am going to bent it out of here to the United States sooner than I had planned.
If I stay here I'll bump someone of. Even the wallreases snarl and
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anap. I have never seen a bus conductor smile. Nearly every-· body gives you wrong directions, God knows what is on their minds.
And everybody is so amug and complacent and satisded about it that it annoys me. All so superior too. Men, the like of whom you can bowl in and talk to any time in Australia, surround themselves with secretaries and deputies here, and make you All up forms and make appointments before you can get near them.
You rarely get the appointment, though.
I CAME WITH a letter to one chap in Fleet-street. Every time I went to see him his secretary came down and told me he was in the middle of an earth-shaking decision or some- thing, and was too busy to sec people from Australia or anywhere. We kept it up like that for three days.
Then I went home and wrote a letter to him-addressed to him privately at the office-telling what had happened. His reply came next day. Four lines.
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caused among other things by the higher cost of coal and will be secured from the bulk supply to con- sumers on a basis of such contracts, It is announced.
An Increase is also announced in of hiring radiators and
the east cookers,
The Company announced that it population of Shanghal, which has had been compelled through force of seen an all round increase of the cost circumstances beyond its control to
by JOHN GARDNER
An Australian Journalist now
in London,
shan't see him again. I know now it was a low trick. I should have kept to the rules of the game.
All this stuff is new to mo. This traditional "reserve" of yours is one of the worst things about you. Snap out of it. It's nothing to be proud and smug about.
And all those other mad things you do; shutting yourselves up in stuffy, overheated rooms, and bringing dogs to live in with you.
The first morning I was here the maid rushed over and slummed down the bedroom window. pushed it up again.
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WHY LONDON MEN cling to their overcoats on warm days is a thing that puzzles I see the same chaps in my street with their overcoats on day after day.
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Belted and wrapped, you them even On Warm days. It would take something in the nature of a surgical operation to wrest those overcoats from them, And, speaking of weather, I have encountered only one wel duy since I left Australia.
Another thing. Not long since a certain person lured me to an Orange and Lemon ceremony in the Stmnd. Well, it was a church. and we'll let that pa85.
The other night he came with another bright idea.
He wanted me to go to the Inner Temple where the lawyers go. There is a long table where they have to sit and eat so many meals before they can be admitted.
was so Very English.
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They took me to 800 Eton College. The boys walked about with their shoulders hunched, heads down, and with both hands shoved deep down in their trousers pocket.
My host told me not to be lɛuor- ant when I asked him about it. He sold you could tell they were young gentlemen and not used to work.
Walking about like that proved their breeding, he added, I saw the playing fields where England wins its battles. I shudder to think of our next war.
Just how you won wars in the past I can't imagine. You won't be able to finish the game of bowls and boat them nowadays, yet everybody seems to think there will be time to do that. Only now It is
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not bowls as much as dogs, darts and pools.
When war comes I am afraid you will begin ringing each other up and arranging conferences and sending chilts and slips of paper around the place.
Two ovils that want plucking out by the roots here are the restaur- ant racket and the tipping menace. One seems to go with the other. You rarely tip Australians.
YOU DAREN'T refuse here. I suppose It's the spirit of the dictator or something. but they get what they want. I like the way they get you in casy stages in the cafés.
Thoy wheedle two or three tips from you before you sit down. First there is the cloakroom and then there is the wash-and-brush-up place. You have to pay in both of these and then tip as well, Every- body does it.
If you ask the walter for advice he will suggest all the expensive beers and food in such a way that you will order them, thinking he 18 possibly trying to help you.
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In spite of all this you can't say I am blused-unless it's in you favour. Not so long ago I married an English girl-plcked her against all Australia.
And some of you really are charming people when you wish to be. That's not often, I have stayed In English homes since arriving here and have been overwhelmed with courtesy and kindnesses. You CAN do it.
In future don't be so damned abrupt and aloof to that stranger who lives near you-and the next bloke who stops you and asks his way.
BUT I have found one place in London where they are emcient and get straight to the point. Scotland Yard. I dropped In with a letter of introduction to Sir Philip Game.
He has got that place running like olled machinery. I Hand It to him. But we had him as a State governor in Australia for several years and we whitewashed him. He was born here, of course, but wo 1lked him so much there that we very nearly naturalised him,
Laugh this off, too. The Editor is paying me for writing this. It's been
just a labour of love, too. I would like to have done it for .nothing.
f am certain of one thing, now. at least. I did think once I had a little chance of getting some ex- perlence while here to help me in my job back home. Now I know definitely that I have none. Thera won't be any vacillation about that. But I'll grab a boat for the States as soon as The Heat dies down.
That's where you get off And the same to you
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December 31 this your than for the the matter, has akcertained ⚫ that The aquitable portion of the Com-first six months of the year,
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HOW IT BEGAN Beraniot
BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE
DURING THE 19TH CENTURY, WHEN OUR LENIENT GAME LAWS MADE HUNTING PRAC TICALLY A DAILY SPORT, IT WAS COMMON FOR DOGS TO FANCY THEY HAD TREED GAME WHICH HAD ESCAPED. HENCE THE SAYING BARK- ING UP THE WRONG TREE,' TO MEAN AN ERRONEOUS PROCEDURE.
BERANIER
NICHE ITALIAN NICCHIA" (A SHELL) GAVE US "NICHE" FOR A CONCAVE WALL RECESS IN WHICH STATUARY 15 PLACED SINCE THE SHAPE OF THESE RE- CESSES SOMETIMES RESEMBLED A SHELL.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William
IN SOUTH AMERICA, A SINGLE COLONY OF TERMITES. MAY CONTAIN
THREE MILLION
INDIVIDUALS.
IRISH POTATOES WERE FIRST EATEN BY
WHITE MEN JUST 400 YEARS AGO/
Ferguson
ONLY
ONE MAN, E.C.SLIPHER,
FLAGSTAFF ARIZ, HAS SUCCEEDED
IN PHOTOGRAPHING THE SO-CALLED- CANALS
OF MARS.
2-27 COPE. 1939 WY NEA BERVICE, THE. IRISH potatoes, in spite of their name, did not como from Ireland. The Indians of Colombia were eating them in 1538,,when the white men first made their discovery. Later, Spanish ships carried potatoes to Europe, and the Irish popularized them as a food.
ALLEY OOP
{SAY, GUZ-WHEN I DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' ABOUT YOU GUYS CAME \YER MOTH-EATEN DINOSAUR!! HERE, HOW COME) THAT CRAZY GIRL FRIEND OF YOU LEFT MY YOURS HAS GOT HIM!
DINOSAUR
BEHIND?
(SO OOOLA AND I'M GONNA FIND 'EM! ^
DINNY ARE OUT( MY GOSH, I CAN'T AFFORD LOOKIN' FOR US? T'LOSE A GOOD HEY, WHATCHA DOINE DINOSAUR!;
| WHY ALL THꞌ FUSS?,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARFTIMES.
The Steamship
"FELIX ROUSSEL" No. 18 A/38 Bringing Cargo from Marseilles vla Saigon etc., arrived Hongkong on Wednesday, 20th July, 1933.
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being loaded and stored Into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- loon,
bo whence delivery may obtained Immediately after landing. All claims must be sent in to me on or before 30th July, 1938, or they will not be recognized.
ed
Damaged Packages will be examin- by the Company's Surveyor Messra: Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 0.m. on Tuesday, 20th July, 1938.
any
Consignees must have a Revenue Omeer in attendance
when dullable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
R. OIL. Agent. Hongkong, 20th July,"1038,
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By Vincent Hamlin
Y'MEAN · {HOW SHOULD I KNOW? OOOLA? \SHUX, WHEN SHE SAW WELL, WHERED YOU'N FOOZY A-FLOATIN SHE GO? BY ON TH FLOOD, SHE
GRABBED DINNY AN' LIT OUT!
MEANWHILE, OGOLA CONTINUES HER SEARCH OF THE
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