THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1939.
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Entente
THOSE who attach the highest
Importance to the enlistment of Russian idealism and Russian power in the European peace front must regard the annil's pace of the London-Moscow negotiations with disquiet and impatience.
The weeks have slipped by since the march to Prague. A system of organised resistance to Fascist aggression has sprung rapidly into existence. But it still does not in- clude Russin, except by virtue of the Franco-Soviet Pact.
Of Russin's willingness to accept the full responsibilities of member- abip of the Peace Front not the most hardened sceptic can now be doubtful.
The Russian proposals, if carried through, would create something much more nearly approaching a full collective system In Europe than any other Government has yet dedared its willingness to accept. Russia has been unwilling to con sider anything less than her own proposals because she feels-very understandably-that nothing bui the acceptance of full commitments. can prove the loyalty to collective security of those who have betrayed it so often.
AB
consequence, while others have actually undertaken, grave new though not comprehensive commit- ments, the Soviet Union itself has. not yet done so.
The British Government, for its part, has exchanged military gunr- antees with. Poland and Turkey, and given them to Greece and Rumania. But it still very obviously hesitates to exchange them with Russia,
| though an alliance with Russia is the very foundation of an effective policy to prevent war.
Nevertheless, though it seems to take it longer to exchange on ex- ploratory note with Moscow than a full military guarantee with War- saw, the Government is at any ratej maintaining discussions with the Soviet Union.
A rapid and successful conclusion of these negotiations is desired by every important acetion of public opinion. Yet Instead of reaching af conclusion the negotiations drag on.
What is necessary is a direct meet-
If it is a Matter of-
A.D. 116: The Roman Empire is marked
"A."
-HISTORY-
A.D. 800: "B" is the empire of the Frankish King Charlemagne. "A"
Latins.
We Have All-
are
1100: "A" is the Holy Roman Empire, centred round Germany. "B" are the Moors.
-Got Claims-
1180: "E" is English, "F" is French, "G" is Germany. The Moors are receding.
-To Bits Of-
1810: Napoleon has conquered "C." "E". is Germany. "F" is little Prussia.
-Europe!
WATER
Means
More Than
You Think
WATER IS always news in Hongkong. Either we are having floods or water restrictions. Restrictions, indeed, look
like being with us always.
They were to end when Jubilee Reser- voir was opened three years ago, but the reservoir has never overflowed.
Soon, Govern- ment must face expenditure ол another
reser.
voir of equal size to the Shing Mun colossus.
Again, we are threatened with new restrictions, because the gra vity filter beds cannot cope with the
enormous demand осса- sioned when full supply is provided for our abnormal popu- lation.
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Water interests everybody in Hongkong, from the lowest coolie to, the richest taipan,
A good many people sneer at water-they have that "never-mind-where- the-water-gets-so-long-as-it's-not-in-the wine" feeling. Belgium is going to show that water isn't dull, and once you think about it you see it's one of the REALLY BIG things in life.
You and I, for instance, are about 75 per cent, water, and if we were pushed to it we could live forty days or so without food, but only three without water. And where would the wine come from if it were not for the water that nourishes the grapes?
When you take a house you tale it for granted nowadays that water will be laid on, and large numbers of people complain if it isn't both b. and c. in the kitchen as well as the bathrooms. Sanitarlans say at least seventeen gallons per head per day is what we want to make life comfortable, and that doesn't include what is used in trada.
Do you remember that spell of frost last winter when the pipes froze? How difficult it was to beg enough water to all the kettle in the morning! And I heard of people who had to set out for work unwashed and trust to finding taps running at the office. Things may look pretty glum and depressing when the sun refuses to shine, but they are unprettily grim when. the rains fall.
How many of us are looking forward to week-end walks in the country this summer? But where would our green fields and our velvet lawns be without water? Should we have our elders, and willows, and poplars? What would happen to the rese, and the corn, and the vine? Come to think of it, water isn't so dull. It makes all the difference between green pastures and barren desert.
DID you have your tumblerful of water first thing this morning, and are you going to have another one last thing to-night? Water is an excellent drink, and if you have an acquired distaste for it you can't do better than become as little children where water is concerned. They lap it up if they have mothers wise enough to let them have as much as they like, and it makes them bright and lively, and clears away all their pimples.
How many husbands give their wives a specially twinkling smile when dinner-time brings a dish of boiled beef and carrots? Then there are those lovely hot soups when we get home cold in winter, and those iced drinks that cool our tongues in summer, to say nothing of our cup of tea that is good every day of the year. They owe their existence to water. And so do 20 many other things that they can't be enumerated.
☆ 資酱
FOR centuries man has made use of water scientifically. He made a water-clock to tell the time. He found out how to use water to work a mill. Gradually all sorts of hydraulic things like lifts and cranes and pumps were invented.
James Watt, in the eighteenth century, helped to revolutionise life with his steam engine. Now they harness water power somehow or other to make electricity, which has done its best to make the hydraulic machines obsolete.
All these scientific things about water leave me mystified; I can read up about them in the encyclopedias and not be a bit wiser. But there are all sorts of things about water that I can enjoy without have to bother to understand.
I can go and stand on Westminster Bridge and watch the Thames gliding. by to the sea. I can go up to the Lake District and see that chain of blue waters surrounded by bracken-clad hills or find an autumn-leaf-brown stream bubbling through the fells.
I can watch a man cast a line into a river and sit still and quiet.on the bank for hours, probably finding himself again as well as finding fish, m
I can remember the frozen flood waters spread over the fields in the fens and the fun we had learning to skate. I can go and see the swans swimming on the Serpentine. I can remember tLb waterfalls, so beautiful, so helpless, tumbling in spray as I travelled through the Alps, and how the magic of those falling waters increased as the sun set and dusk enfolded them,
Now with summer just in Britain this year, and we are WE shall watch the little and picnic under the cliffs,
round the corner we holidaying with pay, and we
ing between Mr. Chamberlain and are all remembering joyfully are going to forget crises looking filling with wind and the white exciting, transient friendship M. Stalin. The Premier saw t to that England is a "pearl set in a for baby crabs and building sand By twice to Germany to "appease" silver sea."We are making plans
castles.
the German dictator, and the fruits)
of those two flights were acid. Mr. for that week at the seaside-a
white and red salls We shall come home with that horses galloping in to the shore. (made on our second or third We shall smell the salt breezes day away), already fleeting as all round us and watch tho gulls we turn the key in the lock, but Chamberlain would have much better fortnight if we are lucky--and We shall explore caves and wheeling and walling over the our recollection of the blue prospects of attaining the peace be so we are saying to ourselves that paddle canoes, and play cricket waves, and wish that big boy waters we bathed in and sailed ardently' desires In Europe if he it will be dut, turn' to 'go" soon, on the beach. And when s
we wouldn't pelt them with stones.
In will linger until it is time to would personally endeavour to make All the great waters round are tired we shall llo in a deck Wo shall walk on the plor and
gó again." the Peuce Front so strong that none our coast will be coming into chair and take a long look-ece at see the plerrote, and laugh with would take the. Initiative against it. their own, for we are holidaying the ocean..
the children at Punch and Judy
Hilda Coe