Tuesday,
HONGKONGY TELEGRAPH
August 13, 1940
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
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WATSON'S LIME JUICE MUSCLES
CORDIAL I
COMBINES ALITY WITH CONOMY:
JUST
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H. M. V." RECORDINGS
Reginald Fourt (Organ). Pat Kirkwood,
I've got no Strings. Pal Kirkwood.
Three Cheers for anything.
BD 829 Pinocchio-Selection.'
BD 830
Where or When. Oh, Johnny.
BD 820
DD 828
13 0030
Roslia. Webster Booth,
B 0031
It's
lovely day to-morrow.
Careless.
When you wish upon a Star.'
A kiss in the Dark (Herbert).
Indian Summer.
Al Bowlly.
Webster Booth,
B0032 Someday (Victor Herbert). Allan Jones.
J.0.5
J.O.2
· J.0.4
Thine Alone (Victor Herbertj.
Mala Junta-Tango. Argentin Orchestra.
La Tablada-Tango.
Chagrin D'amour-Tango.
Tange Chinois.
Elegante Papiruse-Tango. Malinconin-Tango,
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Mario Mela Orchestra,
Argentin Orchestra,
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A
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residential school for boys conducted on English public school
Hines. Easily reathed from Montreal and New York. Has an enrollment which includes boys' from distant parts of the Empire.
Boys are prepared for the Universities, the Royal Military College..and for lysiness life, Masters are graduates of English and Canadian universities.. Enrollment of 150 boys, grouped in Preparatory, Middle, and Upper Schools. The Preparatory School, for boys from eight to thirteen years of age, is limited to forty, has its own staff, and is housed in n bullding completed in 1937.
The syllabus includes all subjects leading to Junior and Senior Matriculation in Arts and Science. In addition, evonomics, biology, rhetoric, art, music and handicrafts are taught formally. The Chapel Choir number fifty boys. The school produces a Glbert and Sullivan opera each year.
Modern, fireproof buildings, are set in 500 acres of grounds. Healthy surroundings afford splendid opportunities for recreation, including excellent ski-ing. Ample playing-fields for cricket and football: Indoor and outdoor hockey rinks: hard tennis courts: gymnasium: Canada's senlor Cadet Corps.
C. G. M. Grier, M.A.. (Oxon), Headmaster,
For particulars apply The Secretary, Bishop's Collegu School, Lennoxville, Que., Canada.
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The
P.P.S...
NEW MEN BEHIND
THE MINISTERS
by Maurice Webb
Some people wonder why the new Minister of Labour picked out a man who, as they say, "doesn't look like
one of the trades unionists."
ATROLLING my beat down P.P.8. to Ernest Bovin he is waiting at Westminster I frequently to sit on the row bobind #t when his bump into some Minister chief takes his seat in the Commons. bearing all the signs of one who has been grievously stricken. At once I know what has happened to him. He has lost touch with his Parliamentary Private Secretary.
No
Worse embarrassment can overtake a member of His Majesty's Government.
They do not know that for many years Creech Jones was one of the biggest of the younger figures in the trade union world.
With his P.P.8. at his elbow a He headed with outstanding skill Minister can face any situation. one of the sections of Mr. Bevin's But let him lose him for a time and own union. And was President of an he is as helpless as Samson shorn. Important international group of
Ministers will tell you that a good commercial workers. PPB. has a price beyond rubies The ace occupants of this post are guarded by their masters with the concern of 1 Gardener for his record-breaking marrow.
For they stand between their chiefs and whole armies of badg- erers and worriers.
New Labour recruits
A NUMBER of Labour MPs have noble army of martyrs. I applaud their public spirit.
just fomed the ranks of this,
Let me put the spotlight on some of them for you
In 1920 Indignation surved through the mining valleys of Mon-
on
He is among the first half-dozen real experts in the country colonial affairs. The work he has done, away from the limelight, for native populations 1: acknowledged by those who are aware of deserving of unqualified praise.
to be
But he is not, by nature, a lime- light man. He has a mind of rare worth and integrity, which seeks avenues of service rather than re- wards.
Il successful piloting of the Access to Mountains Act is but the first of the many big jobs he will perform in the political career, he has now chosen.
mouthshire when it was learned Happy combination
that one, who-as County Alder-
chapel omela-was. revered in every
Copr, 2014 by died Prašaro Renánas
RESER
"They're partners in the same company
each other!'*
Sir Kingsley
don't trust
Wood is New
Chancellor
man, miners' leader and prominent WHEN the war started, Com-LONG try of Health has Secretary to the Minister whose nsociation with the office as Parliamentary Private Hongkong Telegraph. valley home, had been sent to prison naval uniform and went back to given Sir Kingsley Wood the post he had been instrumental
Tuesday, August 13, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015
Tit pre "Special to the Telegrapli" is used by the "lientkong Telegraph" to indleate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1930. Buch news an bears the indication “UP”" is received in Hongkong on the Gate of publication by the United Press Associations, who rei ervo all rights and forbid republication, elther wholly or in part without previous arrangeitient
Giving The News
At the present juncture the aerial war has entered a critical phase, and operations are in pro- gress which demand the obser- vance of the strictest reticence. At all times in war, and especial- ly just now, it is axiomatic that must military considerations govern the communication of "news" to the public:"Information.“
assembly."
Forty thousand people alghed a
mander R. Fletcher put on his
that naval Commanders go.
Now, oddly enough, he has taken
च
big
for "participating in 鞲 riotous the quarter deck, or whorever it is perfect bedside manner. In his in oreating.
Chancellor of the new post as
Political ambitions apart, how- petition for his release. His vacant his uniform off, and put on his well-Exchequer, he will persuasively ever, Sir Kingsley Wood's pre- chair in the County Council tailored civilian clothes, in order to take all our money from us and occupation with the Ministry of chamber was decorated with flowers enter the Admiralty, as political still leave us with the feeling Health had been a deep, lasting and carried a
card which said right-hand man to A. V. Alexander. that we are much better without and commendable one. It has Returi scon."
This a happy and original com-it.
also been the source of "n That man was Arthur Jenkins, bination-a sca-going PPS. with a To-day he is M.P. for Pontypool. civilian Chlef
Even the wealthy will acceptistimulating Parliamentary Each has And P.P.8., friend and confidant of regard and respect for the other, the most drastic purges on his rivalry, which has enlivened the a member of the War Cabinet, Mr. The Commander." or "Reggie" prescription, because Sir King Commons for nearly 20 years. C. R. Autine. To know this gracious, as his associates call him, was aley is such a "safe" Tory. Is between him and his new Minis-
blue eyes ir to wonder naval college he initiated the Duke how anyone could associate him of Kent Into the profession. with a
rlatous assembly."
I have myself served as a sort of Kingsley Wood (he has never Neville Chamberlain was his He will flinch from nothing when temporary A.B. under his command. been just "Wood," as others chief at the Ministry from 1925- the things he values are at stake. At Geneva together some years ago have been "Chamberlain," 29, and that formed the basis of but above all else, he cherishes the "The Commander" said he would "Simon" or "Churchill") has had a partnership which "made" things which make for decency and take me for a row. order in
life. public
I took the oars.
He sat in the a career which reads like a cor-both of them. During all the recent critical years stern and controlled the operation. he has been at Mr. Attlee's side. Ilis control was so brilliant that Now, in his wider responsibilities, he only after two hours' pulling and will give his Lender support of sweating did I dare to suggest immeasurable value.
plered man with remark- naval cadet in 1009. As tutor in the not already a Chancellor... iterial colleague, Arthur Green-
we might change rôles for a bit. But
-by-then-it-won-time-he said, for us OHN WILMOT has taken up duty to go home.
tenant at the Economic Warfare Ministry.
The miners' part
aid that ma of whom it can be TWO miners have joined this valuable band of public servants, Tom Smith, who was leading pit boys in strikes when in his teens, teams up with D. R. Grenfell at the Mines Ministry.
his political future is certain. As a Labour candidate he has two historic by-election victories to his credit. As an M.P. his impres- ive mental equipment has brought him right to the front.
if only inferential, which would J as his friend Hugh Dalton's ileu- be of value to the eneray or de- trimental to discipline must be withheld; and the decision as to what may be given out and what must be withheld properly rasts with the Services directly con- cerned. But when those reser- vations have been made, is it not possible to enlighten the Empire and the outside world leas sparingly as to the nature of the deeds that are done, and the ex- periences that befall the men by whom the brunt of the war is being borne? After all, the
of the Primrose League?
BRITAIN'S LEADERS
wood.
Their joint handling of the complicated Derating Bill helped both their reputations. When Chamberlain took on the job of building up the Conservative Party machine to drive Labour from Office, Only once
Kingsley Wood was his right-
respondence-course-in-"How Succeed in Politics." has he been "ploughed" and that was when he was replaced by Siri
try.
hand man.
In 1931, Kingsley Wood Samuel Houre at the Air Minis- "doubled" the post of Post- master-General with that of the He was the son of a Wesleyan chairman of the National minister. He has remained true Government propaganda com- to his origins, and remains a mittee. He was to Baldwin This is his third spell there. The Wesleyan. At the age of 22, he what that other Postmaster- Outside politics he goes in for offelals are glad to see him back, qualified as a solicitor, and be-General, Farley, is to Roosevelt salling, golf-and fire-fighting as They like his Chairman of the L.C.C. fire brigade. Country comments on the changing City firm of solicitors-Kingsley tiens. And in both his Govern- pungent North came eventually the head of al-the man who runs the elec- I have never been fire-fighting dally scene. with him, but I have first-hand ex- Now he is doing a bla job of work Wood, Williams and Murphy ment and his Party functions he perience of his unorthodox efforts
And although it is not (notice that the "Kingsley" is was successful. He brought to nothing. to steer a smack into port
and
a ball for
in the pit it will be of great value not divorced even in the law-both a flair for publicity. For it into a hole. I cannot say that he will to all the men who are in pits. list)..
is part of Kingsley Wood's poli- go far in these directions, Sand has
Ted Williams, whose wing collar too much fascination for him and academic features, like those of
When he was 30, he began his tical genius that he knows how sandbanks and bunkers.
his namesake, Tom Williams, sug career in politics by entering the to "stage-manage" things and to once, he used gest the schoolmaster rather than L.C.C. as member for Woolwich: value publicity-not forgetting all his own balls, and all mine the minor-ho started in the pit at He was quickly recognised as a personal publicity, in which he except one, long before we finished 12 earning 88. a week-supports his good committeeman. At the end rivalled Hore-Belisha. the round. My idea was to give it up, South Wales colleague, George Hall, of the last War, he organised the At the Post Office, he cut a lot of but John is -sticker.
up
When I played him
We finished off the game hacking
the ball which remained to us.
Would" box my ears
at the Colonial Office,
value of the human element in this grim war-drama as a means of quickening an understanding of realities is not to be ignored. From every quarter of the world, and not least from those which are most attached to the British cause, comes complaint that while German publicity is -served out without stint, newe from authentic British sources is too meagre and colourless. No one wishes British publicity to enter into competition with the Goebbels Ite-factory; but the British war effort is providing abundant material for vivid and informing narratives which would be the best correctives to the impudent extravagance of German propaganda. For rea- sons of State, it may be some- times impossible to give the Press facilities for gathering at first hand the material for these human atorics, with their power to kindle the imagination and quicken the understanding, Itite brand of tobacco by the pound "With the possibility of in- from the Co-op. He says he is miser-vasion the German prisoners in able if he cannot get it.
this country could become a real
red tape. To his hand were new Quietly
etly but effectively, in his ten national memorial demanding ideas ripe for release. He added some in turn at the battered remnunt of chased reputation,
in the House, he has built up from Lloyd George the setting of his own and unloaded them. He up of the Ministry of Health got millions allocated for publicising When he speaks
the House embodying the Local Govern- the G.P.O., for advertising, for flims, listens. For he never wastes time on ment Board and the public for "glamorising" the State service, things which need not be sald.
services. It earned what
and for making the public realize He, John Jagger, the wise and Parliament.
ERBERT MORRISON is fortun- This is his first executive job in health
successful business they ownTM He will carry it out him knighthood and on ed. He started ahilling night-calls, sagacious, head of the National with distinction and so on to his return to Parliament for cheaper telegrams, and vitalised the Union of Distributive and Allied higher things.
the first time, his first political Turn to Page 2. Second Column Workers, is at his elbow in the Ministry of Supply.
There is no shrewder man in the
Commons, Nor kindler.
Impetuous young bustlers like me of John Jaggers about to
d lots
necd
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ST. HELENA FOR WAR PRISONERS?
The Island la roughly twice the size
keep us on the rails. · He is full of COLONEL Josiah Wedgwood, M.P., Parliamentary Under- that kind of mature wisdom which Sacrotary for Scotland and Socialist M.P. for Newcastle-under not only surers fools gladly but Lyme, thinks St. Helena should become, Britain's prison camp of the Isle of Wight; it has a healthy never despairs of licking them into for Gormans.
climate and a good soll,
voyages, for many call at the island might be said Colonel Wedgwood.
some sort of useful shape.
His biggest joy is his ancient pipe. He had suggested this to the them in the course of their normaal It is not developed, as much as it or more years than I can remem- House of Commons.
buying
to pick up fresh water and vegç-) "The prisoners could cultivate the soil
tables."
and they could make roads. They
ho has beea
buying his favour-
should not be impossible, how
St. Helenn's history started with a would be making themselves useful ever, for the Services to employ
That I cannot belleve, for I'n am
with only one hand who was landed tood. under their own discipline per-certain Joha Jagger was never danger," he said. "I do not prisoner of war. He was a Dutchmug) and could provide much of their own sons with the news-sense to get miserable in his life. He wore his mean the Jews and refugees 80 by pirates in the sixteenth century the stories and with the writing engaging twinkling smile even when much as the crews of scuttled, and became, the island's first Inha-They would not have to be very strongly' gunrded, becquso (any who ability to tell them effectively. he told me the other day that he ships and the prisoners of war, bitant.
escaped.from comp and became out- The attempt would surely be
would like to box my cara" ba- who are real Naziš.
Ile supported himself, in St. Helena; laws would risk starving."htt worth making, even though the cause of something I had written imagine what might happen if for several years, before
bolnej stringency of present regulations which he did not like.
arms and leaders were dropped by rescued, had to be relaxed a little. Be
parachute into the prison cumps, it remembered that this is a wor
There must be 2,000 such prisoners In which the whole Empire is combatant, and In which the "whole world is concerned.***
Well, if my ears must be boxed, there is no man I would rather have
*
One day Arthur Creech Jones will sit on the Front Bench. Today as
Camps For
Colonel Wedgwood told, ma' that' extra food for the prisoners could be rent from Africa and would.cost.less- In the South
war, the than it costs us to feed the prisoners. island was used as n prison camp forfin: this country. The reply given in brother-Parliament to his suggestion was that
the matter was being considered.
-- "I"ahould ilke to see them ship-Boers Colonel Wedgwood's ...ped to Si, flelens, · Ships could take was one of their guard.