THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1947.
"Wo know it's YOUR mine and all that-but the management would profer fewer of those family inspections."
Make no mistake about the Germans and Japs
-By "Candidus".
the
N with the dance! The war is overl
Yes I am aware that a War Memorial Fund has been deelded upon as after the last war, but then, as now, nobody suggested a sacred record immortallsing the names of those who mado supreme sacrifice. I would like to see in every city and every village throughout the United Nellons, shrines erected to those who were The victims of vage agresion. cest would be but little; the constant reminder a warning to future genera- tions. Unfortunately, we are show- ing signs of returning to our prewar complacency.
1
or
I forget the actual date, but some when about nineteen-seventeen
one Percy Hobson fiolyoak, eighteen, on
public meeting in the Old City Hall, swayed a packed audience into passing a resolution that no Germati should be allowed to return to the Colony for a petid of 10 years after the termination of the war. Hardly had the Armistice been signed than Hongkong, in common with other parts of the Empire, "got on with the dance while the Germans filtered back again und
their commenced scheming and plotting for "Der Tag" -und to-day, you and I suffer in consequence.
W
Je are resuming trade with
Japanese, and while for nomic reasons they must be
the eco- per-
WHY IS A HORSE?
US week
1
read
have nearly half a million words
about the horse, something
I would never have dreained of not been undertaking had I stuck indoors all the time with n cold,
The half-million words are all in : volume called "The Book of the Horse" and after the first few hundred thousand of them I felt so up in the subject that I called on the family for and Was at once questions struck down by my small son. who asked: Well, why is a hurse?
This is a fundamental ques- tion that none of the 38 con- answer. tributors attempt to But they do tell you a surprising number of things people have done with the horse since they found it wild and began altering it to suit themselves..
Early ancestors
No
TO one knows who was the first man to tame a horse, but
Sway Backed
Fun Finding Out about horses, particu- larly when a 500,000 word book introduces such friends as Steay' Backed and Peacocky
Peacocky
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
But
I bought a horse once. I got it off Regular renders will know what mobbling is
for those who a cattleman in Australia for Ave bob. A £10 saddle, went with it, and he wouldn't sell them separately.
don't, I'll quote from the 13-page "glossary of expuine terms" that "The Book of the Horse" contains.
This says that nobbling is maim ing, visoning or otherwise "getting at" a horse.
When I paid the money I asked the horse's name and he sold it was Dako, which was Australlan for one- eyed. It wasn't till then I noticed that Indeed it had only one eye.
I wouldn't do a thing like that
know now
again
because
the
A cocktail is you might be interested in some
of the other words in the glos "yes are something you have to look sary, because, in addition to milking. well as count. the horse, eating it, riding it, racing
If they're tuo prominent it in-
it, driving it, working it and altering deates a nervous temperament, just its appearance, people have also built as it often does in a pop-eyed person.
up a language round it,
In horsey circles, for instance, a cocktail isn't something you drink, it's a horse that's not a thoroughbred
If they are too sunken it's a sign of
nd temper.
Another thing you have to look for is the angle of the shoulder blade.
to 70 degrees from the horizontal, but in anything built for speed it should be no more than 55 degrees.
is not the best kind of horse for a begümer, us the following figures will show.
There are about 5,000 racehorses in tral, ng every season, and the total prize money available is £750,000, which works out at £150 per horse.
And that is just about a third of what it costs to keep one horse in training for one season.
A thousand pounds is only the average. At that price the breeder breaks about even. The record for
a yearling is 28,900 gulnens-at the 1545 Newmarket sales.
If that's more than you can go to of the moment, how about n aice tine in earthoraco? A pedigree Saire, auitable for work but not the show-ring will cost anything from 455 to 100, though a first-class
stallion £2,000.
might knock you buck
.
The two extremes. BUT you would have something to show for your money, for a fully grown shire weighs more than a ton.
At the other extreme there's the Shetland pony. It's so small that a man can lit: it, yet it will carry two fully grown people on its back. And
mit:d to rehabilitate themselves, I trust they will never again be per- mitted to plot and plan in the lands emphasised of others. It must be and re-emphasised that the Germans and the Japanese, unless watched constantly, will scheme to develop another surprise effort to exter- minate, by the million, races who stand in their path.
wha
In 1934. shortly after the Austrian
Dollfus,
01933- Chancellor,
inated, I had a number of conver sations with the head of the Ger- "Trans-Ocran". Service In the Far East-Herr Feurholzer, I cub- requently discovered that he was a personal friend of Hitler.
the to
I asked him why Germany was meddling and easing uneasiness In
expressing European affairs, opinion that if she continurd
pursue her dangerous polley, another world war would break out. 1 painted a picture of what form ! considered the next war would take. Women and children sinugblered; London, Berlin, Paris reduced to ashes; untold misery and destruc. Lioz.
With the cold-blooded indifference and arrogance of the German, any Fuerholtzer asked me: "1s 1 more painful for women and children to die, than for men in uniform?" He proce:ded in explain that it was undoubtedly inte that cities would be wiped out, but that there was one
which the aspect
Englishman was liable to forget. "After such a war," he said, "all nations but will be reduced to equality, Germany will be the first rise again."
DEMEMBER, that after A
REM
Jew
whs
months only since the end of World War 11, a plot has been dis covered in Germany which, accord- ing to all reports, is associated with the development of germ warfare. in 1034, Professur Banz published a book, "Germany Prepare for War," in which a chapter was devoted to
warfare. Although it germ apparently not developed in time for the war just over, make no mistake about it, both Germany and Japan will endeavour by underground methods to discover some means to secure revenge. Don't dismiss this as fantastic. It is no more fantastic than the fiction of Jules Verne which, as we all know, become a grim reality, more intense
even than his ingenious brain had de- signed.
TN mapping out a safety programme I
for our late enemies, very special attention must be given to Indicating the limitations of setenti- fte endeavour on their part, and there must never be a letting-up in the strictest form of surveillance.
The deep-seated mature of the German is as barbarie as it wns cen- turies ago when the Huns overran Europe; and after Belsen, ges cham-
we
bers and concentration camps, cannot plead ignorance of the In- humanity and bestiality of the Ger- mans, so faithfully copied by their Japanese satellies.
recent FOR a decade before the
war, we were afraid to speak our mind. remember a Japanese Vice-Consul. being arrested in Hong- kong in 1939 for photographing de- fence areas. When it was discovered that he was in the Consular Service,
No action was taken! For our sins officialdom got the shock of its life.
If you glance at a horsu, or evin it's a good long-term investment, for we couldn't help it then. No paper
there are pictures of horses in A dog isn't a dog, but a racehorse In a work horse this should be 65 eaves that are 50,000 years old, that fails to reproduce in publle the and in the Metropolitan Museum form it showed at home. of Fine Arts in New York is a statuotte of an Egyptian riding bare-back that was made about 2,500 B.C. Except that he has a wig on and no shirt, the rider looks very much like a stable boy of to-day.
The horse in the cave and the one from Egypt represent the two main types from which our horses of to-day are descended, The caveman's horse was heavy boned anal lethargic, and lived in cold countries. The other was warm blooded and lively.
the
A midster has four legs, not four wheels and is notable for riding com- foft more than speed. the flapper, which isn't a filly with
Then there's
her, mane done up in plaits but a
horse that runs at unauthorised race meeting.
Horsey language
Just to how you what heights of self-expression horsey people can reach when they really let them selves go, here is an advertisement circulated in Epsom in 1820.
sure-
"On Saturday next will be sold by auction the strong Ataunch, sturdy, stout, sound, safe, sinewy, By mixing the two, man-and serviceable, strapping swift, smart,
sightly, sprightly, spirited, produced nature have
In fooled sorrel steed of superb zym- different types of to-day. this book alone there are 116 metry, styled Spanker.
"He is free from strain, spavin, breeds mentioned, and their
stranguory, starters, names begin with every letter tring-halt,
scouring, strangles, sallenders, in the alphabet but U (unicorns felt, starfoot, splent, don't count).
shambling gait.
a picture of one you'll see why.
Shetland lives to a great age. would have dared to publish such an Thirty is common, and there's a article as this because we were "on
In order to gel up a good speed story of one that reached a hundred. e spoil wol of the bonds of slavery
a racehorse has to throw. Its front legs well forward, which it couldn't de so easily if its shoukler blades were perpendicular to the ground.
That
I am afrold I still haven't answer- no longer mars Hongkong's skyline, outlook is never again darkened by the question: Why is a horse? May the world ensure that its future And perhaps I'm putting my neck the threat of bloody oppression and out mentioning it, but I'm beginning conquest. A racehorse will cost you about to believe that a lot of people think £1,000 as a yearling. Unless you it was sent by Providence to give really know what you are doing it them something to write about.
WILLIAM
On with the dance by all means,
but do not let our joy full us into
I sense of false security,
HICKEY
SUBLIMESTONE
PELLS of the reigning witch of Wookey are un- a common. friendliness, scara, and fund of shaggy-dog stories and a warmth of fellow-feeling for
X? Yes, the Greeks had a "He is neither apur-galled, sinow all stalagmites and stalactites. horse called the Xanthos, 27 shrunk, soddio galid, shell-toothed, The Zapata. It comes from sung gutted, subated nor short Spain. So does the Querriro: winded.
He has nelther slitast, Before they thought of putting snaggle-teeth, sandcrack, nor scatter horses to work and using them for hoofs. sport, people used them for milking Nomads in Asia still and eating. milk them, and the Belglans still eat them
"He never
slips, stalks, staris, stops, shakes, murvels, stumbles or stocks in the stable and he has a showy stylish switch tall.”
In locland they had horse fights ence, and in Aala one of the curliest forms of racing was done without As a matter of fact I've left a riders. The horses were kept thirsty
lot of it out, but you'l-gather from and trained to race each other to the nearest casis. Part of the "sport" what I have quoted that people who
love horses are never at a loss for a
which backers/ub now densed was beating up the horse you didn't want word. to win.
There's a record of one of these races over a 14-mile course for a stake of 100 camels, One punter with his shekels on an outsider be Jaboured the favourite so hard that he paralyzed his arm for life.
We've gone a hng way since then, especially in England. In 1812 we hanged a man for nobbling,
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in
years, progress will not be reported Britain, In this column,
Being chaperone to such a stony courtship is so unusual that I wonder by there is a stranger job held
woman..
secina
Mr MORRISON wal promptly corrected, told there were 5,000.
"For once the Government has got its Ogures wrong," he apologised, "and it would be a poor Government
MY elegant hostess to bolled shirt that did not go wrong at least once, dinner-party at Grosvenor but it would be a stiil more miser- Her predecessors in the Mendip House arrived carrying neat parcel able Government that did not admit cavern of Wookey Hole were less
her that it was wrong." week's bulter ration which attractive crones and one so evil of half a loaf of bread and
And do two wrongs still make a stone and real hospitality. was stricken spellbound there for ever.
: As the meal progressed, walters Right?
but smartly- repeated, made I prefer my witches blonde and thwarted attempts to remove the
remains of loaf and butter.
"It's annoying the
England and the last word on the explanation. other diners."
Adament, glorying for this once law. Yet now he has to write to in suck Croesus wealth, we refuzed a newspaper to ask "Can anyone the tell me why my wife is prevented by law from witnessing my signa- rich man's table.
How long, I wonder, before the fure of deeds?" to part with one crumbs from
hotela charge crustage?
beautiful.
With her husband, Mre OLIVE HODGKINSON is co-director of this great cave burrowed by the subter rapena river Axe. The job a full- time because getting on for 100,00 spefacology last year. people were amicted with spasmodic
ro-
Yesterday she told me of a + mance unique in Britain, how boy-
meets-girl in stone.
And of them all hunting people are, perhaps, the least articulaté, for in a bibllography on this subject alone the book lists no, fewer than
700 titles.
When you buy
think
YOES all this make you DOES
that you ought to add a horse to the list of things you need? (1100 Well, "The Book of the Horse"
“tella"you how to buy one--
"The Book of the Horse" Nicholson. * and
'guinear);
Watson
In January 1932 a stalagmita (goca up) and a stalactite (comes down) were about 4th of an inch apart. In May that year they got together. clasped by a hairs-breadth flament of limestone.
Now, 13 years afterwards, the knot perhaps appreciably thicker, possibly 1-8,000th of an inch, but
still too delicate to measure.
Re-
NOT so long ago Lord CALDE-
monstrance brought the apologetic NOT COTE was Lord Chancellor of
Officers* CECOND Senior
Con- ference to be called by Field- Marshal MONTGOMERY is code- named "Oparation Spearhead."
Such mumbo-jumbo was a useful
measure in security
war, but Is tomfoolery now.
Why not plain English like Sonor officers' Conference?
As he still gets £5,000 a year for once having known the answers to such legollies, surely he should be telling us?
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Advertising Fair On Letters
Through the medium old Tokyo waitress whose nude body trieally driven stamp cancelling waa machines, capable of dealing with was found in a wheat gold,
more than 600 letters, a minute, killed by a wild dog and not by a
in Britain 1 post offices man, said Japanese pokles.
Miss Milsuko Goml, the 23-your-
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to
Apparently the dog attacked the operating in the nation's vital drive round an aircraft factory asked girl, who, despondent over a repri- for export trade. A special ́post- one girl: "What are you making?"mand that she was neglecting her maric designed to attract attention far to the British Industries Fair, which "Time and a half," she said. work,, was walking aimlessly
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next, is being mingham in May The Tokyo pollos began a round stamped on letters and postcards up of stray dogs fearing that those posted in London and selected large which have tasted, human flesh may provincial towns, particularly those kill more women or children, says where there are heavy pogings for
overgens destinations. Associated Press.
ENTHUSING at the Cinematograph Guy's Hospital Gazette:
As the rate of growth is between
inch and one inch every 1,000 "three
to Vasora. Exhibitors' dinner about the (bother for Jean Mary).
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Frank, do you think?
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