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methods of discussing labour

will probably come to that, but. not before the insane weapon of hate is sheathed. Then it will not matter if the Ramsay MacDonalds of China dine at the, summer palace, or the J. H. Thomas's are

THURSDAY, OCTOBER

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

"And last of all ant Berlin over the introduction of found resplendent at Shanghai's TRY THEM. Admiral came," English and American busses regattas. What will matter will

wrote Southey in with seats too narrow to suit I "The March to Moscow." "A German ideas of comfort has be their interest in labour con- terrible man with a terrible name brought forward an authority ditions, and in the conditions of a name which you all know by who gives precise dimensions for the thousands of workers who sight very well, but which no one seating, accommodations as prac are, what they are, in their out. can speak and no one can spell. tiged in England. These aro:- look and their manner of express-pounded a list of ten words which Bus and tram passengers... 16

A learned Professor has-- COM-

.inches ing themselves, because of faulty he declares nobody has ever spell-Third-class rallway passen- leadership.

ed 100 per cent, perfectly. The get Hat is "Innuendo, Inoculate, Subway passengers..... Harass, Embarrass, Vilify, First-class railway passen- Rarefy, Picnicking, Supersede, Plaguy, Repellent." The profes Theatres (gallery) sor acknowledges that he himself Theatres (orchestra and The opium question once more passed with only eight out of the

dress circle) ten, while in the case of a class Albert. having engaged the attention of a of 120 only four or five. of the

Hall (orchestra world conference and a messure of members were correct to the num

seats)

20 publicity having been given in the ber of seven out of the ten, and Hongkong statisticians.

This suggests possibilities for Home papers to the meeting held the remainder ranged in accuracy at the end of last month by the from six to three. Try them on Advisory Committee on Opium of

LEAGUE AND OPIUM.

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When speaking of prac- tice dances it is advisable not to refer to empty

Prohibition has

the League of Nations, it may not your friends!

NOTE. be unprofitable to recapitulate facts regarding measures taken to sup

What would honours. press the traffic in China and, the "OF COURSE" AND our writers of response there has been to them. "WELL KNOWN." social gossip Since Britain by drastically reduc

do ing the export of opium from India those two useful little words "Of

without WHEN TO STOP. joined the Ford to China gave proof of the sincerity course?" Everything and every subject for joke. Here is a story çar a meet of its desire to help China in the body is or does or is to be "of regarding temperance which has suppression of the consumption of the drug, opium growing in Chint of course" the wife of the Dean of Canterbury, renowned course. Lady Flukempush is a neat point about It. A famous. has ficreased on nn nnprecedented famous shipping magnate, Sir for his enthusiasm for teetotal- scale and although there are in Horatio Flukempush who, ofism, had accepted an invitation to being restrictions on importe of Turkish, Persian and other opiume, famous collection of German beer meeting to be held at Rochester. course, is also known for his take the chair at a temperance these in effert are multified to a mugs, which he inherited, of Instead of alighting at Rochester, considerable extent by the opera course, from his maternal grand- however, tions of vast smuggling concerns mother. And where would local went on to London. The conse he absent-mindedly centring chiefly around the

Persian Gulf. Provided that Chinn Writers be without well-known?quence was he found it impossible carried on the arrangements for Well-known" residents go and to appear at the meeting." proportionally reducing her pro they come. So and so is a "well- duction and consumption measures known" golfer or cricketer, and with a chuckle on being informed "Ah," commented Dean Hole which were foreshadowed with a the jaded reader wonders what of the contretemps, "that's the great flourish of trumpets when the one has to do to become. "well worst of these temperance folk- Republic was ushered in the known." Strange that we never they never know when to, stop!" British Government were prepared speak of our Governors as "well- to continue the rate of reduction known." They drop into the "of with regard to Indian Opium so that course" department: *Sir such export might in time entirely Edward, Stubbs is "of course" A PLUM. Cease. To refer to more local con- the present Governor of Hong Soldiers slang book, referred to ditions, it was this desire to reduce kong, and is known for his in these columns the other day opium smoking and particularly the theological thoughts which of the Shreds man pulls out this: dilelerious nature of its effects course" he inherits from his that bed when takings were father, who "of course" was the Where pronunciation failed, as it Er: (French-Ocufe). Eggs. entered into by the several Powera "well-known" Bishop of the same often did, recourse had to be had. to close all opium divans in conces name... sions in China, to the establishing

of a Government monopoly in Hong-

dis-kong for the purpose of "rubicing

Really an egg. But more really a plum, for dipping in the

to pantomine. This is a

true story officially recorded in a War

The China Mail. questions in China and the

It appears that Diary. The meas-sergeant of a cussion of them in England. The the amount of opium consumed by DIMENSIONS. there are

other regular battalion of the Queen's, weakening the drug's potency and

ways of measur-out to buy eggs, was unable to institution of the trade guild in making the price more exacting. ing human beings than the "long make the village shopkeeper China is as ancient perhaps as its China has failed to carry out her headed" and "short-headed" types understand. civilisation, and the,

No eggs being strike part of the undertaking with re- of

the anthropologist visible he picked up a turnip, put weapon is doubtless as ancient.fion in China generally and her controversy which has arisen in ing like a hen He got his eggs! gird to production and consump speaks in ponderous terms. A it on the floor and sat on it, cluck-

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A CHINA LABOUR CONFERENCE?

which

A YACHTSMAN'S PARADISE

NORFOLK BROADS.

THE

But it seems.. safe to delegates to th. League of Nations Sky that its use has not Opitium Advisory Committee would been as prominent as it has to lack of sincerity on her part but hay us believe that this in the not been since foreign enterprises to factors beyond her control. rooted themselves on Chinese soil Whether or not she has control and engaged native workers in over the provinces where the poppy large numbers. There may have to-day, it is a known fact that little is being cultivated so extensively

The Norfolk Broads remain, per-old country villages vic with mined been legitimate grievances in con has been done to limit production haps, the least appreciated of castles and abbeys and historic old. nection with conditions in fac-in fact taxes on opium have come Britain's national playgrounds, churches to vary the monotony--if tories, even to warrant a strike,means of raising revenus.

to be looked upon as a convenient writes Crawford Price in the monotony it can be of sendding. Science onitor." along windswept reaches and winding

The re- Christian

but the grave suspicion has been rent meeting held at Geneva was True, there is a loyal code of en- leisurely cruising up that grievances have been second-for the purpose of ratifying the thusiasts, whose ardour remains un-streams fragrant with mints and ary to an almost ingrained hate of control over the manufacture of English summers, and who year by

Convention providing for the closest damped through the worst of meadowsweet... the foreigner and his penchant dangerous drugs. The American year respond to the call of the wide Broads have been likened to those The conditions of life on the for progress. The conditions in deleguion work appear to be waters of East Anglia. But; apart | cbtaining in the holiday camps be

against ratification on the grounds from an increasing flotilla of motoride the Adirondack lakes, To & foreign factories are well nigh that the Convention does not deal bouts a questionable Hongkong. Thursday, October 1: 1925. perfect. Not so those in Chinese hiciently stringently with opium floating population of Broadland yoltsman enjoys, as a rule,

gain-the certain extent that is true; but the factories. Reform has been in.moking in the territories where it grows fiftle with the passing of greater measure of creature comfort stituted-on paper.

is still permitted, and they want time. There is in international legislation to prohibit In the case of a people so endued to rough it, although even the To be sure, a great many still refer written form the Peking Pro-production of opium. visional Factory Regulations of British attitude is that the Pro British, there can be no explanation most popular craft, are nowadays The official with the sailor instinct, the cabin ernisers, which constitute the 1923 a modern and civilising ad in that respect, and that the im Yachtsmen are only now learning tendency, however, is toward larger- tocols constitute a real advance of this save the love of the sea. well, designed and fitted. The There is little satisfaction to be

vance on anything similarly mediate business is to pass the not to despise the Broads; and to and more commodious yachts.. gained by "righters of the world's attempted in China, but there is Convention in order that the recognize that, if sailing on these wrong from the cabled proceed- Consular and Chinese testimony with smuggling may be set up a dangers and discomforts of life on wherry for pleasure purposes. The

chinery for effectively deuling waters is unaccompanied by the taken in

A first step in this direction-waз ings of the Labour Party's Con- to prove that the regulations are soon as possible. Such a view does the ocean wave, it nevertheless has Norfolk wherry is a distinctive type: the adaptation of the ference. Over three hundred practically a dead leter, in that not overlook, the fact that to all its compensations and provides an of craft, evolved during the cen thousand are in favour of the

no attempt has been made to interested in the trade or cultivar even greater test of their masteryturies, as the most suitable for these inclusion of Communists in the

thinking Chinese not pecuniarily ranks of Trade Unions, but over of the Child Labour Commission is looked upon as

apply them.

A Chinese membertion of opium-the use of the drog navigation around the coast fly to sixty feet, is of broad beam of sail and tiller than the more open waters.. It varies in length from undesirabla two milions are against the pro- Shanghai, Mips May Ling-soong, from the country, the liability to put, they are tidal lakes whose carries only one large mainsail.

because of the drain of bullion" What are these Broads? Briefly and shallow draught, and as to rig posal. Assuming that the

has said that "among the so- famine through the cultivation genesis may be traced back to those Betres of these craft have been agenda of the Labour Conference called civilised nations of the opium where cereals should be ancient days when the sea fitted up an yachts, and provide is first discussed by individual world, China stands practically grown and the corruption of state claimed as its own much of what ample accommodation for eight to Unions and Delegates instructed alone in being without labour borne in mind that the demand for Norfolk when Yarmouth, of bloat But the wherry has two outstanding officials, but it must always be i now the County offer persons with 1wo of a crest how to vote, the preponderance legislation that is actually under the dry in the first place cams er fume was an island, and disadvantages for pleasure work of trades-unionists against all enforcement."

from China and so long as there are Norwich a flourishing port, It is ungainly and lacking in deck association with avowed revolu Tchou-says, "In China there is as mand opium, and until individual rivers, while, in addition, the into being the wheng yacht

A Mr M.T.millions of people in 'Anis, who de. As the sea receded it left its pace. Thus there has been brought tion is more than significant. It bears out the now generally

yet no effective jaw-whatanever perons can be taught to see the waters remained on many of the vessel combining the comfort, con Zor the protection of the kors folly of their vice; there will always low-lying marshes, and thus be vehience and remarkable sailing: accepted statement that the Bri. In spite of this; Labour in Chine be other people to supply it for a queathed a cluster of tidal lakes,quities of the one type with the tish worlding man is against all

thousands of acres in extent,orceful lines and greater deck, is directed, notat thought of revolution, and prefers

wondrous and kaleidoscopic chartspace of the other. to follow safer, and less anarchis tic lines. There may be consola: tion to

elieve pacifism unan

consideration;

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THEY SAY THAT—

evils fù its own country, but pro- pagating hate, anarchy and a

probWhen stage which up his; and to stop

trafe stops "Ah

Bat

the home of myriad fish and water fowl, the haunt of artists and lovers

of all that is most beautiful and reet ful in untouched nature

The rivers And

Aboard a wherry-raolt a family can pass an ideal houday. In-

ternally there are all the amenities

small bungalow The

of

however, call essentially for life.

open air, and thus install

taman

emjoy to the

CORK