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The League of Nations

Beginnings.

II.

The League of Nations for- mally came into existence on' January 10, 1920 so that it is now entered upon its thirteenth year-a fact which the supersti- tious may be expected to grasp and of which essay to make capital.

As its name denotes, it is a league, or association, or society of nations. It is not the embodi- ment of a modern idea. The

Hospital Attendant's Wife the Victim.

RECOVERED IN MACAQ,

The sale of the wife of a Chinese attendant at a Singapore hospital, and her, subsequent recovery from Macao, was described by Inspector John Murphy in the Central Police Court this morning, when, before Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones, ha charged a woman and three men with hav-1 ing taken part in the unlawful sale. Fourth defendant's plea of not guilty was accepted, and he was

Magistrate.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932.

By Louis Golding.

THE FRETWORKER

THE STORY OF HENRY DERRICKS.

In the subtle technique

of this hobby his soul

flowered into ecstacy.

In my time I have encountered tho menu

at Mrs. Derricks's

accordingly discharged by the a few devoted idealists, but none Parties did not vary sufficiently so devoted as Henry Derricks. to justify the use of them.. I might place close beside him a There was beer and faggots, or The prosecutor said that the weman had lived with the hospital gentleman whose acquaintance I beer and tripe, or beer and black made lately in a newsreel, who puddings. Sometimes there attendant. On February 3, they has spent the last forty or fifty were winkles, too, or pigs' trot- came to Hong Kong, and, on ar- rival, were met by the discharged years of his life building a re-ters, or cowheels. But there was defendant, who 'induced them to dral to its minutest detail. But

plica in marble of Milan Cathe-beer always. loage with him at 269 Hollywood for that gentleman's labour there fretworking during the war. He Henry did not suspend his. Road. They agreed and paid 50 is, after all, something to show, was too old to be a soldier, and: cents a day for their board.

On

But even-

young man returned to our street one of the most celebrated Far- ties in the history of the Der- ricks household was given.

February 9, the attendant got sick something to stand up in the eye war-time food conditions made of the world. I would rather his inside more squeamish than and was taken to the Tung Wah!

compare. Derricks to that Ger- ever. But he made his contri- Hospital for treatment, He

man of whom I read lately that bution to the success of the discharged four days later, and on when a boy he set himself to deal-Allied cause by providing it with returning home, found his wife, ing himself-whist hand at a younger son who gallantly won host and luggage missing. He re cards. His ambition was some the D.C.M. When the same ported the matter to the Police, and day to name each card accurate on February 14, pointed out the ly before he lifted it. I cannot host to a District Watchman, who recall whether he dealt himself effected an arrest. He told the millions or billions of hands be- Police that the girl was in Macao, fore he succeeded.

Those of the Boys that re and had been taken there by a tually, an old man, he did suc-mained took a jug of beer to woman. (not arrested) who did not ceed. He died almost immediate. Henry's bedroom and insisted' actually go herself.

ly after.

on his celebrating the hero's. In co-operation with the local

My own Henry Derricks is not homecoming. They had to force Police authorities, the Macao dead yet. I knew him first a it down his mouth, for beer still Police arrested the second and score of years ago, when I was upset him at the best of times; third defendants. The attendant's a boy. His name, I repeat, was he would sooner have taken a World statesmen of those wife was found in a brothel Henry. His own children always drop of weed-killer and got out critical years were advocating Macao. Yesterday evening the called him Henry. He was the of it altogether. The Boys the creation of some new world. Arst defendant (the woman) was sort of father whom babies in were shocked at his unfatherly,

arrested and brought down here, their cradles do not seek to call treasonable behaviour. wide society of States as the one where she admitted that she had "Da-da" with a lifting of the forced the stuff down his throat, hope of salvation. So, when the sold the girl to the mistress of a little hands and a dribbling at No, Henry Derricks got very U.S. President, Mr. Wilson, in-brothel for $30, of which sum the the corners of the mouth. They little fun out of the war. But it cluded in his Peace Conditions, two men received $5 each, for the seek to call him by his first made him an expert hand at trouble they had taken in the mat name, and never use any other. fretting pipe-racks, which he the stipulation that

ter. Even if the woman was will- His position in his own house sent off to the trenches regular- ing to go to Macao, he concluded, hold was that of a meek step-ly. And in the officers' parcels

child.

he invariably included a menu-

"a general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of politi- cal independence and terri- torial integrity to great and small States alike”

that was no defence.

All the defendants were sentenc-! ed to six months' hard labour each.

IN POSSESSION OF ARMS & AMMUNITION.

Without A Licence.

lush

Lion.

They

I

eminently practical; but they itself ́ from the outset with armrested, searched and confronted rapped. It was the rapping of houses of the richer parishion.

mann.

He had worked for many years | card holder or two. at a brewery near our street. I met Henry again quite re He had always had a weak diges-cently. He had been pensioned tion, and every morning as he off from the brewery for years, entered the yard of the brewery ao he devoted his days as well as the idea was at once grasped,

his inside heaved a little as the his evenings to fretworking.

warm smell of malt and found him not at all so meek a hops assailed him.

little man as he used to be, but. and preparations made for the

His wife and son were thea- that was chiefly because his wife creation of a general associa-

tricals who were always giving had become an almost irrecog, |tion of nations." In other words,

Parties 12 MONTHS' HARD.

to their theatrical nisably moony and gentle crea- the creation of the League,

friends the Boys. Henry was ture. Henry, head of the house

Many questions of principle,

Found to have possession of three not invited to attend these Par-hold now, ruled it with a rod of Mauser pistols, and 260 rounds of ties, which was very fortunate. iron or, to be exact, with a For example, idea is somewhere between three naturally. arose.

ammunition, Pun Sze, a Chinese For he could not abide the smell fretwork chisel. the League Coven-coolie, was arrested coming off the of beer. Instead they sent him He still frets countless cigar- and four hundred years old. (1) Should

and When charged round to the jug-and-bottle de- ette-boxes, photo-frames, Many plans for a league of ant be made part and parcel of 8.9. Andre Lebon.

had been formulated the Peace Treaty; (2) Should at the Kowloon Magistracy, this partment of the Lamb and the menu-card holders. And what nations

he does with them still puzzles morning, defendant. pleaded' not) the League be, in the first in-guilty, and disclaimed all knowledge

He would knock timidly at the me. A certain quantity, I learn,.. from time to time. Some of

stance, a League of Allies only; of the arms. The ammunition and door of the_jug-and-bottle de- is absorbed by church bazaars, them were fantastic, some

inside so he has the satisfaction of and (3) Should the League equip pistols were discovered in a girdle partment. Everybody

tied around his waist. When ar- knew at once who it was that knowing that at last, in the were sponsored at times when.

of these menu.card the nations had had no such ex-'

ed forces to impose peace and with the pistols and ammunition, one who has been sent forth to ers, some enforce League decisions in case defendant alleged that a cook had fetch beer. which other people holders actually hold menus. perience and lesson taught to

But he makes much more given them to him, but when taken than himself will drink, the rap- of need.

fretwork than those church'. them as came by way of the

back on board the ship, he failed to ping of one to whom beer is woe.

the

A box of The habitues winked at each bazaars can get through. What European Great War of 1914-18. These questions of principle

were keenly debated at the time, ammunition was also found in his other. And: "Good evening, becomes of these photo-frames. The League of Nations, as we

Henry," proclamed the landlady, and cigarette-boxes? You hard- but satisfactorily settled. The cost pocket. know it to-day, is the outcome

League Covenant was made part labour was imposed.

Sentence of 12 months' hard even before she slid the panelly ever see their corpses, so to

aside,

speak, just as you hardly ever see of the Great War.

"Good evening ma'am," said the corpses of birds or rabbits in As a writer has recorded it: and parcel of the Peace Treaty;

the League was not designed as THE BRITISH PREMIER. Henry respectfully. He reached the woodlands. "The League is the fruit

forth two large juga. "TWO

Henry Derricks gets up in the of an instinctive and world- a close preserve for the Allies)

quarts of old, please," he said,morning to make the fire while wide impulse to create some

Leaves Nursing Home.

"Another alone,, neutral States, and even

Party

Perhaps to-night, his family is asleep." how some organisation cap.

that helps to one explanation of the defeated nations, after a

Henry?" asked a voice, able of preserving mankind

Rugby, Yesterday..

"Yes," said Henry. "They've the mystery. Perhaps he makes permanently from the recur

period of probation, were ad- The Prime Minister, who left the

In All the Boys. We're the fire with the corpses. rence of a like disaster. mitted; and the League, as a nursing home this morning, pro- going to have a grand Party some ways it is a magnificent..

dictator caucus,

ceeded to Downing Street, where he

thought. to-night."

After half a century was not, very presided over a meeting of the The Hatijues sniffed. "We," devoted to the art of fretwork. wisely, permitted to evolve,

indeed! They knew where Henry Henry Derricks is still not quite To-morrow, we shall write This afternoon, he left for Derricks would be while the convinced he has turned out the about the League Covenant, the Chequers, where he will spend Party was going on. He would perfect menu-card holder, the

some days. aims of the League, and the It is undecided yet where he will be upstairs in the back bed- Platonic phantasm of the Ineff- undertakings of the signatories spend the three weeks holiday in the subtle technique of tret-

room doing fretwork. For it was able Menu-card Holder.: There was in the war-sick to the League Covenant. which the doctors have ordered work that Henry's soul flowered Ten Years Ago.

British - Wireless Service.

into ecstasy. From year to year;" world of 1918, a general dealre

[From the "Chiäa mystically, he fretted photo The Kailan Mining Administra-frames, and cigarette-boxes, and

February 18, 1912.J guished alike, for something Yesterday's lowest open air tem. tion's total output for the week end menu-card holders. M which would be capable of pre-perature was 56. Humidity at 1088,883 metrie tons, and the sales present at Mrs. Derricks's

ed January 30, 1982, amounted to A Strong Man was regularly To-day's dollar is worth 2/5 5/8, 4.2. was 72, and 78 at 4 pan. serving mankind permanently

during the period to 92,987 mettle Parties. Before the evening was The Hong Kong Hotel's new from the recurrence of alike

over all the photo-frames, the motor coaches, a China Mail ro- disaster." !It was decidedly found hanging from her bed post in Charged with the theft of two like eggshells between the fing will begin operating during Race, menu-card holders were smashed porter ascertained this morning, from the hou

1 cubicle at 27 D'Aigular street pieces of from piping from 17. Gage ers of the Bronson. It was real Week Coaches will im about yesterday, Suicide is suspöcted:

it is the continuation into peace time...of that slowly evolved system of co-operation between the Allied States which had reached a high stage of de- velopment before the War Was over."

on the parts of victor and van-

News in Brief.

Cabinet.

tons,

A young Chinese woman waa

all come.

powers to be able to

but perhaps it was

It gave Henry son

"them. "Kong Hotel to Happy Valley and the amfara will be 50 cents each way.

ime tables will be advertised to

hopes and aspirations of the common people,

darrera Street, the scene of a recent fire. #ly no tribute to the Strong Man's every 10 minutes from the Hong- League of Nations Ides drew ita Ini Kee, (81)) a chair coole, was Chinese pleaded guilty before Mr strength.” So strong was this sent to the Government Civil How Wynne Jones this morning and was

given seven days' Jail. Festently with injuries töhf desire that, any sche

to be no matter derly chances of a me success, would; at

tanced tot

his mind on went on

is hoped to begin the service (10) Puruse: Bay on