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MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932.

BRITISH PROHIBITIONS

CAMPAIGN AGAINST

HATED "D.O.R.A."

OUTGROWN WAR MEASURE

ANGERS NATION

WAS noś teetotallers system of

No Mandate, Therefore, a measure was intro-

had

into line with the nouveau art Who is "Dora," what la she, that; of rodeeming them fashion, was not one of outstanding all our swains condemn her? is a contemplated. The

that marit, it is true, though it must be question that most of us think we argued

the admitted that most of it can answer offhand, Nevertheless restriction had worked and urged was amusing. Thero was cer-It will be as well to ask it again to that so much around ought not to bo tainly laughter as hearty aa any be sure that we have got the an- lost, heard in this theatre since the days swer right, says the Evening Stan- of Harry Pelissier and the "Follies." dard, at the opening of the great

The galleryites did not agree, refarm movement against D.O.R.A.duced into the Coalition Parliament. and fiercely shouted, "Rubbish," prohibitions.

which was quite frankly based They seemed to be more annoyed She took her name (this for the on the war-time system. That than they have been for years. benefit of the very young) from the Parliament.

no mandate Yet quite recently they have re-initials of the Defence of the Realm for reform on these lines, ceived politely, and even with e-Act, which was introduced in the the question had not been an issue thusiasm, plays that have been the early days of the war to enable the at the election, and, in so far as the veriest twaddle, fizzling out after Government to cope with awift electors thought about it at all, when an inglorious run of a few nights. moving emergencies. Many people they went to the polls in 1918 they believe that this remarkable measure believed that the promises which Your Daily Smile.

still survives and is the origin of the had been made to them were going restrictions on our liberty which to be kept. Anxious Sportsman (who things we resent. This is not so.

The teetotallers assumed, however, he has hacked a winner)-Did you The real "Dora" has returned and us it proved quite rightly, that send off that wire in time?" Vill-whence she came a pigeon-hole in our ancient national habit of resis- age Postmistress--"Yes, sir, but the Whitehall, But she has left us tance to interference with our money was a penny short, so I left behind her name, a useful legacy liberties had been profoundly weak- out the name of the horse."

which we have done rightly in acened by four years of submission to cepting, because it is needed to de-fwur-time regulations. To take ad- · Four tourists drew up at a farm scribe something else which also she vantage of that weakening, seeing in Scotland one Sunday and asked has left behind her.

what were its causes, was as dirty for tumblers of milk. After drink- When the first Defence of the a trick s has ever been played on ing the milk the tourists asked Realm Bill, which, of course, had any nation-but it was played, and what was to pay. "Dear, dear!" said been prepared long in advance has so far been successful.. the farmer's wife "we dinna sell against auch

was a contingency,

This, then, is what we mean by milk on the Sabbathi. Ye can jist brought out and hurriedly passed Dora--the habit of interfering with gle the bairn a shillin' as ye gang through Parliament, there can have our personal liberties which existed cot."

been very few persons who realised before the war but received 80 precisely what it meant. Probably great an impetus from it. It is the They wore standing before a large not the Government, certainly rage for forbidding which we have The China Mail ing system, and General Gombos painting entitled "Echo" in an art neither the public nor the House of watched producing a tangle of pro-

clearly feels that political sta- gallery. bilization has

"I suppose." said one Commons. Perhaps there were a hibitions as absurd as they are now gone far

man, it is appropriate to depict handful of officials who understood vexatious. Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 19, 1932. enough to justify a gradual Echo as a woman, because she al- the full beauty of such a measure-

return to normal conditions. In ways has the last word."

Many of these prohibitions have, foreign policy General Gombos other hand," returned the second selves. What it meant was, broad motives.

"On the and kept what they saw to them- no doubt, been suggested by the best No decent citizen wants. will follow the lines marked out man, "An echo speaks only when ly speaking, that the executive to overwork shop-assistants or dis- by Count Bethlen. He does not spoken to."

could legislate as it chose by Order approves of the principle which the like the Treaty of Trianon-no Julius Magyar does but he has dis-

in Council, subject only to the sub-Shop Hours Acts seek to put info "What are you getting now?" sequent disapproval of Parliament operation. But the decent citizen- Karolyi, the Hungarian Prime claimed any intention of aiming "Fiften shillings a week, sir."a check which proved in practice wonders whether shop-assistants Minister, resigned office. The at its revision by other than "Well, how much do you think you to be quite negligible.

cannot be protected without for- peaceful means and he are worth?". "A pound, sir." "You Unity Party, on whose support has expressed.

bidding him tu buy apples or the desire! think so, do you?" "Yes, sir. I've

Too Large to be Seen his Ministry depended, had made to create ..

bananas after 8 p.m. from a shop- Now the method of legislation by keeper who wants to sell them to an atmosphere been thinking so for two weeks, demands for agricultural relief in which the economic inter- but I've been so busy I haven't had Order in Council, which means in him and who is legally entitled to and for some relaxation of the the Danubian basin will resume The office boy got his rise.

course between the countries of time to speak to you about it." actual working by departmental sell him apricots, figs, and legan-

There jorder, was not new.

are borries in any quantities. present drastic regulation of for its normal aspect. He is ready!

some half-dozen pre-war instances, eign exchange which he was not to work for an economic under-

at intervals from the eighties, on-

The Enemy. wards, but none of these were of the method of prohibitions is so easy

It could be done, of course. prepared to accept. His oppon- standing between Hungary and

general interest inasmuch as they her neighbours provided that they ents not only disliked some of punctiliously observe the rights

did not affect the activities of largo | and, ao commends itself to the inter- the financial remedies or pallia of the Hungarian minorities

Golf balls are cleaned and relac- the whirl of events during the early That is what we mean by Dora; sections of the community. And in fering temper which has so greatly

increased in power tives which he and his Finance within their borders, Minister, Count Koranyi; had question of disarmament; to which quered by a new coin in a slot months of the War the passage of been compelled to administer, Frime Minister before the Lower he referred in his first speech as

that is the enemy which has to be the Defence of the Realm ~ Acts,

In particular we mulat. extraordinary as it may seem, really fought. but were also eager to reinstate House, he expressed the hope, Hungury has 865 food products cacaped notice: une might almost say scrutinise with unfriendly care all Count Bethlen at the head of that his country will not be con

factories, employing about 35,000 that it was too large to be seen. proposals for legislation by admini- the Government. But Count) demned to a permanent military persons.

The ordinary citizen supposed strative order that dangerous in Bethlen, who must bear some of other nations did not reduce their inferiority, but added that if

that they would enable the Govern-strument which makes it so terribly Operated by a spring, a new ment to take necessary large-scale enay for a determined minority to the responsibility for the present armaments Hungary would de-device holds a hat

Hungarian Policy.

Last month Count

On the

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Facts You Did Not Know.

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financial misfortunes of Hungary, mand the right to safeguard her with a wire loop against a wall measures for such things as coast-impose its will on a majority which

own security. These declarations

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defence and the provision of hardly knows what is happening materials. He did not imagine until it is too late. Jamaica's first sugar refinery has that their ramifications would Here Lord Hewart has given a

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preferred to await a less adverseed not alarm the Succession been placed in operation to supply eventually forbid him to buy a useful lead, and the citizen cannot

local demand.

News In Brief.

drink for a friend in a public do better than make himself ac house or prescribe this, it is true, quainted with what the Lord Chief was never put into operation) the Justice has said on the subject. height of his wife's boots.

And beyond. that the citizen must

moment for resuming office, and States, Hungary's partners in recommended the Regent to in-economic and financial misfor- vite the Minister of Defence, tune; they may even assist the General Gombos, to form an Ad growth of the movement for the ministration. "The General con restoration of the economic unity

of what was the Austro-Hun. At to-morrow's meeting of the But in 1915 a Civil Servant said make it plain to politicians of all: sented. He has formed a Cabinet garian Empire: a more condule Hong Kong Rotary Club, Rotarian to me, his eyes shining with a parties that these restrictions were and has announced

a political and less militarist outlook can W. A Cornell will speak on 'Some strange light, as might the eyes of imposed without his consent and are programme which has surprised only contribute to the removal of Reminiscences of Happy Days and one who has unexpectedly come upon maintained against his will. It is, some of his domestic and foreign the trade barriers which are Nights at the Theatre Royal Hong, the Promised, Land just round the in the last resort, for him to show critics. His reputation had been among the most serious obstacles Kong.*

corner, "My boy, we can do any: the restrictive minority that it has

E.S that of a thoroughgoing Conser- both to economic recovery and,

thing under it, anything! If we overplayed its hand, tive; he nevertheless proposes to international understanding in Information from a reliable make an Order decreeing that all introduce measures which are the region of the Danube: and it source states that the Kowloon and babies must be born blue it will be welcomed by the Liberal Opposi-is to be noted that the new Hun. Canton Railway Co. is arranging Illegal for any baby to be born any FORTUNE TELLER'S tion. He has already promised garian Prime Minister's speeches have an additional express ser other colour. He was quite right, to rescind the decree inspired have dealt with the financial and vice between Kowloon and Canton and the significance of the Defence by the erroneous belief that Com-commercial problems of the pre-

of the Realm Act to us now fa that during the Christmas holidays. munists had a hand in the des sent rather than with past in

these simple, cursory methods of truction of the Vienna Ostend ex- justices," press last autumn which ex. On the subject of the foreign Force, died in the Government legislating in restraint of the

· aged 26, of the Hong Kong Police tunities to those people who like tended the summary jurisdiction indebtedness of Hungary, Gen Civil Hospital yesterday after Alberties of others. of the Government over a large eral Gombos indicated that his brief Illness, Deceased was a na- Dora (for we will now return to A Chinese fortune teller was the range of offences and made, these Government would seek agree tive of Lahore Village, India, and the modern spelling), like many of victim of an armed robbery per- all punishable with death. Anment with her creditors, and, was stationed at the Shara Shut the social phenomena which we are petrated by four men, one carrying other unexpected reform to which though his view that rates of Fe Police Station

accustomed to regard as having or a knife, at a hut in Wu fu Village,

Police Constable Atma Singh, legislation gave immense oppor

HOME ROBBED.

Armed Band Surprises Sleeping Family.

the General is committed is the interest will have to be reduced us

iginated in the war, was born earlier Taí Po district, in the early hours restoration of the secret ballot may be unpalatable to them, while driving a test car in than that. But for her, as for so of this morning. The robbers tied in the rural constituencies of there is no prospect that the Nathan Road fast evening, Mr. W. G.. many other growths, the Four Years the door of the house with wire, Hungary. The electoral law in-Magyars can continue to pay the Gordon Robertson, 166, The Peak, were, a forcing-house. The citizen and after ransacking the premises, troduced by Count. Bethlen after full interest on their foreign debt knocked down a rikisha coolic, who might grumble at encroach decamped with $180 in money and the Bolshevist tyranny and the Their partial failure will never ran across the main road near the ments on his liberty, but a small quantity of jewellery, and period of lynch-law which follow-theless provide a corrective to junction of Argyle Street The in the circumstances lie was fled in the direction of Taun Wan ed it was frankly designed to se- their own optimism and to the coolie, Choi Lam, 46, sustained seri- not minded to wrangle Be-Van Wing Shan, 52, -fortune cure the stability of the existing lack of foresight of some of ous injuries to his head and was sides, he was solemnly assured, "It teller, reported to the Police that he regime. It abolished the secret those who lent them money. But removed to the Kowloon Hospital.la not for long Put up with this was asleep in the front room with ballot outside the towns and gave the main cause of the financial

Put up with that! Make these his wife, a concubine, a son and two- practically all power to the coun- difficulties in which Hungary and Arrested by the Police for beg-sacrifices now, for a little while, and other children, when the robbers try gentry. But this measure, indeed every Danubian State, in ging, an elderly blind Chinese man as soon as the war je won all shall entered. The first, mans wore while temporarily

pro-involved has been the failure of was found to be a life banishes. On be made as it was, before." /_______ handkerchief over his face and vaked severe

the soldiers, politicians, philolog, his appearance before Mr. Wynne. I believe that a great part of threatened the inmates with a knife.

and St. this mo

mic sentence

gary and

piade Jones in

state

Trestiest

Central Police Court publie bitt

the defen

(and

one year's h

leade

gary's

large.

must suffer

version of Defendar ized econo when he ealous confusion lieved he

was banished

bis aight

should be held under the exist of i

sgainst Dora The Inmates were all huddled Inte int was springs from the mory of these one of the rooms while the robbers labour broken promise When the time ransacked the house for nearly an

1921, came to review, the elaborate and hour gister

"be stringent code. of Ilcenal ila-The jewellery stolen comprised a his sight through an tions evolved by the tral gold watch, and chain, and two ap explosion, while flabing.

Control Board," the possibility bendages.