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Hong Kong. Thursday, June 21, 1934.

Garden Cities.

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

O To Be In England

The number of foreign visitors

to London is showing a remark

able increase this year over pre- vious Vears.

The exact figures for Whitsun are not yet available, but the Travel Association of Great Bri-!

OBERAMMERGAU AND ITS VISITORS

STRANGE ARMY INVADES THE QUIET VALLEY

SOME · BORED SOME INTERESTED

(By Margaret Lane.)

Oberammergau, Bavarla. ¡married women to be found nearly ¡HERE conversation rises, like all, over the world and in every

Itain recently issued some impres- steam from the crowded cranny of Europe where tours can

sive statistics. "

These showed that there was an pavements. German, French, take you, who move economically Increase of 58 per cent. in the Italian, English, Japanese, the from place to place with a suit- number of foreigners arriving inļbabel of mixed tongues shrill at case, a tartan rug

and an air England during March, compared midday along the village streets cushion, who move because there is with the corresponding month last blazing with banners and fowers. nothing else in the world for them conversation with This mountain village, circled to do. Their There ⚫ were 2324. French with deep meadows which the years becomes a gentle travelogue. tourists, or exactly double last crowd never penetrates and for They enjoy themselves extremely

bidding peaks which the crowd at Oberammergau. Only two natonalities, Chinese never climbs, has opened its arms The theatre of the Passion Play

year.

year's figure.

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and Finns, showed a decline.

Life-Savers In The Leviathan

again to all the rest of the world. is large, bare, sophisticated, rather The world in return pours into the like an airship hangar, with the flowery lap of the Bavarian Alpa a stage built in the open at one end. of the When the Leviathan re-entered strange army; the fanatics, the Behind it the foot-Hills

curious, the devout, the cynical, mountains rise up, dark with the transatlantic service early this black, yellow, white-not at all un- Corest, but it all looks the same to month her commander will be Commodore A. B. Randall, and her like that very crowd, perhaps, that the girl from Kansas. She sits gathered round another Cross to between hor mother and a German staff captain will be Captain G. C.watch the crucifixion that was the family, refusing in an agony of boredom even to turn her face to- wards the stage.

Stedman.

Both these officers are famous beginning of the story.

She is pretty, with a rather bad

for their

It is a curious story. This same rescue work. In 1922 Commodore Randall rescued the village, four hundred years ago- crews of two schooners in distress, its streets unpaved, its handsome prettiness (eyes too light, nostril poorer, its too arched, mouth too indefinite), and in 1925 the crew of a cuast-peasants fiercer and

church bare and ungilded and has got a big sulk on with her |guard cutter.

Last LTD.

year Captain Stedman stricken with the plague. Their family. Contriving to look as un- saved twenty-two men from the children dying. their wives sicken-suitably dressed is possible in a foundering British steamer Exeter ing and drooping even in that light satin dress, a fur coat, and City after the captain and three pure, cold moumain air, the pea- tiny, high-heeled shoes, she ex- of the crew had been swept over-sants offer a passionate vow to presses her indifference by staring God. Let God in His mercy drive down in her lap at her long, crim-

in consequence had recently to

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Rise In Rubbernecks

after three

In the thick of their troubles, the

Colony, but very much misunder.urban or regional, is 'do it now.jeets arrived in England, A lead-from Oberammergau; its pure air asks in her harsh, bored voice. She

Group Morality.

see when her her

the opera-

considerable profits to reduction board. of rates.

He has also chartered the route of out the terror from Oberammer-son Eager-naile through the whole The neighbouring, and to some several successful

transatlantic gau, and once in ten years, until seven hours of the play. extent rival scheme at Welwyn Bights.

the end of the world. His peasants "Look, Emma!” her mother gave less attention to industry

will make a pageant of solemn de- nudges her, patient and amiable and more to residences, and has

votion out of the Passion of His with the spoiled daughter. "I cer Son,

Lafaly hate to see you miss this have a financial reconstruction. The most encouraging news from

tableau." But Emma raises her The cost of making a play-the English hotel-keepers' point of pestilence knocking at their doors, yes to the curved roof, where the Rotarian P. S. Cassidy chose ground or lung too late is pro-view is that American vialtors are they set through the story for the

swallows are skimming and crying, for his subject at the last meet-hibitive, and is a measure of the increasing greatly

first time. Miraculously the plague and refuses to see the entry into Jerusalem. "What gives you the ing of the Club u subject which waste of opportunity. The only years of decline.

retreats. As if in direct answer this maxim for planning, whether In March 1507 American sub- is of urgent interest to

to their prayer, the horror is lifted idea I ever wanted to see it?" she ing group of luxury hotels report stood. The very word 'city' has

is as sweet and clear again as the pretends not to an increase of between 30, per cent. tinkle of a cow-bell.

offers mother come to mean in our imagina-

and 40 per cent. In their American

glasses. The play of the Passion has be tions a place of paved streets,

bookings. That was a hard saying of

gun its four-hundredth summer, The French Couple high buildings, jostling crowds,

These figures do not include the having grown in those four cen- Bishop Hall's on Sunday last that The very and traffic hold-ups.

There, in front, a French couple, thousands of visitors. chiefly

turies into something the whole middle-aged, stout, quick-tempered. a group is incapable of morali title 'Garden City' sounds like a

French, who arrive for day action towards another group";

or world goes to nee. In those four The woman annoys the man by her contradiction in terms. The fact is that the scheme is mere. understood

Many of these come to buy clothes, flocks to the ritual has become one sibilant whisper to keep on his in some unusual ly the application of common sense.

because of the advantageous ex of the strangest things in the whole overcoat. He takes it off her black Most people do un- sense and business principles to doubtedly 'enlarge

the word change rates.

curious story. the provision of sites for fac moral to include the proper ac foreigners may stay from Friday The recent concession, by which tories, offices, and houses. It tion of groups', for the propor-| differs from the ordinary haption of our conduct that is con-to Tuesday without a passport has hazard development only by tak-cerned with group action is also helped to swell the number of

a long-term instead of a enormously greater than that of foreign visitors.

the acts we do consciously on our short-term view.

individual responsibility, and! The Hampstead Garden Sub-also enormously more effective. urb is not a good instance of the Apart from impulses of generosi- To be successful, we are told, a pien because it is from necessity ty and charity, the greater part gambler must keep a level head only an additional dormitory for of our moral action is simply the Hence the expression "He remain people who are earning their liv choice of what group we shall be fed calm and collected." Ing in London. The growth of long to, and then loyalty to our Letchworth, which set out to be choice.

ing

a self-contained community, can

-unless the words are to be week-end trips without passports. hundred years the crowd that solicitude. She warns bim in a

Probably the Bishop was think

Your Daily Smile!

Beauty Note

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THE MITEY ATOM

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Swartika's Predominate

scarf and lays it round his shoul- ders. I supplicate you emphatic-

All day long trains wind in ally," he tells her, "to leave me laboriously from the valley. The alone." Towards midday he falls village putB out its banners asleep in his chair, and the woman (Hitler's, most of them, nowadays, returns after the luncheon interval and some of the shopkeepers de alone. corate their houses with naive During the three hours' interval swastikas of buttercups and moss), at midday, between the kiss of and the pensions set out tables in Judas and the bringing of Christ their gardens. In four hundred before Herod, the streets and cafes years the peasants' bargain with Jestle with crowds, and voices Providence has become, besides a crackle like a farmyard. Here, eat- vow, their bread and butter. ing ice cream with small spoons at a small table on the pavement, four

Down to the railway station go A good-looking lass spends much be best studied in the biography more of international rela-of her time before the looking the handsome porters-powerful. Young prieste sit together in their

tions than of social or profes-glass.

thick-bearded men, with long cur-large shallow hats. Three of them of Sir Ebenezer Howard which sional or political groups. In

ly hair, stiff and yellow as a gorse are German, but the fourth, who is a negro and as black as his cas- has been published. An ordinary that case it seems likely that

bush. With their red porter's cap:

They con. company was formed to buy Justice was not recognised as one

balanced on this savage bush they mock speake, French. several farms and lay them out of the Christian virtues. It is. I read that there are a million look disturbingly like Harpo Marx, verse with him in slow French, for development so that from the actually Faith, Hope and Chari- and a quarter tiny organisms in and startle the maiden ladies de- gulturally courteous. very first the different sorts of ty translated into terms of Group square inch of cheese.

scending neatly from the train. Hitler's storm-troopers stride Long hair and beards are so much loosely by in twos and threes, buildings should be where it was Morality. It is not a question of

TO-DAY'S WISECRACK

the thing in Oberammergau (for hrown young men in brown uni- most convenient to have them.rules. History knows how to re- cognise that statesmen who has

Time, states a painter, is a great how should a clean-shaven face or forins, extravagantly admired by The centre was naturally reserv had the imagination to discern artist. But you can't make a wo's moustache hope to get into the the plump blonde girls in their ed for the public buildings which amongst many alternative man appreciate hls line work. Passionspiel!} that

the white aprons and brilliant rose- offices, and open space; then there courses was the just line to take;

Bchoolboys wear hair lying on patterned dresses, They alt late at are industrial, residential, and and the decision usually depends GREAT THOUGHT

their shoulders and finger their right in the little beer gardens,. agricultural belts. The result is on the amount of conscious unity

The man who thinks that the chine hopefully from the time they and after dark they, go strolling and

ning songs. a thoroughly healthy and beauti-that the group has developed world revolves round himself may are fourteen.

(Continued on Page 3) ful town which has gone ahead and its chances of survival.

not always be conceited-he may There is general agreement have been celebrating. steadily and is now nearing a that the great crime of Euro- population

pean history was the partition of people.

Poland, by which a national group:

And then there was the motorist school-teacher, Many of the early settlers were that could best have developed the usual type of idealist crank in freedom was divided into who was in such a hurry to get sixth-form German with kind, Eng- who were taken aback when the three, and each section united by into the next town that he went lish words. They know her type. Company explained that the first fores to a different group with right into the next world.

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of ten thousand

object was to pay fts way, and which it was unable to coalesce.

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SHORT STORY

Pictures of bathing beauties are now coming into the office.

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The

·'even

The crowd pours in like a mill race, and the peasants by now can speak nearly all their languages. They startle this delicate, retired answering ber

She and her kind have come there. so very often:

GIRL CHASES THIEF-

IN PERCIVAL ST.

Six Months On Three Charges.

She stays in a modest pension, Sentences, totalling six months” aklog out her money. She is thin hard labour, was imposed on Chan and tall, and faded. First down Wa-sen, unemployed, by Mr. E. W. to breakfast, she teases the dúll

Hamilton at the Central Police | food patiently round her Court this morning, for attempted. plate, sitting automatically at the ouse-breaking, for being in posses head of the table because she has ilon of two nails for an unlawful been a school-mistress so long.parpose, and for the theft of a lock, Now the is retired, and has her at No. 84 Percival Street, top floor. pension and her savings. "Oh, L}

Bergeant Fitches stated that nic--

the second to pay a good divi-On the other hand there are Holiday Time is Here dend. The Directors wisely be tribes living their own life to gan by attracting new industries day in Africa for instance, by offering easy terms, and long that would have been wiped out frat poses of summer, leases; and the youngest trades, by stronger battalions, such as such as the manufacture of the Zulus. And in such cases it A Flapper's Promise wireless sets, are well represent-requires not only imagination Often carries a lot of wait ed. Public buildings were wisely but morality to hold the hand postponed; but as funds have be- from that amount of interference

HOME TRUTHA come available they have been that we call exploitation. Jus- erected without any of the usual the will prevent physical extinc. A filmi funny man's wife has shall travel." she has told herused was seen by Miss M. Abbas, cost of demolitions and competion by extending the group; yet just got a divorce because, in his fienda. "I have always been very of No. 82 Percival Street, attempt sation. Sanitation and so on, is not extend it so far as to cause wife's words, a man who's funny fond of travelling.

Ing, to break Into the house, looked after by a Bural District | cultural extinction: de to other people is the unfunniest

ceiving a false answer, when she Board, which has invariably bor. Justice is not one of the pic thing in the world to live with. rowed the maximum possible un-turesque virtues, but it is often Just think how all us humorists So she finds herself alone at questioned him, Miss Abbas chased der the successiva Government the necessary condition of their have had that ope rubbed in the Oberammergau, . new recruit in socused down the street, until he was: |Housing Acts, and can now apply (exercise.

last day or two.

that vast army of middle-aged un-arrested by a constable.

The Girl From Kausar ot

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