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40 YEARS IN FAR EAST

Mr. Percy Cox Leaves On Retirement

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[bootlegging under the Writer's Name and Address and a popular figure in Oriental

Repeal is proved by the following story, for not necessarily for insertion, but shipping circles, left the Colony which the narrator can vouch: as a guarantee of good faith.

this morning, on his retirement after a spell of over 40 years the East

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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1936.

POLITICAL FUTURE OF EGYPT

DIFFICULT PROBLEM TO SOLVE

E

NEW INFLUENCES INTRODUCED INTO SITUATION

(By Malcolm Muggeridge)

GYPT'S present troubles aregulating Anglo-Egyptian rela-

an inevitable consequence tions, and took much

too

An Englishnan and two Ameri- infcans acquired a wine-store--in--a |fashionable-quarter of New York Mr. Cox is proceeding to Bas

As they pey everybody, ther Iand leisurely via Honolulu, Newcould do a good business in selling

wine at reasonable prices.

of successive failure to define seriously the Socialist Party's Zealand and Canada.

They drew up their catalogues Anglo-Egyptian relations. The general protestations of sym- Mr. Drummand presided over a The Englishman stayed late by United Front that Egyptian pathy with their nationalist pleasant gathering of the CPR himself one night to superintend politicians have now formed in jpirations It came as a con- staff yesterday when formal good-their despatch.

based on a demand for the draft siderable shock to them that byes were said and at which MA well-dressed man

in, Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1930, their rejection of the draft The Cinema Industry Cox was given a complete fishing apologised for being late, and said which was approved by Mr. treaty did not lead to Mr. Hen-

onfit as a parting gift. Mthat if they could agree on prices Henderson, then Foreign Secre-derson's resignation However eagerly one may Drummond mentioned in his re he could give a very big ordentary, and rejected by Nahas Nahas Pasha's triumph was advocate Art for Art's sake marks that Mr. Cox's services to He mentioned the name of a mil-Pasha, then Egyptian Premier short-lived. His own suppor or any other ideal-even admit-(the Company and his helpful and bonaire.

in a Waldist Government ters grew restless; the students treatment of the stat ting that it is possible to arrive kindly

The terms of this treaty in whose demonstrations had at any general agreement as to under him would remain a happy

cluded provision for the with carried him into power again what Art is it remains the memory to them all. and in

drawal of the British army of demonstrated, this time de The Englishman produced his occupation to the Suez Canal manding, not freedom, but jobs price-list The buyer asked if he zone and the exertion of British more concrete demand, and might telephone to his client. In influence to get Egypt admitted far more difficult to satisfy.. ten minutes ten gunmen arrived.

to the League of Nations and The King easily found a con- stitutional occasion to get rid

truth that nothing will be done wider circle the Far East would| on a big scale unless there is miss a refreshing personality. sound finance behind it. Even

artists have to pay bills at the

end of the month, and there is

no

class that more quickly EXPLANATION OF

raises the terms of service as

soon as it is clear that there is).

2 demand for their services- And what is true of the artist is equally true of the producer who wwwmtx to satisfy his imagination. and of the mechanician who develops any special skill. The answer to the question why we have not A

YESTERDAY'S CARTOON

Monkey Man Of Portsmouth

GUNS MIGHTIER THAN PENS

"Destroy these catalogues or the capitulations abolished.

the alternative" they said to

The capitulations whereby of the Wafdist Government, re- the Englishman, and

foreigners resident in Egypt are placing it by Sidky Pasha, and that his prices were 20 per cent. 20t subject to Egyptian law or governing without Parliament answerable to Egyptian courts, by Royal Decree, until a new [below the ring prices.

explained

NY Sunday a passerby may process. had a larger variety of films to

see Harry Mathew, who is When they left, they gave the employed on the farm of AEnglishuman a spoiled catalogue as keep our faculty of amusement

jan Portsmouth, RL, 2 memento. keen and expectant is therefore Sherman

Across it they had that the necessary finance was spending his day off perched in a scrawled: "We are better with our at the disposal of very few pro- tree near the farm on East Main guns than with these pens." ducers, whose ingenuity could Road. The many years he has not be expected to renew itself beer spending one day a week in with every effort. More part the tree have worn deep footholds Mathews' cularly has this been the cause between the branches.

of frequent failure, or semi-only reason for this bizarre prac- failure, with the English com-tice is that he enjoys watching the panies, who have never been automobiles go by. able to scatter the fabulous re-

wards that. Hollywood could command-and advertise.

Your Daily Smile!

| yesterday at the zoo"

there on

Snap, that's some figure

* * * TERRIBLE

and

Wildly Acclaimed

Waldists. Chastened

BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

the

The Englishman suggested that are a particular source of griev Constitution whose effect was the prices might be altered The BC. They are a relic of the to vest all real power in gunmen agreed, sat down, worked time when Egypt was under Throne was introduced.

the Sultan's suzerainty, and all night altering the catalogues have since the war been abolish- and drank a case of whisky in the ed in all other parts of the old

Turkish Empire.

The three years of virtual dictatorship that followed chas- Nahas Pasha rejected the tened the Wafdists" and made draft Treaty of 1930 on the them regret the 1939: draft ground that it ignored Egypt's treaty, which, they thought. clairn to an actual, and not only would at least have left them theoretical, participation in the free to put the King in what government of what is still they considered his constitu officially known as the Anglo-¡tional place without having to Egyptian Sudan. He is an reckon with an-army of occupa- JUST FOUND OUT Lawyer What made you wait so femotional

extravagant tion. and announced at long before suing this man Smith man,

Nahas Pasha no longer offers for calling you a Hippopotamus?” Zaghlul's tomb that he would to dismember himself rather Mr. Dumb Well it was because rather cut off his right hand than Egypt. Instead he joins

never saw a Hippopotamus

than sign away his country's with ald enemies in demanding + *

right to control the upper what he once self-righteously entertainment given - it is

reaches of the Nile. The Royal Statistical Society proposed by the Trade Organi

THE REASON

rejected Amongst the old in London felt that some

Ginger-See that girl

enemies is Sidky, who, now he en-sation that performances shall the beach? She gets fifteen thon- quiry was called for as to the be limited to a maximum of sand dollars. a year posing for

has quarrelled with the King, possible resources of the Eng-three hours and a quarter. It artists."

In the Egyptian Legislature has become a great patriot, and fish Cinemas, which found it is also on record that 80 per

he was wildly acclaimed He a more popular mob heró than more easy to get ideas and sugcent of the audiences paid less

and his fellow-Wafdists were Nahas himself. gestions than the capital to put than a shilling for their seats

1convinced that their obduracy So far as Great Britain is. "So you and pedestrians very exre would fores further concessions concerned, a return to the 1930 them onto the celluloid. The Figures are not attractive, | less?” facts elicitated by Mr. S. Row-and the only excuse that

out of Mr. Henderson

position is not as simple as it One "They're the limit. Why, the last son and embodied in a paper can plead is that these figures et tyres. He must have been carry-ed the importance to a British between 1930 and now which fellow I ran over ruined one of my

Then, as now, they exaggerat sounds. Much has happened prepared for the Society are are new, and they are very re-ing a dask in his pocke therefore interesting not

Government of successfully rel [Continued on Page 11) only vealing as to the method of to London, but to us, who can spending leisure hours in these look forward to reaping some days when reading has gone out benefit in the future from any of fashion, and many far less increased activity in this forma innocent recreations are under of entertainment, which may eclipse-as is shown by other almost be called a habit. The sets of statistics that need not figures are simply astounding be quoted. But some sidelights In 1934 in Great Britain 957 on the habits of the day may million people paid for admis-be excused, to complete the sur- sion to a cinema-that is, of |vey. London produces all the course, there were that number highest figures, as we should of payments, many of them by expect from the resort of all the same people. The total the best films to the London amount paid was £40,950,000-farea. What is not so expected The average weekly attendance is that the next biggest totals was 18,500,000. If we take the and proportions are shown in whole population above the age Scotland It is also noticed of 15, everybody went to the that those who enjoy an excess cinema on the average 30 times of leisure through memploy- Even if we allow for the revenuement while away the dreary put aside to pay for all the new hours by at least one visit a building of theatres and week. It would be a scurvy and salaries of the staff, one cannot mean criticism to grudge them help thinking that with such a their pastime, even though it basis of revenue and popularity be done on the dole. something more might have In England itself such British been done in the production films as are available are actual. part of the business. They more popular than any trouble is that most of the foreign fira The average popular support was given to number of times a British film American films, and a very is screened is 7,420, and the large proportion went out of most popular American film the country in the form of per-about six per cent less. The centages of the gross takings busiest months of the year, for and royalties and other pay-some reason which it is not ments. It is at last becoming easy to guess, are January, clear to the somewhat unadven-April, September, and October. tirous purveyors of amuse- The influence of the film, a ments that the figures in them of all other forms of entertain selves are a severe criticism of ment, is much more often-in- direct then direct What are Given an attractive enough called "propaganda" films are film there is "oundless room for mostly ineffective because they additional profit There are do not draw the people it 4,305 cinemas,” and they have would be needless to give sub- seating accommodation - forventions if they did But 3,872,000 people. On the ever-everywhere now American age only one third of the seats slang is understood,, and . fre- are occupied at each perform- quently used, which would have ance. A full house is therefore been unintelligible, only a few little short of a gold mine, and years ago. The co makes up for two empty houses. fashion in dress About 22 per cen of the pu-to reach their ma letion are said to be “fans” who often sug

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