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Scientific Jargon
is, unexpectedly enough, the rick-necessarily those of the "China Mail" Within the limits of the shaw.
brains to
country
BY GREAT POWERS
Until three years ago there written laws of libel and the un-
HE great naval building! France. Italy and Germany al- were probably not a dozen rick-written laws governing good taste, shaws in America. But they "Eeyore", will be permitted to say contest among the major ready are building battleships and, were imported in large numbers more or less what he likes, the Powers has been definitely set Russia is embarking on naval ex- for the Chicago Exhibition. above previše holding good in every to get under way in earnest on pansion.
The expenditure will be heavy, Visitors toured the grounds in case. The one condition is that January 1 next-the earliest!
may cost them with university students be- he shall endeavour to be interest-possible date allowed by treaty, since each battleship
And with this blessing he Not long ago jing.
Britain has just taken the something like 10.000.000. But tween the shafts.
initiative with the announce they are only one item in the con- it was announced that a rickshaw hereby gets going). race would be ran from New Music In Hong Kong
ment that on New Year's day test.
Cost Per Capita York to a seaside resort near by. To-morrow's first of the series 1937 she will lay the keels of Lord Tweedsmuir,
This year's programme alone. if better Mayor LaGuardia was invited or Sonata Recitals by Prue Lewis two battleships, the biggest and known as John Buchan, is to start the race. He wrote an and Maurice Barton afords a good mest expensive of all seagoing equally distributed, would cost nearly $4 (Gold) for each person in utilising his opportunities as indignant' refusal:
jopportunity for the remark that fighting machines. Governor-General of Canada to
This will be a few hours after America, S8 in England and $6 in God Almighty gave man horses the musical life of this Colony is inculcate a proper regard for for transportation and
encouraged practi- the expiration of the naval pact France. Italy has a low mark of overlooking her huge the English language and de-devise locomotives, motors, and aero sustained and fend it from incorrect use. No planes The very idea of one human cally wholly by the unselfish efforts which precluded such construc-$-not
few enthusiastic amateurs. tion. It is a decade since Eng-military expenditure in the Ethio
musi-land built one of these floating pian adventure. one has a better right to do being trudging along as a beast of of a
forts.
The latest naval estimates for the so. In 3 recent speech he burden, dragging another who sits The visits of professional
under a shade in a comfortable seatcians are few and far between. pointed to three dangers that is repulsive to me and contraryWe had Rubinstein last year, and beset the language to-day, everything for which our
Hater Madame Masson and Madame Two of these business. "jar stands.
The first *100 Despite this outburst. the race Rene Florigny. gon" and the "jazz" style.
named gave us something to be re- which disregards structure and will be run according to plan.
membered. but Madame Florigny's | shape and ignores rules have!
playing was, in this writer's opinion, often been dealt with, and seem
definitely not up to the profes- no nearer being excluded,
these sional standard paying audiences spite of all the ridicule and cen- First American: "Why do sure heaped upon them. They titled foreigners give themselves so are entitled to expect. have been infecting the lan-many airs?" guage for a long time. But Second ditto:.
them so many heiresses.” the third is comparatively new and may be warded off if treat- It is said that Finland's payment ed in time. It is the danger of her war debts has resulted in in-have been chosen with arising from the use of scienti- creasing American tourist travel by skill, and from the past records in years the United States will been altered in some cases since fic or semi-scientific phrases, 50 per cent, American travellers na-the Colony of the two chief execn- embark, it is reliably indicated. Essued are:
United States. $526,546,000; especially the terms of psycho-turally want to see one of the won-tants we may look forward to care-on a similar programme to keep
ful and competent interpretation abreast of Britain.
Britain. $349.650.000: France, analysis. Lord Tweedsmuir ders of the world.
land playing. MacEwen's "Little
Japan's Intentions |$250,866,000; Italy, $135,246,000; said that the worst of these
An eighty-year-old woman has just abstract phrases was that they written her first novel
She is set-Sonata" for Violin and Piano
Japan, the other member of Germany, not announced; Russia It is a vivacious, who the big three, promptly signal-for military defence). $3.108,- were ineffective and obscure, ting a splendid example for novelists included.
ly delightful work, sparkling and led that she would build not 000,000; Japan (for military de for they were incapable of pre-as a class.
effervescent, and has probably not two but four of these vast im- fence), $669,000,000. cise definition, and their use by writers and speakers was nor-
Your Daily Smile!
in
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Promise Of Good Stuff *Because we give The forthcoming Sonata Re citals promise entertainment of a high standard. The programmes
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care and
is
TONNAGE OF POWERS ·
The comparative naval tonnage strength of the Eve great Fo- wers, as the building competition gets into full swing, follows:
Br. Cmwith US. Japan France Italy 474,750 455,400 272,070 168,328 $6,532 351,266|| 220275 213,185 202.539 174,824 175,350 92,000 99,420 22,146 199,244 247,190 124,112
Capital ships
Destroy
Cruisers
Aircraft Carriers
"Submarines
Total number.
51
57.
63,328
96
- 91,485 59
For the first time in some 15 year 1936-37--and they may have
The average family consists of 41been heard in the Colony before.plements of death. This is in The battleships of the United mally a cloak for confusion of persons, according to one estimate. MacEwen is best known for his line with Nippon's demand for States. Britain and Japan are com thought and intellectual lazi. The 1 person is father when he wants
The 1 person is father wie anyone else "Solway Symphony," though why parity with America and Eng-paratively old. The West Virginia, it is called a "gymphony." consisland and her notification of typical of this class of ship, is ness. It is easy to see the kind does.
ting as it does of three entirely in-withdrawal from the naval America's latest, but 123 Com
not pleted 13 years dependent, severally tiled move treaty because she could tents, must always remain a my obtain equality.
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of words he means, words” and phrases like buried complexes,
Free in Prisen repressions, the subconscious, A certain celebrity always wears mental conflicts, taboos, neuro-his hair very long. One day his wife tic states. These and other who is a neat person, said to him in
exasperation:
similar terms may or may not "When are you going to get your
be scientifically precise as used hair cut1"
by the psycho-analysts them- "Oh," he replied, airily, when I selves, but ask the average man get time, my dear.”
"In that case," she said, "they what exactly he means by, say,
a buried complex or the sub-do it free."!
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But it is a fine work, stery. nevertheless, and the second move-
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lundoubtedly live.
we
OLD LANDMARK
TO GO
Demolition Of The City Hall
ago. England's I best are the:Nelson and the Rod-
ney, completed in 1927.
Germany Up To Date Germany has the newest battle- ships. the Admiral von Scheer, completed iz 1934, and the Deutschland, in 1933. They are of only 10,000 tons each, but it' has been claimed they are the mont
Germany is building three more battleships. France has three un- der construction and Italy two.
formidable fighting ships afloat.
Pacific Air Service Perhaps the most far-reaching move the United States has made the
Hardel and Bach are to be heard at to-morrow's Recital and at the others Elgar's magnificent Sonata, Brahms in A Major and the fami- liar Cesar Franck in A Major all And yet the words are fairly semi-scientific phrases in major works, representative of often on his lips, or, if he does general. One of the worst of their kind, and grand music. This WORK TO TAKE A MONTH not use them himself. he will these is "relativity," and it so will be a change from the everlast-
Following its rondemnation by meet them in happens that the late Mr.ing "crooning," yap pap stuff deals with about every other novel he! Chesterton
One of the most important de- that get over the radio, day in and day the building authorities, the old reads..
word in the volume of essays out, until one feels like going all
City Hall is now in the hands of
velopments in the preparedness the competition is the race between It is a good number of years published just before his death. berserk and biting the furniture. the demolishers, and within now since the late Professor He significantly echoes Pro- Let us give thanks, therefore, to short space of a month the last the United States. Britain and Saintsbury tried to nip the evil fessor Saintsbury when he says whatever gods there be for two traces of this old landmark will Japan to improve existing naval in the bud by the deft use of that when we hear one parti- local amateur perfarmers who take have disappeared altogether. Ex-bases and develop new ones. This In cular word such as Relativity themselves and their gifts serious amination of the old structure work has been speeded up in re ridicule and sarcasm.
after the typhoon last month recent months. "Some Suggestions" he offered repeated about a hundred times y..
Dica week and scattered over The Abominable Durian
vealed that, while it was not ac- "for a newest English tionary be defined "psycho- scores of newspapers and novels In his very entertaining account tally in a dangerous condition, of a journey among the lesser-the roof was leaking badly, and it analysis itself as a "term used and prdinary publications, we by persons who do not know may deduce with almost prac known islands of the Philippines, was decided to demolish it.. Greek for processes always tical certainty that nobody who entitled "Odessey of the Islands," Nothing definite has yet been has been in connection with questionable and generally mis- is using the word has any Mr. Carl N. Taylor, referring to decided by the Government as to new trans-Pacific air service, link- chievous." This was pretty notion of what it means." the arrangements made before the what will be done to the site in strategic American islands severe and perhaps not quite is a word that should really be start of the expedition, writes: fair. Cleverer and a good left to Einstein and the higher deal more to the point was his mathematicians, definition of "mentality" as "a în general being permitted to occasionally for state of somebody else's mind borrow it
A that you dislike or don't under-1 strictly limited purposes: stand." Best of all was what still newer word--this time in he said about the word "psycho-the realm of art that the pub- logy," which in its popular use lic will never, it is to be hoped, was without meaning.. "For try to make its own is the un- "surrealism." instance, a husband writing to couth-looking his wife once expressed desire Though the thing for which it for a divorce because your stands is at present all the rage: He in London (or was so at the psychology is impossible.". did not mean that she bad recent exhibition illustrating The following is the allotment on November 16, 1869. - written a bad book or held that form of art), it would be a of berths in H. T. "Lancashire," erroneous opinions on the sub-calamity if the word began to Serial ject. He only meant he want-come into favour.
mure
It
philosophers
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BOOKINGS ON THE "LANCASHIRE.”
MANY OFFICERS LEAVING
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This is characterised as a com-
Several ideas, one that the ground from California to the Philippines. be used as a car park, have been under consideration, but it is pos-mercial project, but Japan has sible that no decision will be made chumed that the islands are in until the Civic Centre scheme has reality to be naval bases. been decided upon.
Under the Washington naval agreement new fortification in the Very Old Block
Pacific is forbidden, but this pact The demolition will remove one. of the oldest buildings in Hong expires on December 31. Japan is Kong, for it dates back to the late advocating a new agreement.
An: important unit in Pacific de sixties; the architect's letter of completion being signed by W fence is being provided in
struction of a $10,000,000 floating Salway, of Queen's Road Central, drydock at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii,,
Japan's Preparations
Shanghai Bank.
make
COM-
The original building, however, (Admiralty Voyage), was much larger than the present Among Japan's preparations has But sur-Homewards, due to sail from one, for it included the Theatre been the linking up by air of the Royal at the western end; which mother country and her passessions ed to get rid of her." This realism, through its emphasis Hong Kong on October 20:— ·
and the 8th. Heavy Brigade, RA-11 until 1931, was the scene of most and mandated German islands to very common use of "psycho- on the unconscious
of the Colony's amateur and pro-the south.
Great Britain has been attend- logy" ought to be relentlessly virtue of automatic soul-expres details.
5th A.A. Brigade RA:fessional theatrical performances, fought against by every intelli- sion, brings us back again to
recitals and concerts. Condemned ing to her vital Singapore base, gent person It is time too Freud and psycho-analysis. Its details.
2/RW. Fusiliers: Capt. D. Lin that year, the Theatre Royal which has been a thorn to Japan that the ubiquitous "complex" practitioners claim to be more
for years. Her other Far Eastern should be exposed for the non-inspired" and less under the Owen, wife and child, Lieut. H. de was demolished in 1933 to
that pretender
it control of dull reason than B. Prichard, C. S.. M. Morris, way for the new Hong Kong and bases also have been overhauled,
During a recent extended tour, sensical almost invariably is in popular other artists. In a word, they wife, children, 50 details.
"temperamental.” 2/E Lancashire:Capt. Beer, The section which is now used of the West Indies the writer was usage. Punch recently did ex-are cellent service in this respect That last word, by the way, has Lieut. J. P. Williams, 70 details: as the public library will not be told by a usually well-informed 1/RU. Kifies:-Lieut. R. J. Baffected at present, the demolition rce that Britain is contemplat- ing the establishment of a strate by its picture of two small boys crept insidiously out of art into
There it Carson, wife and infant, Lieut. plans providing only for the re- at the wash-tab, one of whom the realm of sport.
lying between Trinidad and Vene- is saying to the other, Have seems to mean, according to a Drummond, Lieut. Ward, Lieut moval of the eastern and northern sic naval base in the Gulf of Paria,
block The library section is a your parents got a wash brilliant satirist, chiefly tem-Scott-White, L/Cpl. Dardis,
new Structure erected by the bank zuela. Certainly a naval study of the waters i proceeding, although behind-the-ear complex, too?" per and very little mental" details.
when they moved into the City is called a fishing survey. Surely no reader will use the It is a word that, like most of EAS.C.:
Hall word incorrectly now without its fraternity, has had a good RAMC 10 detaile a cualment
innings and should now retire RAPC SQMS. Laws and But the evil is not confined to the pavilion. If Lard wife, S.QMS. Sanderson, wife to peycho-analytic terms. Lord Tweedsmuir's, advice is follow-and children, Sgt. King... Tweedsmuir spoke. it may be ed, it will find itself one of a I remembered, of scientific ori considerable com
Pte. Hardman.
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The United States is, busy in Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Is A.A. Staff Mr. J. A. Miller, lands, which are of great strategic lwife and child..
value, being the gateway to the EEimpor waters to the south
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