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PATRIOTISM.

A FEW REFLECTIONS AFTER VIEWING THE FILM OF THE CORONEL AND FALKLAND ISLANDS BATTLES.

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(CONTRIBUTED BY NIX.)

Those who saw the Battle of

Consequently, when the English-

PALM OIL IN MALAYA.

SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOP MENT.

"SECOND STRING

RUBBER.

то

SINGAPORE, May 3rd. Falkland Isles last week may have man goes to see a patriotia film, Mr. C. C Malet, who is one of expected to hear, amid the rever-ho is on his guard. He must be the pioneers of palm oil planting berations of mimic warfare, discriminating in his applause, and in Malaya, and has had great ex- rattle of coat buttons flying from say things that will check rather

ter..

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are no

Pays Up To 25 Per Cart. His original idea, Mr. Malet said, was that rubber estates should use their reserve funds which had

been built up for rubber planting. for palm oil instead. Rubber estates would παι pay high dividends for a long time to come and palm oil would probably give a far better return on the capital invested. He estimated that palm oil would pay from 2 to 95 per cent, and when methods of trans- port improved probably more.

expanding male chests, and a great than encourage mob emotion. When Perience not only in this country volume of sound roaring after the he sees the aeroplanes flying in per- but in West Africa, gave a talk to bounding tennis ball which bentfect dressing he saysThat's like a number of Singapore business time on Land of Hope and Glory. them

Now we know that nice men at the Chamber of Commerce Not at all. Some may even have straight lines

use in in which he emphasised the value expected to see their neighbours, on infantry battles, they'll practise of palm oil as a second string to leaving the theatre, rush to join using them in air battles" He the bow of the agriculturists of

cheers when he realises that Fisher Malays the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps or is just as inveterate towards the

Mr. Malet stated that the mave the Navy League. Such expecta-C-in-C Portamouth as towards the mant to plant oil palm in Malaya tions could only arise from a pro-German Fleet in the Pacific. He started as early as 1920, but owing feels that the alm: reaches its real found ignorance of English charac- climax when Sturdee is concentrat at the time it made very little pro- to the slump conditions prevailing ing all his attention on his necktie, Ask an Englishman if he is while Von Spee is writing up Panress. Mr. Malet said that he had

Germanism in a diary. That re-

tried to revive palm oil both in patriotic, and he will reply with minds him of Drake, and he feels time but those concerned would Malaya and at Home since that Ugh." To be articulate that Drake had no time for take very little interest so long s would be to waste effort in express-patriotism. It is balm to his soul rubber was fetching a satisfactory. ing worthless sentiments. Only a to learn that even those most configure. Since the recent slump in prodigal of literary talent would cerned, at the height of the battle, terest had considerably revived. say more. And his more would be were able to give their attention to worse, as witness Doctor Johnson's personal rather than national con- apathegm Patriotism is the last corns, such as, for instance, the re- refuge of a scoundrel." If an moval of an undesirable harmonium Englishman does" become patriotic and advice in love affairs to a in expression, his patriotism is friend. When he comes away and usually that mere gladness to be has to express an opinion it will home again, so well expressed in either be that the battle was won the first stanza of Lives there by the ratepayers' money, or by man with soul so dead." There is Yan Spee's foolishness in not at Да tincture of that sort of tacking the feet when coaling in patriotism in Hong Kong.

Port Stanley. He will have enjoy A young Englishman was gazinged himself immensely. Because he at Hong Kong from the deck of will have showed himself superior an incoming steamer. An elderly to all the arts employed to rouse ecclesiastic, of great reputation, his patriotism. And judging every- wide culture, and deep sense of body's feelings on everything. by his reality, but non-British nationality, own feelings about patriotism, he put his hand on the young man's will reiterate his belief that films shoulder, and said Aren't you are useless as propaganda, proud to be British " The youth stood up manfully to the familiar touch; bat shrank from the in-. sinuation, and was silent. The old man continued You see all those houses and roads, neatly arranged like well-filled shelves of rich goods on the hill side; and all those ships and swarms of people? They have been brought to this island from all corners of the earth by British leadership. Aren't you proud of The cause of the widespread lack it 1" The Englishman was now of patriotic sentiment to-day are forced to say something. He said to be found in popular literature. "Hong Kong suffers terribly from Scott was the last great patriotic

Since he began this work fog, and its soil is barren. There writer to enjoy wide popularity. Malet said that he had found the is practically no wireless, and, no Since then it is true we have con- greatest interest existing in palm representative government." The tinued to use the Englishman as oil both in Malaya and at Home. genial ecclesiastic moved on, with the hero in practically all conven There were funds available at Jaugh, muttering in a tone tional. English novels. But this is Home which would be available for of bavardage something about for the convenience of writers any scheme started here. Phypocrisie anglaise.

rather than the satisfaction of That good deal of progress has readers.

rule English been made is evident by the figures "As a novelists never get a chance of which were supplied. Already knowing enough about any for 13,000 acres have been planted and eigner to write enough about him 47,000 acres alienated. Next yeaT to fill a hero's space in a modern its hoped to alienate a further novel. When a foreigner learns Eug-50,000 acres.

Is it the sale with sex films Even patriotie sentiment cannot be rarer than sex sentiment in the every day life of the Anglo-Saxon. Does the love drama, like the national drama, draw its audiences by its power to Batter the sense of resistance to suggestion ? Is the ap peal of the sex appeal film its absurd ineptitudes in trying to make the appeal?

put

Mr. Malet's present idea is that a number of estates which have areas of reserve land, should plant their reserves with palm oil, group themselves together so that they could serve a central factory with- in reasonable transport radius and employ their available capital in this way rather than for planting more rubber. Palm oil would thus become a very valuable second string to the cxisting estates, At the same time it would use up the surplus staff and labour which would become available in the country in the case of rubber estates which might have to close down:

Interest At Home.

Ji

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

SMALL DEMAND FOR No. i "QUALITY.

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Why do the English thts dis- parage patriotic fervour! la the eyes of the French the habit is a survival of primitive tactics which now-a-days deceive nobody. It is like, an army checked in the moment of launching an attack on lish well enough to write novels, it At the conclusion of his lecture an enemy position, and trying to in different and his difference Mr. Malet was beartily thanked by explain its presence by anying makes his success. And that is why those present on the proposition of “Oh no, we are not an army. We every Englishman who reads it, Mr. J. Bagnall, are just a number of people who goes mad about Conrad's Nostromo happen to be taking a walk here where the English are all talkers, at the same time. But we have or failures, men in the clouds nothing to do with one another.supported on wings of gold, while So far are we from working for the doers, and darera, the a common object that we really initiators, the soldiers, and heroes, dislike one another intensely," are of every other nation and mix-

To the practica) Englishman disture of nations. paragement of patriotism is neces- War fiction is pathetic in this sary in self-defence; to defend him respect. English novelista self against the tyranny of his themselves under the domination of The Compagnie de Commerce & governments. He is sure that if he that dreary Barbusse, and to this de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient in expresses admiration for new day they continue under it right their report, dated Saigon, Hay dreadnought the Admiralty will down to that wearisome trilogy Theard, state:The demand is very scize that moment of fervour for Spanish Farm. From current war small for No. 1 rice and the prices, demanding the construction of five literature one might imagine that have slightly dropped. For lower similar dreadnoughts, and the in- among the hundreds of thousands qualities, No. 9 40 per cent. and come-tax will go up accordingly. of Britishers who smelt blood and 50 per cent. brokens, the tendency He fears that if he cheers when the powder during the war, there was is armer en account of some sales troops pass by, the War Office will not a single one inspired by having been made to North China. decide that he is a fighting man patriotic sentiment, gifted with and will conscript him. He feels adaptability to rude conditions, or that a confession of patriotism is really fond of fighting to the extent as foolish as boasting about bis expected of healthy men in all ages. gold watch to a stranger in a race One is given the utterly erroneous crowd full of pick-pockets. He is impression that all these men were Rice mill. The prices have jump- sure that if he shows public spirit inspired by some more esotericed by about 10 per cent, in a week ha will be made a public con ideal than fighting for one's owing to sharp enquiry from venience. He knows that it is the country, that they hated fighting. Europe, quantities available habit of his people to demand the and shuddered at the excitement, rather small and sellers are holding immediate translation of sentiment uncertainty and seriousness of war off- into action. He is so convinced of Who will write novel about the The total amount of rice export- these risks inherent in the expres- war in the spirit in which the ed from January 1st to April 15th, sion of patriotic sentiment that ideal soldier (there were hundreds 1928, is 507,009.990 tons against when he hears & friend venture to of thousands of them) fought 1-594.886.574 tons in 1927. talk patriotically, he wonders for book like "War Birds" but fuller We quote to-day White Saigon what great selfish end he is taking and more finished; and devoted to rics No.1 23 per cent. brokeas the risk. When a patriot under the land fighting, which was every takes to do something for his coun- body's business, instead of the air, try, every eye is opened wide to which was the privilege of the few. see what he is doing his country Such a book is bound to come. It

will make patriotism popular.

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"HAROLD."

PLAY OF 1068 IN A MODERN SITTING.

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