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London-An hour ago the Prince pessimistic tales. This is my jeating of Wales stood face to face with an ratort: When England allons audience of 3,000 men in Manches Pinch to be published without at HOTELS, tor. He told them some home least one good joke a week, then truths.

indeed the worst will happen.":

In London, and in many other There has always been something parts of the British Isles, and on wrong with Englandi. Yet all over the Continent of Europe, listen the world other peopies, are "copy- ers in " were “hearing the wordsing the English. The language is spoken by the Prince. He told us spoken in remote places by school- that we are apt to forget what boys who have never been near the a change in taste har come over the little islands in the West. Nobody world in the last ten years. It is knows why. It is a mystery, this

world-wide change, as evident penetration of the English. here as abroad."

There is a friend in Hong Kong to-day who told me that during the

There is no logical explanation It is this change in England that why England founded the greatest has fascinated me during the fow Empire in the world. There was weeks that I have bech home. cruelty and the press-gang at the What does it all mean Is Mr. time of Trafalgar but there was André Siegfried right when he also Nelson. There was fat, stupid' ays of this country, which in the King George in the days of Napo Far East we always refer to as leon, but there was also Ritt:

There was always something wreng ' home"-in he right when he sees only lethargy and says the entire with England; but the country economic structure is frozen pgave, to the world great_gifts of Are we to be dismayed by the inspiring books, art of kinds, re- rising tide of unemployment t Bemarkable inventions, such as the European Mails: Outward:fore the great war foreign observers steam engine and the dynamo-and Europe via Siberia (Emp, of Rus believed in the decadence of Eng-always there appeared a sense of

land. They, said that the country humour in England. was getting soft. It was going down hill because of its wealth. The young men, they said, thought general strike in May, 1828, he was only of themselves and thoir amuse-down near the docka. Two lorries ments. The young women were passed by with amateur drivers. hysterical-as witness the deeds of Both had legends scrawled across the hooda. Ono read “Thrac-pence the suffragettes. --`

all the way. Flappers free." And the other one: had "Please don't stop me. I can't start again." You can hear dozens of stories of wonderful humour in the trenches in France. In Hong Kong it was the humour of an anonymous con- wrote tributor, who frequently letters to the Press, that sweetened, an acid focal controversy. There is. always hope when there is a sense of humour.

Saturday.

(July 4,)

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Independence, Day, U.S.A. Miscellaneous: Reception American Club, 11.30 a.m.; Open ing of Science Building at St. Stephen's College.

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The war gave the lie to all that, Out of the public schools and the Lawn Bowls :-First Division: Civil Service ». Kowloon Bowling slums, out of the fields and the Green; Police v. Craigengower; factories, the young men rushed to Kowloon Dock 1. Club de Recreio the colours. Cockney and plough- Kowloon C.C. v. Taikoo. Second Division: Craigengower. Civil boy, artist and artisan, they went Service Taikoo Hong Kong over to Flanders, eager and daunt Electric; Kowloon B.G.C., Yacht Club; Club de Recreio Kowloonless as the old crusaders.

women, too, answered the call, and Lawn Tennis:"A" Division: won their place in history. The M.B.K... Chinese R.C.; Indian memory of those recent years must R.C. Hong Kong C.C. South make us examine closely the state- China v. Kowloon C. "B" Divi- sion: Club de Recreio v. Civil Ser- vice; Indian B.C. . Oraigengower' Chinesa R.C. v. Army T.C.; Hong Kong C.C. University Nippon Club v. U.S.R.C. "C" Division: Y.M.C.A. 4. Indian R.C.; Craigen- gower v. Hadio Sports Club Kow. loon CC. Chiness R-C.; Club de Recreio Army T.C.; University ". South China Deutscher Klub Hong Kong CC; Civil Service Kowloon Indians.

ments of men like Mr. Siegfried who seo calamity not far away for England.

A Sense of Humour. When the Jeremiahs shake their heads, and quote statistics to prove that England is falling back, it gives me huge delight to shock them with a flippant answer to their

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The Trade Depression.

Ia England to day everyone is talking about the trade depression. They are anxious, not so much about what is happening to-day, but about what the future will bring: forth. The falling prices mean re- adjustments all round. It does make people cautions about money when they are not sure what is the value of their goods and chattels,

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