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To-day.

(August 18.)

Rotary Club Tiffin, Lane Craw- ford Restaurant, 1 p.m. Speaker: Mr. D. M. Maynard, an "A Trade Commissioner at Work."

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GAMES AND THE WAR

SPIRIT.

„FAMOUS ATHLETE DENIES THAT YOUTH

IS WAR-MINDED."

NOT CASUAL AND SUPERFICIAL:

Hong Kong Football Association, Council Meeting, 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre!" "Abraham Lin-

The old and splendid game of war or an inclination to fighting!' Eaiting the young men of England other nations I do not for one mo coln'?

slill goes on, writes P. D. Howard,ment believe. If I did so, I should" World Theatre: The Shadow" the famous Rugby International of never play them again. But this (Chinese film).,

Oxford University, who captained was seriously advanced in a news Enginnd against Ireland last year. paper as a reason for the indiffer- "It is played and enjoyed more to ence of the younger generation to- day than over before.

wards the League of Nations.

Star Theatre: "The Divorcoe.” "Central Theatre: "The Storm."

King's Theatre: "Don't Bet On Women."

Prince's Theatre: "Alībi”

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong

and Peninsula Hotela,

European Mail-Inward: Europe

Siberia (Angers). Outward Europe vin San Francisco (Pres. Lincoln) 8.30 am. Europe via Suer (Angers) 120 p.m.; Europe esa Suez (Philoctetes) 2:30 p.m.; Europe Siberia, ordinary lettera only for Europe superscribed "va. Siberia: Air Mail Shanghai-Manchouli "' (Sphinx) 2 p.m.

You can feel the prod of the orities' walking-stirks as you read the correspondence columns of any newspaper the day after Oxford has lost some match against Cam bridge: Dean Iage in almost every- thing he says or writes has his cut at the degenerates.

This indifference" is a child. conceived in the hyper-imaginative. brains of the pessimistic cranks who aro always at hand to expose with thoir well-known howspaper yelpa and bloatings anything which would be bad if it were true.

*--Young men' are, not indifferent- The game would not be such about this thing. glorious fun, of course, were notThey may be thought casual and the young men as completely tether uninterested in big events, perhaps, ed and manaced as ever the bear since they choose to spend their as in olden times. Any answer Saturday afternoons playing cricket offered to their persecutora is pre rather than watching the prize- cocity and impudence.,

fight at Westminster. But world peace is a modern ideal, and to almost every young man a very real. and lasting one.

World Peace.

Tides:-High at 12.30 and 12.20; | baiting well. They Low at 5.48 and 0.46.

Wednesday,

(August 10.).

On the whole, they endure their tako this eriticism Ba & matter of course Rightly, too, they attach little value to the greater part of it.. But sometimes a peice of criticism is hurled at them unjust enough to Lammert's Sale of Stock-la-Trade, enough to demand an answer.

arouse their anger and serious

Palace Store, Kowloon, 11 .**

There seems to be a well-support Queen's Theatre: "Abraham Lined idea that the young men of the colu.

present day are superficial and casual and indifferent about that most vital question of all-World

World Theatre: "The Shadow (Chinese film).'

Star Theatre; "The Divorcee.” Central Theatre: The Storm King's Theatro: "Don't Bet On Women.!!

Peace.

The theory of their casualness and superficiality seems to spring from the fact that more games are play od now than ever before. People (it is held) who play games well and Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; are enthusiastic about them must Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotal necessarily be fools, casual and un-1

interested by the important things and Repulse Bay Hotel.

of life. It is odd that most of the Tides: High at 1.05 and 1.22; people who hold this view belong to a generation which placed a far higher premium upon

athletic success than do the young men. of to-day.

Low at 6.53 and '7.22.

Thursday,

(August 20.)

Queen's Theatre: **Crnty That Way."

World Theatre: The Shadow" (Chinese film).

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No Memory of the Great Warl The critics go on to say that the rising generation remembers little or nothing of the horrors of the inst war, and that, encouraged to Star Theatre: "Anna Christie."a competitive and bellicose spirit Central Theatre: "Bad Sister."

I have sufficient confidence in my own generation to believe that it will not be duped out of its opiniona and its wits by other such slick phrases, as "A war to end war.”

Games

To return to question

games. Il the critics were atack ing the youth of Italy or France. for their supposed warlike spirit in games, they might have more reason on their side. Mussolint had to stop Rugger in Italy na it was un- suited to the national temperament, When France last played Englan! at Twickenham a telegram arrived from Paris to say that the success of the Naval Conference depended- upon the efforts of her players on the deld.

Surely it is fantastic to suggest that English boys will expect to have their games infected with such international significance ? Or that they can be less in sympathy with: the League of Nations and all it stands for because they are anxiou? to win at tennis l

A Surprise Will Come.

The time is aure to come, sooner or later, when there will be real: danger of war. Then the older people will see how well they have eucceeded in passing on their own by the competitive nature of its determination never to fight in an King's Theatre: "Quick Milliona." pirts, it has come to look upon the ether war to their children, who

Prince's Theatre:

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with them the horror of the lost.

The critics will besitate after-

possibility of another war with equanimity and even with enthure too young to share and endure. Heaven."

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That games-even such a "belli- men of England the particular and Tides:-High_at 1.40 and 2.30: cose" game as Rugby football-can i more deadly one that they are in- Low at 8.15 and 7.55.

encourage an indiference towards different about this vital thing."

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