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By SISLEY HUDDLESTON.

tigating complaints from residents and, by means of co-operating with the authorities, seeking to remedy genuine grievances, Work. Ing along those lines, it hus during the past year engaged itself in such matters as bathing, hospital and pustal facilities, traile louca, chibtren's playgrounds. New Ter- ritories produce, police and Are of other protection, and a host

FEDIEVAL Munich charmed on flags stuck on tables, on the of the Hitlor Army. subjects touching on the amenities

walked much in its brassarda of the mainland, The correspon

old streets and across its cobbled Ranged round the room were the deree contained in the report

and looked upon its members of the army; clad in Bert and Alice, Australia's famous squares show that satisfaction has been

ate in its khaki shirts, belts, knickerbockers. obtained on the majority of these burlesque and character dancers, after Gothic buildings and

a most successful season in Shanghat, low-arched cellars. Life in these leather leggings. They wore of troops which questions, much to the benefit of are now perfarming in the Rose Room ancient German eltics, I thought, two sorts; the storm

Ow

somehow does not change funda- would keep order and be ready residents of the peninsula.

mentally, and Henry the Lion, who for any fray; and the protectiva point which we are afraid is like-

founded Munich in the twelfth guard of Hitler himself. They ly to be overlooked is the value of

The President and Committee

would not digown modern were distinguished from ench other by the colour of their caps. such an Association in offering ad- the Sailors and Soldiers' Home grate.

"Let us," said my companion. There was no need for their in- vice and suggestions to the Gov-fully acknowledge the receipt of a

donation of £20 at 1s. 5%.go to Hitler's meeting to-night tervention. The company sat si- erument. These are based on ne-

$270.42) from the ship's company of And then

I wondered whether lent, listening with all its cars, tual experience by those on the H.3.S. Kent.

Henry the Lion, after, all, would anxious to learn, to understand. apol, men who know the needs of

approve of modern Munich. For Iturdly applauded; it was too in- the community far better than

I remembered that just as Camille tent on the arguments to applaud. The forthcoming marringe is an- Offeinidom over can do. Many

nounced of Mr. Robert Walter Lane, Dermoulins had jumped on a table This calm was not the calm Government projecta which may of No. 8 Kelmscott Garden, Shang-in

had started the French concentrated thought. I could not on Ites olution, ao Hitler, a few years help contrasting the gravity of the ago, had tried to start his putsch German public with the exuber..

of the French public. na Munich enfe. "A quiet Old France there would have been vi World city," my companion had

at the Peninsula Hotel.

of

be admirably conceived often inck hai, and Miss Mary Anne Storer, who arron cafe and by crying "Ta indifference; it was the calm of

this background of personal ex-is travelling out to Hongkong

board the .. Phiroclus. perience with the real necessities, and it is here that such an Asso- cintion as the K.R.A. is able to be of the utmost value both to the Government and the community.

When we look back over the his- tory of the Association, we can ree ample evidence of its utility and of the results of its activities. the com- Without such a body, munity's complaints would merely be voiced in individual grumbling, lealing nowhere and accomplish

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An extraordinary general meeting told me; but do things like that vacity: here there was solemnity; of the Kowloon Residents Association really happen in quiet. Old Word in France there would have been

Interruptions noisy

for and is advertised to be held in the Scitics?

agoin- Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, on Hitler had failed, but his failure st: here there was deference and Friday. February 20, at 6 p.m. to beo

1 looked over the hail. Not a followed immediately by the twelfth was the foundation of his success, a desire for instruction.

movement, which now tries to keep within the law, but in never.; face that was not turned toward annual general mooting.

Henda wore thrown thelere directed

authority the speaker. Against using at present constituted, has bark with a rapt expression, ar A fisherman

to catch every dynamite for flabing off Sat Kuntown enormously; there are GO.- yesterday had his right hand badly 900 Germans who will vote for his word. Hands lay folded in-laps. injured and was taken to the Kweng ndidates and there are 107 litr prend upon the tables,

Strek terites elected to the Reichstag.Presacd against foreheads, The Wah Hospital. The victim,

WAR listening-and boat No. faithful to the Bavarian city of have considered thought given to a fishing crew on board

Henry the Lion, and here is his group leader. He spoke like a soldier on parade; he stood at the problems of the peninsula. 106 V.

citude. followed by appropriate action:

I had seen his headquarters, attention; he hardly atirred except Mr. W. C. Costin, who was a guest litier House, as it deserves to be to wipe his brow; and he went on Conducing to theve community's

The at yesterday's Rotary Club luncheon, welfare, A moment' cogitation in

pretzels & Fellow of St. John's College, called: I had watched him and his with deadly seriousness. along these lines should audice to Oxford, and is at present travelling lieutenants at work: but now it napernickel and the

of the under a Rhodes Scholarship. He was was proposed that I should see were slowly nibbled.

But presently there is a commo comince every resident

n member of the British Group who hln, surrounded by his bodyguard, peninsals of his duty in lending attended the recent conference of the arousing by passionate speech by lon. The audience has risen to Institute of Pacific Relations. He has enthusiasm of a vast crowd. Yes, its feet. Ita arms are rained in recently arrived in Hongkong from that was the Hitler I wanted to Fascist salutation, and from thou Japan and will travel Home by way observe; not Bitler the organizer.sands of throats a cry is sent out.

What in of Tele-Chinn. He expects to be bark but Hitler the orator.

happening? We

gaze in England about the indille of April,

"It's in a working-class district," down the central aisle, and there remarked my companion: "and if a long procession coming slowly from the far-off entrance doors to there are Communists there may Transferring

to from Kowloon

It is true that at the platform. It is Hitler, Hitler be trouble." Wanchi, Iarmston's Circus

Berlin and in other large cities preceded and accompanied night gave their opening show

followed by his troops. the new pitch to a large and thorough there have been fights between follo

the Communists and National Social- march with heavy steps, which re- ly appreciative audience. fentures contained in the programmes ists as the Hitlerites are designat-ound in the hall impressively. given in Kowlaun were repeated with jed; but ni Munch, at Munich the Tran. tramp, tramp, they come Kirut success, and the artistes were quiet Old World eity, such violent and now Hitler is abreast of me. all vociferously received. There is events were almost unthinkable.

ing nothing. to place of this, we Chan-ho, aged 25, was a member of But Hitler has always remained the speaker was the

the Association every anpport.

English-on Oriental Language.

All

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Circus

Ro doubt that Harmston's will enjoy as successful a season in Hongkong as it did on the Peninsula.

SUGAR MARKET.

Remarkable to some of our tours ist visitors is the neney with which the Chinese express there- selves in English. It is not reali« sed until they have.been here for Dewule same days that English has deve pam. 10. |loped into the second Janguage. This true not only of China but also of Asin; indeed, it may be called the continent's lugna fran- va. A common tongur is neces sary even within national limits i Vala. India is the example most often used, but in China, too, the hornsgeneity of the country is Teripered by a eonfasion of din- lerts. It is true that the written Janynge of China has a nution- wide application, but often the em-" "The year's work of your Comployment of writing is inconven- nittor has not been without itsjent, as, for instance, on a car or disappointments and a bus, where it is not uncommon quota of

Chinese problems unsolved, but something to NUP

clucated at least, has been accomplished,conversing with the ticket collee

tar in pidgin English. In and we are able to claim many Improvements in the amenities of sonucner af this demand for

the result of aur medium of speech, the quest

Buyers at above prices, sellers Kowloon

In these modest learn English exceeds in cager-asking d-d more, endeavours." work does the annual report of ness the

CIVIC WORK,

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house, is K good "However by EX- the facts and our company's

of

the Kowloon Residents Associa- learning. In Hongkong, Shangbai

for and Japan enthusiasm known tien summarise its activities

A glance through | bounds. Lingual diversity is not the past year. the text of the report, na well as the explanation in this case, but the appendices which contain de-a realisation that Englfah 'is the talls of the correspondence on an passport in business preferment amazing variety of subjects, gives in a world which is being steadily a far more vivid iden of the mut-organized on a Western basis, On ters, which have been handled dur- the theory that practice makes ing the twelve months. With a perfect, the Oriental neophyte will record of more than ten years to dash in where fingulata fear to 'its credit, the Kowloon Residents troud, with amusing results. The. Association occupies a somewhat following letter-culled from

Chinese newspaper-which WOR unique position. The general ex- perience in the past has been for sent to a foreigner by a Chinese new organisations to apring into business being, blossom into praminence in example: the first flush of enthusiasm, then "planation of gradually languish and finally dia- presentation appear. So far from this being cirtification, they could make free the case with the K.R.A... It has from holding and reach after two gone on from strength to strength, days. Hoping you would deduce until to-day it is a more "live" and the misreports of the newspaper solive body than at any time durchused you some troublesness and in the period of its existerice, ask us further in need." Even if Its officers are mon who bave he were told of his mistakes, the writer would not be nonplussed; taker on a definite job of work, a job which has no end, and who Instead, he would use the correc- show no signs of wearying in the tion as a spur to his gallant quest self-imposed task. They are ani- for progress until he had reached mated with one single aim-ih the fuency which is the subject of Improvements of the amenities of comment wherever Orientals come In this in daily contact with Occidentals. life across the harbour, work, all classes and races unite, thus demonstrating the spirit of coneerd in an essentially practical

All find a common plat form in soeking to further com- munal well-being.

manzer.

A meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday afternoon Approved of the form of notice submitted, pro- hibiting spitting in oating houses, and granted an application for the ro

No, 1, gistration of a kiosk near

дя Adairy. In the past year, the Associa Wongnolchong Road

Other business was of A forma! tion has continued to work on

nature. Those present included Mr. lines which past experience has

G. R. Bayer (Chairman), the Medien: shown to be wise. The committee Omlcer of Health (Dr. G. W. Pope), does not set itself up in the role Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Dr. R. A. de Castra Rasto, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, of expert grousers; rather is fin

Mr. J. H. Gelling (Secretary) and polfey one of taking note of de• Mr. J... Hargreaves (Ainiatant Aciencies in civic matters, inven- | Becretary).

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What stalwart young men they are. these troops! They appear proud of their functions; they So we went, and our optimism

carry themselves erect, with chest was justifed. Rarely have I been puffed out, with eyes front. And present at a more orderly, a more Hither. He looks a little weary, attentive, a more earnest public little bored, as he salutes, with a meeting. Imagine

one of those quick motion of the rising and large halls in

which Germans falling hand, the eager spectators gather to eat, talk, read the news- papers, listen to music-a vast un- |

But see him now on the pint- floor space without nooks The following cuble at the elose which the eye

an immense oblong form. There stand by him Porners

can survey at a elther Ride two sentinels in -khaki of the sugar market yesterday has sweep. This floor space was co-shirts. They are perfectly. still. been received by Messrs. Pen-vered with long tables at each of Their heels are together, their treath and C».

which two dozen persons could bodies upright, one hand carefully seat themselves; for the German placed on the uram of their knick- is nothing if he is not gregarious,crbockers, the other on their belt. and does not ask to sit by himself They stare straight before them; fixed rigid features, firm-set eyen. jor to be put out of view.

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Thonaunds of va were waiting It must be hard to hold that at- for Adolph Hitler. In the mean- titude for long, but they do not time we were consuming pump be a quarter of an hour--they are budge. After some time-it may

nicker and cheese, or munching

pretzels. We would continue to relieved. Two other young men half nibble at our pumpernickel and our step forward, salute, make "retzels even when Adolph the turn, and the relieved picket aban- Lion was roaring.

dons his post.

Flanked then by two sentries, Everywhere

the

Hitler speaks. He begins slowly. but he warms cautiously,

swastika.

These hook crusses were conspicu- ous on the walls, on the platform,

"I never apon such a dull town.. Why, back in the Village there wasn't a minute the boys weren't up to something in- teresting.

to his work and is truly eloquent. It is an eloquence which is based chiefly on scorn, on sarcasm, on mockery. llow he belabours the orthodox parties! How he makes even this stolid, attentive German audience laugh and cheer and ba- come enthusiastiel It veritably feels that salvation for Germany, oppressed by unjust

treaties,

op- pressed by non-German financlers, oppressed by speculatore and in- sincere

politicians, is to be found in 1. revival of Germanic сол sciousness. These folk have suf fered, they have

war, through revised through

through inflation, through unemployment; and they are ready to blame every- body, at

who at home and has Participated sibly in the successive events.

Hitler is curious to watch. Ho

fis dressed in black, which empha-

sizes his slimness: ho dances. backward and forward; he bows and leana sideways with grace; he moves his arms like a baller- ina; he is indeed a master of do- portment--almost, one would say, a dancing master. He is on

on tip- on; his knees are bont; his foot finshes as he takes a step and then another step.

As for his face, it

is strangely moblie; there is scorn about the mouth, there is LB

in that sudden setting of the

and show the white, are rather dull, but they convery, humour,

In- dignation, and aspiration by their rolling.

And his voice cake lent;ut: deep and rich and chân

the oyes, which turn.

mostly grave, and now and again shrill it takes ór all infections.

the German (Continued on Pad F