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CIVIC WORK.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

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TO FRBPARE US FOR COMPLETE LIVING IN THE FUNCTION WHICH EDUCATION SHOULD PREPARE FOR DIRECT SELF-PRESERVATION, FOR IN- DIRECT GELF-PRESERVATION, FOR CITIZENSHIP, FOR TUE MISCEL LANEOUS REFINEMENTS OF LIFE-

Spencer.

In the Citadel of Hitler.

By SISLEY HUDDLESTON.

[EDIEVAL Munich charmed on age stuck on tables, on the

old streets and across ita cobbled Ranged round the room were the its members of the army; clad in equares and looked upon

ate in its khaki shirts, belts, knickerbockers, of Gothic buildings and low-arched cellars. Life in these leather leggings. They were ancient German cities, I thought, two sorts: the storm troops which somehow does not change funda- would keep order and be ready mentally, and Henry the Lion, who for any fray; and the protective founded Munich in the twelfth guard of Hitler himself. They The President and Committee of century, would not disown modern were distinguished from each the Sailors and Soldiers* Home grato- Munich,

other by the colour of their caps. "Let ue," said my companion; tervention. The company sat si- Thore was no need for their in- fully acknowledge the receipt of a donation of £20 (at 18. Bd.

Hitler's meeting to-night." $270.42) from the ship's company of And then I wondered

lent, listening with all its cars, whether lent, H.31.s. Kent.

Henry the Lion, after, all, would anxious to learn, to understand. approve of modern Munich. For it hardly applauded; it was too in- remembered that just an Camille tent on the arguments to applaud.

of Desmouling had jumped on a table This calm was not the calm In a a Paris cafe and by crying "To Indif

indifference; it was the calm of arras!" kad started the French concentrated thought. I could not Revolution, so Hitler. a few years German public with the exuber help contrasting the gravity of the ngo, had tried to start his putsch in a Munich cafe.

remedy genuine grievances, Work- Ing along these lines, It has 'during the past year engaged Itself in such matters as bathing, hospital and postal facilties, traffic Issues, children's playgrounds,. New Ter- ritories produce, pollee and fire protection, and a host of other subjects touching on the amenities of the mainland. The correspon- report derve contained in the shows that satisfaction has been obtained on the majority of these questions, much to the benefit of

Bert and Alice, Australia's famous residents of the peninsula. On point which we are afraid is like-burlesque and character dancern, after a most successful reason in Shanghel, ly to be overlooked is the value of

are now performing in the Rose Room at the Peninsula Hotel. auch an Association'in offering ad- vice and suggestions to the Gov-1 ernment. These are based on uc- on the tual experience by those spot, men who know the needs of the community far better than Officialdoni ever can do. Many Government projecta which may be admirably conceived often lack

The forthcoming marriage is an this background of personal ex-

nounced of Mr. obert Walter Lane, perience with the real necessities.of No. 8 Kelmscett Gardens, Shang- and it is here that such an Asso-hai, and Miss Mary Anne Storer, who

Is travelling out to Hongkong ciation as the K.R.A. is able to be

board the .n. Patroclus. of the utmost value both to the Government and the community. When we look back over the his tory of the Association, we can nee amplo evidence of its utility and of the results of its activities. Without such a body, The com- munity's complaints would merely be voiced in individual grumbling.

who Ακέστπιση A leading nowhere and accomplish- ing nothing. In place of this. wedynamite for fishing off have considered thought given to yesterday had his right hand

injured and was taken to the the problems of the peninsula. Wah Hospital. The victim, Shek

In fishing crew on board convincing

community's 1635 V. the welfare. A mumpot's cogitation along these lines should suffice to com ince

every resident of the peninsula of his duty in lending the Association every support.

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"A quiet Oldance of the French public. In World elty." my companion had France there would have been vi An extraordinary general meeting told me; but do things like that vacily; here there was solemnity; of the Kowloon Realdents Association really happen in quiet Old Word in France there would have been In advertised to be held in the St. cities?

interruptions for and again- notsy Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, on Hitler had failed, but his failure at: here there was deforence and Friday, February 26, at 0 p.m. to be was the foundation of his success. a desire for instruction.

I looked over the hall. Not a followed inmediately by the twelfth is movement, which now tries to annual general meeting.

keep within the law, but is never-face that was not turned toward theless directed against authority the speaker. Ilends were thrown has back with a rapt expression, or as at prescut constituted,

to catch every grown enormously; there are 60 craned forward Kung 000 Gormans who will vote for his word. Hands lay folded in laps,

spread upon the tables. badly candidates and there are 107 Hit-or

lerites elected

to the Reichstag audience

pressed against forehends. The TVOA Hatening-and No. faithful to the Bavarian elty of

Heary the Lion, and here Is his group leader. He spoke like citadel.

oldier on parade; he stood at bad seun his headquarters, attention; he hardly stirred except Mr. W. C. Costin, who was a guest Hitler flouse, as it deserves to be to wipe his brow: and he went on at yesterday's Rotary Club luncheon called; 1 had watched him and his with deadly seriousness, The

a Fellow of St. John's College,

and the pretzels Oxford, and is at present travelling lieutenants at work; but now it stopernickel under a Rhodes Scholarship. He was was proposed that I should see were slowly nibbled.

his bodyguard, But presently there is a commo- a member of the British Group who him, surrounded by attended the recent conference of the arousing by passionate speech by tion. The audience has risen to Institute of Pacific Relations. He has enthusiasm of a vast crowd. Yes, its feet. Its arms are raised in Farcist aniutation, and from thou- I wanted to recently arrived in Hongkong from that was the tier Japan and will travel Home by way observe; not Hitler the organizer,ands of throats a cry is sent out. of Indo-China. He experts to be back but Hitler the orator.

What la happening? We kaze In England about the middle of April.) ist visitors is the Buenry with

a working-class district," down the centrai aisle, and there remarked my companion; "and it is a long procession coming slowly which the Chinese express them

are Communists there may from the far-off entrance doors to selves in English. U is not realis

It is Hitler, Hitler to be trouble." from Kowloon

It is true that at the platform. Harinaton's Cireus Inst sed until they have been here for Wanchai,

Berlin and in other large cities preceded and accompanied some days that English has deve-night gave their opening show

troops. They the new pitch to a large and thorough-there have been fights between followed by his foped into the secund language.

ly appreciativo audience. All the Communists and National Socini-march with heavy steps, which re- This is true not only of China but features contained in the programmes ists as the Hiticrites are designat sound in the hall impressively. given in Kowloon were repeated with ed; but at Munch, at Munich the Tramp, tramp, tramp, they come; also of Asia: indeed, it may be

grent success, and the artistes were quiet Old World city, such violent and now Iftler is abreast of all vociferously received. There Is events were almost unthinkable.

What stalwart young men they no doubt that Harmaton's

are, these troops. They appear proud of their functions; they So we wont, and our optimium carry themselves erect, with chest was justified. Rarely have I been puffed out, with eyes front. And present at a more orderly, a more idler. He looks a little weary, A attentive, a more earnest public little bored, as he salutes, with a meeting. Imaglue one of those quick motion of the rising and large hatis in which Germans falling hand, the eagor spectators. gather to eat, talk, read the news- papure, listen to musica vast un- broken floor space without nooks. But see him now on the plat

by him on or corners, an immense oblong forin. There atand

English-an Oriental Language.

Remarkable to some of our tour-

called the continent's lingun tran.

A common tongue is neces

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will enjoy na successful a season in Hongkong as it did on the Peninsula.

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Bay even within national mit in Asia. India is the example most often used, but in Chlua, ton, the homogeneity of the country is teripered by a confusion of dla- Jects.

it is true that the written language of China has a nation- wide application, but often the em ployment of writing is inconven-

The following cable at the close which the eye can survey at either side two sentinals in khaki frut, as, for instance, on a car or of the sugar-market yesterday has wwerp. This floor-save-was-co-hire cele are together, their

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the explanation in this case, but a realisation that English is the passport to business preferment

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

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-London Terminals. March 6/5% down 1d. May 6/8 down d. August 6/11% down d. December 7/1⁄4% down 1d. Buyere at above prices, sellers asking d-d more,

New York Terminus. March -94 down 1 pt. May 97 down 3 pts. July 105 down 2 pta. September 1.11 down 2 pts. December 1.16 down 3 pis.

"The year's work of your Com- mittee has aut been without its quota of disappointments and problems unsolved, but something at least has been accomplished,

a bus, where it is not uncommon been received Messra. and we are able to claim many

Chinesetreath and Co. educated improvements in the amenities of

conversing with the ticket collec- Kowloon ay the result of our

tor in pidgin English. In Con- endeavours." In these modest words does the annual report of sequence of this demand for the Kowloon Residents Associa medium of speech, the quest

learn English exceeds in eager. tion suminarise its activities for

ness the pursuit of any other the past year. A glance through

learning. the text of the report. as well and Japan enthusiasm knows

in Hongkong, Shanghai the appendices which contain de-bounds. Lingual diversity is not tafla of the correspondence on an amazing variety of subjects, gives nr more vivid idea of the mat- ters which have been handled dur-in a world which is being steadily ing the twelve months. With organized on a Western basis. On record of more than ten years to the theary that practice mukes its credit, the Kowloon Residents perfort, the Oriental neophyte will Assariation occupies a somewhat ath in where linguists fear to unique position. The general ex- trend, with amusing results. The perience in the past has been for following letter-culled from 21 new organisations to spring into Chinese newspaper-which Wats being, blossom into prominence in sent to a foreigner by a Chinese the first flush of enthusiasm, then business Januse, is 11 good gradually languish and finally dis- example: "However by appear. So far from this being | planation of the facts the case with the K.R.A., it has presentation of our company's' gone on from strength to strength, fcirtification, they could make "free until to-day it is a more "live" and from holding and reach after two active body than at any time dur-days. Hoping you would deduce ing the periud of its existence. the misreports of the newspaper officers, are men who have caused you some troublesness and taken on a definite job of work, inak os further in need.” Even if jok which has no end, and who he were told of his mistakes, the show no signs of wearying in the writer would not be nonplussed; self-imposed task. They are ani- Instead, he would use the correc- mated with one single aim-the | tion as a spur to his gallant quest Improvementa of the amenities of { for progress until he had renched life across the harbour. In this the iuuency which is the subject of work, all classes and races unite, comment wherever Orientals come thus demonstrating the spirit of in dafly contact with Occidentals. Concord in an essentially practical manner. All find à common plat- form In seeking to further com- munal well-being.

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A meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday afternoon approved of the form of noilco submitted, proj hibiting spitting in oating houses, and granted an application for the re- gistration of a klonk near No. 1, Wongnelchong Road 战机 a. dairy. Other business was of a formal nature, Those present included Mr. G, R. Sayer (Chairman), the Modical Officer of Health (Dr. G. W. Popo), Mr. Wong Kwong-un, Dr. R. A. de Mr. J. II. Galling (Secretary) and Castro Basto, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, Hargreaves (Assistant

In the past year, the Associa tion has continued to work Ines which past experience han shown to be wise. The committee does not set itself up in the role of oxpert grousera; rather is its policy one of taking note of de- Actoncies in elvic matters, inves- tigating complaints from residents and. by means of co-operating Mr. with the authorities, accking to Becretary)..

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could bodies upright, one hand carefully which two dozen persons sent themselves; for the German placed on the seam of their knick- Is nothing if he is not gregarious, erbockers, the other on their belt. and does not ask to sit by himself They stare straight before them; or to be

fixed rigid features, Brm-set eyes. out of view. put

Thousands of us 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 pumpor- budge. After some time-it may nicke and cheese, or munching be a quarter of an hour-they are pretzels. We would continue to relieved. Two other young men nibble at our pumpernickel and our step forward, astuto, make a half retzels even when Adolph the turn, and the relieved picket aban-

dons his post. Lion was roaring,

Flanked then by two entries,

Awastika.

Everywhere the Thear book crosses were conspicu-Hitler speaks. He begins slowly, but he WAYMA ous on the walls, on the platform, cautiously,

to his work and is truly eloquent, It is an eloquence which is based chiefly on scorn, on sarcasm, on mockery.

How he belabours the orthodox parties! How he makeн even this atolid, attentive German.............. audience laugh and cheer and be come enthustustic! It veritably feels that salvation for Germany, oppressed by unjust treaties, op pressed by non-German financiers, oppressed by speculators and in sincere politicians, is to be found In a revival of Germanic sciowness. These folk have suf- fered, they have passed throught war, through revolution, through inflation, through unemployment; and they are ready to blame every- body, at home and abroad, who han participated responsibly in the successive events.

"I nover seen such a dull town. Why, back in the village there wasn't a minute the boys weren't up to something in-

teresting."

CON.

Hitler is curious to watch. He fis dressed in black, which empha- sizes la alimness; ho dances backward and forward; he bowa and lean sideways with grace; ho moves his arms like a baller- of de- ina; he is indeed a master of portment-almost, one would say, a dancing master. Ho is on tip- toe; his knees are bont; his foot flashes as he takes a and then

step another step. As for his face, it is strangely mobile; there fa scorn about the mouth, there is strength in that sudden setting of the in

jow: the uven, which turn frequently and show the white, are rather dull, but they convery humour, "In- dignation, and nspiration by their

rolling

And his voice is excellent; it'is deep and rich and changing; It la mostly grave, and now and again atrill: It takes on all inflections. We out to smash party the German poopla must. (Continued on Page B