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YOU MAY READ THE CHARACTERS oF MEN, AND OF NATIONS, IN THEIR} ART. AB IN A MIRROR-Ruskin.

*

FREE TRADER ON

By

J. A. SPENDER. TARIFFS.

Friday that China would, at the Assembly meeting, object to the at creation of a neutral zoną Shanghai, and although the ob jection does not appear to have been voiced, we must not be sur priaed if the Chinese take this

I count myself one of the "Old polities. What sort of hotch-potch line. Presumably, the Chinese

Contemptibles" of the Free Trade will result no man can prediet, hut, viewpoint is that to create such a

there is no mistake the idea of an impartial advisory" zone will be tantamount to depriv The Bishop of Victoria confirmed army; and ing China 'of her territorial 21 candidates at St. Andraw's Church, about it, we are in full retreat Committeo administering it in an

Kowloon, yesterday evening. of from our Mons. The enemy have atmosphere of puro selence, and.. sovereignty in the affected area, these, Ave were military men, who marched through the neutral tor-solving Its innumerable problems, National Election, commercial and political,' without since it would be policed by were presented by the Rev. Mr. Scott ritory of the

and are advancing on our capital. reference to Parliament, is moon- foreign forces. From the forelan standpoint, too, the plan is one

According to a report made to the They think the war will be over in shine.

Tying Trade in Knots. which may be viewed with some Police by Mr. A. Ireland of the Hong-July, and that the rest will be only

On these lines the British Tariff cam. misgivings, as table, in

to be the certain kong Telephons Company, somebody a matter of fixing the'penalties and

most broke opon the telephone booth at indemnities, eventualities, to lead to undesir- the upper Peak Tram Station some-

1 doubt it. On the contrary, I promiseu able complications. Everything time on Friday night, and stale a bolleys we shall have our Marno, pileated, the most uncertain in its an we have said, really

but, having learnt from experience, incidence, and the most vexations refrain from speculating on the of any in the world. Mr. Cham- on the sincerity of Japan's in-

Little

hinges cash box containing $4.

The Practical examination of the

tentions to withdraw her forces.Trinity College of Music, London, will duration of the war.. I only hope bertain talks of its being "Bexible Recent experience of Japanese be held this year at the end of it will not be too long or too costly, and clustle," but the duties will be

a

giraffe.

fixed after prolonged negotiations with scores of Governments and The "Discredited Dogmas.” policy gives some reason for fear- September instead of June. Further i

The exultation of the Tory Party Administrations, and can only bo the same proces. ing that the conditions attached entries may now be received up to June 1. All applications should be to withdrawal may be such as to made to Mr. Win. Anderson,

the is natural, and let us handsomely nitored by arouse Chinese opposition. The Local Secretary, c/o Anderson Music ncknowledge that they have shown Never did n country tle itself in remarkable skill in gathering up such a knot-double, treble, quad- that Co., Ltd. fact may as well be faced

and concentrating on a single abruple, quintuple knot-as is now each side still views the other

Britain. At to-morrow's Rotary Tima tha ject all the emotions, discontents proposed for the trade of Great with feelings of suspicion. Both

I don't believe it, as the child speaker will be Rev. E. L. Allen, and perplexities of the hour-the have latterly been accusing each M.A., Ph.D., whose subject will be reaction from Socialism, the con other of carrying on the hostilities “The Future of Western Civilisation." fusion of political boundaries, the aid when it first saw in a restricted form, and so long The Club's closed meeting previously wreckage made in the world by em- This Tariff, with its pretentious

advertised will take place on March

and economic facade, will either tumble down as as these allegations continue to be 20. Mr. M. F. Key, one of the Club's bittered politics

guise for the crude familiar thing. the hon. secretaries, is in hospital with blundering, the Inclination to try it is built up, or be a more dis-

nny new thing which promises t

foodtaxes and all that we know change.

Protection to bo. In either case, great it is our duty to fight it from the Yet I think they show On the application of Mr. M. A. Watson, Mr. Wynne Jones has de audacity when they talk about the beginning and all through..

of Free cided to reconsider the sentence of "discredited dogmas" $150 or one month's hard inbour and;

Trade, three months' hard labour in addition,

made, there is ever present fear that major, operations may once agalu break out.

The only satisfactory aspect of the situation at the moment is that the real fighting has now ceased for ADILLA time.

considerable That Is something to the good, and if this position can be maintained a little longer. hopes for an adjustment on conalliatory Hut lines will be strengthened, in saying as much we do not sluit our eyes to the fact that the real problem lies ahend. The setting in train of negotiations is ane

Are

tommilitis.

which he recently passed on Lo Kwan, U.S. Army pensionor who was con- vietel of a charge of cruelty to a four year-old boy.

This country, with ita crowdedi and the "ancient shib population and life-and-death need boletha" which we, the Old Contem-of cheap and abundant supplies, Any political clatter piibles, are supposed to be "mumb will not stand much of these ex-

was periments. there never ling." For moment when these epithets and which causes us to forget the mil- Hons for whom Free Trade has phrases were more nonsensical.

been a vital Interest will surely Passengers who left for Home by

The Vindication of Free Trade.

hring its Nemesis. the . and 0. liner Carthage on Saturday included Mr. and Mrs. H.T. It is not too much to say that the

Dangers Ahead. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. N. Currie, Mr. fourteen years since the war have

Apart from the results on our E. W. Carpenter, Mr. and Birs, R. been one long demonstration of the Goodmann, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Harris, folly of Tariffs. Year by year, un domestic interests, there are two Mr. al Mrs. J. S. Kry, Mr. and Mrs.

stress of Reparations, very serious aspects of this busi- evilness which we have always to bear D. McNeillie, Mr. C. Mycock, and Mr. der the

Debts and Tariff-that access and Mrs. N. L. Smith. Dr. C. Wong and family tender thing; the likelihood of

Trinity-the economic structure of in mind.

First, the Imperial aspect. Even their thanks to friends, for ex-in these parloys, quite another.

when confined to one country, pressions of sympathy in

their The jues

of the Arst The master and mistress of two the world has been laid bare and

passenger boats were charged before found to correspond in all its parte Tarifle are the most fruitful cause recent bereavement and also for

the Free moreover, floral tributo and altendance at magnitude; they are,

the Hon. Comdr. Hole, at the Marine with the account that

of recrimination, and we are de- the funerni,

not without their complications. Court this morning, with having ap- Trade theorists gave of it.

involving the Empire liberately Year by year impartial experts

our Tariff. What is called "Em Not only is it a matter of adjust-proached their craft to within thirty

nations of the pire Free Trade" is a return to the Mr. Ho Shai-kit tenders sincere thanking the quarrel as between China yards of the a.s. Lycemun, which was embled at Basle, and Geneva,

Sergeant Bill informed the have warned the

which lost un century to his friends and relatives for and Japan: the whole stability of lying the 8 flag over her cole pen-

American Colonies. the many kind expressions

In the sympathy in his recent bereave As one of the delegates to

the kidnappers on board the vessel, and imposed blockade of their Tariff-ighteenth

warnings have last few weeks I myself have re- ment, also for floral tributes

two craft went alongside it, not heed- walis, and their

ceived letters both from Canada. the o the Assembly put it last week.

Ing the signal. The accused were come true. altendanco

and South Africa saying that we funeral.

League must give the world an fined $25 or three weeks' imprison-

The Test of Experience.

are living in a fool's paradiso, and example of firmness and energy ment each.

Nowhere in the world are Tariffs warning me of the dangers lurking in upholding the principles of the

There were crowded houses at the producing the results claimed for in this subject. Covenant, heenuse, to

Next, the international aspect. Queen's Theatre yesterday, when them by their advocates in this words of another delegate, the Bert Wheeler and Rubert Woolsey, the country. Whether we look east or we cannot go far with the idea of world will return to barbarism un-star comedians of "Cuckoos," were weat, we look in vain for a country organising the British Empire as less respect for the Covenant is seen in their Intest riot, "Half Shot where they are curing unemploy- a unit against the world without

of nt Sunrise." They take the parts stablished.

HITL

απ

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MUNDAY, March 14, 1932.

THE LEAGUE AND THE CRISIS.

nnnt.

of the League of Nations is involved. court that there were two suspected danger of perslsting In the selfercantile-colonial ideas of the

Signboards of the Times.

the

Both

two U.S. privates absent without ment, balancing trade, bringing profoundly changing our relations with foreign nations and raising leave in Paris during the close of the prosperity.

war. Running wild, with a special All over, the map we find coun- new questions, especially about sen- penchant for love-making, this in- tries in which they are the sport of power, which may gravely pre- imitable pair keep the fun going fast vested interests and political dejudice the cause of peace and dis- and furious. Their gaga and anties)

of these interests. I can only glance at these ques- are all that we might expect from mayogues outbidding onch other in armament.

Two complementary advertising movements are in full swing

in such a couple of mirth-makers. If the service

you like sheer bufoonery, don't miss Tariffs are beyond question the tions to-day, but perhaps I have England just now... Ona says, "Ad- "Half Shot at Sunrise,”.....

most dangerous source of political said enough to explain why, an an The other

corruption in the world-to-dayOld Contemptible, I am for no sur render. If we fight on, we shall vertise more,"

наун,

have our battle of the Marne. Although the League of Nations:

Our Special Tariff. "Stop advertising badly." Assembly has adjourned sine die,are in the hands of organisations getting out of it. That way hus

What is there In Mr. Chamber- a special committee of nineteen consisting of disinterested, public- been taken by Shell, which has Inin's Tariff which should cause me members has been charged with spirited individuals, who have no staff of recognised artists to in face of these accumulative facts Phipps Proposes the handling of the Sino-Japanese axes to grind, no wares to push; design its advertisements, with the to repent of my Free Trade con- problem. This body is not and neither in any way interferes result that they are primarily victions? It is a munstrous struc- ELECTRIC BRIDGE. quired to submit its report until with the working of the other. In works of art. If other companies ture of duties in an ascending scale, May 1at, but it in to be assumed one direction there has been the follow the example the resthetic duties for revenue, duties for pro- that should the situation neces-influence of the Prince of Wales, problem of the advertisement will tection, duties

foreigner, punishing duties for the sitate the step. the Assembly will calling upon Englishmen to push | bo solved-except for those whnfavourable duties for the friendly tournament which was played at again be entled into session before their

by advertianment feel that no advertisement,' how unfriendly, Almost every part of that date. The Assembly T abroad; there has been the "Come ever attractive in farm or colour it conflicts with every other part, evidently hoping that its efforts to Britain" movement plunging in should invade pubile places.

re-

goods

to set in train negotiations be-

practical manner into the tween China and Japan, with the business of publicity; and there assistance of the neutral Powers, has bean the authorisation to towna will lenil to a solution of the Im-by Parliament some years ago to DARRE by persuasive methods. make known the charms of their The chief point is the withdrawal neighbourhoods by advertisement. of the Japanese forces, and it And of the movement toward bel- remalan to be seen whether there ter mivertising, the "Scapa is any likelihood of this being Society," is

un example. It has effected in circumstances which for its object the controlling and are acceptable to Chinn,

even the prohibition of unsightly Tho Chinese stand, that there advertising signs in pubile places, should be no strings attached to Under pressure from this body, the Japanese withdrawal, is quite Parliament has conferred on the understandable. It is based on municipalities another right—that the contention that there has been of restricting or prohibiting_ad- no justification for the Invasion verticements, in towna as well, as i of Chinese territory. The alleged in rural areas. Turning for a danger to Japanese nationals is moment to America, on the Balti- regarded more TH an excuse for

mare Turnpike approaching Wash- interference with China's tor-

ington there are said to be 1009 ritorial integrity than as cir-

advertising alghs in twenty-seven cumstance necessitating inter-and seven-tenthe miles, an aver vention; besides which it is con

age of thirty-nine to the mile. It touded that the scopo and severity is not easy to pass a disinterested. of the Japanese operations have artistle judgment on each of these been altogether beyond the weces- greetina to the traveller, since a sitles of the case. In this COR-

car at average speed passes a sign nexion, Mr. Yen, during the As every two seconds. The totel the Settlement. Mr. Sato's reply effect in cinematographie. On the sembly moeting in Geneva, point- | Hounslose-to-Bath road In England ed out that Japanese troops and there is more leisure for reflec- tanks had been landed at a point tion, for in ninety miles the forty miles distant from Shanghai, motorist is confronted with only a circumstanco which could not 154 signs. But the most reliable be defended on the ground of opinion is unfavourable to both to this point was that the troops exhibits. Unfortunately, not were merely reinforcements, everybody is agreed an to what ad- which would in duo Courno bevertisements are unsightly, and protecting Japanese nationals in what are not. This is a genuine withdrawn. It is suggested on difficulty, but there is a way of

1

for Preference,

and the whole of it is drenched in

"Bay, Captain-what was that addrosa Again? You know how I forget numbers,”

The international contract bridge Grosvenor House, Park-lang, W.. represents a great advance on pre- vious parties of a similar nature,

For the first time, strong silent bids have been Introduced-the players calling their hands by incans of a "bidding board."

In all other respects, however, the play adheres to the conventions which have remained almost un- changed since Horatius held the first bridge tournament.

Of course, the "bidding board" only cilminates the actual verbal calling. It makes no claim to abolish such traditional gestures. as sniffing, winking, leering, grow ling, scowling, or bowling, which make bridge en enelly the most popular social pastime.

The device, which consists of a board divided into sections marked in suits and numbers on which the bid is registered by two chips, has beon ured in this tournament to linguistic embarra98- meat between the British, Dutch, and German teams.

overcome

Screened Asterisks.

But a roport states that export- ments are being conducted in Hol land with an electrie biddor, de- -signed-not-so-much-as-a form of cardroom Esperanto as an emotion- al sedative. The Dutch, in short, fool that by mechanising the game they may divert passion into kilom watts.

That is an axcellent idex-an. Idea which can be pushed still fur ther. The mochanfaation ahquid. not stop at the bidding, playing, or scoring.

It must be possible to register "Having no spades, partner?" " * * * 1 1," or even "* };* I* [115 on the automatio screen, which should also be able to accommodate the subtlest idioms of the "post mortem.