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In

as we have said, really on the sincerity of Japan's in-

DAY BY DAY

YOU MAY READ THE CHARACTERS or MEN, AND OF NATIONS, IN THEIR ART. AS IN A MIRROR-Ruskin.

Little.

.

policy gives some reason for fear-September instead of June. Further ing that the conditions attached entries may now be received up to to withdrawal may be such as to Jung 1. All applications should be made to Mr. Wm. Anderson, the arouse Chinese opposition. The Local Secretary, c/o Anderson Music fact may as well be faced that Co., Ltd. cach side still views the other

with feelings of suspicion. Both have latterly been accusing vach other of carrying on the hostilities In a restricted form, and so long as these allegations continue to be made, there is ever present the fear that major operations may once again break out.

la

At to-morrow's Rotary Tifin the penker will be Rev. E. L. Allen, M.A., Ph.D., whose subject will be "The Future of Western Civilisation." The Club's closed meeting previously advertised will take place on March 20. Mr. M. F. Key, one of the Club's hon. secretaries, is in hospital with temilitis.

FREE TRADER ON

By

J. A. SPENDER.

TARIFFS.

shib-

up,

the

same proceRs.

Friday that China would; at the Assembly meeting, object to the запо ni creation of a neutral Bhanghai, and although the ob jection does not appear to have beon voiced, we must not be aur prised if the Chinese take this

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

Contemptibles" of the Free Trade will result no man can predict, but viewpoint is that to create such a zone will be tantamount to depriv- The Bishop of Victoria confirmed army and there is no mistake the idea of an impartial advisory

her' China of territorial 21 candidates at St. Andrew's Church about it, we are in full retreat Committee administering it in an Of from our-Mons. The enemy have atmosphere of pure science, and Kowloon, yesterday evening. sovereignty in the affected area, theas, five were military men, who marched through the neutral tor-solving ita innumerable problems, since it would be policed by were presented by the Rev. Mr. Scott ritory of the National Election, commercial and political, without and are advancing on our capital. reference to Parliament, la moon- foreign forces. From the foreign. standpoint, tod, 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. Iroland of the Hong- July, and that the rest will bo only

On these lines the British Tarifl misgivings, as liable, in certain kong Telephone Company, somebody a matter of fixing the penalties and

most com- eventualities, to lead to undesir- broke open the telephone booth at indemnities.

the upper Peak Tram Station some- I doubt it. On the contrary, I promises to be the able complications. Everything, time on Friday night, and stole a bellove we shall have our Marne, plicated, the most uncertain in its but, having learnt from experience, incidence, and the most vexatious hinges cash box containing $4.

I refrain from speculating on the of any in the world. Mr. Cham- I only hope berlain talks of its being "flexible The Practical examination of the duration of the war. tentions to withdraw her forces.Trinity College of Musk, Londen, will it will not be too long or too costly and elastic," but the duties will be fixed after prolonged negotiations at the end of Recont experience of Japanese be held this year SPARK

The "Discredited Dogmns." with scores of Governments and The exultation of the Tory Party Administrations, and can only be. in natural, and let us handsomely altered by acknowledge that they have shown Never did a country to itself in remarkable skill in gathering up such a knot-double, treble, quad- and concentrating on a single ob ruple, quintuple knot-as is now jeet all the emotions, discontents proposed for the trade of Great and perplexities of the hour-the Britain,

I don't bellove it, as the child reaction from Socialism, the con- fusion of political boundaries, the said when it first saw a giraffe. wreckage made in the world by em- This Tariff, with its protantlous bittered politics and economic facade, will either tumble down 28

it is built

or be a more dis- guise for the erude familiar thing. blundering, the inclination to try any new thing which promises à

foodtaxea and all that wo know change.

Protection to be. In either case, Yet I think they show great it is our duty to fight. It from the On the application of Mr. M. M. The only antisfactory aspect of 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 dogmina”

This country, with Its crowded the situation at the moment

$150 or one month's hard labour and Trade, and the "ancient

population and life-and-death need that the real fighting has now

threb months' hard labour in addition, ceased for some considerable which he recently passed on Lo Kwan, boleths" which we, the Old Contem-of cheap and abundant supplies, Lime. That is something to the US Army pensioner who was con- ptibles, are supposed to be "mum will not stand much of these ex- nover was periments. Any political clatter good, and if this position can be victed of a charge of cruelty to a four-ling." For there

moment when these epithets and which causes us to forget the mil year-old boy.

lions for whom Free Trado has maintained a little longer, hopes

phrases were more nonsensical.

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

The Vindication of Free Trade. for an adjustment on conciliatory)

But the P. and O. liner Carthage on

bring ita Nemesis. lines will be strengthened.

Saturday includod Mr. and Mrs. H.T. It is not too much to say that the

Dangers Ahead. in saying so much we do not shut rooks, Mr. and Mrs. N. Currie, M. fourteen years since the war have

Apart from the results on, our our eyes to the fact that the real E. W. Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. been one long demonstration of the problem lies ahead. The setting Goodman, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Harris, folly of Tariffs. Year by year, un-domestic interests, there are two

is

Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Koy, Mr. and Mre. in train of negotiations

of Reparations, very serious aspects of this bust- ane

D. McNeille, Mr. C. Mycock, and ir, der the

Debta and Tariffs-that evii neas which we have always to bear Buccoss and Mrs. N. L. Smith. Dr. B. C. Wong and family tender thing; the likelihood of

Trinity-the economie atructure of in mind.

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

of sympathy in their The Issues pressions

when confined to one country, mistress of two the world has been laid bare and Arst The master and recent bereavement and also for

moreover, passenger boats were charged before found to correspond in all its parts Tariffs are the most fruitful cause account that the Free of recrimination, and we are de- floral tributes and attendance at magnitude: they

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

liberately involving the Empire in the funeral.

not without their complications. Court this morning, with having ap- Trade theorists gave of it. Not only is it a matter of adjustproached their craft to within thirty

What is called "Em- Year by year impartial experts our Tariff.

mercantlle-colonial ideas of the century which lost us In the As one of the delegates to

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

warnings have last few weeks I myself have re- two craft went alongside it, not heed- walls, and their

ceived letters both from Canada Assembly put it last week,

Ing the signal. The accused were come true.

and South Africa saying that we Longue must give the world an fined $25 or three weeks' imprison-

The Test of Experience. are living in a fool's paradise, and example of armness and energy ment each.

Nowhere in the world are Tariffa warning me of the dangers lurking in upholding the principles of the Covenant, because, to

There were crowded houses at the producing the results claimed for in this subject. use the

yesterday, Queen's Theatre

Next, the international aspect. when them by their advocates in this words of another delegate, the Dert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, the country. Whether wo look east or we cannot go for with the idea of world will return to barbariem un star comedians of "Cuckoos, were weat, we look in vain for a country organising the British Empire as where they are curing unemploy-a unit against the world without less respect for the Covenant is seen in their latest riot, "Half Shotj at Sunrise." They take the parts of. established.

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

All over the map we find coun- new questions, cepecially about sea- war. Running wild, with a special penchant for love-making, this in tries in which they are the sport of power, which may gravely pre- Signboards of the Times. imitable pair keep the fun going fast vested interests and political de-Judice the 'cause of peace and dis-

and furious. Their gags and antics

interesta, of these

I can only glance at these ques- Two complementary advertising are all that we might expect from magogues outbidding each other in armament. movements are in full swing in such a couple of mirth-makers. If Tariffs are beyond question the tions to-day, but perhaps I have

you like sheer buffoonery, don't miss England just now. One says, "Ad-finlf Shot at Sunrise."

most dangerous source of political said enough to explain why, as an Old Contemptible, I am for no sur- corruption in the world today.

render.wo fight on, we shall Although the League of Nationsvertise more." The other anya,

Our Special Tariff. "Stop advertising badly."

have our battle of the Marne. Assembly has adjourned nine dic, are in the hands of organisations getting out of it. That way has What is there In Mr. Chamber- a special committee of nineteck 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 a 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. Thin body is not

primarily victions? It is a monstrous struc- ELECTRIC BRIDGE. and neither in any way interferes result that they are quired to submit its report until with the worklog of the other. In works of art. If other companies ture of duties in an ascending scale, May 1st, but it in to be assumed one direction there has been the follow the example the westhetic duties for revenue, duties for pro- that should the situation

necce influence of the Prince of Wales, problem of the advertisement will tection, duties sitate the step, the Assembly will calling upon Englishmen to push be solved-except for those who favourable duties for the friendly tournament which was played at again be called into session before their goods by advertisement feel that no advertisement, how that date. The Assembly in abroad: there has been the "Come ever attractive in form or colour evidently hoping that its efforts to Britain" movement plunging in should invade public places. to set in train negotiations be-1

a practical manner into the tween Chinn and Japan, with the business of publicity; and there assistance of the neutral Powers, has been the authorisation to towns will lend to a solution of the m-by Parliament some years ago to passe by persuasive methodo The chief point la the withdrawal

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

to his friends and relatives for

are

of

Arc,

the

stress

Mr. Hlo Shai-kit tenders sincere thanking the quarrel as between Chinai yards of the a.. Lyeemun, which was assembled at Basle, and Geneva, a Free Trado" is a return to the and Japan: the whole stability of flying the S flag over her code pen-have warned the nations of the rant. Sergeant Hill informed the of the League of Nations in involved. court that there were two suspected danger of persisting in the selle American Colonies.

the many kind expressions sympathy in his recent bereave

also for oral tributes and attendance at the funeral.

ment, sunt

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1932.

THE LEAGUE AND THE CRISIS.

re-

the

Both

make known the charms of their neighbourhoods by advertisement.

of the Japanese forces, and it And of the movement toward bet- remains to be seen whether there in any likelihood of this being effected in circumstances which are acceptable to China,

ter advertising, the "Scapa Society," s an example. It has for its object the controlling and even the prohibition of unsightly The Chinese stand, that there advertising algas in public 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 vertisements, in towns as well as of Chineso territory. The alleged in rural areas. Turning for a dangor to Japanese nationals is moment to America, on the Balti- regarded more as an excuse for

more Turnpike approaching Wash- interforenco with China's terington there are said to be 1090 ritorial integrity than as a cir-advertising signs in twenty-seven eumstance necessitating inter.

and seven-tenths miles, an aver vention; besides which it la con-

age of thirty-nine to the mile. It: tended that the scope and severity is not easy to pass a disinterested of the Japaness operations have artistic judgment on each of these been altogether beyond the neces- greetings to the traveller, alace a sitles of the case. In this con-

car at average speed passes a sign nexion, Mr. Yen, during the As-

every two Boconda. The total the Settlement. Mr. Bato'a reply effect is cinematographie. On the sembly meeting in Geneva, point- Hounslow-to-Bath road In England ed out that Japanese troops and there is more laizure for reflec tanks had been landed at a 'pointtion, for in ninety miles the forty miles distant from Shanghai, motorist la confronted with only a circumstance which could not 164 signs. But the most reliable be defended on the ground of opinion is unfavourable to both to this paint was that the troops | exhibits: - Unfortunately, not were marely reinforcements, everybody is agreed as to what ad- which would in due course bo vertisements are unsightly, and protecting. Japanese nationals in what are not. This is a genuine withdrawn.. It In suggested on dimculty, but there 'le - W^AWAY GE

the servico

for Preference, The international contract bridge

foreigner, puntahing duties for the Grosvenor House, Park-lane, W., unfriendly. Almost every part of represents a great advance on pre it conflicts with overy other part, vious parties of a similar nature,

and the whole of it is drenched in

For the first time, strong allent bias have been. introduced-the players calling their hands by means of a "bidding board."

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

Of course, the "bidding board" only eliminates, the actual vertial calling. It makes no claim to abolish such traditional, gestures as sniffing, winking, leering, grow ling, scowling, or howling, which mako bridge so easily the popular social pastime.

most

The device, which consists of A board divided into sections marked in auits and numbers on which the bid is registerod by two chips, has been used in this tournament to overcome Haguistic ambarrass. ment between the British, Dutch, and, Gorman teams.

Screened Asterisks,

But a report states that experi- ments are being conducted in Hol- land with an electric bidder, de- signed 'not so much as a form of cardroom Esperanto as an emotion- al sedative. The Dutcir, in short, feel that by mechanising the game they may divert passion into,kito-

That is an excellant idea an ides which can be pushed attes ther. The mechanisation he not stop at the bidding,

scoting.

It must be › possi

on the

bould

Captain what was that addre