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TALE OF A SHIRT.

M%

a. By A. B. AUSTIN..

Y NEIGHBOUR at dinner-the marker's booth to drop it down. let ue call him Henderson-a chute on to the washing floor was a man of vast interests. Ita temporature rose from ice cold dozon to florce, purging heat; it was He le on the board of a companies, whose, combined or swirled, lifted, dropped and lather- ganisations onmeah the globe, anded by turns. For ten minutos it In all of them his direct, personal shivered in soft, cold water; for Influence is felt. The humblest flftoon minutes it was whirled in machino-minder can recall convor-side the drum in a father of warm sations with "the boss," convorsa-water, soap and soda. Then came tions during which he usually a respite; for a time it lay quietly found that "the boss" was telling rinsing in hot, soft water.

Henderson's kind-heartedness him something he did not know

overcame him: "Hasn't it had about his machine.

they were in danger of being. He ONE THAT RUNS ALONG WITH YOU is on strong ground, too, when he MAY MORE EABILY TRIP UP THE argues that some of the experts who HEELS, THAN HE THAT WRESTLES were called in to advise were evenwirn You-Henry Cronwell, But Billier than the politicians. Mr. Lloyd George writes of the Versailles Treaty as if there were nothing in It except the clauses about reparations. Quito half the difficulty of getting war debts can- celled arises out of these other

We have received from Asia Lands, clauses. What kept the Americans Ltd., of Gloucester Building, a useful

We had been bantering him about enough by now?"

"We haven't half done with it from sighing? Certainly not the desk diary, with a strong wooden base,

At and a turnover leaf arrangement for about his omniscience since we sat provision about reparations.

down to dinner, but none of us yet," said the manager. "Denides, had been able to catch him out, It ought to be grateful for the least in part it was the feeling that each day of the month, the other parts of the Treaty were

The farewell dance of H.M.9, Med-although we had tried everything trouble. Look at all that water-- radically wrong, and no possible way and Submarines, postponed from from bricklaying to building a tons of it, specially softened every

Thursday, to take place this aven

There followed another hectic, foundation for a durable pence.

a little monotonous when the cof- from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Whatever may have been Mr.ing at Lane Crawford's restaurant, battleship. The game had become day till it's like rain."

foo-and my clumsiness-brought lathery swirl in the drum, and Lloyd George's past faults, he is on

cold The management of the Peninsula a diversion. After the walter had then a plungo into boiling water the right sido now; and no sensible

rinses, a dose of blue, and the person but wants to make as little Hotel takes pleasure in announcing finished mopping at my shirt front to complete the sterilisation. One one shirt came up clean, but with its as possible of the past. The world, that as from to-day, April 18, the with a napkin I turned once more more hot rinse, two mora

price of the dinners in the Rose Room to Henderson. will be reduced from $6 to $5,

armour-stiff, pique front wilted, as well as Great Britain, needa con-

Its frosty beauty thawed. celiation; and there are only two

"Dry the poor thing quickly," ources from which it can como-

If America or world-catastrophe.

As one

"Bet you a fiver there's thing you don't know,"

"Done."

The Second Extra Race Meeling of the Macao Jockey Club, which was scheduled for yesterday afternoon at Fanling, had to be postponed on ac-morrow? count of the inclement weather.

"What will happen to this shirt

its last gasp." when it goes to the laundry to-Henderson begged, "It must be at The manager laughed: "Quick's The fact-collecting gleam pasa-

ed into his eyes as he made his not the word-wait till you see the

confession of ignorane.hydro-extractor." Messra. Lane, Crawford's Restau-Arst rant, Exchange Building, as the "You win; I haven't the least idea: scene of much merriment on Saturday but let's go and find out. Don't evening when the Hongkong Football forget to bring your shirt,"

•

•

"This," said Henderson, "would make an excellent aetting for modernist ballet-Pas D'Acter, for instance."

awhirl;

Hongkong Telegraph, reparations clauses into the melting out an impecunioun inver

it is to be the former, the Ameri cans will have to be convinced; and we shall not convince them unless

The hydro-extractor' is the hap- ve understand their enae. writer observes, It is futile to howl

plest fellow in a modern laundry, He is happy because he was once at the folly ventilated in the Amert-

used for separating molasses from Club hold its annual dinner. Tho

augar-nasty, sticky for-and can Congress, for the more we

function was attended by a large num-

then they discovered that he howl, the more folly will be talked.ber of members and their friends.

would do equally well for drying Europe will have to be ready, not

The current picturo at the Queen's

clothes. He is a perforated con only with an agreed scheme for

Is entitled "Flying High," and those cancelling reparations, but also with

who saw the opening performancos He was not far wrong. We were tainer inside a metal tub, and he volutions to the minuto. The an effective determination both to yesterday were treated to very lively

place was tldor. The

fastor he swirls the higher he disarm and to throw other parts of comedy, in which the well-known standing on the laundry's ground can swirl at the rate of 1,500 re-

Charlotte Greenwood is cast, with Hert the Versailles Treaty besides the Lahr ns her foil. She is shown help rows of vast washing drums te sings, and the higher he sings the out does the water fly faster of a volved, humming a deep bans note; inven demand-

spaced through his perforations. hydro-extractors, nicely

"Now for the starch," said the ing-pot before the conditions will new type of helicopter, be ripe for American participationing his hand in marriage in return. like subalterns in front of their

The man-hunt leads up to the skies, platoons, span furiously, singing manager.

The starch awashed about to in a new constructive world settle with Bert Lahr making a frantic but a high, anaal song; fat, padded

up and down, the action of a paddle wheel in a ment, or for a stable recovery from futile effort to escape in hla pet ma-presses moved

chine. The comedy is well-sustained. the present world depression. and in between the exciting doings making an eternity of soft, clump-sealed box. The turn of a handle,

of Ing sounds; half-finished collars

a downward squeeze between two moved to and fro, to and fro under rubber rollers--a second to dip

irona: small, polished rolling

each cut and a second for its finished collora alid endlessly

chest and the shirt was starched. "It looks as if it'd had custard pics flung at it," said Henderson. A few more mad whirls in the

crumply-stiff and snowy. hydro-extractor, and the shirt was

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1932.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND REPARATIONS.

Considerable attention is being devoted to Mr. Lloyd George's book, "The Truth About Repara- tions and War Debts." In it, argues for complete cancellation, and thus for, at any rate, has Bri-

Groupings in Europe.

of the pair, glimpses are given beautiful chorous girls in action.

A rather unusual case was related

flattened

at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn down hot airing pipes; shecte ing when Detective Sub-Inspector passed sinuously, like

into charged, a man named Chan snakes, under six-rollered press- machines: little goffering com-Hing with theft of three pleces of ing

in

la analysing the failure of the recent Danubian Conference London, the temptation to роде diplomatic diagrams Europe is strong. It is useful have before us maps with

of clothing from the ground floor of No. irons pirouetted; leather belts 70, Nathan Road on Saturday morning, and canvas strips moved up and Inspector Elston said defendant went down and round and round; a train

to

one

"Don't you have to moisten it again for ironing?" I asked.

tish opinion on his side. No doubt. Bet of countries coloured red and ported that he was the victim of a down their chute; woollen gar- the manager answered. "It has

vantage.

conditional on real European dis-

| armament-which is the only basis on which the public opinion of

aitua-

of

Home-

labour,

Are

superficial

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band."

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the

Come

neck..

An instant's pressure by a con--

to the Water Police Station and re- of Falstaflian wicker hampers slid "We've got beyond that stage," robbery. Police enquiries ments hanging from a moving been dried to exactly the right Immediately afterwards showed! that the boot was on the other foot cord prased in and out of the air temperature and no more.

new iron for pique and see the he addresses his words chiefly to another set of countries coloured may

blue. By simplifying the

It appeared

that defendant had stolen ing-room; puffs of steam swolled

and broke in the topid atmo work." other countries, notably the United

three

pieces of clothing from a man States, where the British viewpoint tion, these diagrams help us to

the designs understand

living on the ground floor of No. 10, aphere; several hundred pairs of

The shirt lay on an iron table- does not carry as much weight as

But, although help Nathan Road.. On being accused by bare arms plunged and pulled and some could wish, mainly because diplomacy.

One of the washing drums stop layers of felt and a sheet of calico.. cancellation will be to Britain's adful, this diagrammatic treatment this man, he denied it but was not slapped and shook and smoothed. one of a regiment covered with believed. His jacket was taken from But the real case for of diplomacy may be misleading him, whereupon he made a report to ped revolving, opened its maw and Above it a polished, as-heated preas WAB slowly descending. Gently the prese muffled the shirt- cancellation is not that it will bene-if it is not clearly explained that the pailee. Defendant plended guilty said "woof!"--which encveloped it.

"Great Moloch!" I said, "I'm front, stayed still for a moment fit Great Britain, but that it will these groupings of nations are and was sentenced to 14 days hard in steam.

glad I'm not a shirt. Does it have and gently rose again. Once more benefit the world. It is on this tentative, incomplete, and

They times impossible.

it came down upon the cuffs. to go in there first?" basis that Mr. Lloyd George argues

The manager drew us towards a

"Just enough to stiffen it with- He urges, imaginary results of this or that throughout his brok.

we'll send it up to the sorting manager.. "Now for too, that America should make her nation's political desires. Diplo the test of the most

in

European floor." willingness to agree to cancellation mary of the old kind would be examination. Turkey is not like small service lift; "Not just yet; out flattening the pique," said the

it could tuu gloriously easy were it sufly to interest itself

quarrels from which

The lift, with its load of deject-cave fron upon a convex tablo derive no advantage. Greece, in cient for a minister to conceive a bloc, for the blod to America wil ever be brought to ac-f diagrams put France, Belgium endeavouring to forget old dis-led and miscellaneous garments, settled that business; a few passer form above the washing floor clicks and the studa were in; a cept it. As long as the States of Czechoslovakia, Poland; Rumanin putea, and even to form a Balkanic shot up. We followed, by way of from a hand iron made the softer power;The garments tumbled out of the turn of the hand and the shirt was Europe continue to arm one against and Jugoslavia among the Blues union, is determined not to be the the wooden stair, to a raised plat-parta smooth and snowy;

moving canvas platform, ment with Bulgaria, it will cer- sorter and placed, in their sev the appear to have no vid ground-which have obtained what they and if it comes to a friendly agree-lift down a slide, were grabbed by folded: Happily it passed along no matter how many Disarmament want and are banded together to tainly not be for the purpose of al categories, upon three moving shoulder to shoulder with Its In short, canvas belts, which carried them proudly gleaming brethren; hap- provoking Jugoslavia.

pily it slipped into its transparent Conferences they may hold for preserve their gains. The

the diagrammatic treatment of

We were both rather sorry for paper container. appealing to the United States to grams put Italy, Germany, Russia,

"You can thank your stars, said remit their debts. The man who Austria, Hungary, Albania, Bul-

The canvas belt carried it off from Henderson, apostrophieing the denoting realities.

shirt as we went out together, can afford a fleet of Rolls-Royces xaria, Turkey and Greece-not to European diplomacy is helpful as the shirt during the next hour.

"that your weren't born any car- cannot expect to find his creditors speak of Lithuania, which is hoa-

ller. You might have been stamp. ready to take nothing in the pound; tile to Poland-among the Reds

ed upon by someone's feet in a and big armies and navies are a

tub and then slapped against a good deal worse than Rolls-Royces,

slimy stone in a cold stream.” because they threaten others be sides their owners with the danger of bankruptcy.

be. The

another for a future war they would-that is to say, those countries

dia-

that is to say, those countries which hope to upset treaties, and obtain territory and political pri- vileges that have been denied to them. Such a clear-cut division problem the European

bul It- does

Opinions will differ an to Mr. makes Lloyd George's responsibility for comprehensible,

aa

the general problem. There is hardly a single nation, either among the Blues or the Reds, which is really and indis solubly linked to another nation. French affinities, Belgium has

the Pence Treaty: Ile fully admits, not indicate the score of problems in his latest book, that be was an within xious to make Germany pay much as she possibly could. But he says ho never shared in the ex- travagant expectations current for some time after 1918 about, what the Germans could actually pay.

composed the Little

but its Flemish population is try- It was largely through his influence ing to draw the country away. that no attempt was made to assess Poland with difficulty Germany's liability in the Ver-its differences with salles Treaty where it would cer- Entente, and they are still latent. tainly have been put ut a perfectly Czechoslovakia sentimentally be- ridiculous figure. It was largely longa to the Blues, but economical- through him that the Treaty was ly in drawn toward the Reds. no drafted as to admit, within its The Little Entente itself has in- terms, any amount of acaling-downdustrial and agricultural intereste and cancellation to which the Allies which make its rigid union dim- would subsequently be brought to cult and bring IIungary, a Red, agree. It was not his fault that into co-operation with Rumania, process of the Americans refused to sign the a Blue. The same

that these European Treaty, and thus removed from the showing Reparations Commission and from blocs are not so crystallized сан be Allied conferences the volce mest is often supposed likely to stand for moderation and plied to the Reds. In the ultimate Impartiality. This is Mr. Lloyd resort, what common measure is Georgo's case. Most of it la truc.thore between Rusala, on No more than M. Briand or M. side, and Germany and Italy on na between Clemenceau did he really believe all the other? Even about making Germany pay that Germany and Italy, the adum- was being handed out to the Allled brated alliance will hardly stand

H ap-

ono

plaything of any great

to the markers" booths.

"I wouldn't think of giving him a dato, but it gives me a chance to wear my now black taffeta."

three

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