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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932.

mission during its Manchuria tour, but whether the League would consent to this, in view of Lord Lytton's assertion that the 'Com- mission will not enter Manchuria without Dr. Koo, is very much open to question.

the

DAY BY DAY

THIS ALL-IN WRESTLING

By ROBERT MAGILL

A

its ban. But that seems scarcely likaly in view of. Japan's continued disclaimer of any direct concern In the matter. In any event, there

was George who suggested pened I shall never know, because ls the further point to be noted

our going to some all-in George had to go in and bathe his HISTORY that China still claims sovereignty

18 A PICTURE GALLERY,

wrestling, which is apparont-face, and dissuade Mrs. George over the Manchukuo territory, and, CONTAINING FEW ORIGINALS AND A as a Shanghai commentator has GREAT MANY COPIES.-De Tocque-ly called that because all the from. the idea that we had been people concerned get into the ring fighting over whose turn it was to pointed out, there can therefore be vilio.

nt once. Besides the time-kooper pay,

As Others Seo Us. no question of the League inclting

The P. and O. Ka, Rowalpindi, from and the referee, there were two

Meeting a gentleman the other Japan to acts of coercion in that Shanghai, is duo here at 6 am, on officials each armed with a micro-

scope whose job it was to decide day whose face was vaguely fami- territory. One suggestion which Friday,

whether a man's shoulders were liar to mo, I raised my hat, be- this commentator has advanced is

Aubrey F. Aubrey Thorp, a seaman touching the mat, or the mat mere-cause he was accompanied by that the League Assembly should

lady. He informed her, in delete from its resolution providing of the U.S. submarine S.80, in report-ly touching his shoulders.

I did not find it very inspiring whisper which I heard, that I was It commenced with two very large one of his regulars, a grilled steak for the creation and visit of theed as missing from his ship." Commission the paragraph giving Passengers arriving to-day from men ichning heavily on each other, Bordelaise. I reallecd then that who usually China and Japan the right to Manila by the Empress of Russia in the idea seemingly being to get as he was the waiter

TTIC when 1 sup out. 1 nominato assessors

to assist the cluded Mr. and Mrs. R. Rodgers, and close to your opponent as you serves

Mrs. H. II. Pethick.

could, meanwhile keeping him as hadn't recognised him in his rai- Commission. This would mean

far away from yourself RB posentcher clothes. that neither Dr. Koo, nor Mr.

Mrs. J. Fernandes, of 59, Nathan,sible.

The point is that to him I am Yoshida would accompany the Com-Road, has reported to the police the Presently they slipped heavily not a rate-payer; a father of a

theft of n handbag, containing $270, which she inadvertently left in a shop to the ground and one tried to hide family, a man with a nice baritone underneath himself and cover him- voice, or a cat faneler. He sees in Nathan Road, yesterday.

self over with himself, while the me from his own standpoint, as a A Chinese living at 10, Po On Lano other ineffectually pawed him al consumer of steaks. And it or

curs to me that while I privately After pondering the matter regard myself as a reincarnation went into hospital early this morning over. for treatment for a number of cute and abrasions. II's assailant is deeply, the top one caught hold of of all Three Musketeers, to most toe, and people I am something else. To alleged to be a woman who has been his opponent's big detained by the police.

thoughtfully tried to unscrew it my cat I know that I um merely The Japanese attitude on

Undoubtedly something would; a lap in two pieces. She dividen matter is not too clear at the

The management of the Repulso have happened, but the under the world into two sexes women, moment. A Foreign Offee spokes Bay Hotel takes pleasure in annenth one poked his foot in the whose laps are comfortable to sit one's eye, causing him to in, and men, from whose lega ents some days ago expressed nouncing that as from to-day, April

20, the price of the dinners on top the Manchukuo

Wednesdays and Saturdays has been suecze violently, and they both slip off. My doctor never nits on MORE in beauty, performance. sympathy with

stood up,

my lap. I am docketed tone and value. Impor-stand, but admitted that Dr. Koo reduced from $0 to $6 per cover. Finding this too tiring, they mind as an occasionni tonic, and tant production economies-plus is an integral part of the Com. new Sparton Inventions that st! mission. He added that if the

Dr. S. T. Hsiu will give a lecture soon went to ground again, and i he would sell me to the Hongkong University Medical the fatter one endeavoured to tio practitioner for half further enrich Radio's Richest Manchukuo authorities forcibly at- Society to-morrow at 8.20 p.m. In the one of his adversary's legs round (down. But if you asked my gar Voice-increase Sparton value- leadership and make these instru-tempt to prevent Dr. Koo's entry, Union Assembly Room, when he will his neck, but was unsuccessful be-ago proprietor if he knew Robert Lake his subject "A Discussion on cause the artful wretch kept butt-Magill, ho would say, "Yes, ho's ments the most attractive we it was possible that Japan might Acuto Empyema Thoracis and its ing him in the face with his head. a monthly grease all round, with have ever offered.

At length they got so intera decarboniso twice a year." See the wide Intervene and extend its protection Trentment.

So, to the sweep, I am a draw- the Chinese assessor. Since range of models, including the to

Mr. Kenneth C. Krenz, Vice-Consul mingled that one man bit his own Sparton Automobile Radio.

this statement was made, however in Hongkong for the United States, i calf in mistake for the other man's Ing-room chimney with we have had the warning by Mr. departed on Saturday by the Pre-and the referee patted the heap of brick in it: to the milkman, a in flesh to indiente the winner, aldaily quart; to the tobacconist, a Yoshida that if Dr. Koo enters sident Hayes. Mr. Krenz, Manchuria, he may be exposed to leaving on five months' Ilome leave, though to which man the patted daily packet of gaspers; to the gardener, a lawn and a row of to Washington via portion belonged I have no idea. in proceeding personal danger; while the aug-Manila and Europe.

Anyhow, George liked it, be-half-starved brussels sprouts. Cause he said that all the locks My laundry do not appreciate gestion thrown out by the Man- chukuo Foreign Ministry

Lung Wab, whose whereabouts are once illegal, were developments of They know mo simply as a dress the Japanese system of Jiu-jitsu,shirt that has existed, ever since Japan should prevent the Chinese alleged to have been carried out by and throws they used, which were the fact that I am fond of t Assessor travelling in the railway now being investigated by the police and he would show me how it was the first Armistice Day and looks

Ilke lasting until the zone raises fresh doubts as to how Fook Sheung was admitted to the donc.'

doom. far the Japanese are behind the With various cuts to his body and whole business. The Manchukuo arms. Government's attitude, by whom was soever it la inspired, is certainly police. an affront to the League. How the impasse is to be overcame is by no means clear at the moment.

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The following cable at the close of flims in becoming acute in of the sugar market yesterday has Britain. The unsatisfactory state of been received by Messrs. Pen- the situation is seen chiefly in the treath and Co. type of film which it is possible

London Terminals. to exhibit to audiences containing August 1932 4/7 down d.

December 1932 4/11 down d. children as well as adults. Very

March 1933 6/14. down 1%d. rarely does the British Board of

May 1933 5/4 down d. Film Censors completely ban' a' Buyers at above prices, sellers film. Its usual practice in deal-asking d-d. more. ing with a doubtful subject in to

Hongkong Telegraph give it an "A" certificate, signify

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932.

KOO

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crack of

To others I may be a fourth at bridge, the driver of the car in front, or one of the two-and-four- penny seats.

He instructed me to stand on one foot, place my left han on the top of his head, and my right arm round his waist. In this po- sition he explained that I was a

It is a solemh reflection that footpad in the net of attacking.

OWN him.

although you and I in our He said he would not hurt me catimation are the centre round much, although if he used all his which this universe revolves real- strength he might break my leg. ly we are each of us one of the After this he suddenly kicked him- petty annoyances that make the self in the calf, and fell on the lives of other people hardly worth

living. back of his head.

As I told him, I hadn't done any-) thing, and I have noticed before that when anybody shows you any

of these self-defence tricks you

ax

me

THE POTTERING SEASON

By L. C. MOORE. PASTER sees the opening of the

pottering season

for men.

it le then that several mil- lons of us ask our wives where

you. Now then, are you ready?" the weeds before they take holt. Well, he asked me to punch him as Mr. Bloogs, the jobbing gar- on the nose hard, and that part of dener, says. So we rescue the handfork from the rubbish heap the trick was completely success and spend a quiet ten minutes ful. What else ought to have hap

have to assume a posture that no sane person would use.

He then said he would show me the Bar-Nelson, and after arrang- ho he wanted me, ing me as wriggled about until he had one of my hands in his, and his other olher hand on my neck. This le a most effective lock, the only ing that it is suitable for exhibi-

trouble being that you have to get your opponent to help you fix it. Lion to adults, and children accom-

He seemed to be trying to do those old trousers have got to, and panied by adults. The character

something, by his breathing, but what the baby has done with the garden roller. We take our pol- of some of these "A" films, how-

he hadn't explained to ever, is such that several local

whether I was supposed to litering very seriously. The frat tura a bacit job when we get into the garden MANCHUKUO AND DR. authorities have decided to ignore sification would probably lead to down quietly or

the recommendation of the board, a great reduction in the number somersault, I couldn't help him, is to try to remember where we ate during the winter, and one by and to forbid their exhibition to of objectionable Alms. The eine so he gave it up and said he really left the various doings to hibern-

would show me something. children under any circumstances ma is essentially a family enter-

"I want you," he said, "to punch one to track them down.

Having collected a few tools. An acute controversy is coming whatever. Those who sec many tainment. The public demand for me on the nose, hard. The harder to a head by the definite decision films will undoubtedly approve, of movies to which the whole family you hit, the farther I shall throw our first real task is to get rid of of the Manchukuo Government not the action of these local authori- could not be taken would soon be to permit Dr. Wellington Koo to tles. There can be no doubt that so restricted no to make it profit enter its territory. The Foreign a large proportion of "A" filma less to supply it with more than Minister of the new State has are totally unsuitable for children. small number of films. even gone so far as to declare that In an inquiry conducted in Birken- the moment Dr. Koo steps on to head the number of children who Manchukuo sail, he will be arrest- said that they were unable to sleep ed. The matter would be no at nights after going to the pic- concern of the Powers were it not tures was disturbing, to any the for the fact that Dr. Koo is the least. It was found that, out of regularly-appointed Chinese asses- the children questioned, 303 want- Bur of the League of Nations Com- ed travel and adventure films and 68 mission and that Lord Lytton has 229 liked comedy best. Only declared that the Commission will voted for crime and gangster plc. not enter Manchuria unless Dr. tures, and only 17 for sex films, Koo accompanies it. There has these being the films usually listed been a suspicion in some quarters, in the "A" category. The general the over since the question of Dr. attitude of children toward Koo's admission was first ralsed, Inst kind of picture varied from But that Japan is at the back of the "boredom to repugnance." objection; and in view of the with"A" films pouring from the

of the manner of creation

new studios, it is plainly unsatisfac- State, this la scarcely to bo tory that the protection of child- wondered at. Japan, of course, ren from them should be left to Indignantly dentes any collusion in the initiative of the local nuthori- ties, very few of whom have taken the matter.

any action in the matter. Whet- her a film should be shown to chil-

Chins

Any

of

It looks now as if the League is likely to be faced with a very com- plicated problem. For Instance. it dren or not should be decided by is no use the League instructing the nature of a film, not by the to see that Dr. Koo is locality the children happen to live admitted, nor, in view of Japan's in. The demand that films should into two categories, denial of responsibility, can

be divided good purpose be served by making those suitable for adults only, and representations to Tokyo.

those auftablo fur all classes Thero remains, of course, the Manchukuo plcturegoers, is rapidly · gaining'

force throughout the country. Government, but here the vital This decision should then be made point is that the now State is not binding upon cinema houses in all a member of the League and, parts of the country, Instead of, moreover, has not yet been re- as at pronont, being morely a rs. cognised by any of the Powers commondation that can be obeyed The only point which suggests it or disregarded at the wish of the self is whether Japan would be local council. Besides preserving: willing to attempt to persuade the children from contact with much Manchukuo Government to revoke dolotorious matter, this now clas-

HASTLAW

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"Judging from your story I'd say you've never even been out Baat."

"You're right. sir. You see, that gives me a much better'. perspective.""

wondering where the blazca to start.

Then we get down to sprions work. We literally. get down to it, and it isn't until we got close to the bosom of Mother Earth that we realise there are at least ten times

weede as we as many thought there were. t's an awful job, to, trying to tell them from the tender green shoots of plants. Our accumulation of up-rooted woods grows, and we suddenly get a brain wave. If the wheel-bar- row was handy we could throw the weeds atraight into it, and so save handling them twice. Trying not to groan, we straighten our back and go up to the end of the gard- den for the barrow, only to find that it is loaded with young boulders. Of course, we got those last year, intending to build n rockery in the corner.

Well, per- haps it would be safer to leave the weeds and got on with the rockery. Somewhere indoora we have a book which tells us how to build a rockery properly. With a bit of tact we might persuade the wife to find it for us, but as we ap- proach the french windows we are horrified to notlee that the nergola is giving at the knees. Here is something which postive. ly cries for attention. The per- gola la definitely unsafe, a menace to our family, so away we go to the garage to find nails and a ham-

mor.

un-

Alas! Mary took the hammer to break some coals, and fortunately left it in the collar, where the coal man failed to notice it when shooting, the last ton in. The pergola will have to wait, unless old Smith next door has a hammer to lend us. We are about to knock and ask when we (Continued on Page 8.)