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AT

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as though the League had in a few months adjusted the evils of many centuries of growth. The result is palpable. Every time a nation shows signs of pugnacity, every time a battleship is launched, the cry is raised that the Lengua has adjusted failed. Stopped ware, quarrels, all the achievements of the Leaguo are regarded as the

DAY BY DAY

NEITHER MAN NOR WOOD COMES TO THE USES OF LIFE TILL TIJE GREEN LEAVES ARE STRIPTED, AND THE SAP GONE.-Lytton.

FIRST DOWN THE GANGWAY

By NORMAN COLLINS EOPLE say that the actual |

An Artist in Tips

PE ⚫ travelling is half the holi- On another occasion I saw an

There will be a lantern lecture in St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon,day. At the time, it often seems Englishwoman of great dignity to-night at 9 pm. by the,

equivalent of the 12 m.p.h. of thos0 Dean Swann on "Palestine Rev. Irather more, A rallway guard island distinction give a porter a

early motors, and their inability to run at 60 m.p.h. as had been foolish- ly promised on their behalf,

Let the detractors of the League remember, however, that railways survived to become a boon and a necessity, and that motors can now run at over 200 miles per hour. Let them realise, too, that the development of railways and motors is due to perseveranco in spite of obstructive difficulties. We must realise, above all, the League of is the only hope of Nations humanity and that therefore it must not be easily abandoned at the be- hest of those who would batten on the world's wars and who have

THE HONGKONG HOTEL found in the foolish claims of the extremists their only weapon against the League.

GARAGE

The Hongkong & thonghel Hotel, Lud Incorporated in Hongkong. Stubbe Hond

Happy Valley

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mrs. A. G. Coppin and family wish to thank all friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement and for all floral tributes,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932.

A WORD FOR THE LEAGUE

made

Peace and Honours. Apart from what positivist thinkers may regard as practical results, such international insti- tutions as the League of Nations perform excellent services to the world in striking off from time to time illuminating phrases. It is even possible to see in these occasional pronouncements which receive much publicity the real work of the League. Mr. Arthur Henderson

Thus

trunka the

protected by Trade Union regula-frame for having carried two on- tions. But the holiday-maker, ormous travelling Rescaling of Lotters of Admtmplification

of the still convalescent from the Chau-longth of Gare St, Lazaro merely catato of Jung Ling, restaurant prosnel crossing, allows himself to be replying to his protests, "C'est

England, has lured on for hours and hours and tant, mon homme.' priotor, of Chatham, been granted to Mr. M. M. Watson, hours, till night falls and dawn strange landscapes, solicitor of Hongkong. Mr. Jung breaks over Ling died on March 8 and loft local all for the reward of a few weeks' estate sworn under $16,800.

happiness on a bench about ass brillant as Brighton's, only more

CORRESPONDENCE.

"Germany To-day."

Not so the Spanish train.

can at

I have memories of sitting a

There aro occasions when, faced by one's countrymen abroad, one would almost rather havo been born a foreigner. Mr. G. A. Gedat, Associato General expensive.

On the other hand, I should Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Berlin,

Follow travellers are a queer imaging that when travelling by often Germany, who is now visiting in

weeks ago. He have wished that he had been Shanghai, was entertained at a tea lot. I met one of the queerest on train the foreigner must reception by the National Committee the boat a few

English trains at the was to all apearances a perfectly born English. of Y.M.C.A's of China, National Committee's headquarters, normal being. But in reality he may be all the things that motor- 20 Museum Road. The function was was a nervous wreck, obsessed by coach proprietors say of them. A train may arrive so late that you attended by representatives of the the fear of being left behind, various Y.M.C.A.s in Shanghal. Mr.

About midway between Dover feel sure that the sub-stationmas- Gedas will visit Hongkong.

and Calats he buttoned up hila ter must havo sont the second mackintosh to keep off the Chan-milk-porter down the line to look nel weather, and slunk away from for it.

But an English train the bar to take a stand at an un- likely looking place beside the least be relied on to start. rall, with his luggage huddled he- side him. He was perpetually [To the Editor, Hongkong

furtive and on the alert, and seem-month ago in a local station in Telegraph.1

fed to be expecting that the cap-tha Pyrenees for half-an-hour be Sir,-After reading the article tain might try to play a practicallyond the appointed time, and be- in your issue of the 20th instant, joke on him and land the pausen-ing told most charmingly at the venient for the train to start," and entitled "Germany To-day," by gers from the other side of the end of it that "it was not con- Misa E. M. Cannon, I feel con- ship.

And as soon as the gangway that if I wanted to catch a gon- I should strained to express to the lady my

a German.as down, so was he, like an ex-nexion 15 miles away respectful thanks us

travellers visit plorer leaping from the prow of certainly have to take a car.

Those Vasty Engines Many foreign

There is, again, something Germany, especially the big cities the long-bont to plant his coun- I met him again in the reslaur- and the localities on the tourist try's flag on a new land. highway, but very few of them

ant car afterwards, and he hoast-strangely humiliating in having to take the trouble to look behind led to me that he had missed being sit in the rear portion of a train the decorations made up to attract the first off the boat only once in that has been divided in the mid- dle at a level crossing to let a 20 erossings. foreigners and to hido the real

Then on the train batween farm cart go through." painful Boulogne, and Paris a husband and And even in so ordinary a mat- misery so that their merry-making may not be spoiled by impressions.

wife joined us. The latter dazed ter as getting into a train-to do Many travellers whose paunas off almost before the train had which the foreigner has to climb re-and dollars find even a dinner at left the platform, and her husband up steps like a chicken going up her to to roost-the fat and infirm must cently recalled that in the past Pelzer's and the Kaiserhof cheap, had to keep on waking

with how her things. It is apparent-often have longed for the high the conception of national honour and the wines, compared made it necessary for rations to smuggled hock, of an absurd price. ly extraordinary the number of platforms of the English.

Indeed, one has only to look at For them, the happy diners at interesting things you see if your

be- companion is asleep.

a Continental locomotive, with its' go to war; but that a truer con Kurfurstendamm and the

Disturbing A this constant rows of domes along the top of ception of the requirements of jewelled Indies(7) in the revue

dear, that the boiler, like pots on a farm- that honour

to realise national

would keep theatres represent the German nudging, and "Look, nations at peace. There is per- people. If some of these foreign was So-and-So that was," was to house range,

had. seeking information, like nothing to what happened on the lapses. Yet I have actually seen haps nothing especially original visitors, especially the committees the rest of the carriage, it was French engineering taste has its there their appearance

ain the remark, but it does hring Miss Cannon, tried to lift the vell return journey between Biarritz a party of French Boy Scouts at fe of the and Paris when two really ardent Newhaven laughing, uproariously general outery against them. The into prominence the old foolish and see the real

Idea of national honour. If a starving and struggling working "corner-seaters" arrived too late at the sleek Southern Railway en- average man pooh-poohed the pos-

nation were offended-not in-people, their reports would be of to occupy their appointed places. Igine merely because it was small

For the rest of the journey from and squat! sibility of their survival, and the

jured,, not menaced, but merely some value and their understand-

ing would be more advanced. somewhere over towards the cor- untimely death of Mr. Huskinson, offended-it would have consider Certainly, lodgings and food seem ridor side, they described to ench who was run over at the opening ed it disgraceful, humillating had cheap, but those who are out of other the alarming symptoms they ceremony of the Mersey Railway, deeply prejudicial not to issue or work and those whose salaries suffered when forced to travel un- THE RICKSHA EVIL

a challenge. It had have been reduced and are most-naturally. And everyone else in was hailed as a judgment. The to return

of honourly absorbed by taxes which go the compartment, especially those

By Edward Kelly, Rubber Neck. where, cannot in the corner seats, felt thut if pioneers of motoring were similarly its artificial points

We were walking down obstructed to an oven greater ex-which were more important than Heaven knows

committees Labour

have been any really reliable jury

thing at the moment was as peace-. tent, for the owners of early cars its interests, its inclinations and afford these cheap necessities. either of the sufferers should die

its fate. At least such was the formed, a measure proposed years bring in a verdict of manalaugh-Voeux Road with our wife, Every- had to cope in addition with the theory. Men sought honour in ago to the now defunct Govern-

Perhaps the queerest of all ful as a couple of Seitletz pow- curse of over-enthusiasm, Even if war. "And if it be a sin to covetment, but they preferred to pay tourists is the kind that believes ders.

The headache had just told us that constitutionally the English car-owner of thirty honour, I am the most offending to prevent them leaving

political party. But how long are no match for the French in for the fifth time that she had no year ago tempered his pride of soul alive!" cried Shakespear's will these volunteer labour com-low cunning, and that to preserve clothes to wear when we espied ownership by a sense of proportion, Henry V; and that was the key-mittees exist. Until the Powers one's self-respect abroad it is the crowd.

"What's this?" we asked, hitch- secret necessary to be constantly on the his wife and family could always note of armed conflict. In duel-suspect in them a new

ing up our ears another inch. the

code, utterly Army, prohibited by the Versailles look-out for sharks. Dame be relied upon to set up a boasting ing

Treats ?

A week or so ago I travelled in Policemen dashed frantically up standard which no car of that divorced from reality, provailed;

With the same clear eye, Miss the same carriage as a woman who and down the road. Ice House a maga of teeming and because u man had looked

and judges the disputed all the way from Poiteirs Street was period could possibly achieve. The

askance at or had jostled another, Hitler movement and, what is to Tours, "for the principle of the humanity, and gesticulating tram inevitable result was that the ar had quarrelled on any matter more, is brave enough to admit its thing," with the attendant of the conductors, bus drivers, taipans actual achievements of those motor-affecting honour, recourse to importance in future develop-wagon-restaurant about an imagi- and a journalist's wife cluttered ing pioneers were entirely eclipsed arms was considered the only ments. Germany can only hope nary error of 5 centimes an inex-up Des Voeux Road.

"Someone been murdered?" we Cannon's com-presibly small fraction of a penny by the gibes and ancers evoked by course. One may smile at these that all Miss

patriots, inspired by her spirit,which she thought she had de-suggested.

The journalist's wife looked in- failure to attain the speed and ef- obligations now; but they remain-will judge the real Germany from tected in her bill. Such women

should be stopped by the Customs (terested. ficiency so inanely promised. The ed obligations of honourable men her point of view.Yours, etc.,

We pushed our way into the on the English side.

multitudo. wonder of a motor-trip of twelve in many countries until recent a strange concep- miles in an hour was regarded times. What

tion of honour it was that com- merely

as failure to cover the

pelled nations to resent certain vaunted sixty miles in the same

things so seriously as to fight for period.

a word, that called for precisely The League of Nations is suffer penned apologies which the other ing from precisely the same evil to country in its turn refused in the day, and to

an extent that has name of honour! Without being find cnused the average person complete- any less a patriot, one can

When steam trains first

the average

was

a

war.

ly to lose sight of reality. When much that was purely fictitious In the Great War enabled nations to these forms of honour. But oven if one assumes that, under the realise at inst that, their only hope

laws of honour, IL nation was of recovering from the penalties of formerly justified in going to war, innne Isolation lay in sane co-opora- it is surely clear to-day that thoro tion, the Lengue was formed for the is a still higher law of national primary purpose of inventing and honour which demands the pre- developing that hope. The League servation of peace. The majority quickly realised that a paramount of the nations have signed a pact need was the elimination of war, which forbids and outlaws and, as a natural corollary, that dis- To break that pact would be dia- honourable. Honour should con- armament is an integral factor of

sist in keeping engagements, and that need. The progress and here is the most solemn of en- achievements of the League to date,gagements. Certainly it is good however, have been eclipsed in the to furnish the feelug of national eyes of the ayorage citizen, in honour and to take pride in it, precisely the sume way as were provided its objects are the right abject early motoring triumphs, by die objects; and here is an

that la not only honourable, but hppointment · because the frothy is of primo. necessity for the claims of unbalanced, enthusiasts world. Just as-mon who were have not at once materinllaed. As punctilious on the point of honour soon as the League was formed, the were ready to throw themselves extremista waved their banners and into war, so should men of to-day olaimed that war and armaments be ready to make sacrifices, if wore things of the past, and even sacrifices be called for, to main-

Вася Cannon

C.A.

their

ter.

would

Des

Two Indian policemen stood on guard over a private richsha..

"What's happened," we asked. "No sabee," they replied. We turned to a well known Ice' House Street broker who standing by, and asked him, in ac- the cents sweat and low, what trouble was.

ТУДА

Ho regarded us sourly. We [wilted.

How were we to know that the Shika had pulled up his richsha forty minutes earlier, to demand his permit. Was it our fault that he had left the permit over Kow- loon-side, or that the Sihke proved adamant? "No permit,

was all they said.

no can,"

Anyway, what's two hours in a young broker'a life.

We rejoined our wife.

"Mrs.

Penkite's hubby

can

afford to buy hor now dresses," sho began.

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table fasued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission shows the height of wator in English fest on the dates damed in the West, North and East Rivers:'

| Wii River St

Highest on Lownt. Sept.

record, on record. 20

* Shinhing ... 4-6157

North River at

10.2