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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 League hna failed. Stopped wars, adjusted quarrels, all the achievements of the League are regarded as the equivalent of the 12 m.p.h. of those early motors, and their inability to run at 60 m.p.h. sa had been foolioh- 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 perseverance in spite of obstructive difficulties. We musi realise, above all, the League of Nations is the only hope of humanity and that therefore it must not be easily abandoned at the be- heat of those who would batten on the world's wars and who have found in the foolish claims of the extremists their only weapon against the League,

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DAY BY DAY

NEITHER MAN NOR WOOD COMES TO THE USES OF LIFE TILL THE GREEN LEAVES ARE STRIPPED AND THE BAT GONE.-Lytton.

FIRST DOWN THE GANGWAY

By NORMAN COLLINS.

DEOPLE say that the actuall An Artist in Tips

travelling is half the holl- 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 Very Rov. rather more. A railway guard is and distinction give a porter a Dean Swann on "Palestino."

protected by Trade Union regula-franc for having carried two on- trunks the the tions. But

holiday-maker, jormous travelling Resealing of exemplification of till convalescent from the Chan-length of Gare St, Lazaro merely Letters of Administration of the estate of Jung Ling, restaurant pro-nol orossing, allows himself to be replying to his protests, "C'est priotor, of Chatham, England, has lured on for hours and hours and tant, mon homme."

There are occasions when, been granted to Mr. M. M. Watson, hours, till night falls and dawn solicitor of Hongkong. Mr. Jung breaks over strango landscapes, faced by one's countrymen Ling died on March 8 and left local all for the reward of a few weeks

abroad, one would almost rather cetate sworn under $11

$15,800.

happiness on a bench about as

have been born a foreigner. brilliant as Brighton's, only more Mr. G. A. Gedat, Associato General expensive.

On the other hand. I should Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Berlin, Fellow travellers are a queermagine that when travelling by Germany, who le now visiting in

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

Committee

English trains of Y.M.C.A.'s of China, at the was to all apearances a perfectly born English. National Committee's handquarters, normal being. But in reality he may be all the things that motor- 20 Museum Road. The function was was a nervous wreck, obscased by conch proprietors say of them. attended by representatives of the the fear of being left behind. trala may arrive so late that you About midway between Dover feel aure that the sub-stationmas- Gedat will visit Hongkong.

second various Y.M.C.A. in Shanghai. Mr.

and Calais he buttoned up hister must have sent the mackintosh to keep off the Chan-milk-porter down the line to look nel weather, and slunk away from for it, the bar to take a stand at an un- But an English train can at likely looking place beside the least be relied on to start. Not so the Spanish train. rail, with his luggage huddled be-

National

CORRESPONDENCE.

"Germany To-day."

a German.

and the localities on the tourist

A

side him. He was perpetually I have memories of sitting a [To the Editor, Hongkong furtive and on the alert, and seem-month ago in a local station in

Telegraph.]

ed to be expecting that the cap-the Pyrenees for half-an-hour be Sir,-After reading the article tain might try to play a practieal yond the appointed time, and be in your issue of the 20th instant, joke on him and land the passen-ing told most charmingly at the entitled "Germany To-day," by gors from the other side of the end of it that it was not con- Pence and Honours.

venient for the train to start," and ship. Miss E. M. Cannon, I feel con-! And as soon as the gangway that if I wanted to catch a con- Apart from what positivist strained to express to the lady my was down, so was he, like an ex-nexion 16 miles away I should thinkers may regard as practical respectful thanks he

travellers visit plorer leaping from the prow of certainly have to take a car, results, such international insti- Many foreign

the long-boat to plant his coun-

Those Vasty Engines tutions as the League of Nations Germany, especially the big cities try's flag on a new land.

I met him again in the restaur- There is, again, something perform excellent services to the highway, but very few of them ant car afterwards, and he boast-latrangely humiliating in having to time take the trouble to look behind ed to me that he had missed being sit in the rear portion of a train world in striking off from to time illuminating phrases. It 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 is even possible to see in these foreigners and to hide the real 20 crossings.

Then on the train between farm cart go through, occasional pronouncements which misery so that their merry-making

painful Boulogne and Paris a husband and And even in so ordinary a mat-. receive much publicity the real may not be spoiled by

impressions.

wife joined Us. The latter dozed ter as getting into a train-to do work of the League. Thus

Many travellers whose

pounds of almost before the train had which the foreigner has to climb Mr. Arthur Henderson re- and dollars find even a dinner at left the platform, and her husband up stops like a chicken going up 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 her the conception of national honour and the wines, compared with show her things. It is apparent-often have longed for the high

the number of platforms of the English. smuggled hock, of an absurd price. ly extraordinary made it necessary for nations to For them, the happy diners at interesting things you see if your Indeed, one has only to look at go to war; but that a truer con-Kurfurstendamm and the be- companion is asleep.

a Continental locomotive, with its ception of the requirements of jewelled ladies(7) in the revue Disturbing as this constant rows of domes along the top of national honour would keep theatres represent the German nudging, and "Look, dear, that the boiler, like pots on a farm- range, to realiso that nations at peace. There is per-people. If some of these foreign was So-and-So that wae," was to house haps nothing especially original visitors, especially the committees the rest of the carriage, it was French engineering taste has its Becking information, had, like nothing to what happened on the lapses. Yet I have actually scen ain the remark, but it does bring Miss Cannon, tried to lift the vell return journey between Biarritz a party of French Boy Scouts at see the real life of the and Paris when two really ardent Newhaven laughing uproariously into prominence the old foolish and

of national honour. If a starving and struggling working "corner-seaters" arrived too late at the sleek Southern Railway en- nation Were offended-not in-people, their reports would be of to occupy their appointed places. gine merely because it was small

For the rest of the journey from and squat! jured, not menaced, but merely some value and their understand- untimely death of Mr. Huskinson, offended-it would have considering would be more advanced, somewhere over towards the cor!

Certainly, lodgings and food seem rider side, they described to each who was run over at the opening ed it disgraceful, humiliating and 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

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932.

A WORD FOR THE LEAGUE

When

steam trains first made their appearance there Was general outcry against them. The average man pooh-poohed the pos- albility of their survival, and the

year ago

idea

ter.

Des

was hailed as a judgment. The to return a challenge. It had have been reduced and are most-naturally. And everyone else in in the corner sents, felt that if

By Edward Kelly, Rubber Neck. pioneers of motoring were similarly its artificial points of honourly absorbed by taxes which go the compartment, especially those

Heaven knows where, cannot obstructed to an even greater ex-which were more important than afford these cheap necessities, either of the sufferers should, die |

We were walking down been any really reliable jury would tent, for the owners of early cars its interests, its inclinations and Labour committees have

the formed, a measure proposed years bring in a verdict of manslaugh-Voeux Road with our wife. Every- thing at the moment was as peace- had to cope in addition with the its fate. At least such was

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 covot ment, but they preferred to pay tourists is the kind that believes ders.

The headache had just told us the average car-owner of thirty honour. I am the most offending

them leaving their that constitutionally the English to prevent political party. 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 ospied But how long are no match for the French in for the fifth time that she had no 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. his wife and family could always note of armed conflict. In duel-suspect in them a new secret necessary to be constantly on the "What's this?" we asked, hitch-

ing up our cars another inch. be relied upon to set up a boasting.ing

the same code, utterly Army, prohibited by the Versatiles look-out for sharks.

Treaty?

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

With the same clear eye, Miss the same carriage as a woman who and down the road. Ice House of teeming Cannon Rees and period could possibly achieve. The and because a man had looked

judges the disputed all the way from Poiteirs Street was 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 or had quarrelled on any matter more, is brave enough to admit its thing" with the attendant of the conductors, bus drivers, taipana actual achievements of those motor-affecting honour, a recourse to importance in future devolop-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 that all Miss Cannon's compresibly small fraction of a penny by the gibes and sneers evoked by course. One may smile at these patriots, inspired by her spirit, which she thought she had de-suggested.

obligations now; but they remain-will judge the real Germany from tected in her bill. Such women

failure to attain the speed and ef- ficiency so inanely promised. The wonder of a motor-trip of twelve miles in an hour was regarded

times. What

a maxs

The Journalfat's wife looked in- should be stopped by the Customs terested. C.A. -on the English side.

We pushed our way into the multitude.

ed obligations of honourable men hor point of view.Yours, etc., in many countries until recent tion of honour it was that com- a strange concep-

merely as failure to cover the pelled nations to resent certain

vaunted sixty miles in the same period.

things so seriously ns to fight for

a word, that called for precisely The League of Nations is suffer-ponned 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 caused the average person complete any less a patriot, one can ly to lose sight of reality. When much that was purely fictitious in these forms of honour. But even the Great War enabled nations to

If one assumes that, under the realise at last that their only hope laws of honour. a nation WAB of recovering from the penalties of formerly justified in going to war, inane isolation lay in sane co-opera- it is surely clear to-day that there tion, the League 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 which forbids and outlaws. war. need was the elimination of war. To break that pact would be dis- and, as a natural corollary, that dis-

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- nchievements of the League to date, 'gagements. Certainly it is good, however, have been clipsed in the to furnish the feeling of national eyes of the average citizen, in honour and to take prido, in it, provided its objects are the right. precisely the same way, as wero

objects; and hore is an object early motoring triumpha, by dle that is not only honourable, but appointment because the frothy ta of prime necessity for, the claims of unbalanced: enthusiasts | world. Just aà mon -who- wore have not at once materialised. As punctillous on the point of honour soon as the League was formed, tha were ready to throw themselves extremists waved their banners and into war, so should men of to-day Foro bonready to make snortices f claimed that war Bidarríaments

Two Indian policemen stood on guard over a private richsha.

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

trouble was

•

was

the

He regarded us sourly, We Iwilted.

How were we to know that the Shiks had pulled up his richshu forty minutes earlier, to demand his permit. Was it our fault that ho had left the permit over Kow- loon-side, or. that the Sihks proved adamant? "No, permit, no can," was all they snid.

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

can

Wa rejoined our wife. "Mrs. Peakite's hubby afford to buy her new dresses," she began.

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission shows the height of water in English feet on the dates named in the West, North- and East Riverst

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Elabest en Lowest Best

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