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Mr. 1, H. Geare was amongst the passangers who arrived by the Blue Funnel liner Aencas yesterday.

Germany. There is, as well, the ¡spread of large scale Industrialiam in the United States and Japan and the prospect of its emergence elsewhere. He sees nearly half

THE LIGHT ABANDONMENT OF of mankind in the monsoon lands

WHETHER INHERITED OR TIES, of Asis, apart from Japan, being VOLUNTARY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE shaken out of its traditional, CEASED TO BE PLEASANT, 18 THE schemes by contact with the West, UPROOTING OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

VIRTUE.George Eliot. Ile soca nationalist Ideas ger- minating in various ways along- side of schemes of ludustrial de velopment that borrow from the West to such an extent us to be a danger to Indigenuous society. Professor Fleure admits there has been a dimeult phase of the world's life reached. Traditional. ism, he says, is challenged every- where in economic, social and re- ligious life as never before. The ¡sobial group is inevitably part of, a great future whole, and yet la being forced to think more of its roots in its own soil. Each group has its problems, and needs the help of others,

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WHY CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST?

By SIR FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND

THE chance for anothor attain at last, beneath the foot of tempt on Everest has come man? Or is ho to be once more thrown back, and shall we have to at last. We have sought it for the last wait for still another Act before

the drama is completed? eight years, ever since the fallure

The chief actors in it have to of the third expedition-“wo” be-| ing the Everest Committee of the make the drama as they go along. Royal Geographical Society and But we spectatora the Alpine Club, formed in 1920 play our part. What in It to be? for sending expeditions to climb Are wo to look on with cold Mount Everest.

Indifference or with breathless in-

The P. and 0. liner Corfu, with) the English mails, le duo here from climbed. Singapore on Wednesday at 4 p.m.

also have to

We knew the mountain could be tarest? If the former we shall do much to take the heart out of The · expeditions had proved that. Whether Mallory the heartiest climber, as actors and Irving had succeeded or not find who have to perform before If tho The Ilon. Mr. E.D.C. Wolfe (In-in reaching the summit before an indifferent audience. spector General of Police) and Mrs they died, at any rate Norton and latter we may put into the aum Wolfe are due to return to the Colony Somervell had reached the level mit-climber at the crucial moment by the P. & O, Corfu on Thursday.

of 28,000 feet, and had seen that that little added something, which there was no physical obstacle in will just carry him up the last the remaining thousand feet to foot to the top. Is it worth while? make up our minds about. The prevent their reaching the sum-That is in fact what we have to climbers evidently think that it la, or they would not be risking thair lives and going through all theso hardships to do it.

In

The Hongkong University Union will hold its anniversary dance the Great Hall of the University on Saturday next, October 22, nt 9 p.m.

After a quarrel with her husband at 6, Eastern Street, West Peint, a Chinese woman attempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat and taking an everdose of opium. She was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

imit.

The Atmosphere.

Besides the cold and the fearful winds and the snow, the only real

But do we spectators also think difficulty is the thinness of the it worth while? Not all of us.. atmosphere at these high altitudes. Many think it a sheer waste of There is not enough oxygen in the life, energy and money. air. Men have to puff and pant There are alwaye those who to get in a sufficiency of oxygen

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Wong Yeo-ho, employed ON marvellous instrument is instant- schemes of welfare planning, and cook at the Rain Line Restaurant, to meet their bodily needs. Seven, prefer the safe flat to the risky ly adapted for either the long ad on. But the development of Queen's Rand West, was admitted to eight, nine breaths between each heights. There are always those wave or the world spanning short

the Government Civil Hospital yester-step they have to take at the 20,000 who are unable to appreciate the sacrifices and endurances required each without domination by any is day, suffering from scalde to his feet level. A wave reception as desired.

for the highest excellence on any caused through chest and arms, powerful 12 tube Superhetero- a very difficult idea to work out, accidentally falling when carrying last expedition, this might have temporaries were unable to appre- And, for all we knew till the line. Most of de Saussure's con- dyne with Automatic Volume and in our attempts we are all too, bucket containing boiling water, been a complete bar to the sun into the worthwhileness of his Control, Tone and Static Control, likely to try to crystallize out

efforts to reach the summit of Phono Pick-up Jack, Band

A Chinese who endeavoured during mit ever being reached. But that Selector Switch, and all the finest some condition of status quo, for the week-end to pawn an obviously expedition did demonstrate this Mont Blanc. Yet he, like all all-important fact, that men can pioneers of high excellence, show- SPARTON features.

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to the ed the way for thousands to fol- Height 44 inches. Width 26 one of its basic characteristica. Queen's Rond pawnshop, was detained, acclimatise themselves

and subsequent inquiries proved that highest levels. Inches, Depth 12 inches. The study of men and their en- the garment had been stolen from the The present expedition will Weight 70 pounds.

vironments that we geographers Chosen Company, in Des Voeux Roadstart with the great advantage of Turning the Scale.

Central. Foo Tak, the man arrested, that knowledge. They will know pursue is necessarily always rela- was found to have been once before that the thing can be done. Pre- tive to a particular time, and must in police hands, and at the Central vious expeditions could only hope was raised by him, and to the vast

Police Court to-day he was sentenced always be looked at in the broad by Mr. Wynne-Jones to six weeks. But they will not know who enjoyment of the multitude, as can do it. That will still remain can be masured in hard cash by the hotelkeepers and railway com- frame of the life of mankind as a, hard inbour.

In doubt.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1932,

MASS PRODUCTION

Franco-German Tension.

The Four-Power Conference re- commended by Great Britain as of- fering prospects of bringing Ger- many hack into the disarmament fuld will do no good unless there is à marked change of spirit. Ger- many is reluctant to enter upon it

at all and makes conditions. The Nationalist forces in France are stirring up feelings of bitterness.

His ar

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low after,

The whole standard of climbing

The health bulletin of Eastern ports Spent to the Last Gasp. for the week ended October 8. shows the following cases of infectious dia- Some men acclimatise better Acale, with the Everest climbers, cases and deaths therefrom:-Plague, than others, Odell acclimatised They are pioneers for 'that higher Alexandra 1 case, Beirut 1 case very slowly. He was almost set order of enjoyment which alone Cholera, Calcutta 11 cases deaths, aaide on that account. But oven-will satisfy the austerer, hardier, Manila 1 case, Prom-Penh 3 cases 3

deaths, Saigon 1 case 1 death, Amoy tally he was able to go twice to more enterprising race which is 6 cases 3 deaths, Canton 3 cases 127,000 feet. And the new expedi- now being brought forth.

Let, then, an increasing number death. Shanghai 3 casos; Small-pox, tion will have to remember this. Alexandrin 1 ense, Basrah 5 cases 1 Also they will be able to profit of their fellow-countrymen show

26 casca 3 enllant Bavarian

that they do appreciate the re- climbers death, Bombay, 9 cases 0 deaths, Cal. by the experience of thoso very the actors in this mighty drama mendous worthwhileness of the deaths, Negapatam I case, Tuticorin Kangchenjunga. G cases 3 deaths. Pondicherry 3 cases

But though it is certain that enterprise. Let us not elt lift- a deaths, Muntok I case, and Saigon man will some day reach the sum-lessly back in our ments while the mit, it is equally certain that only climbers glance back over their

drama' unfolds,

but, men of the finest physical fitness,

cutia 1 case, Madras

1 case 1 death.

on

$8 the

of the stendiest nerve, and of the shoulders, let them see us on the

in Journal des armest will can accomplish the tiple of expectation eagerly fol

the

And only then after ran-lowing their progress.

For that sight may just give the

Climbing Everest is the severest TAX ME·

At the moment, there is only one Pierre Bemus encouraging feature in the situa. Debots, "is that it is based upon fent. tion. M. Herriot is pincatory and an initial fiction-the fiction that ming riska from avalanches and he can rely upon the support of the Reich will execute its contrac- from slips on the shaly sides of extra grain of spirit to them which the powerful Socialist group eventual obligations." The question the final ridee, and after enduring will turn the scale on the side of

untold hardships from biting bliz success. .. while he has refused to accept of German good faith, however, zards, from driving snow, and them as his allies in the Chamber. has been raised to oppose every from arctic cold.

sinco French concession The Socialist.attitude is fully ex- plained by M. Leon Blum in his armistice, and few would now al- possible strain upon man, and he

Tege that any one of these conces will only reach the summilt spent TAX MY GOLDFISH

to the last gasp. and that siona was unwise

the The disequilibrium that has newspaper, Le Populaire.

French Interests arison between producers of food gument is that

anticipated bad faith materialis Spectators' Part. and raw materials and producers would be furthered by an accep- ed. Moreover, it must be remem

But what a thrilling drama in

(By Edward Kelly, Donist.) tance of the German demand for bered that the military clauses of real life is of manufactured goods and mer-

the whole struggle We've decided to come to the aid legal equality of armaments; that the Treaty of Versailles were im- with Everest. Act III. ended with of this Colony. chants, a portent in modern in France should suo the justice of

Irvine last seen The Government needs money dustrial conditions, is a matter to General von Schleicher's position posed by force, and Germany has Mallory and which little notice has been given, that unless the signatories of the hover considered them morally "going strong for the top." but for the Shing Mun scheme, and never heard of again. What will they seem to be under the Impres binding. Evasions, therefore,

Aet TV. disclose?

alon that there's no source of Professor H. J. Fleure, in his pre- Trenty of Versailles carry have not seemed to her immoral.

Will it bring a message from sidential address to the Section of their own armaments, Germany Evasions of a treaty freely enter-Mallory ilke the diaries found on

revenue left except an income tax, This is not strictly true.. We Geography of the British Associa- will be justified in disregarding ed into would be an entirely dif- Scott and Andrea? And will it could suggest lots and lots of ways we could be taxed. Thora's tlon, has drawn attention to this, the treaty and rearming; and that such a French policy is the more

goldfish, for instance. Licences for disequilibrium, and attributes it,

advisable because of the present

goldfish. in part at least, to various types

strength of German Nationalists of society the world over attempt and Hitlerites. This is precisely ing to graft on their ancient heri- the opposite of the French Na tage the new scheme of mass pro- tionalists' reasoning. They have duction. Professor Fleure secs maintained that General von

out

in the development of conditions, Schleicher's threat is a conclusive whether intentio, ally or not, how argument against any reduction the peoples of the world, touched of French forces, and should bar by the idea of mass production, any admission of legal equality. M. Blum's point in that this plays

are jostling one another as never directly into the hands of the Ger- bofore, and various types of 80 man Nationalista and that the best clely have become a standing dan way of weakening them is to make ger to others. The old-time plea a success of the Geneva Disarma- Conference, Then they of Adam Smith for specialization ment

Ger- between individuals and between would be pledged to hold

many's armaments at the lovels

parts of a nation has become a whieh the conference fixed and plea for the specialization of na-would no longer be able to chargo tions, and the laisacz faire doctrine "breach of contract" because which has followed it has been an France and her allies refuse to iden that all would be for the best disarm in accordance with the if economic rivalry were unbrid- pledge of the Treaty of Versailles. led and the best were allowed to The fulfilment by Germany of her win freely. In the light of condi-undertakings would be Insured by the international inspection for tions that have arisen this con-which the disarmament treaty ception has to be re-examined.

would provide. If, on the other In pursuit of his argument Pro-hand, the conference should fall, fessor Fleure traces the history of M. Dlam says, the secret arma- traditionallam in an economic monts-which part of the French Bonac. Ho shows the trends of pross alleges Germany to possess both rural and urban life in-would remain more sacrot and various nations. He sees a con-M. Blum's critics charge him with thus more vaguely threatening.

flict between different ideas of so- lack of logic, but they have a good clety under-lying the present dif- deal of difficulty. In showing the ficulties of the world, and nowhero axact nature of the lack. "What is it so acute as in Franco and ruins M. Blum's thesis," says M.

ferent matter.

finish gloriously with the moun-

"Thanks, Indy! I thought you looked like a pretty

good egg,"

Any found wandering about the streets without a collar and un- muzzled to be taken to the Gold- fish Home, and put into the lothal chamber at the pleasure of H. E. the O.A.G. Then there's another thing. At present we have to pay Entertainment Tax. Couldn't It be arranged that there should be a Tax on the Entertainment Tax?

Might as well do the thing properly. A tax of ten per cent on all Entertainment Tax paid, so that if you pay $20 a year Entertainment Tax, all you have to do is pay $2 Tax Tax

Then there's cats. A dog paya $5 for a licence to be a dog for one year. Nobody seems to have thought of Cat Licences. Two bucks for Indy ents, and $5 for tom-cata,

Each cat should be allotted a certain tilago or roofage, with additional fes charge for extra arca above the standard allotment na fixed by the Board.

Tom-cats to be grouped in zones, Any tom-cat found out of his zone to be fined $50, and fòr a second offence $100, and have his milk saucer broken. A third conviction will mean the cancellation of his liconco, and he will then no longer be a cat within the meaning of the act.

This will mean that an habitual offender doprived of his conco may be impounded for (a) Lofter- ing in a public place. (b) Vag- rancy. (c) Being a suspected por- son (d) Offensive behaviour" (a)' Disturbing the peace. (1) Belüg

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