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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1932.

SYNCHRO MESH

FAULTLESS GEAR CHANGE

In the Great War to enunciate on ambitious continental policy and had formulated it in the famous demands. Not only had the policy not boen officially communicated

afoot.

DAY BY DAY

Home ports via Straits and Manila, is The Ben Lino a., Benglos, from due here on the 20th instant.

THE PASSING OF THE HE-WOMAN

By DIANA STRICKLAND,

THE road to feminine emancipa stead of

the well-known woman explorer and adventurer, who has twice cross- ed Africa alone and on foot, and who is author of "Through the Boi- gian Congo.

feminine ones. She

death.

tion is littered with many reasoned things out instead of corpses, far from beautiful in Jumping to conclusions. She mis- trusted her intuition. She depend- At last the ugliest of all female (ed on her muscular system for her bogies lies slain, and henceforward (endurance instead of relying on her During the week-end, three cases the world's work without running one such woman cook a steak and women may try to do their share of nerves. Why I have even known diphtheria, one of typhoid and another of menigitis (imported) were the risk of being branded as "plain" chips for her lunch when alone, to reported to the local health authori-by all those who still obstinately instead of being contented with a Britain,tics.

maintain that woman's place is the cup of tea and a biscuit! home, and who have never troubled The infuriating thing about the descending the stairs of her home at

Seized by a falating fit as she was modern "adventuress" looks

to seo for themselves what an ultra-He-Woman was that she was the like. living justication of all the nasty 93, Bhanghai Street, on Sunday, Tse it isn't fair, by the way, that a things men have been saying about contractor, received fatal head in-should be applied to women of a maintained that women are incap- Sau-king, wife of Tang Win-sang, delightful word like "adventuresa" us for years, Men have always juries when she fell on to the foot somewhat unsavoury character. In able of serious achievement-as path. She died yesterday morning. my opinion, an adventuress is a judged by masculine standards. woman who looks for adventure, They have graciously conceded that 26A, Kennedy Road, was bitten

Mr. Tashio, a Japanese, living atmerco or travel, in aviation or in to what was otherwise a somewhat and whether she finds It in com-women add charm and distinction

to Great Britain. That country BE ABLE TO LAY BARE ALL

I HOPE THAT SCIENCE WILL NOT had been kept completely in the TRUTHS

THE OF THIS EXISTENCE, dark. The Chiness Government WHAT WOULD LIFE BE WITHOUT MY- FOX

at Peking-contained members who STERY 1-Lady Wilson. were in close touch with Japan, and was none too secure in its relation to its own country. It did not publish the facts that such de- mands were being presented or that negotiations were When, however, in respons pressure from Great which was at the time in a delicate position since, while it desired to maintain a fair attitude to Chino, decisive it at the same time. felt it urgent affortless steer-to retain the sympathy of smooth instantaneous Juan for the purposes of the war, more room Japan withdrow some of the de- super springing

mands, those relating to Manchuria lower body lines

were retained as performance

the subject of everything a light Six can give the Treaties of 1916.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1832.

JAPAN'S POLICY

of

A purse

in

maha-

women

one of

both legs by mongrel owned by aunty legal text books, she is a grim and sordid old world. They day, and had to go to hospital for are helping to create a world fit for their moments of relaxation she is neighbour, Mr. Yeung Yau, yenter-member of the gallant band who have agreed that as a companion for treatment. The dog was removed to heroines.)

unrivalled. They the Kennedy Town observation depot.

unhesitatingly I admit that in the past critics allow that only women could endure The Twenty-One Demands out-

had some cause for complaint. First the pain and monotony of bringing Hned measures by which in effect

of all we had the Bluestocking, and children into the world and train- A reminder is given of the treat one only has to breathe the word to ing them up to be satisfactory Japan would have secured the con-promised this afternoon, when the visualise trailing skirta, "sensible adults. But when it comes to work- trol of Chins. She sought special concert in Lane Crawford's Exchange hair scraped back to a bun.

band of H.M.S. Suffolk will give shoes; steelframed spectacles, and to

gatting things done to the rights in Fuklen, which, na being Restaurant, commencing at 5 p.m. ttlo Bluestocking, you must have only

Poor march of progress, why there was The last one proved a great success, just opposite to

one sex in it, and Formosa, and, and patrons will be glad to know that been a wonderful from the Amoy region, had given this kind have been made,

woman! You woren't even amongst the probable arrangements for further concerts of cheerfully endured acorn and startora, its language to

ridicule In a day when women were the Formosuna,

Then, surprisingly enough, wo was of first importance in devo-

supposed to be incapable of any men began to accomplish things toping a continental policy. Simi-things, some foreign

grouter mental effort than was which were good, even by masculine contained amung other needed for needlework and gossip, standards. "Of course," said Man larly she sought special rights approximate value of twenty-Ave dol-more popular if you hadn't been are women who, but for

notes to the but you might have been a little loftily, "these are exceptions. There lars, has been handed to the in Shantung, where she planned gor of the Sincere Co, Ltd., by one of quite so indifferent to feminine Nature's quaint mistakes, would to succeed to the powers of Gor lost purse late on Saturday evening.

their employees who discovered tho fripperies.

have been men. They are mas. many. And in relation to China It will be returned to the owner on endured in various incarnations for There always have been such wo- Next came the Spinster, and she culine in everything but actual sex. generally, in addition to mining sincero's, provided a correct declara: she has been trying to struggle back just a few. But wo were talking

application at the Manager's Office, quite a long tima. Quite recently men, and there always will be and railway concessions, ale da- tion of the contents be given. girad to secure exclusive powers in the administration of the police. the appointment of "udvisera," and by the grant of rights travel and residence tor Bud- dhist missionaries

effect what the Chinese

now Call "cultural penetraflon" of the coun- ry, a penetration which however would not be confined to culture and religion.

of

Japan's refusil to necept the As we have said, the majority Lytton Report, whilst it occasions for these domands were withdrawn no surprise, presents the League in view of the violent opposition of Nations with a situation of the which they raised in China, and utmost gravity. It is, indeed, alf-still more in view of the opposition fleult to see how any adjustment of fof, in the first place Great Britain, the issues is possible so loug na and then of other Powers. It is, this disposition to flout the League however, well to have in mind the continues to be manifested. If we general policy embodied in the look closely into the Lytton Re. demands, for it obviously throws port, we shall discover fact Hght on a certain strong body of which is of the utmost importance pinion in Japan, and indicates the in considering the Japanese at-lines of policy which, if unfottered titude, a fact of which it is dimeult by world opinion, it might puraue. for the Commissioners, or even for The fact that the demands relating the League, to take cognisance, to Manchuria were largely sustained This is that a large proportion of and made the basis on which, for the rights which Japan claims to example, Japanese subjects

A

C. N. STEAMER'S FATE

PENGTIEN TO BE BROKEN UP

years.

were

Let a

to favour once more in the form of of the average." the Bachelor Girl, but fundamental- So it became a fixed masculine ly she has always been the same. belief that only women who Her chief desire was to be mis- definitely repulsive could accom- taken for a man, so ahe cropped her pilah anything worth while. hair, wore a stiff collar, dressed in girl have the least claim to good tho severest tweeds, and would looks and a drove of men would gladly have donned trousers If only buzz round waiting till the inevit- pubile opinion hadn't been so dead ablo emergency arvec, upon which against it. As it was, there was no the poor woman would scream or known way of dotermining her sex falut or both, and Man the Magnifi- when she sat behind a table The well-known China Naviga-cept by waiting till she spoke-and time, the He-Woman get on with ex-cent would take charge. So, for a tion Co. str. Fongtien was handed even that wasn't always a reliable the job in comparative seculsion, over to a Chines buyer, Mr.guido!

while ganga of beefy males stood Echong, in Shanghai last week for purposes of breaking up, thua ment of all was the He-Woman, and

But the most terrifying develop by to succour beauty in distress.

And now the last stronghold of bringing to an end a career of 27 for some years there was a real the last citadel has fallen. For danger that she would become a re- Beauty has politely declined the Engineering Co., Greenock, in ability to vary their size,

cognised feminine type. Everyone proffered assistance, and has done Built by Scotts Shipbuilding and knows that all women have the the trick herself. She steps from 1905, the ship had a registered bulk, and contour at the dictates of round the world, retires to powder shape, her aeroplane after flying half tonnage of 1,073, a length of 267 Fashion, but these vagaries are her nose and slip on a Bond Street feet and breadth of 40 feet. Cogun, who was followed by Capt. between, let us say, a woman who abrick of diamay and plunged into

purely temporary and can be dis-frock, and could at once take Her first skipper was Capt. J. C.sumed. There is all the difference The He-Woman has given a husky carded as speedily as they are as-rightful place in a beauty chorus. John Meathrel and Capt. John toddles or strides according to the the jungle, never to return. Dewar, the latter subsequently length of her skirt, and a woman Woman of Action and the Woman signing on as master on no fewer who evolves into a definite type as of Charm are now one and the same figure on the China coast thus dis- the matron type or the fluffy type, history of the world Beauty has than nine occasions, A familiar standardised and, as recognisable as person, and for the first time in the appears.

And that was the menace of the ceased to be a handicap to a woman, He-Woman. torference in her

In time it might even become It was not that she dressed man- Baset! schemes, but,niskly, nor that her voice deepened threatens the whole structure of in a chair in that careless and in- what is much more serious,

or roughened. It was not even that it she walked like a man or sprawled BEVERLEY NICHOLS ON the peace machinery which the imitable masculine way that is the envy of every feminine heart.

actress. No; the danger was that

BRIDGE

The

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LEARNT bridge from an elderly

she thought on masculine lines in-an hour and has since departed lady who charged me a guinea from this life.

The hers in Manchuria, and on be- Jquired rights of residence through nations of the world have so pain- These things are, when all is said half of which she so Inslatently out South Manchuria, without fully evolved for the very purpose and done, inerely superfical tricks invokes the sanctity of treaties, limitation to treaty, porta, yet're-of adjusting disputes of an inter-that could be mastered by any good are founded on treaties made with talning in full their extra-terri-national character. China in 1915. Anyone with atorial rights, explains much of the passing knowledge of the recent attitude of Chinese authorities to history of China knows that the those particular rights, and the mereat mention of those trenties continued dificulty of coming to has, since the time that the first an agreement. The trentios made whlager of their being negotiated possible the entry of large num leaked out, been sufficient to stir bera of Korean settlers, whom the Chinese public opinion to the Japanese insisted on "protecting." depths. For they were the trea- however much they themselves ties wrung from China after the may have been willing to place presentation of the Twenty-One themselves under Chinese law, and Demands. Their negotiation led 80 gave rise to constant friction. to the initiation of student politi- Whilst the points stressed above ent activity-nn activity which may not have occurred to nution has of late years casual observer, they must had every reason to regret. but viously be in the forefront of the which at the time of ita initiation minds of both China and Japan, was hailed by all sections of opin and those who may be trying to ion as a salutary challenge to the Jundoratand the underlying facts, machinations of a weak, unrepre- of the situation must take them; sentative and probably corrupt into account. Unhappily, Japan has entered the Genova discussions

the

Government.

the

ob-

The Twenty-One. Demands in a mood which Implies that sho were presented to China by Japan (never had any intention of being in the early days of the European (diverted from her policies by any- war. Great secrecy wns main-thiny which the Lytton Commis tained as to their contents, and jaion--a disinterested body of man, for long after they had been made representative of five nations- the subject of vigorous denuncia- might say in regard to the future tion throughout China, Japan's of Manchuria. To put it mildly, colleague and ally, Great Britain, this is not the spirit in which had to confess that she had no any country should approach de- knowledge of them. What, how-liberations of such serious import over, had leaked out and been as those which opened yesterday: denounced turned out to be only in Geneva. Not only does it serve too true. Japan had taken advan-to heighten the impression that tage of Great Britain's absorption 'Japan is propared to brook no in-

"She's terribly hard to converse with. Never been

anywhere except that one trip to Honolulu."

I learnt it for the same object that I learn everything, a sinister and an ulterior object. I wanted to go on a gilt-edged trip with a most agreeable party of million- aires, and they assured mo that un- Jess could play bridge my life would be one long boro. And so I learnt bridge. At least, that was my sweet illusion.

R

The first thing that struck me about it was the curiously sugges-- tive nature of its technical terms. My instructress would smile. a withered smile at me and say some-- thing about "established minors." And, of course, I immediately thought of Jackie Coogan, for if anybody is an established minor, with a million pounds invested in giltedged securities by his wise, old-world parents, it is Jackie Coogan. But my instructress did not understand.

After that she began to talk about "loading up to weakness." Needless to say, my depraved mind immediately conjured up the vision of a form of amorous conquest. You know what I mean-the bold, moustached villain Ingratiating himself with the blushing damsel, using the attractions of, his mas culine features to dazzle the fut toring creature who had fallen under his spell. "Leading up to weakness!" if ever there was ȧ phrase which came straight out of the pages of Jane Austen, it is this. But still my instructress "was not amused."

After that, I Held my Imagina: tion in check. However, the game still.continued to be a game-and, as every good bridge player knows,

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