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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 29, 1932.

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tain with America. Japanese- American relations were, from at least 1915 onwards to the time of the Washington Conference, in- creasingly bad, and America was making all efforts to manifest her warm friendship for China. Bri- tain's position as Japan's ally swas Impossibly embarrassing. Tho dual Allianco had to end, but, and the point la this, tho chlof factor In the whole development of events was the Twenty-One Demands.

How valid is the other ground for sympathy? Must Britain hald her peace now because it is said that she and others have

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varsity, extra pukka sahibs, and shutter which automatically puta in pukka on the brakes, while a groen one we sold pukka cars fashion solely to other pukkn releases them. The only trouble sahibs. In fact, if a man were a with this is that the car tends to mere millionaire or M.P., or any-shy and buckjump when passing n.

everything. thing but a pukka sahib, we often chemist's shop, but you can't have didn't sell him a car at all.

The engagement is announced be- tween Mr. T. W. Hemsley, of the Hongkong Police Force, and Miss P. Hartley of Wailington, Surrey.

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in fact spirit among the nations was worthless. It is to deny the value of the League and all that. It atands for. It is to go back on the Kellogg Pact. It is a breach of the Nine-Power Treaty, and, ад Auch, invalidates the claim that the Great War was fought to uphold the sanctity of treaties. Even at the cost of a charge of hypocrisy these things must not be abandoned. Still less can we admit the cynicism which is shown The by Japan's own attitude to Lengue and to her treaties. Japan came into the League on certain terms. The world cannot let her back out. And, however vexatious China's actions may have been in the past, or however weak her Government in the present, the Powers must stand by her rights,

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Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932.

BRITAIN AND JAPAN

In the minds of many in the Brl- tish Empire who are critical, of the actions of Japan in Manchuria, and atil more in Shanghai, there un- doubtedly runs in under-current of nympathy with that nation. Be- cause that sympathy inevitably

as they must aland by those of Japan, and find a solution

for

both countries within the terras of the Lengue and of tho treatles, They must, that is, stand for the Lytton Report.

swers,

New brains are not "done" so to speak. round the car are little dials which But we all had well-oiled hair, and tell you not only how much petrol we spoke in well-ofled accents. We and oil you have, but the date, Mr. G. P. do Martin, the Director offered Egyptian cigarettes-no high tide at Greenwich, and how of Education, has consented to dis- pukka sahib over smoked gaspers many more instalments you have tribute the prizes of the Peak School-from monogrammed cases, and to pay. If anybody attempts to on December 22. The function will be our conversation touched lightly steal the car it grabs him by the

aa compression, ankle and barks for help. held in the Peak Club, commencing on such things

Besides the ordinary fittings, transmission and Ignition, sub- jects the modern motorist doesn't such as the fire-escape, clothes need to understand. We didn't line and electric iron, telephone understand them ourselves, as aand tape machine, there matter of fact, and neither did our several designed to deal with that clients, but they liked us to flatter increasing pest, the motor bandit.

at 6.15 p.m.

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In the case in which a Chinese was on Saturday fined for cruelty to

i-tsui, the address was given an 26, Conaught Rond tres This was a correct; the address should have been

26, Canal Road West, second floor.

them into the bellef that they were exports.

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A row of rubber truncheons, humane knuckle-dusters and hygi-

your

But now that everybody from ente revolvers is close to Messrs. Lane, Crawford's have now. fitted up at the Exekungo Restaurant the local sweep to the clinrwoman hand. A harmless machine-gun is a gentlemen's private dressing roun owns a car, the salesman has atted in the cockpit, while a con- for the benefit of any gentlemen developed a different technique. cealed cylinder delivers a special putrons who wish to change Into He is a psychologist. If his cus. poison gas which has no physical evening or sporting contume. This tomer is a lady, he dwells on the-effects, but which immediately nccommodation is absolutely free of tasteful colours, in which his car acts on the bandit's morals, so that charge, and is sure to be greatly is supplied, although somehow he he hands you back your wallet appreciated.

forgets to tell her that it needs with his blessing.

and four In this case you don't have to Major He Shai-hi (Rubert Horoughly three hands

wireless transmitter, Tung, Jr.) arrived from Shanghai by fect to change gar without a touch of the Verey rockets and the s.8. President Grant yesterday, catastrophe. When he approaches work the It is understool that Major lie will the harassed man with a small giving your map position, and be leaving in the near future for wife and a large family he points sending an S OS for artillery

pay retallation. U.S.A. to join the Command and Staff out how easy are the cagy

I have a friend, however, who School of Kansas, having been oficialments that will have to be paid. ly accredited by the Chinese Govern. ment. Upon being questioned as to And if he neglects to mention that drives a thousand miles or so per bandits. his reported resignation from the staff it uses enough all in a week to tin wock about this country and ho of Marshal Chang Hsuch-liang, he all the sardines in the North Sea, has no need for any mechanical

aid when dealing with who can blame him? said the report was not accurate,

To the young man in the beret He doesn't drive on. He stops. who escorts pretty girl he talka While his hands are in the A young Chinese, Leung Kam, wasma.h. To the man who looks us he remarks casually that the knocked down and injured by Mr. F. though he sold misfit clothing he bandit leads a very dangerous life. Barrett, of 35, Sharp Street East. expatiates on m.p.g. To a fat man. He might easily be run down or when driving private motor car 2080

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Spanner. Then in Morrison I Read, opposite the he will demonstrate the cubic laid out with a Police Club, yesterday evening. Mr. capacity of the body, not of the there is the exposure to all sorts By this time the bandit is 808- Barrett was about to pass a station engine. He will exhort a business of weather.. ary tramcar which was facing the man to buy British, unless his car opposite direction to that being taken is American, when he urges him topicious and when my friend telln him to feel in his breast pocket by the car, when Leung Kam rushed spend his money with Canada. across the road behind the tram. Ho was knocked down and received broken leg.

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If his prospect looks nervous, he and he will find particulars of a tells him how easy it is to drive. special insurance policy designed He will inform a clergyman that to meet the needs of bandits and this is not one of thone trashy, smash-and-grab boys, enough has psondo-smart affairs, but a sedate, een said. Nothing is left of the This is not only because dog likeness between these two coun- gentlemanly vehicle that would bandit and his car.

world's

bandits greatest blush if it found itself outside a does not cat dog. Even tries-the creditor and the world's greatest pub.

Apart from all this he needs are human. debtor in their tremendous post-push. Before long he's got

"What's war development of capital equip-push his customer into the front

upon the answerer's interests. Dr Roopke is an economist, professor

A

He also needs, a fountain pen

the

A German on War Debts The emergence as the topic of the hour of the war debt isaur lends an added interest to Herr Roepke's new book, Wrong With the World?" Such a

ment. Much of this equipment is sent and let him hold the wheel. IT WAS A GUID NIGHT! author as the mighty question

now a white elephant, and to erect

huge that will really work, because If By Edward McKelly, Haggis Expert. poses is capable of several an-

it each country. erected The basic answer

his victim doesn't aign on would

"Oh! Waed. someone th' power to tends to prevent the talking of certainly stress the ethical side or volume of debt, which is now as dotted line while he has him byj detached view of the present Sino- the world crisia, Others depend pressing a problem as the exis-the collar, some pirate from the pic us, to see ourselves as ithers sce

In the absence of a better quali-. Japanese imbroglio, it is important

tence of the white elephant. Ger- next stand will grab him before hes," said Burns (a poet).

fied writer, we have been deputed many's problem is worse, because jean get away. to trace il to its source" and to

the debt in its case is mainly ex-

It's a hard life, and nat one

to do the job. enquire how well-placed it may be.

We refer, of course, to the St. From what I am told by the ex- Its sources are two, One is a University of Marburg. There-

United States. We are apt to for-perts the up-to-date car is almost Andrew's Ball last Friday night.

Patting on our best complexion reluctance to desert, or to turn on, fore he restricts himself, nainly to

get that a great part of the,repara-ns intelligent as a trained elep- an old ally. The other is an uncasy economic causation, fe is aluations already paid still lives on in hant. The early machines were we wended our way to the Pennisula conviction that Japan is only doing German, and, much as he tries to the form of Germany's commercial constructed to go, providing you and presented our last month's Star

debt. Dr. Roopke is filled with a although the problem of getting

could manage to persuade them,! the same sort of thing that Britain keep his economist's gown aloof, and other nations have done in the he cannot forget the fact, as no

"great apprehension" about the there was as nothing to the pro- German, engaged

A similar future. past. Therefore, many

Emerson aaye, "It never blent of getting back. feel it

Lask, could forget. There are two strikes twelve o'clock," meaning To-day, I gather, you simply can!! hypocritical to inalet on measuring storm centres" which concern thu that a good deal of sweet reason the car by name. This vibrates a the actions of Japan by a standard author,, German and American. abieness exists from which world diaphragm and completes a circuit, which has only been adopted of re-The German focus is his chief in-statesmen may get drawn in ironing horn and the car backs gracefully which starts the engine, blows a cent years, and which, perhaps, has terest. According to his view, out the world's troubles.

out of the garage. The doors

of political economy at the ternal, owed in main part to the suited to a pukka sahib.

on

not

yet very deeply-scated reparations and war debts have allegiance in the public mind.

been one of the chief causes of the

pay-

It is of immediate importance, world crisis. The reason is that and in the interests both of the they constitute uneconomic

or payments In Dr. peace of the Far East and of the ments, relations between Britain

Roepke's language, for "false in- and

debtedness." If a debt isn't to China, that those two grounds of

cause trouble, It must develop its sympathy should be challenged. In

own means of paying interest. truth, on examination they are The nations who borrowed money found not to be well-based. What during the war blow it into are the facts about the Alliance 7 | nothingness, while reparations re- Nothing less than that by her own presentod, from an economic ill-calculated action Japan made it standpoint, merely an indemnity, which had no antecedent loan back essential for Great Britain to

of it. There was thus nothing abandon it for the wider, more

to show for them save paper evid- effective and less embarrassing onces of indebtedness. However, Nine-Power Pact. Japan may be in blissful ignorance of the rami- said to have broken the Alliance fications of the payments that had in spirit when, in 1916, she pro- then to be made, we behaved in the sented the Twenty-One Demands post-war years on the principle to China. She did it without con- that a free exchange of goods and Bultation with hor ally, at a time services could solidly bind to- when Great Britain was absorbed gather in a single world economic in the Great War, and the demands system the explosive mixture of wore such as to infringe the whole reparation payments and

government debts." Dr. Roepke meaning of the articles of the mentions other factors in the Alliance in their roference to Chinn. | world crisis, particularly The results were two-fold. They agricultural trouble, but he only gravely embarrassed the relations just mentions them. In view of of Great Britain with China, rela-his title, it would have been more tions which were not improved by satisfactory if he had pursued this Japan's retention of Tsingtao from side of his inquiry further. So the book rather lacks perspective. the Treaty of Versailles until the Dr. Roepke's treatment of the Washington Conference. They other "storm centro," the United further threatened to embroil Bri-States, affords a picture of the

intor-

the

"By the time I reduced enough to wear that, it would be

out of style."

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Ferry ticket at the door.

In the resultant confusion slipped through the back entrance and joined the clans.

-The place was full of clans. There were clans, and clans. There were also clans.

There were so many clans that there wasn't enough space left to swing a live tiger by its. tall.

Down at one end of the room a score of bagpipes played a mourn- ful dirge to keep the ovil spirits away. The dirge proved entirely successful, for no evil spirits ap- peared. We saw only one clan full of spirits.

We wandered across to the buf- fet and joined an Englishman and two members of one of the clans. The Englishman stood a whisky and soda, so we stood the sație.

One of the elannera slood aix foot two and the second clanner stood and admired him.

Later on, one of the clans gavo an exhibition of the skirl. In case you, don't know what's akir), it's a strain on the bracca.

The ceremony of marching in the haggis was most impressive.

The haggis bearers were preced- ed by twelve.bagpipos, all of which joined rapturously in the triump- hant passages.

A

breathless hush overtook everybody at the awe-inspiring sight. As the pipes swalled into that last tandór ereacondo, you could not have heard a pin drop, evon if someone had been careless enough to lose one.

It WOB an unforgettable spectacle, but there was no avenue of escapo,

The Erskine motor-car belonging-to Mr. W. B. Finnigan, which was taken from near the P. & 0. Building on Saturday morning, and the Austin Seven, owned by Lau Chi, which was stolen from Stanley Street oa Bun- day, have both boon restored to their owners, the vehicles having been aliandoned and later found by the pollee