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THE

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By ROBERT LYND

Such intelligenco na

animals

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By Edward (Patou) Kelly, Now uniform and equip- · ment, which, if finally adopt- ed will considerably alter the appearance of the British Army, was officially shown for the first time in London this weck.

A striking feature of the dis-

in all directions to meet special love can think. cases. At the same time, the

be able to learn to perform tricks, facts brought out suggest that ivered an address the other day selves--or, at least, to invent new, pattern, which can be folded into An eminent man of science de- but they are not intelligent play, we learn, was a light water the occupation of this particular in which he denied that animals games for every new generation. the pocket.

enough to invent tricks for them- proof hat, of the deer stalking others in the Gutzlaff Street dis- are capable of thinking; and Im-same games as its ancestors have cision regarding this type of hat man, and apparently of many trict, required official action.mediately everybody who owned a played for generations, and

The untrained animal plays the We understand that the do medium for the spreading of vehemently indignant, as though hence.. It requires the massive We cannot imagine any better cat or a dog or a pet lamb became same games will be played by its discussion by the War Council.

the was made only after considerablo tuberculosis and other germ dia-

descendants thousand years eases than cigarettes produced an insult had been offered to the brain of a human being to invent

The idea of a dear stalking hat is, of course for the Army, under the conditions described, darlings of the animal world. and while the smokers are pro-

such games as Tiddleywinks.

self explanatory, I do not see why it should be telligence of human beings lies in The chief evidence for the in- considered that one shows greater the fact that, unlike bably perfectly, aware of

the other protected from themselves. In respect for cats by saying that animals, they

Aro constantly cidentally, this is not a new local they can think than by saying that it possible to change. The Ilon decision has been made yet re-

changing everything that they find "industry" by any means. Some they cannot.

Pending further information, no It is not disrespect-is dressed to-day as lions were garding trousers, years ago, the B.A.T. broughtful to cats to say that they end-dressed in the days of Jutlus prosecutions against manufac.not play the plano, and thinking Caesar; but in the same space of 'S.W.B.'s will be confined to bar It is stated unofficially that the is no more a cat's job than play-time human beings have changed racks while the authorities

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Although open-necked shirts are sorry the War Council did not have been finally decided upon, wo go further than this.

For instance, we had every hope

of admiring the handsome curves

tures of Gutter Brand cigarettes, who rendered themselves llable ing the piano. If cats could think the fashions of their clothes al taking down their particulars." by also collecting B.A.T. con- they would cease to be able to most as often as spring has come tainers and selling their wares purr. You never hear a philogo-round. under well-known labels. The pher purring.

The Englishman, once painted Toronte, Can, man in court yesterday did not

with wond, developed into that go quite as far as this, but the THE BELL PULLERS

mighty-brained being whom you danger to the community is, we

will see dancing round and round more original-more daring-note Something that would strike a suggest, worthy of greater con-

OF WELLS.

In tails and a white waistcoat. As was required. sideration than the infringement

for the Englishwoman, the most There are, of course, all kinds highly intelligent being yet creat- of a wealthy firm's trade mark.

of stories about animals that sug-ed, she changes the fashions gent that they possess some kind the Intelligence of man can follow her dress mode more quickly than of intelligenco. The guide-books her.

And it is a positive shame to let tell us, for example, that the swang It may be argued that all the him go out on a route march with in the mont that surrounds the fect in the beginning that the of one of the local regiments, pos-

out a set of Lustre underwear. animals except man were born per- Then we'd like to see the Q.M.S. perfectly clothed, and knew howing in the very lateat things in to build a perfect house for it-

corsets. self-and that therefore they

Or the Sarge Major, looking for showed their intelligence by not all the world like a stocking ad- changing.

Hongkong Eclegraph

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932.

Personal Liberty

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telligent than

TIGERS CAN'T MAKE BOMBS.

arm himself.

of Tommy Atkina in Kayser wrap-

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No regimental Colonel would be le dernier eri unless he has Thai Schoolgirl Com- plexion, or The Skin You Love to Touch.

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"PITHEY"

So

that old Pithecanthropus what's-her-name was a female after all, We knew it all along.

"You can kill yourself with kind-

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You can sotise yourself with ale, But the female of the species la moro deadly than the male."

was the size of the lower jaw. What proved the thing conclusive-

The problems connected with Bishop's Palace at Wella pull a first chaffinch, for example, was IS JAPAN INDICTED? the pursuit of liberty are intri-bell by the side of the moat when

cate and always with us. Among they want to be fed. The London Daily Telegraph more difficult than that of find- such problems perhaps none is

I have never been a swan doing is evidently very anxious that ing out what constitutes free-this, and I fancy that when I was no impression shall get abroad dom. Liberty, intellectual fast in Wells the bell was breken. that the British Government re. well as political, must not be I am willing, however, to oelíove confused with license. To avoid that the tradition is true, while, gards the Lytton Report as an auch confusion, the individual remaining unconvinced that the indictment of Japan's actions in must enter into the pursuit of

I deny, however that animals Manchuria. With the issue still, knowledge not only of the sort swan is a highly intellectual bird.tiger, for instance, who still fights were created perfect, Tako the

Really, if the British Army Is to before the League, it is quite to be gained in school but that After all, if you met a human with his teeth and claws. Those be anything at all, this scheme will right and proper

that Britain' also which is implied in the com- being who was in the habit of ring. were perfectly efficient weapons have to receive full consideration and all the other Powers should mand, "Know thyself." Manying a bell when he wanted faded to

before his enemy, man, had learn. before it is adopted, suspend judgment. None the persons enjoying a maximum of and who showed no other alga of hopelessly out of date, however, They are freedom-political, economic and less, it is difficult for the layman social-will agree that there is intelligence, you would regard against powder and bullets. Yet to reach any other conclusion

the tiger has not had the brains to than that Lord Lytton and his yet a deeper form of liberty, and him almost as a imbecile. dovise new ways of defeating a colleagues have definitely found of intellectual and moral free-to believe that some animals are physically greatly his inferior.

that only as one is in possession At the same time, it is hard not brainy two-legged animal who is Japan to be in the wrong. Of dom can he make the best use more intelligent than others--that the initial operations in Septem-of the other forma,. To in a dog. for instance, is more In-I can see no evidence that they are Much as I like animals, Indeed, ber of last year it is recorded tellectual freedom the schools that they "cannot be regarded have much to contribute. But caterpillar. Even so, I must con- animals could think, they would be a processionary much good at thinking. If wild as measures of legitimate self-the assertion of moral freedom intelligent animal.

fess that I have never met a real-much wilder in their treatment of defence." Then the Report un-is in the hands of the individual. perhaps, a cat called Feter. I do tigera and the elephanta would ly

Except, human beings. The lions and the doubtedly treats "Manchukuo" It is becoming clear that moral not know why I thought he was unite in a war on the frail biped, as the sham which it is, calla liberty is the corner stone upon intelligent. Probably it was be who persecute them. for its abolition, and stresses the which rests all true liberty, both cause he looked intelligent, and restoration of Chinese sover-national and personal. Such was greatly attached to him. vented a bomb.

No lion or elephant has yet in- eignty as one of the fundamental freedom may, perhaps, be liken-But even he, the most intelligent may not have much brains, but, at Human beinga conditions of any settlement.ed to a magnificent building. Its animal I have known, had not least, they had enough brains to do But an even stronger indictment structure appears as a multipli-nough brains to understand when that is implied in the remarka con- city of ideas which may best find he was told that it was wrong to tained in the Report to the effect effective expression, free and that Japan, without declaration distinct, in contributing to the ing birds parfectly clear to him, I made my objections to his kill- of war, has forcibly seized a strength and beauty of the but, whether or not it was that large area of indisputably Chin whole. Thoughtful people now he regarded this as inconsistent ese territory. It is, we are

recognize that freedom is some- coming as it did from a human SPORTS AND GAMING, WHETHER aware, argued by Japan that thing other than merely doing being who frequently dined on PURSUED FROM A DESIRE OF GAIN On whatever one likes. Those who chicken, he never paid the alight- LOVE OF PLEASURE, ARE AS RUINQUI everything she has done in Man-are intelligently working for its est heed to me. Vegetarians may 10 THE TEMPER AND DISPOSITION OF churia has been in legitimate wider establishment know well see in this a proof of the cat's In-THE PARTY ADDICTED TO THEM, A8 self-defence, and that her actions the need of critical excursions telligence. are not inconsistent with the among their League Covenant, the Kellogg actions. They know that only own desires and Pact, or the Nine-Power Treaty. by freeing themselves from But these contentions do not greed, from appetite, from will- bear close analysis. The League fulness, can they gain that self- Covenant makes specific provi- government which is the founda- sion for arbitral adjudication on tion of free government, and disputes, whereas Japan has which guarantees liberty to their seen fit to use force. The Kellogg neighbours as well as to them- Pact is based on a recognition selves.

of the principle of pacific nd- Justment. The Nine-Power Treaty definitely, in its very first article, safeguards the terri- torial and administrative in- tegrity of China, and, what is

Clemenceau Museum

Paris has added yet one more more, calls for consultation be- to its long list of museums. tween the signatories. Tet The little flat on the ground floor Japan has preferred to act on of a house in the Rug Franklin, her own initiative. To Japan's where Clemenceau lived, has just argument that her special in-been opened to the public. His terests in Manchuria are vital to bedroom, which was also his her, the answer is that the Re- workroom, contains a bed with- port recognises the existence of out a mattress for the "Tiger" these interests and suggests a work table with the manuscript always slept on boards--and a method of satisfying them. But no supporter of the League can "Grandeurs et Miseres de la of the last page of his book, admit that Japan should pro- Victoire," kept in place by the ceed in violation of the peace none quill that he used. In the machinery of the world. The dining room, on a table, there Daily Telegraph suggests that are three large rusty keys which British policy is to proceed in had been given to Clemenceau. collaboration with the other They are the keys of the Bastille. Powers, and, above all, "in good The famous skull cap still hangs faith and friendship with the on a hook in the tiny hall, and United States." Seeing that several of Claude Monet's paint- American opinion is intensely ings adorn the walls of the critical of Japan's whole policy apartment. Behind, in a little in Manchuria, what are we to garden, a few small rose bushes make of the quoted words?

provide the flowers that Clemen- ceau loved so well.

kill birds.

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

THEY ARE TO HIS FAME AND FOR TUNE. Burton.

"Good morning, madam! Do you find yourself wonder ing how to put your spare time to gainful use?"

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THE SAHIB.

mind us, so don't be unkind.

The University examinations re-

who has been to a public school, but "A Sahib is an important Indian

if he is a Pukka Sahib he is not an Indian at all but n Sahib. If he is not a Pukka Sahib he has not boen to a public school."

"Mulligatawny was an Irishman Who Invented soup. He was what they call a broth of a boy."

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"The Marathon race is named after the battle of Marathon, be Greeks ran so fast they were back tween the Greeks and Romans. The In Athens in no time, and the one that got there first was acclaimed the victor."

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"The Inquisition was a rather striet tribunal. It burnt you if you told the truth and sent you to the stake if you didn't. This was called Dilemma."

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Daley (Kowloon).-Yes (we meaa No), it's not too early to be thinking about your Christmas pre- sents. Beglu by making out 100 Ilsts-the second for use if you lose the flrat-and, for obvious reasons, keep them in different places! You have a foundation to build on in the "gifts" sent you last year, May's "mules," for example, will do nicely for Janet, and Cousin George's Imitation fruit is just the thing for May. Be sure that labels, inscriptions, etc., are carofully, removed.

BANKS..

We have just had a letter from our Bank Manager.

It begins as all letters from aur Bank Manager begin: "Dear Sir, I beg to draw your attention to the fact

And yet some people are worried by the fact that Mr. Montagu Nor- man travels incognito.

We are glad he does. The last thing we want is bank directors thrusting themselves upon our notice.

If all the washing machines in the Colony were placed end to end, a woman would still select a radio.