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simplo reason that the Leaguo has mover had occasion to out- law any country. So far as the present crisis is concerned, of course, there can be no question of the Longue, taking action against Japan until the Counci has decided whether or not sho has infringed her undertakings, On this point, it seems extrems ly unlikely that unanimity will be reached. In other words, unless developments occur which literally force the hands of the members, Japan will be able to continue, for all practical pur-1

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BOW BELLS

By ROBERT LYND

Many people will be gratified to was sitting in an inn in an English hear that the town of Tomelloso, village, when a little man with a In Spain, has put a tax on bell-mystical light in his eyca entored the first nino into conversation with me and Ied ringing. For

The Very Idea!

BARRACKING BALLADS

By Edward Kally, Father of XL.

Protests, we are given to understand, are being voiced regarding the barracking proclivities of the Austra- lams.

minutes of ringing the tax will be the talk gradually to the subject of a shilling: If you are not satisfl- bell-ringing. He spoke of it with ed, you can go on ringing for 20 auch ardour that, when he offered minutes for 18. Gd.; and there are to get the key of the church tower

(Barracking. From the Greek... special terms for longer periods, and take me up among the belts, Barn drinking resort; rack, pa

I have said that many people I could not resist the invitation. will be pleased to hear this. Idq

Since then we have not been what we woro-in fact we nover wero. We attribute our remark- able success da journalist to this incident.

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On another occasion

someone

No bibliophile, admitting one in wrack and ruin;-Kerr, A Scot- not approve of such people. They into the library of first editions of tish gentleman. A Scottish gentle are the sort of people who would the Elizabethans, ever gave ono a man who has been ruled by

drink). like to bring into existence an greator feeling that we were enter- Von Schleicher

entirely noiseless world-a world ing sacred ground. As we climb- As sportsmen, wo are inclined nl the fuss about In which the bell of the muffin-ed to the bell-ringing loft, he told to deprecate

We agree with Mr. General von Schleicher's re-man would be silenced and the cry me in a hushed voice of the ex- barracking. cent speeches have not encour of the lavender-seller forbidden, ploits of the village team. They Gilligan. It's how you take your aged a profound belief in his Such people would, if they could, had rung the changes, apparently, barracking that counts. tact and discretion; but his put silencera on the throats o for an enormous number of hours, What a time wo had when wo nightingales. In their Ident surpassing every other team but played with the Test team in emergence as Chancellor was in world, Schnabel would play Beeth. one or two. I gathered that what eightynine, two respects, at any rate, satis oven on a dumb piano, in which all the team aimed at was to be able! We often had things thrown at factory. It put an end to rum- the right notes would be struck to go on ringing the changes for a us. We were hit on the head by ours that the aged President had without producing a sound.

week without stopping, and with a beer bottia at Bydney. bren stalemated by the course. I cannot blame the anti-bell-overy peal different from every

other. of events and no longer knew to ringers too severely, however, for

I Hear of Ringers' Exploits whom to turn; and it marks a I was once one of them. As a boy

If any man had proposed to do conditional return, at any rate, I hated bells with an intensity of to Parliamentary government hatred. I lived near a church the such a thing in my native city, I and the abandonment for the bell-tower of which flung torture should have looked upon him as a time being of Von Papen's at into the air, not only on Sundays, villain, a.campanological Torque- but in the week-day practices. muda. But this little man was in tempts to dispense with it. Never did I turn round for a little love with bells, as Mr. E. V. Lucas in the gallery souled a mad dog Whether the new Chancellor can more slumber on Sunday morning is in love with cricket, and I be on to us just after we had com- first century. Wa command a majority in the but a tumble of malevolent de- came infected with his ecstasy, pleted our Reichstag remains to be scen. mons of sound issued from that, He told me of great teams of bell- finished our next 100 in even time Much depends, doubtless, on the tower, compelling me to rise and ringers of the past, and pointed to but the dog caught us. composition of his Cabinet. hasten to a more distant church in their names inscribed on brass on Fortunately for the Hongkong the walls of the loft. These were public we recovered from the bite. The inclusion of Baron von order to escape them. Neurath, a man of sense and Never did I choose an evening to lilm heroes far excelling the The dog, howover, died. moderation, who has won just on which to say to myself, "Now i winners of the Ashes in Test cric- The Australians, sir, take their regard both at Geneva and in must do soma work," but, na soon ket or the victors in the Oxford cricket seriously, air. They swarm

is at

a as I opened my Julius Caesar, the and Cambridge Rugby match or out to the cricket ground on-horse- least

He pointed to the back, on foot, in sulkles, in bug- bells would choose the particular Boat Race. good omen. But the mood of occasion to send forth a host of name of Tom Cobleigh on several gies, In carts, cars, trucks, vans, compromise which the Chan- impish tormentors to make work of the brass plates in a way that rickshas, wagons, lorries, traps, cellor has shown does not mean impossible. My FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933a

masters would made it clear that he regarded coaches, cabs, omnibuses... don't that he intends to administer never believe me when they asked Tom Cobleigh, and not W. G. Interrupt, Sir, I've got the measure the country with a loose hand. me why I had come unprepared, Grace, as the Greatest man of all of those bowlers... FAR EAST CRISIS The contrary must be expected, and I explained that I had been time. Not for him your Ronald phaetons, dreshkis, velocipedes, and neither the Communists, worried by church-bella; but there Poultons and Adrian Stoops in a bleycles, tricycles, quadrupeds, REACTIONS

whom he hates, nor Adolf Hitler, was a grain of truth in the ex world that had bred auch mighty ambulances, perambulators...... bell-ringers as Dlile Brewer and won't be long now, sir...tumbrils, World press comment on the be allowed

whom he is disposed to like, will planation.

Even then, however, I had a Peter Gurney. If you had invited toboggans, scostera, hilly-carts and to disturb the

am pantecknicone, Sir. crisis in North China runs along harmony he proposes to main- tells that were, tung elsewhere sure he would have ahaken curious sentimental tenderness for his opinion of Carpentier, I expected lines, with the liebral-minded journals roundly winter months.

more tain in Germany during the than in my own city. I liked bella head and asked you whether Car- The reputa in poetry. I liked the notion of a pentier could ring a bell like berating Japan and the conser- tion of a "strong silent man" bell ringing from a village church Harry Hawke.

1 vative papers, if not actually, which he has hither-to had across a valley on a peaceful

I Try to be Unselfish

ed the second. Wo dribbled the The supporting the Japanese ac hardly does justice to his Sunday evening, If wireless had Now nearly all sports get engr third back to the bowler. tivities, inclined to spend complex personality.

He is existed at the time, I should pro-mous publicity nowadays. Yet fourth was a No Ball. We put our judgment. None the less, there more at home with politicians bably have listened with romantic here, I discovered, in an ancient body in front of the fifth and sur does appear to be a general dis- than professional soldiers.

He appreciation to bells from all over English village, were sportsmen vived the appeal. We swiped at position to recognise the gravity as a flexible mind, he is a witty, Europe.

greater than any other sportsmen, the sixth and missed it.

"Hey," yelled someone in the of the situation. In particular, talker.

I even thought it must be roman- playing a game better than any Under his direction

tic to hear the bell of Big Ben other game, almost unnoticed Grand Stand. "Whatfer think yer It is widely felt that the pro- Germany should enjoy a repose striking midnight, and on my stoxcept by the people who had to doing? Playing a game?" blem confronting the League of she has not known for many night in London I ant in my bed listen to them. Their acores work

Yes, Sir, the Australians tako Nations has been rendered all

sitting room in Vauxhall Bridge-recorded in the loft, and would their cricket seriously. the more complex and difficult

road and, when Big Ben struck, have looked perfectly horrible to ឆវ៉ A consequence of tho latest developments. Whatever A Public Servant Retires twelve, did my best to feel roman-anybody who hated the sound of Japan's explanation for acting

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Quivering like an aspen we took

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We blocked the first. We duck-

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FERRY FOOLISH.

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What la a flirt, you ask? (I didn't!) Shut up! You did! We've got to work this in some way.

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A Flirt is a Fickla Female who Ferry Foolishly Fiddles with Follow's First Fond Fanefes, Fans the Festering Fires of Folly, Finally Followed by Felleitous Filosophy Far From Funny to the Foolishi Filanderer. But if her Former Fine Feelings be Firmly Freed From the Fast Froes And Fetters of Frivolity, Fat Feeding will be Furnished For the For tunate Favourite.

tic. I confess I was as much dis-bells. Yet, even if they broke a appointed in Big Ben' na Oscar record, I doubt whether their feat

Wo are still disarming bet so na she has deemed fit to do, it The retirement of Sir Malcolm Wilde was in the Atlantic Ocean. would sell out a single edition of far only on paper. Each of the would seem that she has not im- Delevingne, who recently left the Twelve, I thought, was too many, an evening paper. Never before great powers has scrapped one inter proved her case by resorting, at post of Deputy Permanent Un- I still think so when I hear those had I seen such simple-minded do- schedule and agreed to

formula. Resorvos this stage, to further demon- der-Secretary of State at the colossal bongs over the wireless. votion, such total immersion in the nationalise a strations of force. The suspicion Home Office after holding, it for.

How I was Converted love of the game. Since meeting (of stationery) are to be demo- What it was that ultimately con- my little friend, I have never bilised, but this will take some persists that she is proceeding nineteen busy years, removes verted me, if not to the love, at listened to a peal of bells without time, according to a well-laid pro- from the stage one who has

Sir John Simon (this is con- least to the toleration, of bella, I feeling that, whatever the effect on gramme, of which her actions in played a big part in international am not quite certain. I think it my own nerves may be, it is mink dental) scored a great personal Manchuria were but the prelude. affairs since the war. Sir must have been a meeting with a ing some body else tremendously triumph, Of immediate importance is the Malcolm is best known for his real bell-ringer. Some of my happy. One has no more right to The League of Nations is in- likely reaction of the League to work in fighting the inter- friends during my boyhood had object to the noise than to object vading Manchuria, under General This is what the new turn of events. A fresh national drug menace. Essen been bell-ringers, but I always to the roaring of the crowd at a Wellington Koo. battle of words may be expected, tially practical in his outlook, he took it for granted that they en Cup Final. It is the enthusiasm, they call a Koo d'Etat. It in- the tintinnabulation, that augurates a Peace to end Peaces. ' with the Chinese and Japanese has sought by steady pressure joyed annoying their neighbours. not delegates cach denying any re- on the conscience of officials There was no mystic light in their matters, and so long as men of sponsibility for the Shanhaikwan throughout the world to draw eyes when they spoke of their such selfless enthusiasm as the affair. It seems doubtful, how a not around the drug smug- they were concerned, seemed to be for civilisation.

hobby. Bali-ringing, so far as bellringers survive, there is hope ever, whether the League will gler through increased in

If the world is going to tax even now be moved to take any ternational administrative ell merely an alternative to kupcker-

enthusiasm, it is a bad look-out for wrenching. definite action. After many ciency. The process of tighten.

Years afterwards, however, I the world. weary months of temporising, it ing the net has seemed slow to still has to face the original some. But it has undoubtedly issue as to whether Japan ex- had good results. Better, per- ceeded her rights in Manchuria. haps, than would have bean Whatever the real explanation achieved had more spectacular may be, there has long been methods been adopted before apparent a marked disinclination the world was ready for them. on the part of the League to Sir Malcolm himself would be pass judgment, despite the fact the first to admit that much still that its own specially-appointed remains to be done. It is good Commission definitely charged news that his retirement will Japan with seizing a large area not prevent him from continuing of indisputably Chinese terri- to deal with the international tory. If there were any pros aide of the anti-drug campaign. pects of unanimity between the Not only his experience, but his Powers, the situation might be whole-hearted devotion to the otherwise. French opinion, we note, is that the League should cause for which he has done so much, are needed at Geneva. not embark upon any adventure, There is another side to Sir ag this would prove futile in Malcolm's, work which is less the absence of any force to Im- widely known. He was largely pose sanctions on Japan. This responsible for drafting the ar- is an obvious reference to the ticles of the Treaty of Ver- much-desired French thesis of sailles which form the charter an international force. But in of the International Labour point of actual fact, if the Organisation. The L. L. O. is League has no force of its own, not very much "in the news" the Covenant does provide the Nevertheless. it plays a big part machinery by which auch a force in moulding the history of these could be made available. It is times. By slow degrees, and laid down in Article XVI that in the case of a nation against with much compromise, it is whom sanctions are decided, the gradually building up a common code of rights for workers Council of the League shall re- throughout the world.

commend to the Governments concerned what effective milit ary. naval and air forces the members of the League shall severally contribute to the arm-

ed force to be-used to protect

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

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MAKE NO VOWS TO FORDZAR TINS

the covenants of the League. OR THAT: IT SHOWS NO GREAT This machinery has never yet STRENGTH, AND MAKES THES RIDS been brought into use, for the neIHIND THYSELF-Fuller,

"What'll my excusa bat I can't just tell the board

of directors that my wife has decided against the mergerl"

The "P" is silent as in Pkelly.

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ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Rhoda (Kowloon Tong): No, dear, spate with ovening dress are quite wrong. You should write to Percy a little note telling him you have made a mistake and saying you are sorry. Men are "kittle- kattla" you know and very "sonsi- tiva" to criticism,

Eva (The Peak): Oh dear no. We are afraid it was one of Ed- ward Kelly's "claver jokes. Bo-- tween ourselves, we think it just tho wee-est bit doubtful in taste. We don't mean that the humour la not gentlemanly, of course, but it does look as though Mr. Kelly thought the association of intal ligence and the Peak to be Funny. J.K.W. (1) Sorry your goldfish aro a trifle off colour. You are un- lucky. You are, of course, lucky to have a real expert to refer to. Have you tried just a few spots of brandy in their water? Rum is also pretty good. It should be warmed and the fish compelled to wallow it in anu gulp. Or if1CUko us) they don't indulge, try an as- pirin. (2), A hair of the dox, my boy, but don't take that too litoral ly of liberally.