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AWAY WITH THE GENERAL STAFF

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BY J.A. SPENDER

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts

"K. C. C. Entertain Children." Or was it vice versat

☐ ☐ "French and Italians Clash in

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There was the Schlieffen plan The successful shoe merchant for the Invasion of France through must keep his business on a firm Belgium in the minds of German footing..

plans

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According to a doctor, there is

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I there's one thing harder than. getting a square peg into a round. hole, it's a ball, if you're a golfer. 0.0

After-Christmas Song:-- Know of Two Bright Ties.”

Breathes there a man with soul

so dead,

Who never niently lost his

head,

And played with model tralus

and cars

When wandering through the

toy bazaars?

America complains that Europe hasn't given a load in dfarming. What about the Venus de Milo?

Foultry Farm Note:-When the bons stop laying, they need egg- ing on.

am rather surprised that 'among the many schemes of disar- mament someone has not proposed the abolition of General Stalls, Staff Colleges, and all the other Shanghai." A mixed vermouth? apparatus for planning The season of colds is with us Soldiers will, of course, say that

We hear of a Hongkong Aber. again in full blossom. Some peo- this is a dreadful idea and totally ple say that it is with us all the impossible, but if their objection donlan who served chewing-gum time, which is probably near to may be put nelde, I can imaging on toast as Hors D'oeuvres during the truth. If we had a really no greater guarantee against ag- the Festive Season, efflelent medical profession, the Rrossive war.

It is impossible to read the re- common cold would have banlah-cords of Europe before the war tant Test match was

The trouble, apparently, at the that the ed long ago, but they much pre without having it brought home to wicket was badly cracked. Wo'd fer to invent new diseases rather one how greatly the policy of all like to bet that the wise cracks in than to cure old ones." So we the nations was influenced by Australlan pubs were even worse. must begin to think of fending General Staff plans for "the next for ourselves. How we are to go war" about it may be a matter of con- troversy. One method would be the provision in every home of An isolation chamber, into which any member of the family who showed signs of developing minds of French and Russian one thing a man should avoid

England's best bowlers catarrh would be Immediately

statesmen; the corresponding after being out late at night. His sont Down Under to sand down and incontinently clapped, and plans for co-operation with the wife, we imagine. kept there until all danger of French in the minds of British his or her infecting the other atatesmen; and a whole succession members of the household had of plans concocted by that most

fire-in the vanished. This would be much mischievous of European better than the present method eaters, Conrad von Hotzendroff, Court this woek of allowing them to roam at the Chief of the Austrian Goneral-

that a warning large and pass on their baleful Staff, for waging "proventive" germs to the rest of mankind. wars and "getting his fist-in fust."device

The ruling military idea in all motor-car was a Another reason why tho bearers THE HONGKONG HOTEL should be isolated is the camps, at this time was that it horn for a-ship. was impossible to live at peace If this sort of that. Instead of being ashamed with a neighbour which had a thing goes on, we of themselves, as they ought to larger military force than you had. an nee be, they go about moping, solut- Such a neighbour, it was said, arivers having to [tering, groaning and indulging would either compo! you to submit qualify for their tickets in violent explosions, and in the to his dictates, or fall on you and cantes' intervals telling. us how bad destroy you, if you refused. Ac-before taking to they are: how theirs is the heav-cording to this idea, diplomacy did the road. lest cold in the history of the hu- the first part of the business and

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for countering it enumerated in Marshal Joffro's Memoirs In the

It was stated Police

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Another Hong- has kong man holed out in one. MacWhirter says that next year

in League bowls anch man will have four bowls. The rink lying Rixtech shots will then be entitled to # саво whisky.

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Between our acives, thoro's a good deal of You and I about Hongkong yacht- ing.

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HUBBY: You know, I don't Like all this metaphorical stuff. the army did the second. DI-

I wonder what this writer man race, and all that bunkum plomacy stretched the claims of our sympathy, the armed nation to the limita of They expect

means by "gama of thought?" WIFE: Oh, something like and become furious when they its power, and when it overplayed to dress these

that ring you're always promis- think we are smiling at them. its hand and its neighbours resist cold mornings is

ing to buy me. quickly. It would save a great deal of ed, the army enforced its will.. annoyance if they were treated With the aid of the most recent-

0.0 like the victims of other infec-ly published records, I think it

write the At the Autumn Bession of the tious disease-locked up until it would be possible to was safe to release them. The history of Europe from the year Church Assembly, a new kind of Moths referred to by local noro- Whatever the who have been at our Sunday pretence that they are heroes 1908, whon the great Austro- Court was suggested for the die naute have nothing on the kind

Russian struggle began, up to the cinline of clergy: and heroines convinces no one.

Great War, in such a way as to trouble is, they are evidently de- pants. show year by year the increasing termined to curate! power of the soldiers and the diminishing power of the states-

No New Jokes

men.

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The Chiness who stoln

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២. ជ English cricketers are stated to clocks this week is now getting have described the Sydney ground more time than he wants. During this period there were the best they have ever seen. perpetual crises and each pro. None the less, they ran down the duced a new crop of military plans, pitch as often as they could. all said to be infallible ways of beating the enemy. At the end of Austrian and German

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Wà note that an F.MS official is now. in the Colony on a holl- day. We hope he will go back

Boxing gloves, we hear, are and tell them that, although our- being sold at knock-out rounded water, Hongkong has its

Peninsula.

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Nature Note:-Perhaps

though.

the job

Six films companies are now

the

opening in the summer of tho long-necked pilsener athatsthestufa on YTLATLY

of our beaches. ----

And while we are at it, should not cactus-growing be included In the list of notifnble dixensos?

"Is Kowloon Tong one of those dead areas?" asks a wireless man. Yes, from the feet up.

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People usually want a change of Government when they've none. in their pockets.

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AMERICA'S LOSS A man of sterling qualities has passed away by the un- expected death of Mr. Calvin .Coolidge. Although not a world figure until he became President, he had, nevertheless, already One of the minor tragedies of had a distinguished career in growing old is the conviction, the United States when called which gradually sinks into our upon to take up his position as consciousness, that there are no Chief Executive. Son of Colonel new jokes only variants of the John C. Coolidge, he was born at old ones. By the time we have each, Plymouth, Vermont, and it is reached the age of 75 or 80, or soldiers reproached their Govern-now notable that his father held a even 70 (which is really quite ments with having missed the prices. responsible position in local young in these days), we are "favourable moment," and in the public affairs,

A match has been invented choicest observation last year.was Young Coolidge in the depressing position of spring of 1914 they were protest- was, therefore, brought up in an having to stop every joke mering in chorus that, their joint which ignites when breathed upon. the atmosphere congenial to those chant, ere he has uttered more power was declining and that, if budding qualities which later in than a few words, with the in- they did not strike soon, they there's nothing striking in that, months,

would be at the mercy of Russia, life enabled him to take such a timation that we have heard it whose resources, they said, were prominent part in the polities of before. The only alternative is limitable, and, if she were given The hardest job these mornings bis country. After graduating to preserve a tactful silence and further time to prepare, would is getting down to the job of get from Amberst College, in Am- then laugh with what show prove irresistible.

ting up to get down to herst, Mass., he settled there of naturalness we can. But The tragic haste of the final you're getting up for.

D G and began to practise law. As a laughter produced in such cir- negotiations, the refusal to "press Republican, he was faithful to cumstances never rings true, the button for peace," or to give Isn't the time about due for the traditions of his family and and is bad for the laugher as time for cooling thoughts after the

Austrian attack upon Serbia, were some of the London journals to closely associated himself with it is bad for the laughee, For the party in Massachusetts. He hundreds-yes.

almost certainly due to military publish a sensational story about thousands of

the beautiful Colonel and a regi rapidly came to the front, and years those who think it their/Pressure behind the scenes.

It is at least as important. to [ment of Chinese amazons fighting after becoming Governor of the duty to brighten their fellows provent the soldiers taking charge at Shanbaikwao? State he won nationwide pro. by telling funny stories have of the statesman as to reduce minence during the police atrike been laboriously exploiting the armaments. I suggest it as a in Boston. Through his energe- same old scanty joke material, subject for meditation. It has tic measures, the strike was sup- which some hold to be of Baby-bcon suggested to me by reading shooting in Malaya. If this sort pressed and law and order re- lonian and tome of Byzantine Marshal Joffro's Memoirs and com- of thing goes on, there won't be anything left bring back dead. stered. His record as Governor origin. And yet they expect us paring thom with Conrad's. made him a possible candidate to laugh. Why, even school for the Presidency in 1920, but howlers and the unconscious the party leaders chose Warren humoriams of babes and suck- G. Harding instead. When the lings travel in very definite choice of Vice-President came, cycles, whatever proud mothers however, there was no contest and fathers may think. What and Coolidge was nominated by chance is there, then, for the acclamation. He was, in this more sophisticated joke-products office, much more than a mere of grown-up humanity to score figurehend. The story of how a hit? In this matter of retail- he had to fill the unexpired por- ing antiquated jests some men tion of President Harding's term are pachyderms of the first on the latter's death, and his magnitude. They have no sense subsequent return by a large of shame. The older the jest majority in 1924, is too well the greater the zest with which known to need recalling. As they throw it off their chest, President, he was called upon to and the greater the laughter The tackle many difficult problems, they expect to produce. and these he handled with only thing for which' we have quiet confidence. Ho brought to be thankful in the case of much experience to his office, these colossal hores is that they and his administrative know- did not go into the fish business. ledge, gained as Governor

of Considering that some of them Massachusetts, stood him in good stead in the larger affairs go through life with the most limited repertoire, perhans only of his country. He displayed a four or five tales, which all their broad, tolerant outlook which friends have heard at least ten enabled him to rise above times, the constant wonder is the clamour of party politics, that they are permitted to live; and

his bitterest eri- that someone even

does not lay tica had to acknowledge, his violent hands upon them some high integrity and his dovo- dark and dismal Monday morn- tion to the path of duty. ing.... Compared with many of his pre- decessors, he could not be do- scribed as a really great man. He was possessed of excellent

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but by no means extraordinary

mental equipment, which he

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A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

ALL SYSTEMA OF VIRTUE AFE RE:

used in an extraordinary way; DUGULE OR COMPRISED IN PROPRIETY. that is to say, to the extreme PRUDENCE, OR BENEVOLENCE →→→→Adam limits of his powers. It can also Smith.

That leaves the Bentons. About what did they spend on

us last year?"?'.

Reports from Moscow show that Russia is determined to carry but the Five-Year Plan even if it takes Ja hundred years to do IL

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Bagpipes are now admitted into

Canada free of duty.. Well, that's

the Dominion's look-out.

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She was only a welder's daughter,

but she had acatylene limbs.

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A lot of artista can draw any-

thing but a cheque.

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The person who "sees rod" may

afterward foal blue."

Polite language is beldom beard

it too..

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It's no fun for a girl to sit in front of a fireplace when the real flamo Isn't there.

Blue sorgo la to become the popular suiting, reports a tailor. There are many shiping examples of this to be seen,

"We must choër up and smile," [declares a business magnate” · It's

gravity that keeps things downt

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Even the girl who likes being a shining exampla doesn't like her nose to be that way.

Flappers no longer pray for a young man they proy

The "wete" are longing for the time when Amories will restora the "pub" to Republic!