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Nine-Power Treaty

Sir John Hope Simpson's forceful letter raises a proposi- tion which the Powers signatory. to the Nine-Power Treaty have consistently endeavoured to side- track. Ho argues that, ir- respective of what the Lengue

WOULD YOU LIVE YOUR The Very Idea!

LIFE AGAIN?

By SIR HERBERT BARKER

may be doing, Britain and her recently published book, tells us was good.

Mr. Winston Churchill, in his and enshrine in memory all that co-aignatories have an obliga- that he would not care to live his There are pasanges in the years INTERESTED tion to China to insist that the iffe again. To anyone who has that no man would gladly pass terms of the Treaty are carried watched in admiration and amaze-again. They occurred mostly be -HAVE_NO_DRIVING out and that China's territorial ment that antonishing career, this tween childhood and manhood,

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A BAD BUS-INESS

By Edward Kelly, Frustrated Transport Expert.

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The buses would have been all double deckers. A square deal for everyone.

toons running the length of the

ment on every vehicle to of failure by say, in the twenty-first century,

Here we've gone and borrowed' ton bucks on the strength of win- ning the motor-bus franchise, and the Government has let us down. Dare they look us in the face after this? What will the Colonial Secretary say the next time he LICENCE BUT HAVE A FRIEND/ integrity, be not subject to in-confession comes disconcertingly, that dark passage which Konts has bumps into us in the street?

If a man who has been a soldier, called Sinister terference, and he points out

Street. Thone Dogs ho think a muttered correspondent, politician, years I would not gladly live again. apology will heal the breach? that Britain went to war in 1914 war' for a Treaty infringement of statesman, sportsman, and artist, There, given another lease of life, How are we going to borrow an- lesser magnitude. The history and achieved greatly in most ofI would like to edit the doldrums other ten bucks from

our pal? of the Nine-Power Treaty is in return to the feast of life, how unhappiest

these diverse activities, would not of my adolescene-for many life's Pah!

period. Otherwise, teresting in this connexion. In much less should legs brilliant looking back across the years,

We had it all mapped out what 1017, Count Ishii visited the mortals desire the return of the nearer soventy than fifty, I see we were going to do when |United States and obtained the dead days?

fe as a marvellous gift, of which tendered for the franchise. First Ishii-Lansing agreement which This question in, of course, our one could scarcely have too much. of all, Kowloon buses, instead of conceded Japan special interests old friend: Is Life Worth Living? Even were I poor and bedridden, finishing at the Star Ferry, would in China. The agreement creat-If one answers in the affirmative, I would not want to go. Life istop in front of the Peninsula Hotel. For this free advertise- ed a furore among the chancel then the answer to the question at worth while, even to the passivement wo will accept ours with a

of its bverchanging little less soda. mean "special relations"? If Schopenhauer, the German philo- panorama, BECOME KNOWN AND

Once Not Enough WILL ASK NO IMPERTINENT surely implied a "special post-clusion by rensened argument. want my life again, just na it was? they did, then "special relations"pher, decided that life was not

-worth living, reaching that con- But, I nak myself: Would

I QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR tion." Japan encouraged this He would have been more con-I hesitate, but not for long. Yes, INTENTIONS.

view.

The State Department, vincing if he had preaged his con- I would. Most men, who would

There would be upper seats and for responding to China, allayed disclusion to its logical end and say offhand that one innings has lower seats. Lower seats quiet to some extent by, stating followed the example of the poet been enough, would accept n conacats for the lower class. It wil those on their uppers and upper THE HONGKONG HOTEL|that in its opinion "special in-Chatterton.

ditional renewal. To begin again be readily observed. how closely with well learned all those lessons GARAGE.

terests" were economic, not

Life is Good political. In spite of this

that are so costly in the learning we have observed the needs of the

Kowloon community, People talk like that, but they that would be marvellous indeed. dementi, however, Japan still do not mean what they say. Life Or to return again, after tapse

Then again, we should have had elung to its own interpretation, may be grievous, may bring pain, of years, with memory of a former really modern buses. Wireless Partly to win a policy that would pain of body and pain of heart. life. I feel sure that if I asked sela for the amusement of pas be common to all concerned, the It may bludgeon us until we turn, that questing, dynamic force sengers, an endless chain of spit- Washington Conference of 1921 like Job, and ask why such known to the world as Mr. Winston corridor, and a complaints depart was convened, and thereofliction should be our lot. Life Churchill, he would accept an emerged the Nine Power pact, muy beling first high hope and then invitation to live his life again, which rendered the Lansing the bitterness

worldly standards. Ishii agreement obsolete.

It may take So would most of us. 1923 it went into the discard as perfidious those whom we had confess that, having been given from us our loved ones and reveal To do otherwise would be to

unsung.

It was hoped that a reason to truat. There is indeed, the boon of ilfe, one had made cent. increase in everything. Pen- trew modus of relations had been no end to the bad tricks and cruel little of it as to reckon the gift ple who have to pay fifteen cents ushered into Pacific affairs with Jokes life my play upon us, and was not worth the having. To me the Nine Power pact. That few of us escape.

it is a rather awesome thing that now grumble because the conduc- tor doesn't give them their five hope, too, has now gone into the Yet, all sald and done, it re- any man should consider fe, a

what is probably the We'd stop all that by making challenged, and acting upon the Surely because Nature has a sys-posseas

tem of compensation that makes highest form of life in the whole the fare thirty cents. assertion, that it is not "ade-

worth living lives that appear universo. And I take leave to quate" to cope with changed bleak, drab, and sometimes really doubt whether many people, in the circumstances in China. Japan trendful It is one of life's iron depths of their heart, really feel certainly must be more concern-ies that most of us spend our time that life is not worth while. ed than any other country with envying our fellows. We judge what is going on in China. Does the lives of others by externals this signify, however, that it They appear happier than we be should arrogate to itself the sole cause we see only the masks they right of chastising Ching for present to the world. We know any derelictions of which China nothing of their inner lives. has been corama:ed to

one might be guilty in carrying out ΟΙ life imprisonment. The national dutica? This by no prompt and weighty support means follows even from the given to the second petition admission of Japan's argument on the youth's behalf is that the Nine Power pact is "in-

THINGS WE HAVE NOT HEARD LATELY. sufficient to indicate that the de- adequate." What does follow is get our fair share of happiness, they do so were life a patient wait-

the ngain cision for release? not!

From Darling Dingo, the film ing. In view of the first dis-discuss these new conditions and More, I believe that between these vigour of youth and I would star: "Yes. I landed on Saturday. inclination not to interfere with take action within some inter. / Livo we should find the balance in welcome a second journey through 1 haven't run away from Holly- favour of happiness. There is

the years.

At best, onc lease of more joy in the world than misery, fe gives us but a glimpse of all wood; I've been ancked. even in these hard times. The the wonders of the world, only an real criterion of the will to live is infinitestimal taste of happiness, not the Idly spoken or written word: It is the test of decision, only a partial self-fulfilment." When life, so often decried when its lease seems secure, is in peril,. To those who take the other the view of that gloomy hill of men eling desperately to it. That

Mrs. Cheng Yip Shi wishes to express her very sincere and heart-felt thanks to all those members of the public, and especially those wire huve worked ardently to get up the Petition and made it n success.

The

very

In

clients the inconvenience of run-

the ofice every ning to

five minutes.

More efficiency would have been our mutto. At least a fly per

Thongkong Eelegraph discard, with Japan asserting un-mains rond-infinitely good. Why? thing well rid of, for, after all, we cents change.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1933.

REPRIEVED Clemency has prevailed in the case of Cheng Kwok-yau, the death sentence upon whom

national framework.

Old Jokes Are Best

the

2 la-

Joy Exceeds Sorrow

It is in moments of depression and bitterness that one hears people say: "I would not like to live my life again!" It is merely hyperbole. They do not mean it.

Up to now, passengers on the buses haven't been able to make the conducters understand what they want. We'd remedy that by offering every holder of a month- In Canton- y ticket free tuition esc.

Strikes us the present arrange- ment is a bad business.

All around I see old men in the Saying which we wipe our hands full vigour of body and health. of the franchise utterly, merely I imagine were we to know the They do not sit impatient for the remarking as we leave that a bird complete truth about the lives of coming of the Dark Angels, but in a motor car is worth two in a

turn their faces towards life, Joy-bus, others, and they of ours, we shoulding it yet. They live on. Would find that on balance most of us

Give

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Most Would Accept

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"Why? Because I've no sex-ap- peal. My publicity agent can't do anything with me.

No, I "Do I like Hongkong? don't. The climate is ghastly and

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HEARTACHES.

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Take, for instance, CLARENCE, "I'm in such a hole," writes Clarence. "I met such a nice girl at the Queen's on Tuesday and I asked her to meet me again on Saturday and was so looking for ward to it, and now I can't re- member what she looks like. What am I to do?" Well, We thought and thought about poor Clarence to-day, and Fluffie was so naughty and still no brain-wave came. And suddenly, Presto! and the trick was done!

the carrying out of the death sentence, an extremely heavy re- sponsibility rested upon His Ex- cellency the Governor and his advisers. It is to their credit that, after full reconsideration of all the factors in what was a Can it be possible that most unusual case, they

have world is moving toward an era

view, I would say: Imagine your-yours is particular detestable; and is the test.

self presented with this gift. I think your face la horrid." tempered justice with mercy. bare of humour? Such

The implication is obvious. Would you decline? All those They have the knowledge that mentable prognostication has its For, logically, the man who feels heartaches? All those grievous their final verdict is appreciated source in no less eminent an

that life is so poor a thing that he losses? All those buried hopes to by all who believed that the cir- authority than Punch. Mr. E could not face a second lease of it be reinterred? A "No" scems. To-day is the day on which we cumstances called for the exer- V. Knox (Evoc) points out that would gindly cancel whatever inevitable; but only so until wo function in the Heartache depart- cise of compassion. Lest there the types that had always been balance renmins to him. And cast our minds back over the year. ment. We just shut ourself up in be a fear in some quarters that the easiest target for the pro- men, as we know, do not do that. Then wo may say, rather: Al a little blue room, with our wee the decision is contrary to wise fessional humourist were now They hang on grimly. When that beauty, all that love, all those kitten "Fluffle," and think and public policy, it should be stress-far too well informed and quite look back upon my own life it triumphs, all those evils over-think and THINK about Other ed that the case was no ordin-too sophisticated to perpetuate seems to have been good to me. come! Yes! For my part, any-People's Troubles. Sometimes our ary one. There were factors in the faux pan hat formerly In doing that, of course, I realise way, I would volunteer, and that little thinks are no good to any it which removed it very far tickled the superior risibilities of that my memory of the past is without guarantees. Life at any body, and we just have to have a selective in its operation. We price is good. And I would live good cry; but sometimes, prestol

the little brain-waves came from sheer, brutal murder. readers. Before anyone yields forget the unpleasant and the andmine again gladly,

cing down and Flufle and we have These have already been to despair, however, at the mere

a special jug of cream for tea. brought into prominence both in contemplation of a time when the comments which followed there shall be nothing funny left the first decision of the Execu- to write about, let him take heart tive Council and in the sub-in the comforting assurance of missions put forward in the Punch's new editor that there is petitions on the accused man's still the Politician who, it is safe behalf. No-one more than our- to assume, will always be with selves would deplore any weak-men. And though the plumber, ening of authority likely to give the policeman and the cook de- encouragement to the activities part, there still remains the of hired assassins. There need Bright Young Thing. . On the be no fear that the Cheng de- whole, one is inclined to feel cision will have any such reae- that Mr. Knox is not really very tions. Each case has to be pessimistic-in fact, that he was judged on its merits; in the pre- probably having his own little sent instance, justice has not joke and that Punch will on- been thwarted by the commuta- tinue a foremost British in- tion of the death sentence.stitution. With the charming Cheng, more fool than hardened conservatism one would natural- criminal, still has to bear a ly expect to emanate from No. heavy penalty for his misdeeds. 10 Bouveric Street, the, editor In expressed the belief that "some It is right that he should. supporting the pleas for cle- of the old jokes are still the best. meney made on his behalf, we... We may know what is com- were actuated by no other con- ing, but we get our amusement siderations than our own deep from speculating as to how the Beated convictions, the strong dear old thing is going to come force of public opinion, and die-cut in this particular version." tates of humanity. Representa- tions, direct or otherwise, reach- ed us from no quarter. Cheng, now fully repentant, has to face the rigors of a life sentence. He has, we have no doubt, learnt his lesson. Should he have the good fortune to outlive his term. it is not too much to hope that he may, in the dim future, yet have before him many years of useful, law-abiding life.

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

STUDY RATHER TO FILL YOUR MIND, THAN YOUR COFFERS; KNOW- ING. THAT GOLD AND SILVER WERE WITH DIRT, ORIGINALLY MINGLED UNTIL AVARICE OIL AMBITION PARTED THEM-Scheco,

"I think I stop and buy something for that old couple on my route. I haven't the heart to pass them by again."

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"Dear Clarence" (we wrote-for he'd sent a stamped addressed on- velope, like the good, careful boy he fa) "you are very naughty to have forgotten what SHE looks like, but Life is like that, isn't it? So this is what you must do, 'SHE' will be there and looking for you, won't she? So all you need do ica to atand In a spicuous place (somewhere near the entrance, I suggest) and if 'SHE'S keon 'SHE' will make her presence known to you! You might have something in your buttonhole to attract attention-for example, a wee dinky knot of blue ribbon. We are sending you a quarter of л yard from Lanoford's with in- structions how to make it up."

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Dear Clarenes, we hope he doesn't drop another brick! There fs, of course, just the grisly, grue- aomo chance that "SHE" has for- gotten what "HE" looks like. - Life is to torribly like that.