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DYDD GWYL DDEWI By Edward Kelly, Bachcyni
GOGERCHWRNDROR!
It's a town in Wales: Other towns in wales are LLAN (Alright! Alright! We didn't thank we'd be able to get away with it.)
Yesterday in Llanwheelbarrow they celebrated St. David's Day. It was also celebrated in Australia and Hongkong.
In Australia they called it Ash
In Hongkong they were more patriotic and called it Cmiwyp Shrdlu Etacin. That's Welsh dor "Say when, Mon!"
Welshmen are always associated with Eisteddfods, Welsh Rarchit and the leck.
Rarebit shouldn't be confused' with Rabbit. It is derived from the Scottish "rärely-bit".
The history of the leek has, how-
word "war" to cover those acts which by any other name stink equally in the nostrils of men and women of good will. The idea is a good one. But needs to be worked out with consider- able care or it will lead now- where. What, after all, ia huge crowds attending Test matches bowled in an Oxford v. Cambridge LLANFAIRPWLLGWINGYLL- - force? There is military force. which har been responsible for match so that the batting side There is economic force. There the sometimes insulting barrack could not follow on against tired ing of the English players. This bowlers there was a horrific' hulla- is even moral force. Which of minority consists of the loafers baloo at Lord's. If we sent a these is to be banned? Force in known as "grasschewers," and the lob-bowler to Australia who could the shape of an economie block-worst sort of city "Larrykins," in drop high full pitches on the balls ade was one of the most potent comparison with whom London's with unerring accuracy (as in the are little late Conan Doyle's ingenious weapons" of the last war, when East-End hooligans propaganda was also harnessed gentlemen. Every good Australian story) there would certainly be to the chariot of Mars. And in would like to see tutee pesta lopd ululations from the crowds these days of peace the Com- eliminated. They are as noxious at Sydney and Melbourne, and munist International in Moscow a nuisance to the home players as probably a protest from the Board-less Wednesday. makes no secret of the fact that to visitors, and their behaviour in of Cricket Control against "head-
a season, when inter-State matches] line bowling." it is fighting for a world revola-ure the only big cricket, is often tion by propaganda, by agitation, outrageous.
Such deliveries would be very by subsidizing sedition. Its
difficult to dispose of without striking lack of success does not
Spectators on the chief Austral-giving a catch to a suitably alter the fact that it is using 3ian playing-fields are not so much arranged field (most of them be- kind of force with the object of diviced up as on ours. According-hind the wicket).
If, however, such an experiment disturbing the good understand-ly, they are more of an "emotional
1 and were tried down under, some ing between nations upon which entity" (now where did Rockne Six by pillowing the peace depends. It is evident, that phrase?) and more liable to Australian batsman of the ultra-ever, been lost in antiquity. That powerful six-cylinder engine in therefore, that merely to usey be infected by the herd spirit of modern type (safety first and last the lock itself has not been lost in
And who would and all the time) would be sure the word "force" instead of riotous unreason. "war" in some new version of the care to be one of a small force to get hit on the head, and be antiquity is a subtle Welsh way of policemen detailed to cut a carried off the field while the Kellogg Pact will not take Europe dozen detrimentals out of the particularly far on the road to dense throng of freeholders locat-crowd held an impromptu newed, say, on "The Hill" at Sydney? security. Undefined, the phraseology would mainly pro-So when they get right out of
In a year or two, I venture to vide more grist for the quills of hand there is no remedy short of
out the militia. An prophesy, all this pother and ingenious international quib-calling
friend humorously palaver about "body-line bowling" blers. It is better to develop Australian
Meanwhile, one new avenue for the peaceful suggests that a military band will be merely remembered as a settlement of disputes than to rich in trombones should be comical Interlude..
be-jat English cricket matches often devise a hundred fresh formulas engaged to start playing fiff, when- let us not forget that the crowd
ever the crowd's comments
shows a lapse from gentility. I Stop us if you've heard this one. arainst force. The latter are came offensive.
well remember the first barracking Six men were wrecked on an is- chiefly important as they dis-
at Lord's at Oxford v. Cambridge land. seminate a calmer atmosphere so. It should be remembered, more which was got up by a group of Two of them sat in either side. that the former can begin to over, that the Australian specta-festive youths (dene natt, bene of a palm tree, staring vacantly. vestiti, moderate docti-very into space. They wouldn't speak than the more sedate and probably does, need another "an'
moderately in most cases) to "get because they weren't introduced In the a rise out of Webbie." This im- to each other. Both were English. formula to lessen the feeling of English eye-witness."
Another two were down on the unrest that exists on account United States those who go to of the unsolved frontier pro-base-ball matches take an active promptu rag attained its object,
a record of Mr. A. J.. Webbe's little out of each other. Both were Irish. blems. But unless the formula part in the hostilities. They veil and some of my readers may have beach, coats off, belting the spine The third couple were declaim- because they love noise for its Saturday afternoon when there is ing bardic verse and wailing a "WAR" AND "FORCE" is reinforced by something de- at the top of their voices, not only hemily. Nowadays, on any fine finite in the way of machinery own sake (as children do), but
Eisteddfod. drastic comments on the play and were starting an There is more than meets the for peaceful revision of unsatis also with the deliberate intention good cricket at Lord's you can hear Cymric dirge to each other. They Hwyl! Bywl. Argladdy la eye in the announcement from factory settlements. "somebody of putting the pitcher or the man the players. And at the Oval
And their there is always, a excuse for batting off his game.
bunch of chardwriaidd yna! (Welsh for will soon find an
irrepressible Abyssinia). Geneva that the Drafting Com-treating the ban on "force" in spoken criticisms of the players irresponsible and
spectators in the gasometer's mittee of the Disarmament Con-exactly the same way as the ban often reach the height of Eliza
where
grateful shade whose noisy noise ference has agreed to a proposal, on "war" in the Kellogg Pact has bethan hyperbole thus, originating with Britain," that already been twice treated in the we might say a fieldsman drops annoy's an oyster (meaning the
too many catches, they declare
contemplative connoisseur) - It since it was resort to force, under circum-tive short years
that he couldn't hold a ball if it was there, however, I heard a the Heathen, we recently ran was handed to him on a platter Surreyite, arguing with Д Lan-Fancy Dress Dance,, stances in which the Pact of inaugurated.
with watercress round it!
suspension..
live rubber at all four points of
See and drive the New Rockne Six to-day!
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
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The
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Hongkong Telegraph function. Europe to-day may. tor is nearer akin to the American tes
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Soviet and China."
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castrian about the relative merits
of punishing the English.
Although the Welsh are reputed to be the second menaest race in the world. a Welshman was ones known to give a hint to a friend. It is said that if you give a Welshman enough "l'" he can tie himself into such a phraseolo- couldn't extricate him. gical knot that even Lloyd George
Welsh!
You can't knock the L out of the
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HOT WEATHER.
In order to provide Hot Soup for
our
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had
The Hon. Elizabeth pranced up
silk. Next came somebody clsc, ditto in cotton. The third was similar, in paper. The fourth was the same.
We and Pete were asked to Paris forbids war, shall be ex-
of the teams, who clinched the judge the costumes, and it may be pressly forbidden. The kernel
The polite hush, punctuated by controversy by saying: "Any'ow, only a coincidence, but from all of the matter is the distinction
quiet complimentary "asides," of vou ain't got blokes like our four the Pierrettes, Follies, Gipay Girla drawn between "force"" and
temper costume as the prettiest, Dr. Yen's journey to Moscow a match at Lord's strikes Trans-Ha-Ayward, 'Ayes, 'Obbs, and and whatnot, he selected
while we picked out his half- "war." By the terms of the will formally complete the Sino-atlantic visitors as fantastically Itch!"
funereal. Not so long ago I took
section's 38 the most novel. Kellogg Pact, war is renounced Soviet rapprochement, after
charming American girl-a
In "Days in the Sun" Mr. After all, charity begins at home as an instrument of national lapse of five years. The U. S. S. Southerner with a low, soft, clear Neville Cardus tells us how a Then came the judging of the best policy, but at the same time it S. R. played a very active part voice, like Devonshire cream out packed mass of 26,000 Yorkshire areas representing an advertise- 13-recognised that there may be in building up Nationalist China. of a silver spoon-to see Oxford folk once turned a sunny after-ment. Now the Hon. Elizabeth Was had already said, she had a circumstances in which seeming-At one time, indeed, it seemed as v. Cambridge (not "Cambridge noon into Bedlam. It ly aggressive action may be de-if the new China were destined to Oxford" as some pathetic "Tabs" melodramatic struggle for points brilliant idea for winning this. been advertising fensive in character. Unfortun- become an appanage of Moscow, would now have it). On the way in the first innings, Lancashire Elsie's had
Empire Marmalade, and ately, there is no machinery for Between them Borodin and Ga- to Lord's I noticed that her having scored 307, and the howls defining an aggressor, and that lens (now called General Blu- vanity bag had a big bulge in it, of the spectators at every ball plastered the district with pie- is one of the weaknesses of the cher) organized, the Nationalist and asked if she was bringing bowled were as the howls of tures of a girl wearing a red and along an unnecessary flask. It Kellogg Pact. Indeed, in her Revolution. In 1923 the new was 1 tin with pebbles in it and furies: The passions of the mob yellow frock, in a yellow and red, ranks; it was a Shakespearean if she turned up dressed like this, actions both in Manchuria and movement, after sweeping over slung on a strap, a substitute for passed like hot fluid through the beret hat. As the woman said, Shanghai, Japan has taken re-south China, settled in the a rattle, with which she intended crowd in the sudden changeful she would be bound to win.
We ought to have seen the red fuge in the Pact's proviso, Yangtse Valley. Then Marshal to encourage the "Oxford boys" atness of its emotions." Parkin was
Explanations claiming that she has been com- Chiang Kai-shek, "bourgeois" critical moments.
wicket or even avoid Bevere saw a girl in red and yellow, go pelled, for reasons of self-de-leader of the moderates, won followed, and it was dropped out/ taunted for his fallure to get a light when we first went in. We
other and" when punishment,
said, "Hallo, Liza," but we realised fence, to act as she has done. real as well as apparent control of the window of the taxi. For a
on!
by the way the temperature went Whilst it can be conceived, es- The succeeding years have been quarter of an hour the cricket was bowlers did better, the universal we tapped her on the back, and In the end down that we had put the salt on pecially in cases where nations marked by a thorough "purging" very slow, the batsmen laborious chant was: "Put Parkin
ly playing themselves in. So she Put Parkin on!" run border to border, that a of Chinese nationalism. The turned on me a "beautiful loret Yorkshire were out for 306, on the tail of the wrong bird.
Later, in the Grande Parade we country getting in the first blow word is Chiang's. The action look," and asked in a thrilling run behind; and "a silence fell may really be acting defensive has been his, too. Though the whisper: "What have they done over the field more significant fancied we anw another girl dress-
even than the loudest of the after-ed in marmalade, but unfortunate-- ly, the generally accepted inter- Nanking, or Nationalist, Gov- with the corpse?"
noon's thousand ear-splitting ly we took no notice. pretation of defensive warfare ernment set-up was modelled un
No crowd likes innovations, noises; it was the silence of men does not extend to the carrying Soviet Russia's in that final of operations into another's ter-authority is vested in party or which it doesn't quite understand. and women sick at heart through first, a la Empire Marmalade, in
balls, hope outraged." ritory. The operations in Jehol, gans, Chiang has been thorough- When a couple of loose for example, cannot seriously bely anti-Communist, elevating viewed as being dictated by his attitude almost into the rai- considerations of defence. To son d'etre of his Government. revert to the plan now propound-Repressive measures
are often ends. od in Geneva, its object obvious-lapt to defeat their own ly is to prohibit undeclared war, In his case student Communists under which category the Japan-were driven into underground ese "operations in Manchuria, agitation and Communist armies Shanghai and Jehol would come. went on the warpath outside the It is true that the "defensive" Nanking zone of influence, both stipulations of the Kellogg Pact activities being 80 successful would still apply, and until some that, as is shown in the Lytton means are devised of adjudging report, Communist China now whether specific operations are controls a fifth of that great or are not defensive, there would country. In some measure, the be nothing to prevent a country restoration of Sino-Russian rela softening from taking advantage of these tions may be due to stipulations. There is ground of Chiang's inflexibility toward for thinking that the original his own Communist problem. British proposal has been weak-Whether it will lead to under. ened by modifications. What is standing between Nationalist needed is a declaration under China and Communist China, which the use of force would be however, may be doubted. Its barred under any circumstances true explanation lies in China's whatever. In a word, war, how difficulties with Japan. Nank ever, described, should be out-ing cannot afford to maintain its lawed once and for all. Recent long feud with Soviet Russia in events bring us to the conclusion the face of Japanese encroach- that, though war-remains, the ments upon China's farflung age of calling it war is past. territory. History is repeating The word "war" has become itself, as it has done throughout demoded. It has definitely lost the entire Manchurian crisis. cante even if it has not yet reach- The Sino-Japanese war of 1894- ed the status of an untouchable. 95 led to an agreement between To this extent the Kellogg pact China and Russia amounting to has left a loophole for casuistical a defensive and offensive alliance Japan. Tokyo will Frument. Hence the British against Government's understandable-doubtless see the same object, and laudable-desire to extend the same realpolitik behind of the Inhibitions placed upon the the present agreement."
"If this is for the papers T'd rather you'd use the picture
I had taken when I ran for alderman in 98"
By the time the fifth parti coloured damsel stood in front of us. Pete gave a gasp, and said he felt unwell, the dirty dog. One of the stewards led him to the bar, where, we are pleased to say, all- he could get to revive h'm was a pork pie and a glass of milk
Left to hold the fort by ourself, we watched numbers seven and eight, both marmalade, file up and deploy in open order. If we had been Solomon, We
should have done the same as he did.
After some time we remembered that Pete's car was just outside the door, and that it will accelerate to eighty miles an hour inside a minute. so wo awarded the prize' to the Hon. Elize, and disappeared.
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FROM OUR POSTBAG. Dear Mr. Kelly. When I play cricket with my kids I let them beat me if they want to. It pleases them and makes no difference to me. Why can't we bowl the Aus- tralians the sort of balls they like A Roctor,
Dear Mr. Kelly, I often play "parlour cricket" with my little. Cairn terrier Fido. We use a soft, woolly ball that my married daughter made for me. Could not gallant lads "down under" be per- anaded to play with same?→→→ (Mrs.) R. A. Blowhard.
Sir-Does any sane person care tuppence whether wo win the Tests or not?(Gen.) S. H, Rap- nell.
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