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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1933.

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ed. The Farm Bill amendment now proposes that the Federal Banks should purchase a further three thousand million dollars' worth of Government bonds. This

GOOD-BYE TO OXFORD

Says GILES PLAYFAIR

will increase bank reserves but The other day a friend of mine have edited one of the weakly such an artificial increase in re-kindly gave me a lift from Oxford Jourants, but I would hesitate to serves is not the sole factor in to London. Like myself he had been write anything of Oxford which I the volume of bank credit. It pursuing his academic career for could honestly call wholly true or

I know this much, however depends also on the temper of over three years; like myself he wholly comprehensive,

was loaving. Oxford for the last the business community, of time in stalu pupillari.

I know that modern Oxford is which Stock Market booms of As we drove down the High-street gulity of none of those faults of This advertisement is ad-

last week's character are little I asked him if he was glad to be which its new enemies would have dressed to the man who rarely

criteria, and by business pro-leaving and he replied that he was the world bellove it is.

As we passed over Magdalen makes a bad gear change, for

spects. Here America la faced by a factor entirely out of her Bridge I asked him if he regretted ho is probably the motorist who thinks he doesn't need the Vauxhall Synchro-control. Business prospects de- this time spent in Oxford. He re-chants are harboured gladly. On

pend largely upon developments plled that he did not. abroad responsive to the Ameri-

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LETTERS OF A SELF MADE COLONIAL Edited By Eddie Kelly.

AT

T great personal cost we have come Into possession of a bundle of letters, written by new arrival in Hongkong,' to his Girl Friend at Home.

Rovealing as they do the soul- stirring depth of passion in an Englishman just out from Home, we think they should be passed on

We know the writer.

They say that Oxford is nothing better than a place where stunt mer-to our public.

the contrary, there to no place in And in both these thoughts Ithe world where stunt merchants are frowned on more severely than in Oxford.

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and, we

want to

make his

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known

by the letters he has written.

We are privileged to print

You may never make a bad

can action. If a depreciation belleve that he was justified.

I know this to my cost. Oxford gear change on your present

race sets in, if tariff walls go LEGEND AND DISILLUSION. car, but Synchro-Mesh can

higher in gold countries, there

Three years in the university is has not easily forgotten or forgiven still help you to drive batter;

will be no gainers. All will be quite long enough for the average the balloon union.

Thoy Bay that Oxford la do- faster and with greater safety.osers. An agreed measure of undergraduate. He is not sorry to

inflation by all countries simul- leave and the reason is easy to dis-teriorating. On the contrary, Ox- taneously might achieve what cover. The popular superstition ford is passing through an appears to be the main objective that the world is waiting with open paralleled period of incline.

A short while ago I was strolling of the United States, the raising arms to welcome the young man just

members of the Oxford Union. chaotic world where it is impos-to count for very much.

The undergraduate who meets They belonged to the period of the fore, the unflinching courage sible to foresee the full results

those of his friende who "went haughty nineties. One of them and imagination of a man, who of any development, independent down" the year before, asks them remarked, "Nothing seems to have faces for the first time the horrors and terrors of Hong- action by the United States may what they are doing. He le quite changed much since our day."

The remark of this life member kong. Who can say, without a accomplish all its sponsors de- prepared for the dismal and in- sire. But the risk is tremendous. evitable answer which nine out of made me think of Oxford, as it was sob in his throat, that this man If President Roosevelt's advis ten of them must return-nothing. In my first year and Oxford as I

through- ers have miscalculated, and it The sad fact has been realised in found it in my fourth. The differ is not a Briton through and proves impossible to achieve an Oxford, as it has been realised clse-ence between the two struck me so International agreement, world where, that modern life is just a forcibly that I could hardly credit pioneering stock that has made recovery may be set back for struggle for existence. Small won it. During my first year Oxford our great and glorious Empire

der that the average undergraduate was just beginning to emerge from what it is. Imagines that the sooner he enters Its rent period of decadence. that struggle, the more likely he is to triumph.

of commodity prices. In to-day's { down from Oxford has long ceased down the High-street with two life them. They show, as never be-

Stubbs Road, Tel. No. 27778 27779

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1939.

years.

Grantchester-Beloved of Poets

¡GAGE OF BATTLE,

Bolo

of the

Hongkong, Friday. My Pet Just a line to tell you that I arrived in Hongkong this morning and haven't been kidnapped yet. The But for all this, I believe that

Idiotic young men, whose

propio here are a wild looking lot, were the undergraduates of to-day claim to notoriety was to be found with "bandit" written all over their offered their time over again, only a in the choice of their neckties were faces. I haven't had much time to minute percentage would disdain regarded by themselves and a few examine the place yot, but it seenis athe chance of a university career. others as the heroes of the age. to be a typical outpost of our Colon- Happily enough, scarcely month now goes by without an And though I am one who takes an Undergraduates wasted their time in. I am living in a village called

announcement that Great Bri-equal ohare in the general dread of

the future, I can safely say that if going to silly parties, giving even Kowloon, and the people in the next ellier parties, and running each mud hut to mine have warned mo not tain has arranged- for still an-

Peak. From what can gather it is other portion of her countryside ever I am in the position to send other down. The whole place was to venture near a place called the to be preserved in perpetuity. Bon to Oxford I shall not hesitate permeated with the slovenly. atmesinhabited by a terrible piratical band known locally as the Taipan Tong, and also by the Mid Devil (pro- nounced Middlelevel) Tong.

suro

sphere of stupid affectation and INFLATION

tiresome superficiality. But the news that the small to do so.

To-day all that has passed. The American currency develop-village of Grantchester, on the OXFORD ON THE UPGRADE.

It is the fashion of the monient recent "King and Country" motion

Hongkong, Sunday. ments remain the most absorb-outskirts of Cambridge, is to be

Sweetkins-Had

terriblo ing topic of the hour. Precise kept forever free from economic for certain publicists to decry the at the Union constitutes &

exploitation will arouse far more universities, together with all those proof of it. It demonstrates the motives are still obscure. The than merely national interest. young men who have the temerity truism that Oxford has at last be-perience last night. I was out hiking "Oxford is no long gun to think for itself, that it in-with some friends, and we score rest- application of pressure for an Grantchester has been beloved to enter them. international understanding of English poets for 600 years. er worth while" has almost become tends to face up to the problems of ing far away from the settlement at of the day in its own way and as it a part of Kowloon known as the Peninsula, when suddenly we found ourselves right in the heart of the war furnishes an important motive Bat it was Rupert Brooke who popular slogan. Epithets

undergraduate. And these epithets Whatever the social rights and zone. The enemy, clad in white but the official pronounce first brought it international abuse are hurled at the unfortunate ple

of abuse are now well nigh wrongs of that motion.

clothing, rushed upon us, and, for a lost. concentrated in their frequency and

Oxford has thrown down a chal-moment, I thought we were as futile in their vulgarity, as thos0lenge to the older generation/Fortunately one of our mombers could directed against an enemy in time which the older generation knows "Wiskensoda! Fides! Fidag!""" "in a speak the language, and, saying full well it cannot afford to harakalos, offered to bribe our of war.

lotta go ignore.

ments made have uldoubted- ly

unexplain- ed. Baldly outstanding are the two cardinal, thought-compell- ing features that the abandon- ment of the gold standard was

much left

fame:

Dan Chaucer hoora his river still

Chatter beneath a phantom mill. Tennyson notes, with studious eye,

How Cambridge waters hurry by

But it would be as well for theso Berlin would be detractore of Oxford to discover a little about the object

But Brooke was in

dream,

captors—if they imshaw a rand

For my part I have nothing but Upon payment of

of ono dollar (a Chinese coin)!

fow winter with a very old man named Johnny Walker, who showed jus the way to go home. Many of the

gular troops.

f

not an act of necessity and that when he wrote his poem, and he of their disgust. The other day envy for the freshmen of to-moranch they departed and returned in a

is not sure that Grantchester a national newspaper sent one of row. President Roosevelt turned in-

may not have changed since last their crack reporters to Oxford, OXFORD 15 WORTH WHILE.

He was to stay a week. He was to flationist in a night. Sub-he saw it.

Is Oxford worth while? I believe people here belong to an army known write a series of articles, entitled, sequent steps were of a swift-

Bay, do

the elm-clumps greatly "What is wrong with Oxford?" that it is. It affords a young man as the Cumahaw Brigade. They are ness that left financial circles

stand, Still guardians of that holy land? He was to get to the root cause of the unique opportunity of mixing forever holding people for ranson the with his contemporaries. It affords and are continually pitting their bowildered for the moment, but

The chestnuts shade, in zoverend the trouble. I met him on

second day of his exhaustive re-him the opportunity of learning strength against the Sickplesse, or re- for the moment only, and the

search. I told him to return to exactly what his generation is The yet unacademic stream?...

he thinking and of deciding whether

Hongkong, Tuesday. London. I am happy to say anti-inflationist forces are now

ho shall think with them er against O, is the water sweet and cool,

profited by my advice.

My dearest-Received your being steadily marshalled. The Gentle and brown, above the pool?

Last summer a brilliant and wall-them. Above ail, Oxford teaches thred thousand million dollar

It is pleasant to reflect that meaning German lady film director him something of the universal letter yesterday. After many ad- currency (or credit) expansion the answers to these questions made a moving picture of Oxford competition of which modern life ventures it was brought to our programme, with its provisions will always be what Brooke life. I have funt left Oxford after consists and of the disappointments village by the Pando, or native nearly four years. I think that I which that competition inevitably carrier. I'm taking good care of myself, dear heart, and note what for the debasement of the dollar, would have desired.

can claim to have seen as much of brings with it.

would you say about the alligators and Theré аго those who university life as it is possible to has many rough seas to navigate before it is steered through the How Many Words Make see in that time. I have been welcome the end of Oxford. I am pirates. Darling, I always take intimately concerned with O.U.D.S. not one of them. I believe that extra care when crossing the har Senate. Inflation strikes at

a Language? productions of every description, IOxford still stands as one of our bour. Actually, the danger de have spoken at the Union as a Lloyd most valuable institutions. I be very slight when crossing from fundamentals, whether it pro-

George Liberal and have attained Heve that the day Oxford ceases to Kowloon to the Peaklanda, be fesses to be a credit inflation or

dis-office there, I have belonged to other exist will be a sad day for this cause the Navy always have at are university and college societies, country.

When lexicographers

Mr.

a currency inflation. An over-agree, how many words expansion of bank credit impairs available for the statement of arguments? the quality of credit, just as an their respective increase in the quantity of This is a difficult question, made. money, if it goes far enough, more difficult by the fact that it Is the very question upon which will impair its quality. AN lexicographers are at present essential feature of satisfac-disagreeing, Dr. Frank H. torily controlled inflation must Vizetelly, editor of the Standard bo public confidence. It is Dictionary, has estimated the difficult to believe that genuine number of words in the English

language at 1,000,000. confidence can exist in a country Harold Wentworth, associate which has just passed through editor of Webster's New Inter- a money crisis unequalled almost national Dictionary, thinks there in modern history. Confidence are two to three times that is not a vague general thing.many. But Prof. Robert L. Ramsey has just published a It is specific. Confidence in survey that limits the language currency usually means 'con- to 250,000 words. Users of fidence that the government or English probably will divide into bank of issue will pay gold on more than three camps when,| demand. There is π strong and if, this question becomes a opinion that it was forced popular issue. For instance, if you are waiting for the party expansion of bank credit from who shares your telephone to 1922 to 1928 which was respon- bring his conversation to a close sible for a great part of the so that you can make a call, you' existing industrial depression, will decide then and there that which the now expansion is the Wentworthists' 2,000,000 or 8,000,000 is too small a number. designed to counter! The re- 8,000,000 seems like too many. newal of government security words to master, you may pote purchases by the Federal Rehow well the youngest member Berve Banks in 1980 following of the family fares on three or the Wall Street crash was re-four. And if a mero quarter of sponsible for the false boom of a million seems rather restric that year and the renewal of ex- tive, you have the consolation of Professor Ramsey's report that cessive security issues which this number is three times as complicated very much the diffi-large as can be claimed for any culties in the period that follow-other language.

"She says she is 16, but I'll but she's 18, if she's day."

least a dozen warships in the har- bour to guard the Star anupans against pirate attacks.

Have I over told you about the terrible Shroff Tong that inhabits the outer districts of Hongkong. A. friend of mine, Mr. Edward Kelly, was warning me about them last night. He was telling me that the Shroff Tong will never rost until their onemies are in their clutches. Mr. Kelly has been captured by the Shroff Tongs several times, but with the aid of ransom (out here they pronounce it run-some or, occasionally, run- Jikell) he has always escaped death.

This Mr. Kelly is the nicest man I have ever mot. The other day he saved my life out at a desolate spot called Repulse Buy. We were resting in a mat-shed which some of the lads have facetiously named "Repulse Bay Hotel" when there was a terrible commotion down at the beach,

"What is it?" I asked fearful-

"Some of the Pankites throwing a wild party, I guess," replied Kelly Indifferently.

Sweetheart, that man's calm amazed me. He spoke as if the Peak Tong were civilized, law abiding, people. If I could only tell you some of the terrible things the people at Kowloon have told me about the Peak Tongs, it wuld mako your blood run cold. And bore we were in the midst of one of their wild orglos.

"How are we going to escape?" I muttered.

"Wait here, and I'll see what I

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