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NERVOUS

TUESDAY, APRIL 25. 1933,

Jary to the World Economic Con- ference. Indications are that America is pressing for a bime- tallic standard and world infla- tion, the one kind of inflation which, by reason of its being common to all countries, can be considered economically sound. An expansive monetary policy in all countries simultanously would lead to a higher level of }

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DEATH,

The

pass

When Metaphor Meets

Metaphor

The reputation of the Irish for committing "bulls" in the use of figurative language vics with that of the Scots as heroes for thrift stories.

One such is the shattering exploit imagined by

Hongkong Telegraph. et." That

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1933.

IN SEARCH OF THE

WONGNEICHÓNG SQUATTER

I. The Blue Pool and Road

By CHAS. VAN-LEO

The Very Idea!

THE ANZACS

By Edward B. Kelly.

171TH a reckloss disregard

Wfor the feelings and safety

Recent reports of seemingly unending strife be- of the Anzaca, Mr. Edward Kel- tween P.W.D. bailiffs and Squatters encroaching on ly, the famous War Correspond. Crown lands in Wongneichong Valley have revived in ent, has been retained by the terest in a type of Island indigene in its truest form. Telegraph exclusively to report on the Company's annual dinner The original Squatter, however, is a very different per at the Volunteer Headquarters son from the opportunist seeking a cheap abode who to-night. has received severe official censure lately. In these series of articles the writer tells of a quest which led to the discovery of a settlement of genuine Squatters and of its Oldest Inhabitant who, is a direct link with pre-Occupation days.

Here is the legend:

TSIN LAN YUEN. Has Always on Hand Fresh and Beautiful Flowers of all Col- ours & Vegetables for Balo or Hire.

As Mr. Kelly' does not 811- ticipate that he will be in a fit condition to write his story after arrange- the function, special mente have been made for ite publication beforehand.

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A-

the

However, we were able to ga- ther, in between the uproar, that the history of the Anzac Company In Hongkong was an interesting one.

It was started by an Australian a little under a year ago..

British Monetary Policy Disappearing Dialects already deforested hillside when sitting out the daily measure of remarkable transactions were made.

In search of the Wongnelchong moss-covered banke. Here a leafy

To-night (writes Mr. Kelly) wo' an Irish member of the British Squatters the seeker after one of bower opening between the gnarled

in the trunks of ancient trees tempts attended the House of Commons of former Hongkong's oldest types

courge of survey of rapidly with the coolness of Its shade. Anzac Company years, Mr. Boyle Roche. Dur-changing conditions on the Island There a woodcutter's trail diverts dinner at the ing a stormy debate Mr. Roche is liable to be led astray by a straying footsteps as it meander Volunteer Ilead- suddenly smelled rat. But, duplication of the original article, samongst the luxuriant undergrowth quarters. carried away with the exuber-Progress ny expressed by expan- and is soon lost to vlow along the

mong ance of his own verbosity, nsion of residential areas has trans-gently sloping hillside. Further other distingui- Mr. Winston Churchill would formed this once Sleepy Hollow in-up the Road, the Blue Pool is dia-shed guests wero to [J uninspiring pattern of covered, where the stream spreads Mr. Resch, Wool- any, he not only smelled it, "but squares and rectangles, and the Rip itself effulgently out on issuing loomooloo Yank saw it floating in the air and Van Winkle rudely roused from his from a rushy glen whose recesses the Sunburnt- hoped to nip it in the bud." An ten years sleep by the clang of are withheld from viow and only Stockman,

Dig. acrobatic feat, indeed! But the hammer on rock has found it hard subtly suggested to the imagine-gor Bill Stan bull which is so much the delight to rediscover the familiar land- tion by interstices in a

screen Cross, Norman of connoisseurs as to have be-marks by which in his early days of vegetation marvellous In Ita Lindany, Billy Hughes, Red Ted, and luxuriance. But and other Australians too numer come a chestnut or classic, ac- he was guided to a true apprecia- diveraity cording to the perceptions of tion of the full charms of a sylvan must we tell you more? The mani-ous and full to mention. It was a countryside. Still more dliBeult fold delights of that walk will have one's funny bone (is that a bull would it be for him to find his con- to be seen to be fully appreciated.

great evening.

Soveral amatour Demosthenes or a metaphor?) hails from the temporarica of that race of pioneers Man has sought to capture here- rose majestically to mako speeches, Antipodes. An Australian one and squatters migrated from the abouts some of its glories after his but the barrage from the bar- day addresed his fellow-parlia-mainland-the original inhabitants own abortive fashion, and in puny rackers on the ill was too fierce. mentarians at Canberra on a of the Island whose descendante are pots and rectangular plots they point of order. His protest be-bred from the scanty Island soil greet the rambler from the way BAPTISTA.-Maria do Carmo Bap-gan: "Gentlemen, a member of and owing ritual allegiance to no side.

tista, aged 67. Died at her this House has taken advantage one-time peaceful hamlet

remoter ancestral village than the

on this THE LEGEND. residence. No. G. St. Joseph's of my absence to tweak iny nose their permanent Island home. Terrace. Funeral will monument 5.30 p.m. to-morrow, behind my back. I hope that Here, there, everywhere there is and gradual transformation, (Wednesday). (Shanghal papers the next time he abuses me be- ja plense copy).

hind my back like a coward he where the builder's handiwork of

He brought some friends along will do it to my face like a man, jcement and concrete is taking

to the first parade, and the follow- ing Friday their friends brought and not go skulking to the shape there has gravitated a new of Squatter-the builder's

friends, and the Friday after their thicket to assail a gentleman type

hand attracted from up-country by A Chinese homestand reached, friends'. friends brought friends, who is not present to defend him- the prospect of a better wage. He adjoining one of these gardone, and the result was that there were aelf." That may, of course, be builds his rude Bhack or lean-to nt quickened the interest by the poa more than 60 of the original fri- apocryphal. But then, so are the nearest convenient spot in total sibility of its holding the Oldest ends friends friends friends' fri many of the best thrift stories, disregard of priority of Crown or Inhabitant. Here were discovered-well, divide by Friday and the

pigs and its composito features: A yet they lose nothing in the private rights The

low answer's Robinson Crusoe. fowls he keeps are but a side-line. wooden hut; a lean-to serving as a As we were saying- telling because of it.

His woman is also but an inveter-cookhouse; and on the other side

During the evening, under the ate seeker of fuel wood on an a storeroom where women were cloak of good-comradeship. ΤΟΠΙΟ

Numerous

she is not otherwise engaged in rice and paddy. A black chow Through the offices of many of our pronouncements have been made of late on the

carting about that odorous and un-(most vicious of the species) bark Australian friends wo were able The proposal in England that determined something Tabelled ed at the Stranger's approach. A to purchase, at a remarkably low monetary policy and the attitude twenty-four records should be "pig-wash" In the vernacular. hen leading an expectant brood, cost, one (1) harbour bridge, ope which should be adopted by made of British dialecta has re- Opportunist and commercialist, he scrached to very little purpose (1) plot of land in Hyde Park, Great Britain. One of the most ceived the approval of all who is not to be trusted as of the true cross the threshold. A pig three (3) gold bricks, and interesting is in the form of a are genuinely interested in the type of Wongneichong squatter, grubbed freely and noisily in a mud alligator farm in Queensland.

He is just an ubiquitous product of bath behind the kitchen. The. memorandum addressed by the welfare of the most widely spo- this building age to be eschewed, ahtill note of the cicade and the Mandated Territories, only we-

Wo would have also purchased the Federation of British Industries ken language that the world has and best, left to the care of the softer call of the rock pigeon were to the Chancellor of the Exche-ever known. The need for such Public Works overseer. quer. The Federation urges records is apparent. The Scot- against Britain's return to the tish dialect, or rather the Scot-

NATURE'S LAST RETREAT. gold standard and suggests that tish accent, remains as ubiquit- immediate efforts should be dir-ous as ever among Prime Minis- But not all of the Valley has ected to building up a British ters, Archbishops of Canterbury fallen under the builder's devasta-not currency system based primarily and heads of departments.tion. Tucked away under one es carpment le a most delightful walk on the Empire and secondarily But nearly all other British dia- which the Seeker after the Island's on such other countries as desire lects and, accents are rapidly Oldest known Inhabitant this day to come into a system related to disappearing. Certain accents took to bring him to the end of his sterling, with a view to forming and dialects, such, for example, queat. It bears the enchanting What's in a name. There is a the nucleus of a world financial as the Scottish, retain their old name of Blue Fool Road, and the good deal when it is the title of award or the consequences, we give system. It has never regarded repute. But the great majority promise held out to the City new book or publication, just as this war cry to the Anzacs for the depression as a purely mone- of them do not. It is significant dweller almost at his doorstep was there is something in the name of their dinner to-night for what it tary problem, but considers that that those scholars and resear-dreams. It seems that driven into feels that the name should give an

to be fulfilled beyond his fondest a newly met person. Somehow one is worth.

"Whoomera, whoomera, balalook, present dificulties are due to the chers who are most voluble in one of her Inst retreats, Nature has indication of the character of the boomerang, fact that financial policy, especi- their praise of them rarely or consoled herself for a loss of space publication or person and when it ally since the war, has become never use them in ordinary con- by crowding into what has re-succeeds in so doing, the name divorced from commercial and versation. The fact is that mained to her of, a once beautiful lingers easily in the mind. industrial policy, with gravo de- dialect, 90 picturesque and Valley, all her numerous artifices "The Repository" has this triment to the latter. The mem-poetical, is one of the things that for the engnarement of the rambler tinction. It is largely a personal orandum goes on to show that most divide the British nation. from the hot and dusty streets of affair, standing miles apart from

the City. world gold standard as it oper- With the nationalization of a gurgles over a rocky bed between

running stream] the usual type of "literature"

(Continued on Pago 7.) ated before the war was, in nearly standard English, the day fact, predominantly a sterling of class, divisions is drawing to standard, and the efforts which, in close.

at great cost to ourselves, we

made to reinstate it after the Making Friends Through

Films

war were foredoomed to failure. The menorandum urges that the primary objectives of the new monetary policy should be The film of Mr. Noel Coward's (a) To raise the level of ater- "Cavalcade," produced by an ling prices to a figure at which American company in Holly- production can be carried on with wood, has been almost unanim- reasonable profit. (b) To ously acclaimed in England as promote thereafter stability in the best film of British interest the price structure and balanced so far made. One enthusiastic production within the sterling British film exhibitor declared

of

area. (e) The conscious dir- that it would do more for the ection of the flow of savings into reputation of Great Britain than now investments calculated to paying the war debt instalment. secure the maximum of advanta-Continuing this atrain of amiable ge for industry. (d) The dir-hyperbole, it might be remarked ection of that part of the na- that the film will do more for tional savings available for ex- America's reputation in Great ternal investment to countries Britain than cancelling the war within the sterling aren,

10. debt instalment. This, countries of complementary course, would be an extravagant trade. Every effort should be exaggeration, but an exaggern- made to bring about a common tion, nevertheless, of a fact. Empire financial and industrialThe production of "Cavalcade" policy, leaving the question of a with an English cast on Ameri- possible universal monetary plan can soil-opens up fascinating to be settled later. The desir vistas of reflection. What

and ability of a common aim

long stop toward the assuring of policy within the Empire is un-permanent peace would be taken. questioned, but whether this should necessarily precede or be if every country's patriotic films were made by another land. If built up concurrently with a more general effort at economic every nation, as America has done in this single instance, reconstruction depends, we think

wore to begin to trumpet abroad upon the world situation, and the honour and glory of allen especially upon the Mac Donald-peoples, ware would be rendered Roosevelt discussions prelimin-

more remote.

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run out of funds.

Art

in the air. The Rambler was in a The Australian national game is peaceful Chinese countryside on this "two-up”. The game is played ponnics, carly summer afternoon. An ideal with two double-headed spot to commune with Nature.

which, after the bets are laid, are But the Oldest Inhabitant was tossed into the air. If the coins

to be found.

REPOSITORY

"What's the use of my hunting around for expensive-looking bargains, if you're going, to tell people what we paid for every- thing?"

dis-

como down tails first, the Pommy wins, and if they come down henda first, the Australians win. --

ANZAC WAR CRY Free, and without thought of re-

Crocodile, kookaburra, wombat, rangatang,

Wee-o, wy-o, terramungamine, Quandong, billabong, gundabluey

Platypus, emu, wallaby, 'roo, Ibis, broigs, white cockatoo, Murrumbúrrah, Cowra,

Coo- lamon, Banco,

pine,

Boggabri, Narromine, Nevertire, Yanco,

Whoopee, Coo-ce, ha-ha-ha. Anzacs Anzacs!

YAH YAH YAH!"

ACCOUNT RENDERED

Number of "chain prayers" sent me

last week

Number of "chain-prayers"

up

TOO BAD

torn £

"It is hoped that a decision will be poarible this year on a type of light machine-gun to take the place of the Lowls Gun."

-ARMY ESTIMATES.

The brutal and licentious soldiery of an earlier.day-especially those of us old romantics who love and remember the boss on the .food- arm-actuating-stud-will contemp- late this rather gloomily, wo; imagine.

In those days, the Lowis was of ten a temperamental gun, full of sudden devilries and mulishness and stoppages and sulis, as tough. as a Peak rider to hounds. Tam- ing her was a man's job, ogad, and we were looking forward to it. again, in due course. Who knows what fadaises the Army Council are devising. In her place?

Something decadent, no doubt, in lacquered chromium steel, and Laliquo, firing in two colours, old rose and powder-blue. And if you place your handkerchief --- against. be exhaust you got s spray of Coty Reve d' Amour for, nothing..