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SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1933.

vised before the dispute i THE UNEMPLOYED AT THE BULLS AND INNERS

settled. It is not surprising,

therefore, to find that the earlier inclination to dismiss successivo developments as kite-flying by one party or the other has given way to apprehensions that a conflagration in North Man-j

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Why Not Scrap History?

little

The

ROUND TABLE

By REV. E. L. ALLEN, D.P.H.

the

Hongkong Telegraph.asserts that the school history on by that desperate problem of takes his vow to serve God in the

SATURDAY APRIL 29, 1933.

of

change!

of

HOW LONG WILL OUR

ways

From the Office Butts

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It is and that mosquitoes are

ten thousand times worab on the

Peak this year. Wo understand however, that they are not solely responsible for the odd spots!

We hope President Roosevelt

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Some of our local songsters who take liberties with the upper re gister would not be nearly as bad on the high C's!

Experiments have been carried out in the Sahara with a view to making use of the power in sun- light. As the sunburnt flapper re-

WORLD LAST? marked "Oasis me"

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He would get nothing for "This', said my guide as he open-ment. churia is drawing near. ed the door, this to our chapel, it, to be sure, except the satisfaction

0 ᄆ whole atmosphere is antipathetic where the Order of the Round Th-of having once more set his hand to a peaceful settlement. It is ble meots. 1 looked at him into some work that was worth while.

Mr. Wynne-Jones expressed ORDER OF THE ROUND TABLE. no secret that the General Staff amazement. He was an unemploy

doubt the other day whether the in Tokyo take the view that ned miner, he had been on the dole',

But those who were most active word elevator in used in English. war with Russia in the not I suppose, for five or six years, and distant future is inevitable. would quite probably remain on it in the work felt that something Quite right. You may offer a man Russia, too; has been deeply for the rest of his life. Yet there, more was needed, and they accepted a lift but you wouldn't offer him an

01 suspicious since the moment of enough, was a chapel, beauti- gladly the young minister's aug contor

ful in its simplicity, a work of love gestion that they should go into

The famous painting "Septem Japan's refusal to conclude aand reverence as well as of good camp with him to think over their Poten-taste. Yes! and in the corner, too, whole effort and whither it would Non-Aggression Pact.

n lady tiality for war, in these cir- round table was to be acen lead them. They came back from ber Morn" is missing. Last scen cumstances, may depend as was standing in the Community the camp with the vision of a new in Russia. It showed much upon whether one of the Ilouse at Treglaw, and my guide Order of the Round Table, which bathing. Probably destroyed for

ᄆ # military was the caretaker of the building, should recruit its knights from tho sabotage. party is ready in senae as upon the climax to the The Order of the Round Tablo! ranks of the unemployed, and they The world in which we live has Chinese Eastern Railway con- I asked, what do you mean by would themselves begin it! troversy. The mood is more that? He told me, and I listened

to the story of a heroic struggle ample opportunities for those who gets the currency situation clear- important than the causes. against odds, against depression in will 'to ride abroad redressing hu-ed up very soon so that we

men's minds, where it is more ter-man wrongs', even if one takee a got down to something important rible oven than in the world econo-railway train instead of a horse and like the Derby prospects,

even if one's weapons are only a mic situation.

The Rhondda Valley In South joiner's tools. So these men sot

A number of Kowloon house- bo econa- Wales is one of those spots which apart a room in their Community God made beautiful only to see man House for a chapel, furnishing and wives are reported to

and mixing by doing their own cooking. Father Byrne's attack on the do his best to make it ugly after-decorating it themselves, present day teaching of history wards. Village runs into village, around that table they gathered, a This is certainly one method of to the young will, on general town into town; names change, but now order of chivalry, knights in getting their husbands to eat less,

you have no consciousness of pass-workmen's jackets and with grounds, be applauded by the ing from one place to anether as unexpended portion of the week's

Statisticians have been busy majority of those who bear any you ride along what looks like ono dole in their pockota.

In the top of their round tablo ever since it was announced that recollection of the Great War continuous road in the dingy trams and consequently realise the which are the main mode of con- there is a circle of rings, as though leman 18 inches in circumfer atter futility of the school veyance there. Back from the road, so many tiny egg-cups had been let once had been grown in a green- manuals. An educationalist of black, dismal slagheaps overhang into the surface. I asked for and house. They estimate it would the houses, fit symbols of the pover-received the explanation. A candle

crowd of 10,000. Father standing,

口 ☐ the people themselves in these days, the simple ceremony of dedication Byrne's observations on eduen-which is for ever impending over is lit on the communion table when make six ples or lemonade for a

examination. He Men lounge at street-corners, beat-jor initiation is held. Each man

The height of something-or- when service of his fellows, and as he other, so far as we can judge, is books are harmful because they 'genuinely seeking work omphasise the glories of war everyone knows there is no. work does so he rises from his place, contained in the east of the Chi- to be sought. Little wonder that lights a candle of his own from and of winning battles. He further suggests that the child parts of that valley are spoken of that beside the Cross and sets it in cago man who was arrested for as hot-beds of Communism. If you its place on the table. It is a sign cashing a bad cheque during the of to-day should be brought or I lived in those dark houses in of what he is pledging himself to bank holiday.__ NORTH MANCHURIA up to date in his history those forbidding surroundings, we do, to take the light and fire of the among those who share with him lessons, not only imbibed with might be sorely tempted to paint Cross in simple, practical WAR CLOUDS

in common need. the real lessons of current the landscape red by way War clouds are thickoning in might expect the world

history, but taught what one

to BARKER OF TONYPANDY. the region of North Manchuria. be in 25 years time. Both Into that valley a few years ago Both parties to the dispute are points are worthy con-came one who was to be known in moving troops as a precautionsideration. On the other hand, it as Barker of Tonypandy. Ap- ary measure and while it might is it possible to teach history in pointed to the Wesleyan Central be safe to say that neither any form without children Hall in that town, he threw himself Russia nor Japan iu really de-suffering the reactions which with all his native energy into the supporters of the League of work of relieving the monotony of sirous of precipitating a clash, Nations and the various Peace life for some at least of those who

There is some talk of forming a were condemned to the fruitless

BY R, W. HALLOWS

Australian Hongkong

Society. tempers are short and there is a

which deplore, and groups

leisure of unemployment, The tendency to see certain ominous Father Byrne rightly points out rooms attached to the Hall were Many of the world's most famous Doubtless for. the sake of Auld facts as irremediable and de-is harmful in effect? We think thrown open for purposes of re-astronomers are convinced that the Slang Tyme! cisive. That is the mood which that possibly the only manual to creation throughout the week, and universe, the giant family to which

She was only a weight-reducer's accomplish this is something on a stage was erected for which he the sun and this world of ours be war. Japan sces A

painted the sconcry himself and on long, le expanding so rapidly that it threat in the presence of Soviet the lines of W.C. Sellar's and which dramatic performances were might almost be said to be explod daughter but oh, how she put en

K.M. Yeatman's brilliant satire iven by amateur companies which ing. It is growing in size like an sidel - O 口 troppa on the Manchuli border,"1066 And All That". In other he had trained. But he saw that immense soap-bubble, and some day carrying out demonstrative words would it not be more what these men wanted was not the bubble must burst. That is manoeuvres of the type employ advantageous to scrap history recreation but work, not charity but not likely to happen for a very long Gluemy outlook! ed to impress and browbeat in our educational curriculum self-help. He gathered round him while, and so far as science can Chang Hauch-liang in 1929 and and concentrate more on giving a group of men who, themselves predict the world has millions of

unemployed, were eager to find years of existence ahead of it yet. We are now able to publish the after, and embarks upon a re-the young people a working means of serving those who were in After all, it has lasted for a vast true story concerning the three disposition of her forces in Man-knowledge of the fundamentals the same position.

apan of time already, for the world

revellers who dived into the har- churia and Jehol to meet the of economics and politics? Let

With Anancial assistance from was very old before the first primi-bour from Blake Pier at 2 am, on new "menace." The explana-them see that war is un-some who heard of the scheme and tive man made his appearance upon the morning of the 27th. instant.

men its surface. tion of the Tokyo War Office for economical, that It prevents were attracted by it, these

There are several ways of dis-One thought the lifebelt was the sudden termination of the them from getting their bread secured a house by the roadside at

lemonade! Luan Ho operations is palpably and butter, reduces wages to a Trealaw and made of it the com- covering the age of the world. The lemon, and the other two gave the scale where living becomes munity centre which I was visiting. sons were once fresh water; all the

I passed from the library Into the salt that they contain has from Jehol into North Man- merely an awful existence, and class-room for the uso of the washed out of the land and carried It appears as though clouds churia can no longer be conceal-which renders industry bank-Worker's Educational Association, down to them by rivers. The have a silver lining after alll ed. If the Japanese belleve that

rupt. Teach the children how the furniture throughout having weight of the salt in the sens being

口 men known, It is not difficult to discover Jehol and Chinese hostility can the various political parties been made by unemployed be left to look after themselves while the C.E.R. crisis develops interpret and apply economice, themselves. From there I passed to how long the rivers must have taken Radium and uranium, which turn or fizzles out, their wisdom can- and let them begin in their early the open-air theatre at the back, to collect it and bring it down.

modelled on that at Oberammagau, not be gainsaid. But the signi- lives to work out for themselves and so to the gymnasium and the in the course of ages into lend of drop particular kinds, furnish other workshop. Any man could ficance of the move has not been real and false values.

into that workshop and handle tools clucs. lost. The result is to be found

for a few hours, making some The reason why it is believed that in a dangerous rise of tension Words! Words! Words! article which would be of value to the universe is expanding is that

(Continued on Page 9.) which has begun to arousa

himself, his home, or the serious talk of war. There

In a recent address on the seems real reason to fear that

Albert situation, Dr. Russia and Japan are drifting in world the rapids and under such con- Einstein dwelt more than briefly ditions that rescue efforts must on the necessity of the removal come swiftly if they are to be of the "obstacle of the taboo." successful. The outcome is That obstacle, he explained, lies largely a question of intangibill-in words and other symbola ties. Explosive material is con- which are laden with emotion; tained in Manchukuo's plan of an emotion calculated to drive action on the expiry of the fout all reason, and with it any an diopassionato understanding of ultimatum setting May 12 the date for the return of cer- world needs. Dr. Einstein drew into attention to the danger of an tain locomotives taken

Soviet undiscriminating acceptance of Soviet territory. The

to words, where that acceptance la has consistently refused budge from its original stand based only on an emotional at- that the locomotives are the mosphere surrounding them-- property of the Soviet Govern-words which become shibboleths ment, loaned to the Chinese of prejudice and narrow zoal. Eastern Railway. At this stage, As examples the learned Doctor Moscow is not likely to move advanced "prestige, fatherland, under threat. On the contrary, etc.," in the sense in which these the mast is being made of an words are used in most count allegation that Japanese officials ries. Prestige scems

breeds

thin.

The movement of troops

an QX-

in Harbin lave formulated plans cellent example of the accept- for the seizure of the railway ance which Dr. Einstein attacks. "Alarm" is shouted in Moscow Individuals and nations act great along lines which look dan store by their prestige, thinking gerously like an effort to arouse rather proudly of the term as public opinion, to prepare the denoting a peculiar standing or Russian people for all possible attainment. When we turn to eventualities. Manchukuo, with the dispassionate aid of a Japan's knowledge and consent dictionary, and learn that the (it cannot be otherwise) also original meaning of the word presents a bold front. A spokes- was delusion or illusion, such as man of the Japanese Foreign the legerdemain of jugglers, we Office declared this week that get a revised impression of the Japan would not support ad-importance of our worldly status herence to existing treaties, that as nations or individuals.

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News Item"The browers ex- pect that the flow of beer to America across the Pacific will two years.” We continue for trust this will not cause undue rolling.

writer states

that Wome" motorists. Invariably sound the Wo always

horn unnecessarily."

thought that men were more liable

to go on the toot!

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Thanks to the vehicular ferry.

Is anticipated that Kowloon motorlats will occasionally cou descend to ascend the Penk.

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Convivial party returning from Repulse Bay the other night oporated a gramophone in the car en route. Possibly they were out to break a record!

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If this silver-gold parity only moant pros-parity!

June debt instalment must be. paid. Edward Kolly Bays he always recalves thoas little re- mindors on Juno 30.

Rumour has it that Charlie Chaplin, who has already marrled twice, will shortly marry again. A busy life for Chuplin's chaplain.

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Edward Kelly says his wife drove him to drink. Most of.ne have to walk to it.

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Robert MacWhirter says he is one of those strong, allout meu We have noticed he seldom shouts.