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Bee Our Stands 19 to 22 in the Main Hall-British Empire Fair

THE HONGKONG

BRITISH EMPIRE

FAIR

SEE

THE

BRITISH CAR

WITH THE ONE YEAR'S

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1933.

TEN DAYS IN GERMANY The Very Idea!

1.-THE ONE-DAY. BOYCOTT

By MILTON BRONNER

COME TO THE FAIR

By Eddie "Blondie" Kelly.

one of the

monstrated more offectively than it was at Ottawa when the na. tiona of the Commonwealth brought a new spirit to Imperial trade. Nothing very spectacular was accomplished but no-one |would question that closer econo- A now German unity. Jew. On Goethe Platz, in the heart WE were the

Jew. of the town, a Naz! band played enormous gathering mic ties were welded, that the A new place m the sun.

Bands, parades, and flying Nazi airs. As the day wore on the which attended the opening delegates achieved a wider view

Swastika banners. Rumours.streets becoma crowded with curi of special interests and laid a Censored

More ous sight-seers who were out to of the. Empire Fair at noon newspapers.

what would happen to the firm foundation for substantial rumours. Jew. The usual Ger-jau

Jewish shops. Few Jews, how-to-day. courtesy to a foreign ever, were to be seen. advances for future conferences.

Taking with us three reams of traveller. A growing, though The following morning the Sab- Those of us who have high hopes unspoken uneasiness, as to the batical quiet was broken by the scribbling paper, twelve pencils, four fountain pens, a portable of a world steadily changing for economic effects of the war on booming of a Nazi band which typewriter, a good book, and a Jews, for though the actual hended" a parade of 500 Nazi the better because of its qualicycott Insted but one day, a troopers who goose-stepped through few sandwiches, we crept out of tics, rather than because it is steady, relentless drive con- the town... The Swastika flag flew the office by the back door!

We crossed to the Ferr on the which, if everywhere. the seat of cruptions and revo- tinues in Germany,

With the boycott day over, the Star Fairy with the rent of the successful, will render some lutions,

may safely preserve 600,000 people without a coun- next step was the appearance of population. How the crowd got placards announcing certain shops there, or how the news leaked out our faith in the vitality of the

as racially pure German. Mean about the Fair we don't know. Empire.

time, among the saddest peoplo in Rellable men, with telescopes Such is the Germany of Adelfrankfort, were the hotel keepers, and spirit-levels, estimate that Hitler, as observed on A swing

Their lobbies were desorted and Jover 5,000 people visited the Penin- through four principal cities.

WARRANTY "Biting The Hand That

VAUXHALL STAND OPEN TILL 10 P.M.

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

Mr. and Mrs. 1'. M. PINGUET.

The

Feeds Them".

man

try.

on Jews

Speaking of spirit-levels. Pete and us decided to have a drink. Pete has a weakness for | German beer.

It appeared in large black let-their rooms empty. There were sula Hotel.

no Jewish and few foreign travel- ters on a yellow placard. It was

era. Business was nirendy In pasted on the window of a tiny bad way, and the war

an obscure vegetable shop on street in Frankfort, where I ar- has not helped it any. rived

on April 1, boycott day.

TOMORROW: Mr. Bronner tells It might almost have been promise (or threat) contained in cruel April Fool joke. But it wasn't, of his visit to Lelpzig, one of the title here fo-day, his Budget speech has material for in that shop a Jewish widow greatest fur markets of the world. ised. The Raeburn Committee with four children was trying to findings have been accepted and eke out a living. And just now

Mr.

Neville

Chamberlain's

Hongkong Telegraph. involved is sufficient to

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 19:9.

Frankfort.

came

ม

the Jews, who

SACRIFICE

Round about such house,

strict

"i wonder," be remarked in a will, amall

vier, anyone'll any anything if I have

Said one of the speakers after the first 45 minutes: "Ilowever, 1 will not keep you long. There are | 15 to 20 other speakers who want

to talk to you."

LYONS.

ob-

and

the English Co-Operative Socict-business was very bad indeed. SEEDS OF les are to be further taxed to Two hefty Nuzi Brown Shirts saw

Another speaker proceeded to to that. Armed with revolvers provide the Exchequer with an they guarded the door and warned

rend cablegram” from various parts of the world. additional £750,000 during this

all awny

would-be customers. year. Already

One, from President Roosevelt, bitter IL

con-Oller guards stood at ease along troversy has raged around the the curb.,

We rather pride ourselves upon speaks for itself.

Our This was the first glimpse of our garden, my wife and I. subject, and the Chancellor's

"EMPIRE FAIR COMMITTEE, insistence will merely serve to the Hitler action which in one house, built in the days when men HONGKONG--Congratulations on kindle the flame of discontent. stroke turned back the clock more knew how to build, in trellised with opening of Fair. United States The imposition, in fact, make than a hundred years to the time elimbing roses, clematis, and green joins rest of world in hoping that

when the Jews of Frankfort were

Jestive of "BUY BRITISH." Can well prove the first nail in the compelled to live in the Ghetto creepers that turn to russet in the you will successfully achieve coffin of the National Party. were locked up

every night and mellow autumn.

we asist with export prohibition? Mr. Chamberlain hopes to re-were forced to wear yellow gabar-rectangular professional gardener's ROOSEVELT.

Mr. J. A. Lyons, the Prime, ceive £750,000 from this income bines, indicative of their race. The

Ghetto walls were toppled by garden would be sacrilegious. So

of Australia, sent the fax adjustment. It is a mere pittance. One questions

Napoleon and the Jews began to ours is an old-world garden. Part Minister

of it is given over to flowers, and following cable: very live outside, contributing greatly part to vegetables. There is no EMPIRE FAIR COMMITTEE, seriously whether the amount to the town's importance BS A

dividing-line between the HONGKONG.-It's a Fair Cow- override banking and business centre. The

useful and the beautiful. consid ration of the strife and Rothschilds, as well as many rum-

In the centre of the smaller lawn There were other cables, but we must result. illes whose descendants played we dug, at the beginning of the found out that some of the exhibits bitterness which Politically, and tactically, it is big part in American banking and winter, a great round bed. An in- in the refreshment section were one of the most foolish moves business. originally

from viting-looking bed. Over this bed free.

wife and I had our frut After they kicked us out wo yet made by the National

"garden-quarrel." I wanted to use wandered down to the poultry sec EMPIRE DAY Government. They bite the I wandered about the town. it for flowers, while she held that tion. We were getting on rather hand that has fed them. The saw no one arrested, or attacked.it was in a part of the garden that well with some of the chickens until Unity strengthening in senti-Co-Operative Societies are not No windows were broken. Iron was intended for vegetables. Iour hen arrived on the scene.

Nazi

We believe there were some ment and a steadily growing money-making, profit-takingscipline prevailed. The

vegetables in the middle of a lawn,wonderful exhibits of care, sense of fellowship between the concerns. They are run for the tenders had passed down the word joined that it was absurd to have

to remember that if windows were benefit of the members, and any broken and property damaged, it decision. The subject rankled, and but we got jammed in the queue diverse nationalities grouped to-taxation of the profits is' direct would be

In the end we never came to a radica, and machinery, and thinge, the German insuranes we preferred not to discuss fur-at the Wine and Spirits section. gether in the British Common- taxation of the members, which

We gathered, just before we left, companies, not

So the Jew-ther. However, I took steps. For wealth impart greater reality to means the working classes. It would have to pay.

showed confidener/many weeks now, when my wife has that the Fair is quito a success, not been about, I have gone to look and that they're going to hold ono the celebration of Empire Day as was these very people who, when ish merchants year succeeds year. Hongkong's made, put the National Govern- Though the shops were closed, the fingers, and turned it over with that.

an appeal to patriotism was that the Hillerites could controls that neat circle of brown earth. every year.

their followers when they desired. have prodded the soil with my

Nothing could be fairer

special contribution to Empire ment into power. Apart from show windows were left full of ex-my foot. Then, an my wife ap

ARTISTIC. consciousness-the Trade Fair, its political aspect, there is the pensive goods which would have peared on the garden path, I have An artist used to be criticised which has brought all who owe issue which has always aroused

question of principle. It is an been excellent plunder for looters. drawn guiltily back.

Yesterday, to my delight, the only by an art critic who discussed allegiance and loyal devotion to the Tory back-benchers, but as The one day boycott revealed in 6rst green

shoot appeared. I perspective and grouping to such the Crown into a common effort it is also an issue of prime im- Frankfort, at least, the immense hurried into the house, and fetched an extent that he for the promotion of mutual ortance affecting. the welfare role Jewish business plays in that my wife, much wondering, to the bother to look at the catalogue and I anid. find out if the picture was a land- The leading shopping spot. "There, my dear." of thousands of workers, anta- benefits-is essentially practical goniam is certain. This, streets were dead. The Jewish "Never again shall you say that I scape or a stale piece of cheese onion. But since the in owners chose to close their stores am not a good husband. Our and an in form although, too, It rein- fact, is indicated by a statement rather than bu humiliated by the quarrel rankled bitterly, and, late spread of cross-word puzzles we forces, in a small way, the moral of Co-Operative Union on the offensive yellow placards which one night, I yielded to your wishes have all become cultured enough solidarity which is the Empire's subject that "in view of the the Nazi guards were ready to by planting the seeds of luscious to visit art galleries, and the art- ist has to face the professional nature of the Chancellor's state-place upon any establishment seek-regetables on this round bed." greatest strength. It is peculiar-ment it is necessary to any ating to do business.

My wife, rather to my disappointscorn of people like plumbers,

policemen. It was a great day for the Nazi ment, laughed. It seemed a queer butchers and ly fitting, therefore, that the once that any proposal to intro-guards. The

We streets were filled reward for my nobility.

know an artist who recently Fair should be inaugurated on aucé a money resolution im-with the troopers, pistols on hip, "And I, darling," she replied, had completed a picture of a man

Needing streets. "one day when you went up to nursing a dog. this day, an occasion for composing new and specific taxationswaggering through the

upon Co-operative

motor London, planted the round bed with colour, he dressed the Societies Others dashed about on munion with ourselves, a self would be unjust and inequitable, cycles, on bicycles and in motor the seeds of beautiful flowers." Elizabethan costume, scated him at a table where a men) was laid, examination, gathering 'inspira- and could not be accept as a

and introduced some snow through tion and encouragement for the settlement as suggested by the

an open window at the back. Chancellor, and must be opposed future.. And we think we may until defeated, or, if it is adopt- feel satisfied. Loose talk of the ed, until it is repealed." Rise and Fall of the British Em- pire has frequently been heard from the lips of foreign obser- vers in the last few years but we still go steadily on our way, changing with the times, living

America Shows Her True Colours

No more signíficiant illustra- by spirit rather than by form.tion of America's attitude to The changes which are taking World Peace, since President's place, as for instance in India are Roosevelt's acceptance in prin- Mr. Ramsay Mac- not steps towards the dissolution ciple of

Donald's disarmament proposals. of Empire, but towards an in- has been iven to the world than crease in the freedom of the the announcement made by Mr. Davis yesterday. parts, securing a permanence of Norman

America has promised, provid-

the unity of the whole. As the ing she agrees with the verdit of liberties grow so do the nations other States, to join them in and races of the Commonwealth dealing with belligerent nations place a greater store by their who violate their international obligations. This decision may unity. The world is, in fact, ultimately have far reaching growing to the conviction that effects on the Far East situation. it is only by the wide extension It means that if the League of of the idens upon which the Em- Nations decides to adopt pres sure to bring about a settlement pire is founded that peace will of the Sino-Japanese conflict, come to the world. And it is then America la bound to join the keen realisation of this truth with the League States in their efforts. This is the guarantee that keeps apparently loosely-the League has always lacked knit units together'amid all the ita deliberations on the measures strain and stresses of the pre- to be taken in the Far East sent anything but placid times. imbroglio, and it is not

reasonable to anticipate pressure It is not merely tradition. Our of some description if Japan! inheritance is a living thing.makes no real attempt to effect a This could not have been de- fsettlement in the near future,

un-

town.

lorries.

D. H. B.

"Great guña, man, I thought you meant four in the afternoon!"

than

often didn't

man

Bome in

All the artistic people he knew. raved over the colouring and the chiaroscuro, and he finally to hold an exhibition.

One day he was passing it when he saw a man and a girl looking at it, and he hovered round to listen to their praises. But the girl said. "Bill, the bloke who painted that didn't know as much. about 4 parlourmaid's job as 1 do. He's got the knives and forks on the wrong sides."

Presently he got into the habit of hanging round the picture to Rea what people said about it. The next was a doctor, who know him. "Old man," anid the doctor, "I don't Ilka the look of that fellow there. He's got ossified kidneys, softening of the liver, housemaid's knee, And tonnia elbow. I wouldn't give him 想你 months. I can tell the symptoms at a glance."

Then an antique dealer sarcaá- tically inquired how a Chippendale chair managed to get itself in- vented two centuries before 'Chip. pendale was börn.

Finally we took a friend who is a well-known dog dancier to see it.. He looked at the dog and shudder-- ed.. Ile said that whatevor breed it was supposed to be, its uyes were too antall, its knues were crooked, it evidently had diatom- per, and ought to be destroyed on the spot.

At that the artist took the thing home. He altered the man into in little blue-dyed girl in a pink frock, and the dog into a woolly baalamb, with a backgrond of green fields. Then he called it "Spring". We don't expect he will have any more trouble with it.

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