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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1938,

KOWLOON LIDO Kowloon's protest against the conl dump will be considered by H.E. the Governor and it is generally supposed that some thing will be done to remedy the nuisance. The deputation learn ed little from their visit. Mr. Tratman, in his breif reply, roamed into quite a. different

NOTES OF THE DAY WHERE ARE OUR FUTURE The Very Idea,

DD

STORY-TELLERS?

Asks

GLYN ROBERTS

SOME SUMMER By Eddie "Hot Dog" Kelly SPEAKING of heat waves. We were only drink- ing the other day what a

We shall soon. be wondering what Crown Colony government is coming to. In Singapore a scheme is advanced by Penang, re- presentatives on the Legislative Council for the construction of a' new road, a Paradise on Penang Hill. It is given the blessing of

ID the war kill off the story-Walpole is never happler and nover botter, than when depicting teller? the Governor and is rejected, ne- ven of the Official Mombers killing That Is a question everyone who the project by voting against it.rends books, whether for pleasure And all Singapore has to say about or because it is his job in life to it is that His Excellency expresp-read books, has been asking him but hide the realities of life to-day.

Take work, for instance. ed the, view that the matter was self since 1919. For In those Even "moderner" and more Take it as far away as you ono to which official support should fourteen years, so far as one can typical of the post-war mood of dis- be given. A number of Officials see, no new story-teller in the man-are writers like Michael Arlen and think about work?

ilusionment and "sham-shifting" like. What does our Editor very courageously expressed disner of the great nineteenth-century Gilbert Frankau, who, though they agreement by voting

gristly villains, and Mr. Maugham Wonderful idea it would be is world-famous as a writer who if we had a kind hearted sees through the fabric of little shams and conventions which all Editor.

:

He directly masters of narrative fiction has do not scorn a good story, avoid thinks it's something we should against the motion. The general artsen either in England or in romance carefully or, if they admit do. The indignity of it! public owe a pery, considerable | America.

it, only do so to give it a severe jar. debt of gratitude to those officials who provided this timely reminder that economy is not a subject on which Government may preach one day only to ignore on the next. No-one seems to have got very ex- cited about the incident,

A LONG WAIT

The journal which makes the mild comment, partially quoted, on such an astonishing developme, discreetly adds that the mater was not, of course, of any political significance and the full power of officialdom was not employed. Or was it indiscreet? It seems to expose rather emphatically that ne matter what the personal at- titude of the Officials, they would have been compelled to vote for the road scheme like so many robots had the necessary order been given. But let that pass. We are Official Momber of the Council to now waiting for the frat Hongkong take his courage from Singapore and into both his hands and to say "Aye" or "No" at the wrong time. picture of the Council nt that great moment is a little didicult to tion would do the public a service conjure up. The Member in ques- by dropping a gentle hint before- hand, in order that our local Bate- man might put it on record for all time."

Quite apart, again, are the fur-

The Editor of our last newN- There have been great novelists whose best work has been done lous "slice-of-life" vendors, who paper, the Frying Pan Gazette, since the war, and there are young to change, or to put an

desperately anxious to improve or thought the same thing until we writers by the dozen arising on something or other. To these

end to told him where he got off, both sides of the Atlantic, whose writers, very able though many of ·In case you don't know it, Fry- |- names will probably live-but not them are, the idea that they ing Pan is a town in Australia with us story-tellers.

should weave some sort of story, a population of two dogs and n with a claim on your attention of hotel, Consider some of the great its own, into ill-disguised propa "yarne" which have swept the ganda, seems quaintly old-fashion- British Isles during the last few ed and quite unworthy of serious decades-"The Sign of Four," consideration. They are not out "The Garden, of Allah," "The to entertain or to amuse but to im- Prisoner of Zenda," "The Scarlet prove and to instruct. Pimpernel," "The Four Feathers."

A DWINDLING GROUP.

THE WORLD'S NEED.

Hence, when we told our last Editor off, the origination of the now famous expression "Out of the Frying Pan Into the fired!" So we came to Hongkong.

Hongkong people are like that." At this time of the year sum- mer fond of drink and summer fonder.

We have now been here two- And there is the difference, summers, We know everything The old romancers were simply there in to know about hot weather, Of the surviving writers of this out to entertain you, to lift you kind of narrative fletion, Mr. Ro- for a while into a world where They used to say at Frying Pan bert Hichens is 69, Mr. A. E. W. things moved on an altogether that two swallows never made a Mason a year younger, Mr. Jeffery more chivalrous and romantic summer. Out here It takes only Farnol and Mr. Rafael Sabatini plane. Many of them were, in a hint of summer to make us are both well over 50, and have their private lives, very far from swallow. been writing as long as I have their books might have made them being the simple, credulous people been in the world. The Baroness appear to be. But they knew the Orczy came out with "The Scarlet world's need of men who could Pimpernel" 28 years ago; Miss spin a good yarn, a

yarn which Ethel M. Dell's "Way of an Eagle" moved at a healthy speed through was published 21 years ago; Miss world none of their readers had Marforie Bowen has published 58 books. Major P. C. Wren publish- ever known or were ever likely to ed his first book in 1912; Mr. H. de other hand, really had the enviablo know. Many of them, on the Vere Stacpoole began over 30 years capacity to bolleve everything ago.

they wrote; and for them it was. This band of heroes-and hero-I suppose, easy, ines cannot go оп for ever, Do we not want auch story- though many of them are still do- tellers to-day?

Anthony

ing remarkably well.

In Hongkong there are; strange- ty enough, four seasons in a year. They are called autumn, winter, spring and Simmer....

Other seasons are salt, popper,. cinnamon and mustard.

During the simmer season, sen- sible men dispense with - super- (13 ties,

sphere, the ear-marking of the rallway land for port develop ment, which seemed very much

Hope, Stanley Weyman, Sir Athur. I think we do; but the demand fluous clothing, such beside the point, although it

Conan Doyle, Sir H. Rider Hag: seems very slow in creating the

collars, and flannel chest pro- gard, and Edgar Wallace have all supply. The old favourites are tectors.. touched upon suggestions which OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT have been made since the dump

departed from our midst. I can- still apparently the only people who This is especially noticeable in not see where we are to turn for serve up the right stuff; they the police force. You'll notice controversy developed, namely, the employment of the land for sary element in the life of the

Revival movements are a neces-stories such as they wrote,

seem to monopolise the formula. them on traffic duty on their According to the very exhaustive One of the most sucessful books a Lido scheme, providing bath- Church, the living expression of calculation carried out recently by of the moment is M. A. E. W. motor-bikes, clad in khaki short ing facilities, among other the faith once delivered to the The Daily Mail, the three leading Mason's latest yarn "Sapphire"; things. The port development Saints as a vitalising and creative novelists in England to-day are he has never ceased to thrill a These are known as breaches of report itself provides an inter- force breaking its way into the Hugh Walpole, J. B. Priestley, and huge publle since he started 30 the pleace, esting commentary

the lives of men. The Oxford Group Somerset Maugham. All three are years ago. upon

They say the sun is-responsible official attitude. At Wembley Movement, which is now literally fine story-tellers, but it would be Editors and publishers are look for all this heat and they're pro-

of-world-wide proportions, is sim- idle to protend that their method in 1924, Sir John Jordon is re-ply one more of the outbreakings is the unsophisticated, "go-aheading, every one of them, for a good bably right at that. It was

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"Well; sol long as we know" we retorted neatly, as we flung a fire bucket at the flaming youth.

With which we left, taking our bottle of beer with us.

ported as having said: "It is of the Spirit which muat occur method of the yarn-spinner. All story-teller. But they can't find cause our son got so hot that we on the extension of the railways three or four times in every een-three

concerned with the him. Often they think they've had to kick him out of the house. in South and Central China that tury, if the work of the Church is subtle analysis of character, and get the right man; and just as he Hongkong may

The headacha nearly killed us justly build to be fully done. An even a cur- with men and women as they are seems to be developing Into many hopes. When the line sory reading of Church history, I need hardly say that the great firat-rate post-war yarn spinner for that. "If you heat him again" from Canton is through to Han- shows, there have been such move writers of romance have always he spoils everything by creating a she cried, "It's you for the in- kow. Hongkong, in conjunctionments in every period since the concerned themselves principally puzzling character who stains the ferno." with Canton, will become the rising side by side with the more have been and never will be; hence spells a glass of fresh milk.

days of the New Testament itself, with men and women as they never innocence of his book a fly great outlet for the produce of peaceful and slower, and equally their great popularity. all China south of the Yangtsze." accessary, work of securing and

What they are looking for is Mr. John Duncan, the Port En conserving the areas gained by

someone who will turn his or her NOT ENOUGH ROMANCE. gineer, was of contrary opinion, Christianity in the fields of thought,

-back resolutely on realfiles and feeling there were no likelihood of ethics, and of conduct.

There were thousands who be forget this world, with its anoma- whatever of goods from beyond

lieved that Mr. Priestley had re- lies, its anticlimaxes, Its boredom, discovered the secret of the its drabness and its worries, and Changsha coming to Hongkong

"rattling good yarn," when he create a world of his own, where swept England with "The Good everything is clarified and simpli Companions," but he 'speedily dis-fed, and men and women, whether pelled the belief with the very good or bad, have the stature and cynical "Angel Pavement." Mr. character of gods,

by rail. They would, he argued, IRELAND'S CRISIS continue to pass through the Tung Ting Lake to the Yanatara While the Irish Free State in and there was no financial justi in the throes of a political conflict fication for Hongkong to embark menacing to peace, the South upon works solely on account of African Finance Minister is in the railway. Nevertheless, the Dublin seeking to get to the root Hunghom Bay scheme which he with Britain. It seems absurd of the trouble, the economic war finally drew up provided for fu- that mediation should be neces ture railway construction upon eary, but since it in, we can only a scale which would cast some hope that South Africa will succeed of the great London termini in- where Mr. Thomas has failed. to the shade. And it is because Britain is suffering, and the Irish of the remote possibility that Free State is suffering, from the some of these visionary schemes present estrangement. If will at some time in the distant present condition of things por- future become realities that such slate, we shall all begin to regard useful areas as the Chatham must continue to separate, us for Road seafront have been waste the same reason as the Irish Sen land, except for à coal dump in a soparates us. We may acttle down place which Mr. Duncan certain to the position that cannot be ly did not contemplate. When the otherwise. If Mr. de Valera and question is plainly put, "When Mr. J. H. Thomas get on to each is any sort of a start likely others' nerves, let them both de- to be made?" there is no answer .pute their parts to those who are and can be no answer. Govern- not hardened towards each other.

mont is committed to the ex- penditure of millions upon the

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Shing Mun Dam. New gaola, WHAT IS THE MIND? hospitals, schools, roads, and other big public works will ex- An unusualand what can be con- haust any surplus funds the aldored almost a miraculous opera- Government has at its disposal tion was performed some time ago in a Cloveland clinic on a woman for many years to come. It is who was suffering from a tumor of Almost safe to assort, in fact, the brain. It was necessary to that Kowloon will not see a sign | remove almost all of the right half of Hunghom Bay ship basin and of the sufferer's brain. This railway development for twenty operation left the patient years at the very least. There only partially paralyzed on 18, in fact, still time and room the left side. No noticeable for a Lido on the seafront. In effect has been produced on the twenty years it would pay for mental or intellectual powers of the Hor mind is func itself over and over again. It sufferer.

tioning as well now as it ever did. could be embarked upon a# A The will be interesting as well- community effort, the K.R.A. | an Instructive to those who confuse backing the scheme and obtain the merely physical organ of the ing the necessary capital, funds brain with, the as yet, not, defined by the laang of debentures, red mindy tingHANK

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FREE COMPETITION Without prejudice, and on the strict understanding that you' don't pass the information on to the shroffe, we are going to tell you, for the purposes of this competition, that we, receive our pay at the end of each month.

Pay day last month was on a Tuesday. On arrival home ench night wo are greeted by the head- acho as follows:

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Competitors nro required to name the day on which we received greeting. No. 5. The entrant sending in the correct solution will win the prleo-- our headache. Should more than one correct solution be received she may go far as we're concerned be equally divided.

REMORSE

Yon. We've been deceiving the hondache. We can't forget It. We think of it miserably morning, noon and night (in gw especially night. It's got that way now that we can't sleep for think- ing about it minsan she won't let