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ISOLATING

NOTES OF THE DAY

It would be rather a joke, except for those who have to live with the coal dump on the Chatham Road "esplanade" wore it correct to infer that the erection of bamboo fence constitutes the solo stop contemplated by Government for mitigation of the nuisance, Obviously, the second state would be worse than the first, the fence

Berconing of still more of the

of

view and affording little if any check upon the distribution conl-dust. If anything la donc, it will be something more effective than this temporary "expedient," we feel sure. But residents must have a little patience. In the first place it will take more than two coolles and a barrow to shift the dump, and in the second, the M.B.K., having been given the right to dump coal there, must be given reasonable notice of the termination of the privilege.

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THE PROPER SPHERE

BED IS BEST PLACE FOR READING

says

ROBERT LYND

During his visit to the Ad-thought out a new

method

of

The Very Idea!

KEEPING US PURE

By Eddie ""Lilywhito" Kelly EVIDENCE that the local morality. campaign in

EV

vertising Exhibition at Olympia, diasunsin and warned them that respect to cabarets has been the King is reported to have anid, if they persisted in reading in bed extended to embrace cinema on observing a reading lamp: they would damage their eyesight shows is contained in a "When I go to bed, I go to sleep and have to wear spectacles.

for 40

I wonder whether any member series of letters, which were have not read in bed

start of the medical profession years and I am not going

this ridiculous argument to-day.

usca delivered to us from the now."

It must be admitted that dur-If Nature meant men to read at police department in mistake for ing the last 40 years reading in all I am sure she meant them to a bundle of warrants and sum bed has lost much of its romantic rend in bed. Did not the Grecks monses. attractiveness.

read reclining on couches? Yet! hve never hear of any Greek's hay- SLEEPY EYES OF DANGER.

ing had to wear spectacles.

When I was a boy, reading in bed had a spice of danger in it Electric light had not yet in

of a man reading in bed is a

It acemis to me that the posture natural as the, posture of a man reading in an arm-chair,

The first letter was addressed to the local police officials by the Sea: Vicar of Stonehenge-Under-the-

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vaded the bedroom-at least, not If I were a rich man I should! Dear Sir, was indeed grieved the ordinary bedroom-and 08 the gas-bracket was usually too reading in bed or in a hammock super-production of "Eric, or Little spend a great deal of my time that you should have banned our In the Duncan scheme of port far from the bed to permit the or on a sofa or somewhere where by Little", which was passed by my Heabed to read by its light, all I could get my feet almost on the bishop, and acclaimed In London at development in Hunghom Bay: reading in bed had to be done same level as my provision was made for a cool

head. This our last fothers' Convention. I hear depot In Gascoigne Road railway bridge. lamps.

mess that is necessary to the ap These were particularaly dan-preciation of good literature. I condemned as being "too Shavian for to the one which your Deparment We are not likely to see any port

am convinced that development scheme for twenty gerous to the kind of reader who

one of the years or more, but Mr. Duncan dia | faile asleep over his book, and reasons for the popularity of many | "Fio!" is a good old English word. not prohibit earlier use being made there were many such readers.

Inforlor books to-day is that mest

foreseen

the vicinity of the by the light of candles and oll-position conduces to the restful-\ you take exception to an expletive-

THE REACTION

Hongkong cars." But, after all,

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From the local police.

of his ideas. No more than any-knew an elderly, whiskered man people read in uncomfortable If I am to exclude racy expressions of one else could Mr. Duncan have who used often to read in bed by chairs and cannot attend to a the sort, what is to become of the 1925 strike and the light of a candle which he book unless it compels them to do my atmosphere?.-Yours sincerely, boycott and the blight which it stood on his chest, and who fre- so by its violent and unnatural ATHANASIUS SMITH-WELSMITH cast upon all plans which followed quently fell asleep without blow-exaggerations, his line of thinking. The time ing the candle out. schedule in his mind' was put back at least thirty years by that little upheaval, hence our keennens on the Lido achane for Kowloon, Some criticism has been offered, but generally the proposal has met with warm approval and if there are obstacles in the way, we doubt if they are insurmountable.

KOWLOON'S NEEDS

ment

his

one of

In the Inst the house must have been

THE CRITIC'S ATTITUDE.

on

Dear Mr. Smith-Welsmith,It is

How he escaped being barnt to AGAINST BEDTIME. death I could never make out; butj

It is certainly significant that, I never heard of his even having when anyone speaks of a "bed not only the language of your talkio singed his whiskers. Some in- stinct, I suppose, must have kept book" he nearly always means a that offends. "Fiet" is used no less him flat and motionless on his good book. No one has ever at than three times by the housekeeper, back till the candle in the candle-tempted to praise's book by call and then there is the oath "Blow!"

out. Ing it a "chair book,"

uttered by the gardener when he falls stick had at last guttered

As for the origin of the habit over the watering can. But, worse, Candies must have been his chief household expenses.

of reading in bed, it may be traced, far worse, is your studied appeal to I used to stay in a house in Imagine, to the desire of the the baser passions. I refer to the which the head of the house-an-young to avoid going to sleep scene in which the lace hem, or bor other reader in bed-had a habit Most of those who read in bed bo-dering, on the pants of Eric'e giri "MANCHUKUO” The one essential to the success of knocking over the oil-lamp began to do so at an early age friend is shown protruding bencath

of the scheme is that the pro-side his bed in

sleep. He They wanted above all things to her ankle-length skirt. It was spect-

WAS it The-mills of the League of tenure for, any, ten years. That going to sleep, and, if he had

moters shall be given security of never turned the lamp oat before prolong the day, How

possible to close "Treasure Island" acles of this kind that brought about merely because the

the decline and fall of the Roman Nations may grind exceeding would be quite enough. Within ten dream and swing his arm round struck eleven? Asking them- Empire and the revolution in Russia.

elock had years or so, the main residential it was as likely as not that it slow, but they also grind, very quarter of Kowloon will have been would catch the lamp and send selves this very reasonable quesYours faithfully, fine. This is brought home by thrust back to the Prince Edward it crashing to the floor,

tion, they closed the book in Road, Greater Kowloon Tong, and Fortunately. It was a' metal obedience to their elders, but From the Vicar: the full details of the proposals Cheungshawan Road regions, and lump with some kind of newly- they carried it up to the bedroom

Dear Sir- grant there is a pro- just circulated by the Secretary- the most appropriate place for the invented safety device. Even so, and continued to read it till they

Lido will then be in the centre of sleeping in the room

overhend knew the

Inst of Long John|vocative element in the costume of General giving instructions to all the extensive park which, we under- and hearing the crash

Silver: of the

our heroine, but did your Department countries in the matter of how stand, is contemplated in the area fallen lamp, I many a time leaped of "The Master of Ballantrae" I fringe, or under-pinging, of Emily's I remember, when I first got hold take into consideration (1) that the not to recognise "Manchukuo." bordered by the back of the police from between the sheets and sped had not even opened the book pants was as worn at the period, (2) training school, the railway em- downstairs, believing that now at when I went up to my bedroom that the young couple were on the Some of the measures appear bankment and the foothills. futile on paper and some people meantime, the Ideal site is the set on fire. But it never

I opened it on the top of a chest was.

way to Sunday School? I contend, have already asked what the Chatham Road senfront and weThings are seldom as bad as the of drawers, under the gaslight, and I have reason to believe that the

and began to read. 1 read feel sure it can to obtained if public nervous expect them to be. League has to

Archbishop is with me here, that do with the opinion is made suficiently clear. I have never, indeed, known entranced, with my elbows leaning Olympic Games. The inclusion The objection two years ago was any of my friends or relations but on the chest of drawers. I read auch facts tend to mitigate the of advice on this issue is, how-on the score of economy, the Gov-one even to set the bedclothes on the last word on the last page,

on for three hours till I reached offence, if any Yours-faithfully,

ATH. SMITH-WELSMITH. ernment having been naked to fire as a result of reading in bed. eyer, merely an earnest of the supply the funds. If the K.R.A. Still, there were always exciting and regretted only that the book

From the Police Department: League's seriousness in its de- took the proposal up once more and possibilities--how different from was not longer. mand for international boycott were able to indicate to Govern- these tame days

As a rule, however, I got into of fool-proof)

Sir,The pair, you any,, were on of the puppet state. Clearly entures, or the willingness of electric lamps when hang be ex read on-in June, at least till the their way to Sunday School. But did

their willingness to issue which at the bed before I began reading, and more can be accomplished by the private enterprise to adopt the tinguished without an effort by the either stayed awake late or got the act of receiving spiritual uplift? dawn came. You who have never they get there? Are they "shown in League method than many scheme, Government would! be sleepiest and most fethargic hand.

up carly cannot imagine how No. A storm contes on. Emily, in her people appear to think. For in- reasonable enough.

charming is the first flugh of pants, takes shelter with Erle in a stance, it is offering a very real

dawn, 13 the complaints and tea-room, alone! What transpires? difficulty to "Manchukuo" if all AIR ARMADA'S FEAT

It was, I suppose, because of the quarrels of the awakened birds Imagination boggles at the thought. very real dangers of reading, in become gradually transformed in- Be sure, sir, that such suggestive pro- countries obey the request re- The applause which greeted the bed that the medical profession to a chorus of song. It is a noble blems will never be passed for the garding passports. All "Man- return of the Italian air armada to of the Victorian age invented the ending to a night with Dickens or corruption of our Hongkong citizens, chukuo" passports are to be re- / Ostia will echo round the world. theory that reading in bed was; Scott. What a luxurious world in while I hold the moral reins.-Yours

The fleet did not return entirely bad for the eye-sight. The ad- which to fall asleep! jected and Manchurians wishing Intact; a machine was wrecked at venturous young, scornful of the It meant being late for school truly to travel must act as though Amsterdam and another at Punta motto "Safety first," could not be the next morning, but I hover "Manchukuo" does not exist. Delgada; but twenty-three of dissuaded from reading in bed minded being late for school. Consuls withdrawn from Man-twenty-five planes moved from point by the argument that they might I always felt that the hours for to point with clockwork precision, sot themselves on fire. Hence, morning school were hours intend- churia can be replaced without at an average speed, when flying, their parents and their doctora

(Continued on Page 4.) infringing the rulings of the of 180 miles an hour, providing League Assembly. This would an object lesson in the great pos- sibilities in Transatlantic air travel not constitute recognition of the under an organised system. Gen- regime, since consuls are ap-eral Balbo, Italy's youthful Air pointed for the purpose of keep | Minister, has made a group of ing their governments informed would be considered highly credit- planes accomplish a feat which and protecting their nationals. able if brought off by a singlè But governments are to inform plane. It does not seem a far stride their consuls that they should do to a regular trans-ocean air mail

and passenger service. nothing which could be inter- preted expressly or by implica- tion as a declaration that they regard the authorities establish- General Machado, who waà ed in Manchuria as the proper his father led a rebellion against prisoner at the age of three because government of the country. For the tyranny of Spain and who.fifty appointing consuls to the ter-years later was elected to be ritory, precedents are found in President of Cuba, finds himself the situation at Canton, where an exile from his country in con- sequence of his own alleged tyranny. the authorities have not, at Actually, of course, he WAS certain times, recognised the a victim of circumstances. When Authority of the central govorn-in 1024, one of the main planks in nominated for the prosidency ments. of China: "Manchukuo" his platform was. Constitutional is excluded from admission to prohibition of the re-election of a any International convention, is President; yet rather against his not permitted to adhere to the will, he was compelled to stand again. His re-election was wel. Universal Postal Union and her comed by the United States and his currencies are not to be accepted acceptance of office for a further an legal tender. The belief that peried was made an occasion for Joyous celebration in Cuba. But nothing, has been done by the the economic blizzard finally swept League since. adopting the him away. The United States Lytton Roport must, apparently, while his people celebrated his de withdrew their moral support, undergoa rovision. It is no parture with an enthusiasm scarcely

MACHADO'S FATE

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LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.onger correct toneoff. We earsileted by their neclamation on

begin the wonder if the Longue his assumption of offices. It seems method may not be ematentzartur in world - katso

rather tragio kit katha wajar.

P, S..-This correspondence must now cease,

DESPERATION

People pointed us out in the street. Crowds gaped at ue. Reporters dogged us night and day. Reduced to a hunted thing |of jingling nerves, we swore that we neither could nor would boar cross any longer. So tre wrote to the paper. We were the only man in Hongkong who had not previously expressed our opin- ion in the Correspondence column about the League, of British Tights.

our

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WHAT, NO BEER?

Thoro was no question about it, Peto was hopelessly drunk, and Mra, Watkins waited grimly at the top of the stairs for his home- coming.

The clock was striking two whon sho hoard · sounds at the front door. Presently the latch clicked and there wore, stealthy footstopa. She smiled grimly to herself as sho picked up tho broken leg of a chair (a relic of the last party) she' had kept in readiness for the past hour,,

And now the door handle turns ed, and the door began to open, Inch by inch. Suddenly, she swung the chair leg. There was a thud, then a groan, and the body. sank to the floor, duke duri

Ho-had-itcoming-to-him-the drunken hound,” ako muttered als