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For use of great and small;

That little fools will drink too much

And big fools none at all."

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933.

BEFORE YOU DECIDE

NOTES OF THE DAY

WATER SUPPLY

The downpour which ended the local drought has relloved official minds of any anxiety about a pos- sible water fammo in the Spring without being suficient to lessen the inconvenience to leland con- sumers by way of a relaxation of restrictions. Bome there are who will grumble; at the same time

on your NEW CAR appreciating the Government's

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the

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933.

GERMANY'S AIR PANIC The Very Idea!

By MARGARET SETON WAGNER.

PALMY DAYS*

By Eddio "Cantor" Kelly VERY day in overy way our Adam's apple moves up and down' more rapidly over sport.

This now National move to- So thorough are the mea- ! sures that Berlin is now taking wards protection from the air against aerial attack that they came into being three months ago and cancelled out all existing include the removal from the associations of more or less actual city's attica and lofts of all in- sporadic growth. The flammable material; oven old movement in Germany dates from bedsteads are

being taken 1927, when it was decided that It is computed that if all the tho Versailles Treaty permitted a space set aaldo in nowspapers away.

safeguarding of the public from regarding cricket scores, gush, the air. But it was not until 1930 and lawn bowls was set aside it

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attitudo. The, phenomenally dry! August, carried well. into Sop-

into RED handbilla have been pasted that the Idea grew in volume out would make a good parking tember, provided a

up overnight on the doors of alde military and technical area. which recovery is not easy, and If the present policy is interpret the big block of flats that make up coteries. It was taboo in pacifist Is all this excitement over mere ed as one of excessiva caution, an ordinary Berlin street with the circles; "

games justified? Hyperlon wins It must also be regarded as only stamps of the local police-court upon In 1981 and 1932 the appearance the Dorby and St. Leger and what natural in the clrcumstances them. Streets where these hand of foreign aircraft flying over does it do? Ill feeling is bred be- Figures could be quoted by the bills have not yet appeared are impetus to propaganda. The in- jockeys of losing horses feel dis- Gorman territory gave a velcoms tween book-makers and punters, yard, perhaps, to illustrate that, at the present rate of consump merely a sign that the police force eldent of the aeroplane belloved to contented with their lot, and every- tion, the water in storage should on that particular bent is somewhat hall from German Social De- one's sore at everyone oleo.

slower than in the neighbouring mocratle circles in Prague which be adequate to meet requirements, district,

Oh, yes, we know a lot about for nine months or even longer

scattered seditious leaflets over horse racing. Our old man used to For Berlin, like every other Nazi ground made quite as much follow horses once, and we don't and that an extension of hours of supply might well be risked. For German elty, has now been divid- impression in Germany as the mean he had the kind of job you're the moment, however, patience ed up into units corresponding to similar occurrence in Austrin | thinking of. · with safety first will do no harm local police jurisdiction to pro-which so lately brought forth an

vide for safety, not from ordinary international diplomatic protest. and Hongkong residents may console themselves with the menaces to public peace, but to thought that, at least, they have danger from the air.

The handbills are printed in the encapad the unpleasantness of a three-hour dit by Christmas, a form of a manifesto," prospect which was rather more definite than a possibility until ORGANISING THE the rains of this week. The wea- POPULATION. ther during the remainder of September will be the final arbit er of the island's fate for the rest of the winter. Three or four Inches of steady rain will ease both minda and restrictions.

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A punter, for instance, is not a man who drives a punt. He's a If Germans are told to-day that bettor, though he's no better than

protection from bombs and poison-maker.

fit is their duty to know all about anybody else, unless it's a book. gases the organisation controlling Even then ho's not equal to most this movement is so magnificently bookmakers, who, by the way, don't equipped that it is very certain make books. Under English laws that these occurrences have been they'd get booked if they did. That Citizens are called upon to do given full publicity valua.

la, if they make illegal slips. Most their national duty and help sup-|

of the puntors make the slips. port the efforts made to safeguard ACTIVE AND them by subscribing whatever PASSIVE. amount they can afford to the

The difference, moreover, be- we mean. National Air Protection Society. tween the "active"" and the They are reminded that soon mem-passive" resisters to these forces too--walt-for-ago races, where the bere of overy household will be from on high cannot be too great-griffins we back, wait for the old made aware of their individual Ly stressed. Only a certain ones; maiden races for illles only. responsibility to themsevles and amount of elite troops of young You watch the гасен from the their fellow men.

men will possess gaa-maake, learn stands. Stands are provided for the

But to get back to the book- makore, that's what we all like to do after the race, the chosen race, ‹

There are other kinds of races,

In some cases the names of halls how to patrol the streets and it is people to stand on. Fielders stand are given where meetings will be presumed-to determine which. In front of the stands, so they can held at which instruction in these form of gas or bomb It is that get a good start if the favourite responsibilities can be gathered. menaces the population. The rest happens to win.

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cricket because they make catches, only they catch the mugs,

Fielders is a term borrowed from.

milkman

CRICKET RECORDS

Cricket achievements are cur- lous things. Freeman, the little man of Kent who trundles out batting glants with astonishing MONETARY POLICY regularity, seems likely to top the three hundred wickets mark for the second time in his career, In the debate as to whether for it is impossible that he should yet so complete. But the German how to obey orders, but to obey In others the organisation is not of the populace will simply know or not the value of currency can be left out of the final match of citizen will be required as a them implicitly without panic... be kept stable by government the season, the Champions versus national duty to attend at least The "air-raid" lately reported

Then, there's the urger. Ho is regulation, the example of Swe- the Rest. Yet his appearances one such meeting and gather what-from Munich, and similar tests either a retired jockey, a trainer's den has been cited by both sides. for England have been rare and ever instruction he or she may be which have taken place in Breslau, grand-father, or his uncle's friend's

when he has turned out, has sel- able to obtain.

Konigsberg and other cities, indi- next-door-neighbour's The managed, money advocates dom been given the chance to

This instruction will confine cate a sincerity in the belief that used to deliver to Hyperion's have pointed to Sweden's auc distinguish himself. He went to itself in the main to describing the Germany's populace must be warn groom's niece. You can always

Australia cess in keeping domestic prices did not bowl a single ball in a and after a raid of any kind from bours, which is distressing to to tell you.

few years ago, but correct behaviour before, during ed against attacks from her neigh- tell an urger, but he's more likely fairly level while those in other Test match. Much the same sort the air. Although the eventuality those who believe that any form Taking it all in all, horse racing countries have been falling, of comment might have been made of polson-gas is the pivotal point of protection from danger rana ia a poor sport except for a rich with discouraging effect about Ames, until recently. He the dangers from bombs will also counter to the ideals of pacifism. man.

on

beat all wicket-kodping records employment and

business for three years in succession, but be enlarged upon. activity. Now the opposing found Duckworth displacing him EVERY FAMILY school has analysed the for

England. He obtains his TRAINED. Swedish statistics and come to place consistently to-day be

cause of his batting prowess, not But the population as a whole the conclusion that far from because of his qualities as a will be divided up into passive having solved its economie trou- atumper. The explanation is, of citizens and active safeguarders of bles through the management course, partly to be discovered in their interests.

Kent's barrenness in attack. of its currency, the country Freeman does not get the wickets, feels the depression like every- they are not obtained, and his one else. As is often the case, understanding with Ames is per the truth lies somewhere befect-Between them they have

rescued Kent from tween these two extremes. predicament. When Sweden was forced to abandon the gold standard at SOCIAL PROBLEMS the end of September, 1933,

many

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"CAVALCADE"

There should be no need, accord- Ing to these tenets, to inspire a humble Berlin householder with We were one of the distinguish- horror merely by informing him ed gathering who attended the that he dwells in a big city lying gala premiere of "Cavalcade" last open and exposed to horrible men- night. aces from a frontier only 14 hours

away by train.

One member of every family will THE LAX learn the use of a gas-mask and know what to do when the moment CIVILIAN. comes.

home.

As we entered the front portals of the King's Theatre cameras and clicked, flashlights flashed people stood at attention.

We bowed, amiled, threw our tooth-pick away and followed His Excellency the Governor inalde,

By pretending that we were an A.D.G. we were able to successful-

Actually, it is possible to look The-others-will-at-least-know a little deeper into the matter and a how to obey order. It has not yet discover the true aims of the been stated which mombers of the Protection-from-the-air propagan- family will be chosen in the case dials. There may be milltary Diely negotiate the door-keeper

It was the most magnificent of there being no adult male in the hards among them whose motto it spectacle we have ever seen. Wo is to ensure peace by preparing That journal of many parts, But the tremendous zeal and the for war. But the great majority went out and celebrated the re- chiefly by the British example, The Rock has entered into the deadly seriousness underlying the who enjoin this, "national duty lief of Mafeking by drinking some the first concern of the authori-discussion on local social pro- present propaganda point to an believe in the training of a whole free beer in the King's Restaurant, We also celebrated the ascension ties was to assure the Swedish bloma,, taking up the issue more enlightening of the civilian po- population in habits of order, of King Edward to the throne, public that the value

or less at the point at which we pulation without any subsidy from obedience, discipline and belief in drowned our sorrows at the sink- of its

recently left off, and contributing public funds on an undreamed-of-authority. No better way of training of the Titanie, got thirsty at money would not disappear asì

one or two useful suggestions. | scale,

ing the lax civilian in the milltary it had in Germany and other We doubt, however, if the moro This action is only temporary. virtues could have been devised, the sight of Herbert Mundin's pub, colebrated the Armistice and European countries A

information, All teachers in German schools are the mere fact of making him pay drank a few more for good mica- decade dissemination of before. They engaged, so far to rouge public and government in dangers from the air, which they his capacity, and telling him, it is

valuable as it may be, is likely now receiving special instruction for his "defence," according to Burca.

What's the use of them putting as lay in their power, to main-to necessary action. We are, will impart to their pupils, so that his duty, gives a spontaneity to the tain the internal purchasing perhaps more cynical in our view the younger generation, it is movement which it would lack on free beer if you don't drink it. We forgot what happened after power of the krona. In other of Hongkong mental processes, presumed, will, know how to take entirely if it had grown out of wards. But it was a one picture

takon in the mass, than the con- care of itself. words, their first purpose was tributors to The Rock may por- to allay fear. In that respect mit themselves to be. Also, it they were successful. The cost would seem, our use of the term of living did not go up. In July which they could not subscribe. "agitation" conveyed an idea to this year the index number The substitution of active insist- was 153, with the prices of July, ence would probably represent 1914, taken as 100. When the more accurately our own polley country went off gold, the_ro- and at the same time.widen the tail price index was 158. The door for supporters.

trouble was more the other way.

AC-

customed to their modo of exist-

When the first anxiety had been | SLUM EVILS relieved, it was found that

We do not like laissez faire and while on the gold standard Sweden, like its neighbours, nor in economics, nor yet in pro- never did, neither in government allowed prices to slip too far, blema connected with social and in May, 1982, a policy. was betterment. This Colony should adopted that would tend to raiso set an example not acquiesce in wholeanle prices moderately, the evils of acute poverty with while keeping the cost of liv. the excuse that similar or worse to be found in ing as nearly stable as possible. conditions are But in spite of these efforts the Swatow, Canton and other places wholesale price index, which and that the sufferers had gone up from 107 in Sop once. Such considerations do not tember, 1981, to 110 a year ease the minds of those who sɗe later, sank back to 105 last (not merely look at the hard- March, following the world ships round about, coupled with trend. Since last May it has the appalling way of life thrust been rising, again. Sweden's upon thousanda in our slums part- prosent policy is still to effectly through government's failure a moderato riso in the domestic to insist upon observance of the level of wholesale prices, whe- Health and Building Ordinance. ther in conjunction with other Wo admit that the problem is not

likely to be solved by rigid ap countries or independently, but plication of the regulations. But its cardinal aim is to keep the If owners of property cannot be cost of living within the coun- compelled to content themselves try na oven as possible. Whilo with a fair return and the "prin- It is true that so far the success cipal tonant" sub-division' scan- Lot its financial policy in koon- dal cannot be overcome by any.

ing prices Blondy mas not saved for weal the country from all the ills of native, that of the provision of the world-wide depression, it. Government model sub-divided tonementa where economic stress, has protected it from some of demand the tenement type of the effects felt elsowhere.

„probably,

ordinary taxation.

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Something like this, for in- stance:

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