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NOTES OF THE DAY IT'S TIME WE SLOWED The Very Idea!

PEKING THREAT

The attitude adopted by the Japanese military in the matter of Fang Chen-wu's latest adventure scema to justify Chinese

com.

DOWN

Says CLEMENCE DANE

The Famous Novelist and Playwright

W

-BOOZE TESTS O By Edward Kelly, Drank, E noticed in yesterday's Telegraph that as things

plaints. No temporary relaxationINCE the war the quick-lunch Indeed, of all quick-lunches the stand at present no satis-

of the terms of the Tangku Armis-habit has taken hold of us by theatre lunch is, I think, the most

man behind the bar smiles at you; you go to an abbreviated service on

In other words

no one'

tice agreement is to be permitted, the million and, if you ask me, wholesome. The music-hall turn is factory scientifle test of although it allows the ex-Kuomin- we are all auffering from in- to quickly served and over that the drunkenness exists."

cooking has to be excollent, and chun leader to march his troops to digestion. within a few miles of Peking be- Mind you, I'm not saying that yet I am uncomfortably sure that the quick-lunch habit in its its very spice makes it bad for my

knows how many hiccoughs. for China can move a soldier to simplest manifestation is without theatrical digestion. check the advance. True, the charm. It's pleasant when you're Do you bolt ideas-swallow other Japanese have issued an ultimatum tired to sit on a high, swinging peoplo's whole, without thinking it takes to make a swallow. to Fang and declare their intention, stool and be served quickly with a them over? Then you are a quick-

Speaking off-hand, from ex of employing troops to remove him tempting, casily saten meal without luncher. Do you take your holi-

having to wait for the equally days solid or do you quick-lunchperience, we can name half a from the demilitarized zone-but this may mean no more than that tired waitress. Instead, the brisk them in a series of week-ends? Do dozen different tests the local they will drive him towards Peking. there is no preliminary studying of Sundays? Do you send postcards police could make for drunken- It is perlinps significant that Tanga dreary bill of fare-the actual instead of letters and use the tele-ness. Yu-lin has allied himself with sausages and salmone and salads phone instead of ofther? Do you Fang Chen-wu and that the ex-Jehol woo you from the marble counter. write "yours ally? Do you buy Governor is credited with allegiance And to inded mind and jaded palate your plants potted every spring the sandwich or so of delicatessen for insertion in the unsown ground. HONGKONG HOTEL to Manchukuo. Suspicion is na- and rye, with cool beer, is infinite- because it saves time? Do you tural. After all, if the region is ly more attractive than the more walk or take omnibuses or taxi- truly demilitarised, there is no carefully balanced lunch in Blow caba?

And, how do you spend the time you've Baved? In having a ner- more reason why Japanese troops time that the doctors recommend. should enter upon it than Chinese,

Yous breakdown! Events will be watched with anxiety, in view of recent rumours that Japan's expansionist pro- gramme in China has not yet been completed.

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PHONE 27778-9

Hongkong Telegraph. AN "OLD" OFFENDER

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1938.

CUBA AND MANCHURIA

The case was

E

SAVING TIME.

Is there no way out of the rush? But the prime charm for de] You hate it: so do I. You moderns is the actual saving of grumble: so do I. But we get no time. You are in and out of your farther, for we know ruefully that eating-house in a quarter of an it is only the members of small hour and have time to look at tho communities who can make them- shops. You can even spend ton selves heard. minutes in the rather oppressive

+

At present tests aro divided into two groups. Under one group you can be called upon to. (a). Walk nicng in a straightTM

lino

.:

(b) Touch the nose with the angers with tho oyes shut

(e) Stand on one leg with the oyes shut and the hands held above the hend

(d)' Write down a sentence (c) Pronounce certain test

sentences.

(a) is simple, and to make it harder the police should bring it into line with the other testa by making the drunk do it with his

air of one before your blessed mid- PEACE LEAGUE NEEDED. day holiday comes to an end. No wonder the quick-lunch habit. Until not one or two, here and there, but millions of us, all the grows

But three hundred and sixty-time, deliberately set a slower Ave quick-lunches, and what will pace, there's no hope of leisure. I eyes shut. have happered this time next year wish somebody would start A. (b) shouldn't trouble anyone. to your unfortunate digestive ap- league for the preservation of paratus and your outlook on life? peace and quiet. But until some Constant practice at, placing your Bolting spells indigestion, and apostle is ready to give us a lend, fingers up to our nose when the Indigestion spells misery any day suppose we shall continue to boss's back is turned is a grent. of the week. Read Chapter 1 follow the example of "Mr. Polly" help.

The next test (e) is limited to page 1, of H., G. Welis's "Mr. who "auffered from indigestion

every afternoon but, as he lacked he-he men. The last man we aaw Polly" If you don't believe me.

retrospection, projected the

80 undergoing this test was run in ciated discomfort upon the world." for being drunk and disorderly..

BOLTING IDEAS.

And nowadays we boli more than our physical food. We bolt all the

other sorts of food as well. Our WHEN SHIPS ARE thing like "LO.U." or "Please lend

SCRAPPED

By E. F. Spanner.

Providing we can choose our own sentence (d) is simple. Some- me 35 until the end of the month" como naturally.

A boy of twelve was sent to prison for a week at the Central Magistracy yesterday following his fourth conviction for stealing. He has apparently come to be regarded It is typical of this everyday as an "old offender" and as a fad world that certain circles in the likely to spend the rest of his life United States, faced by the crisis alternately in and out of gaol. It in Cuba and the possibility of is a tragic sort of attitude to adopt intervention, are beginning to the attitude that makes habitual find excuses for or a "charitable criminals out of youngsters. understanding" of Japan's ad- Abandoned as incorrigible at the venture in Manchuria. À leading age of twolve and so to guel! American journal presses the

morning paper, for instance, has analogy between Manchuria and

become the most successful quick- Cuba as far as it will go. It TREATMENT OF JUVENILES breakfast of news, Could you face points out that Cuba was the

an examination on the contents of

(e) Nothing to it. Take the test chief cause and principal battle-

the paper which you devoured with also interesting such speed and enjoyment on your

sentence "the ship sunk but the ground of the Spanish-American from another angle. Although the way to town yesterday? And if

crow were saved." It can be varled The surplus shipping tonnage half a dozen different ways. Such War; Manchuria was the chief Juvenile Offenders Ordinance is in you can't can you honestly say in the world is gradunily being re- as "the shrimp shrunk and all cause and principal battleground of the Russo-Japanese War. The operation, the lad was charged in that you have digested it properly? duced by the continued scrapping hands were shaved" or "the sink United States has treaty rights open court, in front of the usual And if you haven't, what will be of absolete vessels combined with stanic" or "the skunk skipped," or the state of your political digestion in Cuba, to be found in the fam-crowd of spectators, distinguished at the end of the year?

a very enutious policy of replace-"the shick slumped" or "the sick ment.

shrank or......but why go on. ous Platt Amendment; Japan from the ordinary adult offender And are you a book reader or a What does it actually mean has treaty rights in Manchuria, only by the fact that he was not bookswallower? Do you wolf when one reads that, say, a million

We can recommend several other the result of the Twenty-One brought in with the "herd" at the down your new novel before you gross tons of shipping has been tests. For instance, if a police turn out the light over your bed

officer finds a man asleep in the Demands-rights obtained in opening of the court. This both cases by coercion. In the understand to be the customary from the library? If you do, then having a gross tonnage measure-head pillowed on the kerb nty

we and get another, next morning

It means, literally, that ships middle of Des Voeux Road. his way of investments, the United practice with juveniles whether the you are a literary quick-luncher, States is estimated, to have sent "criminal" is an "old" of a frat and in the long run such chicchement of one million tons have been surrounded by half a dozen empty stripped of the whole of their whiskey bottles, the man is un- $1,000,000,000 into Cuba. Japan offender, whether charged with give you a pain. The Forsyte machinery and of the whole of the deniably drunk. If the man is has a stake about half as large stealing or with hawking and it The Real Charlotte" or "The Old taivalyaluable Attings with bottles are full, he le assuredly Saga," "War and Peace," "Tess,"

brass, copper, lead, and other re- asleep as stated, and the whiskey in Manchuria. Yet in proportion cannot too strongly be condemned. Wives Tale" will be difficult of which they were equipped, and drunk that stake is far more important to Japan. Manchuria is for Only one thing could be worse and digestion if you lunch too often at have, thereafter, had their steel

the quick-lunch bookstall.

There are several other similar hulls or shells cut up into pieces- Japan not merely a sugar bowl, that is the adoption of the rumour- but an almost indispensable ed alternative, a special court with

ALL "SNACKS".

of a size suitable to be handled testa, but we would rather not go economic life line." And it is a junior endet in charge. If it is

conveniently by scrap merchants. on with such a painful subject. Or are you a blameless, A million gross tons of shipping aleo, of course a first line of de- seriously contemplated, we might thorough-going reader and yet one will produce roughly one-third of fence against Russia, lately very well abandon all hope of any of those people who help to pack that number of tons of scrap steel,

SCENARIOS turned Communist but retaining good developing from juvenile the music-halle If I am, it is be-When times are good there is not all the expansive habits develop-offenders legislation for it merely easier to assimilate than the care of that scrap at a

cause the "quick turn" is so much the least difficulty In disposing It has recently been stated that. price which at least fifty thousand stories and ed under Tsurism. In the Carib- | means that the authorities have fully written, passionately acted makes the cutting up of the hulls story ideas are investigated for bean, Cuba is the island adjunct not grasped the fact that sitting in three-hours play, and you don't of old steel ships a profitable flm possibilities each year. of a vast mainland; in the Japan judgment upon children is a task have to waste two intervals of time business.

American Alm companies. Jud- Sea, the situation is reversed. In of great difficulty, fit work for a both Cuba and Manchuria, chao-

tic local government has endan-magistrate of the greatest ex- gered the lives and property of perience.

the neighbour's citizens. The

United States has intervened in

Cuba in various ways, but has U.S. AND SOVIET

been trying to shake loose. Japan

has tightened her hold. Ameri-

There has been a growing feel- cans have cited the Monroe-Doc-ing that the question of recogni- trine as sanction for American tion by the United States of the interference in Cuba. Certain Soviet Government must before spokesmen for Japan have been long be decided, one way or the referring to her policy of recent other. It has been recognised by

months as a Monroe Doctrine for

the Far East. The comparison various other Governments, in- is not accurate, but there are cluding those of the chief Euro enough similarities between the pean countries. In the case of seizure of Manchuria and certain Great Britain, there have boon abuses of the Monroe Doctrine to episodes calculated to create frie- help many Americans under- tion. The latest was the arrest' atand that their own country's and trial of the British onginoors policy has not always been so on the charge of-sabotage. When unselfish and humanitarian as two of those were declared guilty they would like to believe. The

the British Government broke off saving point of this analogy is that it was drawn by an influen-trade relations and embargoes Lial journal which expressed it were declared on both sides. The self as firmly opposed to any prisoners have since been freed Intervention by the United and the disputo has been ended; States in Cuba, but others have and a now agreement is to be used the same arguments other made. Russia at last seems ready wise and they are certain to be to abandon mischievous prop seized upon by those who seek aganda against the Empire. Be to justify Japan's adventures in fore the United States takes any Munchuria. It seems obvious definite stops, thorofore there will that should the United States be a close inquiry. It will cover Intervene to maintain a puppet many phases-the Tsarist debts, government in Cuba as she did the nature of trade agreements, by force of arros from 1906 to

the terms of credit, and the possi 1909, she cannot any longer supbilities in nature and volume of port the thesis that Japan in- fringed upon her international Russian trade. Russia is ad obligations in invading Man-mittedly a rich potential fold for churia and establishing Pu YI at trado. Definite action by America Changchun. Interest in develop. is certion.

ments in Cuba, in these circum- A policy of drift has too many.

disadvantages, stances, gains a now angle.

scrapped?

A

in watching other people gobble. The whole of the scrap stool ging by the storfes that are.. ices. You go into the music-hall goes back to the steel manu- actually produced, this seems to when you like and you leave it facturers-to the mills from us to indicate that the old saying when you like, and you can always which it later emerges as new should be 'altered to read. "Fifty be sure of a snack,

(Continued on Page. 9.)

"That's wheat. You know the stuff you've been buying

on the grain exchange,

thousand minds with but a single thought."

We can well imagine the chief story-finder sitting back after a good month's work and saying to his colleagues," Well, we've got' the goods this time, boys! I've found a story about a girl who falls in love with two men."

"Naw! We done that one," in- trudes another story-finder. "I've got a wow here about a man who falls in love with two girls,"

"Gee, that'll knock 'em cold! And they say. wo film. people' daren't tackle anything unusual."

We have already, given pro ducera many brilliant ideas for plots in this column, but it seems to have had no effect. We hate

to think of the poor talent hun- tars wading through the same; amount of material, again next year, so out of our mercy (guaranteed unstrained) we will" hand them a few more ideas to get on with.

What about a story. centring round that famous statue, the Venus de Milo7. She comes to life, and returns home to And another man in her arms.

Or thoro's another one about the girl who went out on a bleyle made for two, but.got' tyrod, and camo home of her own free wheel."" But we suppose it is: useless... And when we aro- told that sinco its inception a certain leading film company has examined and analysed a total of 180,000. stories: we begin to think they can't bo trying.