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IRISH POLITICS

A “REMEDY" IS SUGGESTED FOR A

on

HONGKONG PROBLEM

By C.V.-L. for the Telegraph

a recent night of Chinese coctions have continued to ho

Idea!

NO MEAN FEET

By Eddie Kelly, Chiropodist [T'S about time Hongkong IT'S

put its foot down with a

While agriculture and commerce in the Irish Free State languish. Mr. de Valera presses on with his political adventures. Relations with the Crown are to be severed by easy stages and a fully-fledged Republic is promised within five years. To Bir. Thomas warning, ALINTIVE NOTE crept Inte been a lot of secrecy and chi-firm hand.

the discussion at a meeting canery, and, some weird con- Which brings us to "Hong- pointing out the conflict between the Fauna Fall proposals and Ire-

Western-style medical practition offered up that passeth all un kong Foot", our subject for Presence of the land's treaty obligations, he repiles

Gr's in regard to an active mani- derstanding. But is that not also to-day. with dedance and, apparently, with festation of "native" herbalists true of Western science as a whole Shanghai and Singapore his tongue in his cheek, having and physiciam. It transpires that in the early evolution stages, as At Creatly Reduced Prices. regard to his suggestion that

competition is becoming keen, and witness the pretensions of the interporters in the Colony is armed force may be applied to the possibilities being fully ex- alchemist who offered a great all the more reason why a bring the Free State to heel. The plored of combating a growing material prize for practically protest should be lodged suggestion is absurd. No circum-aggression, the bolder epirits, on nothing, and the fulminations of BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON YOUR stances are likely to arise in which the principle that the end justifies the astrologist who claimed to about this indiscriminate

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For, be it noted, Included in the Singaporo, he's decent about it side by side with the Western. vernacular Hat of herba, plants, and calls it "Singapore Foot". 4,450 wealth, good riddance to thom..

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1933.

BRITISH POLICY IN

EUROPE

Behind the breakdown in the disarmament conference there lies a dominant problem which nobody has yet satisfactorily. | solved. This is the French de- sire to retain a military super- iority over Germany, and the German resentment of that superiority. It has to be kept constantly in mind that for France the victory registered

con-

considerations

are admitted.

principal elements of our more re- their feet more regularly, they fined drugs. At the same time, aneeringly refer to it as "Hong- indications for curative treatment kong Feet", have, also been discerned in a We don't want their foot.

Ever since the earliest days

Way

back in the

FURTHER PRESSURE

Unfortunately, the situation is not likely to work itself out quite | CHINESE MEDICINE ' so comfortably at that. Events IN WESTERN EYES. felt that Britain cannot ignore the For the professional men who:n Wonderful way approaching the

It more directly concerns, the same healing results more directly Shanghai has been jealous of changes to the Constitution templated; and that further ccon- question must always remain of produced by Western methods. Hongkong. omic pressure is certain to be active interest, having regard to as these virtues continue to re- Stone Age, when, mankind walked brought to bear. The Tariff War conflict of principles, and as legal ceive marked attention, so the on all fours, the Shanghal people tendency strengthens for a closer had useless appendages which we can be made far more effective than it is to-day, although the farmers Theac legal considerations do not harmony between hitherto conflict called "Shanghai teels". Shang- are already almost ruined by the at the moment bulk largely, chieflying authorities. Many of our now hal has never forgiven us for that. drugs have a familiar ring and in- It was Hongkong that discover- loss of markets. Mr. de Valera's owing to the Ideal conditions for a deed, the suspicion has become ed that by walking on two legs eiferta to ease the problem by pay test case not having been en more and more of a ing heavy bounties on exports of countered. dairy produce and devising an in- genious arrangement by which have been two or three prosecutearing in our pharmaceutal Irish butter is sold more cheaply tlons, but of a more or less isolat. lctionary, are no more than valu- in London than in Dublin, are only ed nature in no way closely touched Chinese features that have been

pressed Into",, the partially effective. Further prea in the basic medical issues Western science. Bure, possibly taking the form of With these few excentions the an embargo, would defeat him at official attitude in Hongkong vis A QUESTION OF

of ADVERTISEMENT. all ends. Mr. Thomas's one hopea vie the question has that of making Mr. de Valera see rea- laisser faire, the line of least re- Mon is through economic action. sistance, and it is no doubt con- The Irish leader will either give venient enough, way or be compelled to surrender his position to the United Ireland Party.

NAVAL RACE

It is true that in the past there certain recent CEAVA that instead of four, we could save con-

There is also just the shadow of a suspicion that this comfortable

in the Great War meant deliver-new cruiser to meet a particular "SECRETARY AND

means that Britain is designing a

ance

CHICANERY"

apsiderably, since only one pair of shoos were needed instead of two. The Shanghai shoe manufacturora immediately filed a protest, ar alleged communistic influences, but two feet had come to stay.

service of

Of course as has been admitted, there has been a lot of showman- ship in the make-up of the average Chinese physician, and right the

our un-

This was the origin of Hongkong foot, The Idea of wwalking on two fect spread all over the world. places, naturally, Were Other jealous of the fact that Hongkong had made the discovery, and ,several countries tried, to Intro-

duce a three-foot movement, which

they called a "Yard".

But, despite the fact that hun- dreds of people wrote letters to the London Times about it, feat even- tually replaced all-fours. Even the staunchest Tory diehard was forced to admit de feet.

By Insidious propaganda in the. North China Daily News and the northern Shanghai Times, the people have, in recent years. changed the whole meaning of "Hongkong Foot". Nowadays they, refer to it as any allment of the fect. If a man gets corns, they call it "Hongkong Foot". If he gets bunions, it's still "Hongkong Foot

outlook is associated with, if not may be repudiated for much of the inspired, by a popular supposition non-essentials that merely serve to that is, if Chinese drugs do not confer an atmosphere of secrecy cure, at any rate they can do no to his dealings. There again, it is harm. And there the question but an ordinary human failing, to However the decision announced, seems, fated to remain, until a which the best of us auccumb.. by Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell is more decisive policy is forced by Harassed by a misunderstanding raped up, it cannot fail to unexpected developments and ex- and unfriendly Western world,

Shanghal was the last place to circumstances more therefore the Chinese doctor may interpruted as warning of Britain's | traneous entry into the naval race between weighty than the whole body of with some justification turn round hold out against the popular move has at this point and retert: "A motement, and it was not until last the United States and Japan. foreign-style practitioners Stripped of ollicial verbiage, it been able hitherto to present. in your eye, Siree; you who love year that they were eventually

to hide the light. of your learning able to abolish tacis, under a bushel of Latin deriva- from a dread that was type

tives,utterly foreign to of ship appearing in the generations old. She is satis-American and Japanese navics.

There is however a growing be trained car:-you who speak in fied with the Versailles Treaty, Competition has, definitely begun: Hef that when the teat comes, as riddles even on an ordinary and so long as it is integrally main- the only question which remains to it inevitably will in spite of all we everyday complaint as a cold."

Then again the native physician be seen is where It will stop. The

can do to delay it, it will not be tained, but the mischief is that United States aces no hope of any there is no effective guarantee of satisfactory outcome

so bitter as anticipated, but that retains another advantage. He of the 1936 the other course will be followed has reduced his medicinal prepara- ita maintenance. If Germany meeting arranged by the bondon of finding a good word for a sub-lions to the very simple process of were to commit a breach of the Naval Treaty, a feeling easily un- Treaty, Britain may, support derstood in view of the issues likely ject now the subject of much boiling. It ultimately brings out abualve malignment. Gradually the same basic healing elements France in punitive action, or to be raised at that time, including the old intolerance, and prejudice as attained by a more complicated chemical process, but it has this she may not: the Treaty per- the future of the mandated islands with which these indications of an favour for the nervous patient: an mits, but does not oblige her, at present in the control of Japan. ancient culture are held in the to do so. The main object of Australia has definitely developed foreign eye, are giving way to a opportunity to witness what he is

n scare and has been encouraged

WHERE. I firmly believe, THE French policy since the war has in it by the despatch from Britain better understanding of their good expected to take. AND THIS IS been to repair that omission. of an additional destroyer Botilla. points. The "let live pose NATIVE DOCTOR INVARIABLY Now, it would appear France The Pacific, ill-named ocean from are pleased to call "charity" but SCORES OVER HIS ADVER- one of the Hotels for a spot of wishes Britain to promise to most every viewpoint, aceths, and which in reality is an untouchable take definite and physical action the next naval conference is more egoism, is succumbing to a sincere SARY. It has at any rate enabled in the event of any breach by likely to be confronted with a de- desire to learn all that the other him to put over Germany of the disarmament mand for an increase in Japanese Armaments than otherwine. Now provisions of the Treaty Britain has entered the race, with of Versailles. British opini- the fact that she has come in after on, generally speaking, would having held off so long in

itself appear to be that no such pro-an ominous sign. mise can be given. The Evening

Standard, Conservative journal

that it is, sums up the view- CHINA'S DISUNITY point of the majority of people

Continued .Internal disunity

in Britain when it remarks that threatens China's future far more "France's attempts to make this seriously than any threat from out- country a part of her Continen-side her boundaries. Again there secessionist move- tal system are quite comprehen- are rumours of sible, but they are unaccept- ment in the South, with the famous able." There can be no doubt XIXth Route Army, challengers of Japan's military might at one that the view is atendily gaining stage in its carcer, as the prime ground in Britain that, apart Instigators. Its leaders seem to be from other considerations, any fretting at its fallure to establish policy leading to fresh obliga- itself in the approved fashion in tions on the Continent will not Fuklen and to be seeking further help in providing a real solution and wider fields of influence. The of the European problem. This one thing that has kept the move- ment from serious development in feeling is not confined to one the past has been the refusal of section of the people: It is to be Chan Chal-tong to cooperate. Ho encountered almost everywhere. scizes upon every opportunity to The Labour idea of a general forestall the making of a decision, strike in the event of war in- and it is to bo hoped will continuc volving Britain is a reflection of to do so. It may be a long time it. It is based not only on re-since Kwangtung is in such a fundamentally sound position as membrances of the Great War it is to-day but that affords no and of the price we have had reason why it should test its to pay, despite the victory, but strength in a vain, even if success- on a feeling that it is high time ful, campaign against Chiang Kai- the various Continental nations shek. Few of the would-be rebels realised that they cannot expect would know what to do with parer material aid from Britain in at Nanking if they obtained it. furtherance of special political

ends. None the less, we have to

on

remember that Britain has aid of the injured party, if she very definite obligations under la satisfied that the violation the Locarno Treaty, and, ac- constitutes an unprovoked act of cording to` the latest of aggression. The proviso is im- ficial pronouncements, there portant. Summed up, Britain's is no intention

her attitude is to be found in the part of evading them. As Cap words of Mr. Baldwin: "What tain Anthony Eden has made Britain has signed, she will But neither the plain, if Germany, for example, adhere to." were to infringe the Locarno Britishi people nor the Govern- understanding, Britain would be ment are disposed to enter into: bound immediately to go to the any fresh commitments.

fellow has to teach.

That the other fellow's medicine has some fac points seems to be worth the investigation, for it is only the most pig-headed amonget us will refuse the evidence of a system curative and comforting, that has sustained the ailing half of China's population in the thou Aands of years of its existence.

Admitted in the past there has

amount of business. DOES NOT SOUND RIGHT.

A

tremendous

It seems therefore this plaint by

We can even recall a case where

a Shanghai man who married o Hongkong girl and got cold feet- hors enceringly referred tɔ It as "Hongkong Foot"

Which reminds us of the time we visited Shanghai and went into tin.

"Have you got frog's lega?" we asked the Maitre d'Hotel.

“No, sir,” he replied, "It's Hong- kong Foot!".

*

FAMOUS FIRST WORDS

NOAI:. It floate

foreign style Chinese doctors doca CLEOPATRA: You're An easy not sound right when alleging un-Mark, Antony. fair competition, which springs mainly from a non-appreciation of, or lack of opportunity for, the (Continued on Next Columna.)

You think everybody is O.K., doncha? When you're my age. you'll know they's folks what can't be trusted."

JONAH: You can't keep a good man down.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: Keep your shirt on, Wally.

EDWARD KELLY: T'U pay you

Inter.

*

HIKESPERIENCE

The boss of her firm was a bit. of a wowner. Last Sunday sho went hiking, and when she return- ed, remembered she had forgotten that she had to go to the office to do some typing. So she went along in her atrides.

Unfortunately, the old man hap poned to be there. He stared in amazement at the shorts.

For a moment he glared at her; then he pointed an accusing finger. at the thingamebobs, and shouted: You take those things off, er go home."

She went home.

HONGKONG BLUES

I started solo on life's way, And then I met a maiden goy, Who soon a duo for vis Arranged. The doctor camo tor

day,

And ushered in a chorus.

right way of prosenting the virtues of Western medicine. That was could be subtle, avoiding the pit- falls of professional advertising.

But above all, professional vor vices, now relatively high, ahould be made more easily available for the poorer people who are most in need of these Barvices, Loss, too, of an atmorphere (perhaps not of his own making). by which the foreign-style doctor has become a "mystery man" to his clients.