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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933,

NOTES OF THE DAY A CONFLICT OF DOCTORS The Very Idea!

IRISH POLITICS::.

A “REMEDY" IS SUGGESTED FOR A.

HONGKONG PROBLEM

'By CV.-L. for the Telegraph

NO MEAN FEET

By Eddie Kelly, Chiropodist

While agriculture and commerce in the Irish Free Stato languish, Mr. do Valera pressca on with his political adventures. Relations with the Crown are, to be severed by easy stages and a fully-fledged FoFo Mr. Thomas warning, A the discussion at a mosting ennery. Republic is promised within five PLAINTIVE NOTE oropt into, been a lot of secrecy and chi-firm hands

and Bome weird con-

IT'S about time Hongkong put its foot down with a ̈

Which brings us to "Hong- pointing out, the conflict between on a recent night-of Chinean coctions have continued to be the Fianna Fail proposals and Ire-Western-style medical practition offered up that passeth all un- kong Foot", our subject for land's treaty obligations, he replica

ers in regard to an active mani- derstanding. But is that not also to-day. Presence of the with dofiance and, apparently, with his tongue in his cheek, having and lane, at lean herbalists true of Western science at a whole Shanghai and Singapore and physicians. It transpires that in the early evolution stages, as regard to

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

the means, urged an intensive use read Eternity from the stars? slurring of the fair name of contemplate aggressive action. TOURER

.HK$3,400 | That sort of thing was cast into the of the advertising medium.

This issue between Western an1 limbe many years ago. And what 3,600

is more, public opinion in England Chinese medicine is not particular

ly-new. It has been revived from 4,450 would prevent it. The present time to time in Hongkong and mood infers that if the Free State elsewhere, where the practice of really want to leave the Common-Chinese medicine has flourished 4,450 wealth, good riddance to them. side by side with the Western. Like other usages deeply rooted in the Indigenous belief, it has come

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1933.

BRITISH POLICY IN

EUROPE

FURTHER PRESSURE

Unfortunately, the situation la not likely to work itself out quite ao comfortably at that. Events are moving towards a crisis. It is felt that Britain cannot ignore the changes to the Constitution con- templated; and that further econ- omic pressure is certain to be brought to bear. The Tariff War enn be made far more effective than it is today, although the farmors are already almost ruined by the loss of markets. Mr. de Valera's efforts to ease the problem by pay Ing heavy bounties on exports of dairy produce and devising an in- genious arrangement by which Irlah butter is sold more cheaply in London than in Dublin, are only partially effective. Further pres- sure, possibly taking the form of an embargo, would defeat him at nill ends. Mr. Thomas's one hope of making Mr. de Valera see rea- son is through economic action, The Irish leader will elther give way or be compelled to surrender his position to the United Ireland Party..

NAVAL RACE

to be accepted, as part of "olo custom"..

CHINESE MEDICINE IN WESTERN EYES.

Hongkong.

Indeed, it would be a grave érror : to view Chinese medicine as an un-

Shanghai is the main mitigated hokey-pokey. fit object only for an intenso amusement or for a great diadals inspired by the offender. When a man for- light of our new-found learning. gets to wash his feet in For, bo it noted, Included in the Singapore, he's decent about- it vernacular liat of herba, plante, and calls it "Singapore Foot". and animal matter, are proporties. But in Shanghai, where it's in crude form if you will, but colder, and they forget to wash

the

nonetheless identical with principal elements of our more re-their feet more regularly, they fined drugs. At the same time, sneeringly 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 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 Way back in the qucation must always remain of produced by Western methods. Hongkong, active interest, having regard to a As these virtues continue to re- Stone Age, when mankind walked conflict of principles, and as legal selve marked attention, so the on all fours, the Shanghai people..

tendency strengthens for n closer had useless appendages which we arc admitted. consideratione These legal considerations do not harmony between hitherto conflict called "Shanghai taels". Shang- at the moment bulk largely, chieflying authorities. Many of our new hal has never forgiven us for that. drugs have a familiar ring and in- It was Hongkong that discover- owing to the ideal conditions for

two legs deed, the suspicion has become od that by walking on test case not having been en-more and more of a certainty that Instead of four, we could save con- countered,

siderably, since only one pair of shoes were needed instead of two, The Shanghai shoe manufacturers immediately filed a protest, and alleged communistic Influences, but two feet had come to stay.

ap

our pharmaceutal

It is true that in the past there certain recent "discoveries"

In pearing have been two or three proscen- tions, but of a more or less isolat-dictionary, are no more than valu- ed nature in no way closely touched Chinese features that have been into the service of Western science. Ing the basle medical issues. pressed With these few excentions the official attitude in Hongkong vis A QUESTION OF a vis the question has that of ADVERTISEMENT. laisser faire, the line of least re- sistance, and it is no doubt con- venient enough.

CHICANERY".

This was the origin of Hongkong foot. The idea of walking on two feet spread all over the world. Other places, naturally, were Joalous 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-

Of course as has been admitted, there has been a lot of showman There is also just the shadow of ship in the make-up of the average a suspicion that this comfortable Chinese physician, and rightly he Behind the breakdown in the

outlook is associated with, if not may be repudiated for much of the disarmament conference there

inspired, by a popular supposition: non-essentials that merely serve to that is, if Chinese drugs do not confer an atmosphere of secrecy lies a dominant problem which Bavarian Dances (Elgar, Op 27) London Symphony Orchestra, nobody has yet entisfactorily

cure, at any rate they can do no to his dealings. There again, it ladreds of people wrote letters to the harm. And there the question but an ordinary human falling, to London Times about it, feet even- Fire Bird (Stravinsky)---Dance of the Fire Bird-Philadelphia Or solved. This is the French de-

tually replaced all-fours, Even However the decision announced seems fated to remain, unt which the best of us succumb, Khowanichina-Entr'acte (Moussersky)

sire to retain a military super-by Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell iB

more decisive polley is forced by Harassed by a misunderstanding the staunchest Tory diehard was

forced to admit de feet. Philadelphia Symphony Orch. jority over Germany, and the wrapped up, it cannot fail to be unexpected developments and ex- and unfriendly Western world,

Shanghai was the last pisco to circumstances more therefore the Chinese doctor may Largo (Xerxes") (Handel) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, German resentment of that interpreted na warning of Britain's traneous

hold out against the popular move- Slavonic Dance in G Minor, (Dvorak)

superiority. It has to be kept entry into the naval race between weighty than the whole body of with some justification turn round

and Japan. foreign-style practitioners has at this point and retort: "A mote mont, and it was not until last Chicago Symphony Orchestra. constantly in mind that for the United States

verbiage, it been able hitherto to present, Stripped of official

in your eye, Siree; you who love year that they were eventually France the victory registered means that Britain is designing a Tannhauser-Morch (Wagner) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. in the Great War meant deliver- men cruiser to, meet a particular "SECRETARY AND

to hide the light of your learning able to abolish taels. under a bushol of Latin doriva- By Insidious propaganda in the Damnation of Faust-Hungarian March (Berlioz)

our un North China Daily News and the tives,utterly foreign to ance from a dread that was type of ship appearing in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.generations old. She is satie- American and Japanese navies.

northorn There is howover' a growing be-trained ear:--you who speak in Shanghai Times, the

recent years, Boston Symphony Orchestra fled with the Versailles Treaty, Competition has definitely begun;

changed the whole meaning of Boston Symphony Orchestra. so long as it is integrally main the only question which remains to lief that when the test comes, qe riddles oven on an ordinary and people have, in

can do to delay it. It will not be Then again the native physician "Hongkong Foot". Nowadays they Boston Symphony Orchestra, tained, but the mischief is that he acen is where it will stop. The it inevitably will in spite of all we everyday complaint as a cold."

another advantage. He refer to it as any ailment of the there is no effective guarantee of United States seca no hope of any

so bitter as anticipated, but that retaine This is a small selection from our stock of "H.M.V.”

Batlefactory outcome of the 1935 its maintenance. If Germany meeting arranged by the London

the other course will be followed has reduced his medicinal prepara- [feat. If a man gets corns, they records, may we send you catalogues?

of finding a good word for a sub-tions to the very simple process of call. it "Hongkong-Foot". If he were to commit a breach of the Naval Treaty, a feeling easily un- fect now the subject of much boiling. It ultimately brings out geta bunions, it's still "Hongkong Treaty, Britain may support derstood in view of the issues likely abusive malignment Gradually the-same-basic-healing-elements Fost.. France in punitive action, or to be raised at that time, including the old intolerance and prejudice as attained by a more complicatedWe can even recall a case where she may not: the Treaty per the future of the mandated islands with which these indications of an chemical process, but it has this Shanghai man who married a mits, but does not oblige her, at present in the control of Japan. ancient culture are held in the favour for the nervous patient: an Hongkong girl and got cold feet- to do so. The main object of

Australia has definitely developed a scare and has been encouraged foreign eye, are giving way to a opportunity to witness what he is hers sneeringly referred to French policy since the war has in it by the despatch from Britain better understanding of their good expected to take. AND THIS IS it as "Hongkong Foot". been to repair that omission. of an additional destroyer flotilla, points. The let live" pose we WHERE, I firmly believe, THE Now, it would appear France The Pacific, ill-named ocean from are pleased to call "charity" but NATIVE DOCTOR INVARIABLY which in reality is an untouchable SCORES OVER HIS ADVER- wishes Britain to promise to most every viewpoint, seeths, and

over n tremendous take definite and physical action the next naval conference is more egoism, fa 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 Germany of the disarmament mand for an increase in Japanese fellow has to tench.

That the other fellow's medicine armaments than otherwise. Now provisions of tho

Treaty Britain has entered the race, with has some fine points seems to be DOES NOT of Versailles. British opini- the fact that she has come in after worth the Investigation, for it is on, generally speaking, would having held off no long is itself only the most pig-headed amongst us will rofuse the evidence of a appear to be that no such pro- on ominous sign.

ayatem curative and comforting, misc can be given." The Evening

that has sustained the ailing half of Standard, Conservative journal

China's population in the thou- that it is, sums

up the view-

sands of years of its existence. point of the majority of people

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CHINA'S DISUNITY

Continued

Internal disunity

be

in Britain when it remarks that threatens China's future for more "France's attempts to make this seriously than any threat from aut. country' a part of her Continen-alde her boundaries. Again there tal system are quite comprehen- are rumours of a secessionist move sible, but they are unaccept-mont in the South, with the famous able." There can be no doubt of Japan's military might at one XIXth Route Army, challengers that the view is steadily gaining stage in its career, as the prime ground in Britain that, apart instigators. Its leaders seem to from other considerations, any fretting at its failure to establish policy leading to fresh obliga-itaalf 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- feeling is not confined to one the past has been the refusal of ment from serious development”În section of the people: it is to be Chan Chni-tong to cooperate. Ho encountered almost everywhere. solzes 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 be hoped will continue 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 ag membrances of the Great Wart in to-day; but that affords no and of the price, we have had reason why it should test ite 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. Fow of the would-be rebela realised that they cannot expect would know what to do with power material aid from Britain in at Nanking if they obtained it. furtherance of special political

ends. None the less, we have to

remember that Britain has ald of the injured party, if she very definite obligations under is satisfied that the violation the Locarno Treaty, and, acconstitutes an unprovoked act of cording to the latest. of aggression. The proviso is Im- ficial pronouncements,' there portant. Summed up, Britain's ia no intention on 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 plain, if Germany, for example, adhero' to." But neither the were to infringe the Locarno British people nor the Govern- understanding, Britain would be ment are disposed to enter into bound immediately to go to the any, fresh commitments.

Admitted in the past there has

amount of business.

SOUND RIGHT.

It seems therefore this plaint by foreign-style Chinese doctors does not sound right when alleging un- fair competition, which springs mainly from a non-appreciation of, or lack of opportunity for, tho (Continued on Nozt ̧ Columns.),

"You think everybody is 0.K, doncha 7 When you're my age

you'll know they's fol ke what can't be trusted."

Which reminds us of the time

we visited Shanghai and went into one of the Hotels for a spot of. timin.

"Have you got frog's legs?" we asked the Maitre d'Hotel,

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

FAMOUS FIRST WORDS CLEOPATRA: You're да

Mark, Antony,

NOAH: It fonts- JONAH: You can't keep a good. man down.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: Keep your shirt on, Wally,

EDWARD KELLY: Il pay you Inter.

HIKESPERIENCE

The bosy of her firm was a bit of a wowser. Last Sunday she went hiking, and when she return- ed, remembered she had forgotton that she had to go to the office to do some typing. So she went along in her strides.

Unfortunately, the old man hap pened 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 thingsmebobs, and shouted: "You take thoas things off, or go home."

She went home.

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.HONGKONG BLUES

1. started solo on life's way, 1 And then I met a maiden gay, Who soon a duo for us. Arranged. The doctor came ton

day,

And ushered in a chorus.

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

But above all, professional ser vicos, now relatively high, should be made more easily available for the poorer people who are most in': need of these servicos. Loss, too, of an atmorphere (perhaps nyt of his own making), by which the foreign-style doctor has become it, "mystery man" to his clients.