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Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933.
JAPAN AND HER MANDATES
NOTES OF THE DAY THE EVIL THAT
WATER.GRID
The remarkably dry summer in England has had the effect of establishing a water problem where none existed, or seemed to exist before, and a million pounds is to be devoted to schemes of improve- ment. In the meantime, a commit- tee of experts is examining_pro-·| posals for the organisation of the water supply upen the model of the electric grid. It would cost rough ly £20,000,000 and would make water famines such as were experi- enced during the summer impos- sible. Briefly the idea is to develop A number of regional grid systems from the existing water services and plan for the future in much a way that the whole water services of the country can be linked up into one efficient whole.
SPECTACULAR FEATURE.
According
IS MAHJONGG
to a Hongkong Headmaster
and Others
By CV.-L. for the Telegraph,
We had the suspicion that our
The Very Idea!
THIS NONCHALANCE
"QUIE
By Edward Kelly, Tired UIET Determination triumphed over Lethargic Nonchalance," "Veritas tells us, referring to Sun- day's football. WELL!' WELL! WELL!
X7HICH reminds us of the time we were ap-
Until tragedy brought disintent on discovering from Law illusionment, we hall regarded it renco as a jealous disciple of the with indulgent amusement; as cult, if so much noise was necess- something if at all reprehensibleary to the game, but were not pre-proached by a shroff with could be of no great harm to pared for his assurance that noise others, a congenial if noisy means constituted the essence of mah- quiet determination. We by which men and women con- Jongg enjoyment!
naturally greeted him with trived to rellove boredom. But then we were reared up in cloister leg was being severely pulled in Lethargic Nonchalance. ed surroundings, and our ignor- return, but if such was the inten anco was innocence begot of isola- tion, it was not apparent behind tion: Indiscreet in that it had the gravity, the earnestness of his rendered us unfit to receive world-expression. Staunch defender of ly contacts, and regrettable also his faith that he was, in the end ping lightly on to the field, In this instance because it had we were compelled to fall back on employed a Grecian movement This is that noise scared away
But Sunday's football was different. South China, trip-
The most spectacular part of the badly shaken our faith in the good-a well-known native superstition to add colour to their lethargic.
ness of humanity. plan is for the extension of the
With what unspeakable horror devils. We suggested that pro- nonchalance. Tam Kong-pak, existing Metropolitan Water Board, therefore did we chance on this probably the same result was be- who was "IT", was allowed to which is now virtually a grid sys-
news item the other day: Man ing sought by mahjongg players tem, to a radius of about 60 miles at Yaumati fainted from sheer desirous of driving away the carry the multi-coloured rubber of London to include towns as. for clation and shock at the realisation omons of bad luck and ruinous ball. apart as Bedford, Canterbury and of a full hand... And this in last losses. The shaft hit Its mark.
Unfortunately the game was Brighton; and for a 100-mile
marred by the Quiet Determina- aqueduct running from the York-year's news: Wife severely chaatie- shire and Lancashire hills to linked by husband for over-attention to mahjongg and negligence of the up with the extended Metropolitan home. And this further in the discovered to be largely composed tion of their brutal opponents, chance. Such the Club, who refused to join in area, with another great asue-
reports of the year before inst: of the elements of
the preliminary game of "Ring- duct running In from the Welsh Woman at West Point Club col-being the case; our views on it
and other sport like it Are too aring-a-Rostes. mountains to serve the West of England. These aqueducts would lapsed and died from the shock of well-known. But in case re-itera-
be tapped at plneca to serve isolated country areas. At points where it is necessary to reduce the pressure of the water in the aqueducts it is suggested that the power could be uned for driving turbo-generators for lighting and other purposes. A similar water grid plan Was
being anticipated at a full hand.
Etc., etc., etc.
recently shelved by the Ministry of Health on account of cost and tech-sinister facts. nical difficulties, but the Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers hopes to prove to the Government that these dificulties are not so formidable, as they ap pear.
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He, wilted.
Indeed this game we have sinco
tion be required for those who Ernie Strange kicked off, but at have not yet come within their this stage the Club were warned beneficial influence, let it be
was becoming ex-
And so our repugnance mounted understood that not for a moment that only necking was permitted as we read the growing indictment, would we entertain mahjongg as before half time,
With Lethargic Nonchalance one In the end the papers dropped anything but disreputable, to be from our nerveless hand, as our eschewed for moral, physient, of the South China players spat numbed mind feebly attempted to spiritual, economic, Intellectual, out a couple of teeth, and Wong grasp the Tull significance of the theological, and infinitessimal con- Moo-shun, counting a hundred in siderations snare for the en- a quick nonchalant volce, started Only a week before by virtue of slavement of both body and soul the search. Within a few minutes our position we had been approach- and to be avoided like the very he succeeded in discovering Wong ed with a request to admit mah- devill
Mee-shun, who has then IT."
Well would we have liked to The game. jongg Into our list of boudoir games. An irremediable step such as would bave Jeopardised our shake MrHeadmaster of citing. and the spectators blew better judgment had not been College at Yaumati by the hands kisses to the players. taken, and at the thought we felt on the courageous stand he took
Half time scores:-South Chine the other day against an elo distinctly botter.
occasion was The position was trying, to say custom. The
n2 forfeits. Club, Nil. the least. Was it not our best pul gathering of pupils and parents
Immediately after the commence- Lawrence who, when having his for В college anniversary. In leg pulled, to use a vulgar expres- solemnly warning them of the ment of the second half, Club were alon, on these matters had insisted dangers of mahjongg he said: awarded a free kiss. South China
promptly on being taken seriously? He it "Mahjongg is an evil and a menace. Bucceeded in obtaining the rubber was who, when touched on his it turns youthful minds from the bull, and softness for this outlandish game, natural path of education. It in- Grecian movement up and down was transformed into little short atils unsettled ideas, and make boys the field, Yeung Shui-yłek was chosen na the leading fairy, The of a fanatic.
inattentive to their lessons," With the mystic light of a gos- Parents were warned, and the Club started retaliatory move- Apellor glittering from one blood-authorities urged to suppress the ment by dancing eurythmics in
shot eye (the other is still closed), numerous dens where the evil was front of the goal posts, he had stoutly denied there was known to have been fostered in
this district. anything in the cursed game to detract from the character he had pleasant always held of it as burmiess diversion, a stimulant to when played by such as he,
storted a
The report, which may or may LESSON FOR HONGKONG not be correct, that France is
Whether or not the bigger scheme contemplating the provision of is developed at this stage, there is seaplane and submarine bases nit object lesson for Hongkong in in her
the Minister Pacific possessions is the plans of
for Health. At the first sign of a mado chiefly interesting from water shortage or possibility of a the fact that, before very long.water shortage at Home, definite the League of Nations will have action is taken. In this Colony, on its hands a problem of the water shortages are always with us, yet no real effort is made to push utmost complexity and importun with the Shing Mun Scheme. ance in this part of the world. certain period is allotted for the As is known, Japan holds the completion of the project and former German possessions in though very obviously it could be considerably, it speeded up very the North Pacific under mandate would not be difficult to prophecy from the League, and it has been all the reasons likely to be given made quite plain in official utter. / for adherence to the time schedule, the intellect, and a pretty spectacle from whom these worldly matters | ngreed to kiss each player that they'
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'ances that she is not at all dis- posed to surrender these ter- GOVERNMENT HOUSE'
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Those were weighty reasons, and as we now ponder over it, we, had been Jealously guarded. is made also to see the Light.
Syd Strange was penalised be cause he had a shiny noso, and Tam Kong-pak was awarded the ball. The Club promptly sulked, and it was only when the referee consented to continue the game.
Some embarrassment was caused This ideal of what any form of In our mind's eye we can see the sport or pastime should be, Headmaster: a bulky, musty text when, towards the close of play, strangely enough, we have noticed book in one hand and a glittering a scrum developed into a game of to tune in wonderfully well with sat of mahjongg tiles in the other, kiss-in-the-ring. players on both the traditional attitude of the deliberately weighing their respec-sides-objecting because the referee
insisted on being “HĘ". bridge-player, the poker-player, and tive conflicting claims. the numberless other players who More, we can see under the con- The threatened impasse was under their respective spells, may ditions set up by mahjongg a solved by the appearance of Ed- force for youthful ward Kelly and "Veritas" in the be said to have the courage of their powerful
referee im- victions literally to the Inst dollar. [lastic institution offering to the mediately whistling.
But that was not the point wequesting young a rare combination
(Final Scores in Last Edition). lind wished to take up with Law-of study and amusement,
Under the special conditións set rence at the time. Coming to think of it we have no doubt wo up by mahjongg as we can see it, should have more to any to, him the Alphabet will be reduced to a
And you must remind us to- had we seen these newspaper re-mere bagetelle of four standard ports earlier,
characters. Arithmetic will lose Many a late evening out we its terrora by being pleasantly morrow to tell you about the Jew were pursued back to our home converted into act calculations of who fell dead from lead poisoning by a clatter of cards as of fiends total scores secured; while Geo- after Robert MacWhirter had paid ahim back the dollar he'd borrowed. become taking an unutterable delight in graphy will cease to wreaking a form of mental torture headache because it will be con-
(Continued on Page 7.) on peaceloving folk. We were
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SCOTS JOKE NO. 1
ritories when, in 1935, her with- The same issue, in lesser degree drawal from the League becomes-of-importance, perhaps, arises in an accomplished fact. Latest connexion with the new Govern
ment House project. A large part reports suggest that Japanese of the cash is in the Government's vessels have been examining pocket, but the "dulo" for next year every nook and cranny in the is $100,000, in 1936 the amount Pacific, with what specific pur- might be increased to $250,000, and convictions and upheld these con- peccadilees; a sort of rival scho-grand-stand, the
so it will go on. If the scheme is pose can only be guessed. One worth tackling at all, it justifica thing seems fairly certain, and expedition. This is the time when wise spending of money specially that is that Japan will not hypothecated could be indulged in willingly give up the mandated on a biggish scale with a prospect islands. Japanese naval circles, of doing something to alleviate the indeed, openly state that they blight of the local depression. will never, under any conditions, be surrendered. An attempt OPIUM IN MANCHURIA has been made in some quarters
The allegation that opium is to show that the territories are being exported from Perain not in reality held in trust for Manchuria in large quantities with British aid hardly deserves to be the League of Nations, but that treated seriously. If there is any they were allotted to Japan as complaint to be lodged concerning part and parcel of the peace Manchuria and opium, it surely is to be found in the better authen- terms under the Versailles
ticated reports that Changchun is Treaty. What actually oe-deriving a large part of its revenue curred, however, was that Ger- from the product of the Jéhol poppy felda. Smuggling of Ferslan many's
possessions overseas
oplum is possibly going on, but were ceded to the Allied and certainly not on a scale to rank Associated Powers by the peace importantly. If truth be told, Treaty, after which these Manchuria probably grows more
than sufficient to Powers had an article inserted demand.
to
meet her own
in the League Covenant whereby the people of certain of these territories were put under the to happen to the islands held by Japan, under mandate, when tutelage of more advanced Japan's withdrawal from the nations, who were to act as man- League becomes automatic un- datories of the League and to der the two years' notice which exercise their powers on behalf she has given. The presumption of the League. The Supreme is that she will be required to hand back the, mandate. This, Council, as the organ of the according to present indications, Allied and Associated Powers, she may decline to do. It is drow.up the terms and allotted easy to see from, these circum- the mandates, subject to the stances that a situation of the approval of the Council of the utmost delicacy may occur. The League. It is clear, therefore, position certainly needs clarify- that the territories were not ing, and it would be a wise move if some steps were taken towards ceded to the mandatory Powers, this end before Japan's with- a fact which is reinforced by drawal from the League becomes tho requirement that these finally effective. It would be Powers have to render annually far better were the real status. of the mandatory Powers defined to the Council of the League a report on the territories com-nically a member of the League, now, while Japan is still tech- mitted to their charge. The than that the matter be left over qucation which arises, is what is until a serious breach occurs.
"Everybody noticed how bored you wore. I'm afraid they'll
'never ask us again."
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IT'S A LIE
We indignantly deny that the following conversation took pince between us and the Girl Friend the other night:
The G.F. If I go out in the car with you, Eddie, will you promise to behave yourself?
Us: Honestly.
The G.F.: You won't cuddle me
or kiss me?
Us: I'll be like an angel.
The G.F. Honestly?
Us: Honestly.
The G.F.: You mean it?
Us: Sure.
Tho G.F.: Then why do you
want me to go out in the car?
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JIDEOUS GIRL, FOUND MURDERED.
POLICE BAFFLED AS USUAL. (From Our Special Correspondent.)
Mystery surrounds the death of a particularly plain girl, who was found strangled. In a wood last night with her pudding face, bash- ed in,
So far as the police are con cerned, mystery will continue to surround her death, because no- body knows who killed her and no- body cares very much,
'well she
"I think it is just as has been murdered," said a pro- minent resident to-night.
"She
was an eyesore to everybody, and as aho had no money it. In dimoult to discover a motive for the crime, if you can call it much.".
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