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SHEWAN. On 14th February, 1034, Robert Gordon Shewan, aged 76 years. Funeral will pass the Monument to-day at 6.30 No flowers, by request.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934.

PROPAGANDA FOR PEACE

Propaganda, which is only another word for advertisement, undoubtedly pays.. There is not a dictator breathing but knows it was propaganda that opened his way to triumph and that is necessary if he is to retain his position. A realisation of this basic truth is animating mem- bers of the Canadian League of Nations Society, who are deter- mined to put the same push and go into advertising peace that others expend on much less worthy causes. Seeing that

nothing can possibly be of greater moment to the people of the world than the preservation of peace, those members are intent on keeping the subject to the fore in a way which is in line with its importance. Hence the plan to wake up the whole Canadian nation to the issue. Nothing is to be left untouched in the great campaign now be ing organised. The wireless, the Press; the Churches, Univer- sities, schools, clubs, and wo-

NOTES OF THE DAY PUTTING PUNCH The Very Idea!

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News of the death in tragic circumstances of Mr, Robert Gor- don Showan comes as a sad shock, to a host of friends. He qualified for the title of doyen of local com merce and industry, but he

for his bo remembered chiefly courteous and generous disposi tion. He had been connected with the life of the Colony for exactly 68 years. He came to Hongkong at the age of twenty-one to join the firm of Russell and Co., at that time one of the largest mercantile firma in the Far East, the predecessors of Shewan, Tomos and Company, which under hts guidance prospered exceedingly and took its place in the forefront of the mercantile arms of the Colony.

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CHINESE NEW 'OÏI YEAH!

By Eddie Kelly Dragon Expert,

WE

are going to be quite frank with our readers......

We did not want to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

As a matter of fact, we had settled ourself down on Tuesday night in the lounge of the Gloucester, holding a tumbler of whisky in one hand and a copy of the Annual Report On the Social and Economic Progress of the People of the Colony of Hongkong During the Year 1933 in the other, for a quiet evening. But someone kept on filling up our tumbler, and somebody else kept on emptying it as fast as it was filled. It was always getting empty. We didn't blame anyone exactly, but all the same wo con- sidered it a mean trick.

les the English people are the same house, in the same losing their sense of humour. We attitude, eating same soup-un are such a serious-minded genera punished, untried, undissected- tion that posterity may write us no scaffold, no skeleton-no mob down as serio-comic. So far na of gentlemen and ladles to rape talk is concerned, whether at the over his last dying speech and dinner-table or from a public confession." platform, there seems to be some truth in this contention. Though He never stole a story, but was more licence is permitted in polite willing to buy one. He heard an conversation than was customary amusing anecdote about Words in Victorian days, there has been worth, who was praised effusively no corresponding gain of laughter, to his face by a disciple from the best sauce of all. And politics Scotland and subsequently admitt- having dismally declined into ed that he was the most intelligent economics, speeches in Parlla- and well-informed Scot he had ment or "on the air" have reached over met. Sydney Smith, finding an unprecendented pitch of dul- it had not been told to anybody else, paid five shillinge for the exclusive right to its use for a During his years as a Legisla-

Would that a second Sydney week. He was not opposed to an

Then it struck us how awful tive Councillor, he formed one of the select committee appointed to Smith could appear to revive the occasional pennyworth of social it was that the people in Hong-

galety Mr.

Hesketh deception. Hearing his friend, kong didn't know how they lived, enquire into and report upon the nation's quesion of the circulation of sub- Pearson's recently published Life Mrs. Austin, explain that she was because outside newspaper re- sidiary coins in the Colony. In of "the Smith of Smiths" reveals no relation to Jane Austen, he told porters, nobody ever reade the him as the greatest of all English her she was quite wrong, adding, Annual Report On the Social and fact, his participation in

good-humorists. Many of his "I myself always let it be inferred Economic Progress of the People public life of the Colony was a marked success for besides bring-stories and sayings are as familiar that I am the son of Adam Smith." of the Colony of Hongkong for to us all as Shakespeare's most Of a friend, ho said: "He has the Year 1983. Then we offered ing to bear upon the large ad- ministrative problems the keen dramatic lines or the most human no command over his understand to read our copy out aloud to all business intellect so essential to characters created by Dickens. ing; it is always getting between the other people who were in the their solution he was able to speak His picture of Mrs. Partington his legs and tripping him up."

Lounge, so that overybody would with authority and in a striking (who Hved on the beach at Slu- It would be easy to name politic know that a small amount of and fluent manner. Financially, mouth at the time of the great lane and publicists of to-day who lithographic work has been done he was a prominent local figure, storm of 1824) trying to keep the fulfil these definitions. He de- for the Government-Marine Sur- and he was at one time a director Atlantic at bay with her mop is fined marriage as follows: "It veyor, and that telephone ser of the Hongkong and Shanghai still a favourite parable with poll resembles a pair of shears, 80 vices are not availed of to any

Corporation Banking

and of ticians. Sometimes a forgotten joined that they cannot be separ- several other local companies. A story lurks behind a well-remem- ated, often moving in opposite sent extent by the Chinese in

the New Territories. saying. Thus It was directions, yet always punishing variety of interests occupied his bered

But although it was accused of anybody who comes leisure, and most of the sporting Jeffroy, whom ho

· between time "speaking disrespectfully of the them." The difficulty of convinc- New Year, nobody seemed to want clubs in the Colony at one

Equator" in order to pacify Leslie, ing a prejudiced man was thus to know about these important claimed his active support.

the Scottish philosopher. Tho described: "You might as well try things. Just the same, we rend statistics, showing the latter could never refrain from to poultice the humps off a camel's some

pressure nt Average barometrie mentioning the North Pole in the back." most casual conversation, and

Mean Sea Level in the Colony the relative and had been mortally offended when He was also, like Lewis Carroll during 1933, An important point has been raised in the European discussions the arch-critic had been provoked and Edward Lear, a master of the absolute humidities and the per- nonsensical common sense which contage of cloudiness and sun ist connection with the guarantees Into heartily damning it.

expresses itself in a riot of shine. And when we stopped no of assistance which have already been given, or which may here- Many of his best sayings, how. absurd similitudes. Meeting a body was filling up our tumbler

ever, have long since become alms friend in the street, Sydney Salth any more. after be given, to nations that may

But we had a bunch of spring conceivably be victims of aggres- for oblivion. Some of them were asked where he was going, "To sion. It is thought proper to not quite what one would expect Piccadilly," was the reply. Then onions in our hand, and began to of I hope you will pick a good one," eat them with a sad-faced man strengthen the desire for peace by

canon. "My idea laying emphasis on the promises heaven," he once said, "is eating sald Smith. He added to the who ant on the Star Ferry besides voluntarily made by certain nations patca de foie gras to the sound of effect of his droll stories by act- as, talking to a raw fowl.

[This somehow re-ing them. "What a hideous, odd- We said: "Who stopped flag to range themselves against a trumpets." country which is guilty of an un-minds me of the late Tom Kettle's looking man Sydney Smith is!" up our tumbler?" provoked attack. The Locarno definition of Roman Catholicism as exclaimed Mra Brookfield, "with

He said: "Who'sh tumbled ?" a mouth like an oyster and three

Wo said: "Would you like to double chins.' Treaty, to which Great Britain and table-d'hote and Protestantism as a la carte Christianity.] During a

Hlé large and Italy, as well as France and Ger-

admitted into Maternity wards in many, are parties, contains the spell of bad health he said he fluent physique made his fun hear about the number of persone model of such a pledge. Broadly, felt so ill and confused that he Falstaan. The political humor-longkong during 1933?" it provides that should Germany could not remember whether there ist should always be a fut man. He said: "Wha's Maternishy make war on France, the other were nine Articles and thirty- signatories would support France; wherens, should France make war on Germany, the other signatories would support Germany.

PREVENTIVE WAR

BRITAIN'S PLEDGE

Mr. Stanley Baldwin has emphati Great Britain takes the treaty.seri. cilly assured the Continent that ously, and will not shirk its duty. No pronouncement of recent times has been better received in France, where the old cry for security is still insistent. So far, then, the virtual renewal of the Locarno Treats, for which Str Austen Chamberlain, Herr Stresemann and M. Briand

were chiefly re- sponsible, has served to allay some- what the inquietude which has re- cently manifested itslf. But the Sir question has been raised by Charles Mallet of the possibility of a "preventive war." Such a war is highly improbable, but it is well

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nine Muses or the contrary. He Public speaking was never as

We said: "You're drunk!" never spared a prelate, and there uninspiring as it is to-day in this

He said: "Wha's drunk?" is a suggestion of Balfour of country. Strange that it should Burleigh's grim humour in his be so in an epoch 'when oratory. So we went away and bought a assertion that he believed in the has lifted out of obscurity so fruit stand, because we had to Apostolic Succession, "there being, many European dictatoral More- have something to put the raw no other way of accounting for over, the amplifier and wireless fowl In. And then we couldn't the descent of the Bishop of have so enormously extended the find the fowl, so we had to go to scope of an effective speech that the market to buy another to put Exeter from Judas Iscariot."

then every embryo statesman should in the fruit dish. And

Couldn't find the fruit But his arrows of satire were spare no pains to acquire the art wo

forcible clear and

self-dish. aimed at Platitudinarians and of

Only among the It must have been shortly after Latitudinarians, as well as at expression. Attitudinarians. Indeed, his rule, young revolutionary Socialists is this when we found ourself sitting. in controversy resembled that of any serious and systematic effort on the kerb next to a man with a Donnybrook Fair, that miniature made to secure the control of the green shirt, who had a bottle of prototype of the Dail: "Wherever crowd. They get their training at rum.

We said: "Do you know what you see a head, hit it." He never stract-corners, which is as much

et Kow. spared a bore. In a review of more effectual than attendance at me this ferry arrives

debating society actual foon?" Lister's novel "Granby," he de-14

He said: It's the third door on plored the lack of adequate fighting in the ring is superior to punishment for such social pests: gymnasium work. It is where the loft."

cross-roads meet under an are "When the fudges have gone their lamp that the next General Elec- how much it cost the people of Then we began to road to him veraal and autumnal rounds-the tion will be lost or won. sheep-stealer disappears -the

Hongkong to collect and remove the swindler gets ready for the Bay

rofuse from the streets. He wept. We said: "What are you weep- the solid parts of the murderer

ing for?"

to consider even the most improbare preserved in anatomical collec-| bo able eventualities. Undoubtedly tions. But after twenty years of | there has been talk in Europe of the rather foolish method of pre- venting war by making war. The argument runs that if there should bo a conviction of an Impending attack, it would be sound policy to forestall such an attack, and, to use a popular phrase, to get one's blow in first.

men's organisations are to be stirred to activity in a national DANGEROUS ISSUE peace campaign. Sceptica as a ́matter of course will say that

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the effort will be in vain, will French statesman at present con- measure. It meet the fate of all other enthus-teriplates such

would be a confession of failure. insms. But how can they tell it would be a policy of despair. what have been the fruits of It would be to imitate Gribouille paat efforts? They can 800 that

who, in George Sand's story, plunged into the water to escape the world is far from being from the rain. There is no reason weaned from war; but they can- to suppose that European states- not tell what might have hap-manship will thus admit bank-

ruptcy. Nevertheless, In pened if there had been no effort hypothetical contingency of a pro- made to foil the machinations of ventive war at some future dato, malice and fanaticism. Publie what would be the position of Great Britain and other_signa- men are constantly warning us tories of the Locamo Treaty? that the danger to world peace The pertinent question which Bir s critical, as critical as at any the event of alarm subsequently Charles Mullet puta is whether, in time since the war. The disar-reaching greater heights, and pro- mament talks are now being voking rash action on the part of resumed and these will supply rot foolishly resorts to war, Great a country which desires poâce and a barometer of official feeling. Britain would be bound to place But behind all conferences, for its forces on the oppraing aldo, weal or woe, is public opinion, with which it might have no sym- pathy whatovor. The moral Is and nothing is more reasonable that statesmanship must not wait than to do as the Canadians aro while such a contingency in doing-nee that the cause of feasible. Nothing must be spared that will render commitmente a peace does not suffer for lack of dead letter in the sense that they -propaganda.

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something else." So WO read about the ratio of expenditure on Medical and Sanitary Services to the total Revenue, and he wept ngain."

We said: "What's wrong with you, now?"

He said: "I was just thinking that my doctor told me that if I drank too much I would kill myself. Would you like a Monster?" So he gave us the Loch Ness monster, and we promised to treat it kindly, and we got up and began walking up the Peak with a man we couldn't see, it was so foggy. But he told us he was a taipan. After a while we lost him, so we continued recit- ing the Report on the Hongkong and Kowloon Magistracies to our- self.

Then we came to a house and knocked on the door. Wao had al-.. most finished reading the statistical returns of Emigrants Passod and.. Rejected during the Year 1933 be- fore someone caine and answered: our knocking.

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"Don't we said, "Not after we came all this way to tell you aff about the Social and Economic Progress of the People of the Colony of Hongkong during the year, 1933."

We began to weep. "This is your gratitude," we said. "No won der a total of eighty-five motor. drivers licences were suspended in- 1988 as against 47 in the your 1991.. If you gave us a minute we could" show it to you in this Annual Re port of the Soc.ì