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NOTES OF THE DAY BLACK DRAGON THREAT The Very Idea!

DIGEST POLL

HANGS OVER JAPAN

HONGKONG OLYMPICS By Eddie Kelly, Indoor Sport.

SIN

The poll which the Literary Digest is conducting in the United States to test the strength of public support for the Roosevelt

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS policles has a value quite distinct from any result

INCE last Friday we have that may be

After Haly and Germany, party | otic and more unselfish than the shown. Fifteen million people government in Japan is fighting politicians.

been in Manila preparing will be asked for a simple "Yes" or

for its life, the odds being against "No" to the question. Do you ap-survival.

Where the politicians featherad for the Olympic Sports. Not their own nests by looking after the ones that will be held in prove on the whole of the Roose- For two and one-half years the Big Interests, the army had at Manila this month, but the velt policies? It may safely to since the

army swept through heart the livelihood of the people Olympiad we are going to assumed that an enormous pre- Manchurin-the Diet has been in throughout the Country. ponderance

of the unofficial voters almost total eclipse. Members of will nnawor affirmatively. The parliament have

hold in Hongkong. not dared Fift chief value, however, will lie not their voices in criticism of the A99ASSINE MADE HEROES, In the evidence of continued sup-militariats. Cort for the President, but in the fact that the putting of the ques-discernible in the political bodies, To-day a light spark of life is tion will make the American peo- but it is extremely feeble. ple think. It will cause them to enst a backward glance towards the American Revolution of 1933, induce consideration of the goal for which the United States is heading. to ask themselves whether the drive towards that goal is worth the effort. If the Digest poll thereby brings people to a better understanding of the Roosevelt policies it will have been well worth while and more than justified.

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HONGKONG & TRADE

QUOTAS

the

unless something happens to fan it into a blaze it will soon go out altogether.

We think there is a lot of Hongkong, although the general. scope for olympic events in routing will have to be changed slightly.

Thus, when three young naval oicers assassinated. Fremler Inukai and started a movement to And overthrow the civil government,

they were popularly hailed, not as For instance, take the Run- murderers but as heroQS.

ning Jump. Quite a lot of Hong- So intense was this sentiment kong people would automatically Should that happen, Japan would, probably go Black Dragon. This among the masses that even mod-qualify for this event. We don't would correspond to Italy going rate punishment became risky mention names, but there are Fascist and Germany going Nazi.

quite a few people we would like to suggest should take a Runnin Jumpat themselves,

She would likely return to a sort of Samurai rale, under her sacred Emperor.

business.

So strong is the popular feeling against parties that grim detormi nation is heard among soldiers re- turning from Manchuria that this new country must be kept forever free from civilian rule.

Nippon may produce her version of a Mussolini or a 'Hitler, but, short of a cataclyam, there is little

“We did not take Manchuria," likelihood that His Imperial Ma- jesty will cease to be regarded heard one of them say, "to turn The inclination has

with anything but piety and aweit over to Japanese Big Business. been to by the vast majority of his sub- We took it for the rank and file place too much stress on forms.jects.

of the Japanese people." It is certain that the measures

Bopresentatives of the big con- cerns who went to Manchuria to investigate opportunities

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com-

ut into operation to meet an emer- WEALTH IN FEW HANDS. gency will have a tremendous per- manent effect on the national The party system is in disrepute plained that they were treated by economy. But the real danger is in Nippon, because, rightly or the army as if they were foreign not so much that America will wrongly, the abuses of Japanesej aples and had no business there. adopt some new aystem ag

it is that old habits of looking to the capitalism are popularly laid at its door. And in no other country in government for solutions of per- the world is wealth confined to so ASSAILS POLITICAL PARTIES. sonal problema will be accentuat- few hands. ed. For it is tho apirit of what is happening that

Factories, shipping, banking, de- rotten to the core," Yosuke Mat "Japanese political parties are marily. If the American people thing in the islands-is controlled spokesman, told me. "I am trying counts pri-partment stores-practically every- Buoka, Japan's famed Genovn will maintain their intellectual in- by five or six stupendous interlock- to do away with all of them." standing the recovery programme

and inalst on under ing concerns.

To the public, civil or party gov from Genova as chief of the dele- Halled as a hero after his return before they attempt to carry it out, ernment has meant vast privileges gntion to the League of Nations they will not be in any grave and wealth for a few and poverty Manchurian debate, Matsuoka's Considerable interest has been After all the present drive

danger of losing essential rights.

Is for the many. aroused in Hongkong by the ex- little more than an effort to base

Arst public act after his arrival in To them, the Diet has not been Toklo was to resign from the Diet pectation in London that, failing economic stability on honest and composed of representatives of the and form his own party, to stump an understanding with Japan in Government has undertaken

tair business practice.

The people, but representatives of the the country in a campaign to de- to big banking, commercial, and in-stroy political parties of overy. regard to trade competition, the coordinate the effort and, where dustrial houses. Government will institute Col-necessary, police it. It la impera- Up to the Mukden incident of)

Matsuoka is a fervent patriot, onial quotas for Japanese goods.tive that the people keep govern-Sept. 18, 1931, one of the most He has the soul of a Samurai. Ho At first sight it appeared that in its place as a policeman, prominent liberals in Japan and a is appealing particularly to the and do not expect it to be a former member of the Diet told youth of Japan, urging a return to there was a possibility of dis-lawgiver. It is vital for citizens me, the Japanese people had the Spartan simplicity in public life criminatory measures being to recognize that government can feeling of being hemmed in by and the ways of simple honesty. adopted, and that Hongkong efforts; they must do the work.

only help them to combine their stone walls without an oxit.

He denies he is a Japanese Mus- might be brought within the

Many were jobless. University soliai, but that is about as good men were graduated and five of a description of him and his pro- scheme. The probability now is

100 found jobs. The other 95 went gramme as can be given in such to work as day labourers-if they short space. Never was there more need were sufficiently lucky. and opportunity-for-onlightened individualism than there is under

INFORMED CHOICE

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shade.

Weight lifting would be a popi lar competition with Ponk people.

Even now a lot of them are prac teing for this ovent, notably two taipans we know, who got in quite or three wives of local semi-demi-

bour to Kowloon by lifting their a lot of training crossing the har- noses in the air:

Doubtless there will also be an overwhelming number of candidates for the ski-ing events, but, as the champion ski-er in the Colony, this can be safely left to us. You must come up and ski us sometime, girls!

the tobogganing event, with all Hongkong should easily win

people to represent us. The fall- the Ice House street and Bank ing dollar has given the Colony tice Intely. representatives. some good prac

ting on the pole, would be fruit Endurance events, such as sit- for local entrants, particularly the the sharebroking class. Most of them are already up the pole.

Unfortunately, we could not rely upon ZBW, the local broadcasting station, to break any records, but if they'd like to have a try-out by breaking Vocal Gema from: "Girl Friend," "Twentieth Century Blues," and a few others they broadcast every night, we'll consider the possibilities.

The hurdle racca will probably prove unsurmountable for local residents. Quite a few people have crashed trying to get over the social hurdle.

I kiss you?." She saya, "Hockey,"

that neither of these develop ments

will take place. The Times hints that the sug- gested quotas will not infringe the "regimentation of industry" ARMY FINDS WAY OUT.

SONS TO SHIFT FOR SELVES. There are many other events, most favoured – nation obliga-

"Like Mussolint he is the first to principal ones, with their dont- too numerous to mention. The tions. Thus the inference is telligent criticism is a

now in progress in America. In- Then the army defled the civil follow his own precepts. A weal-tions, are given below. that quotas will be laid down not quisits of effective cooperation. spread out all over Manchuria.

prime re-

A regime and took Mukden. It thy man, he called in his sons and only in respect of Japanese The present programme can be

told them that all they will get of HOCKEY: A car and a girl are goods, but on the goods of other carried out most usefully only If And Manchuria, to the masses, his fortune is a university educa- accesary for this sport. You nations as well. These, it is to individual Americans tuke the meant the breaking down of the tion and 500 yen-about $150.. say, "Comin' for a drive." Sho be presumed, would be based on trouble to understand it and make stone wall. It meant room to ex-Even-that, he told them, is more says, "Hockey." You say "May the normal volume of trade with the adqustments which will per- pand. It meant a way out, than most Japanese boys have, and the Colonies affected. In this mit it to function. If citizens At the same time, the factories with it they must make their own You say-but then she says, "On way, whilst not specifically dir rogatives cf, independent action work. The yen depreciated, ex-

choose to resign certain Fre began to start up. This meant ways in the world.

your way, Big Boy!" He is opposed to amassing and ected against Japan, it would be which if retained might hinder a ports started to boom, the army holding on to vast accumulations for swimming.

SWIMMING: It is still too cold possible to prevent undue inten- general recovery in which they needed now equipment, and pretty of wealth.. sification of competition and at expect to share, they are exertis soon there was little unemploy-Old school politicians here tell RUNNING: Police sport. Allied the same time keep it withining a high form of individualism, mont left.

me Matsuoka is not getting any-to game of soccer. All that is definite channels. But whether The essential thing is that it

Comparative prosperity returned, where with his campaign. From required for these games is a the quotas be on foreign goods should be an informed choice. Money began to circulate so that other sources I hear that his meet. wife and a couple of policeman. noller generally or on Japanese pro- There is little present danger of everybody-not just the half dozen ings are packed with the younger it wife, Wife blows

Fascism ducts in particular, it is scarcely United States in a political sense. hands on some of it.

or (Russianlern in the big corporations could get their generation and that among them whistle. You soccer and you're to be expected that they would The powers now wielded by the

he is hailed with great enthusiasm, runnin be made applicable to a Colony Government can be recalled by

Rightly or wrongly again, the Assailed on all sides as they are, BADMINTON: Making Imper- like Hongkong, which practical-the

masses became more than over con- the political parties face either re-fect money, hence chopped dollars. people. There is some ten

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ly exists on its transit trade. dency towards state socialism invinced that the army is more patri- Hongkong's free port status the economic sphere. But that is rests on a recognition of the largely an economic development fact that it is mainly a distribu- temporarily fostered by political ting centre for the South China behind the recovery programme The theory of high wages markets, and any radical de- may not be wholly understood ar parture from its traditional endorsed by the people. Yet policy would without a doubt there has been a remarkable growth prove detrimental to its inter-of understanding. And ests. Keeping in mind the fact tainly in so far as the programme that the great bulk of this better conditions for workers, it concerns fairer competition and Colony's trade is in regard to has wide popular approval. goods which

merely pass

through on the way to other

eer-

n

markets, it is self-evident that CHILDREN RELIANCE the imposition of quotas would deflect a large proportion of that people are accepting NRA un

But at the same time, too many trade elsewhere. It is reason-thinkingly. And there are many: able to assume that the Colonial evidences of tendency to lean Office is aware of our peculiar on the Government. There has position in this respect, and that always been in Amerlen, even it would take que note of local when Americans were most proud advice when drawing up any remarkably childish reliance on

of their rugged individualism, restrictive scheme affecting the government to work wonders in Crown Colonies. The assump the economic field. Elections are tion; therefore, Is that Hongkong usually decided by the belief of will not be brought within the citizens that the party in power ambit of any measures which has brought, or failed to bring, may be considered necessary in prosperity to the country. To-day respect of Colonies affected by sces new manifestations of this intensive competition from for- absurd attitude. But recovory, eign sources, None the less, cannot be left to the Government. the developments of the next succeed unless Americans put will programme fow days will be keenly watched, their individual thinking behind There is obviously a need for it. And

no recovery programme the protection of British inter-will endanger the liberties of ests both at Home and overseas, Americans so long as they think but the dominating circumstance for themselves. An important Bo far as this Colony is concern part of that thinking is the recog ed in that our position is fund in progress express honesty and nition that in só far as efforts now amentally different from that of justice, they are supported by most of the other units of the spiritual forces, powerful and Empire.

worthy of faith.

No

recovery

SLUCE

"Now see horo, Lawson, this organization doesn't recognize.

artistic temperament.”

HOP SCOTCH: Scotsman with a flea,

BUCKJUMPING:

dollar.

Fluctuating

RACING: Racing is a family game. Wife and plenty of am- bition necessary here. Marry wife, and in no time you're racing a family. N.B.-It is far better not to take up this sport.

SKIPPING: Leaving Hongkong without saying farowells. Popular pastime,

PUTTING THE SHOT: In- gredients Two bottles Johnny Walker, one policeman, Policoman. will putting the shot.

SACK RACE: Gaining in popu- larity. Participants in this in- cariably change their occupations. OLYMPIC TENSION 'Hongkong Games May Have To Be Abandoned

Owing to the Kowloon attitude" regarding the recognition of the Peak. in Hongkong's Far Eastern Olympics, there are grave possibilities that the Games will have to be abandoned, tho Mid-Level section Intimating that... unless Kowloon changes its attituda and allows the Peak to parilejpalo, they will withdraw. Interviewed yesterday, Mr. Leo D'Almada sald that Kowloon would stand firm in its attitude regarding recognition of the Peak, and would rather see the Games. abandoned than give way on this point.

* Peak Protest."

If Kelly can participate in the Olymple Sports, I don't see why Kow loon should object to us," said Mr. D. W. Tratman, leader of the Peak (Sports) Club, in an Interview yoster- day. "Because we carried off a wood. chopping contest in//Nathan Road

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