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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Buccess REGISTERED

Everywhere

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY E. MAXWELL FRY on

VAUXHALL -Light Six 14 h.p.

JAPAN'S QUOTA PROTEST

MY 1934

THE CAR SUCCESS

of the YEAR STANDARD SALOON -

£210 DE LUXE SALOON

-£230

TRUE TO THE BFIRIT OF AN OLD TRADITION!

put into lesion of the Vaux- hall Light Bix. It in absolutely up-to-date in dele and, t the same time, true to the #pirit of an old tradition. And it fo wala

takenly throughbred, On the radiator

the VAUXHALL, ke soma {Amou signature, marka out the car as a thing of wartfin desirable posion.

Ask us for a trial run.

Japan's protest against the do- fensive action taken by Great Britain in the colonial toxtile

THE MACHINE

CALLED LONDON

markets in more restrained in tone have started clearing the create a new plan for London, and than was expected. Doubtless the time. Whether wo make a good We want to prevent slums from VY alumy. It is going to take a new way of life for the poor. dimculty in producing arguments job of it, or a very bad job of it. happening again.

to support the charges of dis-it is going to take a long time to crimination and treaty brenches clear up the mess left by

when

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hundred

The

ECONOMIC SURVEY,

The Very Idea!

THE BOOK OF TONAL CHAPTER 3.

AND the word of the King came unto Tonal the second time, saying:

2. Arise, go unto Neukau lun, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

3. So Tonal arose, and went into Noukaulun, according to the word of the King. Now. Neu-. kaulun was an exceeding great city of three hours' journey.

4. And Tonal began to enter in to the city an hour's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Neukaulun shall be overthrown. 6. So the people of Neukaulun

was an important influence. It years of muddle. What is it in. To do this wo must carry out cantiot be denied that the effect fact that wo are setting out to do?

What is a slum? Is it a pro- but an economic survey, including a survey. Not a survey of slums, of the quota proposals in to place blem of human beings, or of bricks ali transport and communication, a restriction upon Japanese im- and mortar? Is it just poverty all housing from Park-lane to ports to a far greater extent than that makes a alum? It is largely Easy-street., industry, commerce, upon those of any other country lone will not effect a cure.

poverty, I think, though money every factor bearing upon the rua- But It needs more than that

thing is more complicated thanning of the machine. legally to constitute discriminn that.

The East End is overcrowded, but here are large areas of empty Think of it first In terms of land and decayed factories not put tion. In imposing the quota system, Britain goes beyond the tuberculosia is like a machine that possible to plan now areas of light human beings. A man with

to proper use. It might be quite present abnormal conditions and has broken down. The lungs no factories served by electricity and endeavours to restore the ratio of jonger work, and we must send all services, into which we could obeyed the King, and proclaimed The engineering experience of the that thirty foreign textile imports prevailing this man to a sanatorium where draw much of the badly conducted truce, and put on muzzles, from

competition existed on a country air and simple food may in moro even keel. The three-year time restore to use the worn or small business that mixes up with the greatest of them even to the perimi 1927-31 is taken as the gans again. Now it is no accidentI suspect strongly that a survey

to the detriment of both least of them. housing

6. For word came unto Terence basis for all countries. No charge that brings this disease to a man would show how much of the Enst the chief of Neukaulun, and he of discrimination can fairly lie. Bving with a family of seven in Japan offers to negotiate for single room in Bethunt Green End is a two-storey congestion, arose from his place and put his amenable to replanning. WeKun, yen even his machine-pun modification of the quota, if Bri- He is the victim of another should find out

why the traffic from him, and covered him with a tain is agreeable, but if this is the machine that is as broken down as blocks and how to free it for rapid muzzle and sat in kennel limit of her offer, its value is he has become.

service. Finally we should know negligible. It is useless to ask

7. And he caused it to be pro- The house, the street, the city where to put the houses wo aro Britain to modify the quota unless of which he is one lonely citizen going to build. And we should be

claimed and published through- Japan is prepared also to discuss hus censed to provide him with able to plan it on a scale that will

out Nouknulan by the decree of the conditions that forced the light; air, room to move and live allow us to raise and not lower

the chief and his council saying, quota decision upon Mr. Runciman In; with food, clothing, and often standards; to provide amenities

Let neither man nor dog, chow and his advisers.

enough with work for his hands.beyond our present powers,

nor peke, taste anything;. let The machine which we call London

them not feed nor drink strong Technically, there is nothing we has broken down.

drink: 'cannot do. But we lack this new Just because our attention is type of technician-the construc- drawn to this, fallure in the tive planner. Slum cicarance lacks machine by the too obvious exle- that man mainly because it has Twelve pages of reasons have tence of slams, we are proposing never seen the problem as being been produced by the British Gov-to ease our national conscience by concerned with the running of the ernment to justify its refusal to rebuilding the worst arcas with whole machine. a forty-hour week pro-blocks of dwellings on the bad old tinkering with

We have all been posal shortly to come before the sites. So far we find we cannot when what we want, what the an 1850 model. International Labour Conference. bulld these dwellings cheaply cn- thousands of The fact in itself makes the deci-augh ever to touch the people who people, the thousands of basement tubercular poor slon suspect. If the proposal war-lived in the slums we pulled downthwellers, the overcrowded millions ranted complete condemnation. These creep deeper into the laby-want, is a 20th century model that was wrongly based in principle, arinth, spreading the contagion of WORKS.

poverty as they go.

Hong Kong Hotel Garage

Stubbs Road,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, Mar 17, 1934.

NEW TERRITORIES AGRICU! TURE

FORTY-HOUR WEEK

support

A work of very real value, is dozen well-turned phrases should have sufficed to riddle it. Weight being carried out on the main-of words suggests merely ponder laul. In a quiet but effective ous Conservatism. manner, by the New Territories

If support insplied immediato adoption of the forty-huur week

that builds for the poor has reached The L.C.C. and every authority

3212.

A MUDDLE.

A TOWN PLAN.

What a great chance for the new

But let man and dog be covered with m muzzle, and cry mightily unto the King: yea let them turn everyone from his rabid. way, and from the violence that is In their teeth.

turn and repent, and turn away 9. ho can tell if the. King will

perish not? from his fierce anger, that we

10. And the King saw their works, that they turned from their rabid way; and the King repented of the ovil that he had said that ho would do unto them; and he did it not.:

CHAPTER 4.

Dut it displeased Tonal exceed- ingly, and he was very angry.

2. And he prayed unto the King, and said, I pray thee, My Lord; as not this my saying

a dead end. Their attempts to Sociallat L.C.C.1 That they in tinker with the machine called tend setting about London housing Agricultural Association. So AGE OF LEISURE

London have not moved one wheel, with a new will is obvious enough, much will have been gathered

It is worse clogged than before the It has been announced on separate occasions that a new survey of from the report of its annual

housing Is to be undertaken and meeting. The Association is,

that a town plan for London will Imagine for a minute what sort be put in hand. If that town plan when I was yet in my district: however, somewhat handicapped in Great Britain, the "Thumbs of a machine London is. A hun-is a plan of reconstruction and not in its work through the lack of Down" decision might in present-dred years ago fields and market a thing of paper, and if slum clear-

for I knew that thou art a gracious day circumstances,

King, and merciful, slow to anger, a central headquarters, where, The very essence of the ILO. Chelsea to

be justified.gardens ringed it round fromance is closely welded to such a of grent kindnces, and repentest also experimental work can be operations, however, is gradual-bank was nearly rural. In that London that can afford to allow

the City. The southlan, then we can look forward to thee of the evil.

3. Therefore now, My Lord, carried out. Obviously if its improvement of the lot of

ress. It seeks the alow but steady hundred years there was a wild its poorer citizens to

Ilve

intake, I beseech thee, my place work is to expand and be of worker fa

the expansion, into the middle of decency.

from me, for it is better for me every lund. Each which came the railways, tearing One of the chief uses of a plan to go than to stay. maximum worth, such a head-cant to Conventions that are plan in a frenzy of speculation and of wide areas of land for slum thou well to be angry?

country is at liberty to ratify or through and cutting up the street for London will be the regulation 4. Then

said the King, dorst quarters is a necessity, and it

drawn up when, and only when, it competition is to be hoped that ways and feels it can do so with fairness to

clearance on a scale that will allow 5. So Tonal went out of the clty The last half of the century was architests and planners to provide with his Terrier and sat on the means will be found of meeting all economic interests nationally a mad rush: no control, no plan, housing of vastly improved stand-North side by the sea shore, till the need. The Government is

concerned; Britain's decision re- no standards: just buliding for arda at less cost than the present he might see what would become already assisting the Associa-places. Mr. Walter Elliot and

veals confusion of purpose in high profit without ceasing.

hole-and-corner methods involve; of the city," We now measure the extent of so that the East End-will-gradu- tion-with a yearly-grant, and as others have seen the age of leisure the damage as we survey the mud-ally become a balanced community, proof of the usefulness of the rapidly sprending across the die of streets that have to bear our with, I hope, a good proportion of organisation is now forthcoming, less than forty hours, is coming as way lines and silly redundant on account of the amenities offered globe. The forty-hour week, even modern trate; the muddle of rail- higher-paid people attracted there there is every reason why the surely $ to-morrow. Rigid stations; the miles of exponsive by open spaces and fine planning. authorities should do all in their bureaucratic mentality alone could sewers, pipes, and cables that serve The dificulties that face the power further to facilitate its have prevented British acceptance streets never designed for econ- L.C.C. are grave, and some of them. activities. The Association

of the proposal at least as a omy; the rotten courts, alleys and deeply bedded in the social fabrie could, indeed, be the nucleus of

worthy objective.

disgraceful streets that al:ould we have inherited with the slums, when the morning arose next day, 7. But the Colvet made a veto never have been built by the same But when the new Council was and it smote the permit so it w nation that boasts a Royal Academy elected, and set planning and slum cancelled. and is building three cathedrals. clearance in the forefront of its 8. And it canie to pass, when on a much more comprehensive

But these rotten streets: the policy, it brought new hope to all the sun did arise that he did pre- plan of aiding the development 26th accession anniversary next of the problem. To rebuild them conscience, and a determined effort. Tonal that he fainted, and wished The suggestion that the King'sure, as you now see, only one part jums lie badly on our national terrier snapped unto the feet of siums we are setting out to cure, sections of the community. The pare, a vehement rabies; and the of agriculture in the New Terri-year should be marked by a great as they lie helps the machine only to rid us of them permanently will tories. Already, the Associa- inter-Imperial conference is cer

even bigger organisation through which the Government IMPERIAL UNITY might in course of time embark

tion is employing a farm visitor, tain of ready response, it would little; and alum clearance, If it get more support thun poessing experience from that, be a strange mistake if the oppor-

is to be lastingly effective, must people think. valuable centre, Lingnam Uni-tunity were missed. There never versity, and it is reassuring to level judgments were necessary in was a time when cool heads and learn that his lectures are being the world's affairs, and, therefore, well attended by farmers. A when Empire unity should be wise plan is also being followed clearly expressed and demons- by interesting students of New trated. Territory sch, ols in modern as well as in economics has be

Coordination in defence methods; the instruction which come more than ever vital if the they are receiving should prove British Empire is to play its pro- of value in the days to come. per part in ufording guarantees In these courses, specialised and

of world peace.

Disarmament general instruction along practi- cal lines is being given. It is clear, therefore, that the Asso- ciation is proceeding along the right lines. Its work may al the moment be somewhat cir- cumscribed, by reason of finan- cial considerations, but as these are overcome its utility should

A

hopes are as dead as mutton. There is to harm in trying to the corpae. But it would be Aulvage something of value from, waste of time to cry about it. strong Britain and R Empire,

unified a facing of realities, in now the Empire's best insurance against anothor Armageddon:

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be even further enhanced. One FAR EAST OLYMPICS of the matters which the Asso- ciation has had under considera- tion is the question of cheap

The Far East Olymple baskot- loans to farmers, but the regulnavour of China, but it is a pity it ball dispute has been Bottled in tions drawn up are in abeyance, pending indications of the Gov-fully obvious that China protested ever arose. It appeared so pain- crament's future plans. This is because they were in a losing post- undoubtedly one

of the most tion. The objection against the state vital points in connection with of tho any scheme for developing the conditions were equal for both ground was justified; but New Territories resources, and teams, and adaptability is half the we look to the day when the test of the skill of an exponent of authorities will take this issue any sport. Incidents of this kind. up and evolve measures paving the moment, and more quickly be

develop, of course, in the heat of the way to a really extensive enuse of the international rivalry effort in encouragement of what inpired by Oymple contests. should be a big and profitable is not surprising that there is a industry contributing greatly to growing school of thought resist the needs of the Colony as A

ing the encouragement of internn- whale,

tional sport.

It

some

"Bay, Jod, when we use two mom boxes of this soap we can get -

a silver soup spoon.

6. And the King caused to bo prepared a permit, and made it to prolect Tonal, that it might be a passport for his deg to assuage him in his grief. So Tonal was exceeding glad of the permit.

in himself to die and said, It is better for me to dle than to live, 9. And the King said to Tonal, Doest thou well to be angry for the permit? And he said, I do well to be angry even unto death, 10. Then said the King, Thou was sad for the permit for which thou dat net laboured, neither caused it to be; which was order- ed in e night and cancelled in a night.

11 And shall not I spare Neu- kaulun, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern be- tween their Plymouth and their | Gordon; and also much dogs?

SUGGESTION.

A monkey has been discovered that speaks three languages.

Surely the Httle fellow could be sent on International missions moro cheaply than inany whom we employ ?

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CHESS.

Alekhine and Boguljubov are fighting for the world's champion- ship. Where do they dig up such names, we wonder? We call them Al and Be As thus:

The odds are on Al

But my money's on Bo;. Yen; back him I shall, Though the odds are on AL

I was born in Natal,

So I surely should know; The odds are on AI,

But my money's on Bo.

Ed: What has being born in

Natal to do with it?

We. Nothing.

Ed.: Wore you born in Natal? Ue.: No.

bsedenarikeLAUNA SKOTINING

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