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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934..

NOTES OF THE DAY

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The Very Idea!

SAY IT WITH SLOGANS

By Goorge

ARE we becoming a pain-

pered race?

There is universal agreement that energetic measures are quired to deal with the distress in the four depressed., areas: South THE Government will introduce had stopped such development be Wales, Cumberland, the North-East

-a measure early in the now fore the war. Only now, however, Const, and South Scotland. Four session of Parliament, which be- has our Government woken up to Government Commissioners have gins next week, probibiting ribbon it. investigated conditions there arterial roads. This is one aspect the power to acquire property mind as we confronted our

development along

That was the question that great! More important still would be loomed like a menace in our drawn up reports which were pub- tlahed and debated in the House of the King's cloquent appeal re-improvements, such as the County mirror yesterday.

of the larger problem raised by

other than alum property for public Commons recently, when Mr. Nevillecently for the use of the imagina

the

We

We were about to amputate a

Chamberlain announced that the tion in the shaping of the world of Council is now seeking to enable Government has decided to take streets in which milliona spend it to form an embankment on the powerful engine purring under certain emergency measures forth their lives. His words should south side of the river.. Assuming Churite Chase moustache which the bonnet-if you like the with.. A. vote of £2,000,000 is make us all think anew of our than London and by that I mean had sprung up like a mushroom luxury of a big, roomy saloon--promised at once, and two Commiscities as things the outward aspect something much bigger than the growth in the exciting hours of

present County Counell area, had the night. this is your car. At £325 this stoners are to be imppainted - with of which we all to a certain exton obtained the power to remodel it-

If the London County

About us was the romantic'scent self for the boneft of all, and in of eau de cologne, lavender shav new 27 h.p. Vauxhall Big Six is wide powers. They will carry out own.

achemes while the Council adopts, 48 Its Town remarkable value-for-money. It emergency is an all-feature car, with entirely recommendations of the four, re-Planning Committee suggests, the way to allow the King's appeal Ing soap and carbolic whilst we ports are being further examined. Town and Country Planning Act for the use of the Imagination to in full negligee, completed the pic. automatic chassis lubrication, Various suggestions, were put for of 1932 for the whole town, it will be effective, what would be some ture of a Man of the Twentieth vacuum controlled ignition, ward by Mr. Chamberlain as to the be in a position to control, as cer-of the first things at which Century,

should ain. Before anything else Synchro-Mesh easy gear change, directions in which action might be tain provincial cities already can

The telephone bell rang and we Pedomatic starting. self-return- taken, and he mentioned innd drain- by their private Acts of Parlia should put the abolition of smoke, draped a towel over our shoulders ing direction indicators and age among other things. "We are ment when they care to do so so that we could have a cican town, Vauxhall No-Draught Ventila-n little surprised that the provision which, it must be confessed, is not London is already far cleaner than on our way out to the hall. The height. shape and many large provincial towns, but text for the day was "Your Luck's And it is a product of a of more new aerodromes was not often-the

it in, nevertheless, for behind out if you've no Lux in. If you. famous factory that has been included among the projects," saya colour of every new building.

the Daily Mail, continuing agitation

mont Continental ones, Secondly, I must wash, use Lux and make building outstanding motor cars for more aircraft and aerodromce

It will be able to lay down guid-suggest, as has often been done work a luxury," for the past thirty years.

We sighed and picked up the for Britain's defence. Their con- ing rules for those about to build, bofore, we should quickly schedule HONGKONG HOTEL struction would employ a very con-saying, for instance, that such and a wide belt of land round the town telephone. It was the girl. We This hastily transferred the towel to alderable number of workers. Some such a street should be a stone one, to be for ever unbullt on. GARAGE

sites have already been, acquired in such and such a red brick one, and belt should be connected by wide our waist-After all we are not

parkways lined with trees and yet engaged. SHOWROOM

connection with the Government's so on.

grass to the present outer parks,

"Hullo dear! Have you had Afr programme, but, considerably

We can have if we like Piccadilly or to the Inner ones if they can be your Ovaltine " more are needed for the very great

as gay with electric signs as reached, so that not only could one Increase in the number of our air-

Broadway, New York, and Pall quickly get away from the streetsed our teeth yet." craft which is inevitable."

Mall as free as the adjacent Fifth to the country, but the country air Avenue. These are immense po-could penetrate to town.

tion.

Phone 27778-9.

Stubbs Road.

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The

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wers and when to them is added; the power to clear great areas of

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"Sweetheart! We haven't clean-

"Well don't forget to use For- han's...

We amiled,

"You won't dare smile if pyorrhei altacks your teeth."

We pulled the towel a little

closer.

sluma and replan them, closing Thirdly, the slum clearance and abolishing streets and build-should go on, but far greater arena, ing courtyard after courtyard of atretching from one main road to great buildings, holding within another, should be involved in them gardens, playgrounds and each scheme, as Liverpool fɛ do- swimming pools, it will be seen waing to-day. It has been proved plexion," we retorted. are at the start of a new ers, that with lifts and structures 120ft, high, half ns high again as

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buildings under proper safeguards | areas, business urens. Each must

to ยค of two

flowers?"

"What shall give?"

"I thought we had hurled the past" (plaintively).

"What do you take me for? An

"And make a honest woman of

me?"

Decision on America's ship altendance at the funerat nud building policy is complicated by the fact that there is still a good deal of uncertainty about the type of ships the American navy ought

"Keep that school girl com- to have. Naval authorities in the main stand firm for a feet built

"Use white nugget and start the inhout a strong nucleus of capital

fa at present allowed, the actual day with a good polish." ships, or battleships, seasoned by a Leads is already planning to re-buildings need not accupy more "What is Xmas without fruit or WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12, 1934,

considerable number of heavy build a third of the elty. What than 6 per cent, of the land, the cruisers. Yet there is wide bellef are we going to do in London? rest being open space where there A TRIUMPH FOR that the battleship has outlived its First, I think we must free our is at present a tangle of little

"Kirin beer is the choice of the usefulness, and that the terrific | hands still further. The old Lon-roads and little houses, 11 we did multitude. COMMON-SENSE

expense of maintaining these costly don Building Act still blocks the this on a brave enough scale all What threatened to develop in-vessels is one the navy might very way na regards the height of build- living rooms could face the sun. Findiaters Dry Gin."

"Don't be fooled by platitudes. to a first-class European crisis.

well avoid. Add to this the growings. No building can be erected We could give to everyone the

"Later may be too inte. A possibly involving the major feeling that aeroplanes and with its main front wall to the light and air-indeed, far more of

submarines are revolutionising street higher than eighty feet, and them that the houses in the West stitch in time.. Powers, has been averted by naval warfare, and you have a then with two set-back storeya End get from their squares and

Makes father's pants A little Hungary's acceptance of a corn-situation in which decision on a above that. A flat rate, except for parks. Until we rebuild great Willie." promise resolution dealing with naval programme would be difficult towers and domes, was then im-sections of the town and abolish", "Anyway how are you?" the subject of terrorist activities, enough, even if it were not necca. posed fur the whole town, regard the streets savé for a few main

"Lactogen has made me twice with special reference to the re-sary to adjust programmes to those less of the varying widths of the truffle ones between the blocks, the woman I was." cent Marseilles outrage. This of other powers. A good exposition streets, the new ways of living In we might do aa Salford has al- resolution condenins the Mar- still the backbone of the fleet came

"Good God. I refuse to take two of the theory that the battleship is flats and tenements, the improve-ready done, and close a few hun women out." (coyly). seilles murders, calls on Hungary recently in a public address by lamoke nuisance due to the lesser them thereby safe playgrounds for,

ment in lifts, the lessening of the dred with posts and chains, making

"You've done it before and got to fulfil her international obliga- Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig. number of domestic chimneys, and children and safe sitting-cut places away with it." (nastily). tions by taking appropriate mea-neting chief of U.S. naval opera- most of all, regardless of the for the aged. We might go fur- sures against authorities found tions.

architectural advantages of hav-ther and make them gay with culpable of negligence, and sets

ing taller buildings on certain colour wash and bright paint' and in train machinery for the even-

prominent sites where they would bushes in the tube from the parks. undertaker?" tuul conclusion of an inter-

not overshadow their neighbours. The few great trafic streets left

"No honey. An alarm clock. national convention designed to

and where they might relieve the must be made to dip under and over Do you realise that it is only 10 prevent political terrorism. In

Americn, says Admiral Taussig, monotony of a town of all one one another and be connected by a.m.? I'll give you a ring Inter." needs the battleship because of lis

height.

A new Building Act la al-| ramps. With no cross streets, traffic this manner has the threat of luck of naval bases--the battleship.ways under consideration. Let us can be faster still, not slower, and hostilities in the Balkans heen with its wealth of heavy guns,

hope that it gives the central yet sufer. As we get to the special warded off. We need only take serving as a kind of floating base authority power to allow such purposes, factory areas, warehouse

"Not necessary, sweetheart." our minds back to the incident at which ent

And that nature in the raw, we protect lighter ships and with proper rating. Stockholm have its special character of rond reflected philosophically FLA Abe Sarajevo, which was the cul- against superior forces. Further-

hung up on us. minating point in a state of ten-more, says Admiral Taussig: the has, for instance, the fine dramatic and building.

denied improvement of the submarine and effect,

The landlady perceived that there sion leading to the Great War, tonerial branches of naval warfare identical tall buildings forming a

The business area, for instance, was a rift in the late. "Say It tion of pacifying influences, the indispensable than before. It Is realise how, but for the interven-has made the battleship even more gateway to one of her main streets, need have no wheeled traffic at all with flowers," she advised, sym-

in certain hours. It ія because pathetically. "Nuts". Yugo-Slavian-Hungarian quarrel the only warship which can

all these areas are muddled to- "Yea, you must oat more fruit." might easily have developed into armoured and protected suficiently

As these streets lead to the open gether at present that we have our We threw a flower pot on her traffic difficulties. It has been hend and went back to our toilet. to withstand the shock of bomba country they must cease to be lined a situation imperilling the peace and torpedoes. Here we have a with little houses. Town planners found in New York that certain The Boy rushed up the stairs

brief and understandable outline of have been calling attention to the businesses congregate in certain shouting "aspirin will cure through the medium of Mr. the majority viewpoint in the navy: danger to life and to the destructall buildings. The American headache," Anthony Eden, was able to exer- and it is worth reading, as

tion of the beauty of the country-architect of Bush House in the cise a restraining influence at the antidote to the free and easy talk side such ribbon development has Strand has said that he could pay crucial moment, and was one constantly hears about the caused for 20 years. New York (Continued on Page 7.) effectually supported by France obsolescence of the battleship. We and Italy. A tribute is due to are often assured that submarines the statesmen of these countries, units of a fleet In modern timas; and aeroplanes are the all-important at the happy culmination of their but the experts charged with main- efforts, and at the same time tenance of the navy still believe- Hungary is to be commended for and seem to have reason for their Becepting the compromise plan in bellef-that a fighting fleet, in the u spirit which illustrates her last analysis, is only as strong as sincere desire for a sensible

its capital ships. solution of a delicate issue. The recriminations now at an end, it POLITICAL PUZZLE is for all nations to work to- gether in the common task of preventing, as far as is humanly France, which found violent

The profound public unrest in possible, the hatching and carry-pression in the riots of a ing out of terrorist plots for months ago, evidently still exists. political purposes. There is ab. It is hardly going too far to say other aspect of the successful that the republic right now is meet- adjustment of this threat tong one of the severest tests in its European peace which deserves seeking to revise the French con- history. The Doumergue cabinet, especial emphasis namely, the stitution so as to end the notorious fact that it was through the instability of governments, has fal instrumentality of the League of len. In recent years the Nations that the issue was

life of French cabinet has been smoothed out. League prestige must fall every time

nine months. A government which will be greatly enhanced by this

it attempts to fresh triumph. Indeed, it is not measure cannot provide the leader- handle any really controversial too much to say that, on this in-ship which the nati cident alone, the League's cres- Premter Doumergue tried to change nation needs. So. tion and continued existence things, putting more power in the have been more than vindicated.hands of the Premier, clipping the

wings of

of Europe. Britain, happily.

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average

It was precisely for the handling the fakedient and shearing

cry of

of such threats to world peace power to precipitate a cabinet crisis bloca of their that the League was brought in- whenever the mood seizes them, to being. Had it not been in Against this plan the existence, there can be little dictatorship was raised. It is not doubt that Europe would once yet clear whether the French demo- again have become involved in strengthen itself in this time of cracy will be able to preserve and the toils of a major catastrophe, confusion and trial. No-one, it is the eventual upshot of which certain, feels like trying just at would have been disaster to present. everybody concerned.

SECOND

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