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TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY NO DEGENERACY AMONG The Very Idea!

WHO'S TO STOP THEM?

“WAR BABIES"

By GILBERT FRANKAU

HORATIO BOGG'S "CAVALCADE"

By His Critica Society is outraged by an 'un-- pardonable offence, and Horatio

HAVE already stated my bollef (a girl wanted a chair of the Win: Hogg la the sinner. For a whole that the present generation of cliester boy who fetched that week he has been appearing youth-the "war-bables" genera chair, and the Garrow boy whantongst the select company repro- sal on it for the rest of the cricket sonted by this column, yet not a

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We like the comment of the Nanking Foreign Office spokesman, given in reply to a question as to what China thought of the proposal for a Sino-Japanese non-aggres- alon treaty. He is alleged to have said that he was not speaking oficially but that he failed to see the value of an arrangement of tion-suffers from no degeneracy. this sort. For, he added, such a

I have faith in our inadern pact would be no hindrance to

The girls of 1936 will be lucky Japan "in case she wished to break young. With the exception of It." It is likely that Mr. Hirota, small defeatist minority, I con- if they are thought of at all, lot carried. for. the Japanese Foreign Minister, will aider that the boys and the girls alone fetched and sponk of this proposed pact when of to-day are no less intelligent, At least if one can judge by the ho addresses the Diet to-day. no less courageous, and no less way they have been cibowed from Some time ago it was announced ambitious than their pro-war pro- the cocktail tables and jostled in that Auch Plan was embraced in decessors. Nor can I discover any the ommbuses of 1934, (Note

that "omnibuses" this Minister's new foreign polley, deterioration in their morals, But somehow, it sems unlikely it. that China will want, to sign She may be coerced in some way or another, of course, but there will be a tremendous volume of opinion against any guarantee by the Nanking Government as sug- gested.

TIME MAY HEAL

beenuse,

But that their manners-if in- though Mayfair exhibits the worst.

our modern young cas doed

be examples our "young casuals" and to have manners are any-are not entirely confined to one thing but deplorable not even their end of the town!) warmest admirer can deny.

which

nt all tho

word of introduction-not a word

of apology or explanation!

"Who is this Bogg person?", domanded Ed. Kelly, superellious- mess in the question.

"Yos, and what is ha to u7", echoed George.

the

The altuation clearly required strongest credentials Mr. Horatio Bogg could produce.

The response was prompt and satisfying. Three things wore im- mediately forthcoming!

The first, his personal card. which rends:

HORATIO BOGG, Victoria Manor

HORATIO BOGG, Ticket-o-Leave

mildewed and yellowed with age

One does not need to be a snob I am all for personal liberty, -one does not need to be a great and largely for sex equality. But

The second, the 1934 Social stickler for what used to be called I do draw the line at a personal Register of Visitors to that fine etiquette-to voice this complaint, borty which claims the right to old Tudor mansion, containing. You hear it wherever you go. The make long noses at all the tradi- amongst other details, the follow- Until the recollection of the lack of social discipline among the tions of social intercourse; and ating illuminating information: Manchuria "episode" in dimmed youth of to-day in as patent as it the type of sex, equality and the hurt to China's feelings is unpleasant. Deportoient is al would shout "Yah" apmewhat abated, it is mast un-most a lost art and respect for chivalry which distinguished the The third, rolis of parchment, likely that any offer of this nature, one's elders a vanishing quality. past. emanating from Tokyo, will receiva a moment's coneideration by res- ponsible Chinese statesmen. Japan, of course, wants to do everything possible to secure her position in North China. She wants to make her peace with China in case she is unable to maintain her peace with Russia. Unfortunately, however, the Chinese people do not place much re- lance in friendly overtures from

Hongkong Telegraph. BRITISH HERO

TUESDAY, JAN. 22, 1995..'

| RESTORATION OF THE

HAPSBURGS

A room in a new club which la

sentative in Vienna. None the SPLENDID COURAGE less, whatever the precise plans

Liutenant-Commander Harri-

All the old rules of behaviour Respect for one's elders may be (obviously family rocords) bearing Co-finger-prints and stamped with a are falling into abeyance; while "definitely out of date." the only rule of youthful conduct education may be better than "the coat-of-arms flanked by the initials Reema to rend: "Let me, being romantic attitude." But what will "G, R." · young, express myself-even if I be the answer when the modern can only do so by eating peas with bay, in his plus-fours or his grey my knife."

I

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On the whole, nevertheless,

A personage to be respected, we thought, as we bowed our apologies and made to withdraw.

But he buttonholed us for an important communication about to be imparted.

"No doubt," he said, with a wide sweep of his arm to include the whole portrait gallery of Boggaes, full-face and in proftic, "No doubt you will also be Interested in our family history." He pushed for- ward a bottle, with a recklessly generous gesture, for us to help ouratives, and proceeded:

Ours is of ancient vintage-I mean the family not the bottlo- dating back to goodness only knows when. At any rate, from out of the mists of antiquity there emerged one bold Roland de Bogg as a daughty knight who we realise the value of

eame

that it was the very best thing that could have happened, when his vizor jammed and he died of suffocation while trying to hold his own in a drinking joust.

A grandson who succeeded to

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in his ease by drowning while

back

of

fishing for Crown jewellery in-

advertently left la the Wash by

up

flannel trousers, and the modern girl, in her camel's-hair coat and There are, of course, many plea- her sports clothes, surveying them sant exceptions. Not every boy. selves in the mirror of their re- even from our most exclusive flections, begin to ask themselves. Mr. Hirota; nor has the recent public schools, can live up to the "How are we going to like it if development in Jehol and the re- ported threat against the Charkir standard of a certain young friend our children behave to us as we

of mine about whom It has been behave to our parents?" commanders that they will be well said that he never forgeta driven out of frontier areas by to replace his hat on his hend And this is bound to happen Japanese troops unless they when talking to a lady. And 1 sooner or later. Because youth's peaceably, had the effect of in-

have actually overhead, though real trouble--if only youth would creasing China's confidence in

only on one occasion, a modern realise it-is that not even its own Japan's friendly intentions.

daughter say to a modern mother. supreme wisdom can prevent "Darling, I believe you're right." from eventually growing up.

It is only when we grow up, alas-unless someone lama it into being established in Ghent by the those who look for good manners our adolescence with a birch, a Union des Fraternelles de L'Armee, in anyone under thirty must look cane, or the back of a hairbrush

over with King William the Con- de Champagne, a Belgian organiza-for them with a microscope. To that

queror ("King Conque" for short), tion which numbers 70,000 veter-be casual, to be unpunctual, to ritual, of chivalry, of tradition.

His chief recreation was titlting A point which was well realised of the War, is to be nam be untidy, to consider one's own ed after Lieutenant-Commander comfort before anybody else's con- by the nameless author of that and being jilted at tournamente, Arthur Leyland Harrison, R.N., venience these, and almflar de Victorian slogan "Spare the rod and niter having broken umpteen lances without winning his fair who was posthumously awarded partures from the old social stand- and spoil the child."

Indy, It was a melancholy and dis- Once again there is talk of the the VC for most conspicuous ard, are so commonplace that they

the hardly excite attention.

man who, afterwards The Clearly, from those good Victor-Illusioned restoration of the Austrian gallantry at Zeebrugge on

night of April 22-23, 1918. The young are proud of such conduct. inn days, there comes the memory retired to his fef, there to, quaff monarchy,

my twelve-years-old nelf, ale and heat up his Anglo-Saxon One report has it founders of the club, which is to Their elders, though they complain of that the royalists are in favour, be known as La Maison des Frater- about it, are too spineless to re- quivering under the "giglampa" of seria. He was, in short, a brate that prince of private-school mas-of a baron, and historians agreed as a preliminary move, of mak-nelles, propose that it should com- prove.

ters "Beetle" Hawtrey. memorate the names of some of ing the Archduke Eugene pre- those members of the Allied forces

We had a ward, in the remote sident of the Republic in succes-whe lost their lives in the perform.past, for any man, whether young sion to M. Miklas, whose term ance of conspicuous acts of bravery or old, who disregarded the ordin Frankau," thunders the Beetle, in the War. Each of the recep-ary rules of behaviour. We call "get out of your bed. Fold those of office expires in October.

tion rooms of the Institution is to ed such a man, succinctly, "a trousers properly. Hang that This report, however, is branded be named after one of the chosen cad."--And just one-scale above coat as you've been taught to the title and to most of his vices, the end we placed the "bounder." hang it on the back of your mit with an equally sudden end; as pure

nonsense by Baron representatives.

But, docs one ever hear those words chair." Weisner, the monarchist repre-

to-day?

the Whereafter on They, like the rules of behaviour, Frankau

that forgetful King, John, after have fallen into abeyance.

But do to-day's schoolmasters his Saturday night bail. Sir of the monarchista may be, it son, the Englishman to be com It is not considered caddish-to hand out even that simple lesson Ralph de Bogg, it may be believed, is evident that there is renewed memorated,

in Was immediate give just one instance-when two in the saving of tallers" bllis? was the original hi-jackor.

We may safely leave history at activity in their camp. Indeed, command of the naval storming youths arrive ten minutes late at! Do to-day's parents say, as the

parties in the Vindictive. Im-the theatre, trample on half-a-parents of my generation used to this point na being a mere caval- for some time past there have mediately before coming along-dozen old indies to get to their say: "If you come late to supper cade of comparatively uninterest- been indications of a revival of side the Mole he was struck by a seats, and discuss their private-go without your supper? Is ing Boggads to pick them royalist ambitions. Prince von fragment of shell which broke his affairs for the remainder of the there any discipline, either in the again six centuries later,

home or the modern Starhemborg, the Vice-Chancel-jaw and knocked him senselcas, act. A young man is, not con- modern

Recovering consciousness he pro-sidered a bounder just because he school, from which youth con lor and head of the Heimwehr, ceeded on to the Mole and took heeps eloven people waiting twen- learn, however painfully, even the has now come out definitely in lover command of his party, who ty minutes for dinner. favour of a Hapsburg restora-

were attacking the seaward end.

And who can see any sorenam The sincing of the guns on the tion, although, diplomat that he Mole Head was of the first im- nowadays in that old, old story of is, he counsels patience and portance, and though in a position the Eten boy who observed that suggests that the time is not fully exposed to the German machine-gun fire, Lizutenant- yet quite ripe for a definite step | Commander Harrison gathered his to be taken. Despite the an- men together and led them to the nulment of Hapsburg sovereign-attack. He was killed at the head ty by Austria immediately after the War, the fact remains that the royalists have always taken the stand that their legal claim to the Throne remairis un challenged. In the latest move, however, there does not appear any likelihood of a resort to force in order to put the Haps-view, however, of the complicat- burgs back on the throne. The ed nature of the situation, monarchists base their cam-giving rise to all manner of paign, apart from the question rumours, it would be wise to of legality, on a point of exped-accept with reserve many of the iency, arguing that only by astories now in circulation. The strong reunion of Austria and Little Entente, and, consequent- Hungary under an Emperor canly, France are known to oppose the peace of Eastern Europa be a Hapsburg restoration, but at preserved. As to the reactions the moment the attitude of the of the Powers, Germany is said other major Powers has not been to be definitely opposed to a disclosed. Should the movement restoration, the advocates of assumo more definite shape, we which say she looks with dismay expect international deve- favour on the movement belopments of a most engrossing cause it would block her am- character. For the present, bitions in south-eastern Europe. | however, whilst it is clear that Now comes an allegation that the royalists are gathering their Herr von Papen, the German forces, it seems improbable that Minister to Austria, is alming | any serious' effort will be made to foster an artificial Hapsburg in the immediate future to

of men, all of whom were either killed or wounded. Such memories as these will keep alive that warm spirit of comradeship which British and Belgians, and other allies also, remember with gratification from the dark days of 1914-18. It does us good to re- member such valour, also,

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day, Henry. I want to know, what About our getting a divorce.".

By a process of drastic prun- Ing as In the two cases quoted, the genealogical tree was kept within confines and the number of living Boggses kept within reasonable limits.

So strictly was this policy en- forced, that at the dawn of the 18th century we found a Sir Roger de Bogg as the sole survivor of his line. Created, appropriately enough Baron of Mudford, but for no sound recson at all that we can see, except for the opportunity it gave him of adding an arrow for the first time to his coat-of-arms, he set about to repair the declin- ing family fortunes.

But being

skilled swords. man and duellist, he contrived to hold his own, until Fate, in her Ironical and inimitable way, took a hand in the game. One day His Lordship was dealt, without any exertion called from From him, a set of five aces. this great shock, the first Lord Mudford never recovered.

Had he lived longer, he would assuredly have been sent to the public gallows, as Public Enemy No. 1, if that title had not been previously, and irrevqeably, given to Dick Turpin.

The purple shados of evoning had descended on the room. The portraits of dead or Incarcerated Boggses seemed to look down, in- scrutably from the walle, as Horatio Bogg arrived at this point In his narrative. Unable to con- tinue, no doubt by the sad eventa conjured up, Bogg's emotion ex- pressed itself in a violent hiccup ing.

The interview, for the time being at any rate, was terminated, and as we withdrew from the pre- Banco of this great, Hongkong Living Personality, we could hear, between the hiccuping, a repeated moaning "Woe unto me, I am the last of my line, the last of my

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