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TIRURSDAY, JAN. 24, 1935. JAPAN'S FOREIGN
POLICY
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Abyssinia is in the news again, but it may not be for long. Within
or
FATHER TIME TAKES
was once a
"ALL COMERS"
By FRANK POXON
The Very Idea!
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES
То
By Juliet Lowell
a manufacturer of Knit Wear.
Dear Sir:
a little while Abyssinia, as a power, TS it true that many apertamen player five years hence, for I can
have Is true a n separate state, may ceased
to exist, except with the long after their skill has loft his skill or his powers of endur permission of Britain, France and them? It is an unequal fight, forance. italy. At lost that is the situa-nge is a handicap in every sport,
I would like to have one of But, then, take Jean Burotra. tion as seen by some observers. It and sooner or later the man who
Invourite will learn the He says, and he is entirely sincere, your blue knitted bathing suits might not be a bad thing, in many bitterness of playing to empty that he is too old in singles and if I could get you to koit me a ways, if some European used the benches. Father Time, not, much this Chovaller of the Legion of bathing suit, that would come excuse of the Abyssinian slave of a sportsman, takes and eventual- Honour was born na late as 1808. down the thigh about Boven trade to subdue the wild tribesmen ly beata "all comers,"unless they. And yet, to repent, something has inches longer and the top come their left him. He, in "the bounding down about three and one half lo rotire with who, in the past few days, have know when
Basque" no longer. A great player inches longer, from the waist on made trouble on the frontiers of laurels.
At what age does a man cease still, but he tires more quickly than up the suit is all right. italian and French, Somaliland,
to be able to give of his best in he once did. We read:
port? Probably the right answer Some of the professional billiard
BLACK BIRDING
case.
The American people talk about
"A hedvý turpaulin was thrown across the bottom of the dhow, and under this covering was unearthed a sight that beggared description. Pucked like sardines, stark naked, In indescribable fith, lips lying awollen through lack of water, eyes appealing for help, lay a heap of human cattle. There were. 26 of these slavee, ID young women and girls and six boys; all were too feeble to ailand." This description Sidney Barnes, perhaps the great, years before, had London at, flai concerned to do not have. to be
is: It all depends upon what sport players carry on for long periods. the foreign people, well-we could is concerned. Only recently that For instance, Tom Reece, in the be a good deal more modest our- gallant old warrior of the ring, early afxtles, has been before the Bell and we would not be too modest George Cook, found his 37 years public for over 40 years. But he at that. There are some people was a tremendous handicap when would be the first to admit that ought to be run off the beach. he met Jack Petersen. The spirithe
cannot make the breaks he do not care what others want to was
to make. To-day there is look like, but I do want to make thero la excelain, but the used
facile myself look as neat as possible. elasticity and resilience of ten years effort where, before, was
I served over seas and swam in the same river with French girls with ago had gone.
Even the great John Roberts It seems hard to explain why a
no bathing suits on, but the war fit man should be too old at 37 in tried in vain to keep the years at is over and we ought to live up to boxing, but it is true; it is less hay. i remember his last appear what we preach that the American true about Cook than about most ance in London; the old regal bear people are the leaders, when it fog had gone and he looked a woary men, but it is still true.
comes to the christen duty of life. old man trying to recapture some I am not a preacher or anything In cricket there have been, and thing which had escaped from him,
of the kind, but I would like to still are, notable instances of men never to return. He played to defying the passage of the years. empty bonchies he, the man who
bat bowler of the past forty years, Fet has recently signed a contract for league clubs and he is in the early
[lxties.
wear a bathing suit that will look
neat, and as far as my figure is
aaliamed of it.
is taken from an account of the
I would also like to know if you captury, by a British warship, of a
When he was 60 years old, Billy slave boat off the Arabian coast.
Meredith, of Manchester City, play-could knit a short hose out of the Ironically enough, had it been
And then there is Jack Hobbs, in an F-A. Cup tie at outside-same material say I wear a number right, but he represented an excep ankie, and have a ribbon or lace ten hose, let it come above the, known that he was only engaged aged 52 and nearly as great a batation which proves the rule. You in slaving this particular dhow man as ever, although that state- can't play modern League or Cup go thru slots of the top of the hose
ment may be disputed by would not have been stopped, for
some. Soccer when you, have passed the Ro you could tie same." this trade in human beings is, in On balance, cricket is a game in half-century.
which the players do not get old
Anno Domini v. Prowess in Sport the ordinary course,, curcied
quickly; even so, the average player what an unequal fight it is, for without Interference.
This in- Is mach better at 35 than 45: those there can be only one result. In eldent is not an isolated instance, ten years have stolen something of these closing days of 1934 many a but only one of many such cases speed, something of sure eye-sight, sportsman will reflect on that fact: happening every year in the straits Homething of instant collaboration another year has gone; how much
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lake and Childs are all middle-aged men, but I would say that each of the four is na good as ever he was. 20 years ago. "Too old at forty" certainly does not apply in the art and craft of jockeyship.
ļof his skill has gone with it?
having writ, moves on..
The moving finger writes, and,
And that. is what it all amounts
Jewel Thieves' Christmas Party
London
1
Yours truly,
Frank C. loft.
(signed)
Well we could be a good deal more modest,
Excused.
Cincinatti, Ohio
June 25, 1984.
between brain and muscle. of Perim. Every year some fivu
The skill in there, but the applica- In his outline of Japan's thousand slaves are smuggled into tion of that skill in less quick than foreign polley in the Diet, Mr. Arabin. They are mostly young it was before. And we must not Hirota sald very little that was
women, numbers of them British forget the one and only "W. G." new. His speech was permeated subjects captured by armed bands is beard flamed defance until he to
was much older. than Hobbs is to- with professions of Japan's or Abyssinians during their periodi- | day. desire to live on terms of close cal raids into Sudanese and Kenya They wear very well in the world friendship with all nations, parti-Colony territory. It is conservative-of racing. Donoghuc, Fox, Cars- cularty China. But those who y estimated that between 1913 and 1927 more than 139 such ralds took were looking for something con-
As the map shows, no slaves crete in the direction of a realice. gesture to China will have been could be taken across the Red Sea from Abyssinis to Arabia without disappointed at the somewhat the connivance of at least one of vague nature of Mr. Hirota's the three great European Powera Age, in golf, is nearly as relent-
iles an opponent as Colonel Bogey. Jewel thieves carried out observations, The American whose territory borders the sea.The Great Triumvirate, Braid, daring raid on Christmas Day when comment, that Japan's attitude Embarkation must take place Vardon and Taylor, have passed they broke into Ford Mano, Ling- to China is still somewhat con- territory belonging to British, from the scene of Championship field, Surrey, the residence of and Lieut-Colonel H. H. Spender-Clay, [descendingly "paternalistic" in French or Italian Somaliland, Ita-achiements for one reason
its tone, about hits the situation lint Etruria or the Sudan. off to a nicety. Mr. Hirota hopes that China-will- awake to NO-ACTION-TAKEN-
realisation of the general situation in Eastern Asia and Firm action on the part of the endeavour to meet "the genuine British Government, with a naval aspirations of our country," add- base at hand in Aden, could do ing that. Japan's policy is to much. Such action is not taken,
In lawn tennis, W. T. Tilden won This is the fourth similar rób. assist China towards stability. ! presumably, for political reasons. his third Wimbledon Singles Chambery in the district in less than a China may well interpret Japan's | It may be because Abyssinia is the pionship in 1930, when he was 38 month. The police believe the aspirations in the East in aonly large area of the African years old; he will be 42 years of raids to be the work of a gang of nge in February and he is still in jewel thieves who are operating vastly different light from
tent on carrying on and scouts the from Tunbridge Wells. among European nation. Italy idea of retirement. There is. Д Directly the robbery was dis- lafter a night out.. Japan's own conceptions, whilst has long
"Can you spare me two seconda ?" annex-fame in "le grand Bill" which is covered the police stopped traffic on past experience may incline her fag this rich and fertile province, perhaps his biggest asset; aert all the roade out of the district but he called
"Why? Have you got a fight on to the view that Japanese policy, but cannot do so until the other long, lean and muscular, six feet party of fourteen at the time, your hands?" we queried, playing
from that he fa a very it man, without result. There was a house permitted full play, would under- two Powers, Britain and France, and a bit of controlled energy, including the Earl and Countess of for time in which to transser a mine the country's integrity | have agreed with her upon a autis- I believe he will still be a great Lucan.
continent nol
yet
dreamed
apportioned
of
Becret treaty of 1015 between
rather than conduce to the factory division of the country. atrengthening of its stability. Because Italy demands insistently No-one could blame China for a greater share than the other two being suspicious of Japan's in- Towers are as yet ready to concede tentions in view of past happen- the deal is being held up. The ings. Even now, there is to be Brital, France and Italy on the noted in Mr. Hirota's speech an entry of Italy into the war on the underlying implication that side of the Allies, whereby Italy Japan must dominate the Far received after the wer part of Eastern situation,
that Kenya Colony from Britain and future developments therein part of Tunis from France, hus must conform primarily to failed to satisfy her.
and
Japanese ideas. The thought
therefore naturally suggests it- ANY OBJECTION?
self that if Japan is really
anxious to win the friendship
It may be that Britain
ond
of her near neighbour, she must France do not object in principle show a disposition to consider
China's
aspirations
to Italy's expansion in Africa -80 as well as her own. There canlong as it fa not at their expense;
be no rapprochement between and the slave trade of Abyssinia the two nations unless it is based provides a wonderful excuse
for
It
on a due regard for the interests settling the matter without jeo- of both. Thus far, there is no pardising their colonies. In epito indication that Japan is modify of the fact that slave trading has ing her Asiatic hegemony policy, been going on without interruption and so long as she takes the for many years, the horror and stand that other nations must wickedness of the human traffle conform to her ideas in the East, may suddenly be blazoned forth to ao long will China continue to the world. The conscience of the view her aspirations with sub-world would be aroused, and picion, if not distrust. In the might be that Abyssinia would be last resort, Japan will be judged forced to accept a joint control by by her deeds, not by her words. the three Powers. Italy could be Therefore if she means well to induced to accept the chief res- wards China, she will need to Pompierer Halil Silassie I., of sup In conjunction with give proof of her sincerity pressing the slave traffic, and the And what is true of Japan's last stronghold of alavery would relations with China la true also come to an end. That to how the of her contact with other, na- last remnant of independent Africa tions.
might pass into European hande
when their To a Furniture House
Dear Sirs: .
One reason only-the passing of M.P., for Tonbridge and the Hon. the years. Their knowledge of the Mrs. Spender-Clay,
題 The thieves entered through
Kame and of the technique of every Christmas party was at dinner.
atroke remaina ns good na, in the
You ask why Mrs. Kraus
days of yesteryear, but they cannot bedroom window from a ladder she don't come-In-to-buy-mere-fur- compete with the younger players, which they took from the garden.niture. The reason is she passed Something has gone. What is it They ransacked the guests bed-away 6 years ago this month. In terms of cxnct Frankly, I would not care to give Jewellery. The extent of the losses precision? rooms and took a large quantity of
Her daughter, Mrs. Lucy A- the answer:
has not been disclosed."
"You must keep in with Mr. Miller. He might give you a start, "after you're through college.”:
A MORNING STROLL By George
We have just met Cruikshank- he looked as pate as a virgin moon -
couple of dollars to our waistcoat so that Cruikshank wouldn't hear them clinking.
The only note of music that Cruikshank appreciates is the ring of a good douar.
must have a pick-me-up and you know I can't drink alone."
"Broke again, eh?”
Thereafter we sat drinking Oval- tines while Cruikshank-wno look- ed as if he had been living a life of debauchery and sin-explained that he had been dying a death of aysentery on gin.
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We lent him $5 and counted it Д gitt-Cruikshank never acknowledges a debt, contracted unger the influence of Ovaltine..
Thoreafter we strolled over to Aunt Emma who was sitting alone at her table lifting her elbow with Butlicient regularity to conduct an orchestra
"What's wrong, Auntie?" We querien brightly.
"Everything's wrong. I couldn't oversicep this morning and dropped in for all the work at the office and, then opened a bill in mistake. and then you come^along!"
"Just one damn gin after an- ather," we said sympathetically as Auntie did her occentric wheel movement again.
Auntie's signal for the boy was. the signal for us to go. "So long, Auntie. See you in a drunkard's grave."
"That's a nice name for the offico, I will say," croaked the old timer us we departed.
We looked neither to the right. nor the left on our way out. It'a very weakening for New Your re solutions to see one's office mated debilitating carefreely.
Work has its compensation, we reflected, but it's hard work find- {Ing-them.
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