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TRAVELLER LOOKS

AT MANILA

(By L. S. B.)

The Very Idea!

INTERPORT. SPORTS

By Edward "Careers", Kelly:

EL this talk about Interport. Boccer and Hockey ban work- ed Mr. Edward Kelly, well-knoWN Bporting enthusiast, into a fronsy. "After giving the local team800, IN preliminary survey for a starting. point, he wrapped his toes around the electric heater, isolated him- self, hunger-strikod for four days and after profound thought emerged with a schama tó -Im-- prove there friendly. Inter-city

encounters

Let him tell you about It in film' own words.

Washington reports hint that Japan is about to attempt a recon- cillation with China by offering her assistance in meeting her financial

"You will have to ask tho Boautiful two-storied homes sot obligations. There is a suggestion that China is considering, devalua Filipinos what they are going to in attractive gardens line the tion of the dollar, and although do about that," was the reply of Marine Boulevard with its ranks of Nanking officialdom denies the Mr. Frank Murphy. American palms and grass footpath thirty allegation, the shadow remains in Governor General of the Philip-feet wide; but elsewhere outside the some quarters, if the financial pines, when questioned in Shanghai city is, the same mixture. Well situation in China is as serious as recently about the problem present kept and exponalve looking houses many believe, and something-in the ed by the peaceful penetration of built on American or Spanish lines are often sat next door to collec- way of radical reform le pending, Chinese in the Philippines. it in quite likely that Japan has an In the mind of the Filipino there tons of native,houses built of palm eye on the possibilities Nanking is not much doubt as to what will leaves, bamboo, and wond-little might be in a frame of mind to happen to the Chinese If depend more than two roemed huts not on IT SEEMS that swarms of accept some generous gesture from ence is granted, or, at least what poles six or seven feet high.

Weather worn, patchod. and soccers and hockers are Tokyo, in the form of long-term they consider ought to happen to credit which would tide her over thom. But the leng-sought in- tumble-down they are often sur-about to descend on this period of uncertainty. Thus dependence itself is a problem, and rounded on three sides by a fieldsport-minded city of ours.

We are sorry to see, how- INCREASINGLY Popular Cars China's ellver probleme may pro- if it is granted-which is very of stagnant water and colle Towe vido Japan with her golden oppor- much doubted-it will involve the in which a water buffalo Ile wallow.

Japanese also: and this race the Ing. Under the houses amidst the lever, that no arrangements THE FINEST SALOON MODELS❘tunity.

Filipino regards with apprehension household stock of a pig or two, a have been made for other Light Stx

crowd of hens, and perhaps a horse Standard £220. De Luxe £240, HEBREW RENAISSANCE

The first and the most lasting and mongrel dog, the family wash-branches of sport.

With the exception of soc- Big Six

A language has been reborn. Impression given to the traveller in ing, cooking and siesta takes place Unleas they collapsed completely £325.

This demonstrated by the ex-the Philippines is that even yet. If you are contemplating to hibition of modern Hebrew litera-after thirty years of American the native houses could scarcely be cer and hocker (poetry!) in

haps

for the first time in history transition and capable of growing European buildings have an air of poetry!) is being neglected. A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. become a motorist owner-if you ture recently held in London. Per effort, Manila in atlil in a stage of come more dilapidated; but even the fact, interport sport (more are desirous of a change-If you there has taken place a literal re- rapidly into a fine city or sinking impormanence and give an impres This is a howling shame. are going on home leave a word naissance in language as well as in even more quickly to the proporsion that at any minute they may from you to

literature. In this respect at least tions and condition of a dirty, commence to decay and in a few There is nothing more pathetic a sport who has been ACQUAINT US OF YOUR the contemporary llebrow renats equalle native town. Everywhere Jears be half ruined and over-run than

with tropical growth. Hongkong is neglected. REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL nance is more wonderful than the in the juxtaposition of native and most as impregnated with Britain We ourself have been keen on as Manila is with America; but sport ever since we won the toe- FURNISH YOU WITH FULL famous European Renaissance of European.

"Mechanisation runs wild," the Afteenth and sixteenth cen-

Hongkong is built compactly of sucking competition when we PARTICULARS.

turies which is usually held to be marked a fellow passenger as our brick and stone and has a look of the beginning of the modern age, ship berthed and an electric crane

We can quite understand Shang- The rediscovery of the Greek and came trundling down 150 yards to solidity and an air of solidarity were a brat of one or two.

hai not sending any golf or cricket Roman classica four hundred and put the plank in position, a job which Manila completely lacks. fifty years ngo stimulated the five or six men could have done in

representatives down, because, aftor national literatures of Europe, and half the time. This impression The most interesting and novel all, anyone can wield a golf bat or culminated in its grand climax was reviewed somewhat after seeing thing in Manila for the stranger is cricket club. century later in the works of the ship unloaded, for the up-to-the cock-fighting held just outside Shakespeare. But it did not make inte pier was certainly run efficient the city bounds in a huge shed Greek and Latin the tongues of ly. Noiseless electric trucks ran with no walls, the ring a raised the common people astain, It did the cargo from the ship Into the platform encaged in narrow bars. not result in the housewives of immense shed where more overhead Wool antes and stock exchange scom Paris er of London giving their cranes picked it up, still in the peaceful beside the din and shout- weekly order to the greengrocer in sling, and put it on the top of ing which sets up before a night, the langun of Virgil and Cicero, stacks ready for loading into and though little money seems, to and the phrases of Homer still re-lorries. All was on the Americanchango hands in the evil smelling mained Greek to the man in the plan and managed with American place the shouting in the 'paddock' -box set up, anywhere on the street metaphorically as well as business efficiency. actually.

earthon floor-is deafening. Half century ago

" Hebrew was as dend a language as ever were Greek and Latin. It was

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FRIDAY, FEB. 1, 1935.

CONTRASTS IN EDUCATION

Palestine.

YUGO-SLAV UNITY

re-

The spur worn by the fighting cocks is about four inches long by

a quarter wide, slightly curved and

It's the manlier sports we're thinking of.

For instance, we could tell you about the night we took Miss

Editor's note: Not in this paper you won't.

Author's note: It only take a paragraph.

Editor's note: Not line.

Author's note: All right, but you wouldn't talk to me that way if I didn't have a wife and two kids to aupport.

If we

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Then there's tiddly-winks. Hong- studied only by scholars for the pur-all built on American lines, wide The question of the dominance pases of ritual and of understand and pleasant, with trees, gardens, amazingly sharp. Apparently it is kong would have no need to fear an of the State over the individualing the sacred writings. But the and strips of grass. This was the used with method by the birds Interport challenge at this Inspir in Italy, Germany and Russia is carlv Zionists in Palestine pledged case all along the waterfront and which try to jump on top of one ing game. We could pick half a one which is continually being themselves to speak nothing but un towards the city proper, but another and then jab downword and dozen Interport teams from our Hebrew, and the consequence to- there the native atmosphere had backward at the same time. Each Legislative Council, the Broadcast- encountered in speech, and writ-day is that a new literature has not been eradicated, and side by fight lasts but half a minute or so ing Committee and several other ten word in the more democra- sprung up, and Hebrew is the side with streets thirty yards wide, and then, after a sudden scurry of people we know.

Our Colony would probably be a tically constituted countries. mother tongue of every baby inned with fine buildings, ran others feathers, one bird is left squirming

only thirty feet, dirty, noisy and on the ground, or trying desperate trife weak at Ludo, although we Usually it is deplored, as being

unpleasant.

ly with wings outstretched to understand that there are several jr.indicative of the suppression of

The Spaniards bullt for perman scramble out of range of its op- potential champions at the Y.M.C.A. ence, and still to-day the Eighteenth ponent. those concepts of liberty which

Here every sort and condition of toe used the Cockney pronuncia udo" of course, we'd Many competent observers of the Century Walled City in the centre

hands down, because if we have become ingrained in lands Balkan scene imagined that the of Manila gives an impression of Filipino mingled; the men dressed win where dictatorships do not hold assassination of King Alexander solidity and durability which even either in light European clothes, or haven't heard Bow bells, lots of sway. Now comes the matter would result in splitting up Yugo-the American parts of the city inck. bare footed and wearing loose us have bow-legs.

Slavia, says the Christian Science Within the old city the houses are trousers and shirt, and a top shirt Interport atheletics are another of so-called State tyranny in the Manitor. Among them were the two or three storied and built of ei fine gauzy material; the women thing that should be taken up. sandals, long skirts, sashes, What with all our Peak ladles realm of education, a subject terrorists who planned the dastard-stone, all inhabited by natives now, in which has been engaging the at-ly deed. Yet so far Yugo-Slavin has though this, for some reason, has bodices, and an arrangement of the running up and down the mountain.

fine clotho round

their to avoid poying first class fores withatood the shock. The organf-not meant that the narrow, winding same tention of educationists in Bri-sation of a new Cabinet with Dr. streets are very dirty, on the shoulders. Many colours in their on the Poak tram, we'd have some. tain. It has been suggested Yoftitch at its head in a step to contrary they are comparatively urfghest hues might appear in the marvellous representatives,

one costume, and some were a Then there's "I See" or "Coming, tinct from the systems of the European peace) seems to have the clubs, and some firms are housed effect was not gaudy or unpleasant ably wouldn't fare so well at this, dictatorship countries, Avoids been served by the assassination. in fine buildings lining garden and the brightness compensated as, since the depression, most of A people who love to bicker among alrects; but this is only where the somewhat for the lack of colour Ita taipans have forgotten how to the evil of producing young themselves are usually the first to city has been rebuilt: elsewhere the clsewhere and a strange absence of count up to A hundred. people according to pattern. line up against any menace to streets are narrow, dirty, and re-flowers.

But wo'd certainly inślst our This raises a query whether in their integrity which they think has dolent of garlic and refuse, lined

dilapidated native Another novelty to the traveller draughts. Members of the staff of been fomented outside. But Yugo.with tawdry, actual fact the British educa Slav unity is a much greater com- houses and shops. Often, too, in from a European country is the the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank tional system, in the main, does pllment to Alexander's statesman- the native quarter you come un- Santa Ana Calaret. Although it is could wallop their confreres from the largest in the Shanghai or Singapore. Look at It was expectedly onto a kind of Paddy's advertised na encourage those faculties of ship than to his passing,

no soothing gesture to Yugo-Slavia Barket where a whole block is world, typically enough it is ap- all the practice the local lads get, vision and initiative which are that persuaded the League to call under one roof and filled with proached up a dusty alley leading working among the Ice House deemed essential to-day in lead-him a "knightly" King. Writing tiny atalla selling everything from between native huts. The great Strect overdraughts.

feathers and lace to giblets and attraction is the provision of ing humanity towards a brighter from deep knowledge of the man atrips of meat kung up to attract dancing partners at three lances a we could write about, but we know There are several other sports and the state, Hamilton Fish horizon. We seem to have Armstrong, in the current issue of customers and files. If no dirtier pusa little more than what la the Editor would only waste heard the complaint that the Foreign Affairs, clears up many than the Chinese markets in Hong-charged In Hongkong. They are further valuable space with his

dancers and very well misunderstandings about Alexan kong these markets are certainly no good machine is really master, in

(Continued on next column) education da in other vital national activities. At any rate, A DICTATOR it is doubtful wisdom to lay the

It has to be borne in view that flattering unction to our souls Yugo-Slavia's racial groups were so that British methods, in distinc-"unbroken to the give-and-take of tion from the German, Italian or family Rfo" that in 1929 Yugo- the Russian, stands on a giddy Slavia was drifting toward dis height of perfection. Many solution. Alexander arrested that within and without the circle, of course by his coup d'etat. But, as

the

aon of a man who had tran- practical education are convinced slated Mill's "Liberty" into Ser- that it does not. As for the bian, he installed himself as dictn- Continental systems, they, ad- tor, thinking only of preserving mittedly do not accord with Yugo-Slav unity. As indicative of British ideals of what is best the unselfish patriotism of the King,

Mr. to be sought in education, but

regents. There Prince then the countries concerned do of retrong adduces his choice

Paul, the not stand by the British ideals.

cousin, Dr. Radenko Stankovitch, a They have their own goal, in seeking which they may make Dr., Ivo Perovitch, Governor of the themselves as efficient nation-Save. In this final act the King ally as any of their rivals, gave clear intimation that Yugo- Liberty may have been banished Slay reconciliation was his goal. from the dictatorship lands, and For Stankovitch and Perovitch are to that extent the progress of leaders of the movement to extend local autonomy. The former re- civilisation may be stayed; but signed his portfolio because the we should not make disparaging Premier disapproved of negotia assumptions too readily. Russia, tions which he had been carrying Italy, and Germany are pro on with lenders of the Croatian foundly important factors in the opposition. Perovitch is a Croat, world to-day. Their respective man who was directing the work of extending the jurisdiction and systems certainly give them authority of the local governments. unity and a definite objective. Perhaps it was, as Mr. Armstrong In brief, the most that can be implies, this wise last act which reasonably said in that British prompted so many oppositionists to liberty is best for British people. forget their personal bitterness to- Other peoples may conceivably

Alexander and send to Bel- get along very well with some-

Borrow and If the regency can

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LTD.thing which, from our point of base its policy upon that act, and is greatly inferior. But build upon it, then the threat to it takes all sorts of systems to union which has always hung over make a world:

Yugo- via may dissolve,

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cleaner.

You had bottor look around and see how many guests

have for breakfast.

crude interruptions,

We will now go across to the Hongkong Hotel to practico for the elbow-lifting championship. which we expect, to win if we are not debarred from the chit- signing competition.

patronised by the American sailors, crowds of whom frequent the place in uniform.

Driving down a narrow, crowded, but rather cleaner street our tacl- turn driver. "China runted that this was

and on being

prompted he added that there were

.I. too many Chiricae Manila. talked with him later and found that there were also too

many Japanese,

too

too many Spy Americans, and

"Half the Philippines want in- dependence, the other half Ameri can rule; trouble either way and- then Japan comes if independence. is granted," was the explanation of one Man in the Street with whom I talked on the independence quea“ tion: which shows nremarkably Tueld conception of the position.

The European residents, indeed, ovinced more concern than the natives: "What will happen when America leaves us is horrible to contemplate," one womna, the wife of an American official, told me. "Some suy we'll all have to get out within a few years. America can:" never let them rule thomsølvap. There would be turmoil in a fow months and it would mean ruin for them and for us, too,

And such is the position; dis- content:" without Independence or termoll and a very lively fear of Japaneso influence and ・ pressure. Troublo elther ways— and overy one recognises it