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NOTES OF THE DAY

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

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TRAVELLER LOOKS

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AT MANILA

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(By L. S. B.)

dirty,

that at any minute they may

The Very Idea!

INTERPORT SPORTS

By Edward "Carnera” Kelly:

LL this talk about Interport Boccer and Hockey haa work- ed Mr. Edward Kelly, well-known Sporting enthusiast, into a frenzy, After giving the local, teams a preliminary survey for a starting paint, he wrapped his toes around the electric heater, isolated him- self, hunger striked for four dayn and after profound thought emerged with scheme to Im- prove these friendly inter-city encounters.

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

Author's note: If only lake a paragraph.

Editor's note: Not a 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 Mupport,

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of the State over the individuales of ritual and of understand, and pleasant, with trees, gardens, amazingly sharp. Apparently it iakong would have no need to fear an

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YUCO-SLAV UNITY

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 the Beautiful two-storied homes set 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 Frank Murphy, American palms and grass footpath thirty Nanking offelaldem denies the Mr. allegation, the shadow remains in Governor General of the Philip feet wide; but elsewhere outside the mixture. Well some quarters. If the financial pines, when questioned in Shanghai city in the same ituation in China is as serious as recently about the problem present-kept and expensive looking houses of. built on American or Spanish lines believe, and something in the ed by the refill pines alone are often-net-noxt door to collec mary of radical reform is pending, Chinese in the Philippines of native houses built of phim

Let him tell you about it in his In the mind of the Filipino It is quite likely that Japan has an

own words. eye on the possibilities Nanking te not much doubt na to what will leaves, bamboo, and wood-Ittle

IT SEEMS that swarms of might be in a frame of mind to happen to the Chinese If depend more than two roomed huts set on

soccers and hockers are accept some generous gesture from ence is granted, or, at least what poles six or seven feet high.

Weather worn, patched, and

on this Tokyo, in the form of long-term they consider ought to happen to credit which would tide her over a them. But the long-sought in-tumble-down they are often sur about to descend perlod of uncertainty. Thus dependance Itself is a problem, and rounded on three sides by a field

We are sorry to see, how- NCREASINGLY Popular Cars China's silver problems may pro- if it le granted-which is very of stagnant water and odorous mud sport-minded city of ours.

ot Popular Prices. vide Japan. with her golden oppor-much doubted-it will involve the in which a water buffalo He wallow-

Javanese also: and this race the ing. Under the houses amidst the fever, that no arrangementa THE FINEST SALOON MODELS❘tunity.

Filipino regards with apprehension household stock of a pig or two, a have been made for other crowd of hens, and perhaps a horse Light Six 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 langunge has been reborn. Impression given to the traveller injing, cooking and slesta takes place Unless they cullapsed completely yet. £325.

This is demonstrated by the ex- the Philippines is that even hibition of modern Hebrew litera- after thirty years of American the native houses could scarcely be-cer and bocker (poetry) in This is a howling shame. ture recently held in London, Per-effort, Manila is still in n stage of come mure dilapidated; but even the fact, interport sport (more hans for the first-time in history transition and capable of growing Furopean buildings have an air of poetry!) is being neglected. there has taken place a literal re- rapidly into a fine city or sinking impermanence and give an impres naissance in language as well as in even more quickly to the proporcommence to deeny and in a few There is nothing more pathetic. a sport who has been literature. In this respect at least tions and condition of a

Everywhere years be half ruined and over-run than the contemporary Hebrew renale squalld native town.

almost as impregnated with Britain We ourself have been keen on ance is more wonderful than the in the Juxtaposition of native and with tropical growth. Ifongkong is neglected. famous European Renaissance of European.

"Mechanisation runs wild," re-as Mania is with America; but sport ever since we won the toe- the fifteenth and sixteenth cen turies which is usually held to be marked a fellow passenger as our Hongkong la bullt compactly of sucking competition when we the beginning of the modern age. ship berthed and an electric crane rick and stone and has a look of

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 tomar classies four hundred and put the plank in position, a job which Manila completely lacks. ifty years ago stimulated the five or six men could have done in

representatives down, because, after The most interesting and novel national literatures of Europe, and half the time. This impression.

a cricket club. culminated in its grand climax a was reviewed somewhat after seeing thing in Manila for the end move all, anyone can wichi a golf bat or It's the manlier sports we're 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 date pier was certainly run efficient the city bounds in a huge shed thinking of.

Noiseless electric tracks ran with no walls, the rink # raised For instance, we could tell you Greek and Latin the tongues of }ly.

narrow bars, about the night we took Misa the common people again. It did the cargo, from the ship Into the platform encaged not result in the housewives of immense shed where more overhead Wool aules and stock exchange seem Paris or of London giving their cranes picked it up, still in the peaceful beside the din and shout- weekly order to the greengrocer in aling, and put it on the top of ing which sets up before a fight, for londing into and though little money seems to the langun of Virgll and Cicero, stacks and the phrases of Homer still re-lorries. All was on the American change hands in the evil smelling mained Greek to the man in the plan and managed with American place the shouting in the 'paddock' sireet metaphorically as well as business elBelency.

a box set up anywhere on the carthen floor-is deafening. Half netually.

century ago

The spur worn by the fighting Hebrew was as dead a language

Outside the pler the streets are cocks is about four inches long by It was ever were Groek and Latin.

Then there's tiddly-winks. Hong- The question of the dominance studied only by scholars for the pur all built on American lines, wide a quarter wide, slightly curved, and

This was the used with method by the birds Interport challenge at this inspir- But the and strips of grass. Ing the sacred writings. in Italy, Germany and Russia is early Zionists in Palestine pledged case all along the waterfront and which iry to jump on ton of one ing game. We could pick half a teams from our themselves to speak nothing but up towards the city proper, but another and then jab downword and dozen interport Jane which is continually being 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 in that a new literature has not been eradicated, and side by fight lasts but half a minute or sing Committes and several other

and Hebrew is the side with streets thirty yards wide, and then, after a sudden scurry of people we know. ten word in the more democra- sprung up,

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

only thirty feet, dirty, noisy and on the ground, or trying desperate-trifle weak at Ludo, although we Palestine,

with wings outstretched to understand that there are several unpleasant,

ly Usually it is deplored, as being indicative of the suppression of

The Spaniards built 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.

It we used the Cockney pronuncia- those concepts of liberty which

Here every sort and condition of tion of "ludo" of course, we'd Many competent observers of the Century Walled City in the centre have become ingrained in lands Balkan scene imagined that the of Manila gives an impression of Flipino mingled; the men dressed win hands down, because if we 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

and wearing loose us have bow-lega. would result in splitting up Yugo the American parts of the city lack, bare footed sway. Now comes the matter Slavin, says the Christian Scienen Within the old city the houses are trousers and shirt, and a top shirt Interport atheletice are another of so-called State tyranny in the Monitor. Among them were the two or three storied and built off Sne gauzy material; the worn thing that should be taken up. realm of education, a subject terrorists who planned the dastard-stone, all inhabited by natives now, in sandals, long skirts, ashes, What with all our Peak ladies which has been engaging the at- 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 Ane clothe round their to avoid paying first class fares withstood the shock. The organi-[at meant that the narrow, winding sare

dirty, on the shoulders. Many colours in their tention of educationists in Bri-sation of a new Cabinet with Dr.streets are very

marvellous representatives. tain. It has been suggested Yeftitch at its head is a step to contrary they are comparatively brighest hues might appear in the the Peak tram, we'd have some one costume, and some were, n Then there's "I Sce" or "Coming that the British system, as dis-of unity (which is also the cause of

ward harmony. Indeed, the cause clean.

The Government Departments, strange mixture of colour. Yet the Ready or Not"-Hongkong-prob- 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 amongstreets; but this is only where the somewhat for the lack of colour its taipans have forgotten how to the evil of producing young themselves are usually the first to city has been rebuilt: elsewhere, the elsewhere 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 we'd certainly insist on This raises a query whether in their integrity which they think has dolent of garlic and refuse, lined

Another novelty to the traveller draughts. Members of the staff of femented outside. But Yugo with tawdry, dilapidated native been actuni fact the British educa-Slar unity is a much greater com-houses and shops. Often, too, in from a European country is the the ifongkong and Shanghai Bank tional system, in the main, does pliment to Alexander's statesman. e native quarter you come un- Santa Ann Cabaret. 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 as encourage those faculties of ship than to his passing.

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

There are several other sporta ing humanity towards a brighter from deep knowledge of the man feathers and ince to giblets and attraction is the provision of

and the state, Hamilton Fish strips of meat hung up to attract dancing partners at three dancen a we could write about, but we know horizon. We seem to have Armstrong, in the current issue of customers and flies. If no dirtler peso-a little more than what is 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 crude interruptions. machine is really master, in misunderstandinge about Alexan-kong these markets are certainly no good

(Continued on next column) education 28 in other vítal 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 life" that in 1929 Yugo- the Russian, stands on a giddy | Slavin was drifting toward dis- height of perfection. Many solution. Alexander arrested that within and without the circle of course by his coup d'efat. But, as practical education are convinced the son of a man who had tran- slated M's "Liberty" into Ser. that it does not. As for the bian, be installed himself as dicta- 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, to be sought in education, but Mr. Armstrong adduces his choice There are three: then the countries concerned doof, regents.

Prince Paul, the King's first not stand by the British ideals. cousin, Dr. Radenko Stankovitch, a They have their own goal, in former Minister of Education; and seeking which they may make Dr. Ivo Perovlich, Governor of the themselves as efficient nation- Save. In this final net the King ally as any of their rivals. gave clear intimation that Yugo Liberty may have been banished Slav reconciliation was his goal. from the dictatorship lands, and leaders of the movement to extend For Stankovitch and Perovitch are, to that extent the progress of 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 leaders of the Croatian foundly important factors in the opposition. Perovitch ia a Croat, a world to-day. Their respective man who was directing the work of systems certainly give them authority of the local governments. extending the jurisdiction and unity and a definite objective. Perhaps it was, as Mr. Armstrong In brief, the most that can be implies, this wise laat 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 ward Alexander and send to Bol- get along very well with some sympathy. If the regency

grade messages of sorrow and thing which, from our point of base its policy upon that act, and view, is greatly inferior. But bulld upon it, then the threst to it takes all sorts of systems to union which has always hung over make a world.

Yugo-Slavia may dissolve...

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can.

cleaner.

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"You had better look around and see how many guests we hava for breakfast."

We will now go across to the Hongkong Hotel to practice 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 tack- turn driver grunted that this was and on' being

China Towded that there wero

prompted ho

Manila. Lalked with him later and found that there were also too many Japanese, too many Americans, and too many Spaniards.

too many Chinese in

can

Half the Philippines want in- dependence, the other half Ameri

rule; trouble either way and then Japan comes it Independence la granted," was the explanation of one Man In the Street with whom I talked on the independenco ques- tion: which shows a remarkably. Jurid conception of the position.

The European residents, indeed, ovinced more concern than the natives. "What will hapron when America leaves us is horrible to contemplate," one women, the wife of an American official, told me. Some say we'll all have to get out within a few years. · America can nover let them rule themselves. There would be turmoil in a few months and it would mean ruin for them and for us, too."

And such is the position; dia. costent without Independence, or. turmoil and a very lively fear of Japanese Jalluence and pressure.. "Trouble, ofther way" and every-

one recognises it.