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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

JAPAN'S FEARS

The statement of a gokceman of the Tokyo Foreign Office yesterday that Japan did not approve of a plan for the international naslat- ance of China because she Afraid that it might lead to oven- tual International control of China, may amuse some people. How

"TICKING OFF" TOWN DWELLERS

By HENRY GOUDE HORTICULTURAL SUPERINTENDENT, NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL.

The Very Idea!

OUR CHINESE LESSON By Prof. Horatio Bogg, M.Sc.

A

rumour has spread that

the Chinese languago

is not what has been said of

THE condition of England's farm. The countryside does not consider it-that it needs rescuing much loss thore is to fear from lands is the concern of overy the health viewpoint of agriculture. from a mass of split infini-

thinking individual, as the future but we do ponder over the problem

A

race.

sary

•

en.

above re- proach, and on the score, of a virginal purity insisted upon by the most conservative of scholars, may safely be handled with other than a pair of tongs.

international Influence In Nanking than from domination by some single power! It surely must have vigour, health, and continuase of of how the countryside can be made tives and verbs ending with the race are dependent on the full prosperous. The trend of national occurred

I to the Japanese spokes his use and productive power of Eng- policy and lost international trade a preposition. that observers would seize upon

will, we think, eventually link the land's soll.

Touched by the pathetic appeals attitude to use in argument against

that unless two more closely together. Hlatory proves

of numerous would-be learners of unilateral action

of any sort, in

We do definitely state that agri-Chincao, Dogg, with the character- China. If Japan has reason to fear nation keeps its roots in the soil international influence upon the that nation decays and eventually culture can be lifted out of the istic, zent ho has always dedicated Nanking Government, it is surely becomes a byword among the naslough of depression as soon as the to the cause of a suffering human- reasonable to suppose that other tions of the earth. I believe that nation is propered to act. Such aty groping for literary light, has nationa would fear the consequences the neglect of land development is step would practically solve the un-fatterly undertaken much research Nina not wilful but is almost entirely of several methods to achieve this Univeralty Chinese library, He is employment problem. The simplest work amongst the archives of the of Japan dictation. The Power Treaty was designed for the due to misunderstandings.

desirable end is to grow all the happy to be now able to announce protection of China against aggres- I think it is high time that, in sion from any beiligerent nation. his own Intereate, the town dweller dairy produco needed by the nation that Chinese caligraphy and com- No signstory of this treaty has should drop his attitude of indiffer-and give the home-grown article a position, being singularly fres ahown the least desire to interfere ence to the problems of the country-preference over any imported dairy from those faults, are

produce, ire China's affairs, except Japan: side. One thing clear is that the and she has interfered in a very countryman does not intend to take

This measure · could be effectual manner, simply seizing a back seat in relation to the towns-

enacted control of an immense expanse of man in a matter in which both aro without any serious loss, to our Chinese territory. We are not vitally concerned.

foreign trado. In some years a prepared to agree with Japan that' The large proportion of the country such as Denmark has taken Ho finds that the real danger this sort of policy does China any population brought up in towns only manufactured goods from us to the is not in the language itself, but good. It seems that the purnose considers farming from the paint value of £7,000,000. She has drawn one threatened to its purity by a of Great Britain and America. of view of the coat of its food from us in the same year about foreign element that is fairly. apart from their natural desire to supply. This viewpoint is, of £80,000,000 for dairy produce, all ruining its correct intonation. protect their own interests in the course, most important, and it also of which English soil could have Interviewed as to the exact nature Far East, is to protect China. An decides Government action is deni-yielded.

of this danger, that eminent economically sound nation friendly ing with agricultural problems,"

With that inrge sum irrigating Chinese scholar, Prof. Pooh Bah, to them, in the aim of Western

our agriculture, a firm home market has told Bogg that hla country. could be established that would men have been made painfully Powers; and to attain this object international co-operation la neces- In order to keep prices down, more than compensate for any loss aware of it under the name of sary. Those nations will serve agriculture is to-day a heavily sub- our exports. By a further re- Ockscoford. themselves best who make the welaidised industry. We in the coun- agreements we could give our agris secured, and anxious to be

vision of our international trading

Encouraged by the succcas he SANTOS-On March 6, 1935, at her fare of Ching their first considera. try are forced to use this help to culture about £100,000,000 of addi-classed as an authority on Chinese

residence, No, 314 Prince Edtion. For tlie moment they should the fullest possible extent in order tional business annually and Natividade dos Santos, aged 75 not need to be particularly concern-

to carry on, but in our inner hearts courage a healthy root action in literature, Bogg to-day ha years. Funeral will pass the ed with Japan, her motives, her we would prefer a straight, clear the great basle industry of the greased beyond the mean man and Monument at 5.30 pm, to-day. No ambitiens or her delicate suscepti- market for our produce that would

fai Ice stage, to give his first flowers, by request. (Shanghaibilities. China requires assistance; leave a profit on production. By and Mincao papers plense copy). Britain and the United States, and reducing the exorbitant costs of that we could produce all the neces

I have not the slightest doubt Chinese lesson along the following

lines: other nations also, in all probability, distribution this could be attained

How the heck are you?-Nee are willing to assist her. If Japan without raising costs to the con day la cultivated only in spots.

food required. England to kee ho la mar wants to join them and de somne-sumer. Our farmers are the best we could increase our production auch hei ngoh kot lo poh.

This thing is my wife.-Nee koli thing for China, she would appear in the world, and only. ask for fair hundredfold by cultivating the un- to be at liberty to do so. If she and just treatment.

Excuse me, you are stapping on cultivated and semi-cultivated land. my wife-Wai, nes tai ngoh koh objects to an international loan it In an industrial country like The farmers and market gardeners to pok. would be interesting to know how England there is always the clash of England are eagerly awaiting she proposes to prevent it.

ing of town and country Interests, the opportunity of increasing their flatvah, ngoh he taung ngoh koh

Oh, how I hate my wife! The Industrial areas consider only responsibilities and the nation's their own problems, which

are food supplies. With a stablo econ-

in polit mainly concerned with the manu-omle national policy, top-gear re-again-Nas hoh yee taai kuh toh You may therefore step on her- facture of goods and the sale of sults would be achieved in a very toh too tak. them at

a profit. The farmer's short period, A definite move is seemingly Great Britain was, and still is, problems are analogous. He also about to be made to link up in danger. The question in the must produce and sell at a profit; Hongkong with the Imperial atupendous crisis of 1981 was, how but, except for the directly and in- Airways services to Britain and it was to be saved from the Interesty jual sed eroe, his mar English-grown food is the natural It should be remembered that | Australia. The British Air disaster. The peril was averted in produced under conditions of labour Roman advice was to drink the peril of financial chaos and ket is glutted with foreign goods, food of English people. The Estimates, of which details have the nick of time, but it is not to that are Impossible in England. just been issued, make provision be supposed that such a crials can

wine of the country-In other for an experimental service bebe cleared in a single bound. That

words, to live on the products of their tween Bangkok and Hongkong, is not the way of economic crisis. If our markets were flooded with writers stated that the ancient home localities. Roman part of the arrangement on its Recovery comes only by slow and manufactured goods produced under Britons did not begin to grow old

Have another—Tsol yam koh.. financial side being that this painful degrees, and the whole similar conditions, the uproar would until they reached the age of 70.-Ngoh keen you seung koh nee,

1 am seeing two of you, Colony should contribute a sub-must be bent to that purpose. Attricts, and the threat to livelihoods themselves, and we have many men strength and wisdom of the nation be immediate in all the affected dis- They lived on the food they grew stantial proportion of the cost. such a time it does not do to cling would be

Go to Halifax)-Nei hui sce! This contribution will evident-to partisan politics.

checked by emergency in Norfolk over 70 still in the prime Nec hoh yee sermy net keen ngo,

Come up and see me sometime.-- & CO., LTD.ly be by way of a subsidy, in be forgotten and fucts must be actually the difference between basic fact.

Names must Acts of Parliament. That is of vigorous life, due to the same In addition to the above essun- which connection it is known faced. This was the burden of the town and country-the trenchant It will be argued that we cannot Chinese oaths. These, of course, tials, Bogg has a choice stock of that the Hongkong Government message which Mr. Ramsay Mac- clamour of the towns and the grow is ready to provide $300,000 for Donald sent to the conference of isolated and feeble cries of the Argentine and Canada. America, but he is willing to whleper them the cheap wheat of the cannot be printed in this column, such a purpose, once a practical student Unionists, held in Edin-country interests.

Taking the long view, we in the producing countries of Europe. It

at one period, ruined the wheat-into your car, the rates being ton scheme is evolved. The authori-urght recently. The dimculties of SØSSEUSEUSSHASEUSSSS ties here have for some consider the times, he ad, make integration country believe that the interests is not a question of cost, but of cents per oath, with an additional

and concentration essential to overy of and the countryside are how long able time past been pressing the people. In proof of this we have mutual and identical, and this con- poverish our land and buy foods

we can afford to im- petition. Imperial Government to take the only to look around upon the state clusion is supported by scientific that we can produce ourselves. necessary steps to link Hongkong of the world. All countries are opinion. Unless there is the virile Life on the land is the ideal life. with the Imperial Airways ser making a corporate effort, and it country-bred stock to draw upon Deep. In the hearts of all of us

Sayings of the Week vice, and the fact that financial would be vain for us to attempt to and replenish the wornout human there is the desire to return to our jelly. There is, however, one This Government reminds me of debris of manufacturing activity, native element. Why not turn this difference. You don't have we provision is now being made compete against them while provides evidence that the Home general contest. We must make will eventually disappear. Take revivify the pride and joy of the Darling Dabchick.

remained unorganised for the

health and wealth of the towns deatre. into a natural channel and keep a felly for five years.—~/. authorities are no less anxious use of "all that is still vital in the stock of any crowd of people in race in the farm lands of England? to see the project become a different traditions of political any industrial town to-day-there There is the residue of England's reality. Some eighteen months thought Conservative, Liberal, is no need to delve into medical health and strength, and there also ago, Imperial Airways intimated and Labour. We dare not neglect statistics the degeneration is only is the only foundation for rebuild. that it was deeply interested in any weapon which is still effective" too obvious.

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AIR LINK PROSPECTS

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UNITY IS STRENGTH

medinte

need for united action In

the

it would necessary, by whatever greatest crisis of all, the World means the service was establish- War. Yet that was simple insur ed, for Hongkong to make a de-In comparison with that in which finite contribution, in addition to the nations are still involved. An receiving from the Post Office an artificial stimulus kept the nations undertaking to hand its mails at the height of endeavour. That been removed, and exclusively to any British service stimulus has that might be started.

how all that can be depended upon Ais the intelligence, determination, regular weekly service was then

and perseverance envisaged, and it was expected which will keep them alive to the of the people. that the Hongkong-London route seriousness of the position and help could be covered in ten or eleven them to recognise wise Govern- days, this being later reduced to mental action when they see eight or nine days after the And the rat essential of action is introduction of night-lying on unity, not only of parties but of

national ideals.

part of the route. The scheme [now, contemplated doubtless fol-

lowe these main lines. No dif- AN UNSAFE JOB ficulties are expected in securing flying rights over Siam or Indo-

China, but so far the negotiations There is

it.

non-commissioned

for securing such rights over army officer in Cuba who seems to Chinese territory: have not re-

have about as strange and risky a Job as any soldier could dream of. sulted in an agreement, How This man, Sorgt. Jose Trabanca, ever, there is no absolute neces- one they call on when a bomb' is sity to fly over Chinese soil, as found about the streets. On such the sea route can be followed occasions he hurries to the spot, from Indo-China. At the same picks up the bomb, carries it to the time, it would obviously bo to harbour and tosses it into the sea. the benefit of China to be able Considering the fact that bombs to extend her services to long- Sergeant Trabanca has a job which are fairly ticklish things to handle, kong, in return for a concession few people will envy him. During enabling British planes to By the last year he has been called on over Chinese territory to the to take no fewer than 958 bombs to south of this Colony. There a place of safety. And that total, would, indeed, be mutual ad- incidentally, given a bright little vantages about such an arrange-uidelight on the state of public un- ment, and it is sincerely to be public must be producing malcon- hoped that an understanding tents at a record pace, if bombs will soon be reached covering are being strewn about the streets these two points.

at that rato.

rest in Cuba. The troubled re-

that

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"Now this should inst you all week if those insurance salesmen

take you to lunch."

F

You may alan step on my mother-in-law.--Nec hoh yec, tani

wrong.Ngoh koh ngoi mom tui

ai ngoh koh ngoi ma.

My mother-in-law has done me

ngok chu.

tuck

Boy, bring a whisky-and-soda.-. Boy, yew waiacekeo sardah.

Bottoms upi-Yam sing! Icon--f-cup.

to

longer, so to speak, I have him. ary latest is a dachshund.--Canon The longer I have a dog, the

Nohow.

Throe things used to malto a gentleman:`port, fox-hunting, and the study of the classics. Now It's gin, poker, and continental novels in a cheap translation, of | course.—Mira. Pipchanger,

Every day somo fool invente a now vitamin. I believe there are ton of 'em now.. But I still can't find anyone who knows how to cook a bloater General Fitzhali- but.

Vignette

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Throo girls share the scat on the ferry. None of them is attractive, though all are show- fly dressed. All three appear to bo bored, dinantisfied, not much Interested in anything.

of

No. 1 is plump, sharp-featured, wears an astonishing array colours. A blue hat, a mulberry auit, multi-coloured scarf. She has recently beon to Paris, I gather, and has a lot to say about clothes.

No. 2, in a groỷ squirrel cont, han had out her gold compact most of the way over. She has twice rotouched her lips and checks; taken off her beret, and combed her nicely-permod· hair. Even now, she seems displeased with the result..

So am I.

No. 3 is a slim girl in black. She has done a little knitting and has talked about Janet Gaynor. Her conversation is so stupid that I should greatly like to shake

her.

It has taken naturo Bomo millions of years to produce this Ilttlo lot,