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SANTOS-On March 6, 1935, at her

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

JAPAN'S FEARS

than from domination by

some

"TICKING OFF" TOWN The Very Idea!

DWELLERS

By HENRY GOUDE HORTICULTURAL SUPERINTENDENT, NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL.

NIE condition of England's farm t

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OUR CHINESE LESSON

By Prof. Horatio Dogg, M.Sc.

A

rumour has spread that

the Chinese language.

is not what has been said of The countryside does not consider it-that it needs rescuing

The statement of a spokesman of the Tokyo Foreign Office yesterday that Japan did not approve of a plan for the international assist ance of China because sho Was afraid that it might lend to even- tual International control of China, may amuse some people. How much, less there is to fear from lands, is the concern of every the health viewpoint of agriculture, International influence in Nankingthinking individual, as the future but we do ponder over the problem from a mass of split infini- single power! It surely must have vigour, health, and continuance of of how the countryside can be made tives and verbs ending with occurred to the Japanese spokesman the race are dependent on the full prosperous. The trend of national that observers would seize upon this use and productive power of Eng policy and lost international trade a preposition.

will, wo think, eventually link the attitude to use in argument against land's soft.

Touched by the pathetic appeals two History proves that unleas unilateral action

more closely together.

of numerous would-be learners of of any sort in China. If Japan has reason to fear nation keeps its roots in the solf We do definitely state that agri-Chinese, Bogg, with the charactor- international influence upon the that nation decays and eventually culture can be lifted out of the latic zeal he has always dedicated Nanking Government, it is surely becomes a byword among the sa-slough of depression as soon as the to the cause of a suffering human- Nanking Government that other tlons of the earth. I believe that nation is prepared to act. Such nity groping for literary light, has nations would fear the consequences the neglect of land development is step would practically solve the un- latterly undertaken much research of Japan dictation. The Nine not wilful but is almost entirely employment problem. Tbs simplest work appagat the archives of the of several methods to achieve this Univer Chinese library. He is Power Treaty was designed for the due to misunderstandings. protection of China against aggres- I think it la high time that, indesirable end is to grow all the happybe now able to announce sion from any belligerent nation. his own interests, the town dweller dairy produce needed by the nailon that Chinese caligraphy and com-. No signatory of this treaty has should drop his attitude of indiffer-and give the home-grown articis a position, being singularly free shown the least desire to interfere ence to the problems of the country-Preference over any imported dairy from those faults, are above re- In China's affairs, except Japan; sido. One thing clear is that the produce.

proach, and on the score of a and she has interfered in a very countryman does not intend to take

virginal purity Insisted upon by effectual manner, simply seizing a back seat in relation to the towns- This measure could be enacted the most conservative of scholars, control of an immense expanse of man in a matter in which both are without any serious loss to our may safely be handled with other Chinese territory. We

not vitally concerned.

foreign trade. In some years than a pair of tongs. prepared to agree with Japan that The large proportion of the country such as Denmark has taken this sort of policy does China any population brought up in towas only manufactured goods from us to the is not in the language itself, but good.

It seems that the purpose considers farming from the point value of £7,000,000. She has drawn one threatened to its purity by a of Great Britain and America, of view of the cost 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 soll could have Interviewed in to the exact nature Far East, is to protect China. An decides Government action is dical-yielded.

of this dangor, that eminent economically sound nation friendly ing with agricultural problems.

With that large sum frrigating Chinese scholar, Prof. Pooh Bah, to them, is the, nim of Western

our agriculture, a firm home market has told Begg that his country- Fowers; and to attain this object

could be established that would men have been made painfully International co-operation is neces- In order to keep prices down, in our exports. By a further re Ockaceford.

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-

Arc

n

He finds that the real danger

to be

Natividade dos Santos, aged 76 not need to be particularly concern- to carry on, but in our inner hearts courage a healthy root action ingressed beyond the naan maan and

!race.

lines:

How the heck are you?Ner

fare of China their frat considera- try are forced to use this help to reements we could give our agri- has secured, and anxious themselves best who make the wel.sidised Industry. We in the coun-viston of our international trading Encouraged by the success, he residence, No. 314 Princo Ed-

tion. For the moment they should the fullest possible extent in order culture about £100,000,000 of addi-aged as an authority on Chinese ward Road, Leopoldina Maria

tional business-annually and enterature, Begg to-day has prd- Funeral will pass the ed with Japan, her motives, her we would prefer a straight, clear Monument at 60 p.m. to-day. No ambitions or her delicate suscepti- market for our produce that would the great basic industry of the force beyond to Rios nos art flowers, by request. (Shanghaibilities. China requires assistance; leave and Macao papers plense copy). Britain and the United States, and reducing the exorbitant costs of that we could produce all the neces

a profit on production. By I have not the slightest doubt Chinese lesson along the following other nations also, in all probability, distribution this could be attained sary, food required. England to kec ho la ma? are willing to assist her. If Japan without raining costs to the con- day is cultivated only The

wants to join them and do somo- sumér. Our farmers are the best We could increase our production auch hei nach koh lo pok.

In spots.

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

Excuse me, you are stopping on objects to an international loan it

cultivated and semi-cultivated land. would be interesting to know how England there is always the clash of England are engerly awaiting

an industrial country like The farmers and market gardeners my wife-Wai, neo tsai ngoli koh

to poh. she proposes to prevent it. ing of town and country interests. the opportunity of increasing their Haiyah, ngoh ho taung ngoh kok Oh, how I hate my wifel- The industrial areas consider only responsibilities and the nation's to poh!" their own problems, which are food supplies. With a stable econ- ! mainly concerned with the manu-omic national policy, top-gear re-again-Neo hoh yee teat leuk tok. facture of goods and the sale of multa wouhi be achieved in a very tok too tak.

You may therefore step on her them at a profit. The farmer's short period.

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petition.

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 proflt; Hongkong with the Imperial stupendous crisis of 1931 was, how but, except for the directly and in- Airways services to Britain and it was to be saved from the im- directly subsidised crops, his mar. English-grown food is the natural It should be remembered that Australia. The British Air mediate peril of financial chaos and ket la glutted with foreign gooda food of English people. Estimates, of which details have the nick of time, but it is not to that are impossible in England.

disaster. The peril was averted in produce under conditions of labour Roman advico

was to drink the just been issued, make provision he supposed that such a crisis can

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

words, to live on the products of tween Bangkok and Hongkong, is not the way of economic crisis.

their If our markets were flooded with writers stated that the

honie 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 ancient financial side being that

this painful degrees, and the whole similar conditions, the uproar would until they reached the age of 70. Colony should contribute a sub-must be bent to that purpose. Attricts, and the threat to livelihoods themselves, and we have many men atrength and wisdom of the nation be immediate in all the affected 'dis. They lived on the food they grow stantial proportion of the cost.such a time it does not do to cling wo

would be This contribution will

checked by emergency in Norfolk over 70 still in the prime evident-to partisan politics. Names must Acts of Parliament. That

and fncts must benctually the difference between basic fact.

is of vigorous life, due to the same which connection it is known faced. This wan the burden of the town and country-the trenchant

In addition to the above essen- that the Hongkong Government message which Mr. Ramsay Mac- clamour of the towns and the grow the cheap wheat of the cannot be printed in this column, It will be argued that we cannot Chinese ontha. These, of course, tials, Bogg has a choice stock of is ready to provide $300,000 for Donald sent to the conference of isointed and feeble cries of the Argentine and Canada. America, but he is willing to whisper, them such a purpose, once a practical student Unionists, held in Edin-country interests. scheme is evolved. The authori- the times, he said, make integration country believe that the interests is not a question of cost, but of charge of five cents for each re-

burgh recently. The difficulties 'of

at one period, ruined the wheat- Taking the long view, we in the producing countries of Europe. It into your car, the rates being tou tics here have for some consider-and concentration essential to every of towns and the countryside are how long we can afford to im

centa per oath, with an additional 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 Imperial Governinent 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 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

Life on the land is the ident life. 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 a jelly. There is, however, one This Government reminds me of provision is now being made compete against them while

we debris of manufacturing activity, native element. Why not turn this difference. 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 the health and wealth of the towns desire into a natural channel and keep a jelly for five years.- You don't have to 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 reality. Some eighteen months thought-Conservative, Liberal, no need to delve into medical health and strength, and there also My latest is a dachshund-Canon political any industrial town to-day-there There is the residue of England's longer, so to speak, I have him. The longer I have a dog, the 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,

Ing the nation's prosperity. This country, like others, saw the the scheme, and suggested that it would necessary, by whatever greatest crisis of all, the

need for united action in the means the service was establish- War.

World Yot that was a simple issue 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 exclusively to any British service now all that can be depended upon stimulus has been removed, and that might be started. A rogular weekly service was then and perseverance of the people, is the intelligence, determination, cavisaged, and it was expected which will keep them alive to the 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 it. eight or nine days after the And the first essential of action is introduction of night-flying on unity, not only of parties but of part of the route. The scheme now contemplated doubtless fol-

national Ideals,

lows theso main lines. No dif- AN UNSAFE JOB ficulties are expected in securing

flying rights over Stam or Indo-

China, but so far the negotiations There is a non-commissioned for securing such rights over army officer in Cuba who seems ta Chinese territory have not re-

have about as strange and risky a sulted in an agreement. How-This man, Sergt. Jose. Trabanca, is job as any soldier could dream of.

ever, there is no absolute neces- ono they call on when a bomb Is aity to fly over Chinese soil, as found about the streets. On such the sca

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 be to harbour and tosses it into the sen. the benefit of China to be able Considering the fact that bombs to extend Her services to Hong-are fairly ticklish things to handle, kong, in return for a concession few people will envy him. During Sergeant Trabanca has a job which enabling British planes to fly the last year he has been called on over Chinese territory to the to take no fewer than 968 bombs to

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Three girls share tho Samo seat on the ferry. None of them is attractive, though all aro show- ily dressed. All three appear to be bored, dissatisfied, not much Interested in anything...

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

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

So am I.

No. 3 dan 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 shaka .her.

It has taken nature Bome millions of years to produce this little lot.