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NOTES OF THE DAY

HELPING THE FARMER

Wo publish to-day a letter an nouncing a campaign for the establishment of a weekly market- day for the produce of the New Territorica In Hongkong, which the Now. Territories. Agricultural As- sociation: Is about to undertake.

MARCH 19, 1935.

WERE LIVERPOOL BOMBED!

By CAPT. NORMAN MACMILLAN (President, National League of Airmen)

The Very Idea!

WE FACE UNEMPLOY MENT

By Horatio Bogg, Jobless King

WE note that King Pra- jadhipok of Siam, having

It is probable that the Kowloon A London Liverpool fation of long, leanbodied monoplanes previously secured himself the first centre of our sea-with tapering wings-increasing against unemployment, is to-

Residents Association may lend

telle of £40,000,000 per year, put up by insurance com- Spaced a hundred yards apart panies upon quitting thi and two abroast, they would fly heart-breaking job of being from south to north. When the van of the column Gladstone. Dock its serpent-tail

renched thea King, would stretch to the Herculaneum Deck seven miles to the south.

its support to the Iden. We have borne trade. The livelihood of its speed to 250 miles an hour and no hesitation in approving such a $55,000 inhabitants (shown in the more, to wheel into double line day enjoying a mere baga- achome. It will be a good thing oensus of 1981), 18 largely dopen-ahead as they near their target.

dent on the trading of the city as for the Now Territories farmors and a good thing for Hongkong. a scaport. Thus Liverpool's neti- The New Territories as an agricul-vities are concentrated in the area tural area is insufficiently develop about the docks. ed and a sympathetic

and practical

The Liver and Cunard buildings plan for the encouragement of those and the Dock Board offices form who labour there will inevitably a central group behind the Pier bring advantages to the community Head. Spread like a fan behind supporting i For, with the ex-them, nro the three main railway pansion of the Industry will come stations, the Customs House, St. healthy competition. between the George's Hall, and the Town Hall, farmers themselves, and the rosult should be a finer quality and more

If Liverpool had been planned varied quantity of produce for the by an architect charged with the consumers of the Colony. Experi- duty of making it the best air ence elsewhere has shown the target possible his work could not advantage of encouraging local have been better done. growers by such means às are now

Simultaneously, at a signal, 6,000 bombs containing 1,250 tons of high explosive would drop along the whole length of Liverpool's dockland and burst into a sheet of flame. About the lurid sky the clouds of smoke would rise and writhe as a shattering roar broke forth..

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This does not seem to us to be quite natural. The transaction is to be admired for its business-like practicability, but the cold-blooded calculation which wont with It has upset all our pet notions of a romantic kingship.

King Prajadhipok's position. Ex But we can sympathise with cept for talpana and Hongkong Civil Servants it is not given to every man to secure his future.

As a columnist (to take our own case) we are earning a mere pits tance, and the problem of keeping body and soul together has as- sumed a nightmarish form.

Timu was when, liko King Prajadhipok, we had something to look forward to for our declining years,

That was when we were nearly crowned ourself.

Editor: So will you be, if you can't improve on this idea.

Your much-abused Bogg: We can but do our best-a King can do no more.

As we were saying, wo perilous- ly came to being a King. It came about in this way.

Was

"How come?" we said—this with

Napoleonesque attitude; two n.. kingly dignity as we struck a gore inserted under cont lapel.

"Her Majesty the Sultannah of divorced her seventh husband, and is revolved to be disconsolate until

we have found for her an eighth. It is her command that we bring you to her immediately."

suggested. There are still many clearest landmark from the air, and By day or night, water is the people who, perhaps with reason,

Everything would be damaged in Avold the Chinese-grown vegetables no adiacent target is more quickly an instant. Ships would sink at which are marketed in Hongkong, spotted than a string of docks along their moorings; dock gates burst but many local products are finding of the warehouses the intermittent tanks, in warehouses along the a river's edge. Amid the shadows apon; fires break out in oil and gas a steadily increasing public do- mand. Much will rest with the light reflected by the water-filled wharves. Every building in the producera themselves if the market-basins betrays the docks at once to city would rock and stagger as in day plan is to be a. BUCCESS. It the eyes of any practised airman. an earthquake. Then, the whole must be impressed upon them that

formation, turning

into lino Through this magnificent poten- the art of display and the dis- tini target come foodstuffs to feed abreast, and swift as the messen- tinction of cleanliness will win the population to test tons, ger of death himself, would dis- them favour over their competitors. and manufactured goods go out appear, and vanish from England There is no reason why Hongkong through it to pay for food and faster than it came, should not have a self-supporting other necessaries. Such is Liver- and economical market garden at pool's trade with the Americas, the [. its back door capable of supplying Mediterranean and the Levant, bombers, multi-engined acroplanes Next would come the heavy the needs of the average house India and the Far East. hold.

with one and two-ton bombs. Thoy would come in dreves, a hundred TUESDAY, MAR. 19, 1935.

FUTURE OF TELEVISION

at a time, to seek the special spota During the last war Liverpool

One day we had spent our last · destined for destruction. They chopped Hongkong dollar, and was escaped because it lay too far to might descry isolated ships and wondering where GERMANY'S NEW

The Impending issue of the tele-the west of the field of battle. To-docka still incompletely shattered coming from, when we found our-

the next vision report has encouraged some day it is no longer out of range. by the first attack. Their one-ton self waited upon by a deputation MOVE

optimists to expect that In the near The increased speed and non-stop bombs would fall upon these isolat- from Kalamazoo.. future a definito step will be made Regrettable from some stand- towards providing pictorial wire- make Liverpool a vulnerable target The entrance to the Mersey Tunneled with one voice, na they proclaim-

flight development of aeroplanes ed targets and demolish them.

"Your Majesty," they proclaim- less broadcasts for all and sundry to the air forces of certain Con-would not escape. points, Germany's decision to on a much-more ambitious scaletinental nations-nations who are denounce the Versailles Peace than hitherte. One export utters

od and bent their creaking kages stronger the air than wo are. Over the buildings of the city

in genuflexion, Treaty and to reintroduce con- the warning that hopes should not be pitched too high. We need not

succeeding waves would pass, drop- scription cannot be regarded as expect anything very definite to From North-West Germany to penetrate roofs and ceilings, until Take one hypothetical example. ping deity-action bombs that altogether surprising. In effect, happen in this direction, he says, Liverpool is 420 miles. German at last they explode on the lowest it injects a little more realism for another two years at least.aeroplanes could rise and head out) floor. These bombs would smash Kalamazoo," they said, "has just into the European situation by progress has been made, the diffi- crossing the territory of any other If the attackers willed and in the Though a good deal of technical west across the sea and, without up every administrative building, intimating to the world at large culty lies in the transmission. If nation, atrike our const near that Germany is now resolved to available, the progress of this as later they could be over Liverpool,

there were unlimited wave-lengths Grimsby. Less than 40 minutes brief space of two hours Liverpool

would be an English Ypres. do openly what she has long been of other aspects of broadcasting just two hours after they rose from accused of doing secretly. At would probably be much more satis- their own land. Germany has No trafle could enter or leave the same time, the moment for factory. But there does not seem much arroplanes to-day.

Liverpool by rall or sea. At one making the declaration on the ether for all the vace to which the to bo nearly enough room in the

Our Navy could not stop them, ported food supply of Britain would

swift stroke one-third of the im eve of Sir John Simon's peace-world secks to put it. It is easy nor our Army. Our Air Force, be cut off. Our nation would be-

"Where is that gigolo?" This making mission to Berlin, must would take place if the development centrated for the defence of Lon- bombed.

to imagine the wild confusion that with its fighting aeroplanes con- gin to starve if Liverpool wore from the Sultannah who could be considered as somewhat ill- of television were to be accom-don, might never have a chance

And after Liverpool Anglo-French

was running down the Palace steps *association efforts to place the European marked

to meet her latest catch. in dyning that has in recent years percentage of bombers that would

ordinary broadcasting, get through would still be over- This tragedy might come upon

One look at her, and we fainted. S MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. same remarkabutter basis, the unth stations erecting larger one of the great feeders of our ble. One thing alone is certain. ly, "Where are we?" and found whelming. And no, Liverpoolus suddenly. All things are possi- When we came to, we acked, weak- can applied and larger transmitting M. Flandin's provocative speech stations in the hope of shouting bombardment from the air.

hungry population is open to No single European nation will ourself already installed as her in the French Chamber. Neither

one another down.

dare attack another unless, by pre-Consort, with the title of Sultan. the German decision

Suppose war came with any near-ponderance of bombing aeroplanes, Mahmoud Karakacha the First. nor the French utterance conduces to THE POTENT BUNGALOW

by nation stronger than ourselves it can strike so swiftly and so hard (If we may be permitted also to pacification. One thing which

In air power with faster aero that its adversary will aurrender say, we were also the last, as Bungalows and concerts do not happen? Is the supposition that attacked will have no time to pre-

planes than ours. can be said for Germany's at first glance appear to have any

What would quickly. The nation which is thus subsequent happenings proved),

That was as much as we could action is that it logically follows connection. But they have, and London would receive the first blow pare an adequate counter-stroke manage, and as far as we could the argument which she has much to the detriment of the con-

I am by no means sure the one sure form of air defence, proceed. We turned out to be a consistently applied-namely, certs. A nusician has been com-.

is. It

Great Britain Is sixth Power in very limited monarch. For cloth- that she cannot be expected plaining that when a family re-force of aeroplanes laden with too slow, too few in number. If for

can imagine the first striking the air to-day. Our bombers are ing, all we had was a sarong, and

a harom which was moves to the suburban bungalow, bombs thrown towards Liverpool. such a blow as I have pictured were dearest wish-all we had was this continuing position of inferiority whilst of things, it is reluctant to turn need not be held to be an exaggera- come because we did not start now, threatened to string va up the more or less remote from the centre Imagine, if you dare-and this to fall upon this country, it would fat ugly, creaturo, who often other nations are re-arming, out at night to attend a concert. She takes her stand on the They prefer the warmth of their tion of the possibilities that lie at once, to build up our air strength nearest cocoanut tree if we 50 preamble to the Versailles own fireside and the wireless; and ahoad 2,500 aeroplanes droning and machine efficiency to a stand much as cast an eye on her hand- Treaty, which definitely implied so great social changes are wrought across the sky with a noise like the ard at least equivalent to that of maiden.

world in torment: a vast forma- other nations. an obligation on the part of by circumstances which seem to other signatories to disarm in have no relationship, and somebody return for the disarining of It

suffera financially by the change. has been grievous com- Germany. It is true that in-plaint" of recent years thut numerable efforts have been people are not 80 much in- made by the Powers to reach a terested in politics as they used to disarmament agreement applica- be. They do not attend in such ble to all, but the fact remains large numbers as formerly to listen that no ali-embracive plan has leaders. Here again the bungalow to the counsel of their political yet been evolved. Incidentally, may be

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Our arrival at Kalamazoo under a State umbrella, on a fine morning. made local history. was a most colourful affair, and

time. In view of the close panied by the jamming and hetero-to sight them. Even if it did, the would come the turn of other sen scarcely hold her Impatience, and

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it is precisely because other seeming apathy, This migration, Powers have gone on increasing this turning of the cities inside out, their military strength that is producing changes that are al- Britain has now for the time be most revolutionary in their results ing abandoned unilateral dis--social, religious, commercial, armament. There can be no

political, and what not. questioning the point that, as a French communique of a year point throughout. The Hitler ago expressed it, Germany has Government has all along denied been "showing contempt" for the any aggressive intent in its disarmament clauses of the Ver-policies, and still continues to do anilles Treaty, but, as the London so, What is more, it has re- Times then put it, no arms con-peatedly declared that it is will- vention could conceivably being to accept any limitation of accepted by Germany which did armaments, however far-reach- not allow her a certain measure ing in character, provided the of re-armament point which otlier Powers do the same. has been explicitly conceded in Assuming that Germany still principle by both Britain and adheres to that policy, the now Italy. "So long," the journal declaration ought to stir the went on to state, as Germany Powers generally to the necessity is doing no more than to assert of making a supreme effort to in her own case the right of reach a mutually satisfactory every nation to safeguard its understanding. If it has that own defences, public opinion in effect, it will prove a blessing in this country is not likely to be disguise. The main fear at the come greatly disturbed by Ger-moment, however, is that, by man re-armament." That com-reason of its being so ill-timed, ment could well be applied to the Germany's decision may have situation as it has now develop the effect rather of inflaming a ed; what has transpired is quite delicate situation than of com- in line with the German stand-posing it.

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"Throw in the one on the corner and it's a deal."

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Incidentally we found out that this was what had actually hap- pened to her seven other husbanda, For State reasons, it had been politle to explain away each of these happenings as a divorce,

The same dreadful fate would have claimed us also, but for the sudden demise of the Sultannah." She was then planning a new form of execution, as she had de clared that hanging was too good for us.

Soon afterwards the country went Red, which means that we were once again' without a job, and swelling the ranks of the thousands of the unemployed,

In this extremity we offered to become a Dictator for our Kala- mazoan subjects. But suspecting dynastic motives, they would have none of us. Suggested, they did, that we could make a start by dictating our own decree of ab- dication.

That was as near as we could possibly get to being a Dictator.

In any caso we wore, tiring of our position. The country was suffering from a depression, and with time on a Pacific islet hang- ing heavily on our hands, and. nothing to do but eat carry, cocca- nuta and yams, wo were in a sorry, plight indeed. Moreover, the last drop in the gin bottle had 'dried up. in the tropical heat, and more flotsam or jeteam was being cast up on the bench. So wo left.

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The pity of It was that whilo. wearing the Kalamazoan crown, we had not thought of buying an estate in the New Territories, or In some other way securing our procarious futuro against un- employment..