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TUESDAY, MARCH

NOTES OF THE DAY

HELPING THE FARMER

tho

We publish to-day a letter an-

campaign for nouncing a establishment of a weekly market- day for the produce of the New Territories in Hongkong, which tho New Territories Agricultural As- sociation is about to undertake.

It is probable that the Kowloon A

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19,

1935.

WERE LIVERPOOL BOMBED!

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from south to north. When the

would stretch to the Herculaneum Dock seven miles to the south.

Simultaneously, at a signal, 5,000 bomba containing 1,250 tons of high explosive would drop along the whole length of Liverpool's flame. About the lurid sky the sheet of clouds of amoko would rise and writhe as a shattering roar broke forth.

The Very Idea!

WE FACE UNEMPLOY-

MENT

By Horatio Bogg, Jobless King

King,

quite natural. The transaction in

This does not noem to us to be

to be admired for its business-like

calculation which wont with it has practicability, but the cold-blooded, upset all

our pot notions of a romantic kingship,

By CAPT. NORMAN MACMILLAN (President, National League of Airmen) WE note that King Pra- jadhipok of Siam, having FTER London, Liverpool is tion of long, leanbodied monoplanos previously secured himself the first contre of our sea- with tapering wings-increasing against unemployment, is to- its support to the idea. We have borne trade. The livelihood of its speed to 260 miles an hour and

to wheel into, double line day enjoying a mere baga- no hesitation in approving such a 665,000 inhabitants (shown in the more, scheme. It will be a good thing census of 1981) is largely dopen-ahead as they near their target." telle of £40,000,000 per year,

dent on the trading of the city as for the New Torritories farmers

put up by insurance com- nad a good thing for Hongkong. a seaport. Thus Liverpool's acti- The New Territories as an agricul-vities are concentrated in the area Spaced a hundred yards apart panies upon quitting this and two abreast, they would fly heart-breaking job of being tural area is insufficiently develop-about the docks. ed and a sympathetic and practical The Liver and Cunard buildings van of the column reached the plan for the encouragement of those and the Dock Board offices form Gindatone Dock its serpent-tail who labour there will inevitably a central group behind the Pier bring advantages to the community Head. Spread like a fan behind supporting It. For, with the ex- them are 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_result should be a finer quality and more varied quantity of produce for the consumers of the Colony. Experi- enco elsewhere has shown the advantage of encouraging local, growers by auch means as are now

every man to secure his future, suggested. There are still many

By day or night, water is the

As a columnist (to takė our own people who, perhaps with reason, clearest landmark from the air, and

Everything would be damaged in caso) we are earning a mere plt- avoid the Chinese-grown vegetables no adjacent target la more quickly an instant. Ships would sink at tance, and the problem of keeping which are marketed in Hongkong, spotted than a string of docks along their moorings; dock gates burat body and soul together has as- but many local products are finding of the warehouses the intermittent tanks, in warehouses along the

a river's edge. Amid the shadows open; fires break out in oil and gassumed a nightmarish form. steadily increasing public do-

Time mand. Auch will rest with the light reflected by the water-filled wharves. Every building in the

була when, like King producers themselves if the market. basins betrays the docks at once to city would rock and stagger as in Prajadhipok, we had something to day plan is to be a ALICEERS. It the eyes of any practised airman. an earthquake. Then, the whole look forward to for our declining must be impressed upon them that

formation,

Inta turning Through this magnificent poten- the art of display and the distini target come foodstuffs to feed abreast, and swift is the messen- That was when we were nearly tinction of cleanliness will win the population of these lelands, gor of death himself, would dis-crowned ourself. them favour over their competitors, and manufactured goods go out faster than it came.

appear, and vanlah from England. There is no reason why Hongkong should not have a self-supporting and economical market garden at its back door capable of supplying the needs of the average house-

hold.

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If Liverpool had been planned by an architect charged with the dockland and burst into duty of making it the beat air target possible his work could not have been better done.

through it to pay for food and other necessaries. Such is Liver pool's trade with the Amoricas, the Mediterranean and the Levant, India and the Far East.

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But we can sympathise with cept for talpans and Hongkong King Prajadhipok's position. Ex- Civil Servants it la not given to

lino years.

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

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

Next would come bombers, multi-engined acroplanes the heavy

As we were saying, we periloug- with one and two-ton bombe. Theyly came to being a King. It came would come in droves, a hundred about in this way. at a time, to seek the special spota. One day we had spent our last destined

for destruction. They chopped Hongkong dollar, and was might desery isolated ships and wondering where the next was docks still incompletely shattered coming from, when we found our- by the first attack. Their one-ton self waited upon by a deputation bombs would fall upon these isolate from Kalamazoo. od targets and demollah them. The entrance to the Mersey Tunneled with one voice, as they proclaim- would not escape.

ed and bont their creaking knges

genuflexion.

"Your Majesty," they proclaim-

"How come?" we said this with we struck a kingly dignity as Napoleonosque attitude, two An- gers inserted under coat lapsi.

"Her Majesty the Sultannah of divorced her seventh busband, and Kalamazoo," they said, "has just is revolved to be disconsolate until we have found for her an eighth. It is her command that we bring you to her immediately."

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

TUESDAY, MAR. 19, 1935.

FUTURE OF TELEVISION

During the last war Liverpool escaped because it lay too far to GERMANY'S NEW

The impending issue of the tele-the west of the field of battle. To vision report has encouraged some day it is no longer out of range. MOVE

optimists to expect that in the near The increased speed and non-stop future a definite step will be made flight development of aeroplanes Regrettable from some stand. towards providing pictorial wine-make Liverpool a vulnerable target less broadcasts for all and sundry to the air forces of certain Con- points, Germany's decision to on a much more ambitious scaletinental nations-nations who are denounce the Versailles Peace than hitherto. One expert utters stronger in the air than we are. Treaty and to reintroduce con-be pitche too high. We need not the warning that hopes should not

Over the buildings of the city succeeding waves would pass, drop. acription cannot be regarded as expect anything very definite to

Take one hypothetical example.

ping delay-action bombs that altogether surprising. In effect, happen in this direction, he says, Liverpool Is 420 miles.

From North-West Germany to penetrate roofs and ceilings, until it injects a little more realism for another two years at least, acroplance could rise and head out loor. These bombs would smash German at last they explode on the lowest 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, strike our const that Germany is now resolved to there were unlimited wave-longtha Grimsby. Less than 40 minutes would be an English Ypres.

near brief space of two hours Liverpool do openly what she has long been of other aspects of broadcasting just two hours after they rose from available, the progress of this as later they could be over Liverpool, accused of doing secretly. At would probably be much more satis-their own land. Germany has No traffic could enter or leave the same time, the moment for factory. But there does not seem such acroplanes to-day.

Liverpool by rail or sca. At one making the declaration-on the ether for all the uses to which the to be nearly enough room in the

awift stroke one-third of the im- Our Navy could not stop them, ported food supply of Britain would eve of Sir John Simon's peace-world seeks to put it. It is easy with its fighting aeroplanes con-gin to starve if Liverpool wero nor our Army. Our Air Force, be cut off. Our nation would be

"Where is that gigolo?" This making mission to Berlin-must to imagine the wild confusion that be considered as somewhat ill-of television were to be accom-don, might never have a chance would come the turn of other sea-

would take place if the development centrated for the defence of Lon-bombed.

from the Sultangah who could - And after Liverpool scarcely hold her impatience, and timed. In view of the close panied by the jamming and hetero- to sight them. Even if it did, the Anglo-Fronch

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

in dyning that has in recent years percentage of bembers that would

to meet her latest catch. ordinary broadessting, get through would still be over- This tragedy might come upon

One look at her, and wa fainted. whelming. And so, Liverpoolus suddenly. All things are posst. When we came to, we asked, werk- same remark can be applied to and still 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 nor the

Suppose war came with any near-ponderance of bombing aeroplanes, Mahmoud Karakacha the First. 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

air power-with faster aero- that its adversary wilt surrender say, we pacificntion. One thing which

were also the last, as CCSSESS can be said for Germany's at first glance appear to have any London would receive the first blow pare an adequate counter-stroke manage, and as far as we could

Bungalows and concerts do not happen? Is the supposition that attacked will have no time to pre-

planes than ours. What would quickly. The nation which fa thos | subsequent happenings proved).

That was as much as we could action is that it logically follows connection. But they have, and correct? I am by no means sure the one sure form of air defence, proceed. We turned out to be a the argument which she has much to the detriment of the con- [consistently applied-namely, curts. A musician has been com-

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

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

harem-which was moves to the suburban bungalow, bombs thrown towards Liverpool. auch a blow as I have pictured were dearest wish-all we had was this! л continuing position of inferiority whilst of things, it

more or less remote from the centre Imagine, if you dare-and this to fall upon this country, it would fat ugly creature, other nations are re-arming. out at night to attend a concert. tion of the possibilities that lie at once, to build up our air strength nearest cocoanut tree if we so.

reluctant to turn need not be held to be an exaggera- come because we did not start now, threatened to string us up She takes her stand on the They prefer the warmth of their head-2,600 aeroplanes droning and machine efficiency to a stand- much as cast an eye on her hand- preamble to the Versailles own fireside and the wireless; and 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. an obligation on the part of by circumstances which seem to world in torment: a vast forma-other nations.

Incidentally we found out that. other signatories to disarm in suffers financially by the change. have no relationship, and somebody

this was what had actually hop- poned to her seven other husbande. For State reasons, it had been politic to explain away each of these happenings as a divorce.

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A grievous

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return for the disarming of It has been Germany, It is true that in-plaint of recent yenra tint 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. . They do not attend in such ble to all, but the fact remains large numbers as formerly to listen that no all-embracive plan has to the counsel of their political yet been evolved. Incidentally, may be a potent cause of this leaders. Hero again the bungalow 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. Thore can be no

political, and what not. questioning the point that; ás 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 sailles 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 a point which other Powers do the same. has been explicitly conceded in Assuming that Germany still principle by both Britain and adheres to that policy; the new 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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The same dreadful fate would have claimed us also, but for the sudden demise of the Sultannah. She was then planning a form of execution, as she had de- clared that hanging was too good for us.

new

Soon afterwards the country wont 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 dynastie 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 case we were tiring of our position. The country was auffering from a depression, and with time on a Pacific islet hang- Ing heavily on our hands, and nothing to do, but eat curry, cocoa- nuts and yams, we werd in a sorry plight indeed. Moreover, the last drop in the gin bottle had dried up in the tropical heat, and no more flotsam or jetenm was being Cast up on the beach. So we left.

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The pity of It was that while- wanring the Kalamazoan crown, we had not thought of huying an -estate in the New Territories, or in some other way occuring our precarious future against un- employment.