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NOTES OF THE DAY

THRIVING TRADE

We should like to draw attention to the air-mindedness of China, whose. importations of alreraft from abroad. have not dwindled at

MAKING A MOBILE METROPOLIS.

By A. C. BOSSOM; M.P.

all during the past five years, in ARIS owes

Poulevards to

her magnificent and electrically lighted and electri- spite of the trade depression and

Hausmann.cally ventilated tunnels, on the top the falling off of business in every will our Minister of Transport, of which, where today there is other direction. Some interesting

civil strife is much to be desired.

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necessities,

hence.

this

of

But London itself is full of

The Very Idea!

This Kung Foo Business.

between the railway tracks without To drop the supporting columns a moment's interruption of the

Armed with as many weapons train services, and on them to erect, and having in addition two satel na he can possibly wield at one limo if need be, a new city-this, which lites to carry those other sparo strikes a layman as marvellous, is ones, and use them on his behalf almost a commonplace of modern if necessary, Mr. Bogg to-day con- constructional engineering.

siders himself as being one of the Let me just add that there is best exponents of the art of kung nothing in the foundations of foo. He has also made bold to lay London to make such an enterprise claims to being the most redoubt- particularly difficult, and that every ablo champion in his line in the problem of ventilation, vibration, and structural stability has been whole of Hongkong and the Orient. solved elsewhere and can be solved hore.

with

Kung for is unique in that it has made provision for almost every known contingency.

After an experience acquired.

slice he was able to walk, and

carry one or other of the weapona necessary to its practice, Mr. Bogg is able to give a course of instruc-

lines:

By Horatio (Bruiser) Bogg.

Fung Fun, instructor Bgures were recently released in now that, he has the chance, be-empty root-laden space, there will AFTER learning that Mr. queath to London an equally ba new highways, edifices, playing- England, provided in answer to splendid and lasting legacy? grounds, and all the busy life of in Chinese boxing, has fallen

In the House of Commons. 1930, for instanco, China

I cannot answer that question. the town.

foul of the law by having to managed to import from Franco Perhaps nobody can. But hip-de-Perhaps the street with the previously neglected aircraft to a total value of 60,880 con todo of Greater London is Tark-avenue, New York. It was secure an official permit for claion formulate a plan of the highest rateable value in the world tacls; from Italy, 21,068 tacis during the next two or three de brought into existence by the the possession of certain worth; from Great Britain, 141,236 cades is the biggest, and the most methods I have just described over tacla' worth, and from the United promising, venture of its icind since the of the use or conve implements-in-trade which States, 2,810,268 tacls' worth. In Sir Christopher Wren was called in, Railway. Park-avenue, is tunnel included, amongst other the following year the Imports of after the Great Fire, to redesign below and great stretches

things, four swords, three aircraft from these four countries the metropolis...

splendid buildings, some of them

spears, an axe and thred.. Increased by almost 100 per cent.,

London has been patched and sixty storeys high, above, though the relativo amounts bought

large choppers, Mr. Horatio from onch varied very little. The cobbled, but never remade. It has

Bogg, noted kung-foo expert, United States continued to lead by grown spasmodically, unforeseeing- about 2,500,000. tnels over hery. Many authorities have tinker- nearest competititor, Great Brited at it, trimmed here and altered streets and buildings with railways and potential Champion of ain. In 1932 the value of imports there. But if I understand the Immediately beneath them. All the the Orient, has been induced

Minister's intentions aright, they underground train systems of the to act on his own behalf. of aircraft was quoted in gold units, and Franco's share was mean something more than a mere motropolis supply such examples by

To-day he has taken tho neces- 208,439; Italy's 394,480; Britain's adaptation of old material to new the mile.

From the technical engineering aary steps to apply to the Hong 004,372, and America's GIG,763.

They mean as near an approach standpoint it is a far simpler opera- kong authorities for a permit for The following year United States' sales came back with a leap, reach- we are ever likely to get to- tion to roof in an open railway the legal possession, in his own ing 4,694,544 gold unite in value wards a fresh and clean start in cutting with a deck steel and ro- case, of a bludgeon, two knuckle from you to

as compared to France's 818,366 the prodigious task of unscrambling inforced concrete and to build on dusters, four swinging irons, and London and making it mobile. that roof whatever is desired than half-a-dozen apurs-all, in fact, ACQUAINT US OF YOUR] gold units. Britain had dropped

High time such a start was made. It is to construct a railway by that he considers necessary for his REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL to third place with only 217,653 FURNISH YOU WITH FULL gold units of business done. Last London is choking. With an in- burrowing under streets and houses own purposes and according to his own unique and peculiar Ideas of year the positions were much the ceanntly expanding circumference already in exige stre | PARTICULARS.

It remains statle, well-nigh bogged, same, except that United States at the centre. We all know what

self-defence. lost 1,000,000 gold units of business, the traffic blocks in the streets are and Italy replaced France in second like even now. Think of what they place. Britain was third: It would will be like ton and twenty years seem that the most vital imports to the Chinese people were aircraft. For a nation staggering under a condition of trade which the mont "Strangled by its own traffic" la optimistic regard as serious, it is the epitaph with which the world's a pity that so much money must greatest city fa threatened.

To help in averling any such be spent on expensive armaments. For many of these machines from sentence of doom must be the wish abroad are for purpose of war. and the ambition of us all. I be When the cost of armaments is lieve it can be averted if we plan lopped from the Nanking budget, ahead comprehensively and courage China will have a better chance of ously, but not otherwise. To get A WISE DECISION,

recovering her financial equilibrium the creative and constructive minds and will not have to depend so among us working on a scheme to

There are two other aspects of All who have any regard for much upon foreign assistance. The make the London of 1950 a fit the general scheme that call for

expediting of the anti-Communist place to live in--that is our notice. London is cursed the stability of the Colony, not-wars is therefore of the utmost problem.

about 170 acres of slum areas that My own contribution to ably those who are genuine in importance and the rapid extinction

ought to be cleared and rebuilt on vestors, will acclaim the decision of those elements which make for many-sided issue is based on the modern bygienic lines. The great- tion in Kung foo along these

self-evident fact that what we most eat of all the obstacles to this vital need is a series of broad avenues salvage work, and the factor that running from the outskirts of the inordinately piles up the east, is capital to its central parts.

that there is nowhere for the people ous opponent armed with only his in respect of forward dealings WHO WERE THEY?

Such avenues already exist, but to go during the rehousing process, flats, you may either, use one of to bear the distinctive numbers Who were the Mayas whose cities not in the form of streets. They There is nowhere, so to speak, both knuckle-dusters, and on that of the shares bought or Bold. with their temples, pyramids, exist in the form of railway cut where they can be decanted. But falling to secure the desired re- This is a reversion to what was cobbled streets and citadels, hide tings, that have been cloven here, pretty nearly the whole of this suits, you may resort to the blud-

beneath the jungles of Yucatan; vitals of the city.

there, and everywhere to the very immense difficulty disappears if geon. A good whack over the for many years a legal require British Honduras, Gantemala and

400 acres of new land, much of it | opponent's head should suffice, ment, under what was known as Honduras? Their civilisation was My suggestion is that these cut-in the very neighbourhood of the

If the opponent is taller than the Keswick Ordinance, a law fast waning when Columbus trod tinge should be roofed in and con- slums, are brought to bear upon it.

North American-shores. The verted Into thoroughfares, building Then again, if none but trains you are, and is likely also to have which was repented some four-Spanish Conquistadores called them Bites, squares, parks; and so on, with smokeless engines are allowed -long-reach, use both swords teen years ago. It is to be hoped "savages," but showing little civil-with the railways running beneath to enter the London termini, the the axe or spear to be only used they do now-but whole form and layout of these when he is already down and cry that, the new rule will be strictly sation themselves; butchered the them just as this electrified or

with oil-driven Mayans wholesale. To-day

or gigantic structures con at once being for mercy. enforced, and that no attempt vast "empire" is in the news be- some other kind of smokeless changed. They owe their present On ordinary occasions, when will be made at evasion. Whilst cause another city has been found engine.

ungainly and unwieldy design kicking is the rule, the spurs will In this way some 400 neres of simply to the necessity of giving be found very useful, as they will the Keswick Ordinance was in in northern Honduras found when

an earthquake. rent the ground and new land and some 40 miles of the smoke and steam. from

the give decided advantage over come by the process of stamping down to new archaeological trea where the need for them la the Abolish the smoke and the steam nailed boote. Chater Road. - on contract forms a statement aures. When did this civilisation greatest, and London be freed for and the need for these towering

Finally, when all those varied bogin 7. These unclents whose ever from the pollution of Its urched roofs disappears. that no numbers were inserted, silent buildings form America's atmosphere through the smoke and

and extensive means have failed you, it is only necessary to call up BESCENT at the request of the buyer or "Valley of Kings," built structures soot belehed forth by these archaic

There is no reason why the roofs your two satellites, when every- seller, as the case might be. which could not be duplicated 10 steam-driven trains.

of any London station with emoke- thing to, your liking will have been Now, however, that the Stock day for millions of dollars. With

out telescopes, chronometers, or

less train services should be higher fixed up la a jiffy. And you will Exchange, has itself taken the nautical almanacs they could predict

No steam-driven train is allowed than 20 feet from the platform. have won one of the most brilliant

stcam- This would leave the companies fights of you kung foo career. initiative and definitely declines eclipses, tell time, classify stars in to enter New York No to permit its members the heavenly vault and develop a driven train should be allowed to with 80 feet of air space to play mathematical system ao complex as enter London. At points well out with, and they could fil ft-greatly transact any forward business to give modern mathematicians side the London area they should to their own profit-with offices, except on the basis of actual considerable trouble. Their count be compelled to change over to flats, or omnibus garages, according insertion on the contract form of the days was sweeping in scope, smokeless engines, and finish, the to the requirements of the focality, No. 6, has broken six cars already.1.

now, formed termini, a hundred feet up: of the appropriate numbers, the dating back to a zero of Oct. 14, last few miles of the run to their while the flat roofs of their trans

3373 B.C. What does this date London termini 'not, position should be placed on a mean? There have been many through sunken and unproductive in the air, would make admirablo better footing. The step

(Continued on next column) none will cuttings, but through white-finished "keys" tried, but re-Perhaps with the aid of the newly presents a much-needed reform.discovered notebook kept in Chief objection to the system sixteenth century by the Spaniard in force is that it has presented G. Gomesta, the right keys will be found. Containing forty Mayan opportunities for "bear" opera-symbols with their Spanish trans- tors, by artificial means, to deation, this may be all that modern value share holdings, to the dis- archaeologists need to build up the advantage of the genuine in- Where did the Mayas come from? ancient tongue, now forgotten. vestor. As a consequence of Smooth-faced, like many Asiatics, such operations, capital holdings did they come from Asin by way In many local companies have of Alaska or the Pacific isles? Were they left-over Atlanteana been forced down to an extent whose nation Plato tells us Bank involving millions of dollars. beneath the ocean in less than a Thus to-day many stocks are day and night? Perhaps we shall quoted at prices which bear not know the answer to these questions and a lot more when scientists have the slightest relation either to learned the Mayan ABC's. the assets of the companies con-

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stop there; the effect of these sequential artificial defintion of operations is to engender a feel-capital values has caused huge ing of alarm amongst holders, sums of money to be withdrawn from the Colony, to its obvious some of whom, in fear of further decline in prices, sell out detriment. The position has be at a heavy loss. "Bear" opera como greatly aggravated in tora are essentially speculators, recent times, leading to what Mr. and under conditions which have Cassidy rightly described, at the enabled them to deal in non-annual meeting of the Chamber existent shares, they have de-of Commerce, as deplorable con- pressed the market to such ditions on the shure market. It is all to the good that the an extent as to scare many brokers, through their own or investors out of their hold-

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"I can't find it. You ought to get over that habit of taking your shoes off overy time you sit down.”

BREAK

Mr. P. R. S. Bankes, Ozford's

Break-break-break-

And that's my seventh oar; What will they say at Cambridge:

When I've shattered seven

more?

'Tis well for these mates of mine That they know not what I

feel;

"Twere better still, perchance,

Were my blade of tempered.

steel!

And the stately boat glides on

To Its haven among the rocks, And O' for coach and his granite

hand

And the raucous voice of cox..

Breake break-break

And never a word of thanks--- Where the surgo of strength that-

is in me yet

Has overflowed its benkes.

landing-places for the air-taxis of· the future."

It ta by no means unattainable: vision of London, to imagine the meiropolitan tormini with now thoroughfares branching out from: them in all directions, and them- selves becoming the supreme depots and rallying, points for the trame of the capital,by, rail, road, and', air.

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If the Minister of Transport cherishes the ambition, as I hope. he does, of making London safer, Kealthier and cleader, and of endow". Ing it with more elbow-room in the shapo of 400 acres of man-made- land and 40 miles of new un- obstructed highways, he can realise. that ambition by thinking and set-- Ing on the lines I have sketched. Could his drive and tenacity be put to a better purpose?prod