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NOTES OF THE DAY

THRIVING TRADE

Wo should like to draw attention to the air-mindedness of China, whose importations of aircraft from abroad have not dwindled at nil during the past five years, in spite of the trade depression and the falling off of business in every

MAKING A MOBILE

METROPOLIS

By A. C. BOSSOM,

M.P.

The Very Idea!

This Kung Foo Business.

By Horatio (Bruiser) Bogg.

other direction. Some Interesting now that he has the chance, be-empty Root-laden space, there will AFTER learning that Mr.

units, and

France's share

was

stretches

mean something more than a mere metropolls supply such examples by adaptation of old material to new the mile. necessities.

They mean as near an approach wards a fresh and clean start in as we are ever likely to get to the prodigious task of unscrambling

London and making it mobile.

From the technical engineering standpoint it is a far simpler opera cutting with a deck steel and re- tion to roof in an open railway inforced concrete and to build on

ง

To-day he has taken the neces- aary steps to apply to the Hong- kong authorities for a permit for case, of a bludgeon, two knuckle- the legal possession, in his own dustere, four swinging frona, and that roof whatever is desired than half-a-dozen spurn-all, In fact, High time such a start was made. it is to construct a railway by that he considers necessary for his London is choking. With an in- burrowing under streets and houses own purposes and according to his

own unique and peculiar ideas of ceasantly expanding circumference already in existence. at the centre. We all know what between the railway tracks without it remains static, well-aigh bogged, To drop the supporting columns self-defence. the traffic blocks in the streets are a moment's interruption of the like even now. Think of what they train services, and on them to erect; will be like ten and twenty years if need be, a new city-this, which strikes a layman as marvellous, is almost a commonplace of modern constructional engineering.

hence.

"Strangled by its own traffe" is the epitaph with which the world's greatest city is threatened.

to

Let me just add that there is nothing in the foundations of London to make such an enterprise particularly difficult, and that every problem of ventilation, vibration, and structural stability has been solved elsewhere and can be solved here.

•

There are two other aspects of

our notice. London is cursed with about 170 acres of slym areas that

the general scheme that call for

Armed with as many weapons as he can possibly wield at one time and having in addition two satel-

lites to carry those other sparo if necessary, Mr. Bogg to-day con- ones, and use them on his behalf aiders himself as being one of the

best exponents of the art of kang claims to being the most redoubt- foo. He has also made bold to lay able champion in ble line in the whole of Hongkong and the Orient

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

After an experience acquired since he was able to walk and

ewes her magnificent (and electrically lighted and electri- PARIS

boulevards to Haussmann.cally ventilated tunnels, on the top Vill our Minister of Transport, of which, where to-day there is figures were recently released in queath to London an equally be now highways, edifices, playing

Fung Fun, instructor England, provided in auswer to

splendid and lasting legacy? grounds, and all the busy life of in Chinese boxing, has fallen questions in the House of Commons. la 1930, for instance, China Perhaps nobody can.

I cannot answer that question. the town.

foul of the law by having. But hia de-. Perhaps the street with the

to managed to import from France cisten to formulate a plan of the highest rateable value in the world previously neglected aircraft to a total value of 50,880 road needs of Greater London is Park-avenue, New York. It was. secure an official permit for taels from Italy, 21,008

taels' worth; from Great Britain, 141,236 cades is the biggest, and the most methods I have just described over

during the next two or three de- brought into existence by the the possession of certain tuels worth, and from the United promising, venture of its kind since the tracks of the New York Central implements-in-trade which States, 2,816,258 thels' worth. In

Sir Christopher Wren was called In, Railway. Park-avenue is tunnel included, the following year the Imports of after the Great Fire, to redesign below and great

amongst other aircraft from these four countries the metropolis.

of things, four swords, three. splendid buildings, some of them

spears, an axe and three.. thought by almost 200 per cent

London has been patched and faixty storeys high, above. relative amounts bought

large choppers, Mr. Horatio from each varied very little. The cobbled, but never remade. It has United States continued to lead by grown spasmodically, unforeseeing-

Bogg, noted kung-foo expert, But London itself is full of about 2,600,000 taels over her. 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 importa afinster's Intentions aright, they underground train systems of the to act on his own behalf.

there. But if. I understand the immediately beneath them. All the the Orient, has been induced of nireraft was quoted in gold 208,409; Italy's 894,189; Britain's 604,372, and America's 516,763. The following year United States' sales came back with a feap, reach- ing 4,594,544 gold units in value s compared to France's 816,950, ACQUAINT US OF YOUR! gold units. Britain had dropped REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL to third place with only 217,563 FURNISH YOU WITH FULL Rold units of business done. Last PARTICULARS.

year the positions were much the same, except that United States lost 1,000,000 gold units of businesg and italy replaced France in second place. Britain was third. It would seem that the most vital importa to the Chinese people were aircraft. For a nation staggering under a condition of trade which the most optimistic regard as serious, it is a pity that so much money must

To help in averting 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 botter 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 jumong us working on a scheme to All who have any regard for much upon foreign assistance. The make the London of 100 ft

s in-that expediting of the anti-Communist place the stability of the Colony, not-wars is therefore of the utmost problem..

carry one or other of the weapons ably, thòse' who are genuine in- importanco and the rapid extinction My own contribution to- this ought to be cleared and rebuilt on necessary to its practice, Mr. Bogg is able to give a course of instruc- vestors, will acclaim the decision of those elements which make for many-sided issue is based on the modern hygienic lines. The great: tion in Kung fee along these civil strife is much to be desired. self-evident fact that what we mostest of all the obstacles to this vital

fines: of the Hongkong Stock Ex-

need is a series of broad avenues salvage work, and the factor that change requiring contract forms

running from the outskirts of the inordinately piles up the cost, is When encountered by a danger- 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, fists, you may either use one or 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 sold, with their temples, pyramids, exist in the form of railway cut-where they can be decanted. But failing 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- for many years a legal require British Honduras; Guatemala and vitals of the city is that these cut-in the very neighbourhood of the

beneath the jungles of Yucatan,there, and everywhere to the very immense difficulty disappears If con. A good whack over the

400 actus of new land, much of it opponent's head should suffice. ment, under what was known as Hondurns? Their civilisation was My suggestion

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 thoroughfurca, buliding, Then, again, if none but trains you are, and is likely also to have which was repeated some four-Spanish Conquistadores called them altes, squares, parks, and so on with smokeless engines are allowed a long reach, use both swords teen years ago. It is to be hoped "savages," but showing little civill-with the railways running beneath to outer the London termini, the the axe or spear to be only used that the new rule will be strictly antion themselves, butchered the them just as they do now-but whole form and layout of these when he is already down and cry-

with oil-driven or gigantic structures can at once be ing for merey. enforcod, and that no attemptemptres in the news be sume other kind of smokeless changed. They owe their present

Mayans wholesale. To-day this electrified or

On ordinary-veensions, will be made at evasion. Whilst cause another city has been found engine.

ungainly and unwieldy design kicking is the rule, the spara will In this way some 100 acres of simply to the necessity of giving be found very useful, as they will the Keswick Ordinance was in in northern Hundurna found when

an earthquake rent the ground and new land and some 10 miles of the smoke and steam from the give you a decided advantage over force, its provisions were over-revealed an open stairense leading highways can be called into being locomotive a chance to escape. an adversary who has only..hab come by the process of stamping down to new archaeological fren- where the need for them is the Abolish the smoke and the steam nailed boots. on contract forms a statement sures. When did this civiliantion greatest,' and London be freed for and the need for these towering

begin? These ancients whose ever from the pollution of its arched roofs disappears.

Finally, when all those varied that no numbers were inserted, silent buildings form America's atmosphere through the smoke and

and extensive means have failed at the request of the buyer or "Valley of Kings," bullt structures Boot belched forth by these archaic

you, it is only necessary to call up seller, as the case might be, which could not be duplicated to steam-driven traina,

There is no reason why the roofs your two satellites, when every of any London station with smoke- thing to your liking will have been Now, however, that the Stockday for millions of dollars. With

out telescopes, chronometers,

less train services should be higher fixed up in a jiffy. And you will Exchange has itself taken the nautical almanacs they could predict No ateam-driven train is allowed than 20 feet from the platform. have won one of the most brilliant

New York. No steam- This would leave the initiative and definitely declines eclipses, tell time, classify stars in to enter.

companies fights of you kung foo career. driven train should be allowed to with 80 feet of air space to play | · · to permit its members to the heavenly vauit and develup

mathematical system so complex aa enter London. At points well out- with, and they could fill it-greatly transact any forward business to give modern mathematicians side the London area they should to their own profit with offices,

BREAK except on the basis of actual considerable trouble. Their count be compelled to change over to flats, or amolbus garages, according insertion on the contract form of the days was sweeping in scope, smokeless engines, and finish the to the requirements of the locality. No. 6, has broken siz ears already.3 dating back to a zero of Oct. 14, last few miles of the run to their while the flat roofs of their trans- of the appropriate numbers, the 3373 B.C. What does this

118 date London termin not, now, formed termini, a hundred feet up position should be placed on a mean? There have been many through sunken and unproductive in the air, would make admirable

(Continued on next column) better footing. The step re-keys" tried, but none will fit. cuttings, but through white-finished presents a much-needed reform. discovered notebook kept in the Perhaps with the aid of the newly Chief objection to the system sixteenth century by the Spaniard in force is that it has presented G. Geniesta, the right keys will be opportunities for "bear" opera- symbols with their Spanish trans-

found.

Containing forty Mayan tors, by artificial means, to de-Intion, this may be all that modern value share. holdings, to the dis- archaeologists need to build up the advantage of the genuine in ancient tongue, now forgotten. Where did the Mayns come from? vestor. As a consequence of Smonth-faced, like many Asiatics, such operations, capital holdings did they come from Asia by way the Pacific eles? in many local companies have of Alaska or

Were they left-over Atlanteans been forced down to an extent whose nation Plato tells us sank involving millions of dollars.beneath the ocean in less than a Thus to-day many stocks are day and night? Perhaps we shall know the answer to these questions quoted at prices which bear not and a lot more when scientists have the slightest relation either to learned the Mayan ABC's,

the assets of the companies con-

of

cerned or to their earning capa further point is that the con- cities. But the evil does not stop there; the effect of these sequential artificial deflation of operations is to engender a feel-capital values has caused huge ing of alarm amongst holders, from the Colony, to its obvious Buma of money to be withdrawn

some of whom, in fear of a further decline in prices, sell out detriment. The position has be at a heavy loss. "Bear" opera- come greatly aggravated. In tors 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- such ditions on, the share market. It pressed the market to

is all to the good that the an extent as to scare many brokers, through their own or investors out of their hold-ganisation, have now resolved. to inys. Some of the "bear"

make an effort to clean up the operators have not been above

mess into which botn they and circulating wild and mischievous investors have been landed as rumours, with like results to the result of unrestrained specu- their unfortunate victims. A Intive activities.

"I can't flad it." You ought to get over that habit of taking

your abfoon off every time you sit down.

+

when

M

[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 o'.mine›

That they know not what I

feel;

"Twere better still, perchance, .

Were my blade of tempered

steell

And the stately bout glides on

To its haven among the rocks.. And O' for coach and bis granite

hand

And the raucous voice of cox.. Break-break-break

And never a word of thanks Where the surge of strength that

is in my yet

Has overflowed its bankes.

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

now

It is a by no means unattainable vision of London, to imagine the metropolitan termial with thoroughfares branching out from them in all directions, and them selvan becoming, the supremo depots and rallying points for the traffic of the capital by rail, road, and

alr

If the Minister of Transport chorishes the ambition, as I hope. he does, of ranking London safer, healthier and cleaner, and of ondow- ing it with more elbow room.in the shape of 400 acres of man-made land and 40 miles of now un- obstructed highways, ho can realise that ambition by thinking and act- ing on the lines I have sketched: Could his drive and tenacity be put to a better purpose.