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NOTES OF THE DAY

NINE-PÓWER PACT

19, 1935.

ON TAKING SUMMER HOLIDAYS

By ROBERT LYND

Nthe eve of setting out for parts of the year. There is no

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the fresh morning air on one's face and in one's lungs as one walks down the steps of a senside hotel afler breakfast.

.

The Very Idea!

|PIRATE OF PENANCE.

Yo, Ho, Ho, And A Bottle Of Raspberry Vinegar

By Eddie Kelly, Kidd. - Irs IT'S a long time since there's '

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The unofficial invocation of the Nino-Power Pact by China waa probably a last despairing appeal for international aid against Japan. But It is an invoention of a very tattered document, says the Christ- ian Science Monitor. Japan violat- to feel a certain regretfulness It is no small ed the agreement in 1931 in Man- stealing over mc. churia. So confused was the situa-matter to be cut off from work for tion that for some time it was a month.

It is a moment of sublime con- legally difficult to "pin" anything

I happen to like work. At least, on Tokyo. But as soon as Japan like being in an office in which tentment with the world as it is. 1 Hike All the news in the morning paper sisened a treaty with a political other people are working. Aubdivision of China-namely, the the happy faces of my fellow-news about Hitler, news about puppet state of Manchukuo-re-workers as I meet them hurrying Abyssinia, news about Japan, news

passages. cognising ita secession from China, along

often about murderers and kidnappers-- nl casuistry was removed. Then noticed that people in offices look vanishes into nothing in the bright it beenme plain that Japan had far happier than people in hotels, sunshine It is all as distant and broken its Nine-Power pledge to and I shall be leaving an office for unreal as if one were already in

Paradise. "respect and observe the territorialan hotel. Integrity and political and admin-

You will, of course, sce happy- istrative independence of the looking people oven in hotela; but Chinese Republic." Apparently how many people, sitting in the than a stretch of blue sen and a noti the demands minde pugion the lounge over their coffee after lunch, too distant island with a white It is a world in Chinese in North China are viola-have a dejected air! How many cloud over it. tive of at least the administrative of them wearily turn over the pages which it is no crime, but a virtue, WHEN we were born we sat up in bed and said, independence of China. Only an of old magazines without rending to do nothing. Children may be

Do they them! How many of them keep unable to idle, and may have to dig "We want to be a psycho- outline of them is known.

board.

NEGATIVE VIRTUES

Į have

The real world is now no more

bean a piracy in Hongkong. waters, so Mr. Kelly has decided. to visit Blas Bay to-day and liren

the Industry. The decision. was arrived at after dir. Kelly had read the report of the annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association, which was announced that sixty Australian girls, averago age 18, were visiting Hongkong shortly. Mr. Kelly is going to get in a bit of practice, so that he can go in for pleacy on a big scalo when they arrive.

at

"Wimmen are just like them Bias Boy pitates," he said lant night. They're all ́bins, thin and bina that.”

READ ON IF YOU DARE.

pulling out their watchos impatient-holes in the sand hour after hour ly, waiting for a wife or a friend in order to preserve themselves analyist." And our old man who is taking what seems hours from the miseries of thought. But said, "Just fancy that now!" to get ready to go out! How many

We made a half-hitch in talk softly as though afraid to be overheard!

we who are wise with the wisdom of age need no spade and bucket

those symbols of purposeless Jour binder (not worn these activity to save us from dejection days, we believe--they have

or boredom. We have learnt the

art of vegetating, and there are backless nappies) and said, few things less capable of unhap-"Being a newcomer in this family, we should not like to piness than a vegetable.

physician, postman,

include "special rights, privileges, immunities, <3 commitments" which, according to the Nine | Power Part. were

barred? I certainly appears that Tokyo is seeking an everlordship in North China through which that rich and

The ordinary visitor in the or- treming territory may be made an dinary hotel, indeed, lonks as if he economie dependency. The Nino-would be a great deal happier if Power Pnet was one of the most the other visitors were not there,

If in the coming month I du feel (cause any disruption in a hither- important treaties to be signed at

There is always somebody else an occasional twinge of discontent, to happy menage, therefore we the Washington Conference in

who gets to the Corinthian billiard it will be because I am a man who, are willing to become a photo- 1021

painter, China had seemed on the table before him. His favourite even in a Paradise, cannot help ocgrapher. brink of partition.

pauper, "Slicing the chair is always occupied by some casionally envying people who are paper-lay, Chinese melon" was the inelegant objectionable-looking person. He somewhere else, I shall think en- porter anything that starts phrase for describing the century-

moons about the place like an alientously some morning of the people with a P." old policy of grab. Japan, then as without rights, He begins to who, instead of coming to the set

Our father, who was a man of How, was the greatest offender.wonder why he left the comforts side, are holidaying in the country. The only way to prop up the proof home for this crowded den of strall tell myself that in the month great bualness acumen, decided

of June the tides of the rea and that we should become a pirate. strate Republic was to sign a self- strangers. denying "hands off" ordinance east.

not to be compared for beauty with Now, we don't want all you old ing overboard the old diplomacy it is true that, as one goes on the tides of the flowers in the In- | Indies of eighty and ninety any- of exacting special favours from a staying in an hotel, one's fellow land valleys. Listening to the Biling, "Yes, I remember when I was weak administration. In its place visitors gradually begin to look lingsgate voices of the seagulls, I a girl, Captain Kidd Kelly cap- Öne discovers, to shall contrast them unfavourably | tured our ship in order to obtain the foreign powers agreed to act almost human: in concert in dealings which from one's delight, that they, too, notice with the sweeter songs of the birds a new bulb for his torch. I was then on were to be fair and above such things as whether the day that, far from the sea, are filling travelling alone at the time. Ho ja a fine or a wet one, and like to the woods with music from dawn was always very gentle, with tell one which it is. They become till darkness. The perfect shore wamen, and bo klased me as he more real as they tell one their and the perfect countryside-how was clambering over the deck rail basiness in life, and one usually seldom it is that one finds them into return to his lair at Blus Boy.". discovers that at some point their the same place!

We were just a poor. hard- The value of the Nine-Power Pnet iny in its

Begative virtues. experiences have crossed one's own.

It is, I think, because men feet working lad when we were unjust It restrained the plunderers. The Fonce met a stranger, a clergy-such discontents during their holi-ly pinched for strangling a ship's one hand, and breathing spell, it was hoped, man in an hotel in Scotland. In days that so many of them have compradore with tion by the Chinese themselves. would promote political reconstructhe course of conversation he told recourse to the game of golf--the sentenced to three months In

me that his first curacy had been adult's substitute for the child's Victoria Guol

We came out of that living hell But China, instead of growing in Coleraine. I saichMy father spade and bucket. Whacking a

embittered Ieball from hole to hole, and dream- | AN was born newColerainc." strong and united behind this ram part of repressed imperialisms, said: "After that I went to Beling all the time that he is going to mediately became a pirate. sank into weakness and disunity, fast." 1 said: "I was born in whack it as he has never whacket a Our first capture was on n wild, In. 1931 Japan threw off all res. Belfast." He said: "When I was ball before, the ordinary man can wet, windy, woisterous night when

down in Brookhill settle traints of the Nine-Power Pact and in Belfast I lived

contentedly-even the gate bowled through our stays invaded Manchuria.' What was re- Avenue," I said: "That's the rapturously-in his summer para- and our pirate ship plunged nad ploughed her way through the "Don't tell dine. quired before 1931 was a recogni-street 1 was born in." tion of Chinese realities. By for me," he pleaded, carnestly, "that eign reconstruction China might the house was No. 8." Unfortun- have been saved both from itself ately I had forgotten the number. He would not give a row of ping and from its predatory neighbour but we had already established en- for all the birds in Surrey as with - neighbour which, because of ough points of contact with each his mashie he lands a perfect shot Talk to him of propinquity alone, could not afford other to turn the hotel from a den on a perfect green. the patience displayed by the other of strangers into a pleasure resort. his fine work with the niblick, and foreign powers. Even after the

She will listen to you greedily. Talk to him of June flowers and he will Manchurian incident 3 prompt reassembling of the Nine Powers Cheerful as hotels can become in not hear you, as will be clear from circumstances, however, I his answer: "I did this hole yes- with the same end in view might auch have checked Japanese imperialism. regard them chictly as places in terday in three."

I cannot Other pacts, however, got in the which to sleep and eat.

Do not disparage golf on this to waste an unnecessary neation till the Lytton Commission minute under a roof when I am on troy the intelligence, but it alen way, and the facts awaited clari-bear

account, however. Golf may des- went belatedly to the ground. By a holiday. So was it when my life destroys pessimism, envy, and rest-

time the Japanese military began; so is it now I am a man.

lessness. If during the next month were in control of Japan as well

at work in Far from nu active man, I am you see me hard as Manchuria. Now they are in

nevertheless not to be tempted by bunker, you will know that I am control of North China. In all an armchair outside the working perfectly happy where I am. probability the Japanese Foreign

that

Uffice is as much in the dark as any other. It would be quixotic to expect any rush from the West to ait China while that country

reached the conclusion that Britain's laissez faire policy in the Far East must be replaced by something more active. Japanese competition naturally figures largely in the picture, but the view is held that Britain- and Japan can very well co- operate in pursuing the welfare cannot find a unity in the face of of the East, each in its own a foreign foe. So Japan has seenis sphère, on a basis of due recogni.ingly a clear path before it. The tion of the interests of all,

price of pursuing it, however, may Chinese and foreign alike. Such

he a heavy one to a nation which

live with. Inter must sooner or co-operation. there is every rea- China and with the world. son to think, would be welcomed by China; there certainly can be

no assumption of special pri-mendous. Britain has in the vileges by any one country; the past played a leading part in co- principle of the Open Door must operative effort with China, and be respected, with China's right the indications are that there is to control her own destiny in no

no disposition to leave the field way impaired. Britain is pre-entirely to others. Rather the pared to work hand in hand with reverse. Happily, Anglo-Chi- China on such a basis, and it is nese relations have never been a hopeful sign of the Govern-more cordial than they are to ment's practical interest day, a fact which should facilit- future developments that Sirate increased intercourse and Frederick Leith-Ross is being lead to the offering of heeded sent out on a special mission technical and financial assistance which should prove of immense in the future development of the value. Coincident with the con- country. At a moment when the |ference to which we have alluded, depression is still making its the Chairman of the American effects keenly felt, Hongkong can Economic Missfon has pointed to take heart from the lively inter-

the potential value of openings inest being displayed at Home in China,

circumstance which the Far East. More co-operation

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between Britain and China muat indirectly be of real value to this

shows that the United States, as well as Britain, is determined not to be shut out of the China Colony, for which reason it is to markets. The possibilities, of be hoped that the near fature mutual Interest to China and will witness closer contacts be- foreign interests alike, are tre- tween the two nations.

"Remember what an awful cold you caught the last time you word inspired.".

a

sens.

man, and Im-

We got shot that night. As a matter of fact, if we hadn't. Ecen shot we wouldn't have had the to go through with the serve. business.

We crept up on to the bridge, pulling our ambush more closely around us on account of feeling cold.

"Stlek 'em up!" we shouted hoarsely. We always shouted oarsely, because once we shouted in too loud a voice, and everybody the round. heard us, and it cost us $7.70 for

The captain stuck the engine- ruom telegraph over to "hard astern" and the ship reared buck on its haunches. Which just goes to show you that it always pays. to shout horsely.

"Listen," said the skipper. "This is getting monotonous. What's the big idea always holding up my ship Just off Shekko? Don't you know that the people who live out here object to outsiders cluttering up the place."

We were pretty stern with him. meaning that wo kicked him amid- ships. In the stern.

As a matter of fact we would have been sterner, but just at that moment we found out that there were a couple of comely wenches aboard.

We were chucking one of the under the chin when we heard a siren howling on the port bow. We were never too keen on sirens, the modern

name for which is gold- diggers, but a howling siren always touches our heart, se we comforied her as best we could.

Then we heard another howling siren on the starboard bow, and before wo could muster our scattered band (in the subsequent fight we lost two saxophonista arid the drummor) a destroyer loomed out of the mist.

The Navy!" gasped the captain of the ship, smiling malignantly. Malignantly. Dashed good! We must use that word more often.

It was. In fact, the Navy. The whole British Flest. We stood. our ground as they came along- side and boarded us.

or

"Ha! Ha!" said the main hand naval officer. "Nice goings: (Continued on Page 4;)

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