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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1986.

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What was happening in 1914" On what did peoples' minds dwell?

War? The dread of war in Europe?

Not at all.

Eight days before the declara-

Stubbs Rd. tion of war not one of the harri-

war

Hongkong Telegraph. this war in the papers.

TUESDAY, MAR. 17, 1936.

SUBURBS HEALTHIER

urbs is a factor which contri- butes greatly to the improve- ment of the national health.

be must

benefits

Or

All

working. hard-playing millions

"There you are, my dear, there's your nice gas-mask all comfortably fixed. Some of Britain had the slightest con-

varietice of gas it will keep out, others I'm afraid it won't." A St. John Ambulanco ception that the shadow of a

Brigado export instructs children in the correct adjustment of their Gar-mask, gigantic

had fallen un

At Drury Lane there were the Hobbs

Hearne head the A month later the gravity of Europe.

these events was heavily under- exotic splendours of Russian There had been nothing about batting averages?

thousand opera and ballet. Oh, War? The word, to us con- lined. Twenty-five

As for sport, England, winner Blatchford, of course, and Lord noting something merely horri- rifles and 3 million rounds of

were run into of the Calcutta Cup and cricket Roberts, with his agitation in ble, had a different meaning in ammunition

But 1914. The old monster had not Ulster. It was a well-conducted victor in South Africa, could look favour of conscription, those admirable and honest men shed his trappings. War was enterprise in which no tewer the world in the face. Besides, were cranks. They had a bee wicked and terrible, but also than 12,000 men took part. in. their bonnet. Scaremongers, gallant and pleturesque. Deeds

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At timen of international-crisis,

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future.

of Commons that there was no

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Vardon resisted the American challenge in the Open Golf Championship.

of splendid valour were perform- The interesting fact is just

And when he looked abroad ed, especially by British soldiers, IN the Commons there were violent scenes almost daily. revealed in an official report

talk of something 4 professional class kept for this

The Liberal Government, weak the 1914 Englishman found that the outer ring of London is LET us

serious, The trouble in purpose. conspicuous for the lightness of

Moving barrages, machine-gun ening under a series of by nothing to disturb the com- Would Surrey win the

enough to worry him at home. its death-rates over the whole Ireland.

Would tests, flame-throwers, mustard election reverses, at odds with placent thought that he had

its Labour allies, county championship?

fought The standing dishes of the gas, all these were secrets locked span of life. This provides yet

in the bosom of the deceitful desperately against its Unionist interntaional menu were on the another proof of the contention

As for air bombing, did assailants, while the muitant,

Russia 'ine that the gradual movement of

Cabinet, Ministers and aroused persecuted, in urban populations to the sub- NOTES OF THE DAY not Colonel, Seely tell the House women suffragists tormented table. The Jews were being In Africa. The Poles and the danger to life and property from in the public a deep sense of Italians were pursuing expansion

baffled irritation.

Germans were quarrelling over the airplane?

The tactics of these women In any case, the settled civilan

It looked as if there was going To the young in particular the when there is talk of the possibility world of 1914 gave not a thought are a commentary on the inten- Silesia. There was a political

of Great Britain being called upon to the possibility of war. Our sity of feeling stirred up by crisis in France, especially

to be a war; the United States to defend her rights and principles,

those days.

was probably going to fight marked; they live in a cleaner it is natural that young men ahould relations with Germany were issues of domestic politics in

They burned churches. They Mexico. A British ship took off On New Year's Day Mr. Lloyd atmosphere and get far more consider the question of service in marked by a growing cordiality.

bomb exploded a

the near

a thousand Americans from sunshine than is possible in the event of conflict, and seek a

or fitting themselves for George spoke words of praise of Coronation Chair in Westmins- Tampico. overcrowded districts. In this some job of work. It has been the unaggressive temper of tor Abbey. They slashed the

Everywhere the nations were IL ment connection, it is to be noted that brought to our notice that there that country. The Englishman

Rokeby Venus with

occupied with troubles of their a number of young men in scarcely gave a glance abroad,

chopper. investigations recently made in are Chater Road.

Hongkong, some of them members)

Nor was Buckingham Palace own. In Germany a military one of the big cities at Home of the Hongkong Volunteer De-partly because there were no show that a boy of ten years fence Corps and others of them not events to catch his eye and itself safe from those guerrilla court reversed the sentence of lieutenant-Forstner,--who-had. living on a suburban estate is on who would like to. fit themselves to partly because he was absorbed, fighters. At the Court, a lady imprisonment on the Prussian

веге their country, ahould the with grave domestic issues:

fell on her knees before the King the average 2 inches taller and!

We do not! Ireland. Ulster in particular. necessity ever arise.

Majesty, won't you stop tortur- with his sword.

In the Reichstag there were nearly 5 lbs. heavier than a boy suggest they looks forward to auch There, indeed, a war scare exist and said in a loud voice, "Your struck a lame cobbler in Zabern

ing women?" of the same age living in a con-service for most of them are oldjed, a scare of civil war.

A hundred thousand Ulster

flerce complaints of the ill-treat. enough to know what war means, gested area in the city. The and some of them experienced the Volunteers had enrolled. The

ment of natives in the German contrast would most likely be horrors of the last world disaster, South replied with a volunteer AMID such harassments, the colonies. The Government re arts throve and music fused to abolish serfdom in even still more favourable if in But no matter what prompts them,

Bernard Shaw's Gorman East Africa. the laying out of new estates their ambition is something which force of 200,000. In March the

sense of deeply-rooted order in flourished. the country was rudely disturb. "Pygmalion" drew crowds to His more attention were given to the ught to be encouraged. provision of playing space for The suggestion has been madeled by the news that 57 of the 70 Majesty's to hear an adjective

transformed into an Officers Training Corps officers of the Cavalry Brigade which was soon to be used with THE political feuds in France children. In many of the subtit

might be organised in Hongkong. at the Curragh preferred dis much frequency and more excuss tragedy when Mme. Caillaux. urbs, as in the city, it is too for men in and out of the Volun-missal to service in Ulster. in the trenches round Ypres.

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often the case that there is teers. nowhere that young people can organisation would be prepared to play save in the streets, where join His Majesty's forces on active service whenever and wherever! They would; their activities with bat and ball they were called. naturally are not appreciated by undertake their training with this that this careful suburban gardeners, and clear understanding. It has been

morcover, auggested, where the dangers from trafic Oncers Training Corps, or what- are great. It is true that in ever it is named, might undertake to instruct men in the rudiments many cities public parks are pro-of flying and aircraft mechanics, vided, but the new housing areas for it is likely that, in the event are far-stretching and the near-of war occurring, men with such training would be in immediatel

est park may be miles from a demand. child's home, with dangerous

This is only the germ of an idea;' traffic lines interposed. Thus there is a growing demand at but If it is supported, if there are young men in Hongkong who are Home for the plentiful provision anxious to fit themselves for active!

and obtain instruction of small vacant spaces where service boys and girls may play out of which will fit them for commia-

tho sicns,

suggestion merits harm's way. Here in Hongkong consideration and the men them- in recent years we have wit-selves encouragement. nessed a slow but perceptible movement of the population to

outlying districts, and the en-much can be done in improving couragement of this development the conditions under which so is doubtless one of the matters many of the masses live. We to' which the Housing Com-referred a few days ago to the mission, is giving attention.excellent work which the Chil- The problem is somewhat dron's Playground Association! complicated from the necessity is doing in the Colony, and we of housing workers, as near want to see that work extended, as possible to the scene of as it well can be if sufficient their labours, but transport public support is forthcoming, facilities are growing, and this There is much acope for the pro- But vision of small spaces for re- should help somewhat. when all is done, there will still creational facilities in the crowd- remain for many years congested areas, and we hope that as ed areas, both on the island and time goes on the Association wil of the mainland; a clean sweep of be able to develop this side these is impossible, although its activities.

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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"It's mostly noise.

Hoe very careful that the typed letter doesn't renk any thing like that."

were

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'wife of the Minister of Finance, shot and killed Gaston Calmette, political editor of the Figaro, a newspaper which had conduct ed a bitter campaign against her husband.

The British, who laughed in- credulously at the turkeycock pretensions of the Prussian officer, shrugged their shoulders. over Gallic hysteria. As for the murder of an Austrian Arch- duke, was that not simply an- other advertisement of the re moteness of these Continental concerns from English life?

On one day, July 27, three things happened. Mme. Caillaux was acquitted. News came of a.gun-running affair at Howth, near Dublin. Sir Edward Grey rose in the House to announce that Austria had rejected the Serbian reply to her ultimatum. It was with a sense of be

British wilderment that the public awoke to the fact that the last of those three items had. suddenly and unaccountably be come the most important.

The storm of 1914 blew up ont of a clear sky,

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TO-DAY we are well-informed

about foreign affairs, acutely sensitive to events abroad and concerned with them to the neglect of home problems. We have no illusions about the naturo of war. And in this awareness and responsibility, so completely in contrast with 1914, we have a bulwalk of peace which did not exist then.