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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1937.

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By John Apsley

Births

are news, deaths com- come of about £10,000 a year. lager leaves to take the "golden monplace.

It is poor, but it is not im- road" to employment where, if poverished. The big landlord anywhere, it can be found. Pub- Young married couples are has gone from our village, as lic Assistance in any form is n few enough to enjoy a kind of

from most others, When the

bogey which can be born in the sentimental regard from the last died about twelve years ago impersonality of a large town. majority. Our cottages are the estate was sold up. Rents China feels bitter disappoint-PRESENT to you-my turesque

clean; we give off an air of pic- are paid to an assortment of Men can't face it in our village.

prosperity. Our small property owners, cach ment at the result of the

Main water is coming. It's village. Not for its own thatches are trim, our gardens holding from one to four cot been "coming" for three or more Brussels Conference, and with

-sake, but for what it ordered. We are not, in fact, a Lages. 4s. to bs. per week is represents, for

About a dozen homes years. Pipes have been in posi-. the cross-depressed area, only a dwindling average, section story it tells of rural community which goes on dwind- belong to those who live in them. tion for eighteen months. Six

ling in proportion to the dwind-

months ago the pumping station communities all over the ling power of the district to sup- For two years now wind and

but for port it. country.

rain have been tearing at four was completed all mouldering thatches in the little one essential mechanical part. It doesn't matter much where Thirty years ago there were hollow by the stream. There "Owing," announced the local it is, but its position is roughly eight hundred people in the vil are notices pinned to the doors paper, "to the Government's re- from London, three miles from sides," in the wistful words of eil cottages to be erected in the be an inevitable delay in comple- followa. Forty-five miles lage. "And foive publics be of four cottages. The first coun- armament programme there will a railway station, six miles from Albert Mawley, our cobbler. village will replace these con- tion of the pumping station, The League of Nations pro-

a market town (18,000 inhabi- There were three cobblers, demned four early in the new poses to wage a war in China tants). It is dead-centre of a baker, a butcher, a couple of year.

first-class agricultural district. blacksmiths.

reason

justice, but her people still have for gratitude to the western Powers in consequence of the efforts being made by them, through the League of Nations, to improve the lot of millions from a point of view of health.

which may save the lives of

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LAB

"

There

and consequently has been. We wait.

countless thousands.. It is a dred and twenty inhabitants, of gution four hundred strong. My village, 1937. Two hun- There was a church congre-

Young people. Very few. Young men will take, and want, different sort of war than that which thirty draw old-age pen- Seven men could play the fiddle.

ABOUR. Five farms, a

local work if it's there. If which Japan is waging, for the sion and twenty-one go to school. The six farms employed about

neighbouring gravel-

there's none, they drift away. League and Japan have different Our oldest is ninety-eight, our 120 men among them, and women pit, some four adjacent builders,

youngest three

weeke. The as well to root out the docks, the roads and the water-scheme. Young girls. About half a conceptions of what constitutes average age of the whole com- thistles and bindweed from the Farms, Mawley's, Burdles, dozen are in service. None "co-operation" and helpfulness.munity is a fraction over 41. crops.

Sturt's, Manor, Jill and Bailey's. want to be, Ambitions? Where the League powers will

They employ sixteen full-time Cinema attendant, asui tant in The cottage next to that in labourers among them. Bailey's nearest sixpenny stores, work at- fight to save lives, and other- already been picked for the Which I live was a row of cot has two where it had eighteen. flour mills some seven miles wise quite disinterestedly, Japan China campaign and who have tages a mere ten years ago. This year's whent was green

lived there. with. fight's to crush opposition to her been quietly organising ever There are now two who come for poultry are less trouble than

Eighteen people

thistles. Pasture and distant, since they were warned of their. policy in Asia, and for purely imminent departure for the Fara country week-end about twice crops. The tale is told. selfish ends. It is no wonder East. that between the two China

chooses for friend the League, although that body is admitted- ly in no position to protect the awkward, over-grown and badly bullied victim of Japanese ag- gression. The League can help in other ways, The battle it is now proposed to wage on China's bichalf is one of them.

The League is sending a force

work.

like

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Already, as a matter of fact, there are several of the League's at work in medical experts China. This is all a part of the general scheme of League as- sistance for China which, has been going on for many years. It is a scheme to which Japan] has been openly hostile. An en- lightened, healthy and dornised China is not suited to Japan's purpose, it would seem.

Mo

Japan's response to the on China's League's efforts behalf as reports presented

a month.

is mine.

The church works within formally

limits. prescribed

Their "gem of n little place in the country" is the pro- Gravel-pit takes a dozen men, These limits are whist-drives, duct of agriculture's losing builders another dozen, roads an occasional lecture, indirectly battle. So, if it comes to that, and rural water-scheme what's the social end of the Mother's left. All are, of course, ab Union and a very occasional sorbers of casual labour. What dance. there is manages, on the whole, to scrape through its year with- OUR entire community out more than a month or two of excluding "gentry" relief. If there's more than a —lives, I suppose, on a joint. in- month or two-another vil-

that

mine.

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A "PROPER DOG

cal. The ute white

does

Hollywood has knocked the On vicar flat on his back. sharply divides. At seven thirty Saturday evenings the village

a "cinema" bus carts everyone between fifteen and thirty to Robert Taylor and company. At seven forty-five a mobile fish and chip kitchen carts Saturday supper to the thirties and over.

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of medical experts to destroy deadly bacteria

of infectious to the League's Opium Com-COME dogs have large vocabularies, do not know where she has gone, diseases,

cholera

was in and mitteo assert,

some small-as much may be or that they have an urgent oppoint- the

owing to training as to intellect.ment elsewhere. of millions of

FOUR homes out of typhoid. The experts will be smuggling

But there is one word which all

FOUR But your "proper dog" walts---all of narcotics into proper dogs know, if we accept day if need be. yen worth

five have radio. But The cat was the the necessary equipped with

China. The men behind this Kipling's definition

of a proper object of the chase, and the hunt cultural disinterest in it is funds and tools for this great despicable business, which pays

dog"

and that word is "Cats." was not an end in itself.

virtually uniform. Without They seem to know it instinctively, I have in

in mind a little white dog,

that the For the next twelve | big dividends, have encouraged

I state and bristle, and look ateri, Your begging imploringly beneath a tree comment months they will act as advisers the use of narcotics of every purist may argue that the sibilance in which is perched a large and irate average village girl and Ind is dor singing the latest dance number to the Chinese Government, conceivable kind. Evil stories of the word is all that matters, and blacks

the the most sporting of terriers was responsible for Nigger's hasly before

"London of the results of this scourge will "roar like any sucking clove and undighilled ascent, th

week- though actually their work will have come to light at Genevat "eat" in the singular. I doubt it, not care who knows it.

And now enders" have heard of it. be more in the nature of direc- and tales of horror are told of

Two "pubs," neither a free- uncertain. Does she implore Puss tion and direct action, with the the effects of the drugs which by a little white friend of she begs imploringly to-but that is

иде to If all "proper dogs" chuse cats up to come down or heaven to send on house. They are used essen- WITH CONNECTION TO SIAN, CHENGTU, KUNMING Central authorities' doing what unenlightened people

My village is (Yunnan) they are told to do. Thus the their own ruin... Although it ia trees, there is a world of difference earthquake and dislodge her prey? tially as clubs.

in the chasing, dour determination, Or is she begging her owner to play League undertakes to fight improbable that Japan officially hysterical excitement, surces are the part of Providence? Who can temperate, but beer-drinking Few spend almost to a rian. EURASIA AVIATION CORPORATION epidemic diseases which annual encourages the narcotic traffic or downright mischief. Some dogs, fathom the depths of

less than thres shillings a wock ly take such an enormous toll

in China as carried on by her we teel, hate cats, others only felgn mind?

on beer, few spend over.. Big → of lives among the Chilueso. merchants, there is no denying to hate, and chase them for the love of the chase. "Three proper men that she has done little to stop out of five," says Kipling. "throw

nights at "The Goat" or "The The League of Nations ALTI- it and that the weakening effect things at cats whenever they ree there she sits, ilttle white back erect, Cherry Tree," Fridays, Satur- nounced the other day that in narcotics have upon a nation, them, and all proper dogs chase them sturdy tall out-thrust, balancing days, Sundays. Dead nights sturdy while body, phws waving Mondays, Tucadays, Thursılays. October the Supervisory Com- when used extensively, makes it up trees."

imploringly, liquid eye moving from Middling night Wednesday. Our The mittee at Goneva, which is a relatively easy prey.

cat to owner and back again- responsible for the League League is trying to combat this Whatever else we may think of the wondering why this foolish human village spent £25 in beer to cele- finances, approved the plan narcotic evil as well as the small terriers, we must admit that does not understand.

brate the Coronation of King drawn up by the Health Com-equally terrible

Ucunlly begging gets what she George VI. menace of they are "proper dogs," as we nee

But the mittee for the use to be made disease in other forms. It can short legs iwinkling. Inil rigid, and wants, and 60 she begs. of the 2,000,000 Swiss francs scarcely be maintained that head down-and know a ent is in exception proves the rule, and so

she begs in vain. which

Some dogs love the chnue, and Whether our sympathy is with her the Assembly recently Japan is being helpful, and the offing. voted for dévotion to the anti-Tokyo's whole attitude makes dread its logical' conclusion at least or with the cat, we must admit that If Puss she is a "proper dog." If the word epidemic campaign in China. the claim that she is acting as much as the cat can do That was suficient to speed the only for China's own good as turns, they tum away and pretend "eat" is the test word, she gives the

they were not really chasing her at right renetion. activity of the experts who had futile as it is brazen.

nil. If she is treed, they pretend they

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