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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1937,

LEAGUE'S WORK FOR CHINA

reason

By John Apsley

Births are news, deaths monplace.

com- come of about £10,000 a year. lager lenyes to take the "golden

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 a few enough to enjoy a kind of from most others. When the

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

my turesque

prosperity. Our small property owners, cach village. Not for its own thatches are trim, our gardens holding from one to four cot been "coming" for three or more Main water is coming. It's sake, but for what it ordered. We are not, in fact, & tages. is. to 5s. per week is

China feels bitter disappoint- ment

at the result of the Brussels Conference, and with justice, but her people still have represents, for the cross. depressed area, only a dwindling average. About a dozen homes years. Pipes have been in posi for gratitude to the 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- western Powers in consequence communities all over the ling power of the district to sup-

months ago the pumping station For two years now wind and was completed all but for port it.

rain have been tearing at four of the efforts being made by country. them, through the League of

mouldering thatches in the little one essential mechanical part. Thirty years ago there were hollow by the stream. There "Owing," announced the local Nations, to improve the lot of 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- millions from a point of view of

38 follows. Forty-five miles lage. "And foive publics be of four cottages. The first coun- armament programme there will from London, three miles from sides," in the wistful words of cil cottages to be erected in the be an inevitable delay in comple- health.

a railway station, six miles from Albert Mawley, our cobbler. village will replace these con- tion of the pumping station, a market town (18,000 inhabi- There were three cobblers, a demned four early in the new tants). It idead-centre of a baker, a. butcher, a couple of year. first-class agricultural district. bincksmiths.

The League of Nations pro- poses to wage a war in China which may save the lives of countless thousands. It is a different sort of war than that which Japan is waging, for the League and Japan have different

It doesn't matter much where

over 41. crops.

mere ten years

:

and consequently "There has, been. We wait.

distant.

some seven niles

My village, 1937. Two hun-" There was a church congre- dred and twenty inhabitants, of gation four hundred strong,

Young people. Very few. Young men will take, and want. which thirty draw old-age pen- Seven men could play the fiddle. LABOUR. Five farms, a local work if it's there. I sion and twenty-one go to school. The six farms employed about

neighbouring gravel- Our oldest is ninety-eight, our 120 men among them, and women pit, some four adjacent builders, there's none, they drift away youngest three wecks. The as well to root out the docks, the roads and the water-scheme. Young girls. About half a conceptions of what constitutes

Mawley's, Bardles, dozen are in service. Noic average age of the whole com- thistles and bindweed from the Farms, "co-operation" and helpfulness.munity is a fraction

Sturt's, Manor Hill and Bailey's. Want

bc. to

Ambition? -Where the--League-powers will

-The "cottage next to that in labourers among them. Bailey's nearest sixpenny stores, worl at They employ sixteen full-time Cinema attendant,...assistant in 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, nouris wise quite disinterestedly, Japan China campaign and who have tages a

ago. This year's wheat was green Eighteen people lived been quietly organising ever

there, with thistles. Pasture and fights to crush opposition to her since they were warned of their There are now two who come for poultry are less trouble than The church works within policy in Asia, and for purely imminent departure for the Far a country week-end about twice crops. The tale is told.

formally prescribed mits. a month. Their "gem of a little selfish ends. It is no wonder | East.

place in the country" is the pro- that between the two China

Gravel-pit takes a dozen men, These limits are whist-divos, duct of agriculture's losing builders another dozen, roads an occasional lecture, indrectly chooses for friend the League,

battle. So, if it comes to that, and rural water-scheme what's the social end of the Mther's although that body is admitted-

is mine.

left. All are, of course, ab- Union and a very, occsional sorbers of casual labour. What dance. ly in no position to protect the

there is manages, on the whole, awkward, over-grown and badly

to scrape through its year with- bullied victim of Japanese ag- | been going on for many years. gression. The League can help It in a scheme to which Japan

in other ways. The battle it is

now proposed to wage on China's behalf is one of them.”

Already, as a matter of fact, there are several of the League's medical experts at work in China. This is all a part of the general scheme of League as- sistance for China which has

OUR entire community out more than a month or two of -excluding “gentry" relief. If there's more than has been openly hostile. An en-| --lives, I suppose, on a joint in- month or two-another vil.

lightened, healthy and

mo-1

|

The League is sending a force

of medical experts to destroy League's

FOR PASSENGERS, MAIL & FREIGHT HANKOW EXPRESS

dernised China is not suited to Japan's purpose, it would seem.

Japan's response to the efforts on China's behalf 48 reports presented

.

A "PROPER DOG'

was

in

millions of

the of

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WELL KNOWN

work.

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

as to intellect. ment elsewhere. owing to training But there is one word which all

WII!

But your "proper dog" walls-all

Hollywood has knockd the vicar flat

On on his bac. Saturday evenings the village sharply divides. At sovh thirty a "cinema" bus cartsaveryone between fifteen and thirty to Robert Taylor and copany. At seven forty-five a pbile fish and chip kitchen cari Saturday supper to the thirtie and over.

FOUR hoes The cat was the

and

(locs

I comment

ste

that

the

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

like diseases,

cholera and mitteo assert,

out of typhoid, The experts will be smuggling

fivo ha radio. But equipped with the necessary yen worth of narcotics into proper dogs know, if we accept day if need be.

Chinn. The men behind this Kipling's definition of a "proper object of the chare, and the hunt cultural disinterd in it is funds and tools for this great despicable business, which pays dog," and that, word is "Cals." was not an end in itself.

virtually unifor. Without For the next twelve big dividends, have encouraged and bristle, and look alert,

They seem to know it instinctively, I have in mind a little white dog, Your begging Imploringly beneath a tree months they will au, as advisers the use of narcotics of every purist may argue that the sibilance in which is perched a large and frate average villager and lad is to the Chinese Government, conceivable kind. Evil stories of the word is all that matters, and black cat. The little white dog singing the late dance number of the results of this scourge that the mest sporting of terriers was responsible for Nigger'a hasty before the London week- though actually their work will have come to light at Genevant "cat" in the singular. I doubt it, not care who knows it. "roar like any sucking dove" and undigaified ascent,

And now entiers", have Hrd of it. be more in the nature of direc- and tales of horror are told of judging by a little white friend of the begs imploringly to-but that is

Two "pubs, neither a free- uncertain. Does ale implore Pusa tion and direct action, with the the effects of the drugs which | mine.

use to If all proper dogs" chase cats up to come down or heaven to send an house. Theyare used essen- Central authorities doing what unenlightened people

My village is they are told to do. Thus the their own ruin. Although it is trees, there is a world of difference earthquake and dislodge her prey? tially as elul League undertakes to fight improbable that Japan officially by the sin duur determination. Or is she begging her owner to play temperate, at beer-drinking

hysterical excitement, sheer hatred, the part of Providence? Who can

canine, almost to anan. Few spend epidemic diseases which annual encourages the narcotic traille or downright mischief. Some dogs, fathom the depths of the

less than the shillings a week ly take such an enormous toll in China as carried on by her we feet, hale cats, others only feign mind?

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

nights at he Goat" or "The Whatever the mental processes, The League of Nations an-it and that the weakening effect things at eats whenever they see there she sits, little white buck erect, Cherry Tr" Fridays, Satur

tall out-thrust, nounced the other day that in narcotics have upon a nation, thern, and all proper dogs chase them sturdy

balancing days, Suays. Dead nights sturdy white body, paws wavinit Mondays,uesdays, Thursdays. October the Supervisory Com-when used extensively, makes it up trees,''

imploringly, liquid eyes moving from Middling ght Wednesday. Our ' mittee at Geneva, which is a relatively easy prey. The

ent to owner and back again... responsible for tho League League is trying to combat this

Whatever else we may think of the wondering why this foolish human village sit £26 in beer to celc- finances, approved the plan narcotic evil as well as the small terriers, we must admit that does not understand.

brato thCoronation of King terrible drawn up by the Health Com-equally

Usually begging gels what aho George menace of they are "proper dogs," as we nee

But the mittee for the use to be mado diacaso in other forms: It can short legs twinkling, tall rigid, and wants, and so she begs. of the 2,000,000 Swiss francs scarcely be maintained that head down-and know a cat is in exception proves the rule, and o

in she begs vain. the offing

Some dogs love the

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

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

all. It she is treed, they pretend they .

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chase, and

h. Forrest Mul

who

ONDONERS living in the country. Three wholetime and go up to

workery day, one "goodbye

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