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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBŊ 20, 1937.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1937.

Significant Budget

Japan is considering a signi- ficant budget. Mainly it is concerned with providing funds for the struggle with China. Moreover, it seems to envisage a prolonged war on the main- land of Asia, unless one is pre- pared to accept the explanation that it is merely providing for every possible contingency in carmarking reserve funds for [developments in connection with the China "incident." The fact is Japan is very probably realis- ing by now that the cost of this adventure in Asia is going to reach prodigious figures and that it is going to go on and on. Even were China to crumble; to-morrow, there would be the worry and bother of a guerilla campaign which might continue for years. For China is vast and her fighting men are numer ous. There is no prospect of China's quitting the fight, 'how- ever, and the indications are that she is mustering for a gigantic effort at 3 counter-offensive. This must be met. An army of 6 million and a half men in Asin, which must be paid and

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Whose

faces are these?

Do you recognise the six faces on the blackboard?

Sir Richard Livingstone, in his presidential ad- dress to the Educational Selence Section of the British Association, recalled a famous test sel by an Army officer during the, war to his men.

They were asked to identify a number of people well known at the time of the test.

Many of them did not even know the name of their own Army commander, Results were:-

Three

-Y-son-left-school-in-

England six weeks ago. In the next

fed and equipped, whose casual-three weeks we must decide

on his career.

He wants to be a barrister. 1

OTAIN GJAT ANGEGUNAALIDATING CONSEGUERAM Sties must be replaced, whose enormously lengthened lines of communication must be main- tained, whose huge consumption want him to come into my jewel- of munitions must be matched lery business. But some little mental kink makes him want to by the production of Japanese factories, would strain seriously

break away. the financial capacity of the He wants to throw up the cer- And tainty of security and respect

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wealthiest of nations. Japan is not one of those which for

# dangerously uncertain

can be called rich in reserves, chance of fame and glory.

her overseas commerce, except town.

Churles Peace, Identified by 10; George Stephenson, 16: Von Tirpitz, 15; Nat Gould, 14; C. B. Fry, 11; Sir H. Palmer, 9: Woodrow Wilson, 8; Clemenceau, 7; Michel Angelo. 6; Sir R. Borden, 6; Milton, 4; Havelock Wilson, 4; Lord Milner, 2; Sir Henry Havelock, 1.

Remember that this paper was set in summer 1018 when men like Wilson and Clemencenu were juggling with the fate of the world.

Above that test is brought up to date. The six pictures are of famous people (all alive except one) whose photographs have been published many times,

And when you've identified these, see how many of these people you can identity with the jobs they do!--

Voroshilov, Alf M. Landon. Alfred Noyrs, Oliver Messel, Picasso, J. M. Keynes, Frances Perkins, Rouben Mamoulian, Molyneux, Sir Harry McGowan,

Auswers foot of Column Six.

weeks plan a

life

HE wants to make

A

He went to stay at their houses during the holidays. He has just come back from a fort- night with one of them.

IN some ways I wish he had never met them,

for their luxurious way of liv position for himself ing, their amusing friends, have

to

"But how can you ever get to the top without influence or money ?"

There's nothing you can't do if you want to do it badly enough."

WHAT can I say against

this sort of talk?

He

is clever, perhaps too clever for the little business I am offering. But there is nothing to show that he can do much better.

If I had money and influence

In my heart I know that he is

But he has only one

a decent living from the law; I am dreadfully frightoned that he is throwing his life away,

KEY

At all costs she must preserve

I like to think he would suc- off his own bat, and I respect smashed my plans. They show with which to back him I have her trade and economists are ceed, but I am afraid to let him him for that. But he chooses ed him a new world of comfort no doubt that he would do well. now discussing an interesting try.

the Bar, one of the most dif- and culture which he had only But it is a very different story when your only capital is your problem in that connection: If I let him go it means losing sions of all.

cult and influence-ridden profes- read about in books.

brains. He wants the same sort 'of Will Japan be forced to devalue him for ever. If I persuade him the yen; and will a cheaper to stay he will nurse a grudge 1e pretends to but he can't. He with the famous, the clever, the right, that it is better for him to

He does not see the difficulties. life. He wants to meet and mix currency make available to her against me always. more profitable markets? Or If he is to be a barrister he thinks only in terms of the suc- charming; to break into a world go away. will the unofficial boycott, which must go to the university next cesses; I think also about the of people whose ideas about liv- chance in a thousand of making is steadily gaining weight, ne-month. And once he gets into failures, the thousands of bril- ing I do not understand. cording to some quarters, make the university atmosphere he liant men who have gone to the If he were a successful bar- her expansion commercially im- will not want to come back to wall.

rister he would be able to do so. possible, and eventually strangle (my little shop in this dull, sleepy He laughs at the idea of But the hard facts remain that failure. But I remember a great very few barristers are success- where she dares to try to force And if he comes into my shop friend of mine who talked just ful, that many more men make sales with threats of violence? he will be trapped for life. I like that, who laughed at this comfortable living by selling

There is little doubt that know how easily ambition is kill town and its little snobberies, jewellery. others will suffer like Japan as ed: I meant to conquer the who went away to make his for- tune in London, certain that he Alrendy Hongkong has felt the But I know also the value of could.

been home his mother and I pinch, Yesterday's report of a security and respect, how difll- He found that London did not have tried to make him see ren- $66,000 loss on the year's opera-cult it is to achieve them. I care about the small-town bright son. Every time much the same tions by the Asia Land company offer him these and he turns boy, that he lacked the spark of argumenti attributes the slump directly to them down. My little offer is cunning which brings success, the cessation of river trade and not good enough for him.

"All the money in the world Now after thirty years of bitter would not console me for having the lack of business coming to

failure he has not even got a job. to apend my life in this place. It its Hongkong wharves. This is

results of the budget with minute care and for my own son running this risk. much

I shudder at the thought of doesn't lead anywhere, however one of the Japanese blockade. And this is whom the financial future may But he says he must, that he should stay here all my life and money you make. I only one firm. It would prob- not be entirely rosy.

can never be happy here. Jably be a dismal total if it were The effects of a depreciated

not know what life is." Perhaps it is my own fault for "Perhaps you could possible to estimate just what yen upon Hongkong's trade are Hongkong has lost already as a also worth studying. Japan is sending him away to a school enough money here to give you result of the war. So far we planning ahead. So must her where he mixed with sons of a living, and then read for the have been spared the disaster of ¡competitors in commerce. A wealthier, cleverer men than I Bar."

a result of this China invasion,world when I was young.

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a campaign in South Chinn; but one of those Hongkong must am:

So often during the past

week in which he has

make

"By the time I made money

the fear is ever present. What sco to it that she has the best He did well there. He nearly here all my ambition would be Hongkong business would do possible scheme of defence. won a scholarship to Oxford, gone. Oh, I know what you are without the Canton connection And auch matters have little or and was in the cricket and foot- going to say about only one man la a matter for serious con-nothing to do with soldiers and ball teams. He was popular in a hundred making money at. templation. Japan is not the sailors, but with the dollars and with his schoolfellows, and I was the Bar, but there's always only one who needs to study the lcents in every man's pocket, glad. But now I am sorry. plenty of room at the top."

PICTURES

1. PG. Wodehouse, author. 2. Ethel Mannin, authorexs, 3. Malcolm MacDonald, Secret- ary of State for the Domin- lons.

4. John Barrymore, actor. 5. Shelley, poet,

d. John Cobb, racing motorist,

NAMES

Klimently Voroshllov, Commis-,

anr for the Defence of the UESI. Alf M. Landen, Roomveit's rival in the U.S.A. Presiden- flat election.

vas, poet.

decorator. painter.

Alfred

Oliver Pablo

J. M. Keynes, economist. Frances Perkins, USA Secret-

∙ary for Labour,

Rouben Mamoulian, film direc-

tor.

Captain Molyneux, dress-

'designer,

Sir Harry McGowan, Chairman !of 'Imperial Chemical In-

dustries.