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A Doctor gives 3 rules

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A fast after a feast in as good as night after day, and every bit na necessary. A comparative fast, that is, probably after an incomparable feast.

Don't help them eat up the remains of that big feast. Eat grapefruit and oranges meal-timeя if you feel peckish. You might even take a lenf of lettuce. But don't go further than that. Don't snack. Don't nibble nuts and grapes. Your sweet-ment of penitence must be the acid drop, the mint, or the barley sugar stick,

After this day of sackcloth and ashes you'll be feeling a little more like your usual self. You may now sit up and take a little light sustenance. You need a gentle, simple diet, with correct quan- tities and combinations of foodstuffs,

Here's one that is very good for pick-me-up meal: or even sustained everyday use:--First Grapefruit with honey, apples or pineapple, or steeped figs or prunes with cereal. Second meal: Baked, grilled or roasted meat with steamed greens and baked potatoes; a milk pudding made with unpolished rice and raisins. Third meal: A large salud containing lettuce, cucumber, young cabbage and tomatoes, sprinkled with a little le- mon-juice, eaten with wholemeal bread and but- ter. Drink a lot of water between meals.

When you've kept your fast and are well into little the swing of your getting-over-it-diet a exercise will make you the man you were before a Merry Christmas.

Rowing is the best exercise for the stomach. You may not have a boat hundy. Don't worry; just sit on the floor and bend the body forward to the waist, breathing out. Then come up and go over backwards, breathing in. Do this six times a morning.

Why not Saturday off?

by Stephen Black

IMPORTANT

The Management have plea- sure in announcing the adop- tion of the five-day week, com- mencing Monday next. They helleve that the additional leisure so afforded will benefit the Staff and will thus .....

N twenty years of British in- dustry 800 managements have_made_this_announce

'ment.

To-day, more than 140,003 workers down tools on Friday night, not to take them up again until Monday morning.

From 1930 to 1934, the number of firms adopting the five-day week increased by 15 per cent. and

six billion pounds-sales of which would be stimulated by the release of workers with Friday-night pay pockets on envelopes in their Saturday morning.

Items are: Bakery goods, holl- day clothing, boots and shoes. other than rubber, motor vehicles (excluding motor-cycles), whole- sale alaughtering and meat- packing, silk goods and women's clothing..

All economist writes:

"The tho sociological advantages of system are almost too obvious to require enumeration." He's right.

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week-end-away-from-home,

the number of workers employed now practically the monopoly of

under this system by 50 per cent. Since that date, only 0.1 per cent. of these men and women have had to return regularly to work on Saturday mornings,

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In 1910, it is estimated that ap- proximately only 35 large firms in Great Britain gave Saturday morning off." But post-war eco nomic conditions stimulated the movement, and in 1919 whole trades, affecting hundreds and thousands of workers, went over to the five-day week.

The entire furniture trade in High Wycombe adopted the system by mutual agreement in 1920. From 1921 to 1930 the trade unions and cmployers of one trade after another investigated the five-day week principic, came to agreement, and finally adopted it. Manufacturers of

cocoa and chocolate, of scales and weighing machines, of biscuits, patent foods, clothing, dyes, varnlah and paints, were some of the "ploncern,”

Wholesale and retail chemists, as -woll

the manufacturing 113 chemists, were quick to follow aust. Wines, boot polish, knitted goods, klaas, bicycles, cameras, noOD CAIC under the heading of goods pro- diniced by workers employed only from Monday to Friday,

Firms which have adopted the five-day week claim to have economised on power, heat and light; to have set Saturday aside for maintenance and thus speeded up production during the other five days; to have reduced - health among the staff; decreased iateness, absentee-ism, accidents and labour turn-over and to have generally built up the morale of their workers.

A questionnaire issued recently to the leading Avo-day week firms in this country revealed that in some cases production "per worker per hour had increased by no less than one-third.

An American firm has published a long and impressive list of manufactured goods-valued at

the middle-classes, becomes' pos- sible for all.

The entire morale of the workers is bulit up in a quite amazing fashion which 15 another way of saying that they have a greater chance to learn the art of living" as distinct from the art of "existence."

Arguments are so overwhelm- ing and the benefits of two'days' holiday in seven so obvious, that I is surprising that every large con- cern in the country, to say nothing of the Government (not so surpris- ing) has not taken steps to make the five-day week the standard throughout British industry.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FEBRUARY TUESDAY,

8, 1938.

Who Makes The Rules

Of

FAR is not a game, but, like Wootball, it has its rules, and these last few years the play has been getting just as rough.

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Who makes the rules?

War?

-and who

is the referee?

destroy your idea of the freedom of the sens, which is a doctrine very dear to the Americans but, curious- ly, not to us, perhops because we have the largest navy in the world. The British Government have al- ways upheld the right to visit and search all merchant vessels under whatever flog they may sail, and in this sense are opponents of the free- dom of the seas.

But the rules lay down that this right may only be exercised in the territorial waters of the nations nt

Siheo July last year Japon has been carrying on something suspiel- ously like war in China, but accord- for ing to the rules it isn't' war, neither side has declared that they art at war. Nor has any

interna

the 1933. As you know, that conference war, or anywhere upon the high tional body or group, ke

of Nations, League

deelded that was a flop, and nothing much has beat, but not to the territorial wa-

iers of neutral States. they are at war.

been done about it since.

Its

ALL disputes could be settled by

That

is the World Court at The the passengers and crew in a place League of Nations,

of safely.

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Now another odd rule about war Now, if the Japanese declare war EVERY Httle war brings up Is that you don't have to serve no- they will be able to do

problems. You remember that tice that it Several

is coming off, things that they are now doing ille last year a British, French, and an

It is quite sporting to make u sud- gally, such as blockading the China Italian merchant ship were attacked den and unexpected declaration of const against ships of all nationall- by Spanish aeroplanes outside the war and to follow it up immediately ties carrying war materials to China. three mile limit in the Mediter with an act of war. In this way: ranean, which was quite definitely an ambassador of a foreign State For the last eighty or ninety years offside in the stame.

could march into the Foreign Office the nations seem to have been com-

International lawyers didn't with his ultimatum, and at the same ing to the conclusion that they can't know

what to do about that very time his country's bombers could stop war and that therefore they much, because there is no specifle drop bombs on London. should lay down some rules in writ- rule covering attacks on merchant ing for it.

skips from the air.

But

the Permanent Court of Arbl- they had some sort of reply, Briefly, the rules are based partly the on custom and partly on agreements for made at international peace-seeking 1930 ns London Naval Treaty of-tration set up by the Hague Confer- Iafd it down that n warship or ences to settle dispute which the conferences since 1309. The referee submarine must not sink & merchant nations did not want to fight about.

without having first placed

court became part of In any dispute in Interpreting these

with fifteen rules

All naval agreements judges and four deputy judges, and Hague.

since then have confirmed this. is prepared to decide any question But how is an acroptene bombing of International law If the nations AVEN before then men were try-

ing to do something about war, a ship going to put the passengers will only let it.

One of the most important men at for us far back as, 1130 the Lateran and crew in a place of safety. Clear-

court is an Englishman, tall, Councli declared that certain wea- ly, it can't be done, so clearly the the

should not bomb mer- soldierly-looking Sir Ceall Hurst, pons, some forms of early artillery, aeroplane

sometimes described as the ablest were so inhumane that their use in chant or passenger ships,

However, at warfare should be prohibited. (Ex- cept against the Infidels, who, obvi- the British The Hague in 1923 international lawyer in the worl

representatives proposed uusly, were beyond consideration.) that a merchant vessel must not be the man who drafted the Versailles attacked by an aeroplane unless it Treaty, which is not quite so com- Before the first two Hague Con- tuns refused to submit to search, and plimentary.

the ferences, which took place in 1800 must not be destroyed until and 1907, Europe had some sort of crew have been placed in safety.

HOMEWARDS to: The trouble with all the rules is, conscience about what you could do and what you could not do in war, of course, that if one side breaks by making rules for the conduct of and it was the business of the con- them, so will the other side, for war it? ferences to reduce that conscience to is a game without a referee. u set of rules.

Since then, of course, the rules Now, about the Japanese blockade of the China coast. It she de- have been added to from time to clares war the rules give her the time

weapons and new right of visiting and searching mer- methods of warfare came into opera- chant ships, whatever their cargoes, tion.

nationalities or destinations.

That is an old rule going back at

Da new

ALREADY

Japan hus behaved least 150 years, which may perhaps

badly indeed and has disobeyed most of the rules. She has systema- tically carried out air raids on Nan- king, the capital of China, although she had not broken off diplomatic relations with that country. She should do that first.

Then she did another bad thing! She shot the British Ambassador. That unnoyed us very much, but apart from shooting one of our re- presentatives she broke another rule.

The Japanese Justifled or tried to! justify the shooting by saying that they thought the British Ambassa- dor was General Chiang Kai-shelt. tra-

the Prime Minister, who was velling-along the Nanking-Shanghai, road and therefore they had ordered all their

to fire on airmen

any mator-car they saw on that road.

But the rules of warfare forbid any attempt to assassinate the head of an enemy country. For example, to have killed the Kaiser would have been a bad thing.

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As the British Government said in their Note to Japan, "11 is one the oldest and best-established rules

Jaw of international

that direct or deliberate attacks on non-comba- tants are absolutely prohibited, whether inside or outside the area in which hostilities are taking pince,"

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NOW, what can you say abcut. man's efforts to "humanise" war

The plain fact is that there is

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of making war decent.

It is not a game.

Emrys

Jones

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Now, the snag there is the aero- plane.

How can you bomb a town which there are enemy troops with- out hitting some of the folk who are not fighting? It reminds you of! the diflculty Shylock was placed in when he was permitted to get his

of flesh without spilling pound drop of blood. LET'S go back to the Hague Con- ferences a minute, which were organised by the Emperor Nicholas When you look at the declarations they adopted, you will be surprised how far we have progressed since those hopeful days of 1800.

the The conference prohibited launching of projectiles and explo- sives

other from balloons or by similar new methods, so they seemed Bringing Cargo from Marseilles to have anticipated the bomber.

Then they prohibited the use of via puris, etc., arrived Hongkong on

projectiles whose only object was to Thursday, 3rd February, 1938.

polson gases. After that, Consignees are hereby informed spread that their goods with the excepilon they prohibited the use of bullets of Opium, Treasure and Valuables which expand or fatten easily in the are being landed and stored into the human body, so that explains the Godown of the Hongkong, Kowloon fuss when there's talk of any na- Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- tion using dum-dum bullets. Mus- loon, whence delivery may be ob- solini accused the Abyssinians tained immediately' after landing. using them.

All claims must be sent in to me As you know, the poison gas rule on or before 14th February, 1938, was broken by all parties in

great war. So once again” the na- or they will not be recognized,

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No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

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Most charming of all the Hague inlks was in 1924. The subject was whether, after an acroplane had been disabled, you could shoot the pilot and observer who were trying to escape by parachute. They and you could not.

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subject of the bombing of open towns which goes on sally in Spain and China was tackled by the Disarmament Conference of 1033.

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