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TUESDAY, Armi 19, 1938.
PERENNIAL PROBLEM
People who own motor cars and matsheds and are able to make use of them through the weeks of hot weather now ap- proaching are singularly fortun- ate. There is another strata of ociety not quite so fortunate, and mainly Chinese, which is able to walk or cycle or travel by bus to the more accessible seashore on Saturday after- noons and Sundays. On Easter Sunday hundreds of these latter invaded the beaches and it must be admitted the result was not
THE "VERY IDEA"
"ALASKA AND_A-LASS,” AS ESKIMOS SAY
A
By Eddie "Below Zero" Kelly COUPLE of summers ago we land.
Now, there's a place!
were in Green-
We were boarding with a young married couple in a semi-detached igloo.
We shared the igloo with several other couples, as the refugee problem-several people like ourselves had fled to Greenland to escape Hongkong's summer-had created quite a rent problem.
The Greenland government was dickering between build- ing some more igloos and fixing the rent at 25 dried fish per month. It appeared that rent would be fixed as most of the ice was required for adding to whiskies and sodas.
In the meantime the permanent iglooltes, who were always having children, solved the problem of space by feeding their brais to dogs, otherwise, as they explained to us, they couldn't possibly and accom- ⚫modation for refugees.
The dogs were half St. Bernard, half wolf and half Alsatlan. Very savage. You had to hit them across the beak with an axe to keep them from gnawing you. It was very agnawing,
The food was plain but varied. Fried walrus one day; perhaps a bit of roast penguin the next day, or a fillet of whale. A fiflet of whale may sound like a lie to you, but up in those parts you get an appetite that a mad hyena would be afraid to howl ut.
We've eaten raw polar bear for hors d'oeuvres. Dilettantes eat them while they're still rawing.
We had to leave Greenland in the end.
•
We found that the Aurora Borealis didn't agree with us.
It tastes something like vodka, but it has a terrible effect on the stomach.
Since we returned to Hongkong, we have had to be very careful about our stomach. We can't take food, ind we are on a strict diet of whisky, beer, gin, brandy, rum and very occasionally, as a special treat, a drop of stout.
We often pine for the carefree existence of the frozen north. And beautiful Mphistitokoki.
There's a girl for you.
Her nature was so passionate that when we started clinching the
Igloo used to melt.
It seems years and years since we thaw her.
The Building
of a Battleship
By Lieut.-Commander
K. EDWARDS
and
shall
be
thumps the table in the Admiralty
declares: "There battleships. This is a delightful fiction. The decision to build even
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
40 DINE
MAN
(cupr. 1911 by Keiled Veziara Byakienda, Ana-
"There wouldn't be war scares if ALL the nations disarmed Suh!
-The Confederacy has disarmed, Suh!"
Do You
SEE ENOUGH
of YOUR SON?
By-
J. H. Storrington
one battleship is taken by the whole not Board of Admiralty only after deep Parliament and carnest consideration of barrow- loads of evidence.
because
THEN one day he asked
me something about
a horse. I gave him the first answer that came to my head. There was silence for a consider- able time, and though I con-
con-
IR PAUL LATHAM, tinued reading I became
not well Bart., M.P., has an- seious that all was nounced that he will beneath the yellow curls.
to seek re-election
I glanced his way and saw that' he the little mouth was very down wishes to spend as much at the corners and there was something very shiny about the Much of this evidence is not, time as possible with his blue eyes. I felt like a big cad, weighed son, who is now three years dropped my book and swept the Cabinet decisions regarding the state old, and will in a few years' child on to my lap and asked him of foreign relations and the justin-
expectation of peace. Then time go to boarding school. with the sad looks betokened. there
are reports from naval at-
His decision seems to have taches and from the Commander-in- Chief of foreign, stations concerning
R.N. (RCL) strictly, Admiralty evidence at all,
but concerns carefully
entirely satisfactory from the THE modern battleship costs £7,000,000-not a sum to be point of view of the "regular lightly spent, even by a Govern- customer." Scores of littlement. people scattered sand and
able
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Large partles camped right at to build a battleship involves great advances made in air power Scarborough.
rendered the battleship
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Chater Road.
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CHARGED WITH
DARK JOURNEY
paper, and got
have
weapon
"You never answer my ques-
In normal times the money the plans of other naval Powers. To evoked a certain measure of sur- tions," he said in voice that was other people and you tell them under foot.ly limited, so that the decision be considered. That is whether the miration for the member for sob, "I hear you talking with
such interesting things. economies in other directions obsolete as
Now we must be clear in our· of war. This
"I try to remember some of the door-step of the matshed-such as the curtailing of cruiser is not a question which is decided by minds as to exactly what Sir dwellers and practically spoiled or destroyer building. To-day argument. The evidence of large Paul has done. He has not given them and ask you about them numbers of highly technical experi- the day for a good many people. the situation is rather different.
ments has to be examined and im-up a career by which he derives when the people have gone, but The philosophical said: "It Rearmament is
day, and the Government has sald is obviously bad.
the order of the partially have to be kept secret. It has income, he has put aside an you answer me like a baby. I policy to broadcast interest involving a consider wanted to know if a man on a doesn't happen very often.'
that no considerations are to weigh for the benefit of other nations the able amount of work and a great Dicycle could go as fast as 2 But, nevertheless, they were against the rapid altainment of results of experiments which one be not pleased. They pay their for waste. The maximum degree of
lieves will
one to build a expenditure of time, and offering horse, and you said: 'Downhill ship the better
anybody else. little enough reward, so as to with the wind behind him..." fifty dollars a year to the security must be got out of every
If the sum totul of all these ques-give his time to his child.
That little speech and a lot without doubts to the Government for the right to penny spent, and skilled men, cannot tions points
be spared to build a ship which 25 need for the building of
I have found great happiness that followed woke me from my utter selfishness. I realised battleships shall be the scheme defence.
such a step is not for- sort. of course, that bidden by any disarmament treaty, as it has been for the last six years. Time Begrudged Then the Cabinet considers the re- commendation of the Admiralty in
security. But there is still no room
build a matshed and they pay not to contribute some vitat factor to the Admiralty will RITA WS17 making
decisions of a similar that I had invited this little man
A
contracter anywhere from four hundred to fifteen hundred
There are people who seem to think that the question of building a battle- ship is decided simply by a choleric and heavily gold-laced admiral who
the
IF we look around us we shall see how slight and
younger years...
into the world, into my house, and I was treating him as A nuisance.
So hard did remorse strike me
dollars, to erect their summer shelters and they feel they have a right to a certain amount of
light of many questions of foreign policy. If the answer remains for privacy, if not exclusiveness.
security, the building of such a ship grudging is the share of time that I actually tried to plan his But the They would have to be free or will be authorised under the Navy and thought which most fathers education at my own hands. And so they have.
I wondered if it would not be beaches are public property and they would not be used by those Estimates or a Supplementary Esti-yield to their boys in their
for whom they are intended. mate presented to Parlament.
best for me to teach him myself there can be no legislation to And finally-and this the prevent anyone who has the remedy for the whole of the But there is also the question of Until a child is five or six it is, during his prep, days. To do so energy to walk or the money to overcrowding problem-new what the new battleship is to be like according to the economic stand- entirely I found impossible be- ride to them getting what en- and bigger beaches should be only be arrived at by the considera-ing of the house, left in the cause of the need to work for my living. But I throw up golf and joyment is possible there. made accessible to the general tion of all manner of different fac-hands of its mother or nurse.
tennis and gave the time to him. There are two or three things public; or alternatively, the old tors. The consideration
before the Admirsity; not because At the age of six or seven the which might be done, however, ones made more accessible, and the Admiralty is always wanting to boy attends some school, a prep. He Had Changed
more remote resorts opened up bulld battleships, but because, were school (usually na a boarder) if to improve the situation. For for the matshed or summer it not so much time might claps there is the money, so as to pre- instance, there might be some cottage dweller. It is natural after the authorisation of
when completed. This decision
is
always
ship be.
sort of beach supervision; rules that the "bus picnicker" should for the design could be approved, pare for publle or accondary
and even then there would be a school later.
stahtly up to date on paper that a
required.
LOVE of the task grew on me, and I forsook my clubs in my enjoyment of the response which came from the
which would prevent the noma- find his way in large numbers great chance of mistakes being made. dic tent dweller from pitching to Repulse Bay, for instance, it is only by keeping designs con- In the holidays a father takes child. his camp in such a place that he and it is quite out of the ques- truly emcient ship can be built when a certain notice of the child and And I found from his frat continues his golf, his bridge, school report onwards that I had shuts out the view and the cool tion to place any restrictions in
But there are other First among the factors determin- his darts, or his club as spirit enabled him to accumulate so sea breezes from the permanent his way. inhabitant. There might be re-places, on the Island and the Ing the design of battleship are the moves him.
much knowledge and to reason ceptacles provided for the refuse mainland, where the general limitations imposed by treaty. At
His own experience, his know- so well that he took his place. these guns. Within from the feast; and somebody public has not yet made inroads, present these are 35,000 tons and 14-
dozens of different "requirements": ledge, his ideas vory rarely guide with other boys with consider- to see that they were used for and which might be reserved do the purpose. And there might for the more well-to-do who have to be juggled about before it is the lad, and the understanding able advantage.
His first holidays were at once some sort of structure to desire privacy and are willing to certain that the design will be a com- and affection between father and
be
Inch
limits
serve the children in search of a pay for it. It is suggested in promise giving a maximum possible aon only occasionally rank with the saddest and the happiest derived from theme requirements are drawn from those between mother and son moments of my life. I tried to
which the
efficiency in every department.
different sources. In the Brat
to
public convenience, and some-all seriousness that the revenue body to see that it is used for which is
communities might place there are the plans of foreign Now, speaking of normal renew the old relations, to search the purposes for which it is in-matshed tended. These are matters in very well be spent for develop. navles. It is obviously useless to cases, there is, in my opinion, no his mind for the marks of the
build a ship which will be
Inferior authorities could ing beaches and plenic places to those with whom it may have tutor in the world from whom a new experience and smooth or exort themselves without hurt for the less fortunate among the fight. Then there are the findings boy can learn so much as from deepen them with my mature
the results of
of war his father. I had this brought knowledge. I suggested some of ing anyone's. feelings. There is people of this Colony. Perhaps deduced from
the games we used to play. another suggestion, too, which in such a schema is the seed for games and fleet exercises carried out. sharply to my notice when my
From these
the Commanders-in- own boy was about six.
But something was amiss. is put with some tropidation, the solution for a perennial pro- Chief have formed the opinion that for it is by way of being a blem which commences to be the ideal battleship shall have cer- I was fond of the little fellow, Ho had changed. He sought the luxury plan. But it would be a distinct nuisance to a good fan qualities of speed, armament, naturally, but he irritated me as friendship of other boys and his enormously useful if plenic- many people and which eventu taction, and steaming radius, much as he evoked my affection. conversation loft me no open- places, at a little distance from ally will be really serious unless
Then the technicians step in. The His eternal questions interrupted ings. Daily he left me for other the beaches, could. be provided, Hongkong grapples with sunnery experts will advocato cer- my reading and other pursuits. Company.
(Continued on Page 8.) with trestle tables and benches, determinedly.
it
facility in manoeuvring, armour pro-
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