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The

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Liberty or Life ?

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BONY, EMMA was pri- marily responsible for Ruthless tyranny is spreading its the regeneration of Lin toils far and wide in Europe; and Kai, Europe trembles because the policies of certain countries are not carried out in response to an un- equivocally expressed public sent ment against war, but by the dictators in whose hands lie destiny.

The cocker, inclining to adiposity like so many of her kind, was soberly and with matronly dignity lum- bering in the wake of her The weakness of totalitarianism surely lies in this power of public smartly-tweeded, fresh- sentiment.----German-and- Italian faced, white-haired, well- people as individuals cannot but set-up lady on the daily the miseries that it entalis. No tramp necessitated by the nation can be properly prepared for growing rotundity of their offensive warfare if the people are respective figures. convinced, that the cause they are p asked to support is unjust.

abhor the tights of war and all

She lagged a little behind to Conversely, Britain's strength lles sniff at the despondent,

FRONT WALK PRESSED

FOCULT OF KARLSED AB,

FLOORS

tion) with a tongue of concrete extending 9. ft. below ground-level. In the centre are drawings which explain the peculiar vulnerability of modern city architecture to high-explosive bombs. When a bomb bursts it compresses the fronts of build- ings to such an extent that the floor structures are weakened. The explosion also makes a great pocket of rarofled air, and when the force of It has died awny, the pressure of the atmosphere causes a rush of alt back to All this "hole." The result is equivalent to an enormous force of suction upon all surrounding structures, This suction is a type of strain which no ballding is designed to withstand, and is so great that it is sufficient to pull the walls outward, leaving the floors withoul support, and thus leading to a complete collapse.

BONY EMMA wasn't much of a LIN KAI'S spirits rose, with

EBONY EMMA wasn't much of a

the elasticity of his kind. At least he would have a feed-and someone ·remembered

respecting days which, even if gone forever, he still hugged in his memory

# beautiful dream.

tainly knew what defeat, poverty, him, someone from the old self- hunger and friendliness meant. That is, until Ebony Emma and Lin Kai met again.

It seemed impossible that he. could ever have been that clean- ly, obliging boy waiting upon. those self-possessed, confident,

--Read-this-intensely--human-story cheerful, and (from his stand-

from the gifted pen of Norah White- stone, the Hongkong lady whose articles exclusively appear in

in the axiom that no nation can be fully lean, ragged and unclean-Telegraph”.

Inadequately prepared for righteously figure which crouched, head defensive warfare if the people who in quivering hands, oblivious to must carry on that war are con- the passing of time or tide. vinced of the justness of its cause,

The criminal is said to be

of his former misdeeds.

In the darkest days of 1914-18 it irresistably drawn to the scene was this overwhelming feeling of righteousness among the peoples of the British Commonwealth which led to final victory twenty-one years

ago.

Never before have the people of the world been so thoroughly con- vinced of the utter futility of war. The events that have occurred in the past two decades have shown

the

Further articles by Miss Whitestone will appear in this newspaper. The

one

on this page is

point) wealthy foreigners like this Miasic Evelin, before the dis- Integration of the brick and stone, now in crumbling ruin at his fest.

fallen They had

together, he thought.

A little later, he heaved his ach-' ing form more or less erect, and languidly shambled towardi, the "yellow house".

Cookie was not too enthusiastic,“ indeed more than a little supercili ous, at the directions given as to the care of the derelict.

Gentlemen, Your Directors

Lin Kai had committed no that war does not end war, Peace crime; rather had the evils of

Is the only cure, the only solvent. society been visited upon his

It has been the British policy meek and defenceless head. throughout. It led to concessions to

Germany In September lost year The weary search for work

Have Decided"...

which brought odlum upon the Prime had continued week after week, days of carefree puppyhood, "Missie, Missie, no

All the same, ho filled him up with good food, permitted a grant. pot of hot water for the bath, and scraped up some ancient but clean- ly garments—and Lin Kaľa meta- orphosis was well advanced. work, Poor, maltreated hope, peering

Misale wanchee I. corner, yearning, but not yet dar- Plenty hotel boy no job, ing, to emerge.

done

*

Minister. It led to the rape of month after month till even to take her such delightful, ad- hotel long time shuttie door. No hesitant and timid, faltered at the Chins, the suppression of democracy in Spain, the dsappearance of Austria his elastic mind and philoso- venturous rambles in the wind- Master no and Czecho-Slovakin from the maps phical soul, it seemed a hopeless ing lanes around.. of Europe, the conquest of Abyssinia | world. and Albania. ·

Lin Kai had been genuinely Missie", There is no doubt that a war-like Up the hill he had wearily fond of the dog, and proud of "Oh, but this is absurd, you British policy would have broken crawled; and now sat sadly her confidence in him.

were always such a good boy. SHOULD you visit a curtain gar- totalitarianism and all that it stands contemplating the site of his At Ebony's exuberant re- Are you sure you've for. But n war-like polley would

den-circled cottage in the have meant war. It would have former serenity, when life had cognition he shook off a tithe. nothing wrong? How long have "Tong, the door will bo amartly meant war over the League sanctions been secure, when he had been of his desolation to return her you been without work?"

opened by a smiling, urbane figure, during the Abyssinia war, war over' clean, tidy, well-fed and well- salutation, a bleak half-omile "All time, Missie, No, no, garbed in dazzling white (the im- the return of Sudetenland, war over housed in company with his livening the wasted. features as Missie, too muchee boy, no maculate spotlessness of his cloth- Spain and war over Czecho-Slovakia, and Albania. Millions of men, wo- fellows in like case.

he gently fondled her silken work, no master no missie waning is a special prido); men and children now living would

A juvenile and sprightly jet-black Lin Kai looked with melan- length of car.

chee boy." have been dead.

cocker will investigate your creden Mr. Chamberlain has a heavy res choly apathy, half choked -with "Strange that Ebony won't And poor Lin Kai looked thals and if found satisfactory will, ponsibility. His policy of appeuse- dust, upon the desolate chaos come. She's not 28 a rule miserably away, ashamed of his with adoring, up-turned eyes, signi ment, If resurrected, may lead to the of broken brick, crumbling sloppy with strangers!" forlorn state of woe and want, fy such good news to the valued ultimate conquest by totalitarians of mortar and cement, scraps of Mrs. Evelin retraced her furtively rubbing from face and cook-houseboy-amah coolie-gardener The outcome seems obvious Few door and window frames, old steps and, Lin Kal's face being hands the traces of Ebony's of a different Missie-merely a people believe that the totalitarians metal, and all the debris of the turned in her direction, some canine affection.

physical variation, fortunately, Mra. will end their aggrandisement. I old hotel which had housed; thing in the regard of those

Evelin's Missio's heart being as they continuo they must either con-

ductible as her mother'

At all events, Lin Kai has firmly

the whole of Europe..

quer Europe, as Napoleon tried to do him for more than fifteen long anxious eyes recalled vague 120 years ago, or they must be and contented years-and'aban-, memories. stopped by the only weapon that can doned him to nothingness,

slop them-military, might.

The decision.Mr. Chamberlain

must make is no momentous, 80

"Oh, well, must see what be done. You must have can

She paused, to eye more some chow. You savvy that associated himself with such de closely the rather uninviting house over there on the hill, partments of domestic economy. spectacle; she scanned his face, with yellow curtains? Missie He is perfectly happy: eternally and startled recognition wrung stay that house, L Kal come grateful and faithful to all the The heights of Elysium wore person can conscientiously say that", come along. Ebony! her heart; Ebony, praud to there, cookin give you chow, Evolin clan and to Ebony Emma.

What are you doing!" have filled the role of go-be savvy?"

reached when he realised that his duties included the daily constitu

tremendous that, whatever courso our Motherland decides upon; no

the Premier has shirked his respon-

sibility. He has tried harder thon But Ebony had not forgotten tweed, snorting happily around.Savvy, Missie, savvy..

Pany other man in history to save the distinctive aroma of the "Lin, Kail is it you? Why come. Thank you, Missie, thank tionals of Ebony Emma's Ebony

both human ilves and human liber-old friend who had, since the what has happened?"!

velly muchee, ties, one of which must be sacrificed.

Allan.