1939-04-13 — Page 6

Genuine Peotch The New Studebaker

White Label

WIT SCOTCH WH WLAT A Dewar & Son

"White Label"

DEWAR'S SUPERIOR WHISKY

Sole Agents:A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. WINE DEPT.

TEL. 20616.

Champion will arrive in Hongkong about middle April.

Priced with the lowest this car. is entirely new, from bumper to bumper. Economy of operation combined with excellent top gear performance makes the Cham- plon an ideal car for Hongkong. THIRTY MILES

1

to the

GALLON

85 miles per hour-if you

caro to travel that 'fast,

110 inch wheólbaso-casy.

to park.

Sole Distributors:

HONGKONG HOTEL

Stubbs Rd.

GARAGE

Phones: 27778/9

THIS IS SPAIN'S LESSON FOR HONGKONG

GEM DENUMITA WAZE EXTENDING MET. BELOW ORGUNG

SALE

OF

RECORDS

"H.M.V." "VICTOR" "REX" DANCE, CLASSICAL and LIGHT MUSIC

S.

SALE CATALOGUE ON REQUEST

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

'Phone 26615 April 13, 1939

Liberty or Life ?

THE WAR MACHINES of Europe gather momentum as nation after nation mobilises its battalions of reserves, many of whose numbers were born during the terrible years of the Great War,

Ruthless tyranny is spreading ita tolls far and wide in Europe; and Europe trembles because tho policies of certain countries are not carried out in response to an un-

MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. equivocally expressed public senti-

York Building.

SKIPPER

BRITISH NAVY CU

SHILD, MEDIUM AND FULL STRENGTIT

PACKED IN

1, 2, 4 and 6 uz

AIR-TIGHT TINS

Chater Road.

HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

ANNUAL BALL

Under the Distinguished Patronage of

His Excellency Sir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.G:

and Lady Northcote at the

PENINSULA HOTEL

on

Friday, April 14 at 9.30 p.m.

Cabaret Show

and Bridge Room

.

TICKETS $4,00 EACH INCLUDING SUPPER,

Obtainable at the Hongkong.

and Peninsula Hotels.

Tables may be, booked at the above hotels.

Aures

Although the Spanish Civil War is over, the lessons of the air raid protection men- taken there which were highly successful in the sphere of passive defence -stand out none the less clearly. The shelters were made for all, and open to all, and there were no such things as private shelters constructed for privato úse alone. However, the large office buildings, blocks of fats, hotels, and 50 forth, equipped themselves with group shelters on ground-level and in their basements, on the lines of the protection hurriedly car- ried out in this country at the time of the crisis inst year. In England, sand-bags were largely used, but in Barcelona, ex- perience taught that sond-bogs by them- – selves were riot sufcient, and on this page... we show how concrete was incorporated, and one shelter (upper left-hand filustro-

ment against war, but by the BONY EMMA was pri- dictators in whose hands lic destiny. marily responsible for The weakness of totalitarianism the regeneration of Lin surely lies in this power of public Kai. sentiment. German and Italian people na individuals cannot but

in the axiom that no nation can be

The cocker, inclining to abhor the thoughts of war and all adiposity. like so many of the miscrica that it entails. No her kind, was soberly and nation can be properly prepared for with matronly dignity lum- offensive warfare if the people are bering in the wake of her convinced that the cause they are smartly-tweeded, "fresh- asked to support is unjust,

faced, white-haired, well- Conversely, Britain's strength lies set-up lady on the daily inadequately prepared for righteous tramp necessitated by the defensive warfare if the people who Erowing rotundity of their must carry-on-that-war-are con respective figures. vinced of the justness of Its cause. In the darkest days of 1914-18 it was this overwhelming feeling of righteousness among the peoples of the British Commonwealth which led to final victory twenty-one years

ago.

and Albania.

British policy would have broken

She lagged a little behind to sniff at the despondent, piti- fully lean, ragged and, unclean- y figure which crouched, head in quivering hands, oblivious to the passing of time or tide.

The criminal is said to be irresistably drawn to the scene of his former misdeeds:

FRONT WALL

·PRESSIO

tlon) with a tongue of concrete extending 9. below ground-level. In the centre are drawlegs which explain the peculiar vulnerability of modern city architecture. to high-explosive bombe. 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 grent pocket of rarefled air, und when the force of it.has died away, the pressure of the atmosphere causes ( rush of atr back to this "lible." The result ja equivalent to an 'enormous force. of suction upon all surrounding structures. This suction is a type of strain which no, building is designed to withstand, and is so great that it is sumclent' to pull the walls outward, leaving the floors without support, and thus leading to a complete collapse.

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

EBONY

'dog, any way. And Lin Kai cer- tainly knew what defeat, poverty, hunger and friendliness meant. That is, until Ebony Emma and Lin Kai met again.

Read this intensely human story from the gifted pen of Norah White- stone, the Hongkong lady whose articles exclusively appear in the "Telegraph”.

the elasticity of his kind. At least he would have a feed-and someone remembered him, someone from the old self- respecting days which, even if gone forever, he still hugged in his memory ав # beautiful dream.

It seemed impossible that he could ever have been that clean- ly, obliging boy waiting upon those self-possessed, confident, cheerful and (from bis stand- point) wealthy foreigners like this Miasto Evelin, before the dis- integration of the brick and stone,. naw in crumbling ruin at his foot They had fallen together, he thought..

A little later, he heaved his ach- ing form more or less erect, and

Further-articles-by-Miss Whitestone guldly shambled towards the

will appear in this newspaper. one on this page is—

The

"yellow house".

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

"Gentlemen, Your Directors

Have Decided"

All the same, he led him up with good food, permitted a great- pot of hot water for the bath, and scraped up some ancient but clean- ly garments and Lin Kal's meta- morphosis was well advanced..

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 that war does not end war. Penco is the only cure, the only solvent.

It has been the British polley throughout. It led to concessions to Lin Kai had committed no Germany in September last year | crime; rather had the evils of which brought odlum upon the Prime society been visited upon his Minister. It led to the rape of meek and defenceless head. Chinu, the suppression of democracy The weary search for work in Spain, the dsappearance of Austria had continued week after week, days of carefree puppyhood, "Missic, Missie, no work, Poor, maltreated hope, poering und Czecho-Slovakia from the maps month after month till even to taken her such delightful, ad- hotel long time shuttie door. No hesitant and timid, faltered at the, of Europe, the conquest of Abyssinia his elastic mind and, philoso- venturous rambles in the wind Master no Misale wanchee 1 corner, yearning, but not yet dar.

Plenty There is no doubt that a war-like phical soul, It seemed a hopeless ing lanes around.

hotel boy no Job, ing. to emerge. world.

Lin Kai had been genuinely Missie". totalitarianism and all that it stands Up the hill-he had wearily fond of the dog, and proud of

"Oh, but this is absurd, you for. But a war-like policy would crawled and now sat sadly her confidence in him.

were always such a good boy. CHOULD you visit a certain gar- have meant war. It would have contemplating the site of his At Ebony's exuberant re- Are you sure you've done den-circled cottage in meant war over the League sanctions former serenity, when life had cognition he shook off a tithe nothing wrong? How long have "Tong, the door will be smartly during the Abyssinia war, war over been secure, when he had been of his desolation to return her you been without work?** opened by a smiling, urbano figure, the return of Sudetenland, war over clean, tidy, well-fed and well- salutation, a bleak half-smilo Spain und war over Czecho-Slovakia housed in company with his livening the wasted features as Missie, too muchee boy, no maculate spotlessness of his cloth-

"All time, Missic. No, no, garbed in, dazzling white (the im and Albania. Millions of men, wo fellows in like case....

he gently fondled her silken work, no master no missie wan ing is a special pride)———- men and children now living would have been dead.

Lin Kal looked with melan. length of ear.

chco boy."

A juvenile and sprightly jet-black 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 tals and if found satisfactory will, ponsibility. His policy of appease- dust, upon the desolate chaos come. Sho's not as a rule iment, if resurrected, may lead to the

crumbling ultimate conquest by totalitarians of of broken brick,

sloppy with strangers!" miserably away, ashamed of his with adoring up-turned even, signi the whole of Europe.

mortar and cement, scraps of Mrs. Evelin retraced her forlorn state of woe and want, fy such good news to the values Few door and window frames, old steps and, Lin Kol's face being hands the traces of Ebony's of a different Missio merely The outcome seems obvious.

furtively rubbing from face and cook-houseboy-amah-coolle-gardener. people believe that the totalitarians metal, and all the debris of the turned in her direction, some canine affection. will end their aggrandisement. II

physical variation, fortunately, Mrs. they continue they must either, con- old hotel which had housed thing in the regard of those

Evelin's Missio's heart being an quer Europe, as Napoleon tried to do him for more than fifteen long anxious eyes recalled, vague

Oh, well, I must see what ductible as her mother's, 120 years ago, or they must

band contented years and aban- memorles,

no

nore:

*

tho

can be done. You must have At all events, Lin Kat has firmly some chow You savvy that associated himself with such des

stopped by the only weapon that can doned him to nothingness. stop them--military might.

She paused, to eye. Tho decision Mr. Chamberlain

closely the rather uninviting house over there on the hill, partments of domestic economy must umske is so momentous, so

spectacle; she scanned his face, with yellow curtains? Missio Ho is perfectly happy: eternally tremendous that, whatever course our Motherland, decides upon

and startled recognition wrung stay that house. Lin Kal come gratoful and faithful to all the perscir can conscientiously say that "Hme along, Ebony! her heart; Ebony proud to there, cookie give you Chow, Evelin clan and to Ebony: Emma.

2. The heights of Elyalum were the Premier has shirked his respon-

What are you doing !" have filled the role of go-be- savvy?"; siblity,He has tried harder than But Ebony nad not forgotten tween, orting happily around. “Savvy, Missle, any other man in history to save Both human lives, and human liber the distinctive aroma of the "Lin Kail is it your Why, come. Thank you, Missic, friend who had, since the what has happened?"

velly muchee,

lies, one of which must be sacrificed. Old

savvy.

reached when he realised that his dules Included the daily constitu thank tionals of Ebony: Emma' Ebony

Allan.