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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1939,

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Britain's Policy

MII.

Time was when the mention of

Midst

by

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Camp conjured up pleasing is performed by the refugees them- visions of a peaceful. Thames selves, and a most creditable per- side retreat, the picturesque far- fucmance it is; an object lessun of the results obtainable from capable away, unpronounceable and un- and efficient management and willing spellable Adirondacks, the lum- co-operation on the part of the in- berera of the Canadian back- mates,

woods, the youthful, useful in-, No one sits in despondent' idleness, dependence of the Boy Scouts. brooding upon the terrors of the

Unhappily, the recrudescence

past or in apprehension of the future. of the activities of the mailed of resigned apathy nor

The spirit of the people la not one of thinly- fist has violated such pleasant veiled hostility or resentment. I was recollections. "Concentration" greeted everywhere respectfully and now seems an inseparable con- cheerfully. comitant of the word "camp," The people are encouraged and with all its sinister significance, given facilities to search for to the utter confusion and amni- quickly surrounded and congratulated ind the lucky bearer good news la hilation of soothing memories. by his fellows, in refutation of the theory that "we shall never get rid of them."

Take this question of Russia, for instance. The British people are not interested in whether the Russians subscribe to an ideology differing from their own. What they are in the terested in is the fact that, since the Bolsheviks came to power, history has proved that Russia is a peace-

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mocracy if we refuse, as a quid pro defend Russian Ideology

quo, to against eggression.

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"He wants to look at me through an X-ray machine-if he's as smart as old Doc Smithers was I should think he'd be able to guess what's wrong with me!"

MR. PEPYS in

HONGKONG

And

HAD heard much rather subter- ranean, gosalp; had read disturbing and subsequently discredited reports, TANTERING Ward A2 the eye The refugees were harshly trented; struck by a shining oblong mirror the refugees were

28th-Seeing that last night the with light fogge but no rain, and I doe pampered; the Colony should care for its own: all upon the wall, decorated with a (to weather and been fair, though cool, read Atalanta in Calydon" in my comers should, for humanity's suke,

all me) indecipherable inscription. when, I did wake I was much at a garden, beating time to the choruses, be accommodated; the Colony Was

stonde to And It appears that there is intense falls heavily.

that the

rain which I doe rend aloud, until I dor overflowing and newcomers should competition to house this ceremonial

Though indeed. I put my god-son John in fear of his CHAMBERLAIN'S Govern-be returned from whence they came, glass, even temporarily, it being the ad warned all my friends the night life. To nuncheon where two of ment has two voices.

regardless of blast and bomb: the weekly reward for the best kept hut, did presage rain, for it ached sadly. hockey and the other, as I believe. my before that

that my rheumatleis shoulder guests doe faile mee, one playing at Internationally, the policy of pro-health, and thus ad infinitum,

camps would be menaces, to public and is contended for with all the To erastination which began with Spain

excitement and healthy rivalry of my office where I did order my hookey, though shee did claim to bec

papers and

and then fell to reading of sick. However one comes, and later is cousing great harm to Britain.

entries for the King's Cup. So, seeing Mel-Mel cheerfully dis- posed, I exercised two of my half-

the newes-sheete, but Lord! I am her Lord and A purser from the dozen words of Cantonese, and en- voice (except in play) came from an in which the Labour party doe seek dinner after which wee dae settle the The only disturbing note or raised high to vomiting at the factious way guardship and so a pretty merry quired the entrance.

whereabouts of the irate and vociferous old man who to avoid Conscription which is long future of Europe, And so to bed.

was fiercely complaining that some-ove

loverdue, being in fear of their one had solled his nice clean floor and did bring us to a sorry stonde in the some good friends of mine. The strictly utilitarian aspect of night disqualify his hut.

1st, May. To office and after to the precious unions which more than once German Clubbe where I doe meet exterior gives no hint of the

Great War. For still wee do seem to though our countries may have dif- LOY

with our fantastick ideals of ferences I am not minded to let them some fifteen years gone when men did believe that decomposing mass busy in the office with

deter from my friendships. Very Once my credentials had been care- A BAND of healthy-looking, sun- the League of Nations to bee of some

With my papers and musi tanned youngsters play basket-avail. And Heaven alone doth know there

needs take my nuncheon satisfaction of the discreetly veiled `ball.

how many men

#1 five shall soon perish for Mistress M. to the

doc take surprise at my entry, sumelently

this political flatulence. For

pictures. But Over the way girls and

in these Lord! Shee will not to Kidnapped sailing. hinted at my purpose, all was plain up, standing well to attention under shrewd blow with

boys line duys wee

are come to see that a in which I did

the foot in

hope to see Aubrey the the guidance of a physical instructor, small clothes of your

orey Smitil, but must needs goe

clsewhere. Camp Superintendent and the Visiting God Save the King" in-so I was Jay returns and with him Mr. Nick, disgruntled so to Repulse Bay for our I was warmly welcomed by the singing of Chinese action songs and and visionary Cecil. This day Mr. A. by setting down. Shee too is pretty opponent is and what I did think of the picture Their performance ends with the worth all the

verbiage of Superintendent, both of whom most given to understand English.

stupid

I will not sully the pages of my diary courteously escorted me on this en- lightening tour.

and they did eat their nuncheon with dinner where the rain falls mighty mé. Home pretty betimes and so to heavy but later stops and so wee doe These musical efforts were ably bed. and amusingly conducted by a small

come home dry. And I am minded blue-clad girl who displayed all the 20th-A most foule day, the rain to go there again when the weather aptitude, including the physical vigour, falling about eight of the clock as bee fairer. A WIDE gravelled compound-rather of an incipient Leopold Stowowski.

heavy as possible. AB the paths be downpoure-partly occupied by long sticky, it is true, after recent

streams and all the nullahs torrents, by the time I doe reach my office 1. 2nd. May. Down by Tramme and timber buildings, the lofty rafters classroom, furnished with bright new I am come to my office and do off all must change every garment. But In-the-airy, cheery, trim and tidy I-am-soaked to the skin long before am all of a much sweate, so that I If, through Mr. Chamberlain's pro-ereosoted; conspicuously

and unencumbered walls pleasantly polished desks and forms, the child-my garments, and praise Heaven I after I bee at my papers for an hour

new and Ten daily gather for instruction, the doe keep a dry store below. To an crastination, Russin is lost to us, or clean cement floors.

limited accommodation at present official receptioun but Lord! the man clothes mat needs do on worma is thrown into the arms of Germany,

clothes. Did take my nuncheon at available necessitating relays of the who did build houses two hundred the hostelry with Mr. Niele and Mr. the result to

Upon each side a row of double- searchers after knowledge. democracy will be decker beds, each with gally-coloured

above Conduli Road would erect A BLEPA catastrophic.

food villas upon the peaks of Hell! Yet Jay, they eating Chinese grassmat, covered with unsolled, neat A workshop where brooms, doe suppose they were built in the my chyrurgeon doth forbid mee all which makes me mighty envious na and tidy brown blankets.

brushes, matting and baskets are pro- good days when there were few but chicken or Ash. duced.

motor cohches and no framck Watch. At Ave

plainly No liter, nu unsightly garments

cooked. um bidden to sprawl, but here and there a well-

when men did live more leisurelynt My Lord's, but doe hold the most The isolation ward, fortunately

play at cards goe about in redan chairs. And foute cards and I doe not sin a rub. washed little towel beside the owners with but few patients.

dor verily wish that I had spent my ber. Cost mee twenty-five shilling. The gleaming, dispensary, dustless service in this Colony in those good fowever the biggest winner did very resting in peace, but the majority are white enamelled shelves; the alert simple

Occasionally an occupant is found rows of glittering bottles upon the spacious days when life was but a courteous! lend mce his car to yo

matter and these young out and about upon the compound, and pleasant girl dispenser still hard wenches did not dance the Can-Can my house, and then to dinner with washing, cleaning, playing, sewing or at work. Here the children are flome to my nanchcon, a thing I have

even if they did live in the Nineties. My Children and so to bed. weighed weekly, and from the num- ber of fat and sunny little faces which not done on a Saturday these many The whole of the work entailed in I saw around, I was not surprised to weeks and after sleeping and reading the maintenance of the camp, with hear that the dial oscillates in a high- the exception of the contractor's ly satisfactory manner.

30th. (Lord's Day)-Up betimes and ordering my chamber and indeed a cold when upon a June day these cooks and the Camp Superintendent,

several years wee did mast of the house for I doe perceive Mr. E. Mitchell his house in Shek O

have

д fire in Hot baths are provided once that the boys and coolie bee grown while wee did listen to the broadcast week and more often if individual most monstrous idle. A damp day of a Test Match. To my office and circumstances necessitate. Abundant Many people believe that some. Water for bathing and washing.

reading in the newes sheetes 1 doe for the democracles. thing is happening which bodes In

And one more aire-crash in Malaya of the comestibles served have been where it seems the sky doth

rain

air- the subject of strict and careful in that it were better for the rest of craft at times and it In my mind investigation, with a view to providing that

the uttermost value for money. Fur- the populace that they dog teach

He is grateful only for assistance and

is ready to give that same assistance lo-his-assistant. So it should be with nations.

Mr. Chamberlain had the support of the bulk of the British pubile in his polley of appeasement. We swallowed the German seizure of Sudetenland, much against our con- bec selence, because we believed that it

pence.

would pave the way to an era of We looked with hope to the policy of appeasement. Had it suc

ceeded, Mr. Chamberlain would have gone down in history as the greatest peace-maker of all time.

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3rd.--Up very betimes and as cold

a day as ever I doo remember after

the first of May, or so it seems upon

the Peake. Yet it may bee it was

ng

Appeasement has failed. Now ugly rumours arise that, despite the announced Cabinet change in inter- national polley, Mr. Chamberlain still flets with Hitler, with Mussolini.

The Premier's past record gives his tritics this weapon. He falled demo-

bulwark, cracy's

League the Nations. He failed democracy in Foreft his resigned from the Soviet TO THE Dining Hall. With Spain. He falled Czecho-Slovnica.

Foreign Commissarship. But every- huge family of some 1,000 people All those fallures could have been body who has studied the man must (of both sexes and forgiven, in the light of what we realise that Britain bas lost its most must be served in relays.

ali nges) meals for efforts are made to serve such these young men to fly before they foods as can, when the refugees even- may go joy-riding in a plane. But. now know about Britain's defences, powerful friend in Russia.

I attended tually return the children's scasion.

to their homes, be whether it bec due to rubber restric had

tion or no I cannot toll. This even- Mr. Chamberlain

readily obtained In the villuges; pursue

They marched in

valuable information should have ing to Dr. S. Strahan's farewell party course such as he announced orderly, eager, clean and cheerful; been obtained by them as to food and Lord! how old it makes me to

values and possibilities.

feel for I doo recall his coming, in the German rope of Czecho-Slovakia. recognised, not something, that time but here and there a peaked litte

1910 a 1 doo believe, and now he Instead we have had, like the Cabinet's change in International

goes. But I had been here five years in 1010 and know not when I shall policy, under cover diplomatie act-

depart. So I become

somewhat vity that is terribly and dangerously belated and slow.

or two of strong waters and so doe melancholique until I doo pass to Mr. Lofty's party where I drink a classe

recover my spirita somewhat...

un

active

to Internationally, the harm caused ssion by the British Cabinet's colour blind-

Jean completely cure.

two by two,

face, from which time has been yet The damage done to British pres, the recent past.

insufficient to efface the terrors of ge by acquiescence in the rapes of Abyssinia,

Spain, Czecho-Slovakis

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and Albania is reflected in the Inck tables; four long rows of quiet, busy poorer classes in the mass cannot be Two long rows of well-scrubbed THE CAMP is a declaive negation At Home, a Ministry of Supply was of confidence left by the smaller little feeders.

of the theory that Chinese of the grudgingly created, and shorn of all Powers In any British undertaking- its powers. Although Mr. Winston a lack of confidence markedly ex-

kept clean and orderly. Here they Churchill was the obvious choice,

No quarrelling, pressed by the fact that, so far, the pushing. No hint

no shoving or are encouraged to take on active and

4th-This day dawns worm but foggy, Having ordered my papera t at Its head. Two of Britain's

doo call upon the captain” of the accept Britain's offer of assistance a well-conducted school. A few most brillant parliamentarians- against

Efficient control there is and must inter to hold some discussion in the King's Great Shippo Medway, and both in the vanguard in ward-

GEXTCSSOTS

Poland, smiling, neatly dressed young women be, but to the uninitiated it is un- are Rumenia and Greece, ing of the Totalitarian perf-are Mr. Chamberlain's own record of tiny, hinting as to table manners; one lone Chinese policeman at the and home early and so to bed.

stroll here and there, helping the perceived and unobtrusive; there is wardroom upon an old point of naval history. Very busy all day and Mr. Churchill should obviously to put it mildly-mistaken judg- keen of eyo and quielly eficient. be in the Cabinet at a critical ilmement, combined with the absence

comparative nonentity was placed only countries who have consented to anywhere. The atmosphere rather of life.

of compulsion Intelligent interest in the communal

omitted from the Cabinet. Mr. Eden

gate.

Of late the head of many a Briton

If mine was among the number,

WOMAN OPERATES

MINE

like this, if only to assure the Bri-from his Cabinet of the very parlia- the airy, well-kept and odourless must have dropped in humiliation.

I saw the food In preparation in 1ish public and, more Imperiantly, mentarians whose Inclusion would kitchens, where great piles of glant the smaller nations, who would re-correct the rumours that he still has cabbages were shredded, huge heaps then the Government of Hongkong rognise the significance of the inclu-leanings towards the dictators, place of beans chopped. alon of such out-spoken critics of serious obstacles in the way of the Nazliam and Fascism.

has done mo signal service. rapid building up of a firm front I was shown a specimen menu of In the international sphere, the against aggression,

Leaving King'e. Park, I felt up

Jessup, Pa. secrecy that has surrounded negotia-

fish, red and white rice and veget- rising pride in my nation; in a coun- Joseup widow, belleves she is the Those obstacles must be overcome able, the fish being varied by most try which can, ublazoned and in only woman anthracite operator. She Mrs Aanu Sklepko, 24-your-oki tions with Soviet Russia is so ominous Y a much firmer display of British that British people may be excused Leadership than has been apparent I know little of the mysterious vita- modest allence, muccour the unfor Is the head of the Enkulenko Conl for wondering whether the Premier since Poland joined the anti-aggres- min but was assured icy the obliging tunates of an allen race will such Company, which employs 20 men and is pursuing an entirely honest polley, I sion, bloc.

superintendent that the food values undeniable ability and humanity, mines 35 to 40 tons of coal a day,