1939-07-08 — Page 8

8

THE HONGKONG- TE LEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1939.-

Watson's

HONGKONG FOOT

In handy size phial fitted

with glass applicator.

$1.00

Remedy

A non-staining preparation com. pounded according to the approved and recent formula of an eminent authority on tropical skin diseases.

immediately relieves all irritation.

. Removes infected tissue

Quickly heals the skin lesions.

THE NEW VAUXHALL

Man in Tientsin

"10" being a survey of the life and circumstances of Mr. Parker,

Petrol. Over 40 m.p.1. May we prove this? --

Performance. Maximum speed 10- 05 m.pl. Acceleration 0-30 m.p.h. In 22.5 seconds.

Kafety. Independent springing for stability. Hydraulic brakes. Safety

lans all round.

Control. Scientific, shock-free steer- ing. Synchromesh,

Comfort. Independent springing im- | proves all roads. Body conformity

luxe saloon and Coupe.)

imaginary resident in the British Concession

OUR Mr. Parker is an imaginary man living in the British Concession at Tientsin, you might have a look

at this Mr. Parker. Wars have been fought for less.

Our Mr. Parker comes out to the Far East to do a humdrum

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.testing. No-druch ventilation (de job with, say, the Asiatic Petroleum Co., the British American

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

HEAR BOTH

BOTH SIDES

OF YOUR WIRELESS SET

BY ATTACHING THE WONDERFUL ALL ELECTRIC

"GARRARD"

RECORD PLAYER

THERE'S A SIDE TO YOUR HADIO RECEIVER TO WHICH YOU'VE PROBAULY NEVER GIVEN A THOUGHT THE BACK! YET THROUGH IT YOU CAN EASILY DOUBLE YOUR ENJOYMENT. JUST PLUG IN AND YOUR SET IS AT ONCE CONVERTED INTO AN ARMCHAIR CONTROLLED RADIOGRAM!

HEAR YOUR FAVOURITE RECORDS PLAYED WITH ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF MODERN ELECTRICAL

• REPRODUCTION

AUTOMATIC and NON-AUTOMATIC MODELS in STOCK From $65.00

SOLE AGENTS

The '10' that gives most for your money.

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

Phones: 27778-9

Stubbs Rd.

The

Tobacco Co., or Imperial Chemical Industries.

It's not quite like going into the City. First, young Mr. Parker goes to school, a school specially set up to give him a rapid run through the mysteries of the Chinese language. Even when that's over he will be expected to do a little homework on that subject with a private teacher.

With him at school he will and mes training for consular posts, British officers mugging-up a language course, and mis- sionaries learning the language before going into the interior. Now things begin to get interesting for our Mr. Parker. As he becomes proficient in Chinese he is taken into his firm's

Hongkong Telegraph.offices on a part-time basis, and then he begins to learn that the

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 July 8, 1939

Munich In China

are indeed a peculiar people.

He will find that business is very different from back home. It means endless discussion, Interminable tea- drinking, and not a little bribery und corruption.

For such bribery is not shocking to the commercial" consetence of the Chinese, but a natural business asset. and a nevessary one,

by

LAWRENCE.

IMPEY

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Liable

"Of course sha's be mad, fölling her she takes an 8! You gotta spar around with a size 4 a while, then squeeze on a 6 and be done with it!"

M

Mr. Craftsman

ORE than

eighty

by

N. B. Whitestone

|blackbird's note; dilate upon our

summers, and а lesser number of winters have scorched and Now, being the Englishman very much abroad, our Mr. Parker will

wind-bitten that now silver- have been put up at the Tientsin Club for membership, for the Tlen month according to size, and fooded, nobly-shaped head. Isin Race Club, the Tientsia Country will run from £2 per month per A frail and fragile old common, plebian yearning for a Club, mid, if he wishes, the Tientsin head upwards. The Chinese stat

are responsible for their own food figure, the fleshless frame crisp-grilled, mild-cured bloater: Golf Club,

bent, not so much with the snuff together in retrospect the To the glub, then, he goes at mid- and clothing.. day to talk politics and business, to The drink bill will be the major weight of more than man's distinctive aroma of the damp make appointments, and to drink item of expenditure, us cocktail allotted span, but rather the tidy little kitchen our mutu- Kentish woods as we concoct in language that, has been employed, whatever he finds its his constitu- parties and such-like entertainments with the dire necessity of sup:ally esteemed afternoon tea of

THERE should be no grounds for misapprehension in Germany about the meaning of the publle speches made since last week by |the Pretsior, Lord Halifax, Mr. Winston Churchill, Mr. Anthony Eden and other British statesmen.

Nothing can be plainer, in the

than that the unalterable resalve of

tion and his purse.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. British people is to resist aggression import duty on whiskey is hight,

York Building

THE ONLY

AUTOMATIC

Chater Road,

PRINTING MACHINE

IN THE COLONY.

This explains why your negatives produce better prints at

QUEEN'S

PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE 22 Des Voeux Road Central, Tol. 24625 INext to Whiteaway's}

ARE YOU AWARE

that

+

when you buy a DALLMEYER Lens in Hongkong you will have no trouble with the

Customs on

return-

ing to England

WE SELL DALLMEYER LENSES

British Made

for

CINE and STILL Cameras

Denis H. Hazell & Co.

Marina House."

First Floor,

Phone 28439,

At the Race Club, besides racing. in China, where hony costs about £0 to £10, It's not a very expensive ame

are very popular with the foreign

the British Government and of the the locally, brewed beer, for the Americans, Frenchmen, Italians, Ger- and youth, of maintaining, un-

Not being very rich, he will drink communities, made up of Britons. porting an arduous childhood anchovy toast.

His kitchen reveals his one un- mans. Clynese, and-Japansee,,

robust of constitution as he is, manly fealt; it must be of hospitul a niche for hintself and his in cleanliness. our Mr. Parker, may play pelo, for find that life in many ways resembles | maturity: of bracing his kindly and meticulous konesty in a degen- A survival of unswerving integrity nature against useless brooding crating world is this kind, modest sorrow in the loss of all kithand gentle old man. and kin,

Upon occasion we clash, and his disagreement manifests itself merely A gallant old man, dapper and in a digaled and, I fear, pained bright, with no suggestion of slice, its when I venturesomely sickliness or the doddering self-advise a more worldly qutlock upen pity of "crabbed age","

This very mundane field of to-day.

Essentially non-commercial us is Mr.

and to defend the vital interests while of our Empire and of the coun- tries associated with our Mother- land in the peace front which the Government has taken the initiative in creating.

Upon this resolve every section of public opinion in the British Empire is an absolutely united that any Gov-| ernment which ignored it or deviat ed from it would court instant dis-

aster.

In the Concession Mé. Parker will

town, for the that in an English control of the area is in the hands of

British Municipal Council, with some co-opted Chinese members. Next door to the polo ground is the Country Club, a palatial building Functioning side by side with this; with dome 1,500 members, where council and its British police force. tennis, squash, badminton, bowls, and headed by an ex-official from Seol- swimming are provided, all at reason and Yard, is the British Consulate able prices.

General

The tennis subscription for ex- And on the military side of the ample, will cost Mr. Parker about Concession is the British Brigadier £1 for the season, with the use of commanding the area of North China. tennis balls, while the swimming will He has under him one battalion of be even cheaper. And the season-is-troops,at the moment the Durhams, for a full six months from April to ne company of which is always de October.

tached for duty in Peking as hard to the Embassy. When His Wife Goes Shopping

Mr. Anthony Eden expressed the pith of the matter yesterday when, A beautiful dance floor with on at Stratford-on-Avon, he said excellent Filipino orchestra is one of

the charms of the Country Club, "either all those who enjoy respon- while in the gardens of an evening sibility of power will understand lamp- tables under the starry skies afford every opportunity for a quiet that the days of smash and grab in dinner with a charming companion.

☆ ★ ☆

I endeavour to suggest a necessarily more belligerent attitude towards backsliders; to hint that be rightfully assert himself.

IN ONE of the Colony's older, ---and comfortable-houses-ito may be found. Light, filtering worded and toned excuse in extenua- "Maybe "the""response"lsTMa” gently through surrounding banyanu, tion of the delinquent cheese-parers, casts soothing greenish light but more likely a clam-like, though unoffended silence, he awaiting the upon the lofty room.

moment when I shall have realized He lives among the tools and the utter futility of my remons- appurtenances of his trade, and trances. DOWN the main street of these inanimate things, are tried

Tientsin, Victoria-road, and cherished friends.'. Europe are over, and will join to Japs Turn Golf Club his shopping if he favours foreign

our Mr. Parker will do the bulk of A black silk skull-cap sur-ALONE; a constitution never robust negotiate some system of interna-|

establishments, although in the mounts his silver, silky head; naturally on the decline; but Into Aerodrome tional order, or Europe will be

Chinese shops in the lesser streets his world-worn length of frame slightly endowed with this world's plungel into war by the next act

be will find an equally good sec- void of burdening flesh; the gods. by very reason of his nature. THE Golf Clubs was unrtion of foreign goods for sale.

Mr. guzes calmly into the popular resort untli the That of aggression.*

statement, recent troubles, when the Japaneso

And if he is married his wife win deliente, sensitive fingers of the future, whelber that future is to be although uttered by a statesman milliary sccupted it and turned it he

Into an aerodrome, desplie the pro- Chinese allk and Japanese cotton the aquiline nose, the depth of pared and entirely undismayed. without office, is an announcement tests of the foreign interests con- goods competing with British in- forehead, the open, frank regard tent to envisage its relinquishment. Content with Hitë, and equally con- ports at cut prices. of British polley already enunciated cerned,

of the keen and blue-grey eye He would seem to be unafficted with But of the moment the whole by responsible Ministers,

Probably our Mr. Parker will have No one inside or outside the Gov. spent his first few weeks as an in- situation is altered, for barricades Rive the true index to the man the apprehensive shrinking

*** { troubles the lesser mortal. He can himself. mate of a mess run by the bachelors round the Concession and Japanese

discuss the probability of his own ernment any longer belleves that of his firm, but if he prefers it or if bayonets at the few points of egress A survival of the fast dying- disintegration with an aloof dispas-, peace can be bought by one-sided he is married he will be on the logit- have ended trade,

out handicraftsman, proud of sion which at times amuses, always out for a house in either the British concession. It is all too, plain that or the French Concession,

The Chinese Maritime Customs the work of his hands, instigated Impresses, and often tugs at the heart. are under Japanese control, and are yielding to threats of force, so fur

He will prefer the former because compelled to place every obstacle in by a quick intelligence and an in a world which has treated him

the way of foreign trade, whether ever-searching brain. from securing any one against aggres the social life of the city centres

The massive, littered work sion, must only hasten the day when more there, while the French arca is import or export.

more occupied with ofces.

So that our Mr. Parker will be table would break the heart, the victims will find themselves with

Having found his house, he will getting somewhat anxious as to the had not the women of his tribe all the strategic vantage points al- engage & boy or Chinese security of his job it the economic all passed beyond. ready In the hands of the aggressors, major-tume who will be in charge pressure on his firm continues for

But a fascinating litter it is, with his own peace and quiescence, uny great length of time. That is the situation which Britain fa of la domestic arrangements.

at least to my untidy mind. and do they express the harmonious, determined to nvold in Europe.

Chaos-By The No. 2 Slender silver wires, incredibly unperturbed and undistressed accord Nevertheless, it is a situation which

Censor

supple leathors, tiny nalla and of this molèst, gentle old man? Or diminutive screws, mysterious qualities through lifelong association have their soothing or inspiring is arising in the Far East and must,

Now the Japanese censor- disembodied electrical equip-altered into his being and the in- sooner or later, be faced in this part

'ship of his lettera arriving of the world. Just as supine con-

cession at Godesberg and Munich, and

enrlier in Abyssinia and in Spain, brought about the present situation in 'Europe, so concessions to Japan in the Far East are bringing about a situation in China inimical to our Interests in the For East,

then

The "boy" will engage a cook, coolle to clean up the house or fat, the washing and an amah to do mending, and a rickshaw pulier to convey his master to and from kis office or other destinations.

Food £2 A Month Per Head

So

▸

to

..

Now

which

The enviable and benevolent calm

none too gently, in a world full to overflowing with anxiety and care he loves his tasks; has never looked may be accounted for partly in that upon them from an essentially mun- dane standpoint,

Has he Imbued his instruments

the animate?

via the Chibiese Post Office will be ment, teak, 'German-silver, de- animato Influenced so benignantly annoying him algo. For not only do licate tools, cigarettes, books, many letters fall to reach their papers, patent medicines (his] destination, even when registered,

but other peculiar fotos may befali one weakness) strew the polish-į":

ed, baize-covered tablo,

NO, living like a lord, this them,

will cost about £3 109, a

disadvantage: that concession must be one-sided.

*

M

YOU WILL not recognise this

You

sketch, yet, he has been among

mind; is with gratitude for, gifts and inercles.

One day, for example, the No. 2 month all told; the rent of the house Japanese censor reached the oftec

tis for close on thirty years; lives and may be anything from £3 to £10 first and, full of zeal, opened a bag

*

works within a stondé throw of.com- und sorted the letters into There la, In the Tokyo negotiations

and the envelopes Into another,

If and when you attend Divine ther PM's ideas are sound.mercial din

That la, they coincide with Service; if the mellow, noble swell commencing next week, a danger that

His chief duly arrived and passed mine. In spite of his year, of the Great Diapokon bids hope diplomacy may in a few hours fritter

the mail as flt for hunun consump- away the fruits of a century of pain- The Tientsin Issue is as important llon, whereupon qur zealous oficial there is not the slightest hint of arise, gives inspiration to a troubled staking Western development. The to British Interests in the Far East returned the letters to the envelopes ga-ga-ism. Japanese. are informed, are enter- as is the Danzig issle to the interests in whatever order they came to his ing the negotiation in the spirit that of civilisation in the Western world. hond.

the possession of a mind as alert muted Dulciano sooths and comforts, they are prepared to yield nothing. We have already permitted Japan. Members of the club spent a

to your direct and unknown bene and will walk out unless their deliberties of far-reaching significance, delirious half hour that day going and discriminating; as versatile, then the chances are that Mr... We chummlly agree upon the factor; that those fragile, sensitive mands are acceded to. If this repre- To permit further encroachment on round with letters in hand and nais- sents the official Japanese attitude, it our rights is merely to invite new and their best friends if thefe cogna- certainty of the eventual artist's hands have fashioned, with men was "Darling Mamle" or whe- though much protracted-down- all the skill acquired in a life-time's would be beller at Britain aban- more expensive demands,

ther they were going to keep the_ap-

apprenticeship and without "accursed pointment at six to-morrow as Jack fall of national gangsterism; machinery that lordly, gracious in doned negotiation, for she immediate-

la going to the club"

upon the superiority of the strument of Infinite variety.. ly enters the conference room at this of the Far East,

Tlentsha must now be the Munich

.

Many a youngster might envy

If the polgnant sweetness of the