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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 10, 1940.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

+25

GONE

ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE

And Gone with them are the old- fashioned methods of waxing the carriage.

Have you been using the same auta Wax for years simply through Don't use a force of habit?

horse and earrare auto wax.

to

It fa no longer necessary to work all day, to wear yourself out. RUB and RUN, in order to attain a waterproof, weather resisting wax

finish for your car.

MAN UNDER FIRE

EHOLD the man who where he was first post-war pre-

had the job of giving sident of the Union.

us guns himself fac-

ing gunfire.

IN politics he was first

a fervent admirer of

The Liberals supported the

The breast of Mr. Leslie Hore Lloyd George. Belisha, our Minister of Waris

10 the cannons hared Chamberlain.

of Socialist Government in 1924; still supported them in Opposi- an anti- Try WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX He is assailed by colleagues. tion. Belisha began

within the for longer lasing beauty for your There have been complaints that Socialist crusade automobile and leas work for you. Your waxing troubics, like the horse Mr. Hore-Belisha shows lack of party. In the 1931 crash prac- and bugey, will be

tact in his activities. Resigna- tically the whole Liberal Party Conations were said to be inevitable crossed over to support the Finally. If he was not dismissed from the National Government.

there emerged a new parly, the War Office.

The

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Stubbs Rd.

But there you are. How much Simonite group, which secured attention shall we pay to the Cabinet places out of all propor- Bellaka, From time tion to its numbers. present situation? to time the lobbies at Westmin- who had worked tirelessly, was Ester are filled by people scurry- not among them; but he found ing hither and thither, to and himself junior Minister at the fro, telling the reporters in con- Board of Trade.

Then began that long, long dence that they mean to resign

not done. wait on the doorstep of the if something is Usually nothing is done. And Cabinet. Knock, knock, knock no more is heard of the resigna- Belisha broke his knuckles on that portal for many a weary month and year.

Thongkong Telegraph. tions.

Wednesday, January 10, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

THE pre "Spectal to the Telegraph" Is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph in indicate fiews which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommun

2530. Ruch news cations Ordinance, bears the indication "P" is received in on the date of publication by tonited Press Associations, who tr serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.

Help For Finland

Doubts about what could be being Finland are done for

From

speedily answered. The will to help is finding the ways. all sides aid is promised. Some, like the League of Nations' con demnation of Russia, niay not seem to count much in the cold and dark of the Arctic region around

count.

Here are the complaints that have been made against Hore- Belisha. It is alleged:

Often the door was opened. But it was always another who passed through to the Promise:l Land,

1. That he misled the coun- try, the House and the Cabinet

When Mr. Hore-Belisha be- over the progress of rearma- ment and the supply of anti- came Minister of Transport he called in Eddie Cantor to assist aircraft guns.

2. That he should not have him. But the Prime Minister of

purged the Army Council and the day, Lord Baldwin, did not

old men to the call in Mr. flore-Belisha. sent the guillotine,

IT is said that Mr.

ONLY three years ago,

in 1936, wearing the

Belisha doesn't get to mantle of the prophet in the the War Office until pretty late shape of a cockeit hat and knee- in the morning.

To 1

breeches, did he go to Bucking- The earliest he is reported to ham Palace to take oflice as a ed Minister, when the Transport have got up for some time was Privy Councillor and fully-fledg- at 8.30 a.m.

Twenty years ago Leslie Hore- Minister's job was stepped up Belisha was a subaltern. Eleven to Cabinet rank.

Express So far his two great achieve- Daily years political reporter. In 1923 he ments have been to put up the entered Parliament with the boncong and to knock down the generals. Capable, determined, Disraeli ideal before him.

ng his ambitious, inflexible, gazing at To-day, greying, Majesty's ex-Secretary of State the statues of Disraeli which bitter for War, he has vacated the decorate his study, he marches This is not the first attack Whitehall desk that once was forward to his destiny. Kitchener's. ag a Canadian_news-* paper put it, he could press one which has been made upon our War Minister. Whether he is of four buzzers and order a

to right or wrong. I know not. But my guess is that Master whole platoon of generals come a-running."

Belisha rose to the rank of Belisha will go marching on. major at the war, and after-

in the Petsamo or even struggle on the Karellan Isthmus where for nearly six weeks the Finns have been holding the Red Army. But moral support does And it is being backed with men, money, and machines.

British and Italian planes have been arriving in Finland. Swedish help, played down under Stock- holm's neutrality policy, takes the form of men and materials. American money, both through governmental credits and through the Hoover relief fund, is begin- ning to flow.

To Finland, perhaps even more than lo Belgium during the World War, democracy opens her heart. Here has been found an outlet for that warm desire to help fellow

men.

wards went back to Oxford, John Hampden

Nor will there be any quibbling over the probability that such aid behind the lines will strengten the whole Finnish front. In this case the issue is clear. Few will disc agree with the radio appeal of the Finnish Parliament: "Our light

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"You better call Grandpa-ho knows more about this than I do!"

The Navy

Wives Sit

Waiting

by Anthony Cotterell

OTHING much hap-

N pened at this

back to

school. haven't yet gone They are gelling troublesome for Mr. Archer, the lown crier and beach

ranger, but Mr. McManus, the school attendance attendance oficer, finds rates higher among those who have Kone back.

Mr. Balls, of the Regent Cinema, finds trade slightly up, but with a higher proportion of takings from the cheaper seals.

However, trade in general has

make up for the people who have gone. Except for the pubs.

Coast port between taken a dive. The newcomers don't I thought there might be another this war and the last.

But now the place has been sudden-

exception in women's shops For ly jerked to work and filled with mcn

He is on the upbeat for local girls, Admirera....ubound....... Demand exceeds and movement.

The port has been taken over by supply. The girl are having a won the naval and military authorities derful time. Survivors are landed there. Mine-

sweepers

and destroyers go out.

with a price range of about 10%- Troops tramp through the tiny streets B. At Victor's, dress shop 30, they say that trade is very bad. · at night.

Go for a walk along the front, and Partly because many local girls are likely as not, if you are a stranger, now in uniform. Local hairdressing you will be stopped by a military trade is sald to be down about 50 per pallceman and asked your business cent

i was.

£1

Odd skelight on the local trade Harwich is an old town with situation is the arrival of Perelval from modern port at Parkeston Quay and a Fitchew, age thirty-seven,

cale for modern section at Dovercourt which Stratford, E15, to open is trying to develop as a seaside re the Services

He openal bis first cafe about a sort.

ellentele Total

year ago and developed a

which local. Territorials mong brought him £100 a week turnover. rising to £100 when he was catering for the troops under contract,

13,000; population about mostly employed on the railway, in the Customs and Excise, as Trinity House pilots, as shermen or in a factory making naval uniforms

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He has left his wife at home to run

E town clerk estimates that get-itis other business and has come down ting on for 2,000 people have left with his Max Baerlike friend, Bill the town, mostly transferred clse-Fowler, who is helping to fix the where when the port was closed to place up and who says: "Sure there's MOST of us

walking, le as you walk, you will be weaken-private traffle: Bat there have also a need for it. There's always bound to be Londoners about, and they al- more now that the price of ing this most important mechanical been many arrivals.

part of walking.

The hotel where I stayed would ways wanta bile before bed. Tea petrol has been doubled.

And we shall be all the fitter for It is a curious fact, but ploughboys normally be practically dead. But nad n pie, a nie and chips--they all

1 in

up the evenings." now the lounge is chattering with it if we realise that we are doing offen develop flat feet, caused by

Local sorlat-life has changed. One ourselves a power of good.

placing their feet each side of the Navy wives, the bars are jampacked, But we will only reap the full furrow, as "paddling" rather than The wives tend to be young and Index is the reporters' diary of the benet of our walking we walk walking. People who have to stand anxious. They sit there knitting and focal paper. For this week there properly. So I will tell you first a lot, such as policemen, cometimes doing crosswords and talking with the were scheduled two sales of work,

"I'm dance. how to walk the right way then so weaken the ligaments of their feel airy know-it-all confidence of young a whist dive and the football club

that their arches give.

wives. Recurring remark:

For the corresponding week Inst If you have tendency to this First, walk with your toes pointing

sure he'd have rung me up by now if why it is the right way.

year n club dinner, a football match, almost straight forward. Do not rub trouble you cannot do better than a ship had been in." one foot against the other, like a practice the well-known exercise-

There is something very clean and a funeral, two political meetings, the Deanna Royal Navy Old Comrades Associn- or spiny them outwards like a stand with toes pointing straight in charming about them;

which makes tion meeting, two sales of work and front and raise yourself on your toes, Durbinish freshness

them look as well scrubbed as their lantern lecture.

There are fewer formal events, but Step out femly, making the length asy, a dozen times morning and even-

Informal getting together. The East Coast is awfully near more of your stride as long as is comfort-Ing. If you don't suffer from self-husbands chips. able, and allowing your body to consciousness, you can even do it

while waiting for a bus.) Involves defence

"Irople who used to say, "There he of a causo

swing sideways with each step.

You should not "Lake off" from the It is pretty obvious why you should Germany. But people are unaffected People are more human.

by fear of air raids or Invasion,

"People round here aren't easily is, going in the Royal Oak again. common to all humanity." The

Inner side of the foot, but from the hold yourself straight, with "open" centre of the sole-If anything, slight-shoulders. As you walk, you Finns recognise that they have no

asking your heart to do more work, scared," they tell you. They tell you I'll be his ruin, now say, 'Hullo, go

aut

anywhere but here they are ing in the Royal Oak? I'll come, ly from the outer side. cholce. But they are right insel along by the action of your calf

As you (more or less) push your-so it needs more good fresh air.

Give it all you can by holding strengthened by experience in the too."

last war. Typleal comment calling themselves an outpost of musales, you should allow your an- yourself straight, breathing freely, Meg. Versey, buxom, bespectacled LOCAL people are doing a lot for

kles to move freely with each step. and looking in front of you, not down

"It's not much different housewife! Western civilisation.

Your toes also assist in this process at the ground. by bending on the foot with each Another reason why you should from the last one. Less doing, in hood.

bold yourself well is that the small fact. No one likes it this side or the They have a right to expect step you take. those who value liberty, havour.but not rigid, shoulders back, so that to get muscular trouble that is, lum-ch?"

As for your body hold it straight, of the, back in where you are Hable other. Good thing when it's over, religion, democratic Institutions, you can fill your lungs easily. Let bnge. So if you find yourself stoop- TIERE is no emergency atmosphere were four soldiers and five lady

your arms swing freely.

about the local weddings. Photo hielpers, but they told me it hart been homes everything civilised peo- And now for the reasons. First, as When you first increase the distance

Local sports clubs are running you walk dally, you will quite pro-grapher Maude Robinson finds bust-crowded. to the feet.

A famous surgeon maintained that bably find yourself a bit atlit in theness about the same as usual; and the

football club. Tectotal Admission the power to point the big toe up- lege, the back muscles, and over the bridal groups' staple topic of conver-dances. I went to one run by the

Perhaps you will then faation is still the old 'one_pbout how ind.. About 150 there.. The danc wards is one of the most important shoulders.

11 about 300 many there were in the church. struggle. And even those who nasets to good walking; for, as your bellove that you

There are 200-300 unemployed in was wholthearted.

Football in the main community: foot leaves the ground, your too muscles in walking-20 to keep your would not support the armed part should be bent on the foot This head balanced on your trunk, and the district, about the same as this

function is most important, because about 100 to keep your back straight time last year, But they are getting interest of the town. Twice in three absorbed, many in minesweeping recent years Harwich, and Parkeston of that struggle have an oppor-it brings muscles into use which as you step out.

sirengthen the arch of the foot. (Try The others you use in moving your which brings a deckhand or fireman F.C. reached thie first round proper tunity to ald. For others, the and you will see how much arms, legs, and chest.

about £4 a week, including the extra of the FA Cup. This year they had

high hopes of doing it again. NIZ So, if anyone tells you that walking 2x a day risk money. energy given to hating could stronger your foot feels nt -

moment it leaves the ground),

not a good form of exercise, ask Another unemployment problem is Here ends this winter's tale of Harsussen the children; there are 1,000 and some wich And, if you turn your toes out or him if he knows a betier.

| ples hold sacred”-to porcolve that

they have a stake in the Flenish

better go into helping.

Ing, straighten up.

from

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service men in the neighbour- Example: The Y.M.C.A.

When

I In the Congregational Hall, ning a canteen and recreation centre. went there on Friday night there