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[no sentiment is to be allowed in the matter of war debts. The payment of these debts is already proving that if Norman Angeli was wrong in his original pre- dietion, he was not very far out. War-the great 'Illusion!
Earthquake Disaster.
recalls
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
NOT HONGKONG. Hong kong state of existence when the leav
This is not as may be that we shall reach that" story Anyone mig of a large fortune will be con- thinking it refers to him will bo sidered a disgrace, and when prosecuted for libel
those who have left but small A Government servant, who is sums, will have been deemed to partial to his dip, received à mes-havo got the most out of life.
Sir Claud Severn is
The disastrous seismic disturb-sage to call on a manufacturer ance at Santa Barbara, in South- who had just secured a big Gov. ern California, photographs of ernment contract. The pompous A RECORD.. likely to go down in which have appeared in the individual arrived expecting the
local history as the "China, Mafl,"
the usual bottle of whisky, but was holder of an interesting record. earthquake which.
together invited to join the head of the It seems true to say that no one with the great fire that accom-firmi in a cup of tea. With a cart has Administered the Govern- panied it, laid San Francisco in refusal he turned on his heel, but ment more often than he has- ruins 19 years ago. In the latter was recalled by the manufacturer and, it might be added, as well as case buildings covering some and handed a parcel which ap- he has.
Next to being a Gov- 2,000 acres in extent in the very peared to be a box of cigars. But ernor, this is perhaps the best heart of the city were destroyed when he opened the packet he thing that could have happened. This was one of the greatest catas- found 60 advertising blotters with But it is only bare justice to sug- trophes in history. The total loss calendars three months old... in damage to property on that; occasion has been variously estim-
gest that nothing would give the Colony greater pleasure to hear
It is more than that the closing periods of Sir ated at from £70,000,000 to THE SANDWICH. Hikely that the Claud's service had bean crowned £80,000,000. Santa Barbara," the
ever popular with a Governorship. Sir Claud scene of the latest disaster, is one sandwich was much in evidence has brought to his labours those of the most popular health and during the early days of the characteristics associated with the pleasure resorts on the Pacific strike. The Hotel's "statistician" character of a British gentleman." Coast. It is, of course, a much failed to tell us how many were With it all has been a cheeriness, smaller city than was San Fran- consumed and to what length affability, and a sense of the cisco in 1906, But if, as is they would have reached, placed humorous in life, which has stated, the damage occasioned by one on top of the other. The touched an answering chord in loss of property amounts to sandwich, we were aware, was the others... Sir Claud la due for £10,000,000, it is relatively
23 invention of a former Lord Sand. Home leave in December when he great as that sustained by the city wich, but who was responsible for will join Lady Severn and their at the Golden Gate. Happily the the club bandwich?
children. It was Str loss of life appears to have been Alan Johnston, the diplomatist, inconsiderable, all the circum- who married Miss Antoinette
The practice of keep- atances considered. The number Pinchot, sister of the Governor of A DIARY. ing a diary should be reported dead is 12 only, but over Pennsylvania. Sir Alan was, a hundred persons are said to at
encouraged. Hong- the time, Secretary have been injured.
of kong devotees of Pepys' 'great Even the the,
British Legation at classic will cordially agree. Sir material losses which the citizens Washington. It seems that one Almeric Fitzroy kept one and the of Santa Barbara, have sustained night he went late into the Metro result is a wonderful array of must excite the sympathy of the politan Club: the batterie de stories and incidents. civilised world,
Of course, the cuisine was not in working order, Labour is so much in evidence. city will, as did San Francisco, and he went off to investigate the these days, the following not which was re-built in three years, refrigerator: rise like the fabled Phoenix from sandwich was the result!
The famous club merely relating to John Burna, its own ashes.
Hon. but also to the vexed and dropped our to whom honour is dye!
aspirate, are amusing:
Class War Evils.'
..
When
Burns, on being told that Lloyd George had made him- self very popular at Balmoral, replied, "I ear Lloyd George ` has a 'ousemaid's knee from cringing to Royalty."
And:-
The Irish question was the subject of discussion, when Burns broke in, "If you tell Redmond to go to 'ell, he'll come to 'eel."
When we are all feel- A LITTLE. ing a little tightness, So much for the personal qua to read that a former Attorney... it seems refreshing tion in leadership. Mr. Havelock Wilson, the honoured president of General of this Colony, who has the British Seamen's Union, has recently died, left only £120, with, stood for co-operation between em- personality £16. It may not seem ployers and employed, for concilin- "refreshing" for any relatives Bion and harmony, with the result, left; but we speak generally. that last week in London the ship George Bernard Shaw is supposed owners and the Soumen's and Fire-to rise refreshed and satisfied men's Union shared the expense of from a meal of a banana, 4 dinner to celebrate jointly a ten- yupra” peace. In Australia Mr. Tom Walsh, president of the Aus tralian Seamen's Union, as stood For conffel, and for clase war, bis last thoughts have been for tim operation and his first for fight, She is doing it under a load of, and the result has been peronnin are offered to renders of the most tives of German royalties: Accord
strife sine, the eme ph the ene
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heavy expenditure in the way of present office and purenes the tieties season in Germany. They are unmother will always play a big part Britain, clever rule like my doles, and in the midst of indus of the past, irreparable injury will intentional, for the author of and my brother, Edward, too, trial problems, some of which can be inflicted on the trade and com- Under The imperors, Hugo, when he comes to roigo. A fool
meges of his country. Only mischief be described as a legacy of the can come from the warring of Labour Freiherr von Reischuch, is the like my ffcestor, William the war. She has now to urge those against Capital; only good from their simplest and kindliest Byzantine fourth, will be completely over- who owe her money to take steps joining hands in service to the com-who ever field office as Comptroller like my son would have much à curb looked, and in impulsive character to discharge their debts-surely unity The Australian Labour of the Household under three reigns on him that he would have to proc
Party, it is to be feared, does not the most unsatisfactory position realise the harm which it inflicts in Prussia, with the more congenial tise moderation. It seems hurd that any benevolent money upon itself, as well as on the people interlude of mastership of the royal, he should still have to vindicate the at the present day in Germany that lender could be in. France's genemlly, by giving over colourtible stud. Not the most pessimisto Empress from the charge of refusing support to those who preach the writers on marriage to-day could to allow her husband to submit to. Anances have for some time been class war. Every one knows tint its equal the matter of fact method in dangerous operation for cancer. in an unsettled condition, yet it lenders hay, no real sympathy with which he records un outing of the beruse she wished him, however has not escaped notice that her cu mischievous doctrine, and ex-Kaiser's grandfather and grand- ill, to come to the throne, and to their best friends outside the Labour mother in the seventies. The old print admirable letters, showing unemployment figures are negligi- movement find it difficult to under- Emperor had been feeling ladis her hopeless fight for her son against ble when compared with Britain's. stand how they can be lacking in posed, and refused, at tea, the the Junkers. These she and asked Also she is engaged in a war for moral courage, both for the Party's sour milk and cherry art which him to destroy, but for her own which money is needed. Italy peace, as not frankly to denounce mar afternoons under the trees. I loathe and fears tridiscretions in sake and for the sake of the public were and of the stand-bys of sum ho he declined to do so. He and Belgium have good grounds, the iconoclasta and wash their hands am glad you look cherry tart memoirs, but his anecdotes are good. of excuse to them--why their of them as Messrs. Ramsay to-dify murmured los queen, and The Impress as a young women debt should either be wiped off in Clynes and Thomas have done in the word the imperor beckoned the lum what becomes of the leavings of MacDonald. Phillip Snowden, empresa. Whereupon, without a intent on financial reforms, neke the form of a book entry, or why Homeland and as Mr. Havelock lickey, took two large pieces, and the twenty-five to thirty breakfast payments postponed until certain Wilson, the sailors' real friend hate them up very quickly. Some trave taken to the various palace hed Hongkong, Saturday, August 29, 1925 dark clouds have rolled-away-long-sinen done
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America is adamant. She is the great deciding factor in this question of war. debta. Had Britain not been so decidedly honourable. but hedged and pleaded for time and offered, the excuse. unanswerable- Europe
AFTER 300 YEARS.
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fifty years later, in 1914, the rooms of a morning and is horrified Emperor Willum the Second sum to hear that the footnten conse mong the writer of the memoirs and them while clearing away AB AN tells him he wishes him to give up old woman, intenssly proud of the the stud to look after the household puluse she has built herself in again. Von Reischach a reply is Friedrichuruh, her tenderest feel- that he is sixty yours oh, and feels inge are lacerated by a German hemust humbly refuse these arduous ambasador from Paris, who in a mir- dution. He is a South German, ele of tactiesnese How pleseed born and beloved ut Court for fortym that your Majesty has chosen Delft, August 28 years A Prusian would never such solid masonry Not like that publication of Grotius famous King was the ungry-reply. This always poke my unbrel through
tercentenary of the have dared refuse any office by his of Buckingham Palace, where treatise on international law, De South German felt he had a mission the wall And such carefully dure Pacis Ac Belli, has been to fulfil towards one of his moss batariced proportions, too! Not where the jurist is buried history! He dedicates his hook Fannove me every time commemorated at Nieuwekirk maligned and misunderstood women those of Windsor Cantle,
Those present included the to her, the Empresa Frederick, full, The Empress, entom Queen Mother, Mr. Schokking the best hatod Engushwomen in see about tee the que Minister of Justice, representa Germiny. It is my admirable súp alone with yon Reischsob tives of the Permanent Court of plement to the many Victorian the house closer Justice and a number of League memonts pubindied in England, architect put in that ood of Nations societies including the written diy a who saw all his decid
Norman Angel's "The Great Dlusion" predicted that no great war could last twenty-four hours. The walls of credit would crumble at the first onslaught, and there would not how be toeing-tha lige being no money, a war would soon and making hate to conclude peter out. His book caused cons arrangements for n series of Biderable interest, but it was years yearly payments compatible with before his predictions could be diminished resources, A sugges teated. When the time came they tion was that war debts should be did not stand the test. It was pooled. America had an oppor proved that war could be carried unity of repeating her gesture
the Boxer Indemn on for years that with the inflation of currency, credit, for pd what after all, the nonce, took a back seat. But money, and it is to the auggestin the fallacy of effor which
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