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Hongkong, Friday, March 12, 1920.
NAVAL PROTECTION.
Very little of real local interest was disclosed in the First. Lord's statement on the Navy Estimates,. or in the subsequent debate, in the House of Commons yesterday. It is true that reference, was made to
the very excellent purpose of showing togthers that the Union Jack is ag powerful at sea. as it is on land
politiciane
seems to defin
MARCH 12
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Chinese tampere-
Now that the comple coming Conference will consider Change in ment. ¡BeeIns tor be A Tat tion; of the Australian
Match Tipes team changing or rapidly
accomplished cricket that some quite memories will have freer play.
Chin
what facilities the Governments. are prepared to grant to make the issue of passports and visas modern films and stories will soon One, recalls, for example, the easier, that they should hold good be out of dato, unless something is curious conditions obtaining when for five years, should be valid for done about it quickly. An essential the first M.C.C. team went to Aus all countries, and should not cost in all film crime stories is the plucidalia The tour was arranged by private enterprise. Spiers and more than what it costs the Gov- Oriental who grows more and more Fond were responsible, and their placid in proportion as the bomb officials met the team at Melbournu ernments. On the principle of fuse burns shorter and shorter, and and drove them round in a conch half a lonf being better than no things look all up with the hero, and four. At the first match the bread, many will wish the Confer bound hand-and-foot (47th episode British players wore white helmets ence success in this part of its next wook Young China tarday were all different colours, and the and long sashes. Those säshes deliberations.
seems to be throwing placidity to colours were shown against the the winds, and to be the prey to programme. Although such, condi that peculiar Western weaknesstions would be ludicrous, to-day, which was call nerves. In a fow our authorities might at least take years time it looks as if young tip from this first team and pro China will be gathering. Afty thou-vide some means of identification and strong and killing each other of the players for the humble at: football matches.
casual cricket spectator.
THEY SAY THAT A safe rule is not to talk about another personal all unless can speak good of his name." Frank W Crowder
Beware of your eyes. They don't always bell the trut William Bragg.
AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY.
All the world loves a mystery.donth. And Carr and Lady Essex:
married and all was well.
Two
"When I came to New York I was bold it was an ugly, commer- cial and material city, given over entirely to work and the pursuit and a large part of the world loves
to be a city exemplifying the has been well advised to tell again evidence that. Overbury had been of wealth. But, instead, I found a crime. Therefore Judge Party years afterwards it happened that. a. Secretary of State "came upon
poisoned.
man
who
his
Without lack of clarity, we may believe that evidence would novor have been heard of if Carr had kept.
Although the community here is undoubtedly interested in the Singapore Base; it is not to bo ex- pected that any great enthusiasm will be evinced over that part of the debate in the House of Commons in which the old bogoy of a Farmost vital movements in modern the story of the Overbury case.. Eastern war was once again trotted architecture and art-Henry As a murder if it was a murder It stands alone in history, for it out and the threadbare allegation Berenger.
brings a King of England into reiterated that Japan and Ching "Are we going to continue to suspicion of helping to poison the King's favour. But he was a have had their suspicions raised as allow foreigners to acquire all our
had offended
stupid creature) .He behaved like apolit child, and his, onomlës, the to the object of the Base. It was chateaux and lands, thanks to favourite's lust. As a mystery it thought that that delusion had been the rate of the pound and the still defies the research of the
learned and the imagination of the anti-Spanish party, brought in a. rival another handsome youth.. shattered long ago, as the outcome:
inganious, for no satisfying ex- George Villiers. Before long. fplanation of the queer conduct of Villiers was all in all to his the chief actors has yet been Majesty, and Carr's enemies dared devised. People at the time to strike. The Spanish party; had thought it was the strangest thing lost Northampton, its best leader. that had ever happened, and they They could not stand against the had seen the Gunpowder Plot, and attack. The evidence was most were only thirty years away from unpleasant. Lady Essex had dealt the Armada. The father of the in poisons, black magic, and witch- man who was for was not) murcraft. There had been figures of dered tells us (remarks the London men and women, philtres and spells,
Daily Telegraph") that for a
dollar 7.-M. Jenouvries.
It would be very helpful of the speeches, by Japaneso states a candidates for the tnching men who see nothing in the con-profession were required to show struction of the Base to warrant their ability to use good English the slightest misgivings in Japan.Katherine K. Robbins, Apparently Singapore is anathema to certain M.P.8 at Home, and they
cannot bear the word without ex- periencing a nervous upset. It is only a pity that a more suitable place than the House of Commons cannot be found for these dismal
Jeremiahs.
PASSPORTS.
"At the beginning, at Chris tanity could have been summed up in two words, Follow me Harry E. Fosdick..
"If ever a man was tempted urged even by his friends to quarter of a century after the death Parchments inscribed with the compromise with evil it was he was usually followed in the names of devils, and insults to the Blessed Trinity. There wore: also street by a crowd calling. "There much arsenic and a elyster of Lincoln Kenneth B. Welles.
goes Sir Thomas: Overbury's sublimate of mercury, The under- Aren't we putting the multi-father." This is indeed famelings, the purveyors and mini- plication tables ahead of the The story of poisoning is embroistrants of roigen, were tried and Sermon om the Mount ?dered with the lurid colours of hanged. Lady Essex stood her William McAdoo, s
Court intrigue, of a great lady's trial and pleaded guilty.. The adulterous passion, of the plots of "There should be neither Pro-
King endeavoured to extract" the presence of His Majesty's ships
testant nor Catholic, untive bong policy of sorcery, and of confession from Carr, and met a witcherezt. Judge Parry is well stubborn refusal Carr also was un the China Station last year do
plack, but that all, moved by a elements: His account of "The brought him in guilty That was nor immigrant, white man or aware of the fascination of these tried, and with one voice the peers ing something to reassure British
common impulse, should promote Ovstbury Mystery, which Fisher the end of it. Neither the man nor residents of adequate protection
the peace and welfare of their Unwin published, is as good reading the woman was hanged. In a little country in the daily inter- during the various crises, but with a number of international organ-minglinge of common life."
as a novel He has no solution of while they were both pardoned and due deference to the First Lord that isations, such as the International Chandler Robbins.
his own, distrusts other people's free. Only the wretched creatures opinions of the case, and austerely they employed were punished." is only what is to be expected as Union of Railway Administration
"The success of peace ma- declines to "bend the facts" to fit. bccasion arises. It is a form of and the International Chamber of chinery in the last analysis will any theory. Yet we close his book and a puzzled world still asks why. Insurance of British subjects Commerce, the two latter taking depend upon the extent that the with a feeling that he has been that, we submit to Judge Parry, is abrond for which the British tax-part in the discussions in an ad-spirit of the love of God con- rather kind to the pitiful beautiblem payer at Home cheerfully pays, visory capacity. It is five years trols the actions of mankind.ful woman who pleaded guilty to we should not care to say that.
C. Everett Wagner.
The League of Nations Second International Passport Conference is to meet in Geneva in May next, All the Governments of the world have been invited to attend, and
besides which there are from time since the League held its first to time indirect contributions from passport conference, and the re- the Colonies, as witness Hongkong's plies of the Governments to a res generous contribution last year. cent questionnaire, sent them by This contribution was once again the League's advisory and techni- alluded to by the First Lord yescal committee for communications terday, when he spoke of the and transit show that, while a amount to be spent this year on the Singapore Case, revealing that of the expenditure of £225,000 the British Government would have to pay only £95,000, the balance being takon from the remainder of Hongkong's contribution, a portion of which, it may be remembered, has already gone toward the con- struction of the floating dock for
OBITUARY.
MR. JOHN GIBSON.
the most⠀⠀intriguing pro- of the Overbury саве.
a charge of murder, rather harsh Ovorbury died of poison. His to the man who died in the Tower, health was so weak, his treatment Brathar incurious as to the part of in the Tower was so brutal, that: his Majesty King James I. the poison may have heca super- But let us sum up the admitted fluous. It is a matter for medical facts. Our British Solomon, evidence, which cannot be given. James I came to England provided But of the intention to murdor, with a handsome favourite, Robert there can be no doubt. The sub-, Carr, who could do anything with atitution of officers in the Tower fa number of States are still not pre- The death took place at the The favourite had himself, a
and get anything from his Majesty, damning, the testimony to the ad-
ministration of poison ">iec: over-eve pared to abolish the passport French Hospital last night of Mr. favourite, clever young Oxford whelming. To the change of tha system altogether, there is a gen- John Gibson, of the Green Island man, Thomas Overbury, who beLieutenants of the Tower the King aral desire to go a good deal tur. Cement Company, following a came his chief adviser in the task must have been privy. In the poi- her than the Paris Conference of brief illness in the course of which of rising in the world. The King soning the apothecary of the King's 1920. The coming conference is underwent a serious operation had from his accession set himself physician was involved. Yet that The late Mr. Gibson was 81 to reverse, the Elizabethar policy physician was never called at the expected to take at least a step years of age. He had originally of hostility to Spanish power trials. That the King was jealous towards the abolition, to the come to Hongkong, six years ago, The leader of the Spanish party in of Overbury is established. Some widest extent possible of the pass with Jardine, Matheson and Co. England was the Earl of Northamp- have thought this evidence amounts port system, and to mitigate con- and had also been with the Talkooten, who had a niece of great to more than auspicion. We cannot Sugar Refinery before he went to beauty. Judge Farry's theory is feel it so James, I was a contemp- Singapore.
siderably the disadvantages and the Green Island Cement Com that Northampton used this girl tible creature, but we judge him too The only other local reference expense which that system entails pany Frances to secure Carr to the cowardly to dabble in murder. was in regard to the Vindictive, for the relations between peoples Having served in the Royal Spanish side. It is very possible. Why, then, did he pardon Carr and when Mr. Bridgeman disclosed that and for international trade facili Navy during the war in surface Carz was equally capable of desir. Carr's wife? It was grossly un- craft and submarines, the late Mr. Ing the girl in order to obtain the popular, it was by any plain read- this is the first British cruiser toties. If this step is taken, most Gibson held a chief engineer's Howard influence, But there le ing of the evidence unjust, Carr "of "favoury and the be built with catapult-launched people will applaud it. The pass-certificate when he first came to reason to believe that the paaston was out aeroplanes. In passing, it is port horror, as it is generally Hongkong was sincere on both sides, and at dominant Influence at Court his curious to see that the First Lord known, is a product of the greated to the widowed mother men. The fact that she was for merey. The greatest historian Much sympathy will be extend- least as hot in the lady as in the supplanter Villiers, had no reason spoke of the "Vindictive" as being war. It was a gap made-uetes he and to the deceased a sister already married was inconvenient of the period, himself inclined to on her way to China, although she sary by the war and few there are the wife of Mr. James Adams, of but, the King was ready to do what partiality to James, thought the par- has been in Hongkong waters since to argue that altogether Kowloon Deck, and his brother he could, which was much. The don was given because Carr knew February 221 He was pressed by
husband, Lord, Essex, unkindly re-more about the King's dealings with unnecessary. A gassport then as
fused to arrange a divorce. The Spain than his Majesty cared to Conservative member in the perit. Is nows a testimonial of no
King appointed a Commission to have told. But what could a man son of Commander D C Burney to little worth When holders have
try a suit for nullity of marriage, tell who was hanged? It may be state whether it is proposed to objected it has been on the rea
and when, in spite of scolding, the that the Spanish party had some majority were stubborn, put in new secret to explode upon the King f send any more warships out to sonable ground of the trouble to AUMATI MEMBERS TO THE members to voze a decreg Now he sacrificed their Instanient. China, but he discreetly refused to which they have been put to ob-
Overbury had been very willing. But in such an explosion tha that Carr should make Lady Essex Spanish interests must have been hia mistress, and wrote, love-letters destroyed. No more plausible is and poetry for him. By all the the theory that Carr could have igno Carr was a dull dog. But to exposed shameful secrets of King
Hng the lady Overbury and Court. The answer again is
oppo
He had stone dead hath no fellow, the
be drawn. If, as Mr. Bridgeman stated, the presenc
His Majesty's ships on the China, Station has added to the feeling of security on the part British subjects out hore 1 доледа assuring to find
thin samJEN aspect la, kept to fora in the
mind of the
on the occasion of any
further warships
tain the passports, the cost of thom and the cost of visas. There has been a feeling and a sus
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FIRST AID
FORE:
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les, do, his head after
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