TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931.
SENOR ALEJANDRO
LERROUX
President of the League of Nations.
SPANISH REPUBLICAN.
An Idealist and a Tactician But Withal Courageous."
life
names,
neutral tendency of revolutions to go farther than their authors intended.
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`U.S. POLITICS.
House Control More Complex.
THE CHINA
DEMOCRAT CHALLENGES VOTE
Washington, Oct. 3.
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MAIL.
SHOT BY POLICE.
Sequel to Demonstration
Sequel to Demonstration SHADOWS BEFORE
at Shaukiwan.
VERDICT OF JURY.
At the Central Police Court yen- The question of the control of terday afternoon, Mr. Schofield, the 72nd congress became adī
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tionally complicated to-day when Coroner, and a jury hold on Inquiry Stanley Kunz, Demoreratic congres-into the circumstances relating to Hotels. sional candidate in Chiengo, claimed the death of a Chinese who
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that a recount showed that he had shot by Chief Inspector Peter To-day King's Theatre:
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obtained a majority in the Novem-
A Connecticut Yankee." ber election last year.
Grant during an anti-Japanese de-
Ta-day - Queen's Theatre: Kunz will seek action against Bonstration at Shaukiwamu on Sep-Reaching for the Moon." |Peter Granta, who holds a certifi-} {ember 28.
Today Central Theatre; vate of election.
Mecars. A. Murdoch, A. M. Simp-"Romance of the Opera.". aun and Kwan Wong-ping formed Man From Wyoming."
To-day Majestic Theatre;
Today
Theatre: -Star
Three similar contosis are pend- ing in Pennsylvania.
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In the meantime the lower housee jury. of congress stands divided with
defnite anti-administration costi-- United Press.
GAY GLENEALY.
Gladiators Enliven, the Neighbourhood.
With this in
Amid the welter of known and unknown, one name
Inspector G. A. Stimson, in "Speedway." stood out. In Spanish political
214 Republleans and 214 Democrats charge of the Shaskiwan Police
Home Malls. circles, as I learned to pick my
Lerroux, the old campaigner, to date, with one Farmer Labourite.
Thursday-Inward from Europe The unofficial list for the senate Station, said that at about 7.20 p.m.
(Kashgar), way about them, 1. encountered boldly began what might be re-
Lammerts' Auction. Alejandro Lerroux at every turn, garded as an anti-revolutionary stands with 48 Republicans, 47 De-9 September 28 a message was re-
campaign. He had spent more
mocrats and one Farmer Labourite.ceived in the Shaukiwan Police
Thursday-At Sales Room, Cón- His head, carried with Spanish than four decades in preaching
Since the independent bloc of Station from an unknown source thental cotton trouserings, gar
was trouble in a shop ments, ladies' dresses and hats, pride, was bleached by the suns the Republic, and he was not, if Republicans heretofore have teemed that there
jete., 11 am. and washed by the rains of he could help it, going to allow with the Democrats in the senate, at 2, Main Street. Saiwanho. He more than twoscore years of Re-the Republic to collapse into an- the latter body presently has a proceeded to the scene with detecte.
tive C17 on a motor cyele combina-! archy.
tion driven by L. S. A90 Clark. publicanism in # Monarchist Instinctively, everybody
Before leaving the station ho sent country. The old warrior had cognised him to be the Republi
a message to Quarry Bay: Police fought superbly but serenely; can leader, He might or he HEARD ON THE STAR FERRY,
Station telling them to stand by. and if, in his hour of triumph, might not, In the uncertainties
1st Kawicon Resident: What is Around the place was a crowd the warfare and the weather had of politics, be made Prime Minis left their traces on his counten- ter; he might even be excluded this China Exhibition, do you of Chinese. numbering about 1,000 or more. He despatched Sergeant ance, they had not obliterated from office, as he almost was know anything about it?
The Glenealy Gladiators are mak- 2nd K.R.: I read about it in the Clark to the Quarry Bay Policeing a serioua bid this season for the calm
writes when the younger generation confidence,
Station while witness telephoned to Sisley Huddleston in the Chris- decided to give him the least im- China Mail.
portant of Spanish ministerial 1st K.R.: It might be rather the Shaukiwa Police Station for championship honours in the Street
Football League. tian Science Monitor.
Nobody can have led a more posts-that of Foreign Minister good, I hear they will be cutting reluforcements and maintained order view, in order to get used to match agitated political than which he immediately made those ivery balls, I've often won-among the crowd as far as possible. conditions, they are now playing The Coroner: What were they their practice games with a regula- Lerroux; he has experienced the the most important of Spanish dered how they were done.
No matter: 2nd K..: I wouldn't pay a dol- actually doing?-Calling out strike Lion size football instead of the bitterness of prison, and the deep-ministerial posts.
in Chinese-Ta. er pains of exile; he has been Lerroux was, and could not but lar just to see a man cutting ivory
During the rioting a leutenant usual tennis ball. overwhelmed with accusation be, the leader, because he ex-balls.
It is to be sincerely hoped that along 1st K.R.: No, but there will be of the Royal Artillery came and calumnies; he has had great pressed so perfectly the wishes
us soon as the emergency condition on the motor cycle and suggested permits, the Hon. L.G.P. will spare moments of political victory, of of the bulk of the Spanish people. other things as well.
2nd K.R.: What other things? the getting of military assistance, There is no desire to detract)
In Policeman for duty popular acclaim; and now, after
a motor lorry ladiators' ground to keep away it all, he is hailed as a liberator from the merits of the various K.R.: 1 knew a bit about it, Witness went off in
Oh his return the kill sport pedestrians who in- not only by those who were op-kinds of Republicans. It may belt a friend on the Committee for military aid. pressed, but also by those who that the Right Republicans, who it's going to be a jolly good show, he found, that the crowd had been sist on crousing the field while a agnieseed in oppression.
provoked little alarm, alone wonderful collection of Chinese dispensed and a force of Police and
had just finished game is on, As he sits on the bunch of made the Republic possible; but art, curies and antiques being got Police Reserves
their ultra-Conservatism the Cortes
was together a series of displays in dispersing the crowd. He was then ministers in Madrid, he may well look back on quickly discredited. It may be the Theatre Royal-fireworks on informed that one man had been the long period of storm and that the Socialists gave feal the Murray Parade ground-brass wounded by Chief Inspector Grant. stress that has brought him to vigor to the movement; but how workers, silver workers, ivory cut- this position of power, but he ever prudent they might becometers and blackwood carvers, may also look forward with satis- when the citadel was
getting on with the job. carried, faction to a new period in which they were bound by their doc
1st K.R.: Sounds all right--Any- important | trines to think in terms of party
thing to eat? · .he has a still more
3rd K.R.: Yes. Teas served all purt to play. One feels some-politics. To everybody his role
afternoon and Chinese dinners how that some of the old tried and the role of Lerroux was
every night from seven till nine. Republicans are content to have to stand foursquare in the cen-
2nd K.R.: I've never had a Chin- seen their dream realised: that tre. "Before the reaction I am Niceto Alenka Zamora, for revolutionary, he cried, "andese dinner. What's it like? example, is overjoyed at the ful-faced by anarchy I am a conser with me on November 5, the first 3rd K.R.: Come and have some filment of his hopes, and, in the vative."
day of the exhibition. capacity of President, above the strife, would like pencefully to
very much.
1st and 2nd K.R.: O.K. Thanks chant his Num Dimtis. Kad so Alejandro Lerránx.
do more.
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Also, could not some Ifon, member
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of the Legislative Council introduce Bill to make it compulsory for residents in the vicinity of the Chlef Inspector's Story.
Gladiators' ground to have wire Chief Inspector Grant said that netting outside their glass win- he was on his way to make a routine dows? It is a nuisance to the call that night at the Shaukiwan players to have to dodge an
On reaching the Market casional shower of broken glass at at Saiwanho he came upon a large the most exciting points of a game. crowd collected on the roadway. The Police formed up and made baton RADIO NEWSPAPER RECEIVED charges in both directions, along
AT SEA. the street, but as soon as they drove up from the other. in one direction the crowd pressed
Both Sub- A copy of the Schenectady Union Inspector Carey and Sergeant Ellis Star, in miniature, has been trang. were injured rather badly, and as mitted successfully by radio to ships the crowd seemed to become uglier at sea through the short-wave
Police by reason of this were in pany in mood and out of hand, and as the station of the General Electric Com-
Thus the fighter turns states- man. In his long career he has always shown himself to be at to the Y.M.C.A. and buy a patron's 3rd K.R.: Suppose we go along once an idealist and a tactician, ticket now,
danger, and they not knowing when The reception was accomplished He has unquestionably been im 1st K.R.: What is a patron's the reserves sent for would be ar aboard the liners America and polled by an ardent faith, but he ticket? 1
riving, witness decided to fire upon Minnekahda through a facsimile has not disdained to learn the
3rd K.R.: The season ticket of the crowd. In doing so he singled recorder developed by Mr. Charles tricks of the trade. He was born the exhibition, admits you to every-out live who were apparently ring. Young, son of Mr. Owen D. in 1864 in Cordoba, from whence thing on all three days and costs leaders and fired two rounds.
The Young, chairman of the executive. came strong-tempered and im-only five dollars.
second round took effect. One of committee of the General Electric pulsive men; but his father, a military man, moving to other
the two men aimed at was hit and Company, and Dr. E. F. W. Alex- radio General Electric he fell,, shouting out, loudly, the anderson. parts of Spain, must have picked the new Cortes there are politi-usual cry of kau meny or "gave and television expert. up for his son large streaks of cians who are not intellectuals, life," The result There shrewdness and common sense.
was that the It took 15 minutes to send a page and intellectuals who are not stone-throwing became less intense. measuring 81⁄2in. by 9in. The When a young man, Lerroux, politicians.. and worse, in-
Nevertheless, in on the Right with his clear thinking and his spite of the repression, Spanish that he did not belong to any cult ship's bulletin boards for passeng A sister of the deceased said reproductions were pasted upon the generous impulses, declared him-poets, novelists, essayists, pro- or society nor had she heard him ors to read. self Republican. He was duly fessora, artists, ranged them-1
If he has done so much it is that he may now be permitted to He too is delighted that the Republicans are given their oppertunity, but he is more deeply conscious than any of the Spanish Republicans I have met, of the duty of constructing aright.
The founding of the Republic was not without peril. were enemies' discreet friends
and the Left, who were laying clumsy hands on the newborn Republic. There were Spaniards
if once
dependence, he went
ary movement had
He was
SIR JOHN TELLS AMERICA,
rebuked, but, asserting his in-selves on the side of the Re-Japanese organisation.
say he belonged to un anti- in a desperate hurry, chiefly in-
alone to public. And nothing could pre-employed as an apprentice in a tent on tearing up everything by Madrid with a cargo of illusions vent the growth of working class machine room at the Taikoo Dock- the roots. There were Spaniards and of resolutions. Becoming a organisations which were also
During the recent visit to the excessively timorous, chiefly in collaborator of the Left, he sur- Republican.
yard.
United States, Sir John Reith, tent on preserving everything (prised his comrades by the cour
In his sumialog-up the Coroner Director-general of the British "Abroad," said Lerroux, that belonged to the Ancien ageous expression to his opin "there seems to be some surprise as disclosed by the evidence, were compliments to the American broad. stressed the fact that the Police. Broadcasting Corporation, paid high Regime, and who considered that ions. As a journalist he develop that the revolution should be
the floodgates were ed a remarkable talent, and the bloodless. The reason is simple. fully occupied for one whole hour casting systems, but expressed the opened nothing could be saved. prestige of El Pais was increased if a large part of the population and baton charges had very little sed-radio" system was more prac with the mob, on whom warnings opinion that the British "monopol- They wanted a Monarchy with by his contributions. Soon he remained passive, the revolution- out a Monarcha Repúblic in was a recognised orator who
Even when two shots weretical and efficient. Sir John said name only, where nothing should could sway great assemblies. among the masses,
no enemies effect
There was
fred by a European Police Ser that the quality of American com- be disturbed. The wilder Radi- and he became a notable figure. no real resistance. The Guarda cant in the air, the throwing of mercial programmes was high in- cals wanted Republicans with- In 1914, on the outbreak of the Civil itself, organised for the de-stones and other missiles ceased deed, but the sponsorship idea could out a Republic State in World War, his sympathies with fence of the King, joined us." for only a few seconds, after whleb never be adopted in Britain on ac- which no inndmarks should be France again aroused the great-
count of the British listeners' dis- left, and in which every man est opposition. Needless to say, mands of the workers the Span-red by Chief Inspector Grant on the air. He stressed the in-
Against the legitimate de-it continued.
On the other hand, the shots like to advertising announcementa should be his own master. under the Dictatorship he was ish Government will not employ
The moment was dangerous, pitilessly persecuted.
of International pro- force. As Lerroux says, it is undoubtedly had the effect of dia-portance for it is not sufficient to proclaim It must not be supposed that, rather the molelike work of the persing the mob, and no serious gramme exchange and predicted a Republic the difficulty is to if Lerroux now counsels caution, Monarchists, of the Spanish aria- disturbances had occurred at Shau- that there will be considerable establish it. That was the first he is now aware that the revolutocrate, who, from a place of kwan, or for that matter, in any growth in this field. duty to establish It. To es- tion cannot be merely dynastic safety, direct sapping operations other district since.
He managed to find time to broad- tablish it more or less ideally, but must be social. To-day against the Republic, that is to They had the Chief Inspector's cast over. the networks. "of the but at least to establish it. Spain is faced with many social be feared. But the Republicans evidence that the deceased was National. Broadcasting Corporation soildly. Afterward, it might be problems. Thus Spain must have will be vigilant, and the prin picked out by him as one of the and the Columbia Broadcasting altered or repaired; but from agrarian reform, probably on the cipal task of Lerroux will be to trouble makers who was seen In-Company, and addressed a meeting the beginning its precise place lines of the agrarian reform in ceep them united.
esting the crowd. If the jury of the National Advisory Council Czecho-Slovakia; the large His is a striking appearance. thought that under the circum-on Radio in Education, and the No- This was what Lerroux saw estates must be broken up and tie holds his grizzled head erect, stances described the Police were tional Radio Editore Association. more clearly than his colleagues. distributed, with proper co- and calmly gazes through his justified in firing, then they were to Afterwards, he received a medal On the Right were men who were operative provisions, among the glasses; his long drooping mus retura a verdict of "justifiable from the Columbia Broadcasting almost afraid of their own ac-peasants. Unemployment among tacho falls over a firm-set mouth. homicide."
Company for his contributions to tion; on the Left were men who the agricultural classes, as well Somehow he betokens sober The jury after come deliberation broadcasting. This network plans
after come del were ready to commit themselves as among the industrial classes, energy and quiet resolution. He said they were agreed on a verdict to make several more awards of to the current, however-violently is a serious matter.
lonows what he wants; he has of justifiable homicide.
this type in the future. it might flow. It was repeated
known it for over forty years; on all hands that Lenine had Lerroux rightly points out and having attained it he will Mr. Bingley, imponing a sentence A post-office and observatory are prophesied that Spain would fol- that the Monarchy, and especial not, if he can help it, allow it to of one month's hard labour, at features of the new 180 pcro aero- ly the Dictatorship, discouraged he wrested from him by molelike Marylebone Police Court, said that drome, claimed to be the largest Spanish intellectuals from tak Monarchists of flamboyant.Com- "dole frauds were perfectly scan and best in the Far East, which ing part in political life. The munists. It is the Spanish Re- dalous," and magistrates were get-will be opened shortly at Haneda, effect, may be felt to-day. In public.
ting sick of them.
should be determined.
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