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of
The Stiffkey Scandal.
HERE. THERE
and,
EVERYWHERE.
Lord Peel's Speeches. Lord Peel, with his cominandingi stature, coal-black hair, and flowing) moustache, is an impressive man toi look at.
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to listen to.
His speeches are carefully con- structed. He speaks calmly but│* forcefully. In the Lords recently he dealt satirically with Lord Snow- dos.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1932,
THE CITY OF QUEUES
LENINGRAD IN LINE
FOR FOOD, DRINK
PLAGUE - MARKED
ASPECT OF
SOVIET CAPITAL
(By Lady Angela St. Clair-Erskine.
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Leningrad. . . . The quay where] We passed Into a large hall with
Loubet's
He quoted Lord Snowden's our ship tied up had been improvised modern ses pictures, including one statement on the Ottawa agree from a barge and a wooden plat visit to the Russian Fleet. In one
President representing ments, that out of 1,500 items there form decorated with half a dozen corner of the room was a cheap wero only 217 on which we got a proference. On how many items, flower-pots.
cupboard. Our guide opened the asked. Lord Peel, should we have A group of girla" in gay shawls door. On the shelves was a medley had to get a preference in order to were flirting mildly with a soldier of souvenirs-little china figures re- satisfy Lord Snowden?
whoso khak! greatcoat was several dent, an unflattering figure of King presenting the Tsai and the Prest- In the House of Commons Lord) Snowden had a perfect duelling sizes too big. On closer examina- Edward and one of Queen Victoria, opponent in Mr. Churchill. Now, tion the gay shawls were seen to a snap-short of the Tear walking In the Lords, he has met his match have little tickets on them. They arm in arm with the ex-Kaiser. again.
had been hastily anatched from a hung with portraits of the Tears, We entered a long drawing-room our special the room from which the late Taar made his final exist. There were
Your Daily Smile.
stall on the quay for benellt.
3.0.8. during sale time. "Will A less gay but more businesslike more drawing-rooms teading one into the other. In one the Russian the lady who left a husband in the group stood together. These were bargain basement of a West-End the young women guides and the press on state occasions were ex- dresses worn by the Dowager Em- store call for him at once, or, he chauffeura from the Intourist Office.hibited on dummy stands, the gold will be sold to defray expenses.”
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The formalities of landing took an tissue untarnished and the embrof- Wife: "We really should get a endless time. We had a Mr. Bald-dery as good as new. new car this year." Husband: win and a Mr. MacDonald on board, Tsarevitch-grim remainders of ☐ Here, too, were the toys of the "What, when I'm still paying
and our passports ware closely tragic childhood. In an adjoining instalments on the car I exchanged for the car I sold in part payment scrutinised.
room was a large picture of Marie, of the car I've got now?". Our tour of Leningrad, which had Antoinette, which the Tsarinn in- been arranged for us at a cost of $7 the superstitious protests of the sisted on hanging there in spite of
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"There's
a head, was to have started at 9.30 Dowager Empress.
Facts You Did Not Know.
us.
With a new thermometer having
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We had had no idea whether we 1917.
"Just think, my dear," said the Įtalkative wife to her husband, “one
half of the world doesn't know am. Actually we started off at 4.45 The private apartments of the how the other half Hyes!" "Never p.m. By this time the Hermitage floor. The Tear's working. room Imperial Family were on the first rules. The principle appears to mind, my love," was the reply, and the Winter Palace were closed, contained a huge divan and a big apply with even greater force to "that isn't your fault."
and a new itinerary had to be pre-writing table. His inkstand and a clergyınan who has accepted the solemn and sacred obligations
"I've been thinking, my son, of pared. This included sightseeing in pan were still there. There were of his vocation. The public is retiring next year, and leaving my the town, dinner at the Astoria, and photographs of the Tsarina, and a calendar yellow with age. The date not necessarily called upon to business to you.”
nofree seats at the Opera.
bad not been touched since July read a tedious or squalid chronicle hurry, is there, dad? You go of petty events when a doctor, a shead, and work a few more years, should be driven round in chara- The Privy Council dismissed solicitor, or even, say, a profes. and then we can both retire to bancs or jolting waggons, Imagine
Ugly Decorations. the appeal of the Rector of Stiff-sional. footballer is brought be-gether.
our surprise when we saw a fleet of}
In the Tsarina's sitting-room tho key, and so concluded a case that fore the lawful tribunal which
brand-new saloon cars waiting for worst style of English decoration has claimed far more public at- dispenses judgment to his kind.
had been employed. The walls were tention than in essence it desery- It can be objected that the affairs
Linguist 'Guide.
pink with featuons of white roses. ed. It has been the subject of a of the Establishment are mat-
Cosy corners with fretwork cabinets. protracted trial in the Consisters of public interest, that the
No guide was allowed to leave
ware had collected seventeen
conspicuous. There were tory Court and, of two subse beneficed parson is a freeholder, two separate scales the temperatures until she
frilled pink cushions, and photo quent hearings before the Frivy and that his rights and deep-root inside and outside a house can be tourists under her wing. My parti
cular lady spoke English well.fig one of our own Queen Alexandrá graphs were on every table, includ- Council In the intervals of dih antiquity. But, granted read at the same time. these proceedings the activities the historical distinctions, there
thought she would have done better of the
The Far East in the first six to spend her roubles on soap and signed "Darling Alix from her God- defendant have not is no practical difference to-day months this year consumed twice as water than on lip-stick, but there is
mother." been such as to escape publicity. It could equally be objected to much American raw cotton as in a shortage of fata in Leningrad. My guide was bitter against the The shifts to which he has been the disciplinary powers given to the similar period of 1981.
Tsarina and insisted that it was she put to raise funds have even oc- the General Medical Council ori
As we entered the outskirts of who had ruled Russia, casioned his appearance in a bar-the Law Society and exercis-
Leningrad my impression, was of a In the Tsarina's bedroom, typical rel at Blackpool (side
The legs of a novel bridge table plague-striken city. There appear of an old-fashioned English country" by ed, usually in camera, with the ara hollow and are connected to ash ed to ho no life anywhere. Then house room, the Bolshevists have put side with an exhibition full confidence of the two pro-receivers on top of the table, being as we
performing.
went further, there were a acroen on which they have pasted fleas) and fessions that a doctor's or a removable for emptying.. in other guises on the music-hall solicitor's practice is his whole
long queues of men, women and incriminating evidence of ber stage. The public which heard livelihood and that both are oc-]
children. I asked the guide, what friendship with Rasputin. There An American company which re- they were waiting for "Food," she are extracts in her own writing of the case in some newspaper cupations established by law. interviews before the first pro-
cently installed an ice cream plant in replied laconically.. I pointed to from her journal referring to him. Thus the question is not whe ceedings opened has thus had ther justice invariably demands Hong Kong will place similar ones another group. "Vodka," she said. There is a large photograph of little opportunity of forgetting it publicity as in special cases it
jin Canton, Amoy and Macao. These crowds looked infinitely Rasputin supping with ladies of the ever since. From no point of plainly does not but whether the
poorer and hungrier than any I have Court. The Tearine's clothes re- view, including his own, can the disciplinary procedure of the
ever seen in our poorest slums, main hanging in a glass-fronted Rector's disappearance from the Church should not be brought
We stopped first at the statue, of wardrobe. I was struck by the. day's 'nows, of which there is abreast of the practice followed The quarantine restrictions im-Peter the Great. One guide gave a extreme simplicity of the house. It now some hope, be a matter for by other professions which are, posed by the Government of Siam cultivated discourse on the origin was so essentially a home, so ob regret. The details of the case for this purpose, analogous. The against arrivals from Hong Kong of St. Petersburg. Her speech was viously different from the descrip were never of the very smallest public is as much concerned as on account of cholera have been punctuated with propugandu, and tion of luxury-loving pre-war public importance in themselves. the authorities of the Church, removed.
she spoke glibly, of the "glorious Russia. : The evidence has established to It would be fantastic to believe
revolution.". From there we went On our way home I asked the the satisfaction of the Courts, that the Church has in past years One case of diphtheria, occurring to see the Feter and Paul fortress. guide if she was married. She re Mr. Davidson's manifest unfit- suffered anything but casual in- in Victoria, and one case of puer Here all the Tsars are buried, and plied coyly, "Not what you reall ness to hold his benefice. What jury from very rare examples of peral fever, from the New Ter- our cicerone showed us with glee married, but I have a husband.” is of public importance is not scandalous behaviour. What ritories, were notified to the Health the blank place which had been left She explained that she had been the proved disloyalty of a single ever else may be said of those Authorities on Wednesday. for the late Tsar and his family, married to a Guards officer, but had: person to his vows and calling, who practise the highest and
and which now would never be filled. divorced him owing to the incom- but the circumstances which the hardest calling tol The Management of the Hong, From Péter and Paul we were patibility of their views. Her pre- have magnified it into a great which human nature
Kong Hotel advises that owing to taken for a drive round the Islands. sent husband was in actor. Mor can popular scandal.
reservation of the Roof Garden fr Here the guide pointed proudly to riage cost three roubles and divorce What the apply itself, their record as A Church or the defendant or jus body is the sufficient defence of the Hong Kong University Medical the houses where the rich used to two. Divorces were now rarer, as tice itself has gained from the Church against any passing Society's special dinner party, the live, and told us they were now the novelty had worn off public examination may well be reproach. To that extent it may Chinese Restaurant will not be reat houses for the workers. I saw I feel that it would be better to
available to patrons on Saturday, no algn of life there.. questioned. It is generally true seem superfluous to canvass pos
have been a victim of the Revolu that "justice must be seen to be sible changes in procedure. But night.
Caricatured Statesmen.
tion than to be alive under the new: done," but it can hardly be main- a partial restoration of the bene
fifty yards there were
regime. tained that publicity is always fit of clergy, If it may so be call lands C.B. C.M.G. D.S.O. General notice boards with caricatures of
H.E. Major-General J. W. Sandi. About every and everywhere essential to jused, giving a power to hear and Offer Commanding the British well-known European statesmen and tice. The practice of the Courts determine charges of miscon- Troops in China, was the guest of inscriptions below in Russian. Our in encouraging the suppression duct in a better way, might well honour, together with Capt. D. R. M. guide said they were orders to the of the prosecutor's name in black-be to the public good. The ec Cameron, A.D.C., at a farewell din people not to walk on the grass. mail cases proves one exception. clesiastical courts, it is true,. used nor tendered by Officers of the What the connection was between Moreover evidence may some to hold their sittings in public. Regular Army stationed in Hong such a notice and a caricature of times come within the ban of the But that was in a far-off day and Kong, at the Hong Kong Hotel last Sir Austen Chamberlain I could not Judicial Proceedings. Act and de in a differently constituted so-night. The function, was brilliant, understand. mand omission altogether. But clety. To-day cases of clerical and was attended by 25 officers. Fortunately, through a friend the general question of publicity misconduct too stubborn to yield among whom were Colonel R. B. was able to arrange next day a took place at the Jewish Cemetery. as a safeguard of the public into the quiet influence of the Cossens, D.SO, and Capt K. V. private visit to Toarakoe Sele This Wongneichong, last evening. terest, on which there is much Bishop, or too gross to fall with Barker Benfield
wse the late Tear'a real home, The last serviceaccording to more to be said may be left aside in it, might well be disposed of
whence he and his family were taken Jewish rites was I performed by
News in Brief.
MR. KELLY SAYCE LAID TO REST.
Friends Grieve For Pioneer Figure.
The funeral of Mr. Kelly Sayoe,
It is more pertinent to ask whe- by a tribunal with full powers so ness and the cost of the present to Siberia Everything, at Tearskos, Rabbi Elizer in the Prayer House ther, to borrow secular termino combining the authority of the procedure have been only too I was told, was the same as it was in the Cemetery, this being follow- logy, charges of professional mis- Church and the strength of the copiously illustrated. It is wrong them
Named by the recitation of further conduct are properly and neces judiciary that it would be open that the prosecutor in such a We came on the Palace rather prayers at the graveside in which sarily for public inquiry. Should to no one to demand, in the name case should be put to Intolerable suddenly. It stands almost on the members of the faith participated members of a spiritual society be of Justice, the broadcasting of expense performance of rond, and is more like a country Thoas persent included Messrs. disciplined by a procedure differ unimportant or unsavoury de- public duty or that the defendant house than *palace. - A band was W. Goldcuberg, I. L. Goldenberg, M. ent from that which would be tail A chi of this kind should be taxed bey his means playing, and our guide told us that Fernandoz, Yeung Yau, LI Yat-tsol, followed by secula society? com
italit belonged to an excursien party. H. Ji R. Figueirado. J. W. Wothers Membership of the
They were, of course, all Rusefana pron J. 8. Gubbay H volves nearly always acc
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