ESSON INDIA
Strickland's Warning
FUTILE SAFEGUARDS
The futility of the safeguards contained in the India White Paper is to be exposed by Lord Strickland after his experience
of the working of the Malta Con- stitution.
He has put down a motion for November 1 in the House of Lords:
To draw the attention of his! Majesty's Government to some lessons applicable to India from the failure of the provi. sion of designedly most
am-
ple "safeguards" in the Con- stitution of Malta, and to the resulting stage of illegality, stagnation. and reaction con-, sequent on the non-application of "safeguards" in good time and constitutionally.
Lord Strickland stated that in his opinion the White Paper "was an impossible concoction."
Ludicrous
"We have found by experience in Malta that all this safeguard] business is futile. If the Gover- nor is a strong man and he is strongly supported at home, he
Vineyards on Majorca
Palma, capital of the Balearic bulando
THE CHINA MAIL; MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1934:
Though for decades the Balearic Islands, Spain's Mediterranean possessions, have been world famous for their Idyllic and isolated pence, and the Mecca in recent years of thousands of visitors neck- ing to take advantage of the low cost of living on the islands, the another country has appropriated $14,000,000 to fortify the entire territories with stone and steel. Fearful of possible foreign ag- gression the Spanish republic has resolved to rebuild its colonial power through a new, elaborate military programme.
may be able to operate the safe-Rush To Join The MAN WHO MISSED
guards when necessary.
"But if there is the least
hesitation and he is not a
person of sufficient standing
and independence, he imme
Churches
diately becomes a ludicrous Effect of The Changes
figure and the safeguards are futile.
"Unless a Governor is a tram-
ed lawyer and has good advisers
unworkable.
In Austria
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Rescued By Melbourne
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To-day's Short Story.
MOTHER'S SON
By "Sinbad
and poured
THE Athene was deep-laden his way to the wheel, The handled sluggishly if out a mug of coffee for the helms-
sailed under short canvas, with man..
"What're ye shivering about" the sail sufficient to give her proper command she stormed along far helmsman growled, snatching the too fast for safety in the blind-mug and swallowing the scalding ing snow-storm that enveloped coffee greedily,
"I didn't mean to shiver, Dad," her, with ice all about her, berg and floe.
the lad repled, shivering again Forward, on the heel of her bow-violently, taking the mug and re- sprit, a big bearded figure peered filling it for the helmsman as the into the blank white wall of whirl four men from the main deck came Ing snow. In the deep walet, stamping aft to get theirs.
"Didn't mean to shiver? Bah! atumping to and fro to keep their blood moving, four big bearded Look as if you're scared foolish!" figures bent their heads to the What's up. Wally? Hankering storm, raising their eyes at every to go home again?" roared one of turn to peer ahead, abeam. and the four, slapping the lad on the astern as far as their position per-back until he reeled, alopping coffee mitted.
all round him. The others crowded On the short low half poop, cloth-in, jerking mugs from the lad's led with white that had frozen on cold fingers, Aling them, drinking him, a alxth big bearded figure with the fierce avidity of strong atood at the helm. peering men chilled to the bone. from under Ice-beaded eye- lids. first at the compass, then at the encircling pall of blind white. By time of day there should have been light and sun. There neither; nothing but a gloom made ghastly by the cold white of the wind-driven snow and the fleeting glimpses occasionally caught of
Was
green grinning fangs of icy men-
ace.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Wedding," by H. E. Bates.
The helmsman growled words, Now and then-often, in factland'one of the four men took the -the Athene shivered and reeled to wheel. Wally poured out another the impact of heavier Ice-unseen mug of coffee, and started to go Frank Best. the West Hartleby the lookout--at the sea's surface, forward with it to the Bolitary pool seaman, who claims that he grinding along her tortured plank-figure In the bows of the brig. He should have been present at the jing from bluff of bow to curve of ahuddered at the ladder head, where Investiture at Buckingham Pa. the run.
the full blast of icy wind caught
he will not use his powers in the
From the cabin companionway him. An extraordinary picture of lace on June 27, when the King way that will gain respect. The
The snow whirled athwart the War Office has a monopoly in re-religious life in Austria was pre-presented the Polar Medal to a another figure emerged.
tall and vessel; her raking spars seemed to commending Governors to the sented by the Rev. R. F. Moody, number of explorers, has been This seventh man was Secretary of State and as a rein Vienna. Mr. Moody
Chaplain to the British Legation rescued by the Melbourne City slight and smooth of face, Pale of away, apart from the brig's motion,
was in Mission.
face, too. He bore a smoking with the dizzy gyrations of the sult they recommend senior gel-England on holiday.
"It is stated that he could not coffee-pot and a string of tin mugs, snow-flurries. Ominous rumblings. erals for whom they want jobs. "The municipal revolution ear- be traced when he was expected He shivered as he blinked at the which had scarcely been noticeable The result is that the system is ly this year has had a most re- at Buckingham Palace, and that snow walls about the brig. He white aft, sounded terrifyingly near "Direct action does not suit markable effect on Austrian re- at the time he was tramping the slopped a drop of coffee, staggering when he stepped down towards the to the brig's motion. But he made low-lying waist, the deck of which the spirit of compromise atligious life," he said. "The power country in search of work. large to-day. I see the same and influence of the municipali He is since reported to have! ties is enormous. They control left on an Antarctle expedition. thing happening in India as
practically all the public services It is suggested that the Polar has happened in Malta. "I intend to give the House of land employ thousands of men Medal should be presented to besides controlling him by the Duke of Gloucester Lords some concrete examples of and women, how the safeguards, which were
the municipal dwellings.
when he visits Melbourne in the there is cons-autumn. "Accordingly strengthened considerably the representation of the Ser-derable anxiety to appear to sub- vice Department.
on
Best was one of the members have failed acribe to the political creeds of of the crew of Sir Douglas Maw- the party in power. Under the son's expedition to the Antarctic completely in Malta and how they have never been applied as long reign of the Socialists, one in 1929 to whom medals were
they should have been.
of the first essentials was to re-presented by the King in June. ject all forms of religion if it His mother stated at the time!
AGED CHINESE MURDERED
Outrage On Lan Tau Island
OVER $400 IN CASH STOLEN
WRS so close to water-level that greenish-grey froth for ever lipped the leeward acuppers. But Wally got no farther. One of the big men caught hold of his shoulder in a grip that hurt, turning him round
with shameful ease; and harsh laughter rooked in his sensitive
ears.
"Now little man, don't you go taking chances like that. Before
A dastardly outrage resulting in you know it you'll be offering to
"The same thing will happen was desired to take advantage of that she had not heard from him robbery and murder of Mao Wan.Istand look-out, and you'll freeze to
in India when the Government
their influence. Those who, for three or four years. begins to apply the White Paper without necessarily being ex- scheme."
tremists, appeared in fundamen- INCREASED TAX ON MATCHES tals to maintain a Socialist out- look, naturally had first prefer-
(Continued from Page 1)
fau, a Chinese of 61 years of age, death, and who'll cook our coffee took place in an unnumbered hut and spoil our duff then? Stay here at Chung Kwa, Lantau laland, at with your pot and mugs. Jack's
coming aft, anyhow." about 10.30 p.m. on Saturday.
The body was badly cut and over
'WHEN APE AND MAN ence in matters over which the This is a national tax collected $400 in cash and a quantity
municipalities had control." in all provinces, but in Kwang-jewellery were stolen.
PARTED
Scientist's Estimate Of
10,000,000 Years
COMING CULTURES CLASH
If blood is thicker than water,
No arrests have yet been made.
Personal Pars
In the same manner, apparent-tung all national taxes go to the ly, professed Christians receive Provincial Department of Finance preferential treatment under the here, and are retained for uses in present regime. The result has Kwingtung. As the payment is been a rush to accept the forms made in National currency, the and practice of religion in order increase in Canton Currency is Ramsay Grant, of the Indo-China to pave the way for considera- figured at over $250,000 a month. tion in the matter of prospective employment.
Converts On Probation
KWANGTUNG MILITARY TRAINING
"I'm able to stand look-out, and of I shan't 'freeze," Wally retorted hotly. But the big fellow only laughed louder, and the rest joined in. The mug WEB taken from contents Wally's hand, and the awallowed noisily by the big 1ellow, who stamped forwad to relieve the The wedding of Mr. Walter look-out as soon as it was drunk.
The skipper, just relieved from Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., to Miss the helm, went inside the deckhouse Elizabeth (Betty) Blair Campbell |
companionway, which was fitted as will take place at the Union
a chart-room, and laid rulers and Church, Kowloon, about the middle dividers to the chart. Around him the monkeys of the old world have! The Roman Catholic Church
of 'November, Miss Campbell will
crowded big bearded men, eyes a special claim on human indul-has declined to receive those who
arrive in the Colony on November puckered from long gazing. Into gence. A young English scientist, had been guilty of apostasy un-
16 by the P. and O. a.s. Ranpura. Dr. S. Zuckerman, has proved that der the Socialist regime until
Aerial defence is being studied they have passed through a year]
Dr. G. Sherwood Eddy, writer the blood serum of ald world mon-i
by the cadets, while the officers keys is more like that of human of "probation."
the speaker, and social worker, passed "One of the results," added are making researches on
through beings than it is like any monkey's Mr. Moody, "has been a rush to latest methods in protecting the
Hong Kong yesterday "If I haven't lost track of a
couple 'round turns, she's about] ? This was one of the more sur-accept the Old Catholic faith. city from air raids and in learn aboard the liner Conte Rosso on hia
prising discoveries announced be- Consequently an enormous straining what to do in the event of the way to Shanghai. He is accom-here." With a naked finger like a panied by his wife, and this is his frozen sausage with a nail on it. the re-approach of enemy bombers. fore the International Congress of has been thrown on Anthropological and Ethnographi- sources of this Church, who have These courses are offered to stu-ninth visit to China.
had their numbers increased dents in the artillery section.
Besides enrolling cadets and They have their junior officers, the Yin Tong
In the new world.
cal Sciences at Univeralty College, from 28,000 by about 70,000 London, on August 1.
'converts.'
(Continued from Page 1.) AERIAL DEFENCE
freezing winds, lashes beaded with Ice, beards blocked into solid peaks of frozen breath and rime.
"Where's she to now, Cyrus ?"
Cyrus indicated the spot on chart, And in the same matter-of-fact GRIM TALE OF CAPTURE
voice. "Heave the log once. Don't BY BANDITS
make much difference, but the old It means, according to the Bishop and a very small staff of Military Academy has engaged
brig wants all the help we can give| perts, that the human and are clergy, and it is extremely hard many military experts to carry on (Continued from Page 1)
translate **stocks must have parted company for the latter to minister to their research work and to
There was a wide and apparently When the Japanese troops ap- a very long time ago-not less, Dr.
books on military science and proached after a Manchukuo civil impassable gulf between growing flocks. Zuckerman suggested to a press "For the most part the Old tactics into Chinese for the bene- servant, Mr. Murakami, had at Packer and the rest of the Athene's representatives than 10.000.000 Cathalica are workers and fit of those officers who do not tracted their attention by shout crew. There should not have been.
years ago.
small tradesmen, and they find read foreign languages.
her."
Wally
ing, and was wounded for his Cyrus Packer had made no mistake The reason is that this wide it hard to provide funds for new
All cadets are required to study brave act, the bandits fled, and when he took as a second wife a divergence between the monkeys churches and more clergy. They English or some other modern Mr. Johanson cut his own and far different type of mate from the of the new and old worlds implies give to the limit of their ability language. Most of them choose Eng-Mr. Lury's bonds and rushed to courageous, rough-hawn sex woman a very long period of independent for the extension of the work of lish and Japanese.
the river to meet the landing who had given him his five rough- evolution.
party.
Both were unhurt:
-how, bold, fearless sons. Reuter. EXECUTED FOR GRAIN SQUANDERING
the Church, but there remains
On the other hand, the common much to be done.
Trouble was, there was such a characteristics of man and the old "At present the Old Catholics
wide difference between the out- world monkeys must, it is be-are availing themselves of the
AUTHORITY USURPEDTM
spoken, mansinewed, unlettered Heved, have been independently-loan of Lutheran and Orthodox Riga:-Four Soviet high officials,
Sally Packer and the slim fair, This is a possibility which has churches, and are converting dia-employed as distributors of provi.
`(Continued from Page 1) educated Ursula who was later also been emphasised at the Con-used secular buildings and even sions in the Leningrad district submitted to Marshal Chiang for by Sally in the lonely heart of General Lu's petition recently brought to fill the place left vacant gress in regard to other aspects of cellars. human evolution. It is more and "Admittedly, this new access conviction on charges of squander tond, and another one requesting remark it and remind Cyrus of it. have been executed following there]
supply of munitions was not sanc- Cyrus-that nobody ever failed to more being realized that nature of strength to other than Roing grain, according to reports from Marshal Chiang to order the Sze- And there was, naturally, a wider, can produce apparently similar man Catholic Churches is large-Leningrad. raqults, in different ways.
ly due to ulterior motives, as it
Dr. Zuckerman formerly worked was only the threat of poverty
chuen generale to assist in "the vaster, more Impassable gulf be- bandit suppression - movement tween the growing"" young, giante brought no-reply. A number of born of Sally and the alight, fair, initions: transported, "" to "Sm- unassertive. Wally, offspring of the
were seized by Marshal gentle Ursula Chiang-recently Central Press. (Continued on Page 10)
at the London Zoo. He has spent that induced men and women to lieve that the ast majority the past two years at Yale Uni- reject religion in order to con- remain strong in their new faith versity, and is now to work at Ox- form more nearly with Socialist when they realize its spiritual chue
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