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Mr. Lloyd George's
"New Deal"
.
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
JUDGE'S FORESTRY SCHEME
Sir Alexander Bateson, who died last month, was one of the bust loved judges on the bench. In the last few years of his life he was | largely occupied with divorce work, which was fundamentally distaste- ful to him, but he proved one of the most humane members of the Divorce Court.
STOP FOOLING
SINGAPORE!
WHAT ENEMY HAVE WE IN THE EAST?
USELESS
UNDERTAKING AT GIGANTIC COST
(By G. Ward Price)
you take a taxicab In Singa- And even if the Fleet get to pore and drive northwards Singapore it could go no farther." "Sandy" Bateson was originally across the island over the red road To carry a naval offensive Into that winds through the slim brown Japanese waters, according to Ad- a commercial lawyer, specialising in
and green Admiralty work, and during and
trunks of the rubber [miral. Ballard, director of the Bri- trees, you come in about half an tish Naval Operations Division. Immediately after the war he hour to a heavy gate guarded by during the peared in most of the important
war, B threefold placarded superiority over the Japanese Fleet. shipping cases before the House of Malay policemen and
with "No Admittance" notices. would be required. In the Great Lords and the Privy Council.
From either side of it a formid- War our Navy could not invade the He was a small, spare man with a Jahle barbed wire fence atretches Baltic, whose entrance was but 500 raddy, complexion and white hair.
out of sight across the rough and miles from our main bases. How He never indulged in judicial wise- | cracks, although he had a dry
could it reach the Sea of Japan, billy ground. humour of his own. His chief in-
2,500 miles from Singapore? terest, apart from the law, was in trees: On his farm in Dumfries he started an elaborate afforestation
scheme.
OVER THE ODDS
Wanton Waste Through that gate has gone in the last twelve years. £6,500,000 of British money,
Stirring A Hornets' Nest Assailed by submarines, attack- ed by aeroplanes, waylaid by
In the next two or three years enemy squadrons close to their yet another £4,000,000 is due to home ports, it would be following: follow, with no possibility, of re- the same route to sure disaster as turn-and how much more in the that which Admiral Roszhestvensky Four old gentlemen were playing way of ultimate, supplementary, took in the Russo-Japanese War of bridge together the other day, and incidental expenditure no one thirty years ago. They had been doing little else but
It certainly could not cover the- play bridge with each other for Empire's costliest White Elephant invasion, for the route which this For this wire cage contains the coast of Australia from Japanese
would take lies through the Pacific:
some years.
knows.
On this particular day South-the Singapore Naval Base,
Here while British unemploy- Ocean 4.000 miles to the eastward. trumped his partner's ace
North thought for 18 seconds. 5,000 Tamil, Indian, and Chinese could not afford to lie idle at its ed stand idle at, street-corners-- On the other hand, the Fleet Then he spoke:
"I have known for some years coolies have for years past been base, for it would be there exposed that each day you played bridge.
well paid, fed, and housed by the to the onslaught of carrier-borne: lion unemployed back on to the worse than you did the day before. British Government for the pur aeroplanes. As Admiral Gross
I do not resent that. But I resent pose of transforming tropical jun- one of the best-known German land. "We are compelled," he says, "to buy from abroad hun- the fact that you are playing to-day le, marsh, and backwater into a naval strategists, told me in Bere. dreds of millions' worth of pro- the bridge you should play the day workshops, storehouses, rail next war will make all ports and huge area of dry-docka, quays lin last month, aeroplanes in the duce, most of which could be after to-morrow."
ways, roads, bungalows, barracks, harboura death-traps for the ships: raised at home.".
oll-tanks, water-works, power- that use them. stations, and all the other fea- tures of a great naval harbour..
The compul- sion came from one-sided Free Trade. Has then. Mr. Lloyd George turned Protectionist? It
Your Daily Smile!
"That certainly is a freak publicity
::
would almost seem so, for with-stunt of Judge Bart's!"
*.
Our Eastern Trade Australia is contributing noth ing to the Singapore scheme, but
A Gigantic Task Mr. Lloyd George, has staged out Protection his million land "What's that??
8,000,000 cubic yards of excava-[for a fraction of its cost she could his return to active politics by settlers would soon be bankrupt. "Well, the paper states that he
tloni
be equipped with an air force that the opening of a new campaign. He says in another passage wouldn't sit again for a month.”
-5,000,000 cubic yards of dred-could bomb and destroy hostile His return is generally and sin-"Now that we have got out
ging:
warships and transports 500 miles cerely welcomed. The political tariffs I would use them ruthless- For the first time in several years, crete:
Future Barnums.
1,000,000 cubic yards of con
from her coast. scene has not been so gay in the ly and to the full." This is new the 280-pounder was visiting his sister such are the impressive figures as an insurance for our Far Eas absence of the most tuneful song-doctrine, from Mr. Lloyd George. There were two little nephews, and ster of the grove. He brings in But it is sound sense. If Britain they had never seen anyone quite se out-poured upon the ear of any in-tern trade can scarcely have one hand a scheme of salvation; sets out to protect her markets. day, many of their little, playmates has stood on this mile-long, gran- together, Britain sold only $10,- enormous as their uncle.. During the come-tax payer who, like myself, realised that to China and Japan but he bears in the other a sword let her do so effectively. In this came in and solemnly looked the ite-faced water-front of what, till 000,000 worth of goods in 1984. Om for those who reject conversion respect, at any rate, the Govern-tremendous personage over from stem
*
No; I'm the bride's mother..
Those who talk of the new baser
So that Hood, Nelson, and Rod-year. ney, the three most powerful skipa
£20,000,000 to build and £1,000,-
000 a year to run, may, come out here, 8.000 miles from home, to
His new plan, however, should ment should gladly respond to to stern, much to his embarrassment. long after the war, was but a de- the other hand, our income from be studied as impartially as pos-an impulse from so unexpected a That night, at dinner, the Gargantuan serted, and fever-haunted creek,
Investments in Japanese Govern sible, without', undue regard to quarter.
uncle learned that his enterprising And all these gigantic labours ment stocks and commercial un the rhetorical and provocative
little nephews had been charging their are being carried on for-what? On the crucial subject of cre-playmates a penny aplece to see him.
dertakings stands at £8,000,000 - décor with which it is dressed up dit Mr. Lloyd George delivered a to strike the popular "imagina-flaming attack on the policy of Overheard
(Continued on Page 10): tion.
the Bank of England rather than Are you a friend of the bride. in the Royal Navy, which cost Mr. Lloyd George's central on the institution itself. He in-groom?
HARBOURS GIRL suggestion is the creation of a stanced the "fatuous" American permanent statutory Develop debt settlement of 1923, and the ment Council; "independent and premature, return to the Gold standing completely apart from Standard in 1925. Without men- political interference-presumtioning names, he was really at ably like the Tariff Advisory tacking Mr. Norman, whom his Board of the National Govern-new associate Lord Snowden, an ment. This is to consist of constantly eulogises. He strong that they will close their stores men apiece awelter in barracks on Pak, alias Kong Yin-chau, an an eminent representatives of in-ly disavowed, however, the idea to-morrow for their annual stock-the shadeless concrete quays. dustry, commerce, finance, la of nationalising the Bank-taking. Their business will resume bour and economics. But how which is the darling scheme of on Friday, March 1. will they be better able to agree the Socialists, All he demanded,.....
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
tie un to the banks of this con- Unemployed Painter:
verted mangrove-awamp, or lie
for repaire in the £1,200,000 flost-
Fined
ing dock now moored in mid-Charged with harbouring a girl,
The Sincere Co., Ltd., advertise stream, while their crews of 1,300 Leung Cheung, 16 years, Kong
But what fleet are they to fight? in default one month's hard, In- employed painter, was fined $50,, Where is the enemy against whom bour by Mr. W. Schofield at the this equatorial Plymouth has been Central Magistracy this morning.
Inspector K. W. Andrew stated: Where Is The Enemy? that the girl was missed by her · so devoid of potential naval foes. inquiries made through the S.C.A.. Hardly any part of the world in parents on February 15, and that Except for a few old gunboats in revealed that the girl had been. the Dutch East Indies, and an oc- living with the defendant at No... casional American cruiser at 118 Second Street
in framing highly controversial if with unnecessary vehemence Father G. Byrne, S.J.. will lecture planned?ramjá projects than the members of a and brandishing of the tomato the Education Society. оц Jarge Royal Commisston are able hawk, was that there should be "Laughter-in Psychology and In to agree
on principles? The a change in the method of choos-Life" in the Union. Assembly Hall Council's duty would be to take a ing the Directors, so that they on March 5 at 8.80 p.m. All are survey of the resources of the may be in closer touch with Bri-welcome country in every sphere and pre-tish industrial Interests than pare and approve plans for the with the City financial houses The Hong Kong Philharmonic Manila, there are no foreign war Inspector Andrew said that al- better utilisation of our resour- whose principal interest is the Society will present Coleridge Tay ships within 2,500 miles of the though the girl went to the ac THE BIOLOGICAL SKIN TONIC Ces, credit and man power. It provision of capital to foreign lor's cantata, "Hiawatha" in the great war harbour which, at such cused's on her own accord. her
would also include in its pur-countries. That point is one of China Fleet Club Theatre BEAUTY nowadays is not just view the development of the co-real substance; nor was it over- Thursday, March 7, and Saturday, of the wilderness of the Malay man's intimacy with their daugh--
alt of nature: it
on huge expense, we are calling out parents strongly objected to the, lonial resources of the Empire, looked in the Macmillan Report. March 9.
Peninsula. and consider the application of But it is a subject for sober ar-17 the rational credit with a view Eument, and hardly fitted to the
EUKUTOL
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ter. Inspector Andrew said that to harnessing it to the enter public platform. A first impres- day that Col. F. R. Nosworthy, use of it against our old allles the with him as a solution to securing" It was incorrectly stated yester- the naval base of Singapore the and that he took the girl to live The only conceivable, utility of accused knew of this objection,
prises which it plans. The kernel on of Mr. Lloyd George's plan D.5.0, M.C., was leaving by the of the whole scheme lies in these therefore, is that it cuts across Transport Somersetahire on Sun Not that any British Government Mr. Schofield In passing scu
Japanese.
the girl for his wife g laat words, for clearly the Coun- the Socialist schemes quite as day. Col. Nosworthy's family, can ever have been so foolish as tence said that under the circum-- cil is intended by Mr. Lloyd much as across those of the Na-land their nurse, Miss Way, are to believe that we shall some day stances he could not take a ser George to adopt the Lloyd tional Government. That will proceeding Home. George Roosevelt Socialist view make his campaign the more live-
flight that formidable and entirely tous view of the case, of spending one's way cheerfully ly, but will not help him to The R.M.S. Empress of Japan left friendly, nation. But the ginga- back to industrial recovery. This compact following
Vancouver on Saturday and is due same kind of fantastic fearfulness pore Base owes its existence to the to arrive here via ports on March 15as led the White Knight in "Alice leaving the same day for Manila,,
Through the Looking-Glass to keep a rate-trap on his horses's back.
is the gospel of industrial salva
Our medical, chemical and coumatetic seale. Mr. Lloyd George
tion by public works on a gigan-
priate beauty?.
experts have solved the for you, Madam.
question'
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wisely reticent, gave no estim The preparations, forming the foundation for the Eukutol System are ates of cost. Mr. Roosevelt re- the outcome of years of scientific labour, of investigations into the nacently asked for a credit of £800 tura! requirements of the skin, Into the active elementa and nutrients.
000 000.0 needed by the skin for the unremitting renewal of its beauty. The Eukutol Bystem' li explained in
Public works have not read it you will join the already vast ranks of Eukutol adherents You - Mr. Lloyd George · suggested will have every reason to be grateful for the results of the System Makebeen dropped. They have their a beginning this very eventog, with a free sample from all dispensaries place in the nations and stores.
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FURNITURE STOLEN
2.
Pleading guilty to a charge of house-breaking, and stealing an Merchant Granted over-coat and a blanket, Lau Cheuk
Useless Enterprise kin, a 26-year-old unemployed, was It resembles, also, the White $250 Bail
fined $50, in default one month's Knight's gadgets in Ita utter use Made Imprisonment, by Mr. A. W. G. H. less. Charged with the theft of 15 Grantham at the Kowloon Magie war with Japan, what British Gor Supposing we actually, were at eces of furniture valued at $90,|
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