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The men of England are facing a sad and empty future. Sad and empty, at any rate, if the thirty- fourth Universal Cookery and Food Exhibition, which opened stiTHE
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THE PRELUDE TO PLASSEY
MOMENTOUS DECISION OF
FATEFUL TREND
(By Rafael Sabatini)
treacherous Surajud-ed his headquarters or the occa- the New Horticultural Hall, West Dowlah was not to be trust-sion of his last attack on Cal- minster recently can be taken as ed He was entrenched with a cutta. Omichund's subsequent a criterion as it is taken in some large force at Plassey, and while attendance upon. the Subadar sending congratulations to Clive and the favour he enjoyed cer- Boys far outnumber girls in theland Watson on the victory it tainly justified entries for the competitions
the suspicion ar-was known that he had taken with which he had been regard- ranged for Boy Scouts and Girlfinto his service the French com-jed On the other hand, he had Guides.
mander Law and the troops that been friendly to the British and This is what Mr., L Kriens had escaped with him from of assistance in negotiating the Chairman of the Committee of Chandernagore.
treaty with the Subadar, and Management of the Exhibition, Further, Clive had intelli-while he was known as false says about it.
igence that the Subadar was and treacherous, yet there was "It only illustrates the lack ofjurging de Bussy to come to his no other agent to be found, and interest in domestic cooking assistance and help him to drive it was assumed that the advan- among the giris of to-day. I am the British“ înto the sea tages which he stood to win afraid it is a dying art in Eng-Therefore. while Watson's from the overthrow of Suraj- land, and the cooking of the rising squadron dropped down the ud-Dowlah would keep him zeneration is about the worst in river again to Calcutta. Clive faithful to the other side. history."
remained behind to keep an eye Clive was disposed to treat
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TINNED FOOD AGE
oo the Subadar. And now mat-him generously. Not only ters suddenly developed in an should he be fully compensated unexpected direction.
for the losses he had sustained "It is no exaggeration to say The capriciousness of Surajat Calcutta, but he should have. that thousands of homes in the ud-Dowlah, his viciousness, five per cent of all moneys re- West End live on tinned food and weakness, and arrogance had ceived from Meer Jaffier under the products of the delicatessen brought him into contempt with the treaty to be made with him. stores, while in the East End thou-the nobles of his following. A But at this stage of their sands procure their evening meal conspiracy began to stir aiming arrangement he turned black- from the fish and chip shop.” at his overthrow. The consmaller.
Among the
more startling-en-pirators applied to Clive for He ended by setting his price tries on view were sugar models assistance promising in return at the enormous figure of $300,-- of the great liner Queen Mary to give subsequently every ad-1000. and he let it be understood and St. Paul's Cathedral, and avantage to the East India Com-what must happen if this pay
The China Mail custom: the reduction to law is large basket of flowers made en-pany. The company was of the ment to him were not made a the definition of custom If tirely from fish-bones and lobster opinion that this assistance clause in the treaty with Meer the customs of the litigants shelly.
Hong Kong. Saturday, June 22, 1933 differ there can only be com-
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{ promise. and out of the com- promises may come in the end new principles of compromis- "Does this village boast of a choral ¡ing what we call Equity. It society?" inquired the new resident. Mr. H. C. Macuamara's in-jis sometimes supposed that *Well" said the postmaster. teresting talk од Thursday evolution by way of Case Law can't just say that we boast of it. We evening to the Past Wah Yan is a peculiarity of the English suffer it in silence like." Students dealt with a question. Law, but this is a mistake
The Hollywood magnate told an or rather several questions, that The very learned Professor of assistant that in his opinion a certain have a very close bearing on the Law at the Sorbonne in Paris writer was the only more for a She most urgent problem of the has just pablished an excellent they had under consideration. moment, which is simply this: survey of English law, the re-no you think, perhaps he's a lit tactfully doubtful. Can we find in our working sys- salt of several years work, with the too caustic?" he suggested. tems of law any principle of the professed object of making "Do I care how much he costa reason which can be applied to it intelligible to Continental demanded the producer. “Get him!” national disputes as a sub-students who think in terms of Istitute for war? It was as re- Roman Law. These, he says.
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They Refused Madras that he was persuaded j Clive and the council could "there could be no peace or have no illusions as to where
Bombi Colman and Loretta Young are co-starred in "Clive of India,” which is showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
Mr. J. J. C. Bollard
DEATH WHILE ON LEAVE
-IN ENGLAND.
security while such a monster they stood. If they refused reigus.TM
Omichund, with proofs of the News has been received in
It was certainly clear that, conspiracy in his hands, could: who Hong Kong of the death of Mr with or without British co-wreck all by a word, with con their ¡J. J. C. Bollard, of the local staff
operation, ***revolution there sequences which would certain of Imperial Chemical Industries would be and it was just as ly have doomed the British of its undisputed authority to All civilisation is built on the Ltd., which occurred in London clear that the British would de-settlement in Bengal and extin- make new law; and there is at idea of contract, implied if not on Thursday. He is survived by rive no advantage from it un-guished Clive's vision of British. present no sign of any such expressed If we step into a his wife. legislative body to make law or bus, we imply à contract to pay
less they co-operated The les-Empire in India: In 1914 he joined the staff of son of Dupleix's ambitious aims any power to enforce its deci-the fare. And to settle a dis Brunner, Mond and Co. (China), had not been wasted
The bitterest censure that: sions What is called "Inter-pute means applying the funda Ltd, and remained in the employ observant Clive. Here was a ling conducted himself in accor on the Calls upon Clive is for not hav rational Law" is either a body mental doctrine that we must of that Company and its succes chance of putting an end to dance with the scrupulous code of voluntary rules made for con-examine a man's motives, which sors, Imperial Chemical Indus- French competition in Bengal of Western honour towards this. venience, such as the immunity can best be inferred from the tries (China) Ltd, until his and of realising for England blackmailer, ef Ambassadors, or else a body cystom with which he is fami-death, since the year 1927 had what Duplex had dreamed for was an unprofitable folly
to whom bonowe of treaties signed by individual liar. This may make a grie been attached to the Hong Kong France, States, which are capable of vance with the exceptional man, Offee, where he held the post of
His own view was that a being submitted to arbitration who meant by his action some-Fertiliser Sales Manager for the
Scoundrel who held them at his A study of the arbitral findings thing quite unusual, but the law South China Division,
Clive entered into the ploterey should be fought with his. on "justiciable" cases fails to is following commonsense in At the outbreak of War in and, having entered into it were prepared, one on red paper-
own. weapons. "Two treaties reveal anything corresponding taking guidance from the aver 1974 Mr. Bollard was a member showed himself as dauntless in containing the clause demanded to the philosophical ideal of age and the ordinary man. • of the Hong Kong Volunteer the face of preconceptions as he by Omichand, the other the abstract justice. They merely What is called "the advan-Corps. Later, he joined the Brihad ever been in the face of the only one to be effective or show that in these cases the tage of judicial interpretation" tish forces in France where he enemy
He suffered no Occwhite paper. from which the parties preferred a settlement mess only that the decision of was badly gassed. As a result dental scruples to deter him clause was omitted. But this to a quarrel, ther give no competent Court can explain of this his health was eventually from following Oriental intrigue was not yet the end of the dup guidance for the proper way to the meaning of an act or a word impaired, and for the last three along its tortubus course For licity which the circumstances. deal with such a disputant as when laymen differ. And the
this he has been censured. It forced upon Clive. The signa→ Mr. de Valera, who wants judges themselves often disyears or so he was under has been held that it tarnishes ture of Admiral Watson, as quarrel rather than a settle Recently the House of Lords as Mr. Bollard underwent an the lustre of his fame The joint commander with him, was ment: of Signor Mussolini, who the Final Court of Appeal wants, not a boundary, but a decided that the "Gold Clause" operation in the middle of March,gment if carried to its las necessary as his own to the
flogical conclusion, would estab Protectorate. The dangerous should be taken literally, while was sufficiently recovered to sh that a strategist in the field documents, the real and the disputes call not for learning, the American Supreme Court the Empress of Britain or March or in the council chamber must son refused to sign the red Jeave for England on vacation by
Bxurious And Admiral Wat but for wisdom and there is no decided that it should be inter1263 Unfortunately, he suffered/save at the sacrifice of his
Court that would be recognised preted with a very important las having the qualifications to reservation. In an interna
bring out of its own conscious-tional case the decision of the ness new principles of abstract Hague Tribunal would evidently Justice
have left a sense of injustice on This doubt is no reason-one side or the other, whatever Jable cynicismIt arises from it might have been. If
the fact that local or "munici- who speak the same pal law is not
and a lega
act principles at all sppear in every system
mea
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Damitless
treaty.
honour, meet duplicity with can dour, and so place himself at the
of opponents whom he in
be unscrupulous
Legotiations between
in the
increasing ill-health during it is doubtless as mit of his War injury that has now succumbed.
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