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FIVE TIMES FOREEMEN
· M: Eleftherios Venizelos, should be used to death sentences. The last is the fifth time that his life. has been pronounced forfeit. ~
ENCOUNTERS WITH FORCES OF
DISHONESTY
(By Rafael Sabatini)
He is also the only modern
Clive instituted proceedings in had been sharing in the orgy of statesmen who has been sziathema- tised by the Church. That was in which inevitably he must have plunder of which his measures the autumn of 1916, after his final prevailed had not the sadden made an end. Until he came, the crisis in Bengal compelled the officers, in contempt of orders to break with King Constantine.
By command of the Greek Ortho- company to seek once more for the contrary from the directors dox Church a huge pile of stones the preservation of its Easter had been insisting upon and had was built The assembled Bishops sessions, the services of the been receiving double pay, in per then began hurling the stones down very man towards whom it was petuation of an exceptional bonus a slope. Each stone was a curse harmg so disgracefully and un-granted to them by beer Jaffere Jon M. Venizelos.
CLOSE ENCOUNTER
His closest encounter with death had nothing to do with revolutions or palace intrigues.
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gratefully.
There could be no profit to him from the mission; it was obvious, that immense difficulties would
after PlasseF-
Officers On Strike
When the company accepted the
select committed
confront him at the hands of a Diwani, the Government " lost to all prin-issued a desmite order for the ciples of honour" as that at cessation of this abuse. That In 1917 he was on his way to Bengal: he was reluctant to leave occurred in January of 1766, and Britain. He got off at Brindisi, his wife and family, his friends, the officers secretly agreed to meet where he had a conference with the the cultivation of his estates and it by resigning their commissio2S Italian Admiral.. The quay was the amenities derived from an on the following 1st of Jane, each dark, and M. Venizelos stepped income (colossal for those days) entering into a bond of $300 not over the side. An Italian sailor of £10,000 a year: and his health to accept his commission again Įgot him out with a boat-hook.
was by no means rood. That, in unless double pay were restored. spite of all this. Clive should have Farther, they swore to preserve answered the call is the highest at the hazard of their own lives. testimonial that could be supplied the life of any one of their bady: of his public spirit and his con- who might be condemned by courte. Acem for Indian interests. But martial to death." In short, they.
as much in self-defence for he were to go on strike; End as the- future as in righteous indignation Maharattas at the time were for the past, he would not con- threatening war, it seemed to The two ladies were having a tip sent to embark for India until them that their action must de- or an ocean liner for the first time Salivan had been removed from liver checkmate to Clive. The boat remained for an hour, or
Never were men two in a harbour and one of the ladies the chair of the directors' court
more deladed In this his will prevailed, and he or to be more bitterly undeceived The China Mail tions naturally do not look with asked a seaman the reason.
favour upon secessionist pro- "Oh, they're just doin' something sailed for Bengal as Governor Clive learned of this project of posals, which if carried to any to one of the screws," was the reply- and Commander-in-Chief_
muting at the end of April and would speedily bring any a little thing like
"Dear me exclaimed the lady.
Formidable as it was, he faced it about their own disruption. If holding up a huge liner like this!" He reached Calcutta on May Swith that boldness which in the West Australia seceded from.
of 1765, to discover that Meer] Past had broken down every form The Dominions New the Commonwealth other States
Jaffer had lately died leaving of opposition. He would have to might seek to follow her exam- The pompous judge glared sternly Status
ple. Once a Commonwealth has over his spectacies at the tattered him the richer under his will by see the bayonets at his throat be inheritance which declared, before he would gield to been established and it took prisoner who had been dragged be- £60,000, an
fore the bar of justice on a charge Clive munificently made over in this evercion. A constitutional question of years of effort to
overcome in of vagrancy.
trust for officers and men invalid-
Immediate Dismissal first-rate magnitude and of im-Australia the ever-increasing "Have you ever earned a dollar ined in the service of the East India mense interest to all the drawbacks of a number of self-your life?" he asked in scorn.
States Dominions of the British Em-governing
without a "Yes, your honour," was the re- sponse. "I voted for you at the last pire was recently decided. The common fiscal policy the pro-election decision is found in the Report per course is for the Common-
Hong Kong. Monday, June 24, 1933.length
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He issued orders that all who resigned should immediately be Company.
His next. discovery was that the sent down to Calcutta, and mean- definite orders sent out by the while, to replace them, he brought directors forbidding servants of up some officers from Madras and of the Joint Committee of both wealth itself to solve by give The last speaker,” said the chair- Houses of Parliament appoint- and take its own internal dif-man at the health club meeting the company to accept "presents" created others by giving commis
coldly ignored by sions to non-commissioned officers: ed to hear. the petition from Sculties. These arise prin- a striking example of the efficacy of had been West Australia. that it should cipally from differences of tax-the doctriner he so eloquently advo- gentlemen who in money matters of good character, to soldiers,
cates. Hale and hearty at 30 years had grown accustomed to con- and even to some civilians. be permitted to secede from the able, capacity and divergent ecof age be conic tire out many a maz sult no wishes but their own, and accepted all resignations as they Australian Commonwealth and nomic interests: We do not de- younger than himself.”
revert
did.”
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
He
to its position before sire to minimise the grievances A voice from the audience. He that upon the death of Meer Jaffer came, and sent the ringleaders the council had virtually sold the home under arrest. Some were 1900, as a self-governing Col-which led West Australia `on a
succession to his natural son for court-martialled and cashiered lony, but with separate Doinin-referendum to cast a large
$200,000, which sum had been Until the mutiny was stamped, lion status Permission is re-majority of votes in favour of
She lives
was inexorable. under.
coolly divided among the members. out he
Then, fused. The right of the Im secession
Nor were these "the only when order was restored to perial Parliament to receive heavy disabilities owing to the
was showed himself lenient to those petitions from any part of the High Protectionist policy of the
Fook Sik Kwong- of Chuchow,grounds upon which Clive Empire is indeed strongly re Commonwealth, and broadly was this morning sentenced to justified of his angry denunciation who expressed regret and petition affirmed It is also declared speaking, the secession move four months hard labour by Mr of the members of the commeil as ed to be reinstated. that only by legislation in the ment may be said to represent a Macfadyen at the Cen all guilty of barefaced cotrup-
Closing Tragedy the the revolt of the country al Police Court Imperial Parliament can dissolution of Commonwealth against the economic and poli-of a handbag containing $20 from or the secession of one of its tical predominance of the Aus-Miss Boustead in Battery Path component States be effected tralian town population.
dn. Thursday last But the established constitu- the true remedy is surely not tional practice is that such in-secession but reform - not the terference can only take place disruption of united Autralia morning sentenced to six months at the instance of the Dominion but a squarer deal between the! itself and not at that of one of rival interests of the different
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Lam Kwai, 3ged 29, was
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hard labour by ME Q. A.-A. Mac-, fadyen at the Central Police Court for returning to the Co- lony before his term of banish- ment had expired. Defendant had been banished for 10 years
as recently as May this year.
tion."
insolent
By October of that year, 1766;: He had no illusions on the Clive was so ill that although the Score of the task ahead of his company pressed him in the nest or of the battles he would have flattering terms to contime in to fight with men who, f five Bengal for another twelve months, years uncontrolled and
uculent, would now stand tioned, had grown
great work was accomplished, and together to resist him.
the lines upon which it was to be Considering the diffenlties of continned were firmly and communication Git took on asly laid dowL average a year and a half for an exchange of letters between Eng brilliant career
es so as to consolidate the splendid solid-impossible for him to accede. His and reforms he had effected, it was:
Committee Of Four
The tragedy that closes this may be briefv
On the 14th July, 1767, the
outward. English mails, is due heron his own responsibility and homing Clive landed at Forts
The s.s. Rawalpindi, carrying the
at 10 am, on Wednesday.
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liament might with constitu- tional propriety pass the re-
land India), he had sought from told. the directors power to act at need quisite Act, because then the Commonwealth Govern-
without reference to the council mouth or his return from the ment would speak for Australia jas a whole. But a single State
This power the directors consider brilliant fulfilment in the service red too absolute for one man; hal of his country of one of the" can only speak with the voice
The new premises of the Bank they met his wishes at least to the greatest tasks ever imposed upon of a minority and cannot be al- So Kwong-kwan, a 43-year-
for East Asia in Des Vænt Road,extent of investing with it lowed to over-ride the presum-fold book-keeper, employed by Central, will be open to the inspec select committee of four members no enthusiastic reception and no ap Englishman. But this time ed wishes of the majority the Royal Air Force at Kai Tak
tion of the public on Tuesday, to be nominated by himself and to honours awaited him. This decision will commend Aerodrome, was brought before
The air cooperate with him.
was chilled for him by the de itself to general public opinion Mr. EL Wynne Jones at the July 2, from 9 am to 1 pm
While diligently attending amatory e artions of the worth- in Great Britain and also. we} Kowloon Magistracy, this morn All faze on board the N. D. L the reform of the Civil Service 00 less persons whose dishonesties, bebeve; in the Dominions. It is ing charged with stealing a box liner Scharnhorst were flown at the one hand, on the other he was Consonant with the general of drawing pins, a roll of type-half-mast yesterday out of res re-establishing the disturbed re
"{Continued on Page 11) trend of recent constitutional writer ribbon and an ink pad pect to Fritz Schuler, a member lations with the native rulers. development, whatever may be from the office, and was fired
of the engine-room staff who lifting oppression and repressi said on the strictly legalistic $50.
Cemetery Happy Valley in the Diwani of the provinces was buried in the Protestant obtaining for the company the
the Bev. E G Powell Bengal, Behar and Orissa again
annual rentals which while satis fying all parties ensured for company, a revenue of more tha three rullions yearly.
side. It is in accordance with Inspector Chester Woods, of died on board in the morning and abuses in the inland trade, and the spirit of the Statute of the Kowloon City Police Sta Westminster which deliberately fion, stated that as defendant endowed the Dominions with in-was leaving his office a watch- icreased constitutional authority iman became suspicious and fol and thereby derogated in prac lowed him to the guardhouse. tice from the exercisable pon where defendant was searched, ers of the Imperial Parlament and the articles were found in We could imagine nothing mo
possession. Defendant had been in the
for eight years and was
certain to create
friction between
monthlyysalary of Ban aged mother, and six children to
wever to the most
Clive's
Already
MAN LOONG
Preserved