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H.K. SINGERS
Pleasant Ceremony Last Night
PRESENTATIONS MADE BY LADY SOUTHORN
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publication should be addressed to A pleasant ceremony took place SCRIPTURAL QUOTATIONS the Editor, and be accompanied by last evening at the Union Church. the Writer's Name and Address Kennedy Road, when Lady South- not necessarily for insertion, butjorn made presentations, on behalf who dislikes the use
The voice of Sir John Reith. of biblical jas a guarantee of good faith..
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Mr. Anderson Miller, the So- Man shall not, we are told, live, ciety's conductor. in introducing by bread alone. In future, ap Lady Southern stated that though (parently, comedians shall not exist this was the first occasion on solely on misplaced which the Society's President, quotations
was and all nationalities." evident the same confident be-
WHAT THE LOCARNO PACT MEANS
EARLY BEGINNINGS
RECALLED '
ADDED GUARANTEE FOR PEACE OF EUROPE
(By Sir Austen Chamberlain)
name of
T
people of England are American Congress refused its sp- scriptural sometimes invited in certainproval and the guarantee there- Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 18, 1936 Lady Southörn, had been present
quarters to repodiate the Treatyfore failed. at a rehearsal, the Society would comedian the salt of the earth. dressed to them in the
Many people consider a clever of Locarno. The invitation is ad- France, which had abandoned one form of security on promise like to thank her for the lively Should comedians adopt an "ere Peace: Locarno, it is said, places
of another. found herself with- and personal interest which she for an eye" policy and boycott the direction of British policy in out either. She was thrown Outlook
had shown in its work. "It is the BBC, the programmes would the hands of France and our Army jobvious," he said,
back on such support as she "that the So be rendered infinitely duller than and Navy at the service of French could secure elsewhere. In the speeches of Mr. Colin eiety would not be so healthy other are now.
policy.
Her Treaties of Alliance with Campbell to the shareholders happy if it had not been for her
Still, suficient unto the day is. It involves us so that argu-Poland and Czecho-Slovakia were of the National Frovincial Bank guidance. I am greatly impress the evil thereof. The B.B.C. ban ment goes in quarrels in which the immediate result. and of Mr. Beaumont Pease at concerning Lady Southors. who is
ed by the unanimity of opinion does not come into force just yet. Britain has no conceivable interest, Peril Before Europe the annual meeting of Lloyds
If it does, a comedians boycott and exposes us to dangers from There followed four years of ir- Bank last month there' loved and respected by all classes would not be likely to be effective. which, but for this unhappy a-ritating and embittering friction The B.B.C. holds the purse-strings, tanglement, we should be complete-between the Allies and Germany. lief in the continued internal, Lady Southern, in the course of and with comedians, as with most immune.
a short speech, said:
The Peace Treaties were signed, prosperity of Great Britain as
of us, where your treasure is there
The integrity of France and of but peace found no place in the **I am marked earlier bank meetings. Kong. It has
sorry to leave Hong will your heart be also.
Belgium, it is urged, is no concern minds and hearts of men or in the been a delightful; Talk of saturation-point in
life here and I thank you for the
All the biblical allusions in this of oure; we are not interested in policy of States. Some of the home industry and consumption many happy times I have had paragraph would come under the the existence of the demilitarized conditions imposed by the victors is no longer in favour. The re-
B.B.C. han.
zone; we will not stir a finger to on the vanquished were inexecut- listering to you. I cannot think markable record of the past that there will be anything like
save the Polish Corridor. These fable and remained unexecuted. year in increased employment Hong Kong Singers in Gam- EMMA GOLDMAN IN LONDON
are not British interests, Jet for Knowing that they could higher profits to companies, and, but I must admit I am long-
each and all of these the Treaty discharge their liabilities in full, in the readiness shown by the
Emma Goldman:
of Locarno would oblige us was lecturing
to and fearing that anything they did investor to encourage industrials to hear the tom-toms beating
fight recently. She is 66 article and speech. in London
Thus our new Mentor in would be construed only as
evi- expansion, forbids the assump- Presentations were then made as and has been agitating for 48
Idence that they could de more, the tion that the limit of home constated and the recipients thanked years without fagging. Like so
Guarantee To France Germans made no real effort to sumption has been touched.
many revolutionaries whose auto-
Before examining these asser-satisfy even the reasonable de- Any such theory would be a de- the donors and Lady Southern.
biographies sell well, she lives on
tions, it may be well to recall brief-mands of the Allies. Refusal was nial of hope to the distressed
ly the circumstances which gave followed by sanctions, sanctions by areas. Mr. Beaumont Pease FAREWELL TEA TO the Riviera.
. Her Russian-Jewish
rise to the series of treaties further resistance, and that resis devoted a passage in his speech
parents PROF. DIGBY
took her to the United States as negotiated at Locarno in October, tance by still heavier sanctions. to refuting the idea that ration-
a child of twelve. In 1919 she 1925, and signed two months later Peace rested, not од alisation has made the banks
goodwill was deported to Russia along with
in London, after being submitted or assent, but solely on the inca- less sympathetic to local needs. While the banks cannot on prin-
a number of other revolutionaries, to and approved by the Parlia-pacity of the vanquished to renew ciple provide permanent capital
in the ss. Berford, called at the ments of all the countries concern-the struggle. Some day the wheel time the Soviet Ark.
ed in them.
of fortune would turn- It would for industry, since their first The Hong Kong University
In Russia she was bitterly dis-
When the representatives of the be possible for Germany to find an duty is the safe custody of the Medical Society gathered in force illusioned and has subsequently Allied and Associated Powers met ally, and on that day, embittered depositor's money, he gave an yesterday afternoon at a tea party let fy at the Bolshevist bosses in in Paris at the conclusion of the by suffering, provoked by constant assurance that "the banks will given in the Union Assembly Hall as spirited a way as, in her Chi-war to draw up the terms of peace, interference, seeing no other hope, play their part in any scheme Mrs. K. H Digby, who are pro- cago days, she did at Capitalisted within the lifetime of them would stake all on a new gamble,
on a moonlit night”
H.K. Medical Union Function
be sympathetically anxious to to bid farewell to Professor and
jones.
Your Daily Smile!
4
+
* Horse Sense "Dad, when has a fellow horse "When he can say 'bay, son."
sense?
falling within their scope." Mr.ceeding ON Sever months' Home Colin Campbell expressed the leave on Saturday. Mrs. Digby same thought in saying that was presented with a basket of there could be no prosperity for flowers. bankers unless industry's pro- The Chairman, Mr. L. A. Djon, Ever Struck You? ductive power were actively em- said that they would miss Profes-r "be" is the way it runs a fellow
Maybe the real reason we call ployed.
sor Digby during his leave. On With the home position
into debt. so behalf of the members he wished markedly better, banking is the Professor and his wife a very Ishowing a revival of courage pleasant holiday and a speedy
In one passage of his speech return. Mr. Colin Campbell regretted Other speakers included Profes- the continuance of the ban upon sor W. I. Gerrard. President of foreign loans, in the absence of the Society, Dr. T. E. Lien, Dr. which there cannot be a full re-La Fuk, Dr. G. E. Thomas, Dr. vival of foreign trade. With E. L. de Souma, Dr. S. W. Phoot the rise in commodity prices, as and Miss Cissy Wong. the pointed out, some of the Those present included Mr. K. countries that used to be large W. Ooi. Hon. Secretary, Dr. Yang borrowers are again becoming Lin and Dr. H. C. Tan. credit-worthy. The number, it Professor and Mrs. Digby in- must be allowed, is small, and tend to return via Canada and the after the experience of the last Pacific.
few years lenders would bej
justified in exercising extreme AU REVOIR PARTY
caution. Mr. Beaumont Pease Istated the real difficulty in ob serving that so long as the pre- sent restrictions on trade con-
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Morrison Hall Warden Going On Leave
no great alteration in the exist- In the University Union Mess ing amount of foreign business. yesterday afternoon members of Impatience with, these hin-the Hong Hong University En- drances to advance is natura]]gineering Society said good-bye| enough, but is tempered by pro-to Mr. S. V. Boxer, Warden of gress within the sterling group. Morrison Hall, and Mrs. Boxer, Higher prices for many raw who are going on leave materials are helping the Do- Saturday. Mr. Boxer is Vice- minions and India and increas-President of the Hong Kong Uni- ing their purchasing power. It versity. Christian Association. is to these countries that the Among those present at the party bankers will look first in ex-were Professor C. A. Middleton- tending the financial assistance Smith, President of the Society, they are eager to offer.
Mr. Y. K. Zes, Chairman, Pro- Less anxiety has been mani-fessor F. A. Redmond, Mr. D. W. fested at this year's bank meet-Morley and Mr. Y. L. Kuo, Hon ings to repel the suggestion Secretary.
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are
that the work of the banks! The Morrison Hall Club should be taken over by the holding a farewell tea party in State. The recent General Elec-honour of Mr. and Mrs. Boxer in tion made any such transfer the Union Assembly Hall ́et 4.30 less a question of practical poli- this afternoon. tics than it has ever been. A
people whose own deposits in The Concert Party of the 1st banks, building societies and Bat. Royal Ulster Rifles are pre- similar-institutions have grown senting a good show entitled "The to enormous figures is not to be Revellers" at the Cheero Club, to- convinced that what is bad busi-day, commencing at 9 p.m. There ness for the banks can be sound is no charge for admission and all business for the State, or that Servicemen are welcome. the present system is not cap-
able of meeting every legitimate deposits awaits profitable use. demand. At the end of another Further progress in the coun- year the British banking sys-try's prosperity depends not, tem car safely feel that it is as is sometimes alleged, upon yet more firmly established in banking policy, since no finan- public estimation. As the dial machine creates real balance-sheets show, its re- wealth, but on the readiness of sources have largely increased, the nations to produce and ex- and an unprecedented sum in change their gooda
pot
France, which had been twice in-however desperate the throw, she
all, one-third of whose territory and Europe would be faced with (had been occupied and devastated another and "yet more appalling
by the enemy. and whose manhood Armageddos. had been decimated in the struggle, demanded the left bank of the Rhine as security for the future.
This was the prospect which faced Mr. Baldwin's second Ad- ministration when it took office. in 1924, but it is not to be sup- posed that there had been ne previous effort to avert it.
Rejected Protocal
The representatives of Britain and America, determined not. to create a new "Alsace-Lorraine.” rejected this demand, but after prolonged negotiation offered In the endeavour to allay the France a treaty of guarantee as fears and suspicions which were the price of the relinquishing it poisoning international relations The British Parliament approved and deflecting national policies, Bully beef, it is stated, is never the guarantee, but made their ac-Mr. Lloyd George had reverted in This, of course, issued to the troops in round tins.
to ensure that)ceptance of it dependent on the 1922 to the idea of a treaty of they get a good square mezi.
|approval of the United States. The (Continued On Page 11)
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