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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAYS-
CARTOON
From Gangster To Chief Justice
Here
There and Everywhere⚫
John Popham of Wellington, RATE FOR KING'S MARRIAGE Somersetshire (1531-1607), Col Sandeman Allen,
who
the Editor, and be accompanied by was studying for the bar at claimed that he was one of the the Writer's Name and Address Middle Temple, when he took up only two members of Lloyd's in not necessarily for insertion, but with bad company and became an the House, gave an interesting re-
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at night and rob travellers of their money and valuables. He continued as a robber long after
Hoer Kong, Tuesday, July 14, 1936. he became a member of the bar.
The Austro-German Agreement
To its credit, be it said, British public opinion, as re- flected in the more responsible press, is generally able to asses a political move at some-
thing like its true perspective. Granting this premise the fairly general talk of the new Austro-German agreement as a gift horse which must most decidedly be looked in the mouth probably sums up the matter as well as might have been done anyhow. Only last Monday,
He reformed after he married, and from then on had a great legal career, which carried him to the rank of Chief Justice of Eng- land (1592). He was
ktown 35 "a hanging judge." from his (Continued in nazt Column)
"QUEEN MARY”
HOME AGAIN
ENGINES TO BE TUNED UP
NEXT LOCARNO MEETING
ITALY'S CONDITIONS FOR
ATTENDANCE
BRITAIN OPPOSED TO GERMAN PARTICIPATION ....
Rome, To-day. It is stated in official circles that Italy is pre- An enquiry was made as to the pared to attend the forthcoming meeting of the rate against the King being mar Locarno Powers at Brussels provided her two ried before the Coronation.
It might be said that that is a conditions the withdrawal of the Mediter- gamble. No such thing. The ranean guarantees, and an invitation to Germany enquiry was a genuine business to attend the conference be accepted.
enquiry by a well-known manu-
Reu- facturer of china Coronation ter's Bulletin Service. mugs.
London: The Austro-German agreement has not settled the If a manage took place be arrangements for the Locarno Conference, which may be post- fore the Corcration two por poned from the original date of July 22 traits would be necessary on the As regards the question, of inviting Germany to attend, it mugs instead of one; and it is learned that Britain holds that the conference concerns the would mean that all the expen-Locarno Powers, of which Germany ceased to be one when she diture and the work would have disavowed the treaty by the occupation of the Rhineland. Whe- ther this standpoint prevails depends on the diplomatic exchanges Col. Sandeman Allen's reference proceeding between Britain, France and Belgium on the future to weather policies concluded with of the conference generally.
been wasted
ja hit at the “promoters of Socialist fetes who like to ensure against{
weather destroying the profits that such fetes may make.” -
White Star
London, To-dzy".
in attempting to When the Cunard
GREAT PROVOCATION
Heligoland Being Fortified
London: Asked at question- time in the House of Commons
assess the Central European liner Queen Mary docked at Cher- Clerk at Highgate (to motorist): yesterday whether Germany's political situation, we remarked bourg yesterday morning the new Do you plead guilty or not guilty undertaking not to re-fortify that not so much had been bost and plane service for trato passing a police car which was Heligoland was being kept, heard of the Anschluss lately,vellers to Central Europe was in-travelling at 30 miles an hour? Lord Cranborne, Under-Secre- going on to remark, that Aus-faugurated, several passengers Guilty, under great provocation. tary for Foreign Affairs, said
Reuter.
PORTUGAL DECIDES TO LIFT SANCTIONS
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Lisbon. to-day.-A' decres an-. nounces that Portagal is biting" sanctions against Italy "to- morrow-Reuter.
trian independence and the leaving at once in an air liner Both officers were having a good that he learned from enquiriese, Germany and Italy desire in- foreign policy of Austria were with Budapest as its final destin-|laugh.
that Heligoland was being forti-ternational equality of rights, individually the most important ation.
fied. No right of inspection which gives the greatest possibili existed in that connection and Ses to the strongest and most nobody's leave had been obtain-efficient ed. --- Reuter.
Your Daily Smile!
4
considerations which had to be The Queen Mary's time from taken into any conjectures as New York was 4 days 14 hours 15 to the immediate future. Well, minutes. When the Queen Mary With a newly-invented carburetter, the new agreement unmistak-reached Southampton yesterday a car can do 200 miles to the galion. ably exhibits one definite trend; afternoon it was stated that she A motorist now will have to have his which was perhaps not entire would enter King George V Grav-tank filled only once to find a place to
park. The ly unexpected.
definite ing Dock to-morrow. Her engines alignment of the various sec-are to be tuned up and she will tions of Europe daily takes not sail again until July 22 more tangible forms-especially British Wireless Service. since the League of Nations has lost so much of any authori-| ty it ever had. Italian opinion claims that the new agreement marks the return of the Triple Alliance, with Italy no longer
HABEUS CORPUS
WRIT
the junior partner. One may Sequel To Extradition
excuse this statement to some), extent by making allowances
the first flush thusiasm. But one may also
for
of
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Case
Before Sir Atholl MacGregor at
Plain Language Of Facts
glass as elastic as rubber, it will be and successful co-operation be Now that science has developed a Rome: "A new period of sincere
possible for people who live in stone.
tween houses to throw glassen.
Germany and Italy has opened," writes the Lavoro Fascista, commenting yesterday “Twas a dne sermon the day,” ob-jevening on the Austro-German re- served McNairn, "though medbe 'twas conciliation.
*
Easy Mark
*
a wee bit personal for ye.”
a, sighed the village loafer. "Germany and Italy." so the "It's a michty pair sermon that disna paper continues, "have many im hit me somewhere!"
nation. Against the Husory diplomatic methods, Gen- many and Italy set the plain laz- guage of facts." Service
Trans-Ocean
AMNESTY FOR NAZIS
RELEASE PENDING IN AUSTRIA
Vienna, To-day.
portant features in common. Both - are yong and strong nations. (Continued from Previous Col)
which have moulded their political The release of Austrian attitude to malefactors.life into new forms. Like all na Nazis under the Austro-German most ardently hope that if it the Supreme Court this morning, pitiless means the re-creation of the H. G. Sheldon, K.C., made an He was particularly severe towards tions which regard the develop agreement has not yet begun. is officially stated that Triple Alliance, it will not lead, application for an order nísi, for highway robbers, although his ment of their social and economie It in the way that history so often a writ of habeas Corpus against own past might have disposed him life as the highest task for the several weeks will be needed to the Vic-a little in their favour. He pre-future, they have a common in- sort out political from criminal has of repeating itself, into the the Superintendent of
Įsided at Walter Raleigh's first trial terest in the maintainance of peace Nazi offenders before the pro- old alignment of the balance of toria Gaol. power in Europe which led, in- The application was made on for treason, and pronounced the in Europe. But unlike those who mised amnesty for the former
be carried into effect. directly perhaps but neverthe-behalf of Yu Lap-fui, Chan Sai-first death sentence against Sir wish to keep the States of Europe can
Idivided into victors" and "vanquish-Reuter's Bulletin Service. less surely, to the conditions ping. Wu Tai-bo and Chenng Chi- immediately preceding 1914. bon, who are alleged to have been In short, as the Daily Telegraph's concerned in the attempted assas-
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley simile so aptly puts it, a vol-sination of the Hon. Mr. Wang cano has been stopped up; but Ching-wei, Minister for Foreign it has yet to be shown that) Affairs, two months 280. another vent will not be burst extradition order for the four open by the smouldering forces men has been made by the Chinese of reaction.
Government.
Az
Germany is fast finding her Mr. Sheldon's application was strength; protestations to the purely formal and was merely to contrary notwithstanding, only for the date for the hearing of the the veriest simpleton really be extradition order which was fixed lieves that Nazi propaganda in for July 29. Austria will actually be aban-
doned. And an openly Nazi Austria, allied in Sentiment to
a Fascist Italy and a Hitler- agreed. The revolution mark- led the start of the history of lend Germany, is not a pleasant modern France, as we know it prospect for the rest of Europe now. The nation arose to be confronted with. The gift horse may yet bite and Phoenix-like from the ashes of bite savagely and severely.
Fete Nationale
a dead past, built up on a soli- der, more profound, altogether more stable political thesis. The French Revolution was the first of those democratic move- To-day is the Fete Nationale ments which have stood ever of the French Republic-when since for the freedom of the one of the greatest events, in individual and something like its political significance, in the fair and equitable treatment history of the world is com-for the under-dog. Oppressive memorated by a nation. Else-class legislation went perhaps where in this issue is a special to the other extreme in the first article dealing with some flush of emancipation; but that aspects of that most important was only to be expected after of revolutions, as it is likely to so shattering an upheaval strike historians of the future. What is really important is The article contains a careful that the opportunity was afford- analysis of the events leading ed for the legislators-to-build up to the revolt, the far-reach their new constitution on an ing changes it effected in the altogether more equitable foot- lives of the people of France, ing; and the result has been | and its implied and explicit the emergence of a new France, effects on the political theories as we see it to-day great, in of the rest of the world All every sense of the word, in this may give rise to conjecture every field cultural, political and argument No two people and material as the meta are likely to agree on the pre-phorical dawn of the new era cise effect which any such the Fete Nationale des momentous; happening may be be commemorated. held to have had on world thusiasm by the French politics. There is always scope The local colony is for an assessment by individual its remembrance opinion
we can do no
Walter.
JOHN POPHAM
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND - 1592
WHILE STUDYING LAW HE BECAME A DRUNKARD AND A GAMBLER. AND THEN BECAME A HIGHWAY ROBBER AND COMMITTED CRIMES FOR YEARS AFTER HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE BAR. HE WAS THE JUDGE WHO SENTENCED
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