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AN ENEMY OF DRUGS
Sir M. Delevingne At Geneva
GOOD WORK OVER MANT YEARS SERVICE
Here There and Everywhere
FOR THE CORONATION
The Coronation Souvenir Pro-
28 "The
HOWRIDER HAGGARD ACHIEVED FAME
EARLY STRUGGLES OF
GREAT AUTHOR
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(By Lilias Rider Haggard)
Hong Kong. Saturday, Sept. 25, 1936. Sär Malcolm will always be assoat Westminster: An Introduction the gifts which in after years and His White Neighbours," an
A Disservice To Democracy
(By RONALD WOOLFREY)
gramme, which is to be issued by BOY WHO WAS “ONLY FIT TO BE Sir By re-electing
Malcolin the King George's Jubilee Trust,
A GREENGROCER” Delevingne as its President, the is an interesting document, al- Supervisory Body of the League though most of its pages are at of Nations has conferred & well this stage blank.
They merely deserved honour apon one of the bear headings such most distinguished men produced King's Majesty," by John Drink- DO not think my father can) 1881, and started to read for by the British Civil Service. Al- water; "King Edward VIII," by
eter have been a talented the Bar, at the same time writ- though he retired a few years ago. Hector Bolitho; and "The Service child, or shown any promise of ing his first book, "Cetewayo ciated with the Home Office, where by His Grace the Lord Archbishop brought him a very consider-account of then recent affairs he worked for 40 years. But
After sending it of Canterbury."
able measure of success not in Zululand. since the Great War, the Deputy! One of its 32 pages is to be only as an author, but as 2303 a fruitless pilgrimage to Permanent Under-Secretary of
cupied by a poem by the Poet authority on such widely differ various publishers, my father State has been equally well-known Laureate, Mr. John Masefield. at Geneva Ee has been 3
At the top of the page are the ing subjects as agriculture, was obliged to pay £50 for its emigration, forestry and production. It sold 154 copies At Transport House last familiar figure at all the League works: "The Coronation of His
The depressed For all these publishers, however, had a bet- the Dominions. month a conference assembled meetings concerned with the supMost Gracious Majesty King Ed. Imperial affairs connected with out of 750. of the triple authorities of the pression of the illicit traffic in ward VIIL" At the foot is the causes he laboured with an en-ter day in store, for during the thusias and a far-seeing Boer War it was reprinted and signature "John Masefield."
To represent the still uncompos- ed poems the printers have filed the idealism, offsprings of the same sold 30,000 copies in an abridg In 1882 he and my mother, to issue a general statement of Egypt has been due much of the intervening space with a series of truly romantic mind which ed edition.
who were then living at Nor- attended the their own position. The latter success which has
long black lines. There are what gave the world his books,
It is an old story in our wood, saw a remarkably lovely proved to be a long and porten-League's efforts to rid the world
appear to be six couplets, followed tous disquisition in which not of a vast social evil one of the governing sentences
length will command assent as a fair Malcolm Delevingne
Socialist Party to discuss the
and him
drugs. To dangerous war in Spain and the attitude such colleagues as Sir John Cam of the British Government and bell of India and Russell Pasha of
It was
came to de
the
This does not, however.
Your Daily Smile!
reminds us, "Spinoza," writer the
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ja novel round the owner there-
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Eyesight Gave Out
"Dawn" was rewritter three
my
no accident that Sir three final lines of equal) family that my grandmother | face one Sunday in church, and once described my father 25 decided that they would write mean "heavy as lesd in body and statement of the fact presented. vote so much of his time and that Mr. Masefield is contemplat-mind," and my grandfather, of. My mother rapidly ceased It was as if a spirit of deli-energy to affairs at Geneva. ing a new form of extended sonnet. commenting on the result of her efforts, but my father grew berate mischief had been set to the early years of the presente said when asked recently that some youthful examination, de-interested, and wrote his first
tangle the century, the impetus towards in- play with and
he had not yet begun work on his clared that he was "only fit to novel "Dawn" dedicated to threads. Yet nothing could ternational co-operation in have been simpler and shorter handling of social and industrial/Coronation poem, and that it would be a greengrocer," which my this day to the "Unknown lady once seen but unforgotten, the be some time before he decided father said he considered
insult to an admirable profes- magic of whose face first turn- than the statement which the problems had already begur. Sir what form it would take
sion. His education, as theed my mind to the making of situation really demanded, viz Malcolm acted as British delegate
sixth son of a county squire books. warm approval of the British at the Berne conferences on labour Government's policy of non-regulation in 1905, 1906 and 1913.) intervention The Conference Thus he was a natural choice as dared not directly attack that Britain's representative on policy because it, is manifestly Labour Commission of the Peace believed that there was never of change." He was evidently one of approved by the general body Conference after the Great War.
nature's attempts to produce the Bulwer, Nor did it
Expert On Drugs of public opinion,
perfect taxicab driver. “ After attending the first Inter- dare pretend that the Govern-
at "There are too many smash-and- ment were not strictly and national Labour Conference honourably putting it into Washington in 1919. he was at grab raiders in London," says
How many ought there to be come British dele-writer. execution. The Socialist depu-intervals appointed
bet tation
waited on Mr. gate to three of the Genera con- Eden a day or two before came ferences. Meanwhile, however, he
The young bride was extolling the away from the interview satis-jhad been coming to the fore as an
on dangerous drugs. Herirtaes of her husband to a friend. fied that the Government were expert
the "George is just the most generous. honouring their pledge. Why was a tireless member of
in the world," she declared was no reference to this includ-League's Opium Committee, and jed in the subsequent state- did good work at the special con- "He gives me everything credit can
ment? If its authors could ferences which resulted in have accused the Government Opium Conventions of duplicity they would have 1931. embraced the opportunity with zest.
which
+
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Generous
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the of 1925 and
boy."
Aha! "Ah, Egbert, Marie said she dream- The Supervisory Body, over the led last night she danced with you—":
“You thrill me?”, meetings of which he has been
"and then woke up to find her
skillet?" 18
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did not help matters, perhaps, but he finally passed into the Foreign Office at the age of 19, and on to the staff of Sir Henry times and the MS. was 200,000
Lieut. Governor of words long-no wonder Natal, in 1875.
father's eyesight gave out and Through some special work he had to finish the manuscript Hurst with Sir Theophilus Shepstone in a darkened room
to know the Zulu and Blackett accepted “Dawn,” nation, a people for whom he but the book was more or less It was followed by had the greatest admiration, a failure. and whose tragic and bloody The Witch's Head," which did inspired what he a little better from a financial history always thought were some of point of view, although the out- his best books, "Nada the Lily" look was not encouraging.
My father had written three "Marie," "Child of Storm." and books: the first cost him £50. the other two only brought in particularly, and the trilogy,
"Finished."
£50 between them, and then Rise And Fall
sales ceased So, but for a They dealt with the rise and chance, would have his literary"
hard up, fall of the mighty race of the efforts, for he was Instead, there was spatch-invited to preside, looks after the little brother pounding her feet with Zalus, and called forth the re- with a young family and no mark from one who had been 20 prospects, and seemed to be of for Native heading for that state cocked into the statement ajoperation of the latter convention
years Secretary clumsy and laboured paragraph on the limitation of drug manu-
Affairs in Natal that "they destitution prophesied by my be would regretting that it should have facture. It is one of the League's
were animated with the true grandmother if "Mother." asked little Willie, when)
become "a penny-a-liner." (I been thought expedient on the finest achievements in the humani- ground of the dangers of war tarian sphere that it has been able there were guests to dinner, will the spirit of the Zulu people."
After various adventures, he may mention that "Dawn" and to to persuade the majority of coun dessert not be good for me, or is
(Continued on Page 6) inherent in this situation"
returned to England finally in conclude agreements among the tries to agree to restrict the out-there enough to go around?” Powers laying an embargo on put of drug factories in their the export of arms which territory. places both belligerents on the same footing. If this express sion of regret means anything it means that the Conference: would have liked to see the em- bargo confined to the despatch of munitions to the insurgents. If that had been the policy of the British Government we cer- tainly should not have seen Germany and now Italy. with all the other principal Powers. agree to prohibit the export of
A
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON Porpoise Rodeos
GREAT sport in El Camp,
all arms to both belligerents Texas, is riding the porpoise impartially.
to death. The participants ride!
lout in small outboard motor Boats, The Conference attributed and when a porpoise is sighted the war to Fascism, accused the chase is on. The man on-the Germany of establishing
until he prow of the boat waits vast system of espionage, cor-
the (CBT harpoon the fish and ruption and intrigue in Spain," boatman throws out a float attach (and declared the course of jed to the harpoon by a long rope. events to have shown that "the Grabbing the rope the rider pulls Fascist Powers grow more himself astride of the porpoise reckless, aggressive and dan-while another man holds the tail gerous-a portent and a war of the fish. The porpoise-buster ing that the democratic nations is then all set, puts his finger in cannot ignore.”. How do they the pout-hole of the fish which
however, to propose,
take
cuts off breathing, and in a short Do they cognisance of it?
time the fish is drowned. admire Russia's "democratic" way of dealing with those who are obnoxious to the Chief of the State, or the "democratic" invective in which the Moscow Press is now trying to better the recent Nazi example? the rival parties in Spain must A Dinner, Dance will be held on tear each other to pieces with the open roof of the Repulse Bay their frenzied hatreds they Lido-weather permitting and st must be left to it, so long as the Repulse Bay Hotel in event there is no means of stopping of bad weather, to-day at 9 pm, them without danger of em and the usual. Tes Dance will be broiling other nations in war, held to-morrow at 5 pm at the That danger is real. The Gov-Repulse Bay Hotel ernment have done their best
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
to avert it The best service. The RMS. Empress of Canada which those who profess their is due in Hong Kong from Ven- devotion to Democracy can pay courer on the morning of Novem to Democracy is to show, to ber -6. Europe a strong united front
at home. But that, unfor- Two cases of enteric fever were ted to the local Health an- tunately, is the very last thing repo that this meddlesome Confer thorities during the 24 hours
lended on Thursday: ence had in vafal
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