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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1937
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Mr. E. J. Kong Manager of the Manufac R. Mitchell. Hong turers Life Insurance Co, is pro- the ceeding on Home leave on March by 20. In his absence, Mr. W. Sharp,
Callousness
American colleagues was what was thiş "mysterious British Constitu- tion" which was suddenly produc ed from nowhere and which the King, through wishing to perform an admittedly legal act, had sp- [parently violated? If traditional,
following account of the der of Democratic principles, and where could an authentic summary reaction in the USA to the Cabinet condemned as Tory be found? Did each successive abdication of King Edward is and reactionary.
Prime Minister, become its divine Washington Correspondent. This apparent paradox is
ex repository sort of top-hatted King Edward's abdication has plained in part by the fact that Dalai Lama? the resident secretary, will take beer 2 profound shock to in the United States Democracy America, too, has a Constitu- charge of the local office.
the whole of the United is considered more as an attitude tion, to which, constant appeals State The belief that some of mind and a method of behaviour Mr. MacNab, Agency Superin-way could be found in which than as a form of government.
are made by unprogressive ele tendent of the Manufacturers Life the British Monarch, whose popu- Some actions and beliefs are Dements opposed to New Deal mes- Insurance Company is arriving larity in the United States is un-mocratic: others are not. The word ment, all know its terms, which But, being a written docu- kere -on a business trip. to precedented, could remain on the is almost a synonym for "broad- morrow.
can, moreover, be changed. Throne persisted to the last minded and tolerant." The ダー Mr. C. W. Balman, popularly The "happy ending" is as much toxym is “intolerant and mobbish.”
It was natural to jump to the known as "Bunny, formerly of an American institution as Ply-
King Edward is felt in the Unit-conclusion that British elements Messrs. Lane Crawford and Co-mouth Rock, so that the American ed States to have been thoroughly which were appealing to their Constitution should be unprogres-
SETES.
MRS. POTTS and her sons, and tid arrived in the Colony last Public identifies itself all the more Democratic în all his words and give, and to feel that the much-
Mr. P. C. Potts thank all friends who attended the funeral of the late Mr. G. E. Potts and seat floral tributes and kind expres sions of sympathy on the occasion of their sad bereavement, as well as those who forwarded donations to local charities in his memory.
MR. EDEN AND THE VOLUNTEERS
+
stan-first
week on
a short business visit. strongly with the tragic reality. Mr. Balman is now Far Eastern
acts in this sense. The forces of "I feel as though I had been inertia, complacency, bigotry, and criticised powers of the Supreme told of murder done in the dark" mediocrity are felt to have rang-
Court were preferable to a system representative of Messrs. Peak
Constitution Was Frean and Company, Ltd. and is said Mr. Upton Sinclair, the So-ed themselves in alarm against in which the
what the Government said it was en route to Australia and Newcialist author. His words reflect him.
the underlying bitterness of great
the Government simply because Zealand.
Frequent comparisons have been
had said it: JORISES of the
American people made between the King and Pre- A return issued by the St. John who feel that with different man-sident Roosevelt. Both are modern Finally, a word should be said Ambulance New Territories Medi-agement a different result might in every sense of the word, and on American condemnation of the cal Benevolent Branch shows that have been reached.
have shocked those wedded to con- British Press. It is blamed, Hong Kong. Friday, January 8, 1937 during December, 11,758 cases The calmness with which the ventional and traditional
of all for suppress- were treated, including 4,171 new British Press and public spokes-dards.
ing information of the King" affec- tion for Mrs. Simpson and de- ones. Altogether 1,992 cases were men accept the abdication of
Supremacy Of Parliament seen by doctors.
King who has done so much to in-
priving the public of the opportun- crease good feeling towards the The pleas that the supremacy of ity to judge the matter for itself. The engagement is announced Empire throughout the world is Parliament was threatened by the It is condemned even more severe- between Mr. John Ferguson Mc-felt here to border on callousness. Kug's desire to marry an alien, ly for attempting to make the Mr. Eden's urgent demand Gowan, steward of the Govern-
Parliament, Press and thewhose marriages have been dissolv American Press the scapegoat for for Italian and German replies ment Civil Hospital, and Mrs Li-Church in combination have striped by divorce, appeared unreal the whole matter. to the Anglo-French demarchelian May Fitzgerald, of No. 2, Col-ped the Empire of its greatest as here. Parliament's interference in Press-Criticised # concerning the swelling ranks lege View, Hong Kong. The wed-set, but Great Britain, a nation of so personal a matter as the choice of the. Volunteers in Spain ding is expected to take place on shopkeepers to the core, appears of a wife seemed a tyrannical act comes neatly, as usual, when March 27. Mr. McGowan played chiefy concerned over the loss of and a gross infringement of the it's our Fault," the "New York the nature of the response has for Hong Kong in the last Bowls' profits they would hope to
News" expresses the general view filch liberty of the individual. lost importance.
Interport against Shanghai, and from the pockets of American and
when it maintains that the British Divorce is not looked upon in Sufficient forces, from Italy, is a regular player for the Civil other tourists at the Coronation. quite the same way in the Unit-Prese handled the Simpson story from Germany and from Ire-Service Cricket Club, for whom he
Perhaps, suggested Mr. Arthur ed States as in England. In fact, clumsily, mistakenly, and craven- |·land. have joined General also plays cricket.
Brisbane by hurrying up the Co-as far as the moral side of the Franco in the last few weeks to
is held British editors, it is said, "feel encourage belief
Mr. AM. Abbas, of Messrs. Aronation of the next King they matter is concerned, it that the Madrid stalemate will soon be;
Miss Molly Midah may avoid the loss of 150,000,000 here to be far more repugnant to that they must mould opinion "that would break the the best human instincts to insist, through their papers by telling the broken and the Nationalist in- de Sa, were married last night ac- ternationalists sweeping through cording to Mohammedan rites by hearts of English tradesmen.”
An Informed Public the streets of the capital
Grossart, and
the Mulvi Noor Shah at Mrs. Ab-
dollars
-
In an editorial entitled, “Sure,
as was done universally in less en-public what they think the public lightened times, upon forced mar should know. Our idea of a news- riages and arranged matches than paper's function is rather differ-
Heavy guns are belching bas's residence in Leighton Hill The American public has been to accept marriage with a woman ent. It seems to us that a news-
their own minds as to what they Britain is felt to be still in the think about the facts. To withhold it Puritan dark ages of morality. The the facts will only make the ex- had made up its mind that groups same narrow-minded forces which plosion greater when the facts do in England secretly opposing the in the United States foisted Prohi- come out King's marriage were wrong and bition on the country are felt to Only Mr. Walter Lippmann, in that the King was right.
be dominant, and the cartoonist's the "Herald Tribune," suggests When one remembers the his-genial figure of John Bull to be a the possibility that the issue had torical forces which brought the
been forced by the constant pab-
forth and a large-scale offensive Read. The bride is the only familiar with the subject for who has not found happiness in a paper should lay all facts "before fis now in the making. The daughter of Mrs. de Sa of Sharp longer than the British. They have previous marriage and has had it its readers and let them make up
activity represents
General Street East and sister of Mr. Hen-had ample time to discuss it and dissolved. Franco's last bid for the psycho-ry de Sa, of the Asiatic Petroleum form an opinion. Before the En- logical advantage which the Co. The bridegroom is the fifthglish Press printed the news capture of Madrid would conferson of the late Mr. A. R. Abbas upon his cause: And should it and Mrs. Abbes.. fail, he will look in vain, we imagine, for further outside TWO JAPANESE IN aid. It is a safe presumption that, whether or not German and Italian assistance has been made possible by official con- nivance, Fascism and National Socialism have gone as far as
Two Japanese were brought be they are prepared to go.
fore the Japanese Consular Court port given to the Crown The is felt to be undemocratic. Among and Margaret Rose, are great fav- Replies to Mr. Eden may be in Shanghai on Tuesday on a Crown has been called the defen- the queries constantly put by ourites with the Americas public. couched in indulgent phraseo-charge of assault growing out of logy without disturbing any another "incident," which occur- body's complacency.
What Of The Spanish?
NEW INCIDENT
UMBRELLA HAWKER FAILS
TO SEE JOKE"
two
red in Chengtu Road on Sunday afternoon, near the Chengtu Road Police Station. The dramatis personce were the two Japanese, a Midst the talk and propa-Chinese hawker, various passers- ganda that has centred upon by and a Chinese police constable. the influx of foreign nationals, It was reported that the jumping into the forefront of Japanese walking along Chengtu what began as a civil war, the Road in gay holiday mood, thought idea has been cultivated that it would be good sporting fun to the position on both sides of seize two umbrellas which the the front is strictly comparable. hawker was carrying in a bask- Most men serving in the so-ed. The Chinese, who had not called "International Brigade" celebrated any holiday, failed to of the Valencia Government see the joke and attempted to keep may be classified, without put his umbrellas. Words led to ting too fine a point upon it, agitated gestures and gestures to as adventurers and idealists. blows. The Chinese received
Political quarters would find bloody nose from one of the Japan- in the situation much less cause ese.
Я
for perturbation if all the cir- At this juncture a crowd had cumstances did not lead to the gathered and they took the side of conviction that while General the hawker. Before further trou- Franco's reinforcements may ble occurred, however, a C.P.C. not be, as it is asserted they appeared on the scene and he took jare, hand-picked by govern- the three principals to the Cheng- mental agencies, they are un-tu Road Station, where the Japan- doubtedly the ins.cuments of ese were charged with axmult national policy.
The Japanese press, in describ- Not that the distinction is of ing the incident. vividly referred vital importance. Neither group to a crowd of Chinese "wielding earns plaudits.
They serve lengths of bamboo and bludgeons, merely to emphasise, such is hitting the Japanese without pro- Spanish feeling on the issues at vocation." stake, that be it Burgos or
Antioch
Valencia, neither can arouse has controlled the administre- sufficient popular spontaneous tion of these districts hitherto, support to carry them through though it is admitted that they to a people-mandated victory.
are not strictly within the Syrian mandated territory. The French justify their position by asserting that apiputation of France and Turkey find them-Antioch and Alexandretta from selves at a dangerous variance Syria would create a deplorable over administrative rights in impression upon Arab opinion Antioch and Alexandretta. and be highly damaging to the These, of course, are days commercial interests of the dis- when developments of this na-tricts.
ture take no-one by surprise. Turkey, playing opportunist, Et is difficult to dissociate suggests willingness to submit Turkish claims from France's the problem to the League and. grave preoccupations in Europe. to arbitration, while hinting Background of the trouble that an unfavourable decision is not altogether clear. France would be treated as an afront..
slam and a fraud.
The "Mysterions" Constitution
licity of the modern Press, where
in times past it might never have
American Republic to birth it is astounding to find now such scor and contempt heaped upon the There is another reason why the been an issue. British Parliament and such supartion of the British Parliament
The two princesses,
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