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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1988.
MR. CORDELL HULL
ALHAMBRA CAUTIOUS ON MOVE TO
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY. FLASHING STEEL AND STINGING LEATHER !
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SUPPLY ARMS TO SPAIN
.
Washington, To-day. A statement on the United States attitude towards arms exports to the warring parties in Spain, was made yesterday by the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull.
Mr. Hull referred to the resolution of Senator Nye, which he said would have permitted ex- ports of arms to the Spanish Republicans while retaining the embargo against Gen.. Franco.
Mr. Hull declared: "Even if legislation is applied. to
both
parties in Spain, its enactment CORRESPONDENCE would still subject us to unneces- sary risks, which we have hitherto avoided..
"The real test of the advisability of making any changes, in the statutes now effective should be whether such changes would fur- ther tend to us from
RENTS LAW MUST
BE CHANGED-.
MR. BRAGA
ing involved directly or indirectly MR.
in the dangerous European situa- tion."
Sir, It is more in sorrow than
Con- how-
Senator Pittman said it was a fair assumption from the language used in anger that the Court's decision by Mr. Hull that the State Depart-in the eviction case to-day against Mr. S. W. Clark, the occupant of a ment is contemplating the род- sibility of revision of the whole flat in 184, Kennedy Road, will be Neutrality Act at
received by the community. later some session of Congress.-Reuter.
siderable satisfaction must, ever, be derived from the fact that the learned Judge delivered him- self of the reported comment that "until you tenants can get the law altered, I can do nothing about it."
REMARKABLE FEAT OF TWO YOUNGSTERS
His Lordship's comment is ex- tremely opposite. Judges are, after all, in the position of ad- ministrators of the law as they find it. It is for the unofficial legisla- tors in the Council to act in ac- cordance with the needs of chang- Chinese is popularly supposed to ing times and changing conditions. be one of the most difficult langu-The public whom they represent ages to learn and many a student look to them for protection. A large who has sat for the examinations number of the taxpayers feel that held by the Shanghai British Cham-they, should not be made to hope in ber of Commerce will agree with vain.
this. Yet a six-year old British girl It has at no time been..represent- and her nine-year-old brothered to Government that a Rent Res- have been given first class certi-triction Ordinance to meet the ex- ficates-by-the-Chamber,-having-ob-ceptional-conditions created as a tained first class passes of 80 and result of the Sino-Japanese hostili- 81 per cent, respectively.
ties should remain a permanent The two children are Pearl Diana piece of legislative enactment. The Scott and Ralph Valentine Scott and Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo urged at a Coun- are the children of Mr. and Mrs. cil meeting held in October last W. A. Scott, Mr. Scott, who is with that, in his submission, the Bill he the Chinese Maritime Customs, advocated should be regarded as taught the two children and it an "emergency legislation.” ~
should be noted that the examina-
Since those who can and should tion they took was the usual one act will not, might not tenants as for adults and not a special one a class, who are so seriously affect- for children.
ed by the attitude of those who Save for the name and the pro- "just can't be bothered" to move in nouns, the examiner's report, which the matter, unite in a concerted ef- is dated April 21, 1938, reads the fort towards securing the end in- same for both children, namely: dicated by the Judge presiding in
"I examined Master Ralph Valen-
the case at the Supreme Court this tine Scott (Miss Pearl Diana Scott)
an morning
end so yesterday and beg to say he (she) in the interests of tenants hard op- desirable passed a successful examination. He (she) was able to converse free-pressed but with no hope of redress
in the existing state of the law? ly on almost any moderately simple subject and also he (she) was able
··Yours faithfully, to recognise over 200 characters when presented singly and isolated from any surrounding context. I suggest that he (she) be granted a first class pass.”
Their marks were follows:-
obtained as
Reading Chinese text and trans- lating same Into English: Miss Scott, 19 Master Scott, 17.
Translating - English text into Chinesé: Miss Scott, 14; Master Scott, 15.
Conversation: Miss Scott, 40 Master Scott, 41.. -
General knowledge (including knowledge of isolated characters) Miss Scott, 9; Master Scott, 8.
+
J. P. BRAGA.
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