LABOUR PARTY READY TO
ASSIST IN
IN RECRUITING
Lord Strabolgi's Assurance In The Lords
Despite Objection To Government's Foreign Policy
London, To-day.
Lord Strabolgi emphatically stated in the House of Lords yesterday that the Labour Party would assist in the recruiting campaign.
He said there was a real temptation not to do so because of their contempt and loathing for the Government's foreign policy, but on the ques- tion of help they hadn't a choice. "We must and we will," he declared.
democracy."
NEW HOPE RAISED FOR QUEEN'S COLL.
Blighted hopes of a new Queen's College were the subject of com- ment by Mr. F. J. de Rome, the headmaster, at this morning's prizegiving.
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In 1923, said Mr. de Rome, he saw sketch plans for Queen's and a site was prepared. The events of 1925 caused the scheme to be abandoned.
"Four years ago at the laying of the foundation stone of the new Central British School, H. E. Sir William Peel stated that he hoped Government would find it possible to provide a new Queen's College in the not too distant future, and again we went site-hunting.
"A year later, H.E. Sir Andrew Caldecott said that "the project of a new Queen's must be relegated for the present to the category of castles in the air.”
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"With all due respect, Sir, I must say that we do not want a castle, but we certainly do want thing in the air, i.e., in the fresh air: a modern building in quiet, light, airy surroundings, something with a physical outlook that, in 7 or 8 years at school, is bound to react strongly on the mental out- look of the boys.
"That is the birthright of any school in
any country how much more so in overcrowded Hong Kong?
"This is a
AMERICAN-
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Lima, To-day.
An American League of Na- tions, supported by a system of moral instead of economic or mili- tary Sanctions, was proposed at the Pan-American Conference yesterday by the delegates of Co- lombia and Santo Domingo.
Pleading urgency, Senor Lopez Domesa, Colombia s Foreign Min- ister, said they "had never heard such unmistakably imperialistic words as now come from Europe." -Reuter.
CHILD REFUGEES IN ENGLAND
London, To-day.
A third party of 350 boy and girl refugees, mostly from Austria, whose ages ranged from three to
CRIMINAL ATTACK ON YOUNG SISTER
Said to be mentally deficient, 21-year-old Lam Kwok-chung, pleaded guilty at the Criminal Sessions this morning to rape of his 12-year old sister on October 12.
Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, said accused had been under ob- servation following an offence against a young girl in 1986.
He was found by two doctors to be mentally deficient.
Dr. Thomas stated that in view of the fact that accused had re- peated the act he felt justified in certifying him. He suggested it would be better to certify prisoner as a criminal lunatic.
The prisoner was ordered to be brought before the Court again on
What they needed specially in the industrial section of the party was an assurance in regard to safe- guarding and maintenance of the right of the Trade Unions,
He was glad to see from' recent observations by representatives of the Government in the House of seventeen, arrived at Harwich yes-Tuesday morning. Commons and outside that there seemed to be some hardening in the Government's foreign policy.
THE NEED
far
However, there would be a greater response from the rank and
file if the Government could really convince them it really meant what
it said.
terday.
Two hundred boy refugees will WEATHER FORECAST
go to camp at Lowestoft, while the remaining 150 girls will go to Dov- ercourt Camp.-British Wireless.
Mrs. Lau Sze, of the New Asia Hotel, has reported that a girl named Nang Yuen-hing absconded Lord Strabolgi added that so far after being entrusted with $275 at as he could make out, recruiting for the Macao steamer wharf yester- the Navy was very good, for the day. Air Force fairly good and for the Army not very good.
It was marvellous in some of the A.R.P. services, although there were gaps.-Reuter.
without
some justification, I think for not including the New Queen's College in the recently published five- year programme.
College Old Boys, and notably of the "The elequence of some of Queen's Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo have convinced me that at any rate further consideration must be given to that point. If that programme is amended by the inclu- sion of a New Queen's College it will be necessary first of all for that pro- ject's place to be determined in the order of priority of the various items and 'How' will fall to be considered." already there: thereafter the "Where'
MR. DE ROME'S RETIREMENT
His Excellency later revealed Mr. de Rome's report will be the last report he will make on Queen's Col- lege.
that
"He came here twenty-eight years lago and most of those years
have been spent here, the last eight as Head- known him for so short a time, to tell master. It is not for me, who have
you who are under his rule or those who once were thus happily placed, of his keen interest in every aspect of education and of his close sympathy with his pupils. All who have been associated with him here, at the Ellis Kadoorie School or elsewhere know of not his high merits and will remember him with great respect and affection.. Nor plan is it only for his pedagogic (I use the word in its real its best sense) achievements that he will be remem- bered: Mr. de Rome has played for the Colony in Interport cricket and Inter port golf and thereby has carved for himself two other niches in our his tory.
"Signs were not wanting until quite recently that at long last the winter of our discontent was pass- ing and then the events of the last few weeks; and now, to our great consternation, we are included even in the 5 years of Government."
GOVERNOR'S. REPLY
In the course of his speech, H. E. Sir Geoffry Northcote said that after an inspection of this ancient and hon ourable building and its surroundinge there was no doubt in his mind of the need for re-building it elsewhere as soon as circumstances, which must b taken to include other demands on the public purse, allow.
Happily we are not going to lose him at once but, as I have said, this will be his last prize-giving and so I have taken the opportunity to say o little-not the half of what he de thserves-about him. But when the day of his departure dawns next year and he goes into well-earned retirement he cannot fail to know that Hong Kong's judgment of his years of service is that of duty well and truly done."
"Upon that conclusion follow three essential questions When" Where? and How? To none of then am I in a position to give a definit answer to-day. As to the 'When', Government has been criticized not
Short-sighted Old Lady: "Have you ever tried giving your baby Dill Water?"
The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone is apparently moving eastward and pressure is now highest over Korea. A depres- sion is indicated to the east of Mindanao.
Local forecast:- E. winds, moderate; fine generally.
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