OUR LONDON LETTER. PARLIAMENT AND THE SALE OF TITLES.
FINE SCOOP" BY A LONDON
JOURNAL..
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
Lepos, August 18th
"A MAGNA CHANTA FE THE WORKERS' CHILD:
Mr. Fisher's educational reforms as sub mitted to the House of Commons are going to be opposed by members who profess to speak for the industrial world.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER BIE, 1917.
TREATMENT OF DISABLED MR. HENDERSON'S
SOLDIERS.
BRITISH AND FRENCH METHODS.
with a sitting of the full body, at
EXPLANATION.
USE OF RUSSIAN TELEGRAM The House of Commons was crowded on August 13th with members cager to hear what Ms. Henderson had to say about the circumstances trading up to his resigna- tion
AT THE BACK OF THE FRONT
BY PATRICK BACGILL
HOW MANY?
But the Bill is not intended for the ac- which 302 resolutions were carried. The stated that the Law Officers had adving white behind the ears. His two mates of this we have from the thousands of
ceptance of the working classet; it will he imposed upon them. It is a Magua Charia for the worker's child from baby- hood bf he (or she) is old enough' to engage in the battle of life. It is design ed upon lines that will give equal oppor innities to all, and enable ever the roost heavily handicapped
To break, their birth's invidious bar,
And in the skirts of happy chance,
To grapple with their evil star,
And honk the waves of circumstances. The half-time system is to be abolished. Nursery schools are to be established for children under five years of age, for, as Mr. Fisher says, steep and play are far better for little ones than lessons, and it is a mistake to put them under educational regime for which they are quite unfitted. No child under twelve will be employed for profit, nor under fourteen except with proper safeguards. Ey this means the exploitation of child Labour will be prevented. Continuation schools are to be formed for bays and girls up to the age of eighteen. The broad aim in view is to give children struction is the subjects which make for mental development. the best sense, and, moreover, to equip the older pupils with technical knowledge suitable for the vowa- Lion they intend to adopt.
THE POOR RELATION OF FOLITICS, -
war.
Education has never had the
re-
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There were three of them, lying in hd If few, you should be thankfull How many bilious attacks have you The Ministry of Pensions in Londen
adjoining cats and looking very clean and If many, then you are entitled to sym- last month issued the roport of Lieut.
comfortable after the hospital doctor had pathy. But sympathy won't cure or even Colonel Sir A. Griffith Bowen, M.P.,
finished dressing their wounds. A nurse trouble, as we know, arises through the relieve you of this trouble. And the on the Inter-Allied Conference for the
brought them in large mugs of tea, and faulty action of the liver. It is apparent Study of Professional Re-education and
bacon and eggs. The the soldiers, were Bilious Headaches, you must keep this then, that to be free from Biliquanoss or other questions of interest to soldiers and Before Mr. Henderson made his state newly back from the great offensive and important organ of the digestive system disabled by the war. The conference was ment, Mr. Bonar Law made an important had, as they affirmed, something to show healthily active. Through the many held at Paris from May 8/12th. The announcement about the attitude of the for it. One was a rather oldish man with been before the public, in no one thing years that Mother Seigel's Syrup has Conference met in sections, and concluded British and other Allied Governments a dark moustache and hair that was show has it been more successful than in con
towards the Stockholm Conference. He
quering or preventing biliousness. Proof were younger men. One belonged to the people who have voluntarily testified to the Government that it was not legal for any persons resident in his Majesty's AMC and orio to the Army Service the fact.
Here is a case which will endorse what Dominions to engage in a conference with | Corps,
we have said. The statement not only onemy subjects wilkout a licence of the Crown duly given. The Government; he lotter, turning to the older man
Where did you get it?? asked the shows what Mother Seigel's Syrup did added, had decided that permission to
for this lady when she was prone to So far as our hospital services and attend the conference would not be
effect it had on her digestive organs. Biliousness, but also records the beneficial methods are concerned he came to eat, und the same decision had been by the Governments of the United
Mrs. Edith Bourne, London Road, cruelusion that we had not much to learn.tes, France, and Italy. This announce
Blackwater, near Camberley, Hants. said:1 am by profession a certified saye The Times). (a
to the excellent result which followed my taking your remedy. On and off, I mup- pose I have taken your Mother Seigel's Syrup for nigh on twenty years. I first took it for the relief of the pains I always had after eting. With know.. ledge of what it did for me in that respect, I have since made it my house." hold remedy.
majority of these, however, says Sir Arthur, appear to be applicable to France and Belgiùm, and only comparatively few to conditions in Great Britain.
Iti une amportant respect the practice input was received with general cheers AS.C. man, "It's work day and night; midwife, and wish to add my testimony
some ovit
I was well behind when I got my packet, was the reply, "I'm a pioneer. War's, all mud and no medula for us.
"We're in the same bout," said the and it's mud to the axles all the way from rare and among berging differs from
A few minutes afterwards Mr. Hender-rated to dump. Last year the roads mais peu son entered the Chamber, and marked his were test so bad for transport. Now My Cure is vogue, 20 ur resignation by taking a corner sent below well you know what it is. It's all shell. as yovsion goes the gangway on the Ministerint side of holes, mine cisters and inuck and water
scuss re-the ouse. He had a cool reception when France is one big paddle up by the firing]. ya sir actuar, mas porn gucnty Mint de war vince, who have he lose to vindicate his position, Busine. And the Germans have most of the fontes cant they are unable to retain dis- although he spokes for over an hour he roads taped.
ute men for a longer time an caes manifestly failed to carry the House with
Sie, Arthur points" que 40 at present, that the French und Belgian military the deep, a larger responsibinty for the disabled, and at all events proless to retain them until they require no further treatment either as in-patients or outpatients.
hith.
Mr. Henderson began by attacking the Press for an unprecedented and dangerous campaign against him and the Prime Minister and his colleagues for their con duet towards him. He proceeded narrate the cirenisstances of his resigna- tion, qualified by the suggestion that the let stary of the Stockhalm Cor ference could not be told without pre judice to the interests of the nation.
They know our road, said the Pioneer. We began repairing it one evening at about meren. And we albgged it all night, making it ready for the always moving ap now, ap and up, and big guns, howitzers and such like. They are some with big, caterpillar engines play half on the roads. Ruts! You should see Well, we worked the ruts they take: repairing the road all into the next day. We were dog tired, but it's all one can do to help the boys who were going for ward in front. It was in the afternoon
"I also recommend it for oiliousness, as that trouble has also had me in its toils.
I have suffered the horrors sick headaches and vomiting to tore of myself in condition with the aid of your end, but this I never do now; having put. very excellent
remedy, Mother
Mother Seigel's Syrus."
When a girl, in my teens," said Mrs. Flemington, of Guildford Road, Bag shot, Surrey, on December 13th, 1915, 1 was occasionally subject to biliousness. In after years 1 developed indigestion. This I am not surprised at, seeing that my father also suffered from this co plaint..
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The greatest interest is taken in the question of training, he says, and not only are workshops attached to all the French and Belgian nospitals, but also
Mr. Henderson had a sharp passage o there are large establishments specially arms with the Prime Minister and Mr. set up for re-education. Training is con: Bonar Las, when he came to explain the that the Germans caught sight of us and pulsory in all French, Belgian, and circumstances of his visit to Paris with then they begun to send stuff across. A Italian hospitals, the doctors having the Mr. Hamsay MacDonald. He declared | few got hit and I was one of them; But principal voice in deciding what trade that his proposed visit was the subject of we finished the jul all right. A stretches in hand in time led to my liver getting "The effect of not taking the trouble the man is to learn, and being guided consideration at a spreial meeting of the bearer got me in. The stretcher bearers out of order; I had pain and distres naturally by considerations of the cura War Cabinet 21 hours before he left for have get enough to do when there's an
right through from chest to back, between It remains to be seen what will be the tive quality of various forms of manual Paris, and time he had telegraphed to the attack on.
the shoulder blades. Added to this, 1 fate of the Bill before it finally emerges
raining in Pach ease. The man himself Prime Minister informing him of the
More than enough," said the had a fulness after meals; accompanied from Westminster, Somehow an evil appears to have little voice in deciding site accordingly charged the
For hours and hours by a choking sensation in the threat. Prime Minister and his colleagues with luck wems to dog the footsteps of eduen his future. Training is not compulsory failing to intimnis to the House that the ou end, we keep at it.
As my parents had taken your remedy. We have to es tional reformers. Ms. Balfour's Bill in in this country, even in orthopedic and whole of the arrangements for his Paris to or men and Germans as well, You I decided to try it too. I am plonsed 1902 was mutilated owing to religious Timbless hospitals which have workshops visit were made with their knowledge should see our dressing station, a couple to say that after two battles only, 1 controversy till the interests of the child attached. Those who have experience of The Prime Minister retorted that all the of poles and a ground-sheet and the secured relief, and an occasional dose and of the nation sected to be lost in these hospitals, says Sir Arthur, state Telegras stated was that Mr. Henderson enemy shelling the place and sometimes and then keeps me right today. When I tell you that I suffered for 12 the dust and turmoil of warring creeds, that better results are obinined by allow was going to Paris with four Russian hitting our wounded and sometimes bit It is hoped that Mr. Fisher's effort willing the training to be volantury and by delegates, M. Wardle, and Mr. Mac-ting their own. It makes me mnd. I wears before getting relief, you will un- not be wrecked by fores inimigal to appealing to the good sense of the men. Donald. There was not a word about believe they keep a loukoht for dressing worth of your remedy, because I was comm derstand that I am pleased to know the educational progress if only for the ren Dealing with employment, Sir Arthur business. Mr. Bonar Law added that the stations. Anyway a lot of my mates got son that this progress is a necessary mea Griffili. Boscawen says that the French first knowledge he and his colleagues had bit when they were carrying the wounded. Pletely cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup. sure of national reconstruction after the have many of the same difficulties as we of Mr. Henderson's intention was through across the open. And our fellows work daughter with the very best results.
"I have given it to both my son and cognition to which it is entitled. School have, but do not possess our admirable the eirmulation of this telegram, and that till they drop, I was helping a German was told ther had chronic, and perhaps in when I got toy to As far as I could hereditary, indigestion, but they nerez organisation of local committees. Atton. they clearly expressed their disapproval." tion is called to the possibility of insur- Coming to the specific points raised in judgo 'twas sniper that fired. But he suffer now. workmen's compensation insurance for emphatically that he had ever timed to it touched me-1-suppose the sniper, did ance companies charging higher rates of the Prime Minister's letter accepting his was a bit but, for the bullet went through
Mr. Henderson denied the neck of the wounded German before; resignation, disabled soldiers, since they are more
any of his colleagues that he was going to not mind. If a German is a prisoner of likely to meet with accidents than it men
do By a recent French law an employer does to outer that continue the course to which ours is not much good to them."
committed himself. Moreover, no not pay a higher rate for a disabled man, request was made that he should state the
Yes," said the transport man. the difference coming out of a fund creat position of the Government at the Labour Bache gunners don't mind if they do ed by a special tax on all employers Party Conference, Further, if such a knock out their own men once we've got This, Sir Arthur says, appears to be an request had been definitely made, he would them I saw one mob of prisoners going admirable arrangement, facilitating the have had no alternative but to give to the along the road with their hands up. A employment of wounded soldiers, which Government his resignation. A little German shell dropped in the middle of is worthy of consideration here. With later he complained of the unsatisfactory them. When the snake cleared away regard to the scale of pensions, we are
answers which had been given in the those who were able, to, par op their far ahead of any of our Allies, especially House about his Paris visit, and actually hands again. But there were a good lot English newspapers have begun to de- since the issue of the warrant. A class stated that hy hud told bis colleagues more of them at first. It was the same vote more attention to affairs in the Far1 pension in France, which corresponds that, if his resignation was wanted on the shell that gave me my packet. But my East. The recent internal crisis in Chioa
to our highest degree, amounts to only question of Stockholm, they would have two horses were all right, and I was sorry hos stimulated interest in men and mat
18.75 francs a week or a private, as con-
to ask for it.
at leaving the there, breast deep in the Yester sers in your part of the world.
pared with 278. 6d. here. Again, in day's Observer contained a long article on
mud. It was rations that were going up, France pensions are not paid weekly
than we can help over a job like that. and of course we never meas about more China's entry into the war; the main per. pose of the writer being to show that that which leads to much hardship at the com
but quarterly in arrear, an arrangement adhesion of " the oldest living civilisa
mencing period. tion to the cause of the Entente Powers
nast enhance the moral
superiority and sho psychological confidence of the Allied troops."
The paper also published a statement by a high authority" who is quoted as saying that the decision of the.
It would be well (says the Morning Chinese Government will have a profound us) if prople in this country refrained at the Press Bureau controlled by the dressing station at the double." effect in the eyes of Asiatics, because from niinching an undue importance in while China is a great and ancient Power the accounts of the mutiny of a part of Labour Conference is information which three get knocked out behind trouble to them Germany is an upstart of whom the Russian army.
It's funny thing how fellows like us they had hardly heard half-a-century ago and indefatigable endeavours of the ho was legally entitled to use. The few said the Pioneer.
Had the prolonged
Henderson's speech came, mainly from the serve every honour they get and othe
We have one troubles cheers that had been raised during Mr. too. But I will say that the infantry de
their sympathy with the fallen Minister men as they hit their cigarettes.
pacifist" group, whe openly showed Indeed, they do," said the two 'other
the faintest
of murmur
teachers are among the poorest-paid brain workers in the land, with no social status to speak of. The other day when more accommodation was required in White half it was the Education Department which had to make way, being bundled off to Kensington. And when Mr. Fisher introduced his proposals last. Friday the burning interest which the politicians take in the subject was indicated by an attendance of just over bare quorum of forty members. A Westminster education is like a poor relation whom nobody wants..
CHINA IN THE WAR.
THE REALLY REMARKABLE FACT,
·B
Vite
Becoming more rhetorical as he neared tended that if he had had to resign before the end of his speech, Mr. Henderson-con- the Labour Party Conference, the would have been much larger. As for the Russian telegrams, he claimed that he had kept them in mind in preparing his speech for the Conference, and that he had lifted the strongest language from them to show that the Russian Government had modi fed their attitude. Finally, after a fliug Prime Minister," he insisted that the last intention he had was to withhold from the
There wa
It is also pointed out that the effect on Germans in the trenches to seduce the
after the war will be very great Russian forces
and it is predicted that Ger-
from
allegi their ance, endeavours subtly reinforced during many's trade position in China, which the whole period of the revolution and had been growing enormously, will be since by German emissaries in the capital, alsolutely broken.*
There is, of course, produced no effect it would be strange approval when he sat down, and the nothing remarkably profound or even in indeed. What is remarkable is that the use as a whole seemed utterly uncan formative in all this; but it ilustrates a Russian soldier, intoxicated by the revolu-
vinced by Mr. Henderson's argument. point of view which is current here.
Lionary atmosphere and bewildered by the rush of events, has for the most part stuck | A. NEWSPAPER'S SCOOP"
to his colours...
VANITY OF VANITIES.
The
The stuff must be get up. My mate placed me on the ground clear of the mad and got thead with his own job as well as he cold. I got helped in after a little by the Germans who had come in for trouble just as I was hit. I never saw quickly as they did. They took me into any stretcher bearers get over a job as
CONCRETE'S RESISTANCE TO
"
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SHELL FIRE.
Interesting details respecting the use of conerote for military purposes and its veistance to shell-fire are collected in an article appearing in the July issue of The Times Engineering Supplement. It is shown that while Farts constructed of
TO TURN DOWN" STOCKHOLM. The Prime Minister was very beartily The biggest journalistic scoop" for
greeted on rising to reply. many years has been accomplished by the
He spoke Daily Telegraph, which obtained advance
briefly and with restraint. He declared proofs of Mr. Gerard's forthcoming book
that it was necessary for him to add little to his letter which had already appeared on Germany, Mr. Gerard, until recently There are men who have unde their in the Press Mr. Henderson had said United States Ambassador in Berlin, makes astonishing revelations of what superfluous wealth who hanke: after a
bile" or are otherwise blessed with that he never gave any hint of any change plain concrete in Belgium were a dis- took place in Germany immediately before title, and some of them, it is id, are All the Prime Minister could say upon heavy artillery fire in the early days of of his intention with regard to Stockhole appointment in their failure to withstand the outbreak of the war and afterwards,
that was that he had seen every member M. Le Sage, managing editor of the able to get what they want for a consid Telegraph, and the doyen of the Loneration. They pay cash down and the who was present at the Cabinet on the day the war the reinforced concrete fortifica don Press, having secured the rights of goods are delivered. A cynic would proof that discussion, and all suplied that dong at Port Arthur proved their publication, ordered the whole MS, to be to get but cosire for a "handle" the impresion was that Mr. Henderson at cy in the Russo-Japanese war. The from Philadelphia. Eighty thou-to one's name subject matter for a homily had decided to use the whole of his latter material has been largely adopted sand words telegraphed from American the vanity of human wishes. But then influence to turn down the Stockhof by the Germans for their defence works
vanity in one must have cost something like £2,500. The universal. Titles have been bought and The second point which the Prime succeeded in constructing with it block- form or another is Conference at the Labour Conference. along the Belgian coast, and they have jest is going the rounds in Fleet-street sold for centuries, That Lord Northcliffe, who is in the will recall the passage in
Readers of Disraeli Minister sought to emphasize was simply to slide off Instances are also houses, from which small shells appear United States, has given himself a that we owe our English peerage to the from, the Russian Government. Did any given of ordinary building of reinforced
Coningsby ! importance of the much quoted telegram menth's notice for missing the scoop and being beaten by the Daily Telegraph, flagrant sale of its honours by the Stuarts body imagine, he asked, that, if that tele concrete which have shown remarkable.
and the borough-mongering. of the gram had bech tend to the Conference it powers of resisting destruction by artil- Georges Mr. Labouchere told a story would not have made a great difference?lery. oner in Truf of an .P. who was ap- Whenever the subject of the sale of proached by a member of his own party proceedings with telling effect to show He quoted extracts from the Conference titles comes under discussion in Parkia suggesting that he should have a title. ment it cocasións a good deal of mirth..
that the impression left on the minds of the first step in the restoration of dis This was the can the other night when hat wil: it cost 7-inquired the bluh- the delegates was that M. Kerensky'e view cipline was to prevent fraternization with Lord Selborne-a nephew of the late Lord ng neophyte, who must have felt that was that the Stockholm Conference was the enemy on the Russian front.
in Shakesperian phrase, was having absolutely necessary, if his hands were for
Thist Safisbury-politely asked for informa: honour thrust upon him. He discovered be strengthened. Yet Mr Henderson had was the conclusion that had been come to tion. He took the view that it is wrong that in the case of a baronet, it was dns- this telegram, saying that the Rugby the Governments of the United States, to confer a baronatey or elevate a man tomary to recognize the occasion by Government had nothing to do with the four Allied countries, had come definitely
France, Italy, and Great Britain. to the peerage simply because he has con a subscription of about £5,000 to the party Stockholm Conference, and did not read to the conclusion that if peace terms were tributed handsomely to the war-chest of funds. his political party. But a debate on such wards told his wife. You are in the him to do so
to be discussed they must accura He refused the offer, and after it, although the Prime Minister had asked abject cannot be taken very seriously proud position," he said, of being because, no matter what views are (x of the few who have declined to be a Lloyd George insisted that nothing could affirming the inconvenience and even the
the representatives of the whole nation, Examining the general position, Mr. pressed, everybody thinks that Liberais My Lady."
Mr. Asquith rounded off the episode by and Conservatives ace both tarred with retorted with some asperity," be in the with the enemy at the very moment when dual character and by paying a tribute to
"I would rather," he be more fatal than to hold conferences impossibility of a Minister's fulfilling the same brushi
position of one of those who had not de (Continued at foot of next column.) clined it
-Continued at foot of neat Column.) the resolute patriotion of Labour,
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