OUR LONDON LETTER. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF
LORD FRENCH. ·
IRISH AFFAIRS IN A VICIOUS CIRCLE, TOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDĖNT.]
LONDON. Decembed and
assasinate The dastardly attempt to Lord French is like a lightning flash that illuminates the dark and stormy, sea of Irish discontent. It shows something of the condition of lawlessners existing in Ireland. With one or two exceptions the newspapers on this side of St. George's Channel display a marked measure of restraint in their references to the in famous attack upon Lord French. who is gaite rightly, looked upon as an outstand- He is not only ing figure of our time. a great soldier, but he is also a great Irishman.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRIES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH. 1920,
THE NEW OXFORD.
outbreak of war.
DON.
ANTARCTIC PERILS.
The Prince of Wales's visit to the City THE PROBLEM OF THE MARRIED THE STORY OF SHACKLETON'S
·LAST EXPEDITION. to receive an official welcome home" from
After the conquest of the South Polo by bis tour in Canada and the United States)
Tarm is anded and the undergraduates was a most important event, and his speech recalls the famous address given pro gone, but the dons remain, and the Amundsen (who won the race with the by his father, King George, on returning does, like the rest of the University Scott-Expedition by a few days only) the one greas object of Antarctic travel that For a variety of
renamed 'was the crossing of the South from his Empire tour containing the have changed in many ways since the
How reasons the proportion of married dops Polar Continent from sea to sel clarion call, Wake up, England!"
The Prince first received an address of bus. greatly increased. Some who seemed the attempt to cross failed is the subject of the safest of b chulors, when they went South" which is a chronicls by Sir Ernest away to the Army or the Government Shackleton (Heinemann, 258) of the welcome at the Guildhall, and was subse- quently entertained to luncheon at the offices have come back as married men, daring and endurance of the small British There was a very dis-perhaps because a single life is less toler party that were for nearly two years hidden in the fastheses of the Polar ice, Mansion Honge.
comfortable common-room, or perhaps and will certainly be read as long as the tinguished company present. Ho looked able in the outside world thao - iu- a
because even the dons of the dispersion love of dangerous living is a British
rest of the world, extremely well, and was dressed in khaki. His speech; delivered with excellent effect, married, like the
any marriage is better than done. The for the sea journey and the Endurance contained some remarkable passages, as during the war, on the principle that characteristic. When all was prepared wat made many gaps in Oxford, whether as ready to start, the storm of war you have already learned by cable...
enough trainod "and experienced seaton The Prince of Wales is going into by deaths or by the lose of men who broke and everybody on board (there were Society a good deal since his return. found more congenial work elsewhere to man a destroyer) placed himself at the Admiral Beatty was his host at dinner and there were very few of the young men disposal of the Admiralty. Within an the other night: and he attended a dance available who would have filled them in hour a laconic reply," Proceed," was normal times, young men who had newly received, and on August 8th the Endur given by the Hon. Mrs. Rupert Beckett taken their degrees or waited a year or sailed from Plymouth, acting on the This crime has deeply stirred publicat her house in Grosvenor Street, most of so on the chance of getting a vacant express and explicit orders of the Ad.
Acordingly, the new opinion, and it would be very easy to use.
pointments have almost all goat to olderiralty: The fact that this work of en regarded by historians of the future s it to justify a policy of the most rigorous those present being, as is usual on these fellowship.
men, many of them are already married ploration was not suspended will in occasions, quite young people."
During, or after, the war as least half a
a conspicuous proof of Great Britain's repression in Ireland That course is not, however, recommended by leading British SHORTAGE OF PAPER."
dozen colleges have had a married Junior calm confidence in the triumph of her tura the whole number of its members who Fellow. All Souls, for the first time in sot-power. When the expedition did re history, has elected a married man to a prize fellowship. Seniority will come to bid came unscathed through the White these men in due course and make theit Warfare of the South (to use position regular. Their successors may Ernest Shackleton picturesque phrase) be more circumspect than they have been, took their places in the war-and the per and the proportion of married dons may
high, sad to relate. to some strange innovations in Oxford life.
papers, nor is it advocated by responsible Everybody whose opinion public men. counts desires to see the Irish question settled on secure a basis, as is possible at the earliest moment:
The paper shortage reported from Ame rica, in which country it is said there will be a deficiency of 200.000 tons in the next 12 months, is not confined to that side of the Atlantic. Newspaper owners here are anxious about the future.
A
Sir
It is to be noted that there is a dis-notification has been sent round by the sink aguio, bus, for the present, it lend centage of casualties among them was position not to blame Sinn Fein for the manufacturers to the effect that only 75 wicked wardet plot that fortunately mis- carried and thereby averted what would have beer, a political tragedy. Instead, the teadener is to Ex the responsibility, upon fanatical imbeciles who are hiding
behind the skirts of the movement.
Whether this view is the right one time add the investigations of the authorities in Ireland will doubtless disclose. It will not be the fit of the police if the gang abe tried to emulate the infany of the "Invincibles," who assasinated Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke near the same spot thirty-seven years ago, are Ireland is being not brought to justice. scoured from end to end in an endeavour to discover them.
THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT.
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per cent of the quantity of news priot supplied hitherto to newspapers will be available in 2920. This means that either the size of papers will have to be reduced the number of copies that are printed
curtailed.
Shortage of pulp is given as the reason for the action of the manufacturers. They are therefore obliged to ration their customers. It will be interesting to see what the effect will be in the case of the big dailies. Will they print fower papera or cut down the size!
In the and, alas the"
The
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It is impossible to give even bald catalogue of the dangers of life aboard No one regrets, and hardly anyone
voyage had been accomplished and the remembers, the old days when, the dons to Endurance, when the long Southern of Oxford were a celibate body. It is stout ship was frozen in among the close- obviously better that, thed she habens welded foes, As much as might be was made them a sounder and more useful this ice-bound existence, and the quaint, to quarry if they will, and the change has made of the little everyday humour of set of men. Yet it has its disadvantages, bowing penguins, with their strangely it has not been completed, by giving the human aspect, were always a source of married man something more than entertainment. The roar of ice pressure bachelor's remuneration. In some would come across the otherwise silents it is hard for a married man to do a fantastical flots, and bring with it a called, too solemnly, the pastoral side of strangling grip of the Weddell Son park doa's work, especially on what may be deadly threat The London Times has been coming out the work. A college is a community with ice crushed and killed the ship. of late with 28 pages a day, and the Daily a common life, and the beginning of a photographs and word-pictures of this fail has on occasion presented its readers common life is living together: for lots catastrophe give an appalling impression The eagerness of ad-years enthusiasts for the college system of the blind powers, frezen brate-force, witsers to buy space has made it neces have disliked the married colony of and agencies of the inanimate, which sary for many journals to enlarge their size. The Mail is able to boast that its North Oxford, not only for its lament were mobilised by viewless tids ugninst able architecture, but also because it the Expedition. Then came the perilous Whatever the result of the man-hunt front page has been booked up with ad- takes away the dons from their colleges journey across the ever-moving ice-flors,
It has been said that for a college tutor,
when at any moment (indeed, the very now going on in Ireland, I do not think vertisements for every day till next
since he ought to be wedded to his work, thing happened at midnight after the anyone who knows what bas been taking March. And the cost of a page advertise
marriage is a kind of bigamy. In the sinking of the Endurance) an abyamal place in
the country of late will absolvement in the Mail is £650 per insertion!
present state of things many college rack, watery crevasse thousands of SianTHE GERMAN "DON JUAN,” "Sinn Fein from responsibility.
Fein as a movement is directed against
One of the Sunday papers here is would have been almost empty of resident fathoms deep, might open under the British rule in Ireland; and the laten tion which is constantly avowed in the publishing the translation of a book dons, if all who were married had gone campingplace, Elephant Island
eventually reached by boat, when the men most open and aggressive manner is to get recently issued in Paris giving an account into red brick houses in the suburbs.
This was not, however, a real possibi-were worn out with exposure and short of-the ex-Crown Prince of Germany while up an Irish Republic.
in command of an Army in the
called "Am G. G. Altemality, because the statutes of all or mostrations. There, on the dismal beach, they The book is called "Az G, Q.G. AlleThe of the colleges lag it down that a certain were in constant danger from the stormy (At the Author is M. Henri Demelier, and M. number of the Fellows must reside insan on the one hand, and on the other the college, so that the practical problem has from rocks falling from the g at over
are to comply with this rule.
voyage to South Georgia, during which been to arrange how the married Fellows haugi glaciers. Then came the boat college, but only a few have tutors annihilation in the tempest-ridden ocean houses in the college buildings or ad was gain and again imminent espe joining them, which solve the question cially on one occasion when they seemed perfectly. The rest have been faced by about to be overwhelmed by the biggest. the housing question in a difficult shape. wave Sir Ernest Shackleton had seen in In several, married dons have had to live og years' experience of the sea in all its moods. "It's got an he cried, but the in ordinary bachelors sets of rooms, outside. This was done sometimes before terrible march over the unexplored and Home Rule legislation will be a test of
the war, though never in nearly so many unnamed mountains and glaciers of South instances as now, but it would te bard Georgia, where the exhausted travellers British sincerity. In the present state of affairs in Ireland, however, the band
ment. Bad enough when a suitable house When I look back on those days 1 ing of such a subject is about the most
to imagine a less satisfactory arrange had a weird experience: can be found, it is still worse when, as have no doubt that Providence guided difficult task that any Government can
During that long, and racking march sometimes happens, overcrowded Oxford us set its band to. No matter what is put
It seemed to forward as a basis for the government of I hear that with the view of furthering can provide nothing for the second of 36 hours. 1mland it is Bure to be strenuously the British cotton industry in countries establishment except remote and uncom- often that we were four, not three. I opposed by one party or the other in the overseas it is intended to exhibit the tot fortable lodgings. It is oven doubtful said nothing to my companions on the country. Indeed, there are people in ton-trade film in one hundred of the Ireland who will not agree to any pro-largest cities in the world. It was shown whether this plan often succeeds in its point, but afterwards Worsley said to posals leading to settlement and peace. at Manchester early last week, and in purpose of keeping the husband in theme, Bot, I had a curious feeling on the one of the Committee rooms of the House college life Many men are naturally march that there was another person with of Commons on Thursday. The film illinclined to slip away to their families
The story of the fortunes and misfor- strates the whole process of manufacture, on every opportunity, but cannot offer to
tance of the Ross Sea Party and the and it was inspected with the utmost in their pupils, and colleagues the same
hospitality that can be given in an Aurora is yet another chronicle of terest by Members of Parliament.-H.B.
ordinary ménage. One college, but only dangers. It is sad that Mackintosh and one, has made a more daring experiment, Hayward should have been lost after in which others so far refuse to follow having gone through those many months But the whole. It may be because Oriel was acclimatised of unthinkable hardship.
The propaganda carried on publicly and in secret has imbued an impressionable and ignorant peasantry with a spirit of It has lawlessness beyond all "belief. awept aside the Nationalist movement and the Nationalist leaders who worked year in and
year out to obtain Home Rule It intrigued by constitutional means. with Germany during the war, and pre vented the youth of the country from striking blow for the freedom of the world, including Ireland.
Maurice
preface.
Barres,
Member of
A few
Academy of France, has written a vivid It appears that after shattering his Ar at Verdun the Crown Prince gave up all hopes of winning fame as a soldier, and chose Don Joan as his model instead No good-looking woman in the streets or elsewhere was safe from his attentions. it is the business of statesmanship to deliver Ireland from the tyranny of Sian Uno scandalous episode is described at Its nature may be considerable length. Feit. The way the Government deal with inferred from the local title which the leaving their wives and families in houses boat lived through it. Lastly came the
the Irish problem in the proposed new
A TIRST-CLABS BLUNDER.
There seems to be some evil genius ever present in the management of affairs in Ireland. It was, for instance, a first class blunder on the part of Dublin Castle to suppress the Freeman's Journal on the very eve of the introduction of a Home
the
troubled land
intrigue conferred on the Crown Prince, "(the son- Le Gendre de M. Beurier -law of M. Beurier). The intervention of the Kaiser, it is said, had to be invoked to and this romance. THE COTTON FILM.
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Rule Bill. The set leads some colour to LONDON'S BUSH TERMINAL the suggestion that officialdom in Ireland
to feminine presences daring the war, of the volume is a remarkable tribute to A NEW TRADING CENTRE. is deliberately fanning the 'embers of
when one of its quads was lent to the leadership tant never lost its grip for a revolt. It is not the act itself that is so
Indies of Somerville College, evicted from moment, and to that high-hearted spirit extraordinary as the time chosen.
article Whatever regret may be entertained by their own buildings to make room for of duty and discipline which makes such The Freeman published an
the Colonial and Commercial interests at hospital at any rate, whether for this leadership possible. The colour and force criticising the policy of the Executive in putting pressure-as it was contended by large, that the late Earl Grey did not or another reason, Orial has admitted of the author's narrative, combined with the paper on the Irish Civil Service to live to realise his ambition to acquire the the wife of a newly-elected Fellow to live an anfaltering cheerfulness and unfailing orva ne Special Constables; and the reply. Aldwych site in the Strand, for the pur in a set of rooms in the college itself, on sense of humour, make his book a living goné of Dublin Castle was to raid the ofices poses of a permanent Imperal Exhibition an ordinary stairs where the other rooms piece of literature. And it is good to
are tenanted by undergraduates. This know, that, though, some have of the offending journal and dismantle the and Emporium, it is but due to Mr.
This is simply Irving T. Bush of the Bush Terminal plan seems to give the best chance for a West," the surviving members of the Ex- printing machinery. stupid, because whatever the cause, the Company, New York to congratulate him married don to take a share in the acti-pedition are still numerous enough to act of suppression enlarges the scope of upon the success he has achieved in this vities of the college. Most likely it has form a nudeus for the next spell of issue and raises one far more impor connection. We are officially informed corresponding disadvantages, and it is exploratory work in Antarctica. tant-panely, the freedom of the Press. that after protracted negotiations, he has not suitable for a don with's family, but, best thanks that can be given to Sir Un-this-ground it is condemned by every succeeded in obtaining a lease of the site although it must still be in the experi Ernest Shackleton and his comrades is
This is newspaper in Great Britain.
at a rental of £33,000 per annum; that mental stage, it has succeeded well to further in every possible way a renewal how, it is sarcastically said, the admin- stration in Ireland supports the Cabinet the plans of bis architect, Mr. Harvey enough to induce another Fellow of Oriel of the attempt to cross the ferra ineng. in its attempt to give peace to that Corbeer, are almost ready for submission to arrange for a similar household on the mit which must be seen from Mars as a
to the London County Council, and that same staircase for next term.
white cap (not doffed periodically as the It may be quite a mistake to regard Martian ice-caps are) on the southern Then, following this facident which is it is hoped to commence the building of esnentinily provocative, there occurs the the control section in the spring, the this as a sign of the times, but one is limb of this planet of ours."
The tempted to fancy that it may be a be dastardly attack on Lord French, which wings "to follow at a later date. excites loathing from every right-thinking establishment will be of a more purely ginning of many changes in the social
and arouses a feeling almost of commercial character than that contem life of Oxford. One or two colleges are helping to bring it to an end. The Oxford despair. But at the same time it plated under Earl Grey's scheme, in more or less decidedly, contemplating the ladies, like their husbands, have been out possible to disregard the vicious. circle order that specialised departments might building of "married quarters." flats ex into the world, and the war has prepared denoted by these things. Military repres be found for all the leading industries of pressly designed as such. If those are the way for changes in their social life, Bion gives crime its opportunity and its the United Kingdom. There will be made the college ladies" will probably
great alteration in the position of the pretext, and crime makes sterner mes Control Hall, for seasonal" Exhibitions be brought more closely into contact with just as it has prepared the way for al
Somehow or other the and Trade Assemblies, & first-class
the college life, but there is no prospect women's colleges. Buggestions have been Buyers' Club and Restaurant, sample of their becoming members of the common made for founding a ladies' club in Ox- rooms, reference libraries and every other! A friend who has just returned from convenience such an institution might cms, and probably neither they nor the ford, with a dining-room and a smoking.
men" desire that they should be admitted
The old contradiction in the room, such as many of the Oxford ladies have frequented in London during the Dublin tells me that in the course of his suggest as desirable. Finally, Mr. there. experience of Ireland, which he visits Bush has secured the services of Mr. W married dog's position will, therefore, war. Twenty years ago such a club two or three times every year, he has never E. K. Candell, the organiser of the remain, and may be accentuated; if the could not have found a dozen members; until now felt himself insecure in going British Industries Fair, to work in con college is to claim him during term not to-day it would probably have a waiting about, The feeling generally among janction with Mr. R. D. Pecka Scotch only in his working hours, but also for list. Some pessimists hold that no one people is similar to what might
man by the way who is General a good part of his social leisure, his home in Oxford could afford to pay a suficient one liver pected if
Manager. Under existing conditions, no life will suffer correspondingly. There subscription, and others that Oxford is inside a powder fac Lory. The danger of an explosion from estimate can be formed as to the cost of is a legend that when the husband dinge still at heart a provincial market town, Bome slight cause is ever present. Dublin the police dare not walk abroad the building: but what it will involve sumptuously at High Table the wife sits inhospitable to novelties like this. But, singly; they patrol the streets in bodies may be judged from the fact that ten down at home to nibble & poached egg- whatever is, to take its place, they poached of bull-s dozen or more at a time, and years ago the late Earl Grey considered Possibly the present, prohibitive price of egg will no longer, give the ladies of are always fully armed: Any man who that a million and a quarter sterling
Morning Post. locks like an Englishman is liable to be won't have to be expended-Empiregs will alter this, but other things are Oxford the same satisfaction as of old-
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