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January 9th, 1930.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1930.
"IDIOTIC ELECTION OF 1923.
23 PEOPLE IN SIX
ROOMS.
STREET DESCRIBED AS A "PLAGUE SPOT."
“Mr. W. A. S. Hewins, as former A baby's death from búrns re- director of the London School of) ceived in a tenement house was the Economics, ex-secretary and ex-subject of an inquest in London
chairman of the Tariff Commission, member of the House of Commons in the war period, and Colonial | Under-Secretary, in Mr. Lloyd George's first Coalition Govern. ment, has a wide and intimate knowledge of the working of the British Government machine.
In his striking book (The Apolo gia of an Imperialist), which was published last month, he gives to the world some very outspoken criticisms, both of his own Conser- vative leaders and of prominent Liberals-quoted for the most part from a diary which be kept.
One defeet he noted in almost all of them-a total want of economic knowledge and an extraordinary unwillingness to adopt and abide by a definite economic policy.
The war he ascribed to Liberai feebleness:-
Liberal sentimentality, a weak naval and military policy, and Grey's muddled and planless action at the Foreign Office were the best way to strengthen the German war party and to alienate the Centre,"
Afraid of Kitchener. He quotes Lord Balfour as saying
in 1935:-
Kitchener is a perfect genius in his own line, but that he knows nothing about business and is not a good organiser in that sense." Other obstacles Balfour complained ot were Asquith and Winston. He Bays Asquith is lazy and won't de- cide and is afraid of Kitchener.".
Of Bonar Law we read:
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conducted by Dr. Waldo at the City Coroner's Court on Ronald James Ing, aged one year and eight months, son of Mrs. Nellie Ing, of Little Sutton Street, Clerkenwell.
The mother had previously said that the fire occurred when she was ous, in a room she occupied with her three infants, and the two other children were also burnt. She had no fireguard as she could not afford
one.
The inquiry had been adjourned in order that the jury might inspect
the tenements.
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men,
Dr. Waldo exid that the tenement comprised six small rooms, and was occupied by twenty-three women, and children. One of the truants complained of rats.
Statement by Landlorda,
were
Mr. T. A. Streatfield, secretary of Bowles, Nicholls, and Co., Ltd., provision merchants, of King Street, London, E.C., said that the most unwilling company landlords of the property where the fire occurred. Owing to the Rent Restrictions Act they could not get rid of the tenants. They acquired the site several years ago with the intention of pulling down the houses and erecting warehouses and garages, and they prepared to pro- ered with the scheme immediately they could empty the existing tene menta.
Dr. Waldo: Where are these poor people to go?-I suppose they will g and crowd the next district.
Mr. Streatheld said that he un- derstood that the Housing Commit- tee of the London County Council had offered to provide alternative "One of the difficulties in forcing accommodation for the families in Preference through seems to bethe tenements providing his com Bonar Las... Walter Long pany paid 2100 per family. As said Bonny Law was the chief dith there were 47 families the company culty in the way of Preference, that would have to pay £4,700. He ex- be was betraying his party, was plained that out of the £500 a year utterly without principle, and which his company received in thought of nothing but his own in- rents, they spent something like tereats, on which he had a false £300 in repairs, rates, and taxes, view,"
and they also paid £400 a year ground rent.
Curzon behaved oddly at Cabinet meetings:-
"Curzon gave Walter Long a pompous lecture on making his de claration about the German colonies (that they would not be returned), but collapsed
on a few words from
Balfour.
Dr. Waldo said he could well un-
derstand that the company were un willing landlords, and he asked who was responsible if the place was overcrowded.
Mr. E. S. D. Carter, representa tive of the London County Council, Milner, it appears, "never camsaid that the owner was responsible. In the Cabinet."
"
Mr. Baldwin Blamed. Mr. Baldwin is severely blamed for his coaduct in holding an un- necessary election in 1993
"It was simply idiotic to have a general election at all... on issues which had never been explained and on a supposed policy waich the (Conservative) Government had not the slightest intention of carrying out, and all the opponents of the Government were left free to say what they liked about the Govern ment intentions."
The Conservative Party. Mr. Hewins wrote in June 1924, "is falling into a sort of amiable dotage."
In the crisis of 1923-24, on the eve of the general strike, the diary
No notice had been served on the owners in this case, as the property had not been brought to the notice of the Council.
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A Plague Spot. Dr. A. E. Thomas, medical officer of health for Finsbury, described "one of Little Sutton Street, as the plague spots of Finsbury." The borough Council could not abate overcrowding; they could not put people into the streets. Land in Finsbury was worth £50,000 acre, and that was the great diff culty of the Finsbury housing pro- blem. He added that the Council had arranged to clear the place of rats.
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A juryman said that the walls of the tenement the jury visited were "recking with wet" and the wall- paper was stripping off..
IN A SERIES OF OPERAS
THURSDAY, JAN. 16TH LA BOHEME FRIDAY, JAN." 17TH - RIGOLETTO
SATURDAY, JAN. 18TH
Mr. Baldwin is further blamed for allowing safeguarding to be Mme. BUTTERFLY.
strangled by his departments. "He left on my mind." says the diary, SUNDAY, JAN. 19TH the impression that he was quite genuine in his desire carry out BARBIERE di SIVIGLIA his policy, but that he is lacking in intellectual grip of the situation, has a divided Cabinet, and, what is most important, has à Board of Trade inadequately equipped."
The jury returned a verdict. that There was hope of agreement with the miners until Stanley Bald. the haby died from severe burns and win talked vaguely of subsidies...shock sustained through being left The situation then went to pieces. attended and without any fire- It was useless for the Government guard protection. to disclaim any intention of sub- sidising coal"
MONDAY, JAN. 20TH CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
AND
* PAGLIACCI TUESDAY, JAN. 218T
FAUST WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22ND CARMEN-
Booking at Montrie's and the Star.
Prices: $4, $3, 82, 81,
THE TIME" FOR BLANKETS
́IS BERE, BUT WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEM P
EMBERS of the Committee at
GENERAL STRIKE ECHO.
DEATH OF MAN INJURED IN
TRUNCHEON CHARGE...
An injury received in a truncheon charge during the general strike of 1920 in England led to the death recently of George Iles (60), a dock labourer.
At the inquest at Poplar Mrs. Alice Bell said that she saw her father in hospital two days after he was injured and he said: I was standing on the corner of Low- er North Street, Poplar, when the charge was made. I was knocked on to the kerb. I got up and ran into the middle of the road when I was knocked down again. I ran into a shop and hid behind the door until the trouble was over."
A son said that his father did not allege that anyone had knocked him down' but said that he was thrown to the ground by the rush of the crowd.
Med at the Bocisty's Room, Dr. Eagan said that death was CITY HALL, EVERY HUNDAY and due to tuberculosis, and in his THURSDAY at 10.80 to receive | opinion the fractured rib. Iles re- GIFTS of BLANKETS, Fart-occived during the charge, was a Olothing; etc.
predisposing factor in causing HONG KONG BENEVOLENT tuberculosis.
masserdict of accidental (Ear. 1889.). [9348 recorded..
MODERN POETRY.
NEW SPIRIT, BUT OBSCURE
CONSTRUCTION.
in London to hear Miss 31. South The Unnamed Society met recently well-Sander on the subject of "A group of modern poets.' Speaking
of modern poetry in general, she pointed out that after the first wave of pessimism due to the war a new spirit showed itself, at once more
sensitive, and generous,
wide- minded, becoming More experi-
mental, and in construction more obscure.
One quality the new poetry had without which great poetry could not be an immense faith in itself; and this, diffused through so wide a range of youth, must surely have great consequences on our natural life and art. Modern poetry pro ferred the lyrical, the treatment of mood. Very often there was no form but a regular irregularity" Personal rhythms moulded by a poet'a own vision, and called cad- ences, were typical of the Sitwells, 4. S. Eliot, and 'Charlotte Mew. The subject of poetry had very de finitely changed from the poetry of fifty years ago. Love had almost disappeared, and death might be said to have taken its place as a lament Poetry did what life could not do it eliminated, the anessen. tial.
Miss Southwell-Sander read from the works of Bridges, "that strange ly neglected poet"; Sassoon, who formed a link with the war; Char lotte Mew, in the speaker's opinion not a sufficiently known poetess; Humbert Wolfe, and others. In conclusion, as the society is inter- ested in the revival of poetic drama, be sewn Clidard Bax's "Peskuds and Fugue
SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY.
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. IN TOKYO.
NEW POLICY SUGGESTED.
...“ SUPERIOR VENTILATION IN RUSSIAN "PITS."
WELSH MINERS' INVESTIGA- TION.
A Welsh miner, Mr. Albert Dodd, who was among the 33 delegates "who recently visited Russia, giving his impressions at a meeting at the
Dr. Mitsugu Sengoku, head of Friends' Hall, Euston Road, Lon
the South Manchuria Railway Co., is here, says the Japan Times, to discuss with the Cabinet members revision of the outstanding features of the programma of work of the line. As his mission concerns the main artery of transportation in the Mnachurian provinces and as the network has a great inter- national bearing the new policy to be threshed out for the operation of the S..R. is attracting wide
attention here.
"A Pretty Moma,!? Subject to the approval of the Governinth Dr. Sengoku is re ported to be inclined tomm.ke the
railway a purely business enter- prise and to strip it once for all ot the political ramifications it has been engrossed with. Hitherto, the new chief of the railway points out, a pretty mess has been made about the company to the annoyance of of a clear-cut division of work be- ail concerned because of the absence
tween the branches of the Japanese Government and the S.M.R. It is highly desirable, Dr. Sengoku atat- ed on his arrival here late" last week, that the muddle of interfer- ences be disposed of by means of a thorough understanding between
don, said the condition of the Rus- surpassed that of sian working classes to-day for the British
worker.
Mr. Williams, another miner, said:
"We found in the Russian mines something in the way of ventilation that will never be achieved in Eng- land. The men in the pits inno instance work more than six hours a day, including the time that it takes to reach the pit-head. In addition they get their houses, medical aid, coal and light free, with a month's holiday on pay. Workers on the surface, in general, do eight hours, though many do. seven hours, with 14 days' holiday, including pay.
Mrs. Miller, an Edinburgh tex- tile worker, said that women had equal pay with men. They were politically free, and scorned no task given to men. Special arrange menta were made for women before and after child birth..
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require negotiations between Governments: this is one of the phases of his new policy which he is firmly convinced should be divorced from any diplo matic or political complications.
A New Programme.
In the proper province of busi- ness of the S.M.R., Dr. Sengoku proposes a programme which will retain very little of the features of
the one set by his predecessor, Mr. Jotaro Yamamoto. Mr. Yamamoto, it should be remembered, set out with an ambitious scheme, though he resigned before it was translated into deed, in conformity to the much-advertised "'' positive" econo- mic policy of the Tanaka Adminis tration; it listed, anong others, aggressive exploitation and develop. ment of the iron, coal and fertilizer industries."
A complete reversal from the expansion policy to a passive one will resplt. from the conferences Dr. Sengoku is holding with the members of the Cabinet.
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BISHOP OF CARLISLE'S VIEW.
The Bishop of Carlisle (Dr. Wil liams) states in the Carlisle Dioce-
san Gazette that there has been a steady acceleration of the pace at Church, and that in his own diocese which people have been leaving the things bave been growing steadily worso during the last five years.
Although he does not think it true to say that industrial ife is alto zether without religious sanctions, euch us a sense of duty and admis- sion of the authority of conscience yet he finds it impossible to say that Dae can successfully appeal to the Sermon on the Mount, to the fanda- mental principles of Christianity, with the hope of real acceptance in the rndustrial world. The same, he states, is obviously true of politics, art, and literature, and it is rare now to find a musical composer con- cerned with institutional religion.
Why is it (the Bishop asks) that people keenly interested in sccular, nutters are not interested in rell- gion He attributes it partly to the existing social unrest and to the belief that Christianity in in- effective in coping with social evils regarded as part of the capitalist order of things.
But if religion goes, he remarks, there will be nothing left but self- interest, and it is easy to forecast the consequences of that in the world. What 'we bave to do is to reinterpret God in terms of our own generation. It means that the clergy must realise that, important though it is to care for the social side of parochial work, it will not do to substitute parish-hall religion for religion proper, which is the worship of Christ as God and the true conception of His intentions toward the world. For this pur pom the church is mo
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