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TP TRAINS
STATIONS No. 1 No. 0
No.10 No. 6
Yo. Fo.11 No. 18. A.M. P.X. ..
No 12 18MamiNo, No 3* PK. X. P.M. PAL) 2,3
Kowloon, Dep. 6.85 8.00 8.24 9.06 10,00 19.10 1.19
Yaumsti.Dep. 8.44
Shatin.Dep 6.56
Taipo Dep 7,10 Taipo
Market. Dep. 1.18
Sheang
Dep. 7.26
shui"...Dep. 7,30
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Suadays & Holidays only
9.1.5 10.03 13,13
9.23 10.20 12.30
9 43 10.33| 12,43
9.49 10.87 13.47 1.35 10.00 10.47) 12,57 2,0°
9.01|10.05 10.52) 1,09 2,10
dundayı & Bolidaya uzorgted
2323.20 480 5,40 7,35
4.98 6.48 7.49
LEO! 8.00 7.55
9.11
| 5,04 8.13) 8,08
5.03 6.17 8.12 5.18 6.97 8.99
5.33 6.32 8.26
Shum-
abua...Arr. 7.36 9.40 0.07 10.11 10.58 1.09 2.18 3.174.00 5.99 6,38) 8.39
Canton...Arr,'
111,58
8.491
DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS
No.1
L.M. AM.
No. 7
...Dep..
Canton
Shamchun...Dep. Baeunghai.Don
Fanling ... Dep. Taipo Market. Dep.
7.18 759 10.34 7,00 | 8.04 | 10.49 7.25 8.10 10.47 7,83 8.9 10,37 7,408,2611.01 7.59 8.30 11.34
7,18
No.15 No.17 No.19 N21 No. 13 | No.13, A.M. A.M. 7.7. MF FM
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T.K
8.05
3,25
11.91 11.49 9.33 4.89 6.47 8.42
11.56 2.40 4.48 5.54
7.07 7,14
12.00 9.44 4.50 5.58
13.11 954 5.00 6.08
↑ Taipo Dop.
11.18 3.00 5.04 6,13
BhaJin Dop.
12.30 3.13 5.176.98
YaumatiDep. 8.08 8.51 11.28
12.45 8.17 5.296.38
Kowloon ...ATT. 9.12 8.57 11.32 12.01 18.48 3.33 5.88 0.44 7.29
7.49
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THE MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS.
IS HER PRESTIGE DECLINING?
OTHER TIMES, OTHER MANNERS IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.
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[BY COL. JOHN BUCHAN, M.P. IN THE SUNDAY TIMES.")
Is the prestige of Parliament declining I do not mean the pre- stige of Constitutional Government, which in various European coua- tries is admittedly at a low ebb, Happily in Britain we have shown no hankerings after the dictator. I mean the prestige of the debating side of our constitutional machinery -and principally of the House of Commons.
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of Commons represents 'every class creates supply, and each age pro- and interest and temperament. duces the talents which are most Personally, I take pleasure in anecded. The dry lucidity of the debate conducted in a variety of President of the Board of Trade, local dialects, instead of in the Mr. Baldwin's power of lighting clipped, conventional speech of the up a topic with a simple and Universities. Members, to-day can apacious imagination, i Lloyd bring to a discussion à wealth of George's easy conversational man- idiomatic experience which was un-
ner may well be the kind of gifs known in the old House of Com-best suited to our modern tasks.
Yet the fact remains that the House of Commons deca not in- terest the public as it once did.. How many people, apart from Mem- bers, read through the Parliament- ary debates, or even look at Han aard? At a London dinner table. when I was a young man, political talk was largely about what hap- pened, or was about happen, in Parliament. Now we talk more politics than ever, but less about the House of Compons.
Complexity of Parliament's Task.
For this I think we can find several reasons. The first is that the work of Government has become complex and congested. The busi- ness to be got through is so vast that it has to be hustled, and its exact meaning is not very clear to the ordinary man. He does not un- derstand half the points. Topica like Irish Home Rule and Dis establishment could be argued on the basis of a few principles and prejudices. Bu-to-day most of our questions invove a large back- ground of intricate facts, and can not be put in the form, of is conscious of the great impersonal easy slogans. Moreover, the public
It is sometimes said that, owing to the power of the Government machine, a debate can no longer It has always been the British influence votes. The charge seems to me to be doubtful. Parties are fashion to speak lightly of authori- more fuid to-day than when they were brigaded rigorously into Whig ties, even when in our heart we respected them, and the House of and Tory, Liberal and Conservative -a brigading which had a social Commons has often been affection as well as an intellectual signi ately described as a talking shop" ficance. There are fringes in all our parties which are liable to vote and a "monkey house." But we
anexpectedly. And when the sub- have never really meant it. Poli-ject is outside party creeds, as in tician is not with us as yet a word the debates on the Revised Prayer of disrepute, as it is in America. Book, you can see opinion being made before your eyes:. The same A member of Parliament has still thing is true of any matter of an aura of respectability about him urgent national importance. The which is rare
on the Continent recent discussione on the Unemploy ment problem were a case in point. Once, going down from the French Speeches by the younger members front at Verdun, with an infantry on both sides of the House had an battalion which had been relieved, obvious educative influence on their
opponents. we passed a charabane full of
Speeches Shorter and Terser. civilians. I shall never forget thế”
Has the level of speaking fallen scorn with which the troops bissed The laudator temporis acti would out the word "Deputies
But is the prestige of the House say that it has. But then he would of Commons what it once was? Itedly the grand manner has gone out say that about anything. Undoubt has played so great a part in our of use. We rarely get a specimen machine of the Civil Service behind history, that any decline in ita of the old-fashioned full-bodied it all, a machine to which unfor- popular repute would be a phono-eloquerice, an elaborate oration of tunately are relegated many of the menon worthy of serious considera- the class type. But this is simply duties which used to be performed tion. It is fair to say. I think, a change of fashion, just as the by Parliament itself. It suspects. that the ordinary man is less in-style of a leader to-day is not of the with some truth, that what really terested in what goes on there than style of one written under Delane.matters is the discussion between in earlier days. Before the war the Eloquence of that kind is not re the Government and the bureau- newspapers gave far more apace to quired. Speeches are shorter and cracy behind the scenes, and not Parliamentary debates. The popu
more businesslike. We still have what the House of Commons" Bays. lar Press to-day, except on a great
our Parliamentary hores, and we occasion, scarcely notices them.
still have the honest souls who Political reputations in the country are far less easily made by speeches in the House of Commons. Is this undoubted fact a proof of decline
Ab-
Improvement in Manners. There is a good deal to be put to the credit side of Parliament teresting to-day than in the past, to-day. On the whole it 3 a highly as they are certainly more prac decorous body, with excellent mantical. ners. We no longer fing orange peel about. or attend in our cups,
for
was
Again, the sporting interest has deliver carefully prepared and not gone out of the business. In sim very relevant, discourses for the pier days the two great parties had benefit of their constituents and creed, and they differed chiefly in very much the same fundamental their local paper. Let not
pace and emphasis. A man bition mock their homely toil! But often Whig or Tory for non-poli- speeches on the whole are more in same reasons as he took a parti I am, prepared to maintain that tical reasons, for very much the cular side at cricket or football. There was a large element of the game in polities. And this applied Great Personalities.
specially to Parliament, which was, But it may be said that we have so to speak, the final test. match. as happened a century ago. The no longer the great personalities. Party loyalty was a sturdy thing. Irish Party hefore the war no doubt That is a point on which it is hard You whooped your own side to enlivened "debate, but they also for a contemporary to judge. Un victory because it was your own turned it occasionally into a dog questionably we have no one who side, not because of the policy which fight. The Labour members to-day can call down the thunders of Sinal it advocated. There is much less of bare a very stiff sense of behaviour, as Mr. Gladstone could; no one this feeling to-day. The treeds of and are quick to resent breaches of with Disraeli's deadly acid of all parties are in solution, and etiquette.
satire; no one who, like Mr. "A their boundaries are vague. The
or invite the Speaker to sing a song,
I think, too, that the personnel is quith, can speak, without prepara-element of the gladiatorial contest more interesting than it used to be. tion,perfect- eighteenth-century has largely gone out of Parliament The Parliaments of Pitt and Fox prose; no one with Lord Balfour'sary debate, and with it the sporting must have been dull affairs-hordes uncanny, dialectical subtlety. But interest in a fight hetween two clear- of undistinguished country squires I sometimes wonder how effectively defined sides, which the ordinary and placemen relieved by a few these, qualities would be in the man loves. great figures. Nowadays the House House of Commons to-day. Dewandt (Continued on Page 2)
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To-day.
(May 5.)
Queen's Theatra: "One Hya terical Night.
World Theatre: "Maaked Emo- tions."
World Theatre: Masked Emic- tions."
Star Theatre: "Hello Cheyenne." Ten Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 3 p..
Star Theatre: "Hello Cheyenne."
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Queen's, Theatre: Condemned."
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