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News and Views
Milan to be a Bea Port.
Weird Weather.""
WIX. Colonel AMERY is an uncom- promising Tarif Reformer, and Lord Hanshaw's share as Attorney- General, in the Trade Disputes Act has not been forgotten by Labour,
Personal characteristics have no doubt, been considered with the greatest care. Trouble makers have been excluded Fire, ardour and rashness of youth have had to make way for survity, good sense and an accommodating spirit. But despite this factor of preponderant maturity a group of very ablo men have been given charge of the Gov. ernment. Some of the sparkling figures, in politics might well have
Will Gracio Fields develop a new caused more trouble to their col
personality for the screen 1 As her longues than their brilliance was
guttural sobs and rough humoura old Lancashire self of the songs and worth; the vintage, in fact, resem- the set is £7 78. One interesting" Sally in Our Alley the new to 15a 6d, and the total cost of she undoubtedly gets over" with bies port rather than champagne. figure of the collection is that nino Maurice Elvey film otherwise not volumes wore printed in India his greatest. This transfer was The London Morning Post was where, incidentally, the Commis natural enough! But as we all particularly glad to see Mr. ARTHUR Sion's report of 580 pages, publish- know, there is much more in Gracio
ed in Juno, was printed. «
Fields. Who one thinks of her HENDERSON out of office, on.
range from the brilliant Topsy who came to the roseuo of the of his policy towards Russia. Mr.
Duncan Sisters in "Uncle Tom's Cabin to the decorously, shimmer-
ho century old scheme of making The local Chinese weather pre- Milan a son pors will be realised diction is a typhoon next Thursday Government having domided to re- A London paper dated August let in the near future, the Fascist and then a spell of cool weather. gulate the Po River in order to states the weather reports from create work, for the army of unem different parts of the world" are ployed. It is planned to make the extraordinary In Canada the in middle arction of the Po navigable tense heat is, parching the crops, up to the mouth of the historie in England the intense rain has river Mincio, the cost of undertaking damaged them. It is reported to being estimated at 750,000,000 Lire, day that in some parts of California of which forty-five millions will bo people, are dying from the heat spent this year.
Two nights ago, a friend of mine, speaking on the telephone from San Francisco, said that everyons there was wearing fur coats.
account
7,000-Page Blue Book.
given before the Royal Commission Seventeen volumes of evidence on Labour in India have been pub lisbod. It is a ponderous record, weighing 213band containing over The books very in price from 6s, 6d. 1,000 pages, is closely printed matter.
Mr. Shate and Mr. Stalls,
Mr. Shaw has done it again-an view of two and a half hours, and pledge of secrecy involving not only Shaw and Stalin, but also Lord and Lady Astor and Lord Lothian. Stalin does not see many visitors.
Gracie Fields,
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New York, grows, mers wonderfar every day. Trade may decline.. Wall Street and the bankers may pull long faces. But, thanks to Mr, Volstead and the peculiar en- forcement of prohibition," "speak- easies fourish like a by-tree. Berkeley-square district of New They have now invaded the former York. They have onptured the beautiful houses of Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Street East. They are not ordinary "apeniensies" "They are palaces. These astablishmenta are simple to join-a binck tie and a dinner-jacket will do the trick- and expensive to leave. And, they have become a nuisance, to the few law-abiding citizens who remain. So numerous are the speakeasies in this district that, in order to avoid being knooked up at any hour. of the night, local residents, are side their houses with the words: forced to put an electrio sign out
This is not a speakeasy,"
The Ethiopian's Skin, -
Mare, evidence of the strides that are being made it medical science is contained in a story that his gained credence in Italy The story tell of an aged negro who after undergoing certain treatment, has completely changed his colour
HENDERSON, has, however, been a interview with Stalin, a record intering singer of drawing-room ballads hand is now white. The Italian who appeared before the King and in the case and have received the authorities at Tripoli are investigat- Queen at the last Variety Command
there seems to be nothing Gracie following account of the happening Fields could not do if she tried.ly whilst working in, Tumis he was
from the negro himself. Apparent
good Foreign Secretary, and he is an astuth Parliamentarian.. The Labour Party, now in opposition,
-Editorial and Business Offices: 1 must have a leader, and it is. batter But this secrecy business! Mort of The discovery is yet to come..
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchaï Office):
Tel. 24321. London Office: 53, Fleet Street,
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, AUGUST 28, 1931.
that Mr. HENDERSON and Mr. CLYNES should be available, than that the hothends should get chance to take charge. Mr. Max DERSON was not responsible for the finances of the country. If he had been he might not have taken his "present course. If Labour should
be returned to power at the next General Election be will, presum ably, be Prime Minister; but it is much more likely that a party PERSONNEL OF THE NEW pledged to economy and tariffs will
GOVERNMENT.
be returned to office. The general hope, however, is that the present régime thould' succeed and continue at least till the next election, in 1934.
SELECTING a ministry and writing the names down on the back of an envelope, is a game played by poli- tical enthusiasts at times of Parlia EXAMINE THE EXAMINER. mentary' èrisis. It is not unlike
AMONG, the many institutions con signed to the melting pot by the. zeal of reformers in the world of
selecting a test, team. To: the atatesman faced with the actual task, however, it is always difficult to-day is the examination system.
"Shadow" Cabinet,” which meets periodically, and no doubt there is also a list that covers the minor offices. But crises do not work out according to plan and last-minute
approached by an English doctor us can guess what happened at that.
and offered the sum of eighty interview. The conversation would Photographic Art.
pounds sterling if he would permit be carried on through an interpreter I am unable to decide whether the doctor to experiment on him -probably Litvinoff. Stalin, who I am more depressed by this with a view to changing his out- is a man of silence, would ask a month's spate of photographs of as- ward appearance. This he agreed to few questions about his visitors' | sorted delegates, or of "bathing do and certain electrical apparatus health. With their rine experience, belles," says an angry correspon was applied to his back. Immedi- remain silent. And then Mr. Show a matter of fact, put me off my colour of the skin. I had the im- Lord Aator and Lord Lothian would dent to a London paper. Both, as ately a chango was noticed in the would get busy on the interpreter., breakfast in the morning. But pression of great colil,” declares the The conversation would become a whether the spectacle of a damp negro. My body trembled buf Ţa
was not in pain either theu or monologue In-that-high-pitched, young woman emerging from "the slow voice of his he would tell waves, or a self-important politician afterwards When the apparatus. Stalin about Saint Jonn, Mussolini, emerging from Downing Street he was applied, my skin at once asparagus, the charm of Dublin, un- the more depressing effect, I am changed colour, and the white derclothing and his own experiences unable to decide. There is more gradually spread until, two years as & Hyde Park grator. Then, variety about the political photo afterwards. I was completely. when Mr. Shaw had talked for a graphs. The politicians may be white." The only traces of dark hundred and fifty minutes-two seen with, or without, their bowler- colour left on the negro (1) are one minutes for every year of his life hats and getting in, or out, of an or two small spots near the mouth Stalin would give a desperate order aeroplane, railway station, confer- and the ears. The story bus récent- in Russian to a subordinate. The ence hall, or hotel. On the otherly reached England and aroused
medical lights would go out, and finally hand, even if all the damp young interestin
Bocities. peace would descend on the Krem women and the waves which they Fundamentalists in America have Jin. Mnaquerading as a Communist are entering (or leaving) look the protested because the Bible :save, Mr. Shaw remained, as always, a same, they at least have fairly "Can the leopard change his spots monopolist.
cheerful expressions.
or the Ethiopian his skin!"
Local Notes and Events
in the cathedral, hall at 5.30, this
Boforo Mr. Fraser at the Kow
and invidious. Each party has a Never a conference of teachers | A special meeting of the council
gathers but it is denounced, some of St. John's Cathedral will be held loon Magistracy yesterday, a Chin- times roundly, sometimes in parti-evening. eular. It is condemned by some on the, ground that it destroys char- acter, encourages cramuning, tends to mental mass production, is prone to ignore or stultify genius, and fails in general to discover what
revisions are generally, necesinry.
The decision of the authorities to do away with the car park in Ped- der Street was enforced yesterday, traffic police being on duty to direct vehicles to other stands.
the Yaumati ferry-buat Man Ying Wednesday night by jumping off: The boat was stopped and a search made, but no traces of the man could be found.
From the files.
Locking Back 25. Forza
ese was charged with unlawful' possession of a pair of gold rimmed. spectacles. The defendant stated that he found the spectacles near the Railway Station and was relocal finance was aware, the dollar Yesterday, an "all" interested in
manded, for 24 hours to enable the was worth 9/2. This 18 the highest police to find the owner.
price it has reached for many years indend we hava to go back to 1996 the birthday of Confucius Al-Brent a value, while for the two Yesterday was the anniversary of to find the dollar representing so
though not officially observed as a previous yours the average worked holiday by local Chinese many out at 2/14 Of course everyone. close up their business on this day, knows that the dollar is only abou taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital of the community take holiday and years ago.
A man named Chan Yikyce was whilst at Canton various sectione half the value that it was thirty on Wednesday, suffering from
In 1874 the average for wound in the scalp, caused through spend, the time in reading the the yeary was 43, 2d. Then the falling down whilst under the in-works of the sage and venerating average fell each year. by about inie
his memory, fluence of liquor.
penny, with sometimes greater and sometimes less fluctuations, but its Sentence of one month's hard greatest drop took place in the labour was imposed on a coolie who appeared at the Kowloon beginning of the nineties, when for Police Court yesterday, charged three years there was a
decline with stealing 828, the property of about four-pence noticeable between Miss Stavly, living at the Airlie
The list of principal ministers in contribution the future citizen can A man committed suicide on the new Government has many best make to the race. It encounter points of interest. All who figureed fire of more than usual violence from the British Commonwealth in it are men of experience and Education Conference. The student proved capacity. But they are not who has come down in matricula young. Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, tion or higher certificate will doubt loss take solace from the assurance of the Professor of Education at Mr. MACDONALD were by no means London University that there must unknown during Queen VicronIA's be something wrong with the system reign, while Sir HERBERT, SAMUEL, ['since no two examinerà can be relied Lord READING and Lord CREW
Lord AMULRES, Mr. SNOWDEN and
were prominent members of Mr ASQUITH's pre-War Cabinet. Mr. BALDWIN was born in 1867, Sir HENRY BETTERTON, five years later, Sir Samuir HOARE in 1880 and most of the others in the seventies of last Sir AROBIBALD. SINCLAIR, century. who is forty-one, is the baby" of the Ministry
on to think alike. He has lately handed thirty essays submitted to him round bis teaching colleagues, only to discover that one of them
that one of t marked worst an effort which an- other marked beat. But it is per haps unreasonable to expect a colleague expert in, weeding out deficient mathematicians to take an even approximately similar view of an easy to that of a colleaguo whose interests'
exts lie in the humani. tiea. Even examiners have never
His Excellency, Sir William Peel, will be the host to an At Home given to the members of the local Yorkshire Society: The "At Home is being held at Mountain Lodge on Saturday afternoon.
Of
Hotel. The defendant admitted each January and December. Since taking the money by reaching 1894 the dollar has remained in the Cheung 80, attempted to commt plainant's room from a scaffolding it rose to ga 2d two years later it A young married woman, named through the window of the com-region of two shillings, and though suicide at the Hotel Nathan on in the rear of the hotel. Wednesday by taking adelin poi- son. She was removed to: the Kwong: Wah. Hospital.
fhad a big fall in 1903 and 1904
Hong Kong Daily Press, August 26, 1900,
Notable omissions from the Con claimed to be omniscient, And, to 373, Shanghai Street and over-charge of having absented himself have the pleasure to give below a
rocent
HAILSHAM,
Loung Shu-yuu, the wireless operator of the .8. Kwangchow, made a second appearance before Robbers broke into abouse o the Hon. Comdr. Hole, at the Looking Back 60 Years,” cupied by a married woman at Marine Court Yesterday, on a The Catholic Register says:-We
The powered, gagged and forced the from the ship on July 31. The servative Party are Sir Roszat
give them their due, they tend after inmates into an adjoining cubicle, caso, at its brst hearing, was re summary of Roman Catholic the bludgeonings they have lately They then searched the place andmanded for the accused to produce Missions in China, furnished us by HORNS, who was regarded during had to be properly humble. Noth 80% Away with money and jewellery medical evidence, but as the wit
nices were not produced yesterday, which our readers will be glad to a most reliable souros, and from amounting to 81572/16 met troubles 48 possible ing could have been' more diffident
defendant was fined $20 or in de successor to Mr. BALDWIN, Lord than the attitudo at the Conference A Japanese appeared before, Mr. fault two weeks' imprisonment.see that the Roman Catholic Church
of the Chief Examiner for the Fraser at the Kowloch Magistracy Lord PEZL Colonel
counts no less than 1,092,818 rom London County Council. We yesterday, charged with towing. An amistant accountant of averts to the true fold in China. It AMERY and Captain WALTER ELLIOT, Xiaers," he remarked, have away on the Empress of Russia medicina firm in Bonham Strand is indeed a great source of satisfac
Hong Kong to Manila, The West was charged before Mr. Scho- one of the rising hones Lord brew put in a corner and told to authorities at Manila refused to let hold vesterday with stealing 88,850 tion to see the progress the Roman. Danny has been out of politica bo quiet. It is time we woke up him Jand, and he was sent back to belonging to the firm. He had, at Fatholic Church has made in China, since the Liore Georet Coalition search, because we have never been
and did something. We want re Hong Kong. He was fined 650..a previous appearance in Court, considering the small number of
pleaded guilty but had been grant ed a 18 hours remand in ordercolleges and convents and their broke up, Lard IRWIN is not per taught our job. We just have to At the Kowloon Magistracy yes that he might refund the money personnel, scattered throughout this. sona grata with many of his own pick it up. We want some place terday & Chinese was charged with: Defendant asked for a further to vast Empi party, and, of correc, Mr. Caus where new examiners can be taught of the South Wales Borderers might make a further effort to
stealing the clothes of two privatesmand yesterday in order that he Mon their job Who
is to examine the while they were bathing at Taiwan raise the money. This was granted Priests, 6041 Native.
Bach on Wednesday. He was een by the Bench, the Magistrate Colleges perhaps for a new "Exodus from the practical psychologist could offer and ordered to receive 12 strokes the money refunded would count
tanced to three weeks hard labour pointing out that any portion of lica 1,002,818- the!" Egypt." ruled by Mr. Bata... some guidance,
of the cans.
towards lightening the penalty.
Pres August 26, 1881
CHILL is in the lerness, hoping i eraminer, and on what Perhaps
from
European