a branch store in Kowloon. This As to the qualifications of his will be opened to business various colleagues, he did not feel morrow. prepared to enter into any dis- cussion in the House or anywhere else.
Mr Malcolm Mac- his son, who has only been in pub- though there was something igno- Donald's promotion had been re- Hc life a few years, goes to a post-ble about it.
tarded by his relationship to the Lord President of the Council.
tion of £5,000 a year.
"Nor do the people with whom I mix understand how. it is that the hon. member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Kenneth Lindsay), who has
been hi the House & very short time, is sent over the heads of everybody else to become Civil Lord of the Admiralty."
Mr. Tom Smith (Lab.) said there were insistent rumours In the House before the new Cabinet was announced that one of the prices Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was going to demand in the reconstruction, of the Government was a post for his son
Mr. Lansbury went on to ask to whom Mr. Eder was responsible
- Mr. Baldwin-That is not true. He started from the familiar
As to Lord Eustace Percy, he was
Sir Robert Horne said he was complaint of Socialist and Samue-
a good friendly critic of the Gov- lite that all the recovery which
ernment. They challenged those certain that the Prime Minister there has been was due to our
There were would not have appointed the pre- two appointments. going off the Gold Standard. This three other more or less sinecure sent Secretary for the Colonies led to the declaration that things appointments the Lord President unless he believed him to be en- of the Council, the Lord Privy tirely competent. They expected, the Chancellor of however, to see that the salary Seal, and the Duchy-and the Opposition indicated the importance of the thought the continual expansion of office held, Scotsmen regarded the offices, the continual piling up of situation as intolerable and it had Ministries, must in the end bring been more intolerable since super- about the worst results to the Par- numeraries had been appointed
with
£3,000. Some lamentary system,
salaries of levelling up of salaries ought to be
The House heard with mild and amused surprise that it was no proof of economie prosperity for more people to be at work,
A rather unfortunate phrase that the Government had been brought into office "on a great wave of fear" was answered by a joyful exclamation, "Fear of you!" and as much cheering from the other side of the House as his
OWN.
MINISTER FOR COGITATION Sir Herbert Samuel (Lib.), who mentioned that he had also put down a motion for the reduction of the Vote. said they were" told
done.
The Labour motion to reduce the vote was defeated by 220 votes to 62, and the debate was adjourned.
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MOTOR ACCIDENT.
A motor accident occurred yes- terday afternoon on the Talpo Road near Shatin, Dr. Luk of the Kowloon Hospital was driving his car when he collided with a lorry No. 4218. Mrs. Luk who was sit- ting
injured.
bestde htm was slightly
An unknown European driving car No. 2507 was passing and took.. Mrs Luk to the Kowloon Hospital where she received treatment. Dr. Luk escaped. Injuries"
Slight damage was done to the car, the offside wheel and wind-
shield peing broken.
THE AIR PACT
The Minister for League, of Mr. Anthony Nations Affairs, Eden, asked by Mr. Cocks (Labour) in the House of Commons whether the Government has given any 6- surance to the Government of France with regard to the conclu- sion of a bilateral agreement with Germany on air armaments, said it was the hope and intention of
armaments on air agreement the conditions were able to sug-the British Government that an should be concluded between the five Locarno Powers.
In Lord Cecil's speech at the annual meeting of the General Council of the League of Nations Unlon, there is one passage which might serve to illustrate the point.
London, July 10. He reminded his audience that one
High tribute to the progress of question put in the Peace Ballot television in Britain was paid last
CURE BY PAMPHLET was "whether in the last resort night in an address broadcast over
Mr. Baldwin replied by making they would be prepared to accept all German stations by Herr Eugen military action against a deter-Hadamovsky. National Broadcast-fun of faith in the magic word
"plan," which meant books or un public works" as a stimulus to mined and unrepentant aggressor." ing Director.
recovery. Mr. Lloyd George, on gest. That was ag good as asking whe- The speech was also relayed by pamphlets to cure unemployment.
He had never promised to cure the front bench opposite, listened ther they would be prepared to go short-wave to the world in five it. He threw away office and an to the criticism. war in the cause of peace, and languages. under the circumstances it was not In the least surprising that "no fewer than two million people did not feel sure enough to answer it at all." It is not difficult to agree television in Britain would result with Lord Cecil that these two million people were prudent but it ments. may be said that there were an- other two million who were more prudent in that they answered the question with an emphatic No. It still remains a fact, however, that close to seven million people have expressed their willingness to take
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EFFECT OF SPEECH
powerful The effect of this Such expenditure would only be
volume of speech was at once recognised by He spoke of th comprehensive election because he was convinced and exact experimental work of the that tariffs were a necessary part justined if it gave a
of a cure, but he had never said employment, when it ceased. The Sir Archibald Sinclair, who B.B.C., and expressed the assurance.
method had been tried "In another plained of the mesmeric power of that the further development of they would be a cure
Then he proceeded to a succinct country and at present had not Mr. Baldwin and the difficulty of review 01 the Government's succeeded. He had always doubt breaking his enchantments. Very in surprising and valuable achieve-nance, with its reduction of ed whether State expenditure wary, as a good Samuellte of taxation and restoration of cuts, could bring about a revival of in approving "public works expendi- methods adopted in Ger~
The increase-in retail sales show-dustry-and it would be disastrous ture at large, Sir Archibald was he pointed out. differeded that the benents had percolat-if it falled.
vehement about roads and the "development of national re- from those in Britain, as it was
That did not mean that they
sources." were unwilling to spend money on had justified itself. first necessary to make televisioned to all classes and, so the policy popular in Germany to overcome
His next subject was the Ottawa sound projects. doubts in certain quarters.
Agreements. It was now possible There would be no better 'bridge
. The
many.
Singapore. up arms for the cause of the of peace and understanding than to form a preliminary judgment on
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League of Nations. Disturbing television when it became general though this is, it shows how much and enabled the nations to "see" of pugnacity and now little of each other... pacifism there is in the British
human nature,
the to
peace of
their effects.
They had helped us through a difficult time, they would give still better results in years to :to come. Already our exports
the Dominions had increased by 26 millions; our. Dominion im- ports were up by 30 millions,
RISING TRADE
He reminded the House of the help given to the building of the Queen Mary, tramp shipping. the Lancashire project for re- duction of spindles, and London transport.
A maiden speech from Sir Alan Anderson, the new member for the City of London, held the House by its ample knowledge and wide
view
There were now kigns that the world was coining to its senses. Stabilisation was desirable, but we could not stabilise on sterling. A
The complete review of the review of the highway planning of London now to be undertaken would be a gold
point for jumping-off schemes.
standard
Was
necessary,
new though we could not return to it till gold was put on a proper
a
Mr. Cocks Can he give an as- aurauss that. they have no inten- tion of concluding & bilateral agreement with Germany on air as Mr. Eden-That is rather they have done on the sea?
we have given whether different question. The question Bssurances to the French
Mr. Cocks-Is the Government contemplating another act of treachery and surrender? (Minis- tecial shouts of Oht - Obi!")
No answer was giver.
Was
Mr. Eden, replying to Mr. Aneurin Bevan (Labour), who asked whather it was the view of the Government that a Western Air Pact must be accompanied by a system of mutual inspection or between the five Locarno Powers supervision, said as negotiations regarding an Air Pact had not yet. begun it was preferable not to make a statement as to the form, such pacta might take
Mr. Bevan asked whether they
wers to understand that every pact made by the Government was for an increase of arms and never for adeuroasa."
By way of lustration take "this tender controversy with Italy over be treated like a delinquent, and Ethiopia. The British Govern browbeaten or starved out of her ment evidently had gone to the policy without the most serious
The use of the tariff instrument The dépressed areas, in spite of basis utmost limits of prudence in their consequences attempts to bring about a peace- Europe? It simply means this, had brought home to foreign very slight improvement, remained Capt. Macmillan pleaded for an tul settlement; they even went so that the Pacifists who considered countries the value of the British the most difficult and obstinate expansionist policy and industrial Airendy 17 agreemente problem which could confront a planning yake Organisation Manufactures regarding Suitable!
of Bir Stanord Cripps declared that far as to offer a strip of British their country too belicose in going markets.
was his the cheapness of money was due territory in the interest of peace, to war for the integrity of Bel-made with them were being justi- Government. ⠀⠀
to the fallure of the Government Mr. Eden replied that if the but the fanatics of the Genavan glum, which lies at our door, are fed in benent to coal and indus- transference or workera
first remedy. system are urging them to go fur-themselves ready to risk war for tries in general...
We were acquiring a larger Much was going on naturaus. to revive industry, that security honourable member would look at ther, demanding the arraignment of the integrity of Abyssinia, which
share of the volume of world They would supplement this, and had been given not to the workers, the references instead of making up further Agencies will let a great and sovereign nation be- is a great deal more remote. To
trade, while as a whole it had he hoped for an improvement but to property owners and ban assumptions he would find it clear- know the Lines in which they are interested the information will be fore the League, and the impost exhaust all efforts of persuasion
barely increased surfa
through the work on London kers, and that all improvemently set out by the Home Secretar
that the Government contemplated and accommodation is a policy frewarded to London and passed- tion of the economic sanctions
Conversion and cheap money Transport and Air Defences had gone into profits. on to interested parties as op
which can be readily understood. portanty offers.
but at the same time it may be had been of enormous assistance, Mr. Baldwin then made an Sir John Simon, in a nightingair limitation se part of the Air It is Impossible even for a moment sure that the British Government not only to the national finances, earnest appeal to those developing speech delivered in by now Pact. This Berrios is offered to our Reader to imagine a united League upon will not be persuaded by the many but to industry, which had obtain- new industries to go to one of the crowded House, overwheaned, with
without charge and, of such a subject. Assuming that hot-gospellers to risk war in the ed last year £167,000,000 of new depressed areas They should a devastating
The chow gratitude to the country for Capital, course there no obligation in incurred or wither
they could be enforced, the very cause of peace, Of side;
next question is, what would be the may be a theoretical dilemma be- There were 1,000,000 more in tariffs by going where the country
work than four years ago 330,000 needed them mos The Required Information should be result? Economic sanctions would tween the peace of Europe on the
The re result in blockades and subsequent one side and the prestige of the more than at the date of the
last vote of censure on unem ployment polley, HONG KONG DAILY PRESS LIDiy In war. Is it possible for any- League of Nations on the other, one in possession of his senses to but is not that dilemma the result suppose that a powerful and high of the pretensions which go beyond ly-mettled nation would submit to reality?
seat to bea
upon her. It is quite apparent
that these are but vain threats for
Mr. Baldwin's next theme was The "lavish, expenditure, for example them and utilles
Governor of Bing
bay
In Bingapore on