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CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE
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Mr. Churchill continued: " "No irrevocable step should be taken before the House has received a full statement, not only upon the personal but the constitutional issues involved."
Churchul Mr.
requested Mr. Baldwin to, bear in mind that the Lasues also affected the entire con- stitution
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Mr. Churchill: If the House re- sists my claim to put this ques- tion they only add more impor- tance to my words,
After further interruptions the to Speaker asked Mr. Churchill confine himself to simple ques- tions.
Mr. Churchill repeated his re- quest that no irrevocable declaion should be taken until a statement was made to Parliament on the constitutional issues involved."
Mr. Lambert drew attention to the House's deep personal syn- pathy with Mr. Baldwin. (Loud cheers).
Mr. Baldwin, rising amid pro- longed cheers, sald in answering Mr. Churchill that he must inform him that at present it was impoa- sible to reply. "I don't know yet. and cannot know yet. what the King may decide, or how he may decide to act.
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CHINESE RESIDENTS IN KOWLOON CITY Representations Referred To London
Nanking, Dec. B. Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Huges- sen, British Ambassador to China.. who received representations from the Ministry at Foreign Affairs concerning the removal of Chinese residents from Kowloon City has referred the matter to the Colonial Office in London.
About eighty Chinese live in that area, and most of them are not Inclined to move elsewhere owing to long residence and difficulty to choose another suitable place. A satisfactory solution is expected in Chinese official circles here- Union News,
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Master Péter Potts, one of the youngest and most enthusias-
tic member of the Fanling Hunt Club, photographed at the Meet on Sunday.
Diverting Aspects
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So very many of the mortals of England and America do not owa their homes, that to think about it is to be obsessed with a definite sadness.
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Then again, the rolling, heaving, or the quiet and placid bosom
The joys of sailing of many a river or ocean, supports small craft, so eagerly pursued by Anglo Saxons, are here in their fullness. The same ocean yields up three meals a day, or at least the essentials. Again, it yields as well as the delicacies of our coveted table, lobsters, shrimp et al. In the cock-pit of a sampan, there are places, where at nightfall, a suitable platform occurs for repose. Any right living sleeper realizes that hard beds are far healthier than feather beds.
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My first Sampan ride happened only yesterday. A nice craft, rather clean, with oiled planks In the cock-pit, where I sat, were many things. A bottle with a red nipple, for the baby stung at the back of the rowing mother just ahead of me. mirror in which I could see myself (not much joy, here). And also, there were the faded photographs of some nicely dressed Chinese ladies and gentlemen, looking far less colourful in Oc- cidental garb than in their own costumes. While I was being blown by the winds of 'Hong Kong harbour, and rowed to my... unimportant destination, I reflected. Alding me in this, was the gentle slap-slap of blue water against the prow. I can see only une drawback to sampan living and that is a typhoon; otherwise all is virtue. One's house is a nautical carriage.,
It is also a canopy or parasol, if you get on the sails shadow side. Therefore, ones bouse is both over one and under one. Moreover, there's no worry about paying plumbers, garbage men Possessions are transient. and of buying a dining room table. immaterial things in reality, "but the sea is real, the wind a fact supreme. Again, think of the splendid exercise a sampan owner is able to undergo.
For the same form of healthful activity, we pursue a squash ball till its like to burst with irritation, or ride horses until both rider and horse collapse. Give me a life on the smooth flowing river, in a sampani
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Spectacle Meanwhile, the 88,000- town-folk of Ipswich, Suffolk, were treated to the amazing spectacle of constables solemnly escorting an person through the crowds and into the County Assizes. First came two trumpeters in the scarlet jackets of the Coldstream Guards. Next, escorted by the red- robed Lord Mayor, came Mr. Justice Hawke
Washington, Dec. 8. The annual report of the Secre-imaginary tary of the Interior stresses Ameri- can interest in developing an air service to Australia and says that "expeditions rom Honolulu are be ing conducted in connection with colonization of Baker. Howland and Jarvis Islands and that valu able scientific data is being "com- plied in view of the anticipated development of air routes to the South Seas, New Zealand and Aus- tralia."-
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BARON ISLINGTON PASSES
London, Dec. 8. The death has occurred of the first Baron Islington, aged seventy. former Governor-General of New Zealand and Under-Secretary of
State for Colonies-
Rester's Bulletin Service,
R.A.F. CHIEF ARRIVES
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The purpose of Air-Commodore Tedder's visit is partly to intro- duce himself to the officers of the Hong Kong Area and Fleet Air Arm and partly to pay an inspec- tion call at the Kai Tak Base, which he has not yet seen
The trumpets blew, the crowd bared heads, Mr. Justice A Hawke marched into court. sermon opened the calendar. Sub- Ject: "Christian Morality."
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Saturday's preview was also a dress rehearsal for the long-await- ed show-Simpson, W., vs. Simpson. E.A scheduled for Tuesday.
Newspaper men who jammed the Pickwickian city's hotels thought it would not take more than ten minutes. Customary or afteen British procedure is for the com- plainant to take the stand, establish her identity, give the dates of mar-
rage and separation and outline the basis for misconduct charges. At this point a hotel bill usually is pro- duted in evidente, marked paid and bearing the name of defendant "and wife." Hotel employees then testify that the gentleman in ques- tion stopped at their hostelry, and that the "and wife” was not the plaintif. The judge then grants a decree nigi
(Continued from Page 1) Ninety per cent of the amount insured on the new liner is placed at Lloyd's and with London marine insurance companies. The re- maining 100 per cent. has been placed in Liverpool, Glasgow, and the more important foreign mar- kets.
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WAR RISK INCLUDED The next step will be for the insurance brokers to give the Board of Trade a certificate of the amount placed in the open mar- ket. Thereafter the necessary formalities wil be carried out to enable the balance of the value to be insured by the Government under the Cunard Insurance Agreement Act.
The Government share of the insurance will total £740,000. This is £1,040,000 less than the Govern- ment insured the building risks on the Queen Mary..
The Insurance both in the open
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The office will remain open day and night. Access to this office is obtained through the main entrance to the G.P.O. Bulld- A ing at the corner of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road. night bell is provided to attract the attention of the constable on duty during the hours when the main entrance doors ars closed.
Telegrams other than those mentioned above should be handed in to the main Radio Office on the ground floor of the P. & O. Building as heretofore
On and after the 8th December, the letter box at the Canton Steamer Wharf will be abolished. Correspondence intended to go by the night steamer to Canton after the mail has closed in the General Fort Office at 6 pm. must. be posted at the Sheangwan Post Offies up to the following timer:-
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King. If a Queen is to be crowned. Watchful--British newspaper men" the rite of having a lady-in-wait- present were there, not to file stories ing open her robe while the Arch- for publication, but to "keep their bishop of Canterbury anoints her editors in touch by phone. Un-bosom with a cross of holy oil will shackled by the newspapers' "gen-doubtless be foregone, as it was in
Mention of the Queen Mother Amoy He is a guest of His Excellency tlemen's agreement," the "Nawa the case of Queen Mary" the Governor, Sir Andrew Calde Review" hammered away on the cott, at Government House and question: "Can the King marry a bent reporters hurrying to Her Foooho
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The News Review" reported that she would have something to morning on H.E the General Officer Commanding and on HE. that he could, provided she were say about what all London was Beato Amo and Formu the Commander-in-Chief to-mar- not a Roman Catholic (Mrs. Simp- thinking. She did. row morning, having lunch with son la nót). The magazine stressed that the monarch needed only his the Commodore the same day..
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"A Queen's coronation is invari ably separate from that of the
In language that might be inter- preted as a rebuke to newainongers, gossips and stuffy prelates alike, she said crisply:
"The friendship is His Majesty's affair."
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