HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, ⠀
TROUBLE BREWING SOVIET PARTY
IN INDIA
ANTI-CONSTITUTION DAY DISPLAYS
Congressmen Arrested
Calcutta, March 29.
Mr. H. K. Bose, former assistant Secretary of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee, and sixteen other Congressmen were arrested while leading a procession in North Calcutta "in connection with anil-Constitution Day which, has been fired for April 1. They were subsequently released on bail.
A public meeting later condemned the arrests and the police In banning the meetings and processions on April 1-Renter's Bulletin Service.
CONGRESS OBSTRUCTION
Lucknow, Mar. 29.
The Congress Party In the United Provinces has declined to form a ministry-
"Reater's Bulletin Service,
LABOUR STRIKE
Behar. Mar. 29. ́* Three hundred coal miners struck to-day as a protest against the arrest of one local offietal and tour miners on the way to a labour meeting which the police declared to be illegal--, "Beuter's Bulletin Service. -
·H.M.S. MALAYA BACK IN DOCKYARD
Repairs After Collision.
H.M.S. - Malaya, the 31,000-tun battleship, returned to Devonport dockyard on March 6 for repairs. following her collision with the Dutch steamer Kertosono, 7,323. tons, a month ago, while on her way to join the Mediterranean Fleet
INDO-JAPANESE
TRADE TALKS
New Delhi. Mar, 20
It is understood that agreement has been reached between India and Japan in their trade nego- tiations.— Reuter,
COMPROMISE ACCEPTED
New Delhi, Mar. 29. Indin has accepted Japan's com- promise proposals regarding the trade agreement which is now be- ing drafted and will be signed in a few days.-
Reuters Bulletin Service.
WORLD'S GREATEST
GOLFER
Reported Far Superior To
Bobby Jones
SHORTCOMINGS
Stalin's Report Published
Moscow, Mar, 29.
An urgent campaign for complete "re-education" of Party leadership appears to lie behind the report issued by M. Stalin dealing with the Party's "shortcomings.". The campaign is expected to result in changes of personnel and policy.
The report, though presented by M. Stalin to the central committee of the Communist Party on March 3. has only just been published. It days the Soviet Party for the success achieved by the Trotskyites in undermining Soviet industrial life and declares that stringent measures must be taken to correct. the mistakes of the past.
The report prescribes strenuous courses in Leniniam for all lenders, secretaries and officinis.
After quoting alleged wrecking tactics by Trotskyites. the report. concludes: "We have all the means harmless."- necessary to render these elements
Rruter
BORSTAL BOY'S AMBITION TO
BE PREMIER
His Plans For India And The Land
"STOCK EXCHANGE”
OF BRILLIANT LAD
BRITISH SHIP IN DISTRESS
Volunteer Sinking Slowly
Yokohama. Mar. 29.
The British ateamer Volunteer is reported to have met dikaster 700 miles south east of Yokohama.
Two British vessels, the Empress of Canada and Fresno City, are hurrying to her assistance,
A later message from the Em- Press of Canada states that she is resuming her own course as the Fresno City is at present very near the distressed vessel and will ren- der ald.
The Volunteer is still añoat, but sinking slowly.-- Hevier.
SUCCESS OF A NEW DRUG
"As Important As Quinine"
Recent research is confirming
the high hopes of the new drus
Sulphonamide P. If the results
of experimental and clinical work
continue in the same promising way, it will become as important as quinine in malaria.
This derivative or the original considerably reduced the mortality compound prontosil, which has
of puerperal fever at Queen Char-
A boy of outstanding, intelli-lotte's Hospital, is having an in- gence with an ambition to become Prime Minister, who "Ian an imaginary Stock Exchange"; and
A cheerful Irish, lad who was such
a "wonderful and accom- plished lar" that he could con- vince himself in two seconds and his listener in three.
Temporary repairs were effected The greatest golfer in the world, at Portsmouth, but the battleship, according to reports from America, it is expected, will be detained at is Mr. John Montague of California, Devonport for some months. The Mr. Montague is completely un- Malays lett Plymouth in January known to competitive golf. He is after a reût which cost nearly £1,- s man who, bitterly disappointed These were two of the cases in with life, lives in the desert near vocational tests carried out by Mr. 200,000
Extensive damage was caused in Victorville, California. Sometimes | Alec Rodger, of the National the collision to the armour plating he goes Into Hollywood, and it is Institute of Industrial Psychology
the hull of
Three gung
were sald that only one man, Oliver at 400 Borstal boys.
the film actor, knows carried away from their mount-Hardy,
Results are now reported by the ings, and an anti-aircraft platform Montague's secret.
Industrial Health Research Board WER mashed
of the Medical Research Council. and it is stated that 69.5 per cent. of Mr. Rodger's recommendations, and only 45.6 per cent. of the housemasters' recommendations.
The Malaya belongs
heavy casualties.
411
1937.
POMMERY
POMMERY ET GRENÓ
CHAMPAGNE
THE WINE OF KINGS, THE KING OF WINES
BOLE AGENTS:
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
MODERN
LIFE AND RELIGION
Drift From The Old Standards
PRIMATE'S APPEAL TO INDIVIDUALS
THE
HONG
KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;
&
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS LIMITED,
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.
creasingly wide use in other infec- tions caused by the "hoemolytic streptococci These organisms are The Archbishop of Canterbury, responsible for a very large num- who was the chief guest of the. ber of diseases in men," from the Haiborn Chamber of Commerce at
and often fatal septicaemias. * simple tonsilitis to the dangerous a luncheon held at the Connaught Rooms recently, referred to his Most of the research wrok has recent appeal to the nation under naturally concentrated on the the title of *The Recall to severer of these infections. The Religion," and reinforced that French, for instance, have report-appeal by some reflections on the ed some remarkable results in des- response by the publie Mr. great leading newspapers; not RUINED BY SUCCESS perate attacks of erysipelas, while, | Arthur Chadwick, chairman 01 least in the provinces, regarded in this country, evidence of the the Holborn Chamber of Com-that appeal, and commented upon successful treatment of septi- merce, presided, and among ait, with serious sympathy. of scarlet fever and other diseases is Mayor and Mayoress of Holborn critics. He furnished a target for caemia, or blood poisoning, in large company of guests were the course there had been many dally increasing. Even a few cases and a number of clergymen of all the critics and cranks, through-
various denominations. of streptococcal meningitis, a, us-
out the country to shoot at He ually quite hopeless condition, are Alderman Bracewell Smith. M P..
was glad it relieved them, because recovering. There is a
It did no striking president "of the Chamber, in was out of danger forty-eight of Honour" said they had instance of a moribund child who proposing the toast of "Our Guess been told that 10 minutes a day of
hours after treatment. These re-
Table observers.
Of his golf reports have it that the he would make Bobby Jones look Queen Elizabeth, class and was like a rabbit. He can put an ap bullt. in 1913, the cost being de proach shot to within 10 feet of frayed by the Federated Malay the hoe from any distance up to States. She was present at the 200 yards, make a golf ball curve led to satisfactory results. Battle of Jutland, in which she round an oak tree to reach the "This casts no reflection upon was severely damaged and ad green and do all the things that the housemasters," it is stated, golfers often dream of doing. "but it shows clearly that with the His friends say that they have at the new procedure they seen him do the ball-round-the-could achieve better results than AIR RAID BADGE.
tree business, and they have seen those, they achieve without it." bim play golf for a month over ESSAYS ON MANY THINGS The King Approves Design Hollywood's hardest courses, but The boy who wants to become
WIDENING USES they have never seen him score Prime Minister is 161.
His. - This drug has, however, an even above sixty-six. ***
datives had not allowed him to wider
application in every-day Montague is stated to have beat-avall himself of a school scholar-
medicine. Much en Bing Crosby, who is nd mean ship, and he had been out of work tococcal infections, for instance, of
mlder strep golfer, with a garden rake, a shovel two and a half years before going the nose and throat, though rare- and a baseball bat He used the to Borstal.
y dangerous, are important be "He was a very unsociable in-cause they keep people away from The badge will be of silver, anded after one hole because Mon- As strictly as possible to himself,"
Take as a putter. The match end-dividual, and he had kept himself their work and temporarily under will have the Royal Crown with tague began with a birdlie; and
mine their health. Any treatment the letters "A.R.P." underneath. It threatened to keep it up. Mon part of his enforced leisure had much necessarily be of great value. the report states. "The greater that will shorten these infections will be issued to local authorities tague steadfastly refuses to play. for presentation to men and win tournaments. He says that he out of calculations and the writing dering. A drug which can con-
been taken up with the working
A further point is worth cond- men who volunteer for air-raid is playing golf for fun, not for precautions services, and undergo money or glory. the necessary training. Members
The King has approved a re- commendation that the Royal Crown should be incorporated in the design of an official badge to be issued to the trained air raid precautions volunteers.
of the following services will be eligible for the badge.. provided
+
sort of harm to him
Don Wiley, of Gardenvale, VIC- toria, sent up his new model zero- plane in an attempt to break the
record for its class.
The little machine broke the re- cord, remaining aloft for over 5T minutes-but it would not come heading for Melbourne, and no down again. It was last seen
trace of it has since been discover- ed
and they were increasingly s06- aside in practice. Might he ask his fellow countrymen to pause, and to consider whether It is
Setting them aside, he had been pressed by the evident fact that orts are not coming from en-physical jerks would keep a man
the conscience of our country was thusiasts, but from tried and re-
beginning to awake to the danger At. Sometimes he wondered how
of that drift, that men realized many minutes a day of spiritual that all that had been best and exercises were necessary in order stable in our national life had
in the right direction" and in 20- to keep their minds and thoughts been founded upon religion, and that if we lost that foundation we cordance with English traditions should inevitably lose much of our He believed that spiritual exercise peal nothing dramatic, nothing resolute effort to uphold the old of business integrity and honour.trength. There was in that up worth while to make some more
was just as important as physical spectacular. It was not a stunt; standards of Christian morality?. in reply, said he felt he must the best conscience of his fellow-
The Archbishop of Canterbury, he only made a quiet appeal to The Archbishop of Canterbury respond to the Chamber's invita countrymen.
then surveyed the effect upon the popular imagination of what were on, because they were just the appeal must depend in this coun- sort of people upon whom his tendencies. in our modern, life
What were those currents, those supposed to be the discoveries and teachings or science, the increas-
real fact that at the heart of our
which seemed to be carrying our
ing distraction of mind of our try for its effect. It was a very people along in that drift away
times, the stress of business coni- national life there was in all men among them the negicct of the programmes that were broadcast, from religion? He would include Petition, the peaseless and varied.
ud the ever-increasing rush and of good will a very real instinct axed habits of religion. for religion. He would go farther not necessary to specify them. If and nerves. He agreed with what movement that affected bodies and say that at the present time there was perhaps, more than at
he alluded to one, it was only to
Alderman Bracewell Smith had the neglect of church-going, and suggested, and he urged that un- | Minister. He held strong Liberal have an important preventive as any other time, & very real and it might be that that was less in our generation" each in-
Protectionist views.
widespread interest in religion. symptom rather than a cause-he dividual could set aside a period well as therapeutic use. He had pre-
The latest evidence goes to show pared detailed schemes for dealing
After a time of great devotion to thought it was both but it was. with such problems as those pre-that the action of this new drag the progress of material civiliza- quite certain that our character for spiritual communion each day sented by agriculture, anemploy-is not confined to these haemolytic tion, all sorts and kinds of people was largely formed by our habits, they could not expect to have any ment, India, and disarmament. steptococci. Laboratory experi- were beginning to realize, even so national character and national continuing remembrance of God. Owing to the Spanish Civil Waz ¦ "In an attempt to run away to ments have shown equally success- the youngest, that there were deep habit must largely depend upon
'How, he asked, were those ten- the task of exporting oranges
London to get office work. he stole. ful results with the meningococcus and
dencies ineradicable needs of the the observances, of religion. The answer would depend upon each to be arrested? The from Spain has been extremely | He was caught and put on probs-
cause of that extremely | human spirit which
nothing next indication was the neglect of individual. Els appeal was to the difficult this year.
tion but the big
they are serving on
a voluntary ORANGES FOR BRITISH basis in time of peace, have
MARMALADE served for at least one month, and are, in the opinion of the local authority concerned," emcient mem- bers of the branch or organisation to which they belong:
First aid or medical services: Rescue or demolition services: Decontamination of materials; Air raid wardens:
Spanish War Difficulties Overcome
of essays. He had an narcishing trol these organisms in disease ; knowledge" · of Stock Exchange
news, and ran an imaginary ex- should equally well prevent their change of his own!
growth during normal healta Sulphonamide P. already being is ambition to
"Some of his essays related to tried as a prophylactic, may well
become Prime
-the
It was
Again he stole; and again dangerous disease, cerebro-spinal | material "could possibly satisfy, † religion as an integral part of the church at large to go out to the or spotted fever. While there is And yet he wondered whether that atmosphere of the home. They ordinary men and women, to the
M
Gas detection officers (when or-British marmalade manufacturers he was caught.
ganised),
have succeeded in obtaining sup
On his way to the boys' prizon an obvious danger at the moment instinct was well informed, clear might provide as carefully as they multitudes of people who has plies.
at Wormwood Berube he spent & from over enthusiasm..all the in- A
of Messrs. short time at a provincial prison.vestigations suggest a widening ap- representative Chivers and Son, Ltd., who pur-
Before his departure from it he plication of this drug. chased a large portion of the presented to the 'Governor an
Police officers, special constables, and members of the public fre brigades will not be eligible for the badge in these capacities.
K. C. BECOMES A
JUDGE
The treatment is extremely sim
and fear of God.
faith
| Seville orange crop, stated that to essay on his thest Impressions "of ple and needs no elaborate techni-
que. Whereas the original pronto ing our national life' very far from single illustration, he learnt the afty, for if they were all as active, get the oranges from remote prison life. country districts to the nearest ADVICE TO GAOL' GOVERNOR all often need injecting, Sulphonate old foundations in the
"In it he endeavoured to show mide P. is given by the mouth. ports it was necessary to. ise. handcurta of every description, how many of the little hard edges It is rapidly absorbed into the cir- which boys were apt to knock upculation and therefore acts quick- Mr. Gavin Turnbull Simons,mules and donkeys, KC., has been appointed to suc- Even slow, unreliable transport against on their first day in prisonly in any part of the body. The
of this kind was extremely expen-
could quite well be rubbed off few toric symptoms are unimpor- ceed Mr. Justice Eve, who is re-.
without impairing the discipline tant, and both children and elder- tiring after having been a judge į sive as the risks were considerable.
of the place.
ly people stand it well.. of the Chancery Division for 30 On account of the severe weather
roads in rural districts. adjoining that he was a boy of outstanding "His test results made it clear years.
Seville had become very treantellectual ability. He scored an cherous.
Mr. Simons, who 55 years of age and has been à 1.0. for twelve years, is said to have been making at least £15,000 a year at the Bar.
The usual shipment of oranges above the average for University intelligence test mark considerably from Malaga could not be made students.
INDIAN CONTINGENT
He will receive only. "25,000 because the Junta had blockaded "He would probably have made
The Indian Contingent for the year as a judge."
the harbour. Consequently many an excellent rating surveyor, Car-Coronation, six hundred British Mr. Simons has appeared in thousands of cases of fruit were pentry was recommended as a and Indian officers and men, will and was a lost. In addition, seamen on ships Borstal second-best. He did fairly arrive in England about May 3, member of the tribunal which in-entering Spanish porte asked for well at it but it was not surpris and will go into camp for three quired into the Budget leakage a 33-1/3 per cent increase in ing to And his instructor remark- weeks in the Home Park at Hamp
wages while in the danger zone. ing Routine palis"."
ton Court
"many famous casca
last year.
homes. He found less than 40 per
and strong enough, and whether could in schools and elsewhere for it was definite enough to
been very largely left ouside, and with what was called religious instruc- stand many of the currents of tion, bat the most potent and en-
to survey its organizations. He modern Mie; which, if they were during influence was the influence not be confined to ministers of also urged that criticism should not checked, seemed to be carry of the home. Yet, to take one religion, but should include the other day that at one of our as keen, as real and vital in their graatest public schools the head-professed religion as they ought master made a careful inquiry to be the Church would have a about the number of boys in the con
school who came from religions world than it had to-day. Every very different effect upon the
one, whatever his or her station. or occupation might ask himselr or herself the question how he or Indeed the voice of committees
more vital and more real. Untit was not apt to be very prophetic
INCREASING LAXITY
that was done there could be no -because it was personal Ee Thirdly, he would refer, again return to religion on the part of put it out simply as a represents as a symptom rather than a cause, the whole nation. If it was worth tive of national life in this country to the Increasing laxity in our with whatever authority his very moral standards. It used to be national life tied to its old an- ·
while to endeavour to keep our ancient office might command, said that whatever happened to chorage in the faith and fear of and he thought he was right. the doctrines of religion, the God, then each of them must as impressed by the attitude of the morality would survive. He doubt do his or her own bit to place At least he had been immensely elementary principles of Christian where and how he or she could Press throughout the country to ed whether they were surviving religion, in the heart and life of that appeal. Practically all the They were challenged in theory the people.
- DANGER OF DRIFT He was moved by those
he addressed siderations when that appeal. It was not in any sense official.' 'It was not on be- cent. of them came from homes half of any church. It was not in which there was any sort of issued by any committee and reminder of religion in the home she could make religion personally
life.
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