GENERAL NEWS.
RADICALS JEER A FIELD
MARSHAL.
Astounding Incident in the House.
THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPJ, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, -: 1914.
House, they preferred to remain ia (the background, striving for means to avert the inevitable blow of finding they are without a majority in the country:
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Ward of the Swelled Hend.
"Singapore Loan Oversubscribed. According to a London wire of April 6 which Reuter sent to Ranguon l'ko Singapore loan
The following is the Globe's. has been oversubscribed."
Nothing could be done until special representative's account five o'clock, at the conclusion of probability this refers to the of the proceedings in the House the ordinary business of the day.
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£300,000 sold in London on of Commons on March 27 when That was plain, although, as Mr.ROGATE, Austin Road, Kow-"
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behalf of the Municipality through the postponement of the Pre Messrs. Fraser and Co., of mior's statement was Singapore,
nounced :- The Under Secretary for India. The Cabinet is still sitting." Many and complicated are the That was an announcement that rales which govern Parliamentary fall on the House like an explosive. electione, and there are few men Nourly forty-eight hours since the
Ronald McNeill exclaimed with biting truth, there was no security would keep hie promise. that even then the Prime Minister All that the Radicala could do was to clamour for their rights to discuss a private Bill forth-with,
not working in the House who War Secretary did his retirement and when Mr. A. Chamberlain can oliam
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to be intimately somersault, and the Prime Minis sought to auggest a kind of modus seven rooms and drying room, O LET.-FOUR-ROOMED acquainted with the whole code ter did the disappearing vivendi, the Labour member, Mr.
of Parliamentary procedure Why, for example, has the new Under Secretary for India not got to face a by-election? The "answer is that the Under-Secre- taryship for Indin to which. Mr
guarantee trick, yet" the Cabinet is still sitting."
Ward, the new darling of the National Liberal Club smoking. room, interrupted, as he always
son who could be spared to make does.
Irony of ironies, the only per this
announcement of such His new-found popularity has momentous significance was the swelled Charles Roberts has been appale-faced and bearded Mr. enveloped in a huge sombrero of his head, already pointed carries & saliry of £1,500, Galland, the "hero" of Wick grey felt. Now be was told to B year hat it is not technically one of the several members of the put his face in his bat," and 'ollica of profit under the Government who have stond in ameone offered to perform the Grown." The fiction which the white sheet before the operation for him. makes this possible is that the office is held not under the Crown
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The Piping Mr. Barnes. Rending from a paper, for fear but under the Secretary of State wards or memory should fail him, and tempere were not improved All was excitement and uproar, for the Department concerned. the Whip was asked to say the when the sycophant leader of A full blown Secretary of State Cabinet is afill sitting."
the Labour party, the ally of the does hold an "office of profit
At once there were wild and Chancellor of the Exchequer, got under the Crown; bis. Under whirring cries of derision from up to declare that he had no Secretary, with
a four-figure the Opposition. For a space objection" to son thing or other. TO LET-Two room Flats in salary, doce not-delightful die the Government men sat eilent, This assumption of authority tinction without a difference for dumbfounded, and then, in sheer was laughed to soorn mingled with opeans, in good airy locality. which we have to thank a venera desperation, they sent back an cries of " Order for the new Prima All Modern Conveniences. Terms O LET.--From April 1st. The First Floor of No. 25, Dos Minister." Mr. Ward has been Moderate. Apply H. BUTTON-
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CYCLE Co. toned of revolutionaries, piped out challenge to adjourn the House
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Sinister Meaning. It was a moment of such tense The United States cruisery drama ne even these weeks of ex- Detroit, which took an active part citement and alarums could not in the war with Spain, is coming equal. The rolling was familiar. a
E.", No. 74, Mount Kellett to a promic end. A short time but tho circumstances gave to it of Commons" until each time GB MODY, No 5, Queen's Road Road. Apply CHATER & ago she was struck out of the alla sinister meaning, a meaning we know what the Carragh Parlis-Central. navy list and was sold. She has which carried a new peril in an ment is going to do." now been converted into a tank incident to which I shall refer barge for the transport of cargoes
later. of molasses from Havaun to New Orleans.
Dr. Jowett.
The Rev. Dr. Jowett, minister of Fifth Avenue. Presbyterian Church, New York, and formerly
I have said the circumstances were familiar; a crowded assemb picked galleries, the peers ia full force, and over it all the gloomy light of the Chambar or
Ultimately the House passed to
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a. dull tay; a murkiness which caddishness that, for decency's
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Radical rank and file has reached Chapel, Islington. Dr. Jowett, it is stated, is the bighost paid full force, Mr. Bonar Law was and Mr. Churchill.
The Opposition leaders were in under the tutelage of Mr. George pastor in the world, bis salary between Mr. Chamberlain and Mr
Ae the House emptied the being £3,000 por anum. proposes to sail for the Holy with army folded, aat watching visitors (guests as it were) to the Ling; the Dictator, Mr. Redmond noble Lords in the Peers' Gallery, Land, with his wife and family, from his cerie on the bench House of Commons, also proceed- some time during April..
behind, It was noticed that need to leave the Chamber, Among Pedal Ricksha.
Cabinet Minister was present, them was a gallant Field-Marshal, and the natural assumption was victor of many notable compaigns that they would appear, so soon as Attention was called to his pre- sonce, and nearly the whole of the Ministerialists below the Radicals aud Labour gangway,
The nine days' wodder of Singapore streets at the moment is the pedal ricksha, or, more properly, bath-chair which has to all appearancee earned some popu-
business commenced.
On
Fecthing Excitement. There was the promise to the larity amongst native patrons. flonse, broken so far as concerned men alike, half rose in their seats, We may be wrong, but we fancy that after the novelty bas 11 o'clock last night, and renewed aad, pointing fingers at the Poers' worn off the Malay pedaller will for noon to-day, that the Prime Gallery cheered in vociferous find the job for too"susah" to bia Minister would make a statement derision. liking, especially where obese gir. J. French and Sir J. Ewart. their exit to look down on the the reported resignations of Naturally the peers paused in passengers are concerned. How-
With this in mind the Speaker Fouse and ascertain the reason, over, the promoters seem to have called upon the Leader of the for this new and sudden outburst, Opposition to put the question They hardly seemed to realise which would extract the statement that they were the objects of this Mr. Bonar Law, however, gave caddish display, and even the way to Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, painting fingers seemed to leave the original questioner of the them in doubt. previous afternoon. The gallant Feeling has often run high in officer repasted his query,
had sufficient faith in the venture
to sink a considerable sum. in expensive machines and their
enterprise deserves success.— Straits Times.
Mosquito Nets. The Government of India were recently taken to task by the Lancet for ite "obscurantist
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the House of Commons, and those
It was then we had the astound-who have watched the proceedings and short-sighted attitude" in noting announcement of the "hero have frequently been the subject supplying mosquito nets tool Wick. At once the obamber of debate. But never before have British soldiers, A doctor in the was in an uproar. So unexampled I seen a deliberate demonstration Panjab now defends the Govern a case of trifling with the House
such as that which, brief though ment. "Taking iato considers-led to seething excitement. Bat it was and unseen by many me- tion the doubtfal success of such the forms of order, as it turned out,mbers of the Opposition, who an experiment as the wholesale were against the Opposition. I had already left the House, provision of mosquito nets for the was a private membera' day, and troops, owing to the personal thero were no means available for factor, I do not consider writes at once directing attention to the this doctor, the Indian Govern- conduct of the Ministry, unless ment would be justified in ander- the initative for debate ovine from taking the hage ontlay and the Government. recurring charge involved. The cost of each mosquito curtain is about half a guinea and its life denied. The Wick "here" sat
The White Wick "Hero. " Need I say that initiative was
in the barrack room at the mosi white and perturbed, a few minor Ministers were huddled near Lim one season. Fortunately, a pos
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Mr. Asquith said that Sir John French was present when the Order was made, and that the decision of the Army Council war unanimous.
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The Premier's Statement, Mr. Asquith's eagerly awaite] and twice postponed statement was made at last in the House of Commons on March 28, and proved as surprising as the many unexpected events which preced-st, Quran's ed it.
Despite the prolonged confer- ences which have been continued sible remedy is coming more and the storm raged, demands were for two days, the Prime Minister more within the beacds of practi- made, points of order pat. Mr. could make no definite announce- cal application. I refer to the Speaker could offer po satisfaction ment. He could only repeat what aubatitation of large electrio fans to the Opposition. The "hero" everyone alre ly khow-that Sir J. French and Sir J. 8. Ewart for the present unsatisfactor of Wick was damb.
Only the Government," said had resigned because of the torn puakhas; those will not only co the air but also keep away allyar. Speaker," can move the contract, and that he had asked mosquitoes by their draught, and adjournment of the House on them to withdraw their resigna- when introduced into barrack Friday in order to secure an imtions and add that he was still
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Mr Bonar Law Lowed to the awaiting a final reply. est problems in the prevention of malaria."
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