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VICTOR RECORDS
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.
THE RECENT FRENCH MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1921.
statemen, in which ouse a clash now extended, to Germany, al- between him and the President, is though even in that country it is almost inevitable.
not quite now for the Stinnes For this reason, the present interests were following this fine Causes of M. Leyguea's Fall. Cabinet crisis is no doubt graver bofors the war.
than usual, and will be followed For some time to come, the The greatest possible mistake with a keen interest by all greater proportion of German that could be done abroad would students of constitutional prac-importe and exports will continue be to ascribe the defest of the tice. It is only after some time to be carried in foreign tonnage, Laygues Cabinet to one political bas elapsed that it will be possible The big liner companies of tho cause rather than another writes to state whether M. Millorand world have established them- Just snap your fingers at care-Darling-Foxtrot
M. Philippe Millet, the usually baa managed to find a way out of selves in German ports, and are Paul Whitman & His Orch' woll-informed Paris correspond the dilemma. In the meantime, now handling most of the increas
ent of the Observer. True enough, there is one bright side to the ing volume of traffic. But it is! will be permanent. German ship- Caresses Medicy Fox Trot Paul Whitman & His Orch it was on question of foreign situation, which ought to be duly rot to be anticipated that this policy that the decisive vote was noticed. takon. To had been known for
ping interests are quite determined Tip Top-Medley Fox Trot-Saxophones-
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My Isle of Golden Dreams-Waltz-
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Dotty Dimples-One Step
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FOREIGN POLICY.
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weeks that the Chamber intended Owing to the part played by to re-establish their shipping, and Six Brown Brothers to make a demonstration in order the President in the conduct of it has to be remembered that they more energetic foreign affairs, it is unlikely that have behind them in this the defenso of French rights. the foreign policy of France will whole of the commercial com- Six Brown Brothers What the demonstration exactly he in the least affected by the pre-munity, and what is more im- meant is, however, difficult to see, sont ministerial change. Just to portant, the active co-operation of the apéditeur system. If and it would bo noro than take the most typical and most Smith's Orchestra arbitrary to deduce from it tha important of instances, not one British and foreign companies Parliament wants the Govern-step has been taken by the French are to retain eventually an im- Central Smith's Orchestra regards either German disarma- without the full and deliberate European business, it will be by
meat to change its policy as Government aa rogarde reparation portant slice of the
or reparation, or approval of the President. Thus developing the new nationalities Groces or Cilicia. Ths only clear it was M. Millerand who first which have been established in fact is that the Chamber thought sanctioned the instruction given Europe, and thus feeding their the Leygues Cabinet had not a to the French experts on the eve own toarage wi h cargo. sufficient authority to represent of the Bruxelles Conference. The the country at the impending very first man to whom the pro- visional report of M. Delacroix The Cabinet was doomed for was submitted after the Con- reasons as well. M. ference adjourned was again M. Francois-Marsel, the Minister of Millerand. The characteristic Finance, whom M. Leygues had move by which Frango made All Star Trio inherited from M. Millerand, was it known that sho
not thought a success. Ho bad willing to receive reparation in Mr. Robert Nichols, the poet hean criticised by many for kind, and to make the reconstruc- and critic, who has been appoint- having fixed too high a rate of tion of her invaded districte ed to the chair of English litera- interest at the last French loan dependent upon the industrial ture at the Imperial College, and for having advocated a development of Germany, was Tokyo, first occupied by the system of taxes on business made under the direct inspiration late Lafcadio Hearn, was inter- transactions which, as soon as of the French President. Unless, viewed just before his departure business began to decline, was therefore, M. Millerand should from London. bound to prove disappointing change his mind on sa momentous
"It is very enterprising of the Other mombers of the Cabinet a subject-a thing most unlikely Japanese Government," said Mr. were not much more popular.there is not the slightest doubt Nichols, "because theirs is almost Perhaps the greatestgrievance the that M. Leygues' successor will the first University in the world) bloc national had been nursing have to carrry out the sario re-to invite anyone to go to touch against the Minitster of the In-paration policy.
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KOOK terior, M. Steeg, came from the The same considerations apply, philologist nor a historian. I am fact that he was supposed-quite of course, to the rest of the pro-going simply as a working artist wrongly, by the way to be too blems concerning the foreign and critic. They have sent, not tonderhearted for the Caillautists policy of the country. For this for a man of purely scholastic and other active radical groups, reason, however regrettable the attainments, but for a creator. which are just holding meetinge present crisis may be, more "I am going to Japan as much in the provinces, and trying to specially at a critical time like to learn as to teach. I am not creato a movement against the this, we may afford to wait with going to try to teach so much the present majority. Although the calm for the impending develop-history of English literature or last elections to the Sonate didments.
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not disclose that these campaigus had had hitherto the least effect, there is a distinct uneasiness among many new members of thei Chamber who realise that their re-election is becoming doubtful. M, MILLERAND'S POSITION. But all those are second
GERMAN SHIPPING.
philology, of which I bave real y only a passing acquaintance, as the spirit which has given Enog- and the finest body of poetry possessed by any nation in the world.
Re-Opening Their World
"Nor am I going in a spirit of Services.
Jingoiam to spread ideas about Since the war, in spite of the English literature, I am going
idea to give my rate factors. In order really to handicaps caused by the imple-to try
al literature hos understand the present situation menting of the shipping clauses what English in France, one has to go to the of the Treaty of Versailes, the brought to mankind, not what it ront of the crisis, which is no German companies have made has brought to the English nation | doubt to be found in the now considerable steps towards re-alone. In talking about Shakes. interpretation given to the Con- opening the network of services poare, for example, I stilution since the election of M. which they operated before the rather stress the humanity of Millerand to the Presidency of war to all parts of the world, Falstaff than the megalomania the Republic.
writes a shipping correspondent of Henry V., because my idea is Perhaps it has not been in the Observer. Their mercantile that nations ero only great in so sufficiently realised abroad that marine was reduced nominally to far as they have deepened man M. Millerand had inaugurated 500,000 tons, but actually not that new interpretation, not only more than 125,000 tons
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the rights of the individual must- be subservient to the rights of the whole,
in worde, but in facts. He had suitable for ocean work, To help! much greater man than made it known, before accepting out arrangements were made for Napolon, and the candidature, that in his partnership with American com- Bismarck. opinion the President of the punies, the most notable of these DANGERS OF KNOWLEDGE. Republie hould ensure the agreements being those between "The progress of nations, I continuity in the conduct of the Hamburg-America Line and consider, is to be measured in the foreign affairs. In other words, the Harriman group, and between same way as the life of in- the supreme control of foreign the Norddeutscher-Lloyd, of dividuals, not according to the affairs was to pass from the Quai-Bremou, and the Mayer group, old Christian or Mohammedan d'Orsay to the Elysee. Thia was founders of the U.S. Mail Steam- idea of so much virtue or so much carried out almost to the letter.ship Company.
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“THE WAR TO END WAR” In spite of the gossip_concorning| So far as can be saon at presont last Judgment with a definite differences betweon M. Laygues these arrangements are working heaven or hell, but under the
"The great function that art and the President, it may be out satisfactorily. A fair number aspect, which incidentally has and science exercise, though not asserted with certainty that not of German overseas services appealed Goethe and to Mozart, originally theirs, is to give to man "In Japan, I understand, the one important decision has been have been restarted, notably to of a series of initiations. This a sense of his isolation and the word 'I'does not exist. It is to arrived at on foreign affairs since South America, the Mediterrane- idea was expressed by Mozart in need for solidarity. In common learn more for myself how little September last that had not been an and Levant, and to Africa, The Magic Flute, and by Goethe with a great many other English this word I should exist, and submitted beforehand to the
but more than half the tonnage, in the second part of Faust.' youths I entered the war hoping how much the word 'we' counts than once euch decisions were Scandinavian owners. The remark about the progress of the I am now in process of discover work which at best must indeed taken in the morning at the increased cost of operation have individual or the nation that has ing that it is not so much the be difficult, and at worst may cost Elysee, the Prime Minister hav-led to considerable increases in ever been made. These four lines jugglinge of politicians, the greed me more than I think." ing come there with soone of the the capital of many of the com-were translated by Charles Borley, of individuals, or the short-sighte- high officials of the Quai-d'Orsay,panies, the latéat increase, that who was killed in the war: A distinguished diplomatist Mof the H.A.L. to Kmk, 100,000,000 | Vignon, was daily engaged ja being particularly noteworthy. doing liaison work between the In part, no doubt, these increases President, to whom he is attached, are caused by the desire to and the Minister for Foreign restrict tho
possibilities of Affairs.
financial control passing THE DILEMMA.
foreign interests, for it ie notor-i Now, though one may hope ious that the low value of the that the difficulties of such a murk has led to large purchass syetem may ultimately be over-by foreigners of German shipping come by so cautious a statesman securities.
President for approval, More employed is chartered from Goathe, indeed, made the finest that it would be a war to end war. that I am taking on a piece of
to
Yoa, in this thought lies my
whole life's persistence. This is the sun, the total of the
true:
He only earns his freedom,
owns existence,
A RELIGIOUS DRAMA,
ness of specific races that permits Mr. Nichols has recently com
a religious drama, in the rocrudescence of war, as the plated lack of any sense of soidarity which he has attempted to dia- among humankind-the lack of a play the direct antithesis of
ense that we are, as it were spiritual and material life.
"I had hoped," he said, "to obscure vermin inhabiting a third- class planet,
see this drama performed before "The alternative lies before us, I go, but the necessities of life to realise this, and work together, must always tako precedence of "It seems to me," Mr. Nichols or to perish by the very knowledge those of art. I trust that it will continued," that western civilisa that was originally gained for the be performed whilst I am away. tion has reached a certain stage help of human kind by the only For myself, it is enough that ( real trade have had the opportunity to
Who every day must conqueri
her anew!
a M. Millerand, it is only too In shipbuilding, the total of of initiation in modern scientific unacknowledged obvious that this is a most delicate tonnage launched has not been knowledge. It has learned quite unions in existence, those of write it.". constitutional innovation. It can large. This was due to the how dangerous knowledge can be. artists and scientists, who make only be attended with success if amount of completion and repair The next stage is to learn to cure their knowledge the property of the Prime Minister, instead of be- work in hand, and to the difficulty itself of the danger that arises the world in return for the bare MRS. BESANT'S 'OPPOSITION
NON-CO-OPERATION, tug a statesman of the first rank, which prevailed in the first six from soientific knowledge mis- necessities of life and whose
knowledge is turned by the blind Mrs. Besant, in the course of a is picked out among men of a months of the year in obtaining applied.. less considerable authority, and steel. Later, however, the The arts and sciences exist and the ignorant and the in-letter explaining her refusal to A few drops of this wonderful Essence sprinkled on the who are willing to submit to the difficulty was overcome by co- for the discovery of law in nature,different to the purpose, not "of pay her usual annual subscrip- tion to the Madras Provincial Handkerchief and inhaled, Cures, Colds, Banishes Headaches, President's leading. Such a Prime ordination of interest between but in the process of discovery creation but of destruction. Hay Fever, etc,
Minister is, however, bound to shipbuilders and steel makers. they serve another purpose not "If in imparting such know- Congress Commitee, says: "I sm VAPOLINE INHALANT possesses one unique feature on lack the necessary authority over The latter have carried out originally theirs they discover tedge as I have to the Japanese, a firm believer in the British. contact with the air it develops & gives off antiseptic Vapours the Chamber. Therefore it is not programme of amalgamation, the bonds between the different and if in. bringing back from connection and a strong opponent which gradually gain in strength, hence it is very economical in easy to escape from a dilemma. generally by acquisition of shares races of buman kind. In the Japan such knowledge as I shall of the non-oo-operation move- une. One application giving protection for a whole day. Either the Prime Minister is or exchange of shares, which spectacle of the abyss of pheno-have gained to the English, I shall ment. The Nagpur Congress han termed a seconded-class statou- ensures for the future an adequate mena, sach divisible into smaller succeed in making full use of the rejected its former ideals and PRICE: $1.00 & $1.75 per bottle.
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