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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Meeting To morrow.
A meeting of the Legislative Counail will be held to-morrow ((Toursday) at 2 80 p.m.
Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock .. will ask ibo following questions: With reference to the Jettar from **Brown Sugar," headed. "Gor- senment Officers' Quarters,'' in the South China Morning Post at Fri- day, 18th November, in which it în stated that Government Officers, ocoupring Government Quarters a25, savázal of them, sub-lasting part of their Quarters to relatives and friends, for personal proât, will the Government alale :
1. How many instances of such sub-letting exist and in respect of what Government Quarters?
2. In such sub-latting permitted [by the Government or not? If so bat conditions or regulations Govern such permission "
3. Will the Government lay upho the table a copy of such conditions † or regulations?
The Eon, Attorney General, will move the following first readings:
Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend further the Renta Ordinance, 1921.
Bill intituled An Ordinance to regulsia the imposition of the penalty of stocks.
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Warrior in Westminster Abbey. One cannot enter here and not That the United States should feel an overpowering emotion in confer on an Unknown British | recalling the important events in Warrior the highest military the bistory of Great Britain that honour that can be bestowed by have shaped the progress of the its Government-that jealously nations. Distinguished men and guarded and rarely granted Medal women are bere enshrined who, of Honour, which can only be through the centuries, have usef WOD at the risk of life, above fishly given their services and and beyond the call of duty" their lives to make that record that Congress should pass glorious. As they pass in memo- A Peking telegram to the Asahi special Act enabling this honoury before us there is none whose saya that the Takabashi Cabinet to be paid to
are one who was deeds is regarded in Peking as a con-not B citizen of the United aone whose devotion inspires tinuation of the Hara Cabinet, [States: that by the request our admiration more. than this and it is generally beli that no and in the presence of the Ameri- Unknown Warrior. He will al change will be made in the can Ambassador the m dalshcold ways remain the symbol of the China policy of the Japanese be laid upon the tomb by the tram ndous sacrifice by his Government. In connection with hand of the great soldier who is people in the world's greatest con- the appointment of Viscount now the successor of Washington. flic. It was he who, without Takahashi, his advocacy of a Grant, Sherman, and Sheridas hesitation, bared his breast against Sino-Japanese economic alliance, as General of the Armies of the tyranny and injustice. It was be which was made public same United States, and that the who suEered in the dark days of months ago, is recalled by many ceremony should take place while misfortune and disaster, but al Chinese publicists, and in rome the eyes of all the world are ways with admirable loyalty and quarters apprehension is en-turned to the caming Congress fortitude. Gathering new strength tertained that the new Premier at Washington-here is great from the very force of his deter- may fram:8 some positive matter for pride and hope, says the mination, he felt the flush of policy for the realisation of this Times; and it seemed to be by success without unseemly arrog- scheme.
something more than accident of ance. la the moment of his One of the Chinese papers, in the working of unalterable lawvictory, alas! we saw him fall in commenting on the formation of that, jast at the beginning of the making the supreme gift to
Cabinet by Viscount Takabashi. ceremony, the sun should stream humanity. His
ever the says that although Mr. Hars was dowa, in its natural gold, through courage of right, the confidence: not a militarist himself, be had a window not yet painted, upon of justice. Mankind will con. the military behind bim, the Union Jack that was spread linue to share his triomph, and and the new Takahashi at the foot of the Unknown with the pssring years will come Cabinet may be regarded in Warrior's grave.
to strew fresh laurels over his the same light as the Hara Minis-i With the Union Jack at its foot | grave. As we solemnly gatheri try, and called a militarist Ca-and the wreaths bestowed about about this sepulchre, the hearts biset. The policy pursued by the its edge, the stone that temporari-of the American people join in Hara Cabinet towards China hadly covers the Unknown Warrior's this tribute to their English- for its prime object economic grave near the west end of the speaking kinsman. Let us profit aggression on Chins, as was ev. Abbey was bare, save for a little by the occasion, and under its idenced by its dealings with the case full of rosaries and sacred inspiration pledge anew our trust Chinese Government of the emblems that lies at its bead. in the God of our fathers, that Shantung and Fokien ques-The space about it was shot off He may guide and direct our fal- tions, the Nikolaevsk affair, the from the rest of the Nare by a lering footsteps into paths of per- salt fields in Tsingtan, and the barrier, through which passed panent peace. Let us resolve. gold standard at Dairen. This only those who had been specially together, in friendship and in con- policy will be adhered to by the invited to seats of honour round fidence, to maintain toward all Takahashi Cabinet.
the grave.
peoples that Christian spirit that Some time ago, recalls the The Nave was packed with underlies the character of both Chinese journal. Viscount Taka-people facing north and south, nations. hashi urged the necessity of an and lined with soldiers and And now, in this holy saoctu- economic alliance being conclud-sailors of the United States Army ary, in the name of the President ed between Japan and China, and and Navy, among them some of and the people of the United this idea may also be taken as General Pershing's picked bat- States, I place upon his tomb the anotber indication of Japan's talion, strapping fellows in khaki Medal of Honour conferred upon economic penetration of China. or blue, who seemed to have all bim by special Act of the Ameri- It is fair to assume, the paper the smartness and the immobility can Congres, in commemoration concludes, that the change in the to which we are accustomed in of the sacrifices of our British. Premiership will bring about no British troops on such occasions. comrade and bis fellow-country. change in Japan's China policy, Very soon after half-past 11 men, and as a slight loken of our which is manife tly aggressive. those near the grave could bear gratitude and affection toward
A Makden dispatch to the Asahi | from the far end of the Abbey the this people. says, on the other hand, that the voices of the choir singing On the conclusion of his speech appointment of Viscount Taka. the processional hymn, "The the Congressional Medal of hasbiasPremieris received favour- Supreme Sacrifice." of which Honour was handed by Admiral ably in Chinese official circles in the
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Mr. Niblack to General Pershing; that city. It is anticipated that John S. Arkwright. As the pro-who, stooping down, laid it on the China policy of the Japanese cession passed through the the grave, above the breast of Government will witness a change barrier to the graveside, behind the unknown hero beneath. favourable to China under a Pre- the Dear came the American Shining_thers, with its long mier who once advocated the Ambassador. General Pershing, ribbon of watered blue silk, it Isy, official of the American Enbass mamorial, ani the silence was abrogation of the Twenty-one Admirals Niblack and Twising, symbol of the past, a pledge was standing by holding a large maintained while the Generat Demands, & Sino-Japanese econ- and Major Oscar N. Solbert, for the future. General Pershing wreath of laurels, paims, ani steppal back and tool for a omic alliance, and other schemes Military Attache of the American stood at the salute to his fallen bays tied with the American momeat with his hast boat in colours. Every man in the crowd front of the wreath Attapasd to which are advantageous to China Embassy; then Mr. Lloyd George comrade.
(attended by: Lieutenant-Colonel At the Cenotaph the crowds was bareheadel and as General the wreath way a card with the Sir E. W. M. Grigg), Lord Lee of ware thicker than ever. General Pershing received the wreath following inscription:
too removed his
Lsid by Geral Pershing Fareham, First Lord of the Pershing's carriage halted at the he
the North with loving sympsily ani in Admiralty, Sir L Worthington West face, and as he slighted he and walked to Evans, Secretary of State for was received by Field-Marshal front of the Cenotaph. There, in glorious memory of his B-LRT War, and Captain F. E Guest, Sir Henry Wilson and General perfect silence, he reverently laid comreios who fell daring the
Great War. Secretary of Bisis for Air. Rising Sir George Macdonogh, An the wreath at the base of the
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