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BIG SMUGGLING CASE.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 11, 1922.
with the result that this WAL soland by the "revenus officers and carried away in the launch.
The summons now impending] is against Mesurs. Li Pak-cheur, |Pan Ching, Yu Fai-U and Kong Tak-fat, as partnere în the Hing Lee Steamship Company and owner of the Chongra. Mr. A.E. Hall, of Messrs. Lo, is retained for the defence. The steamter not being in port, the summons. when it was first presented to the sfagistrato this morning, was adjourned until Monday, by which time it is expected that the Chongys will have returned from a trip to Haiphong."
NEW LIFE OF LORD.
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Lady G. Cecil on her
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a shattering blow, writes Mr. R. A. Scott James, Lady Gwendolen Cecil aims at it in the very first) page of the Life of her father!! "Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury." Published by Hodder and Stoughton, Vols. I and II)
We seek in vain for an unbroken tradition of political talent, de scending from the grest Lord Barghley. Barghley's grandson.
Was notoriously lacking in abilitybe was Pepys's "My foolish Lord Salisbury "—and, during more than a century and a half, the general medio- crity of intelligence which the family displayed was only varied by instances of quite exceptional stupidity.
A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER. We cannot, therefore, feel any confidence that that streak of genius which was introduced into the family by the marriage of the seventh Earl with Lady Emily | Hill and of the second Marquis with Miss Frances Gascoyne, will necessarily be transmitted by divine right to all fature Cecils.
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We do not gather that there was any strong bond of sympathy res between the hero of this biograba Grey phy and either his father or bis elder brother. This collective family wisdom which Lady Gwendolen typifies in her own work cannot be distinctly traced further back than to the great Lord Salisbury himself.
Pre-eminently, Lady Gwendolen Cecil bas it. The two volumes before us are discretion itself. dignified by the accuracy of her research and lightened by her restrained humour and knowledge of persons.
She never thinks it necessary to praise ber father. But the care with which she has mastered the politics of each period of his life, the subtle sympathy which she bas set forth the situation just as he might have seen it, her understanding of his kind of Conservatism, is, [from first to last, praise of the most finished order. We are inclined to wonder it Lord Salisbury WAJ ever wrong.
What promises to be an in- teresting case is due to be heard Negotiations between Sir Ellis
on Monday next when the pro- Kadoorie and the Government in prietors of the Chinese steamer
PATTERN CONSERVATIVE, connection with the scheme to Chongra will undergo a Magis-
terial examination is connection: make a sports ground, run on
It is a tradition in this country internations! lines Little with a summons preferred against
at
to admire political consistency, Aberdeen, bave so far not proved them by the Revenue Department very successfol. The present for allowing beir vessel to be used and Lord Salisbury perhaps above all statesman satisfied this ideal. terms on which the Government for the smuggling of a large is the nine-teenth century
of opium into the are prepared to allow the project quantity
Conservative par excellence.. to go forward are not acceptable
Although the name of the It was he who said again and Telegraph reporter was informed this morcing, but negotiations are steamer was omitted from the again, "All change to be whole- still proceeding.
December last, the facts are said some must be gradual," "I do not to be as follow-Information like policy which produces & was received by the Revenue De-transformation scene once every partment from their agents in two or three years."
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The scheme was first made public in the columns of this paper about a month ago. The land Sir Ellis bas in view, a big piece of open ground just past Aberdeen, would make AD admirable site for such
& purpose, it is thought. If the scheme comes to anything it will
be a big ape, involving something
Colony.
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peacefalidyllic Germany needs to be protected against her formidable and turbulent neigh-|
Haiphong apprising them of the He was a life-long champion of departure of the Chongya from the Establishment of the Church out was personal, not political. that port with 10,000 taels of raw and the power of the House of And Disraeli, receiving his sc- opium. Plans were then laid for Lords, but in the one case, as in ceptance, did not besitate to over- the seizure of this contraband on the other, he wanted an efficient come the Queen's objection, to the arrival of the Chongra here, and revitalised Church and at Ritualists by declaring, "Oh, no! "The time must come," he; The launch, which it is alleged, efficient and more representative Lord Salisbury is not a High Bays, "when their ambitious. was to have met the steamer before House of Lords.
Onarchman-he {# A sound dreams will cross the path of
politics.
bour.
in the neighbourhood of a million she entered the harbour, was seiz- It would be difficult to find two Uhurchman-the Doan assures some Power strong enough to dollars, which will be borne by a ed and the crew detained. C.P. O. men working together in harness | me of that.”
resent them; and that day will be number of Chinese who are Watt, who was detailed off for the more widely removed in taste, SAW THROUGH PRUSSIA. to France the day of restitution interested in the project.
case, want to meet the Chongve sympathies, or political character But, after all, it was not in and revenge." And, he adds, at 2 aim. on the 26th. instant. then Lord Salisbury and Disrael Negotiations have taken place She was then lying at anchor in-Disraeli adaptable, opportunist, foreign affairs, that Lord Salis- Peace should be to make futors ecclesiastical matters, but in the first object of a Trosty of between the promotors of the the channel between Cheung-cban a poseur, a cynic in the profound scheme and the Government forand Lamms Islande, and," as est sense of the term; the other Dury wes to make his mark lower improbable." some time but up to the present precautions had been well taken stiff, uncompromising in
It is strange that the attitude his it has presumably not been
No statesman so quickly or so which he adopted towards Ru report we first gave on the 17th. allegiance to fixed principles, and porsible to arrive at terms suitable to both parties.
even to the extent of extinguish-utterly opposed to the demagog prophetically saw through the is should have had the effect of ing every light on. the launch, the ism of the young Tories.
pretensions of Prussia and her bolstering up the Turks in Europe smugglers, who doubtless mistook On the Reform Bill with which danger to the pretensions of & för snother generation, though he the launch for the one belonging Dizzy "disbed the Whigs," the to their sosdjutors ashore, were two men inevitably parted. surprised. They had no time But in 1874. Salisbury obaraC- to conceal the opium which they teristically decided to come into had already taken from its hiding his Cabinet, because the only place in preparation for landing, difference which could keep him
There are many pros and cons to the scheme, na dooot, but the greatest benefit to the Colony will be the opening up of that side of the Island, which will, of course, follow if the project does not fall through.
Pacific Germanya diplo-himself was under no illusion as to the quality of Turkish rule. At matic commonplace, al
At the head of 600,000 men, one time he had boldly advocated under the walla of beleaguered the partition of Turkey. the courage to pretend that no further than 1889, Paris, Count Bismarck his The first two volumes carrý us
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