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SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927.
TRADE UNIONS BILL.
in connexion with the Trade Unions Bill, which has passed its second reading in the House, of Commons, we notice by the latest newspapers arriving from Home that a great many of the leading Liberal statesmen of the country agreed that, although
there were
SATURDAY,
MAY 14. 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
his judgment the whole Bill is a most serious menace to industrial. peace, and the formal inclusion.
OF LIFE. BRINGS of employers organizations in WITH IT ITS LAMPS.-Joubert. Clause 1 would make little real difference to its character.
THE EVENING
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Mr. Eric William Hamilton has been appointed Deputy Clerk of Councils.
Lord Grey's admirable letter gees straight to the root of the matter. After the troubles of last
The P. and O. 8.8. "Khyber," year, there has been a reversion from Hongkong, arrived at Mar- to reason. "An extremist leader-sellles on Thursday, ship had been discredited. The advocacy of class war was flag- ging or falling in effect. Things that grow in an atmosphere of reason wore making progress.
Three cases of enteric fever, and one of cerebro-spinal fever, all Chinese, were reported yesterday
ON THE TRAIL TO SANTO TOMAS, Where Nature Unlocks The Soul.
One had lived amidst the evidjournment was made to Outlook ences of nature's dominance over Point for a view of the setting mankind, and even the shaping of sun.
his destiny, for very many years, Somebody who was there before without realising what it meant us, an American teacher on vaca- to be alone with soul unbared be- tion, had written in the visitors' fore the mighty powers of the book that he who had not seen Creator. That was the impres-the sunset or sunrise from Santo sion after a visit to Santo Tomas, Tomas, had not seon the Philip- And that was hardly ex- in the north of Luzon, where the pines.
The Bunsot wad traveller can halt in an infinite aggeration. The name of The Wa On Steam- peace, and feel himself perched at glorious. To ace the wonderful The policy of the Government will ship Company Limited, has been the very roof of the world. It is medley of colours, the glow of uplifting to anyone, it must be, reds, oranges, purples, and pinks struck off the Register.
and to those with that sensitive- and greys in turn, was to wonder check all this and will give an
aurroundings whether any artist born could' ness to natural Impulse to things such as class It is Gazetted that I.E. the which exists among some of us, catch the ever-olianging tones in war, which thrive in an atmos-Governor in Council has proclaim-there is a likelihood of awe, and time to make of them a record for phere of passion..... The policyed that Haiphong is a place at primitive fear, at the vastness of posterity. It was a sunset that one This amere never expects to see the like of of the Government has turned och anfectious or contagious the prospect.
Tengils.
twenty-four hours on the top of again, unless it be from the same ponents into allies of extremist
an almost isolated summit over spot. My companion was silent 8,000 feet high, gives to the con- for many minutes, and later he the back of a Literary Digest stant dweller in commonplace en-scribled the following verse on
The trail to Santo Tomas may that someone had left behind, virons, be tackled in various ways. Wo set out on foot; but half the jour- ney from Bagato can be done by though diminutive Philippines car, and there is also the hardy, pony available for those who do not mind risking a sudden des- cent over a precipice. It seemed a shame, at least, to place one's astride an animal eloven stone weighing hardly more itself, and after all what better way to see the panorama of the creation than by a leisured journey on one's own legs?
The rules relating to liquor licences in the New Territorica (except New Kowloon), made by the Governor in Douncil in March last have been amended.
and the more severe the struggle An Chinese employed at over the Trade Unions Bill the a godown in Connaught Road, more difficult it will be for the West, while talking to a friend yesterday, suddenly collapsed and moderates to disentangle, them-dled. selves again from the extremists. It can hardly be denied that these aro the consequences of the Trade Unions Bill." On the other hand, Lord Grey asks what is going to be gained by the, Bill? "High
The weather forecast issued by authorities declare that a general the Royal Observatory for the strike is already illegal. The period ending at noon to-morrow, Bill will confirm that, but a gen-is: Light, variable winds; fair
generally. eral strike is an attempt to over- ride law," and "direct action to
It is notified in the Gazette that, coerce the community can be met at the expiration of three months, only by direct action on the part The Tal Q Kalfong Fook On Ferry Company, Limited, will, unless of the community. If these cause is shewn to the contrary, be views are well founded," concludes atruck off the register and the com- Lord Grey, there will soon be a pany will be dissolved. A similar notification appears respecting general recognition that the intro-the Pandora, Limited. duetion of this Trade Unions Bill
It is reported in the vernacular has been a huge mistake. It is
press that there is a shortage of not easy to see how the Govern-engineers and locomotives on the ment and the country can get out of the mess unless it be by the troublesome, method of a General Election, but the first step is to recognize definitely that the mis-so. take has been made, how great is
The vernacular papers, report the magnitude of it, and how disas-that a Chinese girl was detained trous the consequences may be." Lord Grey has rondered & great public service by this plain speak ing.
The London Rald.
a brief comment on the affair.
Chinese section of the Cantor- Kowloon railway, which neces- sitates the cessation of the ex- press service. It is hoped matters will be normal in ten days for
But the last seven kilometres of the fifteen are steep, and there are bellows to mend at intervals if the pace be pushed to extremes, Four hours is a good averige for the trip by walking, though it is best to allow five, and not be out of breath unduly.
Yet who can deny that, once the goal is attained, it has been well worth the most strenuous effort?
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On the way up, passing through the pine forests, there is the most delightful odour of freshness in the atmosphere, the zest of health giving exercise in a region free from the contaminations of civili- sation's appanages, such as smoke and automobile-raised dust and fumes, which are all too apparent in Baguio, lower down. The vis
at the Kowloon railway station tas of scenery are superb, and it with a Chinese whom the Police is a task to tear oneself away to marriage. Questioned by the poem in hill and dale, maybe believed to have forced the girl from some special prospect Secretary for Chinese Affairs, when time presses, and the hour she denied coercion, and the man of dusk is approaching... was released.
Alone, on Santo Tomas, peace
comes flowing
Like balm to fill my soul with
ense anew,
Yet, breeze from out the
ocean softly blowing, And red sun slowly sinking '
from my view-
Why must they set old mem-
orics aglowing? Why do they turn my thoughts.
again to you?
So over the meal of fried chick- on, country-grown potatoes, and a custard pudding that the FIII- pino woman resthouse-keeper had prepared, we decided that the visit had been amply repaid already,
But what would they know of
At five, we had been told, in the sunsets who only sunsets know? bitterly cold, morning wind, was the time to get up and see the sunrise. We were up to cockerów shortly before that, and clamber- ed to the outlook, where black- birds were already astir turning over the leaves on the path for The snails lurking beneath. faint glimmer of the false dawn was just sufficient to show that wild rhododendrons, with small. red blooms, were growing in abun dance here, and, with masses-of- fern and various shrubs, appeared to form the very base of the limit. ed plece of ground on which we stood.
As the sun actually rose, there came to view more and more of the surrounding landscape, and presently one of the wonders of the world was revealed.
Mostly one is alone, but there is sure to be an occasional meet
'It seems 50 prosaic to write There are
In the programmes of the Star ing with some of the primitive many points of similarity in the raid at London on Theatre for Saturday and Sunday people of these hills, the Igorots, about the experience afterwards, Soviet offices and the action taken at 9.30 p.m. only, the "Desert clad still in the aboriginal cos- for It was an hour when one ne- obvious anomalies at Peking and Shanghai recently. Rats," Club and Radio Entertain- tume of extreme simplicity. There tually stood alone with the Crea- in the law relating to trade In the London raid, however, there ers, will give a short performance, is usually a smile or even a cheerytor, and nature must have unlock-
has been no violation of diplomatic dies.
featuring old time songs and mele greeting in English or Spanish ed one's soul.
For a space, there was a feeling Mr. R. C.. Garstang, bari- from those of the men who have union and strikes, the Cou-premises, ua was possibly the case to Mr. T. Boitie, tenor and Mr. been in contact with the advanced of real physical awe on looking present to the vault of heaven above, just servative Government made a at Peking, and great care was even B. W. Roble, piano accompanist, semi-civilisation of the
regime, which sends them to tinged with pink umid the pure, de taken that no interference occur- tactical
when it error
school, and teaches them the cold blue, in which was never a red in the rooms reserved for the aro the artists. elded to bring in a Bill to
The golden sunrays to trade delegation, which are held to
The Standard Oil Company have Charleston if they desire it; but cloud. remedy the position. We have, enjoy diplomatic immunity. So in previons corment, in this co-fur, it is not known whether any performed a useful service in dia- the women for the most part are the east, peeping over a mountain thing sensational has been distributing copies of the China Sons silent, with a becoming modesty, range at a lower elevation, threw of the into a greater shadow. One ac- lumn, shared the view that it was covered among the documents and Storm Signal Code, including the or even so shy as to cover their the China Sea on the other side tually stood, nearly five times the a mistake for the Government to other papers and records seized, local typhoon code, taken from the faces un "the approach
convenient introduce the measure, although but no doubt there will be much of Gazette. With the booklet is a stranger.
And if these hill folk tell of the height of the Peak at Hongkong, interest disclosed in due course handy map with a we recognise that the law needs Scotland Yard must have acted on Parchment indicator, movable to distance. from the city life that at the very summit of the sur the rounding territory, and it might clarifying. With regard to the very good grounds, and the fact of show probable wind direction one has grown to dislike,
wilder life of animal, bird, insect, have been that one stood on the very roof of the world, so ab and plant brings closer that sense actual provisions of the Bill it an attempt being made to burn from any typhoon,
certain papers is, sufficient in it- would appear that there is much self to indicate that there was While standing on the water of the all-pervading natural law, solutoly detached was the subsa- woighty opinion in favour of the something to hide. Until further front outside the Harbour Office, where man has but a small say, tion that persisted. It was a time cesses of thought-and happy he view that some of those provisions news comes through, and indeeda Chinese carpenter living at the and existence goes on as it did, for baring one's soul to the pro-
ertit the mass of documents-as Tong Fong boarding house, Con- maybe, a thousand years ago.
Here and there one-stops-to-ex-who-could, in that moment of be are bad. We notice that both Sir been thoroughly sorted and where naught Road Central, had stolen John Simon and Lord Grey have necessary, translated and decoded, from his right hand jacket pocket claim at familiar items that carrying alone with his Maker, ses contributed letters to the Times it is impassible to make more than money to the value of $200, and the mind, back to scenes in the nothing more in that inward two drafts on the Hongkong and on the subject.
Presently, the orb of day actual- Sir John Simon The chief point is whether thin Shanghai Bank for 1600. The long ago, with some of us perhaps searching than a few spots of dis-
chords of memory to a melancholy asked why, if a strike is now to becident will have a repercussion at drafts have been recovered, and long back as to twang the colour fallen there in the past.
one arrest has been effected.
note. Of such are the occasionally over the distant hills, Santo discoveries of wild strawberries, Tomas peak was thrown in shadow made illegal because it is designed Moscow sufficient to give rise to permanent, estrangement between
Chinese Four to coerce the Government or to the British and Soviet Govern intimidate the community, is a ments. Protests, and ravings, we charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell and beds of white violeta, for all on the mists to the west, sharply transplanted only yesterday from seeming nothing; a phenomenon can of course expect, and the Com- this morning with playing football the world as if they had been defined, rising ghostly out of lock-out, designed for the same unists in Britain may be counted in Queen's Road Weat near the an English country lane. But of light and shade that is rare
Civil Hospital. A
higher up, when the pines have enough to be featured in the purpose, not equally illegal? If on to side wtih their Russian Government the test of illegality depends on comrades. Knowing the care that telephone complaint from the given place to mountain cak, one record of the trail, but of little British authority always takes not Government Civil Hospital to the stumbles across an orchid, a fairy-account to those, like our amiable whether a strike (a) aims at more to tread unnecessarily on others' Central Police Station brought like feather bloom of pure white; hostess, who see it, if they bo than the furtherance of a trade corne, semetimes with unduly four Chinese policemen to the and a stunted bamboo, a criasan minded to look, practically every dispute within the strikers! trade meticulous concern, it may be scene and they arrested the four begonia shrub, growing side-by-morning.
Baguio caught the rays in time, taken for granted that nothing defendants. Three of the youths side with a thistle clump, remind or industry or (b) is designed or short of the certainty of subver- were fined $3.00 each.
one that here is the tropics merg and its buildings, and the twin ing, by virtue of altitude alone, steeples of its church, stood out calculated to coerce the Govern; sive propaganda, on a dangerous
like a model town of white stone According to a local vernacular into a temporate clime. ment, &c., is not the first condi-scale, would have led to sanction'
being given for the raid. It paper, $1,000 worth of gold coins
And finally, with bunger whet-in an exhibition landscape. With tion likely to provide a fresh in should be easy, therefore, to jasti and bank notes, found on ted, and with a mellow light tell- swift strides old Sol was upon us, centive to wider amalgamations?fy the London action in every par-person of a pickpocket who was ing of the approaching aunge, one and the cold wind- having added ticular, and those who are on the arrested u fow days ago on the arrives at the top, and suddenly zest to the occasion, we shortly Sir John Simon asks these per side of stable, sane government, Tung On Wharf, has been return the resthouse looms in view round returned indoors and tackled the tinent questions becauso, "when will welcome this evidence of aed to the owner, a Chinese mer a bend in the ascending track. It substantial viands of our break- draftsmen sit down to formulate determination on the part of the chant who came back only recent is built on a small plateau, a sad fast in a mood to do them full
Home Government, despite risks
ly from the US.A. He lost his dle between two hillocks, on one justice. to
But there was less to say than general propositions, difficulties
"Incident," of diplomatie emerge, and it is no good intro-scotch any seditious activity in money, but did not report the case of which there is a matting kiosk,
to the polico.
with benches, at the highest point, at the evening meal. The spell of it CRI
that wonder just seen was still country before
where the outlook is obtained. ducing legislation to declare the the
It had been the crowning advance beyond easy..control.
ba The Kowloon Fire Brigade re-
They were expecting us at the on us. law if more obscurities and diffi.
Further developments will culties are thereby occasioned. awaited throughout the Empire ceived a call about four o'clock resthouse, and while the evening glory of the Santo Tomas trail.
this morning to a taxi which was meal was being prepared, an ad-i And If the Government Bill, how with the greatest interest.
on fire outside the Pun Tol Hotel in Nathan Road. The outbreak well-intentioned, "could be
was caused by a petrol leakage, plausibly suspected of dealing
over
with wage-earners while leaving employers alone, its effect upon
the campaign for industrial peace would be simply disastrous." In
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It is Gazetted that Gunner A Chinose girl aged 17, residing A further twelve male bodies and the spirit, cacaping to the Charles Peake Anderson, M.C., has at 11, Graham Street, first floor, from the Leung Kwong wreck road, resulted in a brief but fierce been appointed Second Lieutenant who tried to commit suicide by into the harbour from the were washed ashore at Capsul blaze. The driver's seat of the in the Hongkong Volunteer De-Yaumati Ferry Wharf yesterday, mun yesterday. They were pick taxi was badly burned but the re- ed up and taken to the Kowloon mainder of the body and engine fence Corps, with effect from 6th has been taken to Government
Civil Hospital. Mortuary for identification.
were undamaged."
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