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April, 1879, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, George Piercy of the Diocesan School, Hongkong, to Jeannie Smailes,
The
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MONDAY APRIL 1. ¡9.9
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1929.
DAY BY DAY.
“ YOUR · FORTUNE LIES
BENEATH
COMMUNISM IN INDIA.
THE NEW "WORKERS AND PEASANT PARTIES."
The Very Idea!
Vicar on the other. The Bishop's and 5 swer was that he could not say what ho would do until he heard the full facts of the YOUR HAT-Oldham. case, when he hoped he would
A laundress at 16, a dancer at 17, then the idol of, the Moulin act in a manner which was equit- tour, is duc here from Manila on The s.s. Franconia, on a world
The annual report on "The of last century, sought after by Rouge, "Queen" of Paris at the end able and falt. Another point which | Wednesday.
Moral and Material Progress of painters, poets and Princes, "La was brought up at the same meet-
The P. and O. s.s. Macedonia, India 1927-28," by Mr. Contman, Goule," otherwise Louise Weber, ing was the position of the Bishop from Hongkong, arrived at Mar-Director of Public Information to has died in Paris at the age of 70, vis-a-vis the Crown. Bishop Freze sellles 29th March at 5.30 a.m.
the Government of India has beca under the most miserable circum- Issued for publication..
stances. denied that' bo had been appointed by the State. He asserted that the Crown had "a dort of sugges- tive power," but he claimed that ho was an officer of the Churcli. "I have done homage to the King," he said, “and I do not mind doing it again, but I do not take my or-
The Empress of France la due here from Manila at G a.. on the 7th April and will berth at Talkoo
Dock.
Sa
The report is of special interest She was too fat for dancing at 30, to students of Indian politics as so she became a lion tamer., it covers a period full of reactions, caused by the appointment of the and eventually was forced to eko. "La Goule" dissipated her savings." Indian Statutory Commission un oat a precarious existence by sell-
A cable from Shabghat received der Sir John Simon and a violent ing sweets in the boulevards. this morning states that Mr. R. Krecrudescence during the firet G Butler, who is suffering from small- months of inter-racial agitation, pox, is slightly better..
which was undoubtedly stirred up by Miss Haye's book, "Mother mariage laws. India" and its attack on the Ilinds
ders from him, neither does he pro-present on a visit to the Colony, The Rev, Father L, Robert is nt fess to give me any." These are having arrived here to-day from a remarkable sentiments to come lengthy stay in Haiphong. from the Bishop of the State Church, to say the least,
It is apparent from Home from top to bottom on the issues papers to hand that the Bishops involved. who are urging the use of the rojected Prayer Book are finding themselves up against much
Diocese
Mr. and Mrs. George Piercy cele brate their golden wedding to-day. They were married at St. John's Cathedral on April 1, 1879,
:
Generally speaking, the year has been one" of economic im- provement, greatly overshadowed, however, by the general political
First Waiter "I've woke up that man three times, and I'm just going to wake him again."
Becond Walter "Why don't you have him thrown out?"
"No, fears! Every time I wako him up he pays his bill."
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altuation and prolonged labour `[Complaint is made of the de- troubles in Bombay and the East terioration of handwriting, parti- Indian Railway. The total loss of culariy among girls.] working days was nearly double- that of the previous year,
An Alien Movement.
ties, the report is very definite. As regardo Communist activi- Up to a year or two ago the Com manists made little or no head- way. Communism - was lookod The traffic beacon situated at the Junction of Pedder Street and Despons a "somewhat fatuous occupation of a few unbalanced Voeux Road was knocked down in agitators." "But "the march of the early hours of this morning by events during the last few yours a public motor-car. The impact has shown the folly of minimising must have been considerable, as the importance and danger of only the cement base remains. Communist activities."
Other naval movements include
"Firat disturb their placid con
H.M.S. Berwick arrived in Hong- kong on Sunday from Nanking.tentment and then inculcato in thoir minds the principles of the arrival at Singapore of HMS Communist agitation in India. Dartmouth and II.M.S. Cleopatra, two cruisers bringing China Station Port Swettenham for Penang. reliefs. H.MS. Bluebell has left
SIR WILLIAM BULL'S
LEVEE CLOTHES..
STOLEN FROM HIS MOTOR-CAR.
Detective
these people work is the newly The medium through which organised Workers and Peasants Parties. The parties in question were found in 1920 by Georgo Allison, alias Donald Campbell, and carried on by his successor, Philip Spratt, a graduate of Cambridge, who
to India ostensibly on behalf of the Labour Research Department in London. The organisations are under the control of the Central Council of Trade Unions in Moscow.
camo
4
Sweet maid, your scarce legiblo
writing
Grows worse, 1 am sorry to say, And I cannot quite see you indit.
ing
The notes of your grand-
mother's day.
Her characters, sloping and point.
ed,
At least left us nothing «tó'
guess,
While yours are a scramble-un-
even, disjointed, A regular mess.
Hor fingers were tapered and
slender,
The kind that is meant to be
kissed
CA homago her beaux would oft
render),
But you've a more capable fiat With driver or racquet, I grant
you.
But few can surpass you in-
deed;
But if you're so capable, darling,
why can't you
Write notes I can read? Such accomplishments' may not
attract you,
They belong to a long-vanished
day.
You're a law to yourself, and, in
fact, you
Care nothing for what I may
say,
But surely there's cause for some
shame in
The need for instructions like
theao
(How often one sees them to- dayl): "Write your nomo in Block Capitals, please.”~-
We have cited this particular case because it is typical of the confusion" and dissension being" Silk forwarded from Hongkong created inside the Church by the Empress of Russin on the by those who are ite leaders, and (St. John's Park) on the 37th 6th March arrived in Now York who should set an example in law-March, having been 21 days In abiding practices. No amount of transit. specious argument will get over the fact that until the Revised Book of Prayer fu approved by Par- liament, Its use is utterly illegal The only other method of lega- Hlaing it is to accept Disestablish- ment. The Bishops cannot have it both ways. The suggestion that the sanctioning of the new Book is for the purpose of legalising existing practices is quite beside the point. If there are illegal prac- tices still taking place, then the obvious remedy is for the Bishops to prohibit them. They have fail- ed to exercise their powers in this direotion, permitting all manner of illegalities to continue, and have thus created the present situation. If those, Bishops who appear to
"It is doubtful, however, who- The clothes which Sir William ther the indigenous, labour agita- care so little for Protestantiam still Bull wore at the recent Lever tor is a Communist at heart. He CHURCH ILLEGALITIES. persist in their campaign, they were the subject of a charge at is ordinarily a man of little will only have themselves to blame Vowles, aged 32, a carpenter, of the Ignorant workers with violent Bow-street when William George education, who is able to impress if the Church is eventually split Caledonian-road, King's Cross, harangues interlarded with catch.
was sentenced to six months' hard words and slogans," labour for stealing a bag contain- ing the clothes,
Stirring up Discontent. Frederick Harold Northey, com- The discontent among the col missionaire to Sir William, saldton. mill workers furnished the Man at Willesden--Me drunk? I that while looking put of the win-Workers and Reparations Problems,
Peasants Parties never drink anything and I only had opposition on the part of church-
dow of Sir William's premises in with an opportunity of which a small port all the day. The failure of the Gernran finan-Lincoln's Inn, he saw Vowles take they were quick to take advantage.
Witness at Glasgow I thought goers who regard the suggestion as cini experts to agree with the re-the bag from a motor-car out Philip Spratt was most active in the farther 1. kept away from the boing utterly illegal. In the Truro presentatives of the creditor na- side.
Bombay. The strikes in Bombay police the better It was for me."
Man at Action, fined for having a Slyfeld mentioned and Bengal wero hailed with de- in particular, where tions on the point of Germany's that Vowles had seven previous light by the Communist Preas of collarless dog-It was about to be Bishop Frere has authorised unc capacity to pay, is not to be re- convictions and had been bound the world.
washed when it an out of the of the Revised Book, the dissen-garded as an unexpected develop over twice. He was bound over
Damning evidence of the work house..
Willesden complainant-The up- Alon caused is very acute.
At ment. Germany naturally is ad for two years at, London Sessions on of Moscow is given in the follow-
ing extract of a telegram received staira man as near as anything several meetings which ho hag vancing every possible argument to May 22 last.
Sir Chartres Biron-What!
Anyhow, ho threa held with Church councillors, the obtain terms better than those to Bound over after
by the Cawnpore Congress and strangled me. convic- Boven which the Allies could possibly con- tions?-Yes,
All-India Trade Union Congress tened twice to do so.
Mr. Justice Horridae, to a Scots- Bishop has not only been closely sent. At the
from Lozovasky, tha General mument the Re- questioned, but he has been very parations Experts appear
Who tried the case7-Mr. Wil-Secretary of the Red International man in the King's Bench Division- to be berforca.
Say that again. I must put it into. strongly criticised. The astound-weary of the argument, having
Sir Charles said that he hoped of Labour Unions,
"In the struggle against alien an English sentence. It would be understood at London ing part of the whole business is gone as far as they are prepared sons that he had not taken oppressors and national explol-
To-day's Ghost Story. "Some 05 ters, the working class of India that the Bishop himself admits to go in their desire to achieve an into account the fact that Vowles and the Trade Unions may al years or so ago an aged relative of that the new Book is not legal, but equitable settlement. It is impor-had broken his recognisances.
ways count upon the aid of the mine retired from a country living Red International of Labour in Herts, and with his two daugh- ho. offsets this by stating that "Ittant to note that the Allied experts have submitted a proposal that
tors went to a little old manor house has behind it a very great deal of Germany should make annual pay-paration payments are, France win
given to them. Whatever the re- Unions and all its sections."
Victor Spratt is not the nearer London which originally had cannot ments of Miks.1,750,000,000, a con- get 53.2 per cent; Great Britain only British Communist very been a 'cell, probably attached to refute, however, is that
India, A second St. Albans Abbey, the siderable reduction on the Dawes 22.5 per cent; Italy 9.8 per cent active ip
Francis Bradley,
"They settled in in summer, and.. who essential authority of Parila annuity, and this after Mr. Parker Serbia 4.9 per cent, and Belgium 1.4 ment ía lacking, and it ia Gilbert, the Agent-General has ex-per cont. At the bottori, therfore, arrived in Bombay in September, one of the daughters, going to her reparations discussion is a contest
with the Bombay Communist dressing gown leaving by another. therefore idle to suggest, as Bishop pressed the opinion that Germany between France and Germany 1927. He was closely associated father's room, thought she saw a Frere does, that the House of is quite capable under existing con- France needs money more keenly
but when she went into the garden Commons has flouted the Church.
ditions of providing the full than does Britain or Italy. Ger group in organising the mill She thought that it was her father, there he was. She told him.. "Oh," Another organisation which said he, you've seen him. I think The school of thought which
amount. The Germans, says a many wants the Rhineland evacuat- ed. Back of the discussions is the a writer in the Christian Science nectre of the interallied debie. merits attention on account of its it's an old monk." And so it was. this particular Bishop represents Afonitor, claim that Mr. Parker France feels that she must have work in India is the League Often they saw more or less of the points to the fact that there is at Gilbert's report is too optimistic. from Germany enough to pay her against Imperialism, which has robe fading out when they entered | present a great deal of "Illegality" | External borrowings by the debts to Britain and America and its headquarters in Berlin. "Al the room; and thus things con- about the services in some of the federal and state governments and meet the costs of reconstruction in though this organisation is not tinued till my old cousin was pass- churches, and the submission is private corporations exceed the the devastated areas. The task of professedly Communist," says the ing on.some few years later,
the committee of experts is to keep report, there is little doubt that "He died slowly, and for weeks, put forward that if the Revised total that Germany has thus far these attitudes from being irrecon-it is used as a link with Com-when he was alone, the priest who Book is used, the position will be ments be continued when these bor-
paid in reparations. Can the pay- citable. regularised. That, however, can- rowinga cense? Payments under not be the case, since one illegality the Dawes I Plan may be suspended cannot be corrected by the employ- if they cannot be made without do ment of other illegal methods. preclating German currency. Ger- At one of the meetings which many wishes to retain the protec Bishop Frere addressed on the tion of this tranfer clause." On the other hand, she wishes to get subject, a parishioner said he had rld of the prosperity indices pro qualms of conscience on this very vision, which would allow the pay point, to which the Bishop retorted ments to be raised if the level of that there were such things as prosperity rises. The Allles wish laws which were out of date, keep the provision on citing an Act of 1805 which pro- prosperity and to annul the transfer hibited shops opening on Sundays, clause. If the loan is commer- but which was never now enforced. cialized, however if payments are Casulstry of the kind' represented made to private holders of bond
the transfer clause must go.. Would by that answer hardly meets the it be possible to divide the annuity case, however. Equally unsatis-and to have a percentage subject to factory was the reply given to a transfer clause, while the remain- another query as to what the ing percentage would be uncon
These are a few of the Blahop would do In caso there trolled?
difficult questions being considered a difference regarding the
by the experts as they proceed use of the Book between the according to plun. The Allies are Church Counet and the congre- in the position of having divided gation, on the one side, and the up their cake before it has been
authority." What ho
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munist sources,"
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OMMON ERROR/
IN BRIDGE
AND HOW TO CORRECT THÊM. by w.w.wentworth
TRUMPING TOO SOON
North (Dummy Japa
Loads K
Bonth (Declaror) AAKQ4
✔ None. Ó AT 62.
AK QIZ
King of hearts. Should Declarer take this trick by trumping it?s The Error: Declarer trumps with 4 of spades.
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had passed on sat by the priest who was about to join him; and though Le vanished when others came, his presence did not completely go when either of the two daughters anter- od their father's room.”
The Warrington Coroner who ins vited all the men in the Court to smoke as a safeguard agalust In- fluenza evidently, has a faith in the disinfective qualities of tobacco similar to that which prevailed in England two and a half centuries ago, med d
During the Great Plague, doctors advised smoking as a means of The Coreret Method: Declarer warding off infection, and Popys, in cannot afford to be forced. He fear of contagion, bought the tahould permit opponents to make strongest tobacco obtainable, to
their King of hearts and Ace of smoko and chow y hearts, discarding 2 of diamonds Even school children were made East and 6 of diamonds, Whatever to smoke, and there in record of card is now led la won by Declarer, severe punlahment being meted out Three trumps are then drawn by to such of the youngsters as failed. Declarer and, the clubs played un to use their pipes regularly s bid- til opponents are forced to play den, the last trump: Game is thus na sured.
The Bidding South, bids one spade and all pass.
Deciding the Play: West plays
Washington, Mar. 81.
The Principle: Do not play the last trump if opponents hold an Mr, Henry J. Allen, the noted established suit bat force oppo- "dry" aucceeds Vice President nent's high trump with your ex Charles Curtis as Senater, tablished suit..
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