THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, - 1929.
ST. GEORGE'S DAY CEREMONY.
MODERN TILED FIREPLACES
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The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton (President of the St. George's Society) and the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock (Past President) carrying the Society's wreath to the Cenotaph on St. George's Day. Captain Silliboo, A.D.C, is also seen convey- ing His Excellency the Governor's wreath. (Photo: Mes Cheung).
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Bridal group taken on the occasion of the recent wedding, at the Rosary Church, Kowloon, of Mr. W. F. Poole, of the Chinese Maritime Customs, and Miss E. Geldart, who hails from Thornaby-on-Tees.
PUTTING BRITAIN ON HER FEET.
MR. MAXSE'S 15-POINT PROGRAMME.
A DRASTIC TASK,
MISS E. PONSONBY ENGAGED.
The dictatorship of the Bank of England and the Treasury la blamed for restrictions on British industry, particularly the "arbi». tary dislocation of export trada as] ONE OF THE "BRIGHT YOUNG in 1925 or a rafslag of the Bank
PEOPLE" TO WED. Rate as in 1920."
"To-day drastic measures and Minn Elizabeth Ponsonby, drastic men are needed to save the daughter of Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, situation." Accordingly Mr. Maxse M.P., Under Secretary for Foreign aketches "an unauthorised, pro- Affairs in the Labour Government,
which, however in-has become. engaged. gramme,
She has known her dance for adequate, may fairly claim to be more likely to commend itself to about a fortnight and expects to in the "National Review" for April public opinion and to promote the get married some time during the is followed by an "unauthorised pro- common. object gramme," the execution of which, it national prosperity than the meagre
of promoting coming summer.
An impartial criticism of all three political parties by Mr. Leo Maxse
MIss Ponsonby Is, one of the
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is claimed, would solve our present suggestions of the Conservatives, Bright Young People, and le known political problems.
the wildcat projects of the in Chelsea for her out-of-the-com- ONLY 3 lbs. OF ICE REQUIRED The present economic plight of Socialists, or the Lloyd George ex-mon parties. Two months ago she Britain, Mr. Maxse writes, la extravaganza." "We alm," he adds, dressed as a bride and, with a clusively due to the "folly of man" "at getting the working man off the "bridegroom," gave a mock wedding and "what the folly of man has dole without putting him on the breakfast at a Piccadilly re- done the wisdom of man could streets or roads." undo." He, however, sees no algn
of "the advent of any regime of wisdom."
The Programme.
staurant.
"My fiance is Mr. Denis Pelly," It is a 15-point programme, and Miss Ponsonby said. "Ho is re- is as follows:
lated to Sir Harold Pelly, and has "On the contrary, when every- 1. Reduce the Cabinet to 5 (ex-recestly returned from Kenya, thing that might not unfairly be cluding all the spending depart-wrere he was managing a farm for sald concerning the ineptitude of ments in order to permit retrench- Sir Edward Northey," the Conservative Government in
ment).
tackling the post-war economic 11. Ration the Government as a raised at 4 per cent: or possibly 3 eriefs has been said, we look round prelude to rationing all the depart-per cent. by Premium Bonds, for some alternative administration,ments and abolishing the superflu- XI. Reduction of Income Tax to there is nothing visible that would oug ones. not be distinctly worse.
III. By this means £20,000,000|| "We should be literally out of the or £30,000,000 should be saved on Trying-pan Into the tire. The estimates under the Influence of Socialist panacea for Conservative economy from the top. extravagance, in the shape of an
IV. A 10 per cent. foll on all im- £800,000,000 Budget, is a Budget ported foreign manufactured goods, of £1,000,000,000 raised by the Laxa-producing £20,000,000 to £26,000, tion of thrift. The Liberal remedy 000.
18. on small incomes and 28. Od. on larger ones.
XII Reduction af death duties. XIII. Substantial reduction of Lobdeco, beer, and tea dutfes with
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XIV. A constructive polley of Imperial Preference and Emigra-
for unemployment is to cast the V. A wido extension of] tion with the definite object of population on the roade a pro- Safeguarding wherever it was stimulating inter-Imperial” trade,
gramme that can only leave all things, except perhaps the roads worse than it found them,"
"Secret Dictatorship."
key to be successful, producing an other £10,000,000.
VI. Suspension of the Sinking Fund for 5 years £65,000,000 per
including small duties on foreign whent and meat, accompanied by a Government guarantee against a rise of retail prices.
"The first thing that should have annum.
XV The restoration of British been done," states Mr, Maxse, VII. A moratorium on the Ameri- nuriculture as a food producer. "and it will have to be done before ean Debt now that our creditors] "Admittedly," adds Mr. Maxse, thore can be any hope of better have disclosed that our annual "It would take a live Man and not a timen was to break the secret tribute of £36,000,000 is to be spent moribund Mandarin to get a real dictatorship of the Bank ofon battle cruisers.'
move on by embarking on any hig England and the Treasury, which is VII.Reconstitution of the Bank polley that would transform the mainly responsible more respon of England to include industrial as situation within six months, and alble than the General Strike for well as moneyloaning Interests. though it is not suggested from à that chronic unemployment. i. IX. Rank Rate maximum per Party point of view, incidentally. The Governor of the Bank of cont., to be ultimately reduced to our anauthorised programme would England is described as a "fanatical 2% per cent.
knock the bottom out of Radicaliam, worshipper of par," obsessed by X. Trade and credit facilities, in- Socialism, and Bolshevism, to say the ratio between the dollar and the cluding a Government Loan of nothing of Cobdenism and Com- sovereign.
£100,000,000 to productive industry, munism.”
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