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BARBARA BEDFORD MALCOLM MCGREGOR
IN
AT THE
SEE
WHY DID
RUTH KING LEAVE HOME
WHERE DID SHE GO
WHO IS TO BLAME
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929.
SNOWDEN EXPLAINS WAR DEBT VIEWS.
DEMAND FOR A FREE HAND!
Mr. Philip. Snowden defined his war debts when he spoke at a Labour meeting nt Maidstone ro- rently.
"I am a pacifist and an inter- nationalist," he said, "but we shall never secure and maintain Inter national good-will except on the foundation of fair honest dealing between nation and nation."
He referred to people who had lost four-fifths of their money put War Into French Government Loans, and said that during the last few days he had received sacks of letters from "victims of this French War Loan Repúdiation.
Mr. Snowden then referred to his speech in the House of Com-
mona.
MR. WELLS ON WORLD PEACE,
AN END OF FRONTIERS.
All that is distinguished in the world of art, literature, politica, and diplomacy assembled in the Reichstag recently in order to hear an address by Mr. H. G. Wells on "The Common Sonso of World On the benches usually Pence." occupied by the Government sat the British Ambassador and Lady Rumbold, accompanied by fessor Einstein,
Pro-
The sum and substance of the common sense which Mr. Wells de sired to impress on the world is the abolition of political frontiers. The gravest mene to peace, and therefore to civilisation, he said, is the "integral and assailable independence of national States," whose "smouldering contentious- neas" is bound to culminato in war. Whilst "accumulating mountains! of explosives in the assumption | that they will never explode" the nations "waste virtuous emotions on sentimental peace pucts."
The Kellogg Pact is an egregi- ous device for "salving the con- Senatora sciences of American while leaving the pursuit of thels pormal nvocations na undisturbed as if nothing had happened," and the same applied to the other sig natorics.
Cant and Illusion.
Similarly, Président. Wilson "thought only of nations strap- aling to be free, instead of man from
"I was dealing," he said, "with the Balfour Note, and I said that that part of the Balfour Note which pledged the British Gov- erament to sacrifice, that to put upon the shoulders of his own of the in- peope a large` part debtedness of foreign countries, was the infamous part of the Note, and 1 went on to say that if cir- cunstances arose in the future that meant, of course, in the ques- tion of these debt nettlements and of reparations, and inter- Allied debts generally-that these questions would be reopened, then we should consider ourselves free struggling to free himself to enter into these negotiations nationality." The League of Na- not accepting-repudiating was tions is fundamentally unsend as The word 1 used--the principle of an instrument of peace, because it is based on the principle of an the Balfour Note..
internationalism which recoguinest "That is what I said. I was patriotismis, and patriotism perfectly clear that my cymarks the artificial products of an "im- of education. applied only to the reopening of mense conspiragy the question in the fulang anļ pawayasuda, and positive lien." to that part of the Balfour Near commons of world width was in my opinion gran by bowse" implies thorough-quingi unfair to this country.
nepolitanism, which is a "wat soliturity oderriding horman
The task of swooning States," away, "cant, illusion, and rath ment" is a supremely diflicult, one, felt tho barving far point So bend in the sands of paris, it en aml must be freed.
The PORT OF MISSING GIRLS
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TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
STAR THEATRE
FLYING RETURN VISIT
FOR 4 NIGHTS ONLY
THE
BANVARD ENGLISH COMEDY COMPANY
In an attractive repertoire of London's latest. farces, comedies and thrillers,
TO-NIGHT
At 9.15
ROOKERY NOOK
From the Aldwych Theatre, London.
TO-MORROW 66 THE FANATICS"
May
19th
MONDAY
May 20th
TUESDAY
May
21st
The most daring play of the century
"THARK"
Froin the Aldwych Theatre, London.
"DIVERSION"
First time in Hongkong,
Booking at Moutrie's and Theatre,
Prices $3, $2 & $I.
"I had net, and to any sensiblo person it would be perfertig ap. parent that 1.but dit, and should net have bad any idea of repudia tion of the sellements themselves, heeee if the setth mens were pos pudiated what would haphan" Why, we should get nothing at all. wi- less those agreements were ani, stituted by other agreements. Bat
are
RT is failing to do its part, and what is wanted is, in the first place, great personalities capable
I would ask you to remember 12 of transforming the world desire
wit
WITH BANVARD COMPANY.
Three popular members of the Banyard English Comedy that it is two years since Mr. Chur- for prace into militant organisa-
Lions, and, in the second place, the Company, which opens a sunson at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, chill made that agreement
of patriotism te-night, with "Rookery Nook." Later, the Company will play for France, but the French Governradient expulsion ment have never ratified it, and, from among the ideas instilled in-four nights at the Theatre Royal, Top, Anne Chippendale, versatile
to the minds of the young.
character actrens; bottom right, Bardy Russell, comedian; left, therefore, it has no binding effect Mr. Walls was accorded prolong-
whatever.
A Free Hand.
"What I said," he continued, "was when this question of répara Hon and Allied debta comes to be considered in a conference of all the nations concerned, I, for one, at any rate, would demand that we should enter into those negotin-
best
ed applause at the conclusion of his address.
FINDS OF GREEK ART IN ALBANIA.
MUSSOLINI.
', Reginald Tippett, niso a comedian,
No. 1, Vol. II of the Hongkong Dr. Godfried Von Faber, transla University Journal of Law and ted by J. Fenton, Ph. D.; "A Note Commerce is out. It is an interest on Chinese Coolic Emigration," by ing number, containing Book ReLeo D'Almada e Castro, Jr., B.. A. views, Editorial notes and the fol- (Oxon.); "Cheungchow-Long I8- lowing special articles:"Chinland," by W. J. Hinton, M.A.; cae Family, and Property Law in The Elevation of the Official,"
tions with a free hand, unbound, STATUE OF 400 B.C. GIVEN TO Netherlands-Indies" (Cont.) By by R. Robertson, M.A. unhampered, to make the possible settlement not only in the interests of this country but in the interests of the whole world.
"If a succeeding Government is to be bound by the commitments of & previous Government, If a pre- vloua Government enters into con- tractual obligations with another country which the succeeding Gov. ernment of a different party will be expected to accept, then it is the duty of that British Govern-[ nient to consult with the party. which may be called upon to con- form and adhere to this agreement. That has never been done in re- gard to these Debt Settlements.
"No Labour Government," he said, "would ever dream of break- ing any such contractual, arrange ments, agreements, or treatles, ex- cept by negotiation with the other parties concerned.
Rome, April 18. King Zogú has presented Signor ahead of "the Mussolini with Goddess of Butrinto" (Buthro,- tum), a Fourth or Fifth Century Art B.C. masterpiece of Greek worthy of the chisel of Praxiteles. It is but one example of the trea- sures included in an archaeological a remote malaria- find, made in swept area of Southern Albania.
The work of the Italian archaeological mission began Inst year under the leadership of Pro- fessor Ugolin, and it is believed that the place in which the god- ess's head was discovered in the
the legen site of Buthrotum, dary capital built by Priam's son. Helenus, in which Aeneas, as de- scribed in the third book of the Aeneid, was received by Andro mache.
"I love my country," he added, fand ! want to Bec my
Monumental Gateway, great country
and prosperous, lending the world in all Closely following the Virgilian moral causes. I want to nee un narrative, the Professor met on a Lake England great in the health and wooded Blope overlooking happiness of its people, great in Vivari, opposite Corfu, with evi- the richness of its smiling valleys, dences of old dwellings, and, set- and in the glory of its wooded ting to work, the mission found bills, and I want to see the ad-many relies of civilisations rang- venturous souls of such an Englanding from the prehistorie to the who wish to do so, go forth to Venetian. win by love and example, and not By the sword, those victories of peace which are far more renown ed that war,”.
I
Mr. Thomas's Defence."
They have already brought to light bone knives and Bronzo Age ornaments, a complete monumental gateway twenty feet high of Fifth Century BC. Greek workmanship, another lesser, gate in a later man- Mr. J. Thomas, speaking in her on the architrave of which in London referred to Mr. Snowden's an archale lion attacking a bull, a speech, and said: "Imagine anyone section of Roman baths with who knows Philip Snowden, and niches containing Greek" statues, know his character and his re- some with signatures, a nymph's pool, with statues of Apollo and cord life, regarding him as a man Bacchus, and a sacred grove with concerned in repudiating obliga- votive fonts and Inscriptions, to tians. Everyone who uttered gentiments of that kind know they nothing of Byzantine and later
relica. were belying the character of Mr. Snowdon,
J. LOCAL HOCKEY.
"If we are to face this, General Election with another red bogey," he said, "and if in substitution for the Zinovieff letter we are to be
The following will represent accused of being a party unmind- ful of our national and interna the Wanderer's hockey team in Lional obligations, I want to meet their match with the Somerset Re- giment at Hankow Barracke, Sham- that charge right away.
"Speaking for the Labour Party shufpo, on Wednesday at 5.30 pm: with a full sense of responsibili-W. Borrowman, W. Woodward, ty, I want to make it perfectly J. Rodger, A.A. Dand, E. J. N. clear that signatures to an obliga- Mitchell, Captain J. R. Vedder, II. tion, whatever it may be, are as Owen Hughen, G, E. n. Divett, safe in our keeping as in the koop- R. W. Shipp, Captain A. E. Wericke ing of any other party in the and C. C. Francis. The team will State."
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