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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1930.
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UNLIMITED DESPOTISM AND UN- CONTROLLED DEMOCRACY ARE FOUND TO BE EQUALLY UNFAVOURABLE TO THE EXISTENCE OF CIVIL LIBERTY. Lord John Russell,
Arriving from Singapore, the s.8. Hosang reports that a Chinese deck passenger died from beri beri,
The Empress of Asia, which left Hongkong on the 5th inst., arrived at Vancouver of the 23rd inst
MACAO NOTES.
NEW CHINESE MEMBER -
1. OF COUNCIL.
The Very Idea!
"Why have the other team scared five goals, and yours none?” she asked.
He had taken his sweetheart to Macao, Mar. 23.
a football match. The home team The appointment is announced was faring badly, and the visitors of Dr. Low Yuk-lin to the addi-bombarded the home goal as persis- tional seat on the Macao Govern- tently as Alice bombarded Jack, the Portuguese Government: The
with questions. new seat has been created by the Portuguese Government at the Tamagnini Barbosa who took Guest of His Excellency Senhor advantage of his recent visit lo Portagal to bring" before his Government the necessity for such a measure
special pleading strikes somewhat amusing in tiew of the anti-climax which has since beca recorded. Mr. Baldwin has made no an utterance which marks change in his previous attitude, Lord Beaverbrook has accepted it
The P. and O, as. Rajputana, as tantamount to support of Em. pire Free Trade principles, and from Singapore, is due here at 10ment Council recently approved by subscribers to the new Party's.m. on Thursday.. Fighting Fund had their money returned. Where Lord Rother mere now stands, we do not know. When his companion in the new movement accepted Mr. Baldwin's declaration, he asserted that there were other principles for which the Party stood, but Lord Beaver- brook dissociated himself from these, although indicating that the newspaper magnate was free to go forward along his own lines. What will become of his promise to provide at least fifty candidates for the new Party has not been made clear. He has had the wind taken out of his sails by Lord Beaverbrook throwing his hand in,
Mr. D. Forbes, the manager of but we doubt if that will deter the Bank Line, made telephonic re- him from continuing his "stunt"port to the Water Police this mor- tactics in the newspapers whichning to the effect that an anchor Mária Gomes assisted by a number and chain were lost from the 3.8. City of Birmingham whilst was in Junk Bay last night.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1930.
The s.s. Venezia, recently placed on the run between Canton and Hongkong, went into Taikoo Dock on Saturday for renovation. She may resume her run to Canton on Monday.
Dr. Lew, who is an LL.D. of Cambridge, was Minister for China to the Court of St. Jumea for soms years, and has enjoyed in diplomatie many successes circles. Some years ago Dr. Lew lived quietly at Macao ever since, retired from the service and has though he was appointed honorary We are asked to announce, re-adviser to the Government of
China. afternoon's garding to-morrow matinee performance of "And So To Bed," that parties from schools, of not less than 30, will be ad- mitted at half-price.
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The theft of tarpaulin, rope and nine cargo slings has been reported by Captain Neilson, master of the 8.s. Imataca, who states that these articles were stolen from the store- room while the ship was at her berth in the northern anchorage,
In accepting the new. honour conferred upon him, Dr. Lew is desirous of being of service to his countrymen by acting in co-opera- tion with the other member re- presenting the Chinese community.
Miss Gomes' Concert. The concert organised by Miss of friends, and under the patronage of His Excellency the Governor of Macao and Madame Tamagnini Bar- bosa, at the Macao Club on the 22nd inst., was a great success.
Item.
"Weak backs, dear," was his ro- peak backs?" she queried."
surprised! Men who suffer am from weak backs should not take in mich a rough game as football."
Sir Walter Raleigh "invented the first Raleigh bicycle" is all that à schoolboy examines can remember of his history lesson on the famous Elizabethan.
(A daily ration of milk to the young makes them "bigger and.
I want to be a milksop"?? more boisterous and alert.")
And in the dairy stand Beside the foaming pitchers,-
A tumbler in my hand. 'And there and then' I'll boldly Consume my pint each day, And so get strong and bonnie-
For that's the milky wheyl No longer I'll be skimpy,
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He was a novice at the game of golf, and his ball had disappeared down a ral bit hole.
But round as any cheese, My soft complexion creamy,
My tongue 'ike butter, please. The only thing that daunts nic
Is, 1 may grow so big two of the In the meantime,
My parents won't be able To buy me a new rig, older political parties, Liberals
And should it also make me and Labour, can afford to stand
Miss Gomes' rich voice was heard More "boisterous and alert,"
Then soon my milky ration pat on their fiscal policies whilst
great advantage in two or three
They'll cut off for a cert. the Conservatives trot out. their
songs, and blended with the
Art Connoisseur (at auction. vague and hesitating programme
other voices in the duets and a trio which formed part of the pro- gramme. She possesses an excel-room),-"There is a great picture which will be hailed as something new although in fact it still re-
A woman occupant of 105, Woolent range of notes and was deser going up here to-day by Raphael." Vandal, "You don't say so! By raffic-How much are the tickets?" flects the halting attitude which sung Street appeared before Mr. vedly applauded at the end of each Mr. Baldwin has always adopted Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy this morning on a charge on this tariff question. Seeing it of ill-treating a mui taai by beating has-been proved that the Domi-her with a piece of firewood. The was remanded till nions are not enamoured of Em-defendant
Saturday morning. pire Free Trade and that its ap-
Colonies A small fire on the roof of 562, How wholeheartedly the Ro-plication the Crown
we cannot Canton Road where a quantity of rubbish caught alight created some thermere Press boosted the Em-would be disastrous, pire Free Trade movement is ap- see what headway the Conserva-alarm among the inmates but they half-managed to extinguish the outbreak of the parent from Home journals now tives hope to make by
Brigade which arrived shortly coming to hand. The Sunday hearted acceptance of its prin-without the assistance
although the
after the alarm had been given. Pictorial provides a striking ex-ciples. Indeed, ample of "stunt" politics in this breach in the Party ranks would of appear to have been partially re- connexion. The main pages
carried by paired, it looks as if the ultimate this popular paper streamer headlines calling on the reaction will be anything but public to support the "Prosperity favourable to the future fortunes Party" whilst much prominence of the Conservatives:
“STUNT" POLITICS.
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was given to the alleged which movement had causer
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minence of all was special article by Lord mere himself, entitled You" Message to the Youth of Great Britain. Reading through
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England's New Hope,
Mrs. Maria Amalia de Carvalho Ruve proved herself a brilliant accompanist. The other singers were Messrs Francisco do Carval- ho e Rego, Henrique Machado, and Luis Gomes. Our Own Correspon- dent.
HOW TANGO SHOULD BE DANCED.
"Which club now. sir?" asked the caddie, respectfully.
The novice hesitated. "Club!" he repeated. "It's a fer- ret I'm needing!”
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"My husband wrote to me at Christmas and said he would see me at my favourite resort--the Police Court," said a wife at Man- chester City Police Court,
"Solicitors' clerks are the worst possible witnesses except, perhaps," barristers.", Bald Judge Cluer, at Shoreditch County Court
now," said William Nayland (66,) "Good old lad; I'll find a job
Rotherham Quarter. Sessions to sentenced by the Recorder at fiye years' penal servitude for breaking into Sir John Shaw's re sidence at Barber Wood.
MR. ALBERT BARNETT'S BROADCAST. In our report, yesterday, of the Full Court of Appeal decision in
Mr. Albert Barnett, who with the Chater will case, we inadvers Nore Chile is ballroom danc- tently stated that the appeal was Chief Justice. In point of fact, kong over the wireless last night, against a judgment of the acting ing round the World, told Hong. it was Sir Henry Gollan's judg-to soft music, how the tango ment which was the subject of de- should be danced. clsion.
In addition, he gave a brief his tory of the origin of this dance. Cheung Kau, nged 20, was ad- Mr. Barnett said: "The tangó mitted to the Government Civil originated in South America, for it Hospital yesterday, suffering from was invented by the decendants which he drank with the view to colonised what now is Argentinia, the effects of Lysol disinfectant of the original Spaniards who committing suicide. The man was and took wives from the native Paris living in a hovel at Shaukiwan, women of the country. These Brussels having been without employment half-breeds had inherited the na-Berlin
tural grace of their Spanish fore- Copenhagen for some time past.
bears, and a marvellous sense of Vienna rhythm from their aboriginal an- Helsingfors
Lisbon
Test
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cestors.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Amsterdam
Aires
greens in the vicinity of the Yokohama
York
London, Mar. 24.
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in the ranks of the older political this parties. Not satisfied with
Future history may turn on the Pictorial means of appeal, the opened a branch of the new Party truth or otherwise of the hint of an alliance between Mr. Ramsay in Regent Street, and printed in
MacDonald and Mr. Lloyd George. its columns an enrolment form
We cannot imagine a finer happen- which carried no financial
ring at this critical juncture in Bri- other obligations beyond a pro- tish politics. On the contrary, we
Dropping from a height of 70 feet from scaffolding around a house mise to support the movement have long been of the opinion that
at the it offers the only way to the re-in course of demolition,
The tango was danced upon the with votes whenever the opper-
of Garden and Bowen Natur-storation of industrial vigour and junction
young earth-carrying confidence. More than ever before, Roads, ally, the leading article was de
the country needs the development coolie was seriously injured in the ing shanties of the camps, thus
Geneva stead of gliding. the Government Civil Hospital. In
Milan voted to the subject, but most proof a national spirit in its leading head yesterday. He was taken to accounting for the lifting steps in-
Mr. Barnett's explanation of the Stockholm given to a politicians, a breaking of the
a critical condition.
so-called tango crouch is not with- Oslo, Rother-shackles of party shibboleths until
A stonebreaker who was work-out interest. Much mystery has Prague "1 Telf the nation and the Empire is on a
The lecturer said, "In Athens better footing. A Liberal-Labour Ing at Kowloon Docks was arrest-been associated with the tango Madrid entente "to-day provides the only ed yesterday as he leaving with crouch.
Bombay means of tackling the problem of quantity of bronze mixture valu- reality there is no such thing in Rio
Hongkong this contribution, which was later economic reorganisation with a de-ed at $18 in a basket which he was any ballroom tango. This fallacy
carrying, On appearing before is due possibly to the fact of the Silver (spot). reprinted in pamphlet form, we cisive clearness of purpose, and, Mr. Whyte Smith at the Howloon knee-joints brushing in passing Silver (forward) were struck by the somewhat un- what is equally essential, a sustain Magistracy this morning the man Virtually one tangos knock-kneed. blushing use of the personal pro-ed majority of the people. Thus admitted stealing and was fine-lThe gauchos were all very hard riders and consequently were also bow-legged. Their instinctive WHO WAS noun. Here are some extracts:- we are banking on the truth of the $18 or three weeks' hard labour. "There can be few men in England reports, in spite of the fact that
The Far East Aviation. Co. has grace never deserted them, and to who have devoted more time dur- no official statements have been
Officers Kay who knees inwards. ing the past ten years to economic made on the subject by the Liberal Flying of easitor and That that they turned their quired defect or Labour leaders. Every pointer left England in a Hermes Deaout- As this causes the weight of the inquiry and, reflection than ny for two or three months past has ter cabin monoplane on a flight to body to precede the movement of Belf;" "the first public warning 1been in this direction. The Liberal Australia, arrived yesterday. They the feet, it produces to the on- issued was at the height of that abstention on the Coal BIL division say that the Hermes engine ran looker the illusion of a crouch." fatal post-war boon in 1919;" "in must be accepted as an indication beautifully. This is the third flight to Australia by Cirrus engined ma- 1921 I started and organised the rather than a cause, In the last chines which is a convincing proof Anti-Waste Party;" "in scores of analysia, we feel that the Conserva-of the reliability of Cirrus Aero articles I have pointed out how tives have defeated their own Engines, Ltd.'s products. profoundly our economic situation object in bringing the tariff
A further week's remand was the question so strongly to was altered by the war;" and so
granted by Mr.. Whyte Smith at the fore. Strong Protectionist agi-Kowloon Magistracy this morning on, ad lib.
tation has served only
*... served.....
to in the case in which a young That the movement envisaged reinforce the other strong in- Chinese again appeared before his Lord Beaverbrook as the next Pre-fluences that have tended to bring Worship on five charges of arson mier is clearly shown by Lord the Libéral and Labour leaders into in connexion with the outbreak of Kowloon. .Detective Inspector Rothermere's statement that harmony. In seeking to advance five recent fires in Hongkong and encouraged the former to address their position in the country, pre-Fallon intimated that the Crown himself directly to the people, and paratory to a General Election, the had not yet fully gone into the
Conservatives have established the case.
The week's. consumption to have nothing to do with the Government in power for two years, old gang of politicians," adding "I and possibly three. Moreover, the
Charges of being concerned in amounted to 48.84 million gallons. The total storage in the main- am thankful for the conviction Government will be in a stronger the sale of a young Chinese girl land reservoirs on the morning of that he will soon be a director of position than ever before. It is were brought against two men Monday, 24th March, amounted to and a woman before Mr. Whyte 379.37 million gallons, showing an the greatest depressed industry of good, and it will be better if the Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy increase of 2.87 million gallons all--the British nation itself." "It effect of the entente is Liberal co- this morning. It was intimated during the past week.
LATEST WATER STATISTICS.
KOWLOON SUPPLY SHOWS INCREASE..
The total storage in the island the morning of reservoirs on Monday, 24th March, amounted to a decrease of 84.07 million gallons 792.10 million gallons, showing during the past week; the amount million gallons, collected from streams being 14,77
operation in the problems of Goy that Mr. G. S, Hugh-Jones had The week's consumption is in new men, new brains and aernment over and above the record-been instructed to appear for the amounted to 26.26 million gallons, new policy that Britain's last hopeing of votes in Parliamentary divi-third defendant. On the applica- not including 2.71 million gallons of recovering her prosperity re- sions. Mr. Lloyd George is an- tion of Detective Sergeant Fitches, supplied to Water Boats at Lai sides," according to an italicised xious to help, not to hinder, and the the case was remanded for one Chi Kok
week, the first defendant on $2,000. The yield from the Shing Mun paragraph in the contribution un Premier will exhibit Inck of vision ball and the other two on $500 River and streams during the week
each. der notice. All this fuss and if he does not accept the offer."
was 31.84 million gallons.
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British Wireless.
She was one of those sweet, : gentle creatures who never grow soured or hardened, no matter what disappointment. or hardship they may have to suffer, this Elizabeth Jane, heroine. of Thomas Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge”
ELIZABETH JANE?
In poverty she was not despondent, and in affluence she was not proud. When Michael Henchard's fatherly love turned to hatred on: discovering that she was the child of another, and he drove her angrily, from his house, Elizabeth Jane understood, and pitied, and continued to love him.
Young Farfrae might stray
amore voluptuous charmer, from her into marriage with
but Elizabeth Jane bore him and his bride no resentment.
Do not think that she was
she could so easily forgive weak and spineless, because and forget, and above all, could continue to love. There was no weakness in her na ture Hers, was the strength. of an infinite chraity.
One is glad to remember that she was happy in the end, as the adored second wife of her beloved Farirae.