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A
Julio BROKEN FRAGMENT,
man of compromise. In support of, this statement, it was pointed out that he had only recently declared that he would be content with the substance of indepen- dence." As to Nehru, attention was directed to the fact that, on Deans. the eve of his arrest, he had declared that he was prepared to go to the Round-Table Conference if it would discuss Dominion. As Status, with safeguards. further proof of their sincerity, the writer said that both Gandhi
even claim the right to say who shall and who shall not serve on the Round-Table Conference. In fact, they impose, conditions which place themselves in the role of conquerors, and the British and Indian Governments in The Hongkong & Shanghai position of the conquered.
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There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
The Ben Line 6.s. Bennevis, from Home poris via Singapore, is due here on Friday.
Strange Dramas on
Board Ship.
Not without reason is a captain have clapped in Irons his disguised called the Master of his ship. passenger, Dr. Crippen, the notori No other civilian, no military ous murderer of Belle Ellmore, the general and, indeed, very few rulers actress.Masterly discretion and The health return for the past of States posses such wide powers clever detective skill, however, were and Nehru had fought against week shows 38 deaths from tuber- as the solitary, serious-faced figure shown in the method by which this
culosis, 16 from malaria and three standing on the bridge (says, a scaman effected the captura" great odds in their own Party in from influenza, all being Chinese. writer in the Weekly Mail). Be- Captain Kendall did not haar of seven cases, of fore all things he is in supreme the Hidrop Crescent marder until their efforts to negotiate a satis- There were also
typhoid, all but two being Chinese, command of his vessel. His word after he had left Antwerp, and was. is absolute law., With Bim lies in the English Channel. And even factory settlement of the Indian with one death.
the entire control of the navigation then he had no reason to suspect that the much-wanted wife-player" problem. We can now only won-
A returned banishee was sen- and working of the ship.
In times of danger he can com- was aboard his ship. As time went der what the writer of these
tenced to 12 months' imprisonment words thinks of the latest develop-and 24 strokes of the birch by Mr. pel passengers to work, as well as on, however, his observant eyes ments. Not only are the Con- Whyte Smith at Kowloon this officers and men. In certain cir noted with surprise that one genial
morning. The defendant said he cumstances he may put a passenger little gentleman was mora affections gress leaders asking for a very came back to see his, sick mother. or seaman in irons. As occasion ately attentive to a male fellow great deal more than "the sub- He had served 12 months and re- demands he may act as judge, doc passenger then man usually are to stance of independence," but theyceived 20 strokes for a similar tor, or clergyman. He may pledge each other.
the ship, dump overboard or sell The captain was soon convinced her cargo, and in desperate ex-that the handsome young fellow offence last year,
so greatly At the Kowloon Magistracy this tremities he may use his revolver whom the little man.
esteemed was in reality a girl mas-- morning, Revenue Officer Young or Bink his own vessel.
Rarely, however, in the glorious querading in male attire. His sus charged a Chinese with keeping an opium divan at 911, Canton Road tradition of the Mercantile Marine picions were aroused.. He drew the and also with having in his pos-has this ocean autocrat been known other passenger out to tell some of session 1.8 taels of raw opium. The to abuse his powers. Rather does his atore of funny stories. And defendant was fined $300, or one he stand in the history of the sea when the folly man laughed Cap- month's imprisonment on the first for all that is admirable in justice tain Kendall took the opportunity to charge, and $120, or 14 days, on and wisdom, all that is magnificent look into his mouth. He saw the
heroism and self-sacrifice, telltale teeth! The
13 definitely the second, the sentences to run in position
Therefore, to all on shipboard, the Then, and then only; was, he consecutively.
Old Man is a veritable Solomon satisfied that his passengers were worsened by these developments, and we fear that statesmanship Charged before Mr. Whyte Smith He, unquestionably is the marvell-Dr. Crippan and Ethel le Neve.. ∙an. will find its task made infinitely with having stolen two iron plates ous oracle who can promptly settle The result was that when the Mont-
steamer any difficulty of navigation or rose arrived at Montreal. from the Blue, Funnel
man stepped harder now that the pourparlera Teucer, a Chinese boy pleaded guilty discipline; who can quietly and ef- ordinary-looking
aboard the vessel and quietly ar- There can, this morning and was ordered 12 ciently meet every exigency. KERR-LANGLEY.-On Septem-
rested the flabbergasted criminal for whom detectives had been ber 6th, 1930, at Union have broken down.
Stowaways Marooned. Church, Hongkong, George towever, be only one policy on strokes of the birch. Detective Sergeant Humphreys sald the de- Edward, son of the late Mr. the part of both the Imperial and fendant was seen by a contractor's
The action of a skipper may, on E. G. Kerr, Dumbarton, and
appear arbitrary and Mra. Kerr, to Elizabeth Philp, the Indian Governments-a deter- foreman with the plates inside his daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.mination to suppress all subver- cont. Mr. Thompson, a ship's off tyrannical; as when, not long ago, cer, stated that 33. iron plates had the captain of a liner going to H. Langley of Connecticut, sive movements and to secure been missed during the night. Each America marooned three young horse belt. But imagine the extra-
the for
law. The respect
stowaways on a lonely share in ordinary spectacle of a ship that plate was worth $1.50.
Northern Ireland. But whether has taken fright! Yet, to be in Nationalists have had every pos
A toothpick and a piece of cloth-we endorse his attitude or other charge of a steamer that couldn't the dilemma in. sible consideration shown them,
which one skipper actually found even to the point of granting ing was all that was found in the wise, we may take it that he was be stopped was
possession of a Chinese stowaway acting within his rights..
Some years ago, a sea captain not himself. It was in the days when was giving way to steam. facilities for incarcerated law-on the J.C.J.L. steamer Tjipanas breakers to confer on the issues which arrived in Hongkong from only stopped an elopement, but also Bail
Sandakan. .Detective Sergeant refused to allow a man to remain on When the skipper entered the har at stake. Such repressive mea-Humphreys told Mr. Whyte Smith board as a passenger. The father bour he made the alarming dis- sures as. have been taken have this morning that the vessel left of the runaway girl reached the covery that his chief engineer below The "Old Man" didn't. lose his been those necessitated by the Sandakan.on September 2, and the steamer just as she was about to was quite unable to stop the engine.
mad · horse open defiance of law and order. defendant was discovered ming-set sail. Whereupon the captain
ling with the, crew two days ordered the lover ashore, though head. "Ifa But the patience, and forbearance later. Mr. Whyte Smith fined the the man had paid his passage, and eventually tire himself out and shown have seemingly been mis- defendant $50 or, in default, one wished to complete the voyage even stop," he reflected, "so will a ship." when deprived of the company of Accordingly, he gave his ocean. month's imprisonment.
steed free rein." He guided his his sweetheart.
One steward brought his skipper dying vessel around and round the taken for weakness; hence the character of the extortionate
up for assault. He alleged that, harbour. The crowds that watched. Maru, under the command of Capt. while at sea, the captain had struck bewildered on the pier must have had him bound of his senses. But he was serene.. kong yesterday afternoon shortly and afterwards R. Kamekawa, arrived in Hong-him two violent blows in the face, thought the skipper had taken leave after five o'clock minus one of the with fees and carried head first The queer race went on until at members of its regular crew. It
however, explained that he had hausted. The ship slackened speed returning to Japan from South appears that the steamer, which is to a cabin prison. The captain, length the boflers steam was ex- Overtaken by dirty weather on He did not use force until the America via Buenos Airest acted in the interest of discipline. and finally stopped. other ports, was on the voyage be-
the Morro Castle was forced to tween Singapore and Hongkong steward had kicked him. The case her way from New York to Cuba,
was dismissed.
heave-to, and her coal began to when an accident occurred on board. According to the report Capture of Crippen, peter out. The captain rode out of the storm by burning hundreds of of the master of the ship, a sailor
But, skippers do not too readily sacks of Cuban sugar. When in a fell over-board and, despite efforts to effect his rescue, he was not use their powers of arrest. Cap similar plight off the Irish Coast, seen again..
tain Kendall, of the Montrose, could] (Continued on Page 7.)
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The
Walter Glynne
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY. *EPT.
9 1930.
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THE DEADLOCK IN INDIA.
No-one, not even the extremists themselves, will be surprised that the Viceroy of India has described as utterly impossible the demands which have been put forward by ..Leslie Sarony the Nationalist leaders as the price of peace. These demands include the right of secession from the British Empire, the creation of a National Government with con- trol of the defence forces, the
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Business Conditions.
release of political prisoners not A very well known American guilty of violence, the restoration business man
interested in the of confiscated property, the re-textile industries has recently made funding of fines, and the repeal business tour in several Euro- pean countries and, arriving. in of the Special Ordinances. As if Canton, has given some highly in- this was not of itself a sufficiently teresting impressions. He found business conditions in England formidable list, it is further laid very uncertain", but better than down that although the civil dis- in the United States. If there is obedience movement would be ground for optimism here, then it called off on acceptance of these is somewhat. dashed by the view that the terrific unemployment terms, the picketing of foreign problem will never be solved, Eng- cloth and liquor shops and the land being over populated and over- mechanised. There is exceedingly illicit manufacture of salt would warm praise for the "dole" which continue. Moreover, neither the the business man believes to have composition of the proposed saved England from very serious complications. This view is some- Round-Table Conference nor the what surprising because America Indian representation on it must leads us to believe that a plan which be settled until these "preli- pours away millions of pounds each year for the support of idleness minary" demands are conceded! would not find favour there. From As one of the London papers ex- what complications England has presses it, these are conditions been saved we are not told, but. may guess that the spectre of grave which would be more appropriate disorders has been kept at bay at The American's ly imposed by the leaders of a colossal expense.
views on Russia are particularly partially successful
interesting in view of the state- revolution.
ment that industry is making
General con- Whilst the efforts of the enormous progress.
ditions are much better than the mediators are to be praised, there world is led to believe and workers' high can be nothing but extreme dis-living conditions reach appointment that they should standard. On the other hand con- ditions in Germany are said to be have been met with such an un-at the lowest ebb, but in France reasonable and intractable atti- there is said to be little or no un- tude on the part of the Congress employment. In Poland the cost of living is extremely low and busi- leaders. A few weeks ago, an
ness is good. General impressions Indian writing to one of the poli- are summed up in the phrase that tical reviews in London urged business conditions in Europe are that every effort should be made only fair, but on the whole better than in America at the present unfortunate to facilitate the attendance at the time. It is rather Round-Table Conference of that the comparisons do not go fur- ther, for the respective condition Gandhi and Motilal Nehru, both fof American and British trade, of whom were described as men British and French trade and so of great tact and
ability, on would be illuminating from this competent observer. His,review la Answering the argument that on the whole an optimistic one. these two should be regarded as The, depression in British trade, implacable, extremists, this writer the mounting unemployment figures and the so-called "cure-all" fiscal said that there could be no greater policies are so often stressed these misrepresentation of their aims. days that a little American optim Gandhi, he remarked, is, despite is based on personal investiga tion is distinctiy welcome and re- obvious superficial indications, a freshing.
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