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mean higher prices for the farmer the very thing to which, Mr. Baldwin has asserted the urban- voters will not consent. How he hopes to get out of this dilemma remains to be seen.
DIS; LARTIJAZA DAY BY DAY
MAURICE LANE-NORCUTT on an
UNDERGROUND CAREER.
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ONE of the most frequent ques-1
Fortunately, however, such con-
GOOD MEN ARE THE CONSCIENCES OF THE TOWNS WHERE THEY RESIDE. Yesterday it appeared that by Bishop Patrick accepting full-blooded Protection,
Yesterday's return of notifiable Mr. Baldwin had brought himself diseases shows two cases of typhoid
tions naked by parents while tretemps rarely occur, and it isn't into line with the preponderance of jund one of puerperal fever. All
travelling on London's underground long before the average student were Chinese. feeling in his own Party. We
railways is: "Where do young tube finds himself promoted to the WORTH HURRYING FOR! have always held that this would be
attendants study for their profes- Gymnasium. Hère his training is. sion?
confined to such feats as punching the wisest plan for him to adopt
Underground accent and urge us stationary gate, and thrusting a How do they acquire the correct the moving ticket, slamming the putting an end to the timidity and
forward and shut, our noses in the lifesize dummy through a small temporising which have characteris-Merry."
gate with identical gestures ?!" aperture without unduly bending or ed Conservative policy.. It could,
Well, of course, the explanation breaking it. A banishee named Tsang Puis a simple, one really. These moreover, be argued that any extra was sentenced to one year's im- young men owe everything to the cost which the community, might prisonment by Mr. Butters at the same Alma Mater. They have all have to pay for food would be more Kowloon Magistracy this morning been educated at Dr. Ashfield's than offset by advantages in other for having returned from banish-Private Underground Academy.
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FRIDAY, OCT. 17 1930.
Passengers who arrived here by the Blue Funnel liner Hector in- eluded Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bungey, Mr. W. R. Mansfield, and Mr. F.
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directions. That would be a farmaNONAREACODANGKUMENTACA
better fighting policy than indeci aion on such a vital issue. But, despite Mr. Baldwin's acceptance of food taxes, Lord Beaverbrook re- mains bitter and antagonistic. It is difficult to understand his latest outburst, unless it means that he is animated not so much by political principles as by a desire to keep himself in the limelight. More than once have his supporters sug- rested that he will be the next Prime Minister. If that is really his ambition-one which has small chance of being realised-it may explain the persistence of his up- position to Mr. Baldwin.
Airship Pessimism.
That reconditioning work 门标 the R.100 has been stopped penil-
THE BALDWIN POLICY. ing a decision on the future of
Mr.
of heal
We had imagined that Baldwin's latest statement Conservative policy would the split within his Party on the tariff issue, and, at the same time, indicate the alignment of forces at the next General
Election,
airships, is admitted, in a round- about way, in the Air Ministry's official statement. The present intention is to avoid spending money upon repairs and renewals and the inception of any work that might prove unproductive.
In other words, the Air Ministry is already facing the possibility that the
R.100 cannot be depended
THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.
A VARIED SELECTION OF PICTURES.
There will be a varied selec- tion of pictures of topical interest in to-morrow's issue. of the Telegraph Art Supple- ment.
Of sporting events illustrat- ed will be the recent Races," the Rugby match between the Club and H.M.S. Cornwall, the soccer game between the Argylls and Chinese Athletic. and the tennis match in which Miss Lucy Lee, the Java ehampion, met Miss Enid Lo. There will also be a group of the H.K.F.C. team which play- ed the RA. last Saturday, as well as pictures of the first three to come in at the Har- bour Swim.
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The launching of the motor vessel Kurimarau at Kowloon will be illustrated, as also will be the City Hall reception on Chinese National Day, and the Blind Girls' Home annual picnic.
Amongst other portraits will be one of Mrs. Powell, the wife of the new Minister of Union Church, Hongkong,
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Directly he is capable of clipping more tickets than he misses and his dummy breakages are down to 30 per cent, he is considered to have,
matriculated. After that it isn't long before his thoughtfulness,
In all London's Underworld there and constant care for others have
is no more interesting "sight" than won his station the much-coveted this Academy during term-time. It first prize.
is indeed a fascinating, experience to pass through its tiled quadrangles, marked "Passing Quadrangles," and along its cylin- drical passages, marked "No Exit," until one comes to its class-rooms, labelled "There Is More Room At the Top Of The Class."
THE
EMPTY ROOM:
By Beverley Nichols.
He has gone to a boarding school. It is his first term. As she walks
Here, in the lowest class of all, known as the Underground Langu age Class, sit the new boys, chant- ing in unison: "Mar Blarch! O-bern! Cherinkross! Allgit slowly up the stairs she thinks Benk! Hi-stree-Ken! Nispridge!"how quiet the house is Parsinhiparcorn!"
.. and
dark too... though the sun is shin-
Woe betide any obstinate newing outside." boy who wilfully persists in mis- The ticking of the great grand- pronouncing "Hi-stree-Ken"
father clock in the hall sounds High Street Kensington" or "Par unbearably loud. Perhaps she will sinhiparcorn" as "Passing Hyde have it stopped till he comes back. Park Corner." He is very quickly He always loved to hear it chiming. sent to interview Dr. Ashfield in his One would not wish to be reminded, Study, that's all.
every quarter ...
It mustn't be supposed, though, She goes down the corridor and that the education of an Underpauses, at the door of his room. As ground student is limited entirely to countless other mothers are paus- pronunciation, because, of course,
next
it isn't. As soon as the student is ing, all over the world.
She enters. It is all so still in proficient in that he is promoted to there now, and so sadly tidy, The Class B, where he is taught what counterpane is unruffled, the chairs is technically known as "Passing stand straight against the wall, the Information While Passing."
Here the student, instead of sit-books are ranged in nent rows.
She opens
the big chest of ting in his class-room, keeps walk drawers. She sees a little pile of ing up and down it, closely follow handkerchiefs, collars, and ties, all ed by his master, who, from time tol
neatly arranged. In the time, raises his mortar-board and drawer are his flannels, beautifully asks such questions, as: "Excuse
fully rolled. She remembers that me, but which is the platform for pressed, with the white socks care Brompton Road?" or "Pardon the Hitherto, the ex-Premier. has shun- upon and for all practical pur- ment before the expiry of his intrusion, but do I change at Eari's he will not be needing those till next summer and the thought ned the food tax question, but at poses may have to be written off term. It transpired that the de-Court for Ealing?"
It is then the duty of the student brings her a momentary relief, for long last he appeared to have given as a dead loss. The pessimistic fendant had been deported in 1926
atmosphere that has descended for five years and that he had to turn his head slightly and, with it gives her something to do.
Oh--the agony of not being able in to the "Empire Crusaders" head-` upon Whitehall is easily under-returned to the Colony on a pre-out stopping, pass the information to do anything for him any more! quickly over his shoulder, at the She takes the flannels and packs el by Lord Beaverbrook. But it stood. The tragic loss, of the vious occasion.
same time passing on, humming. them away in an old chest. She is πον seems thail the latter R.101 and the mere fact that the A woman named Wong Yee was In this connexion a good story is very slow and deliberate about it, does not consider dye this change R.100 required extensive recondi- fined $10, or, in default, 14 days told, of a simple student who, while for she wants this little service to of front sufficiently dedite to war-tioning after her first important imprisonment. by Mr. Butters at being pursued by his master with fast as long as possible.
to indicate Kowloon this morning for posses-an urgent appeal for certain in- But one cannot go on packing rant his calling off his opposition voyage would seem
the Conservatives, which is that a big advance in airship desion of six sacks of coal, contain-formation, actually paused in his away a few pairs of flannels all the ing 504 lbs., on board her fishing, stride, saying politely: "Can I morning, and soon she reluctantly passing strange secing that the velopment has still to be made. junk. The defendant stated that direct you to any particular train closes the chest and pushes it away under the bed. She stays quite still Baldwin declaration has been des- But only a few days ago a rather the coal had been thrown on board for platform, sir?"
Needless to say, the whole class for a little while, kneeling on the cribed as a capitulation to the food-important contribution to the pro- her junk from a ship in the har
bour. Detective Sergeant Hum-burst out laughing at this silly mis-floor, resting her head on her hande, blem of the R.101 disaster Was phreys said it was a case of take, although it proved to be no staring straight in front of her. made by Dr. Eckener, the designer
larceny from Highter. The laughing matter for the poor Anybody looking into that room It is interesting at this juncture and commander of the Graf Zep-defendant owned a shrimp boat student. Indeed, he was promptly would see an ordinary, uninterest
no use ploughed," and had to become a to recall that in March last. two pelin, which may serve to modify and, therefore, she had
busman.. weeks after the launching of the the disappointment of those re for coal. Empire Free Trade movement, Mr.sponsible for the construction of
to
taxers. -
the R.101. The Graf Zeppelin also
Baldwin definitely asserted that made a short voyage in the early "there will be no food tax proposed morning of the disaster and when at the next election." He then she landed at Zurich her altimeter went on to elaborate his plan where showed a height of 400 feet when by the Conservatives, when return it should have been at ground ed to office, would consult the level. This failure of the altime- Dominions and if they could cometer to function properly-and the to an arrangement whereby the part played by observations of the altimeter in the R.101 crash may Overseas Governments would de-
ini- prove to have been of vital mand. in return for concessions en portanee is attributed to an area their part, a tax on foreign food of low pressure which came in stuffs, the whole issue would be with astonishing rapidity. Dr. put before the electorate by meansEckener has
before ex-
never
of a Referendum. We all know perienced such a phenomenon in that, accepted at first by Lord (thirty years of airship flying. Beaverbrook, this plan was later Experts have already stated con- fidently that no explosion occurred considered not sufficiently clear-
aboard the R.101 until she had cut, with the result that a fresh struck the top of a small hill breach occurred between Mr. Bald-She was evidently dying lower, win and the Empire Free Traders. than she should have been. It The ex-Premjer now again finda is more than likely that those himself in a quandary, for, with aboard had no real idea of how Lord Beaverbrook still not satisfied, low she was flying. It therefore is possible that there was no he also has to reckon with
structural defect at all, in which political opponents who will recall case the future of airships may his utterances against food taxes. be decided from an entirely new Only a few months ago, for in-angle.
stance, he declared "you have a pré-
There were fewer convictions for
to
dominant urban area in England to-day, and you cannot-it would be drunkenness in England and Wales madness to dream of it at the pre- last year than in any year since sent time--get the industrial dis- since 1918. The number of con- victions, according to Licensing tricts to vote for such Protection statistics for 1929, published by for the farmer as would enable the Home Office was 61,966, cöm- agriculture to prosper by higher of 3,676, or 6.61 per cent. But the pared with 55,642 in 1928-á drop
prices." This contrasts very vivid decrease was confined solely
y with his new statement of policy, England, where the drop in the |which includes "a guaranteed wheat or 6.9 per cent. More than half, number of convictions was 3,707,
price for the British farmer, com the arrests leading to convictions Bined with a tax on foreign malting for drunkenness took place during of convic- week-ends. The cases barley and the prevention of the tions for drunkenness due to the dumping of foreign oats and other drinking of methylated spirit' de- produce." Obviously, these
creased by 8.3 per cent, from 446 Pro-
in 1928 to 409 in 1929, posals, if put into effect, would
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