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"WINSTON."
TROUBLESOME BOY AT SEVEN
SOLDIER-AUTHOR-MINISTER
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TELLS HIS STORY.
"LUCK OR PLUCK?"
CONTROL OF LONDON
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TRAFFIC.
TRANSPORT MINISTER'S
SCHEME.
Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Minis-. tor of Transport, in a speech ut a dinner of the London Under- ground and Omnibus Joint Com mittee of the Railway Clerks' As- нociation, dealt with the Govern
THE
HONGKONG
THE REAL MR. BALDWIN.
MR. WICKHAM STEED'S STUDY.
CHARACTER IN POLITICS.
TELEGRAPH.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
TRAIN DERAILED NEAR] SHANGHAI.
11
By
MANY INJURED THROUGH ACT OF SABOTAGE.
Shanghai, Nov. 21,
narrow
READY FOR THE FLOODS.
22.
1930.
PROGRESS OF DEFENCE WORKS.
ment's proposals regarding Lon-Wickham Steed. Nisbet and Co. passenger train bound for Shang- its usual orthodox quantities;
don passenger tennsport.
The Real Stanley Baldwin.
7a. Od. net.
in
Though no one can foretell what an English winter will bring forth, A scora of people were injured, the risk of a bad flood in the
Thames Valley
less probably and more than two hundred had than in any previous year.
from escapo
death, To take the supreme factor fret when four crowded coaches of athe weather it is renesuring that the rainfall in 1930 has come measurements have
have closely fol-
Last year, it lowed the average. may
bo remembered, the rain,. which had held off through the summer, spouted a deluge during November and December, with the
the Thames already swollen and threatening before Christmas.
hat from Nanking were derailed yesterday, due to the removal of several lengths of ralis.
hal.
Mr. Winston Churchill tella us
He expressed his gratification at Writing as a journalist who that at the age of seven he was the friendly reception the Govern-han never been hampered by what grown-up people called "
It is believed it was an attempt troublesome boy;" and he has been ment's proposals on London truffle allegiance to any Party," Mr. "troublesome boy" had received, not merely in Labour Wickham Steed han produced.
on the life of Marshal Chang something of
was reported result has never quite quarters, but generally. He had with a journalist's fair for the Hauch-liang, who He ever since.
Master Winston. Heved the Labour
frankly broken away, as he be right moment--an extremely able
then to be on the way to Shang- 1 10
Party would and well-written study of Mr. censed ChurchB, and even to-day he pro duces much the same effect on Mr. have to do in nearly all big trad-Stanley Baldwin,
old It la, in effect, a survey of the Snowden na an inky and mischieving undertakings, from the
direct State or politics of the last ten years, most aus sebeol-boy might price on conception of
municipal munagement on depart aptly documented, and informed schoolmaster.
inental lines.
by that Inside knowledge of affairs which the author enjoyed Editor of the Times during the period inmediately following the War.
Baldwin nima?" is the text on which Mr. Stend expatiates. its own swer to that question is emphatical. ly amative; but he is content to
rest
WRA
It
if
also
there
JLIT.
Took a Chance. Reuter's version of the affair
that
WAB
The derailment occurred bo- Next, there in the defence work tween Hwangtu and Asting, and which has been accomplished dur wan followed by wild scenes asing the last six or seven months, frenzied coolies fought to escape In May the London County Council from the wreckage.--Our Oten Cer-served notices on the owners of respondent.
miles of riverain property 46 some within the County of London. re. queating them to submit plans for raising their froninges by heights varying between
six feet.
that was informed xrent
of the proportion the negotia itions
riverside owners has been carried through, that many schemes have been submitted by one side or the other, and that a good deal of con- structive work has been done.
states:
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provide the clues without attempt./ from Nanking to Shanghai was between the Council and the |
Mr. Bonar Law's Confidences,
The new psychologists tell us,
The old idea In the provision of however, that it is often the trouble-
Lo some boys that are the promising London traffic faellition ones, and certainly in the early life lease is to individual competitive of Mr. Churchill there seem to have undertakings to find out publle bren few signs of pronise except needs, and, If meeting these needs
It is almost was thought to be hin troublesome near,
A profilable incredible that a youth, superlative enterprise, to enter the field. ly endowed with brains and physical was also thought sound that
bave courage should
poor aather private undertakings *ing the solution. Agure as a boy both in the class started services in competition, it ]xcell tbla room and on the playing-field; but was to the good,
Churchill seems meant plenty of transport and cut nt Achool Mr.
We had moved competitive fares, always to have been like a fish water of water. Perhaps even his détes far from those old Ideas and had tation of school and his misery came to realise, particularly in while he was there were merely, the enses like the greater London arva, restless strugglings of his genius that it was necessary to regard to escape into those perilous seas passenger transport as a whole, tu in which he is most at home.
see that the service was adequate and effective to meet bite needs and at the same time to avoid the provision of wasteful servleus and commercial failure.
Readers of the “Nets Chronicle recently had the story of how this ill-educated and incompetent by laid the Coundations of one of the
Life" it is £221
three horst.".
Turning Failure To Triumph.
the
There must be
contact
Last night a third class train
and derailed between Hwangtu Anting, about sixteen miles from Shanghal. It appears that the shplates had been removed from one section of the line.
The most interesting chapter of this book is that which deals with the break up of the Coalition and Mr. Bonar Law's acceptance of the Prime Ministership in a Conserva- tive Government. Mr. Steed, who was in Bonar Law's confidence, ed. thus relates a critical converan
tion between them:
Prime
The engine sufely crossed, but
Garden Bank Raised. eight coaches were derailed. Many passengers were Injured, One example of quick action has but it is believed none were kill-been furnished by Hurlingham Club, where for 600 yards the bank of the gardens has been raleed considerably above the required level, thus giving Fulham an t- pregnable margin of safety. An- other example, not so quick, in the | Terrace of the House of Commons, which needs to be raised by about LANE-NORCOTT JUMPS the Office of Werks, "has no chance one foot, but which, according to reconstructed this win- of being BACK IN DISMAY.
ter." As water has only once in- vaded the precincts fin the great flood of 1928) since the Houses of Parliament were bullt, the Depart ment feels fairly secure, and is
Next, again, there are the dredy- King quietly on with the finals. ing, widening, and improvements being undertaken by the Thames Conservancy between Teddington and Weybridge at a cost of £300,- 000. When the alterations complete in 1942 there should be towering of food time levels be tween Teddington and Shepperton of from one to three feet.
(Continued from Page 6.)
Is she, he asks him.
sweetheart?
ingratiating Harrys and Dicks?
are
It is believed the wreckers aim "He would not think seriously ed at derailing the night express, of leading his Party against the but chanced this being preceded Government unless the doctors by a third class train. remarkable careers in the
with would give him a clean bill of history of modern England, and
o the full story is published in public opinion, but the policy health. When they had examined uk turns with the title, "My Early which he had adumbrated avoided him, he told me, they thought him
stow-moving processes of extraordinarily the
good for a year at least, perhaps exciting and high-spirited narrative, formal nineteenth century demo- for twe; and, on the strength of written in the exultant mood of cracy, and secured that the service their opinion, he said he would Stalky's war-ery:
Ighout. Hear should be rua for the public good accept the leadership of the Party, me." Bir. Churchill gloats even a ust with the object of making and, if necessary, the office of maximum prošli first and Prime Minister, for a twelve- uver his failures ns preludes to his triumphs, and there is an air of affording public service after. At month. It would not be honest, genial boastfulness at the upen
the same ting the proposed bust he added, to let the Party imagine ing of the chapter called "Examines board of management free that I could carry on indefinitely, self, quite true to him, after all? tions," which runs: "It took me from political interference in mat- so I shall tell them that I will Can he be absolutely sure that, even at that moment, she hasn't of everyday management, take the leadership for one year tries to pass into Sand would in his view secure the ad-only. That is exactly what you broken her promise to him and in vantages of the best commercial mast not do. I answered. Take sitting in the pictures with those spirit in management, rapid deci- the lendership, become sion, and readiness to meet on The Minister, and then, if you are run What agonies and heartaches this and day-by-day legitimate over by an omnibus in six months and Ernest must suffer then, alone public demands.
time, it won't malter, Somebody upon his steeple! Is it to be won elan will take your place. But if dered at that sometimes he longs you say: Gentlemen, I will lead to advance the church chek a couple you for one year only; a twelve-of hours so that he can hurry to mouth hence the mantle of Elijah her home and find out the truth for will be up for auction-they
will
himself? start bidding for it straight away, and you will not know whether And at last there comes a day began recently. The Way re- you are on your head or your for he is only human, poor boy-presents about one-tenth of the heels. Ho
watershed saw the force of this when, I fancy, Sutan becomes too Thames reasoning, and on accepting the strong for him. He docs advance when it has been "Improved" Party leadership promised to hold the church clock. He puts it on which is not the word used by It as long as health and strength whole Saturday, thereby making it those who care for the should permit.”
Sunday morning. After that I can winding peace of the little stream see nothing ahead of him but rain will send into the Thames one- and disgrace. He, a trusted stoeple tenth more than its former volume
un of water. jack, las committed the one forgivable sin. He must leave nt once for Africa and shoot big game.
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And the boastfulness is justified for Mr. Churchill and Fate between them seem to have turned every apparent defent into an asset, and;
a gain. every apparent loss into Because he was thought a donce at Harrow, he was set to learn
enru English instend of the Classics, and learned to write. Because he had preferred Toy soldiers 211 lessons, and his father thought him not clever enough to go to the Bar, he was seat into the Army, which was ultimately le provide the most effective intruduelion both to au- thorship and to politics.
Opinions will differ as to whether Mr. Churchill owes more to fuck or to pluck in his astonishing career. That he was lovky in being horn into a great English family and into a world of powerful friends is but all the fuck in the obvious world does not make a Winston Churchill. Mr. Churchill is what he is today first of all, not because he is the son of the Lord Randolph Churchill, but because of his Fear- Fessness, bis hoyish adventurous. 10:38. and his indomitable
will power. Mr. Churchill entered upon life
as though he were entering for an obstacle race in which life and limb must he risked, and his heart rose with the risks.
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SOCCER BY RADIO.
1.
2.
3.
5.
6.
8.
CHATHAM ÃQAD
Plans That Failed.
Tite
Is
Conservancy scheme correlated with the Surrey County Council's deepening and straight- ening of the Wey, on which work
area,
and
green,
Mr. Steed adde significant footnote to this incident:
Work for Three Dredgers, On Curzon he relied for the circumspect management of for
Naturally, the Conservancy are eign affairs; but before six montha
being careful to see that the par- were over he confessed that he
No-a thousand times No! Ient river shall be enlarged in good had never imagined Curzon would
would rather sco a son of mine be time to receive the more generous be so
Foreign bad
Secretary. He a time stor than he should rifts of its tributary.
A map of knew he could not count upon the himself with this dangerous
the course between Teddington Rapport of the "Rothermere
and Weybridge shows half-a-dozen Press," for he had rejected Lord steeple-jacking.
points at which the banks are be Rolhermere's terms, On this point
~~~~វរាជ្ជ
ing cut away; three of the weirs duenmentary evidence may exist,
are being enlarged-at Teddling- possibly in the keeping of Lord Be found in the inte Lord Rosebery's ton. Ash Island, beyond Molesey averbrook, (Our Italics.)
orations-things lefty in thought Lock, and above Sunbury; and the which Mr. Steed
Another
int in the the doubt, as Mr. Steed seen it,
episode and memorable in phrasing. But big bends nt Halford and Shep-
in pert
perton are
being
relieved by a just before the election of 1924, whether the poet in words is also flood channel, running from above there were active influences which capable of being the poet in action. Walton Bridge to a point below favoured the revival of the old The poet in worda is
con-d'Oyley Carte's island, that is to be Coalition Government based upon tent to leave the impulse of his a hundred feet wide and will serve a Middle Party, and that plans thought to work on in others. He as a useful short cut for hargo for something more substantial exhausts himself in imparting the trafile. able to grasp what was meant by than a shadow Coalition Cablant, impulsc. The poet in action wants O table."
had already been
Accord evidence of how a grent carcer can
made.
to sae the thing through himself, be made out of very little. I am
At the same time, the most huing to these plans, Sir Robert
to bend others to his will, and to not sure that it is not a safer book morous thing in the book is written, Horne was to bo Prime Minister trim and shape their work while for its purpose than Mr. Churchill's not by Mr. Churchill, but by Mark after the General Election.
they are doing it." Twain. Mr. Churchill asked Mark Mr. Winston Churchill and Lo
Lord
Life As A "Movie."
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autobiography. For Mr. Churchill's Twain to sign the thirty volumes Birkenhead were to hold proinin That is the doubt that is still servancy measures is as great nat view of life is no romantle and even of his works. Mark Twain did so, ent positions in the Horne Cabinet I unresolved.. But the possibility the Conservancy, though not all sensational, that the career for Pi
Lloyd George and his of a "nghting Baldwin" is on- students of hydrography, expect, which the prdlary man is fitted inscribing in the first volume the which
fame in contrast. One might maxim: Reema
"To do
is Rood to more might Mr. opinion,
noble, nir teach others to do good is nobler,
have joined. This almost as well set Hougla
also
resistance to the attempted tamed and the river valley fairly Fair-
scheme by his ung and no trouble. As for the philo-postulated the ejection
of Mr. dictation of the Press Lorde, of secure from unwanted irrigation. banks of the time before the suphic Mr. Churchil, we And him Baldwin, from the Conservative whom Mr. Steud has some pun- for imitation as this soldier-author- statesman with his passion for such a sentence us:
"The iden leadership-an operation to which gant things to say-things that cavalry charges and his infinite that nothing is true except what the schemers and their backers preclude for him the hope of any
or even we comprehend is silly, and that in the Press looked forward with favourable notter, capacity for getting into and out
idens
notice at all, in the newspapers of tight
minds cannot keen anticipation. our which
ventures in this book to crowd ̧ u
of
corners.
There are, indeed, enough ad iller all." But this is followed the Conservative Party in
reconcile are mutually destructive, The overwhelming victory of the Press Lords.
of
the
nny
highly sensational fim. and Mr. therefore adopted quite early-1
"Politics," he writes, "under- native by the
confession "I plection blew that, scheme sky stood as active care for the public Churchill can describe them with
-in high.
wen! Is On the whole, Mr. Steed is very and it is a wholetimo
an honourable profession the relish of one who lives imagina life a system believing whatever
Job. wanted to believo, while at the fair to Mr. Baldwin. with a lively Journalism is also an honourable the world of Dumns, In
I In in the Sudan, in South Africa me time leaving reason to pursue sense of his good qualition.
profession, when it is exercised an there is always the favour of unfettered whatever paths she was
a constant guardianship of public liberties and as a ministry of on-
tively
India,
the prose opic in what happens to capable of treading."
Mark Twain's Joke.
The Prese Lords.
and
him. He loves the vory show of This naivete, this candour of He quotes Mr. Baldwin an sayghtenment. danger, the panache of daring, writing, will do much to disarming once, "I thought we should His ideal here is a hero out of a even the opponents of Mr. Churchill, have taken another line; but then "But 2 newspaper Industry,' story-book, and he has triumphant- and enable them to enjoy the Winston came along with his aiming at the attainment of big ly made himself such a bere. spectacle of the progress of one hundred-horse-power brain, circulations by devices that have whose real philosophy of life Is what was I to do?" But ho adds nothing to do with Journalism of extract- a belief in energy and courage in that Mr. Baldwin might define his proper, for the purpose their Mr. Churchill,
ost dramatic forms. The political philosophy as "the philo-ing high advertisement rates from however, has cynical
and unlimited re- of doing right." To his advertisers written something more than Д
invest- story of adventure. He is also a autobiography merely the story of
the capital A high tribute. "Of his od in the newspaper philosopher and a humorist. For how a troublesome boy grow up to
troublesome man eminence as a post, in words there has no more title to dictate comedy, turn to his account of hew Most readore, however, will be un- is no doubt whatever," and in evi-to political leaders and to Govern- ho wont up behind young Amery able to resist the spell of. Mr. donco Mr. Steed cites a fino pass-mente than has the cinepin Indus- at. Harrow and pushed him Into the Churchill's genius and ganlality and age from the speech on "England try to demand that the standard pool, or to the description of the will enter-cathetically at least On non-political subjects, there of public morals shall be fixed at schoolmaster's attempt to explain into his own hearty enjoyment of are things the meaning of the vocative case his adventurous career--B.C.
in Mr. Baldwin's the level of what will attract the spouches as fine an anything to be largest crowds.": in Latin, when Winston was totally
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