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MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
MONTAGUE SMITH addresses a letter
OUR BULLIED M.P.s.
CIR or Madam,
has glibly talked of other "nations proparing for war
and of the necessity of Italy being pre- pared to meet danger from without. This idea seems to be.
IT 18 THE PREROGATIVE OF GOOD an obsession with him. To the WOMEN TO DISLIKE OTHER GOOD outside observer, ho appears WOMEN, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEIR to be itching for war, and the BONS WOULD MARRY THEM.—Maz
Pemberton. spirit which ho reflects is apparent also in the Fascist movement fa Italy and elsewhere. The failure
your authority. A few days later Throughout the country the Government brought the vote in. of Italy and France to come to an
there is a growing suspleton again, their Whips threatened dire. that the House of Commone is patua and penalties, and it was agreement on naval disarmament
ceasing to be the Voice of the Peo- passed. So ended that rebellion. has but nerved to increase Euro-
is becoming instead a The Empress of Japan is due ple, and
You can regain control by
exert- pean tension, in which connexion here on Friday morning and will pounding board for the Voices of ing and assorting, yourself. One the French attitude towards Ger- leave the following
Ministers and bureaucrata--a very way is by a reform of parliament- evening for different thing. Manila.
ary procedure to secure the appoint- many has not been altogether help-
Since this must soon translate it- ment of a committee of M.P.s to ful. In the circumstances, there-
self into the question: The M.P., whom all departmental estimates The body of an unknown Chinese, at £100 a year, is ho worth it? the shall be submitted before they aro fore, it is, perhaps, hardly Buraged about 60, was found hanging time has come when you should be passed by the Treasury and before prising that attention should be from a beam of house at No. 141, asking yourself some very serious any money is spent. drawn to the danger of antagoniam Second Street, West Point, yester-questions as to your responsibility Upon the last of your theoretical
[ day.
for this state of affairs.
ilberties-the right to introduca developing on the Continent in a
All persons with firearms are re- minded in an advertisement that they must obtain new or renew their existing licences forthwith.
18th.
men.
It does, indeed, seem paradoxical private motions and Bille-overy manner sufcient to cause Rome The Empress of Asia is due here that the members of the House of Government makea encroachments concorn. It is true, as Field Mar- from Vancouver on the 24th inst. Commons, which came into exiat-without adequate protest. Every shal Sir William Robertson anid Sho will dry-dock for annual over-ence to defend the liberties of the Ministry, pleading pressure of off- the other day, that wor as a means/haul and sail again on February the most browbenten and bullied of time. Still, there are a few hours subject, should themselves be among cial business, seeks to shorten your
loft in each session for you, and I will not refer at length to the what use do you make of them 1 prohibitions that are placed upon The right of any private mem- your personal enjoyment of what is ber to occupy the House by a pri at the best club in the world-to vato Bill or motion is determined the fact, for instance, that while by ballot. The Clerk takes a num you are permitted to play chess or ber out of a box and the Speaker draughts, there is a stern prohibi- calls the name of the member with tion against a billiards table or a whom it is identified. Then is the rubber of bridge within its walls. time for independence of action, What concerns the electors-nad for bringing forward some subject that very deeply is the prohibitions with which the country is really con- that the Whips week to place upon cerned. your right to a free expression of opinion as our representative.
of settling international disputes is now more universally. condemned
The annual exhibition of the than ever before, but we should be Hongkong University Amateur shutting our eyes to the facts if we Photographic Club is being held in the Union Assembly Room to did not concede that there le in day to the 10th Inatant, Admission some quarters a lack of sincerity is free. In the lip-service which is paid to
rived here from Manila by the Amongst the passengers who ar. Empress of Russia were Mr. L. Dunbar, Mr. and Mrs. R. Y. Frost, Mr. H. C. Shrubole, and Mr. J. D. Humphreys.
paciflam. When we bear in mind that practically all the nations of the world have sworn to outlaw war. the hesitancy to embark on
What actually happens, save in very rare cases, is that the Party general disarmament would appear
Whips hurry round and in the to need some explaining. Sir Wil
Plending guilty to a charge of
hands of the lucky member place a The relatives of the late Filomena
died liam Robertson was again perfectly saving stolen a bottle of whisky
To the Whip, whose party is his resolution chosen by themselves. So Fonseca da Silva, who un 29th December last, wish true when he asserted that the from the s.s. Comorin, a Chinese first consideration, the ideal private when his name is called and his waa sentenced to a month's impri-member is a political Robot. To be subject demanded Mr. A. rises and tri tender their grateful maintenance of great and costly onment by Mr. Butters, at Kow. in your place to "Make a House," says: "To call attention to the to be seen but not heard (save in evils of Socialism, and to move a for the many floral tributes armaments is not the first essential loon this morning,
saying,
"Hear, hear" or "Never, resolution"; and Mr. B says: "To measure required to prevent war
nover," as occasion demands), to be call attention to the reactionary po- and added that less jealousy and ed by the authorities to any person as ordered these are the actions move a resolution."
A reward of Ten Dollars is offer-counted in the right division lobby lley of the Conservativos, and to less selfishness in the conduct of furnishing information to the Po-to which the Whips would confine Thus do the Whips sock to put international affairs is far more lice leading to the conviction of a
you, and If they could replace the chains upon you even when you are person in possession of unlicensed individual by a machine they would, supposed to be free. important. Not until that spirit ta wireless apparatus capable of being But auch
of indivi suppression adequately forthcoming will dis-used for reception or transmission duality is neither to your advantage private Bills reflect either your Nor does the supply of privileged nor to ours, A system which sets abilities or your SOMERHAUGH BAKER, At armament follow and the nations of of wireless Signals.
the stage and the limelight perpetu- Some of them are merely Govern- opportunities. the Supreme Court, Hongkong the world at last be on the road to
The Yellow Dragon, Queen'aally for two score Front Bench ment mensures which you have been on December 31st, 1939, Fly-peace and goodwill.
College magazine, records sincere speakers and keeps you silent is ing Officer A. G. Somerhaugh,
Unhappily, whilst there are in all appreciation of the further gift of merely a method of preserving the persuaded to adopt. Others are R.A.F.. only
of A. L
...well, hardly what the country. $2,000 which Lou Shui-chuen has vested Interests of the old gang. Somerhaugh, Eas, London, to nations leaders of public thought just made
expects from you. to undow another Beatrice Miriam, only daugh- who realise the utter futility of scholarship. This is the fourth of bate, the best for publicity-p.m.make fun out of the fact that the The best hours of the day for de- The satirist may if he likes ter of Robert Baker, Esq., of wear, and who never lust an oppor. a series of eight scholarships for to 7 p.m. and the closing hour from first private member's Bill Intro- Hongkong.
Fun U district acholars which air. 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.-are occupied by duced this session was one dealing unity of preaching the gospel of Lan has undertaken to endow. too long speeches from Ministers with damage by rabbits, but the peace, there are others who exploit
and Opposition leaders. You, if wise man will draw the moral that every possible occasion to put for Detcetive Sergeant Goodwin you insist, are given time to speak a certain amount of annoyance can ward the view that man is a fighter made an application before Mr. while Ministers are at dinner, when, be caused to the powers that bo by Butters, at Kowloon this morning, depressed by a lack of an audience, and wars are inevitable. If this for one week's formal remand in you make speeches to be reported in the most timid of God's creatures. Intter view is allowed to dominate the case in which Fong Ping and your constituency by your local At this moment the stirrings of others not in custody were charg.wspaper. Better far, if this be uneasiness in the country at the mankind, it will be a sad reflectioned with having on March 27, 1920, your sole object, that they should creeping paralysis of Parliament on civilisation. Memories must in-entered the second floor of No. 50,
be merely handed in at the table have prompted Ministers to vague deed be short if we are so soon to Lu Chi Kok Road, armed with two and to the Press Gallery and taken talk of appointing a committee to consider the procedure of the House pistols and two daggers and hav-as rend. forget the horrors of the Great Waring assaulted a Chinese
of Commons. This is your oppor Itunity, but it may also be your de- and its fallure to settle anything Wong Sik-chuen," with "Intent to
rab. The application was grant-penditure has long become nil. Once
Your control over national ex- [struction. whatsoever. The need of the times
You or the Whips will be the re- is an intensive cultivation of higher
in the last ten years a very daring formers. If the latter, then it will and better ideals than those repre-
House by a division did actually soon become a common thing for a Appearing on remand. oa a refuse to sanction an estimate In-Prime Minister to say, as Mr. Mac- sented by senseless slaughter. Let charge of being in possession of voiving a few hundred pounds only Dennid did recently of certain de- us hope that peace-loving instinets 560 morphin pills, a Chinese mem- of public money. What was the re-cisions for dealing with the unem-
ber of the crew of the s.s. Tal Leo sult? will prevail and that, so far from was fined $600 by Mr. Lindsell at calmly announced that the money concern of the House of Commons." The Minister responsible ployment problem: "Those are no tending in the other direction, the the Central Police Court this mor- had already
been spent without months hard labour. In another ning, the alternative being three
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1931.
THE TENSION IN EUROPE.
In expressing the view that Europe is drifting swiftly to the mast perilous situation since the Great War. the Daily Herald is doubtless sounding a warning note
PRETTY WEDDING.
[ rather than' accking to raise al-year we have now entered upon will artist fears. A sense of ita res-be marked by a great and lasting ponsibility as the
of the urge toward the pacifle settlement organ Government would naturally deter of all problems na they present it from scare-mongering. It has themselves. been said that the surest way to create a war is to talk of one, and whilst there may be a substratum of truth in this saying, it is im- | portant that timely notice should be taken of developments which in any way lend in this direction. At the same time, it is regrettable that the New Year should open any clouds on the horizon, the more So since so much effort has been expended during 1930 on mensures for the prevention of armed con- flict.
The immediate
with
cause of the Daily Herald's comment is to be
found in the New Year utterances
MR. L. WEILL AND MISS
V. M. JEFFORD.
eil.
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dector,
case, a Chinese, who was arrested
MONTAGUE SMITH.
500 pills in his possession, was re-ing at Lane, Crawford's Restau-December, In Wing Shing Street with about The speaker at the Rotary meet-] The competition for the month of Crawford's at Lane, manded by his Worship until to- rant to-morrow will be Mr. Bas-miniature golf course, was won by morrow for the production of the com Johnson, Chairman of the Mr. F. Zimmern, who, after tleing analyat's certificate.
League of Nations Commission of with Mr. A. A. Rumjahn with a Enquiry Into the Traffe in Women score of 31, scored 48 against his and Children in the East.
opponent's 47 In the play-off.
A Chinese was charged, before Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, with the theft of a steel vice and a wrench, the property of the Telephono Com- pany, from 25, Cumberland Road.
Chinese foreman, after putting Dressed in a lovely medieval up a telephone wire in the house, gown of ivory chiffon velvet, close had thrown the tools into the gar fitting in design, Miss Veronlen don with the intention of picking Marjorie Jefford looked a charm- them up, later, but the defendant ing brido on the occasion of her look them away, The vleu marriage to Mr. Leo Well, which valued at $50. A month's Impri- took place in the Ohel Leah sonment was imposed. Synagogue on Sunday. The cere mony was performed by Rubbi
Wus
Kahamin Lazare, in the presence ed a pogy of yellow African of a large congregation.
daistes.
The bride is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jefford, of 17, a gown of silver grey chantilly
· The brida's mother was attired in
Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, lace and georgette" and "corrled
wore
of the German Defence Minister and for the occasion was attended Parma violets, and the bride. and of Signor Mussolini. Dr.bearers, with Mr. Harry Joseph' as georgette, trimmed
by a small girl and boy as train- groom's mother was in pale beige with ribbed Groener, in referring to what he "best man".
fur. Har bouquet consisted of describes as the Intolerable burden With her own. Miss Jefford African daisies. imposed in Germany by the Young hung from the shoulders, of Ivory day, the bride was adorned in an a very long square train, At the legal ceremony on Batur- reparations plan, merely reiterates satin lined with cas de nile and ensemble of greon, consisting of what he and other German leaders bordered with small rhinestores. velvet skirt and short fur trimmed have often said. It In the Italian This was held out by her atten-coat and a satin blouse, worn with
| dants by means of horseshoes of close fitting hat. Premier who has added fuel to the orange blossom attached to the A reception was held at the fire by asserting that he is pre-lower corners. In addition the Jewish Recreation Club, the bride pared to support Germany on the wore a lace cap, with a coronet of subsequently wearing "going- orango blossom, from which, fell away" dress of satin trimmed with armaments question and. in de-a long tulle vell, bordered with the fur, with hat to match. The manding a revision of the Pence same lace. He bouquet was a honeymoon is being spent at Fan- Treatles. Signor Mussolint has wheat of white orchids.
one of her attendants,he wedding gifts were both again and again indulged in belli-wore a afrock of green taffeta trim numerous and handsome, tho
cose utterances within the past few med with aliver Ince and a lace bride's token to the groom being months, seldom losing an opportuni- cap, while David Odell had a white a hand-painted miniature, and the satin blouse with green volvat beidegroom's gift to the bride a ty to do a little sabre-rattling. Ho knickers and cap. Fay also carri- Iplatinum and diamond bracelet,