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MONDAY JAN. 19, 1931,
SOME BYE-ELECTION REFLECTIONS.
in the East Bristol bye-election of
MONDAY, JANUARY 19. 1931.
General Election. This is scurce- ly to be wondered at, seeing that there in really very little difference those days in fundamental outlook| between Liberalism
and Labour.
DAY BY DAY
SCOFF NOT AT THE NATURAL DE- In fact, the country seems to beFECTS OF ANY WHICH ARE NOT IN getting back once again to the two-THE TOWER TO AMEND, OH, IT 13 on CRUEL TO BEAT A CRIPPLE WITH HIS party idea, the Conservatives
one aldo and Labour, which is lit- OWN CRUTCHES-Fuller. tle removed from Liberalism, on
Hon. Mr. S. W. Teo will present the the other. We see little prospect prizes at the Yaumati School on Fri-
day at 11 a.m. of the Liberals gaining much new ground in the future, although if
electorate.
The F.&O... Kalyan, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on 17th January at 7.30 am.
We have
dun.
Y
'Sir HERBERT BARKER on
CRASHING AT 55 M.P.H.
A
YOU have just read the title offprogress. Into a sheer second a this article. It occupied your man may cram a staggering mind and eye about
one amount of emotion, volumes of second. Had you been reading in lightning thought.
I think It must be quite true The Ben Line ss. Benrsoch, from car travelling at 66 m.p.h. you the Alternative Vote la in opera-Home and Straits ports, is due here would have been hurtled. through about the drowning man passing space in that Instant of time no in review the main events of his lean than 82 feet.
whole life. tion at the next General Election on the 24th Instant.
An wo crashed my mind was I put it that way because it has the Conservatives may be the prin
been brought home to me force concentrated on the fate of my cipal sufferers. Mr. Lloyd George
fully that we are so used to high wife. When I regained conscious- Apeeda that we have ceased to neas my mind took up the broken. and his supporters have latterly
ronline the reality of danger thread. I was planed down by
dend weight. I opened my eyes. beon stressing the need for the
Judge Samuel S. Greene, of involved in such velocities.
here with his
On a perfect autumn day recontemthing warm, and
were wet and half-blinded by continued existence of the Liberal Australia, arrived
unpleasant. My wife had been flung on top Party as a separate political en-wife and daughter by the s.s. Pre-ly I set out with my wife and
sident Pierce.
nephew to motor from Boulogne toi
of me. Was she dead? I moved I Cannes, tity, but we fear that the con-
WAS Alled by that tinued support given to the Govern-
rweived from the excusable pride that possesees a and a violent stab of pain made me cry out. No, she was nilve. ment has had the effect of weak- Mercantile Printers' Supply Co. alman with a new de luxe saloonLivid brulses were on her fore useful pocket diary issued by the ear. was puffed up by the ing the appeal of the Party to the Forrest Printing Ink Co. of Lon- thought that mine was the world's head; but she breathed.
In a few months our injuries best chaufleur.
will have healed, the disaster will We sped Amoothly, suavely However the future may work I
The road unrolled have slipped back into perspec- Passengers arriving here from southwards, unt as between Liberals and Con-Manila by the sr. President Pierce like a dark riband, and its surface ve, and the chances are we shall
in the Included Mr. and Mrs. servatives, there is little
McD. had acquired an alluring amooth-have told the tale so often that a
a bore, Bristol bye-election to suggest Courtney, Mr. J. W. Cowan and Mrness from the impact of many request to tell it again will become
H. C. Millett.
rubber-tyred wheels.
At the moment, however, all is that Labour is in danger of extinc
crystal-clear. Years
ago at Miss Jovita Fuentes, the noted It happened soon after we had Brooklanda I saw a tion. It is true that in the sphere
racing car Grenoble. My man had leave the track, swoop up and over of Home pollica Mr. MacDonald Filipino singer, arrived here from left
Manila by the 8.3. President Pierce, instructions to drive at a moderate the embankment, crash into the and his colleagues have not lived She is en route for Senttle, for speed. But it is one thing to be higher branches of a tree, and fall. muster in one's own house quite I wondered then what sensations up to expectations, but against concert tour in the United States.
another to be master in one's own the driver experienced during that that fact we have to place another
[Annl second of consciousness. Suffering from injuries caused new car.
The farty prescribed had Now I know. that the Conservatives are now through falling off a moter lorry in
become Afty-five miles an hour, If he loved some other human wedded to a fiscal pulley which has Kowloon Tong on Saturday, never found popularity with the earth-carrying coolie, Chu Fat, was when the righthand rear tyre being intensely, then the sting was removed to the Kowloon Hospital burst with, a shattering crash taken out of death for him, as it electorate. The continued serious where he died at 10.15 am. yeater-The great ear made a ghastly would have been taken out of fright way, swerve, charged the death for me had I never regained mess of the unemployment problem day.
ditch, hit it squarely, consciousness the Grenoble has undoubtedly reacted unfavour-
On damary 6 last a report was made a rapid somersault, and shot road.
forward on Its side into the nislg on, Labour, the position to the police of the loss of a
beyond. 7 m. lathur, but the prison watch belonging to Surgeon Lieut. plougher field killed my last con-health with ly, valuce somewhat
In
08
*
1 nm foud of my nephew. I still
not
•
Incidentally, I return slowly
Those looking for an indicatio,serious as I would be if England Downs, of HM.S. Tamar, but nscious moment would have con-1 readjusted. I never knew before report made over the week-end stituted that second of time in how to I really cared for muy were alone in this plight. The slated that the watch had been
single consideration the lie of of those opulent furnishings we a possible change in the politie fact that the United States and found by the officer's servant in the which my mind was occupied by a new ear, or any other car, or any
my wife.
are apt to mistake for Life itself. Germany, two highly protected Lieutenant's own pocket.
Nothing matters, I thought, as I countries, also number their inte The annual Masonic service was have a sneaking regard for my looked into my wife's eyes after by the millions is suthicient to off-held at St. John's Cathedral last chauffeur. But at that moment that short moment of time in exist for me. which the full enjoyment of a por- set the Conservative cattention evening, when many members of they did
the fraternity attended in regalia. Incidentally, my death would have fect day, in a perfect car, with that tariffs are a cure for unem- The Rev. E. W. L. Martin, District been perfectly painless,
perfect health and radiant happi- ployment.
I have pointed out that in the mess, was changed to terror, pain Grand Chaplain, was the preacher, while the lesson was read by the time it has taken you to read the and agonising fear for another.
On the whole, I think I have Rev. J. H. Johnston, Past District title of this article a car travelling Grand Chaplain. The Bishop of at which
needed the experience to Victoria, Dean Swann and the Rev. would have covered we crashed gained something from that crash C. B. Chann also took part in the feet. That is, in a single second quicken both brain and heart. The mind, however, travels at a The sunshine and flowers, and a service,
speed beside which that of a high woman's eyes, have a new meaning velocity projectile is a sluggish for me now,
A
temper of the country will find very little in the result to support their expectations. Hitherto, the con- tents in this constituency have
of born in the nature
straight
La- Aghts between Liberals and hour, with Labour wirming in the
The Dog-Roasting Incident. Pre- last three General Elections. vious to 1923, the seat was held by very frank, correspondent, the Liberals, who lost it in that "Dog-enter" misses the point of year by a majority of over two our comment upon the Ngau Shi Wan dog-roasting incident, and In 1924. Labour in-
misunderstands the powers of a creased its advantage to close on mugistrate and the relative values.
Alra. Mr. C. S. Kwok, principal of Mr. and
A. M. Bowes- re-Chun-Shing Typewriting School, 3 Smith are providing the Eve thousand votes, whilst in the of evidence. It would have been
at the Helena May 1929 election the Labour majority much more satisfactory, we sub-manded for a further week. De Old Bailey Street, has arranged gramme
Thuraday. eleven thousand. mitted, had Mr. Butters deelded lective Sergeant M. Murphy told an international competition in Institute concert on
was typewriting for April 1st. The with Mr. C: Dudley Bartlett us ac- the Court that Mr. Manton making good progress and had been supervisers will be the Director campanist. Mrs. Bowes-Smith will That majority has been practical to take the evidence of the Indian 1; maintained in the bye-election constable before agreeing to dis-removed from the Government Civil of Education, and Mr. MacKnight, be heard in two groups of English which has just taken place, den, missal. Admittedly, the result of Hospital to the Victoria Hospital. Manager of Mustard & Co., Ltd. jand German songs, whilst her hus-
but would not be able to appear rúa examiner will be Mr. G. 8. band will make three appearances - for a week,
Kwok. Prizes will be given. at the piano.
Christid.
rose to
over
pite the fact that there were three candidates in the field.
the post-mortem examination was upsetting to the police case, but, it was not necessarily conclusive.
the the Neither
pollee ΠΟΡ the the magistrate can be wholly excused as helpless because of the medien! evidence, which, at best, in a case of this kind in an estimate of the
Analysing the figures of intest contest, we find that Labour pool has shrunk by nearly five thousand compared with the
last General Election, but, that probabilities. We do not know fact notwithstanding, the Govern- what evidence the Indian would ment candidate is still seven thou-have given, but the opening state- suggested that he sand ahead of the combined pollment rather
might have seen the alleged roust- of his bare opponents. It has o be remembered also that far fewer Ing and the dog howling at the the same time. In that event, voters exercised the franchise on anding of the post-mortem would this necasion, there being a drop have been contradicted; and it is in the total voting of over Ave not inconceivable that a sturdy live for some thousand. Labour retains its animal might
minutes after an attempt, at majority practically unimpaired by
suffocation without indicating the reason of the fact that the com-fact in a subsequent examination. bined Liboral and Conservative "Dog-cater's" explanation of the vote does not equal the Liberal manner of preparing a dog for poll of two years ago, The out-purposes of human consumption standing feature of the bye-elec- clears up one point, while failing the more tion is the loss of ground by the to render the dish any
delectable. it does not follow Liberals, whe polled some eight that cruelty does not enter into thousand fewer votes than in 1929. the process because it
general- for in- In fact, the Lloyd George faction y practised. The fact, has never done so badly in this stance, that some Chinose believe particular constituency. No doubt ducka to possess curative qualities when the feathers aro plucked many who had previously voted Liberal gave their support on this while the bird is still alive, does not render the practice less revolt- occasion to the Conservatives, who ing by Western precepts. Hitting
ran a nominee for the first timen dog on. the head with heavy
and who must be quite well satiaf-blows unt life is battered from'
ed with having obtained close on its body would hardly pass the R.S.P.C.A. Finally, how does "Dog- eight thousand votes. Apart from the Liberal shrinkago, this is the eater" account for the curious fact that the men, responsible for the most striking feature of the con- Ngau Shi Wan roasting.omitted test, showing as it does that even the apparently important pre- In a traditionally Progressive liminary of scraping the hair off, constituency there a consider if they were preparing the cron- able bulk of opinion favourably ture for food, and wore not being,
just callous and brutal? disposed to the Baldwin Party. If this bye-election is to be taken as a pointer of things to come, it would appear as if Liberalism will suffer greatly from the revival of the Conservative cause In the next
The apeaker at the Rotary Club meeting at Lane Crawford's restau- rant to-morrow will be Professor 3. L.. Shallshear. The subject is "The Scope of Anatomy.
Mrs. J. M. Xavier, charged with shooting Mr. A J. Manton recently, made another appearance before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police Court this morning and was
Plano Turner: "Yes, it's interesting, work, but you got to be thinking all day, and that is
what makes your head tired."
pro-