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material, sources of electric power, problems of synthetic TAW
materials, new machinery, the cor
rect distribution of industry and
agriculture, and other widespread
selentific research., Science, and labour are being brought together in theory and practice, and great re. sults are expected when the full period of the Five-Year Plana in
run
It is one thing to plan, and an-
other to accomplish, but, pone the less, we should be foolish not to take note of what Russia is nitempt- ing. The Soviet lenders have set
DAY BY DAY
SOAP AND EDUCATION ARE NOT AB
SUDDEN AS A MASSACRE, BUT THEY ARE MORE DEADLY IN THE LONG RUN.
Mark Twain.
The Gazette contains revised schedulo in respect of the Colony's recreation Krounds.
Leo
RAMSAY MACDONALD'S SUCCESSOR.
By M. B.
Beyond question, the unusual would be a fiting crown to a long circumstancos associated with life of service devoted to his ideas To the list of authorised architects the fall of the Labour Govern- and Ideals. Mr. Henderson was there has been added the name of Mr.ment, imply also the fall of Mr. born in Glasgow and brought up
Lemm-ping.
in Newcastle, whore at the tonder Ramsay MacDonald from the age of 12 he was apprenticed to the
As Boon leadership of the Party. Equal-trade of iron moulder. ly, there is little doubt that he as he became a voter, he began tak
Liberal. He was elected to the
themselves the task of overtakinging, and Mir, and Mrs. D. L.. Now will be succeeded by Mr. Arthur Eg a part in politics, first as a
Dr. and
Among the passengers who left for Shanghai by the Empress of Russia ware Bir Petor Grain, Mrs. John Flem-
Henderson, his erstwhile Secre and outstripping other nations." bigging.
tary of State for Foreign Affairs. Their hope lies in the use of the The names of Messrs. Thomson and
A man of 67 will succeed a man powerful levers which they com.Co., and of Messrs. Seth, Mancell and mand-the planned character of McLure have been added to the list of 64 and once again age and ex- of auditors under the Companies perience will be served instead of economy, the possibility of operat-Ordinance.
youth. VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED ing with immense resources to a
At various times in the past two AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE single end, the increasing co-ordina-amongst the passengers who arrived papers have published rumours to Mr. Shollshear were or three years, opposition news- tion of science and material pro- by the 8,8. Kurmala from the North the effect that Mr. Ramsay Mac- THE HONGKONG HOTELduction. It remains to be seen
Mr. J, B. Lanyon travelled by the same boat,
Donald was to be replaced by Mr. GARAGE.
how they will succeed, The ex-
Henderson but these stories have always been put down to partienn periment, on such a huge scale, At Tuesday's meeting of the
the Rotary wishes of the opposition. But the cannot be ignored by the rest ofClub, Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Hon. other day one of the younger |
Secretary of the Society for the other
the Labour-Sociallst the world. It will, we believe, com-Prevention of Cruelty to Children, leaders in
"Child Welfare in movement told me that what had
once been rumour had now crys tallised Into a movement which In connexion with the open air would bring about the fact. Ac-: concert being given by "The Boot cording to him, there were three leggers" at the Craigengower Cricket big reasons why Mr. Henderson Club to-night, it is announced that the would be made leader :- proceeds, after payment of expenses, will be given to charity.
The Hongkoss & Thangha! Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated in Honghong. 25, Queen's Road U. and Stubbe load.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1931.
RUSSIA'S BIG EXPERIMENT.
NA
mand Increasing attention as time will peak on
goes on.
Hongkong."
ARREST:
SUSPECT SHOOTS
HIMSELF.
Mr.
a moulder. As such he is a Trades
Union man and understands the Future lender of Britain's Labour Trades Union mind. Mr.
Mac
Portugal's Troubles. Portugal is in the throes of her
First. He is a deeply reilginys twenty-third revolt in. twenty-one
man, highly principled, and, boing years. It seems to be a compara-
The following forthcoming wed-so, once he has made up his mind tively small affair likely to be dings are announced.Mr. Leslie about a policy will not deviate Lewendon Foxail, Chineso Maritime from it. The party men know quickly suppressed, but it is none Customs, to Miss Constance
Rose where they are. They claim that the less unfortunate. The resultSmith, e/o Mears. A. S. Watson and Mr. MacDonald as Premier often of Portugaal's long story of con- Company; Mr. Irvine Ray Coulter, has changed his course because of
Junlar, U.S.S. Mindanao, to Miss Marpolitical reefs in the way. tinued unrest and rebellion is that
Rare! Izabell Zerlang, en route to the rountry, which should be anong Hongkong on board the RM1.S. Em-Henderson will not. The continued state of trade de- the wealthiest of the small nations, press of Japan, due here on October
Has View of Workers. wrecked. 30, 1931. presston in most countries of the has been economically
Second,-He came into the La- Given a chance to recover, it would world, coupled with recurring
bour movement as an actual work- quickly emerge as a prosperous com- DEATH RATHER THAN man. having started out in life as financial crises, is providing | munity. Unfortunately ambitious Socialists with plenty of material politicians in Lisbon' und Oporto for purposeS
of propaganda. -In will not allow the peasantry to have
Donald is one of the white collar party, "Uncle" Arthur Henderson. the circumstances, we need not be peace. At heart, the country is
brigade. He earned his living as Council of Newcastle, afterwards county. surprised at the submission that prependerately republican. Not oven
a journalist and writer. He came a councillor of Durham the monarchists seriously think
into the party through the Inde-and then became Mayor of Dar- capitalism. DI the capitalistic
there is any chance of the return
Nottingham, Aug. 5. pendent Labour Parly which was lington. He was also a Liberal system. has broken down, and that of Manoel. He ran too fast and too While detectives were arrestins, mainly made up of students, theor-party election agent. the future hope of the world is in far. He has seemed too satisfied John George Cottam at his homista and the intelligentsin.
When the Labour Party was in Portland-road, West Bridgford, the application of Socialistle prin- with his butterfly existence in
Third, Mr. Henderson is the formed, he joined it and was a suburb of Nottingham, to-day, ciples. On paper, admittedly, it England. But the republicans have Cottam shot himself with a revoltary of the Labour party for years, creading Labour's strength from
organiser of victory. AR #zero-elected to Parliament in 1995, In-
looks
dead amongver and fell if something has gone never been able to agree
at their feet, seriously wrong with economies,
themselves. Five years ago, by Detective Newell, of the Nol-it la largely due to him that a
party, bei
being by turns Chief Whip, Cottam's has functioned as well that La-Chairman and Secretary. In the but, at the same time, that does not making use of the army, General tingham City Police, who had just machine has been built up which to 4. He rose steadily in his now
Carmona established a dictator-placed his hand on by any means imply that Sociallamship. He built up a government shoulder, narrowly escaped being bour has, won constituency after early months of the war he was
hit by the bulloot, which
international la- Passed constituency. As accretary, it is prominent in through Cottam's head,
claimed he is known to more of bour's demands for a peace with- Detective-Sergeant Winfield and the rank and Ale than any man out forced annexations or puni- tive indemnities. But he was no Nowell had been
watching thein the party. house during the morning..
The affection in which he is pacifiat. All three of his sons Saw the Policemen. held is shown by his nation-wide served in the war and one was
killed in action. Cattum emerged, anw the police soubriquet of "Uncle Arthur." men and dashed back into the Labour publication once explained Hó was made Privy Councillor financial stability and a great deal house. The detectives followed this:
by the King early in 1918 and, in There in not; therefore what
of splendid achievement is to their and caught him at the foot of the "An uncle is a person who has May of that year he joined the Socialism can or cannot do still re-credit. But the real republicans stairs,
farrived at years of discretion. He Asquith coalition government, mains a matter of pure speculation. have always wanted a return to con is last ery was the word has an air of permanence. He is ing the first Labour member ever. Whilst this is true, it will be stitutional methods, and the pro- "Harold" a call to his son-in-law, always at hand to give prudent to achieve Cabinet rank. Later. when an Inner war cabinet was formed, Mr. Henderson was in it worth while for a few moments to greas of the dictator's programme P. C. Holmes, of the Derby pole advice or timely rebuke, to com- in has been subject to constant inter-force, who was staying with Cot-pose our differences, help us out look into what is happening
tam on holiday.
of our troubles, and encourage our and did much to keep the trades ruption by sporadic outbreaks.
Only one cartridge, the Sant good worka. In short, an uncle unions in line. Shortly before he Russia just now, for in that coun-
From time to time, he has promised one, was found in the revolvet. is to the family what the Right resigned from the cabinet, he was try there is under way the biggest to meet their wishes, but no serious
A warrant had been RYUed Honourable Arthur Henderson is charged by the government with a special and delicate mission to attempt ever made to test out attempt has been made to carry against Cottam, who was 55 years to the Labour movement."
of age.
Russia, with power and he was to have been
to remain Socialistic principles. We refer, of out his promise. In the struggle brought before the magistrate at
there if he thought proper, as Bri- course, to the Five-Year Plan, the now going on the army has stood Nottingham to-day on charges of
tish Ambassador. But he retired to private life. first part of which is in process of by the Dictator. The next time false pretences.
be they may not and when they fail completion and which is to followed by a secund. M. Bukharin, him, he will fail.
is the remedy. The position would composed of officers of the army be entirely different if there had and some of the country's most able been such a thing as the practical civilians, whose ideal was a strong tou much application, of Socialism on a large government without scale, for the purposes of com- Parliamentarism. They have preach- ed a doctrine of hard work and parison in the results attained.
one of the Russian scientists who Prime Minister's Position, has recently been on a visit to A reader calls our attention to a England, has been telling the Eng-mis-statement, with an interesting editorial comment on lish people, through the medium of side, in an
one of the leading political reviews, Thursday, when we stated that the precisely what the Soviet is at-post of Prime Minister was un-
tempting. He admits that if the situation is examined statistically the level of technique, the indices
known to the law. We must con- fees to a considerable slip of the memory. In point of fact, the poAL of Prime Minister or Premier was of production and the degree of recognised by the Inw, for the first "wealth" In Russin are still much time, in 1906, when the holder of jower than in capitalistic countries; that office, by virtue of Royal but he contends that whereas ire-Warrant dated December 2 of that mendous leaps forward are being year, was given precedence next after the Archbishop of York. mudo in Russin, the capitalist world Until 1905, he was in theory, mere- is reducing production. They the equal of his colleagues. To- Soviet is, he says, developing huge day he exercises a controlling In- | creative energy, so much so that it fluence in the Cabinet, The Prime has an insufficiency of machinery, Minister, however, Has no salary as Prime Minister. He draws salary people and science, in contrast to
only because he usually holds the which the capitalist countries can office in conjunction with the first not make use of its apparatus of lordship of the treasury, the chan- production, its workers, or its cellorship of the exchequer, a aclence. In the place of com-secretaryship of state, or the privy mercialised practics, which socks soul.".
profile for individuals or trusts, Russin is attempting a great social
The health bulletin of Eastern reconstruction of a magnitude ports for the week onding August 22 hitherto unknown, especially in the WA Plague-Alexandria case (1 death) Basnoin 1-cano (1-death). spheres of science and industry. In | Cholera.--Bgarah* 272 cases, - (137 this connexion, prominence is being deaths); Bombay 11 cases (6), Cal- cutta 21 (6), Madras-6, Bengkok 1, given to the geological study of the Pnom-Penh 1, Shanghai 1 death; country, Investigation of the Greater Shanghai #1). Small-pox. physical and chemical properties of now varieties of fuel and raw
Calcutta 5 casos (B deaths); Kan- goon 1 (1), Pondicherry B. (8), Shang-- hai (1 donth),
The total involved is said to be £7,000. A Belper man was pro- secuting.
Always Interested in Politics. Leadership of the party would mean that if Labour again formed government, "Uncle Arthur" would be its Prime Minister. It
“You'll have to stop playing, darlinga. Mother must
home now,"
Two Sons Are M. P.'s.
be-
In the first Labour Government he was Home Secretary. In the. Inte Cabinet le conducted Foreign Affairs. He has the unique dis tinction of having behind him on the labour benches as M. Ps. his two sons, Arthur and William.
He is largely self-educated. His sons are university men, Arthur being a rising young lawyer and William the publicity director of the Labour party.
"Uncle Arthur" for many years has been a lay · preacher of the Wesleyan_church, and succeeded the Hav, Dr. Clifford as President of the Brotherhood movement. He |.is a total abatainer, and a striking example of the type of passionate- la Christian men who are leaders In the English Socialist movement.
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH
VAND. EAST RIVERS.
The following table, tiqued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com mission, shows In English feat the water levels on the West River, North. River and Best River on the dates. named:
$278235
West River at. Sklubing 1 21.8 21.5 North River at Bamehal 8,8 10.1 North Riven at Thingyuen 5.18.8 18.2 Efst River at Bheklung - 7,1% 0,2
„The highest levels: recorded, frer: Skiuhing, 41 feet Taingruen, testy Bamabul, 27.8 feet; She dung
mintu * foes at Samabol"
2,7 fut at Sheklung