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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1931,
EXIT LABOUR!
been told in no unmistakeable terme that the people consider the prevent juncture to be one when pressing national and Imperiał problems should be tackled on non. party lines. Emerging also from the conflict is the complete vin- dication of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald and those of his followers who remained with him. The Prime Minister has clearly demon- strated his political sagacity, and, with others who have thought with him. has shown that be correctly sensed the untion's temper. victory at Senham, in eplie of Labour opposition, fittingly rounds off his recent activities and fur- ther establishes him in the esteem of the people,
His
en-
OCTOBER
29, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
IT 18 NOT, BELIEVE ME, THE BIGN OF A WISE MAN TO BAY, "I WILL LIVE LIFE PUT OFF TILL THE MORROW 18 TOO LATE; LIVE TO-DAY. -Martial.
The master of the 1.8. fown reports a capsized junk in Lat. 23 dog. Ol' N., Long. 116 deg. 46'E.. dangerous to navigation.
Owing to the China Exhibition, the for Thursday Concert arranged November 6 at the Helona Bay In stitute is cancelled.
The Man Who Didn't Pay
{HIS WIRELESS LICENCE.
By ROBERT LYND.
IT becomes clearer as the world loud-speaker, and feel that here, grows older that an increase at least, he is secure. No longer. of civilisation means an increase, will be lean back in his chair, rosy of espionage and Inquisition. with domestic bliss, glowing with Successivo Governmenta spy the knowledge that he has saved upon aur incomes. They spy upon tan shillings of the family Income our ages and the number of rooms, that a different kind of parent in the houses in which we live. might have squandered on taxes.
Henceforth, how different a Insurance companies find out whe- At the monthly meeting of the ther we are teetotallers or not. figure will crouch by the fireside!
of Com-A modern Englishman cannot even
The Chinese Generat Chamber
roay glow will have faded it was merce yesterday afternoon
enter his own
country without an from his face. He will shuffle decided that the Chamber should official's attempting to discover nervously in his chair, ilka a man again make the annual contribution of $1.000 towards the Hongkong Univer-whether he is really an English who feels that he is being watched nun and whether he has any cigar-through a keyhole. Every time the inity this year.
door bell ringa he will start like ettes in his pockets.
So accustomed have we become, guilty thing expecting a fearful Indeed, to the Paul-Prying of modern life that I doubt if we have Having been unaccustomed to any spirit left to protest against pay his ten abillings, he will for the new invasion of our privacy some time be unable to face the
HONGKONG SHARE
summons.
the "radio ghost car" that is agony of paying up, and will do his being sent prowling round Eng-best to save what little he can for land's streets to spy upon homes in a rainy day. His wife will notice order to discover whether ace that he is growing haggard; she A week's formal remand Was rented by Mr. Schofield at the Cen-plers possess an unlicensed wire will notice how he pricks hin ears and how his fenturen twitch con- tral Police Court this morning in the less act. ense of four men who were arrested Before long, there will be little vulsively every time he hears a at 168. Johnston Itand where they are that the authorities do not know passing motorcar. She will call in alleged to have gone to commit about us. Already, I believe, they a doctor who will disghose neuraя. armed robbery. The men were ail
I can discover without asking us thenia, and prescribe bromide. charged with attempted robbery.
whether we have a lonking tap in Instead of getting better on the
however, time will
he will got the house. A
como medicine,
He will find himself sent when, by means of a ray, they will worse. to able to discover from a police off to Brigton for a month's hall- ear in the street whether we use day, which will cost him far more American or English razor-blades. than he has ever saved on wire- They will be able by the samo less licences, and, even at Brigh- means to count our linen and to ton. he will be so far from a cure see whether our floors are properly that, every time he catches s'ght swept.
The very pennies in our of the window of a wireless shop The demand noted in yesterday's pockets will not be free from their, he will jump a foot into the air report developed this morning into a penetrating staro. regular wave of boying, Consequently rates advanced substantially, in solte Terror in 400,000 Homes. of which buying is far from being Nati-Bed. It is also tir be noted that by far the bulk of the demand is for cash, an eminently satisfactory state of affairs.
MARKET.
What of the future? With such an overwhelming majority at its
The following forthcoming weddings commun, the National Govern-arn announced. Mr. Alfred Ashton wie, No. 1, Yu Kwong Terrace, to ment would appear destined to en-
Florence Mury Wiltshire, of the same Joy long life. I could, without address; Chief Petty Offer Clarones difficulty, hold the reins for the Chealyn Foreman, H.M.S. Berwick, to Miss Annie Wong, No. 241, Nathan full five-year term. Much will de Rond, Kowloon. pend. however, un the Conserva- tives, now easily the preponderat ing party. There will be a great temptation for them to exploit the situation, but we prefer to believe that the gentlemap's agreement" between Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Mac- Donald will he loyally observed. Tariffs, within defined limits, seem Inevitable, as well as some mea stre af Empire economic operation. But although they have the power, we do not imagine the Conservatives insisting on full. blooded Protection, not yet nwhile, at any rate. Overwhelming as the Conservative strength is, it would be difficult to sustain the conten- tion that the country has given a mandate for such a complete re- veral of Britain's Ascal system. The great point about the election, ind it is one which has given un- feigned delight to all oversens Britons, is that the Old Country wants her problems faced in a spirit of bold, broadminded states. manship, reflective of a determina- tion to put the nation's affairs on
OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE.
Banks were in demand at $1,610.
China Underwriters were wanted at the advanced rate of 35.35,
Douglases were in the market at $24.
Kailan Minings changed bands at 28/.
Wharves were in request at $164. Providenta (old) were wanted at $5.35, and the new shares at $2.40.
Hotels (old), after being done at $15,45, cloned in firm demand at $15,65, with sellers seeking $16, The
and rice wildly along the street with the clutching hands of an in- visible pursuer as near the back of his neck as a tickle, Restored to Domestic Bla
It will be a nervous wreck, with
It may be argued that, since we invent instruments to spy upon the secrets of the moon, and other in- struments to pry into the hidden life of the water in the ditch, it is all his money gone, who returns As a last hope, his wife only fair that we ourselves should home. be aubjected to as strict an inspec- will send him to a paycho-analysi tion. But the moon has no secrets borrowing money to do no: and the of which to be ashamed, and the psycho-anglist will grope into the microscopical creatures in the murkines of his infancy and dia- water are free from a sense of cover that at an early age he had love with n guilt under scrutinising eyes. We secretly fallen in human beings, on the other hand, penny." have consciences,
ind
many of After long inquiry and delibera- these consciences must be fairly' tion, the paycho-analyst will say: had ones, if the estimate that in "I can cure you, but I must warn Britain there
sotint, healthy ba-is. That, in closed in demand nt this rate with Hors of what 103.003 ponges you that the cure will be a painful
brief, in what the verdiet of the people means.
new shares were wanted at $16.15.
Lands, which were done at $81,
Mits ho have not
onc. It is this: Pay your wirelcas bald for liceres is approximately licence." sellers asking $844.
Humphreys (old) were wanted at true, If
The patient will-object violently, human beings were $185. and the new shares at $18. honest, we could smile at ghost but he will be told that if he does Realties, which were done at $12.80, cars and the'r Ingenious espionage, not obey he will be haunted by closed in demand at $13,
Ewen changed handy at Tis. 18.40, closed at this quotation and sellers offering at $18.
To say that the General Election of 1994 will go down in history na betokening the most remarkable
Japan and Manchuria. expression of national feeling ever
Japan's determination to dis- to have been registered In Britain Is but mildly to state the truth, cover her own way in a settlement of the Manchurian dispute is again The net result, virtually wiping clearly expressed. The official com- put the Labour Party, le such as munique Issued from Tokyo On $28% with sellers seeking $20.
make, nor brick walls either, now car in every street, Rony with will sit in the Electrics were in demand at $77.
that the ghost-car is to be per-domestic bliss, even the meat optimistic supporter Tuesday reveals no modification of
Telephones (part paid) were the
mitted to search our houses with-bosom of his family listening to of the National Government could attitude in spite of the League medium of sales
$29.
out a warrant. No longer will the the Sunday sermon from the loud Cements (combined)
put NOL have hoped for. All past Council's resolution, which Japan political virtories pale into in-contends, with some justification, through at $19.95 and $204, and at guilty householder be able to sit speaker and wondering how he can has no legal standing. Thirteen the close had buyers bidding $20.10, the bosom of his family laten- defraud the revenue in some other
ing to the Sunday sermon from the and safer way. Ropes were in demand at $174. significance compared with the
countries have called upon Japan to Dairy Farms were wanted at $30. triumph for common-sense record withdraw her, troops by Novem- Watsons were done at $15. ed in Tuesday's polling.
ber 16. The framediale response-which they closed in demand.
Lano, Crawfords (old) were wanted all else, the outcome once ugain though no connexion appears--was Įnt $0%, and also the new sharen at
the despatch of further troops and $0. proves that in times of crisis or
of their encroach- Construction (old) were wanted at national emergency, the British the extension people Invariably do the rightment. Nevertheless, Japan's state-$5.20 and the new shares at 31.30. ment of her position is reasonable
As it is, imagine the miseries of ghost cara till in the end be may apprehension that this new fraud.even lose his reason.
At that, in sorrow and in on- detector must be bringing into
And his 409,000 homes-homes, each ofguish, he will pay up. Troms were wanted a $22.
immediately take a Star Ferries were in demand at which was proudly believed, even health will
within living memory, to be an surprising turn for the better. $01%.
By the end of a few months he China Lights, after being dealt in Englishman's castle. at 320, had buyers at the close-at-Alesi-stone walls do not a castle will not mind if there is a ghost
Above
DIVORCE.
wore
at
thing, however much they may be in tone and argument. She de- given to "muddling through" when cures, as though it were necessary, LORD LANGFORD SEEKS conditions are normal. In a word, that her peculiar privileges in Mau- the election advertises to the churia have been challenged. by whole world that the nation is China, working not by plan or or ganisation, but by a covert hos- thoroughly sound at heart.
tility expressed in sheer weight of When the decision was made for (numbers. All the outstanding is- the election to be fought on u sues appear to Japan to be in the
basis of the National Government nature of evidence of
n. aubter-
WAITRESS WIFE TO DEFEND.
Melbourne, Oct. 2.
A petition for divorce by Lord Langford, whose wife formerly worked as a waitress in a Strand teushop, came before the Supreme Court of Victoria to-day. ile al- leges desertion.
and £20 on as-
versus The Rest, it was generally rancan campaign aimed at Japan felt that the Nationalists would se rights. To this phantom, the Japanese have set up, and are at
Through counsel, Lady Langford win. The arrangements between present determined to maintain, a intimated that she wished to defend Conservatives and Liberals in co- very open kind of so-called defen- the sult and file a counter-petition. By agreement between counsel; operating with a view to avoiding sive opposition, one which, being the Judge unde an order that Lord three-cornered contents obviously plainly aggressive, is more under-Langford should pay three guineas cut down the chances of Labour standable to the West, and one investigation fee But, even discounting this factor, which, to many minds, has pre-count of his wife's costa, Lady Judiced her position in world pub-Langford to be at liberty to apply petition the polling has shown a mostile opinion. Not only is this a fact, to have her husband's
were not amazing unanimity on the part of at the occupation has been provo-stayed if the amounts
paid. voters to send the National Gov-cutive of trouble between Chinese
The Judge also extended unill In the and Japanese all over Chins. Tokyo February 10 the poriod allowed for ernment back to power. result, meat of the Labour stal-must have been aware of the dan-Lady Langford's counter-petition warth have fallen by the wayatile, Re, but still went ahend. It is to be lodged
point to be remembered when con-
so that the Party to-day is a mere sidering the sincerity of Japancsothorities. Japan is determined, by fragment, with practically no lead-protestations regarding her respect some means or other, to put a stop era, destined to be uttarly helplers for China's territorial integrity to the game of battledore and shut- no reason to doubt decock hitherto pursued. She has In the new Parliament. Men who There seems are not really extremists, such as that Japan's sole object is to secure now set out the fundamental prih- An actual effort on the part of Mr. Henderson, Mr. Clynes, Mr. China to negotiate a settlement of ciples of understanding which she demands of China, and which sho Alexander and Mr. Morrison, pending issues. Japan wants noth refused to present for perusual bí figure among the refocted. Furing more than to drag the Chinese the Lengua Council. China mean- the time being at any rate, their into diplomacy, Manchuria, though while has suggested & Treaty of political careers have at one fell retaining power, has shifted the Arbitration. Thus, on the whole, swoop been brought to an end. work and bother of diplomacy to hopes of peace are a trifle brighter, the de jure authority in Nanking Thay would be more so if Japan They made the cardinal mistake, though it is opon to question whe could only see the advantage to be of putting Party before Nation in ther the Nanking Government's gained from making a concession Inpa time of orisis. They ha
accoptable to the local au
to strong-world-feeling
LUXURY SURTAX.
AN IMPOST FOR FAMINE RELIEF APPROVED.
Nanking, Oct. 28. The Central Political Council has approved the National Govern-
"I couldn't get him in tham,"
ment's luxury surtax regulations, and details have been handed over to the Legislative Yunn
for ex amination.
It is understood that the surtax is limited to from three to five per cent. en luxury goods, the proceeds to be for famine relief.-Reuter.
Those things you washed last week were shrun "Maybe he's just growing that fast, lady.