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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1932.
POLITICAL TRENDS IN CHINA: I,
With
DAY BY DAY
and its sorlous numerical minority bĽADÁMENÍ in the country, induced it to play with the One-Party policy, and with the vicious system by which that party dominates the Government.
WHAT YOU DO NOT SPEAK OF, YOU WILL SELDOM ACCURATELY THINK OF-Goethr.
The R.M.S. of Russia arrived at Vancouver at 7 n., yesterday,
The political history of the past few months has been that of the at- tempt of the Party to solve the enigma it had not itself. When a revolt occurred, not of olements hostile to the Kuomintang, but of The forthcoming wedding is an men of the very heart of the move-nounced of Revenue Officer Harold Victor Pearse, No. 76, Morrison Hill Road, to Miss Elizabeth Neca Thomas, No. 120, Whitfield.
WBR
postponed on account of
the
at the Peninsula Hotel at A.30 p.m. on
GENERAL POST IN THE ARMY.
By R. J. T. HILLS.
slammed home. The fatigue party quietly from Dover to "The Shot." The Inst baggage van door is battalion of the "Queen's" ambles shoulders itself into fackets picked The Huits remain steady: Palestine up from the platform. ment, men who had been close as-.
port Sergeant climbs perilously "King's Own.",
The Trans-to Egypt in an easy ono. for the sociates of the Founder, and who
round the outside of a cattle truck, were older members of the move.
What a sentter, though, for the The Rizal Day celebration, which cat-burglar fashion, seeing to it "Fighting Fifth." Were ever such ment than some members of the
that headropes are secure.
{strides? The Second Battalion Government, it was clear even to diptheria epidemie, will now be held 40 hommes, 8 chevaux" of the That's easy on the face of it. But He is old enough to remember the takes the vince of the First at York. Chiang Kai-shek that some arrange-Sunday, 10th inat.
Chemin de Fer du Nord. I wonder the First Battalion must go to the ment of differences must be found.
If ever he heard int story-a per-West Indies, while the Second Each side threatened war, but the
Mrs. Angas of Humphreys Build-horse that fell from its truck Ko-Master moves on the chessboard of fectly true one--of. the yeamanry bounds clear from Shanghai.. utmost care
was taken to avoiding, has reported to the Follre that
some time yesterday afternoon some ing up to Sailly Labourse? You Empire. And what will the 2nd (coming to blows. The political person stelo a counterpanu valued at could never depend on a horse catch-Royal Scoto Fusiliers think of
hends of both aides determined that where it had been linnging out to dry.halt.
35 from the roof of the prentisosing an English train up at the next Catterick after China? At
events is nearer the heather of a peaceful way out must be found,
Lines of close-cropped heads home, and after intolerable delays, and
A hundred head of cattle arrived sticking out of carriage windows, Itarely, if ever, do they meet, these for the Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold smoke-spiralled from half a thou- linked battalions of the British under pressure of the external Storage Co, by the Blue Funnel and cigarettes: a shrillness where Line. Yat they know each other situation, the peace conference mulas. Tynderous from Vancouver yester-the "married patch" is entrained. like brothers. Every man comes in Shanghai
dap. The biggest single shipment to The Adjutant and the R.S.M. part from the same Depot, those plen- and evolved the come East, comprised 48 Ayrshires with a aalute, an anxious task aver, sant. oklfashioned regimental peculiar solution of gathering twe and 5 Halsteins. One of the cows The Girl wipes away a tear-and homes. Thore is a constant coming calved aboard the ship on arrival in repairs its ravages in the interest and going of drafts and Individuals. separate plenary conferences of the Hongkong.
of the incoming regiment. A The War unve them meetings, and Party, ench electing its quota to the
whistle and a stream of smoke. The some of them even had time to re- Central Executive
Regiment is moving again. Committee by whom the new Government should be elected.
all
are on the
Li Fat, second prisoner in the Kowloon City robbery case, which was
organise together in the broathing continued at the Criminal Sessions
space after it was over. Normally It's been doing that for this morning, gavo evidence denying
two a regiment never parades complete. conturics and having taken part and alleged that he
n half. Up and For that, of course, is the Card- Here, at the moment, the matter was struck by Chinese police. Ex-down the British Isles, half over weil System-one home and one stands. The new Government has plaining his reply to the charge at the Europe. West to the Americas, East away. Yet here's a regiment-the Police Station. "I have not much to to Peking, South to New Zealand, D.C.L.L-with a battalion at The been elected. The titular head-say. I was implicated by my friends," even North to Archangel it has Rock and another at Bareilly, ship has passed from Chiang Kai-prisoner said he meant that his moved. Leaky transports have car- That's a trick of the trade, for shek. The political
friends might have falsely accused ried it, petrol drenched lorries, "Glb" counts na a home station. dominant, and Chiang Kai-shek has
element is him. The case is proceeding.
belled camels, its own weary feet. The "Die Harda" Now is the Trooping Season again. move--Colchester to Palestine, resisted the temptation to become ment relative to the fees to be charged ads. There was a time before the Soudan). Cockneys on a Crusade Beyond a letter from the Govern- Far tower are the moves now-Indin to Colchester (via the awar lord. The position, however, for special food licenses already Duke of Wellington thought of a peaceful one: Cockneys coming is by no means clear. It remains Kazetted, the fortnightly meeting, Police-Force, or Sir Robert Feel home to tell the "Old Pot and Pan"
yesterday, of the Sanitary Board was brought one Into being, when the wondrous tales of bazaaro to be seen whether any flexible of formal nature. There were method for the change of govern- meat is being introduced, and what scope for variety of opinion is to by given. On the whole, we look on the new Government' as but | temporary; its tenure of office as
AT HOME.
at best insecure. The growth of IF MARRIED STAY the anti-Kuomintang movement and some sp-culations regarding the future are mitters which we must leave over for consideration uuti
THE WOMAN'S DUTY.
*
and
present Mr. G.lt. Snyer (President), Army represented law and order. Pyramids. Perhaps it's all old stuf Dr. G.W. Pope (Medical Officer of A regiment was kept always mov-to Dad, though. Soldiering often Health), Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Hon. ing then, lest it should get too runs in London families. Mr. T. N. Chou, Mr. M. K. Le, Mr. F. friendly with the civilians. C. Hall, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, Mr. J.
Better rub up your geography Moves at home are dictated by before you study the movement 1. Gelling (Secretary), and Mr.
Jthe needs of organisation and train-orders. Where is Maympo? An- Hargreaves (Assistant Secretary.)
Ing. There are little garrisonsawer me that without an alina. where a battalion might vegetate I shall believe what you Bay- and grow fat. For these there don't know myself. Deolali-that lurks a sudden pitchforking to that rings like temple bella: Almedabad, storm centres of Aldershot or Tid-| Nazirabad-shades of the Forty worth. It's time Scotland hnd n Thieves. glimpse of the "Fife and Forfar" again. Over the Border with them. Hundreds of atations. Some are The foreign service roster is a great garrisons, full of ordinary much more serious affair.. Moves little Britishers doing their quiet are published annually. Regiments bit. Some are mere footholda held know years before. A stern bust-by a batch of R.Es, or Gunners. marriedness-silver to the bank: elimina-The Gunners-the Royal Regiment, tion of the few unfit, old Dusty Well, you know the boast of the Smith to the Depot to finish his Gunners? They have time; young Mrs. Jones home to blazoned battle honours, they've Mother till she "comes on the fought on every field. And they strength."
serve in every station. Sad: but a regiment looks for- There is a tradition in the Army ward. It'll come back, years or never ask a man why he joined. Even eld Bill the Armourer, whe a lifelong student of the Services Most of its men will be time ex." So I naked an old sailor yesterday- says he remembers married men why boys join to-day. rotting up house in the barrack room, will be gone.
Following a declaration by Alder man W. Jerrard that
"When a woman gets her duty is at home,"
Lewisham Borough Council have decided that the appointments of women on their staff must ter minate on marriage.
There were protests and sharp
vicar, said those who thought that Mrs. Trevor Edwards, wife of the marriage would have a devastating effect on a woman's ability must have a poor opinion of matrimony. (Laughter.)
the passing of the year 1931, the attempt to rule China an a Ong-Party System may be said definitely to have failed. The Kno-to-morrow mintang has been reduced to a con- dition of impotence by the internal strife engendered by the attempt
An Ancient Chinese. The discovery of the skull of the to suppress variety of opinion. while
outside the bonds of the Peking Man has proved a veritable Party other parties have been godsend to the anthropologists, who
have not had such a fruitful sub-discussion. springing up and organising thera-
ject for controversy for many selves in movements whose visible years. According to one proininent expression has been seen in the group, the discovery thrusts the first extraordinary denmonstrations made primitive mun farther and farther of Nanking by the students from back into the dim and distant past. He is more than a million years the big university and school
older than they thought he was centres, particularly from Shanghai, because the Peking Man, who lived Peking, Tentsin and Nanking it-
a million years ago, must be com- self.
who
Look at the trooping list." What a stir is going on! The 14th/20th
no em.
"Glamour," said he, surprising-
ly enough. "As much romance as over there was. They're British- that's why."
But Alderman Jerrard argued that the right conclusion matter was oldfashioned.
in the are off to Egypt. You saw their You know the cry of the incur- am old-fashioned," he added. they're used
pictures In the papers. Well, able optimist? Every sound be "It is the duty of the man
Lo the Enstthecomes song-if you'll hear it that marries a woman to keep her." Ramnugger Boys. The K.D.G.S. way. Lift your chin--and you'll (Applause.)
Hounslow. The Cavalry know see the fretted pinnacles against The majority in favour of Impos-the boat. Edinburgh is ready for gutter. Happy the man, in the what that mean-next tum for the sky, missing the garbage in the ing the new condition was whelming.
the 9th Lancers, on their way from murching ranks. Hia song goes in Sialkot Lucky Ninth they call front, with the Drum-Major mark- Edinburgh the finest cavalry station ing the rhythm. The soldier's chin In the land.
was drilled up at his Depot, and stays there. Shanghai, Jamaica, and The infantry sta open quietly, dear old fog-hung shores of Britain The Royal Scots, that most ancient--you'll look good to the Regiment regiment, do not budge: one this Trooping Season.
over-
SIR W. JOWITT.
A BYE-ELECTION SHORTLY.
A bye-election is probable short- William ly in Montrose Burghs, with Sir
Jowitt, the Attorney-: General, as National Labour can-
didate.
It is understood that Sir Robert Hutchison, tho sitting member, who is a follower of Sir John Simon, is to receive a peerage.
It is learned that Sir William Jowitt's candidature has the ap- proval of Mr. MacDonald, Mr.
paratively youthful, having enjoy Let us book Brst at the movemented such modern conveniences as a within the Kuomintang. The en-heated apartment and a full set of forced resignation and detention of stone implements. The excavation Mr. Hu Han-min in the Spring was to reveal anything resembling a pre- made in North China have failed the signal for a widespread Kugin-historic steam radiator or a gus tang revolt against Chiang Kai-fire, but there seems little doubt shek and his close associates in the that the gentleman so rudely un- Government. The opposition gather-earthed after a sleep of a million est at Canton, raised the standard yours was possessed of knowledge of revolt and organised its own
which enabled him to build a fire to take the chill eff the midwinter Government. This Government
morning while he stirred up & was, however, clearly nothing more couple of dedo's eggs for a break- than the Opposition Benches for fant of saurapoda omelet. The which the One-Party System fails investigators from Britain led by to provide but which under a two Sir Arthur Keith have returned to or more party system would have London from China to testify to the had easy and free means of ex-
discovery of stone implements form- ed with a high degree of skill and pressing its opinion, with the pros-to give evidence that the primitiva pect of succession to office when it Peking Man of 1,000,000 years Baldwin and Sir John Simon, but became sufficiently representative. uned fire. Not only does this put the attitude of local Liberals and The Kuomintang split on the rock back fire-making to "a period more Conservatives is uncertain. It in of its heritage from the bad days than twice na remote as that which probable that the Labour Party of its association with the Russian hitherto had been assumed." but will bring forward a strong can
It also indicates that mankind had | didato. Communist system. The Three travelled through a good manyures were!
At the General Election the sa- Principles, in spite of their opposi-more thousands of centuries to ar Bir Robert Hutchison (L) 17,212 tion to individual liberty, are based rive at the knowledge and skill Mr. A. F. Macintosh (Lab.) 6;187:
the development of the de pecesary to make fire. Revised mocratic systema of the West. Their ancestry is to be traced in perhaps a couple of millions of years in thrusting the primitive human English and Dutch constitutional further into the past: so far, informed the Burnley Trades Coun
Mr. Arthur Henderson has In- history, with a spice of French fact, that anthropologists and geo-cil and Labour Party that he does republicanism. · To this tradition logists may have to organiso 2 not propose to accept nomination the One-Party System, with the joint expedition to dig into the again as Labour candidate for
situation. When ond possible dominance of a minority that it evidently took about 10,000 re-enters Parliament, it must be that constituency, and that if he considora in the Government, is wholly re- centuries to advance from the open able him more easily and effective- for A constituency which will en- pugnant. With the purgation of fire to the open fireplace, one may ly to dischargo his official party the Party and the breach with Rus-be excused for venturing an opin duties, elan Communism, the Kuomintang fon that "primitive" man may have The letter did not come from sought to rid itself of elements been a million or two years old Mr. Henderson, but from Labour alien to a democratic aystem. But when he drove the herd of dino headquarters in London. It was the exigencies of the political situsa couple of wooks while he gave Henderson had heen to India- theriums Into the back pasture for a surprise to the local Labour leaders, who understood that Mr. tion, ita fears of the ideas it had the caratopala an opportimity to posed to dos) with political-af- "first fostered~and~ then, cast out," browse in the meadow,
falta,
IN
'ALL
on
DEPTS:
DRASTIC REDUCTIONS
FOR 8 MORE DAYS
calculations, therefore, may result
L. majority.. 12.076 Good-bye to Burnley.
"It's nice to have you for a neighbour, Mrs. Dooley), ¡Mə and the woman "who lived, there before just quarrelled, n}];
the time/