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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1932.
DAY BY DAY
UPON
ENGLISH PEOPLE LOOK PARADISE AB A BRITISH POSSESSION.
Max O' Rell.
At Lausanne. Before that Con- ferchce, reparations were already ended in fact. Nobody imagined for a moment that there would be a re- sumption of payments. The Lau- Hanne Conference recognised the inevitable and formally and of ficially registered "nis." This was all to the road, for it remov ed one of the factors most distur- bing in Franco-German relations and
world most damaging to
It is understood that the fact
Budget economic well-being. The
will be introduced in Council that such a decision should have Thursday, September 16,
One case of cholera from Kowloon was reported to the health authorities. on Tuesday.
04
THE TRIUMPH OF M. HERRIOT
By G. A. MARTELLI
DOLITICAL NOMENCLATURE more hardworking than intelli-
•
never
course of time the names of parties tested her judgment-in fact, is cease to indicate the idens they rather proud of it. have come to stand for and the position they now occupy in the
Another picturesque figure Parliamentary scale. M. Herriot's the present Cabinet who is not un-
new Radical Ministry Is an
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proved inescapable enata doubls on
example; its label suggest known in England is M. Painleve, the wisdom of the advice
The local offices of Messrs. Thes. Phrygian caps and black-bearded, the Air Minister. M. Painleve given by bankers, financiers and Cook and Son have received a cable fiery Jacobins, addressing each might well stand for the romantic
advice to the effect that the Siberian other as citoyen.
story writers idea of the typical national leaders fourteen years railway route vin Harbin is now!
The reality is rather different. Savant: and it is really surprising that such a brilliant abstract ago. The world has paid a very again in operation.
The Radicals have become respect thinker and one in many ways so henvy price for this particular
able or at least comparatively unpractical, should have been piece of fally.
elderly A new addition to the staff of the respectableLike
several times Prime Minister of Inder converted to France. The Lausanne delegates did Diocesan Boys' School is Mr. D. 1.Labour
Lunrd, who arrives here in October.patriotism the adventurous days of
There are many good stories of the right thing with regard to re- Educated at Tonbridge and Lincoln the party are past. The growth M. Painleve's absent-mindeness.
modern Socialism and the
but I think the best is about an BUMPERS Pration under the pressure of College, Oxford, he has a good degree of
177 Classies
sies and Engilsh, and has creation of more revolutionary TIRE COVERS bitter experience. The lesson can latterly been on the staff of Sherborne party than themselves has had the experience he had as Minister of SPARE TIRES & TUBES¦ be applied. The 'peoples of the
School,
addition, Mr. E. Ceffect of relegating the Radicals War. Having to go out of Thomas is returning from leave, white, to the centre 'TRUNK RACK & TRUNK world want neither tariff wars nor Mr. A. G. F. Prew, an old boy of the role from that of prod to brake.
and altering their Ministry on
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which produce, and the mechan- Stubbs' Road Garage. ism which is employed. to wage such wars. Then, the world will have a stable basis upon which to pursue its constructive activities.
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the some business, M. Painleva pinned a notice to the outside of his door saying: "Back in half an hour." Some time after he returned and still meditating The functional modification is deeply on some philosophic matter reflected in the personality of the arrived before his office and read A coolie was stopped at Shamshuipe present Cabinet, which represents the notice. "Oh well. I'll wait, yesterday currying two sacks found anything rather than political he said to himself and ant down to contain a quantity of chlorate of violence. Its members are most on the bench in the corridor. He potash. He was charged before Mr.
Parliawas discovered there some time Fraker at the Kowloon Magistracy old and experienced this morning with being in possession and most, at home when enunciat people arrived for an interview mentarians attached to tradition, afterwards when number of this chemical without
Inbel in
of this
WATER LEVELS.
late
the
18
English and Chinese. He pleated ing the good old republican shib-with the Minister. Egypt Watches the League.
ignorance, saying he was asked to boleths which have done such M. Painleve Egyptian newspapers have had at the Yaumati Ferry Wharf, sterling service for the last half on all case is invariables
At the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, century. Yes, there is something long-distance record for Cabinet great deal to say about Turkey's the police applied for a remand, indistinctly antiquated abou making, having sat through a
of timaling that a summons would be Radical admission to the League
Administration to-day whole night and the forenoon of Nations. The event has apparent-warehouse by whom defendant was be advanced, like a middle-aged constituting a Ministry.
taken out against the owners of Old-fashioned and you anxious to the next day without succeeding in NG QUINN-Mrs, T. Ng Quinn of 5. ly given great satisfaction to the employed. The case was accordingly
passed away people of the Land of the Pharaohs, remanded until Saturday morning. this morning at 11.30 am. at No. and it can be safely said that 3. Po Shan Road, aged 78 years. Tientsin. Peking and Shanghai Egypt is really looking on with papers please cipy.
somewhat envious eyes for she, too, would like to join the League. The question of Egypt's admission RA it Member State is, however, bound up with a treaty agreement with Great Britain. In the aber- tive treaty with Great Britain, of the clauses stipulated that Egypt was to be admitted to the League.in the West, North and East Rivers: victions of an older generation honesty and political competence: Aur constitute Conservation, the he has done admirable service in Radical leader must he regarded keeping his party united through 11 as strongly impregnated with the trials and tribulations of op- Starting life as a professor of position, and would have made an literature, M. Herriol has never excellent administrator or diplo Inst his love of letters and art;mat. 13.5 he has written attractive books
person trying to be young.
of quite a different stamp Take the Prime Minister, for M. Camille Chautemps. -Minister instance. Nobody knows how long of the Interior, former President Al. Herriot has been Mayor of of the Radical Party and a four yors, and the number of years days' Prime Minister. Tall and he has represented that city in sparse with a pale ascetic face, the Chamber must be hardly less. M. Chautemps is the typical rather It would seem paradoxical to colourless intellectual lawyer who, describe as a Conservative one by sheer ability and hard work, Kwangtung River Conservancy Com Herriot enjoys in England; and M. Poincare he is neither an in- The following table issued by the who bears the reputation that M. brings himself to the front. Like mission shown the height of water yet, if love of France and its spiring orator nor magnetic. in English feet on the dates named past, and attachment, to the con- lender, his
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932.
WORLD'S
NEEDS
at
It is rumoured that Egypt is eager to re-open negotiations with the British Government but at the moment the Cabinet has its hands too full with other affairs-din- Not much has been heard so far armament, Ottawa, Ireland and in the US. Presidential election India, to name but the more out- campaign on the question of waratanding issues and until they are debts, but the time will come when out of the way or 'ure less press. the United States
iting, it is not inclined to commence will find
Egypt necessary t state its attitudean Egyptian Conference. clearly and without ambiguity of must, therefore, content herself, for the time being, with applying next any kind. There are indications year for admission to the Inter- that the Republicans would favour national Labour Organisation of some sort of bargain with Ameri- the Lengue of Nations which she en's debtors, especially, along the could do without waiting for her lines of opening up channels for political differences with Britain more trade with Europe. The re-to be settled. It may be remem-' bered that Egypt was this summer actions of the European Powers represented for the first time to this iden have not yet been dis- the I.L.O. Conference by an ob closed. The Democrats, on the server. She is, of course, repre- other hand, do not appear dispos-sented at the World Disarmament ed to make any concensiona on the Conference and also takes an ac- matter, but their policy might pos-]tive part in the work of the She sibly undergo some change if they League's Opium Committee. came into power.
has benefited considerably from In the meantime, there are still result of an application for advice the work of the 1.L.O., for as the many other issues standing in the which she made to the Internation- way of world economic recovery. al Labour Organisation, Mr. H. B. The agreement reached at Lau-Butler, then Deputy Director of the sanne, carrying with it the wip-Office, was sent to Egypt Inst year ing out of reparations, is but a to advise the Government on the beginning in clearing away the creation of a Ministry of Labour. the need for which has long been wreckage of folly and narrow na!
obvious. tionalism. We ought not to allow it to be used to divert attention from other urgent problems. There are essential "next steps," and these must include a courageous attack upon the barriers to world trade and a cut in world arma- ments. Tariffs continue to stran- gle international trade, and the heavy burden of armaments
is
VICTIM OF SHIP BRAWL
DIES. AFTER RELEASE FROM HOSPITAL
7
A fatality has resulted from the incident occurring on board
the
crushing the nations. All politi.C.L. Tisadun! in harbour last cal parties in England were week, when a number of Chinese agreed that reparations must be emigrants, returning to their ended. But the same measure of homes in Fukien from the Dutch East Indies, engaged in brawl, unanimity is fucking on the other and one of them was seriously problems. The Hoover Disarmament stabbed,
Plan represents the minimum of ashore to the Government Civil The injured man wo8 taken what should result from the Genova | Hospital, apparently dying, and Conference. At leuat it would it was thought expedient to tako afford a definite measure of dia- his depositions in regard to the incident on board. His condi- armament in our time. Disarma- tion unexpectedly showed signs of ment is the key that will open the improvement, as much so that he was discharged as hoing quite door to international economic co-
recovered on Tuesday. operation and the recovery of Yosterday, while at the Water world prosperity, but rojec-Police Station, he suddenly col tion of the Hoover Pinn would be lopeed, and died shortly after being re-admitted to the Government #mull encouragement, to the Unit-Civil Hospital.
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M. Georges Leygues, Minister the Normandy Forest; and in the of Marine, the fourth ex-Premier intervals of an active career, in the Cabinet, has held his pre- divided between the leadership of sent portfolio so long and so often the biggest political party and that he has taken on almost Д administration of France's nautical air, and with his long second largest town, he finds time drooping moustaches and ruddy to give public lectures on music complexion might pass for
rare bibelots and French admiral en retraite. He is and collect original editions,
the only member of the Govern- distinctions that of being the most publicans, the party of M. Tardieu. M. Herriot adds to his other ment recruited from the Loft Re aasiduous railway traveller in whom he has never forgiven for France. He lives in Lyons in a dropping him overboard during the house overlooking the Rhone, and London Naval Conference. stays in Paris on the top floor af The element of staldness is not a big hotel on the boulevards, lucking in the rest of the Cabinet, During the Parliamentary session in such members of it as M. Albert he often travels three or four times Sarraut, the, King of Toulouse
and the Midí, ja week between the two.
who might have M. Herriot in very big, and been Premier but for his unim- admits to being a considerable posing exterior; M. Paul Boncour, cator; he is also capable, he claims, the brilliant ex-Socialist lawyer, like the bon-constrictor, of doing frequently spoken of as future
Prime without food for long
Minister; M, periods.
Germain His only near relative, an aged Martin, the financial expert aunt long since dead, always con-expenditure; M. Gardey, another has been brought in to reduce sidered her distinguished nephew right-wing man.. The inclusion of
"Yos, we had a terrible buat-up. She wouldn't even come
ham-agamor, lifd didn't make the best plasoppÌą.
who
that explosive little Meridional M. Daladier is in fact an exception which only proves the rule that the. Cabinet is respectable-too much so for most of ita supporters.
THE ADJECTIVE EVIL
By Edward Kelly, Wowser.
Congratulate Us.
We have been appointed Pre- sident of the Society for the Sup pression of Swearing and Pyjama Parties.
Conscious as
We are of
the
magnitude of the work that lies before us, we unflinchingly face our task. One of the first mat- ters we will discuss will be proposal that girls be prohibited from going in for open air sports. The loose leal system, which is said to have been the origin of all must be abolished, and nobody's breath shall, in future, como In short pants.
The corruption of our language ina Aubject that must be gone into thoroughly. Several widely used and revolting expressions have already been placed on our Index. Shing Mun Dam, must. in future, be referred to as Shing Mun Dash.
Much concern has been ex- pressed by our Committee at the continued use of the word "blast- in connexion with road work ing in the Colony." We hope to abolish all blasting within the next lx months.
Motorists, when drawing up to bowser for benzins, are re- quested to pronounce the word. "Shell" with the last four tollers silent, as in 'arsdine."
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