THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
JANUARY, BUT NOT IN HONGKONG LORD CECIL-
HARD TO BELIEVE, ISN'T IT?—But this is a January scone on an Australian beach.
"THE GREAT HOPE
OF MILLIONS"
Many countries united at a League of Nations Union reception at the Dorchester Hotel, London, to pay tribute to Lord Cecil on his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Ludy Gladstone presided, and M. Pierre Cot, French Air Minister, and Joint President, with Lord Cecil, of the International Peace Campaign; Professor Gilbert Mur- ray, chairman of the League of Nations Union; and Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, M.P., formerly Lord Cecil's secretary and assistant, were among the speakers.
"It is the great honour of my Earlier in the day, Lord Cecil had public life," said M. Pierre Cot, "to received the congratulations of the be associated with Lord Cecil, who Union's General Council, and, in represents the highest and noblest reply, appeated to all agencies work- conselence of humanity,
ing for peace to close their ranks and redouble their efforts.
"There are millions of men and women who have a great need for peace and for whom Lord Ceell represents a great hope."
Lady Gladstone declared that there
was
no Englishman living, she be- Beved, who had so many admirers and who was so deeply trusted.
"PASSIONATE LONGING"
Mr. Noel-Baker said he thought. Lord Cecil had more consclous devoted followers than any other man in the world.
He sold the award of the Nobel Prize to him was a vote of confidence in the League of Nations in Britain. MUSSOLINI'S FEAR
"One cannot doubt that Musso- lini has left the League because he was afraid it might succeed in keeping the peace, and in prevent: ing his nationalist endeavour to break the peace."
Lord Cell added: "We are now taking a reasonable attitude with regard to the attack on our ships in the Yangtse.
Lord Cecll replied that interpreted the award of the Peace)
"I want to say very strongly that Prize to him; and the great stream the attack on China was n for of congratulations which be had greater danger to us and our interests received from all parts of Europe than the attack on our shipping or on and a great part of America, the lives of our subjects. Let us get the expression of the passionate it into our minds that
British longing for peace which possessed interests are not only a matter of the world,
territory and commerce, but of maintaining the law In Internationai affairs."
Singer Joins Husband
Jellyfish Hold Up Liner
By A Correspondent
Shoals of jellyfish, belleved to total 100,000 tons, were swept by the wind into Durban flarbour recently. For six hours thes held up the 5,242-ton Union Casile liner Dromore Castle.
Masses of the fish cholted the suction, pipe, thus cutting off the engines' water supply.
A tug backed up to the mouth of the pipe, reversed her engines and washed out the jellyfish by the force of water from her pro- pellers, "
In Ogpu Prison
Warsaw.
Mmų, Anna Maksakova, thirty- year-old Soviet орета singer, wife of Jacques Davtisn. Soviet. Ambassador to Poland, now un- der arrest in Moscow, has joined her husband in prison.
She was arrested on Saturday, accused of having helped her one of the diplomat husband, Bolshevik old guard, in the "high treasonable activities."
Three weeks ago the Ogpu secret police forbade her to go to Paris. where she was to give a concert,
She is reported to be in the Labyanka prison, headquarters of London. the Ogpu.
CANADIAN BEER JUDGED FIRST
of
Judges at the first British Empire battled beer competitions Ind to
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Adolf Bremer, 24, accused class, the gold medal was won by the Riedle Brewery, "Limited, of Winni-murdering the daughter of un inn peg, while the Northern Clubs keeper, told police that he wanted to Federation Brewery of Newcastle- commit suicide but, being afraid to on-Tyne carried of the silver chal- do so, he decided to commit the lenge cup.
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For a Stamp
of
The world's second most valuable slamp-a Swedish three skur banco-coloured yellow by mistake Instead green, only one of its kind in existence, has been sold through Mr. II. R. Harmer, of London.' for £5,000,
The price is the highest ever paid for a European slamp and the second highest for any sing- le specimen-highest being £7,- 400, paid in 1922 for a British Gulana stamp.
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The Swedish stamp was issued In 1855. About 1880 eight, In- cluding the yellow, were sold for about 8s. each.
N. Z. FOOD CONTROL
Wellington. The Primary Produce Marketing Amendment Bill has been passed by the House of Representatives.
The bill authorises the fixing of prices and selling conditions for dairy produce, fruit, honey and other foods which may be specified by Order in Council-Reuter.
Boy 'Sentenced To Go To Church
On condition that he goes la church at least once every Sunday, a boy of thirteen was bound over for a year at Linslade (Bucks) Juvenile court recently.
He was accused of assaulting two girls. Il was stated in extenuation that he left a London
Achool, where boys and girls are tauglit separate- ly, for a village school where boys and girls are laught together.
Because he was a big boy and well dressed; the girls, it was stated, "made a dead set at alm and leased him.”
Lord Allen of Hurtwood, proposing ja resolution on Colonial Territories. said the German claim for the return of colonleg was likely to become a cancer in the body politic of Europe. It must be insisted, he said, that the question be dealt with within the framework of an all-round
peace scitlement.
B.-P. WILL BE 81 IN FEBRUARY
Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, left London recently for Africa, on what he said might be "the end of the trail." He sailed in the Llandaff Castle for Mombasa.
in
"B.P." will be eighty-one years old February. Recently, ruddy- checked and in high spirits, he looked more like the man who, asked by a party of Scouts the other day to try to live to 115, sald, "Why stop at that?"
But when I asked him the reason of his six-months' trip he replied: "I-may-be going there-to-dic-We- must always 'Be Prepared.
"I have had a long innings. I'd rather die in Africa, where my heart
anywhere is, than
"I'm going to see my daughter Betty (Mrs. Gervase Clay) and my little grand-daughter in Northern thodesia, then my son Peler, and my grandson in Southern Rhodesia. may go down to South Africa, and up- to the Gold Coast to have another look at Ashanti,
"A GOOD END"
"I'd probably catch fever there, but I wouldn't mind dying in Ashant!. That would be a good end...."
The Chief Scout took a famous part in Sir Francis Scott's 1805 ex- pedition against King Prempeh, which brought about the downfall of his, ➡capital, Kumassi, "The Death Place."
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"Daddy is amazingly lively," said his tall, auburn-haired daughter Heather, who is staying at home to hunt. "He's very keen on this Gold Coast trip, but I'm sure when it comes to the point molher won't let him do 1. He's been very ill after previous fever bouts, and the risk is too great."
But the old campaigner, bidding good-bye to his friends, handed Lady, Baden-Powell into the car for the West India Docks and, refusing to be helped up the high step, did an Irish | dig before climbing in.
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