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Trade Unions Bi

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927.

·COMPANY REPORT.

MESSRS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.

LATEST YEAR'S FIGURES,

"A YOUNG LEGION.”.

SIR IAN HAMILTON'S ....... SUGGESTION.

QUITE A NEW IDEA. ·

In the House of Commons the controversy ovar the Trade Unions Bill has reached an acute atage. The Government, of course, has a sufficiently large! majority to ensure the Bill's ultimate adoption, which is all to the good considering its main |principle—making a general strike

The Directors beg to submit to was a suggestion put for- illegal. The Labour extremists

Shareholders a statement of ne- ward by General Sir Ian Hamilton may oppose the Bill and obstruct counts made up to February 28, at the annual conference of the its progress through the House by 1927. The balance at dabit of pro- Metropolitan area which met at every means possible, but will it and Lose Account after allowing the Royal Society of Arts Hall. they have the rank and file of Doubtful Debts, and deducting the the post of president of the aren for Depreciation and Bad and Sir Ian Hamilton, who has held Trade Unionists and their wives credit balance brought forward

Crawford, Ltd., for presentation to Legion" to

*The report of Mesara. Lane, The creation of a "young

carry

on

'the.

the 6th annual meeting on May 14 work of the British Legion rends as follows:----

$2,494.38 aince 1921, was again unanimous-

and families behind them? Last from last year, viz., year's general strike clearly show. amounts to $63,480.84 which they elected.

on

year ago.

Lieut.-General Sir E. C.

ed the spirit of the country. The Directors propose to carry forward The annual report stated that response for volunteers to carry to a new account.

although twelve branches had the essential services was Board of Directors: The Board been removed from the area, of Directors consists of Mr. A. S. D. seventeen new branches had been simply magnificent. In spite of Cousland (Chairman), Mr. W. E. L. formed during the year, making a the threats of Mr. A. J. Cook it Shenton, Mr. Chian Tong, Mr. M. total of 119. The Employment is very questionable whether an- Manuk, Mr. E. M. Raymond (Direc-Bureau had found employment for other general strike is possible. tras), Mr. R. L. Bridger, Mr. F. M. 705 men and women during the But the Government is wisely tak- Crawford, Mr. W. A. Eustace ing no risks-hence the introduc- Managing Directors).

year, and a total of 285,435 98. 9d. tion of the Trade Unfone Bill in In accordance with the Articles had been remitted for relieving the interests of Trade Unions of Association, Mr. W. E. L. Shen- distress. In addition £936 4s. 9d.

been themselves, enabling them to be ton retires, but being eligible, offers had

loaned, to assist himself for re-election.

families to emigrate to the protected from minority rule of Auditora: The accounts have Dominions. the kind responsible for the indus- been audited by Messrs. Linatead trial crisis a

The & Davis who offer themselves for Bethune was elected area chair- Prime Minister made A telling re-election. point when he declared that it would have been easy to have

In his presidential address Sir forced such a measure through

Ian Hamilton remarked that the House during or immediately ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE AGE-OLD slowly draining away.

youth, as a Legion asset, wag after the general strike last May,

Why although it might have been ex-

should it die out? Why should treme and vindictive. Trade

not all those war orphans they Under this head we learn from had educated become Legion- Unions are legalised. But Trade an article in Tobacco (New York), aries? The German ex-Service Unions cannot be permitted by A. S. Bee,, of a device due to men's organisations included in against their will to throttle the Nicholas Nelsen, a Danish jour- industry of the whole country at nalist, in which a smoker's pipe is why not? They might act about some cases their families-and the bidding of a mere handful of kept cool by turning the direction fanatics of the A. J. Cook brand, of the smoke coming through the creating a "Young Legion," which Some action by Parliament is stem to either side, or both sides. might begin by using their essential to avert another nation- This distributes the smoke into badges and clubs. This was quite

MARKED MONEY TRAP.

A Shaukiwan boatman and his wife were this morning fined $100 each by Major Willson for selling

wine.

1

MEXICAN COURT'S RULING.

A "COOL SMOKE."

PROBLEM.

росты

man,

sense

al calamity, and if the present the cavity of the mouth above the a new idea and his own until now. At the dinner which followed Bill goes a little beyond what tongue and gives, he asserts, a per-

St Slaters Restaurant, even some of the more moderate fectly cool smoke.

High He claims that by this simple Holborn. the health of the Fre Labourites would like they cannot expedient..pipe smoke is as mild sident was proposed by Mr. H. E. but recognise in due course that as the mildest cigarette. We read: Phillips, the retiring chairman. the principle of the measure is "Attempts have been made since Sir Ian Hamilton replied. sound. To quote Mr. Baldwin, time immemorial to invent means reasons set out in the British the more the Bill is known in the for cooling tobacco pipes. In many Legion was proposed by the The toast of "The British Note to Washington this imposed country the more will it be sup- Oriental countries the problem Mayor of Holborn, Alderman H. was solved severat centuries ago Warren Coleman. and, in reply, very heavy burdens on the Bri-ported.

by the water pipe. tish taxpayer. These burdens

"But it is not a good nipe, as all Colonel G. R. Crosfield (vice- have been shouldered with a will.

who have smoked one know. It chairman) referred to the British cools the smoke, but it kills all the Legion film, which had just been The British taxpayer offered no

taste and aroma of the tobacco. prepared for exhibition through- complaint then and he offers

The cooled smoke drawn, through it out the land. This was in no tastes like water vapour.. none now. But having these bur-

a propaganda film, and Long Pipe-bowls.

showed not only scenes of the dens to bear, he feels it is a little

"Austrians and Germans endea- war, but the terrific struggle their. hard that he should be pictured as dutiable Chinese

Two voured to solve the heat problem comrades had when they came making a profit out of the war. bottles were bought by a Chinese by making the pipe-bowls long and back after the war, and the work Americans, who were the first to revenue officer with two marked narrow from porcelain and other that was being done to help them.

20-cent pieces given to him by bad conductors of heat.

"The Metropolitan Arca" was praise Britain for signing a debt C.P.O. Clark.

"They also make the stems ex-given by Colonel E. C. Heath Afterwards the

ceptionally long of cherry-wood, so settlement when the rest of the C.P.O. rafded the boat and seized that the smoke will be carried a (general secretary of the British were defaulting, a debt two other bottles of wine. Three long distance before reaching the Legion), who announced that the

sealed jars were found on a small- settlement covering money bor-er boat tied alongside. The mark- but not what they desire,

tongue. They attain some results, Poppy Day collection to date, in- cluding Scotland, was £409,130, rowed for others, will be the first ed money was found on the "In Napoleonic times, when clay compared with £332,328 in 1925. to agree that Britain has a woman.

pipes were most popular with During 1926 £659,051 had been amokers, European pipe-makers spent on distress grants, £108,086 legitimate grievance when the

developed pipes of excessively long on small business loans. £119,198 impression is given that instead

stems, known as serpent, or serpen- on employment loans, £45,994 on tine pipes. of making big sacrifices in the in-.

"These long stems. reaching in on emigration loans and grants. employment grants, and £4,874 terests of the world's economic

some cases to eighteen feet or stability, she is bearing no bur den at all. The grievance is not very important in itself, as we have said, and Britain gave the Those who belleve that the United States a cue for answer strongest force for good in the ing the Note to Washington when world to-day is the friendship of she disclaimed any intention of the two great English-speaking wishing to interfere in a domes- nations will deplore the con- tic controversy in the United troversy that has arisen over war States. Washington took this cue debts as the result of a state- and promptly advised London ment made by the Secretary of that the State Department con the United States Treasury. Forsidered the correspondence be- tunately there is not a great deal tween Mr. Mellon and the Pre-

The Premier, in this controversy. Mr. Andrew sident of the University as Diet emphasised the seriousness Melton in a letter to the President purely domestic discussion. Pre- of an American university em-sumably the matter will now be ployed a remark that after 1927 dropped, the British Note having Britain will receive more from her served its purpose of clearing the debtors substantially than she air. But while the matter itself will pay the United States. This will be dropped, we trust that remark is considered in Britain the lesson will be remembered. to create "an unfortunate impres- Hereafter, whenever a small dis- sion," coming from such a quar-pute arises between Eritain and FAN AND PHONES STOLEN. to all stems, It is just na effective ter, since in no circumstances will the United States, as such points Britain receive more than she are bound to arise even between

Hong Kong, Friday, May 6, 1927.

THOSE WAR DEBTS.

Lower

Mexico City, May 5.

The Supreme Court has revoked more, were coiled up into bunches The Legion was in touch with the the partial ampares granted by the six or seven inches long. They did Scouts Association, and it was Federal authorities from enforcing not much.

Courts restraining the a certain amount of cooling, but hoped in the near future to form troops of British Legion Boy the new Land and Petroleum Laws Recently, as the world's patent Scouts, sons of ex-Service men. In in the case of nine foreign oil com- records show, inventors have again this way they would be able to tackled the problem of securing a carry on the torch of the British

Legion.

Sir E. C. Bethune replied.

panies..

The Court rules that district cool smoke and have exercised con- They have courts are only competent to grant siderable ingenuity. or reject amparos as a whole and centered their attention largely on not partially as the. District Court the bowl. has done in this case.-Reuter's American Service.

JAPAN'S CRISIS.

"Our Guests" was proposed by Mr. J. J. Cunningham area vice- chairman, and Mr. Fred Howard replied.

FASHIONS IN FOOD.

Numerous Tests. "Some have made this double so as to have an air-jacket between the smoking and cooling bowl. Others have circulated air at the hottom of the howl. Many have had wells for air and the collection Tokyo, May 5, of moisture at the bottom of the

The statement of a member of addressing the bowl or the entrance of the stem.

Parliament, lately returned from "They appear to have left the Malta, which ho visited as a mem of the financial and economic problem of a cool smoke more or ber of the British parliamentary cituation and hoped that the nation less open.

delegation, that the Maltese round would continue to observe with res- "Now Air, Nelsen invites us to potato, once a favourite of the Eng- traint and composure the presented try his pipes with a mouthpiera lish housewife, is now sent else measures for assising the banks. designed so as to convey the smoke where because London refuses to He intimated that the Government into the mouth in such a way that regard round potatoes as "new". would leave explanations regarding the air in the buccal cavity will confirmed by food experts. Major policies and intentions till the Deact as an automatic cooler.. Moura, of the Covent Garden firm

"Numerous teats have shown of that name, said: that this Ingenious principle is "There is little demand for the very efficient and as it is applicable white currant or the white rasp- berry to-day, I do not think it is for cigar and cigarette holders as due to prejudice, but to the reason

that though, white currants for pipe-stems.”.

every bit as tasty as red, they have no distinctive colour and look- "measy" when cooked. The same, I think, applies to the white rasp berry.

cember. atsilon-Reuter.

Mr N. L. Brewer of the pays the United States. There is friends, we hope that it will be Instone Banking Corporation, 25, nothing more to the matter than settled with the same prompti- Des Voeux Road Central, had an that. Britain is not suggesting tude, be it a dispute of a diplo electric fan and two desk tele- phones stolen from his office some for a single second that there matic character or of a domestic time yesterday. The property should be any revision, of war nature only, Nothing is worse was worth $52. debts, nor is she revilling the than leaving a sense of grievance United States for driving a hard to rankle, for it grows with the bargain. When she found that passing of the months. If Bri-

A LEAP TO DEATH.

£150,000 TO A TOWN.

BEQUEST TO NATIVE PER PLACE:

Bre

po-

The public like the kidney tato because it is the new, improved type, when new the skin can be The ancient Devonshire town of rubbel off. The round types are Totnes, 10 miles from Newton Abwasteful because they have to be bol is to receive about £160,000 under, the will of Mr. Sidney Pal Peeled: The apples we used to eat were coarse things with ample Adams, of Brookesby, Newton Ab cores, and the oranges much more bot who died on Christmas Eye,

day."

the United States, after the war, tain feels that she is receiving A Chinese died at the hospital aged 82, leaving £215,881, with net prolific in pips than they are to

Although we have been married ceventy years, I do not know her yet-Mr. Benjamin Parsons (Gos- port)

was not prepared to agree to less than "justice let her speak yesterday as the result of jump- personalty £218,889, ha wiping out all war debts as a big out. If the United States thinks from the verandah of a house Mr. Adama, who was for more in Cleverly Street, He suffered than 80 years a member of the step towards stabilising the econo- she has a grievance let her lay it fractured ribs and a broken spine. London Stock Exchange, left nu- mic conditions of the world, bare. Surely the two nations

merous bequists to relatives and charities. VACAN Britain, lost no time in coming to know each other well enough for Knocked down by a motor? The residue of the estate id

settlement with the United a little plain speak Such truck owned the Hong Honi Truck to Mrs. Adams for life, after which States, pledging herself at the clearing of the air as between Coa coolie was yesterday taken sums totalling about £8,000 are al- Mrs. Louisa Jones, aged 85, of to hospital suffering from a frac located to religious and charitable Long Ditton, Surrey, a visitor to same time to a policy of collecting friends is the surest way to pre-tured leg. from war-time Allies, who owed serve the present cordial relations, her twice as much as she

fons which are the best guar-As the result of a fall from a the benefit and improvement of the collapsed and died from heart

wall at the St. Lewis Industrial income to be devoted to the benefti fallure. FLAG LAHAT

United States, naimo

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American obligat

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ultimate residue goes to the Margate, while praying on a treasurer of the borough of Totnes Sunday in Holy Trinity Church

suffered In- and improvement of the town or She had often expressed the which had to the reduction of the rates as the hope that she would ale while at the hospital Primayor and corporation may decide. I prayer.