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occur
in Home
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1929. H
Lord announced that, not only INDIAN CONSTABLE'S|
was work on the Base to be "slowed down," but all work ["that could be" (whatever that
LIES
THIEF
may mean) was to be suspended, BOGUS CLAIM OF ARBEST, OF and no new work embarked upon, pending the five power confer- ence in London. It requires little! reasoning faculty to infer that. en Chinese, was at the Kowloon
"PLACED ON REPORT"
P'RAPS-
PRAPS NOT!
An Aberdonian wished to catch the morning train to London, and. being a heavy sleeper, was in doubt
Today Wong - So, «an »ungmploy- if he would wake up sufficiently in the event (a more than likely Magistracy before Mr. T. Smethods to ensure success, but each
two
early. He thought of several
seemed to Indicate the necessity for a tip. In the end he posted
J
one). of the conference deciding | Whyte-Smith charged on against the Base, it would beefences, namely. (a) larceny from a person of a purao 403- closed down permanently, so far taining $2 at Keelung Street; (b) himself a letter without a stams.
Next morning early thero came as the Labour regime is concern-returning before his banishment led.
term of 10 years
the door. from October, a thunderous rattle on 1924, had expired.
The Scot opined the window, and The total contributions of
Accused pleaded not guilty to the postman cried:-"Here's Hong Kong, the F.M.S., and New the first, but admited the second letter for you, without a stamp. Zealand amounted to £2,118,000.
Evidence by three Chinese prov- There's thrippence to pay."
"Tak' it back." commanded the Was this vast sum given blindly, ed that the accused had snatched
"Carelessness like that the purse from the pocket of one wily one. in response to the dictated wishes of them while htey were making doesna deserve to be encouraged," on a non-Socialist Government, purchases. The thief was finally
Through the busy streets 話 or was it given from patriotic handed over to an Indian Police
paliceman led a child by the hand. motives, and the sense of glorious
The Indian gave a very differ motherly looking woman paused duty which every man feels, infent versions. He made out that in front of them for a moment. Jorder to keep the bonds of Em-he had arrested the thief who Then in a sudden burst of sym.
pire closer? We may not all be to the Chinese witnesses, the man gave her a hearty kiga.
running, whereas according pathy she bent over the child and politicians, but we at least are was firmly held by them till the "Poor little lamb!" she said. able to realise, the grave menace constable came on the scene. She looks so cold and starved- to which the Empire would beed that what the constable had for a week.
Police Sergeant J. Jessep stat-like, and can't have been washed Some people nover exposed did the "Red" idealists aid about the thief running was ought to av children. Where did
man.
was
at Home (und now in Australia) | 21 lies, and that he would place you find the poor måte?” have their way.
him on the report.
"Find her?" echoed the police- The Magistrate agreed, and man, indignantly. "What d'you American opinion' on this
pointed out that it had often hap-meau? She's my own kiddie!" matter is:---
pened that an Indian policeman "Singapore could never be used÷lways tried to make people think The Muddlelon Dramatic Society offensively against us; Singa-that they did the arresting, and was presenting an historical play,
net anyone else!
and pore's sole significance is as a de
one of the newly enrolled His Worship convicted accusedmembers had been assigned a nar fence of Great Britain's posses and sentenced him to one year's with exactly one line to speak. Ho isions and white colonies in the hard, labour. On the charge of was the headman, and, arrayed in Pacific: and in case those white turning from banishment the all the glory of black tights and accused waB sentenced to ope mask, he strode on to the centre of waters-the colonies become involved in a year's ja, and 15 strokes of the the stage and announced: "My fight for their lives, it is probable | Lirch-Both sentences to run con- lord, my lord, I have beheaded the
nerve centre of the Empire.
BRITISH EMIGRANTS
Australia Not To Grant More Passages
maid." "Oh, you "ave, 'ave you?" retorted another small-part man in the guise of the cruel kind. "Well,
allow me to tell you that you've messed up the 'ole bloomin' show You've been an' done it two acts-
too soon."
The suicidal endeavours of the that we would aide with them currently. Labour Government, who now rather than sit back and see them really have shown the ulterior extinguished." motives underlying their un- This is a very generous tribute healthy gestures of indiscrimin-from our trans-Atlantic cousins, but it is a helping hand which ate hand-shaking with their
we sncerely hope we may never) "brothers," have opened the Em-
The tourist had been, studying have to accept. We are even in- pire to contempt and ridicule.
Rugby, Yesterday. the lay-out of the district and, clined to consider it as another Mr. Ponsonby, Under-Secretary encountering a native, remarked: Who before would have dared, or
"gross insult" when we read the for the Dominions, stated that a "How does the land lie out even have had reason, to address
concluding portion of the article: Prime Minister
telegram had been received from the here?" such impertinent words as the
of the Common-
returned the 'Why," "Should that come to pass, wealth of Australia, Mr. Scullin, taint the land, it's following, which appeared in a Singapore would be of inestim-stating that it had been decided to agents!" recent issue of the New Yorkable value as a base for our Nayy.suspend for the present the grant of paper "Liberty":-
In fact, we could well afford had received no communication on as fast as his legs would carry him, assisted passages to Australia. He He was tearing down the street "The history of nations and right now to take over one-half the subject from any of the state with the stout landlord tolling in empires is like that of people.of the cost of completing the con-Governments, but he would point the rear. "Stop him! Stop him!" They are young, they grow up to struction at the Singapore base out that under the arrangements shouted the landlord.
A policeman the fullness of power, and they and enter into a joint ownershiped passages was a matter for the
hitherto in force the grant of assist-made an effort to do so, but the die. Great Britain is going along of it. Our half would cost us Commonwealth and not for State stable, who allowed him to proceed. man sald something to the con- this historic road. In the old days about $125,000,000,"
Why didn't you stop him?" de-
Governments.
native,
the land
when the aristocrats governed It is clear that the people at fied that all parts of the British
Mr. Ponsonby added, "I am satis- manded the landlord on reaching England, they exploited the pos- Home suffered from an attack of Empire oversea are sympathetic to the policeman. "He told me you sibilities of world empire. We short-sightedness when they elect-migration from this country, but was running him for six drinks,** Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 14, 1929. still have echoes of that day in ed the present Government. It is each respective Government must explained the man in blue. "So 1
sonorous phrases: "The sun never curious how they could be strol the movement of assisted ent- "he hasn't paid for 'em."
necessarily reserve the right to con- was," said the landlord, furiously: Surely the grants in accordance with local the British Empire;" easily "taken in." "The drumbeat sounds round the time is come when British re-economic conditions. The question Two friends met, one day and sidents abroad and in the of the suitability of various parts began to discuss the various events Colonies should have
of the Empire for migration from which had taken place in their a say in this country depends on many fac-lives since last they met a year electoral matters? At any rate, tors which cannot be discussed ago.
HANDS OFF THE
seta on
I
It is evident that the love for the within the limits of the answer to "I've not done anything much "I took a tish Wireless Service,
NEWS IN: BRIEF
Cruelty to a chicken by carrying
THE DEAD SEA
job as groom, and I've not had a minute's peace sincel-on the go, day and night, and ordered about
"That's just how I've been treat-
Concession Now Undered broke in the other.
Consideration
Rugby, Yesterday.
nssistant.
NAVAL BASE
world" "Britannis. rules the waves." In song and slogan the Ex-servicemen and civilians old order boasted of its might. who are proud of their British blood, especially those who have aristocrats to think in such terms strongly in Britons far from the
"It is more or less natural for British Empire is vested more the Parliamentary question.--Bri-at my job," said one. lived abroad, must regard the They want to expand their own Old Country, and that our friends sickly efforts of the Home La-personalities by conquest so that at. Home åre, suffering from a bour, Government to break down their sons the National spirit, which we consuls in subject lands and far
may become pro-strange and hopeless apathy. believe to be unconquerable, with islands and win the Victoria
"You" said the first, surprised. no little disguat. Soon, if the Cross in a fight on the Irrawaddy.
"How can you be putting up with Labour Party has its way, the Bat the ways of the aristocrats
my sort of life?-you never took on as a groom!" British Empire will be a third-passed. There came the day suspended from its wings, le Colonies was asked whether the "I took on as a bridegroom!"
The Under-Secretary for the "I did," said the other, gloomily. rate power so far as military and when the votes of the common days, at the Kowloon Magistracy Novameaky for the Dead Sea con-
to a Chinese being fined $5, or à naval defence are concerned, and people ruled. And the masses-to-day.
draft agreement with Mr. will be totally unable to resist the perhaps actuated by the familiar
A young woman was sent by cessions, the terms of which were her father to buy a number of ties. designa which it is apparent are inferiority complex felt that
Transrulasion of the "Shanghai given in a Whito Paper issued three She was fairly certain of the kind being planned for its fall.
Men they must undo much that the Evening Post" has been denied by late Parliament, had now been rati not want too much help from the days before the dissolution of the she wanted, and, in any case, did shut their eyes in 1913 to what aristocrats had done felt that ere expect to get the matter adjusted
the Post Office there. The publish- fied. they were amused to call "vague those things which had made the in a short time.
Mr. Lunn replied that the preli But the latter was # very minary agreement was signed on rumours" utilised by the Press Great Britain of the aristocrats for increasing newspaper circula- great must be all wrong."
May 22. The final draft of the con-Pressing youth and, had a deal of For the larceny of a plank of wood cession was now under considera- advice to give; also, he tried to be from a house under construction in tlon.-British Wireless Service.
bright, and succeeded in annoying tion; but no one laughed in 1915. They grew sentimental shout Hong Kong, a Chinese was at the
the girl We have just recently celebrat-their coloured brother and felt Kowloon. Magistracy to day sen- ed a day that has been set aside that it was very wicked to send labour.
tenced to one week's 'fail with hard by all the peoples of the Empire big ships to frighten him, They for the remembrance of the might let the "Keep Off the A paragraph in this morning's Glorious Dead. What fitting Grass" signs reman, but they of pearls were picked up in the Police reports stated that a string memorial is it that we are allow would withdraw the policenten centre of the city yesterday. Ap ing to be built up by a Party
"That is what Britain is going pleations concerning it should be that winks whenever its glance about now. If it abandons Its made at Police Headquarters. gress was made at yesterday's dis-) turns to Moscow? Is it a gen-naval Base at Singapore the Bri- An extraordinary general meeting Committee and the Executive of the
[From the "China" Mall,” erous reward for blood spilt in tish Empire, la walking down the of sestholders and subscribers of Miners Federation, anabling the November 14, 1919.3 heroic sacrifice that the women hill to the sunset."
the St. John's Cathedral will be held Government to proceed immediately!
To-day's dollar la worth 4/8 8/100. and children of the Empire are
in the, Cathedral Hall on Thursday, with the first Bill relating to work- Can any Briton or Colonial November 21, at 5.20 p.m. Furthering hours and the marketing of
Kali British firms in China insist to be exposed to all the horrors of read such scurrilous insults with-particulans may be learned from an
coal.
upon their staffs acquiring a working future
Colliery ownera in South York- knowledge of the Chinese language, we sbire and West Yorkshire, in de ses trouble ahead? We have cur what the dignation? Yet there, is truth
fance of the Mining Association, Belves had a few bouts with this job, abolition of the Naval Base at in the "sting of the tail" contain C. Abbas, an Indian student, have jointly agreed to accept the and always retired worsted. lan Singapore would mean in the ed in the last paragraph. "If it was arrested in Kal Tak Road,
Government's proposals. Reuter.
guage, in, which the same word nieans “ted” or “fork," according to whether eventuality, of time. It would abandons the Naval Baso..
Kowloon City, on Tuesday night for
you sing bass or tenor, has us flum- render us open to merciless at- and we agree that that, indeed, when mention of the offence was Police to the effect that a Chinese every Briton knowing the language." riding a bicycle without a light, but A report has been made to the moxed. We admit the desirability of tack in our Far Eastern posses would be a dark day for the made before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith named Fung: Tak-kwalya foklein: We have keen desire to know it our- sions,
and,
at the Kowloon Magistracy yeater-ployed at a jewellers shop at 187, selves, but are now hopeless. We dos Fleet were attending to the In the House of Commons name, his bail of 83 being estraat- ed taking with him-rings and other really learns Chinese goes crazy Wa day the youth falled to answer his Park Street, Kowloon, has abscond local asying that every white man who sira what confert we can from the crisis there, a grester one would yesterday, the Labour First Sen ed.
Jewellery worth $188.
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