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what he was during the war years, a great war governor, a:great Irish- man.

If the Irish as a nation and in the majority wish to throw off their allegiance to the Crown, and, Empire it is dincult to see what Great Bri- tain can do about When they were granted the sat measure of autonomy as the othe. Dominions it'

was hoped that the Irish question

SDAY, MARCH

CORRESPONDENCE

PROTECTION WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

routes, and the necessity no longer exists for her units to be naval Dön Quixotes, scouring the seven seas. had been laid for ever. And from...(To the Edkor of “China 'Mail."); How much, for instance, might

Sir-May be allowed to give Norway, Sweden and Denmark con a material point of view it would seem that they have more to lose expression of my high appreciation tribute to the Exchequer for the than, gain by independence.

of your leading article in yesterday's safety of their Plimsoll-laden vessels Britain is their chief market for Issue on the question of Protection in piratical waters?. Yet these the British Empire countries demand one hundred agricultural produce, in case of a within break with the Empire a duty on agree with your opinion kroner from every British, traveller Irish food-stuffs would certainly be that the time has arrived for Brl-who has the temerity to offer his called for by British farmers, and taln to give deliberate expression to wares in Scandinavia? By all such would mean the ruin of Irish her ability to control her home and means let Britain guard isolated agriculture, and agriculture in the her colonial markets, as, meantime, trade routes, but foreign shipping chief industry of Ireland, to-day, the industrial power of Britain in should pay for its safety in accor States within the Empire have many her own colonies is a grotesque dance with the tonnage passing over privileges, not the least of which is example of misapplied international them. free protection wherever the Flag, philanthropy. and spieg filos...

I have always wondered why the We wonder if it has ever occur-hedge-sparrow received in her nest red to Mr. De Valera and his aup the egg of the cuckoo. Britain has porters to think of the change in an inherent ability to produce cotton the status of his countrymen abroad out of an irrigated Sahara; rubber that independence would entail out of a cleared, jungle; but she has For one thing, until an independent not had the courage of continuity Ireland could, establish a chain of of purpose that of keeping her

$3.00 to $5.50 consulates round the world the Irish "ain fish guts for her ain

Pair.

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HỒNG KÔNG.

The China Mail. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 30, 1932.

All The Recrudescence of Nationalism.

sea

The British tax-payer has given the National Government

a mess- age; that message will be carried from the Falkland Islands to Hong Kong by every Britiaher who ap preciates his country's flag. The milch-cow of the World is dead.

"Golden nine and silver two."*

"

THE SCHNEIDER TRIO.

[To the Editor of "Chins Mall.”]

Sir, The Schneider. Trio is pass-

would be pariahs among the peoples. mawa." Home Governments... are, Just fancy, they would even need an beginning to realise that dur Irish Consul for Kowloon. Well, if colonies are also "British-made"; it ever comes to that, we know the that it is imperative for Bri-ing through the Colony again in very man for the vacancy.

tish interests to be the domin- | April and I have been asked to ar- ating factors and not, 88 at range for two more concerts for present, the objects of a highly them at the Helena May Institute. amused tolerance on the part of As the experience of the two pre- others, all of whom can affordvious concerts WEB rather dis-

7

News in Brief,

ex-

Girls' College owing to dif-international free trade, and I am

The proposed painting hibition arranged by St. John's Bably to smile from the safe appointing, the average attendance Hall of the University

will heights of their colonial tariff walls, being..65 persons, the amount avail- Britain is in a position to create able; for advertising is very limited. not take place in St. Paul's

I hope therefore that any of your convinced that the late Aristide readers who are interested will make culties of transport.

Briand's Utopian road leading to a note of the dates on reading this that desired goal can be quickly letter and will need no further re- Yesterday afternoon, a gilder's built upon the ruins of the great minder. They will be on Wednes fighter, tender as a woman, beloved

all ranks, a great little man; apprentice, Luk Luk (16), of 5 wall of a British Empire Tariff.

days, April 13 and 20 at 9.20 p.m. Kitchener, the strategist, the born Sharp Street, crushed his right

An American writer gives expres- This time the harpsichord will not organiser, the tremendous driving at, whilst engaged in fitting asion to the following:

be used, and the programme will "American ... commerce with consist entirely of plano, trios by Power, not perhaps so lovable be-driving belt to a wheel. He was cause the leader always. But both sent to the Government Civil. Hos Australla, India, and other parts of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, of them soldiers and gentlemen pital for treatment.

the British Empire has increasingly Gretschaninow, Pizzetti and Marx. sans peur et sans reproche....

The twenty-first annual athletic pushed aside established British The prices will be the same as be- Take English literature, what! It seems remarkable that at this would it have been to day without meeting of the St. Paul's College business. If England will pay for fore, $4.40 and 3.30 including tas

will be held on the South China Army upkeep in India while the I would again appeal especially to Without Oscar time of day when material and com- the Irish Masters.

United States captures the trade, the Fortuguese and Chinese music- Athletic Association ground at mercial interests are seeking for Wilde, the spinner of lovely

"Uncle Sam can well afford to lovers in our midat, scarcely one of Caroline HUL on Friday. The

laugh at old-style Imperial whom came to the previous concerts. security in combines and amalgama- phantasies, the graceful playwright,

With sports will commence at 1.90 p.m.

Possibly it was thought that only tions to find the flame of a perfervid the stylist, par excellence.

and at the conclusion Mrs. S. W. cruditles." nationalism burning brighter than out Bernard Shaw, the world's Teo, has, kindly consented to dis- The time is also past for Britain members of the Helena May could perhaps ever in the world's history, greatest dramatist, the age's most tribute the trophies.

to continue to think in terms of a attend, so I would emphasize that un trenchant exposer of meannesses

great maritime Power naive-these concerts are open to the breaking out in expected and

After a stay in the Colony of

guarding her expected places, in communities of and shams, on the side of the under

Hubbardian public. She ia too gen».

Your, etc... of Irony more than one month, the execu- cupboards. importance and in communities of dog always, the master

in loyally members of the ill-fated roue

maintain- no great importance, in nations and satire, with beneath it all the ve great and nations small. And the great and pitiful heart. Without Haardt Expedition, left for France ing her task of keeping open the smaller the nation the greater the eats, the poet of "The Wind among yesterday on the Felix Roussel, greater number of the World's trade enthusiasm, the wilder the flag-The Reeds."

taking. with them the embrithed In medicine, in the law, every-body of M. G. M. Haardt, the lead- waving, the more outrageous the

of where, in the great countries over er of the expedition who died in claims, the fiercer the hatred neighbour states, the braver the seas, you find Irishmen, and Irish the Colony recently..

ed armed robbery at 29, Battery Right up at defiance of all the world. And the men distinguished.

Street, Yaumati, reached Police The return of natibable diseases Headquarters this morning. reason of it all the further removed the top, and there because of their from commonsense, and even from talents, their capacity for hard for the five days, ended yesterday was stated that at 9.50 clock sense of their own material inter-work, their gift for seeing things shows 14 cases of small por (7 gach three men and a woman, armed So are the endeavours of the clearly and seeing things whole In Victoria, and Old and New with knives, attempted to break League of Nations and the world's indeed, because they possess a power Kowloon districts); two of dip into the house, but their plans. economists set at naught and of logical thought not generally theria in Victoria; four of enteric were frustrated by the inmates, step credited to the citizens of the slater fever (Victoria S, Old and New and they fled, leaving their knives civilisation takes another backwards down the stairs into island.. And, great, as administra Kowloon 1); and two of cerebro-behind.

{tors; of that we have been happy in spinal fever (Victoria 1, Old and The furore started when peace having an exemplar even in this our New Kowloon 1).

Wong Sai wo mistress of a came to a war-weary world, and the little Colony in Sir Henry May.

cargo boat, has reported to the citizens of every state nevermind When the war broke out Sir Charged before Mr. W. Schofield Police that yesterday morning, their insignificance knew within Henry had been governor for some in the Central Polico Court this whilst proceeding from the Chuen themselves that they and they alone thing like a year, and his success at morning, with the theft of two On wharf to a Jardine steamer in had won the war, and demanded re-a goverdor could sometimes be held overcoats, valued at $60, the pro- the harbour (her bont being laden cognition of their national quality in question. To the mere people perty of Mr. Tan Eng.wan, a Hong with sundry goods at the time),

That recognition he seemed to know too much and Kong University student, living at the water became rough, and the The second case occurred at Lok and aspirations. they received to and even beyond interfere too much in the small de- May Hall, Wu Chun stated to be boat overturned, throwing three Ma Chau Police Station, where the limit of their asking, so that tails of the running of the Colony, a substitute coolie, pleaded guilty remale passengera overboard. A. W. Kirby, the five-year-old son of the present day map of central and to the Taipans. he seemed alto and was sentenced to two months' They were rescued by boatwomen Acting Sub-Inspector Kirby, was

ests.

Chaoe.

Europe looks like a draught-board gether too dd autocratic. But hard labour.. decorated by Arts and Crafts. And with the outbreak of the ware

A. M. BOWES-SMITH

Hon. Secy.

Hong Kong Music Society.

Brief intimation of an attempt TWO CASES OF DOG

I

BITING.

European Lady & Police

Officer's Son.

Two cases of dog biting were re- ported to the Police yesterday,

Mrs. Cryan, of 2 Queen's Gardens, was bitten in the leg by a dog owned by Mr. B. H. Church, living at 10, Queen's Gardens She received treatment at the hospital, whilst Mr. Church had the dog removed to Kennedy Town for the usual period of observation.

in the vicinity, and the cargo was bitten by a small chew dog, owned

later salvaged Med by his father. The lad was taken Sanada Tano Ponto the Kowloon Hospital for treat-

Ten Years Ago.

[From the China Mafi”, of March; 30, 1922.).

If any of these small independent "Paddy" came into his own The Lai Shau (49), wireless operator states have reaped any benefit from very defects in his qualities that of the Government Radio, Depart

A brief Police report to dayment, and the dog was removed to their small independence beyond the made him undistinguished in peace ment is believed to have committed states that at the request of Dr. Kennedy Town increase in swelled head that goes made him the Ideal, war gaverner suicide at the Government, Civil D. J. Valentine, Deputy Registrar with too much of a good thing news in a day, as it seemed by magic, the Hospital yesterday afternoon when, of Births and Deaths, the body of of it has not yet reached Wyndham Colony found itself organised on a according to a Police report, he European male child, named John Street. The fact is that the Treaty war basis, Then Indeed we knew jumped over the second floor Granville Waldren, the son of Ser- wanglers at the end of the War, that we had a man at the top. If verandah.

geant Waldren, RA, and Mrs. well-intentioned as they may have you got an order you jumped Into He was admitted on Monday, and Waldren, of 20, Married Quarters, been, set the world back in the your car and drove hell-bent-for was a patient in Ward 11 and Lycemua Barracks, was removed political sense for fifty years, election, if you hadn't a car you yesterday he is stated to have to the Public Mortuary. The lad Which brings us to the latest out took a rickshaw, shouted. Fiteel, jumped over the second floor died suddenly at his home, yester- break of the spirit of nationalism, and encouraged the coolle brutally verandah. When picked up he was day morning, but there are no sus- --and to Ireland. Grea

⠀⠀⠀ from the rear, nyhow, you stood found to be suffering from a frac-picious circumstances attached to Now this is where we have got not on the order of your going, you tured skull and other injuries, his demise. Much sympathy will For you knew what from which he succumbed, three be extended to the parents in their to remember the motto on the badge simply went. of a certain famous Automobile was the penalty for del in the hours later.

stions

| Club, and "Gang warily!" "For Ire King's Re

| land is no insignificant community seen to

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Kong,

Bad loss.

old lad had

allen from

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