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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1932.

to

Socialist Premier Friend Of King

Born World's Apart But Find Attachment

Donald.

CHAT IN

QUIET CORNERS

DIAG

SIR WILLIAM PEEL ABOARD RANPURA.

Governor Of Colony Arrives To-morrow.

His Excellency the Governor, Sir

cal in the country, denounced for William Peel, is expected to arrive

The Colonial Secretariat notifies

If we were privileged to pay a the King could have had for the surprise visit, let us say, to Bal- moment, moral in Scotland, where the royal Minister that he wanted, Stanley at any rate any Prima family of Great Britain usually re- Baldwin, a true blue Conservative, Ho presents the bride with.

sorts for the shooting, we might was available, and, while Lloyd rosdry and the bridegroom with a happen to see two elderly men, one George, the Liberal superman, was silver medal.

of them with a gray beard and the hors de combat, there were several other with horn-rimmed spectacles, statesmen in that camp-Lord Reade Frank Weaver, aged forty-four, sitting at ease in some quiet cornering, for one-who might have been of Brixton-road, a coloured conjurand evidently enjoying each other's drafted. It was in preference to all er, cleared himself of an accusation company. It would be King George these distinguished possibilities that of theft at the South-Western Po-chatting familiarly with his Primo MacDonald was selected, and it was lice Court by performing a conjur Minister, James Ramsay Mac-as the King's choice that, subse Ing trick.

Weaver, who was accused

quently, he received the endorsement of So placid a scene would not ap-of the electors. stealing a SInote from another pear, at first sight, to be surprising. In Europe, England's streak of man at the Pool Tote Club, Stres-Why should not King George enjoy Insanity is taken for granted. But tham-hill declared that he had! merely been showing a conjuring Donald?. It would be only after nerasy even Europe rubs her eyes, a chat with Prime Minister Mac-over this latest evidence of idiosyn trick, and offered to perform the moment of reflection that the signi- and in quarters where the back- trick in court."?

ficance of the occasion would be ground includes history, they ask Mr. Cairns agreed, and Weaver realised. Who is King George? And with irreverent and cynical irony with the assistance of the goaler, who is Prime Minister MacDonald? whether that democratic Orleanist, gave his "turn":"

On the one hand, the great titular Prince Louis "I will never again show any one sovereign, the direct descendant of Egalite, would not have been greatly Philippe, called a trick without payment," he said. Alfred the Great and Charlemagne, comforted on his way to be executed "A good resolution," said Mr. in whose veins runs the blood of by his Jacobin associates could he Calris, "you are discharged."

Plantagenets, Stuarts, Bourbons, have known that, at Buckingham Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns, to Palace, there would arise say nothing of Gothas, Guelphs "Citizen Windsor," as he has been and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- called by the caricaturists, who Glucksburgs! He reigns over one- would vindicate, the wisdom of presented by her preponderant.

"Stop! This is a one-way street." quarter of mankind and is saluted allowing revolutionary impulses in coloured population? Would

"Well, I'm going one way, am Ioverywhere with anthem, gun and royal circles. not?

curtsey. He presides over a Wind- Australia be pleased if suchá

sor Castle that was founded by Wil {tribunal were authorised to sit

liam the Conqueror, and he rides in Hong Kong. Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1932. in judgment on the "White Aus Empression of Opinion.

tralia" ideal? The Empire' müst

After a walk in the country a state-coach, every gilded gargoyle afternoon I have come

of which survived the terrors of the settle its problems in its own the conclusion that while the French Revolution. That is King way Does Mr. de Valera's remotor-car may be doing away with George, the quiet and unassuming The Irish Free State, quest imply that he is beginning the horse, it is not doing away man with the gray beard.

to appreciate this truth, and with the ass.

On the other hand, we see the that he is climbing down from

most conspicuous Socialist, and radi- With Mr. de Valera, fanaticism the windy heights of chauvinistic and prejudice often cloud judg-rhetoric into a world of realities?

H.H. the Prince Aga Khan says thirty years as MacDonald, the pro-In the P. & 0. 8.8. Ranpura to-. ment. The door has never been Has he learned the lessons taught his ambition is to win the Grand Boer; MacDonald, the pacifist: Mac-morrow, and to land at Queen's Pier

by experience and the responsibi- closed by Britain; Mr. de Valera lities of office? It is time that National, Derby and Cesarewitch Donald, who hobnobbed with Rebel, about 9 a.m. has refused to enter. Britain he did, because, as a result of his in one year. It now remains to be the German, and Jaures, the

Frenchman, in the Second Inter-that the landing will be unofficial, has always been ready to nego-jintransigence, the Free State is seen whether the Aga Khan.

national; MacDonald, who wants to but His Excellency will be pleased to tiate, but her willingness has on the verge of economic ruin,

overthrow capitalism and confiscatal see any who may wish to be present. and has been driven towards, the

the rights of property; MacDonald, Ordinary dress will be worn. I read that some old sallers can been qualified by two legitimate abyss by one who professes to be tell by scent when bad weather is the friend of every country but his stipulations. One is that nego her most zealous friend. Until a

own; the accomplice of Swarajists TWO FIREMEN SENT coming. tiations must proceed upon the few months ago the Irish Free]

in India and Sinn Feln in Ireland; assumption that the fundamental State was prosperous in compari

TO PRISON. principles of honest dealing joyed a good order, to which she

son with most countries, and en seem to be manly enough, and then independence of Egypt and con- "At times," said the girl, "you MacDonald, who has recognised the

must

at other times you're hopelessly doned the communism of Russia Pawned Clothes Issued be accepted,

and had long been a stranger. Then effeminate cannot

By Department. be jettisoned. Mr. de Valera and his colleagues,

at the caprice of a party to abour members, took the reins,

supported by a handful of La- "Well, that's heredity, you spectacles, the stoop of whos pread bargain. Unless this hypothesis and since then the scene has

"Heredity?" be granted, no contract conclud- changed. Events have followed were men and half women."

"Yes. You see, half, my ancestors ed or liability shouldered as be in swift and dramatic sequence. tween members of the Empire oath of allegiance and the repu- First came the abolition of the has any substance, and no con- diation of the land annuity pay- cession allowed holds any guar-ments the latter having no antee of good faith, from the political significance whatever, China la one of the world's larg-eration and incidentally descended they confessed to having pawned. beneficiary.

but being merely a business est markets for strap iron, which from King Charles II, whose name them Britain's second

transaction. Britain's natural is used by native blacksmiths and he bore, as so perverse an upholder The three men, Chan Shing, Lo proviso is that should the dis- and legitimate reply was to im- iron workers in making farm and of rebels in America and to traitor-Fuk and Ngan Chol, were brought pute be submitted to arbitration poeb duties on imports from the Household utensils and works of ous a defender of revolutionary before Mr. Wynne Jones in the the tribunal invoked must be an

Free State, and Medo Valera's

France that, with his own hand, he Central Police Court this morning. rejoinder I was to retaliate în Empire one, containing no for-kind This, to his logic, was -For grading highways a machine privy council.

atruck the fellow's name from his Two received six weeks' hard labour eign element. This is fully in "tit-for-tat But a point which has been Invented that cuts away

[and the last a $20 fine. So frate was King George IV over keeping with the Empire's tradi- escaped him

It was stated by Mr. Fitzhenry, although

many the earth to a width of sight feet Canning's advocacy of Catholic that the second defendant, who had tions and spirit. Seine weeks of his compatriots were keenly with scoops mounted on a revolv emancipation in Ireland and re- nine serious offences against him, ago Mr. de Valera, with gracious aware of it is that Britain ab- ing drum as the machine moves publics in Latin America that he had once tried to incite the men to

sorbs over four-fiftin of the Free forward. condescension, said that he would state's exporte de Valera A

was hard put to it to admit the stop work. - man to an audience. In order to not object to referring the issue argued, with his habitual im To keep ita passengers comfort-get rid of a reformer called to the Permanent Court of Inter- practicability, that British trade able when lying at extreme alti Brougham, King Willam IV broke national Justice. Matters have would suffer correspondingly to tudes German designers have given up Melbourne's government, and as reached

that of his own country. He for-a superspeed airplane a cabin em- for Queen Victoria, her sufferings an unfortunate pass got that Britain has other mar-ploying the thermos bottle "prin-over Gladstone and Home Ruld were when a family has to ask outsid kets. As an immediate result of ciple

unspeakable. ers to mediate upon its domestic Britain's action,” the agricultural

But what were the political per differences! When adhesion to Intereats, which supply the bulk By Impregnating eptton - ropes cadilloesof Fox and Canning, of of the Free State's exports, be- with rubber with a new British Brougham and Gladstone, compared the statute of this Court was began to languish. Worse was in process they are waterproofed and with the anarchie infamles of ing considered, Britain and most store. France and Germany protected against acid fumes, tro- James Ramsay MacDonald? of the dominions firmly insisted raised the duties upon her propical heat and sea water. that all mattera of intra-Imperial ducts, and Irish farmers were reduced to desperation. At and of local policy should be en famous fairs in which formerly

prolonged and intimate. It is not. An Increase in members, for the tirely excluded from its jurisdic, many hundreds of beasts changed

merely that the King, hearing that year under review is' reported, tho hands, there were few buyers. For the first time in the history MacDonald has trouble with his number, including associate mem- To enable th formers to carry of Hong Kong, the perfect safety of eyes felt In adepital." It Ia bers, being 440, and it is encourag- and to night flying was demonstrated at not merely that society in London ing to note that in spite of the bad Kal Tak Aerodroma last night by has to be polite to MacDonald as financial conditions prevailing, the the officials of the Far Eastern Aslation a persona grata at court. It is not Union closed its books for the year

arrels of old felt merely that lies ahbel MacDonald with a credit, balance of $807.85. petrol to provide the nothered, from

flares for land a kindly and gracious Queen,

tion. This was, obviously, proper course. The British Em pire, surely, possesses wisdom to compose its

disagreements, wh quently. To per

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Facts You Did Not Know.

News in Brief.

ked!

That is the man with horn-rimmed

shoulders proclaims the scholar.

A surprise inspection of kit of the Turn In Their Graves.

Chinese firemen of the Hong Kong: There are illustrious ancestors of Division yesterday revealed that the King Emperor, who, if they three members were deficient of one hear of these carryings on; will turn pair each of Government rough In their graves King George III serge trousers. was so particular in his tastes that men first of all stated that the When taxed the he used to regard Charles James trousers had been taken to the Fox, the greatest orator of his gen-laundry, but after much persuasion

A Gracious Queen...

UNIVERSITY UNION ACTIVITIES.

Many Features In Annual Magazine.

A complete account of the activities of the Hong Kong Univer sity Union during the year, 1931-32

· · It is not merely that MacDonald's appears in the Union Magazine, just audiences with his Majesty are published.

On Mac

George

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The Arts Association Prize Essay ary: Competition, is briefly commented

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ing upon within the pages, and the prize-wlaning.essay, written by Mr. published. Another dent was Mr. Toka

bjecta dealt with are, the arsity Athletic Meet, Porta” Art - Club Kr-

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