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The Customer's Right. Chicago. If the one dozon melons allegedly aquashed on the head of Allen Brill, fruit dealer, by a customer, had been hard the

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1932.

COALITION'S MARCH

NEXT ELECTION MAY

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CAN TRADE REVIVE WITHOUT A WAR?

Professor G. M. Trevelyan windation of Samuelite and Lloyd Geor But as it was he dismissed the up his second volume, labelled glan Liberals. These two Parlia complaint Mr. Brilt made against] "Ramillies," with these words: mentarians will scrabble up some the customer, anú said:—

"If the melons had been good they would havé hurt. Since they. |didn't hurt they must have been bod. And since they were bad, the customer had a right to be angry."

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A smash and grab thief was re- cently caught owing to a sudden attack of rheumatism while he was Britain, during the war, the most ache and beat it.

escaping.

You can't have your

effective recruiting poster was a re-

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THE FLOOD,

Shrewd Queen Anne,

war

of the

"In spite of Queen Anne, Har-sort of a Liberal party, if only in ley, Godolphin, and Marlborough, opposition to Sir John Simon and and partly through the defects Mr. Runciman, the common objects of their respective qualities, the af their detestation. Labour, ie, attempt to govern England on the trades unions, will have to non-party lines had come to an submit to the leadership-very end, after a not inglorious period able it will be-of Messrs. Morri-. of trial, (1702-9). Party hence son and Anourin Bevan, while forth was to rule in alternate Messrs. Wise and Maxton will hang. manifestations of Whig and on their flank as guerilla bandits. Tory; but the foundations of

Element of Chance. Great Britain and her Constitu Still, a National non-Party tion and her place in the world Government can shed. even 100 had been well and truly laid, ifscate (200 on a division) if only party could be trusted to treat they are lucky in their foreign them with respect." What Saith The Proverb?

policy, and if only the trade of the There is much in these words world should, by its revival, mop A atage writer says you hear the that is peculiarly applicable to the up the unemployed, or some of same jokes in pantomime in Cape present position and prospects of them. Town and Cardiff; Wellington and what is called the National Gov-as luck, because really they are We speak of these things Wimbledon. Sure it's a wise crack ernment. If anybody had predict-beyond the control of this or any that knows its own father.

ed two years ago that the biggest Government. The misery and Tory majority that has ever been chaos of central and eastern returned to Westminster, not ex- Europe are directly due to the Two boxers in Spain recently cepting Lord Grey's majority in Treaty of Versailles, which must jclaimed 44 foul simultaneously. 1832, would be led in the House of be revised or rewritten; to

The finer points of

modern Commons by Mr. Ramsay Mac-debts, which must be postponed by pugilism are evidently being quick- Donald, as Prime Minister, he an infinite moratorium; to the gap

would have been deemed clearly between

and "certifiable." And yet there it is, trades union regulation."

mass production for anybody to go and look at. So long as the British trades It may not be impertinent to reunions refuse to admit flexibility mind any readers who have not and the stomach to tackle the work of wholesale production and retail interdependence between Macaulay's great-nephew (and the trade, unemployment will continge. part about the Scottish Union is If, and it is a mighty big "if," dull) that Queen Anne, Harley, these questions could be settled FREDERIKS.—At Kowloon on De-presentation of Lord Kitchener with British Women Arc Wonderful.

cember 18, Johan Louis Max the laconic inscription "England

Godolphin and Mariborough work without war or revolution, there is Then there's the woman who, Frederiks nged

Jed together as Moderate or Centro no reason why a Centre Govern- when accused of driving of aisty Tories, and that they had That was enough miles an hour, said it couldn't be, Funeral will pass the monu- needs you."

ane niant should not rule England for The Latins prefer a more dramatic truc, as she had been out only fifteen Franco.

jsimple policythe war ment at 6.30 p.m. to-day. -

with the next half century," for with How this quartet was reduced, taxation and good trade - touch. We recollect Garibaldi's minutes.

broken up by the folly of the Whits the present electorate would ignore Invitation to voluntcors for a de-

in prosecuting Sachevérell and the party polities. sperate enterprike: "I am going out

still greater folly of the Jacobite As for the leadership In a new, American film the lead-Tories under Bolingbroke every Centre Party, It is open as a prize from, Rome, Let those who wish to ing lady has a bath in 500 gallons body knows.

to 60 won by any man of brains,. continue the struggle against the of real milk. The producer got his

fcourage, and a clear policy. Any foreigner.come with me. 1 offer idea wher endeavouring to open a It is gratifying, by the way, that man, for instance, who should save neither pay nor quarters nor probottle of milk by pressing the Mr. Trevelyan has destroyed the the British agricultural industry, visions. I offer hunger, thirst, the cardboard disc with his thumb,

myth, which we owe to the malice who would shake it up into its * * extremities of fatigue, battles, and One More Joke About Women,

of Swift, whom she would not make former equality with the towns death This was hot an encourag

a Bishop, that the last of our might be Prime Minister in a few "Women, take to good-hearted Stuart Sovereigns was a bigoted years. Who this man may be, On November 4, 1918, General ing promise. Garthaldi meant men," says a woman writer. And half-wit. Anne was a lonely and have not sufficient knowledge of Dfaz issued to the Italian army an what he said, and Italy knew it.

sick woman, but she inherited a the personnel of the House of order of the day, beginning: "Tis-But men accepted, as men will al-Modern Proverbs.

good deal of the shrewdness of Commons to conjectare. Charles, for she saw through, most tory speaks. . Listen!" Its re-ways and everywhere accept, the Be careful the old flame dues not of the politicians and hated the cipients listened with a right good high and heroic challenge. Signor flare up. will, and, two days later, eurs Mussolini has the same faculty of deafened with the detonations of stirring hearts by a clarion call to gunfire heard with relief that Aus- endeavour and self-abnegation. tria-Hungary had sought and sign-has been described as a chauvinist jed an armistige, In the sequel He replies, with disarming frank;

Walpole and the Whigs wisely "Unredeemed Italy" was redeemed, ness, that he has two voices, one famous family of alm comedians. ment from three to seven years. Ping Shan Library by H.E. the

changed the duration of Parlia and this proud country, which has for domestic and one for external ene

Asquith, whose statesmanship we Governor, Sir William Peel, weathered many a storm, embark-- consumption. His contributions to

Facts You Did Not are now asked to admire, shorten-K.C.M.G., K.B.E., will take place at ed upon a further stage of pro-international discussions are-mea-

Know.

ed it to five years, One of the the Hong Kong University this gress. There were pitfalls in the sured, maderate; and balanced. But

results of this strake of demagogy afternoon. at 4.30 p.m. A. is that all parties live in terror of path. The sinister agencies res-when he considers that Italians Because of a rapid expansion of the next election. The Govern- Chancellor, will be met by the On arrival, His Excellency, the

ponsible for the

disnater at would be the better for a little its zinc fabricating industry. Germent, to the relief of the House of Vice-Chancellor Sir Caporetto attempted to stir up in-"gingering up" he indulges in States as a consumer

William many now ranks next to the United Commons, delegates every exercise Hornell, CIE., and conducted to of the raw of authority which it decently can the Library ternecine disaffection. The correc- flamboyant rhetoric that loses no-metal.

to a non-elected committee com tive was supplied by the march of thing from the fact that Italian is a

Mr. Fung Ping Wah, the son of posed of so-called exports, very the donator will present the key the "Black Shirts" into Rome. Ita colourful and explosive tongue, aby a St. Louis musician produces vants and retired judge, whose His Excellency and request him to A two sided instrument invented able men as a rule, ex-civil ser of the main door of the building to tenth anniversary was celebrated literal translation of which is apt tones of the violin from one side remuneration is secure. recently amidst great acclamations. to convey a misleading impression. and those of the vicla from the The next general election, under After the ceremony, Mr. Fung

open the building,

Various features of Fascism may The burden of his deliverances for other

the present law, is due in 1996; at Ping Wah will make n short speech: be uncongenial to British tradi, local digestion is to remind Italians

least, It need not take place before and ask Sir William Peel, to unveil tions, but all government rests, in of their illustrious inheritance. The Japanese producers supply about then. Two things are notable a portrait of his father, the late the last resort, upon the consent/randeur that was Rome is theira 85 per cent of the domestic market about all non-party, patriotic Gov- Mr. Fung Ping Shan.

to renew. This is not jingoism, for sound pictures, most of the ernments: (1) - They are the Refreshments will be served of the governed, and the majority for Signor Mussolini is not thinking remainder coming from the United children of feat or emotion (2) after the building has been opened of Italiana. seem to have conclud-in terms of territorial acquisitions; States.

they must, in the nature of things, to inspection. ed that the regimen suits them, it is a legitimate exhortation. Italy

be supported by a coalition: The has a past which should be a peren

To speed up painting the photo emergency that produces a non- It used to be said that Fascism hial inspiration to effort Rome electric cell, has been combined with party patriotic • Government is, as and Signor Mussolini were syno- became the fountain i head of a 8 spray gun to automatically turn á. rule, war as when Burke led nymous, and that when he left the Church which has over 331,000,000 the paint on and off at the right over the majority of Whigs to sup scene the fabric he had created adherents. Latin is the basis of all places,

Avanti Italia.

from,

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are usually He last to be fired.

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Karl Marxa..

wild men of all parties, who had broken up, before her death, the great traditions of patriotic gov the ornment established under the

one of the

News In Brief.

Ministry of Godolphin and Marl- borough,

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DR. R. F. CLAY AT ROTARY CLUB TIFFIN

port Pitt; as in the Crimean war, Some simple experiments de when Lord Aberdeen coalesced monstrating the peculiarities of air with Feelites, Liberale, ctc.; as in when in motion were given at yes- the last war, when Asquith and terday's Rotary Club tiffin at Glou-

the Romance languages, several of would collapse. He is of a differ which, migrating from Europe, have ent opinion, He believes that gone overseas. Roman law is the Fascism-2 word derived from the foundation of the juristic systems Three cases of diphtheria were Lloyd George formed coalitions caster Building, by Dr. Reginald bundle of rods with which, in an of half the globe. When, in Wes- notified to the Health Authorities with Unionists. cient Rome, the lictors chastis-burned low. Italy kept the torch

tern Europe, the fires of scholarship on Monday,

FClay, D.Sc., former principal of Product of Panfc, the Northern Polytechnic, North The present Government is the London, MARIAN

of martial, but of The guests present at the timin Ten years of mass were Sir Henry Pollock, Messrs. ions, doles, of Ho Shai-lai (Peking), JD Hut- ight and left of a chan (Singapore), C. D. Culbertson. the gold standard, (Shanghai), GAV T Marshal, Government, to bor-Wallace Harper, jüt., C.-Y. Kwan Post Office and Say- and T. F. Lo, all of Hong Kong.

the dole,Rotarian P. S. Cassidy presided approach

fed delinquents is firmly rooted ablaze. From every quarter stud- The following is the return of prod (and will long survive him, ents flocked to the pacient univerel- cotifiable diseases for the week franči after he has made his exit. ties of Bologpa and Pisa.~ In Italy ended December 10 -Small- bribe:

the Rennaceuce lowered, and from case, 1 death, diphtheria o cases, subsidie Signer Mussolini is not a superman, Italy spread the revival of learning deaths, enteric fever 2 CRI

forced but he fa a patriot who has the gift which transf European cul death; pulmonary tuberculosis,, 51, had of commut

his, enthusiasm. ture. Italy has pduced imperish- cases - He bi

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