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Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 12, 1933, An American Inquiry Into War Debts.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1933.

CAREER OF JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

A PLEASING CHAPTER

IN POLITICS

Devit Worshippers of Irak. Irak ia the first country to have|---- been admitted into 'the League of Nations before its boundaries were definitely domareated, for the frontier between Syria and Irak from 1920 up to the present has been a temporary one, observed only for purposes of administra tion.

At last, an international mission has laid down

com-

BIRMINGHAM'S DEVOTION

(By the Very Rev. Dean Inge, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's.)

The career a revised

of Mr. Josepli Chamberlain's. administration, is border. The chief feature of its Chamberlain (who in the rest of more eloquent than a whole chapter recommendations 18 that that this article will be named with- of laudation. He was directly rea- quaint people known 18 the out prefix, since he has become ponsible for saving thousands of Yezidis, or devil worshippers, are part of national history) super-lives, and he carried out a series of reforms without over- to be included wholly in Irak. ficially resembles those of other drastic Hitherto that section living in the notable demagogues who, after burdening the ratepayers. Jabel Sinjar has nominally been terrifying or shocking all men of The people of Birmingham repaid half in Syria and half in Irak. moderate views and driving Con-him with a lifelong devotion which This must be gratifying to Irak, servatives into a state of apoplec-is one of the most pleasing chapters whose treatment of minorities has tic fury, and as quite moderate in the squalid records of democratic been viewed in some quarters with Liberals and defenders of the so-politics. auspicion.

cial order against revolution.

England's Greatness. received Syria, however, has

The enfant terrible, who has That he was hated by his poli- distinct strategical advantage in heard himself compared to Cati-tical opponents is not surprising. the northern part of this disputed line and Robespierre and other Opposition always made him flerce, territory, where she is to keep enemies of the human race, ends and occasionally outrageous. Those Kara Chok,

by basking in the smiles of who have heard him speak remem- duchesses and holds his position ber well the edge that came into his by Conservative votes.

beautifully modulated voice when he was in a combative mood. Hia was The formation of a Taxi Drivers' Flying Club is under way. It has His new allies say that experience an Ingratiating personality, though, come into existence under the wing and knowledge of the world have as this book shows, his family affec of the Taxi Drivers' League, which taught him wisdom. He is fortun-tions and. his friendships has a membership of 7,000. jate if his early associates do not warm.

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Flying Taxi-Drivera.

Sacrifice of Wealth.

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were

Mr. H. C. Manning, who is tak add the name of Judas to the list The Tories of that generation, Ing a leading part in organising of historical characters whom he is who called him a Socialist, a word the Flying Club, told me that they thought to resemble.

then as abusive as "Bolshevik" is already have a nucleus of one It is an honourable career from now, were quite mistaken. He be hundred members. It is hoped to first to last. In deciding to devote lieved strongly in the magic of develop on the lines of the himself to public life, he gave up the private ownership as an incentive to L.G.O.C. Sports Association Flying certainty of becoming a very rich work and patriotism; and he was payer, it points out that the de-Club, which was formed last year, man, for his business capacity very nnxious to restore something pression reduced the

yield The 1,200 members of the amounted almost to genius; he con-like peasant proprietorship in the. A prosperous Federal revenues from LG.O.C. Club pay a weekly sub-tented, himself with a private in-country districts. $4,033,000,000 in the year scription of 6d. They started with come of a few thousands a year, peasantry, tilling their own land, is 1928-29 to $3,317,000,000 in one machine, and now have two, when he consented to be bought out the most effective barrier against 1930-31, and says: "What which use in turn each of four of the firm of Nettlefold and Cham-collectiviam.

All through his life, Chamberlain has not been seen in contemplat- London aerodromes as their base.berlain. ing the fiscal problem is that the

He was essentially a man of was a strong believer. In the great- losses to the Treasury from a re-

action and a born fighter. He hit ness of England, and his tempera- mission of the debts would un-

hard, but he does not seem to have ment rebelled against the "peace at of one school doubtedly be greatly outweigh-

been vindictive; and, like other any price" doctrine ed by the gains which would ac-{ In the language of flowers lilies great organisers, he knew how to of Radicals. Disraeli and Randolph had both seen the crue to the Treasury with the re- of the valley are said to mean "I win the loyalty of his subordinates. Churchill

of a new school Covery of business activity." The need money," I hear that many There were ne strikes in his works. possibilities

Acrid Nonconformity.

of Tory Democracy, leaning towards conclusions to which the Institute tactful tailors arc printing repro-

Like several other distinguished imperialism in forelgri politics. Victorians, he care of a strongly Chamberlain was nearer to them middle-class Whigs, Nonconformist stock; one of his an-than' to the cestors was ejected from his living whom he disliked from the first.

Leaving Gladstone.

Your Daily Smile.

TACT.

has been brought by its long ductions of these blossoms on their study of the problem are:-1. A bill-heads. complete obliteration of all Re-

paration and War debt obliga-Their Great Ambitions. At a moment which must seem tions would promote, rather than The small boy to have a puff most opportune the Brookings retard, world economic prosperi- puff; the small girl to have Institution of Washington haety," and "2. The collection of puff., just published a valuable study these inter-Governmental debts on "War Debts and Prosperity." would be economically detrimen- Attached to the Institution is an tal, rather than beneficial, to the Institute of Economies, founded creditor countries."

by the Carnegie Corporation, but| administered by an independent

board of trustees with the

de

clared purpose that "the Institute shall be conducted with the sole

The Eleventh Hour.

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-IN A FIX.

The film actor who was told

to put a little life into his dying.

* ** AS ALWAYS.

MEMORIES.

at the Restoration after the Great Gladstone, strong Churchman a Rebellion. Nonconformity at that

time was acrid and bitter; some of and, in many ways, Conservative as he was, leaned heavily for support its grievances were genuine.

One of the first causes which on the bourgeois Nonconformists, who disliked a spirited foreign young Chamberlain took up was a controversy about education against policy for every reason, and not the Established Church. These unleast because it meant higher taxes Gladstone was a Chancellor of the difying aquables went on for many

year, with no credit to either party. Exchequer after their own heart. The intercets of the children were In his later administration the poor too often forgotten; what was clear old man was nearly torn, in pieces was that both sides had so little con by the violent discords within his fidence in the power of their argu Cabinet; no inan ever lived who ments to convince the adult mind was so well able to gloss. over the that they thought it very important contradictions in his own mind.

(Continued on Page 11.) to catch the children young

News In Brief.

An ex-heavyweight boxer has taken up pig-farming. Still earn- object of ascertaining the facts If and when the twenty-fouring a living with a pen. about current economic problems four clock face comes into general and of interpreting these facts use, the English language will Fittings in the house of a Rally- for the people of the United lose a striking phrase. It will States in the most simple and then be the lot of teachers, and All the curtains are hung on her wood film actress are made of gold, understandable form?" and the perhaps ultimately of antiquaries, |former wedding rings. book just issued is an attempt by to explain to new generations the the Institute to fulfil this pur-wealth of meaning that an pose so far as concerns the pro- pression to simple as the "eleven- blem of inter-Governmental hour" could once connote, debts resulting from the War. It from its first significance in the follows several previous studies complaint of the workers who, A grate has been invented for ly dished" political Nonconformity Swansea, en route for Hong Kong published at different stages, and having borne the burden and gas stove burners that drains away The new voters were not interested per 8.5. Corfu. is a synthesis of all the Institute's heat of the full day, found that liquids from utensils that boil over in the vendetta against the Church, earlier work on the subject ex- they got no larger wage than the and prevents the flames being The modern artisan, if he comes Up to 4 pm. yesterday, the time tending over a period of ten last-hour recruits, down to the extinguished.

across his parson, finds him a hard-set, no nominations, had been receive working man, often as poor as him-ed for the two seats on the Licen

ex-

Facts You Did Not Know.

years. It was put in hand after solemn warning of the preacher a

Chamberlain had to free himsel from his militant. Nonconformist friends, who were rabid Dis- establishers. It gradually dawned The wedding la announced be- upon him that Disraell's Reform tween Major Glynn Evans, of Har Bill of 1857 had not only "dished bour View, Kowloon, and Miss the Whigs," but had most effectual; Margery Mackereth, Penalt, Sketty.

the Lausanne Conference, when bidding his hearers flee from the A Japanese oll company has suc-self, and almost as likely to be a sing Board held by Mr. J. Owen' the time seemed to have arrived wrath to come. A feeling to ceeded in producing gasoline from Socialist as a Tory. Besides, the Hughes and Mr. H. B. L. Dowbig- for a restatement of "the prin compare small things with great an oil field in Formosa, where de relations between the Church of gin, whose terms of office expired ciples upon which sound adjust- is a commonplace of the individ-posits of gas are believed to be in-England and the Free Churches on January 8, ments must eventually be based." unl life. Nor it limited to the exhaustible.

have been steadily growing more, VND The Institute has no doubt what later periods of life. We all have

[cordial, and wide band Mr. B. Paul will speak on "The those, principles must be experience of it at other times. Five transport pilots in the Another early prejudice which Great Pyramid" at the usual week- ̈ Throughout the book, which is a It is only necessary to think of United States have recorde of more Chamberlain shed was republican-ly public lecture of the Hong Kong closely reasoned and well-docu- the examinations of our youth, than 10,000 hours in the air and jism. His friend Dilke went further Lodge, the Theosophical Society, 17. mented work of nearly 500 pages, At first the day of judgment about 800 have each flown more than he did, but one or two of his Queen's Road Central, to-day at 6 the fundamental truth is empha- looked negligible in the distance. than 5,000 hours.

utterances were gravely displeasing p.m. Members of the public are wel- sized that international payments There was plenty of time to také na *

to Queen Victoria. To-day the come. can only be made in goods and in things easily and to work up grad- New airplanes are being built working-man, who enjoys; a little services; that a creditor nation ually to the proper peak of ef- that will carry ten passengers and picturesque ceremonial, would no "Among the Hairy Alnu" was can only be paid if it is willing to fort. The weeks and the months their baggage, two pilots and 400 more think of attacking the Royal the title of an Interesting lecture accept an adverse balance of slipped by. Before we knew pounds of mail across the United family than of throwing stones at delivered by Mr. C. E. P. Clorábut, trade; and that debtor countries where we were the cloud no big. States. In five hours less than the the Lord Mayor or shooting the of Hong Kong University, at the can only pay if they have a net ger than a man's hand had be- present schedule.

lions in the Zod.

Ballors and Soldiers' Home, Wan-. surplus of exports over imports. come a black mass that filled the

Chamberlain entered Parliament chat, last night in the presence of In this connexion it calls atten- sky, Under that threatening gulf that still yawn between pro- for the first time, after many years a large nudfence. Dr. K. H. Uttley tion to the fundamental contradic shadow we toiled and slaved un-mise and performance. The tra- of municijal office in Birminghara, presiden tion between the fiscal policy of conscionable hours through the gedy of that eleventh-hour fecl-His work in cleaning up that great the United States, which has been brief space left, with lamentable ing in the individual life is pre-city, which he found full of noisome

A Chinese dinner party was to secure payment, and the trade results on temper, on health, and, clsely that no one knows when slums, inhabited by people who given by the boys of the Matri polley, which has made payment as likely as not, on performance the eleventh hour is. WII it through no fault of their own, were culation Class of King's College at steadily more difficult. It ex-in the actual test. It is a par-strike next year, or to-morrow? little better than anvages, and left the Kwong Chau restaurant op plains how the attempts to trans-able of what is constantly recur. Or has it possibly already gone a model of good government not Sunday evening to their class mas fer large sums from one currenring throughout our lives. The unnoticed Into the limbo of dead only to Great Britain, but to the tera and mistress, Among the cy to another have dislocated the resolves of each New Year resur sound, leaving us about to hear civillaed world, is perhaps the most masters present were Mr. A exchanges, have strangled inter-rect themselves as reproachful the clang of the fateful twelve? remarkable chapter in his life, and Morris, Headmaster, Mr. Sung national trade, and have been ghosts in the antechamber of its These are questions that no man certainly the one to which his Hok-pang head of the Chinese largely responsible for the second successors Fold determination can answer, either for himself or friends could point with the most staff, Messrs. T. Price, GSF stage of the depression, shered fritters itself away in repeated for another. The lesson is as unqualified admiration.

Rees, G. Sim, J. M.Wilson, NH. in by the financial breakdown of and plaucible postponements of clear to see as it is hard to learn To a student of vital statistics Fox, L chung, and 3520; Central Europe in the first half decisive effort, until an anniver- Stern precept though it may be like myself the page of this book Langley. There were over twenty of 1981, Examining the ect of sary or some other occasion of every hour should be met and which giver the comparativa tables students present, including o of Hùng-hing, head prefect of Ring's la possible remission of War retrospect and revaluation re-lived as though it were the of mortality in the poorer

Birmingham

College debts upon the America tax-vents in lightning Bash the eleventh Itself

before and