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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1933.

WHEN MR. BALDWIN

CAME HOME

WAR DEBT SETTLEMENT

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WITH AMERICA

companion of a woman for 18 DIRECT ATTACK ON CONSERVATIVE

years,

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LEADER

(By LORD BEAVERBROOK.)

The woman's uncle, the late Mr B. J. Platten, who was clerk to the Linsinde Urban District Council, obtained the bird from a girl who aaw some boys tormenting it. Hej

The defenders gave it to his niece, and it became

of Mr. Baldwin given to another member of the

Administration. very tame. It was quite at home dodge the case against him. with cats, and its favourite perch It is this: Without giving Bonor He had said to me that he would was a dog's back.

Law the opportunity of discussing not change his attitude without con- On Tuesday I was at When weakened by old age the the American terms for the debt sulting me. bird was revived by drops of settlement he notified the public my house in Hurlingham,

Bonar Law called me out from the brandy, and spent its declining that the terms should be accepted. days in a box-room, which it could Thus Bonar Law's power to op-luncheon table. He declared that he

been persuaded pose the American terms was des- had

by Mr. enter and leave at will,

It now has 3 grave in the troyed by his own colleague.

McKenna's argument in favour of woman's garden.

Mr. Baldwin went to the United continuing in office. He was going States. He telegraphed to Bonar to go on. Law saying that the American offer Sir Robert Horne was successful the other day in the House of Com- was one we should accept.

Bonar Law put forward a counter-mons in diverting the attack from proposal which would have been Mr. Baldwin. Indeed, he converted very much like the terms that the it into one on Mr. Lloyd George. French Inter obtained from the He raised the anti-Lloyd Coorge United States.

On The Defence. At this time Bonar Law was "be-,,Now, unhappily for Sir Robert,. ing subjected to a flood of telegrams he has much to explain. He is now urging him to accept the American defending his own conduct. terms. Sir Robert Horne has re- It is a familiar trick. I knew ferred to one which he and Lord that these tactics were going to be Burnham and Sir Auckland Geddes adopted. I had been told that the sent. But that was only one of attack would be diverted to me. I [many.

believed I would be put in the dock. Powerful figures in public life in I was disappointed. the United States who were known

The Rev. James J. Summerhayes, vicar of Ealing Dean, who has been appointed a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral by the Bishop of London,

was born in his vicarage, was a choirboy in his father's

church, became his father's curate, and has been vicar of the parish since his father's death in 1908.

Your Daily Smile.

HAR HAR HARI A man was summoned for kick- Ing a tramp who, he alleged, was trying to steal some of his poultry,

to

Telegrams.

cry,

It is an ancient method of meet-

be well disposed towards thising attack that Sir Robert Horne

The China Mail. natives, in land and not in money. He evidently thought that a free country, such as Mr. Paul Cravath, adopted. I have benefited from the

should be treated as fixed and kick was the correct penalty for were putting severe pressure on practice of it myself. settled and as governing the fowls.

Gold Mining And Native Reserves,

Widespread uneasiness exists

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the

During the war, when I was a Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 6, 1933. whole question of granting leases

At this stage Eonar Law called Minister, I was up for debate on a at all. There are Europeans to Critical Thought.

Mr. Baldwin home. His object in fixed day. I spoke to Mr. T. M. whom the chance of selling, and Some poets should put more fire dolog 80 was to gain time. He Healy, aaking him to go to

He came to of receiving compensation for into their verse. Others should do wanted to delay a decision until the House and defend me. disturbance, would seem at this just the reverse.

United States were prepared to give my home. I tried to post him on moment a direct gift from

the same terms to us as the French my defence. He would not listen to afterwards obtained.

mc. But he acemed confident about heaven whereas' a cash payment|Life's Little Problems.

Baldwin can never in any real sense com- A judge who is also a peer decid-

came back. At South-being able to sce me through., I over the position which has pensate a tribe whose whole ing whether to be as auber aa ajampton he gave his famous inter-was disturbed because I could not arisen in Konya through the distribal life is based on the land by judge or as drunk as a lord,

view to the newspapers, Publica- get his attention. covery of gold in the native re- which it lives. The story of the

Sudden Change. tion in the Press, the dreadful and serves. This uneasiness is not Indians in the North American

torrible Preas, created a situation in But next day realised that there confined to the familiar school of Continent, and of the repeated A woman who wrestles with lions which the Bonar Law Government was no dunger for me. For Mr. critics who are always so ready attempts to secure to them per-in a circus has been scratched no had to accept the terms or break up Healy, early in the to blame officials and so slow to manent reserves, as repeatedly fewer than 126 times. I expect sho Look at the position. Here was the discussion concede rights to anyone in collapsing under pressure, re-gets all the best bargains at the the Chancellor of the Exchequer in launched an attack on Carson. In Kenya except the native tribes. mains as a pertinent warning.sales.

the British Government saying that moment or two the whole face of It was bound to follow the terms The

the debate the American offer should be ac- present developments

was changed. I was of the amending ordinance pass Kenya were not foreseen a few

cepted. The United States could and forgotten in the battle which raged ed by the official Legislature in years ago, and there can be no "The parent hippopotamus never did say, "That ends the controversy. about Carson. Kenya which allows the Govern-confidence in assurances that the punishes its babies," states a That is tantamont to acceptance." This was the manoeuvre which ment to take land from the displacement of the Kavirando writer. Doubtless it considers that

The interview was given Sir Robert Horne practised the Kayirondo tribe, to lease it to is quite exceptional, and that the being a hippopotamus is punish-Saturday, January 27, 1923. The other day. mining concerns, and to compen- other reserves will remain in- ment enough. sate the natives with cash instead tact. The principle at stake in

in

of with land. Such a course far-reaching, and calls at least however immediately convenient, for the most careful deliberation

Governor to the natives concern-j

irrevocable steps

is plainly at variance with the before recent declaration made by the taken.

Time Zones.

ed, and with the terms of the

| Land Trust. Bill, which, less than

three years ago, was passed to give the natives a sense of abso

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Facts You Did Not Know.

Close of 50 per cent. of the motor vehicles in China are owned in or near Shanghai.

劲

Tools have been invented to re-

on

Will he escape

debate, while

was still young,

"Sunday Express" of the next day

now from the published its first attack on Mr. Consequences of his own temerity? Baldwin. The Southampton inter- view was the beginning of my REV. C. I. BLANCHETT quarrel with him. It is not yet over.

On Sunday morning, January 28, Bonar Law, as was lits custom, came down to see me at my country home at Leatherhead.

Death Of Well-Known Missionary.

The death occurred in Canton

He always came about the same on Saturday, of the Rev. Mr. C. I. Inte security in the possession of One striking feature of the move broken bolts. from machinery | time. He always went into the Blanchett, a well-known missionary their reserves. It nearly happen- Christmas broadcast tour of the without dismantling the latter. library, sat down, and plunged who had served with the. C. M. S. ed that the reserves were made Empire was the way in which it

atraight into politics. He never in South China, for over thirty

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inalienabe by Order in Council brought home to us some of the A small motor driven street opened with the normal pleasantries years. The deepest sympathy will and closed to prospectors, as are time-problems of the world. It sprinkler that is operated by one of conversation. He talked poli-be extended to Mrs. Blanchett. the Protectorates under the Highs true that we were told all man has been invented in Germanytics until he had said his say. Then A memorial service will be held Commissioner in South Africa, about that in our schooldays-

he banished, the topic and went on at 5 o'clock this afternoon in St. The Kenya ordinance was left as how, at a mysterious point on the A dancing toy has been invented to other subjects.

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a local ordinance, with possibili-other side of the earth, the day that is operated by the pulsating ties of amendment, on the ex-suddenly gets tired of being it-current peaks of a radio receiver. plicit and declared understanding self and becomes the same time that, if land was to be taken on another day. We have all, or away from the natives, they nearly all read "Round the must receive equally extensive World "in Eighty Days," and

MEMORIAL - SERVICE.

John's Cathedral, The funeral He told me that he had made up takes place in Canton to-day. mind to resign. He was, convinced The Rev. Charles Isaac Blanchett, he could not carry Bls Cabinet with M. A. (Durham), was appointed by him in view of Baldwin's public de the Church Missionary Society to claration that America should be paid the South China. Mission in 1901, on her terms.

after a period of training at the

and not less valuable land some have thrilled, at the discovery of A Memorial Service will be held His only support in the Govern-China Missionary Society Training where else. That is the safe the same temporal blind spot. this afternoon at 6 p.m. in Stment in his opposition to Mr. College at Islington, North London, guard which is now in jeopardy. Our whole lives are cut up into John's Cathedral for the late Rev. Baldwin's proposals came from Sir For the first seven years of his There can be few people, at this zones by similar artificial time C. I. Blanchett for over thirty Philip Cunliffe-Lister,

1- | Pakhol and in the surrounding dis-

News In Brief.

Inture in the fortunes of marks, both general and particu-years a CALS. Missionary in South told, Lord Novar and, I am line in South China, he worked at Kenya, who are not prepared to lar. We are all very conscious China who passed away in Canton I accepted the situation, believing fricts. Since then his work had let gold mining proceed under of the line that separates one on Saturday, February 4, 1938 that Bonar Saw would resign, and bean centred at Canton and in the conditions. The Colony needs as year from another. It seems to The funeral takes place in Canton conducting myself accordingly. Delta,

fo-day.. many and as varied sources of us that we there cross a definite

Bonor Law had stated the case wealth as it can command. But boundary. We mark it by vari-

against the payments. He had the dangers are obvious enough, que forma of greeting and ob- business life, the single state and said, “I am convinced that to make and the whole experiment of servance-perhaps even, by way marriage. And yet, it is the the payment without receiving any - The annual meeting of the Hong mineral exploitation needs to be of sacrifice to the terminal deity, same unbroken and unresting thing from outside sources would Kong Boy Scouts Association, will conducted with eare, and with a driving out the darkest man in stream of personality on whose reduce the standard of living in this be held at the Sandilands Hut to particular vigilance on the part our company to spend the last banks all these points are mark-country for a generation."?" of the Government to maintain moments of the old year on the ed. The man who to-day leads

“1: Opposed." its authority alike with the min- doorstep and to bring good luck an army or a nation has never ing interests and with the native for the New Year when he is let ceused to be une with the queer from its context. It is the meaning preside. population. It depends on these in again. We abound in promises small boy who not so many years of his speech, as you will see if you carly steps whether the discovery to ourselves and others that this ago, was saying and doing things refer to the Hansard of December The Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall, Bishop of minerals is to prove a blessing line marks the fair beginning of which his elders found stupid or 14, 1922.

of Victoria, will be the speaker at

morrow afternoon at 5 p.m. K.E/Şir. William Peel, KOM.G., K.BE, This statement is, taken unfairly Chief Scout of Hong Kong, will

or a curse to the Colony. As a new and better things. Before downright wrong. There is com- I opposed the payments for the the weekly tilla of the Ye Men's first step the suggestion of cash many days are out we see that fort in the realisation that all same reason as Bonar Law.

Club, which will be held on Thura-. compensation for the Kavirondo we are being borne along the theso dividing lines, decisiva aa Boner Law adhered to his deck day, next, at Lane, Crawford's is one which has little to recom- same old river of Time, and that they may seem, are transcended sion until the Tuesday. Grent pres- Hesturant. mend it, beyond immediate ex-something more than measure by the spirit which not merely sure was being brought to bear on pediency. It is undoubtedly go- ment of the current is needed to acknowledges but creates them him. But he seemed to be resisting The following notice has been ing to be difficult to find suitable make us effective swimmers, It It encourages the thought that it. He seemed to be reconciled to gazetted in the Admiralty ·· fleet. land in the place of that which is the same with the divisions even the last dividing line of all, the prospect of retirement, orders this morning:-There is at. contains minerals. But even if into which our individual lives which seems to human eyes to His only concern was to have the present a shortage of ratings re- it is necessary to take laxis at seem to fall. Nothing could look cut off the mortal span from Government in a condition in commended for Torpedo Comwain, present alienated to Europeane more definite than the punctus- any sequel, may In its turn bewhich it was capable of carrying on. Commaåding Officers are according or Indians, and to give the money tion of birthdays, or the breaks found to be no blind limit, but He had not thought of Baldwin as ly requested to forward to the compensation to them--the prin between home and school, school only one more landmark in the his successor in the Premiership Depots, the names of as many fult- ciple of equal compensation for and university, university and progress of personality.

He expected the leadership would be able volunteers as possibler