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He intends to and the secret rest- ing place of King John's jewels, which history records, as having been lost in the Wash nearly 700 Jears ago

Search for this treasure has been made from time to time, but the seckers have never been rewarded.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1939.

MAN WHO WANTED TO BE CHANCELLOR FAILURE OF MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

THE ISOLATED STATESMAN

(By A. A. B.)

London. As Chamberlain was for 20 years In the day dreams of Joseph the target of all the venomous party Chamberlain and Dilke, who were falsehoods that malice could devise, both at the dangerous age of rising to prove that he was from first to forty, Dilke was always to be Far-last sincere and consistent is of no eign Secretary and Chamberlain mean service to political history. was always to be Chancellor of the By a casual sidelight Mr. Garvin Exchequer. The gods thought dif- tells us that: Chamberlain 'converted In tracing drowned bodies Mr.ferently, and neither achieved that himself to Protection in defending Clarke usually works with the aid particular post, But although" "dat Free Trade during the Birmingham of a button from the misalng per-tery cannot soothe the dull, cold car election of 1880 against the Fair son's clothing and some hazel twigs. of death," if the elder Chamberlain Trade speeches of his opponent. But in his new venture ho will have were alive he would be amply com-Chamberlain put up a spirited de- a difficult task to secure a button pensated for his own failure by the fence of a dying creed. But the deeper he got in the argumcut the which originally belonged to King performances of his sons. Joha

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, his more he began to doubt his own But Mr. Clarke is coundent of second son, opened his second Bud- reasons and the more dißcult he finding another way of linking up get recently, while his eldest son, found it to answer his adversary's his twigs with these long-lost Austen, opened four Budgets, hav-conclusions, Jewels.

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Your Daily Smile

ing been Chancellor from 1903 to Mr. Garvin doesn't seem to real- The diviner has been invited by 1906 and from 1919 to 1921. Six ise the psychological importance of Glasgow research specialists to Budgets for one family are pretty this revelation To me it is the spend a week in Glasgow so that well, and the number ought to be most startling glimpse into the they can solve the secret of his increased to nine if nothing un-working of a politician's conscience mysterious powers.

toward happens to the National that I have ever read. Government.

Empire Expansion. World's Largest Bible. And, assuredly the father had ] The defeat of Gladstons's - first Louis Waynal; Los Angeles many failures and blows and buffets Home Rule Bill by 80, effected by a carpenter, has spent his Jelsure of fortune to be countervailed in the combination of Hartington Whigs, during the past five years in print-period of his life here unrolled. As Birmingham Radicals, and Tories ing what he believes to be the Mr. Garvin shows him to us Joseph (Mr. Garvin given 93" Radicals to largest Bible in the world. Each Chamberlain was a loyal friend; and Chamberlain), was followed by the page is hand printed, and the of a warm and affectionate nature. formation of Salisbury's second finished Bible contains 8,048 pages Dilke, his inseparable, and the part-Government, of which he offered and weighs "half a ton.

ner of all his early plans of am-the headship to Hartington, who bition, was overwhelmed by a sud-refused.

The first link in the chain of the den storm of obloquy, and if he was not separated from him it was be- Unionist Party was forged by Churchill's resignation, when cause Chamberlain,

the Randolph took him to who forgot Goschen, who nobly and is scandal was loudest. have Highbury and there kept him for unreservedly became a Conservative six weeks, until the poor wretch re- and joined the Carlton Club, to the from covered his nerve. Although he delight of the young Tories. Cham- stoutly believed in his tunocence berlain never to his last hour re- nobody else did, and the Member for tracted one of his Radkal opinions. Chelsea had to vanish, from public After ten years of wearisome and life and influence, for his "come exasperating Round Tables, Smith assured, his wife he could back in 1992 was a mistake, and, which nobody was sincere, and after Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 14, 1939. 22. Why not build a dam to

hold back the water and pay it repair the broken window. Heat Mr. Garvin shrewdly observes, the British werking man had given out gradually through turbines took the measurements and went it would have been better had he the Old Man his second chance, which would be coupled with! "quite a simple job," the hard to literature.

retfred at once and devoted himself which fäßled, a real Unionist Coall- tion Government was formed, in dynames to generate electric ware clerk told him. "You simply

which the Duke of Devonshire ac- A Lost Friend. Moon and sun would pull out the old glass, fit in the

cepted office and Chamberlain be turn the wheels of British fac-new, fill in the putty, and there Chamberlain had another friend, came Colonial Secretary-at last!

also an eminent man of letters, John But he was a different man from įtories. English engineers have you are."

Shortly after Smith returned to Morley. Him, too, he lost, for the the Radical rebel who overthrew bitterest of reasons, because he pre-Gladstone. In the 10' years that

Shanghai.-Mrs. C. J. Chancellor, wife of the General Manager - off Reuter in the Far East, has given birth to a daughter. Both are re-f ported to be doing well.

A "the mouth of the Severn, the waters rise and England, Call 47 feet at the equinoxes.

A

The China Mail Even the Spring tides have

range of 40 feet, and the neap of

The British Empire Fair.

The institution of an annual energy? Empire Fair attaches a greater significance to local observance

cera

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&

AFTER EFFECTS. DOCTOR: Influenza in itself not dangerous, but it can serious consequences,

PATIENT: So I noticed your bill.

UNSUCCESSFUL

to buy the glass.

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A LIVE WIRE.

STILL IN PRACTICE.

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of Empire Day and to-day it is been loving with the Idea for the shop. brought home with greater force generations. One government re- "Same size again, I suppose?"ferred Gladstone to himself. A intervened between 86 and "96" sort of a kind of "friendship was Chamberlain had become an Im- kept up, across an ever-widening periallet, and the conversion was that the Colony is a part of the port after another has examined the clerk greeted him.

stream. But Morley was touchy brought about, not by reading or greatest Empire that the world it from the technical, industrial, has known. Some idea of the navigational and economie angles. He proposed and was rejected, and irritable, and his acid lettera arguing, but by travelling.

affectiona. Besides, " worst of all, of Cromer and was delighted with immensity of the British Em-The latest, most thorough and Again he proposed and was refect- were a severe strain upon the He went to Egypt in the last days.

Aed. Yet again-same result.

"Never mind," he said deter Morley, for the moment, was suc- everything he saw. He returned pire, its vast resources and the authoritative of these examina-

cessful Why Gladstone, with all convinced that we should stay in astonishing, development of the lions, representing six years of minedly, "I can wait."

Canada and the States Dominions, is given at the Fair, work by a committee of engin- "Can you really?" she asked, his experience, should have under Egypt.

and much experimenting brightly. Then, if I ever open a valued Chamberlain and overvalued (where he found his third wife) hu where the exhibits impress more

well-known fact that s High he was disgusted with an anti- for their comprehensive variety by Professor A. H. Gibson with aaurant I'll bear you in mind. Morley can only be explained by the was naturally enchanted with

| Churchman prefers an Agnostic to Imperialist speech of Sir Hercules - large-scale models of the Severn than for their profusion. As a

Robinson, So behold the Radical show, the Fair will prove a greatestuary to determine the effect Chief: That travelling salesman & Dissenter. attraction, but its educational of various types of dam on tidal of Smith's managed to folst a lot And so Chamberlain found him- Little Englander returned an In

What can we eelf leolated, and turned a saddened perialist and crypto-Protectionist! levels and navigation, has been of rubbish on us.

and embittered face towards the It was these new views of Empire value is at once apparent, and

do about it

Manager: Couldn't we offer him foes who encountered him on every expansion that made him the idol of visitors will be surprised at the received tepidly by the British

ide. For the author of the Un- the new democracy, for the working number and variety of goods technical press. Not the feasibi- job, here at a higher salary authorised Programme and the doc man of the large towns was bored trine of Ransome was feared and to death with the Irish question. that are manufactured withinly of harnessing the tides but

hated by the Kartington-cum- While poor landolph Churchill was the Empire. Information on the the commercial success of an en-

Goschen Whigs and the Court quite fading in the grip of mortal disease, terprise which in the end may Colony's industries is also pre-

It is a proof of an incorrigible place. sented, and the displays of local col not much less than £40,000,

much as by the Hawarden Gang. Chamberlain was leaping into his 000 is questioned. When it is

strain of honesty, or of innocence (Continued on Page 11.). manufactured goods demon- istrate the rapid expansion of considered that each of the 2,000 GRANDMA: Didn't your father

Government in July to Gladstone's million electrical units made know I was coming? local industries that has taken

available for the national network JOHNNY: No, stundma. Mother "thunderbolt in December, 1885, place in the past few years, par

would cost 0.2872 pence and that kept it from him he hasn't been Chamberlain should have been so completely duped by the Grand Old cularly on the mainland. This

feeling well lately.

Mystifier and his satelliton. He acA meeting of the Hong Kong Ja modern coal-fired station can year's Fair has been planned on

Lually believed that Gladstone was Fracticat, Faychology Club; will be generate energy at a cost of only Facts You Did Not

genuinely perplexed, and was sin held at Lane Crawford's Restaur u much larger scale than the ini-

0.3 pence the margin in favour

Know.

cerely seeking for the solution of ant, on Friday, May 26, at 8 p.m. tial Fair last year and the am-

Warpf the Severn project is small

Patents have been granted cover the Irish question which should be The speaker will be Mr. Victor K. bitious efforts of the sponsors,

Loo small, perhaps, when we must big four new Varieties of fruit best for England. Whereas he was Kwong, formerly of the San Fran- idue to excellent organization,

reckon with still lower costs for developed by the late Luther Bur only waiting for the General Elac claco, Bulletin. The subject of the has been realized: Its success is

steam-fired stations in the near bank, three of them plume and the tion in November to see whether the talk will be "Some Reflections.on electors had given him a majority American Newspaper. Psychology." fourth peach, assured and it may be confident-future. Contingen

over Parnellifes-and Within a mont Of the more than 5,100 motion

uses in England, Scotland, turn, showing ales and Nort! Traland more Tories were

100 are wired for sound Gladstone drop

declared for reproduction,

Dublin

ly predicted that from the mo- ment His Excellency the Gov

not be fo

easily wipe

ernor officially declares the Fair hundre "of a penny per open until the closing hour on trical unit that now Saturday, large crowds will com

ween Comm tinue to tour the long lines of

ilure I

the Penir

the Fair the

nent, sa aut

tha

TAXI CUSTOMER (to driver) you talk a lot, my man.

DRIVER: Well, I'm not married,

SPARED THE SHOCK.

that from the fall of the Liberal

the Imperial Chamberla Science In London have moment, by

sin would be

and.

News In Brief.

Personal Pars.

Dr JH Montgomery, Superintendent of

the the

Matilda Hospital,, left on, furlough by the Empresa of Risata-to-da During his absence. Irom the Colo Dr. C. W Sanders of

B.C has been appointed

Medical Superintendent,

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