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MUSSOLINI'S CHOICE'

An item in the British Legion's Poppy Day report for 1933, just issued, is puzzling,

It appeared in a list showing how some 87 million popples had been distributed, and read.

THE RED EARL

geen.

BRITISH MINISTER'S HASTY DECISIONS HORE-BELISHA'S POLICY DEPLORED

W

RACING MOTORIST'S CRITICISM

(By Sir Malcolm Campbell)

artist

London. Imediately his decree was made WHEN Mr. Hore-Bellsha be-public, police and other respon- Mauve (for Italy), 2475

came Minister of Transsible authorities pointed out that Poppy Day headquarters state

was wel- very large percentage of these that in past years they had been port his appointment

comed for the reason that he had "Belisha Beacons" would be utter-

on the steps that ly unless they were illuminated. “given to understand" that red, was strong views

So I suppose the motorist again distasteful to the powers that be in should be taken to make the roads Italy. So mauve was adopted as a infer, and intended to make that will have to see Road Fund money diverted to purposes for which it compromise.

his first and principal objective. Evidently, however, their views Every, road user in the land, was never intended. Or will this

quick-change Ministerial have changed for it has been whether he be motorist, cyclist, intimated that this year red poppies horse-driver, or pedestrian, re-think again and evolve another 1 cannot but wonder whether would be acceptable.

gards with the utmost seriousness bright idea? the growing toll of the roads, and would whole-heartedly support the Minister has given a single tion of traffic that is bound to Within the deserted precincts of sane, reasoned programme on the thought to the appalling conges follow on the unreasonable multi- Parliament recently, an Earl was lines of "Safety First."

Believing that the new Minister

plication of these crossings. When He wore a red shirt; a really red had such a programme, I was fully |

prepared to assist in the good he has thoroughly disgruntled the shirt.

delays to traffic, he will probably It was open at the neck, and as work, with all the experience whole community by the constant reflect that even the pedestrian he wore a sports jacket the shirt have of road' use was seen in all its glory. He was little influence I happen to possess quite often rides when he is about But what have we seen since hatless.

from Mr. Hore-Belisha assumed the of his lawful occasions, and will be equally irritated and infuriated at He was taking his car

fice of Minister of Transport? Palace-yard.

First he conceived the idea of what he will not hesitate to de

"Ill-Digested" Legislation with the wearer's polica. for. It pedestrian-crossings, apparently scribe as regulation run mad. was the Earl of Kinnoull, who is a believing that because they have

worked well in Continental cities, We come to "zones of silence." Sociallet:

His family motto is "Renew your more especially in Paris, they Here is another piece of ill-digest- would be equally effective here. ed legislation, brought about with courage."

I agree entirely with the pro- the best intentions in the world vision

of crossings at light or but of little avail in decreasing where the volume of noise inseparable points, police-controlled each form of traffic has what I may from towns and cities and bring- evils that have rheu-call regularly recurring right of ing in its trath

themselves fully

The colour scheme harmonised

Your Daily Smile!

The man who suffers from matics buying a barometer.

Proved!

first her own advantage, but, on the other hand, a great Power like Russia does not enter empty- Hong Kong, Monday, October 29, 1934. handed. The mere quiescence of her restless propaganda will be a gain. The doctrine of World Re- volution cannot be preached so

"The average Britisher is an effectively while the sword is kept fast in the scabbard. She veterate gambler," says a needs the League and the League elgner. I bet he isn't! needs. her.

Russia At Geneva

Soviet Russia has now joined Thus the League of Nations. the wheel revolves, and what was impossible six months ago be comes the actuality of the pre- sent. It has not been easy for France, Great Britain, and Italy to overcome the scruples of the States which could not bring

RICKSHAW COOLIE GAOLED

Steals Handbag From European

the Kowloon

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BODYLINE BATTLES

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and with what

way. But I cannot agree with stil to make

in-

for-

use.

If Mr. Hore-Belisha had consti- tuted

the policy of sowing broadcast known. crossings that are uncontrolled

certain areas of Central and which the public generally is under no statutory obligation to London into silent zones, and care- fully watched the whole effect for Surely the proper thing to have two or three months, he would done was to have kept a careful have secured reliable data

·

on

"What did you do in the Great watch on the working of the con- which to base final and useful de- trolled crossinge, and then, ifcisions, But "wait and see" hus |Jaw, daddy?"

they were found to be contributory no place in the mentality of this Action is the Watch- to safety, to have extended their Minister. "Slimming Course At Reno"

Divorce while you wait.and lase scope gradually, at the same time word-sny sort of action, good, making it legally compulsory for bad or indifferent, so long as it is weight.

pedestrians to cross at the marked action.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

points and nowhere else.

Cohesive Thought Lacking

So after exactly four nights' ex-.

themselves to join in the invita- tion for which Russia was wait-

perience of silent zones in London ing. The striet logie of the case,

Tsoi Lin, a 25-year-old public}

Again, the scheme bears evi-he decrees that they shall be ex- tended to every "built-up area" in may be on the side of the irre- concilable minority. It often is. rickshaw coulle, was sentenced to

After being knocked down by car dence of want of cohesive thought But there are stronger-and even six weeks' hard labour by Mr. E. I.

them or not, as in fact many of higher-arguments than logic, Wynne Jones at and they are based on the hard Magistracy this morning, for steal-No. 3677 in Hennessy Road yester-in that, if we are to take the public the country, not troubling to dis- them, do not. And he proceeds to a place facts of the international situa- ing a hand-bag, belonging to Mrs, W. day, Lau Yen-to, 34 years, was re-utterances of the Minister at face cover whether these areas want

can be wrong at these crossings. tion. Is it better for the world's H. Will, of No. 17A Cameron Road, moved to the Government Hospital value, nobody but the motorist

A seven-year-old girl, Kan Fun, Apparently, the cyclist and the define a built-up area as peace that Soviet Russia should after finding it in Hankow Road on

Ipaced not more than 200 yards come inside the League or remain October 26.

Detective-Sergeant Davies stated of No. 19. Tang Lung Street, was horse-driver need not notice them, in which the street lamps la pariah-albeit a pariah till now

is laid upon the motorist-only the of her own choosing-outside? that the complainant hired the de- admitted to the Government Civil and the pedestrian can look out

motorist, be it remarked-who injuries sustained when, she was motor traffic is concerned. Sure That is the practical question fendant's rickshaw at 8 p.m. on Hospital yesterday, suffering from for himself so far as all save apart. So that another disability which realist statesmen have an- Friday and went to a hairdresser's knocked down by a car in Canally, if these are to be real sanctuary presumably must carry a measur-

When Road East.

lanes, all wheeled traffic must give ing tape to discover whether the swered with striking unanimity shop in Hankow Road.

way to the foot passenger, and lamp-posts are 199 or 201 yards in favour of Russia's admission, she got out of the rickshaw her

lapart! They have done so with their bag fell to the ground, but she did

Two Chinese boatmen, Leung the penalties for non-observance eyes wide open. They have not not notice it.

Yuen and Chan Leung-yu, of boat of the regulations must be the Later a Chinese male picked the No. 454H.A, were admitted to the same in all cases. forgotten the mud with which

The

:

and

are

And how does the Minister pro-

that, no matter how dire the emer-

Moscow has bespattered the bag up and gave it to the defen-Government Civil Hospital' yester. Then, at first, these "uncontroll-Pose to mark these areas so that League since its creation, repredant, telling him to return it today, suffering from body. Injuries ed" crossings were to be indicate the nocturnal motorist may know senting it as a nest of capitalist the complainant when she return sustained as the result of a collision by the "C" sign. A number of

warning of his approach? The defendant immediately with another boat off Po To Island these signs were erected, and then Bency, he may not 'audibly · give brigands anxious only to retain

Minister thought again

That is one of the matters about their ill-gotten territorial and im- put the bag under the seat in the at 1 o'clock yesterday morning.

decreed their abolition. Next he

which he seems to have taken no perialist gains and eager for al rickshaw. The complainant then chance to tear to pieces the peace came out of the shop and went Rescued from the harbour by discovered that the herringbone decision!

Driving Test Joke ful Soviet lamb. They forget

passers-by when he accidently fellmarking was not aesthetic, or that still less that since the days of away in the same rickshaw.

On Sunday the complainant's into the water, Lu Ping-kan was something else was the matter Lenin the proclaimed mission of

amah made a report to the police sent to the Government Civil. Hos with it, and once again the Minis- Lastly, there are the draft re- the Soviet Russia, through

that the bag was missing.

pital yesterday, suffering from the ter altered his mind and said: gulations for the driving tests which are to be imposed upon ap- "Let there be studs." agency of the Third Interna-

Having more or less finally deplicants for a first driving licence. tional, has been and still is to rickshaw was brought to the effects of immersion.

are the real These have been drawn up by the foment World Revolution. They station, and when questioned the

On the application of Sergeant cided that studs do not forget the terrible perse-coolie admitted stealing the bag. cutions in Russia, its merciless He also admitted throwing the Goodwin, the charge against thing, he finds out that it is next Ministry, and the most charitable repression of religion and liberty, bag away in a scavaging lane, off Man-wong, unemployed, for being to impossible for a driver, with thing to say about them is that and its almost total incompati Wuchow Street after taking out in possession of a dagger in Jaffe all the distraetions of town traffic they are a joke, so far as concerns a $10 Rond, was remanded by Mr. Q. A. to deal with, to see them in time to the primary object of the test, which is to ensure that every bility moral, judicial, political, the contents, which were

A. Macfadyen at the Central Magle-pull up as the law.commands.

So he has a yellow "beacon" licence-holder is fit to drive a car. and even social-with the prin-note and a handkerchief.

(Continued on Page 11.) erected on a wide Kensington ciples professed by the League. The bag and all the contents tracy this morning for 72 hours for

further inquiries.

road, just to se how To M. Litvinoff's declaration that have been recovered. the Soviet Government has "al- The defendant, was actually

Leung King-chau, a gas-meter and whether it will really afford ways made the organisation and taken away sitting on

reader of the Hong Kong and China an indication that a crossing, is dashes up to town consolidation of peace the main bag," said Mr. Wynne Jones.

Gas Company, who was charged imminent. He task of its foreign policy" the

with the theft of 22,36 in silver and from a holiday in Suffolk to in- many Notes written by Lord Cur-

copper from No, 92 Bonham Road spect the results of his latest

zon to M. Chicherin, complaining

of anti-British propaganda in SCHOOLGIRL ROBBED yesterday while reading the meter; prank, sits up until four o'clock in China, in India, and throughout

was discharged by Mr. E. W. Hamil the morning to talk it over with

the Middle East, would supply an Unemployed's Desperate ton at the Central Magistracy this his satellites and forthwith de

illuminating commentary.

Nevertheless, the League has

still to consider the pressing pro

Attempt

blems of the day. If formal For stealing a hand-bag from

morning

crees that twenty thousand of these lightbess beacons, are to be erected in London alone-60 per cent of the cost to be met out of

retractations have not been ask-Mai Fung, & 18-year-old school-girl, the defendant came up from be the Road Fund-in other words, ed or expected; the actual modi-Ng Kan Chuen, an 18-year-old un-hind and snatched her hand-bag out of money contributed by the fication of Soviet policy is visible employed, was sentenced to six which contained 65 cents, and motorist for the purpose of road enough. She has promised to be months hard labour, with, 12 which was valued at $2.60. She construction and improvement. loyal and even if there is no real strokes of the birch, by Mr. E. 1, raised the alarm and a detective Not An Improvement

at the Kowloon who was on duty nearby gave

By no stretch of imagination change of heart there is a definite

this morning.chase and caught the defendant change of attitude, Russia, ar-

When asked by Mr. Wynne Jones can this be called either construc Poynt stated When

Not the least xious to make her Western from

walking why he robbed the small girl the ilve

should it be tragic? tiers secure once more opens window to the West and see the protecting negls of

btedly, she seeks

Wynn

at 3.80 p.m. on defendant said that he was out of humorou her sister, when work, and had no money.

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the matter la that im- she is much richer than he looks