1935-01-22 — Page 8

THE CHINA: MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935

WHITBREADS Double

Brown

BROW

DOUBLE BROWN

WHITBREAD

Ale

Fills the need for a

First Class Night-Cap

:

IS CLEAR GOLD

.

HEALTH GIVING

and

INVIGORATING

.Sole Agents:

A. S. WAISON CO., LTD.

Est. 1841

&

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG) LTD.

WATCHMAKERS, & JEWELLERS.

DIAMOND MERCHANTS,

Union Building (opposite G.P.O.).

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY, CHARTS,

· ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers,

High Class English Jewellery,

WORLD FAMOUS

BOORDS OLD TOM

"CAT ON BARREL"

Sole Agents:→

BRAND |

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

Ice House Street

Telephone 20076

ARE

YOU INTERESTED

IN

SAVING MONEY!

FOR VALUE AND UNSURPASSED BARGAINS

YOU WILL FIND THE

THIRD WEEK

WHITEAWAY'S

STOCK-TAKING SALE

HARD TO BEAT

COME EARLY AND SECURE THE

BEST BARGAINS

BIRTH

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

AIR-MINDED AFRICA“

Remarkable strides in aviation development are being made by South Afrien

The reason for this progreses mainly the energy of Mr. Oswald Pirow.

As Minister of Railways and De- fence, Mr... Pirow has both civil: and military aviaton under his control.

IRISH FREE STATE CITIZENSHIP BILL

MAKES LITTLE REAL

DIFFERENCE

IRISHMEN WILL

BRITISH SUBJECTS

STILL REMAIN

(By Hugh A. Law)

Dublin,

South Africa has had an air The force ever since the war.. nucleus was formed by a gift of; VERYONE knows that what airplanes from the British Govern-E

the soldier said, is not ment. Civil aviation is a eraation evidence. But perhaps it is not of the last few years

so generally understood that Both branches are now to be what the M.P. says in the course rapidly developed.

of Parliamentary debate is not JBW.

IDEAL DEFENCE

Conference, it would be ag impertinence if they were to clain us as citizens of their country, and I am sure that which would then be an imper- tinence would then cease."

It is not easy to make sense of Mr. De Valera's vague and dif

Herice, one may guess, much of fuse pronouncements; and here, At present the South African the anxiety which has prompted for example, it is by no means Air Force, which consists of two the questions in the House of clear whether he employs the squadrons, is concentrated in Pre-Commons regarding the Citizen words British subject and British

ship Bill which has now passed citizen as synonymous.

toria.

Itain.

Mr. Pirow has planned a base its second reading in the Dall. modern usage, at any rate, they for Cape-town.

Many must have been puzzled certainly bear different mean- Machines are at by the contradictory statements ings. Mr. Gandhi is undoubtedly. present being constructed in Bri-made by Mr. De Valera and Mr. a British subject, and so, how Thomas respectively. For the ever much he may dislike it, is The main centres of the Union former is reported as asserting Mr. De Valera. But it would are already linked up by air, but that no one in this country will hardly occur to one to describe the services are to be improved be a British subject when this cither as a British citizen. and extended during the next bill becomes law"; while the

One cannot help suspecting twelve months,

latter, supporting himself by the that a good deal of the trouble Mr. Phrow, in addition to being highest legal authority, has de- has its source in a certain com a champion boxer, weight-lifter clared that the bill "does not pur-fusion of mind. Just as to many and swimmer, also holds an airport to, and could not in any case, people in Ireland the word ipllet's certificate.

deprive any person of his status Dominion seems to carry with it as a British subject.":

a notion of feudal overlordship wholly at variance with modern constitutional developments,80

Your Daily Smile!

"Loyalty

Voters In The Free State

It may, therefore, be of in with Mr. De Valera, I fancy, does Walking down Whitehall, a terest to examine exactly what the phrase "British subject.

young

SIMPSON.-At the Victoria Hog-ascendancy in the councils of the woman was addressed by a young Ger the bill does, and does-not, pro-connote the idea of subjection to

The China Mail

child.

..

Status Of Irish Subjects

than

solution. That is not the first proof, we have had of naval

Japanese nation. A

more men, who, raising his arm in salute, pose to do. Nowhere among its the British. pital, on 19th January, 1935,

moderate tone has been noted on said: "Hell Hitler: Vest-minister Ab-29 clauses do the words "British to Mr. and Mrs. W.-C. Simp the part of the army and the bey, vere is he?" son, a daughter. (Shanghal Ministry as a whole, quite easily the reply was prompt: "God save subject" or "allegiance" appear.

We are all in some degrees papers please copy),

to be understood when the dif- the King! It is around the corner."

nor does the present status of ficulties of the national finances

any inhabitant of the Free State victims of unanalysed verbal are remembered and the hard want to buy that book in the wis-it, be, indirectly, and in some few of one

To Help Out

seem to be affected by it, unless associations the "unseen assa

of Sir Norman shipa which many of the people dow called "How to Captivate Men" instances by reason of the pro-Angell's remarkable books-and are known to be bearing. But said the little girl to the assistant in osed repeal of the British Irishmen perhaps more almost invariably it has turned the bookshop

The man looked dubiously at the Nationality and Status of Aliens most. As a friend said to me Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 22, 1935 out that in any difference of

not long ago, We Irishmen pay Act of 1914 and 1918. opinion, the navy has had both "That's not the sort of book for In order to understand both more attention to what things the first word and the last you," he said. "What do you want it what is proposed and why my are called than to what they are There seems behind all this to lie for?".

The spirit in which this bil Naval Bargaining some fear, which, to our minds, want it to give to my daddy for a such legislation is held to be re-

birthday present" appears scarcely justified. It is "But surely there are hundreds of Article 3 of the Constitution of in which it has been advocated, quired, one must advert to has been conceived, and still more agreed among experts of all books he would, rather have?" The decision of the Japanese nations that no Power could at "No, I know he'd like that one. You the Irish Free State.

is undoubtedly regrettable; but Privy Council to confirm the de present, make an attack on Japan see, he's a policeman."

Under this article only those study of its provisions does not nunciation of the. Washington with any reasonable prospect of

persons are entitled to sitzen- itself make any difference either suggest that its passing will in Treaty makes no real change in success. It is hard to think of "Now, sir," said the conjurer, with a capable of exercising the fran-

ship and, therefore, inter alla in the legal status of his the present situation. It merely any Power seriously contem- Bourish of his hands, would you be chise who were "domiciled in Majesty's Irish subjects, or in gives formal emphasis to an plating such a step. Neverthe surprised if your, half-crewn, which you the area of the Irish Free State actuality which closely concerns less, this noticeable apprehension have seen dissolve in the air, was found.

the constitutional relations be- all the maritime Powers, not persists. Writing to the "Spec on the other side of the theatre?" at the time of the coming into tween Ireland and the rest of the least the British Empire. For tator" recently, a special corres-the audience.

Commonwealth." “Very surprised,” said the man in operation of this Constitution," this is, above all, a Pacific quespondent defined what he called The conjurers went to the other side Constitution nor any subsequent not likely to be rejected or "le, on Dec. 6, 1922. Neither the whatever its nature, the blil is This is Indeed fortunate, since, BROKEN OR USELESS

tion. Japan's suggestion that the fundamental feeling of the of the stage and pointed to a small boy Act Includes any (rings, brooches, bracelets, watches,

the United States would do well Japanese people as: "The world at the back of the stalls, dental plates, medals, trinkets, cuff-

to take her navy out of the Pacific stands against Japan, therefore, boy, he called "will you stand whereby persons not so domiciled dropped General O'Duffy's links, cigarette cases, purses, etc.)

Ocean merely served to accen Japan must stand firm against pocket to see if there is a half-crown whereby even the children of leagues has profoundly weaken- up and feel in your left-hand trousers could acquire citizenship, or quarrel with his former col- BOUGHT AT HIGHEST PRICES.:

tuate that truth. The London the world." conversations, which really mark All this is not merely regret

od citizens could do so, if themselves ed the Opposition both in the There was a slight pause, then the born after that date Diamond and Gold Merchant.ed the beginning of the full-table, but a little surprising. A box spoke.

Dail and in the constituencies; Asia Life Building-14, Queen's Road Central.

while the last Senate elections purpose of considering a state without a friend in the world is could have twopence for helping you, tioned omission by a declaration

guv'nor," he stammered out. "You said, the bill is to supply this last men in that chamber to vanishing of affairs which must end in in a "dangerous mood, both for and I've spent it... December, 1986, have done itself and for others. Such a nothing to avert the long-fore-nation should at least ask itself seen deadlock. Their suspension where the fault lies. In turn;

DIAMONDS

BOUGHT AND SOLD

LOANS GRANTED Valuations free of charge.

M. BERAHA

GOLD ARTICLES

AT OUR

STOCK-TAKING

All Ladies' Fur Coats and Overcoats are Reduced to ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES!

SALE

WOOLLEN OVERCOATS Usual

$18.50 $14.75

Price a

30%

FUR

COATS discount.

[there?"

His Share

provision

dress Naval Conference for the nation which believes itself to be there's only two and fourpence. The main purpose and effect of Have reduced its former majority.

a time has been accompanied its neighbours should do all that

a reassuring statement from they reasonably can to remove

LOCAL RESIDENT PASSES

Basto

that all such persons are to be Secondly, it enables certificates of deemed "natural-born citizens"

naturalisation to be issued and revoked.

Mr. J. H. Thomas is Right It also contains some interest jing provisions relating to the vexed question of the relations

point

when his existing ascendancy Every day brings Mr. De Valera nearer to the moment will have, become, through the disappearance of all effective checks, an undeclared but indis putable dictatorship.

Sir John Simon. The Foreign causes of misapprehension. of Mrs. Angelina D'Azevedo Secretary has had much practice all measures to gain that end, In statements of that kind, and none could seem stranger than he represents a Powerwhich the blunt proposal of the "New Mrs, Angelina D'Azevedo Basto, between marriage and citizen- does not profess to be so keenly Statesman. That Left Wingsged 54, who had been III for the ship, and to exteriston of "mutual exercised over the issues at stake organ openly declares that the past few months, passed away rights of citizenship between as does the United States. Un-proper way of bringing Japan to peacefully this morning at 2 am Saorstat Eireann and other coun- deniably, it is Japan that has a more moderate course lies in from paralysle and heart failure tries. The bill is of considerable played the forcing role at Lona firm determination on the part at her residence, at No: 299, Prince length; but the greater part of 12 Months' Hard Labour don, America's part being that of of Great Britain and the United Edward Road, Kowloon. refusing to consent to parity States to restat her. A curious She is survived by two while willing to extend the exist doctrine to be put forward by a Messrs. J M. A. Basta and C. P. It will, therefore, be seen that

War

it is matter, consequential upon sons what, is indicated above.

KIDNAPPING IN KOWLOON

For Accused

to Mr. J. E. Noronha, not even purport to deprive, any Wong Chang, a 25-year-old afternoon at the Roman Catholle

The funeral will take place this one. Cemetery and will pass the Monu int ment at 5,15 pamato

bard

us as a British ployed, who was charged with the question of kidnapping of à 18-year-old girl Ng. relations Siu, by Mr. E L Wynne-Jones at

the Central Magistracy.

ing ratio. The subject of spokesman whose favourite Basta, well-known share brokers, Mr. Thomas is undoubtedly right Sentence of - 12 months" course, is further complicated by theme is the condemnation of Japan's commitments in Man-"jingoism!" The hope,

and one daughter who is married in his statement that the bill doe labour was this morning passed on chukuo, and by the very thorny doubt, goes with it that what is question of the mandated islands considered Japanese bluff would and their possible fortification. be beaten by count When the London conversations precisely the etics opened, many publicists were made a hund inclined to regard the Japanese ing the insistence on parity as a bargain might surely be ing bluff. But this explanation with reduced o looks less likely to day

have to recognis Judged by all the signs, Japan's Japanese daval attitude, despite all the helpful not only

of the frank exchange ewa on which Sir Joh

xible: mean the

because

ure

vide

CARGO BOAT SUNK

has

figno

as outside measure

the statem

Mr. De Valera

able

No. 8289R

Seven Rescued But Arm Consignment Lost

Wong Tal, a fish mon

raded

the same charge, but was ischar

ed owing..to Insu

In paling sen Chang, His Wor

napping a child is one desta

It is only you 12 months, ba

SOLDIER IN

1st floor

4 more days only

CHINA EMPORIUMO