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A small White Paper just issued, called "Treasury Chest Fund," has Iprovoked, ds it, does, every year, curiosity among members of Far liament.
Some years ago Mr. David Kirk- wood wanted to know where ho could see the chest.
Mr. Churchill had to tell him:
It lacks corporeal existence; it is!
a financial abstraction."
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The late General Bruce, who in various
Hamilton Bower,
BETTER TIMES ARE
HERE AT
AT LAST
: :
ENTERING UPON YEAR OF HOPE
BRITAIN'S CRISIS PASSED
WITHOUT DISASTER
(By G. Ward Price)
London.witnessed political assassinations, X7ITH higher hearts, than for Such events in our own midst W many New Years phat, we appear as inconceivable as earth-
And Heaven's peculiar care!· ⠀ A-Happier Family ·
A former Chancellor of the Ex-
It is no quakes or aruptions. chequer once described the Trea. Jätep into 1935.
Things are" mending. The wonder that to-day, as two hun- sury.chest to me as a petty cash ibox.
world is coming through its dred years ago, the neighbouring Actually it is a fund, with ba-troubles; getting more pros-nations murmur still:
Hail happy Britain, highly. lances
in various parts of the perous; growing safer, world, out of which payments are This needs. no proof by in favoured isle made to British officials. It is a stance and example. We all safeguard against Government feel it in our bones, just as one
To us Providence has temper loss due to variations of currency. day about three months from
now we shall realise that spring ed the fierce winds of these stark has come.
times. We may talk as if we WEI-HAI-WEI WARRIOR
The British nation is like an lived in a valley of gloom, but Clarence explorer who, has had to ford a could we be taken back to those capacities deep and dangerous river. The pre-war years that we think of bad a distinguished career In flood still swirls about us, but welas affluent and unclouded, we China will be best remembered as have passed the most perilous should find them dull and un- one of the founders of the Chinese point; we have stood fast in the happy by contrast with present- Regiment,
strongest whirlpools. We feel day conditions. This, regiment WAS raised
at the ground firm beneath our feet, Standards of comfort and en- Wei-hai-wei in 1898, about 18 shelving slowly upwards. We joyment have risen for all sec- You will months before the Boxer War. The know now that we shall reach tions of the nation. real founder was "Colonel Hamil-the other side in safety..! find no barefooted urchins in the ton Bower, now Major-general Sir Oace more this great old coun-streets these cold, wet, winter try of ours has survived a ter-days; they were common enough In their tradi-in the prosperous times of 30. It was entirely officered by the rible strain. British and formed part of the, In-tional way, its people have gloom-years ago. ternational force which relieved ed and grumbled, but never at Not only is the whole popu-, heart despaired. Three or four lation better fed, clothed, housed, Tientsin and Peking."
Bruce, who succeeded Hamilton years ago other nations thought. educated, and amused than ever civilised world in their detesta-gower after the latter's appoint- and said. that we were, done for. before, but there is more under- tion of war; and the Scandinavian
a standing and sympathy between Powers, though quite independent, ment as a member of the Govern-To-day their comments are
ment of Tientsin, was shot in the mixture of amazement, envy, and all classes of it. The British Hong Kong: Friday, February 1, 1935. form a little family apart.
people form in 1935 a family that similar dispute between Canada iver in attempting to capture some admiration.
A Year Of Hope guns before Tientsin and wan knd Newfoundland about terri- therefore not present at the en- The worst of our anxieties The Hague Court.
tory in Labrador was settled by try into Feiping, or Peking, as it now lie outside our borders. If this process of increasing the Privy Council: but, of course, was then known.
These too have lessened lately. harmony in our own nation could Whether war be avoidable or they were sections of the same
Europe is still a hot-bed of only be extended to international not, there can be no question that Empire, and appealed to a body
nationalist fever. Japan left the!
But though relations, the entire Continent of it is impossible to avoid inter- of settled law.
there were critical moments last Europe might count with confl- national disputes. When they League rather than submit the
It's Thousands Of Miles year, they passed without disas-dence on the swift approach of arise they must either be set- Manchurian question to argu-
There is talk of fipating a loan ter. The war danger has not yet better days...
The peoples of every land want tled by force or by law, and the ment; and Germany resigned experience of many arbitrations rather than admit the validity of for Vladivostok. Invest in that if disappeared, but it may ultimate- indicates that the appointment of the disarmamenity clauses of the you want your money to go a long ly pass, provided that this coun-peace, but not all of them want try makes itself strong and peace at any price. If a nation a 'special body of arbitrators is Versailles Treaty aa part of the way."
shows itself resolute for peace. feels that its grievances can only. in many ways unsatisfactory. It law of Europe. Where there is
· To-day's Linotype Laugh',
We are entering upon a year be repaired by war, the tempta- involves delay; it makes it pos- a definite provision in a Treaty
"Lady-upent the evening din- of hope. It w also be a year tion to redress them, even at sible to appoint judges or poli-the Court could be bound to en
of celebration." With it comes that cost, may prove irresistible ticians whose opinions on the force it; for Treaties would take ing with Bends."
the Silver Jubilee of King George when once the capacity for subject in dispute are already the place. of statutory law in an
V. By his counsel and example, making, war has been recovered. known; and the decision does ordinary Court. Those were
The task before the Govern he has done more than any other individual in his country to bring ments of Europe is to bring
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not fall into any broad scheme of cases in which States refused to "Where would woman be with principles and precedente-out of submit to the jurisdiction of the out her clothes?" asks a fashion which international law can be Court, which must at present be writer.
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WHAT AN APPETITE!
There was a girl named Passion;
I asked her for a date; took her out to dinner. Good lard, how Passionate!
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is growing steadily happler.
Increasing Harmony
us safely through the trials and about such international adjust- troubles which have made his ments as will destroy that reign the most critical period in temptation. In their own coun British history.
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shaped. There is not at present voluntary. A far more serious In her bath is my guesa, any alternative to the Hague injury to the Court's authority
tries statesmen deliberately set its own procedure in the
themselves to remove injustices. Court, which was founded by a was
British Thrope Secure
They must show the same initia- very representative Conference Austro-German controversy, in
During those 26 years. 10 tive in the field of foreign of all the important States. The which the votes of the judges
European Sovereigns have lost refusal of the Senate to authorise, coincided with their nationality,
politics: their thrones, and passed, appar- To that end the British Gov the President to join up into the and produced a decision with a
by ently unregretted
their ernment can make
a powerful Company of the States that re-majority of one, unsupported by
peoples, into obscurity. What contribution, for Its influence. cognise the Court is therefore a any reasons at all. That was a setback to the movement towards failure which seemed to prove London never slepps. Even the better testimoney could there be upon the Continent is great the substitution of law for force that the cynics were right who streets are always up
prophesied that it would not be The decision is all the more to possible for even trained legista
Little Thought be regretted because there are so many controversies at the to do their national prejudices. Eve never worried about how she Monarchy stands higher than our foreign policy have baffled It is asking a great deal from was dressed; Adam never had to ever in the respect and admira-even those nations that looked to moment in which a strong and human nature to expect men who have his trousers presed. impartial Court could be very have been trained in one system useful. Senator Robinson tells
The Opened Road
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of law, and who think in terms - BUSYBODIES VERSION
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to the worth of our own King when its purpose is clear and well than the fact that, at the end of defined. Of recent years the the same period, the British inconsistency and indecision of
tion of its subjects?
us for a lead... Their personal qualities have
Peace Our Ai made King George and Queen Mary not only the human aynı-
The whole world knows that'
Jus that the "repudiation of war of the maxims they have been If at first you don't succeed, Pbols of our Empire's unity but Great Britain has but one in-
en-
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
debts had a great deal to do taught to adminlater, to admit pry, pry again. with the vote. That form of that some other system may be
terest in Europe-that. of pre- the representatives of all that is words is in itself a begging of better, or to discover some
serving peace. Our impartiality best in the British character inspires a confidence, such as no the question, for the actual positirely new principle. It was cus
The national celebrations of next tion is that the sums required tomary for many centuries in all for these obligations can only be the European Courts, when the
May will have a significance far Continental country feels for any
Jof its neighbours... greater than that of state care- This moral authority can only paid in gold, and there is not local customs were inadequate to The sa. Tanda will arrive here monial. They will express both enough gold for the purpose. But settle à point, or when a via at 5 p.m. to-morrow and will leave the gratitude of a people loyal tod and then used
be effective if it is first develop it is very chaotic that the di media had to be found between on Sunday at 4 pm. for Shanghal the core and the country's un- ficulty should be solved by mere twa discordant customs, to, ap-and Japanese ports.
shakable confidence in its own development is to make the Royal The most urgent step in its repudiation or indefinite suspen-peal to the Roman law as pre-
structure and destiny. sion. The fact that so many served in the great "Corpus The m.v. Silverteak, from Now
We have indeed good ground Air Force fully adequate to the countries are paying nothing off Jurie A widely used textbook of York, sailed from Los Angeles on for public rejoicing..
Hard as
nation's defensive needs, so as debts which they have acknow International Law is known as January 7 and is expected here next the last few years have seem intervention can be countered by to remove all idea that our pacific ledged to be owing is responsible "Grotius," who followed the same Thursday.
they were a Golden Age com- for the total lack of confidence in method.
a threat ́: {pared with what some nations international obligations which is always been very chary of ad English Courts haye killing the ordinary operations of mitting any
A fine of $5, in default seven days have passed through in recent such reference, imprisonment, was this morning
times. Off all Sports Goods, Owing to the higher trader arthought some though they have been more in- Imposed on Chan Kwal, a married
"Comparisons impartial authority which can be fluenced by Roman principles woman, by Mr. W. M: Thomson at This country has known value of the dollar. -- This
appealed to by a debt to decide than they have been willing to the Central Magistracy for cruelty nothing like that guerrilla war what it is possible to do, and if admit, Far-fetched as the idea to nine chickens by cramming them between the forces of Nation. need be write off some proportion may seem to those who fail to into a small basket. Three of the allem and Communism that went of the debt after hearing all the realise how adaptable those prin- chickens died during the night. parties concerned; or prohibit aciples are, it does seem that by defaulter from further foreign following the example of Grotius, borrowing; or regulate bureaus we might get what is wanted; a of exchange. N
solid basis of sound law from There is the further question, which to start the argument which was urged by some of tho opposition speakers, whether
force until further notice.
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on in Germany for years till Hitler came to power. Not for a century past has London ex perienced such anti-Government riots as broke out in Paris last February. Our financial struct Allen Woodan Fitzsimmons,ajtura did not collapse like that of |20 year-old American-Chinese un-the United States, where wide- employed, appeared before Mr. E. spread bank-fallures plunged the
filling the bill. It is unfortunate Mr. B. Critchley, of Messrs. Ber. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis most provident from prosperity ly impossible to affirm that It is narda of Harwich, and owner of motor tracy with any confidence The recent grela No. 3, was fined, 125, for, driv Judgment about a large extent of lax without due care and caution – în territory in Greenland disputed want defendant cakeed beng" on Read
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done, but those two countries are The Shiraja la das here from far in advance of most of the Singapore pert, Wednesday morning.
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Austria and Spain in 1984) civil war Vienna and Mansellles
I called upon, for
Then, having thus: (Continued on Page 12)
Went to Carla
her rheumatini
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