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The German Gesture.

HERE THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

↑ BARRISTERS DON'T CARE

There was held in the ball of the

¡far in advance of public opinion:] the Disarmament Clauses had [no limitation of date; the Self-

Inner Temple a general meeting of the English Bar.. It sounds magni-| ficent. Actually these meetings are attended by only a handful of bar- risters, and seldom discuss anything of importance.

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BRITAIN NO LONGER AN ISLAND!

AERIAL MENACE PLAYS HAVOC WITH GEOGRAPHY ENGLISH CHANNEL UNAVAILING

(By Capt. Nor man Macmillan)

BOUT 35,000 years ago Enx-Europe are to you to-day what the

was geographically villages of the parish wore to your

A fand

Next come the elections for the General Council of the Bar. In joined to Europe. The Rhine, was grandfather. these, too, the average barrister a river that flowed into a long The tradition that there is takes only a perfunctory interest. arm of the sea that ran up to the wide stretch of water guarding Last year out of 3,000 people north. There was no outlet for it Britain is a dream of the past. The who received voting papers only past the south of England. Then speed of the modern aeroplane has some 1,600 bothered to return them. came the glacial period when the reduced the size of the Ghange? ice-cap settled over great masses to a boundary stream. Britain is FOREGONE CONCLUSION

of land in the Northern Hemis-no longer an island. “ phere. The excoriation of the ice- Before the glacial perfod great. There are 24 vacancies to be filled cap forced a way through the soft reptiles roamed the lands. Un on the Council, and every barrister chalk and Britain became an lacouth creatures wallowed In the whose address is given in the Law land separated from France. by swamps and marshes and pushed List receives a voting paper. Each the Straits of Dover. "

their tanklike bulks through for... elector has twelve votes, of which That geological disruption has ests in the quest of food. The The may give as many as four to one meant everything to Britain! Free Ice Age killed these creatures and

candidate.

dom from the tramp of foreign made way for man to establish

seldom defeated.

Besides elected

are

In practice most of the successful armies ever since organisation be- his first precarious existence in a. candidates are decided upon before gan to control the destiny of our land not yet free of the terror of the election takes place. The Chan-country and the British race. For less vicious beasts. cery Bar and the messes of the dif-hundreds of years, wherever sons Through the years that follow- ferent circuits each nominate their of Britain have fought a foreigned, century after century, the representatives, and these foe, it has been on foreign soll-Britain that we know developed.

with one exception. That excep- with the changing climate, the rino tion was the air fighting over of man, the dawn of real intelli members the! Council consists of all ex-attorney England against the Zeppelins and gence, and at length the ordered and ex-solicitor-generals while still

Gothas that bombarded us during life of organised endeavour. in practice, and four co-opted mem-

the war of 1914-1918.

Into the irregular sequence of When scientists meet and talk events by which the rise to West- bers. It meets once a month while but the fourth dimension they ern civilisation has been attained. the courts are sitting.

visualise the immensity of space, has come swiftly in the last few They picture a universe wending years this growth of speed. Those a circumambient way about the who have looked upon it with the star-dust that fills the ghostly microscope focussed on the fourth "A new business has to be tended twilight beyond our stratosphere: dimensión. Time, see that it laya

Your Daily Smile!

determination Clause split up carefully like a delicate sapling, saya

anufacturer. Otherwise it will an infinitely expanding cosmes in Great Britain open to a threat

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Europe into non-economic unita: never grow up and hare branches all which men are microscopic organ-from which she formerly left sea- and the firm demand that the over the place,

allwns whose destiny rooms meaning cure. League Covenant should be a

less. That is the fourth dimen- The old freedom which she had melaion looked at through a teles-enjoyed for centuries through

[cope.

that comforting stretch of water: has gone for over and never can return. The crude prehistoric

Nations Mech Nearer

I can bend in my I like to examine it with a ml-monsters are no more. In their

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place has come the greatest scien Then I see a new meaning in the tific threat to civilisation that the- New Yorker advertises his will-fourth dimension a terrestrial world has ever known ➡ the pos..

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part of the same Treaty caused "Mummy, the pants you made

alare tighter than my skin,” said the It is not much consolation for him to sign the Treaty as

little one. the new breach of the sanctity whole, including the Reparations,

Nonsense, my boy. Don't say silly of treaties that it enables a the spirit of which defeated the thing eve, my say idealism of the Covenant itself. "But they are. large number of people to "I told you so." Those clever From the very, first the Bri- skin and I can't in my pants, he re-eroscope as well. French journalists whose ex-tish Government's attitude has plied. tremely logical articles based on been that the Versailles Treaty, the letter of the Treaty of Ver-like any other, should be regard sailles and a complete ignoring ed as subject to amendment like ingness to solve crossword puzzles shrinkage in the separation of one sibility of unleashed fury in the lof human nature can say "we any other according to the chang. at 1 per. Now all we need is dynamic object from another, for air.

ing circumstances of the time; someone to play our golf for us. told you that Germany was faithless" and a very large sec- but this policy has been defeated

Hints To Mothers' Dept. tion of English politicians and by the wish to cooperate with the French, who have insisted on

How to raise children-take writers can say "it is only na- tural for a great and proud nation the letter of the law. The result them up in the lift. to resent inferiority and limita-has been singularly ineffectual tion, and we told you that these considering the amount of effort military clauses should have been that has been expended. waived voluntarily long ago." It

Is certainly a calamity that Treaty obligations should come

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

A Diner Dance will be held at

on the surface of this earth the

Ominous Beauty Of Plane meaning of time has altered

The very beauty of an aeroplane. through the Ingenuity of man-s ominous. Its swift passage · created machinery.

through the skies on outspread The nations have come nearer wings Is, presaged with the calme

each other. By comparison Insolence of disaster. with the 10-knot ship that used to chance that birds of prey have Is it just cross from Britain to the Contin- been the symbols of some foreign. ent, the 240-miles-an-hour aero-countries whlie that of Britain is The first great shock was the

plane has reduced the time of tra-a lion? The lion king of beastý repudiation of the Treaty by The opening of the Aberdeen In-vel to one hour instead of 24, To--but useless in the air. America, which at one blow dustrial School by H.E. the Gover-day, in terms of time, we must to sit ever more lightly on the/made it impossible to realise nor will take place next Tuesday at plature Britain moved so close to are many the Ice Age, the Stone The ages of this earth of ours shoulders

any of the bigger ideals, for of the signatory which world-wide unanimity must

8.50 p.m.

Europe that it is no longer an Age, the Iron Age, the Age of parties; but a constant neglect of

Island. be secured. Then came the Re-

Steam, and 'now the Age of Speed.. the lessons of history carries its parations business, in which the Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow. 10-knots ship converted into dis- the world that few have realised In terms of the speed of the So swiftly the last has come upon. own penalty, and before any at-cancellation was only secured at tempt to fix responsibility is Lausanne after the opportunity

tance the aeroplane has brought that it is the dawn of a new age- made we must go back a little to of reaping any benefit had pass-Amoy, Shanghai, Moji, Osaka, and the coast of France: Cherbourg possibility of disruption our whole- The a.a. Talma will leave here for Dover to four-fifths of a mile from an age that brings with it the past events and interpret their ed, and Germany had been em-Kobe at 6.30 am. on Thursday, meaning.

bittered by the occupation of the

32 miles from Portsmouth: Lon-carefully built way of living. Gone Europe has had a good deal of Ruhr, for which neither morals

don 9 miles from Paris, The Geris our experience in general settle nor finance can provide any justi- Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hong London, 12 miles from Hull, 15 the facts that face us, or we may The members of the Institute of man frontier live 10 miles from correlate our way of thinking to old security. We must ments to secure peace at the endification. Next came the attempt Kong are giving a dinner, in the miles from Manchester, 16% miles perish as other Empires of the of a long war, but we do not need to secure Disarmament by to go further back than the Con-agreement, using the bargaining

rooms of the Institution on Friday from Liverpool. Berlin to London past have perished through clier gress of Vienna. at the moment counter of the offer to waive the from 8 pm," to 8.30 p.m.

is equivalent to 28 miles. But 18ishing illusions. when the whole Continent was relevant chapter of the Treaty.

miles separate Aberdeen from

(Continued on Page 11) fermenting after the Napoleonic Had the Reparations and the tion and Brigade Annual Ball will

The St. John Ambulance Associa Norway. ladventures. That Congress was limitation of arms been freely be held at the Hong Kong Hotel on

English Channel A River conducted by experienced men cancelled at the request of who were acquainted with all Herr Stresemann, the goodwill Saturday, April 6, under the distin- These figures, relative to the UNEMPLOYED INDIAN

available precedents and of the ordinary German citizen suished patronage of HE. the changed speed of travel, show the

fourth dimensional reduction of FALLS INTO HARBOUR were quite content to work along would have been gained, and Governor and Lady Peel, the lines that had proved suc-Liberal ideas would have had a cessful in the past. These raay chance. As it is, every conces- A collision between the steam Britain and the Continent of From Hospital To The be summarised very, briefly as sion has been too long delayed. launch Yat. On and the steam Europe. The English Channel (1) that where racial homo- The new situation is simply launch Kwong Shing, was reported has shrunk to the the width of a geneity could not be secured, the this, that at last the French Gov-to have taken place yesterday in river, the North Sea to the size of gulding principle should be eco-ernment has been willing to

the harbour, causing alight dam-a moderate, lake, by comparison

Badhu, a 40-year-old unemployed.. nomic convenience; (2) that agree to negotiations on the basis age to both vesaala.

with the time taken to cross. it 60 Indian, was committed to the House where special conditions, such of cancelling the validity of the

years ago.

of Detention by Mfr. E. I. Wynne- as financial payments or limita Chapter the provisions of which An informal party, at which Dr.

Let this one thought strike Jones at the Central Police Court: tions of political freedom, had have long been disregarded J. L. Stuart, President of the Yen-home and give you pause. Stop this morning for being a vagrant to be imposed they should be de- without formal authority. The ching University, Felping, will be

for one moment in the rush of life in the Colony. finite and temporary, with a rea- Fuehrer, seeing quite clearly that the guest of honour, will be given by by which you are surrounded sonable limit to the money and a no Power would be willing to the local branch of the Yenching housewife in the home, husband, ed for the prosecution that accused reasonable date for the expiry of fight for Clauses which they are University Alumni Association on on, and daughter in train and arrived from Shanghai on Friday the limitation, automatically.

offering to waive, takes to him- Saturday evening at 8 clock at the tube, in office and factory and last. While crossing the ferry The Treaty of Versailles was self all the credit of declaring Chinese Y.W.C.A., Bonham Road. think for one brief moment. chiefly the work of Clemenceau, them invalid by his own Procla who defined his motive as "tomation, and so leaves the nego-

· Huge Parish carry on the war by other tiation Powers with nothing to Kong Auxillary of the British The lands that were so far away his discharge from hospital it was means," and of President Wilson bargain with. It is a move that and Foreign Bible Society will be are now as close to you as the discovered that he had no means who aimed at introducing a kind will greatly strengthen his per-held gext Monday at 6.80 at the next village was to your grand- of supporting himself. of super-state" to make the sonal popularity, but it is, as has Helena May Institute. The Bishop father In his youth, Paris is 54 Arrangements are being made for world safe for democracy, frequently happened in German of Hong Kong will be in the chain minutes distant from London, the him to be sent to India. Clemenceau's absurdly exagger diplomatic moves, shortsighted and the speakers will be Rav, G. W. German frontier one hour, Berlin ated claims for Beparations. in losing sight of the disadvan-Sheppard (General Secretary for hours 18 minutes. Paria and what any one nation could pay the rudeness of the blow. which were not only in excess of tage of giving offence when the China of the Bible Society), and Berlin and every other city In velvet gloye could have softened Rev. H. O T. Burkwall (Secretary

for South China);A

the

by any known system of ex change, but more than could be paid by all the countries put to gether, merely rained Germany financially without producing sa much as could have been had gott President Wilson's policy was

CORRESPONDENCE

The Annual Meeting of the Hong

the space that. Ites between Grest|

Detention House

Detective-Sergeant Russell stat

the next day, he accidently fell into the harbour and was taken to the Government Civil Hospital. On

HITLER IN LAVA

PW.OH. Grantham. The charges A sculptor is fashioning a bust of

against him, were for bein drunk Herr Hiller from a two-and- As he failed to put in an appear. and disorderly

street ton block of basalt lay ance at the Kowloon Magistracy near the

volcanic stone. It will take

Sallé:

of a.

ning, Teng Be vel, a 88-p,m, on Sunday, and for assaulting to finish the bust, which will Javaness, bank clarky had Police Sergeant AF Ro bile nearly threeqtrarters This hall of $75 catrested by Mfr. A. the latter was executing his duty; Router.

year-