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that interest on the loans can be paid is by sending in imports,

HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

FROM THE FISH'S MOUTH

Backers who follow omens rather than form are busy interpreting the Shannon încident.

A pike caught in that river was found to have swallowed a betting roncher, *10s win Bobsleigh, Derby."

Superscially this seems a tip for Lord Derby's colt, which shares with Bahrain the position favourite at 3-2 against.

PARLIAMENT A TALKING SHOP? IMPORTANT CHANGES

SINCE THE WAR

AMAZING

QUINCE the

QUALITIES OF THE HOUSE

(By Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill)

London The Irish Nationalisis invented several im obstruction. Hopelessly outwin- portant things have happen-bered in what was to them a hos- indicated. Association of pheno-ed to the House of Commons. tile Assembly, they set themselves

Other horses, however, are also

mena suggests Water Marten, stand-

For instance, the Irish have deliberately to defy its conventiona ing at an attractive price.

gone, and the Socialists have come and wreck its procedure. We were And since the pike was obviously As the one departed, so the other confronted with what the exam a purloiner of someone else's pro-arrived. It was lucky for our perated Mr. Gladstone called "ther perty, "Theft" at 18-1 may be the country that we did not have to dreary drip of dilatory declamam correct interpretation.

face the Socialist Party and Irish Nationalists at the

sime.

the fion

samse

The debating machine which had? worked so long could work no fon-

Your Daily Smile!

The small boy had fallen into thejselves off, at first by abstention Mother of Parliaments was forced

If the Irish had not taken them-ger upon these abusive terms. The

stream, bat had been rescued.

short-lived children on the Con-

How did you come to fall in?" ask and afterwards through the Irish to imitate the bad habits of her ed a bystander.

Treaty, M. Ramsay, MacDonald tinent of Europe, and of other chil- “I didn't come to 'fall in" the boy would as Socialist Prime Minister explained. “I came to fish.”

in 1923 and in 1929, have been at the head of a Socialist Government

*

*

Exam Papers

ity.

3

dren elsewhere.

In the eighties the Closure was- adopted In its early days the Con-- "Skyscrapers are the men who study with an effective working major-

servative leaders, in order to em- the stars."

"If the British Isles were submerged]

phasise its foreign origin, spoke- Such events would have exposed of it always as the "Cloture." 100 fathoms, trade might be helped in England, as the sandbanks at the the Parliamentary system to an But soon every British Govern- estuaries of the important rivers would unprecedented strain: for nothing ment had to use these processes to be submerged.”

is more certain than that the Bri- the fall. Angry minorities "An antiquarian is one who does nottish people mean to use Partis-every party vied with one another. drink water.”

ment to sustain their own affairs in rapturing the ancient freedom of and will never tolerate Parlia-Parliamentary discussion This mert using them for international freedom was no more than a gen- or anti-national purposes.

LOCAL NEWS-'

BREVITIES

A Disastrous Decade

We must recognise that we have.

of

Jeral habit of deferring to the wishes

and reeds of the Assembly..

Governing By Debate

Once the habit was gone it seem-

and when a sweeping reduction. His Excellency the Officer Ad- of tariff was called for the only ministering the Government has response Has the "Hawley been pleased to appoint Mr. David Passed through a decade disastrous Smoot schedules, which were William Tratman, C.M.G.. to act to Parliamentary institutions in al-jed impossible ever to restore it. Yet practically a refusal to allow as Colonial Secretary-

finost every part of the world. De since the departure of the Irish, debtors to do anything of the

(mocracy" in so many lands is turn-and in spite of the arrival of the sort. The thousand millions His Excellency the Officer Ad-ing blindly but irresistibly to Die Socialists, we are in the process. sterling lent to Germany, för ministering the

No Government has tatorship.

virile, educated: of doing so. For after all the So-

Lee to be his

:

Private

ac-

example, was sheer bad invest-been pleased to appoint. Mr. Bo-scientific nation is going to let it cialists, or "Labour men," as they Hong Kong, Saturday, May 18, 1935-ment. for Germany could only bert Andrew Dermod Forrest to be self be let down or brought to a increasingly prefer to be called, repay the money by selling the Principal Assistant Colonial Secre-standstill by what is called "Re-are essentially British in their mood. produce of industries that aretary and Clerk of Council..

[presentative Government." " jand outlook. They have hitherto not complementary to the Ameri-

The amazing quality of the shown in the House of Commons a can industries, but competitive: His Excellency the Officer Ad- Eouse of Commons is its power to kind of instinctive knowledge of the Mr. Morgenthau's speech was ministering the Government has digest. assimilate, conciliate, and role and also of the limitations of discouraging because it. Mr. Morgenthau's speech on based on the fallacies which have Robert Butters to be Deputy Clerk The Mother of Parliaments com- In truth this method of governing

elements. Parliamentary government. was been pleased to appoint Mr. Henry tame all kinds of new Monday last succeeded in adding killed the free exchange of goods of Councils.

bines the fecundity of the rabbit by debate-ie, by talking--can a new subject of speculation to and thereby caused a paralysis

with the digestion of the ostrich, only continue where there is markets already quite sufficient-lof manufacture He ly disturbed. It raised the ques-with some resentment of the fact ministering the Government has been the poor foreign sprigs survive.

speaks His Excellency the Officer Ad-|

But most of her progeny die of the balanced society and a basic diet, and already hardly any of ceptance of fundamentals. In tion what did Mr. Morgenthan that the gold production of the pleased to appoint Mr. John Henry

theory the Socialist Party would re- mean? And the operators were mines of the world is on the in-Burki prepared to back their interpre crease; but the whole production Secretary.

In almost every other country pudiate. both these factors. In the assumption of power by Social-practice and in a minority they tations with solid money. That would never suffice to settle all

ist parties has led to the de-have hitherto shown themselves- President Roosevelt had a task the bills due. The fact that tons of stupendous difficulty to deal of gold are still being sent over ministering the Government, has

His Excellenry the Officer Ad-struction of Parliamentary insti-strongly impressed by them.

tutions. The House of Commons with, and that he has made her to New York indicates that in been pleased to appoint Captain the Socialist Party has never yet was that it could always discuss The essence of the ancient pro- culean efforts to bring back his spite of the defaults the trade Reginald Frederick Walter, Royal

has survived through the fact that cedure of the House of Commons country, to prosperity. everyone balance is still "active"

wielded direct power of govern-whatever was troubling the nation admits. What does seem to favourable," which means that

or Artillery, to be his Aide-de-Camp-] ment, and that in the meanwhile Countings, of, votes emerge from the experience gain-the imports are not big enough

were few and ed during the progress of the to pay for the exports.

His Excellency the Officer Ad-they have been much weakened by far between, and always taken If the ministering the New Deal" is that the good re-settlement in shipment of pre-been pleased to appoint the follow, Chastened by the Fascist appari-There was 00.

Government has the march of world opinion, much upon large points of principle.. sults that might have been cious metals

idea preventing the secured from the strenuous work continued it would only mean Aides-de-Camp were indefinitely ing officers to

tion; and also they have learned a majority from legislating or from. be his Honorary and the vast expenditure of that the bullion would be stored this date:-

lot with effect fromj

carrying through all their neces- money have been either neutra-jaway in a condition of absolute

They have been going through sary financial business by setting in: lised or greatly limited by uncer-uselessness.

Lieutenant John Roto Cragg. 1st a long period of probation, and their path an endless series of tainty as to the future. What is The President himself said ment.

Battalion. The Lincolnshire Begi-meanwhile also new modern forces minor

obstacles. The ordinary needed for recovery is a revival some time ago that while he in-

capable of resisting their excesses routine business was disposed of of enterprise and investment. tended to press for payment of Williams, -1st

Lieutenant Mervyn Muspratt are coming into being.

with great rapidity, and Parliament. which is violently discouraged by debts "it is only common sense colnshire Regiment. -

This inestimable advantage we devoted itself to its true function- Battalion, The Lin- the chance that the Government to facilitate that payment

owe to the withdrawal of the Na-Damely, the discussion of all the tionalist members under the Irish burning questions which disturb may any day do something un-much as we

Lieutenant Stephen Everard can." Mr. Mor-Skey, 8th Heavy Brigade, Royal [expected

Treaty, which otherwise has so far the public mind. On any day upon that will turn the genthau remarks that "default-Brigade, Royal Artillery. investment into a loss.

I underline the words "so far the presentation of a petition the led debts are a very poor founda- Our interest in the "New Deal" tion for a stabilised currency." Price. 2nd Battalion, The Royal the Irish Sinn Feiners for having while, it was understood that the Lieutenant Robert Caradoc Rosement. In fact, we owe a debt to the question of the hour. Mean-- been a lamentable disappoint-House could, if it chose, discuss" however is purely platonic; what This can only mean that without! Welch Fusiliers. concerns us is that the same lack facilitating payment în any way of direction and consistency has he considers that when currency Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment accommodating itself to universal their Supply and all their necessary" Subadar-Major Lall Khan, 1st when the British Constitution was question of principle, would have got out of the way during a time Government, if not defeated on a been developed in the dealings has been stabilised they must all Subadar-Major with foreign trade and exchange. be discharged at the higher rate Hong Kong & Singapore Brigade, strous thing that this handful

Waris Khan, and these unpredictable experi-of exchange that, will then be Royal Artillery.

suffrage. It was indeed * mon-business ments concern us very closely.fintroduced and fixed. That can

Under the Irish pressure in the Mr. Morgenthau's picture of the only mean that he would annex Hong Kong Mule Corps

Risaldar Miran Baksh LDS., partly pretended they were

180 Irishmen, who boasted and nineteenth century and under American position as that of "an all the gold in sight and so drive

the every Government of the last 50- innocent bystander who has suf-us off

enemies of the British Empire. years Parliament has first of all ́ fered untold losses in a fight he Which, as Euclid used to say, is letters of Mr. Ambassador Page British parties, and during two the standard again. industry. It is recorded in the the politics of both the historic should have been able to colour]

(Continued on Page ́8) did not start is singularly un-absurd. convincing. So far from regret- We are not in favour of re-ment, when England was fully how the Washington Govern ting that there is no

generations to sway and at times posal of a

pro-pudiation of debts. It is absurd engaged in the war, presented to dominate the whole public life ference to do the work of enormous accumulation of gold prevented the British develop

new World Con-that France should have that practically an ultimatum which of this mighty country and world- that one which was torpedoed and pay not a frane for the essen-ment of oil in Central America. by the President himself, we tial goods she received that made and since then the same tactics

The Invention Of Obstruction welcome the suggestion of adopt-jit possible to save herself. But have been used in Iraq and sprightliness, eloquence, and wit No one should undervalue the ing a policy of gradually working stabilisation by a stroke of the Persia. The third towards a "practical stabilisa-pen is not possible; indeed, it is obtaining payment is a full use brought to the House of Com

means of which Ition" as a sign of grace.

Irish Nationalist The not likely that we shall ever re of the Bank of International mons, and no one should forget the European countries have learned turn to the old nineteenth cen-Settlements, which could be em-noble action of the Irish people cently fix the minimum height for very thoroughly that what tury system. A certain amount powered to draw on any Govern-through its leader, John Redmond; infantry at 5 ft 2 ins. This is two counts in this matter is not what of elasticity is good and not bad. ment for interest due when the in the memorable crisis of our inches below the old minimum the President and his advisers But there are certain steps that currency of the Government was fortunes at the outbreak of the Cavalry of the line, Tank Corps, can be persuaded to do, but what might quite easily be taken in at par or at a premium. It war

Royal Engineers, Army Ordnance

as

.

[wide Empire.

the

of

MINIMUM HEIGHT

FOR ARMY

Dearth Of Recruits: Responsible For Decrease

The Army is to be shorter. Recruiting regulations issued re-

the Senate will allow them to do the direction of "facilitation of would be possible in this way to Nevertheless, the presence of Corps may all accept recruits one The whole trouble about the nine payment." The first is the open get a substantial amount of re- this avowedly foreign body in the inch below the minimam previously bitions of dollars which Mr.ing of the gates to trade the turn for debts that are mounting heart of a characteristically En- stipulated, provided they are other-- Morgenthau bemoans as being second is the live and let live up at compound interest to fan-glish Assembly cost us dear. It wise fit wholly or partially in default, is policy which will allow other tastic figures that can only mean cost the House of Commons a that the United States have people to develop their resources. repudiation, with the sympathy large part of the old freedom of view of the dearth of recruits, to- never adapted themselves to the in place of the restrictions and of the disinterested spectator for debate which was its glory and its bring the Army ap to full establish-- The War Office is determined, in post-war condition of being amonopolies that have been estab- the debtor and not for the creditor nation. The only way lished, for instance, in the petrol creditor.

ment,