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BRITISH EMPIRE AND IRELAND

PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE

EXAMINED

RELATIONSHIPS WITH HOME

PARLIAMENT

(By Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill)

of the merciful incidence of localHAT has happened to Ire, sums that were owing-

Wand: Parliament is pre-1. The cost of these duties is taxes and duties, has beer found

the European largely repaid to the Irish exporters

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to be a convenient headquarters occupied with for trusts which enable wealthy situation. with the air peril with from the Irish Treasury by boun- Britishers legally to relieve their the state of trade and finance ties on exports. Thus all that has estate from payment of United with India. and with a host of happened is that Mr. de Valera is.

domestic problems.

paying the annuities to the hated Kingdom death duties.

But it is only at intervals that British in full, but by a roundabout anyone worries about Ireland-process which incidentally causes- In fact, the only well-known his country a great deal of addi- The method is to enter into a point of contact between the tional loss. Comical! But they like- deed in the Province whereby for-British and Irish peoples at the it this way and seem prepared to eign assets are settled on trustees present time is the Dublin sweep-pay for their fim who are not United Kingdom sub-stake.

A Sombre Picture jects for the benefit of one's heirs. Will the Home Secretary and

Still from time to time we ask Even though the grantor may die the Postmaster General be able ourselves: How are they getting on? the settle to cut off the flow of English The picture is not painted only in ment, the assets of such a trust are money across the St. George's sombre tones. The canvas is small, Did the recent incen- but it does not lack light and colour not liable to estate duty in England. 'Channel?

There is a further advantage in diary fire damage the drum and trusts of this nature in that the vitiate the deal? To this frivo community whose spiritual and ma-

terial estate duty position is not affected kous level are. the affairs of the leven if the grantor takes power injo sister islands reduced in the Culture is simple; riches they have

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It is hard for us to remember time; but he would not cease to be liable to United King and realise that for seven hun-reat deal of gaiety and irish. An atmosphere- dom income tax and surtax on the dred years-Ireland has always geniality remain.

of old-world leisure and ancient con- of the trust tnless this been an important and often a power of revocation were exercis later, in British affairs

dominant factor in English or.troversy pervades the scene.

Young drip and drizzle of the Atlantic able only with the consent of the people can hardly believe how it bear is often broken by gleams of trustees or a majority of them.

was that Pitt, at the height of sunshine which light the pastures- his power, was wrecked upon an of the Emerald Isle. Your Daily Smile!

Let them alone. Leave them to- Irish question.. The petty restrictions, and dis-

Still less can they understand themselves. At a recent concert a singer stopped why the Irish Home Rule what the treaty which we have kept criminations which have lately in the middle of a song because people struggle divided Great Britain and they have broken accords thems been displayed in Siamese intern were talking, and flatly refused to con- Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 29. 1935 al politics towards the Chinese tinue until he received an apology. The and the Empire into two camps We for our part most strictly ad-

can only lead in the long run to trouble with many singera is that they for half a century- one thing: trouble. They start-29 on despite any interruptions. ed with invidious distinctions as

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When a race so gifted with per-

Irish people are not entirely con-

In The Commons The idea of eighty Irish mem-sonal charm, so capable of produc to the teaching of the Chinese

bers ensconced in our House ofins in other generations poets, A rather bumptious fellow was giv- language in the Chinese-owned ing evidence in a police cour

Commons, openly proclaiming orators, soldiers, statesmen, and land run schools; then there was "You say that you stood ap?" ask-their hatred for England, break-proconsuls elects to fall out of the There is a Siamese proverb an effort to put a check to im-ed the magistrate.

ing down with wit and eloquence busy modern world' and to retire The witness sighed.

amid which perhaps inelegantly, but migration by the imposition of a

the procedure of Parliament, into a cool, damp cloister ," he said, "I said that I stood very forcefully. utters a great practically prohibitive immigrar suppose if one stands, one must stand making and unmaking the for- green bushes, their desires should!

It is to the effect that if tion tax; finally there has been up. There is 10 other way of stand-tunes of great parties and of be, respected. all the Chinese spat at the same the deportation of Chinese actors ing

Ministers of the Crown. is at

Only Difficulty time there would be a flood. The and actresses which caused such "Oh. isa't there?" said the magis-once repulsive and incredible to The only difficulty is that the inference is. of course, that thela stir when it was announced a shillings for contempt of courz

trate coolly. "Well you'll pay

the new generation. Chinese united in action would few days ago. In fact, the policy stand down."

An Irish-appeal to be allowed tented with the lot they have chosen. be an almost irresistible force:jof the Government seems to be

to come back to the. House of for themselves. It is one thing to land the Siamese Government directed to the sole end of har- Professor: "Wake that fellow next to Commons would be received with do what you like, and another to

seems almost to be forgetting Trassing the Chinese element in you, will you?"

almost universal distaste by the like what you do. By her retreat- Staient. "Better do it yourself, you British nation. Why should we from the great world of the British. the potentialities of such a move-Siam as much as possible. That put him to sleep.” ment. if it were to come into be is not to say that Siam has no

have them back? Why should Empire, of which they were For some jing.

two or

three case for some of the points she

we seek to alter the position founders, Irish nationalists have de- years - broadly, since. the old has taken up. In the sphere of

which has been created by Irish prived themselves of two regime of diplomats in Siam was education, for instance, it is en-

efforts? We may succeed or wesions which they treasured above may fail in facing our economic all things. They have lost at one replaced by inexperienced ele-tirely logical for the Siamese ments immediately following the Government to insist that a cer Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 military, and Imperial ordeals; fell swoop both their grievances and first coup d'etat Siamese policy tain time during school hours in hours ending at 10 am to-day was but we are much more likely to their publicity. Hence their des- has veered nearer and nearer to a Chinese school shall be devoted 1.07 inch. The total since January succeed now that we wards a "firtation with Japan to the study of the Siamese lan-1st is 13.16 inches, against an from Irish intervention in

ances out of the shreds of associa- land in present conditions" this guage. Where the case breaks average of 21.48 inches.

ition with the British Exi- has inevitably meant a certain down is in this insistence when

We have suffered many dis- pire' still preserved by: the leavening of anti-Chinese bias it interferes unduly as it un- A Tombola, the first of the sea- appointments and deceits about Irish Treaty and their painful in the general outlook of Siam-doubtedly does with the legi-san, arranged by the Royal En- the Irish Treaty; and the shame efforts to gain publicity for these. ese internal politics as a whole timate study of his own language gineers, will be held at Wellington ful manner in which it has been Hence the strenuous exertions of Presumably Siam knows her own by a boy attending a Chinese Barracks on Friday, May 31, from broken and repudiated by Mr. de M. de Valera to irritate the Bri business best and it is not for us school There is little attempt.17.30 pm to 9:30 pm

Aranka Valera has lowered the standards (tish public by petty affronts and to argue whether she is right or in short, to co-ordinate the two are cordially invited wrong: but whatever else this needs; one must be sacrificed to

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FAMILY QUARREL Chinese Woman Struck With Chopper

interests of small peoples depend. verbal quibbles. Hence these.com- deliberate flaunting of Chinese the other: and there are no ade The ss Ranpura is due here But here we are free from all plaints that they are denied their public opinion may be it is cer fouste grounds for that-

jfrom Shanghai at 7am on Friday concern with Irish affairs and freedom, when their real trouble is. that they have their freedom razd tainly contrary to all common- All this involves, the larger

with no more need to trouble! sense and is surely building up question, which we do not pro-

labout what they think or say.

that nobody cares.. Kwok Fat, a 28-year-old unem- a pile of embarrassments for the pose to touch upon, except inci-ploved, was this morning sentenced

Ulster- and the

(Continued on Page 11) Protestant future.

dentally, whether Siam is back-to six weeks' imprisonment by Mr.

The North is safe and secure. The capital city of Siam has a ing the wrong horse, not only in Q. A: A. Macfadyen at the Central wonderful tenacity and prudence population of just over 500.000 connection with the Chinese, by Magistracy for the theft of 18 fish, Northern Ireland has been con (with which the Government of Of these at least one-third are her firtation." It is an open valued at $10. from a barrel near ducted deserves the gratitude pot Chinese Practically all the busi-secret that some of the other No. 1 Jubilee Street ness and commerce is in Chinese Powers with considerable inter- hands, with the exception of the ests in Siam are not. altogether interests of a few European and happy about the latest develop- other foreign firms. Banking ments. For instance, ever since and the teak trade are practical the office was established it had ly English monopolies. There is been the practice for the Adviser one French Bank, a branch of in Foreign Affairs to be an the American citizen. Early this the Credit. Foncier and American-managed Siam Com-year the American holder of the mercial Bank as exceptions in Position "retired," and it the former category; and as far rumoured that he is to be replac In view of the return of Mr. ment to Great Britain uncon- ters The husband, it is alleged, as the teak trade is concerned,jed by a Japanese But we are Akira Ariyoshi, the Japanese Minis-querable, except by a degree of picked up a chopper and struck his the East Asiatic Co, Ltd, are, concerned principally with the ter, to Japan to report on Sino- good will which our generation wife with it we believe. the only non-British anti-Chinese bias that is showing Japanese relations, General Chiang will not experience. firm with a teak concession. But itself. Without wishing to turn Tso-pin. Chinese Minister to Japan,

Land Annuities

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CHINESE MINISTER TO JAPAN

Returning To Submit General Report

Nanicing

only of Britain but of the Empire. Many people feared that so small

A Chinese woman, Ng Shong, a community beset with such: difficulties would not be able to was seriously assaulted by her last as an entity over a long husband. Wong Hop, early this of frightful depression for the dangerous condition in the Kow- course of years, especially years morning and is now lying in a of Belfast loon Hospital.

major

industries

But we see them a going con It appears that the husband and cern, unshakable in their attach. wife quarrelled over money mat-

the whole of the rice trade, alarmist, we must say that we reported to be also returning to Even the question of the land which forms practically 90 per feel it would be indiscreet, to say China early in May to submit a annuities has been solved by a cent of the country's export, the least, to continue to invoke report on the diplomatic relations characteristically Irish method. could positively not be carried on the "food" which might arise between the two countries and on Mr. de Valera repudiated: the without the Chinese 35 mill-from too much provocation." the conditions of the Chinese re-contract made, between the two. ers, traders and workers. The

sidents in Formosa and Korea, countries about these payments. which he recently visited.

They are in fact the interest on General Chiang is scheduled to the purchase price by which the leave Osaka for Shanghai in the tenant. farmers of Ireland gained first week of May, (Chekia the freehold of their lands Agency)...

Men Almost their whole equivalent is poured back into Ireland year by monthly subsidy of $250,000 from year by British payments of war the National Treasury, in order pensions and the like. Yet Mr. that the various projects now in de Valera gained satisfaction. and popularity by refusing to pay

SUBSIDY

Public Bodies Petition For Continuance

Chinese provide every scrap of KIANGSI'S MONTHLY the labour in the capital and a very large portion of it in the provincial districts. They are acknowledged to be a thrifty hardworking, mainly honest and generally peaceable element of the community In fact, it is not fan exaggeration to say that

whatever Slam has accomplished A delegation from the various hand can be proceeded with

Nanking

in the sphere of commerce and public bodies in Kiangsi called on -It is understood that the petition them directly to the British industry has been very largely President, Wang Ching-wel of the is being favourably considered by Exchequer So duties helped by the Chinese settlers intExecutive Yuan recently to petition the Government S (Chekiai) erected against Irish produce which collected more than the

the country

the continuance of the present Ag

that you

whole hour.

she hadn't-time te comes