1935-06-04 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE

1935

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SCUTTLED GERMAN SHIP

The seattled German battle cruiser Bavem, which was salved from the bottom of Scaps Flow last sutama.. recently began ber last Torage, keel uppermost, and with five powerful tags in charge. The vast hulk was being towed to Rosyth for breaking up, and was

warships.

FASCISM'S IRON HAND

NOISM VOICED

IN PUBLIC

OPPOSITION TO REGIME.

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STAMPED OUT

(By Sir Percival Phillips)

to have been berthed alongside the FASCIST rule in Italy has had thinks adversely he keeps care graveyard of the Mauretania

a curious reaction on the fully to himself, unless assured Meanwhile, progress is being man in the street. For the last that the walls around him are made at Scapa Flow with the pre-nine years since Mussolini de-without ears. parations to raise other scuttled finitely stamped out all opposition. Critics Silently Disappear

Ito the regime, he has not dared His habitual silence is един to open his mouth in criticism couraged by the watchfulness of without risking severe punish-secret agents. A very useful ment.

organisation known colloquialy Twenty-two letters by Robert and His identity has been, merged as the "Ovra" listers everywhere Elizabeth Browning were sold for with that of the Corporative for the voice of criticism. 840,000 (58,000) by auction individual with the right to express means. The word is supposed to Instead of being an in-one can tell me what “Ova” State. New York last month.

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BROWNING LETTERS SOLD

No

Bibliophiles are astonished at the his own views, he is cared for be a combination of capital let- merely as a cog in the mechanismyters standing for an intelligence price: Officials at the Anderson Galleries, where the sale took place. The curious result is this is known only to its members.

of a government by dictatorship.organisation, the name of which said that the sum was the highest However much he may resent! The units include men and ever paid for a series of letters of certain effects of the Fascist women in every walk of life: One this kind. It had not been expect regime, he is content to have all is reminded of that other asso ed that $2,000 would be exceeded. 'personal responsibility

Twelve of the 22 letters were from him

taken ciation of listeners until recently written by Elizabeth Browning to

Like children who known by initials which spell

her sisters. The remaining ten were under strong discipline, be Ogpu. The man in the street 'submits to restrictions. on his knows that the "Ovra" is all letters by Robert to the sisters. All everyday life, knowing that the about him. His neighbour in the were written shortly after the parental authority will deal with next flat may be one of its emis- marriage of Bobert and Elizabeth. all matters affecting his presentsaries, and the waiter in his and future, and not leave him to favourite cafe: and the cheerful Your Daily Smile! shift for himself. He leans for sportsman with a Fascist button guidance and protection not on who meets him at dominoes "Next to a beautiful girl, what do the Fascist organisation as such, when the day's work is done. you consider the most interesting thing but on Mussolini himself.

He is never sure, but he takes no Mussolini The One Superman chances and so keeps his mouth I have had this distinction shut made very clear to me by the man It is such an easy thing to dis- in the street. When I induced appear completely. The man în

in the world***

"When I'm next to a beautiful girl I don't bother about statistics.”

And Then?

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Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 4, 1933-been longest awaiting trial to be My friend laughed when I spoke him to loosen his tongue and talk the street may hear a knock at

Wrong Apparel

visits of judges were few and far between, the arrival of any new prisoners was the signal for an equal number of those who had summarily disposed of by the to the waiter in French, but the laugh freely in a place where there the door, and find there a police- gaoler in such a way as made was on him. The Birthday Honours recidivism quite impossible.

I told the waiter to were no echoes he was full of man who invites him politely to give him the check”

grievances against some of the accompany him to the nearest The Honourable Mr. S. W. Tso is

Black Shirt overlords, but had police station. There he is ques- We can but, add our own con-another example of the fact that

nothing but praise and admirationed about his daily life and his gratulations to those of the rest it takes all sorts of men to make whom he had recently taken into the would go no further in criticising special committee which perhaps He was discussing his son and heir. tion for the lord of them all. He friends. Before he knows it a of the community to His Honour a Government or a Colony, or abusiness: ithe Chief Justice on attaining world His unassuming but $the

Well, yes, he's shaping pretty well him than to say that many of the he never sees, consigns him tor Knighthood

may strenuous work for the communibut he has a long way to go yet before people around him were not suit isolation up to a period of five- hanishment or a lesser form of almost be said to be a prerogative ty might easily pass entirely un- be have a head big enough to all my ed to their jobs. of. his very

responsible office regarded except by those who shoes." Short as his service in Hong happened to come into personal Kong has been. his appointment contact with it. If his Commaca-- was the recognition of services dership of the British Empire in many distant lands where jus-could coincide with the comple- tice is as highly prized as in any tion of the Nethersole Hospital, capital city; and it may be said we may be sure that he would

which

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

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Eren this rank heresy was fears."-- uttered mildly, almost deprecat- If his offence is a grave one ingly. I think he meant that he faces the Special Tribunal there is only one superman in which can give him as much as 15 years. His exit is marked Italy.

It is difficult for a foreigner to by no publicity. There is not The Hong Kong rainfall for the realise how completely the even an

official announcement even that a reputation gained be more gratified than by any was 0.00

24 hours ending at 10 am to-day Italians have been subjugated, that he has gone to prison. where there are strange customs personal reward. The new law

inch. The total since mind and body, by the iron hand

Enthusiasm Has Waned and primitive mentalities, and no dealing with our

January 1st was 16.04 Hong Kong

inches, of Fascism

Of course, it is assumed that large professional society, to lend Lepers also is largely due to his against an average of 24-48 inches.] The man in the street. looking the culprit has been engaged in the support of its moral authori-interest in that merciful cam-

back beyond the last nine years subversive propaganda, a phrase ty. is the highest guarantee both paiga

Captain R F. Walter ADC. to of individual silence admitted which has a wide meaning. The the past two that he could hardly realise him-writing of pamphlets against

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of legal qualifications and judi- The survival of so purely fen- the Governor for cial impartiality.

dal an institution as knighthood years, is leaving for Home on Jure self that in 1926 be was still free Fascism, attempts to forni clubs The Honourable . P. Braga's kept alive by the change of 14 to rejoin his regiment of the to voice his opinions of the move-which may have a political taint career is the most complete con-values, which has led to the re-Royal Artillery.

ment and its policies. The news direct criticism of the Govern Hrast possible. He is of Hong cognition of the greater import-

papers said pretty much what ment in strong language, parti- Kong both by birth and educa-jance of civil work and high char- The RMS. Empress of Canada (they liked Other political par-cularly of its head, all lead to tion and long residence, and the acter rather than the very quaint will sail from Shanghai to-morrow ties still lived, and unless they punishment The Special Tri- causes which he has championed methods of mingled chivalry and at 10 am, and is due to strive had a Communistic tinge could budal and the lesser disciplinary are matters of daily interest to rapine which were expected to here on Friday at 6 am. She will meet and discuss current affairs committees still sit regularly. us all. Nobody has ever accused mark the old order of those who leave for Manila the same day at without hindrance him of judicial impartiality in regarded themselves as a special 6 p. stating his case, but the farmer bodyguard of the noble or the

30-year-old

дет-

Their work has diminished, how-

Eepression really began after ever. during the last two years. the attempt on Mussolini's life in Stiff sentences have been handed 1929, at Bologna. The police out so liberally that the vocal almost overnight proclaimed minority is now well cowed. measures which effectually, kül-

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to the established Government.

Special Tribunal's Powers

Regular Meeting To-day

SANITARY BOARD

pm today, when Mr. L. C. F. The regular meeting of the Sanitary Board will be held at 4:15

of the New Territories and the king. is one of those odd fea- Pun Tim, a ratepayer of Kowloon have tures of English tradition of ployed, was neither demanded nor missed any which we have no need to feel $15, in default three weeks

this morning fined ***- such quality; and the essence of ashamed A few years ago prisonment, by Mr. Q. A. A Mac- ed all opposition, however slight, government by discussion in so several of the Dominions passed fadyen at the Central Magistracy Passports were annulled, all non- far as it is achieved in this laws or resolutions prohibiting for the theft of an opium pipe, Fascist public meetings were de Colony, is that every proposal, all titles of honour.

It is no valued at $7 from No. 12 Changclared illegal, non-Fascist parties even for an Aquarium, shall have secret that already they are Shan Street yesterday. a fair hearing.

wondering whether they were

were dissolved and publication Mr. J. W. Franks and Mr. A not rather in advance of the feel- At the Central Police Court this newspapers and periodicals that licences were withdrawn from all M. de Souza belong. to the othering of their people. Canada for morning, Mr. Q & A: Macfadyen did not actively support the re- Bellamy, pursuant to notice, will class of recipients of honours, one, has repented, and Canadian sentenced Chan Soi, aged 17, to me. who have done long years of recommendations, all based on three months imprisonment for arduous work in offices where good democratic reasons, are sent the theft of 50 cents from the per-

ask: such work is not likely to attract in again in the ordinary course son of Wang Hing in Connaught

Penal settlements were planted the Board whether any complaints Will the President please infcomm much attention, and who would What other method of doing Road yesterday.

in the islands of the Mediter-have been received by the Sanitary be likely to pass to the end of public honour to those who have three previous similar convictions ranean for the indefinite intern Department regarding offensive-

Defendant had their service with no mark of deserved well of the common-

ment of all persons who proposed (smells at the western end of Re recognition did not the Honours wealth is so suitable and honour- List give an opportunity of draw-able? The American multiplica- due to arrive in Hong Kong from

The Bas. Santhia, which is to commit any act against the poise Bay, particularly during low Government, or even showed water? If so, can the President ing attention to the fact that tion of honorary degrees and Amoy on Thursday afternoon, will themselves actively hostile. routine administration is the titles of "colonel" and "judge" leave for Singapore and Calcutts Blackshirt Militia were sent to (a) Whether the caus background of good order and does not appeal to us, and the via ports, on Saturday morning the frontier with orders to shoot nuisance has been estab prosperity. It must be withị tradition that public work is done some satisfaction that Mr either for its own sake or for The Franks can reflect that his resuch recognition as the public commendations for better gaol itself through its government here on Saturday accommodation are at last being publicly confers, is both dignified put into solid achievement, and and linked up to an onourable that no successor în his trying association with the inheritance post will have to work under the handed down to appalling dimenities that must so often have reduced him almost to despair. It is at least a sign of softer ammers în put - day

STORM BURSTS OIL PIPES

The 3.3. Benledi sails from mile to m

Tow, and will arrive!

"A meeting to form a Hong Kong Rifle Assoc

be held in the South China. Room to da

Fort Board

TWINS IN KENËTORE

state:

all fugitives attempting to leave (b) On whom liability the country A Special Tribunal for the defence of the State

ment of the

I was set up to deal summarily with (c) What action, if

offenders

This was the Fascism as it Jemergency meas wards embodie Penal Code law of

The

shed:

the Sanitary Department has taken in the matter

Application will be made for per mission to bury the body of Tes Ho Shi in s place other

authorised cemetery.

The regular returns will be laid

on the table

COLONY RAINFALE IN MAY

KONG

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