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The Kellogg Pact

1935

Here There

and Everywhere.

HAUNTED HOUSE..

Brede Place, the ancestral home of the Frewens, in Sussex is to be sold. It ranks among England's oldest inhabited bouses. It was built like its neighbour, Bodia Castle, in the reign of Edward 11, and has a chapel testifying to the days when it was an abber.

The house is alleged to be barnt- ed by the ghost of its 15th century

TWO CONSTITUTIONS COMPARED

SITUATION IN BRITAIN

AND AMERICA

PROFOUND DIFFERENCES OF PROCEDURE

(By Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill)

London the advice of Ministers, and NOTO remarkable incidents without the aid of any supreme Tomato me the court leaves him ashes when owner, Sir Goddard: Oxenbridge, strong light of current events we speak of his present plight He was said to have been sawn on the political institutions he reminds us of our ever-pre- in two with a wooden saw he was of the United States and of sent insecurity. impervious to steel the children Grest Britain.

Only time can show where wisdom bes.

of East Susser on one end of it In America the Supreme and the children of West Sussex Court, gave a unanimous judg- the same time, we in this on the other. The gallows andment which stultifies and large island are the passive specta- hook on which be hanged his own paralyses the whole vast potors of an immense change in children are still shown in an attic fier of social and economic the personnel and possibly in chamber called the Gallows Room change embodied in President the character, of the whole of Boosevelt's National Recovery our executive Government. New Ministers fill the greatest of-

ECLECTIC PLAYS

In the eighteenth century Brede Act In England a new Gover Ifices. The head of the Govern

ter was formed.

ment is changed. A different: was à smugglers lair, approached ment with a new Prime Minis-

Cabinet met after Whitsuntide: by sunken passages.

In more modern times it was. These transactions illustrate yet in all these changes neither American writer, in a revealing manner the pro-parliament not the electorate-

2001

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

ness

course.

Public Opinion Supreme

If the new Prime Minister

Stephen Crane. A play. written found differences between the

way. Nevertheless, everyone- jointly by Henry James Robert Constitutions under which the required to be consulted in say accepts this as a matter of Barr, George Gissing. Rider Bas two English-speaking demon- xard, Joseph Conrad, H. crecies have come to dwell

It is very difficult for us to

What is the explanation? Marriot-Watson. Mr. G. Wells,

It is that British Govern-- Edwin Pugh, Mr. A EW. Mason realise the kind of deadlock and Stephen Crane himself, was which has been reached in the ments live from day to day only Imagine, "for upon the approval of the House produced in the Brede Village United States.

Unfortunately this instance, this gigantic India of Commons. There is no di- the Executive schoolhouse. eclectic manuscript was destroyed. Bill passed through Parlia-vorce between

ment and for two or three years and Legislature. The Ministers,

That is to misunder-

in active operation throughout new or old, had to be chosen the whole of India, suddenly from men and parties which in stand the pact, which is not 2)

being declared illegal by the the aggregate commanded a treaty, but a declaration that a

Law Lords sitting as a tribunal majority in the House of Com Longer

Sammy was not prone to

when it. re-assembled certain doctrine is no

his mother was both sumprised and Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 9, 1915 valid. The doctrine was forme exertion in the classroom. Therefore, Imagine to take an instance mons

ulated by Clausewitz, who was pleased when be me home nearer home some gigantic after the holidays. accepted by the Germans as the announcement, "I got a hundred measure of insurance as big as the final authority on war. is simply that war is an ex-

ed together which had deeply formed a Government which of- a tension of diplomacy, to attain "They had decided on

is interwoven itself in the whole fended the House of Commons. life of the people, upon which he and his colleagues could be struggle on which the Govern-jthe object of policy by other The Pact declares

every kind of contract and busi-dismissed in an afternoon, and ment and people would not turn means

arrangement had been someone else would have to try back" This was the declara-that the signatories agree that! of war made by Signor this doctrine is no longer a suf- tion

Man fto neighbour): I wish you based, being declared to have again to meet the wishes of the Mussolini at Salerno to a divi-ficient justification for sion of Black Shirts who have claration of war. But Mr. Sewald sell that dog. Yesterday, no validity by a court of law. Assembly. If the House of His cretary Kellogg himself, when dater had to stop ber singing beWe simply cannot conceive it. Commons gave its support to a

cause your dog was whining all the;

Yet something very like that Government which the elector now sailed for Djibouti.

way in size.”

ment could be swept away after Neizibour: "I'm sorry, but your has occurred on the other side ate did not like this Govern- further reference to the battle tackled in the usual

of the Atlantic.

the next general election. There of Adowa, rearly forty years Congress with the charge of

In our country an Act of Parfore public opinion, expressed ago, shows exactly where the foreign entanglements." stat-daughter started it?

Its Appearance

you think lament which, upon the advice through all its hydra-heads, -is- shoe pinches; and it must beled that the pact imposed no

of the Ministers responsible for master, and all the plans of the new Prime Minister admitted that motive of re-es-obligation on the United States tablishing a shaken prestige is to maintain it. The reply made bought this car secondhabe.

"No, I thought you made it portit, has received the Royal As-King's

sent is the law of the land. Its must be attuned to this omni- influence. one for which history will pro-by Washington to Addis Ababa,

authority cannot be questioned present. dominzat vide many precedents." Taking declining to intervene, is there-self."

court There is no Here is our guarantee, here is the words in their natural fore quite consistent But the

by any limit to the powers of Crown our safeguard: it is all we meaning they can only mean, situation once again raises the

Parliament Even the have: but so far it has not fail- in spite of the fact that the ar-question which has always been bitrators are at present taking in the background, what is the

and gravest changes in our Consti-ed.

Parliament can, if it chooses. tution can be carried out by evidence on the dispute that use of the Kellogg Pact?

If we put ourselves into the started the trouble. that no

simple majority votes in both even prolong its own life beyond Houses and the consequential the statutory limit; Ministers: finding of an Arbitral Court can place of those who are calledį.

assent of the Crown.

may at any time advise the be expected to give a decision upon to deal with the actual si-

King to a sudden dissolution that would be finally satisfac-tuation, we see that behind that What is

Yet all classes and all parties Two Kowloon Tong residents tory, and that the Italian policy question is another:

In the United States a writ-have a deep, underlying convic— can only be achieved by war. the use of sanctions? A sanc-i

these vast flexible What then becomes of the Kel tion is a special embargo on were fined $10 each when they trade or shipping intended to appeared before Mr. E. L Wynne logg Pact?

There is something peculiar-produce the same results as Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy ten Constitution is enforced by tion that

circum military action without involv-this morning charged with allow a Supreme Court according to powers will not be abused, that ly modern about the

Ding fighting. An arms embaring their dogs to wander abroad in the letter of the law. Anyone the spirit of our unwritten Con- stances of the declaration.

They were Mr. Wging not merely the interpreta-every stage and that public Duce travelled down by an aero-go could easily be enforced the streets without being muzzled may bring a test case challen-stitution will be respected that plane, piloted by himself; a against Abyssinia, because that on June 25.

for the appellant, be he only an ever powerful, who fell below qualification which he shares country has no fleet: but it is E. Gittins, of No. 4 Suffolk Roadtion of a law, but the law it chastisement would speedily owner of a few chickens, the the accepted standards of fair with his two sons, Vittorio and idle to suppose that it could be and Mr. W. Buehner of No. 53 self, and if the court decides overtake any Minister, how Bruno. On the way the plane enforced against Italy without Cumberland Road.

The result would be to

A frother and her son appear-whole action of the Legislature play or who descended to trick- could live Certainly no one was struck by lightning, and war the wireless operator got a substitute a big war for a little

Not necessarily at once. led before Mr. W. Schofield at and the Executive becomes to work or dodgery.

modify the Constitution even in under the British Constitution shock; but a little thing like one. that was not allowed to inter-The League is at present de the Central Police Court this that extent null and void. To fere with the engagement. The pendent on the allies of the morning on a charge of possess the smallest particular requires except its inventors and patent Black Shirts are not regular Great War. minus the importing 144 taels of raw opiumati

American Union. This has to explain the secret to others soldiers but a militia, ready to ant exception of the United No. 169, Belchers Streets. Wing a two-thirds majority of the tees, and neither they nor their defend the Dictator at home, States, and with Japan as an Kai-tas, the mother, was fined sovereign States forming the descendants have ever been able and now, apparently, are to be enemy instead of a friend. The $1,000, în default six months treated as available for foreign transference of Italy to the hard labour, and her 22-year-old only been achieved, after prodi- whole history of the United service. Nothing could be less other side. even without war, son, Ng Yee, was bound over in gious struggles, on less than a

States formal, according to old no would upset the whole equilia personal bond of $500 to be or score of occasions during the tions, than the declaration of brimm Certainly, with such a good behaviour for 12 months.

The American citizens or an important decision of the danger so near at home, there Revenne Officer & W. Grimmitt

jurists gaze with wonder at our Government to embark troops would be no fleet available in appeared for the prosecution

the Parliament the Far East to preserve the

with An expulsion order was made great democracy expressing it plenary powers Of is no more, and one must sup-status quo. pose that there is no council or Recent actions prove that out by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at self

Parliament controlled only by deliberative assembly whose there is no jealousy of Italy the Central Police Court against through a Government and 2 sensibilities had to be consider and her plans for expansion of Benares Khan, who this morning the fluctuating currents of pu-

blic opinion. ed when once the decision had territory At Versailles the appeared before him charged

Time Can Show beer arrived at by the Cabinet Italian diplomatists demanded with entering the Colony without

When we point to the incon- in which the Duce himself a place in the sun in Asia, a valid passport. holds most of the important Minor, with Alexandretta as a portfolios In contrast nothing jumping off place. Kemal Pasha Hong Kong ramfall for the 24 venience of his system. the could be more ancient than the put an end to that plan, and hours ending at 10 am to-day, American reforts by warning motives of revenge and annexs Italy demanded "comperisa-was L17 inch. The total since us of the precarious fluidity of here The good cials tion

The Tripolitan Colony January 1 has been 36.49 inches, jours. So far he admits all has high naval,

Isense of the British public, the sion is import has been expanded and conso as against an average of 41.30 worked out well.

of Judated, even though encroach inches. needs mer were made on the Egypt-

course

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