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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, JULY 29, 1935

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ST. DUNSTAN'S CLOCK

The Church of St. Dunstan-in- the-West, Fleet Street, in the City lof London, is to have its ancient clock returned. The clock was (built in 1691 for the older church that stood on the same site and is

SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION

NEW FASCIST AND

NAZI STATES

SOCIALISM PURGED OF CLASS-

WARFARE

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge).

mentioned by many writers, in-RASCISM and Nazism were State, whether in Russia or FASCIS and ought to be Italy or Gemany, is religion or clading Cowper, Scott. Dickens and Trollope. Two giants strike

ing chiefly by the menace of a substitute for religion. It is the quarter, and the clock also Communism. This vigorous not merely an experiment in

the

from the

be contains the statues of mythical King Lud and his two eaction is about all that Bol-government, and it cannot

shevism has effected outside countered by merely rational ar- sons which were originally on the Russia. If this were all the guments.

It is necessarily a danger to Ludgate which stood halfway up new dictatorships would na- the present Ludgate Hill The turally pass away when the Christianity, to peace, and to contemporary. statue of Queen Communist epidemic subsides itself Christianity, as I said recently, is a universal reli- Elizabeth that the church pos-into a milder endemic form. sesses also came

But they have a deeper signi gion; the new religion is a na- Ludgate.

ficance. They are a volt tional religion. And when two The clock was sold some years against the results of the national religions meet they ago to the then Marquis of Hert-French Revolution. the ideas of will fight. ford, who placed it in his house at 1789 In fact, the French Re It is dangerous to itself, main- Regents Park

nineteenth-ly because it depends' so largely re-amhed Stvolution created

When 4 Dunstan's Lodge. This house was century nationalism, just as the on the life of one man.

purchased br recently

Lord Russian revolution has created dictator dies, his subjects cannot....

say, "Le roi est mort; vive le roi.“ Bothermere, who is restoring the the new form of nationalism. clock to Fleet Street.

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GAUGUIN FORGOTTEN

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW paintings of Tahiti in London last being exploded on the Contin-

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A violent fever generates an The new ruler must be found; titoxins in a healthy body. The and there may be two or three French Revolution destroyed a candidates, or none at all. This system of hereditary dictator-is really what wrecked the Bo a Eussian painter, M. Serge ships and founded bourgeois mar Empire, which became a sys- Gres held an exhibition of his

democracy. Democracy is now item of military dictatorships.

„An even greater danger, per- month He lived there for three ent by a revival of the old des-haps, is in the probable deteriora- years, and intends to return.

potic type of government, on ation in the character of the dic M. Gres is in no way inficenced non-hereditary basis, in alliance tator. The modern State is too by Gauguin

with the new Socialism, purged complex an affair for any He said that Ganguin's native of the element of class-warfare. man to manage, unless he pos-

sesses, demonic energy and

The China Mail. There never was a moment dur-wife is still living in Tahiti. She That is how I see it.

ing the discussions of the Dis jarmament Conference when

Hong Kong Monday, July 29, 1935- France and Germany were pre-

Mr. Lloyd George's

"Non-Party" Cloak

pared sons phrase to abandon military aviation, though pre- pared for its restriction The

has no recollection of Gaugain

Nor has their son

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Coup d'etat Technique ius, like Napoleon: "and such a The forms of such a govern-mind soon burns itself ont ment, whether we call it revo-

Case In Italy lutionary or counter-revolution- But I wish to speak of the two- ary. are prescribed by neces chief examples of the new State The class had been told to write an sity. The technique of the separately, for they each have in- British made reservations to the

coup d'etat is now well under-teresting features determined by jabolition of bombing, but no one essay on any subject.

A little boy chose the subject of stood.

their national history and tradi- Mr. Lloyd George has return-can honestly say that the line op He wrote "Soap is a kind "If it succeeds it becomes netions. I will devote the rest of ed to the political arena, armed which the British Government of staff mad- in cakes, not bad to

Is tastes Cessary at once to organise the this article to Mussolini and to the teeth with all the wea-took on "police bombing" is res-smel but horrid to taste. pons which, during his retire-ponsible for the failure to abol-worst of all when it gets into your new State so that it may pay its Italy, and reserve Hitler and Ger-

way. Power must be rigidly many for another occasion. Yet eyes. Iwish there was no soap.

confined to the victorious fac The ment, he had hung on his walls.ish bombing altogether..

remarkable thing Accontred thus, he appeared on that was the only possible mean-

The celebrity was placed next to a tion and must be concentrated about the Italian revolution is its

-talkative and

inquisitive in one man, the dictator. Under conservatism. It has transform the platform of the Council offing of Mr. Lloyd George's sug-

Even more astound- maiden lady who bored him him there must be a kind of ared Italy from within, but it has Action in London recently, as a gestion.

Yetling was his suggestion-put in cessively with her questions. strictly non-party man

Tell me, won't you, what was your listocracy, purely political, re-upset nothing. The King, the Councils of Action are invari-the form of a question that

cart Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, ably associated with attacks Germany offered to abolish sub greatest ambition as a child, and have cruited with the utmost

and frequently purged from all universal suffrage, the universi- you attained it?" she asked.

The celebrity looked at her sadly upon the Government of the day marines altogether at the re- and sometimes with unconstitu- cent naval talks, and that we and said Madam, I regret to say I suspects. It must be supported es and schools, all remain And yet they are re methods of procedure were not prepared to accept it have never stained my boyhood by a milita which will be the standing

home army, strong enough to duced to shadows. tional

Authority This new Council of Action if He hoped," he said, that the ambition"

"And what was it?”

crush any rising against the comes from above, not from be- directed upon the lines of Mr. report was not accurate. Why “Madam, my great

ambition was Government.

electric

low, and the sper of the pyramid: an ex into Lloyd George's speech, will act does a strictly non-party mana

Such a State is rigorously is not the King of Italy, an en as a strong irritant in the body repeat such base innuendoes?

centralised. It can admit nobarrassed phantom, but the Duce. politic under the pretence of be-Great Britain has proposed over

His supportera, at any rate- Every official ing a tonic and a healthy and over again the abolition of stimulant. The idea of subject-the submarine Germany was

This is charact ing all political candidates to a prepared to assent while searching guestionnaire to see had none, and maybe she would pay envelope. whether they are sound or un-agree still. But only if all the he met the manager on the stairs.

"I suppose you've settled down to Public Opinion Controlled of impatience and contempt in- sound in some particular article naval Powers agreed also; and or articles of the faith was France and Japan to name married fe now?" asked the mana

This looks like a return to the the minds of the young every much in vogue before the war. only two are strongly opposed.r

"Tm no married," replied the Scot-fold regime, before 1789 It is where. "Not married," echoed the man-

Mussolini saved Italy It notoriously did grave dam-Would Mr. Lloyd George have age to the political honesty of Great Britain scrap her sub-rer in surprise, "but didn't you apply so in part, but not entirely. Po

pressed, but economic and social Italy had been a dead failure. candidates, for it tempted them marines, even though Germany for a rise because you were thinking litical democracy has been sup- cannot be doubted Liberalism in to sell their real convictions did the same, if other leading of getting married?"

"Oh, aye." came

the reply, "but democracy is established; but it and the Communists, the traitors Now it is proposed to introduce naval Powers went on building r

depends on public opinion more of Caporetto, threatened than the old monarchies did, wreck everything. Mussolini took. it in connection with peace and them in larger numbers and of

and therefore it is obliged to up the mantle of Mazzini, who, the free expenditure of millions larger dimensions than ever?

control all the organs which (as Jowett said, was a тап of upon unemployment and recon-Not if he were in office and were responsible for the safety of "a

form public opinion. struction.

genius under the înfinence of two- country with so many interests "I want to see a non-party! movement." said Mr. Lloyd at sear George, "which will lift the Government out of the rut of convention and tradition. We fight for "no party. fight against no party.”

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A scot applied for a rise, stating rights of minorities and no po- that he was thinking of getting mar-pular elections. ried. At the end of the week he has authority over his inferiors when he came into power, were found a fairly substantial increase in in the hierachy, and is respon teristic of all revolutions, and

fall young men. Some time later sible only to his superiors.

the Great War generated a spirit

stopped thinking"

GIRL HARBOURED BY MAN?

Unemployed Faces Charge FATHER OPPOSES MARRIAGE

That

to.

The liberal and democratic ideas. God and nationality. Mus- regime of the last century was solini captured the revolutionary ca principle neutral in religion; enthusiasm and turned it into an it was not interested in Church exalted mystical patriotismi affairs. Not so the new State,

Social State which is anything but mentral

in

osly traditions, which Italy pos sesses are the Roman and the (Continued on Page 11)

The Duce protests that his new in religious matters. It may try State is for Italy alone. Parlía- to mihilate religion, as in mentary democracy, he has said, Russia; or it may proclaim it may be best for England and "She came to me of her own se self Catholic, in the name of France, but not for Italy. The ter than any man living that! Richard Henry Landolt, late of

She told me that she was the national tradition, as fcord those who are not for a National Milton House, No. 100 Milton Government are against it Street, Ashfield, near Sydney, 20 years old and her father said Italy; or it may attempt to na He cynically advised Liberal NSW and formerly of No. 480 too", remarked a 27-year-old tionalise Christianity, as in Ger Liberalism and democracy electors to vote against the Na-Cumberland Road, Kowloon Tong unemployed, Chang Kui, who was many tional Government in 1931, who died on May 7, 1935, left local charged before Mr. E I Wynne-

Jones at the Kowloon Police Court were secular, the new State appealing to passionate devo- though the single choice then estate-alued at $9,700. was between financial recovery A petition by L. A. Cunningham this ring with harbouring tion and loyalty, is necessarily and bankruptcy. He is shaping for letters of adadaistration, with Chui Yat-yeo, an unmarried Chin- hmost exactly the same course the will annered, has been granted, ese girl, between July 20 and July religious, though its religion 2 without the consent of her may take odd forms. The new know. A Committee of the Henry John Howard, late of No. Father.

Cabinet has carefully examined 10 Essex Crescent, Kowloon Tong,

has made him change his mind, for bis Reconstruction proposals who died on April 25, 1935, left Appearing on behalf of the pro now he is unwilling to consent to The result, has now been offi-local estate valued at $1,500. Pro- secution, Inspector K. W. Andrew cially declared, and it is an hate has been granted to Jily Mary stated that according to both the the marriage Defendant is also equivocal rejection. On its Howard, widow."

girl and her father, she was 18 Dot in a position to support a wife, peace side we can only say that

tor Andrew concluded that the au- Charles Herbert Whiteley Kew, years old and will be 19 years old he has no employment. Inspec his performance was a scandal of No. 10 Lower Castle Road, who on August 15. When the girl was thorities are not pressing the case ous travesty of the truth. died on September 79, 1934 left missing the father went to defer and are also not asking for a heavy

The Government, he said, local estate valued at $16,000): dant's place to try and get some [penalty had now committed itself to Probates have been granted to information of her whereabouts, as At this stage the case was ad- another increase of £20,000,000 Helen Kew, widow, and Arthur defendant, having been previously journed for half-an-hour to allow

ed, knew her. vibe inexpenditure" on. armaments, James Ker, mercantile assistant.

the father of the girl and the de- most of which was for expendi

was found living with the defen-fendant to confer with ary, aviation and

about the marriage, but re-appeared in Court that Andrew stated that the reed to opposed the

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