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CHALLENGE TO THE LEAGUE

FATEFUL MEETING OF

COUNCIL

IMPLICATIONS OF ABYSSINIAN

DISPUTE EXAMINED

(By Victor Gordon Lennox)

Geneva, August 4 will be fully, if somewhat tar- OR four crowded days we dily occupied in coming to grips-

have watched in Geneva with the real essence of

the

Only Saving Grace A clash on fundamental

In front were Gladys Cooper and the efforts of France and Eng-problem. Douglas Fairbanks; jun. Mr. Noel land to restrain Italy from em Coward was a few yards away, barking upon a war of conquest

It was a rehearsal for the Mam-fraught with incalculable dan-tissues, so far avoided at Genera moth Cabaret in aid of the Actors' gers to the peace of the world can be prevented at the Paris

The Council of the League of Conference on only one basis Benevolent Fund. The chorus of

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· SAILOR-ACTOR

This is Mr. Richard the great-great-grandson playwright

24 was composed entirely of stars Nations have stood aside while that Signor Mussolini renounces three of their number sought his present intention of launch- laf the London stage.

rath to peace.

ing a war of aggression against When the League, Assembly Ethiopia meets in September there will In any event, we have M An actor with a name famous în be those who will raise the voice, Eden's pledge that be will re- port to the Council the outcome- the history of the English theatre of protest: has just made his first appearance! It will then be said that, with of these discussions, whether on the London stage.

la breach of the peace glaring successful, or unsuccessful, con- the League clusive or inconclusive. at a Sheridan, before their eyes,

of the took no action to protect the League meeting on Sept. 4 call- meraced and smaller party. It ed to deal with the whole ques- He is taking the part of the will be said that the Great tion as it then exists.

As to the imminent resump- elephant in "Noah" - a role Powers are preparing a fait which hardly enables him to show accompli which all States, both tion of work by the Commis his striking presence to advantage. great and small, will be asked sion on the Ual Ual incident two points are worthy of note. Mr. Dick Sheridan, whose to endorse.

It may even be said and is The fifth member who thus be- mother is Mrs. Clare Sheridan, has

the twenties being said now by some of the comes arbiter will be M. Politis, only just entered But he has already shown the taste: American commentators herethe Greek Minister in Paris, for adventure which he gets both that the League has stood aside who despite his long and close- from his mother and the Sheridan to allow three Great Powers to association in a personal capa-

arrange among themselves how city with the Ethiopian Govern The China Mail turies of destruction still span strain.

He has been round the world they will partition the territory ment is widely held to be a man a of outstanding impartiality and the fats of the Campagna, into

and found it of a fourth State. herself

ability. It is in recognition of which, when the old civilisation before the mast,

these qualities that he has been Hong Kong Wednesday, Sept. 1. 1985 fell into chaos, the rivers that strengthened his love, for the sea. member of the League.

sccepted by the Italian Govern- used to flow on the higher level seeped and formed malaria!

ment as a suitable chairmaz. marshes, which ended by mak- ing the once fruitful farms:

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tant event than many incidents day. The water that runs The height of inconvenience is to For it is the useful along pipes in abundance is be shipwrecked on a desert island things that count and that live making unnecessary much hu- with nothing but a cross-word puzzle

man labour of cartage and car-book and no pencil. on into the future, and with our age. With a tap in the kit- modern standards of living chen there is no need for a Student: "Is it a dress nothing could be more

water-carrier, and another do you wear your own clothes than doubling our water means of earning an honest dol-

ply.

useful

*** Student's Lament

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Aha!

"How about fortnight** ALLEGED ASSAULT

Complainant To Seek Civil Action

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Three Powers Consult

Sach conclusions spring

The other point is this: The rather from minds wedded to

viction held by the local League Constitution than from authorities on either side as to the sacred written rules of the League's ruling that "the con- an appreciation of the purpose the sovereignty over Ual Ual for which the League was creat-

By any sensible way of reckere waste land, and the city with one spinning wheel. The modem

itself a desert. Whatever may girl wants four and a spare.

* oning the ceremony of yester

Among the Horses day when His Excellency the be the final verdict on Benito Mussolini it will be recorded:

Were "My ancestors

instrious ed namely, as an instrument is to be taken into account only as an extenuating circustance Officer Administering the Gov-

that his first great campaign |

to be utilised for the prevention when passing final judgment. ernment gave the signal for the

That is nothing. One of my of war.

must substantially affect the shutting of the valve which alwas against the marshes of the My grandfather won the Derby"

It is said that the events of]

verdict. lowed the Shing Mun River to Campagna, which he restored to cestors was the Trojan horse

the past four days can be held Wait

Favourable To Italy. escape down to the sea instead health and agriculture.

The damming of the Gorge is to make!

con- but another item in the of "doing its staff”

"Your girl friend called up and to constitute a "victory for

meet Italy. To judge whether or Among those best informed". Hong Kong a healthy and clean

not that is true it is necessary in various quarters, little or no- abode of men, ought to be reck-quest of nature by science said she wouldn't be able to

which for good or evil is the you to-day.”

"Well, that's a wait off my mind” to consider the points given and doubt is expressed that this oned as a much more import distinctive mark of our own

taken in their relation to the restriction of the investigation

preoccupations graver than an will result in a verdict favour-

which Mr. Eden referred in his it may be recognised that Dal isolated frontier incident. to able to Italy. In other words, broadcast two nights ago after Ual appears to be in territory the close of the Council session, which would be awarded to On the credit side can be Ethiopia if and when the fron- placed several important facts tier has been delimited; but it Time has been gained to permit will probably be held that the lar is gone for somebody.

lof consultations. between local Ethiopian commanders One of the mysteries of his What will he. do instead? "I've been trying to think of

Britain, France and Italy with took the initiative in ejecting tory is how our ancestors. of Every triumph of engineering word for two weeks"

the object. of ascertaining what they regarded as Italian such as lived in cities, managed or invention means that it be

whether it may not be possible trespassers, even though the a niche to survive long enough to leave comes harder to find

Crowded into into which the unskilled man

to reach a resolution accept trespass" had passed unchai- any offspring.

jable to all for the dificulties lenged for over five years. small rooms in houses that of-can fit himself Is the result

which have arisen between-Italy Suppose, as is only too prob ten leaned forward so as almost to be that the unskilled will be

and Abyssinia." Translated able, that the three Powers have to meet the house on the oppo- eliminated, or that some other

into the simplest terms that not been successful in reaching site side of the narrow street, occupation will be found for

means that Britain, France and a solution of the larger ques- it is no wonder that plague and him? So far, the labour-saving

Italy, as co-signatories to the tions before the meeting of the 2 clean pestilence had

run campaign has far outrum the

Treaty concluded in London on League Council of Sept. 4. It through Europe when once a discovery of useful occupations,

Dec. 13, 1906, will consult to will then be for the Council “to source of infection was started as is witnessed by the twenty

gether on the basis of their com- discharge the obligations placed One answer to the conundrum milion unemployed in Europe.

Mrs. Marie Soldini, of No. 7, mon interest to maintain it upon it by the Covenant in the might, of course, be that they and the ten million in the United did not live at any rate as a States; for the existence of the York Road, Kowloon Tong, was tact the integrity of Ethiopia light of the situation as it then

Another Point modern man even of very hunemployed does not mean that summoned before Mr. W ble position can live. The ex-the market is not supplied Thomson at the Kowloon Police They will further discuss how Eden's

What exactly does that pectation of life was something Everything either is or could Court this morning fôr assaulting the aspirations of Italy, to

The answer is clearly between 42 and 45 years. At be supplied cheaper and better Mrs. Alina Rocha, of No 169, Saijobtain further agricultural mean? 14 or 15 a boy was supposed to than a few years ago, but even Yeung Choi Street, first floor, on commercial, and industrial con- to be found in the reference to cessions in Ethiopia can be the situation as it then exists.** have finished his education, if the luxury of a bath palls upon the Star Ferry on August 23- he had any; for anything like a hungry man... That may be Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios made without injury to them-It is not necessarily to be as correct spelling and writing was running to meet the troubles of appeared on behalf of the defen-selves or Abyssinia. This late summed that arwar will have beneath the dignity of any the future; it is all to the good dant, who, he stated had left for ter point is mentioned because been launched. The League. France and Britain have no Covenant provides abundant well-born man, who would pay a that the Island and Kowloon Japan at 10 am to-day. "clerk to do that for him, and should be made fit for a big and Mr. S. H. Cole, appearing on thought in mind of arriving at machinery for further pursuing give him in return some much healthy population, and the behalf of Mrs C. Rocha, applied a conclusion and then seeking the path of conciliation. But if to impose their terms on hostilities, have actually begun desired privileges. The active future will no doubt produce its for a withdrawal on the ground

Abyssinia.

(Continued on Page 11.), career began at the age of 1ijown new ways of earning a that his client is desirous to On the contrary, it is their and did not last beyond 40. Living."

claim compensation for damage intention that the representa "Too old at forty" was a reality It is of good omen that suffered Mr. Cole stated that tives of the Ethiopian Govern- then, and not a mere slogan. Macao has also been celebrating his client intends to take civil proment in Paris, where the Con Of all the causes of the the start of a new reservoir ceedings against the defendant ference will assemble in the doubling of the vigour and We are lucky in having a Gorge On the undertaking of Mr Jatter part of this week should length of life ao one thing was where gravitation will do the Remedios to get in touch with the be consulted whenever it may more effective than a supply of filling without recourse to defendant as soon as she returns appear that a basis of settle- water and it became the mark pumps, but pumped water

to the Colony, Mr. Thomson ad-

ment is in sight of a high civilisation In the better than none at all.

journed the case sine die. lack of much of our engineering contrast compare the diffic skill, and the motive power for of the Italian forces pumping, a constant water supply involved much costly solid masonry to lead

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