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Many leading tion passed at the meeting of the

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Company, actresses like to go on tour period- Limited officials yesterday after cally for a change. Mr. Noel Coward's two months' tour, how- which began recently st Students' monthly tickets will ever. still be $4, but students' family Manchester with his programme tickets will be issued at three of short plays "To-Night at Seven tickets for $10, four for $12 and Thirty," was his first long one for five for $15.

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REAL TRUTH

TRUTH ABOUT DISARMAMENT

WHY THE CONFERENCE

BROKE DOWN

FALLACIES IN SOCIALIST PARTY

MANIFESTO EXPOSED

tatives, Mr. Luey, Manager of the his piky The Young Idea." It on manifesto there was a Donald Plan officially known

Tientsin And Hopeis

It is only natural that cons

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scheme.

toured with "Peter Fan."

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(By Victor Gordon-Lennox)

London. it had at any time been called The "Mac the Socialist party's elec-upon to discuss. stated that they have not yet de but a "Hop" when it got to London, particularly dishonest allega as the British Draft Conven- cided to reduce the individual | Mr. Coward has had a propertion in regard to disarmament. tion, was laid before the Con- Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1935 fares on the various routes, but will grounding in that hardest of The National Government ference by the British Premier

discuss the matter after review-schools the provinces. As long was bluntly charged by the on March 16, 1933, jing the result of their forthcom- ago as 1912 he was playing at Socialist leaders with having moment when a final break-

reduced monthly ticket Liverpool, and in

the Disarmament down appeared inevitable. the next year "wrecked

Conference by resisting all the Whole Field Covered constructive proposals made by In the course of its 96 other States."..

Articles it ranged over One can only conclude that whole field of security and dis

and crystallised armament. In a manifesto defending the those who framed the Socialist use of short plays, Mr. Coward Election Manifesto were either debate by boldly stating the ignorant of the facts or were limitation figures which should "Occasionally still a curtain-raiser wantonly seeking to misrepre- be applied to the armaments of appears in the provinces, but wearing sent then, safe in the know the various countries The re a sadly hang-doy expression because ledge that the story is too com ception accorded it was dis- it knows only too well, poor thing plex-for

its ever-changing tinctly favourable, although the part of the pro-Nanking George LaBlanche, not Gene that it would not be there at all were party or the Provincial authori-Tunney, was the only Marine to the main attraction of the erching phases to have left a clear im-

print on the public memory. clear that they would have in- Dempsey for the long enough.” ties to make known the facts?defeat Jack

What wrecked the Disarma-

modifications," portant He battled Mr. Coward declares that if he We have all along advocated the world championship.

tions, and alterations to pro- use of reliable publicity as alin San Francisco on August 27, can restore the short play to its ment Conference was the fact

rightful place "I shall have that no Government, or group pose at the appropriate time strong weapon on the side of 1889.

senti- of Governments, was able to de In June the MacDonald Plan vise a plan which commanded was adopted as the basis of general acceptance.

YESTERDAY'S CARTOON

pirators should be very chary EXPLANATION OF of telling their plans, and very natural reluctance to bel interviewed is one of the neces Say elements of obscurity about the course of events in

But why should THE ONLY MARINE the North. there be any unwillingness on

the Individualist, but merely The pivot blow was afterwards between two gangs of cons-declared legal İpirators, or more than twa Only 154 correct answers were The key to the riddle, and to received out of thousands of replies the whole tangle of Chinese from all over the United States politics in their present confu- and Canada. sion is in the ald question of the Roman lawyers "cui

8375:

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Your Daily Smile!

eard in circumlocution.

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Costly Experiment "You sent for your daughter?"

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"MacDonald Plan"

most of the delegates made it

the

addi-

British

was

Con-

law and order. It may be re TaBlanche came over from the jachieved one of my grettable, but it is a fact that Navy Yard' at the Vallejo and mental ambitions."

the future Convention." when the news supplied by all knocked out the then middleweigh:

Time showed that the phrase the parties concerned is sparse champion Jack Dempsey, called the

When the Conference opened was a somewhat hollow one. UT un-Non-Pareil and mostly incredible

Dempsey was win- intelligible. the

conclusion ning easily until the 32nd round

The two men who sat in a New on February 2, 1932, under the The course of the general dis of Mr Arthur cussion which had occupied the drawn by the public is that the when LaBlanche lashed out with Fork-office and talked to each other presidency whole thing is not a struggle back-hand or pivot blow which by telephone round the world are Henderson, it was attended by three preceding months had representatives of 61 proved all too clearly that there between the loyal and the dis- caught Dempsey on the chin and considered to have set up a new re- the

States. Of these. seven were, was, no general agreement re- loyal, or the Communist and knocked him cold.

not members of the League of garding the British proposals.

Yet, finding all the old dia- Nations Until a few months Yes, we found it too expensive prior to that date Mr. Hender-culties rearing up their heads

the afresh, neither son had himself bee to have her living in the city sup

Foreign Secretary of Great President of the Conference nor porting herself"

Britain, a highly respected the British Government Socialist leader and an eloquent prepared to abandon the exponent of British hatred of ference in failure.

A Diversion The British Prime Minister During the summer recess of of the day, and throughout the 1933 the World Economic Cor- active life of the Disarmament ference was held in London. Conference was Mr. Ramsay Taking advantage of this diver- MacDonald, leader- of the sion,

Mr. Henderson started Socialist party for years. upon a tour of the European British politics has raised no capital, and attempted to over- convinced and ardent come some of the obstacles. more

London, He visited

Paris, Some use- To Mr. MacDonald belongs Rome, and Berlin. Traveller: "Can I get anything to the credit for presenting to the ful work was accomplished, but eat in this place?"

Conference, in the second year most of the major questions re- Waiters "Yas, sah, you kin”

of its life, the most courageous mained to be solved. Traveller: "Such as what?"

and constructive proposal which (Continued on Page 10) Waiter: "Such as it is, sah.”

bono you

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Who made the profit? In other words, where does the Mr. Fred Normington, late of taxation revenue go to2

No. 6 Causeway Hill, who died on local proportion paid in to the cen-February 16 1935, left tral Government is the real test estate to the value of $25,000. "An of the amount of Loyalty application by Mr. M. M. Watson, Both "Autonomy" and "Com solicitor, for sealing certified munism", mean that all that is

collected remains in the. Pro- copy of Probate of the Will, has

been allowed vinec. A good Governor who fails to remit to the central

One ease of diphtheria was the

Treasury nonetheless spends a only case of notifiable disease large proportion of the revenue locally, and quite a lot of good corded in the Colony for the 24 development has been done in hours ended on Monday.

some of the Communist Pro-loyalty can be taken for grant-

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otherwise have been wasted on are free to criticise. armies whose only purpose Our own idiosyncrasy is just would have been to subdue the as puzzling to most people, as administration of the Province the sectional and clan intrigues by force of arms. Even so of China are to us. One of the that is a big step in advance things that made it seem worth of the Tuchun who took every while to Germany to incur the. penny of his loot either to pay risks of the Great War was the his own soldiers or to make widespread conviction that the himself 2 rich 20231. All British Empire could not hold (observers agree that a few more together under any strain. years of wholesale looting Their most influential thinker would have produced mass and historian declared that "the starvation and a general break-British Empire is a house of down of civilisation in those cards that will collapse at a Provinces. Something very touch." He had been reading like that appears to have been such journals as the Sydney achieved already in the North Bulletin, which attacked Eng- West. There cannot be any land furiously and constantly in loyalty to a regime that cannot order to stop the constant bor- protect its subjects from rob-rowing for unnecessary Rail bery and starvation.

ways, and therein was wise,

It is of interest to ask as the slump revealed. Only whence then does the main part the other day the Frime Minis- of the Nanking revenne come?iter of New Zealand said that The answer is surprising. It is though he would do all he could from the Chinese Maritime to avoid war, it was the war and Customs. We do not realise the fighting side by side with all that that means. The staff England that had made New of the CM.C. either is mostly Zealanders 2 Nation foreign or at any rate the tradi- The members of all these fac tions and methods are of tions in North China - will re- foreign organisation. These main Chinese, no matter what despised "foreign devils" have intrigues they may start, and grown up-to a standard of what names they may employ. loyalty that has grown up to be The Japanese are opposed to a so much a second nature that strong central Government be they have no difficulty at all cause they are afraid it will in transferring it to an alien organise a war against them Government, even though it I will in fact be years before has often been racially opposed such a war could be undertaken to them and their people. If with any success. The first we think of aB the implications condition must be a period of we begin to realise that we can peace and recuperation, and hardly think of ourselves apart such essential works as the em from the country of our origin bankment of the Yellow and its Government, which we The Japanese: delight to criticise in caustic agafust Comzam comments that would get us sian induence: into trouble at once if the sub-system it h ject was the Chinese Govern- to year

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