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THE CHINA MATE, MONDAY “MARCHE 30,#1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

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EXPLANATION OF Here

TO-DAY'S

There CARTOON

The Town The World Forgot ་།

Notice To Contributors, D

and gril Everywhere

URING the making of the MORAL OF "FES" DOG

All communications intended for publication should be addressed to settled

Treaty of Paris which A Merton story concerns a dog the fate of Europe which "F. E kept in college.

The Warden met him at

the

thel

the Editor, and be accompanied by after Napoleon's downfall, the Writer's Name and Address powers-that-be completely for lodge, while he was bringing the not necessarily for insertion, but got the territory as a guarantee of good faith.

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graduates saw him and his dog they would say to themselves:

Moreanet, which was left politi. dog in, drew him aside, and spoke cally hanging in the air and owing of the possible bad example to allegiance to no one.

The tem undergraduates. Smith replied at

once that

the under- tory. covering about 18 square miles, received a neutral admin istration consisting of a mayor and 10 councillors. The Code Napoleon was adopted as the Law Hong Kong. Monday, March 30, 1996 of the country and litigants were tried either in a Belgian or in a

Postage Abroad Extra

The Right To Criticise Prussian court, according to pre

A Judge

ference. The inhabitants were! exempt from military service" in (either country and paid no custom By a judgment given last duties. This state of affairs last- month the Privy Council affirmed

until after the World War. ed once again the right of any Following the German defeat, the Moresust man to criticise in good faith territory of Neutral the findings of a judge. There with 4,190 inhabitants was united is nothing that can be account-with Belgium, and now forms part ed new in this statement of the of the province of Liege. legal position, but that lawyers may not be clear as to the law is plain since the decision was

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FRONTS

PERSONALITIES CLASH

IN ELECTIONS

PRESIDENT ZAMORA AN ASTUTE STUDENT OF STRATEGY

(By W. Horsfall Carter)

The spearhead of the Frente

Seaor the hotspur 35 the past two years, the heady parate

Spain, as in France during It comprises elements as dis social-revolutionary Miguel Maurs, Home Minister in There is one of the rewards of wine of industry; that man has worked slogans has infused a new bitter-the Provisional Government that "made" the Revolution in 1931, hard, he has become a Fellow of Dess into party political strife.

The "February 6th" of Paris and Monarchist stalwarts like the college and he is now slow- ed to bring his dog into this finds a parallel in Spain in "Octo-Senor Calvo Sotelo, once Gen. quad. Now I, instead of loang ber 6th," the day of the despair-Primo de Rivera's Minister of ing in this. quad, will return to ing sally of honest-to-goodness Finance. my room and work, so that per-Republican elements in Catalonia, haps me day I may legitimately which in 1934 cost that region its National is Senor Jose Maria Gil lead my own dog through these cherished Statute of Autonomy Robles, the elegant young profes- and marked the beginning of the sor of law, from Valladolid, leader. college gates.

of the CEDA (Confederation of the end, it is said. some fighting in Asturias.

The political atmosphere is still Autonomous Rights). His party. undergraduates persuaded the dog to attend vespers in the college soaked in the blood and tears of Accion Popular, is sustained by a chapel That was its last appear that tragic episode. So to-day vigorous and admirably organised Left and Right, traditionally Catholic Action and latterly a ance in university life.

stamped by their attitude to the Christian Socialist Labour force power of the Church, are renamed which claims 200,000 members. SYNTHETIC. BUT -----

Frente Popular and Frente Nacio Senor Gil has rendered Spain Germany is not alone in utilis-

the inestimable service of forging nal. a reversal of the finding of the

ling synthetic rubber on a large Supreme Court of Trinidad An

For purposes of the recent a Catholic Right party within the scale. A favoured visitor to Rus General Election (with a second Republic, reforming the existing editor in the West Indies had

sia last spring states that he saw ballot, where necessary, on Constitution by the legal means pointed out, in an article for which he accepted full respon- Professor L Forster is, speak-numbers of military aeroplane March 1), the Frente Popular provided in the Constitution Mil- [sibility, the discrepancy be-ing at 5.30 this evening, at the with huge tyres-ft. in radius dubbed "Marxist" by its oppon-self..

enta-was actually 3 tween two sentences passed in School of Chinese Stardies, Hong-of Soviet-made rubber. trials in which the offence was Kong University, on "The Folk The Russian rubber, too, is alliance of political groups, rang-

Alliance With Monarchists He was High Schools of Denmark.” ciaimed to have advantages overing from the mildest of Progres-

Following the precedent of the practically the same

the natural product. "And it fined because the judges held

for the sives to the Communists, who are election in November, 1933, when been received that very possibly

as cheap

the capture by Action Popular of that he was "bringing the ad- ministration of the criminal law Miss E. ́H.

McPherson, eldest Soviet to manufacture rubber in a small and unimportant body.

Its leading personalities are 114 seats made it the strongest by the judges into disfavour daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L State workshops as to import it. Senor Miguel Arzana, the man! single party in the Cortes, Senor with the public." He was, in McPherson, of University College, Under private enterprise the dis

alliance with the fact, exercising a right that be-London, was recently awarded an advantage of most synthetic sub-who piloted the Republic with Gil Robles has agreed to a cir-

But longs to every good citizen additional Fellowship of £500 for stitutes is their high cost. A case considerable success through the cumstantial

Lord Atkin ob- one year

shoals of its first two years, and Monarchists. at Yale University bylin point is the, artificial wool pro- served, "is not a cloistered vir the British Committee of Man-duced in Italy, at the moment the Senor Largo Caballero, the fiery maintains his unwavering alle- |workers" "boss," brought to trial riance to the Repablic, and there tue." Every man is entitled to agement of the Charles and Julia home of such imitations. comment upon the public acts Heary Fund.

There is even an Italian sub-some months ago as the responsi-is no reason to doubt his word.

Whether Rabies can properly be done in the seat of justice, pro-

stitute for coffee. The disadvan-ble fomenter of the Asturias re-

dubbed a Fascist only time can bellion, but acquitted:

ishow. The basis for anch vided he does so without imput- Owing to the fact that the Hall tage of this is its taste.

Flectoral: Ballast.

Jaccusation from the Left seems ing improper motives.

Although Caballero resigned This right of comment is of previously booked for the annual Your Daily Smile! comparatively modern growth Steel Coulson Billiards League

"Justice, as

News has

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stoutly

his presidency of the Socialist to rest mainly on his sympathetic It was Chief Justice Cockburn Dance, the fortnightly dance of Instead

party in December, being in fav interest in certain features of the who laid down specifically that the Royal Engineers Old

Com-liquor with money obtained by paws our of a purely "proletarian" front Corporative State and in the the exercise of public discussion

rades Association: was held in ing his wife's false teeth. Now she the rank and file of the General fact that he once attended the upon the administration of jus-

the electoral ballast of the Popu- tice is a matter of the most the Hotel Cecil on Saturday night can't even bite the hand that doesn't Union of Workers (U.G.T.) were annual Nazi Party Congress at The Radical Party of Senor In all About 200 people attended, the

lar Front. And on this occasion essential importance."

Lerroux, which has been in the Hitler derides woman soldiera, say-their rivals, the Syndicaliste, now such matters the freedom of music being supplied by the Dance

ing fighting is one thing only a manpowerful in Andalusia as well as bruised and battered by the jascendant since December, 1993, the Press to comment rests Band of HMS. Hermes.

Jean do. If Adolf ever weds we pre-

cause made comZON an Catalania, afterward, immediately solely upon the liberty that be

The R.A.O.C. Association will longs to every individual; it is hold a fancy dress dance at the

epidemic of Nazi women battalions. with them. as Lord Atkir stated last month, "no

HEAVENLY PORTALS more than the China Fleet Club Theatre to- liberty of any meraber of the night, dancing being from 9 p. public" It has rarely been to 1 am. The Dance Band of the the woman challenged, for in these days 2nd Bn. East Lancashire Regi-Heaven. most judges stand with Mr.ment will be in attendance. Tie- Justice Fitzgerald who in 1868 ket:-Single $1 and double $1.50.

for. Kowloon and! afirmed that "the judges invite Late launch discussion of their acts in the Shamshuipo at 1 am administration of the law."

Even so the right does not per- A Bridge and Mahjongg Drive} sist without challenge, and last is arranged to be held at the Hong month's interpretation of the Kong Hotel Roof Garden on Mon- legal position by the Judicial day, April 27, at 3 pm. in aid of Committee of the Privy Council St. John's Cathedral Organ Fund. is as welcome as it is authorita-The Drive is being organised by tive. There is a tendency now the Cathedral Women's Guilds. adays to attempt to restrict both Tickets ($1.50 each) including criticism and the reporting off tea, are obtainable at the Cathe- the proceedings of the courts. Įdral Hall, Helena May, Anderson Justice that was secret and im-Music Co., and Moutrie's: mune from public comment would be a justice in which no man could have faith.

Fruits Of Better Trade

The Japanese gumboat Saga, which is normally stationed Canton but has been away on exer- cises for the past few days, is dre to return to the Colony to- morrow before returning to Can- ton again.

In the House of Cornions last month Mr. Ernest Brown made

After next Wednesday the offices the welcome announcement, al ready anticipated by those com- of the General Amusement Com the pany will be located on the 3rd petent to judge, that funemployed insurance contribu-foor of Marina House, Nos. 15-19 tions from employers and work-Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong. ers are to be reduced in each Telephone No. 31-033.

case by a periny a week. The lessered charge arises from

The 8. Carthage is due here am. next that reduction in unemploy from Singapore at 9

She is carrying the ment which has enabled the Wednesday. Insurance Fund to accumulate ajoutward bound English mails. surplus. On the outlook for the

next eight fears, Sir William

Beveridge and his colleagues

FIGHT-AT MEETING

upon the Statutory Committee Pokers were among the weapons calculated that there will be alased at a Communist meeting last disposable surplus of £6,500,000 month at Rathmines, Dublin," to a year.

{eject members of the Catholic Ac- Upon the Committee itself tion movement. there was some division" of opinion as to whether the sur-he receives when out of work plus should be used to reduce There is actual danger in some contributions or to increase trades of making compensation benefits. The strong argument greater than wages, the ma- against any increase of benents jority of the Committee was is that they could not be after-strongly in favour of lowering wards reduced in a time of the contributions, so getting strain without provoking feel back to the old basis and clear- ing. Already there is a marked ing away almost the last of the difference between the sume extra charges on industry that paid to a sick man and those the crisis of 1931 impose

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untimely revelations of the The Right (Frente Nacional), straperlo (gambling) and lombela which has no qualms about call (graft scandals) and its members voted Eight or Left, according to And, of course, you've heard of

ing itself counter-revolutionary local sympathies. driver who went to She knocked one of the is a still more motley collection of

groups.

gates off going in.

(Continued On-Page 11)

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

TOWN

WORLD

FORGOT!

“NEUTRAL MORESHET, A COMMUNITY OF 3500 INHABITANTS

WAS FORGOTTEN BY THE VIERKA CONGRESS AT THE CLOSE OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

AND WAS NOT ALLOTTED TO ANY COUNTRY, IT REMAINED INDEPENDENT

FOR 104 YEARS."

IMA WOODRUM of AKRON,Cheo

TOTALLY DEAF

AGAIN BLESSED CHRISTMAS DAY

EVERY FOND GREETING HERE IN JOYOUS KEN. LINGERS MERRILY NO OTHER PEN QUAINTER RHYME SHALL THUS UNFOLD VERSE WITH XMAS, YOLE-TIDE ZEST

ALPHABETICAL YMAS GREETING

-CAN ACTUALLY SING ON HER FINGERS.

SKEUSES THE MUTE SIGN LANGUAGE. AND KEEPS PERFEẾT TIME WITH THE MUSIC, -BY MEANS OF VIBRATIONS-

KOMULZE THY EATING AND THY KOTEZE-TRAP THY CUP ET LIFE MAY SE DYERFLOWING

ZA WITH HAPPINESS

MONUMENT TO SANTA CLAUS

UN SANTA CLAUS, Indiana