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PARTISAN FRENZY IN PARLIAMENT

WHEN COMMONS CONDUCT A "TRIAL"

UNHAPPY INSTANCES FROM PAST

HISTORY OF CHAMBER

(By J. B. Firth)

the Editor, and be accompanied by Judge W. D. Gilbert of Atchison,

A new way of hunting cats out the Writer's Name and Address Kansas, successfully passed his of back gardens has been discover- not necessary for insertion, but bar examination before a college ed, but the inventor was fined £3 of Supreme Court Justices. - Chief and 5/- costs for cruelty. He used ļas a guarantee of good faith.

Justice Doster of Topeks plied the an electric current of 5,000 volts. child with profound and perplex-The contraption was connected with ing questions on every phase of a transformer, which increased the fundamental law, decisions and voltage from the electric meter to technique of law practice, which 5,000 volts. This occurred ati the lad answered with astonishing Wolverhampton when John Atkins

The child wonder, said he did it because the cats had bate in Parliament on the Budget if they got no satisfaction from correctness. who said that he had been a become a pest.

Tribunal Report the Government the Government. It would have

uld not Lawyer from the age of 5, was.

refuse, though the been framed, I suppose, on the granted a certificate of admission-OH YEAH

rime Minister's reluctance was pattern of the "Reichstag Fire to the har, which admission con-|

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H.K. AQUARIUM SOCIETY

Extra Meeting Next Wednesday

TALK ON TREATMENT OF GOLDFISH

*

THEN the Socialist Opposition, chiefs were determined to hold a

WHEY rece to hold a

Marconi Report

It is, perhaps something of an exaggeration to speak of the Constitution Hill incident following the Brigade of Guards parade as an attempted assas sination of « His Majesty the King. We lack details at this. distance, but it seems to be established that the person responsible made no attempt to fire a shot, although he was in One possession of a revolver. report, in fact, says that al- though four of the five cham- bers were charged with live! cartridges, the chamber in immediate apposition to the

of the legal finding? Mr. Thomas's plete absence of"judicial impartial- barrel was empty. "Attempt-

office is already filled by another. lity throughout the entire proceed- It was arranged at the last therefore, ed assassination,"

For his most grievous and in-lings, will be thankful that that seems to us to overstate the monthly meeting of the Hong

Kong Aquarium Society to hold A lady who was looking at dresses excusable lapse be still suffers: precedent was deliberately rejected an extra meeting on Wednesday found one with lines that pleased her, the self-inflicted wound is fresh. in this case. Never again, I hope, doubtful about the and will take long to heal. Better, will a Parliamentary scandal-if Not that we, in company next, at 8.30 pm at

a central bat she was

surely, have left it at that. The that be the correct termo-be sub- with every one of his millions meeting place, as it was, thought "I wonder if it will clash with this fault was his alone. There is no mitted for enquiry to any but a of subjects, are not immensely that the present meeting place at coat?" she said to the assistant relieved that whatever threat the University may be too far "Absolutely, madam," the girl said. there was to the safety of His from the Central district. The "I'm sure it will clach beautifully Majesty was frustrated. The Society have been fortunate in ob- King is hugely popular with taining the use of Miss Daisy all classes of his subjects per-O'Keefe's Studio on the 3rd floor Lawyer (impatiently): "Don't you sonally; he has shown himself of the Bank of East Asia Build-think you're straining a point in to be a worthy follower in his ing, 10 Des Voeur Road Central, your explanations?"

Defendant: distinguished for this next meeting, and all

I think Mr. Baldwin was right group of reckless busybodies. Hap "Perhaps," said the Judge, counsel for the defence would like it is impossible to see what profit pily, the need did not arise, and to explain the meaning of the excould emerge though Mr. Attlee we have had

a dignified, open and his friends-in the name of judicial enquiry, conducted with pression, "Sez you","

public virtue-should point the perfect fairness to all concerned Counsel rose. "My Lad," be moral, adorn the tale, and exult, and presenting a clear and

over (said, “It would appear that it is more or less decorously,

avincing conclusion. ja slang expression of American fallen foe whose rough Sarcasmas

origin which has gained regrettable and bludgeonings have often left;

Those who remember the Mar- leurrency in the language of the them crestfallen and sore. people through the agency of the

coni case of 20-odd years ago and Such an opportunity to moralise, the long campaign of whispering cinema. It is, I am given to unlike the gravedigger, over Poor and innuendoes which preceded the derstand, employed to indicate 2

Yorick and to wrap themselves it appointment of the Select Com- state of dubiety as to the credibil- the spotless folds of their own in-mittee, and the mistiness of the ity or veracity of a statement made tegrity, was not to be missed. Yet Report and the partisanship-of by a speaker."..

what weight will their commen-{the debate. and the general disgust "Oh yeah!" observed the Jadgetaries add to the calm impartiality on sober refection with the com

case.

late father's

Your Daily Smile!

colour.

Necessary

footsteps in all matters of members are earnestly requested often have to strain things to make

them clear.”

Song Birds

of

suggestion

any particeps Judicial Tribunal. criminis in the Government. Their

For there is no more ugly sight honour, and the honour of British than partisanship hot on the trail. officialdom, are not impugned by An enemy to hunt, to run to earth, the lapse of one.

to dig out and then perhaps to tear to pieces how exciting, but Value Of A Verdict

also how revolting! Every coun- If the investigation had beeny has its classic examples. We *Possibly. but you

Select Committee have ours, and they are nothing committed to a of the House a debate would have to be proud of State and social concern to be present

been inevitable. But the verdict Consider the scene in the old That any harm should come to

in this case is the verdict, in all House of Commons on the night him, especially from one of his The subject at the meeting will

when Speaker Abbott gave his own subjects, would be albe "The Origin, History and Ont-i

Guest: "Only once in history has essentials, of a court of law. tragedy of the first water; and ward Characteristics of the Gold-the personality of a great sing stands condemned by all experience. Dundas, Lord Melville, the Trea- Enquiry by Select Committee casting vote for the guilt of Harry even with this apparent fish," by Mr. R. A. Pereira. The inspired a great chef in the naming evidence to the contrary, we talk will be fully illustrated and of a masterpiece when we got the Such Committees can never divest surer of the Navy, who for years themselves of partiality. Either had been Pitt's closest friend. The refuse to believe that he stands interesting varieties of Chinese Peche Melba."

Flappers "Oh, but I'm sure you're they produce a more or less white |ċivision, after Wilberforce had in any real danger of this kind. and Japanese godfish will be wrong there.

What about the cyster washing report, or they range swayed 40 votes - it was said — Every community contains bot-view. Mr. Pereira will also bring Patti?”

themselves "for" or "against" in from one side to the other, showed heads or people with real or along young goldfish for free dis-

Istrict accordance with their party (a tie of 218 each way, and all eyes imaginary grievances to whom tibution to members, and intend-

ties, or, when public opinion is in a House breathless with pas- the murder of a King would ing members, who may wish to

A lady had just returned from really excited, and must have 4sionate excitement were turned on suggest itself as a desirable experiment in keeping goldfish. jabroad.

scapegoat, they make the wretched the Speaker, who sit white 23 1 means of achieving whatever it

Members are requested to note friend

"Did you go to Rome?" asked

victim atone *r their own follies sheet without uttering a word for' is they want to achieve; but

the space of ten minutes, which There was at one moment a hot-seemed an eternity.

that the Socialist (Continued On Page 10)

On

She Was Just a· Sightseer

political assassination is utter-that the Society has started a li- "I really don't know, my dear," re as well as for is sins.

ly alien to the sentiments of brary, and books may be taken out plied the traveller.

“You see, my

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley

the race as a whole, and one is on application to the Hon. Librar-husband always bought the tickets." rid rumour able fortunately to count pre-Jian, Lt. Col. E. S. Doughty, D.S.O., vious such attempts in the re-Canadian Government Immigra- cent history of the country on tion Commissioner, First Floor,! the fingers of one hand. There China Building- has not been the slightest hint) of any such thing since the: madman's attempt on the life of Queen Victoria 2 great many years ago, so far as the British Royal family is cerned.

CON-

VETERAN SOCIALIST · ́

Tom Mann, the 80-year-old So- cialist leader, arrived at Liver- Canada in the liner In the present case Mc-pool from Mahon voluhly insists that he Duchess of Atholl last month, had no intention of harming or having recovered from an illness injuring the King, and, on the contracted at Toronto.

face of it, there is scope for

acceptance of his protestations.

But when all that is said, it still

remains to be remarked that diligently pursued in the mat-! the personal safety of the ter of the German "demands” monarch must be maintained for the return of her colonies. at all costs. With his demo- The agitation started sotto voce cratic leanings King Edward is some years ago. Since then it often placed in a position where has been pursued with an ever- he is at the mercy of anyone increasing insistence upon the wishing to do him harm and it "rights" of the case, as oppos- is clearly undesirable, for the ed to the request for privileges good of the country as a whole, In the early stages of the car- that he should be subjected to raign it was tactfully suggest more of these risks than areed that something might be absolutely necessary.

Mean-done to restore the lost colonies while we can congratulate the as an act of grace; latterly the Monarch on

his escape and restoration has been talked of express the fervent wish that as if it were a sacred charge he will never again be sub-which no self-respecting nation jected to a trial of this sort. could afford to ignore, from

Those Colonial

Aspirations

motives of amour propre alone. It will be interesting to see just how far this process is carried before Herr Hitler flushed in the access of his To a student of human military strength, goes the nature there is rich material whole hog and presents the for cynical enjoyment in the world with a fait accompli. spectacle of the British Empire Fer that is undoubtedly where being talked into the surrender the campaign is leading him to. of its colonial rights. What- And tunless the spineless atti- ever the Germans may lack in tude of the British Govern- other diplomatic respects they ment is radically altered it is are keen psychologists, and they likely to be accomplished soon. know perfectly well that if you rather than late. It will be but say something often and loudly a melancholy satisfaction for enough you will eventually con-us to be able to say “We told vince the most dunderheaded you so when the moment opponent to your way of think-arrives; but say it we certainly ing. This technique' is being, will,

Byron Gilbert

Atchison, Karisas

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