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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1935

DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNISM

RIVAL CLAIMS UNDER

EXAMINATION

BUS DRIVER FINED

Careless Driving Near Government Hotise

For driving bus No. 618, in Upper Albert Road near the main entrance to Government House on July 11 without due care •and | caution, Pong Ping-Lam, the

THE ISSUE OF PERSONAL FREEDOM driver, was this morning fined $20

Sir,

To The Editor "China Mail"]

by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy this morning.

Acting Inspector Saunders said The peculiar difficulty uses, it; keep the tradition that about 5 p.m. on the day in of deciding whether or not the alive, and then when these question the defendant's bus was law should be invoked to sup- Communists have proved the travelling in an easterly direction press Communism

in England sense of a few of the tenets you and when near Government Hanse leads you to sheer off once despise, they will remember his speed was about 20 miles an more, and you will not commit your good mature and still let hour. yourself to a reply to the let-you groase about their devilries coming out of the main gate and ter which you so kindly publish- and twitter of their iniquities. had to swerve and stop suddenly ed in your issue of last Satur- day week. Instead you give a

M.S.

The Governor's car was

at the entrance.

The guards had been turned out and the driver caution

lengthy comparison between the NEXT ASSEMBLY should have used more

English and Russian systems, } concluding that you vastly pre- fer the former.

I shall answer the question | for you, but first I must pro- voke you with a comment on

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Local

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British Delegation Named

when approaching the gate. No accident occurred

as the bus swerved to the right and the other car stopped Defendant had a good record.

GOVERNMENT FORCE

ANNIHILATED ··

(Continued from Page 1)

bloodiness of Russia's Revolu

London, To-day. tion and our own peaceful pro-

At Commons question-time yes- gress. Without laying unduejterday the Foreign Secretary, Mr. stress on the suppression by Anthony Eden, announced the which Tsarism paved the way United Kingdom delegation to the for its own fall (recall serfdom next League assembly as follows: abolished in the mid-19th cen-The Foreign Secretary, Mr. An-1

Barcelona: The President of tury; recall Siberian exile for thony Eden; the Lord Privy Seal, the Catalan Government, Senor progressive nobles and other Lord Halifax: the Dominions Luis Companys, has requested the agitators): disregarding this, ISecretary, Mr. Malcolm Mac-Government supporters in a radio lask you to consider the sweat-Donald, assisted by the Financial message to refrain from excesses [ed.conditions of labour in Bri-Secretary to Treasury, Mr. W. S. which would tend to "discredit the tish factories during the initial Morrison;

Parliamentary revolution." Senor Companys 'also stages of our own change from Secretary to the Ministry of issued a waming against persons ancient to modern methods of Health, M

Shakespeare; who mingled with Left-wing! production: to consider the the Under-Secretary for Foreign Sroups in order to stir up discon-}| blood spilt on unfenced machin Affairs, Lord Cranborne; Sir Wil- tent in the ranks. ery, the bones twisted in early liam Malkin of the Foreign Office; infancy toiling when their pos Miss Marjorie Graves. M.P.; and sessors should have slept and Lord Astor.-British Wireless Ser- played and learnt, the waste of vice. human life because the

ma-

the

PLANES FROM FRANCE Madrid: According to press re- ports, 50 aeroplanes have arrived jat Barcelona from France.

One

chine-owners could not think FOREIGN OFFICE ESTIMATES Spanish news agency states that

ahead Free enterprise is a no-i ble conception; but in the first; frolic of its unfettered

exer-

cise, at the time when new dis- coveries and

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these are the first of 300 planes ordered from the French aircraft | jindustry. It is further declared) The coincidence of His Majesty's that 20 aircraft landed in Madrid- a new scientific and the Prime Minister's changes technique were breaking down of plans, together with Mr. Eden's GERMAN PRECAUTIONS old methods and a mediaeval emphasis on the complexity of the Berlin: To reinforce the Ger- guild system, at the time, in international situation, has led to man battleships Deutschland and} short, of our own great Revolu-speculation in Parliamentary cir-Admiral von Scheer, which were tion in Industry, it led to ades. There is a general disposi-sent to Spain in order to stand by cruel exploitation of the massion to connect the change in Mr. and protect foreigners in danger, of men whose death-roll

must Baldwin's plans with the serious the Craiser Koeln and a fotilla of surely exceed the wildest estim-tone of Mr. Eder's speech, parti-three torpedo-boats were ordered ate of those crushed by the ad-cularly his statement that he has to the Spanish coast yesterday. vance of the Russian revolu-not exhausted the preoccupations tion. Nor did it merely kill; it of the Government deformed, maimed, starved and humiliated its victims.

GERMAN PROTEST

Berlin: The German Embassy in be Madrid lodged a strong protest

The opinion is generally ex- This, pressed that no risks, will

Sir, is no rhetoric; it is proved taken in any direction for the next with the Government yesterday

to the hilt in the Factory Ins few months-Reuter,

pectors' reports of the time and

in contemporary observations.

Past history? My point is that

our Revolution was bloodier

than the Russians'; and if you

WEATHER REPORT

Pressure remains highest over the south-east of

against the plundering and de- struction of the German Labour Front headquarters and the Ger iman school in Barcelona, demand- ing full damages from the Spanish.

•Government.

The Spanish For-

count the millions dead in capi-the Pacific to talist wars for territories, mar- Japan. A trough of relatively eign Secretary expressed regret kets and materials, there is no low pressure extends from Tong and promised that the Spanish comparison at all Past his king across the China Sea and the power to prevent such occurrences Government wil do all in its tory? One has heard grim re- Philippines to Quam; a typhoon in the future. porte of conditions in the mills may be developing about 600 miles

and factories of Shanghai and east-south-east of Manila. East

Berlin: The sum of 50,000

the lower Yangtze - a 24-hour winds, moderate; fair generally, marks, as emergency relief for day in the factory for children some local showers, was the fore-German refugees from Spain, has! with a minimum of leisure to cast for to-day, as issued by the been granted by Chancellor Hitler. drop asleep where they sit or Royal Observatory this morning. Trans-Ocean Service.

take their petty nourishment

| (Of course the Chinese are like

that só were the English| working-classes in the spacious

days of George IV.) Past his WIMBLEDON

WIMBLEDON TITLISTS

tory? No, Sir; eternally pre-

sent, wherever profits are the

avowed, motive of individuals.

and depend for their production

DEFEATED

on the helplessness of the Crawford And Quist Show

mass of workers.

But my question, which I must answer myself. Why is it that England is, we believe, no longer in the state of dire op- pression that we have just re- minded you her working-classes

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went through? Partly the im-doubles encounter in the Chal- their worst in the third set,' when proved conditions resulted from lenge Round of the Davis Cup they led 3-0 2nd a series of the vast increase of wealth at Wimbledon, Australia have errors gave Crawford and Quist which her new methods and the still a fighting chance of win-the set. In the fourth set they fact that she was the first to ning the famous trophy, from again led by 4 games to 1, but the adopt them made possible; part-Great Britain, Jack Crawford Australians' dogged perserverence ty emigration eased the labour and Adrian Quist, the 1935 was rewarded and they captured market and raised the barter-Wimbledon doubles champions, Tuckey's service game for the first value of man's work; very large-beating the present. Wimbledon time to lead 6-5.

They broke

ly Trade Union organisation; holders, G. P. Hughes and C. B. through his service a second time but of outstanding importance D. Tucker, after a grim strng-with the scores at 8-all and won our freedom of speech, which gle by 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, 10-8. the set and match at 10-8. enabled reformers of: the Shaftesbury type and Socialists The Australians combined bril-

Gt Britain now leads by 2 throughout the 19th century to"

liantly and forced the British pair matches to 1, having won the two raise their voices and insist on to play a baseline game. The win-singles encounters on Saturday. factory sets, shorter hours and hers were deadly overhead and Earlier scores were the treatment of men as men:smashed and lobbied very successCrawford 6, 6, 6el, 61.

H.-W. Austin (Britain) beat J. H. It was this freedom of speech fully.

F. J. Perry (Britain) beat A. K

BRUNETTE

by Day

BLONDE by Night

which roused the country's con- Hughes and Tuckey were lack Quist 6-1, 4-6, 7-8, 62 selence and made her look to ling in cohesion until the second To-day Ferry should beat Craw Printed and Pablabed the source of her dividends.set, when they displayed glimpses ford and Austin is-favoured to

You do right to pin your of their best forn. Tuckey was beat Quist to give Britain a 4-11 faith, on this freedom; let it almost impasmble at the net in win and the trophy for the fourth stay even when Communisma this stanza

year in succession.

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