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LESSONS. OF THE BILLING TRIAL

WILL THE RESULTS BE WORTH

* ITS SHAME!

[RY AUSTIN BARUISON, EDITOR OF THE

ENGLISH REVIEW."]

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Not since the days of Crippen has any trial so excited the public, as that which came to an end last week with a verdict of "Not guilty."

TRIO OF EMPIRE RULERS. PEN PICTURE OF THREE PRIME MINISTERS.

Once upon a time to say a good word for the Colonies or the men who ruled. them was to be stigmatised in a gasbag" and a Jingo To-day, even among the pessimists and Little Eaglanders, there is a grudging admission that the Overseas Ministers know their job. The Premiers of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, whatever else they may suffer from, cancut be considered nonentities. In Sir Robert Borden, Mr. W. M. Hughes, and Mr.

It began and ended in senation, and the more irrelevant the issues and in nuendos the more" outrageous the case. F. Massey the great imperial vision

grew, until it really seemed to be gigantie, parody both of law and of man

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From a farce it became a great lawinit from the lawsuit a farro. The specific libel turned into a

Black Book, under the spell of which the Court resembled the Mad-Hatter's tea-party.

of men like Chamberlain and Rhodes i builders and spokesinen. justified. They are the Empire's fitting

These men are not merely part of our WOMEN WAR WORKERS history but actual creators of it. They have made imperini unity in action as solid and insting a thing as the Abbey or St. Paul's. They have done great things, each in different fashion, for they are strongly differentiated as men..

Mr. Hughes, the topor of the trio, is its Let me say at once that the whole busi-night-weight-but only physically. ness is symptomatic.

Of war of the temper produced by war of rivalt: of the coming purge which is going to make a great and new England.

In any other country but ours this trial would have been

He

at

This is a woman's war as Ia the well as a man's. hospitala the front, tending the sick amid the mer of guns, wotten have taken their place as, soldiers

of the Empire. You, ladies of Hongkong, have done well sofar as it has lain ia your power. This is another trumpet, call to you. Buy War Band Tickets, and rersuade your husbands and friends to buy them.

scarcely turns the scale at 7st, and is never likely to put on flesh, as he suffers from the twin demons of dyspepsia and insomnia. In spite of these troubles and his affliction of deafness, he has great Its gaiety of heart. Small and he

extremely smare in his dres, and might almost be dubbed a dandy. Very ready, very witty, very eloquent, he can move a Hongkong St. Andrew's Society audience as he likes. He has the faculty of inspiring complete devotion in his followers and of provoking the uttermest hatred in his opponents. Temperament- ally he has an extraordinary affinity with his fellow-Welshmua, Lloyd George; and they are very close romrades.

le in our cult of hypocrisy, with its inevitable reactions which in recent years have sought swap (1) in a ludicions

of stage-worship Salome," () in an over-esthetic estimate of Oscar Wilde, as the result partly of his tragedy.

I have seen the play. Salome." in France, Germany and England. It is not in any sense a great play, and certainty js is not half so suggestive as the Salomic dances we have constantly had siner, or anything like a sensational as the Rus- sian alle which all London went minel about. Personally I and all Salomie dances artificial and tiresome.

«MIS DAUGHTER.

Outside politics, the main interest of Mr. Hughes life is his little daughter Helen. He plays golf as a casual recrea- The Wilde calt started in Germany. tion, but is far from regarding it as u where it literally became an obsession. religion. If you ask him what his bandi-

is, he treats the query as a joke.

(I have written about this in my book. I acute and almost laughable: con.

The Kaiser's War.") The Germans

went

Salome Sadie mad in the decatle before the war, with Wilde h What they called "psychological studies" became the fashion, and quite respectable bourgeois filies used to form parties to visit Berlin's homesexual cafe and

resorts.

trast to Mr. Hughes is the Premier of New Zealand, Mr. William Ferguson Massey, the basso of Empire."

Mr Massey rides a good 14st., and looks like a cherry-checked fox-hunting squire. In manner he is bluff and hearty, but there are deep reserves of astucity behind his bonhomie. Mr. Massey is an Ulsterman from near Londonderry, though he is He is E generally taken for a Scot.

When he strong, convincing speaker. visited Loddon in 1915 he delivered an imperial message whose echo is ringing stili and whose promise has been fulfilled to the letter:-"All we have and all we are are yours, is the message of the Dominion to the Empire.

The young Weininger, the morbid play wright Wedekind, the scientific sex-die tionary of Kraft-Ehhing-these were the popular founts of inspiration, and out of the orgy there arose, nude schools of even dancing, and even nude social ings all part of the Germanic megalo, mania, not a little affected by the Russian sex movement across the border, as shown in the works of Achibatcheff.

The Wilde boom is largely the re action against an age of cant and hypo-its picturesque baritone Sir Robert crisy it bas little to do with art. It is hight time we stopped raking up Wilde and his depravities, and, because of his depravities, pretending that he can great writer which he was not.

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The third member of the trio of Empire: Borden, is a man of magnificent appear- aase and distinction.crowned with way- ing grey hair, fast turning white. Like his dress. was บ Mr. Hughes, he is very particular about He is faithful to that now almost extinct garment, the frock-coat. He has a rich Canadian voice, capable of many shades and inflections.

be too emphatically stated. The real sensation of the tria! was it conduct, which, in all likelihood, secured the verdiet. From the outset, Mr. Justice

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Darling lost control. Procedure was rushed," and the Court was turned into Here the trial was a bear-garden. symptomatic Men have long revolted at Mr. Justice Darling's flippancies and con: ceits, so that in the exploitation of the

Mr. licence. Judge's

Billing's methods were undeniably popular. Mr. Justice Darling was neither consistent nor conciliatory, and the whole case get out of hand. It became a wrangle of per- sonality and irrelevancy, and Mr. Billing, having

"the law, played reck- ***barraged lessly to sensation.

It is a peculiar English characteristic

Sir Robert emulates England's Prime Minister in giving political breakfasts, but he has enlarged on the idea, and gives political funcheons and dinners also. He in constant attendant at meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet and of the Im- perial Conference, and has every minute of bis day rigidly scheduled out.-Daily! Express."

WIATHER. REPORT.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at:30 am to-day, 0.17 inch Total ince January 1st, 79.99 inches, against az average of 6989 izohen

7 he forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day in as follows ----

DISTRICT

September 9th, as 11.40.-No returns from Japan and Vladivostock. Pressure changes to like the man who "bents the lawyer,surywbare small; the typhoon probably afid in out-Heroding the Judge Mr. Bill remains tour Naha, but owing to the lack of ing unquestionably had a popular plat- Japanese returns, this lacks confirmation. form. The verdict was doubtless based on Mr. Billing's methods and audacity. against the bias of lawyers, who lost their terapers, rather than on the evidence of theBlack Book," as to which. surely, the last word has not been epoken.

Here we have to deal again with an We love tales English characteristic. about the hidden hand "remember Marconi-just as we love plays about gentlemen burglars, or stories about the Hongkong to Gap Brek Princess who married the butler. It is perhaps, a legacy of the old witchcraft Anyhow, there it is. Ghosts, spiritism, haunted houses, the "bidden influence. Formosa Channel

dress. detective yarns. the thief in evening the girl who took the wrong turning all that sort of thing tickles and pickles" us, and so the notion of a German Black Book" at once catches the fancy.

"

Again, we are upon symptomatic ground. We are living in a period of flux and upheaval, and the public is thinking. There are things it cannot understand. There are things it means to alter and remove. So the mass of inarticulate thought, the suggestion of a Black Book" acts as an irritant. It sees the law outwitted. Not without satisfaction. it watches Mr. Justice Darling literally hoisted by his own petards. And it says. By Jove There is something behind this."

:. THE WORSHIP OF SENSATION.

The "hidden hand!" Well, this kind

of belief has almost become an accepted political weapon. Mr. Billing has carried

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Therefore it will do good. If it buries matter very seriously.

Knowing European conditions inti- the Wilde controversy for ever, and ends mately. I assert confidently that the trial the silly" Salome" cult; if only it serves will not be taken seriously abroad. What to warn people against decadence in what will astonish Europe is the fuss we have ever shape, and public irresponsibility,

the trial will have been worth its shame. made about it.

word more. Sttapicion is the The thing has become a big sensationslow of secrecy, its child is revolt. Too because of our worship of the sensation, as to the danger of which in war I have long in this war we have lived in blinkers. written again and again. On the whole I say deliberately, this scandalous case is, I regard it as salutary, because it must in this sense, symptomatic. have shown many people one of the great Weaknesses in our public life-the irre

Not of the Black Book-all which

sponsibility of sensation, dus very: largely and the business to me seems hyperbole :

to our lack of values and standards.

If the sanction is sensation, the value will be sensation; that is all.

It is the country which tolerates this sanction that needs the physician.

(Continued at foot of nezt Column.)

bysteria, though very likely thera exists a German Intelligence book of dossiers of our public men-but of that great new England which will be created out of the war, in which purge and move- ment of regrowth this semi-ridiculous, nauseous extravaganta is-- at "· once" symptom and beginning..

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