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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26cm, 1923.

WORLD THEATRE

WEDNESDAY, 25th, to SATURDAY. 28th April,

at 5.15 r.. and 9.15 r.

THE GREAT FIGHT for

THE MIDDLE WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF EUROPE

TED (KID) LEWIS

2.

ROLAND TODD

also

WANDA HAWLEY

in

"HER STURDY OAK”

A Comedy of Love. Poverty, in-laws. Twins,

and a Fortune found up a Chimney.

Prices of Admission:-

9.15 p.m.-$1.20 & 580 ots. 5-15 pm-80 ats. & 60 ots. Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform. 50 cts. to Stalls

at 9.15 p.m. Performance only.

2.30 & 7.15 p.m.

Wednesday to Friday :-"THE RADIO KING." Epis. 1 & 2. Saturday and Tuesday:—.

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.

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NOTICE TO' CONSIGNEES. The Steamship "DACRE CASTLE"

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SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

NOTICE

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OUR LONDON LETTER.

HUSBAND'S 224,000 IN LAW COSTS

- AS PRICE OF FREEDOM.

STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF ANTI. QUATER DIVORCE-P¿OCEDURE.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.}

Losnos, March 22nd.

CHINESE EDUCATION AGAIN,

who took

There is something rotten in the State of Denmark, the immortal Band has it and the English law of Divores, which necessitates such an outlay, representing a large middle-class fortune.

Bot that is not all, for; of course, Mr. Russell has to pay not only his own costs but those of his wife, despite the fact that she is found guilty of misconduct. This is because of the old law still

Operative which Dakes a husband liable for his

debts. It was a good enough law at a time when a man owned everything that belonged to his There was an interesting gathering of an own name. Now all that is changed, and a

wife, and she could not hold

property in ber | informal character this week at Interna

tional House, lower Street, when Mr. husband labours under the disability of IN

weaan controls her own property, but the Bertrand Russell opened a discussion on ing chargeable with his wife a bills. It is Chinese education. He had for his text tha remission of the Toxer indemnity by the high time the law was altered, and it is not British Government and the bat etion of question up in Parliament shortly.

surprising that there is talk of bringing the utilising the money the instruction young

China

Thicke present at the lecturesAKESPEARE'S CELERATIONS, included Chinese men and discussion with part in the subsequent

It was formerly arged against the English English members of the audience. It was people that our greatest dramatist and mentioned as a fact of interest, and im poet was better known in Germany than portance that the fund to be niinistar in his own country. But nowadays we are ed for educational purposes will amount to altering that, and there is a pleasant pro- £000,000 a year for twenty-three years.

spect of the forthcoming celebrations of One point about which there seemed to be This year it is arranged to associate with Shakespeare Day being worthy of the theme. general

agreement was that a mixed Comit the tercentenary mittee of English and Chinese should be famous First Flry of the publication of the formed, and that this body should appoint a extend over several days, and a particularly proceedings as to joint Commission to inquire into the educ tional needs of China. Future action should greable feature is a plan for an observance be determined by the report of work, wha The lend given by Lonion in this direction in the whole of the London schools, în cun- with which prizes will be given. sion, Any delay in getting to deprecated; there has already been too much will, it is hoped, be followed now and in dilly-dally, and an effort is to be under futusu yours by authorities in different parts taken to sixed up the Government author of the country. As a nation we are not, ties directly responsible for the allocation of twardly at all events, sufliciently ap the money.

preciative of Shakespeare. SOCIALISTS AND ROYALTY.

Many years ago Mr. Georgs Beonard Shaw, himself a High Priest of Socialism, said that "Socialism would

The value of post-graduate research work was i hut for the Socialisteet on much better

Various proposals were made for callowing esisting schools and colleges in China and for extablishing now ones. The excellent work of the Hongkong University under British auspices was freely acknowledged duly emphasised and mention was made of the claims of Chinese women to a liberal education. Another suggestion was that graduates from Universities in this country should be sent to study Chinese civilisation In Chida, and this was cordially received by many of the Chinese speakers at the meeting. It was also urged that a portion of the fund should be capitalised, so as to forin permanent endowments.

BROWNING AND CHINESE.

s

Every year conferm's the truth of the epigram. Within the week the Clydesdale Labour MPs, who are all copiously tarred with the Socialist brash, and a few of them with a streak or so of Commanism in addition, have

protested against Mr. Ramsay MacDonald accepting the honour of lining at Buckingham Palace with the King. In doing so, however, they have done the Party a serious dis-service by identifying it with a fepublicanian which has been out of date in this country for about 70 years.

Recently several books have appeared of In the course of the last Century there was more than usual interest about contem-a Radical reaction, of which Sir Charles porary men and events, or of both, Dilke, Mr. Labouzhere, and Lord Morley dating back only a very few years. One then plin Mr. Joho Morley) were prominent

the best in this

is Mr.mcrabers. They professed Republican views NONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEIL. Coulson Kernahan's It 1 † but they recognised that, whatever might be

full of good stories. One which has said usually been ascribed to Gilbert of Gilbertid as a matter of theory, the system was and Sullivan fame, should really be credit uncongenial alike to the sentiments and the

commented on the curious fact that he had ed to Comyns Carr. Sir Herbert Beerbohm they wisely and quite cefinitely abandoned Troe had seen himself on the screen, and it soen himself act, whereupon Carr replied, "Saw yourself net! I congratulate you, for by the living God you are the only wul in the world who ever did."

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All

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Not so the Glasgow won, the contingent of Labourites whose self-sufficiency is only qualled by their blatant ignorance, their completo lack of political sense, and their disloyalty to their own elected leader in the Readers of Browning will smile at a story House of Commons. It is only a few

one fmternity outed from poet's writings. A friend of Browning his seat in Parliament that Mr. Ramsay arrived late at a meeting of what he let MacDonald did not know what he was talk- level was the Browning Society. Someone ing shout. When you have people of this was reading, und ni

line or so this class to deal with, stridently assertive and aimirer murmured "Exquisite." Anked

not ill-mannered, it is perhaps too much to ex to interrupt, he said that surely a visitor to pect that they would appreciate the Ro the Browning Society could express admira recognition of Labour's claim to be tion of the Master's work. Thereupon he

His Majesty's Opposi was informed that the Browning Society's as our Parliamentary forms cxpress it meeting was on the opposite side of the street, The attitule to which I have referred is and that the lines he had been appanding just the kind of thing that gets the widest were passages from one of the Gospels trans possible publicity, and it is well to make it lated into Ubinesa!

clear, that bulk of the Labour Party have no use for it. The more sober Scottish have declined to associate

win

THE CURE-ALL

to

hot Pusition." H

There is satisfaction in political circles that the question of the abolition of the Capitalist system has been definitely raised in the House of Commons. It clears the atmosphere in two respects. On the one hand it is plain that Labour cannot have it both ways That is, the proposed Capital

rules out Nationalisation, and, co verocis, Nationalisation rules out the Capital Levy. On the other hand, the discussion on Mr. Philip Snowden's motion has done reni service by disclosing the fact that that to take orders from the so-called “in- tellectuals" has now been revealed openly in its true light as a Socialist Party,

JONSIGNEES of Carge by the above-named HONGKONG CIGAR STORE, LTD, section of the Labour Party which is content

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Optional Goode will be landed here unless instructions have been given to the contrary, € hours before arrival of the EteɛmOT.

Goods not cleared within 8 days, including date of arrival will be subject to rant.

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Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees, Bxd the Company's surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & DOUGLAS at 10 am, on Mondays and Thursdays.

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ADVERTISEMENTS

OST OR STRAYED in PEAK DISTRICT,

FOX TERRIER 1987 FZAK PETER." Reward, Kindly phone Peak 00: 071

Labour MP. The opinions of the Clyde.in

themselves

this matter. The English Labour men are furious with t the extremists. They recognise that if the Labour Party, or any considerable section of it, went to the polls at the next General Election with Republicanism inscribed on its banners its fate is sealed.- H.B.

of his

XOT GUILTY.

WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT.

Paris advices state that 45 years ago a Mr. Snowden's proposals came before the chemist named Duval was sentenced to im- House in the form of a resolution stating prisonment for life on a charge of poisoning that legislative effort should be directed to his wife with arsenic.. He served 24 years the gradual supersession of the Capitalist ystem by an industrial and social order he always proce, and was then liberated, but

proclaimed his innocence, based on the public ownership and de- Prominent scientists, owing to the advance mocratic control of the instruments of pro. of knowledge, secured Duvala pardon in 1902 duction and distribution." Bat the question on the ground that the quantity of was too big to be debated in the 2 hours aracnie found in the woman's body could Now the allotted to this motion by a private Member, have got there accidentally. and the Government, accordingly agreed to Academy of Medicine states that a millo give a day after Easter to the subject,

grstome of arsenic in the human body Ono or two points of exceptional interest harmless, and as less than this amount was arise out of the debut.

This is the first found in the body of Duval's wife, the time that the House of Commons has Minister of Justice has ordered engaged in the discussion of matter which inquiry to see if the verdict can be quished.

academic in its nature.

The resolution was nothing more-it

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could not be anything more-than the ex-

new

pression of a pious opinion on Socialism, HONGKONG SHARE MARKET. Then there is the spectacia of an occupant

of the Front-Opposition Bench moving to abolish the

present system of Society for theoretical And it is something puroly:

what

after all,

on behalf of which asserts that it can

can form an akternative Government.

Hitherto the Labour Party has been careful not to call itself a Socialist Party, but this manoeuvre Will no longer avail the wirepullers, We is a distinct gain in the public interest.

THE RUSSELL DIVORCE CASI. --

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM"

It is a curious commentary on modern TO LET KOWLOON, London journalista that leading Metropolitan having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are

Charmingly Furnished, Two Room informed that all Goods are being landed at their APARTMENT, Kitchen, Bath-room, Servants dailies should have thought it worth while to devote two or three columns every day for risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Susters. All Modern Conveniences. Apply eleven days to the report of the Russell Godowas of Holt's Wharf, whanss deliveryD. COWEN, la, Abroad Building-0 to 10

divorce caso. Apart from the fact that there [70

was a child whose legitimacy was a question of importance to the Russell family as the FURNISHED Five Room HOUSE TO possible heir to peerage, there was nothing ing undelivered after 20th April 1923, will LET on THE PEAK for 8 Weeks from in the story before the Court to micrit so be subject to rent.

May 4th--Close Tram-Rent Moderate. Apply much attention. It was a rather drab talo All Claims against the Steamer must be pro-X, cle Daily Press Office.

189 of weak kind of husband and a pleasure- sented to the Undersigned on or before 7th

loving wife who made no pretence of taking May, 1923, or they will not be recognized.

her marriage vows seriously.

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It will be recalled that at the first trial the jury failed to agree, and the expenses wore then stated to have amounted to £10,000. The second bearing, just con- clared with a verdict adjudging the wife gailty of misconduct with a man unknown, WANTED. One Large ROOM or Two has cost between £12,000 and £14,000. Emall preferably on Ground or Altogether, a sum in the neighbourhood of First Floor, in Contra of City, required as £24,000 has been expended by the injured Offices about June-Write "Daily Press. husband in order to obtain his freedom.

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