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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES, (THROUGE KEETER'S AGENCY.] IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

PERENCE QUESTION

"DAILY MAIL's

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,

LORD

OCTOBER 12mm, 1923:

ADDRESS

TUS KOOSK OF LORDA.

COURT MARTIAL.

The next development, historically, which requires station is congerand YOUNG SOLDIER FOUND GUILTY

OF DESERTING. with the position of the House of Lords. The constitutional powers of that body Private R. G-Baker, of the King's- were, it asserted to the full compass of

Regiment, was yesterday court martiallęd their theoretical scope, untenable and mea

Guilty of deserting his

NEGOTIATIONS IN THE RUHR INPUDENT ROBBERS. THE BRITISH AND AMERICAŃ

CONSTITUTIONS. BERLEY DELEGATES NOT TO "ADDING INSULT TO INJURY. -

PARTICIPATE

BIRKENHEAD'S Armed robberies are nowadays very

HÅR ASSOCIATION. -PARIS-October 10th........... common-events in Hongkong. Generally.

Lord Birkenhead delivered an gldress on „The German, chargé d'Affaires called the robbers are keen on making lightn

ing raids and getting away with their August goth to the American Bar Associa. BRITISH PRESS OPINION ON PRE- Jon M. Poincare. It is understood the latter haul is quickly as possible, but such was tion at Hinneapolis on The Developmelinval. And yet wisely stawarded in and found

refused the request by the German Gov-not the case on Wednesday night when ment of the British Constitution in the country so conservative, they could have Regiment. He was also charged with SENSATIONAL BASITORIAL Jernment to participate in negotiations for armet robbers forced an entrance into Last Fifty Years." He said: Your pop-

been mado available, for many generations: losing by neglect part of his equipment LONDON, fetober Huh-resumption of work in the Rohr by the printer's and stationer's shop institutions is expressed and defined in doen. For the English polities mind had no overcoat. To this second charge

-particular prejudice against the House of Baker pleaded “Guilty." sensational appointment of a mixed Franco Belaian: Intlywood Read They-completed their

ments which can be promoned upon By Lords or against the system, which many According to Baker's own story, he had The Daily Muth,, in

nefarious business in quite a leisurely Supreme Court. In this sense your Amerients find ifficult to understand. been to Canton and returned from thera The French chim

Fashion, entering the premises at 9 fulges are the masters of your exécutive. editorial, strongly condemns, any, idea, of Gefian commission.

If they had, the English Monarchy could on September 3rd. His clothing at the Some of the imposing food antics in order to give that defuite Pesalts from the negotiations and emerging at a am.

Youronstitution is an cast-iron document, net uns mrvived so long with a prestige time of his arrival back here was in such preference to the Passinions. The lead with the local authorities in the Ruhrgang are said to have slept on the beds it falls to be strued by the Supree which, as I shall show later, has not defa disgraceful condition that he decided

have already been obtained by the ion of the inmates, while others worked on Court with the same sense of easy and clined. But the condition of the retention to wait until the streets The Government is believes to be felusion of an ageryment with the Otto one of two safes for which they could finu admitted mastery as any ordinary gontract, of the powers of the 'House of Lords was į deserted before returning to Barracks.

and is credited with the intention of participation of delegates from Berlin in bery was that in trying to force open of enormous valuo against ill-considered | harnessed to the chariot of a particular be met a' Lance-Corporal and a dallying with the question of fetal taxes / Wolf group, and consider that the no key. A peculiar feature of the rol This circumstance provides a breakwater that thesis peuvers should not be too openly On reaching the corner of Garden Roadl making the most startling announcement the negotiations will only delay a setch the safe the robbers "uset 'hammers ant and revolutionary change. Whether if the party. The nation was not, indeed, on the of his Regiment. While he was talking

ing article says:

a

towards the enľ of the present month.ment.

or

"ategory of concessions to the Dominions

millions."

forces behind revolutionary change the come menacing and strong enough the breakwater will serve must be left for the future to determine. But an entside mist fülly and absolutely admit that up to the present its strength has swined extremely adequate,

FLEXIBILITY OF BRITISH ŁAW,

were more

private

chissels and created a considerablá

whole, unprepared that the exercise of to them Sergeant Fewler of the same noise which lasted for two or three

powers should be conservative in the non-Regiment came along and placed him hours. The noise must have, beru heard

political sense, but it was justly ito patient under arrest. We desire to wara Ministers that duties BRITISH TRADE

li it had not been for the RETURNS.

by the occupants on the floor above, but

of any attempt to aukea constituent fact that he had met the two-men he imposed on premier food-stiffs would

LONDON, October 10th.

they de no effort to find out what was

branch of the legislatiev a mere ton of a would have been inside the Barrack instantly wreck the Government

The Board of Trade returns for

happening.

single party. And, therefore, a fatal misgates before the Sergeant arrested him. Political Party which, makes so prepos-September show imports at eighty-three The master of the establishment and

take was made when that House compro-i Lieut. More, pleading on behalf of the terous on attempt."

millions sterling, a decrease of five and his fokis, were bound and gagged and

mised so many cans upon which the accused, pointed out that Baker could The Daily Chronicle believe most. Free

In Great Britain, rightly or wrongly, greatness of the country depended in the easily have deserted in ja half milkon", and "xpor sixty-three placed in a back room where they were

Canton if we have, proceeded upon a different basis. cause of that which was described in the trailers will feel relief at the modesty and a half, an increase of "three and a prered over with blackets. The key of i

he had wanted to. The Court should one of the safes was obtained from the

The genius of the Anglo-Saxon people cant of the moment as the People's Budget. find the accused guilty, if they did find of the Government's preference pro half millions. Re-exports are valued at master and, from this safe 8400 odd was posals, which, on the whole, fall into the eight millions sterling, an increase of two abstracted. Continuing their search for has, again rightly" of wrongly, refused to All that was operative in shat Budge him guilty, of, the lesser charge of absent-

shackle in the slightest degree the constin-was, and has since proved to be frash. It a further irge “sum of money which

tional competency of later generations. has been thrown see, with general RUSSO-BRITISH COMMERCE, they believed the master to have received And thus it happens that practically no approval, upon the political dustheap.

that day, they were disappointed, for law in Great Britain is constitutional in But the House of Lords, under bad nuts ice, sections of the Army Act which laid down though they went to a lot of trouble to the sease in which you have a consïtution. reasserting a prerogatife which une that if a soldier even went over a wall of the other sa Any law in Great Britain can be nitered¦tionably survived theoretically, but upon in civilian clothes he could he held guilty ay Parliament and to Court may hich no wise man should have, insistivi of desertion. The mere fact of his sur- The ellaneous collection of private papers challenge the constitutional force of ay swiftly brought itself into sharp and fatal rendering, did not absolve him from the

Act of Parliament. The late Professor

charge of desertion. During their search a foki" of the estabDivvy distinguished the two forms of con- The Daily Pregraph says that the will be maintained. "

lishment, who had bera out when the stitution by calling oneurigid and the other one controlled, and the other uncontrolled. Government's proposal is that, without AERIAL TESTS AT LYMPNE robbers entered, called for admittance.exible. On the whole I prefer to call the The difference is prodigious whatever label you prefer. It is, as I have said, pre- mature to decide whether you or we have iron right,

that may be made without prejudicing, either home producers OF CONSUNTETR

Moscow, October 10th: The Times non-committal towards "Mv. Bruce's proposals, stressing the The personnel of the British, commer-cut open the top necessity for distinguishing between thesocial mission to Russia has been reduced it yielded nothing more than and the plans of the Government, which by half for reasons of ecanuniy are designed to meet specific cases. agents at Petrograit and Vindivostock and documents of no value.

interfering with the free entry of essen. tial foodé and thus raising highly debint- ahle issues, they will enabley us to do something to assist in the development and settlement of the Empire.

EARLIER TABLES,

PREFERENCE POLICY MAY LEAD TO GENERAL ELECTION,

א:

LONDON, October 10th." Driving rain nad squalls were pirienced at Lympne to-day The Aus tralian airmen Hinkler flew a hundred miles, completing 618 miles, and is lead ing in the reliability test.

STEVE DONOGHUE SAIES

FOR AMERICA.

Lesbos. October 10th. a Lostos, Outuber 10th.

Steve Donoghue has sailed on the Commenting on the question of prefer- ener, the Daily News in an editorial Olympia frons Southamptou, and arrives healed The First Down" says Mr. Bruce in. America three days before the Demanded fall-blooded protection and Sir Papyrus Zev match. Crowds at Waterloo Lloyd Greune responded with proposals cheered him, a woman presenting him which must be utterly contemptible to with mascots Donoghue, interviewed. scientific variff advientes, nevertheless it said Papyrus was the best tempered is ne cuprater against an extensive horse he had ever ridden. Ho himself development of the modifications proposed, would ride for the honour and glory of

The Wedesinator "Gazette ways" it, is caly the Union Jack,' ready clear that the fiscal question, has been raised in an aqute "form. This Goverment can be trusted to handle FAR EASTERN CABLE

it. From traders must be watchfal. The

Manchester Finardian says the British

NEWS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Government in its reply to Mr. Bruce ANNIVERSARY OF THE offered such an increase of proférinces, na

REPUBLIC.

CHIKESE

to ensure its defent at a general elegzien, ||

CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON,

HUN: Qeiniry 10th

if one could be held. The proposals forį

[

“İmperin developinene hitherto sem to

consist mainly sit plans for Eifting the Over three hundred people were pre-

already overburdencl British; taxpayer."

troversy

n mis.

He was allowed to enter, but once in doors he was bound and gagged and placed with his unfortunate companions in the back room..

During their occupancy the robbers wantonly destroyed a quantity of ralu able books and documents, "

THE FORTHCOMING NAVY LEAGUE

BALL

collision with a powerful wave of contem- pornry opinion.

ing himself.

Capt. Hannay referred the Court to

The accused's record included a num- So one can foresee the results. But this ber of cases of absenting himself with- at least is certain, that, antil the House of out leave and various minor offences. Lords be constituted and reformed, He is 23 years of age and has just under Great Britain is the only country, in the 5 years' service to his credit. world which has at once an uncontrolled The Court "consisted of Bt.-Major But the ease with which the gravest political changes may be made in Great constitution and an ineffective Second S. White. D.SC., R.A.M.C. (pre- Britain has afforded anxiety and wilt Chamber. The House of Lords 'no decht|sident), Capt. W. J. Howard, King's afford anxiety in the future. For unconill retains a powerful means of delay. Regt, and Lieut. A. Walsh, D.C.M.. trolled power an an imperfectly edu-l

And this power may be very, formidable. R.GA. The prosecutor was Capt. W. A. cated democracy go ill together. In Eng Hut it cannot be effective unless it is cer. land we have chosen to take those riske In America you have, on the whole, chosen to avoid them. It is not uninstructive to abgve the changes which have taken place! in the constitution of Great Britain, in fifty or sixty years which have witoresed political readjustments so immense and fur-reaching.

in that the tenure of power of the Gov. Hannay, M.C., and the prisoner's friend ernment of the day is fugitive, and in rela- Lieut.: C. P. More

in to all finance the House of Lords is Powerless. The extreme sections of the Conservative Party never ceased to attack the Coalition Government becabiso it did not reform the House of Lords. Mr.

British constitution are, therefore, en-

STHE RICE MARKET.

Messrs. Wm. G. Hale & Co., Ltd., of gon, in their report alated October

When the public of this Colony realiza the objects of the above Ball, which will take place in the City Hall, on Friday, Sixty years ago. Great Britain was the Asquith had affirmed and had broken hia::.

own solemu pledge to make this reform Novusber, 2nd, there can be no doubt mother of representative and parliament complete. But the Coalition Government that there will be a brisk demand for the Ary institution. But still she was not produced proposals which, even if iu-

lemocracy. The great fights associated] | dequate in relation to the mature pro- 1st say:- tickets.

with the great Reform Act were in coblems, would have mitigated the constita- During the last fortnight our market The Navy League, which is a patriotic trast with the issues of a graver, day like tional disabilities amid which we labour has been extremely quiet. There has the military minuets of eighteenth-century day. The present Conservative Govern- been a very poor demand from Hong- and strictly non-party organization, has continental warfare. There was neither nent has done nothing, nor can I see any kong, and from all other countries n inter-alin, specially interested itself in reality or vitality in the results. The the question of the relief of the widoks great controversy on the famous Reform on whatever for ejectaring that it purchases to speak of have transpired.

Bill, which nearly brought down the aor will do anything. The critics of and children of men of the Royal Navy, House of Tords, and might quite easily the one that, frst that we have a soon stabilized, however, owing to the Our prices gradually declined; thy

Mercantile Marine and Auxiliary forces have inrolsed the monarchy, increased the who lost their lives in the War, and the electorate by a despicable percentage, only constitution at the mercy of a momentary difficulties to get paddy, which seems to

o far that, it would not, in any degree Bust of Parliamentary opinion; and, be actually very scarce.

secondly that we have no Second Cham During last few days, our market has Head Office in London has succeeded in that mattered, deflect the centre of polt be equipped with the political and con- had rather an upward tendency, as it is raising nearly half-a-million pounds sterl-tical gravity. The increase of voters prostitutional power to resist such a gust. feared that will bo just enough paddy to ing for this purpose. There is still powd was hardly more than that of 3.0 Lockel at abstractedly, the position would bridge over with the new crop, and on 5 per cent. Wellington Gladstone, Disappear to be hopeless. It would be hope account of a slight rise being reported [ however, urgent need,

further

raeli all played their parts in a contro less to anyone who had not studied the at Hongkong. funds, and the Head Office has necord- versy which was largely unreal because the political and constitutional bistory of the ingly appealed to us out here to do our changes proposed and so hitterly disputed English people:

were really so unimportant. The genius it to help in the good cause.

of Disraeli, contemptuous of the taunt (pat unjustly made against him) of incon-

But it is not the purpose of my cddress Long Xuyen Provinces excepted, where. sistency, made the first real change. And today to indicate the methods if there be owing to large inundations, nearly 7/10 thereafter progressively the advance has such) by which we may hope to disentangle of the crop have been damaged.

these Provinces "it is feared that ever proceeded

.

The people of Hongkong owe so much to the tiring exertions and patriotic self-sacrince of the Royal Navy, Mercan tile Marine and Auxiliary Forces that they will, we feel sure, willingly bear their share in the above necessary task

the people of Great Britain.

Derish."

"

IN THE MELTING POT,..

.:

THE TEST OF WAZ-

ourselves from our present difficulty It.

New Crop-Official reports announced that the prospects of the crop are fav- ourable everywhere, the Chaudoc and

For

is, on the contrary, my purpose, for the with the ariture of the 3 gonths ice And in the furnace of the Great War consideration of other constitutional law-being undertaken as soon as possible, the sibility of handing over to the masses of our recent political developments have in main very heavy.

THE MONARCHY, ..

Dominions economie trouble to the sent at the Chinese Legation's reception and will not be content to leave the Great Britain took the immense responsers, to indicate the difficulties in which proportion of the damage will still re-

in celebration of the twelfth anniversary burden of this duty to be borne solely by

her population the control of her desti- volved the British constitution.

And now I pass to another topic. The Sir P. Lloyd Greame's minounecment of the Republic. Practically all the

As Admiral Jellicoe said in his message nie, though her legislators well knew at yerday Economic Conference of Diplomatie Corps were present, also re-to the children of New Zealand: The that no written constitution and no law British Empire must, on the whole, be pro-

I have no leisure to develop in detail additional British preference for Domi.presentatives of banking and shipping ser is cur life. By the use of it the cut could fetter or clog the completeness nouneed to be the most amazing congeries

If we fail to development, therefore, in the British con- eper- spontaneously supported the fabric the minor aspects of changes, important Empire was preserved. nions dried fruits "In dispersed the interests, including Sir Charles Addis, Empire was formed. By holding it the of that which was given. Far the greatest of self-governing communities which has

which has handed over absolutely without a fashionable subject of speculation among tional historians of the last fifty years' upathy in domestic politics" and, there is Sir John and Lady Jordan, Mr. Macleary appreciate its value, the Empire will stitution in the last sixty years is that of a great Empire. Ten years ago it was as many of them are, which the conslita- reserve the control of the Government of political writers whether that fabric could must record. But this superficial survey every sign of a revival of the fiscal con- Brown, and officials of the Foreign Office.'

Great Britain to the population of Great survive either the testy of peace or the would be incomplete in relation even to its The texts of penca over a own standards if it did not take some note Britain. This charter so given will never, tests of war. The purting and stirring later reception was given to a hundred

Ronate residents in Shanghai have it may confidently be predicted, be with long period still remain to be probed. Out of the changes, such as they may be,

· theɑselvis: A vigorous protectionist Chinese, who in addition, to merchants camphign is expected on the Conserva and students included Mr. Hoo, a former telegraphed to General Wu Pe-fu, the drawn by law. If we give a run to curi- of the crucible of war the British Empire which fifty years have introduced in the Loyang warlord, and General Chang Fuous speculation we may wonder whether has emerged on the whole as the most position and prestige of the British Mon- tivo side, to be countered by the Liberals, Member of Parliament in China. also, Military Governor of Honan, request the powers so given, if insanely exorcised amazing phenomenon in history. And archy. Queen Victoria was a very master- But her conceptron Some doubt, exists as to the exact atti-Chinese representatives from Oxfording them to take immediate steps with a will be corrected by a movement so natin cunsistently with the whole development of ful woman. With limitations, she was

view to suppressing the robbers in that ishing as the Fascisti movement in Italy, British constitutional procedent, nothing even a great woman. the province and effecting the release of the Short of this, nothing could or would cor- has been put in writing. All the Premier of the monarchical prerogative would to tude of Labour Mr. Archer Shre willand Cambridge Universities and

Chinese and foreign captives now in the rect the uncontrolled power which now of all the Dominions assisted in and made day have been impossible. Her bed-cham- move an emphatic protectionist resolution Cainese Students' Union and School of hands of these desperadoes, says the lies at the disposal of the pencil of the themselves responsible for the deliberations her crisis: her dismissal of Lord Primer- Shupno. The senders, state that in spite British electorate. First, then, of all tho from which the Treaty of Versailles son, and her wankedly avowel preference at the forthcoming Conservative confer Economica. "

of the fact that they are paying heavy great developments to be noted in the last emerged. A new Cabines, was formed. It for Mr. Diszneli over Mr. Gladstone, was not the Cabinet of the British Isles, would, in this age, have been neither toler- ence af Plymouth The Liberals contend

taxes and contributing towards large sixty years is that which has swept aside

It was the Cabinet of the British Empire, abla por tolerated. But to make this ad armies, Honan is quickly and surely be the last vestige of real territorial influ, that Mr. Bonar Lowk pledge at the last

coming a bandit worki," the real ban once over British polities and has left the It was proposed by someone that the commission is not to concede that the power whole of an ancient and glorionts constitu- stitation of this new. Cabinet, & Cabinet of the monarchy has really declined, On election has been broken, and the adop-

dit centre of China; therefore, they state

unknown and incalculable forces,

world's history for centuries, should be and its influence, in the prudent and co- tion of a wider scheme of preference wilt

it is very essential that steps should be tion in the melting pot to be moulded by not unlikely to play a decisive part in the the contrary, the prestige of the monarchy lakon immediately to suppress them.

scientious hands of King George, have I shall be unwilling to be supposed in reduced to writing. involve an election in the "spring.

over-anxious critle of these revolutions, Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Aus. rather waxed than waned. No great de With regard to the reconstruction of disputable na they are. For I profoundly tralia, with equal fair and force, disputed cision of State, it may confidently be Yokohama a Japanese news agency says believe in the common-sense and in the this view and carried his point. And so claimed, is taken without close discussion that the Yokohama. Reconstruction So fundamental sanity of the Anglo-Saxon today it happens that the new constitu with the Sovereign. He cannot and h The Economic Conference has appoint city, representing all public bodies in race. For if one did not so believe one could tion of the British Empire is attested by would not claim to deflect the clear view

of a strong Cabinet. At the Economie Conference, Sir Lloyd el a committee comprising representa Yokohama was organized, with Mr. only despair. The number of those who no recurd in any constitutional document.

But no Cabinet, however strong, could Greame announced that in order to tetives of Britain, the Dominions and the Tomitaro Hara as its chairman, and 197 have hardly anything of that which in the But it is none the less true that there will celerate colonial development schemes, the Colonics and India to consider and re. leading residents there forming executive material world seriously counts is so much never again be a formidable oricatation afford to disregard the difficulties and At the Society, Mr. Hara greater than the number of those who of British policy which has not obtained doubts put forward by a Sovereign who Government were prepared, ni certain port upon the methods suggested by committees. conditions, to advance part interest for a Mr. Bruce for assisting the marketing stated that supposing that the damage have much, that if a crude campaign of the assent of the Dominions. And it may, has no interest in party politics and whore Yokohama umounted to class hatred had any prospect of real therefore, be moderately claimed that of experience igreinforced by continuity al period in respect of schemes put in hand of Empire-grown agricultural produce, done before the normal time which represented namely subsidies, import licenses and 500,000,000, if the residents of the city, success in Great Britain, the ruin of Great all the changes which half a century has iramutability. The historian, therefore, some 420,000 in number, could each save Britain would be certain. But while I brought to English constitutional life, the who appraises the development of the orders to Britain. He hoped the requisite stabilisation of prices.

50 sen per day in the way of both acknowledge many causes for grass anxiety most remarkable is that which has associa British constitution must, on the whole, machinery would be devised for examin- Sir P. Lloyd Greamo said the Govern economy and labour, it would be easy to 1 am none the less of opinion that the ted the great Dominions on equal terms recognize that in a changing world the in ing schemes and seitling the veomas. ment might be prepared to guarantee raise at least 1.8,300,000 per month. fundamental sobriety and poise of the with the British Foreign Office, in every-Ruence of the British Monarchy has bee

Mr. Chamberlain pointed out that while the interest and capital in respect of thereby enabling the city to recover in British people, even with full allowance thing which determines alike the domestic preserved almost unchanged. The degre it was undesirable to fix a percentage development schemes in the Colonies and seven years from the loss sustain. The for an untested electorate, will attain to and international fortunes of the Common of the influence will no doubt vary with the preference to be given to Domisions and Protectorates, distinct from the campaign for this purpose has been a just perspective and pronounce honest wealth.

personality of him or her who wears th (Continued at foot of next column.)

SCHEMES FOR COLONIAÏ DEVELOPMENT,

LONDON, October 10th..

..

Colonies in placing public contracts, Government departments hul been hur chasing practically all their supplies from within the Empire.

THE MARKETING OF EMPIRE GROWN PRODUCE.

LONDON, -October 10th.

Dominions.

started

to

"1

decisions,

(Continued at foot of next column.)

TOWN.