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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 1927.

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SOLY AGENTS

IN THE IRISH FREE STATE.

HOW THE NEW LIBERTY IS WORKING.

STORY OF POVERTY AND ILE GOVERNMENT.

WAS IT BETTER IN THE DAYS. OF ENGLISH.

TYRANNY?

In these times so little is heard of happenings in Ireland that the following general review of the situation published in a recent number of a Belfast paper should be of interest not only to Irish“ inen but all who have ever been to the Emerald: Isle and are now. domiciled in the Colony. Our contemporary states i

were

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The Irish Language Fanatica. It is very hard, he says, to be enthusiastic about any canse, even

which

A NEGRO UNIVERSITY.

REMARKABLE GOLD COAST INSTITUTION OPENED.

SCOTTISH HEAD AND NATIVE

PROFESSORS....

New Year's-day witnessed the realiation of an ardent dream for

CHANGING. PARIS.

THE TWILIGHT OF THE CAFE,

DECLINING AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION.

GOLF.

BOGEY POOL.

There were 74 Centrica for the Bogar Pool competition played at Fanling from February End-4th.. Need I say, writes the Paris cor. The result was a tie between 1. respondent of the Evening Stan- W. Showan and T. 8. Whyto-Smith, dard, that the twilight is meta- who were 2 up.

Other scores were 1--

a greater education of the negroesphorical? Paris cafés have never of the Gold Coast of West Africa, been more brilliantly illuminated where, under the enlightened over than at present the French have lordship of Great Britain, the passion for electric light and natives have in large measure been noise. * governed by their own chista,

In some fashion, education may be said to have been encouraged and continuously carried on under British rule. Bat it has lacked system, and, in a large sense, has Over & considerable

"bush

vast

By the twilight of the café, I mean the decline as a social institu- tion. | The café, in the sense in which it was formerly understood, is going, if it has not already gone.

This will seem a surprising state- ment to the casual visitor to Paris,

day they have never been more full.

F. A. Redmond 1 up

RE: Ortonamith, J. 8. McLaren and W.. Ironsido, 1 down,

N. L. Smith and W. L. Alexsader, 2 down.

1

R.H.K. YACHT CLUB.

THE RACE FOR SERVICE BCATS

people in the cafés are not the same sailed over a course to Channel.

people, and they do not use the Rocks (P), Kowloon Rock (P), and ones for the same purpose.

The Farisian's Club,

Parisian's Club, and clubs do not For the café was formerly the

bave orchestans at any rate, in the reading and writing and smoking rooms." No doubt some of themi have orchestras in the dining-room in these days, when so many people cannot eat a chop without the se- companiment of a jazz band.

corrected time the winner was the Tilania cutter, which was skilfully sailed by Commander Ratsey.

The following is the order on handicap:

Many people in the Free State who were enthusiastic Nationalists or Republicans are comparing their gains and losses during the reempty stomach The fanatics of stea, o

about the Irish-languaga on ̈an been down imperfect and often who observes that there, are as many years which have passed sines they the Gaelic League may condemn erroneous teaching as has been enfes as ever, indeed more than The weekly race at the Royal

British him for: descending to bread-and-given in what are known as "delivered" from tyranny. We do not believe that of the real welfare of the people, European life have been instilled But it is true nevertheless. The week-end for Service boats was butter policies, but he is thinking schools, where carious notions of ever, and that at certain times of Hong Kong Yacht Club this past there is one of them "who can say while they are pursing an object into the minds of the natives.

inconsistent with it. is

With the throwing open to all that his hopes have been attained. Many of the people of Donegal native students of the doors of a while the vast majority of them speak both Irish and English, but no modern University college, the must confess to a feeling of dis the Gaelic League wants to make scholastic fature of the negroes of change is the introduction of music, ing on a line West to East.

The most striking sign of the Cust. Rock Buoy (P), the finish be impossible for their children to the Gold Coast is assured. appointment. Colts, with their

speak anything but Irish. It will educational work with far-reaching or what passes as such, into the There were nine starters, the vivid imagination, looked forward fail, but if it were to succeed, in possibilities begins in earnest with café. Before the war an orchestra Hermes galley coming in first and to the enjoyment of an earthly what way would the children be the establishment. Of this #all in a café was the exception. Now paradise as soon as they got rid of better of than they are now? black University, so picturesque it is the rule in all frequented the Derpatch galley second, but an

Many of them will be forced to ly situated on Achimota hill over-quarters. Dublin Castle, with all that meant emigrate, and when they go to the locking the city of Acers, and for them. They are now free from United States the inability to speak standing within grounds which what they hated, and they are ask-English will be a serious handicap, cover an area of some four square ing themselves where are the glories while their knowledge of Irish will

miles. of which they dreamed.. Their be no advantage whatever. national aspirations have been satisfied. They have their own

In other parta of the Free State, as well as Donegal, the people are Parliament, and they are governed comparing their gains and losses by politicians responsible to Meetings of farmers have been held Very good, so fast but have they to demand relief from ever-taxa more bread and butter f Ars their tion and the redress of other griev native Tilers more sympathetic

ances, and they have asserted that more anxious for their material their position is so bad that unless welfare, than the detested foreign there is an immediate improvement ers whom they have replaced? We believe that not one in ten of thera they will become bankrupt would give an affirmative answer. ; The Most Rev. Dr. MacNeely, speaking at a meeting in Letter kenny, which was called to demand that the Government should act on the recommendations of the Gael- tacht Commission, contrasted the position of the people in Donegal now with what it was before they gained their freedom." He re called the work of the Congested Districts Board, and remarked that in the later years of its operations the whole county was treated as a congested area.

A. B. MOULDER & CO.

Whan Bloody" Balfour Was Welcomed.

Landlords Missed.

The Labour leaders complain of widespread unemployment and the high cost of living. The landlords have gone, and in every country the ranks of those who farmed the mid- die classes have been depleted. The shopkeepers have lost their custom, and their places have not been taken by others. Towns and villages con- tinue to decay, and there is little hope that their declina will be ar- rested. Not much is to be expected from Protection, and nothing at all from compulsory Irish. Yet these are almost the only remedies which the Government has to pro- pose.

The British Government scheme is a very thorough and comprehen- sivo one, covering the whole scope of education from the kindergarten section up through that of the elementary and secondary schools to the University itself. At one stroke the "bush schools have, been abolished, and all recognized teachers brought within the neccs, sary registration.

The French have never taken kindly to cluba. There are many clubs in Faris, but they are used chiefly by gamblers.

H.M.S. Titonia cutter (Comdr. Ratsey) Ist.

Comdr. Villar) End..

H.M.S. Hermes galley (Eng. -

Lo Motte) 3rd.

H.M.S. Despatch galley (Capt.

H.M.S. Caradoc cutter Enright) 4th.

(LA.

whaler (Lt.

HLS. Herald Boxall) 5th.

H.M.S. Titania whaler (Ldg.

Seaman Player) 7th.

Finishing Corrected.

3.58.18 4.01.36 3.55.26

Hermes galley.. 3.58.48 Despatch galley 4.01.38 Titanic cutter. 4:03.26 Caradoc cuttern 4.18.11. Herald whaler.. 1841. Hermes cutter.. 4.24.31 Titania" whaler 4.99.10

4.04.11

4.07.41

1.13.31

1.19.31

Nearly everybody had his parties- Native Language. :

lar café, where he could almost This is all the more essential, for always be found at a particular the natives have neither a language hour. He met his friends in his nor a literature, dialects taking the café, he read the papers there, he place of the former and folk-lore often wrote letters there, sad to that of the latter. Now these dia his café he had letters addressed lects are to be systematically re that he did not wish his wife to duced to writing, and from them tee. may emerge a negro language.

Meantime all text bocks are to be. It used to be the easiest thing in bilingual-

the world to find a friend in Paris. native and English. Careful attention is to be paid to Even if he was not at his café, his the history, music, art, and folk special waiter would always be able lore of the whole Colony. The there or when he would be likely to to tell one whether he had been Government's scheme is not to Euro- peanize the native and so spoil him, come. Undoubtedly this was one of FOOTBALL ROWDY FINED. but to help him to advance in his the causes of the sociability and own culture, to express himself in intimacy of Paris bis own way, and to enable him ultimately to conduct his own affairs on lines most calculated to render him fit to assume respon sibility.

Special Character.

URGED CROWD TO STRIKE.

A Chinese was charged before Major C. Willson, at the Central Magistracy yesterday morning, with disorderly behaviour at the Interport football match at Happy Valley on Saturday.

Inspector Blackman said that he was on duty at the match, having charge of a special squad of police when something upset the crowd went up.

That Board, established and guid

Officials Do Well, ed by Lord Balfour, when he was Chief Secretary," did a great deal:

There is no class in the Free State

Apart from the "café, du quar for the poorer people; and they which has benefited in any way

tier, frequented by the tradesmen were grateful, for when he visited from the grant of Independence,

and petits bourgeois of the neigh them they gave him welcome except the new official class the

bourhood, most cafés in the old days which could not have been warmer people who have got State appoint- On the face of it, the Govern- had a special character. In the if he had

hements of which they would have ment's scheme may be viewed by Rue Montmartre, once the Fleet been one patriots"? of the day The had little chance under the Im some people as savouring rather street of Paris-nowadays the news- Board, as a result of the political perial Parliament. They may say much of the idealistic; in reality paper offices are all over the place, change, has been dissolved, and its with truth that they have gained; it is intensely practical English oven in the Champs Elysées or be work has been almost stopped. bat the State, does not exist for is made subject." The native yond the Etoile there were cafés, Dr. MacNeely has come to the them, and the feeling is growing retains his own speech, and will use such as the Coq d'Or and the Creis

livelihood imposed upon the people, needs.

our own Welsh and Gaelic-speaking by journalists. There were poli- at any rate since 1920, has been too. That the vast majority of the people have always done and do tical cafés-lor instance, Weber's hard, and that recently it has been people are worse off is indisputable. to-day at home.

was at one time a resort of Do becoming an insupportable burden. They have no more freedom; their Within the walls of the collego | puties of the Left and the Café de What has happened to make the lives and property are not more black men will be taught by those Rohan was a Royalist centre. gondition of the people worse than secures their taxation is much of their own race, having their own it, was five years ago 1 His answer higher, while their standard of culture, ideals, and ambitions. The is that there has been a break in living is lower; and their Lopes are aim is the production of a negro the continuity of the improvement certainly not brighter. They are nationality embracing all that is and development which were going awakening to the truth, and when possibly highest and best. The in: on when the Congested Districts they fully realise it they will admit fuence of the University will tond Board was working. The progress that English rule was not so bad to raise the mass of the was slow, but for thirty years it as they thought, and that the peo had been continuous and now it has ple of Ulster, in maintaining their been stopped because it was of Eng-representatives in the Parliament lish origin, and for that reason was at Westminster, are not acting an- condemned and abolished.

reasonably.

conclusion that the struggle for a that it has more of them than it it xide by side with English just as sant, frequented almost exclusively | other; and the cry of Strike "7

GREAT BRITAIN'S YOUNG REDS AT SHEFFIELD.

PLAYING AT COMMUNISTS. right wings and so-called left wings. All their shifts, tricks and wanglings cannot deny the fact. The miners were defeated because the right wing in the Miners Fede- ration was successful in sabotaging. the Communists' policy!"

Thousands of pounds, he said, were being spent on Boy Scouts, boys brigades, the Young Liberal League and the Junior Imperial League Their job was to poison the minds of young workers against their sinas, to train future scaba "and Fascists dels me t

"EVEN COOK' WABBLED."

Further accounts, by no means lacking in unconscious bumour, are now to hand of the youthful Com inunists conference held recently at Sheffield.

Witness and his men enquired into the cause, and he saw the de- fendant break away, crying leudly

Strike! Witness immediately arrested the defendant, and took him to the Wanchai Felice Station. The defendant had nothing in his

His Worship imposed a fine of

There were literary cafés, artistic cafés, legal cafée, students cafés in the Latin Quarter, cafés for actors, and so on. The old Café du Globe, now no more, was used as a then bond. trical and music-hall agency. Then people to there were cafés appropriated by a higher standard of living. There the natives of some particular part $25, or 14 days', hard labour.. are not a few instances of natives of France, such as Provence or who have risen to eminence in Normandy. The foreigners living scholarship and gained recognition in Faris had their cafes. For in- at British and American seats of stance, Russian revolutionary exiles learning..

Scottish Principal. At the head of the new University college is Dr. A. G. Fraser, & Scot tish professor, who, over the lengthy period of nearly 17 years, did a remarkable educational work in Ceylon

used to meet in a little café on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, now swallowed up by an establishment next door...

Lost Character.

REVOLUTION IN RAIL TRAVEL?

SAFE LIVE RAIL

Railway travel, it is claimed, may be revolutionised by, an invention

of Captain W. P. Durtasi, a pre-

the new Government scheme light- ing power.

This system was

great advan tage to a young man arriving in Paris from the provinces, who could always be sure of finding a caféminent consulting engineer, Next him, as vice-principal, is where he would meet others from Captain Dartnall calls his in-

The Paragon." that brilliant native scholar Profes his own pays" or following is vention sor J. E: K. Aggrey, whose name own calling A budding barrister He claims that it will work on and fame as an educational lender or painter could soon make friends 200-250-volt, fifty-period alternating is known, far beyond the Gold Coast with men of his own profession. current This, it is understood, is Dr. Aggrey is chief of the Fanti No introduction or election was tribe, and is a member of one of the required, as for a club. He had most influential families in the only to walk in.

have been impressed with the Colony. He has great confidence in

number of fatal accidents which the future of the educated African negro. On the staff are some 24the factors in the solidarity of the have produced a system of electric In my opinion, this was one of rail danger:" "I now claim that I have taken place through the liva other native professora.

professions in Paris, where artists, traction which does away with the writers, and others seemed to be necessity of a live rail carrying a

one another more in touch with one

er dangerous current, nd this system than in London..

All this is vanishing. The cafes can be operated at the same voltage assupplied for household pur- in Paris have lost their character.

poses. No doubt local tradesmen still play "Besides affording a solution to dominces in the café du quar- the technical difficulties, the finan tier," although I am told that in cist side has also to be considered. one quarter of Paris, where foreign, A VICAR'S OPINION. ers used to be almost unknown, they

No Sub-Stations. have been driven away by Poles and This new system lessens the Writing in St. Luke's, Barrow, Armenians But the literary cafés, colossal initial outlay (for sub- parish magazine, the Rev. C. Brad the political cafés, and so on, are stations, etc.) which has been neces- burn Pimblett, the vicar, says:

sary during the electrification of. Nor do Parisiana really usé eníéa London, suburban railways, you by The average British working man does an honest day's work

Ferhaps even more Even on such long routes as and, as a freeboru man, he is er significant than the introduction of London to Edinburgh or Pensance titled to an honest glass of beer orchestras is the fact that there are there will: be no need for sub- if he wants it. I believe it will now some cales that no longer sup-stations. do' him good too, and I don't be- "de quoi, écrire," that is, ink,

ply lieve a word about its ill effects. pen, paper and envelopes. And the

of Paris has A good, cheap glass of beer is sociability of

too.

The speeches show an amusingWe will combat these organiza pomposity in accordance with the tions and rescue the members from orator's tender years. de M Baldwin. Jix and their co-workers," The University's progress will be

A London newspaper states:-) Mr. Rust promised. »»

followed with interest by all educa Among the 190 delegates who at Referring to the emergency retionists. It is the most outstand tended the fourth national congreas gulations, he said that the Coming movectent of the kind in its

relation to the negro. of the Young Communists' Lesgus munists would do everything. in of Great Britain at Shefeld were our power to compel this grotesque sume young women, smartly dress and sinister Home Secretary to re- od, with sleek heads of shingled lease the class war. prisonera.co heur. Of the fourteen girl delegates "Whatever Baldwin and his four are London typists, two are trusty henchmen, the Right Wing Clerks from "Manchester, and ono Labour leaders, may say, there is, Dame from the Tyneside.

and can be, no industrial peace."

Most of the youths are miners.. They claim to represent 1,500 young, miners enrolled during the mines stoppage.

"From Schoolboy Comrades."! Groetings were offered by Com- rade Cliffe Roberts,” a twelve-year- old member of the Bouth Wulcs HE Li Dazald Gruder Thu branch of the League. He said be Mr. W. Rust, general secretary brought greetings from his school- of the League, opened the Congress boy comrades of Tylorstown, on with long speech in which he whose behalf he also protested praised the miners for their recent against "the insult offered to them struggle. He attacked the Labour in taking away their Communist leaders of both Right and Left badges."KAME wings, and on one occasion refer- A young South Wales mainer pro- red to Mr. MacDonald as "Ramsay posed a resolution, which included MacDonald, that arch humbug and the following: 'fraud.

Smash the slave terms, build The full responsibility for the one miners, union in a fghting defeat of the minera, declared Mr. Icadership, organise the unemploy Bart, lies on zas shoulders of the Led, form, an “Anglo-Russian miners' General Council of the T.U.C., both committee.

BEER

BOLSHEVISM.

gone

triore.

"The current could be obtained from any of the new Government electricity stationa

Another point about the new engine is that frosty weather has no effect whatever on the speed.

the best antidote I know to all One no longer sees one's friends as the revolutionary poison which one used under-paid and over-taxed work- Perhaps this is only passies Up hill or down, the train will

ingeyma I therefore look upon corners, where Greenwich Village

are being given to phase. Perhaps in some swallow, teetotalism, at any rate in hard and Galicia have not yet pene times like obese, as dangerously trated, the old caté life of Paris is likely to help on revolutionism beginning again. I think it must You do get tired of cocoa, any be so for unless Farinians take to way, but never of "beer glorious clubs, how can they do without

-their cafés?

beer, "

travel at a regular-speed, and there are no jerks similar to those on a trama

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An engine which will do all I have claimed has been built by Newcastle Arm on a specially con structed test line”