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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY,

MEN WITH THE

MEDALS.

JUNE 22nd. 1928.

[LIBERAL MEETING IN "BLONDE OR BRU-

UPROAR.

NETTE" AT THE WORLD.

JINGLING HEARD ABOVE CANDIDATURE OF MISS M.

BANDS.

THE DUKE HEADS LONDON'S LEGIONAIRES,

LONDON, May 24th. The annual memorial parade of the British Legion was carried out in London. yesterday afternoon with noticeable good "ordar and dignity.

As the members of the Legion, in the final act of the parade, came striding up Whitehall for the march past in the fall there, were two things which could not but draw' the onlookers' attention.

On the one hand, so many of those marchers, who had come from a over Lordon and the Home Coug bies, bore on their features and in their physique, for all the brave; ness of their step, the stamp of the dreadful trials and strain en- dured by them during the war.

LLOYD GEORGE,

COLONEL IN A SCENE.

HOLY BAD, May 24th. There was an uproarious scene to-day at ́s meeting of the Angle- sey Liberal Association at. Llan- gefni, which had been called to select a Liberal" candidate in suc cession to the sitting member, Sir J. Thomas. There were three candidates Miss Megau Lloyd George, Mr. Ellis W. Roberts, bar- fister, and Colonel Lawrence Wil lisms, a gentleman farmer,

The voting resulted a follows: Misa Megan Lloyd 'Gečije,“ 323; Mr. Ellis W. Roberts, 945) Colonel Lawrence Williams, 14

Before the voting took place Colonel Lawrence remarked that the tacties of some people in the county during the past few weeks had threatened serious split in the Liberal ranks. He quoted a The Sound Of Victory.. sentence io Miss Megan Lloyd On the other hand, even the George's speech to the effect that their head could not the first farmer in the world only drown the peculiar sound of that had security of tenure condition- march, the linking of many thou-ally, and when that condition was sands of medals as they swung on violated he was turned out of the their wearers breasts. To hear Garden of Eden. The colonel ask them thus advancing and to marked why should he be turned out. them as they came was to know at It was on account of a woman, once the sound and the price of and, he added, "Let me tell you,

she was a young woman, too.

bands

victory.

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The Legionaires gathered first on

"Untair Tactics." the Horse Guards Parade and "Untold barm has been done to thence marched, bearing close on Liberalism in Anglesey by the un- 150 standards in the blue and gold air tauties of certain people in the colours of their association, to the nanner in which they have sup- Cenotaph in Whitehall. The stan-ported a certain young lady." dard-bearers formed

bollow

Cries of "Yes,”... ~ Withdraw,' square round this, while the other Shame," and "Down with him' members, to the music of The followed. Boys of the Old Brigade," went past the monument and returned take up their stations.

The Duke Of York In Plain Clothes,

to

The Duke of York, in plain clothes with his decorations, led the central contingent to a position Inging the Cenotaph. On the other side the Dean of Westminster, Dr. W. Foxley Norris, in an eclesias tical procession beaded by a cross- bearer and the banner of St.

Martin and including the Abbey choristers, also took up a position by the memorial.

At five o'clock a short service was held, all those present and the pavements and windows of White- hall were filled-joining in the hytans God, our help in ages past" and "All people that on

earth do dwell'

1k

say they have," shouted the "I have colonel, amid the din said nothing about Miss Lloyd George.'

"Yes, you have, cried the meeting.

HUSBAND WHO WONDERED WHY GENTLEMEN PREFER EITHER.

ADOLPHE 'MENJOU IN AN

AMUSING FARCE..

[BY OUR FILM CRITIC.]

Adolphe Menjou is at his best

when he is playing the French man of fashion." Blonde or Brunette" is not his most successful flm, but for all that he plays very well as the husband who tried both and won- 'dered why gentlemen should prefer either. He gives the picture of the gentle aimiable and rather tapid man about town, and makes it quite attractive.

on his nerves.

Henri Martel, batchelor, has a lovely house, and a host of friends whose hilarity and ubiquity get Tired of jazz he marries a timid little blonde from the country, a wiser man would " come have guessed from the

look in her gye that she hither was not as demure as she looked, and Henri finds her smoking, drink ing, and Charlestoning, before a month bans passed. A divorce and remarriage to a stately brunette finds him wrapped in a stifling atmosphere of domesticity which is considerably more foreign to bis Bature than jazz.

the

rooms.

Granny's heart would break" if

The blonde, the brunette, and the man, find themselves under оде roof with a charming old hostess who is determined that they shall share

bed wrong

she knew that the blonde was no longer Mrs. Henri, so there are con- stant apparent acquiesences to her arrangement and constant escapes when her back is turned. But the old lady is no more of a fool than her grandchild the blonde. realises rather more of the situation than the main actors and is deter mined to show Henri and the blonde that they still love one another. No complaint has been lodged with me of any unfair tactics, and I challenge any one to say that I have not given every facility and every fair play to the three candidates."

A man hits me; I hit him back, Mr. Chairman, continued Colorel Williams. "If the meeting does not wish to hear me, I don't care. There are plenty of people here who are prepared to see fair play I have been stabbed in the back plause, said: myself" The chairman, amid ap

Miss Lloyd George, in returning thanks, said that she had fought a good, clean fight, and her con- science was perfectly clear on this point.

YOUTH LIKE CORDITE.

There were a few prayers and an anthem, very beautifully sung in the open, sunny air by the Fel- cassocked boys of the Abbey, and then, while all the Legion stan- dards, wreathed in crepe in me- mory of the fallen, were lowered THE BENEFITS OF PLAYING to the ground, trumpeters of the Guards played the Las; Post. For the Réveillé the standards were raised again, and lowered once more for the National Anthem.

FIELDS.

BAD EFFECTS OF GREY. HOUND RACING.

The organisation of the parade was extremely well carried out. The bad effects on children of The unusual warmth, after pre-gambling, attendance at greyhound liminary marches, caused a certain meetings, and certain cinema ex- aumber of the Legionaires to fall hibitions were insisted on by out on the Horse Guards Parade. speakers at the conference of the Eight members of the Legion took National Association "of Head part is the procession in self-pro- Teachers at. Norwich. Resolutions pelled chairs, and there was a least were paased :- one blind Legionaire who, guided by two comrades, marched as firmly

as any.

U.S. POLICY IN 1914.

SIR E. GREY AND MR. PAGE.

NEW YORK.

She

The picture is very much in the French manner, but the whole atmosphere is so light hearted and so unreal that you do not realise this. Greta Niseen makes a very lovely blonde and Arlette Marchal plays the brunette, the old lady whose name is omitted from the programme played extraordinarily well, and it was perhaps her charm. ing and essentially, respectable per- sonality which saved the picture from any offence.

You will enjoy "Blonde ar Brunette 35 An amusing light comedy with two pretty leading ladies, a popular hero and some most amusing situations.

EFFECT OF FASHION ON WOOL INDUSTRY.

DECLINE IN TEXTILES DUE.

TO SHORT DRESSES.

A "Survey of the Textile Indus- tries is the latest report of Sir Calling for legislation to make | Arthur Balfour's Committee 0.0 it illegal for bookmakers to ne-Industry and Trade. cept bets from people under 21, It deals with cotton and wool Expressing the view that the textiles and the production of presence of children and young artificial silk. persons it greyhound race meet- ings should be prohibited and urging local authorities to im- pose this restriction, and

Urging that only cinema films classed (Universal) should be shown to children.

The United States Government has just published a volume, ** 1014 | Miss Harris, of Birmingham, Supplement, The World War," speaking on the greyhound racing which contains diplomatic corre resolution, said teachers felt that spondence between the State De. partment and its representatives abroad during the first months of the World War.

The messages throw new light on America's attitude to the European War, and tell their own significant

story.

the immediate effects of children's attendance at such meetings and the excitement and lack of sleep, made them unit to work in school next day.

Mr. A. Saywell, of London, the president, in his opening address,

said:

Mr. Wilson, of course, was Presi dent at the time, and Mr. Bryan, Secretary of State. Mr. Myron T. Herrick was Ambassador to France. On July 28th, 1914, Mr. Herrick sent a message to the President through Mr. Bryan. He said that the situation in Europe was regard ed in France as the gravest in history. It was apprehended that}< civilisation was threatened by the demoralisation which would follow {a general conflagration.

believe that an expression from our nation would have great weight in this crieis," wrote Mr. Herrick.

Any High Purpose...

The Committee find that almost

everywhere Lancashire is able to hold her own in free competition in the higher and highest qualities of cloth, but as regards coarse cloth she has lost much ground in com- petition with the East.

The Committee do not expect Lancashire to regain much of this trade, and say that the future will depend to a great extent upon ber ability to metain a large share of the trade in goods of intermediate quality, and if she is to succeed, it will be necessary for her to see to it that her methods and organisa tion are capable of adjustment if required to meet changed and changing conditions, and are main- tained at the highest pitch of efficiency."

The system of the book and the rod was a system of compulsion and repression which did more harm than good. High-spirited Shorter frocks would appear to youngsters need a vent for their be one of the main causes of the superfluous energies, and there trouble in the wool textile trade. should be in every area suitable

Generally speaking, exports are playing fields to provide this. In nearly on a level with the pre-war recent years our young people bave been robbed of their only figures, but the quantity of British playing ground, the street, for produced woollen

and worsted

the streets of our large towns issues retained for home consump have become as dangerous as a tion is roughly 30 per cent. below battlefield. In simple justice the the level of 1812 first charge on the petrol tax-

"The main causes of the decline," appear to be should be for the provision of says the report," open spaces. Youth is like cor- changes of fashion, particularly as dite, quite innocuous in fres air, regards women's dress, and the but highly explosive in confine high cost of production (including

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hooliganism.

On July 31et Mr. Page sent a second cable to Mr. Bryan; in which he said he had again talked with Sir Edward Grey, who, he said, had asked if the United States had offered its good offices at Vitans, St. Petersburg, or Berlin.

to the reduced spending power of Large sections of the population in respect of clothing."

Enormous growth in the artificial silk trade is reported.

Mr. Bryan's reply to this startling despatch was merely to cable the same day to Mr. Pags in London asking whether there was, in his opinion; any likelihood that the good offices of the United States would be acceptable or serve any high purpose in the crisis.

Mr. Page replied the next day that he had seen Sir Edward Grey and informally asked him if the good offices of the United States at Mr. Page's cable ends with a and 2 per cent,, of that of cotton. any time or in any possible way touch of irony"Perhaps you will and between 8 and 7 per cent of could be used, to inform Mr. Page. inform me of the proposals or other that of wool, but the output This Sir Edward promised to do. actions of our Government if it does capacity of the industry has been, (Continued at foot of next column.) anything."

and is being, greatly increased.

Between 1913 and 1920 the world- output increased from 11,000 to 5,000 metric tons. By 1926 it had grown to 100,000 metric tons. Even this, however, was only, between 1

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