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suggest that Deputies might be A report was made at the Water asking why he was engaged upon Pelice Station yesterday by → thus giving them a history lesson." | Chinese woman who arrived from It is in order to prove to you that Canton on the afternoon train, that I have not betrayed the labours of whilst waiting for a 'bus at Kows the Risorgimento."

loon Point, some one cut her cont Pressure remains highest to the 'From all this controversy two pocket and stola 840 in Hong Kong east of the Bonine. The antifacts emerge very clearly-that the | notes. grelonic area has moved into the relations of Church and State in Eastern Sea. Depressions are in Italy are not to be so easily and

There was some excitement at dicated to the north of Shant amicably agreed upon as many Blake Pier at 8:30 last night when winds, imagine, and the attitude of the young "Chinese jumped over off Vatican towards current ideas of into the water. Although a large liberty and progress is extremely crowd gathered nobody amongst difficulty of exact definition. Pope them attempted to rescue the would- LES XIII. held that the power ofte suicide. It was left to an old the Church and State should eich sampan man to pull him out. The be supreme in its own sphere-with young man was none the worse fon the condition that on questions his experience. which are of common right and authority, "the Becular

A terrier belonging to the Hon. power should depend on

Mr. B. D. F. Beith, "went mad the heavenly power." He held it was a duty to and bit a

man" at the Upper resist State laws which are opposed Terminus of the Peak Tram on to Divine laws, and to obey is a Thursday. The victim, a Chinese, crime," but in our abnormal times was given precautionary treatment the Church usually acquiesces in at the G.C.H. and the dog has been certain modern liberties-nof

removed to the Kennedy Town de- approving them, but as thinking it Fot for observation as to bis meatal expedient to permit them, but in ccndition. better times she would exercise her own liberty." MUSSOLINI has de

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MUSSOLINI'S "HERESY."

Just a month ago Cardinal Gas- PARRI, the Papal Legate, referred to

the Dnee the man raised up by God" who guides the destinies of Italy with wisdom and firmness, Prior to this, the Minister of Public Instruction, instead of exchanging the usual handshake, kissed the ring of the Papal Legate as representa tive of a State claiming to be super- national. This was the first time representatives of Church and State in Italy met and took part in an official function, and the impression then created was that the two Governments were at last on termos of an exceptionally friendly nature. A few days later MUSSOLINI made a speech in the Chamber, before which assembly the Lateran Treaty and Concordat (signed between Italy and the Vatican, last February) had

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Turn about is fair play, and An artificial silk factory will now a tooth paste company is call- | soon take the place in Yorkshire ing attention to the fact that of the Barlow airship station, cigarette smoking not only gives where the airships R25, 9, and 23 the mouth and throat "a coating were constructed. The station has of tobacco soot," but leaves & been purchased by the Breda "funy täste" as well

Visada Ltd., Dutch firm, and work will be soon started on the As an example of faithfulness construction of a large factory. and service, the record of Miss When it is completed more than Elizabeth Gadsby, who is said to 4,000 workers, mostly girls, will be. have entered the employ of

an employed. A "garden city is clästic web factory in Leicester, at planned in connection with the the age of nine, and who is still factory. there at the age of ninety-two, is surely without an equal,

Chinese Farmers in Politics:

Peping. The young people of If a certain item of news gets China dominate the Kuomintang, about, no longer will small if the figures of membership in children believe the innocent fie- North Chins extend to the entire tion that if they' reach the ends of country. The figures show that the rainbow they will find a pot more than half of the 27,177 mem- of gold. An air pilot tying on

the San Francisco-Salt Lake, air bers of the Kuomintang of. Hopei way, some 12,000 feet high, saw re- province are between the age of ceted in the clouds a rainbow, but so and 25. The Kuomintang has it took the shape of a complete circle. And so, bang goes another registered remarkable growth in childish illusion 1.

membership during the year since Chang Tso 'Lin retired from Britain's "Shabby" Premier,

Peping. Two months after the Ramsay MacDonald, the

new Nationalists captured the city, the Prime Minister, is studiously shabby and carelessly clad," writes Kuomintang had a membership of one of London's tailors after hav- less than 4,000. It has increased seen the Labour leader at the about seven times. Perhaps the recent opening of the Royal Academy. Writing in the Tailor most, notable change in the mem- and Cutter, reporter says: Bebership is the number of farmers was wearing a rather passe black who have overcoat,

been enllated. awing collar," and a black tie all awry. The soft felt figures indicate that 32: per cent. hat, an old campaigner, struck a of the members are farmers. Less jarring note. It was a drab hat than a year ago farmer-members with a brown ribbon band, and

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provided a clash with the rest of were negligible. Six months ago, the outfit. On the whole it was the students dominated the Kuo- a sullen rig So far as dress goes.mintang in the north, composing David Lloyd George] tries and

succeeds, Stanley Baldwin) tries more than half of the members. and fails, and Ramsay sulks All Now the students are only 19 per England enjoyed this tailor's peacent. of the membership, in spite pricks not pin-pricks.

A second extraordinary general clared that the Church is subject meeting of the Institute of Ene to the authority of the State, and gineers and Shipbuilders was held that fall liberty of conscience and yesterday under the chairmanship discussion must be allowed to every of Mr. G. F. Taylor for the pur- citizen. To this the Pope 'replies pose of confirming a resolution that the Holy Sce is the supreme brought before the meeting held on organ of the Church, and that May 21. The resolution referred liberty of conscience and discussion to the adoption of revised Articles cannot be tolerated. because such of Association. The meeting un- freedom is tantamount to aaying that animously confirmed the proposal, human beings are not subject to the and the Chairman expressed his will of God. This controversy be thanks to the members present. tween MUSSOLINI and the Pope

of the fact that Peping is the raises issues which are of great in-

The croquet season is on in Eng-

student centre of China Great care is still being exercised in ad- terest and grave importance, and land. It is estimated that this Britain's "Dry" Embassy.

miiting members, and every candi- There is more trouble in dip-date must understand the princi-. recalls the bitter controversy of summer there will be more than 75

lomatic circles at Washington--- fifty years ago, when GLADSTONE tournaments, and just like cricket this time as a result of the British ples of the Kuomintang as well as possess a working knowledge of re- wrote his famous pamphlet on there will be Test matches between Ambassador declaring he will not

presentative government the Vatican decrees in their bearing England and Australia. "Lawn in future avail himself of the

West. privilege accorded to diplomats of upon civil allegiance. From the billiards," as croquet is often call importing alcoholic liquor. French cabled summary of the Pope's letter, ed, is played only by the elite. At wine merchants are particularly American Journalists in China, protesting against MussoLINI's Roehampton there are ten courts indignant that the British Ambas The branch of the Chinese

sador be so inconsiderate of Foreign Office evidently made an equally eloquent attitude of the Vatican "to-day has garders there is at least one observe the law of the country, to with civil wars and the funeral of address in the Senate, for the Pope not changed materially since the croquet court, and the air rings which he is accredited. His exam- Dr. Sun Yat Sen, to arrange for ple, if generally followed, will receiving a large party of Ameri- has been now moved to make public issue of the famous Syllabus in 1804 with well-accented cries of "Off to

incan the loss of 850,000 gold in

can newspapermen about the mid- Protest against the Dictator's and the Ecumenical Council of 1969. Hong Kong" and "Up the coun-business annually. We consider dle of June, under the auspices of

the Ambassador's action praise the "heretical " speeches, and regrets GLADSTONE's comment on that atti-try" and other terms of the game.worthy, and one that will redound | Peace. The party will arrive in Carnegie Foundation for

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to the credit of himself and the China at an interesting time, with pation he representa. Prohibition the nation plunged once more in- is not a joke, but a serious reality, to civil war on a large scale. But in spite of persistent propaganda the Foreign Office is determined: to ridicule and evade it. The that in Peping they may forget people of the United States came

civil wars for a time, and glance. to a decision which may or may into China's long past, so amply. not be a wise one, but which has set forth in the ancient capital. been given the full force of law, Two public dinners are being und it is for all honest men to obe arranged by the Foreign Office, serve that law. Agitation for its and another by the American As- abolition or amendment is perfect sociation. The foreign newspaper legitimate, but attempts at correspondents also are arranging evading it cannot be other than

a luncheon. A number of private criminal. The British Ambas individuals, foreign and Chinese, sador, like other diplomats, enjoys have also asked to entertain the certain privileges, and his decision visitors during their stay here. to surrender that relating to.. 10 The newspapermen will be in the contentious a matter as the imhands of the Chinese Government portation of alcoholic liquor is an Railways from the time they leave. example of self-denial which his Mukden until they reach Shang- colleagues would do well to follow. | hai. It is understood that

special effort is being made to What Will Rogers Thinks,

afford them unusually comfortable- In the House of Representatives accommodations, and that the the other day, Mr. La Guardia of "Young General of Mukden has New York, whose advocacy of agreed to set aside cars for their legislation friendly to the liquer use in China, interenta in steady and persistent, enraptured his "wet hearers with

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become her convert without re- Miss Mary Joyce West, 22 years nouncing bis moral and mental old and armless, is completing freedom, and placing his civil plens for making a tour of Europe loyalty and duty at the mercy of

her arm-propelled cripple's There is nothing in the address another."

chair. Miss West, who lost her tw delivered by MUSSOLINI in' the lower MUSSOLINI appears to have raised arms in an accident "several years Chamber which could be reasonably this very issue of liberty of con- 480, says she can make thirty miles regarded as "heretical," but in the science, and it is his attitude on a day in her chair. She will make Papal note to Cardinal GASPARZI this point which makes the latest the tour pay for itself by selling the Duce is credited with a state- quarrel between the Vatican and handworked fancy articles which ment that would obviously send a Italian Government of profound she had made herself. She plans to udder through the Vatican. international interest. From the work her way through France, MUSSOLINI is said to have declared British point of view, it is most un- Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. (presumably in his Senate speech) fortunate that further controversy that but for the fact that the seat should be started just when the

Wireless for the Sick,

of the Christian religion was trans- centenary of Catholic emancipation

One of the most satisfactory There is in aspects

of the broadcasting of #ickered out like any other religious England even to-day considerable musical programmes, lectures, ̈ser- sect which had flourished in ancient feeling against what may be called mons and other matters of general Palestine. This is modernism" Vaticanism, and striking evidence interest, is the pleasure it has indeed, and the horror and indigna- of its existence is found in the cable brought into the lives of many CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. tion aroused in the Vatican can be message giving details of Sir Huge people who are "for one reason or

CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS easily understood. The man who, BRAND HARNSWORTH's will. In leav- another confined to bed; or who live be funny, except for the serious We hear that the price of land SETTLEMENTS, MALAY a few weeks ago, was publicly desing one-tenth of bie estate to found in inaccessible parts of the country, and sinister purpose behind them. in Kowloon and Yaumati has re STATES, NETHERLANDS cribed as having been raised up scholarships at Oxford, the testator There was a considerable outcry ciates, outstanding leaders, right value. During the land "boom" He asserted that among his assocently risen again to its former INDIA, BORNEO. THE by God" to guide the deatinies of lays down the condition that re- when the vicar of St. Martin's in here in the national Capitol, have in 1901, the price of land generally PHILIPPINES, Etc.

his country with wisdom and firm- cipients must be Protestants, their the Fields announced that some of difficulty in preventing their own was considerably increased, but now.

children from. drinking hard that the Kowloon-Canton Railway ness, is now publicly branded as a parents must be Protestant, and the services would be broadcast. liquor.". He wound up his impas, is so much talked about in all This Large Volume of approximate heretic by those who so recently their paternal ancestors for another Some people felt that the suggestion|sioned attack upon the prohibition circles, property-owners on

ly 3,000 Fagos gives, in addition sang his praise. It is a unique two generations must have been was irreligious, others that it would law by saying that careful mainland should, doubtless, be re. to the Usual Lists of Firma, an spectacle, and it will be interesting Protestant.

analysis of the figures will show luctant to part with their lands at Such discriminatory encourag still futher the modern conclusively that a majority of the the proper value. Indeed, it is Alphabetical List of Residents to see how MUSSOLINI deals with clauses in regard to legacies are as habit of neglecting attendance at voters at the last election were de said that it would be a very good in the Far East containing the the Papal challenge. Whether or common as they are significant. church. The thousands of grateful cidedly against prohibition." Pre-investment if intending purchasers Names of early

not one agree with the principles Rome is a religious centre which letters which the vicar received serious, even if a bit hysterical sent value of land, as prices will sumably Mr. La Guardia was could avail themselves of the pre-

20,000 FOREIGNERS. of Fascism, none will deny that the attracts some and repels others, but from church people who had for In another column of the paper surely rise another 100 per cent.

Duce is a man who has the courage whether repelling or attracting, it years been unable to attend any

from which these extracts are cull when the railway starts.-Hong

by a gentleman widely known as

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A series of statements which would Looking Back 25 Years.

as Surnance in strict alphabo. of his convictions, and is not likely is a centre which influences many service, proved conclusively that heed, appeared a statement signed Kong Daily Prese, June 8, 1904.

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to ait quietly under the sting of millions of men and women, and was right, and broadcasting has a Humorist-Mr. Will Rogers. As Looking Back 50 Years. the Pope's rebuke. In his address for this reason developments of the gained in dignity and importance a rule Mr. Rogers strives to be On Friday evening one of thé

quarrel between the Vatican and from "bis action. in the Assembly, MUSSOLINI gave a MUSSOLINI-"the man raised up by British hospital would consider its seemed to have offered an illustra Point Battery into store, being Now-a-day no funny, but upon this occasion he big guns was returned from West. CLASSIFIED LIST

clear definition of the new Papal God"--will be watched with interest equipment complete without a radio tion of the true words spoken in drawn by some hundred or two of Sovereignty. The discussion," all over the world, and in some installation, for it is realised that jest. His communication reads coolies through Queen's Road upon See in Washington dispatches three carriages, the wheels of which IMPORT AND EXPORT | said the Duce," has been described quarters with considerable anxiety. the intereat of "listening in"

alleviates one of the most tiresine that the Democrats are planning through want of the smallest quAD-

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from the to take the wet side and make ntity of grease, made the most in- and a free Sovereign State. But in

patient's point of view, that de direct issue of prohibition in 32, tolerable, noise. As the Military. pressing feeling of being cut off Why a man should dig bis grave Authorities are above ordinances. this State the Church is neither

three years before he is buried is there is no legal appeal, but would sovereign nor free. Its sovereignty

retard convalescence. It is pleas almost unexplainable I spent not be a little more comme il faut here would be a contradiction in

One British case of enteric, a ing to "learn that the Matilda three years in forty-eight States matters were conducted a little case of smallpox and one Hospital has now installed a re- each season kidding, and joking on leak as we might expect them to terms, and it is not free because it

diphteris (both Chinese) were ceiving set and each bed in the both sides of prohibition, and If be in Peking The handling of is bound under the terms of the notified on Thursday." -

general wards is now equipped with you think this country is wet you these heavy pieces of ordinance, it head-phones so that the patients got a big city angle on a Nation scientifically conducted, israther, Concordat. The situation may be

The very promising rain that fell who wish to listen on to the pro- that is composed of country folks. imposing than otherwise, but to see defined as a Sovereign State within yesterday morning soon cleared grammes daily broadcast in Hong It's the only law we ever had them dragged with shouting and the Kingdom of Italy. The Catholic away and only 0.10 of an inch was Kong may do so, and others, who where the small town and country screaming along the road, needless Church, with ・ certain special registered at the Royal Observatory, do not, agzce at musie hath know they hold the trump card. smashing the hydrant covers án charms," or are not well enough to You can't change it without their their course, rather implies n want privileges, is loyally, and freely re-

Announcement has been made of enjoy the programme, are not to be cognised, and other cults are freely the forthcoming marriage between disturbed. The installation, which permission, and you won't get it, of that active supervision and ex- They are just laughing at you." emplary care by which those in admitted. In the middle of the M Walter Cabal — Leading jis nuw complete, has been carried Apparently-the-funny-man is the charge of HM transport depart=--

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