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Its revealed recently that. "Private 18,022," the pen name, of the author of "Her Privates We,” one of the most discussed of ms- darn war novels, conceals the ident ity of London man, Frederick Manning. He has writ- ten several books, including two volumes of verse.
Mr.
WEATHER REPORT. Nothing has been settled As to many of them, think his way
Kroll, the famous. what punishment-if any should is impossible to know. May wo German war "aos who bore be imposed upon the nation which Yesterday's weather report, fore-violates the. Peace Act. If signa hazard the greas that, in a country charmed life in the mir during the cast and remarks, issued by the tory A should, in defiance of the which is so divided on such a simple war-has died from lung trouble Royal Observatory at 3.10 p.m. Pact, make war against signatory issue as Prohibition, there may be at Geesthact, near Homburg He
B, what would be the position of the United States! The position many more who disagree with Mr. hnd 33 air, victories to his credit, of those States spbscribing to the Dss than accept his view of the and held the rare "Pour le Merite" League of Nations is clear at future trend of Anglo-American ¦ decoration. least, in law, if not in fact. They: are bound to act together against relations. But even so, we must any nation which violate the admit this is no effective safeguard League Covenant, but the United against another cutbreak of inter- States, not being a member of the national insanity. Once the pro- League of Nations, is not so bound. variableWhat, then, would happen in the pagandists begin their deadly work, event of A making war on B1 The there is little difficulty in persuad. United States might throw the ing a bewildered people that the whole weight of its mighty moral, unthinkable has, after all, become political, physical, and financial inevitable. And this brings us back strength on the side of B. It might, to the point already referred to- however, quite lawfully claim the it is the uncertainty as to the right to advance money to A, to position of the United States on the question of penalising breakers trade with A, and to declare its determination to uphold the prin- of covenants which makes it so ciple of the freedom of the seas difficult to make progress along the and the rights of neutrals in road which we believe even Mr. defiance of other signatories of the DENNY would wish to travel the Peace Pact who happened also to path of world peace. be members of the League of Nations. It must be clearly under- stood that no responsible spokes- men of American public opinion bas said or suggested such a thing would happen. But it must be also understood that, as things are, such a situation could quite conceivably come about, and if it did come to pass, the outlook would be critical indeed. So long as the United States remains outside the group of nations which is pledged to punish any infraction of the League Covenant, so long will there be doubts as to what would happen in the unfortunate event. of.a rupture between two signatories of the Peace Pact.
DEATH. GALBRAITH-On March 21, at Shanghai, PATRICIA, CAROLINE daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. GALBRAITH, "agéd 13 years..
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War between cortain nations had been considered "unthinkable," yet it came to pass. Conflict between certain nations is declared to be ON THINKING ABOUT THE | equally beyond imagination-bat is is Could British and American "cousins" possibly come to blows over any conceivable difference? Let those interested in the question read American Conquers Britain," a remarkable and most interesting book by LUDWELL DENNT, & Well- known American publicist, who has given much time and study to the investigation and comparison of Anglo-American economic and in dustrial interests. Mr. DESY is no soap-box spellbinder inspired with "spread eaglism," but handles
Turs, article is not an addition, toʻ the recent local symposium of opinion regarding "the nature of heaven and hell: It deals solely with mundane affairs of matters which concern Every man and woman who takes an intelligent interest in events going on around them. It deals with the very plain and practical problem which is being discussed in London by the nations, and it deals with a hypho- thetical but no less important ques- tion--that of the relations between WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.the two great Anglo-Saxon nations.
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Owing to pressure upon space, an interesting article on towing is unavoidably held over until to-morrow.
The Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association, is holding its annual meeting on Friday, March 28, at 3.45 p.m. in Messra. Jardins, Matheson's Board Room,
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mince for the week ending March 5 amounted to 102,975 tons, and the sales dur ing the period to 99,700 tons.
The funeral took place at Chisle hurst, Kent, recently of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas White, who died with
three days of each other. Mr. White was 76, his wife was 74. They celebrated their golden wedding last October, Mr. White, proprie tor of an'ironmongery store, ubed to serve the Empress Eugenie when she lived at Chislehurst."
Addressing & Scouts dinner at Southead, the Rev. J. Holyoak, dis- trict commissioner, said:"There: are two sure things for keeping a railway carriage selecta parson and a woman with her arms filled with babies People late for their train tear along the platform to a carriage door, sce a parson, in- side and then race on again I appreciate the scout movement be cause it treats clergymen like bu man beings, which they really are."
ajor Foulkes, secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial The forthcoming marriage is an-War Museum, presented the confer nounced between Mr. William cnce of the East Anglia area of the James Geall, residing at 1, Minden British Legion at Caxton Hall, Avenue, and Miss Mercedes Sarah Westminster, SW, with one of the Gecker, of 2, Wing Lok Building,eix flags flown at the Cenotaph last-
year. The flags are changed every
Kowloon.
Messrs. Gande Price & Co., Ltd., are holding their shareholders an nual meeting on Thursday, April 3, at noon. The transfer books will be closed from March 28 to April 3, inclusive, ·
year.
Lieut. Col. Crossfield said that they had thought they 'were getting to the limits of Poppy Day results. The total results for the country were not set all in, but by comparing similar dates they
were £20,000 up. So far E491,000 had been received at headquarters. At the Theatre Royal last night most complicated subject with the second performance was given The wedding is shortly to take ledge. He frankly realises that the Bed." The play was greatly enjoy-of Sir George Cunningham Buchan- unity no less than care and know by the A.D.C. of "And So To place at West End register office claims of kinship will ecunt na ed by a good house. There willan, K.C.LE., the engineer, to Mias. nothing if, and when, the time be a matinee performance, to-day Joan Haggard, niece of the late should unhappily come for public (Wednesday) at 5.15 opinion on both sides of the Atlantic to be infamed against the other. He recalls that quite re- GEORGE, and Mr. MACDONALD-to name no others have each pabliely deplored the unsatisfactory state of Anglo-American relations, and he contends that the trade war be- tween the two countries is increas
rate and with a force ing at a which carries Prime Ministers and Presidents along with it.
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Our comments on the Naval Cen-cently Mr. BALDWIN, Mr. LLOYD KOWLOON 19. ference will be brief, not many
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days ago we dealt with this subject at some length, and there is little to add to and nothing to withdraw from what was then written. The position afthe moment of writing
A report has been made to the Police by Captain Neilson, of the a Imatsen, which is lying at the northern anchorage that sometime between last Friday and Monday, a thief broke into the ship's store and atole two tarpaulings, 30 fathoms of Mauila. rope and nine cargo slings, the total value of which was $130.
An illustrated lecture, will be
Sir Rider Haggard, the author of "King Solomon's. Mines." Sir. George Buchazan was born in 1885. He is a widower, his first wife: dying in 1928. He has been aeso cinted, with many important engi; neering undertakings at home and abroad. The bride, who is the se cond daughter of Mr. John Hag- gard, brother of the novelist, is now in he 40th year.
A solicitor appearing for a Lee firm of toy and perambulator mak- era summoned under the Factory Acts at Greenwich Police Court. re-
that we hear every day of the in cently, said: "Notwithstanding
crease in unemployment, I co make the startling essertion, that for a long time this firm have ad- vertised and put their names at every Labour Exchange in London in the hope of getting unskilled as well as skilled labour, but
it would relieve. without success. "If we could get them the unemployment and be more profitable to us, since it would save us overtime."
is a critical one. There seems, to │'Anglo-American. economic world given in the main building of the be no possibility of the full and struggle, which cuts under and University by Mr. Charles E
DONALD naval truce.**
Architecture, under the auspices of complete agreement between the five through the tenative Hoovan-MAC- Moore, B.Sc., A.M.I. Struct. E., on Mr. DENNY's record of economic the University Engineering Society, Powers as was hoped for." A diens trous disagreement may be dis-war between the British and on Thursday next at 8.45 p.m. The American Empires for industrial general public ale invited to at creetly avoided by some sort of com-
supremacy makes anost interesting tend. Attention is drawn to the
most change of time, which is to be 6.45, promise calculated to camouflage reading, and it should be the real differences which exist. widely read, for it will compel p.m. insted of 5.30 p.m. as previous
thought to be given to matters ly announced. We may be quite sure that Mr which are not so carefully, pora ponder MACDONALD and Mr. STIMSON willed as they should be.
At a meeting of the Shanghai make every possible effort to get fighting for our lives in world Chinese Chartered Accountants As "said Lord LIDDELL last sociation it was suggested that the markets, signatures put to something before
year; our fate as a nation de- Shanghai Municipal Council should the Conference breaks up, but from pends on extending and developing permit. Chinese auditors to parti what has transpired so far there our trade." Before the great war cipate in the examination of th
Britain had 13 per cent. of the Council's books and accounts on the is, unfortunately, no ground for world's expert trade, and the ground that 50 per cent of the Looking Back 25 Years, hoping that any real progress will United States 12 per cent To-day foreign settlement taxes are paid There has been some talk about The auggestion has the Fleet getting their letters, be- be made along the lines hoped for those figures are exactly reversed, by Chinese.
but Great Britain is not content to been referred to the Standing Comfore civilians, and the Hong Kong when the Conference was called. Asit idly bemoaning the change inmittee of the Association for con- Post Office has been more or less Reuter cable to-day tells us that the her fortunes without making some sideration and discussion, w abused. By a special arrangement First Lord of the Admiralty de attempt to regain the ground she The following notifiable descases and extra expense, Singapore gets
has lost. It is in that very last appear in the report of the Medical its mail thus-The bags are tran precates any attitude of pessimism, that Mr. DENNY sees danger-that Offers of Health for the week end-shipped at Aden on the "ferry" and declares it to be inconceiv financial and industrial interests, ing March 22: Typhoid two cases, stormer to Bombay, are sent by rail. able that the delegates whe have seeing how things are going, wione Chinese and one non-Chiness to Negapatam, and from thence on are forwarded to Singapore by the assembled in London should be in their own good time, make an also one death. Smallpox, tea
"unthinkable" was an inevitable Chinese cases and deaths regular British India teamer. unable to reach an agreement in one. There is at the moment Anglo- Diphtheria one Chinese case and The Fleet fail bags at home aro face of the fact that all their American financial competition; one death. Meningitis one Chinese addressed to Singapore and Hong there is rivalry in growing raw case and one death. Influence one Kong, and China letters are for- nations have made a solemn de materials; there is the struggle for death, Malaria four deaths, and warded by the first steamer. The claration renouncing war. It may rubber and oil; there is the keen tuberculosis forty-two deaths. All postal authorities here are not pre appear inconceivable, and we hope competition to find ready and deaths were of Chinese persons. will prove so," but impossible profitable markets for manufactur ed goods. The foreign trade and things have happened, and may investments of the two countries happen again
One of the factors. which has a
ten
at a luncheon of the executivo caži-
pared to enter into a similar ara rangement, one reason being that there is no regular B.I. service be- tween Hong Kong and Singapore. If it could be worked, though, it. might be an improvement-Hong Kang Daily Press, March 27, 1903. Looking Back 50 Years
A campaign to raise G81,000,000 for the American School in Shang are directly competitive and there hal will open next August through is not room in the world declares out the United States, it was an very great influence upon the Mr. DENNY for two conflicting enounced last week in New York recent development of events is the pires as large and predatory as uncertainly as to the position of Britain and America. Either the paign committee. The fund is to
An attempt was made on Friday the United States is the event of supremacy of America will be rebe devoted to buildings end endown- a breach of the world's peace. The cognised by Britain, in peace, or ments. Mr. Howard Ellsworth night to palm off upon us a forged Prospectuses may he obtained from Paris, Pact binds its sixty or so that supremacy will be asserted in Cole, vice-president of the Stand-letter bearing the name of a gentle- MR. LI HOI TUNG, Mr. BANKEE & signatories to give up the idea of battles of blood." Here is cheerful ard Oil Co. and a former resident man resident in the Colony. Co. Bank of China Building, or from ever declaring war against each reading indeed and while a Con of the Far East, as chairman of Though ncquainted with the The WARDEN, SL STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, other, All very good, assuming ference is in session in London the school trustees said: "America handwriting or signature of the Stanley
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that every Fewer putting its signa called for the express purpose of is in danger of losing prestige in gentleman with whose name this expression to Chinn, through lack of support cf. liberty was taken, we were able to ture to the KELLOGG Pact sincerely giving practical intended keeping its word. But Anglo-American ideals on the ques this school, which is performing a discover on a very cursory examina suppose and the possibility of un- tions of world peace and disarma-heroic task in the education of the. tion that neither the caligraphy nor pleasant things happening cannot ment! Most English people who be excluded-suppose some Power read, this book will feel annoyed- should break its pledge1 As we if not righteously angry when they THE ANNUAL DINNER will be pointed out a few days age, the come to the final chapters but that hold on APRIL 127, 1830. tone of the recent discussion. in is no reason why they should not Members wishing to sttend are London clearly indicates the exist read the book. In fact, there is requested as soon as possible to Notify ence of a feeling that some nation every reason why they should read One or Other of the Two Jom which has declared it will never it, because it shows us so vividly donations towards the Divisiona SECRETARIES, IL E. LINDSELL
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worst happens-what then? Some of the signatories of the Peace Pact are not members of the League of Nations-notably the United States.
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