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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS...

TO-DAY.

(November 7.)

Charity Fair në Italian Convent, Caide Road, from 10am. till e

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"China Exhibition, City Hall, ap.m. bill 10 pam

PHILIP SNOWDEN: A STUDY

WINNING APPEAL OF THE BEST

PUBLIC SPEAKER."

LABOUR CHANCELLOR WHO DEFENDED HIS COUNTRY'S CAUSE.

if

Athletic Bouth Chinn Annual

No other nation could have pro wreaked him day and night, chly Sports at Caroline Hill gj

duced, I think, anyons quite like few fierce flashes of temper and an Cricket-First Division: Civil him, writes Stuart Hodgson in the occasional exhibition of sometimes Bervice. Indian B.C.; University London News Chronicld Poincaré quite inexcusable rudeness testified *. B.A Second Division: 1.RO..is the nearest imitation

to the are that still burnt in him South Wales Borderers (L.), Police Superficially the Yorkshireman His influence in the Party was to- Recreation Clubv. Civil Service, and the Lorrainer are quite sur ported to be failing fast. Some "Kowloon Co, Argylls, Navy .prisingly alike. Both have the people were even surprised that Orzigohaowend be

same hard obstinavy, the same in-place was found for him in the Footdial First Division: South corruptible integrity, the same tireosond Labour Government at all. Walt Borderers v. Navy Club less industry, and the same unyield- From the ashes of this doad past Joseph's Ling fidelity to intellectual prin burst astoundingly the Phoenix that Au South Wales Bor

ciples..

we all saw not so very many months. ago when men who would have shrunk like the plague from the pacifist and denounced, as the enemy of society the revolutionary Socialist proclaimed the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer as the greatest man of his day, the only Englishman strong anough and fear-- leas enough to defend his country's cause before the world.

Royal Afr

Possibly if their outlooks on life Battery could be compared ha que compares 10.0. Third photographs, they would be found ports Bouth of the same rather melancholy Josephine due in both cases in part to

ill-health. But striking us it is, fancy the resemblance is really superficial.

Hong Kong Golf Oup. Bowls: Spey Bayal Cup Pinal vinom, Dock e. Craigen- Kowloon Grinket Club green, 1. p.m.

Rac Eleventh Extra Basing Mooting

**Harmony

Heaven.

World Theatre:

Patting On The

Star Theatre Taming of The Shrow."

طونه

Poincaré as a politican (I do not speak of his soientide work) really is, despite the fair service which he. has undoubtedly rendered his coun- ty, a little man. It is very hard to imagine him accupying a greater place in the story, being what he is, than he has done. The wonder is that being what he is, he should have done so much and stood out in such bold relief against the grey background of the times,

It could not last, and no one knew it better than he

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Within a very few weeks the same tongues, which had so wildly acclaimed him were denouncing him with greater vehemence still. And yet bo had not changed. Only the rigid honesty which so charmed them applied to their neighbours was now applied to them.

But to say mind less sternly die His-lness and the grim heroism ciplined than Philip Snowden's it with which be faced and defied it would be the last drop of bitter, have moderated the violence of this ness in his rather tragic political invective. But for that he would life to think what, with just a little still be the public enemy in the better fortune, he might have beeyes of all who desire to use the public interest as an excuse for pushing/ their private fortunes.

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So long as he lives he can never- really be anything else to thes

King's Theatre: "Women Love Once,"

Central Theatre: "So This Is Paradise.!!

Majestic Theatre: * Animal The Sivas Tongad. Crackers,

This anefattar has forgotten: but wo who heard him in the old days will never forget.

For, he has an almost feminine dis- Merely to listen to bist gloriousgust and loathing of anything that even remotely savours of cormip: voice was to feel a thrill of sur prived delight: and never were tion. sound and case more splendidly I remember still the bitterness matched than in the oratory of with which, to an unsympathetic

silver-tongued Philip."

audience, he spoke of certain lobby-

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SUNDAY

(November 8.).

3rd Sunday After Trinity. Charity Fair at Italian Convent, Caine Road from 10 am. til 8 p.m.

Golf: Royal Hong Kong Golfi Club Captain's Cup: Kowloon Golf Club Championship (first round).

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Queen's Theatre: "Indisorest.” World Theatre: "Heart Ache (Chinese Alm).

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Free and Easy."

So This Is

Star Theatre Central Theatre. Faradise."!

King's Theatre: Women Love Once."

Tua Dances at King's Restaurant and Repulse Bay Hotel.

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He was the best public speaker, ing" interests" which pressed him, the man with the most winning in his first Chancellorship, to "pro- appeal that I have ever heard: trot, whatever he did, their pri and I have heard many, and great | vate interests. It is one side of his

zeal for Free Trade.

ones.

His oratory was a formidable personal force. That was proved drumatically in the Blackburn elee- tion of 1000, He came into the town unknown, the lonely champion of a forlorn cause, without money, without influence, and without friends to fight with almost no or ganisation an enormously popular local candidate.

His first meetings were almost unattended. Before the week. was over you could not get in at all. That was Philip Snowden in the day of his glory,

And when his chance came the glory, to mortal eyes, was depart od. I remember listening to him with absolute consternation in the 1924 Parliament. He was barely audible at all. A prematurely old man, torn with the cruel pain that

Unpopular Faith.

Bat there is another and a far greater. He believes with an almost religious fervour in those wider im plications of Free Trade to which' most people 'pay lip-service. In an age when nearly everybody is first and foremost a Frenchman ny an Englishmau, an Italian or a Polo- or an Egyptian

KY, Philly Showdan belleves in MED.

It has never been a popular creed. The way of its professors is always hard. And that is why in triumph and in failure, in ignominious ob- scurity and in the full blaze of un- looked for glory, he has always re- mained a lonely figure: not for that reason less interesting, less power- ful or less attractive.

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