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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1932.
CONWAY PRIZE DAY.
POET LAUREATE'S ADDRESS TO THE CADETS.
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'PROTECTION HAS FAILED."
LORD SNOWDEN ON HARD SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE.
DR. BUTLER'S VIEW OF WAR DEBTS.
OUR LONDON LETTER.
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vided by mechanism, but it in and that the more advanced suechanical shops will be able, to
vary the prices, and a time may come when one machine holds wares of five different prices, In the meantime chose, who want stocking after shop keeping hours will pay neither
more or less for them.
Non-Stop at Daly's.
This evening saw the first di
ELEPHANT SHOT.
FIVE DAYS.
play of non-stop variety at Daly's KILLER ROGUE CHASED FOR: Theatre, a playhouse which has sheltered many famous musical comedies since its beginnings in tko nineties. Tonight, however, Ipoh, Aug. 23-After "chase. recollections of Marie Tempest and lasting five days, through jungle. her colleagues were dispelled by a and swamp Mr. C. Ryder has suc- rapid-revolving selection of "aets" | ceeded in shooting a rogue elephant and sketches against & highly who had killed a Chinese tapper at syncopated.
Elsie Jelutong and gored the leg of 4 background. Carlisle, the cabaret artist, in Malay padi planterat Batang characteristic eroonings; Elsa and Padang.
Records in Sea Cruises.
Billy Newell, Desiriond Jeans and The elephant was shot shortly hie band, some amusing comedians, after he had crossed the Bernam Within the next few weeks more and the invaluable Morris Harvey
all contributed to a bright holiday River into Selangor. cntertainment.
Delicacy and
Lord Snowden
was happy as rhairman of the luncheon given to Dr. Vicholas Murray Butler by the Dunsford House Association at the Hotel Victoria, London, recently, Among those present. were the Austrian and Swedish Ministers, Britial people will be holidaying the secretary of the German Emafloat than bag ever been, the case assy, Lord and Lady Gladstone, before. August will mark the novelty did not hold prominent Lord D'Abernon, and Lord Noel peak period of this new develop places, but this slow should ince ment in holiday fucilities brought August without undue misgivings. Buxton.
about mainly by the decline in the It continues from 2 p.m. until mid- North Atlantic shipping traffic. night, and future audiences will ocean appreciate its personal touch, The withdrawal of great liners from their regular services which lends the whole an amiable
in the luxury crutse distinction.
Prize day on board. H. M. School Ship Conway took place recently, when Mr. John Masefield, LL.D., the Poet Laureate, a form. er endet in the ship, distributed the prizes and addressed the cadets.
Captain F. A. Richardson, com- mander of the ship, in his annual report, stated that the average number of cadets on the books of the ship for the year under review had been 182. That showed a smal' decrens froth the average number last year, but taking into account the very acute all-round depression
Following his tributes t Dr. through which the Empire is stil
Butler and to the memory of Cal passing, he felt that to be in no way surprising. The scholastic den rd Snowden sail: "Pratec- tion has failed. This country has standard for the year had been particularly well maintained, and hindered international trade and to ungage the effect of placing the termly commerce by following the bad ex-business has so far been entirely examinations of the principal sab. ample of imposing tariffs in the justified by the bookings for trips jects in the hands of professors and expectation and hope, we were toll, lecturers of Liverpool University of abolishing tariffa, I think we had been to give considerable may leave the Protectionists to con- stimulus to an already high template the failure of their own standard of work. He was pleased policy, because the failure of their to report that the Howard prize policy is unmistakably clear every-stance an Atlantic liner is under in the hands of solicitors, for meteorology, organised by thewhere. It has not realised one of
the Mediterranean, allowing under The prize was won in 1928 and Royal Society of Arts, had been the expectations the people were led 24 hours for each turn-round at, has been kept dark up to the pre won by a Conway cadet for the to believe would fallow from the second year in succession. That imposition of tariffs, When our prize was open to all the nautical import duties were imposed I said training establishments of the Em-I was prepared to accept the test, pire.
and I am now willing to wait for
1
were
On the question of war debts Lord Snowden said they more harmful to those who recei- ved payment than those who paid.
to
Mr. Masefield, after distributing the result. The best of all teachers the prizes, delivered an address, inis experience, and people must the course of which it was his duty learn in its hard school." to report the giving of a model of The the Conway to the King. model was the work of Mr. John B. Williams, the carpenter of tha: ship, assisted by the cadets at various times in the past two years, and it was a thing of great beauty and delicacy, and a credit to the workers who had made it and to the ship. It had fallen to him to have the great honour of making the presentation to the King, and he must read to them the words that His Majesty spoke to him concerninternational co-operation and un- ing it. He bade him tell them all, and all chose responsible for the model how pleased, he was with the gift and the thought of it. His Majesty then did him the honour of asking him what he was writing
Dr. Butler spoke of the pleasure with which Americans watched the increasingly powerful and consci ous leadership of Great Britain in getting the distracted 'world out' of its troubles. The world, he said, had been slow to hedipt Eobden's message and to see the need for
derstanding, to solve international problems.
The Oure.
"In season and out of season," he said, "I am telling my country-
to the Mediterranean and other underfood, the Swish authorities holiday waters, and I am told that have refused payment. The value it is now almost impossible to ob- of the prize is said to be one mil rain berths for any of the forth.lion Straite dollars." coming August cruises. In one in-!
taking four "non-stop" cruises to
London.
MALAY'S $1,000,000 LOTTERY PRIZE.
PAYMENT SAID TO HAVE
BEEN REFUSED.
Ipoh, August 25.-While serving in the Perak police contingent a Malay lance-corporal is reported to havo drawn the first prize in the Swiss National Lottery. For rea-
It is believed that the matter is gons unknown he deferred claim.
ing the prize.
aent.
Having retired last year the Malay put in his claim, but, it is (l'aulined un prévious column.)
THE CHILDREN'S
CORNER
ROUND
THE
CAMP FIRE.
Now that we've packed our kit let's be off. When you get to
at the moment, and he replied that men that since the causes of these camp, remember that you are there
present conditions are internation- he was at the moment engaged in
al in origin the cure must be in- writing the history of the Conwayternational in method, that what from her inauguration in 1850, ever the Government of the United State does by and for itself it will Le unable to lift the burden from the back of its own people unless it co-operates with its brother-na tions. We face
Linked With All,
Addressing the cadets especially, Mr. Masefield went on: "You all belong to the Conway, and perhaps you do not quite realise what it
to have a good time.--Help cachi other, and keep happy.-Do just na you are told.
tents are erected and you know Don't open your kit-bag until the
where you are going to sleep,-when your spot has been settled unpack your things and make your bed.
It in a great thing to be able to make your besi so that in the morn a condition ining you find yourself still covered which selfishness and philanthropy over. Firat put your groundsheet ground, then put your palliasse, must go hand in hand. To aid down with the shiny side yourself you must aid others.
with the straw in it, on top. Next "If the United States Govern-tako ono blanket and lay in down ment had accepted the principle of flat, then take the other blanket and lay it down no that half of it the Balfour Note in 1992 half this overlapa the other one as shown in trouble would have been avoided. the diagram.. The only answer to Americans who take the purely legalistic view and say the debt being due must be paid is, You cannot afford to receive payment." "
quite means to you. It means that this ship is profoundly linked with all of you, and whether you like her, or whether you do not like her, she is a part of your destiny. and must remain part of your im agination, wherever you go; it! means that she has been linked with your destiny by some of those. great powers which direct this hu- man life of ours. Apart from that, you are entering a club with a
America, said Dr. Butler, should world-wide membership, and take a lend as a creditor nation in wherever you go-it may be thou-sitting down with other nations sands of miles away-and you will and deciding that they were going go in some strange places you will to do. It was unless to say there meet some old Conway boy who will was no connection between repara- be kind to you and will stand by toon and inter-Government debts. you and befriend you, simply be. The two were so closely intertwined cause of the fact that he and you that a surgeon could not separate were once on board this ship in them. the Merrey, perhaps so many thou sands of miles away from where you meet,"
A
B
D
to
over-lap CD, and then turn over
Next fold over the part
A to over lap B. Turn up the end and fasten with blanket pins and your sleeping bag" is made- sleep with two blankets above you and two below!
Dr. Butler spake with great pride of the splendid self-control his countrymen were showing in the face of
great adversity. Fillow,' Throughout the land not a voice had been raised to foment discord, disorder, or revolution, The public
The Mayor of Birkenhead, Alder man F. Tweedle, anid he was won derfully impressed with the ship's war memorial showing the number of men who sacrificed their lives during the War. The training on board the Conway brought out, the highest points of efficiency, both in the personal and in the national of what Great Britain bag dene
Bense.
Į
BY
UNCLE JACK
HIDDEN TOWNS
Here are six jumbled towns in America. Can you solve them?
1. GOHICAC
2 CEQEUB
3. ENWRYOK
4. TAWATO
6. NOSBOT. 6. NOTCHARLES.
QUALITY, NOT COLOUR.
a cold, dark evening a car skidded and toppled into one of Amsterdama's, counla. A Negro, who happened to pass, did not hesitate one moment to dive into the canal, spoiling his best suit (for he walked with his bride), in order to save the three passengers in the car. He succeeded in bring- ing them safely to tho quay.
POUR LES PETITS.
Jeanne et Marie sont dens (2), petites filles." Elles ont (entre les deux) deux téter, un corps, quatre (4) bras et... quatre jumbes
(Franslation on Monday.)
IN LIGHTER VEIN.
Through some confusion on the part of the saved, the courageous Negro, who last risked his life for Baine Old Borj
his fellow men, dkk not receive any sort of indemnification for his
Your kit-bag makes a good
Landlady: "So, Mr. Beach, you spoilt clothes Somehow or other have something fresh again to com, the incident found its way into one plain, about this morning !!! - of the local papers, which related (Another articla next greek.)
the facts without comment The The
Boarder (eyelig plate readers, however, spontaneously sceptically): "Not exactly, ma'am, responded Gifts from all sides it's the eggs."
began to pour in,, One reader ent 100 florina, just saying that he was Reassurance.
grateful.
mannfieturer of hearths Passenger (on maiden fight with thoughtfully remembering that the Across. Plan; 5. Flat; 0. nephew): "H-hore, 6-6-tell me Negro bad been walking with Hir Lado; 10. Rome; 11 Ado; 13. Ten; when you're going to loof-the-lopf bride when He plunged into the but the suspicion grows on the that 14. No; 18. Pen; 17. N.A.; 18. again. June 30 when the War Tan Panel; 20. Then; 22. Sent; 24. version scheme да anounced,
mind had kept calm and hopeful. SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD. "How proud we are," he added,
A vote of thanks was accorded to restore the confidence aut rais
the the and temper of the world's. faith in itself am no prophet,
to Mr. John Masefield, on the pro- position of Sir Frederick Bowring, Beconded by Captain J. A. Cover ley, president of the M.M.B.A.
Be Prepared to Acclaim.
GROCK
The World Famous Clown
marked the turning point, toward Ent; 25. Tea; 20. Lak; 28 Kit; do. better things. It was a tonic to ML; 31 Ass; 32. Lo. public opinion in every country." Down: 1. Planet; 2. Ludo; 3,
Dr. Butler said he believed that.
during the next thres months sodo; 4 No. Fr. 6. Lot; 7 many influential voices in America Amen; 8. Tomant; 12. 8en; 16. Pant; would be raised on behalf of ro 10. Nest; 18. Peak; 19. Leck; 21.. construction that by November 1
the expression of America opinioneal 23, Nail; 20. Lm; 27. As; would be greatly-changed-
29, To
Nephew: "Well, I don't always know."
canal, offered a splendid hearth. A tailor sent a suit and even offer- to pay the cost of nursing Negro in the hospital, where he was taken after his wet adventure: “A” clown",
finiç oluralt to ring till ndilt (Continued from text coluinth.) hit and restore it to a state of Howatas A lady offered another so that finally the local paper could hew Shit Annaburged of write :-MARY
Blothes send a lumberman's jacket. "Colout does not play a role it Manwhile number of small and
only the quality 65 458 Heart Lartof money orders were that counts".
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