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ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

THE Committee of the above Society would be most grateful if those interested in its work would kindly send in their donations of subscriptions. Money is.most argent- ly needed and funds are very low.

No amount is too small and will be most thankfully received by the Hon. Treasurer.

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HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

THE

HE Annual Dinner Danoo will be held at the Peninsula Hotel on Friday, February 3rd, 1983.

Booking of tables is now open at the Hongkong and Peninsula Hotels. The charge is $6.00 for each person and should be paid at the time of booking.

By Order

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Hon. Secretary.

HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.

INTERPORT PROGRAMME

Thursday, January 26th,

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Saturday, January 28th,

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GAOL FOR TELLING yesterday's Cabinet proceedings. MATCH FOR BRITISH BOXER They cannot agree about what oc- CABINET SECRETS curred. There must have been 'some decision, as Bright's resigna-

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STERN' 'WARNING. “TO EX-MINISTERS

Two years' imprisonment, under the Oficial Secrets Act, is the penalty for Cabinet Ministers or ex-Ministers who reveal in the slightest degree their discussions in the secrecy of the Cabinet, said

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With all the authority of a formar Lord Chancellor and former Attorney. General. Lord Hailsham laid down the law em phatically. Not merely the Privy Councillor's oath of secrecy, which all Cabinet Ministers take, but the stern sanctions of the criminal law forbid them to say a word,

Uniwtting Victims. Visions of the prison doors dos ing on loquacious or even on care less Ministers of the Crown made a grotesque cad to a debate which arose through Mr. Lloyd George's recent request, which was refused, for the publication of Cabinet dis

the American, war

ставіола debt in 1922.

It was a joke in the lobbies that, unwittingly, a great many Minis- ters and ex-Ministers, if the law were applied. might now be in "quod."

longed ten years ago; another Privy Councillor rose up and denied his version. A third made another con- tribution from a different angle

"Probably unwittingly, in the ax citement of the moment, at least two of them said what had hap pened in the privacy of the Cabinet.

New York, Jan. 18. The New York Boxing Commission announc- od today that Thomas Samuel "Sesman" Watson, featherweight | champion of the British Empire, was a worthy fighter, and would be allowed to meet "Reed" Cho- colate of Cuba, in a world's chau pionship bout.

Fore it was renlised. be Lord Bankey, the Lord Chancel or, who was a member of the Se cialist Cabinet, was all for the rule of secrecy. Without it, he said, the of Government Cabinet system would be impossible. Disclosure of Cabinet proceedings, apart from anything else, was, he said, a breach of a man's personal honour,

These strong statements of views meant that the Government har turned their face more strongly than ever against the publication of the 1922 discussions which Mr. Baldwin last week said would be an admirable thing to publish.

"My chief has told me to ask you what the dewil was decided, for he be damned it he knows., Will you ask Mr. G. (meaning Gladstone," said Lord Hailsham) conventional and lese pungent terms, Yours ever."

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more

"Intolerable Position." Your lordships will see," add ed Lord Hailsham, "that occasion un-ally there must have been incon

veniense from the old practice,

Unfortunate Idea.. Lord Hailsham said: "The fortnite thing that seems to have happened recently is that some Privy Councillors seem to have had a kind of idea that so long as they did not read out what they called Cabinet minutes' it was all right to state their recollection of what had happened in the Cabinet,

In the view of the Government

"My own personal view. he continued, and I have no doubt

the Government, is that it would

The decisions of the commission |

ART IN INDUSTRY

What Britain Can Do In Design

BURLINGTON HOUSE EXHIBITION

G.B:S." SHOULD GO TO

BIRLE CLASS

EDINBURGH DEAN ATTACKS

BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH

OF GOD

A lively criticism of Mr. George For the first time in its history | Bernard Shaw was made by the the Royal Academy is arranging Very Rev. Dr. W. Porry, the Dean

was based on the findings of a for an Exhibition of Art in Bri- of Edinburgh, at the annual meet jury of deputy athletic commis sioners, which studied the ability ing the world that in this respect talion of the Boys' Brigado.

tish Industry, by way of convincing in Edinburgh of the local bat- af Watson as a fighter.

clean slate, and recommended that he be entitled to the title match with the Cuban.

our

He said the

The jury gave the Britisher air designers are abreast and in

the Brigade, did not Following the Retrospective Ex. arrive early enough to catch Mr. hibition of British Art arranged Bernard Shaw in his toens. It for the spring of 1934, the exhibi- might be a fight of imagination tion is dated for the January and, tu picture as a member of the February of 1935, and will cover Boys Brigade, but he could think Lof him, ana keon member of thờ textiles, glass, pottery, furniture,

band beating his own drum. metal-work, printing, &c.

The undertaking is in collabora tion with the Royal Society of Arts, and the Society's secretary Mr. G. K. Menzies," said:

Chocolate is holder of the New York commission feather title and of the trick junior-lightweight crown under the National Boxing Association.

its publication create difficulties for themselves or be fraught with some grave complications for the King and country which they are trying,

to serve.

J.

Infexible Rule.

"For these reasons," he conclud- ed, "I hope the inflexibility which has hitherto prevailed will be main tained in ita integrity."

The decision is a beau goste" on the part of the Royal Academy, and shows that although primarily concerned with the fine arts, the president and council realise the necessity for making a suprem effort to emphasise the value of the artist to industry, as well as the dependence of industry on de sign, greatly to the bonent of the nation's trade and finances..

British Originality,

If Mr. Shaw had had the good fortune to be a member of a Boys' Brigade in his youth he would have saved himself from cumber ing his head with a vast quantity of prejudices religious, political and social-which at one might have been regarded as am original but which wore now get ting rather stale.

Lima

The Dean said he was moved to make these romarks by the fact that there came into his hands tract written by Mr. Shaw which, be thought, contained more polson ously inaccurate statements then any fract he ever read.

In Search of God,

Fitzalan Hope, House of Commons Lord Rankeillour, formerly Mr. Chairman of Committees and De- puty Speaker, who raised the dis-) Experience and search go to cussion, said there was an "abso- prove the wonderful fund of taste lute orgy" in September 1931, of aand originality awaiting develop story of a girl who goes in search ! In less than 20 pages of a little it is the view of my colleagues insertion and denial of matters dealt ment in our own people.. One o of God Mr. Shaw ung the Ten with only a few weeks previously our recent prize-winners in textile Commandments most of the Ola be most undesirable if the rule of in the Cabinet.

design is the daughter of a but Testament, and a big part of the Cabinet secrecy should be modified

He mentioned no names, but his ler, and a winner two years run New Testament into the dustbin ar abolished.

"It would be an intolerable reference was to the debate follow. ning in another field is the son of...

They

by should invite, Mr. Shaw to position if in a discussion in the ing the break-up of the Socialista bricklayer's labourer. But for Cabinet Ministers had to remember Government, when Lord (then Mr.) the society's encouragement com & Boys' Brigade" Bible class and

make him attend regularly. Greenwood, Mr. Thomas, and the go unnoticed." Prime Minister himself debated in the House of Commons the reasons why the Socialist Government col lapsed.

& complete that what they said might be liable! Snowden, Mr. Henderson, Mr. petitors like thess would probabis. If their boys were not learnin

and, I believe on reflection, of every one who has taken the Privy Coun cillor's path, that is misconception.

"The obligation to refrain from disclosure of anything which is discussed in the Cabinet extends just as much to your own recollec tion as to any written record."

Observing that no record of Cabinet decisions was kept until the war, Lord Hailshamn caused amusement by reading a letter written by the late Lord Harting ton's private secretary to one of the private secretarica of Mr. Glad sond when Prime Minister in 1862.

The letter ran:-

My dear Eddie,-Harcourt and Chamberlain have both been here this morning and at my chief about

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to be brought up against them, and themselves charged with inconsis. tency if they departed from what they said.

With regard to the choice of 1935 the secretary of the Royal Academy, Mr. WR. M. Lamb, said: "The spring of 1933 and 1034 are already provided for, and the council believe in concentrat ing on one

the truth about the Bible in their early days they were most cert to imbibe the crudities of sou riit lecturers, Homesta

Lord Bands, who presided, shid that during the past years, the intermediate show a number of boys had increased by

Again mentioning no names, but obviously referring to the dispute last week between Mr. Lloyd George, Sir Robert Horne, and Sirear so is to ensure its complete nearly 200. Camps had been at Austen Chamberlain, Lord Rankeil couple of years is none too long a no fewer than 300 boys in various success. Besides, we find that a fended by about 1,000. There were our said:-

period for manufacturers to take battalion bands. full measures for achieving artis- tic and distinctive work zia so many different sections

It is absolutely essential in the public interest that the discussions which take place in the Cabinet shall take place in the full certainty of all the Ministers that they are speaking their minds with absolute freedom to colleagacs on whom they can implicitly rely, and with regard to matters upon which it is their sworn duty to express their "One Privy Councillor rose, from opinions with complete frankuesa, a motive with which I entirely sym- without any haunting fears that i pathise, to say what he believed what happens may thereafter by and remembered was the policy o (Continued on next Column) the Government is which he be

The Mischief Done.

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Berides, there will be an enor mous amount of organising and administrative work to be done, if, (Continued on next Column)

as we trust, we are to succeed in fixing the attention of the public. on a matter of such urgent artistic and economto interest.

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