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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1933, 15 8*Á********** Price Per Month, 83.

London Air-Mail Letter POLICE FORCE

from

Prince of Wales in Wales: English Bar-

risters: Augustine Birrell:

Europe": Count Tolstoy and

Peter the Great:

(Spécial Air-Mail Service)

;servative policy. "It was the Balky of Joseph Chamberlain. - It would be folly to deny that to-day the movement is gaining tremendous impetus throughout the whole

country.

ANTI-COALITIONISTS:

London, November 22 THE PRINCE OF WALES.

The Prince of Wales has accept- ed the captaincy of the Royal St. Darld's Golf Club; Harlech. The Prince wili take office at the general meeting of the club next There is another reason why rear. The Prince, himself a keen these Cumberland Conservatives golfer, has been associated with

took kindly to Lord Beaverbrook, many leading "golf clubs in Great Lord Beaverbrook does not like Britain, and in 1942 was captaincoalition. Cuthberland likes them of the Royal and Ancient Club of no better. St. Andrews," the governing body of the game. Early this year he consented to become captain of the Worplesdon Chib, Brookwood.

** CALL NIGHT.”""

ItsCall Night" to-night at the four Inns of Court.

The standard of the examina- tions has been raised considerably

of recent years, and only 50 per cent. of the candidates satisfied the examiners in the October Bar Final.

Where are our future English barristers? Fewer parents than ever seem to be sending their sons to the Bar in these, days. In the lists of candidates for Call to- night appear many Indian and African names.

Since the gar there have been twenty-seven election contests in the four divisions of Cumberland. Twenty out of the twenty-seven have been straight fights. "THE PRIVATE LIFE OF PETER THE GREAT!"

Whether the Moscow ballet will be seen in London next year or not, I can state definitely" that a new Russian play will be staged here early next year.

This is the dramatic version of Count Alexet Tolstoy's Peter the Great" the rights of which have just been 'secured by Mr. Matheson Lang.

Count Alexel Tolstoy was one of the Rusal writers, who were sent to Engine during the war” to write up the English effort." After They, of course, return to prac-phe, revolation the Fred in Paris,

tise in their own countries.

OLD TRADITIONS...

but after phire. years" became tired of emigré life and returned to Rusila, where he made his peace with the Bolshevists.

The play deals largely with the personil character of the greatest of all the Tears, and the English. title will probably be "The Private Life of Peter the Great."

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BIRRELLISMS.:: Augustine Birrell. was an orator, but he had a falling.

At the Middle Temple, the only In keeping up the old traditions, candidates have to be present in Hall on Call Night in full evening dress, robed and bewigged. Stu- dents, for so they remain until they have eaten their last "dinner on Call Night,” are drawn" _up facing the Benchera dais. The Benchers march in procession to the dais, led by the head porter carrying the Mace. The Reader of Parliament and scattered Birel the Inn presents each candidate liams" so lavishly and unexpect- to the treasurer, who is the Chief edly that it was difficult to catch Bencher. When all the candidates them because the laughter came are introduced the Treasurer de- too quickly. In recent years he livers a short homily.

made few public appearances. There is not the same amount of Most of them were in the National ceremony at other Inns.

He was the fastest speaker in

Liberal Club, the atmosphere of which awakened recollections of the past and inspired him to make comparisons. But it did not, curb his caustic tongue.

MR. WILLIAM C. BULLITT. Mr. William C. Bullitt's appoint- ment as the first American Am- bassador to Boviet Russia is logical, It was at one of these · gather- if not inevitable.

ings I heard him describe debates There were many Democratic in the House of "Commons as candidates for the post, and pres-"wrapped in abysmal parochial was brought on President gloom." In the same speech he Roosevelt in favour of one or other said that Mr. Lloyd George "sees of them.

everything except his future.”

sure

Much has been said and written about "Mr. Bullitt's secret mission to Russia in 1919 as the represen- tative of President Wilson.

Curiously enough, very little in portance was attached in Russia at the time to the visit. Several years later I recalled the incident

then to "M. Tchicherin,

Soviet Commissary for Foreign Affairs.

M. Tchicherin looked puzzled. Finally he said vaguely:

Yes, there was a young man who came to see us and said he represented Wilson. But we were very busy with other things.”

AFTER 14 YEARS.

Mr. Bullitt returns to Moscow after 14 years, during which he has been successively flm producer, portrait painter, novelist, maga- zine-writer and assistant to the -Secretary of State."

He is 42, was born in Philadel- phia, is bald, clean-shaven and un- assuming.

Ten years ago he married a beautiful New York Journalist, Louise Bryant Reed. Her first hus- hand, the American Communist poet John Reed, is buried under the wall of the Kremlin in Mos-

SPLENDID ISOLATION.".

JOKE ABOUT THE LORDS. -Another of his gibes was, "The House of Lords represent nobody

themselves and enjoy the full con- fidence of their constituents.

Bircell, though a zealous humo- rist, would not countenance a On one occasion doubtful story. at a Bavage Club dinner he walk- ed out as a protest against a story which offended him

He enjoyed felling jokes against himself.

Once, he related, he jumped into a train and sat beside a lttle girl who regarded him with dis- favour. He realised he was sitting on her paper, and returned it to her with an apology. N

Before she got out at the next station the child shyly asked, "Please, sir, can I have my fish.”

It had been wrapped in the paper."

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FOR LEAGUE

Captain Eden Scorns Idea

London, December 14. The efficacy of the Shanghai Defence Force, composed of seven nationalities, was among the ar- guments cited in the House of Commons last night-in, support "of proposals for an international

police force.

initiated by the.. Liberal

The..." debate

Waa

Mr. G. le". Mander. member for East Wolverhampton. Mr. le Mander moved that the British Government press for the formation of such a force undei the League of Nations and argu- ed the practicability of the scheme at some length.

Support came from both sides of the House, the principal speak, efs in favour being Brig.-Genera: EL Spears (Con. Carlisle) and Major C. R." Attlee, (Lab. Stepney, Limehouse).

The motion, was, however, drop- ped after a reply by Captain Ap thony Eden, the Under Secretary- for Foreign Affairs, who contend- ed that the suggestiễn. was im- practicable and scorned the iden of an international police force being allowed to use bombing. sonally he would not feel much Captain Eden asserteit, that pet-

happier In smithereens the result of an international bomb than a national bomb-Reuter.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(December 15).' (X Moon, 28th Day)' Anniversaries and Holidays -- Ember Day.

Auctions.--Crown Land Sale, Dis- trict, Office, South, 11 am; lam- Emert's Sale of Postage Stamps, Bales Room, 5.15pm Woollen Goods, Laces, and Coffee,' 'Sales Room, 11 a.m.

Exhibitions.-Drawing, Painting Cookery, etc., Central British School Hall, 10.30 am to 3 pm.

Meetings. Kowloon Uniori Church General Committee, 6 p.m. Lectures-Vocational Talk: Mr. Peter H. Sin on "Law," Chinese YMCA, 8 pm.

Entertainments.

8.45.p.m.

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Children's Christmas Pantomime, 'Helena, May Institute, 5.30 p.m.; Rehears... Pirates of Penzance," al "The

Miscellaneous.-Call ön Green Island Cement Co.'s shares to be: paid to Co.'s Bankers, HK. and Shanghai Banking Corporation; Bishop Hall's Discussion Group, Bishop's House, 8.30 p.m.

Theatres Queen's: The Mystery of the

Wax Museum.**. King's:-'Perfect Understand-

ing." Central: "Is My Face Red?” Oriental:"Red Dust" WorldModernity." (Chinese

Picture).

Majestic: The Warrior's Hus

band?"

Star:Men without Land.”

Principal. Mafis Inward from America by Pres. Jefferson

Sports

Chess Club Chess.-Kowloon Championships, Senior, B. Soltan VH W. Randall; A. D. Soltau Vì T C. Faerk, C, B Béquera . B. W. Paul; Junior, Guy Ling v L Sequeira, T. E. Parry v. M. Cunletti; A. J. Biriakoff · v. F. Evans: Dr. H. D. Matthews v. U. Santos.

* Golf.--Conclusion, of Becond Round Taggart Cup (Ladies' Bec-

SIMS REEVES RELICS, Only £11 158, was paid at Bothe-tion).

by's, London, yesterday for a num Hockey HKBRA - Ý, HMS,

ber of relies of "Bima Reeves."

Berwick, 4.30 pm.7 Borderers v. Hongkong Hockey Club A, 5 pm. Bunrise. 8.55 a.m.; Sunset. 5.41. p.

-Tides. --High ́ ́ at -8.43 and 19,30; Low at 1.59 and 13.00,

Anotecase with gold pencil, presented to Sims Reeves by Irving in 1891, realised £3 15. Included in-a-lot' which brought £2 were a gold pencil case, two tle pins, and a sliver cigar case inscribed "Bim's Reeves, 1856."

Elia Reaves" rosewood dressing to the last difch against the new case, with fine cut glass and silver American monetary experiment. The result is always the same.gilt fittings, engraved with the Defeated, they held to their posts You may like or dislike the man singer's initials, brought only 308 in the hope that initial failure to or his policy. In the end you are Ninety shillings was the last bid procure results would induce the forced to adnilt the logic of the for musical, and literary- rélica.

President to Jettison the Warren- Fisher theories- Argument

THE WASHINGTON SPLIT

I have studied the effect of Lord Beaverbrook's speeches, an his audiences many times.

In this respect his speech at

Instead, these two professors "Carlisle: last night was remarkable. Those who follow these notes have persuaded the President that A crowded meeting, composed will not have been greatly sur-the policy failed initially because. mostly of men, who at the begin prized by the resignations from it was not pursued with sunclent ning were by no means-friendly President Roosevelt's Administra vigour. A closed in an atmosphere of tion I was able to indicate what The first effects on the compost overwhelming enthusiasm for the was likely to happen on October tion of the Roosevelt Ministry, are: policy of "Away from Europe":26 and November 2..

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