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CHANGING CHINA. “A Quarterly Non-Political Review of Life and Conditions in Modern China. Vol. 1, No. 1 April, 1933, 128 pp. Vol L, No. 2, July 1923. 128 pp. 74: Hongkong Daily Frons (63, Floof Stematy E.C.). 1: Glen, sich. In a predatory, note the editor expiniți ́that the pur-

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London Air-Mail Letter

Christmas at Parliament: An American

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Novelist: "The Common Population"!

Sir Kingsley Wood: Junior Mem

bers of Astor Clan: A Link

Dickens.

With

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PARLIAMENT'S CHRISTMAS

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in the £2.125 salary 2

MERCHANT MARINE

Earl Beatty's Warning

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WAL - London, Dee! 27. When the House of Lords 'met, Earf-Howe presented a petition

babait of 12,000 officers of the Mercantile Marine,

Later he moved that a public inquiry be set up to report upan the conditions. of service

The officer of the Merchant. Navy bt declared, para;to-day. sudering from certain grievancen which to me at any rate, sceny.to ery outofor redressi

Lord Howe went on to "quote a arber of cases to illustrate the increase

present conditions of service in the arises, #.

Aerosatile Marine. A second off- London, December 27. Such would not be the case were cer working on one of the biggest The prorogation of Parliament action siken ph penn mestion lines had a maximum salary of foolish: "frivolities. Tén years that the bdinistry of Agneslture, four guineas a week, out of which Christmas holiday and guarantees for expmpieshould be raised to ho had to providerhis uniform and ta: those who live in remote com- the status of hit-blas Depat- pay for his anndry stituencies the pleasure of eating ment of State. In ahar avent Mr. Recently a senior officer was dis their Christmas dinner t-ther, Walter Elliot might arpeetran in- pensed with after twenty-four ownhomes. There was a time. crease of salary from £1,700 to years service without compens however, when politictarts scorned £4,000 a' years from P

tion or peusion. He belonged to a such amenities and lived more “ur

great liner, owned by a big com- less laborious days without think-

pany. ing of a recess for indulgence in

Some sort of pension scheme for Christmas feasting and frivolity.

the fercantile Marine would be an Malden speeches by the two absolute boon. At present. officers Moreover, that was before Puri-Junior members of the Astor were only signed for

a single family party" were a feature of joumey, and might find themselves festival and when it was elsewhere the concluding sitting of the Comput off at the end of it. observed vigorously throughout the

They are in the position of "Lord Willoughby de Eresby took casual labourers and nothing precedence. no doubt Ameuse he more," he added warmly. has sat in the House a few days Lord Howa then dealt with the longer that Mr. Romald Tree, who question of the employment of came in as a result of winning the foreigners. last of the by-elections

tan Parliament had abolished the

On Christmas Day, 1638. when the House of Commons met as usual, one member expressed; himself as shocked at the small attendance, and complained also that he had been kept awake most of the preceding night by the noise of preparation for this days foolish, frivolities "Ten years later he would have had grounds for complaint, for in 1848 the Roundhead Parliament abolish ed Christmas; adducito remained unobserved till the Restoration.

NOVEL AND NOVELIST,

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OF THE ASTOR CLAN,

Both speeches were brief and modest. Indeed, Lord Willoughby reminded the House this," besides being tone of the latest arrivais, he was the youngest member....

Lady Astor, the chieftamess of the new "Commons clan, shook her head in unmistakable dissent when Sir Percy Harris' asked whether the new members shared hør views on all political matters.

THE CODEX SINATTICUS.

The announcement of the death of Mr. Louis Joseph Vance; the American novelist; récalls a curious literary coincidence." In the sum- mer of 1908;Mr. Varice"was startled to read in an English” newspaper For many centuries the Codex that there was about to be issued Sinaiticus, which is to find a a zover by William De Morgan final resting-place in the British entitled Joseph Vance," which Museum, lay in one of the strang was said to be a complete humanest and oldest buildings. In the document." De Morgan himself world, the Convent of St. Cathe- was no less surprised at the dis-rine on the plateau of Sinai. covery that there existed in The convent is a fortress-shaped America a novelist of considerable building best with fertile or- reputation who bare the same chards, in a fandscape completely name as that of his own here barren, and illustrates what man can't tell you," he wrote, "how can do by centuries of diligence funny it seems to me to be writs and patience. - ing to a real Hye Joseph Vance after 200,000 words of about a fictitious one." ".

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writing

When Mr. Arthur Merton, the Near East Correspondence of." The Daily Telegraph,% visited dt ten The incident led to a corres--years ago, he, inspected the library pondence between the two authors where the rare manuscript volume which extended over ten years had long lain, probably ever strace and in which they exchanged the destruction" ^or^ the - Cæsarent many confiderices respecting their Library "Hearty 18 centurity ago. methods of work. In some of these ⠀⠀ letters, as printed in Stirling's blo- graphy of De Morgan, Vance 'ad- dressed him as my literary god- father," and De Morgan-responded by calling Vance his literary god- son. It was not' until'six' years after the publication of the "book that they met in the flesh, on the occasion of a visit of Louta Joseph Vance to London."

THE MISSING PRINCE

* There will be 1,300 for lunch an Thursday." In or such words, Imagine, Mr Bertram I showman, gave his orders for the send-off party which annually precedes the Olympia circus,⠀

The host, in paying a final com- pliment to Prince George, became almost royal himself when he looked around the guests in the great marquce" and embraced them in the phrase "the common population." per

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WAS A PROMISE BROKEN?

As regards the Russian story that it waxissent as a gift to the Tsar in the early sixties, the

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**** He said that in some British

ships there were no British offi cers, Recently the Board of Trade permitted two whalers to lave Liverpool for the Antarctio with Norwegian captains and officers.

Shipowners' Reply

Lord Essendon," of behalf of the shipping industry, said they had the highest regard for their officers and men.

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He disagreed with Lord Howe, however, that a public inquiry into present conditions was necessary. There was already in existence an Organiantion known as the Na- tional Maritime Board for dealing with these questions. This body would cordially welcome the re- presentatives of the officers, and they were obviously the people be fors whom alleged grievances should be examined.

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They told Mr. Merton that it was only after urgent persuasion. and, under the irresistible in- | Buence & the Russian Chumh, that the MS" was:"allowed to be taken to St. Petersburg for copy- in, and they added, a promise was given by the Tsar's represen- tatives that it should be carefully returned what came back, in due course, as netiche precious original but only a copy..

It is this copy, they said, that is "preserved. in the convent library to this day, and has been consult- ed by innumerable scholars since.

BIR HENRY DICKENS.

-The death of Sir Henry Dickens severs the last directing with the creater of Pickwick 19.

Prince George, as guest of honour, was paying the first royal visit to a scirtus since Queen Victoria attended a similar open-Charles Dickens was very proud"

ing of Olympla in 1886...

of his sixth son, Henry The; boris success at Cambridge delighted his father, who wrote to a friend:

His interest in the "behind the scenes of circus life" nearly led to

disaster. Mr. Mills makes it a I have a great success in the rule that -- his Tuncheon guests boy-line to announce you Harry

•should' be in their seats at the has won the second scholarship at ringside before the showr starts. Trinity ›Haß, which gives hibh. 250 Punctualy 12.38 the guests a year song he stays there!" were ushered to their tables and and I begin to hope that he will waited expectantly. 15 minutes get a fellowship. stretched on to twenty. Fear be- gan to be expremed that the Prince had been prevented from coming,

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At that moment doubts were dispelled by his amiral Prince George, it transpired, had been fastinated by, sights) and sounds that had cauglitētus attention to? the sideatowa, and had falled note: the passage of time, an

we pak & valued e THE NEW CABINET MINISTER.

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Coming away I met Sir Kingsley Wood, receiving congratulations on his elevation to the Cabinet, while rétaining 'n ontée, es Postmaster Crefierek ka arz

When “ Harry " was to make his first speech at the Union his father wrote alid wiletter, which is worth quoting in parker sinta dala, un, ja

This letter contains in asen- tence the alemaniacpf successful public speaking:

"I am very glad to heat that you Phave made, such a good start at

the Union ELKE FRY DETERI ht pains about 1bgroping you inosti“ well and roundly"-speak to the last person viztőle, ame give your- self time as an

Charles Dickens, at first intend- ed to call his eighth child Oliver Goldsmith Dikérik."

Bat de dianted his mind, and, It is not the standing of the insuanced shyutils: admiration for Pált Omice but of that of its pre-Tom Tabs, which he was then Bent head which has been recog reading, he christened the boy mised. Thus no question of an Henry Fielding.

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