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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1935.

INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION

Motion

Debated

(Special Air Mall Servien}

London, July 29.

censure motion

The Socialist 1,060 an industrial depression was down on the Orders of the Day of the House of Commons yesterday, and it will be reprinted as, an Order for some days.

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SIR GEOFFREY WHISKARD

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London, Aug. 14.

The Dominions Office, has

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MEMBERS +

This will be in contrast to last year's meeting, when he made at speech intended for a wider audi-nounced that the Government has ence dealing with India,,, agricul- decided to appoint a High Com- missioner in the Commonwealth ture and foreign politics.

of Australia, with functions com- parable to those discharged in the High United Kingdom by "the

and Commissioners for Canada

NOT OVERWORKED

The Minister who has had the That is the result of Tuesday fewest questions to answer this

motion Parliament is air, J. C. c. David divisionson, the Chancellor of the Duchy

of Lancaster.

night's fasco, when the was "talked out" and no was taken.

o'clock Because it was eleven and a member was still talking. the Speaker had to adjourn the debate. The state of Parliamen- however,

tary business will not, allow it to be resumed.

CAUGHT NAPPING Mr. Lansbury was, under the impression that the rule" bringing 76/10 debates to an end sharp at eleven

o'clock had been suspended had, but only for Government business. A motion of censure is, perhaps naturally, not Govern- ment business.

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If Mr. Lansbury had realised that, he would have moved "that the question-be now put." and a division would nave been taken

As it was, he and his colleagues saf back to listen to Mr. Harold Macmillan attaëring the Minister of Labour, and cneered him on When the Speaker terminated the debate they had B pastri shock.

DID HE MEAN TO? An argument still going on is not Mr. Macmillan knew that he was talking out" the motion.

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They say that, having his own "New Deal" proposals ready to submit to the Government and the country, he was anxious that he and his supporters should not at that stage have to vote either for or against the Government.

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Mr. Robert Menzies, the Com- monwealth Attorney-General,' is, I fear, making the best of both worlds.

In, Australia, where men cult a spade a spade, he pronunces his name as it is written

In Perthshire, however, a Men- zies is a Mingis if he wishes for

life with honour.

During his visit to his fellow clansmen af Aberfeldy, therefore, tactfully Menzies Mr. Robert adapted the proverb of doing as the Romans do when in Romë.

Mr. Menzies a ..To-morrow London and Australia know him

other

are

returns to work. He and representatives of Australia meeting British Ministers on the question of beef imports to this

country in 1935.

The views of the Argentine Government are awaited by both Countries.

PLEASANT IMPRISONMENT Lord Wakefield supplemented "als presentation of the Brass Crosby Cup to the Lord Mayor→→ to which I referred yesterday-by a print of that famous predecessor of Sir Stephen Killik

The original, which hangs in

South Africa,

Sir Geoffrey Granville Whiskard, He had a question to answer Assistant Under-Secretary for Do- yesterday about magistrates" in minion Affairs, has been selected Lancashire. It was

the third to be the first High Commission- question he has had put to himer and he will leave England for Canberra early next year to take since 1931..

up his new post,

Nor does Mr. Davidson have to speak: opce a year on his Depart- ment's vote. His salary (£2000) is a Crown and not a Parliamen- tary charge, and he is therefore

free from criticism.

OVERTOPPING THE GUARDS London will be impressed when the Royal Marines make their appearance next month.

The new High Commissioner has been Under-Secretary at the Du- minions Office since 1930 and Vice Chairman of the Oversea Settle- ment Committee since 1929. He entered the Home Once in 1911. and was Principal Private Secre- tary to successive Secretaries of state from 1915 to 1920. He was from 1920 to 1923 Assistart Secre- tary at the Chief Secretary's guard omce, Dublin Castle, and served. at. the Royal palaces-a in the Colonial Office from 1922 they have never one to 1925 and in the Dominions omce from 1925 to 1929. He ac- The specially picked battalion

companied the Dominions Secre- now formed at Portsmouth fortary on the latter's visit to Ca- this purpose will compare with the nada. Australia, New Zealand and Guards in height

South Africa in 1927-28- Route.

They arrive on Aug. 17. On Aug. 24

over they take

duties

thing before

In one respect it will excel them. Every "officer, I am told.

#! stands over six feet.

When the Royal Marine Light. Infantry amalgamated with Royal Marine Artillery in

both

the GERMAN COUPLE

1923

Corps kept some of their distinctive uniforms,

The present full-dress tunic is Spend Honeymoon"

blue, like that of the old R.M.A.4 The blue trousers, however. retain the thin red stripe of the R.M.L.I.

Except for some slight altern- tions in the badge, the white hel-. met has remained unaltered. JAPAN'S NATIONALIST KILLERS

The "Black Dragon," which has taken a hand in the friction be- tween Japan and Italy over most Abyssinia, is one of the famous and formidable secret societies in the East-

It is centuries old, and is in spired by semi-religious ideals of purity and virtue in public and private life. It is devoted to the Emperor and to all that it consi- ders best in the Japanese nation-

al character.

Of its several hundred members the majority are young naval and military officers and students

Once

оп the Black Dragon's tist as a" "traitor." a corrupt politician, or as a member of the Liberal "Dangerous Thought" movement, the victim is doomed.

During the last few years they have killed Mr. Inukal (Prime Minister). Baron Takuma Dan (a prominent banker), Mr. Inouye (ex-Finance Minister)-all in 1932 and Mr. Hamaguchi, an ex-

Premier in 1930.

GREAT VICTORIAN FIGURE A friend who claimed yesterday to be able to recognise Lord Bute in my picture of the Loder's Club admitted that he did .80 with mixed feelings.

group

He said that it took him back half a century As a young man

At Margate

(Special to the "Bong Kong Daily Pren" (Copyright)}

London, Aug 14.

Thousands saw the Mayor and Mayoress of Margate give an of- clal welcome to a newly wed Ger- man couple, who arrived at the po- pular British seaside resort yester- day.

Under an

agreement between Margate and Cologne, the happy pair from the famous Rhine city are spending their honeymoon at Margate, while a corresponding English couple are now on their way to Cologne, -

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HELP FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

Government Scheme

London, Aug. 14.

T'he plans for the settlement of un- employee au land which the com- missioners, appointed by, the Gov- ernment to look after the interestS

or the areas specay affected 07 the economic depression, arė en-

SEVEN NUNS

Charged With Smuggling

After an address of welcome, the couraging, and pave tɔ take a num- | yesterday, when seven nuns from

Mayor of Margate read a message from the Chief Burgdmaster of Cologne, who pointed out that these visits would strengthen the ties between Great Britian and Germany, and particularly between Margate and Cologne.- Transocean Kuo Min.

ber of durèrent forms according to Local and butter, circumstances.

Glamorganshire County Council is co-operating with the Comm- sioner on a scheme for about a thousana, quarter acre holdings for unemployed men from South Wales coalfields.

[Special to the "Hong Kong Balls Press" (Copyright!;!

Berlin, Aug. 14. The tenth trial of members of the Catholic Orders for offences against the foreign currency con- trol regulations,took place here

the cloisters of various parts of Germany had to answer charges total of 22,000 of smuggling a marks over the frontier, to assist the distress of cloisters in other"

to pay off their countries, or debts

One nun named Birkhahu re- It is not expected that the men celyed a sentence of four months become economically self-imprisonment. and 1,800 marks Але. while the other aix nuns Unemployment" Assistance were sentenced to nes ranging Board has agreed that unemploy- from 1.200 to 4,000 marks ment allowances should.continue. Promocean Kuo Min. As the result of Sir John Dash-The object is to give men wood's gift to the National Trust small prospect of getting back into of Church Hill, at West Wycombe, employment a stimulus to activity the "Hell Fire Club has come and self-respect and the opportun- into prominence once more. In ity of supplementing their standard the days of his 18th century pre-of living by their own efforts. decessor, Sir Francis. Dashwood,

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can

He does not often mention "Out supporting on these holdings and of Step" nowadays.

ROYSTERERS ROUTED

he remembered Lord, and Lady this was the club's headquarters.

Modern historians are inclined to the belief that the orgies and

Bute's

Victorian hospitality at their house in Regent's Park;

the dining room. of The "Dally Telegraph" office, was painted by

E. Fine, the son of the great This Lord Bute the father of general wickedness of the mem- engraver while the present holder of the title-bers of the "Hell Fire Club" were Exams Crosby was in the Tower,! was one of the leading Roman much exaggerated by local tradi

18th century

“

part of which can be seen in my Catholic magnates of his day. reproduction to-day..

He took little part in English The Lord Mayor's incarceration public life, but his memory is well

tion.

There is a story that Wilkes, to obtain piqued by his failure

the

with

They will be provided with tools, chickens, pgs, poultry-houses and says and they will make a weekly payment fur rent.

BIG FOREST FIRE

Spokane, Aug. 14. With thousands of deer, bears,

#

rabbits and other wild animals, stampeding in terror before a wall of roaring flames. 1,000 forest fire-

against Aghters are battling After the first year; hoiders will blaze which has already demolish- pay back in three annual instal-ed thousands of acress of timber ments a sum of £12 which is the in three states. Montana, Idaho cost to start them. Already over and Oregon. 500 applications for holdings have been received.--

55 cte, was not a very rigorous one. Be-preserved in Cardiff, which he did admission to the small inner ring British Wärelcs

aldes sitting for his portrait he much to create was allowed to receive as many of

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had seen the face and pistol when the foreigner was lighting a cigar- ette. The appearance of the sailor answering the description given by the Chinese, the former was obliged to follow, the officer to the Wayside Station.

Shangbal, Aug. 12. Advised 'by—a frantic Chinese an passer-by at about midnight Saturday that he had seen

Questions were put to the sailor, suspicious-looking foreigner, hold- ing a pistol behind a telephone pole but the language difficulty further in "Broadway, a police officer at-complicated matters. In response tached to the Wayside Station hur- to a call from the Bettlement, a Tiedlyl searched the thoroughfare French police officer travelled to and found a French sailor letsurly the Station. The sailor submitted walking on the pavement towards to a search. A "pistol" was found

ir-his possexaton. Yangtsepoo district.

It must be mentioned here that a dramatic touch, worthy of any thrilling detective story, had been furnished the ncident when the Chinese pedestrian, in giving his informatian to he officer, said he

All that was needed was a little demonstration The Ballor had it his cigarette with the "weapon" thus He was allowed to return to his vessel with the lighter without further delay.

political opponents as he liked.

COMMON TO BOTH

of this exclusive, if disreputable, society, planned a revenge.

When the members were drun-

his friends, supporters, and even Two works by co-authors have kenly celebrating a black Mass in

His imprisonment was also be appeared this week. Mr. Derek the ruins of Wycombe

gulled by his being able to witness effigles of the Speaker-who, as the representative of the House of Commons, was responsible for his incarceration-burnt outside the

Tower:

Abbey, Walker-Smith, the barrister-nove- walkes let loose an ape among

ilat son of Str Jonah Walker- them. Smith, MP. for Barrow, is, in the language of the mathematicians, to their clouded vision appeared The sight of the animal, which

"common to both."

to be. the Being in whose honour The first, which appeared on the Mass was being held, was too Monday, was a play "Bloody much for the oysterers, who fan Mary," The second, published to- for their lives. day, is "Divorce

THE MEMBER COMES HOME. An intimate political gathering will take place at the Guildhall, blems." Worcester, on Saturday,

its Pro- and

UNASPIRING. ARYAN

In the arst instance Mr. Walker- My recent note on the "pagan" Mr. Baldwin is then to address Smith's collaborator was Mr. Giles personal advertisements in Gen. bis Bewdley, constituents, for the Playfair, the son of the late Sir Ludendorff's paper has brought 27th year running. It will also be Nigel Playfair, in the second it was me a somewhat similar one from the "Muenchener Neueste Nach- the 43rd year of Baldwinian re- Mr, E 8. P. Haines.

Mr. Walker-Smith, who is 24, is richten." It runs: presentation, as Mr. Stanley Bald- win succeeded his father, Mr. Al-acquiring a reputation for literary versatility. Fils first novel, "Out fred Baldwin, in 1908.

Mr. Alfred Baldwin' had sat for of Step," which he wrote when he for 18 years, during was a Left Wing Oxford under- Bewdley which time he had only once graduate of 19, was a “Truth-at- last-about-the-public-schools" best been opposed

52 years old, purely Aryan doctor, member of the Tannen- berg League, wishes male issue through a registrar's marriage with a healthy, wholly-Aryan, unaspiring, housewifely young Woman who wears low-heeled shoes and no earrings and is accustomed in heavy work, pre

The Prime Minister. I under seller.. stand, will make a "Member's Since then he has become an Speech" this year. He will talk to ardent Conservative, has written

Why, I wonder, preferably with- his followers as the member for a political treatise on the Pro-ferably without means.

out means ) Bewdley on subjects of local tectionist Case in the 1840's" and rather than national interest; ví a book on Lord Reading's cases.

It is feared that many animals are perishing in the fire ileuter.

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