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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936.
LABOUR M.P.S' MOVE DEFEATED
Lord Advocate Will Not Dragoon Parents
London, Apr. 8.
A proposal by the Labour Party to eliminate the exemption pro- visions from the new School Age Bull for Scotland was rejected yes- terday by 35 votes to 25 after live- ly dissension in the Scottish Grand Committee of the House of Com-
mona.
'QUEEN MARY'S ' 32 KNOTS
Tests A Complete Success
SPEED EQUAL TO
37 M.P.H.
Glasgow. April 19. During her trials in the Firth of Clyde yesterday the Queen Mary A "speed unofficially attained estimated at 39,8 knots. This is equivalent to about. 37 miles un hour land speed.
of
The pivot of the debate was an amendment by Mr. Nell Maclean
As the liner travelled at full (Lab-Govan. Glasgow) which the Lord Advocate (Mr. T. M. Cooper) speed of the Isle of Arran, Lord John explained, would have the effect of Aberconway, chairman allowing exemption certificates to Brown Ltd., the builders, sent out be granted to girls of 14 who were a radio message to the firm, their needed to help at home, but would workers and others, stating that the speed of the trials had been "in prevent local authorities giving ex- emptions to boys and girls at 14 every way satisfactory" and that who secured "beneficial employ-"the performance of the vessel has
amply fulled our expectations."
The Queen Mary passed 15 times over the measured distance of the Island of Arran, five times before the islanders were awake and 10 times later in the day.
ment." Mr.
George Hardie (Lab... 1x Springburn, Glasgow) contended that it was wasteful and harmful to break off a child's education. He knew what it was to leave achoul before 12 years of age. The rea- son was that he was the youngest of a large family.
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MUTILATED REMNANT Sir Charles M'Andrew (U.-Ayr and Bute), the chairman-I think the hen, member is getting away from the amendment. The Bill relates to children of 14-15 years of age.
"I was going to give an illustra- Llon," explained Mr. Hardie, "but it doesn't matter."
a member whose Referring to iame
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It, was just before the end of the test that she attained her greatest speed. The spectacle of the huge liner cutting her way through the sunny waters a wille from the shore was unforgettable: Her bow wave seemed almost to touch her, an- chors, and the huge waves which broke over the foreshore were 12 feet high
SIREN FAREWELL Hundreds of sightseers gathered on the island to see the tests, some of them even coming from abroad. One man had. Just returned from the Rocky Mountains. He said he had seen some beautiful spectacles, but none to rival that of the Queen Mary as she sped silently through the waters at over 32 knots.
The unofficial stop-watch timing:
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WENDY BARRIE
"Love on a Bet," with Gene Ray- This is mond and Wendy Barrie.
a good comedy, based on a wager that no man could start from New
York in his underwear and arrive
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EDINBURGH TO HEÅR CORONATION DATE
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London, April 9, The Lord Lyon King of Arms, Sir Francis J. Grant, accompanied by
in Los Angeles ten days later with the Scottish Heralds and Pursul-
"
a new sult, a hundred dollars, and engaged to a beautiful girl.
Raymond makes the bet with his unde (who wants him to go into the meat packing business), and succeeds after hilarious ad- ventures with escaped convicts, the police and the newspapers and some "It Happened One Night" dafliance with Miss Barrie and her cider-drinking aunt...
vants, is to proclaim the Coronation date in Edinburgh next month.
The date will be fired for the Wednesday or Baturday following the issue of the proclamation by the Privy Council
No other proclamation ceremony is to be held in Scotland.
The dialogue is not as neat as humour. Mies Barrie seems to be come prettier in every svocead pg It might be, but there is plenty of action and some situations of high film.
DEPARTURES
S.S. AENEAS
The following passengers depart- ed from Hong Kong per as. Aceas on May 5 for United Kingdom via ports: Mr. E. Butler, Mrs. Bind-
THE GERMAN COLONIES
Before The War
And Now
loss. Miss D. Bass (mald of Mrs |PROGRESS UNDER THE
Bindloss), Miss "G. M. R. Brough, Mrs. B. Bawa, Mrs, K. Cobb with infant and kmah, Mr. E. L Curtis Mrs M V. Carter. Mrs. P. D. Colyer, Mr and Mrs. R. P. Cooke, Q Dr. N. A Canton, Mrs. M. Dampney, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Davency, Mrs. A. Davis, Miss E Davis, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Dinsdale, Miss F. M. Dinsdale, Master T. K. Dinsdale. Master E. P Dinsdale. Lady Demetradi, Mr. and Mrs. H H Quling, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Fox, Miss E. A Fenton. Mr W. S. Glendinning. Miss K. E. Glendin ning. Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Grant, Miss E. M Humphreys, Major F. A Howarth, Major W, Holst, Mrs., I, E. Hartland. Miss S. W. M. Hartland, Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Hitch. Mrs. A E Jennings, Miss J. "A. M. Johnson, Mas A B. Johnson. Miss W. A. M. Joseph, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Leckie, "Miss M H, Leckie, Miss D. M. Leckie." Mrs. C. M. Melsome. Mrs. A. W. Meathrel, Mrs. K. E McLeod. Mr. E A. R." Newton, Mr. and Mrs A E. Pretty. Mlsa P. Potter. Miss N. N G. Potter, Mrs. L. Piesse, Miss S. V. Punnest, Mrs. I, Roberson. Mr 1.
Robertson. Master N M'ss C. Robertson, Robertson, Miss E. M. Ryley, Miss M. B. Ryley. Miss F. E. Ryley, Mr. and Mrs R C. Russell, Mas L. E. Swinson MISS H. de Salls, Mrs. M. Stuart. Miss M. G. Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stenson Turnier, Mr.
A Travers Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Tayor, Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Thomson. Mr. W. E. Underwood. Miss H. B Winter, Mr. Leong Yuet
Mina.
MANDATES
Londen, Apr. 19, The German Colonial Empire at one time extended over more than a million square miles in Asia, Africa, and the Paclic Islands. But its German population never reach-) ed twenty-ave thousand all told, and in the eighteen eventful years since the War many, perhaps most of these settlers have left,
Kiau-chau
BORDER SCOTS DIALECT
IS
BEAUTIFUL
Woman Authority Pays Tribute
THAT SO-CALLED OXFORD ACCENT
22,
London, April 22 Discussing the question of which are the most beautiful of the dialects spoken in the British Isles, Miss Esle Fogerty, one of the greatest authorites in the country, thinks that the two most beautiful are the Shropshire dialect and that spoken by Border Scotsmen. with the Oxfordshire dialect next
was at one time & Bourishing settlement in China. There were schools, there was even talk of a German University, and for some few years ambitious young Germans looked to the Far East us promising a career to the ta- lented and industrious. The Japan- ese administrated is for a time after 1914 by right of conquest, but from which these the place was then handed back made is to be presented to to China, and the German occupa-British Museum tion of afteen years is now a mere footnote to history.
A series of 12 double-sided re- cords of all the principal dialects in the British Isles has just been completed under the watchful eye of the British Drama League, and a set of the original brass disce records were
the
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"We think it so" charming to hear these dear people talking in this quaint manner, but we would not for the world allow our own hildren to speak in the same way."
"At present snobbery has a great deal to do with our love of listen- KAISER WILHELM LAND
ing to the various dia'ects of the The most substantial German countryside." Miss Fogerty, who possession in the Pacific was Kalier was hersie! a member of the com- Wilhelm Land, in New Guinea, Amittee which supervised the mak- rich but undeveloped country. It ing of the records," told a London was too far from Germany to be reporter yesterday. effectively governed from Berling and it has advanced more rapidly ünder the Australian Mandate than before. In 1914 the immigrant population was only 262; now it is 5,453. Of these 3,028 are British and only 404 are Germans, German Colony in Samoa under
a New Zealand Mandate) never numbered more than 200.
The bulk of the German Colonial Empire lay in the two great coun- of South-West Africa and Tanganyika, the former of which had 12,000 and the latter 1,000 Ger- mans when conquered by Smuts und Botha in two of the most xo-
|GRAVER THAN IN tries
1914
8.---32.43 knots MR. DUFF COOPER ON
TERRIBLE DAYS
3.-30 knots +-30,36 knots 9.-32.84 knots 5.-30.5 knots 10.-31.98 mets After completing the tests the Queen Mary returned to Gourock.
Mr. Dub Cooper, Minister where a tender landed some of her passengers. At 9.10 p.m. she set War, addressed a territorial" recruit- out from the Clyde for the fasting meeting here to-day. time for Southampton. Brilliantly
Mr. J. Walker (Lab,--Motherwell) -It is a Bill for exemptions and not for raising the school age.
The Lord Advocate-It is a Bill for raising the school age subject to the right of exemption. To give no right or exemption would be to Ignore the wide variations floodlit and with her great bulk which experience had shown to ex-picked out by thousands of electric ist in the industrial, occupational, lights, the liner steamed away from and economic conditions in differ.her anchorage amid memorable ent parts of the country, and would scenes on the shore, where huge
crowds had gathered. still more ignore the wishes of Parents and, indeed, at the child, In relation to the moulding of the
child's destiny and future.
CHANGED PUBLIC OPINION. Mr. Joseph Westwood (Lab.- Stirling and Falkirk) described the Exemptions clause as an appendix which should be removed. Twenty years ago he used to have the soap- box swept from under his feet for opposing school exemptions, but public opinion had changed since then.
be
He remembered the horror felt going down the steep incline in the coal mine when he was 14 years of age, and it horrified him to think that an exemption certi- ficate might be given to allow a boy to be employed in a coal mine under 15 years of age.
The Hon. W. Astor, Lady Astor's son, was surprised that the Lord Advocate should justify his case for exemptions on the score that the House of Commons had approved of the principle, and he regretted that the Bill should be given more of an industrial than an education al aspect.
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Three rousing blasts from the
giant strens, which echoed over the hills and up and down the river. were her farewell to the Clyde.
ап
DOG FOLLOWS GERMAN COFFIN
1
A bedlington terrier, the gift of English friend, followed the body of the German Ambassador, Herr Leopold von Hoesch, from the Embassy in Carlton House-terrace, London, yesterday, when it was taken with full military honoura back to Germany.
Manchester, Apr. 20.
and
fot
re-
The (now
mantic and difficult campaigns of
the war.
PLEASANT MEANINGS Miss Fogerty said tha: beauty in speech was very largely a question of association of idens. We asso- cinted certain kinds of speech with iked people we liked, and we words which had peasant mean- ings.
For instance, we thought "glow" a pretty word and "gload" a horrid word, though they were both very much alike.
The first was,, taken over under the mandatory system by the Union of South Africa, and of the 3,489 persons eligible to choose, 3,261 ac- cepted British nationality. Since then the population is increased bas
One of the records in the series is that of the ypical Cockney Miss Fogerty though dialect, pointed out that Cockney was not so much a dialec: as the others.
"It is really a town variant, and
in certain
It
very ugly she said " "UrJan to 32,000, largely by migration elements." He protested. against the insia-
from the Union; railways have speech suffers from the fact that lous heresy of pacifism.
been bullt, and a Legislative As- the speaker is always surrounded ferred to the international situa-
sembly introduced. South Africa by noise, therefore tries to speak tion,
has taken its responsibilities seri- loudy and harshly to make him- ously, and the Union Government self heard, and you get the raucous has not only advanced money to voice of the Cockney." South-West Africa on capital ac- count for development "purposes, but has also made good the de- ficiency of revenue in the difficult years of the slump,
The present, he said, were "terri- ble times. The European situa- tion was graver than it was in 1914.
The stakes also were higher. Then the fate of empires was in
the bance. To-day it was fate of civilisation.
the
"The only direction in which we have made any real progress since the war," he went on. "is in the manufacture of instruments of So the next war will be far more destructive, than the fast,
destruction.
"During these years It has been were devoting
as though a man
the best part of his life manufac turing an instrument with, which to commit suicide. It is nothing
VERY PRECISE Discussing the so-caled Oxford accent, Miss Fogerty said that there were always a good many Who he Universities people at WHITE POPULATİON DOUBLED
were very precise, in their speech. Tanganyika is directly adminis- They were the type who insisted upon sounding every letter of the tered by the British Government. and, apart from considerable sums word. For example, they would invested in the country by British syndicates and private individuals, more than £8,000,000 sterling has been expended on railway extension and other public works.
Some years ago, when the ques- tion of amalgamating Tanganyika,
say "of-ten", instead of "of'en.“ '
"Young men of the Oxford type often go through a period of being esthetic and affected, and it is their speech which is described as the Oxford accent," she added."
An official of the Speech Insti
was not in that the institute The dog was the Ambassador's less than that that we may witness Kenya, and Uganda into one ad- in our time--the suicide of civili-ministrative unit was under dis- cussion, the British settlers, both
favour of artificially preserv.ng sation."
English and South African, in Tan-dialects, even though they might
be very beautiful. ganyika required a defalte reas
pet.
Mr. Du Cooper appealed to the from Hyde League of Nations Union to give
Nineteen guns thundered a fare-
across London well Park when the coffin was carried down the Embassy steps.
Leading the procession was a
J:
every assistance in this task of re- cruiting. The weakness of the Lea- troop of the Royal Horse Guards was because the nations were not sufficiently prepared to use force against nations who defled it, and two companies of the lat Bat- talion Grenadier Guards.
Members of the Union should be Funeral music was played by the prepared, as he was- and he was band of the Grenadier Guards,
2 member-to say that it was the which followed.
duty of those who believed in this Representatives of the Foreign great experiment for world peace Office, Foreign Minister and mem- to be prepared to defend it. The Hon. Joseph Maclay (Lib bers of the Diplomatic Corps form- Palaley) said if there was no modi-ed up in the roadway." fication made in the exemption provisions "I am afraid I shall have. to vote for the amendment.”
"Don't be afraid shouted Mr. Hardie. Mr.
LIBERAL MP.'S THREAT
(Forelzn
Next came Mr. Eden Secretary), Sir John Simon (Home Secretary) and Viscount Monsell (First Lord of the Admiralty),
Six Grenadier Guards bore the coffin.
What
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MR. ARLISS AS MR. ARLISS
tute, Gordon Square, London, sald
cornes
INDUSTRIALIZATION OF
INDIA. ·
Eurance that they and their in-
"Our aim." he said, "is to give be handed
chidren who normally speak in vestments would not
dialect an alternative standard three States are now administered speech which will fit them for any over to a foreign country.
a Customs union. In Tan-circumstances in after-life.
"A person who can speak only ganyika itself there is a surplus of revenue over expenditure; and the Cockney is greatly handicapped, so is a man who can speak onlý European population, which now
broad 2
Yorkshire accent, stands at 8,217, has doubled since in
he
to especially when the war.
The German population in the London” Cameroons and Togoland was 12.000 MEN SHORT
slightly less than 2,000 in 1914. Sanctions had been attempted. The larger part of these tropical but had not prevented war or pun- dependencies was handed over to Was France, and they appear to have ished the culprits. wrong with the League of Nations shared in the economic develop-
London, April 16. ment of French West Africa as a
Dr. D. B. Meek, Indian Trade was that it had not the force be- hind it. It had not the guns, ships, whole since the war.
Commissioner, made a survey of Ian Hannah (U-Bilston,
At Victoria Station the funeral or men, and it had not the en-
India's external trade in a lecturè Wolverhampton) said he believed
music stopped. The guard of hon-thusiastic goodwill of all the na-
on Friday to the Royal Society of that if exemptions were not given
our presented arms as the German tions that belonged to it the effect on the countryside would
Arts, His predecessor, Bir Harry "We all should feel if we saw a be disastrous. Boys who were go- National Anthem, "Deutschland
Lindsay, now Director of the Im- April 11. perial Institute, was in the chair. ing in for farming had better get Uber Alles," rang through the policeman fighting with a burglar that it was our duty to go to the
Mr. George Arliss, the well-known Dr. Meek said that the industrial on the land as early as they could. | station,
(LLP.- Mr John M'Govern
Every German present gave the assistance of the policeman" sald
Mr. Du Cooper. "And until the cinema actor, who counts among development in India was having Shettleston, Glanfow) said the Bull Nazi salute."
At Dover another salute of nine-nations of the world are prepared his many admirers Her Majesty severe repercussions on one or two was one to give farmers cheap la-
aggressor nations, then the doctrine birthday to-day. Born in Blooms-tries, including Great Britain, On bour. A list of the wills of farm-teen guna was fired from the to go, if necessary, to war with Queen Mary, greets a sixty-eighth export industries in other coun- to the and practice of collective security bury, London, he was the son of a the other hand, she had increased them did very well,
was carried
printer and publisher who, because the imports of capital equipment era showed that a large number of Castle.
The Duchess of Atholl (U-Perth draped platform on the quay, cannot become a reality."..
After describing Army conditions, of his dignified demeanour and his required for her industrial develop- and Kinross)-Hes the hon, mem- where it was carried by a crane to
he said: "It seems to me extraor-monocle, was called the "Duke of ment. He saw no reason to believe per seen a list of the farmers who the destroyer, HMB. Scout.
dinary that any able-bodied young Bloomsbury," From amateur thea that further industrialization was have committed suicide?
man should prefer now to live on trials be graduated into Mrs. Pat- incompatible with a continued in-
1 discussion, said the exemptions the dole when he has the oppor-rick Campbel's company with crease of India's import trade. allowed in the 1918 Act were much tunity of earning a wage, of being which he went to America, staying emcient industrialization would wider than those in this Bill. They weil kept and cared for, and of there 20 years. In recent times contribute usefully to the solution must not in this Bill give the im- joining a great profession, and of his cinemaa specesses in historic of India's problems, but it was pression of dragooning parents, serving his country." which would be justifled if an in- flexible rule against exemptions
The amendment was then relect were made. The amendment would be in the nature of a surgical ed by 35 votes to 25, and the Com-
mities adjourned until Tuesday. operation on the Bill..
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Mr. M'Govern-In my estimation it is not enough. I was forced into Industry at 114 years of age...
AMENDMENT REJECTED Mr. James Barr (Lab-Cost bridge) said he believed the exemp t'on principle would encourage truancy. He as a boy had only once played truant,
The Lord Advocate; closing the
The coffin
rôles have become proverbial Zt-is through an intensive and prolong said that in Walhalla, where the ed attack upon the agricultural great men of history meet, the problem that any important im- standard greeting now is "Why provement of India's economic you're looking more like George condition and of her foreign trade Arles every. Hay!"
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