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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY. MARCH 20. 1920.

GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA. CHOOSING THE PRESIDENT. COALITION DEATH SENTENCE.

(Continued from Page 2)

HOW FRANCE DOES IT.

MR. ASQUITH'S PROPHECY.

is surely to accept the chance In the historic Palace of Ver-| Speaking at a meeting at now offered us, for want of a sailles, where Marie Antoinette Paisley during his election better, in good grace and good faced the mob a century and campaign, Mr. Asquith said he will, and try to work it for the more ago, and where, as the believed in the continued vitality best of all peoples. The attitude crowning insult of the Prussians, of Liberalism. He held it to be of the American critics the William the First was proclaimed of urgent national importance extreme critica, reminds me, if I German Emperor, the represent that the Liberal Party should be may respectfully say so, of some of atires of the French nation brought back to the position their forefathers, who would have have formally. though with which it had so long and so made any kind of union among co paratively little ceremony, splendidly occupied 83 the the American States after the selected the statesman who is to principsl organ and instrument American Revolution impossible. be their President for the succeed-in political and social progress

ing seven years.

Now that the issues of the war "I have a profound personal

With statues symbolising Con-had been decided there was no regard, I may venture to say.

cord and Security looking longer any reason for the affection, for Senator Lodge, and down upon the

SENATOR LODGE.

were

scene more existence of a Coalition Govern

it is, of course no business of appropriately than was the case ment mine, or of any other Englishman, when M. Poincare and his pre- I never made a statement with to say how Americans ought to decessors

chosen the greater confidence," said Mr. act in this crisis but I cannot "raler" of the great European Asquith, than that the Coalition) help thinking that if America Republic was acclaimed in is under sentence of death. The bad bad a few more men like readiness for his return to the only question is whether it is to him in 1797-9-the United States capital and installation in the end its days by suicide or at the would never have existed as a state home at the Elysee.

bands of the executioner. There- It is the National Assembly of fore, let the Liberal Party reform country at all.

"Of course, I am not saying France to whom is entrusted the its ranks and start afresh on ita that none of the points in which right to decide upon the Presidents interrupted path. (Cheers.) Pro- American critics of the Union of the Third Republic. By the ceeding, Mr. Asquith said he are interested, is important. The law of February 25, 1875, he is denied that Liberalism did not question, for example, of the appointed every seven years by appreciate the changes brought people representation to be given an absolute majority of suffrages about by the war. As a matter to the United States and to the by the Senate and the Chamber of fact, Liberalism stood for British Empire is obviously of Deputies, which when uaited disarmament, for the recognition very proper one for Ameri- form the National Assembly. of small States as well as great. can consideration; but the view M. Thiers, the veteran patriot, and for the principle of self- of some Americans that it would had already held office and re-determination. He repudiated be a policy of backwardness to signed and the dignity was in the suggestion that the present accept the League is disastrous, the hands of Marshal MacMahon Government were the authors of In reality, that is a policy of when this important section of the Franchise Act. He thought throwing away the most singular. the Constitution was adopted, and that women should be treated in ly opportunity of greatness of a the President about to be elected the matter of the vote in the new and sigularly honourable kind will be the eighth chosen under same way as men. The blot o that has ever presented itself to this regulation. any nation.

The senators and deputies meet inadequate representation of in the semi-circular Hall of minorities.

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There are certain respects instructed in the year in which the Lords, Mr. Asquith said it seemed

Congress, which was only con- Referring to the House which Great Britain and America haw whether they like it or not, stand intention being to use the build-to make the admission that they was adopted, the original a paradoxical thing for Radicals at this moment apart altogether,

Each

the

from other countries. They are for the Chamber of Deputies. had to acknowledge that on two There is no speaking at the or three of the most critical and the trustees of the future off

crucial occasions it was civilisation. It's no disrespect ceremony of election. to any of our Allies to say that member of the Assembly advances House of Lords and not the in Great Britain and in the as his name is called to an urn House of Commo s. that had placed on the Tribune, and in this proved itself the true friend of United States consideration as to his ballot the welfare of backward people is a his choice for the new President agreed that the present constitu- paper containing freedom. (Hear, hear.) All were foremost responsibility. We must When every representative has tion of the House of Lords could be capable of weighing in, the judgment of statesmen and in the performed this duty, the papers not be justified. He regarded it sentiments of the mass of patrio-handed to the scrutineers, who

taken from the uro and as a matter of urgency that the tic people, this matter, and of thus

present Second Chamber should guiding in some respects the proceed to count the votes in be substituted by a much smaller cpurse of our foreign policy. This

Chamber. constituted partly by is not altogether an expression of the Senate, who is the President public men.

comination of some of our great national vanity. The insular posi- of the Session, announces the one half should be elected by Of the remainder, tion of this country, and the still result and proclaims the new popular constituencies and the more isolated position of the United States, have, in God's President, amid applause and other half by the House of Cam-

cries of" Vive la Republique!"

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are

another ball.

In due course the President of

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of that Chamber.

Mr. Asquith defended Dev- olution on the ground that it

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by which the United States con- solidated their existing territory and power. But, taken altogether,

A

DELAYED FOR A YEAR BY WAR OFFICE.

present congestion of Parliament. There must also, be said, be a change in the Imperial system. He welcomed. the development of the principle of calling the How & woman's invention Dominion Prime Ministers into

a citizen of either country should helped our troops to overcome conference, and added:-I would be unable to think of his country's German poison gas was told by nake the new system a very loose record with other than pride. the inventor herself recently at a and elastic one, not bound by any ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA. demonstration before the Asso-red tape or parchment conven- "But it is now clearly impos-ciation of Science Teachers in tions. You must have a system in sible for this country to carry by the Physics Theatre of University which the Empire shall per- itself the burdens of world pro- College.

iodically discuss vital questions

I am not in favour of the scheme

blems and responsibilities. Of Mrs. Ayrton was the demon-of Imperial policy that affect the course, one sees difficulties. The strator. She took her audience Empire as a whole a system American people have now be- step by step through the various under which we shall all be free come interested in problems pre- stages of her discovery, and with co-equal partners in that gigantic viously remote from them, and a "Service fan" showed how the institution, the British Empire. I think that is what made possible gas actually was driven off.

She showed how the fan was for the creation of an Imperiali dissemination of anti-British sentiment in America. I blame used in clearing a dug-out of gas. Parliament in which the Domin- nobody for it, for the influence of and remarked that many deaths ions would be immediately and the Irish and German agents has took place because dug-outs directly repesented. I do not be- always been manifest. But when were not clearded.

lieve that that is possible, or thatį Mrs. Ayrton told of her difficul- the Dominions want it. Americans speak in a disparag- ing way of British Imperialism, ties in getting the War Office to and, for example, discredit the fact. They considered--for position we have taken in Egypt year before accepting the and Persia as 'walking off with invention.

so much of the plunder, they doj

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something."

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As Mr. Lloyd George was unable to see her, she saw Dr. Addison, who on witnessing the

him. She telegraphed: "I don't "I offered them in may 1915,"want to talk to Mr. Lloyd George. so as peculiarly dishonest she said. "My assistant was out

show to excuse for an attitude to world- there showing how the men could

She took down her apparatus, problems which America could be trained to use them in May not really adopt without shedding 1916.

which was "much sniffed at by a itself of all that America has "They were not made in any-gentleman at the Ministry of hitherto claimed as peculiarly thing like the quantities they Munitions." glorious in her own country.

ought to have been. They saved We, as a country, have no some lives, and would have saved axe to grind when we wish that thousands more. America should take her part in

"I had great difficulty in getting demonstration remarked "I gee, I fluencing world affairs aright. the War Office to believe that any see. I will put you into com- On the contrary, the doing must, training was necessary in the use munication

the right in effect, detract in a certain of the fan. They never realised person." sense from fie position and powerj

it was a scientific instrument, Tests having been made at the which would otherwise belong before it could be used properly. report was sent to the War Office which would require knowledge School of Military Engineering, a only to ourselves. I am not pessimistic. The present position "They were constrained to and 5,000 were ordered.

"

with

ie distressing: the manifestation supply the fans,, because there Mrs. Hertha Ayrton is the of ill-feeling, both in America and was such a demand for them, but widow of Professor W. E. Ayrton, England is deplorable: But really they did not have men properly of University College, who died it is a very cheerful sign, in these trained to use them up to the 11 years ago. She is herself a distinguished scientist, and the gloomy times, that English people very end." actually do desire America "to That the fan was accepted at only woman member of the play her part in the guidance of all seems to have been due to the Institute of Electrical Engineers. world affairs. I have no doubt sympathetic Insight of Dr.In 1906 the Royal Society that a corresponding spirit will, Addison, at the Ministry of awarded Mrs. Ayrton the Eughes STAR GARAGE.in time, most honourably and Munitions.

Medal for her investigations-on Mrs. Ayrton said her son-in-law the electric arc and phenomenaj nobly prevail in America, though Americans have not been called telegraphed to Mr. Lloyd George of sand ripples. Her son-inlaw is

"Lady physicist has Mr. Israel Zangwill. upon, and may never be called saying: upon, to make such sacrifices in invented a fan to prevent gas

Born at Portaes, a Miss Hertha the common cause as we have attacks. You must see it."

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