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A wedding of interest to many Hongkong people took place at St. Andrew's Church, Kawloon, yea- terday, Rev. G. R. Lindsay official- ing. The bride was: Mia Lillian Winifred Tregillus, daughter of two old and well known residents, Mr and Mrs H. G. Tregilhas. The bridegroom was Air Carl Rudo Jonsson, of the Chinesa Customs, son of Mrs Carolina Jonsson. Mr Tregillus gave his daughter away, while Miss Peggy Bough was

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PROHIBITION.

CANADIAN PRESS VIEWS.

Prohibition being a live issue on both sides of the international boundary line, the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court declaring the prohibition amendment valid has naturally attracted a very great deal of attention Canada, the press

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The Manitoba Free Press SEES

in the decision a blow to State There has thus rights, saying:

gone by the board about the last vestiges of the old States' rights doctrine which for the first eighty years of the republic's existence bulked larger in public regard than Federal powers. The power of the State shrinks while that of the Union grows, while the conception of the United States: as a Federal union steadily gives way to the theory of a unified and centralized state."

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COME OUT."

A little trouble, quite easily remedied if dealt with in the

The Prime Minister, accom- right way, is the cause of much who have fought probibition in of the irritabilisy,gloom, and that the United States to the last panied by Mrs. Lloyd George and Miss Megan Lloyd George, general sense of "out-of-sorts ditch. There is very little now Dess" which babitually alict left for them excep: accepting the recently attended the annual many people. The trouble is inevitable, or else striving to bring flower service at Welsh Church, constipation: its remedy is Pin-about its repaal in due time be Graas Castle-street. Oxford-circus kettes, the little laxatives, which, cause of public distress a: iMr. Lloyd George joined heartily marine whilst wonderfully

As is neither gripe nor purge.

efficient, non-enforcement"

settles

in the Welsh hymns.

He spoke first in Welsh, and comed the suggestion of a former speaker that the people were thinking for themselves.

end.

VILLAGE PARLIAMENT. Mr. Lloyd George went on to speak of the history of Wales, and the many conflicts of opinion that occurred. There was the conflict with the Calvinists and

the controversy of the Baptists

over baptism.

"I spent some of the most ardent hours of my youth," said the Premier." fighting that battle the academy of the village; the in the village smiths, which was House of Commons and Houss of Lords rolled into one. And believe mos these great conflicts made Wales."

Coming to a suggestion made by a previous speaker that the machinery dealing with social problems might have isiled, the Premie said

It is not the machine that basi

What

During recent years, engineers, financiers and journalists have all been sounding the eulogies of heavy crude oil as the propulsive juel for the ordinary

The Halifax Chronicle also `ex- engine of the future. always the case, however, in If you are constipated, bilious, presses the view that the decision afterwards in English. Be wel-

it," the amendmen: these matters of conjecture, liverish, bave sick headaches, nothing can be done in the way costed tongue, foul breath, try having been interpreted as of advancement until the theories Pinkettes TO-NIGHT, and see"legitimate expression of the

"That is quite right," he said, how much better you will feel nation's will." It adds: "The and I am not afraid of the people are put to the practical test.

Pinkettes decision ends the hope that pro- Sir James McKechnie, K. B. E. to-morrow morning.

diarrhoea the managing director of the also prevent

and hibition might be overthrown in thinking. It is the action with reliere Piles the courts.

The only way in out thinking I am afraid of. I do Vickers Naval Construction dysentery and Works at Barrow, has always Obtainable from dealers, or at 60 which the Eighteenth Amend-not care how much they think, been an ardent exponent of the cents the vial, post free, from Dr.ment may be repeated lies in the and I do not care very much upon failed. It is no use having ma-

what lines they think. because chinery without petrol. by three-fourths of future of the internal combustion Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Sze-action

once you think the right thing really matters and I say it after the States, the game pro- engine for marine propulsion, chuen Road, Shanghai.

a whole generation inside the and the works a: Barrow have

portion by which the amendment will come in the end.

"Do not be afraid of people machine, and I know it is inside produced some of the most reli

was adopted. As a matter of fact. the prohibition amendment was thinking; it is only those who out, it is not the machine that able types of these engines whic have ever been installed in andraft not exceeding 26ft., and the ratified by forty-five States, and have things that will not bear matters, it is the spirit.

thinking about you have to fear.

"We saw it in the war. Where propulsion was to be derived from it is extremely improbable that a

was a perfect machine?-It was not Bitherto the ships fitted with Vickers internal combustion reversal of the States can be se-It is only those who have vested

here. There was no machine the Vickers" internal combustion engines of the beavy oil mer-cured. The drink traffic will interests that are indefensible.

that are corrupt, that are unjust bere adequate to a task of that engines have been to the order of cantile type. The ship was launch-never be restored."

The Toronto Globe commands they, and they alone, need fear kind. There was a perfect ma the British Admiralty, and the ed on the 27th November, 1919, sacrecy necessary in ench con- and on the 5th May, 1920, she the decision and believes that it thinking. Thinking is as a ray chine in Germany. It was so tracts has prevented the general left under her own power for will be endorsed by the public, from Heaven, and it will filter perfect, they just pulled a lover adding that there is no pro- through, and you may depend and it worked exactly as they public from acquiring that wider docking and sea trials. knowledge of the Vickers internsi These trials have now been bability of any reversion of the 2pon it it will illumine all in the imagined it would until it came to difficulties that no machine "I am not afraid of thinking: could touch until it came up combastion engine which its successfully carried out, and the verdict; no probability of any re- achievements merited.

Narragansett as the ship was turn to the wretched liquor traffic

against something which was not Now that the war is over named--has fully justified all the in the United States. Of it and I am very glad to hear of

machinery, which was spirit. Vickers Ltd. have been free to hopes and confidence of the effect on the issue in Canada, the these conflicts of thought that

WHAT IT FAILED. devote their energies to the owners and of the designers and Glode says: "The United States are going on. It may not be my development and constraction of builders. From the special Supreme Court decision will though, it may not be other

"Why did it fail? Read the interaki combustion engines for experience

of these engines encourage probibitionists here, men's, it may be someone else

written by the grest! mercantile marine requirements. which the Vickers film have but they must not allow their whose thought comes out, but books

During the war oil tankers built had, little, if any anxiety cause to be lost by over-con-I trust in God sad I know the leaders of Germany. There was

right thing will come out.”

no fault in the machinery, the for the navy (which have since was felt by them as to the string-fidence."

fault was that there was no spirit The Toronto Moil and Empire been acquired by the larger oilent contract requirements being:

He expressed his pleasure that in the people. What did we have carrying companies) were fitted met, but even the expectations of believes that "opponents of pro- with the Fickers' internal com- Vickers Company's officials were bibition in the United States have the previous speaker linked the here? No machine. Machinery bustion engine, and the special surpassed in the results which had their last hope destroyed." present and future with the past. had to be improvised in the mid- experience which was then gain the Karragansett gave on her It is also convinced that the deci- "A great Frenchman told me the dle of the storm. No army, no ed and the results achieved com-official trials. These proved in sion finde general public support, other day," said the Premier, equipment, no organisation; bus that he thought the French there was a great spirit, united, pleted the data required for the every sanse success, and a speed saying: "There is no evidence design and construction of their was obtained of nearly one knot that any considerable part of the Revolution was too complete. It patriotic, fervent, uplifting

"What did it achieve? There Arst mercantile ship to be fitted in excess of the contract require country, except in the larger sort of snapped the connection with this type of engine.

cities, is opposed to prohibition. between the present and past in

ences of sects, differences of Shortly after the cessation of

Anticipating the success of the The probability is that the law France. I am afraid also that were differences of classes, differ- But we saw racial con- the war,

the Vickers works Narragansett the Anglo-American will be generally enforced, with young Wales, in its new prosper-

ficts, sectarian conflicts, capital contracted with the Anglo- Oil Co., Ltd., recently instructed evasions no more general thanity, its new victory, is overlook-races, American Oil Co., Ltd., to build the Vickers Uompany to proceed they are to the amendment giving ing what it owes to the struggles and labour conficts, political con- an oil tanker for them, and to with the construction of a sister the Federal

Government the of the old men of the past.

"If I were to give a word office all vanishing. Why? There meet the stipulated requirements ship, and this vessel is now in an right to impose and collect anirice to my young fellow. rest spirit of one purpose of the shipowners, the following advanced state of progress at the income tax.”

countrymen it would be this: in throughout the land.

"You may have the most per- were the dimansions which the Vickers' works at Barrow. This

your reading read a little more Vickers designers selected; second ship will also be fitted with Length, B.P., 425ft.; breadth mid., the Vickers' internal combustion HIGH FARES: 'LOW REVENUE about the men that made Wales. fect organisation. It may be the 56ft 8in; total d.w. capacity, 10, engines of the

heavy oil During the 8 weeks which have They may talk about the triumph Labour party, it may be the * 650 tons; bunker capacity (oil), marcantile type.

elapsed since the Portsmouth of democracy, there was no Coalition, it may be the Independ -733 tons.

The company have also under Town Council abolished peany greater triumph of democracy ent Liberals, it may be something The vessel had to carry a cargo construction at present several fares on the local tramways, then the triumph of the spiritual else, but there must be a spirit, a of 9,420 tons of oil in addition to large oil tank vessel to be propell-passengers have decreased by leaders of Wales for the last 150 sacred spirit, an unselfish spirit, sprang from the democracy alone quarter only, and that--is

Calvary, (Cheers.) 510 tons of fuel with alle vance od with internal combustion 1,500,000, representing a loss of years. They were all then who and this spirit can come from of stores, fresh water, etc, on a engines for Tankers Limited.

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