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DAY BY DAY.
A MAN CAN NEVER BE HAPPY
Trollope.
It almost looks as though Mr.JUNLESS HIS FIRST OBJECTS ARE J. H. Thomas, whom most of us OUTSIDE OF HIMSELF-Ánthony had become accustomed to re- gard as the sanest of British Labour leaders, has fallen from grace. It was not so many months
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Probably Lord Fisher was more in his alement at Grillion's than
The constitution and rules of the Hongkong Aaro Club will ba based on those of the Royal Asro | The Hon.. Mr. J. H. Kemp, at the other two clubs to which Club of Lordon to which the local 5.C. Attorney General, made a he belonged the Athenæups and Mr. J. Oram Sheppard left to-organisation is proposed to be motion this morning in the the Marlborough. The clash of ago that he, with other modarats day by the sa. Ecuador.
affiliated. Communications on Supreme Court, before His Hon-warring opinions forms the vary Labourites, fought tooth and nail
the matter have been forwarded our Mr. Justice H.H.J. Gomperts, essence of the gatherings of the [against "direct" action," which is
Home for approval.
acting Chief Justice, for the historie dining club named after the phrase coined
The September Criminal
admission of Mr. Hoa Chi-Hi, the hotel in Albemarle Street the ordering of strikes by Trade Sessions will be held on the 20th
AS * solicitor and
where its first meetings ware Unions on purely political as dis-instant.
this stage of aviation tor
proc- of the
Grillion's is chiefly re- Supreme Court. held. development in China one wondars we find him at the Trade Union tinct from industrial matters. Yet,
The Attorney-General-May cruited from the members of both what prospects there are in the it please your Lordship-This is Houses of Parliament, and al- Congrass delivering a Presidential today for San Francisco Mr. J.numerous schemes that are being to be admitted and enrolled as a members were Tories, candidates By the a Ecuador there sailed Way of support for all the an application by Mr. Hon Chi-li though most of the original address justifying the formation of the so-called" Council of action, Brady, manager of the Pacific held out by various conflicting in-solicitor and prostor of this Court from the opposite camp bave which aims
Rice Mills forcing the
The average Chinese Mr. Hon Chi-Ji passed his always been welcomed, provided Government, by threat of a
citizan still regards the aeroplane solicitors examination in October, that socially they proved them- general strike, to follow a certain
as only a wonderful invention: 1919, with bonours, and
selves good fellows Lord Derby, liceinregard to Poland and Russia shows two cases of enteric and shown how it can benefit the in- April 30,
return that in effect, it bas yet to be admitted in England
"the Rupert of debate," who was That looks to us like a complete one of paratyphoid fever. All the dividual as a whole before he can given the necessary notics to theed that "Grillion's has always 1920. He has one of the early members, claim- vedte fure. Trae, he declares that sufferers were British and all the be induced to lend his measure of Law Society and the Registrar, been, in the utmost best of parties when the objects of this Council cases non-fatal. complete independence of Poland
support. In the long ran, it will and the Law Society has no in-and throughout the most keenly be found that the support of the tention of opposing his admission. agitated sessions, an absolutely been carried
general mass of the population be- There is an affidavit from Mr. J. Dentral ground. If reminiscences opt it will be The death occurred at San-sides that of a few foreign business A. Hall, solicitor, and another of its discussions were interleaved content with results of its labours, dringham, Victoria, on July 11th companies has the controlling affidavit by Mr. Fung, solicitor with Hansard's Debates, 1 do But that is of itself a decided of Mrs. Thomas Shene, who was influence on the profits, that their Mr. Hon. Chi-li has not got not believe that any human be approval of the principle in the second daughter of Dr. Al-confidence in a reasonable relia-his admission certificate, nor basing would believe in the fidelity volved-a principle which, if exander Anderson, of Hongkong bility of the machine is necessary, he got his certificate of character of bath reports." Lord Stratford jonce admitted, would lead to and Jedburgh.
endless trouble and, in fact, to
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STEWART-McCUBBIN.-At the Union Church, Hongkong, on 5th September, 1920, by the Rev. G. J. Williams, James, second son of Mr. James Stewart, Glasgow, to Mary, only daughter of Mr. and Mr. John McCubbin, Gas Works. Hongkong.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HÖNGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1920.
THE MCSWINEY CASE.
the very negation of popular
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and that to bring about this result from two practicising solicitors de Redcliffe, the founder of a practical demonstration of the in England. He was not aware Grilliog's, attended its digners goverament What assuranca Reservoirs in the City and Hill first be made. Without this, the he left England. He has since Fears, and
capabilities of the machine must that they were necessary when throughout a period of sixty bare we, indeed, that the Council district waterworks lovel would not spain interfere in the September lat contained 2.126.56 enterprise, whether it be Govern-written to England for his was surpassed by the late Government's policies on other million gallons, compared with private companies, is predestined wish your Lordship to fir a time member for close on seventy
owned or operated by certificates of character, and I Earl of Wemyss, who was issues? And the Labour claim 2,118.30 million gallons on the to failure. of a right to interfere in spchsame date last year. The Kow
for the production of these years. matters amounts to acquiescence loon reservoir contained 374)
documents. on their part in rule, not by the million gallous, as against 352.50
To bring about the best results
The Chief Justice-What time people, but by one class of the million gallons a year ago.
There are still two distinguish- propaganda on an extensive scale do you suggest?-Six months. people,
ed sailors left who entered the which is the
The Chief Justice (so Mr. Honavy before 1854, the year when should be conducted, before these thing that Labour is supposed
numerous schemes take practical Chi-li)Mr. Hoa Chili. I have Lord Fisher joined the Victory at to bave been preaching against
The engagement is announced shape. They in their turn should great pleasure in admitting you Portsmouth. Admiral Sir Cyprian for → longer than can of Mr. Cland Severn, C.M.G.. be studied with reference to the and enrolling you to be a solicitor Bridge was born in 1819 and ba- remember.
Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, conditions their fields of opera- and proctor of this honourable son of the late Mr. and Mrsions present from the commercial Court, and I trust your career a junior officer be went through came a midshipman in 1953. As Waller Severn, of 9, Earl's Court- and traffic points of view. Cam- will be useful, profitable and even harder times than those de square, London, s... to Margaret petitions between rival interests honourable. I have great plea-scribed so vividly by Lord Fisher Annie, daughter of the late Fro-which, in other realms of com-sure in admitting you. The two in his "Memories." Until Sir Then there is the other side.fessor T. Lowndes Bullock and merce. Snd expression in the affidavits that are missing and Cyprian had been thirty years in Supposing. for example, that of Mrs Bollock, Wood Laws, cutting down
will the certificate from the Law the service he never had more the Government does not Oxford.
no: hold place in aviation, Society should be filed within than 28 days leave at a time, and negotiate an early peace with
for no extensive inducements in six months, and subject to that all the leave he enjoyed daring Russia. Does Mr. Thomss and his fellow-Labourites mean that
the matter of costa will bring admit you. The British as well as the business if the reliability of the
that long period did not amount Labour will order a general French consular authorities in service is not ensured. So far)
in the aggregate to twelve. atrike? Or is there to be ang Canton have complained to the no clear statement bas
months. The second veteran - time-limit about this business 2 Chinese Government that some made
been BANKRUPTCY COURT. ferred to is Admiral Moresby, The cables are silent on these troops have occupied premises of positions of Government-owned the respective
after whom Fort Moresby, the points. But the inference is that their respective subjects without enterprises and those to be operat
capital of British New Gaises, if the Council of Action cannot permission. Several houses be-ed by private companies.
ABUSE OF THE COURT. was named. He entered the navy get its way by threats, it will do longing to foreign residents in Aeronautics
The The acting Chief Justice, Mr.when Lord Fisher was only three Perhaps no case in which a political offende: has been imprison-so by other means.
Department Its very the eastern part of the city have heavily engaged itself in several morning over the Bankruptcy
has Justice Gompertz, presided this years old. ed in recent times has aroused so much public interest and name implies so much. Still, been occupied by soldiers, accord-losas to be utilised for the pur-Court sympathy as that in which the Lord Mayor of Cork, ot, as he is maybe the situation is po: reallying to the complaints. better known, Mr. T. McSwiney, M.P. now figures. In any con-serious at
chase of machines, and the pre-
It seems to have been at the sideration of either his action of the action of the Government one Lloyd George was right when be
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la the matter of Mi Yaea Long Hague Conference of 1899 that samptionis that on their acquire firm, Mr. C.D. Melbourne. the Lord Fisher first expounded to ment they will be put on the lives Registrar, made an application T. Stead the conception of must first of all clear one's mind of any but the meres: vestige of described the formation of this
The funeral of Lady Sutherland which the Department bas sentiment, because it is through the harbouring of sentiment that new body as merely a little bi:wife of Sir Thomas Sutherland consideration.
in for the rescission of the receiving war that he presented in the full one is apt to be led astray on a path that would prore distinctly of Labour "display." Probably G.C.M.G. of Coldharbour Wood.
order.. dangerous to the future principles of government. No-one could the Labourites know that the Gov-West Sussex, who died at
The Chief Instice-1 under-logy of bis volcanic prose in the have read the impressive reply that Mr. Bona: Law gave to the ernment does favour peace with Buckingham-gate on July 20,
by side with these stand that e: the first meeting of Labour Party, which was cabled through yesterday, without Russia as well as the independ- took place at Milland on July 24 schemes we bave the plans of the creditiors the petitioning according to Stead's report of an realising that behind the Government's action is not only the ence of Poland, and therefore There was a large assemblage of various aviation concerns, which creditor did not appear, no docu-
outburs: during the Conference, greatest of reasonability, but also the principle of all democratic that they can talk in a very friends and neighbours of all while establishing connections meats bave been produced, all is the way he was putting it at that time: "I am not for war. E government. We have even heard men in Hongkong say that if large and impressive way of their classes, to whom Lady Suther with the Government by the sale the partners bave disappeared the Government allows the Lord of Mayor of Cork to die then it will determination 20 see these land had greatly endeared herself. of their products, are also keenly and two creditors have applied for peace! That is why I am deserve all the fruits of the advertisement tha: this martyr's death policies adhered to. So let's hope Sir Thomas and Miss Sutherland: interested in their utilisation over for the rescinding of the order. write in your autograph-book at for a supreme navy. Did I not will give to the Irish cause; that it will bring upon its own head the that, as Mr. Lloyd George were the chief mourners. After the routes proposed. Then lest Ate there any assets? intensified wrath not only of Irishmen in Ireland but of Irishmen recently put it, this Labour the service mulled peals were aviation in the country should not Mr. Melbourne:1 am afraid the Hague. The supremacy of and frith sympathizers the world over. To that we can only reply threat is nothing more serious rung on the church bells.
the British navy is the best too little attention from not. No, nothing- that it is far better to have chosen the harder, though juster, course, than the swing of a sledge remains
brought from these quarters we now bear of
The Chief Justice-Apparently world? My sole object is peace. security for the peace of the than to have weakly given in and established a precedent that hammer at an open door.***
Coldharbour Wood, followed by the formation by a group of the whole matter is an abuse of what you call my truculence is would endanger the whole machinery of modern government.
a long procession of estate em. Sipo-Americans of a company the court, and I rescind the order-all for peace. If you rub it in ployees end others. Lady whose business will be the acquire- In the matter of Fang
both at home and abroad that you Sutherland was for three months ment of a fleet of aeroplanes and Hop-kee, Mr. Melbourne made to Ireland. True, it has arisen oat of the regrettably extremis!
seriously ill from the effect of their operation between the more an application for rescinding every unit of your strength in the are ready for instant war with wing of the Irish movement. But, it has now come down to a
If any of our readers have been blood poisoning. straight issue of whether a Government is going to administer being stricken with remorse for
important points of China. And the receiving order. He said he first line, and intend to be first in picturing the ex-Kaiser a
all the while China is still suffer was informed that there and bit your enemy in the bells justice and the law without fear or favour or whether it is going to all the suffering he has caused
ing from a dearth of adequate sum of $500 in the Hongkong and and kick bim when he is down, be swayed like so much com in the wind by displays of sentiment the world and vowing to himself mail, of the death st Home of
News has been received, by railway facilities! McSwiney as a Member of Parliament had taken an oath of that he will never again bare Police Sergt. Melver, brother of
Shanghai Bank due to the estate. He wrote to the Bank, and the and boil your prisoners in oil fif allegiance, he had done so as Lord Mayor of Cork, and even as a
Bank told him they had no money. you take any!), and torture common citizen of the country he was by law forbidden to plo:
truck militarism, Mr. Mclver of the Harbour Office, being formed for the carrying on him that his client, who was one people will
A big Air Trust is rooted as This morning Bir. Mason told his women and children, then against the King or the Government. Arrested in the very act revise their views after reading a in 1995.
we imagine they
will who left the Colony on pension of all North Italian aerial con- of the creditors, had been round you!
Квер clear of of conspiracy as a leader of a rebel and so-called Republican Arru telegram that came to hand yes- ftb August at Auchiltibuie on the and propagande at home and and was told that $500- of Ireland-an army that avowed it sough: no mercy and would
cerns, including schools, camps to give none he would only bare paid the price of the law if he hadferday. That cable told of Wil-Wes: Coast of Scotland. During broad. The proprietors, I presume.in the Bank. Mr. Mason had most beautiful woman of bertime,
the Bank's compradore been shot. Many men were shot by their comrades in France for helm's reply to congratulations bis service in Hongkong, Serg! will not use recent occurrences in written a letter to the compradore) as many of the obituary notices far less serious acts, and although the public knew it there was the Oficers
from the Association of German clver received an autograph connection with Italian aviation and he might receive a reply at assert? The statement would common acceptance of the principle that it was just. The Gore anniversary of the Battle of Tan- knowledgment of valuable work
on the occasion of the letter from the Governor in acin North China as propagands. ment took a much more leoient action than it was entitled to, and nenberg, in which the ex-ruler of he did in enforcing the Lodging-
any time. He, therefore, asked bis have been challenged by some of the prisoner-treated as a political prisoner and not as a traitor Germany yearned for another House
Lordship to adjourn the case to those who know her at her best. has sought a self-imposed martyrdom knowing that sentiment would Tannenberg. So he isn't tired of Chinese at the time of a strike. ultimate success of civil aviation
Byelaws among tbe If there be any who doubt the the next Bankruptcy Court. be aroused and the Irish cause possibly strengthened. Insofar as war yet, apparently. Indeed, his and later he received further and of the real arrival of aerial
In the winter of 1857 the Duchess This was granted. he has aroused that sentiment be has achieved bis object, but reference to the officers' "loyal recognition in the shape of a first-Heils they must surely be con-
Manchester (afterwards whether Ireland's real canse has been advanced is extremely doubt-
Duchess of Devonshire) was a ful. And the Goremment at Home has been faced with demands remembrance" and his signature class Gold Medal for distinguiabinced by the latest action of the UNIVERSITY FOR SINGAPORE. Compiegne. A fellow-guest was guest of the Imperial Court at from all sources: from organised Labour, from "moderate
as "Wilhelm, Emperor and King" ed service. He had previously British Postmaster-General, who Irishmen, and from Americas country where Irish affairs loom still has hopes of appearing as the Bronze Medal for his Plague nouncement that it is now per-
rather lead one to believe that he been awarded the fourth-class has published an
official an- largely in politics. His Majesty the King has been appealed to toaviour of his precious Father- Work. take an unconstitutional step: in fact, all the peaceable pressure land. that could be has been brought to bear. We rather fancy that after we do not altogether like in the There is something that Mr. Bonar Law's statement, clear and forcibly argumentative, fact that Wilhelm is still in
mail in an ordinary pillar box, In the House of Commons requis de Castellane, the Duchess good deal of support for McSwiney will die down, because it must communication with an organised nursing home at Harrogate of tion is regarded by seronautical ed the Under-Secretary of State radiantly charming woman of the The death has occurred at a This great stap forward in avis-cently Mr. Gershom Stewart ask- of Manchester was the most have been clearly brought home to all that this is not so much the body of officere, whose loyalty to Admiral Charles Lister Oxley, of contemporaries in England as for the Colonies, "whether the house party. She is as beautiful matter of a man's life as the living and applicable existence of con- bimself he praises. Moreover, The Hall, Ripon, aged 36. As a likely to be most encouraging to Government is assisting in the as the daylight," writes the May- stitutional law. Sentiment has to be given the go-by, for to act on what right has this Madman of midshipman he was specially all British aircraft constructors establishment of a University at quise. it would imply, by precedent, the immunity of all men who in the Europe
She quite surpasses ad Government. A few days ago, when we commented rather
aud Emperor?" We attack on the Peiho Forta in says that if the Royal Aero Cinb,
Mme. de Castiglione. :... Mr. Amery replied A scheme has profile like an antique sympathetically on McSwiney's case, the force of that argument abdicated. We know that he for which he received the China the Institute of Aeronautical establishment in Singapore of upon ber." Bach praise from bad 80 idea that he had June, 1859, during the Chios war, the Royal Aeronautical Society, has been formulated for the cameo, and it is a joy to gaze had not struck us as it now does.
To the people at Home Mr. Bonar Lax has made ample reply: fret signs of trouble and let January 1, 1895. On May 7 various other organizations con- known as Raffles College, which yet it is endorsed by Princess soon made himself scarce on the medal He reached flag rank on Engineers, the Air League and College for higher education to be another woman is high Indeed, to the people of America bir. Lloyd George has, to quote Reuter, others face the music whilst he 1896, he was appointed second nected with aviation were gifted would be "politely but firmly stated that he cannot interfere with the course led into the safe sanctuary of & in-command on the China Station, with imagination they would centenary of Singapore and the
a memorial of the Catherine Radziwill, who says? of justice and the law, and we hope that the majority of Britons are neutral country, there to live in a sud hoisted his flag in the craiser combine to celebrate the 11th nucleus of future university. Dachess of Manchester she now beginning to realise that the Government can adopt no other mansion whilst others were bear-Grafton. This command be held May, the day on which the The Colonial Government has struck me as the loveliest creature attitude than the one it has taken up. If Mr. McSwiner's death ing the punishment and trials until November, 1897, and it arrangement took effect, does ensue there will undoubtedly be demonstrations against the
as provided a site and has under-I had ever set eyes upon, Indeed, Government, though in the light of the latest explanations we best should have been his. But proved to be the limit of his active Emancipation Day, sad in emula- taken on certain conditions to 1 have only wet three women lieve that the majority of level-headed Britons will give whole-picable creature that
that is typical of the des employment He became a vice- tion of the proletariat, would erect the buildings of the College who come anywhere near her for hearted support to a Government that is determined to uphold gill, he isn't, dead yet. And admiral in June, 1001, Snally the Embankment to Hyde Park, dollars, and to contribute fifty monats, the Comtesse de Vill- be ia admiral in January, 1901, and an "process" in their thousands from at a cost not exceeding one million beauty the Duchess of Ser very vital principle. It is either right or wrong to plot against a hell; need lawfally-constituted Government; if wrong, then punishment must
awful lot of retiring in October, 1905, after with trumpets, posting letters at thousand dollars annually towards eneuve, inevitably follow.
watching.
5134 years on the active list. all the pillarboxes on the way. the upkeep.
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This question of the liberty or incarceration of Mr. McSwiney
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