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DIPLOMATS & JOURN LISTS. Behind the Curtain Scenes.

It was, Geneva which started it, life of the milena; it is altogether but the game soon spread to other trival. European capitals. There aro scores of more or less ingenious definitions of the different nation- a few of

His Excellencs the Governor has appointed Mr. T. S. Why le-Smith to act as Police Magistrate, Kow-litics. I

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Tenders are being invited for of a reinforced the construction concrete ferry pier near Wilmer Street.

industry, or of the payment of de-、 cent: wages to the miners. An- other criticism uttered "by Mr. Lloyd George was that there should be sonte acheme of group- Ing of the mines, but here, again, the Government were able to show that power is given in the Bill for the appointment of Commissionera to draw up amalgamation schemes. In fact, the more the measure is studied, the plainer does it be come that the Government has made à serious attempt to deal with the whole problem in all it aspects, complex and difficult as It is. So far as the owners are

His Excellency the Governor has concerned, they have very little

appointed Mr. W. Schofield to be right to complain, since they have an Assistant Superintendent of Im- offered no assistance to the Gov-ports and Exports. ernment in its efforts to work out plans acceptable to all interests, .

Cheap,coal is admittedly desi- able, always provided that the price is such as to be economlenily

Is Excellency the Governor has reasonable. But the tragedy of

appointed Dr. D. K. Kumarasamy the industry is that in the cut-Pillai 10 mn member of the Mid- throat competition at Home not wives Board, vire Dr. R. E. Tot-

tenham, realguer. only the owners, but the miners as well have had to suffer. Ob

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them. Thus:

One Swiss a pastry shop, Two Swiss an inn.

Three Swiss a grand hotel. Of the English It was remarked:

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One Englishman sports

man.

Nevertheless 1 profer harmless nonsense to the exalted ideas of their own importance that journ- alists who move in diplomatic circles sometimes develop. There. was one of them whom Inever met without having to listen to his account. of his latest successful attempt to save Europe. Con ferences were on the point of breaking up, but he invariably rushed to the Hotel of the most obstinate statesman, dragged him from his bed, and while he shiver- ed in his nightshirt, persuaded him that there was a way, out.: Then he dashed off to the opposing atatesman, who was glad in pyja- It was before the days of Philipning, and recounted his conversa Snowden; otherwise the Scots tie. The next morning night- would not be described na follows: shirt statesman and pyjamas;

statesman mel' each other cordial- One Scotsman-a savings | ly, and all was well.

bank. Two Scotsmen amg of Variations on this theme are.

golf.

common, Happily, meat journa- Three Scotsmen-the British | lists laugh at themselves when they realize that they are unduly boñstful. There is a good story Dr the composite republic of told by one of my friends whom

Two Englishmen a club. Three Englishmen gr at

empire.

Government.

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able that prices must rise. The Baldwin Government in no sense solved the problem by increasing the workers' hours; in fact, it only

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THE COAL MINE PROBLEM.

def. No-one who knows the con- ditions under which these men work in the bowels of the earth will assert that seven and a half hours is too short a working day. By restoring the hours to that limit, the Government has done murh to avert a real crisis in the mines. And that is by no means the least important of the results that will accrue from the measure which it has brought forward, -

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"Residents will be. interested to hear that the Clover Flower Shop is now able to offer special home- made marmalade, whilst turnips grown in an English garden, with out manure, may be ordered as per sample to be seen in the shop.

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One Czech-a Moravian. Two Czecha-a Slovak and a

Magyar. Three Czeclan Ruthenian, a Pole, and an Austrian. The Russians were, perhaps. treated a little unkindly,

Ge was on good terms with Veni- zelas. D. had been well acquaint- ed with the Russian statesman, Witte. F. was accustomed to send private correspondence to Presi dent Wilson.

G., calling on D., found him still in bed. The morning newspapers, Jay unfolded on the bed, and G. began to read them aloud to D.

When he came to the Russinn news, the revolution was ip pro.... Kress. D. sprang up in bed and ex- claimed: "There! That is exactly what I warned-Witte would hap- pen. Hud my advice been taken,

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One Russia- genius. Two Russinns-a soviet. Three Russians-anarchy.

Since Genera is unusually animated and serlok during the League Assemblies, it doubtless G., chuckling over D's vanity. The following boys, atudents at seems to be duller by contrast in took leave of him. In the gtreet. the High School of Charles the intervals of the League Assem- he met F, who was also paying a

South

Carolina, U.S.A.blies. This kind of amusement visit to D. “Have you seen the By the arrow margin of eight

wish to correspond with students is then permissible. Another re-morning paper?" eried F. excited- votes, the Government has manag-

in China! St. Julien Melechers, creation that might be recommend-ly; "Wilson has issued a manifesto ed to secure assent to the second)

59, Chapel St. Charleston; Barneyed is the counting of the number which is word for word as I sug- Limehouse, 236, Metting St. Char- of times the peak of Mont Blanc gested it to him. reading of its Coal Mines Bill.

leaton.

has fallen off. But perhaps that G. went on his way in high "lee. Is beyond computation. Certainly On the Boulevard he joined his An analysis of the wote showa that if all the Liberals actually in

Government Rent Policy.

The names of Mr. Donald Black, I have read many messages an-wife, and laughed uproariously Member of the Society of Accoun- sauneing the sudden disappear with her over the pretensions of the House on Thursday night had

The Government's clear refusal tants (Edinburgh), and

of the famous Bummit. his colleagues. Mr. ance

They sat on a cafe terrace. The united against the measure, the to interfere in any way between Ernest Albert. Henry Udy, Men Nearly always the occasion is Gavernment would have ten-de-landlord and Tenant in the mather of the Federal Institute of Ac seized to explain that Mont Blane newsboys were crying the after- paper G. bought one, fer of reat will be decorded the countants (Melbourne), have been is in France and not in Switzer-noon

"Good gracious!" he shouted; fented by one vote. Actually, five warm endorsement of the vast added to the list of authorised and.

"look at Chiat Venizelos has at last chstained from voting; whilst two majority of thinking, people. The auditors.

Sometimes even conferences at followed my counsels." supported the Government. The decision, In fret, conforms entire

"And you wanted me to share ly with expectations, eyen those The licence fees, in respect of Geneva or elsewhere, become dull battle, of course, is not yet com-of the questioner, Sir Henry Pal-motor buses are to be revised us and it is considered necessary to your merriment about D. and F,,"

work up dramatic interest in the said his wife reproachfully, pletely won, for the Bill has to lock, whose fourth alternative was from January 1st. Buses not ex- pass through the Committee Stage, obviously designed to remove the ceading 40 est, unladen, will pay proceedings. That dramatic in-

possible implication that the hon.$120 per annum, whilst buses terest is often overdone. and the Liberala have reserved to member's question was submitted above that weight will pay $240. there was themselves freedom to deal with for some purpose other than that. In addition, there will be a further disarmament its, “vigious provisions" when the of obtaining a statement of the $10 in respect of each seat for

Government policy. Certainly, | pausengers. measure is dealt with class by we are confident Sir Henry ind clause. However, inasmuch A no intention of associating himself" The following tenders have been the Premier has declared that the actively with that section of the accepted by the Government: Mr. public which has been agitating Wong Yung-yau, $455 for the pur-

On the whole, newspaper men Eill is pre-eminently one for Comfor rent restriction legislation, a chase of condemned slurca (old mitter discussion, and negotia- | Fair Rents Board, or variation cables) lying at Talkoo Dockyard, have a proper sense of their re-

a and Messrs. L. Charles & Co., for sponsibility, and it is relatively WHO WAS..... tions are being resumed between of the legal requirements of

notice to quit. The Government the purchase of pine trees, brushi- rare that accounts of international the Government and the various proposed leave the rent problem, wood and prunings from trees dur-affairs are seriously inaccurate. But while open diplomacy may interests and parties with a view if such exists, to the action of ing the year 1930.

generally work out well, it is to be In an exhaustive examination of economie laws and to the terms

of the contracts entered into be The following new regulation has doubted whether it is always ad- been made under the Ferries Ordi- visable to thrash out questions in Hs provisions, it may reasonably tween the parties to a tenancy.

Barthelemy, A person shall public. Joseph be expected that the enactment emphasising the firmness of their ance:-"19A. No will be eventually passed into attitude by the brevity of answers, use or attempt to use for the pur distinguished: law professor, re-

As a matter of fact, those who

pose of travelling on any ferry ves.cently wrote: law, even if some of its more con-have complained of high

kel any season ticket not originally rents

issued to him or not intended, ac have failed to make out a troversial aspects are modified."

case,

cording to its terms of issue, to be the When we comu Lo analyse the despite

voluminous" pro-

pose." Bill, we cannot see much justifica-ganda of the past few weeks. available for his use for such pur- There is evidence, perhaps, of

existence

so-called

tion for the severe strictures pass-the

into one quarter,

of

Is

Once

It was one of this trio who, at- an especially dull tending with me a dinner given by conference, but the Ambassador, Myron T. Harrick, it was represented as desperately was called upon to make speech. bitter. At last a correspondent In the course of his remarks, seck- received from his editor a tele-ing an oratorical effect, he asked gram couched in these terms: "Re-rhetorically: “And what did Land-

(Continued on Page 10.) member, you are reporting a peace conference, not a war."

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ST. PATRICK?

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In Christian art, St. Patrick is usually represented in the act of banishing serpents, and holding a shamrock leaf in hie hand. The explanation of this is probably that by his preaching of the Gospel he put an end to the serpent WAB wide- worship which spread in Ireland before his time. The shamrock is the gymbol which lie used to ex-. plain the meaning of the Blessed Trinity, the Three in One, to his simple country-

Although his life is so closely associated with Ireland, St. Patrick was not Irish, by birth, He was the son of a Roman official at Dumbarton, in Scotland. In boyhood he was taken captive by hostilo Plete and sold as a slave to an Irish lard.. He grew up speaking the Irish language, but disliking the Irish people, and at the age of twenty two he escaped, and fled to France, where he studied for the church and was ordained a priest,

"Diplomatic conferences principally characterized by the fact that they are not attended by

diplomatists, they are the diplomatists. Or, if there are category of persons who are not The offices of the Supreme Court photographed-attaches, secre ed on the measure by Mr. Lloyd rapacious landlords in certain dis will be open daily from 10 a.m. to taries, experts. Yet it used to be tricts, but isolated cases do not p.m. during the Christmas Vaca- convenient for the governments to George. Indeed, seeing that he

men. prove a rule, and there is reason tion, except an public and, general have at their disposition diplo approved of the proposed redue-to believe that the general teng. Holidays, when the offices will be matists who tested the ground

were, disavowed Fents tion of hours and the establish- dency

down entirely closed, and on Saturdays, and who instend "of up. In certain when they will be open from 10 am. they made a false move ment of a National Wages Board, business districts, we are told, to noon. The Christmas Vacation The inconvenience of ministers we are somewhat surprised that the tendency is in the ather begins on the 24th day of Decem.meeting in public is that anything the bulk of his Party" joined the direction, but we imagine, an ber, 1929, and ends on the 1st day they say is definitive."

Certainly a good deal of spade investigation, would reveal that of January, 1930, (both days in-

work should be performed as quiet- Conservatives In opposing the higher rents are the result, inevit-clusive),

ly as possible. It may be injudici- whole measure, especially sinconbly, of the law of supply and de-

Nine petticoats on one small girl oun for statesmen to live in the But if the latter Party is known to objectmand. If business men will crowd

the landlord is the record by Vilma Banky in international limelight. to both the provisions mentioned. naturally takes advantage of the the opening sequences of "This Is there are spectacular meetings of Seemingly, the Liberal leader re-situation. He would be regarded Heaven, her newest starring pic ministers, and the press of the ture for Samuel Goldwyn which world is invited to watch their rents the rights conferred to pro- as a fool if he did not. When comes to the Queen's Theatre on movements, the ministers have no

Would-be tenants begin to outbid prietary interests by the scheme one another, he cannot help in Wednesday. In this picture, Mies right to complain that the report- which socks to regulate the produc- self. That seems to be the most inn immigrant girl accking her for their

Banky plays the role, of a Hungar- era do not invariably demonstrate efficiency. I disclosures tion, supply and sale of cont. Hetion. Latterly, with business de-tune in the United States, and wear upset the plans of the politicians, made much of the fast that the psalon affecting all and sundry. Ing her native peasant costume the initial mistake is in seeking

the "highest bidders" have begun

would have been better conducted Bill, when it becomes law, will into feel the pinch, and have looked when she first arrives in New York. publicity for proceedings that

After spending 20 years as a in private. trease the price of coal, but we round for the cause and a solution

of their difcufties. At first, the Inundryman at Medicine Hat, Al- cannot ace, how the industry can fault Tested with the high pre-berta, Canada, Ma Goon-yin, alias In certain smaller countries of be made to pay on the minera bemium on the dollar note, and the Ma Chan, alias Ma (or Mah). Tal, castern Europe the press would adequately remunerated without matter was satisfactorily (?) ad: died, when returning to China' on do well to reorganize itself. There

justed.

Now, apparently, the October 4, this year, on hoard the are correspondents who have to an advance in the price of the trouble is found to be centred in 98. Empress of Asia. He left eke aut a living on "space" rates commodity. Even the reduction heavy overhead charges. It would estate in Hongkong worth $4,406, If their paragraphs are accepted, of working hours, of which Mr, of course be absurd to argue that in respect of which letters of ad- they receive a fee. If they are Lloyd George approves, must add reduction would not help mal-ministration have been granted to thrown into the wastepaper basket Lers, It would, but neither a the widow, Ma Yan-shi, temporarily then the correspondent goes un- to the cast of production. We Fair Rents Buard, nor any other living at No. 38. Bonham Strand rewarded. Thus there is en have it on the word of the Prime kind of Government intervention East. The only other survivor iscouraged a tendency to exaggerate. Minister that coul has been sold in the rent question would assist son, Ma Kwok-hong, aged 24. Still, most of the news, which in improving the Colony's trade, Deceased was a native of Ko Hong at levels which do not permit of in removing the stagnation which village, Tol Shan District, Kwang the decent organisation of the is the root cause of the complaint. tung and left for Canada in 1909,

cornos from these sources is in nocuous enough. Its defect is that it does not interpret the

Feeling a call to convert the pagan Irish he returned to the green islo of his un-. happy youth, and began his missionis fervour and en- thusiasm were successful in converting. first Ulster, and then the rest of Ireland. Many churches and abbeys, and the cathedral, of Armagh,' were built during his lifetime.. St. Patrick never wearied.

in his quest of souls to suve. Hio, travels, took him over not paly Ireland, but also, Brit- tany, Cornwall and Walen, When he died in 493, at the age of a hundred and twenty, his bones were laid to rest In the same grave with St. Briget and St. Columbo.