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THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1937,

THE CONSERVATIVES' DILEMMA.

servative M.P's and candidates

foodstuffs, the electorate shall be consulted as to whether such a policy be put into effect. In other words, the voters are expected first of all to return the Con- sorvatives to

that

power

negotiations which is 4

DAY BY DAY.

THERE ARE FEW BETTER INVEST

MENTS, FOR TRUE FATRIOTS THAN schools, FREE LIBRARIES, AND ART GALLERIES.Sir William Bailey.

H.M. Ships Somme and Sirdar for northern left Hongkong waters yesterday.

The master of a fishing bont was fined $3 at the Marine Court this morning.for failing to renew his licence..

CHARGE AMENDED IN COURT.

JUNK MASTER WITHOUT

The Very Idea!

There is a clock outside a build-'. ing in the West End of London A CLEARANCE,

that appears to solve for itself the Charged with leaving Tsun Wan problem of "Forward or Back- without a permit from the Harward." Its hands move, anti- bour Master, Lai Fat, master of clockwise, "round a dial which is a cargo boat, pleaded "Not Guilty" numbered anti-clockwise. Thus, at the Marine Court this morning when the time is ten minutes to minutes past eloven. Only four before the Hon. Commdr. G. Fong the hands stand, at ten Hole, R.N.

Junk Inspector Brett, who pro- times in twonty-four hours-at secuted, said that at about 4 p.m. mid-night, 6 am, noon, and 6 p.m. on June 24, he boarded defen-do the hands shows the normal dant's junk at Taun Wan and hour.

Of course, the real object of found that no entry had been made on the licence-book for. about a this unique clock is to attract at been tention, as it certainly does. The an inquiry, year. No entry had also made about leaving the harbour or makers, In reply to entering Tsun Wan.

say: "The mechanism is very sim- Looking up the charge, his ple; it is, in fact, one of our stan For carrying cargo instead of Warship pointed out that the de- dard dial mechanisms with part of In fact, passengers, the master of a pas-fendant was arraigned for leaving the gearing reversed."

this is the clock that goes its own senger boat, was fined $9 or nine Taun Wan without a permit,

"Where is the junk now?" asked

way". days by the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, RN, at the Marine Court his Worship. this morning. It was mentioned that the licence cost $9.

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come to nothing may be entered into with the Dominions, and then, in certain eventualities, to again re- gister their approval of Conser vative policy on a specific issue. A more complicated method of dealing with the issue we can scarcely imagine. It may be true that Lord Beaverbrook originated the idea of a referendum on this question in order to avoid a split | pital, in the Party, but he has, with characteristic facility, quickly per- ceived that unity cannot be attain ed by such a move.

Suffering from opium poisoning, alleged to have been self-adminis teréd, a Chinese woman named Fung Suk-fong, (24), living at No. GO, Temple Street, Kowloon, has been removed to the Kowloon Hoa-

Inspector Brett.-At Tsun Wan. His Worship.-Apparently he has not left Tsun Wan. charge is wrong then.

The

Chief

"Hadn't you better go and tell your master?" said the motorist to the farmer's boy, who stood look- ing at the load of hay upset in the "He knows," replied the bay. "Knows? How can be know?" lane by a collision.

"'Cos he's under the "hay?"

A noteworthy point about the is Conservative Party meeting that an amendment was proposed

Amongst the passengers who left

Mr. W. R. Hillyer, the that the referendum idea be by the Empress of Asia yesterday abandoned and the Party be given were Mrs. E. G. Steele-Perkins, Junk Inspector, who was also in Mrs. Hampden Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Court, informed his Worship that a free hand in the matter. That, H. Humphreys, Miss M. Manuk, Mr. the defendant renewed his licence incidentally, is precisely what the and Mrs. R. I. Hope, Mr. J. P. in April. He explained that when the licence was renewed, the junk

Two more anecdotes about the must have been in Hongkong for

datės Beaverbrook crusaders advocate, Bourne, and Mr. W. P. Rasey.

and West Ridings. The first and the very fact that the amend-

A Chinese tallyman, named Chai the number to be repainted,

dusty battalion on the march. A brought forward is Keh, (29), employed on board the said he could prove that she was back to the Boer War; a tired,

has been re-in Hongkong in April. ment was sufficient to show that Party feel- Empress of Asia,

moved to the Kowloon Hospital, The charge against the defen-young Staff officer rides up and ing is still divided on

the issue. suffering from oplum poisoning, dant was then amended to "leay calls out "Are you the West Rid-

"No-we're the Buffs walking!" Indeed, Mr. Baldwin scarcely alleged to have been self-adminising the harbour sometime between ing?" A growl from the ranks: And the recruit, hearing he was seems to know his own mind, betered at the Hotel Nathan, Kow- April 1 and June 24 without a clearance," to which he pleaded loon..

guilty, adding that he left the posted to the West Riding Regi cause only a few weeks ago, in

harbour

on the latter date for ment. "Worst Riding Regiment?". he said. "Rather desert-give outlining his agricultural policy.

He was fined $10 with the al- me something better, or put me in he favoured a guaranteed price

Tsun Wan.

for the British farmer's wheat

ternative of 10 days' imprisonment, the infantry." and the imposition of a duty on imported wheat, which must mean a tax on food. Yet now he ap- pears to shrink from embarking on a definite policy which involves

The driver of motor-bus No. 476, this factor. As, to the methods has reported to the police that adopted by the

A Chinese named Lai Ken, (26), employed at the South China Knit ting Factory, No. Gi, Shantung Street, has been removed to the Kowloon Hospital, suffering from injuries received to his left arm, as a result of it having being caught in the machinery of a steam drier, at the factory.

Beaverbrook-while he was driving yesterday afternoon from Shataukok to Fan-

HAWKER'S LICENCE

PUZZLE.

TORTOISES DESCRIBED AS "SUNDRIES."

•

I am less interested in the land of our fathers than in the land we shall leave to our children.

Mr Clough William-Ellis..

I am inclined to be distrustful of so-called "super-men" in busi- ness. Mr. Angus Watson.

"So far as my own notice of married life goes, 1 see few in- stances to support the theory of a spiritual unity.-Mr. Justice

have pledged their support to Sympathy with Mr. Baldwin's. de- passenger travelling in the other believed by many Chinese to posto, he burnt to the ground. Mr.

Every town in England ought G. B. Shaw.

Although four hundred Con. Rothermere faction, we find ouring, he passed another bus, near Folice Court case this morning McCardie.

selves in a large measure of the village San Chuen and a bus, named Ip Fat, (18), put his hand out, it came into contact with his vehicle and was fractured. The man was taken to

Mr. Baldwin and his policy in Empire Free Trade, they certainly have not healed the

regard to

unciation. The presumption of these newspaper Barons appears to know no limits. All the same,

the hospital..

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violent

The fact was disclosed in

that tortoises boiled in water are sess valuable medicinal properties, A man was charged before Mr. Lindsell with hawking these reptiles without a licence, and one of the witnesses" produced by the Mr. Baldwin will find that he is fighting great power, and the net Sentence of three weeks' hard police was a herbalist who was engaged in bargaining over the result of his acceptance of the labour was imposed by Mr. Whyte goods when a constable inter-

Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy | vened. challenge looks like being this morning on a Chinese who was In issuing hawkers' licences, it widening of the split in his Party. charged with assaulting a woman is required that the goods dealt in with whom he had been living for must be specifically stated. His about a month. The man struck Worhip asked the Prosecuting her in the chest whilst she was Police Officer under what heading carrying a baby. His Worship re- he would put tortoises. marked that defendant might have!

The officer replied that tortoises killed the child if the woman had, were not classed as food for man; he would therefore include them fallen backwards.

in "sundries."

split in the Party. As we un- derstand it, the only difference between the Beaverbrook group and the official Conservative Party is that the former definite ly stand for Empire Free Trade, including food taxes, whereas the

Guiding Pedestrians." latter are prepared to support

Not long ago an attempt was Empire economic unity as far as this may be practicable without made in Hongkong to guide the footsteps of pedestrians by means food taxation and even to adopt of white lines painted on American Consulate General for the latter also, provided the roadway and this has been con- the following persons: G. A. voters approve after a referendum tinued but with little success. Allan, Robert Bastow, Mias F. the subject. Of the two People refuse to be shepherded Bostwicke, R. Caldwell, J. A Conley, R. G. Copper. C. D. Curry such narrow. limits and policies, that advocated by Lord into Beaverbrook and his followers is it has been found that there Mrs. L. Curtis. Mrs. E. A. Custer, V. H. Donnelly, Gonzáles, T. F. is no remedy if the white lines Haskell, E.. R. Loverud, S. are ignored. Similar experi- Madrinan, H. S. Miller, G. W. Admittedly, it amounts to nothing ments have recently been tried Mentz, L. Moller, W. C. Ockland, COSTLY EXPERIMENT else but Protection, for which a at Home. At Worcester a similar R. C. Richardson, Misa A. Riggin,

on

far more

definite

and clear-cut.

new name has been coined, but there is no. ambiguity about it. The Baldwin attitude, on the other hand, is so contingent on "ife" and "buts" as to lack the force of a popular appeal.

the

scheme was laughed out of Court but this has not deterred Hudders- field where white lines have been painted on the pavement and an effort has been made to teach pedestrians to keep to the left. It has been shown time and time

Mail has been received at the

G. B. Rogers, Miss M, Root, L. I. Simpson, Mrs. K. Smith, 11. G. Soria, H. C. Stevens, A. Stewart, A. B. Taylor, R. L. Teigler, G. O. Voodward.

FAIR TO SHOWERY. ·

Men are quite obviously the superior sex; they have done

everything in the world of im- portance since the beginning of time.Miss Ethel Mannin.

Nobody should insult a baby by receiving it with an unwilling. heart.Dr. F. W. Norwood.

Sergeant: You can't go in there that's the colonel's tent!

Recruit: Then what have they got "Private" over the entrance. for?

..

Mr. Justice Rowlatt, to a house agent in the King's Bench Divi- sion: You will not be able to sell a house soon unless there is room for an aerodrome.

His Worship:--You would not call them hardware, although they come near it.

Willesden witness: My name The hawker, who had said that is Baron Langley, The Clark: tortoises had a medicinal value, Lord Langley, I presume. - Witness: presumably in conferring longe-No, a detective in the Metropolitan"

Police. vity, was fined $2.

FAILS.

ELECTRICITY FROM THE GULF STREAM.

Solicitor at West London: How was she dressed? Witness: She

wasn't.

Lord Onslow is trying to ac- climatise some rare, butterflies which have become extinct in Eng- land. He has obtained 400 pupae, An attempt to bring the Gulf and these are now being hatched Stream into the professor's labora out at his Surrey home at Clandon, tory near Matanxa where turbines near Guildford. The butterflies again, however, that the public

would have generated electricity are all of the swallowtail species, The Royal Observatory reports has failed owing to the giant tube and Lord Onslow appeals to people does not appreciate these efforts that depressions are central over

of corrugated steel, two thousand in the locality not to molest them, which are calculated to add to the N. China to the S. E. of Tourane yards long; collapsing and being but to give them a chance to breed. safety of the streets. If the Incal forecast is:-East winds, mo- into the sea near Matanza:

and to the east of the Visayas. The completely destroyed when it sunk periment has failed, elsewhere, derate; fair to showery.

EXCHANGE RATES.

London, June 25.

The idea, elucubrated by the

French scientist,. M. Georges WHO WAS ?

Claude, was to utilise the dif- ference between the temperature of the Gulf Stream and the cold waters beneath and thereby pro- 123.77 duce electricity. The experiment 84.82 cost a quarter of a million stër)- 12.09% ing, including a railway a quarter 20.375 of a mile long over the water.-

18.16 Reuter's American Service. .34.425

-162%

.108.25

.818 .41

.2/0.13/32 4.86 1/32 26.075

WATER LEVELS.

ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

Reading between the lines, it is easy to see why the official Conservative Party jiba at the Beaverbrook scheme. Mr. Bald win, in his latest statement, let

then it seems more than likely the cat out of the bag when he that Huddersfield will be added said that if the Party is given a to the list of places where quite. free hand, this would mean food a sensible but premature experi- taxes on the platform and at the ment has been made but has fail- General Election. This is what led. It is obviously better for Paris

Brussels he is anxious to avoid, for he everyone concerned if pedestrian Amsterdam admits that a policy of food traffic can be confined to certain Berlin

limits. Unfortunately, however, Copenh

Copenhagen taxation, without any referendum the public while appreciating the.

Vienna Helsingfors on the subject, would lead to de-need for safety also realises that Lisbon ¡feat at the polls. In saying so it is entitled to a certain amount Bucharest

Buenos Aires much, he obviously has in mind of freedom. Some of Hudders-

Shanghai the fate of the Party on other field's white lines are painted on Yokohama occasions when it has sponsored pavements on which shops face. New York

It is the inalienable right of a Milan Imperial Preference. The point

woman to gaze in shop windows Stockholm which suggests itself, however, on her right as well as on her Oslo is Why a referendum at all? left and for this reason alone the

Madrid Surely the Conservative Party experiment cannot meet with any Athens should be able to make up its great success. These experiments Rio

Bombay mind as to whether it stands for food taxation or not. If it does, then the only honest course is to say so and fight the next election on that issue. The Baldwin plan, not arrived. As traffic grows, of whitewash. The minority are however, is on these lines-that then the pedestrian acquires an either careless or unaware of the if the Conservatives are returned increasing sense of traffic risks. dangers. Reason and an oppre

The highest levels on record to power they will call an Im The majority of people are care ciation of the traffic dangers must are:-Shiuhing, 41 feet; Tsing- perial Conference, and if they ful and fully cognisant of the come in time and in its own sweet ruen, 29.2 feet; Samshui, 27.3

feet: Sheklung, 15.5 feet dangers which beset them on the day for the perfect system of The lowest level on record at can then come to terms with the streets without the necessity for trafic control will only be avall Samshui is minus 5 feet and at Dominions and these terms in- being herded between two lines able on the Day of Judgment. Sheklung minus 2.7 Teet, clude the taxation of foreign

Geneva

savour too much of trying to drill

Hongkong the pedestrian into two distinct Silver (spot). and marshalled columna marching Silver (forward) side by side in opposite directions. The time for this has certainly

92.76

18.03

The following table, issued by 18.15 the Kwangtung River Conservancy 163% Commission, shows in English feet $2.25 the water levels on the West 376 River, North River and East 5.19/32 River, on the dates named: 1/525/32

.1/3 .15.9/10 164 -British Wifelces,' ..

Shiuhing Tsingyuen

June 24 June 26

16.6 -144

Samshui Sheklung

21.9 1,5

22.3 1.4

The level at Shluhing on June 24th was 29.5 feet.

LELIA.

Once deceived, the beautiful Lelia renounced love and vowed to meet the passion of

men

with laughter and mockery a pledge which she kept to the letter.

OL

Stenlo, young poet of a dreamy, passionate nature, fell madly in love with Lella, but true to the course action she had mapped out for Borself Telia contrived? to fch him off with her sister, a courtesan, who was ber double in appearance. When Stenio, discovered. what Had

him happened to

his whole moral" nature became disintegrated, and, finally, he did away with himself.

Meanwhile the priest Magnus was also besieging Lelia with his love, but to no better purpose, for the woman was adamant and turned: R deaf ear to the most pas sionate pleading...

Driven mad by his repres sions, Magnus finally slew Lella, and so brought the story to an end.

Lelia" was the work of George Sand, the romantic French authoress, and was written in 1883