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unquestionably does, and would find lenders ready to trust her, for years, ; It is hoped, however, that short- term loana will suffice to adjust the situation. In any event, to quote the words of a prominent American, "Britain, as a risk is no risk at all; everybody knows that Britain, under any Government, is going to be stable." There is. therefore, to

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Will Lloyd George "Come Back"?

By WINSTON CHURCHILL,

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The P. and O. s... Khyber from

FN our country when an eminent) homes of our Island against the Hongkong arrived at London on 7th

publie man is stricken by it- sharper strokes of Fate? September at 3 n.m.

The elaborate scales of pro- ness or has to undergo a serious Cheung Ngan, aged 27, a married and dangerous operation, a truce Kressive taxation under which held by a new Government, a Gov-woman, was removed from her home is called to the raneour of party carried now to an extreme excess we impotently writhe date from at 324, Hennessy Rond to hospital warfare.

drinking! the talents." in yesterday, subsequent to

Political opponents, hustile the Lloyd George Budget of 1903. Triends. ft The splendid motor roads which which the best brains of the threa opium water in an attempt to commit newspapers, candid

sutelde,

their criticisms to another plane, lace the British countryside, un- political parties are co-operating for

and look back upon the pant and rivalled elsewhere either in excel- The loss of a gold elgarette care towards the future with a sense of fence or cost, are the products of weal, This rapid' COMMON

worries and his original Road Fund. change in the situation once again during the 7.15 p.m. performance at freedom from the

the Star Theatre yesterday has been

The War Lender. illustrates Britain's adaptability in reported by Mrs. II. Pooley, of No. 21, vexations of the day. There is no atatesman alive upon whom a culm, Lyemoon Building. The спис the face of a national crisis. Un-valued at $500.

brand light may be turned with The safeguarding - duties upon greater advantage than upon Mr. which a vast mass of agreement fortunately, the majority of the

has gathered, which were the first On the arrival of the Empress of Lloyd George. Labour Party fools Indisposed to Inpan from Manila this morning, a He in sixty-eight years old. We decisive inroads upon, the Free new Administration. Chinese steerage passenger named all look forward to his complete Trade system, owe their inception thereby displaying a somewhat re- Yeung Tsot, 31 years of age, was sent recovery; but time assails over the to his Premiership. No hand more to the Mental Hospital. He is believ most vigorous constitutions. What'than his carried the Irish Settle- grettable shortsightedness and gived to be insane. ing an Impression to the outside world that Britain is not united in grappling with the problem which had arisen. The unrrow, Forty spirit has obtruded itself, but we have an impression that, when the

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Mr. Siegfried Komor

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The building presented by Mr. Tang | Chi-ngong for the use of the School of Chinese Studies at the University will be' afleially oponed by His Excel} ency the Chancellor of the University at pau, on Monday, the 29th inst.

Three Chinese boatwomen were each

fsil extent of the Government's pro- Rued $10 or a week's imprisonment, posals are disclosed, based on thefer having moored their boats inshore between the Sai Kung, Chiu On andi Cheung that wharves, by the fen omdr. Role, at the Marine Court this mornin

principle of equal sterifices by all. there will be leis inclination to run contrary to the meatres which have

devised after

chrisust scrutiny of all the poesfbilities,

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1931,

THE KING AND THE

CRISIS.

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In

Venturing too far out on to the sea- wall yesterday, a Chinese woman fell into the water, nenz the Star Perry.

tay event, the determination of time] An Indian constable, P. C. Dain Singh,! task her it, and she was afterward. | new Government to art things right found to he now the worse for her

will surely win the approval sí】experience,

the bulk of the people of the nation. Recuse she was reprimanded by

The call for sacrifices made. It will be responded to in trac British fashion.

Edison's fienius.

has been her elder brother on account of some family knir, +C 16-year-old girl. named Chan Sul-hing, living at No. 10. Sze Ma Terrace, yesterday, threw herself over the verandah of the second floor and suffered injuries from which she expired while on her way

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Few men have lived vitally tejto hospital. affect the lives of the rest of man- Two points stand on prominently kind so pretoundly as has Thomas their new Soda Fountain is now open | in connexion with the King's feri-A. Edison. The famous inventor, to the public for the sale of all sion to serrentes more than ten who recently startled his medical American fred drinks, tea, coffer, per cent, of his income whilst the advisers by getting no from a sick-premises, the entrance of which is in present, crisis lasts. First and fore-bed when they thought him to be Nathurn Road, are attractively decorat- rust, His Majesty displays his dying, will leave the world a vastly rd and finished in terrazzo, are re-

with every modern appliance has he before him? Has he yet munt which closed in a melancholy anxiety

16 share in the sacrifices different phee from the world hplete

necessary for the production of the other great services to rendor to but necessary fashion five centu- Carlyle's re-best ice cream.

No hand more the anxious, puzzled, and needloss-ries of conflict. which all classes are being called entered 85 years ago,

murk that the history of the world.

ly dejected peoples of the British than his, again for good or i. upkin to make; secunfix, he again is simply the story of the lives of

Empire? Or is the tale already shaped the much-abused but firm- Er based treaties which regulate illustrates his uplitude for doing the the world's greatest men

As Great as Chatham. the unenay life of Europe. right thing at the right moment. peetilkarly apt in Edison's care

But it is upon his actions in the There is no other personal story crisis of the greatest Bad must On the eve of the reassembly of Every inhabitant of a civilized rui-

like it in living memory. Indeed.terrible of wars that his fame will Parliament, when measures will he tion lives ander conditions utterly

History will re-turn her puges

He was the accepted and amouneed touching all sections of unlike what they would have been

back to Chatham to find his ralent.

unchallenged war-lender of the if Edison had never lived, and the the community, the King voluntarily changes he has caused are pegman-

"I timit having been banished, lel in achievement. No one has British Empire for the culminat Cotton Forward with a

generous ent things which will affee! the but I did not know 1 hart been consciously shaped the details and Ing two years of the struggle. He Linished for life." snid man routine of British daily life as he led the supreme manifestations of offer to save the State a matter of lives of people' a thousand years named Lia Fook-ging, who washas done.

the might of Britain to absolute a round thousand penints per week. from my as profoundly as they do charged before Mr. Fraser, at the

The great system of Insurance and overwhelming victory. This has only been possible by very today. It is the Tashion among Kowloon Magistracy this morning, against old age, sickness, invali- There is much to be said against rigid recnomy, and it is the second highbrows to remark that Edison will returning from banishment. dity, and unemployment which his conduct of affairs in the war, It was mentioned that the de-affect the whole social life of the and many mistakes, especially in occasion on which, at a time of wa is never a fiue "scientist."

fentant was banished from

the British nation, followed span theories or

and distinguish his relations with the generals, Colony in 1926 and had served them in degree tional crisis. His Majesty has fle-never

at least from can be marked with plain and hard monstrated his desire to hear his after truth; from start term of imprisonment in 1922 for every other country, are his char- phrases. His record rigzags like

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acteristic contributions. Whether the fortunes of the war Itself. Defendant said he only returned for good or for ill, they will en-But there was no doubt about the

whether to the Colony to find out

dure: and who can dispute the im-end. the rumour was true.

mense mitigations and safeguards His Worship imposed sentence of they have provided for the coltage nine months hard inbour.

He has

to finish he has been na inventor, part in the reduction of the coun

the apotheosis of the men who de try's expenditure. The same spirit vise handy little gadgets to have is being manifested by other mem-time and labour. But what an in- bers of the Royal Family. JL. is ventor! The world that Edison en action such as this which clearly tered 85 years ago hnd no electric is lights, it had no radio, it had no shows that the Royal House deeply concerned with the welfare moving pictures, it had no granio- phones; it had not fearned how to of the country, and which explains use electricity properly, and that in part the lasting attachment of giant force which will some day per- the people to the Throne.

form all of the world's drudgery was a useless and mysterious glunt.

His Majesty's gesture comes, as

which

we say, at a most appropriate mo-And to-day? From down to dusk live according to Edisu. ment. Yesterday, Parliament met we

Whe tramcar or the motor for its emergency session. It has

ear which takes you to flee.j been called by reason of a very real the electric appliance crisis which is none of Britain's toasts your bread or boils your doing, but which has arisen through coffee, the ilumination by which cnuses over which it had no control, you work and read, the entertain- Happily, however, as the Prime ment you get in the cinema, the Minister so appositely remarks, the music that comes over the air to you at night-Edison has had his, hand House of Commons Is meeting, not in all of these things; if he had not to deal with a financial collapse, but lived you would not have them at to deal with proposals to avert that all, or you would have them in a for grim possibility and to bring the less perfect form. Scientist or in- country back on to an even keel. ventor-who eares? He has made The light of gold from London to life more comfortable and piensant Paris has been a great factor in for millions on millions of people. Monkind has seldom been any the situation, and in plana for its

more deeply in any one man's debt. redistribution Britain has had per- force to seek aid from France and. The United States. More than Britain's future is involved, how- ever, for, as one of the most able French oconomists has stated, de fence of the pound sterling must be organised in order to save the whole European monetary altuation. Ho added that fow countries to-day posscan sufficient credit to be able to borrow on long term, but Britain

SILVER FUTURES.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

Messrs. Pentreath and Co. have been advised by cable of the fol- lowing quotations for New York allyer futures ns at the close of the market yesterday:

September 1981, 27.00 no change. December 1931 28.05 down 00. May 1932 28.25 up 20. July 1932 28.40.

DIDN'T KNOW WAS LIFE DEPORTATION.

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"Now remember, dear, you're not to have a care in the world while you and the children are down there."

Armageddon.

The end saw the British Empire enverge

Nufe And undiminished from the fercest storm that ever blew; with all her foes prostrate for ruined, and all her Dominions, Colonies, and possessions at her side. When the British effort at sen, or land, in money, and muni- tions is taken as a whole, it out- weighs and outmatches that of any of our great Allies, and stands the conquering cuninterpart of the Ger man effort Itseif.

"But

says the volen of detrae- tion he merely sirambled on to The back of the elephant and clung

on while the mighty beast blun dered and trampled through the jungle into safety,"

It is true that individual leaders -statesmen, generals, soldiers~- played a for smaller part in Arma- steddon than in any former war. The tributes are rightly ascribed to the life-energies, herolem, loyal- |tios, and specifices of their nations, and of the forces they guided. There Is a salutary reaction against according the proprietary

credit of world-changing events

to

the personates who happened

to be in high positions when thead grant ovents took place.

of

There are, however, a number definite actions and decisions of Lloyd George which exercised car dinal influence upon the final resut. They are traceable to him not only because of what he did himmli, but because of the differencef of opinion about them at the ime, and the oppositions he had to ver-

como.

fle first of all, before the ind of 1014, proclaimed to the binet" the Imponding failure of Tssia to realise the hopes bullt won hor size and alrength. He, pre than

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