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tion. There are also reports of Liberals being prepared to support

the Government in whatever it

déome necessary ́ in the present

emergency, uvan if tariffs are in-

'DAY BY DAY

MY ADVICE 18 TO CONSULT THE LIVES OF OTHER MEN, AS HE WOULD a LOOKING-GLASS, AND FROM THENCE FETCH EXAMPLE FOR HIS OWN IMITA- TION.

Terence.

A notice inued at the Harbour Office alates that cable laying operations will be carried out to-morrow between Murray Pier and the Kowloon Rail way Station. The usual signals will be displayed by the vessel engaged in the work.

volved. 1 we look at the attitude of the Labour Opposition on this fiscal question, we and opinions divided somewhat, but there seems reason to suppose that very con- siderable support could be found for tarifa amongst the rank and Ale of the Labour Party. With the circumstances thus, we cannot see the necessity of a General Election

Li Chol was admitted into the on this point. It might be argued

Government Civil Hospital yesterday that the Government has no man-suffering from burns in the right hand date to impose tariffs, but that reported to have been caused through can be said with equal force of the work undertaken for Mesars. Dadwall decision taken and put to effect & Co., by whom he was employed. of abandoning the gold standard.

contact with an electrle wire"durlug

J. A. SPENDER:

Looks at

The Situation.

From the year 1886, when the

I do not profess to be ablo to anti-Ilome Rule Liberala joined up forence the outcome or to foretell with the Conservatives, up to the how it may develop. That will only last of our recent coalitions, it has begin to appear when Parliament always been the attitude of the com- has, met. But Ministers, I am sure, bining or coalescing parties that will be wise to keep their counsel their co-operation was temporary about the future, for otherwise and provisional.

they may easily defeat their own order to reassure their respective credit.

This is thought necessary. object of re-establishing British supporters and convince other

A schemo exposed to such not been betrayed.

Discovered by a police constable people that political principles have hazards in the neur, future as some The moment is obviously one for suspended by the neck on the first foos here has, nevertheless, been ho-of-their-initial announcements sug-.

Weak Points.

quick action, and in times such as tanding of the servants' stairense at

No. 5, King's Terrace, the corpse of an combination, whether in peace or in sested, could not have that effect. These any Government would bounidentified Chineno was removed to war, which has not profoundly af- given a large measure of latitude The case is believed to be one of political fates of those who have the Kowloon Mortuary yesterday, fected the party situation and the in determining what it considers suicide. wise and prudent. An election just now would only add confusion to the altuation. If public opinion must be consulied, then surely a better method would be that of a referendum.

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Let us in the meantime have our taken part in it. Is there any ren-yes open to certain weak points in son to think that the present com-the presunt station. Because she had been reprimanded, bination or coalition will, In this it is said, by her husband for

from gambling and inattention to domestle capect, he different dulles, Wong Lat-chuen, 19-year-old wife of Chinese tradesman at 629, Queen's Road West, attempted suicide yesterday by swallowing sodium bicarbonate. She was conveyed to hospital in a serious condition.

must decide for

other?

For its present purpose the now *mbinati, would have bean tronger if it a bien nore to the left, as it would have been if the Labour Party had not stampeded on the 10 per cent, cut. That would have Cortifled its claim to be a National Government and strength

Theory and Fact. The answer. It seems to me, de pends entirely on the nature and Another intriguing report con-

atrength of the Opposition. cerns the ponsibility of securing

The first theory of the new Govened its appeal to the workers. (fu Described as being an opium-addiet, crament was that it was to be a doubtedly the Conservative leaders a greater measure of national Chu Fung-nton, aged 84, died at the cleaning-up Government, a Govern have played a wise and courageou unity by including the

Labour Government Civil Hospital at mid- ment to do things which by general part, but it is a weakness ist die nicht. Death stated to be due to consent were necessary but which only strong organisation behind the Opposition In the Government the insidious action of the drug which

took a definite turn during trip were too difficult or too invidious Government should be that of the If that could be accomplished, an

which the man had a few days before to be done without a party truco Conservative Party, which has de early General Election could im-completed from Singapure. He was and a sharing of responsibility be-dicated Half to another causo and would no doubt prefer to reserve Ita mediately be ruled out. It is sug-staying at the Asia Hotel when his tween the hree parties.

condition was discovered by the If this were true,

the Labour energies and husband its resources gested that the Labuurites might hinnagement and brought to the at Ministers whose services were dis- for a different kind of battle. disposed to come in if some modi-tection of the authorities.

pensed with would have departed Within a few days from now we fication of the #nemployment bone- "Business perple

in peace and promised their sup-shall see the necessity of a vigorous ft reduction were assured. At the themselven whether to entrust their port until the cleaning up was over, propaganda hacked by a campaign moment, however, such a bargain to the Siberian route, in view of very much as the Liberal Ministers fund devoted to that purpose, It the unsettled conilltions there" de departed when the first war Conli-will have somehow to be provided. seems hardly likely to be made.clared the Postmaster General, Mr. E. tion was formed in 1915. And in but ways and means and skilful or- W. Hamilton yesterday. "While we that case we might have looked for ganisation are not casily 3711- There is, none the less, one ground have had no information that the ser- the dissolution of the partnership provised by temporary combina. on which a case for conecasions vite has been dislocated there is a and a return to normal politics at lions.

definite risk that anything might in this direction could be made happen, an that it would perhaps the end of the time required to credit. The

A Possible Snare, REIL--Os Zard September at Fern-

eut was announcetter for any vital correspondence to foundation baing well and truly hrag Nursing Home, Dundee, to out. When the

go vin Suez, to ensure its arrival in Inid, the way would have been open Government" a too easy assumption There lurks in the torm "National Catherine Jean, wife of Douglased, it was urged that no very grent | Europe." Reid. Chartered Bank of India. hardship would be imposes, seeing

to a General Election fought upon that the whole thing can be car- Australia and China, a ron,

The Eastern Extension Telegraph tariffs, Socialism and all the rest. ried through by an appeal over the that living costs have declined in Co. advise us that the estimated But the Labour Ministers have heads of parties to something sup recent years. The abandonment traffle receipts of the Imperial and not departed in peace: they have posed to be above party. Whatever

International Communications, Ltd., one in wrath and recrimination we may desire, this is very unlike of the gold standard, however, is for Augist were £334,320, compared and have formed themselves into ly if the Trade Uniona mobiliso expected to put those costs un with £111,890 in the same month last

resistance to ons name will be a anare if it obscures

BIRTH.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT,

Mr. and Mrs. F. X. D'Alınada Cantro and Mr. F. X. D'Almada e Castre, Jr. beg each and every one to accept their most sincere and heartfelt thanks for their expressions

of sympathy and fural tributes and for attending the funeral, Requiem Mnes and the laying to rest of their dearly beloved daughter and sister.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

must be remembered

1

British stabilise

An Impossibility.

use of it, for it is never wise to claim or seem to.cinim a monopoly of patriotism.

The Safe Basis.

gain—a fact which the Labour-ar. The aggregate receipts from an opposition which threatens the their whole forces against it, The

January to August were £3,000,049, most stubbara ites no doubt have in mind when against £3,060,033 last year, but principal fenture of the Govern- the realities of the situation, and i they seek a modification in the re-fitoe must be deducted from the ment scheme and, perhaps, to a would in any case suggest a sparing

message receipts for August, 1931, in great many others. Even so, it making a comparison with August. duction of benefits.

1830, owing to changed conditions of that the

jsharing traffic. savings an unemployment bene-

No previous analogies have any bearing on such a situation. It is fits figure largely in the steps

Impossible to say how it will de- which have made it possible to Every British citizen must under-velop or what controverslea may up by saying that the task of this We may sum the whole matter balance the Budget. How for a tand that nothing but a supreme arise before we have done with It. Government is to place the national

effort of patriotism will bring tariff would offset any revision of Great Britain through the present to me out of the question. This is and must mean, a basis reasonably But one thing at all events seems credit on a solid basta, which means the benefits is a very debateable crisis. The fate of Britain is that having carried their scheme safe against reaction. How long matter. Without doubt, it would swinging in the scales today, against the kind of opposition that that will take nobody can say, but be a great thing if at this moment Never before has there beer now threatens, Ministers should dis- there is no use arguing about whant solve their partnership and pre- will follow until this work ia ne- all the political parties stond to-such a need for a strong and cipitato a general election in which complished. "One step enough for gether, presenting a common front determined

at it would be left without organiacdme" must necessarily be the motto Their task defence against a Labour attack, of every Minister in these times. and showing the world that Bri-the head of affairs. Lai is absolutely united at this saving the national finances while they fought with each other

A Necessary Distinction. from irreparable disaster must not on entirely different issues, critical juncture in her affairs.be complicated by further domes. We should. In the supposed cir- What we have immediately in There was one observation in

the means of cumstances go to an election in front of us le not polity, but neces- Mr. Snowden's speech in the HouseIt is possible that that desiderata tie troubles ever

which Labour would be united in its sity, and wa shall come nearest of Commons on the Gold Standard may be attained by a reorganisa- discharging that duty, We cannot attack on the Government scheme. safety by not confusing the two Suspension Bl which seems to lion of the Government so as to belleve that our confidence in the while its authors and presumed do things.

include all elements, but whether loyalty and patriotism of the defenders would be fighting each other fonce services will prove to have on something else. This would be converted to tariffs as an emer-jany concessions will be made on been talaplaced.

to invite disaster,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1931. -

BRITAIN & TARIFFS.

suggest the possibility of his being

the unemployment benefit, and whether Britain will experiment tariff-these- with an emergency are matters which are still in the

gency measure. Doaling with thei question of the adverse balance of trade, he remarked that, in the process of rebuilding, Britain might have to adapt certain expe-1ap of the gods. dients, as she did with the Budget, which in other circumstances The Economy Concessions. would be repugnant. Hitherto, of In readily admitting that their course, the Chancellor of the Ex-economy proposais imposed too chequer bas been adamant in his heavy a burden upon the lower opposition to tariffa. Indeed, only ranks in the defence services and a week ago he delivered in the upon State teachers, the National Government has again demonstra- House of Contmons a speech whichted, Ita courage.

Considerable showed him still to be against any alleviation is now contemplated. change in the country's fiscal The cut in teachers' pay is reduced system. It is evident, however, to ten per cent. Except in the commissioned that the great majority of the Na-higher ranks of tional Government's personnel and officers, the members of the de- fence services will not suffer a of its supporters as well do favour reduction exceeding ten per cent. atariff as one means of improving The concessions will render alight- the trade of the country and open-ly more difficult Mr. Snowden's ing up fresh avenues of employ task of balancing the Budget, but nient. It remains to be seen whe-it gives the assurance that Britain ther Mr. Snowden. la prepared to

has now the most securely balanc- ed Budget in the world, and the sink hie personal views at a mo effect of the decision announced ment when there is a distinct call by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will be for unity within the Government. to Increase confidence in the pre- Meanwhile it is interesting to Įsent administration rather than note the rumours which are cir- otherwise. To take a backward culating on this tariff issue. Con-atep needed just as much courage servative back-benchers are saldas did the presentation of the heavy demanda_upòn tho_commu- to favour an early General Elec-nity at large a fortnight ago. We tion, not on a party basis, but with feel sura that the men of the Royal the National Government, headed Navy and the teachors will respond by Mr. MacDonald, asking for a to the Government's new plan with mandate to put a tariff into opera-equally accommodating

spirit.

administration

"Yes, it surprises averyone to learn we're married: John and I are always just like sweethearts out on a date.”

Take the dole and unemployment** insurance. We have for

the moment to reduce the outgoings be- eauso unless we do the whole system will break down in bankruptcy, but no one who has reflected on the question can believe for one moment that this in itself is a solution of the problem.

Those of us who have watched the system actually at work have scon with something like despair its rigidity, Its Inhumanity, its failure to discriminate between those who need aid and need it liberally and those who could vory iwell

dispense with it. The flat rate for all alike and the helpless- ness of referees and umpirea to. provant the invasion of a legally qualified class for whom the system was never intended are evils for which a diminution of the flat-rate is obviously no remedy.

For the moment we have before us the necessary task of securing the foundations, but while wo co- operate in that, we do not abandon our ideas of what shall be built on them when they are secure.

If they are not secure there can be no building.

SILVER FUTURES.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

Messrs. Pentronth and Co. have beon advised by cable of the Tol- lowing quotations for Now York zliver-future-as-at-the-close- the market yesterday.t

December 1981 29.27 down 29. May 1982 29.45 up 1.41.

· ́July 1882,20.35 up '1.00,