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There is an error in the name of the bride in the group taken at the wedding of Mr. Ng Chun-fan which appears in

Pictorial Supplement to-day. Her name should be Mix Agnes Tsui, daughter of Mr. Peter Tsui, the well-known Director of Wals

Yan College. Messrs. Mou Cheung, the photographers, regret having furnish- ed us with the wrong name.

situation, over-riding in importance all others. She has, moreover, in- fringed a further clause of the same Article by taking advantage of the prevalling conditions in

HE WHO DOES NOT HELP US AT China in necking to

THE NEEDFUL MOMENT, NEVEK to herself special rights and HELPS; HE WHO HOES NOT COUNSEL privileges, and, In view of AT THE NEEDFUL MOMENT, NEVER the impleations of the famous

CqURSELS,--Goethe, Twenty-One Demands, there is a danger that ale would, if permitted, wring further cances- sions from China, contrary to the principles of the Open Dour policy. It may be argued that recent ex- perience has shown the fatility of warning Japan by way of Notes, that she will da just as she please, Shanghai, in the here on Monday at The R.M.S. Empress of Asin, from whatever the Powers may say. It 7 n. is well, however, to recall what

The name of Wai On Trung, happened in 1915, when the Limited, has been struck off the Re Twenty-One Demands were put for- | gister of Companies. ward. The United States then addressed Japan in terms almost identical with those contained in The latest Note, As a consequence, the Japanese Government gave way on megy point which Amerten con- THE HONGKONG HOTELidered an infringement of the

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principles of the integrity of China-nairy Farm Company, returned by Mr. M. Minnak, Secretary of the and the Open Door policy.

the steamer Taiping last night, after it is premature at the moment to a holiday in Australia, consider what steps the Powers

The Government is asking for ter could or might take to ensure res-ders for conversion of conimerešal pret by Japan for their viewpoint.one reversible mooring hups.

moorings and for the construction of Suffice it to say that we live in a time when

no country enn at- ford to HOLL

world opinion, and run the risk of becom- ing an outcast among the nations. So far, the only reaction by Japan teens to be a likelihood of her mercly reafirming tur pledges under the Nine-Power

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Zongkong Telegraph.

Sarugnay, JANUARY 9, 1982.

THE POWERS AND JAPAN.

Having failed to induce Japan to | budge an inch under the Kellogg

Amerien has

Pack.

now taken a strong and definite line of action. by invoking the NinesPower Treaty in regard to the Manchurian crisis, Japan has been plainly told that The United States Government

broken

His Excellency the Guvernur has appointed Mr. Julius Ring to be an Assistant Assessor of Rutes.

The name of Mr. James Easton, of | Mosses, A. S. Watson and Co., has been added to the register of chemists und druggists,

Messrs. John Kidd & Co. Ltd., the London ink manufacturera, and us handy desk bluck each page of which gives the month's calendar and space for a week's engagements.

of three months the

It is notified that at the expiration. Yuen Lee Coins pany, Limited, will, unigas calise in shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be Treaty.dismolved.

Obxlously this will not suffice in Mr. R. II. Kotewall hus kindly face of a position in which she has commented to distribute the prizes of in faet already

those the Hongkong University Amateur

Photographic Club annual exhibition; The pledges.

only satisfactory in The University Union Assembly; "reafirmation" of these pledges | Room at fire olduck this afternoon, will be withdrawal from Chinese

It is notified that the Hon. Dr. territory. Not until this is done A. R. Wellington resumed duty as ean Japan lay claim to having rea-Services on 1st January, and Dr. W.

Director of Medical and Sanitary) Pected either the spirit or the friter of the Washington understanding.

The Growth of Hitterism.

Those who view the growing

B. A. More resumed duty na Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary! Servires on the same date,

Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance during Inst your tolalled 162, Of these, all were genuine excepting 19 of fresh

and

MacDonald Holmes and Prof. Harvey

the 8.9.

Taiping last night. The

Thes. Cook and Son have arranged an party is to remain until Friday, re- turning by the Taiping. Meirs. itinerary, including visits to Macon

cannot admit the legality of the situation created by Japanese oe- eupation of Manchuria and, more- ever, w]}} not recognise any Treaty or agreement which Japan and China may separately conclude power of Hitleris as an omen of milk even for the fish, the impairing the treaty rights of impending entastrophe in inter-and chicken, and one

of cheese, one of tinned mushroom America or its citizens in China. national affairs will find plentiful milk.

of condensed

While it is revealed that Britain food for thought in the spectacle

nd France are not prepared at

of the German Government streking

The following names have been added to the list of nudical practi hin approval in the reselection of linera:-Misa Cheng Hung-vae, Miss. the mont to take any step

President Hindenburg. which might prejudice the Keague

The signi. Hilda Yuen Mo-gin, Chun Sling-chue,

Pheon Seck-quai, ficance of the development cannot handling of the problem, they overlooked. If ever there was of Medicine and Surgery

Florentino Santos Fornando. All are Bachelors: Uppear

agree in principle grund for apprehension because Hongkong University.

of the with America's action. The of the extravagance of the an- immediate value of this stand nouncements of what the Nazis tinder the supervision of Prof. J. is that there is no intention on the propose to do "on assuming power," Sutton, a party of students from purt of the principal Powers to it must be doubly strengthened, Australian Universities arrived by allow Japan to hold on to what sheThe invitation can only mean inst has seized or to confront the League which is no longer to be ignored. the Hitlerites now represent a force of Nations Inquiry Commission even if the movement is still short with A situation in

which of ability to take over the reins of Japan has wrunk

conges-government. In, the circumstances, sions from China by sheer it will be more reasonable to face force.

In other words, nothing the facts rather than fear them. Tramway Ordinance, 1001. that has happened recently will in notorious that leaders of op- position groups are prepared to be taken as done and finished with; the Powers merely recognise the the responsibility for carrying out swear to do almost anything until

status quo ante and intend to kee

a definite programmu falls into that Japan does not profit at their their laps. As a general rule, they or China's expense.

then change their tane. Mussolini Those who fear that Japan may could have given Hitler many points take no more notice of the latest in the art of sabre-rattling. To

day, he is hailed as a constructive step than she has of the reminder statesman. Both Mr. Ramsay Mac- by the Powers of her obligations Donald and M. Pierre Laval were at under the Kellogg Pact overlook un one time regarded as threats to the essential difference between the existing order. The Prime Minis Nine-Power Treaty and the Pret.ter has been known latterly to have Under the latter, it is recognised attended a Beaufort Hunt, is in

fact looked upon as that aituations

pillar of society. M. Laval still says things

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may

arlac

in which aggressive action can be which shock the conservatives, but be regarded

defensive in few would suspect him of rash-ir- character. Japan was not slow to responsibility. It seems more rea- seize on this point when her con-sortable to assume that Herr Hitler duct in Manchurin was called into will travel the same well-trodden question. The very

path rather than that he will go first Article of the Nine-Power Treaty, however, threatened. The excesses

on the rampage as he has no often of his is an undertaking by the signatory movement-deplorable as they are Powers "to respect the sovereignty, are essentially symptoms of the the independence, and the terri-despair with which many Germans toriai and administrative Integrity have viewed their let. But if there of China." There are no "ita" or Hillerism, it will exert itself and

ju any

constructive phase in "buta." The undertaking is de

contribute to the re-building of finite and specific. By seizing modern Germany long after Hitler's Manchurin, Japan has, without the "youthful aberrationa" have been least doubt," infringed the funda-conveniently forgotten. mental 'and basic Article of the

list of

Treaty. She has failed to reapert The Gazette contains elther the sovereignty, the inde- masters, mates, and anginoors, whe |pendence or the territorial and ad- have passed their examinations and obtained certificates of competency, for the year ending the 31st December, 1081

ministrative integrity of China, This is the dominant fact in the

and Canton.

In the exercise of the powers vested in him by the provisions of the Rope

and otherwise the Governor-in- Council has ordered that the duration of the rights, powers and privileges Tramway Ordinance, 1901, shall be granted, made and maintained under the provisions of the Rope Company's extended for a period of one year from the 15th December, 1931,

дене

VISCOUNT SNOWDEN.

The Man Who Put the Brake On.

There is a substratum of super- painful experience to a fullor stition even in the make-up of understanding of Mr., G. B. Shaw's those hard-headed folks who in-Immortal epigram that Socialism habit the dark and true und

would be all right if it were not tender

North of England

for the Socialists. But if the parenta of Philip Snow- den consulted a Yorkshire magician when their now famous offspring was a baby, it is pretty certain his infantine horoscope gave no inilication whatever that he would Socialist party, and eventually grow up to be a pillar of the

graduate, by way of the LLP. and the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, as a Peer of the realm in ermine and purple.

I do not forget that, when the when we declared war against the dramatic moment came in 1914 Hun, Mr. Snowden's manncing figure arose in the House of Com- monn, not to oppose the histori- cally momentous decision, but to urge the Government of that day

see that no private Individual made any profit out of the impend- Ing cataclysm. Mr. Snowden fore- Such an Apotheosis for the saw the war profiteer. But his voler was that of one crying in Cowling weaver'a son would have been beyond the prophetic imagi-

a wilderness of patriotic flags und nation even of Old Moore himself. epic military mirch tunes.

It was the cotton operatives of

We know roughly now how many millions the Great War cost us. Blackburn who first gave Mr. Phi- lip Snowden a fonting in the House But we shall never know even ap- af Commons. But certainly they proximately how mutny of thos had no premonitions of the remark-millions were profligate waste.. able role their young member with The nation, was sound in its in- the grim gesture and acidulated (stinct that we must win the war big Parliamentary singe, tongue was destined to play on the fat all costs, but its leaders of that cynical fact that most likely his Snowden's

It is a epoch unwisely neglected Mr. staccato warning truly sensational career was de- (against winning it at a heedlessly cided by a push-bike.

and recklessly extragavant price.

Educated privately; in a man- Neither our party lenders nor ner that Oxford and Cambridge Whitehall officialdom have yet. would consider not being educated quite recovered from the financial at all, young Philip Snowden be- demoralisation of that orgy of came a subordinate Excise officer inillions. And here, again, It is at the age of 22. Few even of his duo that we remember that it was closest admirers, either of his Mr. Phit Snowden, as Chancellor Socialist days or now, would guess of the Exchequer in the first that at this period his favourite Labour Ministry that over ralod recreation was amateur theatricals. The roost at Westminster, who. In- Then came a serious accidenttroduced the smallest Budget by whilst riding that fateful push- many scores of millions that this bike. Phil Snowden was destined groaning country has seen since thereafter to be lame and semi- the epic of the Great War led to invalid for the rest of his days. The farce of the Great Pence. If the Labour party had taken Mr. Phil Snowden's udvice, and given him the opportunity for which his whole soul craved in a series of thrifty democratic Budgets, there might have been no General Elec- tion avalanche of 1931, and the Socialists in the House of Com- mons might to-day have looked lega like a slightly larger edition of the ten little niggers. His own com- rados.quoered Mr. Phil Snowden's pitch. He retaliated in due course by queering theirs.. Just in Time.

During the slow period of sick- bed convalescence the young ex- ciscman was bored. He took to reading na the only avaliable diversion. It chanced that the books that fell into his hands in- cluded several volumes expounding the famous political theories of Karl Marx. When he was well enough to be out and about

again, Phil Snowden was a con- vinced and confirmed disciple of Socialism. He soon became one of the most aggressive and able of the 1.LP. group, who supplied the brains of the Labour move- Snowden's word is his bond, that ment. He tells 148. and Lord

he remains atill a Sociullst. Neglected Advice.

But he would hardly deny that nowadays he has been brought by

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"Can't you loan mo a fiver till you find a show for me? I've been broke for eight months now."

It is a fascinating speculation what the new Viscount Snowden's career might have been had his physical strength been equal to his moral courage and intellectual virility. He might then have boon a formidable personality to have coerced his rabble following into straight and honest courses. A Mussolini or two rubber-tipped sticks is an imponsibility.

Yet I hear from well-accredited sources that it was Mr. Snowden who was the real power behind the dramatic upheaval of the. Labour Ministrys debacle. Нів

WAS

the foot that applied the brake, only just in time, and his the hand that pointed out the road of national safety to those col- leagues who had the sense to take it,

I may be wrong, yet I baliove that but for Mr. Phil Snowden it la very doubtful whether oven Mr. whre he is to-day. Ramsay MacDonald would be He might have yielded to the dictatorial

crack of that T.U.C. whip if Mr. Snowden's grim determination had not held his courage to the stick- ing point.

Lord Snowden, for we must get used to Mr. Phil Snowden's new address, is a strange contradiction. On the platform or in the senate, his figure looms 'with almost vin- dictive menace. In debate he is 'upt to be even acrimonious. But in private intercourse he is the pleasantest fellow imaginable, gentle and kindly, and his smile has a sweetness that would dis- arm a smash-and-grab bandit. ·

Perhaps this paradox la due to the fact that, on public and poll. tical occasions, it is Lord Snow- den's Marxian-trained intellect that prevails. Off the stage, in his study or his, garden, it is n sympathetic heart that holds serene away. The Socialist ground- Ings will fcer. at Viscount Snow- don, just as the Radical ground- ling a goneration ago scoffed at Lord Morloy. But Phil Snowdon can as well afford to treat those manifestations with disdain, mə I could and did John Morley.

The Peers will receive him with respect. His meagre, crip- pled figure, on its rubber-tipped Aticks, does not lack a certain for- midable dignity. And if any daring belted Earl or bold-bad Baron ventures to erosa swords with Viscount Snowden in debate, they will promptly discover that he is a very belligerent invalid, a most pugnacious valetudinarian.

I suppose it was Impossible, but, recalling, hia typical Yorkshire triumph at a memorable »confer- ence of European statesmen-finan- cters in Holland, I should like Mr. Snowden to have taken the title of Lord Snowdon of The Hagus.