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THE IRISH ISSUE

DAY BY DAY ·

THE

CUT-THROATS OF THE HOTEL DE VILLE

Most

people

Are

By JAN COLVIN

the

the English markets, that Mr, de Valera will surely see the foolhardi- ness of pushing his policy to ex- tremes. It would appear, however, that Mr. de Valera is not a man

WHEN 1 BECOME ACQUAINTED who thinks very much in economic WITH A MAN MY FIRST INQUIRY IB----

conducted phrase "No enemies on the left." terms, but, as a leading political WITH WHAT DOES HE EMPLOY HIM-

were always journal points out, some of his od- SELF, AND HOW, AND WITH WHAT through history as tourists are The "Moderates" were always at-

conducted through Moscow. Take tacked; the violent DEGREE OF PERSEVERANCE? visers may reminded that he ANSWER REGULATES THE INTEREST the French Revolution: there is supported: men and parties wore lins expressed hopes of co-operation I SHALL TAKE IN IIM FOR LIFE a whole corps of historical guides, themselves out rapidly in the ser- who first show you a peasant Invice of the Revolution: the Parlin- at Ottawa, and that to begin by Goethe.

rags, two philosophers in rural menta, the Constitutionalists, the Danlonists, the alienating Ireland's one great mar-

In the absence of Sir Williamsolitude, a gloomy Bastille with Girondins, the

complete, a group of Jacobins, the Cordellers, followed

across the ghostly. ket in scarcely a promising way of Hornell, the Hon. Mr, W. F. L. Shen-fetters

ton presided at the meeting of the "sincere" fanatics enraged by the one another opening a campaign for Irish In-Hongkong Rotary Club held at Lane, wrongs of the people to deeds which stage: every leader who thought A might otherwise be thought cruel, that the Revolution would atop with । Crawford's Restaurant yesterday. most interesting talk was given by a atatue of Liberty with black night him found his head under Mr. E. F. Selk, assistant secretary of behind facing the dawn. It is all guillotine. Rumours, panics, fears of treason, of invasion, of fumine, the Y.M.C.A., on "New Guinen." A very picturesque; but is it true? the close, the speaker was thanked by

A group

of French historians were all organised and directed by the Hon Dr. A. ft. Wellington.

of have been going into it all, with a few heads in the Commune astonishing resulta. M. G. Lenotre Paris. "Monstrous and celebrated examines the pullulating life of the calumnies, such as the conspiracy French Revolution with a micros-to create famine or the tortures of cope, and the reports of his dia- the Bastille" were, says Augustin coveries resemble those of M. Fabre Cochin, "launched with so powerful The talk about the Irish Treaty

among the insects-fascinating and an impetus that they still live ou having been concluded under duress

terrible. M. Albert Mathlez and without a shadow of foundation, **

The Cars of the Hotel de Ville may appeal to the unthinking, but

M. Aulard were more political, but not less pains taking. M. Augustin were not exactly philosophers: the Cochin undertook the systematic president Huguenin, blackmailer; if it was under duress that Ireland

study of the revolutionary system; Rossignol, murderer; Manuel, for- gave way about one-tenth of her

We are very grateful indeed to Mr. but died before his work was com-ger and thief; Hobert, svindler; demands in accepting the Treaty, IA. S. Abbott, until recently of the piete. And now we have M. Pierre Panis, embezzler; Maral--these and was under duress that England gave Hongkong branch of Mears. Kelly Gazette, who gathers together the such as these had grasped power

and Walsh and now at Shanghai, for

The prin- his njost generous gift of a carpet for results of these and other researches and dared not let it go.

summary ("The efples of justice and humanity are way on nine-tenths of her claims in

the Sanctuary, states the St. John's in admirable

by Pierre well enough in theory and i the conceding the Treaty. In any

Cathedral Revire. The carpet, which French Revolution,"

in of philosophers; bat was specially made by Fette of Pek-Gaxolte, translated with introduc-books ing, la sa heruiiful piece of work, and tion by Walter Alison Phillipa, pub-practice it is necessary to employ is of such a shade of blue as will shed by Charles Scribner's Sons. other means; one munt have out-

dustrial prosperity. Ireland, like all other countries, is feeling the of fects of world depression, and if she is to develop new industries, she must pay for the equipment and

The local health report for the finance the undertakings from the week ending June 4 shows the fol- sules of her produce to Great Brit-lowing cases of infectious diseases

and the deaths therefrom. Small

4 cases 4 deaths; diphtheria 4 pox

ដ deaths; cases; typhold 3 casca

3 deaths. There meningitis & cases were alan 42 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis. On Monday there were 2 cases of small-pox, 2 of typhoid and one of meningitis.

tain.

The Mystery of Sleep, Sleep is a mystery which, so physiologista and psychologists have failed to unravel. The latest suggestion for its causation comes from Berlin, and is reported.

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four altar frontaln. Not content with providing this splendid carpet, Mr. Abbott has most kindly offered to defray the cost both of the brass rods to hold the carpet and of the new rover for the kneeler at the altar rails.

NEW

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15. net).

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the argument that signatures to trenties obtained under duress are accepted

throuts in one's pay." not binding cannot be

They were usually in somebody's That, indeed, would be a short way

M. Gaxatte shows that pre-re-pay: at Rrst the Duke of Orkans, to anarchy. Every debtor summon-

neither later the King of Prussia distri- con-buted money among them for their ed to Court pays, if he does, under

volutionary. France was poor or enchained: on the

ends. Ephraim, Frederick duress. Every State that has ever

trary, "those who lived in it were jowa better off and more numerous than William's agent, was able to report signed a peace treaty signed it un-

elsewhere." There were abuses Into his master in 1791: "The Club der duress, if it be duress to know

the Government, but little tyranny.of the Jacobing is wholly devoted As for Danton, "he Louis XVI. was "the King in Tele-to Prussin." that, failing signature, hostilities

from Englund, the maque," infected with the Libera-drew money will be renewed, Admittedly, experi-

lism of his age. As for the Censor Ditke of Orleans and the Court, one ence has often shown the necessity

of the side paying him to foment disorder ship, it was in the hands

In the philosophers, who were the real and the other to stop it." of varying the terms of trenties, but

tyranny of that time. Malesherbes,Convention the Dantonist Party there is a constitutional way of el-

atmost to conducted an organised attack on A new illustrated monthly, de- the Censor, "did his fecting these changes-by mutual voted to Imperial interests, has kindle revolution and protect the in the Compagnie des Inder. Mr. J. H. Thomas' plain intima- | agreement. Unilateral repudiation been started in London, under thecendiaries." Liberalism, confound-

Their game was a simple one, and the name of "Empire." It is aned with philosophy, led the fashion, tion ist werk that the United cannot, under any circumstances, be extremely well-produced magazine, and there were few who dared to consisted in making the shares of Kingdom Government could not condoned,

printed on art paper, and should stand against it. "We laughed the company fall to five or six hun- make a wide appeal to Britons in mockingly at the old fashions," the dred livres by moving confiscatory enter into negotiations at Ottawa

all parts of the world. The aim Comte de Segur reports in his resolutions in the Convention, buy- with the Irish Free State, because

of those responsible for this new Memoirs, "all that was old seemed ing up as many of the depreciated the latter has repudiated a solemn

venture is to supply Empire matter to us tiresome and ridiculous....shares as possible, and then raising with a high standard of literary Voltaire carried away our intel- their price to four or five thousand agreement, seems to have brought

far.excellence, arranged with appeal lects; Rousseau touched our hearts; by moving reasuring resolutions. Mr. de Valera very quickly to his

ing elegance. The first

numbers

M. Lenotre, who has examined It gave us a secret pleasure to see have been greatly praised, and.

them attack an old structure which the lists of the guillotined, found senses. Realising, as he must, the

judging from the latest issue, not seemed to us Gothic and ridiculous, that most of them were obscure | economic difficulties which the Free

without good reason.

and so, without regref for the past, private citizens, small tradesmen, State would suffer if left out in the

The third number, of which a

without fear for the future, wel workmen, even sempstresses, and copy reaches us, contains no fewer walled gaily on a carpet of flowers concludes that they were drawn up cold, Mr. de Valera has made the

in the current issue of "The than thirty-one special features

our largely In the pursuit of extortion first move by inviting The

Lancet." Professor

Zondek, and short stories, all freely and that hid the abyss beneath

jor private revenge. One class was Dominions Secretary to Dublla for already well known for his re-

artistically illustrated. Naturally.

There were economic disorders used to destroy another and was Imperial subjects predominate, but discussion [ the points searches into certain special in-per in much of us general of more importance; wars drained then destroyed in its turn; what be- issue, with the result thint ternal secretions or

hormones, terest, including a fashion feature, the public exchequer; Necker, some-gan as an attack on the Crown, the children's thing of a financial charlatan, aristocracy and the Church, became Mr. Thonis has been over

the Edena wholesale robery of the bour- claims to have discovered and literary section, and

corner. Noted personalities con-wrecked the finances; Ireland, while the Free State isolated a

chemical substance tribute to the articles, and, all in Treaty, by opening the ports to coisle and the rich farmer.

in its most awful phase tho resume the talks which is intimately

connected all, "Empire" is a most praise-English manufactures, disorganised

worthy venture, on which all con- French industry, and caused wide- Terror was Communism, and at- In London on Friday. Happily. with sleep. He began his work.cerned are to be complimented. spread unemployment; there was tempted the transfer of all property run of bad seasons-all from the "renctionarles" to the this exchange of visits does not

apparently, by examining the It is claimed as being the finest üd. besides a

for discontent--and au- "virtuous." "The Terror," says M. imply any change of policy on the blood of patients suffering from monthly British periodical on sule

thority was in weak hands.

Gazotte, "was of the very essence throughout the Empire. part of the United Kingdom (lov-

The Parliaments wrested the of the Revolution, because the Re- a certain type of insanity charac- ernment, which stands by its gunsterised by restlessness and sleep-

power from the Government, and volution was not merely a change they in their turn were overawed in the system of government, but and destroyed by the clubs. That social revolution, an attempt at little world of Radical politicians expropriation and extermination.” was always busy, organising alarms, It was terrible but it was also cor- panies and disorders. A small rupt (pouri)-corruption, Indee minority, organised and directed, being the only enfety. It was, in- wielded a power out of all propor-deed, in M. Gaxotte's devastating tion to its numbers and Influence. judgment, "a game for taking in simpletons who found to their as- It is this mechanism of revolution tonishment that its rules were al which is now Inid bare. The under-ways applied against themselves lying principle is expressed in the inlone."

leader is

in demanding respect for the Treaty lessness. He found that the blood. between the two countries.

w

way

HONGKONG SHARE

MARKET. OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE

well

the

of these patients contained less than the usual quanity of bro- mine, but became normal between the attacks. He next examined

Hates generally were fairly certain secretions of the pituitary maintained this

morning, but gland, a small gland situated at volume of trading continues limited.

Sales. the base of the brain, and found

Hongkong Bank $1520 one containing

Hotels (Cum. Rights) $125/12.06. bromine. This

Hongkong Trams $23.16 China Lights (Old) $20.00 ILK. Electrica $74 Dairy Farms $28.30 Lane, Crawfords

new hormone he succeeded in isolating in soluble form, and on injection it produced

n doerease

-$6-70 Lane Crawford (Ne) $7

Buyers. Bank of East Asia $115 Canton Insurances $1200, China Fire Insurances $600 H.K. & W. Docks $18 Hongkong Lands $77 Humphreys $16.46 Ewo Cottons Tla, 14.05 Star Ferries $0015 H.K. Electries $74.00 Macao Electrica $24

Mr. de Valera's case on the Onth of Allegiance is based on the idea that so long as the Treaty remains in its present form, Irishmen who want 11 Republic find the barred. It is a very weak case at the best, especially since any con- stitutional efforts are liable to be Ineffectual in reconciling the more extreme Republicans. For it must be noted that the more fanaticul

of muscle power, fatigue, and section, led by Mary MacSwiney, apathy. According to Professor fuse even to recognize the Dall, Zondek's views this hormone is whatever changes are made in the discharged from the pituitary Constitution or the Treaty. They gland into the quid surrounding ask for nothing less than "One Ire-the brain, which is found during An increased laud-un

Republic." And sleep to contain Irish

the quantity of bromine. When the that, of course, again raises

Tullent wakes this discharge question of Ulster. It must surely censes and the hormone is stored in be obvious that nothing is more the pituitary. It is not revealed calculated to preserve the partition by what mechanism this discharge of Ireland that a pronounced Re- and storage is brought about, publican policy in the Free State, whether the cause is nervous, or an inherent property of some Yet, if sune counsels prevail, united Ireland, equal in status to special portion of the pituitary sense the England, within the British Com-gland, so that in one

cause of sleep is still a mystery. monweather, might, with a little Nevertheless, If sleep is brought putience, become a possibility, about by a hormone 'it should be There are strong forces of senti-possible to treat sleeplessness by or by ment, as well of economies, working injecting this hormone within Ulster for eventual unity allmulating the pituitary to manu- facture more. It is interesting with the Free State. But obvious-that bromine plays a part in its ly there can bo no question of chemistry, for bromides have 11 The following table issued by Connor- Ulster becoming part of an Irish woll-founded reputation as seda- the Kwangtung River

Commission, shows the

Telephones (P.P.) $235% Dairy Farms $28.40

Sinceres $18

Constructions (Old) $5 Constructions (New) $1.00 IK. Govt. Loans 24 Premiunt

Sellers. Hongkong Bank $1580 South China Motors "B" $12 Flotels (Cum. Rights) $12.00 Hotels (Rights) $1.80 Hongkong Electrics $76 Canton Ices $0% Constructions (New) $1.70 Wallace Harpers $12

WATER LEVELS. WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

vancy

Republic outside the Empire. On tives. Moreover, the discovery hoight of water in English.foot

the inrger issue of the Free State's also throws some light upon the on the daten named In the West, relations with Britain, the economic sleepiness of the "fat boy" in North and East Rivers:

Filbow on Lowest Juno "Pickwick Papers." His adiposity

record. on record. • f aspect looms up largely, Ireland

lins nlways beon thought to have wees nieer at has so much to gain from co-opera-been due to some disease of his

Shishing. +41,7 North Tree at tion with England and so much to pituitary gland, and now.it Geebis Teingyuen +2.64

North River «at

Bambui.. --27. lose by refusing to pay recognised ikely that his alcopiness was duo

East River al debts or by cutting herself off from to the same cause!

Bhikang +0,5

Juna

7

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6.9

6.8

0

13.0 16.8

-6.

....B.4 -8.7

4.0

fect."

making

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"Elthor, the next child is named for my side of the family,

or it goes without a name."