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WHY CHENG SHOULD

NOT DIE

FRIDAY, JANUARY, 13, 1933.

on the bustes commianity, the OTTAWA AND OUR FAIR The Very Idea!

can be countered by the sugges-

tion of extending Jury service to women, large numbers of whom found ample time to sit through

By SIR GILBERT. C. VYLE

.our

Great

of

INTELLIGENTZIA

Speaking of Kowloon Sorry, we forgot it was not

spoken about up here.

SOCIAL TRAGEDY,

"The insidious thing about 8.0.", heritage ho reads, "is that you yourself are not aware of it. Even your best friend won't tell you"

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So that was it. As the awful

the greater part of the Cheng (Sir Gilbert Vylo was one of the recurring difficulties which wo

By Edward Kelly, Mountaineer. trial. The conclusion to be Great Britain's industrial advisors had with the Dominions was their drawn from the Cheng case is at the Imperial Economic Con- fear that the products we wished Bellove it or not, we are now that our Code of Criminal Pro-ference.)

to sell to them were exactly those quite definitely residing on the cedure badly stands in need of Wo wore on the threshold of they themsolves manufactured.Peak. overhaul. Putting the general Ottawa when last year's British If that wore so, naturally they After that wise-crack about In- The mo-could not have bought from us telligent Peoplo wo thought that issue on one side, however, we Industrica Fair opened. cannot but feel that it will be mont was one of drama, because, without putting out of work eer our time was simply wasted at

although many of us had already tdin of their own people now on Kowloon. So we shifted. wrong for Chong to pay the full a shrewd action of Ottawa's affect gaged in making such products. Between shivers wo are going penalty. There is a tendency in upon the nations who are

I need not say that in fact we to sot out, for the Information of some quarters to press for the customers,

there woro others wore under no illusions on the the Kowloon proletariat, our im due execution of the law because who doubted.

question. We realised clearly of the condemned man's reputed the Fair?

Would the foreign buyers shun that, where a Dominion could pro-pressions of the upper strata.

Our heart is in the Hielands, but duce a stock line as cheaply as we wealth. Whilst no-one wishes to see it made possible for riches throng of them arriving from over for it to carry out its own. pro-bonts off and count our toes to They overwhelmed it.. The could, it would be the proper thing our toes must be somewhere else. Every now and then we take our to buy immunity from punish-sena was more than twice the alze duction. ment, by the same token they of that which camo in 1931. On ho other hand, if variety of make sure they are not frozen off should not have the effect of To-day we have crossed the production were the nim, a spacial and lying about loose.

The Ottawa agrea-line for the Dominion to manu- Our first night here was so cold In threshold. jeopardising a man's life. view of the special and peculiar ments are the world's property; facture might very well be a bread we couldn't yodel. We were in fentures of the case, we feel, and he would be a doubter indeed and butter line for a firm at home, bed with the whole works on top who could persuado himself that producing in large quantities. of us. At 2 a.m. We got up and' even at this the eleventh hour, next month's British Industrica Hero we felt that it was better pulled the carpet over ourzalt. that the ends of justice would Fair will not be the botter for for everybody that Britain should About 2.80 a.m. wo pulled the be met by a commutation of the them,

manufacture efficiently in largo wardrobe over us, and from then death sentence.

The B. I. F. Shows How to Balance quantities than that a Dominion on we were fairly comfortable.

Trade.

should manufacture inefficiently We were told this morning that The Continent is queueing up. In small quantities. In this way the air up here is very rare. Forty-Hour Week Already sixteen European coun- the people of the Dominion them- That's why the V. B. P. always have

trica are giving their buyers selves would be able to buy a their noses in the air. special concessions to come to apecial line more cheaply from Our first day here we met three The British Government's Britain for the occasion. And Britain and increase their pur-bankers, one ship-owner, eleven effort to stifle discussion at the why? Schwab, the steel magnate, chasing power to that extent, so Government taipans and the Peak International Labour Conference has estimated that the agreements enabling them to buy elther more Hotel. on a proposal for 2 universal mean to countries outside the Em- goods manufactured in their own

Yo sort of forget who elso we forty-four week hardly fits in pirb a trade loss of between thirty Dominion or more from with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's and forty million pounds a year, Britain, thus allowing Great Bri-met after the Peak Hotel. We

The Continent grows a

trifle tain in turn to buy more from met everybody. That is, every- body who counts. Including all claim that the Cabinet are endea- scared. They are realising Bri-the Dominions.

the Intelligent Parents. vouring to take the long view tain's enormous buying power and Salomen Are the Statesmen's Allies, We felt sorry for all those poor in dealing with the unemploy- fear they are going to lose some A textile mill in Candda might people living in Kowloon. Noth- ment problem. The British de- of the trade which they have had be able to produce cloth for sulting to look forward to but dances, legate could be forgiven for ar- in the past. But they know that ings as good in every way, includ tennis, golf, football, cricket, guing, that the proposal is im- they will not lose it all. We ex- ing price, as those to he bought hockey and poker games. No practicable-though it seems to preasly declared at Ottawa that from Great Britain. But men are social standing at all.

to we were prepared

consider ka women in that all of them do us a question of will and de- termination above all else but preferential and reciprocal trade not want to be dressed in the same

with any country outside the Em-pattern of a fabric, like a row when he declared that, presum-pire on terms perhaps not quite policemen. They prefer a change. ing an agreement was reached,

as good na those given within the But the Canadian mill which could a convention drawn up and Empire yet considerably better efficiently turn out substantial ratified, it would have little than they would be if no trade quantities of a stock fabric would Before, he was one of the

become inefficient when meeting material influence on unemploy- agreement were reached. ment, he talked so much non-

most poplar members of our Set. Imagine the national urge in small demands for special pat-

Girls fought for the privilege of Bettge. The subject does not re- each of the Continental producera terns; and the Canadian people quire to be discussed at any everywhere getting together and would be paying prices out of all dancing with him. Now even his But for a deficiency in the length. A Government spokes- impressing on their Governments proportion to those asked for a Best Friend avoids him.

What has made them all drop Colony's Code of Criminal Pro- man, broadcasting in England from Britain before this great

the need to encourage purchases supply from Britain.

Clearly, It would be foolish to him from their parties and their cedure, it is possible that Cheng quite recently, pointed out that market of theirs vanishes under attempt to compete with the vast pastimes? Kwok-yau, a petition for whose even if, by some magic, the de- their eyes.

range of patterns which we would! He idly turns over the pages of reprieve has been refused by the pression was suddenly lifted and The time has gone when they be able to send out to them from u magazine as he wonders. Hin Governor-in-Council, would not all business enterprises resumed could without any control send us Britain. We on our part admit eyes fall on an advertisment.

Surely not. Gool Lord! It can- have to pay the full penalty of full capacity production, there products of any kind and price that they can make the stock lines the law. We refer to the non- ould still be nearly two millions without the slightest intention of as efficiently as we can; they on not be!

The taking payment for them in British their side grant that the making existence of a Court of Criminal unemployed in Britain.

American Roads and services on equally fa- of special lines is our Appeal. The creation of such a President of the

and our business. Court locally has been mooted Federation of Labour has reach-vourable terms.

In the past we have never had The Fair is Britain's shop win- for some considerable time, but ed a similar conclusion. A rc- the machinery to control auch a dow for the display of all such Ottawa has given us out-of-the way things; and I would it still remains to be brought turn of prosperity to American situation.

In that machinery and the British ask those who come into being. Unfortunately, the industry would still leave,

million men without employ-incalculable service in showing, agents to the Fair, to look out groaned aloud. B.O. of all things. He must button-holo Kelly and value to a convicted man. If

ment. This situation has been nationals of trading countries who for Britain's special lines. such a Court existed, it would brought about by the develop-in the past have missed their op And meanwhile let the British ask him. Kelly, Bis Best Friend, have been possible for Cheng's ment of labour-saving devices

portunity how to use it in the manufacturer be on the alert in would tell him if asked point-

blank. counsel to have brought before which are still being produced. future by coming here and helping anticipation of the visitors who

"Teddy", he asked us that night. it a large number of facts and Unless we devise a system to achieve a more just balance of will be arriving at Olympia, the

White City and Castle Bromwich. "why is everyone avoiding me. Is submissions which could not be whereby consumption can be trade between us and them.

It was Ottawa that showed the Products outside the stock range presented to the Judicial Com- made to keep pace with produc-

"No, Pete," we replied, "it's not carry so much higher a rate of mittee of the Privy Council at tive capacity, there will always

profit that an Intensive study of that. But for heavens sake, old Home, even had leave to appeal be scrambling for international The Dominions themselves are the subject will pay him well, man, go easy on the Lifebuoy!" been granted. The whole case markets and the cycle of boom already old friends of the Fair and, if he will con the Ottawa would, in fact, have been and depression will swing higher both as exhibitors and buyers. In schedules, he will discover just thoroughly reviewed, whereas and lower. While this has pro- February they will all be there which lines have now an improved all that has been possible has bably struck faw people, the so- again either under the auspices of chance overseas. been to seek to induce the Privy called dole has proved an econo- Council to hear an appeal, in mic blessing in disguise in Great which connexion it is to be borne Britain. It has sustained the

As buyers. I am convinced, in the schedules too and thus be able purchasing power of the workers the Ottawa agreements, that the to clinch sales with definite knew. in mind that this body has В marked reluctance to being re- and thereby maintained cun- Fair will be a memorable demon- ledge of landed costs under the garded as a Court of Criminal sumption at a much higher level stration of how the Dominions may new arrangement.

than it could have achieved had profit by the really colossal range If the salesmen of Britain back Appeal. We stress this point the people been left to starve. of Britain's production power. up the statesmen of Britain, the because, with such a Court in The ball would have been set 1 may explain that, while ne-alliance cannot fall to pull being locally, Cheng would auto- rolling like a snowball, unem-gotiating the new tariffs, one of through. matically have had a right to ployment gathering speed, until appeal. In its absence, he is probably 75 per cent. of the shut out from a privilege which people would have been idle. is enjoyed in England and which But the present problem is to before long may also obtain here. get those people now out of work But there are other reasons back into employment and if why considerations of clemency there is no prospect for them in might have been allowed to pre- a resumption of full industrial vail. First and foremost in the output, there must be a depar-. at- gap in the evidence definitely ture from the reactionary linking Cheng with the crime; titude revealed at Geneva. on secondly, the admittedly tainted Wednesday. A forty-hour week character of much of that evid- merely means that six people ence; and, thirdly, the surprising would do the work of five under brevity of the Judge's sum- the forty-eight-hour week sys- ming-up and the directions to the tem.. Twelve millions would bo jury. These points, there can in employment as against ten bo little doubt, would have millions. It might not work out weighed heavily with any Court quite so easily as this; it might of Appeal. The only semblance be necessary to work down to a of an appeal which Cheng enjoy. 32-hour week to achieve the do- cd was the discussion of reserved sired effect. The wages ques- tion does not offer insuperable points of law before the Full difficulties. Too big a proportion Court, on which, in accordance of industrial remuneration goes with loent procedure, the Trial into the pockets of people who Judgo had a seat. Issues of fact can afford, in normal times, to could not come before that Court. re-invest instead of spend- There is a further point worthying. To improve consumption of mention, namely, that juries levels, spending 18 in Hongkong consist of only tial-State pensions at a cer seven members, as compared tain age would remove one with twelve at Home. This is of the incentives to savings, obviously to the detriment of a fear of destitution in old age. man on trial for his life. A Much of this may seem idealis- necessary reform, at least in tlc-or Socialistic-but surely murder cases, would appear to the depression has been deep be an enlargement of the jury, enough to shake industrialists If it be pleaded that larger out of their old ideas of the re- juries would inflict a hardship lations between Capital and

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TOO DRASTICI

And would you bellove it, we've

the Empire Marketing Board or in Let him give prominence to them just had a letter from the D-p-ty the fine displays set up for them- at the Fair and let him encourage C-l-n-1 Tr-s-r, informing us the people on his stand to study that our economy programme is a relves by Canada and India.

washout.

"Been a package about so big? I'm expecting something

from my sister in Devonshire."

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It's ahoer jealousy, of course. But bang goca our O.B.E.

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THE PORPOISE.

A porpoise was seen in the Har- bour yesterday. The first man to aco It has been on dry ginger ever since. The second thought it was a shark and rang up the Stock Ex- change to see if any were missing. A third rang up the Water Police, the Harbour Master and, The Editor of The Critio. It WOS generally agreed that Percy the Porp. was acting out of all order, jultra vires, ipso facto, and against Sections 1 to 48 of the Allons Restriction Ordinance.

THE DAUGHTER OF

PARLIAMENTS, ·

How happy Iroland is now she can revive the great traditions of her ancient Parlament. A casual reader of the. Irish Hansard sends us a few geme of Celtic eloquence picked out of that rich mine at haphazard. As for example:

Mr. Corry: Throw the Deputy a turnip.

Mr. Anthony: You are the low Liverpool coward you always

wore.

Mr. Goroy: Deputy Corry was merely using his natural language, the language of the baboon.

Mr. Corry: When the monngerle censes Interrupting mo I will carry. on.

But

Mr.. Dilion: It is a damned le. Mr. Coburn: If he was a young man I would kill him whore he stands for what ho has said.

The Deputy Speaker: when a Deputy rises and charges another Deputy that he is after soying what is a damned llo, the dignity of this House In question. (Somebody faints).