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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933.

·JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN career that he celebratos is un- inform policy, much to the annoy-

abated, and however much he tries to bo a philosophor that feeling atlif Косра breaking MR. GARVIN'S “LIFE” | through to warm and liluming the

AT LAST

narrativo.

The Enregarded Beginning Measured by years, Joseph EARLY STAGES OF A Chamberlain's Parliamentary life

GREAT CAREER

Already it is eighteen years

a

ance of his Whig colleagues and to the embarrassment of Air, Glad- stone. And liere begins one of tho Mr. most dramatic chapters in Garvin's narrative the negotia- tion of the famous. Kilmainhar Treaty, in which Chamberlain bore the most active part. Tho tale of how Parnell consented to make terme, that he might visit the woman about to bear his child, in At for the tragic Musc.

U.S.R.C. TENNIS.

Draw of the Various Events.

FIRST ROUND MATCHES.

.

The

The draw of the US.R.C. Tennis Tournament took place at the club-house on Saturday. A sequel, as the Government following Bro the first round

matches: tempt of Chamberlain to reach an

Club Championship.-Morgan agreemont with Parnell on a re- form of Irish Government av Patterson; Dickinson v Stocker; reform which should give ireland Halles v Walte; Powell v Cannon; A National Council, with full po- and Waring v Bows.

wera in

domestic affairs,

but

was not a long one. It did not begin until he was 40, and it was activo for just over 30 years. But it represents an amazing, an almost unparallalad achievement. winco Joseph Chamberlain passed Here was a provincial business approached their fall, was the at- | man already on the threshold of middle age, without social advan- luges or family influence of any by sheer force of kind, who character and capacity made his way at a step into the foreiront of national politica, He was spurred by no early ambition for n pub lic career. Ho showed no early aptitude for it. He was content to conduct a prosperous business, At 18-ho became immersed in the and to teach in a Sunday School. affairs of the manufacturing enterprise from which, after twon- ty years, he was able to retire with a comfortable fortune.

from the scene. His career-80 algnificant for the political des- tinlos of his country-ended the War camo to overturn the world in which he moved. And yot, though so much else has gone with the old world to the grave, the influenca of Joseph Chamber- lain persists and is palpablo still, of few public mon, however con- apicuous in their own day, can it be said that their significance has survived them-that they made history by changing the stream of tendency? Yet Chamberlain did it, not once, but thrice.

of

"LOCAL YACHTING.

Wasp. II Wins Seventh Championship Race.

JAN COMES SECOND.

'The Seventh Championship Race of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club was held on Saturday, Wasp II, (Capt. Krogh-Moo) piloted by Major Grime, beating Jan. 36 seconds. Jose (Mr. J. Stanton) was third.

Results of the afternoon's Tacos were:

7th Championship Race. Course: (1) Quarry Bay Mark Boat (P), (2) Channol Rocks (P), (3) Mark on line (8), (4) Kowloon Rocks (9), (5) Channel Rocks (3).

Distance: 8.1 miles. "A" Clasa---Started at 2.20 p.m.

TEL Corrected Time Pte.

4.17.44 (Mr. C. C. Blake)

4.12.28 (Mr. Bergaust)

Ladies' Championship.-Mrs. without impairing the supremacy

Grimble Mrs. Stafford Smith; Mra Lewis Bryan v Miss R. Han- of the Imperial Parliament. How that scheme, so near to Buccess, miscarried makes another sen- cock: Mrs. Sinde v Mrs. Totten- v Mias sational episode in political his-ham; Miss H. Hancock

less passion, and for counterpoint don v Blade. tory-an episode which has for Pullum. undercurrent the intriguo of Inw-

Men's Handicap Singles.-Had- Oslo

Wasp II

Artemis

the frend of doom

03

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Ladies Handicap Singles. Mrs. Grimblo v Mrs. Slade. Liberal Men's Doubles Handicap Icader only second to Gladstone Shillington and Hadden v Hailes himself, and an uncasy sense of and Tottenbam; Edge and Brad-

to dley v Powoll and Dickinson. haunt Gladstone's being superseded had begun

mind. The

The first round of each event enunciation of "the unauthorised Programme" made his position al-must be completed by Monday, most impossible, and the famous January 30, and the second round "ranson" apeoch caused him acute by Monday, February 6.

distress. He had to reckon with offended Majesty as well as with

stances are as earnest as the re- affrighted Whigs, and his remon- sponses to them are adroit.

When the great franchise con- troversy of 1884 broke, Chamber- Then suddenly, accidentally at-lain was already most, he was caught up in a move ment for educational reform; and without any intention of his, he found himself thrust irresistibly into the very vortex of national politics. And, what is still more remarkable, the circumstances dia- covered the qualities to fit them The provincial manufacturor screws revealed, as it were in a night, an unauspected .ft for platform advocacy. That Dun- gent, steel-tempered, stimulating style of speech, with its cutting edge for controversy, which made him later one of the most accomp. bolished advocates and formidable debatera of his day, was born in him, it might almost be said, not made. It was the perfect exprea- sion of his dynamic spirit of the vision which discovered what had to be done, and the determination to get it done.

The political annals of his times bristle with distinguished names; but for the most part what are they more than nomes to-day? Their possessors rode on events, but did not contrive them. In the thirty odd years of Chamberlain's Parliamentary life there were only four decisive, dynamic Agures. Apart from whose influence te history of the times would meaningless. They were Glad Chur stone, Parnell, Randolph child and himself.

A Ten Years' Tosk

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It is with singular intercet, therefore, that the world awaited the blography of this man of destiny Of late years we have had almost a spate of political biographies. There is hardly a man of any prominence in

Pre War politics to whom some portly literary monument has not been ralsed. The nories of thera su gests those statues in the Em- bankment Gardens of already half-forgotten worthies, of whom an unfeeling generation hard 'caras to ask who or what they have been. The chief value of those biographies is na documenta- tion for the historian-a service which they render with the phasia of infinite repetition. the most part, it is in them event and not the

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A Decisive Step

What would have happened if the Government had not been tottering to their fall, who shall may7 But they went down; and, though no one realised it, a chap- ter in English history

closed.

For the next twenty yearn, naw inaues were to transform politics and give a new turn to Chamber- lain's career.

To Be Continued

BILLIARDS TOURNEY.

Second Round of Open Championsivp.

THE COMPLETED DRAW.

The following is the draw for the Second Round of the Colong.

Mr. Gr. Bailey R.A. v Corpi fer- riott Tuesday, January 24,

Mr. E. Remedios v C. P. o. Sim-'- monds-Thursday, January 26.

Mr. Jones y MF. A. Silva--Saturday, January 28.

Mr. L. E. Remedios v Mr. da Cruz Monday, January 30. Mr. A. Damund v Mr. Oswick Tuesday, January 31.

C. P. O. Barvis R. N. v L/Cpl. Moltby-Thursday, February 2.

It is at this critical point that The tale of those first forty the frat volume of Mr. Garvin's years of Chamberlain's life, as told biography closes. As in a skll- by Mr. Garvin, might be judged un- fully managed serial, to be con- duly copious, if it were not the tinued in our next" lenvea' the essential prologue to the stirring appetite impatient for further drama that follows. In this case satisfaction. That is the best ne with fow men, the prologue is praise that the biographer could not only relevant but indispen- desire; and it is well deserved. suble. If one is to understand how Mr. Garvin could not have done the statesman sprang, as it were his work better, and it is d Meult fully armed from the head of

Mr. Gill or Mr. Smith Corp!. to know who else could have done municipal affairs. For only three it so well. So truly has he ob

Cottle E-Monday, February 6.

All the above matelies will be play- years Chamberlain served the served his values and contrived ed on the No. 1 Table at St. Patrick's office of Mayor of Birmingham; his effects, that his story seems to Club, Garden Road, and will com emand in those three years he trans tell itself, while the vivid impres-mence at 8.00 pin on the dates stated Forformed the city. "God willing. sion of its protagonist as a mas- above.

tho

that pernon matters. With Joseph Chamber lain it is otherwise; the person is! inseparable from the event. He was above all things a man of action.

To do justice to such a career was indeed a task that asked some tears in the true performance of it, and no one will grudge to Mr. J.L. Garvin the ten years of labour

necessarily intermittent-which he has devoted to it. The wonder is that a man so cumbered about with serving should have found the energy as well as the time for such an immense labour. The amount of preparatory reading research essential to the task must in Itself have been whole-time job, to say nothing of the ordering of the material, and the transformation of it into a balanced composition.

and

Judging by the quality of this first volume, Mr. M. Garvin has in no way disappointed the expecta- tions which have gathered since he undertook his exacting commis sion ten years ago. He has risen to the height of his great argu- ment: for which he was rarely equipped by close association with and intimate understanding of the subject of his study. In his brief preface to this volume he refers to himself as one who is "prore to dethelied views of the old Par- ty system."

He can now look back on the battles that ho records with the dispassionate philosophic mind;

the city shall not know itself," he exclaimed when he assumed office: and he fulfilled his purpose.

But the step from municipal politica to the House of Common is a steep one, for ordinary men not to be taken in a stride. With Chamberlain it was no effort. H. made an immediate mark, and a the same t me earned the reputa tion of being among the mort effective platform speakern of the hour. Beyond that, he devised and directed that formidable political engine the Caucus, which helped so potently to sweep th Liberal Party into power in 1830 So dominant was he, after election, though a member of only four years' standing that he was justified in expecting the offer of office from Mr. Gladstone, and hin only doubt was whether he should accept anything less than Cabinet rank,

the

He and Dilke, na the twin- brethren of Radicalism, had sworn a compact not to accept ofice severally, and the question which ng tated them was, if the Cabine! could not includo both, who wan to be preferred? The correspon. dence between them on this auth- inst makes niquant reading to-do". That Gladstone finally overcame his reluctance, and took Chamberlain into the Cabinet, was probably due in the main to Queen terin's

Dilke.

Vir

obstinate objections to

L'Enfant Terrible

From the moment that Cham-

but happily for his work, his berlain became a Cabinot Minister admiration for the man and the his influence began to shape and

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Mr. J. A. da Luz v C/Sgt. Jarman |--Saturday, February 1

ersonality dominates every Games will be of 600 up.

changing scene.

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KOWLOON NOVELTY.

Five-a-Side Tournament and Long Kick Competition.

The Kowloon Football Club ar- ranged a novel and interesting tour- nament on the Railway ground yes. erday afternoon. Eight Clubs took part in the five-a-side football co.. petition, and 18 competitors took part in the distance kicking from the penally spot.

Mr. Mackie, Secretary, was M.C.. ssisted by Messrs. Johnstone, Hall and Coleman,

Dorothea 4.29.27

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YESTERDAY'S RACE.

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