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BROKEN TREATY ?

France has made the horrible suggestion that Britain has broken her pledged word; that in siguing an agreement whereby she approves Germany's plan to build war

JUNE 21, 1935.

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more than was advocated by the Mr. Caspar Berger, House of Lords in 1918, and by a Dear Gentle Man: majority of the last Parliamentary

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fleet which will be equal to 36 per E are approaching a general

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election. No one except Mr. Majesty's representatives have ignored the provisions of the Baldwin knows when it will come. Franco-British pact of February Will it be the autumn of this year Conference on Electoral Reform climate of Honolulu and adjacent- Inst. Britain, in the French view, or the spring of next? Or will the 1930. Nay, it is less; for I would ly adjoining territory, all those is aiding and abetting the Germans Government await the compulsory not propose to extend this system persons abiding therein require In their attempt to destroy the

the counties. Whereas pro- mure rotting bindings of the Versailles operation of the Quinquennial Act? to

than usun] undershirt. Treaty. France's surprise, even Whenever it comes it will be a portional representation In the Undershirt for every day practical- her indignation, is not hard to great pity that the Government has cities would mean a higher focus-ly inevitable. If more fat, some- forgive. France believes that Brit- not carried a measure of electoral ing of public thought, its extrusion times two for day le advisory. nin is allowing Germany to win reform. Under the present system through the counties would make a round of the never-ending diplo

Musa-shiya then able to matic chess match in Europe; and it is easier for a Socialist to get the areas so wide as to Impair the nounce good news of Germany's win is France's loss.uto Parliament than candidate relations between a member and INCREASINGLY Popular Cars France believes that Britain has of any other party.

Although his constituency. Lot us begin at Popular Prices.

allowed Germany to drive a wedge there are certainly four or five with the cities and establish them THE FINEST SALOON MODELS between London and Paris and to million Liberal voters in the country as coherent, living, forceful entities

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France feels Britain has hardly any can get into Parliament in our national politics. Secondly, MUSA-SHIYA the SHIRTMAKER,. Standard £220, De Luxe £240. | accord.

Indeed it is expected that the exercise of the franchise should no right to permit Germany to at all. Big Six

P.S.-Because shop of Musa- build warships in contravention of barely

of independent be made compulsory. Citizens who abiya very small and locality ob £325.

a treaty which has not yet been Liberals will be returned when the neglect to discharge this public scuring, lees is also, but are contemplating to abrogated. Bilateral

in next appeal is made. The Con-duty-no longer a privilege, for plarer for bargain will And ir. become a motorist owner-if you such a matter in unlawful in theservative Party managers are quite it belongs to all--should be pun- King Street.

French view. And according to

Know by sign are desirous of a change-if you the terms of the Versailles Treaty, dependent elements of nil kinds thing to see an election like that

content to see Liberals and in-ished by a tine. It is a shocking prominent on exhibition over are going on home leave-a word France may be legally correct. Our

doorway. from you to

own view is that the British Gov-, blotted out because they think they recently in Edinburgh, where bare. ACQUAINT US. OF YOUR ernment, in signing the agreement will be more easily able to beat they half the electors took the trouble REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL with Germany, has merely intimat- [Socialists. But this is short- to go to the pull. If democracy is FURNISH YOU WITH FULL at its willingness to accept Ger-sighted view. All experience

many's estimate of the size of fleet shows that the muss of the voters the conscious participation of the to maintain itself, there must be PARTICULARS.

she requires. We do not suon tire of any Government and whole body of the sider this a breach of faith. In incline strongly to the rual: "livesponsibility for the good govern- voters in the view of the fact that Germanythe other side a chance," would probably have built a nevy in any event, and that the Ver- sailles Treaty has been so kicked and buffeted out shape that it is no better than serap already, and that any artis limitation agreement is better than none, we are not prepared to admit that Britain's sin is very black.

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Explorer for bargain will find in King Street. Know by sign prominent on exhibition over doorway.

Received the stove all O.K.

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ment of the country. The bigger the poll, the healthier the vote. But when this means putting in

Thirdly, we should improve the power a Government which is quite quality of the franchise by mnking inadequate to bear the weight of a difference between the house- | Imperial administration; when it bolder or head of the family and spells a financial crisis and an in-his or her children, or dependents, dustrial net-nek; when it means would therefore give a second the arrival in power of men who vote to every man or woman who are---nominally at least-com- pays the rent and the rates of any mitted to the nationalisation of all dwelling, in which more than two the means of production, distribu-persons habitually reside. This tion and exchange, and who are full | would certainly involve four or five The Japaneer Foreign Office and of nonsense about a new work million peramus. Many the Japanese Army in North China order" of which they have only the would be young; a proportion of are not the only national units oirient conceptions: then this them women. which appear to be working fickleness of the electorate should favour of the representations very excellent example of conflict-system. Another

cross purposes. We have had a

They would all be persons who not be aggravated by the voting had to face the real problems of being made to the Government ing opinions in Great Britain represent methods is its destruction national life with a responsibility LIVING UP TO THE JONESES by the Society for the Protection cently. First there was the gentle of the personalities of great cities. quite different from that of lodgers To a Stove Company. of Children for the establishment Japanese excursion in Hopei and Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, Glas- raises no issue of rank or class, of

Government attitude towards the Why should Manchester. Liverpool, ent or otherwise. This proposal Dear Sira:

of all kinds of both sexes, depend- of children's hospitals in the Charhar as opposed to the Labour-gow and Edinburgh not bring a Colony. In recent years, thereites' pointed questions as to Brit collective weight to hear? Instead Party or wealth, of age or sex. It

involves the of this they ae alt carved up into el or prospective, of no class. Be keeping house 32 years and this

disfranchisement. has been a quickening of social ain's responsibility in respect to

This September coming we will the Nine Power Piet. Then there meaningless blocks of houses none It secures a greater weight to the is the first new stove we Bought. interest in regard to the care and was Sir Samuel Hoare's polite of which embodies the authority. treatment of children, especially expression of goodwill and under-the dignity, or the weight of these more responsible citizens.

We reared 12 children and when the children of the

'standing at a dinner in honour of great communities. The House of

my youngest child was 8 years old Mr. Matsudaira, the Japanese Am-Commens would be far richer and classes. This is

i saw an ad in the paper of a We rightly pride ourselves upon Baby Boy that wanted a home so in the tssador in England. Sir Samuel, our national life more securely establishment of infant welfare who is the new Foreign Minister, founded if these cities with tradi- They are the symbols and safe-6 years old this fail. So you see Jour parliamentary Institutions, we got him and now he will Be centres, both by Government and spoke of the necessity for close ions and character of their own guards of British liberty. They we never had the price for a new

friendship and collaboration be returned men who had the right to unofficial bodies, as well as in the tween Britain and Japan, and said speak as Conservatives, Liberals, or will be tested in the coming years stove till we clothed and fed the very excellent work which the not Word in criticism of the Socialists for the whole city. Mens never before. The continued family. Society for the Protection of Japanese militarists" policy which would become stronger in relation decay of the House of Commons, a Children is doing. But the out-London Times, a few hours later, thing in any society when the and the tendency to trust every jealous.

The to political machinery. It is a bad now to the left, now to the right, Some

succession of violent fluctuntions, It is nice to have a new stove. of niy neighbours are pressed itself upon all engaged in Foreign Minister was trying to can only be exerted through their which if uncorrected will weaken

Mrs. M- this beneficent work, is that the smooth the possibly ruffled plum-getting hold of the caucus of our system of government to the

nge of Japanese sensibility, this obtaining an official position. Colony is lamentably behind the newspaper frankly commented upon appreciable part of the freedom point of national disaster.

SAY GENTLEMEN! times in having no hospitals the very apparent independence of and culture of British public life specifically devoted to children, the Japanese Army in its opera- has arisen from the fact that we trade and livelihood of our people

It is not only our Empire and the To an Organ Co. The Government

tions in China, pointing out that have always had a large class of in-which are at stake, but also that Dear Gentlemen? hospitals, whilst having a few beds for without

although it obviously had acted dependent men who counted. very freedom in which we have

The authority of the

been reared and which almost alone to answer my letter I wrote to Say Gentlemen? when you going children, possess no distinctive Foreign offlee in bullying the

among the nations of the world we you? Suy Gentlemen? you have children's wards, although some

Chinese Government and seizing

A courageous and: provision along these lines is, we Charhar, the diplomats were not additional power in Hopei and believe, to be made in the new likely to refuse the fruits of this Queen Mary Hospital. Some of adventure. the Convent hospitals have chil-

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poorer

has again humbled China.

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Both, therefore, on the grounds still preserve. of the people and of strengthening great majorities in both Houses Gentlemen? I wrote the 1st ef securing a truer representation far-seeing Governminent possessed of not answer my 1st letter at all? the House of Commons, I am in would certainly not have falled to th 1928 and mail it on the 9th? letter to you in November on the favour of electoral reform, I sug-deal with electoral reform within gest three practical steps. First, the life of the present Parliament. it has been a month I mail it to dren's wards, but the accom-TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT presentation in the first instance in the time they wasted over the

the application of proportional re- They could have passed the Bill you? Bay Gentlemen? if you do modation available is strictly limited, as also is the number of children's beds in Government institutions.

As for the infant

black it

EXRAUST SMOKE

a sign that the mixture

due to the fact that an excess of chambers and is not completely oil is reaching the combustion burned.

The owner-driver should under- welfare centres, these, generally stand the probable causes of smoke speaking, do not grant in-patient emission from the exhaust pipe. treatment on any marked scale.

The smoke may be black or il When the smoke is One of the proposals made by may be blue. the Society named, so far as the island is concerned, is that part is too rich and is not burning com- of the old Government Civil Hos- when the engine is idling.

pletely. This usually happens

pital should be retained for the The cause may be that the treatment of children, or, alter-strangler is not properly closed, or natively, that the Government it may mean that the carburetter should erect a special children's requires adjusting so that a slight- hospital on a site equally accessi- ly weaker mixture is provided. ble to the public. A point to be Blue smoke, on the other hand, is kept in mind in this connection is that Chinese parents are most reluctant, as a general rule, to send their children to hospitals If the excess is not great the where the institutions are smoke may disappear when the en- situated at any marked distance gine warms up, since the hotter from their homes. It has, in-engine causes all the oil to burn. deed, been a difficult task to get If much too much oil is present them to send their children to the cylinder should be re-bored

or oversize piston rings fitted. hospital at all. This aversion having been overcome to a con- siderable extent, the suggestion that children's hospitals should be provided at conveniently- located centres has much to com- mend it. At the moment, it may not be found necessary to pro- vide more than two such institu- tions one on the island and one in Kowloon.. So far as Kowloon is concerned, there is a possi- bility, we believe, of the need be ing met by private initiative, in which event all that the Govern- ment would need to do would be to make provision on the island: On the general question of the desirability of specific hospitals

for children, generally, accepted medical opinion is that children are best dealt with by doctors specialising in the treatment of | juvenile ailments and nursed by sisters devoted wholly to such work. This is fully realised in most big cities at Home and elsewhere. The matter is one of considerable importance and urgency, for which reason it is to be hoped that the Government will respond sympathetically to the proposals put forward by a Society-which-is-itself doing splendid social service amongst the poor children of the Colony.

to the great cities. This is no Sedition Act and the Betting Act.

"Oh, I don't know why your father thinks those franks should remember him from last year.”

not answer this with in a month?

I will write to your Post Master in your City and see if you still in Chicago? and see if you getting my 2 letters from me any way? My letter has not come back yet? I have return on it?

say

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