THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
JANUARY 14, 1936.
SOME OF OUR "EMPIRE BUILDERS”
FAIL
But Boys With Grit Are-Offered New Chances
AND SQUEAL
M.P.s heard in the Commons last month of the boys who
go out to build the Empire
of those who fail and
squeal; of those who succeed and return to fill the high places.
The debate ended with an announcement that the Govern- ment will set up a Development Board of eight mem- bers to consider emigration schemes.
THE
HE House of Commons last month debated the great unpeopled places of the Empire. The House was a great unpeopled place itself.
the wounded In the
He made a striking contrast: "Two months ago 1 crossed Canada from Quebec to the Western Pacific and ever saw one soldier in uniform. Compare that with a similar trip in tho Europe to-day where there is
rain of marching feet by day and night.
Sir Henry Page Craft sald you concentrate on could land in the middle of Aus-dressing stations?" tralia and walk for months without bumping into a human being, He himself could have walked twice round the House, right through the Liberal Party bench, zig-zagged along two Socialist and four Tory benches without bumping into a
Yet which is the most exciting- human being or at least any M.P.
this regimentation of men under Captain Macnamara, youthful new Tory member for Chelmsford, look-orders or the free people developing ing like a younger Lindbergh, with a their resources in the Dominions? fine clear voice and no naten, made Which calls for the greater qualitles? a good impression on what was left leace has its excitements and adven- of Parliament with a speech urging tures far greater than war,"
1. An immediate survey to re- start emigration;
board 2. A
to co-ordinate nchemes of colonisation.
Berlin Jibe at 'Idle' Britain
"I was quite recently speaking at
a dinner in Berlin," said the captain,
·
Voice That Travelled Far After Mr. Baxter the Big Noise arrived. Ro was Mr. Hannah, a new
SHE STUCK TO DIET
You'd never recognize the leader, graceful girl here as the once Juxom Marion Talley, but this is a picture of the new Miss Talley, famous opera singer. She stack to a diet of fruit, vegetables and Juices, exercised regularly and took off 25 pounds.
Wolverhampton Conservative member, The Perfect Briton- who was formerly a professor of theology in Ohio.
The Press gallery decided that he has the loudest volce ever heard in
"And the jibe thrown at nie was: Purlinment, and that if he and Mr. "There you are in Britain with idle A. P. Herbert could join voices the men, idle money, and all these undeve-Jafnt voice would still be audible. loped resources in the Empire. You
do nothing about them. At the same. time you stop us doing anything."
"That is a very hard question to are sitting face, frankly. if you among a lot of business Berlin."
men
in
ed. He wanted Kenya to
to
bel
GLORIA'S
£38 WEEK-ENDS WITH MOTHER
MORE MONEY FOR ENTERTAINMENT
L
New York, Dec.-28.. ITTLE Gloria Vanderbilt, who by order of the courts spends week-ends with her mother and the rest of her time with her wealthy aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, is an expensive child.
In an affidavit submitted to the her to-day Surrogates Court mother, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Van derbilt, declared that the cost of entertaining her daughter each week-end amounts to exactly £38 4s. Ed., divided as follows:
Hotel muite (two dayu), £8, Food, E5, 16я. 5d.
Tips, £14.
Telephone, 4n.
Flowers, £1. Entertainment, £3.
Car and chauffeur, £10. Detectives, 9.
£1,700 A Year
Mrs. Vanderbilt estimates that to full her week-end duties she requires from her daughter's estate about £1,700 a year.
Hitherto she has been receiving £1,800 a year for herself. This she
AND THE THINGS THAT "renounces," as well as £600 a year-
GO TO MAKE HIM
THE SUCCESS-
+
"World a' Your Foot"
ar. Hannah probably succeed. WHAT makes an ideal Englishman or a successful business man. reach India, and probably succeed. Two men, both well qualified to supply, the answer, gave the opened up Indian colonists. respective definitions as follows: Some M.Ps who wear hearing de vlees took them off immediately.
Lord Apsley sald: "I am sure Mr. Hannah's voice has gone for beyond the precincts of the House." The debate was remarkable for a Good Manners
a Socialist Truthfulness courageous speech by
THE IDEAL. ENGLISHMAN
Bis recommendation: "I think it is very necessary that we do do something. I am certain in the next four six years the watern of leader, Mr. Ammon, and its repudia- Courage- Europe are going to suffer such a tion by a Socialist backbencher Mr. Justice storm that it would be well for us Aneurin Bevan.
to start consolidating our Empire Mr. Ammon said we should take Fair Play ancharage nów.
steps to populate the vacant spaces, Abhorrence of
would be compelled to or ore we throw them open to foreigners.
"There are more foreigners than British entering the Dominions to
tinents
crooked dealings
FUL BUSINESS MAN
Hard Work
Frankness Honesty Reliability
The second definition" was given
of
allowed her for the maintenance her mother, Mrs. Kilpatrick Morgan, who, It will be recalled, gave evidence against her during the lawsuit which resulted in the custody of little 'Glorin Awarded to Mrs. Whitney.
£89,014 Estate
being
Ly Sir George Hunter, the In addition to the expenses for Tyneside shipbuilder, who built week-ends, however, Mrs. Van- the Mauretania. at his. home derbilt reserves the right to re- in Jesmond, Newcastle on Tyne, where to-day he celebrates his 90th birthday.
cover from the estate the expense
of running a summer home during
the full month which, the court
Sir George, from being a poor has crdered, Gloria is to spend hoy who had only three yours' with her each year. schooling, rose to be the head of
the £9,000,000 shipbuilding com- The guardians of the estate sub- That ought not to be," he said. Respect for others
The first was defined by Rear-pany- of Swan, Hunter, and Wig-mitted to the Surrogate Court a day. I know a German in London Crowded nations and empty con at the present time trying to or
dog-in-the-manger Admiral A. 1. Snagge. Admiral ham Richardson. But now, having report showing its present value to
of Devonport put business aside, he has taken be £89,014 48. ganise à scheme for 'German-eml-
Superintendent gration to Australia, and he in polley." gaining a certain amount of money' from garrulous ladies in Kensing
ton."
Ten M.Ps walked out when he finished.
20,000 Needed for the Empire
"Work hard, become
rellable.
Mr Bevan said that Mr. Ammon's Dockyard, in a speech at Dockyard up simplified spelling as a hobby. speech should not be taken to repre- School, Devonport, when he added sent a large body of opinion in the that there was no reason why any Socialist Party.
The motion was carried without a working man should not attain to
This ideal. division.
Sir Henry Page Croft complained Lost, Explorer
that two years ago when he secured a record number of signatorios to a motion for a survey of the Empire which might plan out new towns and new cities he was met with a depart- mental committee. They had now reported, and held out no constructive hope.
We need strong measures, he erledd. At least 20,000 workers should be trained with their wives and families: with a view to establishing self-con- tained colonies on new land. This Was small scheme to an Empire which transported 7,000,000 men for the purpose of the war.
Six M.PA walked out when he sat down.
Mr. William Lunn, the Socialist
BOBY OF BRITON
FUND IN BRAZIL?
Cuyaba (Brazil), Dec. 28.
is the body of a white man, killed and flayed by Chavante sa- vages, which has been found in Matto Grosso, in the heart of Brazil, that of Colonel H. P. Fawcett, the British explorer who vanished ten years ago?
This is the question now being asked Cuyaba in an endeavour
to identify a body found by a party of national telegraph workers.
spokesman, rose to speak. Almost Exploring the interior of Brazil, {
the party came upon a village of
every опо walked out except Mr. Beverley Baxter.
Bavages, which
they
Mr. Lunn said among other adfec- Chavante tives that emigration was impossible, thought it safe to avoid. useless, ridiculous at the present When they had passed it they time. "My advice," he "that found the body, which, it is thought, people should stay at
may be that of Colonel Fawcett
Men Who Make Good in Canada Reuter.
Colonel Fawcett set off with his Mr. Ruleigh Mr. Lunn then told a harrowing 21-year-old son and story of a letter received from, a boy Rummell in May 1925 to explore the emigrant In Canada who has been Amazon basin, warning his friends paid us, a month and who wants to that he might not be heard of for come home but has no money.
One could see from the Press Gel-two years.
There was no certain news of lery that something was happening boneath the double-breasted dovegray him or his two companions, but waistcoat concealing the amplo bosom when in 1928, It was heard that he of Mr. Beverley Baxter, now Tory was still living in the interior, an M.P. for Wood Green, and native of expedition, led by Commander Canada.
A flame was kindling, and it belched Dyott, set off in search of the lost
at Mr. Lunn in an excellent maiden explorer.
speech. (Three M.P.. came in when
Commander Dyott was unable to
Mr. Baxter rose, but on the other hand find any trace of Colonel Fawcett.
" 'two'want' out.):
Mr. Lunn had a lotter" exclaimed >ME. BAXUN; Arms Younovadalkase who wan carning, he said, s. a month. I wonder why the Socialista nover read letters from a young man who goes out to Canada and makes good.
YOU CANNOT INHERIT CANCER
Says. Surgeon
CURES CAN BE MADE Mr. H. S. Souttar, surgeon to
"If that boy has character hal han opportunities, and his descen dants many yet come back to Britain the London Hospital, speaking in and be, shall I say? & newspaper Manchester recently, described proprietor (meaning Lord Beaver-cancer as "Bolshevism in the cells Brook) or ponibly a member of of the body."
this House (meaning himself). We are practically convinced," He did not suppose the Socialists he said, "that it is not an infectious once mentioned the Empire at the disease, that you cannot catch it. election except in relation to Abys sinis to say that the Empire was that you cannot give it to your gathered by methods of brigandage. neighbour, and that you cannot
hat! He told the Socialiste that their only inherit. It.
hope of winning an election was to "Canter is not such a terrible adopt the policy of optimism and disease. If the sufferer would advancement which would remove apply early enough for treatment, people from the distressed areas to the there is a very considerable pro- light of day in the Dominions,
Why "Mr. Baxter asked, must apect that he could be permanently the Sociallats in the battle always cured.
COL. FAWCETT
remember your duty to God and your feet," he said. man, and you have the world at
TIRED OF HAVING
HIM BEAT HER
Twenty years of marital bickering in the home of John H. Dume. brell, San Francisco, ended when Mrs. Amy Dumbrell shot and killed her husband, well known as a banker and a broker. "I was tired of having him beat me. I saw him coming out of another woman's apartment and I thought I might as well end things," she told police,
Air Race Sequel
SUIT OVER AEROPLANE AMICABLY SETTLED
The action in which Captain Thomas Neville Stack and his as- sistant pilot, Mr. Sydney Lewis Turner, asked for rescission of a hire-purchase agreement of the machine they used in the Australia air race last year, and repayment by Airspeed (1934), Ltd, of the Airport, Portsmouth, of £2,448, with damages for breach of con tract or misrepresentations, has been settled.
Mr. Van den Borg, K.C., for the agreement. In addition they had "defendants, said that as long as understuken to pay in it dayaya there had been any suggestion of further sum of 21,860 and to make dishonesty in the case no question over to the Airspeed Limited; free £1,000,000 VENTURE of a settlement could have been of all costs, the Viceroy airplane considered by the defendant but which, of course, for commercial. ENGLISH CAPITAL FOR the plaintiffs had now intimated purposes, was worth a very con-
to them that they realised, there siderable sum of money. AUSTRALIAN GOLD
was no ground for imputing any One million pounds of English
Mr. Justice Finlay said the dishonesty, and that they wished capital in being invested in gold
unreservedly to withdraw any alle parties, in the hands of their ad- mining at Bendige, Victoria.gation of misrepresentation.visers, had taken a wise course.
It will seek to develop 10 mines on a line of reef at Eaglehawk which yielded extremely rich re turns in the heetle carly dayn of the folds in the fifties, xaya Austral News. It is proposed to mind large tonnages of ore, by modera methods and at depths not previously attempted.
Government nid is being sought. in de watering the old working mi '#_cort"af ̃£20,000.
Mr. Stack and Mr. Turner had It was satisfactory that grave informed the defondants they charges made upon people of high were mistaken in thinking that standing in their profession should comments in reports of Flight have been withdrawn in the way Lieut. Colman and the Air Ministry they had... implied that the machine was. In any way unairworthy, --
To Pay £1,850 The plaintiffs had already paid £2,448 under the "hire-purchase
He was sure that the course taken was a wise one, and there would be a fudgo's order, if neces sary, upon the settlement and the action would be withdrawn,
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