1936-06-16 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936.

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IN these days, when events of vast consequence tread ever more swiftly on one another's heels we are all apt to overlook any which are not manifestly fraught with immediate peril to ourselves or are anywise remote from our daily interests.

Therefore it is not at all surprising that the disap- "New Automatic Hill pearance of the second Chamber in the Irish Free State

last week should have evoked hardly a-ripple of concern.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936.

Hongkong

The Senate assented to its own extinction and the Governor- General signed the Bill last Saturday.

Already the Oath of Allegiance and the right of petitioning the King in Council have gone. Now with the passing of the Senate, shortly to be followed by the abolition of University re- presentation in the Dall, there goes the last and most effective of the "guarantees" hitherto enjoyed by the ex-Unionist, and Constitutional Nationalist minority.

It is true that Proportional Representation remains; but, whatever the other merits of that system, it is of little prac- tical value so far as this minority is concerned, having regard to the overwhelming strength of the two larger parties.

Nor from the wider standpoint of the liberty of the subject is the prospect less alarming. Hitherto in framing their men- sures Ministers have had to take account of a Chamber where in- dependent judgment is less easily dragooned than in the Dail. and may sometimes, one suspects, have been secretly thankful on occasion for the check so placed upon their own intransigeni. followers,

Since

Why de Valera Abolished The Senate

Henceforth a majority of one in the remaining Chamber may make what laws it plenses, the Governor- General being constitutionally bound to accept the advice of the Ministry. It will be quite possible, on the plea of emergency--a plea already often abused-to carry all Indian Love Call-Fox Trot

stages of a bill in the course of a Rose Marie-Fox Trot....

single sitting of the Dail, and to Let's face the music and dance--Fox Trot

present an astonished country next Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

morning with a statute having al- But where are you--Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

SHARE GAMBLING

ready the force of law before any

inner circle in Wah-hoo-Fox Trot ......Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

"In order to keep members one outside an I'sc'a-muggin'---Fox Trat . Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

pasted of the changes in Manila, Dublin has received any hint what- And so to bed-Fox Trot

Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. 15-minute cable service of ever of what is proposed.

the enactment of the rates of twelve netive stocks has

ut the Ex-Statute of Westminster Constitu- instituted You have that extra something-Fox Trot

tional lawyers appear to hold that Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. been

This extract from the A

the Irish Parliament thenceforth change."

Daily ent Stock Exchange

synonymous with the I'm nuts about screwy music-Fox Trot

The Ballyhooligans. The Ballyhooligans.

tion, even though an essential part I got Rhythm-Fox Trot

esting indication of a speculative The Ballyhooligans movement which is at present G. K. Chesterton was born in lof the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Fron Goodbye Medley-Fox Trot.

.The Ballyhooligans. Oriental Medley-Fox Trot

dominating the local share mar-Kensington in 1871 but, spiritually this it follows that the existing ket. The reference is to Philip-at least, he belongs to the Middle right of Irish citizens to obtain a pines gold-mining stocks, which Ages. An attempt was made to decision from the Supreme Court ground him on the subjects which for some time past have been are supposed upon the validity of any Act in- activity in Hongkong. It is, equipment, but he pursued a char- with the right of the judges them and selves to security of tenure, les course of studying at St. henceforth at the mercy of a chance feature, for the simple reason Paul's School H-a-subject did majority in the Chamber that the business transacted in not appeal to him, it did not exist;

Now there are forces stirring in these stocks is, in the main, little consequently he was rather un-

gambling. Six sympathetic to certain branches of Ireland not far below the surface, other than

selence, but anything dealing with months ago, there were only ten humanity he eagerly assimilated, which, before many yours are past,

was a prodigious reader of Manila gold-mizing shares quot-He ed in the Stock Exchange list; literature and history and a voluminous writer of prose and to-day, the number is

rhyme. He travelled in some twenty. Further proof of the extent to which this type of Purts of the Empire but was not very mobile. A generation ago hul

MOUTRIE

York Building

weekly report provides an inter- NOTES OF THE DAY My portion of the Constitu

By

minion Parliament upon the Ulster border Rnd within two hours' steaming of Holyhead.

1 know very well that all this will sound fantastically impossible in English ears. I only wish I could think it were improbable. Unquestionably the power will be there; and know nothing in the political outlock of my countrymen which suggests that the power will nut be used.

In a situation dark with menace I can see but one gleam of hope; and that, oddly enough, is to be found in the baffiing, tortuous, but fundamentally sincere mind of Mr. De Valera himself.

I cannot think that he is blind and to the dangers to stability order inherent in single-chamber

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the fact that last week's Slock carnation of Dr. Johnson, but he [Mr. Mollison is at present-

nouncements have not gone beyond may cause Mr. De Valera himself an admission that some check on to be looked upon as a moderate too hasty legislation is desirable maa, even as John Redmond and shape of a sixth stago in the con and Constitutionally minded states and a hint that this might take the as sideration of bills by the Dall, with now re- attention directed particularly to

a the removal of technical flaws. dangerous agitators, are garded. Let these forces get firmer grip on the Dail (by nu "La Douma est morte," Camp- an unlikely event), and bell-Bannerman cried on a historic Great Britain might find herself occasion to a meeting in Westmin-. faced over-night by the accomplish. ster Hall, "Vive la Douma!" I ed fact of a Soviet Republic law- wish one could now with any con- fully established by Act of a Do- fidence echo that cry,

menta

RECORD-BREAKING

com-

too

Exchange record shows that was rarely seen there in later pleting plans for his contemplated Days of the Lone much condemnation, a general cry

local stocks took a secondary years.' place to these gold-mine shares

in

letters,

Över

Flyer are

By J. A. MOLLISON

much praise and afterwards

of "Down with the favourite."

HERO.WORSHIP

round-the-world flight, with his wife, To my mind Mr. Chesterton had Mrs. Amy Mollison.1, the number of companies much in common with another whose shares were affected by great English man of changes in prices. Of the Thackeray, though he did not ex-THAT greatest of all international oir ruces, the MacRobertson Philippines stocks appearing inperience the same vicissitudes in the list, half a dozen are quoted life and fortune which afflicted Trophy speed race between England below a dollar in Hongkong cur that earlier figure. Oddly, they and Australia, wrote the death war-

alike in their early disin- rency, one as low as eleven cents, were

to study the subjects rant of the private pilot for long- distance and record-breaking flights, This

obviously clination circumstance opens up an avenue for the small which educationists insisted were It marked the beginning of a new speculator, the greenhorn who good for their minds. But their age of speed such as no man had ever phere, but there, again, it is in in-du.

minds seemed to thrive without dared dream.

enter

the

these things, and blossomed into

In America, that country with such an Immoderate love of all celebrities with reputations, both famous and infamous, heroca spring up overnight and stay bathing in the warm glow of limelight just long enough to get wrong their heads swollen and a sepse

Afterwards BRITAIN BEHIND

of proportion. they are keen and eager to set out, Every pilet looks to the stratos-but there is nothing left for them to possible dream for the individual.

Every day one sees small parn- would hesitate to market for counters of higher genius. An apt phrase, coined by outlets and

With this new era comes a different To conquer the stratosphere is not

'un entirely new sense just a matter of luck and endurance, graphs in the newspaper stating that value. It is beyond question a Canadian newspaperman, and

about n spirit of degeneration. ing thousands of pounds designed so an attempt to fly to Australin er that these mining companies are applied to Mr. Chesterton when of values, which some say will bring us on most nights, but a plane cost-a pilot took off in a small plane in that it can fly above a minimum of America. It is depressing to think all reputable concerns, but, even he was visiting Toronto, did not

Certainly, speed of any kind has a ten miles in height. It must have a that the pilot is enduring in his old- exactly so, it would probably be found offend "the genius of geniality."

schsual thrill which acts as a stimu- larger wing spread and more power-fashioned light acroplane that the majority of people who,

Jant to boredom and as a drug to the ful engines than the ordinary plane, what others endured a few years ago, dabble in this type of stock have!

be changing human nature as it is than twice that of low-level flying splashed the front pages with dazzl no idea where the mines are getting quickly in and out at the sensibilities, so flying can be said to Nevertheless, the speed will be more who made thousands of pounds and

owing to the low frictional wind re-ing, extravagant headlines. located, and possess little if any most favourable opportunity, changing the map.

sistance,

Sometimes, these pilots who sei off In the event of war. Great Britain, knowledge of their output or Few, if any, of these speculators

Until recently Britain has been far with so little publicity and so much their object, but prospects. They are in the mar- want to buy Manila shares for once one of the safest places in the ket solely for the purpose of the purpose of locking them up world, would be about as Isolated ns behind Russia, Germany, and France optimism gain

the ony tiny country in Central Europe in stratospherical research, but now such is the competition that nobody will hears about 11. Some die, and in gambling their whole interest as an investment, and lies in the speculative movement amount of scrip which actually surrounded by hostile neighbours. a plane is being built which-

than a few seant lines in the world's undoubtedly the ore with the for altitude and long-distance.

Press, of the stocks. 'It would be changes hands must be infin-The most powerful country to-day is attempt to beat all existing records their death obtula no greater glory

Freight carrying, which should be absurd, of course, to suggest that itesimal. From whatever stand-strongest air force.

There can be no doubt that the institution of a minute point the matter is approached,

There comes a time when one must a commercial success on the direct

New York future of world peace is in the hands are every adnilt Anale in a particular sphere. Ailantle route between cable service of stock prices the spate of gambling which is from Manila is to be explained taking place in these stocks can Now the record-breaking pilot must and London for the pilot or company of aviation. Aeroplanes by fresh discoveries of gold not but be regarded as undesir acknowledge the end of what hos with very fast machines, is hampered country's chief means of defence and pockets every quarter of anable. In the past, Hongkong been a great epoch for private lycra. by Government restrictions, and offence. It would be impossible for: hour. All that is happening in has had many sharp reminders There is no more money to be made is. difcult to guarantee a schedule a war to last four years as did the

small plane.

owing to the uncertain weather con-in many ways more humane than the last, that slow wearing down of the Manila is that these counters are of the harmful consequences of out of fights that can be done in time limit for the delivery of goods lost. Prevent-day warfare would be..

diljons.

enemy, constantly varying la price, for encouraging the speculative ele-

Is it The only fields left to conquer are

The life of the record-breaker is a

what precisely the same reason that mont in the local market.

Whatever happens, come they are here-namely, the pre-too much to hope that a brake such that need heavy financial back

to serve, an ever restless may, whether peace or war, all eyes direction-sky- so little that few interests would master

At are turned in one sence in the market of a specula-will be applied to the present.. Unfortunately, the reward now difficult one.. The public is a hard tive element which hopes to movement before the situation be willing to undertake such a ven-child, demanding. "What next?"

the beginning there la niwaya toowards. make profit by the process of takes a really dangerous turn?lture on a commercial basis.

the