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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937.

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*PROBLEM

Full inquiry into the disas trous fire which broke out on a train bound from Kowloon to Canton on Saturday, involving the loss of close on eighty lives, is to be made in the near future

The new session has opened in a world which is on the juņip. The European sense of crisis- values is. sharpened to a fine point. Heavy curtains enwrap the future. Westminster has the oppressiveness of an ante- chamber where a people awaits audience with its fate. The air is perturbed, vibrates with nameless importance.

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The House pricks up its cars when Dr. Dalton (top, left), "the Bert icader of Socialism," boums AL it.

The others in this picture are Percy decisive and are being applied in of defence tasks, Mr. Churchill

Cater's "youn

to tratch. a salutary rhythm.

sits like a shadow-factory. They are: Left, Major Ralph Hayer; top right, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd; and, out our being reminded of the to

Hardly a speech goes by with- He has done all that is possible below, Mr. Duncan Sandys,

tumultuous moods of the world. abstruse workings of our poli- a man relegated, by the

Ambassadors line their gallery. He is still the League idealist. There are some who wonder if, when that ship is shattered, he it not a tragedy, that, will find a piece of wreckage to

so float on.

Rearmament

Is when minds Bre

What of the Socailists? They

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altered. More room Ambassadors, who take has been made for the world's

the steep hillside and flings the mud Mr. Baldwin took a coat-lapel in tics, to elder statesmanship. He road to Parliament as a matter from his boots on a bluff high each hand the other night, paced has used his knowledge and his at Canton, where officials are

of habit these days. They road. Wit has reappeared as though on the hearth-rug of fears to excite the Government now awaiting the instructions typify the listening earth. More There are shafts of the old his study, took the House into to the most extreme exertions.

room has been made for the gaiety which was so devastating his confidence, as it were, on the Rome called Cincinnatus from the of the Ministry of Railways in public, symbolising an anxious in debate.

question of democracy and the plough. Will Mr. Churchilt be called Nanking. The tragedy and the Britain.

Mr. W. S. Morrison, Mr. iron idealism of Left and Right from Itis books? Elliot's successor as Minister of dictatorships.

Mr. Lloyd George dominates circumstances surrounding it

On the floor of the House of Agriculture, is one of the most suggest the desirability of every

Commons all seems curiously discussed

Mr. Baldwin. had obviously the House whenever he speaks. men in the House, renched the conclusion that, in a It has come to just that, and unchanged. Westminster is a To many he is a future Prime stern age, democracy's possible step being taken to pre-preservative of politicians, who finister. Time was when Mr. need is to display a vigour and with white locks dominates it, urgent more is the pity. Another man vent a repetition of the disaster, resist the years with a success Elliot's horoscope was cast this decisiveness comparable with too. Mr. George Lansbury, in which connection it is to be which must be the envy of

way. Prophecy bushed con- those of the Totalitarian States, whose recipe for healing the women. Let us assumed that the investigations for a monent.

glance round

siderably while he-grappled with "Thinking aloud” was what sick world is so simple, is like to be carried out will centre

the tangle of Britain's flocks and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald would the wisdom of the Bible rebuk- Mr. Baldwin has regained the herds.

have called it, Mr. MacDonald ing the follies of man. Mr. Morrison, widely regarded who is still in the centre of the Mr. Anthony Eden is much ther it is possible to improve the sophy pulses with the old stendly as having succeeded to thank picture, though largely he has a. with us. When he speaks the safety

stroke. The burly shoulders less inheritance, looks dourly non-speaking part. arrangements on the

are like a calm and rolling Eng. competent as usual, and his trains. Two points immediate-lish landscape. There is less thoughts are his own. ly suggest themselves the calm in Mr. Baldwin's mind. What of the temper of the absence of communication cords Nobody feels so very tranquil, House? There is, of course, one Of that more in a minute. supreme concern-British de- of the trains and the conlining

fence and the state of the world, burdened, and the whole pro- of fire extinguishers to

Sir John Simon, worried about The Nuffield affair has left deep blem comes down to the speed live a day at a time. They have animosities of Fascists, Reds marks. It has intensified un with which Britain cùn _rearm, tain compartments. On the and Jews, masks any personal easiness about the eflicacy of the genius of Mr.

no mind-officially-on defence. Winston former point, the official attitude perplexities beneath a placid the measures to make us safe. Churchill should be so greatly They were torn on Spain. A drifting, disunited, spiritless appears to be that communica- and patient brow.

Defence will be debated to-day, lost to us?

party. Mr. Oliver Stanley re- It seems to me a strange com- minded them disconcertingly the tion cords would be a danger in |

Conservative M.P.s will give The Chancellor of the Exche- view of the possibility of Lan-quer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Government no rest till it is mentary on democracy that, at a other day how much of So- amicable and urbane, is obvious proved that the Empire is being time when his immense drive

cialism's reforming field dit activity. It should be borne ly easy about the state of the made se strong that it can be and imagination should be en- in mind, however, Inat the nation.

fearless; that the remedies are rolled in some of the most vital covered by Conservatism. trains carry batches of armed guards after the border is cross- el, and, assuming these men to be distributed throughout the fore the colossal canvas of the plays Napolenically be-

various conches, the presence of nation's health. Mr. Walter

what he may in an unenviable ja communication cord might be Elliot, free of the Ministry of Agriculture, seems to have got aj

situation. The House pricks of the atmost value to them in load off his mind. The air of WILL King Edward VII. Stamer

water-mark. Shortly afterwards giving warning of any suspicious Scotland, impaired as it may be

prove rarities? Every dealer the stamps were reissued with the up its ears more when Dr. Dai- movements. It is true that use by its long journey south, has hopes so, but he is fairly certain that arms of the colony as a water-mark. ton, superior, donnish, looms up to every know- and booms at it. The next bts hopes will not be realised, of the communication

worked wonders.

As soon as it was known that Medgeable collector that the unwater- leader of Socialism. cord

would be no more of there marked set would prove the better

The young men have been might be made by bandits on

there

however, stamps issued, there was a tremen- Investment. The fact is, dous rush by collectors to lay in that the first set can be bought for little in the public glare this the train to pull it up at a pre-

stocks from all the post offers in £1 Is., while the second set will cost session up to now. But watch arranged spot, and

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Under- this, ad-

Secretary, Home Office. In a mittedly, might be difficult to quiry. Meantime, It is only

of St. Kitts-Nevis issued a act of beyond his years. provent. With regard to fire ex-right that the efforts of the rail stamps which have been used by the IN 1023 the twin West Indian islands testing post he has competence

Watch also tinguishers, if there had been way staff, particularly the pre- GOOD BUY.

Mr. Duncan 13 stamps in commemoration of the 240

tercentenary of the blanda di Sandys, Mr. Churchill's son-in- any in the conches which sence of mind of the fireman These stamps, on the other hand, covery. The set proved a drug on law, who has brilliant gifts, per- were burnt out in the

will have a short life, even although the market. Dealers

admirably re who disconnected the burning in that short life about 5,000,000,000 stocking it, collectors seemed not to sonality, courage, cent disaster, the ravages of couches, should be acknowledged, will be used, and then there is the want it. Its price here in England marshalled argument.

fact that British stamps

und the was very little above its face value

The finest, challenge to Bri- the flames might possibly have The prompt despatch of troops alamps of the Empire

arc the of about £2 29. favourites of the whole stamp-col- Almost without warning remain- tain's youth which has been been partially checked. As it from Canton to aid the sufferers lecting world.

ders were made into a glorious bon- spoken in many a lòng day has was, the most that could be done is also worthy of commendation. Bond-street auctioneer a few months smoke their price began to rocket, It was a maiden speech. If the Evidence of this fact came to a fire, and as the stumps went up in come from Major Ralph Rayner. was to detach the burning car-Happily, these disasters are riages from the rest of the train rare, but, in the circumstances and allow them to burn cut, with prevailing, the railway, authori many people abourd, until assisties appear to have done all that tance had been secured. All was humanly possible. It now these are matters which, as we remains to make adequate pro- have remarked, will come with vision against a similar occur- In the scope of the official in-Frence in the future.

Nation's Health

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD The Value

The Secretary for Scotland is like a man who has toiled through the ploughland of a

of

The Young Men THE Opposition is a party of aimlessness and wry smiles now. The Socialist "men. ace" is talked about, but it is

Edward VIII Stamps

VIII Stamps with disdain. Mr. Attlee does

in

It seemed obvious

Great Britain. That fact alone is you £2 25.1 eminous.

High prices are never realised by

thousand million, and which were

-thousand purchased by the

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were shy

ago. A man who had escaped from with the result that the act is now others are like it Major Rayner Russia and had to leave behind all priced at about £20. The act which als belongings turned up the lapel the dealers rejected had become one will go a long way.

Most accomplished woman of his coat and revealed un Empire of the prizes of the albums. slamp clipped there which Inter So now with the stamps of King M.P.: Miss Florence Hors- fetched £200.

Edward VIIL cach person has to

To attempt any prophcey of sub-make up his mind. They will not brugh, who moved the Address. sequent values in the stamp world is become great raritics-loo many She has grace, political learning, and ancies rule it throughout. Two have this advantage as a specula- It is as clear as day that she is to asic for trouble, because whims have been issued and cold-but they a voice which charms the car. instances suffice to prove this point, tion: a good return on one's invest-

In 1931 Newfoundland issued three ment is a possibility; n loss cannot destined for Westminister im- denominations of air stamps lacking be made,

G. F. M. C. porbance.