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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1930.
in turn a promise that on the LORD, BIRKENHEAD'S "Important!" Kitchener ran his pen
LAST BOOK. "Turning Points in History.
through it, and substituted the word "decisive."
Lord Birkenhead never under- rated the influence of worgen in the lives, of men and in his own. So we find him paying a new (and true) kind of tribute to the work done by our women in the war.
There was a moral aspect to the air more effective than was pos bly appreciated. at home. There
termination of the War she should be accorded in internation- al relations the position and the consideration due to a great coun- try. The promise was given un- hesitatingly, whether or not its full import was appreciated by those Powers who subscribed to it! at the time. So far as China was history was much more than the was something inexpressibly cheer- concerned, the intention was scientific sitting of that dust of ing to the man at the front in the
clear.
cause,
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NEW LIGHT ON WAR.
To the late Lord Birkenhead
facts.
He
womenfolk so ..... Tho
r
The chapter entitled "The
Appearance of his She joined the Allied circumstance. called
knew, for example, that the popu- close behind the line consistently with her lar conception of F1 politician, women of the French countryside---- policy as a whole, with the pur-though without any real root in small blante to a race of tried hero- pose of furthering her own na-reality, may be a more potent in- ines were rarely ornamental. In tional aspirations at the first con-uence for good or ill (or both) the workmanlike yet still feminine than all the man actually was or appearance of his own girls, the venient moment. The ensuing did.
British soldier found yet further period, though marked by the The spectre of the political enuse for the national pride which outbreak of civil war in China, Brocken may be much larger and was his mainstay.
more impressive than the personage which has now continued unabat-whose shadow it is on the coiling Triumph of the Fifth Army" is an ed since 1916, saw the rise of the mists. So we find him emphatica almost passionate vindication of Kuomintang, the Party whierly declaring "The writing of his the heroic realstance in the Spring has since succeeded in establish- tory is an art rather than a science, of 1918 of that attenuated line and the art of compelling human figures its far-sighted and resolute com- ing itself as the Government of to stand out from dry documents mander. Mr. Lloyd George's dis- China. The success of the Party and musty fellos, and to tell, as for cussion of the affair in the House may perhaps be attributed to the as possible, and for all that it is of Commons is shown to be a tissue of incorrect information tacked to- fact that they, more consistently worth, their own story,"
In his last book, "Turning Points gether by misunderstanding. "If than any other party in China, in History" (Hutchinson, 218. net), one soldier more than another was have denounced the Western ser- he deals with critical episodes in responsible for our victory in that vitudes imposed on their country, the light of this admirable defini-year." thus this plea for justice tion. He did not live to correct the concludes, "that soldier was General and more strenuously maintained final proofs of some of its chapters: Gough."
and time.
the suppression of those servi- so that he must not be blamed for
Disarmament Clauses. tades as the main aim of their one or two minute mistakes in the In the chapter entitled "Foch we are warned policy. The vicious cricle was at treatment of events remote in space and Clemenceau"
against dismissing as baseless the last broken in the winter of 1926-
After all his massive common warnings of "Le Fere Victoire" 27 by the declarations of Sir senso always enables him to find the that General von Scecht's praise of Austen Chamberlain to the effect right road in the solution of his-the "smail professional army" is that the British Government torical problems, though his descrip- pure bluff and that the determina- tion of what may be called the ftion to transform the Reichswehr were ready to go as far as possi-scenery an either side may not into a Rahmen-Heer (frame-army) ble to meet the legitimate aspira- always satisfy the expert with a is a serious matter. tions of the Chinese nation and knowledge of exact detall. The Here is Lord Birkenhead's cora- over estimated. It is surely the that they disclaimed any inten-book is Birkenhead from cover to ment.
cover, or, to put it in other words, "As regards disarmament, if the country of the East first in im-tion of forcing foreign control on he himself is the dominant person-writer (Clemenceau) overstates his portance, whether from the point China. This recognition of Chin-ality from first to last in his por case, there is a solid gravamen of
trait gallery. of view of the area of territory ese claims has unquestionably re- which, China covers in Asia, the sulted in a marked enhancement size of her teeming population, or of the good name of the British of her ancient civilisation. She in China. has played an important role in the development of the wealth and power of the British Empire,
One case of typhoid fever, ons and collaboration with her to-day of diphtherian and one of cerebro- is as important to our people as spinal meningitis were notified at any time in the past hundred yesterday. years.
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truth in his utterances. No one Pursuit of Victory.
who has been allowed behind the In the last six chapters he is scenes in Germany could deny the concerned with vital events and importance of the various semi- pivotal persons in the Great War, military organisations such and here his first-hand knowledge Stahlheim, Consul, and others, or of what happened at the front and will shut his eyes to the various at the back enable him to tell us attempts to evade the disarmament
clauses in the Treaty. much that is new as well as true.
For example, where he tells us Moreover, the very important (p. 217) that the then Sir Douglas experimental work being under- Haig, "that quiet fighter and think- taken in Germany in connection er," was confident that the end with small arms has passed un- would be reached In 1918 and re-noticed in our own Press, parhaps"
are busy in fused to let the British Expedi-because we ourselves
mechaniantion tionary Force alt tight and be des-experiments with troyed by ceaseless erosion, till pre-and tanks. The effort which at sea blematical Americans arrive, he produced Ersatz Preussen is being tells us outright who was the mill-actively pursued on land, and may well have in store some unpleasant
He was, almost vehemently, sup- aurprises in another European ported in council and in action by War"
A Chinese was fined $10 in the If we are to have a proper ap- Kowloon Magistracy this morning preciation of the attitude of for stealing a basket of grass from China, we must go back to the a garden off Prince Edward Road. period of the wars of the middle
A 13-year old student of Yaumati of the last century, These wars Government School named Lau Kal-tary leader. were the product of the clash of tsing was knocked down and killed the two widely different civilisa- by a motor bus while playing out
the Sovereign. There are many. Historians admit that the light" tions. They resulted in the build. eide the school yesterday.
who, even to-day, are obsessed by of the Great War has illumine ing up of that treaty system
The marriage arranged between the thought that victory was un- many historic struggles of the hastened. To his nearer and further past. It is 80 under which for fifty years Leo Well, of "Alberose," Pokfulam, necessarily friendly contact was maintained and Veronica Marjory Jefford, of Majesty of England and Ear! Haig with all the earlier chapters of this 17 Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, is due the energetic pursuit of vic-remarkable book, which does not between East and West to the will take place in the Jewish tory in 1918, and the termination confine Itself to decisive wars, but Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 4, 1930. great advantage of both.
of hostilities just as soon as the deals (always with freshness and By Synagogue on January 4.
aims of the Allies had been real-originality) with "The Conversion the end of the nineteenth century,
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December 10 and 11 at men" into the field would win, and This book is the last work of a The relations of Great Britain foreign privilege which it became held on
personages at the robust many-sided mind, with the more and more difficult to justify Lane, Crawford's restaurant front there were
back who thought
that with the peoples of the Eastern in Chinese eyes. When to for- room from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
his courage of its convictions, and s last million; should come from worthy memorial of forcible per- Hemisphere, which is a question eign privilege was added foreign
America. They did not fore-sonality-Morning Post. rather more political in character aggression, friendship gave place "The Golden Verses of the Pytha-32, as Earl Halg foresaw, the
DO-X RUMOURS. than economic, although it has to resentment, and resentment goglans" at the usual fortnightly dangers that lurked in delay, to say very important economic im eventually blazed up in a wild at- public lecture of the Theosophical nothing of the thousands
Society Hong Kong Branch), 7, which would be lost by attrition. plications, constitute one of the
The notion that the German tempt on the part of Old China to Queen's Road Central, to-day at 6 most vital problems with which drive the foreigner into the sea. p.m.
offensive of March, 1918, was "a last desperate throw of an almost we are confronted to-day. Ac.
The Boxer rebellion was crushed
The forthcoming wedding is an ruined gambler" misled them into cording to Mr. Arthur Hender by the armed forces of Europe, nounced of James Edwin Auvachd thinking the Allies could safely son, in a recent speech, we de America, and Japan, and the cur- residing at the Kowloon Hotel, to mark time until all the Americans
A question referring to alleged sire peaceful relations with all rent of Nationalism
was then Rose Rawlinson, No. 28, Harrowby had arrived and learnt how to fight. countries in the East, and we seek diverted from reaction into the Road, Seaforth, Liverpool, who is in point of fact, as Lord Birken-reports in the German Press in German High connection with the visit of the travelling to Hong Kong on board head insista, the to respect their commercial, poli-path of progress. China proceed the s.s. Kashima Maru.
Command had every reason to be German flying boat DO-X,
House of Com- tical, and social developments.ed to transform herself. She ac
lieve that auch an offensive could answered in the
mone by the Under-Secretary for We hope by increased trade to cepted the foreigner and all his General of Police and the Acting
The reports of the Inspector not fail.
The Fifth Army.
Air, Mr. F. Montague. He stated improve and strengthen our interways, and sat at his feet her- Auditor for the year 1929 has just
Justice is done to the part Kit-that no bill of expenses was pre- course and to build up a com-self. to learn the secret of his] come to hand-27 days before the chener played in preparing the road eented to the Commanding Officer mon prosperity. We hope also'
strength.
We hope to find to victory. Lord Birkenhead re. of the DO-X and the Air Minia that we may each draw from the
The period succeeding 1900 1930 reporta come to hand.
to peruse them bafore the calls the occasion when, as Director try had received an expression of of the Press Bureau, he submitted the German Government's appre- civilisation of the others those witnessed an immense revolution
to the Secretary for War the com-ulation for the courtesy shown. things which are of real and last of thought among the Chinese Suffering from opium poisoning, munique as to the issue of the Battle British Wireless Service. ing value. We desire, in other people. A new system of educa- alleged to be self-administered, of the Marne. The opithot used to
TRAIN TRAGEDY. words, that East and Weat should tion on Western lines was insti- Chau Kee-po (81), of 31 Yee Woo describe the Allies' success was
Street, was yesterday removed to work together in peace to build tuted, and Chinese students the Government Civil Hospital.
COLLISION AT. LEVEL CROSSING up à common heritage of mater- thronged the universities of the His condition is.stated to be not
IN LENINGRAD. lal and moral well-being which Western world and America. Borious. shall be handed down to future The new era was marked in 1911
MANY KILLED. · The manager of the Texas Com to her head and hands, which are generations of mankind. We can by the overthrow of the old mon
pany at Gindrinker's Bay, accord-stated, to have been caused by up*
Moscow, Yesterday. have no other aim or ambition, archy and its replacement by
| Ingto the Polles, has notified the setting a pot of hot tea at 12
Twenty-eight persons and to that laudable end all our modern and up-to-date republic, Water Police Station that a fire Lyndhurst Terrace. Her cond-killed and 19 injured as the re- Lefforts and policies should ever be at any rate, in theory. There is broke out in a matshed at Kwal tion is not serious.
sult of a collision of a tramear a child
with a train at a level crossing in directed. If we are to succeed, ample evidence to prove that this Cheung village, and that
Last night saw the close of Lemingrad-Reuter, we must always keep in view the change was not a change in seriously Injured,
successful season of Miss Dot conditions which are essential to name merely, but a change in
The management of the Wing Faya's presentation of Madamc
The Province of Saskatchewani the achievement of our purpose, fact. For substantial progress Sing Knitting Factory, Sal Young Dauphin Desmonde, the ilusfonist has recently adopted a winter egg- and which we must satisfy if we has been achieved in many diree Choi Street, have notified the Police clairvoyant and magician, and. The laying test dimilar to that started that during the past week they have Florodora Byncopaters. The pro-In: Alberta. "Each year shows a are to restore that high standard. tions, as can be shown by a study either had stolen from them, or gramme, which was long and in growing demand for the hatching of confidence among the peoples of the reforms which have allost, spare parts to their knitting teresting, was featured by the op eggs, baby chicks and cockerels from machines to the value of 8250, Pedrance of haren beauties, and approved and certified birds that of the East which has stood to ready been effected.
100% clever exhibition of the tarpsicho have shown their ability to produce our credit for at "least a couple of It was in the midst of this na-
Alleged to have been attacked by rean art. Madame Dauphin satisfactorily during the winter. centurias.
tional upheaval of Chinese
a body of men at the Kowloda Desmondo displayed great akil it Hatcheries requiring large guan- The first essential is a keen ap thought and outlook that the Godowns sterday, a Chinese her many Iteins, which included tides of high-quality hatching eggs preciation of the fact that the Great War supervened. The Allied named Kwok Tin, a tallyman, re escaping from chain and hand are also interested in the growth of Fast has changed. Take the case Powers appealed to China to side siding in Reclamation Street, was cuffs, finding hidden articles, and the approved flockwork. In order
taken to the Kowloon Hospital spoolt seances, The Syncopaters that they may be assured of an... with them in the struggle. She suffering from Injuries to his left, enlivened the entertainment with ample supply of eggs from Govern
ponded to the call and received arm.
their jai numbers.
ment inspected flocks.
3
A Chinese girl, 12 years of age. was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from scalds
were