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Germany And Disarmament.
LC
any rate they remembered the lesson of 1806, and gauged Ger- man temperament. After the catastrophe at Jena the Prussian army was limited, by Napoleon's dictation, to 42,000 men. Scharnhorst, by introducing a system of curtailed but highly intensive training, conformed to
OLDE ENGLISH FAIRE.
Coming Attraction At St. Andrew's Church.
NOVEMBER 6 TREAT,
Members of the congregation of |St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, and
friends will be interested to learn' of the progress made by the Com- mittee responsible for the pro- gramme for the Olde English Faire, to he held in the church grounds on November 5.
"the
Mrs. J. R. Wood will open Faire at 3 p.m., and the Chair will
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1932.
The Maker Of Modern Egypt
An Intimate Study Of Lord Cromer
PRO-CONSUL'S ACHIEVEMENT
"Imperialism is said to be out of advance to Dongola, Lord Cromer fashion at the moment. So much would have preferred the recon- be taken by Mr. F. S. Cassidy, Vice- the worse, in that case, for the Em-quest of the Sudan to be postponed "Chairman" of the V.DM.A.
pire if it neglects to hold in hon-till Egypt was in a mere secure fin-
The attractive features of laat ourable and living remembrance Fancial position. But his hands year's Faire will be repeated in the Imperialists of the stamp of the late were forced by the Italian disaster dresses, dances and entertainments Lord Cromer," writes J. B. Firth in Abyssinia and by the dangerous generally. The model cottage will in the Daily Telegraph,
activities of the French on the Up
again be the rendezvous for home- In modern times there is no more per Nile, which culminated in the made ginger beer and brandy aspiring example than Egypt of a dramatic scene with Marchand at snaps, and there will be home country being rescued from com- Fashoda.. grown lavender fresh from English plete bankruptcy and degradation, KITCHENER'S SEVERITY.
lowing, in part, to the scandalous Lord Cromer's relations with Kit
gardens.
The range of stails provided will maladministration of its Viceroya chener are skilfully analysed. He " be somewhat wider than last year under the nominal sovereignty admired his single-minded devotion and will include a Children's Toy of the Turk-and to the brutal misto hard work, and he was delighted Stall an Ice Cream Stail and government of a people who, bullied to find at least one soldier who was and enslaved for centuries, had convinced that, military efficiency "Dollery."
Mr. A. C. Jeffreys will be in sunk into abject hopelessness, and military economy were not na“. charge of the various sideshows, INTIMATE LIKENESS.
cessarily opposing forces: and there will also be dramatic) This was Lord Cromer's supreme But he disliked his severity and entertainment and dancing and a achievement, after a quarter of his way of riding roughshod over fancy dress carnival in the even-century's unremitting toil. He English and Egyptian officers alike. ing, at which there will be many told the story-as a chapter of his "He is, I fear"-Lord Cromer wrote specimens of old English costumes. tory-in his own classic books on in 1899-"terribly bureaucratic and Miss Margaret Woolley, with a Egypt; Lord Zetland makes no at does not see with sufficiant clear- bevy of helpers, has undertaken the tempt to tell it over again. He has ness the difference between form- charge of providing tea and sup- "painted in that part of the canvas ing a country and commanding a per, which will be served on the which Cromer himself intentionally regiment." Vicarage lawn."
left bare." Hence, he has pro- Kitchener could not brook oppdal- The folk dancing is in the hands duced that miracle of miracles-ation-though he had, perforce, to of Miss W. Henderson and Mr.one volume biography of a really yield to Cromer and when the great man. It is a skilful plece of fierce controversy, broke out later Rupert Baldwin..
work, better even than his "Life" between Kitchener and Curzon In of. Lord Curzon, perhaps because India, and the British Government he was dealing with grunder, asked Lord Cromer to state his though less showy, figure.
views on the merits of the subject Lord Zetland gives a speaking in dispute, Cromer wrote a long me- and intimate likeness of Lord morandum endorsing the view tak Cromer, the intellectual thinker en by Curzon. The Commander-
BANDITS MOVE TO NEW QUARTERS.
Cruel Treatment Of British Captive.
Newchwang, Yesterday:
and strong man of action, deriving in-Chief," he said, "should be the bunke
his strength, as Lord Zetland says, servant of the Viceroy and his from three main sources “his own Council: under Lord Kitchener's
their advice as regards the conduct of war," he once said to Lord Rose- bery, "none whatever for their opinions as to the policy which dis- taten: war." "The exercise of the military profession," he wrote in 1896, "appears to engender a some- what unchristian spirit of dialike
It is unfortunate that just the letter of the decree but when international committees contrived by this. means to raise
The bandits holding Mrs. Paw complete disinterestedness, his system he will inevitably tend to an effective establishment of are examining various proposals over thrice the prescribed num-ransom have shifted their camp, to render any necessity for the re
ley and Mr. Charles Corkran for power of mind which was such as become their master."
The British Government, BB-UN- for the reduction of armaments, bers. This, resolved Versailles, but the change is thought to be consideration of conclusions atual temporised and compromised. Germany should renew her claims must not happen again. The more favourable for negotiations. which he had arrived extremely un-Lord Cromer distrusted the judg for equality, and, that enthusi-treaty provides that the total The new site is reported to be likely, and, finally," his highly de- ment of soldiers on matters of po- astic demonstrations at parades persoimel of the German army near Wangchiapu in the Taian veloped moral sense."
shall not exceed 100,000 men, en- District, affording easier com- It is specially stressed that Lord "I have the greatest respect for of quasi-regular troops should in- listment to be voluntary and for munication as the cut Kacliang in Cromer was absolutely straight in dicate that the Government's at a period of 25 years with officers, the surrounding country reduces his diplomacy. He hated crooked titude is endorsed by the popu-and 12 with men. Military air-the ambulatory area.
ways. "Bigots and rhapsodists ex lar will. However, in fairness craft are forbidden and the Unfortunately, heavy rain is re-asperated him." He distrusted maximum calibre permitted for ported in the whole district to the phrase-makers, sentimentalists and to Germany, it should be con- ceded that ample notice of her artillery is 7.7 cm. for field guns west of the Liao River and this is all extremists. He had to work en-
and 10.5 cm. for howitzers. In likely further to delay the couriers.tirely an his own. intentions has been given. When,
these branches also, the aggre-
GORDON AT KHARTOUM. An apparently reliable informant, in July, the Geneva Conference gates have been fixed. All who observed the bandits shifting Cromer won implicit trust. Wit towards one's military neighbours: adjourned. Herr Nadolny, the fortresses, with the exception of their camp, states that both the cap-ness the story of the cipher tele-to others, who are not soldiers, German delegate, said frankly Konigsberg were required to be tives appeared to be in good health gram which he sent to Lord Salis- this is at times rather tiresome that his Government could not demolished, and the navy was on October 10, four days ago when bury, then in the South of France, Nicknames are often illumina promise to participate in the re brought to the "level" of an the shift was made.
at a moment of great crisis.tive Lord Zetland tells us what sumed session unless, in the in-
When they were marched "to- Lord Salisbury had with him the were Lord Cromer's: terval, Germany's demand for obsolete, coast defence. fleet. A
"In India (where he had been se- "proportional parity" was favour-vigorous nation, with a popula- their new prison camp, Mrs. Pawley box contaicing the Foreign Office ably considered and settled by tion of 63,000,000, and martial was lightly bound, but Corkran was code, but he had mislaid the keycretary to Lord Northbrook) he had negotiation. "Tear up
the associations, will find methods by tied up very tightly, being unable to and so could not read the cipher, bean known as the Vice-Viceroy; in But that did not trouble him. Gues Egypt he was christened Over-Bar- Treaty of Versailles," he declar- which to evade prohibitions. move his arms an inch. led in a dramatic peroration, ""or
Mr. Corkran is being subjected sing that the matter was urgent, he ing, and later, after his elevation Inventions in mechanical pro- we will not return”. This an- cesses have enabled Germany to to a certain amount of bullying-telegraphed back en clair: "Do as to the peerage, The Lord. The tied. His you, like And Cromer did as hense of the latter soubriquet was nouncement fluttered the 'diplo construct "pocket battleships" when his arms
liked. beard has grown sufficiently to
not confined to the English popula- within matis dove-cots, and both Sir which, although
thej
Only the highest sense of duty tlon; to the Egyptians, down to the John Simon and Mr. Arthur stipulated tonnage, are reputed enable the bandits to annoy him Henderson, representing the most to be a match for far heavier intentionally by pulling his whis kept him at his post during the ear- very donkey-boys in the streets of ly period of the British occupation, Cairo, he was equally 'El Lord." In disinterested of the nations, at- craft. Semi-military organisa-kers when passing-Reuter.
and especially during the Gordon his later years in Egypt he formed tempted to pour oil on the tions have sprung into existence,
episode. Cromer hated vacillation, the habit of taking long walks with troubled waters. But while we and while some of these bave MRS. MARIA OSMUND and Gladstone and Granville vacil- bis British secretary, and trusted may deprecate the stand taken been disbanded at the instance of DIES SUDDENLY. Leted and quivered like aspens. It friend, Mr. Henry Boyle, in the by Germany, it would be foolish the Allies others continue to
is now generally agreed that Gor course of which a modern Har to shirk facts. In order to ap- flourish. The "Steel Helmets,"
don was the worst choice that could oun al Raschid--he mixed with and have been made for the purpose of talked dally to the humbler dwel preciate the significance of. Ger- for example, whose parade many's "intransigence," as it has evoked such plaudits, have a roll
evacuating the garrisons of the lers in the Nile Valley Hence the been styled, we should endeavour almost twice the length of that
Sudan, because there was no keep nickname Enoch, by which Henry to put ourselves into Germany's of the official German army,
After a seizure on Thursday ng him to his orders which were Boyle came to be known for le place. Germany has a military Germany's eagerness to be aber night, Mrs. Maria Hoborina From the start Gordon's bota ed daily with the Lord.
to withdraw an quickly as possible his prototype before him tradition which can scarcely irksome bans may be culpable, Osmund passed away at her revieur drove Cromer to despair, but have been eradicated by a few but is quite comprehensible. She sidence, 1, Liberty Avenue, Ho when he allowed himself to be coop Several examples are given of years of compulsory repression: argues that her admission to the Mun Tin, at the age of 49 years.
Bre
Succumbs To Sudden Heart Seizure.
DESPOTIC RULE
official rebukes." Outwardly he wLE
The German Empire came into League, and her subscription to Deceased, who was the wife of Mr. ed up in Khartoum Cromer was this dry but not unkindly: humour being as a result of three short, the Locarno pact, and other A. F. Osmund, had been in ingent that it was our bounder duty and of the neat eficiency of his sharp, and decisive campaigns, agreements of a like nature, are different health for a long time. both as a matter of humanity and For almost half a century Ger- a token that the Powers regard Mrs. Osmund attended a party policy not to abandon him. The always imperturbable During the
Gladstonian Government delayed many was the strongest military her as one of their concert. The given by one of her elder daughters till in the end their frantic effert worst of the crisis with Abbar Power in the world. Russia had question of war guilt has been on Thursday evening. She return was just too late.
in 1893 he played lawn tennis every larger human reservoirs, upon tacitly shelved, and reparations od home early in the night, and which to draw but, as was have been cancelled. Signatories suddenly became seriously Ill. proved by the Russo-Japanese to the Covenant are pledged, by she passed away soon after, due to Years later, in 1918, Lord Cromer War and the Great
Her Articl 8, to a reduction of blood pressure and beart failure.......... spoke his mind about Mr, Gladstone I did it partly on purpose to an- army was wanting in
ents. Since their orts Deceased had survived a former in a letter to Lord Newton noy them.
ection have
to husband, Mr. Xavier, and there are "He was
thought to be what - half hearted,
dealing with Germany,
and technique. In little more
than a decade, Germany
built up a feat which, in the opinion of many
second only to
Germans refuse
the Great War
defeated
by the
MEBITS D
már ver
"OPINION OF GLADSTONE
day. "It gave confidence to the En glish," he said, "and annoyed the Freach and others extre
Lord Cromer's great ypt has been lar through wilful refus to his warrings He held