THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1933.
THE CHINA MAILA
BRITISH SURVEY OF LEAGUE'S
WORLD AFFAIRS
EFFORTS AT GENEVA AND LAUSANNE
SIR JOHN SIMON ON DISARMAMENT, REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS
London, To-day.
International affairs were surveyed by the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon in a speech at Southampton last night. Referring to Disar- mament, he regretted that the Geneva Conference had been unable to make more rapid progress in its most difficult but most essential and urgent task. Britain, who had already made great reductions before the Conference began, was doing everything in her power to promote an effective international agreement.
After mentioning the British programme of Work now before the Conference, he said, "Complications as to details of any gen eral Disarmament Convention are bound to be fundamental dif- Biculties, and are not technical but pelitical. As long as neigh bouring States live in fear of one another they hesitate to disarm, and excessive armaments are too often a measure of that fear,
CONCERN IN
FAR EAST
Sir John Simon Reviews
Situation.
To-Day's Short Story.
THE
UNFINISHED FORMULA
By Jan Gordon,
"Hanning" they ejaculated in chorus.
BRITAIN'S "CONSISTENT POLICY TN the rose-lit- room three men
sat round the dinner-table. London, To-day.
"Well," said the host, setting
"Good God, man!" cried the host. "The situation in the Far East down his glass of liqueur brandy "Which of you fellows is Henry. gave the greatest concern to every cussing the thing any more. Not "Here, let's have more light."
with decision, "it's no good dis- Gibbon?" asked the scarecrow. supporter of the League of Nations, the slightest trace. Either he's He snapped on. the switch and not only because of the seriousness done us or he's done in. It isn't the ceiling lamps blazed up. At and extent of the conflict between the loss of the money. I mind as the picture of wretchedness they the two members of the League but much as the exasperating revealed the three men exclaimed because the future of the League thought that we C11 never
again and simultaneously sprang: forward. They helped him to a may be vitally affected by the out-
chair with cager solicitude. The come," declared Sir John Simon in
scarecrow seized Gibbon's glaze an address at Southampton yester
of brandy and tossed it down his day.
gullet.
know.
"And to think that you've been in business for twenty years, Charles," said the man on the left with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "Oh, we've been over this every
"Who the devil
"Gad! I wanted that," he said. His appearance was terrifying. muddy. He had no collar, and over were soaked and the dirty shirt his face showed hairy, haggard and lined as thougli he had aged a dozen years in the six weeks of his mysterious dia- deep in purplish-green hollows of appearance. His dyes were set
Here again, British policy has been! perfectly consistent throughout," said the host impatiently. "Neither His clothes
time we've met for the last month," he stated, "We seek to act as good optimism nor pessimism will tell members of the League and as firm us what may have happened to friends of both sides. We have co- Hanning..." operated to the utmost of our pow- Somewhere in the depths of the "The achievement at Lausanne) "The Lausanne agreement still er to bring about a reconciliation, house an electric bell whirred...." aims not only at giving a lead for awaits final ratification and we for that is the first duty of the said Charles. "Expecting anybody, can that be?" the international adoption of simply cannot afford to do any-League in such a case, and the pro- Gibbon?" practical methods of disarma-thing which would render rati-motion of peace is not only among mènt, but seeks by every means fication impossible.
the greatest of British interests but in its power, to establish a sense. "If the reparations. question is the very reason why the League
confidence and of mutual were to be re-opened, confidence understanding between nations throughout the world would be was formed. upon which the effective mea-further undermined and the fall Bure of agreed international disain prices and economic distress armament must rest. This is the of the world accentuated." real relation between
our work!
of
at Lausanne and our work at Geneva.
"Ever since the signing of the Peace Treaties, the ques- tion of reparations have been a menace to European stability and even to Euro- pean peace.
War Debts.
an
Sir John Simon made only passing allusion to the Anglo-i American debt, remarking that Sir Ronald Lindsay
was in full possession of the views of the British Government and would soon have an opportunity of again. The achievement at Lausanne seeing President-elect Roosevelt., consists of this. That an agree- Britain deeply appreciated Mr. ment was reached between Ger- Roosevelt's invitation for many and her European creditors early exchange of views with which showed how they must ar-him, not only on this subject but rive at a final settlement of all on a wider range of economic pro- claims and disputes about re-blems, which in due course would parations, and which at once come before the World Economic brought about a marked improve- Conference, and in the solution! ment in the prospects of a more of which, all people on both sides, peaceful co-operation. It is most of the ocean were so vitally in- important that we should not now terested. British Wireless Ser- disturb that prospect.
vice.
·
SMALL-POX
EPIDEMIC
IS SERIOUS
Health Officer Stresses Number Of Cases.
COLONY'S COLD WEATHER
.serious.
DISEASE
"At this time of night?" said Gibbon. "Hardly." the brighter hall without the dark The door few open, and against
silhouette of the butler appeared. "The League is not a super- He was lacking some of his usual State exercising over-riding phy-statelineas. sical compulsion over its mem-
"It's Mr. 'Anning, air," he gasped bere. It is an international or "But 'c's in a norful..." ganisation which seeks to sub- stitute co-operation for force and conciliation for conflict.
"And if conciliation for the moment fails, the League has the duty of making a re-
pain and fatigue.
"But what has happened, man!" cried Charles.
"Sandbagged and held a prisoner. "Kidnapped," saíd Hanning.
They tried to get the formula out of me."
"And what about it?" ejaculated the third man. Hanning began to laugh. He show-) A tail scarecrow of a man thrusted signs of becoming hysterical, but the butler on one side. At the pulled himself together. sight of him the three men jumped. to their feet.
port and recommendations NEW CANTON BRIDGE
with firmness and fairness in order that the influence of world opinion may make its full contribution towards a solution and settlement." he anid. Reuter and British Wireless Service
Canton Troops Ready To Fight.
OPENED
First Construction Over Pearl River.
600 FEET IN LENGTH
"Get it?" he cried. "Good Lord,
I haven't got it myself."
"But you assured us...." began]· Gibbon.
-
"Well, if ever I had it it has been! aandbagged out of me," said Han- ning obstinately. "They knocked my memory west. To be frank, I don't know any one of you chaps from Adam. I'm simply taking you on trust." He clapped his hands dramatically to his head. "I can't remember a thing for a "dozen years back...."
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "High Tide," by Eden Phill- potts.
Suddenly he sagged and, before Constructed by the American they could catch him, rolled to the firm of Messrs. MacDonald and floor. A doctor was hastily sum-| Conton, February 15. Gorman at a cost of 1,032,000 tacia moned. The Southwest National Defence to the Government, and entailing Committee is created by and re-38 months in, the construction, the sponsible to the Southwest Political new Canton Bridge was declared Council and not to the proposed open yesterday, in the presence of National Defence Committee to be a large gathering.
The Canton, Bridge is the first Chow Lu, member of Kuomintang constructed over the Pearl River |C.E.C., in the vernacular papers this but it is only one of several plan-
morning.
ned. The total length is 600 fect,. Chairman Wang Chia-lich of Kwet- 60 feet with a space of 10 feet on Apart from the adherence of while the width of the bridge is,
chow to the defence committee, Mr. each side for pedestrians. This Chow stated that General Mino]leaves 40 feet in the middle for One night, going home from | Kwang-halang, the defeated opponent vehicular traille.
2 party, he was sandbagged, wretched barred windows
EXPORT OF ARMS TO formed by Nanking, explained Mr.
BOLIVIA
Prohibition Sought By Governments.
BRITAIN ACTS
The next day he had recovered enough to tell the story.
of Chairman Wang, had dispatched About 300 labourers have been and woke up -in a telegram to the Southwest stating employed in the construction of room
with
London, To-day. Answering a Parliamentary ques-that his troops are ready to join in the bridge under the supervision looking out over the roofs of tion yesterday, Sir John Simon
suppressing Reds and resisting of Mr. R. L. Larson (chief en- some deserted warehouses.
Wall Street “Bearish"
+
Dr. G. W. Pope, Medical Officer of said that on the Initiative of the Japanese aggression. Health, in reply to the China Mail British Government, exchange of to-day, said that the epidemic was views had taken place between the "Small-pox is a cold Governments of the United King- weather disease of Hong Kong" lie dom and the United States, France .Bald.
and Italy with a view to an agree The Colony had been free from meat between them to prohibit the .small-pex epidemies for many years, export of arms and munitions of but there had never been so many war to Bolivia and Paraguay, in cases as during the past six weeks. anticipation, of any prohibition of
Dr. Pope pointed out that a
more general character that although it was cold weather dis-might be arranged through the ense of the Colony it did not assume, League of Nations.
loon, of which the Mongkok and
Wanchal districts appear to be the worat qufferers.
•
Market Issues Still Declining.
New York, To-day, The New York Market is in- conclusive, reports Messrs E.A. Pierce & Company. Trading sentiment is more bearish than bullish
gineer), Mr. II. F. Wooster (civil memory was almost a blank for sev- engineer) and Mr. Yuan-chang
| Moy, (clectrical engincer).
Electric Power.
eral years back. His captors were, roughly, fellows speaking a foreign kind of English. Somehow they The power for the operation of had discovered that he was work- the bridge's movable spans is ing on a new explosive and had de-- taken from the lines of the termined to get it out of him at all Kwangtung Electric Co. at 1800 costs. Unluckily for their plan volts and stepped down by means they had sandbagged him. so eff- of transformers to 220 volts for the clently that he had no more idea of joperation of machinery and 110 the formula than they had them-- volts for lighting purposes. Opera- selves. In fact, at the moment he tion of the movable spans is ob-had less, because among his papers tained by means of two 40 horse they had found part of the formula power induction motors geared to pencliled on the back of an ea- each movable span.
velop.
serious epidemic proportions, and Efforts to bring about early ac this year was as exception, there tion by international agreement being 76 cases to date,
were being continued, but had not Since January, 124 persons out of yet succeeded.
Navigation Passage.
From the fact that they had sci- total of 197 inflicted, have
Replying b
The navigation passage between ence enough to recognise that the a supplementary succumbed to the disease. February question, he expressed the belief vised. The regular dividend has feet wide with a stream depth of judged that their roughness was 24-1
A "do nothing" attitude is ad-piers will be approximately 116 formula was incomplete, Hannfar was the worst period, 71 cases be that if an arrangement could be been declared by the American Te-about 35 feet at mean high water sumed, and that they possessed at ing reported.
established in regard to Bolivia lephone. cases to date have and Paraguay, it would be extend-
level. If in the future the Pearl least some chemical knowledge. Most of the
Industrials, rails, utilities and River is dredged out to the sea-so been found in the streets of Kow-jed.-British Wireless Servico.
At first the men daclined to be. bonda continued on the downward that large ocean liners cap, come lleve that Hanning's memory, had trend, declining .04, .07, „89, and .05, up the river to Canton, they can really gone. They tried drastic, respectively.
easily pass by the Pearl Steel even painful methods to awaken it. Business done was below average, Bridge.
“Oh! If 1-can only get my hands only 750,000 shares changing hands. The clearancs between meat on those brutes," cried, Hanning,
high water level and the bridge and the very tones of him palce.¿ when closed is 23 feet which is were enough to chill his hearers.- high enough to permit ordinary But no torture could revive then river craft to sail along the river missing memory, Then they tried without going to the trouble of to make him work on the incomplete), raising the movable spans;- jeder formula, but he put off In connection with the opening matters, pretending that || Epi of the bridge, a competition was had been too weakened recently held for the honour of their painful, attentions," --Be officiating. The contestants were had no defence but to exaggerate their ages ranging from 70 to 100. Thele vigilance began to know
ged residents and 24 entered his weakens mod walle
Industrial Exhibition more casual On the predo full day's progTATION WAS BE: evening hinihimice had come Be zed:sen exhibition of Cantoi
It is urged by the Medical air- thorities in the Colony, that every- body be vaccinated, the treatment being free at every hospital in the
• Colony.
FUNG PING SHAN LIBRARY.
The worst small-pox epidemic in Donation Of Modern
the Colony's history occurred in
1023 when 2,282 cases
were
ported; Another bad year
re-
WILL
Chinese Books.
1929 when 1,708 cases were Mrs. Fung Ping-shan
.
notified. The best year was 1910;
·with only 30 cases.
JUMPS FROM WINDOW.
Two Chinese Try To Escape Police./
generously presented 7,000 volumes
of modern Chinese books to the
-Reuter.
CAMERA MEN ARRIVE.
Travelogue Films Of Hong Kong.
Fung Ping-shan Chinese Library On a tour of the Orient, making of the University of Hong Kong, sound travelogues for the West It will be remembered that this; Coast Motion Picture Service, Mr. Library, which was presented to Lewis Cook and Mr. RC DE the University by the late Mr. toano arrived in Hong Kong yester. Fang Ping-shan, was opened by day on the States Steamship vessel, HE. Sir William Peel in December General Sharman,
Inst
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They Intoad shaying An Hon Kedy for about a month on th return from Manila na
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