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The fact that there are only 31 names in the passing-in list of the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth of indicates the present trend naval policy.
Even in 1924 the average num ber of new officers a year was 150.
At this stage the balance of per-
PRIVATE ARMAMENT
MANUFACTURE
ABOLISHMENT A KEY TO WORLD PEACE
DANGER FROM CAPITALISM
(By Kingsley Martin.)
London: granted that anyone who has any
aonnel and material might well be TN 1921 a League of Nations com-thing to sell has a right to sell it иде what redressed.
mittee mentioned among the where he likes and to As Admiral Mark Kerr has often various evils that sprang from the methods he likes for promoting his When the home market no pointed out, it takes nine years to private manufacture of arms that sales. produce a highly trained naval armament firms had often been longer offers good returns the capi officer and only two years to build active in fomenting war scares, in talist goes to the backward areas of some countries even controlling the world, where he competes with the largest battle cruiser.
It is often forgotten that in time newspapers in the interests of the capitalists of other countries. clash, of war not only well trained crews larger armaments; that they had When, these
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"KOENIGIN VIKTORIA”
interests
are required but large reserves of bribed Government officials both at or when backward peoples who are home and abroad; and helped to being exploited become restive, It is both officers and men.
promote an armament race by play-assumed that the Government of the ing one country off against another. day must put behind its capitalists In brief, since the business of the whole armed forces of the State.
Boer War Cause The Boer War was a simple case
from the.
Not many people know that armament manufacturers is to sell there is a monument in existence arms, they are naturally willing to commemorating the visit of a Bri-arm any countries that can afford of a war which arose tish Sovereign to Germany.
to buy. For them, the more arms desire of British capitalists to ex- Armament firms, ploit the South African mines just An article in a German magazine the merrier.
other, as they liked. Among the reasons calls attention to the monument while competing with each of Queen Victoria at Hochheim, in have a joint interest in keeping for the last war the most important a. state of tension was the long imperialistic rivalry which is likely, sooner or later, to between England and Germany.
This brings us to one of the oddest
the vineyard district of the Main everybody in Valley.
It is a prominent landmark in lend to war itself.
In spite of well-meaning efforts to contradictions of capitalism. the railway journey from Frank-
abolish the private manufacture of After the war, when Germany furt to Weisbaden.
The monument was erected in arms, nothing at all has been done. was crushed, there were people and 1854 by a firm of German wine Throughout the Manchurian dispute newspapers in England who wished merchants four years after the both China and Japan were furnish: to pursue the French policy of ed with arms from the very.coun-preventing Germany ever again be- Queen's visit to their vineyard.
But business in-
It still bears the Royal name.
Your Daily Smile!
There is talk of floating a loan
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Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 21, 1934. eignty of a mandated territory resides has been raised, and dis- cussed at length, but not settled. Is it in the local administration, the Government that holds the for Vladivostok. Invest in that if mandate, or the League itself? you want your money to go a long At the end of the Versailles The decision which at present way. Conference there remained to be holds the field, that it is divided. dealt with a large number of and that the doctrine of sover- miscellaneous questions which eignty is out of date, is obvious- had not seemed urgent enoughly no solution at all when a dif-
ference of opinion exists; and glass of beer." to delay the main negotiations,
the point has been wisely left protracted as they had been; and the general procedure adopted dormant for the present. was that the reports of various The resignation of Japan from
OVERHEARD "Are you a spiritualist?" "No thanks. I will just have a
Gran Chaco Example
She tasted the grapes and gave tries which were supposed, as mem-coming strong. permission for the vineyard to be ber-States of the League of Nations, terests and humanitarian sentiment called the "Koenigin Viktoria to be doing their beat to stop the united to defeat this policy. If The China Mail the report was to be made to
fighting. of the Weinberg. permanent committee
Germany was to be eliminated from League of Nations. The legal
A case was recently exposed in the great trading nations of the Rumania in which Press reports world, her victorious rivals would conundrum of where the Bover-
that Russian forces were concen- lose one of their best customers. trated on the frontier led to Ru-Therefore we have had a comle and mania largely increasing her defence tragic confusion of policies about forces. It was then found that the Germany ever since the war.
the Though the Allles distributed her rumoured Russian troops on
territory, took away her colonies, frontier had never existed.
and got all the reparations they The most recent example of all is could out of her, international fin- the war in South America between ance could not afford to let her col- Bolivia and Paraguay, two coun-lapse altogether. Allied money was tries which make no arme for them-invested in Germany, where much of selves and which could not, as the it was used to lay down the plant report of the official inquiry stated, and buy the raw materials in pre- A Londoner who vanished five fight a war at all unless private paration for an enormous and speedy
France Helps Hitler tions. arms firms supplied them with munt-expansion of armaments.
Innocent people who hear of Even in France, which had most such facts for the first time ask why to fear from Germany, armament the private manufacture of arms is manufacturers and financiers were found ready to give money to help not prohibited.
The answer is illuminating. The Hitler. Capitalism wants to destroy official attitude of this and other its rivala, and yet cannot afford to arms-exporting countries is that it see them destroyed. To-day the serves the interest of their Govern Allies are again terrified of Ger- manu-many, and discussing what they can etter to leave arms facture in private hands, since the do to stave off the appalling menace
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sub-committees appointed to the League was bound to raise years ago has just returned home. It is understood that he had been consider them were accepted the question whether her man- without discussion, and added to date over the Pacific Islands falls waiting to cross Piccadilly-círcus. the already voluminous treaty. away automatically; especially
Air We Go! It is a surprising but well at- as she has already declared that
Evening aeroplane trips are now tested fact that when the treaty she has no intention of recognis-
from London to Brighton.! run There was printed and prepared for ing any such doctrine. signature there was no one, even does not seem to be any need to Down to the sea in flips........... of the 'big five' that had ever make a decision so long as she seen the whole of the clauses observes her present obligation Facts You Did Not Know and sub-clauses before, Many under the Washington Treaty
A quartz crystal radio tube has been of the questions so dealt with not to use any of these Islands have been the subject of a good as a fortified base; and nobody invented that makes it possible to tune national Exchequers could not afford, of a Nazi Germany which Allied po- deal of controversy since; but will expect the League to make between two high powered stations for national needs in times of peace, liey has done so much to bring into
10 kilocycles to such large and up-to-date armament existence. separated by only
It should now be clear why the on the whole the world has been any controversial decision before complete silence without retarding the plants as private firms, manufactur-
ing for export all over the world, League of Nations has not been lucky in finding that the work of circumstances make it necessary volume control.
are able to maintain. By preserv-more successful. It was a genuine' the sub-committees had been well The trade potentialities of these done, considering the absence of Islands is small, their attraction The Italian government has requir guiding instructions and the at- for European settlement stilled that alcohol shall be mixed with ing the private character of the In attempt to end the political anarchy mosphere of excitement and in-smaller; so there can be little gazoline for use in motor vehicles at dustry, the Government knows that which is the result of the economic
an immense armament consume one fourth of the domestic emergency trigue which has been called the doubt that they were originally rate of 20 per cent. by volume to it has at its disposal In case of system I have been describing. But war-neurosis. As the years go acquired for their utility as production of the former. past they will come up for a more bases in case of future war.
To the outside observer there! permanent settlement,
The African Colonies are of a
would seem, to be at least one draw- As we It seems likely that the ques-different character. The South
African Protectorate Francisco de Melo Costa, the back to this arrangement. tion of the German overseas West
before its sudden Marques de. Ficalho, has taken over do not know against whom we are possessions will be one of the was,
by Bismarck a the Consulate of Portugal in Hong likely to be fighting in the next war, first to set our diplomatists busy. annexation The old doctrine of sovereignty hunting ground of the Boers, Koog as from Friday last. August we are probably even now supplying
have always been a/17 had the virtue of definiteness in who deciding once for all where the majority of the population. Or-
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plant, furnished with the most mo- dern technical equipment.
with British-made bombs.
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RADIATOR CAP.
THEFTS.
"Find The Shop Where They Are Sold.”
MAGISTRATE ADMONISHES
DEFENDANT
from private car No. 461, belonging
Capitalism A Manace to Mr. S. D. Begg, Assistant Mana- I am not suggesting that merely ger of Messrs. Thornycroft and
some future enemy with the weapons which will kil British soldiers, on sailors, and civilians when the war responsibility and right of final der was maintained in a free Mrs. Ella Herman leaves decision lay. But the jealousies and easy way by a visiting ma- Thursday for Europe, via South comen. To me it is an ugly thought
"I wish you could find the people of old rivals would have been too gistrate, who travelled on circuit Africa, by the La Plata Maru. Her that British guns were used to des-
who buy these radiator caps," said violently stirred up if the whole from one centre to another. At husband, Mr. H, Herman, of The troy British troops in Gallipoli; but of the former German Colonies the date of annexation the ma- Office Appliance Co., Ltd., has ar I suppose there are patriotic people Mr. E. I. Wynne Janes to Sub-Ins- and Protectorates had been sim-gistrate, Mr. Palgrave, was ranged to meet her in London early who will find it comforting when
Mr. and Mrs. Herman they are bombed from the air to pector Roziskwy,, who was prose- cuting Lai Kau, a 24-year-old coolie, ply swallowed up by the princi- actualy on his rounds. The erec next year. pal Allies, who were already un- tion of a Customs Barrier and will return to Hong Kong vis realise that they are being blown up for the larceny of a radiator cap der suspicion of having more other innovations have always America. territory than they could com- been resented as an intrusion;
The Rev, A. H. Bray, Vice-Chair- The solution and no South African Govern- fortably manage.
of the Chinese Methodist was the introduction of a con-ment is at all likely to agree to man ception belonging to Roman Law,jany retrocession. In Tanganyi- Church, Hong Kong, accompanied to abolish the private manufacture Company. which was familiar to General ka there is room for a communi- by his son embarked on the R.M.S. of arms would solve the problem of It was stated that the defendant Van-war. But it would, I think, be a was seen in front of the car, which Russia in Smuts in his ordinary practicety of moderate size capable of Empress of of his profession, and it was taking its place among the other couver on August 11, and will ar- useful thing to do. The Disarma was parked in Chatham Road near better chance if, for instance, Sunday, by a detective who search- General Smuts that was the white settlements of the Con- rive in the Colony on August 29. ment Conference would have had a Granville Road, at 11.80 a.m. brain and driving force of the tinent. The proper solution is that to give the residents all the self-
Among the passengers on board several of the best-known Frenched him and found the, cap in his particular aub-committee
newspapers had not been owned by pocket. Sentence of three months" handled this problem. In Roman governing powers they desire in the R.M.S. Empress of Russia French arms firms, and peace would hard labour was imposed, Law the Mandate was a volun- language, law and commerce, and which sailed from Vancouver on be more likely to be preserved if
"You are perfect nuisances," you tary trusteeship for the estate to let the make their own agree August 11, was Countess Leonore there were no powerful vested in people who steal radiator caps. It of a deceased friend, or a minor ments with their neighbours.
is a stupid kind of a thing to do or an incapable person, the es- The other white residents of von Lichnowsky. The C.P.R. liner terest haping, to profit by war.
la due to arrive here on August 29. But it would be idle to Imagine because you can never get much for sence of which was that the trus-East and Central Africa found it tea derived no profit or other impossible to negotiate with Ber benefit from his management. So lin.. Some of the English news-
that the abolition of this one parti them" said Mr. Wynne Jones.
An Interesting collection of Pe-cularly sinister example of capitalist
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far as details were regulated by papers have been saying that the king rugs and carpets, cloisonne, enterprise would in itself prevent MARSHAL CHANG" IN HANKOW
the treaty the example of, Bri- demand is a reasonable, one and brass, glass, and lacquer ware loan illustration of the fact that tish Colonial practice is obvious, should be granted. But it is not now being displayed at Teh Shim war. I have discussed it rather as state even to the annual report to be a question to be settled between Hsing and Co., No. 11 Wyndhaman Hlustration of the fact that Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang re- tera, yesterday from Kale Kung made by the head of the adminis London and Berlin, Pretoria, Street. An opening sale will be capitalism is an economic system in turned to Hankow, his headquar
Shan tration. Where there was a new Salisbury and Nairobi have their held from Saturday, when all goods which war is always likely.
will be reduced by 20 per cent. Under capitalism we take it for departure was in the fact that own views.