GERMAN ANXIETY OVER ROTARY CLUB
SOVIET
UNFOUNDED
(Continued from Page 2 were not able to record Germany's present willingness to resume her membership of, that organisation.
she signed the Gorenant
THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1935
FAREWELL TO
SIR WM. PEEL
A system of separate and selec-INTERCHANGE OF tive alliances was equally of
avail as a permanent solution of
It had many times been made Britain's difficulties. One solution
LETTERS
clear that public opinion in the only remained--a collective peace EFFORTS FOR ORGANISATION
country would warmly welcome they stem
it
is inspired by the principles of the Covenant should be proud assume,
ARMAMENTS QUESTION
the ultimate value of such a de-
upon whether the
than!
country
limitations such as afford
ment
quate
a rea-i
without Britain's
OF CLUB LAUDED
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To-day's Short Story.
HE
Film Star On
Holiday
By Inez Holden
SEE Pretended to be pleased that her holiday had not yet be-
This was not difficult for her sun.
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TO-MORROW'S STORY
-To-morrow's story will be "Three Short Blasts." by Francis H. Sibson.
return of Germany to League mem- The only practical form of such a
because she could no longer help Soon they would all be going on bership, which is a privilege which system in existence to-day, he said,
smiling- Since Southampton (to a party. Would this party be a On the occasion of the retire she had been followed by "fans," prolonged imitation of Hollywood's each nation, precisely because
was the League of Nations. Helment of His Excellency the Gover flowers and cheering. The Film idea of English "high life" Pro- thought that in time all nations nor the following interchange of Star's face had been frozen into bably it would. She hesitated in would come to believe in that solu-letters between the Rotary Club a screen smile.
sher own mind about it, planning to tion also.
and His Excellency has taker The dinner party had an air of make some excuse and to go home A collective. peace system meant place:
gaiety. She looked round" the room. jalone. that when the system was complete) With regard to armaments, it]
Hong Kong, May 16, 1935. The guests. had been glad to be After dinner Lord Kigel Rock- everybody would be providing Dear Mr. Pilcher, The list of invited there to meet her. was quite true that the German
The burn came up to talk to her. Government emphasised that they jointly the means to make every-achievements during His Excellen- servants, who had seen her in her *Tm afraid it will be a very Eng-
In achieving this cy the Governor's term, of office last picture, felt as if they had lish party.” he said. wanted an Arms Convention, but body secure.
Britain must play a considerable which was read out by the Hon.(become screen servants for the claration must clearly be dependent In Western Europe, for example, meeting of farewell on Tuesday mantic
Sir Henry Pollock at the public evening, and this seemed more ro- part.
to them than the usual makes it is prepared to accept collective security could be ade-was extensive, and His Excellency every evening ceremony of wait-
whole-remarked that he was not so pre-jing at table
claim the whole The host himself was proud of sonable prospect of general agree-hearted co-operation and without the sumptuous as to
provision of adequate forces by or even the greater part of the having got Margarita Mayo, inter-
[credit due.
national screen Take one example: effectives. ber.
star of uncertain had always been assumed hitherto FULFILLING OBLIGATIONS Nevertheless, the members of nationality, to come to his dinner What was really important was the Rotary Club feel that there party. She thought that she must that in any agreement as to mili-ct that Britain should shoulder was an important omission from be the only person in the room who tary forces there would be parite any new commitments but that she Sir Henry Pollock's list and that did not have the illusion of enjoy-
"I shall enjoy a very English between the effectives stationed in should emphasise her determination in this case Sir William Peel is ment. This was because she felt party she told him "You know she had entitled to a great part of the that she was being driven away I am on a holiday here. It will be Europe of the three great Western to fulfil the obligations Continental Powers. Erance, Ger- already undertaken Nothing was credit due" Had it not been for from real life.
nice to find something a little dif- more dangerous than many and Italy. Such was the pro-
obligation His Excellency's keen interest and "But you, Madame, break 50 ferent from filming." posal embodied in the British draft half-heartedly assumed In the last support, when Rotarian Jim David-many hearts.”
Margarita Mayo had been told convention The MacDonald plan resort the authority of the colleeson visited the Colony in Decem Margarita Mayo did not ask the that Rockburn was the son of an where the figure of 200,000 was tive system must now from the over-ber, 1930, for the purpose of at-young man sitting next to her to English duke. He was a "hunting proposed for France, Germany and Whelming political force it was able tempting the organisation of a repeat this remark because be man." and, further, than this, he Italy, while the much larger are to array against any would-be ar-Rotary Club, it is likely that the would have repeated it
was "a good man to hounds." : "Not effort would have been of 500,000 was given to Russia
as on!' He thought that this was the understanding the term at all she Al-supposed it meant that he was kind though she had never been to even to animals, She began to England before Margarita knew think rather sadly of all her dreary that ordinary English people did marriages, her dull divorces, that not talk to each other like that whole past life of rapid changes Her first English dinner party was which had seemed only to increase already almost over, but it seemed its monotony. None of ber bus-
in all disarmament discussions,
¡ressor.
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It was important to remember Britain's policy as a member of two previous occassions-abortive way to talk to a film star. that Germany herself in the past the League was directed against no frequently praised this draft con-findividual or nation but only against vention and regretted what she such nation or nations as might act
described as departures from its in conflict with the principies of the SUMMARY COURT
principles.
Indeed, this
conven- Covenant which she had accepted.
tion was accepted by the Disarmia- In this country nothing was so ment Conference as a whole, in-much desired as the maintenance of cluding Germany; as the basis for peace and good relations with our ang future convention.
It 74729 inevitable. Years ago, when he visited Ber-therefore, that British public opinion. tin. Rome and Paris, this prin-would in the last resort be
most
Western Continental nowhere disputed.
very high figure parity between the three western
Continental
neighbours.
BRITAIN AND THE LOCARNO PACT
LITIGATION
Defendant Successful In Counter-Claim
COUNTERFEIT COINS
bands had been in the least like Rockburn; none of them had been
kind to Margarita herself or even
to the squadron of small dogs that! scrambled about her Hollywood
home
The absence of material wit- ciple of parity between the three influenced not so much by declara-nesses makes this case difficult. Three Chinese Gaoled
Powers was tions, no matter how sincerely or said the Paisne Judge, Mr. R. E
Rockburn's teeth were not even, Germany then indeed fervently made, as by a con- Lindsell, in giving judgment in
For Six Months -
two front teeth stuck out so that asked, however, that the figureịstrictive contribution. that any favour of the defendant in an
they could be seen even when hist should not be 200,000, but 300,000-given Government was willing
$2.55 FOR $7.50 to action brought by Sun Hing forj
mouth was shut, suggesting al If the German Government now make to secure the common good-$161 against Wong Chun-cheong, of
schoolboy who had been too busy maintained their need for 550,000, British Wireless Service.
Four Chinese, Cheung Chee, Mui with his studies to go No. 540 Prince Edward Road, in Yue, Li Tsin and Chan Wo, were dentist. Margarita, who had grował to the it must be clear that at such a
the Summary Court this morning.
Wong Chun-cheong also made the Central Police Court this mora-him remarkable because. in spite charged before Mr. W. Schofield at tired of good-looking men, thought| counter claim for $117, and judging with possessing counterfeit of his teeth and his shyness, be ment was also given for him in 10 cent pieces
managed to have some sort off Mz. F. G. Nigel, of Messrs. John- guilty was accepted by Inspector
The last defendant's plea of not charm. son. Stokes and Master, appeared Fender, and he was subsequently graphs and her "personality. It With her smiles, her photo- for the defendant, while Sun Hing discharged, while the other three was difficult for her to know what was represented by Mr. A Gmen were each sentenced to six was really happening in her life.
months' hard labour.
But at the back of her mind there Inspector Fender stated that at had been born á determination to about 4.30 pm on Wednesday, the fall in love with Rockburn. first two defendanta were arrest- They arrived at the party. It was ed on the Children's Playground at at a house in a square. There were
Statement On Policy Regested
this case.
Botelho.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Powers On an equal basis of | training was frankly unattainable- GERMANY'S ANXIETIES He appreciated that in the view of the German Government this águre was justified by her anxie- ties in Eastern Europe.
He pro- ceeded, therefore, to examine the
London, To-day. situation there. In regard to So-l A question was asked in the viet Russia, he had never been in House of Commons, whether, as the a country which more clearly had Locarno Pact could only become cause to be fully occupied at home effective after Germany became a for many years to come. An ob-member of the League of Nations.
James W. Thirlwell. Taikoo Wanchai, and, on being searched, trees outside, and inside there was server would expect that for her it was still the Government's inten- Docks; N. Francis, P. O. Box-799; the counterfeit, coins were found music and dancing. There were z own sake Soviet Russia would be tion, following Germany's with- and Miss Marina Wong, No. 334 in their pockets. The first defen-great many people. They "stared} averse to anything, which would drawal from the League, to adhere Nathan Road were the winners in dant confessed that the coins were at her as if she were some kind of dislocate the machinery she was so to the pact or to amend it in co-the "wise-crack" competition run in given to him by the third defen-curiosity, and talked about her as laboriously building up. and no į operation with the other signatories conjunction with "The Captain dant who was later located on the if she were deaf. greater dislocation could be ima- to it,
Hates The Sea" at the Queen's mainland at No. 288, Ki Lung. "Look at Margarifa Mayo," a pud- zired than war.
Captain Anthony Eden, the Lord Theatre Two dress-circle tickets Street, where 12 coins were found ding-faced debutante stared at her, Again, vast distances separated Privy Seal, replied that the treaty were sent to-day to each of the in his jacket pockets and Berlin from Moscow and since the contained no provisions for its three winners.
some as only English debutantes know more in a rice tin.
how to stare. re-creation of the great Polish amendment or alteration should
The third defendant admitted. State the possibility of aggression any of the signatories at any time!
Margarita looked away and then by Russia upon Germany had be- cease to be members of the League. hours ending at 10 am to-day was
Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 the coms from. Canton.
when questioned, that he brought looked back again. It made no dif- ference to the stare. Without edit- It was the view of His Majesty' 0:26 inch. The total since January tion that the first defendant paid lond, the English debutante said:
It was also stated by the prosecn- ing her voice, which was naturally For this and other reasons he Government, after consultation 1 has been 9.62 inches, as against a total of $255 for $7.50 in coun- found it difficult to share the ap- with the law officers of the Crown, an average of 16.15 inches. prehension of military aggression that a withdrawal from the League
come a geographical anachronism.
rl
by Soviet Russia which appeared of any one party to the Treaty of
to exist in Germany. Moreover, Locarno, did not of itself, or by! For the theft of a parse contain- he could not help feeling that if itself, involve relief of all other ing three silver dollars, Yeung any nation was apprehensive ` ofį parties from their obligations Yenng was sentenced to four its own security, its best course under the treaty.
months' hard labour by Mr. Q. A. A was to take its place in the League By an Anglo-Italian declaration Macfadyen at the Central Police and obtain thereby the benefit of embodied in the resolution at the Court this morning, and for breach collective security. The League and Stresa Conference, His Majesty's of the deportation ordinance he was Locamo Treaties were important Government formally re-affirmed a sentenced to 10 months' imprison- stabilising factors which did not their obligations under the Locarnoment. exist in 1914, with the situation Pact and declared their intention, before which, the present position should the need arise, faithfully to was often contrasted
terfeit coins.
DRUG HAUL IN SHARP ST.
Woman Granted Bail Of $5,000
"Well I must say I think she is definitely disappointing."
Young men danced with her and spent the rest of the evening telling other young men exactly what she had said. Older men talked to her kindly, almost patronisingly, about flming
Pretty women gazed at her with- ont sympathy, and ugly women with frank hostility. One or two For being in possession of 10,000 of the men made dull, cold, fim- heroin pills, and also having the dialogue love to her. This was no Lai Fuk was this morning sen- married woman, Lan Mee, residing
apparatus to prepare the drug, a holiday for the Film Star. falfil them-British Wireless Ser-tenced to three months' hard labour at No. 6 Sharp Street, was re-man to hounds," asked her to dance She was glad when the "good The Locarno Treaties constitut-vice. „
by Mr. QA A Macfadyen at the manded on bail of $5,000 by Mr. with him, and after he had spoken ed the most important effort of constructive
Central Police Court for the theft w. Schofield at the Central Magis he was always silent for a little of a $10 note from the person of tracy this morning- Europe since the foundation of the League itself. They were
Li Chan, a conjuror, in Queen's to the
Eoad yesterday. advantage of all their signatories. The security they brought extend ed equally to both sides of, boun daries which they guaranteed, German no less than Belgian-and French Mutuality was the vital element in Locarno.
statesmanship
BRITAIN'S POLICY"
in
KOREAN WITHOUT
PASSPORT
Lack Of Evidence For Theft Charge
while, trying to sort out his Revenue Offeër A. W. Grimmitt| thoughts, and then he said: was in charge of the prosecution
SEQUEL TO CRASH IN POKFULAM
Lorry Driver Fined
"Perhaps if we didn't dance, Tse Wong Po was this morning.
after all, but talk to each other?
After this, he was silent for an sentenced to four months hard labour, by Mr. QA. A Macfadyen
even longer time. She supposed Tam Kitanure.
this was shyness again. It was a unemployed, and a
a 24-year-old at the Central Police Court for the native of theft of a purse, containing $3.70,
curious quality. None of her hus Fusa, Korea, was this morning from Chee Yaen. He was sentenced
bands had been at all shy." She be sentenced to three weeks' impri- to a further 10 months for return
gan to think it a little tragic that | Proceeding, Mr. Eden discussed sonment by Mr. E.I Wyme ing from banishment before his ex-occurred at the bottom of Dairy any of the men she had been mar A sequel to the accident which she had not really liked what in existing conditions should Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy pired term. be Britain's policy. Referring to when he was charged with en-
Farm Hill, Pokfulam, on Tues-ried to But, now that she had those who still advocated isolation,tering the Colony without al
day afternoon, when lorry No-fallen in love, she was glad to be he recalled that Britain's greatest passport on or about May &
Sentence of three months hard 1696, overturned, resulting in free. commitment was in her member He was also charged with a 20-year-old unemployed, who apred. was provided at the Cen-ask you something"
labour was imposed on Wu Yenzone Chinese being seriously in Bockburn said: "I wish I could ship of the League, of which the stealing a rattan basket of cloth peared before Mr. E I Wynne tral Police Court this morning, Why don't you, then?" Dominions were also members. Ifing belonging to Ko Sze, a mar Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy when Cherng Fat was fined $25, She was glad to be in love now, it ever had more than an ep-fried woman, residing at No. 2,this morning charged with steabag in default, three weeks hard la because in her life there had been hemeral existence, isolation for Austin Avenue, but owing to lack two silver Jubilee medals from Wong bour by Mr. W. Schofield for no romance only foreign kas Britain died in the early years of evidence he was discharged or Mui, a married woman, residing at, driving without due care and bande of the century and was buried when this count
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