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last they recognise a threat to the trade connections and firan- cial obligations which their asso-
Hong Kong, Thursday, June 13, 1935.ciation
Showdown In The Far East
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HERE THERE
EVERYWHERE
YOUNG_COMPOSERS
Soviet musicians achieve fame [young. Of the eight composers re-
presented in a concert of Russian) music" given in London last month.) four ML Shirinsky, Mossoloft, Kabelevsky, and Mepurnoffre in the early thirties, and two—MM.] |Shostakovitch and Polovinkin
the early twenties.
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MORAL OF THE
JUBILEE
BRITAIN'S PLACE IN
THE WORLD
SEA POWER MUST NOT
BE ABANDONED
(By Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill)
is generally agreed that the is one we owe not only to our
Iis sound and imperial rejoic selves, but to all peoples Here M. Alexander Krein, the veteran ings upon the King's Jubilee have the beacons of freedom still burn exponent of Jewish individualism surpassed anything hitherto re-brightly.
"ADVERTISEMENTSTM
and Ippolitoff-kranoff the pupil of corded in our annals. A spon- It would indeed be our shame Rimsky-Korsakoff who died early taneity and imity of feeling if they were quenched through this year, were the only represents-affected the whole population our neglect by intervention from tives of the old regime.
with a completeness never outside- (formerly known.
How is it we have developed All creeds, all classes. all our own way of living, our order- parties in every part of the coun-ily progress. our tolerant civili- Until recently Soviet composers and of the Empire were sation? I recall the lines old stirred to the depths The Lord Fisher used so often to: concentrated on communal, "other- Diamond Jubilee of Queen Vic-quote: wise orchestral work They were toria was a more splendid page
Time, and the Ocean and someTM diverted from it to individual and ant, but the active, conscious,
Guiding Star solo work by party order. The con-intelligent participation of in- cert in question was mainly of individuals was not, as now, almost dividual work, and that work main-universal
In high cabal, have made us what
ice are
Safe No Longer
y of a not particularly revolution- Even after ten days of cele The blue water that laps our brations the public seemed reluc-shores has hitherto been dur pro-
ary kind.
M. Mossoloff, for example, once tant to return to the ordinary tection Hitherto throughout. the most revolutionary of Soviet routine of life. The poorest the centuries the power of the composers, has turned back to tradi-streets. the smallest hamlets. Poyal Navy and the spirit of our tional ways.
were still flaunting their bunting-sea-faring men have enabled us He
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was represented by songs and the streets of London were to plan our lives in accordance derived from Centwal Asian folk-still thronged a week after with the genius of music. They are in odd contrast the celebrations with enormous Hitherto we have been free to with his earlier "Advertisements."{numbers who hoped to catch a choose our policy according to which were songs
on such themes glimpse of the King and Queen what we thought was right or as rats, roaches and other vermin or the members of their family-wrong. We could intervene in. exterminated at reasonable prices." There has never been a time foreign wars or stand out of
when the British nation was them as we thought fit
its more proud" of
ancient So long as we obeyed the in- monarchy, or more convinced junction *Britannia rule that it is at once its glory and its waves," we were safe in our with China portends
The Sign
shield.
island home; and this very sea- But it is an old maxim that the
Father · (admiring...” his » new-born
Contrast Abroad
power, which shielded us from în...” end justifies the means, and if heir): "That fellow will be a great
statesmanTM one of these days.***
These manifestations gain all vasion, made the oceans the some method can be devised by the Western world to combine in really think he will?”
Mother: "Oh, Charles, dear, do you the more force and meaning be- highways of British commerce resisting the further depredation
cause of the conditions prevar- and Empire. Father: "Sare of it.
Look how
outside ing
the of China by a ruthless neighbour, easily be wriggles out of everything Dominions. In Queen Victoria's There is one sinister difference All this is changed to-day- King's A factor which all along has then the final cause of that asso-
day the British people saw with between the Jubilee we have just been a great" encouragement tociation, whatever it may have
mach complacency that our Par-celebrated and those of Queen A woman entered a bank to make bamentary the Japanese war lords in their been, will justify itself.
institutions and Victoria. Then we had safety "The more indirect implications 2 deposit dealings with China has been the of the whole sorry business are cheques to deposit, so she procured
She had some balls conceptions of the free govern- and independence. Now we have During the Boer War, apathy alike of the Powers in-no less ominous in their possibi deposit slip which required the listing maut were rapidly spreading neither. dividually and of their combined lities One of the most import. She listed her bills and cheques in scene is different and the mood at home, a European coalition
of bills, specie, and cheques,
throughout the world. Now the when we had not a soldier left comsels, which the League offant of these is the crushing blow their respective places, but was is more intense.
comprising all the greatest to every ideal that the League as doubt what to list under specie. Nations represents one might
Many great countries
Powers on the Continent seemed institution stands
After a few moments thought sae for. jalmost say, their academic Nobody in his senses denies the wrote after the word specie "Female, plunged in anarchy: others are about to be hatched up against
gripped by iron despotisms. The us interest in this disgraceful spoi enormous value of the institution and handed in her deposit.
ideals of a liberal age are every- But the strength of the British lation which is fast working to las an institution, in world affairs;
where discarded and the rights Navy was so overwhelming that but when, time after time, one! wards playing havoc with the
has seen its decisions Baunted. The summer boarder asked: "Why is and freedom of men and women the commissioning of an extra. peace of the Far East. It would and not the slightest notice taken my room. Do you think he has taken either by violence or authority. perse these designs. In those it that hog keeps trying to come into are over vast areas suppressed squadron was sufficient to dis- be wearisome and would serve of its reprimands, one begins to
The contrast is apparent to the days we could practise "splendid no useful purpose to recapitulate question whether there is any Little Will explained it He whis
isolation and tread our own pafka all the implacable steps taken by practical sense in continuing to pered: "Why, that's his room during Simplest mind
according to our own judgment. Japan in her systematic exploita- take it seriously. The threat of the winter."
Self-Defence First tion of China's weaknesses since withdrawal from the League has the outbreak of the "Manchurian in the last few years displayed incident" it would be even more itself as a first-class diplomatic wearisome to recount the weapon and every successive planations, excuses, and apologies withdrawal has tended to thrust put up to the world by Japan in the knife still deeper into the ber attempts to justify her high-heart-word of the League as an ing of the Kowloon Cricket Club round it on almost every side the Continent, and when we all
ideal, until today it has little!
will be held in the Pavilion on The British race realises more have to dwell almost at the suffer- handed actions They have
ever before how ance of Governments who share never impressed, and have cer prestige, still less authority and Friday, July 5, at 6.30 pm. Alter-keenly, than
none of our ideals and who may, tainly not
convinced, public absolutely no backing, other than ations to the Articles of Associa-much it has to lose
The impression produced for all we know, covet our pos- futile gestures, to its decisions. tion are on the agenda. opinion anywhere. If only a handful of far-seeing statesmen So far as events in the Far East
abroad as also been profound sessions.
It would indeed be the grim- Foreign observers and thinkers recognised the implications of are concerned, the League as Japan's actions, in all their in- an instrument is as dead as a reported in Kowloon within the last are confronted with the fact that mest and most mocking tragedy placable inevitability. from the doornail. Only concerted action 24 hours, while one case of cerebro- from universal suffrage with free of history if in that very evoch beginning, it is surely true to say by the Powers concerned, initiated spinal meningitis was reported in elections, from a free Parliament, when the British people were free speech and a free, press, Institutions and most hopeful of most contented with their now that the full force of the fly and relentlessly by Britain Hong Kong.
volume of love and loyalty flows sinister designs which she has and America acting in concert,
forth to an hereditary sovereign;
their future they should be fon China are only too openly can stop the rat. It is because
The RMS. Empress of Russia island that a venerable Constitution struck down, despoiled and sub- japparent. But as it was the Japan has banked so
surely due here from Yokohama next evolved through centuries is jugated through the base neglect fatal policy of laissez-faire which against the possibility of this Wednesday morning and will sail treasured and honoured by a of the elementary duty of self- encouraged the Island Empire în taking place that she has beentfor Manila the following day, at 5pmodern democracy.
emboldened to go as far as she p.m. the beginning, so it is the dis- has done.
No feature of the Jubilee was inclination, even at this stage of
She has called the
moré instructive than the cere bluff every time; and she has won Four cases of diphtheria, three of many in Westminster Hall. - In the proceedings, of the Powers most intimately affected to cout has never been a showdown typhoid, one fatal, two fatal cases ceedings were
every hand so far because there which were fatal, seven cases of their austere dignity these pro- bine in joint action, which But the showdown must come of cerebrospinal meningitis, and characteristic of our island life pre-eminently courages Japan to carry out her and pretty soon. The consequ- one case of snimal rabies have been Socialist Ministers, ex-Ministers, policy to the bitter end
ences may be serious. But the reported in the Colony within the and representatives acted in con- Well, when an appeal to reason last results of further vacillation week ending June 8. A total of 58 vinced accord with titled heredi- and a sense of fair play fails, will be rifinitely more painful for deaths from tuberculosis have also tary legislators; and a King u there is always the last hope that Britain and America, and all the been reported.
:
an appeal to the materialistic other Powers who have material business of one's pockets interests in China and cannot
A World Example It is the background which reveals the picture LOCAL NEWS
How different is our lot to-day, "The sun- light flashes with double brilli- when our crowded cities, our ancy upon our island landscape dockyards, arsenals, and factories because of the dark clouds and all lie within the swift and easy An extraordinary general meet-strange illuminations which-sur-stroke of the great air forces of
BREVITIES
One case of typhoid fever has been|
vested with the symbols of abso- Inte power preached the gospel of personal freedom, the reign of
bear fruit; and it is still not too afford to allow further exploita John Mitchell, of No. 14. Austin law and the maintenance late for something to be done tion than they are likely to be Avenue, was bitter on the right to all his subjects and In short, it is the threat and if the eleventh-hour way out is leg by a Scotch terrier in Kimberworld the very real threat which now taken at once. exists to the trade connections
of the natious of the West that
will now finally bring them into Four banishees were sentenced to one common field of action. The terms ranging from six to 12 spectacle of half a dozen West
months hard labour by Mr. W nationa,who pride themselves on Schofield at the Central Polica Court this morning for breaches of the Deportation Ordinance
their sense of fair play allos themselves to be browbe
the want of a com
hardly edifying and
even less edifying
combine, not
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