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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year of Publication.
Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
Telephone 20022. London Office:
7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2.
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Notice To Contributors.
HONG KONG S.P.C. Here
Departure Of Sir T. And Lady Southorn
SOCIETY'S LOSS BY DEATH OF MR. M. A. COOPER
Reference to the recent death
There and Everywhere
A communications intended for of Mr. M. A. Cooper was made at NEGLECTED OATMEAL publication should be addressed to meeting of the Executive Com- the Editor, and be accompanied bymittee of the Society for the Pro-
The House of Commons laughed
GERMAN MILITARY
AMBITIONS
LOCARNO HELPED HER TO RE-ARM
the Writer's Noms and Address tection of Children last Monday loudly recently at Mr. Robert ALLIES' CONCESSIONS PROVIDED A
Subscription Rates.
Boothby's praise of catmeal, echo- jed by Mr. Baldwin.
But, in fact, far too little out-
"CONSIDERATION" RECEIVED
(By J. H. Morgan, K.C.)
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not necessarily for insertion, but evening. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, whe presided, said the late Mr. Cooper jaa a guarantee of good faith.
was one of the most valuable members of the Society and had real is eaten in England, es- done a great deal of hard work Pecially as the country grows en- as Joint Honorary Director and ough oats to be entirely self-sup- Late Deputy Adjutant-General and British Military Member [District Secretary. His death was porting and oatmeal is one of the cheapest and most nutritions foods known. So little do the English eat that the Scots farmer]
One Year
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Aircraft In Modern Naval Tactics
produce.
of the Inter-Allied Commission of Armaments Control in Germany, 1919-23.
London, March 18. Control Commission was order-
ļa very grievous loss to the Society. As a mark of respect to Mr., Hong Kong, Wednesday, Apr. 22, 1936 Cooper's memory, the members of
the Committee stood in silence, can get only 12s. a quarter for the TN these moments, so fatefulled to withdraw on the faith of and it was decided to send a let- oatmeal which it costs him £1 to
for the peace of Europe, it pledges by the German Govern- is incumbent on all of us stu-meat that Germany's continu- ter of condolence to the relatives.
English porridge is a mockery diously to avoid any kind ofling defaults in the matter of New members welcomed by, the Chairman were Sir William Hor- of the genuine Scots dish. It is comment which might exacer-disarmament would be cured. But facts The work of "demilitarising" In his survey of the British zel and Mr. J. Middleton Smith usually made of treated oatmeal, bate the situation.
A cheque for $2,000. proceeds lightly boiled, whereas the real are another matter. And there the Rhineland- in other words, naval position given in the House of Commons last month of the street sale of flowers, wascots porridge is made from pure are certain facts, very relevant the execution of Articles
to the tremendous issues at and 180 of the Treaty of Ver- Lord Stanley was, on the whole, received from the Women's Auxi-meal and boiled for an hour.
There is a story of an American stake, which have escaped all sailles --was also abandoned. reassuring. He covered a wide liary of the Society,
Works Never Destroyed field, ranging from questions of preciation being expressed for the who, at bis frst breakfast in Eng notice during the past few days.
одсе The Control Commission had shipbuilding policy to the wel-Auxiliary's activities in this con- land, was confronted with a dish They are facts which,
of English porridge. "Hey!" he known and they are not confined its operations, in the fare of the lower deck, and in-zection.
Have generally known — will, I hope.execution of these two articles.
W***? ap-
Sir T. Southern
branch
to
the Society in her
Your Daily Smile!
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cluded a well-reasoned vindica- The Committee expressed grati-called to the waiter. tion of the battleship. He dwelt fcation at the prompt manner in had this, or am I about to have illuminate the situation without largely to the Neutral Zone, and exacerbating it. In this arti-leven there, as in the case of jat some length on the Admiral-which the Government, on the re-it?"
le I confine the exposition of nearly every other of the "dis- ty's appreciation of the air fac-presentations made by Dr. Yash,
them to the most vital. tor in naval operations, as well had opened the Western
armament" clauses, it had waiv- There were
two implied coed its rights, in the face of Ger- Jas on the steps that are being clinic for children.
taken to render the Fleet less:
venants attaching to the nego-man representations as to tiation and ratification of the "commercial" utility of belli- vulnerable to the new menace. Letters were read from the In the course of an argument, There can be no doubt that the Hon. Sir Thomas Southern resign- Canadian informed
Treaty of Mutual Guarantee gerent things, by leaving two an Englishman{ situation which developed in ing his membership of the Society that the inhabitants of the Old Coun- commonly known as the "Pact strategic railways intact.
of Locarno." Neither of them is But on the left bank of the the Eastern Mediterranean last and from Lady Southern resign-try were too reserved. autumn found the Fleet
"Oh. nonsense," replied the Eng-to be found in the text of the Rhine the Commission deliber- sering her position as Vice-President, Hishman. iously deficient in many resin view of their pending depar-was in the Cambridge 'eight, I knew the Protocol.
"Why years ago, when Pact nor. indeed, in any part of lately postponed for the conven- ience of the Allied Armies of pects, not least in equipment ture from the Colony.
all the other fellows quite well;..
cccupation all destruction of for repelling air attack. The The Chairman said Lady that is, all except one, and he was When "Control" Was Withdrawn the permanent works of mobi belated repair of such deficien- Southors had rendered invaluable away up the bow."
,lisation" until those Armies cies is largely responsible for service
Those covenants represented should have evacuated the Billboard vs Trees the sharp rise in the Estimates capacity as Vice-President and as
what a lawyer would call the Travellers on highways will under-consideration" exacted and
Rhineland, When evacuation Lord Stanley, after quoting President of the Women's Auxili-stand the versifies the thus parodiesired by Germany for her ac-eventually took place, the Con- an Admiralty dictum that "the ary, which had been instrumental Joyce Kilmer's beautiful tribute Navy and the air are peculiarly in raising large sums of money trees: complementary, and in future Sir Thomas Southom had helped must work ever closer to the Society in every way possible, gether" gave some figures of both officially and unofficially, and the Fleet Air Arm. Apart from as the creator of the Children's
lated by the Treaty of Versail-troyed at all such extra provision as may be Playground Association he had in-
les. The other was the almost taken of our deference is mani- made in supplementary estim-itiated a movement which was He was telling his aunt why the Control Commission whose mis
immediate withdrawal of the fest to-day. ates at a later date, the present bringing about a great improve motorist
Aud so with "armed forces" was being questioned by! Estimates budget for an addi- ment in the health and well-being the policeman.
sion it was to “disarm” Ger-jin the Rhineland In Decem- tional 27 machines, which will of the youth of the Colony.
"He's been jumping the
ber, 1922, I discovered and re- traffic many. bring the total of the Navy's
The Committee placed on record lights," he said.
Both these covenants were ported, as the British officer "Extraerdinary!” she remarked shipborne aircraft to 217. Ac- cording to reliable statistics, vices of Sir Thomas and Lady
its deep appreciation of the ser-He doesn't look a bit like an athlete, duly carried out by the Govern-responsible for the control of German "effectives," that the ments of England, France, and the United States Navy already Southern, and expressed the hope
Iso-called Security Police were Belgium. has 1,000 aircraft at its dis-that they would be happy in their WALKED INTO PROPELLER Few, indeed, are they in Eng and the report was accepted in identical with the Reichswehr, posal, and the Japanese 800. If
land who have any conception
new sphere of labour.
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I think that I shall never see
to
trol Commission had already ceptance of the Pact. One was the exacuation of the Rhineland been withdrawn and, out of de- ference to the Spirit of Locar- by the Allied armies many years Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, in advance of the period stipu-no," the works were never des- The advantage
A billboard lovely as a tree.
I'll never see a tree at all.
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An Athlete
Second-Line Troops
these figures are even approx-
Finance
Leading Aircraftman H. S of the lengths to which the London and Paris as conclusive. jímately accurate no one
The case report for March show-Brown last month walked into the British and French Govern- pretend that the British Fleet! Air Arm is adequate. That in-led that at the end of the month revolving propeller of a machine ments went in performing these They were, in fact, second- timate co-operation of ships there were under supervision 793 at the RA-F. Training School, covenants and, indeed, much line troops. But here also, out of deference to German suscep- with aircraft which, in expert cases, the new cases for the month Wittering (Northants), and was more than was covenanted.
It was not merely that the! (Continued on Page 10) opinion, is vital to the conduct totalling 127. There had been instantly killed.
of modern naval tactics, cannot 580 visits by inspectors to houses, persons visiting the be practised under realistic whilst conditions without a sufficiency Society's offices numbered 2,763. of aircraft, which, as the of-The average income per head per ficial figures show, does not yet mouth of the cases handled was jexist.
$1.66. compared with $1.49
The respective figures If the arguments on which February. the Admiralty bases its un-for Kowloon were $1.34 and $1.20. The financial statement for the shaken faith in the battleship have a familiar ring, it is only month showed that there was an fair to say that they have not jexcese of expenditure over income yet been controverted. As has totalling $397.53. been shown by recent corres- It was reported that Mr. L. D. pondence in the Home papers, Skinner, Hon. secretary for the even naval officers are divided Eastern branch, was proceeding.on W. on the question of the battle leave, and that the Rev. H. ship's utility. We believe, Baines and friends had under- however, that Lord Stanley is taken to carry out the duties dur- justified in claiming that active ing his absence. Mr. Skinner was his services and naval officers, foreign no less thanked for than British, unanimously hold thanks were also expressed to the battleships to be indispensable. Rev. H. W. Baines and friends The fact that no fewer than for offering to act for him. eight capital ships of the lar- gest dimensions are now being built in Continental dockyards supports this claim. France,
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Home In A Butter Churn
Italy and Germany would not be spending enormous sums on these mastodons unless their best naval brains were satisfied that such vessels are essential. In the ensuing debate Mr. Win- ston Churchill paid a well-de- served tribute to the good under standing which the Admiralty has reached with its American Minnesota, has consistently colleagues. The naval aims of fused the aid of State and Federal the two Powers have so much relief agencies directed to
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naval covenant. That contin-
gency was, of course, foreseen,, stabilises the relative strength but it does not detract from the of the two navies 'over an inde- value of an agreement which finite period.
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
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