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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1936
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year of Publication.
34 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 20022. London Office:
7. Garrick Street, Landet, W.CL2
Notice To Contributers.
CAVALRY STILL IN FAVOUR IN JAPAN
Different Conditions From Europe
MECHANISATION NOT SO
MUCH NEEDED
Here There d and Everywhere.
Was
Japan is not mechanising her STATUES £100,000 CROWŃ All communications intended for cavalry regiments to the same ex- publication should be addressed to
Spain's largest diamond teat 35 Great Britain, Soviet the Editor, and be accompanied by Russia and other Powers
portrayed in the exhibition of
not necessarily for insertion, but Baron Nichi, a captain in a Japan-
On his arrival in Singapore water colours of Jerez de la Fron- tera by George Taylor Nichol as a guarantee of good faith.
the Writer's Name and Address
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The High Cost Of Defence
ITALY'S CONQUEST OF ABYSSINIA
DECISIVE FACTORS OF CAMPAIGN
RESISTANCE ENDED BY USE OF PLANES AND GAS
(By Maj. Gen. A. C. Temperley)
London. May 4. tut boxing gloves.
bave
The army
had
jose cavalry regiment and leader 500, which was opened last month
in London by Sir Charles Petrie. of the Japanese equestrian team, which was
on its way to Berlin' It is part of the crown of OurTHE flight of the Emperor, ac-used to defeat the Abyssinians for the Olympic Games, said that Lady of Mount Carmel, one of the companied by Ras Desta and must
totalled something Japan still considered that cavalry most venerated statues in Spain. Ras Kassa, with the Italian troops (like 400.000 men, and exceeded in was of great value for her mili-The crown' is worth more than at the gates of his capital, seems number that which the Emperor tary requirements.
£100,000, and is set with hundreds to indicate the final collapse of had at any time in the field. For this reason, mechanisation of precious stones-diamonds. Abyssinia's resistance.
From the Italian poist of view emeralds. Hong Kong. Wednesday, June 3, 1936, was not being carried out to such rubies, sapphires and
It had ceased to be fective in jit was essential to put the Abys- fan exer as in Europe.
These were given from their per the north for at least a month sinians out of the war before the Japanese cavalry regiments em-sonal jewellery by the womer of previously. There is always the rains began in order to avoid ployed horses of British, French Andalusia.
possibility that the struggle may months' inactivity, in which the and Australian breeds in pre- The statue was crown in 1929 be continued in the more distant Abyssinians would have ference to the diminutive Man by King Alfonso. Since the reprovinces.
breathing space and Sanctions churian ponies.
volution it has emerged only once The history of the conquest of might have become effective. Some very illuminating
Baron Nichi is one of Japan's (from the bank to be painted by funcivilised and roadless coun-They employed no fewer than 15 figures relating to the rearma»
juries holds repeated instances of divisions to make sure of success, ment proposals of America were foremost horsemen. He did well Mr. Nicholson.
Olympic Games, and; The diamond is between the guerilla warfare continuing for a
Four Phases quoted in a recent article in the in the last
thas attended many European brows of the statue.
long time.
The war falls into four clear- Christian Science Monitor,
horse shows.
The "de la Frontera" of Jerez Borza, Madagascar. French-defined phases. which. whatever its faults as a be
sherry and Spanish Morocco all remind The first one lasted from the newspaper.
hardly
jus of the possibility of yea of opening of the campaign and the accused of scare-mongering.
Your Daily Smile !
The explanation is that for resistance when the central Gov-capture of Adowa to the taking The spectacle of a great coun-
about two centuries before the ernment has collapsed. Yet on of Makalle on Nov. 7. During that try rearming nowadays
Public librarians have become more final expulsion of the Moors from the whole it does not seem likely time there was no Abyssinian re- hardly be called unique; nor and more concerned about the noisi Spain, Jerez was a frontier post that further opposition will be sistance. The second comprised indeed, considering world condi-ness of persons using the general
extensive or prolonged. tions and the almost fantastic reading rooms. The following notice between the two kingdoms.
the long balt at Malkalle from to in- There used to be many other!
From the very beginning of Nor. Tuntil Feb. 10, the period of nervousness, tension and dread is doubtless only an attempt
into those de la Frontera" place names re-the war it was clear that unless Italian inactivity and Abyssinian of the individual peoples of the reduce
is room for mis-presenting successive stages in the League could stop it by some counter-attacks, world, can any sort of blame be regions, bur there
understanding:
the advance of the Spaniards means or other there could only attached to the leaders of al "Only Low Talk Allowed."
Most have been dropped. nation. for
be one possible end.
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Work, Work, Work!
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WHAT IS A "GENTLEMAN?"
"Something had been said in one of the newspapers about the Lord Hewart word 'Gentleman,'” remarked.
The third was the period of Marshal Badoglio's three hammer blows at Amba Aradan, the Tem- 10
On the one hand there was a bien, and Shire between Feb. Great Power of 42,000,000 people, and March 3. The last phase was
nationi. endeavouring to provide for the Fond Mother: "Will the security of their country by in-graph be anything like him?" creasing its defensive powers. Photographer: "Yes, Madam, but It is an elementary axiom that we can easily alter that"
Lord Hewart, Lord Chief Jus-under a determined and autocra-one of undisturbed advance to the law-abiding citizens should be Wife (reading)-It says here they tice of England, told the story iftic Duce, ready to pour out all its capital, save for one last battle, provided with all the security have found a sheep in the Himalaya a speech in London last month of resources, human and material, when the Emperor led- an attack- !from unprovoked aggression Mountains that can run 45 miles an how he and two King's Beach without stint in order that the in person at Mai Chio on April
that their defence services can hour.
judges, now dead, sought to arrive goal might be reathed. 11/2 provide. There was a time Her Hubag-Well, it would take a
possessed 2 large, well-trained It was in the second phase that immediately after the last war days,
lamb like that to follow Mary now at a definition of the word "gen-t
tleman." The two judges were army. full of enthusiasm and the prospects of the Abyssinians when it was hoped that the
Sir Horace Avory and Sir Mon-equipped with every conceivable brightened. They showed that machinery of collective security
tague Shearman.
weapon of destruction that man they could fight and employ true might be built up: something "What's the matter?"
could devise.
guerilla warfare, while the Ital- towards assembling that "Oh, nothing but work, work, work
On the other hand stood a small lians could do not more than stand machinery was done in the crea--from morning till night!"
"How long have you been at it?"
nation, for the most part primitive on the defensive. tion of the League of Nations. "I start to-morrow.” But, alas for the dreams of
"Avory asked What is a gentle-savages, destitute of any essential But Marshal Badoglio had re ¡organisations for waging war, placed Marshal de Bono, and 2 men. it has since been only too! amply demonstrated that weak "I want a book to take home with "I said, "I rather think he is a such as a staff. communications, great change came over the cam- armed paign.. He managed in a few countries depending on collec-me."
man who is never rade unless he or a supply system, and "Yes, sir; something light?"
with nothing but an inadequate days to smash up the three Abys- tive security for defence in the case of unprovoked attack are "It doesn't matter; I have my car means to be."
a miserableisinian armies in the North almost "Avory thought that was not so supply of rifles and joutside."
of ammunition that irretrievably. But he must have leaning on a broken reed. When!
bad, but that he could go one bet-pittance
realised that by then he was far one who could not be replaced. ter gentleman is the world shows a most remark-la big-ship programme. And in never uses the word."
Their sole assets were a leader behind his time-table, and more able facility for talk but pre-spite of the unimpeachable logic "Eat Sherman went on to say. (of genius, courage, and a country drastic measures must be employ- cious little inclination to imple-of this argument, it will pre-Can I define a gentleman? Well of enormous physical obstacles to ed if the Abyssinian resistance ment its promises with effec-sumably be England which will yes, I think I can. He is a gen-invasion. It was, in fact, a duel was to be completely broken be tive action. In these circum-furnish the pretext for the new tle as a woman and as manly as a between a man armed with a refore the rains. stances it behoves every nation battleships rather than Japan; an ""
it comes to a point the rest of
No Mental Load
to return to the bad old days of and there is really nothing more attempting to provide for its to be said about it. It is a fact, own security by the strength of however, that between the its own right arm, or, failing Arkansas,
26,000 tons
and that. to enter into agreements carrying only 12-inch guias, for mutual defence with such built in 1912, and the newest ¡more powerful Powers as can battleship in the US Navy, the inffer some security in this direc-Colorado, completed, in August tion and have enough national 1923, is a gap in speed, power probity and respect for commit-jand general naval value which
disturbed iments to stand by their word. has for years
the Ergo, the back- It is therefore in no sense of Navy chiefs. captious criticism that we draw bone of the fleet is to be brought attention to what America pro-lup to date, and the new ships poses to do to ensure her ade-will be designed for a speed of !quate defence. It is merely 30 knots and will embody many that the figures are available radical departures in naval and are eloquently symptoma- design. Two contemplated new itic of a national tendency which ships are expected to cost some- is now the rule rather than the thing in the neighbourhood of exception. So far as the $90,000,000 to complete, and it American Navy is concerned, is proposed to replace the three briefly the position is that after oldest ships in the Navy, the an interval of nearly 13 yearsArkansas already mentioned, the United States about to the New York and the Texas, re-enter the field of heavy navaljas the first step in a general construction in big battleships. battleship replacement pro- There is an “If” clause, true, gramme.
but as the advocates for a big- The total defence figures in iger navy have pointed out, the the 1937 US. budget are simply: British rearmament programme staggering. The estimates for ¡has reached a point where it is the coming fiscal year stand at certain that before the end of $937,791,966. Add to that pub- the present year the proposed lic works money which the War restriction will have becomeland Navy. Departments esti- meaningless. Further, Italy mate to spend, $46,075,000. In already has two 35,000-ton addition there was $9,674,136 ships on the ways and France for military purposes in a War one. A second French ship is Department appropriation bill scheduled to be laid down early of $58.004,286 recently approv next year. Logically, there-led. The National Counca for fore, there is no place for the Prevention of War has esti- restriction on American naval mated a probable total expendi building. But the peace groupsture of $1,200,000,000 in 1937. in America have a good point Should the army enlistment when they insist that the Unit-projects. recently advanced, ed States is unlikely ever to which include a comprehensive fight a naval war with England, scheme for assuring that 1,000,-! France or Italy. The possibili-000 trained reserves shall be ty of one with Japan is the always available, be put into major reason always advanced effect in 1937, the cost would for the maintenance of a first-be very considerable amount- class American navy; but Japan ing to at least scores of mil- is the only major, naval Power lions.
the Beyond
remark which is not at the present that presumably somebody will moment either building, or, so pay for all this, comment seems far as is known, contemplating almost impossible.
man?'
volver and a man with nothing! (Continued On Page 11)
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