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To The Editor, "Chins Mail"] Sir,-Excuse me for taking the liberty of writing you. I am de-
7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2 sirous of finding the address of my
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Warwick Castle, where Lord
FOLLOWING ITALY'S CONQUEST
WHAT OF THE FUTURE OF EUROPE?
MANY IMPORTANT FACTORS TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION
(By Brig.-Gen. E. L. Spears, M.P.)
publication should be addressed to occasion I had a letter was from Warwick has discovered drawings the Editor, and be accompanied by Hankow, in April 1934. Since that by the old masters, was a famous the Writer's Name and Address date I have written many letters, art treasure house last century.
The find of some sketches by not necessarily for insertion, but but have had no reply. The last
Rembrandt comes as a reminder jas a guarantee of good faith. two letters were returned to me
unopened, endorsed, "Address not that the master's great painting lof the Standard-bearer of Amster- known."
[dạm (bought in the sale of Sir!
O those Members of Parlia-, obvious enough. The roat trouble the
To through heard
ment, supporters of the Na-has been that the democracies Chinese Consular Service, Austra-Joshua Reynolds's collection) used
tional Government, who, like my-forming part of it were quite un- lia, that Dr. Chen. Cousul-General, to bang at Warwick Castle.
self, appealed for, and no doubt prepared to run the risk of war for Australia, wher in China last. It was cold privately to George obtained, the votes of electors of for a principle, however vital. In For the principles this they differ from countries Hong Kong, Tuesday, Juze 23, 1936 November and December, endea. J. Gould, of New York Then it obtained, th
voured to find my brother, but passed into the possession of renunciated by Sir Samuel Hoare governed by dictators, who, as we He did bow-Jules Bache, who in 1929 lent it to at Geneva in September, recent have seen in the case of both Italy ever hear that he was going to the Burlington House Exhibition events have been a painful exper-and Germany, are quite prepared Hong Kong to recuperate after an He missed it so rauch that he paid ence.
to run that risk. ja special visit to London in order
Many of us felt it our duty to Unless this fact is faced and If you have not happened to to see it.
oppose the Hoare-Laval proposals. met. collective security must be meet him, maybe you know of
A century ago the ubiquitous Was this a wise step in view of consigned to the lumber-room of someone who may know him and
Dr. Waagen greatly admired the what has happened since? history, where good ideas that where be might be.
famous marble Warwick vase. Had those proposals been acted were never carried out "are rele Thanking you in anticipation.
This trophy, seven feet in 'diame-jupon a portion of Abyssinia might gated, and where are stored the HERBERT DONALD. "
tex, was found by Sir William have survived as a vassal. Italian schemes humanity was too weak,
Municipalities And The State
was unsuccessful.
illness."
Your Daily Smile!
Lord Warwick of the time.
ORDINANCES OF HONG KONG Chinese Translation Issued
In Between
FREE IN PRISON
him
Hoare-Laval plan would not havej been accepted by Abyssinia; it! would have had to be imposed
Umprepared
"That most of the nations mem-
all
than make
The paradox of a National (but mainly Conservative) Gov- ernment controlling the State! and a Socialist majority con- trolling the municipal destinies of the capital of that State, as
[Any information concerning Hamilton in Hadrian's villa at State, and above all many lives too short-sighted or too selfish to in England, is not, of course, the above person will be appreci-Tivoli, and he presented it to the might have been spared. But the apply. unique, but it is sufficiently un-ated.-Ed] usual to be interesting. As all- the world knows, the Socialist administration of Vienna found
upon her. She believed then inbers of the League were material- itself in this position for some
her power of resistance. andy prepared for an armed strug- time before London rejected
A tramp called at a wayside cot-hoped, as we did, that sanctions Ele with Italy is true, but this is the arid blandishments of the
tage and asked for a little food to would in time prove effective. ́ mainly due to the fact that. ex- Municipal Reform Party and
help him on his way,
I do not think we were wrong cepting for those who felt arma- *But you're a big, strong, bealthy- to the
be necessary elected the "Socialists
for their looking man," said the cottager. to refuse to join in imposing upon ments to County Council in their place.
her, in violation of every League OWI safety, they one and Most people are familiar, also, The first volume of a most valu-Why don't you do some work?"
"Well, madam," said the tramp, principle so recently proclaimed found it cheaper to protest their with the excellent work, in the able work of reference, published
Overseas Chinese Daily with
shrug of his shoulders, "by our Government and endorsed will to peace rather direction of housing especially, by the
I'm what they by our electorate, terms that she sacrifices to enforce it. performed by the Socialist ad- News Ltd, (Wah Kiu Yat Po), tell you my trouble.
call an unhappy medium."
To-day, when we are contemplat- ministration of Vienna in the consisting of a translation into Unhappy medium!" echoed the considered unacceptable.
ing the dashing of the hopes We Like Cannibal Ferst teeth of the actual or implied Chinese of the Ordinances of Hong other. "What do you mean by that?"
had based on the League, how The "I'm too light for heavy work and criticism of the Liberal admin-Kong, has just been issued.
To-day we are faced with afridiculous and blind appear in re- situation that istration of the country. Simi-work is being prepared by Mr. Ma too heavy for light work," was the
is the complete trospect those who for years glad- larly the London County Coun- Tuen and will be completed with reply.
negation of our hopes. The most dened their hearts with the sweet cil has only too often come up the second volume, to be issued in -
barefaced aggression, carried out sounds of their own peaceful against a certain amount of due course.
A certain celebrity always wears in violation of the most solemn pipings, and refused to believe opposition to its schemes. The The first volume covers the per- his hair very long- One day his wife treaties with complete ruthless-that force was necessary to main-. final decision about Waterloo iod of 1844 to 1900, and the comwho is a neat person, said to
ness, has resulted in the destruc-tain order. They, together with Bridge was one instance; an-pleted work will include the year in exasperation:
tion of the victim, under the eyes those who indulged in false senti- When are you going to get your of some 50 States members of the mentality, must bear a heavy share other is the proposed new air-1936.
hair cut?” port for the City of London,
"Oh," he replied, airily, "when League, none of them completely of responsibility for the fact that helpless or quite unarmed, and all the League seems to be on the “In that case,” she said, "they'll do pledged to support each other if verge of collapsing, under the it free."
attacked.
blows of a dictator. We are now invited to
Their place on the public 708- COMMON KIND
clock the process of one member of the trums has been taken by the so- A lady stopped at the counter. "I want an alarm clock, League calmly digesting another called realists, who say to
facts. Unpleasant please," she said. "One that will one, and growing fat and strong "Face the rouse the maid without waking the on the meal. It seems to me very though they are, accept them. whole family."
much like assisting at a cannibal There are more trials ahead. You "Sorry, madam," replied the sales-feast
will need Italy in Europe, do not The League has failed. It is quarrel with her over an episode the State at large is the matter Thomas Moss, the Oxford under man. "I'm afraid we only stock the the
the causes that is closed.” of political decisions on appar-graduate found dead beside a ordinary kind, which rouses
whole family without waking the essential to ascertain ently small questions which are burning rick at Stadhampton, have maid.”
of its failure. Some of them are (Continued on Page 11) not, in ordinary conditions sub-been concentrated in the village of]| jected to the searching test of Little Milton. publicity. For instance, no ex-
They are anxious to see if fur- planation whatever was offered ther information can be obtained at last month's meeting of the to support Miss McPherson-West London Education Committee brook's statement that she heard. for its refusal to allow the late
a peculiar sound at about two Lord Beatty's Empire Day mes-o'clock on the night Moss died. sage to be read in the L.C.C. She described it as between Schools. None is to be found shriek and a groan, and thought it in the message itself, the text of which was published by the was a muffled choking sound, as
if someone was being strangled." press in Hong Kong, unless the
Every householder in the vil- Socialist majority of the Lon-j don County Council holds it to lage was questioned by the police. be wrong that the children in One of them, Miss Mason, report. the State schools in the capital ed hearing a car pass her cottage of the Empire should declare at about two am, that morning. their loyalty to the Throne or
which, since it will add to the NEW EVIDENCE ret time, my dear."
rates and apparently is not real- ly needed, is also meeting with
some, opposition in public and
the press.
These are routine matters, of course, which any municipal ad- ministration, whatever its poli-
FORWARD Car Clue In Rick Mystery
tical texture, is likely to meet. Oxford-Police enquiries into What is of more importance to the mystery of the death of Mr.
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express thankfulness that they workings of the Socialist men- "are citizens of a great and tality somewhat illuminatingly. united Empire, powerful in the So does the refusal of the cause of world peace." Or Southwark Borough Council to perhaps it was that hated "mili-grant pay during absence in tarism" which the Socialists camp to those of its employees are always inveighing against; who are members of the Terri- though there appears to be torial Force, which was precious little taint of it in the recently reported. Here again, Admiral's wish for "a greater can the action be put down to measure of tolerance and stolid maintenance of a princi- understanding among theple or to just plain cussedness? nations" or in his urging that A very much larger question all shall determine “to play our of principle is also
involved. pert in upholding the great When the Government is mak- traditions of our race." Alling a great effort to secure the this may, of course, be part of safety of the country, can it that consistent policy of dis-permit minor authorities to couraging the idea of Empire, jeopardise its endeavours? which permits of no com- How far, in fact, can the State promise even to honour the administration use its discre- memory of a great sailor or to tion in overriding the decisions convey good wishes to the new of Municipal authorities, even occupant of a Throne. But of the capital? The question how much of it really signifies is likely to be raised in serious the common wish of the com-form
one of these days if mon people in these respects? things. like this continue. No What price intolerance, in fact? doubt constitutional issues are
Two other incidents of a like involved; · and nature have recently been re-authority on constitutional law. ported: Permission to ase But the State considers it to Battersea Park for a recruit be a serious act for an indivi- ing effort for the Territorials, dual to attempt to subvert the who would be charged with the loyalty of the fighting forces, defence of London in case of Can active discouragement of attack from the air, was re- membership of the Territorials fused. After protest a com-be brought into this province? promise was made, whereby the And if so, cannot municipalities display was permitted to be and municipal committees who heldon
Clapham Common do so be rightly and truly But the incident illustrates the squashed?
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