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PEACE CONFERENCE AT BUENOS AIRES GREAT HOPES ATTEND
COMING PARLEY CONDITIONS FAVOURABLE FOR INTERNATIONAL ACCORD
(By Paul Sanders)
Buenos Aires.
is so in actual fact depends upon as one of the curiosities of journa- whether Italy chooses tolism, for it is a triumphant editor |
Pan-American court of interna [operate in its work or not,
who announces that his newspaper The reason for the increase is will cease publication. His edi-forthcoming Inter-American Under the projected tariff ac
RGENTINE organisers of the tional justice. that it was desired to give the Fartorial in the bottom right-hand | East a place on the Council - and,
Peace Conference are confident cord the conference organisers at the same time it was not desir-corner runs:
The nearness of our brothers and uncktided harmony in the Wes-hope to reach a truce of several jed to reduce the number of places the orders of the Higher Command tern world will assure success of years during which the nations
allotted to European Powers So
on imports.
Mr. & Mrs. M. K. Lo thank all although four Powers retired cause this to be the last number their efforts to safeguard the will not increase customs duties
of this little paper Americas from war. published mes Australia, Norway, the Argentine
The conference, opening on De-
A Nations To Join (periodiquito). It carries no other sares of condolence in their be Republic and Portugal-five were news than the triumphant shout cember 1, proposes Pan-American All 21 of the America republics
They were
agreement on three plans to pre-have accepted Argentina's invita- reavement and attended the fun-actually "elected.
Sweden, Bolivia, New Zealand, of "Long-live Spain!"
Numbers of El Alcazar, which vent a foreign war from bridging tion, to the conference. issued eral yesterday.
Latvia and China -
and to fireproof after all had responded favour- In many respects the most interwere printed on a duplicating ma- the Atlantic
chine, are already commanding American frontiers. They are: ably to President Roosevelt's sug- A programme of neutrality ingestion that a special peace con- case of a European war or any clave be held this year in Buenos other conflict.
Aires.
Hong Kong, Trenday, Nov. 10, 1936. esting addition to the Council is
our own Dominion of New Zea-high prices outside Spain. land, in view of the very con-FOUND DAME SYBIL
Shipbuilding's Revival spicuous part which Mr. Jordan
als.
Levy,
As it prepares to assemble peace reigns throughout the Americas. finor territorial quarrels are on their way to settlement and all the republics are on good terms with
peace
Limitation of armaments. played securing the rejection of As a playwright Mr.
An economic truce. the plot to exclude the Abyssinian (whose death occurred recently, is
What Mr. Cordell Hull, United There could be до more deleration from the Assembly. Mr. remembered for his many adapta-|
These States Secretary of State, will re encouraging trade news than
Jordan the ex-London police-tions of French plays.
skill commend for joint neutrality is that which came in the returns from the shipyards published staterman is not likely to recaptured with remarkable
their neighbours. last month. The recovery which acquiese in any side-tracking by the effervescent wit of the origin-awaited with interest by most. La
tin-American foreign offices.. the Council of vital issues.
Bolivia and Paraguay will give was evident in 1935 has now!
The Scandinavian countries have But probably his greatest Policy Loses Novelty the peace conference a boost by The United States good neigh-making effective, on the eve of the progressed so far that at the
been consistently loyal supporters achievement was the introduction: end of last quarter 928,571 tons of the League, and Sweden is cer of Dame Sybil Thorndike to the bour policy, its programme of non-meeting, their recently concluded of merchant shipping were tain to make a good Council Mem- West End theatre public.
intervention in South America, building, which is 75 per cent ber. In view of the increasingly This was in the immediate past has lost its novelty and has be
Will Resume Relations: more than a year ago. Of the grave situation in China the pre-war years at the Little Theatre. come an integral part in inter
The nations will formalise their total tonnage under construc-sence of China on the Council be-There, in Grand Guignol plays. American
re-established relations, tion in the world British ship comes correspondingly important. Miss Thorndike as she then was America, moreover, is as strongly though they actually have been rards had 44 per cent. Despite Bolivia's election is chiefly of in--appeared as the actress with a desirous as the United States trestored by ceremoniously ex- the competition of foreign sub-terest in recalling the long-draw-si-embracing technique which she keep clear of European meshes sidised building and of the out Gran Chaco dispute, in which perfected at the Old Vic.
sugges-
an optimistic atmosphere."-" temptation which Germany of Bolivia was involved with
She played comic and tragic and will offer its own
tions.
Latin-American statesmen re- fers to other countries to
guay. and which has now been roles with equal virtuosity.
Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, the liquidate their frozen credits settled largely owing to the help
Argentine Foreign Minister, will sard the circumstances as the most auspicious ever to attend the with her by giving her orders of the League.
present a new general peace trea-opening of a Pan-American meet- ty to provide for a joint ban on
ing.....
of the
Para-
CORRESPONDENCE
Benevolent Society's
Thanks
Your Daily Smile!
Jeweller:
Ho-m!
Yes, sir. Mr. Jones, please show this gentleman that tray of engagement rings.”
*
Getting It Straight
A little girl who was in the habit of saying, "ain't for "isn't," was re- proved by her mother.
relations. South
lchanging- missions
and creating
exports of war supplies to belli- Even the 1933 conference at gerents in case of war and to be Montevideo, they point out, start- altered only in the event of uned with several cloads threatening ited action declaring an aggres: trouble, although it turned out a harmonious and -successful par-
sor.
ley.:
(Continued, on Page 6)
COLONEL AND MME. BECK ENTERTAINED
for ships, the British yards had la good deal more than as much work as all their four chief rivals put together. This is a long lead, and as it is likely to be maintained. Before the end of the year we may expect that]
New Rule For Sexs 1,000,000 tons of mercantile
[To The Editor. "Chinx Mail"] ̧
Another Argentine proposal, shipping will be on the stocks.
The performances
Sir, I shall be obliged if you
drafted by a group of internation Queen Mary and of other new will grant me the courtesy of your A short time afterward, on hearing British liners have raised the columns in order to express the heroin use the same remark, stealists, writers and editors, will prestige of our shipyards to its thanks of the Hong Kong Beneran to her mother and exclaimed: Propose a convention declaring
London, To-day-Colonel Beck, old dominant height. Foreign volent Society to all those kind "Mother, Doris says: It ain't but it ships in inter-American trade "en-}-
isn't ain't, is it? It's isn't ain't gaged in coastal traffic, regard- response owners are realising that Bri-people who, in
less of their ownership...
who. accompanied by Madame tish yards send
Its purpose will be to warn Beck, is on an official visit to Lon- out both pas broadcast appeal of Sunday last, senger and cargo vessels more have sent us substantial gifts of
nations, against don, called at the Foreign Office admonishing European economical and more efficient clothing.
asyesterday morning. The visitors than the best of those produced Letters of acimowledgment are some children who had just hiero searches and seizures such
those during the World war. were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. abroad. Some share of the being sent to those whose names gisphed his fresh cement pavement.
"But, his wife reminded. "you
For prevention of war in the Anthony Eden at luncheon at the credit for this must be given to jare known to us, but we now wish
have always said you loved children!" donors, the Government policy which to thank all anonymous
"Yes, I do like children in the ab-Americas the conference will con-Carlton Hotel British Wireless
Isider creation of a permanent ]Service. bas made possible the construction and especially the one who. stract, but not in the concrete!” of the Queen Mary and the sent us the spiendid gift of an "scrap and build" inducements order on a local firm for 20 pairs
B. HALL.
to owners to improve tramp of children's shoes, shipping. Such encouragement, however, would have been un- availing without the dauntless determination and enterprise of
to Toky
it?"
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Right Place
The professor
President,
Hong Kong Benevolent Society.
the industry. Great improve GROUND FLOOR
GUTTED
Fire In Grocery Shop
ments a hull and machinery have been devised. The modern cargo-boat far surpasses those of 10 years ago. Shipowners have shown the spirit which established the supremacy of the British mercantile marine and placed orders boldly for the future. Confidence in the ex-this morning at the Eok Ming pansion of international trade Grocery Shop, No. 139, Main has grown much stronger of Street.
A fire occurred at two
o'clock
the
¡late all over the world. That Fire engines were despatched to Imay be expected to multiply the scene immediately after
orders, and as the shipyarde alarm was received, but the fire grow busy many other of the was not extinguished until after basic industrial activities of the the entire ground floor of the pre country are stimulated.
mises had been gutted. The ad- joining building, No. 141, suffered which Discovering The Past damage from the water
was used to extinguish the fire.
Many discoveries in the last hundred years have changed and Cyclopean memorials. This our notions of man and the century was just beginning be- world. The archaeologist with fore even scholars understood his spade has been quite as dis- that Sir Arthur Evans had concerting as the physicist and found in Crete evidence of the the biologist in their labora existence of a great unknown tories. Some of the most at Empire which produced beauti- tractive of his revelations were ful art a thousand years before seen recently in the exhibition the golden days of Greece. at the Royal Academy of the Put they are Parisians," an work of British archaeology in enthusiastic French savant the Greece Seventy years" ago cried when first he saw there was no reliable history of statuettes of those Minoan Europe earlier than five or six beauties. The modernity of the centuries before Christ styles of society 3,000 years and Whether the heroes of Homer more departed is only one of the ever fought about windy Troy, touches of sarcastic humour in whether Agamemnon was ever the revelations of archaeology. king of men in Mycenae were Its most important lesson is fancies to play with for the that in the mass of tradition origin of Western civilisation, which folk lore and poetry and Then the enthusiastic Ger- literature have handed down man Schiemann-discovered there are embodied facts of the that there was en Homeric age forgotten history of mankind which had left rolden treasure of deen significan
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