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EXTRAORDINARY EVENT!
34 COUNTRIES have seen and acclaimed La Meril New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, every country in South America. and in the past year Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, India, Burma, Malaya and Java, all echo the words of the Paris press.. “WE HAVE SEEN HER, WE SHALL NEVER FORGET HER!”
KING'S
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1937.
PERILS OF ABANDONMENT OF NON-INTERVENTION URGED
MON 5th AT 9.30 IN COMMONS DEBATE
JULY
ONE SHOW
ONLY
Positively the only appearance in Hong Kong of the beautiful and famous international dancer.
LA MERI
assisted by
in her. Superb Dance Creations.
BASSANO RAMGOPAL
Brilliant Young Hindu Dancer
who has created a veritable sensation everywhere. BOOKING OPENS AT KING'S THEATRE ON TUESDAY MORNING for reserving seats at $6.30 and $4.50 (plus tax). Lower price seats on day of performance. FREE LIST ENTIRELY SUSPENDED.
London, To-day.
"Definite encouraging" signs of improvement in the international situation in the Far East were noted by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, replying in the debate on Foreign affairs in the House of Commons yesterday.
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The preliminary Anglo-Japanese conversa- tions, he said, had encouraged the hope that a mere definite exchange of views would lead to further progress.
Mr. Eden repeated, however, that any Anglo-Japanese under- standing would not be effected at the expense of China.
The Imperial Conference had un-
RUSSIAN PART IN WAR animously agreed that Pacific
OF THE FUTURE
a
Pact was a desirable objective and preliminary enquiries will shortly be made amongst the interested. Governments to decide whether de-
DANGER OF POLICY COLLAPSE
But Britain Will Not Relinquish Plan
London, To-day.
ALMOST CERTAIN TO BE DEFEATED finite proposals can be usefully ad- in the House of Commons on Bri-
SAYS TROTSKY
can be
Certain defeat awaits Soviet Rus-]mic might between two hostile so- sia în a future war unless her cial systems
postponed. enemies are crippled by revolution During a war the test is made dir-
This pro-Jectly upon the field of battle." in their own countries. phecy is made by Leon Trotsky, Trotsky thinks that in the com creator of the Red Army, in his ing mar all Soviet treaties with book, "The Revolution Betrayed" other nations will be treated as
(Faber, 12s. 6d.).
vanced.
Rebutting the criticisms of Mr. Lloyd-George regarding the non-intervention policy. Mr. Eden said Mr. Lloyd George kept Russia in the background. whereas
the Agundoubtedly Russian contribution of war material was very large, ..
THE ALTERNATIVE
"scraps of paper.". The "Imper- Non-intervention had been
:
in
the
In the course of a lengthy debate
tish foreign policy yesterday,
the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, seized the opportunity to make a comprehensive statement on the motives determining Govern- ment actions in all parts of the world, particularly Spain.
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Mr. Eden admitted that the non- intervention policy had not yet worked satisfactorily but emphasis- ed that in spite of that no Power had yet denounced the non-inter-
PERIL GIGANTIC
·Writing from his exile in Mexico,ialist" Powers would immediately force eight months and nobody sugtion agreement, not even the Soviet. the former War Commissar analysink their differences in order to gested denouncing it, not even ses the military power he helped to block a military victory of the So-Russia, simply because they have found, and compares Russia's viet.
to face the alternative of unlimit strength with that of possible op- The Hope Of Revolution ed support and competition in arms ponents.
But Trotsky foresees revolutions and men with the attendant risks r
In other words, Europe had ap His conclusion is "If the war and popular upheavals in each of such competition conducted with proved the policy of non-interven- should remain only a war the de- the countries which might attack the approval and perhaps active unrestricted competition in the sup- tion because the alternative was feat of the Soviet Union would be Russia. Hitler, he holds, has far support of the rival States. inevitable. In
a technical, econ-less chance than had Wilhelm II. Mr. Eden doubted whether
ply of weapons and men to Spain, in omic and military sense, imperialism of carrying a war to victory. repeated suggestions for the aboli-
which case the peril of a general is incomparably more strong.
Only a timely revolution, by sav-tion of non-intervention would conflict would become gigantic.. If it is not paralysed by revolu-ing Germany from war, tould save necessarily benefit the Spanish Gov-a
Mr. Eden referred to the Leipzig tion in the west, imperialism will her from a new defeat.
ernment as much as people be incident and declared that the Bri- sweep away the regime which is-
tish Government regretted that it sued from the October revoluton.”
Mr. Eden said the Government had not been possible to arrive at was in
close consultation with a four-Power agreement in the mat- France regarding future lines of ter. nolicy, and it was important to know the future German and Ita- Jian attitude.
"Enormous Man Power”
"The population of Japan is įlieved.. suffocated Korea, Manchuria, China, Manchukuo, at the first weakening of the military pincera, will rise Trotsky assumes that a war be-against the Japanese.
1 war will tween Russia and her neighbours is bring the Empire of the Mikado to bound to come. The Soviet's two the greatest of social catastrophes.. great potential advantages in such "The situation of Poland is but a war, he says, are her vast spaces little better. and her enormous man power.
Trying to insure it self by a union with France and lish bourgoisie a friendship with Germany, the Po- is incapable of accomplishing anything except to hasten the war and find in it a more certain death.”
Having grown by almost 3,000,- 000 per year, the population of the Soviet Union has apparently now passed 170,000,000, A single re- cruiting class
comprises about 1,300,000 men. The strictest sort- ing, both physical and--political,
SPAIN AND LEIPZIG.
Enquiries had shown the two
The British Government had been Governments would participate in unable to participate in the propos non-intervention except in respected naval demonstration because the i of naval control.
Spanish Government not only denied the charge brought but asserted that ONE MORE EFFORT
it was able to prove that its sub¬ There would be a meeting of the marines at the time of the attack non-intervention committee to learn on the German cruiser, were all ins the attitude of these Powers, and if port, there was willingness to co-operate,
"Trotsky's book is a denunciation would throw out not more than Communist Revolution. Hastened by see if this policy could not succeed. efforts made, that the non-interven
of Stalin's "betrayal" and the they would make one more effort to there was a danger, in spite of all--!· Mr. Eden hinted at the fear that. 400,000. The resources, therefore, the coming war he foresees in Rus- which may be theoretically esti-
Regarding the Leipzig tornedo tion policy, might not be maintain-- mated at 18,000,000 to 20,000,000
Incident, there was a real diver RE are practically unlimited.”
able but declined to say more ex- gence of views on the facts, and cept that the British Government -*- qaza we could not join what was vir
not relinquish non-interven- tually an execution judgment without investigation. (Opposi- the dangers involved in abandoning was fully conscious of tion Cheers).
sian revolt of the masses :: against the Kremlin "bureaucracy" Stalin, Though he indicts many followers
he says, has created a new aristo- of Soviet “planned economy cracy of wealth. Trotsky analyses Trotsky admits that its greatest ad- aristocracy, and concludes that “15 the numbers and rewards of this vantages are military ones.
Economically,
or 20 per cent. of the population Russia is enorm- ously more powerful to-day than than is enjoyed by the
enjoys not much less of the wealth in Tsarist times. Yet he declares 80 to 85 per cent.”
remaining that the country still dangerously backward and weak.
mains
If a similar incident occurred to British ship, the Government. would be quite ready to accept an enquiry.—Reuter.
"The low productivity of labour, the Spanish-American war tried to bot- Rear Adml. Hobson, who in 1898 In the inadequate quality of the pro- tla. up the Spanish fleet at Santiago,
Yang Hu-cheng ducts, the weakness of the means Gr by taking the collier Merrimac of transport are only to
sinta: cer-
rbour and blowing it up,
Shanghai, To-day. tain degree compensated by space
died at New York, aged 86.0.
General Yang Hu-cheng, the and natural riches and the num- |- Mr E. G. D. Liveing. North Re-Shangbai on his foreign tour
Stanfo revolt leader, will leave bers of the population. In times gional director, is resigning after 18 June 29 in the President Hoover — of peace the measuring of econo- vote himself to literary work.
years' Bervice with the B.B.C., to de-
Our Own Correspondent.
L
on
tion,
this
-Trans-Ocean.
Soviet Nava.. Manoeuvres Postponed
Moscow,
were to hi
the presence ander-in-Chief, Admiral been, indefinitely