HENA MAIL, DECEMBER 6, 1937–
GREEKS LEAVE WHERE WILL T
HERR HITLER A HOUSE
Cologne, To-day.
Greek inhabitants of Cologne have bequeathed a house valued at £6,000, to Herr Hitler for "fighting Bolshevism.”
Failing the Fuehrer's accep tance, the house has been left to General Goering-Reater.
RUNAWAY PLANE INCIDENT ACQUITTAL
Paris, To-day.
The French airwoman, Mme. Irene Schroeder, has been acquitted by the Versailles assize court of attempted murder of her lover, the flying instruc- tor, Pierre Lallemant, in December, 1936.
Mme. Irene, it will be recalled, was alleged to have shot Lalle mant while they were flying in the neighbourhood of Paris..
WE FIND
UNCLE SAM?
Sir,
When one's house is on fire, one naturally looks to one's friendly neighbours for aid Now China is on fire-set on fire by Japanese incen- diaries. She looks to her friendly, neighbours for aid; but she expects valuable aid to come particularly from the U.S.A, inasmuch as she not only enjoys a strong traditional friendship with Chè a, but also is in the best pos sible ption among China's friend- ly neig jours. However, contrary to all expectation, she has up to the pre- sent been a more or less nonchalant: onlooker, the result, no doubt of the overwhelming weight of infinence thrown upon her political machinery by her isolationists.
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The one and undivided opinion of conscientious observers is that the USA, in evading any effective measure to stay the hand of the Ja- panese, ignores the fact that by dint
Der solemn pledge in the un- equivocal terms of the Washington Treaty, she,, being the leading Fow
er in its conception, has an inexcus-
able moral obligation to support, if tion, in collaboration with other sig- natory Powers, to safeguard China's
not initiate, some form of positive ac-
sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Barring all possible diplomatic in- rigues, the obvious argument for ne present stand taken up by the U.S.A. is that she does not want to incur the wrath of Dai Nippon and get herself involved in the conflict. In other words, she does not want a Although wounded, Lallemant
war Many competent observers, succeeded in landing in a field; however, assert that methods effec- and leaped from the plane, where-tively to bring the Japanese to their upon Mme. Schroedeh flew off Senses do not af necessity give war or invite one. Given that war is in- alone to England, where she
evitable in the application of any ef- crashed on the Sussex coast.
fective measure to curb the mad headlong plunge of the Japanese, does America think that by standing aloof with : folded -arms and letting the Japanese have a free hand she possibly can avoid involving herself? Ife does, she is unduly optimistic. She cannot have forgotten so very soon the positive policy advocated by Tanaka in his famous Memorial to the Mikado în 1927, nor can she be so witless as not to be alive to the fact that the present coup of the Yamato warlords represents only one stage of their bold plan of con- quest.
She was subsequently extradit ed at the request of the French Government. Trans-Ocean.
DEATH OF U.S. MISSIONARY
Wuchow, To-day.
Miss M. Rasmussen, of the Assem- blies of God Mission, died last week! in the Stout Memorial Baptist Hos- pital in Wuchow. Miss Rasmussen was brought to the hospital by her Chinese friends from Hoikin. She was unconsious during the two days journey by houseboat from Hoikin to Wachor and died within a few hours of having reached the hospital Plans are now being made to burv her in the little Foreign Cemetary in Wuchow on the banks of the West River
Miss Raszkissen came from America as a missionary in 1923. The headquarters of her Mission are in Kowloon-Our Own Corres- pondent.
GOALLESS DRAW IN PARIS
Paris, To day. A crowd o of 45,000 yesterday watched the French and Italian international football teams bat fle to a goalless draw.
Russia has adopted an ostensibly. calm attitude since the outbreak of the present hostilities. But is she going to maintain that attitude for long? It is difficult to see how she can afford to be. True it is that in view of the existing German-Italian
Japanese, Anti-Comintern Pact Ens sia has to exercise great care in ciding upon any step she may in the Far East; but that does not necessarily mean that she is going be strangled to death without a strug gle by the mere existence of the in- strument. It would be a lamentably unimaginative Erssia, should she fail to see the difference between the pre- sent Japan with a precarious econo mie situation at home plus a sapping war abroad, and one, when she may have tablished herself in the de tze Valley and availed he rich supply of raw k haps even man-; ber war machi moment to str will depend she has
pact to latter see her Far remaining Po ti-Comîntern nor can Great will be Uncle
Feeling at times ran rather high and there was some dirty On acco play, but the referee, a Swiss, dered for never allowed the match to get Philharmon out of hand
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