THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
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Andrew's, Kowloon), the Rev. Lewis Bryan (Senior Chaplain to the Forces), the Rev. E. G. Powell (Union Church, Kennedy Road), the Rer. Dr. E. L. Allen (Union Church, Kowloon) and the Rev. E. CH. Trebbick (Wesleyan Church, Wanchai).
The Service HE. the Offer Administering the Government and Mrs. Sonthorn, and there ware, also present mem- bers of the Executive and Legisla. tive Councils, representatives of the Consular Budy, the Girl Guiden and Toy Scotts, A special form of service was observed and the offertory was for Earl Haig's Fund for disabled ex-Service men,
was attended by
A Rew Spirit.
пч SLTO in-
But now spirit was witlent
doubt abroad,
Mea were Dow planning and scheining for international peace as they had before planned and selvamed for the suppised benefits of exclusive nationalism. They had been driven to it by the bitter
knowledge of what
war
mment
lays. This was in italf an immers gain, but it was a gain which could nad perustently depend for its ecurity on exparience of war and disinalization. For its sufferings These must inevitably fade away with the passage of time.
Aul, in any case, fear was always a bal motive on which to depend for anything positively good The positive pursuit of pear for it own salur must take the place of merr shrinking from war.
Patriotism,
Patriotism in the past had been ten closely identified with the carmies of peace. National self.
nggranulisement was no
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1932.
AMERICA'S RELATIONS WITH FAR EASTERN POWERS
VIEWS OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT--MR. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
OPTIMISM OF NINE YEARS AGO
We continue below an article written by Mr. Frankiin BODSE velt, now President-elect of the United States, in the year 1923, Conditions have changed, and Mr. Roosevelt's viewa may be vastly different today. The interest Iles in the revelation of Mr. Roosa- valt's ideas of a breadth of outlook and knowledge of World affairs, not always found in American clatesmanship.
THE STRATEGIC CONSIDERATION
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has exalted this as the basic cause military of all armed conflicts between nations. With this school I moat profoundly disagree. During tho past hundred and ten years, for instance, the United States has been in many respects Great Britain's most serious commercial competitor. Yet these rival nations look back on a record of unbroken peace during all that time.
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5th.-Up hetimes and upon my way to my office. I go in ta the, Secretary of the Jockey Clubbs and at his office had one to sell me a billet in the sweepstakes, taking a through chance and I do find my number be, three hundred and! (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG thirty-four. Thence to my papers
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where I am very busy for a time.
SIR-In 1993 a movement was and later to the Valley where I started to found an Institute to take my nuncheon with a friend | perpetuate for all time the name and all very fine, good food, plea. of Sir Ronald Ross, to carry on research work, and to stimulate sant cozipang and rich wines, malaria control measures in the that I am in doubt how later I Empire. shall play at Krickett, But being more abstenious than my illustrious ancestor I do presently manage pretty well. Wagered a five forin billet upon Sadka in the first race and did win, it being within my knowledge that Glen- eagles be not yet fit. Yet, were
There is no endowment fund and both horses in true fitness I would for two years contributions have adventure my wager upon Glan-been 5 per cent, bolow expendi eagles every time at a mile or a mile and a quarter. Sitting Bull starts and is nowhere. No doubt he be not fit, but I do suspect his day is done. Thence to the Kric- kest where the Indians do have great good fortune in defeating the Civil Service, who do seem to mo to be less moribund this than heretofore.
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So back to the Clubb whore 1 meet Mr. Northern and his Lady and we drink a glass MISS . M. JEFFERSON AND or two of Hollande waters, and then I to bathe and trim myself. Thoreafter they did take their "din- ner with me in Whipsnade and then" an to a picture house, the pic- ture pretty well, and some good acting in it.
"
A quiet wedding of interest to number of residents in the Colony and at Home took place yesterday at the Union Church, Kennedy Rond, between Mr. 3. D. Parkinson, Assistant Distribution Engineer of the China Light & Power Co. (1916), Ltd., and Mise O. M. Jefferson, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs R. E. Jefferson of Keyingham, East Yorkshire.
by Mr. B. Paul, wore a gown of The bride who was given away silver grey lace with hat and shoes
to match and carried a bouquet of Honolulu ereoper. Mias Thelma May was bridesmaid and wore a dress of rose georgette.
The Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen assist- ed by the Rev. E. G. Powell con- ducted the ceremony with Mr.
out by Mr. C. B. Easterbrook, Longyear at the organ, whilst the duties of best man” were carried
The reception was held at the Hong Kong Hotel.
aent
But upon looking round I do marvel that so many aen do pay nigh two Rozins to sleep uncomfortably in chair, whereas they might alumber in com- fort at home and he at no charges for it. And so to bed very tired.
6th, Lord's Day.-Reading in my great ancestor's diary this morning 1 nm for a moment at a stone to comprehend bis moaning in the phrase a noise of trumpe's and that wo shall continue to overlap tioun I de perceive he doth use the In the case of Japan it is true a set of fiddlers," but upon reflee. and perhaps to clash in the develop ment of the commerce of the words as collective designations as Pacific, but when one considers the one should say that when coming potential trade of the vast ter down upon the ten A.M. tram he torios and huge populations border-
a turk of lawyers. Busy letter signed by one "Gift Horsa" ing the North and South Pacific did see oceans there would seem to be with my accounts, and then to the who alleges that a duty of one hun enough commercial room, and to spare for both Japan and us well Clubbe verandah where I meet Mr.dred per centura is charged upon
MacLentil whom I have not seen silk garments picces
DT into the indefinito futuro.
Finally, I believe that we may this long time. Anon comes Creed through the post, And this is a naughty lio, albeit it may be he assume the principal causes of fric tion in the past either to have been who tells us he hath it upon good proves but a man of such small removed or to be on the road to authority that restrictiouns upon entendimiente that he understands
That status
the water supply are to be resumed not it be but a depósit, to guarau. eventual élimination
And I
tee the Master of the Kinge's Posts suppose alone, however, is not sufficient. on the morrow. Things cannot remain merely nega. that these last two months there against loss should the duty upon. tive. If we eliminate the habit of has been the olde wasteful con-silk be raised before the parcel
the. mind of the past something else, aumption. For people seem to arrives in England and so
up to money charged be not enough. some other habit of mind, mustlack comprehension that take its place. Therein lies a September at its beginning water Talking to the Master of the magnificent opportunity. The United may be freely used but thereafter Kings's Posts he tells me that he States and Japan came through the there is but little chance of replace believes to speak at random more world war in better physical and meat, and one should have a care. than one half of the amount may. Walked in the be returned when the account is economic condition than any others But they do not. of the great powers. Their loss in Gardens, where the new storage cleared, or so I think he did say. man-power was relatively very tanks proceed space, and Mr.Did play at Bowls at My Lord's small Their gain in potential Green tells me, there will later be and later writing in my diary, sot thereon flowerbeds and a foun-aftor a moes excellent dish of let- world markets and in home re- sources was correspondingly groat. tain. Yot do miss the old ter-tuce and radish with some most races sadly. This night played at excellent cold beef lightly done, Their national debts, though mate rially increased, wore in part taken bridge with Mr. Gammon and others and a Flaggen or two of British care of by their growth in national but did hold the worst possible ale. wealth. To-day the school of those cards and so did lose. But I trust that the solvent shall recover it. who believe nations, those who are in & position to help restora the world, must
The Very Rev. Dean Swann, whe
As long as ten years ago tuval ↑ delicato, the question of Japanese was the preacher, in the course of his sermon urged the need of inexperts said that a fleet crossing immigration and property-owning wido ocean from its home base in the United States, it is difficult to -ternational peace. In the past four-
tren years the antions of the worldust of necessity lose from a quar- write without arousing unreason- ter to a third of ita fighting value. ing passions on one sids or on both. had been making the most strenuous
If that judgment was true ten yours
So far as Americans are concern. and neinally by far the most suc
ago, then the principle is oven more ed, it must be admitted that, as a evafal · afforts towards th per-
true to-day; for the addition of two whole, they honestly believe and in annet establishment of interna
new dimensions, under water and this belief they are at one with the tional peace that the world had yet seen, The League of Nations in the air, to the fighting-arca has people of Australasia and Canada now included fifty-seven States, and made the protection of the capital that the mingling of white with an even larger number had accept ship super dreadnought or battle oriental blood on an extensive scale
cruiser, the fundamental fighting is harmful to our future citizen l a pact by which they had ex-
naita much harder task than it ship. This belief extends to and plicitly renounced war
was then. If our naval oxperts affcots not only the Japanesc, na o Stment of national policy.
a dronde ago doubted whether wo raco, but other oriental peoples There existed for to much rep could hold the Philippines with n of acknowlodged dignity and inte- Tirisan about these efforts for peace. The Leagan nil beir accepted and fleet more than twice as powerful grity, such as the Chinose, the doubted, pinised and blamed by as that of Japan, what would they, natives of the Philippines and the turns The sincerity of the Kellogg say to day, when we have a fleet Hindus of India. As a corollary Pact had been pooh-poohed andated as only five to three with that of this conviction, Americans ob- there had been occasions when the of Japan-i netual efficiency of ject to the holding of large amounts new machinery had seemed help material and number of personaci | if real property, of land, by aliens the ratio is actually new lower than or by those descended from mixed that agreed upon--and the new in marriages. Frankly, they do not struments of warfare capable of want non-assimilable immigrante intensive use over a short radiua, as citizens, nor do they desire any undiweloped ten years ago, have extensive proprietorship of land now born enormously multiplied? without citizenship. And on the other hand, even if Japan in 1914 had any false notion The Question of dommerce. that she could threaten, us either through Mexico or by direet in
Are there any remaining causes vasion of the Pacific coast, it is of probable offense which might afe to say that her strategists have justify a continuance of the old now tacitly abandoned such ideas, attitude Yes, one other must be Nobody, presumably, after all the taken into consideration-commer- prophets of 1914 have been proved cial rivalry in the Pacific. A cer- without honour in any country, Itain school of international thought would attempt to any what would happen at the end of a deadlock, between Japan and the United States. After the first year
two of hostilities or
economic causes would become the deter mining factor. Tableau: Japan and the United States, four or five thousand miles apart, making faces at ono, another across a no-man's water as broad na the Pacific. Soine genius might then arise to ask what it was all about and what the use was of the atrophy of national life and development. Or, mirable than the personal sort, to take a pessimistic view, jing and any form of deceitfulues for counsels might prevail in both selfish ulvantage Wan just na nations until one or the other, or nasty in nations as in individuals, both, had bled to death through Patriotism must be kept by all the pocket-book. If, then, it were means, but it must be a regenernie realized by the people of this coun- patriotists eufornting to the law try and of Japan that a war would od service instead of that of selfieh-ben futile gesture, attended by no 11:
The Christian Gospel was sufficiently compensating results, as essary for antioris as for each nation might be in a fair way individuala.
to changu its apprehensive habit of After the service, a wreath from mind. the Cathedral Body was placed on It may he remembered that the the Cathedral War. Meniorial by Chinese delegates at Versailles re. Dr. G. A. C. Herklots and Mr fused to sign the peace document B. E. Maughan,
because of the reservation to Japan therein of the German rights and claims to the sacred province of AT ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH. Shantung. Japan's signature to the peace was contingent upon that reservation. Shantung was express. ly the sine qua hon of Japanese adherence to the peace of Versailles, Shantung
was the gist of the twenty-one demands. And yet on September 14, 1922, Japan with drew from Shantung, handing over At St. Joseph's Church, Garden everything to the Chinese, in ac Noad, yesterday morning, Mas
with her Washington was celebrated by the Rev. Fr. J. plodges, amid the astonished con- J. O'Brien, Chaplain to the Forces,
templation of the journalists of Children from Catholic Schools the world and of the Chinese them
10th. To my office betimes and and institutions of the Colony selves Joint administration of the
looking with my perspective glass formed a large part of a congrega- railroad was continued as agreed
7th.-Roading in the Nowes from the verandah I do perceive upon. In this lattor case of very
Shestes I do” learn that Aimba Fr. O'Brien in the course of his material encrifice the irreconcil. play their magnanimous part, is MacPherson, the hot gospeller, doth that the King's great shippe Kent serinon emphasised that the Warables point out that Japan in almost daily receiving accessions of threaten to visit the Colony which be some into port, in which the called for unprecedented verifices than she lost in Shantung, A Chi purely selfish desire for additional puradventure, be salutary for her. It is said she may stop here, for
reality gained in the long run more strength. Whether it be from a
may God forbid Yet it might Commander-in-Chief flies his Flog. by the individual and by the nation. He continued:-The real- ness boycott had crippled her trade prosperity, or whether it rise from nu ideal in the war years, should in the republic, theas critics ex-something to mankind as a whole, Film Stars and Novelists who are and good friends be in her. This isation of what men have dune for in this, one of the richest provinces the deep belief that owe a little for the Colony is a most excellent some months,. and I am glad of it purger of the naughty vanity of for some of my olde acquaintanes inspire us with courage and complain, and Japanese policies and the demand for the quieting of the west to be fawried upon by adulat night an old friend whom I had fidence to face the trials of the ambitions in Shantung were rapid troubled waters is heard on overying crowds. This night to a Ball not seen these twarty and me years, present and future. Sacrifice is ly stirring up a national resantside.
nt My Lord's where the pleasantest and much pleasant converse with Shall the United States enter still called for in the struggle of ment throughout China. However life. Whole nations, nay the whole that may be, the fact remains that upon this great task for mankind 7 party possible. There I do find on him
old-friend whom I had not met world, is sick at the present time,
the Kate administration carried out If we say Yes," we must pak fur theas many years, I know not why. 11th-Reading carly in the and statesmen seem to search into the letter in Shantung what Author: "Shall we undertake this and we did sup together and all Newes Sheetes, I find in Mr. R. vain for a ruinedy, But antions miral Kato signed to do at Wash mission alone? Is it too big for very merry. So home very late to Abbie's cricket nates two most are composed of individuals and ington,
usi Can any one else help?" It bod.
curious worda "Tchabod " and the cure must start with the in-
Auldama, but though I search the dividual. But one sees nations 28
Buch magnitude that ordinary poli- 8th-This day dawns very chilly maps of Siberia and Russia I wall as individuals each waiting
tion gentry, stand back appalled.and at fire. I did think that winter found them not. Anom Mooting for the other to start: cach imbued important question of Japanese view, we shall never begin, we becomes more clement later. Bath matter, and he tells me the words Now with regard also to the very If we accopt their ostrich point of had at last come. But the weather Mr. Abbit I speak to him of the with his own claims and rights and American interests in China, shall never highly dare. We shall ing myself, I perceive that the re-wers Ichabod and Aceldama, and the situation is somewhat immins our great opportunity. But it strictions be indeed in force us the did he have his way it would be proved The idea of the partition would com to be a matter of con iron of the pipes, left empty when the second. Writing letters very of China, which, hung like a cloud mon senso that, if we once do de- the water is turned off, do rust and betimes and then to my office where one anothor's burdena so na to fulfil
on the horizon of two generations vote ourselves to this work,
we then the returning water is all I must needs Goe as my sist the law of Christ wasires in each of Japanese growth, I regard ns should call in all is senstance stained with it. Yet they tell mic is away, and there so busy I can- of us as much self sacrifice and having been dissipated, if not for available. It is a world undertak it is healthy and it may be an not come to the Conataph, which courage as animinted those war over, then for our own times, by ing. South America ought to help iron bath may be good for my grieves mo.
But Lord, to sod how heroes whose memory we comment the great war. During theso sama and in the light of the Pau rheumaticks. These find to be little the two minutes' silence bi orate taydný :: and the highest generations and longer the United American Congress at Santiago, better but whether it be because of observed upon the Prays! Yet, as motive and almoet the only com-States, innocent of territorial am will help; the British colonies the Epsom Salte in my bath, or of I suppose, it were well nigh im pelling one behind that self-denialbitions, has been the proverbial should lend a hand. And why, in the substitutioun of flaggons of ale posible to keep it, save in a set und wolf sacrifice must be de love friend of Chine, and American all rozson bould not open, for droughts of strong waters Insembly Later watching the of God and the service of Him" "ympathies have boon pro-Chinese shoulder to shoulder with us, pro- know not. This night did bowl in Krickett and thinking of those men through our neighbour Service of rather than pro-Japanese. Per vide her aid na well! If instead the Alleys where I have not been who had played upon the Clubbe our neighbour for his sake alcao laps, however, wo are appreciating of looking for causes of offense, this long while.
ground and Inter had given their or for the oventual good of the now a little more readily than we in all good faith-confidently ex-
lives for their Country. So, zome country will never sustain a man formerly the Japanese point of pect from Japan co-operation, in 9tReading. in the news what sad, to my Chamber und vory in the long drawn out fight against view.
wild world upbuilding, we soul go far scores this morning I do find a busy, writing of my mail, and so his own polfish intereste,
On the final point and the most toward insuring peace."
(Continued on next; column)HE to bed,
GARDEN ROAD
FATHER J. J. O'BRIEN'S ADDRESS ON WAR AND PEACE SACRIFICES
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