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HOW SANCTIONS HAVE
WORKED
Slow Development Of The Pressure On Italy"
INCOME FROM EXPORTS HALVED
London, May 8. Authoritative speakers in the House of Commons will to-morrow be discussing the future of the sanctions enforced against Italy since November. The past story of the sanctions is easier to put on
record.
troops
Italian
marched lato Abyssinian territory in the irst week of October. On October 5 the Abyssinian representative at Geneva demanded the naming of Italy as the aggressor and applica- tion of sanctions under article 16 of the Covenant. Cheer this at- ticle the members undertake to subject the aggressor to severance of all trade or financial relations. prohibition of all inter- course between their nationals...... prevention of all financial, com- mercial, or personal intercourse be- tween the nationals of the Coven- ant-breaking State and "the na- tionals of any other State, whether a member of the League or not.
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ROYAL ACADEMY
The Benediction Of China
FIRST NOTICE
Around the Courts
BANISHEES
Three bankshees appeared before. Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Court yesterday charged with re- turning from banishment. Two were sentenced to imprisonment. the other was remanded for 48 hours,
Cheng Hing, 31, unemployed was remanded for 48 hours. Defendant stated that he had code back from ¦ the country to look for some things. He went to the Police Station to get permission and was arrested. He was banished for 10 years on February 21, this year.
London May 2 As when a gracious guest has departed some benefits of his per- sonality are felt to remain in the manners of the household, so at this year's Bummer Exhibition of the Royal Academy, the one hun dred and sixty-eighth, there is fel! the benign-influence of the Winter Exhibition of Chinese AXL. This is not by way of mitation, indeed there are fewer "ch.noiseries" than usual, nor is it wholly due to the material circumstance that the canvas, wall covering has been re- ta hed, with a gain in unity of effect and to the individual ad- vantage of most of the paintings It is something much more subtle than that, inspiring the Academy. not to rise above itself, bus to be on its best behaviour-if the disposed. (Co-tinction will not be misunderstood.
62 31 14 5 In spite of the effective curtall- ment of imports in December (and these residual imports were only legal because already previously paid for), the total Imports of the chier Italian products in 1935 were greatly in excess of the totals for 1934: for instance frult by 8 per cent, other foodstuffs by 10 per
cent
As can now be read from the re- *ceht League publication ordination Committee document 116) the sanctionist countries as a whole imported in November, 1935, nearly 25 per cent more (by value) from Italy than in November, 1934. By December, 1935. the total im- ports from Italy, were, however, being returned at some 15 per cent less than in the previous year, and by January these imports had been halved.
The League report shows that by January, 1936, Great Britain's im ports from Italy were a mere 3
A committee of the League As sembly of 1921 had drawn up an article by Interpretation' of the
per cent of those in January, 1935. which League members were to ful-French Imports from Italy were 9
this obligation by stages, and al-
per cent of the previous year's. though the interpretation has never
On the other side. the League been Anally rated the organs of the League worked upon the basis of it in drawing up their scheme
or sanctions against Italy.
FINANCIAL SANCTIONS
The actual quality of the work not higher than usual and there have often been more things ap-
proaching greatness, but there has seldom been an exhibition more cons stently good on its own lines. more civilized, and less blatant, It is a remarkable illustration of the truth that when people choose within the mts of their own sympathies they generally choose well, whereas when they go beyond them they are apt to plunge bad-
ly.
More significant things are happening in English art than are represented in this or any other Academy, but, to be fat the Academy does not know how to handle them.
THE ABSENT GREAT
Tse Cheung-fat, 50. unemployed was sentenced to one year. He was banished for 10 years on April 4. this year.
Man Pul. 30, unemployed raid that he came back to look for his wife. He was unsuccessful in his search. He was banished for 10 years on February 9.
this year. Sentence of eight months was im-
STOLE A PAIR OF SHOES An unemployed from Vancouver appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- day charged with the theft of a pair of leather boots from car No. 3245 on Saturday night, and was bound over in the sum of $50 tor six months. An additional charge of receiving stolen goods, was also levied against the accused.
"Detective Sergeant Kinnear or the Water Police said that the car. owned by Lt. Winkfield was left A unaltended in Hanoi Road. Chinese detective saw the accused, Tsoi Hung, 28. walking in Canton Road near Soy Street, with a parcel wrapped in newspaper under his arm. The man was stopped and questioned. He was taken to the Mongkok. Station.
Enquires revealed that a pair of shoes was reported missing, the ac- cused later admitting that he had "picked up" the shoes from a car. He denied stealing them.
The value of the stolen articles y was stared to be $10.
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PRISONER ILL IN JAIL
When Tang Cheung's name was. called in Mr. F. Himsworth's court yesterday morning. It was in- LOITERER BOUND OVER
Ng Wah, 19, unemployed timated by the prosecution" that the prisoner was lying in the
charged before Mr. W. Schofield at fall hospital. The case was ac
the Central Court yesterday with cordingly remanded on the ap- trespassing on Military land, name- of Detective Sergeantly the Military Barracks in Queen's
Road East, at 3 a.m. on May 23.
Defendant said that he wanted to go back to the country and so he went there to look for work,
plication Kinnear.
Accused is charged with Avè others not in custody with being implicated in an armed robbery`on board junk No. T. 5903H on March 29, while sailing near Stu Shi Mun, when 50 sacks of rice, two sacks of yellow beans, and a quan- Re- tity of clothing were stolen. volvers. a rife and knives are
Nobody who reads "The Times" alleged to have been used by the
Stanley
Powers undertook not to export certain key materials to Italy. There were no Italian trade statis- tics after enforcement of sanctions, is likely to misunderstand what is and therefore no means available meant when it is said that the to people outside the Italian Gov- exhibition grins. particularly fa The Co-ordination Committee
ernment circle of knowing in what consistency, by the absence of Mr. firsi decided upon financial sang-
quantity such supplies were actual- W. R. Blckert, and Mr. tions on October 14. Those co-
As in human assembles ly received in Italy. The Italians Spencer. operating in these sanctions agreed
have no doubt been able to acquire, there are lits to the degrees of to forbid any loans, direct or in- indirectly, whatever was most ur importance, which may be included direct. by their nationals to any gently needed for their military conveniency if the party is to person resident in Italy. London
purposes, but they have in all like- go well; and the talents of these. and Paris alone were lending lihood had to pay substantially art.sts are not of the right scale
of апу
more for these key products (arma--the reference is not to size of I:alian bankers and trading people.ments, transport animals rubber, picture-for this company, The An Order in Council was at once and certain metale) owing to their Academy breathes more.freely and promulgated in Great Britain with
loss of direct access to the London consequently shows to better ad- wh.ch the Government gave the
and other "sonetlonist" markets.
vantage in its own character with- Geneva resolution, interpreted in
out them. How little Mr. Spencer close legal detall, the force of law
is understood, here, is shown by true in Great Britain. The League
the parodies of him-it is Covenant being part of the Ver-
they are "only small ones"-which sailles Treaty, the Government was held to have powers to issue 'this drder under the Treaty of Peace Act without further legislation. Nothing has been since heard of
centres
importance to
any infringement of the order, no. therefore, of anybody incurring the severe penalties, including impri sonment, iaid down for offenders.
But Italian bankers had already been compelled to repay the greater
part of their London credits in the
earlier months of 1935. For Bri; tish bankers (and French, bankers similarly) foresaw that, whether Italy went to war or not, the Italian Government would shortly be cop- strained to "ration" foreign ex- change. Italian credits were small compared with German credits, but the bankers were not ready to lose control even of this relatively small amount of money. The Parls and
other financial centres are believed to have ceased from making An- ancial advances to Italy for similar
should the League now call a halt to the sanctions.
ITALY'S IMPORTS Total inports received by Italy have, however, been cut down, as far as the League experts can dis- cern, only less sharply than the total imports "received from Italy by the rest of the world. On Arst reading of the available figures, for February trade either way appears
reduced to 55 per cent of the pre-
vious February, but after allowing for Italy's exports being here shown at cost on delivery, and the im- ports at cost on dispatch, there is fair evidence to show that Italy's
robbers.
by a rather gushing lady with "Oh. Mr. Bennett, I have so much wanted to talk to you." "Yes, madam. what about?” said Bennett with his slight stammer and ner- vous cock of the head.
"The Show is on!" by Dame Laura Knight, RA, is hung in the place of honour at
of the end Gallery II, and the perspective of the picture is such that it collects
the movement of the whole room- 'towards the gash of light beween the curtains of the Big Top. Is it beyond those curtains that we are to find the realization of the quotation from Bridges, "Art is the true and happy, setenze of the The Lew Royal portraits do not soul," exploring nature for spiritual demand more than dutiful recog-influences, on the title-page at nison. "His Late Majesty King | the catalogue, or is that, too," a George V Riding in Hyde Park." by Mr. Frederic Whiting, is a very
are included.
friendly impress on of a happy
memory of China? In itself "The Show is po!" is a good Hlustration et how a thing may be psycholo- moment; in "Her Royal Highness gically right and pictorially wrong. The Duchess of York with her Obviously, in view of the “show." and Princess Margaret Rose" Mr. Children T.RH Princess Elizabeth | the gash of light is the emotional:
centre of interest, but the relent- Edmond Brock has done ful!
less direction, ruled by the planks, of all the figures to it makes havoc of the composition. If the gash Uberties with proportions which of light were the pictorial forms are not piezoriaily explained or :he eyes ought not to be strained
has Justified Mr. Smon Elwes
to
and, though he has taken some
given a breezy presentation of
imports were maintained at a dis-t.ce domestic sentiment; tinctly higher proportion of the previous year's figures than were the exports. In fact, the Italian income from exports may have been halved and Italian outlay upon imports cut by only one-third. The cutting of imports signides a great shortage in Italy of the commodities' lower on the list of war-time urgency-notably raw cotton and raw wool. The shortage has been, that is to say, not on articles in the prohibited dat
"HRH The Duke of York, K... Colonel-in-Chief
Hussars XIth (P.A.O.)."
"The Heart of the Empire," Mr. Frank Salisbury's large painting of the National Jubilee Thanksgiving
Service at S2 Paul's Cathedral. has already been discussed ac
It from
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by
move-
Det.-Sergt. Guild said that the defendant was arrested by L/C, N. Bareham, M.F.P., Intering in the Barracks.
Defendant was bound over in $50- and was ordered to return to the country.
“MEMORY DAY”
To Be Observed By Local Americans
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American "Memory Day" which falls next Saturday is to be marked: by ladies of the local American community decorating graves of Americans buried at Happy Valley.
Invitations to ladies to take part are now being issued by the Ameri- can Consulate. Mr. J. C. Poole is In charge of the arrangements.
DEATH OF BEATRICE HARRADEN
Author Of Ships That Pass In The Night"
London, May 7. Miss Beatrice Harraden, the no- velist, died yesterday at Barton- on-Sea, aged 72.
She was the author of one of the -most „popular novels of the early ineties, "Ships that Pass in the Night," which became famous be- fore the days of the best-sellers, and had been translated into every European language, and even into Japanese.
Great
the complete. complete, realization of the figures, in which the colour, also. is artistically rrelevant What Dame Laura Knight can do at her best 18 seen in the quite Covely "Ballet" in the same room; right n size, graceful in
But she leaves behind her a score ment, and subdle in tone, with just the difference from Degas to be of other novels and a nine record. reasons. No dout the "credit drawn up by the sanctions com-length in "The Times," so that it speak an English and a feminine of self-denying work done for the blockade" was sharper on account mittees, for these were bought tion of his skil
only remains to confirm admira- vision One could wish that she fighting forces during the
this instead of War. in surmounting had deposited of the sanctions orders. But Italian somehow, if at great cont, but rathe mechanical dificulties of the "Dawn" as her Diploma Work on Born at Hampstead in 1864, the efforts to raise money abroad need ther on articles classified by the task and his judgment in avoiding election as RA, though that is one late novelist was the youngest not on that account be any easier Italians themselves as of secondary any attempt at a petorial com- urgency. The Italians have also position when what was required acted on the criterion of "counter- was an orderly and legible record ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
sanctions"-refusal to buy from of the occasion. Of the two ver Some weeks later the Co-ordina- countries which have
sluns of **The Lying-in-State, tion Committee agreed upon, and sanctions cause their own, especiWestminster Hall," that by Mr. the League countries, with a few ally from Great Britain. In fact, Freder.ck. W. Elwell, ARA, suc- exceptions, undertook to carry out. the "counter-sanctions"
against ceeds much better in conveying economic sanctions. Briefly, this Great Britain considerably preced the emotions of the occasion, and meant that they undertook toed the sanctions, the Italian coal is a better picture than "The make no further payments for im- purchases having been progressive Princes Vig.1, 12.15 am., January ports from Italy (they might con-ly transferred from South Wales to 28, 1935," by Mr. Frank E. Beres- tinue importing what, was already Germany during 1935.
ford, though, of course, Mr. Ewell paid for) and to forbid certain
had not the exceedingly difficult "key" exports of materials consider-
task of combining the effect of ed essential for war to Italy.
the scene as a whole with recog
onl nizable portraiture
a small pur-scale,
EFFECTS
Owing to large "forestalling" by traders who ordered last autumn quantities of Italian goods in ex- pectation of difficulties in getting supplies later, the Imports into Great Britain from Italy in the first sanctions months were very large. Only in December, 1935, was res triction upon Italian imports shown to be effective. Some examples are
made the
THE UNITED STATES
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MR. JOHN'S AUTHORITY
of her more pleasing paintings of daughter of Samuel and Rosalle the nude. A personal nostalgia Harraden. She had exceptional for the scene hinders judgment of chances of enriching her mind and her "Spring in Cornwall," which storing her imagination through has been purchased out of the culture and travel. As a gifted mu- Chantrey Bequest, bus it is dis-sician she studied at Dresden, and tinctly "matter for a May morn- in early years was a student at ing," and the way in which all-Cheltenham College. She graduat- overlah material is controlled by the arch of the rainbow and the Miss Harraden began her literary emphasis of the black and red career by publishing stories for worn by the lady cannot be children. In 1893, however, she highly praised,
sprang into fame by the publicas tion of "Ships that Pass in the Night." This book was recognised at ance, for its charm, tenderness, and grasp of human naturë.
too
ed BA at London University:
Two other Chantrey purchases may be noted conveniency here: Of the "non-santtionist”: coun-- tries the United States has very
"The Zodiac," a good example of considerably increased its
the decorative symbolism of the
Miss Harraden was not a prolife the chases from Italy during
late Mr. Ernes: Procter' ARA., sanctions period. In November and
though, in our opinion, h's Newlyn writer, though her public eagerly and anticipated her work. Each novel December the United States, Ger- The most "powerful"" works in subjects are sounder work:
the exquisitely subtle "L'In-dealt with a different sphere of Ufe, many, Austria, and Hungary all the Academy, almost straining its sharply Increased their purchases consistency, are the two portraits, I armiere," an English reply to and both plots and treatment var- from Italy, but the two former and "Mrs. Harry Sacher" and "Thomas Berthe Moriso, by the late Miss led greatly. The Fowler," pub- Beatrich How.' Other Diploma lished 1899; and. "Katharine Fren more important did not maintain Barclay, Esq.." by Mr. Augustin E
works to be noted are: "In the sham" (1903), differ entirely, and. the incresse into the beginning of John RA. In actual quality of the new year.
painting neither of them is aa Park" by Mr. Francis Dodd, R.A., again a new atmosphere was creat It may be judged, from these goed as it ought to be, but they in which the pecullar veracity of ed in "Out of the Wreck I RiseTM
the artist gains by the linear (1912). here shown in thousands of partial and doubtful indications, have an authority Which is ack-
During the war years when En- that the pressure of the sanctions. ing elsewhere. The second, in treatment condrdoned by reflected as restved upon in October was particular, is Lke a brusque remark:ght under the sunshade; Walls dell Street Hospital was opened for Dec. Oct, Sept. Aug. Aug. due to be effective over a period in quite intelligent drawing-room of Gerona," a drypoint, by Mr. the wounded the need of a library 1935 1935 1935 1935 1934 measured in yeats rather than chatter. You look, round. This Henry Rushbury, RA and the was realised by Miss Harraden. design, "Ashley She started one on the broadest Fruit and
months. Whether even if so de- painting, recalls irresistibly a story architectural
Guy lines, and was able to provide any vegetables 84 180 127 238 154 sired, the pressure could now be
book a patient might wish to read, Leather
quickly raised is not at all certain.
pounds-
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of the late Arno'd Bennett At Chase, Dorset," by Mr. E. some reception he was approached 1.Dawber, RA