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A GOING CONCERN”
Lord Cecil On The League: Unwisely Led. But Far From "Destroyed
"SLUMP" FORESEEN AT ITS FORMATIUN
"People say that the League of Nations has falled; I do not agree," said Lord Cecil in a speech
at the National Liberal Clab ré- cently, according to a Home paper.
"It has been unwisely led by some of the Great Powers, includ- ing ourselves.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936.
RIFLE SHOOTING » LONDON LOSING
Triangular
Competition At
Stonecutters
By the courtesy of the Naval Authorities, a very enjoyable after- making known the wishes of the noon was spent on the Stonecutters 'people, not only by elections, but Range on Thursday, by teams of 12 ay agitation, speaking, and writ-firers representing the Naval Range ing, and we had had an expres-Staff, The East Lancs. Regt. and sion of British popular desire for the Bisley Rifle Club, R.U. Rifles. peace through the Peace Ballot. If The shooting was done with the imllur expressions could be cb-Service Rifle at 200, 500 and 600 other national po- yards, and the best 8 scores in each pulat.ons it would be a great step team counted." towards assuring peace, and for this purpose the International
Peace Campaign had been started.
tained from It is true that its handling of the Far Eastern and the Abyssinian questions, not to speak of dharmament, was a great failure and has undoubtedly sha- ken the position of the League. But it is very far from destroyed." Lord Cecil recalled that wher he and others were forming the League at Parls they all foresaw that, after a period, which they put at ten years, the force of the universal horror of war would be- gin to pass away, and that for that reason among others they had been anxiotis to create that permanen organisation for the League, which had been criticised as unnecessary and unduly rigid, They wanted by that machinery to keep the League alive during the inevitable slump which they foresaw for it. Nevertheless, he said, "the League is still active. a going concern, and it is st capable by appropriate leadership
BRITISH POLICY Apart from all that, however, he was sure that the most essen- | tial thing was to have a clear and definite statement, of British po- icy. "There is no such danger to peace." he said, "as a"doubt where uule of the Great Powers stands. I think it would be wise that opera- tions of the League should begin when war seems imminent, and not wait until war breaks out. I was glad to hear Lord Halifax say thal In the House, and hope that the Government will upon it. It has not always been true in the past that such admirable sentiments have found complete expression.
"Most of all I think it. of the greatest importance that We of being revived into an effective I should makë ir clear to the world Protection against war.""
ISOLATION
Lord Cecil had been considering the many bolitical questions whien to situations might easily lead. from which war might seem to be the only exit. a ne was dia cussing the alternative policies which this country might pursue. He rejected armed Solation out of hand as an impossible policy, The -uggestion of its supporters, he ald, was that Ir we left Europe alone Europe would leave us alone. But in that case no European nation would come to our help if we found ourselves in difficulties.
Could we be sure that no nation, or even combination of rationa, would make an attack on our Em- pire, to which an Italian bad re-
act
mean
that we really
bustness about the Covenant. We are pre- pared to carry-out our duties with the others in preventing war or It has broken. stopping it after out, and whatever steps are ne- cessary for that purpose we should be prepared to attack, provided we, have proper support from the other members of the League. I think a clear statement of"that kind would have an immensely pa-. cifying effect in Europe."
Lord Cecil added that he did dbt say that rearmament was wrong, only a means to but that it was an end. It was a defensive and not a constructive policy.
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The result was a win for the Bisley Rifle Club, RUR with the East Lancs. team A very good second.
The Anal placing resulted follows:-
R.U.B. Bisley Club East Lancs. Regt.
Range Stat .....
11
3
881 625 604
The highest individual scorers in each team were:
89
POPULATION
200,000 In Four Years
The population of the County of London declined by over 200,000 during the four years 1931-35, ac- cording to a report issued by the London County Council.
The estimated population in the pared with 4,397,003 at the 1931 middle of 1935 was, 4.185,200, com-
The decrease in the ten years, 1921-31, however, was only 87,520
census,
in.
The boroughs with the largest mid-1935 were populations Wandsworth. (343.300), Islington (304,100), and Lambeth (279,000). Those with the smallest popula- tions, apart from the City, were Holborn (35.400), Stoke Newington (50,210), and Chelsea (57,320).
The county birth rate in 1935 was 13.3 per 1,000, and the death rate 11.4. Poplar had the highest
birth rate with 15.4. and the City the lowest with 7.4. Chelsea and Finsbury had the highest death rate with 126 and Lewisham the lowest with 9.9.
R.U.R. (Lt. Ratcliffe) East Lancs. Regt. (Sergt.
Jones)
28 Range Sta (Capt. Carless) 86 At the conclusion of the shoot, the Naval Range Staff very kindly entertained the three teams to a The net annual value- of the very enjoyable tea in the "Marks-county, at April 8 of this year, was man's Arms," when those who were "counted out" on the Range got an opportunity to explain to their team. how they forgot to look at the flag, etc.
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REVOLVER MATCH
13
Chinese Company
Beat Police
Revolver match fired between The Hong Kong Police and The Hong Kong Police Reserve, Chinese Company at Kennedy Road Re- volver Range yesterday.
CHINESE COMPANY
ferred the other day as "for OXFORD'S KEEN Thong Pohing 27 24
able booty"? Our old invulner- ability had disappeared since the development of alt warfare, and the fighting in Madrid had de- monstrated that there is nothing nowadays which a combatant will not do. "If we are to rely solely un ourselves," he concluded, "we are taking a risk which we have no right to take, and therefore 1 think that isolation is an Impos sible course for us to pursue."
Lord Cecil next examined the polley of complete pacifism mo recenly expressed by Mr Bertrand Russell-abolition of our fighting service "disposal" of the Crown colonies and India, and so forth, which, Lord Cecil pointed out, would meun the abandon- ment of all the populations for which we had made ourselves rés- ponsible. His only comment was " you me down in frofit of a man it is true that you prevent him from knocking you' down, but you do not prevent him from kick- ing you.":
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OARSMEN
Plenty Of Useful Material
TIDEWAY TRAINING
AND COACHES ·
With the Light Fours over and the University Sculls well under way, J. S. Lewes, the Oxford Pre- sident, must be pear making up his mind as to the composition of the Trial Eights, and may have a` fair idea about the University crew ng well. It is a healthy sign of returning, enthusiasm at Oxford that fifteen entered for the Sculls, most of them capable oarsmen for your sculler at least is a good waterman," writes C, Verbbles in the "Morning Post."
Meanwhile. Lewes is fulriy com- bing the Ils for likely mute- rial for his Trial Eights, and over a hundred men will be tried out before the crews are actually 'mad.»
up.
The very fact that so many men can be considered as possibi- lities is encouraging, and it means that the standard of college row- ing is definitely. on the up-grade.
Ttl.
C. T. Kwok....28 25 25 26 104 C. T. Chan..... 25 26 24 26 101 24 22 97 Hoo Kam Chiu 29 25 23 19 96 David Lole...... 25 27 25 18 05 K. C. Wong.... 29 23 · 20 20 92 c. C. Chau..... 28 22 20 21 91 Ts'o Huk On... 24 21 21, 19 85 Wong Chung..." 19 23. 13 18 73
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Total
HONG KONG POLICE
234 216 195 139 834
Stokes
26 22 19 23 90
Ritchie
Russell Hopkins Perkins Booker Gewans Carey
28 24 24 22 28 29 21 27 20 97 24 27 17 19 85 29 22 25 22 98
24 22 14 £1 71
27 26 18 22 93
24 15 25 23 87 28 11 16 17 70
Mr. Scott
Total 237 190 185 177, 789
Chinese Company won by 45 points.
Practice 10, 15, 20 and 25 yards application.2" Binley.
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A POLICY OF DESPAIR He turned next to the policy of armaments alliances, and the ba- lance of power, which he demned as a polley of despair. "What we want is to avoid war," he said. "These things at the best mean that we have a good chance, or victory." He had just
It is particularly satisfactory to heard Lord Hallfan army in the and so many Oriel men figuring in House of Lords that one could the trial boats, because, though not expect countries night ta they have been Head of the River war in which their vital interests for four years, Oriel have not re- were not affected, and his com-ceived the recognition from past
At £775, the machine's detall ment was: Jur vital interests presidents which would seem tó
Antah is stated to be even supe- are involved in almost any war have been their due. Ortel's par- rior to the 1936 model. In tour- which may take place in Europe." ticular style of rowing may noting form and with fuel on board There remained a fourth po find great favour at Oxford, for more than 600 miles nonstop licy that of the League of Na- one cannot deny that it is no tions. It differed from the policy mean feat for a College Boat Club in calm air the Honnet Moth car- ries "two persuna and approxI- of alliances in that it united the to be Head of the River in Elit mately 130 pounds of luggage at nations instead of splitting them Weeks and be joint winners of the 18 miles to the gallon-a better apart. He' expressed his convic-Light Fours as well. Incidentally, fuel consumption rate than is tion that the League was still cap it seems a pity that Oriel and reached by most medium or high- able of effective action in spite of Trinity did not row off their dead-
power -automobiles. It bas 2 various detections. "I am satis-beat. Curiously enough Jesus have Gipsy Major 130 horse-power fed," he said, "that the countries just achiever this duel, honour tour-cylinder engine and cruises still in the League, if they exert at Cambridge. their power, are sufficiently strong
to preserve peace."
In addition to providing collec-. tive security against war we ought he said, to be using our peace ma- chinery to try to set right all the differences and grievances that separated different countries. We had the machinery, though it might not be complete. Again, we could help to make articulate the desire for peace of the com- mon people in all countries. "The great majorities of the peoples in all countries without exception," he said; "are passionately. anxious for peace." In this country we had constitutional machinery for
A GOOD OMEN
at about 105 miles an hour.- Britisk Wirelesi.
Perhaps that is an omen for an Oxford victory, because. Nickalls was President in 1923, when Ox- their only success ford gained
A W. Rathbone. since the War.
with
Oxford are, apparently, hoping to take a leaf out of Cambridge's book and spend at least a month on the Tideway a fortnight at Chiswick or some such place and a fortnight at Putney. But the trouble is that term does not end till March 13, and as that seems who worked such wonders to be the only date on which the the last Oxford crew, will again race can be held from Putney to be in charge of the polishing-up Mortlake, it is going to be vary process during the last fortnight. difficult to it in the four weeks' Though Lewes is in touch with two or three famous coaches, no de- solourn on the Tideway.
asion has yet been reached as to who will be responsible for the early training.
G. O. Nickalls has been invited to undertake some of the roaching during the last month of training.
£85,093.211. and the rateable value was £60.513.938. The rate- able value works out at £14 85. per head.
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Westminister has the highest rateable value. £10.441.146, and the City..comes next with £8,198,882. giving a value per head in the City of £840. This is exactly ten times the rateable value per head in Westminister. The borough, with the lowest rateable value is Stoke Newington, £427,283,
GAME DISPLAY
FROM DALY
Roderick Wins A "Good Fight
A vast blue curtain, drawn across the Interior of the Empress Stadium reduced the arena to half excellent Its size, sp making an setting for the ring when the new National Sporting Club held; their second "night," recently states Peter Lawless in the "London Morning Post."
The attendance was not big, but the weekly staging of good honest to goodness fighting must even- tually draw all true lovers of the game to this pleasant and seces- sible centre.
On all sides one saw the famous fuces of those who have helped to keep the greatest of games alive through difficult times. In the chief bout of the programme Exile Roderick, Liverpool, beat George
Daly, Blackfriars, in a 12-round bout at 10st. Bib
Roderick was a clear winner, but he had to bring all his toughness and ability to a crowded axair, for Daly was for ever carrying the fight to him, making light of punishment, and forcing
a more powerful opponent to mix matters.
Daly's chief weapon, as usual. was a flickering left, and he used it to full advantage. Roderick at times countered with a right to the jaw and with telling effect, without, "however, fully stopping
his game pursuer.
A rousing Lace was maintained throughout, and Roderick. after being warned for hitting low in the seventh round, set about the affair with increased fury and built up
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in for a steady lead with some heavy. Welt, of Scotland, came two-handed attacks in which he heavy punishment and was down
on eight occasions, the referee often punched very fast.
In one of the best of the sup- eventually stopping the night in
Peter Banasko, the last round. porting bouts
coloured man, after Liverpool, having the better of the early ex- changes of a "light-weight fight отег ten rounds against Jackie
Our twelfth man will be any member of the team that is stilÏ alive. "Mr. G. O. Alleh."
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