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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25,-1937.
THE FAR EAST LONDON POLO STEVE DONOGHUE
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ment to the world at large and that in September, 1884, British warships were bombarding Shimo- noseki ta pursuance of a policy primarily almed at breaking down this exclusiveness.
Whether the natural course of evolution would have put the Japanese nation where they stand to-day bad they been "left alone Is altogether too academie a spe- culation. Possibly the development would have started later and been slower, at any rate for awhile, but the national qualities which have produced this development were there just the same.
AN INVASION BOGY The "lurking" question which is so steadily gaining significance is, "Whither Japan?" This question is of more serious concern to the British Empire than to any other Power. Apprehension in the Unit- ed States mainly lies in commercial Interests, for the bogy of a Japan- ese Invasion of California is ton fantastic to survive a study of the map and a measurement of dis- tances. Excluding the Philippines. which she has discovered to be of little value, to her, the United States has no territorial possessions eastward of her Pacifle coastline. Honolulu is an important American naval base, but this importance is largely wrapped up in the invasion Logy.
REORGANISATION
The organisation of fixtures be- tween the three London polo clubs will be Improved by a committee which is to be established.
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The members of this committee S. Donoghue has been on the will be Lord Louis Mountbatten, Continent all the week and, pos- Lord Cowdray and the Duke of sibly. will, have secured one or Roxburghe, together with the two patrons for the Berkshire three London polo managers, stable, which he takes over at the General Anderson (Hurlingham),
ent of the season, writes à Home Colonel Lister (Roehampton) and correspondent. Captain F. A. G (Ranelagh).
Sir Victor Sassoon is sending They will Inquire into the
the new trainer five horses in his general distribution of Axtures
first year, all but one of these and try to reorganise them so as being yearlings. Among other to make them more attractive
patrons who are to both to the
support players and the Donoghue in his enterprise are Mr. spectators
H. E. Morriss, for whom the jockey The feeling that polo handicaps.
won the Derby and Two Thousand which now range from 0 to 10. on Manna, and M. Marcel Boussac, do not cover wide enough stand-whose colours are as familiar in ards of skill has also been Te-
this country, as they are in France. cognised A referendum is being
Although for the past four sea- sent to every polo club in England:
sons Donoghne has not had a re- answers are expected by about
tainer from Sir Victor Sassoon, he December 1. These will be presen-has always ridden for that owner ted to a full meeting of the when required. Hurlingham Club Polo Committee. has horses
HANDICAP REFORM
Sir Victor, who with J Lawson and Basil Jarvis, does not intend to Three alternatives will be put engage a Jockey for next season's
racing.
forward.
The first is to increase the scope of handicaps by raising the top level to 12.
The secund is to Introduce minus handicaps, down to minus 3. The third 15 to raise the English players, such PLS Mr. Gerald Balding (9) and Captain C. T. I. Roark (8) to 10, and bring up the rest accordingly.
The trouble with the third al- ternative is that it would put. English handicaps out of order with the American rating, since Mr. Balding is not generally reck- oned to be as good as Mr. Thomas Hitchcock and Mr. Stuart Iglehart, each of whom is ranked at 10 in the United States.
CHINA
TOKYO1-
The British Empire, while also IMPERIAL Hora having vast commercial interests in MAXPK: HOTEL
the Far East, likewise has enormous OKORI HOTEŽ areas of territory to defend. The TOKYORAILWAY fact that the Commonweath of
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is A self-governing continent leaves untouched the traditional obligation of the Mother Country to employ the whole f her armed might, if needs be, In driving out an invader. It is not very difficult to figure the blaze of national feeling in this country if news should flesh forth that a Japanese naval force had repeated ROTARIANS SUPPORT on Australian soll the same "swooping" tactics which that
been nation has
So effectively carrying out in China.
This may appear an extravagant and provocative suggestion to the people of this country. It.docs not appear anything of the sort to a mass of intelligent opinion in Aus- tralia. "The, appetite comes in eating."
and at present Japan is absolutely voracious in China. She calculated what she could eat, and is now eating it. The lust of power is
great aperitif and stimulates the tendency to bite off more than there is any certainty with your country in this crisis. of being able to chew. The one infallible antidote to this gar- gantuan greed is to ensure that the contemplated mouthful shall be too palpably tough and Ind!- gestible to be tackled at all.
Reducing all this metaphor to bare fact, Japanese dominance in the Pacific need never become an
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China's gallant defence of her country has aroused the world-wide sympathy of Rotarians, it is re- vealed in letters received by the shanghai Rotary Club. Couched in no uncertain terms, these letters addressed from all parts of the world severely condemn Japan for her oppression of China.
FROM MISSOURI One Rotariah writing from St. Joseph, Missouri, declared:-
To a man the Rotarians here and all over the United States are
I honestly believe that. If the United States Government would permit it, and your government would favour the plan, a call to arms to Rotarlans, to Aght in the cause of China, would meet with response from Rotarians all over the United States.
overt menace to the British Empire "We cannot, perhaps, ald you so long as British sea power math-physically, but we can lend our moral and financial support, and economic bring to bear pressure upón Japan. Long live China, and may her gallant soldiers
we' cen
ever be victorious!“
tains a much greater, if more scat- tered, supremacy. To fight Japan in her own little selected zone would be a task of extreme strate- gical diffleuity. So long as she keeps within ber own little selected
TO RAISE FUNDS zane I am talking. now of sea- From New Zealand, a Rotarian operations) there seems no reason writes that he is interesting his why we should contemplate the fellow members in raising a fund possibility of fighting her. If she in aid of the Chinese cause, ex- should ever attempt to interpret pressing the belief that not one domination of the Pacific in too member will decline to contribute. literal a sense she would have to and that a tidy sum should result. come far out of her own little zone. Another, Rotarian, a high officer thereby diminishing the strategical of a
Rotary Club in Pasadena, advantages inherent in her geo- states that his organization and graphical position.
other Rotary Clubs in Southern STRENGTH IN THE FAR EAST California are planning to bring An opinion that is already being strong" pressure to bear in Wash- freely expressed is that one resultington on behalf of China. of the present blaze-up in China?
APPEAL TO R. L must be the necessity for a sub- Ap appeal to the Rotary. Inter- stantial increase in our naval national to exert its efforts to- strength In the Far East. I am wards the restoration of peace has not at all sure that this is either been sent by Rotarians in China a necessity for that it would be through Dr. Fong Sec, director of good diplomacy. The strong man the Rotary International in China. does not aggressively bare his arm In a letter to the Nanking Ro- to show how brawny it really is; he tary Club Dr. Fong said: "Since usually prefers to keep it up his this is the proper time for us to sleeve.
request the Rotary International to do something, just before the opening of the conference of the signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty, I hope our message will produce some effect."
Singapore is the hub of our whole defensive system in the Far East. So long as this great base is per- inanently strong enough to view with equanimity any threat of a bolt from the blue 'I do not think He further reported that at the that the addition of a few ships to request of the Shanghal Rotary the China Command would serve Club sometime ago, the Rotary In- any ""stabilizing"
purpose and ternational has appealed to similar might even possibly have rather an clubs in all parts of the world opposite effect; for, however strong through the district governors for the British naval forces in Farrellet funds for. Chinese, wounded Eastern waters might be made, Hockey. Triangular Tourna within the limits of peace-time rea- soldiers and refugees. Some of the soriableness. they could only oppose money has already been remitted
to the Shanghai Club,
a very ineffective resistance to the whole Japanese Navy operating in its own region. The real resistance would have to be drawn from re- the, China Squadron. To perfect mote waters, and so long as Binga- mobilization plank is one thing; to pore remained intact as a con- make a partial mobilization before centration rendezvous it would not there is any unmistakable threat be altogether "in the best interests of hostilities is quite another mat- of peace" to hurriedly strengthêm 1 ter.
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