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to make things as difficult as possible for England and as easy as possible for France- in other words, to make Britain bear the full brunt of the German attack.
SUCH EXPERIENCED and
well-informed commentators as J. L. Garvin believe that
this attack will be launched
EDITORIAL
MONDAY OCTOBER 30, 1939.
Paddy "The Wanderer" SERMON ON Hello &
Dies In Wellington
The Most Famous Dog In The Antipodes And Its Life Story
PEACE
Continued from Page 1
the motto of the reigning Pontif Pius XI He who seeks his own profit, his own pleasure, who would. always satisfy his own whims with-' out any consideration for the legla
soon. They expect it to as-
There died in Wellington this He was the first dogato ay in Newtimate rights and reasonable de- sume the form of great mass winter of old age and sickness dur-Zealand, and he stepped aboard mands of others offends against air raids, such as were pre- ing a prolonged spell of bitter the aeroplane a passenger with his Justice; ultimately he must disturb
dicted in all imaginative ac- counts of the future war"
before the war actually be gan. There is talk even of an investor of the British Isles by German land forces. The blow from the air is an ever present menace. The invasion is, at present, a fantastic improbability.
TO MAKE ACTION against England really effective, while at the same time increasing the military threat to France, the Germans must have bases more profitably situated, geo- graphically, than those they at present possess. The dan- ger of a Nazi march through |
peace.
what was
Goodbye
BY A. W. HYER)
Several new entertainment artists "arrived in the Colony during the past week-end from the South.. Two of them, dancers and songsters, are playing on the boards at the Hongkong, Hotel and the other two, equally versatile, will be seen during the month of November at the Glou- cester Hotel. The winter entertainment season here is go- ing ahead with a bang!
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from San Diego.
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Two large American pas- hüsband ip Manila. Naturally. senger steamers let loose a both of these women were happy horde of visitors on our town over the successful trip and ar- over the week-end. Hotels! rival of the fourteen fighting craft and shops took a new lease on life with the added ac-
Mr. and Mrs, E P.J, Fee, mem- tivity.
bers of the Standard Vącuam· Oli Co.'s Far Eastern clan, are re- Imperial Airways inward week- turning to duties in the company's
Tollow one of them; to-morrow been held up twenty-four hours
end service from Bangkok has offices.
weather a dog. Paddy the Wanderer, fare fully paid by bla friends the as famous in his own way through taximen.
Long ago, face to face with In the ten or eleven out the Dominion as the dolphin. years of his travels, wherever they Christ, who, yet paid tribute to His Pelorus Jack, who for years met and were he always returned to Welling-nocence, asked Him
truth. He would not wait for the accompanied New Zealand coastal son. It was not that he had owner
answer, For centuries the world steamers through French Pass on or master here, or even a regular
has been asking its philosophers their voyages to and from Nelson in home. It was Paddy's peculiar title
and its leaders the question. They the South Island and who was proto fame that he lived independent-
answer differently. To-day she will tected by special Act of Parliamenty as the guest of the community as a prodigy of the sea.
of transport workers on sea and
she will run after his opponent. because of connections Paddy, a big Airedale-Irish terrier land, with Wellington as his head- She has not found truth, because south. The plane is reported ar fying Mr. Harvey C. Wyant, an
was given his name of quarters and home port. cross,
Ike Pilate, she shrugs her shoup-riving at Kai Tak this afternoon cutstanding engineer and mana- ders, will not listen to the answer with passengers and mail from all ger of the X-Ray Engineering "Wanderer" by his friends on the
HIS STORY
of Christ, but goes out to hear what waterfront of Wellington-seamen, whori labourers and taximen-be-
Some years ago, as an apparent the crowd have to say.
and stray he fell into cause of his strange habit. when- ever it took his fancy, of travel-waif
catcher. He was about to meet ing by sea or land on any boat the clutches of the municipal, dog- or vehicle of which he approved.
So far as is known he never the usual fate of unregistered, un-
In the
Back to Bombay is sailing and
A
sincere
Section for General Electric in In- Empire route ports.
dia. This traveller arrived on the Imperial Airways:
American steamer and is expect- THE SECOND CLAIM
ing to use. Imperial Airways. to Surely a thinking man must be CAPTAIN A. B. DYKES was off continue south to his offices. Impressed by the fact that, through-
for Bangkok on Sunday at 7 The Reverend Fathers James cut the long line
am. In the Delphinus.. of Popes who
O'Day, Joseph Regan and Arthur claimed to be the vicegerenta of
the the Low Countries, tradition-sailed on any ocean tramp or cargo claimed dogs when the taximen
with Miss M. F. Wadh, flying home Dempsey, connected TO-DAY (Monday) at 5.30 ally the key to both British liner, but scented to choose in heard of his whereabouts and club-
'Christ in the visible Kingdom of to Karachi, is concluding an in- Maryknoll Mission, have arrived and French security, is con- stinctively. vessels on New Zealand bed together to save him by pay-
Christ, not one has changed a syl-teresting and quite exciting trip from America to take over duties stantly growing..
or Australian articles. Similarlying his licence fee.
able of the truth which, his prede-round the world, This lady re- here in the Order's quarters. They THERE IS
But Paddy did not forget the NO CON- for his overland trips it is said
cessors claimed to be the truth of cently arrived here via the Philip were certainly given CLUSIVE EVIDENCE yet that that he always preferred the cars dog-catcher, and left his bene-
Christ. A Leo XIII or Plus XI has pine Clipper, completing a splen- and warm greeting by associate of his friends the taxi-drivers factors for a long sea voyage, to only to make a synthesis of it. This did flight across the Pacific Ocean. brethem. Hitler will really embark on
is unique in the story of thought. Captain L, J. M. White, a mem- this course. He can have no Wherever he went and he went return only when he felt the coast
Mr. L. N. Johnson, a member of It was after this that among men It brings us to the illusions concerning the in- all over the North Island and visit-was clear,
ber of Imperial Airways' dying the National City Bank of New and he became known to the general second clalm of the Kingship of staff and well-known in the York. returned to Hongkong. This sufficiency of mere atr bomb-ed the ports of the South
Christ. as far as public through the local newspaper.
Colony after two years duty on gentleman was also the receipent ing to break the resistance of twice, even voyaged
We want a programme of laws the Hongkong to Bangkok route of many cheerful hellos, a whole people and the limit-Sydney-he was always welcome. which regularly gave him personal ed vulnerability, from the air,
a grave, sedste dog, standing on paragraphs on his return to Well-that meet humanity's needs. It must of his company, departed for Lon- A very, very early morning hour be easy to understand, easy to don by the Sunday service. This was the departure time for the of a gigantic imperial system his dignity with strangers. but un-ington from a trip like any pro-
minent citizen.
state. Christ's code is such: "Love flying gentleman is planning on American commercial steamer to bound together by sea-routes bending among his friends.
God above all things, and love your turning his record with Imperial get under way for a call in the protected by the world's most
neighbour as yourself." In this Airways and taking over new south. formidable.
shout word He assures us is con- duties in the fighting forces of
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HONGKONG, OCTOBER 30, 1938
AIR WAR
THE
HE REJECTION of the Nazi proposals for the termi- nation of the war, the con-
clusion of the Turkish treaty!
and, finally, the advantage 'gained by the Allies as a re- sult of the passing of the amended American Neutrality. Act are all factors which bring closer the decisive trial of military strength between Germany, Great Britain and France.
aggression of naval power. The productive capacity of his airplane fac- tories is not in excess of those of England, and his fuel re serves are certainly far less. Moreover, Britain's ability to replace losses, of equipment. raw material and industrial plant, is greater than Get- many's.
SHOULD THE REICH re- sort to the "knockout blow" type of attack, there will be nothing to stop the total war which has been so freely pre-
SATURDAY'S HOME SOCCER AND talmed all the law and the pro- the RAF. in London.
RUGBY FOOTBALL RESULTS
LONDON, Oct. 29 Reuter)-The following are the results of the regional football, matches played yesterday:
NORTH-EASTERN Halifax 2. Darlington 4. Hull 2. Hartlepools 3. Leeds 3. Bradford C, 0. Middlesbro 2. Huddersfield 2 Newcastle 9, York 2.
In t friendly game, Bradford
dieted, and so terribly feared, eat an Army XI by 2 goals to nil,
from engulfing Western Eu- rope. The slaughter will be protracted and horrible, and, unless the foundations of a
new
and juster order in human affairs are laid in the process, there will be, in the real sense, no victors-just as there were no victors at the end of the last war and during the years of travail which followed.
"Get Ready"
STAKES ALL ON OLD
HITLER
THEORY
LONDON, Oct. 29 (Reuter)-in
an article in the "Observer." with leaded heading. "Giet heavily Ready." Mr. J. L. Garvin declares that undoubtedly the next German plan is to concentrate absolutely. against Britain by sea and alr simultaneously and unprecedented pressure on neutrals.
While
gome
TO DATE, the most active theatre of war has been the sea. Germany has sunk much merchant tonnage and two first class British war-
of the horring ships The British navy has threats, which are now alling the instituted a system of block- Germán press, must be regarded ade and contraband control ai fantastic, says Mr. Garvin. which ensures that no sup- there must be fuel of some kind plies will reach derman ports behind this extent of smoke. and, in addition, has destroy-
Herr Hitler and Field-Marshal ed a number of submarines Goering stake all on the old theory and seized a certain amount of a knock-out blow by a
direct of enemy shipping.
attack on Britain's vitais, namely ON THE WESTERN FRONT, her naval bases, shipyards, har- there has been major boura, air factories, chler industrial activity, and the demobiliza- centres and key points of trans- tion of several sections of port; in other words, the real war will be just what we expected at French man-power suggests that none is expected in the the beginning.
no
near future. In the air, too, neither side has shown its! strength.
WE SHALL SEE
The most cheered sentence in
SOUTH "A”
Charlton 8, Southend 1. Clapton O. 1, Arsenal 6. Crystal P. 3. Watford 3. Norwich 5, West Ham 3 Tottenham 3, Millwall 0,
SOUTH "B"
Aldershot 1, Reading 1, Bournemouth 6. Brighton 1 Chelsea 6, Southampton 2 Portsmouth 3. Brentford 1. Queen's PK. R. 2, Fulham 2.
EAST MIDLAND Lincoln 1. Barnsley 3. Mansfield 4, Sheffield U 2. Notts F1, Doncaster 1 Rotherham 1, Chesterfield 1 Sheffield W. 1. Notts C. 1,
SOUTH-WESTERN Bristol R. 2. Newport 3. Cardiff 2. Swansea 2. Plymouth 6, Bristol C. 0. Swindon, 2. Torquay 0.
MIDLAND Coventry 6. West Brom, A. 3. Luton 4. Leicester 2.
Walsall 1, Birmingham 2. Woltes 7, Northampton 2
WESTERN
Chester 0. Manchester U. 4. Crewe A. 5. Tranmere 1. Liverpool 1. Port Vale 1. Manchester C., 6. Wrexham 1. New Brighton "0. "Everton 1. Stoke 4, Stockport 2.
NORTH-WESTERN Accrington 1, Oldham-2. Barrow 2, Blackburn 0. Blackpool 1, Bury' 1.
short time, this war will not last. three years.
Instead, we shall come in sight of true peace and the world's deliverance 'within three months. With the all of the Empire, especially Canada, and, what the " fettered neutrality" of the United States may supply, it can, and must, be done. A similar line was taken by Mr.
Bolton 4. Carlisle 1. Preston 2, Burnley 1. Southport 3, Rochdale 2.
SCOTTISH (WESTERN)
Albion 2, Ayr . Clyde. 2. Celtic 0. Hamilton 5. Airdrie 0, Kilmarnock 5. Dumbarton 0. Morton 3, Motherwell 3. Queen of South 1, St, Mirren 1. Queen's Park 4. Partick T 3 Rangers 6. Third Lanark 0.
SCOTTISH (EASTERN AND NORTH-EASTERN)
Allon 0. Aberdeen 3. Arbroath 2. East Fife. 2... Dundee U, 1. King's Park 0. Dunfermline 2. Dundee 0. Falkirk 9, Cowdenbeath -0. Hibernian 3. St. Johnstone 3. Raith 1, Hearts 5. "St. Bernards 6, Shousemuir 2.
RUGBY LEAGUE
Lancashire Section:"
Leigh 10. Warrington 15. Oldham 25. Broughton 17, Rochdale 12, Barrow 18. Salford 26. Liverpool 4. St. Helen's 15. Swinton 7, Widnes 13, Wigan 8. Yorkshire Section:
Batley 29, Keighley 2 Featherstone 13, Halifax 32. Huddersfield 12. Castleford 5. Hull Kingston 18, Bradford 23. Hunslet 7. Hull 6. Wakefield 14, Leeds 13. York 15, Denisbury 15.
RUGBY UNION - Guy's Hospital 0, Harlequins 13. Rosslyn Park 3, St. Mary's Hosp.
19.
St. Thomas Hosp, 0, London Irish and Welsh 30.
Bath 0, Strand. 6.
Bristol 11. Army XV 0, Cambridge U. 9. Army XV 3, Exter 3, Weston-Super-Mare. 4. Neath 17, Aberavon 3. Newport 13, Cross Keys 3. Oxford U. 21, Gloucester 9, Swansea 3, Llanelly 8.
Motor Roads Not Used
PARIS, Oct 29 (Renter)-Ger; man motor roads built before the war for troop transport have not yet been used. It had been found essential to save petrol for the Air force and mechanized units.
Reliable nential sources report a
phets. The application in detail is clear.
Mr. D. Richie, of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., was supposed to The other passenger on the -make the ship. He travels south service was a Chinese gentleman. to Manila on company business. name"not divulged.
Another well-known business Mall kilos. for all Empire ports, executive taking the early morn→,,
ing steamer to Manila was 'Mr. F. S. Fairman, of Dodge and Sey- occasion of the death of the Pope Safely at Kal Tak after a hazar-mour, Ltd. This trip is routine
dous journey from Kwanchewan, inspection. who peaded for the universal re- The Della of Imperial Airways met cognition of Christ the King, the with an accident in Fort Bayard world acknowledges the nobility of
When all want peace, when ad- mittedly the World Councils have failed to give it; when, at least at certain solemn moments, as on the
totalled 200.
The RMA Delia has landed
Miss R. Beckley and Miss B. several weeks ago when about to Comean, two attractive American the ideals and the sincerity of the take-off. Repairs to the craft will girls, are on a grand holiday, Both alms, we may well ask why will not be made at Kal Tak by company of these travellers have left their
men try them? Must our answer be that they are too noble?
To secure peace they demand warfare but war, not against our neighbour but against ourselves. For the neighbour in the Kingdom of Christ is expected patience, sympathy, helpfulness, love that wil even "embrace our enemies, and make us pray for those who calumniate and persecuted us."
History can offer one figure, and one alone, who is competent by Es teaching to win the respect of all men, irrespective of race and sur- roundings: Jesus Christ; History can offer but one Leader with a Heart ful of love for all men, and capable of filing that hearts: Jesus Christ: History can offer only social Guide whose influence can hallow the whole activity of man: Jesus Christ.
Let an individual, accept Him fully, we have a St. Païl, a St. Francis of Assisi, a St. Francis Xavier, a Damien for the out-cast lepers. Let the family accept Him and, He establishes its prity and its i grandeur in the unbreakable urilty į founded on Christian marriage. ¡ Let the State accept Him and it has a real foundation for its au- tharity, a sanction, far above poli- tical creeds, for its laws.
engineers.
Steamer Traffic:
The
respective.desky in the American, Embassy's offices in Tokyo, and are out to see what else the Far East has to offer in the way of THE TRANS-PACIFIC American Hongkong. Manlia and Shanghai. steamer calling at this port! Journeying to Hongkong by one during the week-end deposited of the American Round-the-World
visitors. many
most qut- steamers, which stoped over in the standing. Mrs. Anita House, form- harbour this past week-end, were erly Anita Page, of motion picture Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Lynott, con- fame, made a short stop-over here nected with the American Bank en route to Manila, and her Naval Note Co. in Shanghai.' It is some officer husband. Mrs, House, in- months since these very nice re- terested in family life. considers sidents of the north have visited her movie days as just memories: their many friends and business she was concentrating on one acquaintances in Hongkong. subject-seeing her husband. who There were quite a few people is one of the aviators flying in the to welcome Mrs, E, T. Wang, Mr. squadron of US. Naval bombers Roland Wang and the Misses which recently arrived in the Marion and Julia Wang. Every- south from America on a tour of one was speaking at once; every- Asiatic duty.
one was very happy and Jublant" Mrs. S. L. LaHache, Wite of excitement took possession of the
and Commander LaHache, US.N.. and travellers
their greeting
in charge of the bomber squadron, friends as the American steamer was also most anxious to Join ber | docked: '
Anglo-French LINGNAN ALUMNI Co-Operation
EXCHANGE OF VIEWS ON BLOCKADE
FOREGATHER
FIRST MEETING OF ASSCN. A SUCCESS Let the human race accept Himi, accept Christ the King, the World
The Lingnan University Alumni has become at once much more
PARIS, Oct. 29 (Reater)~~~Close Association met at the Cafe Wind- than international; men have be- come all members of the mystical co-operation and exhange of Hews sor last night for the first of what. between Britain and France on it is hoped, will be a series of body of Christ. They will clasp their hands no longer in despair the blockade is emphasised by the monthly social gatherings. at their mutual hatred, they will French Minister of Blockade. all clasp their hands in the same The Aliles are anxious to facili- to dinner, and remained later in way, in the same prayer: "Our tate provisioning for neutral popu- the evening for a programme of Father: Thy Findom come; Thylations and the maintaining of entertainment that included group
will be done,"
Such at any rate, my dearly be- loved brethen, is the Idea of the Kingship of Christ.
SOLEMN PROCESSION
More than 300 alumni sat down
singing and a one-act play, and their industrial activity.
The Allies are thus justified in concluded with dancing. asking for a guarantee that this shall not profit the ehemy even partially.
NEUTRAL VIEWS.
ENTERTAINING PLAY
The play, about a diamond mer- chant who was tricked by a schem- ing, young woman out of a dia-. In the afternoon, the Cathedral
PARIS, Oct. 29 (Reuter)-Neutral mond, was ably presented by a compound was the scene of the countries are now making clear cast of three, Miss Emilly Ko, Mr. Solemn Procession of the Blessed the distinction between the legl-Let Mut-lung and Mr. Mok Wal- Bacrament. The entire Catholic timate British blockade and the ying, who succeeded in keeping the clergy of the Colony were present, proposed Nazi continental blockade. audience is very merry state with. as well as representatives of all re-
The Norwegian press "says to-day & stream of witty dialogue, Eligious sodalities. Special 'music
that a continental blockade only A talk was given also before the Hitler's Reichstag speech was J. A. Spender in an article given massing of Nazi soldiers wong the was rendered by the band of the means that European countries gathering by Mr. Chin Shui-fan, a NAZI DIPLOMACY and there are no longer islands.". We prominenced by the "Sunday north-east coast near Belgium and Aberdeen Industrial School ander will be excluded from the vast noted lawyer and an old slumans, propaganda has long striven shall see what that means, declares Times." He says that with the Holland. It is reported 1,500,000 the direction of the Brothers of trade of the four continents. Any who related his impressions of life: to drive a wedge between Mr. Garvin.
intimation we now have that Ger-Nazi troops are also concentrated the Balesian Order. Britain and France, repre- In the British Government's cool man fury will be concentrated on on the western border of the Reich. senting London as the main judgment, this country is well able Britain we may expect some an Although the massing on the culprit of the policy of "en- to bear the brunt of a national xious moments in the near future, Beigum and Dutch frontiers are CORRESPONDENCE circlement” and France as not battle against overhead invasion. But the success hitherto, in des-not explained German soldiers are only a dupe of British policy If after that, the absolute sir troying submarines and countering learning to speak Dutch, special but also the battlefield on supremacy we require is rapidly attacks from the air on shipping, classes in severa German towns which the struggle for the created by the mightiest industrial justify our confidence that again having been opened for this pur-
pose. aims of this policy must take effort we had ever yet made in a we shall win through.
ANSWERS
MILISH - Your", letter is not signed-Ed.
Interests of peace or economics,
continental blockade, other than in the interior, where he was an that of the British blockade, seems adviser to the Kwangtung Provin- uncalled for. It will not serve the clal Government.
Mr. Chin was appointed recently to visit as an ambassador of good- will Chinese communities in North and South America, and he will be leaving in the very near future on (this mission
The Rumanian" paper" "KRYS · that belligerent countries and great naval power, like Britain, will do all that is possible to avoid obstructing neutral trade.