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MONDAY, Nov. 10. 1934,
BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.
that as it may, the fact remains that Russia knew that Britain at- tached that meaning to the pledge, and in the absence of any official disclaimer from the Soviet, Mos- cow must be regarded as having tacitly accepted the British view- points. The position now is that Russia has failed to live up to its
DAY BY DAY
THE DEEPEST DISGRACE IS
TO
INSIST ON DOING WORK FOR WHICH WE ARE UNFIT-TO DO ANY SORT OF WORK BADLY.-George Eliot.
The P. and O. s.s. Kidderpore,
H. HARRIS WILSON discusses ·
FIRE-EATERS AND OTHERS.
of Streae- undertaking, but has managed to from Shanghai, is due here at 11"A parole," says the President Curtius, inheritor
Lof the Assembly, "est amann's mantle, is in no better case.. wriggle out of an awkward situa-a.m. to-morrow.
Monsieur Aristide Briand; premier He too is prisoner of a Nationalist tion by doing precisely what we
Capt. and Mrs. Robert Dollar delegue de la France," and there vote. He too hears an angry pack thought she would do-leading and party arrived here from advances slowly to the tribune that of his fellow-citizens at his heels an atmosphere inability to control the "machine Manila by the .s. President familiar stooping figure, thick-set, when one of M. Poincare's Sabbath
head low between the shoulders, orations durkens which she herself has. put into Madison.
with shaggy locks and untidy big that had just begun to clear. And what is true of the West is true of French in motion.
the East' n less. Zaleski, in Po Mr. R. A. Camidge, of the moustache, typically
typically European in
land, is genuinely striving for un Chartered Bank, is on a visit to the aspect,
derstanding. Germans to whom is And from lips that can hardly falls from time to time to negotiate Colony, being accompanied by psychology, Mrs. Camidge.
form a sentence that is not oratory with him, have told me that there falls an ordered, insistent, al-
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Mr: Henderson must fully realise the awkwardness of the situation which has been created by the British Government having failed,
it were, when The Australian ponies which most passionate defence of France, spontaneously. But Zaleski is left in the beginning, to obtain from have arrived in Hongkong are to of a France that would disarm to the in mid-air, as the Soviet an acceptance of the be drawn for at the Jockey Club full if her ideal of a world in which philippics about the restoration of
stables at 5.15 p.m. to-day.
society as a whole rallied to the the Corridor to Germany drives British construction of the
support of the innocent victim of Polish public opinion into a nerve-
storm. pledge. He now take refuge in Private Pitcher of "C" Company attack were. realised, of a France
You can go round a dozen coun- the time-worn argument that his Somerset Light Infantry died on that even in the absence of any
Saturday and was buried with full such assurance has reduced her tries of Europe and find in every Government must be the judges of military honours in the afternoon strength and shortened her term one of them the man responsible France for the conduct of his country's of military service, of a the importance of any incident
The number vaccinated, free of checked in spite of herself from foreign relations checked and int!- Am-the prosecution of that salutary midated at every turn by the fear which might arise and of the ap-
charge, by members of the propriate action, if any, to
bulance Brigade, up to and in-process by the menace of the ballot that conciliation may be condemned as weak concession and the know- ledge that at any moment some in taken. The "if any proviso is cluding Thursday, the 6th inst, is boxes across the frontier.
follows:--King's College The two Briands.
flammatory and irresponsible speech little short of amazing, especially as
That is not all the speech. There across the frontier may bring the Division (Present Boys), 1329; since the British Government is Railway Division, 5; Kowloon are other notes in it: notes of patiently-planded beginnings of an convinced that Russia has broken Division, 22; Mongkok Division, hope, notes of invitation, notes of understanding to nothing.
664; making a total of 2.020.
confidence in the essential solidarity In that respect Mr. Henderson is her pledge. Surely we have
of the little pens and parcels of right to expect that solemn
that call themselves happy. Anglo-Saxon public opinion. Messrs. Lane, Crawford. Ltd., humanity
care. States. And you are left ponderis less inflammable than Latin, and pledges of the type under notice the agents of the Hillman
to be respected; otherwise. have placed one of the latest ing on the case of M. Briand, of apart from certain complexes re straight eight models, which has the Frenchman who as French garding Russia the critics are con- methods of the hue-and-cry. diplomatic 'intercourse becomes a just arrived in the Colony, at the Minister has to serve his country tent to criticise, and eschew the of the European and the Briand is less fortunate, and so is sheer farce. The Soviet, however, disposal of the Hon. Mrs. Victor first,
are Zaleski handed stretch far beyond the frontiers of Marinkovitch and even Benes.. seems to claim the right to abide Bruce, for her use whilst in League protagonist whose horizons unus. le
Hongkong. The car was
They meet and talk. They see only by those undertakings which over to Mrs. Bruce at the Kala single State.
And behind Briand other figures that to achieve a good understand- suits its own propose. What is Tack Aerodrome at tiffin time to-
day.
loom up--one, most notably, seening is better business than to score. even worse still, is the impression
a rival. Left to dimly beyond the grave, that of a point against left that never from the very start Caught by Detective Sergeant Gustav Stressmann, German first, themselves they would settle nine did the Moscow Government in-Kennedy in the act of removing German in every fibre when he disputes out of ten on the basis of several tons of sand from the fore-bangs the table and raise his mutual concession. But to A's We are somewhat surprised that tend to carry out its undertaking.
shore at Chakuling, near Lye guttural voice to a shout in protest nationalists and to B's alike con- more has not been heard of the
nun, the masters of two
junks against the criticisms of a col-cession is weakness, concession is were each fined $50 by Mr. Lind-league from an adjoining State; loss of national prestige, concession breaking by the Soviet Government.
Disarmament Dispute. sell at the Central Police Court but essentially, too, and most reis humiliation spelled with different of the pledge which it made last
this morning. It was stated that solutely, as the hand of death drew letters.. year concerning propaganda in The cautious, those who coun- both men had the holds of their nearer, a European with vision as Hue and "Cry.
sand clear and intentions as constructive
Again and again that spectre in British territory. That pledge, it selled a little more time for re-junks practically full of
as Briand's.
the background keeps discords alive will be recalled, was mutual, both flection before the calling of the weighing about six tons in each
Fettered Hands.
when the very outlines of accord Final Disarmament Conference, Britain and Russia agreeing to
Half the tragedy of Europe to- had already shaped themselves. The departure of Rear-Admiral
day comes of the letters that are The negotiators in the Franco- have nothing to do with propaganda appear to be more than justified
by events at the current session R. A. S. Hill, C.B.E. (Military) laid on the hands of men like these. Italian naval conversations would
Hongkong, harmful to the other. But whereof the Preparatory Commission. from
bound
Take the case of M. Briand again. reach to-morrow an agreement in as Britain has scrupulously ob-which opened in an atmosphere of England on board the P. and D. He is Foreign Minister in an es-the highest interest of both their served the undertaking, the Soviet, dispute, M. Litvinoff speaking out 5.8. Macedonia, on Saturday morn sentially nationalist government. countries if the settlement rested through the Third International, of his turn, and at which the airing, was marked by a farewell That keeps him facing necessarily with them alone. Knowing them ceremony at Queen's Pier, when both ways, for if he labours in the well, I am convinced of that. But At the the Admiral was greeted by many Cabinet for peace, he has to satisfy always there is the hue-and-cry has ignored it, a fact which has has yet to be cleared.
dead-friends, with whom he shook been establshed by the special com-moment, the delegates are
a defiant defence of France And when I reflect on the case mittee set up to enquire into the locked on the subject of naval hands and bade farewell before the demands of colleagues who look that never lets itself be forgotten.
limitation. One group is demand-being rowed over in his dinghy br for activities of the International in ing limitation by global tonnage, his officers. The colours of the abroad. And the very country with of M. Briand, and remember how lations makes his primary task al-who plunge their countries into Great Britain, India. Egypt and which means that naval Power S.L.I.. with the guard of honour. whom he is striving to improve re- often diplomats are blamed as men and accompanied by the band and
Briand war, I cannot but pay my tribute most impossible. While the British Empire. Inasmuch as may build ships of all descriptions bugles of the Somerset Light In-works for a. Franco-German under- of appreciation to the diplomats of the resumption of diplomatic rela-and specifications within a certain fantry, marched down to the pier. standing, Treviranus makes his dozen countries who are striving
to fortify the fabric of tions between Britain and Russia maximum tonnage for their whole at the entrance of which they were speech on the revision of frontiers to-day
the other, which is drawn up. and General Officer and Hitler wins 107 seats in the peace in the face of odds they was made contingent on the Soviet fleet, and
ought never to have to face. Reichstagi dominated by Great Britain, Commanding.. agreeing to the no-propaganda stands firmly for limitation by pledge, a situation of considerable category, as agreed between the gravity has been created by three principal Naval Powers in It Russia's breach of the understand. London twelve months ago.
was, in fact, thought that the London Naval Conference had laid The attitude of the British Go- the bogey of global tonnage once vernment on this matter is far and for all. The revival rather, from satisfactory. When the Soviet suggests that some-one with no signed the understanding. it knew desire for naval disarmament has perfectly well what was involved, sought to produce a controversy. but all that the British Government In the interests of peace and has done in the matter is to calamity, the British scheme is the only satisfactory one, since it is the Ambassador's attention to the the one method by which com- fact that the pledge has not been petition is brought to an end. observed and to state that a con- Global tonnage envisages rival tinuation of the propaganda naval experts constantly watching "would be calculated to endanger each other to see what is happen- relations." We can only wonder howing in the shipyards, with the much latitude is to be permitted object of producing, if possible, something bigger and better. Russia in this matter and how There is plenty of latitude afford- many times she is to be allowed to ed by the British proposals. break her pledge before something There is nothing to prevent more definite is done than merely France, for instance, from trans- calling attention to her disregard ferring part of the tonnage grant- ed for destroyera into cruiser of the undertaking. The excuse put forward, that the Soviet Go-tonnage, or vice versa, if only an agreement could be reached on the vernment is unable to control the amount really required for defen- activities of the Third Interná-sive purposes. The Commission tional, is sheer nonsense, 'for the is sitting for the purpose of con- simple reason that the two bodies aidering and approving, if thought are one and the same. It will be it, a Draft Disarmament Conven tion. It is surprising and far remembered that during the from encouraging to, find dele- negotiations which led to the re-gates in communication with their sumption of relations between Bri- governments so early in the pro- tain and Russia; Mr. Henderson eeedings. again and again made it clear that the British Government, would re- Senor Manuel Yriarte, Director gard the pledge as covering the of the Philippine National Museum Third International. Unfortunately, and sole survivor of the Spanish regime, dropped dead on Tuesday' however, he does not appear to last during a ball given to mem have been able to get Russia de-bers of the Legislature at the Governor-General's palace. Senor finitely to accept that. interpreta-Yriarte was directing the opening tion; at least, that is the inference of a dance when he was seized to be drawn from his latest state with a heart attack and expired. ment that he had never stated that almost immediately. The thousand guests quietly dispersed. A. The, deceased was the social advisor to
the Soviet Government had endors
ed the British interpretation. Be the Governor-General.
"And, Mary, that's a goat and the baby goat's called a goatee.