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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1932.
CRITICAL DAYS IN SHANGHAI
With a state of emergency nuw declared, the Shanghai situation has reached a condition of consi- derable gravity. For the Svitle- ment authorities, the position is one of great difficulty. They have. however, done the right thing by taking special precnations Esr preservation of przen and
flar
order. Obviously, there is dis- occur
tinct danger of incidents ring which, in the present iutam- ed state of feeling as between the Chinese and Japanese, might lead
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1932.
⚫er Str
DAY BY DAY
The Ben Lino ss. Benmohr, from
ROADS TO PEACE.
By MUSSOLINI.
UB,
EN and nations unita for limitation of armaments op
will have a firmer foundation.
MEN common action when they Events of the past two years in
SCATH
fact right to do. Can the world bo expected to believe that the Japancsó press is friendly in tono towards Chins these days? or course not. We all know that the
I LIKE PIETISM IN WOMEN, AND Japanese propaganda factorien
DETEST MEMBÈUS OF THE FEMALE are quite as busy as those of EEX WHO MAKE PARADE OF EN China. That is quite understand- LIGHTENMENT-Biamurek. ablo in the circumstances. If the position were reversed, and Chin-Home via Straits, in due here on ese troops wore in occupation of February 3rd. part of Japan, would it by reason-
The annual speech, day of the Cen-have common sufferings, common the economic field demand that able to expect Japanese newspaper tral British School is to be held in St. dangers, and common aims. We the efforts for-peace-from-now-ez comment to be innocuous? That Andrew's Church Hall on Tuesday are witnessing to-day the first shall be based on the free consent
Feburary 16, at 6.30 p.m.. would be asking too much of
great common effort amongr the and co-operation of all. human nature. The argument ap-
Mr. Leonard N. 'Green of the nations to bring about a period of
"Forced To Fight.". plies to the Chineec preas, surely. United States Consular Staff, who International tranquillity, thirteen has been stationed at Belfast, is more
after
As cach nation ontered the we have passed We have previously, on
taking up duties in Hongkong.
through the greatest war which world war the cry was raised by than one occasion, condemned the
cach, “We are forced to fight to ever distressed mankind,
dofend our uncional cxistence." extreme forms of anti-Japanese
Line all will forced During these thirteen years wo This feeling which have latterly been
to defend manifested in China, even after
have had nothing but plans and to keep the pence discussions and proposals and their national existence, and even making due allowance for the
every kind of ethereal promise of to have "a place in the BUR." pence, even to the point of sign provocation caused by Japanese
Nor can the world endure fur ing treaties which would outlaw policy. But we cannot ce that THE AVERAGE BOY.
ther any attempts by one Power, war. And yet, in spite of all this, a group of Powers, to pit itself the nations of the world kept ou against another group. The day building battleships, increasing
ed if Indeed, by her PRODIGY WE TRY TO armies, and organising air fleets, of balance of power must be doom. peace is to come. There can MAKE HIM.
But now for the first time we be no more talk of this, nor will are able to notice a different men- there be place for international tality towards, these things. For suspicion and double-dealing. the first time we have encountered
And more, the effort of any a general spirit to meet the ques- ton of peace on a concrete basis. strong naval or milltary Power arbiter and and that basis which is the essen-to set Itself up as tial element in creating an atmns. create for itself a naval or mili- phere of peace- namely, disarmatury hegemony cannot again be tolerated. One nation, striving to mass for itself a great fighting
a
'un-
kindling of the themes to create situation too terrible to e
From Mesirs. Thoresen and Co. charming Ltd, we have received a Chinese wall calendar issued by the China Siam Line for which they are
the agents.
to
matters in Shanghai bave called for the measures which Japan has deemed fit to lake. actions ahe has merely AKKTDVA- Led the situation, and, what is far Drastic revision is needed in the more serious, has to some extent education of the average boy.
Dr. C. A. Alington, headmaster of drawn the other Powers into the
Eton, expressed this opinion at the
Conference, ali dispute. Seemingly, Japan has Headmasters" only one doctrine to apply the Charterhouse. Dr. Cyril Norwood, benimaster of Harrow, agreed ductrine of force against a weaker
with him to a considerable extent. ment. nation. There are ugly possibili-
Points made by Dr. Alington
As we think of this transforma- machine, either on the sea, on the We
were: ties in the Shanghai crisis.
"Harassed headmasters en tion after thirteen years of chat- land, or in the air, can only arouse can only hope that they will not
deavour to trim their sails to everyter we are tempted to hall the fact the anxiety of all the others who develop seriously. If, however, breeze and grossly overload their that some nations have been faced in turn Increase their arms
while meet the giant. they do, then it will be difficult curriculum, starving every subject with economic bankruptcy
B Hegemonies sooner or later ro- of its proper quantity of hours in others are blundering through majur
period of depression and misery. vain altempl to
propitiate criticism, forgetting that if the For this is the thing which hassult in a continuance of the old and, we hope, obsoleto principle of could not brought the world to its senges Englishman me his own education he would and caused it to see that the whole balance of power, for smaller na foolish game was bound to end in Lions wishing to enjoy the protec find it very difficult tar account satisfactorily
inreonomic rain and national obtion of a powerful ally willingly for his own
enlist their help and arms in the livion. if continued much longer.
service of that ally when they can efliciency.
"We put an entirely exaggerated| The Peril
be assured that their safety is certain. vako upor
such. knowledge a There are very few things indeed i The Ume is now ripe for us to we must find that we can say with certainty that realise that either
a way to put nur houses in order nation finally ends by collecting everyone ought to know.
"We are sure that the average or we perish from the excessive in its orbit a group of smaller bay we instruct will never attain military burdens we are bearing.allies. These, when massed against to move than a reasonable pro- Military expenditure has been de- the rest, in their turn force the and remaining nations to unite also. ficiency in some one subject, aml yet ¦ vouring national surpluses. we teach him as if he is likely to we all are sorely needing those and we are confronted with two
surpluses. become a prodigy,
"The mistake is made of teach-
for Japan to escape. share of the blame.
the
written,
Sine the above was Japan has seen fit to take extreme mensures, despite compliance with demands. *The situation, therefore les taken Caddes gravity and the new developments may lead to serious interuational complications,]
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Average
The result is that a hegemonous
the Sino-Japanese dispute hasverned the earlier part through ser Wilheim 11. the Nobel 341.1 Year Plan," and now we are prone
Manchuria must go on.
13
enn
tions,
How Harbin Appears
hostile groups. Such a altuation that It seems
another little
cannot be allowed to materialise It is in this great necessity that under a thorough disarmament dram, with a curious mixture of tragedy and impish elements of ing him as if he were a potential the need for common action lies, policy wherein all should be re- comedy, is to be staged by the scholar, which we know not to be we have alla common suffering, duced to the mere necessity of Japanese in and around Harbin,the case. He is taught too many common danger, and a common police.
On this Italy bases her prapo- General Hsi Halis (at one time, by subjects in a scholarly way, or, in sin. We must relleve the misery words. his interests are in which the world is now living: other possibly apt error. miscabled Gen.sacrificed to those of his intellectual we must ward off the danger of sale. Italy is disposed to accept of armament. panic and disruption; and we the lowest figure Hai Yah) having falled in his at- superiors."
Examinations.
must all aim for a period of calm even a limit of 10,000 rifles, pro- tempt to mist General Ying Chao from the city, Japanese forces are Dr. Norwood said that he was in which will permit the restoration vided no other nation has more.
Those Plans. to developments of the worst co-being rushed from Changchun in agreement with Dr. Alington onfof-the economic now.
hnd the ground he veivable kind. In view of the order to establish security for most of
The Disarmament Conference
Much has been said of plans In covered.
We had the Dawes events of the past few
He pointed out, however, that next week ennnot be allowed to ince the war. days, fapanese lives and property.
that previous Plan and the Young Plan. The Shanghai is well described us # other words, the War Offee
public schools were responsible for fail in the way
ideas have fallen through. Even Russians seemed to have stirred tinder-box; it only requires the Tokyo is not permitting the rest only the latter half of the before the great war-in fact, just the craze still more in the "Five- of the stage to lapse into inactivi- riculum. The curriculum stood before its outbreak the proposal ty merely because the spotlight in need of drastic revision as it con had been made to bestow on to set a time-limit on many of the projects we think of initiating. plate. There can, however, no suddenly switched from Man-manifest defects presented by boys
how two opinions as to the attitude of charia in Shanghat. The process when they entered public schools from that date, we can aerors But while Europe certainly needs
at 13% to 14 years of age. in
there is no need to not an absolute, the Settlement authorities in face of consolklating the position In the first place they were clearly such a choice could only at least a ten-year period of peace,
have resulted travesty, especial-
limit on It. It could go on from General physically inferior the products of the crisis. This must be one
when we recall that at that very the minimum of ten years and Hsi Hsia, approved by the Japan-of the elementary State-aided
moment the arms of Germany had there is every reason to belleve of the strictest neutrality.
The dangers of the position lese, as new Governor of Harbin,system of education. They were been raised to the highest effi- that it should go on, when once it although assisted with arms-and also unable to use their hands to ciency that any military machine is established on solid founda- have been weli stressed by Mr. Omunition and aeroplases, is at muke things and to draw and were had ever attained. M. Green when he says that the present unable to assume his post untrained use of the eye or ear. Noble but vague ideology may
He did not think that any good
It is, unhappily, impossible for landing of Japanese marines has with due ceremony, General Ying could be done by tinkering with get the applause of the masses, mankind is get beyond certain They had to but it bears no practical results limits in foresight and precaution. brought all the Powers into direct Chao having for some reason is the curriculum.
Sino-Japanese upproved of the form of the no- change their examination system. This coming effort for peace, by As, in the span of a single life,
nature of the circumi- concern with the quarrel. This is a developmenttice to quit and stubbornly de- A less high standard of marking the very
force practical illness, accident or death may in- papers was required.
terfere with the most noble per- sonal project and bring it to ruin, of the first magnitude, and it is clined to budge. Tokyo announces A reign of terror in the city
so it is with nationals. The un- me which Japan must have fore significantly not mentioned hy
foreseen may throw a whole world seen when she decided to impose Reuter's correspondent in Harbin)
out of balance. We must make allowances for that unknown pressure on the Chinese authori- and troops are being despatched
quantity. Our foresight cannot tles in Shanghai. This step won "to protect Japanese, lives
bo so porfact as to pledge us to bound to lead to complications, property, which appear to be en-
n too rigid course of action be yond a certain term of years. No- and it will be a fortunate circum-dangered." That the move
also result, probably, in a clash
thing is definite in history...... stance if these do not increase within the next few days. It is those of General Ying Chuo, in the between the Japanese forces and
Sacred Trusts. admitted that there has been undermining of Ying Chao's" posi- marked anti-Japanese activity in tion and the early installation of Shanghai, and that incidents have General Hsi Hsia as Governor of occurred which bave naturally Harbin, may be purely incidental, Reuter mention- aroused Japanese indignation. On and may be not. the other side, however, it will be fed looting at Fuchintien on Wed- nesday, but gave a very distinct said that these are inevitable con-impression that the troops of the agquences of Japan's own policy Japanese-supported Hsl Hain were In any event, there would appear responsible. Perhaps we are un- to have been little, if any justi- duly suspicions, but there seems Acation, for Japan to have aggra- ground to enquire whether the vated the position by a show of despatch of Japanese troops force and by delivering an ultima Harbin is not connected more which tun to the Chinese authorities, If lonely to the ill-fortune
bafel the attempt of the puppet these things do not constitute nets General Hai Hsia to take charge immediate
of war, they are very little re-of Harbin than with
and
with
to
moved therefrom. The interfer-danger to the Japanese colony
nee with Chinese newspapers la there.
another unwarranted display of
force which ennnot be defended.
The inquiry was concluded before
In view of Japan's actions in Mr. Schalleld yesterday into the cir- Manchuria, can it he wondered at cumstances of the disastrous fire on January 12, at 134, Bonham Strand, that the Chinese presa is anti- which nearly $100,000 worth o* Japanese in tone? After all, the goods in a Chinese herbalist's estab
Hahnient were said to have been newspapers are morely expressing destroyed. The Magistrate found that public feeling, as they have a per- there was no evidence of arton."
stances which
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"Did you see that line where he compared my stage pres- ence with that of John Drow?"
A loyal and serivus man of state, who wishes to fulfil all his pledges whether in national or Interna- tional agreements, considering them as sacred trusts and not as flippant words used for his own convenience, cannot be too' care- ful in making measured uso of time. While the attraction
of novelty induces us to upset the existing state of things,
force
of habit persuades us to leave things as they are. No one can tell in advance which of these ten- dencies will prevail in any deter- mined field in two or three do- endea from now. In the life of nations we must pledge our rigid engagements only for a limited apan of time, and trust that they |will endure for longer and Jonger
periods.
Now that the atmosphere is pro- pitious for peace, whether from choice or necessity, it is the mo mont to start to work. When the. of wheat at Liverpool may price ruin the year's toll of the farmer.. of Iowa, or the price of
of copper in London close the mines of North and South America, we feel' that the world must be triade to understand itself batter, it peace and prosperity are to return.