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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1932.

WAR COSTS.

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1932.

| percentage of the national revenüo. It is calculated that Great Britain, which is groaning under a mount- ing load of taxation, in paying 55 per cent. of its budget on behalf of past wars, and another 15 per cent. in preparation for possible future wars. These latter may nover come, and it is hoped, and Indeed widely expected, that they will not come. But they are being paid for In ndrance just the same.

DAY BY DAY

THE PASSIONS ARE DEFECTS OR

EXCELLENCIES ONLY IN EXCESS Goethe,

II.E. the Governor, Sir William Peel is to distribute the prizes at

field.

hero from

WHAT DO WE EXPECT OF 1932?

BCG

the

good

It would be wise to remember King's Collage on Saturday, March 8, A Trade Boom

that news travola faster to-day at 1 s.m.

Says SIR WILLIAM MORRIS. than it did a century ago, and le consequently magnifled. National THOPE in the next six of hardships in the past often pass

twelve months to see a ed unheeded over the head of the Front revival in all British indus- man in the street, instead of caus- tries that will put the old country ing the panic that they tend to de back in the place in the sun where to-day. We should bear this in it ought to be. I am hoping, in- mind and anticipate -1 dood, to

a trade boom-but time that is surely coming, Owing to the attendance of His whether my hopes are fulfilled We have before UA

the unlimited possibilities of Excellency the Governor at Harm- the country gets back to pros:

an Empire which Aton's Circus to-morrow night (Batur-perous conditions depends upon covers a quarter of the world, in- day), the performance will commence the Government carrying out the cluding a great part of the richest grave duties and heavy responsi- and least developed lands. With at 9.30 p.m. Instead of 9.15 p.m.

bilities they have had put upon these possibilities wisely develop- ed we cannot do other than march And, first and foremost, we must forward to prosperity. have protection of our industries. But we must not stand and wait The motor industry has hitherto and talk. We must think and not prospered because it has been thus-now! favoured. Now we must have pro-i

And the case of Great Britain is, of course, typical: In France, for example, a very small proportion is

Fassengers arriving left for current domestic and con- Manlin by the sa. President Cleve- structive purposes after the overland so-day included Sir Philip Sas- whelming charge for past and 200, Mr. Bell, and Mr. W. Butter- future ware is met. Besides, though tho soven leading powers are included in thin lat, oxamina- tion would show that the multitude of smaller nations are paying on a proportionate scale the same stag gering tribute to Moloch. Is it not time, in a world which is presum- ably willing to be governed by reason, that this levy, sometimes as high as three-quarters of the national revenue, for wars past, present and feared-should bo reduced? To ask the question is surely to answer it.

An extraordinary general mooling of the Star Ferry Co., Ltd., is adver tised to be held at the office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd., on Friday, February 20, at 12.30 p.m.

Owing to Race Week, there will be no meeting of the Rotary Club on Tuesday. The next meeting will held on March 1st, when Dr. S. F. Li wil apeak on "The Prevention Tuberculosis."

them.

and

tection for British steel and Bri- We Shall Become tish lace and all other British industries, including agriculture.

“Air-Minded”

When I hear of shiploads of goods produced abroad by awented

Says SIR ALAN COBHAM. labour coming into this country to ! I believe that 1932'la going to keep millions of men out of work, be a year when we shall take great I feel so annoyed that I sometimes jumps forward. Things move in wonder whether 1 am one of the jerks, as I have noticed, and In lunatics and all the rest of the this coming leap year we are go people are anne.

Indeed.

Developing Internationalists.

The Secretariat of the League of.

In connexion with the fund for Nations, whose composition has relief of distress in Shanghai, we are again been under discussion by informed that the. $10,000 mentioned

The foreigners have had duties ing to leap very much the Impending resignation of Sir in our issue of yesterday as coming imposed on us for a long time Trade depression will lift, and

from Fukien merchants was in fact Eric Drummond, the Secretary subscribed by Chiuchow and Swatow/ back, but we have not had duties Progress will be most marked in

imposed on them. They must General, should furnish the world | merchants in Hongkong-

every field. have considered us and not to with models of international inen.

have retaliated. It la true that all the chlef officeя have been allocated to various na-

Mr. Foo Eng-keng, the eldest son of Mr. Foo Wha-cheng, of Ipoh, tions; but the contention, notably returned to Ipoh from Hongkong A of Italy, that appointments to recently, after completing his studies At the Hongkong University. Mr. office in the League of Nations Foo Eng-keng obtained the degree of should be frankly nationalist, dis- | Bachelor of Engineering. torts the whole conception of the League. It does not matter that this post is held by an English- man and that by a Frenchman, or a third by a German and a fourth by an Italian; but it does matter Immensely that in once each ahould regard himself not ne the nominee of a nation but rather na the servant of the League of Na- tions. From this standpoint the

SUGAR MARKET.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Mesara. Pentreath

and Co.

London Terminals

March 6/01⁄4 up id. May 0/8% up 1⁄4d.

August 0/11% up 3⁄41⁄4d.

December 7/3 up 1⁄4d.

Triple Hope

In particular, I can confidentiy predict that there will be a great boom in aviation. We shall be- come "air-minded." People will realise that we crept out of the dangerous stage in civil flying By LORD APSLEY. years ago, and that it is now as safe to travel by air as it la to go My first hope for 1932 is that by land; and perhaps safer. The the totally erroneous idea that hire of air taxis will become mora Britain makes use of State-aided common, and we shall see an aero. migration in order to dump her drome attached to overy town, and unemployed on the Dominions will probably a landing ground clous to entirely disappear; my second, every village. that migration will increase be But first we have got to educate cause it has an effect on inter-Local Authorities up to the new Imperial trade, on which both we movement. They have got to and they depend for the proaper realise that investment in an aero- ty of our existing population; and drome or a landing ground is wise, my third, that there will be a de- since it is more than an invest- elded Improvenient in trade and

ment in

in mere land; it is also bring- agriculture.

ing traffic to their town. They I believe, too, that towards the must learn this, and abandon their end of the New Year the unont-dusty Ideas, I am working ployment question will begin to hard as I can towards this end, solve itself, not becauso of in- and 1932. I think, will see my creased

prosperity but because hopes fulfilled.

the drop in the birth-rate which

has shown Itself from 1015 on-

wards will begin to exercise Revolt Against

marked effect on the labour mar-

Buyers at above prices, sellers kot. If prosperity increases, in-

New York Terminals.

March-94 up 1 pt. July 1.09 up 4 pts. May 1.01 up 3 pts. September 1.14 up 3 pts. December 1.10 up 3 pts.

and ran up towards the Cathedral, with Mr. Aucott in pursuit. military staff sergeant who was coming down the path caught the defendant and later handed him over to the police.

foreign ministers who go na dole- gates to Geneva are admittedly handicapped; in this is undoubted- ly to be found one of the reasona for the Langue's weak handling of the problem of the Far East; they doubtless wish to forward the Lengue, but by their office they must consider the particular viewensking 4d-4d more. of their respective countries. The Yesterday, we had some observa- question may, indeed arise whe- tions on the popular fallacy that ther Any man who has been nations which go to war are only brought up in national schools and those who can financially afford it, has acquired national prejudicen It will be appropriate if we now can ever become entirely indepen- turn to the question of the cost of dent of his early environment and ware. Some little time back teaching... The proposal has been table was prepared showing the made-and it is worth pondering cost of armed conflict to the world.that the offlelals of the League It was an inadequate table, inux-of Nations eventually should be not from this or that much as it took no account of the recruited destruction of property, the loss of country, but from men who have human life and consequent im-been educated in an international ла Geneva itself, poverishment, of the finanical and centre, such economic chaos produced, or of the which posscuses a distinguished moral and spiritual disturbance.university; men who from their Then things, of course, cannot, for youth have resolved to devote the most part, be estimated. The themselves to supernational pur- table to which we are referring is poses, who have been trained to simply a recapitulation of the But that end, who from the outset have vels of the seven leading Powers been developed as International of the world insofar an they apply men. Until such an ideal can be to armaments and Service (as dia-made practical, however, the en- tinct from war) pensions. Even couragement of the realisation in this restricted form, the figures that a League official, by definition are striking enough. They show represents no nation, but only the that in a typical year no less a League of Nations, will help over- aum than £629,000,000 was actual- come extreme nationalistic tenden- ly spent by the seven leading clea. As auch he must not be a nations in respect of past wars, partisan of any national policy. present armaments and prepara. He must not be swayed by public |tions for war which, despite trea-feeling at home. In point of fact ties, may come. Here are the the atmosphere of Geneva, the detailed figures:-United States, contact with fellow officials, a cer- £175,000,000; Great Britain, £116,- tain habit of thought and practice, 100,000; France, $104,000,000; Russia, £91,000,000; Italy, £50.000, 000; Japan, £49,000,000; Germany, £38,000,000,

have already helped to develop a decided Internationalism. It sim- ply remains to carry on the pre- sent tendancy to ite logical con- clusion.

PEAK LADY'S BAG SNATCHED.

For comparative purposes. the budegetary method is somewhat misleading, since there are coun- tries which are much more Xen- orous to their soldiers than others. For this reason, the figures given cannot be used as a test of relative armament. But the broad fact re- YOUNG THIEF SENT TO mains that more than six hundred

PRISON. millions sterling was spent in this

typical year on war and prepara- Whilst walking up Battery Path tion for war. It should be painted in the company of her husband, out that there are In addition war Mrs. Aucott, of 868, The Peak, pensions other than service pan was the victim yesterday evening alona. It should likewise be point of a young bag snatcher who wAS ed out that there are debts from eubsequently arrested and this morning brought before Mr. country to country which were Wynno Jones. | brought into bofing by war and will hang like a millstone on the necka of this and future generations; and Internal debts which absorb a high

According to Mrs. Aucott, ahe gether with Mr. Aucott when the was walking up Battery Path to- defendant saatched her handbag |

Armaments

deed, there may even be a short- Says LT.-COM. KENWORTHY. age of workers.

The Introduction of penny My main hope for 1932 lies in post and reduced freights and pas- the revolt of the common people-- aenger farca within the Empire farmers, artisans, doctors, shop. would also be a forward step. A keepers, and so on-against common Empire_currency to be intolerable burden of armaments. hoped for, but, I fear, will not be I hope that this will happen in all seen in 1982.

The End of

"Dismal Jimmies" Says SIR WILLIAM CRAWFORD

the

countries, for all countries are Buffering-France, in this matter, is no better off than we are, for

་ with falling trade she is sufferlag from rising taxation and rising unemployment, both due directly or indirectly to militarism.

And in this country fifteen shill- Ings out of every pound of taxa- The closing months of 1981 have tion goes towards armaments or in reply to his Worship, defen-ended with an outlook of brighter the strengthening of military re- dant said that he was 16 years Industrial conditions for Britafa. sources.

It is my hope that these conditions. The present expenditure on pro- of age.

will continue and be bettered, and parations for hypothetical war Sentence of six weeks' hard la- | that we shall have done with cannot possibly continue unless bour was imposed.

brooding over depression.

we have all taken leave of our senses. I am hoping that in the near future there will be such an uprising of popular opinion against war that militariste and their colleagues, the arma- mont makers, will be brushed

of Nations League

"Why don't you and the Mišsus drive over tonight for

game of bridge?"

"Be gind to, Frank. We'll be there at seven Afty-three)

and a balf."

help

aside. The

in this, but only if Russia and America decide to join the forta-

coming World Conference in a helpful and constructive spirit.

In conclusion, trade in this

country will Improve taxation fo reduced (and the reduction of taxation depends to a large extent upon disarmament): if the tarli obstacles to trade all over the world are removed or reduced; and if we come to a settlement in the matter of war debts and re- parations; and the best way to do this would be to wash them all out.

An all-round reduction of arma- menta would be a step forward. It is my main hope för 1932.

BAITING TEACHER.

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