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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1932.
A BLACK OUTLOOK.
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Once again, the League Nations has failed to induce Japan. to stay her hand. The eleventh- bour efforts made at Geneva to prevent the resumption of hostill- tles around Shanghai have proved of no avail. Japan. apparently working "according to что-
after presenting utterty inacceptable ultimatum the Chinese, has begun her big offensive. The troops of the two nations are ripped in war, 1:1- declared though it may be. Apart from the toss of life among the combatants, Chinese villages are being laid in ruins and innocent civilians driven from their homes. The rights and wrongs of the
of
DAY BY DAY
PARTY IS THE MADNESS OF MANY you THE GAIN OF A FEW.-Pope.
The P. and O. us. Rajputana, fromi of Singapore, is due here nt 7 n.m. on
The moment has, however, gone for further argument un the rights and wrongs of the issues. We have to face the realities of
Thursday.
The Commander-in-Chief much! regrets, that owing to his unavold- able absence, the AL lleme on board
H.M.S. Kent on Tuesday, 23rd February, must be anneelled
GILBERT FRANKAU.
To a Young Man About to Marry.
A Letter to n Nephew. Y dear George.
a
your letter puta me in Inice quandary. You ask me, ns "one who knows something about it." to advise you whether or not
are
much Angela's conduct may have conduced to the unfortunate state of affairs.
the situation. The point NOW
I am trying to think of what developing is what reactions the
other rights you've got.. But for the life of me all I can remember rew and more serious develop-
is your right to pay super-tax for menta will have on the Powers
Passengers arriving hero by the vou should commit matrimony. Empress of Japan included Major Your Angela, you any, is a per-hor-and go to prison if you don't. A they likely to join in dù- V. E. Buclos, now Canadian Govern- fect darling. You and aho.
So let's pass to the other side of ouncing Jepan as a violater of mont Trade Commissioner in Hongernzily in love with one another. the picture the rights Angels, the Longue Covenant" If 80.
kong, and Mr. W. A. H. Duff, singles Unless you can get married, life unce married, will have
over you. tennis champion of Shanghal and won't be worth living. Still you If you desert hor, or if you're this will involve the breaking off member of the Canadina Davis Cup would like to know "just where you only Just once unfaithful to her, of diplomatic relations with her. team.
are" and Just what your "rights" she has the absolute right to about As one British political observer
will be when this perfect darling a third of your income.. And al- Mr. S. Q. Gregory, manager of becomes legally yours.
though has expressed It, the withdrawal |
you can't keep her at homo, Messrs. Kelly & Walsh Ltd. In long- of Ambassadors would be a genre kong, in to be married at Canton
Well, take it from me, my boy.or control her friendships in any step, but it is one which
could day to Miss Dorothy Priestly, who the less you think about your way, you mustn't leave her at hom hardly fall to make its effect felt arrived at Hongkong by the Empress "rights" over Angela once the be- much, or contract any friend- The marriage comos Mrs. George the better. Be- for as a woman, because if you ships which might be painful to in Tokyo. "Moral and diplomatic will take place before the British cause nowadays a husband has
of Japan yesterday, inotation," u this commentator Consul-General. A religious service few. says, "is not a thing which any will be held later nt the Lignan Power regards lightly in the work University, Canton. to-day." and there would be at least a reasonable hope that it-
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be necessary
the
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death
You Can't Stop Her. Your future wife, I gather from your letter, doesn't want to give up her jch "because she's quite happy working and thinks the
extra money will come in useful." the
Well. as far as I know, you
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do fand remeber she can always find a Inwyer because you have to pay him) you may find ourself in the courta on a charge of "mentat cruelty."
Final Peril,
And once
she's proved that charge, your Angela will be award-
The health bulletin of Eastern Ports for the week ending the 13th in even the threat of it-would
słowa
following
nt cསྐ** count with the more moderate infectious disease and elements in Japan and fortify therefrom: Plague. Basseln
1 death. can't stop her from worlding justed a "deed of separation" with the death. Bombay 1 ense them against the militarista who
Rangoon 1 ense, Pnom Penh 1 case because you happen to have same approximate third of your have put them in tho
The law doesn't incorne to soluce her shattered present death. Cholera, Calcutta 37 entes 18 morried her. position. If this should prove deaths, Mudras I use denth, even insist on her keeping house nerves.
1 death.
Small-p for you.
Whereas should you, as I most She need pot, legally useless, there still remains the Chittagong
Baghdad cases 2 denthe, Basrah 1: possibility of action under Article Bombay 3 cases & deaths, Cal- speaking, cook your meals, or darn devoutly hope, avoid that final
engage your
n husband which is legally ser-peril of
called XVI, which enjoins the applica ella enses & deaths, Cochin 1 case. your socks, or
"permanent maintenance Pares. Vunts. tion of economic sanctions. To Karachi enses, Mudros 4
your and oxually known as "allmony" Still, if she does engage deaths. Rangoon that extreme we trust it will not | Tuticorin 9 cases 2 deaths, Pandi- servants and you're not satisfied (the Sussex, name, by the Way: for the brawn which was served at those cherry 8 enses 8 deaths, Prom Penh with them, I believe that you have Bations which have been aining 2 ease, Saigon 34 cases 24 deaths, the law's permission to give them "below the suit" to the discarded Any 35 ensea 17 deaths, Canton 18 notice without consulting her. wives of your Saxon ancestors). interesse, Shanghai 48 cases 24 denths.
Though as a husband.of some ex- you will still be responsible for perience I should hardly advise you keeping your Angela until death to take this course.
parts you, and liable in damages have, should she libel your next-door will certainly And you should you
Angela, neighbour or shoot his dog. marry your
Your responsibilities towards one or two other litlle rights over the darling. Though, unless you've your Angela, indeed, once you have gol a good lawyer and plenty of married her, will be so all-em- money to pay him with, you won't bracing that even the fondest lover And those rights too easy to on- need not fear you will lose your
Because nowadays,
ava, chivalry, Chivalry or no chivalry, force either. my dear George, the law no longer you will have to shoulder all her allows the only effective method of burdens-even though she refuses a single one of yours. controlling the dear creature-that to shoulder
That's the stark fact, my jadicions chastisement with a stick
since 1918 to sub liute national law for international anarchy cannot but endeavour to uphold the Covenant. Jf they fail to do so, then the League might as well never have been brought into bring:
CORRESPONDENCE.
Smoke Nuisance.
To the Editor, Hongkond
Telegraph.]
Sir, Forgive me for reopening subject which has so frequently been aired in your columns. refer to the smoke emitted prac theally throughout the twenty-four hours by the cement works,
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1.
I
pro-
"of
yore. All the name, and always vided that you can find the right; So that Inwyer, the law does not leave you
own
really serious when you ask mo entirely defenceless. If your what your legal rights are, la that Angela, instead of working for you should avoid marrying your thu and spending her
money. Angels as you would avoid
bubonic plague.
If, however, as I imagine, you're only pulling my almost middle- nged leg as a result of your recent reading in the newspapers, my advice to you is quite different. In that case, provided you and your Angela really are in love, for Heaven's sake don't worry about your rights.Marry-her-and take the risk.
What are a wife's rights? The latest obiter dicts of Mr. Justice McCardie on this point
being discussed every where. He said:
RN!
A wife is permitted to leave her husband if she so desires. She may decide whether she will bear children or not, and when each child shall be born. She is a citizen and not a serf. She can decide her own future.
decides to spend yours, you entitled to say how much should spend.
on
quarrel saide, it is a sorry com-
In a recent letter published by you our which affects practically every mentary on life that, despite all it was pointed out that the smoke resident in the Colony, the efforts of the past decade to carries with it particles of cement It has been said that what re buitel ap a rule of law among which, in the aggregate, are able mains of solids in the smoke is nations, it has so far been found to affect structure and disfigurent harmful. For my part, I can
Quito Another Question. If
not see how it can do good. this is so Farhorizontal surfaces, Impossible to prevent this
Because marriage isn't really a It must, obviously, affect the sen-realise the difficulties, but I preas Eastern upheaval,
question of rights. It's a question upheaval 242
ftive membranes in the breathing their early overcoming.
are of two human beings taking the which may yet involve many more
Yours, etc., of both humans and Passages
she big risk that they can go on loving nations. Millions of people may animals, not to mention birds or
E. M. BRASIER CREAGH.
one another. sin documents urging the abolingocts.
P.S.In case it may be suggested
But remember that you must be
If you and Angela can go tion of war, pacts and understand- In bringing the public's atten- that the smoke was from the chim- ings may be concluded with the tiem once again to this smoke, Ineys of Ilongkong, I must add that easonable about this. And the loving one another, if you can go hat judge, not you, will decide whether on understanding one another, if can invariably follow the have this to add to the facts. In one
you've
been reasonable or not. same end in view-but the fact re-
you can tolerate each other's little The law, too, will allow you to weaknesses and sympathise with mains that to-day
we are faced the last three months I have made cement smoke with the eye on ac olervationa from various parts count of a white character. That with the stark realities of war.
to- of the Peak district, and it the from the town is blue, and that set rid of your Angela if she runs oach other's little foibles, if you
away from you with another man. can laugh together and cry No-one can have read the hours between 7 and 9 in the from, for instance, the Dockyard. But remember that if you subso-gether and go to the came amuse- peeches at the latest meeting of morning, with the following con- another offender in the morningquently go off with another woman ments together and enjoy the same the League Council without feel-clusion.
you forfelt that right. however work together, and if ultimately
you can walk hand-in-hand Ing that the Japanese delegate full-
Kolber through that garden where with your children walt to play you-why then you will have won the most precious of nil the prizes life has to offer, the perfect com- panionship of a man and his mate. Which is sob-stuff of the worst 'description. Yet one of those eternal verities which are above tha human, being part of Divine, law.
Whenever
warm lower air, ed in any effective way to justify such as was created by yesterday's is beld down in the harbour HUIL the lengths to which his country swing round of the wind hus gone in Shanghai. Mr. Sato northwards during the night, the argued that Japan's only purpose smoke falls to rise above the BUG fs to protect her interests, and con- feet level and is carried across tended that a withdrawal from the harbour to Hongkong.
Students of meteorology will be
Shanghai would be a renunciation aware that this wind circum.
occurrence
of all her rights in China. The stance is of frequent nee Argument is unconvincing.
There during
the winter months and is no demand that Japan should will understand that it brings with withdraw from Shanghai; all that it a natural slight haze or fog
has been asked is that she should cease hostile activity. It may be perfectly true, as Mr. Sato say
which maken paar visibility within of the hills, 800-1000 feet, the cold the harbour area. Above the level air has free passage and the visi-
that Japan occupies the third bility is good such conditions.
some days
This
position in the import and export On days trade of China and that she is occur, I have always observed entitled to defend her rights, that all the smoke from the ecment But by no stretch of the imagina-works is held like a pall, over the
city Victoria.
of
On tion can this making of war on il con
concentrates over Happy Valley; the Chinese be described de-if the wind is a bit easterly it will fence of Japanese rights. Other skirt West Point and stretch away This Powers which have greater rights right to Lantau laland. 'n Shanghal do not deem it neces-morning it made straight for the centre of the town. The top was sary to adopt aggressive measures level with Harkor Road from in defence thereof. On the ques station. From there, one could tion of the recent appeal made to not see the Cricket Club. Ferry Japan by the League, whilst this wharves, nor even Government may not in an many words reflect House, 100 feet higher up, and a condemnation of Japan's actions, this degree of saturation existed
almost down to sea level. the fact remains that Japan is
For several hours of last night, In accupation of Chinese territory when the inhabitants of this city. in contravention of her solemn were getting their beauty sleep. plodges, and that she has resorted they were breathing in this nerid to actual warfare in her attempt smoke, filling their lunes
to settle a political dispute again dusty particles, losing. In a few in breach of undertakings entered minutes, all the benefits of a week- into in common with other Powers, end of fresh air.
Taubmit that the smoke nuisance
No amount of argument can dis is not a matter to be left to the pose of these major points," More-K.R.A. to deal with, since. It is
la black.
"All the folks down home think I'm up here singing over the radio. So when you got back you can just say you had
"lunch with me.”
ali
to-
Your affectionate uncle,
GILBERT FRANKAU.
Our Wireless
Sportsmen.
By ROBERT MAGILL. HERE has been some argu- as to what constitutes the ideal radio
Tment recently
pro
gramme, and I gather that we need moro dance music and less chatter, or also more talks and less insane jazz, or more good music, or less highbrow rubbish, and so on.
It is getting dificult to discuss things without coming to blows, and I know of several happy homes which would have been broken up if the company hadn't stepped in and taken the Bat hack because the payments had falloh into arrears.
What They Want. ⠀⠀ For five men out of six the ideat, programme, say from Daventry, would be: "Hallo, this is Daventry. Daventry calling. You are listen- ing to Daventry DAVENTRY: (Continued on Para; §);