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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1932,
would ipso facto have boen guilty, and Hable to punitivo action by tho League of Nations under Article XVI of the Covenant.
Thongkong Telegraph. Sovereignty;
DAY BY DAY
ALL
PANACEA THERE 19 NONE. FOCIAL THEORIES ARE ON TRIAL. Sherwood Eddy.
re-ILM.B. Bruce, in command.
war.
treniment.
a great
ARMS CONFERENCE SNAPSHOTS
By ROLAND HALL SHARP
Genova.
UCH colour as Goneva offers
Breaking Precedents.
#
not
the
have
One welcoming recoption ten- More About Memel.
their is now Fuller Information
to embellish the arms con-dered by the Genevese to
guests broke precedents in more Available about the situation in
The P. and 0. liner Naldera, from
ference reats like a modest ways than one to honour the con- aference. As near the grand man- of Singapore, is due here at 10 a.m. to- the nutonomouB territory
boutonniere on the Inpal of
Geneva receptions are Memel arising out of the Lithu-morrow.
business tweed. It has qualities ner A unian seizure on February 6 of Otto Boettcher, president of the the Adetiralty (April 23) include Emerson
Latent naval appointments made by akin to the aunnet described by allowed to become, it brought from በዛ mast appreciated their customary seclusion citizens
portance of the occasion. local counell or directorate. Herr Commander E. A. Aylmer, D.S.C., to when seen through the windows who thereby testifled to the im-
of industriousness.
Predominantly democratie, the Boettcher, who was speedily
constant leased, but is reported to be still
For anyone in the streets can affair provided under Lithuanian aurveillance, Mr. S. M. Churn, who was driving feel that the delegates are here panorama of Interest to those who
ha motor car along the Pokfulam
The tang of sessions is recognized the persons present. war cast into prison on his retur Road near the Dairy Farm yester to work.
the from " trip to
Berlin. The day knocked down a woman named grave, consciously reflecting the The unostentatious, friendly little
Fung Hu, aged 41, of Aberdeen Street, universal. conviction that some-man serving himself from
of GeneveHE Lithuanians contend that he was
intileting injuries to her legs. The how a way must be found to countless varieties
Inexhaustible conducting
Bus-pastries on long, Recret negotiations
woman, not serlously hurt, was taken lighten burdens and lesser) Ireld with Germany. which
to the Government Civil Hospital for pictona engendered by armaments tables, is President of the Swiss
Countess Conferderation.
Ap- Memel before the
36 per cents above 1018 levels.
The preliminary parade of great pony of Hungary, tall, dignified, or almost regal, converses easily Memel is within the sovereignty
A young Chinese, of 20, Reclama-
of the League of Lithuania. But the qualifien-
tion Street, attempted to commit pawers proposing abolition
Maxim Litvinoff. tion that it should enjoy autonomy suicide by jumping from the Sham-stringent control of the most with members clearly makes that sovereignty in-shuipo ferry-beat Chung at 9.30 laat aggressive arms testified to the Secretariat.
certainly expreased by Russian Foreign Minister, stands Boettcher is night when the launch was about uneasy Herr
Simon. Bruening and at the door of a room in the In- complete.
500 yards from the Hongkong wharf. Grandi,
Club, watches areternational technically a Lithuanian citizen.
A neuman, Chan Siu, jumped into the but to describe him as a Lithuan- water and, with the assistance of others that heroic mensures ian would obscure the reason for Seregunt Till, who was passing in imperative to avert disaster. The dancers for several minutes, then- police launch No. 14, rescued the same certainty offers a hope that disappears downstairs. A alonder the Memel trouble and render it youth, who refused to go to hospital. generous gestures will be trans-Japanese in formal kimono moves inted into action under the gond sedately in the dance. Conversa- totally without meating. For
tion proceeds in Polish, French, of necessity.
German, English, Pusslan, or what Memol's trouble is the unfriend-
"Over the Hill," now showing at
you will, for all the world Was lineas between the German and the the King's Theatre, is a film of mare
Mist-Defying Hues, reason of
To be sure, there are lighter and invited, and nearly all the world Lithuanian elements of its populn-than usual interest by
the very admirable study it gives of tion. Germans have never recon-family life, and also becaues of the more joyous pictures. Flags of came.
A Rectangular World. ciled themselves to Lithuanian high standard of production and the the world brighten the Rue de bold ርቲ Ane acting of the chief characters. In Confederation in lave Lithuanians
Pet-Some nations may дя the old Mse Marsh
aplendidi
splotch of waving colour, never reconciled themselves to the mother scorned by all bat one of her ants of those flags, from Siam been represented at the opening incompleteness of that sover-sons; she reveals abilities of
fim well flash by on official limousines. At question that in the rectangular Consoll of the Salle du eignty, The. Government at Kovnorder dates Dunn and Sally Ellers round again to China's rising sun, reception, but there can be no
are also both good. A
the entries of the Salle du Consell floor
major political seems to interpret its qualified worth seeing.
General during plenary sessions, General, every
cheeks set unit and most minor ones rights pretty liberally. For instance.
spokesmen. And врокер- Na- their the Memel correspondent of the|
"Big Inda like you should be doing gendarmes-florid
for the half dozen of play beneath black and white else instead
blue women, New York Times, reported: The something
poleonic headpieces, dark Herring with children's see-news," said
over trousers permitted on the official floor take appointment yesterday of
Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magis capes sweeping Tolishus, a Lithuanian, as a mem-trney yesterday, when two Portuguese striped liberally with light blue-full advantage of their oppor-
vacant. Towards the end of last month, the ber of the territory's government youths, L. and H. Ribeiro, were charg- usher sober-suited statesmen into tunities. Their seats are seldom
the Irall. with being in the children's play-
The floor is divided into three ground at Chatham Road on Satur- Permanent Advisory Commission by the new President, Herr Sim-
quita Even through misty
sections, the centre one wide. A glance at this section mat, despite the protests of the day evening. It was stated that the for Military, Naval and Air Ques-
were reserved for
childrenboraldic colour with hints of shows the dark, pointed beard of tions of the League of Nations met German majority, has considerably defendants were using the see-saws, Geneva matches these finahes
Defendants
his Informed
summer-time vividncas. Tur-Signor Grandi; the smooth, fair to draw up rules for the constitu- complicated the situation and in only.
that they did not
John the Worship
quoise Rhone, splashing, hasten Anglo-Saxon face of Sir tion and operation of the super-creased the tension between.
there with the
of intention
the attentive, compact interfering with the children, but ing to tint the Mediterranean, Simon
rushes beneath the city's bridges. figure of M. Andre Tardieu, busily when they arrived they just got on to
notes and whispering the see-saw. They were each fined Occasional sunlight pours richer taking It
pigments into the ever-changing asides into the leonine grey locks flow of emerald and glacier blues. of M. Paul-Boncour; Dr. Woolley At night, loops and arches of among her American colleagues: lights along the Pont du Mont 3. Paul Hymans, Belgian Foreign Blanc and its promenade sparkle Minister and first president of the to the lake and river. A late gull Lengue Assembly; Count Albert veteran Hungarian or swan or wintering midget duck Apponyi,
and paddles through the light into diplomat with square Jaw deep shadows beneath the bridge, white shovel beard; Mr. Litvinoff. the chief spokesman at Hotel windows glow, coloured and signs blink, bicyclists hurry home. Geneva in the Far Eastern crisis. trams clang. Busy, but not gay. Dr. Yen of China, Ambassadora Genes addresses itself to the Matandaira and Sato of Japan. came and went most stupendous task before the Dr. Bruening world-bringing nearly sixty quickly, but left a Insting mark, on
some the conference. national viewpoints into measure of agreement for limita- Like the ebb and flow of tiden. tion and reduction of armaments. [the hall fills and empties as speech translation aucceed each No home or office but will feel and directly what is done or left un- other. Every address is translat done here...
(Continued on Page 9.).
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1932.
MEANS OF PREVENTING
WAR
up in Memel.
n
to the
ed
which
$2.
Three workmen
go
at Taikoo Dock
visory commissions mentioned in Lithuanian authorities and the Article 4 of the Convention for Im-German populace. The affair may
teacup. proving Means of Proventing War,
seem a storm in This Convention, it will be remem-
might he so described but for the bered, was adopted by the Assembly of the League last September and many interests that are wrapped
The extent of these ware slightly injured yesterday after has for its main object the streng interests became obvious
noon when a staging on which the wore standing was swept away by thening of the hands of the Council in preventing the outbreak of hos-world in 1923, after the Lithuan- the propellor shaft of the nu. Am- tilities following an International in coup, which precipitated the pullaria. The men were not injured Hettlement that provided Memel umciently to necessitate their re Inoval to hospital. Mr. S. Boulton, <lispute.
atatus. of the Dockyard, notified the police with its curiosity of This status may prove to be too of the mialap which occurred at three men, Yuch 3.46 p.m. The curious to last. So far it appears Chung, Mong Shu and Lo Chu, were to
provided nothing but working on a staging when the pro- shaft of the Ampullarin swung invitation
Lithuanian to
out and struck the staging, throwing un
German and
Lo change JL.
the men off. They all received in- it cannot be
changed juries to their back and feet, but the beiter without a required no inedical treatment. radical transformation in feeling. There is need for both Lithuanian pepperiness and German irreden- tism to dissolve into that "good faith" which, as that great jurist, John Selden, said, "is the essence of all relations."
Article 3 of the Convention lays down that if, in the event of a threat of war, special conditions in particular the possibilities of contact between the forces of the parties in dispute-render It neceя-
fix linca But sary, the Council may which must not be passed by their for civil aircraft if such prohibition is necessary to avoid incidents. These lines shall, if possible, be fixed by agreement with the parties at issue, but failing such agreement, the Council shall fix them with the consent of the party' whose forces are affected, provided they are not required to withdraw further than
have
CELEBRATION
MACAO HONOURS OUR the LADY OF FATIMA
.of
Macao, May 14.
yesterday, was distinguished by a bigger attendance than at any time in the past.
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the exterior lines of defence exist- BIG CATHOLIC ing on their frontier. Article 4 provides for the appointment of Commissioners by the Council for the sole purpose of verifying on the the spot the execution of measures recommended by Council under the former para- graph. The inspection duties
The annual procession in hon- theso commissioners are strictly limited to the work they have to do our of Our Lady of Fatima, held and they may not inspect any naval, air base, or military catablishment unless such inspection is absolutely
This yearly feast in honour of
The route of the procession was necessary for them to verify that
Owes its the instructions of the Council have the Blessed Virgin
of at least one mile from the the been carried out. The actual de- inception to the apparition of Our illuminated for its entire length Lady at a place called Fatima, in tails of their composition and work-
the very heart of Portugal. Here, Church of St. Dominic, In
three very heart of the city, to the top old ing are to be elaborated in the Our Lady appeared to forma of rules and regulations by peasant children, and ever since of Penta Hill, where the the committee of naval, military there have been annual pilgri-hermitage and its famous grotta and air experts known as the Par-mages to Fatima, during which were also effectively Mluminated.
The ample spaces in the grounds manent Advisory Committee, to several miraculous cures effected which reference was made at the beginning of this article.
ЛЕ
Hill where the ancient chapel of this name still stands.
at Fatima have testified to the of the chapel and the grotto were deep religious faith of the Porlu-soon Blled with hundreds of the guese people. the cult of Our Lady faithful, and in this picturesque The Convention, which comes of Fatima having aprond to all setting overlooking the olty, His Lordship the Bishop, D. Jone da into operation as soon as the rati- the Portuguese colonies.
Costa Nunes, addressed those fications or accessions on behalf of At Macao, the Portuguese
of his Catholics have present. He told them ten member or non-member States well na Chinese have been deposited with the Secre- responded in no uncertain manner personal experiences at Fátima tariat of the League, alms at giv- to the invitation of the Church to and how he felt that raya of faith ing the Council moro powers to de-colebrate the festival in a becom- radiated from that little village The procession has in Portugal, spreading slowly lny hostilities until the dispute has ing way.. been sont for arbitration. Had it come to be celebrated by many through Portugal and the Portu- thousands of the faithful, and guoso Colonies and eventually bean in force last September and the altar dedicated to Our Lady through the whole world. He ap bad Japan and China been signa- of Fatima, in the Church of St. pealed to all his hearera to seek to tories to it, much time would have Dominic, is the venue of hundreds the protection of Our Lady of
exhorted them been saved, as the Council's demand of persons assembled thore dally Fatima, and
learn from the demonstrations of that the two opposing forces would for two weeks proceding the day faith that devotion to the Blessed withdraw to a safe distance from of the procession.
Virgin had aroused in s0 one another would have been ne- On the last day of the festival, places how to lead Christian lives. Church of St. He concluded by asking all those cepted as a matter of routine. yesterday, the There would have been no need to Dominic became the scene of a present to pray for faith in discuss the actual powers of the brilliant celebration in honour of Christ's teaching and that peaco the Blossed Virgin, and a proces- might come to China and the Council in this respect, and either sion of dignified, pomp and cere- whole world. Our Own Correspon party disobeying their instructions many wonded its way to Ponha dent.
many
Niemary
winter. of
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