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HARVEY-PRESTON-On 15th June, 1932, at the Registrar's Office. Hongkong, Mr. A. V. Harvey, R.A.F.O., eldest son of Mr. nd Mrs. A. W. Harvey, Kessingland, Suffolk, to Mrs. H. W. Preston of
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, · 1932.
that in such I
DAY BY DAY
THE MATERIALS NECESSARY FOR A FOUND JUDGMENT OF FACTS ARE NOT rouND IN THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF UNDERTAKINGS; EXACT KNOW-
LEDGE OF THE SITUATION THAT HAS PROVOKED THEM FORMS NO INCON-
Should the League be Armed?
T
Yes
By Col. DAVID DAVIES.
No
By SISLEY HUDDLESTON
SIDERABLE ELEMENT OF HISTORY. NIE French proposals at Geneva ¡THERE has been a recrudescence Metternich.
have brought the Disarma. T of the idea that the League of
ment Conference face to face
super-
to give his permisalen. for a start to be made on the project, the latest information, being that he hopes to be able to reply very shortly to the urgent request sent from the Colony.
As we have already had occasion to remark, it is a sorry commentary on Crown Colony rule essentially domestic matter as this we should have to wait on the | pleasure of permanent officials at
Nations should be a One case of small-pox, two_enses off with realities. It is one thing to state dispensing military might. Home who have no real kriówiedge diphtheria and one of meningitis, were talk about pence, to draft elever This in not only Impossible of ful- of Hongkong's particular problems. reparted to the Health Authorities on treaties and pass pious resolutions.fillment, but is detrimental to the
Tuesday, The great need of the Colony in
But to express these things in terms | League. of an organization in a different that there should be an improve-
The Lengue, composed of various Home newspapers announce the proposition.
powera, cannot hope to rule over ment both in the means of collect. W. Barton, who was for many its activities to discussion, with an
death, suddenly, at Bexhlil, of Mr. So long as the League confines those powers that compose it. Even were it furnished with an army, n facilities years a partner in the Douglas Steam-embroidery of committees dealing navy, and air squadrons, they would It only ship Company, Hongkong.
with various beneffeext projects like be furnished by the component
and therefore In our repart of the Government; improving labour conditions, stop powers.
could "Clinic" motor van yesterday, it was ping drugs, etc., all is well. Once, scarcely be used against those inadvertently stated that the body however, li sets out to carb racial powers. At the beat or the worst work was made Mesars. Vickers, animosities and restrain national-there would merely be a military This was incorrect, the body having pugnacities there is a general hue league of a certain number of been made by the Public Works De- and cry. And when other argu-powers against one or more powers; conpartment at Wanchai.
ments have failed, you may rest and there is not the slightest assured that an appeal will be made guarantee that, in the ultimate re- A report issued by the police this to the doctrine
national sort, there would be general agree- morning indiented that Wong Po, who novereignty. No one has the rement on the merits of a particular. fell from his bunk at 134, Aplin Street, motest iden what Sovereignty situation. Shamshulpo, on Tuesday and was re-
menna, but it is The direful consequences of en-
rainfall
ing rainfall and in the available for storage. needs a glance over the records to show how fickle Nature can be. Our real rainy season is from May to September Inclusive, and to show how variable ditions can be it is worth noting that the rainfall fur
has May
and
| varied between 48.08 inches
1.1 inch, for June between 31.3 and 23. for July between 30 and 4.5, for August between 34.3 and 3.9. and for September between 30.6
and 0.6. Even taking the complete your. we find extremes of 119.71 and 45.83, the last-named being for 1925, when the position would have been infinitely worse but for a fall of 18 inches in July alene. To carry the figures further, if we had a whole year based on monthly
23 Codogan Street, London, only minima, the total fall would be daughter of Mr. William White-only a matter of about 14 inches? head of Benrstel, Kent,
That is not, of
course, to be
The
Hongkong Telegraph.minimum retirest
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1932,
RAINS AND THE RESERVIORS
There is much more than a more witty query in the question which the Director of the Observatory
am to the Kwong Wah Hospital in really
nf
an unconscious condition, succumbed a wonderful word. Why not have deavoring to make a superstate to his injuries yesterday evening. done with it, though, antt call it of separate nations appear 80
anarchy justend. Everyone knows abvious that it is surprising
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Described as a clerk, Chai Eng what that means. Even the Ameri- observe the zeal with which this Mr. Grantham at the Central Police with a bump against the implications has been advocated by men kool, aged 20 years, appeared before can representatives are brought up conception of the League's func- Court this morning on a charge of tions of the Kellogg pact. Does the whose pacific sincerity in not to be altering a forged lunker's cheque on United States really mean to pre-doubted. By their futile efforts to the Mercantile Bank of India with in-vent war? If so, what about the fereale a militarized League of tent to defraud. On the application international navy which Congress Nations they have diverted atten- the defendant was remanded until asked for in 19107 What about tion from the possibility of develop of Detective Inspector John Marphy, Saturday, bail being allowed in the the international sheriff which ing a moral League of Nations.
Rosevelt demanded so vehemently Qu the moral ground, anch a and couragentisly in those yents | League can indeed he constructed In admitting JU Mummo for preceding the war. Or is the and should grow in strength as men unsalt brought by n subordinate Kellogg part only a gesture which become more rational and nations workman, Mr. W. Tannley, of Messrs. no one intends to obey,
acquire the international outlook. Kriss, Massey & Co. Ltd., remarked,
The true function-of the League is before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court
that the com yesterday,
runt of $2,000,
to withdraw the summons. which
consternation.
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behalf
expected, but the figure is illumin-plainant had been anruly and provoked in this light and what Tokyo tries between prospective belligerents. It appears that Japan regards it not to interpose itself with weapons ating as showing the sum total of the defendant to commit the assault.te do today, someone else may do It is not to persuade various nations
The complainant expressed the desire to-morrow, So when Tardien drop-to take UITE arms on its
against a designated wrongdoer. how application was allowed by his Wed his bombshell there was general That function is only too likely to France, however, is not the only be fulfilled in event of local strife According to a telegram received nation in dire need of security. Eng. by countries which feel their in- jeopardized or their from the Canadian Pacific Railway with her teeming population-terests head office in Montreal, an announce- 685 to the square mile densely passions engaged. ment has been mado by the President packed together in rent cities, in and Treasurer,
Sufficient has given to illustrate variable our rainy season can be. The lesson is that We should legislate, if not for the minimum fall, then for something far re- moved from even the average.
Sidelights on Bible History. Archwologists frequently uncover many witnesses of the distant past of special interest to students of
that Mr. John Loille, Vice-President particularly vulnerable to attacks, The proper function of the retire on July 1 from the air. Other nations also Lengite is entirely moral. It is to after 63 years' sevice with the Com-are menaced in various degrees by bring the disputants together. It pany: He will be succeeded by Mr. inventions and discoveries in the is to review the dispute. It is to E. E Lloyd and in addition, Mr. L. B. cenim of slaughter. Real security bring to bear the weight of public Unwin has been appointed Comptrol-
the Bible and of ancient peoples in $5,000 FINE IMPOSED prived of her armaments stands dois to bring before the nations in-
general. These discoveries have a twofold bearing: they corroborate in an extraordinary degree the
Bilde Barratives, and also reveal the political and social conditions,
fer and Mr. E. A. Leslie, Deputy can be achieved only through co-opinion and the pressure of inter- Comparoller.
operation, not by competitive national wishes on those who are national forces, however drastically about to resort to violence. It is these may be limited and reduced. to endeavor by conciliatory mea- At the moment, Germany de-sures to effect a reconciliation. 11
fenceless. Her frontiers are open volved the wider interests of man- to the four winds. To rebuild her kind. It is by legal and by arbitral shattered fortunes, security is her methods to persunde, to delay aç- | vital interest. Unless she proposes tion, to goften acerbities. It is to
to rearm herself, how is she to find evoke a will to pence.
KONGMOON OPIUM SMUGGLED
put to the Director of Public Works Fat Tuesday'a mueling of the Retary
Chib when he asked whether abnormal supply of rain is needed to provide a normal supply of water to the Colony. In point of fact.of ancient times. Dr. Aylward About 135 taels of
it except as a member of a strong Those who maintain that the of course, the answer is, as the Manly Blackman, in a lecture atopium, of Kangmoon origin, were the mechanism of administering would be ineffective and who mock prepared and powerful League equipped with moral authority of such a League Parliamentarians Bay, in the Oxford recently, described a newly discovered in the possession of a justice and securing fair play. Ger- at moral authority unsupported by affirmative. For it Jas been discovered papyrus manuscript of
Chinese arriving here yesterday on many has a population of 63,000,- forec are mistaken. Properly em- abanduntly proved that
ander the time of King Sethos II, who the .s. Wing On. He had the ap-c00, France 10,000,000, existing conditions an adequate reigned over Egypt in the latter owning a black lacquer Chinese potential power exists, what is the badly employed and therefore be ployed moral authority can never pearance of a travelling trader, As long as this preponderance of be entirely ineffective. It may be supply cannot be assured unless the C. The manuscript recites a
part of
the thirteenth century trunk constituting a not unusual use of asking France lo disarm to less effective. It can be well em- rninfall
item in the luggage carried renches mason! pro- serien
the level fixed for Germany under ployed and yet in given circum- of accusations
three soull tra lers; but when the the Treaty of Versailles. portions. Even then, It would need against
brought
If Geratances not be fully effective im box was opened by waterfront many found herself in workman a
of the to fall at
France's mediately. But even fin appropriate time. Necropolis at Thebes, Pe-Neby by it was found to have a false bottom she
searchers at the Po Tack Wharf, shoes,
though we what reply would suppose that the League cannot at since it has been shown that our name, who in a violent attack upon into which the opium had
make to such a proposal7 present full! Its function, that is reservoirs require to be filled more his fellow workmen by night, it packed.
been Rightly, France refuses to consider no reason for despairing, much less than twice a year to provide enough
was alleged. hud beaten nine
it until her security has been gaar- for flying to the alternative Brought by Revenue Oficer anteed, not merely by treaties, but force, direct or indirect. Relative them. Later a′′ fellow workman Ward before Mr. Schofield water to supply the community's who had also been assaulted by morning, the smuggier was fined trolled, not by herself, but by an is not sufficiently advanced; i
this in the form of an organization.con- failure proves only that the world
international
is
needs,
of
the
Po-Neby acetted him before the The problem which arises from Vizir, Amenmose, who accured his these considerations would appear punishment; but Pe-Neby in n to be two-fold in character. In the spirit of retaliation accused first place, the Colony's storage Vizir of beating him," before one capacity is inadequate, and, in the named Mose, who obtained the re- avcond, the catchment areas do moval of the Vizie. The question pot appear to be sufficient to ensure was sufficiently influential to secure Larises, Who was this Mose who anything like a maximum impound-the removal of an official second in ing when heavy rains occur. Da the latter point, it has been com- It seems fair to conclude that le anthority only to Phyrnoh himself? puted that, assuming the fall to was someone who was especially in have been uniform over the whole terested in the affairs of the work- Į area of the Colony, a reecht 10%ingmen and so well known that inches of rain should have in-only a casual mention of his name creased our reservoir contents by was sufficient to identify him. something like 642 million gallons,
Speculation would associate this whereas in point of fact only about the Hebrew inwgiver, who was an champion of the lowly with Mesen, wfifth of that total was impounded.outstanding defender of the rights We realine, of course, that there of the working people, a custom can never be any question of bring-which it seems, led to his self- ing the whole fall, even in any one imposed exile as related in the region, into the reservoirs, but Book of Exodus. It is to be hoped the point does obtrude Itself that that further discoveries wiR shed new light on this highly intercat- there is al present a tremendousing speculation, completely esta- amount of water running to waste,blishing the identity of this anclent much of which should be collected.defender of the workingman. On the question of increasing the Colony's storage capacity, this, is n matter which has been stressed Road Cenical yesterday evening, a
Whilst shopping at 275, again and again, and still requires young Chinese lady left her handbag emphasing. It is a matter for on the counter from where it was Homething more than more regret stopped into the shop. The man was stolen from a man who Muddenly that the second section of the seen by a shop-keeper who blew his Shing Mun scheme has been allow-police whistle. An Indian constable ed to hang fire for so long. Even on duty promptly arrested the man and before Mr. Grantham this worn- now it seems almost hopeless to ing sentence of six week's hard labour hurry up the Secretary of State was imposed.
Queen's
$5,000, with the option of a year's imprisonment.
authority. It childish to expect her to do any
"You'll find the anod who keep you waiting longest for your money are the same one a who yall the loudest when
you hurt them a little."
of
proves nothing against the ulti- mate benefit of the development of the moral authority of the League of Nations.
With an international army, ware would be certain, enormous, and frequent. It would be calamitous for the League to perpetuate that which we are trying to suppress- to keep alive the iden of force in interuntional affairs. In practice, perhaps, force is still necessary; but it is not for a body created to eliminate it to make use. of it. Let other organizations, If needs must, centralize military might; but not the League.
men
to
Are we against militarism?Or are we for militarism on a bigger and more mischievous scale? It la distressing enough to send young KBI in the name of patriotism for the defence of their country; it is unspeakably Immoral to send them to kill in a quarrel quite remote from them.
who Let those
want holy alliances, and military associations, have them. But leave to the world one secular institution which shall be moral, not military; which aħall be implacably opposed to militariem for itself as well as others. If such an institution does not exist at Geneva, it will be necessary to in- vent it.
thing else. So when France says "endow the League with military superiority," let the other members take the French offer at its face value. Let them test it, improve upon it.
But there is no reason for rejecting it out of hand.
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Obviously, the first thing to do is to agree upon fundamentals before getting down to the dotafis.' What (Continued on Paga 7.)