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WAR CLOUDS
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Background of the Socialist State in Chile
T
By PAUL VANORDEN SHAW,
policy, ill-timed as it was, can be f Light and Power Recreation Club for Socinlixtle objectives crossing an which had been giving away but
next Saturday has had to be CAN- construed as something in the na-celled.
to the ture of an affront both League of Nations and its Cum- missioners,
gard to Manchuria is the more re- grettable from the fact that, on the evo of the appearance of the Lytton Report, a document which will present an unblassed study of the situation, the Tokyo Government séea ft, to compromise the position shows THAT EVERYONE DAYS IT. THE concurrence of forces and came to awaken a dispirited peo- by deciding on early recognition Napolcon.
trends in Chile, until recent-plo, accustomed to slowly and of the new State. Indeed, Count
ly antagonistic, has resulted in grudgingly given reforms, to the Owing to unforeseen circumstances the Socialist revolution. A politi-conviction that social justice was Uchida's recent
declaration of the concert arranged by the China cal current with liberal and actually attainable.
The colonial superstructure economic whirlpool of discontent and suffering has brought forth gradually, groaned with the pres the first Socialistic state in the sure of these rapid changes. The foundations of the nation were history of the New World.
A Chileau was once asked how when the economie debacle of 1930 rocked and society was uprooted
Republic worked and lived. With
the two old regimes, the coloniat a iteeting smile he replied, "They and the republican. Kwong Tung Rubber Factory, of Nam in my country."
During demolition work on the do nothing, there is, no interior
While this internal trond was Cheung Street, a coolie. Wai Kont-and vein he went on to say that this is too common a phenomenon to
In more serious unfolding itself another grow.
IL ged 16, fell from the first floor and sustained injuries to his legs. He explained in large part the absence need elaboration. Always a proud was later removed to the Kwong Wah of "tropicalness" in the Chilean and patriotic people, the national- Hospital.
character. Truly there can hurdism of the Chileans was fanned ly be an interior in a land 2,000 into a flame by the successful War The death occurred in Hongkong miles long, with an average width of the Pacific (1879-1883), and yesterday of the octogenarian grand- less than the
other of Cheng Kwok-you, who was New York City and Philadelphia.ing until it is as high and strong distance between from that time it has been swell- of solution by pacifie methods; in-weently convicted by a spreint jury Furthermore, the habitable land, as the very Chilean Andes then-
on charge of procuring the murder beginning at the very shores of a selves. of George Pung, and whose case i tricky, tempestuous sea, rises to now being argued before the Full Court,
the peaks of volcanic and eternally
Another 3 sncis of Siberian mail are due to arrive in the Colony to morrow on the 8.a. Yasukuni Maru,
by the Postal Authorities.
Looking at the situation broadly according to an announcement made the Chileans of the interior of his aid low the remaining props of
we cannot but regret, in common with all who have the interests of peace at heart, that the position wears such a gloomy aspect as it does. All right-thinking people will agree that disputes such as those which have arisen between China and Japan should be capable
charged in a manner helpful to wards a wise and fasting adjust
ment of the issues.
Listening Through Your Hat
With a radio set in his helmel there will be times when the London "hobby" will be quite ready to admit he has a bee in A news dispatch an- his bonnet."
that. ever
The fortnightly, meeting of the
CORRESPONDENCE.
Last Letters.
•
These then are the political
rs1 Twenty-
latter port very frequently and public. This was the heyday of new credit centre and the since a few months ago I have the landed aristocrat. The elements on their service came with
pay-
dead, the whole trend of interna- Tinnal contact in recent years bas been in the direction of creating
trends. | snow-clad mountains. Moreover, A Spanish padre gazed out on machinery towards this end. of
After purtaking of some Chinese! much of this land is desert and his garden one morning and lo! which the League of Nations and medicinal drink. Li Kam, aged 21, and much of the rest is not suitable to some of his plants were higher than the others. He had brought the Anti-War Pact, together with his wife, Chan Cho-mui, red 23, of cultivation.
B. Shanghai Street were both re By "tropicalnessé" WIS meant from the Andean deserta ногие the Nine-Power Treaty in specific moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital; the bisnyely manner, the arid barren soil and thrown it into
last night suffering from the effects of speech and the emotional nature earner until he could discover the reference to China, are standing poisoning. It
is stated that
their of people who dwell in larger and nature of the peculiar properties lustrations. But Japan's attitude. Condition may be serious.
warmer lands. The Chileans have it exhibited when fire was brought in evincing a disposition to ignore
Eight eases of cholera, two from 10 room to be expansive and aa- near it. And it had fertilized the
no time to waste in soil where it all that these agencies imply, has Victorin and six from Kowloon, with controlled.
lay. He had dis- six deaths, were rojuried lush, week, graceful gestures and little deen-covered nitrate of sodal
Two [been far from helpful. China may
There was only one enge an Monday. sion to offe aimlessly about hundred years later, in 1818, an et be free from all blame, but the Three cases of typhoid with, for sunsets and violets. Not even in Baglishman
the apozie:c3 deaths, and one ease of meningitis rolonial times could they take life nitrate of soda plant. provocation she has rerrived is be with me death, were also notified darsenally. From the first they had! gend question, It remains to be
ing last work, Deaths from pulte fight a grand but forbidding years later the first foreign shipment went on its way and ven how the Powers will react to monary tuberculosis totalled 48.
nature and the most warlike from that day until the World War dians found in America. any developments which threaten
They Chile maintained undisputed and the price of the Far East. The Sanitary Board was held yesterday in won both fights and a sign of their exclusive control over the markets the Board Room, the business transportsomnship is the little metal of a product that brought her resposibility which weighs upon arted being purely formal. Mr. G. representations of Caupolican, the revenues, wealth and prosperity. Araucanian warrior. that Nitrate look its place beside cop- them in this crisis is indeed grave.. Sayer, the President, was in the great Let us hope that it will be disr, nd the ethers present were the mosi Chileans wear on their lapels. per. Copper and nitraten, whos
clair, Hon. Mr. It M. Henderson (Vice- These struggles developed the histories nerd not be repented here. President), Dr. G. W. Pape, MOH, Chileans into a hardy, tempered, were the apparently inexhaustible itellamy, Dr. Li Shu-fon, Mr. They learned co-operation much of a hard-working and orderly. Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Mr. L. C. )
disciplined and netive
pople but almost sole source of wealth Champkin, Mr. J. R. Gelling, segregi tary, and Mr. Ng Mui-kai, assistani as their New England brethren people. secretary,
had learned it on the rock-bound coasts of New England: Whether A Chile's eggs were in one it be the peon-the famous roto basket. Hard-pressed peoples the landed aristocrat or the more needed a substitute for the padre's recent industrialist and engineer. discovery. Germans developed If Count Uchida really believed
physical and mental courage are synthetic nitrates and the basket outstanding attributes of Chileans. fell with a crash. The monopoly that his recent declaration
Proud and practical are they too. and the spell were broken. While Japan's intentions in Manchuria
To the Editor, Hongkong
frantic efforta were being made to Telograph.1 would, as he overred, remove the
It is no wonder then that the save a tragic situation, another Sir,-As a resident in Hongkongpolitical history of Chile has been calamity aftacked the Chilean causes of Sino-Japanese friction, ounces that a group of London
polier are to be emtipped with with relatives in Macao I am infone of steadiness and stability, economie structure. Copper prices The musi by this time he completely miniature sets the essential part the habit of sending letters and Prom 1833 to 1861 has been called fell, all prices fall. Great Jonna The speech has of which is carried in the bowler, newspapers through the post to the the period of the aristocratic Re- had been floated in the world's heen received with indignation in for helgel and operates to enable Chinese circles, and it is now fore-the man beneath it to hear what noted with surprise that a consider-tims of 1861-and Chilean elec-annoying and deadening regu- shadowed as a probability
may be received on the able amount of correspondence|tions have usually been genuine larity. The fountain of credit Japanese recognition of the new wavelength to which it is attaned. failed to reach Its destination. elections ushered in the era of not only dried up, but everything State will be followed by the order. The chief value lies in the facility do not know whether this experi the liberal aristorrils who intro else, and Chile found herself for ence is unique in my reward but duced a number of needed reforms, the first time in her history obliged certainly it is obviously # very Exnelly thirty years later, after to default on her bonded indebt- ing of a punitive expedition by the with which central stations may
get in touch with the men on serious matter that tosses like this the only revolution in Chilean his fedness. Chinese Government against Man-
patrol in cases of emergency. No should take place so often. With-tory hebween 1833 and 1924. minis- Hope came again for a brief chukuo. Such it development
earphones are used in this new out exaggeration I may say that terial responsibility and a more moment when Cosnch, the Com- would me a big upheaval and
equipment. In fact, the police-two out of ten letters or papers truly democratic form of govern-panin Salitrera Chilena. virtually place China and Japan at man gets no more of a signal than ||
ment was wrested from the arts- Chilean Nitrate Company, was disappear in transit.
Since the above occurrences Etorrats,
formed. All the nitrate interests war one with another. It might the message sent out by his send all letters by registered mail. I This slow democratization was of Chilenus and of North Ameri- lead to even graver conséquences, superior. His nose does not even have lived in many other ports but speeded up in 1920 when the first cans and Britishers in Chile en- But never experienced the like beforeman of the people was elected tered into partnership with the possibilities of which could not but light up nor a whistle blow. be viewed with the utmost concern, radio receivers do funny things I order to safeguard the rights of President, Dan Arturo Alessandri; Chilean Government to save the the people who utilize the post, it would have been, that is, if a day. The arrangements are and the London feel that thorough investigation of deadlock with the Congress and technical and to describe them. Meanwhile, the signs of growing sometimes
"bobby" who gets too close to some this matter in necessary. I am revolution had not intervened. would serve no purpose. Nor, as Sino-Japanese hostility
ap-
of the electrical contrivances on not aware of having ever lost any When Col. Carlos Ibanez made him-a Chilean writer has said, would parent on all hands, notably in his beat may get impressions of correspondence between Hongkong self President, democratic reforms it serve any purpose to determine Shanghai, where the situation inre than one "bee in his bonnet" and other cities; it is only between appeared too reactionary and whether the opposition of the
here and Macao that such losses comprehensive
programme of Chileans to this combine is valid would appear to be drifting into if a hum of the proper dimensions have taken place.-Yours, etc., social legislation passed by execu-in fact. For, almost as soon as dangerous channels. The inten-falls into step with his wavelength.
tive decree and other methods the terma of its charter were known a nationalist clamor arose sive form which the boycott move-But this radio-in-your-hat ideu
against the executive "who had the ment is assuming, coupled with may be popularized, says
Rold Chile to North American terroristic activities on the part of Christian Science Monitor. The
capitalists." Whether this was organisations seeking to
appeal of listening to the Crispy prevent
the case or not, perhaps a majority Cruller Crooners, the Bedtime
of the Chileans believed that it the sale of Japanese goods, is quite
Bugaboos and the Singing Synco-
was true. naturally causing offence to the pators may be great enough to Japanese, whilat, on the other hand, prompt a general demand for hat the evidence of Japanese prepara- [sets for street use. Undoubtedly tions for the possible use of force it would be a great pleasure to is also an aggravating factor in an saunter through the park to the already highly-charged situation.tune of "When the Merry Moon- There are, of course, charges and beams Mobilize in May." or rest a while by the riverside while counter-charges, all tending to
Sidney Softus sobbingly sang the obscure the position, but there can stirring strains of "Suddy Soap for |be no doubting the fact that under- Soapy Suds."
lying everything is mutual distrust, if not hatred. It will be sur-
A beluted issue
of the London prlaing if, in such an atmosphere, Tintes, delayed owing to the holding there is not another flare-up in up of the Siberian mail, gives a full report of the wedding of Dr. G.A.C. the near future. Unfortunately, Herklots and Miss Iris Walter, which Peter's, Eaton neither side appears disposed to at- took place in St.
Square, on July 21, as reported in tempt methods of pacification aim this paper at the time. There was ing at the creation of a calmer at a large and fashionable gathering, and the feature was the number of mosphere. Thus the tension grows Hongkong people who were present. day by day, with the ever-present The many bridesmaids lent an addi-
tional charin to the
proceedings.
are
danger of a recrudescence of the Among those present at the
were Sir William and Lady
clash witnessed in the early part Mrs. 0. G. Mackie, Mrs. R. M.
of the year. That trouble, local Mrs. II. P. W. Hutson, Mr
Mrg.
and though it was in charactor, was a
M. Oakes, Major and Mrs. Misa Gordon Home, Mr. G.W.A. Tufton, reaction from Japan's policies in Mr. A. II. Crook, Professor Robert-
son and Mrs.
Manchuria, and the point to be kept hollationr, Robertson, Profennor
Digby, and Pro-
in mind is that these policon, no fensor Middleton Smith, all of Hong-
far from having been modified, have become intensified, thus na turally heightening Chinese fool- Inga. The Japanese attitudé in re-
Herklots, of Winnipeg (brother of the kong
University, and Canon H G. G. bridegroom) and Mrs. Herklots. The -Jonyns, beat-man was Mr. Sonme now of the British Museum, and for merly of the Hongkong Civil Service.
JOHN. S. H. WANN.
"Meadowa, can't you find some paper cups? These glasses strike the wrong note for a picnic.
or the
Counch served as much as any thing else to cause Chileans to examine their own national re- sources, their industries and their productive processes. Many had never realized how much foreign capital was invested in their land, how many industries were control. led by North American and Euro- pean capitalists. And in a period when North Americans. were taking their own bankers to task and laying at their doors the blame for a world cataclysm. Ignorant Chileann, and well- educated ones, too, for that matter, can hardly be blamed for necking to shift much of the responsibility for their woes on Uncle Sam's children. Uncle Shylock to them.
Despair and destitution seemed to face the Chilean people. Gov ernment after government, solu- tion after solution, falled.
A trend of a century in the direction of political and social justice; many decades of an in- tonso nationallam recently In- flamed by fagets saturated with unreasoning fear, hatred and aus- pleton of foreign capitalists; and an economic collapse that came later than it did in other lands. but with a suddonness and comple- teness that would have annihilated a less hardy people, have led them, now fully aware of their rights, awake to nower possibili- ties, and but recently so tantaliz- (Continued on Page 9.)