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Kellogg Pact and the Niño-Power Treaty. Yot It Is prepared to brush aside all these considera. tions and proceed with its plans for the domination of the terri- tory. This is, in one respect, the most serious feature of Japan's determination to go her own way, for, as a leading Shangha! journal
DAY BY DAY
THE MORUID CURIOSITY OF HUMAN NATURE STILL PERIBTS IN SPITE OF THE PROGRESS OF CIVILIBATION.
It is announced that the marriage
of
WAR IN "GREEN HELL"
By JULIAN DUGUID
THIS recurrence of go
has remarked, it depreciates the long and Eileen Barbara Medina, of between Bolivia and bloodgatennet for on the hoof. Quito
ments by making them entirely subordinate to the welfare of one party, without regard to the sanc tity of the pledged word. In other words, it rejects the path of patient international negotiation and discussion, which we had hop- ed had come to be recognised as the right way of adjusting world disputes.
Count Uchida, when he an- nounced Japan's determination to recognise Manchukuo, went so far as to suggest that the policy of which this is the outward sign would eventually lead to a bet- ter Sino-Japanese understanding. There is, and never could be, any evidence of such a probability. The opposite effect is, in fact, And hercin being produced. there lies a very real danger to the peace of the East, Viewed in this light, the situation is far from reassuring, but it is to be hoped that even at this inte hour there will be no fresh outburst of fuel LO-Chung Kue, at his residence i
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me homesick for the the soldiers' vitality, there would has made
samo be simply not enough food to go Jungle. For exactly the thing happened in 1928, when I round.
those I believe the mlaconcaption of an Expedition to Mr. Charles Bond, for many years was on Manager of Messrs. Gande, Price and benighted lands. Reading the nowa- this war which exista in Europe of this "fortin" lies in the Spanish word "fortin." Co., Ltd., has joined the staff of the paper reports
Spirits Department of abandoned and that "fortin" at-"Forlin" calls to mind a fort, Wine and Messrs. Dodwell and Co. Ltd.
tacked brings home the inner de-concrete, gun-emplacemented affair tail like a blow. I can see the sun, with barbed wire, glaasia, and embrasures. This is absurd to. The Royal Observatory reports and the vultures.
Bolivia and Paraguay, as every one who knows the country, but is B palm-thatched that a moderate anticyclone is central ever South Manchuria. The typhoon body knows, are struggling for a understandable in a stranger. is crossing North Luzon to the fimme block of territory called the Chaco.["Fortin" diate south of Apparr, on a N.N.W: It is a vast, Inhospitable Jungle erection, just four poles and a roof- track. Local forecast:-N. E. winds, lying between the north of Argen-tree, without even the dignity of tina and the fringes of the mud walls. These posts are cap Amazon; bounded on the east by able of supporting a hundred or
fresh; fair.
very Some alarm was caused in the the Rio Paraguay, on the west by so men and are, naturally, vicinity of the junction of Hollywood the formidable Andes. There is easy to ambush. A corresponding Road and Peel Street at 9.40 p.m.little water in this desolato abode number of attackera creep forward yesterday when the Fire Brigade was except in the rainy season, when in the night, a volley through the summoned to an outbreak of fire at the whole land is waterlocked. glare of a camp fire No. 70 Hollywood Road, Two en- Not much of a country, one would "fortin" gines wore immediately despatched
has been captureil
. and a and on their arrival it was found that Presume, on which to waste life. Obviously it is equally difficult to the chimney of the second floor had And yet, in a way, one would be hold. Aculty in putting out the flames.. been set alight. There was no dif- wrong.
I remember well in the Christ-
mas week of 1928 the war-lust of
of the Bolivians in Santa-Cruz. A Bolivia is the Switzerland South America. Through treaties, howling crowd surged round the D. Andrews, the young son of Chief misfortunes and ill-considered wars Cathedral Square and was address- Inspector Andrews, of the Peak Tram-she is in the hopeless position of ed by impassioned orators from the ways, living at 15, Bowen Road, was
lacking a sea-board. The Pacific green balcony of the Club. "Rios the victim of a savage attack by n
The bandit-President the speakers, and the. mob took it lad was stated that the
severely of 1879. dog in Bowen Road yesterday. It was Ports were lost in the Chilean War de sangre"-rivers of blood-yelled the Paraguay up in a sound like the crash of a bitten about the arms and legs, by Melgarejo ceded the dog which belongs to a neighbour, River-Port of Corumba, to Brazil, wave. They were 500 miles from Mr. Charleston. It has been found for a diamond star. And, for a the front and would have to march necessary to admit the lad to hospital while, Bolivin slept. She was too every yard of the way. We had re-ljust come in from that road; we for treatment.
occupied with Andean tin to cognise the supreme importance of knew the terror of the insects and the leagues without water or-food. Misfortune bofel u Chinese passon-an egress to the sea.
Meanwhile Paraguay extended; We listened to the enthusiasm and Will they Ker 25 years of age, when he attempt. ed to leap on to the ferry pier at quietly, without drums. She in-said: "Pour devils. Yaumati before the launch had pro-
Luckily for them, the rainy perly tied up. He failed to clear the Vaded, always peacefully, the Chaco shout like this after their march?" intervening space, and, to the horror and on the west of the great river
large large and gave concessions of Quebracho season descended a week later and, of the other passengers and a
pier, was to foreign tannin manufacturers.jlike Cæsar in Gaul, they went into nuniber of people on seen to stumble and drop backwards. By the time Bolivia awoke her pro- winter quarters.
What will be outcome be? Quien Now came the difficulty. Para- He was caught between the launch perty had gone. and the pier and crushed. The un- of Esquiving is of the opinion that fortunate man was in a critical condi-guay would not retreat. Bolivia, sabe, us they say themselves. The tion from internal injuries when con- like a person robbed in his sleep, war-fever may drag on from year
She to year, fierce with the suns Great Britain should return Spain all the first editions of "Donveyed in un ambulance to the Kwong felt deeply about the loss. Wah Hospital. A somewhat Quixote" which lie in the British Museum. The interest of Esqui- vias in this matter resides in the village of New In one sense, the recognition of fact that this
was the birthplace of Manchukuo
to-day Castile Japan marks a new chapter in the his- Cervantes. In the whole of Spain there is only one solitary first tory of the troubled East.
edition of Cervantes's great work, In another, and more correctly, and that is hidden in a vault of the event must be regarded as the the National
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1932.
THE OUTLOOK
by
Esquivias Wants a Book. The Mayor of the Spanish town
to
their
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the
similar
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of
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no port. If rains. Cortalu enough it is that mishap occurred yesterday in the had no port. Always she returna autumn, damped by the mighty her one it can never develop into war as harbour, when a coolie fell between to that. She has two junks and was crushed. Ile, too, Paraguay would grant
of was eritically injured and was taken hundred yards of river frontage we know it employing liko num-
troops. It will bo with free access to the interior, bers to hospital.
Para-guerilla affair, bitter as the bigger Bolivia would say no more. guay might keep her foreign con-thing and as important to the com- batants themselves. Men will die, cession.
Paraguay, of course, speaks gloriously, shot in a dash among differently in the councils of the lianus, from ambush; and Urubu, world. Bolivia, she says, has ports the vulture, will bo their lanet -two of them-beautifully sit-friend. Other men will le upon uated on the river. But she for-the ground and pray for the hail gets to state that Puerto Suarez of bullets to pass over them; but The following cable at the close is a mud lagoon in the dry season; they will be rare, Bolivians and of the sugar market yesterday has that Gaiba's entrance is guarded Paraguayans are brave fighters. been received by Messrs. Pen-by treath and Co.
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Custom-house. Quite frankly, I do not know the Brazilian a Bolivia,
શ potentially country outcome. The country I do know which is amazingly rich in agricul--the horrible nature of its thirst and hunger and death from fested ture, cannot dispose of her goods.
the I do not envy That is the theory of the case. wounds.
soldiers, when patriotism of the The practice is more difficult.
Firstly, war in South America heady kind shall be proved by the is utterly foreign to our European pains of the field.
But of this I am sure-Bolivia conceptions of that tragedy. There
Bank at Madrid,
of It
to-where it can be seen only by the continuation
policy
which director of the Public Library, the wards the completion of the Japanese have long set them-President of the Republic, and
of Ministers
the Government. selves. Unhappily, the sten must almost inevitably increase the icn.Some day the historian may arise sion between Japan and China, who will properly evaluate the im portance of this fact in Spanish many For that reason alone, aside from history. Who knows how other and equally important con- great men have turned their at- siderations, it must be regretted.tention to librarianship or politics
have devoted There can now be little doubt but who would
of that Japan has hastened recogni- abilities to other branches tion of the new State in order, as activity had it been possible in any other way to obtain a glimpse of she thinks, to present the League "Don Quixote" in all the glory of indeed, of Nations, when it comes to con-its first edition? Not, sider the Munchurian question in that the word "glory" appears weli
The problem of feeding an army rangement which denies them that the light of the Lytton Report, chosen. For the first Spanish
is almost insurmountable. When I hundred yards of river-bank. with a fait accompli. It is very edition was an unimpressive affair.change.
New York (14/9/32).—Decline went through that country we The first translation of "Don much open to question, however,
pas- men; and our animals were skole- BE STRONG LIKE US whether the League, and the Pow-Quixote" into any foreign tongue due to liquidation pressure of found it hard enough to feed eight
was made into English in 1620, Futures and realization of ers outside the League, will he and more translations into English sible larger stock on 31st Decem- tons before the end. How can an
certain, depends upon Cuban sel- The prepared to accept the situation in have been made since than into ber than anticipated. Trend un-army, as we know the term, exist? the light which Japan would de-any other language. Spain, on the lers. withholding offerings. sire them to do. Actually, of other hand, was slow to perceive course, the position has not under- its morits. It was inclined to hold
✡
entity.
the opinion, afterward sponsored gone any real change by Japan's
by Ruskin, that "Don Quixote" recognition. The mere formaltiy
laughed chivalry away, and made uf
bogus of recognition
a very noble man ridiculous. But mistako. does that, of by its creators Stato
course, was n What Cervantes ridiculed was not not transform that State into a
Don Quixote, but the silly romances genuinely independent
which Don Quixote, und the Japan may think she has accom-Spanish people generally, at that plished something by recognition: time read. It was these that he but the outstanding fact is that scattered to the four corners of no other nation has yet recognised the earth with great guats of circumstancescornful laughter. In doing so he Manchukuo which, in view of Japan's obvious performed for Spain a consider- abla. service--ns considerable a self-interest, immensely detracts
service, in fact, as any modern the Cervantes would perform for from the significance of Japanese action. It remains to be England and America If he ridi-
run culed out of existence the Been whether in the long
Toolish sentimentalities which so Japan's methods will pay.
Japanese recognition of Man- frequently monopolise the cinema. chukuo at any time without wait ing for like action on the part of other Powers would naturally arouse suspicions; the hasty de- cision to make the move on the ove of the presentation of the Lyt- ton Report has served to increase theso suspicions. If not an actual affront to the League, it certainly smacks of marked impatience to get on "according to programme." Moreover, the Tokyo Government knows full wall.
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more
WATER LEVELS.
WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
The following table issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission shows the height of water in English feet on the dates named in the West, North and Sept. Bast Rivers:
Kishash on Lowest, Sept. moord on record 18
North Skrot,
14:
New York Terminals. September 1932 December' 1932 1.04 down 1 pt. March 1933 1.00 down 1 pt. May 1933 1.05 no change. July 1933 1.10 down 2 pts. Cuban 96-Spot N.Y. 1.10 no
الالا
the
is no trench warfare, no big guns; is too vitally concerned to sur- bombs may explode in forest and render her just claims, Geneva do little harm beyond lacerating may talk and Washington threaten, Distance is yet those places are curiously re- undergrowth. everything and water atrociously moto from the Chaco. The hot rare. Cattle cannot feed; there is blooded people of the South who are shut off from traffle with the no grass. Only jungle.
BCR will never consent to an ar-
answer is There are no railways, and
that it
cannot.
beef
By Edward Kelly, Strong Man. We are sorry to hear that Mr. A. D. Spoors has just gone Home to England.
We are here to tell you that the scrious laws of gravity get a knock-back when he is on the job. Mr. Spoors is the Principal of the Sando Weight-lifting Club, and we saw him hold a scance the other day.
In one case he was 94 lb. over bogic, and muscles stood out on him like balloon tyres.." He busted two or three re- Own, cords, including his which was mean trick on himself.
In créam trousers and no sing- lets these weight-lifters do theso
thinga.
weights,
They heave on the muscles stroll up and down their back, and after they have nearly strangled themselves, someone an- nounces in a solemn, my-goodness- how-did-le-do-it voice that another record has gone phut
The sight of all this stronuous effort scared us. We went outside to have a smoke. We sald to a chap seven feet by three, who was hitting outside, "Do. you also lift weights?"
"Yes," he replied, “I do a bit of lit."
We asked him to havó a Capstan. He said: ho wasn't allowed. We tried to engage him as chucker out of shroffs. He said shroffs. were too much" and too many for (him.
That, bucked us up. We went to frankfurt Mac's and ordered a with mustard a gang med va
And would you believo US were able, single-handed, with a Wrm, press to aptors, the end