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opposite of helpful, and might, in- deed, Jeopardise the whole cause of disarmament.. Germany has made It plain, in her aide memoire to France that she claims the right to revise hor system of defence, including the period of military service, the structure or her forcee, and the formation of a special militia. This raises the possibility that Germany's iden of equality may be based on a policy of re-arming rather than scheme for fresh reductions by the other Powers. Such a contingency could not but he viewed otherwise than with widespread concern.
on any
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THE SALVATION OF A PEOPLE CAN- NOT BE ACCOXLISHED BY ONE MAN SACRIFICING HIMSELF FOR OTHERS ON THE ALTAR OF PROGESS..
Interests.
GERMANY
TO-DAY
By MISS E. M. CANNON
When one turns to the "WHY in her economic papers
THY in Germany making such
the picture
nows- becomes
Mr. J. Watson, representing Messrs. Arthur & Co., of Glasgow, who left conditiona?" That is one's first blackor. Appalling figures of the the Colony last year, has returned to thought on arrival at a city like number of unemployed are given, and we are told that the number Hongkong to take charge of the firm's Frankfurt-on-Main.
Everything seems bo going on of suicides due to depression or The Sir Waller Scott Centenary as usual: the streets are busy, the financial troubles is something Dinner of the Hongkong St. Andrew's factory chimneys on the outskirts like 60 a week. Society will be held on Wednesday of the town are belching forth with View to Marriage." 21nt instant in the Restaurant of black smoke, the main streets are Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd. at 8 pm. full of luxury shops and cinemas, Even those who are in work are the young girls passing Are very badly paid, and many cannot Admiral Sir Howard, Kelly, Condressed well and tastefully, the afford to marry, excent perhaps mander-in-Chief of the British naval wireless biares cheerfully through on a strictly commercial basis. In forces on the China station, is ex-
pected to visit Miyajima from October the open doors of the Innumerable most papers is a column of adver and restaurants where tisements running thus: "Sober, 10 to 18 and Kobe from October 14 to cafes 24,
groups of people sit talking, ovor intelligent, industrious man seeks thoir beor, huge new buildings in woman with capital or shop, with Mr. B. L. Falconer, of Exchange the modern geometric style aro view to marriage."
Living ia Building, has reported to the police rising everywhere.
The birth-rate is declining with the loss of a Licia camera, valued at cheap; a furnished room and the decline in marriagos. In $240, which he left on the counter breakfast can be had for £2 a certain nursing home twenty-nine whilst purchasing stamps at the
month, a substantial meal in
abables were born on one day be- General Post Office.
restaurant costs from 11d. to 18. foro the war. Now twenty-five 2d, as a rule, and clothes are very are born there in a week. cheap and smart.
Sultering from injuries received through falling backwards into the hold of one of the Kowloon Godown's lighters, Cheng Ying, aged 40 years, a foki, was removed to the Kowloon Hospital late last night. He led half an hour after admission.
A Wealth of Clues.
But soon one notices many little clues to the real condition Germany.
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The lack of work for youn people has led to a huge increase in the number of students at the universities, despite official warn-
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argue
It is not to be denied that the whole question of revision of the Versailles Treaty in its many ав pects will eventually have to be faced, but In view of matters of far greater urgency which call for immediate action, it is unfortunate that this exceedingly, controversial Issue of Germany's right to re-arm should be raised at this juncture. However, the matter has now been brought definitely to a head, and it is for world statesmen Bo to
of ings, for there is no prospect of handle it that Germany's intentions
work for most of them, and the may be made perfectly clear. One
Every few yards is an empty existence of such a large propor- thing is beyond dispute, namely, Arrested leaving a house in Nom
Kwok Street, a Chinese who appered shop, or one displaying a large tion of university-educated people, hnt Germany has not been before Mr. Schofield at the Central retice: "Sale owing to failure of who will not want to turn to manual work, will inevitably 'cause ungenerously treated by the Police Court this morning, charged the firm."
with possession of two sticks of Many of the big solidly-built difficulties.
the "But at Powers since the war, and this dynamite, a detonator and fuse, was houses and flats stand empty, for
least," circumstance makes her present fined $50 or one month's hard labour their rents are too high even for parents, "it keeps them off the are instreets for threb or four years, and Dra. Coxion and Herbert To and impatience all the more regrettable.
After hiring a mah Jongg set and those happy people who family, wish to thank all friends for their attendance at the. It is to be hoped that even at this a table top, a Chinese pawned the work, and the former inhabitants perhaps things will have improved
small futuristically-planned any worse." funeral, also for messages of con- eleventh hour she will reconsider cards and this morning a charge of have moved into the settlements by then, for they can scarcely unt dolence and floral tributen sent in her decision, and thus give tang-him before Mr. Schofield at
urceny by bailee was brought against of
the houses built during the last three Other people, however, tell
we have not yet seen the worst. work Central Police Court. The defendant or four years.
who lived at Mallory Streel, removed
Beggars and street musicians and wish they were well out of it. with the day after renting the set, but was are distressingly frequent, and at One educated man, with what in
seen in the streets by a foki who gone in search of him. A fine of $50 the cornera of the poorer streets England would be quite a good are loafing groups of young people post as commercial traveller in was imposed.
who have just left school and can electrical appliances, has so little find no work.
left when he has paid his taxes In the cinemas are notices say that he has to get his parents to ing that reductions are made to send him sausage and eggs from the unemployed, on production of their farm. He can afford no an occasionai a certificate. Students are also amusements anve entitled to reductions at places of cinema, and marriage is out of the him. "Don't you the amusement, on trams and question for railways, in the museums and so think," he said to me once, "that for the modern German I have often wished I had been old on, student is pitifully poor, and many enough to have died in the War?"
of Crisis In the Air. of them hover on the brink starvation.
There is a general feeling that Some of them, known as Werle-n crisis is imminent. Many people studenten, take on part-time blind-feel It will take the form of an- December 1932 5/9 down 14.alley work, to supplement their other war, and hope that they will March 1933 0/- down 1%. May 1933 G/2 down 1%d. August 1933 6/4% down 1d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking -d more.
their recent bereavement.
The
Hongkong Telegraph
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1932.
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The Nationalist movement. in Scotland is assuming a definitely Scottish political shape. The Quite apart from the merits or Nationalist Party is organising of the augar
The following cable at the close market yesterday demerits of the ease, there will, we
candidates to contest the clec-has been received by Messrs. Pen- imagine, be general agreement that tions in the municipalities, pre-treath and Co. Germany's determination to force Hminary to attacking the consti- the issue of arms equality at the tuencies in the next general elec-
income. The concessions to die before it comes. present juncture is, as the British tion on a straight Scottish Na-
Germany cannot pay any more students are nil of post-war orgin,. Note expresses it, untimely. There tionalist ticket. The movement is no new thing. It has persisted are so many major world issues re-
one is told, as also are the cheap reparations: that is the opinion of prices in the restaurants, the the man in the atreat. Something in Scotland for the best part of a
amust be done about that, and result of an agitation about quiring urgent adjustment that the
about the economic condition year ago. time is 1-chosen in which to raise generation, although it is only in
The number of small cheap enfes generally. That is why so many this question of firat-rate impor-recent years that it has begun to take a direct part'in polities. At
has greatly increased during the have joined the Hitler party, with tance. Moreover, the German Goy the last general election several
last few years, to meet the need its definite, if extreme, policy, for the ernment's method of registering Scottish Nationalists took the
for cheap amusements. Here one they feel that Hitler can sit a whole afternoon or even- vitality which the honest, but old. French refusal to field; but the seriousness of the regret at the
no ing over a glass or two of beer, Hindenburg lacks.
One of the cheering notes is the concede equality ofThund, by declin-British national crisis found their
rending the newspapere, listening ing to attend further sessions of efforts frustrated, so far as ac-
to the wireless, chattering, or scheme for organising voluntary dancing, all for less than a shll-unpaid labour for the building of the Disarmament Conference until tual success went in the matter of
inating. In the streets one sees re-rouds, house settlements, parks. ears open-air swimming baths and so the issue is decided, amacks of an securing seats. But the election
the revealed that there is a growing innovations that will alter
than in an English provincial on. The idea is that young men impatience which is, to say
up of Great Britain and Northern city, for the high taxes have without employment should serve least, regrettable. This is all the sentiment behind the movement.erially the existing political make-latively far fewer private
and new plans by the party more so when it is borne in mind foster nationalism throughout the Ireland. Rather do Scottish Nuforced many people, even of high for a year or so, as in the army to bring that social position, to give up their in the old days. They live a com- munal life in camps or hostals, country are being watched with tonalists desire
another Yet
symptom
of receiving their food but no pay. ference have not yet been reached. interest in circles beyond the unusual ability of their own to the cars.
handling of affairs essentially new The terms of German disarma-borders of Scotland. The ment have been specifically laid nationalism in Scotland has little Scottish, such as rating, education, economic distress is the large The plan has already been succoss-
tempting placards offering fabul-extended. or nothing to do with the "clan-law, and other topics which have number of lotteries, with their fully tried and will probably be
ex-The Mountain in Travail. down in the Versailles-Treaty, and, as the British Note points out,mishness" with which the Scottish little in common with the corres-ous sums of money for the
lotteries are very well patronised. these cannot either be abrogated race is credited. That is a differ-ponding subjects in England or penditure of a few pence. These
ent and distinctive form of na- or modified except by general con-
have tionalism, which Scotsmen sent. In the same Treaty, by the provisions of the League of Na-carried to the ends of the eartli. The old nationaltsm has its roots tions Covenant, it was recognised in Scottish character, love of Scot- that the maintenance of peace re-tand and an unshakable belief in quired a general reduction in Scottish ability. Nothing is like- armaments amongst all members ofly to supplant the glory of that the Lengue to the lowest point nationalism which is made the race distinctive in literature, com- consistent with national safety. Since the Treaty was signed, Itmerce, polities, and virtually every has been found possible to achieve phase of human activities. The new nationallam might be called substantiul reductions, and the
another, and an entirely different, process is still continuing. Looked form of Scottish Nationalism. It nt in this light, it cannot be con- has nothing whatever to do with tended that Germany alone of the that "nationalism" which aspires nations has been required to to put races into watertight com- alsarm. Actually, the limitation of partments. It is not a nation- arma imposed on Germany by the alium that has any bitterness Ponce Treaty hna, ns was intended, against any other nation, not even Eng- been followed by a large measure against its "auld enemy," of disarmament on the part of the land. Scottish nationalism, char
acteristically enough, is a com- other Powers, oven though it may
mon-acase proposal that Scotsmen diear- be arguable whether such
should handle those affairs which mament is in any way prapor- they are best qualified to handle. tionate to the German ancrifices. The new nationalism is in reality The point not to be lost night of inn demand for decentralisation, n this connexion, however, is that request by Scotsmen that they control the process is by no menas yet should be permitted to complete, and that the resumed their domestic affairs from a cen Conference, with which Germany tro more accessible to Scottish intends to have nothing further to sentiment and experience than Westminster. Their claims have do, la to concentrata on the task none of the political implications of nohtoving further limitation, which prompted Southern Ireland The absence of Germany, almost to demand Home Rule; nor de
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Another scheme is to provide unemployed men with a plot of ground, and a loan of money to buy tools and seeds, to be repaid when the land is yielding a profit. Even in her agony, Germany's talent for organisation reappears. Germany, like the rest of the world, is in travail, but one feels that something more. Interesting than the mouse of Aesop's fable will be born."
THIS SINGING EVIL
By Edward Kelly, Student of Art.
We are looking forward to the social senson in Hongkong.
We know that Autumn is here, because our wife received a Win- Then ter catalogue yesterday. there is the A.D.C., Philharmonic Society and the Helena May In- stitute with we're-going-to-do-it- this-year looks in their eyes.
A
In may be of interest. In view of the imminenco of all this to quoto the remarks of, another great scientist, with whom we have made a study of the subject. It seems that an Australian corro- aborigine training for. borce first catches a frog which Is placed in a vossel of water. After a time he drinks the water (the aborigine, not the frog) and cate the frog, thereby gaining a voice both clear and strong.
Which calls to mind the whist Ing cat who ate the canary and had to live on birdseed,ANA
Now is the time when ail Yews (musidang ketusprun