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militarism, for the Fatherland's statesmen, throughout recent years, have shown a degree of patience, moderation and reticence that is worthy of the great nation they re- present."
Enough has been quoted to show that whilst the British Government does not see cys to eye with Berlin on this matter, there are reputable British ptatesmen, doubtless repre- senting a considerable body of
opinion, who definitely hold that Germany has not been treated fair. ly. The German complaint is not only that the other Powers have not Hved up to their moral and legal obligations, but that some of them have utilised the Disarmament Con-
ference, not as a means of effect irg disarmament, but as a means of getting round their obligations, Hence the suggestion, which is quite logical and sound, that the armaments of all countries should be measured in accordance with the same principles and by the same yardstick, which the only method which conforms to the principle of equality. It must be conceded that
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THE RELIGION OF THE VAST ENG- LISH MIDDLE-CLABS IS COMFORT.- George Meredith.
new Bishop of Victoria, R. Rev. St. John's Review notifies that the Ronald Hall, will be consecrated on
October 28.
Passengers arriving here from cluded Mr. Ho Kom-tong. Mr. Hu Hi Manlin by the Empress of Russla in- and Mr. He lu.
The St. John Ambulance Brigade, local branch, will be giving a concert in the Great Hall of King's College on October 8, at 9 p.m. Admission will be by tickets, at 83 each.
While hanging out clothes to dry on the Beat floor of 6, Wo Hop Street, a Chinese woman aged 21 years, lost her balance and fell on to the road, receiving injuries to her hand and left leg, necessitating her being sent to the Government Civil Hospital,
day, two enses of diplitheria, three of During the week ended on Satur- typhold (one imported) and one to the health authorities, On Mon- death from meningitis were reported day two cases of diphtheria were reported. Deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis last week totalled 44.
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The Vagaries of Mr. Kipps
H. G. WELLS GOES OVER THE TOP
self go in
By "AN OLD STAGER"
happens at the Palace regularly go round some of the less reputable political clubs. But level-headed people do not swallow them.
The political sensation of the past few weeks undoubtedly has been furnished not by Herr von Papen, or Senator Borah, but by the author of "The New Machinvelil." Address-
Long before the King returned Ing the alightly scandalised mem at Oxford, Mr. H. G. Wells let him- any real political guts had realised to London last summor, the only bera of the Liberals Summer School mon in the Socialist Cabinet with fine style. His main how things stood, and takou action theme was the grave national emer- accordingly. Their desperate of tency of last autumn, when the forts to get their Socialist col- Socialist Ministry then in office dle-leagues to approve the only possible covered itself suddenly heading for steps towards national salvation bankruptcy and a collapse of the were rejected. Not becauso those currency,
policy proposed to meet it, but mere- the crisis colleagues doubted the gravity of
or the wisdom of the ly because they lacked the courage
been
ous honesty to face the facts and take the responsibility of dealing with them.
his Prime MinisterYou have got us into this meas; you will have to get us out of it," a sentiment which 1 imagine most people in this coun-
We Must Pay ns Wo Go
his reported utterances. Mr. H. G. So far as one may gather from Wells makes ironically light of that crisis. He seems to regard it as a put-up job. And he had the extra- ordinarily bad taste to make an at- tack on King George's part in the ensued. He accused His Majesty MacDonald saw the King. So far dramatic sequence of events that paralleled in British history, Mr. In there circumatancom, un-
of leading the economy movement, from His Majesty taking any initia to which Mr. Wells does not healtato tive out of his Ministers' hands, to apply the epithet "unintelligent", what I heard was that he said to and he blames the Labour Ministers for not speaking their minds on the subject of the Royal intervention. Early this morning, a matshed was the Geneva conferences on disarma completely destroyed by fire which sensationalism and agreeable lime-try would heartily endorse.
Now, from the point of view of ment have been far from produc- broke out at the junction of Ki Lang light, all this is no doubt magnifi- tive of real results, and, in the Kowloon and Mongkok Fire Brigades Cricke
Street and Boundary Street. The
It was a patriotic response by all - circumstances, German impatience turned out in response to a call. The cricket. There was no put-up job tion almost at the eleventh hour. If
But it is neither true nor three parties that saved the situa can be readily understood. Whether a scaffolding contractor, and the year ago. We had well on towards exerted to secure such co-operation, natshed was occupied by Liu Young, about our national emergency a possibly the Royal Influence was Germany was wise in withdrawing damage is estimated to be about $300, three million people on the dole. will any Rane citizen venture to im- from the Conference, however, is
No-one was injured.
Industry was collapsing right and pugn its patriotic sagacity? another point. But the situation
left. We saved ourselves from a Mr. L. H. King Chief Electrical can never be fully appreciated or Engineer of the P.W.D., gave a most curry stampede only by going off understood unless we take account fast evening on wireless telegraphy, a stepa in certain directions to make tion then with the present one, wa
the gold standard and taking drastic Interesting talk from 2DW station
If we contrast the general situu- of the grounds on which Germany well-known. He traced the history a deficit of about $150,000,000. get the measure of that political
subject which his
expert knowledge our Budget balance instead of show bases her claim. It is to be hoped of wireless up to the present day, and Just for one brief moment sagacity. But for what happened that one result of the pressing of pointed out that as far back de 1850 consider what would have happen- so swiftly last autumn, this country
experiments were being made in an ed
things this claim will be far more deter-endenvoar to transmit signals without pulled together by the National Bedlam of starving and demented
had not
to-day would probably be a howling mined efforts than hitherto in the the aid of intervening wires.
Government returned by the over But Mr. Wells calls it "unenlighted etreet rioters and civil belligerents. direction of realising those prin-
whelming At the weekly tin of the long- whole nation.
of the commonsense ciples which
economy." Presumably he wanted, RO elenrly kong Rotary Club yesterday, Mr.
Ilke Mr. Britling to see it through. adumbrated
Thomas C. Barringer gave a graphic Versailles
What the Country Escaped He must have curious tastes. account of the torrible conditions
I Trenty:-
prevailing in Russia during the great
saw all the street fighting I wanted With a huge Budget deficit run-in France and Belgium a few years famine of 1021-23. Me. Barringer ning into nearly as much
na the ago. Was a member of the American Relief total of our pre-war Budgets, with more of it, here at home, and be- I am not hunkering after Mission and he was able to give much Germany's claim to equality in American and the Far East.
frat-hand information of the work an evitable collapse of the pound tween un-uniformed hooligans. done to alleviate the sufferings of the sterling in sight, our statesmen armaments is once again to the
What n gulf divides Mr. Wells, The scare-warning of the Ger people. He was thanked for his might well regard the position as morcover, and most sane business fore, to-day's news revealing the man Nationalist Press regardings, W. Tao, who presided at the tiffin. must have ensured, in this
illuminating address by the Hon. Dr. one of urgent national crisis, What people! If Mr. Wells regards even fact that the main object of the American intentions and prepara-
over-past economies as unintelligent, he suggested Five-Power Conference (tians In the Far East will not be
populated country, had we suddenly must surely view still further ones Friends and admirers of Prof. found ourselves not only unable to as sheer wickedness. Yet it is the in London is to deal with the laken very seriously by observers Harry Ore, the well-known planist, find any money for the hungry unsettled, honest conviction of every of political events in the past will be glad to hear that he is pay employed queses outside our Inbour business man I know, without dis- difficulty created by German with-
twelve months. The United States
ing a brief vialt to the Colony to give exchanges, but actually no longer imination of politice, that only drawal from the Geneva con-is committed to a policy of apply-will take place in the Helena May plies, on which our daily bread de-national economies
a pianoforte recital on Oct. 28. This able to purchase the vital food sup-by still further and more drastic ference. Meanwhile, it is worthy ing moral pressure Instend of Institute at 5.30 p.m. under the aus
can we hope of note that since the British armed force, With the friends of Society. Tickets at 31.30 ench (incl: in too grim, too starkly terrifying more on an even keel. We are still of the Hongkong Musical Penda, from oversens? The picture rally to make this country ride once Government Baw At to combat peace turning more and more away tax) are obtainable now from the for anyone to contemplate even in carrying far too much top-hamper, the German attitude, several
from sanctions which involve war Secretary of the Instituta and Mesare. Imagination. In reality it would as the old sailors phrase it, for the leading British statesmen
as a means of keeping the peace, limited number of tickets at $2.20 the history of civilised communities. atop living on capital, and pay our
Andersons and Taang Fooka. have
A have meant the greatest tragedy in storms that are blowing. We must the Stimson Doctrine of non-re will be obininable at the door, on supported the Berlin claim. Vis-
cognition of gains in territory afternoon of the concert. His
How would Mr. H. G. Wells have way as we go. Otherwise we shall count Cecil, who long ago de wrested by force, assumes containing pieces by Bach, Scarlatti, State coffers, no possible means of economic crisis as menacing as the Framnie is a very varied one, con- grasped with the problem of empty sooner or later encounter another clared that Germany had a moral siderable importance, although, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, replenishing them, nearly three mil- last. as well as a legal right to world dis obviously, its ultimate value must John Ireland, Scriabine, Tsehai- lion people out of work and utterly armament, recently declared that depend on its success. The value kowsky, Liszt and Harry Ore himself. dependent on the weekly dolc, and above water that spends a quarter No country can keep its bead the German claim was irresistible of even a world-wide frown upan
Afty million people menaced by sud-of its gross carnings on running and must be realised by other States of international policy has not the use of war ag an instrument
den starvation? · That was the itself. We have got to cut down or prospect immediately ahead thir To under. And a country that goes reducing their urmamente. Mr.been proved.. The League of Nn-
time last year, and Mr. Wella Irunder is no fit country for best- Arthur Henderson, the Chairman tions and the United States joined,
very angry with the King, whom he seller novellata to live in. But quito incorrectly accuses of headinthen, if it came to a crash, Mr. H. G. of the Disarmament Conference,
AN ARMED ROBBERY
the economy campaign. Mr. Wells Wells could, I suppose, always see apking at the same gathering, ox-
FRUSTRATED
whose political gospel has under it through somewhere in the South pressed his belief in the existence
Three men
gono such periodical revisions, and of France-somewhere with a com- from the South who
п now occupies Wales Borderers frustrated an Olympian of a large volume of opinion in
armed robbery at Happy Valley from ordinary politicians, must those conditions. I make no doubt of fortable capitalist hotel and an intellectual aloofness agreeably sheltered climate. Given favour of steps to meet the German
Inst night. Two Chinese are at have been listening to tittle-tittle. Mr. claim. Mr. Lloyd George, one of
effective. present in the cells at the Wanchai These absurd stories about what through for the duration. the two survivors of the "Big Four More, she is extending her position the affair, and the early arrest of Manchuria. Police station in connexion with at the Versailles Conference, has there. Actually she is violating a third is expected.
of armarnents."
under the Stimson Doctrine, in telling Japan that they would re- cognise no settlement of the Man- churian question obtained by other than peaceful means. So far this "frown" has not been Japan is staying In
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gone, even further, declaring that the Pact of Paris. Will the added The incident occurred shortly "the victorious Powers have shame-legal barrier raised by the Stimson before 9 p.m. when a young Chi- lessly broken faith in the question restrain Paraguay and Bolivia? ings they were suddenly accosted Doctrine yet atop her? Will it ley. Near the Jockey Club build- nese couple was crossing the Val-
Will it halt any nation after war by three men, one of who is alleg. It is interesting, in this con passions have been inflamed? Pro-ed to have been armed Rexton, to recall that during the bably not. But neither would any knife.
with peace negotiations at Versailles, the ordinary threat of sanctions. And
With little ceremony, the rob late M. Clemenceau, at the request if this denial of any
[bers dragged a wristlet watch fruits to from the girl's arm and pulled a of his colleagues, Mr. Lloyd George, aggression can be established as a ring, set with jade from her fin-. President Woodrow Wilson and recognised part of International gor. Terrified, the girl screamed Signor Orlando, wrote a letter in morality, it may well cause nations for help. which he laid it down in black and upon war. Then it would have an cries of a
to think twice before entering South Wales Borderers and the Nearby were three men of the white that Germon disarmament opportunity to operate before war brought them rushing to
Woman in distross must be deemed to be considered as passions were
the Aroused. But it scene. The robbers fled, but the will have value only as it is en- soldiers ran faster and
secured forced. If the nations say they two of their men. The third will not recognise warlike gains escaped. and then recognise them, the
the first act in a general reduction
of armaments. That view, more over, finds definite expression in the Versalles Treaty, since, in the in- troduction to Part V, Germany than useless. Thore is little danger needs and powers. It would crys-
Stimson Doctrine will be worse regardless of shifts
in national undertook to observe the specified of such a thing happening in the talliso the present in a world where disarmament provisions "to make Gran Chaco. But there is much to-day's justice bocoracs to-mor posalble introductory steps to danger of it happening in Man- row's injustice. But this ban on wards a general limitation of arma-churia. What would that mean? the use of war to accomplish re- ments for all nations," Mr. Lloyd It would mean one Inw for the adjustments can be made effective if George now says that this under-little nations, another law-or no it is followed by equally positive atanding has been Ignored by the Stimson Doctrine is useful in an changes peaceably. The barring faw for the big nations. The efforts to achieve necessary former Allies, and, in dealing with emergency. The League has al- of war's machinery implies the the German claim for equality, he 'ready used it as a face-saver in the use of peace machinery. The Pact declares that "the German revolt Far East. It has the value of of Paris leads direct to the door against this bad faith is not the keeping the issue open for settle-of the World Court. The Stimson result of a sudden explosion of ment after passions have cooled. Doctrine should toka natione national passions, fanned by un-Paris, to "freeze" the status quo, workable consultative pact and Yet it tende, as does the Pact of straight down the path toward a scruplous agiation or malicious It would perpetuato boundaries, 'real arbitration.
sort
H. G. Wells would see it
"That guy is a tough customer, chief. I let him boat me at every game he knows and couldn't got one `mensly order from him."