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H. G. WELLS LOOKS
1
AT THE WORLD
In Interview With J. L. Hodson
When I met Mr. H. G. Wells, a secret treaties the Foreign Ofco unre was hiding, and the diplomatie short compact little man,
J
Then came the shattering blow. Japan organised the government of the now Manchuria, and al- though the new puppet-stats had OF THE UNIVERSE, AND FREE SOUL markable-looking in a blue suit, mind was all against definite war what this man, who wrote "The But every time we captured a not yet been set up, was at pains OF MAN, HAVE NO WORD TO UTTER! and black trilby hat, I wondered alms.
---Carlyle.
War in the Air" 24 years ago, few thousand Germans and a hand- to secure a voluntary Chinese re
"The Peace of the World" in 19 5 ful of guns our war aims took a gime in the territory she had occu-
and "The Way the World is Going" | jump upwards. Every time we had pied. It was reported that Gonerai
in 1928. was thinking about the a reverse our alms went down and world to-day.
the Germans went up. Ma had given in his submission,
He talked quietly--a serene, wise "Suppose," I said, "in five or ten flown to Mukden and been appoint-
man of 69, with appraising grey years' time France and Germany ed Minister of War. The country
Th P. and O. 5.8. Corfu loft Shang-eyes and a searing, witty, tongue. are at war. Shall we be able to was at a loss. It had suffered an hal for Hongkong on the 15th instant You felt he found the world an keen out of it?"
"If Holland and Switzerland apparently supremo
humiliation.ut 3.30 p.m. and is due here on Friday amusing, eccentric place.
Mr. Wells demolishes reputa- could keep out of the last one," ho long as nonchalantly as if he were auld, "we ought to be able to steer morning.
ordering coffee. Ho says he is an clear of the next."
We talked about France and the old gentleman who still finds life| interesting. He says delly he in French. I said Harriet at the a man with a very simple mind, mament was declaring Germany to and a poor memory so that he in- be bent on an ultimate war of re- sults a man one day and meets him renge and would apparently listen seven duva later and cannot under- to nothing.
amiss with the Mr. Wolla's opinion of the A sampan woman was fined $20 bystand what is Mr. Schofleld at. the Central Palles fellow; he himself having forgot- French, ridden, as he sees them, by armament firms linked with the to ten all-about the insult. Court this morning for falling
I said I was far more disturbed' Praza and by reactionary elements provide matting to pig crates.
and depressed at the situation now, in the army, is not high. French military authorities are doctri- than five years ago. Wasn't he?
Hebe-
It had rejoiced that one man had come out to oppose the enemy while it was smarting under the sense of impotence, and the mea- Bure of the pride-succouring joy which had filled the hearts of patriots then was the measure of the new humiliation. His name was dropped from the papers. In converantion the subject was too painful to be referred to. So it was for a time, and then came another day when the country could uplift its head again. The whole surrender had been a ruse. In line with the best traditions of nonular Chinese romance the hero had la'd a tran for the enemy and
The Chiness friends of Mr. A. H. Ferguson have arranged a presenta tion to him on Frdny next, at 5 p.m. in the Hongkong Hotel.
Owing to the Gloucester Restaur ant being reserved for a wedding reception on Thursday, the 17th
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the JapanesO tabooed his
is troops. It was
now papers which name: it was in Japanese converan-
ATTACK
I gathered he wasn't; he had got 'naire and conservative. used to it: his hopes had died is it will have to be a stupid before mine. His disillusionment nation that fails to defeat the
nes a long way back. He told me French in the next war.
"Might not that be a thing?"
An
ho believes he invented the phrase The conversation turned back. I "The war to end war." He was asked him what we men of radical are-war t the Stockholm Con- mind are to do? I said as far as I forance in 1917 and anti-war after can see the mass of the British people are more concerned with the that.
intest film alar than they are with "What about disarmament?" D'airnment, he said. Is econo- the international situation, and with mically impossible under a system football than with the threats of I said that ox-Service men which nahot consume its produce war. and which, to maintain its fabric, in particular must feel sick of the requires enormous numbers of men way foreign policy is being handled, to be engaged in making not com- and tired to death of the politicians mod'ties, but ahoor "waste." auch who live in a world of their own. as munitions are. With real dis- Mr. Wells is inimitable at de- armament our system would col- fluting politicians. I remember he lange all the sooner.
said of Lord Snowden; "Ah, he is a good man with an unfortunate habit of waking up too late, and punching You belatedly with
accumulated No, he didn't think so, couldn't start building from the punch." very bottom again.
Sir Oswald Mosley does not im- But his view of disarmament de press him, either. This British wragsed him less than me. The Fascism, he said, reminded him of Conference, he a London cabby pretending to be tions that mention of him was too FIGHT IN POST OFFICE World Economic
aald, Is. after all, for more ira an insurgent or a bellicose waiter.
the Disarmament, artant than
But there was nothing bitter painful,
Three bandits. armed with a Since then Ma Chau-shan has
about his manner. These were his Conference. other
| calm' judgments, and they amused carried on his masterly guerilla revolver, a hammer and
him. warfare against the enemy, That weapons, after a fierce atruggle | Scientists and the Next War.
Isn't it time the scientists start-' He went on to say we need a new with the manager of a sub-post it must be taken seriously may be office at Mansfield-road, Hamped. to tell us plainly what sort of grouping or party of men of liberat inferred from the report that the stead, N.W., escaped with money war the next is to be, what sort of mind-men of all sorts and Socini What's iam should not be excluded Radi weapons we shall use? Japanese military estimate that it.rom a till.
the good of making battleships and eals who would defplined. That will require six cara before
Mr. Newnam, the manager, who hav guna if they're to be ob was why he used the phrase 1 Liberal "Fascisti" at the Liberal Manchuria can be pacified. His 69, was knocked senseless by a solete?
Mr. Wells said: "The scientists Summer School. Left policy would men are in need of supplies, winter nammer blow on
can't tell you because it isn't they have to be anti-creditor and pro- who use the weapons but the re- debtor. A certain means of infa÷ clothing and money. It has been badly injured. feared that the volunteer move- The premises are divided into a actionary fighting men. You can't tion was necessary, to reduce the ment of which he is the most con- sub-pout offlec and a grocery buni-ell hat they'll do, except that burden of debts for one thing.
'derable figure may collupic ashers. A man entered with a gun they re bound to make a mess of in his hand and demanded money it. The at war ought to have
He replied he did not know. He the winter comes on. But money
rom two girls at the post office ended in 1917 if they had used the
was trying to find out. and supplies are being everywhere counter. The girls screamed, and tan's properly."
Ile Bad he thought it time to
He agreed when I sold I doubted Menn-Mr. Newnam tackled a second man prepared for his succour.
who had just entered. They fellst huilding £5.000,003 mammoth if war plays, war films and wor
battleshina.
books have any deterrent effect on while his agents report that he to the floor, and Mr. Newnam ap-
Smaller and faster ones would be the now generation. "No," he said. bears a charmed life. A month or peared to be getting the better of The Eple of Ma Chan-shan in two ago the Japanese reported the struggle when a third man, who much better. There was no anne "the young people have the old 1914
he had been had been keeping watch on the report'on, he said. between the outlook." entegorically that
costly weapons we fight wars with pavement outside, ran
and what we fight wars for. Ima Criticism of the King. perhaps not yet to be sung, but
led in battle. There seemed truck him on the head.
wing Haise £5.990,00 battleships I reminded him of his criticism it seems certain that his story will
to believe the report, The three men jumped into a car to fight with over Alsace-Lorraine. of the King at the Liberal Summer go down to history and likely that
Chinese sources standing nearby, which was driven | What was the capital value of School. He was at once satirical
Alave orraine? One of the it may some day find a singer. It though some
that away by another man.
stupidities of the last war was that about the Liberal and Labour Prèss is of the stuff of romance. He denied it. Now it appears
After an intensive search last-wo never knew from moment to being horrified at his criticism, and -tory may afford him but a few he actually was in a desperately
bury trembling with Indignation. lines, but he will live in the tight corner. His men were suring some hours. Flying Squad oll- moment what our precise war aims imitated for me Mr. George Lans
cers interrogated three men, who were.
the police why he went to Crewe House Unemployment become insignificant afterwards went to memory and imagination of the rounded and shelled, and there people for long to come, and boys seemed not the slightest chance of station. The men were detained he tried to make the Foreign Office to them, he said, by comparison nime down. He didn't know of the on the inherent anobbery of the his adven-escape. But though numbers fell for some time, but subsequently rear their minds and get our wor with this terrible, terrible outrage live aut again
nation. "After. all," he said, "I pay about £6,000 a year income tax turous carcer and chuckle over his around him, he got away. It was left.
for the right of discussing English ruses. It will be no disadvantage on that field that a body was found
Biznis," to romance if his origins turn out closely resembling, and which in the clrcumstances the Japanese to be obscure, or his rise to fame
were just fed in taking for, his. be found to have been by the way te lives however, and necessarily af banditry. Is not that indeed
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1932
one
THE EPIC OF MA CHAN-SHAN
rennon
tangle of
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATTET CABLED QUOTATIONS.
of the very highways of without.official support, carries on his wor. If he does nothing else, romance? When the Japanese effected their coup-d'etat in Mon- he makes an heroic gesture and thuria, General Ma was engaged holds up the complete success of in one of the many civil wars of the Japanese occupation until found by the the still chaotic new republic. It Home solution bo matters little on which side he was governments, of the Aghting, though if we remember events which is the Manchurian
affair, right, he was "ngin the govern. ment." The outstanding fact is that while Marshal Chang Hsuch- lang withdrew his legion's from Manchuria without striking a blow, and before the stand of the 19th Army at Shanghai had shown the world that to challenge the Japanese force was not an im- possibility, he turned his arme Suddenly against the invader. the name of the Nonni River sprang into fame. The bridga over the river was broken and the Japanese forces were up aga'nyt real dimeuities. The nation rang with the name of the hero. His portrait was to be seen in overy 5 pts. shop window: coloured prints woro na widely distributed as
The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pentr■th and Co.
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the head and
in
and
"I ain't such a bad ent ch, Ella, consider'n' what I'll
have if this lottery tick et I got wins anything."
"How are you going to begin?- how start it?"
A torrent of abuse, it seems, was poured on him by letter; ho laughed when he added his life was threat- ened; his equanimity was not, I imagine, seriously disturbed.
Mr. Montagu Norman, he remark- ed in passing, is almost as sacros- anct as the King. He thought, he enld with his dry emile, ho would write a book about British finance, "The Mystery Men,' with two great Agures of mystery moving through It-one of them Mr. Norman, the other Zaharoff or Ivar Kreuger.
The Press did not escape his tongue. The way his remarks about the King resulted in some new- papers supressing the whole of his speech offended him, as did the way others printed his lighter or more rkittish phrases and left out the important parts.
"There's something girlish about our Press," he said. Newspapers were constantly looking for motives, ton. Not long ago, in introducing
a lecturer at the London School of Economics, he had told his audience that probably a fair proportion of them would be gassed in the next wara remark he regards as per fectly reasonable and likely. But ha was accused of being deliberately ^nctional-a novelist advertising his books.
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Lord Friverbrook as Radical.
Lord Beaverbrook's nemo-cropped un. "I think ho is wrong in
irit
in attacking the Longue of Nationa," cald Mr. Wells. "but he'll finish up running a real Rodical paper. He's (Continued on Page 9.).