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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1932.
SPARTON RADIO
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DAY BY DAY
PURITY IS THE FEMININE, TRUTII THE MASCULINE, OF HONOUR-Hare.
The Empress of Asia arrived Vancouver yesterday at 2 a.m.
J
SUMMING UP THE FIVE
YEAR PLAN
NLY a little more than a they receive, and last, but not least,
ONLY
League. That Is the dominant fact of the Manchurian situation, and it must certainly be recorded that the weakness, uncertainty and lack of unity hitherto dis- played on this matter by the Lengue cannot by any stretch of the-imagination be held to have discouraged the Japanese in carrying out their aims. lowever, the League now has a last oppor-accession of the Queen of Holland, To-day in the anniversary of the [tunity of doing justice, and it re- who ascended the Throne in 1800.
mains to be seen how the members will react to the immensely serious problem with which It is now faced. The other matter which has caused publle, disappointment is disarmament. So far, months of discussion have produced no tangible result, and there is now an openly expressed fear that if too strong a line is taken against Japan over the Manchurian issue, Mr. John H. Hunt, Secretary of the many respects the development of capital balance na is the now in- European Y.M.C.A., will speak at the economic life has run along lines dustrial construction on the credit the Disarmament Conference may's Men's Clubs tifin to-morrow, different from those which the side.
If this is November 24, nt Messrs. Lane, Craw-makers of the plan envisaged. be completely wrecked.
The Five Year Plan promised ford's Restaurant. The subject of Mr. Indeed, one rather suspects that that the Soviet city dweller would the outcome, the great purposen Ilunt's speech will be "By Way of it is not so much the technique of be consuming 27.7 per cent. more for which the League was esta- Understanding."
planning, which has proved far meat, 72 por cent. more eggs, and blished will undoubtedly be en-
from infallible In practice, as the 55.6 per cent, more milk products dangered.
month remains until the to the process which is euphemisti- formal completion of the famous cally described as "Iliquidation Soviet Five Year Plan of national the kulake as a cines," at economic development, which has This wholesale expropriation and perhaps excited more interest abbanishment of Russia's most effl- road than any other feature of clent farmers is disastrously re- Russian life in recent times.
flected in the present food supply
It re-
of the cowa
The question naturally arises: of the country. The national agri- what sort of balance sheet can be culture received a stunning blow shown for this extraordinary eco-in the wholesale destruction of in the Institution of Engineers and of a nation in peace time to plan third of the sheep, and a quarter A reminder is given of the meeting nomic experiment, this firat effort ivestock during the winter of 1929-30, when half the pigs, a Shipbuilders at 5.45 pm. to-day, when in advance every phase of its Mr. W. H. Owen, will read a paper economic development 7
were slaughtered, on "Architecture."
-If one takes as the yardstick of partly as a protest against collec judgment the original catimates of tiviontion, partly because the pea- At a meeting of the Hongkong the Plan, it soon becomes clear sants lacked sumelent foddor to Practical Psychology Club at Lano that no vordlet either of unquali- maintain their animals. Crawford's restaurant on Friday next fed success or of complete failure. It is, perhaps, a serious ques- at 6 pm., the Rev. Erris C. Trib can be pronounced. Some of these tion whether this enormous loss of beck will speak on "Some Sociological Problems near at hand"
estimates have been exceeded; animals is not as big an item in others have not been attained in the minus side of the country's
Lo llop-ka, a mesu "boy", employed concentration of the industrial, at the end of the Plan than at the at the officers' mess, Wellington agricultural, fnancial, transporta- beginning. Communist statisti- Barracks, was adraitted to the Govern- tion, and labour resources of the clans have been conspicuously ment Civil Hospital yesterday suffer country in the hands of a Govern-silent about these figures recently. ina from a dog bite caused by, an iment armed with dictatorial But there can be no reasonable animal belonging to Master Gunner Bailey. The dog was removed to powers that has made possible the doubt, in the light of such obvious most striking achievements of the facts as the scanty allotments on Kennedy Town for observation.
last four years.
ration cards, the fantastically In some branches of industry, high prices in the open market The Hongkong St. George's Society notably in oll, tractor production, the excerable quality of food in is holding its annual ball at the general and agricultural machine- almost all public eating places, Peninsula Hotel on Friday, January
estimates of the land the complete lack of euch aim- 6th. 1933. Instead of the usual set building, the supper, there will be a running buffet Plan have already been definitely ple things as tea and sugar in similar to the one at the dance held exceeded. At the same time, other the agricultural regions, that the on St. George's Day this year; other basic branches of industry are con- great majority of the Soviet popu wine, the hall will be run on similar aiderably behind the figures which lation is much worse off, as regards lines to those of previous years, the Plan set for achievement in food supply, than was the case
ita last year.
before the Plan was initiated.
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Events have shown that the finest cabinet craftsmanship.
which Has powerful nine-tube Super League is an instrument heterodyne completely shielded can be used either to do the right chassis with push-pull Pentode. thing
or to prevent the right Automatic Volume Control, Tong and Static Control, Full Vision things from being done. It does Dial, Phonograph Pick-up Jack, not run itself, however. Voltage Compensator, Antenna | flecta the dictates, desires and Equalizer, and all modern efforts of the Governments which SPARTON engineering features, control its activities, and if the A remarkable instrument of highest quality.
Governments--especially those of Height 44 inches. Width 26 the Great Powers-are inches. Depth 12 inches.cerned to make it function ener- inches.
Two cases of diphtheria with one Weight 58 pounds. gelically and purposefully, death, two cases of typhoid with ono
The Soviet Union will certainly Lengue cannot possibly be the death, two cases of meningitis with Demonstrations & Sales.
ane death (one imported case) and not produce during the current which will run from 1933 until effective instrument of interna-one case of puerperal fever, were re- year the 75,000,000 tons of coal, 1937, has been framed with a view IDEAL RADIO SERVICES tional co-operation and peaceful ported to the local health authorities the 10,000,00 tons of iron, and the to making up some of the ho view
during the past week. Deaths from 10,000,000 tons of steel which the the first. development it ought to be and pulmonary tuberculosis totalled fifty. Plan demanded for its last year: promised two or three times a But eight. One case of puerperal fever The quality of Soviet industrial much food and manufactured goods is capable of being made.
was reported on Monday,
production, as a general rule, re-
by 1937. maina unsatisfactory, and the The second meeting of the Hong-efficiency of some of the newly con-ahead the industrialisation of the Certainly the process of forcing kong Branch of the English Ascocia structed huge plants, as is only country at the
expense of
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WEDNESDAY, November 23, 1932.
TESTING TIME FOR LEAGUE
It is interesting al this Jung- ture, when the prestige League of Nations is becoming
not con.
the
the plain fact is that Govern- ments can only succeed in limiting
the achievements of the League so long as the peoples in the dif-
shall fulfil Its great Governments will respond.
On the Track of M.P's.
of the
A Committee of scholars, his
tion will be held on Tuesday, Decem
The
The Fallures.
The Second Plan. The second
Five Year Plan,
So the population is
the ber 6, in the Helenn May Institute, natural, remains considerably be living standard of the population when the Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen will find that of similar enterprisca in ferent countries tolerate or are
in general, and of the peasants in speak on "Goethe a world figuro," other countries.
particular, has been carried to the indifferent to the failure or re- Membership for the year costs thres | Yet, even after one has made a Casal of their representatives to dollars; while an additional oubscrip: proper dlacount for low quality limit, and perhaps heyond the tion of five dollars covers membership and ineffeciency, the addition to mit, which, from any standpoint tlischarge in the proper spirit the of the Central Association. Such duties, obligations and responsibulletins and pamphlets issued in Dniepratrol hydro-electric power millennial finality. At its end a
members are entitled to copies of the Russia's Industrial capital repre- can be considered profitable.
So the Five Year Plan has not sented by such undertakings as the
brought anything in the nature of biller which membership of the England from time to time.
plant (which has just been open- League should entall. When the
ed), the Stalingrad and Kharkov too-heavy Industrial structure resta Professor W. Brown, speaking attractor plants, the big Rostov omewhat precariously on a nar- peoples determine that the League the Rotary Club tifin at Gloucester agricultural machinery works, the row food busia.
purposes, Building yesterday gave a picturesque Magnitogorsk iron and steel plant, belum is far and away the most The righting of this dis-equili- description of a voyage he had under the Amo lorry works in Moscow: urgent problem before the Soviet taken in 1828 to the Samoan Islands, the automobile plant in Nizhni the resting place of Robert Louis
leaders to-day. A second very Stevenson. There was a large atten- Novgorod (to mention only a few dance over whith Mr. P. S. Cassidy of the largest and best known of important problem which can per
somewhat longer haps take a presided.
included the Five Year Plan enterprises) period of time for solution is whe guests Messrs. R. A. C. North, Eric Grimble, remains impressively large. involved
Lieut. D.A.H. Hornell, (IL.M.S. Kent), In agriculture the situation is ther the Soviet regime can train over the Sino-Japanese torians and members of Parlia- Messrs. H. A. Schoenerr (New York), much less satisfactory. It is true!"cudres" (i.c., trained mon of all dispute, to recall that
Mr. de ment appointed by the Treasury A. G. Jeffreys, Capt. Kerr (Van that the planned figures for col-kinds, from directors of big fac-... Valera, u his capacity of Presi- three years ago to Investigate the couver), Dr. F. Goldby, Mr. E. W. lectivisation of agriculture have tories to mechanics) fast enough dent of the League Council, re.personnal of Parliament from the Tape and Lieut. Col. II. L. Murrow.
been sweepingly exceeded, and that to staff and adequately operate the cently marked his entry upon the issued its interint report. It apWhen did the House of Commons while thirty million acres are in-
earliest days until 1832 has now
160 per cent. of the peasant home-country's new steads are now in collective farme, prises. international political stage by pears that there is abundance of adopting the role of candid critic.evidence available; but it requiresisters of the Crown began to desire
first become so important that Min- eluded in the new State farma.
But collective and State farm- giving expression within the study and preparation. Much of election thereto ?
ing, as How did the pay-shown, is not necessarily emclent bitter experience has League to the èriticisms that are the evidence is in manuscript, and ment of members, which was re-farming. Extension of the plant- often heard outside. It would though facts concerning many M. cently revived; originate? Whened acreage has been largely, if not By Edward Kelly, Barrackor,
P's of the pre-1832 ern are lost be was the first by-election fought? entirely, offuet by poor cultivation WHS
The attempted downfall of the for yond recall, there will be no fewer For £30,000 the history of one of of the fields, attributable in turn M.C.C. team in Melbourne was due. than 30,000 biographies to be com- the most famous and beneficent in- 10 lack of human and animal la- we gather, to a wet wicket and a hour power, to dissatisfaction of person by the name of Nagel. It be the peasants with the scanty
appear that his Cranknyas
altogether appreciated.
not
ence.
piled. Before the Great
wo read that his first speech in
Reform stitutions in Geneva was received in, dead sil-Bill, whose centenary has just been elucidated..
Whatever we may think of celebrated, the Commons cere sum». Mr. de Valora's own ideas of the moned to more than 250 parlia- sanctity of treaties, as evidenced meats, the membership of the lower by his attitude in the Anglo-house varying from 264 to 658. The Irish quarrel, there is unques-examination of the record of each tionably foundation for his state-member's career, so far as it is ment "there is a suspicion abroad possible at this date, will probably that little more than lip service take several years and cost some- thing like £30,000. The Govern- is paid to the fundamental prin- ment fa willing to pay its share of ciples on which the League is the expense, and the chairman of founded that the netions of the the committee, Col. Josiah Wedg- Lengue in the economir sphere wood, M. P., is determined to carry can be paralysed by the pressure on the work whatever happens. An: of powerful national interests, appeal for funds has been made by and that if the hand raised the Prime Minister over the wire- less. Some people may wonder against the Covenant is sufficiently
what is the purpose
of this strong, it can smite with im-
Inborious Inquiry into the precise punity."
personnel of Parliaments long since The suspicion which Mr. de vanished. Mr. Rameay MacDonald Valern voiced does undoubtedly himself answered this query. Those exist, and it has navor been who never look into the past, he stronger than during recent said, will never look forward into months. It is only necessary to the future. These inquiries will add to the prestige of a form of re- refer to two outstanding
presentative government at a time blems at present engaging the when representative government is attention of the League to illus-being attacked in many parts of trate the causes of public disap- the world. Finally, any further -pontment
and
dianatiafaction. information about the growth and However much Japan may seek to development of Parliament cannot justify her actions, the fact does fall to flumino many dark placen remain that, as the Lytton Report in English history. There are in-
numerable questions
-סינכן
concerning
oxpresses it, her armed forces Parliament that need to be an-) have forcibly seized and occupied gwared; and this inquiry will a largo area of territory belong answer most of them. Why did ing to another member of the the people wish to be represented?,
the world can.
Industrial enter-
STOP THIS ROT
Tamounts of city products which is useless using recriminations for the collapse now--the damage is done. The wicket got wetter and wetter and all were swamped out. However, binme must be attached to the wicket-keeper, who, allotted the job of keeping the wicket. neglected to dry it and further- more, things are coming to a pretty pass when a man cannot keep a miserable wicket clean. For in- istance, the cable tells us that this Nagel fellow actually found a spot on the wicket. Tutt Tut and again Tut!
27
"Let's all get together next Wednesday and go to the
chiropodist."
This Nagel bioke should renily be withdrawn from the game. The man is a positive menace.
Five or six times ho knocked Idown the small wooden stumps erected for the protection of the wicket kepper.
Whather this was dono in a spirit of malice or from a mis- guided sense of humour is not re- corded.
However, if the spirit of our lorious Empire fa to remain at full strength, this horseplay must stop immediately. It. is certainly not in keoping with the spirit of the Ottawa Conference.
}
We hesitate to mention names, but going from the cables, it acema that one of the Australian bowlers "act a trap" for our cricketers. Is this right? Is It fair?
Are our men, travelling thou- sands of mlite 'neross the ocean to be treated like so many mice? It seems 80. And this is the vaunted Australian idea of fair play! HA HA!-
This Nagel annoyance (lismissed young Mr. Larwood for a deck. "(Continued on Page 9.)