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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933.
Jehol, the League will take its WHY DE VALERA WON
side in the fighting. It is not China, but Japan, which is mak- ing war in Jehol. Misinformed comtient of this kind is past comprehension. The position is simply stated. Japan is bent on subjugating Manchuria "accord-again.
By R. C. H. WAITHMAN
Mr. de Valera has done it building up Irish industries and about the land annuities, but this was the greatest thing.
Viewing the election now dis-
of it) Englishmen
The Very Idea!
THIS WIRELESS AGE
By, Eddia "Marconi" Kally. While the races are on we have beca allowed to do pretty well as ing to programme." She is There are many in the
we've liked in this office. All the big shots have gone out to Happy evidently prepared to go much Free State who are saying passionately, as I believe (though Valley further. World opinion is now, and no doubt with you will never convince the Irish
For a long time we've wanted against her, and China, who has truth, that they expected it view it, we can see that as a but the Editor has always put his can and do to write something about wireless, broken no pact and has acted in all along: but there are many tactician Mr. de Valera was right. fost down with a arm hand. He füll accord with her undertak-mote, and among them some an injustice, however, to suggest set
It would be doing Mr. de Valerahaaa neighbour with "a wireless ings under the League Covenant, of Mr. de Valera's most that he set out to reuse the Irish is defending her own territory loyal supporters, who if they tactice emotis as a measure of She has strong moral support, grouped and indirectly illuminat- but if the situation becomes des- speak truthfully will confess not. starts the engine. Free Wheel-porate, she assuredly has a right that the result surprised I doubt whether he said any knowledge of the subject, we think
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
to look for something more tangible.
China's Future
Few observers have been
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Mrs. C. M. Soares and Family, tender sincere thanks to their relatives and friends for the many kind expressions of sympathy on the occasion of their recent bereave ment; and for floral tributes
sent
consistently accurate in their predictions of the course of events in China as Mr. J. O. P Bland, who has been closely con- nected with Chinese affairs for the past forty years. In reading Mr. Bland's new book, "China: The Pity of It," we therefore turn with especial interest to his forecast of the future. This is summarized in his final chapter, as follows: Failing the inter- and attendance at the funeral vention of the Powers, in some Also they thank the Doctors for form calculated to check effec- their kind and prompt protivly the forces now making for
fessional services.
The
disintegration, all the facts of the situation point to the pro- bability of an early declaration of an independent Northern
Hongkong Telegraph Government at Peiping, con-
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933.
them.
THE TWO APPEALS
The surprise is in the revelation that so many Irishmen and Irish- women have worked out for them- selves, on different lines, the com- plicated dection sum-and have got the same answer.
The question, arithmetically, was this: Add together all the appeals to the head, and then sub- tract the total from the appeal to the heart.
The appeals to the head were never more cogently advanced than they have been during the last three weeks by Mr. Cosgrave and his allies.
They showed bow necessary to Ireland's material prosperity was the return of the British market, now virtually lost, to the Irish farmers.
The vista was logically drawn: the finished picture was im
pressive.
But while it was being built up, Mr. de Valera was
out in the-
I am certain that he did
single thing during the election that he did not believe. However wrong he may be, he is not a fraud.
THE YOUNG VOTERS
"This column is for something fun-
"No wireless;" he always growin
ду."
However, with our intimate
our Public should know something about the intricacies of wireless. Anyway, there's no-one left in the office big enough, to stop us from writing about it
The first thing about wireless is finding the necessary to buy a set. The "new voters," the young The best way to go about this is- people of both sexes, must have to price all the most expensive sets palled heavily for him. That was on sale, and then, buying yourself aggressive and bravely romantic other gadgets, commence building expected. If you are young and about half a mile of wire and a fes Mr. de Valera is your man
in your own. Ireland to-day. But there must And let it be said right away also have voted for him some that it is a mistake to go in for a thousands of small farmers, shop- circuit that is too simple. Be keepers and dealers who have ambitious, like us. For a start try obviously and admittedly suffered a 12 valve super straight het. through the economic war with Britain,
How else can you explain these votes except in terms of enthus- laam for a man who is set up in their minds as the representative of inherent Irish ideals?
When you have puzzled out the pak-a-pu" ticket, or circuit. the next thing is to apply the voltage. potentiometer across the paddle- resistance
goggleswizzer, thus causing a short circuit and blowing But it will be a serious mistake out all the valves (12 at, say, 35 to assume that because Mr. de brats, who, of course, will be look- each). Then when one of the Valera and his Government going back to the next Dail the Free State will become a republic within the next few months. NO REPUBLIC-
YET
are
ing on, wants to know if you can make the funny noise" again, just
walk calmly out of the house and
take a brisk walk to Shaukiwan and back to -recover the right poise.
The work finally completed you Mr. de Valera does not want, at will find that there are sufficient
parts over for another 14 sets. These can be kept as spares,
never
result.
They proved the advantages of policy which would attract capital to be invested in Ireland. They outlined the means by trolled by the chiefs of the old which the markets and the capital Anfu and Peiyung political could be secured, and on the top groups, and that this move will of that they set out a complete be followed by a similar declara- plan whereby the Irish farmers tion for the South on the part could at the same time be relieved least daring the lifetime of this of the Cantonese leaders. Mr. of the financial worry of the land Dailand it may be a five years' WAR BREAKS OUT Bland adds that "it cannot be nothing to prevent them from State. If he wanted it he would rived to try your model out. Try
annuities, so that there would be lifetime-a republic for the Free
The great moment has, now ar- long before all semblance of na-plunging at once into a new era of have asked for a mandate to ac- to pick up, not a simple local sta Japan's probable withdrawal tional unity in China is definite plenty."
complish it; for that, scrupulously tion like ZBW or KZRM, but one from the League of Nations, and ly dispelled." The writer de-
is his method. Probably he does of the remote ones. VKME Mel- her determination to seize Jehol clares that "to an educated Chin
not want a Free State republic at bourne will do for a start. A at any cost, clearly demonstrates ese mind, there would be nothing
all.. He does passionately want a morgue-like silence may-in fact, the fact that she is prepared in such a denouement," but con- catastrophic, or even surprising,
United Ireland. without a border probably will be the between North and South, but so Still, to defy world opinion and to go tinues that "for the foreign po-
despair. Atmos- Free State. her own way. War is again wers, it would mean a dramatic country, driving from market fall parties, left and right, in the pherics may not be suitable, y instead XGOA, Nanking, which breaking out in the Far East, end to the fond hopes and cull down from square wooden plat-work as hard as he can to bring
place to market place. looking
You may take it that he willig nearer home. Again silence. carrying with it possibilities of ceptions which found expression forms or from the backs of lorries about the merging of North and to avoid the powerful blare, the
Now approach carefully, so a in the Washington agreements, on to the whle town, and saying South, but that is not an affair of local which no-one can see the end. and the immediate necessity for
station. Silence- again, The responsibility for shatter-new policies in China, based on
"Let d's show Britain and all the immediate politics.
which will be broken by the wife Yet he has never, to my know-remarking that she thinks seme- ing the fabric of peace must lie realities no longer deniable." world that the Irish nation is on on Japan. Without going into Mr. Bland believes that for the march again-murching to nc-ledge, even said that if he were thing must be wrong with the met. complish those things. for which granted this wish to-morrow he Let the unwomanly sneer pass. the niceties of the situation, it twenty years he has been a generations of Irishmen have would want that united Ireland to Clear the house, take your set to must be obvious that the rest because he has insisted that the
"voice crying in the wilderness," striven!"
be a republic cut off altogether pieces, reassemble it, and keep on of the world cannot be wrong Chinese Republic has never ex
Let Mr. Cosgrave and his ex-from the British Common-wealth.doing so until you have it in work-
What does Mr. de Valera want? ing order.. and Japan alone right. The un-isted in anything but name, and quote figures with a startling and ministers never so vigorously
Meanwhile, avoid brooding on A highly-placed Irishman in animity of opinion in Geneva, that Chinese leaders have never inescapable moral; let Mr. Frank Dublin told me the other day that the timed jokes of members of amongst both the big Powers intended to westernize or mod-MaoDermatt and his band of the English were too self-centred your family and your "friends". and the smaller nations, should ernize their Government or in- Centre Party, orators plead never ever to understand an Irishman's Keep your temper at all hazards. Men who have failed to do so have stitutions. In fact, he has con- so powerfully.for the abolition of feelings. This, or something have tempered Japan's policies, tended that the Chinese would the poisonous party system like it, is one of the most common been known to sacrifice small for- Instead, it has seemingly only be wise not to reorganize their
There was Mr. de Valera, being of all beliefs in Ireland, though tunes in radio apparatus in the served to stiffen her attitude. institutions on western lines. borne in jumple through the it seems to me to have as little course of brief bursts of uncon- Lord Lytton, in his speech in But he has felt, and still feels, little towns by torchbearers and truth is the romantic legend that trollable temper. París, declared that the day has that western countries have youths on horseback, and saying: men never understand women.
made # mistake. in en-
Nevertheless, I do not under-
Which reminds us of the story "No surrender! We want the stand what concrete goal Mr. de of the two young radio enthusiasts. our own Valera has in mind, and I do not She was Homo in dear old Eng- believe that all his suportersland. He was alone in the wilds of Hongkong. One night, whilst Mr. de Valera won the election understand it, either.
listening in, he heard her sweet voice calling in the morse code. He threw over his switch and an- swered. The radio. friendship grew into love, and he proposed to her-by wireless. She accepted. But, surrounded by wild beasts and shroffs and contracts, he could not leave, Hongkong. So they agreed Awireless marriage. They were married.
gone when any one nation can couraging Chinese leaders to right to determine be the arbiter of the action it break down their ancient social destiny." may take in pursuit of its na-structure before they have any- tional aims. The League Co- thing suitable to replace it because he banked heavily on an But I think Mr. de Valera has venant and the Kellogg Pact, he The result, he contends, has been appeal to Irish patriotism. He decided what he wants, andis
growing chaos in China, and he had other things to say about biding his time to say it. says, have changed all that. The question thus arises and unless the powers can attain a secs no end to general disorder, it is most pertinent to the pre-"common purpose of disinter- sent crisis-as to what is to be ested good will," which "in the done when a country claims the last resort resolves itself into the right to be a law unto itself. If problem of reconelling the diver it is permitted to do precisely terests of the United States and gent Far Eastern policies and in- what it chooses and to ignore its Japan." Apparently, Mr. Bland international obligations, what believes that such reconciliation becomes of the League Coven-is a possibility, but the United ant, the Kellogg Pact and all the States Government will be com- other peace machinery? Sure. Felled to make decided modifica tions in its Far Eastern policies. ly it must be the concern of the The situation in Manchuria, for other signatories to these in-example, appears to him almost struments. Otherwise, what precisely the same as that exist- is to be the fate of small nations ing in 1904. At that time, Rus- exposed to aggression from mili-sia had taken advantage of China's disorganization to ob- taristic countries? Must these tain control of Manchuria, Mon- signatories merely stand aloofgolia and Korea. The outcome and do nothing to aid the vic- depended, not upon China, but tims? It so, the peace pacts are upon Japan. The Russo-Japan- utterly valueless. Japan has ese War followed. To-day, Ja- pan has taken Russia's place, and been indicted by disinterested the outcome again dependa, not nations for her policy in Man-upon China, but upon the United churia.” Not only does she States. The question in Mr. choose to ignore this. indict Bland's mind is whether the ment, but she proceeds to ex- United States is prepared to fight for Manchuria, as Japan tend her military activities into was. The title of Mr. Bland's Tehol and may even also invade book refers to the condition of China Proper. In these circum-the Chinese masses, which has stances, it is difficult to appre become steadily worse under cinte the remark of a London misrule. He believes that inter- intervention" in China
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The years rolled on, and at last` he was free. The last shroff bad been paid, and he could go Home. Home-England, and the little radio wife who was waiting for him who he had never seen,
She met him at the wharf, sur- rounded by the six children,
"Darling," she said blushingly,. "they, too, came by wireless."
MUSICAL NOTES.
Cradgett's Tone-Poem, Widdi- combe Fair," was heard for the first time over Z.B.W. This is a remarkable piece, Its com-
| plete "absence of orchestration-it is scored only for two druma, cast- anets, and a bicycle bell-beam witness to the composers' economy of technique; and its comparative brevity-it only lasts for four minutes, during thres of which the bell is ringing continuously-sug- gests that there are depths of musical profundity which even this masterpiece does not plumb. Per- haps this is not surprising for Cradgett, when he wrote it, was only five. But, within its limits what a marvel "Widdicombe Fair” fa Its brio, its elan, its contemp tuous defiance of convention (who but the infant Cradgett would have closed on that piercing whistle?) stamp it as something fundamen- tally different; and we, for one," shall lose no time. In hearing the piece again.