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NOTES OF THE DAY
DISARMAMENT APPROACH .....
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FOUR-POWER" "PACT ...
In the Four-Power Pact, it was laid down that in the event of a deadlock on disarmament the signatory nations would endeavour
DECEMBER 12, 1933.
SECURITY
The Very Idea!
THESE SOCIAL EVILS
By Eddle Kelly, Lado Expert
ROM Budapest the decree has
rone forth that Ping Pong, "If not inevitably wicked, has pecu- liar moral dangers of its own, and keepers of plog pong dens or `saloons must reglater under heavy
penalties New Item
A conflict of vlow still exists in Although Germany has left the and the lowlands Intersected by it. Europe regarding the best method. Disarmament Conference, the ques- Nevertheless, this section fados of approaching the disarmamenttions discussed at Geneva have lost into insignificance when we com- question. There are two widely none of their topical interest. pare it with the "and bridge separated schools of thought. Bir The disarmament problem con-that connects it, in the Saar and John Simon is in favour of direct tinues to dominate International Moselle rivera, with the point negotiations between France and relations. It may therefore be where the frontiers of France, Germany. Signor Mussolint would helpful to make some reference to Luxemburg and Belgium, meat. have the problem tackled in the a subject which-although it is of This is the section where French spirit If not the latter, of the very considerable importance to military, science subaldised by the Four-Power Pact France hardly the general position has so far money which only France, the one knows which way to turn, and she been ignored by the Conference al-real victor in the World War could E have suspected this
WR may well be wary, having memory together..
provide, could carry out its grea-
all along, and have of the consequences of Sir John Up to now the subject of forti-test achievement.
Within a dense network of forti- often wondered why the Simon's "direct negotiations" adfications has played a most remark. vocacy in the Manchirrian imbro-able part in connection with the fied positions French military en- I.G.P. hasn't demanded that be gllo. Unfortunately, Germany, for disarmament discussions. In sogineore have there created an ex- some reason, seems to be loaning for as it could be the object of any tensive "zone, of death" covered the Y.M.C.A. should away from the Italian position.
measure leading to disarmament, by gun fire from several directions. licensed, like Cabarets. it was completely relegated to the A carefully designed system of
As we are a member of background.....It is true that Gor machine-gun positions has been many proposed in the early part of lafd out in such a way that each this den of iniquity we are the discussions that the establish single position can effectively ment and upkeep of those fortresses cooperate with all the others in a position to give you the and fortified works which, wing There is practically no plece of low-down on the immoral to their closeness to the frontier, undulating ground, no ravine and and wicked forms of entertain- defle within this "zone of ment that take place within, its to work out an acceptable achemo constituto a direct menace to the no
and which-fr death" which, le inaccessible to precincts. of their own. Even if the Four- adjoining country Power Pact did not exlat it would so far as coastal fortifications are devastating, fire. emanating from
Before the end of this year, scem to be common sense for the concerned-dominate the natural the guns in their concealed posi nations principally concerned to waterway, should be prohibited. tion. The anti-tank gune and the Association intends, for get together. No theoretical con- These proposals have been devoid number of artificial obstacles pre instance, to stage a brutal ping
using alderations should stand in the of any results; and the question vent. the aggressor from
bats, the men will be encouraged way of an attempt to reach an of fortifications was hardly touch- tanks by means of which it was Pong tournament. With wooden
upon in the disarmament still possible in 1918 to overcome. accord. Yet we find legalistic ed arguments as to whether the Four-schemes submitted by other mem-the resistance offered by the forti- to swipe a small celluloid ball at
battered into insensibility. Power Pact can work or should be bera of the Conference. Neither fied positions of the defender. As each other, until one of them falla allowed to work. Such contentions the Hoover Plan of June 22nd, all the fighting forces are .com-
Quite apart from the dangerous aro purely verbal. Ratification or 1932, nor Mr. MacDonald's draft pletely isolated from the outer no ratification, inside the League convention made any mention of world, gas attacks against them aspect of this game, we think it's or outside the League, under or this subject. Germany, however, are quite ineffective. Even the pretty poor sportsmanship. For over a formal pact, there should is bound to watch all developments heaviest guns possessed by the one thing it encourages, cheating. be no objection to negotiations if in this domain with particular in-aggrcaror are of very little use. When a man is losing, the temp by means of auch negotiations terest, because it is one in connec-not only because of the diminutive tation to put his foot, on the ball, tion with which the disarmament size of the objects of attack, but and thus end the game in a draw, progress can be achieved.
clauses of the Versailles treaty also because of the immense thick-often overcomes the finer and have been especially drastic-ness of the walls and coilings manlier instincts in him. drastic,. Indeed, that her national which are made of reinforced con- security has been most seriously cr te. jeopardised thereby.
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Telegraph. agreement, and that agreement
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1933.
JAPAN'S TARIFF POLICY
WHAT IS NEEDED
What is needed is an effective must bring into its circle all the great Powers. Otherwise Europe will be in danger of splitting up into camps, and the old system of a balance of power will return Whatever momentary passions may be aroused, one thing is certain that the problems of foreign policy must be solved. The method is of secondary importance. It is of in-still less importance whether the method is formalized or not,
BERLIN'S FEAR
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Fortunately the Influence of Mr. J. H Hunt has, o far, been great enough to prevent the introduction of Ludo or marbles into the Y.M.C.A.. but this is not sufficient.
This is an age of sport, but, if
In order to meet any local. In- The Versailles treaty compelled cursion of the enemy, powerful Germany to destroy all fortifica- defensive works were built to sup- tions-whatever their nature might plement the system of casemates. bo-in the demilitarised zons and The batteries installed there do- to dismantle avery fortress minate the whole of the interven- throughout the country with the ing ground. In addition to them, the YM.C.A. is to flourish, Ite exception of Konigsberg and a few a number of special fortressesport must be kept clean.
For instance, can the Y.M.C.A. coastal fortifications. Practically, the accalled "ensembles"-havo the realisation of these demands been erected in important strate
that one of the greatest has made Germany an absolutely gic positions on elevated ground, deny undefended country. The fow for- so as to give the defender absolute social evils in the Colony-the The Tokyo Government's
tifications which she is still per control of every natural feature game of chess, has been freely What will Bishop Hall say when mitted to have merely serve to that might be used by the aggres-adopted by Its members? tention to impose high dis-
underline her defencelessness. sor for the purpose of effecting an criminatory tariffs against coùn-
equipped ho hears that, in the Y.M.C.A. of From a strategical point of view, incursion. They are tries having no trade relations
her frontiers are as unfavourable with those long-distance guns all places, Blahops are allowed to with Japan, or against those
One of the troubles is the Berlin as they can be. Except for the which are capable of carrying mix with Queens?
territory, Sadistic, and dobased members bringing undue pressure on fear that Europe constitutes a bloc Alps in the south and the sea in fire far Into German
is not a single thus dominating important trafic have even been known to sneak Japanese merchandise, is in- opposed to Germany. It is not the north, there
that affords any centres on and even beyond the into a quiet corner, surreptitious of course, a fact. Italy has clear-natural feature teresting at a moment when ly shown its sympathy with many protection. At the same time when Rhine. Every single fortification ly open a draughts board, and en- there is so much controversy of the objectives of Germany, and the victor Powers forced Germany and every line of fire la protected courage every form of petty vice to destroy almost every ahred of by an ingenious system of barbed- in the glorious Institution by play- over the flooding of the world's Great Britain, though friendly to
her system of defences, France wire entanglements from 60 to 100 ing draughts.
4 feet high. We remember once being on- markets with Japanese products. France, is deeply desirous of co-
operating with Germany. Nor decided to rebuild and to moderniso feet deep and over The move cannot be directed does France wish to be left lete her fortifications along her eastern Steep slopes. ditches, concrete veigled into a game of snakes and against Britain, inasmuch as the a-tete with Germany. It wants frontier. This gigantic scheme walls, iron fences and mines are laddora. Us, we have always been
games za poker tarift position between the two very badly the presence of Great has now been practically completed, used against tanks. A network of strong for such fine and sports-
the expenditure involved amoun- underground passages connecting manliko Britain and Italy in the conversa- countries is controlled by Treaty tlong which should now be held. ting to 6,000 or 7,000 million every part of the fortified system hazarda, and it was our first ex-
there is need of Inter- francs. It should be borne in with every other and with the perience of the lower type. arrangement. Were the Anglo- And
mediaries. In the delicate negoti- mind, in this connection, that her country at the rear has been laid Japanese Trade Argeement to be on which are now heat too natural defences are far better aut from 100 to 225 feet below the denounced, the situation, of many participants are undesirable; than those of any other Continen- surface. All the latest technical tal-country.--Apart-from-her-ex-inventions, portable railways, hau- course, would undergo a change, but it would be equally undesirable tensive seacoast, she is protected ling plants, lifts, etc., form part
to convert the negotiations into a and Japan would be perfectly word duel between France and by the mountain ranges of the of the outfit of this undergrounding somewhat borgerk. free to impose discriminatory Germany. tariffs against British goods. There is, however, no indication
at the moment that Britain de O.K.?
every
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"Adder-Boy "wo-bellowed, go-- The police got us out somehow.
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Pyrenees, the Alps and the Jura, shelter. The rest rooms for the and as far as the German ecction troops are provided with of her frontier is concerned-by comfort. Fresh air is pumped in the towfold barrier of the Upper from outside,. All the installa- Rhine and the Vosges Mountains. tions are operated by electricity.
Mr. Tratman and us, we have sires abrogation of the existing Great Britain has recently beenThus, there only remains a section The entering of poison gas is made had some job keeping things go- treaties. The British Govern-wrestling with one of those mighty some 140 miles long which being impossible by working the mating in the Colony since Sir Thomas ment's attitude is that, in the problems that nations, in the pride devoid of naturally defensive fea-chinery at excess pressure,
It should be remembered that Southorn, the Colonial Secretary, went home on leave. And now matter of competition with Lan- and stride of their strength, are tures--became the object on which cashire, efforts to reach some occasionally called upon to tackle. Franco concentrated her efforts in this huge chain of fortifications that he's back, we hope that the working arrangement should Several readers of the London the domain of fortifications. But connecte with similar works in Colonial Sec. wasn't sea-8cc on the
even the section of the Upper Belglum and that the Metz- first be made by the industri- Observer have been discussing the alists of the two nations. At origin of the expression, "O.K." Rhine has been greatly strengthen- Diedenhofen and the Belfort-Ver- voyage-out, the same time, it has been made This plece of linguistic researched by means of a double line of dun lines-which have by no, has been precipitated by state casemates, armoured towers and means lost their importance yet-
It in the roor. perfectly plain that, if circum: ment that the Supplement to the concrete blockhouses, which do cover
(Continued on Page 5.) stances warrant it, Britain will famous Oxford Dictionary traces minates without any gap the river not hesitate to abrogate the the use of 0.K. back to 1840 in a trade agreement. So much is Boston newspaper. The Observer's apparent from the recent state correspondents have not read the ment by Mr. Runciman, when he Supplement. This is not a reflec. stated that if it becomes neces- tion upon their intellectual ther- sary to denounce the treaty, the oughness; it is merely a more or less inevitable corollary of the fact whole subject will be considered "from a different point of view, and with quite different intent." It is interest- ing, in passing, to note that the Japanese Government is
Charles G. Leland, author of the prepared to accept the Indian Breitmann Ballads, is said to refer Government's counter-proposals to use of the phrase by Gon.
that the Supplement has not yet
been issued.
OCH AYE !
made at the Simla conference in Andrew Jackson in 1835; another regard to Japanese cotton im- authority ascribes it to Jackson ports into India, although the seven years earlier while R. H. Japanese manufacturers and Thornton's "American Glossary" traders do not feel "inclined to gives 1790 as the primary date. A erudite agree thereto. The presumption more circumstantially is, however, that the Govern scholar says that O.K. was toarned
by Jackson from General Pushma ment's viewpoint will prevail. taha, who brought it back from If so, there can surely be some among the Choctaw Indians. A hope of Britain and Japan Afth correspondent, by a mingled renching an understanding. process of argument and intuition, Japan's general policy is said to feels that the ultimate source of be reciprocity, combined with the term is Scotland, Scots, he intensification of control of ex-contenda, often, any "Och hye" porta. On this basis, there (phonetically "ok") Instead of "yes." He has, moreover, beon should be no insurmountable told that Scots have been known obstacle in the way of an Anglo-to emigrate to America, If this le Japanese understanding aimed at so, what could be more probable removing the existing, causes than the Americans have borrowed of friction. But · ono vital the phrase from them? If the matter that must be. dla- "Och nya" theory be accepted, It posed of and this is a question seems to give all previous inter- n reverso though for Governments, not industri protations allstais the pornicious and whether to the extent of adminis
toring the K.0, may perhaps. ha together reprehensible practice doubted. At any rate, whatever of the imitation of British trade the decision of the lexicographers marks by Japanese manufac- may be, it probably will be O.K. turers.
with the rest of us.
"Well, Gus, I guess we'll soon be talking about the good old
days before repeal."
A TRUE NATURE STORY Little Woogy sat gazing moodily Into the sky, watching a Pooh-Bah bird flying around in over-decreas- ing circles, uttering its melancholy cry of "Pooh-Bah-h-h, Pooh-Bah- h-h," and finally disappearing into the gloomy pine-forest,
a white Little Woogy was beaver, and lived away in the Great Frozen North where Ice and Show lay heavy the year round. With his playmates he would gambol in the snow the livelong day, strewing the virgin snow with footmarks and little chunks of fur.
As he grew up, Little Woogy. became older, and exceedingly cunning, for in the great open spaces it is everyone for himself: Day after day he would chase the polar bear, or run after the goals as they went flip-flop across the ice.
One day, after crossing an in- terminable snowfield, Little Woogy came across a MAN caught in a bear-trag, and, bewalling his mis- fortune. "Bear up! I will sot you free," Little Woogy's brown eyes soomed to say, and the man understood, for he censed to swear. Then Little Woogy gnawed. through the steel trap until at last the man shouted, "Woogy, I am freal" for he had guessed the name of our little hero.
Then out of gratitudo, Alaskan Armand the Terrible Trapper, for It was none other, skinned poor Little Woogy, and not very long after poor Little Woogy died from bitterness and exposure.jet
What a monster is MAN, Ittle children 12
THE END.