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NOTES OF THE DAY
DISARMAMENT APPROACH
SECURITY
A conflict of view at!ll 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
nono. of their topical Interest. pare it with the "land" bridge" Boparated schools of thought. Sir John Simon is in favour of directThe disarmament problem con- that connects it, via the Saar and negotiations between France and nues to dominate International onelle rivers, with the point Germany. Signor Mussolini would relations. It may therefore be whore the frontiers of France, have the problem tackled In the helpful to make some reference to Luxemburg and Belgium mest. spirit, if not the letter, of the subject which-although it is of This is the section where French very considerable importance to military aclanco subsidised 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 may well be wary, having memory together.
provide, could carry out its'grea- of the consequences of Sir John Simon's "direct negotiations",
Up to now the subject of forti- test achievement.. ad- vocacy In the Manchurian fibro-flentions has played a most remark. glio. Unfortunately, Germany, for abla part in connection with the some reason, seems to be leaning away from the Italian position,
FOUR-POWER PACT
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The Very Idea!
THESE SOCIAL” EVILS
By Eddie Kelly, Ludo Export
FROM Budapest the decreo has
gone forth that Ping Pong, if not Inevitably wicked, has pocu- Har moral dangers of lia own, and. keepers of ping pong dens or saloons must register under heavy · penalties-News Item.
We
and have TE have suspected this
Within a dense network of forti- often wondered why the fed positions French military on LG.P. hasn't demanded that disarmament discussions. In ao gineers have there created an ox- far as it could be the object of any tensive "zone of death" covered the Y.M.C.A. should be measure lending to disarmament, by gun fire from several directions, licensed, like Cabarets. it was completely relegated to the A carefully designed system of background. It is true that Ger-machine-gun positions has been As we are a member of many proposed in the early part of laid out in such a way that cach this den of iniquity we are the discussions that the catablish- (single position can offectively
In the Four-Power Pact It was laid down that in the event of a ment and upkeep of those fortressca cooperate with all the others. in a position to give you the deadlock disarmament the and fortified works which, oving Thero is practically no plece of low-down on the immoral signatory nations would endeavour to their closeness to the frontler, undulating ground, no ravine and and wicked forms of entertain- to work out an accopiable achemo constituto a direct menace to the no defle within this "zono of
On
of their own. Even if tho Four-adjoining country and which-in death" which is inaccessible to ment that take place within its
precincts. Power Pact did not exist it would so far as coastal fortifications are devastating firo emanating from scom to be common sense for the concorned-dominate the natural the guns in their concealed posl- Before the end of this year, get together. No, theoretical con- These proposals have been devold number of artificial obstacles instance, to stage a brutal ping nations principally concerned, to waterway, should be prohibited. tion, The anti-tank guns and a the Association intends, for aiderations should stand in the of any results; and the question vent the aggressor from using pong tournament With wooden way of an attempt to reach an of fortifications was hardly touch-tanke by means of which it was bats, the men will be encouraged accord. Yet we find legallatic ed upon in the disarmament still possible in 1018 to overcome arguments as to whether the Four-schemes submitted by other mem- the resistance offered by the forti- to swipe a small celluloid ball at Power Pact can work or should ha bera of the Conference. Neither fed positions of the defender. As each other, until one of them falls
battered into insenalbility. allowed to work. Such contentions the Hoover Plan of June 22nd, all the fighting forces aro com- are purely verbal. Ratification or 1932, nor Mr. MacDonald's draft pletely laclated from the outer Quite apart from the dangerous no ratification, inside the League convention made any mention of world, gas attacks against thom aspect of this gamo, we think it's or outalde 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- aggressor are of very little use, When a man is losing, the temp by means of such negotiations terest, because it is one in connec-not only because of the diminutivotation to put his foot on the bail, tion with which the disarmament size of the objects of attack, but and thus end the game in a draw, pi "Kress can be achieved.
clauses of the Versailles treaty also because of the immense thick often overcomes the finer and have been especially drastic-Bo ness of the avalls and ceilings manlier Instincts in him. drastic, indeed, that her national which are made of reinforced con-. security has been most seriously crete. jeopardised thereby.
WHAT IS NEEDED
The Versailles treaty compelled Germany to destroy all fortifica tions whatever their nature might be in the demilitarized zone and ts dismantle overy
defences are far better out from 100 to 225 feet below the
Fortunately the Influence of Mr. J. H. Hunt has, so far, been great enough to prevent the Introduction of Ludo or marbles Into the Y.M.C.A., but this is not sufficient.
the Y.M.C.A. Is to Bourish, its This is an age of sport, but, If sport must be kept clean.
or
The police got us out somehow.
WELCOME
had some job keeping things go- Mr. Tratman and us, we have
ing in the Colony since Sir Thomas
Colonial Sec. wasn't sea-see on tho
What is needed in an effective
In order to meet any local in agreement, and that agreement
cursion of the enemy, powerful must bring into its circle all the
defensive works were built to sup great Powers. Otherwise Europe
plement the system of casemates. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1980,
will be in danger of splitting up
The batteries installed there do- into camps, and the old system of a balance of power will return. throughout the country with the ing ground. In addition to them. fortress minate the whole of the interven. Whatever momentary passions may exeaption of Konigsberg and a few a number of special fortresses JAPAN'S TARIFF.
be aroused, ono thing is certain coastal fortifications. Practically, the socalled "ensembles" have that the problems of foreign policy the realisation of these demands been erected in important strate- For instance, can the Y.M.G.A., POLICY
must be solved. The method is of has made Germany an absolutely gle positions on elevated ground, deny that one of the greatest secondary importance. It is The Tokyo Government's in- still less importance whether the tincations which she is still per control of every natural feature game of chess, has been freely undefended country. The few for-so as to give the defender absolute social evils in the Colony-the tention to impose high dis-method is formalized or not,
mitted to have merely serve to that might be used by the aggresadopted by its members? criminatory tariffs against coun.
underline her defencelessness, sor for the purpose of effecting an What will Bishop Hall say when tries having no trade relations BERLIN'S FEAR
From a strategical point of view, incursion. They are equipped | he hears that, in the Y.M.C.A. of with Japan.
her frontiera are as unfavourable with those long-distance guns all places, Bishops are allowed to 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? bringing undue pressure on fear that Europe constitutes a bloc Alps in the south and the sea in fire far into German territory, Sudistic and debased members Japanese merchandise, is in-opposed to Germany. It is not. the north, there is not a single thus dominating important traffic have oven been known to sneak of course, a fact. Italy has clear- natural feature that affords any centres on and even beyond the Into a quiet corner, surreptitious- teresting at a moment whenly 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 patty vice over the flooding of the world's Great Britain, though friendly to to destroy almost every shred of by an ingenious system of barbed in the glorious Institution by play- markets with Japanese products,
France, fs deeply desirous of co- her system of defences, France wire entanglements from 60 to 100 ing draughts. operating with Germany. Nor decided to rebuild and to modernise foot deep and over. 4 feet high. The move cannot be directed does France wish to be left tete er fortifications along her castern Steep slopes. ditches, concrete velgled Into a game of snakes and Wo remember once being, on- against Britain, inasmuch as the a-tete with Germany. It wants Frontier. This gigantic achemo walls, iron fences and mines are ladders, Lis, we have always been tariff 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- 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 hazards, and it was our first ex-
Britain and Italy in the conversa- the expenditure involved amoun- underground passages connecting manliko games 18 poker arrangement. Were the Anglo- And there is need of inter-franca. It should be borne in with every other and with the Japanese Trade Argeement to be mediaries. In the delicate negoti. mind, in this connection, that her country at the rear has been laid perience of the lower type.
We throw the dice, which sent denounced, the situation, of many participants are undesirable: than those of any other. Continen- surface. All the latest technical us into a flat spin down a ser
atlone which are now ahead too natural course, would undergo a change, but it would be equally undesirable tal-country. Apart from her ex-inventions, portable railways, hau- pent, and Japan would be perfectly to convert the negotiations into a
tensive seacoast, she is protected |ling plants, lifts, etc., form part "Adder Boy!" we bellowed, go- free to impose discriminatory word duel between France and by the mountain ranges of the of the outfit of this undergrounding somewhat berserk.
Germany,
Pyrenees, the Alps and the Jura, shelter. The rest rooms for the tariffs against British goods.
and-as far as the German section troops are provided with every There is, however, no indication
of her frontier Is concerned-by comfort. Fresh alr is pumped in at the moment that Britain de- „O.K.?
the towfold barrier of the Upper from outside. All the installa- sires abrogation of the existing
Rhine and the Vosges Mountains. tions are operated by electricity. Great Britain has recently been Thus, there only remains a section The entering of poison gas is mado treaties. The British Govern- wrestling with one of those mighty some 140 miles long which being impossible by working the ma- ment's attitude is that, in the problems that nations, in the pride devold of naturally defensive fea-chinery at excess pressure. 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 went home on leave. And now It should be remembered that Southorn, the Colonial Secretary, working arrangement should Several readers of the London the domain of fortifications. But connects with similar works in that he's back, we hope that the first be made by the industri- Observer have been discussing the even the section of the Upper Belgium and that the Metz- 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 piece of linguistic researched by means of a double line of dun lines-which have by perfectly plain that, if circum- has been precipitated by a state- casemates, armoured towers and means lost their importance yet- stances warrant it, Britain will famous Oxford Dictionary traces minates without any gap the river
ment that the Supplement to the concrete blockhouses, which do- cover It in. the not hesitate to abrogate the the use of O.K. back to 1840 in a
(Continued on Page 5.) 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 thor- sary to denounce the treaty, the pughness; it is merely a more or whole subject will be considered less inevitable corollary of the fact
different point of
that the Supplement has not yet been issued. 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 Ballade, is said to refer Government's counter-proposals to use of the phrase by Gen. made at the Simla çonferenco in Andrew Jackson in 1835; another regard to Japanese cotton im- authority ascribes it to Jackson ports into India, although the seven years earlier; wille R. H. Japanese manufacturers and Thornton's "American Glossary" traders do not feel inclined to gives 1790 as the primary date. A agree thereto. The presumption more circumstantially, erudite is, however, that the Govern-scholar says that O.K, was learned
by ment's viewpoint will prevail. taha, who brought it back from Jackson from General Pushma- If so, there can surely be some among the Choctaw Indians. A hope of Britain and Japan fifth correspondent, by a mingled reaching 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- contonds, often say "Och aya". ports. On this basis, thera (phonetically "ok ) Instead of should be no insurmountable told that Scots have been known "yes." Ho has, moreover, been obstacle in the way of an Anglo-to emigrate to America. If this la Japanese understanding aimed at so, what could be more probable removing the existing causes than the Americans have borrowed of friction. But one vital the phrase from them? If the matter that must be dis- "Och ayo" theory ho accepted, it posed of--and this is a question seams to give all previous inter- for Governments, not industri protationa ភ reverse; though alists-is the pernicious and at whether to the extent of adminis- together reprehensible practice doubted. At any rate, whatever tering the KO. may perhaps be of the imitation of British trade the decision of the lexicographers marks by Japanese manufac- may be, it probably will be 0.K. turers.'
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LITTLE WOOGY
A TRUE NATURE STORY
Little Woogy ant gazing moodily into the sky, watching a Pooh-Bah bird flying around in ever-decreas- ing circles, uttering its melancholy ery of "Pooh-Bah-h-h, Pooh-Bah- h-b," and finally disappearing Into the gloomy pine-forest.
white
Little Woogy was beaver, and lived away in the Great Frozen North where Ico and Snow 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 bocamo 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 seats as they wont. dip-flop across the ice.
One day, after crossing an In- terminable snowfleld, Little Woogy came across a MAN caught in a bear-trap, and, bewailing his mis- fortune. "Bear, up! I will set you free," Little Woogy's brown eyes Boomed to say, and the man' understood, for ho ceased to swear. Then Little Woogy gnawed through the steel trap until at last. the man shouted, "Woogy, I um froo!" for ho had guessed the name of our little hero,
Then out of gratitude, Alaskan: Armand, the Terrible Trappor, för: It was none other, skinned" poor Little Woogy, and not very long after poor. Little Woogy died from bitterness and exposure.XX
What'a monator In MAN, little children14 JĀ,
THE END.