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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY HONGKONG IMPOSSIBLE The Very Idea!
GERMANY AND TREATY
REVISION
·COMING NAVAL CONFERENCE
TO DEFEND
By WILLIS J. ABBOT
LOOKING AT LIFE
By George
THE "Soandso" tourist Tliner has left the
With Herr Hitler apparently firma in the saddle, treaty revision is
W 7HAT obstacles are chief- once, something might not be done undoubtedly a live Jasuo,. though
to give Japan assurance that the the prospect must be viewed with
ly visioned as likely to United States will appear as her mixed feelings. Few people now prevent any naval reduction friend.
Colony leaving a consider- regard the Versailles Treaty as in the conference scheduled
n
For years Japan has chafed able amount of money in the sacrosanct arrangement. Yot oven those who wish to see justice done for 1935? Those who op- Exclusion Act which denies to her locks but bearing with them
under the implied stigma, of the possession of our local Shy may well regard the present un- settled period as a bad time for pose, or are hopeless of such nationals the same right undertaking s delicate task which
possessed by Europeans evenjat least one happy and con- a reduction cite these con-citizens of such backward states as requires cnim tempers and
tented passenger, judicial outlook. Some of the siderations as likely to inter-certain of the Balkan communities.
A large, florid man, he had to Against the right of the United Facts are pretty obvious. Profes
States to regulate, or to prohibit, take a berth in the middle of sor Murray has pointed out that of
immigration the Japanese make no the 440 articles of the Treaty,
the ship to ensuro an oven keel.. 1. The reported determination re
19 is that they should be classed
a
fere:
is
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Į some 400 ure reasonable and many of Japan to demand the abolition rest. What offends them deep-Nothing is said about the.
the of the 6-6-3 ratio of naval strength with the virtually savage tribes of absence of a port hole but it is the modern fixed by the Washington conference felt by all the Japanese people, and luxury liner provides for every
Australasia. The affront is bitterly understood that for the United States, Great Britain materially strengthens the hands contingency. and Japan, and her insistence on parity.
of them excellent. The Treaty was given Dad
start
owing to atmosphere of hate at the Peare Conference. Many of the most harsh provisions have in practice broken down or have proved un- workable. After continuous seni ing down procesacs, reparationa were at the Lausnine Conference of 1932 virtually wiped out for ever. And so the story could be continued.
GRUDGING CONCESSIONS
2. The likelihood of war in the Far East with the collateral need for a large United States navy to defend trade if America is neutral, or to fight battles if she becomes
învolved.
3. The possibility of a general European war with the seeming certainty that both Great Britain and
States might
the United become involved, not necessarily as allies.
of the militarists who argue that only by building up a huge navy can Japan compel that respect from granted her as a right, other powers which should be
If the Exclusion Act could be re-
perles and Japanese immigration be put upon a quota before the time for the naval conference ono strong argument employed by the big-navy men of that country would be quieted. If netun legis Intion could not be accomplished by that time a gesture by the President, accompanied by quiet assurances to Japan, would go for toward starting off the confer- ence in a spirit of amity.
"Say. Buddy," said the human ballaut, "I've achieved, a life's ambition. I allus said I wanted to sea Hongkong. Now can go home and die."
"Why go home?" we suggested
with the best of Intentions. seen the place. Anyway I'm Bond- "I gotta go home to tell'em I've ing these pictures of the Peak in case I cash my checks vacxpected
liko."
"They would probably be re fused," we said comfortingly und handed him some other pictures of the old city,
"Maybe I missed something," bo aald, and added "But maybo there's still time."
We left the Complete Cargo heading North and breathed a plous prayer after hint. Only an oath would have caught him up and anyway the prayer was going the wrong way,
"From the effect upon German policy, the pity is that these con- cessions were all made so grude- ingly. There atill remain the ques tions of war guilt, the German colonics, a possible territorial rear- rangement, and equality of status. The stigma of the first is taken by the Germans very seriously Consideration of these reasons indeed. Several ways have been for the maintenance of a large navy Predetermination-of these two suggested of settling the second, į anturally suggests these reflections: issues parity for Japan and re- MARRIAGE.
such as giving Germany a man-
peat of the Exclunion Act-would date. With regard to frontiers, If Japan's ambition for parityerente a spirit of harmony and CLIBBORN-CHITTENDEN.-At the
the post-War map of Europe has with the other chief naval powers mutual forbearance. The great Registry Office, Hongkong, on
much to commend it, and probably is, if opposed, to burden us with issue which will then confront the April ith.
1134, Erle Noel only minor changes would have to ever Increasing naval costs, why delegates will be the question of Clilborn
Guly Beatrice bo made, to ensure justice. Herr not acquiesce in it? There is no the assertion and the protection Chittenden,
Hitler himself has auid that the particular reason why we should of neutral rights in the event of Saur Valley in the only problem of deny Japan this dignity provided it war, whether the conflict origin the kind which needs to be settled can be granted without either ates in the Far East or in Europe. with France. but equality of danger to us or material incrense status is a much more diffeait in our expenditures for defence. nair.
Germany blames the Lea- It might as well be borne in mind
Let it be kept clearly in mind, charming, so sweet, so gue of Nations for her inferior that geographical considerations that a conference implies a will think?" she queried. status more than deserves. The would make a war between Japan ingness to make conccasions, and and the United States or Japan that nothing can come of it unless and Britain na futile nx a duel every participant is ready to sur-
The
Hongkong Telegraphi
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934.
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We continued our promenade over the ship. We met Mrs. Theo. T. Gittaway of the Uplift Society for Fallen Women,
до
"Hongkong is so, how shall I
God begotten. Don't you
She means 'God forgotten', wa thought, but it would have been
vision of the relevant parts of the with bowie knives at forty paces.render some portion of its admit. I rash to start a compétition in ad-
Pence Treaty but faithful obser-
vance.
SUGAR BOUNTY
It would make little difference ifted rights in order to one duellst had a knife six inches harmonious action. longer than that of his adversary. No conceivable navy could be con- structed which would enable any nation to meet Japan victoriously in Asiatic waters.
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"How do you find things here?". continued Mrs. Gittaway.
WO-
"We don't. We have to work. for 'em," we sniggered.
"Oh, of course. Dear me!" she eniggered back. "You know what
Life, conditions, I mean. men'...'
Wo didn't like to make the same reply so we handed her a copy of the Chamber of Commerce Report for last year and asked her to join.
TARIFF-MAKING POWERS
The only way in which the Far-reaching as it would be
United States is likely to become The appointment of a Committee
embroiled in a foreign war is by in its effect, the proposal that to investigato the sugar subsidy
Insistence upon its right as a the President of the United problem in Britain has not come
neutral to trade with both belli States should in future be cm-pledge was given by Government a moment too soon, A definite
gerents. In the World War it was Why not then enter the naval German attacks upon American powered to negotiate tariff rates
nearly two years ago that an in- reluction conference with a frank trading ships that ultimately drew has aroused considerable con- quiry would be held into the whole proposition to grant parity to her in, and there are those who troversy in Americu. Tariffs, in then, millions have been poured parity be attained, not by building navy,
question of the subsidy, and, since Japan, upon the condition that feel that had US, had a larger theory, ought to be devised on away, a
the British Interferenco "Do you think Hongkong has further £460,000 being up to the present authorised treaty with U. S. commerce might have em- any chance of uplift?" she ask- broad lines of national interest, voted three weeks ago to add to strength, but by a reduction on the broiled U.S. with England in the ed turning up her pale carnest but actual practice in America
the
enurmous total of £40,000,000 part of the United States and second year of the war. So it
eyes at us in n fashion hideous to все. has shown that they seldom are. industry
spent in support of the beet sugar Great Britain to meet a moderate Japan and Russia went to war
since the War.
Sir Increase in the Japanese strength? and America insisted on continu- "Well, short of an explosion at Almost invariably when sanction Herbert Samuel replied wittily
ing to trade with Russin, captura Stonecutters Island.
But when Mr. Waller Elliot claimed is sought either to raise a tariff that the additional amount was U.S. more than to Great Britain Japan would probably involve U.S. for
The suggestion might appent to of American merchant ships by why don't you go ashore and ses or lower it, the proceedings innecessary because of the bounty of since the British outposts in Asia in the struggle. How is this on There is a great field for active yourself, Mrs. Giltaway? Congress degenerate into a great Nature, declaring that it was also Hongkong especially-would be tingency to be averted?
workers in your special avocation," trading game, with a welter of due to the nature of the bounty: the immediate objects of Japanese
we continued warming to our The peculiarity of the sugar attack in time of war. But British
If the Powers renounco the thenic. "And, with God's grace local interests usually deciding bounty hitherto has been that naval opinion long ago dismissed right to unlimited trade with bel- and a good bit of luck, you have the issue. Regrettable though when more sugar has been produced Hongkong as utterly impossible ofligerente neither Great Britain nor
in Britain, the more the taxpayer defence against the Japanese navy! any other naval power will need work of redeeming from their In- a chance of entering upon the this is, it is understandable, has had to pay. There Is clear
an enlarged navy to keep that since the individual Congress-need for reorganisation.
After every conference for the trade within proper bounds.
Γαπιους slavery the countless thousands of oppressed women man is often put under terrific
who now le with little hope of pressure and quite naturally A STEP TOWARD PEACE
salvation-and that of the wrong seeks to do what he can for his
kind—for want of a leader”, Passage by the US Senate of
"Their cause is our caune," we own constituents. The result is the bill which would give
the
continued getting hotter and hotter, that there often emerges a Tariff President power to declare
"We must get together-not us Bill which is seldom logical or from the United States to warring embargo on the shipment of arms
birds of a feather, Mrs. Gittaway. national, but which represents nations leads one to wonder just
Oh, no. But as the Knights of old —-no, Mrs. Gittaway, not the the blending of innumerable what world history might have sider whether, prior to the confer
nights of old but those Knights so forces, a composite of a vast in force in 1914. It goes without been like if such a law had been
bold that crossed the sens risking death and seasickness in a pure number of local issues. The saying that the story of World War
cause. And for what ond, Mrs. suggestion now put forward would have been vastly different if
Geetaway? For what end?... -* would, very largely, remove all no munitions of war had been shipped overseas by American this from the hands of Congress. manufacturers. One is justified The President would be em-in feeling that the United States powered to
even might have been able to keep negotiate tariff out of the condict altogether. agreements, with individual na- This gives an idea of the potential |tions, and to raise or lower tariff value of this law. The way stay out of war, evidently, in rates by as much as 50 per cent. have nothing whatever to do with in the course of such negotin-it. From being involved commer- cially to being involved with feuts and armies is not a very long step. TROUBLE IN UNIFORM
au
tu to
tions. He could not take article of the free list or put one on it, and his power would he limited to a three-year term. This, clearly, is a proposal of considering action to disband all The British Government is still far-reaching proportions. It uniformed political bodies, such would alter completely the tradi- | as
the Fascist black shirts tional method of setting tariff organised by Sir Oswald Mosley, rates, taking this most import with these organisations to the England has not been plagued aut function of government out extent that continental countrica of the hand of Congress and have been; nevertheless, Britain vesting it in ono man. The is beginning to have difficulties question is whether the advant-with them, and during the last ages would outweigh the defects. lx months of 193% no fewer than It would give America a chance 22 disturbances in which to get something resembling a
wearing political uniforms were scientific tariff and it would end general thing, it can be said that involved wete reported. As a one of Washington's greatest when political parties take to log-rolling games. On the other hand, it would give the President semi-milltary bodien, dressed
their young men into enormous now powers and-to all distinctive uniforms, thero 18 intents and purposes-take from trouble ahead. These bodies are the representatives of the people not designed for use in harmless one of their most Important parades; they are organised for functions. America is being fighting, if their directors think it called upon to do a nice bit of flats, with clubs, or with guns. necessary fighting with thefr weighing of comparative ad- Thero Is Ittle place for them in vantages.
a democracy,
זויות
In
limitation of arms or for economic understandings which has ended in Against every propostion to failure the cry has gone, up that smooth the way for a successful failure was due to the lack of pre- naval conference nationalism and liminary spade work. The Itoo-militariam will find some argu- sevelt Administration might well ment. But it must be kept clearly be forewarned this time. Japan's in mind that only by mutual sacri most seriously in the path to com needs, real or fancied, seem to stand Aces in which all must share can plete agreement. Let U.S.
the goal of international agree con-ment he reached and a naval race with its menace of war bo averted.
"You never think of buckwhen t cakes until we come to some place like this.".
A sob from the anguished lady broke our discourse and burnt the necklace which she carried round her neck.
"Oh dear. I feel an wicked,” aise sobbed and gave another con- vulsion which stapped her shoe laces and caused the lighting sys- tem to short circuit.
We picked up her odds and ends and tied her up as well as we could, muttering profuse apologies for our moving enthusiasm,
The steward looked at us s08- piciously as we ordered ton and cakes. It was our best chance of |getting a witness but we wished wo had not been so thoughtful when he closed the door carefully behind us.
There was a cautious, knock a few minutes later which increased our anxiety.
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The old lady was still looking she had come off second best
in a fight and we handed her a large doughnut which Providence In the shape of the Stoward had kindly provided.
It was the best way we could think of to hide her face..
Thank heavens it was only her nephew. He looked as if he had mlased three nights aloep and Mrs. Gittaway forgot her fallen women in nuntish solicitude.
"I've had the tooth-ache, Aust tlo," we heard him say 8 we snooped quietly away.
We breathed our second prayer of the day,
When you have been in the East. as long as us you find you can 1000 sloop lots of ways.
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