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29, 1931.
FRANCE'S WAITING GAME IN CHINA
The Very Idea!
OURSELVES & OTHERS
By George
IN response to the numer- emel caravan over mountain ous telephone enquiries trails. Instead of three days, they as to our absence from the require from four to eight veoko, dancing competition held
Here is at least one reason why
Signs of incrensing American interent in the Disarmament Con-
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ference fre unmistakable. Mr. Norman Davis is expected to make DEIPING, April 10,-France, with The alternative routes are by an important statement which, the world's greatest colonial It does not commit the United empire next to Great Britain's, has Staten further, will at least bring her eyes on a slice of China as bis her back to the point from which R3 the 13 original American she withdrew twelve months ago. colonies. In addition, close Anglo-American Imperturbably, the French are co-operation in the handling of the watching every move made on the conversations preliminary to next Asiatic chessboard by Japan, the year's naval conference is en: United States, Britain, Russia, and Adently predicted. There still
even China, In Central Asia and Bound hope for the immediate elsewhere, so that no possible turn future if the reorientation of of the delicately-pplagd balance America's foreign policy is an will catch her napping.
earnest of real appreciation of the it China blows up, or is torn
gravity of events in the internsundor by the ever-increasing national field and of President pressure from without, France Roosevelt's readiness to contribute will be on hand for her share of liberally towards a solution
the apolla.
ANGLO-AMERICAN UNITY
France objected to a British rail- last week, we have to thank way into Xunnun from Mandalay our friends for their interest and the Indian ocean, Econom- and to remind them that at ically and militarily, she controls this stage in the month we the province as matters stand.
No arms or munitions can get in cannot afford to enter any save by France's leave, and in all competition where the re- matters of ordinary trade she has the inside track on the rest of the sult is arrived at by public
world.
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Ta
vote.
Had we been able to bring our us. PLANE SALE HITS SNĄG. shroff friends and other para- Her sphere of influence or zons Some time ago the war lord of sites along we might have been.
Yunnan wanted to buy some air-induced to shake a hoof with of special interest is the territory planes. An enterprising American the best of them, despite the of Yunnan and Kwangsi On French Indo-China's northern sold him four. When these reach frontier, the Lulchow peninsula ed Halphong, the French refused and the Island of Hainan at the to let them in, peninsula's point.
They classed them as war sup- plies, which, rightly enough, are barred.
After considerable difficulty and
And the prospects are good. For the effect of Japan's recent hegemony pronouncement has been the to
bring Great Britain and United States considerably closer in their Far Eastern policies, IN LINE FOR GREAT POWER. Anglo-American sunity in the Given the laland and the penin-loss of time, during which Wash- Far East was a principal factor in sula, the Gulf of Tonkin, which ington and Paris exchanged frustrating effective international she already dominates, would be series of cables, the American fin- action to prevent the dismember-as French as Long Island Sound in ally got his planes through, ment of Manchuria, and Anglo-American. American disunity in the Far East And France strategically would has continued to complicate and occupy a position in the Far East embarraan relations between the second to none save Japan. two halves of the English-speaking world. Unqualified, unquestioned and unchallenged Japanese hegem ony over Chin is no grave if not
a graver concern to Great Britain
from breakage.
unattractiveness of the prizes.
What we should have liked to have seen as prizes were a free chit account for a month at the Hong- kong Hotel for the men and free access to the ice cream at the Gloucester for the ladies. As a accond prize gralls training for the profession of glass blowing or instruction in the rudiments of dancing.
And the war lord was very picased with them. But he had learned his lesson. His next or
SLEEP, UNTROUBLED BREAST. der for planes was placed in Yunnan is the second largest of
France.
Dear Juryman (Alexandra Build- the 18 provinces of China proper.
Foreigners complain that thairing)-1 can understand you fall. in aren it is almost 150,000 square shipments take weeks or months to ing to sleep during the hearing of miles. Kwangai is nearly as large, reach their destination in Yunnan, a long case but there are several
With Hainan and the neighbour- than it is to the United States. ing peninsula-on which France and they suffer considerable loss expedients you should try before
the leased territory Neither country will willingly ae-controls cept the supervision of its political Kwangelmu-wan-the total arca and commercial relations with amounts to approximately 350,000 China by the Japanese Foreign square miles. Office. Neither country, wishes to supervise Japan's relations with China. Both seek to maintain the present balance in the Far East through a collective peace super- vised by the collective application the Nine Power Pacific Treaty guaranteeing, as it does, the politi- cal, territorial and administrative Rovereignty of China.
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FRANCE BIDES HER TIME.
On the other hand, they observe, French shipments somehow enjoy much better luck, arriving in a few days in good condition.
you let snoring interfere with your snooze. You might arrange with the juryman next to you to take turns in sleeping so that you can each hear part of the ease and fix things up afterwards. You might also wait for the Assistant FREIGHT RATES JUGGLED,
Attorney General's summing up. France is not at all excited over
Freight rates, too, they say, when you may
to your Japan's encroachments in the seem subject to sudden change on heart's content. It is a pity that north. She appears but mildly in-the French railway. True or not, the banches are so uncomfortable terested in what the British are it is remarked that when some but I am afraid it is the old story doing in the "God Land" of Tibet, particularly close bidding is going of the public's comfort considered
of the other or the manoeuvres
on, the rates seem to drop when last. powers in the hell-hole of Chinese French materials are due to go up into Yunnan, then bound back
Turkestan.
staked out.
↑
snare
widespread fear that no major a new Anglo-American unity is in ing Yunnan on the west, was once China, she stands close to the bat/collecting reduces the gure but
ROOSEVELT LIMITATIONS
ກ warning. The project dropped..
Was
JEALOUSLY BARS PARTITION.
war.
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RING CLOSES ON CHINA...”
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THE TASK BEFORE GENEVA To-day there opens in Geneva what can certainly he described as the most fateful session of the General Commission of the Disarmament Conference ever
If there is to be a new scramble again in time to catch competitors.
FAT HENRIETTA. held. The result of its delibera- | CRITICAL MOMENT
for "concessions”at the expense of One always hears such stories China, France has her bit already when conditions are what they are Tong)-I certainly feel that you Dear Henrietta, (Kowloon tions will have a profound effect on the peace of the world. Un- Unity in the Far East between There is a tacit understanding at Haiphong. But the fact re- should take some exercise if you happily, the Conference meets Great Britain and the United between the French rooster and mains that France gets more under the shadow cast by the States seems essential to the at the British lion in southern and business than all the other nations really have put on aovon pounds in
tainment of such a peace, and if Western China.
Burma, border combined, whereas, in the rest of seven days. As you say stamp seems to touch your pocket money agreement on the limitation of the making, as it appears, Japan part of China. Now it is British, tom of the list.
ore than anything else. I should arms is likely. Whether con-
Yunnan is very mountainous advise you to take up billarda or wiil have helped to bring these two just as Indo-China is French. countries together at a critical mit
But sheanooker while you are still able to templation of the grave conse-cou
But some time ago, when the and extremely poor. quences of possible failure will profitable moment for themselves lion proposed to extend his rall raises the best apfum in China, bend over n table. I can under- have a sobering effect on the and for the entire world. In road--which runs across Burma, which is always in great demand. stand your not being able to touch points of execution, the foreign via Mandalay, to the Yannan bor- The drug is by far her principal your toes but have you tried with various delegates, causing them policy of the present Administra-der-on into China to connect expert. On the other hand, she a walking stick or something like at the eleventh hour to explore tion differs appreciably from Its with the head of navigation on the imports rice. Her best land is that? Anyway you can always every possible avenue in order to prediccesaur. Unlike Mr. Stimson, Yangtze river, the rooster crowed turned over to the poppy. exercise by touching the ceiling avert such a catastrophe, will Mr. Cordell Hull has not allowed
which is just as good and easier in your caso. soon be sceu... Meanwhile, it is the United States to become the to be hoped that, if nothing else spearhead of protest ainst the is achieved, some definite step
latest chapter in Japan's Aviatic
Kwangsi, the province cast of conquent. Washington will, like
Yunnan, has not yet felt France's LESSON IN JOURNALISM. will be taken along the lines of London, await developments. The This does not mean, of course, influence to any great extent. the Russian plan for collabora- President supports the
The layman usually believes non that Chine ia already purcelled France has no railway there. She tion in the definition of an recognition doctrine, enunciated by out. Far from it. International does have a line from Hanoi, how that a sub-editor le "next to the aggressor, with sanctions President Hoover and Mr. Stimson, rivalry over which great power ever, as far as the Kwangsl bor-editor." against the guilty party. The but is not prepared to press it be would got what piece of China, and der, und a concession for a rail- Misguided pupils who wish to Russian attitude on this pointyond what the American Govern why, still remains China's chief road connecting the head of the become sub-editors should realise has always been marked by a backing of the rest of the world.
ment can enforce, without the
Aalvation,
Gulf of Tonkin with Yunnan-fu. that this is so far from the truth Except Japan, no other nation, Su, beginning with Korea and (ke all popular beliefs) that keen perception of the danger
for the moment, is willing to risk Manchuria, and continuing in editora are often unaware of the arising from the fact that there
Mostly they are just watch-stupendous semi-circle through names belonging to the "spate" is at present no universally
ing and waiting.
Mongolia, Sinkiang, Tibet, Yun-
or "clutch" of almost hairless men acknowledged definition of ag-
France controls Yunnan by con- nan, and Kwangsl, the great who sit closely packed round the gression. This is well demon-
The tendency of the Roosevelt trolling the gateway. The one powers are pressing in on China, aubs' table "spiking," or throwing strated by the reservations at- Government to keep its internation. practicable portal is via Halphong, closer and closer.
away, "scoops." tached to the Kellogg Pact. In ideas well within its capacity to French Indo-China port, on the l effect, these reservations amount execute them and within what it Gulf of Tonkin, thence by railroad and without much hope of help to a claim by certain States for believes in the willingness of the to Yunnan-fu, the provincial cap-from tottering peace machinery, freedom of action, in
then certain American
fall to effect the Cases and in certain parts of the also, can tell to support world, Pact or no Pact. The search to And disarmament in mischief is, in this connection, ro
Europe. The Administration is lena expansive about that given circumstances may be
commitments than its used as justification for aggres- and the United States has, sion. A prime necessity, there- refrained from playing any active fore, is the defining of war and role in a world-wide system for aggression by the drawing of the collective enforcement definite distinctions between peace. In the meantime, difèult aggression and defence. Russia and explosive problems remain has put forward very specific the seeds of certain conflict if left unhealed in Europe. They contain submissions on these points and to the cultivation of selfishness and has, in fact, already embodied stupidity. In their political a them in certain non-aggression pects it is believed that Mr. Nor- pacts. In the course of an all-man Davis will explain new form embracing instrument, an ag-of neutrality, to be achieved gressar is defined by the Russian through an embargo which would plan as the first country in an aba
abandon trade with all belli- international conflict which de-
gerents. It is the conviction of clares war, invades the territory many in Washington that such a policy, particularly if supported by of war, bombards another's would dlacourage nancial
war by with! territory, attacks the naval or drawing
and air forces of another State, or
commercial support, or circums establishes a naval blockade of Until collective action to restrain cribe its ring of destruction. the coast or ports of another an aggressor becomes a possibility, country. What is more, it is Washington offers this alternative. laid down that no considerations American reaction to the Litvinoff whatever of a political or econ- scheme should be interesting. omic nature, including the desire to exploit natural riches or to obtain advantages or privileges
A collo ativo
now,
of
of another without a declaration parallel action by Great Britain,
rerely respected, would be of the on the territory of another utmost value in the preservation State, or no references to capital of ponce. Coupled with an un- investments or other special dertaking of joint action against Interesta in a given State, shall an aggressor, as defined, it be accepted a justification of should immensely reduce the aggression as defined above. danger of war and soon put a Here, then, is a clear-cut defini-stay to essive action onco
"Adopted and Bin- begun.
דיה
itul.
Paralyzed by her own impotance,
her horizon is dark indeed.
It has been said that sub-editors aro the lowest form of life with the exception of the onc-oyed newt, though this is possibly an exaggeration. They sleep in the daytime, herd together for pro- tection and live mainly on cold ten and stalo sandwiches thrown to them by office boys at feeding time.
Their dulles are to write head- Ines and put sparkle and "human touches into the news. This is achieved by using phrases like "Dame Fashion," "Miss 1934," "Eve." "The Modern
Girl
The
Kiddies," "Tiny Tots," "Clerk of the Weather," "Happy Holiday Crowds," "Suprise Move, "Bombshell," and "Women up in Arms."
They are mammals and their chief enemies are reporters.
The reporter though to the out-- alde appearance a bright and nor- mal Ind is often imbued with the Bamo germ from which the sub- editor springe, oozes, or crawls ao that much which could be said of him Is reserved for further. cogitation.
On the whole reportors are the best of the bunch, being nice, clean, upstanding Inds with a fine distaste for drink, swearing, and work.
Most of them are following father's footsteps though their fint, fect are derived from waiting on taipans offices, treading on taipans toos accidentally, and
ambition.