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NOTES OF THE DAY
INDIÁN REFORMS
The wisdom in Britain's enden- vour to satisfy India's aspirations for liberty to direct its own affairs is shown in a presidential address delivered by Mr. Richard Bond at 'n recent meeting of the Chamber of
་ more harm than good.
NO BRITISH CONTROL
A
THI
OCTOBER 9, 1934.
THE PROSPECTS OF WORLD PEACE
By THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN
cruda test of violence.
An-permanent
(in the Christian Science Monitor.)
the
It is to
The Very Idea!
A CAPITAL IDEA
W
By George
ITE don't know why there is such a fuss about the people of Czecho- doing business. Slovakia without money,
We may say that we have carried on in this way for years and years and what is more it looks as if we shall continue to
do
so.
And they say they are going to
run business at Gabionz, the centre
money. It's a capital idea but we can see through it.
of the glass industry without any
If you want to build a wattle hut
our
in
Commerce at Manchester. Man- [HERE is no certain way of What, he naked, in a world war? chester is the headquarters of the
asspring peace on any costin- Any war, he replied, in which whole Grout Britain is involved. Why? Lancashire cotton industry on which half-n-million English workers de-ent or in the world ne pend for livelihood. Its chamber of except by creating some kind of Because Great Britain's principal commerce represents the Lanca-continental or world federation. weapon is sen power, and the use Ahire mills. Indin is the chlef Attempts to unite by dictatorship of her power inevitably provokes have always ultimately failed, the crisis over "the freedom of the IF you're a big car motorist-world market for the goods which these mills produce. For Man-
ultimate to the tension over the "Trent" if you enjoy the feel of a cheater the question is whether its Until federation is accomplished scas" which led to the War of 1812, powerful engine purring under interests would be best served by war will remain as
or the ravустве in the legislative Instrument in the inter-affair in the American Civil War, the bonnet--if you like the liberality luxury of a big, roomy saloon measure of autonomy that India is national sphere, because separate and which compelled the United
At £325 this to receive at British hands. new 27 h.p. Vauxhall Big Six is demand is still being strongly nations, like separate individuals, States in the last war either to remarkable value-for-money. it pressed for inclusion in the proposed have so little sense of the collective flight Great Britain for the freedom
new constitution for India of good that they fail to modify of her own trade or to go to war for n second Cunarder you just for vouchera which you hand to the is an all-feature car, with entirely restrictions upon Indian control treaties or frontiers or agreements for the freedon of the world. And mortgage your land in exchange
chassis lubrication,
of tariffs. On the other hand the voluntarily and in time, and the what is true of the United States contractor. The poor sap then gets controlled
ignition, view is widely held that insistence
attempt by the United States to and roar. Synchro-Mesh easy gear change, upon sach restrictions would do conflict in finally settled by the is true of Great Britain. Any on with the job and you lie back It won't work here and its Pedomatic starting, self-return- and
The Disarmament Conference is use its sea power to interrupt our indicators direction Ing
the fact that they have got used to falling because, for the moment, trade would produce a grave crisia popularity in CS is only due to
with ourselves. the
being without money but would nppreciate a new game, The Lanenshire restrictionists there is no agreement about
of basis
European
shroff come When first prevalled Their
apeace, and the nations of Europe What is the way of dealing with at fluence found expression in
Anglo-American yesterday with a three figure memorandum which the Manches-are testing their relative strength, this ever-lalent
bill we wrote him out a little ter Chamber of Commerce sub-
make the problem? It will recover when agreement has
note giving him our share of the mitted last year to a committee of
new Hongkong and Shanghal both houses of the British Parlia been reached about these political Kellogg Pact the primary item in
Bank site. ment engaged
In shaping the issues, but not before. My funda-their Individual policy, so that war breaks out or Indian reforms. Eventually the mental conclusion is that the only whenever memorandum was revised and its way of avolding a complete break threatens anywhere, their first act
control of demand for British
down of the Lengue system, the will be to consult together and with India's tariffs
After a while the shroff went WAR struck out. Mr. Bond has now come forward only way forward, toward a really other neutral signatories as
modification effective collective system, the only what they can do to bring about a away taking our chita and bond in support of this His argument is the wise one that way of avoiding a return to the pacific settlement or, if they cannot with him.
handed us a neatly written docu- Lancashire ought net-by making crude pre-war anarchy, is to prevent the war, to isolate it and toment giving us the top half of the demands which Indian public separate the European regional protect their rights when it breaks Gloucester Building for our bit of opinion would not endorse-risk security system from the world out, and above all prevent it lead sacrificing advantages it has gain- ed in the Indian market by system, and that Great Britain ing to a war between themselves. policy of good will. "In the long should form part, primarily, of the So long as the United States run," Mr. Bond said, "we shall world system.
Great Britain and the non-belliger- not succeed without sympathy for
ents act together under the Kellogg the local people."
Assuming the successful crea-Pact, and still more if they acted tion of European regionul under the Covenant, they will have security system, what prospect in Immense influênce, and if necessary Mr. Band was supported in this there of creating a world system immense power, for peace and for to cancel his licence," remarked
The bringing about reasonable settle- the Kowloon Magistrale yester-attitude by Mr. Frank Longworth, which is really effective?.
of Blackburn, who declared that!
If we would pay our chits he depend on day to the police during the in striving for the unattainable prospects of forming such a worldment.
the chamber might mias sub-system ultimately
No state, however powerful, also offered to throw in the tusks hearing of a charge against a
of the clephants at Isako's. Circus lorry-driver. The observationstantial advantages close at hand. whether the United States will
The controversy is by no means take part in it. That, indeed, is would light-heartedly challenge the and fifty per cent of the receipts
of Π well-organized after the closing night. is quoted not because of any
over. The Manchester Chamber the hub of the whole peace husl-opposition
We accepted bonds giving us the is discussing the question fur-
world League, even though ita facts disclosed in the case, but
ther. Its members have
were under legal option on building sites in the New Territories and, had taken over In order to draw attention once
that whatever may be the outcome What reason is there for think-members
most of prominent sites in the again to a system which stands eventually, those who support the ing that the United States, with its obligations to take sanctions. Once
Colony before we closed the deal in obvious need of alteration. British Government's proposals
tradition of isolation, will actually the non-belligerents are have, for the time being, Rub. We refer to the vesting in the stantial support even in such a join such a world League? W together and realize the effect on, after three hours hard bargaining. police of the power to cancel centre as Manchester, where the she not, as hitherto, just bless it themselves of war, their willing Eventually we paid out our hard I believe thatness to take effective action to-earned dollars on the sacred pro-
will necessarily and do nothing
immeasurably mise of the shroff to guarantee us licences, instead of, as at Home, interests of trade
prevail over those of sentiment in consideration of present-day reali-gether
the
He
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, OCT, 10, 1934,
MAGISTRATE OR POLICE?
"Please ask the Traffic Ollice
THE UNATTAINABLE
shown
псан.
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be
flo
to
collected
The shroff simply convulsed. Then we convulsed and we both lay back and roared.
When he came back he
the bank site.
We explained to him that this was not quite the thing, and went to the trouble of giving him most, of the site of the Dairy Farm. As an afterthought we threw in the Steam Laundry.
The shroff didn't catch on. He refused to accept this generous offer in payment of the chits but conceded us the Peninsula Hotel and half the Shing Mun Valley Damn. when it was finished.
such power being in the hands doniing with the problem of India.tles and facts will drive the United Kreater than anything they will six feet of earth at Happy Valley-
or
to arrange
States to see that the only possible way of keeping out of war is to
no
and even this promise we shall not anlive to see carried out!.
commit themselves to under automatic legal engagement.
Nor does such a system mean a
we
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Ralph G
(Signed).
of the Magistrates. The occa- sion is not the only one within | ANOTHER SET-BACK
DUMB-BELLES LETTERS recent times in which a Magis- Cotton yaru producers recently put some "teeth" into the Kellogg world dictatorship of the Engllab-
By Juliet Lowell. trate has expressed the view.suffered another set-back in trade Paet. The policy of Isolation has
speaking powers. It really means
A Wet Party. that an offender's licence should when they were forced to suspend heen possible for the United States intrusting to a world League acting
business with Germany because it withdrawn. be suspended
was imposalble for the German im. in the last fifteen years because under the Kellogg Pact the role
discharged by Great Britain alone Dear Mr. Aldo Ricei:
Your Sunday noon program- There was another instance not porters, to liquidate their debts. there has, in practice, been
me cost me $7.50. I turned on my very many days ago in which All deliveries of yarn to Germany serious risk of any major war in the last century. For the final
were stopped on August 3, follow-Since the withdrawal of Japan and instrument of any world League, tub, started to listen to you and the Magistrate hearing a seriousing protracted negotiations for the Germany from the Lougue and the and an instrument which will be forgot to turn it off. I had to pay traffic case reserved his sentence payment of these debts. More transformation of their internal effective if it is applied by a world repairs in the apartment below.
than 10,000 operatives were thus in order that he might, first learn thrown out of employment and ni political structures, the risk of a League, is sen power, and son Send me a check and call it a day. whether the police intended to other 40,000 were affected by the major war has once more appeared. power to-day rests mainly in the hands of the United States and the British Commonwealth. If suspend the offender's licence. embargo. Since then delegations have visited back and forth and
It was Walter Lippmann who use it together under the Kellogg There should, in our view, be no
while no complete settlement has necessity for, placing a Magis-been made there is reason to believe said experience had shown that, Pact, wo use it for world peace. that German importers will be able while the United States could "keep If we try to uss it separately and; trate in such a position, any
re-open their connec-out," as Mr. Norman Davis re for our individual enda, we may more than there should be tions with England and pay their cently put it, of local wars, she produce a catastrophe which might occasion for him to request the just debts, in spite of Dr. Schacht's could not "keep out" of world wars. end civilization.
restrictions on the relinquishing of Traffic Office to take a particular currenty from Germany. It is to line of action. When all is said by hoped they can agree for the and done, no-one is in a better sake of both partica, position than the Magistrate to
not determine whether or motorist's offence warrants sus- pension or cancellation of his licence. He hears the whole of the evidence, and, what is more. is able to judge the veracity or otherwise of a defendant's evidence. Moreover, the police records of previous offences, if any, are available to him. Why, therefore, should the power of suspension or cancellation not be vested in him? There is no adequate reason, of which we
a
AUSTRALIA'S TARIFFS
Still another brick was thrown into the Lancashire shop by Aus tralia when the Commonwealth im- posed tariffs on, cotton piece goods coming from Britain. The duties are regarded by Lancashire as pro- hibitive, in some cases amounting to 100 per cent. Dialocation of busi nest was caused and investigators. in Britain expressed the view that the Australian duties were actually contrary to the terms of the Ottawn agreement. The Northern Council of Grocers' Associations, with a membership of 6,000, when they discovered the effect the Australian tariffs were having threatened to boycott Australian products are two throughout the district in their the control unless some remedy were illustrate points which desirability of a change in the found. Mr. S. M. Bruce, the Aus tralian High Commissioner, la still direction indicated. In the first working on the problem. place, a Magistrate so em- powered would be able promptly
are
aware.
There
to make the punishment both fit stances is surely obvious. From the offence and take an offen- whatever angle the matter is der's record into account. The viewed, the case for Hongkong mere knowledge by motorists falling into line with the Home that a Magistrate possessed the practice is, so far as can be seen, power of instant cancellation overwhelming. If there are any might conceivably be a factor special reasons why the system in inducing more careful driving. In vogue locally should continue The second point is that, under to prevail, it would be interest- existing conditions, there is no ing to know precisely what they publicity given to the fact when are. The public, however, has a licence has been either sus- a feeling that in this matter, as pended or cancelled. And the in go many others, too much value of publicity in such in- I power is vested in the police.
"Well, let's ask them for this week end and if they can't make it, so much the better."
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