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NINE-POWER PACT
The unofficial Invocation of the Nine-Power Pact by China WOM probably a Inst despairing appeal for International aid against Japan. But it is an invocation of a very tattered document, says the Christ-
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N the eve of setting out for parts of the year. There is no STUDEBAKER in Science Monitor. Japan violat- to feel a certain regretfulness the fresh morning air on one's face
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I. happen to like work. At least,
ed the agreement in 1931 in Man- stealing over me. It is no small churia. So confused was the situn-matter to be cut off from work for tion that for some time it was a month. legally difficult to "pin" anything on Tokyo. But as soon as Japan signed a treaty with a political subdivision of China-namely, the puppot state of Minchukuore cognising its secession from China,
and in one's lungs as one walks down the steps of a seaside botel after breakfast.
It is a moment of sublime con-
I like being in an office in which tentment with the world as it is, other people are working. I like All the nows in the morning paper the happy fnces of my fellow-nows about Hitler, news about workers as I meet them hurrying Abyssinia, news about Japan, news Jalong passages. I have often about murderers and kidnappers- aft casuistry was removed. Then noticed that people in offices look vanishes into nothing in the bright
I became plain that Japan had broken its Nine-Power pledge to "respect and observe the territorial integrity and political and admin- istrative independence of the Chinese Republic." Apparently the demands made ipon the Chinese in North China are viola.
tive of at least the administrative Independence of Chisn. Only an Do they
outline of them is known.
barred?
far Irappier than people in hotels, and I shall be leaving an office for
an hotel:
·
You will, of course, see luuppy- looking people even in hotels; but how many people, sitting in the lounge over their coffee after lunch, have a dejected air! How many
of them wearily turn over the pages of old magazines without reading then! How many of them keep pulling out their watches impatient ly, waiting for a wife or a friend who in taking what seems hours to get ready to go out! How many talk softly as though afraid to be overheard
Include "special rights, privileges, inmunities,
commitments" Ur which according to the Nine- | Power Paet, were
I certainly appears that Tokyo is seeking an overlordship in North China through which that rich and teeming territory may be made an economic dependency. The Nine Power Pact was one of the most important treaties to be signed at the Washington Conference lu 1921. Ching had seemed on the
sunshine.
It is all as distant and unreal as if one were already In Paradise.
The real world is now no more than a stretch of bine sea and a not too distant island with a white cloud over it. It is a world in
The Very Ideat
PIRATE OF PENANCE
Yo, Ho, Ho, And A Bottle Of Raspberry Vinegar
By Eddie Kelly, Kidd. TTS à long time since there'a
IT'S
been a piracy In Hongkong waters, no Mr. Kelly has decided to visit Bian Bay fo-day and liven
up the industry. The was arrived at sfier Mr. had read the report of the annual meeting of the Australian and NEW Caland Association, at which it was announced that
sixty Australian girls, averago ago 18, were visiting Hongkong shortly. Mr. Kelly is going to get in a bit of practice, so that he can go in for piracy on a big scale when they arrive,
*Wimmen are just like them Tas Day pirates," he said last aight. They're all blas thin and hink that."
READ ON IF YOU DARE.
which it is no crime, but a virtue, WHEN we were born we sat up in bed and said, to do nothing. Children may be unable to idle, and many have a "We want to be a psycho- themselves analyist." And our old man holes in the sand hour after hour in order to preserve from the miseries of thought. But said, "Just fancy that now!" we who are wise with the wisdom of age need no sprite and Inteket those symbols of purposeless CLIVITY-to save us from dejection
ur boredom. We have learnt the art of vegetating, and there are few things less capable of unhap piness than a vegetable.
We made a half-hitch in. our binder (not worn these days, we believe they have backless nappies) and said, The ordinary visitor in the or dinary hotel, indeed, looks as if he
"Being a newcomer in this family. we should not like to would be a great deal happier if the other visitors were not there,
If in the coming month I do feel cause any disruption, in a hither- There is always somebusly else an orcasional twinge of discontent, to happy menage, therefore we who gets to the Corinthian billard it will be because I am a man who, are willing to become a photo- painter, physician, N. J Perrin. Funeral will pass brink of partition. "Slicing the table before him. His favourite Lover in a Paradise, cannot help oc- Igrapher,
DEATH
PERRIN--AU the Kowloon Hospital
on July 18, 1935, Phyllis, wife of
the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935.
BRITISH OPENINGS IN CHINA Increasing interest is being taken at Home in future com- mercial and financial possibili- ties in China. Leading Man- chester industrialists in
tho textile chemicals and engineer- ing spheres have just had a con-
which
is
ference at the Board of Trade, was attended by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the Gov. ernment economic adviser, who shortly coming Bast to investigate the economic and financial situation, and who has taken careful note of the opinions expressed by the Lancashire delegates. Refusing to take a gloomy view of China's future, and recognising the progress achieved by the Nanking Govern- ment in face of extreme difficul- ties, these business men have reached
the conclusion that Britain's laissez faire policy in the Far East must be replaced by something
old policy of grab. Japan, then as now, 15214 the greatest offender. The only way to prop up the pro- strate Republic was to sign a self- denying "hands of" ordinance cast. ing overboard the old diplomacy of exacting special favours from a wenk administration. In its place the foreign powers agreed, to act in concert in dealings which from then on were to be fair and above
chair-is-always occupied by some casionally envying people who are
without rights. He wonder why he left the comforts of home for this crowded den of
strangers,
Chinese melon" was the inelegant
porter... anything that starts phrase for describing the century.bjectionable-looking person. He somewhere else. I shall think th-Paper-boy paper, postman.
moons about the place like an allen viously some morning of the people with a P."
to who, instead of coming to the sen- begins
Our father, who was a man of side, are holidaying in the country.
shall tell myself that in the month great business acumen, decided of June the tides of the sea are that we should become a pirate. not to be compared for beauty with Now, we don't want all you old It is true that, as one goes on the tides of the flowers in the in- ladies of eighty and ninety say- staying in a hotel, one's fellow-land valleys. Listening to the Bit-Ing. "Yes, I remember when I was visitors gradually begin to look lingsgate voices of the seagulls, a girl. Captain Kidd Kelly cap- almost human: One discovers, to shall contrast them unfavourably tured our ship in order to obtain one's delight, that they, too, notice with the sweeter sangs of the birds ¦ a new bulb for his torch. I waa such things as whether the day that, far from the sea, are filling travelling alone at the time. is a fine or a wet one, and like to the woods with music from dawn was always very gentle with tell one which it is. They became till darkness. The perfect shore | women, and he kissed me as he more real as they tell one their and the perfect countryside-how | was clumbering over the deck rail business in life, and one usually seldom it is that one finds them into return to his lair at Bins Bry." We were just a poor, hard- discovers that at some point their the same placel "xperiences have crossed one's own.
board.
NEGATIVE VIRTUES
seas.
Ho
The value of the Nine-Power Pact lay
in its negative virtues.
It is, I think, because men feel working lad when we were unjust- It restrained the plunderers. The
I once met a stranger, a clergy-auch discontenta during their holi-ly pinched for strangling a ship's breathing spell, it was hoped, man in an hotel in Scotland. In days that so many of them have compradore with one hand, and would proniote political reconstruc- the course of conversation he told recourse to the game of golf-the sentenced to three months In
Victoria Gnot. tion by the Chinese themselves. me that his drst curacy had been adult's substitute for the child's
We came out of that living hell But Chinn, instead of growing in Coleraine. I said: "My father spade and bucket. Whacking &
embittered MATE, And Im- strong and united behind this ram- was born near Coleraine." He ball from hole, to hole, and dream-an part of repressed imperialisms, said: "After that I went to Beling all the time that he is going to mediately became a pirate.
Our first capture was on a wild, sank into weakness and disunity. Cast." I said: "I was born in whack it he has never whacked'a In 1931 Japan threw off all res- Belfast." He said: "When I was ball before, the ordinary man can wet, windy, woisterous night when Brookhill settle down contentedly even the gale bowled through our stays traints of the Nine-Power Pact and in Belfast I lived in invaded Manchuria. What was re- Avenue." I maid: That's the rapturously-in his summer para- and our pirate ship plunged and ploughed her way through the quired before 1931 was a recogul-atreet I was born in." "Don't tell dise. tion of Chinese realities. By for me," he pleaded, earnestly, "that ave been saved both from itself ately 1 had forgotten the number, elga reconstruction China night the house was No. 8."... Unfortun and from its predatory neighbour but we had already established en- - neighbour which, beenuse of ough points of contact with each propinquity alone, could not afford other to turn the hotel from a den the patience displayed by the other of strangers into a pleasure resort. foreign powers. Even after the Manchurian incident { prompt reassembling of the Nine Powers with the same end in view might have checked Japanese imperialism. Other pacis, however, got in the way, and the facts awaited clari- tication till the Lytton Commission went belatedly to the ground, By that time the Japanese military
were in control of Japan as well as Manchuria. Now they are in
control of North China. In all probability the Japanese Foreign
Office is as much in the dark as any other. It would be quixotic to expect any rush from the West to aid China while that country cannot find a unity in the face of a foreign foe. So Japan has seem- The
more active. Japanese competition naturally figures largely in the picture, but the view is held that Britain and Japan can very well co- operate in pursuing the welfare of the East, each in its own sphere, on a basis of due recogni-ingly a clear path before it. tion of the interests of all,
price of pursuing it, however, may Chinese and foreign alike. Such
be a heavy one to a nation which sooner o later must Eve with! co-operation, there is every ren
Chinn and with the world. son to think, would be welcomed by China; there certainly can he [no assumption of special primendous. Britain has in the vileges by any one country: the pasi played a leading part in co- principle of the Open Door must operative effort with China, and be respected, with China's right the indications are that there is to control her own destiny in ne no disposition to leave the field way impaired. Britain is pre-
entirely to others. Rather the |pared to work hand in hand with reverse. Happily, Anglo-Chi- China on such a basis, and it is nese relations have never been n hopeful sign of the Govern- more cordial than they are to- ment's practical interest in day, a fact which should facilit- future developments that Sirate increased intercourse and Frederick Leith-Ross is being lead to the offering of needed sent out on a special mission technical anti financial assistance which should prove of immense in the future development of the value. Coincident with the con- country. At a moment when the ference to which we have alluded, depression is still making its the Chairman of the American effecta keenly felt, Hongkong can Economic Mission has pointed to take heart from the lively inter- the potential value of openings in est being displayed at Home in Chine, a circumstance which the Far East. More co-operation shows that the United States, between Britain and China must as well as Britain, is determined indirectly be of real value to this not to be shut out of the China Colony, for which reason it is to markets. The possibilities, of be hoped that the near future mutual interest to China and will witness closer contacts be foreign interests alike, are tre-tween the two nations.
We got shot that night. As a matter of fact, if we hadn't been wouldn't have had the shot we
to ko
through with the
He would not give a row of pins for all the birds in Surrey as with his mashie he lands a perfect shot nerve on a perfect green. Talk to him of business, his fine work with the ziblick, and We crept up on to the bridge, he will listen to you greedily. Talk pulling our ambosh more closely to him of June flowers and he will around us an account of feeling Cheerful as hotels can become in not hear you, as will be clear from cold. such circumstances, however, his answer: "I did this hole yes- "Stick 'em up" we shouted regard them chiefly as places interday in three," which to sleep and cal. I cannot bear to waste an unnecessary minute under a roof when I am on a holiday. So was it when my life began; so is it now I am a man.
Far from an active man, I am nevertheless not to be tempted by an armchair outside the working
honreely. We always shouted hoarsely, because once we shouted Do not disparage golf on this in too loud a voice, and everybody account, however, Golf may des- heard us, and it cost, us $7.70 for troy the intelligence, but it also the round. destroys pessimism, envy, and rest- lessness. If during the next month you see me hard at work in bunker, you will know that I am perfectly happy where I am,
*Remember what an awful cold you caught the last time you were inspired."
The captain stuck the engine- room telegraph over to "hard. astern" and the ship reared back on its haunches. Which just goes to show you that it always pays to shout horsely..
"Listen," said the skipper. "This is getting monotonous. What's the blg Idea always holding up my ship just off Shekko? Don't you know that the people who live out here object to outsiders cluttering up the place."
We were pretty stern with him, meaning that we kicked him amid- ships, in the stern.
As a matter of fact we would have been sterner, but just at that moment we found out that there- were a couple of cemely wenches. aboard.
We were chucking one of the under the chin when we heard a siren howling on the port bow. We were never too keen on sirens, the modern name for which is gold- diggers, but a howling siren always touches our heart, Bo we comforted her as best wo could.
Then we heard another howling siren on the starboard bow, and before 10 could muster our scattered bund (in the subsequent fight we lost two saxophonista and the drummer) a destroyer toomed, out of the mist,
"The Navy gasped the captain. of the ship, smiling malignantly. Malignantly. Dashed good! Wa- must use that word more often.
It was, in fact, the Navy. The whole British Fleat. We stood our ground as they came along. side and boarded us.
"Hal Hal" said. the main or head naval officer. "Nice goings
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