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NOTES OF THE DAY
WHO ARE HEROES ?
Benator Clark, the man who sprang into prominence in Washing- ton by declaring that the country was helpless to avoid entanglement in another major war, and who therefore suggested certain legisla- tion
to safeguard the nation's noutrality, is maintaining his rather hopeless campaign for action in the face of the Administration's lack- of Interest. In the opinion of his own generation he will never be a great man, in all probability, The great men are hose who awaken Intenso nationalism amongst their contemporaries, who instil into the hearts of the people a strong con- tempt for those powers which run contrary to their own policies, who create that bristling national, de- flance in the face of competition or opposition which has characterised the progressive belligerents of the past. We have known a few such men in history, and remember them with awe. Wo know of one or two auch figures in this present day and sometimes look upon them with Leelings which their own country- men could not possibly comprehend, and certainly would not condone. We are fully equipped for any And yet such men live on, their nature of service.
memories reverenced by the nation | which they may have led to untold Enquiries:-
pain and ultimate ruin. The great est of them all, Napoleon, even his enemies must have admired. There was no doubt that his own people worshipped him. Remember how his Guards rallied when he escaped from Elba? Remember how they wept for him in his adversity and sacrificed their lives, their sturdy, gallant lives, that he might bring glories home to France? Never was there a greater general, let us say; never a leader better loved: and yet, in the end, he led his glorious army to destruction at Waterloo, And the glories that WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1985.
were France's, which for a brief while had covered her wounds were stripped from her. And there were Past Would Napoleon have BRITAIN'S STAND
been remembered had he fought The assertion that the session not in the battlefields but in Parliament and for the neutrality of the Council which meets in of France? We err more often Geneva to-day may determine than not in selecting the real here of the hour. The little, forgotten whether the League of Nations men who face the jeers of the mob ia to disappear altogether, or and the snoers of their colleagues when striving for some ideal be- become a real power for peace,yond the pitiful understanding of adequately sums up a situation the masses, are aa brave, or braver of the utmost gravity. Realis- than those other gentlemen who ing the ill-effects which have talk of mighty fleets and armies and shout defiance to the world. And arisen as a consequence of the although Senator Clark, from a League's failure to see the ends Missouri village, will never stand beside Napoleon, he has the saner of justice served in the Man-ambition. He hopes to give his churia Incident, Britain has country ponce. latterly been taking every possi-
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
more
ble step to organise collective | COAL FOR CURRENT action by the civilised world to prevent the outbreak of war in Abyssinia. She has been moved, In these efforts, as much by a desire to see an equitable ad-
M
1935.
VILLAINS WHO LOST AN EMPIRE
By TANGYE LEAN
By adopting the Declaration of Independence 159 years ago the United States of America broke away from the British Empire. Tangye Lean here des- cribes the dramatic situation in British politics which brought about this division of the English-speaking people.
TT was the end of the First British |
Empire. Lord Chatham, old and weak with pain, rose for the last time in the House of Lords. "His Majesty succeeded," came the
its slow words, "aucceeded to an Em- pire as great in extent an reputation was unsullied. Seven- teen years ago this people was the terror of the world. . . . he sagged back limply against his seat. Unconscious, he was carried home to die.
But
of Burka by whose sweetness Athens herself would have been Boothed, with whose amplitude and exuberance she would have been enraptured, and on whose lips that prolific mother of genius and science would have ndored, confessed, the goddess of Inspiration.
It had been a bad muddle, too stupid, too undignified to deserve that tragic curtain.
Fifteen years previously a spec-bition of an obstinate King. tacular war had been fought which power in annihilated French America, and as a sequel it was proposed that the colonists on the far side of the Atlantic should Ex- contribute to the national chequer.
The Very Idea!
WAR IN HONGKONG
Supreme Court Boycotted By Signor Kelly
of
-By Eddie "Hunso" Kelly
Since the newspapers, seems to print nothing else" thena daya but news of an Impending_conflict_be tween Abyssinia and Italy, Eddie Kelly has decided that he might aAE well be in the swim...Only be doesn't see why he should cross the world for his copy, when there's heaps of it lying about in Hong kong. So, just for the purposes this article, he's written a fantastic story of what would happen if international diplomacy, such as that employed in the present dia- pute, was suddenly applied to Hong. kong.
of
As Chatham lay prostrate with gout, his agonies driving him to
War clouds loomed in Hongkong the borders of insanity, it was this volco of Burke's which spolo out year after year in a vain endeavour yesterday, following the reception make reason triumph over by M. Litvinoff MacGregor, Preal- to bribery, and nobility over the am- dent of the Supreme Court Council, a complaint from Emperor There are the arguments of Selassie Whalestooth against al- States and Kingdoms. Leave the Ieged aggression by Signor Eddle. rest to the schools, for there only "Musso" Kelly. they may be discussed with
Emperor Whalestooth, who lives safety. But if intemperately un-in Nathan Road, Kowloon, alleged wisely, fatally, you sophisticato in his complaint to M. MacGregor and poison the very source of that Signor Kelly's house-boy had government by urging subtle de- crossed the harbour from the Peak ductions and consequences odious and had scrapped with his (the to those you govern, from the Emperor's) house boy in his (the unlimited and illimitable nature
same Emperor's) kitchen, of supreme sovereignty, you will
Signor Kelly denies the allega- teach them by these means to call that sovereignty itself in tions. question. Late in the day he would rise | said.
the Commons when many mem- It is reported that Signor Kelly era had already loft. Then, as is sending some more house boys the rumour went round that he was across to speaking, they came hurrying back morning. to listen to him intently, to applaud admiringly, and to vote, in loyalty to the bribes they had received, against him. an
In theory, perhaps, that plan was not unreasonable, but its adminis tration was carried out so feebly yet so provocatively that it would have inflamed the Independent spirit of a colony of slaves.
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George III., whose education in mest things was slight ("Was there ever such stuff as Shakapere?" he
naked), had in his youth learnt this at least, that at all costs he must be a King.
autocratic
in
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WDA
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"The kitchen belongs to me," he
•
Kowloon to-morrow
The tension between The Peak
and Kowloon houseboys is grow
Ing.
Partly by chance and partly by intention, the problem of taxing the colonists became bound up with his ambition as
Feverish activity was witnessed monarch. George's method was to
The struggle.
heart-
at the Star Ferry this morning, rule through Parliament by bribing
for Burke, but
when all available space was taken It, and any attack on the sovereign breaking one rights of that body became at once strangely it was North who came by Signor Kelly's boys, who nearest to being broken by it, as are en route to the battle front at an attack upon himself.
Perhaps, too, he hoped that the we can aco from those vast tomos Kowloon. Cheering crowds of
did,
quarrel would unite the country behind him. This it never and in the eyes of posterity those years of deplorable misgovernment stand out ne a struggle between villains and heroes, with the fate of America dependent on the issue. But the villains-George III, his Prime Minister Lord North, and is lesser hirelings "the King's Friends" were not good villains. George was too sensible and too commonplace to merit the 20 years of raving lunacy in which he ended his life. Lord North, formerly of Eton and the House, was too good- humoured and too charming an in- dividual to deserve the blindness which closed his eyes for ever. And "the King's Friends," they
too obscure, were
too Un- distinguished in every way to be worthy of the opprobrium which has been showered on them. problema of the, industry. The But as villains they did their problems are many, for the indus work; for by their mercenary try has expanded rapidly in the weakness they made the Integrity intervening years. But the major of Burke and Chatham and Fox problems are two: the need for stand out in a white blaze of standardisation and for a better virtue, and if they lost us America, distributive system. It is asserted they provided the fertile ground from which the finest speeches in the English language grew up and spread their tendrils of pure oratory.
Strangely enough, about a cen- tury after James Bowman Lindsay, a lonely pioneer, lit his attic room with a crude electrical contrivance and pointed the way to a new means of illumination, the first National
(Continued on Page 7.)
justment-of-the-crisis as by an Electrical Convention has been held anxiety to uphold the League in Great Britain and has organized as an instrument for the preser-its forces for an attack upon the vation of world peace. Attempts to confine the League discussion to one particular incident, In- stead of courageously dealing with the whole problem of Italo- Abyssinian friction, are really futile. Eventually, the larger issues will have to be faced; preventing war, but in no cir- nothing is to be gained by cumstances should it place shelving consideration now. Fol-Britain in the position of an lowing prolonged deliberations
international policeman, taking on the subject, there recently emerged a definite British policy. the maintenance of peace at her upon herself responsibility for This policy is based on the princi-sole risk. The present week ple that Britain, being a mom-will, in the circumstances, be a ber of the League, has collective
crucial time not only for Italy obligations for the maintenance
and Abyssinia, but also for the of peace, but that she has no whole of Europe. Britain is
| individual obligation. The British
public expects the Government vital issues be side-stepped. The apparently determined not to let
not to shirk any obligation, subject to the willingness of question at the moment le whether she can rally to her side other nations to undertake
other nations equally anxious theirs, but it does not expect | that
the League shall be Britain to do anything that
re-established on 2 firmer other nations are not willing to do. The Government is in line footing, as the only organised body so far devised for the pur- with the public on these points,pose of preserving pence, or, and as a consequence it has long when that objective is impossi been realised that the key to the ble of fulfilment, of seeing that altuation is to be found in the attitude of France. At the with the punishment which it unjustified aggression meets moment, that attitude has not
deserves. been definitely disclosed. Up to the present, Britain has not taken the initiative in pressing for any particular form of action at the present stage, but there are indications that the Govern--|- ment believes economic sanc- tions, if not applied by the Powers outside the League as well as by the League Powers, would be useless. It has been made clear that should the at- titude of France render collective action impossible, the Govern- ment would seek other means of
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Let me speak what my aoul dictates of the eloquence of Burke, wrote Dr. Parr with pardonable enthusiasm:
of correspondence in which he reported to the King the doings of
Parliament,
Lord North to the King,
rickshaw coolies lined the Praya to watch the contingents depart ing by forry and walla walla.
Emperor Whalesteath has ap pealed to Mr. Stanley Burlingham Baldwin to invoke the clauses of the Summary Offences Ordinance dealing with excessive noise at
Lord North has the honour of informing his Majesty that the Committee went through the greatest part of Mr. Burke's Bill to-day, and had In the course of it several divisions, in all of night. which Mr. Burke-was defented.
"I can't get a wink of alcep with Lord North feels himself so all those Kelly coolles yowling out- weak and unable to go on for any side my kitchen every night," he time, that he cannot help remind- said in an exclusive press Inter. Ing his Majesty of the request he | view to-day. has lately had the honour more than once of submitting to his Majesty's goodness.
If fighting breaks out betweed Kowloon and Peak houseboys, Mr. The King to Lord North,
E. Newhouse, who controls all Lord-North cannot doubt that waterways in Hongkong, may pro- I received with pleasure his ac-hibit the passage of Kelly coolies count of Mr. Burke's Bill having
been defeated before the--Com-mullahs. This would force, the along the Mid-Level nullah
mittes yesterday.
But he cannot be surprised at Peak tram, to proceed to Kowloon Peak coolies, unless they used the the real Borrow occasioned by around the Repuale Bay Cape. seeing He persists in the idea that His health will not long permit him to remain in his present situation
M. Avenel Hazlerigg, Secretary .. There is no means of letting Lord North General of the Supreme Court, an- retire from taking the lead Innounced to-day that M. Litvinoff the House of Commons that will MacGregor had convened the Court not probably entall evil. He on Wednesday noxt at the request must be the judge whether he of Emperor Whalesteeth. can therefore honourably desert It la considered 1kely that mo when Infuluble mischief must | Signor Kelly will ignore the sum- ensue.
mona to appear, unless M, "Infuluble michief”—that vialon | MacGregor consents to limit the of a Miitonic chaos we owe not to procedure to dealing with the black . (Continued on Page 9.) eye sustained by Emperor Whelcs. teeth's boy during last week's kitchen brawl.
don't care what the hospital rules are, young lady. Don't
öytöll me how.bo_batiua^)':bab
"
Signor Kelly refuses to allow the League Court to discuss the owner- abip of the kitchen, or Emperor Whalestoeth's allegations that he ultimately plans to seize the whole of the Emperor's house.
Signor Kelly has issued a veiled threat that he will boycott the.. Supreme Court if it endeavours to extend the scope of next Wednes- day's proceedings. ·
Mrs. Whalesteeth, in, exclusive Interview with the Telegraph, la- sued an appeal to the amabs of the Mid Levels to aid the Whalesteeth people in their desire to live in peace and tranquility,
"In the name of the wash amahs and cook amshs of Nathan Road," Empress Whalesteeth's appeal said, "I declare to the noble and kind. cook amahs of the Mid Levels that we desire a peaceful solution of the dispute, which is disrupting our lives."
The Daily Press states that the Hongkong: Gas Company is cons sidering despatching coolles to the Whaleateeth kitchen in order to protect the company's. gas stove.. Mr.Roosevelt. Mildren, whose army, of boys and coolies is one of the greatest in the world, enunciated a two-point programMMƏ to-day, aimed at keeping Bepulse Bay out of the Kowloon-Peak: con Aletari
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