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TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 15, 1935.
NOTES OF THE DAY
THE SCENE SHIFTS
Its
at
WILL JAPAN and RUSSIA FIGHT?
The drama which is unfolded day by day on the world's stage. and which the newspapera attempl to allow their readers to glimpse, event by event, la one of constantly ohifting scenes. Yesterday Wo were watching. Ethiopia, or Roma, or London, or Paris. World interest centred there, and in the reactions to the decision which labouring statesmen were making at Geneva, To-day, since rifles cracked on the banks of the Amur River, the eyes of the world turn to the Far East again. The often- heard, and often-to-be-repented threat, of hostilities on the Man- chukuo-Soviet border is once more to the fore.. What is. It about? The Japanese authorities state that the Soviet frontier guards crossed the border and that the Manchukuoan troops opened fire and drove them back. The Russian Government has received from military headquarters Khabarovsk a statement that the the Manchukuo patrol crossed frontier and dellberately attacked Soviet guards, Time was when
would the Incident
have been sufficient to have sent these two flying at powerful nations ench other's throats Without R thought of seeking explanations, We have not progressed much beyond that state, but the realian-
OR years now the world tion of the frightfulness of war and the paralysing cost of it, has watched with increas-
Weak and disorganized China. The marriage of Mr. Henrique A. maken Governments think, twiceing apprehension the growth of
still presents a more formidable Barros, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. before they strike. On this occa-a war sentiment between Japan
threat to the Japanese military F. Barros, and Misa Cecilia
plan than any other nation. Noronha, eldest daughter of Mr.sion, at least, they are talking of and Russia.
Japan is well aware that Man- J. M. Noronha and the late Mrs. a mixed commission to determine
The military party in Japan
chukuo is none too stable; the J. M. Noronha, will take place at the rights and wrongs of the case. wants to seize Russia's port of the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on October 19, at 4.30 p.m. Friends Nevortheless, such episodes are Vladivostok and her Maritime vised regulations
population there is overwhelm- will be welcome at the wedding dangerous. They must not recur Province of Siberia lying just Japanese navy answerable only preponderance of the Chinese
Vladi- to the Emperor. The Japanese
ing. And in China proper the- ceremony and at the reception to with too great frequency, With across the Japan Sea, be held at the Club de Recreiq. the world in the nervous condition vostok, at the end of the Trans- army was already in a similar boycott against Japan is always Miss Billie Blumenthal and Mr. A. B. apt to bring us much too close to military menace to Japan. With of the fighting force are in Yet in view of hard facts there. The marrlage arranged between it is at present such trivialities are Siberian Railway, offers a real position. Now both branches ready to be brought into play. this port as a base, a fleet of dependent agencies, free of the is no escaping the conclusion Henry will take place on Thursday, October 17, instead of on Wednesday, flashpoint. And we in the Far Russian planes could easily cross restraint of the Premier or the that if the military party in Japan insists .on attacking October 16, as previously arranged. East are much too close to the the Japan Sea, less than 400 Foreign Minister. What they
A reception will be held at 5.30 p.m. guns.
miles wide, bomb the Island choose to do must become the at No. 2 Connaught Road, the re silence of Mr. and Mrs. W. O'Neill.
Empire, and possibly inflict foreign policy of the land. Siberia, Russia will have to rely serious damage on the Japanese of constitutional government,
This amounts to the abrogation on her own force of arms. No Invitations are being issued but all friends отс invited to the
Navy.
and places the fate of the nation recep*lon.
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The
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TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 1945.
LEAGUE ACTION
SPEAKING OF NEWS
They
FOR
Soviet Russia's mighty army on parade in the Heil Sy nare, Leningrad.
by L. Colcord
mude the
Japanese plans, and many rea- sons for favouring them.
is
It away.
could contribute neither troops
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TRATEGICALLY the Rus-- Going back to the idea of all the
From a political standpoint, in the hands of the military S
sian position in Vladivostok world being a stage, as Shakes-
hopelessly bad. Strong peare put it, but with greater the Russian Maritime Province party.
military preparations have been felicity, and the newspapers shift-is necessary to Japan to com-
7HAT Influence can America made; large stores of munitions: ing the spot-light, so to speak, we plete the outlines of her new
WHAT can power munit and want to call attention to that in- Asiatic empire.
in which it eldent in Vienna,
Other issues are incidental actually bring to bear on this plans laid for the Soviet army Hungarian writer featured as the Japan wants Russian recogni- latest phase of the Far Eastern to subsist as far as possible on villian of the plece. He has beention of Manchukuo, and pro- crisis?"
Eastern Siberis, arrested for spreading false in-bably of the similar "indepen-
Perhaps the strongest force In the event of a trial of formation. And quite rightly.dent" government that appar- We feel, like any other honest ently is being set up in Inner force between the United States for peace is the fact that the
or practitioner. Mongolia. It is even The Italian newspapers re- trader or artist
stated and Japan, it is doubtful if the Maritime Province of Siberia is cently-have-been-full-of-anti-sharp practice would-be-the-ruin the war party-contemplate the five. The nearest American unless she so brave never that under-weight or distortion or that the imperialistic dreams of American fleet could be effec- not really a threat against Japan
Russia would British propaganda of a most tion of our business. Unfortun-
dream of attacking Japan from violent kind. Later on, perhaps, ately, newspapers at the ends of seizing of all Siberia and Mon- naval base to Japan is at Hono- alone,
lulu, 8,000 miles
If the Japanese, when the clear light of reason
the earth have no way of checking golia as far as Lake Baikal. upon the veracity of correspon-
The Maritime Province of seems likely that Japan could Vladivostok. returns, the Italian people may dents whose despatches reach them Siberia is left 'as a narrow strin stay in home. waters with her imperial dream could only con- . full fleet and that the American tain itself, immediate danger of realise how ridiculous these from centres of activity. "hymns of hate" have been, rely upon the well-established re- of seaboard extending south-
putations
of the news services ward to Vladivostok, connected navy could not safely attack her war in the Far East would War-time propaganda always they employ to "cover" their in- with Russia proper, only there. And without naval, con- quickly disappear, does appear a little ludicrous to terests. Newspapers believe what the main line of the Trans- trol of the Pacific, America
3 section they print; otherwise they would Siberian Railway, à later generation. However, not print it. In such instances as cutting a wide circle northward nor supplies to the defence of there is one point to be remem- this one in Vienna, where a through somi-Arctic territory. Siberia. bered. The present outbreak is journalist has been accused of Japan is rushing a railway not entirely a case of spontane-spreading false information, his northward to cut the main line principals would be the first to Jous combustion.
citude for international law and There are, fortunately, few of that order merely fanned the smoul- type of journalist who have the will be entirely cut off and of ability to hold by force what
confidence of the employera and dering fuel of Italian discontent. the public. The untrustworthy Vladivostok as a base will be she possesses in the Pacifle re- gion, her weakness is self-
suppose we should comment Italy expected to be richly re-are known to the trade; and the strategically untenable,
evident.
on the Abyssinian situation again. will have no truck with warded for the part which she trade
If the military party is to con-
to-day. played in the Great War.
Her them.
Hongkong is not a first class' tinue in control of the policies
But the only fresh news we've of Japan, it looks like a flat naval base. The base at Singa- read about Abyssinia is the re- fled. Since then she has cast proviso. It must be shown issue between the two nations. pore will not be finished until port of the awful amelle in envious eyes upon the colonial that
principles
Japan intends to have the 1937. A single successful, stroke Adowa Maritime Province. She can against Hongkong would dis- This is evidently the reason possessions, protectorates and taken as seriously as a piece of win it by force of arms, or lodge Great Britain altogether why many members of St. John mandates held by her neigh- territory. Rightly or wrongly, Russia can cede it to her with- from the Orient, would throw Ambulance in Hongkong are There were fears at one Italy at first suspected that out resistance. The latter course her back on the Mediterranean eager to volunteer for service in time in certain quarters that Great Britain and France would is hardly within reason. Rus as the nearest base, and might Abyssinia. They'll at least feel. respect--they Italy might try to grab what she not go out of their way to up further concessions. The ques- attack. At least it would bring won't be allowed to forget the
sian opinion would not support even open up India to Japanese at home in one had long coveted. But these hold the Covenant of the League tion is, then, whether the mili- Australia and New Zealand were quito unfounded. And of Nations. Hence her defiant tary party is to remain in within the range of Japanese Do you think there's going to
the
Maritime Province of
办
RITAIN has vast interests in
Britain's soli- consure him were he found guilty of the Trans-Siberian at Blago-
veschensk.. When this is com- Bthe China Sea, yet in terms
waiting dreams were not satis-
bours.
those
are
pleted, the Maritime Province
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naval power.
The Very Idea!
CURRENT EVENTS
By Eddie "Ward Price" Kelly JUST to be in the runn.ng we
Wanchai or Central markets.
一
Italy's discretion in this matter attitude towards the League, power.
be a war?" n friend asked. is very simply explained. The But the League is just as strong.
The fact must be faced that The chief British weapon in us on the Star Ferry last night.
"We're sure there is," we said Italian Government knows with- as its Member-States make it, along with the development of the China Sea up to the present out any shadow of doubt that Happily, no member has actually Japanese imperialism on the time has been economic power; sadly, "we've spent the money the to pay the com- British territory would be devoted against the application of ground has gone a progressive but this also is being shattered wife gave us fended, and that Great Britain sanctions in the present dispute, strengthening of the military by the Japanese trade offensive, pradore's account.""
Last year India, for instance, Mussolini's to blame. When in would defend it single-handed if while over fifty countries have partý at home.
imported 600,000,000 yards of Rome you don't do as the Romans necessary. This patent fact has endorsed this method of degling
cotton goods from England and do. You do as Mussolini says. a bearing upon the question of with the crisis. It is naturally UCCESS has inflamed the 645,000,000 yards from Japan. The League of Nations may be "sanctions" which the Italo-hoped that the first of these spirit of the Japanese nation. Figures in various lines of fast but Mussolini's Fascist. In- cidentally, when then sanctions Ethiopian dispute has made sanctions will impress the fact The dream of Asiatic empire, trade, along the China coast, in become effective, they'll be calling
held by Japan for generations, the Dutch East Indies, and it the League of Rations. topical. We are sometimes told on Italy that unwarranted
justified in her eyes by the pres- throughout the Indian Ocean by the isolationists that "sanc-aggression cannot be tolerated, sure of an increasing popula- littoral as far as East Africa, tione mean war". This argu-and that she may, even at this tion, and intensified by the tell a similar story. It might THEY blame the British delegato to the League of Nations for ment, however, requires the late hour, reconsider her policy. diplomatic, rebuffs and restric- almost be said that Great Bri- the sanctions. "Eden me wrong" closest scrutiny. We have seen: If not, the League members will tions imposed by America and tain retains her. Pacific empire is the latest Italian theme song. And in the Garden of Edon's Sir that Britain can defend the tini- not hesitate to bring further the European Powers in the only by Japanese sufferance,
France does not possess such Samuel Hoare and Mr. Stanley est morsel of her territory as pressure to bear. That is the past 25 years, has become an open expression of national
large vested interests as Great Oh, yes, and the Intest theme song Baldwin are. the prickly pear." TD. well as the largest-without position at the moment. Time temper.
Britain in Chine. Indo-China about Selassie is "He ain't gonna resort to war. The League prin- will show whether united action
Most of Japan's liberal lend- is her largest colony. It is far reign no mo, no mo ciples, on which rost the whole by League members will bringers have dropped out of the pic- removed from Japan, and Japan of civilisation, could be defended Italy around to a more renson ture several of them have been does not covet: It. France ins Which is all we have to BAY
assasinated. A year ago re-no practical reason for opposing about Ethiopla., But Abyssinia.
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