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REMOVING TRADE OBSTACLES
Whatever may be the re- actions of sectional interests or of politicians to the newly- concluded Trade Treaty between the United States and Canada, the agreement will be welcomed from one standpoint, namely,
that it is a step in the direction of removing Bome of the obstacles which are hindering the expansion of world trade. It has again and again been stressed by economists and statesmen alike that no marked improvement in world commerce is likely to be registered until many of the artificial barriers
“GUERILLA TACTICS”. -We are told that in the end they will de- feat Mussolini's invasion. Here a well-known writer who knows inti- matoly terrain and people, and has himself fought against guerilla tactics, éxplains just how and why.
UNIN
on wo
under
TNINHABITED deserts, escort lines the drift in fear of tween sunrise and sunrise, with mountains more rugged enemy raiders. Then from a a Galla in the saddle. The than the Alps, fever, drought, near kople comes the crack of tribesmen are fighting on their a hostile populace-hardly a rifles and the chatter of a
own ground where every track good country in which to emu- machine-gun.
and ford is familiar. late the conquests of the Oxen fall in the yokes; lorries
The African light, so puzzling Caesara. Everything must be with perforated radiators race. carried from the dumps at the their engines in a futile attempt to the newcomer, favours their Keen eyed The border in rear of the invading to win to cover.
escort marksmanship. armies by ox-waggon and lorry; shoots at an invisible foe; all is snipers, safely hidden, will take heavy toll of the weary escorts. the sick and wounded must be confusion. I have had that ex-
In Tanganyika evacuated in the same way. perience many times,
lost men A party of the enemy, Heat, flies, the torment of
transport thirst; it is the "German East" mules and wiry ponies, have and campaign over again; the same trekked right round the front, from land mines kind of country, the same and are loose on the lines of which the enemy transport problems, the same communication to harry and placed
roads at mobile, elusive enemy. Von destroy, until an overwhelming the Lottow's battalions contained force can be brought to chase night, far in our many Somalls and Abyssinians. them out of those unexplored, rear. All supplies had to be TN June (earlier in the moun- brought from distant buses, be- tains) the rains break; and There are wide waterless unmerciful hills. ~
They will cross the desert, cause the retreating Germans such rains! For months not a plains, sprinkled with belts of
the wheel can turn on the trails; thorn-bush, intersected by moving seventy miles in a day left nothing ranges of stony hills in which and night, to villages of their villages. They lived on native but Abyssinian ponics can still only a klipspringer can move friends, there, to plan another grain and eattle, and game; carry their hardy riders to loot quickly. Here and there deep ambush. Fifty of them, prac- there was nothing for the in- the dumps and massacre the watercourses, littered with boul- tised fighters, can keep two vader, not even water if they outposts."
A European army must con- ders, obstruct progress. The battalions in constant employ- had time to destroy or polluta
the wells.
struct forlified posts and wait supply convoy gomes toilsomely ment, largely futile.
for fine weather. But these along the track, where bushes They will ambush the con-
the Italians camps must be supplied with and trees have voys, cut telephone wires, de- THE farther
advance the more drenúful food and munitions; aeroplanes been removed stroy culverts and concrete the much-boast drifts, make night attacks on their hardship and dangers are cannot do it, mules and porters supply dumps; vanishing like likely to be. On the plains must. Then comes the day of ghosts back into their mountain malaria strikes down their ex- the guerilla!
retreats, hausted, half-starved infantry; He will Warned by the high, cold mountains of the camps, with their trenches and the noise of interior will at first scem a cannon, and descend upon the engines, haven, but those lonely ranges, life-giving arteries stretching can cleft by huge ravines, dense from the bases to the isolated from with impenetrable forest, will be armies. Nothing can frustrate acrial the happiest terrain of
the him, for whatever guard is pro-
d "rond mak- ing."
At each donga between countries are either (watercourse) there must be a greally modified or completely long halt, for banks and sandy abolished. Of interest in this beds have been churned up by connection is the recently-issued wheels and hoofs until one sinks annual survey of world produc- deep. It is no light work getting
they hido the
guerillas.
edible in
GUERILLA
by C. T.
Stoneham
scouts.
WAR
move round
the
vided for the convoys he will bring superior force to encoun- ter it.
The ceaseless vigilance, the fatigue and privation attendant on this type of warfare rapidly make invalids of fighting men.. When the hospital ships come inck full week after week, and there is no advance to report, Mussolini will need all his eloquence to persuade his fol- lowers that all goes well in East Africa.
The Very Idea!
SCRAPBOOK SCRAPS
Guna, lorries, waggons, must These were be manhandled up steep grades the tactics of and over improvised bridges German askari improvised because they are against our in- constantly destroyed. There are vasion of what is now Tangan- a hundred thousand Abyssinians yika, and it should be remem- ready to take advi tare of the hered that at the Armistice Von invaders' difficulti
There must be many chiefs Lettow was still in the field, un- conquered. We had his towns who learnt the trade of war in and railways, but we did not have him, and he harassed us raids into Kenya to loot women Another Collation From Ed. night and day. Every yard of and cattle. In 1925 I spent a
Kelly's Collection tion and prices published by the loaded vehicles
such
those supply trails cost a life, year on the frontier, and these rnids were frequent. Our
The following verse appears in the League of Nations. This gives places.
black or white.
troops, skilled in bush warfare, Times concerning a letter by George several indications that the The dust (white cotton-dust
The little Abyssiniar mule-is-were-seldom-able-to-inflict much Bernard Shaw on the League_nnif economic recovery which began as fine as flour) rises in choking. in 1932 has continued during the clouds; men push and haul, an amazing traveller: I had one damage on the guerillas, they Abyssinin past two years. But the sweating and swearing. The that covered ninety miles be- were too speedy and cunning. provement is not nearly so mark- SSSSSSSSSES ed as could be wished. It is SSSSSSSSSSS shown that last year employment
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and industrial activity improved in most countries, visible stocks of primary products were con- siderably reduced, the quantum of world trade increased by three to four per cent., and, although gold prices of commodities in world markets continued to fall, prices in terms of national cur- rency rose in a number of countries. Another gratifying feature, indicative of the indus- trial revival, is that employment fell considerably less than out-. put, the reason being that em- ployers generally endeavoured not to reduce the numbers of their staffs in full proportion to the decline In production. Whilst there is some comfort to be found in the facts and figures given in the survey, it has to be conceded that the improvement in industrial output has been largely confined to the produc tion of goods for domestic markets, and, as a result, the total of world trade has expand- ed much less in proportion, the rise since the third quarter of 1933 being small. A point which is stressed in the survey is that the failure of external. trade to recover further is large ly due to the piling up of obstacles to the international ex- change of goods, and so long as these restrictions persist, a limit is naturally set to the prospect of further recovery in industrial uctivity. If, the world depres- slon has shown one thing very plainly, it is that no, nation can Ilve to itself; there must be as free an exchange of goods be- tween countries as is possible. The nation which seeks only to Bell, and not to buy, la attempt- ing an economic impossibility. At the back of the new" agree-. ment between the United States and Canada there is a recogni- tion of this fact. And for that
through
H. K. AT END OF NOTES OF THE DAY LAGGING BACK
MISSING LINK
Hongkong can shortly pride it-
IN FLYING
More than twenty thousand miles At the end of last year there self upon being one end of a miss of regular route were added to the were, in the United Kingdom 90 ing link Unless something is world's airways last year, bringing licensed "permanent" aerodromes, and seaplane done about it, and that seems im- the total up to an aggregate of landing grounds probable, we soon shall have this 223,100 miles. With a total mile stations, as compared with 79 lu
The aeronau-
claim to fame. Before the end of age of 41,390, the British Empire the previous year.
tical radio organisation In the
Poor Mussolini, by such cares per-
plexed,
Banned by the League, with all
its annctions vexed,
Mirst now endure, the inat, the
heaviest straw,
The patronage of Mr. Bernard
Shaw.
Where is Thy Sting
Patient, clutching vously:-
sheets nor-
"Tell me the worst, doctor." Doctor-"No, I always post it." Patient"What?"
Doctor "My bill.".
Spongy
"By the way, darling, that's
"A sponge cake." "Sponge cake?!!
day. What kind was it?"
"Yes, seeing you had no money to Mrs. Grey, the four from Mrs. give me, I sponged the eggs from. milk from Mrs.
the present year, the Pan-American holds second place among the na
United Kingdom was Improved and Airways will be operating its ma- tions as regards route milenge' in
traffic generally the Pacific chines across
on operation, being surpassed only by extended, and
showed a farther average increase schedule. Before the end of 1938, the United States of America, with
per cent. The according to latest information, an aggregate of 50,800 miles. of about fifty British operators will be running These and a number of other inter- meteorological services were wide-splendid sweet we had for dinner to with the American and Canadian esting and vital facts and statistics ly utilised; during the year 5,998 trans-continental systems. Early were recently published in, the requests for forecasts for cross- In 1930 Hongkong will see the in- annual report for 1934 on British country and continental flights by auguration of its first air service, Civil Aviation. Civil aircraft re- civil pilots were dealt with by the the Imperial Airways connection gistered in Great Britain last year Forecast Service of the Air Minis between here and Penang, tying up showed an increase of 119 over the try, showing an increase of 95 per White, and the with the Imperial system which total for 1933, bringing the aggre. cent. over the figures for the pre- Brown." leads to London. Thus, if one gate up to 1,174. Altogether 708 vious year. Much research has been carried out, both on models cared to start on a round-the-world aircraft were registered during the and on full scale planes in the Asked. for a sentence to include air journey from Hongkong year, 329 of which appeared on the search for suitable landing devices. the word "goul," a little city boy travelling by Way of Penang, records for the first time. The Definite progress has been record-gave the following: Malaya, India, over the Red Sea, outlook for further development is ed in gilding, and 24 active glid- "I like to gout to the pictures at
are ing clubs were in existence at the night." across the Mediterranean, and so most encouraging. Demands to London; across the Atlantic to continually being made for greater close of 1934. Including civilians officers of twenty to efficiency of civil aircraft in order and air force New York; across America Alameda, Cal-one could eventu to keep pace with the increased different nationalities, 130 persons Ile (ut party)"I made an awful ally reach a stopping place within activity in aviation, and attention underwent training at the Air mistake just now. I told a forty miles of one's starting point. is now being especially directed to Service Training school, in addi-that I thought that the host must be But between Hongkong and Macao the improvement in design of the tion to 200 officers of the Royal a stingy old blighter, and then I dis- is that dropped link In the chain. larger types of aircraft. The pro- Air Force Reserve.
Until Pan-American Airways is blem to be faced is that of achiev- able to obtain permission to put ing higher specs without undue
its big flying clippers down in our increase in operational cost, but the
Painful
Identified
MAN
taken
covered that I was talking to the host."
She "O%%, you mean my hus-
Simple Lifo
The most significant indication band?". harbour or until the Imperial Air- elelency of modern aeroplane con- of the progress that has ways skips from Hongkong to the struction will doubtless prove effec- place in British civil aviation is Portuguese Colony, the Colony will tive in answering this requirement. to be seen in the activities of Im- "So you advised your patient to perial Airways-Great Britain's live a simple life?" asked the first have no direct connection with one :
most important airways company. doctor. end of the round-the-world air
approximately
Howlers
service. Why? Because of the Air Mail traie continues to in- In April, 1934, Imperial Airways "Yes," replied the second. "Ho obstacles put in the way of flying crease. During 1984 there were completed its first ten years of can't afford to pay my bill if he enterprises which have sought (o 122 tons of letter air mails-com- flying. During those ten years the keeps on living an expensive one."" make connections with this port. prising nearly six million letters milenge Increased
and the traffic ton The result is that instead of being despatched by air from Great threefold,
flown increased Boven- among the most progressive and Britain to places abroad, as com- mileage advanced air commerce contres, as pared with 86 tons in 1933. The fold. Last December the servico England and Áus it should be, Hongkong still inga be- figures for parcels revealed a soven between hind. As far as we can see those ton Increase, the total for 1984 tralia was inaugurated. As re-
services, Im-Christian. staid and solemn statesmen who boing 74 tons. There was a revival gards European guide the Colonial Empire's policy in the export trade of aircraft. perial Airways machines flew 700,- reason the accord must be wel-ply. n. real-impetus to business in 1934 amounted to $1,921,102, the services were brought into opera have missed an opportunity to sup- The total value of exports during 300 milos, and many new internal comed.
this possession.
highest figure reached since 1030. tion during the course of the year:
The plural of penny is twoponce. Polonius was a mythical sausago, A deacon is the lowest- form
Antony and Bismarck are two Poetry in when every line starts with a capital letter.
The feminino of "hero"
metalu.