THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1936.
The Last Of An Infamous Treaty Germany Has Had A Stirring Year
the
France-Soviet treaty. Antagonism toward the Soviets more and more became the keynote of German policy.
Berlin, Dec. 17, Europe; simultaneously, she challeng- Germany in 1936 removed, tiled. Jimitation of her sovereignty im posed upon her by the treaty of Versailles and tank the lend in an International drive against Bolshe vism.
zone-an
aren an
RESIST BOLSHEVISM
During the Nazi party congress of
On Murch 7, after preparations Nuremberg in September, Hitler und which had been kept secret, German all important party leaders bitterly troops marched into the Rhineland attacked Soviet Rusia and, stressed
having 14.600,000
Germany's determination "to resist inhabitants, comprising between Ger-bolshevism wherever it shows itself." many's Western frontier and a line The civil war in Spain was especially 40 kilometers East of the cited as proof of The destructive Rhine, wherein Germany under the tendencies of bolshevism. Germany Nationalists morally rallied to the treaty of Versalles was forbidden to entertain armed forces. In the treaty although officially she adhered of Locarno, Germany had voluntarily on
non-intervention, agreed to respect the demilitarized
drown
zone.
tu
L
of
The
German government's move. gainst bolshevism received added While Germon troops were murch-impetus from the repprochement he ing into the Rhineland amid the wildtween the two leading powers enthusiasm of the population, the fascism, Germany and Italy. practically alt-Nazi Reichstag sat in Berlin.
Hitler read a memorandum which was handed on the same day to the governments of the signatory powers of the Locarno tremty. announcing the military occupation of the Rhine- land by Germany and giving the legal reasons why Germany consider ed herself justified in disregarding
Locarno,
The memorandum referred to the ratiflention of the Franco-Soviet treaty and reculled that the Ger- man government had long before. notified the other signataries of the Locarno pact of its opinion that the Franen-Soviet pact was
www incompatible
in
During the Ethiopian campign. Germany
refused to take part sanctions gainst Italy. Economic fen-operation between the two coun- tries was soon followed by closer political contacts.
One of the most important causes of feletion between Germany and italy was removed on July 11, when the German and Austrian govern- menis reached putting an end to the continual strain between Berlin and Vienna.
understanding
GERMAN-ITALIAN UNDERSTANDING
An old, grey-haired broom-maker from a little town in the Swiss canton, Wallis, en route to the mark et place. Evidently the descendants of Wilam Tell hav e plenty of strength.
Under the agreement, Germany re- | 51 tognized the full sovereignty of Austria; both governments declared with the Locarno treaty.
that they would consider the internal "France" the memorandum said, regime existing in the two countries answered repeated German assurus being the exclusive concern of the unces of peaceful intentions and offers
ders respective governments; finally, the of friendship by concluding a military Austrian government pledged to base alliance, with Soviet Russia, ex- its clusively directed against Germany "Austria is
Policy upon the int
German and violating the Locarno poet, The Pollical co-queration between Levarno pact therefore lost Its mean- Germany and Italy was intensified ing and ceased to exlaf."
when the Italian foreign minister. Count Galeazzo Clano, visited the Reich and conferred. with Forelan Minist Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath and Chancellor Hitler In Berlin and Berchtesgaden between
PROPOSED SEVEN POINTS The memorandum, then, anwunerd that Germany "restored military sovereignty in the Rhineland" and proposed seven points.
In there seven points, the German government declared its willingness 1. to enter
enter negotiations about a de-
A zone on both sides
which,
October 20th and Count
hoes was not
a 25-year non-aggressionment. Germ. According to this state-
Japan's Isle of CORRESPONDENCE
Mystery
PACIFIC ADVENTURE OF LORD MOYNE
protocol was
A strange account of a visit to made an announcement out- the islands of Palau, in the Of lining the German-Italian under Pacific Ocean, now held by the western frontier, ". to standing
Japanese under mandate from and Italy agreed us with Francy and Belgium, 3. to to the problem of n Western
pact the League of Nations, is given Britain and Italy
ly non-intervention in
In Spain coupled guarantors of
of that
by Lord Moyne in "Walkabout" pact, 4. to include with
common stand against bolshevism, published by William Heine- Holland as a partner, 5. to conclude with moral recognition for France, a Western air pact, 6. to conclude and Danubian problems. Germany mann. 188.
Ger-recognized Italy's Ethioplan empire non-aggression pacts with ait of Ger- many's Eastern neighbours, 7. to re- and Italy consented to let Germany
gnize
ጊ።
turn to the League of Nations, expres-co-operate in the economie exploits-
tion sing the expectation that Germany's of Ethiopia. wishes regarding colonies and the separation of the
Lengue covenant from the treaty of Versalles would be fulfilled.
Street Football
To the Editor.
RADIO BROADCAST
Second Test Cricket Match
From London
CLASSICAL PROGRAMME.
Radio Programme Droadcast by 2. D. W. on a Wavelength of 335 metres (845 k,c's.), 31.10 metres (9.52 [megacycles),
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
p.m. European Programme A Variety Programme.- Song-Cuckoo in the Friedl Lusser'
7-11
"Follow the Fenorion An
ton and the Paramount Theatre Or- chestra;
Song-There's
magle in the
Lillan Harvey (Suprano); Orchestra-Romance in moonlight..
Alfredo Campoli and his Orchestra Sung-Mury Rose....
....Grarte Fields; Orchestra--Black
Eych.
Maurice
Igor and his Nomad Orchestra; Plano
No. R.19. Solo Plano Medley, No.
Man-
Stock
Charlle Kunz; Humorous-Tap your tootsies....Jack Hulbert; Orchestra -Round a Gipsy Camp Fire. toyant and his Tiplen Orchestra.
7.30
p.m. Closing Local Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. Albert Sandler and his Orchestra.
Li Boheme Fantasia. (Puccini, orr. Tavan); I want your heart (Haydn Wood); Gipsy Moon (Bor- Ranoff); Bird songs at eventide (Eric Contes); I bring a love song (Rom- berg); Cuban Serenade (Midgley); Maruschkin (de Leur),
8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wen- |ther Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m. Richard Crooka (tenor), Stuart Robertson (bass. baritone) und Renee Chemet (Vio. lin).
Tenor Solo-Kathleen Mavourneen (Crawford): Violin Solos-Serenade (Tosel); Serenade (Pierne}; Bari- tone Solo-Bright is the ring of words (Williams); Tenor Solos Springtime reminds me of you (Rotter and Jur- man): My sunshine is you (Stolz): Haritone Solos-In Summerthine on Bredon (Peet); Spa Fever (Ireland). 8.30 p.m. London—B. B. C. Daner Orchestra,
9 p.m. Fondun ----News and AR-
nouncements.
9.20 p.m. London--The Second Hongkong Telegraph,
Cricket Test Match: Australia V England. An account of the Opening Sir-Undoul tedly the Traffic Police Day's Play, by Alan Kippax.
From should have received frequent com- Sidney (Electrical Recording). plaints about schoolboys utilising 9.35 p.m. A Classical Pro- Genealy as their football grounds, gramme. much to the detriment of pedestrians who often get hit by the ball and have to return home for a change of clothes, When complaints are made to the police, they generally receive attention, but the moment that vigil-
lance is relaxed for the sake of more
important duties, the boys start the
nuisance once again.
Conditions are such
these days
that it appears that one seems to en- courage others not to be afraid of the pedestrians and in fact they seem year. to enjoy
the embarassment
Lord Moyne, with a party of friends, was on a voyage of ex- Throughout 1036, Germany con- ploration to New Guinea, tinued her rearmament. On August 24. Hitler issued a decree raising the Borneo, and other neighbouring duration of miltary service from one territories early this
It was officially GREAT EXCITEMENT,
year to two years.
|Hoping to visit these mandated The repudiation of the Locarno explained that this measure WITH treaty caused great excitement in the necessitated by the Soviets army vr- islands, Lord Moyne had secured Western countries. The League of form, increasing the army's pence! facilities in advance from the Nations' council hurriedly met in strength to 2,000,000. London. On March 19, a
тетог-
andum was hunded to the German government in which the signatories
of the Locarno treaty proposed that
the whole affair be submitted to the
Gay Melodies
Hague court and that an internation- At Chinese
al force should be stationed within
the German border pending the settlement of the dispute. -
Hitler met this move by a well- calculated
demonstration. popular Elections to the Reichstag were held on March 20. Hitler personally fed a lectie "electoral cumpaign" featur- ing almost exclusively the reoccupil- tion of the Rhineland as the issue en which the German citizens were re quired to vote.
Funerals To
Be Banned
Shanghai, Dec. 17.
No longer will Chinese bands play "There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town To-night," "Dixie" and other merry tunes at Since under German laws only one
National funerals, if the New Life Move list of candidates the Socialist one could be put forward.] ment has its way. it was impossible to cast an adv
adverse
The practice among wealthy vote, the only way to express dissent
ake one's ballet Chinese families of hiring bands was deliberately to make invalid, there being no specification which play the few numbers in us to what would make a vote invalk, their repertoire, regardless of
Under these dret
circumstances, the their suitability to the occasion, result of the poll was near unanimity, Out of 45,453,001 voters (Jews being has, in the opinion of the New for the first time excluded) 45,001,, Life leaders, resulted in grotes- 489 cast their ballots, only 540,211 votes being "gainst the list and performances and brought therefore invalid" and 44,461,278 or fridicule upon China.
B.8 per cent. of all votes cost, being valid.
Japanese Embassy before leav- ing London.
Yet when his yacht Rosaura arrived off Palou, he was refused permission to enter the harbour,
"In due course." be writes, " launch-lond of officials, arrived ne cumpanied by an Interpreter. They told me
very politely that landing was not allowed. They knew nothing of the letter written three months previously, but when I produced a copy in Japanese, they said they would go in and osk for instructions.
Followed a wait of about six hours, and then the party was allowed to go ashore by launch..
"We were clearly not intended to
see anything of any more serious harbour works." Lord Moyne con- Unues, as on landing we were taken into the town along a new embank- ment in motors which were awaiting
US.
new,
The Gerrati-government answered | Nanking municipal authorities has we were impressed by the size of the
"TELEGRAPH” ART .
SUPPLEMENT
-To-morrow's ~Picture
Features
There will be many topical illustrations in to-morrow's
issue of the Telegraph Pie- torial Supplement, including several pictures of the Royal Welch Fusiliers gymkhana, at Kwanti.
The presentation of "The Boat-Girl Bride" by students of Belillos Public School will figure amongst the illustra- tions, and there will also be pictures of the children's sports at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club.
Groups will include the officers of the 2nd, Battalion the East Lancashires, and Prefects of King's College. There will also be several wed- ding
as well, as a groups,
Sir photograph taken at Robert Ho Tung's party to President Manuel Quezon.
of
PHOTOGRAPHS FORBIDDEN
"The town seemed brand with well kept gardens round the Promulgation of new regulations Government buildings, and along the for wedding and funerals by the newly made roads were trim hedges and banks cut into neat grass steps. been the first fruit of the drive. A the Locarno powers' memorandum on
Government bulidings and also by now under way to ex- campaign is. April announcing that "it had just on the same set of rules to other the well-stocked shops, and the targe received from the nation a solemn
number of men of the Japanese Navy mandate empowering it to represent cities of the country.
According to the new rules, both in the streets." Chinese the Firstly,
and
western-style bands The party were absolutely forbid German people is determined under may be seeing inget fun af den to take photographs and fill circumstances to defend its free separately in wedding and funeral though treated with great courtesy, dom, Tis independence, and its equal processions, but no more thin two they were not encouraged to stay. to adopt that attitude through force rights: secondly, the German people bands will be allowed in one pro- desires to co-operate in the great session. Some ostentatious funerals task of bringing about reconciliation have bansted and understanding among all Euron-bands. en nations."
the
Reich
and
the
people in two respects:
Gemaan
PROPOSALS REJECTED
us many
that
should
a
The results of last week's- Children's Competition will be given, as well as detalls of a new contest for the kiddles,
mationLIENTELAN KUNCINERASINDANAONAALAL pedestrians endeavouring the escape being hit. They furthermore seem
"We were puzzled by the attitude of numbers in as twenty of the Japanese authorities," Lord pedestrian get him and try to obtain too satisfaction their numbers would be Moyne concludes. "They are
'people 10 The tunes played, it is emphasised, intelligent
makeable to add insult to injury. must suli the occasion. For a mysteries about nothing, and their It is, of course, hard to have to ask funeral procession, only funeral attitude was well designed to make The German memorandum rejected tunes are to be played, and for wed us wonder Just what it is that they that they be stopped the use of o temporary playground but with all all proposals implying a limitation of dings only wedding music. Popular wish to hide."
the playgrounds available in Hong- German sovereignty, such as sending tunes, heretofore used on all occa- International troops into the Rhine-sions and generally distorted beyond detailed, account
This fascinating volume is the first kong, it is a shame to allow pedes. land. The proposal to
to submit the nil
of Lord Moyne's trians to be molested by being hit the tribe of by footballs. Should they even have recogation, are taboo.
'successful search for affair to the Hague court wus tacitly.
regulations provide that: light-skinned pygmies inhabitating the courtesy of stopping awhile when dismissed. On the other hand, the marchers in wedding and funeral the Alome Mountains of New Guinea. pedestrians pass by, then it would answer foresaw a four- corteges must wear uniforms made In addition; the party collected no be another case altogether, but dey period during which to settle of native materials and must appeur fewer than 16 creatures which had believe in being in large groups and dispute by amiable negotiations; clean and Germany undertook not to increase with sacred eye hiring of beggars never been seen previously at the are ready to show combined anta-
the
faces and bare feet to London Zoo.
gonism the moment that a pedestrian the strength of her troops the
should form part of the cortege is prohibit-
If the police cannot protest. Rhineland during this period.
edi no more than sixteen coffin- The value of the book to all in-have control over them unless the The problem of concluding a new bearers shall be allowed; "supersil-terested in ethnology is greatly en-police have a fixed and continuous Western security pact replacing flour" Or "feudalistie customs are hanced by an introduction to the watch, there, then it would become Locarno remained in the foreground forbidden, Including the carrying of volume written by Dr. A. C. Haddon, the magistrates to make one or two throughout the year. Germany's large paper images of gods, glant while in an appendix Dr. A. J. E. examplary
nominal fines,
which position was based upon the principle figures of Animals, and idols.
Cave discusses sorne of the human should have n very sound affect. that a new Western pact was possible
The latter prohibitions, however, skulls which were collected. The One never knows when pedestrian only if Western powers guaranteed does not extend to the carrying of book is beautifully illustrated by a might be in a bad mood and after Western frontiera exclusively. Thus, ancestral tablets, sedan-chairs, lan-series of 108 plates, consisting mainly continuous provocation take the law Germany, sought to separate the terms and banners with appropriate of photographs taken
by Lady upon himself and then of course, he question of Western security from Chinese characters, an integral part Broughton in the course of the would have to pay recompensa. V the troubled problems of Eastern of most processions.
DISGUSTED,
the
Journey,
Choral "Mass in B Minor" (Bach) --No. 10, Confiteor.... Philharmonie Choir.
Trio From "The Musical Offering" (Bach). Italian Trio.
String Orchestra Brandenburg No. 6 in B Flat Major Concerto (Buch).
Pianoforte-Sonata in E Flat Major, (Beetho- Op. 81A ("Les Adieux"),
ven)....Wilhelm Backhouś,
10 p.m. London-Big Ben.
10.30
p.m.
Band Music, Military With Ina Soucz (Soprano).
Band- "Swan Lake Ballet (Tchaikovsky); Soprano Solos-Love find a way (Fraser-Simson);"My Hero (Strange and O. Straus); Band
Air varie
un theme Suisse (Molir); Band-The Flamborough Sword Dance--Folk Dance (Sharp); The Kirkby Malzeard Sword Dance- Folk Dance" (Sharp); Soprano Solos
will
Love (Dyrenforth and Smith):
"give" "you" tny'all (Dowdon and Besly): Band-The "Champion" March Medley (arr. S. Ord Hume).
11 p.m. Close Down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
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Frequency Wavelength
4,500
43.69
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GMI
11.700 k.. 2142
GSE
21,445
GAF
$5.140
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h.c. 26.28 Straw . 19.01 ketres ET,100 kt. 14.30 meires
GAR
21,470
k.r. 1197 metrow
GS1 (SJ
£5.240
k..
19.50 metres
...
19.68 melzwe
GAL (80) G&P
110
kt.
49.10 maires
15,180
.19.74 thetrew
Op.m.
15,310 kat. 19,50 metres Transmission 1
Nie Ren, “A Countryman's Diary! 1.16 p.m. A Short (tecital of Traditions!
Brottish Rongs.
4.30 p.m. The Herond Cricket Tent Matcht Auriraila. England.
4.15 pm.
5.15 pim.
Chamber Music.
Handloom Weaving. - 5.40 p.m. Tha News and Announcements.
tireenwich Time Blynal at 5.45 paw. Transmission 2
16.86, GR.M.)
7 p.m.
Bir Ben. "Trinity House, Der Tied and produced. by E, L. Morrow. The programmis will, in- trolsce lighthousekeepers, crewn and flours of East Cant lett ships, and London River, and Southampton pilota.
7.12 p.m. The Rutland Bquare and New Victoria Orchralta, directed br Norman Austin. From the New Vietaria Clisema. Edinburgh. Diary.'
A
7.80 mm. A Countryman's
telk by A. G. Street, 1.5 p.m. The Botland Square and Now Victoria Orchestra. diracted by Norman Austin (rveld), A.15 p.m. Starlight' Notable personalities ́of the kinge interviewed at the microphone by William MacLar K.10 p.m. The BJEC. Dance Orckentin,
directed by Henry Hall, 10. The News and Announcements.
Greenwich Time Bignal at 9.15. pim. 9.30 p.m. The Second Cricket That Matchi Auriralia v. England: Au sergant af the opening day's play ty Alan Kippax, from Sydney (In collaboration with the Australian broadcasting Commission).
1.35 Dim. Light Orchestral Mašle.
Traction 3 (68.3, GSF., -0.9JL.)
10 p.m. Big Nen, Jon, Q. Atkinson and
his Quintet. 19.36. p.m. Tally ‘Sešenilata at. Work'—ti. 1845 pm. A. Planeferto Recital. 11.15 p.m. Star Variety,
18.40 p.m. The Second Cricket Test Matchi
Australia · England. 1135 pm. Maileal Interfada,
13 km. "Turn Hound. 12,21 m.in. The News and Annesnormente,
Greenwich Time Bignal at 13.45 m 12,30 .m. The Hungaria Glory Orchesirn,
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