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.Billy Merrin's Band CANADA PUTS FAITH
IN AIR FLEET
Billy Merrin's Band ..Jay Wilbur's Band
Canada has an interesting Dick Robertson's Orchestra defence problem and one which has been giving the Govern- Dick Robertson's Orchestra ment's officials connected with this ordinarily unimportant de- think .Reginald Dixon partment something to Brian Lawrence's Orchestra about. The sum of their deli- berations was recently an- Brian Lawrence's Orchestra nounced; it is "air arms."
.Sandy Powell
There have been in the past many persons, both in Canada Joc Peterson and elsewhere in the British Joe Peterson Empire, who have maintained that the big Dominion should do Gracie Fields more in the matter of Imperial Gracie Fields defence than her policies allow, It has been suggested, over and Vera Lyn over again, that since Canada Vera Lyn possesses little or no navy of her own she should contribute to the upkeep of the Royal Navy, or build or buy from Britain des- troyers, submarines and cruisers for her own defence. But Canadians have been averse to this. In the first place, they argued, they were at peace with their neighbours and needed no naval protection whatever. But with the tension in the Pacific Canada awoke to the fact that perhaps, after all, there might come a time when her maritime British province in the west,
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Columbia, would be in need of defence. It was fairly obvious. that no assistance from Great Britain could be expected of a sort which would dissipate any danger of naval attack. In the first place no British Fleet could rench Vancouver and Victoria before an enemy. Secondly, there is no base from which a battle fleet ean operate, for Esquimalt could not possibly be turned into a Singapore or ડી.
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HONGKONG
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SIR CECIL
Governor CLEMENTI, K.C.M.G.
WARNS.
the
WEST
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THERE has never been a more
TH
hazardous situation in the
Far East than the
which
exists to- day. That
i s
my
opinion.
I feel that the situati o n is even more
fraught
with dan-
one
ger than it was when I went out Hongkong for the first time in 1899, as young cadet.
to an
a
At that time China stood on the brink of a mad attempt to drive all foreigners "into the sea." Older people will remember how, in 1900, the
foreign Legations in Peking were besieged by the Boxera and what anxious months we experienced during that terrible outbreak.
in an exclusive
interview
This alliance had stabilised the situation in the Far East for twenty years, It was of immense value as an outward and visible sign of friendly co- operation on terms of equality between Eastern and a Western Power.
Now that there is no such alliance we should not fail to learn a lesson from our present posi- tion in the Far East.
As the outcome of that lesson I hope to see the closest co-operation in the near future be- tween all non-Asiatic nations who have interests in the Far East, especially those with impor- tant possessions.
They should stand firmly together for mutua! defence, as they did in 1900, if they wish to avert a danger which it should be impossible to under- 'estimate.
But in 1900 the situation was overcome be cause Europe and America stood firmly united. It was an international force under the command. of a German Field-Marshal that raised, the siege
The bulwark of that defence is the new Bri- of the Legations and made the Chinese-who, as tish naval base at Singapore. There is no reason history repeatedly shows, will "yield everything whatever why Singapore should be considered us to force and nothing to reason"—abandon for a threat to Japan. It is as far from the Japanese while their anti-foreign activities.
base at Kobe as Gibraltar is from Boston, and no Since then the situation has deteriorated, one has yet been foolish enough to claim that and there can be no doubt that the deplorable Gibraltar is a menace to America. weakness of all European and American
I ENDORSE the remarks recently made Colonies and Dependencies in the Far East since
by Sir Francis Lindley when he stress- the Great War has been a special inducement ed how important it is that we should keep out of to Pan-Asiatic and anti-foreign agitation, both the present Sino-Japanese dispute. in China and Japan.
At the present time it is easy to be led away I Know something of the situation from from hard facts by our own natural sympathy for
innocent sufferers.
personal experience. When I went back to Hongkong as Gov- But there are two sides to every question, ernor in 1925 I found the feeling against foreign- and it must not be forgotten that China has been ers getting a firm hold on the Chinese again.
irritating Japan for many years by a variety of During-my-Governorship-we-in-Hongkong incidents, such as unprovoked attacks upon small were obliged to carry on a kind of petty warfare. Japanese garrisons. with the Canton Soviet, who had a Russian "high Students of Chinese history are also aware adviser" and coined a slogan "Make Hongkong a of another important factor. Whenever China has been conquered in the past (as by the Mon-
desert island."
My police stations along the frontier had gols and the Manchus) she has later absorbed her to be protected with barbed wire and machine conquerors. guns, and one of my first acts was to send a British regiment to drive Chinese troops out of our New Territory, which they had invaded,
When the present warfare is over it is therefore probable that solidarity will arise be- tween China and Japan, particularly in their foreign politics. If.so the cry of "Asia for the More than ten years have passed since then, and now the Chinese, writhing in the grip of
Asiatics" will grow more and more vehement. Japanese ruthlessness, have come to realise that, And in addition there must be nuval and mill- after all, there is some advantage to them in the tary co-operation between Britain, France, with existence of European treaty ports in China and her vast Indo-China interests, America with of a British Colony on the coast of Kwangtung. the Philippines, and the Netherlands, with her
It was unfortunate in 1922 that, owing, as 1 Indies. think, to lack of vision by British and American When that is achieved no pan-Asiatic Power statesmen, the Angle-Japanese Alliance came to will dare challenge the Far Eastern rights of an end.
Western civilisation.
hold against an invading army by relatively few troops. The western rivers are not naviga- weeks or even months. So it ble to any distance by warships, seemed Canada's strategy in
therefore land and air opera- efence must be of another sort.
tions were the only dangers the She has hit upon the only possi Dominion had to consider from A. Krassov.ble protective scheme-a strong behind the bulwark of the Roc-
and fast air striking force.
kies. And naturally she chose Bearing in mind that the
an air force as her best defen- Atlantic seaboard is relatively sive weapon-an air force safe from invasion and that war
piloted by men with experience with the United States was out
in all sorts of weather, northern of the question, Canada had to blizzards and prairie dust look only to the north and west storms, trained by veterans who when considering her lines of
won for Canada the reputation detence. An attack across the
of breeding the highest propor- North Pole, while within the tion of "ace” airmen of any part range of possibility, was impro- of the British Empire during lnble; and, moreover, the same the World War. To the men of defence force which could pro- her new air fleet, then, Canada tect the Pacific coast would be has handed the major responsi- available to meet any menace bility of defence, to be shared from the Arctic. In the Pacific, with a little, but efficient, stand- then, the chief danger lying army and a skeleton militia
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despite fairly strong fortifica- its pencc-time strengh in tions, and all of Vancouver 1-hours, as has been proved. land and the province of British Columbia, were highly vulner able to air or sen attack. But cxtending in an unbroken lino from the Alaskan boundary to States frontier the United stretched the towering peaks of the Rocky Mountain range. It offered a ready-made wall of Its passes could be
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Even the most vitriolic of the critics of the Dominion's past defence measures will agree that with sufficient power in her air arm Canada could check any in- vasion at the Rockey Mountains. It would be well if all the Em- pire's defence problems were an simple and as Inexpensive.
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THE "VERY IDEA"
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD STILL SMELL
By Ed. Kelly, Minister for Morals
W
E see that the Superin- tendent of Mails will in future be known as the Inspector of Posts.
We wonder what they'll call the Inspector of Fem- ales?
Seriously, though, we are all for Brighter and Better Titles for Prominent People. Inspector General of Police has already been re- named Commissioner.
The
Of course, it's apt to be a bit con- fusing at first. Remembering all the new titles that will undoubtedly he bestowed on lesser police oflleers is certain to make the ordinary police constable Silth of the whole business.
. We foresee some radical changes In the Urban Council where, doubt- Jess, Sanitary Inspectors will in future he called Comptrollers of Dustbias, Superintendents of Rat- Traps, Commissars of Howkers, Ministers for Dog Licences, or some- thing equally cuphonious.
We have always had some dini- culty pronouncing "bacteriologist" and a much simpler title for the oflein! bearing this designation would be "Inspector. General Wogs and Gernis."
LET 'EM ALL DO IT
of
There's no reason why Brighter and Better Titles should be con- fined to Civil Servants.
An ideal designation for Mr. Rut- tonjer, who has something to do with H. B. Beer, would be Minister for the laterior. Jimmy, of Jimmy's Kitchen fame. would be a splendid Controller of Corporations.
Mr. B. Wylie, as President of the Kowloon Residents' Association, is
an obvious Speaker of the Commons, while the Hon. Mr. E. Davidson, President of the Peak Club, should be known as the Leader of the
Upper House.
Let's be gonerous. in fact, and beatow these tliles CH
むむ。
There's no reason why the ricksha coolles shouldn't be known in future as Commissars for Trans- port. or why our wash amahs ahouldn't be called Plenipotentaties of the Wash-Tub.
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We have thought of an excellent title for shroffs, but this is respectable newspaper with a respectable staff.
ON SEX APPEAL
We are, in fact, the acme of respectability. We are so respect- able-that-wo-boljovo-that-brassieres- are only worn on the heads statues.
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And all wo know about panties is that dors do them in the sum- mer, and after chasing cats.
Someone once told us that some girls wear corsettes, but we laughed, because we had known that the course is set only by the captain of a ship.
It wasn't until the other day that we found out that “sex" wasn't the American way of pronouncing “aix". If you don't believe us, girls, our hours of respectability are from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. And we are quite willing to interview a Director of Education.
But remember! Respectability must come first. We don't care what happens afterwards,
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