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MARSHALL-Mrs. Josepha Muria Marshall died peacefully at 13 King Kwong St., Happy Valley, on Monday, July 11, 1038, at the age of 72 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at 8.30 p.m. to-day.
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Twelve months of Mr. Chamberlain
HE Prime Minister of Great Britain holds one of the two greatest demo- cratic positions in the world. Its latest occupant has curious notions of how best to emphasise his zeal for demo- cracy.
He gets rid of Mr. Zden, with loud applause from Rome and Ber- in; he appoints Mr Lennox-Boyd, mostly known as the ardent sup- porter of General Franco.
His social life seems to be set in a framework drawn by Lady Astor and Lord Londonderry,
It was symbolic of his outlook that he entertained Herr Ribben- trop to lunch while the Gorman Army was massing on the frontiers of what was Austria.
Mr. Chamberlain does not like it to be thought that he is the friend of the dictators. His method of assuring us that he is not is, n the least, a curlous one.
He has hardly shown himself the man of steel his friends would wish him to be. He began his reign by capitulating a big business and the tax-dodgers over the National Defence Contribution.
Although he denies that there has been muddle over alt re- armament, he has dropped Lord Swinton who, he proclaims, has "built up a magnificent Air Forco ... unequalled in the world."
H
E cringed to Mussolini almost as soon as he
took office. Ho sent Lord Hallfax to Berlin and sacri- Aced Sir Robert Vansittart to the pressure of Hitler's friends in the British aristocracy.
The friend of democracy, this speech on the ratification of the Anglo-Italian Treaty, pronounced a eulogy on Mussolini which might have come from the lips of Signor Grandi.
He blustered over the sacrifice of Austrian independence. Even his show of femness over Czecho- slovakia was mainly duc to French prompting.
The man of steel is ready to sacrifice Spanish democracy tn Fascist appetite. He has thrown Abyssinia to the wolves. He stands remote from the struggle of the Chinese people against Japanese Imperiallam. We are asked to call it all "realism.”
It is, I think. a safe prophecy that the future historians will cali it lack of nerve.
First year of Mr. Chamberlain's Premiership shows, pretty clearly.
son will use about 900 gallons
of the fairly steady, and some monthly. If the 1938 figure of times frantic, influx of refugees monthly consumption for the to this Colony. Consumption island-about 640,000,000 gal- figures for June, 1938,
lons-is divided by the indivi- 589.43 million gallons as com-
dual's estimated requirement pared to 396.74 million gallons it is plain that some 600,000 in 1937. Surely there is signi-persons are using our water ficance here; surely the most supply; which means that the reasonable explanation is that population of the Island alone the increase in our population is has increased by something like responsible for this rather nota-150,000 souls. It is
not un- ble gain in water consumed. reasonable to argue the truth of But because, presumably, there this against the supposition that
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AN ANALYSIS
by Harold Laski
Mr. Chamberlain still has a few friends left.
that he is the abliging instrument of big business and littlo more. His interests are the safeguarding of the property-system and the maintenance of British imperial-
ism.
For them, the League may be further degraded; collective secur- ity may be abandoned. For them profiteering may run riot in the armaments Industry. For them. too. Trinidad and Jamaica must Ancrifice human values to economic Kreed.
We
are not told his objectives in international affaire. We have no evidence of preparation for indus- trial recession.
We are told that rearmament postpones all major social referm for a generation.
But we are given no clear view of the purposes his rearmament is to serve.
In most of the Fascist countries, Mr. Chamberinin is loaded with compliments.
R
OME likes the new atmos- phere; she has, like Salonie, Abyssinia's head on a charger. Berlin has swallowed Vienna; and Mr. "Chamberlain's healtations-go Ike the fatal dalli- of Gray in 1914--may threaten the very life of Prague to- morrow.
Ance
There are cold words for every democratic principle of inter- national organisation. There is not a word of encouragement for the Powers struggling to free themselves from the Fascist menace.
Almost more than Sir John Simon-it could hardly be more- he has conveyed to the world the impression that in the choice be- tween demoerney and property it is on the side of property that he has taken his stand,
H
can
E makes great play of prosperity, with slowly mounting figures of un- ployment. He
do nothing about the Means Test; but there is 110 means test for agricultural landlords who want subsidies to recondition their houses.
Distressed areas see no sign of an Imaginative insight into their prob- lems. The coal and textile indus- tries continue to work out their tragic destinies.
The criticisms of the Opposition, the profound disturbance of the country, the alarm of Mr. Churchill, all leave him unmoved. He thinks he is strong where he is merely complacent.
He relies not upon argument but on the evasion of the public ver-
is no official estimate of the 450,000 people are using nearly GRIN AND BEAR IT population's increase available, 25 per cent. more water than the monthly water return takes they did last year.
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it for granted that the Island's However, such a calculation population is what it
as this one may also be mis- thought to be in 1937-445,000. sumption
leading. For the water con- It is on this figure that the per Chinese wage-carner cannot be
of the
average capita consumption of water is compared to that of the average estimated; and it discloses the foreign resident, for instance. interesting fact that this per To attempt to work out a capita consumption has in-per capita figure for classes in a *creased
very largely indus- more than ten gallons city so per head a day, or roughly 26 more water is used by the well- trialised, where relatively much per cent. In Kowloon the to-do than by the poorer and per capita consumption is still more numerous populace, is dim- based on the 1937 population cult if not impossible. It would figure of 380,000, and because not be unreasonable, perhaps, to total consumption is up from any that of the 540,000,000 301.51 million gallons to 869.28 Island in a month less than half gallons (roughly) used by the million gallons por capita con- that sum is consumed in the sumption is said to have risen crowded tenement areas. It will from 26.4 to 32.4 gallons a day. [follow, then, that the poorer Now consider these figures population can incrcaso very from another point of view considerably without there be working on the assumption that made in the consumption
ing any enormous difference there is a very' considerable in-water. Perhaps the experta crease in Hongkong's popula-can estimate how much water tion. If it is also assumed that an additional 500,000 refugees. the per capita rate of wator will require in Hongkong; or, consumption has altered very alternatively, since the Island little, or that it has risen to water this June than last, to used 148,000,000 gallons more, roughly 30 gallons per day, it what extent the population has will then be acen "that"dno por-been augmented.
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dict. He holds his majority by its. knowledge that a public test of its policy would dissipate its strength.. Now that, after all, is the mounting result of the by-elections,
West Fulham and Lichfield show that the tide is on the turn.
The electorato is unhappy be- cause it senses that a policy of muddio and scuttle is an en- couragement to all the dark forces- of reaction to which, already, Mr. Chamberlain has made so many propitiatory sacrifices.
At long last Mr. Chamberlain is making clear to the average man the inner meaning of 1931.
He does not units the nation in the face of the grave complica- tions before it, He falls in this because he never seeks to under- stand the mind of his opponents. He is sure of himself because ho lives in a mental truss which de- prives him of any elasticity of mind.
A
WORLD that needs to organise for peace he!
A
organises for war. world that needs freer trade he builds on tighter restrictions. A world that needs the economies of plenty he restrains to the tech- nique of scarcity.
That he goes on without patise for thought is interpreted by his intimates as courage. But one who measures the need by the perform- unce will be driven to think that blindness is the proper term.
With all his limitations, Lord Baldwin as Prime Minister had a clear sense that, in a democracy, public opinion must rule. Mr. Chamberlain shows little regard for its urgencies.
The only voices Mr. Chamber- lain wants to hear are the voices that approve. He is so stoutly buckled in the armour of bla com- placency, that he believes himself entitled to neglect ideas which have not originated with himself. He is the man who can never be wrong.
But after Lichfold will come. Stafford; and there is a big sur- prise in store in the West Derby- whire poll
M
R.
CHAMBERLAIN
losing his hold on the plain man who wants Great Britain in the van of tho progressive forces of our civilisa- tion.
He is losing it becauso a single year of office has convinced an over-increasing number of plain men that Mr. Chamberlain will nover put Great Britalis thore.
He does not believe in the pro- grcasive forces of the world. "His imind and heart are spiritually. attuned to an England which looks backwards to power and not forward to peace.
-To-day's Thought-
knows how to squander but not to bestow
TAUITUS.