THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY JANUARY 5, 1939.
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Lady Drummond-Hay, GRIN AND BEAR IT who recently visited Hongkong,
sends from London this absor- bing article on
Defending
This Empire
HE DIC TATOR The author reflects such ex-
T STATES, Italy the traordinary prejudices against
goes to such new Fascist Roman England, and
lengths to prove his contention, all-skeel Integral Body Empire and Nazi Pan- that it is difficult to believe he
Germany, together with can be by birth an Englishman. militaristic Imperial Japan, Some American newspapers have been and still are open- interpret the forthcoming visit ly gambling on the of the King and Queen to Canada. "Decline and Fall" of the and the United States next June in the light of a "Royal SOS to British Empire.
America"-that in effect, it is an appeal to America to "save the British Empire."
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US
tion of nation-wide fear,
America.
WANTE
By Lichty
7-14
"It's a little awunity I took out for Junior-it'll make a nice
nest egg when he grows up and needs ball'
Zealand.
Britain's
女
deal of paper and ink. "re-
Promises and hopes of the
below them, have not always
As the New Year foreshadows The Shape of Things to Come, that is to mo one of the most Some American commentators significant, certainly one of the point to a possibility that Eng-possessions, provinces, colonies, Officer in command of Singapore most important factors looming land might fall under on the horizon, which the diplo domination of the Dictator, and tectorates, not to mention those fence Forces.
the mandates, dependencies and pro- Fortress and of all the Malay De- macy and power of Adolf Hitler, go so far as to attribute Presi- countries such as Egypt, Trans- of Benito Mussolini and the am- dent Roosevelt's gigantic re jordania and Iraq, whose protec was
By the end of another week, I bitions of Japan want to weave armament programme to that tion against foreign invasion is Colonel H. B. Holt, Commission- in. Hongkong talking to into their pattern of the Future, idea, and America's isolation directly or indirectly guaranteed er of Defence and Security in
Envious of the wealth and thereby.
by Great Britain. In the above that vital Empire possession. happiness of the free British peoples which is a constant re resurgence of the one-time na parately the innumerable Indian I was in Abyssinia during the One writer holds that "only a number I have not counted se- I had known Colonel Holt when proach to their systems, covetous tional spirit of the Bulldog States." of British territories, somewhat breed' sweeping the Empire"
war there. He was the British intoxicated by sensational suc- can save Britain. Others main dicated by no fewer than twnety- guest of the Emperor Haile British Naval strategy is in- Military attache and I Was cesses born in part of bold bluff, tain that Mr. Chamberlain is six Naval bases and stations. Selassie at the latter's milltary and in part of our own unpre shrewdly playing for, time for British Royal Air Force air bases Headquarters at Dessie, Nonsense
paredness, the Fascist and Nazl two purposes, to increase Bri- and commercial aerodromes are regimes are deceiving them tain's defensive strength, and to scattered over a line eleven thou WHAT A LOT of nonsense selves as to the real sentiment come to an understanding with sand miles long to far off New THERE HAS BEEN a great
news agencies sometimes of the British people. send
about international
peacetime Our love of peace, admittedly President Roosevelt, I have military forces on land in this armament" in our Press. affairs!
sometimes expressed too vehe- good reason for believing, is far vast Empire number scarcely Two European Powers, France mently, has occasionally been from averse to such an under- one-third of Germany's standing headliness and what was printed and Italy, shout rude remarks misinterpreted as a manifesta- standing provided it is on a fifty- army. at one another.
Afty basis. In view of the grow- That the Central Government been fulfilled. This has been As a result, misguided people if by fear is
We in England did fear war, ing aggressiveness of the Dicta in London in formulating policy, especially applicable to our air
understood # tor nations, an pull long faces and talk of war. deep-rooted national revulsion proportion of the American peo- international crisis, is necessari- anyone, it has been the British ever-increasing more especially in times of grave armament. If it has deceived As if incidents like this are against the folly and crime of pie are in favour of closer co- ly influenced by the advice of the people themselves. Paper past- not always part of our present war. But there was not then, operation with Britain, despite Imperial General Staff and the ed over a hole does not long con- inadequate form of civilisation. there is not to-day, never has the isolationist school of thought. Admiralty, and must take into ceal the void. We have had them in the past been "fear" to fight for country,
consideration the strategical re military secrets of national de- Necessity of maintaining the and will have them in
Empire and all we hold dear.
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quirements on this, the longest future. Worse incidents. Grave much alive, even
The spirit of England is very SINCE THE END of the World "front" in the world, is obvious. fence has furnished ground for
though we War, more particularly since tension. And no war came of would rather talk of peace than the appearance on the European tory and air strategy for the Em. ing our weakness in the air.
The problems of naval, mill- rumours and reports exaggerat them.
of war. Those who take the stage of the Dictator
That we are growing strenger Fashoda, for instance. "Ency-
absence of sabre-rattling
power, pire which from time to time clopaedia Britannica" tells you truculence as a sign of national and fixed by the necessities, perial General Staff and its that the British Lion is bestir- and Britain's policy has been shaped confront the Admiralty and Im is evident from welcome signs
about it. Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. Nile, where British and French
A place beside the cowardice will
discover their limitations, even weaknesses of Chief, Lord Gort, whom I first ring himself and swishing his mistake.
Empire strategy.
met in China in 1927 when he tail. That is a cheerful promise forces met in 1898.
In strong nations, political was Chief of Staff of the British for the New Year. France sought to link up her
A pity only, that Colonial policy dictates military strategy Expeditionary Force, are more possessions in West Africa with WE ARE YET too close to the on land, sea and in the air. If difficult than those which any Secretary Malcolm MacDonald those at the entrance to the Redtive of the value of Prime Minis- is in the circumstances unavoid solve.
picture to gain real perspec- the reverse is true in England, it other nation is called upon to watered his promise regarding the British Colonies with the Sen. And Kitchener hurried up ter Neville Chamberlain's flight able for the time being.
qualification that it is "not now!! the Nile to head them off. to Berchtesgaden in September,
an issue. It should be recalled that the IWAS PARTICULARLY im- Europe was filled with alarm. pride of his high office, of the than sixteen thousand miles when early this year (1938), I that Adolf Hitler also told Mr.
humbling his own pride, the British Empire extends
I hear from what has hitherto more pressed with this thought been . well-informed source, Nothing came of it. For Kit Empire and of the British peo- around the globe, and in Africa flew within sight of Malta, saw Pirow, the South African Minis- chener persuaded the Frenchple. We cannot see the evolving this belt is three thousand miles the Royal Air Force bases near ter, on his visit to Der Fuchrer commander to evacuate Fashoda. details in proper relation one to wide. Though some Frenchmen cried the other, nor can we judge the
Baghdad, and three days later in Berchtesgaden, that his de- The Empire embraces ninety- chatted in Singapore with Major- mand for the former out against the "Pact of Shame", wisdom of the Premier in allow two countries, states dominions, General W. G. S. Dobbie, General
German the tension passed away. Anding Adolf Hitler the exaltation
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at the
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
the
six years later
Britain and France made an entente which included a complete settlement of their colonial differences.
The disputes which bulk so largo one day fade away into nothing the next.
The air is always full of rights and wrongs.
When the
Tunisia and
Djibouti grievances die down we will find more waiting. There are lots of people in Europe who seem to want to say their piece, and thump the big drum. There is a queue of oppressed nations secking sympathy,
When they have all had their say perhaps somebody will start
to talk sense to that silly con-
tinent that is Europe.
It is time the nations there
settled down to the job of decid-
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of that triumph and the con- selousness of a victorious queror at Munich. What many people still overlook is the fact
con-T. Paul Gregory's Serios on Old Hongkong
that aside from British prestige, THE MAN WHO INTRODUCED PRISON
Hitler's sweeping succoss in the. Czecho-Slovakian crisis, no Bri- tish interests were sacrificed at. Munich.
can
Great
REFORM TO THE COLONY
ago
Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and A likeable personality who ser- Magistrate's office, but so effi-tained an insight into Chinese Munich however, have had an in- ved this Colony in an officiar ciently did he perform his task, psychology and mode of thought, evitablo consequence and effect capacity during the early days that he was looked upon as a which rendered him invaluable which should by no means be was Mr. Andrew Lyaaught most likely young man for future to the Government in an underestimated. That is loss of Inglis, Harbour Master and advancement. In fact, his rise when the majority of Europeans prestige, Small nations Marine Magistrate, but better in office was, to say the least, acorned such an accomplishment afford to be indifferent to pre known in old Hongkong as the almost meteoric; his first ap-as beneath their dignity. stige. Not Empires or "Governor of Victoria Gaol." pointment was announced on Powers. Prestigo has for many Mr. Inglis was a man of the July 16, 1845 as successor to Mr. decades been Britain's most in- loftiest humanitarian scati Samuel Fearon, the Registrar HE, however, retained his post fluential factor, not only within ments, and, on this account, General, who had resigned his · of Registrar-General for only the Empiro but all over the could be remembered by reposition in order to accept the four years, when he tendered his world.
sidents of the present day; for Chair of Professor of Chinese resignation. No reason for this Munich projected the world that the prison systom of the King's College, London.
Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and it was entirely due to his efforts Language and Literature in unexpected course is given in the official records, but from Mr. Inglis' own remarks it appears that his act was entirely volun-
wide question "Is the British Colony was remodelled 80 that Empire on the Decline?" Ger- Prisoners were provided with mans and Italians openly affirm suitable employment and that
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ing how they are going to live it. Americans suspect it. Ger- bano of every convict's lifoTHIS was followed on December(tary, and due solely to his desire
alongside one another instead of trying to live on top of one an- other.
Until the dawn of that happy day, we will still go on receiving expensive cables telling as about new crises and new wrangles.
it. The question is asked in man, Italian publications discuss idlericss-was abolished.
letters I receive from America,
the additional
10th of the same year with to proceed to California in order to join the gold rush, which had appointment of **
Assistant Police Magistrate, and now developed into a veritable stampede, luring thousands of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, MR. Andrew Lysaught Inglis it is probable that the experience overy race and condition. Singapore, Hongkong, India and the year 1820. As there is prac was of the greatest assistance was born in England about gained on the Magistracy Bunch Shanghai.
Mr. Inglis loft the Colony tically no blographical matter to him in later years when he sometime in June 1849, In com- available concerning his early successfully carried out his plan pany with some twenty or thirty life or family the exact date is of reforming the Hongkong other Hongkong residents, largo- ly discontented adventurers from We
Robert not known. It is known, how penal system in its entirety. haven't written AXI Briffault, living in America, ever, that he was one of the first
Sydney, as well as a number of editorial about Wang Ching-wei, has given Impetus to the thought European
In the meantime, he was de erstwhile sailors before the mast, We do not intend to write an
residents of the voting a great deal of his leisure who had thrown up their berths and doubt with a sensational Colony as he arrived here in to the mastery of the Cantonese in order to answer the magic call editorial about Wang Ching-wel, book just out, entitled "The Do- June 1848.
colloquial, and while he never of California. Whatever may That gentleman has already clino and Fall of the British Em- His first position in Hongkong became a fluent speaker of this have been Mr. Inglis' hopes in received too much free publicity. pire."
was that of Clork in the Marine' interesting tongue, he yet ob' (Continued on Page 8.)
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