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Defending
This Empire
HE
T STATES, Italy the traordinary prejudices against
gocs
to
such
DIC TATOR The author reflects such ex-
England, and new Fascist Roman lengths to prove his contention, Ventilation and all-steel Integral Body Empire and Nazi Pan- that it in difficult to believe he
Germany, together with can be by birth an Englishman. militaristic Imperial Japan,
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Ricc
Zealand. Britain's
Some American, nowspapers | 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 As the New Year foreshadows an appeal to Amerien to "save The Shape of Things to Come, the British Empire." that is to me 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 innd might fall under
the mandates, dependencies and pro- Fortress and of all the Malay De- on the horizon, which the diplo- domination of the Dictators, and tectorantes, not to mention those fence Forces. macy and power of Adolf Hitler, go so far as to attribute Presi- countries such as Egypt, Trans- By the end of another week, I of Benito Mussolini and the am- dent Roosevelt's gigantic re jordania and Iraq, whose protec was in Hongkong talking to bitions of Japan want to weave armament programme to that tion against foreign invasion is Colonel H. B. Holt, Commission- 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
One writer holds that "only a number I have not counted se- I had known Colonel Holt when peoples which is a constant re- resurgence of the one-time na parately the innumerable Indian I was in Abyssinia during the proach to their systems, covetous tional spirit of the 'Bull-dog States.
war there. He was tho British of British territories, somewhat breed' sweeping the Empire" British Naval strategy is in- Military attache and I was intoxicated by acnsational suc- can save Britain. Others main- dicated by no fewer than twnety- guest of the Emperor Haile cesses born in part of bold bluff, tain that Mr. Chamberlain is six Naval bases and stations. Selassie at the latter's military and in part of our own unpre- shrewdly playing for, time for British Royal Air Force air basca. Headquarters at Dessie. Nonsense
paredness, the Fascist and Nazi 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 4 great
news agencies sometimes of the British people.
deal of paper and ink "re- peacetime send us about international Our love of peace, admittedly President Roosevelt, I have military forces on land in this armament" in our Preas. affairs!
Promises and hopes of the 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 below them, have not alwaye and Italy, shout rude remarks misinterpreted as a manifesta- standing provided it is on a fifty- army.
tion of nation-wide fear. at one another.
fifty basis. In view of the grow. That the Central Government been fulfilled. This has been We la England did fear war, ing aggressiveness of the Dicta- in London in formulating policy, especially applicable to our air As a result, misguided people if by "fear" is understood 1
tor nations, an ever-increasing more especially in times of grave armament. If it has deceived 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 As if incidents like this are against the folly and crime of ple 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 Empire and all we hold dear.
been "fear" to fight for country,
consideration the strategical re- Necessity of maintaining the * and will have them in the
quirements on this, the longest military secrets of national de- 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 his furnished ground for
though we War, more particularly since
The problems of naval, inill- rumours and reports exaggerat tension. And no war came of would rather talk of peace than the appearance on the European tary and air strategy for the Em- ing our weakness in the air. them.
That we are growing stronger. Those who take the stage of the Dictator powers, pire which from time to time is evident from welcome signs Fashoda, for instance. "Ency- absence of sabre-rattling Britain's policy has been shaped confront the Admiralty and Im- 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- about it. A place beside the cowardice will discover their limitations, even weaknesses of Chief; Lord Gort, whom I first ring himself and swishing his Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. Nile, where British and French
Empire strategy.
met in China in 1927 when he tail. That is a cheerful promise In strong nations, political was Chief of Staff of the British for the New Year.
A pity only, that Colonial policy dictates military strategy Expeditionary Force, are more Secretary Malcolm MacDonald - 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
watered his promise regarding to pleture to gain real perspec- the reverse is true in England, it other nation is called upon those at the entrance to the Redtive of the value of Prime Minis- is in the circumstances unavoid solve.
the British Colonies with the qualification that it'ía "diót now” Sca, And Kitchener hurried up ter Neville Chamberlain's flight able for the time being.
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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
forces met in 1898.
France sought to link up her
of war.
mistake.
and
*
to Berchtesgaden in September, It should be recalled that the I WAS PARTICULARLY im- I hear from what has hitherto Europe was filled with alarm. humbling his own pride, the British Empire extends more pressed with this thought been a well-informed source, Nothing came of it. For Kit pride of his high office, of the than sixteen thousand miles when early this year (1988), I that Adolf Hitler also told Mr. 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 Fuhrer commander to evacuate Fashoda. details in proper relation one to wide.
Baghdad, and three days later in Berchtesgaden, that bis de- Though some Frenchmen cried the other, nor can we judge tho
The Empire embraces ninety- chatted in Singapore with Major- mand for the former German out against the "Pact of Shame", wisdom of the Premier in allow two countries, states dominions, General W. G. S. Dobbie, General (Continued on Page 11.) the tension passed away. Anding Adolf Hitler the exaltation
six years later Britain and of that triumph and the con-
France made an entonte which
included a complete settlement
of their colonial differences.
The disputes which bulk so large one day fade away into nothing the next.
The air is always full of rights and wrongs.
When the
Tunisia
and
Djibouti grievances dle 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 seeking sympathy.
When they have all had their say perhaps somebody will start to talk sense to that ailly con- tinent that is Europe.
aciousness of a victorious con- T. Paul Gregory's Series on Old Hongkong queror at Munich. What many
people still overlook is the fact THE MAN that aside from British prestige, THE MAN WHO INTRODUCED PRISON
Hitler's sweeping success in the Czecho-Slovakian crisis, no Bri-
tish interests were sacrificed at Munich..
REFORM TO THE COLONY
Androw
Harbour
age
Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and A likeable personality who ser- Magistrate's office, but so cll-tained an insight into Chinese ved this Colony in an official clently did he perform his task, psychology and mode of thought, Munich however, have had an in- evitable consequence and effect capacity during the early days that he was looked upon as a which rendered him invaluable
Lysaught most likely young man for future to the Government in an which should by no means be was Mr.
Master and advancement. In fact, his rise when the majority of Europeans underestimated. That is loss of Inglis,
nations Marine Magistrate, but better in office was, to any the least, scorned such an accomplishment prestige. Small afford to be indifferent to pro- known in old Hongkong as the almost meteoric; his first ap-as beneath their dignity.
pointment was announced on "Governor of Victoria Gaol." Great stige. Not Empires or Powers, Prestige has for many
Mr. Inglis was a man of the July 16, 1845 as successor to Mr.
can
that
*
Until the dawn of that happy | Canada, Australia, New Zealand:R. Andrew Lysaught Inglis it is probable that the experience|every race and condition.
decades been Britain's most in- loftiest humanitarian sonti-Samuel Fearon, the Registrar HE, however, retained his poat of Registrar-General for only fluential factor, not only within ments, and, on this account, General, who had-resigned his the Empire but all over the could be remembered by re-position in order to accept the four years, when he tendored his sidents of the present day; for Chair of Professor of Chinese resignation. No reason for this world,
Literature Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and it was entirely due to his efforts Language and
in unexpected course is given in Munich projected the world that the prison system of the King's College, London.
the official records, but from Mr. Inglis' own remarks it appeara wide question "Is the British Colony was remodelled so that It is time the nations there Empire on the Decline?" Ger- prisoners were provided with
that he act was entirely volun- settled down to the job of decid-mana and Italians openly affirm suitable employment and ing how they are going to live it.
Americans suspect it. Ger- bane of every convict's life THIS was followed on December tary, and due solely to his desire 10th of the same year with to proceed to California in order to join the gold rush, which had alongside one another instead of man, Italian publications discuss idleness--was abolished. the additional appointment of trying to live on top of one an- it. The question is asked in
Assistant Police Magistrate, and now developed into a veritable other.
stampede, luring thousands of lottors I receive from America, day, we will still go on receiving Singapore, Hongkong, India and the year 1820.
was born in England about gained on the Magistracy Bench
Mr. Inglis left the Colony expensive cables telling us about Shanghai.
As there is prac was of the greatest assistance now crises and new wrangles.
tically no biographical 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, large- ly discontented adventurers from AN ENGLISHMAN, Robert not known. It is known, how penal system in its entirety. Sydney, as well as a number of Wo haven't written An Briffault, living in Amarica, ever, that he was one of the first In the meantime, he was de erstwhile sailors before the mast, editorial about Wang Ching-wel. has given impetus to the thought European residents of the voting a great deal of his leisure who had thrown up their berths. We do not intend to write an and doubt with a sensational Colony as he arrived here in to the mastery of the Cantonese in order to answer the magle call- editorial about Wang Ching-wal. book just out, entitled "The De- June 1848. curto 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 fiuent speaker of this have been Mr. Ingils-hopos In received too much free publicity, pire.”
was that of Clark in the Marino - Interesting tongue he vit ob
(Continued on Paga dijala
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