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marvel at tho Nazi propaganda foreign countries, notably the United stages of a wor Count Purckler does Performance. Maximum speed 45. rather surprising book about bureau permitting the German publie States, they are now held predomin- not commit himself. But his general 05 m.p.h. Acceleration 0-50 m.ph. this country which recently to rend, so devastating an exposure antly in the Empire, especially the conclusion is that although Great appeared in Germany. The nu- of its "encfrelement" propaganda by Dominions. But since the Dominions Britain is faced with more difficult thor, Count Pueckler, a former one of its own leading publicists, and would probably help the Mother strategic problems to-day than
to learn that the country which is Country to the greatest extent of was in 1914, yet she is militarlly London correspondent of the supposed to be the architect of the their power in any case, investments better prepared to cope with them," "Deutsche Allemeine Zeitung," "encreiement" is the very one from held in those countries cannot be and will become much moro In Control. Scientific, shock-free sicer- and an intimate of Herr von which "no other country in the world regarded as an addition to the total the near future.
As to the Empire, Count Pucckler ing. Synchromesh,
Ribbentrop, addresses himself to has anything to fear" provided its economic strength of the Empire for
scouts the idea think it has suffered Comfort. Independent springing in strength of Great Britain and
the task of estimating the real foreign policy follows strictly war purposes. ethical lines,
On the other side of the picture the any weakening from the constitution- In his analysis of the material Count points out that Britain's do- al changes since the war, British Empire
warlike meatic productive capacity has sub- contrary, it has developed all factors affecting Britain's
Institution whose Inner its aspects, moral, military strength, Count Pucekler notices on stantially, Increased, that it is in- unique
the economic side certain well-known comparably better organised for war strategic and economic.
He directions in which she has suffered purposes than ever before, und was cohesion is greater than would up- accomplishes it with a modern- some recent decline. Her mercentile the post-war industrialisation of the pear on the surface, and it faces the
world as a united whole." great tion, detachment and zeal for marine, her income from banking Dominions
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truth which stand out in shining services abroad, her favourable bal- potential access of strength. In por- ance of payments has disappeared ticular he mentions the value of
his readers contrast from the familiar and she is beginning to live on her Canada as an impregnable base for THE
construction. Morcover, against the faelle assumption methods of Dr., Goebbels's capital. These developments he at- aeroplane
the that because on many occasions in to the given command of the seas, system of "enlightenment." tributes, rightly, of course,
of other nations, especially Colonial Empire afforda un immense recent years Great Britain has been What is chiefly surprising Germany, to "build up their prog- and readily accessible reservoir for content to accept changes detrimental about the book is that it should perity" by means of
Altogether he re to her interests with nothing more polley of self- raw materials.
gards the total economic resources of than vain proteats, therefore her star be allowed to circuinte in Ger- sumelency.
In view of these fast tendencles, the Empire for war purposes as still is on the wane. He points out that in view of her varled and farfung cannot possibly
Longkong Telegraph. assiduously cultivating during product not of any intrinsic superl- Europeen waters than at the out- Therefore, he says:
but of her long monopoly or break of the last war, and that the
Wyndham St., Hongkong
'Phone 26615 July 6, 1939
Chamberlain THE SUDDEN press clamour that the Soviet is deliberately holding up conclusion of an alliance with Britain in order to make the position of Mr. Neville Chamberlain unterble is pro- paganda as clever ns it is dan gerous.
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many at all. For it ruthlessly which the Count foresees us perman- extremely formidable. demolishes some of the major ent, he thinks that Great Britain is From the military standpoint he responsibilities she falsehoods which the Nazi pro- deslined gradually to become poorer. recognises that the British navy has exert her full power every time one. paganda' machine has been so Her vest necurmuinted wealth is the much greater preponderance in of her minor interests is threatened."
the past few months.
industrialisation in the early and relative strength of the allied French middle 19th century, which enabled navy is also greater. On the ottier her to create her immense overseas to reckon with the partial loss of her hand, Great Britain has, of course, EVER since the November investments. The most she can do island immunity through the develop- pogroms and especially since now is, if possible, to maintain her ment of air power and also with the the Czech coup in March, the Increase it, nor to replace it if lost, danger to merchant shipping as it
approaches controlled Press has been trying since the conditions which permitted Channel. "To-day," he says, "the to persuade the German people her to acquire it in the Aral instance danger has arisen that the first battle, that the British Empire is a
the battle of the air, will be the last To this extent her position and battle, and that by a direct attack on grisly tyranny created and main prospects have deteriorated, for what was formerly an unassailable tained by a "bloody terror" from "Great Britain habitually wins her base Great Britain will be deprived which its alleged victims are wars thanks to her sounder econ- of the ability to prepare herself for always struggling to liberate mind. Count Fucckler avoids the final battle."
exaggerating the present degree of themselves. Any section of the the deterioration, but he does insist
inheritance.
She cannot hope to
are gone for ever.
the bottleneck" of the
"It is not true that a country which Injures Great Britain's interests must necessarily reckon with the full force of Britain's might. It is quite possible to pull a hair or two out of the British Lion's tail without any very serious consequences resulting, and the problem of how many bars must be pulled out in a bunch, er how oflen. individual hairs can be pulled out, before the Lion turns is almost a problem for a sophist, something like the problem of how many stones make a heap." The British Lion's indulgent tolerance of the process of "strip- tcusing" his tall came abrupily to an end Inst March, since when the AV of Italy has createst new dificult- superfluous. It Herr Hitler and Herr ies In the Mediterranean-a dis- von Ribbentrop are in any danger the picture drawn by Count Tis is that not only has the advantage, however, against which of despising the strength of the Lion's capital value of her overscas he partially offsets the friendship teeth and claws now that he has Pucckler. It is clever, for it immediately
investments fallen, but they are less with Turkey, since consolidated by turned they will do well to consult After remarking that the total favourably situated from the point the mutual guarantee pact.
Count Pucckler or his book before strengthens Mr. Chamberlain's strength of British troop units in the of view of mobilisation for war pur- On the question whether Great worse befalls them.
Empire
the { excluding position with the Englishman, overseas
Dominions) only 30 squadrons of whose sympathies are always planes and about $2,000 men, the with the under-dog. It is dan-Count goes on:
well gerous because it may wreck whatever possibility there
is, after all these exasperating delays for which the Premier appears primarily to blame, of
an alliance being concluded.
Soviet Russia, undoubtedly, has cause to be suspicious of the present British Cabinet, among whose members are persons, in addition to the Premier, notorious for their Russophobia. Neither the Premier, Sir John Simon or Sir Samuel Hoare have entertained in the past any feelings but hostility towards
German people which may have un une factor of Importance. MOREOVER, the changed attitude services of the sophist have become
been disposed to swallow this nonsense will be astonished at
"The fact that an empire with a coloured population of over 400,- 000,000 souls can be held with such weak forces is a brilliant testimony to British administrative talent. .. Such a thing is possible because the British Empire is not lite the old Romon Empire, and has not to be constantly defended 'nguinst the insurrections of oppressed pro- ples. The existence of the British Empire is not daily being called in question from within. With the exception of chronic skirmishing on the North-West Frontier, the occa- sional-religious and racial-troubles
WHAT A
INQUIRY
PUBLIC MEANS
THE public Inquiry into the the Titanic sank with the loss of carried even in ships of more than
loss of the submarine Thetis more than 1,500 lives after striking 40,000 tons.
is proving the most important Inquiry an iceberg in mid-Atlantic. Two in- It was the same Lord Merecy who into a disaster at sea-since-the loss of quiries were held, ono.in.Washington, two years afterwards was called on-to- in India, and the present disturb the Titanic in 1812.
the other in London,
go to Quebec io net ns British repre- ances In Palestine, peace reigns The tribunal now sitting has the The London tribunal was known as sentative on the tribunal of three throughout the whole vast British power to take evidence on eath, to the Titanie Wreck Commission and lawyers who inquired into the loss of Empire."
order the attendance of witnesses, and mat in public under the presidency of the Empress of Ireland. M
the production of documents,
the late Lord Mersey, the mast 23
This famous ship came into collision It has at its disposal two registrurs cinlnent maritine lawyer of his day, with the merchant ship Storstad in ROM the point of view of officiul
Nazi propaganda Count Pueckler and number of skilled draftsmen It was held in the spacious drill hall the St. Lawrence River and 1,014 the Russians, as the history of is disconcertingly candid on another drawn from the Civil Service. They of the London Scottish in Bucking lives, including two Hongkong pos-
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sengers, were lost.
the past two decades bears wit-tople. Great Britain, he says, dare prepare notes and take down evidence ham-gate. London.
After weeks of deliberations t Many serious allegations were made
wished,
opinion "by a strictly ethical use of ceedings have on occasion resulted certain individuals and against the the water-line.
Board of Trade for not moving with The caplain of the liner was ex-
ness. The history of the not, under existing conditions, pur- for the report which will be compiled chequered relations between the sue on aggressive policy even if she by the commissioners and subsequent found that the disaster was caused in the evidence. It was suggested ty sold through the Stationery Office. through excessive speed in the ice that the bigger ship would not have
public Tribunals of this kind investigating fields. The general
were foundered two countries, indeed, has been a
ad not the cargo boat- Beint an object of envy on account|
the mildness which reached port safely-separated history of insults and abuse of her vast possessions, she is com- national calamities have very wide greatly disappointed which, even whilst negotiations pelied willy nilly to concillate world powers, and in the past criminal pro- of the censures expressed against from her, leaving a great hole below have been in progress, have diminished but little. If Mr. siders it "highly doubtful whether
her power." In any case he con- from their recommendations.
There was the most bitter indigna- the times and insisting that sufficient onerated, although the court held thai Chamberlain had applied a tithe the British people would be prepared tion both in America and Britain when lifeboats for everyone on heard be the Storsind should have been given of the persuasive powers he used at Godesberg and Munich in the cause of appeasentent to the From this moral check on her cause of the Peace Alliance the policy "It follows that no country in) position in which the democracles the world has anything to fear from her, no matter how strong she may find themselves to-day would be, providing its own foreign polley have been infinitely strengthen-is as strictly ethical as Great Britain's Is compelled by clrcumstances to be." It was this, tho Count tells us, that
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to take up arms for any purely ego- tistical national interest at the ex- pense of other peoples,"
As it is, the impasse reached made Impossible for Great Britain in the Anglo-Russian negotia- to resist by force the emancipation of the Rhineland or the Austrian and tions must be as gratifying to Sudeten Anschluss, since in all these Herr Hitler as was the position actions the moral case was indisput in which the German dictator ably on the side of Germany, found himself after the Munich Agreement.
There is internal evidence that the
Look was written before Herr Hitler committed the indisputably immoral+ act of annexing Bohemia and Morn- via. Whether the Count himself was scandalised by that step we have no Certainly it means of knowing. comes within his own defnition of
As regards that famous inci- dent, we have yet to see publish- ed any small, still voice of opposition to the adulation with aggressive aims," which are als which the Premier's act in flying achieved at the expense of other willy-nilly to meet the German nations," and such nims, he asserts, a statesman of to-day can pursue dictator was greeted. It was a Fonly "If his own nation and its alles momentous ocension in history, are so powerful that be can defy an has repeatedly been pointed whatever circles may be involved, out, for never before has a perhaps the whole world." British Prime Minister volun-
tarily dashed to the side of the TT may be that the Count, as a de- man whose actions branded him vout Nazi, bitterly repents his as a potential aggressor and imprudence in penning the chapter chemy to plead for peace.
No, we could not Imagine the turn back the pages of history to
Ministers English Prime
oface that it was not the British Victoria's or William the Premier who beseeched peace."] Fourth's days tearing to the It was the might of the British Continent to pland with the Empire that kept the peace. aggressors. We cannot imagine The might of the British Em- Sir Edward Groy dashing to pire remains a potential chal- Berlin in 1914 to intercede with lenge to aggressors. But it is; the Kaiser. Rather, we would being mismanaged.
GRIN
AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"We cortainly save money on a budget-it takes so long to got the accounts straight we never have time to go anywhere!".
a wider berth. It held the officer in charge of the Storstad responsible for the disaster because he had changed course in the fog.
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MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD, then Premier, oppointed Sir John Simon to be chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into the loss of the airship R 101 near Beauvais on the night of October 6, 1930. Forly- eight people were killed, including Lord Thomson, then Air Minister.
SI Jolm had two assessors, Colonel T. C. Moore-Brabazon and Professor E. Inglis, The court sat in the hall of the Institution of Civil Engineers, In Great George-street, Westminster.. It was found that in crossing the Channel there had been a substantial loss of gas; that the trials of the cut reconstructed ship had been down owing to exigencies of time; and that the airship in the eir- cumstances ought never to have left Cardington for India.
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THE inquiry into the Gres
ford Colliery disaster of September 22, 1934, when 200 miners were killed, lasted more then two years, and the report of the Com- missioner, Sir Henry Walker, was not Jasued until February 1037.
Sir Henry had two as806sors—Mr. John Brass, a mining engineer, and Mr. Joseph Jones, president of the Minoworkers' Federation. The actual | hearing occupied 38 days and the report, which was by no means un- animous, Alled. 38 volumes, 3,070 pages in all,
There were criminal, proceedings- against certain men held' to be guilty of negligence.
Norman Hillson