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SHARP INCREASE IN UNEASINESS
(Continued from Paga 1.)
aments. He believed that war could be averied but in any case Britain would not be on the loaing side.
The fate of Britain and the United States were bound together,
Mr. Monzles concluded: “We can- not have security if force threatens to become the
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
JOHN BLUNT Says
Don't Blame The Newspapers
August 14, 1939.
JAPANESE ARMY DELEGATES LEAVE
(Continued from Page 14
Conocsalon authorities have falled to reconsider their sitïlude,
"Left unattended to, the situation was threatened with a serious crisis. The Supreme Commander of the Jap- onese Army in North China then and
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cular area to the troops under his Parcel Post Service to the Pro-Siberia" it so superscribed. No Time For Diplomacy
of many nations, it is quite understandable that the very news it-the evils. BERLIN, Aug. 13 (Trans-Ocean), self should, at times, create a feeling of resentment.
"The steps have been taken as part ❘pended. -The "Voelkischer Beobachter," cen- tral organ of the National Socialising, some people turn against the was the possibility of a wall of cen-ance of the isolation in accordance Party, anys in regard to the Salzburg Press and endeavour to lay at the sorship being built a brick-at a time with the absolute necessity to make Without any solid basit of reason-1men had to watch and guard against [of the military operations, and it was Ja prerequisite for possibile discontinu-
"Leading men of the young nations the blame for all this unrest, for the Secrets Act. When the 1920 Act was inimical to the maintenance of peace door of those of "The Fourth Estate" The best Instance was the Official the Concession at least an area not of Europe have not time for the exchange of diplomalle courtesies, simple reason that they do not like being debated, some newspapermen and order in the area under the con- nor is there any need for long- the newsl
"were lulled into a sense
were winded pour parlers. Behind them
Nobody likes bad news.
of false trol of the Japanese militarly forces. To sup-security by an assurance which was "This absolute requirement to the is a united front of their peoples and press it would not assist the world understood to mean that on
no Japanese which is by no means un- to regain Peace. If it would, Sintes-account would its somewhat nol, as in the case of other statesmen, a maze of Parliamentary groups and men of our own country and those provisions be utilised to curb what ently been misunderstood by the wide reasonable and rigorous, has apper- sinister but potent influences."
of other nations would shut up like were generally regarded as certain the proverbial oyster.
Press privileges. It is simply a question of knowing "You were wrong in accepting an the worst before we can hope to see assurance of that kind. Statutes e dawn of a brighter and happier have the habit of outliving the Gov- outlook.
Wearying Serial Story
Complete Agreement BERLIN, August 13. (UP)-The German News Agency's Salzburg cor-
respondent reports that Count Clano and Herr Von Ribbenthrop, during their weekend talks, have found Italy and Germany in complete agreement on all problems confronting the Axis foreign policy,
"Naturally Danzig played an portant role the discussions inna- much as Danzig has developed into one of the burning questions of the day.
The con
conversations found 100 per cent. unanimity on all questions," the report says.
เดง
British to be liable to a settlement by a general compromise,
Double-Doaling Diplomacy "While pursuing a double-dealing ernments which gave them birth. diplomacy, the British have man- Recalling that a newspaper deputa- ocurred to delay the negotiations in a We are all weary of this prolonged tion waited on him about the Secrets hope to secure intervention by third serial story of international unrest, Act when he was Attorney-General, Fowers. They are apparently resort- and look ahead in vain for signs of Sir William confessed that he would nr to their traditional diplomallo im-the closing episodes. In the mean-have liked to go much farther to tactics.
tline, the story cannot be dismissed meet the deputation than he
"After they have made sufficient as so much unnecessary and ring
nauthorised to do.
efforts to explain their simple object fiction. It is too much of a stern found the Departments, and the and plain requirements, the Japanese reality, and its sequence must be Service Departments in particular. military delegates find it impossible followed day by day. The Tress is quite unwilling to surrender any part to spend leisurely days in Tokyo while merely the vehicle which continues of their powers on the ground that their comrades at the first lines on to unfold the story. It does not com-these powers would be or raight be the spot are carrying out their duties pose the narrative.
necessary in times of great emer-in scorching heal, In n vain and pitiful effort to hidegency.
"WC. as men of swords are ready to from the fnets, Press censorship is "The newspapers of this country sympathize with Sir Robert Craigic, advocated in some quarters. News are the public's law reports. Justice the British Ambassador, and other paper posters
have
The Dritish officials concerned in their even come in for must be done in pubile, and oflein notice with the threat that public to-day are the renders of earnest efforts to sellin
to selfie the they may be regulated.
{newspapers."
issues with considerable unde To emulate the ostrich would not)
ing of the Far Eastern situation." assist in restoring universal trust.
At the we at
sume time sincerely True, panic
is to be avoided at all Press chronicles history, and may be regret for the sake of Britain that costs, but there is little possibility of likened to the barometer. It fore-
the British Home Government are following quotations were British people being panicked into tells calm or storm; although fair- still obsessed with the mistaken ar issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar-į anything. It is because they under-weather forecasts are preferred, the exaggerated reports from Ambassador
Further it was dented that
nd-to ditional conversations will take place in the near future.
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"It has issue would be amicably settled, and our aspiration at the
the consequent mutual understanding and bright situation would serve for the adjustment of Britain's Far Eastern policy towards the right direction.
"Prefer Iron And Blood"
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ville Chamberlain, is speaking to the British nation by using such phrases as "Intolerable insults,"
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(Continued from Page 1). Vilpurt on Sunday concluded largest military manoeuvres, ever held in Finland, Party
During the operations, "White nssembled round Viipuri checked the efforts of the "Yellow Party" to break through the Finnish border the south the Karellan isthmus in
The Swedish War Minister, M. P. E. Scold and mony foreign milltary attaches attended the exercises which sought to prove that Finland could defend herself without outside old.
The Finnish Minister of State, M. A. K. Calander, emphasised in a speech the Finnish and Scandinavian policy of noutrality and stressed suc cessful co-operation between Finland and Sweden to that end.
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Honour To Corncob Pipe
Toledo, O. (U. P.)—A sound lab- WASHINGTON, MO. (UP),—This: oratory, here has discovered it can city, famous as the centre of the i sour milk by sound waves, then Missouri corncob pipe industry, bos: reverse the process to sweeten it jobserved the centennial of its found.... again.
Ting with a three-day celebration.