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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.

SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD

themselves an impossible task. League And Aftermath Of Peace Settlement

PROBLEM OF PROTECTION DISCUSSED

[By John Bolton]

Factors in Biscontent' After ten years hardly anyone

Religon cannot be eradicated from the minds of a nation, and if such a calamity were possible the unhappy pation affected would most certainly decay. It! might be a slow process but, it would be a certain one, for a na- tion cannot survive if it attempts to live on the crude realism of

The Minority Problem is the cape, It will not be surprising if those obviously as embittered skeleton in the cupboard of the the question of Minorities holds the with the world generally, as are League of Nations. League en centre of the Europear stage for the Soviet leaders. If the Russia thusiasts often forget it and busy some years to come. of today has one element in it themselves with aundry plans for that can be regarded as really the organization of peace among whobsome, and therefore uplift-Sovereign States: but it does not al-pretends that the League's proce- ing to its masses individually and low itself to be forgotten. It dure has worked well. There are colletively, it is in the inherent is estimated that the "linguia-three factors in the present discou- belid of the vast majority of its tic minorities" of Europe alone total | tent. First there is a bitter con- population that in religion alone 30 million, for a large proportion of viction among the minorities of can their country truly prosper which (Including for example the Europe that the League has played and be a force for good in the German population in Poland and them false. Secondly, there is the. world.

no less firm belief of the Govern- ments of States created or enlarged by the Peace Treaties that the League is undermining their power by giving any, encouragement to the co-operate aspirations or grievances of a minority. Thirdly, there is a singular absence of authority or consistency on the League's part in fulfilling its task. This is true in spite of the very praiseworthy efforts of the League's Secretariat in past years, to persuade Govern-, ments and minorities to deal with'; one another reasonably, and the sundry patchwork and, for the most part, inconclusive conciliations of the League's Council. Before the admission of Germany, the Council was notoriously weighted in favour of the status quo in Europe and its procedure evolved to deal with Minority petitions reflected this partiality,

Czecho-Slovakia and the Hungarian population in Roumania, Czecho Slovakia and Yugo-Slavia) by some sixteon Treaties, Conventions or One case of enteric fever (Chin-Declarations, the League Council is ese) was reported yesterday. responsible. It is certainly the most irksome task which fell to the Mr. F. G. Herridge of Messrs. Council of the League, in conse W. A. Loxley & Co., Ltd., proceeded quence of the Peace Settlement. on Home leave by the s.s. "Aeneas"! which sailed yesterday.

Endless Decrecs What then is the Minority pro blem in terms of human interest? Commander. J. B..Newill, D.S.0, Picture a village curé or school R.N.. (retired) Deputy Harbour master struggling against all odds Mater, was among the passengers to maintain his school and the in- who sailed for Home yesterday on terest of his children in some pro- vince which changed masters after the .. "Aeneas."

the

short. war-Nuritania, for

On Monday afternoon, Indian Watch him struggling against the Police Constable No. B644, station-endless Government decrees which Yes, he may teach ed at Tainwan, shot a snake mea-hamper him.

feet on the hillside the children in their own language sung seven

station. He had to fire but he may buy no books for them near the

Next he must } several shots at the reptile before in that language.

teach first some, then most subjects in the official language of the state

it was killed.

Charged with cruelty to fowls, matter, after the water was dis-sevical Chinese men and women, charged into the dry dock from wee yesterday fined $5 each by MT. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kow- the ships, for the water

locs Magistracy. The accused car pumped as required into special rie chickens and ducks with their] pipes (erected on the street) wings secured by rattan.

to running

the tanks at

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Or consider the case of a young

man now living in one of the new

A Chinese woman named Wong States of Europe, summoned to the Suiting (23) attempted to commit bedside of his dying mother in the

The case

against

а

sentence of Atk

Hence the significance of the foll dress debate upon the League's dealings with Minorities which

took place at the meeting of the Council at Lugano in March 1929. and of the enquiry set up as the outcome of it. The debate was pro- voked by the joint efforts of a Ger- Herr Stresemann, and of 蔬 French Canadian Senator Dandurand, and the enquiry is

man,

entrusted to three statesmen little

concerned in the internatl wrangles

of Europe, M. Adatchi of Japan, Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sener Quinones de Leon (Spain) who have been conferring behind closed doors.

month in London during the

of April.

Obsolete Hatreds This is evidence, we hope, that

vicinity of the Naval Dockyard. subide at 6.55 this morning by capital of his erstwhile fatherland. If the pumping apparatus al-jumping into the harbour from the Has he the right to a passport? ready in operation at the Naval Yamati. ferry launch "Man Lai." Certainly, according to laws and Dockyard could not be utilised. She was rescued by several passen-treaties. But what is essier than the services of the Fire Brigade and the Folice removed her to for the local police official to with-

the Kwang Wah Hospital.

hold his permit, because the youth could be brought into use for

is suspected of disliking the regime, this purpose.

Chinese until it is too late to undertake the The same procedure could also / Police Constable, Tam Wing, charg-sad journey or until a substantial this new attempt of the League to with bribe is forthcoming? Agrarian take its stewardship seriously will ed with demanding $400 be followed were the swimming

menaces from a foki of a native Reform has a pretty sound. What bath at the Victoria Recreation whe shop in Yaumati was concluded is more liberal and progressive than not be warped at the start by the of the late War. For the treat- [Club to be placed at the disposal at the Central Magistracy yesterday to split up large estates and distri-, miserable and obsolete hatreds born bute them to those of low degree?ment of minorities is a problem of of the Water Emergency Com-afternoon, when

werks' hard labour was passed. The Also what an ingenious means of

the first magnitude. Either it must mittes for emergencies, thus con- comparatively light sentence was on victing the hated farmers and

satisfactory organisation of înter. serving the water in the ordin-aunt of the fact that the accused landowners of the minority and of be solved or there can be no sure or ary reservoirs. Means could be had a "fair" record of service with installing citizens favourable to the national peace, and for this good

Government, whether or not they

reason, that the Minority problem can handle a spade.

seems to raise everywhere in an These are true and typical in- stances of the insidious moral op: elementary, dearly-treasured rights acute form the conflict between the pression of racial, religious and of human beings and the claims of it would be possible to give a Hollywood-road, was yesterday re-linguistic" minorities, which ob the Sovereign States. No excuse is DOUGLAS--On June 11th, at the greater supply from the ordinary moved to the Government Civil Hos-tains from the Baltic to the Adria: needed therefore for asking all who plal suffering from a lacerated tie, instances which have to be Bet care for the foundations of interna Virtorla Hospital. to Mr. and reservoirs to those on the higher wound in the jaw. The wound was against not a few cases of Govern- tiona! justice and peace to give

levels, who only consume one- alleged to have been inflicted with ments the Polish, for example tenth of the daily supply as official knife by a man named Kwan Yar loyally, if grudgingly, carrying out (3) whilst the two were walking in their obligations to their minorities. figures published on page 1 to-Witty-street at about 6 p.m. No Such is the situation with which the day indicate.

motive was apparent for this sudden League of Nations is expected to With the Naval Dockyard dry attack on the lad. dock and the swimming bath at} At the Central

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DRY DOCKS AS RESERVOIRS

to

found of transporting the water by trams and other vehicles

Tang Yu (13), an apprentice other parts of the Island. Thus, carpenter employed at No.

the Force.

166,

Magistracy, yes-

Mention was made in the Press the Victoria Recreation Club teiday, an elderly Chinese woman

or. Manday of the possibility of utilising the dry dock at the Naval Dockyard as a reservoir for the temporary storage of

water during the present erisis. It was stated that the Naval authorities had no objection to such a scheme, but the fear was expressed that it might be im- practicable owing to the possible sewage of salt water.

motor ear parking regulations. The woman said that her son had gone to Macao and that she had brought a little money to pay the fine on his

TRICK CYCLISTS FATHER REFUSES BAIL FOR

SON

A SOUND LESSON

some thought to the question at issue, The new Committee may

safely be left to do their best, with Germany as the knight arrant of Minorities on the one hand and M. Politis as Devil's Advocate, to evolve a better method of League proce- dure. But procedure is not every- thing; and it is high time that an attempt was made to work out what the fundamental rights and duties of a minority in regard to the State really are. For the League appears to be as much in search of a prin- ciple in this sphere as Pirandello's Characters in, search of an author. And it is pretty clear that with-

can be universally applied the League will wrestle in vain with its minority problems.

both functioning to the adv: 1- apeared as deputy for her son who tage of the community, it is ob- charged with a breach of the vious that similar experiments! could be adopted at the Taikoo Dock, the Kowloon Dock, the Cos-

A number of youths mounted on mopolitan Dock, and the Aber behalf. The Police stated that the

Youth had been seen at West Foint bicycles displaying their ability for deen Dock. Thus could we take on the previous night, and accord-stunt' riding in front of the Sham-out some objective principle which as much water-steamers and ingly the case was adjourned for a shui-po Police Station should be thankful they were dispersed by a tugs, large and small, can bring wek for the youth's attendance.

European officer. Operation of the first of six new Not many minutes after the road impeding these draft in their "Sop and Go" signals will start was cleared of the young cyclists normal work. And thus could to-morrow at the junction of the Kowloon Branch of the Flying of the usual over the precise spot where the ary reservoirs, scarcely sufficient signal will consist

Stop and Go" sign boards with the cyclists had been fooling. for five weeks' supply, be con-words painted in red and green, One of the youth was arrested. art now assured, on very high served for other needs as occasion respectively, and a flash light simi- He was sent home under 'guard' to

in from outside sources without

Lead Their Own Lives

Since then we have made con- the existing storage in the ordin-Garden-road and Queen's-road. The Squad passed on their motor-cycles the right of human beings to asso-

siderable enquiries into the matter, as a result of which we

engineering authority, that the plan to use the dry dock in ques-

arises.

lar to that used on the Pedder- obtain bail. His father refused to We have stated the case in fa- street beacon. A handle to be comply with his son's request; say.. manipulated by the pointsman willing that a day in the cells would tion is quite feasible and that your of the utilisation of these control the signals, the mechanism teach him a sound lesson! there are no insuperable obstacles dry docks as presented to us by of which is so arranged that only loon Magistrate (before whom the

· Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, the Kow.

youth appeared this morning) was told, by Sergt. Jessop that accused with some others not in custody were riding in eireles without ueing their hands, and performing other.

in the way whatever. It is ob- viously perfectly easy for the Public Works Department, in

a sound engineering authority-o sign board will be visible to

vehicles approaching the signal. as we indicated in an earlier paragraph-and we now con-

FLOWER SHOW ORCHIDS ON DISPLAY VALUED

AT £30,000

If it could only be grasped that ciate freely for their spiritual and temporal welfare and to bring up their children in their own beliefs, customs and language-in other words, to lead their wn lives, is based upon a Law older and more

sacred than any state regulations and is perfectly compatible with

perience has taught us in th loyalty to the State, (as bitter ex-

|tish Empire than we should begin to see light in the Minority Pro blem.

the rights and duties of a Minority The principles determining should surely be incorporated, as The Hague Congress of League of Nations Societies in 1928 proposed, Because the accused had been in the Covenant of the League it- incked-up all night, the prosecution self, so as to bind without dis did not press for a ine.

dangerous manoeuvres.

conjunction with the Naval fidently leave the matter in the authorities, tu obtain confirma-

hands of the Emergency Water tion of this as speedily as possible and get to work. The dry dock Committee in the belief that the information will be of incalculable would form an admirable reser-

London, May 22. The Chelsea Flower Show, probably His Worship cautioned the youthcrimination all States Members,

And, illo this important reforın voir for ships bringing in water benefit to them in their task.

the most famous show of its kind in the and said that the next time he was

·were added a provision that tinur- from Shanghai and other places Russia's "Godless"

world and one of the most popular brought up for the same offence, he Ities petitions and Governments' ob- outside the Colony. Its adapta- Whilst the "Pravda," which is oor events of the London season, would send him "down" and have

thereon servations

should w opened to-day. Flowers and plants him caned.

go tion would accelerate the unload generally recognised AS the worth £50,000 are

are on exhibition and

straight to the Permanent Court or to an impartial judicial committee, ing of the water from ships, with Soviet's leading journal, makes it immense sums have been spent on lay- clear that the Soviet's policy is to ing out model gardens. Some of the

with power to call witnesses, In- out the latter being in any way eradicate religion in Russia, it ad-exhibits, including some which have

stead of into the political laby acer before been seen in England,

rinth of the Council's "Committes. delyed through the operation, mits that there are still in that has been brought from California thus saving them the slightest in-country millions of religious S aeroplanes have been employed in at the Brimingham General Hos of Three, then the world would convenience in the matter of in people compared with the few coveying some of the plants, 2,000 pital from the Brimingham Univer- begin to take the League's protec

This brings tion of Minorities seriously. thousands of irreligious. Thes. Orchids, which are always asity hospital carnival. terference with their scheduled journal, however, states that it is at about £30,000.

special feature of the show, are valued the number of beds endowed by the A blow would have been struck at that ogre, the Sovereign Nation, times of arrival and departure the special duty of the country's one tiny plant in a two-inch pot was university to nine.

imposing rigid uniformity with- and averting any unnecessary ex-so-called "Godless Society," fos- soll last night for £350. **

Great crowds attended the show to Sunbury District Council are to in its borders which is the chief tered by the Soviet, to uproot all penses on the score of demurrage religions tendencies and influence day including large numbers of Ameri- construct a bathing pool on River-enemy of liberty in the twentieth ca and other visitors to London for and so forth. It would be a simple and, presumably, to create a the social season.

century.

Two more beds have been endowed

mead Island.