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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1932.

The National Govern-

ment.

י

It

is equally necessary if the re- sults of the tariff experiment are to be fairly judged; and it re- mains to be seen whether it, can be as useful in laying the founda- tions for expansion of trade with foreign countries as it has been in framing a scheme for the ex- pansion of trade within the Em- pire.. The Lausanne Conference! has resulted in a great advance towards the solution of the pro- blem of Reparations and War Debts, but the advance, is condi- tional upon yet further progress. Again it has been fully demon- strated that a National Gövern- ment is the best qualified to

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1932.

The Menace Of War In Europe

"Nothing Can Save Us From A Conflict"

BRITAIN'S STARVATION PROSPECT

""

pursue the policy of coupling the “Európe is preparing for another There is no reason why Britain maintenance of law and order great war!" writes Lord Beaver should not raise enough food-stuffs with the pursuit of constitu- brook in the Sunday Express. from her own soil to hupply the" tional advance in India, but it is The arms factories are busy. The needs of her people in time of emar- also clear that even in the most laboratories are hard at work. The gency.

favourable circumstances that General Staffs are planning cease-We increased the arable area of policy requires time for its lessly. There is a vast activity in the country by more than three mil- fruition. The past, the present, almost every country. It is allion acres in the last war... We and the future therefore all directed to the same end."

have five million acres of rough serve to vindicate the judgment War!

grazing. A vast extent of it could of those who a year ago took the Germany is demanding the right be brought under the plough or admitted, risk of co-operating to arm

The French reclaimed for good pasture. in a National Government. The resist that claim. It will not make

The Danger. nation may already feel grateful the slightest differencs.

True, there are some food-stuffs:

once more.

to them for having averted. great If Germany cannot get the Treaty we cannot grow in sufficient quanti- dangers, and in the future it of Versailles amended to permit her ties. Wheat, for example. But: may feel more grateful still to increase her armed forces, the wheat is not the only grain we can. when the results begin to ap will increase them just the same. grow nor bread the only food we pear, of the

constructive work She will defy the treaty if neces can eat.. upon which they are now. en-[sary. gaged.

Correspondence.

Coector-932.

FOLLOWS HUSBAND TO THE GRAVE.

Mrs. D'Azevedo Taken Suddenly.

Secret Pact.

All that is needed is a realisation. of the danger in which we daily Meanwhile, the French and the walk and the will to overcome it.. Poles, are renewing their secret Once these have been achieved, the military pact, which is aimed at means by which the shadow of the Germany,

submarine can be lifted from our^ .

Nothing can save us from a new people's lives will not be far to conflict in Europe. The prospect seek. may be horrifying, but it is real.: We cannot improvise a self-sup-· We must make up out minds to face porting Britain in a few months, even under the urgent admonition

We shall not escape from it in the future any more than we havel. done in the past."

And to day there are in Europe

Mr. William Russell, Government causes of war without number. Marine Surveyor, Harbour Master's There is the Polish Corridor and

31.C.L. SWIMMING GALA.

[The Editor, "China Mail”). · Sir-On behalf of the Committee

It is useless to say that war will of war. "But we can look ahead of the M.C.L. Children's Swimming not come, that the peoples, of the and ping and dispose our forces Gala, held on September 6 last, I world would not endure another for a siege. We can launch out on beg to inform you that the sum of conflict. These are the delusions policy which in a few years would have been incapable.. The dis- $1.427.76 has been handed over to which have preceded every war in put our country beyond the danger charge of this duty has already the Hon. Treasurer of the HK.W.G. history.

lurking under the sea and in the- This amount représents borne fruit in the magnificent & M.C.L.

The Inherent wickedness of man, air, success of a conversion operation the total profit from the Gala. the restless ambitions of vigorous

Britain. We can begin to make which promises to relieve the May I take this opportunity of nations, the memories of quarrela sekaupporting now! Budget of a charge of at least again thanking the many kind and injustices which, history has £23,000,000 a year. The solu- friends, who by donations and hard bequeathed to us-give the cause MR. WM. RUSSELL tion of the terribly difficult pro-work, made the Gala such a success, what name you like, there is in hư-

TO RETIRE. blem of the internal debt has, in

Yours faithfully, man nature an' ungovernable urge

MACY KING to war. Fourteen months ago the ex-fact, been successfully begun.on periment of a National Govern-lines which reject absolutely all Chairman, M.C.L. Swiming Gala.

Long Associated With ment was begun and His Majesty variants of the dishonest policy

Life Of Colony. the King entrusted the Prime of repudiation. The balancing Minister with the task of form- of the Budget has incidentally. ing an Administration, repre- conferred the inestimable ad- sentative of all three political vantage of fiscal freedom.

the Upper Silesian problem. These Department, is retiring at the end. parties "for the purpose of meet is becoming more and more clear ing the financial emergency that the Budget could not have

are stores of international dyna of this month after 28 years' service jin. the Government. He joined the The measure of the success of the been balanced if the Government

mita. One day there must be an

Government in 1904 83 Second explosion. experiment is that what was had been tied fast to Free Trade; conceived in August, 1981, as an and even those Ministers whol

The funeral of Mrs. J. J. Bragacurious commitments in Europe.

This country has all, sorts of Assistant Government Marine Sur

veyor. The department then con- arrangement strictly limited in did not appreciate this fact at D'Azevedo, whose death occurred at There is the Covenant of the sisted of three surveyors but in 1928 time and in scope has become in least joined in putting fiscal the French Hospital on Monday, League of Nations, the Locarne it grew to fourteen, exemplifying August, 1932, a commonplace of policy in its proper, place as

a took place yesterday evening in the Treaty, the Kellogg Pact. When the growth of the Colony.. common sense. Mr. Baldwin's matter of expediency by remain-Roman Catholic cemetery, Happy

During the time he was attached the war comes we are likely to statement made a year ago, ing in the Government in spite Valley.

be involved in it.

to the Department, thousands, "of“ which was echoed by all the lead-of the adoption of tariffs. And The deceased was 60 years of

passenger ships passed, through Mr. ing participants in the intense the fiscal freedom of Great Bri-age, and was a resident of Shameen political drama of those days, tain was undoubtedly an essential for about 80 years. Her husband Our position will then be ona Russell's hands, his duty being to issue certificates regarding capacity: foreshadowed co-operation "to factor in the success of the died in Macao.on Tuesday last week of deadly peril.

It is a balance the Budget and to re- Ottawa Conference

Another Deceased arrived in Hong Kong on The submarine nearly cost us the and life-saving apparatus.

junique record that, during the whole were several store confidence in our national factor of inestimable advantage Sunday, and entered hospital, where last war.

time not one casualty was suffered weeks during, which we did

not credit." But it has been clear in this as in other international she died of heart failure.

through the negligence of depart-- throughout the last twelve Conferences was that then She leaves several nephews and know how to deal with the besieg-

mental officers. Hong Kong is one months, "and never clearer than tional character of the British nleces to mourn her loss, among ing forces...

of the few ports that can boast of Bet the submarine is a far more. to-day, that the advantages to delegation gave it an authority whom are Messrs. A. A. da Luz, J.

than it this record. the nation of un experiment so which no party delegation could da Luz, Mra, H. da Luz Barros, Mr. formidable weapon now

Mr. Rassell was one of the Hong cautiously begun are unexhaust-possibly have attained. What-and Mrs. A. da Luz. Mr. and Mre. was in 1918.

Kong delegates who took part in Submarines are twice as big as ed. In virtue of what the Na-ever the British case may have F. G. da Luz, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. da they were then. They have a cruis-the Coronation of His Majesty, King tional Government has accom-been-and it has been thorough-Luz, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. D'Azevedo; |

George V in 1910. Mr. Russell was plished and of what it has still to ly constructive not only at Mr. and Mrs. H. da Luz, Mr. and ing range, that is twice as great proceeding Home on leave when the achieve, the day when the nation Ottawa but also at Lausanne and Mrs. P. M. Remedios, and Mr. G.Even with a far stronger navy than Coronation took place and Sir Henry

we possess "we should be at their can afford to return to party Geneva-other delegations have D'Azevedo (brother-in-law).

May then Governor of Hong Kong, politics appears farther off than been able to feel confident that The funeral was attended by a mercy.

The airplane must also be added deputed him to join the Hong Kong The Socialist Opposition, it has embodied a policy most un- the relatives and many friends..

contingent, which was sent under A large number of wreaths cover bing aircraft are bigger and faster Commandant of the Hong Kong

to the number of our foes.. Bom- though credit due to it for the likely to be suddenly or speedily

Lieut. Col. Chapman, at that time manner in which a mere handful reversed.

The authoritative ed the grave.

than in the last war.. They now have a radius of thirteen hours. Volunteer Forces.

Mr. Russell has taken an active They can carry bigger, and deadlier

He has bombs.

part in aporting activities.

ever.

of members have discharged their character of one delegation is duties in Parliament, still trusts not, of course, enough to guaran

H.

News In Brief.

a

Perilous Position.

There

to nothing but a forgetfulness tee the success of any interna- equal to its own among the tional Conference, but at least it. The Rev. Oswald Smith, who They might make the navigation Won the Open Golf Championship of public of its self-invited calami has done much to secure an ad hoped to pay Hong Kong a visit on of the Channel and the approaches the Colony op p (occasion, and tieg.

Only recently Mr. Lana-vance towards the solution of his way to Abyssinia, has had to to our ports Impossible for ship Kong Lawn Bowls Association fo bury, in commenting on the many so far intractable pro-make a change in his plans. The ping- Ottawa Conference, announced blems. It would, however, be as lectures and other functions at that "the Labour Party would foolish to exaggerate as to die which he was to speak have been once more declare its Socialist parage the achievements of the cancelled. policy and would ask for a man- Government at home and abroad.MÍ

The lesson of all this, la plain... We must learn to grow our food" at home before our enemies teach us to starve at home!

The next war will not be won

has been a member of the Hong

28 years.

During his younger days, Mr. Russell was prominently as

with the Hong Kong sociated date for this policy at the next The measure of success so far Jumping from a Kowloon motor

Volunteer forces, and was an election"--a policy, be it remem-achieved is sufficient to justify a bus while it was in motion in on the playing felds of Eton. It officer, for over 20 years. He was bered, the departure from which continuance of the methods, by Nathan Road,, a Chinese woman will be won on the harvest fields of O.C. the Engineers Corps during the has made the Imperial Conference which it has been achieved: but sustained injuries of a serious na- England,

Great Warm dold of 1982 so happy a contrast to no one would claim that success ture to her head and body. She Or lost!, the fiasco of the Imperial Con- is already complete. The Budget was removed to the Kowloon Hos- We must be ready to defend our ference. of 1980. The alterna- has been balanced, but retrench-pital for treatment.

selves. We dare not face the pros tive to the National Government ment, has not yet been carried,

pect of starvation. Yet that is promises nothing but sterile and as it must be carried, to the point "The function of the foreign im- what will stare us in the face as discredited gropings after State where taxation can be adequate porter in the trade of South China" soon as a foreign Power declares Socialism under the guidance of ly reduced. The national credit was the subject of an interesting war on 9847ay & Se those who a year ago were as in is secure, but. It is not lecture given by Mr. P. S.. Cassidy capable of averting as they were yet founded, as it must at the University last night, before of facing a national danger. But be founded, upon the balance of a large gathering of members of the case for the continuance of an expanded trade. The nn- the Law and Commerce Society, the National Government does tional currency is sect notirest merely upon the atrophy collapse, Bitnot yet of its opponentais Is rents, in from undesirable fluct the first place, upor

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HONG KONG SINGER WINS AWARD.

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