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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1932

GENEVA CROSSROADS

WORLD MAY REVERT

TO WAR POLICY

LEAGUE FACES PERIOD OF HARD TRIAL

There were many functions in London on a recent night-includ ing an important premiore and sonte big dinners--and, the

Geneva: a dangerous but defeated adverenry weather being execrable, cabs were The League of Nationà, people to a position where he could no much in demand, So. the un- everywhore Bay, is at the cross-longer attack. Those of the new pleasant old trick was revived of roads.. There is Japan. taking the order (represented chiefly by Wil caba turning up to meat emergency law into her own hands, and son, Cecil and Bourgeols) sought to crowds with a tout clinging beside threatening to withdraw from the disarm Germany as part and parcel the driver.

Lenguo, if it dares try apply the of their programme of substituting "Ere you are, guv'nor, yours for covenant, or even back up its own law for war. a bob, was the usual offer. But Lytton commission's Bome were higher,

that in the interests of peace theIt is clear that a period of transi- In pouring rain, with womenfolk new State of Manchukuo must be tion is required in substituting law to shepherd, a man will usually neither maintained nor recognised. for war; the peace machinery must pay up. It is a scandalous form There is Germany, again governed be built up while the war of extortion, none the less, and one by Generals and Junkers, with-chinery is being torn down. Conse-

declaration.” Disarmament Pledged.

ma-

In which It is obvious some of the drawing from the Disarmament quently those of the now order drivers must share...

Your Daily Smile.

Conference--and threatening to sought to use to their own ends the withdraw from the League if she opportunity given them by the de does not have her own way and at sire of the Old Guard to put Ger- once. There fa Italy poised uneasily many hors de combat. They did on the fence.

this by writing into the Treaty of

SIMPLE, WATSON,

There is Europe talking war as it Versailles the promise that German "What," asks a writer, "would you do if your doctor said you had has not talked since 1918. There disarmament should be only the first is the economic world war entering step toward world disarmament, and only six months to live?" See an-Its fourth Winter, with England, by making this promise of world other doctor.

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It is said that the oldest habitant of Chicago is now rapidly approaching middle age.

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that champion of the League's doc'disarmament in Article VIII as To-day's Agony Ad.

trine of free traite, finally following essential element in the. "Twenty-stone driver would like the others into the high-tariff camp Covenant

of the League as to purchase baby sports car. One of the United States and France. the promise

in Article X the members of fitted with zip fastener preferred." There are all these grave issues that all

Manchuria, disarmament, the pro- the League would defend, by force parations for the economic and fin- if need be, the territorial Integrity in-ancial conference coming up to- and Independence of every momber

gether in Geneva this month in, at against aggression. last, a take-it-or-leave-it form

Promisca Broken. Attitude of League Members. Neither of these, promises has „Aa'a preliminary, there has been been fulfilled. France, Britain," no allegiance to the Crown, More Bitter Blow For "Drya.” over, Mr. de Valera, with his bation will be the death of Prohibi- League, one-third of whom have not undertaking the obligations of Arti- In expectation that the U.S. elec- the spectacle of the members of the Japan and Italy entered the League, bitual egotism, omits to consider tion, British brewers are preparing paid it their dues for two years, cles VIII and Xan the assumption Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 1932. the susceptibilities of Ulster, to supply the bier.

gathered in its Thirteenth As- that the United States, having which in the present conditions

sembly, blaming it for the perilous founded the Longue and being re THIS IS TERRIBLE. state of the world while occupying sponsible for both articles, would of popular sentiment would!

We are told that quietness is themselves mainly with efforts to join the new order too. The Unit- roundly decline to be associated essential to perfect health. The reduce its $6,000,000 budget and at polities! promise of Article X. Aa with an Irish republic. Has Mr. scare-free life!

the same time to spend more of it on ed States refused to give the Sinn Fein's protest against the de Valera no memory

officials of their own nationality. for disarmament, she was willing to Does he visit by the Prince of Wales to not recall that the hostility of

Honesty is the Best Policy,

Unless we have our way, say some, reduce only if her own navy became Stockbrokers say that they have we will leave the League. Unless in the process equal to the biggest Belfast last month to open the Northern and Southern Ireland had such a bad year on 'Change the League docs something, unless that remained, which is to say only new Parliamentary buildings was was the chief obstacle to the that they are even filing in their it solves the Manchurian, the dis- if her armed strength relatively in- sheer impertinence. Sinn Fein grant of Home Rule, and that income-tax forms correctly. armament and the economic crisis; creased. On both these cardinal unless Geneva stops talking and points the United States came out cannot speak for Southern Ire just before the war the North

begins to act, say others, we cannot for the old order as soon as the Iand, and the writ of the latter's was prepared to take up arms to

afford to spend any more money on other great powers had pledged Government does not even run resist coercion? The Northi

the League or even pay our dues. themsolves to the new League order. within that lawless country, let feared that it would be victimis-

And so they all pronounce that the That changed the position funda- Nearly 40 per cent, of the Nether-League is now at the crossroada. mentally for the British, French, alone outside it. It was wholly ed and exploited by the South. lands' 12,640 square miles consists

Japanese, Italians. To them the proper for the Prince to attend The strength of Northern Ire of pasture and 26.5 per cent of Where Roads Cross,

That seems quite clear and it is United States seemed almost ideally an official ceremony in Northern land's objection to partnership arable land.

confusion.

secure anyway. ff, then, even this There is undoubtedly a Ireland, which through thick with the South in an autonomous

Bakelite, which is waterproof and momentous crossroads confronting powerfully placed country and thin has been steadfast in form of government was recog-weighs 90 per cent. less than the some one now. But it is not the afraid to trust its security to the its loyalty to the British Throne nised by the Partition Act of usual tiles, is coming into use for League that is at the crossroads, ex-League, could they who were more cept in the sense that the roads that exposed trust what was left of the Of course the absurd was promp 1920 and by the treaty. Al- covering roofs.

Cross are there. The League is not League and carry out their promise ted by the same spirit which led though the North has a Parlia Mr. de Valera to declare to Mr.ment of its own it stil: sends

st Germans have developed a sound an entity as all the above implies; to reduce their arms down to the it is a method. It is not a super-level to which they had reduced amplifying device so delicate in State; it is at most, at present, a

those of Germany? Thomas at the recent conference ferring to the question of union, to hear grass grow.

members to Westminster. Re-operation that with it it is possible method of preventing by the unani- which, sought at Mr. de Mr. Cosgrave has said: "The Valera's instance, was rendered difficulty about dealing with Nor About three fourths of the sugar abortive by his obstinacy that thern Ireland is that after the consumed in the United Staten is the only solution of the Irish and bitter feeling aroused by imported from island possessions or

the events of the last few years, foreign countries, problem is the establishment of very little said and very little

United Irish Republic. Mr. done would continue that News In Brief. de Valera again and again shows bitter feeling. It must,

in my opinion, be "allowed The Management of The Hong

-A gum of $200,000 to be used for himself a stranger to realities to subside. He was satisfied Kong Hotel advises, that owing to civilization, that is again at the kien Province, has been offered by or, more accurately, Western the purchase of aeroplanes la Fu- There is an ancient prophecy, at that, at the present stage, nothing the reservation of the Roof Garden crossroads: Shall it continue with the Chinese residents of the Philip tributed to St. Columbkille, that was to be gained by overtures to Chinese Restaurant, to-night, by Sir the new order which the League pine Islands. Four Chinese repre a Spaniard would save Ireland the North. Time may allay sus Róbert Ho Tung for a Special symbolizes? Or shall it take the sentatives of the Islands returned Mr. de Valera is of Spanish des icons and distrust But Mr Chinese Dinner Party, the usual road that goes back to 1914? on Sunday from a visit to Fukier, A de Valèrá's plan for a united Roof Garden Tea Dance to-day, will New Versus Old where they saw Generals Teal Ting- cent,

and this prediction may Ireland is premature. In the commence at 4.80 p.m. and conclude have had some influence on his Free State, comment on the colt 6.30 pm.

That choice can be stated in many It is stated that the province

kai and Chiang Kwong-nol career. But so far from being lapse of the negotiations has

other ways. It is the old choice been mixed in tenor Several Ireland's saviour, his policy has reading newspapers have been before Mr. Wynne-Jones in the It is the new choice between the Planes at a cost of $2,000,000, and Chan Chi, a butcher, was brought between the civil and the military. Plans the purchases of 100 aero- brought Southern Ireland to the frankly disappointed, and express Central Police Court this morning, doctrine that the salvation of man the erection of an aerodrome in the verge of ruin. Although his the hope that an escape from the charged with the murder of Ng lies in recognizing the dependence associated airmen in the mo

interior. There are at present 140 country is threatened with an impasse may yet be found. Mr. Kam-chen, a fellow worker, at the of each nation upon the others, and economic crisis of the first mag-nim upon his firm stand. Dr. December 10. On the application asserting the nation's independence.

de Valera's journal congratulates Kennedy Town Slaughter Hoate on the dogms, that these this, and vince, conten

Three British fighting planes ar nitude he will not recede one lota Ryan, Minister for Agriculture, of Detective Sergeant O'Donovan, It is the old choice between the trial rived in the Colony yesterday for from his stand in regard to his said:"Let "England put on a accused was formally remanded for by law and the trial by arms the Canton Government, and will Government's financial obliga 100 per cent, tariff "if she a week,

is the new choice between the politie sent to the river port either to chooses; the Government will not a

cal necessities of a rising indust

day or to-morrow. tions to Britain. The repudia- care! These are brave words, Mr. Ching Chim of the Central age and the political tradi tion in costing the Free State a especially from one holding the Executive Committee, Nanking, re-tions of a predominantly agri- Personal Pars, heavy price. The farmers wore portfolio, but the farmers will turned to Hong Kong yesterday cultural spock id the Coldw to have received the withheld scarcely echo them. They hav having learned that Marshal choice bet land annuities. They have not been cruelly hit by the new duties. Chat Sum, late Director General of was. It is the

gon The latest trade returns available Military Training, Nanking, had the theory of a received them. They were pro- are those for Angust. They returned to the Colony. A discus- and mised a subsidy as a set-off to the port that the cattle exports to sion between Marshal If and Mr. It tariff duties imposed by Britain. Britain were only about

Ching took place immediately fol- bety It has not been paid. Many of value of those in August, 1981, flowing the latter's arrival.

butter and icon about one-

them who voted in haste at the

be repent

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mous, voluntary co-operation of all States the establishment of a super- State by the arms of one people or even by the voluntary agreement of them a

· The League is not of thosa en- titles which may exercise a choice;

It is one of the alternatives to be chosen or rejected. It is the world;

act of

the net clearest

OVERSEAS CHINESE ASSIST FUKIEN.

In Aeroplane Fleet Building Plan.

[be and Mr. Torsten Andell, a prominent ween merchant from Stockholm, Sweden, alty is on his way round the world on

the President Lincoln, on a combin hoice ed busines and pleasure

trip

these Sir Robert Ho Tungapore. In Berlin during his recent visit there and drew an analogy between Ger many and China in their times of Sir Robert recently return;

ed to the Colony

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