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Crawford And The King
Jack Crawford's proudest mo- ment was not when the cheers of (16,000 people acclaimed him chan- {pion at Wimbledon.
It
was on the following day, when, with Mrs. Crawford, he was presented to the King and Queen
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933.
RUSSIA GUARDS HER
FRONTIERS
LITVINOFF'S DIPLOMATIC
ACTIVITIES
(By Professor Maurice Gerothwohl.)
London. Treaty of 1926. This, assuredly, Just before they entered the com- has failed to produce any monetary European peace, and to the western The London Economic Conference connotes a solid gain to the cause of mittee box to watch Mrs. Moody de truce, or any stabilisation of fluc Great Powers. But it also places a fend her title against Miss Round.tuating currencies. But at least ten curb
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The King heartily congratulated the Empire victor-the first Wimbledon for cleven years.
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on Soviet mischief-making, [of the participating Powers, eight(which must be galling to the more
of them European and two Asiatic, extreme among the "Red" leaders. have taken advantage of their si- multaneous attendance in London to not explicitly,
In the second place, Soviet Russia, The Totality State.
perhaps, but by a conclude a political truce of inde series Totality."
"the new Nazi catch finite duration.
of implications quite as word, means the total suppression
emphatic and as binding as any The purport in each case is the direct stipulation, has had to re- of everyone who does not subscribe stabilisation by mutual agreement nounce any claim, whether in inter- to the one party,
of their existing frontiers. I refer national law or in fact, to the re- Its comprehensiveness is reflect to the two Conventions of Non-trocession of Bessarabia, now under ed in the new law just published Aggression, based on a definition of Roumanian rule. For the defini- under which no civil servant may what may be said to constitute a-tion of an agressor, as embodied in marry a non-Aryan, no non-Aryan|gression, signed on July 3 and on the new Conventions, would prohibit can be a civil servant, and every July 4 respectively. civil servant must furnish, a satis
Soviet Russia from ever endeavour- factory proof of his "absolute atsia and seven of the Russian border the territory at present under The first is between Soviet Rus-ing to secure by violence any part of tachment to the regime."
States: -
Latvia, Roumania. Persia.
and Afghanistan.
Roumanian sovereignty.
Bessarabia is not specifically men- ' tioned in either Convention or its annexes. But its continued and un-
Although Nazis declare enthusi-Esthonia, astically that if there were a gen-Poland, eral election to-morrow they would Turkey, secure 70 per cent. of the total vote, many dispassionate observers predict that the rapid dissolution second Convention, in agreement
It is Soviet Russia again in the disputed possession by Roumania is
completely safeguarded,
both
of the other parties will increase with Turkey and the three Little juridically and in effect, in so far
the number of Nazi opponents.
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Entente Powers: Czechoslovakia,
Boumanie.
and Jugoslavia.
Finland, which was in the throes
Your Daily Smile
Dieting in Extremis.
Last week a friend of mine little later. caught a fine pound trout-that pudiationists" by declaring, not only weighed eight ounces. only that the bonds must con- REMEDIOS.—On Monday, July 31, tinue payable in goló but that
1933, at the Country Hospital, gold must be accumulated because ness 7"* Shanghai, Boaventura Fran- it "was absolutely needed for Economic experts have had it Powers in question cisco-Savard Remedios, aged payment of interest on the public turning corners for so long it 68 years. Removed to the debt" and because, in default of quite dizzy.. parlours of the International such provision, "not only would: Funeral Directors, 71 Kiso- the public credit have been en-
MARY AGAIN. chow Road. Requiem Mass dangered but the currency would]
Mary had a little lamb, will be held in the Church of have been constantly subject to
But that is not the half; the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the dangerous power of specula- We see without a diagram day, Wednesday, August 2, at tive combinations." But how She had a little calf. 7.30 8.m.
to be followed by about the British "Chancery interment in the Pahsienjao Court decision" of last year and Asked and Answered. Cemetery at 6 pm. (German its approval last March by the
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as the sanctity of treaties can still be invoked as a protection.
The Turks' Aim
From all this it will be seen that of a general election, will undoubt-while M. Litvinoff and Soviet Russia jedly endorse the first Convention a have scored the more spectacular
success, M. Titulesco and Roumania. An Honest Broker"
the have reaped
maximum of What exactly is the significance material advantage from, the recent of these new pacts, ostensibly de-negotiations. Europe, too, cannot. "What is the matter with bust-signed to reinforce and implement but warmly welcome the elimination
the Kellogg Pact, to which all the of one of its "danger zones." is Their significance, as also their immore remarkable because of what are parties? M. Titulesco's achievement is the
portance, would appear to vary con-happened almost exactly a year ago. siderably with the different State. The then Roumanian Government The two chief promoters of the was about to conclude with Soviet Conventions were M. Litvinoff, the Russia a treaty, under which the Soviet Foreign Minister, and M. Soviet Government would merely Titulesco, the Roumanian Foreign nave pledged itself to refrain from Minister. With them there was ds-any action in respect of Bessarabia sociated an honest broker" in the for a period of five years, and to "You can tell a man's temper Minister, Rushdi Bey.
of the Turkish Foreign defer to a later date the final settle- and London papers. please lappellate court, regarding the ex-from his hands."
,: {ment of this: “litigious question" be- copy).
plicit contract in the bond, of a
Russia And the temper of his razor Litvinoff the new pacts imply a
For Soviet
and M. tween. the twe Governments, Belgian company, to pay its from his face.
M. Titulesco boldly threw over at obligation "in gold coin of the
number of advantages, some fairly that time both his Government and material, others
concerned the draft treaty which it had been with considerations of national and negotiating оп these lines. The international prestige.
Ever since, two years ago, Japan vindication of
latest developments afford a striking embarked on her forward policy in adroitness in discerning from the his foresight. His Manchuria, the Soviet Government first, in the definition of aggression fears that such a polley must lead Geneva, the means of solving the has been seriously alarmed; for it submitted by Soviet Russia at
Vladivostok and the maritime pro favour constitutes one of the few apprehensive lest vinces of Eastern Siberia. It was brilliant strokes In post-war
some of the Powers adjoining its
diplomacy. western
The prominent part played by frontiers, and notably Poland Turkey and her Foreign Minister in
whilst was embroiled with Because mahogany is so cheap and should be tempted to attack in the facilitating the Soviet-Roumanian
Japan in the Far East.
Moscow's qervousness has intterly record of her leaders, is nothing if The new Turkey, despite the martial been intensified by the hostility to
not pacific. Kemal Pasha's supreme.
The China Mail
United Kingdom, of or equal to
the standard of weight and fine-They Can Stand a Great Deal ness existing on September 1. The Chinese National Anthem is Hong Kong, Friday, August 11, 1935 1928"? The court decided that the longest of any nation.
"Gold-Payment" Contracts.
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the defendants did not have to pay gold. But on what ground? In The Way. The court remarked: "The true "What is there in the way of construction of the document ap-good racy show?" asks a corres-sooner or later to a Japanese bid for Bessarabian problem in Roumania's peared to be that there was an pondent. The censor, probably..
The
Facts You Did Not Know.
If there is to be any serious obligation to pay £100 in gold debate in America on the bill to currency. Was that obligation. repudiate the "gold-payment however, one on which the plain- clause" in existing United States tiff could insist"? No; because Government obligations, it may the voiding of the contract "had be hoped that its promoters will been brought about by the Legis receive some instruction in hislature."
company "had tory. The proposal has arisen at agreed to pay that debt and in- for cooking fires in the interior of other times than this, but on all terest in gold coins, but the Panama. of those occasions even when Legislature had the action would not have been might lawfully be discharged by A new card table is equipped with Communism displayed by Nazi Ger- avoidance of war, both with and unmistakable violation of an ex-tendering banknotes. In other elevated electric light fixtures that many, and the loudly expressed Ger-objective in foreign policy is the plicit contract-it was rejected, on words, the Legislature had the can be folded under its top with the man ambition to "colonise" Eastern among Turkey's owwn neighbours.
[Europe.
said that it
the ground that it would tarnish power to authorize repudiation of Hlega. the good name and public faith the contract, and had done so.
Russia's Fears
ernment. It has been driven to seek‡- (an understanding with its western.
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of the United States. In 1894, it The attitude of American courts Experiments are under way in Such fears, it perhaps not wholly would have been comparatively remains to be seen. If they were British Malaya with road surfacing unfounded, have been exaggerated easy to set aside the House to adopt the same position, it will with an emulsion of a rubber sulu-beyond all reason by the Soviet Gov. MR. “JACKY” HUNG.
Ition with asphalt. Judiciary Committee's report of be observed that only the power,
to the effect, that a of the Legislature was affirmed $100,000,000 gold reserve must by the British court, not the tain evidence of a decline in the and southern neighbours calculated Many Attend Funeral be maintained for redemption of political rightfulness or propriety standard of nutrition; in the vast to safeguard Russia against attack United States notes, or to stretch of the action taken by the Legis majority the standard has improved, from any of these quarters. All the Treasury's statutory author-lature. Let it also be observed and throughout the country the have responded readily enough. ity to redeem the Treasury notes that the British court. was not number of cases requiring special
1882.
obstacles, that Cleveland has won his niche in America's national
hind of fame. The distinct pro-
Yesterday.
The funeral of the late "Jacky" As a matter of fact, most of them Hung, the fourth son of Mr. Hung
:
He was a brother of the well-
of 1890 "in gold or silver coin at passing on an action by the attention has fallen from 11.2 per would never have dreamed of attack-Hing-fat, who died at the St. Paul's his (the Secretary's) discretion." Legislature to void a contract 1952. Sir Frederick Menzies, in Poland, are infinitely more afraid from typhoid fever contracted two thousand children in 1981 to 10.7 in ing Soviet Russis, whilst others, like Hospital early yesterday morning, But the records of the day tell voted and inserted in the Govern his report on the London schools for of Germany, and especially of Nezl months ago, took place last evening of President Cleveland's courage-ment's own obligations by a pre-last year, expressly said that out of Germany, than they are of the pre-at Mount Davis Cemetery. ous rejection of the proposal as vious national legislature. At 180,000 children examined, only sent bankrupt, starving, and chaotic contrary to the Government's least no one could charge bad 29 were badly nourished. What it Russia French diplomacy, too, by known cricketer, W. C. Hung, and sound policy. It is through this faith by the Government, in its means is that to-day practically no its recent rapprochement with Mos-was himself a keen cricketer and steadfast adherence to the public action regarding its own contrac- children of school age are allowed to cow, has helped the latter in the member faith, even in face of enormous tual obligations.
of the Craigengower go underfed. Last year twice as negotiations.
Cricket Club. He was an employee Better-Fed Children 1929, and 50 per cent more than in the personal satisfaction of ridding
many children were fed free as in M. Litvinoff, therefore, has had of Messrs. Gilman and Company.
A large number of relatives and 1981. and the proportion of those, his country and the Soviet regime friends were present, and the chief posal to pay in depreciated paper! One passage in the speech of the who receive meals at a nominal of a nightmare. For it was never mourners were, Mr. Hung Hing-fat even the Government bonds cut-Parliamentary Secretary of the charge is about the same. When anything more than this. He has (father), Messrs. H. C., W. C., H. Q, standing after the Civil War had Board of Education was read with one thinks of what children suffered had the additional Batisfaction of and A. Hung (brothers). Repre perhaps more resemblance, in much relief. It has been repeatedly in times of acute distress thirty securing the adoption by a large senting Mesars. Gilman & Co. were principle at any rate, to the pre-stated of late that British school years ago, when there was no unem-number of the smaller League States Messrs. C. Blaker (Director), L. sent pending legislation. It be- children are paying heavily in ployment pay, no dole, and no pro- of his automatic definition of an Goldman, E. F. Fincher and N. A. E. came a political issue. So did the malnutrition for the evils due to un- vision of school meals, the improve-aggressor, as previously submitted Mackay. term "repudiationists," from the employment. That has caused ment is marvellous, and it is con- to the Disarmament Conference, but Others present were: Walter unpleasant political associations renuine distress. But the great temptible to seek to make political relected by Britain, America, and Hunt (cousin), C. G. Anderson, 8. of which, advocates of the policy weight of evidence supports the con- capital against the Government from Italy, among other Powers How M. Churn, F. Grose, A. Gillard, Ho in the Sixties spent the rest of trary view, and one suspects that such a quarter, Nor should it, be ever, for this spectacular success he Leung, H. Kl, Dr. L. Kew, H. Gittins, their lives in trying to escape these alarming reports have been forgotten, as many School Medical has had to pay a heavy material . M. Gittins, M. K. Lo, M. W. How little the really responsible accepted without question with the Officers have emphasised, that by price. statesmen of that day were object of casting discredit on the far the greatest influence in the
Lo, Horare Lo, J. Litton, Shi Yu- Gain For Peace man, A Zimmern, W. Zim affected by the clamor may be general education policy of the causation of malnutrition is not un- In the first place, he has had to mern, and many others including judged by a speech of that sturdy Government and their economy employment or poverty but an in-acquiesce in a definite-break with several Indien. **- defender of sound money, Secre maares of the last two years. Only visible: Ignorance on the part of the polley of Soviet-German・・ éo- tary of the Treasury, Hugh Mc seventem reports out of 268 received the mothers of the most elementary operation, initiated at Rapallo in relatives and friends were laid on A large number of wreaths from Culloch He answered the re-from School Medical Officers knowledge of dietetic values.
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