1933-11-30 — Page 11

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1933.

BRITAIN WILL BUILD UP HER AIR FORCE

f

“IF OTHER NATIONS DO NOT FOLLOW OUR LEAD IN REDUCTION”

PRESENT INFERIORITY CANNOT BE ACCEPTED: HOPES FOR DISARMAMENT,

London, To-day.

a

THE CHINA

MAIL.

HOPES FOR PEACE To-day's Short Story.

This statement was made in the debate raised by the Duke of Sutherland, who asked for information regarding Britain's reare intive aerial strength in comparison with other European powers.

IN FUKIEN

Nanking May Effect Settlement.

CHIANG AND WANG READY RESIGN

CREVASSE

By William

Faulkner.

HE party goes on. skirting again while once more the captainį

T the edge of the barrage and the subaltern consult the mar

Gunfire comes across the pale Nanking. To-day. weaving down into shell cratera Actuated by motives of peace. old and new, crawling out again.(apring noon like a prolonged clash- endless metal Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has reTwo men half drag, half carrying of hail on an

As they go on the chalky lied to General Li Leh-chun who between them a third, while two roof.

the three rifics, sail rises gradually underfoot. The has offered his service as media-lothers carry The British Government's determination to continue to pursue

tor in the Fuk en imbroglio, de- The third man's head is bound in ground is dryly rough, shaling, and carry the wounded man. policy aimed at achieving effective disarmament in the air was repeat-laring that while the Fukien a bloody rag; he stumbles his the going is harder still for the two when they would stop ed in the House of Lords fast evening by the Marquis of Londonderry, revolt is much regretted he still aimless legs along, his head loll who

the wounded man struggles and dhe Air Minister, but he added emphatically that they could not per- ardently hopes that the trouble ing, sweat channelling slowly But

jean be settled without bloodshed. down his mud-crusted face.

The barrage stretches on and on wrenches free and staggers on mit the continuance of Britain's present inferiority.

Marshal Chiang states further

preparations across the plain, distant, impens- alone, his hands at his head, and falling. The bearers that. though war

Occasionally a small wind stumbles, 'n propress, he sincerely trable.

between them and hope that a developments in comes up from nowhere and thus catch and raise him and hold him

upon muttering Wakion will not eventually com-the dun smoke momentarily poplars. of bitten

The wrenching his arms. He is mutter-{ el him to resort to a punitive clumps

field ing"...bonnet....bonnet" and hel party enters and crosses campaign.

to frees his hands and tugs again at Commenting on the situation, which a month ago was sown Mr. Wang Ching-wei expressed wheat and where yet whent speas his bandage. The commotion passes The captain looks back the opinion that the Central Goy thrust and eling stubbornly in the forward. ernment was still standing on churned soil, among scraps of metal and stops: the party halts also, un-

bidden, and lowers rifica. the principle of national unifica-and seething hunks of cloth.

"A's pickin' af's bandage, air-r," It crosses the field and comes to tion through economic construc- London. To-day.ition, especially during the na-a canal bordered with tree stump one of the bearers tells the captain

House oftional crisis.

sheared roughly at a symmetrical They let the man sit down between five-foot level. The men flop and them; the captain kneels drink of the contaminated water and him.

The thu AB their water bottles. beavers let the wounded man slip to earth; be hangs lax on the catal bank with both arms in the water and his bead too, had not the other

Lord Londonderry said that the course the Government had consis

tently followed in connection with air disarmament was sufficient in-

BRITISH POLICY

SUPPORTED.

dication that they regarded the Mr. Baldwin Still Hopes

problem as of vital moment.

A

race between the nations in arma-

1 ments was a policy that must avoided at all eosis and to this end

For Disarmament.

The debate in the

all the efforts of the Government Communs yesterday on the air de- had been directed at Geneva,

It might be that the Disarmament task Conference

approached its with idealism, which in the pro- sest circumstances of world was no reason for censure, and it

ndeguney" of the would

fence of Great Britain ended in the rejection, without a division, of the motion of Rear-Admiral Sueter

attention drawing

to the "in- air defence of be a disaster of the first magnitude the Empire, and the adoption by 11 votes to 1 of the motion of if an agreement was not reached on a definite limitation of armaments Wing Commander James support at a level which satisfied the reing the polley of the Government qurements of defence and denied to embodied in the British draft con a potential aggressor the means of vention. offence.

and proof of the penuine character land.

f her propaganda for the limita

The Disarmament situation was

CUSTOMS CONTROL IN FUKIEN.

New Regime To Retain Surplus Collections.

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beside

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be Henri "The Brother." by Barbusse.

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of

He said that both he and Marshal Chlang Kai-shek would willingly resign from a'l Government posts if cther leaders promised to fake up the responsibilities of the Central Government. Mr. Wang regarded the pre-held him up.

One of them ralees water in ts sent revolt in Fukien as full of

.....bonnet.....bonnet," the man serious possibilities which lay in helmet, but the wounded man can

Inot swallow. So they set him up mutters. The captain loosens the the adoption of a new flag and right and the other holds the hell bandage. The sergeant extends a the upsetting of the Kuomintang Mr. Stanley Baldwin, winding up political principles by the rebels. rim to lips and refille the hewater bottle and the captain wets mel and pours the water on the the bandage and lays his hand on Britain the debate, said that Britain could-Central News Agency. When the war closed

wounded man's head, sopping the the man's brow. The others stand

first air

the not stand alone in the world in her power in

bandage. Then he takes a filthy 18g about, looking on with a kind www the

After the armistice, as an present position in regard to de-

from his pocket and dries the wound sober, detached Interest. The cap- world.

on sea and her pacific intentions fener in the air, and ernest of

ed man's face with cluntsy" gentle-tain rises, The bearers raise the

wounded man again. The sergeant | The captain, the subaltern and the speaks them into motion. sergeant. still standing, are poring

They gain the crest of the ridge. over a soiled map. Beyond the The ridge slopes westward into a canal the ground rises gradually platess slightly rolling. Southward, the canal cutting reveals the chalk beneath its dun pall, the barrage

in

north- pallid still rages; westward aud The Foreign Office of the Fukien formation of the land

The captain puts the map ward about the shining empty that satisfac- strata. Government claims story arrangements have been reach-away and the sergeant speaks the plain smoke rises lazily here The there above clumps of trees. ed with the local Customs authori- men to their feet, not loud.

les for the detention of Customs two bearers raise the wounded ma thin in the smoke of burning things, surpluses collected within the jur- jand they follow the canal bank, burning wood and not powder, and In Britain's case the figure

coming after a while to a bridge the two officers gate from benenth-

850 aero-

The registered Christmas

A spokesman of the local authori-formed by a water-logged barge hull their hands, the men halting again was approximately

per 8.ties said that from this source the lashed bow and stern to either bank, without order and lowering arms. planes. In the French air forcojmall for Great Britain.

was Chitral and the Bandoeng-Amster={"People's Revolutionary Govern and so pass over. Here they halt the corresponding figure about 1,650. According to avail-dam Air Mail Service, will close at ment" could obtain at least $300,000

p.m. month-Central News Agency. able information the Soviet Re-the General Post Office at 5 public figure was between 1.400 to-day. and the ordinary mal at 9

This mail b X perted to reach Landon on Dervar- ber 17

tion of air armaments. she dis-delicate, he said, but no member of persed the greater part of her vast the Government had in any way! air feets until the country was to lost hope and they were endeavour-i

possible to in every way world's airing day Afth only of the

first-line achieve an agreement. ---Reuter.

power. in

trength.

to3038

All countries had

not made

public statements of their current strengths, but ofcial figures were available for France and Britain.

and 1.500, the United States be m tween 1,900 and 1.100, Italy be

tween 1,000 and 1,100.

!}

clear WILD

that Britain's

CHRISTMAS AIR MAIL TO-MORROW

to-morrow.

letter

example had unhappily elicited no STREET SLEEPERS'

reponse whatever in any quarter

of the world This was therefore ath which could no longer be followed and they must, however luctantly abandon the policy of snilateral disarmament which, the present

unfortunate state

of

SHELTER

Foochow, To-day.

Isdiction of the new regime.

STOLEN ELECTRIC FAN PAWNED.

Theft From Theatre By Employee.

LOCAL ESTATES

Kowloon Accountant

Leaves $28,600.

and

But

"Gad, sir," the Bubaltern sayu Auddenly in a high, thần voice; "it'n' houses burningi They're retreat- ing! Beastal Beasts!"

""Tis possible," the captain says, gazing beneath his hand. "We can get Around that barrage now. Should be a road just yonder." He strides on again.

Malcom Macfarlane Macfarland,

"For-rand," the sergeant says, in Accountant, late of 82, Mody Road,that tone not loud. The men slope Kowloon, Hong Kong, who died on

arms once more with unquestioning Dr. S. W. Phoon desires to

Three Chinese, Leung Ki, Hoboard the a.s. Hunễn on September

docility. meet, at the Cathedral Hall this Taal, and a Huen, were bound 26, 1935, left local estate sworn ut- evening at 5.30 p.m., all Volun over by Mr. Balfour at the Central der $28.000.

ed,

late of

The ridge is covered with a tough, gorselike grass. Insects buzz in it,

teers who have any medical or Magistracy this morning in con- A petition by Annie Alexander first aid knowledge and who have action with the theft of an elec- or Macfarlane, widow, for probate Zip from beneath their feet and falli international affairs, it was mani-alrendy sent in their names as ric table fan from the Kau U-fong in the above estate has been grant to alatting again beneath the shim-i

The wounded man is mering noon. stly not only useless but ever willing to help with duty at the theatre.

babbling again. At intervals they dangerous to pursue further.

¿Continud at foot of next Column.) The first defendant was an elec. Henry Maitland King. Lieutes-

pause and give him water and wet That did not mean that a new

jtrician in the employ of the theatre aut in the Royal Navy,

the bandage again, then two others. policy would guide them, for the

charged with the theft, 23, the Avenue, Alverstoke, County exchange with the bearers and they Government had made it plain, in neither be a threat to the peace of and was

close up their successive pronouncements at the world nor impose an intolerable while the second and third defen- Hants, and formerly of Cerrigliwy, hurry the man on and

inancial burden.

dants were charged with the illegal dion, Denbigh, in the County of

again. Geneva, that they recognised the

Denbigh, who died at Helbench Apawning of the fan.

The head of the line stops; the Marsh. Holbeach, Lincoln, on Sep men jolt prodding into one another aeed for a one-power standard in

which tember 26, 1932, left local estate like a train of freight care stopping. the air for this country.

but race in air armaments should Street Sleepers' Shelter.

at $10,800. be avoided at all costs. Appropriate jopens to-morrow.

The notice is very short but it A petition by Michael Howard At the captain's feet lies a broad {shallow depression, in which grows the air had been abundantly proved steps to ensure this policy were at

a sparse, dead-looking grass like by their approach to this problem. Present engaging the attention of is hoped that as many as possi-Turner, solicitor, the lawful t

The earnestness of their desire

o achieve effective disarmament in

AN

Britain and the Empire whole must be made safe in the air.

and they had offered to go to any the Government, Lord Londonderry|ble will make a special effort to torney, for-sealing the exempla clumps of bayonets thrust up out of

length if other nations would do the

same.

They had indeed stated their will- ingness to consent to the completa abolition of military and naval avia- llon provided only that there could be devised an effective scheme for, the international control 01 civil aviation which would prevent all! possibility of the misuse of civil atreraft for milltary purposes.

It now appeared that there were nations which were not prepared to agree to such abolition, and it was impossible to deny that there were great practical difficulties; in tha way of such a far-reaching - mog-

sure.

But Britain could 'not accept a continuance of her present Inferiority.

It parity could not, be secured by reductions elstwhere then the con verno of the proposition must follow and there would be no option but to begin to build unwerda, while con tinuing her efforts to secure an in- ternational agreement in fixing parity at the lowest level to which other nations would subscribe, 2

Having, referred to the m grammes for an Increased air force in the United Staten, Japan and Russia, Lord Londonderry ssid hist they must hope it would be possible to fix, fira-lino stránkth, för principal air powers which

concluded.-British

vice.

Wireless Ber-attend. as Dr. Phoon would like tion of the will of the deceased, his

to explain the duties.

'been granted.

"Face-Lifting" on Trans-Atlantic Liner

the

of the

the earth. It is too big to have been made by a small shelf and tool shallow to have been made by a big one. It bears no traces of having been made by anything at all, and they look. quietly down into It. "Queer," the subaltern says. "What do you fancy could have made it?”--

The captain does not answer. He turna. They clrele the depression, looking down into it quietly as they pass it. But they have no mars than passed it when they come up on another one, perhaps not quite so, largo, ':"'I didn't know they had anything that could make that," the subaltero aaya, Again the captain) deas, not answer, They circle this one also and keep on along the crest of the ridge. On the other hand the ridge shoern sharply downward [strata by sirata of pallid, eroded chalk.

A shallow ravine gashes / Its crumbling yuwa abruptly across their path.: The captain chengen direction again, paralleling the ravine until shortly afterward the ravina turns, at right angles and goes in in the direction of their march. The floor of the raving is Ah shadows the captain leads the way down the shelving wall, into the shade. They lower the wounded man carefully and go on....

(Continued on Pang 12).

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