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Sir Evelyn Wrench has secured for his English-Speaking Union the presidency of the Prince of Wales. This achievement, will further advance the success of an organien- tion which Sir Evelyn has made his¦ life work. Although many people disagree with some of the Union's | objectives, most will recognise the immense energy and skill which he has put into it.

PRECAUTION AGAINST AIR RAIDS

TOO MUCH SECRECY IN SAFETY MEASURES

WHERE BRITAIN ERRS

(By Brigadier-General P. R. C. Groves, C.B., C.M.G., D.8.0.)

London. French air

manoeuvres, cities

HE continual deterioration of such as Nancy, Lyons, and Toulon

Tthe European political situs- have been the objectives of attack,

His Overseas League is another tion is exemplified by the fiasco the local machinery for publie triumph of organisation.

of the Disarmament Conference; safety has also been put to tho

Sir Evelyn is getting on in years: by Italy's decision to spend an ad test.

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QUEER INVITATION.

never

he will be 52 this year. He is aditional £33,000,000 on her Navy The aim of the new air defence Brst-rate talker-one of the best in and Air Force in the next six Bill is to improve and amplify the London. He takes his fair share of years; by reports from various re-existing organisation; it is con the conversation, and he

Hable sources showing the rapid cerned, among other matters, with bores his audience.

progress of German rearmament; the provision of gas masks for and by the adoption of a Bill' pro- the public and with measures for viding for new air defence mea- "de-gaming" Infected areas. .I sures for Paris.

understand that there s also un- There is a curious story behind

These indications of the trend der consideration

the possibility the announcement that Lord Kin-of European events, following of applying to sections of the noull and Mr. Aneurin Bevan will many others in the past year, em Paris Tubes the measures adopt tour the United States in order to phasise once more the folly ofled to render the subterranean gal- raise funds for the relief of the your procrastination in regard toleries of the Eastern Frontier de- victims of German Nazi persecu-air defence for it cannot be too fences gas proof. This can be often repeated that as sixth air achieved by raising the air pres-,

tion.

The tour is being chaperoned by Power we are in a position neither sure in them.

To the people of this island, Lord Marley's Anti-War League, o mediate in Europe, .nor to hon. but the invitation to Lord Kinnoull our our commitments there, nor, living in the illusion of insular and to Mr. Bevan was made per should we wish to repudiate them, security; the French precautions sonally in the House of Commons effectively to defend our neutrali- may appear to be excessive. But the French Government is for by Countess Karoly!, who is inter-ty in the event of conflict.

The failure of our leaders fully from being satisfied with them; esting herself both in the fund and in the financing of the tour,

to appreciate these truths is due they are, indeed, less extensive The Countess is the wife of to conservative outlook which than those of several other coun- Count Michael Karolyi, the first seems to preclude recognition of tries. A few weeks ago an "Air established by observation and President of the Hungarian Re the sweeping changes which avia Defence Union" of all the patrio- tion has brought about in thotic societies was formed under experimenta difficult process, public.

linked spheres of defence and di- the presidency of the Prime Min-. and likely to prove controversial] She is only 36 and holds even: Hong Kong, Monday, July 16, 1934, even in its results. Some may more advanced views than her hus-plomacy. Unfortunately, this my ister, M. Gaston Doumergue, bo

say that the child becomes so band. In the United States she opla is confined to Great Britain; greater efforts.

German Arrangements hardened to the things he sees was known as "The Red Countess."It has no European parallel. Our

Mr. Bevan has sailed for New Power is not the only example; passive defence are both more The German arrangements for The Cinema And The and hears that they have no

effect upon him. Others fondly York, but Lord Kinnoull changed another, equally striking, le af comprehensive and more advanced Child.

hope he does not understand, or, his mind and stayed at home.

forded by a comparison of the ac-than the French. faintly perceiving, is not greatly

tion taken in this country and on A mere enumeration of the mea- the Continent in regard to what sures already taken or foresha the French term "passive de: dowed would fill this page. In This connotes the mea- 1933 the numerous leagues and In preparation for their annual fence,"

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decline from first to sixth air

gamated to form the Beichs-Luft-

A subject which periodically perturbed. In any event, there agitates parents is the nature of must be a vulgarisation of the the films witnessed by children, common life; such influences, Children form a considerable whatever their ascendancy over camp. I read, the boys of a certain sures taken for the safety of the associations whose efforts were section of the picture-going pub-the individual, must tend to school are already busy splitting population in the event of air at devoted to this end were amal- lic, and yet for them, it is as- lower the tone-of a community. firewood. Breaking up for the tack. serted, there is not, never has A continuous stream cannot pour holidays. been, and apparently will not be, across a surface without making uny special prowdalon. Indi-some impression. Some of the vidual items are of course sup-consequences we have seen, and plied, and such familiar figures are seeing daily, notably the de- of the new nursery tore as gradation of speech. Parents "Mickey the Mouse", and the naturally hesitate to deprive "Silly Symphony" satisfy the their children of one of the most child demand for entertainment varied of modern pleasures, but in a harmless and even stimulat-one way to a remedy is at least ing way. But all too often ani- in their hands. They can forbid This Week's Advice mated talking cartoona or juven attendance at the cinemas, or A correspondent wants to know ile comedies are mingled with select those which offer the what he shall give his dog, which the most sophisticated of grown-minimum of corruption-but who insists on barking all night. Why up fare, and since the young have can tell beforehand? The solu- not away ↑

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by Louw de web Protection In France schutz Bund Imperial League fór In France the new Bill is but Air Protection), under the newly the most recent of such steps. The established. Air Ministry. Since It is pointed out that in our organisation of local protection then the whole national organisa Parents young days every meal was begun in 1981 under the aution has been co-ordinated and was opened with a prayer. Nowa-pervision of Marshal Petain, who consolidated under the direction days, of course, it is done with a was appointed Inspector-General of the Air Minister. General Goer- tin-opener.

of Territorial Air Defence, a posting. which he held until he became Poland is also particularly well War Minister under the present prepared. Her passive air de- Government.

fence organisation. which is sub The general principles of such sidised by the Government, has a defence were laid down in a me- membership of half a million, of morandum issued by the French which 6,000 are qualified instruc no monopoly of what delightation seems to rest with the

Supreme War Council in Novem-tors. It possesses nine railway them, it would seem, indeed, that vision and public-spiritedness of We are warned that commodity idea of this document, which has paratus in which lecturers

ber of the same year. The basic coaches equipped with cinema ap adults are considered all the someone of those responsible for prices are rising steadily. This time. The adventure film that the films we see.

been circulated to all the civil stantly tour the country for pro- simply means that you can now thrills, mature and youthful

buy less with $10 you have not authorities--prefets (chief admin-paganda purposes. alike is rarely furnished in its

istrators of departments), mayors, (Continued on Page 3) straight-forward form without,

and other municipal officials—in other suggestions and extraneous

that the responsibility for arrang-

STONE-BREAKERS attractions. Apparently the

jing for protection of this kind makers of films see no distinction stamps may excite emotion in phic spirit of the stockjobber who Inspector-General's task is to ad- We have to admire the philoso-rests primarily with them. The

WARNED. justifying separate treatment the breasts of philatelists and between the patrons of cinemas, may stir the interest of the reported "No business as usual, vise and supervise, and to co-or- and aim to please all at once by artist. The average man will

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con-

Recurrence Of Trouble Will Be Dangerous.

a mixture of elements severally register little excitement. To A new publication is called the appealing to various mentalities. him a stamp is nothing more "Human Trypanosomiasis The position is 'not so bad as it than a convenience, the design search Report." But not very often. The net result of the action Ngai Sul, 80 years old, Ngai Sing, might be, however, since the and colour of which matter little

thus taken is that France. now 84 years old, and Li Sim, 19 years theatres are unable for obvious 30 long as the stamp itself · MOURNFUL THOUGHT possesses a nation-wide system of old, all of whom are stone-breakers reasons to discriminate, but they serves its useful purpose. Yet A psychologist says that 70 per

passive defence, comprising 270 employed at the stone yard belong- could screen matinee pro-

the announcement made recently cent. of the things that happen in provincial organisations of which ing to Messrs. Logan and Amps, To grarimes comprising serials of by the Postmarter-General of dreams are unpleasant. That is the membership totals 42,000. Kwa Wan, were brought up before the old stamp (only to be borne London is, in one small matter, a not a much better than being Each of these provincial "groups," Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kow by children) and other pictures reyolution, for the new stamps awake. with a definite Junior appeal. are to be printed, not as of yore, even if this is vitiated by quali- from. dies made at the Royal

DEEP STUFF.

as they are called includes memloon Magistracy this morning on a bers of the Red Cross societies charge of disorderly conduct. and of various patriotic leagues Eight men charged on Thursday,

ties and situations which evid Mint, but by photogravure. A diver has written his auto- and associations, which work to and there are still some in hospital ently are expected to be over-Modern photography and the blography, looked. But the fact remains postage stamp were born with- that there is no continuous sup-in a year of one another. It ply and retailing of films for has taken almost a century in wigs in court to distinguish them Yes, Mamie; barristers wear children, when programmes Great Britain to wed the two in from the prisoners. could be specially adapted and ventions.

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the ideal gift for those you care about and those who caredesigned, and a careful selection What other alterations are to about you.

And when you' of material made. Many have be made are very slight. Modern have them taken by King's, emphasised the educational invention has a limiting influence Studio you've got a real gift, value of the cinema, and here, upon the size of stamps of small, Two Austrians have constructed a -an artistic, beautifully finish surely, is an opportunity for the denomination, for change would tailless gilding plane, consisting of ed picture that really does you

educational authorities to com- involve costly alterations to theat out section of the upper sur

nothing bat wings, the pilot occupyingi justice.

bine with the exhibitors, and thousands of automatic machines face. arrange to have the children that play their part: In distribu brought regularly for pro tion. There is larger scope for grammes which would be in the artist in the htamps of high teresting and at the same time value, but for everyday postal instructive.

purposes the line of development The whole question. is, from was practically fixed by the de Its nature, a moral one, and it is signers of the now rare penny arguable that the modern child, black of Queen Victoria's reign exposed as he is on every hand

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Fifty-five members of the was carefully shielded, can bear Cankdlan-returned Chin without detriment even the friends spent a very

gether under the supervision of as the result of the stone-battle at the local civil authorities. There the yard on July 11. The hearing is no space to describe the multi-is remanded till July 20 organizations; briefly their efforts gestion in the newspapers that there ple activities of these provincial Mr.. Wynne Jones: "I saw a^ang-

are devoted to

was a recurrence of the fight. Is "A. Measures for individual that so?" protection...-

Prosecuting Sergeant: "Coolies "B" Measures for collective turned up next morning armed with protection.

bamboo poles, but the police were Those under "A" are, chiefly of there to prevent trouble.

an educational nature, and take Mr. Wynne Jones Tell the fore- the form of lectures and pam- man at To Kwa Wan that if there phlets explaining aero-chemical are any more fights ing the Designed on the principle of the warfare and telling the public hearing of this case I shall deal lemograph, a small electrically what to do and what not to do in with them very severely.

to measure the vibrations of heavy operated Instrument has been invent the event of an air raid. machinery.

NULLAH OUTRAGE "g" comprises every sort of mu SUSPECT REMANDED In Somatra, where the air coole nicipal arrangement those for quickly at night and often become the police, for fire brigades, fox damp in a few minutes, straw thatch-air-raid, warnings, for the provi On the application of Bub ed Aheds have been found best for curing tobacco.

Recent Tests Made

sion of bomb and gas-proof shel- Inspector O'Donavan, o tera, and for collecting and deal. formal remand was gier Construction is under way on the Ing with casualties. In several E. W. Hamilton Able after last link of a superpower transmis-places there are, in addition, plana Magistracy this morning,

to hel for the evacuation of civil ponti- cass of Ng Lal-yuen, who

·lations to safety centres.

charged with the mu recent--years; when in Michael Pine, on June 22

worst excesses of the talking noon yesterday on a launch manic souline that will carry « electricit films. Certainty could only be to Silver Mine: Bay

weeks