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ARBITER OF ELEGANCE -

Sir George Clerk, the new Bri- tish Ambassador to Paris, has al- ready sent British stock-soaring there.

His success is not the result of | any manifestation on his part of pro French sympathy. He is the Agag of diplomacy,

It is his outer man which has captivated French society. Not in this century has Paris seen 80 well-dressed an Ambassador.

Already he has been given the title "Supreme Arbiter of Elegance." Sir George takes this flattery for less than it is worth. Apart from

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SPIRITUAL DISARMAMENT

(By 'The Archbishop of Liverpool, The Most Rev. RICHARD DOWNEY, D.D., Ph.D., LL-D.)

This is a further article in the China Mail eeries in which prominent men are putting forward their plans for estab- lishing world peace.

in favour of the abolition of slavery. Incidentally, a century after its formal abolition there. are still 5,000.000 slaves in the world, chiefly because in some Iplaces men and women have not the modern reaction away tance of the ideal of emancipa- HERE is nothing new about yet been educated up to accep-

London.

his work his interests are in out-from war and strife towards tion. door sports.

peace and harmony.

Although there is a widespread Recently he sent a congratulatory | In the 16th century Erasmus. peace-movement in the world to- telgram to Henry Cotton, whose as in his Complaint of Peace (a day it is impossible to close one's siduous pupil he was on the Water-work which surely ought to be eyes to the growing menace of loo links when he was in Brussels.

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reprinted in a cheap edition), set war. How is this to be averted? forth nearly everything that can It seems to me that it will be be said against the folly of war, averted only by an instructional But wars went on. Arma-campaigh on disarmament and Mr. Fred Rothermell in his new ments increased until the whole peace which will help to crystal- novel, "The Leaning Tower," speaks civilised world to-day, groans lise public opinion, by a progres of a 900ft, building which began to under the weight of them. sive educative process on the part of schools, churches the Press,

lean "at the rate of one-half to three-quarter of an inch a day."

Little Hope For Arbitration

As

This is not mere rhetoric but and other formative agencies. It sounds alarming, but Mr. hard, cold fact. It is estimated Attitude, Of The Catholic Church Alfred Bossom, M.P., who has de-that the world's bill for arma- Here, perhaps, I may be per- signed more than 30 skyscrapers, ments is £2,000,000 a day, and mitted to explain the attitude of statea that one of his buildings, that out of every £1 collected in the Catholic Church towards war. about 450ft, high, after enduring a taxation, 14s. is devoted to pay. It is regarded as a last resource 70-mile-an-hour gale for three con- ing for wars, past, present or of averting an actual threat to secutive days, was found to be ten future.

the life and liberty of a State, inches out of plumb.

The consciences of many have permissible only while the danger That was almost one-fortieth of been stirred and it is felt that lasts

a World-Church an inch to the foot. The movement the psychological moment for Catholicism strives for World-

has was quite imperceptible to any of abolishing war arrived. Peace, and the encyclicals on cross those dangerous lines. Herce Mr. Baldwin's recent an- the tenants and too small even to Various means have been pro- peace and war of recent Popes. nouncement that the frontier be measured except on a building of jposed, some of them more dras-with their world-wide appeal, are

tic than wise.

generally admitted to have great Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 9, 1934. of England now ran along the that height.

course of the Rhine. But the Three days after the gale had I do not believe that it is pos-educational value.

But while stressing the impor- newest news of all is of the pro-died down everything had straight-sible to attain the end in view by

inducing men to sign pledges not tance of an educational peace. gress made in experimenting ened out again. War Without Chivalry with attack, not with explosive Mr. Bossom, who is publishing a to engage in future wars, or not movement, I do not subscribe to bombs or oven gases, but with book this autumn on his skyscrap-to fight on foreign soil. In the shibboleth, "First disarma Mr. Lloyd George is not ex-germs of fatal diseases.. These ing experiences, declares that, no moments of racial conflict when ment of mind, then disarmament

passions and prejudices of weapons."

Material disarmament should actly renowned as a political pro-experiments have been carried skyscraper has ever toppled over.

roused such pledges count for phet in any matter which re-on for some time with great

little.

begin at once as an evidence and quires deep investigation, but care, not with dangerous but]

Neither do I think that it is earnest of the spiritual disarma- there can be no doubt that his with harmless microbes, for

feasible to secure peace by the ment which is everywhere loudly record as Minister of Munitions which the dangerous variety During his honeymoon the Scotsman enables him to speak with au- could be easily substituted when took his wife to see the dentist, whe, setting up of a Board of Arbitra-professed. To postpone the re- thority when he notes that none the time arrived.

after making an examination said, tion, for the simple reason that duction of armaments until the "Dear, dear, these teeth ought to have the powers that be are not in the whole world is converted to the of the first rate European Pow- The medium of experiment been taken ont years ago," All right, frame of mind to submit to its idea of peace by arbitration ers will be able to go to war for bids fair to become famous, and said the Scot, carry on and take them decisions. They are obviously would be to sound the death-knell several years, even if the period is called the "Bloody Wafer." out, and send the hill to her father."

suspicious of each other and of any movement for the aboli-

tion of war. of ten years be taken at random. The problem of course is to dis- The men who are working for cover the result of spraying You can tell a successful busi.manoeuvring for position. peace to-day are well aware that great centres of population withness man. He isn't ashamed to incidents that might have made germs from aeroplanes, which add up the dinner check

a war imminent when General will cause epidemics that will Staffs felt that all the possible destroy the "will to resist."

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In any case these methods spirit must be brought to bear in begin at the wrong end. A real national and international re- peace movement must begin lations before the final victory of preparations had been made and There seems, fortunately, to be "Ah," said the village butcher, within the individual soul and Peace is attained, but this does that the favourable moment had in each country, some people so enthusiastically describing a new spread to the family, and thence not mean that we are to allow arrived, will for sometime be horrified at the prospect that resident, "she's a real lady. She extend to larger groups, until it the competition in armaments to

the lamb. passed over and compromised. even the most secret reports get don't know one cut o' meat from embraces the entire nation and go on till the lion lies down with

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Such formulas as "We don't have known advocates of the

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These people-need-first-of all to

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I would begin the peace move ment in the schools.

public opinion, while at the same time insisting on the immediate reduction of armaments to a scale commen surate with the internal security of each nation.

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It is folly to urge this country "My country, right or wrong," to carry out a disarmament pro

but that it has deeper roots, gramme which is not being car

Jone's kith and kin, and of that

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or later the money and training|cribed, the lecturer speaks at asking questions. expended on preparations will be various distances from sensitis-

I would have history taught in Bold at High put to the touch, to gain or lose ed plates, and from the number

Angelina: "And now that nur en- such a way as not to glorify mili- it all, and that the mere fact of of germ colonies that are found that future possibility keeps conclusions can be drawn as to garement is ended, you will be good tariam, but to expose the horrors of war. I would have children men from getting to work on the quantity, range, and trajec enough to return my letters."

Edwin: "Sorry, but when -waste

learn that real patriotism is not much development and improve-tory of the little drops of saliva paper went to $5 a hundred pounds, I ment that modern conditions This particular microbe is useful felt that I couldn't afford to keep represented by such slogans as have made easy, more easy in because it is never found in the them any longer." fact than the national hermit air, and any germ colony dis policy which has to be bolstered covered after spraying must Facts You Did Not Know namely, those of piety towards ried out by other Great Powers. up by all manner of legislative have come from the aeroplane. devices and trade restrictions. The process is not so simple Nickel foil so thin that print can be charity and justice which tran But in the process of looking as it sounds, as it requires a read through five thicknesses of it ascend the bounds of all nationali- ahead a still more thrilling ques very careful observation of the being made by an electroplating pro-ty. tion has presented itself, will rate of the wind, by an anemo eess in England, there ever be a war of the old metre, and of temperature, to

An inventor has given a clothes from the minds of the rising sort again? Are there not me-discover the height at which the drying rack an ornamental cover and generation the Exaggerated thods of venting hatred on an plane should be, and the rate it side pieces to enable it to be used as nationalism which despises foreigners, and plant in its place old foe that will leave the days could travel at, and the best a Jawn umbrella er tent...

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the spirit which recognises the For stowing away on the s.4. Kuns of slow marching armies as far time of day, and other details behind as the breastplates and "If these bacilli could be success. The Chinese Government has arrang universal brotherhood of man. Sang from Amoy to Hong Kong on ed with an American company for chain armour of the days of chl-fully rained down from an aero-radio telephone service to both North In this way we might hope to August 5, Wong Tak-fuk, a 26-year- eliminate the unintelligent jingo old unemployed, was fined $60, In valry, and naturally chivalry it-plane, with sufficient concentra and South America and to Europe.

default one month's Imprisonment, who makes war possible. self along with the old weapons? tion, from various heights and⠀

by Mr. J. B. H. Lee at the Kowloon A Slow Process But Sare People who had been educated Magistracy this morning,

Defendant pleaded that he had on these lines would not be per-

I would strive to eradicate

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"Paid $70" For $4 Ticket From Amoy.

The French Government hea in varying conditions of wind A boat has been built of duralumin recently completed a chain of and weather, and caught be cul that weighs only 30 pounds yet can forts and trenches along the ture plates on the grounds then carry 500 pounds of passengers or Northern frontier that could not one could study at one stroke freight and a twin cylinder engine, suaded easily into entering war paid a mad in Amoy a sum of $70 be captured by infantry, the sero-dynamically and meteoro- question of whether they could logically, not only bacteriologi

at the bidding of high finance or to buy him a ticket for Hong Kong, low politics. Wars will be fewer the man never turned up with the be pounded to dusty fragments cal but also chemial spraying." the entrances to many under-when the decision to make them ticket so Wong went aboard and was by heavy artillery and by bomba The expert is proud of the Ger ground stations and stopping really rests with the deliberate found hiding in a latrine on the dropped from the air became a man: notable superiority in places Measurements of the judgment of an enlightened tween decks. subject of ----Investigation. A comparison with the English culture colonies were taken "at people fully conscious that they On making enquiries it was found. French officer was recenty ar and French technique of dis- the Pasteur, Montparnasse, and themselves, and not the pro that a steerage ticket from Amoy rested, tried and shot, for be charge from aircraft. The re above all Concorde Stations in moters of the war, will be the cost only $4. traying plans of the fortifica- porta are and technical, all Paris, or in London at Leicester chief sufferers from the strife tions to the enemy The Ger that can be referred to is the list Square, Tottenham Court Road and its aftermath

man staff deterruined that the of places where. delay and the cost of bombard were tried by the Ger ment would be too great and perta, in Paris and that the only thing to be done These were the ase was toer

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