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If the recommendations made by the legal education committee to

AN URGENT APPEAL FOR PEACE

the Council take effect there will W

be a thorough reorganisation from 1937 onwards.

Articled clerks serving

GERMAN MINISTER'S PLEA TO WORLD

RELATIONSHIP

FEELING

THILE omitting the remarks, war, wish to build up the work of on internal politles, which peace in common. It is high time related principally to recent that a real understanding should five events, we reproduce below the linally be reached between the na- years will be permitted to sit for text of the part of the speech made lions, an understanding based on the Intermediate Examination at Konigsberg on July B by the mutual respect, which can alone be the Leader, durable, and on respect such as after one year's articles, instead representative of of two.

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CHOOSE YOUR OWN BOOKS

Herr Hese, on German foreign the former combatants feel for

each other.

For there can be no doubt that great States have

AC-

Clerks articled for less than polley:

In a few weeks the twentieth five years will be allowed to sit

anniversary will be celebrated of most at any time.

Д greater stock the beginning of the great heroic cumulated

ever of war material, struggle of the German soldier. It than was here in East Prussia that the but war material that is in danger The set books for the Inter-great soldier Hindenburg saved of becoming out of date and re- a terrible inflammable mediate are to be abolished. Stu- your country-the same soldier presents dents will be examined on Law, who, as President of the Reich, is matter for the peoples who have not. become tranquilised since the which they must learn for them-to-day a guarantor of peace, selves from any books they choose. East Prussia is the part of Ger-Great War and regard each other Even candidates for the Final many which suffered most during with the utmost mistrust. An in- will be affected by the change. the war. East Prussia experi-significant event. such as the un- They will be permitted to select enced the war in all its brutal fortunate shot at Sarajewo in some of the subjects in which reality. Signs. of this were for a 1914-perhaps from the pistol of they wish to be examined.

Hitherto they have been obliged to take all the papers.

Your Daily Smile!

..

long time visible in the form of a lunatic-may suffice to cause a districts which had formerly been clash between armies of millions flourishing and were destroyed by of men, against the will of the na- tions concerned. It may suf- the Russian invasion. Many of

entire to plough up

dia-

you will still remember the miseryfice

of the fugitives who fled in sad tricts by tens of thousands of

A record price was recently paid for procession in order to save them-shells of all calibres and ranges,

a rare moth. We understand that it selves from the Coisacks. is fed exclusively 011 best quality dinner-jacket.

Same Thing (Almost)

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#

MOTORIST'S "IF

Traffic lights are flashing "Stop"

and "Go",

If you can see the sign, "Pedestrian

crossing."..

know.

to convert towns and villages from

For the very reason that you the air into seas of flame, and to

war destroy all life by gas attacks. have been acquainted with

"Be Honest" Those who took part in

on your own soil, I utter words

War Veteran Leaders

front. For it was. the spirit of

the

modern war would entail with the present perfected weapons.

I appeal to the comrades on the

everyday life. At times perhaps

keep decently veiled. Unveiling If she didn't quite get the car about East Prussia which I have can occasionally be the less dan in the garage at least she got the long wished to say to Germany Great War have an idea of what a

and, in particular, to the rest of gerous course. and though M. garage over the car.

{the world. Hong Kong Friday, August 17, 1934. Barthou's outspokenness caused high feeling at the time, and led Mr. Henderson to make an angry If you can drive when all around

[War: Our nation has to-day the good fronts of both sides in the Great you

Be honest! It is true that we Fresh Efforts For Peace. protest results at which M Barthon himself expressed con-

fortune to be led mainly by old combatants, who transfer the vir-

were formerly in the field pos- siderable aurprise it now looks The House of Commons as if the explosion had done no

tues of the front to statesman sessed with the proud feeling of ship, and who are reconstructing being real men-soldiers, fighters, been formally advised by the harm, but rather cleared the Foreign Secretary, Sir John air for

And not wonder what to do but the Reich in the spirit of the liberated from the drabness of a subsequent better Simon, that a plan is in contem-understanding. The man of ec- plation for a pact of mutual as-centric temperament is often if you can tell by come queer in the front that created National

Socialism: At the front the ideas we had a feeling of joy in an sistance and regional guarantees more amenable in private than

of clase obscurity and class con-existence which was in sharp op in eastern Europe. While the in public, and now M. Barthou scheme remains in contempla stands forth as one of the avow-

The meaning of the traffic police:sciusness collapsed in the face of position to the 'effeminacy which is the accompaniment of modern cul- tion only, there is much yet to ed protagonists of the proposed Yours is the road to drive upon it, At the front comradeship between that our worth was greater than death which threatened all alike ture and, hyper-culture. We felt learn regarding its actual de Eastern pact a protagonist, in-

fellow countrymen, which had those who, at a distance from the talls. Russia, the Baltic States, deed, without whose consent no

hitherto been unknown, Was Poland, Czechoslovakia, and such approach to even a possible

front, had nothing to do with its fostered by common joy and com destiny. We felt that we were the Germany are all mentioned a solution could ever have been

sorrow. At the front the defenders of our nations and the being directly interested, with made. certain obligations to be mu-

(community of fate arose in all its Let France be as willing as ing." explained the motorist who

Sometimes also we had glad and tually entered into by Russia

of the individual. and Germany respectively with she may, however, many other had broken down. "Well! well tremendous power above the fate bearers of their future.

the yokel, "them motor

happy times and we endeavoured But there was something else to live to the full every minute of France. The end which appears difficulties remain. Germany, it said

which arose in the front-line life spared to us. Not one of us fighters in all the animosity and would have been glad to miss the

stinct

man's nod,

And, what is more, you will keep

out of quod.

STOLEN

*

"One of my cylinders. Is ̃miss-

to be aimed at is the mainten-is stated, is obsessed by the fear thieves seems to get everywhere." ance of the status quo in the of a new Franco-Russian alliance,

mon

East, and there is a great deal and she doubts whether either Facts You Did Not Know unscrupulousness of the struggle recollections of times spent at the

"A motor driven separator that one

it was a feeling of a certain inner

meet, there is at the same time a

front..

future?

But we held out-on both sides. We held out as men of duty, dis- cipline and faith, as men who de- spise cowardice."

to be done, as Sir John Simon France or Russia would assist her against any assault, no mat- fold a highly sympathetic

An English scientist has invented a relationship with the combatant Be honest Did not some of us House, before concrete measures ter how much they might be searchlight to display advertisements Ito that effect can be presented/committed in theory to do 80 on walls of distant buildings, stencils on the other side of no man's landgometimes aak: What is the rea- for acceptance. Should success Poland may prefer to retain the carrying the inscriptions being placed who bore the same misery, stood son of all this? Is it necessary? in the same mad and was threat mankind not be spared this in be attained, the hope is held out right to preserve her neutrality in front of the lens,

ened by the same death. that the prospects will thereby in any event. Pacts, in short.

And this feeling of relationship be made fighter for general like any other form of guatan man can move about has been invented has remained until to-day.

Is it not a fact that when old security elsewhere and also for tee, depend upon the willingness for the use of placer mining pros-

combatants-formerly disarmament, with special em of the parties to fight in the last pectors, handling from three fourths of

enemies phasis on the ameliorating in resort, an obvious truism which ton to a ton of sand: an hour.

the majority of pacifists 80

But to-day I again take up the fluence of equality of rights for strangely seem to ignore: How For rounding curves easily German meeting of the same opinions based same question and shout it as an Germany. Thus far has pro

street cars in pairs, have been invent on the same recollections. They accusation to the world, as one ceeded the crusade on behalf of many nations are really prepared, the first of each pair containing talk about the Great War, and the old combatant to another, as the

ed to take up arms for a formiu- the motors and being Joined, to the pacification, which of late has been pursued mainly by a series la? The experience of the second by a flexible, vestibule. of personal diplomatic visits. Great War convinced more than one participant therein of the That method need not necessari ly discrédit dr weaken the blessings of neutrality. Even at League of Nations, particularly this moment, both Britain, so he if the final word of approval and tive a negotiator, and Italy, an Kwangsi University, arrived in Fatification remains with the interested, spectator, are specific the Colony yesterday from Can- League. Further, Sir John in asserting that they do not pro- Simon, speaking perhaps from pose to bind themselves to any inner knowledge, thinks the new fresh engagements. All that is development' ikely to lead to a proposed is the achievement or Mr. J. C. Gundansen, technie by front-life fighters," "Germany will at the same time ward the realisation of that much-discus voluntary, undertakings, which representative of the China, Nether and Italy, are making the greatest world not to confuse the Germany ed step, Russia's entry into the Perhaps the realist may be parong, was a passenger arriving the world. League. With equal logic, then, doned for regarding as another here on board the 's Hakone Maru It is also not an accident that Germany of pacifism. *

Iton.

Personal Pars

Dr. Ma Kun-wn, President of

lands Harbour Works Co.,

hope embodied in their words is a leader of one nation to the leaders hope for peace. For this reason of other natione: Is it necessary? the combatants are called upon to Can we not by showing good will bulld the bridge of mutual under- spare this to mankind? standing and comprehension be Warning To France tween the nations, -if the

** I must speak to-day because, by politicians do not find means to do

so doing, I help the man who in

50,

It le not an accident that the endeavouring at the last moment to save the world from disaster t States which are alone directed

I raise my voice to-day because

Hong efforts to promote the peace

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of to-day, the Germany of peace, with the Germany of before, the it might bring about, soon or example of pathetic dependence

at the meeting of the old com- For the world must know that even simultaneously, the re- on paper promises. To the real from Japan to-day,

ist with even an only average Mr. Hugh Braga and Miss Nora cordial, personal relation was soon the horrors of war: thousandfold batants, Hitler and Mussolini, & we front-line fighters still have- entry of Germany.

memory the very phrase which after-all; reach the West by way

that.

jestablished.

Should security and peace has been used, an "Eastern Lo-Bromley have recently announced,

We have brought about a treaty of the East, there would be no carno," is not of the most re their engagement. Mr. Braga, who thing novel or unwelcome in assuring kind. Has the original is the son of the Hon. Mr. J. position in the service of peace Wisehen, when Buch Locarno pact, he will ask, brought Braga and Mrs. Braga, is on the with our Polish neighbo there be; will follow the star rest and security to the Weat? staff of the Hong Kong Engineer here also the polley is

It is the spirit and Intention of ing Construction Co., while Miss whithersoever it may lead. Some degree of frony, however, those concerned that makes Bromley, who is the daughter of will attach itself to any success pacts a success that spirit Mr. and Mrs. F. Bromley, haile that comes by the intervention which, were it only present, from Beckenham, Keat. of the French Foreign Minister; would make pacts scarcely neces

M. Louis Barthou. Although a septuagenarian, M. Barthou re

mary. The mere fact that the world finds itself compelled to in- mains an irrepressible person things first is a proof of how vert the order and put second ality, with at times a strong

touch of the irresponsible Lit sadly. It la disordered.

tle more than a month has pass- ed since he electrified the usually

placid atmosphere of the League

Mr. B. G. Birch,

-Engli

that

of Nations by the bluntast sta ment of stark realism Geneva has ever heard. He undiplomatic endi to blurt openly some

truth.

whichy

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a soldier, Marshal Pilandaki,

In France also the greatest

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among

the old soldiers of that country,

Common Fight For

We old combatants do not wish an Incapable diplomacy, again to hurl us into a disaster,

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Augus

the

granted to

the

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