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No competitor in the England- ¡Australia air race was more con- scious of tho changed con- ditions of flying than Mr. R. J. Parer, from the New Guinea gold- Belde.

He made the second flight from England to Australia in 1919-20,

It occupied eight-months.

The time taken by the winner of

THE NAVAL TALKS IN LONDON

WHY AGREEMENT MUST BE GAINED

W

BRITAIN'S DEPLETED FLEET

(By Hector Bywater)

London. jare more or less avowed rivals for 7ITH the arrival in London of the command of the Pacific, or at the American and Japanese least of its main strategie zones. the recent race was three days. delegates, the conversations init-For geographical reasons neither Mr. Parer's genius for impro-iated last-July as a preliminary to need concern itself seriously with visation was shown in his first next year's Naval Conference have the naval strength of France or

Italy. flight to Australia. He patched bees resumed.

and persuaded a decrepit machine] The importance of the exchange To the last-named Powers, on over the then unknown course,1of views is attested by the charac- their part, the size of the Ameri Humorists said that when he com-¡ter of the delegations,

can or the Japanese fleet is large- pleted the flight all that was left This time Mr. Norman Davis.ly a matter of indifference, and of his original airplane and ita the United States Ambassador- for similar reasons. Thus, at the jcontents was a bottle of whisky.' at:Large, is accompanied by next conference there is certain on the He secured a day-bomber which

warm discussion Admi. Standley, whose position to be

of rela- has become obsolete for R.A.F. an Chief of Naval Operations American-Japanese ratio

the purposes to use in the England corresponds with that of our tive strength, and also on

corresponding Franco - Italian Melbourne air race. In its Service! First Sea Lord. days It was capable of a speed of Japan is represented by Rear."yard-stick," each group being immediate about 160

Adml. I. Yamamoto, who is absorbed in its own m.p.h. Re-engined. atreamlined and generally "hotted- known to have received the most problems.

Britain, however, is unable to up," Mr. Parer got nearly 200 explicit instructions from his

localise the Naval problem in this superiors. m.p.h. out of it.

Her commitments are

He has now gone back to his New France and Italy have also sent fashion, Guinea job of carrying gold by air.. spokesmen of eminence. It looks, world-wide. She is as vulnerable The 'goldminers there put up the indeed, as if the conversations are in the Atlantic as in the Pacific, money to enable him to take part in the nature of a dress rehearsal in the Channel as in the Mediter in the race.

GOÓD FOR THE YOUNG MEN

even

ranean or the Caribbean.

of the Conference itself.

At no time since the war have Heavy building by the Japanese the naval policies of the Great navy is a phenomenon to be watch- Powers seemed less reconcilable, fed as closely as the multiplication Lord Wright's plea for the Compared with that now existing, of French submarines or the pro- appointment of more British High the situation on the eve of the duction of German "pocket battle. Court judges has met with the Washington Conference in 1921 ships." port the existing dictatorship.

Five years ago, at the London He must then be nominated by strong approval of the younger was simplicity itself, while not less than two hundred elec-members of the junior Bar.

the London Conference of 1980, Conference, we so far ignored this Their work noticeably Increases which achieved but a partial suc-elementary truth as to enter into Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1934 tors. The Attorney General will

then prepare a list of ninety soon as the High Court is busy.cess, did not have to face difficul- pact by which our Navy was re- names to be submitted to the is not so much the increase of ties in any way comparable with gulated to a standard based

the work there as the resulting in those which have since material- American convenience, a pact The Portuguese Election electors. Presumably if more

¡lsed. than that number be proposed,. a crease in County Court work.

which happened to conform, for The solicitors, who when work is The naval problems of to-day the moment, to Japanese require- The arrangements made for selection will be made by the Dic the General Election of members tator himself; or nominally by quiet in the High Court sometimes are not merely political and tech-ments.

do the smaller County Court cases nical, but, to some extent, psycho- The Attorney General.

American Strength of the House of Representatives the

Continental navies were left in Portugal are a somewhat new whole list will then be submitted themselves, have to attend to their logical. At the first conference variety of constitutional experi-to. the whole body of Portuguese High Court cases. They, there held thirteen years ago the ele out of account, neither France nor ment that makes a quaint con-citizens, voting as one consti- fore, brief counsel more frequent-ment of nationalism was virtually Italy being a signatory. Since it trast with the actual electoral re-tuency, whether they live in the ly for the county courts.

in abeyance. To-day that element is in the last degree improbable

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immense

sults in the neighbouring coun-home country or in the Canaries, Moreover, the older juniors are is extremely active, and is exert that any British Government will These are days or in any of the Colonies. This occupied in the High Court There ing a strong influence on therma-be guilty of a similar faberration- [try of Spain.

House is, consequently, an increased de-val policy of more than ons Great no more need be said about it, in which nobody seems to be will evidently secure a quite contented with the work which will be unlikely to waste mand for the younger men in the Power.

Alike in the preliminary, ́ talks In the last five years our re- ing of any constitution, much its time debating the-fundamen-County Court.

and at the Conference itself Great lative position in the Channel less any Parliamentary system, tal principles but its other char-

Britain will occupy a place very

and the Mediterranean has gone and by observation of the very acteristics will depend on the

different from that which she hold; from bad to worse, and is now singular devices adopted to se-composition of the list of candid-

ates. In our own Empire the A small boy was being shown the in 1921 and 1980.

such as would make any British cure a quiet devolution of power it may be possible that some new existence of the self-governing Houses of Parliament by his uncle, who

On both those occasions she pos-

strategist of bygone... days turn The boy asked

sessed large reserves compromise may be discovered Dominions, the responsible and a member.

of navall

in his grave. which will at any rate be better representative Councils, make itmber, of questions and elicited the

fact that members were paid their strength upon which to draw when All indications point to the Un- than the "ordeal by battle. In inconceivable that such a plan salaries in advance.

it became expedient to bargain forțited States as being cast for the "I see," he remarked Intelligently, concessions. China not less than elsewhere should be proposed; but the ac

Now those reserves outstanding part in the 1936 con- there might be a useful function tual working will be watched "it's like putting a shilling In the have disappeared, and in their ference. With a fleet already as-

meter before you get any gas." for a Commission of Inquiry on with interest.

room there is a glaring deficit, sured of parity and an the subject of the best manner In spain. we see the opposite The assistant in a large store had Consequently we are no longer in building programme in train, she of making a Republic work system at work, with all its dif- been transferred from the lending a position to offer a substantial is in an exceptionally strong quietly and effectively when ficulties. The Parliament is divi library to the perfumery counter. quid pro quo to Powers which we position. there are large sections af eiti- ded

"Do you recommend this perfume?"

may invite to scale down their ne- It "big navy councils prevail, zens who differ on fundamental elected not to deal with expen- "Yes," madam," WID the reply. "It val armaments. This is the in- nothing can prevent her from be- principles.

diture or administrative reform in one of the season's best smellers." evitable result of the policy of un-coming, a few years hence, the The abolition of a monarchy in detail, but to support or abol-

lateral disarmament, upon which supreme naval Power in terms of Word a Day,

we embarked some years ago. ***

ship, tonnage and personnel, Her usually leaves a void in the "no-ish the existing constitution;|

Frenchman: "Ah, you climb the man's-land" between opposing and they are divided by creeds Matterhorn! That is a foot to be

intentions may be foreshadowed by Rebuilding Vital

the fact that within the past fif- parties which has previously and principles which are essen: proud of,"

Cabinet Ministers and members teen months she has authorised been occupied by the throne. The tially irreconcilable. The larg Englishman: "Pardon me, air; you of the Board of Admiralty have the construction of 140 new fight- appeal to loyalty to the monarch jest section consists of one hun-meen feat."! always leaves a third alterna dred and eighty Socialists, who than once, eh?"

Frenchman: "So yop climb it more repeatedly told us of late that the ing ships, all of the strongest

Navy is "cut to the bone" and re types tive open to a party which with-have the support of a Communist

duced, "to the edge risk."

Jauan is in some respect the un-" out any modification of its ideals, wing which holds aloof from ac

What the country ought to certain factor in the proceedings. feels that it would be inoppor-tual service in Parliament. The "Has your daughter had ■ good

know is that Great Britain 1s She appears to be on the crest of tune to carry out a policy which Socialists have the disadvantage musical education?

not at this moment capable of a wave of nationalism, mingled would defeat the greatest inter- of having recently provoked a record and she can tell you what's on defending her sea communica-with an apprehension for the fu est of the State by plunging it rising which led to much loss the other side."

tions against assault by a Nature which her friends find hard linto disorder. Such a party, in of life; and they are inclined to adopting an opportunist tactic press for reforms that would not SHING MUN MURDER So far, then as Britain is con-habitually refers to 1985 as

val Power of the first rank. to elucidate. The Japanese Press can always plead that "His Ma-be submitted to by other sections jesty's Government must be car without a repetition of the trou ried on." Without that buffer ble with the parts reversed. lof non-controversial territory, The other groups are therefore the parties are left to a non-stop compelled to drop their special struggle, shoulder to shoulder programmes and combine to keep A police reward of $250 is offer- merely the cancelling of building coming year with such anxiety. In Portugal the supporters of Dr. & Government in office. The ed for information leading to the projects, but the actual scrapping Meanwhile she is building up to Salazar's dictatorship may differ biggest single section is that led arrest of the person or

persons of a large proportion of their ton" (Continued on Page 3),

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cerned the naval problem appears year of peril," though apart fé t

to be one of reconstruction rather the Naval Cinference and her fin than of demolition. Only in the at severance from the League

of event of drastic retrenchment by Nations there is no obvious reason all the other major Powers not why Japan should look to the

as to particular items of his pro- by a remarkable young man of who robbed the offices of the Him-nage completed and building -- gramme; but they can have no Conservative views, which means ly Mining Company at Needle Hill could Britain safely postpone the common ground with those who that he may be taken to be in Shing Mun, would proceed at once to destroy general agreement with the poli-shooting the

on Monday night, rebuilding of her depleted navy. the dictatorship by reverting to cies of the late monarchy, Senor Ping, and wounding Chan Mul, 4try is a principal in the present proprietor, Wong Although, therefore, this coun the prior system of a Govern Gil Robles. The actual leader ment responsible to

chosen for the combined groups a freely elected party. It la noteworthy la Senor Lerroux, who calls him- that in all such cases up to date self a Radical, and has seventy- the Parliamentary system that aix adherents. There are about

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HE STOLE ONE: DOLLAR

negotiations, she cannot hope to play as active a role as formerly, She must wait and see what thei other Powers have to propose.

There is yet another, circum

has been superseded has retained fifty Agrarians, to champion the Pleading guilty to a charge for enough prestige to make it ne farmers. Then there is a small the theft of a silver dollar from the stance which will compel Britain cessary or at any rate advisable group of "Reformists led by pocket of a passer-by in Queen's to maintain, at first, this attitude to keep a Parliament in being, Señor Alvarez (The last group Boad East yesterday, Pun Chung-of watchful waiting Politically which can by its approval give a of twenty Catalans is interesting shuj, unemployed, was remanded 48 the other leading Powers are dl- semblance of constitutionally to because they are in favour of hours by Mr. W. Schofield at the vided into two groups, the first decrees which would arouse parating the Province of which Central Magistracy this morning to consisting of the United States more opposition if manifestly Barcelona is the capital from enable the Police to make further and Japan, the second of France coming from one man even

the rest of the Spanish Republic invest concerning the man and Italy. Neither group is par though in fact the supreme con

Much history is recalled by the

ticularly interested in the other, trol is in one man's hands, ambition of the Catalansto

but and this is the rub Bri For the present election there achieve independence almilar to

tainia and must be vitally inter. fore, the arrangements, made are that of Portugal and for a fery sibl

on by making

ested in both, that no one can be admitted as a short period, it seemed to have concessions to the upporting candidate = unless he shall have to see how such a Parlin satisfy the ideals of any of them. been recently realised. It is easy sections as make it dimcult to declared himself willing to sup

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Britain's Problem The United States and Japan

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