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In Defence Of British. Shipping

HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

MR. JULIAN WYLIE

Mfr. Julian' Wylie, who died aud- denly last month had a most gen“. uine love of pantomimej

Hla best stories were of those queer people who in the old days spent their lives playing animals, never speaking; and 'últimately; so he used to say, developing some of the animals they represented on the stage.

NAVAL LIMITATION

BY TREATY

HOW THE AGREEMENTS HAVE HELPED

APPALLING EXPENDITURE

OF SEA POWERS

(By Hector Bywater)

London, celled by a stroke of the pen, but

THROUGHOUT the preliminary scores of ships already afloat were THOUGH Ornstens between consigned

scrap-heap.

His most characteristic gesture dated, I believe, from his early Great Britain, the United States, Actual and potential war bases days as a conjurer. All the time and Japan the fundamental issue

he talked he kept rubbing his an- at stake has been the fate of the were abandoned or left in state ger-nails on the lapel of his coat, Washington Five-Power Treaty qua, and a fixed scale of relative

Mr. Wylie gave Miss Phyllis signed in 1922.

strength in the big ship cate Nellson-Terry her first pantomime

From their beginning the Longoria was established. M part last year.

don talks, now adjourned, have Japan agreed to restrict her "He was a hard worker and in- been conducted under the shadow battle fleet tonnage to three-fifths of Japan's avowed, intention of of the British and American spired Industry in others, she says denouncing the Treaty, on the maxima, while France and Italy

"He was absolutely candid. I hè

wanted to tell you anything at re-grounds that it has ceased to each accepted a quota of slightly hearsal, he, shouted at you. There ensure her adequate security, more than one-third. Thus was besides being derogatory to her born the famous 5-5-1.75 was no time to take you on one side]

prestige.

formula: and be polite about it.

"I liked that. You knew exactly.

Consequently the Washington Linked up with the naval Treaty, in its present form at any treaty was a series of political where you were"

rate, must lapse on Dec. 81, 1936, covenants all designed to con- On the same date the London solidate peace in the Far East, Treaty of 1981, which supple-and, in the American view at The Inner Temple are giving a mented the Washington agree-least, there supplementary agree- dinner this month to commemoratament, automatically expires. ments must stand or fall with the the Tercentenary of the death of When it is remembered that Fleet Limitation compact. Such, their most celebrated member, Sir these two covenants form the then, are the interlocking safe

only barrier against unbridled, guards which Japan's denuncia-

*

LAW CHAMPION

Edward Coke. ⠀

Coke was not only a great law world-wide competition in naval tion threatens to overthrow. yer but a great champion of the armaments, their extraordinary rights of bar and bench against the significance becomes plain. Crown.

!

To allow them to lapse with- out substituting some alterna- tive but equally effectual safe- guard against competitive, re- armament at sea would be nothing less than calamitouB for the world.

To impartial

observers Japan's action does not lend itself to explanation on any logical ground. That the three to five ratio continues to give her absolute security in her own domain is easily demons- trated.

Japan's Security ·

So long as that ratio endures,

creates the soil on which the

His library was presented to the grass can grow. That singular Inn by his daughter after his honour belongs to Signor. Musso death. Treasures from it will be [lini; who recently formally in on view at the dinner.

augurated the, new Province of Although he lived most of his. Littoria, reclaimed by his energy life in chambers where Mitre from the malaria-ridden Pontina Court Buildings now stand, there of the matter, it is essential to it would be physically impossible

Fully to appreciate the gravity Marshes. The task could never no monument of any kind te recall the naval situation existing for either Great Britain or the have been undertaken successful Coke in the Temple, or indeed in on the eye of the Washington United States to molest Japan's ly if the connection between London. During the discussion on the malaria and the mosquito had It is understood that a proposal America and Japan were deve with her vital lines of communi- Conference 18 years ago. territory, or seriously to interfere British Shipping (Assistance) not firet been scientifically estab will be made at the dinner to re-loping their naval armaments on cation. So far from prejudicing Bill Sir Robert Horne observed lished, but even so it needed & medy this omission. that "he hated subsidies but, for Mussolini to pass the famous las

a truly formidable scale. To- her security, the Washington the life of him, could not think of of the "Bonifica Integrale" in

gether they were building or pre-ratio, coupled with the elimina Your Daily Smile! paring to build 32 capital ships tion of foreign bases within any other way to meet the sub-1928, and authorise an expendi sidies of other nations," That ture of 7,000,000,000

of the greatest dimensions, rang- striking range of her shores, has Brown: "I see Smith's got a motoring from 33,000 to 43,000 tons given her almost complete Im is very much the view of nine ($113,000,000) on works of public car people out of ten who have given utility,

Greene: "Yes; rich uncle gave it each.

and costing about $9,000,000 munity from attack from over- serious thought to the matter. The new province of Littorin to him."

...Beas. The tenth is either a Liberal Free will be one of the chief accom the money he had into it,

Brown: "Why, he told me he put all

Britain's Mastodons

As to prestige, why Japan Trade fanatic, who would let the plishments of this national pro Greene: "So he did. He bought four ter shipa whole fleets of ancillary ratio

Side by side with these mons-should regard the three to five British Mercantile Marine perish gramme of "Bonifica." Its capt-gallons of gas,"

as an implication. of off the face of the waters rather tal, Littoria, has 1,500 peasant

craft were about to be laid down, inferiority when France and Italy

lire

than do hurt to his principles, or farmer families living in the. The subject of the day's luson had and both Powers were establish- have remained content with a

Socialist whose dislike of Bri-town and neighbourhood, all been "Honour,” tish shipowners is stronger than transplanted from the congested his pain at seeing British es- rural areas of North Italy. tuaries and anchorages full of

laid-up ships and British sailors idle and hopeless in the ports. So far from Mr. Runciman favour-| ing subsidies, many have felt that [he has delayed over long before

meeting the foreign challenge. in] the only way in which it can be met. It was a challenge design- ed from the outset to destroy the pre-war ascendancy of the British Mercantile Marine, and-it has suc-

DICTATOR OF THE UNITED STATES Roosevelt's Genial Control

TRUSTED BY GREAT MASS OF THE PEOPLE

ぶ

ing new war bases in the Pacific, much smaller quota of naval ton- put my hand into someone's pocket, and burdened with debt, held Japan, in fact, has signally

"Now then," zald the teacher. "IT I Great Britain, weary of war nage, is difficult to fathom. and took out some money, what would aloof from the race as long as

failed to make good her case I be?"

for full naval equality.

wife."

With the Washington Treaty

The class thought for a few minutes, possible, only to be thrust into it Then one child put up his hand eventually by the inexorable urge "Please, Miss," he piped "you'd be his of self-preservation. It was im- denounced, the outlook would be possible for her to remain idle undeniably serious but for the while the future control of the saving laterval of two years A judge in Kansas had failed to be re-elected. He became cashier in a Pacific, where British interests which must elapse before abroga local bank. A man presented a cheque are second to none in importance, ton becomes effective. Thanks to be cashed.

was in dispute. Therefore Into that wise provision, ample "I don't know you." he said to the 1921 Parliament was asked to time remains for further nego-

man,

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£64,000,000, were to be but the first instalment of a brand- new battle fleet.

!

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FOUND IN MARINE STORE IN WHITECHAPEL

The man produced a business card approve the building of four tiations, which may nay, must and a lot of letters addressed to him-¡battle cruisers of 48,000 tons break the temporary deadlock and M. BERAHA - Diamond and Gold Merchant. ceeded as far as it has because The great point about Roosevelt

each, to be followed in 1822 by establish some future scale of re- British Governments have left is that he has acquired an absoluto said the cashier

"Not sufficient proof of identity," four battleships of still greater lative naval power acceptable British shipowners to fight a los but genial dictatorship without theve known you to sentence i

all parties. tonnage. "Why, Judge," protested the mani jing battle alone.

ase of a single rifle or a single leis evidence than this."

man ori

eight mastodons; which would have cost at least THE "SCOTS BOX” Only the tramp owners are to squad of men, writes "G.K.'s Weekly. "That may be," replied the ex-judge, share in this subsidy: of He did not have to hypnotise a peo-but when I'm paying out honey I have £2,000,000, which is limited to a ple with a crooked cross, or befud, to be careful. period of twelve months, though dle them with paganism and crank

At a very conservative estimate Mr. Runciman promised that history, or suppress rival polítical

the three Powers were, in 1821, where a definite attack on British groups and drive the voters to the.

already committed to an expen- shipomboryices was launched polling-booth after an unexampled alomatie Imperial routes the campaign of propaganda.

diture of £320,000,000 on Dread Government would consider cach

noughts alone Completion of On the contrary, he was in a bad

their existing programmes of case on its merits. The hope of strategic position sa the rules of all cargo-bearing ships lies in the American politics run. After tiro

capital ships, suxiliary craft, and The Prince of Wales was keen- naval harbour works would have ly interested in the Scots Box adjustment of tonnage to the years of his policies there was still

entalled a minimum outlay of which was in front of him when Jamount of international traffic, extreme poverty and distress in the But if there is to be reduction it United States. His opponents, the

£500,000,000. This immente sum he presided at the dinner of the must be a reduction all round, maneyed interests, controlled the resistance to fading, and drugs only a few years after the This historic box dates back to

Coloured fabrics with increased was to be spent on naval weapons Royal Scottish Corporation. and that can only be secured by most powerful, instruments of pro that will keep better than those bloodiest and most costly war in the time when James VI of Scot- the new International Conference paranda. for which arrangements are be- The details, perhaps even the discovery of the new heavy water Five Powers Agree

now in use may result from the history.

land became James L of England. Ing made. Beside their help to long-term elements of his policy according to Professor M Drastic action was needed to lowed him south, but not for all A numerous band of Scots fol the tramps the Government are could not be fully disclosed. The Polanyi, of Manchester Univer arranging to make advances up Republican Party, machina, seemed pity, who lectured at the Royal atop the ominous race. Credit were the streets of London paved to £10,000,000 to enable ship strong, the straw-votes indicated Institution recently

|for taking the initiative must be with gold. or pepper verti owners to scrap old ships and decline of popularity, and by every Heavy water Professor Polanyi States and Great Britain, though box was instituted and into it divided between the United So în 1611 this metal-bound build new or modernise exist-precedent the mid-term elections explained, contains hydrogen it fell to President Harding contributions were placed for the vessels, to the extent had to show a reaction against the atoms which are twice as heavy formally to summon the first less fortunate London Scots. one ton for every two White Honge tona scrapped. The British na What happened was what hap The substitution of these

Bg those of ordinary hydrogen Naval Conference at Washington. Last century it disappeared. tion owes such an incalculable paned in the Irish Free State, and it double-weight atons might lead It opened on the morrow of Rummaging among the motley debt to the British seaman that if was in accordance with the Judrs he thought to the production of delegates of five nations had pal

Armistice Day (1921, his just interests can be protectment of the situation made by a few more stable dyes and chemicals homage at the tomb of

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