1935-04-09 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1985

REFRESHING!

STIMULATING!

STRENGTHENING!

WHITBREAD'S

PALE ALE

BRITAIN'S BEST BEER.

THE PRODUCT OF A BREWING

EXPERIENCE EXTENDING OVER

200 YEARS AND THE BIGGEST SELLER IN ENGLAND TO-DAY.

Sole Agents

WATSON & CO., LTD.

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG) LTD.

WATCHMAKERS, & JEWELLERS,

DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (opposite G.P.O.). Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

- ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

REDUCE WITH

INKRETAN

A BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT IN TABLET FORM

STANDARDISED

made by the same factory as

PROMONTA

THE WELL-KNOWN NERVE FOOD Obtainable from all dispensaries and stores

Sole Agenter

BORNEMANN & CO.

Prince's Building

Des Voeux Road, Céntral - HONGKONG

ALLSOPP'S

The finest and most popular

Beer shipped to the Far East

Sole Agents

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO, LTD.,

Prince's Building

Telephone 20075

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

HOUSEHOLD COAL

ANNOUNCING REDUCED PRICES

Peak District

$18.00 Bowen Road & lowel level $17.00 Pokfulum

Repulse Bay

Kowloon

Shek-O & Stanley

$18.00

$23.00

$15.00

$23.00

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

Head Office: TIENTSIN. DODWELL & CO. LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.

ESTABLISHED 1888

Whiteaways

WHITE AWAY LAIDLAWS CO LTDI

ド

BEG TO ANNOUNCE !

NEW

CONSIGNMENTS OF

SEASONABLE GOODS

IN

ALL DEPARTMENTS

YOUR INSPECTION

IS

RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 9, 1935.

HERE THERE

EVERYWHERE

| ITALY IN WALES

It is to be hoped that Mr. Clough

Williams-Ellis," who has bought the

BRITAIN'S DANGER AT SEA

WHAT IF SHE LOST HER OIL SUPPLIES?

St. Tudne Islands, off the Carnar ALL HER FIGHTING SHIPS SHOULD

vonshire peninsula, will repeat there his experiment at Portmeirion. ||At Portmeirion he laid out what has been described as "an Italian sceno, popped down in Walesa delightful model village embodying the positive side of all his many protests against the desecration of

the countryside by ribbon develop- ment and ferry-building.

BE DUAL-FIRED

(By Admiral Sir Reginald Hall)

London, land, civil, and commercial trans- the security of the nation, and a growing proportion of com- THE first concern of Government port, many important industries

Security means that its industry, Its mercial and domestic heating are Mr. Williama-Ellis, who is one of culture, and its economic life remain now wholly dependent on oil. the most charming of architects, is inviolate. This Implies that during viously if oil fails, our an indefatigable campaigner for a peace forces adequate for war must forces on sea and on land more beautiful if not a "brighter" be provided; and in war, employed wholly immobilised, Britain:

FORGOTTEN STAIRCASE;

He was the architect who responsible for the conversion of Stowe from a ducal palace to public school, and very successful he

Your Daily Smile!

More If Possible

· Restaurant Taci ·

be

In accordance with the right plan.

Navy's Double Task

It is, then, the first business of

the Government, with the assistance In war there is always one factor of professional advisers, to discover that is immeasurable. That is the was what dangers threaten, what force constancy of the civil population. is necessary to meet them, and in Let the country Buddenly wake up a what plan it is to be employed. to the fact that we are dependent on The most obvious of national oil. May not the Government at dangers is invasion. Great Bri-any moment be driven to put an There was only one email flaw. tain le an island, and this greatest embargo on any non-aliltary use of Perhaps the spirit of Sir John Van

of threats can be averted at sen; the fual on which our ability to fight | brugh—who' is supposed to--have |

depends? THAT Sea-Borne Food been given to the same form of for

How long will it be before the getfulness--was too pervasive in the Between the time of Julius Caesar decree is issued that oil and petrol eighteenth-century surroundings. and William of Normandy we were must be devoted solely to Navy

Mr Williams-Ellia omitted to put invaded and completely, or in part, Army and Aircraft service? a staircase in one whole wing of a conquered again and again. There may be necessary to do this: the new house. To this day the sub-was no Navy to meet the enemy at Government may be driven to do. stitute iron fire-escape provides the ca, no means of knowing where a Then 9,000,000 tons of our only means of communication from sea enemy would land. But for merchant shipping will have to lie one floor to the next."

nearly 900 years now we have idle in port. We must forgo the neither been invaded nor conquered use of lorries, buses and cars, All Nor, until 1914, could we have been oil-fuelled industries, will suspend. left for a plebiscite, and whatever

conquered without being invaded,

operations, ,objections there may have been

But between the battle of Trafal-

This crippling paralysis may to various incidents, we have Bride: "You must not expect me to gar and August, 1914, the industrial come upon us with disconcerting. done our best to carry out those give up my girlhood ways all at once." revolution, by taking so many of the suddenness as a lesser evil than the provisions. Then there were the Husband: That's all right, little population off the land and putting imperliling of our security. The Stresa Conference rectifications of boundary." No our father just as once from them into factories, had made us It may well be asked. How is that

sooner was the Saar done with your father just as if nothing had

happened."

dependent on seaborne food. It was we. of all-countries, have been bar than each of these bits of coun-

at once an economic, and consequent gulled into a position so incredible. The list of agenda for the Con-

ly a strategic, revolution. The first and so perilous? The answer in ference of British, French, and try claims a place in the news.

There were Eupen and Malmedy The manager in an elite restaurant task of the British Fleet became, valves a long and intricate story for Italian, delegates who are now on which were added to Belgium, was horrified when a patron tied his

not to keep our coasts Inviolate, but which I have no space here. The their way to Stresa, looks much! more like an enumeration of all We have not heard so much about napkin around his neck. Calling a boy.

he asked him to make the gentleman to keep our food supply intact. facts are as we see them. The im the problems that Europe would them here, but in Europe there understand, as tactfully as he could. How complete is the revolution mediate matter is to ask how those like to get rid of than a forecast is much bad feeling about an al-that such things were not done.

was seen in 1917. Without defeat facts are defended. of what the delegates will be able leged plot in the former organ- The boy approached and

The Case For Oil ised by Nazis. There were forty seriously: "Shave or haircut, sirat sea, there was a time between the to settle.

|beginning of the submarine cam And the open ques- tions that lie behind the agenda arrests and much seizure of

An Optimist

paign and the discovery of its coun- documents, and a Court Martial, are even more fundamental. The exactly like the events at Memel. Well, child, he is a fellow who goes payment of National Debts has Were these movements, expected into hotel without baxkage and asks already been practically claasi-į,

to tear up some other clauses of to have a cheque caabedien 35 Red amongst optional acts of the Treaty, or merely to make a state, and now the observation of

grievance? 2 Treaties is being put into the

The only alternative to the esota was called one day, to the coun- the counter was in action we were provision with which to start a war ative to the A humane agent in northern Min feed our population at home. Unifi cause it confers Buch military ad-

vantages that, given a reasonable- same category. The Conference same procédure that has been fol-try, where a man was reported as not faced with surrender without the will consider the question of lowed in the case of Conscription, properly feeding his horse. taking a common line of action would be the andertaking by the Said the agent: "Why do you keep enemy having achieved a military better guarantee of a quick victory

our superior oll-fuelled ships are, on the League Council when the League of a reconsideration of that horse, anyway?"

victory either on land or on sen and a quick victory, it is argued, question of the discarding the the boundary clauses. That, of him to cut the hay.

The man answered, "I have to have Disarmament section of the Ver-course, would be deeply resented "Hay for what?" inquired the agent.

Dependence On Oil

is the only certain way of ending sailles Treaty comes up in con-by France and Belgium, and it is "Hay to feed the horse," repiled the

Since 1918 our security has once war successfully, nection with the French com- very difficult to believe that it man, plaint. That particular discus-would be possible to impanel any sion will be purely academic, for impartial jury. Such questions

the observance of

discarded

are not in the legal sense of the scheme could only be enforced by word justiciable. It would be awar, and neither the three easy to suggest compromises that Powers nor the League itself has would possibly work, but how ship, Dar Pomorza, were entertalo- the wish or the power to so en- would any compromise be en-ed at a tea-dance given in the Sea-battleships and cruisers, on which same sacrifices as we have to obtain force it.. The question is none forced? the less one that must be faced ready to compromise, that could

If both parties were man's Institute yesterday after the brunt of the fighting would, fall them. it raises the whole problem of be done by direct negotiations.

The Rev. C. Brown was re.had unrestricted access to our inex What, then, precisely are the

haustible coal supplies, ta whether the whole Versailles

All this is changed to-day. With First, that for any given radius of naval advantages claimed, for oil?: In England, where national

"What is an optimist,. Daddy?"

LOCAL NEWS. BREVITIES

asked

The argument is that if the Navy

that while the Grand Fleet, was in our oil, and if that be so, the strate ter when the paradox seemed true can secure our food it can secure incible, the enemy's under water Sic position would not be fundas fleet might make it impossible for us said that oil has been adopted be

mentally altered. Or, again, it la to maintain our armies abroad or to

more been revolutionised, and again Authority is given to this view, by the Introduction of economicy & recent Government pronounce transformation. The Navy's task ment that so long as foreign ships. In 1914 was simplified by the fact follow suit. This is tantamount to are oil-fuelled, British ships must that, though some of our amall craft

saying that oil confers fighting The cadets of the Polish Training/were designed to use oil as long auslities unobtainable by coal, and”,”

it was available, all but a few of our that foreign ships have made the

noon,

sponsible for the arrangements.

settlement is to be treated as no interests are not concerned, the A Dinner Dance will be held at a few exceptions, which are not in action It occupies leas space than longer binding upon Germany: general sentiment appears to be the Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow. Portant, the British Navy-in war con!. and if not on Germany then on that long-settled boundaries The last bus will leave Repulse Bay can now keep the seas and fight only what logical basis is it binding about which a tradition and a for Hong Kong at 1 am, **so long as the oil stores last, and so on anyone else? And where are sentiment has had time to grow repudiations to stop? One can ought not to be disturbed, and it

long as the supply of oil is assured.

Page 11)

GERMAN CHARGED WITH VAGRANCY

Committed To House Of Detention

WILL BE SENT BACK TO HIS COUNTRY

hardly look forward with satis is about the pre-war boundaries All ladles who were supplied with If the stores are gone and the supply faction to the enforcement on and not the post-war boundaries small collecting tins by the Women's cut off, the Fleet is immobilised. small and weak nations of what that there is a sentiment. The Auxiliary of the Society for the Thus before the Navy can keep has been waived for the strong-case of Austria is no exception, Protection of Children last spring our sea supplies Intact, it must see er, for that is setting aside once though in that case the present are requested to return same to to its own oil supplies. Here we are for all the League's foundation Impulse is to restore the old Mrs. Hospes, c/o the Helena May faced with the strangest paradox of principle of the substitution of boundary of the period before Institute, not later than Monday, ell Justice for force. Incidentally the war of 1866 when Bismarck May 6 too, the procedure itself is a cast Austria out of Germany- concession to the old system of How is the League or anyone else

Three Chinese stokers, Yung Yu- measuring arguments by mill- to discover whether there is still kwal, Hung Chi-fu, and Sung tary strength, for if the Coun-any strong feeling in Austria in Chung-wing of the 8.8. Bennevis. cil. should meekly adopt a solu- favour of continued separation were sach fined $7, in default 10 tion arrived at Stresa, what be from Germany? One can under-day's hard labour, by Mr. W. M. For the rest, we are dependent on comes of the principle of con- stand how a re-union would; en-!-

Thomson at the Central Police neutrals forsaking their neutrality sulting the smaller Powers dunger, the freedom of the "sue Court this morning, for fighting in to the extent of supplying as with at the Central Police Court How does the procedure differ (cession. States which used to be the compound of No. 7 Police Sta-erst necessity of war, or on the from the old "Concert of so restive under the heavy hand on Europe" Zusa

watch from his Kan-fuk, a 19-year- ged by

of Vienna, of which current fiims A still bigger query lies begive so misleading an impres

Appearing at the Kowloon Magis hind What was t the First sion; how nervous Italy would be tracy this morning on a charge of World War fought for? When about the Germans of the Tyrol stealing a the Reparations were put on the how the "drang nach Desten brother Let scrap heap, everybody was re- would revive and endangerthe

old uner lieved. They were frankly im- Danubian Principalities how possible of payment or collection; great and nobody could pretend that have on

we

to com Ger how

Mr

France

brother

tern flank. But

Independe

be permanent

If it har

Trinidad and Burma are our only British-owned sources of vil, and between them provide only a fraction of our needs.

Dependent On Nentrals

enemy's not cutting of the

Il sources, or on those not being at the mercy of The last war, taught usy age in neutral, countries

Unfortunate

Fleet that is dependent on fuel. Our |jsed," and mechan

fuelled.

with pen

Before Mr. Q. A, A. Macfadyen this

ning, Max Georg Joseph Brike German, was charged with grancy

Defendant admitted that he was without employment and with no visible means of livelihood ve Serg

ussell said

TAK CHEONG

the

could