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The significance of the following) Mediterranean. ready for action, feet. The spring water is saline, For God's sake do not drug me article on the deroplane's domin and against this air armada there very similar to ocean water, but into another wart. I the astounding feature is that it down and work out with crusading has a "tide." the water level and defending Europe and protect varying as much as 15 inches each g mankind; I must think a little

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Hong Kong Tuesday, Dec, 24, 1935. day.

Mr. Anthony Eden

The appointment of Mr. Anthony Eden to be Foreign

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(BY HENRY ROYCE)

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in the Mediterraneca liet is are at the present time only some the fact that its author is c.dis- 640 British aeroplanes, including

guished German nazal strategist the Air Force of the Fleet Vice-Admiral Groos kad a briliant) - The actual significance of these

I am sorry for the Spinards. 1areer was navigating officer of numbers can, however, only be as- am sorry for the Greeks. I de the battle cruiser Von der Tann of certained by considering the razre plore the fate of the Jews. The the Battle of Jutland, and is now of the new force.

The immediate-deduction to be people of the Sandwich Islands are lecturer of the War Academy at groaning under the most detestable Berlin. Bonn University honour-made is that a really effective

ed him for his work as a naval counteraction by Italian kžstorica.

planes so far tyranny Barded is, oppressed. I

at they operate from bases in the Italian peninsula

do not like the present state of the Delta Tibet is not comfortable.

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London.

basis of discussion was without two years' work. in full Confer.Pet The world is bursting with tical importance, has again led and Crete.

as soon

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Overlooked! The successful man was lecturing to an admiring audience.

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use in war,

Were there no Air Force, the tiveness of the Italian Air Force.

of warfare, which, as 1 hope, will If this is so, ther Malta would, British Fleet would, in the case can be estimated. be avoided by the wisdom of the] without farther ado. have to be statesmen, dominate the Mediter-given up as a base, and it would |ranean as in former times. The nat be possible to interrupt Italy's

Minister was the one thing that could put the new British the

HE astonishing advent of a and in Sicily and Sardinia, has Government right with

great part of the British only to be taken into account in British public. The situation

SOLE VINDICATORS"

the area of the middle -Mediter- Fleet in the Mediterranean, that arose from the publication

Am I to fight for all these peo-which at present has only polean roughly between Alsiers of the terms that were to be ganisation has to look far ahead. Not only does it normally require passed on to the League as a

sin and sorrow. Am I to be cham-lto a fierce controversy among

Vulnerable Malta pion of the Decalogue and to dejall the experts on the question Although opinions will differ precedent The results of a ence before an International La-

Sour Convention on any given eternally rising fleets and armies whether naval power has the widely regarding the effective pos- general election were just com

subject can be adopted, but even an pleted, and amounted to

of conf. before the first of these two dis-/to make all men good and happy? same significance to-day as in siblities of modern air armaments We have just done sozing the world war or whether it as long as we are without actual loverwhelming vote overe in Mr. Baldwin largely cussions much preparatory work Europe, and I am afraid the con- will not be obliged to cede its experience of their because he had avowed that is required. It is necessary first

each other's throats.

tirely to the newest weapon, the that the support given by the Air British policy would be based of all. for the Office to get out a sequences will be that we shall cut place in warfare partly or e- yet one may go so far as to sKy

Why are the English to be the Air Force.

Force to the Italian Fleet in the on support of the League, the detailed report on the existing

The position. to-day in thejares indicated world be so strong principal aim of which was to law and practice in various console indicators of the human

tries relating to the subject in race?

Mediterranean is an extremely in-that the latter would be able to cut prevent war. If that failed, z

communication · The letter was addressed to teresting case in point for those off the important subsidiary object would be to question. as a basis for discus

Lossible sions. The choice of subjects for Lady Grey at the time of the examining this question. There, by sea between the Western and end it as what at the moment was above Conventions is thus usually made Spanish Succession dispute, when at the present time, lie almost half the Eastern Mediterranean in the in this the battleships and heavy cruisers narrows between Sardinia, Tunis, all necessary was to show that early three years before they there was a large party

country in favour of England's of Great Britain, almost a third of and Sicily, and that the British the League was not only able to are finally adopted.

(Continued on Page &)

intervention

ber light cruisers and submarines, Fleet would be unable to prevent act! function but able to

and considerably more than alit promptly. It had once more

third of her destroyers, a fleet.] Any advance of the British failed to prevent war, its action have been devised in which

which, taken altogether, is superior naval forces against this region had been dilatory, the sanctions Italy would have had a predo provided the

to the Italian by five battleships would probably be altogether too adopted had not been vital, and minant share,

and two aeroplane-carriers and is great a risk for the Fleet in the when it was proposed to make suspicion of annexation had

only inferior in the number of its absence of any practical experi- them so there was again delay been avoided by extreme tact.

submarines by about 30 units. fences by means of which the effec- for fear of the menaces of the Bat tact is not Signor Musso Italian Dictator. To burke the lini's strong suit, and it was I issue-now would be to set the his love for fiery speeches de- most disastrous precedent that signed for the young Faxxist any Power that was willing to battalions that made it neces

Around the Corner fight could defy the League. sary for the Emperor to refuse

After tea the commercial waveller That would mean that the even the first step. out of the League had become useless for simple motives of self-preserva-began to turn the room upside down chances of Italy would therefore communications with Sicily by sez.

tion. The whole question was *What have you lost, dear?” asked its main object.

"his wife pushed back to "as you were In this case there could be and the Emperor was compelledre mislaid the address of my firm"

*I've taken an order to-day, and

Gibraltar can be reached by a part of Italy's most efficient sero- no quibbles about the definition to repudiate all the negotia-

And now comes the question of planes after landing in Sardinià of "aggressor." or the act of tions..

And the speeches of the The Geneva side of the affair The other day I read that a man the Air Force. Here the superi These aeroplanes would carry a over-restricted load of bomba ha order Dictator were direct challenges was that the postponement of fell in a river blocked with ice and a ority of the Italians is both to the principles of the the "oil embargo discussion girl saved him. The League and of the Kellogs was a staggering setback to theght paenmonia and nearly died. Bhelming. Of their 3,000 zero-to cover the 1,609 sea miles there

planes only some 300 are in and back. that wasn't the tragedy; the girl mar- Pact.

(Continued on Page ti). Signor Mussolini is policy of pressure on Italy for red him.

Abyssinia; all the rest are in the member would be so patent to all the state, and it is that that has world that the League would struck the imagination of the

by never again be able to recover public to the exclusion of every- its influence...

Thang else. It was on the face We have more than once of it a concession to threats.js stated our opinion that it would It also had the disadvantage of not have been an injustice to discouraging the American Ethiopia if some system of Government's goodwill, which mandate or "assistance"--the was being backed by a surpris word does not matter. much-ing amount of concurrence on could have been arranged which the part of the big oil com- would enable the present en-panies. The other oil Pro- lightened Emperor to make his ducing States were willing to writ run through his outlying come, in if the American com- provinces, which are under no panies would hold off their sup- effective control at all, and to plies. But the League must be bring modern services such as consistent with its own policy. the medical and financial and Even now it is doubtful if the the police up to a better level League will be able to get rid of efficiency. The condition of of the cynical comment: "I told success would have been a you so, the League has Do gradual development with the backbone

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Emperor's co-operation. There Sir Samuel Hoare, anxious to is official evidence that he him-avoid a war with Italy that self favoured such a scheme would be a bigger affair than subject only to the fear that he the Ethiopian war and that might arouse the enmity of the would practically mean the ruin powerful and less civilised of Italy whatever the result, Rases who held the provinces, took the disastrous line of and that if the changes were allowing M. Laval to resume pressed too fast he might share conversations for Italo-League the fate of the late Amir of assistance, and submitted the Afghanistan. The Emperor's result to the League just as if policy, as shown by the officers the war had never begun. The whose services were obtained, fact that there was a war madeį was always to preserve his own all the difference. It seemed independence – by appointing to the public as if the aggressor nationals who did not belong to rere being rewarded, which [any country owning or adminis-would have been the case if tering neighbouring territory such terms had been offered He favoured the Swiss and merely as a result of "a stricken Swedes, and at first the Greeks, field” There was no chance of but had to discharge some of explaining all that had gone the latter for defalcations. He before, because that would would not accept Englishmen, shake the confidence of the Frenchmen or Italians

Ethiopians in their Emperor.

All this was most nnwelcome Mr. Baldwin himself is lucky to to the Dictator, whose civilising have escaped the full penalty of mission was conditioned by the so giring a false step, but his requirement that it

Ethiopiz to the Roman Empire” of whic

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thority is badly shaken.

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