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ROBINSON-On April 27, Mr. J.' L. Kobinson (Robbie) of Messrs. J. L. Robinson & Co.. Hong Kong. Deeply regretted by his partner, staff, relations

friends, and

Funeral to-

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1948.

Headed by Mr. Churchill, a movement in favour of "Arms and the Covenant" drew fo- gather.

The Eleventh

Instalment.

Churchill's Memoirs

THE ABDICATION CRISIS

·

times

wat.

"When you talk of war, which no doubt would be

general you must not underrate Eng- Iand.

She is a curious coun- try, and

few foreigners can · understand her mind. Do not. judge by the attitude of the present Administration. Once a great cause la presented the people, all kinds of unex= pected actions might be taken by this very Government and by the British nation."

hope and trust that the good berlain; but neither of them had future life of the German Reich feeling and hope that exists in any wish to work with ne ex-of more than the Country and Empire now cept in the last resort.

70,000,000 souls. Nothing less would suffico, will prove a good example to

All that was asked of the Dri- other Nations in the world.

tish Commonwealth and Empire Believe me,

One day in 1937 Herr von Rib- was not to interfere. There was Yours very sincerely,

GEORGE R. L. Britain,

bentrop, German Ambassador to a largo

rge map on the wall, and the asked

10 whether I Ambassador several This gesture of magnanimity would come to see him and have me to it to illustrate his projects. led towards one whose influence at a talk. We had a conversation that time had fallen to zero will lasting for more than two hours.

I said at once I was sure the ours British Government ever be a cherished experience

would not not Hibbentrop was most polite, and agree to give Germany in my life.

free we ranged over the European hand in Eastern Europe. It was ไก November, 1930, Mr.

scena, both in respect of arma true we were on bad terms with And I repeated, "Do not under- Baldwin, with what he himself

Mr. Baldwin retired. His long ments and policy. The gist of his Soviet Russia and that we huted rate England. She is very clover. called. "appalling frankness,"

statement to me was that Ger- Communism as much admitted in the House of Com-public services were suitably re-

as Hitler if you plunge us all into another warded by an Earldom and the many sought the friendship of did, but he might be sure that, Great War, she will mone that he had mistad tha

bring the Garter. He departed in a glow England. (On the Continent we even if France were safeguarded, whole world against you like last country three years Barflor

of public gratitude and esteem, are still often called "England.

Great Britain would never disin- d.").re about rearmament.

He said he could have been For-terest herself in the fortunes of:

time" There was no doubt who his suc-cign Minister of Germany, but the Continent to an extent which heat and said, "Ah, England may At this the Ambassador rose in Cor should be.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain hud, as

he had asked Hiller to let him would enable Germany to gain be very clever, but this time she Chancellor of the Exchequer, not come over to London in order to the domination of Central and will not bring the world against on Dec. 3 only done the main work of the make the full case for an Anglo- Eastern Europe. At the Albert Hall

German entente or even alliance. Goverment for five years past,

Germany." we gathered many of the leading but was the ablest and most force-

We were actually standing be- We turned the conversation on Germany would stand men in all the parties-strong tul Minister with high abilities for the British Empire in at is Ribentrop up when I said this. to easter lines, and nothing more Tories of the Right Wing earnest nad on historic

guard

Ribbentrop turned abruptly away. of note occurred. 1 had greatness and extent. They might le then said: "In that case, war y

convinced of the national

When he was on trial for his onal described him a year earlier at ask for the return of the German is inevitable. There is no way life by the conquerors. Ribbentrop peril; the leaders of the League Birminghom in

Shakespeare's colonies, but this was evidently out. The Fuehrer of Nations Fence Ballot; the rewards as the "pack-horse in our was that Britain should give Ger- thing will stop us," We then re- should be summoned as

is resolved. gave a distorted version of this not cardinal. What was required Nothing will stop him and no-conversation and claimed that I presentatives trade

in the great affairs," and he unions, including

of the cepted this description as a com- many a free hand in the East of turned to our chairs. old opponent

What I have set down about it chair my

Europe. pliment. Strike,

Walter General

is what I should have vald had Sir

I had no expectation that he and

been called. Citrine; the Liberal party its leader, Six Archibald Sinclair. would wish to work with me: nor To-day's announcement of

would he have been wise to do We had

(To be Continued) · feeling that wo the financial settlement were

the threshold not only 80 at such a time. But I wel the Danzig Corridor must be ab- say to the German Ambassador- World Copyright reserved. Ro upon

production, even partially, in any agreed between the Hong of gaining respect for our views, comed the accession to power of sorbed. White Russia

a live, competent, executive figure. Ukraine were indispensable to the well: Kong Government and the but of making them dominant. Our relations continued to

language, strictly' prohibited. It was at this moment that the cool, easy and polite both in pub- Imperial Government with King's passion to marry the wo◄ the object of closing what man he loved cast all else into

lic and in private. might be termed the War the background. The Abdication I may here set down a com- parative appreciation of these Account will be read with crisis was at hand.

two Prime had known King Edward mixed feelings. The generos-VIII. since he was a £170.0.0

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known so long and under whom will be conceded, but it is not read out to a wonderful assembly I had served or was to serve.

Stanley Baldwin was the wiser, matched by the attitude of Proclamation

the

creating him Prince of Wales at Carnarvonniere comprehending personality, the Hong Kong Government Castle. I felt bound to place my but without detalled

executivo in the matter- of local war personal loyalty to him upon the capacity. He was largely detach- The Foreign Office today declined to give the name

ed from foreign and military

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•

London Hush-Hush AMERICA FREES

On "Protocol M❞

London, Apr. 26.

Washington, Apr. 20. Two convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed from submarines on the East Coast of the United States in June, 1842, have been freed from prison and allowed to return to Germany,

The men, Ernest Burger and George Dasch, were among eight

of the author of "Protocol M”, an alleged Com- munist plan to stir up unrest in the Ruhr to counter the European recovery programme.

mens rounded up as saboteurs Last Monday, Mr. Hector plan which he had previously structions to cripple. wor indus

after being put ashore with in- McNell, Minister of State, said accepted as genuine.

tries. Six were executed. that there was now doubt.

President about the authenticity of the der-Secretary for Foreign Af-Dasch to imprisonment because

Mr. Christopher Mayhew, Un-

Roosevelt cut the death sentences on Berger and fatrs, replying to questions in the

Sea Roads Are U.S.

century corruption, and he was "Life Lines'

•

on

the

conceived

with

House of Commons today, said they gave Information on details that the person concerned would of the conspiracy-Reuter. not be brought to trial. He was

not

member of the Nazi Party and there was some uncertainty whether he was really the author of Protocol M.

"We could not expose him or his relatives to possible reprisals," Mr. Mayhew sold.

Killed Officer Was On A Picnic

of many people, these have what was going forward. I in no had a deep knowledge of British long since been written off way Interfered nor communicat-party politics, and represented in as a total loss, the case with ed with him at any time. How a broad way some of the strengths which Government has reach-V presently in his distress he and many of the infirmities of

asked

Minister for our island race. the Prime ed this decision to deny all permission to consult me.

He had genius for waiting;

ત liability and responsibility Mr. Baldwin gave formal con- upon events and an imperturbo- cannot fail to inspire critic-sent, and on this being conveyed billty under adverse criticism. He ism. To the Government it to me. I went to the King at Fort was singularly adroit in letting Belvedere. I remained in con events work for him, and capable probably seemed they had tact with him till his abdication, of seizing the ripe moment when small choice in the matter, in end-did-my-utmost-to-plead-bath-It-came. He seemed to me to the impressions history to the King and to the publia | revive view of the colossal size of for patience and delay. I have gives us of Sir Robert Walpole, the bill and the state of the never repented of this indeed I without of course the eighteenth Colony's finances, though could do there remains something

master of British politics for The Prime Minister paradoxical in the half-

proved nearly as long. himself to be a shrewd judge of

Washington, Apr. 26.

Mr. Emrys Hughes, a left wing admission that the approach British national feeling. His dett

Labour Member, said that the The United States must de-Yorkshire Post-a reputable pa- Neville Chamberlein, might have been different and skilful handling of the had the losses been of lesser Abdication issue raised him in a other hand, was alert, business-pen on the sea roads of the per" had described the publica-

of the document like, opinionated and self-con-world for raw materials, re-tion

05 "A fortnight from the depths to the fident in a magnitude. The central

very high degree peace or war,

grew.gardless of whether there is calamity for Britain." There were pinnacle..

several Unlike Daldwin, he criticism is that while the

He asked for a full statement! the American I Government is prepared to

thoments when seemed to be himself able to comprehend the Navy anys.

to "reassure the British people alone against a wrathful

that we are not carrying on Dr. whole fleld of Europe, and indeed House

Two wars in 30 years have cut Goebbels propaganda and that, do nothing out of public when in action, unduly affected but none the less deep-seated in-sources. One of the Navy's main

Vienna, Apr. 28. of Commons, "I am not,

the world.

Instead of a vague heavily into American natural re- although he is dead, his soul goes Burke, a British officer re- Lieutenant John Edmond funds, there has been little by hostile currents of feeling; tutt

TE marching on." evidence that Hong Kong's but it was on more than one pe tuition, we had now a narrow, tobs in any future conflict will be Mr. Mayhew

sharpedged efficiency within the guarding freighters, laden case is being submitted with caslan almost physically impos-limits of the policy in which he manganese, chrome, tla,

replied that Gocb-ported in Belgrade earlier to-- bels did not pay so much atten- day to have been shot dead sufficient energy in discus

sible

rubber tion to securing the truth in this to make myself heard.

alumínium. believed: sions on the extent and dis- All the forces 1 had gathered

"Armis

matter as the Foreign Office had when he "attacked a Yugoslav Both as Chancellor of the Ex- together on

in a book prepared done-Reuter. The Navy, in

guard," was picnicking at the tribution of Japanese repara- Covenant," of which I conceived chequer, and as Prime Minister, for its top councils lists 20 "repre-

be tions, nor is there any indica-myself

time, a British official state- to be the

kept the tightest and most sentative raw materials" brought mainspring.

from overseas in 1948, and traces

ment disclosed here tonight. tion of what it is proposed to were estranged or dissolved, and rigid control upon military

I was myself

He was throughout United States "Life lines" do with the funds derived lic opinion that it was the almost this period the masterful

self so smitten in pub--

The statement, said the officer penditure.

world charts for each material.

and his wife and another officer at all

oppon- from the disposal of enemy universal view that my political ord emergency measures. "The continental United States

went on a' pienie near the Leibl He had

is not and has not been self sum- property, some of which was life was at last ended.

formed decided judgnients

Pass, near the frontier. cient in all How highly valuable. As a simple very House of Commons which

is that this about all the political figures of

raw materials strange It

the

They left their vehicle, and day, both at home and abroad,

Yokohama, Apr. 20. necessary either

carry Her to

An army captain. formerly as

have not yet returned. test in equity, there is scope had regarded me with so much

and felt himself

Austrian Cu maintain balanced

British infantry and of for grievance when Govern-hostility should have hoan the ing with the capable of deal-successfully a modern war, or

national sistant custodian

the Eight ment on the one hand drafts same instrument which hearken- His all-pervading hope was to economy in peacetime," the book's army locker fund was sentenced gendarmerie searched the frontler

forward declares.

by an Eighth Army general court area throughout last night a Bill which is designed to ed to my guidance and upheld go down to history as the great

"Whlie we are rich in certain martial today to two years hard found no trace of them. through the long adverse Peacemaker; and for this he was me

"Attempts to make contact lift the moratorium on pre-years of war till victory over all prepared to strive continually in

theft of Eighth we do not abour for the

with the Yugoslav gurds at the war debts to banks, while our foes was

What a the teeth of facts, and face great States, adequate supplies:

continental United Army locker fund whisky. gained!

Downes was top, of Laibl Pass were unavail- informing the pre-war own wise and safe course is to Unhappily he ran into tides the perative in the manufacture of from the warehouse of the Eighth

Of Capt Eldrige proot is here offered that

for himself and his country managanese the risks for

and chrome, in- found guilty of removing a total ing as the latter avoided con- of merchandise

of 16 cases whisky valued at 3360 tact." act from day to

The Belgrade report, cir- one's own con-Burc, and met hurricanes

****Army lacker fund from ging bearings, of rubber, indie and selling it to a Japanese na news

last January

culated by Tanjug, the Yugoslav 35-

must carry their own losses. science seems to decreel

which he did not finch, but with pensable

agency, sald Lieutenant . one which he could not pope. Even a token payment would From the Abdication of

automotive, tional living in Tokyo.. Downes Burke was arrested on Yugoslav transportation systems, of bauxite, 300.- give a respectable appear-ation of another, and I am permit- the war I should have found it aluminium and of a number of American made

In these closing years before basic in the manufacture passed to the Coron-

also was convicted of selling territory near the Austrian

yesterday with clothing to the frontier

his ance to official policy which ted to record that on May 18, easier to work with Baldwin, as other essential materials-Asso-sa national.

Polish wife and a British war- 250,-

mass repudiation fails to 1937, en the morrow of the I knew him, than with Cham-'ciated Press.

The sentence also included dis. rant officer because one of them achieve.

missal from

service and total jumped over a wall when call- forfeitures.

ed upon to halt The case In Ils entirety is sub- Tanjug alleged that the officer Ject to review by Lt-Gen; Robert attacked 'a' Yugoslav guard and | Iar Eichelberger, Commanding tried to seize his ride and was General of the Eighth Army and shot dead by another guard who by the Department of the Army "fred a shot to attract his com- -United Press,

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King we

Coronation, I received from the letter in his own handwriting new King, his present Majesty, a

My dear Mr. Churchill,

I am writing to thank you for your very nice letter to me. know, how devoted you have been and still are, to my dear brother, and I feel touched be- yond words by your sympathy End understanding in the very difficult problems that have arisen since he left us in De- cember.

I fully realise the great res- ponsibilities and cares that have taken on na King, and I feel most encouraged to receive your good wishes, as one of our great statesmen, and from one who has served his coun- try so faithfully. I can only

ther free grant of £1,000,000 is promised, plys £250,000 for est-free loan of £3,000,000 to the University and an inter-

permit the building of a new {airport up to modern inter-

national requirements. There decisions and progress. Hav is small cause to question the ing due regard, to all the cir generosity of the acceptance cumstances which contributed by the Colonial Office of these to the Colony's debt to the commitments, though it might Exchequer, there can be no have been expected that a sound warrant for insisting direct contribution to the cost upon strict adherence to the of the airport would have technical formula which pro beon; authorised. Moreover, vides for Treasury control for the statement provides no three years after clearance of hint that Hong Kong is now a debt. The strongest repre to be relieved of the irksome sentations' should be made in Imperial Treasury control an effort to secure the earliest over local finances, a faétor possible, lifting of this mill- which heavily delays both stone from around our necks.

CARNIVAL

to our

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By Dick Turner

DIVORCE COURT

Every time he

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U.S. CAPTAIN GUILTY OF THEFT

Immigration Laws Change Urged

Washington, Apr. 26.~~

but

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The Congress was urged today to amend the im- migration laws to permit foreign “treaty mar- chants," mostly Chinese, to leave the country for a year or less and return to the United States.

The appeal was made to:aus, between's»1924), and, 1933 to House Immigration-subcom dugage in domestic trade. mittes by delegate Joseph R. 1932 the law was amended to re- Farrington, Hawall Republican, quire performance; int interpa-

trado.to

ada tronly Representative Edward MIE. Sau Ung Chin of Honolulu, 1983-cannot be readmitted to the Thus, those admitted pilor to attorney for the Chinese Mor country if they leave and are not chants Benevolent Association engaged in International trade. of Honolulu, them?

Adoption at the mea and bitchell-introduced, The term "trenty Merchants" la Farrington watch 911 inga simple. ured to describe foreigners admit net af untice that will save thom ted to this country to; engage in from the provisions of a law that commerce.vn NEKO BAKURETANSEWAN INIYEL), intended; in the drst Farrington sal 0,040 Menu pisten to impers this hardship on merchants were admitted to the thimu kayunos rated Presiden

chell, Indiana Republican, and more? -