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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

WHAT IT HAS ACHIEVED

LECTURE AT ST. ANDREW'S

CLUB

TRAFALGAR DAY

WREATHS LAID ON THE CENOTAPH

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1932.

MR. PEPYS IN HONG DO YOU KNOW? THE NEW MOTOR

KONG

THAT

TAX

VIEWS OF LOCAL DEALERS

The Kowloon signal box on the Kowloon-Canton railway is the PRESENT STOCKS AND THOSE largest in China, containing no less than 82 levera†

IN TRANSIT

18th-Up very betimes and the mora readily from the squalling, of BROADCAST ADDRESS BY SIR young children whose "amaha do bring them to the Krickett around HENRY POLLOCK

beacutle'the windows of the Clubbo, to be as I suppose a substitute for In honour of the anniversary of the drills of the tramway which The Kowloon-Canton express, in Some interesting local reactions the battle of Trafalgar and the now be moved to the East, and maintaining an average speed of 34 to the Ottawa Conference Agree death of Hard Nelson, wreathe out of hearing. To the office and miles an hour over the entire 111 monts in regard to the now 20 per were laid on the Cenotaph by the my papers, and when I have order miles between the two cities, inclucent, tax on all foreign cara brought Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and. Mr.ed them I take my nunehcon pponsive of three intermediate atops, into Hong Kong, have been reveal- The speaker said, in parti A. 4. Shields on behalf of the local ons of the King's small shippes which absorb seven minutes, passes ed by overal leading agents during The loss of life by the vartus branch of the Navy League, and with her captain and all very plon-

the course of inquiries made by a twenty-two sets of points nations in the Great War tálalled 10,678,877. To this must be added by naval ratings on behalf of sant. Played at Krickett this day 20,000,000 wounded, 8,000,000 war the Royal Navy.

but my rheumaticks did iṛk me orphans, 6,000,000 war widows,.

a01e; and when returned from the 10,000,000 refugees.

Valley to the Krickett Clubbe I moet

Before a large assembly the fol lowing lecture was delivered by the Rev. N. V. Halward at St. An drew's Club on Thursday events The lecture was followed by a lengthy discussion,

These figures do not include the indirect oases from revolution, famine und pestilence, the inereased death rate, and the total losses due! to the war. According to the Swedish, Sorinty for the study of Social Consequences of the War the Colal Foss Tast pul down 114 40,000,000 lives.

The cost of the War to the four Chief Allied Powers wein: -

Hritish Empire. £10,034,000,000

France

U.6.A.

Italy

£8,120,039,000 £5,$10,504,000 £3,502,200,000 {Extract from "Disarmament") Barriers Levelled.

THE NAVY LEAGUE IN HONG KONG

SIR HENRY POLLOCK'S

APPEAL.

on behalf of the Navy League was ivan yesterday evening by Sir Henry Pollock; --

men.

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which necessitates a slackening in Daily Pre opresentative. speed to 5 miles an hour over ench.

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Unfair."

One prominent foreign car agent The British section of the track,in Kowloon declared that "it was

Mr. Ashby and several other gentle-extending from Kowloon to Shum most unfair that we did, hot gat

There one of them tells me of the manner in which Prunes may be pickled as it were, by the pour ing into a flaggon the dregs of liqueurs. Holland's,

usquebagh,

Chun, is gradually being relaid with reinforced concrete sleepers to replace the old wooden sleepers which are being taken up as the necessity

demande, The

new

oxemption from the tax for tho stock of cars on hand and for those in transit from America." He went on to say that all future consign-

ments would be dispatched to the

The following broadcast appeal strong waters and cau de vie from sleepers are the invention of a loen Colony from the English and Cana- glasses. Thereafter, there being engineer, and provide for the rails dian factories of the manufacturers. the suitable amount of liquor to being secured to them in an entire cover a pound or so thereof, they now manner by the aid of a pa- prunes (or French plums as they betont steel rail clip and bull, which sometimes styled), should be act penetrates the sleeper and is therein, all dried, and so the vessel cushioned on the under-side with a wooden block to absorb the vibra.

Good evening, everybody.

I have been asked as a past President for many years of the The last hundred years hase Inca Beauch of the Navy League,

to broadcast a Trafalgar Day ador flaggon must be senied and set levelled many barriers between the dres, and it was, at first, suggested aside for the space of a year or Distance, that that I should speak to you about two. Then, he tells me, the prunes ancient hindrance to human intere important Naval engagement that be left after the liquid be enne, is vanishing before the dis-

which took place on the 1st Octo coveries of modern science. Jour neys take days instead of monthyer, 1903, when Nelson fought his

last and greatest battle.

races of mankind.

poured away do have a most ples- sant and succulent flavour, though it were wise to ent but sparingly thereof, best one get mighty foxed.

tion,

times of all passenger trains have In summer season, the running

to be increased slightly, because the softness of the embankments on about twenty miles of the line across the East River delta renders

From England and Canada. The opinion of a leading Hong Kung British and foreign car dis

|tributor was that the new tax would

ut materially affect their trado as,

again, our foreign cars in the future will be shipped from either

of the manufacturing compapy."! the Canadian or English factories

Difficult Position,

The opinion of a distributor of foreign ears which are manufac tured solely in America was that

more practical subject, namely, the But, says he, because the Chinese excessive speed over this section the tax will undoubtedly affect hoy, who if unwatched, will cook or dangerous. Although averaging soake the prunes first and so de-fifteen feet above the level of the our trade in an adverse way, parti stroy their use. And, this to me adjacent paddy fields, these emcularly in regard to the stocks at sounds a most palatable dish and I bankments are yearly affected in hand and those on the water. Um. shall make of it for myself when summer season by flood waters.

til these stocks are disposed of, and the situation adjusts itself, the once again I have a house. Dined later at the Clubbe and so, after

position will be very difficult.." much pleasant discourse, very late

news travels round the globe in se

of 'weeks. conde instead

Attractive, however, a such a The industrial and commercial develop them is, I have nevertheless slected ments of modern times have inerens to address you this evening upon 'a ed social conditions. Human beings depend more and more upon one aims and present needs of the Navy another, even where interdepentene-League, and to beg British subjects has not brought with it à curres. in this Colony to help the league ponding growth of natural trusty supporting the Hong Kong and understanding.

Branch with the modest anual sub- In all parts of the world and scription of five dollars. in all periods of its history, anints *** Defence Not Defance,” and philosophers, sometimes ever kinga nud statesmen, may have

The Navy League is a strictly preached peace and goodwill among on party organisation, and is not men, In

Weastern Europe, the jingo character: its watchword nineteenth century, ushered in

being:

"Defence, not Defiance." it was by prolonged and songuine principal aim is to see that, ary comflets, saw the gradual dawn from a purely defensive and insur of a widespread desire to put an ance point of view, we have in our end to war and some teatative Navy sufficient ships of every class efforts to prevent it. May and woefficiently gunned, armoured and mon, rich and poor, were beginning manned, and aleo that our Naval to feel that war was an abominable Air Force is adequate. Burvival. At the end of the con The Navy. League also champions tury, when fears of a universal every measure which tends to pro- eflagration were overshadowing mote the welfare and comfort of

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to bed.

Lord's

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A brief history of our local rail way, together with an interesting sunimary of the conditions under which it is run is contained in a special article which appears on page 2

find some matter for firth on the ingenious method she mannges again to indulgo her apleen at this

"Not Sacred."

The manager of a purely con. tinental

agency, when inter viewed, declared that "they were not scared about it; what trade they lost in Hong Kong they would make up in South China,

Since the tax has been in effect we have sold eleven cars, but to

16th,

car Day. Awakened early by the squalling of children beneath my chamber window, and later, when I would fain sleep again, comes a boy calling Chinese newes sheetes, and regards nothing that street cries be prohibited. So in

myself, do on my garments and At our Head Office in Loanon we shorts, and so up the Peake to have, under the Chairmanship of Lord Lloyd, a strong Executive eliral High West. There from the Committed-consisting in part of Harlech Road I see before me upon retired Naval Officers-who con- the Summit a traveller whom I sus

inntly urge our Naval needs upou

ect to be a learned Professor. the proper Authorities at Home,

But when arrived myself upon the top, i find no snakes and so con-

the world, na organised system off the Officers and Men of the British despair I rise, and after trimming, Colony, where I sadly fear there be keep faith with our buyers we have

international arbitration was out- Navy. lined at the Hague Conferences of 1699 and 1007. But progress was too slow. The catastrophe of 1914

overwhelmed all alike.

.

Experiment Has Become Habit.

Hong Kong Should Do More. The question then arises:-

clude I was in error. There with most pleasant sun and breeze. I lie among the grass, and ponder on great and noble matters until from

scives."

many who think as poorly of her paid the additional new tax pur

The concensus of opinion among As she doth of us. And ev, it may be, all are happy. From Nanking local agents and distributors ro-

comes news that the sow slit skirt

it, for to me the fashion seems

is to be banned, nud I am sorry for garding the new situation is that British cars will certainly enjoy increased sales, but not to the extent that might be generally believed.

comely enough and not immodcet wave if the monsoon de blow strong

This night some officers from the King's shippes do take their dinner with me and afterwards playing at

snooker and pleasant discourse

ALLEGED HIGHWAY

ROBBERY

SEQUEL TO RACE COURSE HOLD-UP

Tho (Covenant of the League. drawn up amidst the randour and bitterness of the immediate post-war period, could not possibly be free from blemishes; but to-day, after thirteen years of the severcat test- ing, it holds its own as a miracle- Are British subjects out here, who of far-seeing statesmanship, and pre so vitally interested in the may most fittingly be described on adequate protection of the long the Great Charter of Humanity, lines of sen-communication between The League has succeeded beyond the different parts of our widely the biting of the ants upon my bare the moat optimistic expectations of scattered Empire, doing their bit

20th.-Very busy at my office ita promoters, and it is now ng With the utmost regret that ques-knees I an: fain to move, and to dertaking enterprises of world-wide tion must be answered in the nega return to the Clubbe, where eat and I had been minded to play at importanen which, before its forman.tive.

a hearty uneleon with some early Krickett fat the rots, but I am tion, would have been described as Our local Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Fantastic and impossible.

W. A. Dowley, informs me that this radishes from my gardens, as good forced to go upon duty to Kowloon, year we have so little spare cash as ever I cat, and I think earlier and there, my business being end- in our coffers that we are unable to send our usual Trafalgar Day by a two weeks or more than I re-ed, to Mr. Northern's-house and

The case in which two Chincic, more than an experiment. The ex- remittance to the Head Ofice in member to have done before. Later drink a glass of Holland's with periment has become a habit. The London, to assist them in their can to Pokfulam, where I watch some him; and then comes his Lady Chiu Fuk and Chung Yee, are League of Nations has become in-paign for securing an efficient and Krickett and meeting a Mr. Gin he and I eat my dinner with them and charged with armed highway rob- despensable,' After thirteen years sufficient Navy for us.

tells me that be too suffers from so to the Queen's Picture House to bery was continued before Mr. Scho- rheumatics oven us I do. But Mr.sco The Frightened Lady," a field at Central Magistracy yeater- Northern who is there tells us of a mystery play and as fine a bit of day. Detective-Sergeant Kennedy most excellent remedy he knows, to acting of a madman as ever I soo.

was in elargo of the case. net a half pound of Epsom Salts Drank a flaggon of ale at the in a hot bath, but, says he, you Hostelry and so back to the Clubbe must lie therein and not drink it. and to bed. Of which I think I must make trial; Home with Mr. Northern to his house where come a very pleasant come in the dubbery late to my dinner in the Clubbe.

The League is thus a great deal

of existence it has a magnificent Surely our local British residents record of achievement behind it. including our Civil servants who Against this background on spend the best years of their lives steadily developing world anclety, in this Colony should be willing to fashioning now instruments of co- spare the modest sum of 8 par operation and mutual helpfulness or to join the local Branch of the to meet new needs, the age-long |

Aengus. menace of War stands out in loath- some ugliness, stripped of its old; time romance and once. raunted *glory.!**

Not Too Late.

It will be recalled that Lam Tse

Hang, and a woman friend Teung 21st.-Up betimes, and to my Fuk Yueu, were sitting by the Race office where, reading in the Newes Course in Happy Valley when they shtete te my breatest pos-wore surprised by three rufiane and sible delight that Mrs M. Pawley and her fellow captive be released, told to shut their months and give 17th-Reading this day in the and I trust will suffer no lasting up their money or their lives." A Newes Sheetes I learn that Mr. de harm from their dreadful adventure. gold wrist watch, a gold ring and Valera now puta forward a claim But of the disorder of the country, that England owes 'debt of two wherein much & crime as this, or some money were taken from the

hundred and fifty million pounds to the murder of Mrs. Woodruff, whe| Indy but nothing was taken from Ireland, which is the most mens still speak with calmness. And the other complainant except, two trous and impertinent claim that am well persuaded that a most

It is not too late to send home Gur usual annual remittance to our The task of this generation Head Office in London in order to unmistakably clear. It is to turn support them in their task of lay the enthusiasm and intent idealism ing the Naval needs of the Empire of Youth from the folly and futility before the people and Parliament of War to the upbuilding of a dur. of Great Britain. able World Pence.

Pienso, therefore, send your five The Disarmament Conferencs 14 dollars along to our Hon. Tra part of the march along this Winsurer, Mr. W. A. Dowley, Alexan- xdom Road. The results of the nt- dra Building, fourth floor, and tempt to find the greatest commou please do so promptly.

ever I heard. Yot I judge it to be heavy responsibility lieth uron pieces of pencil and a piece of measure of agreement between the

Thank you very much.

opportune as it lays bare the man those who have thrown back into rubber! various delegations wore

Good night. modo

por of this ruling in Ireland and the barbaristh and disorder á country

"On being released, Lam Tee known at a meeting of the General

total lack of common sense and that was none so unpeaceful here" Commission of the Conference on

common honesty in the man. But tofore. I also find a letter, from Han ran down the road in the bone July 20. The resolution then pre was also a broad acceptance or cer how long the Irish will suffer him Mr. Book who I sadly fear of finding a policeman. He met sented included the following taaintain points of principle which are I know not. This night I drink a fails of appreciating the literary three Privates of the South Wales features:--

to be further worked out by the glass or two with Mr. Pitt who ability displayed in the recent (1) Air allack against civilian Bureau of organising committee of saila to-morrow, and I am much article upon Macao. To the Clubbe, Borderers, Ptes. MacGragh, Nicho populations to be prohibited. the Conference in the interval which grieved at his going, yet peradven where come Mr. Ashby Mr. Povy law and Dawson, and told them his (2) All bombardment from the will clapse between now and the lure we may yet. drink a glass to and later Creed but not so late that story. They gave chase and caught

air to be abolished and mili- next meeting of the Conference. gether in England next year. he cannot make me at charges for tary air-craft-to-be-limited-in-Tinglly as an ideal the League

number and type..

18th. Very busy all day and his Holland's waters. And indeed story. The gave chase and caught is centuries old; but as an organi- later bowling in the Alleys. This the last week I do meet with the two men but the third with the loot (3) Heavy land, artillery to be sation, it is a new thing. It will night, dined at the Hotel and later most singular ill-fortune over the escaped and has not yet been cap.

limited in number and calibro, grow just in proportion as public to see Mr. Keaton at the Queen's and well nigh the landlord tured.

dice which if it continues will (4) Tanks to be limited in size. opinion supplies it with energising (5) Chemical and bacteriological forces. Peace depends upon right Ficture House, where all very merry of an hostelry but without his The three soldiers gave evidence,

warfare to be prohibited.

st his queer anticks...

gaias To a preview of "Arsene yesterday as well he two Chinese Tupinwherein the tw Barry mozas appear together for the first policomon.

The case was adjourned until time as I lohrn: But I recall that later they did net together in Monday, when the first defendant

Grand Hotel" This night, writ

is also to be charged under a banish ing very late at my mail and an toas bed.

ment order.

thinking.

(6) A Permanent Disarmament Tris for the Youth of this genera19th, Reading this day in the Commission to be constituted. tion to choose between the old order Newss isteri da and an article,

Definite Resulta.

of international life based on fear by Mrs, 6 Benson upon Macão and rivalry and culminating in But, like the croupier of whom she disaster, and a sane and decent or do speak, I dat in rook of bore der "of world soletyand there dom in this fluid maar"-"Edt-I did

Ilontinued on nézi Column) not moment to lose.

Mese represent definite agres ments actually reached, but there :40zntinued:ul-foot-of-next columal

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