1935-11-26 — Page 11

CIVIL AVIATION IN ENGLAND

Sir Macpherson Robertson On Imperial Airways

ENGLAND AND

PEACE

Mr. Baldwin On The "League

(Special Air Mail Service)

London. Nov. 1. Turning aside for a day from In a recent issue of the "Sunday the Election campaign to an en- Times" Sir MacPherson Robertsongagement undertaker long before

the donor of the prize for the the date of the Dssolution

between London settled. Mr. Baldwin delivered an recent air race and Melbourne) paid the follow address yesterday afternoon to the ing tribute to British Civil Avia-Peace Society which ranged over tion in general and fmperial Air- the whole he'd of international ways in particular.

relations. The address, which was "There is very little wrong with profoundly characteristic of the British civil aviation, whether ohe Prime Minister, is printed textu regards Its actual achievements or ally on page 21. The following the policy by which those achieve summary contains

some of its ments have been attained. That | principal points:- is the fixed impression I shall take back with me to Australia after an Investigatory tour of the air centres of Europe.

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In a sense, I actually feel that I have been indirectly responsible for much of the discussion which has revolved around the tuple of British civil aviation prestige dur ing the past few months, it an odd thing-and yet perhaps, knowing the calculated contrari- ness of the modest Briton, not so criticisms levelled odd that the against British commercial flying become more numerous after the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1935,

GAMBLING RAIDS

BY POLICE

Money Found Goes To Poor Box

The Poor Box bepefted to the extent of $11.47 as the result of raids carried out by the Police on several" gambling houses on Sun- day,

ANCIENT CHINESE

CIVILIZATION

No Longer Exists In Northwest

Nanking. Pleq Village, native, pace of The ancient Chinese cvilization: General Yen Hsl shan Pacifica- nu logger exists in Chipa's vast on Commisioner of Taiyuan. At the Central Magistracy yes- Northwest, according to Dr. Klang Was

Dr. Klang later headed north Lerday, several men and women Kang-hu. noted Chinese scholar for Tatung. from Taiyuan, where appeared before Mr. W. Schofield and promoter of the Chinese and he stoppped off at the Yun Kang in answer to charges of gambling.

Foreign Cultural Relations, Shang- Stone Buddha Temple, thence A raid on the first floor of No. hai, in a. recent press interview proceeding westward to Sulyuan 138 Wanchal Road, which is shortly after his return from a and Mongola. Dr Klang arrived vacant, resulted in an unemploy-atx-month visit to the border and here via Hankow. ed, Fung Shun, and nine women Relating his impressions of his Keen disappointment was felt being arrested, while playing at tour. Dr. Klang tons ha inter-by Dr. Klang in all the places he pal kau. One woman was absent, viewers that not only is modern visited.. At Wu Tai Shan, which and her ball of $5. was estreated. Civilization extinct in the North-is generally considered as one of The other defendants pleaded West, the ancient cultural traits the famous scente spots in China. guilty to gambling and were fined and the former gigantic struc-he discovered that the hills there $3 or in default three days' hard tures buried underground are not are bare. Constrasting this, the

being preserved. What one sees temples have been beautifully re in the Northwest now. he said, rovated, largely through the re- are mostly new buildings erected mittances made from Buddhist during the last five or six years.

gelevers from the Three North- eastern Provinces, while the con ditions of the mountaineers impoverished.

Had every other country a peace society which, after a century's endeavour, could point to a nation so thoroughly pacific as our own to-day, then the millennium would really be round the corner.

has happened that has made the During the past year something question of peace a sharp, 'nsis tent, personal reality for each one

of us.

I do not wish my remarks to be taken as a

contribution Election torrent.

to the I see between the parties in their love for peace."

no Lisze

Must the differences that arise

labour each.

A sum of $3.05 which was picked up beneated the Poor Box,

The second rald was conducted

Street, and 23 min were arrested.

on the ground floor of No. 14 Moon

Wong Bang, unemployed, was charged with keeping a' common gaming house, while the remaining 21 men were only charged with gambling.

Four defendants were absent, and their ball of $3 each was es

LAGGING BEHIND

London-Melbourne Air Race, which from time to time between nation treated, while seven plended not the mental need of the people..

I had the honour of inaugurating be left to force, or shall we con- and anancing. The fact that you sclously and resolutely attempt to won the race seems to be over-settle them by ways of discussion looked altogether, and instead the and law? achievement of every nation but your own was sung and Snvidious- ly enlarged.

gulity and their pleas, being ac- cepted by the police, they were dis- charged. The other ten were each fred $2, or three days' hard la- bour, Wong Sang was aned $25, In default, one month's hard la

Dr. Klang is convinced that the Northwest is gging far behind ini mudera culture. He seeg

NOTHING LEFT dangerous period facing the po

Similar disappointment was ex- pulace of the outlying territories pressed by. Dr. Klang over the during the present juncture when national-renowned store buddhas neither the modern nor the an- of the Yun Kang Temple. There cient civilization is present to feed with the exception of the sand piles and sharp rocks, he found As a result of his investigation nothing in the way of reconstruc trip. Dr. Kang doubted the tradition, scenic spots and historical

onal opinion of the Westerners places. that "the Chinese are a corser. He predicted that the glant statement by saying that in Shens minding the destruction caused to vative race."

supported Fia stone buddhas st Tun Kang not province, for instance, where the them by the ignorant people, wit The Poor Box benefited to the former glorious civilization.

Chinese race first developed their be completely deteriorated "The British public, with all res- pect, has still to be educated to

extent of $4.75.

na natural forces after hundreds of trace of the ancient relles can be the technicalities of its air ser

Before Mr. Balfour at the Cen-found.

years. vices, and the impact of these

tral Police Court, L King, "(49),

WAS WITH GARETH JONES criticisms on the malleable public

SIX-MONTH JOURNEY married woman, was fined $30 for mind led to a sense of inferiority own political experience I have not been the eper of as the prica Klang made an extensive visit to with Mr. Gareth Jones special

While in Charhar, On his six-month journey. Dr.happened to take the game tra'n Dr. Klang

and might well have damaged the encountered Governments posses- ing house, he was the principal various parts of the northwestern correspondent of the "Manchester patronage of British rontes and sed of all these malevolent quali- the sale of your machines.

STRIKING FACTS

A QUESTION FOR PEOPLES That question will in the end be answered. not by Governments. but by peoples.

There may be Governments de- liberately planning the future. looding reluctant or unsuspecting peoples into the shambles. In my

tles..

Most

Governments seem to be

not much better or much worse "What are the facts? Britain

than the people they govern... operates regularly and with great

The people are not such an in- safety and comfort a longer mile- effective. helpless flock of sheep age than any other country with as those who claim to speak

their name often imply. They have a way of making their

the

of America, In-. exception

In

perial Airways aloue fly two-and-opinions known and heard when

year-20

a-half milliou. miles a impressive figure. Economically the running of British services is sound. This appeals to me parti-

cularly as a business man, and it

it were not serious I would; find

something visible in the oft-quoted argument that you should provide the same financial facilities to your aircraft as America, where

the whole system is being overfed

from a very large bottle,

they feel deeply,

SHADOW OF THE LAST WAR

We live under the shadow of the

bour.

tenant of the floor. The remain- der of the defendants falled to appear and their ball of $3 each was estreated Table money to talling $3.67 was added to the funds of the Poor Box.

The raid was stated to have taken place on the second floor of 17 Connaught. Road, West, by virtue of a warrant.

Three women, and five salesman were arrested.

He

by

region.

From Shensi, he proceed. Guardian" trip to Wu Tai Shan, mecca of ed to Share where he made napped and killed by bandits in who was latter kid-

the Buddhist followers, and Horowly escaped from the hinds of east Chaha He; however, nar-

the outlaws.

A

One of the interesting experien- and dignity of, a nation, especi-ces of Dr. Klang during his whole ally of a great nation.

trip was his keen participation in What is it there for? Is every the annual sacrifice to Genghiz nation, entitled to say "This is a

Khan in Inner Mongola- matter touching my honour, and Central News Agency I, and I alone, am judge of my conduct"? If so, let us give up the miserable prétence.

last war, and its memories still convulsions of nature in the early We mean nothing by the League

sicken us.

fare is, with no glory in it but the We remember what modern war-

heroism of man,

J

Have you thought how public fe has suffered because these who would have been ready to take over from our tired and disillu-

I wonder what the British tax-stoned generation are not there? payer would say if called on, as the Americans are, to find an ny from these terrors and send them Perhaps we avert our thoughts subsidy amounting to nearly $5,000,000 a year? In fact. to put and of ours.

roaming over this "dear, dear British civil aviation on the same we expose our irreplaceable trea- To what riks do Anancial footing would cost more sures than six millions. It makes it.Im-beauty in a few years of mass pro- for you cannot build up possible, too, for air lines to deve- duction. lop, as Britain is doing, a policy of self-support.

Everything we have and hold and cherish is in ferpardy n this great issue.

There is a generation coming to manhood which never knew war. and it is for us to see that those things shall not be again.

"SELFISH ISOLATION"

geologic ages. The map of the world has to be redrawn at the end.

THE MAN WITH NO FRIENDS

if we are not prepared in the end. and after grave and careful trial to take action to enforce its judg- ment.

would wish to retain, merely be She surrer ders nothing that sh

cause she wishes to live at peace with other nations.

If we wish to stand alone, to England is no less England be

I am an impeniten: patriót, but leave, other nations alone, we should have to guarantee our own cause she is a member of the security, to be prepared from our |League. on resources to meet any possi- ble combination against us. There would be no system of insurance. would remain of our hopes of pro

Think of the expend ture. What

The League will grow in strength gress, our plans of social welfare

as we respect the individuality of The man who makes no friends the nations which compose it. has no friends. We shot'd havcons of American citizens who are I am certain that there are mil- none by our side...

The friendship and the conf-watching with lively sympathy our dence of the world in us are the efforts to make the League an in- basis of our commerce. our commerce we exist,

strument of world peace.

Germany has left the League, We cannot, bo't ourselves in an We regret it, but the future is armed citadel ard survive. The open. and I trust that a solution

else, urges us away from such a motive of self-interest, if nothing may not be impossible.

policy..

and

b

Japan is a world Power who has turned her back on the rest of the

A cooperative effort for peace is world. We must "look fairly at her reasons, for they lie deeply in the criticisms of the League,

'Last year 50,000 travellers left Croydon on British machines, and the mall load amounted to 16,000.- 000 letters, the operation of route mileage in the Empire alone for these passengers and malls being We want no armoured peace, nearly 37.000 miles. I challenge but, unless we are careful, It is all any country in the world to pro-the peace we shall have. duce figures such as these and to point a similar financial return. It is the great temptation in anot quixotism; it is plain common "The consistent endorsement of troubled world to turn inwards sense, though I do not accept the your policy of comfort and regu- upon yourself, to cultivate that view that cold common sense need larity is infinitely better and in- small private garden of your own

be our only guide in policy to-day. finitely more sane than the policy personality, enriching it doubtless

ALL TO MAKE THE PEACE adopted by some other countries with many owers, but shutting of speed and still more speed. On out all thought of what may be,

We are a world Power and we long alstances the saving of an passing outside the wall.

have responsibilties to the world. hour or two at the cost of comfort That is a possible spiritual plan Power and place and possesions is bad psychology as well as bad for a man, and I have heard it bring their duties as well as their Anatice. Here I might observe, pressed with great eloquence and rights and privileges. however, that your machines, Profound sincerity as a possible some of the latest of which have plan for a nation and for our peo- a top speed of 170 miles an hour, ple. compare favourably with those. It is ealed the policy of isola-

even of America.

tion.

this

tion-Splendid Isolation Selfish On this subject of machines, Isolation is a much truer descrip- also find s disposition in country to overlook the fact that Why is it more splendid to be by yourself than to be with other the British article is without a people? We might as well speak shadow of doubt the best-in-the- world

of Brillant Collective Becurity.

Let us keep our feet out of these adjectival, enticements and walk In the way of truth unvarnished.

We cannot choose that fugitive and cloistered peace, unexercised and unbreathed, if we would.

Alone we cannot find permanent and universal peace, and no other peace in the end will be worth the having.

By the law of the Covenant we are "bound Over to make the pence," but we cannot make the peace alone,

It takes two, to make a quarrel, and it will take all to make the

peace,

SCOPE OF THE LEAGUE 'The League of Nations is not the first expression of the. cor- porate desire of civilized persons for peace, but it is the most work manlike.

to

If the League only existed keep things as they are it will be- come, desiccated and crumble into dust. But change must come pri- marly from within the League; it must be an ordered evolution.

The League is ving, and it gains adherents. Not long ago it was strengthened by the advent of the Soviet Union

Geneva is по

Horse Guards Parade. Mr. Eden and his collea- gues represent 60 nationa'' with every variety of economic circum- stance and every degree of mili tary strength and weakress.

FRIENDSHIP FOR ITALY Old relations with old friends are being put to the strain, but they cannot be fundamentally im- paired.

CRITICISM SHOULD BE INFORMED

There are elements in France that have not seen eye to eye with Another point in this little list

ua, but there is solidarity between which I am presenting to British

the two Governments as loyal critics is this: When criticising I am told the brofle of othe At the regular meetings of the members of the League, and that British services it must be remem nations are not ours. Does any-League the representatives of the is what really matters. bered that it is oat thing to one think that a war between Powers come to know each other

The dispute between the League operate a service over a country great nations whoever they are and to recognize points of view on and Italy is real, but it is not more like America, which has no na-and wherever their poudaries, matters where ultimate agreement reat than our friendship. tional boundaries, but quite an- can be a limited way with some is certain, DE We believe that Italy is rashly other to operate, as Britain does, one to stop them when they go They are not called together departing from her own great bra- ver four continents and 30. coun- pyer the touchling and that only at moments of crisis when ditions, but we are moving in no tries, each with economic barriers mpanypile we can trade profitably nerves and tempers are straided." | spirit of national antagonisın and, what is more, a meth of and happily with both heligerents Blome people consider that the against Italy. political entanglements which con- stantly changs and which have constantly to ‘be kurmounted:"

pilke in a prosperous neutrality? | League should not meddle" with In being true to our n'edged Modern war between any two some abstract thing called "vita, word to the League we also wish Powers in ke one of the great Issues," issues affecting the honour to preserve, an old friendship.

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