1930-11-27 — Page 7

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

INAUGURAL MEETING OF LOCAL SOCIETY HELD.

AIMS

& FUNCTION..

A local Society of the League of Nations was formally inaugurated nt a largely nitended meeting held in the bull of St. John's Cutitedral last evening, under the chairman

ship of the Rev.

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

surpleton by disalpating the ignore struck with far greater rapidity ance on which it feeds.

ANTI-FASCIST PLOT.

than can be achieved by the most rapid movement of fleets and armies, however well prepared or ITALIAN ROUND-UP IN PARIS. mechanically elfelent. The fear of invasion will be a closer and Casy

more terrifying thing than any thing which was calculated to un- nerve and throw off their balance the nations involved in the last

We who support the League of Nations are neither cranks ner нcaremongers. If we nounce ideals, we do so not na the Bctions of mind unbalanced by n optimism, but as the projections of IL reality which, sooner or later,

achieved. If you nak

to face the facts, our reply la

League of

s

that is exactly what wo are delawar andi What Dee rue of Nations doing. The any dangerous optim im lies rather with those who are the facts, and, in the complacency which that forgetful- neas engenders, are doing nothing

Anstey, who was C. Knight to ensure a brighter future, triv.

by a rs of repre-

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Paris, Nov. 2

NOVEMBER 27. 1930.

SCOTTISH MAZER TO

BE SOLD.

FERGUSSON HEIRLOOM.

As the result of the anti-Fascist plot discovered at Sartrouville over

The Fergusson standing sinzer, one thousand italians were arrested which for the past ten years hna: in Paris Inst night.

on loan at the One hundred been exhibited have been detained for further Royal Scottish Museum, Edin- examination.

burgh, was to have been sold by The examination of the large

Messrs. Sotheby on Nov. 20th. number of papers found in the villa. For over 300 years It has been in the possession of the FergusHON in which Carti was "executed" con-

was the herd family, and it was offered for sale firms that this quarters of a widespread revolu- by General Sir Charles Fergusson, tionary organiantion with branches Inte Governor-General of Now

Belgium, Luxemburg. and Zealand. in Switzerland.

The interior of the bowl is The frequent references to the mounted with a circular medallion villa as the "P.G." or "Poste do engraved with arms of Fergusson Commande" show that it was the impaling Durham, and with in- (David Forgusson) centre from which the chiefs of tials "D.F" the movement sent out their orders, and "L)." (Isabel Durham, nis! and where they received reports, wife). Surrounding the coat-of- bold councils, and interviewed their arms is & quotation from 1. Corin-

coriates, ARG

Making of War. Unless the nations are already solid for peace, those who wish to make war, taking advantage of the greater confusion caused by the neurnear of the blow, will have easy task to rush them into ing rather to justify their indif. an ference

inactivity by much the belief that war 14 both inevit number of well-known

including

appends to the "fnets" of able and righteous, and the mostern The community. sentatives of several nationalities, his

the facts of human elaborate machinery of propugan- ne chairman much an voqeat nature" as reveal their facile ne da will smo come into play to com- speech in which he elaborated on enance of elfele or obsolete inter-plete the illusion, an illusion only the many advantages of such a pretations of those facts.

bdspelled when, once again, society, while the Hon. Mr. R. H.

more appallingly than can uw be Rotowall, reddent) outlined the

Brennceived, the futility and utter objects of the League of Nation)

wastefubies of war is hurt into}

Though a frankly revolutionary and poluted to the excellent work

Die souls of thoge who remain of sioty and nourishing themselves it is doing among the sixtions,

the nations left in rains.

on Socialist projatanda, It doubt The barrier can only be raised fal whether anti-Fascists had close by education, an eluention which dealings with the Communists, an shall rate a new way of think the policy of Morrow at the pre ing

that onl a way of this king

to keep on good terms with comes a miered creed, hell not in the Government of Massolini, who the letter merely but in the spirit is benevolently regarded, la revolu- sa erved based on the recognition Bonary circles as a likely Tugaros of the solidarity of the human race, for the next European conflagra- rather than on even the mort exalt-, tion. od eoncejatiesti

It was announced, amid applause that His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Peel, find consented to herone patron of The Society

Chairman's Speech.

Addressing the gathering. Mr. Knight Anstey said Ladies and Gentlenen kave been asked to menpy the chair on this occasion because it has inflen to my lot to pride ver the meetings of the Organizing Committee

he Losure of Sutions Suelety in Hong kong which we are rart to inanga- The ment took as plan in a tortus gathering of womŲ meventy persona interested in the salot of the League of Natio who met as

Nethe the Tas co, testery dar The Fit

Ul human demonstrate the thesis foal war in in the nature of things inevitable Tacy do demonstrate the fact that war

4leas

myhouse 2

el the worth, new way oề Thinking,

Seets af War.

Taels I want you be Dase at The Trades 10-gt IM AL TELLATTAN come ver, erar Rew 10, Rhang Ja come, the next great war 4 Box 90

thinns, v.: "What bust than that thou didst not receive? Now, if thou didst receive it why dost thou glory and the date 1576. Tho pleer is stamped three times with | the marks of Adam Craige, the maker, and of James Mosmas, the Edinburgh Deacon for the your 1676. It is believed to be the fourth earliest example

of Scot- tish silver bearing a ball-mark.

Tradition has it that the mazer was presented to David Fergusson

Fer- nationalism, Further information divulged by by James VI of Scotiandi Nationations may be a great thing. ' Carti, who is atit hospital, Kunson began life as a glover, but if I may reverently parady a great though now out of danger, reveals preferring R more intellectunt saying, "a man love not his fel that before being shot he under career, gave up trade and wha Petris-countryman whom he has went trial in the best inquisitorial educated for the Church. lic sub- seen, he is not likely to love the manner. It appears to have been sequently became chaplain to tho foreigner whom he has not seen, as he was signing & declaration King, and by his “pleasant and "Bat something greater Than after being closely questioned for facetious conversation he often patriotion or nationalism is need several hours that the ballet was pleased the King when he was in a

fired. 1 is now recalled that it Tury." was of Sartrouville two years aga that an attempt was made to wreck

u Halian military hydroplane,

The machine, which had been hollt on the Seine and was to be

The

WI

TANG 44 may ma Colne warm the experience of them esl th who saw the inte Great War. needs id more than one new

MONTE 1 ! Spe very Treators themselves,

el so AS FASTE to burden you with a strang ni quotation, but Thongelistul persons can read what J. 31. Revues bus and In Then I will not all it "Interna

Putangiardices of the

that word is Peace" and a sequel & Reviconilis", ecause

an fll-defined, atul covers not a few False theries of Society. Perluge I may be allowed to call it "Inter- Flanturism", though 1 hope nogle

at the Treaty" side by side with Major R. A. Bratt's

"That Next

War" without reusing how THE dil yet the fulfilment of the hope that the Great War would be a war to end war.

If Dr. and Reotomie the guests Mrs. E. W. Kirk to listen to a paper read by Rev. W. Walton Rogers, on the on-sitution and Work is the League. We were fortuluate to have in that company a lady who was at the time a guest of Mrs. Sunthony Mr Collett, 41 "t: Bu da ste supporter of the League of Nation, Who haul great exper'; ene of the work of the League of Natione in in England, 20 who was therefore ale to give ma much valuable information, as welf as An inspire with otor of her enthum

Interest and enthusiasm pro tis 1. Ft.

Regations between nekamer whose affairs were felieved to have heun gothed, more or tet af-inctorily. by 14 Peace Preaty, are Fant Thin

freaking strain. Sathong but effe lave piti eviations. FIN the Leune al Natrons

-tramed Frontmate

permanentl. peacefal patch that it was there and opes, and a severance of gearetu! flam perived to leam at League retables in a quarteraskali verg of Nation: Society in Hongloan. h the membership of which should heal and swittle heat to the out

open to all nationalities A

mittee was appointed and authoris

d to pour the matter until we could bring it formally before the public of Hongkong, and Merni Te

Much Spade Work,

perdiet.

some war whose ultimats 13 mira Pontudestly

War, 41

1

1 are

WOMEN SHARE

GAMBLERS.

(Continued from Page 8.)

te will eain a better phrase to down to Italy, wits about to set off indiente the reengonition of the when these bomb zdready burning in the fuselage. Bal +bmi the things which was discovered wife

are infinitely The pollee never discovered the Preater.

they A

criminals, and It is suggested that paltry shillings but for hundreds elder and more fundamental, than the attempt was the work of the of dollars.

sae anarchists who tried to av Three which divide them, and that

asinate Carti. when we are seeking the abolition.

Hottie war we are not seeking thing which is against bumal nie ture, but which is marparable from trust and highed expression,

it

Warfare for Peares

Mr.

Kingsford Smith, WBlum avo Renter's Sydney correspotalent, died within a fortnight of greeting his son. Winge-Commander Kings ford-Sinith, after his ten daya' flight from Kagland. His ashes are to in takes up in an aeroplane by his

Watching the Ticker.

The procedure l amplefty itself, My lady needs nothing but a certain amount of credit and a more cer No money tain amount of nerve. paser bands. She Foes into

rom, hum comfstally turnirbed A look at the murinus papers. hur "wimmer" for the day, for all the world as one might lover to a solicitous clerk, murmurs,

"I have a hundred X & X

Then she may pick up a magazine and read for an hour, then saunter

The rigration of which I speak must include the discipliciter and Sublimating of those instincts and wattered over the Pacific, chuse a likely lare, and, going Ahich have hitherto been barnean chevrta. ed almost okelusively in the seri

vice of destructive warfare, su najkonders to au

ar

June,

M

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She waits for X & X. When it appears she finds it has gone up two points. She reads another story, then back to the machine. X & X has jumped another five. points.

In every case, however really dictated by past suffering or the ignominy of defeat, by jealousy the support we are hoping to re-and rivalry deep-rooted in national

to utilise their force in waging a refused absolutely to bring in ceive from this meeting.

history and character, or by veiled

constructive warfare for peare, de- verdict. of jailty. Said they hack to the "Licker" and watch, desire for further dominium, the manding as much endurance, as, "Ife knew the niu, and we kage with fascination, the endless stream

to the oatings would be

much evarage, and as much well that he is not a thiet," The tow is or payer which #ushes from its A great dead of spade work, he

Cor "du two," much so the plea sacrifice as any war of hate has meant to punish thieves.

This mouth. been done, with the read that we for the increase ne retention at

ever called forth,

Iman is not a thief, He was drank, have not only disenyered a large armaments is put forward in terms.

His perhaps too little realised that was all---Not Guilty." I don't number of sympathiser, including of a gaarantee of "Security"

that to hat rensly in du without know hone my English magistrate the representatives n the local Mayne Bratt_points out that in

TEXT prepare

would deal with such 24 verdiet, Press, but are able to presen a list Europe, one nation cannot demand

For on thing.

the Iris of those who are willing to ser VI

arlat it is afeged that podlog 31

l securite for

magistrate accepted it t as others of the Suciely.

A what she regards Present economic systems are | Penny 11, against

immensurably influenced by the quitted the man. The verdict rois. Templet which hasbro special dans, will uitine ice of war at scare the problem of the vareship of --for the

"""TT sell "nów, "Thank you," she circulated you have James mnd imperil the peace of Europe as se ly anything less than an econontir, the bicycle, because it it was found ways to the clerk, un she strolls out acquainted with the type of security in war, and sot He describes this 224 +1

revolution could adapt them to n, in the possession of the accused, to tena. Suriety and _k t ht l wifi presently

condition of secured peace. The in and he had been arquitted of the And the following morning, on have the pleasure of hearing from o

nguinst security

matil or charge of coming hala its passes the strength of ifference which is significant vestment of expital,

the cheque for "does and sion unlawfully, it could not be

less com autist lead to the enemiragement of taken from him.

They probably even hundred dollars.

mission, which she receives from Home amicable Irish ging that capital to industrial pro- | way. But yout

five hundred dollars down and so jets which would be purely peace-morat of the story, upsetting As such

for the latest per month Tut is surely so intricate at preses Erlish sense of the majesty

the practical alconie is to

nur sports model she has noticed in a → na to baille the ingenuity of even

of show window. our most competent and peace the Law, They interpreted the This is not a dream. This in! loving commic experts. I do not action by what they knew of

the the sort of thing that actually hap- see how they can even bezzin to Man.

pens, not in isulated instances, but of arma- work out any feasible Aasures deal with it in the right way in our nents, in the sincere hope of their until the very basis of their cal

In thousands of enses. Truly, I do of the Longue of Nations. ultimate

not recall hearing of a single case elimination. and recall Seeley's dictum that refer

the cutations is n world-wide deter-

In this Colony where many un- where anyone lost money at this reference of all disputes tomination to abolish war. "The Foundation of Every State Jus

iftionalities mingle, let us get to little game, among my

friends, Judicial Chart of Arbitration, not world-wide, at least is a Way of Thinking", and I can-

es know and understand one another, last winter. The spirit of war cannot die out tablished faith and purpose of the and introduce one another to the ceive the chief business of such a of a nation in arms. If a man

The part which finance plays in more advanced nations. Society as we un inaugurating to buys a gun designed for shooting

knowledge and understanding of an American's life is so different I have spoken plainly about some the natiount character and aspire-from that 201 be to take a definite share a help tigers, he is not content till he has

Englishman's. of the problems peace because,tions of the nations to which we And, when it comes to the point ing to form a New Way of Think-shot a tiger with it; and it a man

as said at the beginning. I want belong.

should That, too, ing in every State which shall be has to habitually handle a

put of including women in this money- RUB

to implant deeply in your minds us on our best,

Iraest our

be mad scramble, the point of view a foundation

of harmony, designed for shooting men, he will

the fact that we are dealing with security, and prosperity.

et least be templed to want the

haviour, Illogical as it may be of the two countries varien widely. reality. That

dependence what the League our affection for, or our antagon. Financial purposely bring in that word day to come when he can test its "Security", because "Pear" is al

of Nations is doing, and we by our iso to, some other tation is often everything to the American woman value by shooting men, though heap

of this Society can the bottom of all other entres of may piously hope that the shooting

help fargely determined by the impres-of to-day. She is willing to work It is the warning signal held will be justified. Moreover, it is fully. The Society has already member of that nation.

to do it more success- sion aude upon us by gume vie for it, be she married or single,!

but having attained it, she claims ap by the primary instinct of self- farce to keep an Army,

under consideration many very preservation, which, in its turn. Air Force which is either

Several nations are represented the right to spend as she sees fit. enlls upon the instinct of pugnacity ficient in its machinery or dk-will receive public support, but I but two great nations especially perfectly natural sport. She gets

practical suggestions which I hope by no small numbers in the Colony. Gambling in Atocks is, to her, to marshat its forces in the cause cipline, or defective in its fighting should Hice to end on the personal meet here in close and friendly re- the same thrill from watching the of self-defence. The War-Cry may spirit. I would almost go so far te.

Dr. Katewall what, I feel gure.it constitutes a boundary between private, in armaments will give you a char understand; the aid pre-war policy and somes int of the faupus of Nations and its work.

thing new, which seeks to fout war, but the problem of transfer-ettled that ill not mist the her brokers, she goos out and pays; In trying

what peace and securit; on something to discover rould nay to give the right tone to better than strategic calculations." this meeting I have telt that it

Armament Reduction. must be something that would implant deeply in your minds the The only real security peint fact that we I dealing with war which I can see is in the reality, and that we are trying to immediate reduction

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is

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Or.

the

ignorance of others.

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One of the chief obstacles to the | the outcome of

which must inevit After all, it is largely relative. peace-loying, but the ultimate apments, however enthusiastic or peal to the average man will be the earnest a few statesmen may be te fears which feed the war contacts, unique in their import-American brings her freedom into atagonise nations. and those

ture peace of the world. We have servative ideas into her home: the appeal to come form of fear. Fear until the will of the nations spirit, is the stark; blank ignorance ante, through our University, our the financial world.

usually the product of ignorance an intellectually enlightened. sometimes of the ignorance

The Sporting Spirit. of as well as a murally enthusiastic of the other man's real person-trade, and even our, sport. May facts, or, where the bare facts are will to pence.

ality. That ignorance leads us to they be no used as to lead the to an

of increase of mutual esteem through: It may be that these grent panics knowa, ignorance of the principles

Bay "intellectually enlighten.all sorts of misunderstanding underlying these facts.

ed", because but few yet realiso words and actions as they are un increase in mutun understand that rivet the world's attention the bewildering complexity of the cumstances, his needs, his historyference. suspicion into sympathy. American woman a bitter lesson

influenced by his political cir.

ing, turning controversy into con- from time to time will touch the problem. We shall not get any and the traditions he holds dear, and, by our joining together in this

the value of "home-keeping The League of Nations is a where by merely shouting, moral instrument for rightly, using

A man is known by his deeds much League of Nations Society may we hearts," but being aliplatitudes however true they muy more than by his words:

an American) ultainable facts that affect the be, nor by making moral resolves

Hus contribute something quite real. to doubt it! She will go on to the of end, and when she has lost the last of the poles from the performance of which we antis but the true meaning of the spread of that now of the world. It can only function can be as speedily stampeded us covered till we know

IL deeds is never fully dis-thinking which in long overdue, dollar she has worked uncomplain- satisfactorily when it has behind we were in the last war. A people

but which, when it fully arrives, ingly to earn, she will go back to as its chief support the

the willing-

Once when

was in Ireland on will make practic ble the highest her old job, or get another, and ness of the mass of the peoples not which may have no desire for wara lecturing tour I heard a story, Idents of the League of Nations, try har luck again. only to face the facts, but to con- perting it if there

can be easily stampeded into sun true story as Irish stories

Grant the American avoman this, Ko when men's fear of one another gent to use of them founded on solid harrier across the path to before the Court for stealing a

is not some of n man who had been brought abalt give place to their faith in at any rate. She takes, her longes

vie another, and undeniably sound principles, Many stop the ruah and give time for re-bicycle. There was no question strength be brought into one ling she takes her gains. If sho has their fighting with the same sporting spirit that whose way of thinking has been flection. And in the days for to the evidence, and the only ex- of battle for all that makes for the helped to pull the financlat world that, although men may have cut! If the eye of the world is focuses aro auspicious both of the sincerity which all our military experts are tenunting" plen that could be fulfilmont of the nobleat concep and utility of the League. A great | Preparing, the time for reflection brought forward was that he was tion wp have of the destiny of the hor is like a gigantic jig-saw puzzle) „more; Intricate. the pattern the the part the American woman,

tinctured by the older diplomacy

#

the

part of the work of a League of Na-will be very short Indeed. A de- drunk at the time. Yet the Jury, tions Suciety is to destroy that vastating blow from the air can composed of his fellow-townamen.

human race.--(Applause.)

(Continued on Pago V.)

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