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offeinl explanations Justifying the new Increases when approval.

therefor in sought in the Logiala.İ

tive Council. It can hardly be

poaufble that the money la re.

DAY BY DAY'

THIS I KNOW, NOT ONLY BY READ- ING BOOKS IN MY BTUDY, NUT ALSO BY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE ABROAD IN THE WORLD, THAT THOSE WHICH HE COMMONLY THE WIDEST, BEST LEARN- ED, AND REST MEN ALSO, WHEN THEY

WERE OLD, WERE NEVER COMMONLY A

TERROR OF THE AIR.

By PIERRE RENAUDEL.

quired to meet the cost of the re- cant salary calculation revision In the case of Government for vants who have depondents at

FEW days ago, M. Henri Lesion such as has beon_provided Home, Innsmuch as the total cost

Wita, a French specialist on for by the Pact of the League of of this concession for A whole THE quickest of WIT WHEN THEY

gas warfare; referring to Nations and by the treatles which your is said to bo only about $150,- | WERE YOUNG, QUICK WITS HE AFT the new means of waging war, an imposed on the vanquisñed un ex- 000. Neither do we imagine that TO TAKE, UNAPT TO KEEP-Archamnounced the coming of sheets and tensivo disarmament as

as a prolude

the position has been affected by

fogs of "coloured and perfumed to a general reduction. Three cases of typhoid were notified gas!"

What counter-arguments can bo the necessity of paying the first yesterday, being non-Chinese, He insisted that one must not produced? That aviation is neces contribution this year on the pur- Imported.

believe in certain exaggerations, Bary for war? But war, alas, has chase of the Nuvai Arsenal, since

more literary than real, regarding been waged without aviation. And

again! this should easily be met out of Home via Straits and Manila, is duetion, bat that, however, the horror with these words: "A country like

M. Le Wita the credit balance. What, then, here on the 26th instant.

and the monstrosity of the dia- charge of gas an towns and be ours, sincerely desiring peace and eun havo occurred since His Ex-

detormined never r to be the aggre#- of craft bombs, by shells from long-sor, might possibly find itself in hind the war area by means distance guns and by gas-screens priso attack, long planned in se would. scarcely be less terrible

cellency spoke of the encouraging

1

one

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The Ben Line a.s. Bencleuch, from the effects of wholesale destruct could he his study

tombers and supporters of the

Lady Peel is giving on "At Home" on outlook to warrant those new im. M.C.L. at Government House posta? So far from there being Thursday next at 4.30 p.m. no intention of increasing taxa-

Professor L. Forster and Mr. D. W. tion when the Budget is present-Morley were amongst the passengers ed, the community is being asked who arrived here yesterday by the

Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon. for more money even before it is Introduced.

nir.

its

Cm-

phasis which M. Le Wita gives to

than, and would, indeed, only becret, if it had not the courage and rivalled by, high-temperature wisdom thoroughly to prepare incendiary bombs spreading de-arry and thrust."

In spite of the defensive vastation and rain around them.

There can be PLOT doubt that his statement, it is purely and scientifie progress will render war, should it break out, monstrous be simply one involving an air arma- ments race. Is there no other yond all imagination.

solution? Is it

possible to humanise it? 1 This race has, indeed, aiready do not believe so.

begun. If we do not take enre, it To-day there exists a convention will develop with ever greater against the use of asphyxiating acuteness as military and civilian and other gases. It was drawn technicians insist more and more up by the Teague of Nations, that war will be waged in the air.

WIII Aerial Disarmament Be

(1) It has not been accepted or

By Jumping into the street in an attempt to commit suicide, Lai Ilong Rut axed 40, of the second floor of 18, Tai We Street, received injuries to his head and right leg, and was removed to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment.

Govern-

ratified by all the ments represented in the League, and

BTective?

-But, it may be said, all you will The able to dù will bo useless. You (2) It does not prohibit the manu-cannot forbid commerelat avia- Íncture-open or secret-oftion and commercial aviation can

Jalso serve for war.

poisonous war gases,

It is futile to say that some of

A memorial service will be held by the longkong University Christian The public would much more Association for the Inte Mian Loung willingly resign itself to new taxn-Tsui Ho on Sunday next at 8 p.m. Ton if it were supplied with thein St. John's 11all. Rev. Cheung Chok

Ling will officinte, reasons for its imposition. What |has happened, however, is that the

intimation comes,

without the lenst warning, like a bolt from the blue Living costs. are already higher than the community iken; KANAN CREATE❘ they must inevitably the Increased

by the additional calls now made. ing of members and adherents of the It is announced that a special meet.

We shall therefore expect mur Un- Union Church, Jordan Road, Kowloon,

In fact, it is just here that it is will be held on Sunday next, the 20th those gases are usefully employeen that the idea of the "poton- official members, when the oppor-Inst., immediately after the morning ed in industry. That deceives no-tialities of war" cannot be nextec- tunity presents itself, to inform nervice, to consider a recommendation body. They are being manufar-ted in our pre-visions. A country the Government that there

Jin regard to the pastorate of the tured for the war by ia iL

with a commercial aeronautic in- church.

Then there is the consideration Hmit beyond which the public is

which we are under an obligation dustry is obviously ready rapidly not prepared to go without muk- |

The speeding up of mails thanks to not to ignore: When one has de to produce a war air servics. That is why it is necessary to advocate ing its feelings known. There the air mail services is illustrated by cided on a horrible erime, or even

supplementary precnu- the receipt in Hongkang yesterday off when one reports to it in the faceveral must be a halt called to the con- a letter posted in Oslo, Norway, on of aggression, one pays no atten- Aviation shures with modern tinued rise in the cost of govern- September 1. This letter, which took ition to the means. Being a horsefentific discoveries the distinc- ment. At the bottom of the trou-only sixteen days to come via Siberia,rible crime, war is the end of all tion of serving two ende; it can

was received by Thoresen & Co. Ltd. | human,

divine and

social laws. be used for good or for evil, for ble, of course, les our despised the steamship agents.

The Middle Ages have gone with life or denti. currency, Senalble reform under

their brutalities, but also with

If aviation can be Howevo purposes, it does not The annual dramatic evening of the their courtesies between

oppon-used for problem, it almost this heading would solve the whole Hongkong University Arts Association ents. Those who fight and kill at seem that the transformation of reema, how-t to be held in the University Hall n distance of 15 or 16 miles do not civil aviation into military avin- ever, that the Government does not on October 3, when under the direc- even see each other, and have not tion is quite so simple as it is said expect relief in this direction.

tion of Prof. R. K. M. Simpson, under- the time to be chivalrous.

to be. A chaser 'plane Is like no gradutes wil present "The Teaching On the day when war breaks thin Teresa," and another item called "A out, all nations will be forced to nottring machines have peculiarl

thing else. Bombing and Collection will be Made." A musical

manufacture, without delay. en-ties of construction which betray programme will be given by Mrs. Agines of war and munitions, pre- the use for which they are intend- M. Bower-Smith ned Mr. G. deLend,

Aumed to be forbidden, and even ed

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1937.

PILING UP THE BURDEN.

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part in this Colony. They deemed

in order

necessary

to

maintain Britain's credit abroad, Here in Hongkong, it is clear that

would be needed either now for the coming year.

ex-

Those Saucy Huts.

The new mode in women's head-

The Meaning of Aerial Disarmament.

гесол-

of

and

Whilst the newly-annonpeed in- ereases in local taxation can be disglased with a smile in com- parison with the drastic proposals which are being put into forec at Home. they will, none the less, be resented by the community gener ally, In the Old Country, fresh

new and more terrible weapons. We cannot deny we know al- burderes have had to

Hongkong estate worth $62,100 was be imposed gear. characterised by naive is left by the late. Chin Leung-shi (or it is necessary to prevent war, and have seen them that it is possible It is just for that reason that ready of examples because we by reason

Roscreat natioun toriral inaccuracies that with azu), alina Mary Chin, alian Leung not to wait for I. That is the to construct aeroplanes for both emergency which has no counter- | equanimity describe a given hat as | Lal-chee, alius Loung Chec-aking business of the League of Nations, purposes. But that is obvious,

are Empresa Eugenie." "1880" and die Leung Lai Chee Tong, alias and I shall not discuss that here.

Daisy Leung, eoncubine of the late

And, that is why, in the case of "First Empire"-all three-when in Chin Wai-po, who died at No. 325,

nerfal disarmament more than in fact it is not even any single one of Tennessy Road, Hongkong, on May 8,

any other, measures will be futils them, has swept through Britain, 1931. Probate has been granted to

unless they are accompanied by a the United States, and the Con-Wing Wo Street, and Chin Tit-yung, enough to demonstrate that we commercial manufacture and

the executors, Chin Ah-kam, No. 25, But what I have just said is rigorous international control of the increases just announced,

tinent, lo llongkang. And women, of China Building, seventh floor. shall be committing an error if, in machines in use. well as those which have preceded apathetic to the historical truth of Bequests are all of a famliy nature. a demand for aerial disarmament, This control, too, must be ac them, are being sought for the their attire, but gravely con-.

we start off from a sentimental companied by another measure, at purpose af meeting the rising cost † cerned about Its Tonks are Mr. John A. Hamilton. Manager of point of view or with an illusion once political and economic-that- of government.

the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce Pegarding the future.

of the internationalisation of air How far they are making much ada nequiring is arriving in liongkong on the It is best to demand it within lines. It is clear that this would justified by the financial condi-hats that aspire, with vary-President Hoover on Monday. He is the framework of the reduction of be, in a way, the best and surest tion of the Colony remains to be degrees of success, to achieve making a trip to the Far East in the armaments, as that will more ef- control, as each country would be | seen. The latest imposts certain that sancy tilt over the right eye. interests of the Pacific Foreign Trade fectively show the will to agree-interested in the common solidari-

It is all very thrilling, for women. Caster 4, 5, and 6, 1936. It is hoped men rekaanis and controlled

Council which to meet in

general, progres-ty of work and security. ly come as a surprise to those of

Then there is the final conaj- Men, for the most part, are engaged to include in this meeting, representa disarmament.

deration. The armies of the air. us who had been given to under-in their traditional role of invelgh-tives. from all the important cities

bordering the Pacific. Mr. Hamil-j

It is part of a whole which ought are constituted not only to co- stand that no additional taxationing, futilely of course, against this top in specially interested in scaring to aim at extensive and substan-operate with other arms but also as vast autonomous formations strange tide of feminine levity. To delegation from Hongkong and tial reductions. them it is, as it always has been, Manila. If any of the business men There is an advantage in ap for which

corps, effectives of the Colony are interested in meet-pronching disarmament from one officers are created. It was only two months ago that inexplicable that otherwise gonering Mr. Hamilton, an appointment may point of view that of the equa It is precisely on account of this

ally intelligent creatures should be made through the office of His Excellency the Governor re-accept so uncomplainingly the die-American Trade Commissioner.

the iluation of rights and duties. It that the total suppression of air echoed in Council the hope

ought to lead to a general suppres-armaments is necessary and be- cause of this that it may be effec- tates of Paris. Yet the fair sex, pressed by Unofficial members that instend

tively carried out. of revolting, всек no fresh taxation would be neces- thoroughly to enjoy it. And mas sary in connexion with the Es-wonders what exactly they will do timates for 1032. Indeed, Sir Wil.next. He would not dream of liam stated that the financial posi-changing a thing for a moment- tion was much more satisfactory at least, not hurriedly. In the mat- than had been expected, that re-species is, if anything at all, ultra- venue was coming in satisfae-conservative, adhering tenaciously torily, and that it was hoped to to things as they are, and regarding be able to balance expenditure with suspicions every little innova- jand revenue for the current year. tion. The man who has the courage Since that speech was made, the to launch out in some minor surtor- financial returns for the three lal mutation, is regarded na a freak months from March to May in and scathingly referred to a

trilor's dummy. If clusive have been

the Jost made public. three decades are examined, it will Whilst these show that in two of be found that women's fashions the three months more monter was have undergone at least a dozen spent than was received, the ex-radical changes, while the changes cess expenditure for the period in men's apparel have been was rather less than $136,000. very slow and logical. Trou Moreover, the Colony's credit sern-are-worn a little longer and bulance-at-the-end of May, only wider. The number of buttons announced last Saturday,

upon the cont has become a matter of importance. Soft hats have more than ten and a half million largely replaced bowlers. These dollara. It has to be remembered changes are slight. Any change in also that since May the Govern- the general appearance of nien in ment has been steadily increnalug | 1931 and those of 1900 has more to various fees, thus considerably do with the invention of the safety augmenting the revenue; indeed, razor than with any marked altera- there seems to have been a deter sexes is the more servile slave to tion in attire. Which of the two mination to explore every possible fashion is, however, a moot point. avenue for the ralaing of more Men are ajuves to the fixity of their money. In theso circumstances, styles. Women to the transiency It will be interesting to hear the [of theirs.

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ter of clothing, the male of the

a"

"Oh, dear, I never know what to write my husband. Let's

Bog what all did we have for lunch?"

The constitution of these corpa und the existence of effectives and officers cannot be easily concealed. They

cannot be produced for some weeks or months from the time of the beginning of open hostilities or from the moment when diploma- tie tension appears to be loading to war.

The organs of pacification, such

as the Les juu of Nations, will at have the time to Interfere. least

even their

heir international could assert them- solves, especially if the force International sanctions" had al ready been created and substitu ted for already materially reduced |national armaments,

An armed air force cannot be brought into existence and trained Effectives, officers and a day. the necessary material cannot,

in a

ropeat, be dissembled.

Therefore, aerial disarmament, if adopted, would be effectivb.

I have submitted these solutions to the Socialist Party in France and also to the Commission which prepared the recent international Socialist

Congress at Vienna. were adopted and on the

which ori programme ganised Labour demands of all Governments shall be realised at the Disarmament Conference at Geneva in February, 1932.

Thoro

figure

they

Doubtless we shall not be tho only ones to support the movement. It can be devoloped, and. I thank the News Chronicle for having in- vited me to express my opinion, I would add a fow, final marka.

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