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TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.

POLITICAL TRENDS

CHINA: II.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

THE MAN TO WHOM THE UNIVERSE DOES NOT DIRECTLY REVEAL WHAT RELATION IT HAS TO HIM: WHOSE | HEART DOES NOT TELL HIM WHAT HE OWES TO KIMSELF AND OTHERS— THAT MAN WILL SCARCELY LEARN IT

THE TRAGEDY OF EUROPE.

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attacked Dr. C. T. Wang and aubsequently other leading mon, but most significantly sacked the head offices of the Kuomintang. { The students are sald no longer to support the Party at all. They are divided along the two Ex- tremo lines with which we are becoming increasingly familiar in European politics, into what cor our OF BOOKS; WHICH GENERALLY respond to Fascist and Communist | DO LITTLE" MORE ' THAN GIVE OUR groups. For Home reason or ERRORS NAMES-Goathe, other, Communlam, whose expres- |

The R.M.S. "Empress of Axla” in sion has often been ruthlessly due at Shanghai on the 8th at noon feel the tragedy of the European but, as General Smuts has had the suppressed among other classes, and leaves for Hongkong on the ath. has been tolerated in the univer sition. Political · theory marc apeedily issues into action

in Eastern than Western countries, and the student influence is more direct,

The handbook of the Now Ter The late Government was im-ritories Agricultural Show, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, may be had potent in the face of the student from Mesata, Kelly and Walsh this

afternoon.

agitalion, which was carried on

On

TTE MUST be a dull and un-strength. Repudiation fa a word imaginative man who does not which Britain has always shunned,

aceno. As each month slips by the courage to warn us, we might be economic storm blows with increas compelled, despite cur Atrongest a cala- feelings and traditions, to pocket An effective wall calendar has fury and threatens been inued by Messrs. Gilman and strophe no less ruinous than the our dignity and pride. Co. as agents for Malfariano, Lang's Armageddon fro

Armageddon from which we have well-known binculta.

Ho recently emerged; whil

wille In the The emergency decrees promul- leading Capitals statesmen display gated by the Bruning Government a Lilliputian helplessness as if are the last desperate effort on the paralysed by the Immenalty of the part of Germany to stave off die- dangers to which the nations are so nater. She can do no more, Every- narrowly exponed. Never was there thing now depends on France. Will so great a need for leadership, for she dispel the universal gloom and the compelling direction of man offer to an exhausted Continent the capable of sweeping aside the au- chance to renew its strength and Perstitions and fears which every resources? In the conduct of un- where infect national polley. tions there is no room for senti

ment, self-interest is the over In the directors' room in the wakaful impulse, yet self-interest Dank of International Settlements requires that the nation should in Baale the "experts" were recent look beyond the day. ly gathered together. With what purpose? To determine what had Deep in the soul of France is the long been obvious to every one of fear of German revenge, foar of a them, In fact already been esta-highly-organleed and industrious blished with

almost ironic clarity population, half as numerous again

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The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Revenue Officer Harold Victor Pearse, No. 70, Morrison Hill Roail, to Miss Elizabeth Neca Thomas, No: 120, Whitfield.

Leung To, a destitute, died at the Government Civil Hospital, yesterday the victim of a fatal accident ΑΣ Connaught Road Wost, where he was knocked down by a tram-cer.

this afternoon.

considerable pleasure,

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and France.

openly with Communist slogans and with patent disregard of the law. Another party has, however, appeared in student polities, The Nationalist Party, which savours of Fascism and may ultimately sponsor a politicnt dictatorship, is rapidly acquiring political in- luence. It will be interesting to see how the now Government will

by the Wiggin-Layton Report, that as her own, brooding a resolve to den) with these new political

One notification of diphtheria- the maintenance of reparations and regain her lost prestige and power. European was made to the Medical indemnities in their present form Can she rid herself of that fear by forcon. Win the Kuomintang Officer of Health this morning. Yes-and on their present scale in at the pursuing her present policy of continue in a middle way and suc-terday there were no new local cases, root of the world crisis, and that strangulation? Only for the

but one imported contact WAN re common sense as well as world mnent; against the ceed in leading the country to ported.

changing CUF- Aecurity demands An immediate rents of human fortune which com- constitutionalism? Or will it

moratorium for a period long rise the fututuch a course can aplit, one acctlon sponsoring one Scholars of the Government and enough to permit the machinery of provide but a frail and.

other schools in Hongkong and Kow-international economic life to re-bulwark. For years

uncertain of the new parties, one another?

Britain bes loon will be admitted into the New sume Its normal workings.

sought by every means to allay this Territories. Agricultural Show on

fear, and to weave web of friend- Saturday on panocs duly issued by It is apparently beyond the wis-ly understanding around the two French Offer to Germany.

the Hendmasters or Headmistresses-dom of European statesmen to de-nations, sacrificing to this end a The bandbook for the Show may be vise a moratorium formula which great part of the War debts due to France has come forward, some-had from Menara Kelly and Walsh without prejudicing the interests her and offering by the Treaty of what dramatieally, with a profes-

of any nation would free Europe Locarno the guarantee of her arm- sion of her willingness to extend

from Ita nightmare and afford atd forces. Her policy has so far IN the German moratorium

The Committee of St. Patrick's least a resoñabic chance for world borne the

no fruit, and to-day she stands, bowed by debt and taxa- conditional annuities until July Society of Hongkong expect a large recovery.

attendance at the first annual general

tion, unable to make further sacri- 1934. And the price of the offer | meeting of the . Bociety, to be hold at During the last week of Novem-fies or to offer more than her good is the pastponement of the Lau- the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden to her the International Conference on will.

morrow Friday, January 8, at 6-16 Disarmament-a private and un- Conference, The emergence of a new Chinese sanne Reparations

p.m. The annual report, which has

Is it aneless Government, in which the head of

which Britain urged should be been in the hands of members for official organisation-met in Paris.

to appeal to the the late Government has accepted week in February. Three other

held on January 18, until the last some days, has been recolved with wider is suspice at public spirit of unity and comradeship meeting was held in the Trocadero which in the hours of her most Aubordinate

and was attended by distinguished dire need held France closely to position, marks important matters for carly dis-

diplomata and representative public Are we not entitled to recall triumph of political and constitu- cussion

A bus conductor in the employ of are to be noted. The

men from many countries. The the vision of the Hongkong Hotel was commended meeting was wrecked by carefully aspired the epic sacrifices of the sunlit world which tional principles within the standstill agreement affecting by the Magistrate (Mr. Schofield),j Kuomintang. Mr.

organised

At the battlefields 7 England and hooliganism. Wang Chine-Germany's private debts matures this morning for his capture

samo time an anti-disarmament de may have drifted apart. It is not wel can rightly regard the result on February 29. The Disarma-bag-snatcher who vielimised a Chin-'monstration under the chairmanship too late for them to draw together

ese woman in Queen's Roud East with some satisfaction. The re-ment Conference is scheduled to yesterdiny. The culprit was

given 01

or Colonel Marchand achieved again. By one magnificent ges salt once achieved may pave them at Geneva on February 2x month gaol and 20 strokes of the great success and what is perhaps ture, one great act of faith, France

Was warmly ap- way to the abjuring of military examine, in the light of fresh de-

The League Council meets to re-birch, with an additional three months more considerable section can regain the high esteem which

in the event of his being found phy-proved by a

her noble constancy and vallant methods in affecting a change ofvelopments, the Manchurian siinment."

sically unft to receive the chastise the Paris Press. These incidents endurance during the war years illustrate the mood of a section of won for her throughout the Em- poversiaeni, and if, as at presenttion on January 26. The puzzle

the French people. Finance and pire. Is it not worth her while? | seenis likely, Chiang Kai-shek has at this distance is to discover the Han Wan, the principal monk of politics are interwoven in the view-To-day Britain is bowed by her | indeed resistest the temptation, to connexion, if any, between the un- the Po Kong Yuen Monastery, at Lo point of the average Frenchman. burdena. This will pass. What- ever unhappy trials await us dur- dominate politics by force, and has expected French affer and these Wal, T. W. district has reported to

the police that at 130 a.m. to-day, The interests of Great Britain in ing the coming months, we shall particular maltern. It Heema persoan!

some person broke the window of the what is primarily a Franco-German emerge superior to them, strength. pleasing enough gesture at first monastery and, after forcing the iron ambition for the sake of political glance, but where is the catch in bars, entered the building.

He blowestion are vital. The bankruptcy ened and cleansed by our exper principle, he has set an example it? It has been the special forte monastery gong, and the

bused founded the of Germany would involve the mer-ence, and the friendship of this police whistle of political integrity which will of France to establish bargaining fled.

intruders chants and bankers in heavy losses, people will again be of great ac He states that he naw three which they can nowadays ill afford; count in the affairs of the nations. have its effect in Chinese politics points in advance of negotiations. men holding torches. Nothing

but the indirect, repercussions on generally and will redound in no She must anticipate a searching stolen. -

industry and trade would be of for

The decision of the Cunard greater moment, and above all our Steam Ship Company to suspend Moa|| mensure to his personal for motives. The desire for post-

future budgetary position would be work on the construction of the credit. He will the more probably ponement appears to foreshadow A smart seneue was effected warly completely undermined. We should great new vessel No. 534 is an un- return to power in the future with important imppenings hotween this morning, when a sampun over be confronted with

Lurned off West Point, and threw is position, the alternative of heavy the sort of trials wo may have to a very ugly pleasant though timely reminder of strong popular backing because

now and February 25 which my occupants into the water. The acc-additional taxation to enable us to face. The initiative influence the conference, renderdent was noticed from the shore, and meet our debt obligation to the of business men are circumscribed enterpriac he has to that degree preferredita task easier, or the concession Revenue Oficer Humphreys, Laking United States or repudiation of as never before by fores which lie the public Interest

charge of the rescue work, succeeded} to personal part more difficult. It is impossiin picking up two of the occupants those obligations. Further taxation altogether

outaide their control; le to believe that the urgency of who were clinging to their overturn-on a sufficient scale would mean a comme ree

and Industry are no The Kuomintang has not, how-what Mr. Ramsay MacDonald ed craft. No signs were neen of a definite lowering of our standards longer free in a world in which ever, won its internal victory with calls the "great menace" of the third man who is believed to have of living and a tragic weakening every change in the political bare-

of our Industrial and financial meter alters the appearance out seriaus cost. It is still im- European financial problem has possible to estimate how serious disappeared miraculously render- has been the damage to the credit it is evident from the latest Bri- ing an qurly meeting unnecessary. of China among the, nations by the ish communique in reference to spectacle.

appeared. of the appointment of Sir Maurize political incompetence al the Hankey as Secretary-General to moment when it was necessary for the Conference that nothing hus her to present, a united front occurred to lend Britain to con- against Japanese aggression, and sider the desirability of postpone- so strengthen the hands of the ment or to expect a French re- Lengue. Internally, too, the cost quest for postponement beyond a

day or two at the outside. For} grunt. While the

the same reason, it would seem Kuomintang has been engaged unlikely that the offer in the re- with strife within its own ranks,sult of the Franco-British pre-} the nation has grown increasingly minary discussions. It is pos- impatient. Political theoriessible, of course, that France seeks į which exclude the Kuomintang the delay merely to employ a pro- have been growing apace. Quiotable reparations concension as a citizens throughout the land have at the disarmament conference. lever to take the strain of France been disgusted by the excesses of Britain's reaction to the French local tang-pit. These have been desire will be awaited with some

acrificed immediate

ends.

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it

the prey of mercenary profes-Interest.

sional politicians, with whom the respectable elements of society

would have nothing to do, and the at 66, Des Voeux Road Central, yes

Found under the bed in a shop Kuomintang has come to stand, terday afternoon, a Chinese who ap

not for the Three Principles, but peared before Mr. Williams at the Central Police Court this morning, for corrupt local administration. charged with loitering with intent to Against this background the rival commit a felony, was sentenced to six wooks' hard labour. Detective theories of politics have thriven, Sergeant McHardy told his Worship especially in the universities and that the defendant was found by two When fokls under one of the boda. achvole. The student

class. questioned he said he was looking for whose membera have demon-à cook, but there was no, such_pare strated in so disorderly a fashion son as mentioned by the defendant on the premises. The defendant had a at Nanking, not only brutally conviction for similar offsnon

been drowned.

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balance-sheets and hinders or ad- vances the plans for future develop- iment. It is crazy world which this unfortunate generation aceks to master, and as we look back at the quiet orderliness and almost acreno confidence of our Edwardian and Victorian forebears, we may be forgiven an envious sigh. With the morning coffee wo study hard- ened and scarcely perturbed, bead... lines which not so very long 'aga would have shaken our composure; we have lost our sensitiveness to shock, familiarity has bred com. plaisance.

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Could we look into the future we should without a doubt behold a very strange and unfamiliar world. The alchemy of time is working with redoubled vigour, nothing, In the whole range of human activi tles escapea its transfiguring in- Auence. What will emerge it is not given to us to know, but this at least we may safely predict, that unless in the psychology of nations tolerance and sympathy come to displace fear and suspicion the pow nge will be no more desirable than our own.

At a general meeting of the Hong- kong University, Amateur Photo graphic Club, which was held in the Union Assembly Hall last night, Mr. E A. von Kobza-Nagy, gave an add" dress to a number of members on, the merits and demerita, of pictures má tered in the current exhibition took several of the pictures and madi friendly criticism, showin & Broth and bad painia, Califat thes [he whi@tbanked; for this MAY and instinctive®ådärine