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TAMBAY, JANUARY 28, 19832.

ANOTHER NAVAL

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1932.

story, as told, gave the publie nome conception of the dangers which the gallant men of the Navy. encounter when engaged in under- sca exercises. It seems the irony of Tato that amongst those who have now lost their lives should be some who managed to come safely through the Poseidon disaster-

DAY BY

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ALL THE ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL

WITHOUT POWER ARE USELESS coMMANDING INDIVIDUAL WILL. Disraeli.

The Talkoo Chinese School distribu- men undaunted by their previous tion of prizes will take place in the experience, still ready and willing school on Friday, January 28, at 11

to serve in this bazurdous life.

Femy of He in the inlete,

Bru

The Polish Minority Seandal.

A.m.

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Inspector Robert Shannon, of the Hongkong Police Force, returned from leave by the ma. Naklern thin morning.

Passengers arriving hers from Home by the sun. Naldera, included Mr. and Mrs. Mr. A. Mnckichan.

1832:1932----Years of Destiny for Britain.

By VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE.

BRISTOL IN HANDS OF RIOT- In 1832 British trade was stag- OUS MOD-MANSION HOUSE, Hant;

commercial fallures were PALACE BISHOP'S

AND CUS frequent; serious doubts existed TOMS HOUSE SACKED AND

as to the financial soundness of BURNT GOAL PRISONERS LI.

this BERATED.

Country: bankers were worried about the possibility of DERBY GOAL STORMED-PRI.a run on their deposits. E. Wynne-Jones and SONERS FREED-TROOPS FIRE The great distinction between our present predicament and that which faeed our forefathers and Denth" Lesday at 6 pm, at the LAND HOME BURNT DOWN ATndred years ago lies in the fact Theosophical Society's Lodge, 17. NOTTINGHAM-CAVALRY that the existing economic crisis Queen's Rond Central, Ist floor.

is not a antional but A world- wide one. If 1932 brings fuller

Mr. M. Manuk will lecture on "Life

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ON RIOTERS.

DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S MID.

CHARGE MOB.

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Three further canes of diphtherin LORD LONDONDERRY KNOCK- | recognition of this aspect of our were notified yesterday, as well as one ED OFF HORSE DY STONE. troubles it may be the year that care much of typhoid and cerebro | THROWING ROUGHIS.

sees the beginning of their end. spinal fever. All were from Kowloon,

Economic nationalism is one of DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S WIN-the prime causes of the general The Portuguese Company of the DOWS SMASHED IN WEST-END, slump.. Present-day industry, with

she

sailed

Defendant

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PROBLEM.

ARRESTED TAILOR GRANTED BAIL.

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This Infest dlauster, will doubt- Jess revive the movement for the abolition of undersen craft, on the grounds of the needless exportiro to risk which their u96 implics. At the last Dlaarmament Confer- ence, Britain strongly urged the adoption of this policy, by agree- ment between the Powers, but the was unable to obtain support for the idea. It in to he hoped that the Issue wit figure prominently at next month's Conference lo Geneva. Surely here is one mal- ter on which it should be possible] Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps

are holding a dinner and dance at HAVE heard many gloomy its huge output capacity, re- to and agreement, purely on hu- the Club Lusitano QTI Tuesday, forecasts for the New Year sembles a steam plough. It can- manitarian grompds. Despište ali February 9.

but not even the most despondent not be profitably employed in a that marine engineering skill has

prophet expeels to see such head small field. The field of The Royal Observatory reports lines as these in our newspapera world's markets has been cut up accomplished. it has been demon-that the anticyclone has weakened within the next twelve months, Hinta tiny patches by tariff wallk.

It is central near Shanghai and strated that undersen cruft

If civilisation is to prosper these Yet hundred years moving eastward, A depression has

ago the still unsafe. That fact. taken in developed over S. E. Mongolia. events enumerated above actual must came down.

ly occurred in Endland, and the

For that to be achieved, Britain conjunction with the huge MAT:

tariff too. We shall Arrested on board the B.I. steamer best-informed people of that time requires spent on submarines, is in itself Talma yesterday, a man named Wong expected fur worse. The country reduce their restrictions upon im-

never get other governments Were fortifying their sufficient argument for their abolin was charged before Mr. Fraser gentry

at the Kowloon Magistracy this mer-houses. Workmen and villagers Perts until we are in a position tion. If the M.2 disaster serves to lng with attempting

сопсел- corresponding stow away throughout the land were buying to make

The Western American bring this question to a boud, it Singapore. It was stated that the

and drilling. The whole song,

to defendant was found in the No. 2 hold orial order seemed on the eve of sheriff does not go unarmed may be the means of saving untold of the Talmn a few minutes before breakdown. Biel in London on 27th

He January 1982, Henry Birkett

matters Peify quarrelling gunmen. mak+ yesterday,

Senrries two revolvera to their formerly of Hongkong.

denter the charge, stating he was worse, an epidemic taking one oranges on board. Hejcholora was just starting,

one, and in consequence there is T14 Isoblom any shooting. was, however, convicted, and Aned Ireland was in the grip of famine.

British tariffs Bail or un month's hard abetty.

will prove * Darkness Before Down.

potent instrument for bringing 1nd we all been born a centary other states to reason.

We might Revelations of unabatid Polish;

earlier, our fears for the future say to Denmark, for instance: would have been much greater "At present you sell your dairy atrocitiest against the Ukrainian:

and better founded than they are produco to us without hindranee, minority in East Galicia, contained

to-by, for we could not have hut you import by far the greater to a special articles published you-

known that this country, in 1832, amount of your requirements in terday, runeera instances of bruta-

atood on the threshold of two manufactured goods from Ger- ty and torture which we would

generations of almost

United unin- many, the

States

And have said wave of purely medieval

¿terrupted prosperity and ex- Sweden. In future, you must take The suppression came

pansion, which would, raise That bis client was a tailor and to the position

her 75 per cent, of your manufactured savagery.

of the richest Imports from Britain, or we shall paign has been pursued by the was at present making a wedding Poles with relentless enthusiasm dress was the reteon given by Mind post powerful nation in the put a duty on the foodstuffs YOR

ship to us." F. 1, Lely, before Mr. Williams?

world. for same years past, though few of at the Central Police Court this. Therefore, dark as the horizon

Within R

month the Danish the disgraceful facts have hitherto morning, in applying for bail for of this New Year may be, despair Government would have complied un with our request and as a direct reached this part of the world. Ita Northern Chinese who, together would be foolish; doubt is la well understood that the Ukrain with two others, was charged with ecessary; all that we need is re- consequence the countries which now sell to Denmark would be lans, driven to despair by years of assault and demanding $100 with lation and energetic action.

Hard timen recur in the much more disposed to discuss repression, have been responsible mesaces,

histories of nations as Mr. Hin-shing Lo appeared lives of individuals.

in the all-round reductions

tariffs for acts of vinience such as are not told of the complainant. with

1832 was, than will ever be the case so long commonly provoked by mus MP

will be.

afas we continue to supply Den- representing

period a naval station. the government. "But_the_barbarity of second defendant

grent strain for Britain. The mark with the money which she

crisis loses will be especially felt, since Poland's reprisals must surely, be "Me. Loseby asked for his dient polition

that culminated, pusses on to their exportera.

Co-operation Imperative. century it is more than likely that some of unique in a State which regards it to he let out on $150 ball and rein the Reform Act of a

Krave economic marked that unless he was granted, and the

If I were asked to express in a self as civilised. It is not B those who have gone down to their though the plight of the Ukrainians plete the wedding dress, Hlius pre-

bail he would not be able to com, crisis in the midlat of which we single phrase my best hope

stand to-day, both bad their 1932, 1 should say-International death were personally known to is no concern of other peoples. venting the wedding taking place, origins in a victorious war which Evonomic Co-operation. men of the China Squadron. In- † Their rights were specifically guar- Mr. Lo said Cat He was instruct had exhausted the resources of! Adversity has taught the world deed, it is disclosed that amongst anted by the Polish Minorities ed to say the case

was a very the country.

|one thing-that economic troubles Although he did not What the historians wrote of are not the individual affair of those who lost their lives were Treaty of 1923, of which Britain, serious one. some of the survivors of the Posei- France, Italy and Japan are signa- object to bail he thought $150 the period following the Napolenny nation. Hitherto would be to samalt and suggestednie Wars would apply equally

people have Snid:+ There was a 104sibility of well to the present, time. "It!“Germany is depressed;" "Austria don disaster, a circumstance which fries. The treaty has beer conais).

tently ignored. Numerous con- more serious charges being pre-had been hoped." PAYS onis bankrupt": "France is prus- Invests the latest tragedy with n

plaints have been lodged with the forced against the neared. He anthority, dealing with the crisis-perous"; "Britain 18 In grave. pathetic aspect. Sympathy, sin League, particularly after the intel out that there was a bill of year of 1832, "that the termina-danger." Such local diagnosis in cere and real, will also be felt by ruthless "pacification" programme fading involved, and charges in tion of the Great War and the absurd,

restoration of peace conditions: We should think a man extreme- the whole community of the of last year. The League then peel of this might be brought.

Mr. Lo mentioned that fe de-would bring prosperity and con- foolish who remarked: | Colony, a community which knows decided to appoint a Committee to fendants' premises lad not yet tentment, if these hopes were not stomach is very ill, but my head

Its Report was pre-bron searched and it was desirable, realsed.. The dreade after The and limbs are all right." and appreciates the value in this investigate.

pared for suimmission to the that they should be.

We was a period of peculiar The world's trade and finance, part of the world of the Senior

unrest like the human body, form an in- terdependent organism, When one part is diseased, the rest becomes involved. to inevitably

Until a few months ago, France and the United States still be- lieved that they could maintain themselves. In secure Isolation. from the pestilence of trade de. pression beyond their frontiers. To-day all their tariff walls and gold bars have proved inadequate to keep out the infection. Ench of those countries is filled with profound anxiety about its economic health.

DISASTER.

Another grim tragedy

which will plonge not only the Royal Navy but the whole nation in vor- raw has to be added to the list of British submarine disasters as

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consequence of the loss of the Mak with all bands aboard. Here in Hongkong.

Service.

thend 1989

September session of the Council. His Worship granted bail in the renomic distress, social

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Was

A World Crisis. Such parallels extend even the details of the two situations.

but this was shelved until the meet- sum of $250 as from this after- and political agitation."

Boon after the necessary The M.2, now lying at the bot-ing which has just opened at had taken place. The tom of the sea, has been the sub-Geneva, It so happened that the adjourned for one werk.

Was Mr. Yoshizawa, Jeet of considerable interest lately, apporteur One of Lord Fisher's freak sub-row fupan's Foreign Minister, who was too busy justifying Japan's maries, she was first armed with

actions in Manchuria to tell the

a 12-inch gun. but this was sub-story of the ruthless cruelty going sequently replaced by a langar and an unchecked in Poland. Poland a small seaplane, the vessel then recently ventured to "dispose” of blossoming forth as Britain's first the Minoritles question, taking nd- "anderson aircraft carrier." Hervantage of this unfortunate delay. value in this role has, we noticed, by calling for a special Censura, the been the subject of some doubt, and the racial allegiances of the popula- form specially prepared to conceal It was only a few weeks ago that tion, requiring every detail to be j

she was reported to be going into filled in in the Poflsh language.

treaty-flouting to go on in the Far East without protest. It will be interesting to see how she tackdes less formidable Foland.

dock for further alterations, In thinking thereby to convince a gul- this connexion, it was argued that lible world that there is no minority it was bad policy to spend money problem in Poland because there are no minorities! How they in this way on tinkering with

thought to convince the League what was described as worn-out that four million Ukrainiana Itad anval craft. Be that as it may been absorbed into the Polish race the M.2 is now no longer an effec- | In a single Censun Night, it is not tive unit of the Navy; she hat had for us to speculate. The League her last cruise and now lies help has permitted a great deal of less on the sea bed, Her disap pearance counts for nothing when compared with the henvy loss of He involved: brave men and true. who have died in the service of their King and country. When the Poseidon foundered, we learned from the survivors something of the terrible nightmare which the 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Fancy dress in entrapped men suffered down in optional, but there will be prizes for the best costumes, while there will It was a truly terrifying experi- carnivals.

be the usual novelties associated with Admission for gentlemon ence for all concerned, and the will be 82, and ladies by courtesy.

the hall of the submerged craft.

The Committee of the Police Re creation Club has arranged a dress carnival for to-morrow evening t

Restaurant from Lane, Crawford's

"We can tell the bunch at the offee we got our sunburno playing tennis at some ritzy club."

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for

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Help the Weaker Nations. The per that confronts us in 1932 is a universal one.

il can- not be dealt with piecemeal. The grent civilised nations are like a beap of men floundering in the mud at the bottom of a pit. Some of them are ancient enemies? some are creditors, some are debtors- bal all such individual grievances must land over unt! they have helped each other out on to firm to ground again. If they stay squabble about Indebtedness, re- parations, territorial injustices, or disparity in armaments, they will sink deeper and deeper until the engulfs the lot. The only ble course is for the stronger to hoist the wenker on their shoulder until they are all out of the hole-whereupon general re- Hef at escape from danger will do much to abate their mutual antagonism.

International co-operation can alone revive International con- Adence.

If this spirit inspires the Re- parations Conference where It mesta, It may prove, the turning- point of the world's fortune. but should a jealous nationalism prevent the world's economie (Continued on Page 7.),