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The
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Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932.
JAPAN'S EXCUSE.
If the League of Nations has not cut a very hitherto
happy figure over the Sino-Japanese elash, it is at any rate something
one contention is that whilst their forces were occupying the posi- | tions unsigned them under the Settlement Defence Scheme, they were attackd by Chinese Regulars and armed men in plain clothes. When we look back on the clr- cumstances associated with the Japanese action, it is little short of amazing that auch an excuse We know should be advanced.
DAY BY DAY
IN THE ADVERSITY OF QUR BEST
FRIENDS WE OFTEN FIND SOMETHING WHICH DOES NOT DISPLEASE US.—
Rochefoucauld,
A whist drive is being held this evening at St. John's Cathedral Hall at 8.45 p.m.
MARTYRDOM OF MAN
Slave To His Own Mechanism.
THERE is nothing novel in the countries pasaing special logista- Te in humanity coming tion, at considerable pains, and enslaved to its own mochanical with much dimculty, in order to Invention Many-clear-headed modify the dictatorship__of_the thinkers and astute philosophera clock. The Daylight Saving Act report that up to January 28, 71,988 happening. The amazing thing gesture of hostility to the steadily The St. John Ambulance Brigade havo foreseen the possibility of Its was humanity's first unconscious people had received free vaccination
by The Brigade's officers. Vnocina- Is that the prosent generation. encompassing slavery tion will be discontinued until after which has witnessed an unpre machine. the Chinese New Year holidays.
Dr. Sna 40 Waldemar, the magician, gave an exhibition at the Chinese Cathelle Young Men's Society
cedented miracle of mechanical
of
tho
progress and scientific invention, All-Ruling Machinery. falls as yet to realise its own The truth is that the gonil of soulless serfdom.
the lamp have turned the tables Some glimmering comprehension on us. Aladdin rubbed his lamp, In Caine Rond on Saturday night to of the accomplished fact is begin- and gave his orders to the omni a large number of people. The pro- ning to penetrate the minds of potent spirits invoked by that industrial experis, simple friction. To-day the march ceeds were in aid of the Building economic and
mechanical Invention has Fund of the Mongkok Catholic Church. but so far as the mass of highly of
civilised mankind is concerned It is a case of "regardless of their reached a pitch when it is the genii of the lamp who issus their orders, and we must implicitly The King Edward VII Scholarship dnom, the little victims play." awarded on the resulta of the
Most people, indeed, will regard obey them. auch " suggestion with tolerant
The factory hooter, which sum- Matriculation Examination held in November 1931 has been won by Mr.Incredulity, as merely an ingenious-mons swarming proletarions to Fong Ching See of the Anglo-Chinese, ly plausible paradox. Their com their daily task, sounds very like High School, Penang. It has not placent sanity rejects as Absurd been possible to award more than one any practical subjugation of man- the raucous voice of some sooty Buch scholarship this year.
kind to the mechanism that is the genius of the industrial
of its own genious and accents may be heard also in offspring its own hands. They argue that the shrill blast of the locomotive the creator is greater than his that draws the black coat workers the hoarse creation and must remain omnipo- ore-wards, and in tent over the insenate puppets of steamer syren that echoos his own construction.
the dockside! Those magle gonil
that the Japanese Consul-General informed the Mayor on Thursday that he regarded the Chinese reply to the ultimatum as satisfactory, but, even so, that he warned the Chinese authorities that if they did not keep their promises, the Japanese would take whatever alops they considered necessary, without giving any further notice. The next development; within a few hours, was a decision by the Japanese Admiral to Dccupy Chapel, "in order to maintain How that peace and order." "occupation" was put into effect. without the least warning, accons panied by norial bombing. Is now common knowledge. There was no question of the Chinese not having kept their promisex; the
The Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condens- time element completely rules outed Milk Co., advertise that Mr. J. W. any such eontention. Moreover, Buck has been appointed Acting Manager for Hongkong & South the Japanese, according to the Thina. Mr. II. C. Shrubsole will U.S. Consal-General, had given a proceed to Singapore to take up his their appointment as manager for Malaya, definite undertaking that forces would not. In any event, be moved either on Thursday Friday. Yet on Thursday night. the terrible muslaught began.
or
British North Borneo and Sarawak.
.
lamp.
from
It would be hard to think of a still serve us, but they have grown. more fallacious action than that. Insolent in office, and now wo If the world at large were con- must niso serve thom. Mechanism sulted in the matter, and public rules the modern world, and opinion could have its way, would humanity at large must noods con- The enth Bulletin of Far Eastern not all the elaborate and ingenious form to its routine, perte for the week ending the 31a mechanism of human destruction alto, shows the following cases of be forthwith scrapped? Yet can Infectious diarasen and deaths there-anyone vlaunlise that actually In the face of thes circum-
fran: Plague, Alexandria 1 case happening within our time or that stances, it would seem Avery Baghdad 1 case, Rangoon 2 enses, i of our children's children?
death, Colonilio 2 enses, 2 deaths. poor method of attempting to ex- | Cholera, Calcutta 36 cases, 14 dentlis, The Motor Car.
Plain away Japanese aggression by an allegation that
Japanese farren, pencenbly maving in nc cordance with Settlement defence plans, were suddenly attacked by the Chinese. The earlier evidence would appear completely to rebut any such contention. It is, in deed, difficult to escape the con- viction that from the very start the Japanese worked according to a pre-arranged plan, and that they intended to put that play into effect whatever the nature of the, Chinese reply to the ultimatum. If we go back even further, to the very
commencement of the
Manchurian trouble, and trace the events which have occurred, we gather the same impression. The tragedy of it all is that, so far, Japan has been able to brush all protests on one side and proered On her task "according Kramme."
to
CARRIERS "LINERS."
AIRCRAFT
AS
to the good that the Council has U. S. BID FOR BLUE RIBAND
OF ATLANTIC. bluntly turned down the Japanese proposal to postpone consideration
According
reports in the of China's invocation of Articles American Press, the aircraft car- X and XV of the Covenant. 3.riers Lexington and Saratoga are Paul Boncour, at Friday's meeting, to be converted into superliners to attempt to capture for America countered the Japanese argu- the "blue riband of the Atlantic."
vessels, which cost ments, and he had the support of These two
£18,000,000, are known to be white the whole of the members of the elaphanta in the American Fleet Council. From this circumstanco, but it is difficult, for anyone con- it Is clear that there is no diapo-versant with the internal "lay-out" sition in Geneva to agree to any and external flying decks of air- craft carriers te believe that they further quibbling in which the could operate successfully
delegate may wish to "liners." The flylag decks would The decision to con- comfortably accommodate several
games of football.
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These two aircraft-carrying leviathana, of 33,000 tans, have a horse-power of over 180,000 and a speed of about 30 knots, but in horse-power and tonnage they are, of course, below those of the great Cunard liner and the lle de France round which so much Interest now centres.
Јаралене Indulge. duct in enquiry on the spot in Shanghal, for the purpose of obtaining reliable information on what has occurred, is an indicu- Lien that the League realises the urgency of the crisis there and in determined to
at the bottom of the matter. Much has
The disuse of the Lexington and happened since the League decided to send out a Commission to in Saratoga as aircraft carriers will bring into prominence the whole vestigate the Manchurian tangle, question of the value of this type cost all In view of what has since trans-of vessel, which has pired, and also because of tho Navies. Including our own, such sensational happenings in Shangxrent sums of money.
fret
ILB seeme
if
| hal, it nimnost
this Commission" might well have never been appointed. In any event, if the League docs not now succeed in exerting offer. tive pressure, It will never recover from the shock to its prestige and utility.
Great Britain now has eight aircraft carriors, five of which, including the R.A.N. ship Alba tros, are paid off into reserve or dockyard control, and threa of which are in commision,
The February meeting of the Hong- kong Branch of the English Associa
from has been postponed Surprise, to put it mildly, will ton
February 2 to February 16 (Tuesday) be generally registered over the 80 p.m. in the Helena, May Japanese excuse for the drastic Institute. Mr. H. N. France, H.A
Reader in History at the University
action taken in Shanghai.. Posing Hongkong will speak on "The as the aggrieved party, the Japan-Historical Noral"
I
cases,
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But these instances of tho tyranny of the machine are only trivial. We may easily discover far more serious instances of its | juggernaut progress.
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The whole world at this moment ia suffering from an unparalleled slump. That slump is due pri- case. Small-pox. Baghdad 2 canon, When the machine Prom-Penh I ease, 1 death. Saigon
arrives, marily to the Great War, which Basrith 1 case, Basseln 1 case, Boa whether it be a torpedo or a
WAR sanguinary apotheosis of hay 1 case, Calcutta 3 cases, 1 dent tractor, an automatic field gun or man-made mechanism. Yot the
deaths, a printing press, it comes to stay direct cause of the world Cochin 1 ense, Karneht 2 death, Madras ¦ 'coses, Rangoun 35 cases, & deaths, Tuticorin until something deadlier or more pression is over-production-by The the mechanism of ponce, The cases, 2 deaths, Pondicherry 1 case, efficient takes its place. death. Pnom Penh 1 case, Saigon 29 motor car fought its way, ngainat very machines we made to feed cases, 22 deaths, Amoy 80 enser, 28 the most vehement popular preus are now starving B great
most stringent number of us. judice and the
The dole queue deaths, Tientein 11 cases, Shanghai 48 cases, 21 deaths.
official restrictions, to a complete that punctunte Dur industrial rovolution of human transport.suburbs may be regarded as con- Dare anyone suggest that, unleas
to the altar script processions the neroplane entirely supersedes of mechanism, the helpless it, the motor car will over be sup- acolytes who serve in the temple pressed? It might be n huge public misfortune to attempt to the omnipotent machine. The Disarmament Conference and the do so, but that is not the reason Economic Conference are merely why It cannot happen. Polson humanity's feeble attempts to The following cable at the close ga is not a public benefaction, curb the dictatorship of its own. The Great of the sugar market on Satur-yet oven the solemn ostracism of inventive offspring.
little prohibit day has been received by Mesura, the nations assembled at Geneva Powers could an
has failed to shut down the polson acroplanes OK they did sub- Pentreath, and Co.
gas laboratories throughout the marines. civilised world.
And we may be, for all anyone The most familiar example of dares predict now, only on the mankind'a serfdom to mere threshold of the age of mechan- mechanism is the clock. Shake ism. Some irresistible impulse speare's dictum that we are the urges us ever onwards in mochan!- slaves of time was doubtless true cal invention. It may be man's long before clocks were invented. blind effort to evade the in- Sunrise and sunset, whose eluctable primeval CUTIO of majestic mechanism owen nothing labour. He invents the machine to mortal brains or human hands, to save the sweat of his brow, imposed their automatic way
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even on primitive humanity. But and the monster promptly sweats
his blood. clocks have immensely tightened It was Voltaire, I believe, who up the tyranny. They are, indeed. declared that, if there had been the cash registers of our hours
aury to invent one. Can it be
the
Samurang (30/1/32)—Advices and minutes, and audit our lives no God, it would have been neces- to hand state that there is every as punctiliously as a chartered that in this strange epoch of the indication of Java Producers con-accountant.
history, world's eventful It may be urged, with truth, forces of irreligion are lot loose? ing to an agreement on the sub- ject of restriction of planting the that clocks and watches are ex- That humanity is relaxing next erop by 50%, also that reduc-tremely useful things, and serve hold on eternal truths in pursuit
the tion will made in the Expert Al- an admirable purpose in
of limitable but hiscrutable for lowance
year ending 31st world, That did not prevent the ambitions? And that Voltairo's March, 1923.
of most civilised inspired epigram la justifying it-
parliaments
"Why don't you write some more marches, Ben? When thinge are. quiet it's a good time to prepare for another
war picture.”
its
self already in the breathless efforts of a materialistei genera- tion to make mechanism into its new God?
BEVERLEY NICHOLS tells
How to Give a Party.
first and most urgent
M piece of advice Is-never have
No batter how a red carpet. many Balkan Royalities you may be expecting, no matter how wet the night, or muddy the pavement- never have a red carpot. It is a great temptation to your guests. The colour seems to go to their
speak from bitter experience. When I gave my last party a red carpet stretched magnificently from the front door to the gutter. It was only placed there for its deco rative value, because the night was warm and dry and no Royalltion were expected. (I only entertain Royalties, in Lont)...
Cause of the Trouble. Some time after midnight a cor tain famous actress, strolled to the door to obtain a little fresh air, of which Blo appeared to be in nood Sho observed the carpet and sat upon it. Instantly four young men seized the carpet by one end, utter ed shill war cries, and dashed down the street with it,
lady with them, or trang they
This was too much for the neighbourhood. All down the street window opened and grickled
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