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BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE ON MANCHURIA.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932.
Can
·DAY BY DAV
THE PROSPERITY OF ENGLAND MAINLY DEPENDS UPON ITS RELA-
as such, has nothing whatever to do with the Nine-Power Treaty, We have, on a previous occasion, pointed out that there are no "it" or "bula" about the provisions of thin Treaty, nothing which excuse any of the contracting parties for taking aggressivo_RC-|TIONS WITH AMERICA, AND IN PRO- tion for defensive purposes. The pledge which Japan gave under the Treaty, in common with the other signatories, is quite unam- biguous. It is to respect "the sovereignty, Independence and ter- ritorial and administrative inde
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IS FRIENDSHIP By MARGERY SELFISH?
LAWRENCE.
then I marvel at and
"No such thing as friendship." WAS startled, one day at lunch the frame of mind that dic In the country with same the pathetic statement that b THE POWER AND PROSPERITY OF ENG- frienda, to hear the above opinion this article, and wish to the bo LAND BE CONFIRMED AND INCREAS-voiced by one of the men-a mid-of my heart that the poor fool well-bred, made it could be led to realis ED-Disraeli.
dle-aged, hard-riding, not-too-intelligent but eminently colossal mistake!
i Naturally friendship-the typical aquireen of the district.
to explain himself, loyal, sterling reality-s thinking that he was merely fok- found easily nor frequently asked him ing, but he emphasised his state more than a diamond miner ment and assured me he was post the Koh-i-Nor every day, er t
any diamonds at all... Live it was correct.
real trie "Friendship," he said, "is more further, to deserve ly a figment of the imagination. one must be prepared to be a r Friendship-the sort of friendship friend oneself. people like you novelists describe simply does not exist, and you ought not to write about it in no exaggerated a fashion. Acquair
K.M.S. Vindictive has left Ply: mouth for Ilongkong, carrying naval reliefs for the China Station.
The Empress of Asia left Vancouver on the 27th February and is due at Hongkong on the 17th March.
The P. and O. 18. Soudan, from pendence of Chian." When Japan Shanghai, is due here at 5 am, invaded the territory of Man Friday. churia some months back, she ab- vlously did no in contravention of that pledge. The fact that she hna, an aeveral occasions since then, declared that she has no ter- ritorial ambitions and does not in- tend to interfere either with the principles of the Open Door or with the provisions of the Nine- Power Treaty, is neither here nor there. The vital point is that the pledge has been broken. No mere re-affirmation of her pledges cán change that fac.; nor do we need any Commission of Inquiry to establish the point.
6.15 p.m.
I um tempted to ask my wort hurting friend whether he hims deserves that priceless and wo derful possession-a real frien The annual general meeting of the tanceship-yes, amusing or plen- People who deny the existence
unselfishness or kindness Victorin Diocesan and Missionary sunt.
loyally in the world are, I hav "Never Trust Anybody." Association, Hongkong, will be held
found, generally themselves selfis at the Cathedral Hal on Friday,
"There is love in the world, of and unkind people-those tha March 4.
course, and the association ef have not found love are themselve people with similar tastes who unlovable, and those who declar In a report to the police. Capt. J. Jitke each other after a mild fa-such a thing as friendship nor Blanket, of the 5.5. Tjibadak, states ahlon--but all human relation-existent are themselves unfit : that during Monday night while the ships are more or less self-seeking. have a friend. Bon ransacked his cabin If surprise he occaaluned over the British Government's attitudehip was in harbour, but nothing was
stolen or damaged. on this point, it in equally difficult to understand the viewpoint taken over the creation of the new State in Manchuria, We are told by Government spokesmen that Japan is no more likely to recognise this new State than any other Power I. Surely this is not meant to be seriously taken. The change in Manchuria has long been foresees
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The Green Island Cement Co., Ltd. advertise that the 3rd ordinary a nual meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the Company, Exchange Building, on Thursday, March 31, next at noon.
The certificate and prize giving of the Chun Shing Typewriting School will be held in the hall of the lion Yat Church, 2, Bonham Rond, on Fri as part and parcel of Japan's plans day, March 4th, at 7 p.m. Mr. Hu
Sal-yn will distribute the awards.
there. It Is, an we remarked in opening, something quite distinct those periodical "splits" from which have characterised China's
history in the past two or three decades. A puppet Government has been set up, with Japan still very much in the picture, and it will be surprising if the Languo Commission does not get to the bottom of the facts. In any case,
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Suffer For It.
The highfalutin, disinterested, u selfiah sort of friendship that wil sacrifice itself for another person Therefore they do not find one) is simply # figment of you senti-And therein lies the reason far mentaliata imagination.
their cynicism, at which we who "Never trust anybody. All they know what friendship is con af- want you for is to make use of you. ford to smile.
If you want and if you let them into your life friendship-ns if you want love Fo that they can you're a fool you must be prepared to suffer for This declaration was greeted it, if necessary! You must be with cries of dissent, and stories willing to back up your friend. of lifelong and loyal friendships to serve and help him, to try to were instantly hurled at his head. save him from his own follies, yet But he stuck to his opinion that stand by him all the same if he all these were merely associations disregards your advice. between two people who had found;
To defend his good name, hiz the association worth while, either chances, his rights when he is not from a business, personal, or so- there to defend himself; to share cful standpoint. married
good fortune with him and com- And when i triumphantly quot-fort him in bad, to forgive him his ed several friendships of my own trespasses.
against you as you that could not be described as se-hope he forgives you yours--show seeking, that had endured the test me a man or woman who will de of years and looked like enduring these things and I will many more, he smiled and -they have the finest and transt sured me that I was merely lucky friends in the world.
But show me anyone inean, Bux- yet dawned.picious, selfish-unwilling, there
Said to have been assaulted by her husband, Wong Tong,
on a removed to the Government woman, of 12, Pokfulam Rond, frat Civil Hospital suffering from injuries to her head. The husband has since
absconded,
friend-and
wager
Sir Newton John Stabb, O.B.E., of Saxmundham, Suffolk, joint manager, in that the day of my disillusion- London branch of the Hongkong and ment
had not Japan's occupation of the terri-Shanghai Banking Corporation, we should get let down all right in fore unworthy, to play the part of
died on December 1, aged 62, left the end!
The profound cynicism of this that person's own fault that he suggest that it in estate of the gross value of £80.014, with net personalty £19,150.
point of view astounded me does not know what friendship is.
on making in-and never will know. quirles umong various other Friendship an anion? It is acquaintances of mine, discover the very foundation of truth, on ed that this view was held by the contrary, and I believe lies at quite a number of people, my as-the root of all lasting and selfless tonishment Increased still further.|loves. I believe that
the ment
tory before It acquired its new status represented a breach of her undertakings under the Nine- Power Treaty. The same can be (said of her inter actions at Shang- hal. In reading the daily tale of happenings, it is well Dat we
back to should occasionally get first causes,
The American and English Languages.
have
UT-
Although the Manchurian issue has faded somewhat into the back-
The London Times in an extract ground since the grave develop ments broke out in Shanghal, it from one of its issues of a hundred is one which still remains to be years ago, recently drew attention ineed. Let it not be forgotten to the fact that it is just about a that it was Japan's action in this century ago that American Influ- territory which led to the arous-ence upon British speech first be- ing of Chinese national feeling came noticeable. And very
that influence seems Lo and which has since developed in popular
been! Mrs. Trollope Jo to the crisis In Shanghai. The League Commission of inquiry in marked superciliously that the English and to the origin of the trouble has difference between
so great a long last arrived in the East, American phrases was
were convinced only to find a vastly different ait-that Americans nation from that which existed at the English could not speak their the time it was appointed. A new own language properly. This, of State has been created, thus ap-course, was a little foolish. One parently severing the link with of the main factors in the strength Chinn. The full extent of Japan's and expressiveness of English connexion with this development speech is the facility with which has not been revealed as yet, but it has always bean readly to absorb ennugh is known to warrant our new idioms, phrases, words, and regarding this newly-created or locutions. In submitting to some gan as something vitally different degree of modification from across from these recurring independence the Atlantic it was only being true movements with which we have to its own traditions. Morcover.
become familiar in recent years. It is well known that many in
The British official attitude on portations into modern British Manchurius developments may be speech, supposedly characteris quite correct in. Bome senses,tically American, are in reality, since, as a member of the League.. merely restorations in former Britain must regard the issue as English usage. "I guess" is good being sub judice for the time being. Chaucerian English. Similarly re- None the less, there does appeargarding the earliest known Ameri- to be a strange willingness on the canism in the English language part of the Government to accept In 1826 Miss Mitford wrote that all Japan's assurances, even when "Society has been progressing (if But I may borrow that expressive those are belled by actions. while Britain has her obligations Americanism) at a very rapid rate. as a member of the League, she The use of "progress" as a vorb is also a signatory to the Nine-was quite common in England in Power Trenly, which guarantees the sixteenth century, and even respect for China's territorial in-later, and, thanks to American in- legrity. Captain Eden, Under-luence, has again become so. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in This transatlantic restoration of commenting on this fact in the old words and expressions that House of Commons on Monday, as- Britain has herself forgotten is surted that the British Govern-made possible by the fact that in mant fi certainly not prepared to the United States the printed form are the terms of the Treaty flouted, is a much more important critor- adding that in face of Japan's anon' of correctness than it is in surances, he did not see any re England, where the constantly son for assuming that anything of varying pronounciation and usage the kind is likely. In view of of educated persons furalsh the what has transpired in Manchuria, |chief standard of speech, Thús this implicit faith in Japan's as- in Britain words drop into obli- surances can only be described navion with the passing fashione, surprising. There is no questiqu|but, since the printed expression. here of awaiting the League Com is a comparatively enduring thing, mission's report, since the Leaguz, | the speech of lands whore, like.
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and
when,
it is obviously true that one is valuable facet of the love between always, ná one goes through life, man and woman is the faces of liable to be "let down" by various friendship far and away abay
one regards as the magical facet of passion, beau- people whom friends, but against that one must tiful and right as this is in ita set the fact that one has doubtless proper place.. which I do not likewise "let down" people in one's believe to be an all-supreme ore, own turn.
despite those that accuse "women novelists" of being obsessed by
Loyalty.
Life is such a tangled skein that sex to the exclusion of all cine!" all sorts of things seem sometimes
to combine to force one into un- fortunate positions, into actions or
Basis of Happiness. If I had to drop one thing sut
me
speeches that may be and often of the myriad things that interest New York Terminals. are misconstrued so I have me in the man I love I would drop always tried to think there might the purely sexual--for this reason: March 1932 81 down 4 zita,
bo an innocent explanation for the The man I love is important to May 1932 .89 down 5 pts.
various disillusionments that, in first and foremost as my friend- July 1932 96 down 3 pts.
common with the rest of humanity. it is enay enough to find a lover. September 1932 1.02 down 1 pts. I have suffered at times over corbut how difficult to find a friend! December 1932 1.08 down 3 pis. tain people left it at that.
It la the friendship side of mar- I once regarded GB friends, and
ringe, I believe, that is the most,
One is far more likely But when 1
count up the fine valuable the United States, it exercises an and loyal and splendid friends 1 to apend a happy life with a person and women, whose tastes, ways, ideas, suit one Influence upon conversation has possess, both men
one ean none of whom stood to gain ary completely, upon whom in this respect an element of per-thing by their friendship with 1, utterly depend for loyalty, for af- mahenet that Engilsh English and who have, indeed; several of fection and consideration, than sometimes lacks.
them, suffered for that friendship is a purely passionato
with a man whose main attraction
one. That is bound, after a while, to fade and flicker out-but a love based on the rock-foundation or mutual understanding, affection, friendship, merely waxes solld and substantial with the {years,
until neither age, mis- fortune, nor death itself can make any difference to it.
KESS TO 65TH FLOOR!
"It certainly makes. our lunch hour shorter to have to
travel so far,"
more
EXCHANGE MARKET'
LIFELESS.
NO CHANGE IN THE DOLLAR.
ex-
Joeal Conditions on the change market remain unaltered, with practically nothing doing. The dollar is unchanged
In London, sliver was
un- changed for spot and up 1/10th forward. China bought and sold on a market which was quietly steady. After the official. fixing, the market remained quietly steady, with America more inclin. ed to buy than, soll.
Now Yorw reports allver down. 1/8th, on 1 steady market. Futures are down half.a point, with the market easy.
Members of the St. Patrick's Bą-- ciety and friends are invited to attend. the practice dances which are to be held at the Helena May Institute on the 4th, 11th and 14th Inst.
Tho rainfall registered" - at Botanic Gardens during February totalled 9.75 inches, Thera wire En all eighteen rainless daysci
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