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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932.

EMPIRE PRODUCTS.

To

DAY BY DAY-

WHEN THE FIGHT BEGINS WITH IN HIMSELF, A MAN'S WORTH SOME- THING.-Browning.

STIMSON AND SIMON.

By H. WILSON HARRIS.

[R. STIMSON has done a lot to faced with an anti-Japanese move- MR

clear the air. His letter to ment there, presented an ultima- Mr. Borah on the Far tum to the Mayor of Greater Shanghai embodying a series of Eastern altuation at any rate demands. On Jan. 28, the date.

combatants,

the famous Reading firm of Boar growork carried all before them with English-grown vegetables it' a nation show in. Now Jersey, U.S.A. The collection comprised aeventy different kinds and over three hundred and fifty varieties. It weighed more than five tons and was exported in cold storage,

Sincero's are clearing remaining shatters the fiction that there is dem

the fixed in the ultimatum, the Mayor those who complain of monotony stocks of Enstern eggs and shells at nothing to choose between

roturned a reply which the Consul- of diet and suggest that, the pro-apecial prices.

the General himself described to hie

"entirely antia lucts of the Home country are not sufficiently varled, it will post yesterday at her home at tonishing Note to the League, re-factory."

Wong lo, 60-year-old widow, hang-Japanese, had addressed their as- fellow consuls as

Despite that, the Ja sibly come as a surprise that 2, Takulding Road.

presenting themselves as the in-panese Admiral the same day sent In possible to secure a new vege-

nocent

and ill-used victims of parinee to Chapel and the fighting table for nearly, every day of the

Chinese nggression. But it was began that has never ended since. On Feb. 1 the British and also writton-find this may not bo entirely, without algnificance American Governments, supported after Sir John Simon's speech in by the French, Italians and Ger- mans, presented to the Japanese the House of Commons recently.

Governmenta five It is Instructive to contrast the and Chinese

of hostilities and a final acttle- methods of the two Foreign Secre proposals regarding the cessation taries.

year. What is more, quality is attested from the fact that, even after exportation in cold storage, these British products were able to sweep the boards in a forelyn

country:

In St. Andrew's Church Hall at noon on Sunday an Easter service, conducted by Dr. Relchel, was held for the Norwegtan community, and was

argely attended.

Members of the Hongkong Auto mobile Association are reminded that the annual general meeting takes place this evening at 6.30 p.m., in the Matheson & Co., Ltd.

It Was writlon after

Here in Hongkong, we have ofaard Room of Mens Jardine, United States, through Mr. Stim- Immediately. Japan flatly reject-

to

Far

As long ngo as Jan. 7 the ment. China accepted them all necessity to import most of our

son, addressed a Note to Japan od the two most important. foodstuffs,. much of

Can there bo any sort of doubt it canned.

warning her sharply that the We get large supplies from foreign }", A canile was knocked down by a United States would not recognise that Japan, in attacking China, deliberately violated the lorry in Queen's Road, Central near

territorial or political changes has any countries, but it in becoming in the junction of Garden Road yester-fected by methods contrary to Lengue Covenant and other tren- Govern. creasingly felt that there is

day, and suffered lajuries to the good market here for Empire head. He was admitted to the Gov- the treaties Japan had signed. It ties? There are three

ernment Civil Hospital.

was hoped and belleved in the ments at any rate that have no United States that Great Britain doubt about that. One is the goods. At any rate, there is room for development along these lince,

Mr. Robt. Ripley, the well-known would take the same stand. The British, one is the American, one but the matter is one which needs American cartoonist leaves to-day by British Foreign Office preferred, is the Japanese, On Feb. 16 the laste a statement ex-members of the League of Nations organising. Canada' is paying in-the President Wilson for Shanghai. instead,

the Mr. Ripley arrived here last week by plaining that the Japanese dele- Council, without the Japanese and creasing attention.

the Matson liner Mariposa in search. Eastern markets, the excellence of material for his "Believe It or Not Rate had sald at the Longue Coun- Chinese delegates, addressed of her products being a big factor series of cartoons. As the Mariposa table that Japan had no terri-Note to Japan-to Japan alone

omitted han

Shanghai from Its torini ambitions and that therefore appealing to her to desist from her threatened offensive, expressing in the growth of this

trade. Itinerary owing to the unsettled state such a Note was unnecessary.

regret that she had not resorted to Australia and New Zealand could of affairs there, Mr. Ripley, who I

The Amerlenn Judgment. the methods of peaceful settlement doubtless do a great deal more necompanied by his wife, disembarked

Recently Sir John Simon provided in the Covenant, and ob- here. than they do, if the subject were

in a scrupulously non-committal serving that no changes effecter seriously taken in hand. As to

speech in the House of Commons, in disregard of Article X. of the Jald repented stress on the neces-Covenant could be recognised ne goods from the Old Country, these AUSTRALIAN

aity for preserving an open mind, valid by the League of Nations. have always been popular in the

and guarded himself repeatedly Lord Londonderry, representing East, and it is gratifying to see

against "apportioning blame." On the British Government that British enterprise shows no signs of slackening in catering to ATTEMPTING TO SELL his letter indicating, in language so together creditable part in fram-

Book-Borrowers.

BOUND OVER.

REVOLVER.

.

转 the

the Wednesday Mr. Stimson wrote Council, took an activu and al-

little veiled that no one could mis-ing that Note. take its meaning, that Japan was

On Feb. 19 the whole Council our needs. So far as it reflects Bellsh an effort to popularise goods, the Empire Day meal move- J. A. Pagett, an Australian from the aggressor and that the United made another appeal to Japan.

On that occasion M. Sato, offici- ment is to be heartily commended; Bindn village, New South Wales, States would recognise no nequial-

status she ally representing the Japanese declared that he expected to obtlon er changes of

"If such its chief value will, however, betain employnient as a meehanle might effect as the result of her Government said this:

re- dimeuities had arisen with another the cultivating [ the "Buy and aviator to the Chinese Gov-aggression. Mr. Stimson, 1 British" habit all the year round. ernment Service, when charged peat, has done a lot to clear the country (than China), possessing a well-oritered, effective adminis on remand before Mr. Schofield at air. the Central Police Court this! For with all deference to the tration, we should have acted no-otherwise. We should have he morning with attempting to sell British Foreign Secretary, a fully-loaded revolver in the thing could be better calculated copted any kind of peaceful settle. to encourage, Japan to remain in- ment. We should have been able Colony,

Pagett said he arrived in the different to popular condemnation to respect the provisions of the Colony a few days age, and hav-of her action than an official ap- Covenant, as they stand, but in ing only about $27-all his worldly peal for an opon mind and sus- fortunately that was not the case.” that A frank admission that the Coven- wealth, he said--he thought he pended judgment on eventa

to have been enacted in the eyes of ant has been simply diarogarded.

On Feb. 23 came Mr. Stimson's might get some more money enable him to carry on by selling the world, and discussed in public

weapon. He had declared by the League of Nations Council letter, already discussed, with fa unconcealed assumption that Ja- the

and his weapon to the Captain of the for over five months.

There is no kind of ground for van had endeavoured to gain hor steamer on arrival in port,

was auspended judgment or an open ends to the Nine-Power Trenty and also to the Customs, and informed that as he was passing mind. On the original dispute, the Kellogg Pact (and, of course, through to Canton, a permit was whatever it may have been (it la the Covenant).

almost forgotten now), the Chinese

Lawless Defiance. not required.

The mass of the people of this "In attempting to sell it, I did may have been completely wrong. not know I was violating the low If so, Japan need only have raised here," Pagett said. "I have knock-the question at Geneva, which she country is not mentally deficient. can contolvably reach. Japan is Prince of Wales recently declared much like an umbrella. It is part never got into trouble in any coun- of the seizure of Mukden on Sept. it there le only one conclusion it of the public stock that one has a try, nor locked for trouble." He 19 Japan has been, in the wrong engaged in a lawless attack on promised that he would not re-at every move, and it is only plain China, which has appealed in due perfect right to lay hands on in caza

honesty to recognise that and say and proper order to the League for of need." This assumption, hepeat the offence. added, regards the borrowed article while on duty in Johnstone Road

Sergeant Flaherty stated

The borrowing propensity of mankind in relation to everyday articles of use or recreation has au long engaged the attention of The "Ruy British" movement is humourists that the expedient of steadily gaining ground in Eng-Lady Astor in giving publicity to Whilst it is realised that the unexplained disappearance of books from her own library natur- enough to autisfy her own needs, ally Invited it. Many, no doubt, instinctively thought also of um- it is being impressed on consumers that far greater use can be made brellas, and an American linked the two objects.. "Even to more of Empire products and that, in

thoughtful persons

than the fact, there is scarcely any com-

technical book borrowers of ill

end. Britain

unnhle to

produce

modity that cannot be secured fame," he commented, "a book ised about all over the world, I had never did. But from the moment With that kind of evidence before.

from Empire countries,

The

and

bo

that for purchases great small, the first choice should for home products, and the second choice for the products of -- the Empiro overseas. This, of course, does not entirely rule out foreign commoditica, since some of these

that 80.

was of

and

Is evidence needed? Very well. protection and assistance

failed to get it. There may have as "something to be returned into he received information that a On Sept, 21--the question

been all sorts of allowances to be

necessity ceases, but a matter of no the general stocks the moment the European was going about trying raised before the League

to sell a revolver. He came up Nations Council, China at once made for Japan in the first in- consequence either way." with Pagett in the street, ordered put herself in the hands of the stance, but by the methods she has are necessities; but the basic ides plausible as this explanation (and him to put up his hands, and League. Japan advised the League/chosen to adopt she has put her- of the movement is that where i excuse) may sound to some, many found the weapon in'hia pocket, not to interfere and refused ab./self completely out of court.

on

great

Is the open mind and the sus pended judgment to be maintained while Japan fires a few more thou- Band shells through the Covenant?

THE NAVIES: OF TO-MORROW.

By Vice-Admiral

J. E. T. HARPER,

That creates an alarming and the needs of the Old Country ean will dispute the analogy. The um-

Detective Sergeant Kennedy in-solutely to agree to the appoint be met by Empire goods, these brella in most cases is forced upon

formed the Magistrate that the ment of a League Commission of formidable situation, but nothing Director of Criminal Intelligence Inquiry. She persisted in that le gained by pretending the situa- should naturally be given the pre- the departing guest, the customary had left the case entirely in his refusal till the beginning of Da. tion is other than what it plainly ference. By concentration

cember, by which time she had is. The first thing is to face the phrase of enforcement being "You Worship's hands. this point, it is felt that a fresh must take an umbrella"--but never !

His Worship ordered the con-occupied the whole of Manchuria. facts, the second la to decide what to do about thom. We are told and

Case of Shanghal,

now that Japan's prestige is so impetus will be given to British "You must

take my umbrella" fiscation of the revolver, Industries, with ordered develop This suggests a common stock. in a sum of $190 to be of good ordered Pagett to be bound over

Now comes Shanghai. On Jan. deeply engaged that she must go ment of the Empire's resources. Moreover, umbrellas are not carried behaviour for six months.

20 the Japanese Consul-General,jon and win a victory before she

can stop. A point which is being well | in fair weather, and this convention emphasised is thint to "Buy prevents the direct return of an British" does по involve any umbrella except in rainy weather | saerifice, since British goods are when it would immediately have to known for their quality, a fact be taken away again. If, on the which must be taken into account other hand, the temperary holder In considering the price factor. of the umbrella keeps it until a As to the scope for the movement, rainy day and then forces it upon it is pertinent to point out that a departing guest he does in effect Romething like £500,000,000 of return it to a general stock. This Britain's annual b with other procedure, however, does not apply countries is for foodstuffs. That to books. Nobody ever says to a bill, it is pointed out, could be departing guest, "You must take a halved were every household to book." The word "borrow" in de- devote ten shillings a week to finitely and descriptively used. If British food. Over thirty millions private ownership is not specified n year is spent on imported beef by a book-plate or legibly inscribed alone, with very heavy sums in name, the omission Indicates care- addition on mutton, bacon, poultry'lessness rather than intention. ind fish. Britain's bill for Nor is there any convention, what- foreign becon and hams is over ever the weather,.io prevent the forty millions, on imported return of a book. No less on potatoes nearly three millions, on authority than Emily Post specifies soft fruit over A million, books as publicly portable. Books and

en stong fruit ever are not all just, allke. There are more. And in spite of the British borrowers who return every 7 10k, trawling industry, millions worth and others who make a distinction. of freah fish, apart from tinned and are likely to return a book In goods, are imported every year. proportion as they think the owner But it is gratifying to note that will have any further use of it. British food producers are taking But human behaviour, or at least

improve every menna to

their some human behaviour, still jusți- mothods. This is shown by the fies Charles Lamb's indignation at splendid progress in the canning "your borrowers of books-those Industry, by the enterprise of the mutilators of collections, spollers of fishing trade in improving the symmetry of shelves, and crea- methods of handling fish, and by tors of odd volumes of such as dairy farmors, bacon-curers and these was, the borrower who dis- others. In the matter of quality, trossed Lady Aator and a world of it is worth noting that, last year sympathisers.

US MAIL

"All right, if you read the serial first, I get the crossword:

Captain Acworth rocently wrote an interesting article aimed to indicate the fact that if our pre- sent battleships, battle cruisers and cruisors were replaced res- pectively by battleships, armoured cruisera and cruisers of amaller tonnage, the same efficiency could be attained.

As the science of ship designing: and shipbuilding advances, it is. undoubtedly true that designers and constructors and it possible: to produce greater power and greater speed than formerly with- out increasing tonnage, but this does not necessarily imply that a reduced tonnngo, without reduc.. tion in efficiency, would lead to economy. If we have bean rightly informed, the recent Garman pocket. battleship cost as much as many vessels twice her size. What all patriotic Englishmen wish for la a Navy sufficiently strong for our security at the least possible cost.

squadron ore Captain Acworth's battleships, of 11,980 tona and 174 knota apènd could (Continued on Page 9.)