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THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1932.

HIS EXCELLENCY'S DEPARTURE

DAY BY DAY

I ALWAYS CONSOLE MYSELF WITH THE BEFLECTION THAT MAN BEEKS HAPPINESS VAINLY WHEN HE BEF IT OUTSIDE HIMSELF-Bismarck.

REFLECTIONS OF A

GERMAN STATESMAN

(By DR. G. P. GOOCH)

taxation is, the imposts. have

which been along lines to

no be taken. great exception enn It has been a diflcult problem, this balancing of the Budget in the usual circumstances prevail- ing, but it has been so well ac

"Richard von Kuhlmann! Thoughts of maintaining peace, and in the complished that His Excellency

on Germany," Translated by Eric ultimate event of war she could Sutton. (Macmillan. 10. ed.) is able to take his leave with

be certain of never being utterly Kuhlmann's reflections on the defented. consciousness that the Colony's

causes and consequences of the The obvious duty of Germany, Amantes are once again in L The P and O. lines Ranpura, from World War will be read with hard- France and Russia on each flank healthy condition. There han, Shanghai, is due here at 7 min. to-ly less interest in England than and an ally who was a liability admittedly, been Home holding morrow.

on their publication in Germany rather than an assot, was to in- at the end of 1931. For the au-crease her army to the uttermost, up of works of development, but

thor speaks with the authority of instead of needlessly alarming a start will it is hoped, be made

has. himself played England and adding her to the on some of the bigger necessities after the adoption of supplement- ary estimates which will shortly come before the Legislative Coun-

eli.

bankomie and

we

day at 4 p..

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that

one who

Mr. Wel Tat, B.A., will speak on "The Future that Awaits Ua" at the usual weekly public lecture of the prominent part in the drama, and number of her potential foes:

Those allies would have brought Throsophical Society, The Hongkong he is sufficiently known in Bri- Lodge, 17, Queen's Itoad Central to-tish circles for us to wish to learn.

his views. What is still more-im-o courage to the fight had they not been fairly certain of Eng- portant is that ho posaoS808 1 singularly cool head, and that helish support. England's adhesion It is understood

Charlie can judge events in broad per-made the conlition overwhelming. Chaplin, who has recovered from his spective. His book is short, and The entry of England into the illness, will be leaving Singapore on might have been even shorter, for War was mainly determined by the Saturday by the 8.3. Terukuni Maru, some imaginary dialogues at the existence of the German fleet, and in which cane le should arrive in and add little to its worth. But that was why the construction of

disastrous His brother, Hongkong on May 11. Syd Chaplin, is Recompanying him.

it is full of wisdom and insight, that fleet was s and his impartiality is extrnar political blunder.

There is plain speaking with a dinary. He loves his country, but

vengeance, and these pages should love does not make him blind,

destroy the baseless legend that

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During his two years service in Hongkong, Sir William Peel has shown a marked enparity for getting quickly to the kernel of local problems. Possessing a re- ceptive mind and an energy and freshness of outlook which long years in the Colonial Service have)

Statistical not dimmed, he has proved him- self a hard worker and a wise ad- Branch of the Imports and Exports

wholesale prices Department

The most arresting feature of Kuhlmann had pursued a bellicose ministrator. He has made it his fongkong during the first quarter of the volume is the analysis of the policy of his own behind the back and Lichnowsky. Germany and of Metternich

All three-and, indeed, every personal, business to see into the 1982 continued to decline, falling relations between

as compared with the preceeding quat-1 Austria, "Blamarck's marvellous! manifold activities of government

ter and 3.45% as compared with the achievement was only a partial German who understood England in all parts of the Colony. Amen-general average for the year 1981. solution of the eternal Gorman-knew that the "Flottenpolitik" able to reason, he has none the less

problem, an imposing facade that was a fatal mistake. never hesitated to follow a course

was largely wanting in basement and foundation. It tore asunder which his own common-sense bus convinced him to be the wisest. And to all his many talenta in official life, he has added that unaffectedness which have everywhere made him so popular. Of Lady Peel, need only say that she has proved a charming consort, one who has.

I» » report to the police, Mr. G.ly civilised city of Vienna masked which brought America into the presided over the social activities Bird, head watchman of Taikoo Dock-the truth that this was a slowly fray and destroyed the last hope an in- even of a drawn battle. The Kai- of Government House with grace yard, stated that Ho Yat, aged 32. decaying State, in which

residing at 20, Tal Ning Street, re-tensifying principle of nationality ser, like the Chancellor, was and tactfulness, whilst her will-ceived injuries to his back and feet had implanted the seed of death. against it; but they were over- ing interest in all good works Breault of a fall from staging has been continuously demon-around the ss. Chinhua on the No. In point of fact, the new German borne by an excited public opinion The Empire could not be regarded as and the Supremo Command, and slipway yesterday afternoon. will strated. The whole Colony

having emerged from the danger Germany drifted to her doom. An man's condition may be serious.

the 10-morrow bid her ladyship and

zone, as finally consolidated until equally brief chapter the question of the dissolution of Treaty of Versailles pronounces His Excellency adieu, in the hope

the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy it the worst and the most unwise that they will benefit from their

had been finally cleared up. It of the comprehensive settlements holiday, and will look to the time

was with his fearful handeap that of modern times, which fulfilled when they will once again re-

the new German Empire began its Bismarck's terrible prophecy that turn to those who have come to

career, and under this fearful the loser in the next great war діло appreciate their many qualities of

handicap William II. ascended the would be bled white. He throne. The task presented to condemns the humiliation inflicted heart and mind.

The following cable at the close German policy by the inevitable on the German delegation during Brock- of the Austro-Hun- the negotiations. Count yesterday dissolution of the sugar

the task with dorft-Rantzau, we are told, never has been received by Messrs. Pen-garian Monarchy, treath and Co.

which history confronted William forgot or forgave the treatment 1, was hardly, to be solved with- to which he had been subjected, out a bitter struggle for existence. and the resentment motived his But the fact that the tank was subsequent policy. The Treaty re- there, that it was the essential gistered the momentary distribu- political problem, was not clearly tion of power in Europe, and the situation of 1919 soon passed recognised by anybody."

away. It was the merit of Briand. That the Hapsburg Monarchy at once a far-sighted patriot and was inevitably doomed would still good European, to work towards New York Terminals, he contested by many well-inform-a readjustment; but his task was ed Austrians; but the thesis ap- complicated by the fact that he May 1932 .51 down 1 pt.

pears to our author so incontro-was in advance of public opinion July 1932 .60 down 1 pt.

vertible that he does not stop to in France, and by the impatience September 1932 66 down 2 pts argue it. Starting with this ns- incessantly surging up ir Ger December 1932 73 down 1 pt.sumption he naturally convicts the many under the pressure of dir- March 1983 79 down 2 pts.

The struggle of 1914-1918, de- In connexion with the exhibit of Yorkshire canaries at the coming a thousand-year-old bond rf fel- clares Kuhlmann, was a war for of Austria-"a Empire Products Exhibition, it lowship, and left in existence at tho liquidation

probably scarcely pointed out that these prize birds cost $80 pair (not each, as stated) and the side of the German Empire an terrible but that they are guaranteed to be the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in avoidable step in the further de best pedigree strain obtainable in which the beloved figure of the velopment of Europe." A brief the North of England, and every one monarch, the splendour of the chapter on the World War, as we of them is colour-fed.

greatest and wealthiest Aristo- should expect, condemns the naval cracy on the Continent, and the authorities for the declaration of submarine warfare, prestige of the ancient, rich, high- unlimited

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The Oath in Ireland, Despite the warnings of friends de as opponents, Mr. To-morrow, His Excellency the as well Governor will be laying aside, for Valern is pressing forward with a few brief months, the cares and the Bill for the abolition of the responsibilities of office when he Oath of Allegiance with what Mr. goes, in company with Lady Peel. Cosgrave describes as unwarrant- Mr. de Valera ling on well-earned leave to the Home-ed hate. land. All sections of the com-weakened any ease that he may oath munity will, we know, unite in have had in regard to the wishing them both an enjoyable by putting his repudiation, of it and beneficial holiday. It in two on the same footing, as the re-

of

delt. It is years, almost to the day, since.1lis pudiation

impossible to argue

of Excellency arrived in the Colony, quite

post-Bismarckians

funda-tress.

A long and interesting chapter bringing with him a reputation away the terms agreed upon in

mental errors, both in East and both as an able administrator and the financial settlement between

West. In the former they de-on Germany since the War de- of scribes an achievement which the as a man of charming personality the British Government and the tish Empire and of losing advan-stroyed what little was left

their hold on Russia, with noth- author holds to deserve a place the Irish Free which he has more than upheld. Government of

tages which are more essential to

ing to show for the Racrifice but beside the much-advertised Five sides In the comings and goings of State, signed by both

in Ireland than to any other the Bagdad rallway, "which com- Year Plan. The German people. Governors, it is inevitable that we 1926. They Are perfectly de Dominion-particularly the ad-bined the minimum of commercial had to make two recoveries, the should have experience of varying finite. If there is anything un-vantages of trade. If he per-advantage with the maximum of first from defcat and revolution in

the 1918, the second from the types. Each has his own foibles fair in the agreement, it is open sists in that action, there is no political encumbrance." In and characteristics, some of which to Mr. de Valera to ask for re-doubt that Great Britain will re-latter the naval policy drove Eng-lapse of the mark in 1923. The attract and some occasionally call vision. But to repudinte

of faith. land into the arms of France and latter, he declares, plunged the It is gard it as a breach

Into the most appalling misery. against themselves: criticism. Of Sir William surely to begin by putting his with his oyes too closely fixed on Russin, thereby tilting the balance generation on which the blow fell Peel we think it can be said that Government in the wrong. The domestic issues, he does not ap-

So long as England remain- And yet, taking a long view, he he possesses most, if, indeed, not issue of the oath is altogether of pear to realize how dangerous aed outside the Russo-French al-believes it to have been for the all, of the virtues which the com-another character. There is no course he is steering..

1liance, Germany had the prospect best to inflct the entire burden munity regards as essential to a doubt its retention was regarded good Governor. Above all, he has is an integral part of the treaty

and by man of by both Grent Britain shown himself to be a sound common-setise-a quality those Irishmen who for ten years which we assess as being, in the have successfully governed the case of the Governor of a Crown Free State. But it is possible to Colony, of inestimable value. argue that the Statute of West- difference.

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The two years which His Excel-minster has made leney has spent in our midst and ingenuity enn get round have had their special problems, even without that statute. But a notably that caused by the slump statesman is on weak ground when in the sterling value of the dul- he has to discover an unsuspect- lar. The effect of this developed meaning in a treaty by hair- ment on the Antuces of the splitting interpretations of words. Colony is too well known to need Mr. de Valera puts his case more emphasising. It has raised the forcefully when he says that the whole issue of the cost of Gov-onth has been the cause of all ernment. Sir William Peel took the strife and dissension in the an eminently sensible line on this Irish Free State since the signing problem when he favoured .3173 of the treaty." It is no doubt true exchange compensation plan that to those who have clung to which would have provided some the ideal of republicanism the relief to the Colony's finances had oath has become a symbol of the it romained in operation. He fold domination against which they based the case on what the Colony fought. On the other hand, it hould afford to pay out In should not be forgotten that it moluments, ever though in the has also beert 'n symbol in the process he would be called upon eyes of the British expressing the to make the biggest individual | sanctity of the treaty-a trenty sacrifice, and also on a bellef on which a minority in Southern that Civil Servants abould share Ireland rely for protection. The in the burden which the de-rest of the treaty would not real- preciation of the dollar hndly be impaired by abolition of the thrown on the community. Un-oath-If both parties to the treaty happily, other counsels prevailed, agreed to it. But to abolish it but that in on

agreement is to Aenao detracts without such from Hia Excellency's willing throaton the validity of the treaty gesture. As a consequence, extra itself. By unilateral action Mr. runk the risk of put- revenue has had to be found, de Valora but, unpopular as all additional ting his country outside the Bri

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of the sins and errors of the past on a single generation rather than to mortgage the national Inherit ance. The internal debt has been practically wiped out, and the Re- paration plan is unlikely to be carried out in its entirety. Yet Germany is to-day struggling against a lost of difculties-the world crisis that began in 1929, the burden of short-term loans, the lack of fluid capital. The econo- mic outlook at the moment could hardly be worse.

Economies and politics form an Indivisible whole, and the econo- mic distress finds expression in the appeal of Bolshevism and Fas- cism. "Nothing impresses Ger-" mans so much as energy," declares Kuhlmann, "or rather the gesture demonstrative of energy. A flat banged on the table brings a cer- tain sense of relief, and its sub- sequent result is not very care- fully thought out." The author is much too wise to seek a remedy in dictatorship, to which he devotes a suggestive chapter, and he pays. high tribute to the Wolmar Con- stitution. Its faults, as he sees seems tltem, are the vast constl. "Dy tuencies which substitute party lists for personalities, and the lack of a Second Chamber less en- tirely dependent on the caprices of opinion. These changes could be made without a revolution, for there is still a majority for de mocratic self-government. Though the author exposes with almost ruthless clarity the errors of the past, and describes without sup prossion the perils of the prosent, he is sturdily optimistic in rogard to the future. The intention of

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