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would ipso facto have been guilty, and liable to punitive action by the League of Nations under Article XVI of the Covenant.

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DAY BY DAY

ALL

PANACEA THERE 18 NONE. FOCIAL THEORIES ARE ON TRIAL- Sherwood Eddy.

More About Memel.

Fuller Information avaliable about the situation In

The P. and O. liner Naliera, from the

territory autonomous

of Singapore, is due here at 10 .. ta- Momel arising out of the Litha-narrow. anian seizure on February 6 of Otto Boettcher, president of the

Latest naval appointments made by the Admiralty (April 23) Include Commander F. A. Aylmer, D.S... to H.M.S. Bruce, in command.

ARMS CONFERENCE SNAPSHOTS

By ROLAND HALL SHARP

Ceneva.

SUCH colour as Geneva offers

Breaking Precedents.

One welcoming reception ten- dered by the Geneveno to their to embellish the arms con-

guests broke precedents in more ference rests like a modest ways than one to honour the can. boutonniere on the lapel of aference. As near the grand man business tweet. It has qualities her as Geneva receptions are akin to the sunset described by allowed to become, it brought from Emerson

mast appreciated their customary seclusion citizens when seen through the windows who thereby testified to the in-

portance of the occasion. of industriousness.

Predominantly deniocratle, the For anyone in the streets can affair provided n constant feel that the delegates are here panorama of interest to those who

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local council or directorate. Herr Boettcher, who was speedily r lensed, but is reported to be still under Lithuanian surveillance, Mr. S. M. Chuck, who was driving was east into prison on his return his motor car along the Pokfulam to work. The tone of sessions is recognized the persons present.

Road near the Dairy Farm yester day knocked down woman named Fung Hn, aged 41, of Aberdeen Street, infileting injuries to her legs. The woman, not seribusly hurt, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital for

from # trip Berlin. The Lithuanians contend that he was conducting

negotiationa Accret with Germany. which Memel before the

war,

treatment.

grave, consciously reflecting the The unostentatious, friendly little universal conviction that Home-man serving himself from the how a way must be found to countless varieties of GeneveNC lighten burdens and essen sus- pastries on long. inexhaustible picions engendered by armaments tables; is President of the Swiss 36 per cent, above 115 levels.

Conferderation. Countess An- The preliminary parade of great] ponyi of Hungary, tail, dignified. A young Chinese, of 20, teclamas powers proposing abolition or almost regul. Lion Street, attempted to commit

converses easily eie by Jumping from the Sham-stringent cantral of the mont with members. of the League Shuipo ferry-bont Chung at 9.30 Jast | aggressive arma testifled to the Fecretariat. Maxim Litvino, night when the launch was about uneasy certainly expressed by | Russian Foreign Minister, stands A seanian, Chan Siu, jumped into the others that herole measures 500 yards from the Hongkong wharf. Grandi, Simon. Bruening aud at the door of a room in the In-

are ternational Club, watches water and, with the assistance of imperative to avert disaster. The dancers for several minutes, then Seregant Hill, who was passing sate certainty offers a hope that disappears downstairs. A stender police launch No. 14. resened" the youth, whe refused to gen to hospital.

are

in

generous gestures will be trans. laled into action under the gond of necessity.

Misi-Defying Hues.

Ano

bold

the.

Japanese in formal kimono moves sedately in the dance. Conversa- tion proceeds in Polish, French, German. English, Eussian, or what you will, for all the world was

A Rectangular World.

be

ת

| Memel be within the sovereigate of Lithuania. But tlm qualifea- tion that it should enjoy autonomy clearly makes that sovereignty in complete., Horr Borlicher is technically a Lithuanian citizen. but to describe him as a Lithuan- kun would obscure the reason for the Memel trouble and render it totally without meaning. For Memel's trouble la the unfriend- :

"Over the Hill," now showing at lineas between the German and the the King's Theatre, is a fila of more Lithuanian elements of its populathe very admirable study it gives of

than usual interest by

of reason

To be sure, there are lighter and invited, and nearly all the world tien. Germans have never recon-family, life, and nise becomes of the more joyous pieturos. Flags of leame. eiled themselves to Lithuanian high standard of production and the the world brighten the Rue de sovereignty; Lithuaniana have fine acting of the chief characters.in Confederation in

Moe Margh is splendid as the old splotch of waving calour. Pen Some nations may not have never reconelled themselves to the mother scorned by all but one of her aunts of those #ngs, from Siam een represented at the opening incompleteness that sover-sons; she reveals abilities of a great eignty. The Goverment at Kovno order. James Dunn and Sally Blers round again to China's rising sun, reception, but there can

alan both good. A film well Bush by on official limousines. At question that in the rectangular to interpret its malified worth seeing.

the entries of the Safle du Conseil flour of the Salle du Cousnil rights pretty Bberally. For instance,

General during plenary sessions, General, every major politienk the Memel correspondent of the

gendarmes-Borid lucks se unit and most minor unes have "Big lads like you should be doing

beneath black and white

spokesmen. And spokes- New York Times, reported: The | something

Na-their instead oỀ play:

for blac women.

The half dozen appointment yesterday of

ing with children's see-saws," and paleonic headpieces. Berr

Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magis- | "apes aweeping over irduser's permitted on the offelal floor take Tolishus, a Lithuanian, as a mem tracy yesterday; when two Portuguese striped liberally with light blue full advantage of their oppor- her of the territory's government youths, 1, and 11. Ribeiro, were charg- usher soher-suited statesmen inta tunities. Their seats are seldom by the new President. Herr Sim- ground at Chatham Road on Satur

ed with being in the children's play the Irall.

vacant.

The floor is divided into three for Military, Naval and Air Ques-mat, despite the protests of the day evening. It was stated that the

Even through misty wintersections, the tions of the League of Nations met German majority, has considerably which were

defendants were

centre ne

quite using the see-saws, | Geneva matches these fishes of wide. to draw up rules for the constitu- complicated the situation and in- only.

reserved for

A glance at this section children heraldic colour with hints of shows the dark, painted beard of Defemiants infornied hin tim and operation of the super creased the tension between

summer-time vivialness. the Worship Umt they di not

Tar Signor Grandi; the smooth, fair visory commissionis mentioned in Lithuanian authorities

quoise Rhone, splashing. hasten-Anglo-Saxon face of Sir John there with the Intention and the interfering with the children, but Article 4 of the Convention for im German populace. The affair may

the Mediterranean, Simon the attentive, compact when they arrived they just got on to rushes beneath the city's bridges. figure of M. Andre Tardieu, busily proving Menus of Preventing War. This Convention, it will be remem- might be so described but for the # teacup, JE

They were each fined Occasional sunlight pours richer taking

and whispering notes pigments into the ever-changing sides into the leonine grey locks bered, was adopted by the Asscibly

flow of emerald and glacier blues. of 31. Paul-Boncour; Dr. Woolley many interests that are wrapped

Three workmen of the League last September and

up in Memel. The extent of these were slightly injured yesterday after

At night. loops and arches of famong her American colleagues: hes for its main object the Streng-

interests became obvious to za

noon when a staging on which they Blanc and its promenade sparkle Minister and first president of the Hghts along the Pont du Mont M. Paul Hymans, Belgian Foreign were standing was swept away hy

:

MEANS OF PREVENTING WAR

Towards the end of last month, the Permanent Advisory Commission

seem a storm in

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the ncewaW

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at Taikon Duck

ing to tint

dark

thening of the hands of the Councworld in 1923, after the Lithuan- the propeller shaft of the ss. Am-ion the lake and river. A late gull League Assembly: Count Albert

in preventing the outbreak of hos- tilities following an international dispute.

Article 3 of the Convention lays down that if, in the event of a

threat of war, special conditions

lines

to

inn coup, which precipitated the pullaria. The men were not injured or swan or wintering midget duck Apponyi veteran Hungarian settlement that provided Memelulelently to necessitate their re- paddles through the light into diplomat with square jaw and moval to hospital. Mr. S. Boulton, deep shadows beneath the bridge white shovel beard; Mr. Litvinoff. with its curiosity of ፡- status.

of the Dockyard, notified the police

Hotel This status may prove to be too of the mishap which seeuvret al

windows glow, coloured and the chief spokesmen at Curious to last. So far it appears Chung, Mong Shu and Lo Chu, were

signs blink, bicyclists hurry home, Geneva in the Far Eastern crisis 3.45 pm. The three TH. YUCK

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trams elang. Busy, but not gay.-Dr. Yen of China, Ambassadors have provided nothing but working on a staging when the pro- Geneve addresses itself to the Matandaira and Sato of Japan.

invitation tu

peller shaft of the Ampullaria swung must stupendous task before the Dr. Bruening Lithuanian

came and wont German lo change

out and struck the staging. throwing world-bringing it.

sixty quickly, but left a lasting mark on the men off. They all received is-national viewpoints into Home the conference. br. changed | juries to their luck and feet, but

(measure of agreement for limita- required no medical treatment.

Like the ebb and flow of tides. without

fion and reduction of armaments. the hall alls and empties as speech No home or office but will feel and translation succeed cach directly what is done or left un-other. Every address is translat- done here.

(Continued on Page 9.)

it

the better

#t

andi But for radical transformation in feeling. There is need for both Lithuanian Pepperiness and German irreden- Lism to dissolve into that "gond faith" which, as that great jurist. John Selden, said, "is the essener of all relations,"

in particular the possibilities of contact between the forces of the parties in dispute-render it neces

fix sary. the Council may which must not be passed by their civil airerait if such prohibition is necessary to avoid incidents. These lines shall, if possible, be fixed by agreement with the parties at issue, but failing such agreement, the Council shall fix them with the consent of the party whose furces are affected, provided they are not required to withdraw further than the exterior lines of defence exist-BIG ing on their frontier. Article 4 provides for the appointment of Commissioners by the Council for

the

CATHOLIC

CELEBRATION

LADY OF FATIMA

SUGAR MARKET.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

The following cable at the close] of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pen- treath and Co.

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the sole purpose of verifying on MACAO HONOURS OUR the spot the execution of mesures recommended by the Council ander the former para graph. The inspection duties of these commissioners nre strictly limited to the work they have to do and they may not inspect any naval, air base, or military establishment bigger attendance than at any Hill where the ancient chapel of

Macno, May 14. The annual procession in hon- four of Our Lady of Fatima, held i yesterday, was distinguished by a

time in the past.

this name still stands. This yearly feast in honour of

Blessed the

Virgin

owes its Lady at a place called Fatima, in inception to the apparition of Our

TUM

The route of the procession was illuminated for its entire length of at least one mile from the

the

old

unless such inspection is absolutely necessary for them to verify that the instructions of the Council have been carried out. The aetual de tails of their composition and work the very heart of Portugal. Here. Church of St. Dominic, in ing are to be elaborated in the Our Lady appeared to three very heart of the city, to the top

where the forms of rules and regulations by peasant children, and ever since. Penha Hill, the committee of naval, military there have been annual pilgri-hermitage and its famous grotto

were also effectively illuminated. and air experts known as the Per-mages to Fatima, during which munent Advisory Committee, tent Fatima have testified to the of the chapel and the grotto were several miraculous cures affected The ample spaces in the grounds which reference was made at the deep religions faith of the Ports-soon filled with hundreds of the beginning of this article.

guese people, the cult of Our Lady faithful, and in this picturesque The Convention, which comes of Fatima having spread to all setting overlooking the city, His into operation as soon as the rall-the Portuguese colonies.

Lordship the Bishop, D. Jose da fications or accessions on behalf of

Costa Nunes, At Macao, the Portuguese

addressed those ten meniber or non-member States well as Chinese Catholics have present. He told them of his have been deposited with the Secre- responded in no uncertain manner personal experiences at Fatima tariat of the League, nims at give to the invitation of the Church to and how he felt that rays of faith ing the Council more powers to de-celebrate the festival in a becom- radiated from that little village Jay hostilities until the dispute has in way. The procession has in Portugal, aprending slowly

through Portugal and the Portu como to be celebrated by many been sent for arbitration. Had it thousands of the faithful, and guese Colonies and eventually been in force last September and the altar dedicated to Our Lady i through the whole world. He ap had Japan and China Leen signa- of Fatima, in the Church of St. pealed to all his hearers to seek tories to it, much time would have Dominic, is the venus of hundreds the protection of Our Lady of been enved, as the Counell'a demand of persons assembled there daily learn from the demonstrations of | Fatima, and exhorted them to that the two opposing forces would for two weeks preceding the day faith that devotion to the Blessed withdraw to a safe distance from of the procession.

Virgin had aroused in so many one another would have been ac- On the last day of the festival, places how to lead Christian lives. cepted as a matter of routine. yesterday, the Church of St. He concluded by asking all those There would have been no need to brilliant celebration in honour of Christ's teaching, and that peace Dominic became the scene of a present to pray for faith in discuss the actual powers of the the Blessed Virgin, and a proces-might come to China and the Council in this respect, and eithersion of dignified pomp and cere whole world-Our Own Correspon«. party disobeying their instructions mony wonded its way to Ponha Ident.

nearly

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