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KNOW- GF UNDERTAKINGS; EXACT LEDGE OF THE SITUATION THAT HAS FORMS NO INCON- PROVOKED THEM SIDERABLE ELEMENT OF HISTORY.- Metternich,

Should the League be Armed?

Yes

No

to give his permission for a start to be made on the project... the latest Information being that he hopes to be able to reply very shortly to the urgent request rent We have from the Colony. As already had occasion to remark, it Is a sorry commentary on Crown in such an Colony rule that essentially domestic matter as this wait on the we should have to pleasure of permanent officials at Home who have no real knowledge of Hongkong's particular problems.

of an organization is n different The League, composed of various The great need of the Colony is

powers, cannot hope to rule over announce Home newspapers

the proposition. that there should be an improve

So long as the. League confines those powers that compose it. Even death, suddenly, at Bexhill, of Mr. ment both In the means of collect. W. Barton, who was for many its activities to discussion, with an were it furnished with an army, a ing rainfall and in the facilities years a partner in the Douglas Steam-embroidery of committees dealing navy, and air squadrons, they would available for storage,

It only needs a glance over the rainfall records to show how fickle Nature can be. Our real rainy season is from May to September inclusive, and to show how variable ditions can be it is worth noting that the rainfall for May varied between

One cane of amall-pox, two cases of diphtherin and one of meningitis, were reported to the Health Authorities on Tuesday,

ship Company, Hongkong.

super-

By SISLEY HUDDLESTON By Col. DAVID DAVIES. - ME French proposals at 'Geneva (ZAHERE has been a recrudescence The huge the bisuma of the idea that the League of

Nations should by a ment Conference face to face: with realities. It is one thing to state dispensing military might. to draft clever This is not only impossible of ful- talk aloul peace. treaties and pass plous resolutions.fillment, but is detrimental to the But to express these things in terms League,

means,

of

RO

with various beneficent projects like be furnished by the component could therefore and improving labour. conditions, slop powers. In our report of the Government |

At the best-or the worst "Clinie" motor van yesterday, it wasping drugs, etc., nti is well. Once, scarcely be used against those inadvertently stated that the body however, it sets out to curb racial powers.

of a certain number work was made by Messra, Vickers, animosities and restrain national there would merely be a military This was incorrect, the body having pugnacities there is a general huelengue

not the slightest been nude by the Public Works De- and ery. And when other argu- powers against one or more powers;

ments have failed, you may rest and there is con-partment at Wanchal.

assured that an appeal will be made guarantee that, in the ultimate re

the doctrine of national sort, there would be general agree- A report issued by the police this to

rement on the merits of a particular has morning indicated that Wong, Po, who sovereignty. No one has the

idea what sovereignty situation. and fell from his bank at 134, Apliu Street, motest 48.08 inches

but it ja The direful consequences of en- Shamshuipo, on Tuesday and wan re really moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital in

done with it, though, and call it of separate nations appear an unconscious condition, sacenmbed a wonderful word. Why not have deavoring to make a superstate that it is surprising to this injuries yesterday evening.

anarchy instond. Everyone knows obvious what that menas. Even the Ameri- observe the zen with which this Eng- Described in a clerk, Chat 30.5

kuoi, aged 26 years, appened before can representatives are brought up conception of the League's func- Sr. Grantham at the Central Police with a bump against the implications has been advocated by men Court this morning on a charge of tions of the Kellogg act, Does the whone pacific sincerity is not to be uttering a forged banker's cheque on United States really mean to pre-doubted. By their futile efforts to

i militarized League the Mercantile Bank of India with in-vent war? If so, what about the create tent to defend. On the application international navy which Congress Nations they have diverted atten- af Detective Inspector John Murphy: skett for in 1910? What about tion from the possibility of develop.

remanded until

sheriff whiching a moral League of Nations.

such a the defendant was

On the meral ground, Roosevelt demanded so vehemently l Saturday, bail being allowed in the the international sum of $2,000,

and courageously in those years League can indeed ho constructed Wir Or is thead should grow in strength as men for preceding the Επ

л admitting

A subordinate Kellogg part only a gesture which become more rational and nations bassault brought by

no one intends to obey. workman, Mr. W. Tansley, of Messrs. Reiss, Massey & Co. Ltd, remarked, before Mr. Schofield at the Central

It appears that Japan regards it Police Court yesterday, that the expected, but the figure is illumin-plainant has been unruly and provoked in this light and what Tokyo tries aling as showing the sum total of the defendant to commit the assault. to do today, someone else may do The complainant expressed the desire to-morrow. So when Tardieu drop Sutleient has to withdraw the summons, which ped his bombshell there was general minimum returns."

consternation. been given to illustrate how application was allowed by his Wor

#big. variable our rainy season can be. The lesson is that We should

1.1 inch, for June between 24.3 and 2. for July between 30 and 45, for August between 34.5 and 3.9, and for September between and 9.6." Even taking the complete year, we find extremes of 119.71 and 45,89, the last-named being for 1925, when the position would have been infinitely worse but for n fall of 18 inches in July alone, To carry the Bgures further, if we had a whole your based on montidy

HARVEY-PRESTON--On 16th Jane, 1832, at the Registrar's Office, Hongkong. Me. A. V. Harvey, RAF.O., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Harvey, Kessingland, Suffolk, to Mrs. B. W. Preston of 23 Codogan Street, Landon, only minima, the total full would daughter of Mr. William White-only a matter of about 14 inches! head of Hearstead, Kent.

That is not, of

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TRSDAY, JUNE 16, 1932.

RAINS AND THE RESERVIORS

There is much more than a mere witty query in the question which the Director of the Observatory

an

be course, ta

summons

cam.

of

acquire the International outlook. The true function of the League is not to interpose itself with weapons

behalf between prospective belligerents.

up arms on its it is not to persuade various nations to take

a designated wrongdoer. against That function is only too likely to France, however, is not the only be fulfilled in eveut of local strife Or their sation in dire need of security. Eng. by countries which feel their in-

terests jeopardized According to a telegram received land with her teeming population- from the Canadian Pacific Railway 685 to the square mile--densely passions engaged. hend offee in Montreal, an announce- rement has been made by the President packed together in great cities; is that Mr. John Leslie, Vice-President particularly vulnerable to attacks

legislate, if not for the minimum fall, then for, something far moved from even the average,

Sidelights on Bible History. Archæologists frequently unetver many witnesses of the distant past of special interest to students of

The proper function of the

It

and Treasurer, will retire on July 1 from the air. Other nations also League is entirely moral. It is to after 59 years sevice with the Com-are menaced in various degrees by bring the disputants together. pany. He will be succeeded by Mr. inventions and discoveries in the is to review the dispute. It is to

Lloyd and in addition, Mr. J

R.

the Bible and of ancient peoples in $5,000 FINE IMPOSED prived of her armaments standis de-is to bring before the nations in-

general. These discoveries have a twofold bearing: they corroborate

put to the Director of Public Works at Tuesday's meeting of the Rotary Club when he asked whether

in an extraordinary degree the abnormal supply of rain is needed Bible narratives, and also reveal In provide a normal supply of water the political and social conditions fact, of ancient times. Dr. Aylward to the Colony. In point of

the Manly lackman, in a lecture at of course, the answer is, as Parliamentarians

the Oxford recently, described a newly ¿12 BAY.

discovered papyrus manuscript of affirmative.

been Far it has

the time of King Sethos 11, who abundantly proved that under existing conditions an adequate supply cannot be assured unless the rainfall reaches #ausual pros | serios portions. Even then, it would need against

!!*gs,

reigned over Egypt in the latter

il

part of the thirteenth century i, c. The manuscript reciles a brought of accusations

workman of the to fill at 215 appropriate time. | Necropolis at Thebes, Pe-Neby by since it has been shown that our name, who in a violent attack upon reservoirs require to be filled more his follow workmen by night, it was alleged, had beaten nine of than twice a year to provide enough

them. Later a fellow workman water to supply the community's who land also been assaulted by Pc-Neby sccused him before the The problem which arises from Vizir. Amenmose, who secured his these considerations would appear punishment; but Pe-Neby in a to be two-fold in character. In the spirit of retaliation accused the first place, the Colony's storage Vizir of beating him, before one capecity is inadequate, and, in the named Mose, who oblained the re- moval of the Vizir. The question second, the catchment areas

arises, Who was this Mose who not appear to be suflicient to ensure anything like a piaxinuum impound was sufficiently influential to secure the removal of an official second in ing when heavy rains beedr.

authority only to Pharaoh himself? the Inter point, it has been com-

It seems fair to conclude that he puted that, assuming the fall to

was someone who was especially in have been uniform over the whole terested in the affairs of the work- well known that area of the Colony, a recent 1014 Ingmen and so inches of rain should have in-anly a casual mention of his name Identify him. was sufficient to Speculation would Rasociate this champion of the lowly with Moses, the Hebrew lawgiver, who was

do

On

ereased our reservoir contents by something like 642 million gallous whereas in point of fuel only about

An

a fifth of that total was impounded, outstanding defender of the rights We realise, of course, that thereof the working people, a custom can never be any question of bring which it seems led to his self- ing the whole fall, even in any one region, into the reservoirs, but the point does obtrude itself that

imposed exile as related in the It is to be hoped Book of Exodus. that further discoveries will nhed new light on this highly interest- there is at present a tremendousing speculation, completely esta- amount of water running to waste, blishing the identity of this ancient much of which should be collected. defender of the workingman.

On the question of increasing the

Queen's

| Colony's storage capacity, this is a

Whilst shopping at 275, matter whleh hue been stressed Rond Central yesterday evening, a again and again, and still requires young Chinene Indy left her handbag emphasing. It is n matter for on the counter from where it was

stolen front a

Ruddenly man who something more than mere regret stopped into the shop. The man was that the second section of the seen by a shop-keeper who blaw hls' | Shing Mun scheme has been allow police whistle: An Indian constable on duty promptly arrested the man, ed to hang fire for so long. Even

and before Matherman BARRE now it seems almost hopples ing sentence of alx week's hard labour

was Imposed. hurry up, the Secretary of

to

Stale

KONGMOON OPIUM

Unwin has been appointed Comptrol-realm of slaughter. Real security bring to bear the weight of public let and Mr. E. A. Leslie, Deputy enn be achieved only through co-opinion and the pressure of inter operation, nut by competitive national wishes on those who are Comparoller.

national forces, however drastically about to resort to violence. It is these may be limited and reduced. to endeavor by conciliatory men- At the moment, Germany de sures to effect a reconciliation. It fenceless. Her frontiers are open volved the wider interests of man- to the four winds. To rebuild her kind. It is by legal and by arbitral shattered fortunes, security is her methods to persuade, to driny ne vital interest. Unless she proposes tion, to soften acerbities. It is to SMUGGLED

to rearm herself, how is she to find evoke a will to peace.

that the Those who maintain it except as a member of a strong About 135 taels of prepared and powerful League equipped with moral authority of such a League opium, of Kongmoon origin, were the mechanism of administering would be ineffective and who mock discovered in the possession of a justice and securing fair play, Gerat moral authority unsupported by Chinese arriving here yesterday on many has a population of 63,000, force are mistaken. Properly em-

ployed morni authority the a.s. Wing On. He had the apena, France 40,000,000, pearance of a travelling trader, As long as this preponderance of be entirely ineffective. It may be owning a black lacquer Chinese potential power exists, what is the badly employed and therefore be trunk ronstituting a not unusual use of asking France to disarm to less effective. It can be well em- item in the luggage carried by the level fixed for Germany under ployed and yet in given circum- hure small tra lera; but when the the Treaty of Versailles. If Ger-stapees not be fully effective im- though we box was opened by waterfront many found herself a France's mediately. But even searchers at the Po Tack Wharf, | shoes, wint reply would suppose that the League cannot at such a proposal? present fulfill its function, that le it was found to have a false bottom she make to into which the opium had been Rightly, France refuses to consider no reason for despairing, much less

it until her accurity has been guar-for flying to the alternative packed,

Brought by Revenue Officer anteed, not merely by trenties, but force, direct or indirect. Relative this in the form of an organization con- failure proves only that the world Ward before Mr. Schofield

is proves nothing against the ulti authority. IL morning, the smuggler was finett trolled, not by herself, but by an is not sufficiently advanced; $5,000, with the option of a year's International imprisonment.

childish to expect her to do any-inate benefit of the development of the moral authority of the Leagüe of Nations.

"You'll find the ones who keep you waiting longest for your money are the same one a who yell the loudest when

you hurt thom a little."

can never

of

is

With an international aimy, wars would be certain, enormous, and frequent. It would be calamitous for the Lengue to perpetuate that which we are trying to suppress-- to keep alive the iden of force in international affairs. In practice, perhaps, force Is still necessary; but it is not for a body created to climinate it to make use of it. Let other organizations, if needs must, centralize military might; but not the Lengue.

Arc we against militarism?Or. are we for militarism on a bigger and more mischievous scale? It is distressing enough to send young of men

to kill in the name patriotism for the defence of their country; it is unspeakably immoral to send them to kill in a quarrel quite remote from them,

want holy Let those who alliances, and military associations, have them. But leave to the world one secular institution which shall be moral, not military; which shall be implacably opposed to militarism for itself as well as others. If such an institution does not exist at Geneva, It will be necessary to in- vent it..

thing else. So when France says "endow the League with military auperiority," let the other members take the French offer at ita face value. Let them teat It, improve. upon it. But there is no reason for rejecting it out of hand.

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Obviously, the first thing to do is to agree upon fundamentals before getting down to the details. What Ava Fonziniet on Page. 7)