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SUPPORT FOR GERMANY

con-

militariam, for the Fatherland's statesmen, throughout recent years, have shown a degree of patience, moderation and reticenco that is worthy of the great nation they re-i present."

Enough has been quoted to show that whilst the British Government does not see eye to eye with Borlin on this matter, there aro reputable British statesmen, doubtless repre- senting a considerabla body of oplaton, who definitely hold that Germany has not been treated fair. ly. The German complaint is not only that the other Fowera have not lived up to their moral and legal obligations, but that some of them have utilised the Disarmament Com- ference, not as a means of effect ing disarmament, but as a means of Ketting round their obligations, Hence the suggestion, which is quíto, logical and sound, that the armaments of all countries should be measured in accordance with the same principles and by the same yardstick, which is the only method

which conforms to the principle of

DAY BY DAY

THE RELIGION OF THE Vast Eng- LIBHI MIDDLE-CLASS 18 COMFORT.- George Meredith.

St. John's Review notifies that the new Bishop of Victorin, Rt. Rev. Ilonald Hall, will be consecrated on October 28.

Passengers arriving hore from cluded Mr. Ho Kom-tong, Mr. Ho Ki Manila by the Empress of Rusala in- and Mr. Ho Iu.

The St. John Ambulance Brigade, local branch, will be giving a concert in the Great Hall of King's College on October 8, at 0 p.m. Admission will be by tickets, at $3 ench.

While hanging out clothes to, dry on the first floor of 6, Wa Iop Street, a Chinese woman aged 21 years, lost her balance and fell on to the rond, receiving Injuries to her hand and left necessitating her being sent to the Government Civil Hospital.

The Vagaries of Mr. Kipps

H. G. WELLS GOES OVER THE TOP

By "AN OLD STAGER”

Long before the King returned

any real political guts had realised to London feat summer, the only men in the Socialist Cabinet with

few weeks undoubtedly has been

The political sensation of the past 1 happens at the Palace regularly go furnished not by Herr von Papen, political clubs. But lovel-headed round some of the less reputablo or Senator Borah, but by the author people do not swallow them. of "The New Machiavelli." Address- ing the slightly scandalised mem- at Oxford, Mr. H. G. Wells let him- bers of the Liberals Summer School

self go in no style. His main theme was the grave national exer- goncy of last autumn, when the Socialist Ministry then in office die covered itself suddenly heading for bankruptcy and a collapse of the

currency,

how things stood, and taken action accordingly. Their desperate of forts to get their Socialist col- leagues to approve the only possible steps towards national salvation wore rejected. Not because those So far as one may gather from the crisis or the wisdom of the colleagues doubted the gravity of his reported utterances, Mr. H. G.

policy proposed to meet it, but more Wells makes ironically light of that ly because they lacked the courage crisis. He seems to regard it no a ous honesty to face the facts and put-up job. And he had the extra. ordinarily bad taste to make an at-with them...

take the responsibility of dealing tack on King George's part in the During the week ended on Satur: dramatic sequence of events that paralleled in British history, Mr.

In theso circumstances, un-. day, two cases of diphtheria, thres of ensued. He accused His Majesty MacDonald saw the King. So far typhoid (one imported) and one of leading the economy movement, from His Majesty taking any initia death from meningitis were reported to the health authorities. On Monto which Mr. Wells does not hesitate tive out of his Ministers' hands, day two enses of diphtherin

to apply the epithet "unintelligent", what I heard was that he said to reported. Deaths from pulmonary and he blames the Labour Ministers his Prime Minister"You have got tuberculosis Inst week totalled 44. for not speaking their minds on the us into this mess; you will have to subject of the Royal intervention. get us out of it." a sentiment which Now, from the point of view of I imagine most people in this coun- sensationalism and agreeable limetry would heartily endorse. light, all this is no doubt magnin-

It was a patriotle response by all cent. But it is neither true nor three parties that saved the situa cricket. There was no put-up job tion almost at the eleventh hour. If about our national emergency a possibly the Royal Influence was year ago. We had well on towards exerted to secure such co-operation, three million people on the dole,will any sano citizen venture to ime Industry was collapsing right and pugn its patriotic sagacity? left. We anved ourselves from currency stampede only by going off the gold standard and taking drastic steps in certain directions to make

were

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commonsense

not been

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We Must Pay as We Go

If we contrast the general situa-

tion then with the present ono, we

equality. It must be conceded that

Early this morning, a matshed was the Geneva conferences on disarma completely destroyed by fire which ment have been far from produc-broke out at the junction of Ki Lung tive of real results, and, in the Kowloon and Bloggkok Fire Brigades Street and Boundary Streat. The circumstances; German. Impatience turned out in response to a call. The can be readily understood. Whether matshed was occupied by Liu Yeung, i scaffolding contructor, and the Germany was wise in withdrawing damage is estimated to be about $309. from the Conference, however, is No-one was injured. another point. But the situation Mr. L. 11. King Chief Electrical can never be fully appreciated or

Engineer of the P.W.D., gave a most interesting talk from 20W station understood unless we take account inat evening on wireless, telegraphy, a of the grounds on which Germany subject on which his expert knowledge our Budget balance instead of show

is well-known. lie traced the history a deficit of about £160,000,000. got the measure of that pritical bases her claim. It is to be hoped of wireless up to the present day, and. Just for one brief moment Bagacity. But for what happoned that one, result of the pressing of pointed out that as far back as 1850 consider what would have happen. so swiftly last autumn, this country

experiments were being made in an ed. If things had

to-day would probably be howling this claim will be far more deter-endeavour to transmit signals without, pulled together by the National Bellons of starving and demented mined efforis than hitherto in the

the aid of intervening wires.

Government returned by the overstreet rioters and civil heiligerente. whelming direction of realising those prin-

of the But Mr. Wells calls it "unonlighted At the weekly tifin of the Hong-whole nation.

economy." Presumably he wanted. ciples which were NO clearly kong Rotary Club yesterday, Mr.

like Mr. Britling to see it through, redumbrated in the

Thomas C. Barringer gave a graphic Versnílies

What the Country Escaped

curious tastes. I He must have account of the terrible conditions

saw all the street fighting I wanted Treaty.

prevailing in Ruasia during the great With a huge Budget defleit run-in Franco and Belgium a few years famine of 3921-23. Mr. Barringer ning into nearly as much as the ago. was a member of the American Relief total of our pre-war Budgets, with more of it, here at home, and be- I am not hankering after Mission and he was able to give much

an evitable collapso the pound tween un-uniformed hooligans. first-hand information of the work done to aBeviate the sufferings of the sterling in sight, our statesmen What a gulf divides Mr. Wells, people. Ile was thanked for his might well regard the position as morcover, and most sane business S. W. Tso, who presided at the tiffin. must have ensued, in this over past economies as unintelligent, he illuminating address by the Hon. Dr. one of urgent national crisis. What people! If Mr. Wells regards even populated country, had we suddenly must surely view still further ones found ourselves not only annble to as sheer wickedness. Yet it is the find any money for the hungry un-settled, honest conviction of every employed queues outside our labour business man I know, without dia- exchanges, but actually no longer #imination of politics, that only able to purchase the vital food sup by still further and more drastic plies, on which our daily bread de national economics can we hope is too grim, too starkly terrifying more on an even keel. Wo are still penda, from oversena? The picture really to make this country ride onde for anyone to contemplate even in carrying far too much top-hamper, imagination. In reality it would as the old sallors phrase it. for the have meant the greatest tragedy in storms that are blowing. We must the history of civilised communities, stop living on capital, and pay our

assumes can-

THIEVES

Germany's claim to equality in Amerienn and the Far East. artaments is once again to the

The scare-warning of the Ger- fore, to-day's news revealing the man Nationalist Press regarding fact that the main object of the American intentions and prepara- suggested Five-Power Conference tions in the Far East will not be

Friends and admirers of Prof. in London is to deal with the taken very seriously by observers Harry Ore, the well-known planist, events in the past will be glad to hear that he is pay difficulty crented by German with- of political

twelve months. The United States inga brief visit to the Colony to give drawal from the Geneva

a pianoforte recital on Oct. 28. This is committed to a policy of apply-will take place in the Helenn May ference. Meanwhile, It is worthy ing moral pressure instead of Institute at 5.30 p.m. under the aus of note that since the British armed force.. With the friends of Society. Tickets at $1.30 ench finel: pices of the Hongkong Musicni Government saw fit to combat peace turning more and more away (xx) are obtainable now from the

German the

attitude.

from sanctions which involve war Secretary of the Institute and Messrs. several

as a means of keeping the peace.

Andersons and Trang Fonks. A lending British statesmen have

limited number of tickets at $2.20 the Stimson Doctrine of non-re- will be obtainable at the door, on the supported the Berlin claim. Vis-

How would Mr. H. G. Wells have way as we go. Otherwise we shall cognition of gains in territory afternoon of the concert. His pro- count Cecil, who long ago de-wrested by force.

gramme is a very varied one, con grasped with the problem of empty sooner or later encounter another clared that Germany had a moral siderable importance, although, Reethoven. Brabins. Chopin, Debussy, replenishing them, nearly three mil- last.

nining pieres by Bach, Scarlatti, State coffers, no possible means of economic crisis as menacing as the ́as well as a legal right to world dis-obviously, its ultimate value must John Ireland, Scriabine, Tachni on people out of work and utterly armument, recently, declared" that depend on its success.

No country can keep its head The value towsky, Liszt, and Harry Ore himself, dependent on the weekly dole, and above water that spends a quarter fifty million people menaced by and.of its gross carnings on running the Goman claim was irresistiblef oven a world-wide frown upon

den starvation? That was the itself. We have got to cut down or and must be realised by other States the use of war us an instrument

SOLDIERS CAPTURE prospect immediately ahend tho under. And a country that goes of international policy has not reducing their armaments. Mr. been proved. The League of Na-

time last year, and Mr. Wells ander is no fit country for bost very angry with the King, whom heller novelists to live in. But Arthur Henderson, the Chairman tions and the United States joined,

quite incorrectly accused of hendin hen, if it came to a crash, Mr. H. G. of the Disarmament Conference, { under the Stimson Doctrine, in

the economy campaign. Mr. Wells Wells could, I suppose, always see speaking at the same gathering, ex-telling Japan, that they would re-

whose political gospel has undert through somewhere in the South gone such periodical revisions, and of France--somewhere with a com- pressed his belief in the existence cognise no settlement of the Man-

Three men from the South who now

Bort Occupier churian question obtained by other Wales Borderers frustrated an Olympian intellectual of a large volume of opinion in than porceful means. So far this armed robbery at Happy Valley from ordinary politicians, must those conditions. I make no doubt of fortable capitalist hotel and an aloofness agreeably sheltered climate. Given favour of steps to meet the German "frown" has not been

lust night. Two Chinese are at have been listening to tittle-tittle. Mr. claim. Mr. Lloyd George, one of Japan is staying in

H. G. Wells would present in the cells at the Vanchai These absurd stories about what through for the duration. the two survivors of the "Big Four" More, she is extending her position the affair, and the early arrest of Manchuria. Police station In connexion with at the Versatiles Conference, has there. Actually she is violating a third in expected. gone even further, declaring that the Pact of Paris. Will the added The incident occurred shortly "the victorious Powers have shame-legal barrier raised by the Stimson before 9 p.m. when a young Chi- nese couple was crossing the Val- lessly broken fulth in the question Doctrine yet stop her? Will It

restrain Paraguay and Bolivia? fings they were suddenly accosted ley. Near the Jockey Club build- Will it halt any nation after war by three men, one of who is alleg- passions have been Inflamed? Pro-ed to have been armed with bably not. But neither would any kalfe, ordinary threat of sanctions. Andbers dragged a wristlet watch With little ceremony, the rob- if this denial of any fruits to from the girl's arm and pulled a aggression can be established as a fring, set with jade from her fin recognised part of international ger. Terrified, the girl screamed morality, it may well cause nationa for help.

of armaments."

effective.

AN ARMED ROBBERY FRUSTRATED

their

a

It is interesting, in this con- nexion, to recall that during the peace negotiations at Versailles, the late M. Clemenccaii, at the request of his colleagues, Mr. Lloyd George, President Woodrow Wilson and Slynor Orlando, wrote a letter in

to think twice before entering Nearby were three mon of the which he laid it down in black and upon war. Then it would have an

South Wales Borderers' and the white that German disarmament opportunity to operate before war brought them rushing to

cries of woman' in distress the must be deemed to be considered as passions were aroused. But it scene. The robbera fled, but the the first act in a general reduction will have value only as it is en-soldiers ran faster and secured of armaments. That view, more forced. If the nations say they two of

men. The third over, finds definite expression in the will not recognise warlike gains escaped. Veranilles Treaty, since, in the in-and then recognise them, the troduction to Part V, Germany than useless. There is little danger neods and powers. It would crys Stimson Doctrine will be worse regardless of shifts in national undertook to observe the specified of such a thing happening in the tailise the present in a world where disarmament provisions "to make Gran Chaco. But there is much to-day's justice becomen to-mor possible Introductory steps to danger of it happening in Man-row's injustice. But this ban on wards a general limitation of arma churia. What would that mean? the use of war to accomplish re- ments for all nations," Mr. Lloyd It would mean one inw for the adjustments can be made effective if George now says that this undoríttle nations, another law-or no it is followed by equally positive' standing has been ignored by the Stimson Doctrine is useful in an changes peaceably. The barring law-for the big nations. The efforts to Rchlova necessary former Allies, and, in dealing with emergency. The Longue has al- of war's machinery implies the the Gorman claim for equality, ho rondy used it as a face-saver in the use of peace machinery. The Fact declares that "the German revolt Far East. It has the value of of Paris Ionds direct to the door against the bad faith is not the keeping the issue open for settle of the World Court. The Stimaon result of a sudden explosion of Yet it tends, as does the Eact of straight down the path toward a mont after passions have cooled. Doctrino should take nations national pasalons, fanned by un-Paris, to "freeze" the status quo. workable consultative pact and scruplous agiation or malicious It would perpetuate boundaries, real arbitration.

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