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H. G WELLS LOOKS AT THE WORLD

In Interview With J. L. Hodson

ALAS! HOW MANY CAUSED THAT CAN PLEAD WELL FOR THEMSELVES IN THE COURTS OF WESTMINSTER, When I met Mr. H. G. Wells, a scoret treatics the Foreign Ofco AND YET IN THE GENERAL COURT short compact little man, unre was hiding, and the diplomatic OF THE UNIVERSE, AND FREE SOUL markable-looking in a blue suit, mind was all against definite war OF MAN, HAVE NO WORD TO UTTER! and black trilby hat, I wondered alms.

what this man, who wrote "Tho

But every time we captured a War in the Air” 24 years ago, few thousand Gormans and a hand- "The Ponce of the World" in 1915] ful of guns our war aims took o and "The Way the World is Going" jump upwards. Every time wo had in 1928, was thinking about the a roverso our alms went down and world to-day.

the Germans went up.

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The B.I. p.a. "Sirdhana" left Singa- pore for Hongkong on the 10th instant and is duo here this afternoon.

in England. It became the mark CONCURRE of a patriotic school to raise funds for the gallant defender, and very large amounts of money must have been collected' throughout China.

Then came the shattering blow. Japan organised the government of the new Manchuria, and al- though the new puppet-state had not yet been set up, was at pains to secure a voluntary Chinese ro- gime in the territory she had occu- pied. It was reported that General Ma had given in his submission, Blown to Mukden and been appoint- ed Minister of War. The country was at a loss. It had suffered an apparently supreme humiliation. It had rejoiced that one man had come out to oppose the enemy while it was smarting under the sense of impotence, and the mea- sure of the prido-succouring joy which had filled the hearts of patriots then was the measure of the now humiliation. His name was dropped from the papers. In conversation the subject was too painful to be referred to. So It was for a time, and then came the country another day when

Th F. and O. s.n. Corfu left Shang- hal for Hongkong on the 15th instant at 3.30 p.m. and is due here on Friday morning.

The Chineso friends of Mr. A. H. tion to him on Frday next, at 5 p.m. Ferguson have arranged a presenta in the Hongkong Hotel.

Ha talkod quietly—a serone, wlso man of 60, with appraising grey eyes and a searing, witty tongue You felt he found the world an amusing, eccentric place.

"Suppose," I said, "In five or ten yenra' time France and Germany are at war. Shall we be able to keep out of it?"

"If Holland and Switzoriand Mr, Wells demolishes reputa- could keep out of the last one," he tions as nonchalantly as if he were said, "we ought to be able to steer ordering coffee. Ho saya he is an clear of the next." old gentleman who still finds life We talked about France and the a man with a very simple mind moment was declaring Germany to interesting. He says drily he is French. I anid Herriot at the and a poor memory so that he in- be bent on an ultimato war of ro- sulta a man one day and meets him renge and would apparently listen soven days later and cannot under- to nothing. stand what is nmlas with the Mr. Wella's opinion of the fellow; he himself having forgot- Fronch, ridden, as he sees them, ten all about the insult.

by armament firms linked with the I said I was far more disturbed Press and by reactionary olemonte and depressed at the situation now in the army, is not high. French than five years ago. Wasn't ho? 'military authorities are doctrl- Owing to the Gloucester Restaur I gathered he wasn't; he had got naire and conservative. He be- ant being reserved for a wedding used to it; his hopes had diod Hoves it will have to be a stupid reception Thursday, the 17th before mine. His disillusionment nation that fails to defeat the instant, the usual ten dance will be goes a long way back. He told me French in the next war. cancelled for that day.

A sampan woman was fined $20 by Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning for failing to provide matting to pig crates.

on

At the meeting of the Y's Men's Club to be held at Lanc, Crawford's Restaurant on Thursday, Dr. E. I.. Allen will speak on "Idols of the Cave."

ho believes he invented the phrase The conversation turned back. "Tho war to end war." Ho was asked him what we men of radical pro-war til the Stockholm Con-mind are to do? I said as far na I forence in 1917 and anti-war after can see the mass of the British that.

people are more concerned with the "What about disarmament?" latest Aim atar than they are with Disarmament, he said, is econo-the international situation, and with mically impossible under a system football than with the threats of which cannot consume its produce war. I said that ex-Servico men and which, to maintain its fabric, in particular must feel sick of the requires enormous numbers of men way foreign policy is being handled, to be engaged in making not com- and tired to death of the politicians. modities, but sheer "waste," such who live in a world of their own, as munitions are. With real dia- Mr. Wolls is Inimitable at de.. armament our system would col-flating politicians. I remember he lapse all the sooner.

said of Lord Snowden; "Ah, he is a "Might not that be a good man with an unfortunate habit of thing?"

waking up too late, and punching No, he didn't think so. You belatedly with an accumulated couldn't start building from the punch." very bottom again...

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knowledge of accurate strength, plans and methods, and then disappeared from their view, to reappear in his old place in | Hellungkiang and at the head of his troops. It was the Japanese papers which now thbooed his

Sir Oswald Mosley does not im- But his view of disarmament de press him, either. This British name: it was in Japanese conversa-

pressed him less than

The Fascism, he said, reminded him of tions that mention of him was too FIGHT IN POST OFFICE World Economic Conference, hea London cabby pretending to be

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1932

THE EPIC OF MA CHAN-SHAN

me.

But there was nothing bitter about his manner. These wore his calma judgments, and they amuned him.

war

Three bandits, armed Since then Ma Chan-shan han

with carried on his masterly guerilla revolver, a hammer and other warfare against the enemy. That weapons, after a fierce struggle | Scientists and the Next War.

with the manager of a sub-post: Isn't it time the scientists start-

He went on to say we need a new it must be taken seriously may be office at Mansfield-road, Hamp-ed to tell us plainly what sort of grouping or party of men of liberal inferred from the report that the stend, N.W., caenped with money war the next is to be, what sort of mind-men of all sorts and Social Japanese military estimate that it from a till.

weapons we shall use? What's fam should not be excluded; Radl- the good of making battleships and cals who would be disciplined. That will require six years before

Mr. Newnam, the manager, who heavy guns if they're to be ob- was why he had used the phrase Manchuria can be pacified. His is 69, was knocked senseless by a solete?

Liberal "Fascisti" at the Liberal Mr. Wella anid: "The scientists Summer School. Left policy would can't tell you because it isn't they have to be anti-creditor and pro- who use the weapons but there debtor. A certain means of infla feared that the volunteer move- The premises are divided into a actionary fighting men. You can't tion was necessary, to reduce the ment of which he is the most con-sub-post oillee and a grocery busi- tell what they'll do, except that burden of dehta for one thing.

"How are you going to begin?- A man entered with a gun they are bound to make a mess of siderable figure may collapse asness,

in his hand and demanded money it. The last war ought to have how start it?" the winter comes on. But money

from two girls at the post oflice ended in 1917 if they had used the

He replied he did not know. He and supplies are being everywhere counter. The girls screamed, and tanks properly."

was trying to find out. Mean-Mr. Newnam tackled a second man He said he thought it time to prepared for his succour

He agreed when I said I doubted while his agents report that he who had just entered. They fell stop building £5,000,000 mammoth if war plays, war films and

Battleships, to the floor, and Mr. Newnam up-

books have any deterrent effect on Smaller and faster ones would be the now generation. "No," he said, bears a charmed life. A month or peared to be getting the better of The Eple of Ma Chan-shan is

two ago the Japanese reported the struggle when a third man, who much better. There was no sane "the young people have the old 1914 perhaps not yet to be sung, but categorically that he had been had been keeping watch on the proportion, he said, between the outlook."

pavement outside, ran in and costly weapons we fight wars with There seemed struck him on the hond.

and what we fight wars for. Ima-Criticism of the King. it seems certain that his story will killed in battle.

gine using £5,000,000 battleships to believe the report,

I reminded him of his criticism go down to history and likely that renson

The three men jumped into a car to fight with over Alsace-Lorraine of the King at the Liberal Summer it may some day find a singer. It though some Chinese sources standing nearby, which was driven What was the capital value of School. He was at once entirical

His denied it. Now it appears

Alsace-Lorraine? One of the about the Liberal and Labour Press stupidities of the last war was that being horrified at his criticism, and tory may afford him but a few he netually was in a desperately After an intensive search last-we never knew from moment to lines, but he will live in the tight corner.

His men were sur-ing some hours, Flying Squad off-moment what our precise war aims imitated for me Mr. George Lans-

cers interrogated three men, who were,

bury trembling with indignation. memory and imagination of the rounded and shelled, and there

afterwards went to

Unemployment became Insignificant the police When he wont to Crewe House to them, he said, by comparison people for long to come, and boys seemed not the slightest chance of station. The ruen were detained he tried to make the Foreign Office with this terrible, terrible outrage will live out again his adven. escape.

But though numbers fell for some time, but subsequently clear their minds and set our war on the inherent snobbery of the alms down. He didn't know of the nation. "After all," he said, "I' turous career and chuckle over his around him, he got away. It was left.

It will be no disadvantage on that field that a body was found to romance If his origins turn out closely resembling, and which in to be obscure, or his rise to fame the circumstances the Japanese be found to have been by the way He lives however, and necessarily were justified in taking for, his.

of banditry. Is not that indeed

is of the stuff of romance,

rusey.

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that away by another man.

of the very highways of without official support, carries on romance? When the Japanese

his war. If he does nothing else,

effected their coup-d'etat in Mon- he makes an heroic gesture and churia, Genoral Ma was engaged holds up the complete success of in one of the many civil wars of the Japanese occupation unt!} found by the the still chaotic new republic. It some solution be matters little on which side he was

governnients of the tangle of events which is the Manchurian fighting, though if we remember

affair. right he was "agin the govern ment." The outstanding fact is that while Marshal Chang Hauch- lang withdrew his leglons from Manchuria without striking a blow, and before the stand of the 19th Army at Shanghai had shown the world that to challenge the

Japanese force was not an im- possibility, he turned his arms Suddenly against the invader. the name of the Nonni River sprang into

fare. The bridge over the river was broken and the | Japanese forces wore up against |

| real difficulties. The nation rang with the name of the hero. His portrait was to be seen in every shop window: coloured prints were as widely distributed as

were

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pay about £5,000 a year income tax for the right of discussing English affairs.'

A torrent of abuse, it seems, was poured on him by letter; he laughed when he added his life was threat- ened; his equanimity was not, I imagine, seriously disturbed.

Mr. Montagu Norman, he remark. ed in passing, is almost as sacros- anet as the King. He thought, ha said with his dry smile, he would write a book about British finance, "The Mystery Men,' with two great figures of mystery moving through it-one of them Mr. Norman, the [other Zaharoff or Ivar Kreuger.

The Press did not escape his tongue. The way his remarks about the King resulted in somo new- papers suppressing the whole of his speech offended him, us. did tho way others printed his lighter or moro skittish phrases and left out the important parts.

"There's something girlish about our Press," he said. Newspapers were constantly looking for motives, too. Not long ago, in introducing

a lecturer at the London School of Economica, he had told his audience that probably a fair proportion of them would be gassed in the next. wara remark ho regards as per- fectly reasonable and likely. But he was accused of being deliberately sensational-a novelist advertising his books.

Lord Beaverbrook na Radical.

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Lord Beaverbrook's name cropped up. "I think ho la wrong in spirit in attacking the League of Nations," said Mr. Wells, "but he'll finish up ruinning a real Radical popor. He's (Continued on Page 8.)