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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933.

WHY DE VALERA WON The Very Idea!

Jehol, the League will take its side in the fighting. It is not China, but Japan, which is mak ing war in Jehol. Misinformed comment of this kind is past comprehension. The position is simply stated. Japan is bent on subjugating Manchuria "accord-again...

By R. C. H. WAITHMAN

Mr. de Valera has done it building up Irish industries and about the land annuities, but this was the greatest thing.

Viewing the election now dis-

THIS WIRELESS AGE By Eddie "Marconi" Kally, While the races are on we have been, allowed to do pretty well as big shots have gone out to Happy we've liked in this office. All the

ing to programme." She is There are many in the evidently prepared to go much Free State who are saying passionately, as I believe (though Valle further. World opinion is now, and no doubt with you will never convince the Irish For a long time we've wanted

of it) Englishnten can and against her, and China, who has truth, that they expected it view it, we can see that as a but the Editor has always put his do to write something about wireless, broken no pact and has acted in all along: but there are many tactician Mr. de Valera was right foot down with a firm hand. Ho full accord with her undertak-more, and among them some an injustice, however, to suggest set.

It would be doing Mr. de Valera has a neighbour with a wireless The Rockne instrument panel.ings under the League Covenant, of Mr. de Valera's most that he set out to rouse the Irish contains "aviation" type instru is defending her own territory. loyal supporters, who if they tactiles in as a measure of "This column is for something fun- "No wireless," he always growls, ments which are attractively She has strong moral support, grouped and indirectly illuminat but if the situation becomes des speak truthfully will confess not.

that the result surprised them.

ed.

A turn of the switch key starts the engine. Free Wheel- Perate, she assuredly has a right ing control is located on the facia to look for something more at left of panel.

tangible.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

their kind fessional services.

The

China's Future

Hongkong Telegraph Government at Feiping, con-

WAR BREAKS OUT

and the immediate necessity for

THE TWO APPEALS

I am certain that he did

I doubt whether he said any single thing during the election that he did not believe. However wrong he may be. he is not a fraud.

ny."

However, with our Intimate knowledge of the subject, we think our Public should know something about the intricacies of wireless. Anyway, there'q no-one left in the office big enough to stop us from: writing about it.

The surprise is in the revelation THE YOUNG that so many Irishmen and Irish- VOTERS

The first thing about wireless is women have worked out for them-

finding the necessary to buy a act. selves, on different lines," the com- The "new voters," the young The best way to go about this is plicated election sum--and have people of both sexes, must have to price all the most expensive sets got the same answer, :|

polled heavily for him. That was on sale, and then, buying yourself aggressive and bravely romantic other gadgets, commence building expected. If you are young and about half a mile of wire and a few Mr. de Valera is your Ireland to-day. But there must

man in your own.

And let it be said right away also have voted for him some that it is a mistake to go in for a thousands of amall farmers, shop- circuit that is too simple. Be keepers and dealers who have ambitious, like us. Tor a start try obviously and admittedly suffered a. 12 valve super straight het. through the economic war with Britain.

The question, arithmetically, was this: Add together all the appeals to the head, and then sub- tract the total from the appeal to the heart.

The appeals to the head were more cogently advanced never than they have been during the last three weeks by Mr. Cosgrave and his allies.

They showed how necessary to Ireland's material prosperity was the return of the British market, now virtually lost, to the Irish farmers.

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When you have puzzled out the How else can you explain these pak-a-pu ticket, or circuit, the Fotes except in terms of enthus- next thing is to apply the voltage asm for a man who is set up in potentiometer across the paddle- their minds as the representative resistance goggleswizzer, thus causing a short circuit and blowing of inherent Itish ideals?

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take a brisk walk to Shaukiwan and back to recover the right poise.

The work finally completed you Mr. de Valera does not want, it will find that there are sufficient

parts over for another 1% sets. These can be kept as spares.

The great, moment has now ar-

Hever

Few observers have been so consistently accurate in their predictions of the course of. events in China as Mr. J. O. P. Bland, who has been closely con- nected with Chinese affairs for the past forty years. In reading Mr. Bland's new book, "China: Mrs. C. M. Soares and Family tender The Pity of It," we therefore sincere thanks to their relatives turn with especial interest to his and friends for the many kind forecast of the future. This is expressions of sympathy on the summarized in his final chapter, occasion of their recent bereave as follows: Failing the inter- ment; and for floral tributes sent and attendance at the funeral. vention of the Powers, in some Also they thank the Doctors for form calculated to check effec- and prompt protivly the forces now making for disintegration, all the facts of

But it will be a serious mistake out all the valves (12 at, say, $5 the situation point to the pro- They proved the advantages of Valera and his Government are brats. who, of course, will be look- to assume that because Mr. de each). Then when one of the bability of an early declaration a polley which would attract going back to the next Dail the ing on, wants to know if you can baby independent Northern capital to be invested in Ireland. Free State will become a republic walk calmly out of the house and make the funny noise again, just They outlined the means by within the next few months. trolled by the chiefs of the old which the markets and the capital. Antu and Peiyang political could be secured, and on the top

NO REPUBLIC- YET groups, and that this move will of that they set out a complete WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1983." be followed by a similar declara- plan whereby the Irish farmera

tion for the South on the part could at the same time be relieved least during the lifetime of this of the Cantonese leaders. Mr. of the financial worry of the land Dail-and it may be a five years' Bland adds that it cannot be annuities, so that there would be lifetime-a republic for the Free long before all semblance of na./nothing to prevent them from State. If he wanted it he would rived to try your model out. Try Japan's probable withdrawal tional unity in China is definite.plunging at once into a new era of have asked for a mandate to acto pick up, not a simple local sta-

plenty.

complish it; for that, scrupulously tion like ZBW or KZRM, but one- from the League of Nations, and ly dispelled." The writer de-

The vista was logically drawn; is his method. Probably he does of the remote ones, VKSME Mel- her determination to seize Jehol clares that "to an educated Chin-

the finished picture

imnot want a Free State republic at bourne will do for

all. He does passionately want a morgue-like silence may-in fact, a start. A at any cost, clearly demonstrates ese mind, there would be nothing

pressive.. catastrophic, or even surprising,

United Ireland without a border probably will--be the fact that she is prepared in such a denouement," but con-

But while it was being built up between North and South, but so Stilk

the result. to defy world opinion and to go tinues that "for the foreign po. Mr. de Valern out in the do all parties, left and right, in the pherics may not be suitable. Try despair. Atmos- market Free State. her own way. War is again wers, it would mean & dramatic country, driving from breaking out in the Far East; end to the fond hopes and con- down from square wooden plat work as hard as he can to bring

instead XGOA, Nanking, which place to market place, looking

You may take it that he will is nearer home. Again silence. carrying with it possibilities of the powerful blare, the Now approach carefully, so as which no-one can see the end in the Washington. agreements, on to the whle town, and sayingSouth, but that is not an affair of local station. Silence again, The responsibility for shatter-new policies in China, based on

"Let us show Britain and all the immediate politics.

which will be broken by the wife Yet he has never, to my know- remarking that she thinks some ing the fabric of peace must lie realities no longer deniable." world that the Irish nation is on of Japan. Without going into Mr. Bland believes that for the march again--marching to ac-ledge, even said that if he were thing must be wrong with the set. complish those things for which granted this wish to-morrow he Let the unwomanly sneer pasa. the niceties of the situation, it twenty years he has been a generations of Irishmen have would want that united Ireland to Clear the house, take your set to must be obvious that the rest because he has insisted that the

"voice crying in the wilderness," striven"

be a republic cut off altogether pieces, reassemble it, and keep on of the world cannot be wrong Chinese Republic has never ex-

Let Mr. Cosgrave and his ex-from the British Commonwealth. doing so until you have it in work-

vigorously What does Mr. de Valera want? ing order... and Japan alone right. The un-isted in anything but name, and quote figures with a startling and A highly-placed Irishman in Meanwhile, avoid brooding on animity of opinion in Geneva, that Chinese leaders have never inescapable moral; let Mr. Frank Dublin told me the other day that the 11-timed jokes of members of amongst both the big Powers intended to westernize or mod-MacDermott and his band of the English were too self-centred your family and your "friends". and the smaller nations, should ernize their Government or in-Centre Party orators plead never ever to understand an Irishman's Keep your temper at all hazards. Men who have failed to do so have stitutions. In fact, he has con- so powerfully for the abolition of feelings. This, or something have tempered Japan's policies. tended that the Chinese would the poisonous party system- like it, is one of the most common been known to sacrifice small for- Instead, it has seemingly only be wise not to reorganize their There was Mr. de Valera, being of all beliefs in Ireland, though tunes in radio apparatus in the served to stiffen her attitude. institutions on western lines. borne in triumph through the it seems to me to have as little course of brief bursts of uncon- Lord Lytton, in his speech in But he has felt, and still feels, little towns by torchbearers and truth as the romantic legend that trollable temper. Paris, declared that the day has that western countries have youths on horseback, and saying: men never understand women.

Nevertheless, I do not under- made a mistake in en- "No surrender! We want the stand what concrete goal Mr. de gone when any one nation can couraging Chinese leaders to right to determine our own Valera has in mind, and I do not be the arbiter of the action it break down their ancient social destiny! ...

believe that all his suporters may take in pursuit of its na-structure before they have any-

Mr. de Valera won the election understand it, either, tional aims. The League Co-thing suitable to replace it because he banked heavily on an

But I think Mr. de Valera has venant and the Kellogg Fact, he The result, he contends, has been appeal to Irish patriotism. He decided what he wants, and says, have changed all that. growing chaos in China, and he had other things to say about biding his time to say it.

sees no end to general disorder, The question thus arises-and unless the powers can attain a it is most pertinent to the pre- "common purpose of disinter- sent crisis-as to what is to be ested good will," which in the done when a country claims the last resort resolves itself into the right to be a law unto itself. If problem of reconciling the diver- gent Far Eastern policies and in- it is permitted to do precisely terests of the United States and what it chooses and to ignore its Japan." Apparently, Mr. Bland international obligations, what believes that such reconciliation becomes of the League Coven-is a possibility, but the United ant, the Kellogg Pact and all the States Government will be com- other peace machinery? Sure- tions in its Far Eastern policies. pelled to make decided modifica. ly it must be the concern of the The situation in Manchuria, for other signatories to these in- example, appears to him almost struments. Otherwise, what precisely the same as that exist- is to be the fate of small nations ing in 1904. At that time, Rus exposed to aggression from mili-sia had taken advantage of China's disorganization to ob- taristic countries? Must these tain control of Manchuria, Mon- signatories merely stand aloofgolia and. Korea. The outcome and do nothing to aid the vic-depended, not upon China, but tims? It so, the peace pacts are upon Japan. The Russo-Japan- utterly valueless. Japan has ese War followed. Today, Ja

pan has taken Russia's place, and been indicted by disinterested the outcome again depends, not nations for her policy in Man- upon China, but upon the United churia. Not only does she States. The question in Mr. choose to ignore this indict Bland's mind is whether the United States is prepared to ment, but she proceeds to ex-

fight for Manchuria, as Japan tend her military activities into

was. The title of Mr. Bland's Jehol and may even also invade book refers to the condition of China Proper. In these circum-the Chinese masses, which has stances, it is difficult to appre- become steadily worse under clate the remark of a London misrule. He believes that inter- intervention in China

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Tory journal that Chinese poli-alone could improve these condi-

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ticians have foolishly persuaded tions, but admits that it is un- themselves into believing that if likely the powers can agree upon they make war with Japan in any scheme of intervention.

"Willie's ideas are at odds with the Reconstruction Fin-

'ance Corporation."

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Which reminds us of the story of the two young radio enthusiasts. She was Home in dear old Eng- land. He was alone in the wilds of Hongkong. One night, whilst listening in. he, heard her sweet voice calling in the morse code. He threw over his switch and an- swered. The radio. friendship grew into love, and he proposed to herby wireless. She accepted. But, surrounded by wild beasts and shroffs and contracts, he could not leave Hongkong. So they agreed a wireless marriage. They were married.

to

The years rolled on, and at last he was free. The last shroff had been paid, and he could go Home. Home-England, and the little radio wife who was waiting for. him-who he had never seen..

She met him at the wharf, sur- rounded by the six children.

"Darling," she said blustingly, #they, too, came by wireless.”

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MUSICAL, NOTES. Cradgett's Tone-Poem, "Widdi- combe - Fair," was hearð for the first time over Z.B.W. This le a remarkable piece. Its com- plete, absence, of orchestration-it is scored only for two drums, cast- anets, and a bicycle bell-bears witness to the composers' economy of technique; and its comparativo brevity it only lasts for four minutes, during three of which the ball is ringing continuously-aug- gests that there are depths of musical profundity which even this masterpiece does not plumb. Per- haps this is not surprising for Gradgett, when he wrote it, was only five. But, within its limits, what a marvel "Widdicombe Fair" ial Its brio, ita elan, its contemp- tuous defiance of convention (who but the Infant Cradgett would have closed on that piercing whistle?) stamp it as something fundamen- tally different; and we, for one, abail lose no time' in bearing the plece again.

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