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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933.

WHY DE VALERA WON The Very Idea!

By R. C. H. "WAITHMAN

THIS WIRELESS AGE

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. comprehetision. The position is

By Eddie "Marconi" Kally. simply stated. Japan is bent on Mr. de Valera has done it building up Irish industries and

about the land annuities, but this While the races are on we have subjugating Manchuria "accord-again.

was the greatest thing.

been allowed to do pretty well as ing to programme." She is There are many in the

Viewing the election now dis- big shots have gone out to Happy wo've liked in this office. All 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

of it) Englishmen can and do to write something about wireless, For a long time we've wanted against her, and China, who has truth, that they expected it view it, we can see that as a broken no pact and has acted in all along: but there are many tactician Mr. de Valera was right foot down with a firm han but he but the Editor has always his 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 ings under the League Covenant, of Mr. de Valera's most that he set out to rouse the Irish is defending her own territory. loyal supporters, who if they tactics. I am certain measure of "This column is for something fun- She has strong moral support,

but if the situation becomes des-speak truthfully will confess not. perate, she assuredly has a right that the result surprised

them. to look for something more

THE TWO tangible.,

APPEALS

The

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

"J

"No wireless," he always growis,

that he did ny."

...

However, with I doubt whether he said any knowledge of the subject, we think our intimate single thing during the election our Public should know something that he did not, believe. However about the intricacies of wireless. wrong he may be, he is not a Anyway, there's no-one left in the fraud.

office big enough to "stop us from writing about it."

The first thing about wireless is finding the necessary to buy a set. The "new voters," the young

The beat way to go about this is people of both sexes, must have to price all the most expensive sets polled heavily for him. That was on sale, and then, buying yourself expected. If you are young and about half a mile of wire and a few aggressive and bravely romantic other gadgets, commence building Mr. de Valera is your man in your own. Ireland to-day. But there must 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 small farmers, shop-circuit that is too simple. Be obviously and admittedly suffered a 12 valve super straight het. keepers and dealers who have ambitious, like us. For a start try through the economic war with

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of the

The surprise is in the revelation | THE YOUNC China's Future

that so many Irishmen and Irish- VOTERS women have worked out for them- selves, on different lines, the com- Few observers have been so plicated election sum-and have consistently accurate in their got the same answer. predictions of the course of

question, arithmetically, events in China as Mr. J. O. P

was this: Add together all the Bland, who has been closely con-appeals to the head, and then sub. nected with Chinese affairs for tract the total from the appen! the past forty years. In reading to the heart Mr. Bland's new book, "China: Mrs. C. M. Soures and Family tender The Pity of It," we therefore sincere thanks to their relatives turn with especial interest to his

Britain.. and friends for the many kind forecast of the future. This is expressions of sympathy on the

When you have puzzled out the How else can you explain these pak-a-pu ticket, or circuit, the decasion of their recent bereave summarized in his final chapter, ment; and for florni tributes sent as follows: Failing the inter- They showed how necessary to votes except in terms of enthus- next thing is to apply the voltage and attendance at the funeral. vention of the Powers, in some Ireland's material prosperity was

lasm for a man who is set up in potentiometer across the paddle- Also they thank the Doctors for form calculated to check effecthe return of the British market, their minds as the representative resistance goggleswizzer, thus fessional ser and prompt protivly the forces now making for now virtually lost, to the Irish of inherent Irish ideals?

causing a short circuit and blowing disintegration, all the facts of farmers.

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 bability of an early declaration a policy which would attract going back to the next Dail the ing on, wants to know if you can of an 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 Hongkong Telegraph. Government at Peiping, con- They outlined the means by within the next few months.

trolled by the chiefs of the old which the markets and the capital

take a brisk walk to Shaukiwan Anfu and Peiyang political could be accored, and on the top

NO REPUBLIC

and back to. recover the right. YET.

pofsc. groups, and that this move will of that they set out a completo. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933. be followed by a similar declara-plan whereby the Irish farmers

The work finally completed you Mr. de Valera does not want, at will find that there are sufficient tion for the South on the part could at the same time he relieved least during the lifetime of this parts over for another 1% sets. of the Cantonese leaders.

Mr. of the financial worry of the land Dail-and it may be a five years' These can be kept as spares. Bland adds that "it cannot be annuities, so that there would be lifetime-a republic for the Free. The great moment has now ar long before all semblance of naplunging at once into a new era of have asked for a mandate to acto pick up, not a simple local, sta- nothing to prevent them from State. If he wanted it he would rived to try your model out. Try tional unity in China is definite-

plenty,

complish it; for that, scrupulously tion like ZBW or KZRM, but one ly dispelled." The writer de

The vista was logically drawn: 1s his method. Probably he does of the remote ones. VK3ME Mel- clares that "to an educated Chin-

the finished picture was im not want a Free State republic atbourne will do for a start. A cse mind, there would be nothing

all. He does passionately want a morgue-like silence may in fact, pressive. catastrophic, or even surprising,

United Ireland without a border probably will be the between North and South, but so Still, tinues that "for the foreign po- way. War is again wers, it would mean a dramatic breaking out in the Far East, end to the fond: hopes and can carrying with it possibilities of ceptions which found expression in the Washington agreements, and the immediate necessity for

The

!

WAR BREAKS OUT

Japan's probable withdrawal from the League of Nations, and her determination to seize Jehol at any cost, clearly demonstrates the fact that she is prepared in such a denouement," but con- But while it was being built up

to defy world opinion and to go

her own

ministers

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result.

which will be broken by the wife remarking that she thinks some- thing must be wrong with the Bet. Let the unwomanly an er DLBS.

Mr. de Valera, was out in the do all parties, left and right, in the pherics may not be suitable. Try never despair. Atmos- country, driving from market Free State. down from aquare 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 willis nearer home. Again silence. forms or from the backs of lorries about the merging of North and to avoid the powerful blare, the Now approach carefully, so as on to the whle town, and saying: South, but that is not an affair of local, station. Silenes which no-one can see the end. The responsibility for shatter-new policies in China, based on world that the Irish nation is on

"Let us show Britain and all the immediate politics.

again,

ing the fabric of peace must lie realities no longer deniable."

Yet he has never, to my know- on Japan. Without going into Mr. Bland believes that for the march again marching to ac-ledge, even said that if he were complish those things for which granted this wish to-morrow he 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 !"

bé a republic cut off altogether piecca, 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 Common-wealth. doing so until you have it in work-

What does Mr. de Valera want? | ing order. never 90 vigorously 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 ill-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 orator's plead never ever to understand an Irishman's Keep your temper at all hazards.

stitutions. In fact, he has con- so powerfully for the abolition of feelings. This, 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 bellefs 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 torchbearer's 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- gone when any one nation can couraging Chinese leaders to right

"No surrender! We want the stand what concrete goal Mr. de to determine cur 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 Pact, he The result, he contends, has been appeal to Irish patriotiem. He decided what he wants, and says, have changed all that. Towing chaos in China, and he had other things to say about hiding 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 it is permitted to do precisely terests of the United States and gent Far Eastern policies and in- 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-pelled to make decided modifica tions in its Far Eastern policies. ly it must be the concern of the The situation in Manchuria, for other signatories to these in- example, appears to him almost alruments. 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, Món- signatories merely atand alcof golia 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. To-day, Ja

pan has taken Russia's place, and heen 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 ment, but she proceeds to ex- United States; is prepared to tend her military activities into fight for Manchuria, as Japan Waa. The title of Mr. Bland's Tehol 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

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. | ciate the remark of a Londen misrule. He believes that inter-

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Tory journal that Chinese poli-national intervention in China ticians have foolishly persuaded tions, but admits that it is un- alone could improve these condi- themselves into believing that if likely the powers can agree upon they make war with Japan in any scheme of intervention. İ

or something

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

ance Corporation."

is

Men who have failed to do so have

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 wilde 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... her-by wireless. She accepted. But, surrounded by wild beasts and shroffs and contracts, he could not Leave Hongkong. So they agreed to a wireless marriage. They were married.

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 blushingly, "they, too, came by wireless."

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MUSICAL NOTES.

Cradgett's Tone-Poem, "Widdi combe Fair," was heard for the first time over 2.B.W. This is à 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 comparative brevity-ft only lasts for four minutes, during three of which the bell is ringing continuously--aug- gests that there are depths of musical profundity which even thía masterpiece does not plumb, Per- haps this la not surprising for Cradgett, when he wrote it, was only five. But, within its limits, what a marvel: "Widdicombe Fair"" is! Its brio, its elan, ita 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, shall, lose no time in hearing the piece again.