1933-11-18 — Page 11

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1933.

THE DISARMAMENT STAGE-A WORLD SEEKING

CLOUDS ON HORIZON

IN FAR EAST

THE WHOLE OF EUROPE IN THE

GRIP OF FEAR -

THE "MENACE" OF GERMANY

(SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”).

The breakdown of the Disarmament Conference has cast a deep shadow over the whole world. States- men talk frankly of now conflicts. Charges and counter-charges, increasing in bitterness, emanate from council rooms. Out of Paris comes the allega- tion that Hitler plans to invade France through Switzerland. Out of Berlin comes a demand to arm on a weapon for weapon basis with France. Mos- cow charges a Chinese Eastern railway plot by Japan. Tokyo replies in ominous terms.

redne- Franco calls for Great Britain, } year test period, with no

for Gur- Italy, and the Unlied States to tien, and no increasOR

under an international present a united front against many,

Germany system. She supervision Germany's demands. sounds

er grant tas out the Soviet on itaya, "Disarm now stand in event of a Hitler coup. She threatens disclosures of treaty violations by Germany.

All the great Europeart powers are in a turmoil. Russia will do her atmost to avoid war, but will fight. Back in the wings, stands Japan, hor face a mask back of which no Occidental can sov.

The whole disarmament struc- ture is reeling. Japan announced hor withdrawal from the League of Nations and it is felt certain that she will refuse any proposal Rus- affecting her armaments. nia, in that case, assuredly would follow suit. If the Soviet took this course, then Poland and her neighbours also would baulk at arms reduction. And so on, town the list.

armament equality."

Control of armaments, it is nd- mitted, must be automatic, effec- tive, and permanent. But if that control reveals that some nation' has been hammering its plough shares into long-range guns and tossing away its pruning hooks to Lake up the manufacture of lethal gan, what then?

VIEWS DIFFER WIDELY.

Ami

Frauen says, "We should be able those weapons. Other nations to walk right in and confiscate rather doubt this course. the bronk between the French and the British views comes in the different ways in which they look at crime.

France looks at crime through the structure of Roman law: The accused is guilty until he proven FRANCE AND GERMANY,

his innocence. The British look The

and French

German out from the background of com. view-points are diametrically op mon law and hold that the man is posite on the way to start disar-innocent until he is proved guilty. mament. France calls for a four- Hence the possible split,

JAPAN'H QAS DEFENSE

GERMANY'S MANPOWER

UNITED STATES' PERIGIBLES

| FRANCE'S TANKS

Statesmen talk of disarmament but arsenals fovarishly ara being 'filled.

There is much talk of secret German armaments. There also is talk of various violations of the treaty of Versailles and the Locarno pact by Germany, which offer the other powers legal right

to

take penalizing stops. But everyone walts-and lights no mut- ches near the powder tusgazine.

The black shadow of Germany is not all shadowthere is substance,

ton.

LEFT OPENING FOR GERMANY.

It develops that when the Allies made their stringant restrictions on German armaments and German milltary training that they left the way wide open for organization of In superb "army of curcer" instand of the loss oflicient urmy of con- scription.

| ENGLAND'S HEAPOWER

| ITALY'S AIR ARMADA

world conference follows world conference

lip service is given pence Powerful new fighting machines are being built, for ale, land and 108. · hood of man is an every tongue, but every war is-attuned to the call of Mari,

the last 10 years in the conquered nation are fust coming to light, say officials in high places. They dis- close these alarming theories and facts, hatched in the land where Hitler now rules:

The next war will be n "shock" war, not a war of "mean," A high ly-trained force of artisan-soldiers, technically expert in their trades, would be rushed in to prevent huge enomy armies from assembling. working so rapidly and efelently that they would eliminate the dreary stalomate of tronch fighting.

NO WARNING OF WAR, There would he no warning, no mobilization. Hit Arst and explain afterward would be the method. Such is the pet principle of Gen. von Seekt, author of Germany's new and ominous plan of warfaro. The Relchswehr, instead of being Close contact between Industries cluster of local police, has be-and army, with methodical penses for conflict. fine fighting machine.time preparations And behind it is an irresistible would go far toward eliminating toward ultramilitariam.

the inequality between countries The subterranean activities of now permitted to manufacture war

Come

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Brother-

supplies without limit and Ger-urating, machine guns chattering, many, forbidden a to do. This bombs hurtling from the air, and would mean that stored-up arma- machinery humming on overtime ments would not be so important work in the world's armament fac-

taries. as believed in the past.

Finally, the matter of boating ploughshares into swords is a mat- tor of organization rather than of bulk.. The most innocent articlos, available for peaceful purposes, cotton and glycerins, form explo alves. War chemicals are produced ns is from the same materials grandma's rheumatism rub.

GERMANY "MAKES HAY."

This musle was heard from Iraq, where the Assyrn-Chialloans, A stubborn folk, must be chastened.

WARS RAGE.

And from Morocco, where the Pronch Farsign Legion and nativo troops are "pacifying" the Herbera of the Atlas.

And from Cuba and South Amor-

Added to this, the French plan

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PAGE THREE

PEACE?

“DEBUNKING"

"The Myth of Governor Byro, By Lord Olivior. Hogarth Press 15a.

There is only one thing that survi prises me in Lord Olivier's excellent book, and that is the title.

I should have" thought" that tho "myth" had long since been explod- od, and that all calm and unblassed) mon had realised the truth, If. not. in its detalls yet in its essence, 2

One doelsive and damning tact, at least, could not be donlod. Þyro "mado up what he was pleased to call his mind" that a riot, which ha magnißød Into a rebellion, had been! Inaligated by one of his political opponents, George William Gard don. For this fancy there was not -a škrød of evidenco. Eyro, how

ever, had Gordon scized by forcoj in a part of the country which was: not under martial law, transferred him to a district which was undor that law, had him tried, and had? him hanged, ·

There are countless other chargpa against him, but this is sufficient and it was this which Mill, Buxton, Frank Newman, Bright and tho rest of the noble band rightly sat In the forefront of their accusation

If, however, there dra

people who baliova in the "myth they should, rand Lord Olivier's admirable and crushing exposure, The gist of it ls, as might be ex pected, that Byro was loss criminal than stupid.

Ho was the victim of Invinçlble) ignorance; ho was sent to govern a people of whom he know nothing and ho was too obstinate oven to wish to learn. Ho had his merits:

he was exactly adapted for explor ing countries like Central Austras lla, in which there were no in-

But as a ruler of a populated tak ritory of any kind he was totally unfit. The story of the results of

Sa Germany is not labouring un-lea, where guns rear and Death der auch insurmountable handicaps walks, as the world has believed. She has

a major "pacifying" expedition inhabitants to be understood. had more than a decady to prepare, and that time has not been wasted, to Mauretania, probably with Spanish aid, which may lust for in the vlaw of exports.

The shadows of Germany and the two years...

The United States starts a paval crisis in the Far East are not the

building programme to the treaty only clouds,

feverish As disarmament delegates pre-limits: Japan begias a pared to settle down at the council mimicry.

So, on and on and on, goes the table, there came the full orchestral accompaniment of high explosives (advancement of world peace.

his stupidity is, as the "jacket asserts, almost incredible; but it is true; and it bas its lessons for us to-day.

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