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THE HONGKONG

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MY 1934

THE CAR SUCCESS

of the YEAR STANDARD SALOON -£210

DE LUXE SALOON ~~£230

VAUXHALL BALEH GO UP AND UP

TELEGRAPH.

Leit Bummer Vauxhall spruce the blugest

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY THE

THE INSKIP BILL

dangerous experiment and insofar as it provides yet one more posi- tive form of interference with the liberties of the subject, it demands guarantees that its application ahall not extend upon the parti- cular evil which it is now sought to remedy.

THE DANGER

DEMOCRACY

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VITAL GUARANTEES

By SIR NORMAN ANGELL

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The Very Idea!

TO THE SPORTSMAN By Georgo

Dear George,

Our Bert has lately taker up playing Rugby and has been coming home in such a state that he has cuts and bruises all over, him. Only the other day the "frst team," whatever that is, were a man short and they on our Bert (kim being so good at overy- thing and so keen too). Well they sent him back fair awful- like. I thought he had been fighting and we put him to bad and sent for the doctor and ho says Bert must have been in the "scrum" or something. Well, we've always tried to keep our selves respectable-like and I told him so but he only laughed. 1 thought you might write to the

fatherlike boy

зулу and point out to him the error of his ways.

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"The Volunteer”

He leapt to the call unbidden Unneeded, overbold.

Hin face in earth is bidden, His mother's heart grows cold.

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"Shame on the reckless daring That answered swift the call: The proud and boyish bearing Now flat as the backyard wall."

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Oh, feet of the fearful forwards "That blurred the image true. Is this the thing you left mo?

Is this the thing we grow?"

Sir Thomas Inskip's new bill. designed to prevent and punish endeavours to allonate the loyalty of liis Majesty's Forces, will be subjected to a close scruitny before ita receives national approval. The purpose of the measure oners no occasion for criticism, will in- ET us take stock of the present eve of the war, to localise her deed be readily endorsed. Whe position of this country in action against France, to refrain ther It is Fanelst propaganda oration Lo Disarmament, the from occupation of Channel ports Communist propaganda, no govern League, our own defence policy; or from naval operations n mont can stand idle in the face of see why we have reached that Channel, not even the conditional bare-faced attempts to turn the position, and' in the light of those offer to respect Belgian neatrasity, army from guardians of peace and reasona examine the alternative met the needs of our case, which

must needs chil that German victory over security into a threat to existing which remain.

France and Russia would creats These main facts stand out: the Institutions. Nevertheless,

1. Concession from France sum. such preponderance of power, measure has ita' dangers. One of ta features is a provision making cient to make a disarmament agree. potential if not actual, as to deprive the mere possession of "seditious" ment with Germany feasible cantus of effective national defence.

Our entrance into the war was literature an offence, a provision only be obtained by giving France!

to! not due to specific grievance against which seems remarkably elastic, further security Karanteer. capable of being stretched to meet which large sections of British Germany, to any wrongs which we almost

any circumstances and opinion are opposed on the grounds were suffering at her hands, except lending itself to the peril of that the guarantees of the Locarno the wrong that her potentially pre- "frame-ups." Mr. Lawson doa-Treaties are all that France can ponderant power rendered our de- fonce ineffective-a point not to motoring surprise the Vauxhall Light Ex.erthen it as д tremendous and reasonably ask.

be overlooked when it is suggested 2. Blany of those in Britain who that Revision of the Treaty of have, in the past, opponed the Versailles would suffice to Locarne Trenties and the commit-Germany's position. We had no ments of the League Covenant are Treaty of Versailles to revise in now in favour of a definite milltary 1914. alliance with France. Quite à Further, we made the discovery number of newspapers which have that if Germany's potential pre- been critical alike of Locarno and ponderance threatened our defence,

Yours thankfully, the League favour this alliance. we had to meet her power wherever

(Mrs.) Ada Huggles. 3. Such an alliance will become it manifested itself-in the distant obviously indispensable to ouristes of the Pacffe or In the Ara- To this we promptly replied and national defence if the attempt to bian deserts, as much as on the after sternly and emphatically All legislation, however well-create a collective system or the battlefield of France or Beiglum. dicated by Sir Thomas Inskip, con- disarmament fails. Isolationism is Germany or threntioned, along the lines in- Lengue system is abandoned and We do not protect France against refuting the idea that wo had ans Germany against right to be father-like to young tains within itself many of the In- quite incompatible with any system France by guaranteeing frontiers. Bert, appended the following fringements upon democratic prin- | of armed defence since an alliance Such guarantees do not solve the verse as a lesson to the boy and ciples which it processes to avoid. Ja a source of power, like sub-probten of mullonal defence as we It is being rushed through Parlia-marines or battleships, either to saw it in 1914 and as France spes

an apology to the post. Sir Henry ment becauer, allegedly, an organi. our presumed rival or to ourselves. It to-day. If Germany provokes Newholt. sation aiming at a Fascist dictator. If he makes alliances we must, war with Francs or her allies an ship is conducting an intensive either fail to keep our end up or grounds having no relation to the campaign among the troops. avail ourselves of the same arm. thing frontier and defents France. Legislation of this type is obvious. Whether our armament ie adequate we should certainty oen be in no WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934. ly carrying the government itself or not will depend on what it has position to implement our Locarno

ape stage nearer to dictatorshin.

to meet. Indeed, the very torms guaruntoes, and the state of - "Adequate" or "Inadequate" ara gerency having ended the Treaties meaningless unless we GERMANY'S REPLY

say in any case, their terms in the approximately, "Adequate with or subsequent settlement with 3 du without assistance to meet whom?" feated France would be dia- Germany has now replied to

Several prominent Englishmen

4. If the French entente or regarded. the British enquiry for informa- recently united to anake a public

alliance comes into being-as it The new settlement. imposed tion regarding the heavily in-protest against the rising wave of quite certainly will in the cond! by the German victors this time,

discontent with democratic institutions indicated--and is of the old would not be better than the exist crensed appropriations in respect tions. All across Europe-from order, it will not be less entangling ing bad Treaties, it would be worse; of her Army, Navy and Air Germany, from Russia, from Italy, than the commitments of the not leaving lens grievances, but Force expenditure. Although from Austria, and trom

colicetive system, but more en-more; needing revision oven more the complete text of the German countries-comes a steadily Krow tangling. The position will once than the present.

ing chorus of derision for parlia

What France needs, and more resemble that of the years Note has not yet been made mentary government. Democracy,

1912-14, and the problem before us for; what the stability of Europe public, the material points have it is said, is a worn out think, and will be to prevent that situation and an effective defence policy for been published. From these. it liberty is an empty word; only by having the 1911 result.

Britain need, is not that we should an Iron-clad dictatorship can is clear that the German stand-people hope to meet the problems

5 We have to weigh two risks:guarantee this or that frontier, but that we should gaarantes pence; point is that no attempt is being of the modern world. All this, is better to accent that of giving guarantee, not that changes ar

guarantees and getting armament not made, but that changes are made to re-arm in defiance of echoes in the British Isles and national understanding; or

naturally, fs beginning to limitation and some basic inter- not made by war, by the preponder- Peace Treaty provisions. The these Englishmen, therefore, have

that ant power of one party to the din-

Pity the Moth! explanation in regard to Army called on their countrymen to rally attached to a new race in arma-

"Fighting the Moth" was the expenditure is that the bigger in defence of the democratic idealments in which we are free from Pute, by one of the litigants acting and to reaffirm their conviction of any pre-commitment. Note that as judge, guarantee the equal right vote is necessitated by the pre- the supreme Importance of human there was no publie pre-commit of both parties to impartial judg.title of a pugnacious pamphlet we ment, and above all, perhaps, received the other day and after parations during the present year liberty. That does not means thement in 1914. "Our hands were guarantee the observance of Disnr-tut-tutting over the revival of the for conversion of the Reichswehr imposition of one kind of dictator.

We shall understand the French mament, if we get a Convention.

armament question we were scarce- It is not equality of power into a short-service Army. As ship to save it from another.

position as to Locarno, and thetween litigants for which we should ly less rollfeved to find that the war this implies agreement with the

Inadequacy of these undertakings search so much as preponderance was not as we had supposed in the from the point of view of a nation of power for arbitration, the law air, but in the wardrobe. proposal for such conversion DEFENCE OF PRIVILEGES

Ranked by a rival of much larger which guarantees that a nation shall which is contained in the British Undoubtedly, the attack on the population deliberately indoctrinat-be secure from war wazed_by_a_ Personally we are all against Draft Convention on disurman-old, Anglo-Saxon concept of free-ed with the philosophy of wax, if rival litigant in order to make him fighting the moth especially with

we recall our own position in 1914, self judge, ment, that is no much to the dom is a menacing and contagious thing-chicily, perhaps, because wa

What really brought us into

An entente or alliance of the camphor balls and sanitex bago- good. With regard to the in- have grown so used to the blessings that war was the fear of the pre-war type with France, such na it sounds too much like modern ereased vote for the Navy, this is of liberty that we take them for potential preponderance of Ger- that now widely advocated, does warfare. Besides, having skinned A German victory over, not and cannot, ensure this. It most of the animals in creation and said to be necessitated for the granted. We pick up our daily

France and Russia would have might be pleasing enough to reac- thus robbed the moth of a decent paper, for instance, knowing that renovation of obsolete units, it will give us the news of the placed us in a position of such tionary French opinion, but it home it is only right that we should whilst the Air Force expenditure day, and that the editor will speak manifest inferiority as to deprive merely places Germany in the post-sheiter the poor creature in our his mind freely about current us of all means of defending our tion of inferiority wo refused to is claimed to cover replacement issues. We go to a political meet-national rights. In any dispute occupy in 1914.

own clothes. of Lufthansa material, wireless ing perfectly confident that tho wo should simply have had to bow We said then, in effect; German and direction-finding schemes, speaker will say precisely what he

to her verdict. Effective defence preponderance of pawer may soon development of overseas air pleases. If we don't like the of British national rights would be such as to deprive us of all means

be at an end. actions of our Mayor or M.P., wo transport, and measures for pro-wait our chance to vole against

of defendlug our national rights, a In such a situation none of Ger-position no free people should tection of the civil population him at the next election--nnd, against aerial attack. in this meanwhile, express ourselves AL way is the implication that Ger- bitterly as we choose to anyone who many intends to re-arm officially will laten. We rend such books as scouted, and if the explanations we wish to read, attend whatever are-a correct reflection of the children in the way that seems best church we please, educate our facts, there can be no ground for h

to 15. We don't look on the c criticism. Bearing in mind that things as privileges. They are Germany has long been girding part of our daily life. We hardly at the position of inequality in ean conceive of living under cir which she finds herself, it is cumstances where such things do scarcely to be wondered at that not exist. Yet we need to remem- these huge increases should have ber constantly that these are the aroused suspicion. The position very blessings of democracy which

now are under attack. now is that the explanations pro- fought and died that we might nuve People ferred will need to be analysed them and it is our task to defend in detail, with a view to testing them everlastingly, their reasonability. This is obviously a matter for experts, and until their considered judg- ment has been passed it would be

The Parliamentary Committee of unwise to jump to conclusions, Inquiry on the violent demonstra- either in the one direction or the tions in the streets is still sitting, other. The amounts budgetted and has reached no conclusion: bat are certainly extremely at least two books purporting to heavy, even when compared with February and the following days

be historics of the events the appropriations of countries have already appeared, and others which are not subjected to the are promised, while nearly

every- control imposed on Germany by one in Paris now has his mind made the terms of the Versaillesht for the

future, the Treaty. There is, however, one | Big accuse the Conimunista reassuring aspect about

emuggling

rins into reply-namely, that it does not war, and the Communists accuse the France, in preparation for civil take the stand that Germany has the Right of secretly arming for n made up her mind to re-arm and now Fascist Insurrection, though that, without further ado, she is neither side appears to be able to determined to pursue that policy, furnish any proof of what it so

what may. On the con- vehemently affirms. It

foreigner that a people whose

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MEN'S WEAR' STYLISTS.

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will test the sincerity of her arguing from assumptions motives.

fragile.

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many'a proposals, discussed on the (Continued on Page 10.)

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"Now remember, just enough to show them how it works.

You don't have to clean every rug in the house,”

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Weather Wise

Sauntering through the street a day or so ago in our spotless ducks we were aware that the dawn which had looked so bright and. warm through the closed window was not going to develop on the right lines.

Few other people thought so too judging that wo were alone in our summer splendour on the ferry.

By the time wo had crossed the harbour we felt about as uncom- fortable as the first man who car- ried on umbrella.

and com-

By the time we had got our ducks as far as the effco the weather was At for ducks drakes. The next day we promised with light flannela, a shirt and no waistcoat; but it didn't need the placards to shout "Coldest spell for nine years!" to tell us that we had made another mistake.

Not to be beaten, we appeared the next day clad in a rain-coat and clung to it all day despite the ancora and sympathetic enquiries: of aequaintances. Our forecast was right. It did rain but by that time overybody was home and any. way it was nearly dark.

To-day we shall be late at the office waiting to see what other people are wearing for despite what Abigail says, we think it.im' better to be uncomfortable, and in the fashion, than to be wonthor-. wiso and look fooliää,