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PEACE BALLOT

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A flying start has been made in England in the organisation of the Peace Ballot, the plans for which were sprung upon an unsuspecting publle a few weeks ago. The in- tention is to poll as many possible for people of both sexes over the age of 18, totalling some 35,000,000 at the present time, and It will be considered satisfactory an expression of opinion โล secured from a third of them, Obviously, even the vote of a third may be accepted as representative of the general feeling in the country. The Peaco Ballot calls for answers to five questions of fecting national policy, such as continued membership of

-disarmament, League,

-private manufacture of armis, annctions Lugainst an aggrossor. As an ex- periment in unofficial plebiscites it is an exceedingly interesting pro- ject.

VOICE OF PEOPLE

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The Peace Ballot will serve in a measure unattainable by any other means, the two supreme purposes of educating public opinion ard putting public opinton upon record, The first will follow from the presentation of the questions. But at the present critieni june- ture the second purpose is even more urgent. Where the British people stand must be known clear- ly and indisputably. Such know- ledge is necessary for the peace and security of Britain and of the whole world. The Ballot will have an unequalled usefulness, provided the public response is as expected, for the Govern- ment as well as for the League and friends of the League. It is understood that the British ex- ample Is being closely watched in other countries, in the hope that It will be widely imitated. The method is valuable in many ways; it might avên compel governments to listen to the voice of the people.

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THE NEW NATIONAL STRATEGY:

By Major-General Sir C. W. GWYNN.

The Very Idea!

OUR OWN CENSUS

Censualess

By Eddie Kelly, SINCE the Registration of Aliens Ordinance came into force in Hong-.

THERE can be little doubt that our guarantee of security, and the koug, 4,200 foreigners have supports the Government in its gic frontier. The security pro

the weight of public opinion enemy's coast line was our strate-registered their name with

The information contained

decision to revise the standards vided by the Navy gave us liberty the police. on which the Fighting Services to embark on adquisitive adven- have recently been maintained. It tures, sometimes with disastrous hag evidently become necessary that our national policy should have an adequate backing, to guarantee our security and to exerciso a restraining influence on any nation which may seek to rasort to war.

But the possession of armed forces la not in itself suficient. They must be prepared and held fa readiness for application on a well- defined strategic conception which has the will of the nation behind it. There exists, however, a marked divergence of view as to the lines our national strategy should follow, and the question is whether, under modern conditions, we have any real choice in the matter as la sometimes claimed.

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One school of thought assorts that in the Great War we departed, mistakenly, from our traditional national strategy by taking a direct part in the main struggle. It naserts that we should have confined our efforts to naval pres. sure and to detached operations designed indirectly to influence the events in the main theatre; and that, therefore, in any future war we should revert to this course, which is claimed to be our tradi- tional strategy. The other school maintains that in the Great War we could not, In the first instance, at any rate, have left Belgium and France without direct assistance. Whether, when the War had stabilised on the Western Front, we might with advantage have transferred our main effort to an- other theatre is a different matter, The first crisis had passed, and the entry of Turkey into the War in troduced new problems for solu- tion. The essential point is that,

in

the first critical period, no attempt to land expedition on the German coast, or an attack on her outlying possessions, would have been of material assistance to our Allies.

though not fatal results. Yet we in the registration forms is did not confine our offorts to dis said to be invaluable to the tant enterprises, but were pre- pared to intervene in the main authorities. theatre when, na at Waterloo, restoration of the peace of Europe was the main object.

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Unfortunately, it doesn't gó far enough.

The other day, for instance, a reader suggested that we should prominent talpans in the Colony. write some pen pictures of.,the

went to the polica were quite rude.

When we

To-day expansion is wiped off security and punco to use to the our alate and our sole objects are best advantage what, tvo bave nequired. The Navy remains our main guarantee of security, but, about it, they with the advent of air power, we said that what a taipan did after all recognise that it can no longer give us completo security. Our office hours was his own business, strategie frontier for Home de- and, anyway, people who lived in fence owing to the air threat lies glass houses, ote., and who were not on the const line, but in the we to go probing into other hinterland, of Western Europe. For that frontier we must bo

people's affairs. prepared to fight. We cannot However, there's a case of beer allow an enemy to cross it in order hanging in the balance na re to shorten the range of his air ward if we write these pen pic- attack while remaining ourselves at long range from his vulnerable tures, so, we have drawn up a pointa.

questionnaire of our own.

Obviously our own security is more than ever involved with that of France, Belgium and Holland, and our national strategy in the interests of security centres rount the problem of how we can come to their assistance if they are at tacked. Is there any way of rendering assistance under modern conditions, except by direct sup- port? The Navy has been de prived of much of its power of exercising pressure unless neutral Powers are prepared to waive objections, To Innd an army in the territory of a civillaed enemy possessing air forces and means of rapidly moving reinforcemonts to the point of attack is an opera tion which, if feasible at all, entails too many uncertainties to form an acceptable basis of any far-reaching plan. Even if base for air operations only was required, a port and a considerable extent of ground would have to be captured and held.

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Talpans are particularly re- quested to elly, this questionnaire, and forward it to us, together with next year's subscription to the Telegraph, at their earliest con- ventenco,

`TAIPAN CENSUS FORM

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Address......... Why? 'Girl Friend's Phone No.... Date of Birth.......... Why Place of Birth. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Why ? .... Colour of Hair.........Nosa..........Eyes....... Physical Deformities., Married....Why Y....And How?.. Size of Family.. Size of Wilo...

Festi

Maiden Namio of Wife... Married Name of Wiɑ....... Married?.... Why?..And How?.. Divorced... Why And How?..

Single 7.......Is. That So?... Have you ever (a) Murdered... (b). robbed........(a) nasuuited. (d) battered. ..(e)-kissed.. anyone 7 ...

Have you (a) asked her to marry

(d) saen

.(b)

allies who are in a position to

Direct intervention-to offer us port facilities and room assist

Arty and car Forex is the only you......(b) been married.. for the effective deployment of our niternative. And assistance must (c) been sold a pup.. be given without hesitation or man about a deg?.

turing lost ground. Moreover, in a father?, again with the necessity of reenp-single. (e) divorced.

Are you (a) married.

the interests of peace the greatest deterrent to an aggressor, is the (b)-single-r. (e)-divorced. knowledge that immediate and direct assistance will be given to the nation which would bear the brunt of his attack,

Would you like to be (a) married....

....(d) a:father7. How many times have you been. How many wives are still alive? Weight (lbs.). ..(cwts.).. (tons)

married?

Height

Capacity (quarts). .(pints).. Sex......Sex of wife.

Great Britain, like most other cial competition which the West

countries, has not yet discovered has to face from Eastern manu-any really satisfactory method of facturers. This fact was evid-dealing with socially deleterious ently in mind when, during the films and until they do there is very little that can be done to discussion on the annual report remove auch complaints as re of the Director of the Interna- made in Hongkong. The British tional Labour Conference at Board of Film Censors is a trade body, without absolute authority, Geneva recently, emphasis was and there is a strong feeling that That surely wax what Foch and laid on the desirability of calling it does not apply rigorously the Sir Henry Wilson meant when, as an advisory conference composed cerned with the welfare of the agreed that our Navy could not moral standards which those con-recorded in the latter's diary, they of representatives of Govern- young consider desirable. Hence bring appreciable relief to France. ments, employers and, workers it has been suggested that an Their conclusion, interpreted of Asiatic countries, with a view artistic censorship be established literally, was, of course, nonsense, delay If we are not to be faced) to considering the conditions of sede, the activities of the board. example of the extent to which to supplement, or even to super and it is sometimes quoted as an labour obtaining in the Far East. Among those most seriously work soldiers fall to appreciate aca This idea has the support of the Ing for the welfare and prosperity power. But may we not fairly as of art, there is little or no on:sume that these distinguished Asiatic Labour Congress, repre- thusiasm for an exclusively moral soldiers must have realised that sentative of Ceylonese, Indian censorship. Even the censorship not a man or a gun of our Army and Japanese workers, which of plays in England, which of late could be landed in France without has been exercised with the protection of the Navy, and met some, little. time ago at great discretion, at times has Colombo. One of the reasons banded against itself many of the the question of direct or indirect that they were merely discussing why International Labour Con- most eminent dramatista. An un-assistance? Putting aside the wise censorship, according to this many controversial questions con- ventions have not been givenview, might keep a masterpiece neeted with the Great War, should effect to in Asiatic countries is from. the public; and to guard

we be on safe ground in basing that they have been framed with against this disservice some per

our present-day strategy on pre- sons seem willing to allow the War history? special reference to European presentation of innumerable film conditions. The point is, how- or stage entertainments which ever, gradually being realised have neither artistic nor moral

merit, that if these conventions are to have any real value, they must be based on an international UNION OF FORCES ? Jabour code and a universal

Thus it happens that two in- standard, to which all nations fluential classes-those who dis- should adhere. If such stand-approve of worthless films 'on ards are laid down with existing artistle grounds, and those who,

ou disapprove of them

moral labour and industrial conditions grounds are disunited, with the in mind, there should be a far result that aims which both dislike greater prospect than at present are exhibited without any effective protest Such a situation gives of securing more ratifications of entisfaction to no one. Yet there the conventions. In China, is no real reason for this divorce particularly, the contract system the community. If there is

between the progressive sections of ono is one of the obstacles to be fact which the history of art and overcome. Under it, workers literature has really proved, it in are employed through contracthis: that no fundamentally im- moral work is artistically valuable, tors at low rates of wages, with On this foundation a union no direct relations between em- forces is surely possible. A move- ployers and workers, and, as is munt that had for its object the easily understandable, the sysing only to such films as made an granting of certificates of screen-

tom has given rise to great honcat effort after artistic merit abuses. Indeed, a delegate to might accomplish work of great the Geneva conference recently

cultural and social value. asked that body to take steps with a view to pressing for the conditions than those under abolition of the system. Hopes which the great majority at of action are now centred on the prosent labour. And, the move- calling of a special Asiatic Con-ment will have to be faced ference, in which connection the sooner or later. The disparity suggestion in advanced that the as between the West and the in wage and living standards Governments of the countries East is so marked, however, that chiefly concerned should sponsor very many years must einpse be such a stop. Whether such a foro any appreciable impression dovelopment is likely to occur the tendency must be in the is made thereon. None the less, remains to be seen. But it is direction of a gradual narrowing, becoming increasingly apparent of the gap, and this must that Asiatic workers are likely obviously be done by the raising as time goes on to demand better of Eastern atandards.

Timely assistance, all the more effective if it implies an element of danger, to the aggressor, is an obvious way of reducing the power of attack by strengthening that of (b) aleksha coolie......(d) fugive

Wan your father (a) a Loipan. defence, which the Disarmament Conference accepted as the most man......(0)

from a chain gang.............. (d) a polleo-

mystery?... When the Empire was expanding hopeful method of securing peace.

Was you mother (a) Mae West.. many of our distant enterprises To proclaim that never again (b) a Alm stur...(c). Mother had the object of acquiring now should we allow ourselves to be fucres......(d) Bfore than a Blather territory, and of consolidating our drawn into direct participation in to you?.. lines of sea communication quite a European conflict is to bury our as much as of affecting the Euro-head in the sand. No reliance on pean situation. The Navy waa (Continued on next column)

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u're not stopping for any firecrackóra! Daddy

big, Hurry and, besides, they're too dangerou

Do you like (a) Hongkong.... (b) women........(c) whisky 1.......

Do you (a) swear......(b), drink (c) lead a fast life (a) smoke?

If not, why are you living?. Are you (a) a fatpan.. the Loch Ness monster.. drunk.

broke.

(d) hopeful..

(1) married. anleg boy.............(h)_a' man. (i) the Editor of the Telegraph. wiso. (k) on the phone; (an eld. BorstallIan, Penkito......(n) a girl.. under,sye................(p) dying.

a living skeleton?.

If not, what. In the heck you?

Have you a dog?

Police know?...

Is it

..Has It rabies?. Have you (a) rabies...) babies?

Are you susceptible to (a) batics .....(b) rables...........(c) scabies!..

Have you (a) Hansamald's "knes.". ...palpitations.....(c) a thirst. ..., (d). immoral tendencies 7.

What's your ?

Have you a conscionco? Previous convictions ↑

outworn precedents' will enable us to escape the implications, of modern facts,

How, within tho, limita of teler- able sexpanditure, the Fighting. Servicos can be made adaptable to their duties as an Imperial Polico Force, and at the same time form An effective, Instrument for most ing the requirements of national: strategy, is a suficiently difficult problem in itself. < It w}}}' boʻlm- possible to and a solution as long as we are doubtful as to the course or action our security domande.