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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY DIPLOMATIC

LINKED HANDS IN PACIFIC?

European diplomats are hinting these days that if the 1986 naval conference falls there will develop a new, far-reaching "understand- ing" between the United States and Great Britain in the Pacific.

BRIDGE GAMES

By GODFREY, LIAS

The Very Idea!

CHỊUNG CHÂU AND

By George

DEAR George,

I see that a num-

It is reported that the two nations acrobatic French Foreign Britain sees in the now Castern ber of ponies are returning would discuss a joint naval de Minister, M. Louis Barthou, Locarno a chance of lessening the to the Colony after vacation

fenco plan, reaching from Alaska

to Australia. Plans for conducting who is credited with the unusual possibility of having to intervene. and are now being mani- joint operations against a common accomplishment of being able to But it also wants to lessen the foo would be devised; new British walk across his room in the Qual danger that such intervention, if cured out of the griffin naval bases would be constructed d'Orsay on his hands, certainly made, will be carried on in the stage. in Australia, and wound be avall-preserved a most correct oquilį- faco able to American ships in case of brimental as well as physical powers outside the League-not-yet to follow the ponies in their of opposition from other Though still a grin I have need. All this, of course, is on the during his recent visit to Lon-ubly, of course, Uncle Sam.

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name, Centenary, for a multiplicity Britain's passive support for a prosent frontiers. It is Germany

lo London to try to get Great allies, are quite happy about their only pull with frequent stoppages.

Hongkong Telegraph.tions, to the pictures and buys was purely Olympean. He thought prospects of peace, cald Sir John

THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1934.

N.R.A.

REFORM

The news that the N.R.A. is to be reorganised and simplified by placing it on the same basis as the Federal Government con-

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Aunt Emma.

Fair With Rain, Then the two statesmen turned Weather Bureau Locarno

supposition that Japan will insist don, when he obtained a promise What Sir John and M. Barthou vacation trip and the more I on full naval equality and will of Great Britain's active diplo said to one another in their talks follow them the loss likely it thereby precipitato a naval con- male support of the Franco- at the Foreign Ofeo only a priscoms that I shall get any vaca struction race. It goes without Russian plan for an Eastern vileged few know. But what they tion at all. saying that there not the slight- Locarno,

thought runs something like this.

In flat racing I always scom to. est confirmation of the gossip at

In sober fact, he performed the The Frenchman, planning for his find an obstacle, and in hurdling alther Washington or Loudon. still more difficult feat of inducing country's security, which would be always fall flat and now that the The development might be a logien is English vis-n-vis, Sir John endangered by war anywhere in Government are taking three per one, at that. The nations have Simon, to invert, not his person, Europe, urged the conclusion of a cent of every six million dollara common interests in the Pacific. but the foreign policy which Sir mutunt asaintance treaty guaranit hardly seems worth my while It would hardly be surprising if John and his predecessors before teeing the inviolability of existing betting at all. they sought to find a common menna leave bene nys of Lord Curzon Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the always found that the most gontool

frontiera and signed by the Soviet of defending them,

Ever since the days

And about quiet parties. I have and Sir Edward Grey Great Baltic States and Germany. For parties are to be found at Kowloon. Britain has been saying, "There i | "ALL CENTENARY”

its help in bringing this about, Tong. Somehow Penk parties aro no security without disarmament." Franco would get a guarantee of apt to get a little high spirited, Melbourne has gone "ail Conton M. Barthou, Sir John has turned Germany were to cross the Franco-airs

To-day, under the expert tuition of assistance from Soviet Russia it due perhaps to the height of the ary". John Citizen there no himself about. No longer is dis- Gorman frontier. washes and shaves himself with armament the cause and security

After all decorum must be pre- Centenary soap, standa on E

Sir John replied that he had no served if it does mean stuffing a Centenary hath mat, dries himself the effect. He is now saying, al- objection provided that the obliga-sock into a gramophone or socking with a Centenary towel, puts on a most in no many words, "There is tions and guarantees were mutual, a tough on the cranial bone. Centenary shirt, Centenary socks no disarmament without security If Soviet Russla guarantees your Saturday and spent a gay time with I went to Cheung Chau on and shoes,

a suit of Centenary

frontier against Germany, he said tweed, and n Centenary tie. The M. Barthou-or as a wit has to M. Barthou, it must equally the missionaries and felly buge. Patents Office, in the last few ubiquity of his numerous diploma-M. Barthou, of course, agreed. He slats of a chair which I was too nicknamed him in view of the guarantee Germany's against you. The only traffic on the island con- weeks, has received hundreds of applications for rights to the tradetic journeyings, M. Partout-want and all France, and all France's lato to bag and a dog which would of commodities. As Jolin Citizen proposed East European mutual and her former allies which want it is across which, I am told is due The island is longer round than progresses, ho cats a Centenary assistance pact, generally called to change them. So, however to pler squared. Fancy finding breakfast food with an electro-after the plated spoon branded with map

similar plan already "mutual" the obligations and bene. squeeze at Cheung Chau! of Australia and the word "Can-operative in the wort the East fits may be on paper, they are in The only electricity is used for tenary". He then lights a Centenorg Locarno. M. Barthou got effect an insurance for the status working a dynamo which gives a ary cigarette or a pipe of Centenary after he had gone, Sir John die-

more than he wont for. Two days 9.

little light but it will be tobacco with a Centenary match.closed in the House of Commons

long time before it grows big enough As his office he writes on Centenary

Having got thus far, and under-for a tramway or even an electric paper and cats a Centenary biscult that the British ambassadors con- stood one another perfectly, the hair cut. with his morning and afternoon

cerned had already taken active, two statesmen turned to the Bri- ten. In the evening he takes Mira, steps in Berlin, Warsaw and Rome tish angle of the question. Great make the short trip to Hongkong However the inhabitants can John, after she has used Centenary to give the plan a good send-off. Britain's major interest is peace, for a tram ride and tear their own perfumery, and pre- Sir John's blessing, of course, This new pact may improve the hair out. her Centenary or Air Raco choco-vided it involved no British parti in spite of it? Great Britain, the idea an excellent one-pro- in effect, but supposing war came

The night life of the island is lates, after which he indulges in a

restricted to cuts and burglars Centenary stimulant. There are obligations of the new pact. At ocean trade routes, wants to be cipation either in the benefits or with her sen power and world-wide

though occasionally a honey- Centenary motor tyres and lubrica the present time, no British Goy-sure that if or when she has to

moon couple can be espled look- ing at the lights of Hongkong ting oils, cough-mixtures, starch, blue and clothes pegs. And John Right or Centre, could take any dispute, she shall do so with at

ornment, whether

and Macao and wishing wist- use her sea power in a European Loft,

fully for the madding crowd. Citizen will unquestionably wave a fresh commitments on the Centenary flag when be goes

The trouble about a honeymoon Con- any rate the tacit approval of that on the island is that if you have greet the Duke of Gloucester,

tinent of Europe without the other Anglo-Saxon sca, power, the anything to hide there is no-one certainty of being thrown out

United States. of THE IMPORTANCE OF

office. The mere suspicion that 50 it was arranged that if is no place to hide it, so why in to hide it from and if you do there M. Barthou was going to discuss M. Barthou is to get British sup- heck didn't you stay where you COMMAS

an Anglo-French alliance was port for the Eastern Locarno and enough to bring a downpour of the guarantee to Franco from Newn from contral Europe re-axious questions round Sir John's Soviet Russia, Great Britain must Anyway that's only my idea of stitutes a plain intimation that ports the recent suspension of two head in the House of Commons, inve French support for the bist Cheung Chau but next time I shall President Roosevelt does not papers because a journal printed take any fresh commitments, howly that part of it which provides what the place is really like.

Although Great Britain will not armament Convention, particular- take my own lemonade and see intend to be deflected from his from the same presses published a ever, she is not averse in certain purpose, despite criticism from of exclamation. The error had

question mark instead of a marke

consultation between the

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within and without. He will no political significance, for this

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nlready. She is bound by the broken. forward with his plans by the thirteenth stroke of a clock, dia- indications of substantial-up-- credited everything that had gone Furthermore, Mr. MacDonald's to..come to anything-Germany Dear Mr-Forecaster:

before. It is port for his policies which are forthcoming in the results of are not so summarily corrected, of the draft Disarmament Convening to change her frontiers. Sho I suppose you tell the newk- the State primary nominations, liowaver, for if they were, even tho in other lands in the event of any pact with Poland, pledging herself morrow." Then you

tion, to consult with its collegues has even signed a nonaggression Papers,

"Fair to-day and to Whatever the defects or short-

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Minister 28 "Mr.

the question of equality of status. It is this particular commitment Derby,

Lab?" These which really forms the background Sir John Simon persuaded M. fair chance of making good, or, full stops and commas, semicolons of the recent discussions between Barthou to make important con- what amounts to the same thing,eral in regard to apparent triviali- although it has not been mention- tion-always supposing, of courao, hyphens, and accuracy in gen. Sir John Simon and M. Barthou, cessions to Germany in this direc- are disinclined to permit any tics, are, in fact, of greatered in the public discusalona,

that Germany comes reversion to past policies. It is importance than would appear at Locarne and the League Coven- Eastern Locarno. admittedly early in the day as in the

first sight. Omitted, or inserted ant both involve Great Britain in yet to judge whether the the wrong place, they can change active intervention in other It is, naturally, not to be meaning of a passage, words, war-if fighting ever starts imagined that the Eastern Locarno | Roosevelt ideals are likely to re-sometimes with remarkable results, over certain questions. Great

Lord Dufferin's "Varieties of Vice- sult in final success.

(Continued on Page 4). It must be Regal Life in India," for example, remembered that N.R.A. was once appeared in nbook-seller's the product of despair and hope. Regal Life in India." Punctuation catalogue ne Varieties of Vice; When the National Industrial marks and accents, therefore, are Recovery Act was passed, the like the ordinary courtestes of American people were in a mood themselves, they make things go everyday life. Though small in to accept almost any programme.smoothly when properly used, and Congress mirrored the national at times they can become of vital mind fairly accurately in those days, and уда disposed to approve of practically anything fear being accused of pessimism that called for definite action. by atating that actually it has There was a widespread con- disillusionment has come, but done few of these things. Some viction that the only fatal this very disillusionment is, in a thing would be to drifting, and

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