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NOTES OF THE BAY DANGEROUS CHESS GAME The Very Idea!

FEAR IN THE AIR-

IN THE PRACIFIC

By R. J. CRUIKSHANK THEN. Brigadier-General WI-

Wlam Mitchell recently told

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The device by which the big

the Federal Aviation Commission navy programine has been carried a

SO LONG SPEAKS By George

severe attack on cabaret dancing by the editor of University magazine

In common with the rest of the world, China is uneasy lest the time como when she will have to resist an attack by onemies in the air and will be found unprepared. Latterly, particularly in Canton, paign for the development of anti- thore has been a protracted cam- aircraft defences. Even in Hong- kong we have seen steps takon to that "Japan is our most dangerous through Congress, with scarcely Morrison Centenary Num- experiment with the Colony's enemy and our planes should be a murmur, is a typically Roosevel ber finds an answer from a weapons which would moet un air designed to attack her," the effect tian demonstration to the art of female of the species who attack. There is feeling abroad in the United States was fimilar killing two birds with one that the monaco of war wil come

stone, sends her replies to some of from the sky: and little wonder! to that created by a person who The President feeds the starving the worst allegations under China has cause to know what air drops a loaded tea-tray in a sick and he gets the ships he wants the name of So Long. attacks can do to a city. More and room. more the Central Government is using the aerial weapon in its wars upon Communists the in- terior, and more and more the authorities are realising the de fencelessness of the modern Chinese cities against the flying bomber, Nanking's defences, it was found over the week-end in experimental manoeuvres, were by no dependable. In fact, the city was not oven given warning in time but few care to discuss 'la public. survey and a report (not, of course, the feet of the women.

America has come a long way

made public) on the strategic

sub- Ed: Through Cabaret Dancing, since the chaplain In Congress in value of the islands was McKinley's time prayed: "Lord, mitted to Mr. Claude A. Swanson, women, the faithful companions, the consolation of men, will be make us quick to resont insults," the Secretary of the Navy.

placed at men's service simply for The day after the, General made his This move brought an immediate a few farthinga. modest propoanl that 50 dirigibles response from Tokyo. Japan all-

merus

to douse Its lights from the sight of the attackera. The ricksha coollen and the people of the pourer quarters acted swiftly when the alarm was given, and their lamps were extinguished before the power station could shut down It they, poor souls, who have most need to fear the fire that drons from the sky.

UP-TO-DATE

There is another administration The General (Army Air Corps move which is especially note Dancing has a bad influence on Ed: In my opinion Cabaret. retired), who was court-martialled worthy, although scant attention the community. nine years ago for letting his has bean paid to it here. That is

So: In my opinion the com. tongue run away with him, had the survey of the Aleutian Islanda

munity has a bad influence on fractured the queer, hush that as a prospective United States Cabaret Dancing. surrounds the subject of Japan. unval base. Early In September It is one of those problems which the seven naval vessels operatin Ed: First of all it dégrades the

most intelligent men think about, in Alaskan waters completed their]

position of women.

So: First of all they tread on

So: Mon, the faithless com- should be built to destroy Japan in sonnced plans to construct power-panion, the desolation of women, two days, he was sternly rebuked ful naval bases on Hokkaido Island Can throw their feet at anybody by the New York newspapers, and in the Karlle Island to cope for a few cents (not always paid). "Doing the Devil's work." com-' with the mennee of the United El: From a noble high respect. mented the Post, "Japan is not States in establishing bases in the able position, wome will be thrown to the dust to become Chinese hotel a day or two ago and jour enemy," proclaimed the Warid¿Alentinn Islands," to quote a lend-- shot a general dend. China, too, Telegram,

mental servants, cnally sent from ing Japanese newspaptr. It was one corner of the room to the is up-to-date in this matter of

stated that the navy was sending other. political expediency. If a man oc

him down. The Rame thing is

An assaamin walked into

LE

is monarch is in the way, shoot If Amerlen in her present mood Admiral Shlozawa to the Islanda to

So: From

decen, vertical

Hongkong Telegraph. preached among certain factimis were not so profoundly attached to pick out a suitable spot for a base. poaltion, an awkward partner will

TUESDAY, NOV. 20, 1934.

THE WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA

Ed: Now when ladies can be

led to sell their bodies and souls. for gain, it is probable that they will worship mammon and prize nothing but gold,

Sa: Now when men can be per Buailed to sell their feet for our Kain. It is probable we shall wor- ship man and cease to prizo Dr. Schloss so much.

in Europe and America. In the peace it would, I suppose, be easy At their nearest point the Kurile often make us bite the dust. They recent U.S. federal elections we enough to create a first-class war Islands are about 650 miles from find it less easy to steer us from had an example.of this blood scare here. The cables from the Aleutians. So the sinister one corner to the other. thirsty psychology. Win at any Tokyo are constantly bringing game of chess in the Pacific goes price. If your opponents may get provocative statements from some en, and the bright eyes of Nippon more votes at the polls than you Dame-breathing militarist or an- watch with a seat-like intentness wish, turn a machine gun on him and his supporter. If you are another, the Japanese counter-parts every American move that has any Both from the standpoint of

exile from a state, you have every of General Mitchell, One reads of conceivable bearing on the situa- preventing the Gran Chaco dis-reason to wish the monarch of that the great success of books describtion. pute from involving other coun-You shout him.

state a quick and violent deathing the triumph of Japan over the tries, and for the sake of its own Alexander died.

That is why King United States In "the grent war of

It is sometimes asserted that the And now a little 1936," and of department stores prestige, it is to be hoped that boy is on his throne. is there stuging hideously life-like tableaux Japanese are a silent race and the the League of Nations, which someone, somewhere pluiting to of the same conflict.

Americans a voluble one, but in the Ed: Added to this, Cabaret enhanced its reputation in Latin kill this innocent instrument of

And, stealing gradually closer, Pacifle the roles are reversed, cannot but lead men to form a America by settling the Leticia government? It is not incontely-

comes the cold shadow of the The Tokyo militarists appear to low opinion of women, question, will sneered in ils able. We know, or rather we guess, Naynt Conference. Japan demands talk incessantly, and to find 'griny-{

what happened to the Russian

So: So low that he has to in- efforts to put an end to the war princes. Is civilisation--the civf equality with the United States Ances in the most unexpected quar dulge frequently to confirm his between Bolivia and Paraguayilsation of the mind, the taming of ja rejected, will the signal be given tion says nothing about Japan be

and Britain And, if that, demand 1ers. The Roosevelt Administra-idens in the matter. During the sitting of the Assem-the savage spirit, nearer to accom- for bly in September, the Argentine plishment? Or is humanity stand that can end only in war, bank diplomacy, but it continues to lay

race of naval armaments

|youd the friendly commonplaces of Republie, which is deeply inter-ing still?

ruptcy or revolution? One cannot Its defence plans. ested in the issue, offered a plan

help noticing a contrast between

|vanced"

men

should

Ed: The chivalrous spirit which stimulates men to win fair ladies by brave deeds, the roadincas with which men die for the female sex,

for the adjustment of the dis- DEFEAT OWN ENDS pute, which had been referred to Surely intelligent the Assembly by Bolivia.

So: The strong spirit, which Both realised that terrorism defeats its transferred her entire naval United States from Japan invari atimulates men to skin fair ladies belligerents have voiced approval own ends. Surely the day of re-strength to the Pacific the news ably Inquire, urbanely, of course, by hacking them round the floor: of a settlement by the League, form by bloodshed among ad-papers here loyally "played the why Uncle Sam and the Russian the readiness with which we sacri. by story down." The wishes of the Bear are hugging one another nice silk stockings for their grati- peoples but they disagree on procedure. passed. And yet it is among the Government that there should be affectionately after seventeen deation, will be things of the past, Bolivia, which is in armed posses-o-called "advanced" reactionaries no provocative screaming of the years of frigid non-recognition, Ourself: So, Ed, up and atom! sion of a large part of the Chaco, that terrorism finds most nourish engle were respected. But the Can it possibly have anything to prefers Article XV, in the hope ment. Revolutionists, and all naked act remalied for the world do with Japan's Asiatic offensive? | that a settlement might divide embryonte political murderers, to-note. Its meaning was certain-inquire the bland voices.- the disputed territory; Paraguay should take a course in history. ly not lost on the Tokyo Forelan On several occasions I have been

American sentiment and American The Japanese, have Another will be things of the past. have policy. When the United States preoccupation. Visitors to the

demands arbitration or settle. They would learn that the terrorist seldom accomplishes what he

.

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DUMB BELLES LETTRES

By Juliet Lowell. Who Won?

ment by the Permanent Court, plans; that almost invariably be States policy there is the decision of war between Japan and the l'ension Bureau,

of

that the

(signed).

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Office.

asked by friends at Washington As a further index of United | what Britain would do in the event thinking that its legal claims to touches off a chain of events of the Administration to build the United States. the whole Chaco would be uphold which his own ideals are over navy up to the full strength per know

Dock anybody Washington, D. C. by such a method. The special whelmed, Charlotte Corday killed mitted under the Loudon Treaty. Manchurian adventure, it has been

the answer? Since the Gentlemen: committee of the Lengue now Marat to end the bloodshed of the President Roosevelt's blue-water assumed here

Please put us on the pension list comes forward with a suggestion French revolution, and a bloodier policy has been cleverly incorpor Government is even

British as my husband and me fought all more sym-through the war. that a neutral supervisory com- terror than Marat ever dreamedated in the recovery programme.pathetic to Japan than it shows mitter be appointed to enforce led Lincoin to avenge the wrongs of public works! It fills the Washington friends ask, however, was the consequence. Booth Shipbuilding has become a branch itself in 'its public avowals. My

Hedda the cessation of hostilities by the of the Southern States, and the stomachs of destitute families in if that sympathy could possibly creation of a neutral zone to immediate reault was a which no further supplies of war reaction in

radical the dock towns. Therefore it is survive the breakdown of the Washington which dificult for the peacelovers to Naval Conference and the implied material be sent. It also urges caused untold misery among the remonstrate without appearing to throat to the security of Australia that within a month of this step Southerners, Russian terrorists deny brend to the hungry,

Fund Canada. being taken, pence negotiations killed the Czar and his nobles to be opened, and that a further bring the nution liberty, and to- two months he given for the not cross the Soviet border. And

day the revolution's heroes dure. belligerents to reach a decision. so it go. The fanatic tries to In order that matters be brought, mend by drastic action and creates to a head, the committee suga turmoil in which his own cause, gests that if one party accepts with all its merits, is swamped, the Assembly's recommendations and probably lost utterly and for and the other does not, the em ever.

bargo on army be raised in WHICH WAS WHICH? respect of the country which accepts. It is interesting, in Dean Inge has added a new sug- connection with the latter point, Reation to one of the most spirited to recall that Bolivia has already times. It is the theory that Shake- literary controversies of modern; voiced objection to the League speare wrote the works attributed sponsoring a arms embargo to Bacon. This hypotheals," says i without first ascertaining which the Morning Post, "discomfits country is in the wrong, since laconians, not by refuting their to withhold arms from the party arguments, but by adopting them." which is not the aggressor might The evidence that has been be discrimination. Actually, of was Shakespeare can be made accumulated in proving that Bacon course, no executive action can equally valid in proving that be taken by the League on the Shakespeare was Bacon. The matter; such action has to be philosophy that Puis through taken through the individunt Shakespeare's works mukes It decision of its members.. None easily conceivable that he could the less, the embargo at present write philosophy as such. At all in force has invested the events thero la a new angle in- decisions of the Governments jected into great literary contro- with a collective and interna-ed when Punch declared that it was versy which was by no means end- tional character, not as an act of persuaded that Shakespeare di commercial policy, but as a step not write the works attributed to taken to assist general action him, but that they were written for the purpose of terminating a by another man of the samo name. war and helping to achieve the

principal purposes of the League belligerents have by solemn pact Covenant. But there is a larger outlawed war as a means of set- principle at stake than that of tling quarrels; it thus follows the arms embargo, important as that in continuing to engage in that is. The fact is that the nostilitics, both are in the wrong.

"Oh, it was such fun. Everybody just stared at us."

My husband and me fought

all through the war.

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