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CAN "SANCTIONS" BE

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BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts

Some of these pensive flappers

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It is asserted that Hongkong is really air-minded. Oh Yairi

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BY SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA (Permanent Spanish Delegate to the League of Nations) The Geneva resolution censuring, nations feel themselves linked to Germany brings once more to the the alleged transgressor by ties, fore the question of economie and conversations, treaties, mutual pro- thancial sanctions. The idea of mises, and present or future in- sanction or penalty in natural, terests. Or else they find in their There can be no collective life with own past some episode which is not Relently different from the one under discussion to allow them to demand their pound of flesh with the inflexibility of Shylock dapper who boasts that she has Then there's the local lence very often the solution is been kissed in the air. We prefer hybrid, the decision vacillating, the firs and the text labyrinthine.

out punishment.

That is why all organisations created by man contain the provi-

ion of penalties.

Bunspots and outbreaks of mob violence. Colleeting statistics of revolutions, rebellions, riots, and other human upheavals, he is said to have found that for some 1,500 years the majority of them have I explains why the designers of occurred during the period when the League Covenant considered as sunspots were at their maximum. an important element of the new 16, which punishes The materialist, who declines to body Article believe that there are more things | violations of the system of pacife | in heaven and earth than are settlement of international dis- dreamt of in his philosophy, willputes, and in particular violations of dismiss the Ruggian's theory Articles 12. 1 and in, by measures

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nonsense, or at the most culn-which are to be taken against the

it cidence, Admittedly,

is not aggressor by all members of the diuft, when one has allowed a | Lenjeve. - theory to dominate one's mind, to

Experience, however, has shown find plenty of data in history, or that this article of the Covenant elsewhere 10 support it. Bul) surely, if it in admitted that the has given such insignificant results presne or absence of sunshine has but it would scarcely bis exaggerat- a profound effect on the outlook of to call them nil. It is worth Inman beings on life for the time while to review the reasons which being. It is not pressing the argu-may explain this check, inent much further to say that suu- First of all, there is a general. spots may in some unexplained way, reason: Article 16 is an article of the impel them to rise in revolt against | Covenant; hence anything which The existing order of thinga?

TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT

weakens the Covenant must | wenken Article 16. Now, na every

body knows, one of the most im- portant members of the League was amputated almost at birth, The United States, by refusing to THE GEAR LEVER

ratify, not the Treaty of Versailles, but the Covenant, deprived its With many ears the gear lever stipulations of all the effiency it is still loented on the driver's off- | emuld uply aspire to by being side and is connected with the gear- univeral. hox by a steel rod. It is Rom- times found that the gear lever sticks when an attempt is made to get it through the gate. Ench individual gear enn be engaged without trouble, but when the lever is moved in a sideways direction through neutral it tends to jam.

The case is a simple one. The cross-shaft attached to the lever is dirty and dry. The parts should

We wish all these proposed aerial schemes would come down to earth.

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That is why it is mistake---- Apparently, Braddock's oppon- natural and excusable enchent couldn't Baer the strain, but still a mistake-to wish to increase penalties in order to

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Suggested Study in SU Lifa.— combined nations. Thereby an Hongkong broker transacting attempt is made to strengthen the arma, whereas up to the present

อ ព it has been the brain and heart which have failed. But if we We averheard a lady remark follow the course of the sanction that she had just been through a from its legal beginnings, through local refrigerating room. This the political decision whereby its sort of thing leaves us cold. application in derided, renomle and financiul phase of

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its enforcement, we see new and A Jocal resident recently still more complex obstuclos arise | encircled the island in a to humper its efficacy.

Quite a number do so by road- Panandling.

O Let me substitute symbols which everybody can replice for the When one sees a couple of men names of the countries which suit husy perelfling these days, It's a them. Consider a nation A, of | safe bet they're working out what great economic strength, and un- they would have made if exchange. other B, of sunll weight. So far bad gone the other way. as A is concerned, economic rela- tions with B have no importance. But for B, the country A is its best client.

Hence, breaking off economic The weakness generalized and relations between A and B would spread to all the Aricles of the be a miner matter for A, but a Covenant, but of them, all Article | national disaster for B. What 16 was certainly the most affected. will do if the rest of the inter- In the long run, the participation national alphabet declare A to be essential to the engagementt not to

frequent have recourse to armed strife with- į case explains a good deal of the out first exhausting certain pacific opposition to the application of proceedings to resolve the dispute, penalties. but how can an economic and

cott? This relatively of the United States was 1101 a transgressor and demand a boy-

be free by injecting parafia oil financial boycott or a naval block-happen-anil, in fact, it has hap into them and then working them.ade be applied so long as one of the Afterwards a liberal supply of oil most powerful nations in the world should be used. The lever should remains again be worked backwards and simply unpredictable

indifferent, hostile Or forwards a number of times and then a little more uit should be introduced.

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Some of these people who claint to have "got in on the ground floor" often find themselves up the spout.

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A good exchange tip:-Write your name on the inside cover of the book before you lend it.

And then there was the old Indy who thought that a bullion broker was a soup specialist

seem to think that U. S. standa for Washington Government oMetals

Unlimited Spending.

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But there are others. It may Bened that a country M occupies A predominant position in a coun- try P, where it has large invest- ments, spread over many indua- trial and other interests. If P.

If Japan and Russia would only having been declared at fault, is go in for baseball seriously, they'd to be subjected to an economic have enough to worry about with boycott, what will happen? The out thinking of war. League's existence, that the prin- transgressor will take advantage cipal obstacle to the success of the of the circumstance to loosen the system of sanctions does not pro- ceed from the application of the measures it calls for. It proceeds from unwillingness to put the nat ter on record, from voluntary blind-

To this inhibition has been added An oilhole is generally provided, another not less important. It has but even if not, oiling the cross-been noticeable, in the course of the shaft and working it a few times carries the oil between the contact- ing surfaces.

ness to the act of the most obvious transgressor.

It is clear that this blindness

luctantly adopting a policy of economic nationalism, which is se rampant nowadays, Hongkong has not profited from it; in fact, it has been the loser. At the arises, as least in part, from the moment, this Colony is bearing a desire to avoid the application to heavy burden of administrative punishment which would be the logical consequence of explicit re- costs, which Sir William Peel in-cognition of the transgressor just dicated, in his farewell speech, as a father, who for particular rea- must be reduced if we are to en-sons does not want to punish his sure future prosperity. Govern-son, pretends not to see his mis. ment the world over has, in fact,

But this singular and certainly become a very expensive luxury, unexpected fact which characterises It has to be paid, housed and the first stage of the League's task, pensioned, and the concomitant this dislike of recognising that there has been a violation of the restrictions, duties and fees Covenant, arises equally from an- which are imposed are part of a other cause not less active. vicious circle, with trade the chief sufferer. Merchants, bank-

deeds.

Whatever the situation and how

its power to make this Colony the obvious port of call for air lines in these latitudes. There can be little doubt but that, before long. Japan and North China will have air connections with Europe, India, the Straits Settlements, the Dutch East Indies and Aus- A large percentage of this traffic should pass through or by Hongkong. It should mat- ter little to us who carries the traflie so long as Hongkong, by providing adequate facilities, such #9 first-class landing grounds, beacons, directional

not only attracts air services but encourages them to call here, The policy which made this sea- port what it is should be equally 65SESSSSSSSSSSSEES successful in developing the Colony as an airport. Every air line calling here will be an inducement to other lines to call for trans-shipment of passengers and mails, in which connection it should not be forgotten that it is the trans-shipment trade which has made Hongkong what it is, If the Government wakes up too late and finds air lines passingers, shipowners and manufactur-ever irregular it may be, all other ers want a chance to live by their north of us, through Canton, or south through the Philippines, own acumen and ability to meet because permits are either recompetition; they want to be fused or are "under considera- freed from the burden of restric tion," it will have much difficult-tions often designed to foster ty in diverting the traffic to schemes which are of no real Hongkong. British lines should, benefit to trade. We need in of course, be encouraged, but Ifongkong some of the keen civic business can only be held by spirit in evidence in the United lines giving good service at com-States, were innumerable facili- petitive rates, as witness the ties are offered to traders and shipping trade passing through transportation companies. Not the port. French, Dutch, Chin-only are these facilities and port ese, Japanese and American ser- advantages freely advertised, but vices will be flying this way in people are encouraged to settle course of time, and refusal of by the offering of sites and in!

It is this permits by Hongkong can only any other ways. succeed in diverting the traffic; spirit that we want to see adopt- it will not stop it. An analysis ed by the Government in en- of passengers and freight pass-couraging nir lines of all nations ing through this port will show to call here, irrespective of re- Once we get the that Hongkong itself is not of ciprocity.

We have trade, we can regulate it later. great importance. little traffic essentially our own How many of Britain's Colonics with which to bargain; our pros- "Beyond the Seas" would have perity in the past has resulted been developed had the pioneers from our geographical position of the past been fettered by un- as a port of call and trans-ship-necessary Board of Trade regula- ping point. Deep water and low tions, Simla passenger rules, charges have given us a big ad- Sunday permits, Foreshores Or- vantage with shipping, but at the dinances, discriminations against moment we have little to offer as aliens, and the like? Air travel an air-pori that cannot be found is still in its pioneer stage. Now nearby. The British flag has is the time to foster and en- Wake up Hong- long stood for a square deal and courage it. equal opportunity for all, and kong! Seize the golden oppor although the Empire is now re-tunity!

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According to the Home Mit will stop payment of divi- papers, the Liberal Party will con- dends, confiscate capital and centrate its efforts this Bummer plants, and thun draw profits from on promising candidates. We "punishment."

didn't know there was any other kind.

O D Which reminds us that the public doesn't mind a politician's hand- shaking and back-slapping so much tale, as his leg-pulling.

You will say that war would follow, that P would be defeated, and thus everything would come out all right, like a fairy

virtue irlumphant in the end. But

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Say what you like about Sully sanctions are for the purpose of

the argument is Rand. but many other celebrities avoiding war. poor, Thus the frets reveal little need an army of fans to make a by little the heart of the difficulty, living.

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A reader says he can judge n is legally and ethically justified. Life demands

woman's character by the type of that

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to divert economic life, What between watching the clock which has its own laws. The and the office thermometer, some (Continued on Page 4.) of our commercial assistants are

having a hard summer.

"That's the swell thing about me and Joe. He knows, I'm no heiress and I know he isn't a duke or a prince."

The plea for making Hongkong

a big airport suggests that it's better to be up in the air than down

in the dumps.

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The N. C. Daily News, writing in regard to the rables danger, says the Health Commissioner, in his annual report, is "bitingly severe" on the general apathy of An the public in this matter. instance of Vie 180 of the appropriate adjective.

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Then there was the woman who,

to remember something, changed another her wedding ring to finger-and then forgot she was married!

D O "Who has old clothes?" nsks an appeal being made to the public. Who hasn't?

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Scientists think the earth looks blue to the Martians. That's nothing. It looks blue to us, too..

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Music is the universal language and the only cure for war, anys a musician. And, jazz, of course, the war to end war.

"The increased world demand for sausages has created a short nge in tonnin gut, and Dunlop are now making speed string from rubber Intox and silk to take its place. So sausage-skin has been double-crossed again.