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Power politics or a collectivo pence syste 17. Such are the alter- natives Cacing the world, according to Mr. Anthony Eden, Britain's Minister for League of Nations Affairs, in a striking speech in London recently. Mr. Eden did STUDEBAKER not define the phrase "power poli- ties," but he undoubtedly meant it to convey condemnation of the use of armed force, or a threat of arm- ed force, to gain a political end regardless of the rights either of the case in dispute or of other peo ple. It is on the moral side that power politics mainly differs from a collective peace system. For, as Mr. Eden indicated, collective peace system involves building up "an overwhelming potential force" as "the only sure defence against war." The only practical form in which such a system exists to-day, he went on, is the League of Na- tions. Membership of that body he regarda as "n privilege each nation should be proud to nasume, adding that if any nation fears for its security, then "its best course

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ANTI-PIRACY. PATROLS

9, 1935.

BRITAIN'S FIRST AIR ARMY

By RUSSELL STANNARD In the Daily Mail

is |

THIS week in the twenty-first carpentera; most of them were fully centration camp of a British army in a great military experiment. of the air.

In June 1914 The Daily Mail sent me to Salisbury Plain," where, in sight of Stonehenge, the scene of ancient sacrifice, were the eighty reroplance, one hundred pilots, and about three hundred mechanics, who largely constituted, with the exception of a small number of machines attached to the Navy, our sole air force, then known as the Royal Flying Corps.

These pioneer men and machines, brought together for the first time, were in numbers grossly inferior to the German and French flying ser- vices.

The only people in this country who thought seriously about the

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The Very Idea!

GUSH AND MUSH Being A Collection. From Kelly's Scrap Book

has

been

Edited By Eddie that no man should work more than thres Visiting their tents at night daya a week during the Kummer found some of these working out months. A hard-hearted Editor, like new idens or making model nero-all Editors, maintains that journalists I remember that there should work at least eight days a planes.

week.

A compromiss was one ambitious private who was

elected for the "Very Idea." Alr. busy with an instrument which he Kelly has consented to lightly dash

a column of witticisms on hoped would register air currents. off

Mondays, Wednesdaya and Fridays, While he is rehlccuperating on Tues- days and Thursdays he expects his countless supporters to assist in Bil. un both Mr. Kelly and the "Very Iden" colum

Mr. Kelly's idea is that anyone who valuable time in order to sit down foolish enough to give up his

and sweat over something_humorong column will he willy enough a for thin

to accept his offer to allow them to sign the elit at the hotel as sufficient payment for their cont

contribution. "After all, it's not every man who

Here are some of the orders for the day which Indicate that the Royal Flying Corps, however small in numbers, were at any rate mall as it was possible to anticipato prepared for war conditions so farin them in those vague times:

1

Taking photographs from machine of objects beneath.

Flying over bodies of troops to obtain a record of their numbers,

is to take its place in the League imminent possibility of air war description, and position, and trans- į gets, the opportunity to drink with and thereby obtain the benefit of fare, and indeed of any kind of mitting the information by wire-{■ Kelly,” Kft. Kelly said yesterday.

collective security."

OBLIGATIONS

Mr. Eden's thesis that there must be an overwhelming potential force

war involving huge armies in a world conflict, were a handful of so-called alarmists. The Daily Majl then, as now, repeatedly warned the nation that our unpreparedness for war was a menace to pešice,

less. to headquarters.

Searching the const for secret convoys.

Speeding after a balloon that had been sent off and lost to sight a short while previously.

Reconnoitring the country. Searching for named objects. One day several machines went

"Why even

Their Excellencles the Oficer Administering the Govern ment, the Commander-in-Chief and the General Officer Commanding havo not had that privilege yet!"

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most of Mr. Kelly's corres pondence is thrown into the w.p.b. immediately upon receipt (owing to Mr. Kelly's fear of the underhand get in touch with him), Intending methods employed by his creditors to contributors should not une envelopes with the chops of prominent firms printe on the covers.

behind the law to restrain ny potential law-breaker is an axion. Within two months of my visit that bases every national police that little air force was in France force and civilised government. and Belgium, flying over the ad-up and dropped dummy bombs. Every citizen has a wider obligation vancu bodies of the mightiest army This was the first mock air raid on than merely to submit himself and the world had ever seen, and that England. We thought it rather a his own quarrels to proper pro-nucleus of young British airmen joke, in the same year; on, cesses of law. If the and necessity was destined to grow, even while it Christmas Eve a German bomb hif| ORDERS IS ORDERS should arise, he is also charged with fought, into incomparably the finest England! the duty of preventing others from air power in the world war. When seeking to be a law unto them-pence came it was reduced to selves. Thus it is the collectivity position of hopeless inferiority in of citizens and not merely their numbers.

at

Speaking of the General Officer

I had first-hand experiences of Commanding reminds us (writes our unpreparedness for air warfare Mr. Kelly) of the story, probably home during the first few apocryphal, told of the Inte months following August 4, 1914, Inspector Roylance, affectionately when the bulk of that little band to his many friends as

"Ginger." of pilots and machines was, in France.

The story goes back to the good old days of Hongkong history. when the dollar was only ten- everything, and "Ginger" pence, everybody had plenty of brakesman on the Peak Trams..

WAA

One night, just as the car was

around for a few seconds.

can't be done. Orders is orders." "Sorry, sir" said "Ginger,"

It'll only be a couple of seconds.

"But, hang it all, my deah man; -

delegates, the police and armed I was received with exceptional forces, who in the last resort are cordiality, because the newspaper responsible for law and

order. represented was the only powerful Two questions inevitably arise outnavocate the flying pioneers had in of Mr. Eden's call for a collective those days. In command was በ

At an Ena Coast port where I pence system: Is the League pre- type of officer new to me-an Eng was stationed I rang up the com The question of the utility of pared to listen to complaints and ligh man of science in uniform, mander of a naval air station and the British naval anti-piracy to remedy any that are found to be all distinguished, unassuming. told him that there was news of patrols in the Bins Bay region justified? And if so, are the com-with the face of a thinker. He was was raised in a special article plainants ready to accept

a. Zeppelin on its way. The dan- the thirty years of age. which appeared in yesterday's | League's decision if it goes against in his little tent we discussed the Kers of attacks from airships were about to move out of the station,

not taken seriously by many people. Telegraph setting forth the cost their preconceived ideas of what posibilities of war in the air. What chance would those huge, una military officer rushed up and of the service and its relative that decision ought to be? To both all seemed highly imaginative and wieldy gasbags have against our appealed to "Ginger" to hang ineffectiveness under the exist-questions, the answer to-day is in unreal. There had never been any gunfire and our neroplanes?

That commander was not of that ing scheme of organisation. The the negative, This of course dues fighting in the air. What would main facts set out in the article back wringing its hands and refuse shooting at each other with pistols,tremely obliged to me for ringing not mean that the world' should sit happen when two airmen begun. opinion. Ineftlentally he was ex- were that during a period of to get on with the job of organis-rifles, machine-guns, or any weapon him up. Agilatedly. would I seven years the patrols haveing a collective peace system. On that was handiest in those coudi-please let him have any further Got some Indies coming along." cost well over £20,000; that in the contrary, it is a time for re-tions? over thirty piracies occurring doubled efforts, for as Mr. Eden during that time the pirates were justly remarks, the only sure way of keeping out of a great war is overwhelming potential force" on the side of peace is only one half of war prevention. The other half is unerring potential justice for every dispute, present and future, that disturbs the harmony which should be normal in all human rela- tionships.

"Sorry, sir. but orders 18 orders."

"Dammit, man; don't you know

able to land their loot and escape "to prevent it." But to provide opposing forces met in the air with quently had news of the movements who I am?"

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SUPREME COURT OF TASTE

speare, and Michael Drayton, the original members. But the plan poet, were suggested as two of the game to nothing. In the eighteenth century neademics were set up in Boston and Philadelphia. There have also been academies in other European countries, but, famous as some of them became, none has achieved anything like the celebrity of the great French Academy,

"No, sir."

"I'm the acting G.O.C." "Can't help it, sir, even if you're the acting G.O.D.," relort-

the

✔

Pitiful plight of Edward Kelly. well known philanderer. When he told his Peal girl friend (the blonde one) that Penk girls weren't half as wide awake, as the Kowloon ones, the chuned" him over the Peak sleepers..

A spot (can't get away from that word!) of verse:

Last night I held a little hand,

news? .... The Intelligence or- ganisation at this Lime was 80 What would happen when two limited that The Daily Mail fre-

capture; and that circumstances

scures of machines involved? What of enemy aircraft before our own are such, both in regard to re-

formation would they adopt?authorities could inform the various what reliance could corps commandefences. The commander. pro- sistance by piraled vessels and

ders place on reports and photo-ceeded to tell me in bitter accents in the matter of the vexed ques-

graphs of enemy tion as to when action by patroll-

brought in by the airmen?

movements that he would not be able to de any-ed "Ging."

thing if the Zepp did arrive. ing warships is justified, as to

Nobody knew.

I could spend all day over the throw serious donlit on the value

When war began on the western town. His seaplanes were of not of the present service. The

front there was not une aeroplane | the slightest use.... Fortunately, main item of cost incurred is

fitted with a machine-gun, although the Zepp did not come until six that relating to fuel consump>-

we had been experimenting with months after. tion, caused by the fact that the

them. When our men met the

Later I was sent to another port At the moment, when France is enemy, pilots and observers fired of greater strategic importance, vessels engaged in the service celebrating the three-hundredthaway with whatever weapon they where there were bodies of troops have to keep up a daily patrol anniversary of her renowned happened to have, including pistols, as well as warships. I had a tele- over an eighty-mile area; and it Academy. It is not surprising that shotguns, and even hand grenades. Iphone at my bedside in an hotel, is contended, with some show of the question should have been rais- Likewise the Germans,

¡so that the London office could give reason, that this money mighted whether Britain would not do

This officer with whom 3 talked is me immediate warning of any news be put to better purpose if the well to establish an institution for now Mujor-General. Sir Frederick of enemy aircraft.

herself, which, like the Academy',

Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff in I promised one of the military some convenient bay, there to be would elect into membership the 1918, the following year Controller officers in command there to give forty most eminent contemporary General of Civil Aviation, and sub- (him warning during the night ready for emergency calls when writers, to act as arbiters of taste Requently Governor of Bombayshank there be any possibility of they happen to be sent out. The distance of Hongkong from the guage and literature. The idea of Eunar Law.

and judgment in matters of lan- He married the daughter of Mr. Jan air attack, so that he could take some precautions to protect his extreme limits of the piracy zone a national Academy in England The rank and file were drawn men.... That was what our pro would make It imprudent for is not, of course, new. A proposal from the skilled trades-motorparedness was like In the early warships assigned to anti-piracy for one in London was seriously engineers, chauffeurs, tinsmiths, months of the war. work to remain moored in our considered in 1616, when Ben Jon- harbour, since the time factorson, the dramatist friend of Shake- would be important in the event of an S.O.S. being received from a point far removed from the Colony, A thought which na- turally suggests itself is that, even were these craft stationed in the heart of the zone, the old problem would remain of what action should be taken when a pirated ship is encountered. This, in view of past threats by

celebrated. Opponents of the pirates in control of such Academy are fond of insisting that vessel, is a ticklish question; yet many famous writers, including it can hardly, be "doubted that Rousseau, Balzac and Moliere, the presence of warships within never succeeded in gaining election the zone must exercise a re- to it, deducing therefrom that it is straining effect on the pirates, a conservative and slow-moving A matter of more immediate body. But, as Matthew Arnold long ago recognised, its services in concern is the ban which is at keeping the French language pare present placed on the landing of and logical, largely through its armed parties on Chinese terri- great dictionary, and in setting up tory. The Chinese authorities a standard of taste and good breed- have on many occasions expressing, have had an excellent effect ed their desire for co-operation upon the general body of French in anti-piracy work, and it does literature, preserving it from ex- seem that steps of real practical travagance and vulgarity. Whet value could be taken if they her the individualistic Anglo-Saxon would consent to an arrange temperament, which has always preferred genius to correctness, is ment under which pursuit of de-

well suited to such an Academy's camping pirates by British land- influence is still another matter. ing parties were permitted. The very fact, which must be well known to the pirates, that under employed and that a more effec- present conditions they need tive system of defence aboard fear no such action, of itself en-coasting vessels, should be de of vised. In view of the facts dis courages the commission piratical acts. On the question closed, It would appear desirable of the better use of the money that the whole question be-once I spent on fuel consumption, opin-again overhauled, with special ions may differ, but something reference to the value or other can be said-for the suggestions wise. of the existing system of that a better type of guard be patrols,

whose tercentenary is now being

"Oh, you are too! You're just as important as any man In

the world

- So dainty-and-80-sweet;

I thought my heart would surely

break,

So wildly did it bent.

No other hand in all the world. Could greater solace bring Than that sweet hand I held laat

night

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S. O. S. YOUR OLD MAN

Edward Kelly is going to get cut his ' old morse flash lamp to-night and signal to the Mid Lovel culle who's been disturbing Star Ferry passengers o' nights lately with her dots and dashes to someone on the other side of the harbour. On Sunday night Д couple of score Star Ferry pas sengers, with not a bit of romance, in their souls, crowded the rails, and conjectured as they watched the flashing lamp.

"Might be sples," said one, "wonder what he's saying now."

"Probably the police or naval people carrying out some experi- ments," said. another.

"D'you know, the Army has the whole of the Colony connected up' with morso lamps in

trouble," said a third.

caso

of

Edward Kelly, the brilliant tele. graphiet, deciphered the message for them:

"B-08-W-E· E-T~~~O«F»- Y»O-U: T-0. ———. T-HI»I»N«K< ........ Ø-FM-B D-E-A-R," he read”