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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935,

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MONDAY, JULY 22, 1930.

PARITY IN ARMAMENTS

unqualified declaration of tariff polley which Mr. J. H. Thomas

MUSSOLINI AND ABYSSINIA

By C. WARD PRICE

made in his survey of Dominion Lent took part in a League of them no reinforcements or sup

AST April the British Govern- | would be cut off. Italy could send

relations, says the Daily Mail. He stated what Mr. Baldwin announc ed in less definite terms Bome months ago, that "Instead of a system of restrictions and embar-

friction

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Nations vote of censure on Ger-plies, for the Mediterranean would many for rearming.

be closed by enemy aubmarines. What more likely than that the Abyssinian tribesmen, who for years have been raiding on the

Now, only two months later, the same Government hàs negotiated a

naval agreement which settles how

frontier, would take the oppor-

goes, which leads to all manner of

the policy at which | Germany is to do it.

tunity to awoop down upon the we are aiming and the agreement

League resolutions leave unalter-isolated Italian garrisons? And which we are striving to obtain ised the necessity for facing facts. what greater Ignominy for tho a tariff with a substantial prefor-

be made.

once to the Dominions." We wel Next August another choice be-Fascist regime than to lose Colonics come that statement the more between fact and theory will have to founded by the democratic Govern-

ments which it displaced? Cause, as our readers well know, for years the Daily Mail has called . Mr. Anthony Eden, the newly ap- for a policy of straight tariffs of pointed British Cabinet Minister Mussolini's Immediate aim, there- the kind suggested by Mr. Thomas, for League Affairs, has already fore, is to put Eritrea and Italian with ample proference to the Do-played a prominent part in the Somaliland in a position to look minions, in place of the present efforts of that body to interfere after themselves, without support confused complex of quotas, restric-with Italian policy towards Abys- from home. For this purpose an

tions, levica, subsidies, and market- ing boards. The straight tariff alone can straighten out the awk

and bacon schemes, and thus secure

ish agriculture.

sinia.

If these efforts are

army of 100,000 white troops and 200,000 native auxiliaries is being renewed

The Very Idea!

NEW POLICE FORCE Insidious Propaganda Is

Having Its Effect

By Supt. Edward Kelly MH. Kelly, who has been read-

ing all the correspondence in * morning contemporary regard. ing film censorship, agrees with the correspondent who say that there's not enough consoring in Hongkong.

The dreadful influence of cer tain types of Alms on children

already well known, Mr. Kelly avers But what, he asks, of the influence of another and more in- sidious type of film on the adult population?

"Bring our censors to their cen- nors is Mr. Kelly's motio,

A pernicious American

tens to rock our Police Force system of propaganda threa- to its very foundation.

And when you rock a

ward tangle of the milk and beef when the present period of "arbit-created there, with arrangements police force to its founda- the solvency and stability of Brit-ration" ends in foredoomed failure for their supplies to be drawn from tion. it's no mean feet,

Italy, will leave the League, sources beyond the Red Sea. Japan left it. In consequence of That is the first of Italy's aims

We refer, of course, to the similar attempts to obstruct her in in East Africa. The second is to number of pictures that have Manchukuo.

secure ultimately for Italian settle-been screened lately, depict- Highly disciplined and energetic- ment some of the lofty Abyssinian ing the work of the Amer- ally led nations like the Japanese, plateau with its bracing. temperate ican police farces-forces.

climate and fertile soil. Germans, and Italians will not per-)

DELAY UNAVOIDABLE

Italy.

There must, unfortunately, bo delay before the new polley can be | applied energetically. The Argen

tine agreement prohibits further taxation of Argentine mest imports until November of next year, and the Danish agreement prevents limitation of Danish bacon imports till June 1936. But when the straight tariff is put into effect, let the Government make sure that forty years since war between Brit-confinos. Emigration is stopped There is no nonsense about it--in and France was only averted by foreign restrictions. The terri-will be equipped with sirens,

Any-day-now-the-riot-squad- that it is sufficiently high to give by the withdrawal of the French tory in Asia Minor promised by while dashboard radio seta will our farmers efficient protection and expedition which had occupied the Allies during the the Dominions generous prefer-

war was whisper, in the modulated voices. ences. The Empire must come be- Fashoda, on the Upper. Nile, and i never conquered. It la natural, employed by all Hongkong police Jore foreign interests. It offers an

so threatened to interfere with our, therefore, tlint Italy should look for sergeants, the magic words, "Call-, expanding market for our exports, occupation of the Sudan.

new outlets in Abysalnin, a country

ing all Cars!" whereas the foreign market is

Traffic police, are being trained to so backward and brutal that the dash up behind erring motorists on stationary or contracting. The

British Government fourteen years screaming motor-cycles and to ask, first principle in framing the tariff

ago protested against its admis-"Fresh gus, must be to encourage to the utmost

aion to the League of Nations.

eh? Where's the

food at home, and thus at once to

fire?" " British agriculture to grow more provide healthy employment for

Jabour British

insurance und against the risk of starvation in One of the earliest measures

mit third parties to meddle with whose area is about haif the size This insidious propaganda is their vital patriotic nimis, any of France, has 2,000,000 more in- already having its effect. more than this country would have habitants. Only by hard work and Since "Manhattan Melodrama” allowed it when she was building low standard of living can the was screened a movement has been started in Hongkong to up her own Empire. It is not yet Italian people exist in its cramped Americanise the Colony's Force.

"The reason why imitation, disarmament or agreement in the air is vital is because of the swiftness of the stroke from the air What we have to stop is that race in arms which can only end in bankruptcy and may end in war." Thus spoke Mr. Bald-war. win at a mass meeting held at

of Mr. Baldwin's new Government

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Italian feeling with regard to Abyssinia is as little appreciated in this country as our attitude in the

We went up to Police Head- Fashoda affair was understood on

quarters yesterday to interview As far back as the Continent.

Mr. Burlingham on the subject, but 1905 Britain, France, and Italy came to an agree-and bowler hats that will be issued he was too busy counting the cigars I have had better opportunities than most people of becoming tion of Abyssinia between them clothes detectives to see us,

ment which contemplated the partito Americanised Hongkong plain

the Albert Hall recently. In should be, in accordance with this acquainted with it. In Rome re-inta spheres of influence. Almostion, we can depict for our public

these words, he put his finger on the central point of the arms danger, and he also provided

grounds for the contention that the British Government should take the initiative with a view to getting an agreement to end the arms race and to ensure parity

However, with our usual imagina- polley, of guarantee the continu-cently I had an hour's private con- ance of the beet subsidy, since versation with Signor Mussolini France made a similar arrange-life of a young Hongkong polico-

at the same time Britain and oficial experts have declared the

the Incidents that will occur in the which mainly dealt with the Abys growth of that crop to be "essen tial to intensive cultivation."

ACCEPTABLE THEORY

at as low a figure as possible has been cheered by Mr. Thomas' Africa, to which many counterpartsinia do not clash with any inter-be raided. In the case of the for-

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If war were

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"Calling all Coral Calling all Cars! Publle Enemy No. Ï just entered the Dairy Farm speakeasy in Queen's Road. Bring him in!! Then, of course, the cars will tear down to Queen's Road and will. rush in and arrest us, just as we were gulping down the last of our Chocolate Malted Milk,,

"Stick 'em up, Kelly the ser-

sinian question. Similar talks in ment by which Britain, in return man when the new scheme comes each of the thirteen years since benised the right of the French Gov-

for a free hand in Egypt, recag-into operation.

There will, of course, have to be came to power have convinced me

ernment to of the sincerity and frackness with

penetrate Morocco,the periodical raids on the dreadful What France did in Morocco Italy infest this fair Colony.

speakenslex and night clubs that which he speaks on such occasions. If, as the Daily Mail believes, { "?"

now wants to do in Abyssinia..

We

foresce the heart of the "home" farmer

the European Italy, has two aims in East

These Italian ambitions in Abyssnational Club as the first joints to Y.M.C.A. and Women's Inter- definition of the tariff policy, it is can be found in our own history, ests of ours or of the French, Onmer, a dozen screaming police cars In the same speech. Mr. Baldwin altogether likely that there will be remarked that if there is to

an equally happy reaction in the The first is to protect what she has the contrary, the unruly chieftains will tear down Salisbury Road. be collective security, common'

Dominions. Unquestionably they got the second is to secure new sense, common honesty,

have benefited, and will benefit still territory for over-seus settlement. of the Abyssinian frontier-districts Axes will be employed by the police and further, from Great Britain's pre-

may some day become as aggres-10 gain admittance to the Y.M.C.A., common fairness demands that ferential treatment of their raw

sive against us in the Sudan as and the residenta will be suddenly all should put an equal amount minerals and fruits, and all the products. Their wheat and meat,

Eritrea and Somaliland may ap they have shown themselves to the surprised with the evidence of gullt pear to us insignificant possessions, Italians in Somaliland. By close in front of them. The bottles of into the pool. That is a state- countless products that go to make but they make up one half of Italy's on thirteen years of brilliant ad- Formazone, the draughts and the ment which should find general their revenue in pounds sterling row stripe of territory, 3,000 miles proofs of the benefits that his rule will be taken by the police na ex- Colonial Empire. They are nar-ministration Mussolini has given chess-boards and ping-pong tables acceptance. But in a system of one of their surest sources of pros- from Italian ports, and each of would bring to Abyssinia. The collective security, surely the more important place in the mar

hibits. perity, are gaining a more and

them with a long and vulnerable genius of the Head of the Italian Mr. Ingram will probably barri. measure of the equal.contribu-kets of the United Kingdom. The land frontier bordering on the most Government, which has transform-cade himself in his office with the

other Y.M.C.A. tion should be collectively deter- theory of preference in tariffs is powerful and warlike country ined his own country, deserves

gangstera and mined. There cannot be any obviously. At the same time the 500,000 well-armed men.

must acceptable to these Dominions, Africa, which can put into the fleld wider field. By opposing its exten-shoot it out with the raiders.

alon to one of the last and most the police station's wave-length, Radio listeners, by tuning in to ground for each nation maintain- United Kingdom cannot afford to

backward of Independent native ing armaments at the same high relinquish its prestige in other than Europe, those little Italian Colonics progress of civilisation.

to break out in States we should be hindering the will hear juicy flashes of informa

tion. Such as- level which it would seek if it Empire markets for the sake of the Dominion producer. Britain's cus- were the single defender of its tomers are scattered all over the own security. It was on this globe. Not for a moment do we ground that there was recently

wish to discount the advantages of a solid system of Empire barter. some criticism of the British de-ndequately protected, but at the cision to fix air parity at the same time it would be a serious French level, the crities asking

loss to the British manufacturer why we should go up instead of down? Certainly it can be argued that if parity at the level of 1,500 planes will give security, so will parity at the level of 1,000 to the very limit, and if the British or 500 planes. And common-serious competition from foreign industrialist were not faced, with sense suggests, that, if agree-producers in the Dominions them- ment can be reached, parity at selves, and a low level is to be preferred to parity at a high level. If all the Great Powers stand for peace, as they declare, there ought really to be no question of a race in

an immediate understanding em- armaments. A system of collec-bracing all the principal Powers, tive security does not require the high parity would not have high or increasing. armaments, been decided upon. It is the and the thought suggests itself absence of that prospect which that if nations can trust one an-has necessitated, prompt action, other not to exceed a common in view of the danger of a swift figure based on a high level, they threat from the air, to which Mr. ought to be able to trust one an- Baldwin recently alluded. On other to abide loyally by an general principles, however, Bri- agreement fixing their strength tain stands by her desire for at a lower figure. It is not to world disarmament, and what- be doubted that Britain is anxi-ever else may be said about the ous for a world armament agree-recently-concluded naval agree ment, and that she has with the ment with Germany, there la 'greatest reluctance felt com- good reason to believe that the pelled to treble her Air Force. Government regarded it as a step Had there been any prospect of towards the end in view.

if, in pursuit of a leak-proof Em- pire preference scheme, the great industries were to sacriflee their All substantial trade in all other

than spheres of British control. Empire trade should be encouraged

even in Britain, we would be more ready to accept the by the Daily Mail, "Empire first" policy championed

"Now that they've all graduated and become engineers and lawyers, I wonder if I shouldn't have kept them home and taught them my trade."

geant will Bay

"Say, bo,"

we'll reply. “You' ain't got a thing on us. We've got an alibi.”

"Give him the wolke, Joe," one of the dicks will say.

all

After they have given us the wolks then we rojoin their cars and wait for the next message.

"Calling all cars! Calling cara! (We're boginning to like this!), the loud speaker will ex- claim, "A woman is being murdered on the second floor of the Glouces }ter.

So the cars will proceed to the Gloucester, and the johns will uso their axes again to break down the door of ZBW's studio. Accidents like that are always llable to hap- pen, however, especially with some of our Hongkong singers.

Naturally, Mr. Burlingham will have to see that ROMANCE Is In- troduced into the Hongkong police force. Perhaps arrangements con be made for some of the Peak love- lies to co-operate in this matter.

All that is necessary is for them to be arrested and put in Victoria Gaol that is, ponĺbentiary, on a murder charge. The Sergeant- who-fell-in-love-with-her-when-he- arrested-ber-but-always-believed-in- her-innocence will move heaven-or, failing heaven, the Peak--and earth to find the guilty person, who' will be discovered Just as the (Continued on Page 7)