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WHO ARE HEROES ?

who

Bonator Clark, the PLAN sprang into prominence, in Washing- ton by declaring that the country was helpless to avoid entanglement In another major war, and who therefore suggested certain legisla. lon to safeguard the nation's neutrality, is maintaining his rather hopeless campaign for action in the face of the Administration's lack of interest. In the opinion of his own generation he will never be a great man, in all probability. The great men are those who awaken intense nationallam amongst their contemporaries, who instil into the hearts of the people a strong con- tempt for those powers which run contrary to their own policles, who create that bristling national do flance in the face of competition or opposition which has characterised the progressive belligerents of the past. We have known a few such men in history, and remember them with awe.

We know of one or two Buch figures in this present day and sometimes look upon them with feelings which their own country- men could not possibly comprehend, and certainly would not condone. We are fully equipped for any And yet such men live on, their nature of service.

memories reverenced by the nation which they may have led to untold Enquiries:-

pain and ultimate ruin. The great- est of them all, Napoleon, even his enemies must have admired. There was no doubt that his own people worshipped him. Remember how his Guards ralled when he escaped from Elba? Remember how they wept for him in his adversity and sacrificed their lives, their sturdy, gallant lives, that he might bring more glories home to France? Never was there a greater general, let us say; never a leader bettor faved: and yet, in the end, he led his glorious army to destruction at Waterloo, And the glories that were France's, which for a brief while had covered her wounds were

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the masses, are as brave, or braver than those other gentlemen who talk of mighty fleeta and armies and shout defiance to the world. And although Senator Clark, from a Missouri village, will never stand ambition. beside Napoleon, he has the saner He hopes to give his country peace.

VILLAINS WHO LOST AN EMPIRE

By TANGYE LEAN

By adopting the Declaration of Independence 159 years ago the United States of America broke away from the British Empire. Tangye Lean here des- cribes the dramatic situation in British politics which brought about this division of the English-speaking people.

IT was the end of the First British

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of Burke by whose sweetness Athens herself would have been acothed, with whose amplitude and exuberance she would have been enraptured, and on whose lips that prolific mother of genius and science would have, adored, confessed, the goddess of Inspiration.

Empire. Lord Chatham, bld and weak with pain, rose for the last time in the House of Lords. "His Majesty succeeded," came the alow words, "succeeded to an Em- pire as great in extent as lis reputation was unsullied. Seven- teen years ago this people was the "But terror of the world. he sagged back limply against his seat. Unconscious, he was carried home to die.

It had been a bad muddle, too stupid, too undignified to deserve that tragic curtain.

Fifteen years previously, a spec-bition of an obstinate King. tacular war had been fought which French power in annihilated America, and as a sequel it was proposed that the colonists on the of the Atlantic should far side

to the national Ex- contribute chequer.

In theory, perhaps, that plan was not unreasonable, but its adminis tration was carried out so feebly yet so provocatively that it would have inflamed the independent spirit of a colony of slaves.

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George H., whose education in most things was alight ("Was there ever such stuff as Shakspere?" he naked), had in his youth learnt this at least, that at all costs he must be a King.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1985.

atripped from her. And there were Partly by chance and partly by shears. Would Napoleon have Intention, the problem of taxing BRITAIN'S STAND

beon remembered had he fought the colonists became bound up with дл an autocratic The assertion that the session not in the battlefields but in his ambition

Parliament and for the neutrality monarch. George's method was to of the Council which meets, in of France? We err more often rule through Parliament by bribing Geneva to-day may determine than not in selecting the real hero it, and any attack on the sovereign ghts of that body became at once of the hour. The little, forgotten whether the League of Nations men who face the jeers of the moba attack upon himself. is to disappear altogether, or and the sneers of their colleagues Perhaps, too, he hoped that the when striving for some ideal be quarrel would unite the country become a real power for peace,yond the pitiful understanding of behind him. This it never did, adequately sums up a situation

and in the eyes of posterity those of the utmost gravity. Realis-

years of deplorable misgovernment stand out as a atruggle between ing the ill-effects which have

villains and heroes, with the fate arisen as a consequence of the

of America dependent on the issue, League's failure to see the ends

Prime Minister Lord North, and But the villains--George III., hie of justice served in the Man-

his lesser hirelings "the King's Friends"were not good villains. churia incident, Britain has

George was too sensible and too latterly been taking every possi-

commonplace to merit the 20 years ble step to organise collective

of raving lunacy in which he ended action by the civilised world to

his life. Lord North, formerly of Strangely enough, about a con- Eton and the House, was too good. prevent the outbreak of war in tury after James Bowman Lindsay, humoured and too charming an in- Abyssinia. She has been moved, a lonely pioneer, lit his attic room dividual to deserve the blindness in these efforts, as much by a with a crude electrical contrivance which closed his eyes for desire

"the King's Friends," they to see an equitable ad- and pointed the way to a new means And

of illumination, the first National were too obscure, tog un- justment of the crisis as by an Electrical Convention has been held distinguished in every way to be ́nnxiety ́to ́ ́uphold the League in Great Britain and has organized worthy of the opprobrium which as an instrument for the preser- problems

its forces for an attack upon the has been showered on them.

of the industry.

The vation of world peace. Attempts problems are many, for the indus-work; for by their mercenary But as villains they did their to confine the League discussion try has expanded rapidly in the weakness they made the integrity to one particular incident, in- problems are

intervening years. But the major of Burke and Chatham and Fox two: the need for stand out in a white blaze of stead of courageously dealing standardisation and for a better virtus, and if they lost us America, with the whole problem of Italo-distributive system. It is asserted they provided the fertile ground Abyssinian friction, are really (Continued on Page 7.)

from which the finest speeches In. the English language grew up and futile. Eventually, the larger

spread their tendrils of oratory,

COAL FOR CURRENT

other nations equally anxious that the

be League shall re-established on A firmer

issues will have to be faced; preventing war, but in no cir- nothing is to be gained by cumstances should it place shelving consideration now. Fol-Britain in the position of an lowing prolonged deliberations on the subject, there recently

international policeman, taking emerged a definite British policy. the maintenance of peace at her upon herself responsibility for This policy is based on the princi-sole risk. The present week ple that Britain, being a mem-

will, in the circumstances, be a ber of the League, has collective

crucial time not only for Italy obligations for the maintenance of peace, but that she has no whole of Europe. Britain is and Abyssinia, but also for the individual obligation. The British public expocts the Government vital issues be side-stepped. The apparently determined not to let. not to shirk any obligation, question at the moment is subject to the willingness of whether she can rally to her side other nations to undertake theirs, but it does not expect Britain to do anything that other nations are not willing to footing, as the only organised do. The Government is in line

body so far devised for the pur- with the public on these points, and as a consequence it has long when that objective is imposst

pose of preserving "peace, or,' been realised that the key to the ble of fulfilment, of seeing that situation is to be found in the attitude of France. At the (moment, that attitude has not been definitely disclosed. Up to the present, Britain has not taken the initiative in pressing for any particular form of action at the present stage, but there are indications that the Govern ment believes economic sanc- tions, if not applied by the Powers outside the League as well as by the League Powers, would be useless. It has been made clear that should the at titude of France render collectivo action impossible, the Govern ment would seek other means of

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WAR IN HONGKONG

Supreme Court Boycotted By Signor Kelly'

By Eddle "Manno” Kelly,

Bince the newspapers neem print nothing else those days but news of an, impending conflict be- tween Abyssinia and Italy, Eddie Kelly has decided that he might ar well be in the swim...Only he docan't see why he should cross the world for

for his

Copy, when there's heaps of

of it lying about In Hong- kang. So, just for the purposes this article, he's written a fantastic atory of what would happen if international diplomacy, such as

that employed in the present: die- ́pute, was suddenly applied to Hong-

kong.

As Chatham lay prostrate with gout, his agonies driving him to the borders of insanity, it was this volco of Burke's which spoke out War clouds loomed in Hongkong year after year in a vain endeavour yesterday, following the reception triumph over by M. Litvinoff MacGregor, Presi- to make reason bribery, and nobility over the am-dent of the Supreme Court Council, of a complaint from Emperor These are the arguments of Selassie Whalestesth against al- States and Kingdoms. Leave the leged aggression by Signor Eddio rest to the schools, for there only "Musso Kelly. they may be discussed with

Emperor Whalestooth, who lives anfety. But if intemperately un-in Nathan Road, Kowloon, alleged wisely, fatally, you sophisticato in his complaint to M. MacGregor and poison the very source of that Signor Kelly's house-boy had government by urging subtle des crossed the harbour from the Peak ductions and consequences odious

to those you govern, from the and had scrapped with his (the unlimited and illimitable nature Emperor's) house boy in his (the of supreme sovereignty, you will same Emperor's) kitchen. tench them by these means to Signor Kelly denies the allega- call that sovereignty itself In tions. question.

"The kitchen belongs to me," he

is sending some more house boys It is reported that Signor Kelly across to Kowloon to-morrow morning.

Late in the day he would rise said. in the Commons when many mem bera had already left. Then, as the rumour went round that he was speaking, they came hurrying back to listen to him intently, to applaud admiringly, and to vote, in loyalty to the bribes they had received,

against him.

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ጎዜ The struggle

heart- for Burke, but breaking one strangely it was North who came nearest to being broken by it, na we can see from those vast tomes of correspondence in which he reported to the King the doings of Parliament.

Lord North to the King,

and Kowloon houseboya in grow. The tension between The Peak

ing.

Favorish activity was witnessed at the Star Ferry this morning when all available space was taken by Signor Kelly's boys, who are en route to the battle front at Kowloon, Cheering crowds', of rickshaw coolles lined the Praya to watch the contingents depart- Ing by ferry and walla walla,

Lord North has the honour of. Emperor Whalestcoth has ap- informing his Majesty that the pealed to Mr. Stanley Burlingham Committee went through the Baldwin to Invoke the clauses of greatest part of Mr. Burke's Bill the Summary Offences Ordinance to-day, and had in the course of dealing with excessive noise at it several divisions, in all of night. which Mr. Burke was defeated. "I can't get a wink of sleep with Lord North feels himself so all those Kelly coolies yowling out- weak and unable to go on for any side my kitchen every night," he. tline, that he cannot help remind said in an exclusive press infor- ing his Majesty of the request he view to-day. has Intely had the honour more than once of submitting to his Majesty's goodness.

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If fighting breaks out between Kowloon and Peak houseboys, Mr. The King to Lord North,

Lord North cannot doubt that waterways in Hongkong, may pro. E. Newhouse, who controls all I received with pleasure his ac-hibit the passage of Kelly coolles count of Mr. Burke's Bill having along the Mid-Level been defeated before-the-Com-nullahs. mitteo yesterday.

This would force the Peak coolles, unless they used the But he cannot be surprised at Peak tram, to proceed to Kowloon the real sorrow occasioned by around the Repusle Bay Cape. seeing He persists in the Idea that His health will not long permit him to remain In his present situation.

There is M. Avanol Hazlerigg, Socrotury

no means of letting Lord North General of the Supreme Court, 'an-. retire from taking the lead in nounced to-day that M, Litvinoff the House of Commons that will | MacGregor had convened the Court not probably entail evil. He on Wednesday next at the request must be the judge whether he of Emperor Whalesteeth. can therefore honourably desert It le considered kely that me when infuluble mischief must Signor Kelly will ignore the sum-

enque.

dictates of the cloquence of Burke, Let me speak what my soul

"Infuluble michlef that vision wrote Dr. Parr with pardonable of a Miltonic chaos we owe not to enthusiasm:

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"I don't care what the hospitad rules are,

try to tell me how to baths.

Don't

mons to appear, unless M. MacGregor consents to limit the procedure to dealing with the black eye sustained by Emperor Whales toeth's boy during last week's kitchen brawl.

Signor Kelly refuses to allow the League Court to discuss the owner- ship of the kitchen; or Emperor Whalesteeth's allegations that he ultimately plans to seize the whole of the Emperor'a house.

Signor Kelly has issued a veiled threat that he will boycott the. Supreme Court if it endeavours to extend the scope of next Wednes- day's proceedings.

Mrs. Whalesteeth, in exclusive Interview with the Telegraph, Is sued an appeal to the amaba of the Mid Lovels to aid the Whalestooth people in their desire to live in. peace and tranquility.

"In the name of the wash amaha.. and cook amaha of Nathan Road," Empress Whalesteath's appeal said, "I declare to the noble and kind, cook amnhs of the Mid-Levels that we desire a peaceful solution of the dispute, which is disrupting our- lives."

The Dally Press states that the Hongkong Gas Company is con- sidering despatching coolles to the Whalesteeth kitchen in order to protect the company's gas stove,

Mr. Roosevelt Mildren, whose army of boys and coolles is one of the greatest in the world, enunciated two-point programme. to-day, aimed at keeping Repulse Bay out of the Kowloon-Peak con-

Repulse Bay New Territory and Mid Level: amaks jara {ovacuated from the Whalesteeth