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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

IRON MEN-AND WOMEN'

SEPTEMBER 18, 1935.

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS

EXPLAINED

BY BASIL MURRAY.

The States and

П

The Very Idea!

MOSTLY MUSSOLINI

TAE British Cabinet has decided make war. Tto propose to the League of with Empire betinget, con Natlans at Geneva that "economic cort could in this way paralyse When There's a War, Kelly

Wants To Be In It sanctions" should be imposed on any other nation except Russia. Italy if she invades Abyssinia. But, as the last war proved,. the What are "economic sanctions' enforcement of such an embargo The Oxford Dictionary defines a is almost impossible without

auction, in this sense the general-blockade The belligerent enforce obedience to a law." What through a series of intermediaries.By specific penalty enacted in order to country would buy its supplies does this definition mean when Germany continued to import raw applied to the relations between materials through neutral countries sovereign States? The purpose of all through the laat war despite economic sanctions is without em- the Allied blockade. Without n ploying physical force to prevent blockade the embargo would be

We are prone io bemoan the passing of the days of sailing ships, of wooden ships and, fron men, as they were known, and the romance and colour which surrounded that not-so-far-listant era. Boys who read Conrad and, if their parents will allow it, the story of Anthony Adverse's adventurous crossing to Africa on a slaver, and such talos of spectacular adventuro and hor- ror, sigh for the past and dream of themselves as sen-booted sailor- men, with rings in their. ears, stamping the poop with men like Captain Blood.. Stirring days, no who lived doubt; and for those through them and who can consider them in retrospect, something to be proud of. But men who fought their way around the Horn in sail, who clawed with bleeding hands at frozen sheets, and lived on army pork and stale water, who knew the madness of long enims and the torture of thirst and han ger, do not regret the progress of This age. Men who were boys in sall

content quite are

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RAMBLINGS IN ROME Ed. Kelly, Spaghetti Expert Latest newspaper inter- view with 11 Duce:..

"Up to the present our prepara- tions in East Africa havo cost Italy 2,000,000,000 liro. Do you think we have done that for a joke? No! We are on the march. It is too Inte to tell us to step,"

"Even Holland and Belgium and Portugal have fruitful colonies. Why shouldn't Italy?"

1 only Case Anchor Beer.

Ethiopia

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nation from making war or evaded in a week. The third form merely an extension, breaking a treaty by depriving it of annction of the materials necessary for war, of the second and is open to the It envisages an or the means of transferring those same objections.

the materiale to the scene

of war. embargo on all exports to No country, except Russia, has belligerent nation, which would within its own frontiera all the thus be deprived of food as well

Naturally, An interfering raw materials required in modern as the materials of war. It is a

Many countries, of chimerical project, which warfare.

So: which Abyssinin is a notable ex-only be successful if all the na- body like Eddie Kelly can't let ample, do not possess factories tlons of the world agreed to co- that pass.

"WHY I STOLE THE HAM- THE BLIND where olther her own or imported operate in enforcing the embargo

converted and, still more improbable, honotir-BONE FROM

DOG." raw materials can be

A soul-inspiring drama, pro~ into the machinery of transported their agreement.

duced by Eddie Kelly from and destruction.

These three forms of sanction Goodness knows whero. Written isall aim at depriving a country of by Ed. Kelly (Fritten: Greek for The first necessity in war

means of making war by ten writs). Adopted by Ned: weapons. And the first, form of the without feeling the frost in their economic sanction is therefore an direct action. Another series of Kelly, Best little adopter in

embargo on the export of armis to sanctions is of a subtler type. town.

ut crippling the bolil-

CHARACTERS bones, and without a regret for

a belligerent nation. There aro They alm what steam and alect have con- only about a dozen States in the gerent nation financially, so that Mussolini...Played by Ed. Kelty quered. But on the Chinn const world in which modern armaments ahe will be unable to buy abroad League of Nations

Played by Kowloon Court are manufactured on a large sente. either for cash or credit the there still lives that hardy breed off these States agree not to allow material she needs. Sanctions of Secretary of the League folk whose living is precariously their manufacturers to sell arms this type could be imposed without

Played by Mr. Wynne Joues. taken from the sen and who know to a certain country outside the Governmental action by groups of country cannot fight. financiers or by the central banks,

Played by Gloucester Hotel nothing of the protection iron and ring, that stenm afford. They carry their Recently this type of pressure was and in point of fact they are fre-

Played by Haile Selassie freight through the China Son and used to stop the war which had|quently used on a small scale to

Mr. Wynne Jones (severely): been dragging on for three years hiring pressure to bear on States find a cargo far out in the Pacific. | between Bolivia and Paraguay. whose inancial policy is unpopular Kelly, you are charged with at WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1935. Their ships are their homes; men,But two points should be noticed in the great money centres of the tempting to steal a case of beer women and children work the sails in regard to this sanction. The world. But in the event of war from the Hongkong Hotel. What've STREET SLEEPERS

und the sweeps. Their wants are Lengue of Nations cannot impose or a threat of war they would you got to say for yourself?

Kelly: Look hero Mr. Wynne very few and very simple, and their it, since three of the largest arms certainly require Government sup-

producing countries-Germany, port. Great ingenuity has been Jones, up to the present.I've spent Coincident with the near worst enemy is the typhoon, On Tapan and the United States-are displayed in working out schemes 2,000,000 doilars (ohf Ire!) in the Walter Glynne. approach of the winter, the such a day as this we might spare not members of the League; and of this kind. One of the simplest Gloucester Building. Do you think a thought for them, these people of it is valueless against a country would be to prohibit importa frome done that for a joke? Not B-8337 Joc Ramsbottom opens a Barber's Shop Norman Evans.

bender. It is too Inte to Street Hongkong

Sleepers' Joe Ramsbottom sells pills

Norman Evans.

Shelter Society issues its anand iron ment.

a vanishing age of wooden shipke Italy which has its own muni-a particular country. We used

tion works. For one country alone this sanction against Russia during tell me in stop. to forbid the export of arms to an- the trial of the Vickers engineers. Mr. Wynne Jones: Doesn't C-2753 Benedictus (Mackenzio)

which rightly

other, as we have to both Italy 1 a State is unable to sell any matter. That case of beer belongs Cello with Organ...Beatrice Harrison nual report,

claims that the work it is doing

and Abyssinia, is merely bad buni-goods abroad she is soon unable Adoration (Borowski)

Cello with Organ Beatrice Harrison.on

Kelly (coarsely, as usual): Go, behalf of the poor and TYPHOON'S TOLL

ness. The buyer will go elsewhere to buy abroad, and her imports to the Gloucester Hotel. for his goods. The second type of must. cease. Another

clmec yourself. It's gonna be mine. destitute has been more than This is not a matter of sentimen- sanction in more drastic and if it achieving the same end would be The Gloucester may have owned it C-2755 Islamey-Parts 1 & 2 (Balakireff)

Cyril Smith (Pianoforte), justified by results. The first tality. We are not going to call could be enforced would be effec-to place un embargo on dealings once, but finding's keepings.

in a particular currency on the Mr. Wynne Jones (feebly-all C-2764 Eric Coates Medley

Sydney Gustard. shelter proving inadequate, a these people gods or vikinga; they tive against any State. It is to Hermann Lohr Medley

Sydney Gustard. second one was established, and are far from gods, though some-

forbid the export of raw materials principal money exchanges. If, used in armament manufacture, to for example, no one were allowed Bame Geneva): Hut, my dear Mr.

Kelly- (Organ of Gaument Palace Cinema, Chester,

the Society looks forward to the thing like vikings

thelr

a belligerent. Twenty years ago to buy marks, or crowns, or fire,

Kelly: Suy. Watson's have the England).

for time when there will be per-propenalty

piracy. But Chill could have prevented almost the nations which used these. eur- do I hard join DA-1416 My lovely Celia (Arr. Lane Wilson)

manent shelters in all districts they

well. any country from waging war by rencies would be unable to secure agency for Tiger; Gilman's sell Elisabeth Schumann,

all the Chinese

people putting an embargo on the export foreign exchange to pay for their Anchor, the Hongkong Brewery for the necommedation of those of

booze--why foreign purchases. If Poland tave Pastorale (Arr. Lone Wilson) Elisabeth Schumann.

who are too poor to afford the there is probably no hardier cluas de nitrate, of which set had a wishes to buy British machinery, shouldn't I grab some for myself?

world monopoly and which are cale must ultimately pay for her

Play concludes, pending next in- DB-2414 La Ronde des lutins (Dance of the Goblins!

price of a bed in the winter or section than the funk-sailor and sential to the manufacture of high purchase in pounds, and unless she piring INCIR PAPEY interview (Op. 25) (Scherzo Fantastique) Bazzini)

his wife. Yachtsmen meet them explosives. Yehudi Menuhin months. When the experiment in nooks and crannies of the const

can change her money into sterling, granted by Musa. the debt cannot be met. Yet an- Moto Perpetuo (Perpetual Motion) Op. 11 (Paganini) was initiated, a fear was ex-or, if they venture out to sea in

Nitrales can now be made syn-other method would be to prohibit Violin solo Yehudi Menuhin. pressed in some quarters that their-trim-racing-craft, they will thetically-from-the-air, but there dealings in commercial or Govern

Snorter No. 1 it might be abused that the and some clumsy-looking junk just are other materials, notably metals, ment bills of a belligerent nation,

Speaking of anchors, did you Colony would become a centre beyond any distance they like to required in armaments which few No merchant would continue to notice all the ships in the harbour

countries possess. Nine-tenths of supply goods to a customer whose of attraction for n'er-do-wells explore. Far as you go you will the world supplies of nickel come bills he could not discount in the had their's out yesterday? We from Chater Road.

neighbouring territory, find fisherfolk or traders on the from Canada. China has two money

were asking Mr. C. de S. Robertson, market. Thirdly, the

about it. who would flock into Hongkong | horizon, still standing out to sea. thirds of the world's antimony, granting of credit or loans to a "There's a typhoon about," we

sensitive to Adjoining fields in France and country which had incurred the of free shelter. These fears changes in the weather, too, and Germany produce over 90 per cent displeasure of the Great Powers said facetiously, "what about gel-

the world's potash. Three-could be forbidden. It is unlikely ting some Anchors out?”

(Joke). are proved to have been wholly with remarkable frequency outpace quarters of the pig-iron used in that this would be necessary, since unwarranted. The Society's the storm on their runs to shelter the world is smelted in countries few people are willing to run the work is amongst the poor and But sometimes they are caught. bordering the North Atlantic. All risk of lending money to a Govern- The typhoon leaves hundreds in its these materials are essential to the ment engaged in war, for ordinary ekterly people of Hongkong.

wake, smashes and cripples the manufacture of modern weapons, commercial reasons. many being odd job men wh little vessels, tears their sails away, between the producers of these raw and if agreement could be reached are unable to find regular work, and finally overwhelms them. The materials to prohibit their export And, lastly, there is the type of but who manage to feed them-

total of lives lost among selves on the few cents they seagoing

population earn and yet have not enough must

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method of

the to a given country, and that pro-sanction which aims at preventing

the choppy harbour. Only a corner of their broad sails drawing, they came chasing down from Lyeemoon towards the typhoon shelters, the master crouched beside his tiller,

an eye on

of China ibition could be made effective the transport of war ninterinl to

not the boycotted country could

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und in it money with which to pay for bad season can be reckoned in the a bed-space. In the absence of tens of thousands. You saw some a poor law institution in the of them coming in from the sea Colony, the work which the yesterday, perhaps, as you crossed Society undertakes does help to fill in a gap in our social ser- vices, and for that reason it is deserving of all possible sup- port. It should be a matter of concern to the more comforin- bly-placed members of the community that so many of the

the lean darkness of their faces, poorer classes are forced, in the

and their eyes, bloodshot fromi cold nights of winter, to sleep hours of peering into the weather in the streets. The reproach These may be survivors of a Beet of to the Colony which this fact vessels whose more southern units connotes. is being, removed by were caught and shattered by the the Society, und, in course of typhoon 'which passed 200 miles time, with an extension of its away from here. To-morrow or activities, it should be wholly next day they will go out to sen removed. The total number of again to face who knows what These men using the shelters last year hardships and privations.

the weather, and his family sprawled about below him. on the deck: You may have noted

aro China's iron men and women who still work little wooden ships.

was 687, but that the system is not being abused is shown in the statistics contained in the annual report. Not only does ing an essential social service. the Society offer shelter to these Work such as this, as well as homeless people, but it is in- that of the Society for the strumental also in providing Protection of Children, is medical supplies where needed credit to all engaged therein; it and in repatriation and employ- does servo to show that the ment activities. There can be social conscience of the Colony

NEWEST AND DISTINCTIVE nothing but praise for the is being awakened, and it does PATTERNS. AND STYLES.

volunteer workers who give of bring a little brightness into their time and energies on the drab and colourless lives of behalf of the needy; they have the less fortunate members of 7 the consciousness of perform the community.

"You bitter stop now, ma. I've got three more men comin' out from town, and you might as well leave some work for

them:

their

own

Snorter No. 2

Mr. Evans, of the Royal Observa- tory, predicted the typhoon, he did. Couple of girls we know didn't have to return to office yesterday. afternoon because the No. 7.signal was hoisted.

"Good II'Evans," they said, when they heard the signal was up. ('Nothor joke),

Rome Interlude

Cabinet meeting in Rome, attended by Il Duce, Premier; Signor Mussolini, Minlater for War; Signor Mussolini, Foreign Minister: Signor Mussolini, Minister for Internal Affairs; Signor Mussolini, (Finance Minister); and Signor Mussolini, Minister without Portfolio the left it at home).

Signor Mussolini (Foreign Minis-

Duce, ter): II

two subjects threaten to crowd us off the front pages of the Hongkong papers.

Premier Mussolini; Prepare a

protest. What's happened?

Chorus of Mussolinis:

Yest

what's happened! Protest!

Foreign Minister Mussolini: The dollar'a rising, and No. 7-typhoon. signal is up.

1 Dice (to Minister of Finance Mussolini); Flood the market with silver. I fix the typhoon myself.

Immediately storm at Geneva.

raises

END OF FUNNY FEELING

another

STOP PRESS Cable from Emperor Haile Selassie:;

FORWARDING SIX CASES BEER TWO GROSS MILITARY MEDALS TEN SLAVES ONE OIL CONCESSION STOP WOULD YOU CONSIDER APPOINTMENT ETHIOPIAN PRESS REPRESSENTATIVE DABK PALACE LADIES HYPHEN IN HYPHEN WAITING AT YOUR DISPOSAL."" STOP ONE MORE ARTICLE LIKE: (Continued on Page 7.).