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NOTES OF THE DAY AWAY

JAPAN LEADS THE WAY

How many times have you heard people say: "The news reel is the best part of the programme. I could see more of that."? Pretty often, we should judge, if you are one who listens to the comment of theatre-goers as they wander to-

to

Four

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THE League of Nations

was devised after the last war to make new wars impossible.

with the LEAGUE of NATIONS!

It was proved unable to prevent war in the Far East' between Japan and China and in South America be tween Bolivia and Para-

spoken with people, particularly men, who have sat alertly watch- ing the news reel, or grinning at Mickey Mouse or Walt Disney's coloured symphonies, but who squirm uncomfortably through portrayals of life as it is supposed to be lived in America's het spots" or among the Hundred. And we

have sym pathised with them. Apparently Japanese people. feel the same way wo do about the news reels and guay,' the "shorts" of the cinema pro- grammes. They like them best, So an enterprising gentleman in Tokyo is building a theatro to sent 150 and is showing news reels and diflculty will be to get enough "shorts" exclusively. The

news reels to fill out the program me to a worth-while length. Or

by television, at the expense of the daily newspaper? Such a thing is not incredible.

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DAVIES.-At the Victoria Hospital, an October 3, 1935, to Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Davies, a daughter.

FANTHAM-On 3rd October 1935 at

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daughter.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1935.

THE BUDGET DEBATE

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Neither powerful major Statesnor weak minor States have been curbed by it.

Today it has brought Europe to the very brink of another con- flict, beside which the historians —if historians survived--would find the war of 1914-18 but a trivial prelude to the real Armageddon,

.That coercion- would mo a·N war; and mo dern war fought with modern

armaments would mean the ulter ruin of our country.

The prospect

were

of being dragged to destruction at the tail of w League that his shed all rent authority may well alarm the British people.

Every that prospect remote-and it is not remote- the Govern ment must realise the harm which the at- tachment is do Ing.

Already recruitment for our forces is difficult. Neither navy nor army is up to strength.

Abyssinian Slaves in ›Chains. WHAT has followed? Let us take the evidence of Lady THE League was intended to be Simon,: wife of Sir John Simon, a banding together of all in her recent book on slavery. nutions to

keep the common She says: peace and to penalise the isolated aggressor.

Japan, Germany, and several· small nations have contemptu- ously left it. The United States Was never 11 member. Italy may be driven to sever herself from it.

What young man is going to enlist if he feels that he will be sacrificed in quarrels with which his country has no genuine concern.

It is admitted that slavery exists everywhere in the coun=" try; indeed, it is openly de- serted that the whole economic structure of the country re-

To defend the interests of poses on slave-owning.

Britain is one thing-to be used There is one drawback in deal- as a kind of underpaid mer- ing with slavery in Abyssinia cenary to defend small and namely, that probably the squabblesome States from the nist nuthoritative document consequences of their own arrog- on the whole subject is with- ance and folly is a very different

thing. held from the public. That document is a nemoran- The one is glorious, the other A body an unrepresentatier dum prepared for the League of degrading. and so procently weak cannot be Nations over ten years ago by other than a danger tu' world. Lord Lugard. Lady Simon

In short, the League of Na- tions is not the Lengue of tion of some nations, with small, Nations. It is merely a collec-

mischief-making dominating.

peace.

States

pre-

increases. This question of a possible delicitindeed. the whole structure of the Colony's finances depends on exchange, and it is surprising that whilst many references were made to this subject, and to the baneful effects of a high dollar on the trade of the Colony, no mention whatever was made of the de- sirability of stabilisation, al- though Mr. Braga did urge that Sir Frederick Leith-Ross should Colony. On the matter of the be invited to pay a visit to the

Colony maintaining a surplus balance of ten million dollars, Mr. Kotewall's criticisms were much to the point, summed up. as they were in the apt epigram- matic remark that a reserve

AGAINST Geneva the indict- which is eternally inviolate is a

ment is heavy. useless excrescence." Sir Henry

Those things which the Pollock, in his refreshingly out-

It does not mend quarrels or guess.

Lengue should have done-like spoken utterance, reminiscent of solve problems; it aggravates other days, raised an interesting disputes and converts minor

More than ten years ago the the readjustment of possessions point when he contended that issues into great complications Lengte was officially aware of to populations it has not done. the procedure by which the

Those things which it should It does not offer international the barbarities of Abyssinia. Secretary of State had "sanc-justice; it seems to seck to It took no steps to quell them. not have done such as en- tioned" a plan for possible in-perpetuate international in- It showed for this small primi- dangering world peace-it has, creases in taxation and reduction equilies.

tive State a tenderness hard to of Government salaries if the

explain.

Those things which its makers Unofficials being in any way con- necessity arises, without the F this last statement let us

hoped it would do-like the pre- sulted,

take

proof. one

But when. Italy, which has vention or stopping of wars-it The Government reply

unconstitutional League of Nations has so far suffered from those barbarities, has failed to do. to some extent to clear up

served tried to exert what force it. has lost patience, the League im-.

the to keep the nations static. mediately became an instrument Mischievous in its inaction, matter. It would appear that In a world where certain for dragging all its members and dangerous, in its action. it is the Government was disposed to nations have glutted themselves into alignment against Italy! reconcile itself to salary cuts with territorial and economic without any queston of taxation, but that the Secretary

Was

does not conciliate; it wonders why it was withheld infuriates.

from the public. One may

•

The

misfortunes of war or the acei- FOR more possessions and others, by the

some reason the senti.

done.

patently the menace to peace, Away with it!

Unofficial members of the Legislative Council, had their field-day yesterday, when they set forth their views on the Government's Budget plans for the coming year. Despite obvi- |ous objections to the method of getting the whole of the Unoli- cial speeches and the official replies thereto compressed into one afternoon, traditional prae- of State advised that the dent of chronology, have been. mentalists regard Abyssin lice is still followed in this possibility of extra taxation left with growing populations ians as a harmless, nomadie respect, with the result that the should be mentioned in the and no possessions, the League people wantonly attacked. SSSE3000 criticisms offered naturally lose of equalising the sacrifices. On equitable distribution,

Budget speech, on the principle has not attempted any

more The truth is very different.. ...CESS much of their force and value. general lines, the principle is a

"The completeness of destruc- It has not even achieved the ion by Abyssinian slave-raiders. Moreover, the fact that the sound one, but it would be of amicable lowering of national is the completeness of the locust, Government gets a sight of the Secretary of State realised that nots" without possessions and has written, commenting on the interest to know whether the barriers. It has kept the "have; but more cruel," Lady Simon Unofficial · speeches beforehand the community has

already has then tried to make them horrifying accounts and prepares its answers accord-borne, and is still bearing, the appear the instigators of a new published in a British ingly, coupled with the dispost-cost of increased Government war when they have asked for Book, by Major Darnley. tion shown by the Unofficials not

salaries. It is this fact which room. to press their contentions to u division, serves to make Budget debates somewhat of a farce. As the Legislative Council is the Colony's counterpart of the Home Parliament,. It is difficult to understand why parliamen- Lary practice cannot be moreeannot be escaped that there is closely followed, thus ensuring a rather too much reference to, more detailed examination of the or intervention by, the Secretary Government proposals and the of State in the affairs of the reactions of the public's believe that the policy of retain

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lies behind the Unofficial do. When Abyssinia, became # After ten and more years of mand, a demand which would member of the League it was inertia in the face of the known position under which the rectify the present inequitable on the understanding that the atrocities, the Lengue must now

com- barbarities of slavery would he try to coerce the one

nation munity bears an unfair pro- ended, that barbarism would try which refuses any longer to

tolerate Abyssinian outrages. portion of the burden. Whether to achieve civilisation. the action of the Government in this matter was' unconstitu- tional or not, the impression

amongst the Unofficial criticisms million dollars is an instruction ing a surplus balance of ten this year is the demand that no extra taxation be imposed dur

from the Colonial Office, and even In such ing the coming year, in the event trivial matter as the decreased & relatively of circumstances bringing about grant to the Travel Association, any considerable deficit in the the Colonial Office must perforce Colony's finances. It is con- intervene. This Colony has been tended-and the argument is

in existence for close on a cogently put-that any such hundred years; surely it is time deficit should be met by decreas we were taken off the leading ing expenditure, notably by cut-strings and a greater mesure of ting Government salaries, the responsibility either vested in increased level of which since. or assumed by the men on the 1931 is still being paid for in spot. To revert to

our open- taxes especially imposed for the ing remarks, greater public ser- purpose. The Government reply vice would be rendered by our on this point rather side. Unofficials if they pressed their stepped the issue, merely stating views to a division on matters that it was impossible to at- on which they feel strongly, tempt to foretell the principle rather than to content them- upon which any, system of selves with the expression of salary cuts, if such become pious hopes. Admittedly, the necessary, might have to be Oficials always have the whip based. The Unofficials were not hand by reason of their major- asking for any statement of ity, but in times past the Gov- principle in this matter; they ornment has been known to merely demanded that inasmuch yield to solid Unofficial pressure, as the commut ity is already and it is conceivable that even paying for the increased salaries the Secretary of State might which have been in forco since take note of the united views of 1981, any further burdens should the public's representatives on be borne by those enjoying the the Council.

"Can anybody tell me how Salesman Sam made out to-day, before he was cut into a paper doll?".

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The Very Idea!

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But A Joke's A Joke For All That

Clipped By Kelly

A certain major known for his. strict

insistence upon implicit obedience, met a soldier carrying a steaming kettle from the cook- house,

"Here, you," he ordered, "let me inste that."

"But, sir, it isn't--"

"Don't give me any buts.' Get aspoon

"Very good, sir."

The soldier doubled back to the cookhouse and fetched one.

The major helped himself to n spoonful of the liquid and im mediately spat it out.'

"You don't call that soup, do

i you?" he reared:"

"No, sir. That's what I was try ing to tell you. It's disinfectant.. sir."

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Too Many Z's

Mother: "You are at the foot

of the spelling class hgain, are

You

Boy: "Yes'm."

Mother: How did that hap- Den ?"

Boy: "Got too many z's in scissors."

What They Say

"He may have a greasy hat, and the seat of his trousers may be shiny, and the banker may not be very well acquainted with his signa-. ture, but if you coo hin children with their noses flattened against the window pane, watching for him a half-hour before he is due home for suppȧr, you can go right ahead and trust him with anything you have."-Louis Allis