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Britain's Death Merchants

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24,

Secretary To Cabinet

Defends Arms' Men "BRITISH PUBLIC MISLED"

and Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the Cabinet for 20 years Secretary of Imperial Defence, made a vigorous defence of private arm- ament manufacture in a remarkable statement before the Arms Com- mission, in London, recently.

Evidence given by Sir Maurace at a previous session, resulted in questions being asked in the House of Commons as to whether the Government approved of a Civil Servant placing his views before the Commission. The Opposition gave notice that they would raise the matter later.

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to the Government mainly as to the increase in Germany's capacity to manufacture guns, &c. Any patriotte citizen surely had that duty and, being a representative of an arma- ments firm did not exempt Mr. d{al}rer.

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Sir Maurice declared that thej pletely. In some statements, not the of the slightest regard has been paid by historical foundation

most of the witnesses to the publish allegations against the private ed views of the Government." manufacturer of arms was that? of sand. Public opinion on this subject had been misled purtly by the language of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and largely by the propagandist acti- vites of those who brought the have heard is inappropriate and un- their own and other countries. Un.

charges.

The inclusion of the idea of pro- hibiting private manufacture and

The suggestion that the manufao- ture of arms was a business on a low moral plane was unjustified.

"The extravagant language WO

thrown

Allegations had been made, went on Sir Maurice, that armaments' firma had tried to influence public opinion through the control of newspapers in called for." ho went on. "Thin

fortunately, bribery of the foreign polsoning of the atmosphere Inercarta Press by Governments was by no the difficulties of those who wish to

mean a thing of the past, but no the British existed against present an impartial view."

Sir Maurice criticised attempt at care distortion for propaganda and com- manufacturer, although the weapon of trade in arms in the Covenant was.plained that episodes were reparated the Press had been resorted to by generally speaking, not summoned

on the alleged misdeeds of "DAD FOR NATIONAL PRESTĮGE" by the British delegation in the from their context and a searchlight their opponents,

had. private manufacturera, misdeeda Peace Conference. They

Pointing out how widespread was however, to meet persistent pres-usually improved on and sometimes

wholly inaccurate.

the propaganda against the privato sure from President Wilson,

One side of the cast had been mis-

manufacturn of arma, Sir Maurice Sir Maurice asked the Commission represented and grossly exaggerated handed up a book which he said was not to accept the memorandums cir-The other had hardly been heard at printed for use in schools in one of "I would rather not the Dominions. culated on behalf of the Admiralty in all

mention which Dominion," remarked 1919 in which suppression of private manufacture was dealt with. The

Sir Maurice. evidence, he said, shawed that the memoranda

had been Implied. Admiral Wemyss's considers ed judgment.

was not, no

AN ESSENTIAL PART Other point from Sir Maurice's evidence are;-

Sir Maurice sald he thought the existence of private manufacture of arms was a negligible factor in the

right of the Great War.

Sir Maurice contended that it was interest prejudicial to the national

io ing med at the industry. It was UNWORTHY SUGGESTION

bad for the morale of the industry, Referring to the alleged incom- bad for national prestige, and, bad for patibility of public duty and private imperial defence. He hoped that the | interests, Sir Maurise said. "This un-Commission would express its opinion of the propa that individuals of the extravagance worthy suggestion cannol separate their private interests gaidu against the industry. from

"1 SURREAL that if the private their public duty ns citizens enta drop its civilized society, manufacture of arms is alleged to be Ductors, chemists, and nurses depend one of the enusen for their profit an ilhealth or example of the uk of balance nud "I have never hened even of disease. It would be outrageous to perspective showa, is much of the suspicion of inteference by armia-suggest that for that reason they evidener," he said, ment Arms with delegates or contry and encourage epidemic disease ferences.

or are lukewarm in the promotion of puhle henith."

lva manfacture is to earn tial part of our system of imperial

dir fence.

"I vetture to submit that the eise has not been made out sufficiently to justify a prohibition, whether nation nl or international, or any drastic reorganisation of the industry.

Speaking of the activity of Mr. Shearer at the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1927, Sir Maurice said that it had not in any way effected the result.

"One

does not make a swallow summer," he added, "and my personal experiences show that the Shearer episode was unexampled."

No one uggested, he said, that undertakers tried to increase tho death-rate.

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of war, it is an

FOUGHT FOR

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Mre. Liilian Bartholomew, mother of the English child (lm star, in * Los Angeles caurtroom where ake unsuccessfully sought In terminate an aunt's guardianship of the boy. The aunt, Ming Milli- cent Bartholomew, won the action.

Twilight Of Britain's Cavalry

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1938.

TWO SECONDS

TO LIVE

THOUGHTS OF AIRMAN WHO JUST RIGHTED MACHINE

London, May 28.. THIS is a story of one and a half seconds; of how it feels to be certain one is about to die.

A few experts stood on a flying field near London and watched a test pilot trying out a new machine 5,000 feet above. They heard the crescendo roar of the engine as the nose dropped and the aeroplane started a power dive.

They watched the speed in- creasing until, at 250 m.p.h. the pilot began casing her out of the fall.

THEY GASPED

And they gasped when, as the aeroplane levelled off one 'wing went down and the machine fell into a vertical side slip, out of control. Each of them knew what the pilot was doing up there, struggling with his controls to master the falling craft. Each of them knew how slim his chances of surviving were.

Down the plane hurtled until, 100 feet from the ground, it came out of the fall and landed por- fectly. "Suport airmanship," some one said.

Afterwards the test pilet spoke of his thoughts up there as he was Jafling to what he thought his denth. This is what be mid:- ARMY'S FAREWELL TO

ITS STEEDS..

"As I enmo out of the dive the ailerons jammed. Down went one London, June 12.

wing, and down we went, i di everything I know to right her, THOUGH this year's hut it seemed useless.

Royal Tournament at "I looked at the altitude meter. was moving quickly over the din, ticking off the little held a share in a private armaments farewell to its steeds, it was marks that meant firm in his liẹ,

one of the proudest of thetween the earth and me. defiances remaining to the military horse age.

For the machine is takinge deck. You haven't a chance. charge, and the Army is rapidly exchanging saddles for petrol engines,

Olympia was not the Army's The needle Sir Maurice said that he had never

Negro Ex-Convict

Found Hanged In Homebound Liner

Sir Maurice spoke of the “nimos- phere of nasty in muation" about the sputation that Cabinet Ministers nad other influential people owned shares in firma manufacturing arma- ments, and that they would be in- elined to discourage disarmament.

"It is difficult to imagine how much

Insinuations outrageous.

can be

Liverpool, June 15, seriously made," he said. Sir Maurico sail that since his Regarding allegations of war pro--

John McAuley, a'negro, released previous evidence he had received 8ts, Sir Maurice asked, "Why should from Walton Jail, Liverpool, a few letters thanking him as a person in the temptation for profit be greater days, ago; and put aboard the liner n detached position for having done in the case of the manufacturers of Apesso, bound for West Africa, something to remove stigmas. Ono armaments than in that of the has been found hanging in the letter was from the widow of a rent doctors, the chemists, the chemical ship. manufacturer of armaments who had manufacturers, the umiertakers; McAuley, who was fifty; appear been "horribly hurt."

teme- Led in a Liverpool court case two St-Maurice-mid-that-the-ense |-terie-and-Ore-lawyers ??.... against private manufacture had been "Let anyone hearing, this evidenco years ago as the head of an estab built up on the basis of certain think of his own friends who have lishment known as the "house of

crematoria

the

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It is appropriate, therefore, that the tournament should assemble the pageantry of the

romantic brave,

days, the strange excitement of jingling harness and thundering hooves, of glamour of the cavalcade.

HEROLDIC PAGEANT

The tournament which ended on

the feet be-

"I WONDERED"

"Time seemed to stop. "You're for it, boy,' I said. 'You're going to hit

wns

"I wondered how it would feel: whether we'd burst into flames.

"All the time one part of my mind thinking, hurried thoughts, I suppose, but they seemed slow and deliberate to me. And at the same time I was fighting to regain some sort of control. The allerons wouldn't I couldn't get her out. move.

"Somewhere down there I could see people watching. I wondered whether my wife was watching too. I hoped she wasn't. Then it struck me that I wouldn't be able to By the man I had an appointment with al ̈ ̄ ̄ ̄xix o'clock.

"Then I thought that if I could get

with that. Then the crash wouldn't be so bad. I might get away with broken legs. The ground was very I had one last effort close then.

.. I tried to get her out by using the rudder. It worked. Slowly she came out. 1 landed. My wife Wasn't there. I could take that man up at six.

worked out how long I'd been falling, One and a half

alleged episodes often misrepresented, profits out of war," he added, "and terror" in the foreign quarter of May 23, was as usual, a picture of the wing up just a little, I augh hit

It was regrettable that much of the they will probably include perrons the city. evidence, though in a loker key than interested not only in the early He was sentenced to three years' all the services. some other attempts to stigmatise stages of arms manfneture but penal servitude at Manchester the private manufacturers by re-people concerned in banking, shipping,

The programme included bril, ferring to thers by such terms as insurance, and a vast range of other Assizes in March 1934, on charges

procuration und unlawful ant spectacles like the heraldic tree of death the "bloody commodities essential both to civilised of tinned the process of creating pre-forces."

and war traders," had con-life and the maintenance of it wounding, His wife, Mary Me-pageant of Norfolk and feats dis- sen-playing the skill, modern activities, Auley, aged forty-five, was judice.

|tencel to five years' penal and physical fitness of Navy, Army "The use

of the language of THE MULLINER EPISODE hyperbole in this matter," he went Speaking of the hard worked servitude, The judge alao recom-and Air Force. on "must tend to mislead a publle Mulliner episode," Sir Maurice said ended that McAuley should be But a special sentiment attached that has had neither the time nor the that one would be inclined to blame sent back to Sierra Leone, where material to study the matters com- Mr. Mulliner for bringng information he was born.

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to the excellent displays of horse- manship which were arranged, for. the twilight of the horse era, in the military sense, approaches, and In future years it may be diflicult to amass quite so varied talent and quite so many thrills.

Within a short limo ten cavalry regiments and the Royal Horse Artillery will be on a mechanised basis, and half of the regiments which retain horses. will be in India.

The

BRAVE SALUTE

Cholee for programmes will then more restricted. Still, this year, the horse age made a brave salute.

Famous riders and their mounts were to be seen in large numbers. Some 200 horses took part,

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seconds,

"A mun lakes that long to fall off skyscraper."

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London,, June 15.

SIR ARTHUR SPURGEON, re- tiring on Saturday from the chairmanship of the Croydon magistrates, a position which he has held for 20 years, called- attention to an inaccurate, tablet in the Law Courts for the first time.

The tablet gives the date of the opening of the Law Courts The Royal Horse Artillery by Queen Victoria as December musical drive was a farewell to 4, 1883, whereas, according to these thrilling spectacles for the official documents, they were branch at home is in process of be- | opened in 1882.

ing mechanised. The "Sphinx”

Battery, which gives the drive, goes

Sir Arthur Spurgeon knows

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years.

The Royal Navy gave à demon- stration in the use of ropes aloft, and the Royal Marines.gave a dis- play which Illustrates, sport, and training.

The 2nd. Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment staged an his- torical review, harking back to the patriotism of its county in the days of the Armada menace.

There were great and brilliant in which cavalry took

Acenes, part.

The King is the Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Norfolk Itegiment.

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