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Britain's Death Merchants

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1938.

Secretary To Cabinet

Defends Arms' Men "BRITISH PUBLIC MISLED"

Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the Cabinet for 20 years and 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.

ed views of the Government."

EXTRAVAGANT LANGUAGE

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Sir Maurice declared that they pletely. In some statements, not the to the Government mainly as to tho regard has been paid by | Inerrage in Germany's capacity to historical foundation of the test allegations against the private most of the witnesses to the publish-manufacture guns, &c. Any patriotic eltizen surely had that duty and, manufacturer of arms was that

being a representative of an arma-

nents firm did not of sand. Public opinion on this

exempt Mr. Blulinur. subject had been misled partly by the language of the Covenant of the Lengue of Nations and largely by the propagandist acti- vites of those who brought the charges.

he went on.

Allegations had been made, went

on Sir Maurice, that armaments firms

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

The extravagant language wo had tried to influence public opinion in have heard is inappropriate and un-through the control of newspapers, enlled for,"

Un- their own and other countries. Thin poisoning of the atmosphere increases fortunately, bribery of the foreign Press by Governments was by no the diflculties of those who wish to |**

means a thing of past, but no | present an impartial view."

Sir Maurice criticised attempts at manufacturer, although the weapon of existed against the British distortion for propaganda and com- trade in arms in the Covenant plained that episodes were separate[/the Preas and been resorted to by

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

thrown

Thre

generally speaking, not summoned from their context and a genrehlight their opponents, by the British delegation to the

on the alleged misdeeds of "BAD FOR NATIONAL PRESTIGE" Peace Conference. They had, private manufacturers. misdeeds. however, to meet persistent pre usually improved in and sometimes Pointing out how widespread was sure from President Wilson.

wholly inaccurate,

One side of the case had been mis- Sir Maurice asked the Commission | represented and grossly exaggerated, not to nebet the memorandum vir. The other had lardly been heard at culated on behalf of the Admiralty in | all.

11 in which suppression of private) Sir Maurice said he thought the manufacturo was dealt with. The j existence of private manufacture of evidence, he said, showed that the arms was a negligible factor in then! memoranda

had been origin of the Great War. impied, Admiral Wemyss's consider." od figment.

Mas not, na

the propaganda against the private manufacture of arms, Sir Maurice handed up a book which he said was printed for use in schools in one of the Dominion. "I would rather not mention which Dominion," remarked Sir Maurice.

FOUGHT FOR HER SON

Mrs. Lillian Bartholomew, mother of the English, child flm star, În a Lón Angeles courtroom where ahe unsuccessfully sought to terminate an aunt's guardianship of the boy. The munt, Mins Milli. cent Bartholomew, won the action,

Twilight

Of Britain's Cavalry

Sie Maurice contended that it was prejudicial in the national interest to fling mud at the industry. It wa UNWORTHY SUGGESTION

nd 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 ARMY'S FAREWELL TO Other points from Sie Maurice's ; interests. Sir Maurice said, “This un- Commission would express its opinion worthy suggestion that individuals of the extravagance of the propa- cannot reparate their private interests and against the industry..

AN ESSENTIAL PART

evidence are

"Privalo maufacture fa tak woon- tial part of our petem of imperial defence.

front

their public duty as citizenmufacture of arms in alleged to h

suggest that if the privite truts steep into civilised society,

¦ Ductors, chemists, mud nurses depend one of the causes of war, it is na Fot their profit on ill-health or example of the lack of balance and **I have never heard even of disense. It would be outrageous to perspective shows in much of the 5ur]ii' 11i nf ntary ence by arm.

suggest that for that reason they Fovidence," he said,

ferences.

ment fun with delegates or contry and courage epidemic diseases | Sie Maurice end that he had never for are lukewarm in the promotion of hold a share in a private armamenta venture to submit that the ease ble health,"

örm in his life. hns not been made cut sufficiently to

No one suggested, he said, that justify a produbition, whether nation- | undertakers tried to increase al or international, or any denstle death-rate. reorganisation of the industry.

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Negro Ex-Convict

Found Hanged In Homebound Liner

Sir Maurice spoke of the “atmos Speaking of the activity of Mr.

phores of nasty insintanko“ about the Shearer at the Geneva Distrigament imputation that 'Unbinet Ministers Conferefre in 1027, Sir Maurice maid and other influentin people owned that it had not in any way effected shares in firms manufacturing arma- the result.

iments, and that they would be in- i "One swallow does not make a felines to discourage disarmament. summer," he added, “and my personal "It is difficult to imagine how such experiences show that the Shearer outrageous" Inshuuations episode was unexampled."

Liverpool, June 16. seriously made,” he said, Sir Maurice said that since his Regarding allegations of war, pro-

John McAuley, a negro, released previous evidence he bad received fits, 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 a detached position for having done in the case of the manufacturers of Abosso, bound for West Africa. something to remove stigmas. One armaments than in that of the has been letter was from the widow of a great doctors. the chen undertakers, |

the chemicali

found hanging in the mamifacturer of armaments who had manufelafers," been "horribly hurt!

crematoria proprietors, the

MeAuley, who was fifty, appear Sir Maurice said that the caseteries, and the Inwyers?"

ed in a Liverpool court case two against private manufacture had been "Let anyone hearing this evidence 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 alleged episodes often misrepresented profits out of war," he added, "and terror" in the, foreign quarter of

It was regrettable that much of the they will probably include persons the eity. evidence, though in a leker key than interested not only in the early

come

ITS STEEDS

London, June 12.

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 easing 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 failing craft. Ench of them knew how slim his chances of surviving were.

Down the 'plang hurtled until, 100 feet from the ground, it came out of the fall and landed per fectly. "Superb airmanship," Rome one anid,

Afterwards the, test pilot, spoke of his thoughts up there as he was falling to what he thought his. death. This is what he said:-

"As I came out of the dive the ailerons jammed. Down went one wing, and down we went, I did averything I knew Ip right her but it seemed useless,

THOUGH this year's

Royal Tournament at " looked the altitude meter.

The needle Olympia was not the Army's

was moving quickly lover the dial, ticking off the little farewell to its steeds, it was marks that meant the feet be one of the proudest of thetween the earth and me. defiances remaining to the military horse age.

"I, WONDERED"

"Time seemed to stop.

'You're for it. boy, I said. 'You're going to hit

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

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

Was

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

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

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

HEROLDIC PAGEANT The tournament which ended on May 23, was as usual, a picture of

I couldn't get her out. "Somewhere down there I could see people watching. I wondered whether my wife was watching too, I haped she wasn't. Then it struck me that I wouldn't be able to fly the man I head an appointment with at Bix o'clock.

the wing up just

Then I thought that if I could get Itle I might hit with that, Then the 'crash woukin't be so bad. I might get away with broken legs. The ground was very close then

I had one last efort I tried to get her out by using the rudder, It worked. Slowly she came out. I landed. My wife wasn't there. I could take that man up at six.

"I worked 021 how Fd been falling. One and a half seconds.

Rome other attempts to stigmatise stages of arms manufacture but He was sentenced to three years' all the services. the private manufacturers by re-people concerned in banking, shipping, Penn servitude at Manchester ferring to them by such terms as insurance, and a vast range of other Assizes in March 1834 on charges The programme included bril- "merchants of death," the "blondy commodities essential both to civilised of procuration and unlawfulinnt spectacles like the heraldic trafic," and "war trailers," had con- life and the maintenance of tinued the process of creating pre- forces,”,

our wounding. His wife, Mary Mc-pageant of Norfolk and feats disa Auley, aged forty-five, wILS sen-playing the skill, modern activities, judice.

tenced to five

pend and physical fitness of Navy, Army years' hyperbole in this matter." he went Speaking of the hard worked servitude. The judge also recomand Air Force.. or, must tend to mislead a public Mulliner episode," Sir Maurice said mended that McAuley should be 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 för bringng information he was born.

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London, June 15.

which retain horses will be inSIR ARTHUR SPURGEON, re-

Indin,

BRAVE SALUTE

Chofce for programmes will then be more

restricted. Still, this year, the horse age made a brave anlute.

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

Famous riders and their mounts. time.

were to be seen in large numbers. Some 260. horses took part.

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 offcial documents, they were branch at home is in process of be-opened in 1882,

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The Royal Navy gave a 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 scenes, In which cavalry took part.

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

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