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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 19, 1936.

A HORNETS' NEST from

HERE aro roughly 10,000,000 pooplo-just the population of London -spread over the 3,700,000 square miles of Canada, and quite 9,000,000 seam to be after my bigod in one form or another!

It' is all over Mother Country sentiment. After a delightful tour across the Dominion, from Quebec right to Vancouver on the Pacifio Const, I said I was rather shocked to find vory little sentiment for Great Britain and that the young people particularly seemed to fool that, having given them

· Dominion status, we neemed dis- Inclined to do anything more for them.

I also merely recorded an opinion expressed to me by many young people that if Canada were as closely linked to the United States as it in to us there would bo more energetio development of the country' reonurces and more of them would have jobs,

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SINCE I returned to England. letters, cuttings from news- papers, extracts from lending articles and even cablegrams have poured on me like tropical rain. Bome agree with

whole- heartedly, others upbraid me violently, Quite clearly, I stumbled en something on which Canadians themselves are acutely divided.

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It would be begging the question to say that I had been misunderstood, but this little blizzard drives home a lesson in the necessity of weighing up the popular definition of a word before you use it.

When I said "räocked " I did not mean it in the sense which Canadiana have interpreted it. Probably "revela- tion" would have been a much better word because, if I believe in anything. It is in the complete freedom of people to do and think what they like within, of course, the reasonable con fines of civilised law.

That *tall toaves tho question whether feeling in Canada la gener- atly as I say I found it. There I stick to my guna.

UNDOUBTEDLY there are people

in the Dominion who still think of Britain as home and who fit perfectly into the picture which is being constantly painted for us by Imperialists over here. How

many of theso there are even among the older people is a moot point, but from my oboervation I should say they are in a very den- nito minority.

It is the now geberation to which I was particularly referring. "The Mother

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CANADA

by

Gordon Helsby

Canada and Great Britain aro, therefore, in a double partnership, as members of the Commonwealth and members of the League:

Canada

is

Fourthly. one of the two great North American Powers. bound by Innumerable ties of mutuni Interest to the United States. And this gives her a unique world position na the most important of all inks between the Brilish Empire and the United Stales The Dominion is at once the symbol and guarantee of British-American friend ship.

What is Young Canada going to make of the future?

Country means nothing to them, at least in the way some people over hers would have us believe it does.

Carlton McNaught, A Canadian writer, whose opinion on my slalement · was obtained by a Toronto paper, ad- mitted he was not surprised at my in- ability to find a strong Moller Country nentiment because such sentiment Jus given way to a belief among younger Canadians that Canada should stand on la own feet, face Ita own problems and map out and follow its own programme of development." So far as a tendency towards United Bates union, he felt I must have been travelling in bad company.

Even if he is right about the United States and I was merely pussing on what many young Canadiana told me

he confirms the attitude of young people to this country.

The trouble is that we in England have been so exposed to "ballyhoo about "Imperial sentiment," both from our own people and from Canadiana, that it is only when one gets to Canada that one understands the real Cana- dian attitude, That was the dis illusionment that shocked me in the sense of revelation, not necessarily because I found fault with it.

CANADA, as I see it, is first and foremost a completely inde- pondent, completely self-govern- ing country.

Secondly, she is, of her owit free will, a free and equal partner in the British Commonwealth; with no hard and fast legal obligations, but with the same unwritten but binding obligations of loyal co- operation that the other members have to her.

Thirdly, she is, also of her own free Awill, a member of the League of

Nations, and so accepta all responial bilties and obligations of the League.

BARONESS MAY GO TO GAOL

The Baroness Stutterheim, of The The mere fact that she had a title Moadway, Hampstead, who was said did not mean anything to bêm. to have "treated the whole ofį

con-

Britain's legal system with tempt," must pay motoring fines of all," he said,

£27 within 48 hours or go to gaol;

for two months.

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"She ought not to be driving

il

"She never attended here, and tail-

ed on more than one occasion to at-

The Плек were koposed for tend elsewhere.

obstruction and failing to produce

leence and insurance certificate at} "She has treated the whole of our Old-street police coul on October legal system with contempt. 16, In her absence.

She was present in court.

"Apparently she has highly-placed und distinguished relatives. They

The magistrate, Mr. H. Metcalfe, will have to come to her assistance said that after being fined there on

40 hours, within October

10 she was before the

otherwise

the

Marlborough-street mugistrate in the baroness will go to prison for two

same month,

months."

The problem still remains whether The new generation of Canada bees

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those simple focks as I do. I doubt it.

When they talk of rumours of war in which Great Britain might be involved, a great many of them say "Nover again." One young man crudely expressed it this way: Wo hope it keeps ans for you.".

They are, on the other hand, vague about alternatives, their feelings about a closer link with the United States are not so much the outcome of calm consideration as impulsive reaction to the fact that the United States Onances more of her industries than we do.

That also has produced the impres sion that, having given them Dominion status, Great Britain does not worry any further about them.

THE great bulk of people in this country know far too little of like what people In countries Canada really think about us, and they also have many wrong con- ceptions of what we think about them.

If nothing else, n much greater interest over here in the problems of Canin is urgently essential.

LAUNDRY MARKS

'NVISIBLE laundry marks have arrived.

Drake's Drum Hoodoo.

Flymouth, Dec. 15.

BRITAIN'S 10,000-ton cruiser

Devonshire sailed' from: Des vonport to-day for service with the Mediterranean Fleet, without Els silver replica of the drum which accompanied Sir Francia Drake round the worki.

Officers, and men think the drum replies has brought bad luck to the Devonshire. This is why:-

Seventeen lives lost in gun turret explosion in 1910..

Officer killed, another wound- ed

1934 when Turkish sentries fired on a party from the cruiser.

Devonshire dragged her an- chors in Alexandria Harbour, nearly collided with an am- munition ship, 1935.

Friday, November 13, 1936, Seaman Robinson fell from aloft seriously injured, Another said to me before the cruiser sailed to-day: "The men have become increasingly super- sillious. The drum has become a real live hoodoo, We are leay- ing it behind."

Aspirins Without Medical Advice 'Unwise Practice

The practice of taking aspirins

without medient advice was criticised by the coroner, Mr. W. F. Butler, at nn inquest at Worthing. Sussex, re- cently, on Marjorie Bryant, aged 20, laundry manageress, who died after taking aspiring to cure a headache. A verdict of "Death from misadven-

WAS recorded. The mother said that Miss Bryant

ble at her business.

turch

The letters and figures are there, but they cannot be had taken the tablets following trou- detected by the ordinary eye,

Each symbol is five-eighths of an inch deep and three- eights wide, but under a special lamp used by the laundries tr figures stand out vividly.

HR

Dr.

Duncan Duthic. itouse physician of the Worthing Hospital, said the girl told him she had taken about 20 aspirins during the after- noon, but they had not done her any stood.

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