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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2 ∙1037...

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No the Admiralty is not situated in this street (5).

4 This epithet for some subcu- taneous disorder seems to be

an excuse for youthful impe- tuosity (9).

Train (7).

10 Ball-stroke and writer make

A flower (7).:

11 Common plant or fish (4).

12 A formal Highland weapon (6). 13, A number with any following is

numerous (4).

16 Thus craftsman is less active if

he loses his head (7).

17 Secrecy that makes the last (7).

10 Golfers think this nult

misnamed (7).

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22 A rupture of friendly relations that came from a cross-bow (7), A make of 'plane (4),

25 Perfect

(5)

10 Obviously this tax should not be

dodged (4).

29 He is apt le look down on other

men men

30 "Trooped" (anag.) (7).

31 The sort of warship to do dam-

ago (b).

It was good fortune for tlila músical composer to lose his hend (5).

DOWN illumination for salvage work

perhaps ().

2 Post-war country of Europe (7). Upset an insect and gel a nasty taste (4).

The sort of wave to do damage (7).

Town old in France

U.S.A. (7).

New

in

Flat Osh not specially clover.

(4).

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7 The name of this piece of lost- gage is an exaggeration (7). Fawn like a reptile (5).

14 The bird that gives advice to its chick trying to emerge from the shell (5).

15 It is the taxes that make

state (5).

I is a plous theory ussiduously

Home that the new Triple Alliance, comprising Germany, Japan, und Italy, is directed solely ojalost the menace of Red Communism.

That

one

is a story entirely suitable perhaps for narration to the Marines, but that must not be told to ex- perienced diplomatists.

precious Pact, so Incidentally this far from intimidating Red Com- munism, affords that vague but most disturbing spectre about the nest udvertisement, it ever received,

Implications of the mentous evolution of world history,

4

Alliance

By "An Old Slager"

They

ard the opinions firmly held and widely expressed by many of the leading minds of this country and U.S.A.

When the Kalser's War Lords flouted American opinion during the crisis of 1914-10, they sealed their

both

to-

a great sea-girl United States,OWR doom, Hitler and Mussolini,

numca already Imbued with the same Anglo-Saxon excerated throughout Amerien

heartily free tradition as themselves, is ra-

day, may And that they have com- pidly strengthening that convletion.

mitted on even more fatal blunder. From America has just lately come Just as they are, in the name of an the overtures for a trade agreement anti-Communist crusade, making 1 Mussolini and Hitler sincerely with this country. It Is a gesture far desire only the extermination of Bol-more significant, and fraught with Communism a force in Weltpolitik, so they have, by their new oĺllance, shevism, they have curiously enough infinitely greater potentialties, then helped immensely to bridge the taken the only action which could any mere commercial programme of Western ocean. have placed it definitely on the mop. mutual

mutual interests. It is a sign of the

and gnatures

to

with

whose Japan,

We have but to bide our time, ond What, then, is the true inwardness changing times, America recognises avald flamboyant sabre-rattling in of this remarkable East-West Pact the challenge of the slave-Stutes to the mistaken name of pacifism, and There can be little doubt that a human liberty. She feels that sheit will be found that the big bat- minor implication is that both Hitler cannot stand aside when that mo-tallons of the world are on the side

mentous issue emerges. By leaguing of the peace angels. To-day Ger by solemnly putting met their

this themselves

and Italy sland for medie- valuable scrap

is well reallocd in U.S.A., many hope menace ultimately 10

prac- the Wester Dictators have given Valls. But in the great big world

of mentally enfranchised tical commercial and political benefit a great impetus to America's rentisa- there is no place for twentieth-cen in the Far East. They may receive lion of mutual interests across the tury medievalism.

Nations must

must get some special treatment in trading broad Atlantic.

get out.

'The swaggering relations when Japan's new Chinese

panache of up-to-date militarism is provinces are inally conquered

a panache of dear old Mrs. Parting- not settled.

ton's famous but somewhat antedilй- vian mop.

of paper, some

How far, In the present temper of the Chinese people, this is a big ma- terial asset, and how for a Chinese pig in a Japanese poke, remains To be БОСН much later. The totalitarian Dictators must be ns- sumed to know their own business i Weight of Metal

Biding Our Time

These

are not merely my BWn personal interpretations of the mo-

on or

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But this is certainly not the main Avisited Fulda teir valley than that of the grandest orchestra FTER absence of many years; surrounding green hills, is finer far object ur intention of the new_agree;|

In the upper reaches of Tweed. In the world. There is no vanity; no mment

solemnly 50

signed and

2nd almost forgotten what it was stuffy atmosphere, and the upplouse covenanted. We are told it has no overt or secret milltary clauses, and like unt, on rounding the corner at s of the silent type felt in the in- this is likely enough,

But it will Craiglaw, my memory was instantly nermost corner of the heart. A cur- yet it's the accomplish its chief purpose, in

song never lessens in minds and estimation of the two beauty that tay. before me.

On the right nestled the steading you would have peace and a Western signatories, if it adds the powerful weight of Japan's military of Hawkshaw on the left towered day that will hold for ever, a day's FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI Harbo

release from the monotony and strength to the diplomatic ponder high hills where berry-clad grown ability of that restless Berlin-Herne tareen waved in the morning sun-worry of business life, go up Fruid not o the autumn. Fruid Water Pil

Pray do shine,, axis

unless you are a lover of In lexs

In flowed through meadowlands fair to grandiose language,

peace and of restful surroundings. en behold. In the distance the green brief, it is calculated to strengthen the conviction, in the minds of all slopes of Hartfell melted in the skles This wonderful valley in the wilds only welcomes the whom it my

concern, that the with a softness unusual for a hill off Tweedsmuir

massive height. It is in the man or woman who has a soul capa- senveely camouflaged automatics of such the

bosom of this mountain that ble of harmonising with Nature" in

the Western Dictators are heavily

her sublimest moods. aded. It may thus prove a useful pent-stained stream comes to life.

Afternoon melted into evening, fever in their ambitious programme As I made my first cast across a and reluctantly folded up my fish- of international hold-up, and diplo- dark pool, memory took me back to

shouldered my creel of trout. rod. ing matis blackmall. It will enable boyhood days when my father and and innde for the bus at Tweeds- them

to carry on with greatly filled a creet with trout one summermuir. Ere I left the wonderful sue-day. A full creel is hard to get in valley I took one last gaze over the strengthened effrontery thei cessful policy of bluff.

these days-but Fruid is a troutful lush meadowland to the far

air of that wild hill tains beyond. They seemed to en- may even, of course, in given stream. The circumstances, allow them to trans-country has an invigorating quality treat me to stay. form bluff into grim earnestness. If know of nowhere else; for the that appalling possibility exercises a winds

Garcles's height from restraining influence over

those pure, and the faint incense of burn strange pacifists who seem to desire ing peats adds a subtle charm. Great Britain to give a lend

The call of the curlew, the bleat to Europe," and in so doing become in- ing of sheep, and reaking of ravens volved In another

ter Great War with on the Crags are the music of that out adequate assurance that we shall wonderful valley, Such a symphony, be as well supported as in 1914, 11 hearkened to amid the quietness of may not be allogether a misfortune. But there is no reason on earth why, whilst declining to be nugged into any such preposterous role, this Em- pire should tremble in its sea-boots because of the new Triple Alliance. Friends of Freedom

am

The sincere friends of peace, after all, still mightily avershadow tho apostles of aggressive militarism. The League of Nations, with U.S.A. a firm adherent, and the rest of the Geneva-disciples-strong-h-their pledged cohesion, would be fur too tough proposition even for three powerful militant Powers in the world.

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20 Artful dishes for entertainment

21 Masculine name (or

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24 The decision from a draw (5).

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If America Joined

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Is the probability, of U.S.A. com- ing into the League, and Geneva dequiring practical reality, a broken reed? The most intelligent students of Wellpolitik believe it is very far from being so. The trump card is U.S.A. If America joined up for the duration with the League, the 27 This 11 across is a bird (4).

solidarity of

rest of

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And what are the signs and por- progress of this vehicle (4). tents in U.S.A? A sea-change Is

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