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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1938.

CANADA PUTS FAITH IN AIR FLEET

Canada has an interesting defence problem and one which has been giving the Govern- officials connected with ment's this ordinarily unimportant do- think ...Reginald Dixon partment something to

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There have been in the past many persons, both in Canada Joo Peterson and clsewhere in the British Joe Peterson Empire, who have maintained that the big Dominion should do .Gracie Fields more in the matter of Imperial .Gracie Fields defence than her policies allow. It has been suggested, over and over again, that since Canada possesses little or no navy of her own she should contribute to the upkeep of the Royal Navy, or build or buy from Britain des- troyers, submarines and cruisers: for her own" defence. But Canadians have been averse to this. In the first place, they argued, they were at peace with their neighbours and needed no naval protection whatever. But with the tension in the Pacific Canada awoke to the fact that perhaps, after all, there might come a time when her maritime province in the west, British Columbia. would be in need of defence. It was fairly obvious that no assistance from Great Britain could be expected of a sort which would dissipate any danger of naval attack. In the first place no British Fleet could reach Vancouver and Victoria before un enemy. Secondly, there is no base from which a battle floot can operate, for Esquimalt could not possibly be turned into a Singapore or

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This alliance hnd stabilised the situation in the Far East for twenty years. It was of immense value as an outward and visible sign of friendly co- operation on terms of equality between Eastern and a Western Power.

THE "VERY - IDEA”

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD STILL SMELL

By Ed. Kelly, Minister for, Morals

WB see that the Superin-

tendent of Mails will

in future be known as the Inspector of Posts.

We, wonder what they'll call the Inspector of Fem- ales?

Seriously, though, we are all for Brighter and Better Titles for Prominent People. The Inspector General of Police has already been re- named Commissioner.

Of course, it's apt to be a bit con- fusing at first. Remembering all the new titles that will undoubtedly be bestowed on lesser police officers is certain to make the ordinary police constable Sikh of the whole inusiness.

We foresee some radical changes in the Urban Council where, doubt- les, Sanitary Inspectors will in future he called Comptrollers of Dustbins. Superintendents of Hat- Trops, Commissars of Howkers. Ministers for Dog Licences, or some thing equally euphonious.

We have always had some dill- culty pronouncing "bacteriologist”. and a much simpler title for the

would be "Inspector General of Wogs and Germs,"

Now that there is no such alliance we should not fall to learn a lesson from our present posi-official bearing this designation

At that time China stood on the brink of a tion in the Far East. mad attempt to drive all foreigners "into the sea." Older people will remember how, in 1900, the foreign Legations in Peking were besieged by the Boxers and what anxious months we experienced during that terrible outbreak.

As the outcome of that lesson I hope to see the closest co-opération in the near future be- tween all non-Asiatic natians who have interests in the Far East, especially those with impor- tant possessions.

They should stand firmly together for mutual defence, as they did in 1900, if they wish to avert a danger which it should be impossible to under- estimate.

But in 1900 the situation was overcome be cause Europe and America stood firmly united. It was an international force under the command of a German Field-Marshal that raised the siege

The bulwark of that defence is the new Bri- of the Legations and made the Chinese-who, as tish naval base at Singapore. There is no reason history repeatedly shows, will yield everything whatever why Singapore should be considered as to force and nothing to reason"-abandon for a threat to Japan. It is as far from the Japanese while their anti-foreign activities.

base at Kobe as Gibraltar is from Boston, and no

Since then the situation has deteriorated, one has yet been foolish enough to claim that and there can be no doubt that the deplorable Gibraltar is a menace to America.

Colonies and Dependencies in the Far East since

by Sir Francis Lindley when he stress-

weakness of all European and American I ENDORSE the remarks recently made the Great War has been a special inducement ed how important it is that we should keep out of to Pan-Asiatic and anti-foreign agitation, both the present Sino-Japanese dispute. in China and Japan.

At the present time it is easy to be led away I Know something of the situation from from hard facts by our own natural sympathy for

innocent sufferers.

personal experience.

When I went back to Hongkong as Gov- ernor in 1925 I found the feeling against foreign- ers getting a firm hold on the Chinese again.

LET 'EM ALL DO IT

There's no reason why Brighter and Betier Titles should be con- fined to Civil Servants.

An ideal designation for Mr. Rut- tonjec, who has something to do with H. B. Beer, would be Minister for the Interior. Jimmy, of Jimmy's Kitchen fame, would be a splendid Controller of Corporations.

Mr. B. Wylie, as President of the Kowloon Residents' Association, Is

an obvious Speaker of the Commons, while the Hon. Mr. E. Davidson, President of the Peak Club, should be known as the Leader of the Upper House.

Let's

generous, In fact, and bestow these titles * massc. There's no reason why the ricksha cuolles shouldn't be known in future as Commissara for Trans port, or why our wash mahs shouldn't be called Plenipotentaties of the Wash-Tub.

We have thought of an excellent title for shroffs, but this is respectable newspaper respectable staff.

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the neme of respectability. We are so respect- able-that-we-believe that-brassieres

But there are two sides to every question, and it must not be forgotten that China has been

We are, in fact, irritating Japan for many years by a variety of During my Governorship_we_in_ Hongkong incidents, such as unprovoked attacks upon small were obliged to carry on a kind of petty warfare Japanese garrisons. with the Canton Soviet, who had a Russian "high Students of Chinese history are also aware adviser" and coined z sługan “Make Hongkong a of another important factor. Whenever China desert island."

has been conquered in the past (as by the Mon-

My police stations along the frontier had gols and the Manchus) she has later absorbed her to be protected with barbed wire and machine conquerors. guns, and one of my first acts was to send a British regiment to drive Chinese troops out of our New Territory, which they had invaded.

More than ten years have passed since then, and now the Chinese, writhing in the grip of Japanese ruthlessness, have come to realise that,

When the present warfare is over it is therefore probable that solidarity will arise be. tween China and Japan, particularly in their foreign politics. If so the ery of "Asia for the Asiatics" will grow more and more vehement.

And in addition there must be naval and mili- after all, there is some advantage to them in the tary co-operation between Britain, France, with existence of European treaty ports in China and her vast Indo-China interests, America with of a British Colony on the coast of Kwangtung. the Philippines, and the Netherlands, with her

It was unfortunate in 1922 that, owing, as I Indies. think, to lack of vision by British and American When that is achieved no pan-Asiatic Power statesmen, the Angle-Japanese Alliance came to will dare challenge the Far Eastern rights of an end,

Western civilisation,

held against an invading army by relatively few troops. The western rivers are not naviga weeks or even months. So it

ble to any distance by warships, seemed Canada's strategy in

therefore land and air opera- efence must be of another sort. She has hit upon the only possi- Dominion had to consider from tions were the only dangers the -A. Krassov.ble protective scheme-a strong behind the bulwark of the Roc-

and fast air striking force.

kies. And naturally she chose Bearing in mind that the

an air force as her best defen- Atlantic seaboard is relatively sive weapon-an air force safe from invasion and that war piloted by men with experience with the United States was out

In all sorts of weather, northern of the question, Canada had to

blizzards and prairie dust look only to the north and west storms, trained by veterans who when considering her lines of

won for Canada the reputation derence. An attack across the

of breeding the highest propor- North Pole, while within the tion of "ace" airmen of any part range of possibility, was impro- of the British Empire during bable; and, moreover, the same

the World War. To the men of defence force which could pro- her now air fleet, then, Canada tect the Pacific coast would be

has handed the major responsi- javailable to meet any menace bility of defence, to be shared from the Arctle. In the Pacifle, with a little, but efficient, stand- then, the chief danger laying army and a skeleton militia

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are only worn on the heads of statues.

And all wo know about panties is that dogs do them In the sum mer, and after chasing cats. Someone once told us that some girls wear corsettes, but we laughed, because we had known that the course is set only by the captain of a ship.

It wasn't until the other day that we found out that "sex" wasn't the American way of pronouncing "Bix". If you don't believe us, girls, our hours of respectability are from 7 p.m. to a.m. And we are quite willing to interview a Director of Education.

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