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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1988.

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kong's population has increased by some thousands—no-one is quite sure how many-since the outbreak of hostilities in China. But the monthly water returns, issued recently, most certainly would mislead anyone not aware

Twelve months of Mr. Chamberlain

T

HE Prime Minister of Great Bultain holds one of the two greatest demo- cratic positions in the world. Its Intest occupant has curious notions of how best to emphasise his zeal for demo-

cracy.

He gets rid of Mr. Eden, with loud applause from Rome and Ber- lin; he appoints Mr. Lennox-Boyd, mostly known as the ardent sup- porter of General Franco.

His social life seems to be set in a framework drawn by Lady Astor and Lord Londonderry.

It was symbolic of his outlook that he entertained Herr Ribben- trap to lunch while the German Atiny was massing on the frontiers of what was Austria.

Mr. Chamberlain does not like it to be thought that he is the friend of the dictators, His method of assuring us that he is not is, al the least, a curious one.

He has hardly shown himself the man of steel his friends would wish him to be. He began his reign by capitulating to big business and the tax-dodgers over the Nationni Defence Contribution.

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Although he denies that there has been muddie over air armament, he has dropped Lord Swinton who, he proclaims, has "built up a magnificent Air Force unequalled in the world."

H

E cringed to Mussoli almost as soon as he Look

office.

He sent Lord Halifax to Berlin and sacri- nced Sir Robert Vansittart to the pressure of Hitler's friends in the British aristocracy.

The friend of democracy, in his speech on the ratification of the Anglo-Italian Treaty, pronounced aculogy on Mussolini which might have come from the lips of Signor Grandi.

He blustered over the sacrifice Even of Austrian independence. his show of firmness over Czecho- slovakia Was mainly duc to French prompting.

The man of steel is ready to sacrifice Spanish democracy to Fascist appetite. He has thrown Abyssinia to the wolves. He stands remote from the struggle of the Chinese people against Japanese Imperialism. We are asked to call it all "realism.”*

It is, I think a safe prophecy that the future historians will call It lack of nerve.

First year of Mr. Chamberlain's Premiershild shows, pretty clearly,

son will use about 900 gallons

of the fairly steady, and some monthly. If the 1938 figure of times frantic, influx of refugees monthly consumption for the to this Colony. Consumption island-about 540,000,000 gal-

figures

|lona--is` divided by the Indivi- for June, 1938, are

dual's estimated requirement 589.43 million gallons as com- pared to 396.74 million gallons it is plain that some 600,000 in 1937. Surely there is signi- persons are using our water ficance here; surely the most supply; which means that the reasonable explanation is that population of the Island alone the increase in our population is has, increased by something like responsible for this rather nota-150,000 souls. It is

not un-

ble gain in water consumed. reasonable to argue the truth of But because, presumably, there this against the supposition that

AN ANALYSIS

by Harold Laski

Mr. Chamberlain still has a few friends left.

that he is the obliging instrument of big business and little more. His interests are the safeguarding of the property-system and the maintenance of British imperial-

ism.

For them, the League may be further degraded; collective secur- ity may be abandoned. For them pronteering may run rlot in the For them. armaments industry. too, Trinidad and Jamaica must sacrifice human values to economic Breed.

We are not told his objectives in International affairs. We have no evidence of preparation for indus- trial recession.

We are told that rearmament postpones all major social reform for a generation.

But we are given no clear view of the purposes his rearmament is to serve.

In most of the Fascist countries, Mr. Chamberlain is loaded with

compliments.

R

OME 1kes the new atmos-

phere: she has;

like Salome, Abyssinia's headt on a charger. Berlin na swalloweri Vienna; and Mr. Chamberlain's hesitations-so like the fatal dalil- ance of Gray In 1914--may threaten the very life of Prague to- morrow.

There are cold words for every democratie principle of inter- national organisation. There is not a word of encouragement for the Powers struggling to free themselves from the Fascist

nenace.

Almost more than Sir John Simon-It could hardly be more he has conveyed to the world the Impression that in the choice be- tween democracy and property it is on the side of property that he

has taken his stand,

【TE makes great play of prosperity, with slowly mounting figures of un→→ ployment. Ho can do nothing about the Menns Test; but there is no means test for agricultural landlords who want subsidies to recondition their houses.

Distressed areas see no sign of ant imaginative Insight into their prob- lems. The coal and textile indus- tries continue to work out their tragic destinies.

Tho criticisms of the Opposition: the profound disturbance of the country. the

of alarm

Mr. Churchill, all leave him unmoved. - He thinks he is strong where he is merely complaceat.

He relles not upon argument but on the evasion of the public ver-

is no official estimate of the 450,000 people are using nearly GRIN AND BEAR IT population's increase available, 25 per cent. more water than the monthly water return takes they did Inst year.

creased

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very largely indus-

it for granted that the Island's However, such a calculation population is

this one may also be mis- what it was

lending. For the water con- thought to be in 1937-145,000.sumption of the average It is on this figure that the per Chinese wage-earner cannot be capita consumption of water is compared to that of the average estimated; and it discloses the foreign resident, for instance, interesting fact that this pero attempt to work out a capita consumption has in-por capita figure for classes in a

city so more than ten gallons, trialised, where relatively much per head a day, or roughly 25 more water is used by the well- per cent. In Kowloon the to-do than by the poorer and por capita consumption is still more numerous populace, is dith- based on the 1987 population cult if not impossible. It would figure of 380,000, and because not be unreasonable, perhaps, to total consumption is up from say that of the 640,000,000 gallons (roughly) used by the 301.51 million gallons to 869.23 Island in a month less than half. million gallons per capita con- that sum is consumed in the sumption is said to have risen crowded tenement areas. It will from 26.4 to 32.4 gallons a day. follow, then, that the poorer Now consider these figures population can increase very from another point of view considerably without there be

ing any enormous difference working on the assumption that made in the consumption of there is a very considerable in water. Perhaps the experts creise in Hongkong's populn-can estimate how much water tion. If it is also assumed that an additional 500,000 refugees the per capita rate of water will require in Hongkong; or, consumption has altered very alternatively, since the Island little, or that it has risen to water this June than last, to used 143,000,000 gallons mora roughly 30 gallons per day, it what extent the population has will then be seen that one per-been augmented.

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By Lichty

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Copt/1933 De Umbrad Poščuru Byastania, Twi

"At 10 o'clock you have an appointmnet with the stockholdere, at 1 o'cloals there's the Snodgrass conference, at 2 thore's the board, meeting at 3 o'clock, my wife to see you about my raise

BIC BUSINESS

dict. He holds his majority by its, knowledge that a public test of its policy would dissipate its strength. Now that, after all, is the mounting result of the by-elections. West Fulham and Lichfield show that the tide is on the turn.

The electorate la unhappy be- cause it senses that a policy of muddio and scuttie la an en- couragement to all the dark forces of reaction to which, already, Mr. Chamberlain has made so many propitiatory sacrifices.

At long last Mr. Chamberlain is making clear to the avarage man the inner meaning of 1991.

He does not unite the nation in the face of the grave complica tions before it. He falls in this because he never seeks to under stand the mind of his opponents. He is sure of himself because he lives in a mental truss which de- prives him of any elasticity of mind.

A

WORLD that needs to organise for peace ho organizes for war. A world that needs freer trade he builds on tighter, restrictions. A world that needs the economics of plenty he restrains to the tech- nique of scarcity.

That he goes on without pause for thought is interpreted by his intimates as courage. But one who .measures the need by the perform- anco will be driven to think that blindness is the proper torm.

With all his limitations. Lord Baldwin ng Prime Minister had a clear senso that, in a democracy, public opinion must rule. Mr. Chamberlain shows little regard for its urgencies.

The only voices Mr. Chamber- lain wants to hear are the volces that approve. Ho is so stoutly buckled in the armour of his com- placency that he belloves himself entitled to neglect ideas which have not originated with himself. He la the man who can never be wrong.

But after Lichfield will come Stafford; and there is a big sur- prise in store in the West Derby- shire poll

R. CHAMBERLAIN losing his hold on the

Mo

plain man who wants Great Britain in the van of the progressive forces of our etvlikka- tion.

He is losing it, because a single year of offico, has convinced an over-increasing number of plain men that Mr. Chamberlain will never put Great Britain there.

He does not bellova in the pro- gressive forces of the world. "His mind and heart_aro spiritually attuned to an England which looks backwards to power and hot forward to pence,"

To-day's Thought

E knows how to squander

but not to bestow

-TACITUS,

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