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The

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TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1938.

THIRSTS RISE; POPULATION STEADY

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of the fairly steady, and some- times frantic, influx of refugees to this Colony. Consumption figures for 'June, 1938, 539.48 million gallons as com-

are

Twelve months of Mr. Chamberlain

HE. Primo Minister of Great Britain 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,

Hla 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- trop to lunch while the German Army was massing on the frontlers of what was Austria,

Mr. Chamberlain does not like it to be thought that he is the friend of the dictators. HIM method of assuring us that he i noi is, at 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 National Defenen Contribution,

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

H

E cringed to Mussolinil almost as soon as he

took omce. He sent Lord Hallfax to Berlin and sacri- feed Sir Robert Vansittart to the pressure of Hitler's friends in the British aristocracy.

The friend of democracy. In his speech on the.mtification of the -Anglo-Italian Treaty, pronounced a eulogy on Mussolini which might have come from the lips of Signor Grandi. S

He blustered over the sacrince of Austrian Independence. Even 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 tho Chinese people against Japanese Imperialism, We are asked to call it all "reallam."

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

First year of Mr. Chamberlain's Premiership shows. pretty clearly.

some 600,000

pared to 396.74 million gallons it is plain that 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 no official estimate of the 150,000 people are using nearly population's increase available, 125 per cent.

is

more water than

the monthly water return takes they did last year. it for granted that the Island's population is what it was However, such a calculation thought to be in 1937-445,000. as this one may also be mis-

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 profiteering may run riot in the armaments industry. For them.

too, Trinidad and Jamaica must sacrifice human values lo 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 ilkes the new atmos-.

phere; she has, like Salome, Abyssinia's head on a charger. Berlin has swallowed Vienna; and Mr. Chamberlain's hesitations--so like the fatal dall- ance of Gray in 1914--may threaten the very life of Prague to- morrow.

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

Almost more than 8 Jolin Simon-1 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..

H

ployment.

E makes great play of prosperity, with slowly mounting figures of un- He can do nothing about the Meana Test; but there is no means test for agricultura) landlords who want subsidies to recondition, their houseS.

Distressed areas see no sign of un Imaginative insight into their prob- lems. The coal and textile Indus- tries continue to work out their tragic destinies.

The criticisms of the Opposition, the profound disturbance of the country, the *alarm

Mr.

Churchill, all leave him unmoved. He thinks he le strong where he is merely complacent.

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

the water con- GRIN AND BEAR IT

It is on this figure that the per leading. For capita consumption of water is sumption. of the average estimated; and it discloses the Chinese wage-earner cannot be interesting fact that this por compared to that of the average capita consumption

has

in- foreign resident, for instance. creased more than ten gallons To attempt to work out a per head a day, or roughly 25 por capita figure for classes in a per cent. In Kowloon the city so very largely indus- par capita consumption is still trialised, where relatively much based on the 1937 population more water is used by the well- figure of 380,000, and because to-do than by the poorer and total consumption is up from more numerous populace, is diffi- 301.51 million gallons to 369.23 cult if not impossible. It would million gallons per capita con-not be unreasonable, perhaps, to sumption is said to have risen say that of the 540,000,000 from 26.4 to 32.4 gallons a day. gallons (roughly) used by the Now consider these figures Island in a month less than half from another point of view that sun is consumed in the working on the assumption that crowded tenement areas. It will there is a very considerable in-follow, then, that the poorer crease in Hongkong's popula-population can increase very tion. If it is also assumed that considerably without there. be- | the per capita rate of wator ing any enormous difference consumption has altered very made in the consumption of little, or that it has risen to water. Perhaps the experts| roughly 30 gallons por dny, it can estimate how much water will then be seen that one per-an additional 500,000 refugees) son will use about 900 gallons will require in Hongkong; or, monthly. If the 1988 figure of alternatively, since the Island monthly consumption for the used 148,000,000 gallons more. island-about 640,000,000 gal water this June than last; to lons-is divided by the Indivi: what extent the population has. dual'a estimated requirement, been augmentad

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dict. He holds his majority by its knowledge that a public test of its policy would dissipato its strength.. Now that, after all, is the mounting.

West result of tho by-elections, Fulham and Lichfield show that the tide is on the turn.

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

At long last Mr. Chamberlain is making clear to the average man the inner meaning of 1931.

He does not unite the nation in the face of the grave complica- tions before it. He falls in this because he novor 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 pence he organises for war. A world that needs freer trade he bullds 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 perforni- ance will be driven to think thot blindness is the proper term.

With all his limitations, Lord Baldwin as Prime Minister had a clear sense 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 nro the voices that approve. He is so stoutly. buckled in the armour of his com- placency that he boloves himself entitled to neglect Idous which have not originated with himself. He is the man who can never bo. wrong.'

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

M

R. CHAMBERLAIN · 1s losing his hold on the

plain man who wants Great Britala. In the van of tho progressive forces of our civilisa tion.

He is losing it because a singlo year of office has convinced an aver-increasing number of platn mon that Mr. Chamberlain" wil never put Great Britain there.

He does not believe in the pro gressivo forces of the world, Hur mind and heart are spiritually attuned to an England, which looks backwards to power and not! forward to pence.

-To-day's Thought He knows how to see 'but not to besto