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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, WEDNESDAY, November 30, 1988.

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WEDNESDAY, November 30, 1930.

Sanctuary at Sea

WITH THE JAPANESE reach-

ing to the very shores of British waters in Deep Bay, and the occupation of the foreshora of Mirs Bay an imminent possi- bility, an intriguing position nrises.

Under the Convention for the Extension of Hongkong, signed al. Peiping forty years ago Inst June, the territory of Hongkong was extended by lease for period of ninety-nine years, to include the waters of Deep Bay and Mirs Bay and what we somewhat erroneously call the New Territories.

The possibilities are almost comical in their ramification. For instance, it is perfectly justifiable for Japan in a war with China to occupy the whole of the foreshore of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay outside British land limits at Shataukok in the cast and Shami in the west, but if a Japanese soldier so much as washes his aching feet in the waters of either bay he violates British territory.

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Again, sampan crews can ́an- chor with perfect impunity (or with 25 much impunity British territory affords) within a few feet of the shores, upon which their less lucky landbound countrymen and women are at the mercy of the invaders.

A Future Danger

THERE IS ANOTHER in- teresting point raised by

the Extension of Hongkong Convention. It rends:

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“A GOOD JOB IT DIDN'T RAIN, MARY!”

New Departure

NLY one conclusion emerges from the scramble for solutions of the present desper- ate situation in the history of Europe. A new departure is

wanted.

The order of the Versailles peace settlement has been scrapped. Frontiers, guarantees, the known structure, and even the minimum decencies of international society have gone by the board.

Regrets and recriminations are a waste of breath. The peace treaties no longer exist even as letters of the law. Law itself has been wiped out.

The new order la based on con- ceptions which matured during the world war. They were behind the treaties which the Central Powers forced on a defeated Rumania at Bucarest and of a defeated Russia at Brest Litovsk. Not even the pre- tence of self-determination was observed.

It is worth remembering that those ideas were on the losing side In the war itself. Something or other besides brute forco Was operating on the winning side to make for the decisive victory which 'the world now has cause to regret. It is no consolation to imagine that this additional factor was demor- racy, because democracy is now on the losing side.

But it may prove fruitful to re- call that a further factos was in operation which is particularly sympathetic to the Labour Move- ment.

It was the organising ability of free men. The Central Powers had nothing to compare with the wartime economic organisation of the Allies. They were behindhand in national organisation for the

· satisfaction of the needs of the civil population.

They nover, achieved an inter-

Dance Ban

On Students

Governors of Pitman's College, area leased to Great Wimbledon, have. cancelled a stu-1

dents' dance which was to have taken as shown

on the an- place at Wimbledon Town Hall re-

nexed map includes the waters cently,

of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but ' ̧ All the arrangements for the dance.

it is agreed that Chinese vessels were made by Mr. A. Soars, one of

the masters, with the permission of

of war, whether neutral or the headmaster, Mr. 6, Dalby.

otherwise, shall retain the right

to use these waters,"

Looking at the question hypothetically, what steps could

"We are all mystified by the ban," a girl student said, and all sorts of scandal is going round About IL

"We are all terribly disappointed." Mr. 1. J. Pitmain, managing director of Pitman's Ltd., and a governor of Hongkong take to prevent the the college, and the mistake was the Chinese doing what the Japan- | headmaster's.

He was new to the college and did cse did in Shanghai neutral ter- not know it is a rule to leave the ritory, in which they were co-social side of the students lives to partners?

themselves and their parents.

legal terminology we leave to someone with more spare time than ourselves to discover.

Although Hongkong must and rightly so-intern all Chinese soldiers who set foot on Hongkong soil, the 1898 Con- vention would appear, to be so There is no likelihood that the phrased that similar action hypothesis will become an actu could not be taken against ality in the present confict Chinese forces operating on between China and Japan, but it vessels of war. What consti- la a dangerous possibility for tutes a vessel of war in strict the future.

BY DR. BJARNE BRAATOY

Lecturer at the Nobel Peace Institute, Orlo, in 1937, a Scandinavian writer on International Affairs who lives in London.

national organisation for that pur- pose, whereas on the Allies' aido sovereign nations proved able, for the one and only time in world his- tory, to get together on voluntary basis and creato joint organisa- tion for the administration of transport and the supply of row materials, foodstuffs, and other necessities.

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These truly International aren- cles were so successful that the idon arosa of carrying them an for peace purposes as well. The idea was first adopted by the French. The British were gradually won

over.

Very nearly to the day, twenty YENTS BRO—on October 21. 1918—a detailed plan for the continuation of the inter- allied economia. organisations was submitted to the Wär Cabinet,

It provided for the adherence of the then enemy nations and of the neutrals. The intention was that it should supersede the machinery of the blockade as soon as possiblo after the Armistice.

It needs but little imagination to realise the potentialities of this plan. What misery and humiliation could have been spared the de- feated nations, what possibilities of co-operation ensured for all nations.

The plan was, indeed, as its authors themselves aníd, “the in- evitable corollary of the whole idea of a League of Nations,"

Before the plan could pass be- yond the drafting stage, the ap- proval of the United States Government was necessary, Finan-

cially Washington hold the whip hand.

It proved dimcult to get a reply to the Franco-British proposals. but on November 8-three days be- fore the Armistice-a dispatch was announced

from Washington

which bluntly rejected the plan

*After peace over one-half of the whole export food supplies of. the world will come from the United States, and for the buyers of these supplies to sit in majority in dictation to us às to prices and distribution, is wholly inconceiv- abla."

The business mind of the author of that dispatch, Mr. Harbert Hoover, was expressing the desire of the business community for a re- turn to normalcy."

The only constructive idea which emerged from the horrors of the world war was thus killed at birth. The wartime solidarity was de-, nounced before the war itself had ended and the peace settlement was fatally marred before even the negotiators had been appointed.

there was still time. A military alliance, however complete, is in any case an outworn instrument in these days of totalitarian war un- less the inevitable corollary of co-operation is fully organised.

Meanwhile tho enemy" powers ord. putting into operation their own ideas on international economic co-opera tion. Backed by overwhelming mill- Lary power, they are subjugating the economía Ufo of central and castern Europe and making serious inroads elsewhere.

This economic offensiva constitutes an inescapable challenge. Unless the democratia nations of the world prove capable of organising their economic relations as they did in the world war; they deserve everything that is cam- ing to them.

National unity, rearmament, and all the love for freedom which they can muster, will be of no avail.

Thor will go down to the final de- feat, whether this defeat is measured in military terms or not.

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The idea of "international confer- ences" does not meet the caso. Ilu- slons as to possible participation by the totalitarian powers may be dis- missed out of hand. The dumourn tic nations must first have something to show for themselves.

For that purpose international co- ferences are not even of primary im- portance. For the Labour Movement. at least the watchword must be organ- isation.

The means are there. They need only be developed. The cost of one battleship, in added contributions to-- In consequence, the inevitable corol- the economic and financial sections of lary of the League of Nations was the League of Nations, would make it never serioudy considered. The just possible for that organisatio League has not got to-day, and never finally to be at some vital use in the had, more than the most meagre de- world.

· ginnings of economia organiertian, and the real reason for its failure is there for everybody to see.

That is the real reason also for the failure of Leagia “sanctions." Bolld. arity in face of an aggressor implies solidarity_between the cancionist Powers. But how is that solidarity possible when even for the mild for of economic sanctions the machinery is not in existence?

It was not even created between the members of that common front which might have saved Czechoslovakia while

GRIN AND BEAR IT

“Stug" and nonsensei: What good le

By Lichty

It could secure and make avaliable Information on production and needs throughout the democratic world on a scale which has hitherto hardly been. attempted. It could centralise that financial control which has eluded the grasp of the Bank of International Settlements at Basel, and which the monetary understanding between Britain. France and the United States only skirts.

It could be the beginnings of an international Investment bourd, which, would prevent averlapping in the de 'velopment of the world's resources and

undermine the economie barriers be- tween the nations.

Distressed areas in the Internationa? sense would immediately conso under Its searchlight, and the horror of abundance in ono corner of the earth whlio starvation · roigma - As another would be avoided by the guidance of supplies from one to the other.

The economia conférences of the future would be able to falál n.real function, because a substantial basis. will have been provided for their do- liberations. Finally, the common Ironk Incessary to pleet #ggressor, nations. would have its wherewithal, mutuni Rolidarity between the members of that front.

Throughout the post-war years the International Labour Movement has repeatedly made suggestions in this direction. Before the world economía crisis the auggestions were largely vitiated by the remnants of free trade philosophy in the Movement itself ani by the lack of economic and financial. authority for national Governinsenta,

Since the world. economic crials 'the latter weakness has been į repaired,

The Labour Movement of Britain bar developed these ideas, particularly in the programme, “Por Bosiallant “mid Peace." adopted by the Bouthport don- ference in 1934 atic in the statement nei "International Polar and Defence." adopted by the Bournemouth confor anos in 1937. New VAN

But they still remain statensents of national imagź„The peri stap must i to develop thins ideas @wishi fi lisa- framework of the International Labogs : Movement

Without stich is new daparstire IHE oratie: Bociāliem is að an end..