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THE HONGKONG TE 'LEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1939.

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F Adolf Hitler proposes rons of these planes. They were carrying the Anti- quite successful. It was one of Comintern Pact as far these machines that bombed the

Deutschland. as bombing Joe Stalin out The pilot who bombed thei of the Kremlin, he is taking Deutschland is now in a concen- on quite a tough proposi- tration camp at Perpignan. He praised this Russian bomber, tion.

If Hitler attacks Moscow he but complained that it was apt may be caught as Napoleon was, to catch fire in the air.

For Moscow is about 600 miles

ALL the researches that from the nearest German border

I have made, conver- sutions, readings, and calcula- All the way through Poland tions, convince me that, the Rus and over Russian territory on slan Air Force was much strong- their way to Moscow the Ger- er in 1936 than at the present man bombers would be attacked. time.

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Schoolboys' Strike

Precocious children seldom excite admiration. They either bore or annoy. The Diocesan Boys' School students who have gone on strike are not only annoying and boring, but are distressing and disloyal. Their action savours more of priggish ness than patriotism. But even allowing for reasonable motive, the strike cannot claim

The ringleaders- sympathy. prefects, whose honour code

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ethics of 11 school-have been grossly unfair to the good name of their school (whose reputation is worth being honoured), to their headmaster,

or &

are

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Cope. 1879 by United Fasters Brodiesin,

career

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5-10

"Father promised me a coupo if I didn't smoke till I

was 21,"

The old-style diplomats

seem

to be on their way out

HAS

are

our system

as

non-

coun-

On their return journey this It was no war that reduced thei process would be repeated.

strength of the Russian forces. The retreat after a bombing It was suicide. Their own police raid would be much like Napo- the Ogpu-perpetrated that leon's effort. Few would see deed. home again.

The two years of purges play- The Russian Air Force, like all ed more havoc with Russian

of for ever trotting around Europe their other military forces, is de- military forces than any world

career diplomats when he was Foreign Secretary, signed for defence. The Rus- war could have done.

broken down?

and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald be- sinna have from 1,200 to 1,500 Unlike any other war, the

We

our fore him. He was a great one sending fighter planes.

common soldiers escaped and the Ambassador to the United States for that. The fighter plane is the wea- generals caught it.

Lord Lothian, a non-professional

Now these continual journeys pon of defence. These Russian

Now the purges have ceased-diplomat, and Washington is go to make the proof that the fighter planes are well able to and Russian progress in the air one of the key posts now in professional system has broken deal with the German bombera. can continue.

It is not the Foreign the whirligig of international down. There is no reason at all why politics.

Minister's job to travel abrond They proved that in Spain.

the Russian Air Force should WHILE in

London is a key post, too, and to negotiate with other and Madrid I talked not be equal to anything that here we have the highly suc- tries. It is the Ambassador's

Le Rus-cessful Mr. Kennedy as the job.

United States Ambassador, and You will note that Mr. Cordell · flown these fighter planes in sian pláne designers are good.

Up to the present they have he is no professional diplomat Hull, the American Secretary of Spain.

State, does not have to leave his One of them had shot down copied European and American either."

now they designs, but two of the crack German Heinkel

Yet note how well he has country every few months to do bombers. I asked him which he branching out on their own lines made his country conscious of a deal. Yet his men abroad are, the march of events in Europe, for the most part, non-profes- would prefer, a Russian Mosca of development.

Mr. Glenn Martin, one of the and he represents it with skill sional diplomats. and to their fellow students.

German Messerschmitt

pioneers of aviation and now the and courage.

Why should it be necessary fighter plane in a war. He re- This exhibition of anti-

largest builder of bombers in the Then there is another

now for so much travelling on plied, "Give me the Russian, United States, told me when I Japanism is doubly misplaced,

the part of our Foreign Minis- man here in Count plane."

visited him at his factory in Grandi, whose conduct of Italy's ters? not only because the ringleaders

This Spanish pilot had been America that he had several affairs in London has forced It's no compliment to our had previously given their word taught to fly in Russia at a fly- Russian Government engineers tribute even from anti-Fascists. Diplomatic Service that in these to the headmaster to accept his ing school near Moscow. He studying in his works.

And in the news is the dis- days of radio and telephone these decision regarding the appoint-spoke highly of their training

system. He told

Glenn Martin believed them missed Litvinov, perhaps the Ministers have to be so fre- me each ment of a head prefect, but Spanish pilot had received 100 to be good, and thought that, ablest of all the non-professional quently packing their baga.

given experience, they would be diplomats. hours' instruction before re- fellow student, whose only ap-turning to fight in Spain.

equal to any American plane de- Now it is exceptional for us MIND you, in theory parent crime was to be born in

non-professional He also told me that he be signers. In fact, two of Ame-to

such "personal con- Formosa, The scapegoat for lieved Russian fighter planes rica's greatest plane designers diplomat abroad, yet perhaps the tacts" are all right. This "man- this unseemly display of childish equal to any in Europe, and that Sikorsky and Seversky.

Russian. They are Igor most successful of our men were to-man" stuff sounds good, but

taken from outside the ranks of how does it work? precociousness ig It Chinese, their Air Force was a formidable whose sole affiliation to things weapon.

I would prefer to be a Rus-the Diplomatic Service. slan plane designer in America I give you four big names→→

First of all, these journeys of Japanese is that he was born in A French engineer has just rather than in Russia.

Lord Bryce, Lord D'Abernon, a Foreign Minister are hurried Japanese territory. This in it--

concluded a series of articles on In Russia the designer of a Lord Crewe, and Lord Derby. affairs, so once he arrives in the self is an indication of how far

the Russian Air Force. He bad plane goes to jail until he de- the mentalities of the strikers

estimates that Russia has a first signs a good one. are removed from the realities line strength of 4,200 machines sign is the price of release.

A good de-

THESE are enough to of the situation.

and that she is now producing Grigorvitch, one of their best

show that the best from 400 to 500 planes a month. aviation engineers, produced one diplomats need not begin as His figure is one generally acr or two unsuccessful seaplanes. young attaches and then, if they way, they rob him of his judg- cepted.

A period in prison cured him. are lucky, end up as The figure 4,200 is composed Now he finds it safer to design sadors or Ministers.

Then, again, the visiting as follows: 1,200-1,500 fighter land-planes.

Indeed, there are quite a few Minister can never forget that. planes, 1,500 planes for recon-

people who are not satisfied with he is a guest, and consequently nuissance, 800 plaries for ground. WITH the purges ended, the present system and argue he is disinclined to raise awk... - attack, 400 day bombers, 300

the lot of aviators in that there wouldn't be so many ward, unpalatable questions. four-motored night bombers. Russia should be good. Every "surprisea" in foreign affairs if On top of all that, he is never In his survey of the Russian effort is now made to encourage some of our Ambassadors were sure that when he gets home Air Force he praises the fighter aviation. The Government wish better at their jobs.

(again he will receive the appro- How does it happen that val of his Cabinet. force, but does not regard the to have 150,000 trained pilots.

Hitler can send thousands of other branches of the service as They will have them by 1942. · equal to European standards. From the age of nine to fifteen soldiers into Austria or Czecho-

because it is levelled against a

But the more important aspect ia the direct and impudent challenge to recognised school authority. Patriotic emotions among Chinese schoolboys, especially in the present state of unheaval in their country, are not only understandable, but lau- dible. This, however, cannot give students unreigned licence to behave petulantly and in what- ever manner they please, parti- cularly when their actions threaten to disrupt normal school life and discipline.

According to our information, the trouble has been brewing for some time, and the headmaster has acted with patience and great forbearance. The response of the ringleaders has been to laugh at his good offices, to usurp school authority, and to smirch their own honour. code. Sir Robert Kotewall's appeal was strikingly phrased, and we heartily endorse it. We feel confident that it will strike a responsive chord among most of the schoolboy strikere (many of whom quite obviously have either been coerced or led like sheep into their action), and it is certain that if they behave honourably and courageously, the entire incident can be closed without any ill effects either to the school's discipline or its prestige.

On the other hand, a con tinuance of the strike must

are

send a

It doesn't-oftan.

foreign capital he begins to think about going home again."

Then all the junketings to which he is subjected either bewilder him or tire him. Any-

Ambas-ment.

tion? That wo ̈scrap

The reconnaissance planes and Russian boys are encouraged to Slovakia, or Mussolini ship an So what is the proposi- night bombers of the Russians build model planes. From fifteen army across the Adriatic to he looks upon as inferior to those to eighteen the youths can learn Albania without our knowing the professional diplomats and to fly. The best of these after anything about it until it has appoint men whose knowledge of other great nations.

of people and whose conduct of He points out that their large learning to fly airplanes are sent taken place?

True, the element of surprise affairs have been proved in four-motored night bombers to an air force training school. would be sitting targets for mo- While the recruiting of pilota diplomacy, but you can't move

la part of the new totalitarian business or the professions,

When a big post falls vacant dern anti-aircraft guns, since presents no problem, plane pro-large bodies of men without the Foreign Secretary usunlly...... they travel at only 120 m.p.h. duction is much more difficult.

Bomeone in the country con-consults the Prime Minister, and

The Russian light day bomb- The Russians lack skilled in-corned knowing something about even the Cabinet, about filling era, however, are much better bour and skilled foremen. Un- than the heavy night bombers. til Russia can provide skilled in-

it.

The weakness in the diploma-

mon

:some

Surely they could find In Spain there were a few squad- bour she will not be able to in-tic system is, of course, that who could represent their coun- .crease her present production of Ambassadors are not necessarily try better abroad than It, is now bring unhappy repercussions on planes much above 500 a month. chosen for their competence: being represented in those involved. In some cases According to our standards Why, anybody who has had foreign capitals? ̧ uji the disaffected students have the floor space of the Russian anything to do with some of our Anyway, if the job of diplo reached the most important plane factories should produce embassies and legations abroad matle negotiator has to be done stage of their school careers; in many more machines. But the has met men who could not finally by the Foreign Secretary other instancea this stago is Russian is a poor mechanic. His manage a whelk stall with any (a politician) then why not give the post in the first place to a before them. It would be chief characteristic is a mania success. stupidity in the extreme doll for tinkering, but when he's got Think of Mr. Anthony Eden politician? berately to prejudice these a machine to pieces he is rarely careers simply because of a mis able to put it together again, gulded display of misdiretted The vast quantity of derelict patriotism;

PLEASE Turn To Paga 5.

by EMRYS JONES