1939-08-26 — Page 33

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 26, 1939.

Action May Follow The Oration GAY, THOUGH DOOMED B. M. A.

HITLER SHROFFS UP HIS SPEECH

BERLIN, Aug. 25 (Reuter).—Herr Hitler is at work here putting the final touches, and recasting in the light of the latest developments, his speech for Tannenberg on Sunday.

Even more than usual secrecy is maintained about its contents, and even more than the usual number of rumours are current.

The largest school of thought here believes that the Fuehrer will state his case on Sunday and act on Monday.

Some even suggest that he will produce Rhineland tactics and tell the world that the Ger- | man army is already on the march.

A small minority think that be will merely issue an ultimatum, or set proposals, and then clear the mutter up at the Party Congress.

Peace Offer?

un

There all remaina

outside chance that his passion for the spectacular will induce him to sur-

ofter.

VOLUNTEER

PROMOTIONS

HAN DE H

Several officers of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps have re- eclved promotion according to a notice which appeared in the Government Guzette this morning.

Captains T. Addis Martin and H. G. WIlliams have been promoted to. be Majors; LAs. J. R. Way, H. A. de B. Botelho, A. N. Braude, F.. A. Red-

prise the world with a real peace mond, It. M. Wood, J. Watson, G. F One thing that cannot be expect-Rees and Second Lts. C. W. L. Cole cd, in that he will agree to the N. Garland have been promoted maintenance of the status quo in tins, W. II. Owen, F. V. V. Ribeiro, to be Captains; Second Lis. S. V. Git- Danzig and the Polish Corridor.

G. P. Ferguson, C. Austin, D. J. N. Anderson und E. M. Bryden have been promoted to be Lieutenants.

Russia As Mediator

There are even those who suggest) the possibility of a Five-Power Con- ference in Moscow under the pre

sidency of M. Stalin, now that Ger- MOSCOW STAFF

many, as well as Britain and France, have demonstrated their abilly 10

sit at the table with the Soviets,

People are

WAS

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TALKS ENDED

MOSCOW, Aug. 26 (Reuter). Hibben--The British and French staff | trop and M. Moloto. 11 is led talks with the Soviet are over, that it was broadly hinted that other questions besides the non-aggression pact were discussed in Moscow,

Berlin gossip, for some time, has Licen

a revolving around the suggestion of a very short war and a big peace

offer,

and the British and French missions are leaving to-morrow. A Pavis report says that recording

the Muscow

correspondent

to

of

Havas, Marshal Voroshllott told the leaders of the missions that owing to the Nazl-Soviet part, the Soviet

There is chance that Biler will announce war on Sunday and peace overnment considered negollations

a week later at the Party Congress, with France and Britain had no but it in remotely Improbable.

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THE possibility of a British battle fleet being sent out to the Far East mentioned, as a warning to Japan, by the Prime Minister, in Parliament on Aug. 4, has aroused the keenest interest in London-especially in view of the cur- rent reinforcement of the Singapore garrison, says a London Correspondent.

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Dr. E. C. Gordon (Woolwich), moving the recommendation, said that one of the arguments in favour of some sort of recognition by the medical

profession of lay paycho- | therapists was that there was a large number of people who required some sort of psycho-therapeutic advice or treatment, and that there were at present comparatively few medical men or women adequately trained to give that advice or treatment.

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"It is interesting to note," said Dr. Gordon, "that the clalms of the clergy come principally from Anglican community and the English Free Churches, and that the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic community emphatically declare that while it would be very anvantageous that their clergy should be instructed in modern psychological methods, they do not think that they should set up us psycho-theraplats" (Applause.)

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Mr. Theodore Craig (Newcastle) said that Ute ordinary practitioner could not And time to do

psycho- work efficiently, and therapeutic added: "Ineffelenily done, psycho- analysis makes patients worse, and they lose faith in almost everything." Dr. F. Gray (Wandsworth) said amid applause that the peculiar posl- tion of the clergy makes them unsuli- able to act as psycho-therapists,

WILL NEVER STRIKE -

Dr. Thomas Fraser (Aberdeen) in his presidential address to the con- thought which can never materialise"

Amongst the most authoritative and interesting pub-ference said it was an "impossible lished comment is that of Mr. Hector C. Bywater, Naval that the B.M.A. should ever advise Correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."

its members to strike in the trade- union sense-lo down tools and give and in- It is true, he points out, that existence of which would be a deter- no attendance to the sick

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