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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 24, 1940.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

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"We've boon watching your work on the loft rear hub cap, Putnam-we think you're ripe for promotion to the right front spring-shackle bolt!"

The Stamp Collector

FEMININE

ISSUES IN

NETHERLANDS GUIANA

Surinam, more familarly known

us Dutch Guiana,

Panuna.

Is a colony of

on the

the Netherlands altunted northeastern coast of South Amer- ien, lying between French Guiana and British Guiana. Since the time the

Canal was opened to commerce, Aug. 15, 1915, large numbers of for Eastern peoples have settled in the West Indies and in certain purts of South Amerlen,

Surinam (the Dutch spelling is "Suriname") has recently issued set of semi-postal stamps depict- ing four different types of these non-European residents, as repre sented by women. The 25e, plus 2c. (green), portrays the Creek type; the 3c. plus 2c.. (brown), the Javanese; the be, plus 3c. (blue). the Hindustani); and the 7c. plus 5c. (brown), the Native India,

A collection of such stamps plc- turing native women from all parts of the world is a fascinating study. not only of the dress, but of the hair fashions and millinery tastes of different secte

sections.

There are the Ubangi, the Bu- juba, the Babuende, and the Mang- bethu-women- of the Congo; the Pangowin women of Gabon: the Maori mald of New Zealand; the Sumoon and Tahitian malds of the South Seas: and

others. and many

In comparison we have the typi- cal young ladies from the various districts of Germany, of Austria, oft Rumla, of Russia, and of Swit- zerland. A veritable array of

feminine beauty and charm lies hidden within the pages of a well- ordered album; and a search wil bring to light not only feminine

Inanity Fare

Alice Delysia,

is fizzier Than any fix She Is.

Brighten your

Home with

BRASS

METAL POLISH

MANUFACTURENS

RECKITT & SONS, HULL;, & LONDON AGENT

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (CHINA) LTD. HONG KONG.

types, but women of history, of romance, and of power.

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Recent Issues Colombia—A special sct stamps of small format has been issued for money-raising purposes. These stamps are of six values, and the funds are to be used to, assist in financing the new pust office building "Palace of Communien- Uons. The design shows a view of the structure,

Dominican Republic—A series of stamps marking the anniversary of the founding of the Pan Ameri- can Union will appear about April 14. The design will bear the map

of the, Western Hemisphere,' with flags on either side and the dates 1800-1940.

re-

of

Yugoslavia-Ą new semi-pustak set of stamps of live values is ported as having been placed on sale. The surtax is to be used as a find for postal employees.

Nicaragua-A special set stamps has been issued to com- memorate the World's Fairs two in the United States and President Somoza's

a-visit Turley-The 100th anniversary of Namik Kemal, poet birth and patriot, has been observed with a set of four stamps memorating the event. The stamps a full face likeness of the bear

poet, and below are the dates 1840- 1808.

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United States-The 80th Anniver- sary of the Pony Express will be celebrated this year, and interest- ed parties are endeavouring to persuade the Post Ofice Depart- mest to issue a stamp for the accusion. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the estab- Hshiment of Fort Sutter, at Supro- mento, California.

As Fort Sutler was the western terminus of the Pony Express, it inny, be possible that a stamp will be issued to commemorate both events. The Pony Express mode its initial trip from St. Joseph, Mo., on April 3, 1000; and this was one of the outstanding events in the nation's postal history.

Spotting the Rank

CAPTAIN (E) and ENGINEER CAPTAIN Captain (E) is the modern vorsion of the older rank of Engineer Captain,

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Over 30 years ago this rank was known as Inspector of Machinery and two survivors of this rank may still be found in the Retired List, with one Captain (E) and 337 Engincor Captains.

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Of the 51 Captains (E) on the Active List several are employed as Fleet Engineor Officors the stoffs of Commandors-in-Chief: tomo as "First Assistants to the Manngers of the engineering departments of dockyards: and others at the Admiralty, in the departments of tho. Enginool-in-Chief, of tho Director of Naval Ordnance, or of the Director of Aircraft Maintenance.

Othon are engaged at Woolwich Arsonal or olse- whore on the Inspection of gun mountings.

-by- Vice-Admiral

HARPER

Former member of Auglo- American Arbitration Board and fornier Director of Navigation at the Admiralty. Compiler of the official record of the Battle of Jutland, and Nautical Assessor io the House of Lords,

T conduct of war at sea are drawn up by international agreement, to which all civilised nations have sub- scribed. Germany, 39 is well known, has been deliberately and systematically trampling on these Laws.

HE laws governing tho

We retaliate not by breaking the Jaws ourselves but by the Jegitimate means made possible by our

control at sea.

We have ΠΟΥ tightened up the blockade, both naval and economic. What

Is Germany's

an-

OUR

ARE

swer? To fout still more cynical- ly the laws of the sea by attacking defenceless ships, both British and neutral, without warning and without making provision for the safety

on board by machine-gunning innocent fishing boats and by attempting to murder the men who man our lightships and lighthouses.

of those

When dealing with a belligerent like Germany inore drastic action1 is required by neutrals whose shipy have been sunk and crews mur- dered thun the feeble protests to

which we have become accus-

tomed.

If in such circumstances # neutral will not, vannot or dare not net to uphold the treatles to which he himself was a signatory, there seems to be no other course but to meet illegality with justi- Bable measures.

The drastic action now taken by the Allies is, in my opinion, fully Justined.

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IT is recognised by all civilised nations that minelaying is a legitimate method of offence or defence lu war, Minè laying, be it noted not the indiscriminate sow- Ing of floating mines by Germany the high seas, where these terrible engines of war muy bring the innocent as well as to death to the enemy.

No nation worthy to be called civilised would act in such

In one's own territorial nanner,

can waters minefields

be laki at will and In secret provided due precautions are taken to ensure that innocent neutral ships enter- waters are ing or leaving those piloted

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ted in safely through the dan-

ger zone.

Minefields may also, of course, be secretly laid by a belligerent in the territorial waters or harbours of the enemy, if this very difficult and hazardous operation can be carried out.

Due notice must always be given of the position of any minefield laid outside territorial waters, and if such mines are laid by us full information of the areas rendered dangerous is unnounced publlely.

It

NOW we come to the recent Jaying of nines not in our own territorial waters, not on the high sens, but in the territorial waters. of a friendly but neutral nation. What are territorial waters? has long been recognised that a nation has territorial rights

over strip of sea round her coasts,

and In the days when the extreme range of cannon was a mere len- que a distance of three nautical niles was universally accepted as the limit of territorial waters.

Outside that limit e the high And there is definite dividing line in civit as well as in international law between the two, There is no general law which for- bids belligerent ships, whether. merchantman, passing warships or through territorial wa

waters provided

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no warlike Betion

takes placc therein, But neutral States may prohibit such passage unless the waters form part of a highway 'for International trame.

THE Norweglan Foreign Minis- ter stated before the German in- vasion that it was out of the ques- tion to treat one side differently from the other, and also that the free pasage of merchant ships through Norwegian territory is more to the advantage of England than of Germany.

There is more in this than would appear at first sight. Britlab merchant ships

lps are passing through Norwegian territorial waters only for the purpose of entering or leaving Norwegian harbours.

What were the German ships doing? They were creeping down -hundreds of miles of the const

steering a devious course in and out of the bays and inlets so as to keep within three miles of the shore. Such a track is not recognised highway for interna- tional-trome.

Did they follow such a route in peace time? No.. The neutrality

MINES

LEGAL

of Norway was abused by the Nazis long before their armies violated its territory. Her weak. ness was used as a method where- by our legitimate control of the high GORA can be considerably stultified,

ARTICLE 2 of Hague Conven- tion V provides that "belligerents are forbidden to move across the territory of a neutral Power troops or convoys either of munl- tlons of war or of supplies." As the Spectator points out!

in this "The

article to reference in convoys of munitions or supplies is not a mere

It is the technical of the expression

custom- principle that as soon as the ary transport assumes the complexion of a venture organised by the bel- ligerent or under his control it loses the character of mere frausit of goods whose passage is not pro- hibited.

This principle was illustrated, from a different angle, when dur- ing the World War Great Britain strongly objected to the passage through Holland af metals from Belgium Chen under German oc-

Germany,

and of cupation) sand and gravel from Germany to The same principle was Belgium.

1921 When again illustrated in Germany prohibited the passage through the Kiel Canal of the Wimbledon, a

a ship carrying muni- tlons to land, at that time en-

in a war with Russia.

Permanent Court of Inter national Justice held that the prohibition was contrary to the express terms of Article 380 of the Treaty of Versailles, which pro- vided that the Canal shall be open

to vessels of commerce and of war of all States at peace with Ger-

mony.

"BUT it is of interest to 'note the

the German Insistence, of Judge in that case that the transit of the ship in question through the Kiel Canal wns contrary to The Hague Convention because the dispatch

of war material, even when not under military control or escort, is to be considered do n convoy in

in the sense of Article 2 of

the Convention when it does not take place as the result of a com- mercfal transaction, but when the belligerent himself assumes the double capacity of consignor and consignee, no matter whether the transport is effected by means of private ships."

"It is

Is probable that in so far as the transit of iron ore and simi- lar

through goods contraband

waters Is Norwegian territorial throughout under the direct con- trol of the German Government it Is a transit which Norway is bound

lo prevent.

By laying mines we merely did the job that Norway was bound, by international law, to do.

The laying of mines in Nar- wegian waters

war-like this action, but

not done secretly or with any intention of hampering Norway's "legitimate trade.

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Full publicity was given to the position of the danger zone. If ordinary care was observed innocent ship was endangered,

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The Nazis have been using These waters for an illegitimate purpose and Norway was unable to prevent it.

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