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NUDISM ALL EYEWASH."
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1932.
How Germans Elect The Reichstag
Almost Perfect System Of Representation
VOTES
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The announce
the Editor, "China Mail"] • Sir-I read with interest and no Hittle amusement, the activities of your correspondent in nudist circles, and like him, I am of the opinion that the movement will not pro- sper in Hong Kong, even if 'official- dom would permit it. One factor alone, the absence of the fair sex, will deal it a severe blow, and if
Before drawing conclusións from There appears clearly in the any spirit still remains in the So
announcements of ciety, finance, or rather lack of the results of the German Elections, radio
to the millions finance will provide its death knell, their particular method of voting, results
The Ger-Germans sitting in cafes It is, to use a popular phrase, "All should be borne in mind. eyewash," that people who join the mane, Tu their logical desire to give over the land. movement are in no way prompted every vote cast an equal value, have ments always take the form of: to do so other than from proper evolved an almost perfect system of "Out of so and so many million motives, Even Parmelce, one of proportional representation, writes votes cast, the different parties
[P. Gordon Walker in the Daily Tele-have received the following num the greatest authorities on the
bera.....
The exact distribu- movement does not espouse this graph.
A similar cast of votes in Eng-tion of sents is a complicated cal-" hypocrital attitude. Although a great supporter of the cult he frank-land would, with our system of one-culation, and cannot be announced. ly admits that the natural and seat constituencies, probably have till next morning.
Thirdly, it is, of course, easier normal interest in sex influences given a very different result.
Germany is divided into thirty-to follow the exact trends of opinion the majority of those who enter gymnosophic circles."
"Sex feeling and curiosity as to of the opposite Rex ... characterise practically all adults who enter the movement."
the
appearance
NUDISM.
five voting circles, In each circle us reflected in the voting, both in
4
How-
...
party puta forward a list of candi-the circles and the Reich: dates. The electors then vote for ever, the figures are sometimes mis- The Nazis, for instance, party list, not for particular can leading. didates. A fixed number of votes are claiming that they have re- ceived more votes In Bavarin than Іп а cosmopolitan Colony ke secures a seat.
Each time this number is reached, the Bavarian Catholic party itself. Hong Kong, racial and temper- the candidates on the party list be- This apparent result is due to an mental conflicts would be almost in. evitable under such conditions as come in turn elected members of accident.
the Reichstag.
No Working Majority." Mr. Lanepart would have us follow.
Any wastage of votes due to aj "ANTI-NUDE..
This general election has been surplus cast for any list not amount-held in the summer season and on UNHEALTHY INHIBITIONS OF ing to the number necessary to elect a Sunday. A peculiarity of Ger
a candidate, is avoided by the device man holiday-making is that Bava- of the Reichs list. This is a listrians never think of going North, drawn up by each party for the whilst Prussians' flock in thousands To the Editor, "China Mall.")
whole empire, to which all such to Bavaria. This seasonal influx Sir,-I would like to
ex surplus votes from every circle are of mostly Nazi Prussians must have press through the courtesy of your credited, the candidates then being had a powerful effect on the result. columns my opinions of the nudist elected in the ordinary way each Lastly, there is the most import-" country has provoked the rise of cult and what might be its ultimate time the fixed number of votes is ant consequence of all. Strong the Fascist movement of the ends if allowed to flourish in this received.
Parliamentary Government in Ger- Nazis. Throughout Germany Colony. There are scarcely words The only exceptions are that no many la sacrificed to an exact re- fear in recent that are printable which would de votes can be credited to the Reichs flexion of opinion. In the last the supreme
scribe such a cut, a cult far more list unless at least one seat has English General Election the awing-- months has been the development likely to lead to the relaxation of been secured in the circle, and to the Right was not more pronounc=' of the bitter hostility between unhealthy inhibitions, than to any secondly, that no party may secure ed than this week in Germany. The Hitlerites and Communists, and material benefit to the body of man. more seats through the Reichs list English system only reflected the
It has no decent alm, and is 'decided than in all the circles together. “ the dimensions of the danger are ly objectionable. Its creed will
general tendency of opiniion, but re- Voting the Caucus 'Liat. aulted in an unprecedentedly strong The German situation con-opparent. Upon the reactions attract the worst element of the Further, a German may vote whe Government. tinues unsettled and threaten-from that position the imme- Peeping Tom, the morbid exhibi-ther he is in his home circle or not, The German-system accurately ing, but a solution to the politi-diate future of Germany depends. tionist and the crank, and produce If he is on holiday he has only to reflected public opinion, but while ja movement where lascivious take out a voting ferm, and can it threw up the largest single party cal problem is rapidly approach-It would be idle for Europe to gestures may be practised under a then vote wherever he happens to that has ever appeared in German ing and Europe is anxiously shut its eyes to the possibility cloak of so-called reform,
be, There is even special provi- politics, it signally falled to give it awaiting the decision a deci- that in very desperation Germany If Mr. H. E. Lanepart thinks that sion for voting at the main railway a working, majority.
If Germany had the English sys- sion which may plunge Europe may turn more strongly towards any decent European in Hong Kong stations, where the booths remain
will join his lewd, naked exhibitions open till four am.
tem, the Nazis, with their majority and the world into another tragic the reinstallation of an Emperor in the New Territories, I am afraid The main result of this system is in every circle, would probably to- conflict. Despite the internal as a way out. The eighty-year he does the average Hong Kong that practically every vote has equal day have an efficient and compact disorder Germany is presenting old President Hindenburg cannot citizen a grave injustice, The gen-weight with every other vote cast majority in the Reichstag.
eral opinion expressed in to Colony There are no unopposed returne; no a united front on international humanly be expected for much is that a mild amusement, tinctured minority elections. This main re questions and it is evident that longer to be able by occupying with disgust.
sult Teads to many other vital differ. the people are unanimous in his office to restrain the threat- It is not for me to moralize over ences from an English election. their determination to free ened upheaval.
the adherents to the cult, which I First, the whole affair is much The Junker understand does not include any more impersonal in Germany. The themselves, from the yoke of the Ministry of von Papen strove at European worthy of the name, but elector votes for parties, not for Versailles Treaty. The demand the elections primarily for the sincerely think that people like men; he has no control over which for equality, in armaments is un- defeat of the Hitlerites, and for Mr. Lanepart should be put under particular candidate is returned by
restraint,
his" vote. This means that the
A man, who, when asked by Mr. likely to be refused even if the a reinforcement of the Centre
party management can very largely Schofield what his profession was, ultimate concession is modified. and the non-Hitler parties of the
determine who shall sit in the Reich- admitted that he stole for a living, The request is a reasonable one Right. Before the poll, Hitler News in Brief.
stag, for it is responsible for ar was sentenced to six months impri- ranging the order of the candidates aonment In this morning's court. and pacifists have food for proclaimed that he intended to
He had been charged with steal thought in the claim that, in the rule Germany alone; folled in the Two cases of cholera and two on the list..
cases of meningitis (one Imported)
Further, unless the party is an- ing a length of water pipe from a event of a refusal to Germany' bid for an election majority, he were notified to the health authori- nihilated, it is practically impossible plie across from the Naval Canteen. demand, the other nations should has announced now, that he will ties on Wednesday,
for the country to turn-out The pipe was valued at $10 by its The defendant had had disarm to her level. The posi- not co-operate with von Papen
some particular unpopular leader, owner.
sure of a place six previous convictions. tion is particularly embarrassing in a Right-Centre Government, Charged with keeping an opium for he is
Dear the head of the list. Mr.. Schofield in passing sentence to France. However, principal Close observers of the situation Chinese Street, Lau Chueng, 80, Secondly, an election is much said: "I am not sentencing you to interest centres on the Berlin believed that, if the elections was ined $100 on each charge and more of a centralised national battle prison for punishment, but so that mix-up, and speculation rests on were to result in a stalemate, sentenced to 12 weeks imprison than a collection of local campaigns. you will learn a trade." the result of the probable there would certainly follow
"DISGUSTED.""
resort and prepared opium at No. 7,
ment.
fall of the von Papen regime. coup d'etat by either von Papen Miss Bewley, living at 862 The Clearly the German people or Hitler. It is impossible to Peak, has reported to the Police that have not resented the dismissal forecast whether, with the stale- during Wednesday night a thief entored her house by removing a of the Bruening Government by mate now declared, the German pane of glass from a window, and President Hindenburg, and the States would be able to hold to stole property to the value of - ap- appointment of the extra-Par-gether after either event. The proximately $95. liamentary Junker Administra-indications have been "that the
The Lincolns are coming to Hong
tion under von Papen. That southern States Bavaria, Wur- Kong from Shanghai a month act was in keeping with German temberg, and Baden-would re-carier than expected and will ar- political mentality, and with the fuse Hitler rule, and likewise rive in the Colony on October 8. In consequence of their carlier ar- ingrained predilection for the that they would not tolerate the rival, the Argyll and Sutherland old Prussian rule under fami- return of a Hohenzollern. From Highlanders will leave for Shang- Mes traditionally born to admin this distance it appears that hal early in October Istration. The parties of the some sort of an arrangement be
Sentence of two months":"hard | Right stand mostly for a mon- tween von Papen und Hitler, des- labour without the option of a fine archical regime: they are credit-pite the latter's declarations, is and in addition: $500 or a further ed with the desire to bring about the only hope now of a constitu Shun-fa, by Mr. Fraser at the Kow three months, was imposed on Ip a restoration of a Hohenzollern tional way out of their trouble loon Magistracy yesterday, for and of the Empire. The Centre for the German people, and Hit- unlawful possession of 75 pounde and the Socialists adhere to the lers actions may be governed of dutiable Chinese tobacco. Republic The Communists, of by the behaviour of hig. follow. represent the develop, ing, which, apart from the
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