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Soviet's "Five-Year Plan."
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the
He Defied Mussolini.
Among the deportees on Lipari Islands who will be liberat [ed under Signor, Mussolini'a im- pending amnesty for political offen- ders is the picturesque Captain! Giolitti.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1932.
THE JUNKERS' ROLE
WEALTH VANISHES IN TAX LEVIES
GREAT ESTATES TURNED BACK
ΤΟ
NATION
Berlin, What about the Junk-have to wait for better timos, The Giolitti is the leader of the ers, of whom so much used to be cottages for the farmhands come Italian Seamen's Federation, a heard? What role are they play-first, for they have to be kept in flery and aggressive personality, ing in the tangled affairs of pre-order. In many a village these whose prowess ав a strike sont-day Germany? Well, they are in good shape compared with organiser gained for his native are still here, though in somewhat the dleastrous appearance of the Genoa the nickname of "The Red diminished numbers, and an to real "Herrenhaus" (Master's Port of the Mediterranean.” what they are doing it may be said House). Nearly all the estates in For some years aftor the Fascist that although the exigencies of the Eastern Germany are over-mort- coup d'etat Glolitti and his seamen political situation recently elevat-gaged. In Genoa successfully defied Mused less than a dozen of them to
. Better Estate.. Bolini. The popularity of the Duce Cabinet rank, for the most part after the failure of attempts to they are waiting. But as to whethe owners of. blg estates are In Pomerania and Mecklenburg, assassinate him made it possible, ther that for which they are wait somewhat better off; at least their however, for him to challenge the ing will ever come to pass, only the homes are more like castles. But, power of the defiant sea captain, future can disclose. There are a money is scarce there, too, nowa After Giolittl's 'arrest and deporta. many people over here who are days. tion the Genoese seamen made no waiting for something.
In Brandenburg most of further protest against the Fascist only a few is it given to see their taken over by the municipalities..
But to the large estates have already been regime.
dreams come true.
Berlin has acquired a number of When Emperor Mynheer Wil them for cheap housing sites and Legation-less Minister.
helm Hohenzollern looks up from other purposes., Some "it runs as Sir Robert Hodgson, of Moscow the woodpile over which slender- farma, supplying the city with fame, who is now. British Minister ness and digestion are maintained milk, butter, eggs and other pro- to Albania, has returned to his at Doorn in Holland and gazes inducts. post after a few weeks' leave in the direction of the gatehouse, |England. At fifty-eight he is one there is a strong popular impres-
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There are real castles still in
of the youngest-looking and fittest alon that, it is because he thinks Central and Southern Germany- he sees something there. And Bavaria, Wiirttemberg, Thuringia
mon.
Durazzo.
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The
For the most part they lived, ed estates. These estates, until were and still live, very simply in plain 1918, had been unsaleable.. Now, by a statutory regulation, the be There are still a few land- heirs are forced to sell their lands
are till a few land magnates, in Silesia, but in East when necessary to meet their ob Prussia most of the owners. of big ligations.
He is fortunate in his iron con what he thinks he sees is bellev-and Baden--in the mountain dis stitution, for much of his life has led to be a little knot of top-hatted tricts where the age of the build beon spent in outlandish places. citizens, the German Chancellor ings goes back centuries. Theso His present post is not a com- and the burgemasters of Berlin buildings are vast, but frequently fortable one. Great Britain is now and Potsdam among them, with a only one wing is occupied. the only Power which has no General or two in uniform, who rest, if not merely a ruin, la but Legation at Tirana, King Zog'a, come to say "Majesty, the people a reminder of old days. capital, and Sir Robert Is still wait no longer.
As to Eastern Germany, it can The China Mail Basin complains of the
The Landed Class.
be truthfully said that at least cumulation of coal at the pitheads, lodged in an old Turkish house at
About the Junkers, as n class three-fourths of the Junkers in Migration of men from the
a whole lot of nonsense has been East Prussia, and a majority else- mines has been so excessive that the Soviet has had to break al Your Daily Smile.
spread.......... Originally, they were where, are actually bankrupt., the class which possessed most of The system, too, is changing. precious article of its constitu-
the land in agricultural Germany, The Socialists did not fully suc- tion and draft women to work
QUITE.
They were not particularly well ceed in dividing up all estates of underground. As for agricul The only really effeminate girl off, even before the war, since more than 400 acres, as was their ture, the Departmental Com-these days seems to be pantomime's agriculture and landowning had intention in 1920, but they did missar recently declared: "One principal boy. The end of the twelve months of the peculiarities of the pre-
long ceased to be a particularly succeed in cancelling the privilege *
profitable occspation.
of the Junkers to continue entail- which began on October 1 last sent year is the high proportion Not Nearly Enough, Baw the completion of the of harvesting: by primitive About 2,000 loud-speakers period of the much-vaunted means." Great numbers of the destroyed in a factory fre. The houses. Five-Year Industrial Plan with reapers and binders and of the iden. is good, but it should which the Soviet Government 134,000 tractors which the pea-carried out on a bigger scale. was to overawe the earth. The sants had at the beginning of} world outside Russia has been July are idle because of "defec-
estates are more than hard up, un- The Junkers' strength and their allowed to know of the progress tive arrivals" or of pilfering of It is said that few Scottish able to pay the high taxes, and all value to the State before the war of this Plan little save the parts by peasants for other uses, homes are provided with burglar but helpless in competition with was largely of a moral kind. They Soviet's. laboriously-sustained The "Manchester Guardian" can alarma. Some householders, how-cheap agricultural imports. Polish were conservative. Land landed, advertisement of it.
But some not be regarded as predisposed to ever, take the precaution of leay-grain is cheaper than theirs. Be-therefore theoretically disinterest- discounting of its success arose belittle the Soviet's effort, yet ing a set of inflated bagpipes on sides, East Prussia is cut off from ed; the Crown could rely upon as various foreign engineers re- its tale confirms that of the the hall floor.
the Reich by the "Corridor," and them. They could not easily be turned from industrial contracts "Times." The great iron and
therefore has trouble in marketing bribed. It was their tradition to in Russia, and not even Soviet steel works at Magnetogorsk, it
Lité products.
serve the State, and they regard. ~ ingenuity could conceal the fall-reports,
is for
Whenever there Is spare money ed it as a privilege. ing off in exports of of and schedule. The housing plan for serves a philosopher. That makes after harvest it usually has to go their intellectual faculties wheat. Latterly the Man- 1932 has been fulfilled by only 10 it mutual. In times like these I toward the repair of stables and equal to the new kind of fight for chester Guardian" has been al per cent. Of its planned eight cannot help worrying.
barna. The homes themselves existence remains to be seen. lowed to send a representative huge blast furnaces, two are on a tour of inspection of the functioning, but stops are grandiose factory schemes be frequent, and no steel has Serve Her Right. |yond the Ural Mountains, and yet: been produced, --At
contemporaneously with the the chemical works at Berezniki, wards. I hope her mistress catches articles published in that paper due to turn out annually 500,000 her at the keyhole next time. the Riga correspondent of the tons of chemical fertilisers (and "Times" has also summarised materials for ammunition and Harold Lloyd and Harold the Soviet's achievements under gas warfare) in 1933, and the Plan. Their stories must equipped now to produce 200,000, The film writers say he is quite throw a deluge of cold water on tons, "many difficulties" have different in real life. the efforts of Communist agents cropped up. Tubes of large
behind the
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A girl has jumped ten feet beck- MR. DIVETT WEDS IN MRS. DOROTHY FROST
Cella-Lloyd.
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TIENTSIN.
Will Bring Bride To Hong Kong.
A pretty wedding took place on
DIES SUDDENLY.
Large Attendance At Funeral
Mrs. Dorothy Lillian Frost pass="
Saturday December 8, at Tientsin, ed away in the Victoria Hospital when Miss Elicen Margaret Adair suddenly, early yesterday morning, became the bride of Mr. Geoffrey where abe had given birth to Edward Ross Divett. Miss Adair le
daughter. Her death came as a the youngest daughter of the late
Mr. Ninian Adair and Mrs. Adair sad blow to the Sanitary Depart of Tientsin, and the bridegroom is ment, and other relatives. The de- the son of the late Mr. John Rosa ceased lady was well-known locally,
in Europe to extol either the suc boilers were burnt out through The Spirit Of Youth. cess of the Communist enter-ignorant handling: Twice roofs Petrol. prises or the lot of the unhappy of factories, imperfectly con- workers conscripted to work as structed, fell in. Lately a slaves of the socialised State. "serious accident" has closed the The workers except those who operating plant for two or three are serving police court sen- montha. A careless workman tences of penal servitude opened the cover of a gas tower A clock in a Berlin railway sta-Divett and Mrs. G. O. V. Cunning being the second daughter of Mr. wander from one industrial while fans were working, air tion, in addition to telling the time hame of Southampton, England, and centre to another, in search was sucked in, and ignition, in the usual way, displays the resident of Hong Kong. and Mrs, A. George, formerly of (mostly vain) of better food and which occurred "somehow,"
seconds in large figures to show The Rev. Ernest Richards officiat the Royal Naval Yard, Hong Kong. housing conditions then those caused explosion and fire, with travellers how many seconds they ed at the fully choral service con- The funeral took place yesterday they leave behind. Wages of effect above stated. The Ford have to spare before trains leave. ducted in the Union Church. The pald workers are often two motor works at Nizhni Nov- months in arrears, and inflation gorod are already. "an industrial By the use of photoengraving a Tipper. The bridesmaids were the Happy Valley, the Dean, the Very bride was given away by Mr. A. E. evening at the Protestant Cemetery, of the note issue is causing ris- eyesore." The Manchester noted inventor has condensed a Misses Sybil McClure Anderson, Rev. Alfred Swann, conducting the ing home prices of foodstuffs. Guardian's representative was 100,000 word novel on two strips of Winnie Tipper, Evelyn Young and earvice. The large-scale migration of the refused admission here because paper about the size of a newspaper Marjorie Giles: The bride's sister, p utterly unskilled workmen "It is functioning too badly to column, a magnifying Instrument fra. ton Bruggen Cata wan Matron
There was a large attendance of upon whom the erection and show a foreigner. It was superguette being used to read it. of honour and her little daughter, friends, and many wreaths were |operation of" mammoth factory posed to turn out 50,000:11⁄2-ton
plants depend, and the incapacity lorries this year by July it had The demand for cement in the Bichael Briault and Robla Taylor
Helen, the only flower, girl. Manters sent. of the Soviet railways to cope completed 1800, many of them Eastern Hemisphere, omitting were the pages. Mr. Divett was with distribution of food and lacking important parts, "80 of Europe, has increased 830 per cent attended by Mr. A. L. Hughes as materials, are the chief causes of 90 per cent of them what the in 17 years.
best man. Messrs. Gordon Brown, the collapen of the time-table Russian calls "brak," and
Archie Douglas, and William Gar- overywhere. This year has been all of them “a grotesque con- Slippery floors and skidding rugs denier were ushers. Mr. G. W. T. remarkable for sharp decline in trast to the American original.""} cause more home accidents than any- Lewis officiated at the organ. production of every sort as com- Stoppages occur when some thing else, according to Insurance After the service a, reception was pared with 1981. In many workman "starts a machine ip statistics. |factories serious breakdowns of the wrong direction,” or (as oc- plant, have interfered with their casionally) some buildings, be operation. Since all are, under come flooded with waste water the Plan, Interdependent, the from washrooms. Required difficulties have compounded, “"parts" have to be recovered The Management of The Hong Home, in Hong Kong. themselves. Th
hero they Kong Hotel advises the reservation at the foundations,
coal are thrown toge
a con of the Roof Garden Chinese Restau-Pont md wheat; « Despite increasing", fused
Jack rant rrow.... : night, -. "Tuesday" Mr. G. G. N. Tineon, M.C., prin- adjourned “alne dle. demand
iction in chain-falls.
hains are Der mber 18 by Sir Robert He cipal of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes The Donetz
Ev
for a Special Chinese Dinner
Master, and a committee mem- partner the 198,000
Bestaurant will there bar of the Hong Kong Club, return Co., open to patrons that ed Home leave on board the deb
the usual Chinese Blue Fannel liner Pat
1981 August; therallway.
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News In Brief.
APPLICATION FOR BANKRUPTCY.
Hernz Arfas Left With
Firm's Debts.
held in the drawing room of 11.BM.{ Consulate General The honey-] moon is being spent in Peking,
An application for adjudication of Shanghal and Fanling, after which bankruptcy was made Mr. and Mrs. Divett will make their morning by Hernz Arla
as: ■'" European, before Justice, Sir Joseph Bankruptcy Court
Dec 10%
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