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HERE THERE
und-
EVERYWHERE
New French Ambassader. M. Corbin, the newly-appointed | French Ambassador of the Court of St. James, was the hero ofà dramatic episode during the Span- fish Revolution, which overthrew
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1933.
GERMANY'S
$1,200,000 TRAINED SOLDIERS
"COUNTRY EQUIPPED
FOR WAR"
King Alfonso. He represented FRENCH ESPIONAGE REVELATIONS
France in Madrid at that time.
At one moment it looked as if the frenzy of the revolutionary mob might endanger; the safety of the Queen and the other ladies in the Royal Palace.
The intervention of the British Embassy had been hoped for, but it) was not forthcoming, owing perhaps to the reluctance of the then 50- cialist Government in London, to embroil themselves with" their] Spanish: comrades/
London, March 25. 115,000 armed with revolvers and The situation in Europe is rifles, and trained in the use of acute.
machine guns and hand grenades. There has been much talk at "There are also 95,000 polica Geneva. Mr. MacDonald has living in barracks under the com talked separately with Mr. Armand of Reichswehr officers, and Disuraiament Conference, with manoeuvres. thur Henderson, chairman of the taking part secretly in military
Herr Nadolny the German dele-Hitler's Brownshirt army of gate, and with Baron Aloisi, the 460,000, mostly youths of excellent Italian, M. Paul Boncour,physique, but not so well trained French Foreign Minister, talked as the regular police, "are now A Chivalrous Action.
with Mr. Henderson, with Dr. being added to the regular police The Envoy of the French Benes, of Czecho-Slovakia, and forcen.. Bepublic was then appealed to, and
Colonel Beck, Polish Foreign Army No: S-the Stahlhelm at once-responded by requesting the Minister. And still Hitler's organisation secretly financed by revolutionary leaders to ensure all Nazis go on tightening their grip the German Government, and the necessary protection against on. Germany,
strictly trained on military prin- mob violence to the Royal and other France, terrified by the fierce ciples under the command of Cap- ladies, both in the Talace and later new wave of nationalism now tain Selvdte, one of Hitler's Minis- sweeping Germany, is making ters-forms the main reserve" for
of the road to exile.--
Subsequently the Government of desperate, efforts to lure Britain the Reichswehr.
the new Spanish Republic protested into a new entcate and apparent-There are 1,600 shooting socie- to Paris against M. Corbin's allegedly thought, after the talks between ties in the Stahlhelm, possessing Interference in the domestic affairs the British, and French Premiers, 800,000 rifles of a slightly different of-Spalit...
that she had succeeded. But an pattern from the Reichswehr.
The Qual d'Orany thereupon felt inspired announcement indicating model, but easily convertible la constrained to transfer him from this result was promptly denied by time of war.
"Similar organisations form a Madrid to Brussels, but not with- the British spokesmen.
***
qut privately congratulating him on What is the armed strength of total with the Stahlhelm of having behaved in accordance with-Germany to-day? This is the 3,600,000 men, of which 1,200,000 the chivalrous traditions of French question which all Europe is can Immediately take the field diplomacy.
masking, “An indication of the equipped with steel helmets, rifles, answer is given in the following bayonets, revolvers, " ammunition, report from the Paris correspon-and entrenching tools. dent of the “Sunday Express,”
Habsburgs On The Stage.
.3
"In the meantime the industrial, In the days of old Vienna one of
based, he carefully indientes, on armaments apparatus stands ready, of sterling and prices during the the most strictly enforced stage: “reports, gathered by the French awaiting the word "go!" Many Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 26, 1931 seventeen months since Great rules was the regulation forbidding
secret service from Its spies in German factories have secret muni- Germany,”.... Britain went off the gold stand-any reference to a member of the
{tion workshops attached, locked [ruling house of Habsburg,
In these reports the spies and closed for the moment, but Jard, "The London Morning Fost" The ban applied to the dead a naturally flad very much what with well-cared-for and well-oiled
said the other day that the off-well as to the living, and before their chiefs in the Service wish machinery. cial wholesale and retail price in the war the dramatist Bozdech had them to find.
"Commercial aircraft in Germany The abandonment of the gold
a play turned-down by the censor dices, despite considerable flucbecause in one scene Maria Theresa arst time the figures as France each machine may be convertible. "I am able to disclose for the is regulated by the State, so that standard by the United States
tuation in individual commodities, was made to appear.
bas tabulated then-of the great for use for the army in time of has encouraged American advo-|
have on balance, displayed rela To-day all this is changed, and land, sea, and air armaments war,” cates of inflation to advance a
tively insignificant 1 ariations." Vienna, in a new craze for every which, by camouflaging its treaty thing aristocratic, has now no fewer obligations, Germany has been able variety of schemes, and there is
Now, what inference from all than four different plays featuring to gather," he writes. grave danger of America being
this is drawn by restless and Im-Franz Josef plunged into a drastic inflation
inflationists?
Why, patient policy which may have be follow-
aimply that the depreciation of led by unfortunate consequences. the pound has not gone far
* BRIGHTER BRITAIN.. Nobody favours an unlimited
Jenough. Since the small dose of
Two-colour suits are becoming pounds, issue of fiat money. Not even
inflation has not had the hoped-fashionable. Which Just goes to
"My Information, is taken from Mass will be said at 10 am. The Senator Borah would have the
for results, a larger one must be prove that in the spring a young the secret dossier on Germany's Rev. D. J. Finn, S., will prench armaments, which M. Herriot, then the occasional sermon. Friends of French Premier, threatened to the Institute are invited to be make known at a dramatic meeting Present
mess
Your Daily Smile.
depreciation of the currency go tried. In England, too, they are 'man's fancy.
beyond a certain point. The
.
**
A
News In Brief
"These figures are based on
of material secured by
The feast of Blessed "Don Bosco French spies after years of dan-| gerous research, at a cost to will be celebrated at the St. Louis France of many thousands of Industrial School (Salesian In- stitute), on April 30, when a High
calamitous experience of Germany Borah does, "relation." This Wonder why it is that saving of the League of Nations a few
OLD STUFF.
calling the process, as Senator Money?-Huh!
The latest edition of the Far in printing marks until a billion,
face and saving conferences are so months ago. was the theme and the leading
"First of all the Reichswehr Eastern Traveller's Gazette, issued or two of them were worth only outcry in the recent discussion of never seems to be thought of,
important while, just plain saving
army No. 1
by Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son, a shilling stands as a continuing nancial policy by the Federation
"The Reichswehr is the official Ltd, has been forwarded to this reminder and warning before the of University Conservative and
fighting force which, by the Treaty office, It contains complete,' in- eyes of extreme infiationists. Unionist Associations. One dele-Jokes here for your approval Do 100,000
"AUTHOR: I left a package of of Versailles, must not surpass formation about all world routes men-(including 4,000 to and from the East, and, is in- But they keep on talking about gate from Oxford moved that you happen to have read them?..
|officers). [-
Nevivaluable for the man anxious to the need of a large expansion of the conference "deplores the con EDITOR: Yes, many times..
***The present organisation of the ascertain the shortest route to any Relchawehr is · designed as a particular country. the circulating medium, though tinued deflationary tendency in
nucleus'around which hundreds of always strictly under "control" British monetary policy, and calle An Aberdeen man is an expert thousands of fully trained recruits
The Chief Justice, "Mr. Justice of some unspecified kind, The for a more actively reflationary ventriloquist. When he offers re will cluster when the call comes. Wood. In the Supreme Court, yes
Secret Training
terdag, granted an order to wind only assurance they give is that scheme having for its object the freshment to his guests they are somehow or other the country stabilization of sterling, not on selyes
often astonished on hearing them "Each regiment in the event of up the Tung Hing Company, Limit
saying mobilisation will automatically, be hearing a petition presented to the
ed, of 93, Connaught Road, after¦¦ emphatically shall "pull up" in time to prevent gold, but upon the basis of an in- "When !” long before they meant come "a"division, suchcomplete devaluation of dex scale of commodity prices. to... money as drove Germany almost Even another former Chancellor.
ECONOMY RE
to ruin and despair ten years of the Exchequer, Mr. McKenna, Waste of Time.
"Under the Treaty of Versailles Court by Leong Hu-tsang, of 99, service is for a period of twelve Tai Nam Street, Shamabulpo,re years, but the men are put to represented by Mr. H. C. Macnamara The
now chairman of the Midland The art of telling story," deserve after six years' Instruction,structed by Mr. Nigel of Messrs. trouble with this Bank, went so far as to declare clares and author, "is to know what This instruction is intensive Johnson, Stokes and faster). theory is that when you once be that "the true standard of stable to leave unsaid." But most wives Each private at the completion of The Calendar of the University. gin to go down the steep decline lity is what the currency will find out anyway.
of a depreciated currency there buy not of gold, but of all com- modities which enter into daily
[Machine Gun Tactica.
his six years' service is qualined to
act as a non-commissioned officer of Hong Kong for 1923 kas just in command of a large body of been issued. It is a comprehen- alve volume of nearly 200 pages,
s no stopping until you make the use." He also complained that A London fat has been burgled men final crash. This old and frreals there has been no marked sus three times in a month, tible tendency is now obviously tained rise in commodity prices, known as a repeating ride. bezinning to show itself in Eng that "the expansive monetary which he attributed to the fact
Facts You Did Not know.
When the pound went off policy of Great Britain has been, e-gold standard, hopes prevail- in fact, no more than half a ed over fears in the British mind, policy." There you have it. If It was believed that the drop of a little inflation does not work
as expected, more will be ordered
80 per cent in the value of the and then still more This has on pound would lead to an instant been the history of depréciated and marked advance in prices. or Inflated currency from the time when men frst had any kind Confidence:WES Iso falt that of medium of exchange of goods cheaper money. In England would down to the present hour. The give her a great advantage in only security, is to cling" the export trade. But the event termination to a curre
sound and has falsified the prophecie
This is "In the same way N.C.O.8, of setting out the complete syllabus, which there are $1,000 more than the almanac for 1933, tables of half the regular army--are train. tuition and examination fees, ed so that they could become end members of faculties, details of cient officers in time of war scholarships and useful informa The organisation of the German on about the Ordinance govern The Venezuelan government will cavalry la combined with the
Ing the University. The price is school to educate young training of cavalry off
Lizens of the men. Each cavalry reg for responsible positions as eight "air units,” whose
aynakket trained he pilote,
The Reichew
en include 240,000: machine.
andy
Business of a purely format na- ure was transacted at the fort nightly meeting of the Sanitary Board, which met yesterday after-
Mr. T Megarry, the Preaf [dent 'was in the chair and was sup-
by the Hon. Mr. B. M. Hen Yeon, Vice President Mr. Wong tin, Dr. Li Shu-fan, Mr. Le cretary and Mr. Ng Mai-
nt secretary,