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Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 20, 1933.
The Labour Party's Failings.
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HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
An Endess Job.
One job that is never finished is the painting of the Forth Bridge.
Since it
built forty-two} ́
years ago squads of men have been
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1933.
TENSION IN DANZIG HEIGHTENED
NAZIS WIDEN CONTROL OF FREE CITY
constantly employed applying this ACUTE PROBLEM FOR THE LEAGUE
protection against weather de
cay.
It takes three years for a aquad;
of afty men to work from end to end of the bridge.
The total surface to be painted
is approximately 135 acres.
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Noah's Ark.
OF
NATIONS
The clections, which have taken pected to propose a coalition to the place since the following article was veteran Nationalist leader, Dr.
written, resulted in a decisive Nazi Ziehm, the present President of the The result of the elections being Senate, in terms which leave him no alternative but to accept.
success.—Editor's Note.
Danzig, May 26.
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A real Noah's Ark is touring| small ports of the Baltic and Scan- dinavia which are too small to es-
Not since the Middle Ages, of a foregone conclusion, the curiosity, tablish their own zoos.
which it still retains picturesque of observers and the anxiety of in The ship, and old Finnish bar- traces in Its streets and architecture,terested Governments are NOW que, has
been renamed Arche has Danzig lived through so feverish in which the new fazi Government chiefly concerned with the manner Noah.
On its decks and in its holdi there is accommodation for 200 birds and beasti ranging from & tortoise to a kangaroo,
The animals were supplied by a Hamburg dealer.
Your Daily Smile
TAKING NO CHANCES.
a time as this.
of Danzig will observe the Consti- With but two days to elapse be-tution, and how far it will maintain fore Sunday's fateful elections, the the rights and liberties of all Dan- zig citizens without distinction of atmosphere is electric with BUS-
race, religion or nationality. pense.
Bitherto, it must be admitted, There is a curious conspiratorial neither the existing Nationalist silence in the city, and a complete Government of Danzig nor the Lea- absence of all ordinary pre-election gue High Commissioner has suc- activity: Street procesalons and and influences from open Interven ceeded in preventing external bodies
A Jew and a Scotsman decided open-air meetings are forbidden, al- tion in Danzig affairs.
to go into partnership and bought though on May 1 the Nazis held an The recent seizure of the Trade a bus. The next morning both open-air demonstration in the Union Headquarters in Danzig had, neighbouring coastal resort of Zop-But it is claimed in anti-Nazi cir- It is true, a certain legal sanction.
showed up as conductors.
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GIVEN AWAY.
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GIVING IT AWAY.
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pot, not only with impunity, but uncles that the Court order justifying Jones was not his bright and der the protection of the Danzig the seizure was granted by a Nazi cheerful self when he arrived at the police.
Justice of the Peace who is nomin- Indoor meetings of the anti-Nazi ally permitted only to adjudicate in office on Monday morning. be hard to satisfy if a Lansbury "What's the trouble?" asked parties are, in practice if not
in disputes where the total value of the falls to please them.
theory, prohibited by the difficulty property concerned does not exceed He uses Jackson.
The wife's back from her air of obtaining suitable halls the pro-800 gulden, an that the Nazis, in their very vocabulary, betraying weeks holiday replied the down-prietors of such places being un-order to bring the case within his that strange state of mind which cast Jones.
willing to risk denunciation to the jurisdiction, assessed the value of seems to imagine that "solidarity"| "I should have thought you would victors In Sunday's poll.
the Trade Union offices at this trif- is a better and more expressive have been pleased," put in the other.
fing figure. "Oh,”-it fan't that exactly” ̈ ex-| word than old-fashioned "unity"
Meanwhile, at Danzig railway ata- The chief complaint against the plained Jones; "but while she was tion and on all roads from East League in, respect of the Free City, Men of good taste prefer the away I wrote repeatedly and told Prussia, unwonted activity prevails, however, is not only that its High In England it is often very latter, and men of goodwill pre-her that I was spending each eve- During the past few days several Commissioner, M. Rosting, has to- difficult at times, in fact, im-fer its associations. Getting ning at home reading and listening thousand non-Danzig Germans have lerated intimate collaboration be
to the wireless
poured into the city from Marien-tween the Danzig police-many of possible to distinguish the down at last from the general Well? Inquired Jackson. burg and Elbing, in East whom are non-Danzig members of so-called moderates of the Labour to the particular, Mr. Lansbury "This morning the gas bill ar-Prussia, and thousands more are ex-the-Reichswehr-and Hitler's Storm party from the wildest of ex-attacked, from a viewpoint of rived and save the whole show away pected here before Bunday, Nor-Troops in uniform, but that he did —it was only for one-and-sixpence."mally peaceful frontier stations be not take the obvious course of re- tremists. Of this we were re-class prejudice, the police force. sighed Jones
tween the Free City and Germany's commending the League Council to minded in reading the report of Merely because Lord Trenchard
isolated outpost province have been postpone the elections until it could London's belated celebrations of recently emphasised the need for
Monkey Tricks.
working night and day to cope with ensure the freedom and secrecy of May Day. The lead in those cele a more highly educated police to The salesman in charge of the this inrush of Germans..
¡the ballot. At several points along the fron- brations was taken by orthodox cope with modern conditions a monkeys in the Pets Department at
plan innocent of any sinister in-a big London stores deserves a medal tier road barriers have been kept It is regretted here that a situation Labour, and we do not suppose
open all night to allow Germana of great danger, involving the lives |for keeping_cool. tention the British Labour |that its organisers could fairly beļ
A woman said she wanted to see through. And railway officials in and security of many thousands of leader professed to detect ala particular monkey. There were Koenigsburg have, I am told, asked citizens, should be left in the hands blamed for the mixed and motley!
Fascist conspiracy. The pro-twenty or thirty in the cage and the the Polish railway authorities for of an amiable hut, Inexperienced character of the crowd which posal, which he denounced as salesman caught them all except the the loan of extra rolling stock to member of the League Secretariat came together, "terrible as ana plot to transform the force and efter half an hour or so he traffic expected during the week-end case demanded the presence of a man one wanted. But dogged did it, cope with the abnormally heavy when all the circumstances of the army with banners." The con-into an upper-class body hos-brought the prize to the shopper. This unprecedented activity is of action. tradictory emblems of Hitlerism, tile to the artisan classes, "Thank you an much,” she end, not to be explained by the desire of If, as is now being discussed in Fascism, and Bolshevism, which was, he declared, a disgrace to "but I only wanted to see if it could out-voters to take part in the pre-Warsaw, Poland refuses to recognise might easily have led to con- Lord Trenchard and the Admin-be caught. It's such a clever sent poll, for previous elections have the Government which results from
|darling)" fict in a less self-controlled com-istration. In taking such a line, munity, were possibly not wel- he merely disgraced himself. come, possibly also (though this Apparently he would be quite The enthusiastic angler was re- is more doubtful) the standard Entisfied with a constabulary in-lating a fishing story to some of of those Oxford undergraduates efficient and behind the times if his neighbours.
"Yes," he said proudly, "I caught who recently resolved that they only it could be relied on to put no
obstacle in the way of strikers the biggest fish of my career last would not, "under any circum
and rioters. There was proof of night. It was a bass, and it stances," defend themselves. Labour's incorrigible tendency,
weighed seven pounds two ounces." But for one thing, without any everywhere and always, to keep ed interested throughout the story, His small son, who had remain- equivocation, the Labour party to the Left. This same British
nuw spoke up. of Britain must be held from Labour party has recently re
"Yes and daddy was so kind. He ipudiated the methods of the fret to last responsible, and that Communists and refused their gave it to my little kitten." is the utterances of its own offi- alliance; but it has not retreated cial leader. It may be perfectly from the stand taken up at its true that no one takes Mr. Lans. Leicester conference in favour of bury very seriously, that he is destruction of all forms of pri- complete socialisation. The
more a figure of farce than of vate ownership is its adopted dignity. But that is a matter policy, and the fine distinction which lies between him a
which some of its members draw and
between violent revolution" and "Leanbach is certainly a small those who have made him, with constitutional methods" is enter they say he takes after his all his amazing shortcomings, very partial consolation. If all wife theft leader in the House of who have anything are to be rob- "Get out, how can he take after the Treaty of Versalles, decide its Commons. His election to that bed the way of doing it will not anyone but an ancestor?"!
"Easy enough his wife matter very much. The plain post was noted at the time as a fact is that the moment a man or arst and he takes what's left." plain confession of the plight to a party becomes weddes to which the party had fallen. But, Polley of universal confiscation, Facts You Did Not for good or evil, he is its accredit man or party is marked off de under whatever fine names, that
Know. ed spokesman, and by his out faitely from all constitutional Serving the purpose of a clinical The result of the poll Is no longer He expects to cross the ocean pourings it must submit to be Ists by differences not of degree, thermometer, an electrical device in any doubt The vote is not like in his canvas canoe in 70 days. Judged The test is hardly one
but of kind. All who cross that has been invented, that registers only to be heavy for the reason that He will leave from the port of St. from which it emerges with
Boundary line are separated from a dial the temperature at any point many citizens of notoriously antir Vincents, near Lisbon, for the the rest of the community by a on a person's body through a con- Nazi views will find it prudent to Canary Isles and from there to credit. Reading the reperts of gulf so wide that the minoritact pad
kanda?" keep away from the ballot box on the Bermudas. His canoe has a his recent speeches in the Com-schools and schisms which exfat age
Sunday,
special protective coat against mons, one wonders why there is among themselves are, in com- *Of German invention is a kitchen 1 It will, however, show a consider, sea water, finds
Scarcely discer sink having a compartment fitted æble increase in the Naria' favour. Two previous Attempts to cross and "extremist' with a faucet for rinsing washed In any rent, If Hitler's followers the ocean. in a canoe have ended in view of the aim disbes with a spray of hot water. do not secure an actual majority in in drownings. Both the Ger oth seek
#alent t
the Vollastag, or popular assembly, mans, Captain Romer in 1928 and times forgets it: VoThe American lotus, largest water and thus porcinate all the members Capital Ezler. In 1929, got as far Hly native to North America, grows of the Banatean indirectly elected as Bermuda but were drowned in wer buds in body which combiner executive with storms at the American coast-
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any divisi
among at all Though this be professedly the voice of moder tion, what more could extremism Mr. Maxton and his
Möder
and axon some candid, epokesman, gives
ther malcontents must indeed minder.
to
BETTER AND BETTER *Every time I kiss you it makes
get to Heaven in one night.”
e'a better man." "Well, you don't have to try
SECOND TABLE.
so rapidly that
oreain
eats
not been accompanied by such inci-Sunday's elections as irregularly [dents. This mass descent of Ger-constituted, a situation of the ut mans upon Danzig is intended to most danger will arise and the Les- provide an impressive audience and gue Council will be forced to inter- national stage for Sunday's poli-vene if the independence of Danzig tical drama,
bestelis to be protected, The Nazi here make no secret, I see that M. Leon Bluum, the of the fact that in their eyes the French Socialist leader, has just pu- Danzig election is merely a re-blicly denounced M. Rosting's timid hearsal for Germany's coming handling of the Danzig dispute as struggle to recover her lost liable to cause war.“ provinces.
This is doubtless an exaggerated Danzig is the first opportunity view of the crials, but when Sun- Herr Hitler has been given to test day's elections are over the League the popularity of his party and It Council will be forced seriously to revolutionary programme among the coralder, the question of revising the. German-speaking populations at statutes of the Free City and end the present estranged from Germany. present fantastic and dangerous aí-
The capture of Danzig by the tuation. Nazie will be greeted by national rejoicing in Germany as a glorious portent of the ultimate victory and union of all the peoples of the Ger- man race: After Darig will come a plebiscite of the Sear population, (which must, under the provisions of
destiny, in 1986. D Polish Upper Silesia and the Corri- Then will follow a struggle for
dor, although the latter is predomin antly Polish, and who knows possibly Alace Lorraine Itself.
ACROSS ATLANTIC IN A CANOE.
Czech Plans 70- Day.
“Journey.
Prague The third attempt to paddle across the Atlantic in a canoe to America will be made at the end Danzig: therefore, Is the German of this month by Mr. P. Kohn, a Napoleon's arst foreign campaign. Czechoslovak sportsman.:
ake an audible sound, legislativa functiona-Elvy angga. — Reuter," ""