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A Dollfuss Regiment
Dr. Dollfuss is to be appointed Colonel-in-Chief Emperor's
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1933.
BRITAIN'S UNJUST TITHE LAW
GOVERNMENT MUST
MOVE IN DISPUTE
colochis chief of the emper the FARMER'S GRIEVANCE J
most famous,
perial Army, and the the old Im
regiment in
which the diminutive Chancellor ]||fought during the war.
*The regiment is to be rechristen- led the Dollfuss Regiment.
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land.
(By A. A. B.)
London. thshment:
JUSTIFIED
tithe
arbitration
Of all the people in the world the Undoubtedly, as the law now English are the most law-abiding, stands, tithe owners are entitled to The Royal Poor and of the English the farmers, as payment, however hard it may be The ex-Kaiser of Germany, a class, have the greatest respect for in rüdividual cases.
the law.
It is pre-eminently a case for whose private fortune has just
When, therefore, in large die-settlement by an arbitral tribunal, been assessed at £35,000,000, is
East jagreed upon by the owners and luckier than the majority of de-tricts of England, such as
Anglia and the County of Kent, we payers of tithe. The. State must posed monarchs.
The ex-King of Spain lost the find large bodies of farmers com-intervene to prevent the continuance bulk of his private fortune when lining in their refusal to pay tithe, of a dispute which is unseemly to we may be sure that such refusal both churchmen and agriculturists, he left the country. All his; palaces and landed estates passed can arise only from a feeling ofjjust because both parties enlist our
injustice.
[sympathics. to the new Republic.
What the grievance is can easily Nobody must be penalised, old as Ex-King Amanullah was at one! time credited with a fortune of be stated. The tithe is the tenth the bargain may be, and the 'culti- £8,000,000, but now he lives very part of the produce of a farm, pay-vator of the soil must not have his jable to the owner of the tithe, who business hampered or made impos- simply in Florence.
The late ex Shah of Persia was is generally not the landlord orisiale. Considering that Mr. Bald
win, six or seven years ago, ad- reduced to the pawning of jewelswner of the farm. when living as
It was imposed as a charge very vunced twenty-six millions to the a valuntary exile!
many years ago, when land was the conl industry, in the hope of ending in Paris.
The ex-Empress Zita and her most common form of property and dispute which issued in the Gen before the industrial revolution. It'eral Strike, ine State might well be claimant son, Otto, lived for yearsi in a small villa in Northern Spain was imposed, as the best form of asked to advance a loan to help the with nothing but the essentials of was called, in order to help in the st a reasonable number of years' security, by the pious founder, as he farmers to buy out the title-owners life, and remain to this day among maintenance of the Church of Eng-purchase, to be decided after in- the royal poor.
quiry by the It was imposed at a time when tribunal. Haifa Harbour
agricultural produce was two or The tithe owners, on their side, The new harbour
at Haifa, three times its present or potential must be reasonable, and make re- of tithe where the which was opened recently, is the value. That is grievance No. 1:uctions finest in the Eastern Mediter-the payment of a debt contracted in tribunals decide that the amount of
that has fithe is disproportionate to the ac BIRTHS.
to which the Hitler Government ranean. It is capable of being ex- terms of a commodity
panded in accordance with the vast greatly depreciated in value. tual or potential productive valuo PAELZ-On July 27, 1933, in Ber-was signatory. For some
of the land. In no case, in my developments expected in the
Debtors Grievance Joachim Paciz, only son of weeks Mr. Wickham Steed has hinterland of Palestine.
The grievance of the debtor being]
inion, ought title to be leviable Mr. and Mrs. P. Paelz, Shang-been stressing in the London The construction has been forced to pay three or four times as
on the implements of agriculture. hai, born October 8, 1913, at "Sunday Times" the gravity of carried out departmentally by the much corn ar hay as his predeces.
Machine Displaces Man Tsingtao, (Canton papers please the Hitler menace against Aus Palestine Government. At first it sors had to pay has been aggravated Taking of implements, it is extra-
tria and the campaign behind it. WAS He is not alone in his misgiv-tract to a
proposed to award the con- by the fact that the tithe, liko ordinary, as showing
British Arm. But as other forms of property, has inition of the modern mind by ma- ings. Public opinion in Britain Palestine is held under a mandate same enses passed from the owner chinery, how blind people are to its is veering towards endorsement from the League of Nations that ship of individuals into the hands ultimate effects upon the labour SON. On August 18, 1939, at of French auspicions of secret was not possible.
jof distant corporations, who have market. I was standing beside a the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shang-German re-armament, and
Italy raised objections. So it no interest in or connection with working man the other day, watch- [dangers of the new ml: hai, Charlotte Stewart, young-
was decided to execute the work the property on which it is levied. ing the American drill in some jlitarism and military train under the direct administration of est daughter of the late Rev. A.
So long as the tithe-owner was street-paving operation. "Why", anid of the German malo Irvine-Robertson, Clackmannan, ing
a squire, or country gentleman he proudly, "it does the work of 20 to Mervyn, son of the late Rev. population in Hitler's "private
living in the district, the matter men!" The fool did not seem to larmy." The German policy,| E. Armstrong, Ebbw Vale.
could be.
and generally was, hr. realise that it displaced the labour constantly announced from Ger
ranged with the farmers on some of 20 men like himself, and was one man propagandist wireless sta-
sort of sliding scale, But to-day of the reasons why he was standing tions, is to establish a new Ger
aliould say the largest tithe-owners idle watching the drill.. many in Europe, within enlarged NEW BOARDER: Where's tho
the colleges of Oxford and So in agriculture; these American are upon the baste of bath tub in this boarding house? Cambridge: only occasionally in the and Canadian tractors, which cut, boundaries, pan-Germanism. "We shall noti AND ANOTHER: I don't know lay impropriater a Duke rest," declared the Nazi Minister-I've only been living here a land-owner. Bullying Of Austria. of Education in an address in month.
June, "until the work of making
copy.)
MARRIAGE ARMSTRONG-IRVINE-ROBERT-
The China Mail
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1933,
1.
Hitlerism's private war against ali Germans into one people fa
Jerusalem.
Your Daily Smile
NOT YET TIME.
JUST ONE WORSE.
the domina-
or large and bind, and thresh, will render unemployable a large amount of Human nature being what it is, agricultural labour and send, more jons need not be surprised if the of them to the artisan labour mar farmers of Essex and Kent, whojkets in the towns.
the Austrian State has been refully accomplished, and we shall A man pinned underneath his are struggling to make both ends However, that's another story, cognised by the British, French, crush with brutality and cruel- car after an auto accident was be moet, olject, to payment. Still, and has only a remote connection and Italian Governments. Follow-ty everyone who withstands us."jing questioned by a policeman.
tivere is the law. The money of with the dispute between the payers ing the assertion of Nazi dicta-The Minister for Propaganda "Married?"
these corporation's has been invested and the receivers of tithe, which torship in Bavaria by deposition (Dr. Goebbels) has said that "No" said the man. "This is in Lithe-rent charges as one might must be settled by agreement, might buy War Loan. Are the assisted by State loans, of which Fellows or the farmers, to go with the security might be the district nut their incomes because the price concerned. a series of Nazi manifestations pan-German organisation in Ber- ""Doesn't Lucinda look funny go has fallen?
It is surely as justifiable to levy against the Austrian Govern lin. asserts that, while there are ing down the road with that short! Then there is the religious argu- rate for the settlement of a titho ment. A Hitlerite Minister. Dr. 68 million Germans in Germany,kirt on?""
dient. The pious founder could not dispute as for the cutting of a new
of the Bavarian State Govern-"this is Germany's world mis-the worst fix I was ever in."
ent, there began a deliberate sion," and that it is the object of attempt to assist from Germany "the German revolution." The
YES, SHE WOULD..
a
of British agriculture. Tithe com.who have no interest in the district, mulation Acts have changed the through which tacy dash at the rate. payment to money, instead of farm of 40 miles an hour,
But there remains the difficulty BRITISH AIRCRAFT
of calculating, the amounts of money
Frank, visited Vienna by aero-there are another $2 millions "She'd look lots funnier if she possibly foresee the ruin or decline road for the conventence of people plane with all the signs of pro-living abroad. Its attention is didn't have it on." viding an excuse for a Nazi de- now concentrated upon bringing monstration on a large scale, but within the new "racial State" Distinguishing Marks. the attempt failed, The Aus-the millions of Germans living]
"What is the difference," asks a produce. trian Government under Dr. Immediately beyond the German Dollfuss proved unexpectedly borders. In Austria alone there writer, "between 'a tactful and
tactless person?" Ob, about one firm. There were wholesale ar-are said to be 6,700,000. More- rests of Austrian Nazis, and a lover, the large Jewish settle-black eye and a couple of front number of German Hitlerite ments in Vienna excite the other teeth. agents were deported. Germany notable feature of the Hitler-pro BILA. TOUGH-BABY Austrians. It was reported that butor to the "Contemporary Re-A boy of three months fell unsolved, extensive preparations had been view" likens the now fanaticism thirty feet and was uninfored last in many cases tithes are the sole made for raids by German Nazi in Germany to that of the Jaco week. He must be one of these support of the terribly underpaid storm-troops into Austria. Then bins in the French Revolution bouncing babies we hear so much clergy, Why should every member the Hitleriten became aware; it Another writer, in the same per- about. seemed, that they had taken a fodical views its probable de
retorted in kind with arrests of gramme of violence. One contri-
· GOLD FEET? Bridegrooms
spata.
due in modern conditions, and the problem of whether the clergymen luf the Church of England should be supported by one class of, the com- munity rather than another is left
LEADS Big Gains In Far East Markets.
THREE-YEAR STATISTICS:
London.
of the Church of England not be Figures which the Air Minis called upon to contribute to the try has published indicate that support of her clergy, like the mem-British aircraft manufacturers
ing. They cannot be ignored; they value of British aircraft exports must be answered. But how? * during the past three years was 41,180,482 in excess of those of generally wear. The
Other Side There is another side to the the United States, Britain's question. Suppose that you alter nearest competitor.
false step. Italy regarded the velopment as no less deadly to A. Hollywood Find, movement with an unfriendly the peace of Europe than that In America a man has been die bars of every other denomination 7 are gaining a substantial lead eye, and the Hungarian Govern-upheaval. Both writers bellova covered by the name of Blah. What These are awkward questions, which over their foreign rivals. In the ment warned the Germans that that Hitler plans to accomplish a publicity agent he would make the farmers to-day insist upon reis-European market alone, the total the prospective invasion of Aus: his purpose by instigating in tria was arousing a counter-Austria a "gradual revolt," lend- movement to restore an Austro-ing to an impossible situation. Hungarian monarthial: State. when national barriers would go But the Hitlerites merely chang-down of themselves. Obviously. ed their tactics. The latest de- if that can be done in Austria, it monstration is, by means of leat can be attempted also in the leta dropped from German aero-Polish Corridor, in Polish Bilesia, planes over Austria and by wire and in strips of Czechoslovakia. less, broadcasts, to incite Aus- The war is carried on by "private A novel footstool has a drawer we can easily imagine, their prices ed in 1982, when the value of ex- trian Nazis to revolt and over-armies' rather than by national for slippers that is opened by the were to be doubled or trebled, ports front the United Kingdom turn the Government in Vienna forces: Invasion is not by open touch of a fool. by force. The British, French, war, but by propaganda to
pice again, the basis of thà charge] Over the complete three-year Facts You Did Not and by some revolution in the pro period, this United States holds à
851,000,000.
Know.
duction of agricultural commodities slight lead in the Far East mar which we cannot foresse, but which kets, but the position was revers-
a quarter, are the tithe-owners and 207 compared with 8149,653
During the three years cover-
Are the College Fellows and the ed by the Air Ministry statistics, half-starved clergy to find their in the United Kingdom aviation comes doubled? Are the deans and exports to other parts
Buppose, wheat were to rise to 100, to these markets totalled £186,- and Italian Governments have foment Insurrection, sympathetic Recent official statistics catimated the recipients of tithe to share In from the United States, intervened with inquiries in with the aggressive policy of the population of India at about the the rise? Vienna; and the British and neigbouring Power,But it is French Governmente, have now none the less war, and it in Am presented in Berlin identical and challenge, to the Powers and the friendly Notes, citing against the League to keep the pence, and Fitting any cooking utensil, a new canons suddenly to Join the new the British Empire exceeded German action the article of the defiance of the Versailles Treaty, perforated cover converts it into Peace Treaty in which Germany The other, thraaowers of the double, boller vir 7, recogulsed and undertook strict Four Power Pact have intimat ly to respect Austrian Indepen-led, with all
a rich? If not, why not? The Church those of the United States
of England is still a national institu- 21,968,170 tion, and long may, it remain, sb. Of the total of 2,150 engines Disestablishers, like the Bishon of exported by the United States? výcar), 2010 went to Boviet-
straint, that these, Straw hat braids have been manu- 1 are involved -by, factured gon a commercial (acale in Durham ought to Tilin: demonstrations, ww. Byitzerland. Wince 17831"
a di sandowment will follow: disasta!
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