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ing armamenta in at alake. is Europe capable of organizing itself dong Kong, Monday, Nov. 20, 1933. on & cuminoo baals! Or must the
Disarmament.
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Sport Makes New Industry The English tunny fishing season which has just ended has been the most successful yet recorded. Over 30,000lb. of tunny have been land- jed by British sportsmen In British
waters.
nation continue to be a unit which isolates itself as much us it can Trom its fellows ? The element of
ex-
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1933.
YOUTH'S PLACE IN MODERN WORLD
FAITH IN PACIFISM AN "INSIDUOUS POISON'
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A DENIAL OF NATIONALITY
(By Major F. Yeats-Brown.)
Hitherto tunny fishere have perienced difficulty in disposing of their bulky catch. The fish have Florence, Milan, Toulon, Dijon, and no
I have recently visited Rome, bonuses!" Armament makers are been sold very cheaply to fried-doh
Worse than provision mer'- Paris, and shops in the North. Now, how-
while not minimising chants; they supply something ever, a firm in Leeds has under- the importance of the present im- which people need; the doctrine of taken the canning of tunny, and provement in relations between caveat emptor applica. Who is to arrangements have been made with France and Italy, it would be ridi- say what weapons a nation will the Scarborough anglers for the culous to assert that the European need for its defence? disposal of the whole of
situation looks peaceful. next
Europe The Disarmament Conference is your's catch.
Nooks, and is, an armed camp. trying to settle this knotty, problem. But here in England, our young Meanwhile, to accuse "Armaville" The success of tunny canning in men, sheltered in their ancient uni of dealing in death is like blaming this country will depend entirely Versities, proclaim that they will the grocer for the state
under no circumstances fight for liver after eating immoderately of on the quality of the article
pro-their King or country, and some of pate de fois gras. As to the much- duced.
their elders are misguided enough discussed suggestion that to applaud them
Tunny Vintager
it
Tuany la palatable only (u ennned form, and only the finest olive oil must be used in the pro- сева.
The Poison Of Pacifism
of Dac's
ArmB-
ments should only be made by Governments, this would turn half For instance, there is Mr. Bever-Europe into a munition factory. We Like sardines and wines, tunny (ley Nichols, in his new book, "Cry are better off as we are, and far have to be matured They are at Havoc." Nor can Mr. Nichola be safer. their best when they have
Mr. Nichols, as was to been neglected as a brilliant dilettanto: kept for seven years.
At present the Italians dominate the tunny canning industry.
Your Daily Smile
Kennel Note
A dachshund in half a dog by a dog and a half long.
Limerick
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his wit is barbed with passion and pected, makes our flesh creep about sincerity, and he expresses
He the gases.
presumes, perhapa mind of the younger generation in İrightly. that lethal polsons will be compelling fashion.
used in the next war. in spite of
I predict that the world will Ha-any pledges to abstain from doing ten to him, because he is much [0. more human than the old pacifists.
A Devastating Gas
Mr. H. G. Wells is so boring in hie He makes capital of the undoubt- high later Internationalist treatise that led fact that no great city can tat the reader feels that death would present, and so far as is known) be be preferable to the card-indexed defended against air bombardment. world of "William Clissold;" and Theoretically, twenty airplanes
A civil constructor named Lamb Sir Norman Angell writes only of can kill every man, woman' and robots, who are poor relations to child in a district extending from Mill's pale and discredited "Ecan-Richmond to Barking, and Finch- jomic Man."
tey to Streatham.
Had a heck of a time in Siam. Fur the girl, so they said, Though very well brod.
Just loved a small blast or a dam.
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POOR CHAP
There once was a man, not unique, rivalry WIH no doubl never be Who imagined himself quite
Sur Joha Simon 18 again in wholly absent, but it should surely Geneva, this time in a desperate ne possible to direct energies away attempt Le reconcerte
widely rom destructive and towards con-! the divergent views of Germany ana | structive nime, The tank of the France in order to revive the Dis-Disarmament Conference is lo con-
shique,
But the girls didu't foll For the felloe at all.
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But Mr. Nichols keeps close to He quotes Edison 28 snying that flesh and blood; he goes out into with the poisonous arsenica) smoke the world and tells us what he known as Lewisite, which dissolves Jinds; he does not pontificate about the lung tissues so that the suffer- any headachy Utopia, but writes er drowns in his own blood, the cather to clarify his own thoughts, whole population of London could with wit. charni, subtlety. Mr. Ni-be choked in three hours. chols, therefore, must be answer- That would be terrible, if it hap- ed and refuted. Pacifism is an in-pened, although I do not think that only made two ponds a riqusidious poison Like
amorphia-it would bring England to her armument Conference from the dine the use of armed forces to
derivative, it lulls the mind, but knees. But would it, could it hop- stagnation that has prevailed since potice and defensive purposes. Be- Inconsiderate
saps the moral fibre; it promises pen? I think not; but the tech- The head of the family of slago peace, but brings in men most sure-nical arguments Germany's withdrawal. An accom-fore any sort of agreement can be
ore too long to modating Lemper
scrobats who asked if the youngly its opposite. Puris In
willrenched, however, it is neccssury:
give here. greatly improve the hope, note too that all the participant countries man could support his daughter in
if I am wrong and London could oright in any case, that an adequate should be more or less satisfied with the way to which she was accus-
Yet Mr. Nichols is obviously be destroyed in three hours, 50 Convention for the limitation and their relative
positions; and the tomed.
right up to a point. He states his could Paris or Berlin. War would case well. Modern war will be a se a short agony, though a sharp ghastly affair, against "an enemyne. And what are we to do
whose about it? breath is a sickly yellow death." Are we to fold our hands and Chivalry has gune; the sword of say that the prospect is so horrible Rodivere is rusted; no flags will that we will submit to any indig
ultimate redaction of arms wal be fundatnental difficulty is the ነ Įsigned or at any rate initialled be equality in the positions of two of Tonic Talk
Age Of Chivalry Over
lore Christmas. The unsettled con- the three leading States of the Con- Hard work is the yeast that whose arms are steel, and artions of Europe are a reason for tinent of Europe. The Treaty of raises the "dough.”
i not making the Convention too Versailles left Germany in a posi-
ambitious in scope and for not extion of inferiority relative Lo Too Late
consequences
married * man and boucester,
Before very long,
He found he was wrong, But he didn'l find out till loucester.
he'd
Facts You Did Not Know.
battlefields. Indeed, there may be did so, some bandit of the seed of he no battlefield, but only devastated Tamerlane or Genghiz Khan would districts, with night-bombers dron, lake us at our word and make a [Ing overhead, and creatures in gas: pyramid of skulls out of the people
masks crawling in the ruins be- he had vanquished. flow.
If The Invader Came Nq same man, then, can look on Mr. Nichols does not himself be- the prospect of another war with lieve that large-scale passive resis anything but dismay, and, person-tance would be possible in the next ally, I still have faith in the mo- war, but he argues the case for the derating influence of the League of youth of the nation who adopt that Nations.
attitude.
The invention of an electrical
Mr. Nichols has drawn his“ pic-. "In the old days," he writes, "a
pecting drastic reductions to follow France which was not intended to There was a young lady of Glou-jever fly or trumpets ring on future (alty rather than fight? If we ever jimmediately. But they are a still be permanent; and this disparity cester.
Diore pressing reason for the early finds its most obvious and, to Ger- Who Conclusion of a Convention whien man minds, its most painful ex- will segure and safeguard the prin-{pression in the respective armed ciple of agreed limitation, whichįsirengtis of the two nations. mus been applied with satisfactory When the forces of Germany were results by the chfef naval Powers reduced to a minimum after the among themselves, and should be War her disarmament was quite de- extended to cover the land and airțânitely implied to be a first step to {armaments of all nations. If a general reduction; and the failure general system of imitation and of her neighbours appreciably to reduction is not established now, inflessen the difference is one of the however embryonic form. the causes of the present ferment in
may be incalculably { Germany. The fact has got to be timer that gives accurate time in-ture with bold line and vivid co-conquered nation paid for its help- mischievous. Firat among them is faced that Germany will re-arm. tervals of hundredths of a second lour. The faults of his hook are, lessness by four forms of tribute ikely to be that the nations already Germany is indeed already to the has enabled watches to be re-first, that it is overdrawn (he ex-by money, by services, by land, disarmed will feel released from best of her ability re-arming. Insulated in ten minutes instead of aggerates the harm done by arma: or by the surrender of various CHRISTMAS CARDS Jobligations which were never in-so doing she is no doubt contraven-the ten days usually required. ment Arms, the horrors of air bem-forms of booty." And, he goes on
to be materal. A coming the Disarmament Clauses of the
bardment, and the effects of milit-to show, that nnne of these things arming FORMERLY
putition in NOW
will begin, l'reaty of Veranilles. It is in fact
commercial agreement Jary training, qn the young);; and, can now be exacted. "Supposing aggravating present mustrusts, and understood that the first matter recently arranged Norway has secondly, that the facts he adduces that France, for example, decided Intensifying economic miseries by which the French Government wish agreed to import not less than 70 do not warrant his conclusions. that she would like a strip of the $1.50 per doz. $1.10
senseless expenditure on heavy to have discussed in Paris now is alper 'cent of its coal imports, ex- War is to be adyolded, if possible, South Coast. Well? What effect weapons of a nature and calibre not list of alleged infractions which clusive of coal produced in but not at all costs; it is not the would that have?” really needed for purposes of do-they have drawn up. How serious Spitzbergen, from the United King-worst evil that can befall
Why France? Let Mr. Nichola fence. The failure of the Economic they may be has not been divulged.{dóm.
kind.
consider the situation 'he has, sug- Conference was the failure to or-All, therefore, that can be said at
His objective description of gested in all its aspects, aubstitut- ganize an improvement. In the bene- the moment is that, regrettable e The inventor of a new mineral "Armsville," as he, calls - a well- ing for our civilised' and friendly ficent exchange of goods and they are, public opinion in Britain base paste claims that it will «iick known munition Arm in this coun- neighbour some such people as the camtul; the failure of the Disarma-vill attach far less importance to to any material and that it will try, is good, but he yields to the Ruritanians. We are in a pacifist ment Conference would mean the the technical contravention of an fasten any two materials together, temptation of coming such slick England, remember, and in' a paci- Zefinite aggravation of the evil of arrangement which was only meant also that it can be used as a pers{slogana, as "More death, more;divi- fist Europe. ". International rivalries, No man to be transitional than it would to manent coating. or filling..
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· It Worked at the Reichstag-Why Not Here?
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