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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1934
FRANCE LONGING FOR A LEADER
WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE OLD MEN IT KNOWS AND TRUSTS HAVE GONE?
(By Brig. Gen. E. L. Spears, M.P.)
The crisis that shook France dle-class demonstrators would have during the second week in February carried the day, but not without was purely the affair of Paris. The bloodshed. If there had been more provinces were displeased, and dis-bloodshed no one can say to what liked It All Intensely, because they lengths public Indignation would did not understand what was hap-have gone. With no strong, man.to {pening,
take charge, anarchy might have
"We will not have revolution by gained the day,, *
x telegram, they said. The shrewd, Now peace reigns in Paris once ałów moving peasants, the peaceful more, but it may be only a lull, are bourgeoisie of the little towns, and, Trust In Donmurgare
The British imports in November totalled.813.000 square yards, “
Indeed," of the great ones, too, were All the Datadler team of young shocked and frightened to see two men have been swept away with Governments in succèssion fall at
their leader, and the country bak the threat of riots by the Paris mot turned again, as it has done so often, New York To Drdesin
What did they care about M. Chiappe, the Prefect of Police, and before, to the old men It knows and For the first time since the Rwhether he was disinissed or not?]
trusts.
Gaston Doumergue, ex-President volution an American ship has The Stayisky scandal?
It only called at a Russian port
proved there were lots of things
for the Republic, forced back into the turmoll of affairs he had long Her arrival at Odessa marks the
wrong in the capital It all camel inception of
a regular care of trying to acquire money in new-ags determined to abandon for ever steamer service.
has had to leave his sunny garden- fangled ways instead of just toiling In the summer there will be, and saving according to the tradi- near Toulouse, his bees and his service of passenger boats for tion of France. tourists:
The visitors will find Odesas andly decayed. In Tsarist days was one of the three Russian town where the British Government kept
Consul-general."
tal in the city,:
|flowers, to sit once more in the high.
In fact, the provinces had an un-tapestried rooms of the Prime comfortable, feeling that something very like a Fascist coup had been mutinies of 1917, and who is now attempted and had failed,, whereas 78 years old. is at the Ministry of the Paris bourgeoisie were, on the
Minister. Marshal · Felain. who saved the French armies after the.
contrary; persuaded that they had war: Barthou, another old man, is To-day trade has declined, and in narrowly escaped a dictatorship of at the Foreign Offica view of its proximity to the the Left. The result of this frame Doumerque, auch is his prestige, Rumanian frontier the Bolshevists of mind in the country is that were (has drawn into his Cabinet the have refrained from sinking capi here an election now the provincialists. Herriot sits at peace with leaders of all parties save the So- would in all probability return the patience are running out. Bri- Odessa in a healthy resort. The same paralysing Left majority Tardieu. All have undertaken not severa tain has taken great risks in the tourists may be attracted by the which has proved itself Incapable of to make public speeches, a effort to induce the world to dis-beach. Sun-bathing (on trado governing.
restriction when, as in the case of Tardieu, there exista a belief that Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 3, 1934. arm. It cannot continue to per union tickets) has been rationalised suade by example in the absence to such a point that loud-speakers
B campaign in the country would: of any real response. The steady dictate the proportions. "In which Paris, on the other hand, is rally it to his standard and ruin the reduction of her forces has been immersion and exposure shall be pleased with itself. It feels that it prospects of the Radical Socialists,; carried to the point at which it mixed by the care-free bathers. occasions serious apprehension. For a me it is still, possible to Britain's Air Force Estimates hold her hands, in the slight hope are designed by the Government that endeavours to reduce armu- to serve two purposes. What in ments elsewhere may, bear fruit, crease is proposed is a warning but the moment has come when
No Continuing Air Inferiority.
Your Daily Smile.
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DEEP STUFF How can persons condemn to other Powers that Britain either the Disarmament negotii terles when they are in favour cannot and will not accept a positions must have more reality or marriages? tion of permanent inferiority in Britain must make answer to the
"No, necessitous.
•
Red Belt Of Paris
has given Parliament a richly de-who form the majority in the pre- served lesson, that it has struck a sent - Chamber. [blow on behalf of honest government It is very unlikely that the pre: that will not easily be forgotten. sent Government can last for long. But the Paris you can see to-day, The old Prime Minister has but one lot-epick and span, as if nothing had weapon in his armoury when facing of happened, with the beautiful flu Parliament, the threat of returning minated fountains playing in the to his distant country home. I' Place de la Concorde as if a short ∙∙What Will Follow? time ago cavalry had not been
It is twenty year since he spoke charging across it, forgets that the in the Chamber, and in that space trade unions, the unions of oficials, of time Parliamentary manner have and the workers of the Red Belt in sadly deteriorated. Conditions hed, Paris and the great industrial cities, in fact, become almost anarchical completely paralysed the nation for under the last President of the twenty-four hours, at the behest of Chamber, the Socialist Ferdinand their leaders.
Buisson. Speakers got into the way It is the fashion to belittle the of speaking on any subject without Gentral Strike of February 12, and restrictions shouting and ill-man- to say it did not fulfil the expecta nered interruptions were the com tions of those who planned it. It monplace of debate, and the
Cross
the air. At the same time the armaments of others. The better "Are Poets Necessary?” actual increase is on so small away to peace is by reductions all scate as not to jeopardise her round. The alternative involves
GRATITUDE efforts to bring about air dis- the sacrifice of the hopes for na- tional betterment built upon im-
The man seen at King's armament. The British Govern-j
proving finance. Even so, Britain fnent puts a choice before the could have no hesitation as to tting the engine of a newly-ar
Either other what was the right course. If rived train explained to curious Powers agree to disarm to her the warning that lies behind the pectators that his mother-in-law level or she shall build, not in present Estimates were not heed-hadn't arrived after all. the modest way now proposed, ed abroad there would remain
JOURNEY'S END. hut so as to make Britain the only one course by which the equal in the air of the most country could be made easy in R. L. Stevenson said, "It is bel may be true that the middle-classes, lobbies, if not the floor of the powerful nation in the world, its mind as regards security.
greater nations.
In matters of defence Great Bri
tain can ultimately accept no in A National Reproach.
•
ter to travel hopefully than
to who are steadily organising then House, were the scenes of not in- arrive." But then he never had 'a selves, may in future be able to frequent disputes.
second-hand car.
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TOPICAL COMPLAINT
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CHILDREN'S HOME IN PRISON.
Authorities Gesture: To Poor Widow
Sofia,
negative a prolonged general strike Mo we did ouratives, and that a ferior standing. By the slight in-
strong Government could deal with. crease of its Estimates the Gov- In a recent speech at Manches Housewives' Corner ernment lays Itself open to at-ter Sir Hilton Young, British How to cover a cushion-sit on it as Briand dealt with the railway strike by mobilising the workers: Health Minister, returned once it tack from two sides. On the ope
but the fact remains that on Feb. 12 hand it is condemned for leav. more to the slum problem, which
; THE KING'S -MEN ·
the organisations of the Teft reveal- must at present preoccupy above Jing the
country dangerously all others a Minister of Health.
on the In co-operation with local au-Guardaman, as you, sez, he wen
"Yuss," bleated the very yours ed themselves to be very strong in- wenk in air armament.
deed. other it is blamed for starting thorities, the Ministry have been the D. C. M. In the war, but when
Trace Of Parties what is ridiculously called a new planning aliead during the past it comes to a bit of real soldier
To-day all is calm. There in no competition before. it has ex-twelve months, and it is inter- ing at the opening of Parliament sign of resentment skeist the Permission has been granted hausted the possibility of negocating to observe that wheresse ain't much goca."·
polles, but most people realise that to a poor widow, sentenced, to tiation. The reply to both last autumn' Sir Hilton Young
this, is, but, a lull, a truce, an act of nine months' imprisonment, for schoola is to be found in the contemplated that 210,000 unft
aational deference to the lovable old Her two children to live in gaol memorandum that accompanies houses would be replaced within
the next five years, the tuber All stuffed up and nowhere to man, Doumergue, who commands with her. the Estimates. Did conditions in
he now foresees is about 250,000, blow. the world suggest any "serlous]: In each of the five years of the threat to Britain then the accampaign it in intended to clear DEEFUL KNOWLEDGE CORNER life has made the great sacrifice of and returns in the evening. He is taal addition to the Air Force an average of 50,000 slum dwall I can tell you that there's no his well darned peaod in deterotice searched on leaving and return- would occasion serious alarm by inget as many as were removed thing like champagne for making to his country's calling in case he should be carrying How long will that truce fast? secret messages or article for their inadequacy. The new con- in the whole sixty years preced- you forget your troubles.......... Now struction and organisation pro-ing the present: chort The all you need is some one to tell It is perhaps hardly realised Here bidden in the prison.. posed leaved Britain short by task Has certainly. lofig awaited you How to get champagne. many hundreds of machines of acilon and the only redaba för the strength of France, Russia, our generation to take pride is Japan, Italy or the United that we are all, as the Price of States, and all these nationa are Waled urged a few weeks ago, in the current year making great beginning to be leat patient with er additions to their air strength bad housing Bir Hilton Young Elian is Great Britain With expressed himself as satisfied shown that, forest fras can be four additional squadrona the with the increased rafé at, whic trolled and even aning Air: Fords, will be weaker by the kidma word, alidady talling, basts from motion picture
Chities, especia some eight squadrons than the and we may believe that the
Facts You Did Not Know:
Experimenta in Califorals
minimum of fifty-two squadrons Ministry and the local authorities thrown into file cifrente of regarded, as necessary for home have not been idle Birt there
dalance ten years ago,
Marquis of Londonde
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the ment a well us
the absolute trust of all, and who Every day the little boy, age in the twilight of a long and useful 10, leaves the prison for school
how great was the danger which The girl in only five-Reuter, the fall of the Baladier Göveth- ment averted.
When Daladier, who had tried so
of
hard to form ■ Gavartiment who hind: Forfeited" is fupport of the have Right by sacrificing,
diză...... not con- Police, Chiappe, and with dare defy "Paris and wind cialist support, réxifti
li once, he did so onl
The people, the time pouring into the ath
The troops would not [50.1 againat ; the day Their leaders, revolted. of shooting down their
WRESTLER'S HEAD GASHED:
Fight Delayed
South Africa.
Hme East London (Cape Province).
In a wrestling contest - hero Peter Venter beat Riley, the WE gan wrestler being disqualified in the fourth round for striking deal with a closed fist after a fair comi warning, Elley secured a fall' in the second round of the rough.
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whom hei
end
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3d fight was
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