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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Friday, May 25, 1931,
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
London Tubes Are Best -
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934.
POLITICAL GAME IN
RUMANIA
KING CAROL NOT SO BLACK AS PAINTED
DISCONTENT LIES
(By Wilfrid Hindle.)
DEEP
Work on the new Moscow tube is being rushed forward. Stalin hast issued an opder that the first line -from Sokolniki to the Moscow River-must be opened by Novem-1 ber 7. So 80,000 workmen have been pressed into service.
Great difficulties are being metȚIGHT Rumanian army officers Yugoslavia. Within the last few with because of the unfavourable; are standing their trial infmonths his Government has intro- sub-soll and the large quantity of Bucharest to-day on a charge of duced a law which will complete the water and shifting sands.
plotting to assassinate King Carol. agrarian reform begun by the divi- Before starting this tube, Mos- The plot (of course) is said to be sion of the big estates immediately cow sent expert commissions to the result of popular discontent after the War. New York, London, Paris, Berlin Lupescu.. It is more than likely
Personal Rule and other centres to examine the that Mme. Lupescu's name War Why, in that case, is the present existing systems.
taken as a symbol-it is the Ru- agitation against him so strong that They reported that in technique, manian for Wolf and as such disreports of it have got past the efficiency, and safe running the tasteful to an aristocracy long noted Bevere censorship in Bucharest? London tubes were easily first.' for its strong anti-Jewish senti-The answer is partly in the nature ments. It can hardly have been of King Carol's rule, partly in world more than a symbol.
economic conditions, partly Also Since his dramatie· return from (but by no means the greatest jexile in 1930 King Carol has been part) in his private life. The privilege of entering iram-i {more monarch than Ruritanian. Rule in Rumanía has always been cars by the front door, which laj And Rumania's present discontents personal.
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For Valour
being conferred on "Heroes of the
at.
But the Bratianus and
Soviet Union" like the Chelyuskin have deeper causes than the unpopu-Vaida-Voevods who were the effec- rescuers, is not one to be sneezed larity of a King's mistress, though tive rulers under King Ferdinand that need not prevent her unpopu- had strong and well organised larity being the spark which sets the parties to support them. Carol has The serried queues at tramway flames of revolt alight. halta which is the most character-
had individuals, coalitions and "the When King Carol I, arrived in king's friends." latic feature of the Moscow streets
A country which are allowed to enter the cars only Bucharest in 1866 it was a Bratianu has a party of "king's friends" has
who brought him. Thereafter the as a natural corollary, a party of
for have been the parties and politicians
at the back.
They are usually so crowded that/Bratianu family "dynasty" ruled king'a enemics. In Rumania they the process of "passing right along Rumania without interruption
70 years. The present King of excluded from office. The spoils of the car, please," is always painful) and often impossible.
Rumania felt the effects of Bratianu office are considerable in a country which has not forgotten a tradition rule early in life.
It was a Bratianu who, dreaming of corrupt Turkish rule. of a Rumania that should be a first-|
Disgruntled politicians are match- class power, arranged with Queened by peasants disgruntled for dif- Marie that Carol should marry Prin-ferent reasons. In the years of cess Helen of Greece. It was a economic crisis the Rumanian pea. Bratianu who separated Carol, then aants saw the prices of their pro- Roman Crown Prince, from his morganatic duce steadily falling. As always
As passengers must leave by the times associated with the forma-front door, they are often carried
far beyond their destination. tion of cancer, and it would seem that at least some of the causes.
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£3000 A Week For Uplift
which initiate the development of the disease are being tracked down to their source by patient Father Coughlin, the and laborious investigation. EI-Catholic priest who broadcasts wife, Mme. Lambrino. It was Bra-happens when there are hard times forts are now being made to treat weekly from Detroit to 16.000,000 tianu's agents who spied on Mme. Jin Rumania, they have turned to the lubricating oils in such a way as listeners, may have made his last Lambrino and her young son when Jews, who are the small financiers No subject relating to the to do away with this source of appearance before the microphone. Carol had been banished to a pro-and tradesmen of Rumania. health of the world at large is danger to men working machin- In closing down his serien for the vincial garrison.
Jew-hatred, long a familiar feature
Combating Cancer
[cancer.
And
of greater importance than thejery where such oils are used season he hinted that his voiceļ Bratianu rule had been ended of Humanian life, has flamed up ways and means for combating Another discovery of importance might not be heard next year. (while,Carol was in exile by the rise again. His Intensive research has is in an anti-serum. which, if in-
final talk was a passionate of a powerful persunt party, whose Jew-hatred has fastened natural- been accomplished by the Bri-jected into mice with natural appeal for the cleansing of Wall leader, Dr. Maniu, used the threatly on a king's mistress who had al- totreet and for the suppression of of Carol's return to cow the Bra-ready nearly caused a break in the tish Empire Cancer Campaign cancer, causes the tumours and the present financial appeal disappear; and the results have the activities of "dressed-up gangs-tianu of the day. Once back in the succession and who is held responsi-
country, however. Carol decided table for hte misfortunes of a princess " for funds, in llong Kong and reached a stage when it is con-lers."
sidered justifiable to test the Affirming his belief that the New take a hand in the political game popular with the Rumanian people. throughout the Empire, will help effect on human cases of cancer. Deal was Christ's deal he asserted himself. Dr. Maniu was dismissed. considerably to achieve further Though buffled at many points, that Wall Street had reversed all Not long after
The Iron Guard Professor Iorga, conquests against this devastat-we are yet learning much that is the, rules of baseball and had al-Carol's former tutor, and a man of It has been fanned by the agita. ing disense. The British Cancer of value in the fight, and there ways "played the game with a cock-tremendous personality who used to tion (miscalled Fascist) of the Iron research organisation is doing all will be no letting up until the eyed umpire." that can usefully be done.batile is won. Health, however. is pre-eminent-
ly a matter which should be the
Governments. the| concern of
Nazi Airmindedness
Cash
A
lecture the Rumanian Parliament Guard. The Iron Guard was found- For the first time Father Cough like a class of schoolboys, was ap-ed some ten years ago by Zelen In threw some light on his broad-pointed Prime Minister in Dr. Codreanu, a student who shot a Pre- casting finances.
contribu-Maniu's place.
fect of Jassy dead because the Pre- tions paid by admirers had aver- Dr.
Maniu's dismissal was fect had repressed anti-Jewish riets. welfare of the people is the first Men who served in the German aged £3000 a week.
severe blow to the Rumanian two-Its members wear a swastika OD consideration. Whatever the Air Force in the war thus pre
This money-has-been used to party ayatem, which had come as their green-shirts, and are suspected- cause may be the death rate from dominate in high political and build a new church and the famous near the old English two-party of receiving financial as well cancer shows little signs of abat-administrative circles, and en- Shrine of the Little Flower. It is system se anything in the post-war moral encouragement from Ger- ing and is taking an alarming sure for the air arm that atten-from this building that Father world. It was followed by an active many. But their programme, toll of lives each and every year.tion which it fails to win in Bri- Coughlin broadcasts his talks. So far, it has buffled science, tain, where the Air Force comes
Your Daily Smile!
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and informed intervention in politics compound of religious mysticism, and administration which showed anti-Jewish sentiment, and land that Carol had not spent all his time worship, nothing like so elaborate abroad malding love. Ministers and as the Hitlerite programme; and
In all countries eminent research not before but very much after workers are endeavouring to fix the Navy and Army. In this the causation of the disease and new air age Germany has 1C- "I can't understand why so many experta were called upon to provide their slogan of "God, King and to find some curative agent for quired airmindedness, while people go bathing the moment the reports on the work of Government Country" has so far been translated combating its inroads, but
the Great Britain is still thinking in openair swimming poole are filled," departments. At Professor Iorga's only into anti-Jewish rioting and progress is disappointingly slow. terms of the conditions of twenty declares a writer. Well, it wouldn't suggestion, Carol himself presided political murder. Still some progress is being or thirty years ago. Thus in be much use going before they at Cabinet meetings.
They have strong support pot Imade.
Germany the new Air Estimates were filled.
Last year he Intervened personally only among the peasantry but, 21 Cancer is curable only if treat-show an increase of a little less
in foreign affairs by his meetings was shown by the acquittal of 68 with the Kings of Bulgaria "and] (Continued on Page 11);
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to educate the people to the British Air Estimates have risen "What is a road hog?" asked nj necessity of periodical medical by only £136,000.
Įmagistrate recently. Any other examination. Therein lies one! It is an astounding contrast motorist.
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of the chief difficulties, for can- which says much for German cer is an insidious disease which alertness, and certainly suggests Going Too Far gives little warning of its exist that in Great Britain somnolence There's no harm in making ence until it is too far advanced prevails.
According to reports mountains out of molehille, but the
to yield to successful treatment. the German Air Force in the near trouble is that so many picnickers If some means could be devised future is to attain a strength of will make them out of broken for compelling people who have 20,000 machines, of which a very bottles and waste paper. reached the dangerous nge for large proportion will be super-
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exaeroplanes of immense power. Enterprising cancer to undergo medient amination much might be done one of the most unfortunate The boolmaker who to lessen the mortality, but it is facts in the situation at home is hatter, and then made headway. not to be wondered at that peo-the failure of the State to en
airmindedness. ple who feel in normal health, courage
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though cancer may already have cause of this failure very few A woman writer advocates a tax claimed them, should hesitate to people have grasped the grave on all cats. Now what have her. lincur the expense of voluntary truth that since the development neighbours been saying?
of aviation Britain has ceased to [periodical examinations.
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be an island, and British elties Aunt Agatha Again- Perhaps cancer is associated have become exposed to the dead-
Wonders if a Watch Committee
in some way with the conditions liest form of attack-that from a appointed to fix Summer Time.
of our modern civilisation, the air-against which they have
may be associated with the food no sort of defence.
we eat, or with the occupations
we' follow, The annual report of)
the British Empire Cancer Cam-|-
|paign for '1938 Informs us that,
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GAS EXPLOSION VICTIM
A further death, attributable to
Brutal
The cave-man, who told his fiancee that he would give her a rough idea of his love..
as a result of recent experiments the West Point gas explosion on True to Type
it is possible that cancer in man May 14, occurred at the Govern. The midist who has nothing on
may result from the presence of
certain chemical substances in ment Civil Hospital last evening at his mind. materials which are used, either 70 o'clock, when Lee Cheng-are,
as food or otherwise, or that woman aged 30, succumbed to No Credit similar substances may be pro-multiple buraz,
duced in our bodies as the result
Praising health movements, a writer declares that nudiste never of physiological processes, and so against arrivals from Shanghai on
Quarantine restrictions imposed send money to tailors. That may set up cancer, Tar Boot, and account of Smallpox have been explain why lots of them are certain lubricating oils are some moved.
nudists.
FLYING DANGEROUSLY LOW.