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Hats Across The Sea
Members of the Top Hat Club in the House of Commons are `going] to visit the Top Hat Club in the French Chamber of Deputies.
They are as yet uncertain whe- ther there is a Top Hat Club in the French Chamber of Deputies, but they feel that it will do no harm to find out..
made to arrange a return visit.
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Criticising The Premier
SPAIN'S ROUTINE OF REVOLUTION
INFLUENCE OF HUNGRY POPULACE
R
TREND TO COMMUNISM
(By JAMES HOWARD)
EVOLUTIONS are not usually and profundity of the movement
long drawn out affairs in Spain, should not be under-estimated. for as housewives are in the habit of The freedom of the Press since the
If one exists, attempts will be buying food for the day and of not Republic was installed has enabled laying in stores, à hungry populace a flood of extremist propaganda to soon begins to make its influence be carried on openly which former felt.
ly could only proceed with difficulty Spanish bread becomes rock-like and in clandestine fashion. Mr. Lachlan MacNeill Weir, who and more or less uncatable within
Village Life Monotonous was Parliamentary private secre-a few hours of being baked, and the
Even in quiet lonely medieval tary to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald bread problem therefore jumpe villages perched high on some hill...
now com-into the foreground soòn after
from 1924 to 1931, has
[top can be found anarchist
pleted his 150,000 word book on strike or revolutionary movement Communist cells. In these villages his former chief.
upsets the normal deliveries from life is not only hard, but also Part of it was written when Mr. the bakehouses.
monotonous. The worker who Weir was in bed for four months
Spain has lived in constant unicomes back from a spell in some with a broken leg.
rest since 1929, when the Primo de city, or possibly in France, which. The book, it is said, will cause Rivera dictatorship began to totter, absorbed large quantities of controversy. It is frank and criti and the housewife has, therefore, Spanish labourers in her prosperous cal, and will contain some "inside had some experience in stocking days, brings back cheap anarchist stories" of the circumstances lead-for revolutions--but as the bill of literature. Under his guidance the ing up to the formation of the fare is generally made up of fresh workers weet. nightly to talk National Government.
meat (or fish) and vegetables-enthusiastically of "La Revolucion and as tinned food is not widely Social." The village carpenter or used, the problem is not a light one. locksmith, who goes about the Foods such as ham and beans are countryside on mule-back in his The author, who has known his bought up when ramours of im work, takes news, from one group subject for 20 years, has a pungent minent trouble begin to run to another. style. He is a Scot, and spends
round.
Mr. Weir contends that Mr. MacDonald WER never what Socialist calls a Socialist.
When trouble breaks out the
his holidays on the island of Islay. With such stocks of food laid. In tactics are always the same. First
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Ciril Guard is attacked and
any
On the formation of the National Government he remained with the as the family exchequer allows, the the
next move is to turn those rooms disarmed if possible. Then the Socialist Party and lost his seat.
into Hving and bed-rooms which municipal archives, which contain have no windows on the street. details of past crimes and of un- built in the beginning of the
Turkey's Five-Year Plan thirteenth century, the last in
This is a very necessary move, be-paid taxes, are burned, possibly the the sixteenth. By that time it Mustapha Kemal's Five-Year cause rioters often attack the police church is set afre-and then the are at a complete | Hong Kong, Saturday, June 23, 1934. had begun to die out nobody Plan to convert Turkey Into an in- from the roofs, or from the upper revolutionaries
knows why. Within one genera-dustrially self-sufficient country is storeys of houses, and the police, loss; they have not the vaguest iden tion it had become extinct in beginning to take shape.
who are rarely good shots, reply by what to do with their triumph.
An apparently innocent telegram The Tai-Kam Lepers. most of the European countries,
every window Turkey has imported since the firing blindly at
This done, the saying, "Sell the goods at aud only survived in any num-war
range. of within over £10,000,000 worth
family settles down with a certain price," was the signal for the out- The expedition organised by bers in Norway and Sweden, cotton cloth. the Reverend John Lake to en-where there are still a few.
This is now to be stopped. With amount of semi-oriental philosophy break of the December rising which organised by the Iberian able some of us Hong Kong: The usual explanation that it the slogan "Assure the Independ- to await the end of the storm. It was
to the head of the Anarchist Federation, a group of people to visit the Leper Hospi-is caused by general insanitary ence of our Shirts," the dictator has never occurs
and write an desperate characters, many of tal which he has founded on Tai- conditions is much too general, ordered the establishment of four family to sit down
Indignant letter to his Kam Island, and to show our in- for that might be said of several large cotton factories.
favourite whom are professional bank rob- other diseases that have nof: terest in the people there, is ex-
The machinery for the factories newspaper condemning revolution bera and gunmen. But for succesS cellent both for the visitors and vicided to healthy conditions; is being bought in Russia with the in rotund terms. Spaniards usually more than desperate characters are the patients. Leprosy is a long and there is no indication that proceeds of the 3,000,000dol. Soviet fall automatically into two classes, needed; popular" support in
which can best be described street is necessary, and this tho and slow business, requiring even the best conditions confer gold Toan.
Half-tones, such Socialists and Communists posscas careful and continuous nursing, complete immunity. It is tanta- Mustapha Kemal has decreed Right and Left. and one of its difficulties is that ising to know so much about so that imports of all manufactured as Liberaliam, find little
to à considerable extent, favour. the monotony of confinement to many bacilli without knowing goods must be reduced by 30 per And even though the revolutionary Leaning To Communism one place with so slight a chance the little more that would enable cent, within five years. of carly escape creates a feeling us to deal with them.
Leprosy is not in itself a fatal disease, though there is a fairly
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movement is a Left one, the Rights understand and do not consider such recourse to violence Illogical. Democratic Pride
of despondency and discontent which is really a symptom. though often mistaken for the high mortality among cases. It vice of ingratitude. Any event is a slow moving affection which. such as a visit of strangers, and produces anaesthesia as it goes tide he noticed a fishing boat high strangers with pride the democra
The rustle old countryman was on. his frat vixit to the seaside. At low
Many Spaniards show off
to
the
any little show of sympathy, goes/80 that patients whom one would and dry on the beach, and he asked tie spirit with which the Duke-aftrade unions which included the
a long way to make the inmates expect to be suffering agonies an old sale standing near it how they This or the Count-of-That happy.
to
mixes
This is not the first occasion on which Spain has leaned out to Com- munism. In the feverish post-war days of 1920, Spain was swept by all sorts of Communistic fads and fancles. Journalists broke up their funions and insisted on forming new
printers and other manual workers
newspapers, in order to emphas ise the "abolition of classes.
But these fancies, only matter when they are backed by serious are few Europe where the spirit of class discontent, such as is the case at the moment. Recently in a little hatred flares so bitterly when social trouble breaks out. Many a farmer asked the landlord of the local village on the outskirts of Madrid "Please don't tell the men!" or miller who lives out in the
tavern if there were many Com-
"we've no Com-
smoking a cigarette and talking water comes up to the boat."
"We don't," he was told, "The that Spaniards of all classes have
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from surgical treatment will sit got the boat down to the water. with the peasants, and it is truc The modern intensive
and though the operation. It is like specialised study of diseases due a long low fever which pulls said with a guffaw, "Di may be from class barriers. But on the other "Aw, now, mister,” the old chapa natural dignity which submerges a specific bacillus seems to down the general vitality and the country, but Ol'm not sne green hand there
countries in start more problems than it solves, and the study of leprosy ment to do fatal work. A pa-
opens the way to any other all- ter swaller that!" is no exception. The collection tient may die of such a simple of really accurate statistics only thing as a common cold; but bars out any of the easy guesses given perfect nursing and a begged the private, as he dragged country would not dare to stay munist agitators in the district. Leprosy was said to be due to a good constitution to begin with. the sergeant-major from certain there without the constant guard of "No," he said, fish diet, because there seemed it will burn itself out' in a period death. to be long stretches of coastline of not more than twenty years.
a pair of straight-shooting Civil
munist around here, but we've where it was found; but further But what a twenty years!
Guards. And the misery · and
Bomething worse and that is investigation showed that it
suffering of the peasant classes in There is no doubt that treat- A man took his wife to the doctor, unbelievable!
hunger." He went on to explain broke out amongst inland people ments, of which the most reliable He was a simple follow, and had lived
that there was much unemployment The first time I had the unples owing to the fact that the owner of [who had never tasted fish. Was at present is the Indian "Chaul in the country all his life, it then hereditary? This would moogra Oil, will do much to stay the wife's mouth.
The doctor placed a thermometer in leant experience of seeing whole
families emaciated by semi-starva Portuguese labourers who worked a local quarry had brought in 150 not account for its persistence the progress of the hostile dis- through all the period of which ease, and in some cases produce who had watched spellbound, being
Just before he removed it, the man, tion was in Spain, and the pitiful for it. 6d. per day, but signed re- we have any history; for one of what appears to be a complete unused to such silence on the part of sight of men, women, and children ceipts to the tune of 38. 6d. which its secondary consequences is a cure:--though the most cautious his better half, blurted out: "Doctor, reduced literally to skin and bone was the legally established wages marked tendency to sterility, and experts say that fifteen years how much will you take for that thing is not a pleasant sight. Even to for the district. It should therefore have died out, must elapse before there is com- you put in her mouth?"
day wages are unbelievably low.
Hie story mayor not be true, Moreover where a patient does plete certainty.
The little servant girl in our house but one, hears have a child, the child. is more
THAT LOTTERIES BILL is sixteen or seventeen years old tales in Spain at present to doubt. too many similar These unfortunate people are often than not quite free from called upon, for the good of the place to live in.
Making the world a no-better and the eldest of eight children the misery and unrest which exists. the taint, and apparently always community in general, to segre-
Her father as a shunter in the rail- 80 if not left long with its gate themselves from all the
road yards earns 5.50 pesetas por mother. Then is it infectious or amusements and pleasures that
· ́HER LEGAL INSPIRATION day, which means to say just over contagious? Of course It must most of us feel make life worth Dean Inge, who it familiarly known
The following story was once told by seventeen shillings weekly on
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On one occasion tirey allowed her There are hundreds of thousands
be to some extent, but nothing is living; and the least we can do is as the "Gloomy Dean. It concerns the which he has had to support a more common than to find that a to let them feel that they are not cook to the family of a certain vicar. family of ten. family containing one affected forgotten. member is otherwise normalin one of the largest Leper Hospi- tals in Africa only one ease of husband and wife both having
the disease has occurred in
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CHINESE FLOCK
TO DAIREN.
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A total of 81,148 coolles, 27,905
"MISS JAPAN” TO' VISIT ENGLAND.
to choose the hymn for the evening of homes in Spain where meat Invitation From Mayor- family prayera, and when the ceremony never appears more than once or was over the vicar's wife said to her twice a week. What is the use of
"That was [ciuose, cook.”
■ very nice hymn
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Of Hastings.
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telling these people that Socialiam, "Yes, mum," was the reply; "it's the for Communism mean rain for the Miss Kelke Goto, of Fukuoka, Ja number of my policeman." nation and misery for its people? Pan, who won a "Miss Japan" com-
They just laugh bitterly.
petition staged by the Tokyo Ascht One of the first things the obser-last year, has received an invita-
tion from the Mayor of Hastings to ri vant visitor to Spain will notice is
vialt England late this summer to that he scarcely ever labourer reading a newspaper, of
take part in a beauty competition. Conservative views. An English
there
BEAUTY SURGEON'S HINT
·A stlich in time saves nine china1
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twenty years. Yet it does seem Big Influx During May to spread by sharing, meals and dishes with those who are affected.
One of the great mysteries is males and 3,243 females, arrived in its spread to Europe in the Mid- Dairon from China | during the dle Ages. It came from the month of May, while 12,536 coolies, East, where it was endemic; but 11116 males and 11,420 females,
He married her because it certainly has no special con: left that port during the same nection with any, race. It spread month, according to the local thenght she'd keep him, and all through every country, always Marine Buteau of the Kwantung did was keep him guessing. arouusing a peculiar dread. Government.
LUMP OF LIFE
invitation Was made
he workman thinks nothing of reading The she the "Daily Express," but the through the Japanese Embassy in working man in Spain pores over London, which passed, it on to the -- “El · Socialista," or the Communisti Asaki correspondent. Interviewed" |"Frente Rojo," or the "Anarchist by pressmen, Miss Goto said sho' regular-"Solidaridad Obrera.". Such papers had heard nothing of the invitation
too, have sown a harvest which is being except from the representative of.
Ireaped how, In Spain, and the depth the Asahi,
Every town had its loper-house Thus 18,612, more arrived than Disproving the Proverb for segregation. There were departed. Compared with totals A man of seventy, playa over two thousand such institu- for May 1088, arrivale increased byly at; a tennis club, Age, tions. In England the first was 7,989 and departures by 1815. Imust be served.