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The recent rioting at Mentone Com- comes as a reminder that muniem is by no means unknown in the playground of the capitalists.
"In the South of France it is said to be largely fomented by Italian Reds.
NEW HOPE COMES TO A BARREN LAND ORANGE FREE STATE'S
POSSIBILITIES
tie, however, unlikely that the A
GOLD MAY BE FOUND
(By Sir Alfred Beit, M.P.)
FRICA is the land of undying) January the worst flood devasta- rumours of mineral re-tion in the history of South Africa. subversive elements will permanent-sources, even though many of the Existing irrigation schemes had been designed to cope with flood ly impair the tranquil amenities of dreams do not come true.
Farmers and travellers have for waters, to hold them and distri Mentone-including those of the Mentone Tennis and Croquet Club. many years reported the existence bute them to the farms; but they The demise of this club was report of minerals in almost all parts of could not cope with these torrents. ed some time ago. The secretary, the continent. Many have spent At least one and a half million however, states that it still lives, their Hves trying to prove their pounds' worth of irrigation worke
workable. A few have were estimated to be destroyed. and is, in fact, on the verge of its claims thirty-fourth birthday..
HUMAN CANNON-BALLS
pro-
prospered; many have abandoned Badly-Needed Finances their claims or died with un- No country ever stood in more realised hopes. .
need of a lucky find of gold than But very fich yields have been the Orange Free State does to- The unfortunate Goston Richard discovered, especially of gold, dia-day. But the benefits of such a who was killed recently, was not the monds, and, most recently, of find, if it should be proved, would · first "human cannon-ball."
copper in
Northern Rhodesia. not by any means be confined to veteran-London When I read recently that the the Free State. They would cer Veteran-very playgoers will remember Zazel. who South African Government expert tainly react upon the whole of the was shot out of a cannon nightly at was examining the probabilities of Union of South Africa, and hence new goldfield in the Orange Free upon the Empire. When gold was. the old Aquarium, Westminster.
This performer was referred to State, I was neither sceptical nor found in the Transvaal the South African Republic, as it then was. for years as Miss Zazel.. 'Actually over-optimistic.
In the old days Free State changed from an impoverished "she" was a man dressed as a girl.
farmers, even when they were agricultural region, without mar- "Her" successor, Zaed, really was "trekking" away from the too-pro-kets for its few products. The agiri, She elaborated the
pergressive British, were able to gold fields gave it railways, towns, formance by being shot forth in smelt their own lead for bullets; a revenue from taxes, and an flames.
and they reported richer minerals. educational and land settlement These acts were run by an Italian But there is a very great dif-system, largely carried out by the named Farini, In i burlesque at ference between the mere exis-genius of Lord Milner. It led. to the unification of the old Gaiety Edward Terry, used tence of minerals and discovery in directly to ask Nellie Farren, who was in inayable quantities. While the South Africa, for the railway lines developed the from the ports to the Rand passed The China Mail the sort that men die for with- the cannon: "Are you in? Are you Transvaal has
far in? Are you nearly far in? richest gold field in the whole through all the scattered out counting the cost.
Are you world, its Dutch neighbour has|vinces and created a Dominion. Are you Nellie Far-in? In the Nineteenth Century
been left at the mercies of a most The Orange Free States, al- Farini?"
inclement and treacherous com-though she was next door to the Hong Kong, Saturday, July 28, 1934.Vienna had become the symbol and shrine of the Germanic ideal
bination of climate and land. Of Transvaal, and had the same soll, in literature and art and culture.
the 32,000,000 acres of land in the benefited least by these improve- The much cruder and more mi-
has Orange Free State, less than three ments. To this day her white litary ideals of Brandenburg and Prussia were looked upon with a bought an old railway carriage million are recorded in the census population, spread over her area of 50,000 square miles, is less than installed it as a summer-as under cultivation. The fierceness of the party kindly patronage which gave of- and
Some ten million sheep are that of a medium-sized English conflicts in Vienna, and the fence to men who were inclined house in his garden. It must be immediate reaction of Europe in to assert the paramount claims thrilling to stroll leisurely down scattered over this State, but for provincial town such as New- the keenest possible interest in of blood and iron. In the rivalry the path with the certainty of get-pasture they must regularly trek castle-on-Tyne. Her Native popula these quick-firing onsets must be between Prussia and Austria the ting a corner seat. very difficult to understand for issue was decided at Sadowe, and anyone who has not a bowing for half a century Europe was acquaintance with the history of kept in unrest by the antagon-spell is because proof-readers Europe and European civilisa-istic impulses of the ambition to can't correct hand lettering.
It is often too easy to change a politics would change. It is per-. tion. Never did so shallow are-unite all the German-speaking,
fertile country into a desert. Man haps the worst misfortune of that philosophy As the Marxian peoples and the unwillingness to materialism, which explains all submit to the militarist capital- "But I've signed your book before," does not always make two blades country that its politics have been grew dominated by the semiarid regions past events by geographical and ism of the Bismarck regime, said the fairly distinguished film actor. of grass grow where one
"Yes, sir, but when I get ten of before. Too often, through ignor- of the Orange Free State and statistical calculations of the which only became more stark
The great Dutch means of existence. get accepted and drastic under Bismarck's yours I can swap them for one of ance or carelessness, he destroys the Transvaal.
the one blade. This has happened vote is centred there. Political by so large a proportion of man-anccessors. Prussia appeared to George Arliss."
in the Orange Free State. feeling is influenced by the severe kind. Every incident of cur have won the fight through the The girl who marries a man rent history throws a lurid light device of the Triple Alliance, On with money to burn usually makes
It seems that on the absurdity of the theory looking back that men exist to make money Europe was premature in taking
Vienna.
Your Daily Smile!
A retired business man
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to more fertile neighbouring tion is under half a million souls, lands. When the first Boers sight-so that she has no great labour ed the Free State land they saw supply. Our hope must be that that it was green.
with the coming of solvency the whole spirit of South Africian
Desert-Making Process
The ground was made to carry and, on the whole, losing struggle far too many sheep; when the in-with the land. This bitterness en- evitable drought came, as it re-ters into politics. The farmers
and will be satisfied with any that for granted, what had real- A survey shows that the Ameri-gularly did, these creatures would are jealous of the gold miners and political arrangements that makelly happened was that Germany can market for automobiles is no trample the ground under foot in on the least provocation will con- a desperate search for whatever sider imposing new taxes on them. money-making easy. There are had lost the right of final deck where near exhausted, as there
Cause Of Coalition certain places that appeal to the sion by binding herself to sup are still several million homes green stuff was left.
The surface of the land went The real reason for the Smuts- imagination and. to deep histori-port Vienna even in a policy which have not been mortgaged to hard, baked by the terrible aun, Hertzog coalition was Jcal instincts in a way that can- of adventure, and that if the
and could not easily throw forth poverishment of the Free State not be explained by saying that responsibility for
green shoots again. The dry land and the neighbouring part of the crack; the dreaded Transvaal. The Free State had "Is your young man popular with began to
"elita" appeared. These are failed to meet her obligations. She your people?"
choice be-buy ears.
Show Him Out
a city is a collection of buildings tween war and peace was on any that give accommodation to man's shoulders, that man was business men. Rome of course Count Berchtold.
the im-
is such a city. Naples is both The result of losing the big I should say no. 'Dad comes down-deep cracks in the surface of the had virtually lost her right to be bigger and richer than Rome; atake was that Vienna was left stairs every night at 12 o'clock to see soil, but what happens at Naples is as an Imperial City without-an him off.”
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and thelr meaning is an independent member of the that when rain does come it will Union. Her farmers were in the merely a local affair. Vienna is Empire, surrounded by former European tourists are now visit-mostly be lost through being con- same plight, for in the compara- ducted along these cracks instead tive agricultural boom from 1919
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PRESENTATION TO POLICE OFFICER. Inspector James Leaves ·
For Home To-day.
as.an outpost against the bar-were resolved that she shoulding the United States. Maybe
gaged their land up to the hilt. barians of the North, it became not regain her old authority, but they want to see the ruins of 1929.of being allowed to soak into the to 1928 they had cheerfully mort-
To complete this process of de- the outpost of the Teutonic and above all "should not revive her
the new role
of Facts You Did Not Know Bert-making, the desperate sheep, Christian West against the old life in
after each drought, would at once Asiatic invaders, with the Turks Southern outpost of the blood as its spearpoint. It was before and iron doctorine. Vienna her- A radio station will be erected in est up any vegetation that did the walls of Vienna that the self, created and nourished on New York state from which teachers
land was never sheltered from the gage of battle decided that athe life of an Imperial centre, has on the ground will instruct aviation contrive to show itself, so that the
acorching sun. boundary should be put to the felt not only unable but disin-students while they are in flight. Mahomedan conquest of Europe: clined to accept the more hum- Italian imports of fuel oils have vir-
For many years now there has and it was from that centre that ble role of a provincial town. If tually doubled in the last four years, been but little green in the Orange Western life and thought grad-she has needed to be kept alive nearly all of the increase coming from Free State. It has become per- manently a land of bare, brown ually spread amongst the strange by loans from the League of Na- Rumania and Soviet Russia.
The presentation of a cheque as and fierce peoples who had set-tions it has largely been because
With a new office device any stock surfaces. When rains have come! tled to the East.
she herself has lost the will to
market quotations desired can be re-they have not brought grass, but a gift from the members of the Then came the long centuries live.
ceived in a private office by putting floods: Nature's balance of vegeta- Police Recreation Club and his of twilight; when the ideal of The ghosts of the past have dial signals through to an exchange. tion has been upset. But last De- friends was made to Inspector F. T. human co-operation was repre-refused to be laid. Moderation sented by the double system of and compromise can only be pro- Argentina has approximately 1860 cember and January, the evil James, of the Hong Kong Police one Church and one civil power, posed where the State itself is places for exhibition of motion pic-genius of the country arose and Force, who is leaving for Home to In accepting the gift, Inspector and the two forces, engaged in a something dearly prized and tures, about 75 per cent. of the sound there was a terrible succession of day on retirement,
apparatus coming from the United drought and flood. In December desperate struggle with lawless worth a sacrifice; they are mere States,
the land was not even brown; it James said that there were a num~ and ignorant nobles, were only ly irrelevant when the dispute is
was a sickly gray. All rivers were ber of former local police officers. In too often in conflict with each what sort of a State are we to other.
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Vienna naturally was have?" There is a large section the champion of a minority par-dried up, and even the Orange retirament in England in addition the spiritual home of the Holy of Socialists who are opposed to ty that clung to the old faith River itself had scarcely a patch to those on leave, and a reunion din-
The few smallner could be held in England.
The health and prosperity of Roman Empire; and the old ideal the old religion, and to any mere and took its inspiration from of mud in it. survived in the Emperor's title ly nationalist society. The old Rome even in methods of Indus- towns of the province had con-
tinual dust storms which turned Inspector and Mrs. James was until it was abolished by Napo- International tradition survives trial organisation.
There is little room for com- day into night more effectively drunk with musical honoura
Officers present included the Hon. leon, who vainly hoped that the in them as an economic ideal halo might come to rest on his which involves the abolition of promise between such divergent tan the worst London foge
The South African Parliament, Mr. E, D. C. Wolfe, I.G.P., Mr. T own head. The Emperor low-classes and all traces of a graded ideals; some party may gain as- ever retained the right of a ve social organism. Another large cendancy, but will only keep it ever hopeful, repeated history by H. King, D.LG.P, Mr. T. Murphy, to at the conclaves held for the section retains the old ideal of by having the stronger military voting immense sums of money A.D.C.L., Chief Inspector Marks, for irrigation works. How often Chief Inspector. Booker, Divisional election of a Pope; and the veto Germanic unity regardless of force.
was actually exercised within the question whether it be in In that small area the most before had hopes been pinned to Inspectors Brennan, Shaftain, Car- the lifetime of men not so very mediately practical or not, and vital forces of the Europe of our these! But Nature took the law penter, McClellan, Inspectors old to-day Here then was the re-union at the present moment day have clashed for their first into her own hands and leaped Murphy, A. V. Baker, Dredge, home of high ideals and an old would mean mere submission to trial of strength, but the end of from the curse of drought to its Armitt, Mist, Whant, Stewart society, of principles of lost blood and iron doctrine and the the struggle will not be seen in opposite, the curse of flood. The Logan, Fazil Mohammed, Ng
Orange Free State experienced in Helang and many Sergeants. Causes and forsaken bellefs, of drill sergeant. Dr. Dollfuss was our days.