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ITALY'S OUTLOOK UPON GERMANY
REASSERTED FRIENDSHIP ALREADY DEAD
END OF A POLICY
(By Beatrice Baskerville.)
London. [port révision now that Germany Is TN the early evening of June 15 no longer friendly? The figures were put on to the last, when floodlights were blot- The Anschluss Menace walls at the approach of the en- ting out the glory of a Venetian There are the Habsburgs, for sunset, Bixty thousand people whom Italy has scant sympathy. Thinking the city to be well de-cheered two Dictators from the The Archduke Otto has declared fended, they retreated hurriedly. Piazza San Marco and from all the that if he comes back to the throne
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windows, roofs, terraces and light of his fathers he will abolish DOUBLE DUTCH NO LONGER.
standards within earshot.
Fascism and get the Tyrol back One modern Cæsar bowed and from Italy. Perhaps he did not Dr. E. Kruisinga, one of the leaders in the recent victory for smiled from an open window. The mean it; but supposing he did? spelling reform in Holland, is on a other harangued the surging, bawl. Supposing he agreed to the status visit to Oxford.
jing, perspiring crowd from one of que, and when settled on his throne He is the Rector of a language these roomy Itallan balconies which demanded kat provinces,
But even a Habsburg monarchy school at The Hague and is a great must have been built for the admirer of our educational methods. purpose.
Eleven years
ago he wrote a Mussolini, whose voice is censed to be a bugbear to Jugo- PAIR book on Dutch grammar for Eng-strong as any man's, grew hoarse slaviu, another of Austria's neigh lishmen. He based it on the sys-from shouting: his vigorous gebours.. Rightly or wrongly, Jugo- tem pow. Introduced. He waa tures had put the amplifiers out of slavia is said to have come to an abused and told that he was debas-business. In sharp sentences. jing Dutch.
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would be less dangerous than the
Anschluss, which Italy belleves has
punctuated by frenzied applause, he agreement with Herr Hitler about the Anschluss. the new President Undeterred, he said: "The forms said:
of the Reich pledging himself to of speech and writing. I have set "Hitler and I have not met to give Jugoslavis that section of the out will be adopted."
remake the map of Europe Carinthian Alps which dominate .... and add to the uncertainties the Italian frontier.
He was looked on as a crank. Now his critics have been confound- ed since what he foreshadowed has come to pass in vital alterations of Dutch spelling.
A visitor to the Kruisinga house- hold in the. Koenningracht at The Hague finds a library stacked with English books. English is spoken even by the servants.
of an anguished world. We have. If so, the Anschluss would mean met to try to dispel the clouds a twofold danger. The road to a which darken the horizon of minimum of political unity, of the European life and to avoid kind Italy wants, is strewn with terrible alternativet (Frantic op1jdifficulties.
plause). We have met to find a Then there is Czechoslovakia, minimum of political anity, with Dr. Benes and his plan for
federation without which the destiny of the political
of all Europe le doomed to decline." Danubian States anathema to (Wild enthusiasm).
Signor Mussolini, who thinks it
Little did he, or Hitler, or thejwould be as dangerous to Italy as chorus think that this was to be would Austria's union with Ger-
need to cxplain the meaning of such words as "digger," "bon ser," and "wowser" to an Áus- trulian. The word "Anzac" is
Your Daily Smile! another illustration of how words are formed, just
After all, it would seem that the "News" was formed by the ini- anal pole-sitting record will be hung the last manifestation of a beau-many. It would give Danubia the tial letters of North, East, West, up by Byrd.
tiful friendship and the end of ajimportance of a Great Power, pro- In London, where and South.
policy.
mote Slav hegemony in the Adria- Englishmen used to boast so
That the friendship is dead theretic, and put an end in his lifetime proudly of "the well of English "Yes, I once got a man to insure
the next can be no doubt. The Press of to territorial revision of the Peace Trestles, And behind Czecho- A lot of words have run into undefieled," one wonders how the his life for £10,000, and
unleashed since the dictionary since Mark Twain London purists regarded Mr.week he fell out of a window and broke both countries
this neck." published his little book on "En-Winston Churchill's recent con-
Dollfuse's assassination, has said slovakia stands France.
This thought brings Italians to their last alternative-an entente
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"Not a bit. I married his widow," partial restoration of that Triple with her "Latin Sister." The other
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glish as She is Spoke," and if fession that the Grenadier sorry you persuaded him to insure so in terms of stark abuse. The the great American humorist Guards had taught him "all he
Alliance which linked Italy and were living to-day he would be knew about the English lang able to write a new edition which uage." He told how in the
Germany from 1982 until 1914 is day an elderly Italian diplomat said would be vastly entertaining Omdurman campaign, he came from a butcher's shop.
A Scotsman's dog stole a bit of meat wrecked. Friends and foes are
"When I was young we worked Consider, for instance, what down the Nile in a boat for three
"Is that your dog?" asked the but-asking: "What next, O Duce?"
to raise Italy to the rank of a Teuton thoroughness has proved Hollywood has done for the days with a whole company of cher
Great Power, and to do so we language. Some time ago Uni-Guards on board. "That," said " was," said the Scotsman, "but too much for Machiavelli's fellow-
were obliged to make an alliance countrymen. Nonplussed, they are versal Pictures, Ltd., published a he, "Is where I got my vocabul-he's keeping himself now."
with one of the great Continental glossary to "Who's Who in Film ary; and I have never lost the
reviewing recent events and trying land." and one cannot but adimit firm grip I got then upon the
to peer into the future. When Powers. For years we hesitated Two men, meeting in a club, began there is unrest in Austria all
between France and Germany, |that it was a very necessary English language." Possibly to exchange confidences.
Then France annexed Tunis, thing in view of such puzzling many others had their vocabul
which we needed-for our own passages as the following: "Tmary aimilarly enriched
colonial expansion. Só in 1882 the weisenheimer who can stand their war experiences.
we became 'junior partner with Germany and Austria in the Triple Alliance. To-day France has another opportunity of being our friend But she must be They know the Duce has to keep
prepared to pay the cost." Germany away from the Brenner
What Italy Wants Pass; the shadow of Herr Hitler's: crooked cross must never fall upon Younger men are grumbling that its peaks. If it did, the horizon of Hitler has thrown Italy into the Fascism would indeed be darkened, arms of France, whom they say its destinies doomed to decline. For they hate. But many Italians are it would mean a powerful neigh-thinking on the same lines as the
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
you know," said the young Italians, high and low, ask: "Does during man, "my wife is absent on a pleasure this mean war?" And the peasants cruise, and she writes me from every know well enough what it costs to port she touches."
little bit of love-making in an
To-morrow is the Parsee New American "talkie;" and for the Year 1304 Yezdezerdi. benefit of the uninitiated it may
Two deaths from typhold and
"You're lucky," replied the elder defend the Alpine frontlers. There man "My wife is also absent on a fore Austria's business is theirs. pleasure cruise, but she touches me. from every port she calls at."
Facts You Did Not Know
A new detachable motor for bicycles drives their front wheels.
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be explained that a smart young
Six cities contain just about one half man is inviting a fair charmer paratyphoid fever were reported in of the population of Australia. out to an expensive meal, as con- the Colony during the 24 hours] trasted with a merc automat, or ending Tuesday. dime-in-the-slot, affair. As he is
no "punk-hoofer." he hopes she
Danger To Fasciem
The propeller of a new tug heat is bour Instead of a weak one; and elderly diplomatist. mounted in a tanne! inside the hull of irredentiam among the German.!
Bay.
"But Italy will demand conces the craft, operating against two con- speaking peoples who were handed sions," they are careful to Wong Sam-hong, A Shanghai verging streams of water drawn In at over to Italy by those Peace She will hold out for something will enjoy a dance with him. The man, who was charged with arm-an angle from each side, the water Treatles which the Duce has pro- infinitely more valuable than, the glossary will provide the mean-ed robbery at No. 79, Chun Yeung being discharged in a single stream.
mised to revise at the expense of fertile trecta of the Tibest! region
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ing of other words for those who Street, North Point, on July 7, Venezuela has required all iurports the Little Entente (Jugoslavia, in the settlement of her frontiers are sufficiently interested to was this morning committed for of livestock to be accompanied by cer-Roumania, and Czechoslovakia). between Libya and France's Central follow the mafter up. How many trial at the next, Criminal Ses-tificates issued by the official titular Italy is herself sufficiently well African possessions.
tries showing that the animals have been vaccinated within six months.
of the words here given find asians by Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at veterinarians of the exporting reversed in irredentism, which she She demands access to Lake place in the great. Oxford Dic- the Central Magistracy.
practised in the old Habsburg Em Tchad for the purposes. of, penetra- tionary, which was recently
pire, to gauge its dangers.
tion into the markets of tropical How can they keep the Nazis Africa which France holds alone. from the Brenner? The Three She demands, besides, the right of Fower Pact, signed between Italy,... (Continued on Page 11) Austria and Hungary last March,
brought up to date by a new Seven deaths from typhold, three supplement, we need not bother of which were imported, one death. inquiring, though It is to be not-frem, meningitis and 56 fatal cases ed that the dictionary is so mo of tuberculosis were included in the dern that "body-line" has a place medical health report for the weeks in it. Nothing is more remark-ending September 1. able than the way in which new
is a poor weapon against Nazism. BIG OPIUM HAULS
And it has already proved unsatis- factory to: one of the high con- tracting parties.
LAST NIGHT
POLICE CONSTABLE CHARGED
Watchman Robbed Of $25 In Cash words are formed, and the fact Gup Practice for the week end- that the completed Oxford Dic-ing September 15 will be carried
Tsang Shiu-chu, police constable
Fines Totalling $6,160 Ushered in with editorial trum tionary contains no fewer than out from Devils Peak Fort on Tues-D.144, was charged before Mr.
For Three Men 414,826 words and something ap- day when 6 rounds will be fired be- Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central pets and hautboys, it soon roused proaching 2,000,000 quotations tween 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. in the Magistracy this morning, with the the Magyars' jealousy. Too much, and examples of their use and direction of Tathong Channel.
theft of $25 from Mak Sik, a pri- they said. was done for Austria; Charged with being in possession meaning shows how tremendous
of 110 taels of raw opium on board vate watchman of the Hong Kong to little for themselves. the expansion has been since The Dollar Steamship Line, s.s. and Shanghai Bank.
There are alternatives. For in the s.8. Kwong Sai, Chan Choi, un- Dr. Johnson and Webster,
"President Coolidge" "will Bail, from Mr. C. E R. Sanderson, of Rass stance, the neutralisation of Aus- employed, was fined $2,800, in de the dictionary of a hundred, or Hong Kong at noen on Saturday, and Company, appearing for the tris. But that plan was made in fauit 12 months hard labour, by even fifty, years hence. Science, for Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, defendant, asked for an adjourn France, and is therefore, suspect. Mr. W. Thomson at the Central in particular, with its great Honolulu, San Francisco and Los ment. The case was remanded It would weaken Italy's influence Magistracy this morning.
r¬will arrive until to-morrow morning, when a across the Brenner. As the great Ho Lin, also unemployed, was strides, is for ever adding new Angeles. The steamer
est of the Succession States she fined $1,900, In default nine months" words to our vocabulary. The in Shanghai on Monday morning." day for hearing will be fixed.
Sergeant Fowlie ie In charge of claims the right to watch over the hard labour, for having in his invention of the aeroplane and
destinies of the small republica possession 98 taels of raw. oplum on the wonder of the wireless have For returning from banishment the caso
There remains yet another board the same verpl given us many new words. The without authorised permite, Shul advances in medicine and Bur-Sang, a 82-year-old unemployed, Dr. Peregrino da Costa, who has scheme; the reunion of Austria and A fine of $1,960, in default nine gery are responsible for many and Chan Ng Kam, a 26-year-old been in charge of the Macao Hungary, with the Restoration of months hard labour, was imposed more. Many others have their unemployed, were sentenced to Health Department for some time the Habsburg Monarchy. But there, on Lau Ki, for being in possession origin in slang terms which nine months' and twelve months' part, will be leaving the Portuguese tuo, are pitfalle, Hungary clamor 24 taels of raw oplum at the
re-ors for Treaty Revision, a a cause Tung On. Wharf, gradually become Incorporated hard labour, respectively, by Mr. colony at an early
Kowloon-ported that Dr. Costs in the
It is appalling to contemplate
language by reason of E L their common usage. There is no Magistra
ing from the Health
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rvices.
Signor Mussolini has espoused in Revenue Officer LAW. Grimmitt the near past But who will sup- pro