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BRITISH BUSINESS IN PORTUGAL
VAST POSSIBILITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT.
BRITAIN NEEDS A MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA
(By Sir Malcolm Campbell)
At the moment few operatic im presarios can enjoy the satisfac tion which is felt by Mr. Geoffrey! Tove the managing director 102] the Royal Opera.
For the first time for
HAVE just returned from 351,845,338, or nearly twice the In years than Covent Garden likes to
short visit to Lisbon. It is amount of the total fall remember, the opera Reason has not ended with a deficit
possible, even in a few days/1934 we purchased from Portu- Since the war the impossibility for the intelligent observer to gal commodities to a value ex- a mere insight ceeding that shown in the pre- of making both ends meet at an gain more than international season at the Royal into matters that are of interest)vious year by $367.809.
More Enterprise Needed Opera has been an axiom of not only to the country itself but
Covent Garden finance.e
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FAMOUS STANDARD SOLD
to others who may be affected by Naturally, we cannot complain
In disproving this, one can inlevents past, present, or to come. if the methods of our most ser- I was able to see and to talk tous trade rivals are more enter agine Mr. Toye causing the same kind of sensation among the with many prominent members of prising, more efficient than our operatic experts as Prof. Ein the British community resident own stein's theory of relativity did in Portugal and with a number again, there is an intensive of leading Portuguese of all movement on foot for the inter among the physicists.
shades of political opinion, in-change of large classes of stu- between Portugal and cluding Dr. de Manteiro, the dents
foreign countries. We are doing. Minister for Foreign Affairs. in France in 1915 remember the The first impression I gathered nothing in the matter, and, un- was of the amazing progress in less we awake to the facts of the personal bodyguard
Sir all directions since the advent of situation, it will be only a short Lancers which attended Douglas Haig, then commander of the Government headed by Mar-while before our influence disap
shal Camorna, which assumed pears entirely. the First Army, wherever he
power in 1925. - went
Road To Rui When Marshal then General invitations
Thousands of men who fought,
of seven!
The bodyguard was superbly mounted Boots gleamed
PHR..
were
In connection with the recent celebrations in Lisbon there was organised an air rally for which
to- extended
uniforms were spick and span, Camorna became President, Pevery country in Europe.
the As far back as March our own
The China Mail leagues who outroted him were at Sotheby's
Your Daily Smile!
not disinterested. The Exp tian clamour for self-govern-!
Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 2, 1935 ment, has been in inverse ratio
Egypt And Lake Tsana
Heard in America
despite the Flanders mad.
tugal was; far advanced on
manufacturers were advised by The standard carried by the road to ruin. A long series of sergeant of the bodyguard. Mr-constantly recurring revolutions the Air Ministry that this was to were asked if William Abraham. is still in his since the fall of the Monarchy take place, and possession. It was recently sold in 1910. together with Portuguese they desired to take part. Will participation in the war, bad left it be believed that, despite the her in a situation in which there fact that it is well known that was no stability, either political-the Portuguese Air Force is to ly, financially or economically.
be completely reorganised and All that has been changed in a equipped not a single British to the ability to work the sys-
"Can you tell me the name of the most amazing manner by the pre-manufacturer expressed desire or tem: bat it is very difficult for
sent Administration, of which the willingness to send even a 2015- an English Government to re-dean of this school?"
"Naw, I'm just a football player executive head is Dr. Salazar, the tary machine to take part in the sist that particular demand.
herp"
Prime Minister and Minister of rally? If ever things are well managed
Finance. it is a triumph of faith over
Dr. Salazar appears to be a
It has been our past policy to-
Since he took com- veritable wizard of statesmanship allow trade and commerce
stand on their own feet) without. Customer: "What extra labour and finance. Barber: "Well, sir, gents". faces/trol with dictatorial powers some intervention or assistance from seven years ago be has complete the State. That policy worked ly changed the face of everything well enough so long as we had. Portuguese.
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Ahem!. Young Artist: "How did you like
paintings?" Friend: "Great! That one of the
Obsolete System
to
not to face the State-aided-com- Budget Surpluses
petition of powerful rivals. * To For the last six consecutive day it is as obsolete as the bow effectual surplus. The services, civil and ed in favour of more Artist: "Fried eng? Great Scott military, have been purged of methods of cultivating trade re- their corrupt and revolutionary lations with other countries. The that was a sunset!"
jelements. Public works
have day has gone by when this can a wide be done solely by direct personal been inaugurated on scale
U.S. CRUISER IN FLAMES
Vessel On Fire In Shipyard
oldest
Sign of the Times Barber. "You' complain of One of the things that one experience cannot explain to an American After Lord Cromer's time higher price for shaving, sir, but you friend is the Egyptian system there came the career of the must think of the extra labour. of Government; and one of the Nationalist Party led by Zaghlul things one cannot do at all is Pasha called the "Wafd" It have been longer to explain how a constitutional was largely led by students who lawyer ought to classify it. A were as rowdy in Cairo as in good many years have past Nanking. and as irresponsible. Theodare It was decided to establish a since ex-President Roosevelt, in his famous speech Parliament subject to four re-fried egg was so natural it nearly years his Budget has shown and arrow, and must be abandon- at the Mansion House on reservations about the protection made me hungry ceiving the Freedom of the of the Suez Canal, of the foreign City, said: "For God's sake residents. the Sudan. and the either govern or get out." From frontiers. Zaghiul himself had an old friend candid advice, had a distinguished career in
contact between buyer and seller, however unconventional, can be the Civil Service, and was a
What is wanted is an organisa To-day Fortugal, our taken in good part; most people man of shrewd instincts: but
ally, has a road system which. ftion on all fours with those existe in England would gladly have his furious speeches had set
not quite comparable with thating in other countries. In other done either; but in the inter-going an agitation that he could
of other countries which have words, a Ministry of Propaganda.. vening years we have done not control: The Minister in
enjoyed a continuity of policy Call it by this or any other neither; we are still there, ex-London who had to sign the
Quincy, Mass
for a long term of years, is at name, but whatever its title the- pected to do. the necessary draft treaty which Zaghiul had]
big fire occurred recently in least adequate and is improving essential requirement is that it when there is any trouble, and already initialed happened to
and should have its own Estimates leave the Pashas to collect their be indisposed for a few days, the engine room of the recently every day. Agriculture
meantime the launched American cruiser Quin-fisheries, the staple industries of and be invested with power to bit of squeeze The fellaheer and in the would rise in rebellion if any "Wafd had heard of the treaty cy, which is still in the shipyard the country, have been encour spend the money voted to
Firemen wearing gas masks, red and protected, while much service in its own way for the body stopped the outflow. of and set up such a clamour that Lake Tsana, and we are expect their leader had to beg off. It had to stagger through acid smoke money has been spent on irriga furtherance of British interests in foreign countries. And that ed to see that neither the was never signed and has not to direct hoses via the port holes.on works.
Five Hours Fight
The whole system of taxes and task can only be performed by Amharis nor the Italians do been either signed or substitut-
The fire was extinguished after Customs duties has been re-meeting every move of our trade monkey tricks there ed by any other from that day This is so well understood by to this. The Protectorate de a fight lasting five hours, the formed, their collection simplified rivals step by step.. all parties concerned that it isclared during the Great War to firemen working in three-minute and the finances of the not the least likely that the save Egypt from Turkish con- relays.
The damage could not be ascer-generally placed on a sound and precious flow of the melting guest had been revoked." snow will be diverted; but al-Miles Lampson therefore, like ained until the decks cooled, but efficient basis. The Navy has mday Lord Cromer, has no regularised fire brigade chiefs said that it built out of revenue, fourteen though the Cairo Press. disclose some anxiety, there is position, but to revert to the would be very heavy.
the definition of powers which so not any probability that
President Theodore WIDOW DEFRAUDED Cairo Government will offer moved
Roosevelt to mirth "he hap any assistance.
any
Sir
Award £1,500 And Costs
London.
country.
been completely reorganised and
ships, including sloops, destroy- ers, and submarines, constructed entirely in British yards, having
been substituted for ships.
obsolete
Now, in what direction does this affect us? -
Sounder Security
MYSTERY RAY TO BE TESTED
Army Manoeuvres In Italy:
500,000-SOLDIERS TO TAKE PART
Paris.
its
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION It may safely be said that the pens to be in a position to give
ex-President would never have authoritative advice.” had the patience to act as The joint administration; maze of Anglo-Egyptian. of the Sudan. "governor" in that intricate machinery as Lord of course gives Great Britain Cromer did for over twenty complete control over all the Judgment for £1,500 and costs wax In the first place, we have
given by M- Justice Macnaghten, in something in the region of £22 Monster manoeuvres will years. He multiplied the fruit-territory that uses the Nile
the King's Bench Division recently,000,000 invested in Portuguese held at the end of this month by fulness of the great Delta ten-lower down but as the whole fold, and kept order among the object of the administration is in favour of Mrs. Grace Hand Ed- enterprises, besides which we the Italian Army in the Trent re most cosmopolitan population to protect the flow of water and of the world, with a minute to regulate it during the floods, a widow, for her claim to have a large and very active Bri-zion, along the Austrian frontie
dent in Portugal
men, according to a report from garrison which was never allow-season it would be absurd to recover that, um against Mr. H. Jtish commercial community resi-with the participation of 500,000
Manifestly, the enormous im- Rome, published recent ed to spend a plastre beyond its threaten to cut it off. The fized estimate of cost, and very lower Nile is formed by the
of the country and the present the paper says, will little of the net Sealth
th went function of the White Niley was part of the £3,000 of provement in the internal affairs Paris Sour
solidity of national finance must directed by Ki into English po If one which is entirely under British which she was defra
give sounder security for our in-nel, Signor Mus three years. wanders about the aces of control and the Blue Nile.
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