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the income-tax. things are all concrete solid; they are not fights fancy. It may be argued only the traditional- comin sense and grit of the Bet nation made them posel That is no doubt true. But
the commonsense and
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1935 in the world would have
ed in the alchtest, sound governmental policy.
Election Prospects In leadership in other words
England
commonsense
Here
There
and Everywher
thing, wife of the orwan- orcester Cathedral is to
fifth woman. High England and the first in
duties of the office, which bonorary one, include atten
EGYPT'S FEARS FOR BLUE NILE
HER RELIANCE ON
GREAT BRITAIN
LAKE TSANA AN IMPORTANT
POLITICAL FACTOR
(By Reuter's Cairo Correspondent)
country entirely.
Mr. Dupuis, who is an irriga-
at the Assizes, driving with Erdependent upon inicial tion engineer of long standing.
judge to the Cathedral service, irrigation, naturally regards the concluded his letter with the re ting as returning officer in proper protection and safety of mark that "as matters stand, ral Election. But she will the upper basin of the Blue there is little or nothing to be red the duty of attending Nile as a vital factor in her ex-feared from any interference
an old privilege of istence, and any interruption of with Lake Tana Sheriff's
the flow of water from that
Among those who are an feit the event of anyone being source would have very serious with the subject, it is generally death here,” she told repercussions throughout Egypt admitted that any possible in- Sherif's duties will be land, the Sudan
terference with the lake would As is well known, the Blue not affect a very large body of out by my deputy, who is
Nile flows out of Lake Tsana in water seeing that Lake Tsana opportunity for the country.
ià une difficulty about her Abyssinia and joins the White represents only a relatively whole to reap the fol advantages from whatever good taking over the office; it has not Nile at Khartoum and thence small fraction of the Nile Ba
decided what clothes she the Nile flows on through Egypt sin, and thus any attempted qualities-its-individual citizens Lyst
Ito the Mediterranean should wear.
diversion could not be of ma- thave to show.
It will be seen therefore, teri dimensions. We shall feel that we have We cannot believe that the
that Lake Tsana, although in But it is felt that an inter- very seriously misjudged the people of Britain, are sufficientA FEUDAL SURVIVAL
lanother country, has an imperference would have a very ser sound
of the insensible of these things to It has been a long job dealingstant bearing on the life and ious paychological effect on British electors if they should harter away two birds of para with one of the survivals of the welfare of both Egypt and the Egyptian opinion, which is ex- return another Socialist Gov-dise in the hand for a scraggy feudal system. The Ministry of Sudan. ernment to power in the forth and very hypothetical chicken Agriculture advertises to-day the coming elections in preference in the bush. If the social ser-extinguishment of memorial in to what appears to be the only vices were being starved, if one cidents in the manor and lordship alternative, aler National class was being enriched at the of Newcastle-under-Lyme This Ministry led by Mr. Stanley expense of another, if there simply means the wiping out of
terests of Egypt and the Sudan pointed out, that it would be Baldwin. We use the phrase were not an enormous and very the rates and payments due to the
in the upper basin of the Blue possible to manipulate the wa- "only alternative" because the Battering record of something hord of the manors aten true Liberals have but & scant being accomplished and done in
Nile and various projects have ers of Lake Tsung to the dis- The Law of Property Act 19 been considered from time to Egypt would introduce a sev advantage of riparian înterests following, both in Parliament England, there would be some allowed ten years for the extintime with a view to pressing and serious factor into an al and outside it; while the high-excuse for changing horses in
guishment" by private agreement: forward with some definitel sounding but practically vague midstream. But it would sure or by compulsion through applica-scheme of conservation.
[ready complicated situation. schemes of Mr. Lloyd George'sly be suicidal, at the present on to the Ministry. This period
Relations with the Ethiopian Task Of British Forces "Council of Action" will need time when the country is de of grace ends on January 1 next: Government, however, have in far more careful analysis and finitely on the up grade, with For a further five years lords of variably been of a friendly Those in close touch with the explanation than they have yet unemployment down, credit had before they are likely to restored and solvency re-intro- the manor and tenants may make character. and there has never political situation influence a sufficient number of duced, for the electorate to turn application, but after that no com- been anything in the nature of that the Egyptians are touchy a threat to alter the ordinary on the subject of the presence voters to return a representa-out the men and the Govern-pensation for the ancient rights is
flow of water from Lake Tsana (of British military forces. In tive following to Parliament ment under whose leadership all payable. Indeed, the issue before the this has been accomplished, and Hundreds of manorial incidents Indeed, in 1902, the Emperor Egypt, and if Britain failed to Menelikk undertook not to do so prevent an encroachment on electors seems only too patent-place its destiny in the hands have already been extinguished.
in a treaty with the British the head waters of the Blue ly clear: whether the country of those whose retorn to office
Government.
Ne, which is regarded not only
is to continue the steady, slow would at once be accompanied Your Daily Smile! but sure progress of the last by unrest and upheaval, at four years in every department least, and financial panic and
No Previous Threat
The British Government has
always been mindful of the in-
tremely sensitive in regard to anything that concerns Nile waters.
The mere indication, it is
the
The critical position that has as one of the natural sources of arisen between Italy and Abys the Nile, but as a very valuable "Papa, what is an egotist*** sinia, however, has brought an potential reservoir, Egyptian of the public life, or is to hand disorganisation as the inevitable gotiat, my boy, is a man entirely new factor into the opinion might well charge Bri- its destinies to the tender prelude to whatever hypotheho tells you these things about him- mercies of a clique of polititical advantages there might be well which to tended to tell him sitnation, and speculation is rife tain with failure to justify her
whether the threatened strug-miktar y cians, whose open boast it is in the ultimate future. And if about yourself"
gle in Ethiopia is likely to af- that their return to power past records of accomplishment would be accompanied by atare examined, there are not the Teacher: "What is the feminine of fect Egypt's water, which is financial crisis "of the first slightest grounds for such magnitude," in the words of change whatsoever their arch-priest, Sir Stafford
Cripps.
*
a
bachelor?"
her lifeblood...
Boys "The feminine of bachelor is | lady-in-waiting.”
Too Many Z's
The remark that "we are an EXPLANATION OF Mother. You are at the foot of by MC. E. Dupuis in the item
Socialists now" is very much truer to-day than it was when it was first made many years ago. To the Socialist Party must go a great deal of the credit for the fact that the
YESTERDAY'S CARTOON
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AN October 12, 1934, Bev. R. A
LATE M. HAAS
out the initiation in some in stances, and certainly the con- marriage service ever performed in Presbyterian tinual encouragement of the the Pleasant H Socialist Party the recordChurch of Charlotte, NC yet the would probably not have been church was organised 98 years be so good. But there is an old fore (in 1836). The present men- adage about cutting one's coat berhip of the church is 71 per according to one's cloth which sons, all of them descendants of must be taken into considera the pioneers who came into North tion when the matter of social Carolina at the time of the Revo- services is decided, and this the lutionary War. And not one of Labourites failed to do in the the church members lives nearer autumn of 1931, in spite of re-than a mile from the church. peated warnings for months before from all the disinterest- ed financial interests in the country. We believe we are correct in stating that debts for the social services were being piled up at that period at the rate of $100,000.000 a week or some such fantastic figure There was no mistaking the trust imposed in the National Government at that 1931 elec-
The League tion by voters throughout the was draped in length and breadth of the land lying-in-state The country faced a financial Haas. Friends, crisis which was a direct result officials filled the of the then Socialist policy of their last tributes disregarding the most elemen-Secretary-General tary precepts of finance, and the League in the cou National Government ved address alluded report on China, set of so
an almost unprecedente date from the people Britain's house in order
most
Not even the critic can deny
been done, and
cently
the
under
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ug judgment
Gene
The body will Renters
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"Nothing To Be Feared"
to Ital Consequently, a remark made
the spelling class again, are you? course of a letter to a London of Jera
Boy: "Yesim. Mother: "How did that happen? newspaper recently has attract und attention in agr Boy: "Got too many 2's scised considerable
Egypt.
GREAL
an opinion has
of egard activities on
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Italy in 1925 Milner-Sciologa
(Continued on Page 10.)
BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
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