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New Zealand Goes Ahead
THE 40-HOUR WEEK
(By Ebenezer Blackwood)" The 40-hour-week is no longer
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DAYS
AFTER MUSSOLINI
WHAT'S AHEAD?
POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES
OF BREAKDOWN
PRINCE OF PIEDMONT A RALLYING POINT FOR NATION·
was before.
(By Ferdinand Tuohy)
the
TREMENDOUS adventures such (matter of a possible successorship employers and workers' organi In the case of grampases, the
as: that upon which the Duce to Mussolini, using such material sations. Many proposed Queen Consort is entitled to the has embarked with a combination for observation as may lie to hand. Hong Kon Saturday, Feb. 29, 1936. Changes in industrial legislation all portion, the finder to the body, of self-confidence, decision, and will Four things could apparently hap
will be discussed, but no secret and the King to the head. The surely never excelled in history. pen. is made of the fact that the reason given for this curious} have a habit of conducting to per-
Four Things hours question is the primary division in old law books is that sonal endings. Maybe it is triumph. First-Communism. It is true obiect of the conference.
the tail contains whalebone for may be it is very much the cou-that in more than one country It has yet to be seen what Thus further evidence is provid- the Queen's wardrobe." Actually. trary. Whatever it turns out to pleas have been heard that Mus- reliance can be placed on the ed that, in the last few years, the the whalebone is in the head.
be, the solution is seldom a peter-solini should be allowed his head meagre news coming through Popularity of this idea has increas The Crown is also entitled bying-out affair, leaving the great in Africa iz order to ward off from Tokyo about the revolted by leaps and bounds. It seems prerogative right to
"all white man even approximately where be the peril of Bolshevism redescend- A great deal of it seems to con-only yesterday that the Italian de-swans swimming in open and
ing upon Italy as it did 18 years tradict itself, and absolutely legate to the International Labour common rivers provided they are
The growing belief that Italy' ago until the Dace saved the coun- nothing can be depended upon. Conference of the League of Na-wild and unmarked.”
is making a mess of her Ethiopian try from red anarchy." But this is not really to be won-tions brought forward his tenta
campaign, in addition to lining up This is a curious plea at dered at since it is only com-tive proposal, which was greeted wIMPOLE STREET OF OTHER against herself most of the world best of times-that a Dictator". monsense to assume that the with a certain amount of doubt
Isave minority Fascist elements in should be allowed to fracture censorship, which has again ap-and incredulity. Italy hoped to! The Barretts, whose house, Noune or two lands, is not surpris-every treaty in sight as the ore parently been tightened, will, in find, in the reduction of hours of 50, was recently being demolished, ingly having the effect of causing way to keep his country from go- the nature of things, only let work, a part solution of the un-were not the only celebrities "of an ever-wider international radhus ing Soviet. But we can let that through just that amount of in-employment problem.
Wimpole Street."
of people to wonder if
pass and concentrate on this: that There was 2 formation which the Japanese'
good deal of In its earlier days the street's supposing Mussolini wert? Not there never was a greater myth authorities wish to be known.jympathy with this object. But fame was by no means almost ex- to-day, nor ret perhaps, in the than the alleged terrible danger Second only in importance to questions were asked which were clusively medical, as it is now immediate to-morrow, but event-jof Italy going Communist in 1920. the decisive point of whether difficult to answer without practical Edmund Burke was living there ually? What would supervene? The writer was sent to Turin when the revolt is successful or not experience. Would it be possible in 1757. The Duchess of Wel- It is a vast question. because some of the workers took Over is the question of by whom to introduce a shorter
working lington was a resident while her the chances are that if the Duce the factories. but no blood flowed. exactly it has been engineered. week without reducing wages? If husband was busy with the Per had to go be would not do so and after a few anxious days the There is an obvious attempt on pot. would the workers be content insular War.
without attempting to shake down whole movement fizzled out. The somebody's part to suggest that to accept less money so that the At No. 12 Hved Admiral Lord all kinds of columns, far and near: Italians simply ате
Com- it is a minor matter. for which remainder could pass into the par Hood. Henry Hallam wrote at No. nevertheless, it is a question which munists-their history, psychology · only a few hotheaded junior envelopes of the new hands taken 67 his "Constitutional History one day may have to be faced lie totally away from Russia. Here officers are responsible. This jon? And so on-
of England." living there from
Italians' Answer
is what Signor Bonomi, the ex- may or may not be true. But
Trials Given
1826 to 1841.
Very little help is to be derived Premier. bas to say about that it was surely no idle conjecture Since then, both officially and
Mrs. Cipriani, widow of the by discussing the matter with Red bogy. which allowed Reuter's arency privately, the 40-hour week has painter and friend of Wedgwood, Italians or by reading their cur- The fact that the attempted in one of their messages to been given a trial in many coun-lived at No. 2 in 1326.
rent publications. The answer from revolution was beaten without any state that "the mutineers un-¡tries. In view of the "New Deal," {
this whole quarter might be given jînfringement of liberty made the doubtedly have the support of the decision" of the United States
as: "Look at Italy! The entire victory decisive and complete. powerful military interests.” of America to join the League's
country emotionally in complete This was the crowning moment That is the crux of the mat- International Labour Organisation
unison with the Duce! No matter of the Socialist agitation, the one er: is the revolt merely an proved of the utmost importance.
And then there's the Story of the what befall!
experiment, Before Abyssinia great revolutionary isolated case of mutiny on the Prominent British firms,
which wine company director whe, on going there may have been 10 or 15 per simultaneous and concerted, that shorter hours overseas, hooked a cabin on the portj
A movement part of junior officers, or is it have. introduced
cent. surreptitiously against him. was tried in Italy. in fact an outward expression without loss of pay, are reported side.
Now there are none!"
suppressed by force and bloodshed of the deep-rooted wish for a to be satisfied with the result of
Yet that kind of all-in protest leaves a legacy of hatred and re- militarist dictatorship which their bold experiment.
af undying support is of course venge in social life for decades, has been more or less openly At the last International Labour for Canton?" she asked.
"At 2.50, madam." replied the sta-not good enough. The Italians but if it is allowed to spend itself evident in Japanese politics for Conference at Geneva, a general tion master.
have been led or hypnotised into jurresisted it realises its own futil- some time? The two conjec convertion of principle was adoptMake it 248 and I'll take it." she such an astonishing general rash-ity and is done with tures cannot be reconciled, un-ed expressing approval of the 40- said absently. less it is a case of the old, old hour week principle. with the story of the monkey, the cats-maintenance of the standard
"I read in a book that Apollo was happen: among them, the conceiv-working classes. From that mo naw and the chestnuts in the living. This year, attempts will fire In other words, were the be made to apply the scheme to chasing a nymph, and she turned in-able giving out of patiences else-meat the Socialist Party began to where. It is therefore neither decline, and within two years it instigators sitting quietly in definite industries, and further He was lucky. The one I'm chas the background, watching how conventions will be drafted with ing always turns into a jeweller premature nor rash on the part lay beaten at the feet of Fascism,"
shop or a restaurant." events turned out--which is a this end in view.
very big and important thing:
or was there nothing behind the whole movement but the hotheaded desires, of a few young men?
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
The Ministering League
of
are
That the answers to these holding a Carnival Dance on Wed- conjectures form a matter of nesday next, March 4. at the supreme importance to us here China Fleet Club, commencing at and the Far East generally 9 p.m.
need not be laboured; it is
|obviously self-evident. No less. At Tuesday's meeting of the important would be the matter Rotary Club, the speaker will be jof a change in regime in Japan Mr. C. Champkin, who has select- from some show of democracy led as his subject "Managing the to a. dictatorship - Fascist. Currency." military or other. Japán has
•
been an adept political pupil of Herr Franz von Papen, 25-year the Western world hitherta; it old son of the former. German remains to be seen whether she Chancellor, arrived in Hong Kong will carry her pupilage still yesterday morning aboard the further. In all conscience she German freighter Sauerland. He has sufficient models these days is accompanied by Mr. Carl to draw upon for the example. Behncke, 'a Shanghai business man, The world seems to be percep whose firm he is joining. tibly moving nearer to an open
breach between the few remain- Sir Frederick W. and Lady Maze ing democracies in concert passed through Hong Kong yester- against the allied newly-found-day on their way to Manila on ed political dictatorships. Ger-board the Empress of Japan. Sir many and Italy, Germany - and Frederick has been Inspector Gen- Japan word of secret agree-era of the Chinese Maritime ments and pacts between these Customs since 1929. countries has been more than a
whisper of late. And it seems, Mr. and Mrs Louis Bush, of not unreasonable to suggest Shanghai, were also arrivals this that dictatorships looking for a morning by the mv. Asama Maru. soul-mate will be naturally at-
tracted to regimes of their own Mr. D. W. Wagstaff, of Shang- kindif only for the reasons hai, arrived in the Colony this that birds of a feather fly to- morning by the mv. Asama, Mary. gether, and that in such cases,
when the voice of the people The Sincere Co., Ltd. announce who might think otherwise is that they will close their stores completely stifled, the decision for the whole day to-morrOW rests with one man, not with (Sunday) for their annual stock- the State qua. State
taking.. but will resume business
There is absolutely no deny-on Monday. |ing the menace which "amil-
tary or Fascist dictatorship in fortunate habit of repeating Japan would represent, especiitself. Well, the evidence of ally in the Far East. The com-history is there for those whot parison of the Japanese mili-can read it; are the Japanese tarists... with the German militarists among them, or will General Staff in 1914 is another tragic lesson bel omingus, History has an un- needed?
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