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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1936
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year of Publication.
SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
Telephone 20022 London Office:
17. Garrick Street, London, W.C.2.
EXPLANATION OF Here
TO-DAY'S CARTOON
11 Times President
SE Maria Medina (1826-187S)
JOSE Honduras will always be
There and Everywhere.
CHARLIE STALIN
Notice To Contributors.
associated with the most turbulent All communications intended for period of Central American poli- Charlie Chaplin's "Communist publication should be addressed to ties, which O. Henry made familiar tendency in "Modern Times" the Editor, and be accompanied to American readers. the Writer's Name and Address not necessary for insertion, but as a guarantee of good fuith.
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seems to have escaped everybody Between February 5, 1962 and but the Germans. August 27, 1876, Medina decupied. He carries a red dag, but it the Presidential chair:13 times came into his hand by one of those! his term of ofhỏe varying from 12 Cantinesque "accidents which
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TO-DAY
FACTS BEHIND FRANCO- SOVIET PACT
GENERATED BY INDUCTABLE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Jugoslavia
(By "Pertinax" Of The "Echo de Paris.") | days to 1 year, 8 months and 26have dogged his whole film career. y0 problem of foreign policy. To start with, they persuad- | days. He was always prevented German opinion has been sus- from serving
inicions of "Modern Times" from sionately discussed in France kan Pact and to sign military priolence and successful revolution-the art. A carious cutting from than the treaty of mutual assis conventions with ary comps His kngest term as Frankfurt newspaper describes tance with Russia, which has and Rumania against Italy and Hope Four Tuesday, March 31, 1936 the 7th, when he was President of the New York premiere in these now been ratified by the Cham-Hungary (1933-1934). At the
Honduras freur January, 14, 1820, words:
ber and Senate. It brought time the far-reaching impor- to October 10: 1871, while his
Charlie plays the port of into conflict two opposite waves tance of that move was not per- shortest was his last term, from
Communist deader. The public of popular feeling and two dif-haps thoroughly widerstood in August 16th to Angust 27, 18763
were not at all enthusiastic. On ferent sets of calculations about Western Europe, but the facts are there. Hungarian revision- In February 1878, he was a casted
the contrary, never was Charlis the future of Europe. land.courtmantíaked on a charge of
No French Cabinet did. of its ism has suffered a setback, and Chafich, so hesrily attacked. He The final result of the Ger-revolutionary conspiracy against
is accused of, political bias, and own choosing, decide to join Fascist Italy's dream, of carving man election was, of courses a President Soto. He was found
crass criticism of American hands with the Soviets in Mos-out for herself zones of political When guity and executed on February
speedily foregone conclusion.
peninsula, police methods. It was more or cow, but that course of action and economic expansion in the
was forced upon all of them by Balkan less kissed of.. Herr Hitler announced that he 8th.
ineluctable
of vanished. sequence English reports of this same an was about to put his policy to the test of German public
presentation speak of wild enthus-events. „
In 1922 the Bolshevik rulers, opinion nobody dreamed for a
finem and of "yesclically mIÓеGŠ-
recently as December, 1932, moment that any result other
THE present day Jewish colonying and sociferous mirth Can still believed. they were at the Let us remember that as than favourable would ensne.|
of Kaifenfu in the province it be that the Americans have mercy of the victors of the
Great War. The interference Mussolini, in a private conver- is descended of Houzn
from 6 sense of humour? There is one political party in
of the Allies in Bussia's homeation with the French Senator Berenger, had not concealed Jewish large
of number Germany and voting is by the
afairs was still fees in their that he aimed at a hold on the system of proportional regre migrants who came to China from
memory. They thought it ex- sentation. The ponderous elec-India and Persia during the reign THE COWBOY'S BRIDE tion campaign, with fags flying the Han dynasty in the third At Cheyenne, Wyoming. Anne pedient to secure the good will Bosphorus.
heiress and-and support of the German Be Through the agency of Tur- the Treaty of 1925 (both banners streaming and all the leading personalities of the tury B. C. Now, there are mir Gould escor
ignatories are pledged not to party haranguing voters for all about 150 of them left, and ther daughter of the late Frank 1.public, which, in its weak co key, intimately bound to Russia differ from the surrounding Chin-Gould, the millionaire railroaddition, was only too ready to
take any diplomatic initiative the world, as if they had some ese any in their religion. In magnate, was on her honeymoon meet them more than halfway, concrete opposition to fight, Irather suggests the use of a 20, features, dress and complexion, last month with a cowboy. She and did not even require from apart from one another), the.
they differ in no wise from the married him the day after the them the shadow of a guaranteelers in Moscow
responsible for ton steam hammer to crack a
Old debts were wiped out and change on the European chess- walnut with. But no doubt itical Chinese, down to the quere divorce decree dissolving her mar of good behaviour
which some of them still wear. friage with Frenk Meador, a Texas
no obstacle whatever was placed board. bank clerk, became final. was all necessary in order to
The young heiress had known on the activity of the Romin They have quickly improved display the "manimity" with of the
new husband only a week, tern or Third Communist Interpon it. When King Alexander murdered, which the policies
of Jugoslavia was Fuehrer are followed in the!
Treaty GER
Mustapha Kemal Fasha (now having met him while holidaying national
This was confirmed by the Atta Turk) proposed to concen- Herman Elsbury, aged 24. was treaty signed at Rapallo on rate in Thracia as many divi- exemployed.
April 16, 1922, in the midst ofisions as might be required to The marriage was celebrated the Genoa Conference, which bring to book the Fascist.Gov- at the ranch house, with the thereby was killed, at one strokes ernment and, simultaneously, Public Commissary for bridegroom decked out in all the Ten years later the position had the traditional-trappings of his trade been fundamentally altered Education warned all the Euro- -ten-gallon" sombrero, chape, German power has assorted pean listeners by radio "that, itself afresh, and the leaders of if necessary, direct assistance spora, and high-heeled boots..
the Russian Revolution have would be lent to Belgrade. genuinely become afraid of it: It can be easily imagined that They fear the new balance of such a willingness to help (in Power that can already be dis-striking contrast with the vacil
Reich. Indeed, in the circum- PROTECTION OF
stances the 542,000 voters who had the courage to record nega- tive votes may be warmly con- gratulated on their valour and independent spirit in making [some sort of a stand. though of necessity it must have been fruitless, against the mass men- tality of a coerced population.
CHILDREN
Worthy Object Needs
More Funds
STREET SALE OF FLOWERS
Ther
at one of Wyoming's best-known resorts, where the
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young
are really that
great
The official figures announced
The public will have an oppor-Į that 98.79 per cent. of the
Your Daily Smile ! voters were with the Fuehrer.tunity of showing its apprecia- In the circumstances there is tion of the work of the Society
Papa: "Bobby, if you had a little nothing remarkable in that, for the Protection of Children on Without going into details it is Saturday, when a street sale of more spank you would stand better cerned, and, furthermore, the lating attitude of France) has fotber dictators. As a consements of the Little Entente-and easy to imagine that all those flowers on its behalf will be held in your classes. Do you know what triumph of Adolf Hitler and deeply impressed the Govern-
and there is surely no doubt The event is being organised by spank is?" that there were very many the Women's Auxiliary of the Bobiry: "Yes, father. It's the past quence they have veered round; is still being gratefully remem- more than appeared from the Society, and it is hoped that a participle of spank” final analysis who did not.per-liberal response to its effort will haps see eye to eye with the be forthcoming. official policy of the Govern-
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they parted with the revolu-bered by them all. To-day, it tionary powers (in the inter-is true, Jugoslavia, while adher- national sense of the expres-ling to the collective resolution It was the end of the scene and sion) and associated with the of the Little Entente to recog The Society is in urgent need the heroine was starving. "Give me States which uphold the Euro-nise the Soviet officially, has
And the curtain came down with pean political and territorial not carried it out.
(Continued On Page 101
ment were hardly "encouraged" of funds with which to carry of bread, she cried. to show their preference for its work for the sick and destitute any policy but the official one, children of the Colony. How a roll. The results of the election, in widespread that work is will be fact, would have been far more gathered from the fact that since not its foundation in 1930, the Society surprising if they had shown something like 100 per has investigated 4,292 danes, in- cent. of the electors in favour volving the welfare of over 8,000 fof the Fuehrer's programme.children.
The whole thing was obviously
Impressive Figures
Over
Last year, the Society secured a case of "When father says
400 Turn,' we all turn" -- and has medical treatment for precisely as much real signifi-sick children and provided milk cance as the harmless anecdote for other food for 807. It also maintained.24 destitute children the saying illustrates.
What is far more important in institutions and provided me is the effect that this election dical supplies and milk foods for campaign and its results is the Children's Hospital at Sham going to have on the politics of shuipo, which dealt with 3,627 Europe, both directly and in patients.
A point to be emphasised is that directly. "The newspaper Montag," says a Reuter mes-all cases undertaken by the Society sagé, "declares that the result is are most strictly scrutinised, and la decision against any
com-some idea of the extent of the may be encountered
promise political gesture." poverty One can only hope most sincere gathered from the fact that the ly that it is not; because in that average income per head per month case the immediate outlook is of the. familice assisted in Febru- far blacker than it ever was,ary was only $1.49.
No compromise-if the remark
is just from Germany; cer-
One.case each of diphtheria.
tainly no compromise from enteric fever and cerebro-spinal France. And so, what have fever were reported to the Health lyou? Hardly ย stalemate, authorities in the 48 hours ended
Last Sunday." which might be the easiest way lout of the dilemma, because the
position, whatever it is, is cer-i Itainly not static. It must deNo compromise political gee- velop in one way or another, ture:" the words are ominous: { Either it develops according to Canute planted his throne-firm- all the logic of the situation in the sand and bade the which is that treaties and com-mighty ocean to recede at his mitments have been deliberate-command. It has yet to be ly and openly broken necessi-shown whether Herr Hitler.cam tating some sort of support for do any better than that mis- France and Belgium in their guided monarch ir stemming] denunciation of the move; or the tide of spassion: he will let the party which, whatever, the loose in: Europe if the tenet of abstract strength of its case, is "Noz compromise" is proceeded morally in the wrong in repu- with. Same day, when the his ADMINISTRATION:diating its signature must try of our times is writter up
make some.concrete: contribu- the Mar from „Mars will chold. tion, even symbolical gesture, dictators and dictatorships] towards conciliation, so that the responsible for a great deal of will be whole matter, can be discussed trouble; and he in some show of reasoned calm, thoroughly justified in doing so.
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MEDINA
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