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ta last evening opened a free accidents in history it is probable the Editor, and be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Address night school for poor boys in that the method of signalling by not necessarily for insertion, but Caine Road, next to the premises arm from highspeed aeroplanes
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Your Daily Sraile!
RISE OF SOCIALISM IN POLITICS
COUNTRY ANXIOUS TO CREATE NEW WORLD LEAGUE OF NATIONS
MY
(By Rt. Hon. George Lansbury, M.P.)
Friendly Statesman
I have He made me feel at home
and
The American nation, like the rest of mankind. is passing through ja very troublous, difficult time.
Labour Active
....
Y second visit to the United Mayor Hoan, the Socialist mayor The premises were provided by a formation of Gauntlets from No. 19 Squadron over Gatwick. tire Catholic Mission, and the aim
States is finished. On st of Milwaukee, is in a place all his of the school is to teach poor boy /Gauntlets, one of the latest type least ten occasions 1. have been al-town. He is nothing like the alder
of single-seater fighters, have a top lowed to broadcast, sometimes of the diocese elementary Chinese, speed in level flight approaching the whole nation on what is called and thin with a fine face
to man, or mayor of my youth. Tall and, in the near future possibly 240 mph. They have open cock- Hong Kong, Monday, July 27, 1996-simple English..
a "nationwide hook-up."
[head on good shoulders, with clear, The building, which is of one
Broadcasting on social, Indus-(sparkling eyes and an American storey with a corrugated iron roof, The officer flung out his arm to trial, political and religious ques-accent as perfect as my Cockney R.A.F. Reorganisations 40 feet long and 38 feet wide, give the breakup signal The tions is much more fairly and free-accent is imperfect, he stands be- and is capable of accommodating blast of air from the slipstreamly conducted in the States than it fore his audiences and quietly tells section of the long his arm back with such is by the British Broadcasting them. without any waste of words In the important communique about 40 boys recently issued from the Air premises has been set aside as a violence that his right shoulder Corporation. Only on my first talk for rhetorical flourishes, what they Ministry may be seen certain recreation room.
was dislocated. In spite of the over the air was I asked to send (should do.
speech beforehand. All the He is now serving his twenty- natural and essential develop The master is Mr. Leung Yak-agony, he made a perfect landing my
There is first year as mayor of Milwaukee, ments of the expansion scheme yu who has kindly offered his ser-jwith his left hand. The problem others were extempore. which has been vigorously car-vices without remuneration, and has not arisen before because acro-no High Priest there to censor or and by his clean and incorruptible should administration has made his city ried on during the last 12 among the boys who have already planes have never flown so fast control what the "people
1 bear. months. It is still far from registered their names are news-||
known throughout America as one I have met and talked with the of the very best administered in complete, but it is sufficiently paper hawkers and boot-blacks
President, Franklin Roosevelt, the the land. There are others, as I advanced to require large mea- Mr. Robert Chow, President of
A steamer was being unloaded Secretary of State (that is, For-sar, but he. for length of service sures of reorganisation and de-the Society, in presenting His at Glasgow when a startled work eigi Minister) Mr. Cordell Hull and the respect he has gained, to- centralisation for the increases Lordship with a silver key, gave a man beard an unusual rattle from and Miss Perkins, the Minister of wers above them all in personnel and in the number brief account of the inception and a heap of scrap. He leapt back Labour. Our interviews were pri- of squadrons. training grounds realisation of the idea.
just as a fire-foot deadly rattles-vate. and aerodromes concerned, in
His Lordship then opened the nake emerged a foot from him. Home Defence. Moreover, the school and blessed the premises. It then crawled into a tube. The changes are themselves highly after which he congratulated the police, called by the workman, sent I found Mr. Roosevelt one of thei significant of the steady evolu-members of the Society for their for a city naturalist, who, donning most friendly statemen tion ideas as to the best
The Labour movement, as repre- efforts in organising the school
a pair of thick leather gloves, methods of defence in the air.
frightened the snake from its hid-from the first moment, and talked sented by the powerful, trade up- Instead of only two Air Com-
ing place. pinned it to the deck frankly and fully on world affairs ons is. I believe, for the first mands, the single unwieldy Air
with a stick and removed it to his His eyes and whole expression are time taking an active part in the Defence of Great Britain Com-:
very cheerful and friendly, but I Presidential election. Following menagerie. mand and the Coastal Com-)
noticed when speaking of things the line taken in Britain 60 years mand, there will henceforth be
he disliked that his eyes shone as ago they are backing Roosevelt four, each complete and separ-
brightly as steel, as if he could because they think he will give ate in itself, but all four co-
see evil and, was determined to most benefits to their members. jordinated by the Air Ministry.
An editor plays fair. When he destroy it.
The discussions one hears and The creation of a new Bomber
prints a letter that calls him 23 I am much amused when I read reads of reminded me continually Command, and the first place
ignoramus, he always corrects the reports in the Press that he is a of those days when Keir Hardie, assigned to it in the official Death from natural causes was
spelling and punctuation
Socialist. Like all Socialists, 1 Tom Mann and John Burns were category, are a plain recogni-the verdict returned at an inquest
think, of the recent efforts made storming the Trades Union Con- Ahem! tion that the Bomber is now into the "circumstances of the
by the President and his Govern-gress on behalf of independent La- considered the first line of de-death of Wong San, a prisoner Professor: "And what on earthment to deal with unemployment bour representation in Parliament.
a paragraph like as being no more than the kind of fence in the air.
who died at the Victoria Gaol last made you write
I spoke to the conference of the It sounds paradoxical, but the Saturday morning.
Student: "I quoted it, sir, from palliatives which have been tried American Socialist Party at Cleve- great speed of the latest bomb-1 Mr. C. E. Burgess Was theDickens."
out in Britain.
land, and found it has not escaped ing planes renders it very diffi-Coroner, and he was assisted by Professor: "Beautiful lines, aren't
The Minister of Labour, Miss trouble as a result of the industrial cult for the fighter to climb up the following jurors:-Messrs. "M. they?"
Perkins, who very kindly introducand financial crisis of the past few quickly enough to encounter U. Razack (foreman), Ko Yau-
ed me to the chiefs of her
years. A split has taken place be- them and drive them off. Thus kong, and H. L. Xavier.
highly organised department,
tween what is called the Old Guard the best defence lies in the de- Dr. G. L. Shaw, medical officer
an amalgam of Margaret Bondfield and the forward movement, led by terrent influence of the bomber of the Victoria Gaol, said that he
and Susan Lawrence. Not quite Norman Thomas The Issues in- and its ability to retaliate on first saw the deceased on May 23.
so gentle as the one or so fiercely volved were not very clear. I was. the enemy. The fighter, whose His condition was poor. He was
dogmatic as the other. speed is also being constantly suffering from chronic tuberculosis increased, has still a most varied and was 27 opium addict.
He role to play, but the two Com-died on Saturday. At the post mands are henceforth to be mortem the cause of death WILS quite independent. The exist-found to be chronic pulmonary ing Coastal Command is to be tuberculosis. reorganised and responsible for the administration and shore training of the Fleet Air Arm: the new Training Command will have charge of all the train- ing units at home. The distin- guished officers selected to bel the ୦୧୩ Commander-in-Chief are among the most experienc ed and ablest in the Service, and they are certain, to welcome unreservedly the much greater freedom from purely adminis-7, an engineer, of no fixed home, George Gordon Cumming, aged trative duties which they will
Grabam-Campbell:
Death From Natural Causes
MAN'S DEATH REPORTED
Grievance Against The War Office
henceforth enjoy. In other told Sir Rolle
words, they will be relieved of at Bow-street last month that dur masses of office work and being the war his death in action able to devote themselves to the was officially announced by the "strategical, operational and
War Office.
training aspects of their res-the wills of two wealthy people. As a result he was left out of pective Commands.” Taken al-
He had since been trying to bring: together, these important changes give assured promise an action against the War Office of greatly increased efficiency He suffered from shell shock, he in British air defences.
added, and at times felt like t tacking anything. “I would
Education By Radio tack an elephant if it came my
[way.".
Cumming, who
WES -- TEMEnded
There is an old and true say-for a medical report, was charged ing that a sharper impression is with being drank and zesaniting Teft on the mind by what is a railway policeman at Charing conveyed through the "faithful Cross Underground station, eyes" than what is transmitted
through" the B17 That is
B standing difficulty con-talk is over, most of its effect) fronting the broadcaster, will vanish into thin air. end most of all perhaps the Rapid growth in the number broadcaster to schools. The fact of schools -- now nearly 5,000) is frankly recognized in the taking the broadcasts in- new B.B.C. pamphlet recently/dicates that the local education issned, which gives the school authorities favour the innova courses for 1336-7, where it is tion and approve the results observed that in order to give obtained. Rather more than
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