THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1937.
P
HITLER ON
THE ECONOMICS WORLDM. ABEL BONNARD'S
GOES
BY
ERE are some strange stories H from many parts of the world, sent by Reuter Correspondents:-
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IMPRESSIONS
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Paris, To-day.
ac-
A long conversation between Herr Hitler and M. Abel Bon- hard, a member of the Academie Bancaise, was held at Berch- tesgaden a few days ago, cording to "Le Journal,” which The “Stop” and “Go” arms of a states that the Fuehrer explain- traffic signal, missing since ed to his distinguished visitor Saturday night, suddenly returned the extent of the economic dif- to the police department at Phil-ficulties confronting Germany. adelphia, Pennsylvania.
With them was a brief note: "Here's you nasty old sign. I woke up with the thing in my bed on Sunday morning."
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After his store had been burgled five times in as many months, a grocer, Mr. Harry Gershman, in serted an advertisement in a paper at Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Germany, declared Herr Hit- ler, had a series of extraordin- arily difficult economic handi- caps to overcome before she could make herself independent of importation of certain raw materials from abroad.
When the employment situation in Germany came up for discus- sion, says the journal, the Fuehrer pointed out that the "Strength “Burglars Áttention-When rob- through Joy" organisation, which bing store this month please use organises the leisure time of the front door. We are tired of re- German worker, has succeeded in placing windows. Regards, Harry's its efforts to permit the latter Grocery."
share in pleasures hitherto only enjoyed by the propertied classes.
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Senta was the dog. of an sea captaini of Warnemuende on the Baltic coast.
After her master “died, Senta visited his grave every day, and sat by it for a few hours.
Returning from the churchyard one day, she crossed a pond, coat- ed with ice. Senta was dead when she was found.
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Herr Hitler added that in fut- ure, about 900,000 workers would be able to spend their vacations at the seaside.
BONNARD'S IMPRESSIONS
M. Bonnard's impressions of Herr Hitler, as quoted by the journal, were:
"The Chancellor lives only for his ideals and thinks of nothing else.
to I felt when I listened A railway worker at Bjelovar, him that he and the German peo- Yugoslavia, many inherit miast of ple are one. the £750,000 fortune left by his brother, who has died in New York. Mirka Arfoja by name, he was asked what he will do when he gets the money.
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"I shall go on working on the railway," Mirka replied. "I like the work." Besides, I get £5 month, and Twould not like to lose the pension of £3 a month for which I have already worked for 27 years."
A dog properly "bottled up” a rabbit at Hiatt's Camp. Arizona.
The mongrel, Jerry, owned by a Mr. Archie King, chased a rabbit which thought to escape by crawl ing into a milk bottle. The dog took the bottle home in its teeth- with the rabbit inside.
A 44-year-old man has been ar rested in Hamburg on a charge of stealing flowers from the cemetery at Ohlsdorf.
It is alleged that he and his 15- year-old daughter removed £12 worth of flowers from the graves and that his wife then resold them.
"He speaks of the people not as a man who looks down on them but as a man who loves them and who never forgets that he himself has risen from the people to his present position."
The German people, concludes the article, are evidently_com- pletely content under the present regime, which has accomplished a great deal since it took over poli- tical power.-Trans-Ocean.
ITALY'S LINK IN HUNGARY
Rome, To-day. All current European problems, particularly the Central European political and economic question, were exhaustively discussed at Budapest during the visit to that city of the King of Italy.
This is revealed in an official communique Issued here to-day, which adds that the discussions were carried out by the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, and the Hungarian Premier, Dr. Seventeen thin and hungry abori Kalman Daranyi, and Foreign ginals wander into Darwin, Aus-Minister, Dr. Koloman de Kanya, tralia, and begged for food...
They had come from the Mullum- gimbi area, over 650 miles away.
wad-
The three statesmen, the com- munique continues, reached full To do the journey they had
agreement on all current pro-
in ed through swamps, swam across bleme, and reaffirmed their
tention to continué the policy flooded rivers, some of them half a mile wide, crossed plains. With hitherto pursued without any towering grasses 151t. high, and travelled over stretches of desert. marched stolidly out in gloomy sil-
Having had a meal, they demand- ed to be allowed to visit the pic-
tures.
The film "Cleopatra” was on at the
from the Australian
bush
modification-Trans-Ocĕrn.
ence.
Hollywood should be mortified!
"Young Public School man, hav-
Darwin cinema, and the savages ing discovered unsuspected energy
were desires.occupation, any task, forty hours weekly, for infinitesimal re-
ation. ---Box 605 mul
given three boxes,
ab
They stared at the film with un- winking eyes, and solutely
vil betrayed
• no emotion whatsoever at the first film they had ever seen.
-Advt.
Now that his worst suspicions are confirmed, the position is
They made no comment and desperate.
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