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ALTRUISM
Catholics in Danzig
The first indications of a drive Mr. Harold Ickes, who holds a against the Catholic Church in Cabinet post in Washington equi-Danzig came when the Nazi Pre- valent to that of the Home Sec-sident of the Danzig Senate retary in London, in a speech refused to allow the appointment ported yesterday, used colourful of two Polish priests to serve the language to describe the Japan needs of the Polish population of ese invasion of China. "It is a the city. He also addressed a strange phenomenon," he said. Note to the Vatican protesting that a country which is weak against its "interference. This -A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. and helpless and at the same was followed by intervention time rich in resorces, is a hot against Catholic clergy and citi- bed of Communism' and must zens, searches, raids, and other therefore be
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some al-the Catholic party in Dang, the truistic fanatic” The thought only Opposition party to remain of thousands of people about in existence, was officially sup- Japan's aggression is there expressed, and membership of it is pressed and expressed very now a crime punishable by neatly. Our only doubt is whe heavy fine and imprisonment ther a cynical brand of humour Herr Bofcher, a Danzig senator, is truly calculated to convince has been to Warsaw (it is said Japan of the error of her ways. more on the advice of Berlin than Mr. Ickes, indeed, like the re-on the inchination of the Danzig presentatives of all governments Nazis) to reopen the negotiations signatory to the Nine-Power with the Polish Government on Treaty should use the word "al-the rights and interests of Poland truistie" with extreme caution. in Danzig which were broken off There has certainly been nothing abruptly two months ago. altruistic about their collective situation is causing considerable endeavours to avoid taking any alarm in Poland, which is still practical steps to save China nominally responsible for the from her altruistically fanatical foreign policy of the city, and the friend across the Yellow Sea.
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Peace Talk
Peace talk as between Japan and China has been put more or
The
new anti-Catholic tendency, even if it did not interfere with num erous Polish citizens as it does, could not be allowed to go un checked
less into its correct relation to Juvenile Crime the realities of the situation. It
m-
is now obvious, from what has [been officially sanctioned both in In opening a new remand
Hankow and in Tokyo, that pos for children and young sibiities of an early patched up at Full the Home Sec peace are extremely remote. The nounced that he is mal truth seems to be, as we imagin-rangements for a scien ed, that Japan is not anxious to vestigation of juvenile crime and pursue the military side of the methods of treating it. Visiting argument beyond Nanking Dartmoor Prison recently, he Peace rumours have been design-studied the records of the cor- ed, therefore, to encourage such victs, and he was struck by the as are discouraged among China's discovery that in case after case leaders to grasp as the straw the first offences, often relatively which Japan is offering. For trivial, had been committ tunately for Chama, the number early age These
and there is gested, illustrated the
betrayal of trying to check a
of these is
no danger yet c
Robbery Epidemic
The epidemic- the Colony is o able outcome homeless refiige tung and lawless bomba daily
Kwangt
tems.
an even more
desperate deeds
obberies
the iney
swarm
crime at its first appeara
value of remand homes,
that opened by Sir Samuel Hoare, is obvious to everybody. Nothing than to can be more dan
pose a you
mt of prison
to the or she is
Kwang-awaiting the decision of the
critica form
alon
rre live
hood and the Volunteer
It is hardly possible to
the
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