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1. Cut out catering to all the, What obstructions are put in, do not put up the SOLD deadheads from the interior of their, way? What offers of ground sign, give the stomp collectors China. They walk in here on are given those willing to sink as many as they require, with their own two feet, place them thell: capital in fresh buildings facilities for buying....don't die..
revenue courage them" by our at the Border and let which would bring in
present Kently them walk, but the same way. from nalen....revenéo from nechale methods. What was good Their own, Government never en taxes, and which would tend to encugh for our grandfathers sure- couraged them to sit on their alleviate that shortage.... Insteadly is not good enough for the
it present day. bottoms in idleness, they made of having a fixed idea that
Be Done....why nol them work and that is why they | Cannot
educate our minds to the Idea are here for a handout.
7. Forget these Socialistic ex.
Why?
5. There have been many acrimonious letters to the prças
perimenta and Government Con- By "WELL-WISHER“ about Z.B.W. Why? Nearly every
trol....Government Ofeials are
3. There is a moan from every body about insufficient house. Are people encouraged to hulld
What about Reoccupation Issue and a new Victory issue when Pence is nigned? This time,
Dachau View Of Nazism's Last Hours
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By Dick Turner.
COPD, 3005 BY NSA BERUCK, MA E HE REGU, A. WAY, DIY.
11-12
"Any, o' youse want myfing from de bank?'
A
Curdling Atom Bomb Warning
The radioactive Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vir- tually harmless, because they rose to immense heights and dispersed The editorial does not say how it
A hypothetical atomle bomb to be possibly twice as powerful, clouds from that could endanger the entire United Sintes by its radio active cloud blanketing the nation har been described by Edward Teller, noted atomic scientist, in the Bulletin of the Atomie Scientists of Chicago,
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
is proposed to keep one of these loads close enough to the ground
to do great harm to life. It refers
to
as a short wave and the can not business men, and only ob-
pro- struct those who can do Rome that It Can Be Done....it needs easily lister in to belter thing....if they were business hut a slight reorientation of grammes from abroad. These pro- en, they would be out working ideas. The Yanks did it during grammes are run by Commercial enterprise in which those In for themselves.
the war, why not us? Im- This City is not, big or
charge have to keep on their tip 4. Philatelists are interested in ten. Why not hand this service experi. portant enough for any
Why haven't they over to Commerce? It will pay ments....the flood of Indigents our stamps. from war tern China would soon been catered for? Who in respon and will not cost the Government schemes to Bible for the ahortsightedness?n cent....or am I treading upon brlog grandiose
Why cannot we put a new series someone's corns? naught,
market? Recollect the & Government Lotiories.... don't clart If this means resurrecting the nn the Immigration Ofice, O. Khut, Jubilee issue....the Centenary Now then Parsons,
Issue...the Victory issue?
ormonling, we are Hving in a make it Revenue Producing!
precarious present and not ambiguous hereafter. The Chur chea lo Australia started to scream when the New South Wales Government first propos- ત the idea of a State Lattery, thelr screams faded to Filence when that Government The decision to withdraw the
politely informed them that the idea would be dropped if they, privilege by which the Services have been able to obtain duty-
the Churches would furnish the sum that they would otherwise free wines and spirits since the
cllect. through the Re-Occupation,
We are deeply in the Red and
too Amujt
and NAAFI, has naturally caused as
"The beat thing for Germany barred window--about three hun- among today would be British dominion dred feet from us, a slow, tired, cannot afford Shanghai - Bangkok – Singapore - Manila mach adverse comment
those directly affected as the status," said Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, procession of forms, in blue and enctimonious. The Jockey Club financial wizard of the Third white stripes, barely resembling Sweep ran into high 1.gures and threat of Income Tax has among Reich, after his fall from grace human beings, apathetically push was popular. If they me permit
guards ed to du it regularly, why doesn't the civilian community of, Hong and imprisonment in Dachau. carls before them. The Kong. Apart from this one point This startling statement is re-narch up and down supervising Government enter that field.
or am I treading on corns again? book written by their work,
Lottery of common ground, the capacity corded in a
We can use their drums and to stir up a spirit of resistance. Schach's fellow-prisoner, Dr. Kurt on each cart there is a human von Schuschnigg, the last pro- body....On their return journey. there is, of course, no parallel to Hitler Chancellor of Austria, prisoners pushed the surne carts, have a monthly, or weekly Lot wrote his book, this time loaded with wood. The cry. This properly un, should he discovered. The strength of Schuschnigg
fering in that amount which Gov. the income tax protest rests very "Austrinn Requiem, partly in de macabre procession goes on
way--wooki ernment hope to get in by fence of his own policy during hours; corpese one largely upon the it of its crea-
come Tax, and which would be the another..... preceding four years tion af discriminatory taxation, Anschluss and partly to preserve In the midst of these terrible saintess extraction....nt present.
is howl raised against But in an editorial, the Bulletin and this is virtually acknowledged an historie picture of the darkest surroundings, Schuschnigg meets there
discrimination. The Chinese have does not give any details. in the official estimate of revenue period of modern history-seen some of Europe's ellie.
Although we are not suppos nore ways, of skinning n cat pointa out that the destruction of could ten square miles would not re- from this source, a mere $16,000,- from inside a Nazi prison.
Irrespective of one's own views ed to know that there are other than ever the Foriegner
I cannot quire
bomb uncrasonably 000, which can only mean that
concerning the
Dr prisoners with us in this camp" hope to think of, and wisdom of the Government candidly admits Schuschnigg's attitude during the he slowly notices them and gets magine that they will pay out greater than the Nagasaki bomb and consents to the limitations on four desperate years during which acquainted. On April 1, 1945, he a cent more than they can help. that followed Hiroshima by three The rake-off would be a lot days and was officially reported of money in nny language, 10. its ability, to collect. The de- he led little, disunited Austria's makes the following entry in his
the reader to Teller's article. Hjalmar why not jump in with both feet? cisiun to tax all liquors landed in realatonce against the Nazi giant diary:
"Alongalde with Dr.
But Teller does not discuse the, the unfortunate ex-Chancellor's the Colony, whether consigned to personal integrity and courage Schacht, General Hakler (former Catholic Irish run a huge sweep
radioactive cloud from as small a specifles. en-Chief of Staff of German Army) or the benefit of the Hospitals,...Attract Tourists! This is not amb as the editorial
คล the NAAFI or to cominercial in-commands respect. It also
E palliative, it is ing General Thomas, Admiral Canaris but the Irish Government takes.
ter He projects a bomb that is one- policy, a paying one to our local hundred-thousand and its whack first. terests. amounts, on the other hances the value of his book.
a million The book is divided into three (hanged soon afterwards) hand, to the removal of dis:
the howl that shopkeepers who would be only times more powerful than present German first- other members of the
I can imagine this will cause, but personally, I willing to countribute.
atomic bombs, grimination in taxation. It would parts. The first one is a
hand report on the events leading General Staff.
8: Trending on more corns, The brothel of our camp cp-prefer to be solvent oven though he too much to expect the Services up to the, dramatic interview be
The Yanks 'wiped up 'Al Capone the radiopelive clouds, fron he says would be so much to rejoice in this development.tween Hitler and Schuschnigg at posite our windows, was sudden my coat be a little threadbare.
I would like to print out, as and other Big Shots who hadni.
intimated,
en realer that they could spread can be asked is Berchtesgaden and the Anschluss. ly evacuated. The building now
that this paid income tax on illegal The most that
over the United States and en- The second part contains chiefly houses Prince Albrecht of Bavata already that they examine the situation Dr. Schuschnigg's political credo and his many children. The rea- would cut out the imposition of terprises. Couldn't there be a levy danger all life, if exploded komie-
his arrest wan merely Income Tax and 11s additional on the possessions of ame of ou calmly one day from the angle and the interpretation of his deal- son fur
European that he was the son of Crown still, when you would have the local Collaborators? The Chines: where west in the Pacific so that of the various
prevailing winds could carry the that they are not, in fact, being ings
Colony wholeheartedly support have done it, why not we?
loud across the country. After all, their illgotten gains imposed upon, but that, in every-Governments during those fate-Prince Rupprecht.""
ing It....I am not going to In- Out Spoken ful days,
in daydreams of what were derived from the very peo.
Still Dangerous day language, Government has Both the first and second parts
Schuschnigg says that the Gor-dtler
might come in from utside, hat, ple in this Colony, through thei caught up with them at last. Nei- contain well-known material,
the Jups. Th so Japs will to the whole World! And, ther in Britain nor in any other discussed proviously by Schusman geenerals in Dachau wes
pay reparations, maybe haps it is in a place like Palestine ed observers, and bring all ad/of Hitler and his Nazis. Too Intel does the Irish, Sweep and many j so, why not make their frieailerse in the same way as the part of the Empire (unless per- chnigg as well as by other qualin moat outspoken in their hatred de Calcutta Sweep was catering connections with
He praises Dr. Schacht as ne
cough up the same way. where the troops are still, for all
of the most intelligent Germansther Slate run Sweeps.
Just advertise that those send. Quaint Customs I have known," and relates practical purposes, under Active {
Third Part
7. Have we explored the coming in the information will ra exceedingly interesting conversa- do the Ser-
mercial possibilities of our quaint ceive a percentage, and then, le The third part, however-tion he had with him...
The Jops
the suspect prove from ballyhoo'd Service conditions)
When Schacht denounced Hit-customs? "Hitler'a vices obtain their drinks duty-entitled
Prisoner"-
Blossoms.. their source his miney and property week after the air bomb was ex free. No such thing was known sheds some new light on historic ler as an habitual liar, Schusch-thelr Cherry
There were no scruples in re- ploded over the target-flect, That in Hong Kong prior to the war, events and personalities reflect- nigg asked him, "Why did you Army debunked such tender sen- was obtained.
cloud, was by then completely constant threat of death.
Dr. Schacht swered, "That Drazon Boat Races?. Why not deder duress, there should be none harmless he says.
Teller predicts without detalla wards only, the evidence suggests, Making the rounds of Hitler's
more ballyhoo for in soaking those who deal with
other had reason to lo because of the setting-up of a concentration camps. Dr. Schur- Is very simple.
could win Hitler Tourists? They haven't been de. and comforted the enemy. Those that new kinds of bombs or
who can ride around in opulantuethods of destruction will come Military Administration. When chnigg saw and talked to many believe that
What more sentimental and cars and live in spacious houses, as no less of a surprise than did thing to interest Hiler in civil government was restored, of the most prominent captives over to my ideas. I tried every bunked yet."
of Hitler, -
Ho says that United States, by Particularly, during the last question of the colonies. I believ-cloying than the Mcon Festival? while you and I fight for stand. the blinding flash over Hiroshima. the question of terminating the
immediately months was
of the swastika Relch nd that the return of our farmer Encourage those who enthuse ining room in a tram and have to
briel colonies
ex those things, to stage processions double up in rooms for want of lispersion and counter measures, would have been
night fight and win an atomis most impotant ........Mon., Wed., Fri., & Sat. arrangement
raised, as was natural in the cir- when the
as they did during the Centenary better quarters.
war, and that a few thousand but decision
was soners were transferred from one tremely advantageous for rur
Tiroshima type bombs might kiir cuinstances,
prison to another as personal economy and I also believed that
only one per cent of American; postponed and it is only now, or hostages of the hounded Fuhrer. It was not an Impossibility to get
But he adds that would be war (FREIGHT) rather on April 1, the commence the former Chancellor of Austria them.
atomic fore with present type "Furthermore, I thought that many strange "dip- $1.80 per kilo.ment of the Colony's new finan-"enjoyed"
the plan with the colonies would cial year, that the abrogation of lomatic" encounters. .40
For instance, on April 17, 1945, be a safety valve, to relieve, the the privilege is to come into effect. Dr.
Hiller's WAT Schuschnigg writes in his pressure behind If as suggested in some of the diary: "M. Blum (Leon Blum, plans. In 1926 Hitler authorised correspondence, the purpose was now again head of the French me to go to Paris and London to to permit the sacrifice of the In-Government) and I was discuss. discuss the return of the German
ing old times today and we re- colonies. come Tax legislation, the Servicemembered that we had met once "After long and difficult con- man would have a legitimate before.
-versations I succeededat, lehet
-FONDLING A grouse. But certainly there is no "It was ten years ago when I in so far as that Paris declared
BUZZ SAW reason to predict any intention by went to Paris on an official alate they would agree to it in prin-
visit,
had eiple, and that London.did not and neither cf, u
an impassibility...
West was doubtful." the Government to abandon its thought then that we would get consider
Attempting rotallation against position on direct taxation. If to know each other in 1948, in the "But when I returned to Ger- an inveterate paychle bidder, by partner's call at first, so passed Trumps to see what Government has its way, we are concentration camp of Dachaut many and informed litter of the using his own tactles against him. the 2-No
of my trip, he declared is a highly dangerous procedure: East would do next. After the all to suffer together, and may talk with him, an exchange of result
ideas always gives
buzz saw double he got confidence, so pass new that he was no longer interested me
like fondling It is
the ed in order commiserate together.
to punish South. strength, new hope..I must say in colonies."
when yub don't understand Blum Confirms
the latter would have hai Your that I am obliged to the Gestapo
corsarn thing. Ordinarily
Maybe for having made possible my ac-
Dr. Schuschnigg adds: Inter safest protection is to be extra a better chance to get out of his The British bicycle industry quaintance with Leon Blum, in M. Blum confirmed every detall reliable in your own bids unless trouble if he had whom I have met a great of Schacht's story about his trip you, too, sre experienced European-and--- even more im to
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"Beaten but not disgraced" was the fairest comment upon the English team at the conclusion of
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"
Paris and his demand con monkeying with psychics, bortant to me fine and noble cerning the restitution of the
colonies"
character.” (a
Flossenburg
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The former Austrian Chancel ler. ex-ally of MussolinĮ,, emal phasises in his book that "tus- solini was unlike Hitler" and EM finds words of praise for the Outs B8-4 Duce's "Intimate and detailed 100 knowledge of every problem and DK73 results and the course of the series equal career with a better crown even every individual we discuss CAT10874 and, if luck were all "Test" than that of gallant defeat. Both ed."
"But on July 3, 1942, he notes (1") would be a misnomer. The Aus- will probably share a wish com
'in, his. diary:Mussolini (resign». tralians displayed a superiority in mon to all true sportsmen, that odt It is as if history could-ant every department of the game both could have won, For though forgo Ite. Irony,, since Mussolini's and though an Englishuman why it is true that while, the game is downfall comes exactly nine HANNO K 6.3. be pardoned for hoping that this on many, actually or vicariously, years to the day after Dollfuss
· Dealer: - North;;. superiority may be temporary, it experience agonies of emotion Schuschnigs' by predecessar
Chancellor of Austria) össässing- vulnerable.) would be unpardonable not to comparable to those described by
North acknowledge it. This series was Thucydides in his account of the Everything would have been PARIS 28
Pass Dbl notable for more than its result. Battle of Syracuse, so that traces different Mistelin had tied The repado” & was led and the If report speaks truly, they are of acidity may be found in the changed his course in 1037 Had
he adhered to the pact of Stress, 9 played Expecting another
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tain the fence then, switched and rant..
pe and the, but of the trick, for A
the last in which two exceptional brew of goodfellowship, yes had so beg co-operated with the spada, Bouth playvä loyz Tho, de- cricketers will take part. Brad, when the game is over, exaggers. Wasural PowordTaśma maitis to be congratulated on tión die away and there is full stat gún in; Central closing sparkling Test Match recognition that it has been hard in the Mediterrassen
wowk career with such substantial, vic and fairly fought Wlut lurvives tories. We condole with our own is in the lowers #chine and
ing them with paychic bids. But, this one time East really had "the goods."
about his
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This greater cloud would dia Japanese and Bikini bomb clouds. But it would still be dangerous. It would drift across the United' States the same
sclentlic Biudica Indicated that the Bikini cloud did last summer about one
tombs and says it is unsound to Imit our attention
to
present typen because he thinks bomba a powerful thousand times more
are easily possible,Associated Pres
Bike-Riding Ambassador To Britain
London, Mar. 18.-
now bld 3- hopes that My Lewis Douglas Clubs, but he felt that his part-will become the first bike-rid- ner would read the situation and Ing Ambassador at the Court rescue him.
North could have of St James. saved a lot of points by bidding The Cycle-Makers' Association 8-Dlamonds. His pass, he ex-president, Mr. George Wilson, plained, was because he was bo today informed the new Amuri- fuddled and had no idea who was can envoy that Bitish mah payching,
ufacturers wanted to ballot for the honour of giving him a new «-- bicycle
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Pressure of official business prevented Mr, Douglas from re- plying Pres
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