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ELECTRICITYTM IN
ITALY.
NEGRO ROASTED | RUSSIA'S “RADICAL”
ALIVE.
GOVERNMENT.
RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF A { WHITE MAN'S MURDERER WHAT THE PEASANTS ARE
GREAT INDUSTRY.
RAILWAYS BEING TAKEN IN HAND.
While the recent advances iz Italy made by the electrical ladus try,
and especially the hydro electric part of it, cannot be com pared to the steps taken in the United States and Canada, yet
IN MISSISSIPPI,
CORONER'S VERDICT, UN. KNOWN CAUSES,"
Rome
(3ssissippi), December 31st-The body of a negro who had murdered a white man and abduct- his 19 years old daughter was burned by a mob here this evening,
THINKING.
"YOUTH " MOVEMENT DISSATISFIED.
·AUSTRALIA'S TROPICAL
DEPENDENCIES.
RISE "OF RABAUE.
WEALTH OF THE ISLANDS,
Is Australia developing her tropical dependencies to the bert advantage↑ Handicapped as it is Moscow, February stad (U.P.).— by lack of experience in tropical Public opinion abroad, in relation administration, having to bear also to the Soviet Union and its prob-the cost of caring for the native; lems, is centred just now upon the the Commonwealth might almost be confusing and exciting recent poli-excused a certain degree of failure
among European nations Italy's pro- After. mutilating the body. and tical developments, as reflected in in the matter of commercial expan greas in this held has been really firing a number of bullets into it the wholesale arrests of organizedsion in the Pacific. How much more
the crowd set it on fire, quite oblivious as to whether life was
extinct.
supporters of Trotsky, in the fate of Leon Trotsky himself, during the course of the conflict between the majority leaders of the Communist International and the "secretary-
general of the organization, Nikolia Bukharin, `etc, *
to the credit, therefore, is the record of the Mandated Territory of New Guinen, which manifests under the Australian civil administration the most, remarkable commercial pro-
outstanding. In 1920, there were 270 hydro-electric power stations in Italy with a potentiality of 933,500 kilowatts. In 1926, the Sgures had The negro apparently met with a tisen to 710 power stations with a slop death on his improvised pyre potentiality of 9,116,832 kilowatts.after being at the mercy of the mob
The fact that the expansion is" a Thermal electric stations; that is for seven hours. Over 2,000 people
These are indeed important mat-
healthy one may be deduced from stations using coal or oil for fact, looked on in silence while he was
ters which may prove far-reaching in shaping the future of the Bol-balance has swung from an excess the manner in which the trade also increased considerably during made fast to the logs with chains.. the same period.
Then petrol was poured over his shevik state. But public opinion in In 1990, there were 86 thermal recumbent figure and a torch ap-Moscow is much less excited over
of imports over exports-£23,109 in electric power stations in Italy, plied. He cursed the crowd almost the political sensations than people administration to a substantial 1913, the last year of German with 991,000 kilowatts power; in with his last breath. 1926 the number of each stations
excess of exports over imports. In the year which ended on June 30th 162, with 555,988 kilowatts
last, that excess was no less than power. The total electric power produced in Italy" by the industry
£859,194. This figure has been a in 1926 was about 2,000,000 kilo. watts, equivalent to about 3,830,000 b.p. Of this power 79 per cent. produced by hydro-electric plants. The annual saving of coal by the use of water power amount ed to 12,000,000 tons.
Was
WAS
Reduced Coal Imports. The complete figures for hydro electric development during 1927 and 1929 are not available, but the per-
centage of power now product by means of hydro-electric plants reaches about 87 per cent. of the whole production. The reduction in the total coal imports of Italy effected during the last ve years has been largely due to the growth of the hydro-electric・・ industry. North Italy produces by far the largest quantity of electrical power
ts
compared with the centre, true of both thermal and hydro South Italy and Islands This is
electric power,
To give an idea of how much better supplied with electric power North Italy is than the rest of the peninsula, the annual production of electric energy per inhabitant in North Italy is 300 kilowatts; Central Italy, it is about 200 kilo- watts; while in the South it only amounts to 31 kilowatts per in- habitant per year. In North Italy there are practically no villages of over 700 inhabitants which are not supplied with electric lighting. Nearly 88 per cent of all the com
unes in Italy have their electric light supply, the lowest average appearing in some of the out of the way villages of Calabria, Apulia, Sicily and Sardinia.
The proportion of mileage sup plied with high and low tension electric wires throughout Italy is considerably higher than even in the United States, where electrical supply has reached its highest development.
outside might suppose. The coun- try has learned from experience to discount the importance of such occurrences....
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The negro had admitted the erime, absolving two other blacks suspect ed of complicity.
The pyre was still burning when seen by a cor respondent, "who was informed" by
Its attention--and the attention persons apparently on guard over it that the body would remain there of the Kremlin itself is concen- until it was entirely consumed. trated with greater interest and The crime for which the negro was greater misgivings upon such un- lynched was a peculiarly odious one, baying been committed against sensational things as the climate, a white man who had defended him, the extent of the area sown with and a white girl who was torn from apring seeds by the twenty-odd "mil-
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steadily increasing one, indicative The Connoisseur's of the increasing extent to which the European population-chiefy Australian-is taking advantage of the vast natural resources of New
Guinea. In the first year of civil
the side of her dying father at the lions, of peasant households, and administration, the excess of ex-
"rife's point. The negro threatened
him. to kill her also if she did not obey similar matters pertaining to the next crop. The leaders, from Stalin Mias Laura Mac Keeler, a woman down, know that the fate of their planter, when informed that the fugitive was hiding on her premises and would surrender to her alone, cized a revolver, entered the hut where the negro was concealed, disarmed him, and started to the cepted on the road by the mob. gaol with him. They were inter-
The Coroner's jury later returned
Unknown."
verdict of "Death from Causes
ports over imports was £30,486.
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Shipping statistics illustrate the prosperity of the Territory very graphically, Tonnage which enter- present policy, and of their pered in the first year of civil admin- sonal position, depends much more istration totalled 31,334 tons, and upon the amount of food grown on
the value of the imports was In last financial year, the farms than on the disposition 2168,711 of Trotsky.
the tonnage was 106,728, and the QUARTS Bad Prospects for Crops,
value of the imports was £811,832. With the spring sowing under The value of exports has increased PINTS way the prospects are not to £400, 197; 1927-28, £1,471,026.
as follows:1913, £401,918; 1921-22, ...bright. The Press has already ad-
The BABY amount paid in export duty has mitted that the amount of land
increased from approximately below the official plans and 1921-29, to E82,500, without any planted for so-called winter crops is £7,000 in 1913, and 50s, mater pectations." A "directive been issued by the highest govern. ment and Communist Party on to obtain a spring acreage large enough to make up for the winter shortage.
The commanding officer of the not send troops to rescue the negro, State Militia, asked why he did replied that it was his duty to hunt for the negro and hand him over to justice, but not to kill a lot of people in doing so."
"DISLOYALTY" OF A SCHOOL STAFF.
WORRIED HEADMASTER'S
SUICIDE
A RESIGNATION.
Allegations of trouble between a headmaster and his staff were made at a Leatherhead inquest on Mr. Richard Arthur Goodwyn Brooker, aged forty-four, headmaster of St. James' Boys School, Weybridge.
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Hopes that the directive" will be fulfilled dwindles with every passing week.
Is it because the peasants simply will not sow more than they need for their personal use and for the payment of taxes? Or is it because, as the Press thunders day after day, the respon sible officials are not on the job Whatever the reason, failure to obtain a 10 per cent, increase in agricultural production in the cur- rent year (the announced objective of the Soviet powers) may have more serious consequences than all the illegal pronunciamentos of the
Trotsky supporters.
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Sgures shows that the total trade of the Mandated Territory has in- creased from £8,945 in the last year of German administration, and £967,908 in the first year of civil administration under the Com- monwealth, to £2,282,858 in the
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The increasing prosperity of the population and their, augmented purchasing power are reflected in the rise of Rabeul, the pest of Government, where imposing stores, and even a couple, of factors, are doing a thriving business.
Two banks are now operating in the Territory, one with a brunch establishment in New Ireland. Rabaul supports two clubs each with a large membership Kavieng even boasts a "mixed club, and A verdict was returned that he' As a human drama the Trotsky the residential hotels are always committed suicide while temporari-story is superb.. As a historical ful). Akhough many new houses ly insane, such condition of mind leason it will no doubt spawn books have recently been erected, there is being brought on by worry. and theories by the hundred, long a constant demand in Rabaul for Mr. Edgar Littlewood, father in-after all the actors in the drama more accommodation. In 1923 there law of Mr. Brooker, said that two are dead and gone, Buc, 18 an were 34 motor vehicles registered in years ago Mr. Brooker took up the immediate factor in the Russian Rabaul. There are now 283 motor post at the school. He gathered situation, it is too easy to exag vehicles and 43 motor cycles. from Mr. Brooker that the school gerate and over-estimate Trotsky's Kavicng, the administrative centre had been allowed to lapse into an
of New Ireland, reports the regis undisciplined state. He felt it bis
tration of 6 motor vehicles and 13 duty to improve it and was. couraged to do so by the managers.
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Removal Of Teachers. "Mr. Brooker did not do any thing personally to have any of the teachers removed," said Mr. Little wood, "but the inspectors or the school managers insisted, I ander
role.
same
"
It is, of course, chiefly the copra industry which accounts for this prosperity. Copra exports from New Guinea, which totalled 14,000 tons in 1913, 25,804 tons in 1929,
amounted to 63,285 in the last finan
WOMAN CURED AFTER 25 YEARS' SUFFERING
BY POO ON CHINESE HERBS. FIVE IN ONE FAMILY RESTORED TO HEALTHL
Mrs. F. Meinhart, who resided at
My boy Edward, aged 17, was 15, H. Street, Modesto Cal troubled with a pair in his side U.S.A., says: For 25 long years which caused collapse when he did I suffered with severe pains in my hard work. We had to see that he left side that at times confined me as exempted from High School to bed for days. I was unable to exercises because the pain caused do my work or move about." Along him to drop out. The doctor said with these came dropsy and stomach that he had appendicitis and that trouble. I was unable to eat very it would be necessary to operate if much without causing gas, pain be expected to be well again. We and distress. Words cannot express decided to try Poo On Chinese my suffering during these years. Herbs and after a few treatments My husband spent thousands of the boy became well and is now dollars seeking relief for me. I able to do all kinds of hard work have been to scores of doctors, without any more pain. inany of whom were rated as
Another of my boys, Fred, aged specialists of high standing, bus 21, had suffered many years with. none was able to tell me what was catarrh and became worse as time the trouble and relieve me. Almost i went on. He tried many treat every time I went to a doctor Iments and remedies without result was advised to have my side operat- but we can say that after taking ed upon or a change of climate for some Poo On Chinese Herbs he was my dropsy and stoinach trouble completely cured and has never Fortunately I was not operated been troubled since.
Immense Plants Erected. upon but my family and I have My daughter Blanch, a few years epent years seeking a climate orago, fell and hurt her side very
The problems at present facing medicine that would help me. We severely and since that time she Italy in the field of electrical energy left our home at Kansas and was troubled with pain in her side are the complete electrification of travelled to Alabama, Oregon and and was unable to find aarone or the railroads, with which great pro California: and there consulted anything that would belp her. The gress has already been made. All
The writer has heard intelligent many specialists of these States, poor girl suffered so much that the around the large cities of North
I have never had to quit work
and well-informed Russians of dif. motor cycles. A few treat Italy, such as Turia, Milan and but without 'avail. gotten any better during these ments with the Poo On Chinese Genoa, electric traction is almost
ferent types, some of them com. South of the years of traveling and doctoring. Herbs and the girl has been feeling exclusively in use.
pletely in sympathy with Trotsky, but became worse and more dis- | normal ever since.
Appenines, much less use is made
sthers opposed to the whole Bol couraged 25 everything failed.
My whole family cannot ex- of it, and in the South, the rail
shevik régime, make the Thinking a dry climate would help, press in words its gratitude roads continue to run almost en
point. They declared that Trotsky we decided to try San Joaquin towards Poo On Chinese Herbs. tirely with steam traction.
in his present state of mind has no Valley and came to Modesto to re They have brought health and The State mail railroad line, from
place in the Soviet experiment, ciat year. But with the enormous side. It was here after a time that happiness into our home and
period to a more practical phase there is no need to rely upon copra I heard of the great beneat of the have stopped the scemingly endless the frontier station of Medane to stand, that something should take which has passed from the heroic range of climate in New Guinea,
Spezia is entirely electrified, and is place. Poo On Chinese Herbs and the doctors', bills. We all heartily re- the longest stretch in Europe. Le & rent worry to Mr. Brooker, ly speaking, the Soviet régime has ready proved that the resources of "What did take place seemed to of economic construction. Relative production. Experiment has al- great cures accredited to them. At commend Poo On Chinese Herbs Many lines in the neighbourhood of
the Territory, agricultural and first I was sceptical and doubtful and have sent many friends to the Milan are run electrically, and all who thought that the friends of of necessity become
mineral, are unlimited-Sydney and thought that they were another Herbalist and in every case they with water-generated power. All the teachers were pointing a finger tive." It is more concerned with panacea. But I decided to go, have been benefited by Poo On the main lines of Southern and at him as the cause,"
the stabilization of the Soviet Herald. thinking in my distress, that there Chinese Herbs. was possible chance left. At the (During this interview regarding Central Italy have still to be elec Brooker was a conscientious man along socialist" lines-than it is time I went I weighed 125 pounds
"instead of criticising outside, and to-day I weigh 175 pounds 7 this story taken by a special repre- | trified, or about 65 per cent, of the who did not like to hurt the feelin revolutions in Paraguay or New entire system. Great hydro-electric sentative of the newspaper, Mr. F.
you'd sing another tanë. must say that the result of taking Meinhart, Sr., was present and plants have been constructed, oring of anybody.
Mr. Brooker told him that he
A Tragic Satelde...
Trotsky himself, Communists like Poo On Chinese Herbs must have said: "We are glad to tell anyone are in course of construction, was afraid that there was dis To a large sector of the working to say, wouldn't be a Trotakist it ben miraculous to me. After tak what Poo On Chiness Herbs have many parts The Sila plant in loyalty; one of the staff resigned population, especially the younger he were in power.
Calabria was inaugurated last year ing the Herbs I was first entirely done for my family.")
The determining factors of future cured of dropsy and
Thousands suffering from catarrh, by King Victor, while a new section on September 30th, and that worri- men and women who grew up in trouble and, after more treatment, bronchial and throst trouble, was added to the large plant at Mrs. Brocker, the widow, said the heroic" days of the revolu. political developments are likely to the pain in my side left and has asthma, hay fever, malaria, stomach Temi.
that her husband told her that the tion, this fact is an intense per- be economic rather than political- The Italian electrical industry strain was awful. She begged Renal tragedy.
grain, manufactured goods, foreign never returned. I have never felt
trouble, indigestion, constipation.
When Lenin announced his New oredits, rather than Trotskism or better all my life than I do to-day gastritis, piles, Sstula, heart and enjoys the confidence of Italian none of the teachers who had reaign Economic Policy, an ardent young Bukharin, and I own nothing but thanks and skin disease, eczema, scrofuls, narvestora, who have more than eighted to stay on
Her husband Communist threw himself from the The political effects, indeed, may gratitude towards Poo On Chinese vousness, insomnia, obesity, Lidney billions of lize locked up in it thought that the whole staff was
roof of a storey government build be felt more directly in other coun Herbs and Yes Foo Lun, the Her and bladder trouble, diabetes theu- Foreign loans for three billion have disloyal, He could not sleep, and
After years of suffering and after matiam, nauralgia, dropsy, prorr been placed in the tahan electrica on Friday morning he said that ing as a protest against the retreat tries than in Russia. While for the
hen, epileptic fita, paralysis, industry. The industry opposed an the school was "bell" He had from revolutionary ideals. the enormous expense of travelling tumours, ulcers, pimples, family effective resistance to the
same way about the course of the Government, he does represent a -and the endless doctors' bills, there trouble, dizziness, headaches, and movement in Italy of 1919-1922, and not a worry in the world apart saada of ardent young men feel the stitute a real threat to the Soviet. government at this time. Distress profoundly disturbing factor for is nothing that I can do but speak many other chronic diseases, have during the general strike of 1922, good for the Pee On Chinese Herbs been restored to health and happi- carried on its service with consider.
ingly and offensively "Red" though the Communist International Here, so-called “Leftism." and heartily recommend them
Four other members of my family ness, without poisonous drugs, or ably less interruption then other: The first assistant teacher at the the Soviet régime may seem to s
the knife by the Poo On Chinese Italian industrica
school said that there had been capitalist world, it seems more be legally suppressed, but abroad, to some people where the Communist Parties have: In 1823, despite the protests of trouble Mr. Brooker endeavoured" conservative have also been cured by the Poo On Herbs,
the "red" leaders, the Italian to. tighten up the discipline here. Chinese Herbs, which causes me to
no power to arrest and exile non- THE POO ON HERBS CO endorse them more strongly. My
electrical firms were one of the first People in the neighbourhood. did husband was suffering from a more YEE Foo Lux, Chinese Herbalist, to make labour contracts with their not like it, and some of the parents on his lip that was painful and Managing Directors, Main Office employers on the model of the talked of taking the children away, troublesome, and as he was a heavy Modesto, Calif., USA. Hang Fascist labour contracts, bringing and he heard that some of the boys amoker we believed that it was Kong Office: 66, Queen's Hood the whole of their labour, system thought of going on strike when turning to smoking cancer. He Central, Office Hours daily: 9am under the control of the Fascist one of the teachers resigned. consulted the herbalist and was to 12.30 p.m., 2 pm to 5. p.myndicates. Employees of the elec The teacher added that he did given some remedies and he was Evening Hours: 6.30 p.m. to 8trical industry in Italy enjoy a bethis best to support Mr. Brooker in entirely cured and the sore has p.m. by special appointment only. ter economic treatment than almost disciplinary measures, and had a
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