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THE CONVERSION OF HONOLULU REPRESENTA
MR. SCULLIN
HOW A LABOUR PREMIER MET A CRISIS.
TIVE
TO MEET LOCAL BUSSINESS MEN
Mr. John Hamilton, Man-
DEATH FOR BRIGAND
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FOR ALL PURPOSES
KAIPING
SENTENCED BY HIS UNION
Kang on the President Hoover on
Monday, September of He is Paris making a trip to the Far East in the interests of the Pacific Foreign Trade Council which is to moot in Honolulu on May 4, 5 and 0, 1938.
RESORT,
Corsican brigand Caviglioli, whose action, in holding up the town of Guagno-les-Baine and killing a visitor was recently sentenced to death by his "union" of fellow-briganda,
Having regard to recent develop ments in the political and Ananeinlager of the Honolulu Chamber of MAN WHO HELD UP CORSICAN situation, it is of deep interest to Commerce in arriving in Hong study how Australia faced her difficulties, and we therefore give the following extracts from the speech which Mr. Soullin made in moving the second reading of the Australian Debt Conversion Bill.
This was a Bill to ratify un Agreement between the Common- wealth and the State Governments for the conversion of the Common wealth and State Bonds in order in meet the financial crisis through which Australia was possing
It was a remarkable speech be cause Mr. Soullin, ex-miner, or grocer, ox-labour organiser, andly abandoned the socialistic ideals of which he had dreamed when ho took office. Cold, finazuial facts had killod Mr. Scullin's version of
Beocialism in our Time "M Not only did he enforce economies in all directions, but die called on all sections of the community to make sacrifices He did not finch, tant of some great Conservative and and his speech might well have been Imperial statesmant p
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"It is hoped to include in this It appears that the bandits of meeting, representatives from all Corsica have a kind of professional the important cities bordering on organisation to protect their in- the Pacido, Mr. Hamilton storests, and their honear, and they specially interested in securing a regard what Caviglioli has done as
delegation from Hong Kong and Manila
likely to bring discredit upon them. If any of the business, men er Their indignation has been express the Colony are interested in meet- ed in a letter which Bartoli, who ing Mr. Hamilton, on appolit ment may be made through the reigns in the mountains over forty office of the American Trade Com-outlaws, has addressed to a number missiotier,
of prominent people.
Bartoli's letter states that in It calls for sacrifice on the part of their secret meeting-places in the of the manufacturers, the pro mountains they have tried Cavig ducers, the wage-earners, the penisli by default, and that he will sioners, and the bond-holders. Sacrifices are never pleasant, and shortly have to expiate a crime any plan which calls upon all which has brought dishonour open a sacrifice will never be warmly police should not trouble any fur sections of the community to make Corsican bandite
ther about the Gragno murder and robberies, but leave the outlaws to execute their justice..
supported in any quarter,
The idea apparently in that the
Outlaws' Organization.
And what gives the following ex- The whole proposal is as complete tracts particular points that when as it has been possible to make it he was in Australia Mr. MacDonald in the time at the disposal of those spoke on Mr. Scullin's platform.who attended the conference in- They should be read with the great Melbourne, It means, of course, est interest by all politicians par-that we have to swallow nasty Not all these outlaws can pro- ticularly those with Socialisti medicine, but it must be swallowed, perly be described as brigands, impress with. median the alternative to it is a perly any them try to live with: Australia is confronted with the more serious condition of the body out robbery. They are all how gravest crisis in its history; certain-politic
ever, men who are wanted by the palico on charges of murder or serious crimes of violence. Most of them have been sentenced to death by default.
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red of provisions and ammuni
ly the greatest financial and The responsibility rests upon economic crisis in its history. For every member who is elected to this many yours we enjoyed bigh prices Parliament, wherever he may, for primary products exported over who has an alternative to this plan
We borrowed very largely to submit it to the House. It has overseas, and, between receiving been my life-long ambition to uplift be explained by the fact that most The attitude of the bandits may high prices for our exports, and the people, and improve the stan of those who are wanted for murder maintaining a high average rate of dards of living, and it is a crushing decline to admit that they have borrowing, we were living undor, disappointment to me that as Prime done anything dishonourable. They conditions that were somewhat Minister I have to introduce legis have killed people in quarrels or artificial, Recently there cama alation which envisages the lowering in fits of jealousy arising out of very sudden drop in the price of of existing conditions
love affairs, but the honour of their exportable commodities, together Honourable members will realise corporation does not allow them to with a cumplete cessation of bor- that the duty is not pleasant. It kill for robbery. They levy small rowing oversens, and these two fac will be easy for honourable members but regular tolls upon more In tore have greatly aggravated the to quote declarations by me that the abiding neighbours, and, thus as- Snaucial and economic depression. Government would not agree to re- To deal with this situation, a conduce pensions 1 have said that Treasurers and the Commonwealth it I meant it, but I would sooner
of State Premiers and again and again, and when I saidtion, are content to remain in their forests and mountain retreats, organet Prime Minister and Treasurer met eat my words and do the right thing lawed, and is now probably no more
Caviglioli is therefore doubly out in Melbourne recently and faced than follow the wrong course in ur aafe in the wilderness than he would this alarming position, which we der to be consistent. It will be easy be in the civilisation from which ho realised called for emergency mea for critics to utter cheap encers at fled. When forty bandits have de sures. Prior to the summoning of me and others, but while I am satis-clared that he shall expiate his the conference Under Treasurers, fed that I am adopting the right crime, it may be safely assumed that economists, and others had been set course, I can afford to ignore such he will be shot at sight. to work to gather information, so gibes. A that the whole position might_he It is the greatest disappointment placed before the conference. The of my life that, after two years as picture presented to us was any thing but satisfactory. It showed an alarming growth of deficits and serious reductions of revenue, and that the position was not gradual ly, but rapidly, becoming worse,
I must say, fr. Speaker, that the
leader of the Government, I am un CATHEDRAL "FIELD DAY.” able to say that the conditions of
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the people are better than they TWO BISHOPS TO PREACH ON were when I assumed office; but wa have to face stern facts, and I say frankly to the old-age pensioner, the war pensioner, the public ser
SUNDAY,
something of a "fold day" on Sun day next when there will be a Bishop preaching at both the Morning and Evening Services.
atmosphere of that conference was vunt, and the bondholder, Al- St John's Cathedral is to have one of very great gravity. Its though we are proposing to reduce members represented all shades of what you are receiving, the cut is political opinion, and realised that they were facing a grave national being made in a legal and orderly way in order to preserve to you emergency. In that spirit we d more than you would get in the proached every problem put before us, and all agreed that something event of default." had to be done.
To preacher as 11 am will be the Right Rev. John Hind D.D.. Those who advocate the rejection the Bishop in Fukien, who has of this policy must put forward a been many years in China, He is practical alternative, or declare to one of the many Irishmen from An agreement was casential, and the world that Australia will go Trinity College, Dublin, who have the men who attended the confer on as nt, present until July, and done such fine work in Fukien that once had to accept their individual, then default, paying to its servants, the Province has become known ALE responsibilities, renlising that ́ng- tional safety was involved. The less than 12 in the £ Such At the Evening Service at
its pensioners, and its bondholders the paddy field of China": facts of the position were clear. We policy would not reflect much glory p.m. the preacher will be the sat for three very strenuous weeks. which caused every members of the apon them I know that they dr Right Rev. H.V.K. Mowll DDA clare that the talk of default is the Bishop of Wostern China. He conference great anxiety, "and great distress in many cases; but a planonsense, and that the banks will got his Trial Cap for rowing at come to our rescue. They have a Cambridge and came out to, Szech- was eventually agreed to,
sublime-child-liko faith in bank wan in 1922. Somo years ago he Some of the economies proposed ing institutions but bankers will with some other missionaries were in this plan are most distasteful
not risk the solvency of the in-captured by bandits and held to to every member of the Govern-stitutions they control to save any ramsom for several weeks before ment, and, I believe, to every mam Government or individual from being released. ber of the Parliament and every default.
Both preachers will have inter person in the community. Were it
not for the gravity of the position lieve that more could have been of China in these unsettled times. And who can blame them? Je eating things to tell of the interior nothing would have induced the Government to accept this plan done by them to release credit in and it is expected that large Except that there is no alternative this time of depression, but we have number will be at the Cathedral to but default, with consequent disas.received notice that the limit of our hear them. ter, to Australia, some of there prowe must now rely on our own ra credit has been reached, and that posals would not have received. à
sources, choosing between Home moment's consideration,
But what were we confronted measure of sacrifice, such as the with 1 The Commonwealth Bank Government is proposing, and de- had announced that the limit of our fault in July. For two reason the overdraft had been reached. When Government will not allow the an announcement of that kind is country to default.
A FORGED NOTE.
LIGHT SENTENCE ON CHINESE.
The case in which Kwan Chun, 21. was charged with uttering a forged #1 Strait Settlements Government note and possession of another one, was concluded before the Kowlood Magistrato yesterday when the defendant was sentenced to one mooth's imprisonment and ordered to find sureties totalling 8250, fail- ing which he would have to serve another period of three months.
to business men realise that they must thereafter One is that that would bring depend entirely upon their own re greater hardships on all our people, Bources. That is the position of the and the second is that it would Government. We must depend upon bring discredit and dishonour upon our own resources, which are taxa the nation which I have the honour tion and the reduction of expandi. to lead at the present time. The furc
way of acrifice is not a primrose The Government is of the opinion path, but it in the only one open that the sacrifices involved in the to us under existing conditions, and plan which was adopted at the can we are forced to tread it.CA, ferenco will fall evenly on the com- My carnest hope is that all munity, and that the failure to sections of the community will When the case was resumed, de accept these sacrifices will involve realise the gravity of the position, the country in default, force the Joyally support the conversion plan rationing of our payments to meet and courageously, if not choorfal our obligations, involve the whole.accept the inevitable sacrifices, community in intense hardship. If we, as a people, pat our should and destroy the credit of Australia ers to the wheel, and resolutely facro
fendant intimated that he wished to altor his plea to one of guilty. He added that the notes were given him by a friend who had returned from Singapore
It will be recalled that the defen
to such an extent that it will not four diflculties, my bope and belief ident bought a pair of shoes with recover for many yosra?
is that the nation will win through the forged note, and had received- (Üontinued on next folumn.) to safety and greater prosperity 20 cents changé, ma
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