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The proposals which President Roosevelt intends to submit to Congres for approval, Folating to his new economie policy. follow vary closely the lines already fore- shadowed. He is making less than he might have done. promature disclosure of certain revolution ary schomes having permitted too strong a marshalling of opposition forces, but those that remain are Important enough. The power of varying tariff rates will be dole rated to the President, who may A magneto of wonderful
upon the conclusion of reciprocal Characteristics and numer-
trade agreements cut them in half. ous advantages
In short, trade barriers are to come down to permit the passage RANGE OF TYPES AVAILABLE into the United States of the goods of those countries who are willing in to accopt. American goods exchange. GREAT POSSIBILITIES
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THE MACHINE AGE
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· 1934
BRITISH BLACKSHIRTS The Very Idea!
gress.
camps.
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BEING DIFFERENT By Eddie Kelly, Kola Hitter THE other morning we
Telt inspired
We wanted to do some-
Not so long ago a man could fly across from Paris to Hong- kong, and be hailed as a hero. Even women do that now.
It's always beon the kami. Even when we developed mess- les, three other kids got it. We thought we would be original by keeping white rabbits, but wo were outdone by two chaps with a snake and a Beard:
Everything'a commonplace nowz- days. Everybody dodges thu shroffs at the end of the month. If you tried to swim the harbour you'd meet. someone swimming across the other way.
Thongkong Telegraph posible, be kept under control. majority of their inhabitants was twenty-one, died famous at Trafal- Hangkong.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934.
TEXTILE TALK DEADLOCK
reduce
BRITAIN'S PLAN
that.
Thousands of people shoot hunter has discovered a snake in his tigers every year. Every.
bed. What fisherman hasn't lost the biggest fish he's ever soon!
If you travel to the North or South Poles you And them brist- ling with the flags of almost every nation in the world.
We give it up. There's noth- ing fantastic left to do.
We made our last effort last. weck; on the coldest day of the year. We reallaed that it would bo a waste of time going put cause the whole of the Colony, trying to do something different, would be there.
By LORD-ROTHERMERE
Crimes committed in the cause of CHEER ignorance is an obstacle
that every new political de sociallam are crusily condoned by velopment has to face at its start, people who can find excusea for the The hysterical abuse and misslaughter of the 2,000,000 victims representation at present being of Russian Bolshovism. Yet the poured out on the British Black-least violence upon the other elde shirt Movement have had their closes their eyes to the national the patriotle and dis- counterpart at each successive value of stage of our constitutional pro- ciplined enthusiasm of the Black-thing that would be different. Something that would make A hundred years ago Liberalism This patriotism and discipline was just as, black a begy as "Hit-set a practical example to the people whisper about us as lerism" is to-day. Because the young men and women of Britain. We passed them on the street. advent of Liberal principles in who are being defrauded by Old Something that would make France had been accompanied by Gang politicians of the share to the Revolutionary Terror, masses which they are entitled in the con- other newspaper reporters of stupid but quite sincere people trol and organisation of their coun- take off their hats when they
The two nations in Europe to-apako to us. in this country believed that the try's affairs. slightest concession in the way of social legislation would lead an today best pleased with their own
But it was no usu,. There's the guillotine being set up in front Governments and most confident nothing original left nowadays. of the Royal Exchange.
about their futuro have both de It is a similar type of timid veloped that spirit under the lender to do. alarmists who all this last week ship of young men for Mussolini have been whimpering that the rapid was under forty when he became growth in numbers of the British Premier of Italy and Hitler reached Blackshirts is preparing the way the Chancellorship of Germany at far a system of rutorship by means forty-three. No other Prime Min- of steel whips and concentration isters in the world exercise such power or are greeted with such Very few of these panle-mongers overwhelming manifestations of have any personal knowledge of the national trust and enthualaam countries that are already under whenever they appear in public. Blackshirt government. The no- tion that a permanent reign of
During the creation of the British terror exists there has been evolved Empire, young men were at the entirely from their own morbld head of the various activities of The severity of the depression imaginations, fed by sensational our own people also. Pitt was which has dealt its blows se in-propaganda from opponents of the Prime Minister at twenty-four; Wolfe won Canada by the capture discriminately for four years may, party now in power.
of Quebec at thirty-two; Clive when it has blown itself out, prove to have been a blessing in disguise. If they had visited Italy and laid the foundations of our Indian
Even the Loch Ness Monster Laissez faire in economic matters Germany, as I have done, travelling Empire at the same age; Warren
is no longer orliinal. No sooner The around and observing the national Hastings became its Governor- has gone for all time.
does he appear in the newspapers Machine, which had become the life in all its aspects, they would General at forty-one; Nelson, whe
than another one is discovered in Master, will, as far as humanly find that the mood of the vast commanded a frigate when only
Infanta in arms can play nut cowed submission, but confid-gar before his forty-eighth birth-
are Technocracy as a doctrine may
day; and Wellington had com- Tschaikowsky. Centenarians have been somewhat discredited, ent enthusiasm.
Can any sensible being belleve pleted his long and victorious able to remember 1066 and all but the underlying principles which gave it a hearing are accept for a moment that it would be pos- milliary career at Waterloo when ed as factors which can be ignored sible for any party leader, however he was forty-six. Yet nowadays no longer. Men of all countries ruthless, to flog 67,000,000 Germans an able and experienced politician are now concentrating their atten- into active co-operation with his like Mr. Duff Cooper is still in the tion upon the problems of sound policy? Is it credible that the en- subordinate position of Financial national economy, involving de-ergetic young Fascists who have Secretary to the War Office at the the whole life and age of forty-four, and is never- liberate planning and regulation. transformed
80 triumphantly na an instance of precocious and An early difference of opini- The wave of economic nationalism spirit of Italy, and are bringing theless regarded by his colleagues on has arisen between the Brit-to which the need for organisation their country
has given birth must be purely a through the long world-slump, conspicuous success.
As a man of sixty-five myself I ish and Japanese delegations passing phase unless the world is should nil the time be working un-
its lving der the dread of a dose of castor say, quite dispassionately but em- which are seeking to reach an prepared to
oil?
phatically, that our elderly states- The folly of this anti-Blackshirt men have long outlived their use- Agreement for the restoration standards all round,
campaign-when it is not deilber-fulness to the country. They have of stability in world textile
ate falsehood-lies in the fact that survived into a new age with which markets. The point at issue is
it stresses minor and Infrequent they are entirely out of touch. the geographical area to be
It is encouraging, therefore, to aspects of a great movement as if Their whole endeavour is to to Repulse Bay for a swim be
clude from political office those covered. The Japanese view
find Britain and the United States they made up the whole.
Our Socialist Press, for example, young men and women whom the is that action should be con-giving a valuable lead. Britain
is constantly denouncing what it changed times in which we live fined to the British Home and has been pursuing a studied policy, calls "the horrors of the concen-should long ago have brought into Colonial markets. Opposed to similar to that now formulated in tration camps." Te some of its closer association with national this is the British submission Washington, for the last eighteen readers, whose memories carry back affairs. It is of urgent necessity mouths, the Ministers most con- a little more than thirty years, for the younger generation of that the end in view cannot spicuous in the movement being those words must have an oddly Britons to follow the example not Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Mr. familiar sound. A generation ago in Germany and Italy, and assort possibly be reached except on
Walter Runciman and Mr. Walter the "horrors of the concentration its own clalma to governmental a basis which covers the whole Elliot. The British plan falls into camps" were already a tople of responsibility. world. It is pointed out, with two parts-foreign trade and pro-violent reproach and abuse-only ductive Industry at home. Ju then Germany was the accuser and good reason, that if it were a
foreign, trade, Britain has nego Britain the accused. mere matter of dealing with
tiated systems of exchange, the question within the restrict promoted by proferences-or-quotas, ed limits suggested by the with nearly a score of countries.
With others, where extreme Japanese delegation, theretionlism has been more extreme, would have been no necessity Government is prepared-as shown in the little brush with France for a conference. In such case,
now likely to be terminated Britain could herself take what happily to bargain under the she considered appropriate act- threat of retaliation. The prin- ion to deal with Japanese com- ciple was plainly stated by Str petition. The whole object of John Simon this week. Britain is prepared to take more commodities getting the British and Japan- from any country which is ese industrialists together is to pared to open its doors to British seek an agreement covering all Froods. markets in which the trade in- terests of the two nations have been clashing. Britain.
If these measures were purely would not course, is not concerned with Protectionism, they fighting the battles of other command support. Above and be hind it is the principle that British countries, but she does desire industrialista must improve their the evolving of some modus methods of production and market- operandi whereby stability in ink. Agriculture in all spheres under Mr. Elliot's driving force world markets can be assured. has been extensively reorganised. This can best be achieved by The Mines Reorganisation Com- has warned colliery mapping out
into mission the world
owners that if they do not come specified areas, and reaching a
into schemes for large-scale pro- mutually satisfactory agree duction they will be compelled or ment which would cover each closed down. The iron and steel and all of these by means of industry is heeding Government warnings: even the cotton trade, the regulation of exports there- always backward in its excessive to. It is not alone in British individualism, is coming to heel. territory that Japan's commer-The main trades of the country cial penetration has been felt, will finally emerge as highly
unified groups, working to There is, indeed, hardly a mar- ket which has not been affected nationally, planned schedule. If the programme is not interrupted by it, and the aim of the by too apeedy a return to prosper- British industrialists is to secure ous times, the Great Depression a working agreement to cover will have been worth enduring. the whole world. There can obviously be no stability until such an understanding is reached. The London talks have now been adjourned until next week, and it is to be hoped that
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The British Blackshirt Move ment is the Party of Youth. Its leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, is only The German public were just as thirty-seven, and a man-of-proved believe that British courage and outstanding ability, ready to 11.
soldiers in South Africa were ill-well fitted by his gifts of person- trenting the Boor women in the ality and eloquence to marshal the concentration camps of that day as vast but neglected energies of his our own credulous Socialists are own generation for an effort of to accept the bloodcurdling stories national reconstruction similar to of Nazi brutality which are being that which has imparted such circulated at the present time. vigour to Italy and Germany.
The idea that this new factor in That isolated outragea may have occurred in Germany, is possible. our political life is linked with
foreign But in comparison with other re some
organisation has no prevolutions for smaller in scope the foundation whatsoever. The Brit- world ajah Blackshirt Movement is one Germans have set the model of moderation. The recent hundred per cent. constitutional Socialist revolution in Spain has and national. Persuasion, not vio- already cost much more blood than lence, will be its path to power. flowed during the whole process of Blackshirts use force only in self- the rise to power of the German defence against the attacks of re-
(Continued on Page 7.) Nazin.
NATHAN RD. DESECRATION
怎
If
"Vandals Among the Trees," the heading we gave yesterday to the Announcement of plans for the in the Interim the Japanese de-wholesale destruction of Nathan legation will perceive the wisdom Road's avenue, fairly reflects the of dealing with the problem on attitude of Kowloon residents, comprehensive lines. Failure of it could truthfully be contended the conference to reach an that traffic necessities require such agreement will inevitably mean ruthlessness, the inevitable would that the British Government be accepted, if with regret. As will have to step in and seek by things are, and congestion talk borders on the ridiculous, the diplomatic means to secure such official sentence is regarded as action as will regularise the hasty and ill-considered, as medd. position and remove cause for ling for want of something better complaint...
to do,
"We have to budget pretty close; so much of Claude's salary
goes to pay alimony."
We decided to do something original by not swimming on the coldest day of the year. So we stayed at home.
And so did everyone else.
"STONECUTTER'S MONSTER" Not a sound was heard, not funeral
noto
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As our course through the jungle we
hurried Net a thing did we see but as Indian
goat And a rabbit or two that we worried
We searched all the day and best
part of the night
In reply to a call of distress
A report had come through that a
man caught sight or
the "Monster" escaped from
Loch Ness
Then the newspaper people got hold
of the now And set off hot foot on the trail I'm thinking they must all have been
on the boo20 For here in their; curious tale
It appears that while hunting they
heard a big Bob And proceeded at once to explore: And they cropt slowly up in a
bloomin' great mob
While the sobbing increased · more
and more.
Then they stopped in their tracks.
for the sight that they saw Made them all-e'en the bravest turni
pale
Twas a two headed monster and
clutched in one paw Wan a page of the South China Mail. Then this two headed monster, An
Scotch accent, spoka, And explained to them it was sore "Can you beat it" sold he, "do you
think it's a joko
To be shown in the press as 'n boar”-
I came to this faland in sock of
rolcase.
From advertisements dealing with
"Shell"
But now that I'm here I can stil
get no peace
And I wish you would all go to h-1 Then his eyes filled with tears and.
he turned in a rago And said "why don't you leave me
alone?
By the news that's contained in this.
China Ma page
I've been hurt to the innermost Bose The reporters did all that they could
to repurit
And with fly white hands noothed.
bis. brows
Saying all that was published was
with good intent
At the samo tima retreating with.
hows
And the last that we heard from the Stonecuttera freak........
When he fully recovered from shock. Was a message to say, he was leaving.
next wook
Vid Suer for homo in the Loch. T. 8. BOWLER,