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TUESDAY, AUG, 21, 1934.
THE GERMAN PLEBISCITE
NOTES OF THE DAY ENGLAND'S GENTLEMEN
OF THE ROAD
SEVEN-POWER PACT SNAG
agreement.
MEANING OF PACT
Po-
Its
counted by the man who knocked a
5
A
The Very Idea!
FOOCHOW TRUTH By George
In answer to correspon-
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HOLY AUSSIES.
It is now hinted that Germany's
blank permit,THE tale of the pedlar who of the Institution is entitled to refusal to faign troops to march comes to one's doct offering order it search of his belongingo through German territory in his meagre packets of often scent-if he is suspicious that the vagrant future war, la one of the main
the concinnion of the less lavender, his cheap cotton boot- is bringing into the institution any- Idents we have to repeat our obstacles to
Eastern laces, or his dog-eared copies of thing which is prohibited. proposed Beven-power European pact of mutual assistxt year's predictory almanack nightshirt of a specially strong last week's assurance that ance, and may prove to be the rock sivey and cause to wonder. Almont material is provided, preventing all is well at Foochow and always his story is practically word tendency on the part of some that the bandits have on which the pact scheme will for word the same as tooted His suppor consists of eight ounces established
casunla to rip anything tearable.
themselves in The project, it finally collapse. will be remembered, envisaged a short time before. He tells of no of bread, an ounce of margarine, the City and expressed plea- defensive and reciprocal military work, no prospects of It in his own and a pint of tea. After sleeping
Czecho
town, no money, and little food; in clean bedclothes he is provided sure in their new quarters. between Germany, Poland,
Latvia, Lithu
and he emphasises his willingness with a breakfast ration similar to
After the bundits had captur Esthonin and Russia, with
to do work-if only he can find it. that served at supper, and is then France in the role of patron saint
This problem of the increasing expected to do a day's work. Bo-ed the city for the fifth time last
of on the we received and Italy entirely and Britain system but ita cordial beraming more and more odious ance before the local magistrates; wech, Wo Mayor that the only well-wishers. Germany and
Every county in England has this and probably seven or fourteen bandit in Foochow was in the land have hitherto declined to over-flowing stream of vagrants days imprisonment. Those refus museum, and that the alleged. dance to the tune of the French with their neatly-tied packa or ing to do their allotted tasks are captors must have taken another and Russian pipers and it is their unwillingness to join which has requer attacho cases, and their comparatively few and far between. blocked all progress in the negotia-requests for help cloaked under the The work is chiefly stone-breaking city in mistake.
pretence of selling paltry wares. and wood sawing, while some of Wo hastened to point this out tions. Objections to foreign troop
Flotsam and jetsam of humanity, the older men are called upon to to sur special bandit correspondent For and the mistake has now been transpors through Germany have they are of an elualve and peculiar clean wards and polish brass. now become one of the main, if not type. these men on the roads dinner there is half a pound of remedied. In the absence of any the
principal source of Berlin's They are not the vagrants of a few bread, two ounce of cheese, two further telegrams from the Mayor opposition to the pact. Germany years ago. The unwashed footpad ounces of ment, and four ounces of it must reluctantly be assumed that has made it clear also that she with his nobbly stick and white-vegetables, If due to go out in the the city has been razed to the must have equality of armaments spotted red handkerchief bundle. morning he gets bread and cheese ground and every inhabitant, dead before she is ready favourably to his billy-can and Jack-knife, is a to take with him.
or alive, put to the award. consider adherence to the proposed thing of the past. He la supersed Appearing at the same institu
ed by the man who is looking for flon oftener than once a month work. Frequently, he is middle means that he must put in. three. aged, claims to have been hard hit days' work. So casuals go from It is on record that after hearing by shipping depression in particu-institution to institution, some of Saturday's Test score many Aus- lar or the trade slump in general; them proferring, when they have tralians went to church the follow- Assuming that the pact, as now and, far from being a beggar In the obtained money for food, to sleeping day. They were taken round envisaged, were operative, France true sense of the word, is some-out instead of going into a casual by an official and shown keenness would be obliged, for example, to body "down on his luck" requesting ward, thus avoiding delay on their in the old building and its contente, rush military aid to Russia II so friendly assistance in a time of dis- The master of one institution having been put carefully through
way as
well as the day's work. Many of them stayed to service were attacked by Poland, or to tress. The man who ejecta a Foland if she were invaded by the volley of choice oaths when his feckons that if the route mentioned the various exercises beforehand Soviet army. Similarly, say, if wares are not purchased sums up is strictly adhered to, the vagrant by an usher.
committed
aggression his own character, the householder gets about eight baths in three Germany
A representative of the English, Czecho-Slovakia or Czecho-hurriedly closing the door with the weeks.
community was inconic but choorful against Germany, France, Inward entisfaction of knowing The average casual may tell you when interviewed on the Test match. Russia and the other pact partners that "No" was the proper reply. from whence he comes, and that "Everybody has been most kind," would be constrained to help the The superstitious householder pur- he is looking for work. That is he said and slammed the door victim of aggression. There are cha
chases the almanack; the generous about all. With the
unusually viciously lo our representative's of verbose example more than a tinge face. many other similar situations refuses the begrimed packe of Betion is apparent in his "life which could arise within the pact lavender but gives the
The favourite tune at the local family, in case one or more of members grow bellicose. In sucher or two. When the ever story." The records at the various cabareis was "Who's afraid of the
increasing number of such de trades and occupations school him if you can!"
institutions show a a queer medley of big, bad mann, Don Brad man, catch emergencies, the passage of foreign mauda necessitates a negative reply tra troops through one of the signatory and the vagrant departs with a teachers, engineers, clerks, plas countries would be essential. To well-spoken expression of regret terers, music hall artistes, seamen, this contingency, Germany. em- and sorrowful look in his eyes one fishermen, electricians and a major That Herr Hitler still com-phatically cries, "No!"
is left wondering. It is difficult to ity of general labourers. Many of determine whether one is refusing them are confirmed wanderers mands the confidence and alle. giance of the great bulk of the PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT
a genuine crac. At any rate, with the wander lust born in them: is impossible always to be giving others have set out with the object people of Germany has been
of trying to get work and found demonstrated very clearly by the
Although, the result of the plebiscite which dispate appears to be vague and
troop-transport NOT "THE GREAT UNWASHED. the life of the road to their liking:
and a few, a very small number; Wyatt explains that his hands confirms him in the dual office academic in these, in a manner of this moving section of the popula-scano town where they think work owing to having boiled eggs for No longer can the members of have the set purpose of getting to were rather tender on Saturday of Reichsleader and Chancellor. speaking, peace-times, it would
breakfast. It would have been surprising perhaps beconte. A life-and-death ion be referred to as "the great lis obtainable.
of armed conflict. unwashed." Regulations atipulate The ages of the men entering ·Weather forecast: Rain' (very had the polling yielded any other wou the problem in itself now. that as soon as he enters a casual the Institutions, it is noticeable, unfair): Windy. (depending on the result. But the figures also
(and for this purpose be are chiefly between 45 and 65 years, rain) Cloudy
for another Ward It has arisen before--in
(prospect indicate that there is to-day less connection. On that occasion, too, obtains a ticket at the focal police There is a uprinkling of younger M.C.C.): Hot (anyway); Tough enthusiasm for Hitler and Nazi
station) the casual has to be mon of twenty or under. Interests (on
.): Unsettled (many the controversy centred
around bathed. There is plenty of soap, in their own towns, family ties, bets). policles than there was at the Ger
won her Germany and Germany time of the Reichstag elections point. It was after the signing of and hot and cold water. He is various social centres, and pro- in November. Taking count of the Treaty of Locarno in 1925 that provided with his own towel. His vision of sports for them account are taken into safe for the comparativa absence of the invalid votes as well as of the question arose (since Locarno possessions those which were definitely cast was conditioned upon Germany's custody for him, while the master young men, against Hitler, it is seen that no
future membership in the League fewer than five million people the League covenant would oblige of Nations) whether Article 16 of
TEST CRICKETERS' ABSENT WIVES registered their opposition to the the Germans to allow foreign Nazi regime. It is signifleant, soldiers to march across their soil." also, that half a million people in Germany then made a unilateral THIS year, to an even greater ex-of Cricket Control upon the marri.
before, the ed members of the team. Berlin voted against Hitler declaration, which France, Italy and Australian Test team have something like ten per cent. of Belgium as co-signers of Locarno found themselves in an atmosphere
and recognized. It pro- the voting populace of the accented Germany would be of affectionate sympathy in this "APPARENTLY unsympathetic A is a phrase used advisedly capital. When the fact is borne obliged to participate in warding country. Consequently a number in mind that the whole of the off the attack of
of people who, in previous years, In reality this course adopted by Two years before, he had been"
un- the spoiled darling of society; had propaganda resources of the one of the Locarno group only "in- never thought about them or their the board is far from
attended State were marshalled in aid of sofar as that participation take in-four except when they were actual sympathetic. The team came a ridden to the Derby of 32 on an by forty the Nazi cause, and that the to account Germany's military ly on the ground, follow the details long way on a very serious pur- elephant,
At Hounslow, he anti-Nazi elements dared not position and geographical situa- of their daily existence with pose, Married life, so a bachelor mamelukes.
Eager interest.
would suppose, with its common kept open house for the riff raff of And one of the first things to interests and anxieties, must have the political clubs; the Duke of strike the sympathetic observera distructing effect, perhaps not Devizes and Pat Mulligan ("The Is the condition of enforced bachel- least because it provides ordom Imposed by an apparently audience before which
an O'Potato" on they calod him) sensitive fought duel there with horse- unsympathetic Australian Board. (Continued on Page 10.)
pistols; It nearly brought dow Lord Grey's ministry. Dr. Flute lost £100,000 there at picquet, play- ing against Captain Chancey;
the Captain bought himself the com- mand of a regiment and was sub- sequently shot for cowardice. As for "Jack" Bogus, he floated one company too many-the last baby Bank the d-d'ship," as he can- didly put it, from the dock. The
Third Power en
*
tion." By acknowledging this pro- attempt any organised campaign, 110 cause for wonderment is pro-many's right to forbid the passage nouncement, France agreed to Ger- vided by the circumstance that of foreign troops in case of war so many people voted against the Feuhrer. It is, indeed, a hopeful sign that at least five million THE ALTERNATIVE Germans are prepared to think for themselves and to resist the If Germinny joins the projected pressure which would transform Eastern Pact, she will forfeit the them into political robots. At right to ban troop transports. On least this number of people, and the other hand, if the other six possibly many others who for members of the proposed. Eastern Locarno permitted Germany to reasons of their own hesitated to enter similar reservation con-- commit themselves against Nazi-cerning the new pact, the mutual. dom, look with disfavour on assistance part of it would be shorn Hitler's. policies and methods. of most of ita value from its Birth. To the outside observer, it has For its purpose is to guarantee long been matter for surprise reciprocal military assistance to a that a great, intelligent, thinking victim of aggression and that aid could be effectively rendered-In people like the Germans should certain possible future wars-only submit to the imposition of a if French, Russian, Polish, Czech bureaucracy which would rob or other troops were permitted to. Germany. It is them of the right to exercise march across their own views and opinions. small wonder that the The development can only be war in which the Russian Red of a explained by a widespread fear
army or French battalions Invade that the State was in danger of Germany-evon en route to some being totally submerged by sub-neighbouring country. But there versive activities, and that the it is. European diplomats will be. times called for an abnormally amusing themselves, in a way, concentrated measure of central during the next few weeks in trying control. in which the rights of to solve this seemingly Insoluble the individual were to be made pact puzzle, the alternative to which tó bo the much more danger- aubservient all along the line to ous unilateral France-Russian the rights of the State. Such a military alliance... rigorous form of dictatorship,
inclined to jib at the pans are
however, cannot prevail indefin- ^a da
itely among an educated, politic that the German people will not ally conscious people. In other always rest. content with being words, the political thought of kept in leading-strings-politic- advanced peoples! cannot, be ally. And the anti-Nazi vote of rogimentised. Room muất ba | Sunday may possibly be the found for varying shades of be-first outward indiention of the lief. That right denied for any inward yearnings of the people. length of time must have serious for a larger measure of liberty repercussions. From these con- than that permitted under the aiderations, the thought arises existing regime.
tent than ever
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EA
"Bill's a card, lan't he? He certainly put a into this party."
A special "I told you so!" cable has been received from Larwood. who says: I would never have allowed Bradman and Ponsford, to go so far as they did. I would have olminated the men one at time and then hit their wickets. I should certainly have had a voice in the matter.
CONTRIBUTED.
TO-DAY'S CENTENARY. July 28, 1934. Arrest of Lord Bogus
for fraudulent conversion. Heartless, handsome, debonair "Jack" Bogus, third Viscount and
eighteenth Enront The line died with him; as he wrote to his alster, Pamela, from a sponglug-house in
Islington, "I have perpetrated overy folly but matrimony."
word "bogus" derives from his
name, of course.
邮
RAIN IS GOOD.'
You will, we are sure, be pleased to hear news from Home that the League of Willing Water Savers, recently formed at Little Wopping- ton, is going along like a house on fire.
Would that we could
post them,
ទេ
some rainclouds!
Already they have 19 members
all pledged not to use a single spet more water than they can help, And talking of water. Dr. Nicodemus Grype has been telling that rain has tonic effect on our bodies and minds nearly as the great as that of sunshine; that tittilation set up by the drops trickling down our necks is good for the nerves,
and that we do wrong to dodge indoors every time there is a shower
The thing to do, we understand, is to take full advantage of every downpour by removing as much of our clothes as the police will per- mit, and letting the good molaturo. atroam over our tired bodies.
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