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NOTES OF THE DAY STATESMAN'S VIEW OF The Very Idea!
PURSUIT OF CRIME
Relentlessly, under the direction Motoring 1 of the Federal Department of Justice, the United States con- tinues to pursue the cines of criminal which has made a mockery of the laws of the land
NO MORE SQUEAKING!
CREASING SERVICE MAKES EASIER
EUROPE'S TANGLE
By VISCOUNT SNOWDEN
(IXTEEN years after the end of and of S Christianity. Yesterday, on
the Great War the war Ohio farm, the of the country's which was fought to end war most notorious "killers," a man Europe is dominated by the fear
wanied for the murder of a scora
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By George
ILL Hongkong come in- That was the meld test of the
to the zone of motor sincerity of the other Powers-of their willingness to accept a car silence which has cast drastic Unitation armaments..
of their own its pall over the metropolis? However much we regret some Already rendered practically
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of the manifestations of the Invisible by fog and smoke, "MOBILUBRICATION” blooded slaying of innocents, was conflict,
shot to death by a posse of Federal Great Britain was dragged into present femper of the German Londoners are now adding silent agenta. He was shot as he ran. the last war through the Con- people and these have done well-death to the other attractions There were fourteen wounds in hietinental polley which had dividod nigh Irreparable damage to the with which continental visitors body. At first glance such a thing Europe into two opposing camps, esteem in which Germany was held are lured to spend their monoy seems almost inhuman, to kill a The French alliance with Russia by vast populations in this and at Home. man in such a fashion. But there was aimed at the encirclement of oiler countries, and have supplied: is good reason why the officers can Germany and the Austro-Hungar- her enemies with the excuses they We feel that it is time to lift up tako no chances with such men as inn Empire, and Great Britain's Incked for their inimical polley to our voice and weep with Macbeth "Pretty Boy" Floyd. In the first understanding with France vir wards hor-we must admit that it with France and Russia in this years of humiliation and auffering. anti-German policy.
A nation of sixty millions of proud patriotle people cannot be kept permanently, in a position of With the experience of that war inferiority. atil in mind, and with the know-{\", ledgo which they now possess of
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pince they risk their own lives when tually committed her to take sides is in great part the result of langor, whoever it was who gang:
they against him, for he would
go not hesitate to kill again If he Saw A chance of cscape. The majority of gangsters prefer to hoot it out" rather than face trial and the delayed penalty for murder, and Floyd was such a one, He died as he lived, by the gun, and he is happily, one of the last of America's "big bad men."
LLOYD'S CENTENARY
of
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the policios, which caused the war, If the statesimen of Europe the peoples of Europe cannot offer would realise these truths and set
certainty of peace.
to-day".
armamenta
My Kingdom, for a horacl Good God! A real one, of
course;
Ak me, I can't recall the day When last I heard his pollant hray!
(Refrain.—hurrah! hurray!)
Horsos had their disadvantages,
Our motoring correspondent has
of the horn as follows:-
No more the motor car shali hoot
Its way along the street and ahont
The corners with a piercing
The horn for long a subject noot,
toot
Han got the Order of the boot.
No more will mellifluous astute With bloat and bells and blewa dispute
To warn each jay walker astute His safety margin to compute. Its bark is worse than bitò, the brutel
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the excuse of ignorance if they about drastically revising the as the road sweeper said, but for allow their statesmen to continue Treaty of Versailles, restoring real, solid labour and small con- to parsno similar policles which Germany to her position as an sumption give me the old Suffolk will have the same inevitable con-equal among the Powers, they white face. On October 21, 1834, Lloyd's aequences.
! would be doing something which Register appeared in re-constituted form as a Society representative of certainly not learnt the lesson of Europe and which, when the task written sadly to us of the death
The "statesmen" of Europe have would lesson the tension in Underwriters, Merchants and Ship the last war. They are pursuing the menace of war;
was accomplished, would remove owners. This famous marine in the old policies of seeking an Burance company firal commenced elusive security in military allian One of the greatest crimes of its operations in 1760, but the
ces and the increase of their the "Peace" settlements was the company na it now există camo lato
armaments, and being just 100 years ago. Then justify these actions through the
are trying to disruption of the Austro-Hungar-
ian Empire. for the first time the classification discredited fallacy that the bigger it impossible for her to exist as What was left of Austria made of merchant ships was placed on a sound basis, and the company may
the armamenta the greater the 1137 Independent political and look back with justifiable pride
The existence of
economic unit. She was denied upon the progress made during thin WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24, 1934.
century, and upon the high pince
assumes a potential enemy. That by treaty the right to become a attained in the confidence of the iden is the cause of the universal part of Germany, which would world. Lloyd's, as most men
fear and feeling of insecurity seem to be her natural destiny. AN EPIC FLIGHT
commerce know, is an association which are terrorising all Europe The result is that she is likely to become the prey of one or other of The amazing achievement of derived from that of the coffee of Insurance brokers. The namo fa
the powerful States which sur- round her. That would inevitably the two British airmen, Scott house of Edward Lloyd in Tower Ray Noble & His Orchestra, and Black, in having flown from Street, London, where merchants
No effort is being made to re-lead to trouble with Germany.
So now it's ordered to be mule. move the manifest grievances| The case of Hungary is one of England to Melbourne in Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees. under three days, thus shatter-ness purposes in the seventeenth and which, so long as they exist, bered States. She is powerless to
well met together for social and bust- which certain countries endure the most pathetic of the dismem-.And what price Diogenes now? B-6512 Little Valley in the Mountains-F.T.
ing to pieces all past records for century, and there first organised. will be a menace to the peace of assert her claims to justice by How will the neighbours know
In 1692 Lloyd moved into larger Freckle Face, You're Beautiful-F.T.
Ray Noble & His Orchestra. long-distance flights, has attract quarters where his house boom Europe. Instead of seeking to force, but her helplessness should that it belongs to us, that we are
ed worldwide attention. Whilst the great centro of business and which have inflicted
redress these wrongs, the Powers make a special appeal to the sense actually driving it, and that some Ray Noble & His Orchestra. Britons everywhere are natural-exchange in all matters connected engaged in formng alliances
them are of fairness of some of the Powors day we hope to pay for it, if we D8-6513 Mr. John Mackay
Sir Harry Lauder, ly delighted at the result of this with marine commerce. In 1896 maintain them by force.
to responsible for the wrongs which cannot warn them in noble tongue I'vo something in the bottle for the morning
sho feels so koonly,
of our passage? epoch-making race, the brilliance this enterprising proprietor found. This is the direct road to an Sir Harry Lauder, of
the feat is universally intelligence, which was renewed in cd
An appreciation by the framers Lloyd's News to supply marine other war.
of the Versailles Treaty of the acknowledged. Even the most Charles Fitzgerald, sanguine expectations have been 1726 as Lloyd's Post. In 1774 the
The chief cause of European un- inevitable consequences of delay make our spirited approaches upon rest, and the feverish efforts to in revising what Mr. Lloyd unsuspecting pedestrian relatives merchants, brokers and under- Charles Fitzgerald. {exceeded, for never for one mo-writers appear to have complotes increase armaments and to form George described na
the "harsh without warning them, but this B-8151 Simple Avou (Thome) Marek Weber & His Orchestra.ment was it thought likely that their union for the common benent defensive pacts, is to be found in and cruel terms of the treaty small compensation for the tonie sol the Treaty of Versailles and in the five years ago, when Germany was a practise with which we were treaties which dismembered the controlled by far-seeing states- went to Begulle the weary waite Austro-Hungaran Empire. Until man, Dr. Stresemann, would have between corners, these treaties are revised there sverted the developments of the will be no peace in Europe, and last two years in that country. the aggrieved nations feel them- war will only be postponed until selves strong enough to try to
Now, if Germany is driven to wrest by force the justice which try to obtain her rights by force the other Powers deny to them. of arms the guilt will not be
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past achievements would be out and in 1871 the Society of Lloyd's the shade. was formally incorporated by Dutch and American fliers made
Parliament. Individual under brave attempts to capture the dependence in business transactions
writers were given absolute
in honour, but Scott and his com- but were required to deposit large panion, although facing serious securities. A committee appointed trouble in the final stages, al by the members manages the affairs ways had the whip hand of their of the institution, and has done nearest rivals and in winning since the foundation of the Society,
wholly hers but mainly that of the contest brought glory on
the Powers who, by denying her themselves and on the high FARM WORKERS' WAGES
That is the crux of the European | justice, have deprived her of faith; standard of manufacture at-. The plight of the agricultural situation; and in the meantine the and hope in anything other than
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. tained by the British aviation worker in recent years is shown all policies of Great Britain, France, the strength of her own arma- industry. No greater tribute to too vividly in wage statistics recent Little Entente, now apparetly with
and Italy, and the nations of the ments.
By Juliet Lowall. the reliability of British may disclosed in England. In the past the support of Russia, are aggra- fight to maintain the iniquitous if war comes, is Great Britain to
Oh, Yeah? chines could be wished for than three years 42 out of 47 Area Wage vating the situation, and giving provisions of the Versailles Trea- Volce of Experience programme, that this Comet plane of ing from one to four shillings a
Committees have made cuts vary the aggrieved nations every rea- ty? This is the question the Z.B.W., two six-cylinder engines should week from an average wage levo son to believe that there is a con- British people may have to answer. Hongkong. have been able to stand already as low as 318, 8d. It incorted determination on the part If a British Government would Dear Voice of Experience:" up to the tremendous strain clear from this that whatever good of these Powers to keep them in have the courage and statesma My husband works late nights. ship to declare that they will Should I interfere because it will a flight involved. is done to the employers by disubjection by force. Of equal merit is the endurance guised or undisguised subaidies. Nations because she believed, and against Germany so long as her pretty secretary, but you can ece Germany left the League of full no commitments to go to war undermine his health? He has & and navigating skill of Mr. Scott Ye little is passed on to the rightly believed, that the other admitted grievances Infileted. by how busy ho le because he's never and his co-pilot. The route ment has been visible alnce
labourer. Happily, дл improve
Jast Powers were determined to deny the treaty are un-redressed, their had time to take notice. covered by the airmen was over autumn, and it is important from her equality in armaments. She action would result either in the eleven thousand miles; that it all points of view that this should made an unprecedented offer to rovision of the treaty or it would should have been flown in less continue.
accept any measure of armament, put the responsibility for war than three days is a truly
however modest, which the other upon those Powers which were astounding performance. The
Powers would impose upon them-determined to perpetuate those selves. previous record for an England-
wrongs. One comforting bit of business Australia flight was over six news is to be found in the Dun and daya. It is noteworthy, also, Bradstreet tabulation of building. that some of the machines parti permits In 215 leading American cipating in the race at times cities. This tabulation shows touched something like
alight but definite upward trend in two hundred miles an hour.
the building industry. A total of When Us. $34,000,000 worth of building. we contrast these figures with was initiated in August, for in the speeds attained in the carly stance. This figure represents a days of flying, some idea can be small increase over the gares for gained of the tremendous ad-July- rise of 1 1-2 per cent. ta vance which has been registered. be exact; and that, very small in- Twenty-five years ago, M. Bleriot case is significant when startled the world by flying decline from July to August of
recalls
that there is usually a across the English Channel, a about 9 per cent. Furthermore, distance of less than thirty the figures for August are 6.3 per miles, in something over half an cent, above the figures for the same. hour. Contrasting that
month in 1933. One seems justif formance with Scott's wonderfuled, then, in concluding that the feat, we get some impression of revive. Unfortunately, the revival building industry la beginning to the Immense strides which have has a dismayingly long way to go. been made in the realm of avia- This figure for August, 1984, la tion, and our finagination is apt less than a quarter of the figure for to lead us to conjecture where August, 1930. Even a email riec it will all end. By a system of something to be thankful for, but relays, with fresh machines and do very much good.
it will have to get much higher to pilots flying night and day, we can envisage the furthermost corners of the earth being reach-tion to get itself placed on the ed within the space of a couple map aerially, many of the pre of days. From these thoughts, sont obstacles could be overcome. we turn to Hongkong's future Let us hope that the revelation as an air-port. Unhappily, des- of the possibilities of aviation pite all the progress that is be-made by the big air race will ing made, there is no marked have the effect of ongendering a sign of enthusiasm for aviation spirit of determination, leading in this Colony. It is true that to definite action, amongst those the matter does not rest wholly who are anxious that this in our own hands, but if Hong. Colony should no longer lag be kong showed a serious disposi
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