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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY STATESMAN'S VIEW OF The Very Idea!
PURSUIT OF CRIME
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By George
Relentlessly, under the direction of the Federal Department of Justice, the United States tinues to pursue the class of
By VISCOUNT SNOWDEN criminal which has made a mockery IXTEEN years after the end of That was the acid test of the of the laws of the land and of
VILL Hongkong come in- Christianity. Yesterday, on
an
the Great War-the war sincerity of the other Powers-of
to the zone of motor Ohio farm, one of the country's which was fought to end
their willingness most notorious "killers," &
to accept a car silence which has cast man
trastle limitation of their own its pall over the metroolis? Europe is dominated by the fear armaments. OUR NEW AND EFFICIENT· wanted for the murder of a scorn
of gang rivnis and for the cold-of another and still more terrible. "MOBILUBRICATION" blooded slaying of innocents, was conflict.
However much wo regret some Already rendered practically of the shot to death by a posse of Federal
manifestations of the Invisible by fog and smoke, Great Britain was dragged Into present temper of the German Londoners are now adding silent agents. He was shot as he ran. the last war through the Con-people-und.these have done well-death to the other attractions There were fourteen wounds in his tinontal policy which had divided nigh irreparable damage to the with which continental visitors body. At first glance such a thin Europe into two opposing camps. esteem in which Germany was held are lured to spend their money seema 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 other countries, and have supplied IB good reason why the officers can Germany and the Austro-Hungar- her enemies with the excuses they take no chances with such men aslan Empire, and Great Britain's lacked for their inimical policy to- our voice and weep with Macbeth We feel that it is time to Hft up "Pretty Boy" Inives when tually committed her to take sides is in great part the result of long
Floyd. In the first understanding with Franco vir- wards her-we must admit that It or whoever it was who anang:
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place they they go against him, for he would with France and Russia In this years of humiliation and suffering. not hesitate to kill again if he anti-German polley.
BAW
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Baw a chance of escape. The majority of gangsters prefer "shoot it out" rather than face trial and the delayed penalty for murder, and Floyd was such ona. He died as he lived, by the gun, and he in happily, one of the Inst of America's "big bad men."
LLOYD'S CENTENARY
A nation of sixty millions of, proud patriotic people cannot be inferiority. kept permanently in a position of
If the statesmen of Europe
My Kingdom, for a horne! Good God! A real one, of
courac.
Al me, I can't recall the day When fast I heard his gallant bray!
(Refrain-hurrah! hurray!)
Horses had their disadvantages,
Our motoring correspondent has
of the horn as follows:-
With the experience of that war still in mind, and with the know- ledge which they now possung of the policles which caused the war, the peoples of Europe cannot offer would realise these truths and set. the excuse of ignorance If they about drastically revising the as the rond sweeper said, but for allow their statesmen to continue Treaty of Versailles, restoring real, solid labour and small con- to pursue similar policies which Germany to her position as an sumption give me the old Suffolk On October 21, 1834,
will have the same inevitable con equal among the Powers, they white face. Lloyd's sequences. Register appeared in re-constituted
would be doing something which I 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 Jessen the tension in Underwriters, Merchants and Ship the last war. They are pursuing the menace of war. owners. This famous marine In the old policies of
was necomplished, would remove surance company first commenced
seeking an Its op
operations in
clusive 1760, but the
security in military allian- One of the greatest crimes of company as it now exists came into armaments, and are trying to sruption of the Austro-Hungar- ces and the increase of their the "Peace" settlements was the being just 100 years ago.
Then for the first time the classification Justify these actions through the inn Empire. of merchant ships was placed on
discredited fallacy that the bigger sound basis, and the company may certainty of peace.
the armaments the greater the it impossible for her to: exist as look back with justifiable pride
an independent political and upon the progress made during this
economic unit. She was. denied century, and upon the high place idea is the cause of the universal part of Germany, which would assumes a potential enemy, That by treaty the right to become al attained in the confidence of the fear, and feeling of insecurity seem to be her natural destiny.
world. Lloyd's, as most men
of
merchants. brokers and under-
The existence of armaments
What was left of Austria made)
An appreciation by the framers of the Versailles Treaty of the
revising
No more the motor car shall hoot.
shoot
Its way along the street and
The earners with a piercing toot:
The horn for long a subject moot
Han got the Order of the boot.
No more will mellifluous astute With blast and bells and blowo dispute
To warn each jay walker astulc His safety margin to compite. Its bark is oorse than bite, the brute!
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24. 1934.
AN EPIC FLIGHT
commerce know, is an association which are terrorising all Europe The result is that she is likely to B-6511 Drifting Tide-Foxtrot
The amazing achievement of derived from that of the Ray Noble & His Orchestra.the two British airmen, Scott house of Edward Lloyd in Tower
of insurance brokers. The name is to-day.
become the prey of one or other of Spellbound-Foxtrot
coffee
the powerful Staten which sur- Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees. England to Melbourne in well met together for social and bust-which certain countrios endure the most pathetic of the dismem
and Black, in having flown from Street, London, where merchants
round her. That would inevitably No effort is being made to re- lend to trouble with Germany. 8-6512 Little Valley in the Mountains-F.T.
mova the manifest grievances under three days, thus shatter-ness purposes in the seventeenth and which, so long as they exlat, bered States. She is powerless to The enge of Hungary is one of
So now it's ordered to be mule. Ray Noble & His Orchestra. ing to pieces all past records for century, and there first organised. Freckle Face, You're Beautiful F.T.
And what price. Diogones now? long-distance flights, has attract In 1692 Lloyd moved
will be a menace to the peace of assert her claims to justice by Ray Noble & His Orchestra, ed worldwide attention.
Into larger Europe. Instead of seeking to force, but her helplessness should that it belongs to us, that we are How will the neighbours know quarters where his house became redress these wrongs, the Powers make a special appeal to the sense actually driving it, and that some- Whilst Sir Harry Lauder, Britons everywhere are natural-
the great centre of business and which have inflicted them are of fairness of some of the Powers day we hope to pay for it, if we ly delighted at the result of this with marine commerce,
exchange in all matters connected
engaged in formng alliances Sir Harry Lauder, epoch-making race, the brilliance this enterprising proprietor found-
In 1696 maintain them by force.
to responsible for the wrongs which cannot warn them in noble tongue of the feat is
This is the direct road to on-
aho feels so keenly. universally Lloyd's News to supply marino
of our passage?. I Novor had a Chance (1. Berlin)
Charles Fitzgerald. acknowletiged. Even the most intelligence, which was renewed in
other war. Charles Fitzgerald. sanguine expectations have been 1726 as Lloyd's Post. In 1774 the
True we are now at liberty to. Marek Weber & His Orchestra, exceeded, for never for one ma-writers appear to have completed
The chief cause of European un-Inevitable consequences of delay make our spirited approaches upon rest, and the feverish efforts to in
what Mr. Lloyd unsuspecting pedestrian relatives incrcuse Marek Weber & His Orchestra. past achievements would be nut and in 1871 the Society of Lloyd's treaties which dismembered the controlled by a far-seeing, states- wont to beguile the weary waits
armaments and to form George described as ment was it thought likely that their union for the common wete defensive pacts, is to be found in and cruel terms of the treaty" mall compensation for the tonie eol the harsh without warning them, but this in
80 completely in the shade. was
the Treaty of Versailles and in the five years ago, when Germany was practise with which wo were Dutch and American fliers made
formally Incorporated by Parliament. Individual
Austro-Hungaran Empire. brave attempts to capture the dependence in business transactions
writers were
under these treatles are revised there averted the developments of the
Until man. Dr. Stresemann, would have between corners. given absolute in- honour, but Scott and his com-
will be no peace in Europe, and last two years in that country. panion, although facing serious securities. A committee appointed
but were required to deposit large war will only be postponed until trouble in the final stages, al-by the members manages the affairs selves strong enough to try
the aggrieved nations feel them-1 ways had the whip hand of their of the institution, and has done fearest rivals and in winning since the foundation of the Society.
wrest by force the justice which the other Powers deny to them. the contest brought glory on themselves and on the high FARM WORKERS' WACES standard of manufacture at- ained by the British aviation industry. No greater tribute to the reliability of British ma- chines could be wished for than that this Comet two six-cylinder engines should
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And think of the policeman, shushing us with finger on lips at every cross-roads; Imploring each Now, if Germany is driven to walling victim of our chariot to try to obtain her rights by force keep silence, and blowing his nose of arms the guilt will not be loudly to drown the passage of the wholly hers but mainly that of
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By Juliet Lowell. Oh, Yeah?
That is the crux of the European worker in recent years is shown all policies of Great Britain, France. The plight of the agricultural situation; and in the meantime the too vividly in wage statistica recent and Italy, and the nations of the ments. three years 42 out of 47 Area Wage rating the situation, and giving provisions of the Versailles Trea-Voice of Experience programme. ly disclosed in England. In the past the support of Russia, are aggra- fight to maintain the iniquitous Little Entente, now apparetly with If war comes, is Great Britain to Committees have made cuts vary the aggrieved nations every rea-ty? This is week from an average wage level certed determination on the part plane offing from one to four shillings
Bón.to believe that there is a con- British people may have to answer. Hongkong.
the question the Z.B.W., to stand already as low as 318, 81. It
If a British Government would Dear Voice of Experience: -
My husband works late nights. ship to declare that they will Should I interfere because it will Germany left the League of fulfi no commitments to go to war undermine his health? He has a Nations because she believed, and against Germany so long as her pretty secretary, but you can see rightly believed, that the other admitted grievances inflicted by how busy he is because he's never her equality in armaments. She action would result either in the
owers were determined to deny the treaty are un-redressed, their had time to take notice. made an unprecedented offer to revision of the treaty or it would accept any measure of armament, put the responsibility for war however modest, which the other upon those Powers which were Powers would impose upon them-determined to perpetuate those 'selves.
Wrongs.
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of
up to the tremendous. strain clear from this that whatever good of these Powers to keep them in have the courage and stateaman-
is which such a flight involved, is done to the employera by disubjection by force. Of equal merit is the endurance guised or undisguised subsidics, and navigating skill of Mr. Scott Very
little is passed on to and his co-pilot. The route.
the labourer. Happily, an improve- covered by the airmen was over autumn, and it is important frons ment has been visible since last eleven thousand miles; that it all points of view that this should should have been flown in less continue. than three days is # truly astounding performance.
The HOPEFUL FIGURES previous record for an England- Australia flight was
One comforting bit of business over six news is to be found in the Dun and days. It is noteworthy, also, Bradatrect tabulation of building that some of the machines parti-permita in 215 lending American cipating in the race at times cities. This tabulation shows a touched something like
slight but definite upward trend in hundred miles an hour.
two the building industry. A total of wo contrast these figures with was initinted in August, for in- When S. $34,000,000 worth of building the speeds attained in the early stance. days of flying, some idea can be small increase over the figures for This figure represents a gained of the tremendous nd-July-a rise of 1 1-2 per cent, to vance which has been registered, be exact; aut that very small in- Twenty-five years ago, M. Bleriot recalls that there is usually
crease la significant when startled the world by flying decline from July to August across the English Channel, a distance of less than thirty the figures for August are 6.3 per about 9 per cent. Furthermore, miles, in something over half an cent. above the figures for the same hour. Contrasting that per month in 1933. One seems justin- formance with Scott's wonderful ed, then, in concluding that the feat, we get some impression of revive. Unfortunately, the revival
building Industry the immense strides which have has a dismayingly long way to go. is beginning to been made in the realm of avia- This figure for August, 1934, la tion, and our imagination is apt less than a quarter of the figure for to lead us to conjecture where August, 1930. Even a small rise it will all end. By a system of is 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, sent obstacles could be overcome. we turn to Hongkong's future Let us hope that the rovelation 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 engendering 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 in our own hands, but if Hong-Colony should no longer lag be- that this kong showed 'n serious dispost-hind the times.
"If you're looking for that list of things' you'd do if you were.
dictator, I tore it up.
Yours truly,
Hannah B
(alynod).
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It's Too Grave A Question. Voice of Experience programme, Z.B.W..
Hongkong.
Dear Voice of Experience:
My name is Miss Grave and I've fallon in love with a Mr. Tomb. What do the signs of, the Zodiac any about such a combination.
Hopefully yours;
Genevieve Grave.
-:(migned).