THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 24,1
1934.-
HOSTILITY AND HATRED OF EUROPE
ARGUMENT FOR CLOSER UNITY OF STATES
By G. WARD PRICE
NAKED BODY IN BARREL
JEWELLER FOUND MURDERED
PICKED UP "HITCH-HIKER".
Strenuous efforts are being made by the police at Columbia, Ohio, to unravel the mystery concerning the discovery of the naked body of an Englishman, Mr. Alvin Brunner, in a barrel stuffed with sheets.
Europe had two shocks recently; įsimilar fourfold set of the country (1) The Yugoslav Government whs entering. denounced Hungary in terms that Of two frontiers 'I was hated
The sheets around the body have doclare peace between those two before higher ofeinls to explain countries to be in peril:
the suspicious fact that I had now been identified na those of a business. Basociate of the dend (2) A new defensive pact be-copies of The Daily Mail Inman, Mr. Merz, a jeweller who
most Centrul tween France and Russia against casion.
lent Mr. Brunner and his scere- Germany was asseriest to existropean States foreign netary's bed at his shop at Columbia That has bern denied.
papers are regarded as politienl More developments of this kind dynamite. A log list innst be during negotiations for a business Mr. Brunner was an itinerant
may be expected, Europe's poll-examined to see if they have been dea),
| jeweller,
Lical trials are severe. The tempo prohibited.
WASTE OF TIME
I
Mr. Bronner was last seen alive of internationat discords is quick-
by Mr. Merz hefore he left for ening. The nations are, taking up One must waste time and moneyDayton, Ohio. When, however, Mr.
going to consulates to get "tranni
their battle-stations.
Merz returned to his shop, he found 1 have just come back, from avinas" for countries that one will blood stains on the mattress of a bed tour of Europe. Its Foreign pass through while asleep. For and that sheets and revolver were Ministries, embassies, newspaper longer stay, police registration, missing. offices, and other
identity cards," and "jermits of political information have been residence" are required. familiar ground
for
years.
to
of
In all that time I have never heard so much hatred and hostility talked in those plners as is being taked now. The mood of early 1914 was by comparison one of haleyon enim,
A considerable pool of blood on the mattress indicates that the body Every British exporter is baffled must have thin on the bed for a by the problem of how to get paid long time, according to the pollee. for his goods. Ruropean banking The barrel in which the body was day is a perpetuai juggle with found had been taken from a near- blocked curreneles,"
"resister by restaurant, and hence the police marks," and a fantastic confusion think that the singer must have of regulations and restrictions,
Taken his time, planning how to gef Would America, have ever beeld of the body. A description has The materials of another Mazerome the great nation she is it she been issued of the dead man's are heaped high upon the con- bad set up the same barriers on seeretary. tinent, Unless something is done! the frontfers of each of her 18 to prevent it--far bigger than has States as Europe maintains on yet been attempted n expret-those of her score of principal ed Incident will before long supply countries? the spark to set them Haming.
NOBODY WANTS WAR
James
People to whom I talk on these Inex knswer; Nobody wants war." That in perfectly But nobody wanted the worlds slump. Yet it came,
War is the result of wrong- headed polly, as the lump was the FL It༣༠s;
In wrong-bedded finance.
youn
who
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The most interesting clue in the ssession of the police is a letter shown to them by friends of the death man. The letter is from Mr. How odd it would all seem to Brunner and tells how he picked visitor from another planet! He up, while motoring wear Hamilton, world foil Europe in the strangle, cihlo, a man who wanted to enter hold of nationalist Jealousies nil, into his employment, war-fears; her population deelin Mr. gul Mrs. Baldwin. his; ing because then cannot afford to friends, Then wrote back warning have urge families; her mit him against "bitch-hikers civilised murtries deliberately might kill him and rob him of his Jew struggle jewellery." To this Mr. Bronner Dr. pating for which they know must wreek Their replied that he did not think this Civilisation; 400,000 of the finest man would kill him, The prime emise of Europe's of her,
men constantly Mr. Merz has revealed that he present condition of deadly peril engaged in the sterile occupation pave the dead man's secretary in the Peace Treaties, They im- of soldieri, spending: £800,000 package containing $20,000 worth
SHNS af Эгвера anual posed upon an exhausted C
wealth of dangonds after Mr. Brueng nent new strains, new rivalries, production on the maintenance and and the Secretary had called on hin.
equipment of forces of destruction, to arrange. For a sade of jewellery,
Then he would turn to Asin an Me. What Is the obstacle to the re]
Brommer then lift
for zuut he blunders. The find tant euntinent of 1,000,000,000¦ Dayton. pair #f theme
telographed pence, largely unter, from Dayton Instructing Mir. prestige and pride of nationalisp, i people at
protection. oveupled sterz
ind To
the lin- I have mi Foreign Ministers; European who, in confitentind talk, admitrolely in expanding its numbers, mands to his steretary. This Mr. that the reforms of the peace settles Chim alone by 25.000.000 every Merz, did, understanding that the ment in urgently necessary, If year and in learning the methods secretary would then proceed to one asks why they do not openty and mechanism of Western civili- Dayton with them. recommend it they reply: "ration.
A witness has told the police he saw a car drive away from the rear They dare not because the 475,-| A bleeding Europe and a breed- of Mr. Morz's shop with a barrel 000,000 people of this Continent of ing Axin-what can be the outcome, Bled on the vehlele. - Europe are behaving, like a gang except the ultimate domluation of
Bew wrongs,
daren't."
CLASH PROBABLE
ULTIMATE DECLINE
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The dead man, Mr. Alvin Brun-
a jewellery auctioneer of miners in a Westra gold-rush, the Old World by the Far East? er, was all ready with their revolvers As that great German thinker, living at Brooklyn, New York. He grab or defend their respective Oswald Spengler Paye la his last was born in Los Angeles in 1903, claims. Some day one of them, book: "The World War was a deaccording to information givenchy more seared or more suvuge that feat of the white races, and the Mr. Merz, and went to England nit the rest will start shooting. Na! Pence of 1918 was the first great the age of 17, where by graduated. triumph of the coloured grorld." at Manchester University at about one knows where it will stop.
"Unite or perish" appears to be the year 1924.
Binner also graduated, accord- To me it even appears pro-; the choice before the nations of bable," says Professor Kanturo-Europe. It may not be necessary ing to a claas friend of his, Mr. wicz, the German histerical philo-to submerge their political identi. Cohen, a Brooklyn dentist, at the sopher, "that The smouldering thes, any more than those of the Californian inw school. Mr. Cohen flames of a growing nationalism various States of America have also said that Mr. Brunner always will break out in a final work-¦ disappeared, but, if they are to slayed with him when he visited
unite their New York... conflagration In whose poisonous survive, they must elouds the Futture of Europe and economic forces and abstain from! the last bulwark of European mutual destruction. solidarlly I mean the power of England--would perish.""
We all experience the persocu- tions of the fovered must-war
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Here are four, but there are 290 more of Busby Berkgicy's beauties in Warner Bros. latest musi-gel production, "Dames", the New Year attraction for the Allimmbra Theatre.
President Roosevelt instituted the annual sale of Christmas Seats by the National Tuberculosis Association when he was pro- sented with samples of the now stamps and a model (on dnak) of the first ennatorium for the modern treatment of the dread disease. He is shown. the executiva office at the White House
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named,
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"Bit in that year the Dutch- it impossible. to growers found [compete with the unsold surplus of cane sugar owned by other Dutch- men in the Netherland Indies, so they were given a small subsidy to| CHILDREN!
Inter tide them over. This was increased. The Government's theory is that Dutch sugar beet should be just sufficient to supply the domestice' demand and no more.
Only about 5 per cent, of the country's arable aren is devoted to
growth of nationalism even The British Commonwealth of ment lies in the formation of a than those of any other countrys it. private individuals. Till 20 years Nations is evidenes of the har common pool of interests to which what is of equal importance, their Dutch factories are strategically ago one could travel about Europe) mony that Can prevail between | such contributions might be made without hindrance or question, lands of widely varying conditions without loss of self-respect. output of sugar per acre of boet placed: the average factory last Passports and viens had long and interests. The Swiss federa The coming year or two will is again the highest in the world, year handled the output from 7,949 disappeared outside such back- tion testifies to the fact that even show whether Europe's sense of followed by Denmark. Sweden.seres compared with only 3,014 ward States as Turkey and fussin, the formidable barrier of different common welfare can prevail over Belgium, Germany, France, Italy acres handled by the average Ger- Except for a casual Customs ex-languages can be overcome. the hostility of her peoples to and Czechoslovakia, in the orderjman factory. amination there was no formality Nor need national hatreds last avert a conflict even more fearful
for ever. It at any frontier,
not yet 70 years|than the last.
High-grade tested seed is almost On my recent tour eight sets of since Prussians and Bavarians If it does, we may awake from Britain, which has spent between a Dutch monopoly, one firm in offelals examined me at each
our present nightmare of ware £30,000,000 and £40,000,000′in sub-Naarden doing an immense inters1 passage from one country to an
CONCESSION
fears to a new dawn of happy The price of peace in Europe in prosperity. If it does not, the only sidising its sugar beet growers, national business. Export of seed concession. The shadow of Im-despairing hope left to us will be comes twelfth and last.
has doubled in the past 15 years→. pending war can be dispelled only that our own country may rouse by the amendment of the Pence herself In time to be strong to
Up to 1931 Holland could boast from 2,224,200 English be.. to Treaties. Under existing condi- meet the great catastrophie when it that it was the only country grow- 6.836.722 lbs. It is still increasing, of the land I was leaving, and ations the Powers that henefited by comes,
Ing sugar beet without some form United Press.
other. They were the
Passport controllers,
Customs officers.
Political police, and
Currency Inspectors
were at war.
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stacks seem to have reached their topmost height. ;-
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