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Memel, that war-torn unlin- trigue-ridden district of East Europe, coveted by Germany and virtually possessed by Lithuania, la the Intest, danger sput in the nowa. The politics of that part of the world is amongst the most involved in history. It has seen STUDEBAKER one coup d'etat after another, and the most recent threat of action comes from Chancellor Adolf Hit- ler, the Nazi chief, who, search- Ing for a pretext by which to claim the return of the territory to Germany, has sounded a warning which Lithuania interprets as a threat of war. To apprecinte the position there it is necessary to go back a little into history, first
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EAR-LED visitors to Germany, Brief stoppages of work have or even those who move about already occurred in the Rhineland, there is bla Catholle on their own among the kindliest, where of Continental peoples, will learn' population, but in Berlin, Leipzig nothing of the deep unrest at pre- and even in one-time "Red Hum- nearly burg", there have been few signs sent spreading through every cins. This ignorance will, of any desire of the workers 10 of course, be natural, but it should risk, a quarrel with the Dictator- at least be a deterrent against ship. hasty judgments. The secrets of
As for months past a big grieve the padded cell that now is Ger- many are not to be penetrated on anco is the enormous, deductions
from wages and salaries. a few days' visit.
has to pay just under a quarter of her income to State and Party.
Here are the deductions exacted from a woman typist aged 30, em- played in the food trade, divorced, without children, with a monthly salary of 150 marks (£7 10a, at par):
4m.
Monthly salary tax 9m. Poll tax 3m. Old
The Very Idea!
SPEAKING OF PEAKS
Mutterings of a Madman Who Went Topside
By Eddie Kelly, Germ
afternoon
YESTERDAY
we had to visit a sick friend in an hospital up on the Peak. Wrapped in our woollen muffler, great-over- coat, chest protector, gloves and flannel underwear, we did this thing.
As a result we have decided that it's about time.we come to light with our article on autumn and winter fashions.
For a start-and whiat ́ hus- band doesn't get a start when his mistake starts buying her winter furs and foibles-dresses will, in keeping with these hard times, be worn shorter this win- ter
We are very glad to be able to report this, as those long winter skirts with the slits up the side have maddened us all summer. Offended our artistic nature, they have. You catch. a glimpse of a decent bit of leg and you've got to follow it for three or four blocks until shu reaches a windy street or the Prayn before you see it again.
it.
There ought to be a law against
The new autumn hate will be trimmed with vegetables. Beans, carrots, and pens and things. We are not sure about pumpkins.
In Germany, an immeasurably Of late the position in Germany remembering that Lithuania has changed considerably and cer- tnsation at than Great Britain intain broad featurea, blurred before, has always fallen dis- proportionately on the workers, but are now more marked. a political garment of her own
as they got wonderful social bene- weaving. Lithuania, it will be re- The minority behind the Nazi ilts in return they accepted this called, was a Grand Duchy under regime has declined but it is sub-position. the Russian Czarist regime, instantial still. On an entirely free
Now, primarily to meet the ing shared the fate of Poland, but poll-not the sepulchre that Nazis after the Bolshevik revolution the call a plebiscite with a free Press wages of the millions for whom Lithuanians declared their inde and the choice of candidates per work has been found by the Stute, pendence. The dispute with haps 30 per cent. of the German tax deductions have mounted and Poland, as to whether or not cer-people would give a "Hail Hitler!" deductions for political purposes tain Lithuanian areas were to be vote. Of the remaining (roughly) are also made. left a part of that republic or were 70 per cent. of the German people
Real us distinct from nominal to be adopted. by Poland, was who are anti-Nazis or non-Nazis wages are deplorably low as a con- under the consideration of the
a goodly number applauded Chan-sequence. A woman Civil Servant League of Nations when 15,000
cellor Hitler's repudiation of the of my acquaintance who would be Polish troops occupied Vilun, the military clauses of the Versailles in the non-taxable class in England old Lithuanian capital, and de-Trenty. clared it annexed, The League awarded Vilna to Poland in 1923. Lithuania and Poland have
The dilemma of non-Germans mained technically at war ever
whu hate Nazism while retaining meanwhile. had since. Memel,
their affection for the German borne no part in this offray. A
people is slight by comparison with seaport on the Baltic, with a sur-.
the conflict of conscience besetting raunding district area of 943
at this moment those millions of square miles, it was detached from
Germans who, may be loosely des Germany under the Treaty of Ver-cribed as the opposition-National snilles and placed under the con-
ists, Socialists and Communists, trol of the Council of Ambassa
Evangelicals, Roman Catholles and dors. But, following the example
Jews. of the Poles at Viina, Lithuanian irregulars rushed the elty in 1923 and took control. The city and territory nikjacont was handed over to Lithuania in the same year subject to certain conditions, C. Courtneldge.
which gave the use of the port to Walter Glynne, There has latterly been con-
both Lithuania and Poland. Undersent when Chancellor Hitler builds and her net weekly wage works out Walter Clynne.siderable agitation at Home in
the sovereignty of Lithuania a swarm of submarines with the at 308
of the Mistress of the Joo Ramsbottom opens a Barber's Shop Norman Evans. favour of Police Court reform,
Memel enjoys legislative, judicial, blessing
A married woman in a book- Joo Ramsbottom sells pills
.Norman Evans. based on a requirement that administrative and financial auto- Seas herself.
binder's shop with an out-of-work Benedictus (Mackenzie
What would happen to Germany husband (no dole) and one. boy, persons who exercise magisterial Bomy, according to a convention signed by the gecat Powers. Ger- "Cello with Organ... Beatrice Harrison functions should have received maintains that these rights as a Great Power should Hitler gorets £1. 88. a week tat par) net to Would his disappearance, with the keep herself and her husband-the Adoration (Borowski)
training.
been The great have
ignored and 'Cello with Organ...Beatrice Harrison. Proper
majority of the Justices of the fringed by Lithuania and that the collapse of Nazism, mean the re-boy earns 6s, a week as an up- vival of the doctrine that the com- prentice in the lithographle trade- people of Memel ure German at Islamey-Parts 1 & 2 (Balakireff)
Cyril Smith (Pianoforte) Peace do not possess any such heart and require German protec-fort of Germany's rivals is best and of these sums a pound a week tion. As a minority in Lithuania secured by keeping Germany weak? goes in rent and other fixed 4x- .Sydney Gustard. qualification, and the position is
In a vague way millions of Ger- penses before the family begins to worse from the they have been evilly treated, the .Sydney Custard. | rendered even
Nazis claim, and Germany is their
mans-ask these questions, and thebity food or clothes. (Organ of Gaument Palace Cinema, Chester, fact that many of the Magis- champion.
feeling that Hitler does really stand- Just over 10s. a week is the sumpink hydrophobias are just a mass trates are uld men who have long
between them and a renewed spell on which, after tax and party deduc of bloom, aml as for our chrys GERMANY'S GLASS HOUSE of national weakness, may hold uptions and essential outgoings, a than... chrisythum since outlived their usefulness as DA-1416 My lovely Colia (Arr. Lane Wilson)
prevent altogether the dia-man I know employed under they're asters, really: Elisabeth Schumann.
It is of
But any, stones of comment integration of Nazism so safely to municipal relief scheine has to sup- coming on beautifully. Pastorale (Arr. Lane Wilson) ...Elisabeth Schumann. members of the Bench.
interest to note in this connec- thrown by Germany thebe preleted otherwise.
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treatment of the supposedly pro- Nazis and anti-Nazis recognise (Op. 25) (Scherzo Fantastique) Bazzini)
German
of population Yehudi Menuhin. recently passed by the Northern
Memel, that the key to the next develop-
But are workers" budgets ments in Germany is to be found Moto Perpetuo (Perpetual Motion) Op. 11 (Paganini) Ireland Parliament in effect re-exposed Germany's. glass house to
Violin solo Yehudi Menuhin.moves from the lay justices danger. While-certain-sections-of-among the factory workers. The wage deductions, with the dis- the German community were suf- presence of great dissatisfaction satisfaction they arouse, likely every important judicial fune-fering from Nazi enthusiasm, among the workers is disputed by after all to count in the shaping
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1935.
POLICE COURT REFORM
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They recall how for nearly 15 years, throughout Germany's great experiment in democratic govern- ment, national humiliation followed on national humiliation, and they contrast that plight with the pre-
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Slek fund 5m. (about). Unemployment insurance 4m. Nazi Labour Front subscription just over 2m.
In this way the typist's salary is reduced by about 30s, a month,
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The observer of the palpitating German scene must often put this question to himself,
Which is to be?
no one in Germany, but opinions of Germany's destiny? tion. having thus taken the while the Jews were being perse.
cuted and the Catholics subjected as to its primary cause differ. initiative in a reform which, ac-
to Indignities, Berlin was scarcely cording to a Home law weekly, in a position to criticise with any later, but in-effect the Lithuanian treatment of
The Nazis blame soaring prices As a
of matter
fact evitably, be adopted in England. Memel.
soldiers and stationary wages whereas the i Germany, a land of "Marxists" nscribe it to the training in town and countryside, In commenting on the subject, Lithuania stoutly denies that any
harsh treatment has been inflicted "terror." The impossibilty of of arms factories whose furinces the journal refers to the great upon the Memelites, except in in-balancing the household budget is glow by night and day, where the chief ground why few Nazis robust Nuzis harry patient Jewry service rendered through the stances of proved conspiracy or
treason against the state, which are now to be found among work-and the State is in condlet with n eenturies by unpaid justices in
great Christian Church, seems at Germany, the Lithuanians reminders' wives:
times to be herself the plaything the administration of law und
Berlin,
with death. punishes
Whatever its ground the unrest of forces driving her to great order in the United Kingdom, However, Chancellor Hitler has
declared that the Reich expects of the workers causes uneasiness to power, or to destruction, but it goes on to point out that
Lithuania to treat her minorities the Nazi leaders and they recognise justice, in cases where a citizen
that the day when strikes break as well as Germany treats hers,
out or street demonstrations are is accused of some crime, is not and in the same breath adds that in future there will be no persecu. best served when trial, convic-
tion of the Jews, providing they tion and punishment are in the
are good citizens and obey their hands of men untrained in law, betters. He thus removes himself from the danger of a charge of and possessing qualifications not
hypocrisy. But he does not avoid materially different from those the suspicion that Germany, in which are required in a jury, view of the crisis elsewhere, is whose function, under the direc-about to attempt to regain the ter tion of a trained Judge, is no ritory of Memel which she lost by more than to acquit or to con- the Treaty of Versailles, and by viel." It is further stressed force if necessary. That is the,
Lithuanian suspicion, which that in days when the laws for summary consideration were far rapidly crystalising into u simpler, less numerous and less grown fear. complicated than they are now,
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reached that the time has come courage appeals, which have the when the burden is too great for great" advantage of removing Inymen to bear. The subject is doubts and securing uniformity. one not without its interest for Until this reform is achieved, it Hongkong., where, whilst we is to be hoped that appeals will have no unpaid Magistrates, be encouraged both by the those who exercise magisterial Magistrates and the Judge. The functions are usually quite un- knowledge that appeals from the trained in law. Our Magistrates Magistrates to-day are easy and are drawn from the ranks of the inexpensive, and require Cadet service, and it is well to trained assistance, if known, bear in mind that they have even would somewhat mitigate the greater powers than the legally flaws of the present system, trained Stipendiary Magistrates provided Magistrates and police At Home. Granted that they encourage appeals. No-one who discharge their duties with an knows the rough and tumble of obvious desire to see the ends of magisterial work could doubt justice met, they are naturally | that frequent appeals would re- handicapped by their lack of lieve the really conscientious legal training. The facts point | Magistrates of much anxiety.
NEWEST AND DISTINCTIVE to the necessity of local reforms, Successful appeals are no re- PATTERNS AND STYLES..
the chief of which should be to flection. on Magistrates, for no confine magisterial appointments Magistrate can hope to be right to men who have received a legal a hundred times our of every training. For a time this would 'hundred,
held will be a grey one for the present regime,
Doubtless this month's foreign tourists in Berlin will feel them selves able to give the answer.
"Now, remember this y for to-day and this food-le-for to-morrow, in caso we don't get back.".
Furthermore, you will be sorry to hear that our grandfather, is suffering from influenza, poor old
Our chap.
great-great-grand- mother says she is doubtful if she'll ever rear him.
That's the curse of living in
Hongkong, despite the fact that the Telegraph reported the other day that I was the healthiest place in the world for Europeans.
Which makes us believe that either the Telegraph chap was writ- ing with his tongue in his cheek, or had some Inside information nhout how unhealthy Europe will be for Europeans when Mussolini gets poing.
Anyway, if grandfather dies or is mussed or something, we have plenty of Bowers in our garden to shovel on his grave. Our blue and
sent.
.well,
they're
We must send you a few cut- tings; also some chokes, to choko
with. No! yourself No! Don't mention it. It's a pleasure. And, beside, they've got grubs on them, anyway. That's how things stand at pre- However, we hope that this hot rum and lemon will fix us up in time to tell you the fairy tale to-morrow about the dear old lady whe thought that "British Fleet at Suez" meant at the sailors were visiting the Navy's girl friend at a well known Port Said establish- ment.
Zoo's Your Old Man We notice that a morning contemporary is again squawk- ing about the absence of a 200 in Hongkong.
ABBOClation Says the Travel should take the matter up, because a zoo would be a great asset for
tourists.
He
was only being polite to Hongkong people, really,
Actually, wo've got enough peu- ple here already to stock a fairly Înrge-sized 200,
Who wants to see lionė and elephants and tigers when we've wild taipana, wild women and tame Kelly's cluttering up the place?
Not that there's anything wrong with iling .200
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with real. animals.
It's so much bunkum to say that it's cruelty to put them behind' bars. Many a time we've wished we could get bohind the bar.
in a zoo the animals haven't a thing to worry about. They are fed and housed, and the loopold even carried a spot on the hip.
The pelican has the biggest bill in the place, but does, that worry kimt
The camel was born with the hump. But he was born, not made. Therein lies the advantage. Monkeys, being almost human, delight to make fools of them- selves before an audience. But who ever heard of a monkey worry- ing where in the hell he was going. to pay next. to get the money month's chits?·
A bear that sits up and begs for a bun and is hit on the snout with
peanut is no ́worsa off than the husband who comes homo and says, "Hullo, darling!" and is aIS wered with "Humph!"
It said that man descended. from monkeya, but considering the. fun monkeyn have, it is apparent to the clothed and impecunious on-- Jooker that we have descended too far.