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THE MEANING OF CROPS
As the backbone of a nation such as the United States or Cannda is the agricultural Industry, so erops, and the exports which they make possible, are the first essentials of agricultural prosperity. And so it Is, too, in countries of lesser area, moro highly industrialised, such as Great Britain and the states of Europe. The farmers' prosperity is generally the best index of the nation's, well-being. It is as sure a barometer of economic stability export and Import Agures, power or mine or industrial output. Recent statistics coming to us from the Dominion of Canada, where a change of Government is being brought about, Indientes that this year's whent harvest will be satisfactory; nothing in the way of a record in bulk, but assured of a good market and a reasonable
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If you
are contemplating to price. The Government; moreover, become a motorist owner-If you has pegged the price at just over are desirous of a change-If you | 85 cents per bushel, making it safe are going on home leave—a word | for growers to unticipate a profit. from you to
on their crops. More than any- ACQUAINT US OF YOUR thing else, this assurance of an in- !
OME is as surely in the REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL | erensed income in the Prairie pro-
hands of an emperor to- FURNISH YOU WITH PARTE- vinces will accelerate the Domin- day As she was when the CULARS AND TERMS.
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King, the Liberal Party leader, of this world's palaces. whose allies linve won a sweeping No one can say that King victory in the recent elections.Victor Emmanuel roles Italy, starts his term of office with a good No one can maintain that the augury. He will have behind him people rule Italy. Benito Mus- 71 million
resuscitated solini rules Italy. farmers who, because he will ex-
"I swear loyalty to Benito, peet it and encourage them to be-
Mussolini, who governs the leve it, will bless him for the re: destinies of Italy. I
swear turn of prosperity. He has yet to devoted and absolute obedience do something for the general to his government with uncon- farmer, the fruit-grower, the dairy trolled conscience, which in men, the cattle ranchers of the volves, the sacrifice of life, the West, but if he can arrange a re- renunciation of all personal ciprocal tariff agreement with the initiative and the daily practice United States, as his predecessor, of iron discipline.". Mr. R. B. Bennett, intended to inaugurate during his premiership, he will have gone far towards win ning the loyalty and support of the other half of the agricultural com- munity of Canada.
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, OCT. 28, 1935.
NAVY
or more
CANADA'S PROGRESS
proval
THIS
MAN
MUSSOLINI!
IS HE A MADMAN
OR A CAESAR?
To-day is the thirteenth anniversary of the Fascist coup d'etat in Italy, and the tenth anniversary of the famous March on Rome. Whon Socialists called a nation-wide strike in mid-October, 1922, Mussolini and his black-shirts moved on Rome, "captured" it, turned statesmen out of office-and Mussolini' became Dictator.
some amazing example of a man decorated for bravery.
After the war he went back mad with the dreams of personal
Does he to his newspaper. Gone were aggrandizement?
socialistic lohnings, The prowl about the Hall of the his
in the Capitoline tide of communism began to run Emperors
workers. Museum
over the high among Italian und myse
Ten years time when his head will be set Mussolini scowled.
would have up beside these relies of the previously he carlier empire, or does his soul cheered. truly yearn to make his country lender among the nations? He has indeed announced his intention of making Italy an Empire. Ethiopia first. What next?
a
What ever may be in store for Italy it will always remain for Rome to hold the interest of the world at large through her marvellous relics.
TUSSOLINI
and a
in
was born
a black-
Strikes became almost daily events. The government seemed powerless, Industry was para lyzed. And Mussolini banded together a few dozen friends, sturdy young war veterans, into
black-shirted organization that was to become known through- out the world-the Fuscisti.
The Fascisti slowly gained strength. They drilled. They became a compact unit, welded together by Mussolini, the leader. Their moves at first were sporadic-directed against a small-town strike here, a minor radical weekly newspaper there, As always, Mussolini preferred action to words, so the Fascisti used clubs and revolvers rather than pamphlets.
The reaction to the war-born radicalism that had swept Italy
was setting in. More and more people flocked to the Fascisti. The body became stronger and ever stronger.
STRONGER
NEEDED Both Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Churchill have
M Fredappio, in the Romag come out in strong advocacy of the building
This is the oath which the na. His father was
Socialist. Mus up of the nation's defence
young men of Italy swore in smith forces to a strength adequate to
support of the man who fifty odd solini was eager to learn as a became the village guarantee security. Mr. Neville
years ago was born the son of youth and Before he was
and schoolmaster. Chamberlain, the Chancellor of
a. Socialistic blacksmith the Exchequer, recently stressed
lives to bestow his gracious ap- twenty he ran for a public office on the royal house of in opposition to a wealthy this point when he declared that
Italy and to bandy words with villager and when he was de- unilateral disarmament had
omnipotent Britain and the less. feated he smashed the ballot proved a complete, costly and
sure League of Nations.
box with his fists to emphasise But agriculture is one thing, and
his anger. The net was pro- dangerous fullure. He added:-industry and Anance are another. Now Mussolini dreams intoxi- phetic of his later defiance of
He
to "The time has come when we They, too, have shown unmistakcating dreams of a new Roman elections.
fled later
1. day From the Palace of Switzerland and became must face realities, when we able signs of revival and expansion,
There his agitution More and more the Dominions of Empire. must bring our forces up to the the Empire, the great territories of the Senators upon the Capitoline labourer. minimum required for our own Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hill be broods, with his pursed earned him banishment, and the self-respect, when we must re- South Africa and, in a different lips and bulging eyes over the order against him was only re- degree, India, are moving into the Forum below, and-the-remnants-scinded-when he became dictator cognise that, in this workaday centre of world affairs. Canada is of the imperial palaces on the of Italy in 1922. world, disarmament must follow merely one unit of the British Palatine Hill beyond, gazes, re- and not precede the establish- commonwealth whose influence is sentfully, ambitiously, upon the ment of a sense of security." It becoming increasingly great in glory that was Rome. is common knowledge now, that certain spheres. Canadian enter-
And while he gazes and the British attempt to get other priso is advertising itself. The nations, by force of example, steamships it operates on the fray with a hand of iron which Canadian Pacific Railway and the dreams, and incidentally rules world's greatest son laues was the first of the larger corporations to saved her from chaos thirteen take the Dominion's business to the years ago to-day, the rest of the far corners of the world. There world is torn between conflicting have been others since. No ether emotions of admiration and con- country can boast of more secure demnation. investment opportunities." dian banks and insurance com panies are rapidly advancing their influence, based on a solid reputa- tion for integrity, and already the
Cona-
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Then came the climax. A nation-wide strike was called in the summer of 1922. While the
stood government
powerless Mussolini and his Fascisti put it down. Then, thirteen years ago to-day-the-black-shirts-moved on Rome, "captured" it, turned statesmen out of oflice-and Mussolini became premier.
away.
no
The police dogged his foot- steps continually. Disgusted,
From then on the tale is he went to France. There too he gained notoriety as a radical familiar. Bit by bit Mussolini. cipated in riots, felt the hands ordinary premier ever held, into agitator. He led strikes, parti- gathered power, such as of the police on his shoulders, his hands. One by one the The Fascisti, and eventually was deported. constitutional limitations were He took refuge in Switzerland. swept
nominally "state police" and He stayed in Switzerland for "national guards," became the seven years. He studied con- army, answerable only to Mua- stantly, doing odd jobs to pay solini. Opposition newspapers for his books and lodgings, and were always dipping into the activities of the radical clement, At length his fiery advocacy of socialism got him into trouble again, and the Swiss deported
Romagna,
to follow the lead given in dis- armament, was a mistake. The obsolescent state in which many of the Navy's component units had been allowed to lapse was the subject of well-informed comment on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee naval review. It has been shown that Britain is short in practically every. category of warcraft, and short also in personnel. It is not un- patriotic to repeat these facts: they are already well known on the Continent and elsewhere. Of the leading naval Powers, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy all have a larger pro- portion of modern craft than Great Britain. They have been realists, not idealists. Since the War Italy has built 19 of the fastest cruisers, and 56 sub- marines. France in that period has equipped herself with some eighty submarines, to which she has assigned a vital part in her scheme of national defence, and
Rome has indeed romantic Mussolini entered nowspaper as many as 51 cruisers. Con- Hongkong, should welcome them with its very earliest traditions, ship of the official Socialist or- und substantial associations work, rising at last to the editor- sidering the naval traditions of We are a long way from England. The story of the finding of gan, Avanti. And then the war Britain, the present condition We can expect, as time goes on, to of the Navy is not one in which see Canadian, Australian and New Romulus
on the broke out, we can find cause for satisfac-Zealand. enterprises coming Into Palatine Hill is well known,
TT was men with the audacity of Mussolini in the dim past who made Rome veritably an resentatives of these cumpara Eternal City. Men of his blood tively new concerns have built and race two and three thousand substantially abroad. We have years ago brought as tribute to seen them extending, their opera-their capital the finest that the him. Again he went back to tions in China and Hongkong world had to offer in military genius, in architecture, in The latest company to branch out in this Colony is the Confederation Life Association, one of the most science and in literature. They prosperous and progressive institu- made of Rome a city of such tlons in the field, in whose inter-magnificence that even her poor ests Mr. P. R. M. Wallis, manager scarred and broken stones hold for the Far East, is at present in within them power to awe the Hongkong. It is noteworthy that men and women of the twentieth more often than not the destiny.century. As a guide book says, if not the polles, of the concerns "Fashions change in travel, but of the Dominions, is governed by the passion for Rome never comparatively young men. with vision, clear heads, keen minds and sound judgment. That is as it should be. And we, in
mun
dies."
and Remus
It
Twice now he had left home to seek his fortune, and each time he had come back penniless and in bad repute. An in- auspicious start, perhaps? may have seemed so at the time, particularly to his rough old father, who wanted him to con- tent himself with a blacksmith's
life.
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tion. This, of course, does not greater prominence here, and in and as far back as the fifth cen- HE
TERE came Mussolini's break
suppressed. The parlia ment became a collection of pup- pets, moving in obedience to the scowling dictator who pulled the strings with only a pretence at
concealment.
Mussolini's word is law in Italy; it has been since he be came Dictator.
THE BRITISH ELECTIONS
NATIONAL GOVT APPEAL
Londan, Oct. 27. The National Government mani- festo, signed by Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon, comprehensively reviews the Government policy since its imply any criticism of naval China, and we should assist and tury before Christ the legend with the Socialists. The advent to power.
It outlines the broad measures personnel, which for years has
encourage it. Our interests are was accepted, because to-day socialist party was all for interwoven. If we can help thein, there is in Rome
for maintainance of the Inter- deplored,
Mussolini with good reason,
an ancient neutrality.
crick
national position and for develop- most certainly they can help us. the apparent indifference of If the ambitions of Canadians and bronze group, executed in that loudly for entrance in the war, ment of domestic needs. politiciana and public to the the commercial men "Down Under" distant day, which shows the on the side of the Allies. He
It says "The broad issue is necessity for a strong Navy-an are realised, they will one day twins being fed by the famous was expelled from the Socialist whether the stability and confid-
Rome's indifference that
history Party; he continued to shout, ence, which the National Govern- contrasted enjoy a tremendous trade with wolf. But strangely with the enthusiagra China, in which Hongkong must stretches far back beyond the this time through the columns of ment has built up are to be pre- of the pre-war days, when the play a part. We want their repre- Afth century, as discoveries in the Milan paper, Popolo d'Italia, ferred fn.a period of special diffi- strength and efficiency of the sentatives in this Colony; and we the Forum have proved.
of which he became editor. Fleet was made a personal in- can use some of their buoyant
enthusiasm, thoir new ideas and
all
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Italy finally entered the war. terest by every thinking citizen their resourcefulness. There is there are in Rome to-day Mussolini's agitation had helped.
and by every schoolboy na reason to suppose that within a▷
the materials for 4 And when war
was declared well. Now, however, the long short time certain large Dominion world drama. On the one hand Mussolini was one of the first overdue awakening seems to banking organisations may estah Rome's Imperial relics and to volunteer. have been accomplished, and it Hah themselves in Hongkong. The traditions, and on the other may be expected that the Gov-Dominions need them here if they hand, a man with a will of aro to operate to advantage in the
culty and anxiety,
"Gaps in the defences must be repaired."
The manifesto dwelled on the Improved conditions domestically through a sorclared that the
measures,
advent of a Socialist Government, He saw active service with pledged to a number of revolu will "look to its moat with theness here for them; and realising pire The question is, is Mus- twice and scorning a safo be clearly forescen, would inevitably ernment, backed by the,people,commercial field. There is busi-steel, dreaming of a new Em- the Bersagliere, being wounded Honary measures, of which the ultimate result could not be utmost energy and determint that, they are pretty sure to come solini of the stuff of which em- hind-the-lines fobs that be followed by the total collapse
and get
perors-are-made, or is he merely-politician-offered him. He was of publle confidence-Reuter.
tion.
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