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roadcasting a warning of dangers SASAKA, AIZVER on asking for a huge volunteer defence army, and Sir John Anderson, Defence Minister, advising housewives to store quantities of stople supplies. London whis- pers that the next wor will start soon. Conforming to air raid precaution plans, workmen, in top panel, are reinforcing` basement of a Whitehall building to withstand air bombing. Centre, plan of approved trench In an apartment house lawn, covered to simulate a walk. Bottom, feverish trench digging in Hyde Park temporarily halted by Munich Pact.
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A witness for the defonco sold at Croydon -Police Court- recently that he was sura Winston Batts, of Westerham (Kent), did not throw a snow- -ball' at a police sergeant, »
"Why are you" 10 · suro?". the witness. Caci William Shepherd, of South Croydon. was asked.
Because throw it," he replied.
The case was dismissed and the police were told that they could take out a summons against Shepherd if they wished.
Challenge To British Trade
Lie Down!
With a "Here, I say!” and a "Vhat the dickens next?” · the somnolent citizens of Cheltenham- and Cironcealer” have... súddenly woken up to the horried realities of war.
Cheltenham and Cirencester are seldom in the news, nor do they wish to be
They have never been air-raided, nor are they likely to be, for they contain nothing, of military value, -unless-you-count n fow retired.army
men, most of whom are past it.
Tucked safely away in the Cots wolds, Cheltenham and Cirencester could sleep through a war. No roar of guns could reach them; no crashi of bombs an industrial cliier.
It is not such echoes of war that liave now disturbed their slumbers. What has roused them Is the ghostly pitter-patter of "Ititlò feet about the house.
Gad, air! Have you heard what the Government are proposing, to do if war breaks out? Have you seen the map? They are going to take the schoolchlidren from the danger areas of Birmingham and billet them In the Georgian masisions of Chelten cester?
IF WAR COMES
MR. R. S. Hudson. Secretary at the elegant villas of Cires-
of the Department of Overseas Trade, addressing the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce recently, said that he was in debted to the Dean of Lincoln for the loan of a copy of Magna, Carta for exhibition in the United Kingdom Pavilion at the New York World's Fair.
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"Not if we can stop it," say the. masters and mistresses of the elegant homes. In Cirencester there aru indignation meelings and from Cheltenham a protest sent to Westminster.
And not only from these pleasont towny
do startled squeals arise. There have been letters from re- sidents of what may be called "cushy
cathedral'
cities,
The Great Charter was a docu- retreats"-quiet ment of special interest and im- health resorts, refuges of those who, portance at the present time. One having rotired from active life, have might almost describe it as the shut themselves off from the working.
Aj world. "birth certificate of democracy." clause that had particularly im- ressed him dealt with the Freedom
pressed
of Commerce, and rak:---
"All merchants, shall have free- dom to come and go and to buy and sell in accordance with the ancient and right customs,"
Ther write about their china, their beds, their linen, their drawing-rooms. They shudder at the thought of children's shoes on their carpets, children's voices in ther ears.
ITenring their squeals, one might almost suppose these people to be alive, but are they fully conscious? Do they know what is happening in the world? No.
If war does come, we must all put up with worse hardships than having other people's children in our houses.
After the lapse of so many cen turies we might still need to fight to maintain that freedom: The "an clent and right customs" were being
IN DUG OUT LAND challenged, and we must meet that Ih squealing before they are hurl challenge. No doubl the barons in they are setting a curious example to their dealings with King John pre- the rest of us, and especially to those sented to my
who are much as xely to suffer etersonable, case, but the than themselves. strength of their position Iny in theiri unity. The same held true to-day.
The
.of the preliminary results Brst eleven months of last year, as published by the League of Nations In one way or another we shall all statistical
service, showed that in
have to fight. There will bo com the recession in world trade we sut-pulsory milltary service, from the fered somewhat less than others, and first day. There will be compulsory relained our position as the second civil service compulsory rationing, largest exporting country in the compulsory billeting. world. It was signifcant that Everybody In England will have whereas the value of our exports for, to exert himself to the utmost in the period fell by about 10.2 per order to beat the enemy.
In
cent, those of Germany, fell by 10.4) If we have to give all that we have, per cent. It did not, therefore, seem then we shall not give too much.. He
that a dep from the
thright
und
ir
--Do these people think that-because- in sheltered spots out of the they live in
the same bent as the rest of us? not reach of the guns, that they are not
was justified even by its that is not with us will be against us.
results. German methods had not Improved their position relatively, but had merely served by the un- certainty of their incidence to dis turb markets and to ensure that bath we and they.In, many instances received an uneconomic price for our goods.
of
Then they are indeed door- nails, and for God's sake let them keep slient, for their protexis are offensive to the ears of their neighbours,
If war comes there will be more useful work for wornen's hands than
into bringing tea
drawing-rooms,
HOPES OF SUCCESS Germany had her problems too, and one hair of a child's head will and the difficulties she had to face be worth more than all the chattels were in many respects for graver in Cheltenham. thum
Federation ours. The British Industries had therefore. a chance of finding their opposite numbers in reasonable frame of mind for negolation, though the actual work of preparation was com- plicated and detailed and necessarily
took some time.
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five-bödled
Even If, as he hoped, negotiations that would suit the Dionne quin- were successful in the case of all upleis. The tree is the industries at present in mind, evergreen he found growing out of that was not going of itself to solve an old slump. Each body is about our export problem. The troubles eight feet high and the collective bult of the large group of textiles indus is two inches in diameter. tries had to be tackled, and there country concerned, would create an sales resistance against was also a considerable number of instinctive miscellaneous trades. In the case British goods, and in the long run of many.
firms in such industries would damage rather than help our export trade was only a ride-ilne, manufacturers... the main preoccupation being the The recent slackening of tension home market. He suggested that in in the political sphere was being spite of all dimeulles there were followed by the beginnings of a re- plenty of openings in export trade, covery of confidence, so vital to the
transaction and if they were exploited to the successful
of inter- full with determination and Initia-national trade. It was tive they would make some impres that in spite of the fact that there sion or the figure of 2,000,000 un- were a large number of Industries exhibiting in the forthcoming British
significant
of the Industries Fair which were BTCatly good deal was heard action that the Government night affected by the rearmament pro Lake in the way of compelling grammne, the Engineering and Hard- foreign countries to take our goods ware Section at Birmingham; where from us by making fuller use of our nicst of these. Industries exhibitad, elen would create a new record in the purchasing power. The foreign amount of exhibiting space oc- buyer, especially the individual pur chaser in the shops, expected, legiti supled. mately, that it he was pressed
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