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March 19, 1940, Bushmiller
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News from the Empire
NEW
SMUTS FACES
'HERTZOG FRONT'
Cupid
Cuts
The
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Revenue
CAPETOWN.
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Blashing ROMANCE made eus to South Afrias's revenue last year, i was revealed in a report by the Revenue Commissioners Lo-day.
Of the seven bachelors who last incomes nf year pal tax on
£20,000 upward, only and is still unmarried.
The report shows that the Union's marrying income is
litle over £500 a year.
Sarawak
д
EX-CROWN
PRINCE IS
ASTONISHED
ATHENS.
MR. ANTHONY BROOKE who was deprived by his uncle, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, White Rajuk of Sara-
Boers Hold Up War Law
CAPETOWN.
GENERAL SMUTS, facing for the first time a coalition of Opposition parties, was, accused in South Africa's House of Assembly to-night of showing a Stalin-like "contempt of Demo- cratic procedure."
Dr. Malan, leader of the Boer Republican group, now, by the party's pact, first lieutenant to General ("Peuce-with-Germany") Hertzog, was attacking the Government's Indemnity Bill, which is designed to validate war-time emergency regulations already effective.
Moving an amendment to the Bill, Dr. Malan declared that "in view of the reprehensible neglect of the Gov- ernment to call Parliament earlier, this House refuses to grant leave lo introduce the B, and expresses dis- approval of the actions of the Gor- of ernment under cover of the war;
cold-blooded attack upon the free- dom of the people; of a grosa misuse of public Institutions for party and pulitical purposes; and of neglect to econumle promote and protect the interests of the people."
The Prime Minister, he said, had unduly delayed seeking parliamen- tary gmction for emergency war ex- penditure,
General Smuts vied with Stalin in contemnt of Democratic. pro- cedure, but Stalin at least openly whereas opposed democracy, General Smuts pretended to be its protector.
"Sonate Ignored"
Parliament was composed of the
wak, of his title of Crown Prince, House of Assembly and the Senate, learned of his uncle's action when he jyet now, after five months, General arrived at Athens.
Smuts was going to seek authority from the Senate for a declaration of
other No
Government save Stalin's had neglected to obtain the sanction of their people.
"I am astonished at the decision. war.
Was taken which, for some reason, during my absence from Sorawek." he said,
"I have always served the interests Mr L-Blackwell-Government of the State to the best of my ability, and I am prepared to serve those intercats again if it is decided that my services can be of any use.
"I do not wish to dispute the rajah's right to take this action, al- though I am surprised that he has suddenly seen nt to describe my vel years' service in such brief and un- Battering term.“
member for Kensington, Transvaal, usked whether Dr. Malan realised that on a solemn resolution, reaffirm- ed on Saturday with an Increased majority by the House, South Africa, rightly or wrongly, was at war with Germany.
This was the only country where Auch attempts to make it "dimcult for the Government to prosecute the war were permitted. In cart the Unlors, General out the war policy of Sir Charles Brooke, in his pro-
of the people clamation depriving Mr. Brooke
to Smuts had shown his political op- "It appears his tile, declared:
forbearance which us that our nephow is not yet fitted ponents
to exercise the responsibilities of this would not have shown him. high position."
The debate was adjourned.
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12.15 pm. Short Service of Inter- cession.
12.30 Turner Layton and Duke Ellington and his orchestra,
Timo
1.00 Local Weather Report.
Signal and 1.03 Tchaikowsky--Capriccio Ita-
Han, Op. 65.
PATHER COUGHLIN.
CANADA:
AUSTRALIAN MINISTER IN FRANCE
Mr. J. V. Fairbairn impeets au ti-aircraft gun, eruplacements du- Mr. Fairbairn han ring his tour of the British positions in France. now returned to Australia.
NEWS FROM AMERICA
Radio
Priest
To Be Gagged By Mail Laws
CABINET WILL
NEW YORK.
THEY'VE got Little Hitler-Fritz Kuhn, of the German-American Bund-they've got Little Stalin-Earl Browder, lender of the U.S. Com- munist Party-and now they're after the hybrid produced by the mixture of both ideologies.
Roman
Father Charles Coughlin, once just Catholic priest, has been built up into a menace by radio companies anxious to provide a Sunday sop for their listeners.
STAY ON JOB'
TORONTO.
CANADA'S Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King, said to-day that he and his Ministers will not allow electioneering duties to inter fere with their prosecution of the war.
They built him up until he had 4,000,000 listeners every week.
Now he has grown too big for them to throw down.
More temporal than spiritual in is anti- his doctrines, Coughlin Roosevelt. anti-Democracy, anti- Jewish and-in the eyes of many-- anti-Christion.
Afraid of making hinn martyr, the Roman Catholk Church have not Interfered with him.
Now the Department of Justice are
way they attacked Al Capone, Kuhn after him, attacking hin in the same and Browder. They are not taking action against him for being a mem- Even at the risk of losing their ber of the Christian Front Organisa- the present scats, ho the members of the ten-which is alleged to have been Cabinet would stay pledged in overthrow Ottawa, relying on the Press to get systein of government in Amerien.
They are taking action against him their message across to the electors."
Dr. Manion, Opposition Conser-alleging that he made "unlawful use the American nails" and Bled with the United a false statement 8.30 Compositions of Gershwin.
coast-to-coast speaking tour.
where Mr. Mitchell States Post Office. A full investiga- Concerto in F Major for Plano and
In Ontario, Orchestra..... Paul Whiteman and Bargy Orchestra and Roy,
their censure of the Mackenzie King BRUSSELS, Mar. 18 (Reu-war effort, did much to precipitate (Piano); Bess, You In My Womun
election,, the Cabinet are taking: Now (from 'Porgy and Bess')..... Lawrance Tibbett and Helen Jeyeon ter).According to a Luxem the clue in the Federal elec- scats of the mighty are responsible. with Orchestra, Lullaby (from Porgy and Bess')....Helen Jepson (Se-burg dispatch, sharp artillery fion, but Liberal members will be They want to rid the
fire was seen this morning on the permitted by Mr. Hepburn to do as troublesome priest.” ” Western Front.
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prano) with Orchestra,
9.02 Concert. Waitzes. 9.15 London Relay-The News. 9.30 London Relay-"Cards on the Tablo."
0.45 Tloo Rossi (Vocal) and the Orchestra Raymonde,
10.13 Dance Music. Fox-Trois-I Can't Give You Any-
Boston Promenade Orchestra con-ing But Love My Last Year's Gai, ducted by Arthur Fiedler.
1.2 Tere Songs by Theodore Cha-
Hapine (Bass).
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and
ments.
Announce-
$1.45 Variety with The Mills Bro- 'thers, Clapham and Dwyer, and the
Ballyhoollgárin. --
Roy and His Orchestra. Close Down,
INCREASE IN COMPENSATION
LONDON, Mar. 18 (Reuter)-An Increase in workmen's compensation was announced in the House of Com- 3.15 Close Down. 6.00. B.B.C, Recording-“The Mist mons yesterday afternoon.
Sir John Anderson sald that the of the Years."
Devised and produced by John Government proposed to supplement Gough.
Music arranged by Jan compensation in the case of complete disablement by Bs, for a wife and 38. White.
6.20 Closing Local Stock quota- for each child under 15 years of age. There will also be an incrented tions.
Popular Classics compered scale the cases of partial disable
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ment. from the Bludle
7.30, Londen Lelay-The News. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,
* 6.93" Noel Coward "in" some of his
This is a temporary scheme for meeting cases of hardship.
A Royal Commission, now sliting, will consider workmen's compensa- tion.'
WESTERN FRONT BIG GUNS ROAR ON BOTH SIDES
The French shelled Hammelaberg and Schneeberg while the Germans shelled Kirscherberg district.
NO HOPE FOR LOST MINERS
OFICIAL TO THE "TELKONAPH" NEFFS, Ohio, Mar. 18 (UP)~~AII hope has now been abandoned for the 60 miners entombed in the Wil- low Grovo mine.
"Evacuation Tax" In Chungking
valive leader, is likely to make a of
Hepburn Liberal Government, by tien is promised "in due course."
they wish.
Boomerang
Radlerator Coughlin replied to-day to this move: "Those who sit in the
NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA
Australia Tired Of Mumbling Minnie' Censor
This is how l'Oeuvre, Paris daily. sets the "Mumbling Min- nite" of France. "Anastazie," frenchmen her,
call
MELBOURNE. AUSTRALIA'S Premiér, Mr. R. G. Menzies, to-night promised a complete over- haul of the censorship machinery--"Mumbl- ing Minnic," Australians call t-following the muddle over Monday's news of the Anzac landing at Suez,
He gave this pledge after a meeting of the War Cabinet discussed the Dominion-wide burst of anger and ridicule.
"We are satisfled," he said, "that some people have behaved with a high degree of stupidity, causing the Press unnecessary in- convenience and preventing the public from getting reasonable satisfaction."
It is the heavy-handed operation of the censorship at 12,000 mile range-in London -which has particularly exasperated the Press.
NAZIS FEAR 'MAGIC announce the arrival of the troops at
OF WORDS'
NEW YORK.
THERE is a lesson for the world, the New York Herald- Tribuno finds to-day, in Britain's tolerance of extreme opposition in her wartime camp.
Commenting on the Faselst at- tempts wreck Mr. Church!!l's Manchester meeting on Saturday, the newspaper says:
"The British, because they be lieve In the power of words, are not afraid of them.
respect "The Nazis do not words. They are terrified of the maglo properties they themselves have signed to them"-Reuter,
OUR PRESS AND GERMANY
Monday's muddle in London allow- ed the B.B.C. Empire broadcast to Suez four hours before an announce ment of their landing "somewhere in the Middle East," was released by the. Department of Information here.
The Sydney Sun expresses this ex- leader asperation in
which says: The fumbling hand of Mumbling Minate has renched out and caught Australla in its grip.
situntion
"Minnic has created a which would have been incredibly farcical If it were not so incredibly tragle.
POLICE GUARD WOOL
SPECIAL police guards were post- ed on the docks at Launceston, Tas- dis- mania, to-day, after fire was covered in a cargo of 3,000 hales of wool awaiting shipment in Britain.
Sabotage is tuspected, and detec- tives are checking up on the records of all Germans in the island.
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Deaths in the heat-wave which has scared Eastern Australia for the last few days 10-night total forty- nine.
(Continued from Page 6.) views and to secure his authority
Bush Ares are threatening three to sent me a statement showing New South Wales towns-Binalong, with some precision what he has Bowning and Borilda, Scorce of in his mind
homesteads and sheep station have (a) As to the matters which, for been devastated.
11is part, he would propose CHANGE IN BALLOT should be discussed, and
(b) What proposals he could au-
thorise me to put forward for
the purpose
CANBERRA-There la
nothing
present
of establishing radically wrong with the that confidence which must Australian system of voting, but it is necessarily be a preliminary to proving just a litle disillusioning to those who solicit the volca of the any settlement acceptable to
The situation which has public opinion here and else consiliuencies. where.
caused
You will, of course, realise that the Government. to bring In leginin
The Australian elector has an eye I feel the matter should be pursued tion to change the system is this: further; and to that end I think It might be best if I had something to the quickest way of getting h more definite so that I can take the voting job done. So, when he sees n next step. Believe me, if this canoniz Hat of candidates for the Scante
which is elected under a complicated be arranged, I shall pursue the preferential system his natural im matter with all the enthusiasm and pulse is to vote for the names at the energy at my command.
top of the list. If, as I hope you will, you have The names on the ballot paper be- an opportunity of discussing this ing in alphabetical order, those be- important question further with ginning with A-have been liable to the Fuehrer, I trust that you will turn out victorious, while S'e and Wis express to him my appreciation of and others low on the list, who might his reception of me and my desire have far greater political prestige,
can to for- found themselves out in the cold,
to do anything that ther the indications of co-operation which he then gave to me.
Labour's gains in the 1937 election were explained in no small measure You will realise, I am sure, that by an ingenious choice of candidates it is of the utmost importance that having names beginning with the first there should be complete secrecy letters of the alphabet. about this matter.
Yours sincerely, (Signed) KEMSLEY.
Dr. Dietrich's Reply
Munich,
August 17, 1939.
Labour gained; all the_New South Wales meats, for example, with a tento: all of where names began with A, which gave them the strategie position on the ballot paper, thus at- tracting the suffrages of bewildered and inexperienced voters.
Queensland elected Labour Senators, Dear Lord Kemsley,
I am sorry that as a result of alone of the names beginning with B journey abroad I have not been and the other two with C. The insigni- ficant Social Credit Party in that state able to write to you sooner.
After your very agreeable visit polled astonishingly well with a to Germany and the frank talks team of three candidates all with which I had the honour to hold names beginning with A. In Victoria. with you on Anglo-German rein-Western Australio, and Tasmania, too,
the greatest
test Labour chose men whose names en- tions, I received with interest the letter which you sentiaured their being at the top, of the me through your colleague. You ballot. paper. stated in that letter that mutual confidence is the first condition for friendly co-operation
Between DANUBE IS NOW
FREE OF ICE
peoples, but that unfortunately such confidence did not at present exist in your country towards
In these Germany.
circumstances the fact appreciate all the more the
world of a
ex
I
In
soldier oldest AMERICA'S of Mr. World War 1. died in his bed at his There is little likelihood Hepburn's joining with the Ontario New York home. Captain Richard Conservative Leader, Colonel George Peters, who enlisted at the age of
in supporting Dr. Manion's Drew proposal for a National Government, seventy, was ninety-two, and a spry He died from the effects of a fruc- It is reported that he has realised foldster until the inst that his censure motion may prove tured hip, recolved during
a political boomerang, threatening
to throw him from office by allenat. while dancing two weeks ago. ing the elections both of the Pro- vincial and the Federal organisations.
Liberal
. fall
REPUBLICANS, seeking a presl- One indication of the way the wind dential candidate to oust the popular seen in Ontario's President Roosevelt, are pinning most However, rescuers continue their is blowing was tunnelling. Two crushed bodies have Brint Ruling constituency, where the of their hopes on the sex-nppeal of Provincial Liberal Organisation un- Thomas Dewey, crusading · District animously passed a resolution preis-Allorney of New York, who has been recovered.
lg Mr. Mackenzie King's war effort. Jalled most of the city's -bla-lume rocketeers, gangsters, and vice lords, Mr. Henry Nixon, Ontario's Pro-racket
Women are beings to be considered vincial Secretary, who represents the
By much America, They know Riding, and who supported Mr. Hepin
conceded that burn's censure measure, is to be sent about polities he do their husbands, a copy of the association's resolution. and it is generally
women "wear the pants" in at least. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEQNAPH" CHUNGKING, Mar. 19· (UP)—|
ity per cent. of America's familles, s Dewey has shattere political prece
hig The Chinese, Government has chosenj a novel and effective method of en-
8,000,000 Stamps Soldent by appointing a woman as
campaign manager-tall, dynamic forcing evacuation of the city,
Evacuation Tax is to bej
Eight million stamps were sold in nüth "Anna Simms, who has been levied on bhy amusements which would encourage people to remain in less than eight hours during a three-making political speeches since she the war-time capital.
day, nuction at Harmer's, Bond-street, was sixteen,
An
SOFIA, Mar. 18 (Reuter)The
that you, Lord Kemsley; should be Hungarian reaches of the Danube are
now frea of Ice, 10/MEDIA applying yourself with such enter thousand tons of Rumanian and thusiasm and energy towards the Soviet all for Germany, which were re-establishment of this confidence, recently held up at Verba fare now and should share with me the hope being transferred for transport to that by clearing away misrepre their destination, sentation and misunderstandings a bring our way may be found! two nations together again.
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It therefore seems to me that I ATHLETE'S FOOT can best respond to your friendly CAN QUICKLY SPREAD TO suggestion by setting myself, to ex press to your wide circle of readers my own frank and sincere opinions. Perhaps thin may make some small contribution towards the restore
of confidence. For so long as such confidence does not exist there can be no object in prepar ing for conversations of the kind which you have in mind. That is the Fuehrer's view also.
tion.
May I ask you to read my article andas arranged to send me the promised English article so that we may both examine the two and shortly publish them?
Yours, elc... You (Signed) 0. DIETRICH, " Dr. Dietrich has asked why I did not send my article to him and why my papers did not print his article. answer to the questions. I have, I think, given him a complete
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