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AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN PALESTINE-Men having the first meat on land after disembarkation In Palestine.
NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA FOR THE RESERVISTS
- CANBERRA.--Those who suggested legation to this year's conference of the that the outbreak of war would result International Labour Often at Genera. in an exodus of population from Can-
O'REILLY'S SUCCESS "bería ̄nra” being proved-wrong-in-a-man-
SYDKEY—W. J. O'Reilly's 13-wickets
AR-
ner which threatens to embarrass the for 68 run in the St. George-Cumber: Federal Government. The elly is in the land match was an amazing piece of grip of a mairfmuniul epidemle. nouncements of engagements and mar bowing despite the fact that no re- ringes in the last seven months have ailance was offered to the 51. George
attack, except by R. Rowe. O'Reilly'
STUDENT TRUTH ABOUT
RED ARMY
(1913)
SOLDIER
(1914-18)
DOCTOR
(1919-1930)
AIR MAN
(1940)
THE FIRST R.A.F. flying doctor since the war began bas just gained his wings.
AFTER HIS WAR of aggression in little Finland, what will Josef Stalin, Dictator of Russia, do next? Scandinavia waits anxiously.
Here, Leor Trotsky, who knows so well the inner workings of Stalin's mind and Soviet diplomacy, answers the question with another: What can Stalin do next?
"The Soviet Union could not win major war," he says.
By LEON TROTSKY
CAN WE EXPECT that the Soviet Union would come out of a great war without defeat? To this frankly posed question I will answer as frankly:
He is senior medical officer at a fighter command stationed in the south of England. A South African, the Soviet Union would be inevitable. he fought in the last war as
"If the war should remain only a war the defeat of
"In a technical, economic, and military sense im- If it is not an infantryman in German perialism is incomparably more strong. East Africa.
paralysed by revolution in the west, imperialism will in England, and built up a successful Sweep away the present Soviet regime."
After the war he studied medicine
practice. Then he took up
He bought his own machine, and with his family, did more than 200 hours flying over Britain, Germany, France and Belgium.
are too many unknown quantities. As to the quality of the articles
Military
flying,
these most To enumerate in advance all the the sphere of military chemistry or and got his "A" licence at a mid-factors of the coming dog-fight of military bacteriology, lands flying club.
the nations would be a hopeless task. mysterious and sinister enterprises, In the bloody equation of war, there the Red Army is as well equipped as
the armies of the West. There are on the side of the Soviet Union immense favourable factors, of military manfuncture, there may both inherited from the past and be a legitimate doubt. Before the war, R.A.F. medical created by the new regime. The ex-industry remains a part of the whole officers were given flying lessons, and perience of Intervention during the industry and, although to a lesser,
once more that degree, reflects its inadequacies. more than 20 per cent. passed pilots' civil war proved tests. Now wartime pressure on Russia's greatest advantage has been
Inferior Supplies training schools has cut down their and remains her vast spaces. opportunities.
Unlimited Man-Power.
M.F.H. Resigns
JOB COSTS £7,500'
A YEAR
broken all records, even in a city in bowing was an object lenson in ac which the marriage rate was already curacy, concealed change of pace, and high. The Federal Government agree) that it is to see the young people crafty, flight. O'Reilly also made a hot
For the seventh time in five years settling down, but antisfaction is tem entch from his own bowling.
FOOTBALL pered by dismay at the likelihood of that
Suburb the Fernie Hunt, in Leicestershire, is necessity for an early drive to attract R. Stehr. Sydney Eastern
without a master, Mr. Reggie typists to the public service to fill the Rugby League captale, sold in Sydney vacancies. It may soon be necessary to that he had decided to play this season. Wright, forty-two-year-old bring girls from Melbourne and Sydney e announced his retirement last sea mon, has resigned for this purpone. Moreover, the apate son. lie helied rumours of an injured months, and it is thought unlikely of weddings la accentuating the housing baek by running three miles during the that any one will be found to take his shortage, and those who look ahend team's fest training wennion at the place. foresee the necenalty for bigger buikd- Sports Ground. Including Dave Brown,
The hunt costs the master about,
after
sports- thirteen
Ing for the baby health centre and nii takt year's team, with the exception £7,500 a year. The Fernie country |
more wards at the hospitals.
BOOKMAKER'S DEATH
of Norton and Norval, turned up. Frank Johnston, New South Wales re- is the most expensive in England.
Of The Soviet
Russia's second great advantage is her human reservoir. Having grown almost three million per year, the population of the Soviet Union has apparently now pased 170 million. A single recruiting class comprises about 1,300,000 men.
The strictest sorting, both physical and political, would throw out not more than 400,- 000. The reserves, therefore, which may be theoretically esti mated at 18 million to 20 million, are practically unlimited.
To The Red Army
Veroshilov loses no opportunt
to remind the in- ty publicly dustriallats: "We are not always fully satisfied with the quality of the products which you supply to the Red Army."
Were it not for the contradictions of Imperialism the Soviet Union would long ago have disappeared The diplomatic and from the scene.
milltary agreements of the Soviet Union are based in part upon them.
Diplomailo agreements, German Chancellor with some
дя
reason once remarked, are only "scraps of paper." It is nowhere written that they must survivo even up to the outbreak of war. Social regimes must be estimated depends pri- comparatively, Notwithstanding all
But Nature and man are only the raw materials of war. The so-called
presentative against New Zenian in Now a committee will probably military potential" BRISBANE-Worry ove cancellation, 1938, who did not play last season owing of his bookmaker's fleence by the to Injuries, has has a try-out as centre-run the hunt. It was said last nightmarily upon the economic strength its own contradictions, the Soviet that big economics are being mude, - Queensland Turf Club Committer is his three-quarter for Batasain.
lored to have been responsible for the; death of Ines enry Bulley, aged 10,
of Wooloowin, whose body was found]
In long grass at Albion.
Evidence to thin offeet "was given by: Constable A, V. Kirkwood at the inquast, when it was stated Dulles bled in deali from a gank in the left wrist. believed to have been self-inflicted with pocket kalle.
Constable Kirkwood said Dulley ap peared before the Licensing Commit- Lee of the Queensland Turf Club, when
Gardener
Garage-Man
In R.A.F. Honours
4
A FORMER GARDENER and garage worker are in sn inquiry into ble finances was held the latest list of R.A.F. men decorated for "gallantry and
To be allowed to field on the Ani nt)
metropolitan race-courses, a bookmaker devotion to duty in the execution of air operations.”
required to have £150. Dulley had not
that amount and before being allowed It was announced that the King has
field he had to produce his money to approved the following awards:
the racecourse detective.
Constable Kirkwood and the Fult Committee of the Turf Club refused- Dulley's nomination to field and his
licence wan revoked.
The Inquest was closed.
CANTEEN QUESTION MELBOURNE-The men nt Torquay. military carup drank 7,600 battles of milk a day on the first five days after the milk bar opened at the camp, ond It was reported at the Methodist Con. ference, the Installation of milk bars in Victorian enmps han cost £300.
Flying-OMeer McLaren was born In 1918 at Montreal.
Flight-Sergeant Bannister who is D.F.C. Wing-Cdr. Charles Howard Cahil aged 20, joined the RAF. as an uir- craft apprentice filter in 1920. lis AF.C. Flying-Officer Andrew Hood, Mc-home is at Oakhill Road, Torquay.
Laren.
"DARE-DEVILS" · Aged 24, Sergeant fieen who lives Maurice at Fleming Crescent. Leigh-on-Sea, was a garage mechanic before join- ing the R.A.F, as a fitter.
D.F.AL Fight-Sergt. Bernard
Bannister.
Sergt. Arthur Terence Maudsley. Sergt. Anthony Paul Reen.
One of the decorated men had to return to a strange aerodrome in The Conference passed a resolution darkness after a reconnaissance flight commending the Federal Government to the Norwegian coast, Ile flew for their decision in favour of "dry" blind from Norway. canteens, and urged, all necessary ne-
On another occasion, when his tion, to ensure thint the camps remained plane crashed, Isis prompt action The Ber. G. A. Judkins sald the Con-saved many lives from the danger of ference was disturbed at a report that bursting bombs.
dry.
"He and his friends were all dare- devlis," said his mother to a reporter," Sergeant Maudsley was a gardener before joining the RAF. in 1931. His home is at Caton, Lancs.
of the State. In this sphere the nd-regime in the matter of stability stil vantages of the Soviet Union by has advantages over other regimes. comparison with the old Russia ore enormous.
The very possibility of a rule of the Nazis over the German people was created by the unbearable ten- Nevertheless the Soviet Union
seness of social untagonisms in Ger- still remains a backwar country.
These antagonisms have not The mobilisation plans of the Red been removed, and not even Army call for thirty to forty-five, weakened, but only suppressed, by tanks per kilometre (ths of a mile) the lid of Fascism.
many.
of the active.front, As a result of The war may bring them to the the Great War the nuvy was reduced įsurface. Hitler has far less chnaces from 640,000 tons In 1917 to 82,000 thon had Wilhelm II of carrying a in 1028.
Mighty Air Fleet
In Numbers
war to victory.
"WAR MUST
In January 1936 Tukhnchevsky | BE MADE
announced: We are creating al powerful navy. We are concentrat ing our forces primarily upon the development of a. submarine, fleet." Still, the navy can pretend only to an auxiliary role in the defence of the coastal front.
A CRIME"
-Lord Cecil
So declared Lord Ceelt in a broad- cast talk on the B.B.C. Home Service, A European United States was the goal we could reach if we were really seeking peoco, he said.
:
We
"AFTER the war we must recona- Dut the air fleet has advancedtruct an International organisation mightly. The Red Army is productor Peace based on the principle that ing in increasing numbers heavy aggressive war is an international bombing planes for long range action, crime."
According to data appearing In the Press, this five-year plan 'of the Ited Army for 1935 contem- plated sixty-two air regiments Two members of the B.E.F., Ser.
Capable of bringing simul- Kennt W. Tyler, Black Watch and
fancously 5.000 acroplanes into
were faced with a series of Rifleman E Coleman, Rifle Brigade, have been awarded the bronze medal the line of fire.
aggressions by different countries and certificate of the Royal Humane Aviation is closely bound up with based on the claim that, one nation Society for gallantry.
a branch of industry, almost non- had the absolute right for any reason A few weeks ago they plunged at existent in Tsurint Russia, but lately that seemed goods it to make war
another. night into fey water of a dock and advancing by leaps and bounds and conquer
chemistry. It is no secret that the Raved two officers from drowning.
In the B.EF, orders issued at the Soviet Government does not believe timo, it was stated: "Sergeant Tyler for a second in the oft-repeated In the 1039 New Year honours he and Rifleman Coleman, neither of "prohibition" of the use of poison was awarded the A.F.C. for excellent them expert swimmers, displayed 18, EN ZEDS FOR GENEVA AUCKLAND. (N.Z) The New Zea-work at the R.A.F. experimental presence of mind, determination and land Government will send full de station at Felixstowe.
courage of a high order."
nil the padres at a certain camjs fuvour
STARTED IN R.A.M.C.
ed "wet" canteens. The only padres in Wing-Commander Cahill, aged 43, that camp at the time were two Roman Catholics, two Anglicans, and une re was born at Bristol During the last presenting the Deptlat and Congregas war he was a private in the IL.A.M.C., tlonal Churches. The action of the gunner in the RF.A., and a Heu lastnemad had been ropudlated by the tenant in the R.A.F. Fenders of his churches.....
The doctrine of "My country, right or turong" was indefensible. There was no overwhelming dim- culty in providing machinery which would secure law emang núllons as We may assume that againat ony among men, If we really meant to do catastrophle surprises whatever in It
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