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THURSDAY JANE
FORGOTTEN PEOPLE MEN OF MANCHURIA'S
WISHES UNSPOKEN
UNHEARD IN DEBATE ON
COUNTRY'S
FUTURE
(By_ UPTON CLOSE.)
Manchuria is an old country; it is | By this time Doo had brought his
But the new father and thirty more
Great Britain are established in re-also a new country. gular hunting counties. Those that in Manchuria has almost are, as on Dartmoor, interfere very nection with the old, just as little with sport,
New Mexico
in
relatives
no con- from Shantung, and each woman of his settlement had given birth each Here the hunts avoid the neigh- Colorado and
year. The dead, however, were hourhood of the fox farms around civilization of the white newcomers frozen each Winter to the Shan- the carefully preserved and sent back April, when the cubs are born. In is different from that of the Pueblo tung burial ground, excepting chil- February the Dartmoor country is
Indians. always well supplied with wild dog foxes, attracted by the silver vixens | Under Kublai Khan,
Southern
which they court in vain.
Manchuria-the region The prices obtained for silver Dairen to Mukden-had' a fox furs vary greatly, from £12 up civilization. Again, to as much as 70 in exceptional cases.
Your Daily Smile.
under
dron and the poor kin
com.
With Small Chang. That Fall one of Doo's from panions of his first Winter's raid high rodo
into the settlement with its several soldiers. Doo gave him a
chieftains of the Manchu tribe, it fonst of a goat-kid boiled in ita mother's milk, then asked how much successfully imitated the culture of his visit was going to cost.
China in the period between the "I bring great honour to you, arrivals of Columbus and the Pil-venerable Doo," said the man over SO SICK
grimi Fathers in America. After his kaoliang quor. "No longer MRS. TOMPKINS: When my into China and
that its population drained down am I a Red Beard. I am an officer its territory was of powerful Small Chang-he, who husband stays out all night I re-divided into. great feudal estates made wealth serving the Eastern fuse to give him any breakfast and distributed among members of Dwarfs during the war, and now
. MRS. SMYTHE: That may do the clan for Mr. Tompkins, but it wouldn't throne in Peking.
that had captured the establishes himself na Viceroy of punish my Jim at all. When he
the Three Outside Provinces. With the twentieth century came commissions me atays out all night he doesn't want the return tide: Chinese ploneers, magistrate of this county as well ns
to appoint any breakfast.
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He
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your
mostly from the crowded province head man of your own village. You of Shantung, ultra-individualists of may now procure yourself a brocade an individualistic race who asked gown and a cap with a coral button Tom-nothing but the privilege of battling and you shall collect revenues for my. After the horse comes the mo-severe nature and wild men for the mighty Chang from the people tor car and (prompting) after the existence without restraint or inter-of your own and twenty other sists that "the large body of motor car comes the-
ference from organized authority. villages retaining, of course, public opinion is antagonistic to car) "Instalment man, miss."
TOMMY (whose father has al Thus, the position and sentiments magistrate's proper commission- of Farmer Doo, benred adn patri- and you will not forget your old remilitarisation, though it is unorganised and inarticulate."
archal, of the Doo Family Grain friend at New Year's time? There is no question of President you
"Who is the most miserly man Pit, a Hamlet between Mukden and "What the mighty General re-
know ?" "Old Hindenburg's popularity. That When there's a crowd at the station connection with the Manchu noble reaping and the New Year is 8,000 Macintyre. the Korean border, have very little quires of your county between Fall was shown last April when he and people are standing in a queue who once claimed ownership of this ounces of silver, was re-elected for another term waiting for their tickets, he always region."
Otherwise ho Twenty-nine years ago shall feel compelled to quarter of seven years by a three to twe goes, last so that he can keep his Doo arrived on foot, a penniless, several thousand braves on vote against Hitler, his The uncertainty of the Ger- rival in that campaign. Atsible."
chiet money in his pocket as long as pos-strong young man, his padded granarles" man political situation is not that time, too, Hitler was at the
Shantung coat and quilt wrapped And so Farmer Doo became the least of the factors hindering height of the public favour shown
about a precious half-bushel of Moristrate Doo. wheat seed. statesmen from achieving some for him. Since then his sup
With a spade whittled. Of such is the backbone of Man. measure of international agree-port has been declining, and it is low to another, "did you say that first aere.
"Look here," said one angry fel qut of brushwood he "put in his choria. Ninety per cent of the ment and co-operation, and re-declared now that Hitler's own my mother-in-law had a face like
30.000.000 people live in hamlets lief would be world-wide if a attitude has been chastened by my bull terrier?"
That Fall two of his nephews, founded and organized like Doo stable and settled Government his party's loss of seats at the
came from Shantung to join him. Family Grain Pit. Only five of its would be found in Berlin. The recent elections. After
"I did," replied, the other. The three planted several more cities-Mukden. Harbin, Kirin, the theWhat about it?". cables give us only sparse and September dissolution, political "Take off your coat," shouted whose mud-brick sides and thatch and the new boom capital. Chang- acres and constructed a dugout, Japanese municipality of "Dairen spasmodic news of events in opinion in Berlin was that Hitler the first. "Nobody's going to sayed roof peered above Germany, but even in Hong Kong had made a mistake in refusing things against that deg and get grass.
the prairie chun-have populations of more it is evident that the von the Vice-Chancellorship offered away with it.”
In midvinter some roving than one hundred thousand. Even Schleicher Cabinet is as insecure, to him in August. The "Times"
bandits came to RCA what the in Mukden.' citadel of old Manchu squatter had that could be carried kings, the historic treasures, which away. Doo won their confidence Inslude the saddles. cook-pots and and joined them in a foray against inde mirrors of Kublai Khan, mean the merchants of the nearest town nothing to the city's marchants, on the railway new railway built who have migrated from Shantung and run by the "Big Beards" from or Tientsin. turned to his dugout with more! the North, the Russians. He re-
Changed Times. In the years that had passed, blankets, farm implements, cooking changes had come about in Doo's utensils, a bulky watch and two standard of living. A branch rail
.
Facts You Did Not Know.
as the preceding von Papen Gov- correspondent says roundly that ernment and that Hitler, while the Nazi bubble has been prick- unable .to assume complete ed." that irresolution is to be power for himself, controls the distinguished in the Nazi Press Reichstag. That the Germans and on the Nazi platform, and Argentina is planning to prohibit have been unable to reach any that "the party definite decision at the three shadow of its former self." The sale of white lead and all paints and seems only a the importation, manufacture and recent élections is most unfor- present position is that, while varnishes containing it. tunate, and it seems that Pre- the country has confidence in sident von
Hindenburg must Hindenburg, it has reaffirmed. The use of separate cars propell- blunderbusses... These last, with road had been built through a cor continue a moderate form of upon a second election in three ed by high pressure steam engines ammunition, he carefully buried in her of his wheat land and he sold dictatorship. Under the
Wei- months, its refusal through the is increasing on branch lines of his mud floor. mar Constitution the German Reichstag to support the Cabinet British railways at a saving in ex-
his grain at a higher price. He had With the Spring thaw came a sant his two brightest nephews Republic is governed by a trinity which Hindenburg appointed-pense.
servant of the Manchu noble, de-away to school; one now wrote let- consisting of the President, the and it is to be remarked that
manding croppage. Doo and his ters for his magistrate uncle, and Ministry, and the The President appoints the a stopgap Ministry pending the has been constructed to resemble a came back; his master was ruined planted half of his village's land in Reichstag. the von Papen Cabinet was only the roof of a New York hospital nephews scared him away with the the other had been placed on station Ministry, at whose head is the election verdict. While the Chancellor; but a prescribed late Chancellor, Dr. Bruening, ship's deck to help patients lose the condition of its existence is, managed to avert defeat in Par feeling of a hospital atmosphere that Summer, by political intrigue sova hean. which he sold through a
in Peking. nevertheless; support
Chinese middleman to the Japanese by aliament of legislation authorised give them the illusion of being majority in the Reichstag, and ed by Presidential decree, the
"Big Beards? At War. oil press on the main line. Also: the design of
In his second Fall Doo reaped a
The was raising great fields of toll the constitution opposition in the Reichstag to Cream is produced by a new kit good harvest. He lug and lined a kaoliang, resembling kafir-corn, and makers was that the people's von Papen was such that he chen utensil by running unsalted large pit, bid half of the grain and in his own distillery he was making elected representatives thus control the Ministry and another decree dissolving Parlie- until they are thoroughly mixed..
would could do so only by publishing butter, and fresh milk throught it his tools there and carefully re-spirits, which paid better than
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at sea.
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blunderbusses.": The servant never master ten miles away.""
placed the spd. On the backs of wheat, two pontes he had caught, and broken, he transported the other half of the grain to the railroad and
Doo had
provide a check upon autocracy. ment. Legislating by decree, The President is also elected by Hindenburg was still not offend- the people. But where the ing the Constitution in this em Reichsang fails to hold the de-ergency; and his own re-election though sitting on the left with sold it. At the station he learned signed balance-where, that is, in April condoned his previous the Communists, stands for the that the "Big Beards" were at war BRITAIN'S TELEPHONE a multiplicity of "parties cannot action in that regard. But it is Constitution; from their party with the "Dwarfs from the Sun- between them furnish a majority equally his duty to find a Govern came Ebert, the Republic's first rising Islands-the Japanese. Ho group to support the Cabinet-ment which can at least protect President. While in the opinion got a good price for his grain, hired the constitutional remedy is, such legislation in the Reich of experienced observers Hinden-out his two nephews as carriers to under Article 48, Cabinet legis stag, and if for that reason only burg is too good a constitu- the Russian Army and returned to lation by decree of the President. he must now find a Chancellor tionalist to assume openly, a his Shantung village for the Speaks Of Advancement. This, however, is but a tempor who can command the Reich- dictatorship by dissolving the Winter"
SERVICE.
Postmaster-General
London, To-day
ary licence. For some two years stag's support Von Paper, Reichstag once more, he may In the Spring he returned with a Parliamentary support for the before he resigned, proposed to have no alternative if the Reich-woman for himself and one for each Bruening Ministry was precari-cut the knot by amending the stag cannot provide support for of his nephews; he also brought ter-General, in opening the Young. Sir Eingsley Wood, the Postmag- ous, and during that period lcgis- Constitution in the direction of any Chancellor whom the Pre- three cousing and half a dozen die People's Telephone Exhibition in lation by decree, permissible so exalting Cabinet above Reich-sident long as Parliament does not by stag control, but, apart from the last elections were a demon- three years for their food. The that it was twenty-one years ago
may
choose. The tant kinsmen, who were to work Birmingham referred to the fact vote revoke it, became the rule difficulty of obtaining the restration chiefly The strife between political quisite majority for such amend- that is, against the von Papen operation, carried his party at Office, had taken over the respon
negative railway, by how under Japanese this week that the British Post parties in Germany has development, it seems clear that the Cabinet. Another election may cheap fomigrant rates. He was sibility of providing the telephone ed, as has been previously point- President decided to stand by be required to put the present delighted to find his nephews back, service of this country ed out, through economic stress the Constitution under which he issue plainly before the electors not only with belts, weighted with Since that time the number of and the aggressiveness of two was elected. He has behind him either that a majority must wages in silver but with subscribers had been trebled, ha prominent sections a smaller the "inarticulate" mass of the be returned for one party or a collection of loot gathered went on to say, but what was more one aiming, under Communist people above mentioned, and his group of parties, or that some here and there in the rear of the satisfactory was that the service Influence from Moscow, at dis position has been strengthened form of Presidential dictatorship armies. ruption, and another, and larger, by the growing recognition must, pending constitutional reIn two more years Doo Family fashion,DEL RATES Poesitself had increased in manifold one demanding, under the Hitler abroad of the need to remove the form, be admitted as inevitable. Grain. Rit was a complete mud Twenty-one years ago it was a organisation, a return to mil resentment felt in Germany The question must be decided hamlet, surrounded by a mad wall National Service; now, it is an In- tarism In German policy and the against the moral differentia one way or the other, it seems, with three turrets, possessing ternational Service, and the Bri- Featoration of the monarchy. But tion against her in matters of if civil war is to be avoided, and formidable, crude armoryand tish tolophone subscribers is able despite signs which might sugarmaments, and by the removal the mass of the German people cultivating the plain to a distance to speak to 35 per cent. of the tele- gest the contrary, the Berlin cor of the irritation over reparations. views the possibility respondent of the "Times" in The German Socialist
civil of three miles from the hole where phone subscribers of the world too, war with horror."
his crop. British. Wireless Service, do
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