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defeated confirms the impression
HERE. THER?
and
EVERYWHERE
A Literary Romance.
Grim and grey are the portals of
the Foreign Olce. Yet outo in a
decade romance penetrates dust of its archives.
the
Here is the story of a seccot which has been faithfully gurrded for six weeks.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1933.
THE RULE OF THE
LAST MANCHU
PU-YI PICTURED IN
DRAB CAPITAL
"REIGNS" AMID ALARUMS
Nearly five years ago Mr. Owen St. Clair O'Malley temporarily left. With the Manchurian problem, in company with bis Chinese chief of bodyguards and some Japanese the Foreign Ofice. His departure standing out more prominently than high officials, who has come to fetch was an echo of the Gregory case-ever, there is an enhanced interest him. The total complement of the For a year he was unemployed.
Churchill's in one puzzling foure in that vest, "palace" numbers perhaps 200, in- Then he became Mr. private secretary and assisted him compler situation-Pu-yi, heir of cluding his two scheming Manchu in the compilation of his fourth the great line of Manchu rulers, and uncles and their familles, his secre- tarles and servants and guards-al volume of "The World Crisis." "Regent" of the lately erected State Chinese. Perhaps now and then he of Manchukuo. It he an indepen-recalls that as laby Emperor in
In contrast to the royal barges on
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£150 in Sandwich. A detective in an express train dent executive, as Japan contende, Peking he had 5,000 courtiera! rushing towards the Hook of Hel-or a puppet, as China holds! Here the great marble-bridged lotus lakee land was convinced that the man is a picture of Puyi and of the life of Peking, the theatre whose or- opposite him was smuggling thou-
he leads, done, against the back-chestra pit was a pool. designed to sands of marks out of Germany.
The mellow the voice of actors and
In a few minutes the express ground of the sew capital. would be out of German territory, author returned recently from Man-Chinese instruments, the pole and and the suspect would be out of churis. bis power. Then the detective's
eye fell on a substantial sandwich which his fellow-traveller had care-
£60 notes.
Your Daily Smile.
BANG!
By UPTON CLOSE
It
football courts, the riding paths,... the rock and flower gardens, the towering artificial hills, Pu-yl has jhere for recreation facilities only
set of tennis before sundown.
lessly left on the seat. He open- The capital of Manchukuo, for-dirt tennis court. Eagerly, each ed it, and found not ham-but a merly Changchun, renamed Hain-day he awaits the arrival of some Japanese official trained in univer- £150 banknote. The man's hat, ching, consists of one street nearly sity. sports who will "give" him a beside the sandwich, yielded fifteen three miles long. The first mile, extending at an angle away The dotective pulled the emer- from the railway track, is within When press of work, some Japan- gency signal, and the express was the foreign railway concession taken a state function or the excite stopped a few yards on the right by Japan froin Russis in 1905, and ment of a near-by uprising or ban- side of the frontier. The man was therefore is "Japanese town.".
dit raid prevents the coming of his Itonnis antagoniat, the evening sentenced to four weeks' imprison.
is policed by tight-disciplined, drags heavily on his hands. ment and fined £260.
khaki-uniformed Japanese, quarter- In Peking Pu-yi had the greatest led in substantial brick stations museum in the world on which to
located at intervals along the street, sharpen his esthetic taste; gallery. Rickisha coolies, droshky drivers, after gallery of jades and parce- chauffeurs and pedestrians, with an laias and paintings, room after eye on the nearest officer, warily room of brocades, velvets, and aliks. keep to the left."
There are no treasures in his fort- The second mile is the old Chin-ress residence in Changchun. Even ese town. Here shops, characteristi-the few things he had in his home cally, are more ornate and closer in the Japanese concession at Tien- together and the people block the tain he was unable to bring, for his doorways. The police are Chinese, transfer to Manchuria was sudden in carelessly fitted gray uniforms; and unexpected. The treasures of they bellow loudly but seldom strike, Peking, once his personal property, and traffic becomes truly Chinese now belong to the Chinese State. when the once private and sacred halls, so as all over the street. This section The best are being arranged, in the was being macadamized Japanese coup took place in Septem-to make of them the world's largest ber of last year.
museum, for tourists to visit at one The third me is new "capital Chinese dollar per head. The bulk. town"-an externion ending in a of his family possessions are being fine new concrete bridge over the auctioned at pathetic prices every Itung River-designated as the site Saturday and Sunday in of future grant buildings to house bidden City. the government the world's latest-born nation. Beyond the bridge stretches the endless Man- churian prairie.
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of detached observers that the Justo Government is firmly es-
Chicago claims to be the second tablished. The party politics of largest United States city, because the Republic are no concern to nearly 4,000,000 people live in it. observes but it is recognised that But not for long. Britain And Argentina in Argentina-as in any other
country-there can be no order-Winter Sales Proverb..
None but the brave can serve ed progress without steady gov- Dr. Julio Roca, the Vice-ernment. It is well that the re-l the fair. President of Argentina, has been presentatives of President Justo's authorised to come to England to Government in the trade negotia- return the visit of the Prince of tions will be able to speak with
STRANGE.
A paychologist says you can tell Wales to his country. During unquestionable authority, for it a man's character by his fect. The his visit to England Dr. Roca is essential that Anglo-Argen- told me mine all right.
lait mant whose feet I stepped on will join with Dr. Malbran, the tire trade relations should be put Argentine Ambassador in Lon-upon an equitable and mutually All In The Fashion. don, in trade negotiations with satisfactory basis. - the British authorities. In this period of general depression
| Anglo-Argentina trade relations
The Gain In Gold.
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Very few newspapers use full stops in their headlines nowadays, So the non-stop craze, spreads.
# * Test Match Warning.
Aussie, keep your tail up.
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Such is the frontier town, gray as
the prairie earth, comfortless and
as the open |
are more than ever important.
A recent dispatch to The The Republic has faced the crisis manfully, and her Government Times from Nairobi, Africa, re- has survived without difficulty ported the opening of a new gold
RELATIVITY. · the political agitation that has field in the Kakamega district,
When a girl is punctual for an been encouraged by economic dis-northeast of Lake Victoria, appointment it means that she is tress. The conspiracy that has Workings in this area have been not so late as the person she is indefinitely bounded just been crushed was a warning chiefly in streams, where gold meeting. reminder that the Radicals had streaks are found a few feet be- neither forgiven the deposition of low the surface. The districts I Understand, President Irigoyen two years ago has heretofore been reserved to] "Football referees should be on the steppes where his fore- nor abandoned the ambition of the native population, but will medically examined They gen-fathers left the backs of their forcing themselves back into now be opened to prospectors un-erally are, sooner or later. office. Their hopes must be der certain safeguards. In all dimmed now, since the Govern-parts of the world the search for
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HOPEFUL.
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horizon, which houses Henry Pu-yí,| 27 years old, last of the ruling house of the Marehus.. He resides
horses to practice Chinese court ceremonies and only 600 miles as the crow flies from the great walled ment was so prompt in defeating gold has been atimulated by the Men's clothes, it is alated, will capital of China, which they adorn- their plot; but the scale of the increase in its price, measured be brighter next Spring. You may ed for eight generations. conspiracy indicates that their either in relation to the general be able to wear some of those the contrast with the Edenic ex- hopes were high a week ago. commodity level or to the depre-Christmas gifte after all. The 3,000 bombs seized by the ciated currencies of many coun-
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panses und nooks of the Gardens of the Four Seas and with the
the For
(Continued on Page 13.)'
AUSTRALIA'S
YOUNGEST
SOLDIER
13-Year-Old Youth Claims Honour.
RAN AWAY TO JOIN IN GREAT WAR.
Sydney. On the question, often raised golden-tiled roofs of the Forbidden of who was the youngest soldier in the Australian Imperial Force,
police are evidence that the tries. The search has been Here's An Old One. planned attempt to kidnap Presi- facilitated by declining costs of One thousand pairs of boots City is startling... dent Justo and overthrow the production, paticularly duirng, were stolen from a London ware- My droshky driver was determined the claim of Victor Leslie Harris Government was to have been a the last three years. The Unit-house. It is thought that a house- determined bid for power. The ed States Federal Reserve Board holder who was too lavish with his fact that the former Presidents, recently called attention to the ammunition
during the
Facts You Did Not Know.
that I should see first things first will take some beating. After having taken me the length,
Harris joined the A.I.F. at the.
waits Dr. Irigoyen and Dr.. de Alvear, fact that improvements in mining season has been replenishing his of Main Street and back, he drove age of 12 years 10 months. He the scraggly pony off the macadam served in France with the 13th were concerned in the plot is and metallurgical technique "have stock.
up a dusty rise lying in the angle Battalion under Captain (later even more significant of its rendered proîtable, the expansion
between the street and the railway. Lieut. Col.) Murray, the most gravity. The violent revolution of operations in mines already
We passed the new penitentiary and decorated digger in the A. I. F., that overthrew the aged Hipolito producing and also the reopening Irigoyen in September, 1980, was of some abandoned properties."
some struggling barracks, and skirt and was with him when he won led a lumber yard, to come abruptly the V. C. at Stormy Trench, a startling episode in Argentine The result has been a substantial] politics, but fortunately the Pro-increase in the amount of gold
The trained human eye can de-against a gray brick wall surmount Gueudecourt visional Government under Gen-produced, despite the frequent test colour differences and matched by a corrugated iron cupola. This erul Uriburu that followed kept assertion that production is de colours more accurately than the enclosure contains the country steady, General clining. During the fifteen years best instrument yet devised. Uriburu ruled as a dictator until from the outbreak of the war in
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one Western- style building, which formerly housed an English Inspector of the
Unable to obtain: his mother's permission to enlist Harris left his home in Melbourne and came to Sydney, here he was passed
he transferred his powers to a Europe to the crest of post-war Heated by electricity from a salt gabelle, and a few other strue through the recruiting depot, le new and constitutionally elected prosperity in 1929 the average household current, a pencil has tures. which are little more than President, General Justo,
On his arrival in England, Har- in annual value of the world's pro- bean invented that writes in gold sheds, the former barracks of the having given his age as 17.
salt poll . February of this year. He kept duction was G$390,000,000. In on leather, cardboard or paper.
I had been insisting to my grizzled ris was held back for guard duty hie double promise that elections 1980 it increased to G$420,000,- would be held and that he him-000 and in 1931 to $440,000,000. A raft that can be unfolded and Jehu that I did not want to see Fuat Salisbury Plan of account of self would not be a candidate for It is estimated that in 1932 it extended from a ship has been in- yi's throne hall or office or what his youth, but was sent to France the Presidency, and he governed will be not less than G$460,000,- vented in Europe to serve as a ever it might be called, but his with a draft late in 1916. His actual residence. His reply had first hop over" was at Guende with a moderation that dictators 000. This compares with an landing platform for airplanes.
Now court where he was wounded, and been a non-committal grunt. rarely show. But he would not average of G$297,000,000 in the allow the Radical Party's can- five years following the Klondike Spring controlled window snah he waved his hand comprehensive he went through various other didate, Dr. de. Alvear, to stand, rush and with G8177,000,000 in have been invented that can be re- ly. "Private domicile, oficial re-operations in which the 13th and during the election cam the five years after the begin moved from their frames readily sidence and palace," he announced. Battalion took part up to the
I looked at the drab, fifteen-foot Armistice-Router paign expelled him from Argen-ning of large-scale operation in for cleaning, painting or glazing.
walls, with tops of none-too-elegant tina. When General Justo took "the Rand." Meantime, attract- office one of his first acts was to ed by the premium to be obtain the commercial world. There buildings showing alightly above, release. Dr. Irigoyen, who had re-ed in the London market, gold have also been large releases and at the nondescript guards who mained under arrest and a few hidden away in private hoard from private holdings in West-lolled, rifles atrapped to backs, months later, during last July, ings or converted into plate and ern countries. In consequence about the two gates. Dr. de Alvear was allowed to re-jewelry has returned to circula- both of the return of hoarded prison?" I asked. turn to Buenos Aires, The tion. Between February 1931, gold and of the substantial gain The drospky driver smiled grim- magnanimity of the new Presi- and August, 1932, the people or in production, the reserves of ly Foreign Elderborn much under the Police Recreation Club at dent was doubtless due to a india released approximately central banks and government stands this alde things," he replied. Messrs. Lane, Crawford's restan sense of the strength of his Gov- G$250,000,000 in gold which had in all parts of the world have Here Pu-yl spends his days and rant last night About 400 people ernment, and the ease with previously been regarded as per een increased by more than which the recent conspiracy, was manently lost to the reserves of G$1,500,000,000 gince June, 1929. nights, emerging only rarely for were in attendance. Mr. C. Mottram
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