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Mythical Fauna.
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WEDNESDAY MARCH
GERMANY'S IRON CHANCELLOR
METEORIC RISE TO HIGHEST OFFICE
ADOLF HITLER'S ASTONISHING CAREER
(By Walter G. Bell.)
It is the destiny of revolutions to 1918" would have to answer for throw up men from all sorts of their actions. It is also said to be the home of unexpected quarters. The revolution | "Heads will roll in the sand--- the "Nandi bear," of which persis which made Germany & Republic either our heads or those of other' tent but conflicting reports have threw up Adolf Hitler.
people," he assured a somewhat
violence?
come from a wide area in East) The fact that he had no part in astonished Court, which had little Africa in the last ten years. The events in the homeland which reason to be surprised, however, at main evidence in its favour is that destroyed the Monarchy makes that this characteristically violent out It is reported to leave a six-toed none the less true. Imperial Ger-burst. But of inte he has checked track. All known vertebrates have many could have found no place for this tendency towards oratorical Ave toes. Bears have not been Hitler. found in Africa south of the Sa-
For two years and more after the Hitler has been the apostle and kara. Therefore, the six-toed track Pence his name stood for little in the mouthpiece of the discontented is as likely to belong to a bear as Germany. He was totally unknown man, who represents a very numer lo any other animal.
outside it. In 1920 he dropped Intous class in Germany. Many who The "Nandi bear" has never one evening at a political meeting of bave felt dissatisfaction with exist- been seen by a responsible white the newly formed "National Social-ing conditions, yet regarded with observer. Most accounts agree that ist Workers' Party." Its Ideas he horror both Communism and Social- it is "hyona-like" A more likely found to be in agreement with his iam, naturally gravitated to his theory, an expert tells me, is that
own. He decided to join.
party. He offered a bright hope, su It is a great ant-caler, a nocturnal and clusive beast.
Your Daily Smile.
SNAP-SHOT
A gunman has just Hollywood' film actress. stand he says he saw pictures.
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By The next year he had become alluring possibility, president of the growing Fascist! The Nazl uniform and military movement in Germany. But it was organisation, its "storm troops," its his planning and leadership of the marching and counter-marching, op- boer-garden "putsch" in November, pealed strongly to those who were 1923, with Ludendorff in his train, too young to have seen war them- that first made him an International selves. It appealed, too, to those held up a figure. Its abject fallure seemed to who had known the battlefield. I under-mark the end of his career in Monarchists have believed that Hit- it on the politica.
jler alone could lay a firm founda-
a
the
Good Service in the War. tion for a new Hohenzollern Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five throne. years imprisonment in a fortress.: Princes hastened to wear the One day in the Museum a guide He had served but a few months' brown shirt. Hitler has an applaud- The China Mail chine, either static or running
down, but as an organism, "self-was recounting to a little group of detention when he was released; and ing following, and the adherence of sustaining and activated by its tourists the glories of a battered to-day he is Chancellor of the Reich. millions of young Germans who
centaur, when a Chicago meat sales- Hitler will not be 44 till
$3 next hopefully regard him the an organism, he contends, must|tion:
man Interrupted with ques-April. By birth he is not a German, Mussolini of their race. What has have rhythm within rhythm,
but an Austrian. The little town of proved possible in Italy, they hold, now advancing here, now reced- they feed a gink like that on-ham was
"Excuse me, sir, but what would Braunau, on the River Inn, which should be possible across the Alps.
his birthplace, is, however, But it is doubtful if Hitler has ing there, but never losing any and eggs or hay?"
quite close to the frontier of many friends. He is petulant, and thing which is not made good, or
Bavaria; and his father was of often morose to those closest about more than made good, somewhere Men have long seen, first this else.
Bavarian stock
him. He is un absolute autocrat The hint of all this giver earth, and then the universe it-in Shelley's lines-
"I like Eun. She's the sort of a
By the time he was fifteen both among his own officers. self, as a machine. Paley's
his parents were dead. His father, Hitler's sympathies are with the girl who standa out in a crowd.” Worlds on worlds are rolling ever method of thinking is not an From creation to decay
"I'm all for Mally. Sho sits humble Customs official, had lower middle-class, to which he unnatural one, and it persista. is taken up by Sir Francis as
out."
placed him in a high school, with a belongs. For them he has demanded Orthodoxy in his time, and large- probability well worthy of seri-
ĮCivil Service career in hopeful pros-the abolition of unearned incomes, ly that of to-day, may be regardous consideration. He first at Too Many Books Spoil the Troth. peet. This ambitious plan had to the nationalisation of trusts, a liveli- ed as taking it for granted that tacks the "running down" school
A Glasgow man has just broken be given up, and till the war came hood for the small shopkeeper hy the machine is destined to be by citing the accepted fact that of his engagement because his Adolf Hitler worked in Vienna and the abolition of large business cont brought by its Maker to
Munich, often flançce read all the time. a full our own planet has, during the
in the most severe bines, and a redivision of the land and sudden stop. There are last 2,000 million years, develop
penury. He was by turns a painter in the interests of the small farmer. schools of theology which seem to ed life and consciousness-a
in the building trade, a labourer, He has threatened to close the big interpret that theory in various direct
and when he could get such work, a Jewish shops in Berlin. No Jew, he contradiction, în the Artist: "Whatever success I have figurative ways.
has declared, should have the right draughtsman. But a school sphere we ourselves know best, bad, I owe it all to the telephone."
to become a German citisen. which can scarcely be called of the supposed rule of a general Friend: "How's that?"
The fateful month of August,
Though he escaped a lang impri- theological at all has of late laid decay. From this he proceeds
Artist: "Well, while I was wait-1914, found him in Munich. He had some stress on the theory-not to argue, after pointing to the ing for them to give me the right no thought of joining the Austrian sonment after his attempted "March new in itself-that the machine marvellous coincidence of neces- number I practised drawing on a ts, and apparently always has sary factors required to produce pad." been, ceaselessly running down, life on the earth, that such con- und that in the scheme of na-ditions "could not have appear- ture there is no discoverable signed by chance, but must have
"The birds of the air don't have to of anything that looks like wind- been brought about by mind, and worry about debt," says a writer. ing up. Sir James Jeans, who that if mind could do so for this But their bills are often over dewo, “ was held to have contributed alplanet, it could do the same for notable thought when he pre-other planets." This contention Breakfast Time Story. sented the Great Architect as a he considers so probable that he
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The Cockney gardener was given mathematician, seems to have re-ends by accepting it as practical-a egg plant. Now he is trying to signed himself to the belief ly certain, and invites us to con- get an ambush. that the whole elaborate equation template the Mártians, or other
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Facts You Did Not Know
self a German, not an
army. Always he considered him-an Berlin," Hitler was kept under restriction, which forbade him to Austrian,
meetings though his first view of the Rhine address political did not come till, as a private in the Bavaria. This was not removed till 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment, he May, 1927. He has made good use
of his opportunities since. was on the way to the Flanders
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battlefields.
FILMS.
In four years of war he rose no INDIA'S FUTURE IN higher in rank than corporal, but his military record was entirely good. On the Somme he was seri- ously wounded. Later, on the Yaer,
he was sent back suffering from poison gas. He has the Iron Cross. of the First Close.
Statesman or Demagogue?
Big Opportunities Says Kodak Executive.
Bombay.
Many circumstances have com- Mr. Qiribet, Cinema technical bined to bring about Hitler's extra-jadviser. to Kodaks, who is in India ordinary rise to the foremost official sees a big future for India's film position in Germany next to that of industry, but candidly criticises President of the Republic. Ho has the present level of production. made no secret of his aim to be He thinks that the Indian techni- President. Indeed, only last year at cian given the right opportunities
or
would end in demonstrating that families, in a constantly renew NO ANSWER NEXT WEEK "x," the unknown quantity, is ed universe. He assumes, in If a gossip is a person who can't) equal to nothing, and leaves us short, the existence of a populat-keep little things quiet, what is the with the impression that run-ed cosmos in which the peopled father of twins? ning to a standstill is inevitable. planets play the part of nations Science, though her votaries con--now one, pre-eminent, now an- Linually forget it, has contradict-other, as among the nations we ed herself quite as often and quite know. A: good deal of this' will as flatly as any religion has ever strike many readers as purely done, so we need not accept even fantastic, with no. more real Mexico supplied 75 per cent. of the election he polled as many as could compare favourably with the latest pronouncement as basis than "Gulliver," and will the United States' imports of sisal 13,417,000 votes agalust the eighteen those of the west; but he is con necessarily final. Especially are certainly not satisfy the funda-and henequen in the first nine millions cast for the veteran Presi- vinced that until Indian studios we justified in our refusal to mentalist creed and other literal months this year, the highest pro-dent von Hindenburg.
are better built and better equip give a too ready assent when we interpretations, for it takes no portion since 1927.
What is Hitler-statesman ped the camera man will not be find that a general statement has account of any "one far-off,! totally overlooked the facts of divine event."
merely demagogue? If he has able to get the best out of his But, for all that,, The world absorbs about $5,500,- statesmanlike qualities they have material. He says that he saw one some obvious exception, or runs only the most bigoted would fail 000,000 worth of machinery annual-yet to be shown. So far it is as
Indian studio which was actually counter to the whole trend of ob-to recognise Sir Francis as bely. Bervation founded on experience ing unmistakably "on the side of
demagogue and that of a very open to the outside world and to -which is in itself to some de- the angels," stressing explicitly
blatant type that he has won all sounds other than those connected Use of automobiles in Asia has his triumphs. His testing time in with the play. gree a fact. A striking article the point that the attractive prin-Increased more than threefold in affairs of State, has come.
"One, feels that only the Indian In the current "Hibbert Journal," ciple which keeps the universe five years.
Many of Hitler's own countrymen for Indian taste. Indian stories
Alm studios can competently cater." by Sir Francis Younghusband, together is the power of love. If
believe that he is demagogue and bound and the Indian Elm pro- marshals against the Jeans we accept this, he urges, we shall theory a host of considerations have confidence in the universe annually in the United States for of his hold upon young Germany. the film goer in a way, which the
More than $715,000,000 is spent nothing else. There is no question ducer can cater for the taste of » which are not without weight, and willingness to co-operate drugs and medicines.
His oratory, which has been his western producer cannot. The in- and which aid him in building up with it. In contrast to which,
chiet, if not his sole asset, in of the dian film producer has a further a number of fascinating sugges-defiance or despondency is likely tions. Those minds which have to be our mood if we cherish the each weighing 40,000 pounds, are enormous meetings of his followers romance of Indian stories, and set- Twin propellers, of solid bronze, perfervid type. addresses advantage in that the glamour and most often busted themselves in conviction that physical laws are being used to drive the largest pas in a voice of thunder and with many ting have a considerable, appeal to the past with cosmic theories fixed by the cold, calculating mind senger steamer ever built in the gesticulations. have. been' like Emanuel of a mathematical genius, com- United States on voyages
Swedenborg rapt
visionaries pletely indifferent to the hopes, the Atlantic ocean.
rather than men of action.
Francis Younghusband is cermen."
Sir ambitions, and affections of Plato discerned great
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Violence in Speeches. His favourite subjects at such gatherings have been repudiation of the Pence Treaty and the subse. quent Young Plan, and denunciation' With a view of giving the pubile
facilities it Is
pro-
tainly no visionary, and his major virtue in figures, and even experiences have lain in the mystic meanings, while some of he adopted a little nearer the of the Jews. He has not hesitated better practical side of life, Yet he our younger verse-makers have root of things. It is from root to warn Germany that his advent to posed to extend the Vehi ventures to propound principles written sonnets to the pure that all growth rises i-tan earth power might be accompanied by cular Ferry Service so that the last the opposite of those enunciated beauty of Euclid, and Bolshevist itself was our own first rpot, Sir bloodshed. In the trial at Leipzig ferry will leave Kowloon at 8 pm. by Sir James Jeans, and brings idealists can Thapsodiss, over an Francis Younghusband extends of three of his Nazi officers he was and at 7,30 p.m. from Hong Kong forward, step by step, theres adding machings. Behape even that thought with all its impllcalled to give evidence, and he told on Saturdays, Sundays and Puble. sons which persuade him to con Buntaprint with poppy cations, to cover the universe as the judges that when bio mugven sider the universe not as a "man
ement Holidays during the experimental "In the pose a whole.
fou the criminalk, of service!
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