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HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

Out for the Record,

M. Venizelos 'will shortly rival the late Aristide Briand's record as the Cabinet Maker of Europe. The Ministry he has just form ed in Greece in his eighth,

M. Briand, over a longer period of years, had been Premier eleven times.

Not unnaturally, perhaps, there

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933.

FRANCE THREATENED WITH DICTATORSHIP.

TARDIEU PICTURED AS HER MUSSOLINI

EUROPE NEARS FASCISM

(By George Slocombe.)

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The financial crisis in France and nor new expedients to apply! The-

was no love lost between the rival the triumph of Hitler in Germany (machinery of the Third Republic, record-makers. Briand, in whose have taken Continental Europe twa after 62 years of ominous creakings physical appearance there was formidable little beauty, if much impressive Fascism.

strides nearer te and groanings, has at last rum ness, had to the end an invincible

down: Where is the new political suspicion of good looks in states leader already assuming the iron The Mechanism-and the Max.

The Nazis in Germany, with their mechanism to take its pince?

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M. Tardieu has supplied the

men. And Venizelos, with his fine gauntlet of Bismarck, and their Velasquez profile, his silver hair black and white banners and storm and beard, is next to the octogen- troops filling the streets of the answer to the challenge. Tardien arian Hungarian Count Appony! the capital, are within sight of complete has returned from Italy--in which most "distinguished-looking" states- victory. But France, hitherto the country, under the guise of an or man in Europe.

most scornful enemy of the Fascists dinary tourist, he has studied in Europe, France, the asylum of Fasciam at first hand-with a com What "Transportation” Means, the adversaries of Mussolini, the plete programme, of constitutional A sentence to transportation, to hereditary champion of the prin- reform, His proposals are not, at which a number of the English and ciples of liberty and democracy first glance, revolutionary except for Indian prisoners in the Meerut triumphant in three revolutions his primary suggestion that the conspiracy case were condemned, France now threatens to run Ger-control of public expenditure should is equivalent to penal servitude. many a close race in emulation of be taken out of the hands of the

The convicted men may be re-Mussolini's march to Rome. quired to serve their sentence in Fruits of Victory Wither Away. fatal influences

Chamber of Deputies, and con- sequently liberated from the of electoral inter- after the ests. Nor is his proposal that a

any gaol in British India at thei discretion of the authorities.

Your Daily Smile,

In the process they may do vio-j THAT OUGHT TO WORK. lence to the law of the conserva-! CREDITOR: tion of energy. Chadwick creat-settle your account?

Are you going Hong Kong. Friday, March 31, 1933.ed the neutron merely to save DEBTOR: Not just yet.

to

I'll

Eight months ago,

as M. Cardieu, And

It is understood, however, that Radical and Socialist victory in the system of referendum should be there is no intention to send the French elections, I still believed introduced and that A sentenced men to the penitential that France would be the last coun-Premier should have the right of defented colony on the Andaman Islands. in Europe in which Fascism dissolution inherently alarming. The use of these islands as a penal would raise its head. The result of settlement is being steadily dis- the ballot had given a majority to the programme is that for the first time The chief interest in M Tardieu's (continued.

small farmer in the rural districts in modern French history a serious and the small artisan, shop-keeper attempt is being made to revise the school-teacher and minor official in Constitution of 1871, and that it is the towns, the spiritual and physical made by so astute, vigorous, auc- descendants of the land-hungry cessful and comparatively youthful changed that history of France in the chief danger to the present De- peasants and humble citizens who! a politician 1789 and in the armies of the Re-mocratic Republic in these proposals public over-ran Europe,

is that they have been made before But since the elections last springjan assembly of the intellectual, and the small farmer has seen the fruits political leaders of his victory wither in his hand.man' in whom the hopes of the of France by the For the moment the neutron is/are but conveniences — state- the dark mystery of science. Itments of relationships that hap-

Wheat prices have collapsed, and the nascent French Fascist movement has been changing disguises so pen to satisfy us for the time tional," said the fond mother to the coffers and a growing budgetary de-

"Yes, stamp collecting is educa-Government, faced with empty lie. rapidly since it was discovered being. The number of "funda- visitor. "For instance, where that no one is quite sure what it mental units" with which we are Hungary, Eric

ficit, has been unwilling or impotent perimental essay towards a dictator It is not. M. Tardieu's first ex- is. Drs. Bothe and Becker were now blessed is a portent. It

¡to give him the promised protection.ship. In 1923 and 1924, when M. Without looking up from his The small artisan, the thrifty Tune-Millerand was still President of the the first to detect it. Like looks bad for the law of the con- stamp book, the young philatelist tionary, the war pensioner see them Republic, and a similar succession Columbus, they were unaware of servation of energy. After that answered promptly, "Two pages inclves threatened with unemploy of financial crises and impotent goy- the America they had discover-goes-the mathematical deluge, front of Italy." jed. The highly penetrating rays]

Mysterious Matter.

the law, as he frankly admitted CREDITOR: If you don't in his original announcement. tell all your other creditors that After all, our theories and our you paid me→ most sacred laws of nature!

that came from beryllium, which American Tourists. had been bombarded with alphaj particles, were mistaken for

wax.

Statistics show that

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So Educational,

EACH TO HIS OWN. HUSBAND: Wordd you like to

to the movies to-night, dear? trans-i WIFE: I'd love to, darling.

HUSBAND: Righto! I'll go

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DISPLAY AND DISMAY.

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MORE THAN A FEW. "Can I have

ment, increased taxes, salary reducernments, had shaken the moral of tions, or pensions cut to starvation the nation, M. Tardieu was among point. Industry is stagnant; com- the small cubal of soldiers and poll-. go merce at a standstill; the Poincare ticians who met at the Elysee and taxes of 1926, imposed in a period discussed the possibility of estab of inflated prices and incomes, nolishing some kind of directory which to longer bring in the expected yield to would deprive the Chamber of its the exchequer, crushing as they are authority. Those secret meetings, on the small shopkeeper and manu-followed by M. Milicrand's foolish facturer.

atempt to influence the course of the 1924 elections, cost the Presi dent his office.

Three Governments in Eight Months.

parties are such that within eight

more than ten

Can the anarchic individualism of

light rays, called gumma, similar Atlantic steamship lines carried to those given off by radium. 744,000 passengers in 1932 on the club. Mme. Curie's daughter and her their established routes between husband, Dr. Joliot, found that the United States and Europe. the mysterious rays passed This is a two-way figure-it in-

CONSTANT SEARCH. through lead more easily than cludes travellers bound both east a tramp?

LADY: What caused you to be through

What is more, and west. they knocked hydrogen nuclei 818.000 in 1931 and 1,113,000 in ma'am.

It compares with HUM: The family physician, out of the wax. Extraordinary 1930. As might be expected, the LADY; But how could he have the clamour of many rival interests, was then. little more than a year old,

In a situation thus confused by result from the impact of light! largest losses were shown in first brought that about?

But the experiment of Mussolini Too extraordinary; in fact, to be and second class

thus complicated by international and Italian Fascism was generally credited. Yet the Joliots appar-Those travelling third class ac- to take long walks after my meals, fear of Italy, the financial need for day Mussolini has

passengers. BUM: Years ago he advised me Issues-the fear of Germany, the ridiculed or disliked in France. To- ently did credit it. Then came tually increased by 18,000 in and I've been walkin' after 'em disarmament, the strategic need for years of unchallanged rule behind Chadwick with his explanation.1992 and those choosing "tour-ever since, The rays are the long-predicted ist" accommodations by 12,000.

rearmament, the problems of war him, and reluctantly the French neutrons particles which are Though the American tourist

debts, tariffs and currency-the dis-have come to acknowledge his wuc- electrically neutral, which are eastward bound across the Atlan-

traught and apprehensive nation cessful example. Fascism is a poli- unaffected by the powerful forces tic does not think of himself as simply must go out and show off my ence by the strife of almost equally several European states. It may be. WIFE: Hurry up, can't you? I sees Parliament reduced to impot-tical theory already in practice in that hold atoms together, and an “invisible' item" in an inter-new fur coat. which can therefore slip even national balance of payments,

balanced parties. through the earth with such case this is the part he plays in Amer-must cut the fringe off my coat cuff. doctrinal differences of the left French democracy, threatened with on the verge of complete triumph in HUBBY: Wait a minute, I simply

Germany. The intellectual bankruptcy and that there is no holding them in lean national economy, and dur- any container. They are some-ing recent years it has been a role! what like hydrogen atoms-these of large importance. The Unit- {neutrons. Each consiste of aed States is a creditor nation. your wife?”~ proton and an electron closely American people are owed more packed together-something like from abroad, Individually and she's having with me?”. the chain-shot of old. Hints have collectively, than they owe in re- come from abroad that Chadwick turn. Other nations occupying a is not satisfied with his explana-creditor position have found it tion. The neutron may be a necessary to accept payment of single particle after all. That the amounts due them in terms this is Indeed the case is the con- of goods. The United States, de- Clamping to the edge of a bridge clusion reached hy Dr. Franz spite the fact that its position table, A

new lamp includes a re- N. D. Kurie of Yale after vain changed during the war, from aceptacle for two glasses, an ash Cabinet of his successor, would- efforts to lay bare the dual atruc-net debtor to a net creditor. has receiver and pencil ture. Starting as a wave of light, continued to sell more goods holders. the neutron winds up, for the abroad than it has purchased.

Cheron, who has turned out to be more of a Jonah than a whale- moment, as a bullet. electrons, alpha particles, neu-"invisible" items in the inter- by radio with sufficient clearness turn encountered defent, merely ex- Protons, Only the presence of three large mitted from Australia to England own. M; Paul-Boncour, when he in Photographs have been trans- have almost exactly resembled his trons and the newly discovered national balance has enabled

Cheung Chau, Yesterday. {"positrons" of Anderson and America to do this, and at the

to be published in British newa.

We have received the sad news of Blackett-must we fuggle all same time to collect interest on

changed poate with his War Minis-the ¡papers.

ter, M. Daladler, M. Cheron's Wright after a brief illness passing of Dr. W. M these in order to explain matter? her, foreign investments. These A chemically treated wooden two and given to less conservative ono of the pioneers The mathematical physicists are three are tourist expenditures, door for buildings, has been in-politicians.

bulging portfolio was cut up into (pneumonia).Dr. Wright, was beginning to protest. And they immigrant remittances and new vented that exhalos Are extinguish- are a bold, anarchic lot. Haven't foreign loans. During the ing chemicals when it becomes

the Cheung Chau settlement and Otherwise it is the mixture as though a quiet man was regarded ́as: we seen them sweep away New- last decade the tourist itemi has overheated.

before. ton's laws because they were in-been the largest. The Depart

a sincere friend to many in South adequate in explaining why.

Thus, in almost every particular, China, where he had hoped to re- ment of Commerce estimates Costa Rica has required that repeating the history of Italy' in red-hot poker glows? Haven't that from 1922 to 1031 the net foreign patent medicines Imported 1022. Radical follows Radical, as Wright and Paul.

the history of France in 1933 (s turn in the near future. they cast aside the law of the expenditures of Americans. abroad into, the country be registered and in the Italy of Giolitti and Nitti The Theatre is attracting large conservation of mass. In order to amounted, after deducting expen- licenses obtained for their sale. Liberal followed Liberal, 'A sop Is crowds and the Village presents a Our sympathy is extended to Mrs, account for the glowing of stars ditures of foreigners visiting the

thrown to the Conservatives lively scene. Hundreds of beggars Cheron at the Ministry of-Finance, linu tag main street trying to make Georges Leygues at the Navy, a few dollars while the crowd is

months of the elections three dia- the collapse of ita finances at home a few words with tint governments those of Her and the collapse of its security and riot, Paul-Boncour and Daladier-treaty-system abroad, resist, the "How about taking over the few present to a bewildered electorate contagious advance much longer?

almost identically the same men in Will France or Germany take the almost the same offices,'

*** next step towards & Fascist Europe7 Herriot was defeated on the war debt question, and was succeeded by Paul-Boncours desk Net

Facts You Did Not Know.

and match

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fused the portfolio offered him, the

If he had not conscientiously re-

CHEUNG CHAU

NOTES.

with the single exception of M. Large Influx For Annual

Theatricals.

a la Jeans? Haven't they done United States, to $5,086,000,000. away with the ether? Haven't This was more than twice the they made waves of particles and amount: America received dur-eign loans. The consequence has But the Conversatives are un-here particles of waves at willing the same period in payment been a sharp reduction of the appeased. The Bocialista continue There is an extra Shrinking from nothing, they on the war debts. The recent funds which other nations have to be indigient. The financ may sweep away most of these decline in tourist travel has been been accustomed to use for the blem grows new "fundamental" particles and accompanied by a shrinkage of purchase of American goods and set is unbalanced. limit themselves, to two-some immigrant remittances and athe

urgency,

thing plus and something minus complete cessation of new for Inans repayment of American governing by

Ande teither pant

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