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Inflation Proposals In America.

HERE, THERE

und

EVERYWHERE

Dr. Mueller Of Munich. Professor Friedrich Von Muel- [leri most famous of German

doctors, is in London. He has come with a group of German professors, and will carry out din- ing and speaking engagements in Cambridge, Leeds, Edinburgh and London.

the

Once he was rector of. Munich University. To-day he is

FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1933.

EUROPEAN MAP CHANGES

NATIONALIST RIVALRY

STIRRED

POLISH - CORRIDOR PROBLEM REVIVED

Washington. Silesia, a part of which, with valu- Dictatorship of Adolf Hitler inable mineral resources, was acquir bead of the Munich Krankenhaus, Germany, new peace plans of Pre-ed by Poland under a plebiscite. and Mussolini, Two million Germana in. Polish- |Japan's withdrawal from the governed territory are supposed to

on

At 74 he is a strong, vigorous and miers MacDonald incisive personality.

Dr. Mueller is a great Royalist. League of Nations and determina-have League protection.

The treaty awarded the So Even during the Bolshevist revolution to retain mandated South Sea tion in Munich he insisted islands-all these, together with coal basin to France for 15 years, keeping the ex-Kaiser's portrait on numerous infernational Incidents-which meant the loss to Germany, the wall of his hospital. The Come point to early revision of the Trea of most of her iron ore. France, of munists went for him. They ty of Versailles, the treaty which course, obtained the "ost pro- riddled the private wards of the remade the map of Europe and de vinces" of Alsace-Lorraine. Smaller Krankenhaus with machine-gun fined the terms of peace between units of territory went to Belgium, ¡bullets.

Germany and the allied powers Lithuania and Denmark.

Germany was virtually disarmed Although for weeks on end he after the World War

of Versailles was at Versailles, and Hitlerism has never slept in bis own house, or, The Treaty indeed, two nights running in the signed on June 28, 1919, and came been accompanied by militarism. Its The treaty forbade Germany to use same house, Dr. Mueller continued into force six months - later. to work overtime in his hospital, basis was the speech of President conscription, and limited the Ger and to keep the ex-Kaiser's port- Woodrow Wilson on Jan. 18. 1918, man army to 100,000 men enfisted jin which he announced the famous for 12 years. A small flotilla of rait in its place.

Now, of course, the ex-Kaiser's "Fourteen Points," and bis later naval ships was permitted for rea- The powera sccepted coast defense, but submarines and likeness is a popular mursl decora- addresset.

the Wilson programme with the ex-military aircraft were forbidden. tion once again.

ception of Point 2 relating to "frce Coast defenses were demolished and 'dom of the seas," although the at the left bank of the Rhine was de Iles secretly had negotiated trea-militarised.

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A Tudor Gallery,

The Berengaria has undergone a ties of settlement among them- The section of the treaty Provid- Complete overhaul. The forniture selves.

ing for trial of the former Kaiser and appointments are all of British

Wilson's programme was broad and was never operative, because Hol- make.

revolutionary, unlike anything be- land refused to surrender him. A new Tudor long gallery which fore considered by European diplo-

War Guilt new adorns one of the "tourist" mats. He asked for open diple- decks consists of whitewashed macy and an end to secret treaties, One of the most irksome clauses roofs and walls supported by dark disarmament, peace and machinery of the treaty to the Germans has course to experimental measures

half-timbering made from New for keeping peace, an end to al. been that causing her to accept re- of the sort (as in the case of the Silver Purchase act of 1890) Forest, trees, together with an iances, and creation of the League sponsibility for the war. German

of antique lantern-lights of Nations.

leaders repeatedly have denied turned out invariably to have array

and appropriate old prints.

Pofit 3 provided for removal of Germany's sole guilt, and have shattered public confidence in!'

produce evidence sup- economic barriers, and Polnt 4 for sought to the currency, discredited the

reduction of armaments to the porting this contention. Government in the eyes of the

"lowest point consistent with do Reparations provided in foutside world, and therefore to

mestic safety. These isenes are treaty, have been have caused a panicky "run" -on‡ the country's gold reserve.

Your Daily Smile

TOO GOOD.

the endless

Ая BOARDING HOUSE MIS- now the cause of much of the 11-source of dispute. Originally Ger

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many was asked toʻpay thirty-one a matter of historical record, TRESS: I am afraid I'll have to feeling in Europe.

bilMon dollars in annual install- Arbitration Clause

"ments of. five hundred millions. actual revival began in these let you go. You're not the kind

The treaty set up the League of France, was to get · 52 per cent. It is not surprising that the periods of depression when it of cook I want.

But, ma'am, I under Nations, whose covenant united Britain 22. There were also pay- more or less random talk of "in was seen that the great body of COOK:

orstood all the boarders like my its members to guarantee each menta in kind. Reparations subse iconservative citizens had have flation" should

become

other's territorial independence quently, have been greatly reduced, HOUSE MIS and intergrity. Members bound but remain a source of friction. familiar at just this rine, parti ganized to checkmate and defeat cooking, and ate hearty. cularly in the United States. Few the political propaganda for un- BOARDING

sound money. The downfall TRESS: Yes, so I have observed themselves not to go to war until The treaty gave a large part of traditions have been moje iri-

after three months of inquiry and the German merchant marine to variably observed in American of the "free-silver candidate"

arbitration.

Great Britain. A degree of inter- political history than the recur-in 1896 was followed within six Joke for the Children.

The League was empowered to national control was established months by return of confidence [rence, in the third or fourth and industrial activity. The stolen from a van have been re-assume the lead in disarmament jover German waterways. year of severe financial depres-sequence of events was exactly. covered. The police are searching and did so in 1926, although little The treaty also forbade union of sions, of a campaign to debase similar after specie payments for the other one to make a case of in that direction has been accom Germany and Austria, now being the currency, That such pro-had been resursed in 1879, in the it

plished. Under the League a Ferma-agitated. The war left Austria a paganda should be spread more face of seemingly irresistible

nent Court of International Justice country

German- of 6,000,000 rapidly in the later part of a de-

was set up. opposition. America's financial

speaking people, unable to support The League is governed by a herself economically, and with sa Zouncil of nine, which originally army limited to 30,000.

Eleven bottle of champagne

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a little gun.

stead of lead, lead, lead.

he fried to grease his car,

he hadn't got so far

but

Fore he found himself a wishing

he was dead, dead, dead.

but this country would not ratify

the treaty or enter the League,

although in recent years it has

participated "unofficially in Les YACHT LEAVES H. K.

gue activities

I WAS THAT MAN. pression period is not surprising, history, during the generation be- There was a little man and he had human nature being what it is tween the Civil War and the Hopes of immediate rèvival willj overthrow of the free-silver It was filled up with grease in- was to include the United States, have been entertained at inter-campaign at the end of the last vals, during the earlier stages of century, was largely made up of And reaction, and will as frequently such struggles. Their course have been disappointed. Mea-was always the same. Financial sures designed to help the situa confidence and business plans tion through the ordinary ma were visibly checked whenever chinery of credit will seemingly the movement for inflation ap- have failed to produce the re-peared to be spreading and when I learn that broadcasting has tion will be effective in two years. sults intended. With continu- doubt existed over the probable added five hundred words to the France, Great Britain and Italy ance of hard times, the stage is result. Reviving confidence and average radio fan's vocabulary members of the counell, and Ger therefore set for proponents of courage regularly followed And we wouldn't dare to‘print-any radical experiment with the car-effective resistance to such pro- of them, rency. The agitation has al-paganda, and it is easy to ways taken varying forms, why that should be so. Under ELANCHANGE, BLUES. Sometimes it is for outright and any circumstances, recourse to

In a new dance, the whole body

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Japan, a member of this coun cil has withdrawn, and under terms of the covenant the resigna

many was given a permanent seat Jin 1920. Other members are elect- ed by the League Assembly, which is composed of the smaller member states and meets annually.

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Facts You Did Not Know.

nual reports of governments to 4th Submarine Flotilla. The two which colonies were assigned other officers are Surg. Lt. C..

The question of mandates and

by the current market price of of ordinary summon sense for Those are the footprints of the silver. Sometimes, as in the get what the past has taught in men who carried you in." fourth year after the panic of regard to such experiments. In

the ultimate diaposition of the Ommanney-Davis of K.M.S. Bridge- 1878 when America, as a result the history of deliberate cur-

former German colonies will figure water and Lt. Comdr. Sherwood of

EMS. Hermes. of the Civil War, was already off rency Inflation, the new

largely in any discussion of treaty the gold standard--inflationary arbitrary paper issues are al-

revision. Germany's colonies em All Ave members of the crew are on Service leave, and no single mem- purposes were expressed by up-ways to be “controlled," "zo

pire comprised 1,027,000 squareer of the crew has contributed posing a return to gold payments strained," "adjusted to the coun-

miles of territory in Africa, in the financially any more than the other. and advocating perpetual, main try's needs." When however, small electric heater has been do peninsula, with a total population green and was designed by Mr.

Controlled by thermostat, South Beis, and In the Shantung

The Taimonhan is painted a light teriance of an irredeemable paper after the frat brief flash of seem signed to keep the water in

of nearly 35,000,000 and an estim

currency. In all such instances, ing revival, things had become aquariums-at the right temperaturated invested capital of half a bf 3 Rouse, Vice-Commodore of

the advocates of these drastic worse than before (as they in- for tropical fish. measures based their argument variably did) and signs of shaken

the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, on marks, German leaders, COD-

anslated by ME E. Cock, Chief on the assumption that the old financial confidence mulitpiled,

tinually have demanded restoration Currency standard had "broken the explanation was always urged double bladed paddles by their oc- Another territorial problem Docks), who constructed her. She One man raft borts, propelled hy of at least a part of the colonies Manager of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd, (Kowloon down. Support for their pro- that the currency had not been posals, which often made its ap sufficiently inflated; and the procupants standing erect, have been created by the Versailles Treaty took her first trials at the end of

developed for new water eports in and now regarded as one of the pearance in quarters previously ceas would be resumed, The

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