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HERE, THERE

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The Trans-Saharan Railway

It is over 30 years since the pro-

ject

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S COLLEAGUES

STATESMEN ANALYSED. IN

of a trans-Saharan rallway SECOND MEMOIR VOLUME

was first put up in France. Five years ago the Government of the day voted £100,000

to surver the proposed route. Two years ago tenders were invited for construc- tion work, and Britain, Belgium, and Italy were asked to co-operate! in the scheme.

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THE

WAR IN

WHITEHALL

(By Howard Spring.)

The second volume of Mr. Lloyd

UL the

that

1 small never forget my dingust Recently, after much lobbying. M. Andre Hesse, an independent George's Memoirs is much more in-at the cauous ingratitude business man, introduced & Bill to teresting than the first, and that for puone at the news of Lord Kitche- her's deata. Most people seit 10 permit work to be started at once, two reasons.

gone; utnera, It was defeated, unanimously.

The interest of a thrice-told tale neved that he was

he the railway ever materialises it is only approached when we reach more numerous, acciureu will be almost certainly a Govern- the stern realities of the hour, and a served as purpose, whien, uu-

has scattered Lortunately, was true. ment undertaking and not through Mr. Lloyd George

throughout this volume his personal Nothing is more painful than the private enterprise.

[apophthegms, in which he does notast years of Lord kitchener at the

spare his opponenta.

war Unke, waère he was supersed- Flying Animals

For myself. I have only one ea ay nevertson, and became a mers Sir William Robert- The chamois which were killed opinion about the war, which I ex-signing cipher.

certainty not a mutary In an airplane accident while unpressed in 1914, and which I still son was the way to the Regent's Park Zoo hoid.

understand how genius. He was distinguished by the bulldog things-hrst, from Switzerland are the first English statesmen, after the Russo-two animal victims of an air disaster. Japanese war of 1905, ever thought tenacity with which he held on to the West, and, For many years now animals, that Russin was a reitable ally. She the anambies in reptiles and insects have been car-has proved herself to be unstable secondly, by his innafe distrust of

18 aball foreigners, ried by air to both public and as an ally and despicable private 2006 and for circuses, len...**** Generally they travel

I cannot

in the lug- Mr. Lloyd George despised gage compartment of big air liners generals, condemned

r rench,

Our

particularly

the

After accompanying Mr. Lloyd the Western George to hear General Gallien: ex- and passengers

are unaware of strategy in 1914, and after fifteen pound a scheme of offence he listen- their unusual travelling com years remains of the same opinioned without a word, and then asked, On leaving the Atill. "Our great offensive had "Is he finished ?" panions.

Lion and tiger cubs seem to

be failed in the avowed objective, and meeting he said to Mr. Lloyd George, SirThat man won't last long," and he the most airminded of animals. we took refuge in statistics. but insects have been taken by air Douglas Haig had not uchieved his was right.

Memorandum

La Africa, where they have been strategic atm, but a distinguished! Lord Lansdowne's Peace released to combat plant plagues. academician more than made up for the failure by a great statisticni triumph achieved in one of the back, rooms of the War Office."

The

лене recent

about the

as he

in it

At the end of 1910 Lord Lans- downe presented his celebrated peace King Of Siam's Wives

And, again, Mr. Lloyd George, memorandum to the Cabinet.

the Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 1. 195%. cent., in the metal trades by 30 King of Siam brings a story from a who is ever afraid of repeating his he piled paragraph on paragraph of

unanswerable fact, asking if "No Wise civilian per cent, and in general engin- friend who was with him at Eton. strokes, says:

Alles were likely to get a better At the time there was a legend would ever dream of embarking up eering by 20 per cent. The one

pence a year ahead. Britain's Revival.

the among large industry concerning which current

boys that on strategy. A man who did that!

No one attempted to answer Lord there is still considerable doubt Prince Prajadhipok.

then would be fit for no post in any

Lansdowne, no one had the courage His brother Ministry. He would be a danger. The spirt in which Britain is (for the Government intends to was, had 40 wives. meeting her probienis was strik- give cual a lift hy legislating for fags would go up to him and say: There you must be advised by the du Bu. it is now admitted that Germans cannot well whether the ingly expressed in the speeches preference to all oil manufactur"It it true. Prajadhipok, that you expert, but the expert must have his he was right, though of course and

schemes checked by the common made by the three party leaders 'ed from indigenous coal is ship- have forty wives?"

would have accepted his terms. No of the The Prince would shake his sense

civillan.. .The at a luncheon given by the Nu-'ping and even here there are! tional Labour Committee. No two opinions. September showhead, but with a grin so broad and soldiers in this war have not been mention is made, for very obvious the reasons, of the offer of the Emperor wonder the country is recovered a slight advance in shipping mysterious that everyone assumed a conspicuous suce up to ing. For weeks past proots have statistics at United Kingdom that he had at least eighty.

present there has not been a plan of Austria, transmitted to Britain been accumulating of a slow but parts, but the case as a whole is

jconceived and carmed out by them by the Prince Sixte de Bourbon.

In his personal sketches Mr. that has not been bloody failure." Subsidised sure revival at prosperity in not yet a rosy one.

And finally, at the end of him Lloyd George describes Mr. Asquith, the whole Britain. IL in Britain, then in shipping nas dealt British enter- the Empire, and then also, though prise a shrewd and unfair blow,

bout, in summarising the state of not vindictively or on

Bays what we all DEFINITION

Mr. less

that

Asquith the but has not at the same time ruc- directly. throughout

Man who does things with a will the Allies, he dismisses the absorp. unfairly. He

tion of our generals in the Western world. For Britain is still an un 'ceeded in putting its own affairs!

—a millionaire.

attack as "that silly and bloody ought to have been Lord Chancellor equalled economic leader, Her on a sound basis. The business;

and not Prime Minister. in mind position, and that of the rest of is a wreng one, no matter how

was essentially judicial; he never Premier Opposes Recruiting the

initiated anything. About the middle of 1915 every-

that the Everybody would body saw that conscription

treatment of Mr. Haldane by his col necessary, and H

meanest one of the ultimately be

leagues was National Registration Bill was in-

Haldane was episodes of the war. which troduced, the opposition to

another of the great men who was Mac-

He was led by Messrs. Ramany

hampered by garrulousness. Donald and Snowden, who through talked everywhere to everybody out the war persistently opposed about everything. The only place

Your Daily Smile

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told.

OH. QUAITE! sterling group. compare many nations may indulge in t.!

The London girl, we are more than 1avourably with the Some experts think that in this, situation of the gold countries, as in several other respects, Bri-now dresses quite as smartly as the "Britain," declared the "Obser- tain may be forced, if a cure Parisienne. A miss, of course, being ver" recently, "both domestic cannot be found, to defend herself as good as a mile. and Impertal. has found her by following a pattern which she road. Whatever is uncertain in dislikes. the future debts,

to

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Marriage.

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The two lawyers met

J'a

game of attrition."

adimit now,

sees now

That would be sheer War necessity. is external.”

Britain would prefer| the a free and open field, in which for example, and

at the prospect of fresh defence com-she has won so often and can Once there was a girl who thought every effort to secure recrults for where he was silent was mitments. Had the nations been win again. To the cast and toe corkscrew was the key to a

national defence.

Cabinet Council; but he was a great Towards the middle of the warman of action, and we owe to him wilting to follow Britain's exam- the west of her to-day stand two volving door.

in 1915, the Chancellor of the Ex the Territorial Army. ple, the burdens of militarism nations, Russia and the United]

chequer, Mr. McKenna, turned might have been made lighter States, which have pinned their Quiet The Reverse.

Lord Haig, when he came back

an called

Lord from the war, for all. As things are, however, faith to a rigid form of economic

in their "windy" about our ability to obtain Britain has been literally forced planning. Russia therein has club after hard day's pleading in credit and munitions from America. Haldane, and left him his book, with

his Mr. Lloyd George tells off to reconsider her condition, and acted deliberately and

de the courts.

an inseription saying that he was colleague with ruthless

alnce face the sheer necessity of monstrate a theory; the United "Everything is clear to me,” said former

the greatest War Minister spending more

Lord Curzon once dis- on her fighting States says she has been driven one boastfully. "Why, when I severity. Mr. McKenna is describ- Chatham. services. Owing to this cause, nunwillingly to it. Obviously finish my plea for the prisoner to-ed as a "competent arithmeticlan" missed Haldane with an allusion to reduction of taxation, which less neither of them. the zealot or the morrow there won't be a dry eye in and "adrolt accountant," the writer his "caplous irrelevance," and the..

adding that "he was the most active phrase was not unjust. than a month ago was spoken of victim of circumstances, has sojcourt." m authoritative quarters as by far fared as well as Britain has

"I quite agree," said the other personal element in the disintegra- no means Improbable, may have done, keeping the middle course coolly enough. "They will pro- tion of the Liberal Party".

He is even more contemptuous inj once more to be postponed. That In that middle course her politiuably all realise that your unfor will be regrettable, both for the cal leaders with the doubtfultunate client hasn't a dog's chance of his portrait of Mr. Kenna'e coun- sellor, Mr. Maynard Keynes, whom world-wide moral failure which exception of Mr. Lansbury getting off.".

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Facts You Did Not Know.

quer into the rocking chair of a pundit, it being thought, that his signature appended to a financial document would carry weight.

(Continued on Page 11).

BABY TWINS BEAT ACTOR LAW.

Both Infants Play Same Role.

Hollywood, California. Under California law a baby-

We were saved from this absurd panic about finance by the sound) sense of Mr. Bonar Law, who point-inay work only two hours a day.

At the Fox Studio they are ed out that we held a considerable

Itax in the interests of national, combine the material, But "Love-making in Car”

defence even at`a minimum, the slavery to formula is no Road-hugs.

Almost Government will find its way method to her liking. ensed more than a little in other alone in the world at this mo directions, owing to financial im-ment, Britain and the British provement generally, and the not-dominions have preserved a able reduction in the number of large measure of that personal

bulk of American railway securities making a motion picture in which the unemployed. The total or and commercial liberty of which A form of compound wood for in this country, and recommended an infant plays a role. The dir dinary expenditure during the so many other nations have des use in air planes and automobiles that we should now mobilise them, ector said he couldn't get the financial year up to last month, troyed even the semblance. This ta being made by pressing resin which we did, with the consequence picture finished with those kind according to an announcement in itself is a service to mankind, coated sheets of wood together at that the financial difficulty disap. of hours, so he hired twins.

The new actors are Pat. and made by the British Treasury, a moral achievement which nowa temperature of more than 300 de peared

Lord Kitchener's Downfall. Harry Bowen, aged, four and one was over £356,000,000, a reduc-we may rejoice to see endorsed trees, tion of more than £38,000,000 by material success. We may

The year 1916 was crammed with half months, the sons of Harry compared with the figurs at the echo. the justified challenge of an Telephone service has been ex-great events, among them the drown. Bowen, screen comedian. They corresponding date of 1932, English writer: "Let the world etablished between Singapore and ing of Lord Kitchener and the peace are going to work two hours while ordinary revenue stood at mark these vindications of a free Penang,

move of Lord Lansdowne, each, on one rale, and the direc £205,000.000, a gain of over people." The same note ringe In

Was Lord Kitchener, a great man tor says he has twice as much £0,000,000, The deficit was Mr. Baldwin's vindication of de. A new chair folded by bring or was he a great disappointment chance of catching the right slightly under £81,000,000, mocratic principles. It is heart-ing the sides together when its A satirical lady described him as mood for a shot-Router). against £105,000,000 a year ago. ening, too, to remember that fabric seat is lifted.. The bulk of the income taxes and these things go by the process of surtaxes is collected in the last the snowball Confidence begets. quarter, and may, it is thought, confidence in an ever-growing menting with autor wipe out the deficit altogether.mass. For one and all, Sir John extend fights of glidir Much of the reduction in expen: Simon's dictum has increasing diture has been due to that most force: "There is great, work to A bottle-like davice, with a long ed by long periods of silence and stamps amounting to 20,000 gratifying of all causes, anim-be done, but it will only be done neck has been invented that plants chlidish babble about, things which pesos has been discovered by the

Dolice *et single need at a time

Reuter provement in employment. Since If we work together."

German aviators

"great poster." Argreat military

genlus ho certainly was not M WHOLESALE STAMP FORGERIES er1- Lloyd George said, there was noth

Buenos Aires, a

vabes

"planes,"

ing patty or commonplace, about even his fallures. His flashes of Awidespread conspiracy in- [[nsight into the war were stocard, volving the forgery of postage

he didn't understand,