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HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

On The Road To Serajevo

Count Adam Tarnowski, who lectured on Polish foreign policy at King's College recently, played a pari, unwittingly, In the that led to the European War.

years later

him.

many.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6; 1933.

COLONIES' CUSTOMS

UNION

FAR EASTERN EMPIRE NEGLECTED

DUTCH MENACE TO events

Lord Beaverbrook,

ENGLAND

(By A. A. B.)

with the The Foreign Office sent out a man stem this tornado of abuse,

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In 1910, when he was one of the ablest diplomats of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, Count Tarnow- ski was sent to London to per- suade the late Lord Grey to agree perseverance of genius and with the to to the Austrian annexation of tenacity of a man who knows his without the least effect. Mr. Bald- jown mind, has not ceased to dwell win was then in power for the Bosnia and Herzegovina.

the necessity of a Custome second time, and with that subser- In 1912 he left London with his on

two Union with the Colonica. Ottawa, vience to the United States which mission accomplished. And

was an affair of Franz after all,

the has always characterised our diplo- the Archduke

for the last ten years, be Ferdinand wan assassinated in Dominions, and did not affect the macy Serajevu, the capital of Bosnia, by self-governing and Crown Colonies. bastily made up his mind that this I want to know what Sir Philip device for keeping up the price of in Bosnian patriot at the secret in-

for the British planters Cunliffe-Lister has done to promote rubber stigation of the Serbs.

and he took step to When war had broken out, Count a Customs Union with the Colonies. must cease, Tarnowski again played an Im Our Far Eastern Empire, consist-recure this end.

ing of Malaya, the Straits Settle Stevenson Scheme Stopped portant part in European history,

The result was the Committee of He was now as a reward for his ments and Ceylon, once the legiti- diplomatie triumph in London-mate boast of our statesmen, is now Civil Research, which decided that Austrian Minister in Sofia. There apparently overlooked and neglected. the Stevenson Scheme should cease be persuaded Ferdinand of It is not that those colonies produce in six months' time.

commodities of importance. The market was flooded by cheap Bulgaria to desert his historic ally no Russia, and enter the war on the Malaya and Ceylon between them rubber produced by Asiatics from side of the Central Empires. produce tin, copper and tea and Java, and the price fell from 4/- or 5 a pound to 2d, a pound, and the Count Tarnowski was thereupon rubber. promoted to be Australian Am I want to know what Sir Philip majority of rubber companies were bassador to Washington, but there Cunliffe-Lister has done to proleet ruined.

What was Mr. Baldwin's object in his extraordinary luck deserted these commodities from the

his finger into an Three months after his ar-petition of the

We have thus thrusting Dutch. rival America declared war on Ger-made quota arrangements with Hel-jindustry of which he knew nothing: unless it fund. with Denmark, and with never could discover, Norway and Sweden, but nobody was the thoroughly contemplible has taken the least step to protect one of kowtowing to the Americans, Malaya and Ceylon from the ruin as he had done with the Debt Sat- into which they are tumbling from tlement. With admirable audacty "I can't live without your daugh-the competition of the cheap pro-the Prime Minister pretended that duce of Java. There was a time, America had nothing to do with his "Right; I'll pay for the funeral?"not ten years ago, when the rubber action. If so, it is rather remark- that his stoppage of the industry of Malaya and Ceylon was able computed at the capital value of Stevenson Scheme should have lol. December

immediately upon Mr. a serio-comic picture of Figuring It Out.

well-made 100 millions, and it certainly yield-lowed 1933 at the Peak Church, Hong

Oxford ife, Mr. Max Beerbohm A very pretty and

of revenue, which Hoover's election tuur. KONG, REGINALD JAMES, second)

WAB receiving golfinged 20 millions

Whether or no the planters will son at William Henry Bell of 374 said that a weakness of Rhodes actress

succeed in coming to terms with plan is that "colonial scholars lessons from the professional. To was very useful to the Exchequer. the

the Dutch about some scheme of Hove Oxford

and his amazement, he soon discovered too much. CATHE

restriction I do not know. Sume American scholars love her ton that she could play quite well. daughter

that an agreement little." The barb was sharpen- One day he said.

"Well, it's a strange thing, but There 18, to my knowledge and people think jed a few years ago at the

method will be reached, others think not ¡from my experience, one Montague Avenue, Brockley, Lote mual banquet - a very cere-although your stance is shocking.

Jonly of raising the price of primary to either event there remains on the case of two of our don, and the late James Markham:monial occasion -- given by the your farm is pretty good.'

Rhodes trustees to the scha- "Is It?" said the actress, smiling commodities, namely, to restrict the record

An American orator, a recoyly. "I'm so glad you think so.output until it meets more or less richest colonies in the East being with the demand. jabondoued without the slightest ¡cipient of Rhodes'n bounty. But you'd hardly believe how hard on equal terms brought somnolent diners to al-I have to diet to keep it like that." ladeed, that is rather the problem effort on the part of the Colonial

of the whole modern world: there Office to protect their interests.

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Llater has not tention by declaring that Oxford

is plenty of money and too many DOWN AND OUT was an efTete, indolent, and ul

commodities.. We starve in the stirred a finger to protect them olisolete institution. Mary: "Bertie

the competition from Java, 'together

Beems To have midst of plenty, because our rulers from Nothing happened. Oxford is the air of a Man About Town." are too stupid to take this obvious although he bullies the Arabs, and used to attacks. The programme May: "Perhaps so, but he's got step to make demand Rhodes And America. of Loss was fulfilled, and the the bank account of a Man About meet. suthor of the flamboyant gesture|Down," musi have felt rather small.

MARRIAGE

|BELL-DOW: On 2nd

The

Peak, Hong Kong, and late Mrs. Dera Bell, 1 RINE ISABEL, secondi

of Mes. Isabel Marion Dow of 9

Dow.

The China Mail

Hong Kong. Wednesday, Dec 6, 1933.

the years Cecil Rhodes

Your Daily Smile

A DEAL

tinued ever since. At the out {fer, sir." set there was criticism on both sides. In a novel. "Zuleika Dol

son."

lara.

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Output Restriction

Needed

of the Government talk without ceasing about quolas

and supply the members

In 1912 the internal combustion with Denmark and Sweden. Why engine had stolen a march on the not with Java? Why could not the fourteen Still. of space

it is natural that the From Bad to Worse made four American should have more dif.

A South African farmer met ons supply of rubber, which reached the Colonial Secretary have told the 12s. 6d. the Dutch plainly that if they could not abnormal figure of returning 1wills. Each reflected his increas-ficulty in settling down at Oxford) of his servants while ing wealth, his growing sense of than his cousing from the domin from a few days' visit to a market pound. It could not stay there, nor and a way of keeping in step with

Their educa-town, responsibility, and his soaring. ions and colonies but quite impersonal, aspirations.tion has been shaped on British "Hallo," Joe! he said, noting the 1922,

Their

universities

"Bad

"Yes, sir," said the man.

"Your

All were inspired by the same cen-lines.

are man's solemu expression. tral idea-the widening of Anglo-modelled on those of England and news?" Saxon influence with a view to Scotland. and they are acquaint- securing the peace of the world.ed with the college system, pat llon is dead." Rhodes had vision, but he was which tempers individual respon.

the

did we wish that it should, but in the British planters we should im

on their cheap the pose a high duty

known as

防 what

Stevenson Scheme was allowed to and nasty tea with which they now

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and five

NINE KILLED BY "DUD" SHELLS.

emerge from Whitehall. By this flood the world? scheme, which operated a sliding scale, the price of rubber was ad- "I'm! What happened?" asked Justed to the supply. Rubber then

between four reached no unpractical dreamer. He had sibility with a sense of corporate the farmer,

hurly-burly, discipline. Many American scho-| "Too much horseflesh, I think." shillings a pound. struggled in fought ill-health, and reached ajlars have not quite the

same said Joe. position in which he could fur background. Nevertheless.it "Where did he get that from 7 that I ever ther the fulfilment of an ambiwould be absurd to suggest that asked the farmer. tion steadily fructifying in his their anjourn at Oxford has not mind since the rough-and-tum-profited American Rhodes schn ble days of Kimberley. He had lars and their

own

Was

Nine people have been killed and

The only objection to this scheme

heard

that it enabled the Dutch "to make money Yugo-Slavia's Casualties "From the horass," went on Joe. on our backs." That is to say, the

From War Relics.'.. "Why, are they dead, too? What Dutch refused to enter the Steven-

Belgrade. country did they die of?" the other persist- son Scheme and to share the re- striction which our prudence and an abiding faith in the cultural greatly, not perhaps in the mared.

imposed on ourselves. value of the older seats of learn-ket place, but in the preservation "They died the night after they forbearance ing in England, particularly Ox of imponderables. Any man were used to carry water to the Consequently, they were enabled to 12 seriously injured in Yugo-Slavia sell their rubber produced by this year by the explosion of "dud" ford, his own University. Ho who, after a few years at Oxford. fire," Joe told him. wished to make them accessible cannot glimpse something of Fire! What fire?" the farmer Asiatics at the enhanced price shells and bombe left over after the

without any restriction. It is per-Great War.

The latest victim, Svetozar to young men to whom in ordin-England's secret has wasted his asked.

fectly true in a sense that they were ary circumstances they would time. In a recent number of

making money on our backs, but it Mihailovich, was fatally injur be denied. His gaze crossed the the "Hibbert Journal" Dr. C. F.

was surely better for somebody toed when a shell he picked up on the Atlantic to a new and vigorous Thwing surveys the achieve-

make money on our backs than for Gutch Mountain went off is his

hand. people, who, he was assured, hadiments of repatriated American

two nations to, starve.

He was looking for old ammuni inherited codes and standardi Rhodes scholars. Dr. Thwing in

Let the Dutch make money on our similar to those of Britain. A President Emeritus of Western

An electric lamp has been desigo-backs, provided there is money tion to dismantle and sell as crap "Reserve University. A cosmopoled to be built into a door to illu-made. clause of his last will runs:

When his wife and son rushed up desire to encourage and fosterlitan and a close observer of eduminate the keyhola, when a button Mr. Hoover's Denouncement he was still alive, but died soon an appreciation of the advan cational tendencies, he is un" is touched. tages which I implicitly believe likely to be duped by patriotism

after.-Reuter.

"Your house," came the reply.

Facts You Did Not

Know.

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will result from the union or blinded by parochialism. He Germans claim to have devoloped Scheme was interrupted by the in-

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metal.

GIRL FASTS FOR FIVE MONTHS. Medicos Interested In Unique Case.

The operation of the Stevenson

of English-speaking peoples enumerates a list of American

ja motor using a mixture of hydro-tervention of Mr. Hoover and Mr. throughout the world, and to en-Oxonians who have become

anything whatever about the rubber courage in the students from the Judges, eminent divines, profes gen and oxygen at less expense than Baldwin, neither of whom knew

igasoline.

industry. Mr. Hoover was it that United States of North America dors, respected lawyers, promin who will benefit from the scholar ent journalists, and leading busi-

Perfume has been added to a now time a candidate for the Presidency ships to be established an ness axecutives. Dr, Thwing is attachment to the country from satisfied that each in his degree is paraffin block for waxing flat-irone of America, and to secure cheap to add a pleasing scent to garments rubber was to gain the friendship which they have sprung, but doing his best to carry out the frontd.

and support of Mr. Ford, Hoover went on what was called an inter- without, hope, withdrawing intentions of the testator. Each them or their sympathies from is a focus of good feeling. But,

Of English Invention is a loading sive educational tour, which was in

A 16-year-old Vigo giri, Celan the land of their adoption or continues Dr. Thwing. "It is to machine that places lamp coal in effect nothing but a political move.

Hoover declared that what he Fernandez, has lived entirely with- birth." Under Rhodes's dispensa- be constantly borne, in mind that ships without breakage and spreads

chose to call "the British monopoly out eating or drinking for five tion each American State selects the oldest of the Rhodes scholars it evenly.

of rubber" was an offence.commitmonths.

la candidate for two years in suc are scarcely fifty years of age,

cession. There is then a lacuna and that the average age repre-

for one year, and thereafter thojsents hardly more than the mid-

Vigo, Spain.

ted against God's own country. She is apparently, "normal and which was entitled all the world healthy, but lacks all desire for

process is resumed. The scholar-dle of the fourth decade of their seed confident that it would over to cheap raw material, Indeed; food.

ship is tenable for three years, lives." Moreover, many careers sprout, and his confidence seems he went so far in his electioneering Doctors are watching her cash and this means that there are were rudely interrupted and to have been justified. The Ger tour as to say that the maintenance with great interest. always 06 American Rhodesjenergies sapped by the demands man, scholarships, were added as of a high prics for rubber by Great Although she seems happy she is scholers pursuing courses at Ox-of the war, It is gratifying to an afterthought, but on the war Britain was an unfriendly act," known to have suffered from ford, and every third year 184, hear this testimony from such memorials erected by Oxford col thus using the strongest term in hysteria in the past

threaten Oreat! Some people believe that Celik infusjon began in 1908, and, inuarter. Thodes had long views leges the names of German acho diplomacy

Britain.

Ilias boon bewitched-Beutar:: inded by the war, has con-and-no: Hlusionsć – He sowed, hiri fars are Inseribed.

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