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BRITISH INDIA-APÇAR SAILINGS.
1933.
TALMA SHIRALA SANTHIA TAKADA
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B,000 6th Jan. 8,000 20th Jan. 7,000 3rd Feb.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
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London in less than two hours. Not only that, but the range of action of modern aircraft would keep the entirs. country day and night at their mercy.
Military transport by air has reached a stage which lays us open to actual invasion. "Within' 'an hour of a declaration of war,” said the Army, Navy and Air Force Gazette last month, "small com bined forces could descend out of the sky and attack vital spots of this country." Last February the United States Army conveyed a whole brigade of field artillery by air, the guas opening Bro a few minutes after landing.
If Britain should fail to fill this fatal gap in her national defences it is quite possible that many will hve to see the country confronted at a few hours' notice with the: choice between acceptance of a
humiliating ultimatum and virtual
annihilation from the air.
R.A.F. Scattered
THE CHINA MAIL.
Though. Britain has allowed four) Powers Lo surpass ber in aerlat armanents, her need of them In greater than that of any other us tion. The Royal Air Force is scat. tered throughout the world. Ita squadrons are spread about the North-West Frontier of India, Palestine and Transjordania, | --- Egypt and the Sudan. It would be impossible to recall these machines in the hour of national danger! they are needed too badly where they are.
Cuba's First. Ma yoress Honoured.
Cuba's first woman mayor, 24-year-old Senorita Elena Arcay, pic- tured with President Grau San Martin in Havana after he had
Norte appointed, her executive of Consolacion Del ward for her revolutionary activities, She follows the footsteps of her father, who was mayor of the town when he was assassinát- ed in 1327 during the Machado regime.
調凭
re-
Parabellum ABORIGINAL
(Continued from Page 10.)
WARRIOR'S
GRIM FIGHT Escapes From Trackers Over Cliff.
WANTED FOR MANY KILLINGS
-
Darwin. Northern Territory. Nemarluck, à magulficent spect- met of manhood, six feet, two inches tall, with the physique of 'a gladiator, has been wanted by the
No one has fought for the cur- tailment of national expenditure more consistently than I; but I say "There he is in front," says that Britain's present policy in George, "leadin' be three lengths. aerial defence is a policy of a Come on, you beauty," cide. Britain should condemn the "That's not Parabellum," I yells. folly of a property-owner who sav-"That's Bird In Hand."
"It's Parabellum,” ed maney by stinting his fire insur-
save George. ahce, but the Government is con-"Come on, you. tent to leave the whole nation ex- Suddenly he swore and his jaw posed to risks just as real and far dropped.-- more deadly. Since 1925 the an- "It's not Parabellum," he says nual outlay on the Air Force has "What is it?" been cut down by nearly 10 per "It's Bird In Hand," I cries. Darwin police since 1980 when he {ent. In that same period the "Look at him. He's trotting home." was the leader of a party of na-i similar expenditure of France and Right enough, there he came into tives that massacred three Japan- Since trepang fishermen, the United States has more than the straight, leading by a distance, jese doubled.
He passed the line yards an' yards then Nemarluck has killed seven atives in tribal fights and has be- It would, of course, be necessary in front e' the others,
"Where is Parabellum?" whia come famous 65 a warrior over that the expansion of the Royal Air Force required for national safety pered George, in a week voice. thousands of square miles in the should be accompanied by ruth- "No," says George. "I see only Northern Territory. less economies in that extravagant five dogs there."
Two months ago Nemarluck wan ground organisation which ทานย "I dunno," says I. “Can't yo find surrounded and captured by the made Britain's air arm hitherto so him?"
Darwin Police after a fierce ight. disproportionately expensive to "And Parabellum an't one of Nemarluck's two lubras were taken
fem," says I maintain.
to the aboriginal compound and "No," says George, he ain't held as witnesses,
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DOGS TO MATCH THE DANUBE.
First Kerry Blues Bred In Austria.
Vienna.
from
OIL MAGNATE
ATTACKS "GOLD MANIACS”
mit
Ashamed To
They Are Wrong.
RUINING THE DEBTOR
Londos. -
The British Government's un |successful effort to persuade other Why, the so-an'-so never left his Four weeks ago, Nemarluck
nations to disarm by practical box! Look at that."
cleverly osesped. Instead of example has lasted long enough. In There they were, taking Farahastening back to his tribe where the House of Commons last May bellum out of his trap. You could he would have had ample.warning the Prime Minister stated that the hear George curse a hundred yards of danger from arrest, Nemiarluck B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for increase of the Air Force to a one- away. I ran down to collect me took refuge on an island in dense "Have you even seen a blue dog?"
Power standard "could not be con-money, an' when I came back 1st and 2nd class passengers.
sidered apart from the results of George was nowhere to be found, so managrove swamps 10 miles from asks a Vienna paper apropos of the Disarmament Conference. "I scooted an' got back to the Darwin, evidently with the Idea of first appearance of a Kerry Blue at Those results.are manifest in ita Plough. When ye win
taking away his two wives, by dog show here. a bit o'
Nine little dogs to match the virtual collapse. The time har money on a racecourse it's always cause, if he returned to his tribe
violent attack on "gold come for Britain to pay heed to her the best thing to skedaddle before without them, he would never e Danube have been born to a cham- own peril and to meet it by creat-ye can lose it.. I got back around allowed to marry again. On this pion British bitch, hailing
Ascot, who is thriving with hermaniacs" is made by Sir Henry ard Fab. Menita, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & ing without delay the most power ten o'clock, as I promised the point the tribal law is firm.
All the efforts of the police to re-family in the air of Vienna. She Deterding, the oil magnate, in the ful Air Force in Europe. We can missus, an' there she was waitin"
Figures about the Crisis," by Mr. Austria-Reuter, raise our aerial strength to 5,000 for me. However, that wasn't all arrest Nemarluck failed. He was is the first Kerry Blue to come to foreword of a book, "Facts and soen several times in the swamps,
H. Dunlop. Sir Henry Raserte machines for less than the cost of of it.
ma but eluded capture. :)
that finance has" since the Great three such huge and dubiously "I wasn't long celebratin'
grew densely. He was searching valuable battleships as the Lord winnings with the misus when the
Surprins Raid
for a spot where he could descend War been in the hands of a "few Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan Nelson. The aircraft industry, a crowd began to pour, In, an' they all
Recently the police, acting on the cliff when Smiler rushed for short-sighted theorists who are and Hong Kong to Australia.
vital element of the nation's trade lookin' for me.
information received from another ward, fring at the fugitive as he did ashamed to admit they are wrong." Hong Kong to Bydney 19 days,
and transport, would receive a "Where is the so-an'-so that tip- Frequent connections from Australia with the following-
dicular and upwards of feet in courage has been-the chief cause The Union 8.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New much-needed impetus from increas-ned us Parabellum?" they cried.. native, made a raid on the rocky so. The cliff was nearly perpen He adds that their lack of moral
ed construction.
“Don't blame me,” I says. "Blam island and surprised Nemarluck.
The black warrior, was lying height. As an ayenue of escape it of the present perplexities of the The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London, and
No foreign country will see any George. Twas him put me on it sleep in full war paint,
was a forlorn hope, but it was the world, The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.
The gold afiction, he writes, Siller, the ablest and bravest only possibility, Nemarluck saw The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and provocation in this action of make He said it was a certainty.
ing Britain's defensive forces pro- But the ole man was the greatest of the blackers, had approached that he might negotiate it from. (that poisonous conviction where London via Panama Canal"
portionate to her needs. These gas of all, machines are wanted as an element: "When I see Cripps." he says fuck sprang to us feet. Smiler's fearful Jumpin by 1-miler wits trade particularly international within a few yards when Nemar point to his right by nakup appered by gold, maniacs are ruining of national safety. Their purpose "I'II settle him. I. do time for will be to act as an aerial garrison that feller Him an Hogers are revolver did not intimidate Nemar then in the way Bullet had emade) is based on an absence of of the British Isles. In building a pair of scoundrels. Tellin' me luck. A bundle of apears lay be- piled his revolver and Nemarluck thinness, by maintaining debts con- them Britain will arouse no more my dog was the fastest thing on alde him, and seizing some Nemar- had a club Bushing at Smiler tracted some years ago should be apprehension abroad than if she four legs an' the little devil goin' fuck buried one at Smiler as he Nemerluck struck him terrific repala by twice the effginal quan. was about to Are. Smiler quickly blow on the head. The blow would tity of food Thun Wold protects doubled the number of guns an to sleep in his box.”*** Dover breakwater.
However, I was well in pocket, swerved, and both revolver shot have crushed-white man's skall creditor, but fuing the debtor, and it cut open Emiller's Baalp from involving both Anally in common If noch an expansion of aerial which just shows you that a feller and spear missed their marks. strength were combined with a de has got to keep his ears open on 4. As a second spear was being crown to Be Over Catastrophy food Shanghai, Moll, Kobe 4 Yokohama.
more, thrown Smiler dropped his revol
Another native then appeared on. He claims that the excessivo Shanghai, Moj, Kobe & Yokohama.fensive Franco-British alliance the racecourse And, what's
height of tarlife la due to the de be never believe a boolde tip. Or, a ver, ducked and closed with the scene and was laid out E of peace
Europe would
Nemarluck. Belting a third spear blow on the head from
struction of the value of silver and established Indefinitely on unshak-¡trainer's tip, either. able foundations.
the warrior attempted to use it a stone,
thus of the purchasing power of la stabbing kasegal.,
some pine millions of people. Jake Assallant Wounded,
Sir Henry
convinced that gold monometallism stands condemned by brutal facts that the advo
of a universal" gold standard: admit that there is not enough gold ound, yet refuse to realise BOONE ZORmal-conditions
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Labour Party Weakened
The death occurred after: ous operation of Lleut Co T. McArthur. Labour MP: Umblio His death serious kopa thoomictal Labour, d'a tión in Parliament: → Mr. Walter Minister of Posta, and who reprasents:
Housn, ia now- "presentative.
ken" Bscape
Mean bae Emile [kla rey
• His thrust tore Smiler's shirt Nam from the shoulder to the waist, in Smiler ficting a long shallow wound on F the tracker's side, Weapons were
then forgotten and the two men fought Bavagely, with their hands in this form of fighin the_wild man was superior
Smiler was lifted, Into the air Shurled head frat on to the grou
Nomarluck then m
Vesaita- freedom, for other Trackers ware
closing in from both sides,
Smijer
dona. He fall
Although Dased, Smiler stagger i edge of the cliff and lay ga
to his feet and regai
the
wer Meanwhile,
had reached the edge
below which the
"hín reg whileở thrờings emarinak crawled on ban
Ca little the Mangroves; and
will, anger still furt
dytica” refuse to discuss
luck merita, ise, SAWS OF AppEd mislead- noes Into ing. Information about disappeared, tion and consumption of the
mangroves --perhaps, for aver-Beuter,
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