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THE SOLUTION TO DISARMAMENT

BRITISH MEMORANDUM

WHY

ADVANTAGES

FRANCE AND GERMANY SHOULD ACCEPT

(By J. B. Firth.)

It is now or never if the nations,similar, sequence of highly danger-

of the world's want Disarmament. The Dis-ous events. Yet if the British pro- radium comes from Belgian mines armament Conference. is exactly positions are dispassionately-con- in the Southern Congo. Czecho-two years old to-day, but the Bri-sidered, it is hard to see why either, slovakia.... produces some four tish Memorandum is less a birth-Germany or France should reject grammes a year; Germany, Bussis day card than a reminder that the them as a basis of settlement: and Portugal a small quantity each. sands" are fast running out.. The total world stocks of the metal

Steps Towards German Equality The British Government has are about 500 grammes. The price gone to the limit in order to get Let us see how oach is affected- varies, according to the quantity Germany back to the Conference Take Germany's position first! She purchased, from £10,000 to $15,000 room. It looks, at first sight, as if, demands real equality among the a gramme.

In that respect at least, it will nations. Moreover, she is resolved It takes 10 tons of even the succeed.

to have it, either with or without richest ares to produce one gramme of the pure metali

It is frankly recognized in the Convention, and by the leave.or. German Press that Great Britain without the leave of the Treaty of has made a strong and comprehen-Versailles. So much is obvious ex- More Eggs Wanted

sive advance towards satisfying cept to the wilfully blind.

The British proposals do not give The Germans are backward in Germany's amour proper and meet- poultry farming, but the Governing her demand. for equality. Herr Germany actual equality here and ment are new working out a plan Hitler's recent anniversary speech now. But they accord her the right to stimulate this branch of agri-in the Reichstag was Bismarckian to supply her armies with her In its downrightness, and the for-favourite 5.91n. gun and with light culture.

When Colonel Sandeman Allen eign réferences were in such ad-6-ton tanks. They allow her the commented on the absence of mirable temper, that while we need right to construct war planes at the the end of two years If, in the mean- poultry the Germans smiled and re-not expect him to jump at

of the British while, the Powers do not agree to Įplied: "Oh, but we don't cat bacon suggestions and eggs for breakfast as you do." Memorandum, we may confidently abandon their use-which muat be considered highly · Improbable, In He saw an interesting example hope for a friendly response.

view of the declarations of certain of organised farming. Between 50

Powers, Anglo-German Naval Rivalry and 60 amallholders had joined to

composing

their

As regards heavy mobile land zis' efforts, cannot oust the rether to have their rye ground, Berlin can scarcely have forgot guns and large tanks, it is proposed The Ching Mail

French demand from its superior milled and baked and sold direct ten the year 1912 and the Mission that these should be scrapped by in Dresden, 30 miles of the late Lord Haldane to the the Powers possessing them, accord- standing. The British Govern(from vans

ex-Kaiser and the German Governing to their size, the largest by the Allen Rong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 14, 1911 ment's memorandum recognises away,

dis-ment. That moment was in some end of one year, the next largest at this order in ranking, and disar Colonel Sandeman

the cussed agricultural development ways strangely like the present. It the end of three years, and the mament, hitherto halted in clash of these claims, is placed with Herr Darre, the, Nazi Minister was the last chance that Great third remaining category by the,; third. "A. reconciliation of the of Agriculture, who is an old King's Britain and Germany had of peace end of the fifth year. Nearer?

and College School boy,"

fully points of view of France Germany is an essential cònd!- Herr Hitler's expressions of tion of a general agreement," de- desire for a peaceful understand-clares the memorandum. ing with France and to workcurity it seeks first to establish by provisions for speedier inter

CURED generally for a solution of vention in case of threatened "Did it cure your husband. European unrest must surely, as breach of the agreement. Equall-walking in his sleep when you put London Press opinion urges, bety of rights in urmament, it sug the tub of water by the side of his back from Germany was a copy of taken seriously. The time should gesta, may be achieved by pract bed?"

+

Se

Your Daily Smile.

of

naval Germany, it is true, will. have- rivalry.

none of these heavy gans and tanks, It was thrown away-outwardly but if she is not contemplating an on a punctilo, really because Von early war she will not require them. Tirpitz. would not have his, naval Nor, for that matter, are her fin- Iplans interfered with and persuad-jances in such a flourishing state as led the Kaiser to stiffen his neck to tempt her to large expenditure All that Lord Haldane brought on the most expensive material.

What France Finds In The

the unpublished German Fleet Bill be ripe for clinching an agree-cal compromises on details of the "Yes, and it cured me of putting given to him by the Emperor him-

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Memorandum

ment. The British Government's draft convention. Then follow a tub of water by the side of his self. "Our Admiralty 'experts." Again, at whatever figure be-

suggested a proposed ten years' agreement bed

memorandum of

for progressive armament re: amendments to the draft con-

duction. Britain. agrees to vention has been compiled after Mussolini's demand for reform close conferences between the

Her Make

he wrote in his autobiography twees 200,000 and 300,000 her "found in it much that was alarm effectives are fixed, Germany under ing and we had no alternative but the scheme would know that the A rather stout woman was 'max-to go on with counter-prepara-home effectives of France, Italy, of the League, but has brought| British Foreign Secretary and him to consent that disarma-ing herself a nuisance in the big tions."

and Poland are no greater than her leaders of Continental Government agreement must come first; shop which was holding its annualį. ments chiefly concerned. It re- and French feeling is met by in-sale.

"The Emperor struck me as jown, though France would have the desirous of peace, but as not great advantage of a reduced understanding that the best way colonial army (white and native) to promote peace.was not by dis-across the sea in North Africa playing the sword. In the within easy call.

fashioning of the sword, Tirpitz Except the immediate possession. ready-seemed to me to be encouraging of a fighting air fleet, Germany ob- him powerfully, though I do tains most of what she wants under

presents an adjustment of dif- sistence that Germany must Nothing, it seemed, would sult ferences asserted during and come back to the League fold. her, and the unfortunate shop as- since the debates on the draft Britain's draft convention bil sistant was beginning to get a little convention at Geneva last May, was left on the abandoned disar weary,

mament table at Geneva last "Haven't you anything The obstacle to agréement throughout has been the animo-May in the stage of its second made that will "it me?" asked the sity between France, and

reading. The delays it has suf-customer at last. fered appear now as a gain with "Yes; the umbrellas and the many, expressed in the rival the improvements possible handkerchiefs Ate downstairs, claims of "security" and "equain a better atmosphere. Britain's madam," the girl replied. :: lity," and maintained in minor proposals for amendment to suit points of argument on the disar objections as to detail by France mament convention's terma, or Germany are set forth in our

Ger-

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not think that even he contem-the scheme. Her hot-heads' might. plated war, Bethmann-Hollweg still chafe at the remains of post- was of a wholly different tem-war inferiority, but year by year: perament, and appeared to me to for ten years these would progres- look at the situation much as sively disappear.

It is from the side of France' 'COPPERS AND COPPERS as we did in England. But he

of Germany that was not strong enough to dispel rather than Two burglars had experienced There are signs that each party cabled report. Following the great trouble in breaking open a

the atmosphere with which the difficulties and objections will be.

encountered, and the Memorandum Emperor was surrounded." is now in better mood to com- vastly improved measures.

has not had a good reception fa promise than at any time since prompt intervention in emersafe.. At last they succeeded,

"Lumme, Bill, sald one, It's full Again A Last Chance As In 1912 Paris, Equality is a matter of Britain now suggests the death of Herr Stresemann.gency.

home armies of 250,000, based of copper." "Yus," said Bill, France has seen Italy win pres-on a 12 instead of eight months' Peeping through the window, "an the Great War, not, indeed, of end-habit of mind, and France has ac- tige on the Danube, and Poland militia service standard, as the so's the street.” sign a frontier treaty with Ger half-way house between the many; and she dare not isolate 800,000 which Germany wanted herself in Western Europe. On and the 200,000 in the draft bill. The woman who neut back Germany's part, Herr. Hitler, in Germany is offered the bigger the fishmonger the plaica she declaring a desire for peace, mobile guns ahe desired, but not ordered because It was takes opportunity to acknow- the larger tanks. During the C.O.D. ledge "the nobility of France on ten-year term of the agreement the battlefields of history," halls reduction of heavier arms by all

Powers is to be accelerated Air||

PRIZE NIT-WIT

ALTERNATIVE

That was the last chance before figures. Security is a feeling and a

Ing Anglo-German naval 'rivalry. customed herself to think in terms but of materially slowing it down rather of Insecurity than There is a similar last chance, if Security,

(Continued on Page 11),

to statesmanship will take it, of pre- venting the entry of the nations marked upon a new race of arm

Facts You Did Not.

Know

the British disarmament plan strengths are to be reduced In A man is known by the company with good-will, and offers mustipulated and controlled ratio be kepts or promotes. *its tual treaties of non-aggression within five years under a per These gestures are too sigul manent supervisory Disarma ficant to be neglected. Germent Commission. Naval res Įmany, too, must perceive that trictions are to be left to a big persistence upon an aggressive ger Washington Conference next course may be carried too far year. There remains the Smar The bullying of Austria from Give us back the Baar," Bayi And reduce weight & Los Angel Berlin was sharply challenged Hitler, "preferably without a ple inventor has designed biscite, and we will sccept theed vehicle propelled when the Italian Government Locarno treaty entirely. Those operated much in the proclaimed itself a protector of words mean, little if they do not as an oaraman rows Austria, and offered its blessing mean that Germany will come to a restored Austro-

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