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HERE, THERE

MONDAY, MAY 14, 1934.

-----"MISTRESS OF SEAS"

A HOLLOW TITLE

EVERYWHERE

A`Diplomatic Favourite

There will be general regret among foreign diplomats in London at the coming retirement of General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps.

For 14 years he has been the friend and counsellor of London's ambassadors, arranging them in proper precedence and watching over their steps at Court functions.

BRITAIN'S SAFEGUARD IN THE AIR

ONLY MEANS OF DEFENCE

(By Amy Mollison.)

London. stores, merchant ships, and

in the present circumstances of our food and water supplies and NY Government of this country serviors; their objects to cut off

He is the ideal soldier-courtier. the world would have been guilty destroy our means of retaliation. of criminal negligence had theyjKnowing that the people have the

tall, good-looking, and tactful.

the Polish

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in the Czechoslovaki

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In Russia, where he was the Bri-neglected to make their precau-Anal say, that a united front, can, tish military representative, he was tions."-Mr. Baldwin's words in force the action of a Government, known to the various British mis-1932 when speaking of the next they would bring the fight direct stons as "Hanbury-Bill." The Tsar war.

sto us to compel us into submission was very fond of him.

Have precautions been taken? by starvation and terror.. He has an office in St. James's It is now a generally accepted

Reprisals In Kind Palace and a flat in the Henry III. fact that in the next war aviation We have only one way of de- Tower in Windsor Castle.

will play a major role. This obfence-reprisals in kind. His successor will presumably bevious truth brings with it not only new technique required in aerial an outside appointment. Mr. J. B. completely new technique in tactics the best way to defend is Monck. his assistant, is a Foreign military tactics, but also a new to attack. We must be equipped [official and fulfle more or less the ratio of values in peace-time diplo-with numerous squadrons of large, duties of a permanent Under-secre-macy. Britain who ruled the high-speed, long-range bombing tary.

wavea Was a power. to, contend machines. These must be flown with, an authority whose dictates by pilots experienced in long- Football 'v. Politics

could be enforced if need be. distance, all-weather flying. 38.

To-day "Mistress of the Seas" is they may have to fly "blind" to The cancelling of the interna little more than a grand, hollow their objective and back. tional football match between title; what counts now is to rule This means of retaliation has- Poland and Czechoslovakia has the air.

three major advantages: first, it serio-comic political background.

In our humble position as fifth will save our machines from be- The match was cancelled, not by in military air-power, how can we ing blown to pieces in their han- Football Association, promise and keep our promises. gars; secondly, it may mean the but by the Polish Government on how threaten and back up our enemy will have to call off fighter the slender ground that it might threats? From the polite anuba squadrons from other strategic have caused an anti-Polish politi- we are beginning to receive from points to defend their cities; and; the Powers above us it would seem thirdly, it will help the morale of Recently the Czechs arrested that one day we

may find the our people to know for a certainty three Polish agitators, who had preceding year, W25

politeness gone-then what? We that something is being done and £3,735,000, most of which was to been carrying on irredentist pro shall probably find it too late to that the enemy is suffering equally. be covered by the new taxation. paganda

recapture the position of authority Our Government has admitted, Poland, re

in fact, that this policy of re- Hong Kong. Monday, May 14, 1934, in addition to primage and other portion of Silesia.

duties. A year later, in May.tallated by deporting 15 Czechse are now throwing away.

An article in a national news-prisals in kind is the most ad- 1933 the country having, in from the Polish nortion of Silesia.

paper recently advocated a policy equate for our defence. Have the last days of 1932, gone off South Africa's Recovery-the gold standard Mr. Havenga

of "splendid isolation." That we, however, any purance that Fire And Fury

sound fine on the surface, but how our Air Force is suitably equipped confidently predicted that by The match was a zone contest are we going to achieve it, or how to carry out such tactics, and, în Signs of improvement con-pursuing the same tactics, and

Build for world championship tourna-defend our neutrality?

fact, is our Air Force receixing tinue to multiply, and especially profiting beyond expectation

our island with 1 the proper kind of training for- within the British Empire. from the rise in the price of gold,ment, which is to be held in Rome wall around

this month.

bomb-proof roof over the top?fying these essential long-distance Without any loudly advertised the Budget would be balanced..

Each country plays the other Where shall we get our food, and bombers? (and as loudly abused) "Brain From the excess profits tax on

The seid test of a pilot's ability Trust" to direct its affairs, the the gold-mines alone, six millions twice, and it is, perhaps, signi- what about our Dominions?

In was being realised.ficant that the Czechs had already

any European dispute we to fly over long distances in all British family of nations is per annum

The Minister declared that these beaten the Poles in Warsaw, may depend upon it that, even had kind of weather is the flying of quietly doing a great more than

It is also significant that results had been largely attained i

the we no commitments at all and no the air mail, whose carriers' proud merely muddle through. Had its methods been followed more through the disappearance of grand stand of the Sparta ground treaties or promises to honour, we boast it is that it is never delayed,

America's Example party divisions

state of Prague, where the match was should find it impossible to keep closely by other nations, there things somewhat shaken since to have been played, was destroy-out. We could not be self-i It has been only too sadly evi- Imight never have been a depres-then, but not early enough toed by fire a few weeks ago. supporting for even three weeks, dent that in America, at any rate, [sion at all -a depression that affect the financial adjustment.

WC are dependent on supplies the Air Force does not receive leven now would more surely and He was also, at that time, build-

from other countries; our welfare the particular Araining which is quickly pass if selfish isolationing stronge hopes on the im-

depends very greatly on the condi-required to carry out. long- were abandoned.

A chair Britain is at pending Economic Conference,

for Flying is to betions of Europe; we have thou-distance, all-weather Aying. This this moment the most truly pros hopes as yet unfulfilled.

created at the University of Jena.sands of nationals living abroad fact was brought forcibly before The perous of nations, and in Bri-main purpose, however, has re The appointment will be announce and millions of pounds in foreign the authorities during the recent tain's wake come the dominions.mained unhindered by side ed in a few days. The latest which springs to no-currents, and to-day the Union This must be the first appoint-

Danger Of Surprise tice is South Africa. which is of South Africa has not merely aiment of a Professor of Flying. I

Self-interest would compel us to Jable to report a surprising eco-balanced Budget, but a substan-is an example which is likely to he

defend our rights. nomic

recovery. The Budget tial surplus, bringing relief to

Our temperu- followed. shows a surplus, after wiping out many classes.

we could not Taken with the increase in the ment is such that the accumulated deficit of four One more country, then. has Air Estimates and the vast num-jallow ourselves to be stepped on and a half millions, mainly due had no reason to regret having ber of sport-flying centres, it is a right and left, even if we were not to the Increased price of gold abandoned the gold standard. further proof of Nazi intentions to actually attacked.

This being so, and Ms indirect stimulation of Not that the Hertzog Govern-make Germany the most air-mind-with what have we to defend our- commerce. The price of goitment ever professed to have donejed nation in the world.

selves?" which has had a decided in-it willingly. On the contrary, it fluence in helping Australia to made every effort to remain on put her house in order, plays n gold, investing the question with turally a very much greater part intense political significance, and in the South African situation. only yielding under pressure of In consequence of this reviving political mecessity. This policy. then threw me out. fortune, and believing that the in a Government which voted to future promises stability, the subsidise an Italian shipping line] Government, after devoting the to the extent of £150,000 a year, surplus to the redemption of for a five years' term which be loans and the reduction of cer- gan in March, was considered lies about me.” tain minor deficits, proposes to by many. to be inspired mainly,

Don't worry now, dear. give some degree of relief to if not solely by politico-racial till she starts telling the truth." payers of income tax, to reduce "cussedness." Had the change

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Professor of Flying

Your Daily Smile!

So her husband found you out?

Not exactly; he found me in arid

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MIAOU!

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Investments.

If the aggressor in the next war) is strong enough and quick enough; the first mighty blow from the air

air mail disputes, when it was de- cided that the U.S. Air Force should run the mail contracts.

(Continued on Page 11).

STILL UNITED IN DEATH

Man Who Carried Ashes

Of His Friend.

will probably prove the deciding BOTH BURIED IN ONE COFFIN factor for victory. It will mesn instant surrender or utter rain,

"Mabel is going about telling iciencies.

lor abolish certain duties, to come sooner it would not only Cocktail Chatter. cheapen the cost of telegrame, have come with better grace, but "I like a girl to have a and introduce penny postage Im-would almost certainly have help-complexion." mediately. These are policies.jed to bring more quickly the now "Yea, but not too often.". once familiar enough in that evident general improvement.

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Council Bluffs, Iowa.

In the last war we were more A staunch friendship which start- or less unprepared, but we had ed 12 years ago in a hospital ward, means at hand to rectify our, de-jhas ended with the burial of one of Factories were com-the friends. with the ashes of his Įmissioned, labour mobilieed and friend enclosed in his coffin. Walt munitions and war material turn- Jacob Los, a well-to-do California led out as fast as humanly possible, estate agent and at that time an There will be no time to prepare elderly man, met Albert Coffman, a after the next declaration of war, young Santa Ana war veteran, fresh in Europe there are thousands of while both were confined in the same ·

long-range bombers, perfectly cap-hospital.

jable of Aying over here and de- Their acquaintance developed in- stroying our factories, affecting to an affectionate friendship which the moral of our workers, and was kept up after both were dis-

when he talked preparation.

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pre-war period of which the vir-Partly in spite of itself, the Gov-Revelations tues seem now so often forgot ernment is likely, in the near His wife took notice of everyĴeffectively crippling our means of charged from hospital. Coffmen ton; but they sound strangely future, to find its path much word he said.. to-day. Other communities may easier. A prospering. people, his sleep. well hear of them with a mea- above all a people which actually aure of envy.

finds its load of taxation lighten- The change in South Africa's ing, is naturally, a people easter position has been not only com-jto govern, less disposed than plete; it has also come about formerly to vex itself over conell to scale. very rapidly. It seems only tentious questions such as Con- yesterday that the tale was one stitutional procedure and status.

MY TAME TYPIST of perplexity.

Thought, a "Joint account" WAS Recent Budgets This is one of the main reasons. could make no auch rosy reports which justify the truth of the the butcher's bill as this one. In presenting thojaxiom. that government is fin- Budget of 1932, the. Finance ance.

Let the many uneasy Little Thought.. Minister, Mr. Havenga, announc-Ministries. of the world study

are born equal; ed that in consequence of a de- the reminder, and apply the what they're equal to that makes pleted national income there lesson to themselves.. There are the difference, must be not only additional taxa-countries which are far from)

went to live with the older man in The science of aviation has pro- Santa Ana, helping him to manage- gressed so extensively in recent his business. Los always referred years that even in thick cloud and to his younger friend as "my son". The builder who built a prison fog pilots can fly blind to their

Three years ago Los died, and. objective, drop their bombs, and thereafter Coffman carried with return unseen. How are we to him, wherever he went, a small, stop them? We cannot..

black matcliel.. He would never, tell, Our Government tells us that anyone why he carried it over what we have a carlain measure of home it contained. defence. We have aircraft guns:|

A Now Coffman has just died. searchlights which work on the sister, going through his effects. a "grid" system, f.e., in squares, in came across the familiar satchel. leart possible She opened it and found inside an order to give the chance of escape to an enemy air-urn, containing the ashes of· Los. craft; fast interceptor, fighters. A. note accompanied It, written by What use are all these if the Los, revealing that Coffman had

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tion, but reduction of all Par-richly endowed, and with more Answer to Correspondent. . ' Hamentary and Departmental leating resources,

than South No, Henry, a greengrocer, is not entry is invisible, as he would be promised always to keep the ashes

salaries. The fallin' general Africa, which, further, are al- merely a simple grocer. revenue had then amounted to most entirely free from racial {two

millions, with another divisions,. The statocraft which Problem. shrinkage of the same amount in can reduce the people's burdens railway 'revenue, The deficit to would in them also be amply re- go? Be met. Including 2000,000 from warded.

in the kind of weather which with him while he lived. It further, usually prevails in this country? asked that whoever took charge of It is certain that their targets Coffman's funeral should see that

granted.

do we find man- would be our aircraft factories the urn be buried with him. et

(all grouped together round Lon- The", réquest. WAB Where woman goes:

don), arsenats, dockyards, food Heuter