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HERE, THERE

HELPING THE AUSTRIANS

British Civil Servants are being asked to subscribe to a fund.

The collectors are in Civil Ser vice Clerical Associatioon; the beneficiaries, "Civil Service vic- tima" in Austria.

The appeal is made in a circular which asks British Civil Servanta to help Austrian Civil Servants

AIR RAID LESSONS FOR BRITAIN

INCREDIBLE DEAFNESS OF POLITICIANS

FORGOTTEN FRIGHTFULNESS

(By Collie Knox.)

QEVENTEEN years after!

and underground railway stations,."

IS My mind goes back to a and our great city lying naked to

London was warned!

"in resisting further attacks on starless night in June when the the enemy from the sky. their legal and moral rights" and heavens were raining death over "In their struggle against London; when no living soul was abroad in the streets; when the tyranny."

Still there was silence in the

At the same time a bitter at-night was heavy, with the roar of little room, broken only by the calls tack on the Government of Austria aeroplane engines, and with the of the telephonists appears in the official organ of shrieking of bombs as they screech-falling into baskets the Association.

A DANGEROUS APPEAL

ed their lurid way to earth.

How incredible it all was!

Yet it is more incredible. still

.... messages. the eyes

of the General fixed on the map, as

area after area lit up.

Closer, closer they come.

The clock strikes one.

"No. 39 squadron in the air!"

that in 1984 we should have to The fund, in many opinion, strain every nerve and sinew to should be banned.

shout in the ears of deaf politicians orders the General. The Air Force: It is even more likely to stir up that our Air Force must be kept up Commander takes action:

The operators speak urgently international ill-feeling than the to adequate fighting strength o

mouthpieces. In a collections which are being made that never again will the terror by into their for the Austrian rebels by the or-air come to our homes, bringing minute or two thirty machines in dinary trade unions in this coun-swift death to the helpless and the an aerodrome in North London are in the air, searching for the enemy.

Then, a terrific trash then another.

try.

unarmed.

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Civil servants are employees of the Government. When their or I write of things as I know them; ganisations indulge in contentious of events so vividly burned into my propaganda directed against the brain that so long as I live I shall Government of a friendly foreign remember them.

country

and

The General stira in his chair. "Not much longer now," he mutters. "Number 112 squadron

dangerous misunder- Mine may be a still, small voice in the air!" standing may easily result.

If the workers of Whitehalling aloud in a dreadful wilder- A door opens. A short, sturdy

wish to subscribe to charity, let them assist the British unemploy- ed.

no longer he pleaded in any Bri-]THE POPE AND THE SAAR tish Court..

ness. Yet, maybe, someone hear.

will figure, wearing a familiar khaki stock and a tunic covered with

The General makes a movement. "Good evening, sir," he says.

I was on the staff of Major-medal ribbons, silently enters

Viscount French. General E. B. Ashmore, General

He walks to the table and stands. Officer Commanding the Alreraft Defences of London, the man who motionless. did more to protect the lives of the time. Do you know his name? Most probably not.. One does not remember such things.

I had had my fill of aeroplanes.

Viscount French puts a hand on his shoulder.

absently and half rises.

The greatest immediate bene- An Englishman who has just re- Hong Kong, Thursday, July 19, 1934. fit was the abolition of the hor-turned from a visit to the Saar citizens at home than anyone of his rors of the Middle Passage'; the gives a revealing account of cond terrible voyage between decks in tions there. a crowded ship across the At-

There is no sympathy for France, lantic. In some other respects but the dissensions among the

I had flown in the days when aero-"It's your show." increasing the results were not so good as German population are

planes were not the last word in The Centenary of the abolition they might have been if Wilber-daily. of Slavery in the British Colonies force and his supporters had had The issue will turn on the Catho-construction that they are now is one of those definite dates a little more sympathy with the lie vote, and 75 per cent. of the indeed, when they were only just a means death and

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For some

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A Miraculous Escape-

Having one fine day been sent)

which are useful as monuments former owners, who quite na-population is Catholic. are, useful; they remind us of turally were not so easily con-weeks now the Pope has had some outstanding act or princi-verted, and who thought that at special emissary, Monsignor Testa, Iple that has gone to make our least they ought to get full value at Saarbruecken.

thought-world what it is, and of, their human property. Alto-

So far he has maintained a dis- into the air by a flight commander suggest a review of the progress gether twelve million pounds creet silence, but recently the tone who must have known-had I not of an ideal and its standing in a wore voted for compensation,a of the Star Catholic Press has told Him?-that the machine I was

"Carry on. Ashmore!" he says.

First Blood To R.A.F. Another crash. This time it destruction in- deed. For we know, later, that the bombs have fallen in the Chelsen. Hospital area.

"They're over, us now. eh?" he

asks.

The General nods. "Our squadrons are all in the air.

very imperfect world. It often large sum in those days, but only hardened against the Nazis, and the in was old and worn-I. duly crash-i" he says.

A message is put in front of him.

jachievement.

You see, the machine spilt in

"One of the enemy down," he

"Good!" mutters Lord French

happens that when we analyse about a third of the actual value. slogan to maintain free "the last ed to earth from 1,000 feet up. the actual history we find that Worse than that, the arrange- Christian plot of German territory" there is something arbitrary ments for payment were absurd- is gaining increasing support.

half. I carry the marks to thisays. "First blood to ual" about the choice of the date and Personal application had to be If the plebiscite is ever held, Herr day. I was laid out on a slab in something incomplete about the made, at the Treasury in White-Hitleriscite is over e tela mortuary. And well, we will grimly.

hall, with affidavits and certifi-improves his relations with the leave it at that.

The map is by now a blaze of The first important date of cates. There came into existVatican.

London, than, on an air raid

lights.... red and crimson triumph in the liberation of encé a new profession. 'Slave

night. The scene, a tiny, room the air resounds with the boom, der the Horse Guards arches boom of guns, the roar of engines, slaves had nothing dramatic Compensation Agents', who un

my Geneal, his staff, the shrieking of enemy bombs fall- about it; it was a decision de- dertook to recover the money livered in a long and learned due; and devised a very heavy

Your Daily Smile!

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judgment by the Chief Justice of scale of fees. It is not probable! The most important thing to heland Maj.-General T. C. R. Higgins,ing, falling, we know not where.

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little room, naturally eyes, the ears of the defenders of

London.

That, surely, must have been the most remarkable room in the world. Stretched right across one side of the wall was a vast map of Eng

An operator approaches. "Message through, sir," he says, that they've hit the Galety and wrecked the Strand,"

The General nods-turns to me. "Take the car.” he orders, "and

and see."

the Air Force Commander, with a England in a case which did not that more than a quarter of the certain of when planning a new

were the brains, the promise at its outset to be in cash paid out ever reached the railroad, I read, is that the track score of telephoniats. Here, in this any way specially interesting to planters and farmers. In South is good and also reasonable in the public. A certain wealthy Africa. where there had not till cost. The authorities creole, this name was at that then been any racial divisions be- wish the services to be run on time used for the white inhabi- tween the white men, the griev-Bound and economic lines. tants of the West Indies, who ance was never forgotten. The were practically all owners of cost of the Boer Wars can be Everybody's Business sugar plantations,gent his added to the twelve million "To keep a society engagement land, marked in aquares, cach chauffeur and we tear cut of the wife for a holiday to England, granted, as an extra charge for secret is one of the most difficult|

squares an area, each plentifully and she brought with her her ne- the red tape used in the distri- things in the world," says a gossip numbered. gro page boy. The 'conversation bution. There was no vote at writer: 'Well, troth will out, you pieces, as pictures of domestic all for vocational education for know. scenes used to be called, indicate the freedmen. Most of the West

that such artists as Hogarth Indian plantations went out of

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considered that no really fashion-cultivation, and had to wait in Sun-Bathing Version able woman's household was poverty till Mr. Joseph Chamber- Mary, Mary, quite contrary,

Why do you laugh and clown? complete at that time without a lain made a grant for sugar fac-

ed and I've oiled--

Now I'm turning a beautiful

negro pagę boy. He was as a tories and paid a subvention to "I've sizzled and broiled. I've peel- rule rather spoiled than ill-treat-shipping companies that carried ed; in fact he was regarded as sugar and bananas. The West a poodle was later, and a peke is African Colonies had to wait for to-day. But this particular boy the palm-oil kernel and Lord took a holiday without leave: Leverhulme to pull them out of Annoying Influence

When and his mistress took measures the slough of despond.

brown."

A barber claims to be able to

As the hostile aircraft approach- ed from the coast, the areas of the boundaries they crossed were illum- inated on the map-little malignant lights creeping, creeping, closer and closer towards London.

Round the room were countless telephones, with silent Agures with headphones glued to their ears in instant touch with every gun em placement; every searchlight crew; every aerodrome near and round London up from the coast..

The General sat at a small table to have him brought back. He we annexed Zanzibar no one took wave hair by wireless. I've often silent and watchful. Almost every resisted, and was taken to gaol any notice of anti-slavery pro- seen it make a colonel's moustache second messages were placed in To everyone's surprise he then clamations; and at length it be-positively curl applied for a writ of habeas cor-came a law that any slave who pus. His mistress said she had walked on a main road became As It Were- no objection to setting him free; free.. The roadside landowners but that he had not applied to began to complain that pathways Thér, to do so." The gist of the were worn along the edge of, Vacuum cleaner if they can pos-countless people. Lord Chief Justice's argument, their estates.

"Most housewives have

sibly afford it" says a writer. The

on a review of the whole history To-day we hear about wage-others simply can't raise the of English law from Saxon times, slaves, the slavery of the mui-wind. feudal tenures and all the rest, taal, and other relationships in

was that there was no such which some trace of status has Facts You Did Not Know status as slavery known in Eng-not yet yielded to contract. The

land; that no application was cause of freedom will no doubt With a new garage device all the necessary; and that therefore as go on, and we will help it where steering parts of an automobile can soon as a slave stepped on to we can; but the lesson of the be tested simultaneously. English soil he became a free great year of Liberation is that

Terrified, I run out to the court-

yard, enter the car; a word to the

gates.

The noise of the bombardment is. nerve-shattering.

Crash! again.. "Make it snappy!" I shout to the chauffeur. "They're just overhead." We take Trafalgar-square at 50 miles an hour, and up and along the Strand. The Gaiety stands out dark and drab..........

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HONG KONG'S HEAT WAVE.

front of him. He would scan them, Four Consecutive Days and hardly had he read one than

Of Over 90 Degrees. another would take its place. Ốn

a his judgment depended the lives of

Yesterday was the fourth consecutive day in which the London Warned

témperature exceeded 90 de- Another message. Suddenly he prees. Sunday'a temperature would turn to me.

rising to.91, Monday's to 93 and Warn London!" he would whis- Tuesday's to 92. Yesterday's per. I had to bend down to hear, maximum temperature of 93

so low, and softly did he speak. was only one degree below the On these words every telephonist maximum temperature, register stiffened in his seat, and the mes- ed in 1896, for the month of July sage was flashed to Scotland Yard. The highest temperature ever

man. The application of that social reforms deal with human! Italy's production of petroleum In a minute the maroons screamed registered in Hong Kong is 97, principle to the whole of the Bri- beings who want each day their reached a high record of 145,000 out their warning cry to the which was recorded on August

barrele of crude oil last year.populace,

|19, 1900. RE tish territories was the logical daily bread, and in abolishing a

London knew that death was on The normal mean temperature corollary, though it took years to bad system we must have a bet

Aluminum, canoes that are propelled its way, USA

for the month of July is 82′′ de- carry out, even after the Liberaber one to put in its lace, by pedaling like a bleyels have been As I stood behind the General,

grees, yo tion Act had become law on Freedom of Contract is a mere invented by a Florida man.

pictured to myself the rapidly Between 1 and 2 p.m. yester August 28, 1835. The Proclama- negation if there is no freedom

tion was issued in due course, from hunger. We must accept Animal hustander employs there emptying theatres, the quickly de- day the temperature touched 93 and on July 31 of the following full responsibility for the daily men than any other industry in New Barted streets, hordes of frightened degrees in the shade at the Boyab

Zealand with building ranking next,people flying to refuge in the Tubes Observatory. year the status of slavery could bread.