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The Wheat Position.

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LORD READING

Lord Reading, who, la to become ehairman of Carreras. Limited, in succession to the late Sir Louia Baron, may be congratulated on his association with one of the best-run companies in the country.

BRITAIN'S PLEDGES FOR PEACE

WICKED TREATIES THAT

LEAD TO WAR

POLICY OF DISASTER

(By Lord Beaverbrook.)

The arguments

London, those of us who believe in dinary Splendid Isolation are going them.

Carreras, Limited, may consider themselves fortunate in having TF secured the services of a chairman who brings to his duties a combina- tion of qualities which must be of another rare in any country.

now.

The Powers

common

are false. Or sense rejects.

to save Britain from the horrors Big guns in Belgium can be

war, we must move met by big guns in Britain. In spite of his 73 years, Lord

As for the danger from the air- Reading retains the same inclalve gathering in every direction., The stantly dragged out to justify our of Darkness are plane, that worn device is con- mind and the same ability to get web is being woven more quickly to the root of a matter more securely round us. which have been his chief assets Ini

and Ministers passion for entangle- menta on the Continent. But the Let the nation be warned in truth is that the advent of the air- the numerous high offices he has time. One day we will wake up plane has made the British Em- filled.

to find that the documents we pire potentially more invulnerable He ranks highest among all non-signed in the name of pesce have than it has ever been. business

A powerful air defence depends on the existence of a great com-

chairmen in Britain, pledged us to do battle in a cause both for the impartiality and for that is not our own. the despatch with which he con- Do not be deceived by this talk mercial air system. The vast ex- ducts a meeting."-

lof pacts

of mutual assistance. tent of the British Dominions Do not be taken in by the as-makes it SEVEN COMPANIES

absolutely certain surance of Sir John Simon that that in those territories will Lord Reading.

we are undertaking no new com- spring up a civil flying service aa a former Viceroy should bring grist to Car-

mitment.

without parallel in the rest of the eras business in the East. The old bad thing. The old game is

The pact is a new name for an world. Indian Carreras Company began being played in a

That is not a matter which de- operations in March of last year.

new gulse.pends on the will of any Govern- Lord Reading is on the boards of alliance, and with the knowledge the sheer force of economic neces Russia and France have made animent. It will come about through seven companies, which have an and approval of Britain

sities.

The air argument for inter- ference in Europe is a bogey. The

aggregate capital of about £120,-)

000,000. As the National Provin-

That is all.

Towards War

cial Bank and several insurance] companies are among them, hel assists in controlling funds of over again, the combination that several times that sum.

Your Daily Smile!

went to war in 1914.

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It is the old combination all airplane is an argument for isola

tion.

One by one the reasons, in point which embarrassed them

favour with an unsaleable surplus, are Chemical Industries, the giant mer

He is president of Imperial. No British interest was involved

of entanglements break in that war. No British interest down under scrutiny. extreme, it will have taught Asidiaries girdle the world. now proposing to go to the otherger whose activities, and aub will be involved in the new war

No Interference towards which the new arrange- Now for the arguments against useful lesson. And luckily it] has not come too late to prevent

ment will inevitably tyring us... the entanglement policy, the argu- them from trying to repair the

But, we were bound to the war ments of the Isolationist. What injuries done by their own folly

of 1914 by our old bad treaties are they? and alliances And It is a remarkable coincidence by a remedy still more foolish. A new implement combines 10 bound to the new war, too.

we will be (1) Interference in Europe that while the world was con-

means war for certain, garden tools in one. But it still The Australian Government has isn't perfect as long as you have tween France and Russia is to The reason is plain: the territorial, sidering definite, plans. for the deferred its announcement of

The purpose of the alliance be

There must be war in Europe. curtailment of food production a the wheat policy until the posi-to go out and operate ft. drought of exceptional severity tion further develops under the

compel Germany to adhere to the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles should have come to wither up influence of the changes which

Treaty of Versailles. That is the cannot stand. Millions of men "How are you getting on keeping only objective of It the world's wheat crops. This the uncalculated for drought has much honey, but the bees have stung Treaty of Versalles is not a Bri- that treaty. These millions will beea?" "Very well. We have not had

feel themselves suffering under has taken place over such large brought about.

But the maintenance of the unbearable injustice because of This may call areas in Europe and America for a reorientation of policy

my mother-in-law several times.” that instead of the embarrassing throughout the world to a new

tish concern. This country. be-fightreooner or later. surplus which steps were being position. Instead of asking Aus-

lieves that the territorial clauses If we stand out of European. taken to prevent, there may be a tralia to restrict wheat produc-rooster. "We were all in the

"Remember Eddle?" asked the first of that treaty are unjust, indefen- commitments, we are given the shortage of the staff of life. As tion, other nations may yet be incubator together."

same sible and certain to be changed: hope and expectation that there Yet we are pledging ourselves will be no war for Britain, that we

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Barnyard Chatter

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rent a leaky

a cure for the anomaly of pover-glad to see a greater acreage un piled the second.

"Sure,, I remember old Eddie," re-anew to fight for a treaty which will not be compelled to fight on ty in the midst of plenty, alder crop. The upward movement eggi writer in an American magazine in the Australian market, if recently described the proposal things are what they seem to be But if you can't afford a vacation to destroy crops as the abolition in Europe, promises to be but an in the open, you can of plenty. That is what the earnest of higher prices to come tent at home and nature will provide drought may be going to do. For, and less need of Government as-the ants and mosquitoes. although it is too early yet to sistance for the grower.

The estimate the extent of its rav-irise in wool came at a time when

Sad Parting ages, reports already to hand in the woolgrowing industry appear Little-bank roll, ere we part, dicate that throughout Europe ed to be gasping for breath, and Let me press you to my heart. the wheat belt is more or less restored it in a few months to all the year I've worked for you; affected. In places rain yet state of vigorous prosperity, and I've been faithful, you've been true, may save the situation. Russia. increased the favourable trade Little bank roll, in a day which is now buying wheat from balance materially.

You and I will go aiday,

we

"He was a good the British people believe to be a one side or the other in a dispute

monstrous and intolerable act of about territorial clauses which are: oppression.

no concern of ours. commitment is being undertaken divides us from the Dominions. It As for the pretence that no new (2) Interference In Europe by us, it will not bear examination is a policy which means the break- for a moment.

up of the British Empire. By the wicked treaty of Locarno The Dominions refused to have are bound in an unlimited anything to do with Locamo France, our partner, undertakes determination the unlimited exten- partnership with France. Now They will reject with still greater vast new Habilities.

sion of the Locarno commitment we are bound with our partner. which is how contemplated by the (unlimited character the obliga-|

Like every other partnership of British Government. tions of oue member of the firm

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French liabilities are ours. extend to every other member. SUICIDE VERDICT

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If France promises to fight for

Others report an anticipated America may be of wheat that silver may have drawbacks, but you crop failure in Germany, while would be difficult to sell, and can't work up s prosperous feeling by no amelioration in the position large amount of loss will be re-playing with two paper dollars in your the frontiers of Russia, sooner or throughout the rest of Europe, quired to bring back good times pocket.

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Facing The Facts Of Disarmament,

At Taikoo Docks.

later we will find ourselves march Death Of Capt. J. Bruhn An engineer says centrifugal force fend those frontiers.

ing, to war with the French to de- would keep tires inflated on an auto- mobile going 200 miles an hour, even

That was the situation in 1914. though they were punctured. Still, France went to war with Germany

Common-sense, acceptance of it. taken place in oversea wheat some deeper truths of world poli

A verdict of suicide while of un-

in case of a fiat, it's wiser to pull because she had a treaty with sound mind was returned by the over to the side of the road and fix Russia. We went to war because jury at the Coroner's inquest held we were bound in honour to aid at Central Magistracy yesterday. prices is the surest indicator tica mark the "war" resolutions Facts You Did Not Knowition which impelled our statesmen found dead sboard his vessel, the

France, That was the considers.into the death of Captain Jorgen da

Bruhn, aged 48 years, who

to enter the war,

that a

substantially reduced carried by the Socialists and yield is expected by those whose trade unionists at their recent Wires can be attached to a new business it is to estimate harvest conference in London. Ignoring electric plug without tools, the ends

There was another ominous notes. Tuet On, at the Talkoo Docks, probabilities.

the foolish talk which has been being inserted into Jaws in prongs, in Sir John Simon's speech. He on July 20, As a result of this sudden turn current in: Socialist circles, the after which a cap is screwed down to save a pledge, a new and solemn

The Inquiry was conducted by Mr. that all crop restriction schemes ing disarmament by example in A vehicular tunnel #290 feet long important to us to defend Belgium Chan Ping and Wu. Wal-tong. of events, it may be assumed delegates faced facts by reject-complete the plug.

pledge, to guarantee the integrity E. W. Hamilton, sitting as Coroner, now under consideration will be favour of disarmament by agree and a podestrian tunnel 1840 Zeet then it had ever been.

of Belgium. He said it was more assisted by the following Jury: viewed in a new light. It is forment, and refusing to endorse in length are being built under the Now what are the reasons pat

Messrs. A. D. Coppin (foreman); tunate, therefore, that Aus the proposal to call a general Scheldt river in Belgium between forward for their conduct by our tralia remains uncommitted strike in the event of war. They Antwerp and Ste. Anne.

to any agreement under which have thus brushed aside the im

statesmen who move in darkness? Let us examine them

its right to plant as much wheat practicable attitude taken by A Northwestern University pro as it pleases might be taken speakers on so many Socialist fessor has developed machine that (1) They are. away. No one knows how long platforms.

striving after the sends out a hum like that from a disbalance of power in Europe. They the dry spell overseas may last Mr. Henderson's bitter but il-tant airplane from a land speaker to do not call it that, but that is what or to what parts of the world it luminating experience, as Presi

induce persona to sleep. may extend In the drought dent of the Disarmament Con- French authorities are arranging an

they mean. Sa season-1902-8 New South Wales ference had a strong influence air mail service from France to Indo- fect ourselves against a hostile Their view is that we must pre- did not produce enough wheat to upon the minds of the Socialist China, planning Inter to extend the combination in Europe by enters provide even seed for the next leaders, Britain has given years service to Canton and possibly up the ing an alliance with Continental year's crop. To restrict planting of trial to the plan of disarming coast of China

Powers.

It is a mistaken

policy

all round for the purpose of by way of example, and the end keeping down the world's-supply of it all is that other major might result in a scarcity that countries have added enormous-gain.

of disaster. It has alwa

would cause much more suffering ly to their defensive, and offen- tion of stopping war by a gener, lead to war in

As for the quixotie no-war in the past. than the greatest glut of wheat sive strength. Britain cannot real strike the Labour leaders

or other necessities of life could gret the effort she has made, would have written themselves (2) Then it ever bring in its train. If the re- but she has to admit failures, down as ignorant alike of the defend Belglup cent drought in Europe has the Even disarmament by agreement sentiment and the history of the Power effect of wakening up to this occupies a pre

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