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HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

FLYING LOW

The new British Air Ministry notice ordering airmen not to fly commercial aircraft over the sea' except at heights from which

they can roach land in the event of engine failure merely conârma existing practice.

POLITICAL FERMENT

IN FRANCE

"DIFFICULT SITUATION

MAY DEVELOP"

DEEP RIFT NOT HEALED

(By Brig. Gen. E. L. Spears, M.P.)

It has long been a rule that N many people to be

TOT long ago, France seemed to Socialists and the like, which had and single-engined aircraft are not al-

feeling the been working up on lowed to carry fare-paying pas-verge of a revolution. After the mobilising opinion in the great pro- the vincial industrial towns as well as sengers over stretches of water riots of last February, when more than 80 miles in width, Government, In spite of A large in the capital, now have nothing The cautious pilot always tests majority in the Chamber, was swept against which to excite the workers, bis magnetos before venturing out of office by the force of public since the bogey of Fasciam, evoked over the water, and climbs to a opinion in the capital, it took all during the February riots, is dead, good height so that he can glide the immense authority of M. So Germany, because of the fear back to land in case of trouble. Doumergue to restore order and she inspires and the spectacle she It is possible to glide a mile for form a Coalition Miniatry. affords, has profoundly affected each 1000ft. of lost height.

That Ministry la in office to-day. French home polities. The murder. Venturesome amateur airmen in Order is re-established. But will of Dr. Dollfuss has still further good weather, sometimes fly low it last? Has the deep rift revealed roused the already vivid apprehen over the water. This given a in February been healed?

sions of France. In consequence, wonderful sensation of speed at No one can answer the former there is a relative calm on the sur- the cost of safety.

question. As for the latter, it is face, and the breach In the Govern- The new order is probably de- quite clear that no healing process ment's ranks threatened by the signed to discourage this practice. has set in. Behind the facade, of violent attack of M. Tardieu, the peaceful government a regrouping Conservative Minister, upon the of political forces has taken place, Radical leadár, M. Chautemps, that is all.

before the Stavisky Commission, No descendant of the original

Quite recently I had an oppor- has been healed, superficially at George Bradshaw, who brought outtunity of discussing the present least. a railway gülde nine years after situation in France with many the first train ran, is still in the Frenchmen, leaders firm which bears his name.

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FLYING DY BRADSHAW

The great prestige of M. Dou- of opinion, mergue achieved this, but the argu- politicians, members of the Governments he used were largely based

It is now publishing the frat ment as well as quite ordinary on the dangerous international

general air guide in Europe.

citizens, and I gradually realised situation. that the key to that situation was

No one in France, however, would

"Flying by Bradshaw" is common phrase among pilots. It to be found, not in France itself, dare to say that there is real poli- means following a railway line but in Germany. across country. Instead of flying by compasa.

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tical peace,

At best there is "Clean Up" Of The Nazis

truce. We shall in all probability statements of receipts and out-

Until the end of June the see the violently antagonistic forces goings that will be duly issued! It will now mean no more than February riots and what they por- of Left and Right at "grips again after a reasonable time has been catching your airplane at Croydon. tended, and the immense and end- less repercussions of the Stavfsky Your Daily Smile! affair, dominated the political scene. Germany was a cause of intermit-

Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 15, 1934. taken to check the figures, we

The Budget

very shortly.

Peril Of The Government The first great trial of strength "Mfuminy," cried Bill, "the baro-tent anxiety, no more. The mass will come in October, when the meter has fallen."

of the French people hoped, with a Radical Socialists meet in congress degree of optimism varying at Nantes. That party, now the according to individual tempera-strongest in the Chamber, has been ments and political creeds, that greatly weakened by the fact that their neighbours would settle down. it was in power during the 'February Men of affairs devoutly prayed riots and signally failed to deal that Germany would solve her with them. Its inability to probe

shall be well informed as to how the Treasury stands. Of course very few of us will take the trou- ble to do anything of the sort;

"Much?" asked mother. The omission of an explanatory and in any case we shall have for- note from the Government gotten these figures long before "Right on to the hall floor, Gazette caused a great deal of the end of 1935. In other words where it has smashed !" said Bill. misunderstanding. The Defence the budget is really a statement Contribution and the service of of policy; it tells us how much or Only three little details marred the the Public Debt are two of the how little we may expect in the fine sport a St. Louis angler was hay- big items of expenditure. No immediate future. It could not. He was, the police told him, fish-

and without a license

Helping Out

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doubt there were good reasons under the peculiar circumstances.ng in a state hatchery, in a city park ghastly economic problems and the Staviaky affair, for which it was

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take her place again in the inter- also blamed, cannot now be urged national commercial community against it, since even the present Then came the news of the Hitler Government has been unable to Poet-"I wish to submit a poem "clean up" of June 30, and a wave clear up the scandal.

of hortor and disgust swept through

fer not including them in the be anything more and we may total of appropriations to be be thankful in a subdued spirit voted, because they rest on legis- that the orders of the day. are lative provision specially dealing "carry on." At last the Central of mine." with those items; and It is cus-British School is to be put in Editor "All right, but I'm very France. The feeling that they had tomary both in England and in hand, and we may hope that no busy now. Won't you please as neighbours incalculable and the Dominions to put such items longer shall we crowd children throw it into waste basket your irreclaimable barbarians made the in a separate column. It would into class rooms too samll for self?" have been easy to explain the health and too crowded for effi jomission in a few words.

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The question the Radical Soci- alist party will have to decide is: Will it withdraw its Ministers from the Doumergue Govern- ment?

ciency. The other points in During the rehearsal of a new play The public is undoubtedly which we have an uneasy con- hosepipe was accidentally turned on keenly anxious for a remission of science are the gaol accommoda- the performera. Actors generally have taxation, and would welcome al-tion which will be improved by to wait until the morning after the to animate the German people hazard a guess at what will happen

first night before the critics pour cold

water on their efforts.

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whole nation shudder and brood] upon the remembered horrors per- patrated during the war.

M. Herrlot, its leader, will fight hard for the principle of union. The lust for vengeance believed Although it le unsafe even to assumed new and dangerous pro-at Nantes, it may well be that he portions. In particular, Herr

will extract a reluctant consent to Hitler's speech In the Reichstag on continued co-operation. In that July 18 nauseated the logical case the Doumergue Government French. A Frenchman whose will survive, but it is probable that judgment is as cool as that of any it will gradually find Itself com- man I know epitomised to me the spelled to look more to the Right verdict of his countrymen upon it for support. "He killed from fear of being killed

most any kind of economy unless the work at Stanley being pushed it happened to deprive them of on; for if we use the power of something they

particularly the State to deprive a man of his

"Daddy, what are diplomatic rela- valued. But a sudden cut of liberty by way of punishment we seven million dollars in a total of ought to be careful not to deprive tione?"

"There are few, if any, such people, about thirty three appeared to him of his health; and the new be incredible, and would have Government Civil Hospital will my boy." been a sign not of economy but also case the overcrowding at the of panic. Cuts of such magni- old building. We hope that ad- Facts You Did Not Know tude became necessary in. Aus-vantage may be taken of the re- tralia at the nadir of the slurp distribution of beds to make bet- A now household container for in the price of wool; but the re- ter provision for the consump-ground coffee has an air tight lid, it those he butchered, which he in-whose sole real strength lies in the sult was a great deal of distress tives and lepers, even though the inventor claiming that its contents will vokes sa an excuse for his action, personality of the old and respected

they were well known to him since statesman who leads it.

keep fresh indefinitely.

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This shifting of the centre of himself, he was in a 'fuck. As for gravity, even though it be only alight, will weaken, a Government

the infamous morals of some

of

they were known to all Germany." The consequences may be far-

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and violent discontent; the anti-policy be to get them to other capitalist Mr. Lang defaulted on surroundings as soon as possible. Operated by a photoelectric cell. a

reaching. Hitler's Lawsuit In France

The strength of the the interest of State loans; and The year may also be expected to burglar alarm of German invention the final result was an alteration show real progress towards a sounds signals and photographs an in-

Curiously enough, at about this Left, already great, will increase In in the constitution of the Com-constant water supply all the truder as a light is flashed."

time Hitler was suing French opposition to greater pressure from monwealth which provided for a year round by taking the Shing

A telephona that records a caller's publishing firm for printing his the Right. The moderate Radicals consolidation of loans under the Mun scheme another stage on its message, announces that its owner is book, "Mein Kampf." The French will be overhorna by the more ex- control of the Federal Govern-way by the use of loan money; absent and can be used as

treme elements. ment.

Hong Kong has fortun- and the new schemes based on receiver has been invented in Sweden, courte gave judgment in favour of

the Fuhrer, who objected to a(Continued on Page 18.) ately no need of any emergency the sale of Government House

Full size airplanes can be tested in verbatim version of the book being measures; and we have no Mr. should be more or less self- Lang to set at naught what he balancing. We do hope that the blasts of air. having a speed of 112 circulated in France, the French considered the moss-grown

property slump will not unduly me an hour in a new wind tunnel in not being content with an

United States navy aviation base. gated edition such as was published perience of his Treasury and the hold back the provision of the

in this country. honest prejudices of his Bankers, new Town Hall that might so A very valuable elementary les- easily be made into a great addi- SEA son might be learned by some of tion to our amenities. our theorists if they would study

The rise in the dollar rate: in the present recovery of Austra the last few months has already lia in connection with the means wipe o for the current year

wiped out much of the deficit es- by which it has been secured.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH

expur

The trial revealed some of the more violent attacks against France, and the incitements to attack her, These wers duly noted by the French public. Under such a man, they thought, no lasting peace with A verdict of accidental death Germany is possible. His gospel is

contained in that curious work.

Watchman's Fall From Top Of China Building

MOTOR ROAD AT WONGNEICHONG

From Dragon Garage Past Old Blue Pool

PONY TRACK ON ONE SIDE

Our Budget is submitted to a nearly half a million saved on amall attendance of representa-personal emoluments alone, in the tives who are acquainted with first half year. When the dollar was returned by the jury at the violence, his creed one of force and A new motor road, leading from local circumstances, and have was, low a conventional value of Ceroner's inquest held at Central brutality, his God is the God of the side of the Dragon Motor Com

pany's Garage in Wongaeicheang had opportunities of considering the extent of half the salary of Ng Yiu, 42, a watchman, who The immediate result in France Road past the old Blue Pool, is now

eighteenpence was introduced to Magistracy yesterday on the death, War, so is the each branch of policy at their The late Secretary for the was killed on August 14, when he was to discredit absolutely any approaching completion. leisure. The presentation is more like an annual meeting of

Colonies was farseeing enough to fell from the top floor of China thing savouring of Fascism. A novel feature or Blue Pool Although few people appreciate Road is that it has a specially con a Company than anything politi- anticipate that if that system Building.

were continued it would create a In summing-up, the Corner, strong government more than the structed pony track of six feet cal, and we should be surprised claim in logic for the same ar- Mr. Q. A. A Macfayden suggest French, and many of them had Ull width on the left hand side. Riders If it contained any sensational

rangement to be maintained ed that there was no evidence sup- then yearned for a dictatorship in can obtain a fine view of the valley announcements. The survey of when the dollar rose above porting premeditated suicide or place of the discredited Parlamen- and can be certain of not interfer- the financial position given by nightsenpence, as it is now. misadventure. An inspection had tary government, the Honourable the Colonial The taxpayer has gained by stick-shown that some of the railinge Secretary was informative and

detailed; and if we collate it with ing to logic and equity in the windows, although of a the Departmental Reports with

normal height, were shaky, and would have endangered a person

the Supplementary Estimates

that will appear from time to Four fatal cases of typhoid fever

time with the average rate exchange during the next Imonths, and with the monthly

and two deaths from meni

were reported in the Colony the 124. Loura ending

→ing with, motor or pedestrian traffic,

Every group, every individual; The motor road itself has a width now turned away in disgust from of 16 feet, and is wide enough for a system that has produced two large cars to pass with plenty Nazism in its present-form in of room to spare, 24-1 Germany

on them, t The jury comprised Mesars. Arthur A Alves, foreman, Ma Wing-fat-and B M. Humjahn,

The inevita the forces of

Sys The road-engineers have not fer- Political Peace gotten pedestrian trafic, A foot- orollary that path, five feet wide, runs on the

Radleright of the mot